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Cultural Marxism: Liberals oppose the CAB because of Hinduphobia which dictates that Hindus must never be recognized as Victims

K Bhattacharjee
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Cultural Marxism: Liberals oppose the CAB because of Hinduphobia which dictates that Hindus must never be recognized as Victims

The Liberal Meltdown over the Citizenship Amendment Bill has been one for the ages. They appear unable to cope with the simple fact that India owes a special responsibility towards the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in a manner that it doesn’t owe the Muslim majorities in these countries. Of course, it is something that the average Indian understands instinctively but ‘liberals’ don’t.

There’s a fundamental reason for this. In the ‘liberal’ world, Muslims are always the primary victims, regardless of where they are from. They are considered victims of Islamophobia, racism and a myriad of other evils even if they are living in the Islamic States. In the ‘liberal’ world, it is a solemn belief that the atrocities that are perpetrated against religious minorities in the Islamic States should never be acknowledged.

The Indian ‘liberal’ is no different. He constantly admonishes Indians who rightly believe that Pakistan is a plague upon the world. He tells us, contrary to all evidence, that the average Pakistani is just like us even as the average Pakistani constantly proves through his actions that it is not so. But there are a plethora of contradictions within the ‘liberal’ belief system. While India is urged to initiate dialogues with Pakistan, any attempts made by India to fulfill its traditional responsibilities is deemed as the country turning into a ‘Hindu Pakistan’.

Read: From Nehru-Liaquat Pact to Rohingyas: Here are the most important takeaways from Amit Shah’s reply on CAB

Even as Pakistan continues to function as an Islamic state which sponsors terrorism against India, ‘liberals’ chastize India for making efforts to provide citizenship to the religious minorities from the country. There’s a good reason for these contradictory beliefs and the blame for it can be put at the feet of the pervasive theological liberal doctrine of Cultural Marxism.

In the eyes of the Indian ‘liberal’, a Hindu can never be a victim. It sees the Hindu-Muslim relationship as primarily an oppressor-oppressed relationship where Hindus are always the oppressors and Muslims always the oppressed. Consequently, no attempt is made to highlight the instances where Hindus are the victims of Islamic radicalism and even when such cases are highlighted, special care is taken to ensure that emphasis isn’t laid on the religious identity of the oppressors even if it had played a major role.

The same worldview is then projected into the relationship of other countries. Indian ‘liberals’ genuinely believe that recognizing the fact that non-Muslims suffer institutional persecution in the Islamic States will affect Hindu-Muslim relationships in India although there’s no obvious reason why it should. They are terrified that recognising such atrocities against Hindus will affect the manner in which India treats its Muslim citizenry. Due to its biased lens, it cannot even bring itself to recognize basic facts about the world.

Cultural Marxism divides the World in black and white even though the world, in reality, is mostly different varieties of grey. In that world, majority is always the Oppressor and the minority is always the Oppressed. One would assume that such a worldview would be applied uniformly throughout the world. However, it’s always imposed upon the world from the point of reference of one’s own residence.

Read: Ahmadiyyas were at the forefront of creation of Pakistan, an Ahmadiyya Unit fought against India in Kashmir in 1947-48

Thus, according to an Indian ‘liberal’, India must never recognize the fact that non-Muslims are persecuted in neighbouring Islamic States. Recognition of such is considered another excuse to justify the oppression of its Muslim minority. There is, of course, no evidence that the Indian State is perpetually in the process of oppressing its Muslim population. There’s no evidence that the Indian State has ever engaged in a motivated campaign to oppress its Muslim population. But that is how Cultural Marxism views the world: The majority is always engaged in the perpetual oppression of the minority.

It cannot be denied that Indian ‘liberals’ do suffer from rabid Hinduphobia. They genuinely believe there’s a fascist residing in the heart of every Hindu, looking to break free and oppress the Muslims. They also believe genuinely that every Muslim is a victim, even the radicalized ones are considered victims. It is argued that the Radicalized Muslims turned out the way they did because the Hindu dominated society did not treat them fairly.

