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<b>SCORING AGAINST PAGANISM: Untangling the Manderweb</b>
- Krishen Kak
Article over 11 pages, starts with:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->âO what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceiveâ â Walter Scott (Marmion, 6.532-533)
âBut my how we improve the score, as we practise more and moreââ John Henderson (http://www.billmon.org/)
<b>1. On representative characterisation</b>
On March 20, 2002, The Times of India published on its centrepage a piece titled âHindustan Hamaraâ that at once propelled its author Harsh Mander into the very front rank of our countryâs conscience-keepers. Mr Manderâs claims about the communal violence that earlier that year had rocked Gujarat (after a Muslim mob incinerated 58 Hindu children, women and men in a train leaving Godhra station) acquired unimpeachable authority because he made them as a senior member of the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and âHindustan Hamaraâ was rapidly broadcast over the USA, the UK and the Darul Islam as an eye-witness account of the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat.
Mr Mander then himself personally followed his account to the West (expenses paid mainly by Islamic and Christian organisations) and waxed in choking eloquenceâhe imitates the manner of the late MK Gandhi - his âanguishâ for the Muslims (and Muslims only) whoâd died. Subsequently, and more than once, he declared heâd resigned from the IAS on moral grounds, because of his âanguishâ at the communal violence, and to separate himself from an administration that he declared had sponsored the violence against Muslims. The national English-language Nehruvian-secular media made a hero of him, he was lionised especially on Muslim websites, Muslim organisations hosted and sponsored him all over the USA, and he publicly declared - over the BBCâhis Muslimselective bias.
Figures in the thousands of Muslims killed were bandied about (even from a United Nations office in Delhi), together with the unrestrained use of words such as âpogromâ, âgenocideâ and âcommunal fascismâ, and the mainstream English-language media in India promoted Mr Mander as a man of conscience, principles, and secularism.
This polemical essay1 establishes that Mr Mander was and is none of the three. Mr Mander is a cynical, coldly calculating, amoral, self-aggrandizing careerist, consciously using and allowing himself to be used by anti-India and anti-Hindu forces. His country â the âHindustan Hamaraâ that he publicly declared no longer for him is pride of place â is merely an expedience to badmouth as he strives to seek further recognition from those parts of the world for which his heart beats and his pocket stretches â the USA, the UK, and the Darul Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<b>SCORING AGAINST PAGANISM: Untangling the Manderweb</b>
- Krishen Kak
Article over 11 pages, starts with:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->âO what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceiveâ â Walter Scott (Marmion, 6.532-533)
âBut my how we improve the score, as we practise more and moreââ John Henderson (http://www.billmon.org/)
<b>1. On representative characterisation</b>
On March 20, 2002, The Times of India published on its centrepage a piece titled âHindustan Hamaraâ that at once propelled its author Harsh Mander into the very front rank of our countryâs conscience-keepers. Mr Manderâs claims about the communal violence that earlier that year had rocked Gujarat (after a Muslim mob incinerated 58 Hindu children, women and men in a train leaving Godhra station) acquired unimpeachable authority because he made them as a senior member of the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and âHindustan Hamaraâ was rapidly broadcast over the USA, the UK and the Darul Islam as an eye-witness account of the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat.
Mr Mander then himself personally followed his account to the West (expenses paid mainly by Islamic and Christian organisations) and waxed in choking eloquenceâhe imitates the manner of the late MK Gandhi - his âanguishâ for the Muslims (and Muslims only) whoâd died. Subsequently, and more than once, he declared heâd resigned from the IAS on moral grounds, because of his âanguishâ at the communal violence, and to separate himself from an administration that he declared had sponsored the violence against Muslims. The national English-language Nehruvian-secular media made a hero of him, he was lionised especially on Muslim websites, Muslim organisations hosted and sponsored him all over the USA, and he publicly declared - over the BBCâhis Muslimselective bias.
Figures in the thousands of Muslims killed were bandied about (even from a United Nations office in Delhi), together with the unrestrained use of words such as âpogromâ, âgenocideâ and âcommunal fascismâ, and the mainstream English-language media in India promoted Mr Mander as a man of conscience, principles, and secularism.
This polemical essay1 establishes that Mr Mander was and is none of the three. Mr Mander is a cynical, coldly calculating, amoral, self-aggrandizing careerist, consciously using and allowing himself to be used by anti-India and anti-Hindu forces. His country â the âHindustan Hamaraâ that he publicly declared no longer for him is pride of place â is merely an expedience to badmouth as he strives to seek further recognition from those parts of the world for which his heart beats and his pocket stretches â the USA, the UK, and the Darul Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Rest can be read via the given link