Faith and Religion
Swami Laxmanananda: murder foretold
Shreerang Godbole
30 August 2008
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The gruesome murder of 84-year old Swami Laxmanananda in Kandhamal, Orissa, has exposed the ease with which evangelical groups can access guns, grenades, and other murderous weapons in the pursuit of their agenda to impose their own religion by annihilating local faiths and cultures everywhere.
No one takes seriously the administration claim that the murder is the handiwork of Maoists. It is another matter that in Kandhamal there is little to differentiate Christians and Maoists – the cadres reputedly overlap, and both share the common goal of uprooting Hindu dharma. Indian media followed the Western media in raising a hue and cry over the murder of evangelist Graham Staines, but did not show the same respect to the octogenarian Swami who devoted his life to the welfare of the most downtrodden tribal communities.
The media gave space to the asinine remarks of Australian evangelist Gladys Staines, who has no locus standi to comment on the internal affairs of India , and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was quick to give audience to well-organised Christian leaders after the Bishop of Rome expressed displeasure over native Hindu reaction to grave provocation. The Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi cannot be overlooked in this context – it constitutes a sub-text to the Christian vociferousness, which seeks to drown out the fact that the Krishna Janmasthami murders in the ashram premises was an exceedingly well-organised and premeditated crime.
The tremendous and spontaneous Hindu reaction – paralleling the upsurge over the Amarnath yatra land issue in Jammu – has taken the nation by surprise. But the root causes of the Orissa unrest have been completely glossed over by the media.
Kandhamal is part of the erstwhile undivided district of Phulbani; it was carved into a separate district on 1 April 1994. It derives its name from the Kandh (Kondha) tribes who dominate the area, comprising approximately 51.96% of the 6.5 lakh population of the district. Kandhs are Hindus and enjoy Scheduled Tribe status.
The other community with a significant local presence is the Panas, a Scheduled Caste, who constitute about 16.89% of the district population. The Panas are overwhelmingly Christian and are educationally, economically and politically more advanced. They were the prime targets of the pioneering Christian missionaries who settled in Katingia village of Daringibadi block of Kandhamal in 1883. The Kandh tribe led by Chakara Bisoi, Dohara Bisoi, Dina Kondh and Lochana Kondh valiantly fought the British in 1857, and it was only in 1884 that the British finally managed to subdue this region with the help of converted Panas from present-day Ganjam and Nayagarh districts bordering Kandhamal.
Through untiring efforts spanning four decades, Swamiji succeeded in awakening the Kandhs. This in turn posed a major threat to the political and economic hegemony of the Church. The converted Panas are highly placed in Government and politics. Rajya Sabha MP Radha Kant Nayak is a converted Pana and a blue-eyed boy of the Congress president. He doubles up as chief of the local chapter of World Vision, a highly energetic Christian outfit. Nayak is also connected with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). He uses his MP’s fund to distribute largesse to converted Panas through his own NGO called ‘Nishwas’. His alleged role in the murderous attack on Swami Laxmanananda on 24 December 2007 has not been probed to the satisfaction of the local populace.
Christian bureaucrats like Issac Behera and retired IPS officer John Nayak, Lok Sabha MP Sugrib Singh, and former Steel and Mines Minister Padmanabh Behera are other heavyweights who are hand-in-glove with missionaries. The Church reportedly gets massive funds from USA , Italy , Australia and several European countries, and Swami Laxmanananda’s demand for an enquiry into the quantum of foreign funds flowing into the region and their utilization should in the fitness of things be accorded the status of the last testament.
There is a long-standing dispute between converted Panas and Hindu Kandh tribals. Under the law, Panas cannot own forest land as they are not Scheduled Tribes. Throwing legality to the winds, several converted Panas have illegally grabbed forest land. Kandhs who have been rendered landless are forced to work as farm labourers on lands illegally occupied by Panas. Seething discontent over this state of affairs first manifested in the 1994 Kandh-Pana clashes that left 50 persons dead.
Despite a High Court order to evict encroached land, Christians continue to illegally occupy the land. Being Scheduled Castes, Panas are legally not allowed reservation benefits after conversion. One way they get around this law is by concealing their conversion. Radha Kant Nayak, a 1962 batch IAS officer, is widely reputed to have gained entry into the IAS through Scheduled Caste quota by fraudulently concealing his convert status. The growing clamour for public scrutiny of such cases is said to be behind the setting up of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission, which expectedly recommended reservation benefits for all SC converts.
Another way to beat this law is by securing Scheduled Tribe status. This will enable Panas to enjoy reservation even after conversion, as an oversight in the Constitution did not deprive ST converts of reservation rights. Naturally, Church-inspired organizations such as the Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh are clamouring for Scheduled Tribe status for Panas.
Moreover, the delimitation of constituencies has resulted in the reservation of the lone Lok Sabha and all Vidhan Sabha Assembly segments for Scheduled Tribes. The posts of President of the Zilla Parishad, Block Chairmen and majority of elected Zilla Parishad members and posts in Panchayati Raj institutions have also been reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The flip side of this is a loss of political and social relevance for the Christian Panas and the Church. Hence the sense of urgency in the demand for Scheduled Tribe status for Christian Panas.
The Kandhs speak the Kui dialect, which is also known to the majority of Panas. Disregarding the fact that ‘Kui’ is a dialect, not a community, Panas are falsely claiming to be Kuis and demanding ST status!
In 1981, the J.B. Patnaik government bowed to the Christian lobby and recommended that Kuis be included in the list of Scheduled Tribes. The Christian lobby won a major victory in 2002 when a Presidential order included Kuis in the list of STs. The Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh promptly filed a writ petition in the High Court claiming that in Kandhamal district, Kuis were wrongly listed as a Scheduled Caste instead of Scheduled Tribe in land revenue records and consequently deprived of Constitutional concessions granted to STs.
Finally, the High Court asked the State Government to take a decision in the matter. Mercifully, the State Government submitted that as the Record of Rights of the Panas did not mention them as a Scheduled Tribe, their demand could not be met. The Orissa Government has consistently maintained that “this demand is not based on historical and anthropological facts.”
Kandh organizations such as Phulbani Kui Seva Samiti, Nikhil Utkal Kui Samaj, Kui Kul Samiti and Kui Sanskritik Parishad are struggling to stave off the Pana demand for Scheduled Tribe status. They have formed an umbrella organization called Kui Samanvaya Samiti to safeguard the rights of Kandhs.
More than anyone else, Swami Laxmanananda was a symbol of Kandh hopes and aspirations. The missionaries knew that the resurgent Kandh Hindus could force them to close shop. With Swamiji out of the way, the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, Msgr. Raphael Cheenath could afford to indulge in some bluster. Speaking after Swamiji’s murder, Cheenath bragged that the roots of the Church in these parts were deep and that the Church would continue to provide light for generations to come.
In Jammu , Hindus have risen in the defence of Dharma, throwing up new leaders in the process. Orissa – land of Jagannath , Lingaraja, Kalinga-Jina – cannot lag behind. It owes this much to Swamiji.
Dr. Godbole is a Pune-based endocrinologist, social activist and author.
Posted by
guru
Aug 31, 2008 09:33 am
Following is probably a poem coming out of pain and fear of the future where the abrahmic imperialism, slavery and consumerism (ideas, source of divinity, processed product mfged at distant places owned by few and consumed blindly by perpetually impoverished, psychologically enslaved "other" people/race) will wipe out organic local culture. I am not associated with these good folks.Swami Laxmanananda: murder foretold
Shreerang Godbole
30 August 2008
back
The gruesome murder of 84-year old Swami Laxmanananda in Kandhamal, Orissa, has exposed the ease with which evangelical groups can access guns, grenades, and other murderous weapons in the pursuit of their agenda to impose their own religion by annihilating local faiths and cultures everywhere.
No one takes seriously the administration claim that the murder is the handiwork of Maoists. It is another matter that in Kandhamal there is little to differentiate Christians and Maoists – the cadres reputedly overlap, and both share the common goal of uprooting Hindu dharma. Indian media followed the Western media in raising a hue and cry over the murder of evangelist Graham Staines, but did not show the same respect to the octogenarian Swami who devoted his life to the welfare of the most downtrodden tribal communities.
The media gave space to the asinine remarks of Australian evangelist Gladys Staines, who has no locus standi to comment on the internal affairs of India , and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was quick to give audience to well-organised Christian leaders after the Bishop of Rome expressed displeasure over native Hindu reaction to grave provocation. The Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi cannot be overlooked in this context – it constitutes a sub-text to the Christian vociferousness, which seeks to drown out the fact that the Krishna Janmasthami murders in the ashram premises was an exceedingly well-organised and premeditated crime.
The tremendous and spontaneous Hindu reaction – paralleling the upsurge over the Amarnath yatra land issue in Jammu – has taken the nation by surprise. But the root causes of the Orissa unrest have been completely glossed over by the media.
Kandhamal is part of the erstwhile undivided district of Phulbani; it was carved into a separate district on 1 April 1994. It derives its name from the Kandh (Kondha) tribes who dominate the area, comprising approximately 51.96% of the 6.5 lakh population of the district. Kandhs are Hindus and enjoy Scheduled Tribe status.
The other community with a significant local presence is the Panas, a Scheduled Caste, who constitute about 16.89% of the district population. The Panas are overwhelmingly Christian and are educationally, economically and politically more advanced. They were the prime targets of the pioneering Christian missionaries who settled in Katingia village of Daringibadi block of Kandhamal in 1883. The Kandh tribe led by Chakara Bisoi, Dohara Bisoi, Dina Kondh and Lochana Kondh valiantly fought the British in 1857, and it was only in 1884 that the British finally managed to subdue this region with the help of converted Panas from present-day Ganjam and Nayagarh districts bordering Kandhamal.
Through untiring efforts spanning four decades, Swamiji succeeded in awakening the Kandhs. This in turn posed a major threat to the political and economic hegemony of the Church. The converted Panas are highly placed in Government and politics. Rajya Sabha MP Radha Kant Nayak is a converted Pana and a blue-eyed boy of the Congress president. He doubles up as chief of the local chapter of World Vision, a highly energetic Christian outfit. Nayak is also connected with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). He uses his MP’s fund to distribute largesse to converted Panas through his own NGO called ‘Nishwas’. His alleged role in the murderous attack on Swami Laxmanananda on 24 December 2007 has not been probed to the satisfaction of the local populace.