Under such circumstances, it’s not really a surprise that Indian ‘liberals’, who wholeheartedly believe in the theological doctrine of Cultural Marxism, are opposing the Citizenship Amendment Bill tooth and nail. Hindus must never be recognized as victims, according to them, because it’s too dangerous. They earnestly believe that the only reason to recognize the oppression of non-Muslims in the Islamic States is to justify India’s alleged oppression of its own Muslims.

Owaisi slams Shiv Sena for flipflop on CAB, calls it ‘bhangra politics’

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Owaisi slams Shiv Sena for flipflop on CAB, calls it ‘bhangra politics’

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed Shiv Sena over its flipflop on the Citizenship Amendment Bill after Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray announced that his party will not support the bill in Rajya Sabha unless ‘things are clear’.

The Sena had supported the CAB in Lok Sabha yesterday.

Calling it ‘bhangra politics’ Owaisi lashed out at Shiv Sena, saying: “They write ‘secular’ in common minimum programme, this bill is against secularism and Article 14. It is the politics of opportunism”.


In a seemingly delicate monkey-balancing act, the Shiv Sena Tuesday said it won’t support the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Rajya Sabha unless the Narendra Modi government incorporates changes it has asked for.

The move came just a day after it supported the same draft in the Lok Sabha, breaking ranks with its allies NCP and Congress to bring down the ideological faultlines in the recently forged ruling alliance in Maharashtra.

Interestingly, prior to voting in favour of the bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Shiv Sena had opposed it both in the House and in an article in its mouthpiece Saamana.

In the Saamana article, the Shiv Sena claimed that the passage of the Bill would create an “invisible partition between Hindus and Muslims”. The party also wondered whether the “selective acceptance” of Hindu undocumented immigrants would spark a religious war in India. The party alleged that practising “vote bank politics” under the guise of the Bill was not in the nation’s interests.

Read: After spewing venom against Amit Shah, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi tears copy of CAB in Lok Sabha

In the Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena MP Vinayak Raut asked why persecuted Tamils in Sri Lanka were not included in the amended law’s ambit. He asked Amit Shah to reveal how much the population would increase after the enactment of the proposed changes.

Soon after this, the party took a U-turn and voted for the Bill. Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant was quoted as saying that the party supported the bill “in the interest of the nation”. “The Common Minimum Programme is applicable only in Maharashtra,”  Sawant said, referring to a programme agreed upon by the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress when they formed a government in Maharashtra on November 28.

However, soon after Rahul Gandhi’s blistering criticism of the parties who support the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in a Tweet today, Shiv Sena’s chief Uddhav Thackeray, probably buckling under pressure, quickly made a U-turn again, declaring that he will not extend his support to the CAB until “things are cleared”.

NCP’s Nawab Malik asks Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut to ‘cross all limits in love’ after both parties ally

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NCP’s Nawab Malik asks Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut to ‘cross all limits in love’ after both parties ally

As winter is setting in parts of the country, romance is in the air. There is no dearth of love for the newly forged alliance of Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra. Sanjay Raut’s love for shyries has now affected his new buddies and things have become hopelessly romantic.


Tagging Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Nawab Malik tweeted a couplet from a song of the 90s Bollywood hit film Phool Aur Kaante. He tweeted, “dheere dheere pyaar ko badhana hai, hadd se guzar jaana hai, (slowly we have to increase the love and eventually cross all boundaries in love).”

In a subsequent tweet, he even corrected his typo.

Which also has a typo.

Before Raut could respond in his inimitable style, netizens replied with shock, surprise and amusement at the new romance.


Filmy, very filmy.


Clearly, everyone’s quite amused.

Read: An analysis of Maharashtra politics in the last few weeks through Sanjay Raut’s poetry

The hopeful romantics at heart even appreciated the same.

While others weren’t too happy with his choice.

As of now, Raut has not yet replied to the love song. We will update the report if and when he does.

