The fringe of fringes

Fringes by their very characteristics do dominante the public discourse and try to dominate the public narrative towards their very ideological inclinations. 

Whether it's a Sadhvi Prachi on one extreme or a Brinda Karat on the other, the core elements of their thought & action follow the same pattern. 

The former might have a fetish for a stark chastity, while the latter might be a votary of indulgent promiscuity. 

Both have their own language, symbols and motifs to communicate their very own worldviews to their very followings sharing each of their respective ideological moorings. 

Both despise each other with utmost disdain and look forward for trampling the other's viewpoint at the first opportunity. 

The following of both these fringes keep on dwindling and thereby keep on determining the directionality of national discourse. 

Which one of them is progressive or which one of them is regressive, would certainly remain an object of constant debate and is somewhere needed for a vibrant civil society. 

It's just very normal that a piece of art for one can be interpreted as an object of sheer vulgarity by the other. 

For one devouring beef is just a culinary preference, for the other it's an emotive extravaganza at par with murder. 

A democratic and liberal society like India has always lived somewhere in a continuum between these two fringes. 

These two poles have given rise to a vibrant society with innumerable ways of life all cohabiting and adjusting with each other making course corrections on way with law of the land safeguarding the fundamental human liberties. 

One fringe taking over the right to free speech of that of other by any form of intellectual skullduggery or shenanigans just cannot be exercised in perpetuity.

The recent tirade to abuse a tolerant Indian society tethered to its Civilizational virtues of peace & prosperity was somewhere an aberration inspired from fissiparous alien forces. 

This fringe of the fringes need to be thwarted by all means. 

Frivolous Flirting to Fierce Fending :: The Tale of Two Indian Prime Ministers

The fireworks at Wembley somewhere created a historical cusp in the destiny of India. 

While on one hand it marked the 125 years of mortal emergence of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the political aristocrat of suave mannerisms who was chosen to be India's Premier by the Father of the nation at the time of India's Independence from the British; it commemorated the 25 months of anointment of Narendra Damodardas Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the 15th Lok Sabha Elections who led India to a decisive political landscape after a 3 decade of turpitude and confusion.

The contrasting nature in the origins, struggle and eventual deliverance of these two gentlemen couldn't have been more diverse and differentiated, something which the wielding cauldron of Wembley witnessed and would certainly remain a glaring testimony for the ages to come. 

Creating a majestic myth out of a mole was greatly possible in the age old days of Chacha Nehru who got catapulted as a legend despite the momentous blunders he made while ruling India for 18 long years. 

In today's era of multimedia enriched real time mass communications with a perpetual coverage even your momentous gyrations to let go the fart or yawn gets noticed and becomes a point for greater scrutiny. What to talk of closely guarded secrets which could pass on for decades without any reproach. 

Amidst such tribulations, attracting and continuing a whopping fan following has been no less daunting a task for Modi.

While Chacha Nehru got it all on a platter from the comforts of Anand Bhawan to the entry to Inner Temple to the entitlement to hoist the national flag at Red Fort; Modi had to make a long haul from the railway platform of Vadnagar and still has to carry along with the brickbats of his very own seniors. 

While Chacha used to visit London, on every possible pretext to further his frivolous flirting with Edwina Mountbatten; it took the fierce fending of the cause of a Shyamji Krishna Verma to instigate Modi to the shores of Thames twice in 12 years where he got him reinstated to the Bar posthumously though.

While Chacha's eloquence in the imperial language both in letters and diction used to resonate and reverberate every now and then as the stellar standard of intellectual finesse; Modi's Indianized English replete with sincere action, committed delivery and inclusive global vision transformed it all in the British Parliament. 

Despite his absolute subservience to the English Civilizational values & virtues; Chacha couldn't move & woo a Churchill who procrastinated India's independence over technical trifles. 

On the other hand an overtly Indian in Modi, impressed upon a Cameron to become a cheerleader of the Indian cause across frontiers including India's rightful position for a permanent seat in UN Security Council.

India's emergence on the global scene in the last 18 months of Modi rule has been unprecedented by all yardsticks, something which an 18 year stint of Nehru couldn't accomplish even remotely.  

Nehru created a unique tolerance for indulgence ridden incompetence and intellectual discourse which continued the alienated view of India. 

Restraint & penance do define the underlying persona of Modi whose relentless striving creates a

definitive intolerance for sluggishness, mediocrity and compromise.

While Nehru took pride in being called the last British Prime Minister of India;

Modi became the First Indian Prime Minister to have electrified the erstwhile imperial capital of the world with the majestic resplendence of India.  

This Children's Day, it's for us to decide as to who should be the ideal of our kids - the frivolous flirt or the fierce fender of the Indian civilization. 

Prodyut to Prashant :: Paratroopers in Technology Driven Professional Electioneering

Strange and sinister are the ways and means of credit giving and snatching in the political arena. The entire media limelight on Sushasan Babu got stolen overnight towards the campaigner-in-command Prashant Kishor whose peans are now being sung inside and outside, creating national headlines though for brief epochs, projecting him as the emancipator of the brouhaha of Bihar. In an ever-interfacing inter-connected world, globally integrated lobbies wreck havoc on public minds snatching away their very power of original critical thought. 

The boy from Buxar, the erstwhile seat of Sage Vishwamitra and theater of the second most crucial imperial contest for the British, might have championed a branded model of technology driven professional electioneering first under the auspices of CAG and later under the banner of IPAC, doesn't happen to be the first paratrooper into the fray. 

The resplendent reminiscences of the much avowed #IndiaShining campaign at the close of NDA-1, orchestrated by the Late Pramod Mahajan with professional inputs from Sushil Pandit's The Hive, still recapitulates the soaring sores, in the advent of the momentous political debacle. The precept, the design, and the eventual delivery was nonetheless unprecedented and a pioneering attempt from within. 

The fall-out of the so very well tuned in #MajbootNetaNirnayakSarkar campaign, by the Stephenanian and IIMA grad turned political activist in Prodyut Bora, was a greater attempt in professional electioneering with all kinds of technological tom-tomming available at that point in time. 

