[Reader-list] Son of Devaki - Tarun Vijay

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  THE RIGHT VIEW Son of Devaki
23 Aug 2008, 1240 hrs IST,

Tarun Vijay

This column appears on the eve of the birthday of Krishna, son of Devaki. At
the time of his birth, his parents were put behind bars by the King fearing
death at the hands of their son, as the gods had prophesied. For Devaki and
Vasudev, Krishna's father, there was no hope, no chance of getting help from
any close friend or relative or the awakened citizens of Vrindavan and
Mathura- everyone was terror struck, feared for his life in the kingdom of
Kamsa, Devaki's brother.

Yet, Krishna survived. Kamsa was killed. Citizens were provided protection
and safety. Kaliya, the great serpent king was humbled and made to respect
people who lived on the banks of Yamuna. Krishna fought wars but before
every action he tried his best to persuade the wrong doer. When he found the
evil empire unrepentant, he simply annihilated the entire clan. Forever. He
restored Dharma, the righteousness.

He became an emperor par excellence, he performed divine dance with Gopikas
and had his famous Ras Lilas, yet the only Krishna that makes relevance
today is the one who used his Sudarshan Chakra , the celestial weapon to
re-establish righteousness and overpower the terrorists, deleting their
remnants from the earth. He was our ancestor and we are the rightful
inheritors of his legacy. I saw Jammu turned into Krishna, joyfully
victorious and unstoppable. And Tawi as Yamuna, gleefully giving way to the
pals of Krishna.

But how, we, the controllers of power and pen in
Delhi<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/3396388.cms#>,
ultimate reservoir of all wisdom, are living his legacy?

Instead of warning and annihilating the demons and terrorists ruthlessly, we
are suggesting giving them what they want whole of Kashmir-to buy a peace
that will never come to us this way. No body respects a coward and his peace
making exercises. Even barbaric Jihadis would respect the words of a brave
unyielding challenger and not the phony writers and journalists who would
insult their tricolor for a piece of story or fame as a peacemaker pen
pusher. We compromised to divide our motherland to buy peace- what we got in
return were four wars and death of more than sixty thousand brave young
soldiers.

You give Kashmir today for peace, they will demand Haryana and Himachal next
and Delhi another day.

Ask the wife and the mother of a martyred soldier who fought the war for
Kashmir? Did they do it for money? Ask those Kashmiri Hindus who were an
inseparable part of Kashmir's being but were hounded out by Muslim Jihadis
just because their women wore Bindis and men chanted Shiva mantras? Now give
this Kashmir to the assaulters? A woman raped is being asked to go back to
the rapists because they won't live without her?

Now read this carefully.

"The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been and shall be an integral part of
India and any attempts to separate it from the rest of the country will be
resisted by all necessary means.

"India has the will and capacity to firmly counter all designs against its
unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity and demands that Pakistan must
vacate the areas of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir which they have
occupied through aggression."

The Indian Parliament passed this resolution unanimously on 22nd February
1994. Before presenting it in the house, the speaker said -'Each word and
sentence of this resolution has been seriously considered by the government
and the leaders of the opposition parties.'

Every party endorsed and passed this. Was that a facade?

Now every word of this resolution is sought to be turned into a joke, a
meaningless exercise of some foolish people who pass resolutions just to
pass time and earn their allowances.

Some of the Indian journalists and writers who earn name and fame and money
for their being an Indian have chosen to advice to 'liberate' Kashmir and
not to force Indian 'colonialism' on a people who do not want to be
recognized as Indians. It sounds damn good if read in New
York<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-2.cms#>and
Rome. But what about those who are Kashmiris and patriots and want to
live with India? Who still have land and homes in the valley? And they are
Muslims too. Who are the 'people' these worthies have recognized as those
who do not want to live with
India<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-2.cms#>?
Jihadis? Those blood thirsty anti Indians who have been fed on Pakistani
money and propaganda to hate Hindus and India and burn tri-colours to make
this region a Nizam-e Mustafa , only for the Muslims so that they can share
the booty? Like they have been fighting over the question of leadership with
each other presently? Mir Waizs and Geelanis and Butts and Muftis and
Abdullah's- not a single so-called Muslim leader of the valley, supporting
separatism is at peace with another Muslim 'brother in arms'. And now as NSA
Narayanan has hinted the separatist leader's murder during a march to
Mujaffarabad was a result of an internal clash. But sitting in Delhi and
enjoying suspicious hospitalities make some writers to write the junk
against the very tricolor that defines their identity on this planet.

