Dr. Manmohan Singh Hon’ble Prime Minister The Mumbai Terror Attack was an Audacious Assault On India’s Prestige and an Affront to its People

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Who is a Hindu? Who is a Hindu ? This question arises all the time in various situations and Hindus are unable to answer it exactly , precisely , satisfactorily and with confidence.I have asked this question to many people including eminent Hindu scholars, Sadhus, religious leaders, professors and Pandits but without a satisfactory reply. Fortunately I have found the most fitting , exact, precise and above all satisfying definition of a Hindu by a great revolutionary, author, orator, poet and patriot Veer Vinayak Rao Damodar Rao Savarkar. In 1905 while in the prison at Andamon- Nicobar Islands he thus wrote

Asindhu Sindhu Paryanta yashya Bharat Bhoomika,

Pitribhu Punya Bhuschaiva Sa vai Hindu Riti Smritah.[1]

There is a vast land between river Sindhu and Hind Mahasagar called Bharat and those who accept that this is their motherland or / and a holy land, land of pilgrimage are all Hindu .

This defination includes Sanatanis, Saivas, Vaishnavas,Saktas, Buddhists, Jains, Zorostrians[Parsis] , Arya Samasis, Sikhs, Harijans, members/followers of International Society of Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON, Vanvasis, Tribes , Yogis , Sadhus, Dalits, followers of Swaminarayan,followers of Shri Raamkrishna Paramhans, Panthis, Pagans, atheists and various other sects without exception are all Hindus . This is the first lesson the Hindu parents can give to their children. Parents, teachers, Sadhus and leaders must learn this definition and convey and spread the correct information to children and people to unify the Hindu society .

Vishnu Puran describes Bharat ;The country that lies north of the ocean and south of snowy mountains called Bharat,for there dwelt the descendents of Bharat.

Bharatvarsh in short called Bharat is said to be given after these great three sons of the land;

Bharat the son of Raja Dasarath symbol of Tyag or sacrifice.

Bharat the son of Rishabhdev symbol of Gyan or knowledge.

Bharat the son of Raja Dushyant symbol of Veerata or bravery.

Therefore every Bharatiya must acquire all these qualities of sacrifice, knowledge and bravery to be a true son and daughter of Bharatmata, the mother of us all.

This is worth mentioning that acceptance of the Vedas with reverence, recognition of the fact that the means or ways to salvation are diverse; and realisation of the truth that number of gods to be worship is large, that indeed the distinguishing feature of the Hindu religion.--- Shri Balgangadhar Tilak.[ Quoted by Supreme Court of Bharat on 2 July 1995.] Hindus believe in One God. There is no god but God .Hindus are truly monotheist but worship many gods and goddesses and see the same God in all of them. This needs to be realised at intellectual level by others but they have failed to understand this fact. For example snow, ice, icicle, dew, and vapour are all forms of water but we call them by different names similarly Hindus see the same God in all the gods and goddesses as well as in all the living and non living things this is the most simple thing , Hindus understand this and appreciate this. Hindu scriptures say it boldly, clearly, distinctly and most beautifully

Ekam Sadhvipra Bahuda Vadanti [2] means that He is one but we call Him by various beautiful names.

Further to this it may be appropriate to mention the following verse which also gives clear message that Hindusthan means place [ sthan] of Hindus or land of Hindus or Hinduland [e.g. England ,land of English people, Ireland , land of Irish people ] .Hindusthan’s ancient name is Bharatvarsh.

Uttare cha Samudrashya Himadreshu cha Dakshinam,

Tadvarsha Bharat Nama Bharati Tatra Santati. [3]

The land which is north to the Hind Mahasagar[ Indian Ocean] and south to the mighty, magnificent Himalayas is Bharat, sons and daughters of this ancient land are called Bharati or Bbharatiya[Hindusthani]

Bharat also means knowdge or Gyan means away from ignorance or away from darkness so Bharat means land of source of light or knowledge. True knowledge is in the Ved so Bharat is also known as Ved Bhoomi.

Bhayam Ratam Bharatam [4] means Bharat is submerged in light or is full of light so foundation and backbone of Bharat is knowledge where life is led by knowledge therefore ignorance and superstitions have no place in the land of Hindus.

What unites us is our spiritual and cultural heritage and its inner and most powerful strength since beginning of our civilisation. Our heroes and heroines are supreme who inspire and guide us just remembering their names provide new and instant energy, strength, courage, hope and peace to name a few e.g. Raam, Krishna, Arjun, karn,Bhishma, Mahaveer, Buddha, Sri Raamkrishna, Dhruva,Prahalad, Hanuman,Sita, Radha,Tiruvallavur, Adi Sankaracharya, Guru Nanak, Samarth Guru Raamdas,Shivaji, Maharana Pratap, Bhamasah, Sant Yogeshwar, Swaminarayan, Meera Bai, Tulsidas, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Guru Govind Singh, Valmiki, Vedavyas, Kalidas, Swami Dayanand, Swami Vivekanand, Ramana Mahirishi, Srila Prabhupad, Valmiki, Soordas, Kabir,Subhas Chandra Bose, Khudi Ram Bose,Bhagat Singh,Chandra Shekhar TiwariAzad,, Bankim chandra chattopadhyaya, Sri Aurvindo, Dr.Hedegewar, Mangal Pandey,Sardar Ballabha Bhai Patel, Veer Savarkar, Dr. Ambedkar , Yogi Yoganand, Swami Chinmayanand, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,Sivaya Subramaiyaswami, Sai Baba,Sri Sri, Sri Ravishankar, Swami Ramdev, Swami Satyamitranand Giri,Sadhavi Umashree Bharati,Shri RameshBhai Oza and Sadhavi Ritambhara there is no end to this list and we are proud of them.

We recite the following Slok while bathing which is so satisfying and unifying us from Himalayas to Hind Mahasagar and all the Hindus living anywhere in the world

Gange Cha Yamune Chaiva Godavari Saraswati,

Narmade Sindhu Kaveri Jalesminsannidhim kuru.[ 5]

A Hindu while chanting this Slok prays to sacred rivers e. g. Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Saraswati, Narmada,Sindhu and Kaveri to come and join in the water being used for bath or shower. It is a unique and enlightening experience and at the same time so unifying which inspires me to say that one Hindu is for all and all Hindus are for one. Origin of the word Hindu has been traced from an ancient scripture called Brihanardi Puran in which there is a verse

Himalayan Samabhya Yavat Bindusarovaram,

Hindusthanmati Gyatam Hii Antarakshar Ayogatah.[6]

It means the country between the Himalayas and Bindu Sarovar is Hindusthan so combining the first letter Hi of Himalayas and last compound letter Ndu of word Bindu forms Hindu so purely and simply this is a Sanskrit word. Our ancestors wrote so much including two largest epics Raamayan and Mahabharat and foreigners gave us the name Hindu cannot be accepted .This verse is also mentioned in the Nardeeya PuranWhich is a short version of original Brihannardi Puran.

Hinam Nashyati Iti Hindu[ 7 ] means those who uphold righteousness and fight ignobleness are Hindu.

Our motherland is also known as OM Bhoomi, Ved Bhoomi, Avatar Bhoomi, Devi Bhoomi, Devata Bhoomi, Punya Bhoomi, Rishi Bhoomi, Teerth Bhoomi, Gurukul Bhoomi, Guru Bhoomi, Sanskrit Bhoomi, Sanskriti Bhoomi,Sabhyata Bhoomi, Sant Bhoomi,Van Bhoomi, Veer Bhoomi,Raam Bhoomi, Krishna Bhoomi, Ras and Raas Bhoomi and Mahaveer Bhoomi, Buddha Bhoomi,Tiruvallavur Bhoomi, Kavi Bhoomi,Kavya Bhoomi, Sangeet Bhoomi,Nritya Bhoomi, Maharana Pratap Bhoomi, Shivaji Bhoomi, Lakshami Bai Bhoomi,Guru Nanak Bhoomi, Hedegewar Bhoomi, Sardar Patel, Veer Savarkar Bhoomi and above all Matri Bhoomi which inspired Shri Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya who wrote Vande Mataram.

I am a Hindu, my ancestors come from Hindusthan and my holy places or places of pilgrimage are in Hindusthan.

