Inviting investment in J&K: Plea or ploy?

Prime minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to the UAE and Bahrain, appealed to the Indian diaspora, NRIs and businessmen from both the countries to invest in Kashmir on a priority basis. He also invited them to participate in the investors’ summit to be held in Jammu & Kashmir in October this year.

Going by various indicators, it is quite likely that India may win investment from the Arab country in J&K. The positive aspects such as Modi's personal rapport with UAE crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Nahyan; bestowing of the highest civilian honours on the Indian PM such as the UAE's Sheikh Zayed Medal and Bahrain's the King Hamad Order of Renaissance; the UAE being the third-largest trading partner of India with $60 billion and the 3.3 mn Indian community in the UAE, may work in India’s interest. Moreover, the UAE's diplomatic tilt toward India in the recent past point to new-found positive energies in the bilateral relations between the two countries.

However, the historic precedents and the ground reality in J&K present a different picture.

The Arab countries' muted response to India’s move to abrogate Article 370 and 35 (A) can be seen in the backdrop of millions of Indians working there and India being a major oil importer. Gulf countries cannot afford to harm their own commercial interests.

Looking at the worsening state of Indian economy, rapid outflow of foreign investment, the attempt to attract FDI in J&K will have to face some hurdles. Investors will be wary of investing in a region, where the army has a massive presence and the citizens are almost imprisoned. Though it can be argued that this situation would not prevail forever, J&K has limitations when it comes to the kind of industry that can be established there.

Modi has pointed out to the potential investors from the Gulf countries that J&K's strong points are its tourism, herbal and organic products, which can be marketed globally. However, J&K has little to offer due to its geographical and natural resource limitations.

Given this scenario, is it not premature on Modi’s part to invite investors when tourism is in the doldrums? Investors always prefer to invest in peaceful areas. Without the support from the local populace, no investment can be worthwhile.

India has cultural and commercial ties with the Arabs from the pre-Islamic times. Valuable knowledge that Indian scholars developed initially travelled to Europe through the Arab travellers and tradesmen.

Mohammad Qasim attacked Sindh not to spread the religion but to free seaports and control trade routes connecting India. It was Chandrapida of Karkotaka dynasty, who restricted Qasim beyond Jalandhar, the then boundary of Kashmir. His successor Lalitaditya the Great not only defeated Arab governor Junaid but forced his successor Tamim to flee, uprooting the Arab presence from the North-West.

The history of Kashmir-Arab relationship has not been very cordial. In not-so-distant-past, the people of Kashmir in the last century felt threatened when some Arabs started marrying poor Kashmiri girls to buy houseboats and properties, thereby boosting their rates to phenomenal levels. This was not only shared by some authentic sources but has also been reported in the media. However, the gravity of the matter was neglected.

Now, this fear of Arab takeover in the Kashmiri mind may grow as purchasing land and property has now become official with the abrogation of Article 35 (A), which was a psychological and a legal shield for the Kashmiri people.

Even though we neglect what locals feel or how they react, a major shift in the local socio-economical dynamics is inevitable. Kashmir has been a major tourist destination with little scope for other industries, except agricultural, light engineering industry and education.

Social activists such as Sanjay Nahar of NGO Sarhad have already taken the lead in making Kashmir a knowledge centre once again. It was a knowledge hub from the sixth to 12th century. The Arabs might look at it as the world’s most wonderful place, where they can build plush palaces and hotels. They are anyway not famous for agriculture or other industries suitable to the character of Kashmir.

Moreover, the Kashmiri people have always been rebellious, which is a proven fact. Unless peace is restored in an amicable manner with the consent of both sides, none other than land-hungry investors will turn to Kashmir for investment. This will not ensure wellbeing of the Kashmiri people.

This means either the Prime Minister's call for investment in J&K to Arab countries is just a ploy. If it comes true in the future, then the Kashmiris will feel alarmed. We must see to it that the social cohesion in Kashmir is not disturbed.

And to add to the mockery of Kashmiris, publicity-hungry Maharashtra government has announced its intention to purchase land in J&K and Laddakh to set up resorts. Huge amount of mere Rs. 1 crore is earmarked for this project. The state government has become laughing stock with this announcement as already all these three parts of the former state already have excess capacity to cater to the tourists. The history is occupancy rate has never crossed 70% even in the peak seasons and when situation was right. Today tourism in Kashmir has nosedived to zero percent. What will be the future is yet uncertain to decide. Tourists have already started changing their destinations. Another thing is that the hotspot tourist destinations like Pehalgaon, Gulmarg, Somarg has no space to allot as already land is leased to other hospitality professionals. If the Maharashtra government was so keen on improving tourism in Kashmir, it would have taken initiative in a different way long ago when it needed badly. Insensitive Maharashtra government, unfortunately, eying the land of Kashmir and not the people. This also is another ploy, like Modi, of Maharashtra government.

The Curse of Kashmir

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Sanjay Sonawani

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My visits to Kashmir were not as a tourist. In fact, I have never visited Shalimar Garden, nor even famous shrines like the Shankaracharya temple. I never felt like boating at leisure in the famous Dal Lake, even though on many occasions I passed by it. Ladakh I visited for the first time to launch my music album Monsoon Sonata, but didn’t visit any Buddhist shrine or Pangong lake. I did visit many places but these were the farms and lands where I could start my factory. To my friends it was madness. Kashmir was burning with terrorist violence then also. Even the thought of starting any commercial activity in Jammu & Kashmir would be considered suicidal. But then, I had already established an iron-powder manufacturing plant in the Naxal-affected district of Gadchiroli.

My encounter with danger began in 1993, when I traveled by a State Transport bus to Gadchiroli, guarded by an armed policeman. Buses were often attacked by Naxals, and traveling to Gadchiroli was not safe. But when I reached my destination, I fell in love with the simple-minded tribals and witnessed firsthand their strife with life. I heard the horror stories of these people sandwiched between the Police and Naxals. They cherished dreams of development, but there were no opportunities available. There was no industry, and consequently no local jobs. Education facilities were poor and inadequate. Who would dare to start an industry where enemies of the so-called capitalists — the Naxals — had a strong base? I heard stories of their brutalities exacted on road contractors and forest officers. I heard how the tribals were left with no option but to either sympathise with and join them, or be killed.

I resolved to start an industry there. I decided to provide employment to the tribals. And so, against all odds, I began work in 1995 and now, in 1998, I was ready to start another plant in Kashmir! Had I been lucky enough I would have opened factories in the North-Eastern states as well.

