Thursday, February 06, 2014

What mind set is responsible for the lack of a war memorial?

In this column, Kanchan Gupta laments the lack of a war memorial to honour India's soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in defense of the nation and touches upon NaMo's promise to build a suitably grand memorial in New Delhi.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/coffee-break/modi-promises-india-its-national-war-memorial.html

Upon further reflection, it is not just the 
apathetic politicians in government and the cussed bureaucracy who are responsible for this outrage. In my considered opinion, it is the ideology of "Gandhianism" that has been forced down our throats as a state religion that is the root cause of this deliberate dishonour to the Indian soldier.

Ghandy himself had contempt for revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Madan Lal Dhingra who did not adhere to his sadistic concept of "Pacifism".
This hatred is quite evident from his pronouncements in public and his obsequious correspondence with the British Raj's officers.

Ghandy extended that derision and hatred to soldiers serving in the army and opined that they should be cleaning toilets instead of fighting wars,
howsoever justified they may have been 
in the national interest!!!

Indeed, the Nehruvian Stalinists led by 
Krishna Menon were adhering to Ghandy's policy by 1) stating that there was no need for an army, i.e. a police would suffice; 2) forcing the ordnance factories to manufacture soap and toothpaste rather than ordnance.

I would even venture to say that the recent public humiliation of former COAS General V.K Singh - summoning by Jihadi politicians in the J&K assembly, with an intent to reprimand, humiliate and lynch an "infidel" General 
who dared to command an army of "infidels" on behalf of an "infidel" nation
against Jihadi terrorists waging a secessionist war - is nothing but "Gandhianism" in action.

Someone made a very succinct observation in a comment on this blog recently, comparing  General V.K Singh's public humiliation with the
indignities meted out to the Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade in a foreign land.

The derisive smirk of the coconut oil christist A.K Antony in response to media questioning about the General
said it all.

I would even venture further to postulate that the lack of a war memorial in India is analogous to the proscriptions in the Pacifist Japanese post war constitution imposed by the victors - on various aspects of militarism, including the shackling of Japanese nationalists with respect to paying homage at their Yasukuni war shrine.

Hence, my derivation:
 (Gandhian pacifist fascism
== Japanese pacifist constitution )
&& (NaMo == Shinzo Abe)

To make proper amends for the 67 years of calculated neglect and castration of our Kshatriya spirit,
the most appropriate location for India's war memorial would be opposite Ghandy's Samadhi in New Delhi, the so called "Raj Ghat".

I propose that it be called "Kranti Van",
in contra distinction to "Shanti Van", the place where Chacha Jawaharullah's mortal remains were entombed.

This will have great symbolic value, facilitating unshackling of Indian minds from the bondage imposed by Gandhianism - as much as ritual visits to the Yasukuni shrine evoke memories of the Samurai in Japan.

2 comments:

About Me said...

Agree with all your comments; However, Nehru had the strongest role in insulting the Armed forces - his insecurity and perceived "coup threats" is the root; This was planted by of course the British who were keenly aware of Indian Army's strengths!

karyakarta92 said...

Yes, Jawaharullah's paranoia about a coup was real. Shikhandi MMS and the contemporary civilian establishment also raised the bogey of
armoured columns of the Indian army and their "unusual movements" near Delhi. While unreal, it would caused several. "eminent" persons to wet their pants in anxiety.