Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Impact on India’s Integrity
I have not been commenting on political matters in India, though I happened to live and breathe politics from my childhood, when my father used to express his political faith through revolutionary activities like the members of the Anushilan Samiti (a pro-independence secret society against British) and Bengal Volunteer Force of Netaji Subhas Bose. I had been briefly associated with the Congress. I left it after realising that all “Pank” (mud) do not produce “Pankaj” (lotus). In pre and post independent India most political Pank, with few honourable exceptions, have been producing punks like mafia, gangster, bandits and worst kind of exploiters in the garb of political leaders; the conglomeration of which is described as Political Parties. Parties are said to be ideologically or shareholding differentiated clubs where, privileged people fool rest of the people for all the time, in the name of ideology, commit constitutionally empowered holy criminal tasks for mutual benefit, which are advertised as public service.
However, some segments of readers (both of books and dissertations) have flooded me with e-mails describing me as a communalist, an enemy of secularism and a rabid Hindu Right Reactionary. Some readers have posted magnanimous rewards for my head and others have threatened with dire consequences, if I do not forthwith stop writing on Jihad, Terrorism and role of foreign intelligence agencies. A couple of them identified me as an agent of the CIA, earning millions from US secret fund.Some friends attacked me rather savagely that I never uttered a single word about Hindu terrorism, Hindu Jihad (sorry no equivalent word in Sanskrit) and never opened mouth for banning Hindu terrorist organisations like RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, and Durga Vahini etc. I was whipped with criminal conspiracy in about 200 mails that I had entered in a conspiracy with the Rightist Hindu Santrasvadis and silently supported actions of Sadhwi Pragya. To support their opinion they quoted from my book “Open Secrets” about my family-level intimacy with Sadhwi Uma Bharti.
A staunch follower of a celebrated milky and hunter gatherer leader from Bihar even honoured me by visiting my humble MIG flat and smilingly conveyed that the powerful mantriji was very annoyed with me for maligning him in my book “We the People of India- A Story of Gangland Democracy.” He demanded its immediate withdrawal.
All that I could peevishly say was that, Hindi version of the book would hit the stands before next parliamentary polls and I would wait for a few drops of ‘mattha’ and milk from sales proceeds. The visitor did not finish the heavily milked cup of tea. He left with a final curse; I was the most sinister non-secular former officer who was trying to install Hindu Raj. I hope my friends in the BJP would not expand their facial muscles at my predicament; I had declined to join that party after my heavenly realisation of the character of a major political party like The Indian National Congress!
It is not possible to reply my well-wishers individually. I cannot wield a gun as my father did against the British and I cannot run under the cover of any political party, as all of them equally hate me as a seditious traitor and enemy of some political dynasties.
Therefore, I sought shelter under the path breaking discovery made by Sir Isaac Newton and his Third Law of Motion. In simple words, except saints like Gandhi, no human being in normal circumstances would desist from instantaneously return the slap he receives from another person. Most does, and those who do not express their counter motion by inviting another slap, retaliate through other means like fasting, non-cooperation etc.
I realised the Gandhian theory better after my darling wife refused to talk to me for five long painful days, after I had mildly rebuked her for pampering a son unnecessarily. Sleeping in separate beds for five nights I realised that forceful reaction is not as forceful as certain silent reactions. The effect of non-cooperation was more effective than an instantaneous verbal duet.
Leave aside the literary expression, in scientific language the Third Law of Motion means:
The statement means that in every interaction, there is a pair of forces acting on the two interacting objects. The size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the force on the second object. The direction of the force on the first object is opposite to the direction of the force on the second object. Forces always come in pairs - equal and opposite action-reaction force pairs.
The complicated scientist minds have given some pictorials to illustrate the complicated but very simple and mundane functioning of the universal law of the Nature:
A rocket thrust produces equal amount of counter thrust. This is described as forces coming in pairs, like my darling wife reacted, though in a very subtle and dignified manner:
I hope, in primary school manner, I have been able to illustrate with the help of NASA developed materials. After this act of scientific purification and justification, I hope, my appreciative friends would find more appropriate words to express their counter-action to what I write.
I do not intend to elaborate another thesis on Jihad, jihadist vandalism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other locations around the world. I have been writing on these themes and my views are known. I promise I did not invent Jihad and I vouch I was not born when Muslim separatist movement had started in India way back in 1857 and snowballed gradually resulting in partition of India on the basis of Two Religion, Two Nation concept. Historians of different isms have either explained this or dumped the dirt under nice “secular carpets” suiting their pockets and minds. A layman like me has very little to add to the community called Historians! However, I can only quote J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, “The Dementors suck the hope and happiness. They suck the soul.”
