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The Difference Between Hindus And Muslims

The article is for making Hindus aware of Shatrubodh as no battle can ever be won until and unless one knows about the enemy. It is not to glorify Islam or mock Hindus. Knowing accurately about the enemy enables you to make the correct strategy and chalk out appropriate tactics. Adharma cannot be fought with the tools of Dharma. Now is the time, after 1300 years, this lesson must be internalised if we are looking to save our civilization. One has to follow the tenets of kutayuddha to defeat an incorrigible enemy who does not fear death. A Russian Commander once said, “How do you defeat an enemy who looks into the barrel of a gun and sees paradise?”

But how do they grow to be fighters and indulge in violence at the drop of a hat? We must understand that Islam is primarily a military and political ideology and afterwards a religious institution. The whole lifestyle of Muslims is geared towards fighting and preparing for combat. Sample some of the most blatant practices of their life, which are nothing but the training sessions for the upcoming battles. Let us look at a few of such important events and characteristics in their lives.

1. Ramzan is a 30 days long festival wherein they fast from dawn to dusk. The festival prepares them for the battles where they must abstain from food for long hours. No other religion urges its followers to endure such hardships for so long. For that matter, Hindus also go through multiple fasts in a year, but at the most, they are for a day only. Navratri fasts run for eight or nine days, but people only abstain from taking anna.

2. The festival of Bakrid is another but most crucial step in preparing for the fight. Herein, Muslims rear a goat like a pet for months, fall in love with it and then, on D-day, sacrifice it by the brutal killing. Their children have to be present while the killing goes on. The animals are slashed at the neck in such a way that blood drains out slowly from their body. In between, the animals remain alive, kick around and cry wildly, and die a painful death in the end.

This activity prepares Muslims for the battles in multiple ways:

1. The fear of blood goes off and they become accustomed to its spilling from childhood.

2. The activity prepares them for qurbani of any member for the cause of Islam. Love barely exists here, and the underlying message is that anyone can be slain if he/she is not a proper fit into the larger scheme of things. After a few yearly episodes of the festival, the children grow immune to the sheer violence and it becomes part and parcel of their life.

3. They get conversant with sharp knives stored in their homes which come in handy during riots.

4. A few years back, pictures of streams of blood flowing down the streets of Bangladesh on the eve of Bakrid went viral, sending a shockwave of fear and disgust in other communities.

Hindus, too, once held bali in the temples, but it was stopped due to the influence of Buddhism. However, even after independence, in many Shakti temples, it continued unabated. Of late, due to pressure from animal rights groups that target only Hindus, that too was discontinued. The battle-worthiness for the street fights diminished due to such measures of ahimsa. Cowardice and fear became a part of our DNA. I remember a scene from the TV series Tamas wherein a Hindu boy was asked to slaughter a chicken to make him accustomed to gory violence. Only then could he protect himself and his community.

3. Alcohol or, for that matter, any intoxication is strictly a no-no for them. For any budding or existing fighter, its consumption distracts the mind from the battles. In contrast, Rajput kings were infamous for taking opium to numb the pain. They, however, did not bother to think that the substance was also inhibiting their critical thinking faculty, which was required in the do-or-die battles. Before and after the wars, they drank alcohol to calm their fraying nerves. In the process, they often used to jeopardise the safety of the camps. In 1192, during the second battle of Tarain, Ghori attacked their camps early in the morning when everyone was sleeping after a drinking session in the night. Around 1/4th of his army was slain in the pre-dawn attack and the battle was lost even before it started.

4. Muslims are allowed four marriages at a time and umpteen slaves, concubines and mistresses. Instant triple talaq (talaq-e-bidat) was conceived for this very purpose to have the maximum number of Muslim offspring. In the medieval era, men were encouraged to impregnate as many women as possible. The mindset remains the same. Women have a degraded role and only exist to produce children. That’s why the incidence of rapes in the Muslim community surpasses everyone else. The women have long been used as war weapons throughout the Muslim world. If a Muslim man or woman marries someone from another community, the non-Muslim must convert to Islam by hook or crook. Non-Muslims are only seen as part of the supply chain for wealth and women. For a Muslim man, sex is unlimited. Dying for the cause of Islam makes them entitled to 72 virgins and jannat. For gullible Muslims, the narrative is indeed mouth-watering.