In Hindusthan over many thousands of years the Dharma,culture, civilisation, traditions, philosophy,Yog vidya, Ayurved,music, literature, arts , fine arts, dance, and languages had developed without outside compulsion and force in total harmony with nature and eternal laws that is why it is so pure and unique and if you approach with open mind then you will love it and you will find vast treasure in it and that is the experience of many people around the world , so try to know more about it you will be spiritually, morally and culturally richer and peaceful. Everything in Hindusthan is attached to word Hindu and greatest strength of Hindus has been the freedom of expression in thought, talk and action .The culture of this country is Hindu Culture, the history of this country is the history of Hindus, so is the architecture, literature, sculpture, folklore, poetry, dramas, stories, comics, sorrow and laughter, music, languages and heritage around us is all Hindu.Where ever Hindus went they took their culture and religion and people were attracted so adopted without compulsion or force so south east Asian conutries fell in love with Hindu culture and the influence can be seen in these countries from Mangolia to Burma toLuthvania and now in Europe and America. We must go a bit back and deeper and infact it has all its source from Sanatan Dharma. All the religions of Hindusthan are branches of Sanatana Dharma which is generally known as Hinduism ..Hinduism has the capacity and capability to accommodate all those who believe in the freedom of individual in thought, talk and action following the eternal laws of equality, justice and freedom in development of humanity. The time has come that Hindus must rename India officially as Hindusthan which is long over due, this will bring a new energy in Hindus and make them feel proud , bold, assertive, responsible and courageous . This is the demand of majority Hindus and cannot be ignored anymore.

A very simple fact I would like to mention here is this that anybody can become a Hindu according to the above definition so you do not have to be a born Hindu . Swami Dayanand Saraswati first started conversion of Muslims and Christians who were converted from Hindus and later Swami Vivekanand came in favour of this and promoted this and recently Swami Chinmayanand, Sivaya Subramaniya swami came in favour of this. Can a Hindu boy marry a non-Hindu girl? The answer is yes but he must convert her as a Hindu by giving her a Hindu name and introducing her to Hinduism so that children have no confusion in their identity and bringing up. Can a Hindu girl marry a non-Hindu boy? The answer is yes .She must give Hindu names to children and bring them up as Hindu. The Hindu boys and girls must be bold,assertive, progressive and strong in their traditions,heritage, culture, religion and character. They must learn about their religion, culture and traditions only then it is possible and here the parents and guardians of society must play their roles with farsightedness and responsibility to teach them to survive and preserve the interest of their culture. The reconversion work is going on in Hndusthan and all over to get Hindus back where they truly belong. This is a sacred duty of every Hindu to welcome these brothers and sisters whom we had lost and create a society so that we do not lose them to foreign faiths because we have been divided by these foreign faiths as a result our motherland was divided. Before the arrival of these invaders, Muslims and Christian we were the most prosperous, happy and peaceful this is the fact we must know.

Who are you?

Your answer must be that I am a Hindu.

You are a Hindu first and a Hindu last only then you can survive , exist and live with pride as a Hindu. This is the need of the present time.

You are not a Brahman, not a Kshatriya, not a Vishya and not a Sudra but you are a finished product of al these because when you use your brain you are a Brahman, when you use your power[ arms]you are a Kshatrya, when you do business you are a Vaishya and when you serve you are Sudra so do not weaken your community by dividing in Jatis or castes but be proud of what you are and what you do. I wish to quote a speech of Lord Macaulay given in British Parliament in 1835 regarding greatness, superiority and civilisation of Hindus.

I have travelled across the length and breadth of Hindusthan[ India ] and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, . Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we

would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore , I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system , her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own , they will lose their self-esteem, their native self- culture and they will become what we want them, a truly a dominated nation.

This was the most unfortunate strategy adopted by British government and they destroyed everything good in India which had taken her to develop thousands of years.

So India was looted, plundered, cheated, betrayed and divided by British rule. The conversion to Christianity of Hindus and tribes people began by Christian missionaries, moral values declined, people were divided on castes, race and religion for the benefit of British . English schools, universities were started to teach that everything native is inferior to English and a new class of people were trained to help the British to rule over India but none of them ever reached to the highest post. The English became the main language for administration ,education and elite .Everything native was pushed in the corner and people were forced to feel inferior comparing English or white and this mentality existing even today such has been the effect of foreign rule on Indians.

The British rule further divided the already divided people and created new castes of Anglo- Indian Christians and Christians were the most favoured in key jobs, and promotions .

Macaulay did the incalculable harm and succeeded in his plan to rule by destroying native way of life through English education in India but this poison is doing the harm to India even today so in order to reverse the process and make India great again we have to organise, plan and bring back the lost values, morals by establishing faith in our native culture and spiritualism. The key to bring good values in the society is to introduce Sanskrit and native languages in all schools and colleges that is where our ancient teaching are. It may take time but it is within our capacity and capability. We must take words of Sri Aurobindo and save ourselves by saving Sanatana Dharma/ Vaidic Dharma/ Hinduism and remember Dharmo rakshati rakshite means protect your Dharma and Dharma will protect you. India would rise with rise of Sanatana Dharma, that India would Sink if Sanatana Dharma sank, and that India would die if it were at all possible for Sanatana Dharma to die. ------Sri Aurobindo.

This is the history that whoever came to our country until 8 th. century they all accepted Hinduism and our way of life and became Hindu without force and wherever we went we took our culture and message of Hinduism, they accepted it as a great gift and these countries became Hinduised and this is visible even today in South East Asia.

Buddhism a branch of Hinduism spread and established in Sri Lanka , Burma, Thailand, Vietnam , Bourneo, Java, Sumatra, Cambodia, Japan, Korea, Tibet and China where it established without a single conflict ,war or killing .Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have lived and progressed side by side for thousands of years without violence , so what is the secret of these great religions and cultures, because they have developed naturally following the eternal laws respecting each other and do not go for violence to convert or prove superiority . This is recorded that Buddhism had established itself in each and every village of China by year 65 A. D. without any force, violence or threat but with love, respect , help and understanding each others concerns for the sufferings around , to reduce or minimise the sorrow in order to make the world more peaceful and trouble free. Now Buddhism has spread in all the continents and so has Hinduism. The world has changed a lot and for Hindus to survive they have to put a stop to conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity which has been going on in Hindusthan by force, cheating and all the dirty tricks by Muslims and Christians . First it happened during Islamic invasions and rule and now happening by the force of petrodollars . Later the conversion of Hindus started by Christian [ French, Portugguege, Dutch, English ] invaders and rulers. These conversions have been going on since arrival of Islam as invaders, later joined by Christians destroying everything native. The time has come to pass a law to stop conversion of Hindus. This is a great game of numbers and everyday Hindus are decreasing in number and if this goes on unchecked then Hindus would be in minority, this is a grave situation. This process can be controlled and reversed by the followings.

. One civil law for all without exception, One couple one child without exception, expel all the illegal immigrants, severe all the contacts with Pakistan and Bangladesh and expel foreign Christian missionaries, if you really wish Hindusthan to be healthy, wealthy, strong, peaceful and developed .

Conquest of India buys nothing of any natural superiority on the part of conquerors, but it is due to lack of character and indiscipline in Indians, who were subjected by exploiting the spirits with division and jealousies between fellow citizens. It is difficult and impossible to conquer a Nation having intelligent approach, different religions and language form its invaders. Spain could not be able to conquer. Dutch province with their petty population remained unfallable. The same is the glory with Switzerland and Greeks in old ages. Israel and Vietnam are the recent examples of solidarity. India on the other hand was conquered by an Army consisting of its own inhabitants and a small fraction of 1/5^th Army at the average of these invaders. Thus India can hardly be said to had been conquered at all by the foreign invaders, she was rather conquered herself. The truth is that there is no India in political and scarcely in any other sense. It is a Geographical expression. The invaders had subjugated and abrogated the resource of this country due to its weakness. They have adopted the policy of “Divide and Rule”.

