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Vigil Public Opinion Forum
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Kalakshetra Colony
Besant Nagar
Chennai 600090
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CONTENTS
Foreword to the Second Edition 1
Foreword 5
1. Introduction: De-Hinduising the Indian Nation 9
Radha Rajan
2. NGOs: Description and Regulations 46
R Vaidyanathan
3. Social Movements to Totalitarianism: The Role of NGOs 53
Veera Vaishnava
4. “Yesterday Once More”: a FOIL Primer 85
Narayanan Menon Komerath
5. The Lashkar-e-Pinocchio Rides Again 104
Narayanan Menon Komerath
6. An Oxymoron called AID 116
Arvind Kumar
7. Scoring against Paganism: Untangling the Manderweb 126
Krishen Kak
8. NGOs and Activists: Singing for their Supper 164
Radha Rajan
9. ASHA Projects: Where does all the money go? 263
Nirupama Rajan and Radha Rajan
10. Closing Word: Who is afraid of the Hindu nation? 296
George Thundiparambil
Appendices
1. The California Textbook Issue 309
Vishal Agarwal
2. Modi’s visa denial: Who did it? 322
B Raman
3. List of Signatories against the Prime Minister’s
Comment re. the Gujarat Chief Minister 327
4. List of Signatories – Promise of India Appeal 336
5. Indian Muslim Council’s First National Convention—
A Huge Success 353
6. The Peshawar Declaration of PIPFPD 356
7. USCIRF Special Hearing on the Gujarat Riots –
names of attendees, and an excerpt from the
Justice Tewatia report on the same riots 358
8. Two Contrasting Approaches to the USCIRF and
the US State Department 361
9. Important Data on Terrorist Atrocities in J&K 369
10. Getting it right on J&K 380
Arvind Lavakare
11. Manderweb Update 388
Krishen Kak
12. Open Letters to the Deccan Chronicle, 400
Mr Harsh Mander & Mr Karan Thapar
13. The CIA and Disinformation Campaigns 410
B Raman
14. NGOs as Non-Accountable Businesses 414
Narendra Modi
About the Authors 419
Vigil Public Opinion Forum 421
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
The response (in both India and America) to the first edition
of this book has been so gratifying that we are encouraged to bring
out a second - and expanded - edition. A new chapter, exposing
AID, has been added, as well as a number of new appendices that
include a Manderweb update and Shri Narendra Modi’s speech
at the book release function. What is especially noteworthy is the
near-total absence of refutation of even a single datum by any of
those named in the book. Sandeep Pandey essayed a denial, but
its falsehood being promptly exposed by us, only his guilty silence
remains.* We stand vindicated in the case we have made against
anti-nation activists.
As we stated in the earlier Foreword, what provoked the
compilation of this book was the US State Department denying
the democratically-elected Gujarat chief minister a visa to visit the
US. This only instigated us into doing something sooner, which
we were even otherwise planning to do. The instigation was
provided by Nirmala Deshpande and Admiral Ramdas who came
to Chennai in 2000 with an entourage of 150 members from Pakistan.
This was within months after the Kargil War. Abdul Ghani Lone
was there, the Dalai Lama was there, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was
there, Nirmala Deshpande, Admiral Ramdas, General Karamat Ali
from Pakistan and a 150-strong delegation were there. And a group
which pretended to call itself ‘The Voice of Jammu and Kashmir’,
which was nothing more than a small delegation of Kashmiri Sunni
* see Appendix 12
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Muslims. And they sat around for a whole day deciding the fate
of Jammu and Kashmir. But before that, Nirmala Deshpande asked
some of the women present there, and Vigil’s Radha Rajan was
one of them, to tie rakhis to our dear brothers from across the
border- quite forgetting that our dear brothers from across the
the border had tortured Saurav Kalia for 21 days, mutilated his
body and then sent it back.
Radha Rajan then decided she’d get to know Nirmala
Deshpande and Admiral Ramdas and their kind much better, and
the kind of industry of which they are a part. Radha had the pleasure
of listening to Arundhati Roy soon after Pokharan 2, when Roy
said she is a mobile independent republic. Roy also said she is
not a flag-waving patriot. But we are sure, since Roy has a passport,
it must have something to do with the Indian nation. So, the Indian
nation is relevant at least to the extent that it allows these people
to travel abroad to badmouth this country.
The position of these activists in regard to national territory,
the opinions they express in regard to Jammu and Kashmir, the
kind of nonsense they speak on American and Pakistani soil about
our jawans, is a cause of grave concern, because they are members
of either the National Integration Council or of CABE or of the
National Advisory Council of the UPA government. And they are
not above glorifying terrorism. Mahasweta Devi, Sandeep Pandey,
Nirmala Deshpande, among others, were present at a function to
honour the ‘slain martyrs’ in the Naxal Maoist cause, whom we
would call Maoist terrorists dealt with by the State, to honour whom
these illustrious activists gathered in Patna.
They have no faith in our elected parliament, they have no
faith in our judiciary, they have no faith in the NHRC. They go to
the US State Department to depose before it, begging the US State
Department to come to India and protect India’s democracy. It is
high time legislation is put in place banning such people from
deposing before alien governments against the Indian army and
India’s democratic institutions. Very little is generally known about
the kind of position these people take on American soil against
the Indian nation, or what Sandeep Pandey’s position is on Jammu
and Kashmir, or what Akhila Raman has to say about our army.
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We have our jawans dying day in and day out protecting this
territory, protecting our right to live. Why is it that the media does
not do an expose of these people, on what they have stated about
Jammu and Kashmir, what they have stated about Naxal terrorism,
what they have stated about India’s defence requirement, what
they have stated about the Indian army? What is the opinion that
they have about India’s democratic institutions? Every major issue
concerning national security, every issue concerning national
interest, they reduce to the politics of minoritysm.
Arundhati Roy, for example, speaks for effect. She puts words
cleverly together. And, mindless that we are, we are so fascinated
by the English she speaks that we fail to subject the contents to
critical scrutiny. In fact, she has run down everything that is sacred
or reverent to large sections of India’s people. We have documented,
word for word, what they have said, and the kind of patrons they
have found abroad. Why do the European Parliament and the US
State Department support these activists? We need to look at these
questions and we need to have the courage to look at the answers.
At our book release function on Sept 9, 2006, Shri KPS Gill
noted his surprise ‘that the anti-nationals in our country are
respected, and nationalists are derided ……These days our country
is fighting terrorism. But our so-called intellectuals have made efforts
unparalleled in the history of the world to decry and deny our
success in fighting terrorism’.
We have placed before our readers, word for word, what they
have written, what they have said, and the kind of positions they
have taken. Our request is, have the courage to look at the book
dispassionately. We realize many will think that these are illustrious
people who find international patronage, so one cannot say a wrong
word about them. But we have had the courage to expose them.
Our request is that you go through the book, look at it
dispassionately and, if you see merit in it, use the information, if
you want to.
Finally, our sincere thanks to Shri Dina Nath Mishra and the
India First Foundation and to Shri Chetanya Kasyap for sponsoring
the book release function, to Sarvashri Balbir Punj, B Raman, George
Fernandes, Narendra Modi and KPS Gill for speaking on that