5. Their comparatively casteless society, no matter how regressive, makes one big family, and everyone lives like brother and sister. Five-times namaz at the neighbourhood mosques breeds brotherhood and open communication channels of all kinds. In this network, everyone is either an active soldier or a member of a sleeper cell, to be activated at an appropriate time. An attack on Rohingyas in Myanmar provokes vicious riots in Bangalore and Bhopal. Has anyone ever heard a Hindu protesting for his brethren in another state, city, or even neighbourhood? Muslims normally won’t fight among themselves when a non-Muslim stares at them. In comparison, a Hindu will gladly become a pal with a Muslim to settle scores with fellow Hindu. Umpteen examples of such behaviour are around us.

6. Muslim is only a Muslim. It is his only identity. He/she is beyond any boundaries of nation, region, language or even family and friendship. He lives for Islam and dies for Islam. Nothing comes before it. He can sacrifice anything and everything for its cause. With such a violent mentality, he gets to set the narrative in any country, no matter how much of a minority his community is. In India, the situation is even worse where just 20% of the population bends the remaining 80%. In the USA, at least 33% of people think there is a positive correlation between Islam and violence. (PEW report).

All these opposing characteristics have resulted in a massive gap in the mindset of both communities. One is a fighter, always looking to subdue the other. For 1300 years, one has believed that the sword is mightier than the pen. In contrast, the other is taught right from childhood to avoid fights at any cost. This other is also told that the pen prevails over everything, including the sword. How wrong the notion is.

With such an uneven playing field, no guesses about the winner.

This article was originally published in Bharat Voice and has been republished here with permission.

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“India Is The Direction The World Will Move In The Next Decade”: Sadhguru On Independence Day

“To make your life pleasant within you is a very simple process. Unfortunately, a large segment of humanity is struggling and grappling with that. In this sense, India is the direction that the world will move in the next decade for sure,” said Sadhguru, Founder-Isha Foundation, during the 75-year anniversary celebrations of Indian Independence Day at Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore.

“This is a nation that has always been a beacon for anybody who looked for consciousness, for inner well-being, for understanding the deeper dimensions of our existence here in the planet,” said Sadhguru referring to the rise of mental health issues that now he deemed is “no more an individual experience but has become a societal experience.”

Questioning that the mental health pandemic which affects the world today, happened despite the nations striving and achieving all sorts of economic comforts, Sadhguru elucidated, “For thousands of years, whenever men were troubled in different parts of the known world of that time, they naturally moved towards India. It’s always been so. It’s once again important we create that possibility because this is our USP- the inner well-being.”

Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC and Former Foreign Secretary and Coordinator for the upcoming G20 summit, Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla were the chief guests to mark the momentous occasion.

The Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC congratulated the country on the 75th anniversary of Independence, seeing India’s non-violent freedom struggle as an inspiration for the whole world. Recalling the inspirational leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and B. R. Ambedkar in the freedom struggle and during the formation of modern India, Ms Patricia acknowledged the important role of India in the Commonwealth. She observed, “without India, the Commonwealth would be fundamentally different. And India’s role in our family of nations is commensurate with her scale.”

Drawing attention to the challenge of the climate crisis, Ms Patrcia identified the crucial role of Save Soil, a global movement launched by Sadhguru, to address the soil crisis in the world, to be in sync with the Living Lands Charter that mandates Commonwealth member countries to safeguard global land resources and arrest land degradation. “Save Soil will be a fundamental part of that commitment and journey.

So it is not surprising that the Secretariat of the three Rio Conventions and I, as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, embraced the initiative of Save Soil, as India and the world embraced Save Soil. Because we must Save Soil.”

With India all set to assume the Presidency of the G20, India will be hosting the G20 summit in 2023. India plans to host the 190 meetings of the G20 across all the Indian states and former foreign secretary and coordinator for the upcoming G20 Summit, Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla, speaking on the occasion announced Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore as one of the venues for G20 meetings. “It is our opportunity to show the world the great spiritual tradition that we have, the tradition of yoga and meditation, the Adiyogi and all of the important places that represent what the Isha Foundation and all of you are working towards. And I would say the world is more than happy to come and see this,” said the former
foreign secretary.

