India and it's power brokers

B. Jeyamohan is one of the most influential contemporary, Tamil and Malayalam writer[1] and literary critic from Nagercoil. 

This is the translation of the article: 

"Intolerance" that you can read on Facebook here. 

I learnt the meaning of “Power” when I visited Delhi in 1994 to receive my Sanskriti Samman award and stayed for two days in India International Centre. I did have some familiarities with Information and culture ministries. However, IIC is the place where “Power” is served on a gold plate. 

IIC is located in a peaceful and luxurious bungalow with lawns, high class food and drinks, quietly moving waiters, the butter English spoken without the upper lip moving, lipsticked women gracefully adjusting their hair, the elegant welcome given to the inner circle members with signs and hugs without making any noise! 

I have stayed in many star hotels later. But I have never seen anywhere the luxury and comfort of IIC. 

IIC was established and funded by the Indian government as an independent body to promote arts and free thinking. If my memory serves me right, Dr. Karan Singh was also its head. I saw him in that evening. 

I saw every intellectual that I had known through my reading of English language magazines. U R Ananthamurthy was staying there for almost four years almost as a permanent fixture. Girish Karnad was staying for a few days. Writers, journalists and thinkers such as Pritish Nandi, Makarant Parajpe, Shobha De were seen everywhere in the Centre. 

It was true that I was overwhelmed that day. Arunmozhi (my wife) ran to Girish Karnad on spotting him and was thrilled to introduce herself to him. I was told that Nayantara Sehgal used to come there on daily basis to have a drink. I saw her that day too. I realized that the two other individuals who were given the award along with me, Rajdeep Sardesai and Anamika Haksar were regulars there. 

They wear rough Kolkata kurtas and Kolhapuri chappals. Wear small glasses. Women in pure white hair and khadi saris. One of them, they said, was Kapila Vatsyayan. They said, Pupul Jayakar will also come. Wherever you turn, there were literary talks and art discussions. 

That pomp kind of unnerved me. The ultra high intellectualism seen there somewhat alienated me. Venkat Swaminathan, who saw me the next day, immediately recognised my sense of discomfort. He said, "Hey, three fourth of this crowd is just a perfect horde of crows (the Tamil equivalent of psychophants). The snobs that make their living are draw their power by licking the boots of power centres. Most of them are mere power brokers. At best you may find one or two artists who you will really respect. And they can't bear this atmosphere for too long and will just run away. 

But these are the people who decide what is culture for this country. They can talk about every thing in the world for one hour in colourful English with the right number of jargons. But on the 61st minute, the colour will start fading. Actually they don't know any thing in the real sense. Almost all are like the little boxes we find in attics which held hing a long time back", said Venkat Swaminathan. 

Everyone will have four or five trusts in the name of Service Organizations or Cultural Organizations. They will be flying from one conference to the other. Once given accommodation in a government bungalow, they can never be removed from there. In Delhi alone this crowd has illegally occupied about 5,000 bungalows. There is another Power Centre similar to this in Delhi which is called the JNU. It is the same story there too. 

Can't the government get rid of them?", I asked. He said, "normally governments do not think in that line. Because this crowd has stuck itself from the time of Nehru. They support each other. Even if some IAS officials try, they will fall at the right feet and escape". 

"There is one more thing added to it" said Venkat Swaminathan. "Not only were these people just parasites, they also derive great power by showing themselves as progressive leftists. Did you notice it?". I said "Yes" with an amazement. 

They are known throughout the world through the numerous seminars they attend. They are highly networked. Journalists around the world seek their opinion on whatever happens in India. They are the people who gave a leftist mask to the Congress Government. If you look at it that way, the amount spent on them is quite low”, he said. They are the trolls sitting on the head of India and nobody can do anything to them. They decide what is art or culture or thought of India. 

I have often been to IIC with my Malayalam journalist friends. For them, this is the place to pick rumours and convert them in to news. They know there are no secrets as the day wears out and the spirits rise higher and higher in the head. 

But I can only pity those people who engage in to political debates based on the supposedly rare gems of wisdoms dished out by these “intellectuals” through the middle pages of English newspapers. These intellectuals never actually know the real politics. They just shout on the basis of the superfluous knowledge and stand points, with the prime space enable by the network. That’s all. 