Delhi pollution is killing us anyway: Death row convict in Nirbhaya case mocks supreme court with bizarre argument in review petition

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Delhi pollution is killing us anyway: Death row convict in Nirbhaya case mocks supreme court with bizarre argument in review petition

One of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, Akshay Singh, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking a review of its 2017 judgement which had upheld the death penalty to all four accused in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

Akshay Singh, in a bizarre argument, has asked Supreme Court to spare him the death penalty since life in Delhi is anyway getting ‘short’ due to air and water pollution. Singh’s petition which brings up points of law arguing that Akshay was incorrectly convicted and talks about capital punishment being abolished in various countries, at one point ridiculously brings up Delhi’s air and water quality, arguing that people in Delhi are anyways dying due to the poor air and water quality, so there wasn’t any need for a capital punishment.

“That it is important to pertain here that Air Quality of Delhi NCR and the metro city is burst and like a gas chamber… the water of Delhi NCR and metro city is also full of poison… Everyone is aware of what is happening in Delhi NCR in regard to water and air,” the petition says before asking a simple question. “Life is going short to short, then why death penalty?”

Akshay Singh, who had not filed the review plea earlier with the other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition.

Akshay Singh Thakur along with Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were convicted in the brutal 2012 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi student, Nirbhaya. All four were awarded the death penalty and the punishment was upheld by the Supreme Court. A fifth convict had killed himself in jail during the trial phase while the sixth person involved in the crime was tried in a juvenile court.

Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma filed review petitions asking the Supreme Court to reconsider their convictions. The petitions were rejected. Akshay Singh, who had not filed the review plea earlier with the other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition.

Read: Nirbhaya rape case convicts could be executed soon, handed notice: Tihar Superintendent

Delhi student Nirbhaya was brutally raped in the most barbaric manner inside a moving bus and was left to die on the road on December 16, 2012. She was later sent for treatment to Singapore but had succumbed to her injuries. The case had generated widespread public outrage both nationally and internationally and has made a huge impact in the psyche of the nation.

The case made a profound impact on the Indian legal system and led to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, known as the Nirbhaya Act which ensured harsher punishment for sexual violence against women. The Supreme Court had in May 2017, upheld the death penalty awarded to the convicts by the Delhi HC.

Gujarati, Jain and Sindhi communities in Bhopal ban pre-wedding photoshoot and Sangeet ceremony as these are ‘against their culture’

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Gujarati, Jain and Sindhi communities in Bhopal ban pre-wedding photoshoot and Sangeet ceremony as these are ‘against their culture’

The Jain, Gujarati and Sindhi communities in Bhopal have decided to prohibit pre-wedding photoshoots along with inviting choreographers for Sangeet ceremony. According to them, the pre-wedding photoshoot is a new type of “pollution” bedevilling the society while the increasing trend of employing a choreographer for the Sangeet ceremony in the name of modernisation is rapidly destroying the Indian culture and tradition.

According to the reports, the decision was taken after Munishree Prasad Sagar Maharaj, a Digambar Jain saint who is doing Chaturmas in Bhopal, instructed the Digambar Jain Panchayat Committee to take a tough stand against the practice of pre-wedding shoots. He even advocated ostracisation of people from the community who support the pre-wedding shoots.

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A similar decision was taken by the Gujarati community and Sindhi Central Panchayat Committee. The working committees of both the communities will soon issue guidelines directing the members to ban pre-wedding shoots and choreographers in Sangeet ceremony.

Munishree Prasad Sagar Maharaj claims that pre-wedding photoshoot is incompatible with their culture. He has further alleged that the Sangeet ceremony is a new kind of profligacy that has started in the marriage ceremony. Along with this, he has also stated that the choreographers indulge in vulgar activities with the females on the pretext of teaching them dance moves. He has suggested parents to refrain their sons and daughters from participating the pre-wedding shoots.