The fact of life is very gloomy. Jihad or Muslim Terrorism or Islamic Terrorism, whichever nomenclature is assigned to the organised serial bombings is a fact of life. The Pundits may debate on the definition, character, and depth and penetration of the problem. In my personal opinion, with deference to pedagogic Pundits, the present phase of terror actions perpetrated by a minuscule section of Indian Muslims in collaboration with the jihadi groups and intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Bangladesh is an integral part of the jihad ambience guided by the Al Qaeda, Talibanis, and other tanzeems. These incidents are no more an overflow of the exhausted separatist movement in Kashmir and background radiation of the Muslim Separatist movement that divided India. Much has been written on this in accompaniment of protestations by the Muslims, Secularists and agents of foreign intelligence agencies. I have contributed a few grains of knowledge that I gathered during long service to the nation.
Most so called “secularists” and some friends from the Muslim community and some of my readers find in my writings foul smell of non-secular Hindu Communalism. Thousands of volumes have been written on SECULARISM and the concept is as old as coming up of the civilised human society. It is difficult to define secularism. However, one of the authoritative scholar D. L. Munby has prescribed the presence of following ground situations as sure symbols of secularism (The Idea of Secular Society, London, Oxford University Press, 1963, pp. 14-32).
According to him the basic symptoms of a secular society are it:
1. Refuses to commit itself as a whole to any one view of the nature of the universe and the role of man in it.
2. Is not homogenous, but is pluralistic.
3. Is tolerant. It widens the sphere of private decision–making.
4. While every society must have some common aims, which implies there must be agreed on methods of problem-solving, and a common framework of law; in a secular society these are as limited as possible.
5. Problem solving is approached rationally, through examination of the facts. While the secular society does not set any overall aim, it helps its members realize their aims.
6. Is a society, without any official images. Nor is there a common ideal type of behaviour with universal application.
Positive Ideals behind the secular society
1. Deep respect for individuals and the small groups of which they are a part.
2. Equality of all men.
3. Each man should be helped to realize his particular excellence.
4. Breaking down of the barriers of class and caste.
I leave it to the readers to discover how many of these systemic symptoms exist in India. I have no comment to make as of now.
For educating the chronic Indian Secularists it must be stated that the word was not invented by Mahatma Gandhi or Jawaharlal Nehru. The term “secularism” was coined in 1846 by the English thinker George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) in the context of differentiating the societal pluralism, tolerance and kaleidoscopic human activities from demand of the Church that religion and the state cannot be separated.
George Jacob Holyoake
In short, for political purposes, secularism can be defined as a movement towards the separation of religion and government (often termed the separation of church and state). This can refer to reducing ties between a government and a state religion, replacing laws based on scripture (such as the Sharia law) with civil laws, and eliminating discrimination on the basis of religion. This is said to add to democracy by protecting the rights of religious minorities. (Feldman, Noah (2005). Divided by God. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 14.)
The scholars, more or less, agree that the following countries (red marked) have declared State Religion. The Blue countries have not declared any state-religion. Countries in grey are in undecided category or follow other religions like Buddhism.
India is a Secular State. However, certain Indian political parties have made Gandhi’s perception of Secularism as the concept of secularism enshrined in the constitution. It basically means equal patronisation of all religions as a state policy, with minority rights at the core of the concept. Read in contrast with institutionalised Secularism practiced in the USA, UK, France, Germany and other advanced western democracies, Indian concept, as understood by the Congress, Left Parties, certain caste based parties follow the British system of democracy prescribed for India at a graduated scale from 1906 onwards. That was no secular system; it was designed to divide Indian on communal lines. These Jurassic parties are still practicing the colonial secularism as Indian socialism. What a great national fun!
Indian protagonists of Secularism would refuse to examine the core of the concept and the status of its application in India right from the days of post-Tilak and in-Gandhi period. The history of the rise of the ‘Hindu Congress’ and Muslim refusal to accept it as their representative political platform is interspersed with the rise of fundamentalist Hindu and Muslim religious organisations.