We are still like a cavemen with our backs turn to light watching the shadow on the wall. The politicians have imposed mindless socialism which held in thrall the people endeavour and enterprise resulting in transfer of potential from the honest bonavelent to the dishonest and foreign ambitions. Politicians acts in nefacarious designs with impunity. Political parties motivated with vested interests are dancing to usurp power through any means fair or foul even at the cost of sacrificing the Nation’s existence to personal interest. Party systems has pushed to advance its own schemes upon the ruin of the rest. Our politicians are mafia dons next to the invaders. Robbers have generally plundered the rich who are seldom subjected to punishment but the politicians having the will of our regislation always plunget the common citizens and protect those mafia dons under the phraseology of “law making sovereign power” having the connotation “procedure establish under law to be cherished instead of due process”. There is always and excuse for tyranny and maladministration which has degenerated the national character. The power given need a safeguard from such arbtitrary power and unfair exercise. In present set up freedom has become an abuse and liberty as license. Therefore the moral damage is more terrible. Abn oppressive system is more to be feared than a Tiger.

India has now been engulfed by the fire of hatred among the citizens, by the fire of scam and corruption amongst bureaucrats, by the fire of greed, lust and passion through politician and this is a paradise lost to perpetuate them under parliamentarian system.  There is no respect for law, no respect for our cultural heritage and traditional values.  The dream of independence by our people has been shattered, battered and broken by unholy combinations of greed , lust and power based on falsehood and violence.  The nation is at cross roads with devils workshop on one direction and the deep sea of uncertainty towards the other.  There is a dark cloud of uncertainty with complete chaos.

The ideals of peace and non-violence are good enough to be taught, but the same are not applicable for experience as there is complete deterioration of moral values and nobody is interested in a holding them.  The leadership are in the hands of those mediocre which are deliberately degenerating the disintegration of the values and are totally independent upon the false projection of their phobia amongst the masses as nobody could even think of resisting them.

The plague of castes amongst the down trodden masses has provided the exclusive monopoly to be ruled by them who demonstrates welfare, but exploit the poverty.  There is no check and balance in the game of politics.  The spiritual purity of thought is converted into the support from greed and desire by the politicians to their own profit amongst the backward classes.  This has provided at tug of war between upper-class and backward class to the larger advantage of our parliamentarian. We have to look within ourselves and find out the answers these problems to build an ideal earthly kingdom to our nation.

Nature has the tremendous effect by its own creation to fight against the prevailing disturbances created by the human errors.  The tendency to provide an encroachment over the equilibrium, maintained for necessary check and balance as the phenomena which constitutes the involvement of the ecology on one hand and the potential advancement of the technology on the other hand with restrictions.  In such situation there is a violent stroke of the natural calamities having drastic effect on the  viability of the mankind and survivability the human race. This was the concept  of our Nation.  

Mankind has a habit of surviving worst catastrophes  created by its own error or by violent  turn of the nature and it must be so if there is any meaning in its existence, if its history and continuous survival is not the accident of a fortuitously  self organising chance which  it must be a purely materialistic view of the nature of the world.  If man intended to survive and carry forward the evolution of which he is at present the head  and to some extent of half conscience leader of its  march , he must come out of this present chaotic  life and arrive at the organised efforts.  The ideal situation would be fulfilled by the accomplishment and preservation of the people from its own extinction by the folly committed by his own species.

VANDE MATARAM

My Nation is my Religion. Salutation to the Nation is meant for social coronation and solidarity amongst the citizens and, therefore, it is regarded the greatest service of humanity. The controversy triggered off over the telephonic recital going patriotic on Independence Day by greeting the callers with Vande Mataram being objected with title. Masjid main Vande Mataram by India, has hurt the sentiment of Indians. Any negative thinking which does not allow compatibility with national feeling is the feeling against the Nation. It will be called as the saddest day for our hard earn freedom. Those hundred of patriots, who sacrificed their lives by daring to get the mseives hanged by chanting the slogan Vande Mataram is now triggered off controversy of fanatic psyche. Vande Mataram is not a communal song, but is a salutation to the Nation including to the sentiments of the great poet Iqbal, who wrote “SARE JAHAN SE ACHCHA HINDUSTAN HAMARA.”. Coincidence is the in most thought of consciousness, moral sense, scrupulousness and conscientiousness. It means the freedom to right of believe. To profess means to affirm one’s faith in Religion or God. In shirur muth case A.I.R. 1954 S.C. 282, the Hon’ble Supreme Court said Religion is certainly a matter of faith with the individual or communities and it is not necessarily theistic. The well known religions in India like Buddhism and Jainism do believe in God or in any intelligent fist cause. A religion uncountable has its basis in a system of believes or doctrines, which are regarded by those who profess that religion as conducive the spiritual well being.

In Bijou Emmanuel versus state of Kerala 1986 3 S.C.C. page 615, in which a state compulsion on an individual to perform a secular activity was challenged to violate his religious conscience as the circulate, being contra sacramental by participation in the singing of national anthem before marching to the classes, was under challenge. The Hon’ble Supreme Court held that the circular had no force of law and any compulsion to join in the singing despite GENUINE CONSCIENTIOUS RELIGION OBJECTION would clearly contravene the rights guaranteed by Article 19 (1)  a and Article 25(1) of the Constitution of India. Can we survive without a Nation. Whether the freedom of conscience is a perceptible aspect or abstract phenomenon. The conscientious objection may refuse to bear arms or an atheist may not be compelled to swell in the name of God. The national anthem and the national flag was dispensable in the face of religious objections. The Hon’ble Supreme Court while observing the need of enforceable fundamental duty under Article 51- A  a or of the Constitution which provides for proper respect to our national anthem. It was observed that the mere executive or a departmental instruction cannot canton the dimension of free conscience slaves of our constitution and therefore the increased conscientiousness provides a constraint on the compulsory vaccinations and inoculation particularly during gigantic mass of congregation like Kumbha Mela, or and other religious fairs in our country.

The end of religion is the beginning of spirituality; the end of spirituality is the real bliss. Instead of worshipping the great master i.e. the omnipotent ominous, and omnipresent, we have started worshipping his servant and rather the place of worship is now been regarded above to the religion. People are driven through such faulty guidance and having the darkness in self realisation. The goal of life is to achieve and him the greatest possible efforts towards the serious consideration to the problem of life. If we have no essence of very life, how we can achieve the freedom from bondage, which may provide salvation. Thus the religious sentiments are no-where providing obstacles in the process of salutation to our nation. Rather the religion is based on the foundations of being a patriot first then to believe any dogma or rituals under the grab of the religion.

The state affairs in India without having the enforceable fundamental duties as we may resolved from a political situation having growing tendency towards moral, religious and social degradation, is rather deplorable. India does not hold any bright prospect with interruption and spiricual;ity compassionate to the animals and to protect the vegetation is the reciprocal obligation towards the God. Thus the respect attributed towards civilisation by providing solidarity and integrity to the nation by salutation to our country is the fundamental principle of the religion. The consequences of the present drastic change in the mentality of the individual on the materialising alienating prospering and in responsible for the mobocracy, which may lead to enormous blood shade all over the world as if the religion is not based on spiritualism will ultimately ruined our civilisation.

This universe is a system of change and formation of energy for our living creative to an other. The energy, which is kinetic or magnetic or electrical, is the basis of life. The vapours arising out of such energy is ultimately the source of our inspirations. The movement, we kill our fallow inhabitants, the energy involved into the different formation, but it never extinguished. Thus God is one and therefore the belief to adopt a particular religion should be founded on the comman foundations. God is perfect the universe is perfect, but we are not perfect. Let our soul may appreciate it. The primary object of the society is to do welfare of the al human being and when we inspite living inside the boundaries of our country may not provide salutation to that nation. We have no right to enjoy any right in such country.Life is charged with magnetic quality and the moment you’re magnetic

INDIA A STRATEGIC BATTLEGROUND 

We must understand that the jihadis have an ambitious goal of establishing a trans-Asian Caliphate from Indonesia to the Balkans via Malayasia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and West Asia for capturing Europe, now being called Eurabia because of its terminal demographic decline. It is time to recall how  immediately before and after July 7, 2005, bombings of the London Tube (underground metro), the capital of  U.K. was being referred  to ‘Londonistan’ by  jihadi groups based in the United Kingdom. In entire South Asia, India is the only non-Muslim country, a bulwark of democracy, which constitutes a major impediment to the ambition of jihadis to convert the world into Dar-ul Islam. There is no point in mincing words, or hiding this simple  truth.  People must know what the Indian Mujahideen have been shouting from housetops and  conveying through their repetitive  e-mails, their resolve to destroy the Hindu civilization and  “to demolish your faith in the dirty mud, in the name of Hanuman, Sita and Ram”. 

