Charity begins at home

Mr. Rajeev Srinivasan cracked the biggest joke of this century earlier this week when he posted an item about freedom of expression.

This is what the article in the link says about freedom. "The principle is quite clear: it does not matter how you feel about what is being expressed, who is doing it, or who is gaining politically by it; .the right to free expression itself is sacred and a common good and nothing can be allowed to do anything even remotely like abridging it. "

And the article also says "The picture that emerges, then, is that of a people with various political and personal axes to grind, but all united in their authoritarian drive to use any handy tool--administrative, civil, political, or the lynch mob--to suppress any expression that they find inconvenient, distasteful or dangerous. And it's no use blaming politicians either: there has been no politician in history with the ability to exploit an urge that is not already present in the people. We're all perverse freedom fighters, in brief."

Mr. Rajeev Srinivasan, Practise what you preach. Stop deleting comments on the basis of the identity of posters. (It is quite ok to have general rules for posting and follow them fully, but it is not ok to delete comments based on poster's identity) Show the world that you really believe in freedom of expression. For once, act like a Hindu instead of acting like a muslim fundamentalist!!

Finally, a young leader from BJP says it straight.

Finally, BJP mustered enough courage to call the bluff of well managed economy.

"You the economic Prime Minister, cannot manage the economy, cannot manage India. Please quit," BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad told reporters in New Delhi.

I guess Advani and the old members must be quite friendly with the PM so they keep praising him for something or other - honesty for example. Younger leaders might take time to develop that friendship and so common people might have some chance of parties competing and hopefully ending up helping people.

My duty to take minorities in confidence: Yeddyurappa

The comment that we posted as a test case was as follows

"Congress will use these elections to formulate their plans for the 2009 show. They will have their own election commissioner then.

BJP will likely go all out to attract a few Muslim votes...that is a certainty.

Hopefully, we will be proven wrong."

The TOOTBWAHNP promptly deleted the comment. But then, Mr. Yeddiyurappa proved us right just in a matter of hours.

"Long back I had promised that I would give a Muslim senior leader the opportunity to be in my Cabinet (he said and he would fulfull his promise)"

On the Rajeev2004 blog, criticising BJP is heresy because the owner cares more about BJP than about Hindus. What else could explain the kid glove treatment of BJP?

Mr. Yeddiyurappa could have said the same thing in many different ways. For example, he could have said "I would cater to all sections of society or My governement will listen to the voters and help the poor or whatever". Using the word Minority, as per Adwani is Minorytism...why is BJP resorting to that? Perhaps BJP does not need to worry about Hindu voters now that the elections are over. Maybe there are other reasons. Our Hero who 'understands' game theory doesn't seem to have thought about BJP strategy and Hindu strategy.

Old hatred is still alive

As I had mentioned on the 2004-critique blog, I didn't expect to have a continuing interest in the rajeev2004 blog simply because of its undemocratic functioning.

That is what happened. In last few months, I hardly visited the blog a couple of times each month. Yesterday, I had this bright idea of checking whether anything had changed. I posted a comment to find out.

The comment was removed promptly!

I did try to find out why our hero is so revengeful and I found this rather nice piece. In particular, the following sentence - 'revenge is more common in relatively corrupt and undemocratic traditional societies based on authoritarian and parochial social institutions'.

I would not worry if the revengeful mind restricted itself to personal level. Unfortunately, that restriction is never present. Examine the latest post about BJP win in Karnataka and the comments under it, (Our comment got deleted from the bunch).

The revengeful mindset is on exhibition when they discuss Deve Gowda. Now that BJP has won and got to govern, their best strategy would be to forget the betrayal handed out by Devegowda and work towards keeping him afloat as a force to be used against Congress. The way the national politics works, BJP has only one enemy during the election time and that is congress. Congress has to work against all of them! After the election, the equation changes and it becomes BJP vs. the rest. The point is, BJP's best friends are the M&L Yadavas Paswans and Gowdas. Unfortunately, BJP often antagonises them unnecessarily and some of the staunch BJP supporters do it purely to indulge their revengeful mind.

You would have thought that the hero who claims to have studied his game theory would have enough brains to understand this aspect of politics. It seems he has forgotten his game theory. Strategy is not a word in his dictionary any longer. Let us hope his regular visitors ask a few uncomfortable questions and force him to be a little more democratic and a little more intelligent in his thinking.

Please do read the link posted above. Here are two more paras from the same article about developed societies.

"But striking national differences then arose when freeloaders were punished for putting their own interests ahead of the common good."

"In countries such as the US, Switzerland and the UK, the freeloaders accepted their punishment, became much more co-operative and the earnings in the game increased over time."

"In societies where the modern ethic of co-operation with strangers is less familiar and the rule of law is perceived to be weak, revenge is more common and co-operation suffers, comments Dr Herrmann."

Read this carefully and you might get an idea why BJP suffers and why BJP supporters suffer. Often these individuals and groups have the best of intentions, intelligence, work ethic but they cannot cooperate simply because they lose the big picture the moment there is an opportunity to seek revenge against some member of their own group. Think about it.

When Buddhi is forced to sleep ..

Lack of critical thinking, lack of analysis, lack of vision, and a lack of basic honesty marks the current interaction that goes on on the blog that claims to be a Hindu Nationalist Perspective. To us, all these characteristics are Fundamentalist. Hardcore communists would be proud of them, so would be those who deny Holocaust, but Hindus?

Check this post. Our comment was "Come on, politics is not about honesty, it is about strategy and tactics. I am not a fan of MM Singh (Mr. L. K. Advani is - read about the recent praise showered on him by the leader who should have been following Vanaprasthashram, if he is a true believer in Hindu dharma.), but I won't complain if he is merely dishonest"

The comment was promptly deleted. We can now see why 5 years of BJP rule didn't ever help Hindu religion or weaken its opponents anytime. The ruling sages were busy raising their personal status as Sadhus by being honest, praising opponents, and censoring those who spoke the truth. Would Chanakya have approved that? Is being in active life at 80 the right thing to do as per Hindu way of life? Lastly, which Hindu philosophy approves censoring of ALL thought coming from a particular person or ID?

The Kaliyuga is here.

For long, I have suspected that those who claim to be concerned about Hindus have no respect whatsoever about Hindu philosophy. The Kaliyuga is here. By now, a dozen have voted that the discussion at Rajeev2004 blog is Samvaada. I doubt anyone had read the narrative we presented on the side or for that matter, the original Darshana (Nyaya or Vaisheshika) before voting. They seem to think they are bigger than the Hindu Philosophy. Here is the description of Samvaada again for their benefit.

Samvaada is the discussion between the teacher and the taught. Before the teaching starts, the teacher and the taught invoke the grace of the Lord, .Om Sahanavavatu... Ma vidvishavahai, OM Santi....etc. to make sure there is no hatred between the two so that teaching can take place. The student is allowed to question, and the questioning is not intended to test the teacher but to clarify student's understanding (or misunderstanding).

We can make it into Samvaada. I am willing to ask one simple question every week and let the Guru answer.. Who will take responsibility for making sure that the question is not deleted?

Masters of Inaction

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.The Jews have noticed the hateful writings of one person who claims to promote peace and have taken a Strong action agains one wrong-doer . Our own Hindu Nationalist has been writing for close to a decade, and has not yet come out with a single call for action. He has the cheek to call Hindus brain-washed though....
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