The timing and synchronizing of 'Azadi to Kashmir' views is significant. All
of them belong to one family of hating anything done by the nationalist
activists. The profligacy they have exercised is quite understandable in
times like these when India is being ruled under a dispensation that favours
western ideas and policies for domestic governance. Amarnath agitation has
already taken an unprecedented shape, which they had never visualized. In
such a situation, the suggestion to 'liberate' Kashmir has been put forward
to demonize Hindus and strengthen the anti- national Islamist agitation in
the valley, by those who wield a considerable influence in media and are not
Muslims.

If 'liberate' Kashmir chorus is a spontaneous reaction to the demonstrations
being held in the valley, why was the massive upsurge of the patriotic
people in Jammu not considered at an equal weight and columns written to
listen to the voice of India? Why the tricolor people of Jammu are discarded
and ignored as a worthless opinion and all hearts go to listen to the foul
cries of separatism? And the secularism of such voices gets quite evident
when valley newspapers put on headline like these-'Geelani says-
Islam<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-2.cms#>and
Pakistan central to Kashmir movement' (Kashmir Times, 19th August,
2008).

Those who wont give an inch of their south Delhi -Gurgaon apartments to the
neighbor are vexing eloquent to give away Kashmir to blood thirsty
terrorists. What is the reason behind the separatism of the valley Muslims?
Economic or religious? Economic reasons can be sorted out in a different
manner, if they feel they have been deprived of opportunities and financial
grants. Surely once in the planning commission's board room, they would
discover that the rest of India has genuinely taken less than what it gave
to the valley.

Now after 1947, this has become another flashpoint of division just on the
basis of religion. We are Muslims, we can't live with a Hindu India, was the
war cry of Jinnah's hordes pre '47. It was followed by direct action,
Calcutta killings, green flags and finally Gandhi, the Hindu Vaishnav
yielded and said, ok, take Pakistan but let's live in peace.

We compromised, our ahimsa was taken as cowardice and we got wars,
immediately we had the land partitioned.

Now again, some wizards have tried to create an atmosphere to allow
Kashmir's secession for peace. Do they understand it won't end at just
Kashmir, but trigger off an avalanche of demands for separate nations from
the east to south and later in the west too?

Accept NSCN's demand to have a separate Nagalim ? And ULA's Assam nation?
Manipur wants a separate nation too as they claim they didn't celebrate 15th
August 1947 as their independence day. Should we tell them to shut up
because till now no senior journalist has recommended their freedom? We have
a dozen flashpoints waiting to secede and declare freedom. Tamil nation and
a Maoist corridor joining Nepal's Reds? There is a fantastic
map<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-2.cms#>on
the internet declaring a Mugalistan , a complete green Muslim land
beginning from Pakistan, including Kashmir and UP's border areas, having
already gobbled up Ladakh and Himachal and Uttarakhand and reaching till
Assam. One would have just laughed it away if the present valley agitation
hasn't ignited treacherously innocent suggestions by writers whom you can't
ignore. It takes time to get bad things precipitate enough.

Assam is already in the grip of Bangladeshi Muslims. Whatever you say of
secularism or rising above religious fault lines, the truth of the matter is
Kashmir is a communal cauldron and so is Assam. It's simply a Hindu Muslim
issue, you can ignore only at the cost of national integration. They are fed
on political expediencies. Like in Assam the IMDT act was helping foreign
infiltrators yet government at the centre didn't revoke it till Supreme
Court ruled against it and in spite of that the act was re introduced from
the back door.

In Kashmir the people were never allowed to feel as Indians by introducing a
separate constitutional provision under article 370 so how can you expect
them to behave as Indians?