 STRATEGY TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF JIHAD 

To formulate an effective strategy for meeting the challenge of  jihad, the first and foremost imperative is  to create awareness across the country in cities, towns and far away villages that India’s civilizational identity is in grave peril due to relentless jihad unleashed at the behest of  our hostile neighbours.  Without waking up the masses in this hour of crisis, the menacing threat cannot be easily countered.  People need to be reminded that we are facing the same ruthless jihad which our forefathers had fought against for more than 1000 years during which the entire country was savaged and ravaged. 

  The second equally important measure is to formulate and implement a national security doctrine based on ‘zero tolerance’ of  jihad, routinely being described as terrorism by journalists and strategic analysts. As a follow up of zero tolerance policy the government must work out a proactive approach by smashing up hundreds of “No Go”   areas located in scores of  cities and towns where police are unable to enter and enforce law, or carry  out searches, because of  the physical resistance offered by the fundamentalists and their political supporters.  Most of  the jihadi modules and ISI agents are able to operate from these ‘No Go’ areas where they are sheltered by criminals and anti-national elements. Unfortunately due to the prevalent culture of  political  correctness and minority appeasement, in recent years there has been a phenomenal growth in ‘No Go’ areas across the country.  As a retired police officer, I can confide in you that for all practical purposes there is only superficial policing of  these ‘No Go’ areas’. 