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But why? In my opinion, the root cause of these people resorting to wield guns lies in their economic conditions. If conditions are bad, people can find an excuse in religious or separatist fundamentalist sentiments to agitate and become violent. Those people who have no surety of a stable future, fall easy prey to violent motives. It is not a coincidence that the Naxal uprising is in poverty laden tribal regions. The first armed revolt was of penniless land tenants and laborers.

And due to a dearth of industrial and business development in Kashmir and the North-Eastern states, people’s dissatisfaction was bound to lead towards separatism and violence. People who have nothing to lose do not care for their own lives. The Kashmir issue, too, gradually became complicated and today people hurl stones at the Army. They can become brutal enough to lynch a police official, caring not whether he belongs to their religion, and this shows that religion and other reasons are superficial. The central reason is the insecure atmosphere that does not guarantee any future to them.

Once, while entering the Ministry in Srinagar in a rickshaw, a scooter bomb exploded at the gate, not even 200 feet from us. Cursing, the rickshaw driver turned around and said to me, “If someone pays me even Rs. 50,000, I can kill the Chief Minister! This terrorism has destroyed us. There are no tourists, so no income. Houseboats are rotting empty in Dal lake….” and he went on describing to me the misery that terrorism had brought to their lives. The driver who obviously was Muslim, strengthened my resolve that yes, the root cause of this terrorism is not religion, but poverty.

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In my speech at the Polo ground in Leh, to an audience of about 70,000, I announced in the November of 1998 that I will start food processing Industries at Leh and Srinagar. The reason was that though Kashmir is a large producer of apples, almost seventy thousand tons of these apples go to waste because of inadequate storage and transportation facilities. Apricots are grown on a large scale in Ladakh, but they cannot be sold fresh out of the Valley. I concluded that starting apple and apricot dehydration plants was the best solution, simultaneously providing hundreds of jobs and saving the state from wastage.

When I met Dr. Farooq Abdullah and the concerned ministers with my project report, I was welcomed. The idea was sensible. I was allotted 17 canals of land in Leh, and I was in the process of finalising plots in industrial development zones where not a single industry so far had begun. On my insistence, Dr. Abdulla made a visit to Mumbai for a meeting with corporate leaders to invite them to bring industries, and hold Board & General Meetings of shareholders in J&K. The meeting was a failure, however, as no one came forward with a positive proposal.

Though I had completed all formalities, year after year passed with no actual ground work. Financial institutions – including J&K Bank – consumed a lot of time in processing the proposal, but neither sanctioned nor rejected it. Government officials were boringly discouraging. So far, I had wasted over 45 lakh Rupees on this venture. One fine day I met with Dr. Abdullah to intimate of the difficulties I was facing. After hearing me, he coolly suggested that I see a prominent leader of Maharashtra if I wanted to get my proposal sanctioned. This was a ridiculous suggestion which infuriated me. I turned down the suggestion to meet anybody irrelevant to get my proposal sanctioned, as it was my money and life at stake and I was not ready to pay any bribes. I left his chamber and went straight to the office of the Kashmir Times, where I gave an elaborative interview revealing Dr. Abdullah and his anti-Kashmir policies, before departing for Delhi that same night. The interview was published on the front page the very next day, thus sealing the future of my venture.

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How would my project benefit J&K, besides possible profits to the company? It would prevent the criminal wastage of natural resources and help increase farmers’ revenue. It would help youth in the form of direct and indirect employment. The myth that outsiders cannot start any industry in J&K would be shattered, and many new enthusiastic and bold entrepreneurs would come forward to start other industries and businesses in various segments. But the political filth never wanted it to happen.

The regret I have about this episode is that although the politicians and bureaucrats of J&K know very well that rapid and eco-friendly industrialisation — which will use those natural resources that are abundantly gifted to the region — is very much required not only for employment generation but also the creation of wealth, they lack in political will. They do not truly desire the well-being of the Kashmiris. Since 2002, the situation has worsened to the point that students, instead of attending classes, are aggressively challenging the system. It is no matter of separatism. They have no means to live an honorable life. Their sustenance is in danger, and neither central nor state governments care for them. The urgent need, apart from establishing a political dialogue with the people, is to generate enough employment in the state so that people feel they have a secure future. The agro-industry has the biggest scope in the valley, but unless the government takes positive steps, no entrepreneur is going risk his life and money!

For the North-Eastern states, too, the same strategy is required. The government spends on the army lakhs of crores, but is not ready to spend even half of it on constructive projects. The policy needs to change drastically or Kashmir risks remaining a land of terror and bloodbath forever.

Inhuman act!

 

The shame too would now be ashamed with the dastardly inhuman acts committed by the insane mob on a local train in Haryana. 17-year-old Hafiz Junaid was stabbed to death on the accusation that he was carrying beef in his bag! Prior to that Junaid and his relatives, those he accompanied were taunted of being anti-national and beef eaters, their caps were thrown away and beards grabbed. 

Akhlakh to Junaid is a heinous journey that this Modi government has coursed. Anti-Muslim sentiments are being infuriated purposely. RSS has been doing the same for decades and now they have their government to make any laws and turn the ordinary people to the beastly mob. Their Vedic ideology loaded with fascism, propagated by Golvalkar Guruji and others are being brought in the practice that makes the Muslims secondary citizens and if possible kill them under any pretext. This is happening. The ordinary people who do not understand what they are doing are falling to the evilous minds.

Everybody knows that the once Vedics were beef eaters. They performed cow sacrifices named Gomedh, Shulagava etc. and ate the beef in sacred sacrifices. The beef was not only in their diet but was a ceremonious food to be served to the honorable guests. No matter they deny this now by forcibly deriving misinterpreted meanings, but the facts cannot be overlooked. It is not the problem that once they eat beef, the problem is they are making the issue of Cow and beef a fanatic issue to the level that the humanity shall ashamed.

Junaid was just a kid. Now the arrested accused states that he was under influence. We do not know whether here exists any justice or not. The social fabric of India has been torn apart. The ghosts of Vedic fanatism are haunting us. They are not Hindu. They have Vedic religion but mischievously are using the term Hindu to rule over Hindus too! RSS was never a Hindu organization. All that RSS always preached is all about Vedas and greatness of the Smritis and their dictated social order of inequality. After Muslims, their target will be Hindus. Hindus are not understanding it very well. They should! They must study what disastrous ideology they have been preaching and now bringing to the practice!