Delhi's media sultans feel sun will not rise without their approval. They
can enjoy the fizz of their arrogance, but the sun rises on its own and
maintains its temperature too. I am filing this column from Jammu where
people are showing the Indian way of patriotism to the valley. Every street
and road is empty unless there is a demonstration. Traders have shuttered
down their shops continuously for more than a month. Small entrepreneurs,
auto rickshaw drivers, labourers are all off the work. Schools have not
opened since last three months as immediately at the fag end of summer
vacations<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-2.cms#>the
Amarnath Movement began. Banks are closed, sms's are prohibited, no
public transport is available, it's an unimaginable nightmare during any
emergency. But who cares?

To feed the citizens city is having free meals (langars) organized at more
than fifty points where at an average one lakh people take meals twice a day
costing ten lakh rupees per day. Every house hold is giving donations to run
such langars without complaint.

But strangely enough, the divide we see between valley and Jammu is
reflected between media of Jammu and Delhi too. What Jammu's mainline papers
are reporting doesn't get reflected in Delhi's papers and channels who have
become self appointed guardians of secularism and peace of their own variety
and think if they suppress the factual position on Jammu, peace will be
restored soon and communalism will not spread. So when the patriots agitate,
its communalism and needs to be suppressed. But when Pakistani flags are
hoisted atop Lal Chowk and tricolor burnt amidst chants of Allah O Akbar and
Pakistan Paindabad, it has to be reported 'objectively' and with full focus
so that the sentiments of separatists are not hurt or suppressed! Strange
media ethics these seculars follow.

What son of Devaki won't have tolerated is being allowed by his followers.
Isn't it the time to revive his spirit of Geeta and win a war of
righteousness? The body alone perishes; the spirit remains immortal, so why
fear O Arjuna?
Post script:

Jammu is feeling the heat of Delhi's attitude to ignore its demands and term
the entire movement as a political one. A
Congress<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay/The_Right_View/Son_of_Devaki/articleshow/msid-3396388,curpg-3.cms#>leader
equated Jammu's patriotic agitation with the Hurriyat, that demands
secession. Home Ministry thinks it can use the Chinese method to fatigue the
movement by procrastination and prolonging talks and make these people bend
on their knees. This approach is further fueling the fire and will
ultimately result in people using more violent methods to have their voice
heard. The frustration and fierce angst is to be seen and believed, sitting
in Delhi doesn't give even an iota of the truth that's Jammu today. A senior
columnist in Jammu gave me a table of figures detailing how Jammu had been
treated unfairly all these years and still people never agitated. So, why
have we been dust binned? He asks - Just because we remained patriotic and
peaceful? Suppose we demand a separate Jammu nation and hold a secessionist
flag, won't the entire media and government come to listen to us and accept
our demands the way they appease valley's Muslims-? This was a dangerous
question posed to me by an agitated software engineer in Raghunath Pura.

Here are a couple of statistics that prove his point -

     Sr. no
 Jammu region
 Kashmir valley region
 1
 Area-26293 sq kms
 15948 sq kms
 2
 Total revenue generated-75 %
 20%
 3
 Total voters-3059986
 2883950
 4
 Assembly seats allotted-37
 46
 5
 Voters per seat-66521
 49728
 6
 Area per assembly seat-710.6 sq kms
 346.6 sq. kms.
 7
 Loksabha seats-2
 3
 8
 Cabinet ministers(till 7th July,08) -5
 14
 9
 Districts-10
 10
 10
 Area per district-2629 sq. kms
 1594 sq. kms
 11
 Unemployment status-69.70 %
 29.30%
 12
 Representation in state govt. jobs-1.2 lakhs
 3lakhs
 13
 Percentage of employees from local area-less than 25%
 99%
 14
 Power generation -22 Mega Watt
 304 Mega Watt
 15
 Annual tourist traffic-80 lakhs plus
 Less than 4 lakhs
 16
 Expenditure of revenue on tourism sector-less than 10%
 Plus 85%
 17
 Rural electrification-less than 70%
 100%

Anything more to say - bravo Jammu?


The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.