Prodyut's YPRI (Young Professionals for a Resurgent India) was somewhere a precursor to Prashant's CAG (Citizen's for Accountable Governance). Like the several of 'mind-boggling' Indian Start-Up Innovation driven enterprises & bollywood masala scripts this too was a blemish borrowing from the wielding west which started its romances with campaign based manipulation of public opinion much earlier. 

The turn of the tides of professional electioneering in its third attempt turned the fortunes of Prashant Kishor, largely due to the stellar track record of Narendra Modi and realpolitik grassroots understanding of Amit Shah. 

The debacle in Bihar & Delhi is being seen as the classic outcome of a political gridlock accentuated by the Unified Opposition which is finding it difficult to gain grounds in the advent of the Modi-Shah-Bhagwat-Madhav-Doval-Sahasrabuddhe-Murlidhar-Rajnath-Gadkari-Venkaiah-Jaitley juggernaut. 

The performing core of visionary Good Governance setting in some of the structural & foundational transformations having geo-political ramifications; supported by the disciplined Party Organization consolidating the core vote base and fending for newer equations & allies; galvanized by the Spiritualized Societal Superstructure streamlined & cemented by the Sangh Pariwar has created a greater existential crisis for fissiparous political enterprises whose motto has been invariably "power for power sake". 

It would take the master strategists & organizers to accomplish a breakthrough to squander this political chakravyuha. Sooner, than later, it should be done, putting to service the tactics & tools of the opposing forces themselves.  

Technology driven political messaging, no doubt turned the eyeballs of one and all for its newness, but its role cannot be accorded more importance than that of an item number by a supporting-actress. The central grand narrative was undoubtedly woven & spearheaded by the long haul committed delivery in public service where even a couple of khadi kurtas used to be a luxury to the key proponents.

The high-handedness in creating a larger than life image for such Campaign Managers is again an exercise in sophistry as there is nothing which is ordained from some heavenly revelations. Any such technology driven professional electioneering campaign can be easily curated from first principles of 

• identifying the target stakeholders, clustering and linking them across creating the tactical social graphs with all the concerned parameters in place. 
• converging on a set of narratives around which this stakeholder base has to be engaged with, compiling enough content from multifarious sources with ready research & analytics capabilities to back up an ever increasing knowledge driven space. 
• fine-tuning & integrating a mix of engagement mediums & tactics from digital to physical to what all and what not both covert and overt across levels. 

The real glory and power has to vest with the leaders of the masses who have the capacity to invoke their collective will for a converged action. Originality of thought rooted in the glocalized context integrated duly with the action programmes can only come out of decades of selfless public service, where power is just a means of amplifying the drive. 

The growing aspiration of an ever connected electorate is making this as a standing exercise which is good from a participative governance standpoint as well. 

The risk of dejection and sense of rejection which paratroopers from Prodyut to Prashant face post electoral victories forcing them to jump the ship creating a momentary vacuum, can always be obliterated by creating a party wide in-house corporate function of technology driven professional electioneering. 

The differentiating aspect of technology is easy to get internalized by the ideologically initiated cadre which by its very orientation is not keen to steal the overnight limelight without the tribulations in the fray. 

For record, the Man @ Wembley, spent some 3 odd decades to become an overnight sensation and a global heartthrob.

The professional paratroopers in politics need to understand this amply well.

  

The Entrapment of Indian Civilization :: Deepening of Societal Fault Lines by Well Oiled Global Research Networks

The recently published research work of Akshaya Mukul, a veteran Times of India Journalist, titled "Gitapress and the Making of Hindu India" would pass the test of intellectual rigor with its 1251 references scattered across 293 sources. 

This 430 pager work, undertaken over an year sponsored by New India Foundation funded by Nandan Nilekani, managed by Ram Chandra Guha and inspired by Wendy Doniger - the doyenne of Hindu Studies expert in demonizing the same, by author's own admission is "not to sing paeans of Gitapress".

Pursuing the very spirit of her mentor's footsteps who grew to infamy by authoring a crude, lewd and very rude commentary on Hindus, which had to be pulped down by its publisher; this work fares no better.

Well researched on facts, but intellectually dishonest & haywire on conclusions, the author however does a good job of sufficing his central quest of placing Gitapress within the larger canvas of the much 'haunted' Hindu Nationalism in the colonial as well as post-colonial India. 

The epithets of "A rare treasure trove" by the likes of Arundhati Roys and "A powerful and original work" by Ramchandra Guha, somewhere alerts about the mischievous intent of this colossal work. 

The author couldn't resist his innate affection and reverence to his parents Manorama & Madhusudan, by dedicating this work to them. By his own admittance, he differed on the ideological plane with his father who originally seeded the idea for a book on Gitapress, unraveling its success mantra. He however seem to have pursued the ideological framework of Mr. Nilekani, whose IT dollars funded this research work and who too had had his curiosity on the economics of Gitapress in due furtherance of his personal quest of Re-Imagining India & Rebooting India.

What's noteworthy about this work is the sheer exposition of a global inter-connected network of scholars & academics treading a particular line of thought which is averse to the ideal & reality of India. 

It's interesting to note that Malavika Kasturi and Kajri Jain of University of Toronto have much say and influence in the affairs concerning Gitapress. 

The deeper academic interest of Shahid Amin & Ulrike Stark in Gitapress is quite illumining.

A Siddharth Varadarajan provides access to The Hindu Archives and a Mushirul Hasan gives a cue on the politics around cow to the author. The novelist & writer Ajaz Ashraf patronizes & prods the author and Jyotirmaya Sharma of University of Hyderabad fine-tuning the key arguments. A Nandini Sundar adds on to the narrative around Hindu Nationalist Fascination around adivasis.

A Monika Freier comes mid-way in the research, who leads the author to Paul Arney who happens to be the first scholar to work on Gita Press. A Medha M. Kudaisya of NUS Singapore, opened up the sources on the world of Kolkata Marwaris.

