Main culprits in anti Indian slanderous exercise  
 

 

 

By: L.T.Sippy, India
February 22, 2003

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Please refer to International Herald Tribune (IHT) allowing a letter from one Nadeem Shaikh on massacre of 75000 Kashmiri Muslims by Indian troops and your reaction to that letter and permission given by IHT editors to print it. Before we react to these anti Indian reports in American and other Western Media let us understand and identify the main culprits in this anti Indian slanderous exercise.

India has been ruled for over 12-15 centuries by brutal invaders who came here to extinguish our ideology and force us to follow their faith. They used torture and economic suppression to enforce their ideology. Many refused to convert and were killed and many opted for Conversion. Many survived as Dhimmis and in today’s post Independent India we call them "pseudos" or "pseudo Secularists". In fact they are "negationists" who glorify and shield invaders and exonerate them from brutal, repressive measures and instead blame the victims for atrocities and brutalities. There are Hindus and Indians who call Shivaji and Rana Pratab as Terrorists whenever ISI and Pakistanis are accused of terrorism. They call Bhagat Singh as terrorist. Victims become Victimisers, invaded become invaders and those who are tortured and maimed become tormentors and barbarians. In a way more than half of worlds Negationist tribe resides in India.

After the advent of electronic media post 1990s, top slot was taken by Star TV owned by Rupert Murdoch. He hired Indias ace negationist Pranoy Roy and his team of Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt to bombard entire country with negationist stuff through selective and highly surcharged propaganda. 2 programs widely aired and viewed are- "We the people" anchored by Barkha Dutt and "Big Fight" anchored by Rajdeep Sardesai. (Another negationist is Karan Thapar who is on BBC and Sabe TV & Vinod Dua on Sahara Channel). Pranoy Roy who owns NDTV which is engaged by Star TV to prepare its news and current affairs programs is a Negationist par excellence and anchors Question Time India on BBC too. These programs bring foreign scribes like those of IHT, Washington Post, Guardian etc along with other Indian negationists such as Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Vinod Mehta, Kuldip Nayar, Mani Shankar Aiyar, N.Ram, Natwar Singh, Kapil Sibal, Laloo Prasad Yadav, Arundhati Roy, Kushwant Singh, Pakistani scribes and envoys in order to brain wash Indian intelligentsia. The anchors select only submissive and weak sections from the opposite camp and assertive and vocal commentators like Arun Jaitley, Arun Shourie, Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharati, M.V.Kamath, Pravin Togadia, Bal Thackeray are either shunned or brought reluctantly where anchors interrupt and obstruct them most effectively.

These negationist channels give lot of time and importance to foreign scribes. If India conducts nuclear tests at Pokhran, these foreign scribes along with Indian negationists are brought in these programs to highlight India’s poverty, illiteracy, AIDS, and what have you. India’s right to posses these weapons is questioned and than vetoed. Pakistan’s acquisitions are defended and blamed on India’s belligerence and power hungry rulers hell bent on hegemony of South Asia. Than these negationists go to Pakistan showing public abusing and bad mouthing Vajpayee. But when Pakistan does a Chagai, these cowardly negationists just blame it on "Hindu Bomb." No courage to interview Indian Public- blame it all on Hindus, Hindutva and ultimately India.

You have seen at Godhra how 58 innocent Hindus who were burnt alive became militant Hindus (fit to be burned) on BBC, CNN and other Western journals. The culprits were these negationists of Pranoy & Co

Presently these Negationists are blaming Vajpayee government for expelling Pakistani envoy for indulging in funding of Huriyet militants. On the day Pakistani acting High Commisioner Jalil Abbas Jilani was expelled he was on our TV channels with Rajdeeps and Co interviewing him and allowing him to criticise and abuse our government. Sudhir Vyas was expelled in retaliatory action by Pakistan. He was never allowed to be interviewed on Pakistani media. Instead he was abused and assaulted in Pakistan. When Vyas crossed over in India no one from our Negationist media brought him on our screens for truth to come out. But again Jilani was allowed to throw muck on Indias establishment after his return to Pakistan naturally foreign envoys in India and Pakistan follow anti Indian line and the culprit is our negationist media.

When Togadia called Sonia a "Foreign Kutiya" these anchors turned their channels into Panipat against Togadia and edit aftyer edit appeared in print media, but now Digvijay Singh has accused Vajpayee of eating cow flesh but these negationists are glorifying Diggy Raja for his daring anti Hindutva campaign and calling it Vajpayees defeat. No program on Digvijays improriety and no edits. No comments by foreign scribes.

When our troops were battling Pakistani marauders in Kargil, for every bullet fired by Pakistans Northern Infantry, they were getting ten from our negationists. Indraji took credit for our first Nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974. Bhutto asserted that Pakistanis will eat grass and still develop Nuclear weapons immediately after that test. By 1987 Pakistan had possessed a Nuclear Bomb. Our secularists capped the Nuclear and missile regimes under Narsimha Rao, Deve Gowda and I.K.Gujeral but Vajpayee resumed those regimes. But this negationist tribe and their foreign friends in IHT, Washington Post, New York Times and Guardian have propagated a canard that Pakistan has developed Nuclear weapons only after Vajpayee did Pokhran-II on May 11th 1999.

After kandhar hijacking of IC-814, our negationist media demoralised Indian society by just attacking Vajpayee and converted this human tragedy into an anti Indian government exercise. Hijackers and Pakistani-Afghan gangup was glorified. Till today this negationist tribe of India rewinds Kandhar to demoralize and humiliate our society and government.

There are instances galore about the role of this negationist gang besmirching fair name of India. We have to first tackle this menace at home. This is the oxygen for the stories of the type we have seen in IHT on killing of 75000 Kashmiris by Indian troops.

Indian troops performed the last rites of Baluchi soldiers killed in Kargil after Islamic republic of Pakistan refused to accept the bodies. Our negationists and their friends in IHT did not feel obliged at least morally to highlight and publicise that gesture. If they had done so, than the mischievous reporting as we have seen now in IHT would not have been possible.

If we want our point of view to reach world opinion than the secular/negationist/Macaulayist/Marxist muck in our media would have to be removed.


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