Friday, October 23, 2020

Hard hitting letter to the CEO of Tanishq!

 

Reproducing here an excellent and pertinent lettter the CEO of Tanishq over their advertisement fiasco. Recieved this over whatsapp so cannot confirm its authenticity or the senders credentials. Irrespective of the origin I must say the message is very relevant, especially the reference to TATA's Persian roots and the fate of tolerance under Islamic rule. Read and think.

Mr Ajoy Chawla
Chief Executive Officer - Jewellery
Titan Company Limited
Integrity
#193 Veerasandra, Electronic City P.O.
Off Hosur Main Road, Bengaluru - 560100
Karnataka, India
Email corpcomm@titan.co.in

Subject; Tanishq Jewellery's recent advertisement promoting the ‘Ekatvam’ line

Dear Mr Chawla,

This is WRT your recent advertisment promoting the Ekatvam line of jewellery by Tanishq, a division of Titan.

A daughter-in-law, suggestedly a Hindu, is visibly grateful of a mother-in-law, depicted as a Muslim, at her baby shower. The ceremonies, Hindu in nature, are being carried out in the mother-in-law's Muslim household.

The advertisement is supposed to enhance 'oneness' by depicting inter-faith matrimony. This is to be considered in the spirit of 'Ekatvam' symbolising 'oneness'. Tanishq holds afloat on high-moral and it's product line is omnipresent at this generous ceremony, it's jewellery adoring the youthful bride's neck, ears and arms.

Your company has since been accused of propagating falsehood. A rosy depiction of a lie that lulls the Hindu girl into a make-believe scenario whereas reality is distant and devious. Those who have opposed it have been labelled bigots by the 'secular' section that has criticised the withdrawal of the advertisement. Ironically, Tanishq's effort at depicting 'oneness' has severely divided society, hence achieving the exact opposite of what it set out to do.

However, 'bigoted' emotions aside, if examined factually, would your campaign hold?

Having thus far rejected a Uniform Civil Code in India, Muslims marry as per the Shariat law. This mandates the non-Muslim, in this case the Hindu girl, to convert to Islam. A civil marriage, if resorted to, can deprive the children of their inheritance from the Muslim parent as per the Shariat. Marriage with a Muslim mandates conversion. As per the Shariat, a Muslim cannot marry a non-Muslim. The marriage that is the basis of this advertisement does not hold sanctity with the Muslim in-laws of the bride unless she has converted and abandoned her ways of worship prior to the conversion. (The advertisement is suggestive of the in-laws' orthodoxy given that the mother-in-law is in a hijab. This is certainly not progressive) The late V S Naipaul dwelt elaborately in his tome 'Among the Believers' where he lamented foregone cultures that had given way to Islam. Islam, he concluded, wipes the slate clean when it establishes it's writ. Naipaul would have rejected your thesis. Any depiction of Hindu ceremonies, therefore, is a sham, a falsehood and an empty ritual. This can and should be perceived as an insult by the Hindu community.

Your creative team obviously hadn't done it's homework with regard to realities, legal and social,  of the framework they knit for this campaign. The overwhelming negative response may been a surprise to them.

Secularism in India is always at the cost of Hindu generosity. In medieval times, the Hindus paid 'jaziya' to retain their faith under the 'magnanimous' Muslim' rulers. The terms of existence were defined against them. Elaborate documentation exists about dictates issued by the Muslim courts to destroy the temples and convert the 'infidels'. Where then is the 'oneness' to hark back at?

Tanishq has chosen to imagine our history much in the manner of the post-Independence historians. To add insult to injury, the release of your advertisement coincides with the ninety-ninth anniversary of the 'Moplah massacre' when Muslims slaughtered thousands of Hindus in northern Kerala. In the cruelest twist to irony, ‘Moplah’ is a corruption of ‘Mappila’, a Malayalee term used often to address the son-in-law. In a bid to promote 'ekatvam' with the nineth century Arab traders who settled in Kerala, the local ruler encouraged them to marry local girls. The Arab Muslims were thus referred to as 'Mappilas' and over time as ‘Moplahs’. The reference has not been a memorable one since 1921. Had the effort at 'ekatvam or oneness' been reciprocatory, the Tata Group may well have existed in PERSIA. You may derive solace that it didn't happen that way since you owe your job in India to that. There is little else for you to congratulate yourself for.

