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About the book:
- Meticulously researched and written citing about 250 references, the book
- Exposes the pusillanimity of the Indian intelligentsia!
- Exposes the hypocrisy and double standards of the Indian media!
- Exposes the deviousness behind writing and teaching of Indian history!
- Exposes the hollowness and treachery of Indian secularism!
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The book addresses key issues that concern the Indian society today: freedom of expression; media objectivity; the skewed concept of Indian secularism and the teaching of doctored history.
Why is the majority religion always at the receiving end in the name of ‘secularism’? Why does ‘secularism’ connote one obligation for practitioners of the majority religion and another for the minorities? Why does the word ‘secularism’ have one meaning in the Kashmir valley and another in the rest of India?
The book addresses key issues that concern the Indian society today: freedom of expression; media objectivity; the skewed concept of Indian secularism and the teaching of doctored history.
Why is the majority religion always at the receiving end in the name of ‘secularism’? Why does ‘secularism’ connote one obligation for practitioners of the majority religion and another for the minorities? Why does the word ‘secularism’ have one meaning in the Kashmir valley and another in the rest of India?
Why do we teach ‘doctored’ history in our schools and colleges? If, as is feared, teaching about the atrocities of long gone invaders exacerbates communal tensions, why does the news media show gory images of something happened in the recent past again and again, exaggerating them a thousand-fold? Does it promote communal harmony? Why does the news media magnify even minute excesses of the one side and at the same time wilfully and completely airbrush similar misdemeanours of the other?
These are the questions that should be asked of the Indian milieu, which has come to be dominated by the oxymoronic ‘left-liberal’ for far too long. If ever a phrase justifies being termed an oxymoron then it is ‘left-liberal’. The ‘left-liberal’ are neither left nor liberal. And there would not be anyone more illiberal than them. They call anyone who disagrees with them or anyone with whom they disagree, ‘Fascists’! The milieu needs correction. It needs voices that project the right perspective. This book attempts to provide that perspective.
For quite some time now, there have been suggestions from well-wishers to publish the contents of my blog site (http://www.voxindica.net/) in book form. I have resisted the suggestions initially as I felt the content that goes into blogs and websites is by and large topical and may at the most have academic referential value. Why publish it in book form?
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
SECTION I − FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
ARTISTIC FREEDOM & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SECULAR BIASES
COURTESANS NOT GODDESSES
IS ARTISTIC FREEDOM ABSOLUTE?
SURPRISING VERDICT
FALLACY, IGNORANCE OR MISCHIEF?
YALE UNIVERSITY EXAMPLE
GRATUITOUS OBITER DICTA
THE CURIOUS CASE OF "DECCAN CHRONICLE" AS THE CHAMPION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
CHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE & INDIAN INTELLECTUAL CHICANERY
SONIA & RAHUL MORE VENERABLE THAN ‘SITA & SARASWATI’?
SECTION II − TWISTING FACTS TO SUIT THEORIES
A LeT OPERATION IN J&K AND A DETENTION IN THE US!
A WORM’S-EYE VIEW OF THE STATESMAN & THE TIMES OF INDIA
‘SUE WILEY’, ECONOMISING TRUTH & DAMAGING DISTORTIONS
SUE WILEY
ECONOMIZING TRUTH
& DAMAGING DISTORTIONS
ANGRY JANES, MAD TOMS & ‘INTERNET HINDUS’
ANGRY
JANES & MAD TOMS
WHO
OWNS THE MEDIA?
WHAT
IS OUTLOOK’S PROBLEM?
IBN-LIVE 'DISREGARDS' TRUTH
HINDUTWA,
SECULAR POLARITY
SECULAR HEADLINE
WRITING
LIES,
DAMN LIES & SECULAR LIES
THE MORE CREDIBLE
EVIDENCE
MEDIA AND ETHICS IN BRITAIN AND INDIA
FACTS ARE FLUID – COMMENT IS SACRED!
STING MERCHANTS & TRUTH FAIRIES
NEW YORK TIMES’ OUTSOURCED ‘INDIAN-SECULARISM’
DOROTHY DIXERS AND GRAPEFRUITS
NATWAR SINGH AND THE HINDU PARALLAX
INDIAN MEDIA’S ‘DEUS EX MACHINA’
LAZY, TABLOID, STEREOTYPE
JOURNALISM
SECTION III − A DECADE OF SECULAR LIES
A REQUIEM FOR GODHRA
THE TRAUMA OF BURNING
THE LONELINESS OF PAIN
NO WREATHS FOR THE KARSEVAKS!
