Film makers and Scientists have also joined writers in returning awards for expressing resebtment against growing intolerance, murder of rationalists and communal killings.
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The return of State honours by liberals and artists is sought to be dismissed as directionless protest, which it well may be. But the severe response from govt and ruling party alsi indicates that they are afraid of its impact. I will not be surprised if the "manufactured" protests are now countered by "manufactured" responses by others.
@chinmoymukherjee I have nothing against your reasoning. We are giving benefit of doubt to the ruling party then I think we must give benefit of doubt to the writers and co. too. Let some time pass and I am sure the exact reason behind all this will definitely come out in open. I am not saying those who are not returning their awards must do so but those who are returning, they are also respectable persons of the society then accusing the whole lot is quite demeaning.
As Amit Shah said why these people are not opposing other people, why only Modiji targeted. Dadri is in U.P., incident has happened in U.P. and these people are only asking question to center government and not to state government.
@Shampa
I have no desire to demean them but they have
a lot to answer for for selective awakening of conscience!
India have been witness to many worst communal
carnages under Congress regimes and they didn't
even stir slumber.When I was in Delhi in 2005 and
living close to a Sikh victim's family I just was benumbed
in cold horror when a few members who were
still in a trauma,were narrating the gory accounts.
How did they Congress react to it subsequently?
The villains of the piece were made MPs and Ministers!
How many of them returned their when the entire
country was seething in rage over the 'Nirbhoya'
case.How many returned their awards when Taslima
was being hounded out by a mob of stinkingly
communal Muslims in the heart of Kolkata under
a left regime whose vote bank politics has permanently
changed the demographic character of border
districts of West Bengal.
So the CPI (M) found the answer in the end
The day is not too far in future when this will be condition for living in India.
Now coming to this business of returing awards
I don't know whose brain child it was initially.He or
she must be very ecstasically elated at turning
others into a herd! As I commented elsewhere
that unlike in the West where many conscientious
objectors never salivate at the prospect of receiving
state awards lest should they barter their souls,
their Indian counterparts have a healthy appetite
for them. All we know Dev Kanta Baruah a leading
Assamese litterateur made us believe that Indira
was India,a creative genius!! Incidentally Indira
Gandhi was the promoter of concepts of "committed
judiciary" and committed intellectuals and so on.
The word 'Secular' entered the portal of Indian Constitution
at her behest as if Nehru was not sufficiently secular!
Talking about intolerance I want more of it! The
people of India have tolerated too much of hypocrisy
of politicians of all hues,double standards and
double speak of pseudo secularists.Go and unmask
them!!
Now Chetan Bhagat and Sikh community are opposing the "award wapsi gang". Lets see how many people will join the Sikhs and Chetan Bhagat.
Today Moody's Analytics and Raghuram Rajan have both come up with the same sentiments - that the central government especially Modi has to take a firm stand against detractors who are bent on creating unrest Raghuram Rajan has called for an improved environment for tolerance and mutual respect !
It is true that in past when horrific events took place we did not see such concerted return of state awards. Why is it happening now needs to be exposed because by saying that it is a concerted move against present government is not enough, it has to be established esp. because too many diverse elements are operating together. What is bringing them together?
@Usha
Who is going to do that? Restoring trust,
tolerance is the job of visionary leaders
both of the government as well as the
opposition. The saddest part such lack
of trust is not wanting in Indians among
themselves as it is case with leaders of
all walks of life.Here a PM who rubbishes
the opposition on foreign soils.His views
on Nehru is absurd.Nehru had failings but
any attempt to bellittle him,his towering
stature would make more popular than
ever before.I commented months back
that as long as Modi would remain committed
to his development agenda he would find
takers and the moment he veers off to the
obscurantism he would meet the fate of
failed rulers.I am growing apprehensive
about the latter!!
Modi is focused on development. But his fellow travelers joined his bandwagon with an agenda of their own. hitch hiking they have come to power and are now interested in furthering their agenda which is at variance with Modi's developmental agenda. Modi has to tackle them because otherwise he will be the loser.
vijay wrote:Modi is focused on development. But his fellow travelers joined his bandwagon with an agenda of their own. hitch hiking they have come to power and are now interested in furthering their agenda which is at variance with Modi's developmental agenda. Modi has to tackle them because otherwise he will be the loser.
