Tarun Vijay
Times of India
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TitlDoes Indian history need to be rewritten? Author: Tarun Vijay Publication: Times of India DatDec. 5, 2001 Yes. A history that is biased, insults national heroes, communalises events and downgrades a community is a dangerous recipe for the future and needs to be corrected British wrote history to suit their empire and the leftists distorted it to further their ism‚. It's time now to correct these wrongs in a transparent and objective manner so that India gains, which is above any ism‚ or party. Hence, Prime Minister Vajpayee is right in saying that distortions in history have to go. A history that is biased and insults national heroes, communalises events and downgrades a community is a dangerous recipe to dwarf the future and needs to be corrected. It is indeed ironic that unless we go on learning faithfully that Guru Tegh Bahadur had resorted to "plunder and raping", Shivaji's victories were merely "growth of Maratha national sentiment", the "execution" (not martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur)" was due to the intrigues of some members of his family " and Jats were"plunderers", we are sure to be condemned as"agents of saffronisation." To be secular and a decently de-saffronised Indian citizen, it is necessary to learn that Savarkar, Khudi Ram Bose, Prafulla Chaki and Hardayal were terrorists and not freedom fighters and the oaths before Goddess Kali by Bengal revolutionaries were oaths of the terrorists. Aurangzeb was a "jinda pir or a living saint". In ancient India „people ate beef but did not take pork on any considerable scale,‚‚ and Alauddin‚s attack on Chittor to get Padmini is a"popular legend" unacceptable to"many modern historians". These are some of the secular gems quoted from the books of honourable historians like Prof. Satish Chandra, Arjun Dev, Romila Thapar and R.S. Sharma. Our children should read what the West Bengal"s leftist government is teaching kids. See an extract from the textbook for Class V:"...Islam and Christianity are the only religions which treated man with honour and equality..." A job well done to please the party masters and neo-colonialists of the Marxist hue. Half-truths, half-lies, hypotheses presented as facts and facts obscured. The arrogance of power and paisa make them use the word "saffron" abusively. It hardly matters to them that it is the colour of Bharatvarsha that is India since time immemorial and it denotes renunciation, devotion, victories and strength. If the sky is expressed through blue and the nature by green, India is expressed through saffron. If anti-saffronisation campaigners have their way, even the name of the nation would not be Bharat or Hindusthan. One smacks of "Sanskrit" and the other has "Hindu" word in it ! The hate and hostility for a different viewpoint, and especially for anything Hindu is so evident that Taliban would find their real comrades here. The basic idea is to reduce the burden, provide value-based education and implement the S.B. Chavan Committee report submitted to Parliament. The curriculum commits itself to "scientific temper characterised by the spirit of enquiry, problem-solving, courage to question and objectivity leading to elimination of obscurantism, superstition and fatalism..."(Page 40). There is no reference to astrology but the government simply tried to take forward what previous Congress regimes were doing in regard to education about astrology in many mainstream universities like Rajasthan and Ujjain. If you don‚t teach and respect the Vedas in India, would you have it in Saudi Arab? Talibanised minds indeed. They destroyed Bamiyan. These are destroying the spirit of Bharat. Wrong history needs to be set right otherwise the nation would stand wronged ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ofbjp.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A worldwide community of BJP's friends, supporters and activists: Friends of the BJP - Worldwid http://www.ofbjp.org/fob ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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