Such a multi-layered academic interest around the central protagonist of Gitapress, would have existed, is a cause of celebration as well as concern equally as the author investigates Gitapress from a perspective of Commissioner's Record Room; CID Records and UP State Archives as well. 

This gets all the more intriguing as by author's very own factual admission Gitapress parallels its success with the Bible Society.

It would take a while to undergo a detailed semantic analysis of this 1.3 lakh word long treatise to unravel its ideological universe. Guha's erudite cutting of 60,000 odd words would make this task a bit simpler. 

However, the titles of the chapters suggest it all. From starting with the title of "A Twentieth-Century Hindu Missionary and His Mentor", the author unravels "The World of Gita Press", enumerating its Local, National, Transnational Contributors.

After laying the content foundation with elaborate facts and figures, he starts converging his work by invoking the well established labeling strategy, terming Gita Press as "Foot Soldier of the Sangh Parivar". The theme then hovers through the narrative of "Religion as Politics, Politics of Religion" and conclude by challenging "The Moral Universe of Gitapress".

The contextual universe of these Well Oiled Research Networks is somewhere limited to the twin tactics of baiting & denigrating a tolerant and all absorbing & assimilating Indian Civilization. What better than entrapping & attacking some of its foundational & prominent institutions masquerading geo-political agenda as academic research.

These academic Sleeper cells create the baseline breeding ground for the unleashing of intellectual terrorism, of whose power & potential we have witnessed on the domestic political turf.

While, the Dalmatian Bella of Mr. Mukul would have been continuing his loyalty to his master, he couldn't resist his temptation to elude the New India Foundation fellowship, to unleash an intellectual treachery with his own parents and motherland. Such is the nature and character of modern day progressive liberality which just perpetrates self-indulgent hollow intellectualism to further deepen the societal fault-lines.     

The Reckoning of Bihar

Much before the electoral outcomes of Bihar all those forces which are oblique & oblivious to the Indian view had regrouped & regalvanized converging their energies to create a well coordinated multi-layered attack on the emergent developmental narrative of India. 

They used every arsenal in their ammunition deck to unleash and widen up the very fault lines of Indian society so very resplendent and deeply entrenched into the societal canvass of Bihar. 

Small stray incidents were carefully chosen and blown out of proportion and converted into a rallying war cry to capsize the attention of one and all. The contesting emotive narrative of 'intolerance' became the dominant one and overturned the 'developmental' doctrine, which gets more intellectual to internalise.

The wide range of tactics deployed to amplify and sustain this 'intolerance' ripple can be an emphatic case study for academics & journalists of various hues but would somewhere have a deeper reckoning to the strategists defining the direction and furtherance of the BJP empire.

The strategic triad of Development, Governance and consequent Electoral Politics somewhere took the predominant seat within the rank and file of party thinkers and organizers making them grossly oblivious to the sordid state of affairs prevalent. 

The narrative of development can give a chuckle to the electorate for a while, but to be a persistent part of this long painstaking process the comfort zones of many are to be abrogated, which have its  own side-effects.

The bonds created out of electoral politics are quite shallow and are based on a kind of a short term revocable contract. I would give you my franchise, you shall provide me back with my sheer comforts whatsoever I have got used to. I am not bothered as to how you should accomplish it. I don't care what all legacy challenges you face and I won't appreciate your efforts and the grandiose  of your vision. I am driven by my impulses and not the intricacies of your intellectual inadequacies. You can't appeal to my sense of fulfilment beyond a point. I am a mere self-centred indulgent consumer of political services, you have to satiate me by all means or else I would  sabotage and scuttle even the most profound of work in progress. 

Transformational Developmental Governance has thereby to be consoldiated and integrated into the deeper civilizational values and virtues heralded, defended and showcased by  intellectual leaders in the social, spiritual and academic confines.

Somewhere, this parallel element of societal organisation based on conventional civilizational ethos duly defended and championed by a vigilant, well networked and action oriented intelligentsia deeply anchored & nurtured by social & academic institutions has been missed out to a great extent. 

The decoupling of the political narrative from that of the civilizational one has somewhere dented the political prospects which is being over exemplified all over again continuing the vicious trap.

The ideal of 'Organization for Organization' sake can go on in the societal space for perpetuity. But in order to capsize the damsel of power persistently for a longer haul, a much wider construct would be warranted for suiting to the most modern, sophisticated and subtle tactics of psychological warfare. 

A cogent community of dispassionate thinkers and activists armed and endowed sufficiently to carry forward the civilizational narrative of India would have to be created.

They would defend the civilizational values & virtues on the intellectual plane from a positive & progressive standpoint. They would have the audacity to accept the dents & aberrations into the fabric and the capacity to extoll the reasoning behind. 

This community would also undertake the decimation of intellectual sophistry aimed at disarming the indigenous precept by laying various false traps such as the one woven through the triad of 'municipal meat ban'; 'stray beef violence'; and 'awardwapasi'.

The objective discourse on the innate intrinsic ethos of Indian civilizational virtues would be the third and most important element of this rejiging effort which would inspire and instigate a wide variety of advancements and integrations across. 

It would be difficult to continue the politics of development without the outer layers of subtle but significant civilizational discourse unfurling in action. 

The wolves have been terming the cows as intolerant, disarming even their little leftover natural resistance. If they are not contained by erecting the outer security wall of herbivore elephants whose trumpeting can scare them out, the lone tigers would find it difficult to prevent the slaughter.

It's all about lifestyle

I got a chance to pay a visit to a long time mentor Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, a senior BJP functionary, leading the prestigious Rambhau Mhlagni Prabodhini and directing its Public Policy Research Centre. 

It was a delight to see a man of profound wisdom, all pervasive connections and tremendous influence to be humble to the hilt anchored perpetually to the goal of national resurrection and inducing the same during that 2.5 hour of dinner interaction. 

The straightforwardness to assert the strengths and openly accepting the weaknesses coupled with the firmness to alleviate the same through multifarious interventions, is a trait which only honest and hardworking optimists can only unleash at ease without reproach even amidst the ongoing downpour of malicious negativity being perpetrated from several quarters. 