Both the factions suffered from obsessions: Hindus from the sense of déjà vu, after defeat of the Muslim rulers, which gave birth to Bande Matarm philosophy and Hindu nationalism distinct from Muslim fear of ‘Majority Hindu rule’ in a section of the people, who were in minority but who had ruled over the ‘majority’ for over 8 centuries. The Indian National Congress, even when led by Gandhi, was not accepted by the Muslims as their party and branded the leading figures as communal Hindu leaders. This is an integral part of the national history pronouncedly manifest after the final demise of Muslim rule in India. Till the last day of British occupation Gandhi, Nehru etc clutched to the non-existent straw of United One India’s independence and the Muslim leaders continued to emphasise, often with “Direct Action” that Muslim League was the only representative of the Indian Muslims; and they wanted a separate Homeland. The Communists had firmly clutched to the tail end of the USSR and betrayed everyone including Subhas Bose.
Every religion has an embedded core of fundamentalism. Periodical outburst of such cores has earned the descriptions of Crusade, Jihad, and Shuddhi Movement etc. In India, the rise of the Arya Samaj movement, movement for replacement of URDU by HINDI, Shuddhi Movement, development of hardcore Hindu nucleus inside the Congress, birth of the Hindu Mahasabha, the RSS, Jan Sangh, Bhartiya Janata Party and ancilliary organisations like the VHP, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini, Shiv Sena etc are continuous manifestations of the civilisational conflict which had started around 10th century.
India had emerged as a strong niche of Islam. The Mughals had even defied recognising the Khalifa in Baghdad. India was the first after Saudia to accept and implement Wahhabi programme. India was the fertile ground where several schools of Sufism rooted firmly, alongside establishment of religious congregations like the Deoband, Barelvi, Firangi Mahall, Nadwatul Islam, Tablighi Jammat, Ahl-e-Hadith, Khaksar, and Ahrar etc movements. Their institutional capabilities were stronger than the dispersed and diversified attempts by the Hindutwa to unite the badly fragmented Hindu society and speak unitedly through a common public domain political body. Even at the height of popularity not more than 50% were united behind the Congress; the Dalits almost boycotted it. On the other hand, the Muslims, with British encouragement, had formed a united public domain body in the Muslim League.
Islam’s peculiar concepts of anti-assimilistic prescriptions had obliterated only at the edges, the core of fundamentalism was retained by the hardcore protagonists who often influenced the Muslim rulers. Historians have chronicled the Bhakti stream of Hinduism and Sufism as signs of assimilation. Yes, there were several edges of assimilation but, gradually after 1857; these were eroded at steady rate. The rate of erosion accelerated when the British realised that the Hindu renaissance had given birth to nationalism and the Muslims, still suffering from the wounds of defeat, could be used as an antidote to widen the civilisational dissimilarities leading to wider gaps in ultimate political goals of the Two Different People of India. Later, alongside the Two they had added the thirds and fourth Indian Nation: Sikhs and Dalits.
British prescription of democracy and secularism for India as manifested in the Government of India Act 1935 was aimed at dividing the people and perpetuating the ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ conflict. Congress had ceded this separatist demand in 1916 (Congress session presided over by Motilal Nehru). These very British concepts were later enlarged and modified as the Constitution of India, which is an anachronistic book for the governance of diverse people (if not nations) inhabiting India. Nobody dares to have a second look and bring about systemic changes, “vyavastha parivartan” in so-called “rightist Hindu communal” language.
I would not go into the details of the growth of modern resurgence in the fundamental cores of four major religions: Christianity, Sikhism, Islam and Hinduism. If they are not in civilisational conflict, they are clashing at the cauldron of poisonous fissile materials that are generating exceeding heat around the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic goals and objectives of the different peoples with different faiths. The four main ingredients of human growth-geo-cultural, geopolitics, geostrategic and geoeconomy have often been layered with the fissile materials of fundamentalism that exist in every religion. Muslims objected to India going in for 1, 2, 3 agreement with the USA fearing inferiority of Muslim Pakistan in nuclear capability. Lalu, Mulayam, Mayawati and Coomunist etc vote-vultures also opposed the proposed agreement. India’s intrinsic strategic requirements are also dictated by “Secular” minorities and their political mushroom grooming dark cages.
Hinduism is not an exception. The Hindu mind has also been affected like the Muslim minds, Christian and Sikh minds. In India, reactive acceleration of Hindu minds have transcended past the concept of pseudo secularism preached by Gandhi, Nehru and others. The not so hidden conflict between the Congress, which pretended to be the representatives of the Muslims, and the growing enlargement of the fundamental cores of Muslim and Hindu Minds have started manifesting in different forms. While a very minor section of the Muslims are being encouraged by the pre-partition separatist forces in Pakistan and Bangladesh, a good section of Hindu minds have also started transcending the orbits of the RSS and BJP etc bodies and gradually evolving into separate entities. In simple language, inside the factory of sizeable number of Hindu minds the Third Law of Motion of Isaac Newton has started rolling, probably for the first time since the tenth century. This is an ominous sign, I feel; others may disagree.
