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<b>varun gandhi spoke the unpleasant truth: kanchan gupta</b>
mar 23rd, 2009
kanchan is right, of course. the media and the kkkangress simply hide all the terrible things the (mohammedan) taliban do. and all mohammedans are either active taliban or they, by their silence, are implicit partners of the taliban. i doubt if more than 5 mohammedans in all of india have ever protested anything terrible the terrorists did. shabana? never, not once. teesta? of course not. i can only think of rizwan salim (although he may not even be living in india), taslima nasrin (and oh, we know what happened to her), and salman rushdie (of course, he groveled later and begged for mercy). and maybe mj akbar once or twice, tentatively.
(One small thing. Taslima Nasreen is no longer muslim, she is an apostate. So is Salman Rushdie - he left islam, returned and left again. As far as I know he's still in this state.)
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<b>Varun was harsh, but so is truth</b>
Kanchan Gupta
The media-driven furore over what is being described as Mr Varun Gandhiâs âhate speechâ deserves to be countered with matching crudity: If he is âcommunalâ, then his critics are biased against Hindus. Nothing else explains why newspapers and 24x7 news channels should twist the entire issue out of context and plaster it all over their front pages and feature it on prime time news bulletins, while ignoring the basic rule of responsible journalism â facts are sacred, opinion is free.
<b>Since the facts have been swamped by jaundiced opinion, it would be in order to place them on record.</b> Mr Varun Gandhi, son of Ms Maneka Gandhi and the late Sanjay Gandhi, is an articulate young man who will be contesting the coming Lok Sabha election from Pilibhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh as a BJP candidate. As a prelude to his election campaign â he is yet to file his nomination papers â he visited the constituency, till now represented by Ms Maneka Gandhi, for what is known as âjan samparkâ, or mass contact, meetings to familiarise himself with the voters and vice-versa. This is a legitimate exercise. Over March 6 and 8, he addressed a series of meetings.
On March 16th, a CD mysteriously surfaced in the offices of news channels, which was promptly aired without any effort being made to verify the authenticity of its contents. The CD contained audio-visual snippets of what Mr Gandhi is alleged to have said during a community meeting (as opposed to an âelection rallyâ) at Barkheda on March 7. The aired version of the recording showed Mr Gandhi as saying:
âThis is not the (Congressâs election symbol) âhandâ, this is the hand of the âlotusâ (the BJPâs symbol). It will cut the throat of (derogatory reference to Muslims) after the elections⦠Varun Gandhi will cut⦠Cut that hand, cut it⦠cut it⦠Go to your villages and give the call that all Hindus must unite to save this area from becoming Pakistan⦠Is it not true⦠that if (a woman) is asked her name and she says Bimla Devi, she is told weâll see, weâll think (about giving Government aid), give us Rs 5,000 first⦠But if her name is Saira Bano or whatever begum Hukum Begum⦠I don't even know⦠These people have such scary-sounding names⦠Karimullah, Mazharullah⦠If you ever encountered them at night, youâd be scared⦠I have a sister⦠there was a pamphlet with pictures of all the candidates⦠so this child told me, âI didn't know that Osama bin Laden is contesting from your areaâ. I told her, âAmerica couldnât get Osama, but Varun Gandhi is going to get a lot of people after the electionsâ.â
There were subsequent reports in media that at an earlier public meeting, on March 6 at Dalchand, Mr Gandhi was equally âcommunalâ. He was accused of telling his audience, âAgar kisi galat tatv ke aadmi ne kisi Hindu pe haath uthaaya ya Hinduâon ke upar yeh samajh key ki yeh kamzor hain, unke peechey koi nahi hai... Hinduâon ke upar haath uthaaya, main Gita ki kasam khaake kehta hoon ki main us haath ko kaat daaloong (If some wrong elements lift a hand against Hindus, or think Hindus are weak, there is nobody behind them, then I swear on the Bhagavad Gita that I will cut off that hand).â He ended his speeches with âJai Sri Ramâ and to thunderous applause.
But did Mr Gandhi really say all this? Yes, by his own admission, he did say most of it. But not quite the way it has been presented by the media, and definitely not the way the alleged recording purports it to be. <b>A simple analysis of the recording contained in the CD, which was strangely circulated after more than a week, shows that it has 17 âcutsâ; that the sound level dips to low resolution, and there is heavy echo at the crucial point where he allegedly makes a derogatory reference to Muslims.</b> Each of the quotes have been clearly taken out of context.