#CABNRCSatyagraha: How the self-appointed custodians of secular fabric of India are trying to save illegal Rohingya immigrants

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#CABNRCSatyagraha: How the self-appointed custodians of secular fabric of India are trying to save illegal Rohingya immigrants

On Monday, while the Parliament was debating the Citizenship Amendment Bill, controversial journalist Barkha Dutt was busy looking for a ‘modern-day Gandhi‘ who would fast unto death against the Bill. After the Lok Sabha passed the CAB with a thumping majority, Barkha Dutt’s will does appear to have manifested itself, although in a slightly altered fashion. People in the ‘secular’ camp have decided that ‘Civil Disobedience’ is the proper way to move forward with their agenda.

Harsh Mander, who is associated with a foreign-funded NGO and helped draft the viciously sectarian Communal Violence Bill as a member of Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council, declared that he will register himself as Muslim and refuse to submit his documents for the NRC. Then, he says, he will demand the same punishment as any undocumented Muslim. It’s unclear whether he will undergo circumcision as well.


The campaign against the NRC appears to be gaining momentum. Numerous people are coming forward to assert that they will not be submitting any document to prove their citizenship during the NRC exercise.


Certain other people are also asking Muslims to not submit their documents. In all fairness, it doesn’t come across as a very good idea.


The ‘Secular’ camp has demonstrated a remarkable lack of understanding about the CAB and has been in a state of meltdown ever since the Bill was tabled. They have come up with obnoxious arguments for opposing the Bill and the NRC. Sreenivasan Jain of NDTV even claimed that Muslims are a minority in the three Islamic States mentioned.

While it is clear that these people know the difference between CAB and NRC, they are deliberately using the two together, sometimes interchangeably, to fear-monger.

The main objection from the ‘Secular’ camp appears to be that the Rohingyas will not be included in the CAB. Home Minister Amit Shah made it clear on the floor of the Lok Sabha that India will never accept Rohingyas in the country. The ‘Liberals’, it appears, not only want Rohingyas to be included within the CAB but also Ahmadiyyas and Shias from Pakistan. It is, of course, utter stupidity for India to allow such a thing but ‘liberals’ do not care. They will be perfectly willing to sell India down the drain as long as they can claim the moral higher ground. It’s narcissism of the highest order.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

‘Liberals’ appear to forget that the Shias and Ahmadiyyas who are in Pakistan currently fought a Civil War against Hindus in 1947 so that their children could grow up in an Islamic state. India cannot permit everyone to come back here simply because things did not work out the way they thought they would. However, ‘liberals’ do not care for such details.

Regarding the efforts being made by ‘liberals’ with respect to Rohingyas, they have always had a soft spot for them despite the fact that Rohingyas are known to have committed genocides of Hindus in Myanmar. Under such circumstances, it appears foolish for India to provide citizenship to them. Moreover, Rohingyas could always go to Bangladesh. In fact, many of them pass through Bangladesh in order to reach India. They cannot be called refugees.

‘Liberals’, of course, have struggled hard to protect Rohingyas ever since India made it clear that they will not accept them in the country. Prashant Bhushan, another individual associated with a foreign-funded NGO, even appeared for them in the Court. However, despite their many protestations, the Indian Government has not changed their position.

Read: At the stroke of midnight, as Lok Sabha passed Citizenship Amendment Bill, ‘seculars’ can’t keep calm

The main grudge that ‘liberals’ have with the CAB is that it does not provide privileges to Muslims that people of other religions from the three countries have been granted. They do not care one bit about the immense persecution non-Muslims are forced through in the said places. According to liberals, it’s not only Indian Muslims that India must care about, it’s also Muslims from the Islamic States that India must look out for despite the fact that there are numerous Islamic States who can take care of them if they so choose.

‘Liberals’ seem unable to cope with the simple notion that India owes a special responsibility towards the persecuted Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent, a responsibility that India does not owe for anyone else. An average Indian perfectly understands why a persecuted Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh should find refuge in India, however, liberals, deracinated as they are, cannot come to terms with the obvious.

Moreover, liberals appear unable to distinguish between refugees and economic migrants. There’s an immense difference between the two. The Bangladeshi Muslims who have come to India haven’t done so because they are persecuted for their faith in Bangladesh. That is not something that can be said for Hindus of the same country. Therefore, India must treat these two categories differently. These are simple matters which liberals do not understand. They want India to treat economic migrants the same way that refugees are meant to be treated. And that is the root cause of their opposition towards the NRC.

