03-08-2006, 11:50 PM
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivili...n/message/86936
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear Friends,
In the wake a very marginal succes in the California text book case,
it is important that Hindu intellectuals do not get into tantrums but
keep a cool head specially when it comes to self analysis.
Aatma chintan, vimarsha and prekshaa are all Hindu disciplines.
It is clear that any criticism of the RSS by Elst and other intellectuals
is done with the sincere desire that the Sangh Parivar shall learn
from its mistakes.
There is an overwhelming feeling among intellectuals that the RSS
does not interact sufficiently and extensively with them. Now I live
in Delhi and have seen things for the past forty years as they go on in
Leuten's Delhi and the party offices of all the major political parties.
The Congress has developed India International and Habitat Centre
IGNCA, and many such organisations to patronise, feed well and use the
intellectuals through seminars, awards, and media encounters.
For the six years that the BJP/ Sangh Parivar was in power it made a
mess of all these facilities and disregarded advice from well wishers
and capable persons. It handed over the major institutions like IGNCA
to persons of dubious allegiance like LM Singhvi and Sonal Mansingh,
ICSSR to Sondhi who ruined it. The cultural minister Jagmohan
was dismissive of academics and appointed IAS cadre people in all
positions of culture against direct and clear advice. There was no
corporate effort at all, not perhaps a single time when these people
in power discussed issues either among them selves or with
intellectuals at length and openly in any forum. They operated in the
chamcha culture as bad as the Congress.
Murli Manohar Joshi wasted six years as the education minister and
could get a single VC of his choice for any major university. He created
a counter productive controversy about phalita jyotisha nothing about
introducing yoga as physical education in schools. He could not set
up some good private universities nor involve the corporate sector
as donors and managers of the university system. He was very fond of
reading papers at seminars but never stayed for discussions nor did he
 institute a body of academics that could have changed the
course of education set by secularists. He wanted to make no structral changes
in the education system but was obsessed with syllabus revision.
Most of his steps were disastrous such as giving pay revision to university
and college teachers without creating more exacting standards of performance. He
supported denial of promotional avenues and health faciltities,
neglect of self financing and innovative courses and general decentralisation.
Both Jagmohan and Joshi worried too much about Saraswati
and AIT and dreamt that such small changes in the syllabi or text books
would change the colonial system.
What I observed in the BJP and the Sangh was the keen desire to win over the
erstwhile congress walas like Najma Heptulla and sundry others to show that they
can wield the stick of the license permit raj better than Congress. They succeeded
in getting some 'chaaran.as' and flatterers who u-turned promptly after the BJP fall.
The fact is that RSS does not plan things with rigour and execute them
meticulously anymore, They can handle only short term crisis like Latoor,
Tsunami or an earthquake, but not counter the systematic attack on Hindu
well being which requires intellectual planning.
Of course this is not a exclusively RSS failure but a general Hindu disaster.
The Congress has lost its ideology and is a captive of crypto Islamo-Marxists
like Arjun Singh. Modi the great Hindu CM neglects his universities to the
point of shame (went to MSU, Baroda last month and found it in the state of
Crumble as much as 15 years ago).
The RSS has given very little thought to promote Hindu democracy but has
entertained thoughts of setting things right by capturing power at the centre.
The Sanghis believe that they will set everything right once they have 300 seats
in the Lok Sabha. This trickle from the top does not change the structure of
colonial repression. The Hindu genius flourished even in monarchy because
the central power was very weak as compared to the present. Very Low taxation,
low interest rate, governance in Janapada, education only partially financed by
the State with no syllabus intervention, judiciary not under any monarchical
pressure and above all the freedom to intellectuals to criticise, protest and even curse (shaapa).
The RSS really needs to discuss what was Hindu freedom even under the
monarchical states and see how democracy and business enterprise can flourish now.
Please send a thousand emails individually to Ram Madhavji and Sudarshan ji
on how to stop nationalisation of hindu sites through media discussions and
legal redress, to create a massive fund for publication of ancient manuscripts, some Rs 5 lakh each awards to Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit scholars, to make it compusory for IAS and IPS to have the abilty to write well in at least two Indian languages, and for many other practical steps that promote national integration and Hindu excellence.
regards,
Bharat Gupt
Associate Professor, CVS, Delhi University,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear Friends,
In the wake a very marginal succes in the California text book case,
it is important that Hindu intellectuals do not get into tantrums but
keep a cool head specially when it comes to self analysis.