Perhaps our political parties and their systemic tools would like to enlarge the focus of their lenses and try to fathom what galactic explosions are taking place in some Hindu minds, in reaction to perceived persuasion of so-called ‘pseudo-secularism’, ‘minorityism’ and blatant denunciation of everything ‘Hindu’ by the national leaders of varying political hues. The virulent denunciation of the Hindus in the name of protecting the minorities and allegedly neglecting the majority has been adding fuel to the fission chambers of Hindu minds. The vote-bank vultures have failed to study the churning process. Enough toxic materials have already been generated, which is a result of application of the Universal Third Law of Motion of the celebrated scientist.
I have studied and still studying myriads of websites and print media patronised by the Hindu protagonists from India and abroad. These are not less virulent than the sites propagated by Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and other the jihadi Muslim groups (about 1000). Several organisations patronised by the retired Hindu officers of the elite services have joined the chorus. Several layers of ex-servicemen have been attracted to the magnetic call for Hindu revival and Hindu rights. They perceive any concession to the minority as incursions into the privileges of the majority; a psychological process that was pronouncedly noticed in pre-partition days.
I hope the systemic tools of governance of the country would not colour their vision with psedo-secularism and look deep into Hindu minds. Outside the RSS, BJP and ancillary organisations several local groups are forming up, which raise voices for Hindu right, protection of the Hindus from jihadi Muslim attacks and preparation for self defence. This mentality is growing up from perceptions that most ruling parties (Congress especially) and caste leaders like Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh, Mayawati, M. Karunanidhi and YSR Reddy etc castigate the Hindus as communal forces just for the sake of Muslim vote hunger.
The Congress is also branded as a pro-Muslim party, and diatribe by some of the leading figures of the Congress and their demands for banning of certain Hindu organisations are viewed as blatant anti-Hindu political jihad.
Some organisations of the Hindus, outside the RSS orbit, propagate virulently against the leader of the Congress party and allege that she has been trying to convert India to Christianity. The facts of daily denunciation, the Papal intervention and other actions of the government in reaction to incidents in Kandhamal, Karnataka, Gujarat etc places are being described as state patronisation of Christianity. Reservation policy for Muslims has also been virulently opposed and is considered as a retreat to 1935 days of Hindu Muslim conflict. Sonia Gandhi also accuses the Hindus with intolerance for their alleged violent actions in Orissa etc states.
As far as the Congress supremo is concerned I would disagree with those Hindu protagonists who allege that she was behind Christian offensive. However, having under her control the entire machinery of the Union Government she should go into the causes of Hindu intolerance. Hindus are the most tolerant people. However, as Newton said, every action has equal reaction. She should know that India is no more a Christian colony for freebooting proselytisation. The Hindus have the rights to stop forcible conversion by other religious zealots.
Proselytising zeal is symptomatic of some religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Several foreign Christian Missions are involved in aggressive proselytisation activities and certain denominations are more aggressive than the others. The Intelligence Bureau records are full of such activities and especially suspected links with certain ethnic terrorist groups in the North East. But to allege that the Congress supremo is behind such activities are worst kind of religious bigotry.
Mindless fundamentalist religious propaganda generates intense communal heat. As far as print media propaganda is concerned it is fairly known that the latest spate of violence in Karnataka against the Christians had started after a new convert widely distributed scurrilous and highly defamatory comments about Hindu deities. Same thing happened in Kerala. If the Christians and Muslims cannot tolerate insult to their religion how do they expect infinite tolerance from the Hindus? Hindus too keep on circulating derogatory print materials against Muslims and Christians. Same practices are being adopted in web sites. This religious madness in a country where kaleidoscopic people live under one National Roof should stop forthwith.
I want to draw attention of the readers to the hate campaign unleashed by a section of the Urdu print media. Papers published from Hyderabad, Mumbai, Lucknow and a major paper published from 18 centres and owned by a Hindu (Sahara) spit communal venom at very high pitch. Several editorial comments in the paper were not even camouflaged, which resembled yellow journalism in Urdu media controlled by the Muslim League.