The CAB is merely India fulfilling its responsibility towards the non-Muslims from the three Islamic states in the neighbourhood. And the NRC is designed to augment India’s national security. It’s utterly bizarre that any Indian should be opposed to both these propositions. The extent they are willing to go to in order to undermine the NRC is indeed a matter of grave concern and perhaps, strict action ought to be taken against them. And if ‘Secularism’ mandates that CAB is morally reprehensible, then, perhaps ‘Secularism’ is not a good thing after all.

India needs to address the issue of protection of its women with utmost urgency

Satyanarayana Dosapati
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India needs to address the issue of protection of its women with utmost urgency

As we agonize over the happenings in this nation, it has become extremely painful to bear what is going on, the incidents of brutal violence against women have become a regular affair. We hear how young girls and women can be easily set on fire, how they can be pulled from bus stops in broad daylight and gang-raped, how they can be gang-raped/murdered/burnt without recognition and thrown away like piece of garbage, how acid can be thrown at their face and bodies with little impunity, how minor girls lured into love jihad and left behind, we cannot help wonder what is going on in this country? It is a country that lost its moorings, particularly its institutions, the political, the police, the judiciary and even the media. We have created an elite that seems to show little empathy for the larger population, sitting in ivory towers ruling over with abandon to the sufferings of the common man.

From North to South, East to West this is going on while our politicians go on discussing in parliament and assemblies, courts go on giving bails to culprits with unending delays in sentencing, police go on with complete apathy to the cries of the helpless and media go on with selective reporting of the crimes. We are spending literally millions of dollars worth of taxpayers’ money to protect the most corrupt but we cannot protect the most helpless. We have created a political elite with commandos roaming around the country but we cannot save a young girl who was set on fire running for 1 km crying for help. We have police who thinks that their job is to protect the elite and their political masters but not the common person.

We speak of our large heart to shelter the oppressed in neighbouring countries facing brutalities but we are not paying the urgently needed attention to the plight of brutalities against the girls and women in our own country. We spend 46 lakh crore rupees and support 14 lakh personnel in the military to protect against external aggression but we are unable to protect a few thousands of women from brutal internal aggression. The Constitution of India is not even worth its paper if it cannot help the helpless under the apathy of the system we ended up today in 70 years of independence. The sad truth is, it is cursed to be born in India, especially if you are a woman.

Read- Unnao case: All you need to know about a ghastly crime born out of a troubled relationship

Today India has perhaps the best administration since independence in the Center, but the system has become so endemic that it is taking a lot of effort and time to steer the country. Even 7 years after a rusted rod shoved into a young woman’s vagina and her intestines pulled out, in spite of so much furore, protests and chest-beating by millions in the country and her parents running from pillar to post, we have a system that waits forever to hang the culprits. The juvenile who was supposed to have perpetrated the most heinous of the acts was allowed to go free. Now, in a matter of a few days, we are hearing how women and girls are hardly safer in this country only because media chose to project while this is happening all along. A country, which cannot respect its women, where a woman cannot feel safe, it cannot flourish and it cannot progress.

We may say rapes are not unique to India, but India stands out in its barbarism, the brazenness, the impunity and most importantly the real culprit – the response of its institutions. I hear that the NHRC is concerned about how the rapists were killed in police encounter in Hyderabad, but where are these so-called ‘respectable’ people when girls and women are gang-raped, killed and burnt alive in broad daylight. One small country Singapore with just 58 lakh people sent 400 convicts to gallows in just a decade, and that too mostly on drug charges, while India with a population of 12,000 lakh people and with the worst of crimes did not hang the demons from Nirbhaya case for the last 7 years. Singapore canes (whipping) thousands every year even for theft and burglary while we feed the most brutal rapists mutton biryani in our jails using taxpayers’ money.

