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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 02:21:15 -0000
Subject: [world-vedic] Report on Hindu/India-bashing program in New York

Report on Hindu/India-bashing program in New York
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:01:03 +0530

Report on Hindu/India-bashing program in New York

On March 25, 2003, a program titled "India and Pakistan:  Culture and 
Society", was organized in New York. Three notorious people with 
leftist leanings, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, and Syed Nauman 
Naqvi, addressed the meeting.  Of these, two Anupama Rao and Arvind 
Rajagopal are confirmed communists They had been touted as a 
cross-disciplinary group of balanced experts on India and Pakistan.  
In fact, none of them showed deep knowledge of the subject, and all of 
them were exceedingly partisan and biased.

The meeting was designed to degrade Hinduism, create hatred about 
Hindu heritage in the younger generation by denying their glorious 
past.  The further intent seemed to be to spread canards about Hindu 
organizations with a view to isolate them and tarnish India's image in 
USA.

Anupama Rao shamelessly and deliberately postulated that in India 
minorities, women and Dalits are being tortured.  She mischievously 
tried to create the impression that upper caste Hindus have plans to 
torture lower caste Hindus. Syed Nauman Naqvi, instead of talking 
about cross-border terrorism, proxy war, attack on Kashmir Legislative 
Assembly/Indian Parliament with a view to kill or take Indian leaders 
hostage, rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, Islamic 
terrorism, ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan and 
Kashmir, maliciously indulged in the pastime of Hindu bashing and said 
that Vedas had been composed in Central Asia.  Arvind Rajagopal did 
not say a word about 58 innocent Hindus who were burnt alive at Godhra 
by Indian Muslims in collusion with ISI of Pakistan. He never uttered 
a word as to how 350 innocent Hindus were blown to bits in Mumbai in 
1993 by Islamists. Instead, Rajagopal dwelt on the dead issue of Babri 
structure and lashed out at Hindu nationalists.  None of these 
prejudiced speakers made any mention about the thousands of Indian 
soldiers and 60,000 Indian citizens murdered by Kashmiri and Pakistani 
Muslims.

Ten highly educated, informed, and assertive colleagues, and I 
attended the meeting.  The organizers noticed our presence and felt 
uneasy at the thought of being exposed.  Since they were working 
against the country of their origin, guilt consciousness was clearly 
visible on their faces.  We could see the embarrassment in their eyes.  
They felt that their lies, distortion, and shallow knowledge would be 
exposed in front of their innocent students and the puppet masters who 
were manipulating them behind the scenes.

They wanted to wriggle out of the discomforting quagmire in a hurry.  
Hence, they allowed only two questions.  One of my colleagues Veena 
Shetty challenged the false assertion by Anupama Rao that minorities, 
women, and Dalits are being persecuted.  Ms. Shetty said that there 
have been three Chief Ministers in India from minority community - 
Abdul Rahman Antulay in Maharashtra, Gafoor in Bihar and Anwara Tamur 
in Assam.  Mayawati is Chief Minister in U.P.  There have been three 
Muslim Presidents of India and one Chief Justice of India.  India is 
the only country where Muslims are given subsidy to go to Haj.  One 
Muslim is the richest man in India.  Under the circumstances, your 
argument is based on false assumption and smacks of ignoble intent.  
There was a hush for a moment in the hall.  This question left Anupama 
Rao in red.  She tried to overcome her treacherous propensities and 
with a great difficulty wriggled out of it by giving unconvincing 
reply.

Anupama Rao also made another statement that it was not clear who set 
the train on fire which burned alive 50+ Hindu women and children in 
Godhra.  She again weakly slumped in her seat when Nagendra Rao 
vigorously challenged this blatant and malicious falsehood.

Mr. Arvind Patel asked Syed Naqvi, whether he knew the name of the 
person who had codified the Vedas.  Poor Naqvi felt nervous at his 
bogus scholarship and apologetically said no.  Mr. Patel informed him 
that it was Maharishi Veda Vyas who had codified and divided the Vedas 
into four.  Again, there was a flutter in hall and Naqvi's credibility 
was damaged.

After the meeting was over, I complained to the Moderator, Leonard 
Lopate, that this panel was highly biased against Hindus and India.  
It would have been better, had some Hindu leader been put on the 
panel.  He told me that Anupama Rao and Rajagopal are Hindus.  I told 
him that they had Hindu sounding names but in fact they were really 
not Hindus, but communists who publicly disowned their Hindu origin.  
They fall in the category succinctly described by Lord Macaulay that 
British education in India would produce Indians, who would look like 
Indians but be Englishmen in thought and deed with a contempt for 
their own culture and heritage. Mr. Lopate who was approached by 
several others with the same complaint then beat a hasty retreat and 
immediately disappeared from the scene through a side door.

The meeting was held in the assembly hall of Riverside Church.  There 
were about 70-80  attendees, most of whom seemed to be naive and 
gullible.  The quality of the sound system was so poor that, at times, 
it was difficult to understand to hear what the panelists were saying.

After 9/11, there has been spurt in anti-India/Hindu activities at the 
campus.  On March 23, 2003, a lecture was organized at Emory 
University in which a self-hating Hindu Professor Ashutosh Varshney 
under the facade of scholarship, ridiculed India/Hindus.  While 70-80% 
Americans support President Bush on the issue of Islamic terrorism, 
some Communist Professors who have sneaked in this country by 
submitting false information to Immigration and Naturalization Service 
(INS) are working hand in glove with Islamic extremists.  FBI, INS and 
IB should keep track of these professors and find out the their 
sinister motive behind pro-Pakistan/Islam activities.

This meeting has given credence to the widespread view prevalent in 
the New York area that some leftist/communist professors at Columbia 
University are acting at the instance of, and in tandem with, 
anti-Indian forces.  This bunch of mischievous people whose vision is 
still guided by their past in India as members of the Communist Party 
of India/Left Communist Party of India are doing more harm to India 
than its avowed enemies because of their cunningness, and their 
perfidious nature.

Narain Kataria
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Elmhurst, N.Y. 11373
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