Hindus had nothing to do with the Vedas. They never read them or were allowed even to listen. The simple thing is they never belonged to the Vedic religion.

The cruelty that fills human mind to act insane is the product of the ideology that is dangerous to the human being. A kid couldn’t have been even touched, false accusations wouldn’t have been thrown, and first of all the Gomata wouldn’t have been made sacred over human life! No laws can enforce what to eat and what not. This simply is theocratic dictatorial governance. The insane mobs are bound to act inhuman when the sentiment is infuriated. The situation demands serious introspection by the political heads of the country. Where they are leading the country? Why should the anti-democrats influence the democracy? The frustration that Junaid's killing has brought is immense. We are drowning in an ocean of inhuman surrounding. Alas! 

Time to repay the debt of the farmers!

Loan waiver to the farmers is a hotly debated topic on political and social grounds. The fact cannot be denied that the farmers are (and always were) in pathetic conditions, not only due to the frequent natural calamities but manmade disasters too. Loan waiver to Uttar Pradesh farmers is declared by not UP leaders but Prime Minister. Modi’s dictatorial style of functioning is getting clear every day. In Maharashtra too it appears that even if Devendra Phadanavis is objecting to the demand of loan waiver, it is just to show that he will not succumb to the demands of the opposition, but he will do it in his own style when he feels he only can reap the political fruits. So, this issue is not being debated by the opposition or government because they have some concerns about the farmers, but are making the political issue out of farmer suicides.

First victim of socialism always is a farmer. Rest of the industry can manage their survival and progress by appropriating the authorities with bribes and cheating banks by manipulating their balance sheets. The condition of the farming segment is worst because it is controlled by the State with enforcing many laws. To do this the government has made a provision, refer schedule 9, no one can challenge these laws in the courts. Essential commodities Act, Land sealing act, land acquisition act are few examples those have crippled Indian agriculture. Like other industrial products, The farmer cannot sell his produce freely in the open market. Though producer, he has no control over the price. Under the circumstances, it is inevitable that the farming becomes a loss making enterprise. To woo the middle-class government interferes to maintain the prices low and affordable. But there is no sense in determining what is affordable.

Due to the land sealing act, farming land already is fragmented, making it non-viable venture. Maximum land holding too is restricted hence no modern farming technologies can be implemented to make it a successful venture. Hence no new investment can be expected in this large sector that can be boosted easily with squashing the anti-farming laws.

Narendra Modi is considered as a messiah by most of the people who, they believe, have guts enough to bring “acche din” to the majority Indians.  However, this is a euphoric sentiment without any touch of the reality. He is following all the political gimmicks those were consistently adopted by his predecessor governments. He may declare loan waiver soon to give last kick to the already crippled Indian economy. This waiver may take him on the pinnacle of the popularity. This is what always socialist mind sets want. They have nothing to do with the realities and willingness to go to the root of the problem and permanently cure it.  

Like previous governments, this too is a spineless government. It is thriving on the dreamy slogans and popular decisions. Loan waiver is not an option. But it becomes necessary because if farmers are debt-ridden it is because of the government acts and apathy towards any attempt for farming development. Under the circumstances, as long as they prevail, it becomes government’s (and peoples) duty to waive the loans, no matter what adverse impact it makes on the economy. You are not doing any favor because it is you who have made farmers life miserable. You have to repay this debt!

If Mr. Modi wants to show he is what he has been claiming, then he has to make all the anti-farming laws redundant with immediate effect. Unless and until this is done the only option the government is left with is give more subsidies, loan waivers, packages and all that can assist the farmer. Mr. Modi has choice. Let us hope he opt for right one that can free the farmers from the controls!

Towards the Nation of "mind-dead's"?

 

BJP has been a gang of people that wants the people of India should accept their definitions of culture and nationalism without raising any questions. RSS, their mother organization has been recklessly and tirelessly pushing their Vedic thought under the disguise of “Hindutva” to amass innocent and ignorant Hindus who do know not RSS’s true designs. Its numerous tentacles, BJP is one of them, have penetrated all walks of life and silently spread their venom.

The roots of  RSS are in fascist ideology. Vedic Aryanism is the core of this blended fascism which got rooted in India after their endless efforts. They could succeed because they have taken the veil of Hinduism. Innocent Hindus do not know what the difference is between Vedicism and Hinduism. Vedic was always an independent religion. Its core fundamentals are different that stand upon the principles of inequality. The Vedic supremacy over the masses had to be regained in democratic and awakening India. Vedic intrusion in the Hindu religion was a successful mission that helped them to enjoy Vedic supremacy till the end of the last millennium. In democratic India, they had to search for other means to maintain that. RSS was a natural output of those efforts.

Now, the efforts have proved successful beyond their imagination. Economic growth or no growth of the country, cultural supremacy has been their ultimate goal that we can notice from the increasing onslaught of forcing their ideas of culture and nationalism on the people. What culture do they talk of? They talk of Vedic culture that always was narrow-minded, considering the rest of the people their subordinates, boasting of false glories, and creating fear in the minds of the opponents, false propaganda has always been their tool to achieve their goals. Twisting language to prove anything that is false true is their inimitable skill.

What do they want? They are not for freedom to express. They are not for equality. They are not for the fraternity. Thus, they are not for the present constitution. They are poisoning the social fabric of the nation in order to make India stand upon “mind-dead” people where no one is allowed to think independently and express themselves freely.

The danger is not that economy is slowing down. The danger is not that the statistics are fabricated to make one feel good when it is not. The danger is, they are enveloping political scenarios at such a fast pace that the democracy itself is in danger. People have started loving lies. People have started loving misleading nationalism. The power-hungry tenuous people are rushing to join hands with them. The social divide is managed in such a smart way that the people are left with no option but to vote for them. The ignorant fools of the opposition still are groping in the dark. Awestruck they are and do not know why this sudden shift is taking place in Indian society. They too have become “Mind-Dead”.

This is what Vedicist always wanted and now it is happening. We have to stop becoming “mind-dead” or we will too willfully become subordinate subjects to their regime.

Students activism...leading where?

 

Students active participation in political or social activities be always welcome. It also can be expected that the students should form their own opinions, ideas and dreams about their own future to shape the country they want. This free atmosphere in university/college campus should prevail allowing the students to make their own minds without any outside deliberate influences.