Indian Dynastic Democracy

Is India a “Dynastic Democracy” ? : (2) India is faced with a terrible situation, created because of the “Proxy War”, being carried out by Pakistan, through its Terrorist Front Orgnaisations. At this juncture India ought to have stood as a One Nation united with solidarity and firmness prepared to take strong steps against Pakistan, since Pakistan is whole-sole fully responsible for allowing the Terrorist Activities to be used from Pakistan’s Land against India. Whereas on the one hand even at this critical juncture of such a terrible situation, the Government Machinery is actively involved in an effort to equalise Smt. Sonia Gandhi with that of Mahatma Gandhi, at the very heavy cost of the Exchequer vis-a-vis the tax payer’s money. On the other hand, taking advantage of a weak leadership, Mr. A R Antuly, though a Cabinet Minister had no scrupules to make an anti-national statement, by raising doubts by a conspiracy theory behind murder of Mr. Karkare, thus not only strengthening the very hands of Pakistan, but in a manner giving it an upper hand. Recently, a full page advertisement, with the following contents, was published in the Newspapers including Times of India, Delhi Edition, dated 13th December, 2008, by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India:- LAND OF GANDHI CANNOT BE OVERWHELMED No Force is Strong Enough to Challenge the Idea of India Photo of Smt. Sonia Gandhi Photo of Dr. Manmohan Singh Smt. Sonia Gandhi ‘Hon’ble Chairperson United Progressive Alliance Dr. Manmohan Singh Hon’ble Prime Minister The Mumbai Terror Attack was an Audacious Assault On India’s Prestige and an Affront to its People Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India INDIA SPEAKS IN ONE VOICE TO ISOLATE AND DEFEAT TERROR In the entire advertisement, the word “Gandhi” is mentioned at two places. At one place, the word Gandhi is used as the “Land of Gandhi” and at another place, it used as “Smt. Sonia Gandhi”. In the Four Corners of the entire advertisement, name or photo of Mahatma Gandhi was not seen. This simply suggests that some political game plan of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is working behind it, to equalize Smt. Sonia Gandhi with the “Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi”, by misusing the control of the reins of the powers, and at the heavy cost of India’s Revenue Exchequer. This is not the first such attempt. In the year of 2007, United Nations’ Organisation (UN) declared Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth day on 2nd October, as the International Non-violence Day. Smt. Sonia Gandhi neither representing the “Gandhian Values”, nor heading the Government nor the State, but by misusing the control over the reins of powers of the Prime Minister and misusing her name tagged with the word ‘Gandhi’, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, decided to represent on that occasion in the UN, giving a wrong message to the whole world community, that she is representing ‘Mahatma Gandhi’. As against her this aforesaid attempt, another full page advertisement was published in the leading Newspaper of USA : “New York Times” dated 6th October, 2007. The said advertisement the brought out to highlight that on 2nd October, 2007, about 500 Indians gathered and protested outside the UN, against Smt. Sonia Gandhi’s aforesaid doings. In the aforesaid advertisement of the New York Times, various serious charges against Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi were also leveled. In fact, through the aforesaid advertisement of Times of India, published on 13th December, 2008, Government of India tried to impress that UPA Chairperson and Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi is above the Constitution, that is why, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, without name and photo of Mahatma Gandhi claimed that India is ‘Land of Gandhi’, to send a message that this Land is of Smt. Sonia Gandhi (alone). However, after Mumbai attack, UPA Chairperson and Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi made an Appeal that “our 1st task is to restore faith of people.” Now the question arises that in view of her effort to keep the entire nation in dark, about her allegiance to the Italian Constitution, where this pronouncement fits in. At one point of time Shri Lal Bahadur Shastriji made an Appeal for skipping one time meal by way of fasting in a week for the sake of the country, which was overwhelmingly responded by all sections of the society. It is a sad augury that with or without her knowledge, all the concened respective public authorities, having misused their official positions, engaged themselves to keep the relevant information, under raps as a secret COVERT, by refusing not to disclose the respective Information, by misinterpreting the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005. Therefore, under such circumstances, how can she hope to expect that being a citizen of India, I can repose my faith in her leadership, since reposing of faith in her leadership depends upon the heartfelt feelings, based on the integrity, honesty and loyalty to the constitutional provisions and laws of the land. Similarly other Citizens, who are not biased for any reason in favour of Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi, before reposing their faith might also want to know the true facts, about their honesty about their allegiance to the Constitution of Italy. On another day, the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh also says that "I am a politician only by accident. Teaching is my first love.” With reference to Mumbai attacks he says that 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. There is no doubt that individually, Dr. Manmohan Singh is a decent, honest, sincere and scholarly person, but that does not mean that he is equally and honest political administrator? Otherwise, he must not have accepted his nomination as Prime Minister of India, nominated/assigned by Smt. Sonia Gandhi. This is the reason that Afzal Guru has not been put on the scale of justice, till date.    Smt. Sonia Gandhi has been playing the game of hide and seek by hiding the fact from the Indian Citizenry, regarding the legality of the impact of being an ‘Italian Citizen by Birth’, upon herself and Shri Rahul Gandhi, since under the Italian law they never can renounce their “Right to Citizenship of Italy”, as it undoubtedly prevails permanently, irrevocably, unequivocally and forever, and even if they might have renounced their Citizenship of Italy, it is always recoverable at any time even in remote future, on the expiry of one year from the date of their declaration to the effect in the prescribed manner. Thus, the so-called renouncement is always and permanently only temporary in character and nature and never final and irrevocable. Therefore, their Italian Citizenship prevails on hold, till they decide to recover it, by using their absolute right to recover it, guaranteed under the Constitution of Italy and Citizenship Law of Italy. Therefore, only after hiding such facts, they solemnly affirm (or swear) to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India under Article 84(A) and / or Article 99 of the Constitution of India, violating the provision of Article 102(1)(d) of the Constitution of India, since their allegiance to a foreign State (ITALY) acknowledged and prevails permanently, unequivocally and irrevocably under the Constitution of Italy and Citizenship Law of Italy.        After the General Election for the 14th Loksabha, Congress Parliamentary Party elected Smt. Sonia Gandhi, as its leader, not Dr. Manmohan Singh. The Constitution of India also does nowhere empowers anybody to assign her/his election in favour of any other person. Whereas, she had to do so, under the compulsion of specific situation, as it is reported that she was restrained from oath taking by the then President of India, His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Kalam. I am still trying my best to establish the authenticity of this report. However, in this connection, some extracts from the message of Dr. Subramanium Swamy, are very much relevant. He says:-          “It is fair to assume that this report of the President's decision is correct since the President had before him my petition dated May 15, 2004 making just that point--- that Ms. Gandhi's citizenship is conditional, and in particular she cannot be the PM legally. The President had also given me an appointment at 12.45 PM on May 17, 2004 to explain my submissions in person, which I did. I also told him that I would challenge such a constitutional appointment in the Supreme Court just as I had in 2001 when the Tamil Nadu Governor illegally swore in Ms Jayalalitha as Chief Minister.”                      Manmohan Singh is a decent and scholarly person, but in driving the Maino clan out of India. It will however not be long before Sonia will give Manmohan Singh marching orders, and he will march out meekly. We should not expect him to resist.                       Patriotic Indians should thank the President of India (Dr. APJ Kalam) for having the courage (for which he pays the cost, as he was not allowed second term of the Presidency) by citing a legal hitch to dissuade Ms. Sonia Gandhi from staking her claim to form the government in May this (2004) year. She therefore did not as expected on May 17th, 2004, become the Prime Minister of 1 billion plus people of India. It can now be said that the nation has been saved from a monumental, devastating, and permanent injury to India's national interest and patriotic psyche of Indians. And therefore every effort that can be made in a democracy should be made to ensure that Ms. Sonia Gandhi is permanently out of reckoning for any public office. In 1991, Dr. Manmohan Singh was appointed as Finance Minister of India, as it was the exclusive prerogative of the then Prime Minister Shri Narsimha Rao, to appoint him as a cabinet Minister. But, under the Indian Constitution, Prime Minister must be the (actual) leader of Parliament, in the first place, not depending upon any other leader. When Dr. Manmohan Singh was nominated by Smt. Sonia Gandhi for the office of the Prime Minister of India, he was nowhere the leader of the Parliament. Since, he is nominated by Smt. Sonia Gandhi, he is always obliged to take approval, for all the important decisions, from Smt. Sonia Gandhi. For instance, I must refer one example with regard to one important appointment, which prima-faciely may justify my accusation. Between June 1982 and September, 1987, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, IAS, was Director and then Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi. Even after assassination of Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi (October 1985), he continued to be in the Prime Minister’s Office, with the new Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi. He used to accompany the Prime Ministers, on tours of different parts in India. It is a well known fact that in almost all such tours, Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, was accompanied by his wife Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Thus, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah could have full personal acquaintance with Smt. Sonia Gandhi, as well. In response to my application under Section 6(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, dated 10th December, 2007, after about one year and after repeated reminders, through Memo Letter No. F. No. 29018/8/2008-AIS-II dated 3rd December, 2008, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training, New Delhi supplied half information replying that “Every effort has been made to locate file/records relating deputation of Shri Wajahat Habibullah as Secretary of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation under Rule 6(2)(ii) of the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, but these could not be traced. It has, however, been verified from the Executive Record of Shri Wajahat Habibullah that during the period October, 1991 to June, 1993, he was on central deputation and posted in the Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi.” After the assassination of the former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, during the period of October, 1991 and July 1993, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, performed his duty as Secretary of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, being a Trust Constituted by Smt. Sonia Gandhi, thus directly worked under her. A question is still unanswered that whether for such period Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, received salary and other perks from Rajiv Gandhi Foundation or from Cabinet Secretariat. However, this fact suggests that personal acquaintance of Smt. Sonia Gandhi helped in the appointment of Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, as the First Chief Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission.   