Copy to; 1. Mr C K Venkataraman, Managing Director, Titan Company Ltd

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Melt down and insanity of Saba Naqvi!

As I sit here listening to Saba Naqvi’s video post I was gobsmacked at the stupidity of her video post. I was astounded by the immature nature of her rant and the comparison’s drawn, it surely must have sent a collective cringe across the faces of Azim Premji, Yusuf Khwaja Hamied and Dr. Habil Khorakiwala founder of Wipro, CIPLA and Wockhardt respectively, if they had cared to tune in at all. Saba is a journalist, a prime time TV warrior and social media activist, appearing on popular news channels fencing with her wits against some real champions of research and studied articulation. If this is the level of her discourse, then I would advise her not to check her emails for TV debate invites any time soon. Her narrative is so flawed at various levels and here is why. Lets watch her video and listen to her Islamist rant. 



Azim Premji, Yuzuf Khwaja Hamied and Habil Khorakiwala are great captains of industry and have made immense contribution to the Indian society and the economy at large, first and foremost by giving employment to hundreds and thousands of people within and without India. They and many like them have led the Indian IT and Pharma industry leadership across the world but at no point in time in their great labour would they have thought I am a Muslim and I am doing a great favour to this nation of unbelievers. At no point in time during the course of the Corona Virus they would have thought I am a Muslim and I am working to invent a cure for these nonbelievers. At no point in his life Ratan Tata would have thought, I am a Persian micro minority employing millions of Indians. At no point in his life would Dhirubhai Ambani then or Mukesh Ambani now would think I am a Hindu and I am doing a favour to millions of minorities. There are hundreds of thousands of such Hindu businessmen small, medium and large who employ million without a care for their religious affiliations and don’t insidiously think like Saba Naqvi. Guess what? What if these businessmen develop the same shallow brain intellect of Saba Navi and start asking the same questions as she did in her video?!

Does Azim Premji, Yuzuf Khwaja Hamied and Habil Khorakiwala the only employees of their respective companies? Aren’t there thousands of employees at Wipro, CIPLA and Wockhardt who are Hindus and have made the company successful through their hard work, intellect and sacrifice? Most likely the scientist working right now on the Corona virus cure are Hindus, most likely the data scientist at Wipro working on collecting and analyzing data on the virus are Hindus. How will the start thinking if they happen to stumble upon Saba Naqvis video?

Finally, as a counter point one could ask Saba Naqvi, does Wipro, CIPLA and Wockhardt identify themselves as Muslim or Islamic companies? If they are successful in creating the antidote to the Corona virus will they call it a Muslim medicine? Or will Saba Naqvi release another video reminding us that it’s a Muslim medicine?!

Why is Saba Naqvi playing the Muslim victim card in this video, isn’t this the final throw of dice of the loser?! A desperate lunge, a deep frustration at her coreligionist playing truant, holding the nation at ransom, shaming her Islamic identity…unable to have an impact on her own she lashes out at others….’see our people are doing so much, we have built the Taj Mahal, our people are actors and lyricist, should we go away…!!’

This is the position of an apologist, someone who condones violence. This is the position of a hypocrite with jaundiced view. After this rant filled video Saba Naqvi should stop laying claim to being a secular, balanced journalist, her bias is known and she should own it. We will respect her at least for her honesty.

Fake news and anti India propaganda in times of Corona Pandemic



‘When you wrestle with a swine, the swine enjoys it and you are the one getting dirty’, old social media jungle saying holds true for Arundhati Roy and her comments on Deutsche Welle, a state owned German media much like the BBC. Arundhati Roy is as potent as a spent cartridge, has the credibility of a Chinese Communist party member claiming Corona virus did not originate in Wuhan, China, her words dont hold any veracity. It is surprising that a a state owned German media gave someone like Arundhati air time when even in India the most rabidly Communist rags don’t deem it respectable to give Roy any space. Arundhati Roy has been in splendid social isolation even before the Wuhan Corona virus made it fashionable, the funny part is she will continue to be cast away in social isolation long after the Corona virus scare is over.

