Author: Dr. Vijaya Rajiva
Publication: Haindavakeralam.com
Date: September 13, 2011
URL: http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=14690
On June 4, 2011 there occurred a horrendous
event in India. An unarmed peaceful nonviolent crowd in Delhi protesting corruption
was lathi charged by the police and it resulted in serious injuries with one
middle aged woman Rajbala with spine broken and all four limbs paralysed.
The first pictures were provided in the English media by a Tehelka reporter.
CNNIBN had all night coverage of this infamous event. In the melee old men
and women were dragged out by the police from the Ramlila grounds and left
with their children and grandchildren on the streets of Delhi to fend for
themselves. They had come from far and near to listen to the yoga guru Swami
Ramdev and had spent the day in yoga, fasting, meditation, prayer and bhajan.
This was clearly a devotional Hindu crowd
in the main (though some others from other religious groups may also have
been present, as is the time honoured custom in a tolerant and diverse country
such as India). Prominent Congress leader, long time loyalist Mani Shankar
Iyer publicly stated that there was no need for this draconian response to
a peaceful non violent crowd that showed no signs of any violence. Furthermore,
the Ramlila grounds he pointed out, was large enough to accommodate large
crowds; it had been built precisely for such events. It was night time and
the crowd was asleep when they were attacked by the police on orders from
the troika of Sonia Maino Gandhi (Congress President) Home Minister Chidambaram
and Defence Minister A. K. Antony (according to reports). One senior journalist
has confirmed that the infamous troika met at the Prime Minister's residence
late that evening. The PM himself reportedly was not present since he had
turned in for the evening! And so, while a momentous decision was being taken
by his government and his party the PM was asleep (literally it would seem!).
After the first few days of excitement the
liberal press has fallen silent on the topic and Mani Shankar Iyer described
it as a 'transient' event. Admittedly he was doing this in the context of
defending his 'honourable'friend the ignoble Rajput Digvijay Singh who it
is reported had a behind the scenes hand in the infamous event of June 4.
He had been systematically bad mouthing the Hindu sannyasin Swami Ramdev for
days on end, without any evidence whatsoever. This was undoubtedly in preparation
for the final denoument. He could not, obviously, resist his mistress's commands.
He claims to be a Hindu.
As for the woman who initiated this horrific
outcome, she must make her peace with her God (her extra God as Tehelka editor
Tarun Tejpal described that God in an article over a year or so ago, ironically,
one hopes). It is hard to believe that the Catholic God she prays to would
condone such an event. At any rate, Jesus of Nazareth would not have condoned
it or the ghastly wars of conquest and violence engaged in by followers in
his name.
But who remembers Rajbala paralysed for life?
Only her family it seems, judging from the deafening silence from the liberal
media since those fateful days. They held a; yagna shortly afterwards, and
this was reported in CNNIBN. Presumably, the Supreme Court is also in the
process of viewing the videos taken that night by the press, and which the
police tried to suppress.
Hindu India cannot forgive or forget. The
present writer has pointed out on more than one occasion that Hinduism has
survived conquests, war, violence and Occupations and will survive for many
more millennia despite the best laid plans of mice and men. However, the asuric
evil of such people who initiate such evil acts will bring endless suffering
to the Hindu masses. While there has been an extraordinary attention given
by the press to the upper middle class protestors and their welfare during
the Anna Hazare anti corruption movement (not a single protestor was lathi
charged by the police)there is only silence concerning Rajbala. From this
silence alone one can infer that she must be from the less privileged section
of Indian society.
Swami Ramdev's followers are drawn from all
classes, but on the particular night of June 4 the price paid was by the aam
admi Hindu. In the past all classes and castes paid with their lives and property
during invasions and Occupations. Indian history is replete with the story
of heroes, both rich and poor, kings and queens and as well their subjects.In
the past Rajadharma required kings and queens in India to go out and fight
in person. Today's rulers do the opposite, take refuge in their gated communities.
In the context of today's attack (cultural and legal) on the Padmanabhaswamy
temple, Keralites will remember the glorious history of the maharajahs of
Travancore who perfomed their kshatriya duty of defending the land against
invaders, in this specific case the Dutch. Who can forget the heroism of Marthanda
Varma in the seventeenth century ?And today the beleagured royal house of
Travancore, which has set a model of upright living, and is now under attack
in various guises, continues to demonstrate that kshatriya courage and determination
to withstand the asuric forces.
Where are the kshatriya Hindus (intellectual
or otherwise) who will remember Rajbala?
- (The writer is a Political Philosopher who
taught at a Canadian university)