The organiser in him went beyond sheer philosophising & enunciating high octane precepts and made a direct humane connect ridden with causeless affection and care making a silent but significant transformation. 

The serene smile signifying a deeper sense of contentment just quashed all concerns at once and gave a much larger and deeper perspective for advancing in life without compromising on the foundational values or deviating from the chosen vision. 

So much so far from a man who is an integral member of the 'saffron-khaki' clan, which is demonised and derided at the drop of an handkerchief by the now-collapsing coterie of inimical forces who somewhere get terrified by the frugal sattvic lifestyles of these swayamsevaks who have an eternal anti-dote to all negativity. 

The dinner spread at his 145 South Avenue based residence answered the underlying secret of it all. It was the typical Indian sattvic mix of healthy food, chapatis, daal, sabji, salad et al, interestingly without onion & garlic cooked with extreme finesse.

This dinner meeting with Dr Sahasrabuddhe unraveled the manifestation of the over-arching principle of Indian Civilization which has emphasised upon simple living and high thinking.

It's all about lifestyles at the end of the day. It drives and governs your thought process and makes you what you are. 

Shekhar's Serendipity :: Calls for a Seditious Splintering of the Indian Union

One of the suave vocal voices of Indian liberality Shekhar Gupta, took the plunge of going through the Vijaya Exhortation of Dr. Mohan Bhagwat. Defying serendipity, his prejudiced glasses could only discover a plethora of pernicious phrases & pointers from the masterpiece containing over 45 odd nuggets of wisdom. 

Going through his weekender piece titled "A Nagpur Manifesto" somewhere brought about the profound difference between scientific objective discourse which has to be backed by reason and has to fall into a contour of consistency. Politically prejudiced journalistic commentaries are meant to operate in a zero gravity environment, whereby the authenticity of going through a piece is not important. It's the name which matters and it's the coterie which celebrates anything which falls in their ambit of reasoning, howsoever naive or loquacious it might be. 

Like a typical Search Engine Optimization agent, they tend to fit in as many keywords as possible in these write-ups of theirs so as to force fit their ongoing narrative on the objective news items. Humanities they say, thereby rule the elements as its sauce of sophistry can deceive the human neurons, if not alert and present to the context.

If it's the Government of the RSS, then why shouldn't The Vijaya Exhortation of the Sarsanghchalak be accorded a similar status as that of The State of the Union Address and why not even more as it is addressed to the billion plus population of this country as a whole?

Thankfully for India, it's not the Government of the Unfaithful, who have had been rejoicing their personal privileges at the expense of toiling millions.

Mr. Gupta's dressing sense might be having a contempt to the wide spread khaki knickers which the swayamsevaks find it quite convenient to undertake their morning Surya Namaskars. This might be for their want for expensive NIKE sports gear which the liberality puts on to burn their morning calories or for their excessive conscious sense to create an easily accessible & affordable desi attire. At this juncture he is okay mocking at the simple, or simplistic attire, while on the other he leaves not a single chance to take a jibe at the mesmerizing dressing sense of the swayamsevak in command of the Government of India. It's really hard to comprehend as to what's the point he is trying to make. Is the simplicity of the 'ganvesh' is his cause of concern, or is the resplendence of attire of India's Prime Minister, his taboo? Perhaps, in his worldview replete with theoretical pauperization, such a contrast just doesn't fit in. On the contrary, the Indian Worldview is equal at ease with this natural gradient of choices & preferences.

This naivety thereby extends to other complex and advanced concepts as in appreciating the ideal of 'Unity-in-Diversity' which he proposes to simplify for a merely celebration of whopping diversity, a motif ridden with profound mischief aimed at ulterior motivations of fragmenting the Union of India which was so painstakingly unified by freedom fighters. 

For the purpose of self-aggrandizement, these high priests of liberality secured in myriad ways would abuse their intellectual prowess to perpetrate ideas of extreme seditious nature and attempt to cover them up into some high-octane intellectual discourse which interestingly has to be protected by the state of the day as their absolute constitutional right of freedom of expression. 

Out of the 45 odd points of deliberation which the Sarsanghchalak exhorted on the day of Vijaya, he could pick up only the one concerning the balancing of population with the natural resources of the country for a prosperous living. 

If Mr. Gupta's celebration of diversity tantamount to an uneven state, then the rule of the law of the land would be hard to keep. Well, the aristocracy of the unfaithful liberality has never had enough regard to the law as it constituted the extended protectorate of the powers of the day. But could the same privilege be extended to a billion plus nation risking a profound civil war? If that's his innate intent and objective as an agent of inducing chaos, it's an another matter altogether.

Mr. Gupta couldn't pick up any wisdom or value from the other pointers pertaining to the philosophical deficiencies of the global policy deck in advancing development and the due course corrections which have been made in due synchronization with the age-old Indian ethos, which the Sarsanghchalak chooses to call as Hindutva. 

If I have a profound repository of civilizational wisdom, why should I be apologetic about accepting them in my individual, communal and national life? Practices & precepts which are aberrated or have served their utility are obvious choices for pruning, which a vigilant and self-conscious society undergoes through a constant process of self-purification. Does it need external apologetics and mischief mongers to intrude and convolute the entire process per se. 

Hypocrisy has somewhere become the predominant pathogen of the unfaithful liberality, which has kept itself self-indulgent pursuing narratives which suit their existence. Intellectualism which is not delivering or liberating, which is not responsible to the welfare of the masses to which it's subjected at, is just an exercise in deceit and treachery. 

From the age of roti & kaudi to that of twitter & television, the Indian society had had its ways and means of sharing the dominant precepts of its civilizational ethos. An organization of 90 year old standing with over 51000 units doesn't need the alms of any media organization to express itself. A simple factor of 10 makes them cover the entire length and breadth of the country. They constitute a Real Social Media in themselves. Fluttering over the live telecast of Sarsanghchalak's Vijaya Exhortation is thereby nothing but an obligation for the entire spectrum of media organizations. There would be alien forces which would not like this to happen. Exposing them and their sheer motives should thereby be an exercise deserving credentials in journalistic investigation.

