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Free Press Journal publishes report about BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta’s comment on Deepika Padukone with a misleading headline

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Free Press Journal publishes report about BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta’s comment on Deepika Padukone with a misleading headline

Swapan Dasgupta, Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, has called out the media for distorting his comment on Deepika Padukone. The Bollywood actress had recently found herself in the midst of controversy after visiting JNU to show her support for protesting leftists as part of a PR drive ahead of the release of her upcoming movie.

The headline of the report by the Free Press Journal was deliberately distorted to completely alter the meaning of Dasgupta’s remarks.

In the FPJ article, the headline read “Have great respect for Deepika Padukone’: BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta”. The headline essentially insinuated that a BJP MP has praised Deepika for her stand in the JNU issue where she stood with Communists accused of vandalism.

The headline of the FPJ report

The comment when read in full elucidates the actual intent of Swapan Dasgupta’s words. He had said, “I have great respect for Deepika Padukone, but she is not an inspiration for my voting intentions.” Thus, amidst the controversy, the relevant portion of the comment is that Deepika Padukone’s political stance does not represent the political opinion of Indian citizens as a whole.

Even the FPJ report mentions the full comment in its report but fails to highlight it in its headline which gives its readers completely false information. Swapan Dasgupta, thus, called out FPJ for its shoddy headline on Twitter, following which, the tweet was with the actual headline was deleted by the handle of the media outlet.

A deliberate campaign of distortion and misrepresentation has been launched by the media in wake of the protests that have gripped the nation. The FPJ’s headline appears to have been concocted with the mala fide intention of putting the BJP in a false position where one of its prominent leaders could be seen supporting Deepika Padukone’s stance on the matter.

On Wednesday, Swapan Dasgupta was attacked by goons at the Visva Bharati University in West Bengal. Quite shamefully, Congress leaders had come out to defend the said attack.

After confirming his attendance at RSS event, Accenture India MD back out after bullying by ‘liberals’

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After confirming his attendance at RSS event, Accenture India MD back out after bullying by ‘liberals’

After bullying by ‘liberals’, Rama S Ramachandran, the Managing Director of IT giant Accenture India for attending an event organised by the nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he has now decided to pull out of the event which was scheduled in Chennai in February. As per reports, he had earlier agreed to attend the event.

RSS had invited Zoho’s co-founder and CEO – Sridhar Vembu and Accenture’s managing director (MD) and head of operations – Rama S Ramachandran to an event named ‘Resurgent Bharath’ in Chennai on February 2. Sridhar Vembu was the Chief Guest of the event while Rama S Ramachandran was said to be the guest of honour.

RSS function where Zoho founder and CEO is the chief guest

However, the ‘liberals’ on social media had bullied and attacked both Vembu and Ramachandran to force them not to attend an event organised by RSS. A campaign was also launched on social media platforms seeking a boycott of Accenture and Zoho after the top bosses had agreed to participate in the event.


The bullies applied the classic bullying technique of tagging the higher ups in corporates.


Following the outrage, Accenture’s Rama S Ramachandran denied any affiliation with the group and said he never agreed to speak or attend the event. “I am not sure how this misunderstanding happened. I have no affiliation with this group and never agreed to speak at or attend this event,” he tweeted late Monday night to the bullies.

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has refused to be cowed down by radicals and said he would stick to his commitment and not respond to attacks. Taking to Twitter, Vembu had said how he will not let his views get affected by Twitter attacks. “If you dislike which events I attend, please do what our conscience dictates and I will do what mine dictates. We earn our daily bread due to our work and we will continue to do quality work. I won’t be responding to attacks,” he had tweeted.

As radicals and left-liberals continued their attack on Zoho and its CEO Vembu and threatened a boycott, TVS Capital Funds Chairman Gopal Srinivasan stood in support of Zoho chief Sridhar Vembu and said that he would be honoured to be in the audience at the RSS event where Zoho chief Sridhar Vembu is Chief Guest next month.