Christian bureaucrats like Issac Behera and retired IPS officer John Nayak, Lok Sabha MP Sugrib Singh, and former Steel and Mines Minister Padmanabh Behera are other heavyweights who are hand-in-glove with missionaries. The Church reportedly gets massive funds from USA , Italy , Australia and several European countries, and Swami Laxmanananda’s demand for an enquiry into the quantum of foreign funds flowing into the region and their utilization should in the fitness of things be accorded the status of the last testament.
There is a long-standing dispute between converted Panas and Hindu Kandh tribals. Under the law, Panas cannot own forest land as they are not Scheduled Tribes. Throwing legality to the winds, several converted Panas have illegally grabbed forest land. Kandhs who have been rendered landless are forced to work as farm labourers on lands illegally occupied by Panas. Seething discontent over this state of affairs first manifested in the 1994 Kandh-Pana clashes that left 50 persons dead.
Despite a High Court order to evict encroached land, Christians continue to illegally occupy the land. Being Scheduled Castes, Panas are legally not allowed reservation benefits after conversion. One way they get around this law is by concealing their conversion. Radha Kant Nayak, a 1962 batch IAS officer, is widely reputed to have gained entry into the IAS through Scheduled Caste quota by fraudulently concealing his convert status. The growing clamour for public scrutiny of such cases is said to be behind the setting up of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission, which expectedly recommended reservation benefits for all SC converts.
Another way to beat this law is by securing Scheduled Tribe status. This will enable Panas to enjoy reservation even after conversion, as an oversight in the Constitution did not deprive ST converts of reservation rights. Naturally, Church-inspired organizations such as the Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh are clamouring for Scheduled Tribe status for Panas.
Moreover, the delimitation of constituencies has resulted in the reservation of the lone Lok Sabha and all Vidhan Sabha Assembly segments for Scheduled Tribes. The posts of President of the Zilla Parishad, Block Chairmen and majority of elected Zilla Parishad members and posts in Panchayati Raj institutions have also been reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The flip side of this is a loss of political and social relevance for the Christian Panas and the Church. Hence the sense of urgency in the demand for Scheduled Tribe status for Christian Panas.
The Kandhs speak the Kui dialect, which is also known to the majority of Panas. Disregarding the fact that ‘Kui’ is a dialect, not a community, Panas are falsely claiming to be Kuis and demanding ST status!
In 1981, the J.B. Patnaik government bowed to the Christian lobby and recommended that Kuis be included in the list of Scheduled Tribes. The Christian lobby won a major victory in 2002 when a Presidential order included Kuis in the list of STs. The Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh promptly filed a writ petition in the High Court claiming that in Kandhamal district, Kuis were wrongly listed as a Scheduled Caste instead of Scheduled Tribe in land revenue records and consequently deprived of Constitutional concessions granted to STs.
Finally, the High Court asked the State Government to take a decision in the matter. Mercifully, the State Government submitted that as the Record of Rights of the Panas did not mention them as a Scheduled Tribe, their demand could not be met. The Orissa Government has consistently maintained that “this demand is not based on historical and anthropological facts.”
Kandh organizations such as Phulbani Kui Seva Samiti, Nikhil Utkal Kui Samaj, Kui Kul Samiti and Kui Sanskritik Parishad are struggling to stave off the Pana demand for Scheduled Tribe status. They have formed an umbrella organization called Kui Samanvaya Samiti to safeguard the rights of Kandhs.
More than anyone else, Swami Laxmanananda was a symbol of Kandh hopes and aspirations. The missionaries knew that the resurgent Kandh Hindus could force them to close shop. With Swamiji out of the way, the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, Msgr. Raphael Cheenath could afford to indulge in some bluster. Speaking after Swamiji’s murder, Cheenath bragged that the roots of the Church in these parts were deep and that the Church would continue to provide light for generations to come.
In Jammu , Hindus have risen in the defence of Dharma, throwing up new leaders in the process. Orissa – land of Jagannath , Lingaraja, Kalinga-Jina – cannot lag behind. It owes this much to Swamiji.
Dr. Godbole is a Pune-based endocrinologist, social activist and author.
Faith and Religion
the problem is with us. dharma needs to be organized so that it can fight with this abrahmic ghost sucking blood of humanity for last 1700 years. There is no point in discussing with Murarilal Lakhanpurkar aka ScumBaig. Here is what we need to do:
"Why not? Some say that Hindus don't have a "religious duty" to donate a.la "tithing" for Christians and Zakat for Muslims but can we not take the initiative to do that? I see tons of NRI gazillionaires and even regular "Oracle jockey" types who drive BMW 7-series to temples. If we as a community cannot open our hearts for a good cause, do we deserve to whine about other faith people who are more generous than us? I see old ladies dependent on medicare giving generously to churches. Why don't we do the same?
As a disclaimer, I was not a major donor until some recent family developments forced me to look at things a different way. While I agree that EJ funds need to be monitored on par with other security concern funds, we do need our society to open up and donate towards the development of downtrodden segments who want to stay within the Sanantan Dharma fold. I daresay that our funds can have a higher efficiency of "saving souls" than EJ funds because we are not buying to change status quo, we are just contributing to improve lives incrementally. In other words, if it takes Rs. 10 lakhs per person for an EJ to "buy a soul", I bet we can make 100 people to say no to EJ bribing for the same amount.
BTW, the first generation of EJ induced converts essentially remain Hindus for life. It's the next generation onwards that turn hostile to their parent faith."
To ignore Murarilal please write the responses on Faraz articles.
Posted by
guru
Aug 31, 2008 08:33 am
pinkuji,the problem is with us. dharma needs to be organized so that it can fight with this abrahmic ghost sucking blood of humanity for last 1700 years. There is no point in discussing with Murarilal Lakhanpurkar aka ScumBaig. Here is what we need to do:
"Why not? Some say that Hindus don't have a "religious duty" to donate a.la "tithing" for Christians and Zakat for Muslims but can we not take the initiative to do that? I see tons of NRI gazillionaires and even regular "Oracle jockey" types who drive BMW 7-series to temples. If we as a community cannot open our hearts for a good cause, do we deserve to whine about other faith people who are more generous than us? I see old ladies dependent on medicare giving generously to churches. Why don't we do the same?
As a disclaimer, I was not a major donor until some recent family developments forced me to look at things a different way. While I agree that EJ funds need to be monitored on par with other security concern funds, we do need our society to open up and donate towards the development of downtrodden segments who want to stay within the Sanantan Dharma fold. I daresay that our funds can have a higher efficiency of "saving souls" than EJ funds because we are not buying to change status quo, we are just contributing to improve lives incrementally. In other words, if it takes Rs. 10 lakhs per person for an EJ to "buy a soul", I bet we can make 100 people to say no to EJ bribing for the same amount.
BTW, the first generation of EJ induced converts essentially remain Hindus for life. It's the next generation onwards that turn hostile to their parent faith."
To ignore Murarilal please write the responses on Faraz articles.
In Memory of Ahmed Faraz
Nation building is like carrying a baby for nine months. It's hard work after the ecstasy due to passion. If we do not do it nature will punish it, the way it has been doing for last 1K years. Culture and nation is as much a living entity as an indfividual. It also cannot escape from Karma. We individual are like individual cells ... if we die as cancerous cells because of our inaction and folly we are made to get borned again in the same cancer affected body. We are all connected.
Suzzane Roy and Darpok Sanghi want a mother who is 8 month pregnant should abort the child because for all these long 8 months of pain and free feeding to the baby and the imaginary traumatic final solution of delivery. For the painless delivery ideas such as above need to be implemented.
Posted by
guru
Aug 29, 2008 04:48 am
GOI should declare emergency in Kashmir valley. To nearest kin of every soldier died from 48 onwards fighting Bakis and Shantic Kasmiris allot 50 acres of land contiguous with Jammu and Ladakh. Do the same with 20 acres for injured soldier. Adjacent to this land of martyrs build IIT & IIMs and software parks. Similarly allot land along the route to Amarnath to Indian companies. Nation building is like carrying a baby for nine months. It's hard work after the ecstasy due to passion. If we do not do it nature will punish it, the way it has been doing for last 1K years. Culture and nation is as much a living entity as an indfividual. It also cannot escape from Karma. We individual are like individual cells ... if we die as cancerous cells because of our inaction and folly we are made to get borned again in the same cancer affected body. We are all connected.
Suzzane Roy and Darpok Sanghi want a mother who is 8 month pregnant should abort the child because for all these long 8 months of pain and free feeding to the baby and the imaginary traumatic final solution of delivery. For the painless delivery ideas such as above need to be implemented.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
You had your beer when you were freshman when you must be 18. Our little brave goddess Sheetal Devi barely half that age had exhilarating time with Shantic Jihadis. Please raise your glass for her next time. As I suspected cadbury kids only qualification to fame is when they had their beer and other 4 letter activities. Your poetic bleeding heart must be wondering who is this brave Devi. Please be patient and reach to the bottom of this article:
Police have recovered three mobile telephones with local BSNL SIM cards from the possession of three militants gunned down last night by Army at Chinore whose numbers have given very vital information to the investigating officials. Through the three mobile telephones, the Pakistanis, frequently received directions from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) network both within J&K and across the border with the latest direction being to kill all civilians including four children before getting eliminated by the troops.
IGP Jammu K Rajendera added that the militants received a number of calls throughout the day including some calls from a Thoraya satellite telephone. He declined to disclose the mobile numbers on the ground that police was extracting entire data from them and it would expose militants’ contacts including the persons, who might have helped them spent 30 hours in Kanachak and reveal their ‘exact motive’ in Jammu.
One of the three mobile telephones in the possession of slain ultras was 9469289726. Official sources told the Excelsior that a LeT commander had dialled mobile telephone of an electronic media’s Reporter from his Thoraya satellite phone and gave them one of the number (9469289726) asking the Reporter to speak to the militant inside.