Incidentally Deutsche Welle the German news channel which conducted the interview is itself not a paragon of virtue and has had a track record of racism, anti Semitism and Islamophobia which has been investigated by competent German authorities for its toxic work environment targeting religious minorities and race. Considering DW's track record it is ironical that it provides a platform to sermonise and browbeat India over minorities. Below are some of the recorded excerpts of the DW controversies. 

 






People who paid for Arundhati Roy to force feed news on on some dubious not-much-watched German channel are the same people who support her on lice infested Jehadi beards in Kashmir and every other anti India propaganda including the Gandhians with Gun folks. These are the people who despise India and what it stands for and what it has achieved, these are people who loath the current BJP government and want India to fail as a union of territories. Why else would they fund to Roy go on air to rant on the BJP government while all the evidence points in the opposite direction. The Indian left media ‘nautanki’ has been waiting, planning, bidding its time ever since Narendra Modi effortlessly surfed into power on a massive pro development wave on two successive occasions, they have been itching to spread their calumny to create an impression of India as a lawless and chaotic land with Hindus murdering Muslims with active support of the supposedly ‘right wing Hindu party’ in power.
Certain sections of journalists have misreported self defense against cattle smuggling as lynching, the CAA bill as anti Muslim, fueled a sit in protest and instigated bloody riots in Delhi in which several innocent people lost their lives. Arundhati Roy’s interview on Deutsche Welle was another throw of dice from this anti India playbook, the Corona virus crisis has provided these Leftist hacks an opportunity to turn up their decibel on fake narratives of Hindu’s discrimination against Muslims while ignoring the ground realities and facts. At a time of a national crisis where everyone is fighting to survive and ensure good health, Arundhati Roy spreads her visceral hate for India by giving completely false report of the country is nothing short of treason and this is not the first time she has been a sepoy a hired gun to do dirty deeds for her ISI masters.

CJ Werleman world of Hinduphobia!

CJ Werleman is a journalist and a social media warrior for the Jehadi's, calls himself activist against Islamophobia, defending Islam and its armies. Recently he has been caught lying and spreading falsehood on twitter and is no stranger to such controversies. He has a sizeable Twitter following of 237k and counting, making him an influencer with some clout, a dangerous one at that.


In the current ongoing Corona virus lock-down which is being strictly enforced in India, it has been made evident through various sources, Muslims have been flouting basic hygiene norms, willfully trying to spread the Corona virus, attacking health care workers and generally engaging in dangerous behavior including murderous attacks on law enforcement agencies for enforcing the lock-down. Its a well known fact much to the chagrin of other citizens, the Indian government and the law enforcement agencies normally exercise much restraint and even go soft on the Muslims in general respecting their religion and religious norms but there are times when events calls for firm action.

In Ahmadabad, Gujarat, a police team was attacked in a Muslim ghetto for enforcing a lock down and a mob of 20 or 30 people pelted stones which led to injuries on the police side. Incidentally the police officer and troopers sent to contain the situation were Muslims themselves.  Here is a excerpt and link to the full news item from Indian Express. Similarly another digital daily OPIndia reported the riot.   






Policemen enforcing lockdown attacked by Muslim mob. Injured officer Muslim himself

Following the attacks the police raided the area in the evening and arrested the trouble makers. This is the full 360 degree view of the incident. CJ Werleman has portrayed the entire episode as an act of police brutality and oppression against Muslims and projected only one side of the story. His narrative is one of police brutality against Muslims during time of Ramzan and breaking of fast in the evening, supposedly a sacred and emotional act among Muslims. He used this narrative to create maximum impact among his Muslim follower. His tweet at last count has more than 6.1k retweets and 7.3k likes from Muslims from all over the world including India and replies which are bigoted demanding retribution against the police and Hindus. How is this responsible journalism? He has fanned hate through his misplaced activism on Twitter all across the world making millions of Hindus vulnerable to attacks from radical Muslims. One can follow the link to CJ Werleman twitter account here to read the responses and the chaos he has unleashed through lies and slanted reporting.

CJ Werleman has been called out for his lies and plagiarism and fired from various jobs, and his works being taken down as acts of poor journalism.

[excerpt from article in link]
Alternet removed his pieces, though Salon (to its discredit) left them up, and the man was thoroughly trounced and disgraced. He didn’t even apologize, but fobbed off a lot of his plagiarism on “bad editing”, mistaken failure to use quotation marks, and even by making false counter-accusations that Sam Harris plagiarized too!