As for his call that âall Hindus must unite to save this area from becoming Pakistanâ, that a Hindu woman would find it difficult to get Government aid, his reference to Osama bin Laden look-alikes, his pledge to stand by Hindus against âgalat tatv ke aadmiâ, and his swearing by the Bhagavad Gita, there is really little to cavil against. âSecularâ State Governments have been prompt in taking their cue from Prime Minister Manmohan Singhâs âMuslims firstâ policy. Newspapers in the forefront of the bash Varun campaign have reported how Muslim victims of last yearâs flood were lavished with aid while others were left to fend for themselves. Mr Ram Vilas Paswan would address election meetings accompanied by an Osama bin Laden look-alike till the man, Maulana Meraj Khalid Noor, dumped him for Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav for reasons that do not merit elaboration. Mr Gandhi was addressing a community gathering, not an election rally; he felt the people of Barkheda and Dalchand needed to be reassured that he would protect their interests; and, he spoke the truth rather bluntly, perhaps too harshly.
Before we go into the reason why he said what he is now being pilloried for, here are two questions for you to ponder over: Are we now living in such dreadful times that we cannot mention the Bhagavad Gita in public discourse lest we be condemned as âcommunalâ by newspapers and news channels which couldnât stop pointing out, ever so admiringly and approvingly â some would say ecstatically â that Mr Barack Hussein Obama took his oath of office by placing his left hand on Abraham Lincolnâs Bible? And, is it now an unpardonable offence to say âJai Sri Ramâ?
(Christomedia.)
Anybody who has any knowledge of Pilibhit knows that Hindus in that district â in fact, all over what is referred to as <b>Rohilkhand</b> â are increasingly feeling under siege. The district stretches along Indiaâs border with Nepal. Mirza Dilshad Beg, the Nepali politician who fronted for Dawood Ibrahim and was on the payroll of Pakistanâs ISI, regularly used the Pilibhit route to funnel fake currency into India and supply arms and explosives to terrorists. Beg may be dead, murdered by his ilk in 1998, but the supply chain remains undisrupted. Thousands of cows are smuggled across the border to be slaughtered; cow slaughter in Pilibhit and adjacent districts is now a common phenomenon with the administration loath to take any action.
In recent months, there have been instances of Hindu women being molested and raped. This point has been disputed by the Indian Express which says there are no police records to prove it. Yet, on umpteen occasions the newspaper has, as have others, pointed out how the police in rural India refuse to register cases of rape, how families are terrorised into not pressing charges, and how the fear of social stigma forces victims of rape and their families to keep silent.
<b>The âsecularâ media hasnât heard of Sonu Kashyap who was murdered on October 21 last year. âFive unidentified Muslimsâ were accused of murdering him. The administration did nothing. On October 23, anger turned into street protests, led by a former BJP legislator and Minister, Mr Ram Saran Verma. He was promptly arrested and since then has been detained under the National Security Act. Beesalpur police station in-charge Pervez Miyan brazenly defends the continued detention of Mr Verma.</b>
The Indian Express, however, is not alone. The Times of Indiaâs online edition had two ads promoting itimes, its social networking group: âSnub Varun Gandhiâ and âJoin Sanjay Dutt fan clubâ. It would appear that in this wondrous land of ours, where rules are being increasingly set by a dissolute media, it is now politically correct to be a fan of a man who has been held guilty of aiding the terrorists who bombed Mumbai in 1993. NDTV began by referring to Mr Gandhiâs âspeechâ, and then switched over to âhate speechâ. Whoâs to tell our âsecularâ media it is horribly wrong? Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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By maheswar on 3/22/2009 7:44:03 PM
Kancchan Gupta has rightly placed the actual context of the remarks that Varun Gandhi made. This context needs to be underscored again and again and the concerned media duly punished by the Election Commission for propogandizing and profiting from the unfortunate event. Nevertheless, we in Nepal pray for a BJP victory and,thereafter, the restoration of the secular Hindu Kingdom of Nepal through a national rereferundum.
<b>Varun's speech</b>
By Syamal on 3/22/2009 6:17:37 PM
It is a very thoughtful and timely article. I heard from several domestic workers from different non-Hindu dominated rural areas in W. Bengal that Durga Puja and similar other celebrations are highly restricted in their villages because of fear of reprisal. Some of the incidents in Pilibhit, as mentioned by Mr. Gupta, add credibility to the descriptions I heard from these workers.