NOT SATIRE: Hindus must convert to Islam to prove they are ‘secular’, argues article on Leftist website

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NOT SATIRE: Hindus must convert to Islam to prove they are ‘secular’, argues article on Leftist website

Liberals have finally abandoned the domain of political disagreement and crossed over into the realm of the insane. In the wake of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the pending NRC, an article published on the leftist website, Countercurrents, claims that Hindus must show solidarity with Muslims in India by converting to Islam. The author proceeds to say that even then it might not be enough.

The article begins with the declaration, “Cow vigilantism, Article 370, Ayodhya verdict and now the evil conjoined twins NRC-CAA. This dispensation is unsurprisingly on an exclusionist rampage and will one leave no stone unturned till they are well on their way to attaining Hindu-Rashtra as they have purported to achieve directly and indirectly.”

The author, after a long litany of propaganda, says, “Amid all this, chants of ‘Hindu Muslim ek hai’ might be all fine and dandy. But I wish to ask Hindus and fellow atheists born to Hindu parents, does this really have grim ramifications on you? A show of support and solidarity is much needed and appreciated, but is it really enough? What I wish to express next is a rather sensitive matter, but if we truly wish to save India from her government, relentlessly seeking a Hindu India, perhaps this might be the only truly effectual way.”

Source: The headline of the insane article

Then, the article declares emphatically, “At this point, I call to all my fellow liberals who are practising Hindus, or atheists born into Hindu faith, to consider converting to Islam. The motivations may be purely political in nature, but I do believe this is one bandwagon that needs to be jumped. Is it not worth considering? Will it not be an apt slap in the face of Hindutva?” It adds, “While it is true that people of all faiths have come out in throngs to condemn the communalising of the ruling dispensation, being the ‘majority’, is it not incumbent on liberals who practise Hinduism to go a step ahead? Is it not time for us to denounce the religion altogether and join the ranks of our Muslim brethren, not just in spirit, but also through action?”

The author also has an answer for those who believe her comments are merely ‘communalizing’ the issue and ‘rabblerousing’ and not utterly bonkers and insane. She says, “Some might impugn this view by calling it a rabblerousing and communalising one. To them, I will like to remind that Hindus and Hinduism have gotten away with far too much for far too long.”

Read: La ilaha illallah: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor attacked by radical Muslims for cautioning against Islamist extremism

As a Hindu, if you believe that converting to Islam would have been enough to absolve you of your original sin of being a Hindu, then you could not have been more wrong. The author says, “To be sure, even converting won’t take away from the privilege that we are conferred with. Our lived experiences will continue to remain those of a cocooned, sheltered community with forces like the RSS crying ad nauseum about imaginary threats and persecution. Dissociation with Hindutva while clinging to Hinduism and its virtues is not enough. Nor is it legitimate. Dissociation in the truest sense is only possible by joining the ranks of those who will be in the line of fire in the real sense.”

The whole article reads like satire but there’s no marker that declares it as such. If at a later point in time, it is revealed that the article was a satire or someone pulled a massive joke on a leftist org, we will change the report accordingly to reflect that. However, at this point, there’s nothing to suggest that it is satire, but then in India, Poe’s Law is entirely applicable to self-declared liberals.

Furthermore, the real troubling part is, liberals are now openly telling Hindus that unless they convert to Islam, then they are not tolerant or secular enough. And the implication of the article appears to be that any Hindu who refuses to convert to Islam is a fascist and worthy of condemnation. Thus, the author is effectively arguing that every Hindu is a fascist.

Read: The Battle from CAA to JNU: Khilafat 2.0, Communist Fantasies, Petty Politics and the conspiracy of Hong Kong style protests

If this was not insane enough, then the author proceeds to argue that even converting to Islam isn’t enough, the ‘privilege’ will simply not go away. It was marked on the skin the moment a Hindu was born, it appears, and nothing a Hindu does then onwards could wipe the mark of his original sin. The article also proves fundamentally that liberals may claim they are against Hindutva and not Hinduism but in reality, they are actually against Hinduism as a whole.

