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Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Funny that The Print expects the same pseudo ‘liberals’ and pseudo secularists to shed tears for Mr LK Adwani whom they never tolerated just because he did not subscribe to the values that these so called ‘liberal’ bigots did. It’s strange that we tolerate, rather eulogize, those casteist rogues who don’t feel ashamed in dividing the society on lines of Yadavs, Jatavs, Kurmis, Musahars, Brahmins, Banias… or those ‘secularists’ who take pride in drawing voting lines on Yadav-Muslim vs the rest. It’s only in India that mass killings of Chittapavan Brahmins ( post-Gandhi murder) and burning alive of over 4000 Sikhs across India (post-Indira Gandhi murder) is a non-happening and hence ‘acceptable’ but only Godhara is a ‘comnunal’ riot. I don’t think Mr. Advani needs sympathy from such people. Don’t forget that BJP made him Home Minister and Dy PM on first available chance. Had he been a Congressman he might have ended up like Rajesh Pilot or Madhav Rao Scindia.
This comes after watching Cut the Clutter, always fair, often generous. 2. Think of India’s great diversity, more than its geographical spread. [ Countries like Brazil are even larger. ] Had the British not dropped by, we may not have been one nation. A very audacious experiment, it required vision, statesmanship, large hearts. Hence the great reverence Indians feel for Sardar Patel. Now picture someone who does an MRI scan of India’s many faultlines, figures the most promising cleavage is between its two largest religious communities, finds an obscure cause, in a small, dusty town few Indians will ever visit, whether or not a temple to our Lord Ram is built there. 3. To be called India’s most divisive politician is a cross Advaniji will bear all his life.
Total bunkum! India has seen large empires where disparate peoples have lived together and their disparate elites have sworn allegiance to a common ruler and ethos. Thank Rajeev Gandhi for compelling Advaniji to look for that obscure town you refer to. Hint: Congress’s utter contempt for Supreme Court’s judgment and bringing a law overturn the apex court’s ruling on T3 handed LKA the map — which ultimately led BJP to 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (formerly., Race Course Road). History will remember Rajeev Gandhi as the most divisive politician.
I am an old person and have seen the intolerant, fanatical Advani when he was younger. I feel God has done justice in his case. He has done enormous harm to the country’s social fabric in his prime. People should learn a lesson from his life that life’s report card cannot be written till the person leaves the world. He deserved his fate.
Advaniji has lived a rich active political life till this date. Your hate does not make retiring from active politics at the age of 91 years a failure destined for his past deeds which are seen by you as evil. He has enough admirerers and worshippers for what he has achieved as a politician.
Thank you Modi ji and Amit shah ji for showing doors to Advani ji. No regrets for a politician who sowed the seeds of communal hatred in India on a large scale by supervising the demolition of Babri Masjid. No tears are shed and he will soon be forgotten. But this is only to remind that Modi – Shah duo will also meet the same fate very soon and join their illustrious leader. You pay for your bad deeds here and now. But politicians will be remembered for their good deeds and statesmanship by posterity. That is the lesson of history.
Trees shed their leaves from time to time, making way for fresh ones, an act of renewal. If a man has lived a full life, been true to his conscience, he should have few regrets, least of all at a sprightly 91. 2004 marked the end of the Vajpayee – Advani era. Younger leaders had been groomed, they could take the fight forward from the opposition benches. There were also some promising CMs in the states, to sustain the party financially. Mr Advani could not reconcile himself to the loss of power, as a sore loser he did not afford Dr Singh the courtesy of introducing his Cabinet to Parliament. For some / many secular – genuine, not pseudo – Indians, he will always be remembered for 6th December 1992, the events leading upto it and following in its wake.
Funny that The Print expects the same pseudo ‘liberals’ and pseudo secularists to shed tears for Mr LK Adwani whom they never tolerated just because he did not subscribe to the values that these so called ‘liberal’ bigots did. It’s strange that we tolerate, rather eulogize, those casteist rogues who don’t feel ashamed in dividing the society on lines of Yadavs, Jatavs, Kurmis, Musahars, Brahmins, Banias… or those ‘secularists’ who take pride in drawing voting lines on Yadav-Muslim vs the rest. It’s only in India that mass killings of Chittapavan Brahmins ( post-Gandhi murder) and burning alive of over 4000 Sikhs across India (post-Indira Gandhi murder) is a non-happening and hence ‘acceptable’ but only Godhara is a ‘comnunal’ riot. I don’t think Mr. Advani needs sympathy from such people. Don’t forget that BJP made him Home Minister and Dy PM on first available chance. Had he been a Congressman he might have ended up like Rajesh Pilot or Madhav Rao Scindia.
This comes after watching Cut the Clutter, always fair, often generous. 2. Think of India’s great diversity, more than its geographical spread. [ Countries like Brazil are even larger. ] Had the British not dropped by, we may not have been one nation. A very audacious experiment, it required vision, statesmanship, large hearts. Hence the great reverence Indians feel for Sardar Patel. Now picture someone who does an MRI scan of India’s many faultlines, figures the most promising cleavage is between its two largest religious communities, finds an obscure cause, in a small, dusty town few Indians will ever visit, whether or not a temple to our Lord Ram is built there. 3. To be called India’s most divisive politician is a cross Advaniji will bear all his life.
Total bunkum! India has seen large empires where disparate peoples have lived together and their disparate elites have sworn allegiance to a common ruler and ethos. Thank Rajeev Gandhi for compelling Advaniji to look for that obscure town you refer to. Hint: Congress’s utter contempt for Supreme Court’s judgment and bringing a law overturn the apex court’s ruling on T3 handed LKA the map — which ultimately led BJP to 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (formerly., Race Course Road). History will remember Rajeev Gandhi as the most divisive politician.
I am an old person and have seen the intolerant, fanatical Advani when he was younger. I feel God has done justice in his case. He has done enormous harm to the country’s social fabric in his prime. People should learn a lesson from his life that life’s report card cannot be written till the person leaves the world. He deserved his fate.
Advaniji has lived a rich active political life till this date. Your hate does not make retiring from active politics at the age of 91 years a failure destined for his past deeds which are seen by you as evil. He has enough admirerers and worshippers for what he has achieved as a politician.
Thank you Modi ji and Amit shah ji for showing doors to Advani ji. No regrets for a politician who sowed the seeds of communal hatred in India on a large scale by supervising the demolition of Babri Masjid. No tears are shed and he will soon be forgotten. But this is only to remind that Modi – Shah duo will also meet the same fate very soon and join their illustrious leader. You pay for your bad deeds here and now. But politicians will be remembered for their good deeds and statesmanship by posterity. That is the lesson of history.
Trees shed their leaves from time to time, making way for fresh ones, an act of renewal. If a man has lived a full life, been true to his conscience, he should have few regrets, least of all at a sprightly 91. 2004 marked the end of the Vajpayee – Advani era. Younger leaders had been groomed, they could take the fight forward from the opposition benches. There were also some promising CMs in the states, to sustain the party financially. Mr Advani could not reconcile himself to the loss of power, as a sore loser he did not afford Dr Singh the courtesy of introducing his Cabinet to Parliament. For some / many secular – genuine, not pseudo – Indians, he will always be remembered for 6th December 1992, the events leading upto it and following in its wake.