There is no doubt about the honesty and sincerity of Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, but he is also a human being. At-least he might feel obliged in his heart of hear by responding for the favour he got by getting the appointment as the First Chief Information Commissioner. Prima-faciely this appears from one of my RTI case, relating to the President’s Secretariat, the disclosure of which could have directly affected the faith of the people, caused and created through wrong message spread over the entire nation creating a climate of impression that in the nation’s larger interest, Smt. Sonia Gandhi has sacrificed the Office of the Prime Minister. In fact, on 17th May, 2004, at about 10.00 am, I sent a Fax Message to the then President of India, His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Kalam, giving reference of Smt. Sonia Gandhi’s Italian Citizenship and opposed her claim to be invited to form a new Government. After enactment of the Right to Information Act, 2005, I sought information about the action taken by His Excellency President of India on my aforesaid Fax Message. President’s Secretariat replied that my aforesaid Fax Message was duly considered by His Excellency the President of India. As this was only half the Information that was sought, the matter finally reached the Court of Hon’ble Chief Information Commissioner Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, and he illegally invited/inferred the illegal interpretation from the “PREAMBLE” of the Right to Information Act, 2005, contrary to the world wide settled principal of the jurisprudence that the “Preamble cannot be part of the Law but it may be used only to interpret ambiguous areas of the law where differing interpretations present themselves. The Preamble is useful as an interpretive tool only if there is an ambiguity in the provision itself and should not be treated as a rights bestowing part of the law.”, and under his aforesaid bias in favour of Smt. Sonia Gandhi, he passed an illegal Order, denying me the requisitioned Information. During the hearing, the President Secretariat also sought exemption on the alleged ground of the alleged opinion given by Attorney General of India Mr. Milon Banerjea to deny me the Information sought that what action actually were taken by the His Excellency the President of India and what correspondence were made between the then His Excellency President of India Dr. APJ Kalam and Smt. Sonia Gandhi at the material time.   However, most surprisingly all the public authorities including President’s Secretariat are misusing their powers and abusing their authorities, engaged in hiding the true facts relating to Smt. Sonia Gandhi and her allegiance to the Constitution of Italy. As such, when I submitted another application for the copy of the aforesaid alleged opinion given by Attorney General of India Mr. Milon Banerjea, considering Mr. Milon Banerjea, as Attorney General of India, not as Personal Attorney of Smt. Sonia Gandhi, but disclosure was also refused to me by the President Secretariat claiming that the aforesaid opinion was qualified by the Ministry of Law and Justice as “Confidential”.  Thereafter, I submitted another application for the file noting regarding the decision process of the Ministry of Law and Justice, through which aforesaid opinion given by the Attorney General of India Mr. Milon Banerjea, was qualified as “Confidential”. But, the Ministry of Law and Justice also denied this Information too on the alleged pretext that opinion given by the Attorney General of India Mr. Milon Banerjea was exempted under fiduciary relationship, claiming that opinion was given by an Advocate to his client. Such refusal was under criminal connivance, ignoring the important fact that Attorney General of India is a Constitutional Authority and his clients are none other than citizenry of India, which is represented only by the Government of India. Therefore, if any fiduciary relationship actually exits, in this case, the same is between the citizenry of India and its Attorney General. I filed a Complaint before the Central Information Commission against the aforesaid refusal, posted through Speed Post NO. SP ED 390323274 IN dated 21/05/2008, but the same is untraceable, in the Central Information Commission, till date.  Government of India, through replies in response to my various applications, under RTI Act, appears to be working hard to keep everything under wraps regarding Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi. That is why, till date, Government is not ready to disclose whether Shri Rahul Gandhi was detained or not by FBI with large unaccounted cash at Boston Airport in 2001, and which Department / Ministry is   responsible to investigate / enquire such matters and other matters regarding black money received by any Indian from the Foreign States and deposited in the foreign Banks?   Under Section 6 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, I submitted application dated 28th October, 2008, to the Central Public Information Officer, Prime Minister’s Office, mentioning therein that “A full page advertisement was published on 6th October, 2007, in the New York Times, (photocopy was enclosed therewith), interalia with the very serious allegation that Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the husband of Smt. Sonia Gandhi, is alleged to have received payments from KGB. According to Schweizer, Illustrierte, Rajiv has a secret Swiss Bank account of 2 billion dollars. Her son Shri Rahul Gandhi, who is now projected (by Congress Party), as future Prime Minister of India, was detained by FBI with large unaccounted cash at Boston Airport in 2001. (Swiss magazine Schweizer, Illustrierte 11/1991, Indo Asian News Service.” I further contended that the matter is very serious and is concerned relating to a situation wherein the prestige of the Country, is likely to be compromised in public esteem all over the World. Once, the then Congress President Late Mr. Barua, said Indira is India. Whereas, India has never been Indira, hence, we have seen the result. Now, people are busy to establish that Sonia Gandhi is the Congress Party, as evident from the action taken by Indian National Overseas Congress (INOC), a surrogate arm of the Indian National Congress in USA, by filing a $100 million libel lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court against two Indian Americans, Narain Kataria and Arish Sahani for allegedly defaming the Congress Party President, Sonia Gandhi, through the aforesaid advertisement against her in The New York Times. Mr. Surinder Malhotra, who as president of INOC had moved the court, later on had to withdraw the same. Although now he claims that withdrawal of the Suit is not the defeat, and he is consulting the Indian National Congress Party, for re-filling the Suit, as if Sonia Gandhi is Indian National Congress Party, while he himself has admitted that the Court has felt that INOC or he himself were not the aggrieved party. Now the BIG QUESTION still remains unanswered that if through the aforesaid advertisement Smt Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi feel that they are defamed, then why they themselves in their individual capacity are not filing the said defamation case in the USA Court, since, the following extracts from the aforesaid advertisement as was published in the “NewYork Times” dated 6th October, 2007, reflects that the advertisement casts a very serious and personal allegation of corruption, against the family of Smt. Sonia Gandhi, thereby lowering her esteem in public image?  “Her husband Rajiv Gandhi is alleged to have received payments from KGB. According to Schweizer, Illustrierte, Rajiv has a secret Swiss Bank account of 2 billion dollars. Her son Rahul projected as next Prime Minister of India, was detained by FBI with large unaccounted cash at Boston Airport in 2001. (Swiss magazine Schweizer, Illustrierte 11/1991, Indo Asian News Service).” “Her party was involved in the UN Oil for Food Scam that helped Saddam Hussain. (From this language it is amply clear that charges were made against her in her personal capacity for misusing her position as President of Congress Party. The allegation nowhere puts the blame on the Indian National Congress Party). She was involved in numerous scams, scandals and controversies. Before entering India, she was an au-pair with modest means. Since then, she and her family members have amassed millions through questionable means. (Know Your Sonia by India First Foundation).” Photocopy of the Advertisement published in the New York Times is also posted at: http://rtitimes.net/truth” and that the Charges made in the aforesaid advertisement are very serious in nature, since it paints Shri Rajiv Gandhi, describing as one of the most corrupt politicians of the Country, contrary to his image that prevailed in India as ‘Mr. Clean’. Therefore, truth must come out before the Indian Citizenry. For the ends of the truth, a free, fair and transparent enquiry is essential. After enquiry, if charges so leveled through aforesaid advertisement are proved as malicious and false, this will enhance the goodwill of Smt. Sonia Gandhi manifolds, as against the claim of the alleged defamation. Otherwise, scars of doubts and blemishes would continue to cast a permanent mark on the integrity and honesty by leaving an impression that she is misusing her position to control the Office of the Prime Minister and the Central Government, to put the matter under an un-pregnable covert. Whereas, under the changed Swiss Banking Law, which mandated the Swiss Banks to know their clients, the Government of India, may now easily trace out the actual position about the alleged Secret Bank Account, if at all earlier held by Shri Rajiv Gandhi, since Banks must know its clients as well as his beneficiaries, which in this particular matter, might be Smt. Sonia Gandhi, and / or Shri Rahul Gandhi and / or Ms. Priyanka Gandhi, if any such account really ever existed. Similarly in the present scenario, USSR, Power of the Communist Party and KGB exist nowhere. Therefore, under the changed system of the Governance in Russia, if the Central Government makes free, fair and transparent and a serious and honest effort, it can also get all the true facts about the factual payments, if any were ever made by the KGB to Shri Rajiv Gandhi. This is just not necessary for the political health and strong democracy in India, but also for the sake of the prestige and honor of the heavenly soul of our late Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi too. As regards to the matter, concerning whether Shri Rahul Gandhi, was detained by FBI with large unaccounted cash at Boston Airport in 2001 or not, this can be easily enquired by the Central Government.” Therefore, through the aforesaid application I wanted to know that which Department or Ministry of Government of India is responsible to enquire such type of the allegations and (2) Which Department or Ministry is responsible to enquire about the black money received from the Foreign States and deposited in the foreign Banks, by any Indian?” BLACK MONEY AND IMPACT ON SOCIETY Inflation and black money is in the form of parallel economy. The eradication of black money for a viable economy of the Country is required for a healthy structure on all its front. The factors responsible for the generation of black money are required to be spotted just to provide a curve over the nefarious activities of the politicians and other bureaucrats in the society which is responsible for compelling the 60% of the population to live below a poverty line. The judicial institutions has partly realised the ideals of the constitution to develop through judicial activism in the form of a revolution for providing a check over the reprehensible conduct of the people to accumulating enormous well through any means. "Fair or Foul" at the cost of Nation. Price rise to the fantastic levels and velocity or liquidity of money circulation became enormous. One of the main feature of inflation is that money looses its value. This is virtually in confrontation with the aimed social objectives of legitimate expectations of the citizens. The factors responsible for the generation of the black money: (a) Divergence between acceptable rate of return and legally permissible rate of return. (b) Consequences of controls, licensing system, quotas, permits of commodities. In effective enforcement of tax laws like income-Tax. Wealth Tax, Estate Duty, Sale Tax, Stamp Duty, Excise Duty, Octrol Duties etc. (d) A considerable part of black money has encourages diversification of resources in the purchase of real state estate and investment of such money in constructing "Luxury Houses". Precious stones, jewellery and other venerable land situated in posh society. (e) Discretionary powers