In this context, the prominence of slogans of La Ilaha Illallah, the Islamic Shahada which means “There is no god but Allah”, acquires a whole new significance. It appears that at least certain sections of the leftist brigade are actually considering converting to Islam. Thus, it again proves that there’s nothing secular about the anti-CAA protests and is propelled by deep-seated anti-Hindu bigotry.

The arguments put forth by the author are merely the next progressive step in the long march of liberalism. The author has merely taken the arguments put forth by liberals to their logical conclusion. This is the word that liberals have built and from Ramachandra Guha to Rajdeep Sardesai, every single liberal intellectual must share the blame for the insanity the current generation suffers from. Every Hindu that refuses to convert to Islam is being called fascist and every single liberal intellectual will have to share the blame for the delusions their adherents suffer from.

Mysuru: ‘Free Kashmir’ posters held during protests in support of JNU, sedition case filed

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Mysuru: ‘Free Kashmir’ posters held during protests in support of JNU, sedition case filed

Two days after a ‘protestor’ was seen holding a ‘Free Kashmir’ placard at a protest in Mumbai, a similar poster made an appearance at a protest organised at the University of Mysore against the alleged attacks on ‘students’ of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Reportedly, one of the protesters was seen holding the “Free Kashmir” poster inside the Mysuru university campus on Wednesday.

The protest was organised by the members of UoM Researchers Association, Dalit Vidyarthi Okkuta, Bahujan Vidyarthi Sangha, Students’ Federation of India, and All India Democratic Students Organisation, to express solidarity with the JNU students and oppose the attack last Sunday.


Following these protests, an unidentified person has been booked for sedition under IPC section 124A by officials of the Jayalakshmipuram Police station in Mysuru. The police have also started an investigation in search of the organisers who had reportedly carried out protests despite the university administration denying permission for protests.


This is the third instance when a ‘Free Kashmir’ has been spotted in the last four days. A ‘Free Kashmir’ poster was first spotted in Mumbai on Monday. On Wednesday a ‘Kashmir Azad’ poster was spotted in at St Stephen’s College in New Delhi.

A poster was first raised by a woman during a protest at the Gateway of India in Mumbai, drawing criticism from across the country. Soon, an FIR was also registered against the accused Mehak Mirza Prabhuin Colaba police station.

However, Maharashtra government under the freshly ‘secular’ Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have now decided to review the FIR  as they claim that woman was talking about internet shutdown. Sena prince Aaditya Thackeray and Sena leader Sanjay Raut had tried to defend the poster. Raut has even claimed that the poster was not about demanding secession from India but about asking for internet access.

With the ‘Shikara’ trailer out, expected guilt tripping of Hindus for merely sharing the story of their Genocide has started

K Bhattacharjee
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With the ‘Shikara’ trailer out, expected guilt tripping of Hindus for merely sharing the story of their Genocide has started

The trailer of Shikara, directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, was released on the 6th of January. The movie, set to hit the screens on the 7th of February, will tell “the story of resilience in the face of insurmountable odds.” “It’s also the story of a love that remains unextinguished through 30 years of exile. A timeless love story in the worst of times,” the makers say.

The trailer of the movie looks fantastic and it appears that the movie is the first venture by Bollywood to accurately depict what happened to Kashmiri Pandits all those years ago. Although one can expect the movie to include some sort of token symbolism which would sing paeans to secularism and tolerance to tone down the overarching message and to negate allegations of bigotry, it is still expected to be a definitive shift in the Overton Window in the entertainment industry.
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In the trailer, chants of ‘Azadi’ can be heard in the background as genocidal mobs run rampage on the streets. The visuals capture the terror that Kashmiri Pandits must have felt in 1990 very well. The movie will surely ruffle a lot of feathers as it has been an unsaid rule in the entertainment industry for a great many years to maintain a stoic silence over Islamic fanaticism.

Efforts are currently being made to turn slogans of ‘Azadi’ into a fancy call revolution but a slogan that is soaked with the blood of the innocents could never hope to become something completely antithetical to what it was. Just like in 1990, ‘Azadi’ was symbolic of the deep-seated anti-Hindu bigotry among Kashmiri Muslims, 30 years later, the slogan is still symbolic of the same brand of hatred. The trailer serves as a chilling reminder to those who believe ‘Azadi’ is a slogan for peace.