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TN Police Arrests Stunt Master Kanal Kannan For Speaking Against EVR, Hindu Munnani Announces State-Wide Protests

Madras HC Says As It Quashes Charges Against Stunt Master Kanal Kannan

Kanal Kannan, a well-known stunt master who had choreographed action sequencces for various movies, has been arrested by the Cyber Crime Wing of Tamil Nadu police for against rabid anti-Hindu demagogue E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (EVR), known as ‘Periyar’ by his followers.

Addressing an event organized by Hindu Munnani, Kanal Kannan said “Being Hindu is a matter of pride. Earlier, countries were conquered through sword and war. Today they are capturing nations through religious conversion.”

He also shared his personal experience when Christian missionaries had tried to convert him.

Speaking further he said “Lakhs of Hindus worship at the Srirangam Ranganathar Temple daily. Opposite to that (temple), there is a statue of a person who said ‘there is no God’ (referring to EVR). The day that statue is broken, that is the day of Hindu resurgence”.

The statue was erected by the Tamil Nadu government in 2006.

This speech of his has created a controversy in Tamil Nadu with the racist outfits like Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam lodging a complaint against him at the DGP office in Chennai in the first week of August.

Both the Dravidian parties DMK and AIADMK condemned Kanal Kannan for his speech.

AIADMK leader D. Jayakumar said that those who defame leaders like ‘Periyar’, Anna, MGR and Amma should be dealt with an iron hand. He said that the AIADMK would’ve dealt such persons strongly had the party been in power.

BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai had come out in support of the stunt master stating that it is not acceptable to have a statue on the way to a temple that says “There is no God and those who believe in God are fools”. He said that the statue can be kept elsewhere but not in front of the temple.

Kamal Kannan who was arrested in Puducherry on Monday (August 15) has been booked under Sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot), and 505 (1) (b) (causing fear or alarm to the public) of the Indian Penal Code. A few days ago, a district court had rejected his anticipatory bail.

The Hindu Munnani has condemned the arrest of Kanal Kannan and has called for state-wide agitation.

In a statement, Hindu Munnani head Kadeswara Subramaniam called Kannan’s arrest as an attack on free speech of Hindus by the DMK government.

He said that the DMK government has been selectively targeting and attacking those who speak for Hindu rights while giving a free pass to those who made anti-Hindu and anti-national elements.

Mr. Subramaniam pointed out the cases of U2 Brutus ‘Minor’ who had abused Hindu God Lord Shiva and Christian Pastor Jagath Gasper where he had instigated Muslims to ask for a separate land.

“Demonstration will be held across Tamil Nadu at 11 AM tomorrow to condemn the dictatorial trend of the Tamil Nadu government. The continued anti-Hindu discriminatory attitude of the Tamil Nadu government is creating great anger in the minds of the people. This should be stopped.”, he said.

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Save Soil Mirrors What Commonwealth Is Aspiring To Do: Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia

Secretary General of the Commonwealth Nations The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland, today visited an agroforestry farm in Pollachi, pioneered by Isha Agro Movement. Ms Scotland appreciated the nature-based solutions undertaken by Valluvan, a natural farmer, using multi- cropping methods and tree-based agriculture to grow food. Using these nature-based solutions, Valluvan has been able to increase the organic content in soil to 3.36 per cent and has become one of the model farmers of the Save Soil movement.

Ms. Scotland saw a great synergy between Save Soil and Living Lands Charter, observing that the multidisciplinary approach undertaken by the movement is similar to what Living Lands Charter has done. “This idea that our top spoil is incredibly important and if we are going to de- generate that top soil then we are not going to be able to do that which we need to do. So the learning and the experience of what Save Soil wants to do seems to mirror closely what the UN agencies and we, the Commonwealth are aspiring to do,” echoed Ms. Scotland in strong support of the movement.

Appreciating Valluvan for the natural farming, she stressed the need to pool and share the knowledge coming out of the various parts of commonwealth countries in developing a DNA of change. She said,  “This solution is a great solution for the environment and temperatures that are similar to this. There will be other solutions which we will have to develop for other areas. But the principles we are distilling here are really applicable to so many environment…And I hope it will tempt some people to have the courage and the vison to emulate the great farmer here.”

The Secretary-General has earlier shown her support for the global Save Soil movement and her crucial visit is in line with the Living Land charter which is adopted by the 56 commonwealth nations to safeguard global land resources.

