Ram-Rahim, “Justice” and the Politics of JNU

Link: http://indiaheadlines.in/en/2017/08/29/courts-judgementjusticeand-politics-jnuideological-fissures/

Court’s Judgement, “Justice” and the Politics of JNU: Ideological Fissures

We live in a secular country, if not a religious, that has given birth to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Din-e-Ilahi. And, if the news reports are not wrong, one more, “Lingayat,” is about to born. Whatever be the religion of one, s/he at the time of their birth are religious, in one way or other. But today, everyone forgets, what is a religion? The chapter of this transition was written in 1950.

By adopting the written Constitution, the notion of old religious thought had died and a new one called democracy, though weak yet strong, come into existence. Comparatively, the weakest is the politics, and the most potent form of it is the Judiciary. It most substantial existence is proved in August 2017 with two judgments that changed the way one thinks: Progressive opinion on Triple Talaq and the sordid chapter of Ram Rahim

 With these rulings, the whole of India in general and the JNU, in particular, is divided into two fronts—one against another with added hatred. It seems the intellectuals, by wish or force, become the protector or destroyer of some idea: whether it is Triple Talaq or the case of so called saint. If one looks closely, the JNU student wing is not criticising the idea, but disrespecting “religion,” whether Hindu or Islam, by hateful comments.

When the judgment on Triple Talaq came, the Left side of JNU was hiding its face, and who knows where. Similarly, the result of Ram Rahim makes the Right Wing invisible. Is it a joke to blame the religion of others? Its answer is partly yes, and partly no—if the question is asked in concern of JNU, the nest of future intellectuals who, in the real sense of the word, are no intellectual at all.

These intellectuals are foot soldiers, in the guise of student wing parties, who work more on Facebook and less on the ground and even less on papers, I mean academic. They believe in a hit and run theory—just criticize and abuse the religion through pamphlets or Facebook status.

About religion, no one, not even these rightist or leftist, are aware of the direction they are going. Instead of defining how these spiritual gurus and ulemas become a self-state, an uncrowned king who runs a parallel government of its kind, they are criticising the politics in general and religion in particular. From the ages, religion is preferred over politics, don’t you know. If you look historically too, faith comes first, and rest of the options are optional.

Undoubtedly, the story of Ram Rahim is enough to fade any Bollywood movie. It would be an added surprise that a saint has enough power to control the politics of the state, if not the country. By examining the previous case of some saints like Aasharam, Rampal, and others, one finds that these are now behind bars for their crimes. But, this is not enough, as it has another hidden and unmentioned angle.

Sakshi Maharaj, an MP, and Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam, are some controversial but religious figures that too needed attention. They deserve the same place next to these saints, and as soon as possible else it would be too late.

But, instead of a quick action, we believe in late by preferring the slow pace of judgments by the court. The intellectuals of JNU never take a criminal as a criminal until s/he was declared same by the tribunal. Think about Sakshi Maharaj and Syed Ahmed Bukhari. Should they be highlighted along with Babas but, in JNU, one is selected over the other. This great university, talk about Sakhshi Maharaj but forget Bukhari. Why is JNU so selective by not talking to other? Where are those revolutionaries of Left, Right, Centre, BAPSA, Collective, Hundred Flowers Group, the GSCASH, feminists and all other whose name is not here? Silence prevails. It could shake their vote bank.

The JNU student parties escape from their responsibilities, how these holy saints become a power station. But, I will go on to do their job: first, try to find those gap and then attempted to seal it with the concrete and cement.

The power of religious saint is the mass following, which is often uneducated, poor, simple minded and even devotee of the first order. They are attracted under the greed of food and good condition of living, and even the health sanitation. They are given so much privileged that if one works the whole day, then that person, male or female, will not be able to get the same type of hygienic conditions of living given by the Babas. From here, the treacheries, misguiding are shaped, and these innocent people are used as a human shield to hide their sin.

Ram Rahim is neither the first and nor the last of this chain, thousands more to come and from which religion who knows. The mistakes are of ours, and we have to accept these sooner rather than later. We protect them and put them in the highest position of religion that is purely unchallengeable. It's perfect and living example is Sahi Imam of Jama Masjid, who, from last ten years, cannot arrest despite his non-bailable warrants. Like Ram Rahim, he too gave mutual support to various political parties but no talk about him.

