Will
JNU help ‘the nation building’ process, or derail it?
The signal for the Disruptive Dimension of ‘the nation building process' ?
Is JNU a Pandora’s Box ,camouflaged by the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ ?
The compulsion ‘to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai’;
The signal for the Disruptive Dimension of ‘the nation building process' ?
“There’s the matter of justice – the progress
of the 2013 PIL, and whether it is being pursued purely to seek justice, or to
seek an end result. It is also being pursued to officially register the protest
against Kunan-Poshpora and pursue an inquiry as far as possible. There’s the
extensive documentation in the book – individual victims’ accounts of the
incident, maps of the scenes, a list of the soldiers involved, the
investigation and the burial of the FIRs, the medical reports and the police
reports.”
-‘JNU protests, Afzal Guru's hanging and
Kunan-Poshpora case: None of us know the real Kashmir’
By Sneha Rajaram
Like the civilians, there are both good and
bad guys in the army of every country, and deployment of the armed forces in
the civilian regions may lead to the human rights violations by the ‘bad guys’
in the armed forces, even in UN peacekeeping missions. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers)
The deployment of the Indian army in Srilanka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Peace_Keeping_Force#Controversies
) & in UN peace keeping jobs, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_United_Nations_peacekeeping_missions#Allegations_of_Sexual_Misconduct
) ; witnessed the charges of ‘atrocities’ indulged by the ‘bad guys’.
The Kunan-Poshpora case needs to be pursued to
ensure justice, which must prove to be a good beginning to ensure similar
justice to all the victims in all the reported cases; and not for defaming the
entire army, forgetting the good deeds, including the ‘unforgettable’ rescue
operations during the floods in Kashmir. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Armed_Forces_and_the_Jammu_and_Kashmir_Floods,_2014)
But
was Sneha Rajaram right in linking Kunan-Poshpora case with ‘the India's
illegal occupation of Kashmir’ as claimed by Pakistan, and Afzal Guru's hanging ?
Sneha Rajaram, interestingly , referred to the
‘statement by JNU professor Nivedita Menon which said, "Everyone knows
that India is illegally occupying Kashmir. Everybody accepts [it] […] The map
of India in foreign publications like Time and Newsweek show a different map of
Kashmir. These copies of the magazines always create a lot of controversy and
are censored and destroyed. When the whole world is talking about India's
illegal occupation of Kashmir, then we should think the pro-azaadi slogans in
the valley are justified.”
and added “After reading about Kunan Poshpora,
Menon’s statement seems like a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes to me.”
If Kashmir’s accession to India is wrong, then
the accession of 635 princely states must also be wrong. (‘On 4 June 1947
Mountbatten held a press conference in which he addressed the question of the
princely states, of whicIn fach there were then a total of 635. The treaty
relations between Britain and the Indian States would come to an end, and on 15
August 1947 the suzerainty of the British Crown was to lapse. Consequently, the
princely states would assume independent status. They would be free to choose
to accede to one or the other of the new dominions.’ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Act_1947#Princely_states )
Except Hydrabad (the forced annexation),
including Kashmir, all the princely states were annexed to India by the
voluntary acts by the respective princes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_state
)
Thanks to the pro-patriotic strong approach by
late Sardar Vallabhai Patel, India is now united, Kashmir suffering due to the
mishandling by the late PM Nehru.
Armed forces used to be deployed in various
parts of India, whenever the situations go out of control by the state
forces.
Any ‘atrocity’ indulged by the ‘black sheep’
in the armed forces in those regions, must be enquired and justice shall be
rendered to the victims.
Instead,
exploiting the issue to question the annexation of the region with India, will
reopen the most dangerous Pandora’s Box [camouflaged by the ‘progressive’ (?) ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ (?)], leading to anarchy, filling the India
map with innumerable ‘East Timor’s or ‘South Sudan’s; a real punishment to all
Indians.
Assume that Kashmir, an independent country
like East Timor or South Sudan, and the
Kunan Poshpora, had taken place with the deployment of the Indian army, as the
UN peace keeping force; can Kunan Poshpora be linked to the ‘status’ of
Kashmir’s independence, as the reason.