“The Commonwealth is committed to Living Land for a generation. So to have an opportunity now to join hands with Save Soil to deliver safe, better soil for our world is the most wonderful moment and this partnership that we are going to enter into will really be the difference we need to make”, Ms Scotland had said.

(This is an official press release from Isha Foundation. The Commune was not involved in creating this content.)

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Nitish Kumar Has A Lot To Lose Now

Nitish Kumar separated again from BJP on August 9th, 2022 earning the name ‘Paltu Ram’ of Bihar. This is going to be his greatest blunder which will accelerate his political downfall. I am deliberately using the word “accelerate” as his popularity was already diminishing in Bihar and his latest move would drag him and his party towards the end much faster. JDU came down from 71 seats in 2015 to 43 in 2020. In the next assembly elections, it is believed that they will go further down as the focus of the voter will now be on BJP and RJD. Nitish and his party will be pushed to the sidelines as a sundry entity.

What could have been running in Nitish’s mind? There are talks that he wanted be the Vice President.  Some say, he was worried that BJP will further eat into his seats based on their rise from 53 seats in 2015 assembly elections to 72 in 2020 and destroy his party eventually. Nitish Kumar and JDU are anyways going to reduce to a political minority even if they go to elections in 2025 with RJD, as people are no more going to see them as important players that will impact their livelihood.

RJD will also be their big brother like BJP was, albeit a corrupt one given Lalu’s legacy. Some again say that Nitish has aspirations to become the next Prime Minister. He may have a non-corrupt image but he doesn’t enjoy any support outside of Bihar. He falls terribly short on the public connect skills that Narendra Modi has. Interestingly, on the day of RJD and JDU oath ceremony, RJD karyakarthas started touting that their leader Tejaswi will be a great Prime Minister. Then where does it leave Nitish?

Another hypothesis that can be thought about is that there is an agreement between Nitish and Tejaswi that Nitish can continue to rule Bihar comfortably while he supports Tejaswi as the next PM candidate. Sounds far-fetched but these parties can go to any ludicrous extent with their whims. Even the firebrand Mamata Banerjee had to mellow down in front of Modi. Coming back to Nitish Kumar, RJD has also made him the Chief Minister as only three years are left for next Assembly elections and they can conveniently make him the scapegoat for any performance issues and dump him if they get majority on their own. Tejaswi is shrewd and one has to give it to him.

Nitish should have stayed with BJP as it is the growing force in Bihar. He should try to strengthen his party using his clean image, by doing great work and connecting with people. He should have taken advantage of BJP not having their own strong leader on the ground. That way, he could have continued as a strong force in Bihar. Why in whole world, would he go with a party that he himself linked with jungle raj earlier and that has kind of been static with 80 seats in 2015 assembly elections and 75 seats in 2020?  He should not have let his credibility take a hit in the eyes of the public just to quell his insecurity with BJP.

BJP will be benefitting the most out of this disastrous move by Nitish Kumar. They can now freely target Nitish’s government on performance issues. I believe they were not as shocked with this as they were with Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra when he suddenly joined Maha Vikas Aghadi. I am sure they would have seen this coming.

The only thing that they have to do is to develop a strong local face in the run up to 2025 Assembly elections. They will position themselves as the party that upheld the dharma with their ally Nitish even though they had much more seats but Nitish backstabbed them due to his pure personal ambitions. They have always thought for welfare of the state whereas Nitish always thought about his welfare. They will ask public to give them a chance to independently serve them with their double engine Sarkar citing the example of UP, as they have already seen what Nitish and RJD had to offer them. This will be a very persuasive argument that will make Bihar voters think, given the strong Modi factor playing in the back of their minds. You never know, an Eknath Shinde might emerge from JDU too.

In a nutshell, Nitish Kumar has lots to lose now. As it’s said in the corporate world, this is a career limiting move that he made. I don’t see him continuing as the Chief Minister post 2025 as that will be taken by either the RJD or the BJP. The million dollar question is – With chances of him becoming the Prime Minister in 2024 looking very bleak, what will happen to Nitish Kumar’s political career after three years? Let’s wait and watch!