Why the silence prevails in case of Imam. Who knows what would be the fate of Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Sakshi Maharaj, and Ramdev. In a question to, why there is no spotlight on them? My answer is, they are not arrested and convicted by the police, hence, no spotlight. In this sense, they are innocent for their the masses, Hindu or Muslim does not matter. In fact, it is fear of loss of vote bank rather than fear of religion for the government.

Crime is a crime, and criminal is criminal, this is the lesson religion taught us but, we have forgotten it completely. We just try to prove, the religion of other is not right as compared to ours. Naturally, JNU is divided into “us” and “they.” It seems, a cold war of religion is going on, but no one holds responsible oneself for it and blames it on others. Let me tell you, how it works.

An unpopular, not popular, author in the twentieth century says, “Justice is a sister of popularity.” When a popular-cum-powerful person, having a reputation of a high order, is convicted by the Court of Law is considered as “justice.”

Before the judgment, a socio-political critic, not even by the single stretch of the imagination, have the guts to criticise that accuse like Ram Rahim. For example, let me remind you, there exists in “no headlines” on Aug 22, but suddenly, the saint received the media attention, national as well as International.

By defining about him in length would be to waste my words on unnecessary narrative. But, as a footnote to Baba, I would say, such is also applicable to Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam. Ram Rahim is famous and convicted by the court; Imam is too popular but not convicted. Thus, due to the absence of the second form of justice, justice remains incomplete.

According to this, the case of Baba is “justice,” but, dear followers of students wings from JNU, what about Imam. Similarly, until and unless, the court does not convict imam, he will remain in the position and enjoy all the privileges—like Ram Rahim. But despite knowing all the facts, no, JNU party will come out in the open. If they do, then it, by the mere fact, could be a chance to set equilibrium in Justice. But, they needed the vote. So, why I am crying for justice, which already died long before I was born.

Herein, my focus point is not Imam but the way these spiritual gurus hold position, legally or illegally does not matter. But, they are powerful enough that they can wither away the state. Asharam, Ram Rahim, Rampal, Ram Rahim and Imam and others create a problem for the country. They, in simple wording, believe neither in Supreme Court, not in Democracy or the Constitution. Their only belief is a religion, but it is not the religion that is written in holy books. Instead, they created a new definition by their own and forced it on the innocent people.  My question, why the JNUiets are wordless when the issue of different religion and ideology confronted us. Moral bankruptcy it is.

In fact, religion is a shade of protection and well as a vote bank. Who could forget the 13-year-old Jain girl who dies in Hyderabad in 2016 after “Fasting” for 68 days? The issue was sensitive as religion involved in it, and it is even more sensitive when a minority group comes in picture. I do not know about goodness and badness of that Jain festival. But, religion, as used by the Jain community, should not be utilized in the way, it was used.

We should check each religious matter according to the constitution as well as per the needs of the twentieth century.

Babas and Imam were at the better position before Independence, but today they are corrupted to the last edge of the stick. There is no need for their post. Hence, all must be dismantled soon, if not with immediate effect.

We lived in a religious country, but we forget even the definition of religion—it is for the people, but people are not for it. It is awful for the powerful judiciary when the people, whether related to Triple talaq or Ram Rahim verdict, disrespect its judgment by preferring the religion, which is itself unwritten.

Think for a while, whether it is Prophet Muhammad or Lord Ram both are born as a human of flesh and blood. They were, for the promotion of peace and spreading of harmony among the masses, but we, the Indians of today just believe in hate. The defeat the different religion only by hate becomes our motto.

Each religious Guru or Imam wants to be powerful, and he uses the way he likes to attain it, including violence.

Do we forget the partition, a dirty chapter of the Indian history? In a question to “how many gurus and Imam were killed in that brutal violence” the answer would surely be “a few” but, the local people were, “unnumbered.”