As expected, some people are not pleased with the turn of events. According to some people, “given the state of the country right now and the vast Islamophobia that’s making the country burn right now, isn’t it odd that the creators are planning on releasing the movie now?” The sentiments are not that of one individual, it’s a sentiment that serves as the foundation for secularism in India.

Read: After being subjected to genocide, Kashmiri Pandits are being called ‘vicious’ and are the new villains for the woke-folk

The persecution of Hindus has to be ignored, silenced and whitewashed in order for secularism to prevail in the country; or so runs the conventional wisdom. In pursuit of secularism, the genocides of Hindus by Islamic invaders and fanatics at various points in history have been continuously ignored and the sentiments of the Hindu community have been trampled at every step in order to ensure communal harmony in the country. But such peace comes at a steep price for the very basis of it is a gigantic lie.

In three decades, the real story of Kashmiri Pandits has never been told. And when the first attempt has been made to tell it, some say it’s not the right time. Unfortunately enough, it has never been a good time to speak of the persecution of Hindus in independent India. History became a legend, legend became myth and in three decades, the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits was turned into a voluntary exodus from the valley. But Hindus never forgot, Hindus remembered and now the real story, it appears, shall finally be told on the big screen.

The denial of Islamic bigotry and genocides of Hindus is not a recent phenomenon. It has been an ongoing project since the very inception of the Indian State. The Indira Gandhi government made a deliberate effort to whitewash the genocide of Bengali Hindus which led to the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. Gary J Bass, author of the book ‘The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide’, made the revelation in his book.

Read: Genocide denier ‘civil society’ activist compares the current situation in Kashmir to that during the Kashmiri Pandit genocide

Bass, who was then a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, wrote, “Rather than basing this accusation primarily on the victimisation of Hindus, India tended to focus on the decimation of the Bengalis as a group.” He added, “The Indian foreign ministry argued that Pakistan’s generals, having lost an election because their country had too many Bengalis, were now slaughtering their way to ‘a wholesale reduction in the population of East Bengal’ so that it would no longer comprise a majority in Pakistan.”

Most significantly, he wrote, “From Moscow, D P Dhar, India’s ambassador there, decried the Pakistan army’s preplanned policy of selecting Hindus for butchery, but, fearing inflammatory politicking from rightist reactionary Hindu chauvinist parties like Jana Sangh, he wrote, ’We were doing our best not to allow this aspect of the matter to be publicised in India’.” Bass went on to assert, “They were unarmed and dispersed around East Pakistan. But the Hindus were tainted by purported association with India, and were outliers in a Pakistani nation defined in Muslim terms.”

“In India, we have tried to cover that up,” Swaran Singh (the then External Affairs Minister) candidly told a meeting of Indian diplomats in London according to the book, ”but we have no hesitation in stating the figure to foreigners.” It notes, “Singh instructed his staff to distort for their country: We should avoid making this into an Indo-Pakistan or Hindu-Muslim conflict. We should point out that there are Buddhists and Christians besides the Muslims among the refugees, who had felt the brunt of repression.” The Indian government feared that the plain truth would splinter its own country between Hindus and Muslims, Bass observed.

Thus, as we see clearly, it is never a good time to speak of the genocides that have been inflicted upon Hindus by Islamic genocidal maniacs. It was not a good time to speak of it in 1971 and 48 years later, it’s still not a good time to portray the suffering Hindus had to endure for so long. Simultaneously, the genocidal Islamic invaders were completely whitewashed and now, we were at a situation where it is argued in the highest court in the country is arguably the most important judicial dispute in Indian history that Aurangzeb was a liberal leader.

Read: Jamia ‘shero’ hailed by Barkha Dutt celebrates Moplah massacre when Muslims massacred thousands of Hindus in 1921 in the name of Islam

The excuse, even then, was that ‘rightwing Hindu forces’ would benefit if facts were told as they are. It reveals a moral bankruptcy of the highest order when genocides are whitewashed because those in power are apprehensive about the political implications of it. Another obvious fact is that if the edifice of secularism is built on a foundation of genocide denial, it is bound to crumble at some point in time. And such secularism deserves to be uprooted root and stem and thrown into the nearest garbage dump.