Allegations that this paper is financed by foreign agencies and underworld dons located in Pakistan require proper investigation. It is surprising that the Central and State governments have overlooked the communal aspects in several editorial and other contents of this prominent paper. Obviously, the governments should not expect the Hindus to behave like three monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi. If they react, they follow what Newton has described as reaction in equal proportion.
When would “secular” India implement the prohibitory laws and subject such transgression of religious sentiments of the different communities? It is the brink-time for them to act, beyond this point the brink would disappear and real tornado would hit.
Here I want to add firmly that most Islamic educational and religious institutions and their public domain bodies are not connected with jihad and terrorism. Only a minuscule group from broad spectrum segments of the Muslim society have been infected by the jihadi philosophy existing in India and exported from the neighbouring countries and countries of the Ummah.
Hindu suspicion about the Muslims and Muslim suspicion about Hindu majority that worked devastatingly since 1857 are still at work. We live together separately. This separateness is at the root of communalism-Hindu and Muslim communalism. We live in same mohalla, same housing society but prefer to build an unseen wall around us. Hindu aversion to the conqueror Muslims and Muslim pretence of superiority over the conquered Hindus are still at work.
Those political parties and leaders who keep on driving the nail of “communalism” on Hindu heads incessantly, forget that a boy given the ‘bad tag’ and continuously whipped as non-secular and communal revolt from within and try to defy the system that stigmatise them. Could the Congress leaders like Gandhi, Nehru prevent the Congress followers and leaders from taking part in communal carnages, say from 1905 to 1947? Gandhi had miserably failed and Nehru had even not tried to go into the depth of the problem. His discovery of India was romantic and at best mythological.
The miserable Hindu chauvinists demolished the Babri Mosque when an indecisive Congress leader was presiding over the national government. Communalism in Hindu minds is not confined to RSS, Shiv Sena and BJP brand communalists. I should dare say that over 80% Hindus are actively communal because they feel that the Governments and systemic tools have failed to save them from jihadi carnages. Perceived system failure has provoked some of the fanatics to take to violent actions.
Did the RSS and BJP indulge in anti-Sikh carnage in 1984? The allegation that most of the Hindu police forces and large segments of the ex-servicemen are pro-Hindu require in depth examination. Almost all the segments of the Hindu society, actively or indirectly are oriented towards “Hindu Bhavna.” This is the real background radiation of the communal divide that had ultimately led to partition of the country. This is now being aggravated by the activation of Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Repeated branding of the Hindus is igniting the chain reaction of anger in them. The political parties cannot prove their secular credentials merely by branding the Hindus; they have to prove that they are capable of securing every citizens life and properties and respective cultural and religious dignities.
I wish the Central and State tools of governance, if not the ‘jativadi’ Yellow and fading Red political minds, take note of the affect of Newton’s Law in Hindu minds. People like Amar Singh offering Rs. 10 lakhs for the defence of the Jamia Nagar encounter incident (all Muslims) are not helping to sooth Hindu minds. Almost organised propaganda against a Sadhwi, Hindu personnel of armed forces are not going to help Amar-Akbar and Anthony of Indian politics. My friends would do better if they care to look into the Hindu minds as well. They are the largest building block of the nation. This is a growing trend and can be dealt only with wise political and administrative steps and restrained attitude of certain vote-hungry politicians. Daily whipping of the generic “Hindus” with the lash of communalism are making young Hindu minds desperate. The “Bad Boys and Girls” are really turning nasty.
I know that most of these “jativadi”, pseudo-secular Congressi and fading Red leaders are unaware of the psyche of the Hindu peoples living in the bordering districts of West Bengal, Tripura, Brahmaputra and Barak Valley, and certain areas of Bihar. The frightening changes in demography have stiffened Hindu minds against unchecked Muslim incursion from Bangladesh. By itself this problem has emerged as a serious cause of friction. All frictions, the political minds should know, are governed by Newton’s Law. The counter reaction has already set in. If it is attacked and dismissed as mere Hindu communalism the rulers of today and tomorrow would invite disaster for the country in more severe way than what they are doing by dismissing the Naxal movement as a law and order problem. The Hindu youths are being pushed to the extreme by such constant branding. Our great leaders should sit up and realise that their caste fortifications, religious mud forts and the glasshouse of secular membrane are collapsing around them. The Hindu forces are getting stronger. As they gain strength and prepares to take to violent means the national think tanks, intelligence pundits and political hunter gatherers should ask: Why?