All happened because of Gurus and Imam, the protector of religion. Apply the same here. The followers of Ram Rahim got killed, but Baba survives and one day will be roaming free like the birds in the sky. Rethink that the masses are their cannon fodder, and they kill us for their “sport.” In fact, we fight for their cause and life. If they have to live, we, the actual soldiers of religion or the ideology, have to sacrifice our life. Reapply this in case of Imam. Wake, arise or be forever fallen.

But, why to do this. It is the kitchen in which we cook our food, so called vote bank. The parties won the battle only by showing the fear of one religion to other.

The JNUTA of JNU

Link: http://indiaheadlines.in/en/2017/08/24/jnuta-jnu-deconstructing-jnu-admission-student-jnuta/

Deconstructing JNU, Admission, Student, and the JNUTA

It is said, and wisely too, that if you are not paying for some product, then you are the product. By building the argument around this line, I will discuss the case of JNU, Admission, Student, and JNUTA. The student metaphorically becomes a product in JNUTA’s resistance, if not the revolution, against the administration. The students are employed as the “foot soldiers” by these professors, from Left or Right does not matter. The students, on the contrary, are nothing more than blind followers of their master’s order. Their wit and consciousness are faded against the dark enlightenment of these well-versed professors.

The second summer is near to pass in the same mode of destructive argument by these professors against the admissions for the year 2017. The students, on the opposite side, do not have the courage to check the authenticity of words that are spoken by the professors. In the lack of this authenticity, the students, to talk in the socialist language, become “cog in their wheel” that is used to gain profit, not for the sake of students but the professors. Under the blanket of student’s support, the teachers hide their mistakes, if not the guilt or to say, moral sin. This must be exposed in the same way the teachers revealed the JNU “Research Admission 2017-18.” The exposure is published on web page https://jnuta.wordpress.com that mentions “Only 53% of intake offered for admissions, and total collapse of reservations!” (Aug 4, 2017).

The astute morality and “playing down news theory” is exercised by the professors to misguide the student community regarding the less admission policy. The whole blame put on the shoulders of JNU administration, especially the VC, the first and foremost enemy of JNUTA. The allegations, charges, marches, hunger strikes and slogans created an atmosphere of chaos that most of the students failed to understand. I would not spend my time in proving the professors wrong and accept all their published words as “true.”

But, the allegations charged here by the JNUTA are severe and thus must be examined deeply and with equal concern, and even honesty. If JNUTA and its associates are right, then I would like to pose some questions if they like to answer:

1. Who checks the exam? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
2. Who graded papers? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
3. Who finalizes the merit list? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
4. Who interviewed the students? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
5. Who finalized the “final list”? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.

I hope the answer to five questions will be right. But, I suspect, if the teachers of JNU were given the task to check these question, then my result would be “FAIL.” Or, to write in the language of administration, “not qualified.”

When the professors are responsible for everything related to result, then why the tables are turned towards the management in general and the VC in particular. It is only the teachers who check, marks, grades and even finalizes the merit list. But, it is the height of moral corruption that the VC is responsible for the difference between “Intake” and “offer” seats. Is it not hypocrisy? Just compare the data made available by the JNUTA, how many students appeared in the exam and how many are qualified. To tell the truth, these seats remained unfulfilled because of these professors so called vanguard of JNU, who gave fewer marks to students. And now, when there are fewer students in the admission, they are shedding the tears of a crocodile.

If the professors are so concerned about the students, then why did not they upgrade the grades? For example, in the Russian department, as shown by the JNUTA data, a total 13 students have appeared. To increase the number of students, the professors should have passed all the students. Wait, I am blocking the way of working of teachers, or, I am telling them how to work. In fact, these teachers believe in an old phrase, “do not teach fathers’ have to make babies.” Under the hallucination of that addiction, they forget what is right for the students as well as for the University to which they claim “the best university.”

On Aug 24 again, the JNUTA issued a “Statement: On the JNU administration’s 17 August circular on the intake.” The fourth point of the statement runs thus:

“The JNUTA does not accept supervision caps for faculty based on rank.”