Those who are concerned about the imagery in the trailer of the movie Shikara believe it isn’t a good time for the movie to release. And that sentiment stems from the fact that India just passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, a piece of legislation that seeks to provide citizenship rights to those persecuted minorities who have come to India before 2014 and reduces the residency requirement for naturalization for those who came after.

We have seen insanity descend upon the streets in the aftermath of the CAA and people are still protesting against it. These protests were not born in a vacuum. These protests have their roots in the organized genocide denial that has plagued the country for so long. A mythical narrative of Islamophobia has been conjured but it’s an indisputable fact that for all the genocides that Muslims have committed upon Hindus, there has never been retaliation on any comparable scale by Hindus. Despite all the screeching about Hinduphobia, it’s only Islamic fanatics that have committed genocides and only Hindus that have suffered genocides in the ongoing Hindu-Muslim conflict.

Read: Columnist at Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint spreads Pakistani and Khalistani propaganda about London protests on Article 370 abrogation

Shikara is the first real effort by the entertainment industry to bust this organized campaign of genocide denial. It will make many people uncomfortable, as it should because for far too long, they have closed their eyes to the reality that their secularism is founded upon the blood and bones of Hindus. This entire edifice of moral corruption has to be destroyed, regardless of the potential consequences that might surface. A brand of secularism that sustains itself by genocide denial is as morally repugnant as an Islamic State. Monuments to Islamic demagoguery such as this must be smashed to dust.

Guilt-tripping Hindus into keeping silent regarding their persecution will no longer work. Hindus will no longer remain silent about the misery they had to endure. Narendra Modi’s election as Prime Minister is a consequence of Hindus finally speaking up. The CAA was an effort by the Indian government to finally rectify a historical wrong. The protests that we see today is an effort to maintain the same status quo that is built upon the organized campaign of genocide denial that has prevailed upon the country for far too long. And this edifice will be made to crumble, regardless of the extent of protests

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath targets PM Modi’s family, says they did not fight for country’s freedom

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Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath targets PM Modi’s family, says they did not fight for country’s freedom

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday stooped to a fresh low after he targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his family by claiming that there were no freedom fighters among his family or relations.

“Have you heard Modi Ji speak of the youth and farmers? And they want to teach us patriotism. Modi Ji forget about your family but tell us, is there any freedom fighter amongst your relation?” said Kamal Nath.


Targetting PM Modi over Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Kamal Nath said, “They talk about NRC. What is the meaning of NRC? When you will go for registration they will ask what’s your religion? What was your father’s religion?”

This is not the first time that Congress leaders have resorted to ad hominem attacks against PM Modi.

Congress leader Vilasrao Muttemwar had said that nobody knows who Modi’s father is. Before this, Actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar had dragged PM Modi’s ageing mother after he compared the devaluing rate of the Indian rupee to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aged mother.

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar had referred to PM Modi as a ‘Chaiwala’ and had once called him as ‘Neech Insaan’. Shashi Tharoor had called him a ‘Scorpion sitting on a Shivling’ who they cannot hit with a ‘Chappal’.

As Communists fade electorally in Bengal, is their inner Naxal emerging?

Abhishek Banerjee
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As Communists fade electorally in Bengal, is their inner Naxal emerging?

See if you catch the difference in tone between these two articles published by The Hindu, which often favours Communists.

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Article by The Hindu
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Article by The Hindu

Same newspaper. Two items published only one day apart. But while the violence in JNU was “chilling and brutal” and caused “anarchy,” the violence during Communist/Congress sponsored bandh in Bengal is described as “stray incidents.”

Why? Violence is violence. By all accounts, the violence in Bengal was much more widespread than what happened in a single campus in Delhi. But why wasn’t it “chilling and brutal?”

This is how elite media “normalizes” the violence perpetrated by the Left.