There cannot be any black and white answer like: communal rightist Hindu fundamentalism is responsible. One of the major answers lay in the pretence of impotent omnipotence of the “Secular” political leaders and the blinded tools of governance. Over years the governments at the Centre and the States have failed to protect the people (say Hindu) from the jihadi serial attacks, Pakistani and Bangladeshi proxy-war, and bring any significant number of the perpetrators to justice. The Kashmiri Pundits became refugees in independent India, under the very nose of secular Congress government. The criminal failure to prevent illegal Bangladeshi immigration has added to the feeling of hopelessness (say of the Hindus).
Before the Babri Masjid demolition I had the opportunity to organise a meeting between the than PM and Sarsanghchalak of the RSS. Even than, in spite of mountain of reports from the IB, the PM failed to prevent few thousands of foolish moribund Hindu leaders from saying “aur ek dhakka, masjid jaye Makka.” I have portrayed correct pictures of these shameful incidents in my book: Open Secrets. Why had the government failed? Why was not there a national enquiry and why all responsible heads did not roll? Is this a symptom of a “Weak State”?
Before the Bombay serial bomb blasts the governments were warned by the IB about induction of explosives and arms from Pakistan. They did very little. When the communal riots engulfed Mumbai the Congress chief minister and union Defence Minister perambulated indecisively: to deploy or not to deploy the Army. The Marathi Home Minister sat like a sphinx and did not intervene. The Defence Minister, many Congressmen say, wanted the CM to be out and his own crony to step in. All these happened when “secular” Congress was in power. I am witness to that history. Any other unblended witness would probably not disagree.
Such colossal failures of the governments have eroded faith of the people (both Hindus and Muslim). The growing darkness is leading most of them to despair. A people in despair mostly react violently or agree to walk into the sea following the flute of the Pied Piper. My survey indicates: Hindus are no more inclined to follow the “secular” Pied Pipers.
Recent incidents at Malegaon and Modassa have been attributed to the Hindu Terrorists. Many of my readers ask me angrily over e-mail as to way I do not write on “Hindu Terror Factories.” They cite the instance of Abhinav Bharat, an alleged terrorist body headed by a serving army colonel. They say Maharashtra is the cradle of communalism, including mavericks like Raj Thakre.
I am no pleader for that petty thug Raj, but I have to say a few words about the revolutionary legacy of the people of Maharashtra. The first nationalist revolutionary of India was Vasudeo Balwant Phadke (1845-83). A British Commissariat clerk, Phadke raised a band of guerrilla fighters and fought pitched battle against the British. He was captured and died in fetters at Aden on February 17, 1883. Besides him the Chafekar brothers, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar etc kept up the torch of rebellion. Abhinav Bharat Society (ABS) was founded by Savarkar in 1904. From there revolution had spread into Bengal and other parts of the country; say organisations like Anushilan Samity, Jugantar Samiti etc. Bengal’s Phadke was Masterda Surya Sen, the leader of Chattagram Astragar Lunthan. ABS is now managed by family members of Savarkar more as a NGO. It has no ostensive connectivity with RSS and Shiv Sena family.
The first alleged Hindu terror spark in Maharashtra and Gujarat is the testimony to the waking up of the Hindu mummy. We pray this one spark should not spread. Without blind condemnation and branding the Hindus as communal and terrorists the political parties and leaders, left with any iota of intelligence, should sit back and address the situation pragmatically and not repeat what they have been saying for last 90 odd years like a gramophone pin stuck in a broken furrow.
Serious introspection is necessary by all concerned segments of the people: Muslim, Christian, Hindus, Sikhs and others. Introspection at the government level, societal organisations, religious organisations and so called ideological parties is the only way to diagnose the disease. The first and foremost things to consider are to calibrate the national attention to the increasing impact of Newton’s Law on sections of Hindu mind, inside and outside the so-called Sangh Parivar. I have noticed more groups outside the Sangh Parivar which are vocal and active on “Hindu reaction” front. These groups encompass retired officers of the All India Services, State Services, members of the police, paramilitary and armed forces.
Even ordinary people living on the edges of the middle class society, both in rural and urban areas are highly concerned about:
a) Growing symptoms of Muslim separatism,
b) Incessant flow of Bangladeshi, Pakistani citizen and fast demographic changes,
c) Wider spread of so-called Islamic Jihad and terrorism,
d) Failure of governments to tackle the problems,
e) Near failure of the law and order governance machineries,
f) Impotence of the criminal justice system,
g) Seeming political patronage by governments of the Muslim and Christian minorities and total neglect of majority Hindu interests and
h) Mindless branding of all Hindu demands and feelings as ‘communal and non-secular.’
