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TOI-Jang bhai, bhai
11/01/2010 03:15:39 http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/toi-jang-bhaibhai.html

B RAMAN

There is a Tamil saying: 'chozhiyan kudumi summa aadathu.'

Roughly paraphrased, it means: " If one finds a Brahmin's tuft moving up and down, one should not presume it must be due to the breeze. There could be a hidden reason for it. One should look deeper."

I was reminded of this saying on New Year's Day as I noticed that the Times of India has started an Indians-Pakistanis bhai bhai ( Indians and Pakistanis Are Brothers) campaign under the theme Aman Ki Asha ( The Desire For Peace) in association with the Jang group of Pakistan.

The desire for peace one can understand.

The desire for closer people-to-people contacts one can equally understand , but the sudden love of the Times of India for the Jang group one cannot.

If the TOI had joined hands with the Dawn group of Karachi, that would have made some sense. No other media group of Pakistan enjoys as much respect among the people of Pakistan and in the international community as the Dawn group does.

But, no other media group of Pakistan has been as much controversial and as money-minded as the Jang group has been over the years.

And no other media group of Pakistan has been more opportunistic in its editorial policies than the Jang group.

It is alleged in Pakistan: Look where the money is. One will find Jang there.

The sudden love of the TOI for Pakistan and the Jang group is as mysterious as the sudden love of L.K.Advani for Mohammad Ali Jinnah some years ago and as the sudden admiration of Jaswant Singh for Jinnah last year.

Nobody can question the ardent wish of the TOI leadership for peace with Pakistan.

We all want peace with Pakistan.

We all like the people of Pakistan---- whether they are Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochs, Seraikis or Pashtuns.

As I had pointed out in an article on Indiaâ€™s relations with Pakistan and China sometime ago, the civil societies of India and Pakistan have greater positive vibrations for each other than the civil societies of India and China.

And yet there has never been genuine peace between India and Pakistan.

What is the reason?

Not Kashmir.

Not Balochistan.

Not the Lashksar-e-Toiba and the myriad terrorist organizations to which the State and civil society of Pakistan have given birth.

Barring China, no other country in the world thinks and talks well of Pakistan and its people.

No other country in the world triggers more negative vibrations in the hearts and minds of people than Pakistan.

There are various reasons for it.

Because of the distorted interpretations of Islam in Pakistan ever since it was born in 1947. One does not come across such distorted interpretations anywhere else in the Ummah.

Because of the cruelty and barbarity which have come to be associated with Islam in Pakistan. One does not come across such cruelty and barbarity anywhere else in the Ummah.

Because of the perfidious nature of the Pakistani statecraft.

Because of so many other reasons.

Why all the jihadi terrorists of the world flock to Pakistan?

Not merely because of its sanctuaries.

Not merely because of the sponsorship of the ISI.

It is also because irrational individuals with a distorted mindset find themselves more comfortable in Pakistan than anywhere else in the Ummah.

One must call a spade a spade.

One must face the truth.

To point out all this does not mean one wishes ill of Pakistan and wants it to perish.

Quite the contrary.

The real well-wishers of Pakistan and its people are those who have the honesty and courage to draw attention to the negative features of Pakistan and call on the Pakistani society to rid themselves of these features.

We all want good relations with Pakistan and its people.

The TOI-Jang Bhai Bhai is not the way of doing it.

It has to be done through honest debate promoted and moderated by people, who will not be suspected of having any ulterior interest in their sudden-found leave for Aman between the two countries.( 1-1-10)

( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com )

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Dr K ( Prof)Prabhakar Rao 22/10/2010 09:06:59	Article link Mr Harry. I shall be grateful if you post the title of the article of mine that you read on sanghparivar.org so that I can give the blog reference to the readers. My articles are numerous and from very brief content it is difficult to dig out. Kindly help. Vijaya. Kindly await Mr Harrys reply and I shall post the link. Dr K Prabhakar Rao 5
Hary Nambiar 15/01/2010 11:17:57	Dr (Prof) K Prabhakar Rao Dr. (Prof.) Prabhakar Rao writes in Sangh Parivar site regularly. 5
Vijaya 13/01/2010 13:35:22	Hary, a link for the article you mention. Dr.(Prof.)Prabhakar Rao's article. Thanks 5
Hary Nambiar 12/01/2010 10:24:08	Negative vibration Any kind of positive vibration for I India coming out of Pakistan is a fairy tale. The only vibration I experience is NEGATIVE. I agree that, the political sycophants asking for state reorganization will accomplish only what Vijaya articulates. Times of India and other Indian media outlets would write anything to show them as charming secularists. However, the idea of reorganization is utter nonsense. I read am article in Sangh Parivar in which Dr. (Prof) Prabhakar Rao has eloquently written about it. I recommend readers to read that article. Dr. Rao is right and saythat Indian media, the falsely pampered, but intellectually blunt celluloid workers would do anything for the bucks. 5
Vijaya 12/01/2010 04:29:08	Incognitio, the situation with MJ Akbar is even worse MJ Akbar's recent writings: (1)'Is an India-Pakistan deal brewing?'The Pioneer)Jan 10,2009).Here he tries to make out that the born again Jang and TOI's Aman ki Asha (Desire for Peace) will help in bringing out autonomy for J&K. (2) As you said he is talking about a second Partition in 'Path to peace runs through Kashmir ' blog in TOI(Times of India)Jan 3, 2010: "Perhaps this subcontinent needs one last touch of surgery. The price of Partition in Punjab and Bengal was horrific but it brought peace..." (3)Harit Desh in Western UP in his blog in TOI,Nov.15,2009: "What the Muslims of UP are looking for. .is a defined political space within which they can find food-faith security. . On the table is Ajit Singh's dream of Harit Desh in Western UP.Such a state will have a substantive Muslim population,as well as a string of important Muslim educational institutions, from Aligarh to Deoband.It will become a natural socio-economic magnet for Muslims of the north. The idea is still in an embryonic stage. Whoever articulates it, will have rung up a wake-up call." 5
Rama 11/01/2010 20:03:05	Relations with Pakistan/TOI Can anyone please tell me what is this DISTORTED VERSION OF ISLAM? There is only one Islam which is radical and bent on killing anyone whois a non beleiver,ie "Kaffir".I agree that there are moderate Muslims,( who always tend to keep quite about the true side of Isalm, lest they lose their heads) but there is no moderate Islam or there can ever be one.The Jihad who is cutting the neck of the infidel on video while reciting Koran, is in fact a true Islamist.Until and unless, moderate muslims en mass, come out in the open denouncing the violence in Koran and Hadiths, there can ever be peace. 5
Incognito 11/01/2010 16:38:13	Indications This 'Indi-Paki bhai bhai', Saghir Ahmed's report on more autonomy for Kashmir, the so-called 'track two diplomacy', quiet talks with separatists, all ties up with the US' need to get out of Afghanistan, which is possible only by offering Pak a lolly for keeping up the fight against Taliban. Kashmir could be the lolly. 'Secular' journos like MJ Akbar have already started saying that partition of Bengal and Punjab turned out to be good after all. 5