Hindu Nazis and the “national press” they control thrive only on falsehoods. Hundreds of instances we have published in these columns. Publishing false stories is the most important part of the Nazi game. Some simpletons think that by printing posters and stickers with anti-communal slogans, they can combat “communalism”. These simpletons must know that communalism is part of the vlaue system of the Hindu Nazis. And they can remain as the ruling class of India any if they manufacture-new and newer lies daily. Nazis, in fact, sit on a mountain of lies. The “national press”, their creation, is meant to spread these lies. One of their main games is to make the non-Hindu original inhabitants of India — namely SC/ST/BCs- feel that they are Hindus by creating hatred against Muslims, Christians and Sikhs. In Punjab, no Hindu trusts Sikhs and vice versa. This was proved in the city-dwelling Hindus voting wholesale to the Nazi party during the recent civic elections in Punjab. Hatred has gripped every section of the Indian society. Nay, hate rules India today. Here we publish excerpts from an article in the Indian Express, the country’s chief pro-Nazi English daily owned by a pro-Nazi Marwari Goenka empire. The article is by its former editor and close to Gandhians and also Nazis. Even such a person could not tolerate the bundle of lies these Nazis reel out to whip up hatred. The article is yet another proof of our oft-repeated charge about the Nazi mind-manipulation game. Thereby the Nazis have created a suffocating atmosphere of hatred all over India and the just concluded elections have proved the amount of hatred burning in the hearts of these Nazis. The Nazis think that they can rebuild India into a Ramayya of their dream through hatred. Babri Masjid tops the list in their agenda for hate-mongering. Can a society be built on a foundation of hatred? The Nazis say yes. They don’t think that hate produces more hate and that the monster of hate may devour its very creator. But Nazis say what they are creating is not hatred but promoting dharma. When India’s topmost “intellectuals” are silent on the Nazi hate mantra, the hate that hate produces, what can a F lone B.G. Verghese do? It is a sure sign of the country disintegrating — EDITOR.
B.G. Verghese: For quite some time, statements have been made and reports published variously to the effect that Hindu temples, religious places and ” dharmshalas in the Valley of Kashmir have been _ demolished, burnt, desecrated, looted or otherwise “4 damaged, ostensibly by fundamentalist Muslims. Your issue dated April 21 (Delhi edition) reports the Kashmir Samiti asking the Governments to protect all places of worship in the Valley and threatening a nationwide agitation against such “shameful acts” by misguided elements.
In order to pinpoint the alleged incidents and ascertain the facts, this writer sought and obtained a list of 62 temples said for have been “burnt and damaged in Kashmir by terrorists in 1990” from this same contact. The list referred to temples in Srinagar as well as in Anantnag, Pulwama, Baramulla and Kupwara districts. Together with this was another list of 644 villages which had been renamed on Jammu and Kashmir Government orders in 1981 and 1982. In this case, the inference appeared to be that many traditional place names had been changed and given Islamic names and, most objectionably, that Anantnag town itself had been renamed Islamabad.
Armed with these lists, I made inquiries of responsible persons in Kashmir and Delhi. After detailed investigations on the spot, my informants tell me that no harm has come to these specified Srinagar temples (some with attached dharmashalas), namely, at Jawaharnagar, Karan Nagar, Ganpatyar, Dashami Akhara, Purshyar, Bairav, Sheetal Nath and Fatehkadal which were named as having been demolished, burnt or stoned. Photographs have been furnished in some cases. Some of the temples, dharmashalas or akharas are occupied by BSF or CRPF personnel, presumably with the knowledge and. consent of the temple authorities., through this could make them targets. What emerges on the basis of a limited survey in Srinagar City is that the many reports and statements made with great emotion and doing the rounds of the country about large-scale desecration of Hindu places of worship in Kashmir is not true and amounts to self-serving propaganda or disinformation. (Indian Express, May 8)