The statement is even funny, if not contradictory or useful for the students. It is again beneficial for the professors instead of the students. Again, the demands of JNUTA should be questioned on the ground of:

1. If JNUTA wants no cap for the different post of teachers, then why they need different salaries. The responsibility of a Professor is more than an Associate professor and Assistant Professor. Hence, there is the difference in the number of students.
2. There is another side of this non-cap trap that is demanded by JNUTA. A large chunk of Professors, only the professors, engaged in various national and international projects, an additional source of income. If they were given more students, then working for students may affect their future projects. They consider their time more important than the students (MPhil/PhDs). Hence, a cap is essential to the Professors so that they remained responsible and accountable for the students. 

In fact, these teachers will never take any moral responsibility for the failures of their duties and responsibilities. Rather, they believe in the blame game and throw their problems on others, especially the VC. It is similar like, America is responsible for the issue of Arab World. All attacks in India are sponsored by Pakistan only (focus on the word “only” and not Pakistan). Similarly, the JNU is degraded because of the VC. Thus, their most famous slogan is, this VC is humiliating the students by reducing the intake. Remember dear professors, you are also equally also responsible for the doom of this university. By beating the drum of resistance, you cannot clean your moral sins that are committed against the student community in last one year.

In a blame game, if one wants to save oneself, then other is projected as the enemy. In the politics of blame game, one has to find a common enemy, and that is the VC, that quite regularly named as Sanghi-VC. Once one decided who the enemy is, then one has to hammer hard that enemy through one’s critical stones. All is done to save one from the wrath of critique. It is similar like that of the partition of India. Both, Hindu and Muslim massacred each other, but the British took a safe passage towards England. Similar again, Hitler is an enemy as he killed millions of Jews in a Concentration Camp, but Henry S. Truman who ordered to drop the Nuclear Bomb on Japan is a promoter of peace. One forgets, both killed human but on different land, time and place. In fact, it is a game on popular demand. And in popularity, the JNUTA sees the Sangh as the enemy. So, it attempted, and successfully too, to paint the VC in the Bhagwa colour. However, by doing this, it is explicitly rejecting what it had done to the students in the previous session. This is JNU of today in case of registration only. It is just a pseudo-fight in the name of rights but for whom? Who will take the moral responsibility?

The foot soldiers will never question the professors, that reduced them nearer to the neo-modern slave, the victim of destiny.

The Flood: A Business

Link: http://indiaheadlines.in/en/2017/08/20/indian-government-state-mafia-media-unsolved-riddle-flood-business/

Indian Government, State, Mafia, Media and an unsolved Riddle of the Flood: A Business

Half of India today is in the grip of a demon called flood, the biggest disaster that gallops thousands of Indian every year without offering a solution. Some seventy fruitless rainy seasons after independence has passed in the hope of getting a settlement to the unsolved enigma. But, the hope remains a desperate hope for the denizens of flood-affected states, if not area. Thousands of suggestions are offered to define the seriousness of the problems. Geographically, everyone knows what are reasons of the flood, and how these identified. So, the repeated discussions are unnecessary as it would be better to read the NCERT Geography.

Most of the times, the problem called flood has been misunderstood, misapplied, and sometimes even misappropriated by the corporate media houses, that are just helping hand of authority or to say of the powerful. The columns of newspapers are full of the existing difficulties faced by the ordinary people, who sometimes have to pay his/her life and sometimes even family. To give a perpendicular resistance to the flood, the government had done nothing in past, is doing nothing today and also will do nothing in the future, except offering a grant to the state. If one excavates the real truth behind the matter, then in this nothing is “everything.” In fact, the flood is a big business of three-fold dimensions: first Government aids, sand mafia, and exploitation of the natural resources. Except the first, the rest are constitutionally illegal yet profitable and are even un-taxable. Problems of the citizens living in the flood-affected are, if scrutinized, are the business for others. Let us expose the truth behind the perennial flood, one by one.

I will begin my orientation with sand mining or mafia and not by the government fund. Approved by the geographical society of India, the rivers are a harbinger of the flood and the media focussed only on this half statement. But, they also said that it brings uncounted tons of sand with them, and this remaining half statement is left unsaid. If the Geography department is right then this sand is illegally mined by the mafias in the distinct states. The muscle power behind them is so strong that the common man, officers and even the bureaucrats afraid of taking a strict action against them. Everything is done with the help of Bahubalis that are now part of political systems—I will not go deep in this question and advise the readers to go and watch the movie Gangs of Wasseypur.