Sources said as soon as the militants entered the house and took positions inside, they received a direction on their phone from one of the commander to eliminate all male adult members and keep women and children hostages. Thereafter, they opened firing and gunned down Ashok Kumar Manhas of Thathri, a teacher putting up as a tenant in Billoo Ram’s house, Sandeep Singh alias Kala, a neighbour of Billoo and Sham Murari, a brave jawan of Territorial Army, who had all alone intruded into the house while chasing the militants from Domana in a bid to rescue the children. However, Murari was trapped inside as he had no weapon with him.
At this stage, sources said, militants asked Tarsem Lal, brother of Sunita Devi (wife of Billoo Ram) to come out of a room they had bolted from inside and taken shelter after the killing of three persons. However, acting tactfully, Tarsem pulled all four children of Billoo Ram and his wife Sunita Devi besides himself into the adjoining kitchen after coming out of the room and locked the kitchen from inside.
In another important development, Army today revealed that they had flown 10 highly trained ‘para commandos’, who were part of a ‘Special Force’ from Chandigarh to launch the final assault in killing two militants in the evening and simultaneously ensuring that the hostages are saved.
"The ‘para commandos’, numbering 10, three of them officers, were flown here from Chandigarh within an hour and executed the operation so meticulously that it didn’t give any chance to the ultras to kill the civilians. While the second ultra was killed around 7.30 pm, the remaining militant was eliminated few minutes later", sources said, adding the troops announced end of the operation in the mid-night as they wanted to ensure that there was no ultra left inside.
Meanwhile, bodies of all three militants have been shifted to GMC Jammu where post-mortem was conducted on them this afternoon. The bodies will be kept in the GMC for 72 hours. Two of them had sustained 10-12 shots while the militant killed in the day had sustained numerous bullet wounds.
Billoo’s eldest daughter, Sheetal Devi, who was just 9, wanted to become an Army officer after seeing yesterday’s brutal acts by the Pakistanis. She was witness to three killings and injuries to her mother.
"Even now I’m feeling gun shots in my ears", she said, adding she would like to be an Army officer to teach a lesson to the militants. People were all praise for Sunita Devi’s brother, Tarsem Lal, who displayed courage and kept the children locked inside, thus, exposing them from coming in direct contact with the militants.
Posted by
guru
Aug 29, 2008 04:17 am
Ana Tai,You had your beer when you were freshman when you must be 18. Our little brave goddess Sheetal Devi barely half that age had exhilarating time with Shantic Jihadis. Please raise your glass for her next time. As I suspected cadbury kids only qualification to fame is when they had their beer and other 4 letter activities. Your poetic bleeding heart must be wondering who is this brave Devi. Please be patient and reach to the bottom of this article:
Police have recovered three mobile telephones with local BSNL SIM cards from the possession of three militants gunned down last night by Army at Chinore whose numbers have given very vital information to the investigating officials. Through the three mobile telephones, the Pakistanis, frequently received directions from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) network both within J&K and across the border with the latest direction being to kill all civilians including four children before getting eliminated by the troops.
IGP Jammu K Rajendera added that the militants received a number of calls throughout the day including some calls from a Thoraya satellite telephone. He declined to disclose the mobile numbers on the ground that police was extracting entire data from them and it would expose militants’ contacts including the persons, who might have helped them spent 30 hours in Kanachak and reveal their ‘exact motive’ in Jammu.
One of the three mobile telephones in the possession of slain ultras was 9469289726. Official sources told the Excelsior that a LeT commander had dialled mobile telephone of an electronic media’s Reporter from his Thoraya satellite phone and gave them one of the number (9469289726) asking the Reporter to speak to the militant inside.
Sources said as soon as the militants entered the house and took positions inside, they received a direction on their phone from one of the commander to eliminate all male adult members and keep women and children hostages. Thereafter, they opened firing and gunned down Ashok Kumar Manhas of Thathri, a teacher putting up as a tenant in Billoo Ram’s house, Sandeep Singh alias Kala, a neighbour of Billoo and Sham Murari, a brave jawan of Territorial Army, who had all alone intruded into the house while chasing the militants from Domana in a bid to rescue the children. However, Murari was trapped inside as he had no weapon with him.
At this stage, sources said, militants asked Tarsem Lal, brother of Sunita Devi (wife of Billoo Ram) to come out of a room they had bolted from inside and taken shelter after the killing of three persons. However, acting tactfully, Tarsem pulled all four children of Billoo Ram and his wife Sunita Devi besides himself into the adjoining kitchen after coming out of the room and locked the kitchen from inside.
In another important development, Army today revealed that they had flown 10 highly trained ‘para commandos’, who were part of a ‘Special Force’ from Chandigarh to launch the final assault in killing two militants in the evening and simultaneously ensuring that the hostages are saved.
"The ‘para commandos’, numbering 10, three of them officers, were flown here from Chandigarh within an hour and executed the operation so meticulously that it didn’t give any chance to the ultras to kill the civilians. While the second ultra was killed around 7.30 pm, the remaining militant was eliminated few minutes later", sources said, adding the troops announced end of the operation in the mid-night as they wanted to ensure that there was no ultra left inside.
Meanwhile, bodies of all three militants have been shifted to GMC Jammu where post-mortem was conducted on them this afternoon. The bodies will be kept in the GMC for 72 hours. Two of them had sustained 10-12 shots while the militant killed in the day had sustained numerous bullet wounds.
Billoo’s eldest daughter, Sheetal Devi, who was just 9, wanted to become an Army officer after seeing yesterday’s brutal acts by the Pakistanis. She was witness to three killings and injuries to her mother.
"Even now I’m feeling gun shots in my ears", she said, adding she would like to be an Army officer to teach a lesson to the militants. People were all praise for Sunita Devi’s brother, Tarsem Lal, who displayed courage and kept the children locked inside, thus, exposing them from coming in direct contact with the militants.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
Posted by
guru
Aug 28, 2008 10:48 pm
10 more minutes wait
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
As usual you are so wise and poetic.
"Aham doodasmi, rickshasmi."
As we get into Samadhi and become one with our given task "dood As Mi" and "riksaw As Mi" we contribute the best to this world. In such Samadhi we forget ourselves. I personally experienced it s many times. First when designing a VLSI chip with just owel around west in a room with just table, a stool and lamp I forgot when the evening came, morning happened, again evening, again morning, ... 58 hours on the stool under the lamp ... no food no defecating or urinating ... time just flew by. No tiredness... biked 2 miles to work in snow-sleet in vigor like a well rested teen. that day was really a blessed one.
Posted by
guru
Aug 28, 2008 10:45 pm
Pinkuji,As usual you are so wise and poetic.
"Aham doodasmi, rickshasmi."
As we get into Samadhi and become one with our given task "dood As Mi" and "riksaw As Mi" we contribute the best to this world. In such Samadhi we forget ourselves. I personally experienced it s many times. First when designing a VLSI chip with just owel around west in a room with just table, a stool and lamp I forgot when the evening came, morning happened, again evening, again morning, ... 58 hours on the stool under the lamp ... no food no defecating or urinating ... time just flew by. No tiredness... biked 2 miles to work in snow-sleet in vigor like a well rested teen. that day was really a blessed one.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
It's kind of late and the better half is suspecting my G-giri on the web. I can keep my mobile on for 10 more minutes to hear from you. Seems Ana Tai has given up on me.
Posted by
guru
Aug 28, 2008 10:33 pm
nkg,It's kind of late and the better half is suspecting my G-giri on the web. I can keep my mobile on for 10 more minutes to hear from you. Seems Ana Tai has given up on me.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
You guys are soo good with written word. Even in Marathi I was very bad, barely passing 36/100 and never reaching to the questions on essay or poems. Anyway, let's get on to the great task of right Shradhanjali to great souls who have departed, some willingly and others not so willingly. My half ana worth cut and paste. Thanks to BJ! Those long sentences with hyphens though I, poetic Harijan do not understand must be literary, so here it goes :
Great dhoodhwalas , like great heartists of any other kind, do not belong to one community, one region, or any one people. They represent a resource for human beings at large and â like a fountain which only happens to sprout from any one location but is not limited by the same and which gets characterized solely on the basis of the refreshing quality of the nourishment that it produces â and not by who makes a claim to it! My condolences to the countless individuals that Jammu Dhoodhwala surely touched through his unadulterated milk - who now feel a loss to their lives due to his departure!
Please replace the Dhoodhwala to Rickshawala, Armywala, Policewala, the teacher and the student from Jammu. These kind of "wordy" eulogy might be Faraz's liking but other heartists want "living poems." I am sure Ana Didi must be overwhelmed by your donations. Anaji would you please give your address or the bank account which you must have opened for this Jammu cause. tahmedji did you cut your $1K cheque?
Posted by
guru
Aug 28, 2008 08:28 pm
Ana Didi, testicularji and Baki well meaning folks,You guys are soo good with written word. Even in Marathi I was very bad, barely passing 36/100 and never reaching to the questions on essay or poems. Anyway, let's get on to the great task of right Shradhanjali to great souls who have departed, some willingly and others not so willingly. My half ana worth cut and paste. Thanks to BJ! Those long sentences with hyphens though I, poetic Harijan do not understand must be literary, so here it goes :
Great dhoodhwalas , like great heartists of any other kind, do not belong to one community, one region, or any one people. They represent a resource for human beings at large and â like a fountain which only happens to sprout from any one location but is not limited by the same and which gets characterized solely on the basis of the refreshing quality of the nourishment that it produces â and not by who makes a claim to it! My condolences to the countless individuals that Jammu Dhoodhwala surely touched through his unadulterated milk - who now feel a loss to their lives due to his departure!
Please replace the Dhoodhwala to Rickshawala, Armywala, Policewala, the teacher and the student from Jammu. These kind of "wordy" eulogy might be Faraz's liking but other heartists want "living poems." I am sure Ana Didi must be overwhelmed by your donations. Anaji would you please give your address or the bank account which you must have opened for this Jammu cause. tahmedji did you cut your $1K cheque?
