Bhagat singh declared as a terrorist in books

http://metronow.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/bhagat-singh-a-terrorist-says-nios-textbook

http://drishtikone.com/?q=content/bhagat-singh-sukhdev-rajguru-were-terrorists-indian-history-book

NCERTt books controversy-Past Great Hindu kings erased from books

NCERT Textbook Controversy

Standard 7 book 'Our Past - 2' ('Hamare Atit - 2')

The curriculum of NCERT is often riddled with controversies. Either the great revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are insulted by referring to them as ‘terrorists’ or a distorted history is taught. Out of the 154 pages of the history text book of 7th standard, most of the pages have been dedicated to the information on Mughals and other Muslim kings who had invaded Hindustan, whereas the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who fought the foreign Mughal aggressors and established Hindu state was concluded in just 4 lines. We are giving here the examples from the textbook to make ther topic clear. Not only this, the books contains pictures of kings of 16th century like Babar, Akbar etc. but there is not a single picture of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who ruled in the 17th century.

Proofs of distorted history

(click on below images to see enlarged view.)

No Mention of Shivaji Maharaj in Index page.	Only 5 lines on Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj	No mention of Mughals as invaders
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj called as chieftain	Comparison between Khilji and Tughalak	Invader Babar glorified

Some objectionable mistakes from Std 7 th book 'Our Past - 2'

• In the text book of NCERT for Standard 7 ‘Our Past – ll’ there are only 5 lines on Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
• 60 pages given to Mughal’s history and Mughal rulers who made the Hindus slaves.
• Not even a single photo of valorous Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj is printed. The place for the photograph is left blank.
• While the photos of atrocious, tyrannical Muslim kings, Babar and his descendants starting from 700 AD are printed.
• No mention of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaja’s ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ but it is just mentioned as ‘local government’.
• No mention at all of Maharana Pratap who had fought with Mughal and who sacrificed the leisure of royal palace and used to sleep on the grass like ordinary people.

for further details visit:
http://www.hindujagruti.org/activities/campaigns/national/ncert-textbook-controversy

Pseudo secularism- crosses on indian coins

The christian cross signs can be seen on our indian coins.... initially for pseudo secularism Rs. 2 coins were designed and now its the turn of ever thought Rs. 10 coin, plz go through the link below.
http://pseudosecularism.blogspot.com/2009/04/now-it-is-turn-of-10-rupee-coin.html

Crescent Cross replace Sun Lotus in Kendriya Vidyalaya emblem

http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=253&page=2
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/central-school-plucks-lotus-off-logo-sparks-row/72352-3.html

How sick is this govt.? They released coins of रु 2 denomination with cross on them a few months ago. There was even a clandestine move to change Bharat's national motto from "Satya Mev Jayate". And now an emblem which shows a book with blank pages, and apparently two human forms emerging from globe. The crescent (an Islamic symbol) and two crosses and stars (Christian) are obvious on it. Wow, anything goes in the name of feigned Secularism.

Comparison of manifestos – BJP and Congress

Continuing on the lines of due diligence, I picked up the manifestos of the two biggies of Indian politics – BJP and Congress. I am making the link available for all of you to download the pdf files:

BJP Manifesto – Click here

Congress Manifesto – Click here

This is required as the media reports only a handful of points that are likely to catch viewers’ attention. I would not debate the compulsions of the media to do so. I thought it is appropriate for me as a voter to go through the detailed manifesto and see what exactly are these 2 parties saying?

In its 21 page manifesto, the Congress team has spent up to 5 pages criticizing BJP and the third front – even blaming the third front as responsible for the electoral growth of BJP! A detailed look at the rest of the pages seems like the party wants to just continue what they have been doing in their last 52 years of rule (out of the 60 years of independence).

This is hardly inspiring and I do not think a drastic change can happen in our country with this kind of an approach.

We normally hear about the Hindutva ideology of BJP in the media in such a light that even as a devout Hindu, one would get put off by it. I wanted to find out what exactly this ideology is and what does it really mean?

The first 5 pages of the BJP manifesto precisely address that. I have to admit that it is quite inspiring – it is all about regaining the glorious India that we have only read about. I would strongly suggest that you read it yourself. The remaining 43 pages talk about every aspect of governance with a concrete approach plan – from environment to health, sports to science, farmers to urban populace, internal security to foreign relations, developing weaker sections and preserving cultural heritage.

I am not standing guarantee to whether they will be able to accomplish all this, but to me, the manifesto looks like a wish-list of every Indian. It seems like that this party has finally got a hang of the pulse of the nation.

Vote for good governance, Vote for change.

Raj Gurus – need of the hour

This fact was well understood by our forefathers and there existed a post of Raj Guru – a sage who is a teacher/ mentor to the king. The Raj Guru was also supposed to be the ethical gatekeeper to prevent corruption in/ criminalization of the government. This concept is very deep rooted in our Indian psyche and, even today, is widely used in organizations.

In many countries including the US, the involvement starts from the swearing-in ceremony itself (conducted by a religious head – like in ancient and medieval India). Just a day before the Mr. Obama’s oath taking ceremony, there was also a discussion on the church he would be choosing for his Sunday prayers? There are many other countries that have religious heads working closely with the top leader. In fact, Pope Benedict XVI has made it the goal of his papacy to counteract secularism (defined as separation of church and state).

However, today, we look down upon a leader, if he seeks blessings from religious/ spiritual leaders. This is partly attributable to cases like ‘Rasputin’ that misused such a trustworthy post and rest to the post-independence policies that copied the British instead of going back to our roots.

Hopefully, this will change now – as is evident by this letter from Shri LK Advani to all religious and spiritual leaders .

Let’s do our bit for the change… Change for the better. Vote!

Some election debates finally...

All that you hear in the media these days are the mud-slinging comments of different political leaders against each other. It gives an impression that there is nothing else these leaders talk about. One would have definitely wished for a debate on issues of national importance and would have wanted to listen to what the candidates have to say.

Mr. Advani has been calling for such an interaction for a long time, but the Congress has skillfully deflected it.

One debate finally happened - not between the PM hopefuls, but among the Bangalore South candidates. There was a face to face debate organized by Infosys where Ananth Kumar (BJP), Capt Gopinath (Independent), Krishna Byre Gowda (Congress), and Prof K E Radhakrishna (JDS) participated.

This is definitely a good sign - reflecting the changing times on India's democratic scene. One of the good things about this debate was that the candidates had to introduce their counterparts and even praise them - very interesting indeed!

Click here to read the article in Bangalore Mirror

There was also one more debate that happened some time back on IBN Live TV Channel (it was not publicised so much) between Arun Jaitley (BJP) and Kapil Sibal (Congress). The two participants were grilled on four major issues: governance, security, economy and stability.

Click here to read the transcript on IBN Live - Arun Jaitley and Kapil Sibal


We sincerely hope that in the coming times, we would see more such interactions among candidates - a welcome break from the comments that normally flash on your TV Screens/ Websites.