That the Muslim community still suffer from the background radiation of separatism and are influenced by those separatists who had chosen to take out a Muslim homeland for themselves. A very vast section of Indian Muslims are still vulnerable to the idea of oneness with those who preferred to secede. Besides this major symptom the other symptoms that I have studied after personal association with several layers of the Muslim community are:
a) Absence of a sizeable modern middle class has resulted in lack of desire to reap the benefits of modern education and professional attitude,
b) The clergy dominated by several branches of Islamic thoughts, religious, educational streams still rule over the non-religious aspects of daily lives of the Muslims,
c) The old radiation of the tradition of living in exclusive habitats, clusters, ghettos and walled cities etc that was prompted by the practice of living in “chaunis” peculiar to invaders, still dominate the habitat pattern of the Muslim community,
d) Muslims and Hindus abhor the idea of living in mixed urban and rural habitats and having their religious and educational institutions in proximate localities,
e) While the Hindus have by and large abandoned the educational system through Sanskrit “tols” and “vidyashrams” and formal studies of the divine language and religious texts, the Muslim community have ardently stuck to the practice of ‘madrassa’ education and learning of Arabic as a part of curricula for studying the Holy Quran,
f) Organised Hindu agitation against Urdu, very much a language of Indian origin, is unacceptable to the Muslims. The revival of Urdu is treated as a part of neo-Muslim renaissance. Hindus do not realise that in languages like Bengali, Hindi etc there are more than 30% assimilated foreign words including Persian, Arabic and Urdu. This cultural chauvinism stands in the way of assimilation. Hindi chauvinism is as tough an obstacle as the issue on cow slaughter,
g) Cow as a symbol of early eastern Aryan civilisation has been made a part of modern religious totem for Hinduism. That being so, it is not understood by the Muslim and Christian minority what could be the problem if they consume that animal. Lack of respect by the minority to the Hindu belief in the sanctity of cow is a big hindrance. Certain concepts of Hindu social convention upgraded to religious conviction need re-examination in the light of global progress. Similarly Muslims should have regards for the belief of another community as they expect others to honour their own convictions and religious convention. In a plural society such adjustment alone can ensure peaceful coexistence. The other pole is civilisational conflict.
h) Hindu and Muslim ways of life are governed by their respective social practices codified in texts like the ‘shariat’, ‘hadith’, ‘behesti jevar’ and ‘Hindu Nitya Karm Paddhwati’ and other rituals coded in various parts of the country. Both the Hindus and Muslims have to learn to respect these ways of life and social practices.
i) Muslims, percentage wise to total and religion wise population ratio, are almost equally poor, deprived and backward as the lower caste and rural poor Hindus, Buddhist and other tribal communities are. Yet the backwardness of the Muslims is blamed on Hindu majority chauvinism. This double standard of evaluation by our political and administrative classes is characteristic of pre-independence pattern of behaviour. The Muslim leaders and Mullahs should also give up the habit of hiding their own failures by blaming the majority Hindus. The Muslim leaders are bluffing the common Indian Muslims that the majority Hindus are at the root of their ills. They have witnessed the progress of the Indian Muslims who preferred to create a homeland and migrate there. If history is not a lesson that destiny alone can ensure upward progress of the Indian Muslims; not fake secular protection and “chiriaghar” protectionist and preferential weightage policies.
The divide created by gaps between Hindu and Muslim progress in different fields is historic. State efforts in this field have to be matched by societal efforts of the Muslim community; they cannot any more escape by blaming the majority. The majority should have no grudge if some special efforts are made to upgrade the standards of the Muslim. However, the state must ensure that such efforts as prescribed in Sachar Commission etc reports are also applied proportionately to the Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and other marginal tribal communities across the country. In the name of ‘Secularism’ the others should not be neglected and new unbalancing factors and fault lines are not created.
This dissertation is not meant for prescribing prognosis. But certain things are required to be noticed by all concerned across all religious communities:
o Muslims and Christians are no lesser building blocks of the nation,
o Hindus being the largest building block should not continue to feel that other communities are lesser patriots,
o “Secular”, vote-bank political vultures and “maukaprasthi” caste barons should stop using the Hindus as whipping boys. Once unleashed they cannot control that wrath and cannot stop the looming civilisational war.
o The old concepts of minority fear for the majority should be abandoned. They should stop blaming Hindus for all their ills.