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
You have a great task at your hand. For Jammu Jihadi killing you need to collect 8 Crores. It might be a small change for you guys. Add to that 2 crores for taking care of injured. When you raise the glass next time for Ahmed Faraz please leave half the glass empty, and donate money for that amount of booze $s to Ana didi for Jammu cause.
We know your poetic hearts are eagerly waiting in anguish for the latest info on Jammu Jihadi killing. So here it goes:
[From Left] A woman being rescued by Army from the roof of Billoo Ram’s house, an Army JCO who had come on leave to his house from Jaipur and was killed in his auto by the militants and an injured admitted in GMC Jammu.
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Aug 27: Eleven persons including three Army jawans, one of them a JCO, five civilians and three militants were killed while six others including three Army personnel, two civilians and a woman were injured as three fidayeens, who had infiltrated in wee hours of yesterday morning from Kanachak sector, managed to hijack a load carrier auto carrying Gujjars along with their milk containers at Gadla, Kanachak this morning and travelled more than 15 kms before taking shelter in a house at Chinore near Bantalab on on old Jammu-Akhnoor road taking nine persons including four children and three women hostage.
The operation, which was completely taken over by Army after initial presence of para-military and police, started at about 7 am and concluded at around 1 am in the midnight tonight. The operation lasted 18 hours.
Two Armymen including a JCO and a Havildar and three civilians were killed before the militants took shelter in the house of one Billoo Ram Bhagat at Chinore at about 6.45 am while two civilians, a Territorial Army jawan and three militants were killed and a woman was injured in the gun-battle inside the house which concluded in the mid-night.
A total of 10 civilians were held hostage by the militants soon after they intruded into the house of Billoo Ram after travelling in an auto from Kanachak to Chinore early this morning. Of them, Billoo’s mother, Veero Devi managed to escape and was rescued by Army in the morning.
Soon after entering inside, militants gunned down a Territorial Army jawan Sham Murari, who had intruded into the house while following the militants, Ashok Kumar, a private teacher who had been putting up as a tenant in the house and Kalu Ram, a neighbour, who had gone to Billoo’s house to inquire his condition as he had suffered a snake bite.
Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, GOC 26 Division told reporters in the mid-night that all other six civilians (Billoo Ram’s wife, Sunita Kumari, his four children, Sheetal Devi, 9 and Kajal, 4, both daughters, Arshit, 5 and Vipan, 3, both sons and Sunita Devi’s brother) were rescued safely.
During the commando operation, in which all three militants were killed, Army didn’t suffer any casualties. All three Army casualties were suffered before the operation actually started.
Sunita Devi’s brother told the newsmen that the militants after killing three persons asked him to hand over one of the child to him. However, he locked himself, his sister and all four children in a room and bolted the room from inside. Sunita was injured in firing by one of the militant at about 10.30 am when he came out to see security situation outside and cause casualties of the Army but was immediately gunned down by the troops.
With a bullet wound in her thigh, she was referred to Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu, tonight after being rescued by the Army. Her condition was out of danger, Medical Superintendent, GMC Dr Romesh Gupta told the Excelsior in the mid-night.
While the first militant was eliminated by the troops around 10.30 am, the second militant was gunned down in a commando operation by Army at around 7 pm. The third ultra was killed by the commandos before 9 pm. However, the operation was declared closed in the mid-night as troops ensured that there was no other militants present inside.
It took the four children more than two hours to come out of the day long trauma they had gone through hearing the sound of gun shots which were often exchanged between Army and militants.
Maj Gen Chowdhary said the presence of more militants after infiltration in Jammu can’t be ruled out. In reply to another question, he added that target of the militants being Wednesday afternoon’s rally of the Sangarsh Samiti was not ruled out.
The children were not allowed to speak to the media as they were yet to come out of the trauma while Sunita’s husband Billoo Ram rushed to hospital for treatment of his wife. Sunita’s brother told reporters that he not bolted the children inside the room the casualty figure would have been much more.
Official sources confirmed that all three militants appeared to be members of suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and were believed to be Pakistanis though their identity hasn’t been established immediately. They were part of the same group which had infiltrated into Indian territory from Kanachak sector on the intervening night of August 25 and 26.
Earlier in the evening, Army pressed Moulvis of its nearby JAK Li unit into service and got an appeal made to the militants through megaphone and Public Address System (PAS) to surrender and release the captives on the ground that Islam didn’t preach keeping the women and children as hostages. Later, two national news channels also spoke to the militants inside the house from New Delhi on mobile telephone of Billoo Ram—9469289726, which was left by Billoo inside when he had come out of the house in the morning. The militants claimed on the telephonic calls that all hostages inside the house including children were safe.
The militants while travelling in a load carrier from village Gadla in Lalyala area of Kanachak, which they had hijacked at 5.30 am after coming out of the bushes they had been hiding for last 30 hours after their infiltration on August 25 night, crossed several Army and police nakas at Kanachak, Mishriwalla, Domana and Machine Domana before reaching Chinore. An Army Subedar (JCO) was killed and three Army jawans were injured when they tried to stop the load carrier auto at two different nakas at Kanachak Dak Bungalow and Domana.
Militants fired at random at other nakas while at entering Chinore they started firing on the civilians killing three more, one of whom was incidentally an Army official who had come to his house on leave and had refused to give militants a lift in his auto as the ultras wanted to change the load carrier they were initially riding in. Other civilians killed in the firing include an ex-serviceman and a youth, who had gone to take milk on his motor-cycle. A civilian died of hear attack in Chinore during the gun-battle. Two other civilians were injured in the firing while a Gujjar, who was thrown out of the auto by militants for protesting their acts, had a narrow escape as he too was shot at. A police constable, Joginder Singh, going for a walk in Chinore was also fired upon but he too survived.
Despite a high alert which security agencies and police claimed to have sounded yesterday after reports of three militants having successfully infiltrated from Kanachak sector making a mockery of BSF’s security apparatus to plug infiltration bids, the militants managed to travel more than 15 kms distance opening firing and killing and injuring Army personnel and civilians.
"This shows the ‘high alert’ on ground displayed by police which couldn’t intercept the auto even at a single naka during more than 15 kms distance from Kanachak to Chinore", a civilian, Krishan Kumar remarked at the site of encounter. Strong resentment was prevailing in Jammu against BSF’s complete failure not only to prevent infiltration attempt but to trace the militants who were reported to have spent nearly 28 hours in bushes along the border before coming out this morning. "The militants managed to cut fencing and intruded inside, stayed at the border for 30 hours despite claims of massive search operations by different security agencies and then moved freely in the areas adjacent to Jammu City. This shows how alert our security agencies are", another civilian, Leela Ram, said.
Official sources and eye-witness account revealed that three militants, who had intruded into this side after cutting barbed wire fencing at about 12.30 am on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, came out of the bushes where they had been hiding (after the intrusion) at around 5.30 am this morning and hijacked a load carrier auto No. 5843 JK02C at village Gadla in Lalyala area of Kanachak sector. Two militants took positions on front seat of the auto and one on the back as five to six Gujjars along with their large milk containers were also sitting in back portion of the auto. The militants were wearing ‘khaki’ dresses of police which they had brought with them from Pakistan and were carrying assault rifles, ammunition belts, grenades and some other devices.
The auto was first intercepted by an Army naka outside Kanachak Dak Bungalow where they opened indiscriminate firing injuring two Army jawans identified as Havildar Netar Singh and Sepoy Yashpal, both from Ist JAK Li and forced auto driver Darshan Lal son of Leelu Ram R/o Gadla, Kanachak to move ahead at gun point.
They forced the auto driver to drive towards main Jammu-Akhnoor road where they were again stopped by an Army naka at Mishriwalla. At this naka, no one was injured though the militants fired several shots. At Domana, Army officials signaled the auto to stop but both the militants sitting on front seat again fired indiscriminately killing Naib Subedar (JCO) VVK Parkashan on spot. An Army jawan Sepoy Pal Panion of 61 Field Regiment chased the auto on a civilian’s motor-cycle but he too was shot at by the militants and injured seriously.
Sources said a Gujjar identified as Mohd Shabir tried to grapple with the militant sitting on back portion of the auto in a bid to snatch his weapon. The militant threw him out of the vehicle near Domana and opened firing on him but he survived the shots.
The militants then took the route of Bawa Talab-Raipur from Machine, Domana and reached Keran Patian where the auto stopped. The auto driver, Darshan Lal, told the militants that it won’t move ahead in view of sharp ascent. The militants abandoned the auto and hijacked another brand new unnumbered load carrier auto being driven by Havildar Vijay Kumar son of Sita Ram R/o Keran Patian, who had come to his house on leave from his place of posting at Jaipur and was driving the auto of his father to reach to the main road from where he was scheduled to leave for Himachal Pradesh.
Vijay Kumar categorically refused to give lift to the militants and was shot dead.
The militants, rendered without a vehicle, then started targeting civilians and opened firing on a motor-cycle killing Showkat Hussain son of Saif Ali R/o Khairi, Bantalab. Showkat’s brother, a police constable who was sitting behind on the bike, had a narrow escape in the firing. Another constable, Joginder Singh too survived the firing.
The militants tried to enter into the house of another Subedar (Retired) JCO Naseeb Singh son of Vidhu Singh but he too resisted the attempt and was gunned down.
Two labourers, moving in the village, were also shot at by the militants and injured seriously. They have been identified as Uttam Acharya son of George Acharya R/o Assam and Ragha Behlev Rai son of Berin Rai R/o Bihar, both of whom were putting up at Keran Patian.
Three injured Army jawans and two labourers have been admitted in Military Hospital and GMC Jammu respectively. Bodies of killed persons have been shifted to hospital for post-mortem. Reports said a 60 year old civilian Sarasa Ram son of Mangi Ram R/o Chinore suffered a heart attack after hearing sound of gun shots during the gunbattle and was rushed to GMC Jammu where he breathed his last.