<b>Varun's Speech</b>
By Vox Indica on 3/22/2009 11:53:39 AM
On the role of the media, one wonders, quite often, whether words like objectivity and subjectivity are adequate to describe their views vis-Ã -vis Hindus and Hindu organisations - âbigotedâ would be more apt. <b>To quote two recent examples, in separate, nationally televised programmes, media persons Praveen Swami of the Hindu and Harinder Baweja of the Tehelka proclaimed that if they were Muslims they would take to guns making even Kamal Farooqui, the secretary of the MPLB squirm.</b>
(Christoislamics are universally, uniformly terrorist. Where's the surprise? The Chindu is christo and Tehelka is christoislami.)
<b>varun</b>
By raghu on 3/22/2009 6:14:00 AM
The Control of media in India by thugs paid by foreign powers who want eventual destruction of India ,is complete. It is a tragedy that the super rich like the Ambanis,the Mittals & the Murthys & Premjis of India have not launched a public supported TV channel with bulk coming from them to counter the anti-national TV channels controlled by foriegn powers who can not tolerate the rise of India.They will one day realise that doing nothing will eventually destroy them along with thier nation.
(Oui, d'accord.
Another comment called it "christian media" outright - which it is.)
<b>Intimidation tactics</b>
By Bharat Kr. on 3/22/2009 5:23:16 AM
The anti-Hindu media, under the mask of secular is trying hard to intimidate hindus not to say they are hindus and refer or quote any of their dharma sastras anywhere. In one of the news website,you can't use the words Hindu or dharma in the feedback. They have blocked words like Hindu, Dharma etc. You need to write Hinnndu, or dhaaarma. This reflect their cowardice and frustation. More they bash hindus, more they abuse hindu sastras, more these sick media will isolate themslves from the hindu society.
<b>UPA thugs are never exposed in media or CDs.</b>
By K. Singh on 3/22/2009 3:48:02 AM
it was reported that the mysterious altered CDs. are being manufactured under the guidance of muslims techocrates and UPA partners in Delhi. Note that such CDs are regularly pumped into the State of Gujarat (or other BJP ruled States) to dethrone Mr. Modi during elections, whether it is from Tehelka, phone CD from Mukul Sinha, or Lalu.s investigation of Godhra riot. One will never see such CDs for corrupt Congress and UPA.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Rest of the comments at link.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Monday, March 23, 2009
<b>varun gandhi spoke the unpleasant truth: kanchan gupta</b>
mar 23rd, 2009
kanchan is right, of course. the media and the kkkangress simply hide all the terrible things the (mohammedan) taliban do. and all mohammedans are either active taliban or they, by their silence, are implicit partners of the taliban. i doubt if more than 5 mohammedans in all of india have ever protested anything terrible the terrorists did. shabana? never, not once. teesta? of course not. i can only think of rizwan salim (although he may not even be living in india), taslima nasrin (and oh, we know what happened to her), and salman rushdie (of course, he groveled later and begged for mercy). and maybe mj akbar once or twice, tentatively.
(One small thing. Taslima Nasreen is no longer muslim, she is an apostate. So is Salman Rushdie - he left islam, returned and left again. As far as I know he's still in this state.)
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->AGENDA | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | Email | Print |
<b>Varun was harsh, but so is truth</b>
Kanchan Gupta
The media-driven furore over what is being described as Mr Varun Gandhiâs âhate speechâ deserves to be countered with matching crudity: If he is âcommunalâ, then his critics are biased against Hindus. Nothing else explains why newspapers and 24x7 news channels should twist the entire issue out of context and plaster it all over their front pages and feature it on prime time news bulletins, while ignoring the basic rule of responsible journalism â facts are sacred, opinion is free.
<b>Since the facts have been swamped by jaundiced opinion, it would be in order to place them on record.</b> Mr Varun Gandhi, son of Ms Maneka Gandhi and the late Sanjay Gandhi, is an articulate young man who will be contesting the coming Lok Sabha election from Pilibhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh as a BJP candidate. As a prelude to his election campaign â he is yet to file his nomination papers â he visited the constituency, till now represented by Ms Maneka Gandhi, for what is known as âjan samparkâ, or mass contact, meetings to familiarise himself with the voters and vice-versa. This is a legitimate exercise. Over March 6 and 8, he addressed a series of meetings.
