165. Buying MLAs and MPs like cattle in India is good for democracy: People will loose confidence in representatives and demand direct democracy. P S Remesh Chandran

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Buying MLAs and MPs like cattle in India is good for democracy: People will loose confidence in representatives and demand direct democracy

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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Rules and laws are made in thousands by the people’s representatives in the parliament and the state assemblies but they did not make any law to imprison, fine, payment of election expenses, disbarment from future elections or hang those MLAs and MPs who change the party he was elected from before his term is over and betray the voters in his constituency. We would expect our representatives in the various law-making bodies to have made such decent laws for the country but they did not. That is why we never hear about such laws. That is because they always are thinking about jumping parties and being bought for huge amounts of money by the other side. So that’s why they do not make it a crime severely punishable by law. How convenient! After people voting an MLA or a MP for an ideal or a party, he can jump that party in groups and join another party or even form a new party! There is no punishment for such betrayal of voters in a constituency by their parliamentary representative!! So this jumping of parties by people’s representatives has been going on in India for so many years. In fact all political parties in India except the original Indian National Congress and the Communist Party of India were formed out of this party jumping by betrayers of voters. We have never heard any of these representatives punished, fined, disbarred and/or imprisoned for betraying people as it is plain betrayal of people.

For a few years we have also been hearing about representatives being ‘bought’ for incredibly huge prices. Unless India is not a democracy human beings cannot be bought and sold. It must either be a non-democracy or it must be non-humans involved. So these MPs and MLAs who are now being bought and sold for a price are now not human beings but just cattle. Do not think it is just a simile. The question that every Indian asks publicly when they hear about news of a few MLAs or MPs having been bought and sold for a price is ‘are they cattle’. Why should cattle represent human beings in parliament and assemblies? If human beings, considering the sacredness and urgency of democracy, can spare a little time go sitting in parliament and state assemblies by bodily presence or by online, why depend on cattle to run that democracy? Technology has advanced from the time of ancient Athens and a little-time-later-Rome to nullify the effect of the increased population on the limited space of parliament and assemblies. 

So, gradually, the people of India are loosing confidence not in democracy but in people’s representatives. Good. It is very good for democracy. It is moving towards a ‘people versus people’s representatives’. It is people who own their representatives once they are elected to a parliamentary body by them, not the political parties which nominated and hoisted them. What happens when our representative or servant betrays us and goes to the other side? Knowing that good servants won’t be available for a long time to come, we simply dismiss him from our employment and take up his job ourselves. Here in this case people simply dismisses representational democracy and switches to representational democracy, first in their mind, and then in the body politic. No one would have paid a price for those representatives had they not been anyone’s representatives. So why not do with those representatives and everyone ask their price?

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Written and first Published on: 18 September 2019
 

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164. What right has Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Narendra Modi to tell people that they changed, so people too should change like chameleons? P S Remesh Chandran

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What right has Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Narendra Modi to tell people that they changed, so people too should change like chameleons?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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In Al Jazeera’s interview of Mr. Imran Khan on 14 September 2019 he said his country may have to resort to N-War against India if it comes to it. Sure, he can point out what he thinks is a possibility in future. But isn’t India’s ruling party BJP also exploiting the sentiments of a few Indians against the people of its sister nation like he does with Pakistanis’? Didn’t Mr. Narendra Modi receive his Pakistani counterpart several times in India and abroad warmly? Didn’t he publicly state that both countries were going to expand trade links and cultural cooperation? Could he tell the world that people should never believe his words and take them for granted? Didn’t both leaders embrace each other to show to their people that they are brothers? Do we embrace our enemies everyday? If they were performing as hypocrites for diplomacy’s sake, let them know that their people are not. Didn’t trains run between Delhi and Islamabad daily, without interruption, with both countries’ protection? Didn’t Pakistani theatres show Indian films and Indians listened to Pakistani ghazals regularly?