No, there’s nothing “stray” about left-wing violence in Bengal. When ordinary people and public property are attacked, it’s always chilling. Did liberals bother to ask ordinary people if they found the Communist violence a “stray” incident of seemingly little consequence? Or are ordinary folks just supposed to accept violence from Communists as a fact of life?

Read: Revisiting Sainbari, a blot on Indian Democracy: When Communists made a mother eat rice with her dead sons’ blood

Consider what actually happened yesterday in Bengal. The CPIM has already been rejected by the people of Bengal in the most comprehensive manner possible. Their vote share is down to a mere 7%. Out of the 42 seats in Bengal, the Left lost deposit in as many as 41 seats!

Rejected at the voting booth, the comrades are back with sticks and stones, burning tires, attacking cars, buses carrying out wanton violence on the streets (any resemblance to anti-CAA riots is merely incidental)

How “chilling and brutal” is it that Communists are trying to uproot the elected government through raw street violence? Who will call them out on this?

Could there be something much deeper and more dangerous happening in Bengal? As Communists lose their last few hopes in Bengal’s electoral system, is their inner Naxal emerging?

Read: West Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee says ‘Gundagardi’ and ‘Dadagiri’ is not a movement, calls Left’s Bharat Bandh as ‘cheap politics’

It seems that there has always been an umbilical cord between so-called “mainstream” Communist parties and Communist terror organizations that operate in forested areas of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. The connections are much denied and much covered up with powerful denials and support from sympathetic media.

But the connections appear evident for everyone to see. The rhetoric of Communist “free speech heroes” in mainstream media is virtually the same as their terrorist comrades, with just some disclaimers thrown in here and there. When they are caught raising the same slogans, they insist (quite comically) that we should interpret their words differently.  An “Azaadi” chant by left-wing media heroes is supposed to be treated as a call for freedom from hunger or something.

It’s like they have no choice in vocabulary but to borrow from the slogans of terror groups. They all raise the same flag with the same hammer and sickle and pray to the same global Communist icons who were all mass murderers.

But they insist they have nothing in common.

Read: The Battle from CAA to JNU: Khilafat 2.0, Communist Fantasies, Petty Politics and the conspiracy of Hong Kong-style protests

When in power, how different is their thinking from that of their Naxal comrades? Don’t forget that the Communist government admitted on the floor of West Bengal Assembly in 1997 that 28,000 political murders had happened in the state since the Communists came to power. Imagine what the real number could be.

But the days of Communist rule in Bengal are long gone. Whatever hopes of a comeback they might have had were shattered in 2016. In 2019, they could just save 1 deposit in the whole state. By 2024, they might not be able to save even one.

Cut to the time of independence. After the first general election, the Communists were the principal opposition to the Congress party. They might well have expected to win power someday.

But decades passed and nothing happened for them. By the 1970s, they were fed up and began a violent insurgency. They saw a bit of electoral success when the Congress weakened in 1977. Many of them were enticed by the opportunity of running a virtual dictatorship in Bengal. Another chunk stayed on the path of terror.

By the 1990s, the Congress had essentially cut a deal with the comrades, ceding Bengal and Tripura to them. As Congress declined, the Communists had enough to keep them invested to some extent in electoral politics.

Read: West Bengal: Videos of police vandalising vehicles and setting them on fire emerge from Malda

But then the Communist party itself went into terminal electoral decline in Bengal. Suddenly, Congress did not even need them any more. And how many “youth icons” could TV studios possibly manage to fit in?

Are the remaining comrades getting restless? With zero electoral prospects, are they getting ready to go the way of left-wing terrorists in Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh?

Now that would be chilling.

After Pakistan comes out in support of JNU, Pakistani-inspired slogans raised against Delhi Police at JNU protests

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After Pakistan comes out in support of JNU, Pakistani-inspired slogans raised against Delhi Police at JNU protests

Protests have been underway at the Jawaharlal Nehru University after violence escalated massively at the campus on the 5th of January. Ironically enough, the protests which claim to be against violence, are being organized in support of those who initiated the violence in the first place.

In another demonstration of the questionable motivations of the protesters, slogans inspired by Pakistanis were raised at JNU.


