My Face Book Post
May 2, 2014Letter to The Hindu on the subject of Amartay Sen's Views on Modi as
reported in the News Report "Shedding communal image a challenge" -
The Hindu April 30,2014 and TWO letters that were extrmely
"Uncharitable" to Mr. Sen and ALSO factually totally incorrect - that
got published in the Letters to the Editor Column in The Hindu Dated May 1,
2014
Dear Sir,
Subject: Apropos–
“Noble laureate Amartya Sen’s views that shedding communal image remains a
challenge for Mr. Modi (The Hindu, April 30, 2014) and a few uncharitable
reactions from the readers ( two have been published in the letters to the Editor
column but MANY MORE have appeared on the Website -The Hindu –May 01, 2014)
When Mr. Amartya Sen expressed his doubts whether
Mr. Modi really had a change of heart since the gory happenings of 2002 in
Gujarat and concomitantly, whether he would now onwards, steer clear of the
Sangh Parivar’s ‘Visceral Hate-Politics’ towards Indian Minorities in general
and Muslims in Particular, who they continue to blame as the entity solely
responsible for Country’s Partition in 1947 and for the loss of what they refer
to as their Dream of an Akhand Bharat extending up to Afghanistan in the North
–West and extending and almost encompassing not only Bangladesh but also part
of Myanmar too, ( Not withstanding evidence to the contrarian facts that there
were MANY PLAYERS and Multiple Complex Political Forces that were working in
tandem to bring about that Gory Chapter in to India’s History with the
British’s Divide and Rule Policy being one of the most insidious element since
1857 that had played the biggest part in it), Mr.Sen was only restating the
internationally accepted and practiced maxim / adage “ Once Bitten Twice Shy”!
By stating this, Mr. Sen was only implying that Mr.
Modi’s apparent ‘makeover / image’ as the ‘New Messiah of Development’ in India
that was built up over the last two years or so by the heightened and in fact,
brazen use of Media Publicity (whose parallel is not easy to find in
contemporary history except of course till one goes down memory lane as far
back as 1930’s to recall the built up of Adolf Hitler’s image similarly as
Germany’s All Conquering Messiah) could be, just that, an assiduously built up
masquerade, for the political expedient objective of pulling the Fence Sitting
Secular Hindus in to the folds of his Fan’s Club, that Mr. Modi seems to have
achieved substantially, going by the spate of ‘Anger if not Hate Spewing
Letters’ that are getting their way in to even’ Letters to the Editor’s Column’
of the Most balanced National Daily, The Hindu, against those who even remotely
and indirectly refer to Mr. Modi’s ‘UNWASHABLE STIGMA’ of the 2002- State
Sponsored Anti- Muslim Gujarat Pogrom, like in the present case where two
clearly uncharitable letters, that are so very Angry and Hot at Mr. Sen’s
‘Sacrilege against Mr. Modi’ that it’s a wonder that the Letters Column, if not
the whole News Paper did not catch fire!
These and many other “More Loyal than the King”
supporters of Mr. Modi who are apparently more anxious than Mr. Modi himself to
see him as the PM, don’t realize that for Expressing a Pragmatic Opinion on
one’s own society’s socio-political scenario in India like the one for which,
Mr. Amartya Sen is being pilloried for , one need not become a Research Scholar
on RSS for ages and also obtain a Doctorate on it to know its invidious ideology
that is centered around hate for the so called ‘Others’ AND which is Displayed
Nonchalantly on its website even now, for even a Primary Student to read and
understand its Pernicious Nature from start to finish and if more is needed,
one only needs to go through the Scores of Reports of the Judicial Commissions
of Inquiry that were established to inquire in to Scores of big and very Big
Hindu - Muslim riots to Know whose hands have been constantly orchestrating
those Gory Riots in India, especially since 1947!
Even if Socrates were to be alive today, I am sure,
he would have also appreciated Mr. Sen for doing the most SANE thing he has
done despite being in an era of ‘Turncoats’ and ‘Blatant Worshippers of Any and
Every Rising Sun’ that is on the Ascendance in a Material Paradigm !