But the man found a new career, writing for The Middle East Eye*begging for support on Patreon, and engaging in a protracted campaign of defending Islam, demonizing Israel, and blaming all the trouble in the Middle East on America. Only Glenn Greenwald comes close to W*rl*em*n’s vehement Islamic apologetics issued by a non-Muslim.

It is to be noted that CJ Werleman is NOT on 'ground zero' reporting first hand the unfolding events, double checking facts and back stories with sources. He writes from data gleaned from the internet and secondary sources. He picks up information from local news media that suites his narrative and rehashes the news with his secret sauce and spices, which is not that far away from plagiarism. One would want social media tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook to clamp down on such 2nd hand reporting as these social media influencer's backed by journalistic license wield far greater power to move emotions negatively on a world wide scale. In the meantime we should not take CJ Werleman seriously and consign him to the dustbin.   

I am not the only one closely following CJ Werleman and his hack jobs. Additional takedown of CJ Werleman available here, Atheism and the city. A cursory search of CJ Werleman will

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Arun Jaitley on Congress Kashmir Fiasco!

Arun Jaitley shows the mirror to Congress on how they destroyed Kashmir and alienated its people starting from 1980's to until 1990's when terror was at its peak. How after destroying Kashmir they quietly ran away. A must watch video!

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Duds of Bollywood!

A sneak peek into what ails movie making in India.

Indian movie making is not about narrating a story, it is about propaganda, false narrative and political correctness. Indian movie makers handicapped by intellect and real up to date research use music, dance, non existent romance and love angles to tell their stories. Indian movie makers somehow have come to the conclusion that Indian movie goers are not intellectually sophisticated to watch a movie unless the standard 'masala' is not included. Indian movie makers actually insults the intelligence of the paying public. Here are a few things I have observed lately and using some current examples to showcase my point, by no means are these points reserved for these movies alone....they can be applied to any Indian Bollywood movie.





While Jack Dorsey of Twitter got trashed for his anti Brahmin poster activism...we Hindus have been very ignorant and even tolerant towards anti Brahmanism in our movies. The above example is just a mere sample of the uncharitable way Brahmins are presented in Indian movies....even movies down the ages have presented Brahmins as cunning, conniving people, causing strife in an otherwise peaceful society....its high time we reject such generalisation of people, especially people who have been the custodians of our culture, traditions and Sanatana Dharma.  It is time we force our so called intellectual movie makers to rethink and give up their false prejudices.
PS: When these tweets were composed, the fate of #ThugsofHindostan was not out. We all know that the movie did badly and rightly so. I saw the trailers and immediately had predicted a 'dud bomb' and I was proven correct. The movie had no legs to stand on.  

I havent watched the movie, but I am positive the movie did not stick true to the book of Philip Meadows Taylor as it would have hurt Indian sensibilities and neither was it able to connect with Indians who actually don't know much about the Thugs or was there really a cult of Thugs as the British made it out to be or was it merely a colonial atrocity literature for European consumption and portray Hindu's as devil worshipping evil people. At any rate Indians care a rats arse about who the Thugs were.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Irfan Habib...imminent historian

Monday, May 28, 2018

Do we need corporates to publish how much they donate to each political party?

Transparency for the sake of it is unnecessary and dangerous. There is absolutely no need for companies to divulge details on which political parties they fund. This can have dangerous and negative repercussions for corporates. Political parties already put out details of their funding, how much fund is received from what source....corporate, individuals etc. Asking companies to provide further details of the amount they donate to each political party will only open a Pandora's box creating unwanted complications for the companies as pro or anti specific political party or ideology. Today to the best of my knowledge, corporates fund all political parties and in most cases equitable to their national and political stature, this is a good practice and should be maintained, lets not fix what is not broke except the foreign funding as in the case of AAP where Dutch, Norwegian and Danish embassies provided funds to Arvind Kejriwals party. Any further detailing on how much was donated to specific party will lead to political vendetta and a feeling of persecution intended or unintended.


