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this could well be a political assassination, followed by an elimination of all those who have some inside information.
check out the fabulous costa-gavras movie 'Z' -- widely considered the best political film of all time -- for a similar story about the assassination of a promising politician and a cover-up by the authorities. chilling similarities. in 'z', the witnesses started dying mysteriously: one "leapt to his death from the 7th floor of police headquarters"; another "was killed in a car crash" (actually several were killed in car crashes, and other accidents like drowning). the investigating judge, played brilliantly by jean-louis trintignant, later became the real-life president of greece. he started finding too many coincidences, especially when several suspects described the act of someone attacking the politician using the exact same words: "leapt on him lithely like a tiger".
yes, 'z' was based on a real-life event in greece. the authorities became so unhappy with the trial which came uncomfortably close to the truth that there was a military coup to protect the instigators of the crime. the journalist who did the investigative work in the film was either jailed or killed. they ended up banning "rock music, long hair, ... and the letter 'z', because in greek the letter 'z' means 'he is alive'."
is it possible for indians to say 'he is alive'? no, probably not, because we have other pressing concerns now, result of the various diversionary tactics.
but we live in dangerous times, when political opponents are ruthlessly liquidated.
also the modus operandi in the mahajan incident reminds me strongly of what happened to nepal's king birendra and family. net result of that? nepal is now just one step away from being a chinese colony. i would not be surprised if this was hatched in the fertile minds of the marxists, with a little help from their handlers in peking. after all, the decline of the bjp suits the chinese quite well. also note how their bete noire george fernandes has recently been sidelined by his own party.
at the end of the day, the question to ask is: "who benefits from all this?"
there you have your answer as to who did this.
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Rajeev
Sage is right
Given that the entire mainstream English media is in bed with the secularists, the marxists and the anti-hindus, what chance do we have of actually shaping and influencing state policy?
Expressing rage in niche columns or in like-minded groups seems so much like a waste of time.
Take the matter of Fanaa..The barrage of 'secular' noise has annihilated the BJP's image in Gujarat. They're being made out to be an anti democratic organisation out for poor Aamir's blood.
Why have they been unable to mount even an iota of resistance (let alone defend themselves smartly), even as so many facts are on their side: the SC judgement which now allows banning of things if it has a risk of law and order problems -- circa vadodara, or even the sheer hypocrisy fanaa ban=bad, da vinci ban = good for secularism
If the Hindu voice gets so easily smothered in the commons, we're on a fairly weak wicket.
The question we have to ask is: what do we have to do to make being pro-hindu acceptable and economically viable?
i'm afraid i dont have any magic bullet answers.
one thing that could be done is a boycott.
can you organize a boycott of a truly odious newspaper, say, and get 10,000 people to write in cancelling their subscriptions? that would surely get the editor's attention.
similarly, can you target 100 major advertisers who advertise in that newspaper and have 1,000 people write in and say they are going to boycott that advertiser's products because they patronize that newspaper?
that is one answer.
there is another answer, which is the ohmynews story in korea. a gent named oh created a small counterculture newspaper which he then managed to get broad circulation for, as students printed it and out pasted it on walls, etc. eventually, he got millions of readers, and in fact was instrumental in overturning the korean government of the day.
ok, that's one way of going about creating an alternative medium.
that's all i can come up with, i'm afraid.
Guys,
Let us exploit the power of blogosphere fully. It was used very effectively to trip John Kerry in 2004 Presidential elections. I am sure there are several credible online Indian news websites that give "fair and balanced" opinions and news. We just have to make them popular and give them more legitimacy.
By the way, I agree with Aamir Khan's views. I read his interview in expressindia.com (However I don't agree with labeling Modi as "Fascist".). All he is saying is that people who have been thrown out of their lands be properly compensated. Don't we all want that? I think BJP in Gujarat is just using attacking Aamir to get some press coverage. He is not against raising height of the dam, which I think would justifiably enrage Gujaratis. my 2 cents....
-Sage
Sage,
Aamir has publicly been anti-BJP even to the extent of giving some such speech during his visit to Harvard a few months ago. He indirectly targets BJP through his interviews by talking of extreme right in India etc. I guess that rightly has made BJP angry. Its typical of pseudo secularists to malign any organization if it talks of any Hindu.
This issue is not exactly for what was said @ Narmada but WHO said it. So I support BJP in this...and see the silence of the media over banning of Da Vinci in Congress states ? The silence of the media when Satanic verses was banned when Taslima Nasreen's book was banned...but the cacophony in the media over protest against Fanaa, protest over MF Hussain...and so goes on the story of spineless Hindu men.
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