Long time back when I wrote about this Circle, I had mentioned that Barkha Dutt is none but a power broker, my own friends fought with me for degrading a “progressive fighter”. Fortunately for me, within a few days, the brokering she did with Tata leaked out through the Nira Radia tapes. (Incidentally, what happened to that case, does any body know?). But even those stark revelations could not bring down Barkha Dutt from her exalted pedestal even for a month. That is the kind of power they have. 

But now, for the first time in the history of independent India someone has dared to touch this power circle. Warnings were circulated at the lower level for the last about 6 months. Last week the Culture Ministry decided to send a notice to them. This, perhaps, is the reason for these intellectuals to suddenly flare up against “intolerance”. 

For example, painter Jatin Das, father of actress Nandita Das is occupying a large government bungalow at one of the premium locations in Delhi free of cost for many years. Government has sent an eviction notice to him. This is the real reason for Nandita Das strongly speaking about intolerance in television channels and writing in English newspapers (all diligently carried by the network). 

Even for a man as strong Modi, I think he has touched a wrong nerve. These elements are too powerful. They can destroy India through the media worldwide. They can create a picture that rivers of blood are flowing in India. They can make businessmen around the world to halt. They can wreck the tourism industry. The truth is there is no other power centre like this in India. Tolerating them is unavoidable for India. And Modi’s intolerance of them is extremely dangerous – not only for him but for the country itself. "

Media corruption and loss of people's trust

A thread by  Martyr Made on Twitter. The link to his thread is here. 

Why the American people will not trust media for a long time.

How the private media enterprise machinery sold its soul to further the political agenda of a few people with vested interest.

A post with too many truth bombs to digest all at once. Do read on....! 

I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself.

Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they're not particularly attached to them.

 

Here are the facts - actual, confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc). 

These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them.

Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.

This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff - who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake.

At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov't when it didn't happen.

We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying. 

Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year. 

 

Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin. 

This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper. 

GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election. 

It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. 

They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. 

The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.

This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. 

 

They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.

They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don't. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. 

Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. 

Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now. 

Re: "fake impeachment", we now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden's $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. 

Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? 

Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned.

Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information. 

The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. 

And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew. 

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. 

Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange - the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc - but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!). 

Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof. 

Even the courts' refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They'll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? 

It's a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too. 

Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. 

They knew it was unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.

a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media. 

They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive. 

As long as you’re here, check out his podcast. The most recent episode was on the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe. There’s also a series on the early history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and one on Jim Jones’ Peoples’ Temple movement.

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Tanishq Ad and Conversion of Hindus

The Tanishq advertisement has thrown up some very sad, disappointing, frustrating memories for this Twitter user. She narrates her experience after interacting with parents of the victims of love jihad and religious conversion. Incidentally, all those who converted are only Hindus.

My husband's cousin who was a scientist in one of our country's leading institutions and his wife who was the daughter of yet another award winning distinguished scientist of our country. 

Their daughter studied engineering, was a meritorious student, met a Kerala Christian in college..love happened. Hindu parents ready to accept but Christian parents brainwashed the girl to convert. She converted..her mother was so upset that she has asked her not to visit temples.

Relationship between them are formal...for basics.

Second case.

Engineering college alumni get together of my husband..2 old friends meet..

One a Malayali Hindu another a Manglorean Christian, children meet too! The Hindu daughter a gold medallist and the boy a grad engineer..

Love happened..

Girls parents again ready to accept for the sake of the daughters happiness..

Boys mother brainwashes..girl discreetly converts without telling anyone.

Parents severed all relations with her..mother suffered a heart attack but survived.

Mother is a double PhD. 

and a scholar.. she is so full of guilt that she keeps blaming herself.. says her education didnt help keep her child safe.

Not logical in my opinion but she feels she didn't devote right amount of time in the right way for her child. 

Third case. 

Kerala Christian parents - both scientists. 

Their daughter meets a Hindu Maharastrian boy..

In management college..

He was an only child to hardworking ordinary middle class parents..

Love happens.. girl's mother brainwashes boy to convert.. the excuse being daughter wants a church wedding & it cant happen unless he converts. 

The boy has since not seen his parents...its 6 years now.

Fourth case. 

Tamizh Hindu boy an artist and a talented graphic designer with a well known ad agency..met a Tamizh Christian girl who happened to work in the same office building.. love happened..

Girls mother who is in the

business of converting in Bangalore managed to convert him..

Boys father an army man.. was so aggrieved he severed all ties.. Boys mother died of shock.

Fifth case. 