Aatma chintan, vimarsha and prekshaa are all Hindu disciplines.
It is clear that any criticism of the RSS by Elst and other intellectuals
is done with the sincere desire that the Sangh Parivar shall learn
from its mistakes.
There is an overwhelming feeling among intellectuals that the RSS
does not interact sufficiently and extensively with them. Now I live
in Delhi and have seen things for the past forty years as they go on in
Leuten's Delhi and the party offices of all the major political parties.
The Congress has developed India International and Habitat Centre
IGNCA, and many such organisations to patronise, feed well and use the
intellectuals through seminars, awards, and media encounters.
For the six years that the BJP/ Sangh Parivar was in power it made a
mess of all these facilities and disregarded advice from well wishers
and capable persons. It handed over the major institutions like IGNCA
to persons of dubious allegiance like LM Singhvi and Sonal Mansingh,
ICSSR to Sondhi who ruined it. The cultural minister Jagmohan
was dismissive of academics and appointed IAS cadre people in all
positions of culture against direct and clear advice. There was no
corporate effort at all, not perhaps a single time when these people
in power discussed issues either among them selves or with
intellectuals at length and openly in any forum. They operated in the
chamcha culture as bad as the Congress.
Murli Manohar Joshi wasted six years as the education minister and
could get a single VC of his choice for any major university. He created
a counter productive controversy about phalita jyotisha nothing about
introducing yoga as physical education in schools. He could not set
up some good private universities nor involve the corporate sector
as donors and managers of the university system. He was very fond of
reading papers at seminars but never stayed for discussions nor did he
 institute a body of academics that could have changed the
course of education set by secularists. He wanted to make no structral changes
in the education system but was obsessed with syllabus revision.
Most of his steps were disastrous such as giving pay revision to university
and college teachers without creating more exacting standards of performance. He
supported denial of promotional avenues and health faciltities,
neglect of self financing and innovative courses and general decentralisation.
Both Jagmohan and Joshi worried too much about Saraswati
and AIT and dreamt that such small changes in the syllabi or text books
would change the colonial system.
What I observed in the BJP and the Sangh was the keen desire to win over the
erstwhile congress walas like Najma Heptulla and sundry others to show that they
can wield the stick of the license permit raj better than Congress. They succeeded
in getting some 'chaaran.as' and flatterers who u-turned promptly after the BJP fall.
The fact is that RSS does not plan things with rigour and execute them
meticulously anymore, They can handle only short term crisis like Latoor,
Tsunami or an earthquake, but not counter the systematic attack on Hindu
well being which requires intellectual planning.
Of course this is not a exclusively RSS failure but a general Hindu disaster.
The Congress has lost its ideology and is a captive of crypto Islamo-Marxists
like Arjun Singh. Modi the great Hindu CM neglects his universities to the
point of shame (went to MSU, Baroda last month and found it in the state of
Crumble as much as 15 years ago).
The RSS has given very little thought to promote Hindu democracy but has
entertained thoughts of setting things right by capturing power at the centre.
The Sanghis believe that they will set everything right once they have 300 seats
in the Lok Sabha. This trickle from the top does not change the structure of
colonial repression. The Hindu genius flourished even in monarchy because
the central power was very weak as compared to the present. Very Low taxation,
low interest rate, governance in Janapada, education only partially financed by
the State with no syllabus intervention, judiciary not under any monarchical
pressure and above all the freedom to intellectuals to criticise, protest and even curse (shaapa).
The RSS really needs to discuss what was Hindu freedom even under the
monarchical states and see how democracy and business enterprise can flourish now.
Please send a thousand emails individually to Ram Madhavji and Sudarshan ji
on how to stop nationalisation of hindu sites through media discussions and
legal redress, to create a massive fund for publication of ancient manuscripts, some Rs 5 lakh each awards to Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit scholars, to make it compusory for IAS and IPS to have the abilty to write well in at least two Indian languages, and for many other practical steps that promote national integration and Hindu excellence.
regards,
Bharat Gupt
Associate Professor, CVS, Delhi University,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->