The slogan, ‘Ye jo Gundagardi Hai, Iske Peeche Vardi hai’, is raised by protesters against the ISI-military establishment of Pakistan. Pashtuns can often be heard raising such slogans against the Pakistani military establishment.
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In 2018, similar slogans were raised by protesters along with chants of ‘ISI Murdabad’ in front of the headquarters of the Pakistani Military at Rawalpindi.
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It appears that the JNU protesters believe the current Indian regime is equivalent to the tyrannical Pakistani regime. It is a gross trivialization of the genocidal campaigns the Pakistani military establishment is pursuing against the religious minorities of Pakistan as well as certain ethnic groups such as Balochis and Pashtuns.

Watch: Pakistanis extend support to JNU students in Lahore, chant ‘halla bol’ in solidarity against PM Modi

The protesters at JNU appear to believe that India is as undemocratic as Pakistan, which is an indication of the possibility that those involved in these protests have succumbed to mass hysteria. Nothing else explains the fact that the slogans of actual victims of persecution are being borrowed by those who just want free hostels and no exams.

It is also pertinent to remember that students and teachers in Lahore, Pakistan took out a rally on Wednesday in solidarity with the JNU students. The theme of the demonstration was the controversial poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem, ‘Lajim Hai Ki Hum Dekhenge’, which calls for the destruction of idols.

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha tries to show separatist Azadi slogans did not come from Kashmir. Read how he is wrong

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Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha tries to show separatist Azadi slogans did not come from Kashmir. Read how he is wrong

Kashmiri Pandits who were chased out of their homes violently by separatists in the 1980s and 1990s, know the horror of ‘Azadi’ chants the woke Instagram policy experts happily chant at the protest sites. The ‘woke’ generation takes a thrill in chanting ‘Azadi’ slogans because they think they are ‘saving democracy’. Little do they realise that these ‘Azadi’ slogans meant death for the Kashmiri Pandits in the valley. That when an Islamist mob came for them chanting these ‘Azadi’ slogans and raped and murdered them.

But in an era when even a poem calling for destruction of Hindu idols in temples gets whitewashed into a poem of resistance, what can one say about these ‘Azadi’ slogans. In one such attempt at obfuscation, filmmaker Anubhav Sinha today shared an Azadi poem recital by claiming how the Azadi slogans are not even from Kashmir but these were a part of feminist movement.


Author Rahul Pandita, a Kashmiri Pandit himself, who has written about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits informed him that the poet Sinha was citing, Kamla Bhasin, herself said that she heard them first in 1992 in Delhi.


These, essentially came to Delhi in 1992 a few years after they were chanted in the valley, chasing away the Kashmiri Pandits. As per a report by Hindustan Times, Bhasin had said that she heard feminist version of Azadi slogans as a war against patriarchy in 1991 when she attended Women’s Study Conference in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University. She said that she had heard these Azadi slogans from Pakistani feminists and then improvised on the words.

After Pandita pointed it out to Sinha that these words in Delhi in 1991/92 came *after* they were chanted in Kashmir in the late 80s, Sinha questioned whether the chants from Delhi in 1991 should be ignored.


Pandita politely explained how he is just pointing out that the ‘Azadi’ chants were first used in Kashmir and not in Delhi as what Sinha was originally claiming. Displaying his low IQ, Sinha then said how he is still confused. To that, Pandita, in as many words pointed out the brutality of those chilling slogans.


“Three years after it was used in Kashmir extensively to brutalise the Hindu minority,” Pandita said. Sinha, who now appears really poor in maths said how the song came as feminist voice in 1991 in Delhi first *after* it was used to kill Hindus in Kashmir. For Sinha, 1980s comes after 1991. Not losing patience, Pandita now explained it to Sinha in Hindi, hoping he’d perhaps understand it better.


Refusing to accept that the ‘Azadi’ slogans would mean nothing but horror for the lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits, Sinha continued to whitewash the separatist slogans.


After multiple attempts at trying to make a point, Sinha said that he had ‘misread’ the original tweet.