On March 16th, a CD mysteriously surfaced in the offices of news channels, which was promptly aired without any effort being made to verify the authenticity of its contents. The CD contained audio-visual snippets of what Mr Gandhi is alleged to have said during a community meeting (as opposed to an âelection rallyâ) at Barkheda on March 7. The aired version of the recording showed Mr Gandhi as saying:
âThis is not the (Congressâs election symbol) âhandâ, this is the hand of the âlotusâ (the BJPâs symbol). It will cut the throat of (derogatory reference to Muslims) after the elections⦠Varun Gandhi will cut⦠Cut that hand, cut it⦠cut it⦠Go to your villages and give the call that all Hindus must unite to save this area from becoming Pakistan⦠Is it not true⦠that if (a woman) is asked her name and she says Bimla Devi, she is told weâll see, weâll think (about giving Government aid), give us Rs 5,000 first⦠But if her name is Saira Bano or whatever begum Hukum Begum⦠I don't even know⦠These people have such scary-sounding names⦠Karimullah, Mazharullah⦠If you ever encountered them at night, youâd be scared⦠I have a sister⦠there was a pamphlet with pictures of all the candidates⦠so this child told me, âI didn't know that Osama bin Laden is contesting from your areaâ. I told her, âAmerica couldnât get Osama, but Varun Gandhi is going to get a lot of people after the electionsâ.â
There were subsequent reports in media that at an earlier public meeting, on March 6 at Dalchand, Mr Gandhi was equally âcommunalâ. He was accused of telling his audience, âAgar kisi galat tatv ke aadmi ne kisi Hindu pe haath uthaaya ya Hinduâon ke upar yeh samajh key ki yeh kamzor hain, unke peechey koi nahi hai... Hinduâon ke upar haath uthaaya, main Gita ki kasam khaake kehta hoon ki main us haath ko kaat daaloong (If some wrong elements lift a hand against Hindus, or think Hindus are weak, there is nobody behind them, then I swear on the Bhagavad Gita that I will cut off that hand).â He ended his speeches with âJai Sri Ramâ and to thunderous applause.
But did Mr Gandhi really say all this? Yes, by his own admission, he did say most of it. But not quite the way it has been presented by the media, and definitely not the way the alleged recording purports it to be. <b>A simple analysis of the recording contained in the CD, which was strangely circulated after more than a week, shows that it has 17 âcutsâ; that the sound level dips to low resolution, and there is heavy echo at the crucial point where he allegedly makes a derogatory reference to Muslims.</b> Each of the quotes have been clearly taken out of context.
As for his call that âall Hindus must unite to save this area from becoming Pakistanâ, that a Hindu woman would find it difficult to get Government aid, his reference to Osama bin Laden look-alikes, his pledge to stand by Hindus against âgalat tatv ke aadmiâ, and his swearing by the Bhagavad Gita, there is really little to cavil against. âSecularâ State Governments have been prompt in taking their cue from Prime Minister Manmohan Singhâs âMuslims firstâ policy. Newspapers in the forefront of the bash Varun campaign have reported how Muslim victims of last yearâs flood were lavished with aid while others were left to fend for themselves. Mr Ram Vilas Paswan would address election meetings accompanied by an Osama bin Laden look-alike till the man, Maulana Meraj Khalid Noor, dumped him for Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav for reasons that do not merit elaboration. Mr Gandhi was addressing a community gathering, not an election rally; he felt the people of Barkheda and Dalchand needed to be reassured that he would protect their interests; and, he spoke the truth rather bluntly, perhaps too harshly.
Before we go into the reason why he said what he is now being pilloried for, here are two questions for you to ponder over: Are we now living in such dreadful times that we cannot mention the Bhagavad Gita in public discourse lest we be condemned as âcommunalâ by newspapers and news channels which couldnât stop pointing out, ever so admiringly and approvingly â some would say ecstatically â that Mr Barack Hussein Obama took his oath of office by placing his left hand on Abraham Lincolnâs Bible? And, is it now an unpardonable offence to say âJai Sri Ramâ?
(Christomedia.)
Anybody who has any knowledge of Pilibhit knows that Hindus in that district â in fact, all over what is referred to as <b>Rohilkhand</b> â are increasingly feeling under siege. The district stretches along Indiaâs border with Nepal. Mirza Dilshad Beg, the Nepali politician who fronted for Dawood Ibrahim and was on the payroll of Pakistanâs ISI, regularly used the Pilibhit route to funnel fake currency into India and supply arms and explosives to terrorists. Beg may be dead, murdered by his ilk in 1998, but the supply chain remains undisrupted. Thousands of cows are smuggled across the border to be slaughtered; cow slaughter in Pilibhit and adjacent districts is now a common phenomenon with the administration loath to take any action.
In recent months, there have been instances of Hindu women being molested and raped. This point has been disputed by the Indian Express which says there are no police records to prove it. Yet, on umpteen occasions the newspaper has, as have others, pointed out how the police in rural India refuse to register cases of rape, how families are terrorised into not pressing charges, and how the fear of social stigma forces victims of rape and their families to keep silent.