wasted in the ministers. (f) Fear of laws of power by our Bureaucrats. (g) Un-cordinate response of the public to provide a check over such activities of their representative through mandate in the elections and in effective judicial accountability due to the non-introduction of the terminology "Due process of Law" instead of procedure establish under law. The quantum of black money consequent upon by the method of tax evasion, tax concealment, smuggling in imports & exports, production of elicit commodities, artificial escalation or the prices, has resulted into part it away to the estate for the purpose social welfare. The estimated income on which the tax has not been paid would probably be more than 7200 crores according to the estimated data’s. Thus black money is very important route cause of urban value which deprives the Government its legitimate dues by way of taxes to the exchequer and induces dishonesty in the individuals trying to get more & more accommodation beyond his means. Transactions involved and element of black money. No individual posses adequate white account of money to buy a flat, thus this has ultimately resultant to the creation of black money as the parallel economy in the nation. The idea of inflation accounting mooted during the 2nd world war which became the topic of active discussion and ultimately attained momentum and due to the rapid universal inflation is persisting upon as a major problem in the country which has the effect of the almost crippling the entire economic structure of society in all sphere. Inflation and black money has become menace to Indian Society and its economic structure in all its spheres. It has become necessary to have a rethinking in all the monetary polities of the Government and their administration in all sectors as to how incorporate the effect of inflation accounting to eradicate black money from the society. This requires a strong Government and a high morality in living pattern of society. It needs fighting with all statutory powers wasted in Government. Inflationary tendencies have to be contained within a tolerable limits Government expert economics and planners with eminent public men requires the determination of inflationary trends which is galloping in nature and very difficult being tricky and onerous, to tackle by ordinary process. Time is free-fold present: as we experience it the past as the present memory and future as a present expectation .The expectations can not be the same and as anticipation. It is different from a wish, a desire or a hope nor can it amount to claim or demand on ground of a right. A pious hope even leading to a moral obligation can not amount to a legitimate expectation in the strict sense. The protection of such legitimate expectation does not require the fulfilment of the expectation where an over riding public interests require otherwise. Thus even if substantive production of such expectation is contemplated that does not grant and absolute right to a particular person. the protection is limited to the extent of judicial review. To strike down the expectation of an individual adrift to the pragmatism. Thus millions of people belonging to the deprived and venerable section of the humanity were looking to the courts for improving their life conditions and making back human rights meaningful for them. The Supreme Court acted as an instrument of status quo-upholding the traditions of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence and resisting radical innovations in the use of the judicial power to promote social justice under the republican constitution till early 1970 with some Hon’ble expectations, but in the light of a social economic philosophy alien to our freedom movement and aspiration of the liberated people, the Apex Court has started a giving importance to the rule of Law with "tryst with destiny". The outstanding judicial activism in the quest for social justice came by the enormous contribution of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the recent years. The use of new found judicial power in the service of "WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA" who has often being represented in the judicial forum have always been at the receiving end of mal-administration and exploitation. This is a constitutional right of every accused person who is unable to engage a lawyer and secure legal services on account of reasons such as poverty, indigence or incommunicado situation and the state is under a mandate to provide a lawyer to an accused person if the circumstances of the case and the need of justice so require, provided of course the accused person does not object to the provision of such lawyer (1980) 1 SCC 98. It will be instructive to sun up this discourse with the observation of Chief Justice Bhagwati in Suk Das. It is common knowledge that 70 percent of the people living in rural areas are illiterate and even more than that percentage of the people are not aware of the rights conferred upon them by law. Even literate people do not know what are their rights and entitlements under the law. It is this absence of legal awareness which is responsible for the deception, exploitation and deprivation of rights and benefits from which the poor suffer in this land. Their legal needs always stand to become crisis-oriented because their ignorance prevents them from anticipating legal troubles and approaching a lawyer for consultation and advice in time and their poverty magnifies the impact of the legal trouble and difficulties when they come. More over, because of their ignorance and illiteracy, they cannot become self-reliant; they cannot even help themselves. The law ceases to be their protector because they do not know that they are entitled to the protection of the law and they can avail of the legal service programme for putting an end to their exploitation and winning their rights. The result is that poverty becomes with them a condition of total helplessness. This miserable condition in which the poor find themselves can be added to situations (1986) 2 SCC 401). Extant by creating legal awareness amongst the poor. That is why it has always been recognised as one of the principal items of the programme of the legal aid movement in the country to promote legal literacy. It would in these circumstances make a mockery of legal aid it were to be left to a poor, ignorant and illiterate accused to ask for free legal service. This is the reason why we ruled in Khatri II case that the Magistrate nor the sessions judge before whom an accused appears must be held to be under an obligations to inform the accuses that if he is unable to engage the services of a lawyer on account of poverty or indigence, he is entitled to obtain free legal services at the cost of the state. We also gave a general direction to every State in the Country to make provision for grant of free legal services to an accused who is unable to engage to a lawyer on account of reasons such as poverty, indigence or incommunicado situations (1986 2 SCC 401). In the judges Transfer Case, justice Bhagwati declared that law in the following terms: where a legal wrong or a legal injury in caused to a person of violation of any constitutional or legal right….. and such person or determinate class of persons is by reason of poverty, helplessness or disability or socially or economically disadvantaged position, unable to approach the court for relief, any member of the public can maintain an application for an appropriate direction, order or writ in the High Court under Article 226 and in case of breach of any fundamental right of such person or determinate class of persons, in the Supreme Court under Article 32 seeking judicial redress for the legal wrong or injury caused to such person or determinate class of persons. (1981) Supp. SCC 87). Fundamental rights particularly in relation to the poor and disabled do require new remedies for their effective enforcement. Creation of new remedies is interpreted as part of the judicial function in so far as the responsibility for enforcement of fundamental rights is a charge on the Supreme Court. The alienation and ivory tower image of the judiciary, sometimes justified in the name of "independence", got a severe jolt by the socio-political activism and public self-criticism of judges of the Apex Court led by justice Bhagwati. The search for solutions in the quest for justice is an eternal one in which success and failure are always relative and never complete. Absolute power is tyranny where as absolute democracy is tyranny and anarchy both. The political groups of revolutionary significance, which present have never imperilled the fundamentals of duty and obedience, the bases of social discipline, in short the most fundamental forces of social and political cohesion. Legislature or the executive ha e created situations which remain sometimes grimly un reconciled, political forces have pushed on to advance their own schemes upon the ruins of the rest. A party in power provokes by its policies a situation in which the economic stability of the society is threatened or where constitutional rules appear as the mere manifestations of the interest of the dominant power in the legislative. The normative and factual aspects of the legal order condition each other and interact closely with one another. A legal system acts as a mediator between social ideals and social reality. In the political and social life of a community, it becomes an effective moulding force for actual human behaviours in the process of balancing individual rights and the common good. Any one would be surprised to know that the Prime Minister’s Office does not know which Departments/Ministries under the control of Prime Minister are responsible for such actions. For this reason initially, my application was transferred through Memo Letter no. RTI/1953/2008-PMR dated 4th November, 2008, to the Cabinet Secretariat, which in its turn transferred to Department of Economic Affairs, through Memo Letter No. F-12015/331/2008-RTI dated 25th November, 2008, which was sent back to the Cabinet Secretariat, through Memo Letter No. F.No. 2/366/2008-RTI dated 2nd December, 2008, claiming it does not hold such responsibility. Now Cabinet Secretariat again has transferred it to Shri V. Sreekumar, Under Secretary and CPIO, of Deptt. of Revenue, through Memo Letter No. F-12015/331/2008-RTI dated 4th December, 2008. Is it not a Joke?   Getting Indias Money Back from Tax Havens: Congress caught in its own Web Stupefied by the strong endorsement all across the country of the demand that the money looted from India must be brought back, the Congress has tied itself in knots.  Its spokesmen - led, as will be clear from the arguments they have advanced, by four lawyers - have given five reactions:   Why is taking up this matter now, on the eve of elections?  The GE-20 meeting was not the proper forum for taking up the issue.  There is doubt about the figures.  Why did the BJP government to replace FERA by FEMA, and thereby make the offences compoundable?  Is not unwittingly alerting those with illegal money abroad to spirit it away from Switzerland to other tax havens?  What was doing when it was in office? In any case there is doubt about the figures. The reactions betray panic as even the littlest reflection would have shown the "arguments" to be indefensible. Let us consider them one by one.  Why is taking up this matter now, on the eve of elections? The fact, of course, is that took up the matter with the Prime Minister in April last year. He wrote soon after it became known that the Government of Germany had succeeded in obtaining names of persons who had stashed money in the LGT Bank in Lichtenstein. The reply that the then Finance Minister, sent him showed that the  Government intended to do little except keep going through the pretence of taking some steps. Soon thereafter, we were alarmed to learn that a senior official of the Finance Ministry had written to the then Indian Ambassador in Germany not to press the Germans for release of the names of Indians in the list that they had obtained from Lichtenstein -- lest the Germans take offence and conclude that they were being pressurized and their bona fides were being questioned! [This information was later confirmed by report filed by Amitabh Ranjan in The Indian Express of 31 March 2009.] Subsequently, we took up the matter in Parliament also. And yet the evasion, "Why now?"  