Also for the general public, this information will only create divisions and irritation, bracketing companies as a pro BJP or a pro Congress or pro CPM or pro SP company. Do we really need this? Do we really need to now categories company as per political ideologies? What will we gain from such information? How does it matter how much Reliance, Bajaj, Escorts, L&T or Godrej or other smaller companies donate to each political party.... Congress decline in funding [-62%] is relative to its perceived political stature, leadership and its performance at the hustings, BJP on the other hand has grown significantly at a national level. People consider BJP as a viable political organization worth backing politically and financially, there is no other complicated answer to this unless we want to complicate it to obfuscate. 


These kind of transparency seeking NGO's or Associations [mentioned in link] are dangerous, their agenda unknown cloaked under a well meaning innocent sounding title of 'transparency', 'accountability' or 'sustainable' etc. These organizations manipulate data to create fissures in a already fractured society. We should resist their attempts, expose and shame them!

Narendra Modi’s unfulfilled promises: In 5th year, PM must take a hard look at opaque political funding rules

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Congress's Dangerous Ideology

Karnataka State Assembly elections May 2018. Congress finished a scrappy 5 year term and the people voted them out giving BJP a 104 seat mandate, 7 short of a simple majority. Congress performed badly and lost 43 seats compared to 2014 finishing 2nd with 78 seats. JD[S] the third party in the fray closed at 38, 2 seats lesser compared to their last outing. In summary, BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats with Congress and JD[S] a distant second and third.

The state governor has invited BJP to form the govt, but longterm bitter foes and arch enemies JD[S] and Congress have swallowed their pride and shed their self respect to form an alliance in a bid to form the next government. Both put thogether can deliver a simple majority government of 116 MLA's but the crux of the matter is not mathematics but ideology. Their ideology is simple, we will now allow Modi to win, we will do anything and everything possible to defeat him and keep BJP out of power. Keeping up with this idelogy Congress the senior partner, a national level party and an incumbent with 78 seats has offered Kumarswamy of JD[S] with 38 seats the CM post in a bid to keep him away from BJP.

What does this say about Congress who has had a long running war with JD[S]. Congress is ready to ally and partner with anyone who will help it keep Modi and BJP out of power. So if in a election in Telangana or Andhra Pradesh if Congress falls short of a simple majority will they ally with Owaisi's and offer him the CM post just to keep Modi and BJP out. Watching today's alliance drama Congress will sleep with the devil to retain power or keep Modi out of power. This is Congress's dangerous ideology we have to be careful about.

It should not come as a surprise to anyone...Congress were in a pre-poll alliance with SDPI [PFI] the Islamic terrorist organization of Kerala, posing as a secular political outfit, trying to expand into Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with the help of Congress.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

What Congress want from the Ram Janm Boomi [RJB] case?

A learned lawyer has written a piece in the Swarajyamag outlining Kapil Sibal's agenda, nice read but I am not sure it does justice to the title. I on the other hand have a different take on Congress perfidious objective behind opposing the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Congress political position has been to promote a compromise and capitulation formula for the Hindus. Hindus should give up exclusive claims to the 'Ram Janm Sthan'. Basically Congress wants to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, meaning it wants to retain its Muslim vote bank by appearing to be their savior by stopping Hindu's from taking over the entire land exclusively and at the same time appear to be a champion for the Hindu cause by ensuring a Ram Janm Bhoomi temple howsoever compromised this formula may be for the Hindu's. Knowing very well the Hindu mindset for compromise, Congress is playing its cards to roll back Hindu aspirations. I can already hear many Hindu's say 'at least we got a temple...all is well'

I am not a hawk but I want Hindu' 'aastha' and belief to be respected and given full recognition but surely not through a compromise formula. Its common knowledge that thousands of Hindu temples were destroyed over 500 years of Islamic domination....today Hindus are asking but for minuscule fraction of that loss to be restored. How difficult is it in our own homeland.

Below are links to my video interview with Koenraad Elst, foremost expert on the Ram Janm Bhoomi case and has appeared in court on many occasions to provide evidence on the existence of a Hindu temple under the Babri mosque.

https://youtu.be/CjMwuexSuBw
https://youtu.be/s4sOJdNA80U
https://youtu.be/Qooddo2-f98
https://youtu.be/SFhs7VwLcr0
https://youtu.be/8EF2uM7tXrM
https://youtu.be/RCEw5Jt4NG4