He then said how he’d read up more on this. But despite multiple people explaining to him about the brutal and bloody history behind the origins of ‘Azadi’ chants, Sinha continued to water down the horror. Perhaps it would do Sinha good if he reads up a little on the Kashmiri Pandit exodus.

Shiv Sena toes NCP’s line by seeking a review on FIR against ‘protestor’ who held ‘Free Kashmir’ poster

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Shiv Sena toes NCP’s line by seeking a review on FIR against ‘protestor’ who held ‘Free Kashmir’ poster

A day after an FIR was registered by Maharashtra police against ‘protestor’ Mehak Mirza Prabhu for pushing anti-India agenda by holding up a ‘Free Kashmir’ poster at the Gateway of India in Mumbai, Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh has backtracked and said he would review the FIR against the accused.

According to a Times Of India report, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh speaking to the media said that prima facie holding “Free Kashmir” poster did not look like the accused had any “anti-national intentions”. He also said that his government would review the FIR and stated that he has asked the police for a report on the investigation.

“Prima facie it doesn’t look like she had any anti-national intentions, so I will be reviewing the FIR. I have also asked the police for a report on the investigations,” Deshmukh said. He also said police will check Mehak’s antecedents before deciding on the future course of action.

“We want to know where she got the banner from and what she meant by ‘Free Kashmir’. We know the curbs imposed in Kashmir today, and she may even be talking about those,” Deshmukh said.

Reportedly, the government has also asked the police to submit a report on the FIRs filed against other students, including Umar Khalid. Two FIRs were lodged against Khalid and others, and one against ABVP members, for unlawful assembly.

Interestingly, the Shiv Sena seems to be toeing NCP’s line in seeking a review of FIR against Mehak Mirza Prabhu, who held anti-India posters during the protest in Mumbai against the alleged violence on JNU students.

On Thursday, the Shiv Sena, in its mouthpiece Saamana had backed the accused despite the secessionist placard during the Sunday protest in Mumbai against the mob violence at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Shiv Sena’s excuse to seeking a review against Mehak Mirza Prabhu comes from the fact that the accused is a ‘Mumbaikar Marathi woman’.

Read: Siding with ‘Free Kashmir’ through its mouthpiece Saamna: Shiv Sena 2.0

“A Mumbaikar Marathi woman expressed the pain of Kashmiris silently through this poster. The opposition feels this is sedition. There can’t be a dirtier example of irresponsibility,” the Saamana editorial said.

Earlier, the ‘secular’ Shiv Sena had also supported the accused saying it did not find anything wrong with these protests and downplayed the whole incident. Shiv Sena’s firebrand Shayari expert Sanjay Raut had stated that he has come to know that the ‘Free Kashmir’ posters did not mean actually ‘Free Kashmir’ but the accused only wanted freedom from restrictions of internet services, mobile services and other issues.

Shiv Sena leader and Thackeray-scion Aaditya Thackeray had also dismissed the ‘Free Kashmir’ placard at the protests and said that we need to “look at the larger picture”.

Reportedly, Deshmukh is under pressure from senior leaders of the party after the FIRs were registered. Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal has demanded that the FIR against Mehak and other protestors like ultra-left wing protestor Umar Khalid should be taken back.

Bhujbal had said, “There is a difference between Free Kashmir and Azad Kashmir. Everyone knows there is an internet ban in Kashmir and political leaders are under house arrest. The girl has given an explanation. I think the FIRs against the girl and the other protesters were a mistake, and my demand is they should be scrapped after a review”.

Another NCP leader said the action against the girl and other protesters was like toeing the BJP’s line. “They should have reviewed everything before filing the FIR. There should be a difference between this (Maha Vikas Aghadi) government and the BJP government. We should be on the students’ side,” he said.

On Wednesday, the Colaba police had recorded the statement of Mehek Mirza Prabhu. Reportedly, the accused had clarified her stand that by hosting the ‘free Kashmir’ placard, she meant to talk about freedom of expression and the basic constitutional rights of Kashmiris.

Earlier, representatives of the group ‘Mumbai Against CAA’ had also met the Home Minister and Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad to request them to withdraw FIRs.

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