The ultras tried to enter several other houses but since most of the people were sleeping as it was around 6.15 am that the militants had entered Keran Patian and doors of most of the houses at that time were closed. However, they managed to enter the house of Billoo Ram Bhagat, who himself had gone to GMC Jammu for the treatment of snake bite, and held eight persons including his mother, wife, four children, a teacher who was living in the house as a tenant and a neighbour as hostages.
Before entering into the house of Billoo Ram, the militants fired shots on Chinore police post, which was close to the house of Ram.
According to sources, JAK Li Cantonment and a private school Coventary Scholars were also close to Billoo’s house. Since the school was closed in view of bandh, a major catastrophe was averted.
While two militants took position on ground floor of the house, where all civilians were held captives, the third ultra entered first floor of the house.
In the meantime, auto driver Darshan Lal had informed about movement of the militants to police. Local people had also sounded Army and police after hearing the sound of gun shots.
Troops from nearby JAK Li Cantonment, para-military and police personnel rushed to the spot. Soon re-enforcement of Army also reached the village and cordoned off double-storey building of Billoo Ram.
GOC 26 Division Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, IGP Jammu K Rajendera, SSP Jammu Manohar Singh and other senior Army, para-military and police officers camped at the spot directing and supervising the search operation. However, late in the afternoon, Army took total control of the situation.
Billoo Ram rushed back from the GMC Jammu after getting a report of the militants intruding into his house and gave a map of his house both on first and second floor to help Army launch the operation.
At about 10.30 am, one of the militant came out of the house from the first floor and was shot dead. After his killing, the firing stopped from the militants’ side. Army too exercised restraint and explored various options to kill the two remaining militants and simultaneously rescue the civilians holed-up inside.
Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, GOC 26 Division told the reporters while supervising the operation in the morning that Army wanted to avoid collateral damage and the lives of hostages had to be saved at any cost.
Defence Ministry spokesman Lt Col S D Goswami said it was a fidayeen attack, most likely by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants. The joint operation was conducted by Army and para-military forces, he added.
Reliable sources said all three militants were believed to be Pakistanis though one of them, who spoke to national news channels on mobile telephone of Billoo Ram, left in his house, claimed himself as a Kashmiri.
Sources said the militant, who identified himself as Talha Gira of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, told the channels that they have come for a ‘jehad’ and will pursue their ‘path’ till peace is restored in Kashmir. He denied having held the civilians hostage saying they were left in the house when they entered inside and all of them were safe and sound. In a bid to give a twist to the story, the militant denied that he had entered from Kanachak sector saying their group had come via road.
In response to appeals made by the Moulvis from JAK Li from Public Address System and megaphones to the militants called by Army, the militants refused to surrender saying they have come to fight for ‘jehad’ and would stick to their stand. Even the appeal by Moulvis’ to release the innocent children and women as holding them hostage was against the teachings of Islam, were not heard by the militants, who refused to release the hostages.
Earlier, before launching the operation, Army evacuated all civilians in the vicinity of Billoo Ram’s house and shifted them to safer places. Most of the people in Chinore left their houses and moved towards fields where local people arranged a ‘langar’ and water for them. The people also offered their full assistance to the Army.
IGP Jammu K Rajendera said security forces and police nakas initially took the militants sitting on front seat of the auto as police personnel as they were wearing ‘khaki’ uniform. However, when the militants started firing at the nakas, they were chased. Security forces and police had to exercise restraint as five to six milkmen were also sitting in the auto and random firing would have killed them, he added.
Regarding target of the militants, Mr Rajendera said all inputs had been pointing out that the militants wanted to target Jammu City. It may be mentioned here that Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti had planned to hold a rally at Parade Ground at 4 pm today but it was cancelled in the morning after the report of terror attack spread.
"Chinore was not the target. However, while firing at random, the militants shifted towards Chinore from Domana", the IGP Jammu said, adding there was no vital installation at Chinore where the ultras would have plotted to strike.
Security forces and police, meanwhile, conducted searches at Bandu Rakh, Makwal, Bobiya, Pansar, Bhagwati Nagar, Nagrota and Kunjwani-Bishnah road in Jammu and Samba districts after people informed about the movement of suspects. However, the movement of militants was not spotted anywhere.
In the morning, after the militants had managed to escape from Kanachak, police recovered two bags from Lalyala from where the militants had come out and hijacked the auto. The bags contained two combat jackets and dresses and a number of eatables including dry fruits and packets of sweet water bearing stamps of ‘Made in Pakistan’. Some of the eatables had manufacturing addresses of Lahore, which confirmed that the militants were Pakistanis and had infiltrated from across.
Meanwhile, there was strong resentment among the people of Jammu against the BSF whom they charged with total failure in preventing infiltration attempts by the militants from across the border.
"First they failed in Samba sector in second week of May this year when three militants had easily sneaked-in cutting fencing and entered Samba town where they had killed four civilians and two Army jawans before being killed by Army", the people, who rang up the Excelsior, said.
They added that a very similar incident has now been repeated in Kanachak where again the militants cut fencing, travelled through the main road and reached Chinore killing and injuring civilians and Army personnel. The people regretted that both BSF and police have not been keeping the vigil properly. "Had both agencies acted swiftly, the casualties could have been easily averted", they said.
According to the people, the most surprising was the presence of militants in Kanachak border for more than 30 hours where several security agencies claimed to have launched a massive operation to nab the militants after infiltration was clearly detected with cutting of fencing and all agencies have put the figure of intruders between three to five.
People called for deployment of Army along the international border in Jammu to prevent repeat of such incidents.
Meanwhile, reliable sources didn’t rule out the possibility of LeT leadership having intentionally planned the operation at this stage to sabotage the nationalist agitation in Jammu "at the behest of outfit’s leadership in Kashmir".
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guru
Aug 28, 2008 09:45 am
Ana Didi and Baki Well Meaning folks!You have a great task at your hand. For Jammu Jihadi killing you need to collect 8 Crores. It might be a small change for you guys. Add to that 2 crores for taking care of injured. When you raise the glass next time for Ahmed Faraz please leave half the glass empty, and donate money for that amount of booze $s to Ana didi for Jammu cause.
We know your poetic hearts are eagerly waiting in anguish for the latest info on Jammu Jihadi killing. So here it goes:
[From Left] A woman being rescued by Army from the roof of Billoo Ram’s house, an Army JCO who had come on leave to his house from Jaipur and was killed in his auto by the militants and an injured admitted in GMC Jammu.
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Aug 27: Eleven persons including three Army jawans, one of them a JCO, five civilians and three militants were killed while six others including three Army personnel, two civilians and a woman were injured as three fidayeens, who had infiltrated in wee hours of yesterday morning from Kanachak sector, managed to hijack a load carrier auto carrying Gujjars along with their milk containers at Gadla, Kanachak this morning and travelled more than 15 kms before taking shelter in a house at Chinore near Bantalab on on old Jammu-Akhnoor road taking nine persons including four children and three women hostage.
The operation, which was completely taken over by Army after initial presence of para-military and police, started at about 7 am and concluded at around 1 am in the midnight tonight. The operation lasted 18 hours.
Two Armymen including a JCO and a Havildar and three civilians were killed before the militants took shelter in the house of one Billoo Ram Bhagat at Chinore at about 6.45 am while two civilians, a Territorial Army jawan and three militants were killed and a woman was injured in the gun-battle inside the house which concluded in the mid-night.
A total of 10 civilians were held hostage by the militants soon after they intruded into the house of Billoo Ram after travelling in an auto from Kanachak to Chinore early this morning. Of them, Billoo’s mother, Veero Devi managed to escape and was rescued by Army in the morning.
Soon after entering inside, militants gunned down a Territorial Army jawan Sham Murari, who had intruded into the house while following the militants, Ashok Kumar, a private teacher who had been putting up as a tenant in the house and Kalu Ram, a neighbour, who had gone to Billoo’s house to inquire his condition as he had suffered a snake bite.
Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, GOC 26 Division told reporters in the mid-night that all other six civilians (Billoo Ram’s wife, Sunita Kumari, his four children, Sheetal Devi, 9 and Kajal, 4, both daughters, Arshit, 5 and Vipan, 3, both sons and Sunita Devi’s brother) were rescued safely.
During the commando operation, in which all three militants were killed, Army didn’t suffer any casualties. All three Army casualties were suffered before the operation actually started.
Sunita Devi’s brother told the newsmen that the militants after killing three persons asked him to hand over one of the child to him. However, he locked himself, his sister and all four children in a room and bolted the room from inside. Sunita was injured in firing by one of the militant at about 10.30 am when he came out to see security situation outside and cause casualties of the Army but was immediately gunned down by the troops.
With a bullet wound in her thigh, she was referred to Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu, tonight after being rescued by the Army. Her condition was out of danger, Medical Superintendent, GMC Dr Romesh Gupta told the Excelsior in the mid-night.
While the first militant was eliminated by the troops around 10.30 am, the second militant was gunned down in a commando operation by Army at around 7 pm. The third ultra was killed by the commandos before 9 pm. However, the operation was declared closed in the mid-night as troops ensured that there was no other militants present inside.
It took the four children more than two hours to come out of the day long trauma they had gone through hearing the sound of gun shots which were often exchanged between Army and militants.
Maj Gen Chowdhary said the presence of more militants after infiltration in Jammu can’t be ruled out. In reply to another question, he added that target of the militants being Wednesday afternoon’s rally of the Sangarsh Samiti was not ruled out.
The children were not allowed to speak to the media as they were yet to come out of the trauma while Sunita’s husband Billoo Ram rushed to hospital for treatment of his wife. Sunita’s brother told reporters that he not bolted the children inside the room the casualty figure would have been much more.
Official sources confirmed that all three militants appeared to be members of suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and were believed to be Pakistanis though their identity hasn’t been established immediately. They were part of the same group which had infiltrated into Indian territory from Kanachak sector on the intervening night of August 25 and 26.
Earlier in the evening, Army pressed Moulvis of its nearby JAK Li unit into service and got an appeal made to the militants through megaphone and Public Address System (PAS) to surrender and release the captives on the ground that Islam didn’t preach keeping the women and children as hostages. Later, two national news channels also spoke to the militants inside the house from New Delhi on mobile telephone of Billoo Ram—9469289726, which was left by Billoo inside when he had come out of the house in the morning. The militants claimed on the telephonic calls that all hostages inside the house including children were safe.
