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January 7 - January 13, 2022
These days, much-acclaimed characters like John Dayal, Harsh Mander and Arundhati Roy lie in waiting for communal riots and elatedly jump at them when and where they erupt. They exploit the anti-Hindu propaganda value of riots to the hilt, making up fictional stories as they go along to compensate for any defects in the true account. John Dayal is welcomed to Congressional committees in Washington DC as a crown witness to canards such as how Hindus are raping Catholic nuns in India, an allegation long refuted in a report by the Congress state government of Madhya Pradesh. Arundhati Roy goes
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One such forgotten and long-buried incident of the genocide and mass displacement of Hindus is the infamous Kohat massacre of Hindus circa September 1924. Carried out over three full days of appalling, brutal intensity against—as always—unprepared Hindus and Sikhs.
By 1923, the Muslim Ulema was rattled so much that they decided to take urgent, drastic measures. In mid 1923, the Muslim leadership launched the Tanzeem and Tabligh movements “in order to organise the Muslims as a virile community.”
On the Bakrid day smaller disturbances also occurred at several places, the cause of the trouble being the same everywhere; the Moslems must kill a cow for sacrifice and Hindus would not allow that. Some of the bigger street-fightings took place in Nagpur, Jubbulpore and other places in the C. P. [Central Provinces. Now Madhya Pradesh] and Berar.
The genocide of Hindus at Kohat would eerily repeat itself all over again sixty-five years later in the summer of 1989 in Kashmir. This time, the genocide and forced displacement of Kashmiri Hindus was on an industrial scale. Scripted, produced, directed, and executed with clinical brutality by the state Government in “independent” India. Back then, it was Motilal Nehru who indirectly warned the displaced Kohat Hindus to never return to their ancestral Karma Bhoomi. In 1989, it was his great grandson Rajiv Gandhi who inherited the selfsame gene of political necrophilia.
The whole world is the abode of Ishwara. When you realise this, the realisation will bring an attitude of renunciation towards attachment to worldly things. Therefore, the Veda says, do not covet the wealth of others.
Think about why the Harvard Professor Diana Eck named her book, India: A Sacred Geography.
अङ्ग वङ्ग कलिङ्ग कश्मीर कंभोज कामरूप केरल केकय कोसल मैथिल कुन्तल कुरङ्ग कुरवक सौवीर सौराष्ट्र मत्स्य मागध माळव मराळ सिंहल मलयाल चोल बङ्गाल पाञ्चाल साळ्व पुलीन्द्र कर्नाटक वराटक मराटक सिक्क सिन्ध पञ्जविका पावका पाम्ड्य द्रविड यवन शूरसेन घॊर्जर कुक्कुर पराशर गान्धार विदर्भ बर्बर बरमा भोज बाह्लीक कोङ्कण टेङ्कण चीणा हूण दशार्णादि षट् पञ्चाशद्देश …
This geographic-cultural preface in a way provides the backdrop because history and geography are inseparable. Geography dictates and directs and shapes history. And history alters maps. Which is why geography is also memory. And loss of physical geography is also loss of memory…civilisational, cultural, traditional and most importantly, it is loss of narrative memory.
not only did they did not build anything of value but savagely annihilated painstaking works of lasting value, built over centuries.
when we study the forgotten Hindu history of Pakistan, what are the kind of people we encounter? A short list suffices. Maharshi Panini, Acharya Chanakya, Ashvaghosha, Nagasena (author of the famous Milindapanha), Vasubandhu, Jivaka (Gautama Buddha’s physician), and Charaka. These were civilisation-builders and not merely eminent people who had attained excellence in their respective domains. It is beyond the scope of this series to elaborate their contributions to the Sanatana culture and civilisation.
Tipu Sultan: The Tyrant of Mysore and The Madurai Sultanate: A Concise History.