I refer to your article "A goose walking over Gandhi's Grave" in the Hindustan Times dtd 12th Dec 2007. My immediate reaction was to send a fitting rebuttal immediately but on second thoughts, I decided that it would be better to write after the results of the Gujarat Elections.
You wasted precious space in your article on a story of your friend's mother attacked by her neighbour, a retired Colonel of the Army and how you could not forgive him just like you could never forgive Shri Narendra Modiji. Accepting your logic at face value, it is the Hindus, who should never forgive the Muslims for burning the train at Godhra killing 58 innocent Kar sevaks mostly woman and children and therefore the retaliation that followed was as justifiable as your action against the Colonel for trying to kill your friend's mother.
You have written extensively on Gandhiji and his love for Muslims, wonder how Gandhiji had he been alive today would have reacted to ethnic cleansing of the more than 1/2 million Kashmiri Hindu Pandits who after being raped, ravaged and thrown out of their homes have become refugees in their own homeland. What was their fault ? did they demand equal opportunities, reservation or protest in the streets with guns and grenades against the blatant discrimination of their rights by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. They were just peace loving people who wanted to live with dignity and probably the only fault
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by deepak on Dec 26, 2007 01:54 AM Permalink
was that they lived in a Muslim majority state like the Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Also get your facts right on Nathuram Godse, He did not kill because Gandhiji loved Muslims. If that was so, He would have done this before India's Independence in 1947 or during the creation of Pakistan. He killed Gandhiji because He felt that Gandhiji betrayed the nation by forcing Sardar Vallabhai Patelji to rescind his decision on not giving the 50 odd crore of Rupees to Pakistan till they vacated the 1/3rd illegal occupation of Kashmir which is Pakistan occupied Kashmir and this fact is well documented by Sardar Vallabhai Patelji in his book during his death. If your newspaper has the guts, I challenge you to shift your offices to Srinagar or Mizoram in the heart of jihadi and evangelical terrorism and preach and write about secularism from there rather than safely living in Hindu majority cities like New Delhi and Mumbai and preaching Gandhiji teachings.
You spoke on the Sohrabhuddin fake encounter case as though he was a innocent Laila shot by the police while romancing his wife in front of Taj Mahal, a picture which all you pseudo secularists splashed in the media and newspapers when the incident came to light. The fact that He was a terrorist caught with huge arms and ammunition probably carrying out a bomb blast was of no concern to all of you and what was more important to all of you was that He was a Muslim who was shot dead by th
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by Amakant Chaudhary on Dec 26, 2007 03:22 AM Permalink
Well said. Gandhi was a true Mahatma representing all the pusillanimosity of the Hindus and their notion of pseudo-secularism. He lived by the Gita yet he chose to read only the soft passivistic bits. Gandhi would then surely have wanted us all to consider Godse as a Mahapurush. A believer in Gita who also read the hard action bits as well as the complete Mahabharata, instead of the Gita alone. Refernce to context.
