Intellectuals are playing double
game
Leading
historians, filmmakers and scientists joined the ranks of writers, artists and
students to protest against increasing “intolerance”. Scientist P.M. Bhargava
and filmmakers Dibakar Banerjee and Anand Patwardhan are among those to return
their national honours. Eminent historians such as Irfan Habib and Romila
Thapar led a list of peers to sign a letter detailing the acts of omission of
the government. They framed a
collective response to incidents of lynching, murder of rationalists and
writers, and a general atmosphere of intolerance towards people belonging to
minority communities.
What has happened
to warrant such a roar by the so-called intellectuals who are all people of
dubious distinction addicted to the disease of sending anti Mody petitions ever
since Congress party started losing elections in various states and at the
centre? It is unfortunate that an innocent Muslim has been killed because of
beef controversy and the victim’s family has the sympathy of the entire nation.
But hundreds of innocent Sikhs, Kashmiri pundits and RSS activists were killed
during Indira, Rajiv, Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh regimes in different
parts of this country and these intellectuals did not consider them as human
beings and therefore were silent. How is it that when a Muslim is killed they
are all on their toes and when a non Muslim is killed they are indifferent and
rejoice?
Why so much fuss
about few scattered incidents? I am sure it's political vendetta of few
liberals to let down government. They don't want country to progress and want
to keep us backward.
If the
intellectuals truly believe in democracy use the ballot to elect another
government and do not work to derail a democratically elected government
whether it is Congress or BJP or third front. By returning awards they actually
insult the people of India because it is the government elected by the people
who gave the award.
People of every
religion show some kind of intolerance sometimes or the other; so also the people
belonging to Hindu religion. These so called Indian elite group can make the
film "PK" portraying bad about Indian Gods and when Indian public and
general public speak against it then it becomes intolerance but "Muhammad
The Messenger of God" will be prohibited in India.
Most of these
'intellectuals" have a hidden political agenda- to undermine the BJP
government. True, Modi must rein in fringe elements. The development agenda
must not be derailed in any way. But the problem is, leftists have not
reconciled themselves to the fact that all false campaigns against Modi in 2014
failed to prevent his election victory. According to them, the PM must chant
the mantra of secularism at least a hundred times and that too before TV
cameras to prove that he is not communal. If we look at the history of left
movements, they have thrived by demonizing their adversaries rather than
projecting a humanistic philosophy that is acceptable to the society. When
communal riots and attacks on Dalits happened during Congress rule, these
protesters were silent. They grovelled and crawled before authority during the
Emergency. A climate of intolerance is being orchestrated against a
democratically elected government with the help of an obliging media.
Return of awards
is a selfish political game by the writers, scientists, artists etc. It looks
every one of these want to fight with Modi but they never dared to return
awards since independence when there were many worst incidents than the present
one. This is the wisdom of the intellectuals who are playing double game with
two tongues. Let the people decide on it.
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