See ALSO the Following Precise Letter - (letters to the Editor column in The Hindu- May 2, 2014)
May 2, 2014
reported in the News Report "Shedding communal image a challenge" -
The Hindu April 30,2014 and TWO letters that were extrmely
"Uncharitable" to Mr. Sen and ALSO factually totally incorrect - that
got published in the Letters to the Editor Column in The Hindu Dated May 1,
2014
Subject: Apropos–
“Noble laureate Amartya Sen’s views that shedding communal image remains a
challenge for Mr. Modi (The Hindu, April 30, 2014) and a few uncharitable
reactions from the readers ( two have been published in the letters to the Editor
column but MANY MORE have appeared on the Website -The Hindu –May 01, 2014)
When Mr. Amartya Sen expressed his doubts whether
Mr. Modi really had a change of heart since the gory happenings of 2002 in
Gujarat and concomitantly, whether he would now onwards, steer clear of the
Sangh Parivar’s ‘Visceral Hate-Politics’ towards Indian Minorities in general
and Muslims in Particular, who they continue to blame as the entity solely
responsible for Country’s Partition in 1947 and for the loss of what they refer
to as their Dream of an Akhand Bharat extending up to Afghanistan in the North
–West and extending and almost encompassing not only Bangladesh but also part
of Myanmar too, ( Not withstanding evidence to the contrarian facts that there
were MANY PLAYERS and Multiple Complex Political Forces that were working in
tandem to bring about that Gory Chapter in to India’s History with the
British’s Divide and Rule Policy being one of the most insidious element since
1857 that had played the biggest part in it), Mr.Sen was only restating the
internationally accepted and practiced maxim / adage “ Once Bitten Twice Shy”!
By stating this, Mr. Sen was only implying that Mr.
Modi’s apparent ‘makeover / image’ as the ‘New Messiah of Development’ in India
that was built up over the last two years or so by the heightened and in fact,
brazen use of Media Publicity (whose parallel is not easy to find in
contemporary history except of course till one goes down memory lane as far
back as 1930’s to recall the built up of Adolf Hitler’s image similarly as
Germany’s All Conquering Messiah) could be, just that, an assiduously built up
masquerade, for the political expedient objective of pulling the Fence Sitting
Secular Hindus in to the folds of his Fan’s Club, that Mr. Modi seems to have
achieved substantially, going by the spate of ‘Anger if not Hate Spewing
Letters’ that are getting their way in to even’ Letters to the Editor’s Column’
of the Most balanced National Daily, The Hindu, against those who even remotely
and indirectly refer to Mr. Modi’s ‘UNWASHABLE STIGMA’ of the 2002- State
Sponsored Anti- Muslim Gujarat Pogrom, like in the present case where two
clearly uncharitable letters, that are so very Angry and Hot at Mr. Sen’s
‘Sacrilege against Mr. Modi’ that it’s a wonder that the Letters Column, if not
the whole News Paper did not catch fire!
These and many other “More Loyal than the King”
supporters of Mr. Modi who are apparently more anxious than Mr. Modi himself to
see him as the PM, don’t realize that for Expressing a Pragmatic Opinion on
one’s own society’s socio-political scenario in India like the one for which,
Mr. Amartya Sen is being pilloried for , one need not become a Research Scholar
on RSS for ages and also obtain a Doctorate on it to know its invidious ideology
that is centered around hate for the so called ‘Others’ AND which is Displayed
Nonchalantly on its website even now, for even a Primary Student to read and
understand its Pernicious Nature from start to finish and if more is needed,
one only needs to go through the Scores of Reports of the Judicial Commissions
of Inquiry that were established to inquire in to Scores of big and very Big
Hindu - Muslim riots to Know whose hands have been constantly orchestrating
those Gory Riots in India, especially since 1947!
Even if Socrates were to be alive today, I am sure,
he would have also appreciated Mr. Sen for doing the most SANE thing he has
done despite being in an era of ‘Turncoats’ and ‘Blatant Worshippers of Any and
Every Rising Sun’ that is on the Ascendance in a Material Paradigm !