What's wrong with having an ideological underpinning which believes in the global superiority of Indian culture, philosophy and science? If Indians won't be having this, is Mr. Gupta expecting a Donald Trump to stand for it?

The sordid tales of European Imperialism have been documented by their very chroniclers, while the profound influence of Indian Civilization is still having its reverberations. The recently concluded Dharma-Dhamma Global Congregation at Indore, brought about these closely knitted civilizational ties together rooted in a spiritualized world order envisioned by Rishis and Lamas alike. 

Having a qualified phobia is a sign of wisdom and not weakness. As an individual, I should have the freedom to choose what I like and drop what I don't. The same holds true with organizations and nations. What's wrong in picking up the best values & virtues from the Western World while dropping those facets which are either irrelevant or extraneous to Indian Civilizational designs?
However, if you are hired for perpetrating a particular way of life for advancing the strategic goals of your masters, this is an extremely valid question from your stable? Creating a sense of contradiction whereby none exists, is a master stroke in sophistry.

The Kalam Standard of patriotism is probably shared by the vast majority of the minority community if not mollycoddled by the liberality which remains unfaithful to the Indian nation. The intrinsic synthesis of the Indian mind emanates such tactical accommodations and prevents an ISIS like happening in this vast sub-continent. Would Mr. Gupta who in his vast journalistic experience has simply exposed fault-lines have any better idea to bridge them? Solution centric journalistic commentaries would have to be made the order of the day for evoking responsibility. If a poor policeman has to collect his bullet shells even after a ghastly encounter, shouldn't a journalist of the repute of Mr. Gupta advance a resolution as well, closer to his convictions, or else what value does his commentary has - a figment of imagination or an attempt to broaden the existing fault lines?

He has issues with the invocation of Ambedkar by a Sarsanghchalak as if a Benjamin Netanyahu is kissing a Rami Hamdallah on the mouth. The objective accounts of the alienation of a considerable mass of Indian population into the Dalit fold are available across the board. How this very fault lines has been a point of exploitation for ages, is also duly documented. Sarsanghchalak's call to unify the entire Indian society can be a distress signal to the forces of disruption and disintegration.

It's Dr. Ambedkar's constitution only which mandated for a Right to Equality for all Indian Citizens, which just cannot be interpreted differentially by making the Supreme Lords in Black Coats to embark upon a night-out on a hue and cry over an execution by an ever hyper liberality, proving its unfaithfulness to the Indian Republic all over again. The Vijaya Exhortation across its elaborate expanse, nowhere engages in a seditious serendipity. 

It's in the nature of nature that winds do flow from high pressure areas to lower pressure ones. If Indians have over the ages evolved an elaborate philosophical foundation and based its societal transactions on them and created a stupendous economy and polity, creating an integrating living experience, is this their fault? The brief era of disruption & subduing by imperialistic forces can't take away the depth & reasoning of the Indian Knowledge Systems. If these winds have chosen to flow to lower depression areas, what's haunting or disturbing in this? Scoring a political point in the garb of a philosophical meandering is again a vicious attempt in intellectual skulduggery. 

When Mr. Gupta, couldn't find enough sewer silt in the Vijaya Exhortation, which presumable he didn't even go through once or else he would have fallen in love with the 'closure of ideas' presented out there, he expanded his horizons to read the minds of Sarsanghchalak's ideologues who in his opinion can only make deeper cultural changes riding only on the state power. He just makes this assertion, without substantiating it with any tangible evidence. Again, a tactic deployed by his clan of liberality. 

Going to the extreme of the argument, are these ideologues hard pressed for the oxygen of state power for bringing about a deeper cultural change within India. They have been doing it all through. It's just that, it's being used as a tool for tampering their tethers. These are lone crusaders championing their age-old civilizational convictions right from the age of the invading Alexander of Macedonia of the fabled Greece. 

A Dinanath Batra didn't have a Mukul Rohtagi has his disposal to thwart the lewd & ludicrous lullaby of a Wendy Doniger. A Rajiv Malhotra didn't have the signing authority from the Consolidated Fund of India to create a formidable academic defence for the Indian Civilization duly attacked by the triad of Marxist, Missionary and Muslim intellectual forces in the new age of intellectual imperialism. 

The intellectual bankruptcy or the sinister brief being carried out by Mr. Gupta gets amply exposed when he amusingly starts disputing the call for Common Laws and Common Policies as Majoritarian & Unsustainable and indirectly suggests them as unconstitutional. 

Is he looking for variants of IPC, CRPC, and the host of other laws promulgated by the Parliament? Is this the summum bonum of the liberality discourse to splinter India?  

Mr. Gupta might be going the Kejriwal way to pick up an argument with the Sarsanghchalak Ji, but I would like to invoke the night-out friendly Supreme Lords of my land to pay heed to this seditious serendipity of Mr. Gupta suo moto being the sovereign guardians of the letter & spirit of Indian Constitution. 


Mr. Shekhar Gupta would also appreciate that the constitutional guarantees are not absolute. His serendipity in sedition can only go this far as the key tenets of his sophistry get amply exposed in letter as well as spirit. 

The Vijaya Exhortation

The Sarsanghchalaks of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh give their annual exhortation on the ocassion of Vijayadashmi. The following the key snippets of Dr. Mohan Bhagwat's address to the Indian Society on Vijayadashmi 2015.