<b>The âsecularâ media hasnât heard of Sonu Kashyap who was murdered on October 21 last year. âFive unidentified Muslimsâ were accused of murdering him. The administration did nothing. On October 23, anger turned into street protests, led by a former BJP legislator and Minister, Mr Ram Saran Verma. He was promptly arrested and since then has been detained under the National Security Act. Beesalpur police station in-charge Pervez Miyan brazenly defends the continued detention of Mr Verma.</b>
The Indian Express, however, is not alone. The Times of Indiaâs online edition had two ads promoting itimes, its social networking group: âSnub Varun Gandhiâ and âJoin Sanjay Dutt fan clubâ. It would appear that in this wondrous land of ours, where rules are being increasingly set by a dissolute media, it is now politically correct to be a fan of a man who has been held guilty of aiding the terrorists who bombed Mumbai in 1993. NDTV began by referring to Mr Gandhiâs âspeechâ, and then switched over to âhate speechâ. Whoâs to tell our âsecularâ media it is horribly wrong? Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
( Blog on this issue at: kanchangupta.blogspot.com . Contact Writer at : kanchangupta@rocketmail.com )<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Many interesting comments. A handful of them:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>"Jai Ho Varun Gandhi " Say We 85% Hindus of Nepal</b>
By maheswar on 3/22/2009 7:44:03 PM
Kancchan Gupta has rightly placed the actual context of the remarks that Varun Gandhi made. This context needs to be underscored again and again and the concerned media duly punished by the Election Commission for propogandizing and profiting from the unfortunate event. Nevertheless, we in Nepal pray for a BJP victory and,thereafter, the restoration of the secular Hindu Kingdom of Nepal through a national rereferundum.
<b>Varun's speech</b>
By Syamal on 3/22/2009 6:17:37 PM
It is a very thoughtful and timely article. I heard from several domestic workers from different non-Hindu dominated rural areas in W. Bengal that Durga Puja and similar other celebrations are highly restricted in their villages because of fear of reprisal. Some of the incidents in Pilibhit, as mentioned by Mr. Gupta, add credibility to the descriptions I heard from these workers.
<b>Varun's Speech</b>
By Vox Indica on 3/22/2009 11:53:39 AM
On the role of the media, one wonders, quite often, whether words like objectivity and subjectivity are adequate to describe their views vis-Ã -vis Hindus and Hindu organisations - âbigotedâ would be more apt. <b>To quote two recent examples, in separate, nationally televised programmes, media persons Praveen Swami of the Hindu and Harinder Baweja of the Tehelka proclaimed that if they were Muslims they would take to guns making even Kamal Farooqui, the secretary of the MPLB squirm.</b>
(Christoislamics are universally, uniformly terrorist. Where's the surprise? The Chindu is christo and Tehelka is christoislami.)
<b>varun</b>
By raghu on 3/22/2009 6:14:00 AM
The Control of media in India by thugs paid by foreign powers who want eventual destruction of India ,is complete. It is a tragedy that the super rich like the Ambanis,the Mittals & the Murthys & Premjis of India have not launched a public supported TV channel with bulk coming from them to counter the anti-national TV channels controlled by foriegn powers who can not tolerate the rise of India.They will one day realise that doing nothing will eventually destroy them along with thier nation.
(Oui, d'accord.
Another comment called it "christian media" outright - which it is.)
<b>Intimidation tactics</b>
By Bharat Kr. on 3/22/2009 5:23:16 AM
The anti-Hindu media, under the mask of secular is trying hard to intimidate hindus not to say they are hindus and refer or quote any of their dharma sastras anywhere. In one of the news website,you can't use the words Hindu or dharma in the feedback. They have blocked words like Hindu, Dharma etc. You need to write Hinnndu, or dhaaarma. This reflect their cowardice and frustation. More they bash hindus, more they abuse hindu sastras, more these sick media will isolate themslves from the hindu society.
<b>UPA thugs are never exposed in media or CDs.</b>
By K. Singh on 3/22/2009 3:48:02 AM
it was reported that the mysterious altered CDs. are being manufactured under the guidance of muslims techocrates and UPA partners in Delhi. Note that such CDs are regularly pumped into the State of Gujarat (or other BJP ruled States) to dethrone Mr. Modi during elections, whether it is from Tehelka, phone CD from Mukul Sinha, or Lalu.s investigation of Godhra riot. One will never see such CDs for corrupt Congress and UPA.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Rest of the comments at link.