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India At 75 In Space: Sky Is The Limit

Western countries  got benefitted by the first two industrial revolutions.  India could not avail such benefits, due to the colonial rule.  However, since 15 August 1947, India has traveled a long way to ensure her security in vital areas like food, health, education, environment, energy, trade, economy etc in addition to protecting her borders in the land, air and sea. Many leaders, intellectuals, technologists, scientists, academicians, administrators, doctors along with millions of farmers, technicians and soldiers have contributed for this from the areas of agriculture, education, health care, industry and defense. While these areas have grown after independence in the self-ruled India, a new program conceived and developed in independent India as late as late 60s has helped to leapfrog almost all the above areas and has also taken India as one of the leading nation in the world in one field , it is Indian Space program.

The world witnessed the first man made satellite Sputnik-1 orbiting the earth in 1957 and the first man Yuri Gagrin enter space and return in 1959.  It kicked off the space race between USSR and USA.  For India it was very modest beginning, setting up a launch facility in a church in the Kovalam beach near Thiruvananthapuram in 1962 and  the first launch of  sounding rocket on 21 November 1963.  Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) was formed on 15 Aug 1969, twenty two years after independence.

ISRO took very caustious baby steps to master technological skills to make satellites, launch vehicles and tailoring her space program for India specific  societal applications.  In that process, ISRO acquired range of launch vehicles namely SLV-3 , ASLV, PSLV , GSLV and GSLV M-2,3 capable of launching 40kgs of satellite in 400 km around the earth to few tons around the Moon and Mars. PSLV, the work horse of ISRO has shown it’s agility in placing large number of satellites in one go that too in different orbits. Globally PSLV is leading  in that segment of launch vehicles having launched more than 350 satellites from 34 countries.

In the area of  satellites,  ranging from the modest first satellite Aryabhatta to one of the biggest constellation of the state of the art communication satellites, radar satellites, highly agile remote sensing satellites, constellation of regional navigation satellites (NAVIC), meteorological satellites, ISRO has placed all the type of satellites in the orbit. These satellites serve the needs of emerging India in the areas of radio, TV broadcast, telephony, mobile communication, telemedicine, tele education, digital governance, weather monitoring, early warning, disaster management, banking and many more.

ISRO’s regional remote sensing centers combine the services of remote sensing, meteorological, and communication satellites to give vital inputs to the farmers, fishermen and policy makers.  Indian defense personnel from Army, Navy and Air Force also get required support from India’s space assets. Indian railways and airlines get support from the services of  navigation and communication. Likewise, many India specific applications are being served using the constellation of more than sixty Indian made satellite assets.

As India is the land of Aryabhata and Bhaskara, Indian space program contributes to unravel the mysteries of space. Science satellites like multi wave length astonomy satellite Astrosat, and planetary missions like Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2, and Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) played major roles in the world of space science.

Discovery of water molecules in the tenuous atmosphere, surface and subsurface of the moon by Chandrayaan -1 is a contribution by ISRO in understanding moon better. The way ISRO conceived and executed the  Chandrayaan-1 mission led to the noteworthy discoveries. It made the whole world to look back the Moon with renewed interest. Now some serious efforts are being taken up to setup human colony in the moon by a team of space fairing nations and India could play a meaningful role in it.

India also has taken up manned space mission, GAGANYAAN and a mission to explore the Sun through Aditya.

ISRO has grown leaps and bounds over the last 63 years of journey. While doing so, Indian academia and industry also were guided and nurtured by ISRO in a well thought out manner to take the mantles in this niche area.

Boyed by the all round developments happened indigenously in the area of space and space applications as spearheaded by ISRO, recently Government of India has made a major space policy revision. Now private industry can take major part of realizing space assets in terms of launch vehicles, satellites and applications both for national and international needs. New authorities namely INSPACE  and NSIL have been formed to guide the Indian industries. ISRO will primarily concentrate on space research and space technology upgradations and innovations.

Actions being initiated for state of the art  launch pad near Kulasekarapattnam  at the southern part of India. Possibly new end to end infrastructures also could be built for small satellite and launch vehicles by the Indian  private industry. Considering few hundred satellites are being launched in the recent past by many satellite operators, with the said emerging developments in India, we could provide a very competitive opportunity for the international players in the field of space to look at India in commercial  terms.

