K Balagopal: Reflections on 'Gujarat Pradesh' of 'Hindu Rashtra'

by Guest Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:20 pm

The predominant emotion as one leaves Gujarat is that of fear. Not the fear that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has been watching what you have been doing there and will catch up with you and cut you up or burn you alive. It may, but if you have been a human rights activist long enough, you have come to terms with the idea that you could be killed some day.

Nor that the next time half an opportunity offers itself, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad will kill more Muslims in Gujarat. It will, but they could be killed by an earthquake, any way.

It is the fear of how much hatred human hearts can be filled with, and how easily. Forget about burning human beings alive and prancing gleefully around as the tortured flesh thrashes about. Forget also about cutting open a pregnant woman’s womb to burn the foetus. Such people are at least killing something alive. Can you imagine the state of mind that digs up an old grave, pours petrol on to the presumed remains of a long dead Muslim and sets it aflame? The common Hindu’s hatred for anything to do with Muslims, an intense and inflamed hatred, is the only thing alive in Gujarat today. Don’t talk to the Sangh parivar cadre. They are barely human anyway. Talk to the clerk in an office, to the housewife, to the taxi driver, to the college-going student. Most of them spew venom. One feels sorry for saying this of a whole people. One has, of course, met a handful of Gujarati Hindus who are different. Not only English-speaking liberals of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, but also farmers and labourers. But they are just that, a bare fistful. Cutting across divisions of caste, class, gender, town and country, Gujarat is one mass of hatred for Muslims. The history of the state, dominated over the last few years by the Sangh parivar, has come to this.

http://www.indowindow.com/akhbar/article.php?article=128&category=12&issue=18

by pravalika nanda Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:00 pm

we need human rights activists and if they had strong backgrounds in business and tech and health they would do their jobs right and they could be paid handsomely for it. unfortunately most of them like this person here have the iq of an ant and can unload more shit than an elephant with cholera.

by truthbetold Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:09 pm

PV,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Balagopal

Balagopal was actually a very smart individual. He was left leaning in his political views but he was a wonderful human being.

by rawemotions Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:31 pm

truthbetold wrote:PV,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Balagopal

Balagopal was actually a very smart individual. He was left leaning in his political views but he was a wonderful human being.

Writing against Modi and Gujarat is fashion now, as it is election time. My guess is that it is a lucrative business. Not surprising that everybody wants a piece of it. Make hay when sun shines!

by truthbetold Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:52 pm

rawemotions wrote:
truthbetold wrote:PV,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Balagopal

Balagopal was actually a very smart individual. He was left leaning in his political views but he was a wonderful human being.
Writing against Modi and Gujarat is fashion now, as it is election time. My guess is that it is a lucrative business. Not surprising that everybody wants a piece of it. Make hay when sun shines!

Balagopal died few years ago. When you turn your criticism personal, find a little bit about the guy.

by Guest Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:56 pm

rawemotions wrote:
truthbetold wrote:PV,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Balagopal

Balagopal was actually a very smart individual. He was left leaning in his political views but he was a wonderful human being.
Writing against Modi and Gujarat is fashion now, as it is election time. My guess is that it is a lucrative business. Not surprising that everybody wants a piece of it. Make hay when sun shines!

Raw, that article was written way back in 2002. This balgopal dude kicked the bucket in 2009. Modi ruled Gujarat from 2002 until now. Have there been even any riots in Gujarat in the past 12 yrs? No. Even after the muslim terrorists murdered innocent pilgrims at akshardam post 2002, the ppl of gujarat showed restraint. The fear mongering article of the dude and the behavior of gujjus in the past 12 yrs don't add up.

by rawemotions Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:00 pm

Kinnera wrote:
rawemotions wrote:
truthbetold wrote:PV,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Balagopal

Balagopal was actually a very smart individual. He was left leaning in his political views but he was a wonderful human being.
Writing against Modi and Gujarat is fashion now, as it is election time. My guess is that it is a lucrative business. Not surprising that everybody wants a piece of it. Make hay when sun shines!
Raw, that article was written way back in 2002. This balgopal dude kicked the bucket in 2009. Modi ruled Gujarat from 2002 until now. Have there been even any riots in Gujarat in the past 12 yrs? No. Even after the muslim terrorists murdered innocent pilgrims at akshardam post 2002, the ppl of gujarat showed restraint. The fear mongering article of the dude and the behavior of gujjus in the past 12 yrs don't add up.

Ok. My mistake! I responded because TBT responded and he did not mention that it was an old article and I routinely do not read anything that negative news trader Rashmun posts (if it is about politics and has negative connotations which is 99% of the time). Coming from that person, I should have expected it to be an old article. Guess he hasn't stopped looking at Modi as a Baby, Modi as 5 years old to dig up negative stuff, to help Congress.

by truthbetold Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:53 pm

Raw
I did mention. If you cared to read the wikipedia article, it indicates that Balagopal died in 2009. Let us move on.

by rawemotions Sun Apr 20, 2014 6:00 pm

My point is why even comment on this news trader's links when you know it is an old article and his prejudice on digging up dirt on old stuff is well known. I did not read the wikipedia article.

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