However, it is always seen that the students are misused by the political parties for their own gain. “Catch them young” is a well-practiced slogan This creates the clones out of the students those become carrier of the thoughts those are not their own. Rather the thinking process of the students becomes conditioned, so much so that they many a times becomes martyrs of the ideologies.

Almost every political party has their own student organizations and try to attract the students in their fold. Once admitted the student lose his own identity and becomes an activist for the cause of the party. In this process, the original thinking process of the student is killed. Their freedom is lost forever. 

Leftist or rightist or others have deliberately run the factories to manufacture identical dolls out of the students. The outside political conflicts are vehemently, some times violently, fought in the university campus’. The present row between rightist ABVP and leftist SFS is an outcome of the sheer political game and students have fallen prey to it. Blaming any will yield no satisfactory outcome. Instead, we have to go to the root causes of it!

The sloganeering by the leftist is labeled as anti-national. Kanhaiya’s rise on political front was an outcome of that. First of all there is no proper definition, what anti-national is! First of all, RSS do not have any definition of the nation and nationalism.  Communists are bad but RSS too is equally bad when it comes to the nation and nationalism. Both are confused. The leftist youth, thinking they are rebellious touch the irrelevant and explosive subjects many a times causing unrest among the students of other folds.

The ABVP students think only they have right to define nationalism. They want to force their Vedic cultural nationalism on almost everything and whatever is written or spoken against is labeled as antinationalism. From where this thought process has penetrated is well known to all. The present government has boosted ABVP's ill-moral that too often triggers violence. 

Have students not their own thinking? Have students not any ability to develop and explore their own ideology that may shape future of the country of their own dreams?  Why students are afraid of thinking independently? Why they want to become pawns of the currunt politics instead of forcing it to change in the direction the future generations want? Have students lost their all originality?

In fact, university campus’ should be a major source of intellectual energy that can influence the societies across the country. However, we can see, opposite is happening. The students have become mere tools in the hands of outdated intellectualisms that have no ability to expand beyond and explore new horizons. No matter what ideaology is preffered by the student, why he should not act upon his own without allowing outsider forces to rule him?

Presently, all the student movements have become shallow, abusive and sometimes violent. Leftist or rightist, no exception. A kind of dictatorial mindsets are shaping which is not a good sign for the future of the nation. Hence spurting creativities of the youth are absent from all the campus’. Instead, we find anarchical thought processes at work leading to the chaos in intellectualism of India. 

Make NOTA effective...please sign

There cannot be any doubt that we need strong electoral reforms. We have to empower the voter to strengthen our democracy. Right away we experience mockery of the democracy because most of the elected contesters have the criminal and immoral background and the voter have no choice but to vote for this or that candidate. 



NOTA was introduced after SC's intervention, but NOTA votes make no impact on the results. They only have symbolic value and a way to express dissatisfaction over the candidates. But if we go through the following points it will be clear that NOTA votes should be counted and deducted from the overall positive votes before declaring the results.

1. If the voter has right to cast positive vote, why he shouldn’t have right to caste negative vote that will be counted and make effect on the election result? One way traffic, the way at present we have, is against principles of the democracy. If one has right to chose he should also have right to reject.

2. There is no check over political parties while they chose their contestant candidates. They often are criminals, corrupt, black money hoarders or family politicians. Voter has no say in that selection process. There is no threat to the parties for they are sure some or other certainly will win. If NOTA is made effective, they will have to become very careful while declaring their candidates.

3. It does not make us democratic because we can vote once in five years and become mute spectators till the next election. Our democracy of feudal lords is an outcome of our flawed election system. Voter is powerless and almost taken for granted element in the overall process. 

4. It may be argued that instead of NOTA (casting negative vote and ruin election process) why dissatisfied voter should not contest and be a part of process? The very idea is impracticable and ineffective. After all it is not going to make any major impact on the election results, no matter how many such independent contestants are in the electoral ring. 

5. How to ban those leaders who are most corrupt, immoral and criminal from contesting one after other election? It can be argued that in democracy everyone has right to contest. Yes, but then voters should also have right to reject such people, making them difficult or impossible to contest at least one election. Isn’t this a best democratic way to stop or at the least limit the criminalization of our politics? 

6. With present system, voter is not a king but mere a pawn of the system for he has either limited or no choice but just to vote, forget and repent. 

7. Why there should be ineffective NOTA button on EVM’s if they are not going to make any effect? This is cheating in a way if thought carefully. Every vote, negative or positive should count or just remove negative vote button! Why waste space?

8. Voter has to be empowered. One way traffic no longer should remain in the system. Making NOTA effective is one small reform that we should pursue. This will restrict the most corrupts from contesting the elections and win to ruin the democratic system. Voter must have a strong say in favor or against in the election system which is counted. 

We have to win. We all should endeavor to make thousands of citizens sign this petition. I request you all to help. Kindly visit the following link and vote...

https://www.change.org/p/the-cheif-justice-of-india-nota-be-made-highly-effective?recruiter=79336157&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=des-lg-share_petition-custom_msg



Thanking you,
Sincerely,
Sanjay Sonawani

Outdated date system!

In almost all cases the courts keep on giving the date after dates even before the actual hearing begins. The accused has to spend almost the whole day in the court premises as he doesn’t know when his case will be announced. Every month once or twice his attendance is mandatory before the judge or else bailable or non-bailable warrant is issued. The workload on the police those distribute right from summons to execute NBW’s is immense.

Making it mandatory to attend every date was because the legal machinery feared that the accused may go absconding to avoid the trial. A criminal case takes about three to ten years to stand for trial and then hearing too is prolonged so much so that another few years are wasted in absence of the hearing on every given date before the verdict is delivered.

The basic principle of the law is no one is criminal unless he is proven so beyond all reasonable doubts. Many accused has to spend some time in jail under the pretext of Judicial Custody. The period of judicial custody to the undertrial may prolong sometimes to years, so much so that it encompasses the jailing term beyond the maximum term he could have spent in the jail if proven guilty. Judicial custody is nothing but illegal imprisoning and punishing an accused even before he is convicted or even charge sheeted. We, as a citizen of a democratic country, hardly have given any thought to this punishment to the possible innocents.

The date system too is another punishment where he has to compulsorily attend every date for years, every month, to waste a day and suffer monetary loss till he is convicted or discharged of the crime.

