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Readers’ Forum
The eternal significance of Hindutva (Organiser, 18-10-2009); After going through Smt Tanvir Fatima’s letter, one is compelled to come to the conclusion that the learned lady is a very shrewd Islamic intellectual always busy to spread misinformation or disinformation or total falsehood, though unsuccessfully, to prove that Islamic invaders were peace-loving and very humane. The cat is out of the bag again. She has referred to Mahabharat and Kalinga wars that the killings by Islamic invaders were nothing as compared to that in those wars. Perhaps she is not aware of the narrations of the Muslim chroniclers of the courts of various Muslim rulers, which explicitly and clearly boast of the killings and atrocities committed on Hindus by their patrons. One has to suggest her to read the medieval history of India. Chapter after chapter is boastfully narrating how the minarets were erected out of the heads of Hindus. Timur “The Lame” alone had got slaughtered more than one lakh Hindu captives during his return journey to Central Asia. Smt Fatima is also advised to read at least Baburnama, Akbarnama or Aaine Akbari, Jahangirnama, Badshahnama, Tabqat-e-Nasiri, the travelogues of Al-beruni and Ibn-e-Batuta. After conquering Chittor, Akbar alone had got collected the yagyopavits (janeus) of slain Hindus, which were found in seventy-four-and-a-half mounds in weight. That is why Hindus started writing 74½ on their those letters which were not to be read by anybody else except the person concerned in whose name the letter was sent. The message of this figure (74½) was that if anybody else opened or read that letter, he would be a sinner of killing those Hindus whose janeus were found 74½ mounds in weight. This was Akbar whom pseudo-secularists call a ‘liberal’ Mogul emperor and “Akbar The Great”. Vincent Smith writes in his book titled Akbar, The Great Mogul (p. 50): “He was long ranked with Shahbuddin and Alla (Allauddin) and other instruments of destruction. He constructed a mumbar (a pulpit for Islamic preachers) for the Koran from the altar of Eklingji (the deity of the Rajput warriors). Not only that he forcibly annihilated innumerable humans, he also had no respect for temples and deities and willingly indulged in destruction of such places of worship.” Even Tipu Sultan, the so-called ‘freedom fighter’ had ordered his commanders in Malabar to send a certain quantity of janeus and choties in mounds everyday during the month of Ramzan. Smt Fatima has alleged, “The colonialist writers do mischief more than investigating the truth.” This allegation boomerangs on her for her such mischievous writings. She also mentions: “The countrymen have reached the target in the communal riots during last hundred years.” She must know that all the riots during the period were “Muslim riots”, and sufferers were Hindus and Hindus alone—whether those be Mopla riots or riots in Malabar, Kohat, Bannu, Aligarh, Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Faizabad, Varanasi, Mau-Azamgarh, Bhagalpur, Bhivandi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat, etc. Her expertise in twisting the historical facts is astonishing. One can pray for her: May God bless her and her perverted intellect.
—ANAND MISHRA ‘ABHAY’,
Sanskriti Bhawan, Rajendranagar, Lucknow
Each farmer should herd at least one cow (Organiser, 8-11-2009); It is very essential that every farmer should herd at least one cow, for cow has a very vital place in our life. Its milk is rich source of proteins and calcium. Calcium prevents the bone disease rickets. Proteins and calcium are important for good health. As cow’s milk contains vitamin A and B12, thiamine, riboflavin and minerals like calcium, sodium and potassium , it is good health drink. The products made out of cow’s milk like yoghurt, cheese, butter, ghee, etc, are not only rich in calcium but also improve immune system. That is why cow’s milk is suggested for pregnant women, kids and older people. Taking one glass of cow milk before going to bed, helps you in getting sound sleep.
—ASHISH JHINGAN,
Harcharan Nagar, Sector 38, Ludhiana
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Cow’s milk is a natural food and is the basis for all other dairy products. We need milk for all the vitamins and minerals it contains that are essential to a healthy life. Cow milk provides us with calcium, which helps maintain the strength and density of our bones. This mineral also helps prevent bone loss as a result of menopause, protect colon cells from cancer causing chemicals and helps prevent migraine headaches. Vitamin A is used in the health of the epithelial and mucosal tissues. This is where the body defends itself against intrusive organisms and toxins. When our vitamin A is low, we are much more susceptible to infections, colds, etc.
—DR KS BHADRA,
Nehru Nagar, Gokul Road, Dharwad
Great Britain and the setting sun (Organiser, 8-11-2009); Shri MV Kamath’s column is very timely. Standard and Poor’s has warned that it may downgrade Britain’s key credit ratings after placing the country’s recession-battered economy on “negative” watch due to soaring public debt. International ratings agency S&P said it had downgraded its outlook on Britain’s economy to “negative” from “stable” because of the country’s “deteriorating public finances”. The change may eventually lead to S&P downgrading Britain’s top-level sovereign credit ratings—a mark of its financial standing in the world and a major concern in any move to raise funds.
—Prof A MADHUKAR,
68, Bodelschwinghweg, Bonn, Germany
The controversy over Nobel Peace Prize (Organiser, 1-11-2009); Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Hussein Obama is arguably one of the most absurd awards the Nobel Committee has ever made. Highly patronizing, it will be received with incredulity around the world. In fact, there has rarely been an award that has been so obviously partisan and political in its intention. The award is apparently an encouragement to America’s first Black President and a way of saying we hope that there is going to be a new direction in Washington’s policy. However, all of this undermines the point of a Nobel Peace Prize, given the fact that the Nobel Committee never found Mahatma Gandhi worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.