The militants while travelling in a load carrier from village Gadla in Lalyala area of Kanachak, which they had hijacked at 5.30 am after coming out of the bushes they had been hiding for last 30 hours after their infiltration on August 25 night, crossed several Army and police nakas at Kanachak, Mishriwalla, Domana and Machine Domana before reaching Chinore. An Army Subedar (JCO) was killed and three Army jawans were injured when they tried to stop the load carrier auto at two different nakas at Kanachak Dak Bungalow and Domana.
Militants fired at random at other nakas while at entering Chinore they started firing on the civilians killing three more, one of whom was incidentally an Army official who had come to his house on leave and had refused to give militants a lift in his auto as the ultras wanted to change the load carrier they were initially riding in. Other civilians killed in the firing include an ex-serviceman and a youth, who had gone to take milk on his motor-cycle. A civilian died of hear attack in Chinore during the gun-battle. Two other civilians were injured in the firing while a Gujjar, who was thrown out of the auto by militants for protesting their acts, had a narrow escape as he too was shot at. A police constable, Joginder Singh, going for a walk in Chinore was also fired upon but he too survived.
Despite a high alert which security agencies and police claimed to have sounded yesterday after reports of three militants having successfully infiltrated from Kanachak sector making a mockery of BSF’s security apparatus to plug infiltration bids, the militants managed to travel more than 15 kms distance opening firing and killing and injuring Army personnel and civilians.
"This shows the ‘high alert’ on ground displayed by police which couldn’t intercept the auto even at a single naka during more than 15 kms distance from Kanachak to Chinore", a civilian, Krishan Kumar remarked at the site of encounter. Strong resentment was prevailing in Jammu against BSF’s complete failure not only to prevent infiltration attempt but to trace the militants who were reported to have spent nearly 28 hours in bushes along the border before coming out this morning. "The militants managed to cut fencing and intruded inside, stayed at the border for 30 hours despite claims of massive search operations by different security agencies and then moved freely in the areas adjacent to Jammu City. This shows how alert our security agencies are", another civilian, Leela Ram, said.
Official sources and eye-witness account revealed that three militants, who had intruded into this side after cutting barbed wire fencing at about 12.30 am on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, came out of the bushes where they had been hiding (after the intrusion) at around 5.30 am this morning and hijacked a load carrier auto No. 5843 JK02C at village Gadla in Lalyala area of Kanachak sector. Two militants took positions on front seat of the auto and one on the back as five to six Gujjars along with their large milk containers were also sitting in back portion of the auto. The militants were wearing ‘khaki’ dresses of police which they had brought with them from Pakistan and were carrying assault rifles, ammunition belts, grenades and some other devices.
The auto was first intercepted by an Army naka outside Kanachak Dak Bungalow where they opened indiscriminate firing injuring two Army jawans identified as Havildar Netar Singh and Sepoy Yashpal, both from Ist JAK Li and forced auto driver Darshan Lal son of Leelu Ram R/o Gadla, Kanachak to move ahead at gun point.
They forced the auto driver to drive towards main Jammu-Akhnoor road where they were again stopped by an Army naka at Mishriwalla. At this naka, no one was injured though the militants fired several shots. At Domana, Army officials signaled the auto to stop but both the militants sitting on front seat again fired indiscriminately killing Naib Subedar (JCO) VVK Parkashan on spot. An Army jawan Sepoy Pal Panion of 61 Field Regiment chased the auto on a civilian’s motor-cycle but he too was shot at by the militants and injured seriously.
Sources said a Gujjar identified as Mohd Shabir tried to grapple with the militant sitting on back portion of the auto in a bid to snatch his weapon. The militant threw him out of the vehicle near Domana and opened firing on him but he survived the shots.
The militants then took the route of Bawa Talab-Raipur from Machine, Domana and reached Keran Patian where the auto stopped. The auto driver, Darshan Lal, told the militants that it won’t move ahead in view of sharp ascent. The militants abandoned the auto and hijacked another brand new unnumbered load carrier auto being driven by Havildar Vijay Kumar son of Sita Ram R/o Keran Patian, who had come to his house on leave from his place of posting at Jaipur and was driving the auto of his father to reach to the main road from where he was scheduled to leave for Himachal Pradesh.
Vijay Kumar categorically refused to give lift to the militants and was shot dead.
The militants, rendered without a vehicle, then started targeting civilians and opened firing on a motor-cycle killing Showkat Hussain son of Saif Ali R/o Khairi, Bantalab. Showkat’s brother, a police constable who was sitting behind on the bike, had a narrow escape in the firing. Another constable, Joginder Singh too survived the firing.
The militants tried to enter into the house of another Subedar (Retired) JCO Naseeb Singh son of Vidhu Singh but he too resisted the attempt and was gunned down.
Two labourers, moving in the village, were also shot at by the militants and injured seriously. They have been identified as Uttam Acharya son of George Acharya R/o Assam and Ragha Behlev Rai son of Berin Rai R/o Bihar, both of whom were putting up at Keran Patian.
Three injured Army jawans and two labourers have been admitted in Military Hospital and GMC Jammu respectively. Bodies of killed persons have been shifted to hospital for post-mortem. Reports said a 60 year old civilian Sarasa Ram son of Mangi Ram R/o Chinore suffered a heart attack after hearing sound of gun shots during the gunbattle and was rushed to GMC Jammu where he breathed his last.
The ultras tried to enter several other houses but since most of the people were sleeping as it was around 6.15 am that the militants had entered Keran Patian and doors of most of the houses at that time were closed. However, they managed to enter the house of Billoo Ram Bhagat, who himself had gone to GMC Jammu for the treatment of snake bite, and held eight persons including his mother, wife, four children, a teacher who was living in the house as a tenant and a neighbour as hostages.
Before entering into the house of Billoo Ram, the militants fired shots on Chinore police post, which was close to the house of Ram.
According to sources, JAK Li Cantonment and a private school Coventary Scholars were also close to Billoo’s house. Since the school was closed in view of bandh, a major catastrophe was averted.
While two militants took position on ground floor of the house, where all civilians were held captives, the third ultra entered first floor of the house.
In the meantime, auto driver Darshan Lal had informed about movement of the militants to police. Local people had also sounded Army and police after hearing the sound of gun shots.
Troops from nearby JAK Li Cantonment, para-military and police personnel rushed to the spot. Soon re-enforcement of Army also reached the village and cordoned off double-storey building of Billoo Ram.
GOC 26 Division Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, IGP Jammu K Rajendera, SSP Jammu Manohar Singh and other senior Army, para-military and police officers camped at the spot directing and supervising the search operation. However, late in the afternoon, Army took total control of the situation.
Billoo Ram rushed back from the GMC Jammu after getting a report of the militants intruding into his house and gave a map of his house both on first and second floor to help Army launch the operation.
At about 10.30 am, one of the militant came out of the house from the first floor and was shot dead. After his killing, the firing stopped from the militants’ side. Army too exercised restraint and explored various options to kill the two remaining militants and simultaneously rescue the civilians holed-up inside.
Maj Gen D L Chowdhary, GOC 26 Division told the reporters while supervising the operation in the morning that Army wanted to avoid collateral damage and the lives of hostages had to be saved at any cost.
Defence Ministry spokesman Lt Col S D Goswami said it was a fidayeen attack, most likely by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants. The joint operation was conducted by Army and para-military forces, he added.
Reliable sources said all three militants were believed to be Pakistanis though one of them, who spoke to national news channels on mobile telephone of Billoo Ram, left in his house, claimed himself as a Kashmiri.
Sources said the militant, who identified himself as Talha Gira of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, told the channels that they have come for a ‘jehad’ and will pursue their ‘path’ till peace is restored in Kashmir. He denied having held the civilians hostage saying they were left in the house when they entered inside and all of them were safe and sound. In a bid to give a twist to the story, the militant denied that he had entered from Kanachak sector saying their group had come via road.
In response to appeals made by the Moulvis from JAK Li from Public Address System and megaphones to the militants called by Army, the militants refused to surrender saying they have come to fight for ‘jehad’ and would stick to their stand. Even the appeal by Moulvis’ to release the innocent children and women as holding them hostage was against the teachings of Islam, were not heard by the militants, who refused to release the hostages.
Earlier, before launching the operation, Army evacuated all civilians in the vicinity of Billoo Ram’s house and shifted them to safer places. Most of the people in Chinore left their houses and moved towards fields where local people arranged a ‘langar’ and water for them. The people also offered their full assistance to the Army.
IGP Jammu K Rajendera said security forces and police nakas initially took the militants sitting on front seat of the auto as police personnel as they were wearing ‘khaki’ uniform. However, when the militants started firing at the nakas, they were chased. Security forces and police had to exercise restraint as five to six milkmen were also sitting in the auto and random firing would have killed them, he added.
Regarding target of the militants, Mr Rajendera said all inputs had been pointing out that the militants wanted to target Jammu City. It may be mentioned here that Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti had planned to hold a rally at Parade Ground at 4 pm today but it was cancelled in the morning after the report of terror attack spread.
"Chinore was not the target. However, while firing at random, the militants shifted towards Chinore from Domana", the IGP Jammu said, adding there was no vital installation at Chinore where the ultras would have plotted to strike.
Security forces and police, meanwhile, conducted searches at Bandu Rakh, Makwal, Bobiya, Pansar, Bhagwati Nagar, Nagrota and Kunjwani-Bishnah road in Jammu and Samba districts after people informed about the movement of suspects. However, the movement of militants was not spotted anywhere.
In the morning, after the militants had managed to escape from Kanachak, police recovered two bags from Lalyala from where the militants had come out and hijacked the auto. The bags contained two combat jackets and dresses and a number of eatables including dry fruits and packets of sweet water bearing stamps of ‘Made in Pakistan’. Some of the eatables had manufacturing addresses of Lahore, which confirmed that the militants were Pakistanis and had infiltrated from across.