Another aspect of the dating system is wastage of the time of the judges in checking the presence and allotting the next dates. Two to three hours of working time of a judge goes waste in this exercise. He could spend this valuable time to dispose of the pending cases by proper hearing. This can expedite speedy justice and lesser trouble to the accused. This also can help reduce the huge load of the pending cases.  

Very small number of the accused those go absconding or untraceable.  It is found the police many times help the accused by giving false reports to the courts. Naturally, corruption takes place in such and other cases and it is not small. However, it can be seen that the purpose of the date system is not served. At one hand the honest do suffer when dishonest can escape from the judicial trial. But now, with the modern technologies at hand, it is very much hard for one to remain untraceable if one is determined to find someone. And to police, at the least now, this cannot be an impossible task.

Then, the question is, what is the use of following the outdated date system that wastes time and money of the accused and the judiciary?
The accused must be present at the time of the trial. Not just for the sake of proving that he has not been absconded and is very much alive! It is meaningless to force the accused to be present on every given date when the Judges are sure they cannot start his trial for whatever duration. When the hearing date is fixed that can be intimated to the accused and witnesses through conventional and modern systems. If someone is untraceable or has gone absconding, police machinery can be used to find the accused and produce before the court. This can save tremendous time and costs not only of the accused but judicial system too!    

The judicial custody too needs a serious attention because it punishes the accused before he is proven guilty of the crime. To send someone to the judicial custody, at the least the speedy preliminary trial has to be conducted to decide on the nature of the involvement of the accused and whether proofs gathered are enough those may prove him guilty. Courts should also use the discretionary powers to decide whether the accused may or can destroy, alter the proofs and pressurize the witnesses to change their testimony. Unless there are such reasons to believe how an accused can be sent to jail only because if proven guilty the minimum punishment will be over the certain term?

In absence of the preliminary trial, detaining any accused in the jail stuffing him with the proven criminals is nothing but an undeserved punishment. This is the violation of the human rights and liberty of the individual. I think the modern society should attend to this grave issue.

Outdated date system also is a serious hurdle in speedy trials and disposal of the huge number of the pending cases.  The judicial custody system has overcrowded the jails where even the innocents too have to spend some or more time in inhuman conditions. The system has no right to punish anyone unless he is proved to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt and through the proper legal process.  

Awake...the freedom is in danger!

There should be no hesitation in accepting the fact that the Chartered Accountants know very well the practical economics as they have to deal with all the aspects of the financial transactions their clients make and represent them before the authorities as a statutory auditor and certifier.

The demonetization move of Mr. Modi is being criticized from all the quarters. This is democratic right of every citizen to react, no matter whether it is in support or in dissent. His voice cannot be suppressed as long he is not speaking out to cause riots or to incite the violence.

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has issued notices against the members those expressed their dissent against demonetization and has admonished all the members by a circular that if any member violates the code stern action will be initiated against him. 

Why the government should be afraid of the experts expressing their opinions? 

The similar circular has been issued to the Railway employees that they should not criticize the demonetization else they will have to be faced the stern action. Maybe, all government employees have been in receipt of such circulars.

This is undemocratic, dictatorial step taken by the Modi government where people have been prohibited from their freedom to express their opinion. Tomorrow the government may issue such orders to media and then social media if this is not opposed vehemently to protect our fundamental right to speak. This is undeclared emergency in which democratic values are at stake.

All the citizens must raise their voice against such evil attempts to suppress their freedom. Already we are in the state of economic emergency where we are unable to use our own money. They have deprived us from our right to wealth, no matter for a short (but uncertain) period. One after one right is in danger and it demands our strong reaction to stop such attempts to crush our freedom!

I condemn these undemocratic circulars which are an indirect ban on the right to express!

About the truth…an inquiry!

Updated on April 4, 2013

We speak about the truth, we expect the truth and we revere the truth as a highest principle of the human life. “Only Truth Shall win!” is an authentic slogan of Indian Republic. Most of the philosophies are centered on the principle of the truth. And we are yet to understand there cannot be absolute truth!

Human being is an emotional animal. His observations, his thinking and his actions are tainted with emotions. Thus it becomes relative truth. A truth about an incident may not be truth in the view of other observer as reference frame changes with person to person. There certainly are going to be contradictions in their statements about the same incident.

Truths are thus have been challenged for time to time and found some of them false in later studies or examinations.

Now, if the truth of human being is not eternal truth what is position of the truth in human life?

Truth is a feeling of being true about the statement one makes or feels. Feelings are associated with emotions. So we can say that truth of the human being is relative truth and not absolute truth!

As time progresses the truths people believe to be true can turn false someday, even science is no exception to this truth!

So can there be an absolute truth? Can there be an ultimate truth?

When we state death being an ultimate truth, but is it so? Is it proven beyond doubt that death really is death or just a transformation from one to other form? When we state birth is the truth, but do we know what do we mean by birth? Whether it was the moment when union of chromosomes in the mother’s womb was the starting point of the birth or the creation of chromosomes was the starting point of the birth? We never know. We take physical and observable birth as the truth while neglecting other factors associated with the truth.

Truth sounds a great virtue. Truth sounds like God ultimate to be revered and practiced. No matter how close we want to reach the core of the truth it elopes away from we the human beings as our perspective interrupts.

This does also mean that what we call untrue too may not be untrue. No one wanted to believe earth was round and not flat as people in ancient times believed as a truth. New invention sounded untrue to them till they were convinced.

Every religion claims their tenets are only true and divine. What other religions or their founders claim are untrue.

We want to believe in the truth we believe in! Everything else is untrue till we believe it to be untrue!

Then how we can reach ultimate and absolute truth?

Is there any way?

Can there be any truth that cannot be challenged?

We feel existence of the universe being true, but there are philosophies those tell us what we see is not the truth but an illusion! The true “True” is something different that cannot be experienced with physical body…only soul can experience it.

Again we find ourselves in a chaotic condition about the truth!

Relative truths cannot be absolute truths. Here we face interesting conjecture…if the absolute truth cannot be found by the human being, what is the status of the truth in human life? Do we live in entirely untrue conditions to which we think to be true? Can truth be modified?

No, whatever that can be modified cannot be true “Truth”.

To sum up, we cannot reach the ultimate truth, no matter how scientifically it is proven, because it always will be a relative truth…

Absolute truth never can come in the grasp of human being!

So ungrateful are the Indians!

