INDIA- Bans Freedom of Speech & Rights to tell the Truth to the Public

Modi the Ultimate undemocratic Politician of India bans gandhi book in Gujarat.

In the aftermath of a Wall Street Journal Book Review of a recent "gandhi" book written by the former New York Times Editor and Pulitzer Prize Winner Joseph Lelyveld, casteists Indians invaded WSJ commentary page with obnoxious and undemocratic comments made against the author of the book without even having the slightest idea that they are spewing venom against the authour who himself was a gandhian biographer who has done tremendous work on gandhi. Yet another spectacular display of Indians ignorance can be read at the commentary page on WSJ.

It is the reviewer Andrew Roberts who dissected out the book and gandhi's life, who presented several pathological life styles and failures of the great soul, or is it a great soul?. There are lots of facts about gandhi has been buried alive by Indians, especially casteist Indians as well as the state that portrays gandhi as some kind of a demi-god or the representative of the nation of India, while so many great men and woman who fought for India's freedom and nation building leaders are long forgotten and trashed by the same procrastinators of India.

Most ironic of the Indians behavior is to ban or hurt someone who give them messages, they will kill the messenger once and for all, it is the tradition of thousands of years of attitudes of Indians. As the author claims in this "Hindu Daily News", not a single person had any opportunity to even look at the Book, let alone reading it.

This is the heights of a society that every heresay can lead to ban a book, arrest a person or put an innocent in Jail, there is no law and there is no rights, ofcourse there is no freedom in India. Any time there is a book or movie or some critical analysis of hindu religious books or figures or people like gandhi, the immediate reaction of the state and the people is to Ban, Ban...Ban....the Most Undemocratic and utterly Pathological mindset never seen in any other nation, is India. Oh it is gandhi's India you see, the truth will set Free was the "mantra" gandhi used to dupe the people, actually, the Truth about gandhi is beating him so hard, several decades after his death, the truth still haunts gandhi and his procrastinators. 

UPA government not to ban book on GandhijiSmita GuptaAuthor's condemnationCondemning the idea of a ban, Mr. Lelyveld was quoted earlier this week as saying, “In a country that calls itself a democracy, it is shameful to ban a book that no one has read, including the people who are doing the banning. They should at least make an effort to see the pages that they think offend them before they take such an extreme step.”
Giving strength to the line now taken by the UPA government is the fact that intellectuals and relatives of Mahatma Gandhi have opposed a ban, saying that it would not be a “democratic response.”

The Gandhi none of us knew
by Rev. Irene Monroe
Bay Windows Contributor
Wednesday Mar 30, 2011

It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India. The bevy of hagiographies written about him is now being replaced with truth-telling biographies about the Gandhi nobody knew.

The most recent one is titled Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld.

And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.

BY PAM LOBLEY, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM,  NOW THAT'S FUNNY

Joseph Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, has new book out about Mahatma Gandhi. In the book, he hints at a homosexual relationship between Gandhi and a German man, Herman Kallenbach.The book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, has been banned in a western state of India. Other parts of India are considering the ban as well.

Call to boycott book on Gandhi

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: P. Parameswaran, director of Bharateeya Vichara Kendram, has called for a social boycott of a book on Mahatma Gandhi written by Joseph Lelyveld.

Gandhi

Gandhi: great soul or asshole?

(This Blog article written by Jenni is copied from her website and posted here).

by Jenni   One Google of “Gandhi” shows how enamored the world is with him. “Gandhi, five stars,” “Gandhi, non-violence,” “Gandhi, Time's Top 100.” He is hailed as a virtual saint. Over 500 biographies and movies have been made about him. He is presented as being anti-racist, anti-colonialist, non-violent, tolerant, devoted to family and overall someone that we should learn from. The Great Soul, he is called. One site touts that if we will read Gandhi we will, “at every turn, open our eyes in admiration and reverence.”

The truth is far different from this rosy picture the Indian government and others would sell to us. His writing is comprised of numerous volumes and his thoughts are not consistent.
Although Gandhi writes, “I believe implicitly that all men are born equal. All — whether born in India or in England or America,” Gandhi was not really anti-racist. Not only was he a Hindu, with all the caste system implications that came with it, but he was really only concerned with racism as directed at the upper classes of Hindu caste, of which he was a member. He was also very racist towards the blacks of South Africa. On September 26, 1896, Gandhi wrote, “Ours is one continued struggle sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

Then in September of 1903, Gandhi said, “We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do …. by advocating the purity of all races.” In fact he felt so strongly that the Indians should be classed with the whites not the Kaffirs, he organized a brigade of Indians to help put down a Zulu uprising. In 1931, he fasted as protest to a British proposal to grant rights to Untouchables, the lowest of the castes, also known as Dalits. No, Gandhi was no friend to the lower classes. He once told a Dalit who had graduated to not “take up” a white collar job.

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INDIA:- Indian Govt & Developmental Terrorism!.

Amit Bhaduri's recent Book "The Face you were Afraid to See" talks about Indian govt's utter failures and policies that did not make a damn difference in 80% of Indians lives?. The book review is published in Hindu news paper?,  

Market mind-control  by ARVIND SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

The Most conservative and reputed Indian news paper "Hindu" says, the govt and policies did not help grow the real India but few rich pockets. We all know about that but calling the whole of India's economic and market progress is a "Developmental Terrorism of the State", is quite interesting coming from Hindu news paper, and as a matter of fact, it is true.

In effect, the very term ‘development' is being restricted to mean only the development of shopping-mall India, not the Other India, where over eight hundred million people have purchasing power of less than Rs.20 a day.
Beautifying cities means dumping slum-dwellers in badly-built estates far from their previous homes, schools, shops, and places of work. 


Growth means throwing landless labourers off lands they have tilled for generations, because still-valid colonial legislation gives the state, and in particular the State governments, powers to annex land merely by declaring that the annexation is for a public purpose, without ever specifying, much less justifying, the purpose. In effect, the State governments rush to submit themselves to private corporations in what Bhaduri calls “competitive servitude”. 


But only poor people get thrown off the land, in a form of systematic caste-war; 40 per cent of those thus dispossessed are Dalits and adivasis. This is not development but developmental terrorism.