The GE-20 meeting was not the proper forum for taking up the issue. This customarily self-serving rationalization was put out by one of the Congress party's lawyers and spokesmen. At this very time the party was trying to insinuate that, actually speaking, the Prime Minister had taken up the matter at the G-20 Summit. As its spokesmen could not point to any statement he made either at the Summit itself or even at the press meet the PM had held after the Summit, they drew solace from a passing reference to the matter in the speech he had made at the dinner hosted by Gordon Brown. In any case, if the G-20 Summit was not the right forum for taking up this matter, how is it that in the  communiqué that the G-20 leaders issued on 2 April 2009, in paragraph 15, entitled, "Strengthening the Financial System," they pledged themselves "to take action against non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens. We stand ready to deploy sanctions to protect our public finances and financial systems. The era of banking secrecy is over. We note that the OECD has today published a list of countries assessed by the Global Forum against the international standard for exchange of tax information"? Were they also, in the view of the Congress party, acting inappropriately when they made such a strong commitment in their communiqué at the Summit? And recall that no sooner had they issued the threat of imposing sanctions that countries which had been black-listed by the OECD that very day began declaring that they would indeed sign up on the agreement to exchange tax information, and that includes evasion. In any case, there is doubt about the figures.  As is its custom, the Congress is trying to cover up the basic question of the money which has been looted from India and is lying in tax havens, by raising questions about the precision of figures and estimates. This is exactly the kind of legalisms with which persons like Mr P. Chidambaram and other legitimizers were fielded to cover up the loot from Bofors. In its paper, "Overview of the OECD's Work on International Tax Evasion," the OECD itself lists studies that state that there are $1.7 trillion to $11.5 trillion which are today parked in tax havens. This paper of the OECD has been widely reported in the Indian press. The basic point is: even if the amounts are just a few scores of billion dollars and not one and a half trillion dollars, why should they not be brought back to India? And the fact is that other countries, much smaller countries with none of the pretensions of being a "super power, have succeeded in getting their money back. Even as of October last year, when the OECD released its paper, little Ireland had succeeded in recovering almost a billion Euros through an investigation into offshore banks.Given that even small countries like Ireland have got money back, is it not a shame, is it not an outrage that, as of yesterday, 18 April, 2009, The Times of India, should be quoting the Swiss Ambassador to India as stating on record that till now, the Swiss Government has received no request - not even a request - from the Indian Government?  The real question is different: can the money looted from India be brought back to the country when the attitude of the government continues to be as determinedly inactive as that of the present Government?  Can the Government which allowed Ottavio Quattrochi to take his money out of banks - where it was lying frozen on court orders - be trusted to bring back the loot that is lying in Swiss banks and other tax havens? Can the Government which prostituted the CBI so that he may get away from Argentina be trusted to bring the loot back?  Why did the BJP government to replace FERA by FEMA, and thereby make the offences compoundable? Again, the Congress is relying on the short memory of its audience. The fact of the matter is that no one had been pressing more for the replacement of the harsh provisions of FERA than the Congress itself. The changes were being contemplated since 1996. The demand for doing away with the harsh provisions came to a crescendo during the Government of Mr. VP Singh when FERA came to be used for interrogating captains of industry - like Mr. S.L. Kirloskar – under harsh  circumstances. As news reports of that period themselves indicate, FEMA which was approved by the Government in July 1998, was on the lines of a draft which had been prepared under the leadership of the preceding finance minister, Mr P. Chidambaram. Even today, you can go to the website of Rediff-on-the-net, go to their dispatch of 25 July, 1998, on "FEMA, Money Bills: Cabinet nods, Parliament's turn next," and you will read, "The Bills were broadly on the lines of a draft prepared under the leadership of then Finance Minister In any event, there is no mystery about the reasons on account of which the law was changed. They are well set out in the following passage:  "Until recently, we had a law known as the Foreign Exchange (Regulation) Act. Its object was to conserve and augment the forex reserves of the country. The way to hell, it is said, is paved with good intentions. Like many well-intentioned laws, FERA paved the way to disaster. FERA created a flourishing black market in foreign exchange. It brought into the economic lexicon the word 'Hawala'. Illegal forex transactions became the fuel for the growth of crime syndicates with trans-border connections.  "FERA also became a tool of oppression. Successive governments persisted with FERA and added COFFEPOSA and SAFEMA. International markets do not respect draconian laws that run counter to common sense. India's reserves, far from being augmented, dwindled at an alarming rate... Mercifully, FERA was buried finally on May 31, 2000." When and where was this written? In an article that appeared The Indian Express on 25 August 2002. Who wrote the article?! Is not unwittingly alerting those with illegal money abroad to spirit it away from Switzerland to other tax havens? Another clever little statement by yet another clever lawyer of the Congress party! Would the looters who have stashed away money in tax havens from India still need to be alerted after Germany got the names from Lichtenstein as long ago as last year? Would they still need to be alerted after Germany offered to furnish the names to governments that asked for the names? Would they still need to be alerted after the United States got the names from the leading bank of Switzerland, UBS in February this year, and got it to submit to paying a fine of $ 800 million to boot? Would they still need to be alerted after the G-20 leaders, including Dr. Man Mohan Singh as the Congress would like to remind us, declared their determination to get the tax havens to disgorge the names? But such is the confusion in the Congress party and such the brilliance of its lawyers that all it can do is to seek to deflect the nation-wide demand for getting the loot back from tax havens by such witticisms!  What was the NDA doing when it was in office? In any case there is doubt about the figures.  Leaders of the Congress party would be better advised to ask, "During that very period, what was the Congress party doing, what were its lawyers and leaders doing, to thwart the efforts of the NDA Government to uncover the names of persons who had looted the country even on defence deals like Bofors?" But even if the NDA had done nothing - whether on terrorism or money abroad - is that any reason for not hurrying to avail of the unique opportunity that has arisen now?  Even while replacing FERA by FEMA, the NDA Government made sure that it would have an additional two years to file prosecutions under FERA. And it filed as many as 2000 cases against those who were under investigation before FERA lapsed. The reason for doing so, a reason that is well known to lawyers in the Congress party, was that, when a prosecution is filed it is adjudicated according to the law which prevailed at the time at which the case was filed. These are the very cases which the Congress later on did not pursue. The fact of the matter is that it is now that the unique opportunity has arisen to get the loot back: Germany has succeeded in getting the names; the US has succeeded in getting the names; the G-20 leaders have pledged themselves to ensure the end of bank secrecy; countries that had hitherto refused to share the requisite information are pledging to do so - within a week of their names being published by OECD in the list of countries that were dragging their feet on the question, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Philippines and Uruguay pledged to enter into the relevant agreements.  There is a real fight ahead: a fight in the national interest, a fight that will have to be waged doggedly to get the names from the tax havens and to get the amounts back to India - as tax havens will not easily part with their route to lucre. And not all countries will be eager to wage the fight - so many rulers in Africa, in Latin America, to say nothing of the princelings of China - will be loath to see the fight succeed. So, determination and leadership will be required of India, and persistence, and forging alliances with civil society in Europe and elsewhere.Nor are bilateral agreements any substitute to multilateral pressure.With close to seventy tax havens, decades will pass before agreements are concluded with each haven, even as money is spirited from the haven that has signed up to the one that is holding out. As has been correctly emphasized, a consensus is already emerging across the country. Leaders outside the political realm, parties such as the CPI(M), SP, BSP, JD(U), AIADMK have all demanded that the Government act energetically to get the names from the tax havens and to get back the amounts. Instead of quibbling, the Congress would be well-advised to endorse the consensus, and act on it. Not joining ecular forces on even so secular an issue?!    A high-profile evangelist is under pressure to explain an "unaccounted"  amount of Rs 900 crore his trust received from the US as Kerala's crackdown  on "commercial spiritualism" gathers pace.  Bishop K.P. Yohannan has been under the watch of regulators and police  since the hunt for "fake godmen" began in the first week of May for having  received the funds from the Texas-based Gospel for Asia in the past 12  years. Failure to explain could make him the subject of a probe.   The police claim that a trust closely held by Yohannan and his relatives  had received Rs 1,044 crore for charity and church activities from Texas  body since 1995 but spent only Rs 144 crore on such purposes.  Director-general of police (intelligence) Jacob Punnose has told home  minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan about the "unaccounted cash" and recommended  an inquiry to verify how the trust had used the Rs 900 crore. Chief  minister V.S. Achuthanandan is aware of the matter.   The assets of Believers' Church, Yohannan's trust, were estimated at Rs 572  crore and Gospel for Asia's at Rs 472 crore. The nature of the probe is yet  to be decided since there are several departments and agencies concerned  with the activities of Believers' Church and Gospel for Asia.   Since the amount flowed in from a single source, the Gospel for Asia, the  Reserve Bank will have to probe if any part of it had been spent on  activities outside the country and whether it was done with permission.  Another matter to be examined is how Yohannan's trust has retained 2,500  acres when the law allows only 2,000 acres and whether it had secured  special  permission. The bishop was not available for comment.  Yohannan is not the only one facing the heat in the drive "commercial  spiritualism". Other Christian prayer-healing organisations like Swargeeya  Virunnu (Heavenly Feast), run by Brother Thanku (Sam Kuruvila) and Brother  Thomas Kutty are also under the scanner. A suit has been filed in the high court here seeking information about the alleged detention of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and his Colombian girlfriend by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2001. The petition, filed by four lawyers, is likely to be heard Wednesday. According to the public interest litigation, Gandhi, the son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and his companion were released after being detained at Boston airport following the intervention of the Prime Minister's Office. At that time, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Indian prime minister and Gandhi was not a member of the Lok Sabha. "Vajpayee's principal secretary and then national security adviser Brajesh Misra spoke to top US authorities to enable Rahul Gandhi and his girlfriend to get away," claimed Prem Chandra Sharma, who moved the court along with three others. Sharma claimed to have gathered this information through the Internet and said he had downloaded certain do events to substantiate his allegations. The petition alleged that Gandhi was found in illegal possession of about $200,000. And it was in that connection that the FBI had detained him along with his girlfriend Sep 21, 2001. The FBI was said to have sought an explanation about Gandhi's possession of such a huge amount of money, which he was unable to provide, the petition said. The petition sought a writ of mandamus to the Indian ambassador to the US as well as the union home secretary to make a disclosure about the entire episode. "