Updated on April 3, 2013

There are many Indians those are still ungrateful to Mahatma. RSS being one of them, there are former untouchables too those love to abuse Mahatma with every breath. They have self invented justifications why Mahatma had to be assassinated. They keep on incessantly spreading false stories about him to defame him in the eyes of young generation. I know Mahatma was a man made of blood and flesh and he couldn’t have been perfect in everything. Still the heights of humanity, truth and non-violence he reached are beyond reach of any living human being of modern times.

Why attempts to defame him on false grounds are made constantly? In another article on this forum I had written the reason…his caste…his non being Vedic. In fact Gandhi revered Varna system of Vedic religion. He revered Vedic social system and for this former untouchables abuse him! But they forget he was bound by his times. He had to unite entire country irrespective of Varna or caste. He couldn’t have spoken against that system when religious sentiment was at its helm. Also they forget his all nationwide attempts to eradicate untouchability, his vow to attend only inter-caste marriages, his own actions of cleaning toilets and filth himself and his followers that was traditionally reserved for untouchables.

Former untouchables blame Gandhi for his rift with Dr. Ambedkar on the issue of separate electorates for untouchables and his fast to protest this demand. The people think Gandhi used fast as a weapon to deny rights of untouchables to have separate electorates. But they conveniently forget accepting the demand of separate electorates would further divide country. Till then separate electorates were given to Muslim’s only. Demand of separate electorates was based on Two-nation Theory. Gandhi was against it. He offered reserved electorates and gave more than what Dr. Ambedkar would have anticipated. People conveniently forget this fact. They blame Gandhi for the decision he took in the interest of Nation... and former untouchables!

Vedic people are no exception. They think they are set on highest social position by their religious accord. Gandhi to them always was non-Vedic. A Shudra having no right to claim any higher position in politics or social order couldn’t be a national leader in the eyes of conservative Vedic’s.

But they could not outright throw him out as he had proved him in foreign country like South Africa. Indians were welcoming him everywhere for his unique way of opposing rulers…non-cooperation…non-violence…

What they did, the conservative Vedic’s, is that they founded separate organization RSS, cutting themselves off Congress. They did not participate in freedom movement led by Gandhi. Deadly conservative like Savarkar was staunch opponent of Gandhi as he believed in armed revolution.

One fine day Gandhi was assassinated by one of the pupil of one Savarkar. It was inevitable. The justification for the murder was already in place. The reasons being rumored through books and articles and through whisper campaigns are as follows:

1. Appeasement of Muslim community and being responsible for partition it was essential to kill him.

-This sounds very convincing to younger patriots those think partition is a wound in chest of the country.

Facts are entirely opposite. Attempts to kill Gandhi started in the year 1934. Second attempts were made in the year 1944 at different places by Nathuram Godse. There was no issue of partition or Rs. 55 crore to be given to Pakistan. When Gandhi finally was killed in the year 1948, Pakistan already in existence and killing Gandhi wouldn’t help. Rs. 55 crore was the dues those were to be paid according to international laws. India in no way could stop that payment. Gandhi’s fast was not to force Government to pay the dues but for entirely different reason…the riots.

Appeasement of Muslim had begun long before Gandhi entered Indian politics. Lucknow Pact was signed by Bal Tilak in 1916 granting separate electorates to the Muslims. I have not found any blaming Tilak for his being Islamist and first person to approve creation of Pakistan in future! Gandhi couldn’t reverse this situation. He prolonged it to find other solutions to the inevitable problems. He didn’t allow any separate electorate to any other community in India, no matter what the degree of opposition was!

So killing Gandhi was per-determined exercise. All the reasons are bogus and are being used to justify a heinous crime. Still defamation continues. “Hate Gandhi” campaign still continues to shroud a sin and turn villains to Hero’s…insane murderers to patriots…

And they are getting success day by day…!

So ungrateful are Indians!

Atrocity Act is dividing the society!

Social atmosphere in Maharashtra is presently strained because of the Atrocity Act and some other social issues. There are massive protest marches in many districts, thankfully the protests are peaceful, but the underlying outburst is obvious. Superficially, it may sound that Maratha, a politically strong community of the Maharashtra is against this act, and may be true to some extent, at the least for present agitations, but many sections of the society as well are opponents of this law.

Though, in the rest of the country, people have not assembled on the streets in protests, the resentment about the Act brews almost everywhere. On the other hand, despite the law coming into the force since 1989, the atrocities against the Dalits are ever growing. There have been two amendments in the law, making it more stringent, since then, but the effect is minimal. For example, so called saffron cow protectors are committing many atrocities against Dalits and Muslims, but instead of addressing the right issue Modi Government has made further amendments to appease Dalits, attempting to assure them that the government is not against them. This is, in a way, brutal atrocity upon the law.

While introducing this law, the reasons were more political than social. Rajiv Gandhi Govt. passed the Act in 1989 just on the wake of general elections. The second amendment, of 2014,  too, found the same timing… general elections. Modi government too made further amendment for the same reason, eying forthcoming elections in UP. SC/ST communities always has been attempted to be used for the political gains. There never was any serious intention to curb caste based atrocities among all sections of the society. They had vile intentions while passing this Act in hurry, expecting no opposition, as no one risks being called “Anti-Dalit”.

It was forgotten while making such law that the root cause of the Dalit atrocities lies in our system. It was failure of our socialist system which could not uplift the deprived societies, educationally and economically, the way it should have been.The economic inequality leads to social inequality and in the country like India, caste became a major factor in strengthening the inequality.   We forgot that we need a united and liberal society where caste and religion doesn't become hindrance in the progress. At the least the laws should not be divisive. It was not intended by Dr. Babasaheb at all. I do not say that atrocities should not be punished heavily, but its ambit should be applicable to all the citizens. Then whoever commits atrocities on dalit or any other should be equally held responsible. This is only way to eradicate atrocities.

But the basic principles laid down by the constitution were violated while passing this Act, which we should take seriously. The Preamble of India assures us “EQUALITY of status and of opportunity”. Article 14 assures us that “The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India”.  Article 17 speaks about the eradication of the untouchability and provides stringent actions against “any person” of “any community” practicing untouchability or the offenses fall under untouchability. The article does not discriminate anybody based on the caste or religion. Article 35 too prohibits parliament to make any law, contrary to the directive principles of the constitution.