While we salute the freedom fighters on this auspicious day, one also need to remember the founding fathers and contributors to the Indian space program. The list is so big, not limited to the luminaries like Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dawan, UR Rao, Abdul Kalam, Kasturirangan, Madhavan Nair, Radha Krishnan, Kirankumar, Sivan and Somanath.

When India celebrates her 75th  independence day, every Indian house and office premise will be hoisting the tri-color national flag. I am feeling elated and proud for being  part of Chandrayaan-1 project team that planted the tricolor flag near south pole of the Moon in 2008, placing India to be the first country to do such a feat in the polar region of the Moon, which is like the Himalayas of the Earth.

Very soon, India’s own astronauts will enter space in our own rockets. In the years to come, India will achieve several other milestones adorning itself with accolades.

As we enter the Amritkaal, ISRO is gearing up to take mankind to the future!

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The Real Reason For PTR’s Car Receiving A Slipper Shot

Slippers came flying and landed on the windshield of Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan’s car as he was leaving the Madurai Airport to go to his home.

The reason?

The heavy-headed foul-mouthed snob that he is.

Minister Thiagarajan on behalf of the Tamil Nadu government had gone to the Madurai Airport to pay respects to Rifleman D Lakshmanan (24), the Indian soldier killed in action in a fidayeen attack carried out by armed terrorists in Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir.

The body of the slain solider hailing from T. Pudupatti village near Madurai, was kept at a pandal erected close to the Airport Director’s building to allow for VIPs and others to pay their homage.

BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai, along with BJP Madurai District President Dr. P. Saravanan and around 300 BJP cadres too had gone to the Madurai airport to pay their respects.

However, not all of them were allowed inside the airport due to restrictions and only Mr. Annamalai, Dr. Saravanan and a few others were allowed inside the airport premises.

BJP leader Annamalai and others were waiting for their turn to pay their respects as per the protocol which requires the Ministers, Collector, Superintendent of Police and other representatives of the State government to receive the body and lay the wreath.

At that time, DMK Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan (shortly PTR) who saw Mr. Annamalai and others waiting inside made unwarranated and unsavoury remarks unbecoming of the position he holds.

“What qualification do these paradesis (a derogatory Tamil word that roughly translates to moron) have to be present here? Who let them in?” PTR asked the officers present at the location.

There was a spat between members of the DMK and BJP as PTR had reportedly told the assembled BJP members that they can come only after he paid his respects and asked them to stay away.

Members of the BJP were humiliated and made to wait for a long time by the DMK Minister and Mr. Annamalai and others were allowed only after PTR left.

Upon coming to know of PTR’s snobbish attitude, the BJP cadres who were waiting outside the airport laid seige to PTR’s vehicle as he was about to leave the airport.

Eye-witness accounts from the scene note that, a visibly agitated PTR had angrily asked his driver to ram the vehicle on the BJP cadres and proceed. At that moment, one of them (reportedly a woman) threw a slipper at PTR’s car.

This had caused commotion leading to lathi charge by the Tamil Nadu police. Their lathis came on the BJP cadres indiscriminately injuring many. Many hooligans belonging to the DMK too joined.

That being the case, the DMK is now trying to project as if their Minister did no wrong.

That PTR behaving like a snob is no surprise as he is someone who is known for his condescending attitude and bragging about his privileged background. That he chose to be his usual self at the funeral service of a slain Indian soldier is what disgusts me as an Indian. Any Indian true to his salt would be disgusted.

PTR has the audacity to ask what merit does BJP leaders have to pay respects to the slain braveheart from Tamil Nadu.

I ask PTR – what merit does he have to pay homage to an Indian soldier of Tamil Nadu. Afterall, he is someone, who hails from a legacy of buttressing the British and has no qualms boasting about his Justice Party roots whose leader called Indian Independence day a black-day.

PTR must remember that he wouldn’t be where he is now if not for his father and grandfather. All the goodwill and reputation that people of Madurai have on PTR’s family will come crumbling down with his snobbish attitude. That day is not far. There is already growing resentment against him in his own government, his own party and even among his own people.

I challenge PTR to resign from his MLA post and re-contest again from the same Madurai Central Assembly constituency. Pretty sure that the people of Madurai would make him bite the dust.

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DMK Fin Min PTR’s Car Slippered

Slippers came flying and landed on the windshield of Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan (PTR)’s car as he was leaving the Madurai Airport to go to his home.