To answer the question, “Why there is illegal sand mining,” I would say, India is transforming into a concrete city which is nearly impossible without sand that is unofficially in the hands of the mafia. If government blocked the flood water, then there will be no sand which means the end of the illegal business which also become a hurdle in the progress of our country. In other words, for the profit, the mafia only are sacrificing the lives of thousands, if not the millions. Saying in simple words, the mafia becomes active after the flood to share the profit out of trillions of the tone of sands that the river brought with it. The media coverage of famous cities and the problems faced by the citizens are nothing but the distraction from the main point of the mafia and illegal mining.

The second reason is that most of the flood prone areas are protected areas that are situated around the national reserves, biosphere, national parks, and sanctuary and so on. These areas are protected for the wild-life, birds, and animals such as tigers, rhinos, deer, and some nearly extinct or endangered spices. The government too want it clear to save these animals that are on the verge of extinct. Hence, the flood is used as an invisible weapon and people considered it their fate, not propaganda against them. If the fear of flood is eliminated, then it would invite the population growth that inevitably will demand rights, a school for education, employments and so one. If such happens then, the government and the private corporate sectors will exploit fewer natural resources from these reserves due to the pressure of population density. In one line, if the population rapidly grows, the natural resources would automatically be less as they would be destroyed by the population to secure their daily needs.

To elaborate the above two points, the corruption and Mafia are the subjects of Gangs of Wasseypur. If the movie has one percent truth, then it would be difficult to deny the existence of illegal mafia and mining as well. The violence shown in the film would become “related to real-life problems” which needed concern, a big concern. The government would do nothing because there are so many bahubalis who also get their share, small or big does not matter. Even if someone complains, then the accused is left after paying some bribe. It is the way black money is made under the nose of government, or to say, with the help of government. The reason is socio-political as well as moral corruption which is due to lack of education—who knows which type of education I am talking.

There comes the first option of Governmental Aid in the form of funds. One could question whether or not the government too is corrupt, in a moral sense only. After the flood hits, the central governments allocated funds to the disaster prone area. Regarding the funds, one of India’s former Prime Minister said that only one out of ten rupees reached to the masses. If there is the truth, then the fund too is also divided among the corrupts (I think you know better). If the state government with this fund make a bridge or a small stream that flows in a different direction, it will cost around one governmental aid, if necessary then two. But from last seventy years, the state governments and its officers are misusing this support.

These three factors altogether are synonymous with each other for the flood. The business of flood is more a profit and less a disaster. The central government needs resources which a state reserve, hence it never questions. The state governments need extra funds, so it is going to do nothing except demanding more money to meet the needs of the people. Mafia is doing illegal business that is why media is misguiding only by showing the area around a big city. In addition to this Media mount pressure on the central government by showing the picture of city-related disaster. It criticised state government for not improving the flood-related condition and even the relief to the people.

This business is like “dodo bird verdict” from a Victorian book Alice in Wonderland in which all players are “winners, ” and no one is a loser. The central government gives relief funds only to be the owner of reserves which are allocated by the concerned ministry to the private sectors. Mafia gets untaxable income through this business, and the progressive cities get sands for the multi-storied buildings. The state government receives funds, and affected people receive aid in the name of the food, water, and so on. And finally, the media promotes everything, and with it, media gets viewers and advertisement. Flood is not one side, or side but three, or to say many-sided business for all like corporate, media, the government of state and center, leaders, bureaucrats, and even mafia (think in your mind is anyone left).

All are victim of the moral crimes, but the biggest fault is Media that is manufacturing the consent of people by spreading the misinformation and by hiding the real information. To be clear, the Indian media is not showing accurate news for its principal aim is to earn money or to do business, which enabled it the title of “corporate media.” I am using a famous line from the novel The Great Gatsby to end it, “one thing is sure, nothing is surer. Meanwhile, in between the time, the rich get richer, and the poor get—children.” I think my readers are confused by the ending. By the quotation, I mean that the government will do nothing to promote the idea of progress in your area.