Here, without getting into legal jargon, let us understand how this Act is unconstitutional. It is claimed by the experts that the Atrocity Act does not have any constitutional ground because it has made special provision for only SC/ST communities and not for all the citizens of the country. In fact, it cannot go beyond the scope of the untouchability as prescribed in Article 17. It also violates the fundamental principle of the constitution that all the citizens will be held equally in the eyes of the law. Also provisions of this law violates the principle of the liberty that is the core foundation of our constitution. For example there is no provision for the bail to the accused even if the offenses under which accused is booked are of minor nature.

However, the fact must be noted that judgements, in bail cases filed under this law, are passed mostly based on the provisions of the Act. Constitutional validities almost remained unquestioned by them, because before them were the crimes in question  and not the entire law, upon which they had to decide whether bail be granted or not.

Now let us ask basic questions.

1.      Are the atrocities committed only by non SC/ST communities on the SC/ST Communities? Can’t it happen otherwise or SC committing an offense against ST or within the castes, those are listed in SC or ST communities?

2.      There are many castes, more prone to the atrocities, such as VJNT’s, (or De-notified and Nomadic tribes/castes) why they could not get shelter under the scope of the present law? 

3.      Within the so-called upper castes, there also prevails caste based hierarchy and social discrimination based on that. Many crimes listed in the Atrocity Act are indeed applicable to them too...but unfortunately the lawmakers had decided to neglect them completely. 

4.      There have been many additions, corrections in the lists of the Castes / Tribes, made by the National SC/ST Commission. This means that some castes/tribes were excluded from the ambit of the law while new were added. In future too, many are going to be added or excluded. Doesn't this mean that the definition of the SC/ST communities is ambiguous that makes this law too bad?

Here we can understand the “positive discrimination” in order to bring weaker sections and SC/ST’s in main stream by granting them special privileges for their socio-economic upliftment so that they mingle in the society with self respect. But this very principle cannot be applied to the criminal laws as a set principle is the crime has no caste or religion and the criminals should be punished irrespective of their caste or religion.

Rather the present act divides the whole society by placing SC/ST communities against the rest of the society. It is misconstrued in the law that the particular society only can cause atrocities on the SC/ST’s and such crimes cannot take place within the SC/ST communities. In a way this is the new Two-Nation Theory that has divided the whole society by creating enmity, hatred  and distrust between two societies. This is not at all helpful to build united India. It violates the principles of “Equality, Fraternity and Liberty” upon which our constitution is built.

The Swarna Bharat Party is against such discriminatory laws those divides India. Rather SBP says in its manifesto that create so much so opportunities by abandoning socialism, adhering to the liberal policies, so that every weaker section, including SC/ST’s, prosper and become the part of the mainstream. Discriminatory acts can never bring fraternity and equality within all the sections of the society. In fact SBP believes, if we want to eradicate the caste system in India, that has been haunting us since last one thousand years, we need to liberate the people first from the evils of socialist economy and open new innumerable doors to prosperity. Most of the caste based crimes finds its root in the poverty and illiteracy that the politicians have used recklessly eyeing their vote banks. This is why they have created this all dividing act to woo certain sections that has been proved useless in caste eradication and ending atrocities of all kinds.

SBP have decided to challenge this Act in the Supreme court to end any discrimination in the society. SBP demands that the crimes listed in the Atrocity Act be made part of the Indian Penal Code and make applicable to all the citizens so that the “All are equal before the law” principle is followed.

-Sanjay Sonawani

Kanhaiya’s speech....and liberty....

I have gone through Kanhaiya’s speech he delivered at JNU after his release. It is albeit impressive. He knows how to talk in common mans language. He surely knows what touches the people the most. Like Mr. Modi, he has his style. He has his own ideology.  He has gone through unjust circumstances that led him to spend, unfortunately, almost a fortnight in jail. 

To innocent spending even a day in jail is an unbearable torture. It suddenly changes your world. Either jail makes you to introspect or makes you more hardened. Kanhaiya, fortunately, seemed more composed and rationale in his own way.

I am sure, Kanhaiya will get the much needed justice and judicially wiped out is the stigma of his being anti-national. Supporting him or the demand that it should be clear and well defined what is anti-national and what is not would be perfect intellectual move. 

Talking of poor and Mr. Modi’s false promises and freedom from all social evils is not new in our country. Many thinkers have spent their life to fight against such social evils and have tried to awaken Indian masses those are victims of them. There are many Modi-opponents those have been busy criticizing him on every given opportunity. That way Kanhaiya speech delivers nothing new but a stream of emotionally charged statements after statements before the audience that was excited and euphoric...for his long awaited release. 

Worry is youth and most of the intellectuals seem to have suddenly found their long awaited messiah in him. They are forgetting just few years ago Anna Hajare was their idol suddenly replaced by Kejariwal. Kejariwal too, at flip of eyelid, was replaced by Mr. Modi.  Desperate people are now in an attempt to find new idol which possibly may counter Mr. Modi and his anarchist saffron clout.

However, let us think, how one anarchist ideology can be defeated by other anarchist ideology? What good it can bring to our society? If saffron ideology is an evil, a globally proven fact is that communist ideology has proven to be worst evil.

To defeat fascist ideology one cannot and should not use equally worse ideology as a weapon is very much common sense.

Dr. Ambedkar never subscribed to the communist ideas. He preferred Buddha over Marx. But now there are nationwide attempts to mix both to attract downtrodden masses of India. Maoists too are busy doing the same. They want to hand you over the guns those can be turned towards tyrants, defined by them. Fascism and communism that way goes hand in hand.

It is our duty to know and understand that while fighting against some common enemy aren’t we making other enemy our partner out of our sheer ignorance and inability of understanding the tools we are using in our battle? Wrong tools may give us temporary success but are ultimately going to defeat us.

The danger ahead should be warned that if youth and some intellectuals find another idol in Kanhaiyya, they will meet with the same fate those had tried to find idol in Mr. Modi or in Mr. Kejariwal. We the Indians are idolatrous. We need some or other idol to see in him our ultimate salvation. We don’t want to trust in ourselves. We love to be, philosophic or political, slave of some or other idol.

Our quest is not for freedom but for idols. This habit has unfortunately doomed past, present and future.

If we want we want freedom from idols. We must have due respect for all the  good people, irrespective of their thought. We should have sympathy for them and we must fight out if any injustice is done to them. Euphoric intelligence can bring no better to us.

