A Plea to India’s Leader

[prasad1]

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As an Indian-American Hindu, I am distressed to read your Dec. 26 editorial “Religious Intolerance in India.” Having grown up in India during an even more challenging era — in the 1960s and ’70s — I would like to believe that such intolerance is more the exception than the rule.


India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, is often unfairly referred to as a “Hindu nationalist” by a wide range of Western news media. This is an opportunity for him to prove them wrong.


All Mr. Modi needs to do is look at neighboring Pakistan to see how decades-long religious intolerance there has resulted in economic, political and social chaos.


If Mr. Modi is a true patriot, he must, as the editorial says, “break his silence and issue a stern warning to emboldened Hindu militants” not to violate India’s secular constitution.


Also, if he is the shrewd politician that everyone makes him out to be, he must quickly stamp out efforts by opposition political leaders to derail his real agenda, which is to turn India into an economic powerhouse in the 21st century.


JACK NARGUNDKAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/opinion/a-plea-to-indias-leader.html?_r=1

 

[sarang]

It is nice to note that the well wishers(!) have progressed to pleas from abuses, insults and orders. This issue of conversion is to be fought at local levels, and the govt must keep away. All these years the secular govt encouraged conversion by the forces we all know, without a murmur of protest. If Vatican wanted a rich harvest of sheep or peace religion wanted more jihadis, the govt, the left and secular were talking of freedom and liberty, now the voice has become shrill when some Hindu outfits have woken up and succeed in miniscule ghar vapasi.
Modi will ignore such one sided pleas and will concentrate on his vision of making a strong and developed India. Owasi now says all Indians are born as Muslims, and another says those who give up Islam are to be put to death. Let the west and pro west anti Hindu diapsora dwell on what is good for them instead of advising Indians and Indian leader.
Let there be anti conversion law or no restrictions. What the motley crowd wants is selective ban and free inflow of NGO funding.

 

[Jaykay767]

LOL !!

Another silly article by a PIO on Nytimes !!. This PIO must have supported the new govt fully to all his silly white colleagues & now when they are raising questions, he has to sing a different tune. And he cannot change the tune overnight, hence this appeal for change – LOL !!. So further articles from this guy will be negative on this govt. LOL !

I mean, what was not known before this govt was elected?

All that is happening now was expected, a nationalist Hindu ideologically aligned political party will push its agenda across thecountry. What did people think?, that BJP will move to the center, be inclusive, become secular & rule the county ? Even if Modi wants, can he change the entire Sangh parivar overnight to fall in line?

Like Obama was supposed to move to the center, build consensus & run the country ? like Obama was supposed to reach out to the republicans after the 2010 mid term shellacking ? like Obama was supposed to unify the country after the 2012 elections ? like Obama is supposed to now salvage his legacy by reaching out to the republicans after the 2014 shellacking ?

Obama democrats & Modi BJP came with a specificagenda on political ideology & they will implement that, when they are elected to power. Why will they change their long held beliefs just because people voted for them? can Obama or Modi change the democrats or the Sangh Parivar??

What did people think will happen ?. Elect a nationalist hindu party & expect them to move to the center & be secular? Elect all“unpad gawars” & a massive transformation will happen?

Frankly what transformation has happened in Gujarat ? who are migrating there ? which companies are setup there ? – None of the MNCs (GE, Shell, Boeing, Airbus, Cisco, Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, Unilever, Pepsi, Coke, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Microsoft, etc.. ) are in Gujarat !! yes, maybe all the places in Gujarat has power (debatable), maybe road infrastructure, but that is not enough, one needs to actively bring in companies & make them invest there to create Jobs like Chandrababu Naidu is doing in Andhra !.

Two terms of Congress led to massive incumbency factor which was very smartly capitalized by BJP & Modi. That’s all there is to it, all the other adjectives like transformation etc… were all added by the political spectators !! LOL !!

Instead of fighting against corruption, if people had only campaigned for “educated, qualified, competent, proven track record & meritorious leadersacross the political spectrum”, we would have seen real transformation!

LOL !!

 

[sarang]

Modi govt must first deliver what is in the bjp manifesto and what modi promised in his election rallies. Voting public was not swayed by the unmitigated negative portrayal of modi, bjp and sangh parivar, but by modi's charisma, sincerity and faith in his ability to lead the country to great heights. The whiners have to keep whining.
What is happening quietly in governance and resolution of many pending issues is not reported by the media. The changes and improvements will hit their dumb brains perhaps when a foreign media chooses to report.