—SHOBIT SEN,
Dhubalia, Bahadurpur, Krishnanagar, West Bengal
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It seems that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has run out of people to hand the Prize to. Obama has only been in office since the beginning of the year and while his foreign peace aims may be noble, his achievements are rather few. He has done nothing in the Middle East and nothing to improve relations with the Russians. In his own homeland he has actually undermined peace by becoming the most pro-abortion President ever to be elected. To award a prize simply on hope suggests a naivety and a blindness that I think will only damage the value of the prize and diminish its value to all its previous winners.
—TS SHEKHARAN,
Marharpur, Raichur, Karnataka
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I find it appalling that President of USA Barack Obama should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama supports institutionalised and systematic murder through embryonic stem cell research and abortion. He supports homosexuality which thwarts the natural generation of life. Since he was sworn in as President he has stockpiled his administration with “culture of death” advocates—one of whom is a registered communist. He rigorously supports a winless war in Afghanistan, has taken over—in dictatorial fashion—major American banks and the car industry, and is trying to introduce socialised health care with death panels that encourage euthanasia.
—PK CHANDAN,
Malwa Mill Colony, Shivaji Nagar, Indore
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The Nobel Peace Prize honours a person for what he plans to do rather than for what he has done. In short, Obama has been installing a totalitarian form of government in the United States and is promoting it throughout the world. For this he is given an award for peace. Obama’s peace prize shows these prizes are political, not governed by the principles of credibility, values and morals.
—BK PANDA,
Yashodhara Kunj, Singanpur, Surat
Time to stop firang puja (Organiser, 1-11-2009); Dr Pravin Togadia has written very aptly, but what can we do to the millions of young men and women we are losing to Christianity in USA? They like the white skin and they don’t want to go back and marry desi boys and girls. In the next 20 years, you will see the real effect of America on the Indian community, particularly on the cream of India, which resides in America. In this background, what is more alarming to our security is the fact that not only German intelligence report informed but also an American warning was flashed a year ago, which said that jehadis have changed their tactics and they no more look different; they look like any American. Therefore, we need to be more cautious about firang-phobia.
—SS EMBHI
by e-mail
India’s Leftist intellectuals are promoting Islamic terrorism (Organiser, 1-11-2009); It is time for Hindus to join together so as to fight Islamic terrorism unitedly. It is also time to rally our values, our self-esteem and fight for our moral ideals with full, righteous confidence. Thus, to allay Pakistani concerns, India should announce categorically that it will not send soldiers to Afghanistan and also that it will not send trainers for Afghanistan’s army or police. Even if it is true that many an Afghan harbours warmer feelings for India than that for Pakistan, Indians should recognise that ties of geography, ethnicity and family bring to the Pak-Afghan relationship a depth that can never enter the India-Afghan relationship.
—REGGIE SINHA
by e-mail
Police make a “Rizwanur” in Jammu (Organiser, 25-10-2009); The special report by Khajuria S Kant of Kashmir Police, killing Rajnish Sharma, a Jammu Hindu man, for marrying Amina Yousuf, a Srinagar Muslim girl, is poignant. The silence of the print and electronic media and the inaction of the various “human rights commissions”, in this serious matter, is shameful. The tragedy of Anchal Sharma (nee Amina Yousuf) is irreparable. This matter should be raised in J&K Assembly and taken up with other appropriate bodies. My heartfelt sympathies to Anchal Sharma.
—Dr ARVIND S GODBOLE,
3 Pearl Croft, 127 Guru Nanak Road, Bandra, Mumbai
How quickly we forget our fellow journalists! (Organiser, 18-10-2009); What to talk of fellow journalists, when even sons forget their father. Take for instance the Ambani brothers, who are paying glorious tribute to their illustrious father through their perennial feuds and determination of irreconciliation. Their father was not only a celebrated and competent industrialist and entrepreneur, but also very sensitive for the cause of the country. Their mother’s wishes and pleas for exercising reason have been ignored. Throughout India and abroad, India’s image is being tarnished, but they don’t care. Isn’t it time that they should be considered for Bharat Ratna?
—BK CHAUDHARI,
Royal W Cres, The Oakalls, B60 2TJ, Worcestershire, UK
Buying farm land and mines as local sectors languish (Organiser, 18-10-2009); I really enjoyed the Deepavali Special Issue of Organiser, especially the cartoon about water on the moon (p. 66). It is a meaningful criticism of exploitation of natural resources. In the report on Shri O Rajagopal, he is rightly described as a role model by Oommen Chandy. But Kerala is not a role model for India as there is no BJP MP or MLA from this state.
—GOPALAKRISHNAN
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Defining Hindutva (Organiser, 13-9-2009); Shri OP Gupta has defined the concept of Hindutva in a nice way. When I was a student our teacher used to say: “A person who considers Bharat to be his janmabhoomi and punyabhoomi is a Hindu.” So Hindutva is a patriotic ideology. We should not be ashamed to call ourselves Hindus. I myself believe in “Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain”.
—AMAR JIT SINGH GORAYA,
15, Dunvegan Place, East Kilbride, Scotland, UK
Sanskrit can become the language of masses in rural areas (Organiser, 6-9-2009); Owing to my personal enthusiasm for Sanskrit, I had made a special personal trip to the town of Mettur (listed as Muttor) in the article. I found all the three people in the town who could speak Sanskrit and was informed by them that the news item was a pure propaganda and that there was no truth in the statement that the people in the town speak Sanskrit. I also did wander around in town asking questions in Sanskrit, and then in English and was told by the people on the street that they had never heard of such a news. I would very much question the factual basis of this “news” and would like to see concrete proof of the same—something more tangible than these spurious news articles. Recently I noticed an ad in Sanskrit by Bajaj depicting people on the street speaking Sanskrit. The original rumour was started by a similar drama put up many years ago for the participants in International Sanskrit conference in Bengaluru. Please don’t continue this unless it is absolutely true.
—AVINASH SATHAYE
by e-mail
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