Gujarat CM Anandiben woos RSS, introduces new textbooks & enforces dress code for tea

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Gujarat CM Anandiben woos RSS, introduces new textbooks & enforces dress code for tea

While Narendra Modi kept saffron ideologues at bay for the most part in Gujarat when it came to governance, his successor as chief minister, Anandiben Patel, seems to be going all out to woo the Sangh. And the impact is showing up in the education sector, with the recent move to introduce new texts being one example.


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Gujarat CM Anandiben woos RSS, introduces new textbooks & enforces dress code for teachers - The Economic Times

 

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Information without spin

This article from the telegraph india explains the devious and sickly attitude and behaviour of the indian main stream media, especially, english media. Sensible people have learnt to disassociate themselves from the ramblings of the opinions expressed by vested interest darning the role of journalist and political expert, trying to blame modi and bite hindus for every minor issue, giving it communal twist, but burying major events involving so called minorities without trace. A few excerpts from the article:

"The media’sgripe with the new occupant of Race Course Road has already filled up manycolumns of the press, particularly the English language publications.Accustomed to being courted, wooed and briefed about each and every aspect ofgovernment by an active media department of the prime minister’s office thatinvariably included former journalists with existing links in the media, thefourth estate is miffed with Modi. Not only has the media policy been replacedby an information policy where the print and electronic media are treated onpar with the social media, there is no one in the PMO to take calls andentertain queries.

"Finally, in amove that left the media apoplectic with rage, Modi decided that he was notobliged to take a massive media contingent with him on his overseas tours.Interested media organizations could jolly well make their own arrangements butthe government of India wasn’t going to either subsidize or facilitate acontingent that, if the past is any indication, contained as manynon-journalists as those who actually reported. This withdrawal of an age-oldentitlement has led to the end of the all-too-brief honeymoon he enjoyed withthe media between the final stages of the election campaign (roughly frommid-April when the Congress collapse became self-evident to all but thewilfully blind) and the visit of the leaders of the South Asian Association forRegional Cooperation for his inauguration at the end of May.

"In India, the taped conversations of the public relations person, Niira Radia, with prominent journalists had a similar effect. Apart from breaking the myth about ‘objective’ journalism, it showed up many top dog journalists for what they actually were: brokers in the corridors of power.

"Contrary to some conspiracy theories of corporate media backing the ‘Modi for PM’ project, the Modi message was disseminated in 2014 from the social media downwards. It is only after the Modi campaign was on a roll that print and TV media jumped on to the bandwagon.

"Secondly, Modi has concluded —rightly in my opinion — that the wider public doesn’t give a damn about either media conveniences or its trade union demands.

"For the moment, the media are undertaking a proxy war — trying to drag the government in the Ved Prakash Vaidik-Hafeez Sayeed meeting and having a ball massacring the unshaped views of the hapless Dina Nath Batra. But these are all sniper attacks.

"On his part, Modi is using the honeymoon to establish an alternative outreach strategy that will not compromise on media exposure for the government’s policies and programmes but could end up limiting the media’s ability to be agents of influence.

"Modi is only too aware of the media’s limitations in India. He also knows that there is a long way to go before the Indian media can acquire a self-image of being truly professional and without a collateral agenda. His priority is to get his message across. As long as there is a credible message, the medium will fall in place.

Information without spin

 

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Instead of regurgitating meaningless information from RSS propaganda, let us stick to the subject of the post. If someone does not understand the subject of the post they should ignore it, because it is beyond their pay grade. Instead of killing the messenger because the message is not to your liking is a foolish way of conversing.

 

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Need eye testing or change of glasses or both. Dina nath batra is very much present, no wonder resent of Hindus makes one blind.
Regurgitating inane matter from pressitute media without using grey cells but abusing when pointed out is the norm for some.

Why this news is off the screen suddenly because there is no mast in it, and is not producing wished result. It is supplementary reading, students, teachers, academicians have not objected. And none of the opinion peddlers and recyclers have even opened the cover. Nth hand knowledge and shallow misquoting.