THE POLITICS OF DEATH
THE SECULAR GALAHADS OF JUSTICE!
THE NEW KATHERINE MAYO
THE BENT COPS
THE HIRED GUNS
A DECADE OF SECULAR LIES
THE KANGAROO COURTS
JUSTICE TEWATIA COMMITTEE REPORT
HISTORY OF BLOODIER RIOTS
ENCOUNTERS, REAL, FAKE OR OPTICAL ILLUSION?
‘GANDHIANS WITH GUNS’
‘USEFUL IDIOTS’, EMPATHIZING TERROR?
ENCOUNTERS, ENCOUNTERS, ENCOUNTERED!
SECTION IV − SHOULD WE REWRITE HISTORY?
HISTORICAL DILEMMAS
SHOULD WE REWRITE HISTORY?
RATIONALIZING
GENOCIDE?
LEARNING OR POLITICAL
CONDITIONING?
INTEGRATION OF INDIA – A TEST OF LEADERSHIP
JUNAGADH &
HYDERABAD SNATCHING VICTORY FROM JAWS OF DEFEAT
JAMMU & KASHMIR
SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM JAWS OF VICTORY
INTRODUCTION
MOUNTBATTEN’S FOXY
ROLE
JUNAGADH
HYDERABAD
JAMMU & KASHMIR
PLEBISCITE RESOLUTION
SABOTAGED BY PAKISTAN
STRATEGIC BLUNDER - 1949 NY GIFT
INDIA CHINA WAR 1962
INDIAN SHAME - CHINESE PERFIDY
THE TIBET BLUNDER
THE CHINESE FIFTH
COLUMN
SECTION V − INDIAN SECULARISM
RAM JANMA BHUMI IN HIGH COURT
HOW PSEUDO-EXPERTS
FAILED PSEUDO-SECULARS
PERVERSION OF HISTORY
IS A TEMPLE AT AYODHYA
AGAINST REPUBLICAN IDEAL?
HAS THE COUNTRY MOVED
ON?
MSM: ‘REWIND, FREEZE
FRAME’
DISMISSAL OF TITLE
SUIT CONCLUSIVE
PSEUDO-EXPERTS FAILED
PSEUDO-SECULARS!
ISN’T IT TIME TO MOVE
ON?
KASHMIRI PANDITS - A FORSAKEN MINORITY
NAC’S COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL
RETELL THE WOLF AND
THE GOAT STORY!
THE WOLF AND THE GOAT
TARGETING HINDUS
TWIST IN THE TALE
SECTION VI − MISCELLANY
DEMOCRACY, FREE SPEECH & SECESSION
INDO-PAK RELATIONS - LESSONS FROM HISTORY
SCRAP ARTICLE 370. SAY ‘NO’ TO PAK SIACHEN PROPOSAL
‘WAR SPEECH’ COST GANDHI HIS ‘NOBEL’?
HOW TO TACKLE BLACK MONEY MENACE
WILL ‘INDIANS AGAINST CORRUPTION’ WIN?
ANNA HAZARE AND
INDIANS AGAINST CORRUPTION
DRAMA AT JANTAR MANTAR
CYNICS &
INTELLIGENTSIA VERSUS. CIVIL SOCIETY
‘AAM ADMI PARTY’ AND THE BATTLE OF PERCEPTION
P. V. NARASIMHA RAO AND THE ELUSIVE ‘BHARAT RATNA’!
IS ASTROLOGY SCIENCE OR SUPERSTITION?
IS THE UN A WHITE-MAN’S CLUB?
A PARTY OF VICTORS?
INDIA’S CLAIM FOR UNSC
MEMBERSHIP
INDIAN NAÏVETÉ
UPA’S NAC RULE - DICTATORSHIP IN DISGUISE?
WILL WE RETURN TO ‘HINDU RATE OF GROWTH’?
‘NEHRUVIAN RATE OF
GROWTH’
IMPLOSION OF A
SOCIALIST SOCIETY
FAILED PROPHET OF
SOCIALISM
‘HINDU RATE OF GROWTH’
FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN RETAIL - BANE OR BOON?
THE CHINESE EXAMPLE
AN INDIAN EXAMPLE
INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL DEMYSTIFIED
INTRODUCTION
NUCLEAR MINERAL
RESOURCES & TECHNOLOGY
NUCLEAR RESOURCES AND
ENERGY PRODUCTION
THE 123-AGREEMENT
VIS-À-VIS US REGULATIONS
THE COURSE OF THE
NUCLEAR DEAL
THE OPPOSITION
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
END
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