o The minority should frankly admit that they themselves refused to avail of the benefits of progress and their leaders and maulanas had prevented the community to leave the shadows of the ghettos and jump into the mainstream. Like endangered animals they should not survive on largesse of the state and protection offered by vote-bank political vultures. They had committed that mistake for nearly 100 years of British rule in India and had agreed to take to western education after the Hindus made strident progress. The Hindus did not stop them to walk on the highway of progress at any point of post-Mughal era.
o The majority should understand and accept the rituals and practices of the other community, and encourage them to advance towards modernisation.
o Muslims should realise that they are Indian Muslims and their garlanding bonds with Muslims in Pakistan-Bangladesh and other countries of the Ummah are confined to religious activities only, and this should not be overlapped by any other political ideology promoted by communities in those countries. Indian Muslim should be respected as an integral part of the composite population of the nation.
o The systemic tools of the country and the tools of governance should be refined and reoriented and some kind of ‘vyavastah parivartan’ may be necessary to tackle the problems. Otherwise groups and individuals would be tempted to jump into adventurous courses proclaiming each one of them as the messiah, a mahdi and an avtar. The individuals and groups can help by strengthening the tools of governance and by pressuring the political system to maintain balance between all the building blocks of the country. In case the tools of governance fail to protect them (as in several serial bomb blast cases) the people should exercise the democratic rights and bring in the correct government that would not depend on vote-bank compulsion, false secularism and have the will and determination to rule the country according to laws of the land and not on the basis of media propaganda and sectarian demands and pressures.
o Hindu susceptibility to minority aggression in its territory is a remnant of historic past. This requires reorientation.
o Similarly Muslims and Christian organisations should take care that in modern India proselytisation is limited by the laws of the land. If they transgress that limit than there could be retaliatory repercussions. Even vote-bank politicians would not be able to shield them; least speaking the Vatican and Christian west and global Muslim world pressure. The Hindus have the right to preserve and promote their rights. If that is transgressed the country should remain ready for civil war.
o As said earlier the Hindus are the strongest building blocks of the nation. If “quota Singhs”, “reservation masihas” and “blatant Hindu baiters” provoke them repeatedly the Hindus would have no other option but to adopt extra-constitutional methods to protect them. The initial signals are ominous and this should be nipped in the bud and our political vultures should stop “feasting on Hindu culture, integrity and cementing factors.”
o Every community, all the religions and all the diversities are equally Indian and require equal respect and should earn the flexibility to transcend the artificial boundaries imposed by banal taboos, practices and prejudices. No Book is greater than living human reality, which may mean inter-marriage, willing change of religions and wide equi-distribution of habitat patterns in urban and rural areas. Synthesis is not an anathema to certain aspects of exclusivity in religious and ritual practices. Certain aspects of modernisation in domains of civil life should not militate against religious exclusivity. Every nation, every people modify their religious and traditional practices to explore the edges of assimilation. Revivalism that often degenerates to fanaticism is incompatible with modern ways of life. If human life is determined only by the Books than life in its entirety degenerates to stagnant pools. Toads in stagnant pools cannot adjust with the free-swimming animals of the vast human-oceans.
Unless we believe in these important aspects of mutual survival and united existence we may soon face the curse of disintegration. Newton’s Third Law of Motion should not arouse our passions and the System of the country should know and realise that operation of this law in our national life cannot be avoided unless the System itself rectify its own Colonial attitude of governance and British type of policies that divide the people. For good 60 years I am a witness to this Colonial and Jurassic British system of political and administrative governance that we try to pass as ‘Secular Democracy that is Bharat called India as well.’ Has our System and “vyavastha” transcended the shadows of the ghosts of 1906, 1916 and 1935? Let us have a hard look.
55 Responses to “Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Impact on India’s Integrity”
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December 8th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
dear sir,
another master piece from the spy master, one question i would like to ask is what is the hawla system, and how does it help fund terror terror activities, in fact let how are the isi modules in india funded by pakistan. it would great if you answred this query.
thank you.
neeraj kale.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
You cannot put the Hindus in the same footing with Muslim jihadis. Hindus are trying to defend temselves. Self defence is a right. Indian government cannot prevent jihad. Hindus should be armed.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
You have spoken fairly in this article. But you are obsessed with Islamic militancy. Saw in TV and I feel you are an enemy of Muslims. You are an enemy of Kashmiri Muslims.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Sir,
I like the article and your real unbiased attutude. HIndus in India does not require militancy. They require unity, breaking the social barriers. We are a big force when we are one. This politics of jatpat are killing us.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I was directed to visit your site by a juorno friend. It was a good experience to read some of your researched articles. Howevr, please stsrt writing about global isues.