What message were these two prime ministers giving to the people in both countries till now through these acts of theirs- that they should go to war or that they should live in peace and cooperation? People have a sincerity, truthfulness, loyalty, friendship and history unlike bad politicians. What right has Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Narendra Modi to tell people that they have changed attitudes and outlooks, so people too should change attitudes and outlooks all of a sudden like chameleons? When both these politicians used the N-War term, both were giving very wrong messages to the people in both countries. How will they create contained n-plosions without affecting Bangladesh, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet and Sri Lanka? There are international forums to solve disputes, especially in the wake and threat of n-detonations. Pakistan is ruled by a fundamentalist Muslim party. India is ruled by an equally fundamentalist Hindu party. What difference is there except that theirs are two different religions?

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Written and first Published on: 17 September 2019


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163. It is not Hindi but creating a rebellion on Hindi that is important to the Hindu party of India. P S Remesh Chandran

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It is not Hindi but creating a rebellion on Hindi that is important to the Hindu party of India

P. S. Remesh Chandran

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1. Trying to sell single-language Hindi sentimentality to multi-language people.

For a very long time, there have been no conflicts, rebellions or riots in India in the name of languages. Some people cannot tolerate such periods of rest and peace and let people go on inert like this for long. They want attacks, blood and murder to survive, especially those who do not ideologies in life. They want riots to be made, to distract people’s attention from what they do in politics, government and religion in their own country and in foreign countries. What better way for the Hindu party BJP of India than to engineer a rebellion by imposing the single language Hindi on a multiple-language people? Failed because of the vigilance of the people of India in their many attempts to create rebellions using the beef and several other similar issues recently, they are in urgent need of a rebellion to continue in power as a political entity. Now they are trying to sell the language sentimentality of a few northern states to other states and find a way to move the army in.

2. An early attempt to impose Hindi resulted in people’s changing the historical name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu.

Remember the rebellion when the Nehru government in the independent India tried to impose Hindi in Tamil Nadu which was the Madras State then. It was the vehemence and furor resulted from this attempt to impose Hindi that these Tamilian people changed the name of their state from Madras to Tamilnadu to underline their love for their language. It was a warning against ever trying to do this again. Many lives were lost in that rebellion and many shops and offices burnt. Many people took their lives also, saying they will die before their language was taken from them which was their mother. The people who tried to exploit people’s sentimentality for mother language for political gains were true enemies of the state and ought to have been hanged or expelled from the country then, if any heathen countries were willing to accept them. Anyway, the attempt to impose Hindi was withdrawn by the central government then.

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3. Displacing English is to limit the opportunities in the world to an elite few.

Those who want to learn Hindi and Sanskrit in Tamilnadu are free to learn and teach it there. There is no ban. No one interrupts. There are no restrictions. But they won’t allow any coercion for any language at any cost. Mother tongue is a very sensitive issue and anyone who tries to displace it is considered as people’s enemy there as it is in all non-Hindi speaking states in India. Almost everyone knows English in India and anyone who is not willing to learn it does so at his own risk. Such people are found only in the heart of India comprising on a few Hindi-speaking states known generally as the Hindi belt. People in the other states are not willing to take this risk. And, anyone wishing to use it as a national and international communicating language can continue to do so if the world will speak to them in Hindi. One cannot compel the world: there are other languages. In this age of world travels, intermingling and communications, no one can be allowed to displace English and impose Hindi or Sanskrit. It is depriving a very big nation- actually the second largest in population in the world- of the vast opportunities in education and employment the world provides and limiting those privileges to a supposedly elite few.

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4. Imposing Hindi aimed at diverting people’s attention from foolish mammoth projects created for vain media attention.

I assume you are supposing the opposition to imposing of Hindi on all states by a central government is expected only after a central government does that but not before, in anticipation of what one government would do as gauged from a series of its previous acts. In fact I was noting the act of imposing Hindi by a previous government, its impacts and why that governmental move had to be stopped. You are now asking why and how I came to know that the central government is going to take steps to impose Hindi on all non-Hindi-speaking states. For one thing, as you are writing this in a Face Book Group in the social media, so many other people are writing and posting in so many other Face Book Groups in the social media, especially those particularly and notably associated with the party I mentioned, about why the central government is not imposing Hindi AND Sanskrit, i.e., in groups functioning in non-Hindi languages. Total presence of such posts in those languages and total absence of such posts in Hindi language groups is meaningful in that these post creators want a rebellion against Hindi to be created in non-Hindi speaking languages to divert people’s attention from spending national revenue foolishly on mammoth projects of vain media attention-building like building the world’s highest statues and going to the moon. Do you understand or pretend not to understand?