Read- If you were ‘ashamed as a society’ after the Hyderabad rape and murder, you are part of the problem

These two lines in an article in Times of India relating to the girl who was set on fire, sums up the situation in many parts of India. I want to emphasize that things have come to this pass particularly in UP not due to current administration which has done yeoman job of curbing notorious criminals within a short period and did its best to save the girl, but only to emphasize the kind of system that developed during last few decades and the urgent need to make Police accountable, everywhere across the country.

“1) The survivor had been gang-raped by the accused in December last year but the FIR was registered in Rae Bareli only in March this year on the intervention of a local court

2) The rape survivor was admitted to Lucknow’s SPM Civil Hospital with 90 percent burns after being allegedly set on fire by five men, including two of the accused who are out on bail.”

Here are questions to ponder.

  • On what basis did Police not register FIR for a girl reporting gang rape and end up in a situation where court having to force them to file an FIR months later?
  • On what basis did the Court give bail to the accused? Did the police take bribes to water down the case and let the accused go free on bail?
  • Why did not the police give any protection to the girl who was so brazenly set on fire given that the accused was given bail just a few days ago?

Around the same time, Hyderabad veterinarian Preeti Reddy (name changed) was brutally raped and killed, just a few miles away a 30-year-old Dalit woman in Telangana was gang-raped and burnt to death by perpetrators who happens to be all Muslims. The same media, reporting the brutal case of Preeti Reddy, goes about with almost no coverage for that family, as if the worth of life and the brutality of crime are dependent on the religion and the status of the victim and that of the perpetrators. Unable to bear to see what happened to his wife with little response from the administration, her husband attempted suicide.

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A few years ago, soon after the news of Love Jihad of Christian girls came out, Rajdeep Sardesai rushed to Kerala but he did not feel it worth reporting when Hindu girls are subjected to the same and have been reported for years. Daily across India, particularly in West Bengal and Kerala, Muslim youth are encouraged actively to lie about their religion to vulnerable minor Hindu girls, marry them along with other women and abandon them after bearing children. Just a few days ago a charred body of a 20-year-old girl in the Muslim majority district of Malda in West Bengal, was found but the media has little interest in that. There is no mistake that perpetrators who are committing these brutal crimes are both Hindus and Muslims but it cannot be ignored that the proportion of crimes by Muslims is very high compared to the percentage of their population.

The cost of women safety issues to India’s economy is staggering. In 2014, late finance minister Arun Jaitely mentioned how the news of one Nirbhaya incident in 2012 cost India literally billions of dollars in terms of tourism revenue. When the country is struggling with the economy, news of such incidents cannot come at the worst time. If there is one front where India can quickly improve the job situations and make a big effect on the economy it is on the tourism front and this only adds the need to address this with utmost urgency. Besides, there are the break India forces looking for every possible way to weaken India, these forces are waiting in the wings to defame and blame current administration in Centre, which is the best hope India has to change the situation around.

Here are some suggestions to consider to improve the situation:

