| tabasco |
Posted
on 09-Feb-04 09:30 AM
.Published in " People's Democracy"
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Vol. XXVIII No. 06
February 08, 2004
Hindutva: The ‘Nepal Option’
Nalini Taneja
THE ‘Shining India,’ if the Hindutva forces were to have their way, would soon pave way for an India that has a titular head, and that too not an Indian, but the Nepal king. To begin with, he is not a ‘foreigner’ because he is a true-blooded Hindu belonging to the right caste, and therefore in all ways preferable to a ‘foreign’ prime minister of Italian origin, even one duly elected by the Indian people. Preferable even to such ‘foreigners’ whose father, mother, grandfather or great grandmother has been foreigner. The great nationalists have been exposed once again for what they are --- to them all Hindus are Indians no matter where they reside, to what country they owe their allegiance, of whatever country they may have chosen to be citizens of. All people belonging to other religions are foreigners, no matter for how many centuries their ancestors may have inhabited this land, no matter that they have chosen to be Indians, no matter that they did not get distracted by the communal winds unleashed by the likes of them and chose to be part of a secular India.
DEIFYING THE NEPAL KING
VHP working president, Ashok Singhal says: “It is the duty of 900 million Hindus the world over to protect the Hindu samrat (king)..…God has created him to protect Hindu dharma.” Ashok Singhal said this on January 22, in Khatmandu, as Hindu leaders from across the world deified King Gyanendra as the world’s only Hindu monarch. He also proposed to organise a world Hindu meet in New York next year under the leadership of King Gyanendra (Indian Express, January 23, 2004). He added that the New York gathering would project Hindus as a global power..…with the Nepal king leading the way.
Not to be outdone in sycophancy and the enamour of monarchies, the Nepali prime minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa said the Gita and the Puranas describe the king as a form of God, after which the royal couple were seated on a throne of gold and silver, and Nepalese Hindus washed the king’s feet, applied tilak on him, garlanded him and performed an aarti. Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain priests chanted hymns amid the sounds of bells, conches and drums.
This is no description of a medieval age court. Ministers, diplomats, government officials, and Hindutva activists were present at this function, and it was organised by the Vishwa Hindu Mahasangh (VHM), an umbrella body of Hindu groups.
This event signifies all that the VHP and the Hindutva forces in India stand for. Historically, the concept of nation and growth of nationalism as a popular sentiment are inseparable from the ideas of democracy and popular sovereignty. But the brave Hindutva ‘nationalists’ of our times would like to go one step ‘ahead’ of Hitler, and imagine the nation as we saw it in the TV serial Ramayana. Hitler had established his dictatorship in the name of the German ‘folk,’ the petty bourgeoisie, but these new fascists are straightaway talking of leadership by monarchs of the Suryavanshi descent. The swearing in ceremonies of their new chief ministers have been reminiscent of coronations of kings and queens, and courts, where a generous sprinkling of rishis, religious leaders and soothsayers lent legitimacy and sanction of a ‘divine right’ to rule. Ministerships to ‘sanyasins’ like Uma Bharti combine this effect with a ruthless policy of liberalisation and globalisation.
L K Advani ushered in this era through the strategic use of his rath run on diesel. Like a monarch of all that he surveyed, he wreaked destruction wherever he went, even as he graciously accepted namaskars along the nationwide journey. Sadhus and saffron clad so called rishis have become a common sight on prime time news, front-page visuals in print media and on all important political events. There is an effort to show that India is naturally saffron and has not to be yet made so. The media cooperates in all this very well.
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| tabasco |
Posted
on 09-Feb-04 09:31 AM
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DESIGN TO SERVE IMPERIALISM
What is the purpose of all these trappings? Are sadhus actually going to rule the roost? Will a monarch, Hindu no doubt, actually be able to establish a kingship in this age when the only empire is that of imperialism? Or are all these references and reminders of old Hindu monarchies a way to hoodwink the people? What exactly are they doing?
Fascist dictatorships, as much as other forms of bourgeois states, do require an element of consent, a need for the ruling classes to reconcile their mass base created through demagogy and propaganda with their most ruthless anti-people policies. While Hitler sought to reconcile this tension through enamouring the people with his idealisation of the ‘folk,’ the simple German people of the ancient period, the Hindutva forces need to project the ideal of the ‘golden age of the monarchies of ancient India,’ where each got his due and there was no need to covet what another had because the station of each was determined according to what he deserved. This entire edifice of sadhus and royals will have behind the scenes the whole force of a bomb technology, multinationals, and the rule of Indian capital subservient to nothing but imperialism. It is a design that is hegemonistic in terms of the Indian people and hegemonistic in terms of the entire south Asian region.