Minister Thiagarajan on behalf of the Tamil Nadu government had gone to the Madurai Airport to pay respects to Rifleman D Lakshmanan (24), the Indian soldier killed in action in a fidayeen attack by armed terrorists in Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir.

The body of the slain soliders was kept at a pandal erected to allow for VIPs to pay their homage.

Members of the BJP too had assembled to pay their respects to the martyred Indian soldier belonging to T. Pudupatti village near Madurai.

At that time, there was a spat between members of the DMK and BJP as PTR had reportedly told the assembled BJP members that they can come only after he paid his respects and asked them to stay away.

According to a report by Thanthi TV, BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai too who had come to pay homage was made to wait for a long time.

Angered by the DMK Minister’s attitude, members of the BJP laid seige to his vehicle as he was about to leave the airport. One of them (reportedly a woman) threw a slipper at PTR’s car.

Video of this incident has now gone viral in social media with the hashtag #DWD_செருப்படி. DWD stands for ‘Double Watch Douglas’, a moniker given to PTR as he earlier used to wear wrist watch in both his hands.

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“BSNL Wrongly Charges Rs. 2.5 Crore For 25 Days” Isha hopes that justice prevails

BSNL raised a bill of Rs 2.5 crore for 25 days of phone usage in Dec 2018-Jan2019 while Isha Yoga Center’s credit limit was only Rs 66,900 per month. Prior to this, the regular monthly bill of the Yoga Center was less than Rs 22,000 per month for the past 10 years.

When BSNL threatened to disconnect, Isha Yoga Center approached the Madras High Court which appointed Retd. Justice E Padmanabhan as an arbitrator to look into the matter.

The Arbitrator did not agree with BSNL’s contention of such an extraordinarily high bill and ordered Isha Yoga Center to deposit an average monthly amount of Rs 22,000 per month for two months – Dec 2018 and January 2019.

BSNL appealed against this order and the Madras High Court has ordered for the matter to be heard afresh on grounds of procedure followed by the original arbitrator.

(This is an official press release from Isha Foundation. The Commune was not involved in creating this content.)

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Marudanayagam Aka Yusuf Khan: A Fake, Fraud, Friend Of The Fiendish Foreign Foes Falsely And Flagrantly Lionised

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
-Gandhi

However, the following is also equally true!

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

The rapacious western imperialists, during their tyrannical tenure, apart from plundering all our physical wealth, had also fiendishly implanted a flagrantly faulty, fraudulent fictitious falsehood as history and the more pitiable, pathetic fact is that, instead of correcting it immediately after their exit, we still continue to reiterate it parrot-like as gospel truth, as a consequence of which, selfless patriots are projected as traitors while tergiversators and turncoats who shamelessly betrayed our nation are depicted as loyal heroes.

For instance, the notorious systematic falsifier of history, Macaulay disdainfully described our 1857 rebellion against the British for freedom as just a sepoy mutiny and in his perception, the national heroes who had sacrificed their lives and limbs were traitors! How ridiculous will it be if we continue the same concocted stories even after seven decades?

When the mammoth historical film ‘Veerapandiya Kattabomman’ featuring the peerless Sivaji Ganesan was released in 1959, propelled by a malicious motive of confusing the credulous masses, there was a loathsome attempt by one group headed by the famous author, Tamilvanan depicting Kattabomman as a dacoit of Telugu origin, thus discrediting that patriot.

One such glaring instance that is presently going around briskly is the story of one fellow called Marudanayakam. Evidently there appears to be some vested interest in projecting him as a patriot and propagating that bogus message, poisoning the minds of the gullible masses through the all-powerful media.

This guy has managed to infiltrate as a freedom fighter in the minds of the Tamil people. This idea was also peddled in the recent extravagant show on Indian independence performed at the closing ceremony of the Chess Olympiad.

However, even a cursory glance will show the true colours of this slubberdegullion.

Maruthanayagam Pillai was born during 1725 in the village of Panaiyur in a Hindu family of Vellala caste.

Being too restless in his youth, he left his native village and converted for convenience to Islam with a new name, Yusuf Khan.

He initially served the French Governor Jacques Law in Pondicherry. He later enlisted under Chanda Sahib who was then the Nawab of Arcot.