The Goal for Bharat
Accomplishing the goal of 

Building a prosperous, efficient & egalitarian Bharat;

Bringing peace, prosperity & progress, right from our families to the whole world;

based on the strength of an organized society. #TheVijayaExhortation (1)

Resurgence of Bharat & Bharatiya Society
The resurgence of a self reliant, strong, prosperous and secure Bharat, giving benevolent & flourishing leadership to the world, is possible only when an egalitarian, organized & enlightened society with self esteem strives towards this end.
#TheVijayaExhortation (2)

Resolve of Society on Policies
The firm resolve of such a society (egalitarian, organized & enlightened) will reflect on the policies of our democratic system and the constitutional authorities who run the system. #TheVijayaExhortation (3)

Policies & Society
Agile, clear, accurate policies as well as discretion of a society which is free of selfishness & divisiveness are mandatory requirements to change the destiny of nation and, therefore, it is essential that both should complement each other.#TheVijayaExhortation (4)
Present situation in the country A very optimistic and soothing view.  
An atmosphere of disappointment and lost faith, which existed couple of years back, has evaporated. 
An atmosphere of expectations has come to fore, generating a sense of optimism that such expectations shall be fulfilled. #TheVijayaExhortation (5)

POSITIVE VIBES TO REAL POSITIVE CHANGE
It has to be made sure that these positive vibes reaches the last person in the row, by turning it into an actual experience by bringing about a real positive change in his life; his trust in the bright future of his own personal life as also of national, should grow.#TheVijayaExhortation (6)
BHARAT's GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS
It is becoming evident to all that Bharat’s esteem in the world has gone up many-fold in the last couple of years. In view of Bharat’s national interest, many pro active steps have been taken to improve bilateral relationship with the neighboring countries, with successful results. #TheVijayaExhortation (7)

EMERGENCE OF NEW MODERN BHARAT
It seems that the world is being introduced to a new modern Bharat.The World is experiencing a Bharat, which is full of self-respect & self-confidence, maintaining the traditional view of goodwill towards all but, at the same time, unhesitatingly taking stand in very clear terms, in international diplomacy whenever national interests are involved, and giving a helping hand to nations in distress anywhere in the world. #TheVijayaExhortation (8)

Bharat is reincarnating itself into an all together new manifestation and the world is enchanted to see Bharat’s new Avatar with utmost optimism. Bharat’s Gita, Yoga and Tathagat have a universal acceptance like never before. #TheVijayaExhortation (9)

POLICY FORMULATION IN CONSONANCE WITH BHARTIYA PSYCHE
Keeping in view the need to develop goodwill for Bhartiya psyche & tradition and to protect and enhance its prestige, Policies are being formulated at the administrative level.  #TheVijayaExhortation (10)

BHARAT'S LEADERSHIP TO DEVELOPING WORLD
All the developing nations of the world are looking forward to Bharat’s leadership to emancipate them from the undesirable influence of the so called world powers. #TheVijayaExhortation (11)

AGE-OLD DIPLOMATIC APPROACH :: BALANCING NATIONAL WITH GLOBAL INTERESTS
Throughout its chequered history of rise and fall, Bharat has always treated the whole world as its own family. On account of its agility and strength, Bharat has always followed the tradition of finding the balance between national interests and world interests, with utmost integrity towards both, and today we are gradually experiencing the glimpse of same age-old diplomatic approach. #TheVijayaExhortation (12)

A NEW VIEW OF ADAPTIVE BHARATIYA SOCIETY
It is necessary that this effulgent picture of Bharat is imprinted in the mind of the World as well as in the mind of every individual of the land. Hence, it is vital that we should make all walks of our national life vibrant with a new thought and new valiant efforts. So, creating a new picture of the society capable of adopting policies & systems in keeping with modern times and, at the same time, based on the foundations of the eternal truth, which forms the substratum of our immortal national life, is the need of the hour.
#TheVijayaExhortation (13)
CREATING AN INDEPENDENT MODERN ROADMAP FOR BHARAT
We must come out of “Saheb is always Right” (“Saheb Wakyam Pramanam”) mentality. Making Bharatiya mind and soul as the basis, we should adopt whatever is good, truthful & fair from the rest of the world and create an independent modern road-map for our nation. #TheVijayaExhortation (14)

SYNERGY OF THOUGHTS & ACTION OF INTELLIGENTSIA, ADMINISTRATION and GOVERNMENT
The thoughts & actions of intelligentsia, administration and policies of government should be transformed accordingly. In the absence of this synergy, it will not be possible to present a Bharat that is self-reliant, egalitarian, strong & prosperous. #TheVijayaExhortation (15)

REVIEW OF DEFICIENT THOUGHT PROCESSES & PHILOSOPHIES
Deficiencies of the thought processes & philosophies, which prevailed for centuries in the world, are being scientifically proved. The ill-effects of such deficient thought process & philosophies are even more compelling to ponder over the very same thought processes and philosophies have made review of them all the more compelling.#TheVijayaExhortation (16)

DEFICIENT PROCLAMATION OF 1951
In 1951, Social and economic department of United Nations, supporting these deficient philosophies had made following proclamation:
“There is a sense in which rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments. Ancient philosophies have to be scrapped; old social institutions have to disintegrate. Bonds of caste, creed & race have to burst and large numbers of persons who cannot keep up with the progress have to have their expectations of a comfortable life frustrated. Very few communities are willing to pay the full price of economic progress.” It was an extremely materialistic, self-centered and insensitive philosophy that was forced upon the world.
#TheVijayaExhortation (17)
REVIEW OF THE EXTREMELY MATERIALISTIC, SELF-CENTERED & INSENSITIVE PHILOSOPHY
When the ill-effects of the very same philosophy started affecting the proponents of this philosophy, they made a sudden U turn. 
In October 2005, the conclave of the Governors of Central Banks of the G20 countries declared: 
“We note development approaches are evolving over time and thus need to be updated as economic challenges unfold. —— We recognize there is no uniform development approach that fits all the countries. Each country should be able to choose the development approaches & policies that best suit its specific characteristics while benefitting from there accumulated experience in policy making over last decades, including the importance of strong macroeconomic policies for sustained growth.”     
#TheVijayaExhortation (18)