My Face Book Post
May 2, 2014
AMay 2, 2014
wonderfully PRECISE letter in The Hindu published under the Title Fight
" Sen, Modi and RSS" Dated: May 2, 2014 on
the 'Exact Subject Matter' on which I had sent a letter to The Hindu on May 01,
20141
" Sen, Modi and RSS" - Dated: May 2, 2014
This refers to two letters in this column under the
heading “Amartya Sen’s views” (May 1). Responding to Nobel laureate Amartya
Sen’s scepticism about Mr. Modi because of
his right-wing links, the two readers have strongly defended the RSS as not
being a communal organisation. To set the record straight, let me highlight the
views expressed by RSS founder M.S. Golwalkar about non-Hindus: “The non-Hindu
people of Hindustan must either adopt Hindu culture and languages, must learn
and respect and hold in reverence the Hindu religion, must entertain no idea
but of those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture... in a word they
must cease to be foreigners; Or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to
the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, — not even
citizens’ rights” (cited from Guha, Ramachandra (2008), India After Gandhi: The
History of the World’s Largest Democracy, Pan Macmillan, p.19).
Also See the Full News Report in The Hindu
Shedding communal image a challenge’(Dated: April 30, 2014)
It's good BJP kept issues like Ram Temple out of its main
agenda: Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen inNew Delhi on Tuesday.— Photo:
V. Sudershan
V. Sudershan
Although concerned at the prospect of Narendra Modi becoming
Prime Minister, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen does not agree with those who say
they would leave the country if the Gujarat Chief Minister occupies the top
office.
Prime Minister, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen does not agree with those who say
they would leave the country if the Gujarat Chief Minister occupies the top
office.
“It is ridiculous to change your country because you do not like
the government. You then change the government,” Professor Sen told The
Hindu on Tuesday before proceeding to Shantiniketan to cast his vote for
the first time in 13 years.
the government. You then change the government,” Professor Sen told The
Hindu on Tuesday before proceeding to Shantiniketan to cast his vote for
the first time in 13 years.
Pointing out that Mr. Modi was not his choice for PM, he said
lots of Indians held the same view. As for Mr. Modi’s attempt to project a soft
image and the BJP trying to steer clear of contentious issues, he said: “It’s
very good they have kept some Hindu issues like construction of the Ram Temple
out of their main agenda. But does that mean that a person reared in the RSS,
where the Hindu-Muslim division has played a substantial role in their
thinking, can actually suppress these ideas in reality? This is to be seen.”
lots of Indians held the same view. As for Mr. Modi’s attempt to project a soft
image and the BJP trying to steer clear of contentious issues, he said: “It’s
very good they have kept some Hindu issues like construction of the Ram Temple
out of their main agenda. But does that mean that a person reared in the RSS,
where the Hindu-Muslim division has played a substantial role in their
thinking, can actually suppress these ideas in reality? This is to be seen.”
Saying it is an electorally-sound decision to keep contentious
issues on the back-burner, he said “living up to the non-communal image would
be one of the challenges that the BJP will have to rise to,” if it comes to
power as the leader of a coalition.
issues on the back-burner, he said “living up to the non-communal image would
be one of the challenges that the BJP will have to rise to,” if it comes to
power as the leader of a coalition.
On Mr. Modi’s efforts to appear accommodating, Prof. Sen said:
“It is very difficult to distinguish between what is being done for the purpose
of a bigger appeal in an election and what is being done out of a genuine
conviction. It’s a good idea for him to appear accommodating to get some votes
but if he were to come to office, more reassurance is needed on that in terms
of actual action. I am not pining to have him as the Prime Minister.”
“It is very difficult to distinguish between what is being done for the purpose
of a bigger appeal in an election and what is being done out of a genuine
conviction. It’s a good idea for him to appear accommodating to get some votes
but if he were to come to office, more reassurance is needed on that in terms
of actual action. I am not pining to have him as the Prime Minister.”
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