[Reader-list] Mallika Sarabhai's Public Meeting in JNU on 31st March

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Anupam ,

Being a nationalist , we do not look for discounts in ration shops . It is
the Commies and 'sickular' who go begging for that.

I am surprised that you shy away from Madani issue and consider him a minnow
. There are Madanis just everywhere in India now.

If there is a bigger threat to India , it is the communist ideology . The
same commu nist who oppsed Quit India movement and supported the Chinese in
Indio China war.

Pawan

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Pawan,
>
> If hating Hindu means hating Advani, then Im very much with Madani and his
> folks. Take my word for it and I would not comment any further after this
> mail, as you could not reply to anything apart from harping about Madani,
> who is a minnow against a large number of people who really suffered
> because
> of the communal violence perpetuted by Advani and his folk.
>
> Being a nationalist will never solve your problems if you keep shouting
> about religion and community and being a hindu. i dont think you get
> discounts in kiriyana shop for being a hindu. or do the right-wingers and
> fascist pay you a lot of money to post in the reader's list? do you get
> paid
> like how varun gandhi got paid to make these statements?
>
> the secular outlook of our constitution is never against any community. it
> is by virtue of being an hindu, i have this liberty to comment or post on
> this thread. if someone from other community would have raised a voice,
> they
> would be called pakistani or representing pope or khalistani militants or
> LTTE or naxal by lot of people who have been posting utter rubbish on this
> post.
>
> i always wanted to tell this to you especially to Pawan. it is true that
> kashmiri pandits were dislodged from the land they loved very much. it is
> also true that political forces hijacked the issue, which did not happen in
> case of the narmada displacement when it was completely the villagers
> against the state meaning a genuine representation of the people who were
> directly affected by the dam (which is why the dam came up and the people
> from 70 villages could be displaced so easily). in case of the Kashmiri
> Pandits it was very easy for BJP and other right wing forces to endorse the
> Pandits' sentiments and have taken advantage of it in the most political
> way
> to spew venom on the secularist or as you have been indoctrinated to say,
> "sickular". now the right wing forces are trying something similar in Assam
> now by promoting the cause of the regional party (which was a part of the
> ULFA few years back). so BJP is not representing the Hindu cause per se,
> but
> actually by promoting a civil war in the country ( that's why they find an
> ally in shiv sena in maharasthra which is partisan in its outlook).
>
> unfortunately, in a bid to find a political ally in the BJP, the
> quasi-regional parties would soon realise that they would be brought under
> a
> larger umbrella called the hindu right wing, if these forces are not
> stopped
> here. soon you will also realise that the local deity you have been praying
> to has been replaced by a muscular statue of Rama holding a large rocket
> launcher and i guess you will be proud of that.
>
> with regards
> anupam
>
>
> On 4/1/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Pawan
> >
> > Does that mean that we should not vote for them? The Congress got voted
> > after the 84 incidents, the Communists lost the panchayat elections after
> > Nandigram; BSP had been voted to power in 2007; DMK is in govt in Tamil
> > Nadu, and RJD is not on a completely weak wicket as it goes into
> elections
> > allying with Paswan.
> >
> > What do you exactly mean by your mail then? I would be glad to know the
> > answer.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rakesh
> >
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