Will not the linking of the Kunan Poshpora
with ‘India's illegal occupation of Kashmir’ defocus and weaken the efforts to
render justice to the victims?
W.r.t to Afzal Guru's hanging;
“Anyone who dared to study the evidence act,
criminal procedure code & other laws employed to award the death sentences
to Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhat & also
the other kinds of hard core criminals, could understand, how those laws, based
on the heritage and the social conditions in UK, were 'incompatible' with the
heritage and the social conditions of India. It's inevitable consequence would
result in the 'shortfalls' in the 'evidences' & 'the procedure', which
could be pointed out, thus damaging all the death sentences awarded so far in
Independent India; apart from the 'govt style' bungling in the probe of the
assassinations of 'Mahatma' Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, & Rajiv Gandhi; for example , did the conviction of
Godse, bother to probe the origin of the
Italian Beretta pistol used by Godse in
killing 'Mahatma' Gandhi, as pointed out by Mr.Subramaniyan Swamy,
(http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/subramanian-swamy-seeks-to-reopen-mahatma-gandhi-assassination-case-smells-conspiracy_1822169.html ), &
the 'security lapses', if any, in helping Godse to carry out the
assassination.” ( ‘Is JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar aware of the
'discrimination' in the 'human rights support ', with the probable 'hidden
agenda' ? What about the azadi from the
lack of transparency, accountability,
& social justice in funding the universities? ; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.in/2016/03/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
)
Afzal Guru's hanging , the Kunan Poshpora, and
the so called ‘India's illegal occupation of Kashmir’ are three different
issues, deserving a serious discussion in the background of the issues related
to India’s ‘nation building’, faced by all the ‘colony infected’ countries,
during the post-colonial phase.
Unfortunately the western imported concepts
seem to derail the ‘nation building’ process, encouraging divisive tendencies
& serving the vested interests in India & abroad; the worst victim
being the Kashmir, while the rest of India too suffers in varying degrees due
to the ‘chauvinistic’ regional/regional wing of the national (?) ruling parties, especially in the inter-state disputes;
derailing the REAL development of India.
It will be good if the JNU debate extend to
the issues of the ‘nation building’, initiated by Rajiv Malhotra.
” What is currently happening is the importing
of various Western concepts into the Indian narrative which Malhotra says is
taking away from our own identity... A grand narrative is essential partly
because it enables Indians to understand how to co-exist, and this narrative
would be an Indian substitute for secularism, which is someone else’s narrative."
; http://logos.nationalinterest.in/2014/10/the-indian-grand-narrative/
The disruptive dimension of the nation building process, erupted in the form of the compulsion ‘to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. (http://www.firstpost.com/india/bharat-mata-ki-jai-controversy-3-boys-allegedly-beaten-up-in-delhi-over-refusal-to-chant-slogan-2702308.html?utm_source=FP_CAT_LATEST_NEWS ) Love for the motherland, like the love for the mother, has to be voluntary. Instead if there was any compulsion, it shall be treated as a signal, that something was basically wrong with the relationship between the person and his/her mother as well as the motherland. ( Rashtriya Swayemsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat sent out a clear message for sangh pariwar members saying that chanting of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' cannot be forced upon the people. It has to be done voluntarily, Bhagwat said.; http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Chanting-of-Bharat-Mata-Ki-Jai-cant-be-forced-on-others-RSS-chief/articleshow/51585274.cms?from=mdr) The right remedial measures included discouraging the compulsions, and identifying the root causes, disrupting the natural bond.
Also the disruptive dimension of the nation-system building process was mainly responsible for the ‘law and order problem’ created by the above compulsion. The ‘nation building process’ can succeed, only when the ‘system (to sustain the nation) building process’ succeeds in getting rid of the ‘colonial contamination’ (like the above compulsion), with the help of our heritage and culture, undergoing modernization without westernization.
Was there any discussion in JNU on the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the lessons for India, w..r.t the ‘nation building process’ and the ‘system building process’?