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5. BJP had been formulating a Hindi-imposing education bill by government and also campaigning for Hindi and Sanskrit in social media for long.

A draft new education policy bill will take not a few days to prepare but months and years. The draft New Education Policy (NEP) Bill by the Government of the BJP did propose Hindi as a compulsory language in schools and universities and this party and its beneficiaries and cronies had been deeply immersed for months and years in formulating, preparing and proposing this bill. During the same period, their party-men and supporters were campaigning in social media for the imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit- a dual move. They were going forward with full steam till the first week of June 2019. Then contents of the proposed bill came out and Tamilnadu politicians raised their opposition first. So, from June 3rd and 4th, BJP began to publicize that they have no intention of imposing Hindi. For everyone’s information- they used the very word ‘imposition’.

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6. Had the central government not compulsorily supported Hindi, the people of India would have been fluent in English now.

There is a strange fact associated with the absence or presence of Hindi in a region in India. In fact how many states speak Hindi and how many states speak other languages? Had the central government in the past not initiated movements to support, promote and spread Hindi, where would have Hindi stood now? Ninety percent of the people in the present Hindi belt would have been speaking fluent English now and of course freed of caste and communal orientation. The highest literacy states would have been in the present Hindi belt. Where Hindi is absent, caste and communal orientation is less. Where Hindi is omnipresent, caste and communal domination is present. That is why Kerala eventually became the state of highest literacy in India and Tamilnadu became the state with the highest standard in English in India. The North Eastern Frontier States also are fairly well-versed in English. Where Hindi hesitated to come, caste and communal dominance vanished and literacy and English came.

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7. Loving a language is not being blind to its shortcomings or to the advantages of other languages.

Indeed Hindi is much broader and widespread than Malayalam or Tamil but because of their embracing the indescribably broader and widespread English when compared to Hindi, the Keralites and Tamilians did not feel any shortage or deficiency at all in knowing not Hindi. They spared that time advantageously to learn English. In fact, they turned their loath of Hindi into the love of English. As a result, Tamilnadu is now one of the states in India with the highest literacy and fluency in English. There is no romanticism or sensationalism in telling them that because they do not know or learn Hindi they are not patriots. If you tell them that, they will say that it is to take away literacy and English from them and bring back caste and communalism as is now in the Hindi states region that a few traitors are trying to impose Hindi on them, which is true anyway. Still, because of these states’ high literacy and their bigger publishing industry almost all fine Hindi books get translated into their languages and reach them. Remember that Hindi has been in existence for centuries but it was only after English language came and spread that India’s freedom struggle began to form in full. When we love a language, we shall not be blind to its shortcomings or handicaps, or to the advantages of other languages. Languages can be used to liberate people or to plunge them to darkness.

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8. Keeping the dark states dark and making the lighted ones also turn dark.

Political parties that want to draw nourishment for growth from superstition, caste and community orientation, non-education, financial backwardness and religious zealotry find it convenient and useful to concentrate on the Hindi belt of states where all these negative (negative as viewed by progressive-minded people) nutrients or traits are in plenty or rampant. BJP is the finest example for doing this and they have been doing nothing else except this for decades. They collect the majority of their Parliament Members and Assembly Members from these states. But there are only nine states in India comprising the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi Belt where majority of the people speak Hindi and it is the official language: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Certainly the BJP cannot limit themselves to these nine states for ever if they want to rule India for a long time. If they want to spread to the other states, they have to either shed their negative preferences or convert the other states too to negative mindsets. Of course they cannot shed their negative preferences. So, naturally, they turn to the other and the only choice left to them- imposing Hindi officially on the non-Hindi-speaking people of India in the other states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Assam and Bengal, and deprive them of light and free thought like those people in the heart of India and turn them all too to darkness, before the Hindi-speaking states inevitably follow the non-Hindi-speaking states to light.

