A good article on the opportunism of Akbar the Great

by Guest Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:40 pm

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jarring-notes/entry/mj-abkar-s-move-to-the-bjp-and-the-seige-within

by Guest Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:42 pm

If BJP and RSS read Akbar’s India: The Siege Within they will find how their new spokesperson has lucidly blamed them for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. He called Golwalkar ‘one of the most prominent Hindu communalists of this century’ and ‘the organisation which Golwalkar led for many years, the RSS, was the one which inspired the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.’ In his biography of Nehru, Akbar even established direct and old relation between RSS founder Dr Keshav Balliram Hedgewar and Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse. He wrote that in 1932 when the RSS founder, Dr Hedgewar decided to expand the organisation he went on a tour. Godse was one of his aides during the tour.
Those were the days when Akbar did not believe in friendly criticisms. If he did not like the RSS of the colonial times and dismissed it by saying ‘the RSS kept away from the independence struggle’, he was equally scathing of its conduct during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.

In Siege Within while writing about ban on communal organisations – RSS and Jamaat-e-Islami – during the Emergency, Akbar wrote that though RSS ‘would pretend to have played a very brave role’ the truth was different.

Akbar wrote that the then chief of RSS Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras was arrested during the Emergency but from jail he wrote to Indira Gandhi first praising her speech from All India Radio and pleading to meet her and that ‘it would be a source of immense pleasure.’ Akbar cites another letter from Deoras congratulating Indira Gandhi on her victory in the Supreme Court ‘absolving her of any wrongdoing in the 1971 elections.’ Deoras, Akbar wrote, also offered to ‘put 10, 000 RSS volunteers at the command of Mrs Gandhi so that the nation could prosper.’ The same Akbar who if BJP comes to power might witness the change of brilliant NCERT textbooks lamented RSS attempt to remove books by ‘honest historians like Romila Thapar, from the approved list for educational institutions.’

Instances abound and there is literally a flood of Akbar’s writings that challenged RSS’ idea of nationhood. These three books not only define the secular Akbar but are also going to haunt the saffron-Akbar for life. Even if the marriage ends tomorrow,

by Guest Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:48 pm

Even as Akbar moved base from Kolkata to Delhi, flirted with Congress, got elected to Lok Sabha, started new publication and lost his shine, Akbar’s pen stood by him. But little over a decade ago Akbar changed or rather he started two-timing history, he was so much in love with. And on March 22 flirtation ended in a marriage as Akbar in full media glare, bhagva angavastram draped around his drooping shoulder and primary membership card of BJP worth five rupees in hand, bowed before Rajnath Singh promising to add chorus to the war cry of har har Modi, ghar, ghar Modi.
Two days later on March 24, Akbar explained in the Economic Times why he did what he did. For the first time there was no mention of history as if his god Herodotus had run away from his stable or did Akbar himself unbolt the doors. A tired, trying piece talked of national mission of recovery, growth and employment as reasons for his switch. Akbar, the master of facts, who would not genuflect before anyone -- at least in his writings – was reduced to quoting Narenda Modi, someone whose ideological forefathers he had held in great contempt...

It is also advisable to Akbar’s current political masters, not the greatest patrons of the printed word, to at least flip through the three works to see who have they accommodated in their parlour.

by Guest Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:53 pm

Madhu Kishwar was a somewhat credible Leftist journalist and a Modi critic until almost overnight she became a rabid Modi supporter to the extent that she started showering the most malicious slanders on Modi critics. Defamation cases are currently being heard against Kishwar in the courts.

Her conversion to chanting the Modi chant is said to have involved the sum of Rs 5 crore according to some sources. MJ Akbar, a more prominent journalist, may have commanded a higher price.

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