When people in Nepal are actually questioning their monarchy and there are growing demands for a republican set-up, the Hindutva forces in India are actually propping up the monarchy because a democratic Nepal could very well not remain subservient to Hindutva designs.
The entire fascination with the king of Nepal and Nepal as a Hindu kingdom must be seen in this larger context. Of course, this fascination for Nepal is not new. Golwalkar and our ‘Veer’ Savarkar have also seen Nepal in the context of Hindutva hegemony and a greater Hindu rashtra that will encompass the entire subcontinent. But times have changed, and Nepal and its king must now be made to fit shoes that will partner US imperialism and Zionism even as they will trample democracy in south Asia.
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| aryashakti |
Posted
on 12-Feb-04 09:39 AM
Do you understand that Hindutva means "Hindu Pride" (AHAMKAR LAY BHANCHU MO HINDU HO). Why should we not be proud of our religion? Unlike the savagery of Islam and Christianity the Hindu Dharma has advocated peace and tolerance. What a shame that our liberal culture has to tolerate illiberal Muslim fanatics and people like you who support them. Nepal is in crisis because of international Muslim funded left-wing traitors who attach Hindu unity but support Muslim unity.
I will define nationality. Since the dawn of civilization the Hindus were a nation originally called Arya. In c2000BC one branch of Arya followed Zarathushtra but still called themselves Arya and considered their religion the same as that of the eastern Aryavart (Mahabharat). The later kingdoms all considered themselves Arya following one culture, one religion, one language (Arya vac) and one NATION. As all Hindus constitute one nation it is only to be expected that Gyanendra Maharaj symbolizes Hindu power as he is the only internationally recognized Hindu king. You object to the definition of Hindu nation but do not criticize the Muslim insistence on belonging to the Islamic community (UMMAH). Is this secularism.? Muslims cannot be part of the Hindu nation due to their exclusivity. Christians (excepting Mleccha such as the Portuguese and Sonia Gandhi) are converted Hindus who may return to Hindu nationhood after shuddhi. Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs are already part of the Hindu nation as the race of origin is Arya.
Patriotic Indians respect Gyanendra Maharaj as a great Hindu ruler of a great Hindu nation, but there are no plans to re-establish monarchy in Hindustan. If a plan were to arise the most likely candidate would be from the Nana Sahib Peshwaji's family as he was the last great emperor.
Muslims, not Hindus are the real Nazis.Who better to compare with the evil power-mad Hitler than the evil power mad Mohammed. The 2 men were very similar:
Mohammed claimed that he was sent by Allah to rescue his people from jahilya (ignorance); Hitler claimed that he was sent by providence to rescue his people from oppression.
Hitler's Mein Kampf replicates the Koran's hateful bile against Jews
Both Hitler and Mohammed loathed Jews
Both Hitler and Mohammed fooled the masses and became cult leaders
Today Muslims are strong supporters of Nazism and vice versa particularly in the West. "There have been growing connections betwwen the NF (a British Nazi party) and Black Islamic militants in this country. Meetings between them have taken place in London, Manchester and Leeds"(Neo-Fascism in Europe) resulting in bombing of synagogues. At a terrorist Palestinian demo in London on 23 January 1988 over 20 NF activists participated.
Don't blame Mr L K Advani for causing troubles which Muslims caused. In the UK Muslim
riots caused millions of pounds of damage. All because of destructive Korani teachings;
it incites murder:Koran,VIII/65 "O Prophet exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you 20 steadfast, they will overcome 200 and if there be of you a 100, they shall overcome a 1000, because the disbelievers are a folk without intelligence."
It incites Muslims to loot and plunder hence the Muslim rioting in Bradford, Preston & northern British towns:Koran XLVIII/20-21 "Allah promiseth you much booty that ye will capture, and hath given you this in advance, and hath withheld men's hands from you, that it may be a token for the believers, and that He may guide you on a right path. And other (gain), which ye have not been able to achieve, Allah will compass it. Allah is able to do all things."
As the Koran glorifies homosexuality and rape it is hardly surprising that most of the homosexuals and rapists in India are Muslims.
I conclude by saying that were Hindus to unite it would be good not just for ourselves but for all of humanity. At least we would have the strength to counter the terrorism which is advocated in the Koran and practised by Muslim goonda worldwide.
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