  • Make Police accountable. NCW Chairman Rekha Sharma has been speaking for a long time how the Police apathy is the biggest factor for inability to curb the violence against women. NCW should be given powers to summon police and take disciplinary action against policemen who are apathetic or even part of the crime. Just this one action can make the biggest difference. Police should be dismissed (not suspended) and given a mandatory jail sentence for not acting in a timely manner when distress call was made or refuse to file FIRs. When police itself commit crimes against women, then their sentencing should be double that of a regular convict.
  • Gang rapes, acid attacks, burning alive need to be categorized as terrorist acts because of their brutality and ability to strike terror and insecurity to women and families in many areas. This allows central institutions and Central police to act.
  • Necessary laws need to be amended so that the safety of women is not just left to state jurisdiction and affected families should be able to get the required justice by reaching out to Central institutions. If necessary, we need to amend the constitution but it may be easily addressed by categorizing the brutal acts as terrorist acts.
  • Laws should also be amended to establish a very clear deadline for adjudication of rape cases and make sentencing mandatory without parole. Brutal gang rapes and acid attacks should have a mandatory death sentence with a fixed time frame and with a very small number of appeals. Politicians should not be allowed to pardon rapists for appeasement before elections.
  • Police ‘help desk’ privatization using public-private partnership with powers to take Police to task for inaction or not acting timely manner (i.e, with the required urgency). The online records should be available with clear data on the progress of every single violence case against women, available on the NCW website in different languages.
  • Set up a vigilance force consisting of well-established organizations such as RSS, Art of Living as well as other reputable NGOs, that can work with Police to monitor in particularly violent areas.
  • NCW website with its facilities to report crimes should be available in local languages and it should be provided as Smart Phone app, also in local languages. NCW need to have a call Center catering to people who speak any of the major languages, perhaps even by State for families to call in need and get help.
  • Work with private technology eco-system to provide women with low-cost panic buttons, which upon pressing will immediately contact police, families, and friends with the exact location. This technology is available today and can be improved and made easily affordable.
  • In cases of dowry killings, the Government needs to be proactive because relatives do not pursue cases for reasons such as concerns for raising children.
  • We need to study the effects of pornography on violence against women.

India is the only country where the Divine is worshipped in feminine form in the grandest manner. Living abroad many women mention how this is so unique in India. Our ancestors have created the system of worshipping goddess, tying Rakhi to look at other young women who are not your spouse as sisters and many others. As the rural Indian population is moving away from their families and starts living in sprawling and demeaning urban ghettos, we need to think out of the box to address the problem while at the same time making our institutions accountable. More than the laws, we need accountability and speedy justice.

Uttar Pradesh: Minor molested, threatened with ‘Unnao like fate’ if she complains to the police

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Uttar Pradesh: Minor molested, threatened with ‘Unnao like fate’ if she complains to the police

Just days after the tragic incident wherein the 23-year-old rape victim in Unnao succumbed to her injuries after she was burnt alive, another minor girl from Kanpur was allegedly molested by some men, who even threatened her with the ‘Unnao rape victim-like fate’ if she approached the police for the same.

The victim said that her family members were hit by the molesters when they objected, also alleging that police refuse to take action against the accused. “When I reached the Naubasta police station with my family, the accused reached there and threatened us with consequences ‘like the Unnao case’. “The police did not take any action there. My family is living in fear,” she alleged.

According to the victim, the accused Deepak Jadaun had attempted to molest her. When she protested, he and his friends dragged her into a house, but she screamed and the locals gathered at the spot.

The minor girl has also made a video and posted it on social media, seeking justice for herself and action against the accused.

Superintendent of Police Aparna Gupta said that she was apprised of the matter and both, the victim and the accused had filed cross FIRs against each other. Gupta said that the matter was being investigated and the video was also being verified. She said that the FIR has been registered.

Recently, many shocking incidents of rape and assault on minor children have emerged in Uttar Pradesh. The 23-year-old victim who was attacked on early hours of November 5, allegedly by the out-on-bail accused when she along with her family were on their way to a court in Rae Bareli to attend a hearing in the rape case had died after hours of fighting at the Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi. The five men who attacked her also included the two who were accused of raping the woman in December.

Mood swings? After Rahul Gandhi’s tweet, Shiv Sena hints at not supporting CAB in Rajya Sabha

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Mood swings? After Rahul Gandhi’s tweet, Shiv Sena hints at not supporting CAB in Rajya Sabha

After voting in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in Lok Sabha yesterday, Shiv Sena seems to have buckled under the pressure of their coalition partner Congress as Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has declared that he will not extend his support to the CAB until “things are cleared”.


This volte-face from the Maharashtra chief minister came following senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s blistering criticism of the parties who support the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019. In a tweet posted by the Wayanad MP, he asserted that anyone who supports it is attacking and attempting to destroy the foundation of our nation.


However, earlier today, when Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant was asked if the party will extend its support to the CAB in Rajya Sabha as well, he replied in the affirmative, stating that Shiv Sena will always support issues of National Interest.