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9. BJP leaders’ attempt in Hindi is to become national heroes where they failed miserably in becoming international heroes.

So, it is not Hindi but creating the rebellion against Hindi that is important and vital for BJP. BJP is a restless criminal-minded leviathan, determined to split people by whatever way, rule, and go on with clandestine objectives and agendas. The inability to learn the international language English is not an excuse to spread the national language Hindi. It will spread without anyone’s compulsion if people need it, because it is a beautiful language rich in literature. But BJP shall not use it as a trick to deceive the people of India to take away the benefits of English and their own languages as a way to take away their freedom and liberation and to make them blind communal slaves again. Most people in India who know English also know Hindi, but the most people in India who know Hindi do not know even a word in English. The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was fluent in English and Hindi as well as several other languages including Afrikaans. He stole the heart of the world through his truthfulness, sincerity, simplicity and humbleness. The First Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru was fluent in English, Hindi and quite a few European languages and he became a loved one of the world through his knowledge and books. The most renowned President of India Dr. S. Radhakrishan mastered Tamil, English and Hindi and gained the respect of the whole world through his lectures, teachings and scholarly books. What has the BJP leaders to show? So, the BJP leaders’ attempt in Hindi is to become national heroes in the eyes of the illiterate and substandard where they failed miserably in becoming international heroes.

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First published on: Published on September 15, 2019

162. Will Reliance survive with only BJP members and sympathizers buying their products but people boycotting? P S Remesh Chandran

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Will Reliance survive with only BJP members and sympathizers buying their products but people boycotting?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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The earlier emergency in India in 1975 which reverted back to democracy in 1977 was imposed by a political party which was the Indian National Congress. The present undeclared emergency in India since 2019 was imposed by corporate industrialists and businessmen who operate through a Hindu political party which is the Bharatiya Janata Party. Therefore, the reverting back to democracy won’t be as easy as earlier but it sure is possible. Let us assume that no corporate company in India is or was as rich, powerful, influential and universally spread as Union Carbide was. When the Bhopal genocide happened, government practically did nothing against this company but the ordinary people of India, prompted of cource by the intellectually independent and the impartial in India, decided to boycott their Eveready batteries which were simply the best in India. Soon the boycott turned to their other products including even torches. Soon there was no one to buy Union Carbide products in India in spite of the government of India firmly standing behind this company.

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Because their products remained unsold in stores, the owners of these stores told the company’s sales vans that they could not stock anymore and this happened throughout India- in every city, town and village. In some places angry people even pulled the stock out of stores and burned them as a protest against Union Carbide. Union Carbide finally collapsed and became quite willing to come to terms with people in spite of the government compelling them not to succumb to people. This situation is now to repeat in India. People today understand well that the pro-Hinduist Reliance Industries is behind the suppression of people’s rights in India as they are the sole beneficiaries to almost all financial regulations the government brings about affecting the lives of the common people of India. Also almost all government contracts in petroleum, communications, railways and defense go to them. People need no more evidence.

If the people of India decide to boycott every Reliance product including their grocery and vegetable stores, petrol and diesel, and their communication network Geo, will this corporate survive with only BJP members and sympathizers buying their products? There are many ways for people to bring down corporate companies if and when they decide to take action. And it is an answer the corporate companies understand well, that if they want to rule they can rule but they cannot sell, forcing them to pull out of tacit arrangements behind government against people. People also know that their corporate empire exists out of huge bank loans. So, they want to sell, not rule, anyway.

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First published on: Published on September 13, 2019

161. Will Kashmir Move help India secure UN Security Council membership, or close that half-open door for ever? P S Remesh Chandran

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Will Kashmir Move help India secure UN Security Council membership, or close that half-open door for ever?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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India has long been vying for a permanent membership in the UN Security Council to sit with America, Britain, France, China and Russia. India’s decades-long struggle for securing this coveted position very nearly came to fruition recently but for not getting enough votes. There was then an atmosphere of India winning this position in her next try.