I stand for Kanhaiyya. I am with him for his freedom. I denounce the fabricated video clips those were doctored with evil intentions to implicate him. I feel sad that he had to spend weeks in police custody and jail because of our malfunctioning judiciary and politically motivated police force. I condemn the lawyers those physically attacked him.  

But if euphoric youth and intellectuals are trying to find new messiah in his form, I must warn that they are making serious mistake.

Way to the freedom is abandoning all the idols. We are yet not mature enough to understand what liberty is. Every attempt to find idol proves our inborn slavery. This may sound a harsh statement. But I am forced to state this because we are up to make another mistake.

What really should worry us?

 

Kanhayya Kumar’s arrest under charges of sedition and conspiracy raise serious questions on Indian democracy and legal machinery which apparently have acted in haste. We will have to probe our thoughts those normally are influenced by media and the political side we prefer to support to reach bottom of the issue. The truth always get buried if we cannot think unbiased and prefer to talk what people of our preferred side think.

I have gone through Kumar’s 23 minute long speech. There is nothing in that speech which remotely can attract any criminal charge, forget sedition and conspiracy. In his entire speech he talks on our constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Bhagatsingh etc. He has spoken of Pakistan and Bangla in one sentence to express communist ideology, labors of the world be united. He has named terrorists like Kasab, Afjal Guru, but in which context? He says we have to eliminate the reasons why one prefers violent actions? He has bashed BJP, RSS and ABVP for its sectarian and tyrant views and actions. He hasn’t praised any terrorist in his entire speech.

It is facts that at the venue anti-India slogans were shouted in retaliation with ABVP activists slogans blaming the organizers anti-national. The gathering was organized to commemorate hanging of Afjal Guru. Organizers were different students union than of Kanhayya. Kanhayya was invited there to speak on judicial killing. JNU authorities at eleventh hour had withdrawn the permission which was already issued to Umar Khalid’s union DSU. The proofs so far those have surfaced indicate that Umar Khalid and his supporters had raised anti-national slogans. Kanhaiyya did not participate in sloganeering.  But Khalid and his about ten colleagues have so far escaped wrath of the police department and media.

The only student arrested is Kanhaiya Kumar,  after three day custody and brutal physical manhandling by the lawyers,  has been sent to the jail as charges of sedition are non-bailable.  Anyway, now law will take its own course and let us hope that politics and public sentiment, whatever it might be does not influence any judgment.

Students participating politics or having political views is a global phenomena. Students have been instrumental in many revolutions including Indian freedom movement. They have every right to have political views and follow the ideology of their own choice and join any students organization of their choice. I am neither communism supporter nor RSS admirer. However I have right to have my views on what is happening around me. This invites attention at the incidents taking place all around those are shaking very foundation of my nation.

I think Kumar shouldn’t have gone at commemoration of a hanged terrorist, no matter the lecture he was going to deliver on judicial killing.

But is it a crime? Are we aware that Marathi Vishvakosh (Encyclopedia), published by Maharashtra govt.  terms Bhagatsingh- Rajguru etc. as terrorists? Hero of one side always is villain for other side. Rebellions or freedom fighters to us are terrorists or criminals to opposite side. To divisive, separatist Kashmiris Afjal is hero, a martyr. If Kashmiri’s (Khalid is Kashmiri) are thinking that way we have to go deep to the root cause and try to resolve it. Superficial and sentimental outcry or remedies just can’t take us anywhere, as a nation. There are efforts by other organizations as well to establish murderers as an icon. We have seen it in case of Nathuram. There could be many others. If people can still gather at commemoration ceremony of Nathuram and they are not treated as criminals then why there should be chaos on Afjal’s commemoration?

Here I am not trying to make any comparison. But law of the country treated both the criminals in same fashion and had hanged them. We just cannot look at every case in isolation. Gathering at both the commemoration ceremonies, and any for that matter, may be is ethically wrong, but certainly it is not a crime.

Should there be capital punishment in India? Should there be judicial killing permitted? Thinkers of the country are divided on this issue. To me judicial killing should be abolished. Pt. Javaharlal Nehru too was against verdict of hanging of  Nathuram.  It is against Gandhian principles. Death penalties are medieval brutalities. Any society that claims to have progressed cannot have in their law books capital punishment. Law is not to avenge the criminal/terrorist for his acts by taking his life but is for to value life. I too am not with capital punishment.

Most importantly, we have to understand students (youth) sentiments. They are to run nation in the future. They have their thoughts and ideas as too how they want to see affairs of the nation are conducted. They are normally attached to this or that ideology.  Their views too keep changing with experience. Nothing is permanent here. To attain maturity we have to provide them free atmosphere. But we often fail in making our next generation more mature. Right from our education system to political system has been trying so often to keep students under stupor of their goals. Youth has been used. Youth is not evolving as they are short of real freedom.

However, why institutions/Universities be involved in advocating some particular ideologies? JNU is famous for being leftist camp. There are schools and colleges those propagate RSS  ideologies. many Madrasa's educate kids in religious fundamentalism. The students are a raw material for many educational institutions, run by political or religious  wings, where students are carefully molded to suit their own philosophies right from childhood to make them a pawn or instrument in achieving their own goals. Main culprits are the institutions. In fact, by law, no institution or university should be allowed to advocate any specific ideology. They should be open to all thoughts. Let student decide what suits them. Institutions have no right whatsoever to corrupt students mind by the specific thought of their own choice. It is students freedom to make their own minds from their own uninfluenced understandings to look at the world. They certainly deserve this freedom and we should grant them unconditionally. 

In fact any government too should not force to introduce curriculum that upholds their thought or ideologies. But in our country it seldom has happened that students have got to study the things those were unbiased, close to the proven facts and not influenced with some ulterior motives.

Rather we have made, so far, an attempt to manufacture the students, our next generations, of our preferences and have tried ever to kill the future. This is why we have been facing such problems, shouting slogans pro-India or anti-India is not the main issue. It all is futile. Main issue is how we desire to build our nation in future and make next generations capable of shouldering the challenges. And only with wisdom this is possible. 

In fact let students participate in politics, let them form their own opinions, let them have understanding of their history, but no attempt should be there to make them blockheads by manipulating their minds.

Let them be free thinkers. 

But this is not happening. From Congress to opposition are trying to get political mileage and government is seen to have handled this issue very immaturely and childishly.

I pray for sanity at both sides and wish they reach to the root of such issues and amend their perspective to make vibrant and free India.