Meanwhile, there was strong resentment among the people of Jammu against the BSF whom they charged with total failure in preventing infiltration attempts by the militants from across the border.
"First they failed in Samba sector in second week of May this year when three militants had easily sneaked-in cutting fencing and entered Samba town where they had killed four civilians and two Army jawans before being killed by Army", the people, who rang up the Excelsior, said.
They added that a very similar incident has now been repeated in Kanachak where again the militants cut fencing, travelled through the main road and reached Chinore killing and injuring civilians and Army personnel. The people regretted that both BSF and police have not been keeping the vigil properly. "Had both agencies acted swiftly, the casualties could have been easily averted", they said.
According to the people, the most surprising was the presence of militants in Kanachak border for more than 30 hours where several security agencies claimed to have launched a massive operation to nab the militants after infiltration was clearly detected with cutting of fencing and all agencies have put the figure of intruders between three to five.
People called for deployment of Army along the international border in Jammu to prevent repeat of such incidents.
Meanwhile, reliable sources didn’t rule out the possibility of LeT leadership having intentionally planned the operation at this stage to sabotage the nationalist agitation in Jammu "at the behest of outfit’s leadership in Kashmir".
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
Keep It Together
Arif Mohammad Khan
Neither liberalism nor democracy admits ruling people against their will. Democracy is not about ruling people, it is about a periodic selection of a group, by the people, for exercising power on their behalf for a defined time-frame.
I think it is unfair to describe Kashmir's relationship with the rest of India in terms of colonialism of a hue different from the classic one or to compare it with Junagadh, the tiny Muslim state in Gujarat, that had acceded to Pakistan but later integrated with India.
As far as Kashmir is concerned, the Maharaja had signed a standstill agreement with Pakistan on August 15, 1947, that the "existing arrangements should continue pending settlement of details and execution of a fresh agreement". The Maharaja had approached India also but received no positive response.
The Indian attitude can be judged from what V P Menon has written in the 'Integration of States': "We wanted time to examine its implications. We left the state alone. I for one had simply no time to think of Kashmir".
But despite the agreement Pakistan imposed economic blockade on Kashmir to bring pressure on the Maharaja to accede to Pakistan. In October it organised an invasion of Kashmir by army regulars in the guise of tribals.
The invaders entered Muzaffarabad on October 22, 1947 and indulging in a spree of loot and arson reached Baramulla on October 27. They created such mayhem that out of the 14,000 people of this predominantly Muslim town, only 3,000 survived.
This situation forced the Maharaja to dispatch his envoy to Delhi requesting aid on October 24, but India made it clear that Indian troops could be sent only to an area that was part of India, and Kashmir could do so by signing the instrument of accession.
The Indian troops landed in Srinagar on October 27 only after the Maharaja had duly signed the accession instrument. Sheikh Abdullah, who was present in Delhi, also endorsed the request for Indian assistance with accession.
The important question is who resisted the invaders for five days till Indian help arrived. This question has been best answered by T N Dhar, a long-time critic of Sheikh Abdullah. He has written: "The National Conference leaders considered it a breach of trust and a challenge to the self-respect of Kashmiris and since the organisation was deeply entrenched at the grass-root level... the entire population was electrified with repulsion for Pakistan". Not just National Conference volunteers, the entire population stood up against the Pakistani invaders and supported Kashmir's accession to India.
On the other hand in Junagadh, before independence, the nawab repeatedly expressed solidarity with the surrounding Kathiawar states and on April 22, 1947, the official Gazette of Junagadh reproduced a speech of the Junagadh prime minister categorically repudiating allegations that Junagadh was thinking of joining Pakistan. The constitutional adviser of the nawab informed Mountbatten that he had advised the ruler to accede to India.
However, on August 15, 1947, Junagadh, a state that had no common boundary with Pakistan, announced accession to Pakistan under the advice of the new prime minister who was a member of the Muslim League. After receiving this information the government of India sent a note to Pakistan on August 21, explaining that India found it necessary to consult the views of Junagadh's population and asking for an indication of Pakistan's policy in this matter.
Further, on September 12, a telegram was sent to Pakistan stating that India would abide by the verdict of the people of Junagadh. The only reply that India received the next day was that Pakistan had accepted the accession of Junagadh.
It is true that India had stationed troops outside Junagadh, but it did not intervene militarily. It is important to remember that there were autonomous states inside Junagadh, which had already announced their accession to India and asked for Indian protection.
It was not the military action by India but a popular uprising against the nawab that forced him to flee to Pakistan by the end of October. Later, the prime minister of Junagadh wrote to Jinnah explaining the difficulties of Junagadh and through another communique requested the government of India to take over the administration, which was done on November 9, 1947.
Pakistan wanted to have Kashmir because it had a Muslim majority and Hyderabad, Junagadh and Manadar because the rulers in these states were Muslims. But the people of these states were against acceding to Pakistan and hence they became part of India.
The boundaries of a country are not drawn everyday to pacify one agitating group here or there. Pakistan could survive as a nation and as an idea even after losing Bangladesh because it was created on the basis of a divisive ideology. On the other hand, India can survive as a nation but not as an idea if it allows another partition on the basis of religion. India is more than a country; it is an idea that must be defended and protected at all costs.
(The writer is a former Union minister)
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 09:20 pm
The best balm to bereavement grief is to attend to the pressing issues.Keep It Together
Arif Mohammad Khan
Neither liberalism nor democracy admits ruling people against their will. Democracy is not about ruling people, it is about a periodic selection of a group, by the people, for exercising power on their behalf for a defined time-frame.
I think it is unfair to describe Kashmir's relationship with the rest of India in terms of colonialism of a hue different from the classic one or to compare it with Junagadh, the tiny Muslim state in Gujarat, that had acceded to Pakistan but later integrated with India.
As far as Kashmir is concerned, the Maharaja had signed a standstill agreement with Pakistan on August 15, 1947, that the "existing arrangements should continue pending settlement of details and execution of a fresh agreement". The Maharaja had approached India also but received no positive response.
The Indian attitude can be judged from what V P Menon has written in the 'Integration of States': "We wanted time to examine its implications. We left the state alone. I for one had simply no time to think of Kashmir".
But despite the agreement Pakistan imposed economic blockade on Kashmir to bring pressure on the Maharaja to accede to Pakistan. In October it organised an invasion of Kashmir by army regulars in the guise of tribals.
The invaders entered Muzaffarabad on October 22, 1947 and indulging in a spree of loot and arson reached Baramulla on October 27. They created such mayhem that out of the 14,000 people of this predominantly Muslim town, only 3,000 survived.
This situation forced the Maharaja to dispatch his envoy to Delhi requesting aid on October 24, but India made it clear that Indian troops could be sent only to an area that was part of India, and Kashmir could do so by signing the instrument of accession.
The Indian troops landed in Srinagar on October 27 only after the Maharaja had duly signed the accession instrument. Sheikh Abdullah, who was present in Delhi, also endorsed the request for Indian assistance with accession.
The important question is who resisted the invaders for five days till Indian help arrived. This question has been best answered by T N Dhar, a long-time critic of Sheikh Abdullah. He has written: "The National Conference leaders considered it a breach of trust and a challenge to the self-respect of Kashmiris and since the organisation was deeply entrenched at the grass-root level... the entire population was electrified with repulsion for Pakistan". Not just National Conference volunteers, the entire population stood up against the Pakistani invaders and supported Kashmir's accession to India.
On the other hand in Junagadh, before independence, the nawab repeatedly expressed solidarity with the surrounding Kathiawar states and on April 22, 1947, the official Gazette of Junagadh reproduced a speech of the Junagadh prime minister categorically repudiating allegations that Junagadh was thinking of joining Pakistan. The constitutional adviser of the nawab informed Mountbatten that he had advised the ruler to accede to India.
However, on August 15, 1947, Junagadh, a state that had no common boundary with Pakistan, announced accession to Pakistan under the advice of the new prime minister who was a member of the Muslim League. After receiving this information the government of India sent a note to Pakistan on August 21, explaining that India found it necessary to consult the views of Junagadh's population and asking for an indication of Pakistan's policy in this matter.
Further, on September 12, a telegram was sent to Pakistan stating that India would abide by the verdict of the people of Junagadh. The only reply that India received the next day was that Pakistan had accepted the accession of Junagadh.
It is true that India had stationed troops outside Junagadh, but it did not intervene militarily. It is important to remember that there were autonomous states inside Junagadh, which had already announced their accession to India and asked for Indian protection.
It was not the military action by India but a popular uprising against the nawab that forced him to flee to Pakistan by the end of October. Later, the prime minister of Junagadh wrote to Jinnah explaining the difficulties of Junagadh and through another communique requested the government of India to take over the administration, which was done on November 9, 1947.
Pakistan wanted to have Kashmir because it had a Muslim majority and Hyderabad, Junagadh and Manadar because the rulers in these states were Muslims. But the people of these states were against acceding to Pakistan and hence they became part of India.
The boundaries of a country are not drawn everyday to pacify one agitating group here or there. Pakistan could survive as a nation and as an idea even after losing Bangladesh because it was created on the basis of a divisive ideology. On the other hand, India can survive as a nation but not as an idea if it allows another partition on the basis of religion. India is more than a country; it is an idea that must be defended and protected at all costs.
(The writer is a former Union minister)
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
let Allaha grant u strength to endure with patience. hope I, non-poetic Harijan, do not test your patience. all living people have to die.
dont you think we should keep the memory of Faraz alive by helping family of the Shantic dhoodhwala and rilkshaw wala from Jammu. this will probably make faraz more happy.
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 08:27 pm
Quinjilet Allaha grant u strength to endure with patience. hope I, non-poetic Harijan, do not test your patience. all living people have to die.
dont you think we should keep the memory of Faraz alive by helping family of the Shantic dhoodhwala and rilkshaw wala from Jammu. this will probably make faraz more happy.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
pl deposit your char anas with dear ana. hope your enthusiasm for "living poeming" is contageous. thanks for your hurriedness.
hope we fire-wall the subcontinent so that we can protect it from jihadi anger and violence.
but what do you think we should do to the root cause?