It is noteworthy to mention that Shiv Sena had recently published a scathing article criticising the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 floated by the BJP government in its editorial mouthpiece Saamana. The article censured the central government arguing that the ‘selective acceptance’ of Hindu illegal refugees might touch off a religious war in the country. It also accused the BJP of carrying out ‘invisible division’ of Hindus and Muslims over the bill.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

However, the Shiv Sena backed the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 when it came to voting in the Lok Sabha.

Thackeray took to Twitter to clarify Shiv Sena’s stand regarding the flipflop.

After the embarrassment faced by Rahul Gandhi over CAB, Thackeray tried to pacify the alliance partner by targeting the BJP.

He said that unless the Central government clarifies a few questions, the Shiv Sena will vote against the bill in Rajya Sabha.

It is also pertinent to mention that the recent back-pedalling of Uddhav Thackeray can be attributed to the fragile alliance his party has with Congress in Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena has already shunned its support to Hindutva in order to stitch an alliance with NCP and Congress. The chief ministership of Uddhav Thackeray is surviving on the tenuous coalition of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress party. In such a scenario, many believe that Sena’s support to the CAB in Lok Sabha might have irked the Congress royals.

Congress kept Farooq Abdullah’s father in jail for 11 years, we will not do that: HM Amit Shah takes on Opposition on Kashmir situation

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Congress kept Farooq Abdullah’s father in jail for 11 years, we will not do that: HM Amit Shah takes on Opposition on Kashmir situation

A day after HM Amit Shah demolished the Congress’s criticisms during the Citizenship Amendment Bill debate in the Lok Sabha, he took on the Opposition over the Kashmir issue.

“The situation in Kashmir is completely normal”, Home Minister Amit Shah told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday and attacked the Congress for its pitch after the abrogation of Article 370 that had predicted bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir.

“The situation in Kashmir valley is completely normal. I can’t make Congress’ condition normal, because they had predicted bloodshed after the abrogation of Article 370. Nothing of that sort happened… not one bullet was fired,” Amit Shah said, responding to questions on the situation in the Kashmir Valley.


Countering Congress’ motor-mouth Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s claim that the continued detention of political leaders indicates that the situation in Kashmir was far from normal, the Home Minister said a decision on releasing detained political leaders, including the three former chief ministers in Jammu and Kashmir will be taken by the local administration and the central government will not interfere in the matter.

“We don’t want to keep them even a day extra in jail, when administration thinks its right time, political leaders will be released. Farooq Abdullah’s father was kept in jail for 11 years by Congress, we don’t want to follow them, as soon as the UT administration decides, they will be released”, said Amit Shah.


Notably, in the year 1953, Sheikh Abdullah (Farooq Abdullah’s father) who was considered to be a good friend of the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was put behind bars by the ruling Congress party, in connection with the infamous ‘Kashmir conspiracy case’. It was alleged that the top Kashmiri leadership under the guidance of Sheikh Abdullah was trying to promote secession.

Abdullah was released in 1964 in what was seen to be a peace deal between the two parties for an agreement on Kashmir. The same year, he visited Pakistan and 11 years later, Abdullah and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi signed an accord paving way for him to return to power in his state.

Amit Shah continued to cut down Congress to its size by chiding it for not worrying enough about the people but instead politicking using the Kashmir issue.

“99.5% students sat for exams there, but for Adhir Ranjan ji this is not normalcy, 7 lakh ppl availed OPD services in Srinagar, curfew, sec 144 removed from everywhere. But for Adhir ji the only parameter for normalcy is political activity. What about local body polls which were held?” Amit Shah said.

Amit Shah then reminded Adhir Chowdhury that under the BJP rule, local body elections were conducted in the Jammu and Kashmir and there are now hundreds of public representatives working to avail the government’s welfare schemes to teh poor.


It is notable here that Congress has been crying foul over the abrogation of article 370 and the eastwhile state’s bifurcation even as many of its own leaders had supported the move. Congress leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia, Karan Singh and former CM Deepender Hooda had supported the abrogation of Article 370.

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