While staying in Arcot he fell in love with a ‘Portuguese’ Christian girl named Marcia and married her.

In 1751, in the struggle between Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah and his relative Chanda Sahib for the throne of Arcot, the former sought the help of the British and the latter, the French. Chanda Sahib got defeated.

Although Marudanayagam was on the side of the opponent viz. Chanda Sahib, Robert Clive noticed his exceptional valour and got him enlisted in the British army. Yusuf Khan assisted the British with his guerilla warfare and rose rapidly in rank and recognition.

Around this time, an English captain named Brunton educated Yusuf Khan, making him proficient in English. He moved up the ranks as tax collector, Havildar and finally as a Subedar and that is how he is referred to in the English records.

While serving the British, Yusuf Khan battled with Puli Thevar, a Polygar of Nerkattumseval, a small town to the south-west of Madurai, who was rebelling against the Nawab and the British. Yusuf Khan, with his exceptional skills in warfare, captured some of Puli Thevar’s forts where others had failed. His fight with and killing of Vennikkaladi, a chieftain of Puli Thevar was ghastly, galling and gruesome to say the least. Puli Thevar later escaped from Sankarankovil and disappeared from the pages of history for a couple of years. Only now, Puli Thevar is recognized by the Government of Tamil Nadu as a freedom fighter.

Successive spectacular victories made him a megalomaniac and consequently he earned enemies also. Arcot Nawab was envious of him and wanted him to pay taxes directly to him and not to the British. He rebelled. He proclaimed himself as the ruler of Madurai. The Nawab and the British forces joined together and defeated him. In the end, he was hanged.

Thus it will be seen that there was never even a modicum of patriotism in that fellow. Every step in his life was propelled by sheer self interest in the pursuit of which he had no qualms in betraying and brutally backstabbing his own brethren. Will we not be a laughing stock if we are going to laud him as a loyal liege of our motherland.

Clinching, Conclusive Corroboration Confirming The Correctness Of History

Nobody denies that there are several versions of the history of Marudanayagam, some crediting, complimenting and commending him as the first freedom fighter even before 1857 while others, condemning, calumniating and castigating him as a conspirator colluding with the country’s enemies. Each narrator will claim that his own script is the right one. As a result, one is confused as to which one is factual and which one is fraudulent. Under such circumstances, to arrive at an accurate and authoritative account of history, we can solicit the stance of someone whose view we can verily vouchsafe for veracity and accept it as authentic. It is like sage Vasishtar acknowledging and approving his arch-rival Vishwamitra as ‘Brahma Rishi’.

Another instance is in Ramayana: Sri Rama is hailed as the embodiment of all virtues by everyone, but here is a certificate from an unexpected person,’

रामो विग्रहवान् धर्मः साधुः सत्य पराक्रमः |
राजा सर्वस्य लोकस्य देवानाम् इव वासवः || ३-३७-१३||

“Rama is the embodiment of righteousness, he is an equable person with truthfulness as his valour, and as with Indra to all gods he is the king of entire world.” This is from Mareecha, the uncle of Ravana!

In the same manner, here is a certificate, an authentic proof at that, provided by Sir John Malcolm, a British soldier, diplomat, East India Company administrator and historian:

‘Yusuf Khan, the bravest and ablest of all the native soldiers that ever served the English in India. The name of this hero, for such he was, occurs almost as often in the page of the English historian [Robert Orme] as that of Lawrence or Clive.” [It must be noted that these two Englishmen were the pillars of East India Company and they sowed the seeds of British colonialism in India.]

The entire biography of Marudanayagam alias Yusuf Khan with all details and references is available in a book, ‘YUSUF KHAN, The rebel commandant’ by Samuel Charles Hill.

Do we need any further proof? How idiotic, ironical, irrational, inane it will be if we are going to glorify as a patriot, protector and proponent of our freedom struggle, a guy who is being brazenly praised simultaneously as their peerless hero and a sincere servant by the enemy himself? The plain fact is that, while in his early career, he was functioning as a servile, submissive, slavish stooge to the British/French/Nawabs all along, later, propelled by piggishness, desirous of chewing more than he could swallow, he attempted to ambitiously act as if he is an autonomous authority and was appropriately made to pay a heavy price for it. That is all.