Kerala Muslim boy.. Oriya brahmin girl ko patatha hai.. both students at a univ in UK.. girls father a civil servant..

Tried his best to change the girls mind..

Boys parents quickly moved in, converted her and conducted a nikaah in London.

Sixth case. 

Hindu Tamizh brahmin girl.. Bihari muslim boy...peeche hi pad gaya.

Married & after 2 kids he married again.. when she protested was thrown out after the famous utterance of TTT. (Triple Talakh). 

She committed suicide..leaving behind a 4 year old girl & a year old boy..she took this extreme step because she felt ashamed, cheated and couldnt reconcile to facing her parents..

Seventh case. 

A Hindu Gujarathi girl eloped with a

Bengali muslim who it turned out was a refugee/infiltrator from Bangladesh.

He dumped her but her parents saved her.. she went counselling and is today trying her best to put her life together..

These are cases personally known to me..some of them happened right in front of us. 

We have seen the parents grieving. As a mother I feel nothing is more important than my children..I want them to be safe, healthy and happy..a flying career and money is usually not in the list of a mother's priorities..those r add ons..

Thus personally the ad by Tanishq was

in very bad taste, completely false and it carried the potential to be a dangerous INFLUENCER.

When I used to work in an NGO in the field of education..it was mostly in the communities..most Hindu mothers of teenaged daughters did not want their girls to continue their education

after the 8th standard.

Keeping a girl child in the house was unsafe..

LOVE JIHAD you see..

Parents these days have to have a continuous communication with their children whether son or daughter. Children have to be aware of the perils of an intercommunity marriage

especially if there is persistence to convert..

Such a partnership is doomed right from the start..where then is the love???

Some of the parents who I have mentioned above have been dear to us, it has been a heart wrenching experience for me as a friend/relative..so I can imagine how challenging it must have been for the parents.

Love should not be blind always..😊

Even the Supreme Court of India doesn't deem marriage between Hindu girl and Muslim guys as legal. This is because as per Islam, Muslims cannot marry outside their religion. They can only marry Muslims. In fact, marriage in Islam itself is a contract where the husband pays for the woman in a way a person buys land or property. Muslims treat their wives in similar way, like property. 

"Ekathvam" is Islamic concept to promote conversion in south India used by Jihadi groups to push "Allah is the ONLY ONE GOD"

After looking at the advertisement & statement of Tanishq Jewelry, I strongly feel Tanishq is pushing this Islamic Ekathvam concept under their brand.

Mansoor Khan, brand manager of Tanishq is a Muslim.

In this incident too, (paid?) leftist media channel NDTV spread fake news that a Tanishq store in the city of Gandhidham in Gujarat was attacked by a mob in protest against the advertisement. This was done to spread propaganda of "Hindu Vigilantism" and to vilify Hindus and guilt trip them. In reality, all Hindus did was to trend "Boycott Tanishq" on Social media.

In the same week, a Muslim guy beheaded a school teacher in France. The teacher just showed a cartoon of Mohammad published by Charlie Hebdo media group that had caused Muslims to do a mass shooting at Charlie Hebdo's office and murder the cartoonists. The teacher was showing the cartoon to teach tolerance to others right of freedom of expression. However, he was killed by a regular Muslim who turned into an intolerant extremist over a cartoon. The leftists Indian media didn't preach tolerance to Muslims over this barbaric incident. Other Muslims justified the killing worldwide. The "good Muslims" stayed silent and didn't condemn the incident. This also busts the propaganda spread by left that Muslims turn to violent crimes and terrorism due to lack of opportunities and because they are poor. 

The Prime Minister of France rightfully declared the incident an act of terrorism and also closed the mosque that fanned the violence. It is to be noted that no one from the mosque came forward to stop the beheading or informed the French authorities about the killing. All Muslims, including the 'good' Muslims stayed silent to protect one of their own in France who beheaded a school teacher for using a cartoon of Mohammad to teach a lesson on tolerance to students. I wonder what lesson the students would have got from the beheading.... This was not just a murderer but a show of Dominance and brute force? How can other Muslims stay silent? Are they not worried what message they are sending to their own children by shielding a barbaric murderer who did an act of Terrorism in broad daylight, on street, in front of other people? He is not any different than a terrorist wielding a gun and blowing a bomb in the name of religion. The mind boggles. Who else could be triggered? Will it be your Muslim neighbor? Your Muslim coworker? Your Muslim teacher? Your Muslim lawmaker? Who? Why were the good Muslims silent? 