Basic mistake is to differentiate between RSS peronalities. The RSS and its outfits are very clear about their fascist agenda. Modi is also first a RSS pracharak and anything else next. The RSS and its affiliates have just distributed duties among themselves. Some will provoke, others will regret, still some will talk of 'development and unity'. They do this for confusing people.
chinmoymukherjee wrote:@Usha Who is going to do that? Restoring trust, tolerance is the job of visionary leaders both of the government as well as the opposition. The saddest part such lack of trust is not wanting in Indians among themselves as it is case with leaders of all walks of life.Here a PM who rubbishes the opposition on foreign soils.His views on Nehru is absurd.Nehru had failings but any attempt to bellittle him,his towering stature would make more popular than ever before.I commented months back that as long as Modi would remain committed to his development agenda he would find takers and the moment he veers off to the obscurantism he would meet the fate of failed rulers.I am growing apprehensive about the latter!!
I agree that on should not belittle any leader while at home or abroad, it is tit for tat with BJP now because of the manner in which Sonia Gandhi, Mani Shankar Aiyer and Digvijay Singh went on and on about Modi and his Chaiwala origins and his role in Godra ..They started their tirade against him and why the double standards and why do they feel insulted now when their leaders are being targeted ?
There you are sir @chinmoymukherjee, this is what I also wanted to point out that usually the politicians act according to their advantage. This time may be the opposition succeeded in arranging a protest by the intellectual class against the ruling party while the ruling party failed in taking the writers and all in their favour. That's the story and the ruling party is not acting strongly to control this barbarism, why? This is ridiculous. They must step in strongly. From the very beginning Anupam Kher spoke against the return of the award so if it is said that he is against this policy because he is the supporter of the ruling party. So, this solves no problem. Some will support and some will speak against it but the party which is in power must act fast to keep this intolerance under control.
@Usha
Modi bashing won't solve the crisis India faces
at the moment. The plain truth is that two principal
political parties are held hostage - one by RSS
and another by Gandhi.This family needs Congress
more than Congress do! Gone are the golden
moments,the halcyon days of Indian Democracy
presided over by no other than Pundit Nehru
when he would listen to golden oratory of Vajpayee
with rapt attention to pat his back at the end of it
to designate him as the 'future PM of India'! How
magnanimous of him! And Vajpayee? When he
visited South Block first time on becoming PM
and its mandarins removing the photo of Nehru
furiously asked them:Where is the photo of Panditji?
Today a bunch of self-styled conscience keepers
are emerging from the wings to usurp a role of
back-seat driving our political system and leaders
which is a dangerous trend.An open invitation to
extra-constitutional and ultra constitutional agency
to take over expressing their own lack of faith in
present leaders and the system.
Well said @chinmoy. Though far fetched I am reminded of the period immediately after the French revolution when Simon the Butcher would sentence every one to the gullitone who could not improve the rapidly collapsing French economy. Today a Minister has come out with another gem that Did Sonia Gandhi not sleep the whole night when she heard of Osama bib Laden's death. One may have ideological differences but this is pure hatred from both sides. And that is where Vajpayee asking for Panditjis photo speaks volumes.
chinmoymukherjee wrote:@Usha Modi bashing won't solve the crisis India faces at the moment. The plain truth is that two principal political parties are held hostage - one by RSS and another by Gandhi.This family needs Congress more than Congress do! Gone are the golden moments,the halcyon days of Indian Democracy presided over by no other than Pundit Nehru when he would listen to golden oratory of Vajpayee with rapt attention to pat his back at the end of it to designate him as the 'future PM of India'! How magnanimous of him! And Vajpayee? When he visited South Block first time on becoming PM and its mandarins removing the photo of Nehru furiously asked them:Where is the photo of Panditji? Today a bunch of self-styled conscience keepers are emerging from the wings to usurp a role of back-seat driving our political system and leaders which is a dangerous trend.An open invitation to extra-constitutional and ultra constitutional agency to take over expressing their own lack of faith in present leaders and the system.
I agree that politics today has lost all dignity and the politicians have become extremely self centered ..It may all be leading towards civil unrest which would be dangerous for our society . But at the same time one can analyse and go back into the past and gauge as to how things turned out this way and what paved the way .. Past mistakes have cast a long shadow
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