REVIEW OF THE EXTREMELY MATERIALISTIC, SELF-CENTERED & INSENSITIVE PHILOSOPHY CONTD.
Bringing more clarity to the statement above, News Bulletin of World Bank in 2008, said:
“In our work across the world we have learnt the hard way that there is no one model that fits all. Development is all about transformation. It means taking the best ideas, testing them in new situations and throwing away what doesn’t work. It means, above all, having the ability to recognize when we have failed. This is never an easy thing to do. It is ever more difficult for an organization to do so, be it the government or the World Bank, which constantly need to adapt to the changing nature of developmental challenge.” #TheVijayaExhortation (19)
STICKING TO THE TIME TESTED BHARATIYA PHILOSOPHY
After this self realization, phrases like ‘Holistic’ and ‘Sustainable development’ started appearing in the world discourse over development talks. Environmental concerns also could find made some place in this discourse. So, it will be prudent to free ourselves from the tendency to accept this deficient philosophy as the ultimate truth, since it in itself is going through the cycle of experiment- experience- change. 
It would be better if we stick to our time tested philosophy. #TheVijayaExhortation (20)


COOPERATION & COORDINATION
This philosophy is based on cooperation & coordination. According to this philosophy, Dharma and Sanskar are at the forefront of Life and not Arth–Kaam. For sustainable development, this philosophy encourages least use of energy, maximum employment, sensitivity towards environment, ethics, and the wholesome approach to agriculture. It suggests a decentralized and self reliant economic and industrial order. There is a major emphasis on skill development and increased productivity. #TheVijayaExhortation (21)

THE BHARATIYA NITI OF INCLUSION
As per this philosophy, success of the system is judged on the fact whether the last person in the land is getting justice, education and basic needs of life. Hence the major emphasis has to be on farmers and agriculture, small and medium scale industries, small traders and craftsmen. All organizations, intellectuals, policy makers, political class and administrators working in the socio-economic field have to take a note of this.

It is pleasurable to note that the manifesto of Niti Ayog is giving clear indications in the same direction. #TheVijayaExhortation (22)

THE PATIENT METAMORPHOSIS OF BHARATIYA SOCIETY
It is obvious that this metamorphosis will not take place all of a sudden. It would be a challenge to bring inherited economy back to normal state, balance political compulsions, and straighten administrative machinery. We ought to keep whole lot of patience to see the fruition of our efforts to take the benefits of development to the lowest strata of society and enlist their participation in the nation-building. We would like to see steady increase in their confidence towards nation building exercise.
#TheVijayaExhortation (23)

MEASURING THE EFFICACY OF KEY POLICY MEASURES
Mudra Bank, Jan Dhan Yojna, voluntary surrender of cooking gas subsidy, Swachha Bharat initiative, and skill development are some useful initiatives of the present government, in the same direction.

It is essential to get credible data, both qualitative & quantitative, from the grassroots level to measure the efficacy of our developmental policies.  

It is also necessary to hold fruitful dialogues to ensure the participation of all in the nation building exercise, and speed up the execution of the program.

#TheVijayaExhortation (24) 
ENLIGHTENMENT & TRAINING OF SOCIETY
Efficacy of all the policy measures aimed at changing the destiny of the nation will very much depend upon the enterprising spirit, capability to cooperate, and the wisdom of masses. To achieve it, enlightenment and training of society is a prerequisite. #TheVijayaExhortation (25) 

POPULATION POLICY
While speaking about development, population growth is one related aspect, which is much talked about. We need to seriously ponder our population policy. It must be discussed whether population is a boon or bane? 

Whether the current systems and resources would be adequate to provide employment and basic amenities to masses after 50 years from now? 

How much manpower would be required to run our systems effectively? #TheVijayaExhortation (26)

NURTURING THE POPULATION
Quiet often, it becomes mother’s responsibility to bringing up children and inculcating values in them. Hence diet, healthcare, self-respect, empowerment, enlightenment, opportunities and freedom to make use of those opportunities by our mothers need to be ensured by our system. 

Are our systems turned for the same? 

What is our anticipation regarding the condition of our environment after 50 years? #TheVijayaExhortation (27)

WIDER BUYING IN FOR A UNIFIED POPULATION POLICY
Facts and figures of last two census reports and the imbalances that have come to notice as a result are being widely discussed. Our present and future is getting impacted by the same. 

We need to rise above vote bank politics to formulate a holistic approach, equally applicable to all citizens, towards the population policy. 

Such a population policy cannot be enforced by our Governments or laws, all alone. Considerable efforts are required to tune society’s psyche to the same. It would be prudent to think about the same during policy making exercise. 
#TheVijayaExhortation (28)
 
RESPECTABLE DIALOGUE FOR ACCENTUATING CHANGE
To bring about a change in the natural instincts and behavioral patterns of humans, customary religious practices, and cultural traditions, in accordance with current times is often, too tricky. 

Even if this change is appropriate, it cannot be accomplished by just bringing in a law or making law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. 

It never happened this way and it will never happen this way. 

It can only be accomplished through a respectful dialogue with concerned entities. 

This dialogue and the efforts to enlighten the society through the dialogue, needs to take place at all the levels be it the government, administration, media or intellectuals in the society and it should consistently continue before and after such changes. #TheVijayaExhortation (29)

TRUTHFUL & JUST TO BE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE
We should not be guided by cheap popularity or political incentives. 

What is truthful and just should be our guiding principle. 

By adopting a compassionate approach towards every section of society, we can change their approach through a friendly and respectable dialogue. 

The anguish some sections of people felt as a result of some reasoned judgments could have been avoided.  
#TheVijayaExhortation (30)
 
SANTHARA et al
For example, Santhara, peculiar life style of Digambar Acharyas, Bal-Deeksha (initiations of children as recluses), etc., are some of the age old practices prevalent in the Jain community. To bring about changes in such matters without consulting the Acharyas of the respective sects about the reason, importance and philosophy behind such practices, will affect social cohesion and harmony and finally harm the nation. #TheVijayaExhortation (31)

THE PROCESS OF RELIGIOUS REFORMS
It has been a tradition in every sect/religion in our Country to introspect about their rituals and practices at regular intervals and attunes such a rituals and practices to current times and circumstances. 