I feel the root cause is neatly boxing humanity into chosen people such as poets vs dhodhwalas and rikshawwalas.
do you think abrahmic G-giri is the root cause? book legions enslave people using written words in the 7th century and 4th century books.
empires built on written words need people who practice and hone their "wordly" skills.
thus a new darbari G caste is formed.
the members of this casts have vested interests in perpetuating the "chosen-ness" of this cast.
we should look at their eulogies and obituaries also from this angle.
wonder if all so called creative folks worked in anonymity and were self publishing and marketing on forums like this then they would be lot more creative. to support them we could throw char anas the way you did in their chanda box. this way they will also not feel that their creativity is on sale.
my half ana worth.
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 08:13 pm
hurry,pl deposit your char anas with dear ana. hope your enthusiasm for "living poeming" is contageous. thanks for your hurriedness.
hope we fire-wall the subcontinent so that we can protect it from jihadi anger and violence.
but what do you think we should do to the root cause?
I feel the root cause is neatly boxing humanity into chosen people such as poets vs dhodhwalas and rikshawwalas.
do you think abrahmic G-giri is the root cause? book legions enslave people using written words in the 7th century and 4th century books.
empires built on written words need people who practice and hone their "wordly" skills.
thus a new darbari G caste is formed.
the members of this casts have vested interests in perpetuating the "chosen-ness" of this cast.
we should look at their eulogies and obituaries also from this angle.
wonder if all so called creative folks worked in anonymity and were self publishing and marketing on forums like this then they would be lot more creative. to support them we could throw char anas the way you did in their chanda box. this way they will also not feel that their creativity is on sale.
my half ana worth.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
1. In the spirit of Delhi mushiarra, would you please collect one crore for the terrorist killings in Jammu. If our dear baki brothers and sisters donate 1 crore worth gold from paki land for each jihadi done killing we can bring aman and shanti to our lands. Such private effort will force agencies and govt hand. They will stop funding jihadi activities in India.
2. Conduct a mushiara in bakiland to generate money for donating gold to Indian victim
These kind of living poems will turn this chowk into an highway of brother/sister-hood among our people. What do you think Anna Didi? Can we expect $1K from you? If we take alphabetical roll-cal your name comes first. You are so lucky to get to write the first stanza of this living/loving poem. We can name this fund as Faraz Fund.l
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 03:37 pm
Since we are talking about real Sradhanjali to Faraz and writing/living "living" poem. An idea I have in mind is following:1. In the spirit of Delhi mushiarra, would you please collect one crore for the terrorist killings in Jammu. If our dear baki brothers and sisters donate 1 crore worth gold from paki land for each jihadi done killing we can bring aman and shanti to our lands. Such private effort will force agencies and govt hand. They will stop funding jihadi activities in India.
2. Conduct a mushiara in bakiland to generate money for donating gold to Indian victim
These kind of living poems will turn this chowk into an highway of brother/sister-hood among our people. What do you think Anna Didi? Can we expect $1K from you? If we take alphabetical roll-cal your name comes first. You are so lucky to get to write the first stanza of this living/loving poem. We can name this fund as Faraz Fund.l
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
I hope to experience uplifting feeling to see the pouring of common grief for the trauma experienced by four children in the age group of two to nine. The youngest was Vipin Kumar, 2, while the other three are Kajal, 4, Ishant, 6 and Sheetal, 9. I hope to see show of shared reverence, and joining of hands for prayers at this sad occasion of shahadat of Shantic milkman, Hindu rikshawala, Havildar Vijay Kumar and a JCO Naik Subedar V V K Paarkashan.
I hope your Kavi hearts bleed for these lives cut short so early. Your heart felt poems are most welcome. This will be the best sraddhanjali you might give to Ahmed Faraz. His soul will have SadGati because of your these acts. But you should not stop here, you could fund education of dhoodhwala and rikshawwalas children's education. That would be better living poem.
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 01:56 pm
First good news from Jammu: Security forces have killed all the three militants who were holding three woman and four children hostage in Jammu's Chinore area.I hope to experience uplifting feeling to see the pouring of common grief for the trauma experienced by four children in the age group of two to nine. The youngest was Vipin Kumar, 2, while the other three are Kajal, 4, Ishant, 6 and Sheetal, 9. I hope to see show of shared reverence, and joining of hands for prayers at this sad occasion of shahadat of Shantic milkman, Hindu rikshawala, Havildar Vijay Kumar and a JCO Naik Subedar V V K Paarkashan.
I hope your Kavi hearts bleed for these lives cut short so early. Your heart felt poems are most welcome. This will be the best sraddhanjali you might give to Ahmed Faraz. His soul will have SadGati because of your these acts. But you should not stop here, you could fund education of dhoodhwala and rikshawwalas children's education. That would be better living poem.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
"Behind most religious conflicts is the fight for control over resources. Islam took control over the southern Arabian peninsula because it allowed one Arab group to defeat the Jewish kingdoms in the Yemen. Religion is nothing but the tool of control.
The Orthodox and Catholic supposedly split over three words in the creed "and the Son". The split was really controlling the wealth of the Church and maintaining political control over religion."
Let's get rid of these legions and be spiritual.
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 12:35 pm
Nasaband,"Behind most religious conflicts is the fight for control over resources. Islam took control over the southern Arabian peninsula because it allowed one Arab group to defeat the Jewish kingdoms in the Yemen. Religion is nothing but the tool of control.
The Orthodox and Catholic supposedly split over three words in the creed "and the Son". The split was really controlling the wealth of the Church and maintaining political control over religion."
Let's get rid of these legions and be spiritual.
Ahmed Faraz: The Light Stays
In my hurried glance at Pt. mandarji posts I found a gem
""We continue to know more and more about modern society, but we find the centers of political initiative less and less accessible. This generates a personal malady which is particularly acute in the intellectual who has labored under the illusion that his thinking makes a difference. In the world of today the more his knowledge of affairs grows, the less effective the impact of his thinking seems to become ... He feels helpless in the fundamental sense that he cannot control what he is able to foresee."
(The Powerless People, by C. Wright Mills, Politics, April, 1944)"
First, did he acquire/digest the knowledge? He thought he possesses the knowledge because he can express in words. He could recite the words. But his life did not express it as Mahatma Gandhi or Phule's did. Similarly so called poets thought penning and publishing their emotions is end all. This is the problem when we judge people by their words. I would judge Guru Govind Singhji's poetry by how it built Khalasa and organization to raise human consciousness and protect Dharma.
Emotion is a very tiny part of mind. I have not read any poem of Faraz but from Nasaband's quote it seems he is yet another hukka-pani Kotha pimp poet talking about girl's. Shantic Arabic imperialism worked through this gudgudi culture. The local kshatriyas esp Rajputs were addicted to this gudgudi Sheb Bibi and Gulam culture utterly exploitive culture. It also emasculated the locals. Just as British sold and made Chines addicted to Ganja, Shantic exploitive folks used this mushayara type culture. At best it produced Bahadur Shah Zafar type nimcompoop so called poets who suffered from heavy melancholy. Indian Mollywood wasted two generations of Indian youth by this G..giri of melancholic songs. There were hardly songs such as Chodo Kal Ki Bante.
Since the words started getting printed a weird thing happened. Words became very cheap. A class of durbari Gs in the form of Bhaats and Sycophants came on the horizon. .............
I do not have so much time now ....later when time permits.
Those who attended his mushiara or whatever need to be lined up at LOC & Jammu border and made sing his poetry. Let's see if the Jihadis can be stopped. This way atleast poor innocent rikshawwala and helpless kids can be saved.
Yes I would like Arabic imperialism aka Islam needs to vanish, so also Paulism (look at what it has done in Orissa). That is why I asked Pt. Mandarji and testicularji to explain the core spirituality of Shant aka Islam.
We should all become spiritual and not re-legion-ous.
Posted by
guru
Aug 27, 2008 11:49 am
ana and nasaband,In my hurried glance at Pt. mandarji posts I found a gem
""We continue to know more and more about modern society, but we find the centers of political initiative less and less accessible. This generates a personal malady which is particularly acute in the intellectual who has labored under the illusion that his thinking makes a difference. In the world of today the more his knowledge of affairs grows, the less effective the impact of his thinking seems to become ... He feels helpless in the fundamental sense that he cannot control what he is able to foresee."
(The Powerless People, by C. Wright Mills, Politics, April, 1944)"
First, did he acquire/digest the knowledge? He thought he possesses the knowledge because he can express in words. He could recite the words. But his life did not express it as Mahatma Gandhi or Phule's did. Similarly so called poets thought penning and publishing their emotions is end all. This is the problem when we judge people by their words. I would judge Guru Govind Singhji's poetry by how it built Khalasa and organization to raise human consciousness and protect Dharma.
Emotion is a very tiny part of mind. I have not read any poem of Faraz but from Nasaband's quote it seems he is yet another hukka-pani Kotha pimp poet talking about girl's. Shantic Arabic imperialism worked through this gudgudi culture. The local kshatriyas esp Rajputs were addicted to this gudgudi Sheb Bibi and Gulam culture utterly exploitive culture. It also emasculated the locals. Just as British sold and made Chines addicted to Ganja, Shantic exploitive folks used this mushayara type culture. At best it produced Bahadur Shah Zafar type nimcompoop so called poets who suffered from heavy melancholy. Indian Mollywood wasted two generations of Indian youth by this G..giri of melancholic songs. There were hardly songs such as Chodo Kal Ki Bante.
Since the words started getting printed a weird thing happened. Words became very cheap. A class of durbari Gs in the form of Bhaats and Sycophants came on the horizon. .............
I do not have so much time now ....later when time permits.
Those who attended his mushiara or whatever need to be lined up at LOC & Jammu border and made sing his poetry. Let's see if the Jihadis can be stopped. This way atleast poor innocent rikshawwala and helpless kids can be saved.
Yes I would like Arabic imperialism aka Islam needs to vanish, so also Paulism (look at what it has done in Orissa). That is why I asked Pt. Mandarji and testicularji to explain the core spirituality of Shant aka Islam.
We should all become spiritual and not re-legion-ous.
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