Giant Step Out of the Closet

Good to see Madhu Trehan FINALLY waking up to what has been blindingly obvious to
almost every educated, aware and intelligent Indian for the past several
years. Though I must add that if *this* opinion piece in IE by the husband-wife duo of Javed Anand and Teesta Setalvad is really what opened Madhu’s eyes to the nature of India’s hypocritical “secularism”, then I wonder in what world had she been living all this while in the first place?! I can easily recount at least 1000 other instances (all in the past decade) that precisely make Madhu’s points, and even more strongly than this stupid Javed-Teesta article.

What surprises me even more is that Madhu ever held *any* respect for Javed and Teesta at all! Remember what Teesta remarked on the day when 60 pilgrims returning from a trip to the makeshift Ram temple at Ayodhya (including 40 women and children) were burnt alive by a Muslim mob in Godhra in Gujarat in 2002? Read it in the last paragraph at ow.ly/d8FUD or at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13791-2002Feb27?

“While I condemn today’s
gruesome attack, you cannot pick up an incident in isolation. Let us not
forget the provocation. These people were not going for a benign
assembly. They were indulging in blatant and unlawful mobilization to
build a temple and deliberately provoke the Muslims in India.”

Have you ever read a more blatantly mischievous misrepresentation of facts, and a more flagrantly incendiary and grossly insensitive remark? Please remember, this was *after* the Godhra Sabarmati Express train burning but *before* any retaliatory Hindu violence against Muslims (that subsequently became the infamous 2002 two-sided riots). Firstly, those people were *pilgrims* returning from the makeshift Ram Lalla temple at Ayodhya. But even if Teesta was right that they were “blatantly mobilizing to build a temple”, then how the HELL is that unlawful? How the HELL is that provoking a Muslim mob so much that they resort to the cold-blooded murder of 60 pilgrims (including 40 women and children) by burning them alive in a train carriage? Can you imagine the “secular” UPROAR that would have happened had Narendra Modi made the above statements (replace “temple” with “mosque” and “Muslims” with “Hindus”)?

So I am definitely surprised that Madhu Trehan EVER had ANY respect AT ALL for confirmed Islamofascist terrorists and violence-condoning bigots like Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand. Teesta was *never* a do-gooder or a social activist. She was always a political pawn of the Congress who has relentlessly pursued (and pushed) Congress’ cynical minortyist appeasement and votebank agenda. “Communal Combat”, the NGO-cum-publication agency managed by Teesta and Javed receives millions of dollars in funding from the Congress. She has even ghostwritten other persons’ affidavits filed in court. The Supreme Court of India even warned her against continuing to commit perjury a year or so back. Sadly, both her husband and she will likely escape prison time for their hate speeches, defamation, evidence tampering, perjury and other frauds, because she is known to be extremely close to Sonia Gandhi and her all-powerful secretary Ahmed Patel.

But the problem runs deeper than just the Teesta-Javed duo. Like I said above, I can give 1000s of other such openly hypocritical examples where mainstream media journalists who pass themselves as “liberal tolerant intellectuals” are in reality the worst kind of fascist bigots. “Secularism” has become a *thoroughly* abused word in India. Any Muslim action (even if violent) is always condoned and any Hindu action (even if peaceful) is denounced as “provocation”.

For Madhu Trehan and others: Please read Minhaz Merchant’s several brilliant articles on India’s pseudo-secular votebank politics and how it conspires to keep the Muslims impoverished, uneducated. ghettoized, and shackled, instead of empowering them. Some Google search strings: “minhaz merchant sham secularism” (parts 1 and 2) and “minhaz merchant ayatollahs of secularism” (parts 1 and 2).

PS: Madhu, if you have *really* have any evidence or footage to show that Narendra Modi was responsible (in any way) for the Gujarat 2002 riots, then please contact the Supreme Court of India and/or the SC-appointed SC-monitored Special Investigation Team IMMEDIATELY. (You are actually actively breaking the law if you are withholding any relevant evidence.) But if you do *not* have any such evidence, then please realize that you are indulging in defamation, slander, and possibly even contempt.

kudos …madhu….finally u got to know teesta and her husband…….now who is communal….modi who has left behind riots in 2002 and take gujarat to new height or teesta and her team still stuck in 2002 and anti hindu mentality evenafter SIT report…..hope u would understand reality versus fiction…..
by the way has anyone done any investigation about funds received by teesta and her NGO’S ?

Some good points here. However, what I fail to understand is why should somebody’s silly report convert you into an internet Hindu? That seems to make no sense to me whatsoever. There will always be biased reports, but is your own viewpoint so fragile that a veteran journalist will change your belief because of them? I really am perplexed and would like your comments on this.

Superb article by Mrs Trehan…..Second last paragraph revealing d psychology of a social activist holds ground and logic in any part f d world…..Correct analysis of d situation including d mindset f d commisoner who seem to fulfill political motives instead f performing his duty…Keep it up…We wish to see more f such laundering articles….

“To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran;

And much it grieved my heart to think

What man has made of man.”

The above piece is the perfect eye opener for the so called secular activists Anand & Setalvad. Pity that they are blind. When I read the piece by them on 17 August, I was wondering how Indian Express allowed such a piece to be published? The piece was anti-secular and throws away the hypocritical secular robe that they so proudly flaunt. The minority rights issue championed by them for years is just a baseless cause a.k.a Congress cause. It is an underground polity which is played in a way not to educate the majority of the illiterate minority, but to divide the already divided minority for a vote-bank. And the Congress have largely succeeded in doing so and will continue to do so. Indian voters can’t be swayed just with the issue of non-development. We need more than that. We are used to climax and anti-climaxes, in real and reel life. And it excites us too. We don’t have much either to play around in this country. Do we? I am sure Anand & Setalvad hold Pakistani passports and if not they should apply for one, asap. They are anti-nationals and do much more harm than a AK-47 trotting Ajmal Kasab.

Bravo Madhu,i appreciate your courage to write this article,we need a voice in this country of mutes!!!

Madhu, How difficult would it be for “you” to get confirmation if the apprehended rioter whom Ravindra Shisve held is one of the named in the FIR? If you truly believe that police “always” does what it has been trained to do then why did you mention in your show and book on the line that “if someone in power wants you inside, you will be inside” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I–rXynJF_8#t=14m24s . Do people in Power do it without the help of Police?