This was before the Kashmir issue became bold headlines in the world’s media again and became a hot topic for discussion in world capitals and international forums in August 2019. It was reported that the India government under the Hindu regime of Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP met in parliament for a very brief session and using the majority of seats in parliament which is already under fire for the first time in India for massive election rigging and voting machine manipulation, passed a bill taking away the special status given to Jammu & Kashmir in 1947 at the time when India gained independence from the British, thus unilaterally resolving within a few minutes without discussion the most controversial issue between India and Pakistan which the world has been discussing for decades.

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Not only was the twin state of Jammu & Kashmir split into two separate states making the former secular twin state into a Hindu-dominating Jammu and a Muslim-dominating Kashmir- a move no democratic and secular Indian leader till now did not dare take- but the people of Kashmir including their former Chief Ministers and leaders were also put in prisons and a curfew and news and communication blackout declared. Now, after this bifurcation of India-possessed Jammu and Kashmir into two and the promised re-possession of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir soon, will this move ensure India’s entry into the UN Security Council, or close this already half-open door for ever?

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We know the UN Security Council was formed after the Second World War. U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China were the five permanent members then and they are still now. It must also be remembered that why they were the only five permanent members in the Security Council was because these five countries were never part of the Hitler’s or Mussolini’s or Hirohito’s move to divide the world between them and were the countries which helped stop the dividing of the world by Germany, Italy and Japan. It is to be remembered here that no attempts till now by Italy, Germany and Japan to enter the Security Council as permanent members were successful. It looks like an unwritten law that no fascist, autocratic, theocratic or non-secular country shall be admitted into the UN Security Council as permanent members which becomes significant in the matter of India’s attempts to enter the coveted council as a permanent member. India now qualifies in all these respects for permanently being kept out, it looks.

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The permanent membership in the Security Council has not always been without changes in representation. The China which was given a permanent membership was the Kuomintang China under Chiang Kai-shek which became extinct in 1949 following the Chinese Communist Revolution when the People’s Republic of China was established. Chiang Kai-shek who escaped to Formosa held on to the permanent membership for a time but then in …. it went to the Communist China. So, we cannot say that there were not changes in the permanent membership in the UN Security Council though there were not additions. When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics split into several states also this question of who will represent Russia in the Security Council arose.

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First published on: Published on September 12, 2019

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160. How much of national historic figures are prime ministers, presidents and leaders now? P S Remesh Chandran

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How much of national historic figures are prime ministers, presidents and leaders now?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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America has had such national historic figures as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as Presidents. Compared to them Donald Trump is a buffoon, creating an example of nothing for the world to reminisce and the future generation to cherish. America deserves him because America lowered its guards and lowered itself from the levels of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and came down willingly and pleasantly to the levels of Donald Trump to receive him in future as their captain and chief. Every nation gets its people and its prime ministers, presidents and leaders it deserves either by rising up or by coming down in standards and outlooks. 

India has had such national historic figures as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, and Dr. Sarvappalli Radhakrishnan as leaders, prime ministers and presidents. India of those times deserved them because it rose disentangling itself from the chains of caste and communalism, united as one political entity and forced the mighty British out of India. Such feats by people rarely happen in the history of a country and that is what makes that generation distinct, and distinguished. It was like those generations of Americans who did the American War of Independence, those French who carried out the French Revolution and those Russians who created the October Revolution, all only for once. So, compared to those independence-struggling generation of people and their historic leaders, Narendra Modi and his India looks a puny little tableau, immobile and incapable of moving anything in the world, not even itself, and re-entangled in the chains of caste and communalism, helpless in even pushing its neighbors back an inch from borders.

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About the Author P. S. Remesh Chandran:

Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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Post: P. S. Remesh Chandran, Editor, Sahyadri Books, Trivandrum, Padmalayam, Nanniyode, Pacha Post, Trivandrum- 695562, Kerala State, South India.

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National Historic Leaders, Prime Ministers Presidents Leaders, French Revolution, October Revolution, American War Of Independence, American Russian French, India News Politics, Caste Communalism,

First published on: Published on September 12, 2019