 

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One young tv reporter asked batra - why do you insist that a professor is to be called an acharya? Batra replied - I am not the first one to say this, vinoba bhave said this, do you know vinoba bhave? The reporter blinked.

Many universities have been renamed as vidyapeeth, palkalai kazhagam and their regional equivalents. PhD doctors are 'munaivar' in tamilnadu. But batra is wrong to say this.

He also said, our culture is to light lamp and not extinguish candles. So celebrate by lighting lamps. Media criticises this also. And some twitteratis have added - not only candle is blown off, but the cake also gets a generous dose of spit.

Anyway there is nothing seriously wrong in telling the children tales from ramayana and mahabharata, and the the amanushya acts of the characters from the epics.

When wendy's hate hindu books are objected to, it is against freedom of the individual, but praise hindus, it is blasphemy.

The media, especially the english media, has an agenda to selectively polarise issues. Pressing one chappathi in the mouth of a person is a big issue, but mid day meals for children cancelled in kerala schools is not an issue. A person killed in pune gets celebrity coverage, but people killed in last week's UP riots is not important for the press. Anyway only 0.4% of the tv public watch english news. The partisan press will dig its own grave despite propping up by 'those who must not be named!'

 

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Lot to learn to present objections without personalizing - you, your etc. Of course very difficult to get rid of old habits, I understand.

Instead of regurgitating meaningless information from RSS propaganda, let us stick to the subject of the post. If someone does not understand the subject of the post they should ignore it, because it is beyond their pay grade. Instead of killing the messenger because the message is not to your liking is a foolish way of conversing.

 

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Preparing a blueprint to 'Indianise' education: Dinanath Batra

We must also hear what Batra has to say before swayed by the so called sickular media. Aren't we following british law - charge, argue the case and then hang the dog! Means judgement is already written. His observation on RSS must be understood by the thomases and not brand everyone supporting hindutva/bharateeyata as an RSS card carrying member. Incidentally, one of the earliest group to arrive and participate in the relief activities in - chennai central station blast, chennai building collapse, and pune land slide - are RSS volunteers. And the media studiously avoids exposing them.

Some excerpts from Batra's interview:

"Emboldened by the Gujarat government's move to make his books supplementary reading in state-run schools, in one of which he has mentioned that modernisation of education should not mean westernisation but Indianisation and has asked students to take pride in their religion and its symbols, Batra said some “like-minded” academicians are already working on the blueprint.

“We have set up a commission Bharatiya Shiksha Niti Aayog which is preparing the blueprint for the Indianisation of the education system,” Batra, who has been in the news lately, told IANS in an interview.
“It will take us three years to complete it and we will circulate it among people. Till now we have eight academicians in the commission and more will be included,” said Batra

Batrasaid: “Whatever is there in the NCERT book is not good. If the students readthese books, they will go astray.” “Filthy language, abuses, and most depressingly unconstitutional words like Chamar and Bhangi have been used in the Hindi books of the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training). Is it not distortion of Hindi language,” Batra asked.
“English poems (in Devanagri script) and Persian couplets in Hindi are there in the school books. It is a distortion of Hindi language,

Askedwhy India has been described as Akhand Bharat (United India) comprising Bhutan,Pakistan and Myanmar, among others, in one of his books, he flatly denied thisand said: “This is not part of my book.”
“I am sending a rejoinder to the newspapers that havespread canards,” Batra told IANS.


“Inever asked Gujarat government to include my books in schools curriculum. Theysought my permission to translate my books which I approved.”


Askedabout his association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), with whichthe Bharatiya Janata Party has close ideological and organisational links, hesaid: “When I was 10 years old, I participated in some of the activities of theRSS. It does not mean that I am part of the RSS.”


http://www.firstpost.com/india/preparing-blueprint-indianise-education-dinanath-batra-1644407.html