This is the healthy way of bringing about necessary changes. All such changes have always come from within. Any external attempt to bring about such changes has always ended up only in controversies. Success in any systemic change is achieved only through changing the social psyche.#TheVijayaExhortation (32)

EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Education system is an important tool for social transformation. 

In recent years, we have been observing commercialization of education. Getting more and more expensive, it is going beyond the reach of an ordinary citizen. Hence the purpose which education is expected to fulfill, is not taking shape. 

Apart from imparting formal education, education also aims at shaping a complete man, who is wise, self respecting, self reliant, compassionate, efficient and cultured. 
#TheVijayaExhortation (33)

INTEGRAL APPROACH TO EDUCATION
With this integral approach to education, many experiments are going on within as well as outside the country. 

We should take cognizance of all these experiments. Results from these experiments, and the suggestion made by various organizations, educationists and panels should form the basis for all the aspects of education be it curriculum, fee structure or management of education. #TheVijayaExhortation (34)


SOCIETY BASED EDUCATION
Education should be society based. Education should be oriented towards fulfilling its goal as well as contemporary requirements of society. And in the light of these limits there should be freedom to chalk out the education system. 

To ensure that education is not commercialized; government needs to make sure that government educational institutions also are run well at all levels. This process starts with the quality of teachers we have. 

We need to have effective training, and maintain standards for teachers. More than anything else, we need teachers who realize their responsibilities.#TheVijayaExhortation (35)

PARENTING AS A DOMINANT TOOL FOR TRANSFORMATION

However, the role of parents and society is equally important. 

Do we tell our children that it is more important to have a meaningful life than a successful life? 

Is our behavior such, which instills the values of truthfulness, justice, compassion, sacrifice, patience and good behavior? 

Is our generation ready to tread this path in social and professional fields with insistence and agility, ignoring petty gains? 

Do we – the social and political leadership – and media care to see that our walk and talk leads the society, particularly new generation, towards national integrity, social harmony and ethical behavior? #TheVijayaExhortation (36)

FUNDAMENTAL REFORMS FOR UNITING SOCIETY
To say that Governance and economy and other systems drive human behavior –“Yatha Raja Tatha Praja”. 

Hence our policies should unite the society; caring for the uplift of the weakest link of the society, they should achieve progress of everyone in the society. 

We need fundamental reforms in our electoral practices, administration, tax systems, public health system, and industrial, educational and agricultural policies to make them more effective and people oriented. #TheVijayaExhortation (37)

HANDLING TERRORISM & HOSTILITIES
Hostilities by Pakistan, expansionism from China, rising fundamentalism & chauvinism in the world order, and unfair international diplomacy, resulting in rise of terrorist outfits like ISIS, are acting as a catalyst to already complicated and serious internal and external security of our country. 

Fostered by external powers and inspired by external ideologies, some people from within are walking the path of terrorism. 

It goes without saying that it is government’s responsibility to come out with a comprehensive and a firm policy to root out all such problems ones and for all. #TheVijayaExhortation (38)

RESTRAINING MEDIA FOR PREVENTING ILL EFFECTS IN SOCIETY
Ethical education should be made part of the education policy so as to preserve our social and cultural values intact and thwart all attempts at destroying our culture. 

There is a view that media should be regulated while conserving their freedom to ensure that no ill effect, knowingly or unknowingly, prevails in the society. #TheVijayaExhortation (39)

GOVERNANCE DRIVEN BY THE SOCIETY
It is a fair to expect that all the promised dreams are realized and became a reality fast. But this is also true that governance is driven by the will, quality of thoughts and organized state of the society. 

When a self realized, righteous & holistic society starts walking with determination on the path towards national glory, the systems and apparatus of nation follow and become helpful in the transformation. 

A nation becomes prosperous, safe and capable only when government, administration and public at large are on the same page on the issues of identity of nation, national pride, and credible integrity towards nation, and are ready for constant efforts with focused contemplation.#TheVijayaExhortation (40)


CHORDS OF UNISON OF BHARATIYA SOCIETY-1

(1) Certainly, it is our eternal culture – Hindu culture – that accepts and respects all forms of diversity and which precisely forms the nature and value system of every Bharatiya. #TheVijayaExhortation (41) 

CHORDS OF UNISON OF BHARATIYA SOCIETY-2

(2) The very culture, based on which our ancestors build their lives, toiled hard to nurture and foster it, and even sacrificed their live for its protection and honor, even to this day, their glory is a source of inspiration and ideal for us. #TheVijayaExhortation (42)

CHORDS OF UNISON OF BHARATIYA SOCIETY-3

(3) This divine motherland endowed with richest and wealth, who helped us realize the truth that formed the foundation of that culture and the Dharma born out of it, whose abundance of divine wealth nurtured us and made us magnanimous, the love and devotion for whom we inherited from our ancestors, such motherland of ours, even today has the power to arouse the creative spirit of every individual of this country. #TheVijayaExhortation (43)

ASSIMILATING VARIED IDENTITIES
Through these three factors an individual can easily be assimilated while keeping ones diverse identity of language, region, sect and party intact. Also, even while safeguarding one’s smaller identity, one becomes part of the larger social identity. The humanitarian spirit, vision and philosophy based on the above three factors, the decision in conformity and equally matched practice is what is called Hindutva.
This lifestyle of Hindu society, from time immoral, even long before the term Hindu was coined, evolved in keeping with the time on the basis of above three factors. The onus of good and bad of this nation ever rusts only on their shoulders.
#TheVijayaExhortation (44)
 
SOCIETY :: THE FOUNTAINHEAD OF NATIONAL PROGRESS
When an efficient and organised society works persistently for the betterment of nation for a long time, then only the nation becomes prosperous.

The Bharatiya society has to become perfect and organised on the strength of their eternal identity. 

Soaked with the nectar of our Dharmic Values that ends all divisiveness and is capable of infuse the whole humankind with the feeling of fraternity by giving them real freedom, let us individually and collectively endeavor to accord happiness, peace and redemption to human race. This the way out and we have to do it.
 
#TheVijayaExhortation (45)