Did the pitfalls in the ‘nation building process’ result in the lack of transparency, accountability, & social justice, in many of the activities of the govt, including the funding of the universities; with JNU cornering funds more than that allotted to ALL the state funded affiliated universities in a state, like those in Tamilnadu? Were corruption, favoritism, & discrimination, the inevitable results of the pitfalls? From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, ordinary people, who without connections to the political parties or ‘influences’, in general, cannot dream of sending their children to JNU, undergo different kinds of sufferings, as the ultimate results of the pitfalls? Do those ‘enjoying’ the ‘benefits’ of the governing with the pitfalls, either due to ignorance, or due to their ‘hidden agenda’, try to exploit those ‘different’ kinds of sufferings, encourage the ‘different’ kinds of ‘divisive tactics’, to ‘break’ India, to serve the vested interests abroad, filling the India map with ‘East Timor’s or ‘South Sudan’s.
Will those sincere pro-patriots in JNU help ‘the nation building’ process, or those with ‘the hidden agenda’ derail it?
Note: Prior to my music research, under the influence of ‘Periyar’ EVR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_E._V._Ramasamy ), I was convinced that the remedy to the Tamils’ ills, included the ‘independent Tamilnadu’, accomplished with the ‘anti-Brahmin’ ideology. During that phase, I was very close to the top level LTTE leaders, including Anton Blasingham, playing significant role in helping LTTE to emerge strong, side-lining the other ‘Elam’ groups. Disillusioned with their ‘wrong progress’, I migrated to music research, applying ‘Physics of Music’ to the ancient Tamil texts. That led to ‘unbelievable’ discoveries not only on the ancient wisdom in music (http://musicdrvee.blogspot.in/ & http://musictholkappiam.blogspot.in/ ), but also ‘opened my eyes’ to ‘the pitfalls’, in the ‘pre-music research’ phase of my life.
'The Dravidian Movement & Rescuing Tamilnadu'; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.com/2014/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html
Also the disruptive dimension of the nation-system building process was mainly responsible for the ‘law and order problem’ created by the above compulsion. The ‘nation building process’ can succeed, only when the ‘system (to sustain the nation) building process’ succeeds in getting rid of the ‘colonial contamination’ (like the above compulsion), with the help of our heritage and culture, undergoing modernization without westernization.
Was there any discussion in JNU on the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the lessons for India, w..r.t the ‘nation building process’ and the ‘system building process’?
Did the pitfalls in the ‘nation building process’ result in the lack of transparency, accountability, & social justice, in many of the activities of the govt, including the funding of the universities; with JNU cornering funds more than that allotted to ALL the state funded affiliated universities in a state, like those in Tamilnadu? Were corruption, favoritism, & discrimination, the inevitable results of the pitfalls? From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, ordinary people, who without connections to the political parties or ‘influences’, in general, cannot dream of sending their children to JNU, undergo different kinds of sufferings, as the ultimate results of the pitfalls? Do those ‘enjoying’ the ‘benefits’ of the governing with the pitfalls, either due to ignorance, or due to their ‘hidden agenda’, try to exploit those ‘different’ kinds of sufferings, encourage the ‘different’ kinds of ‘divisive tactics’, to ‘break’ India, to serve the vested interests abroad, filling the India map with ‘East Timor’s or ‘South Sudan’s.
Will those sincere pro-patriots in JNU help ‘the nation building’ process, or those with ‘the hidden agenda’ derail it?
Note: Prior to my music research, under the influence of ‘Periyar’ EVR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periyar_E._V._Ramasamy ), I was convinced that the remedy to the Tamils’ ills, included the ‘independent Tamilnadu’, accomplished with the ‘anti-Brahmin’ ideology. During that phase, I was very close to the top level LTTE leaders, including Anton Blasingham, playing significant role in helping LTTE to emerge strong, side-lining the other ‘Elam’ groups. Disillusioned with their ‘wrong progress’, I migrated to music research, applying ‘Physics of Music’ to the ancient Tamil texts. That led to ‘unbelievable’ discoveries not only on the ancient wisdom in music (http://musicdrvee.blogspot.in/ & http://musictholkappiam.blogspot.in/ ), but also ‘opened my eyes’ to ‘the pitfalls’, in the ‘pre-music research’ phase of my life.
'The Dravidian Movement & Rescuing Tamilnadu'; http://tamilsdirection.blogspot.com/2014/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_10.html