This #parisbeheading incident is relevant to the Tanishq Ad incident because the same liberals are quick to virtue signal tolerance, inclusivity, peace to Hindus who are already tolerant and peaceful. The leftists media doesn't use the same yardstick when dealing with extremist Muslims. It is this social injustice that the Hindus of India are now getting tired of after tolerant this bull shit for years from the leftist media agencies. 

Even when the lies were busted, NDTV did not delete the fake news about the attack on a Tanishq store in Gandhidham from social media and allowed the fake news to spread. The correcting statement was issue in a su tweet that is bound to be missed by most people who saw the main tweet.

Some social media users even allege that the channel could have arranged an attack on the store which they failed to coordinate properly. See it here. 

Their suspicion is not baseless as the leftist media had recently planted a fake bhabhi who was giving false statements to media provoking a riot and mass protests in Hathras. The entire sham was busted when the fake bhabhi was caught by right wing and the propaganda of was busted. The Congress party managed to do cheap politics in Hathras murder while ignoring multiple rapes in their ruled state of Rajasthan.

This is how the "lutyens media" operates. In any other country, such channel that spread lies and selectivity in news and even manufacture news, would be closed for its many offences. The only solace is that said channel hardly has any television viewers since years, mainly due to fake news and bad content. It begs the question on how the channel is still continuing to operate and who is financing it to stay afloat? 

Thank you for reading.

Gau Raksha and liberal propaganda on cow vigilantism

A first hand account of how liberals brainwash students and vilify Hindus by Twitter user Ashwin Wirathu. 

Here is the link to his tweets.

When I joined law school, Modi was newly elected, all Media channels were stuffing us with news of 'cow vigilantism' and 'mob lynching' how 'poor Muslims' are being lynched just for eating beef, etc.

They telecasted how people of India are full of 'mob-mentality' and 'regressive'.

My 'liberal' political science teacher was explaining us how we were fast moving towards doom, etc.

I asked my Lecturer (a woman and a Liberal/feminist) that how can she base her accusations that all Hindus are regressive based on a couple of events? 

She told the class that It is the "regressive" mindset of Hindus that needs to change 

(It is worth noting that these same liberals routinely say that terrorism has no religion in spite of there being countless incidents of terrorism, violence and crimes by Muslims in the name of religion.) 

I told her that there is another side of the story that the poor Hindu farmers were only Saving their cattle from being stolen 

She asked that whats the need to kill the person in the process ?

I replied that the smugglers are a big Syndicates and they kill many police and poor farmers in the process. 

She said that i was 'brainwashed' and 'need to be educated' and 'you can't be a Lawyer with such mindset'. 

I asked genuinely out of curiosity that doesn't practising Law mean "equally balancing both sides of the argument and present it before a court?".

She dodged it all and didnt speak to me after that.

Later I joined Sangh the same year , I got to see some first hand scenes of how cows are smuggled in Hyderabad. 

Once 50 cows were sandwiched in a single Lorry, they were put one over other like some sacks, many already died of suffocation. 

Once I have seen a cow being stuffed in trunk of a Maruti swift 😓. 

Phony-Animal activists cry day and night for dogs etc but don't bat an eye for lives of cows.

The whole 'cow lynching mob' propaganda was to push to play the "religion card", Indians played it, then a couple of Hindus were beaten for stealing cows too, then they made Indians play the "caste card".*

Actually what the Poor farmers were doing was completely Legal under section 103 Private defence of property and they only did to save their cattle which are their livelihood .

We were all made to give up on this by forceful propaganda and brainwashing , even today so many poor cows are being transported in most horrible conditions 

Our Govt too caved in and left the poor creatures to their suffering 

There must be a Complete ban on cow slaughter, then only there can be some justice

Cow slaughter must be non-negotiable for every practicing Hindu and every Hindu must contribute towards Gau raksha as a moral duty without compulsion.

* (Note: Like in the USA, The leftist liberals control the media narrative in India since decades. Certain news, are selectively highlighted and played deliberately to incite mobs and create fake narratives. Crimes by Hindus on Muslims and Dalits in states having right wing government are played on loop to incite mobs. Crimes by Muslims on Hindu Dalits are ignored by media. Crimes in non right wing ruled states are ignored. See the below graphic on how leftist media reports rape and other crimes selectively.).