Opinion Tamil takeover
Allegations of religious conversions by the church have been a key part of the RSSs arsenal
Tamil takeover
Allegations of religious conversions by the church have been a key part of the RSSs arsenal. Now,the Sangh weekly,Organiser claims Christian missionaries have intensified their efforts in Tamil Nadu. A front-page article says the church,with political support,is attempting to spread the theory that Tamils were a separate race and that a popular Hindu cult there,Saiva Siddhantam,was an early version of Christianity. After successfully converting Indias northeast into a Christian-dominated region,the evangelists have now stepped up their work in the south, it says. The article refers to a book,Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines,which,it says,explains the elaborate plans of the missionaries hatched decades ago,with the arrival of the early soul harvesters from the West. It adds: The history of Tamil Nadu has been twisted beyond imagination by these academic religious men,who in the guise of serving the Tamil language have invented a new version,according to which,Thiruvalluvar who lived during the Sangam period (the BC era) was influenced by St Paul,who is supposed to have visited Tamil Nadu around 2nd century AD.
It says the separate Dravidian race theory was first articulated by Bishop Robert Caldwell,who claimed Dravidians were the original inhabitants of the south and were cheated by the Aryan Brahmins. G.U. Pope,who translated a sacred Hindu text,Thiruvasagam,proposed the theory that Christianity and Saiva Siddhantam were similar. Recently,it says,a highly endorsed work of evangelist propaganda,India is a Christian Nation,builds upon the foundations of Caldwell and Pope to reinterpret Tamil spirituality as a part of Christianity. The book,it says,is part of a global network working on a three-pronged strategy to dismember India,using religion,violence and social fissures Islamic radicalism with Pakistan as the epicentre,Naxalism with Chinese support and the caste-communal conflicts fuelled by the West.
Going nuclear
The Organiser editorial says the motive behind the UPAs determination to go ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear power project despite severe local opposition and warnings from scientists is questionable. It says the technology and reactors that will be used at Jaitapur are untried. France,which sold India this technology,does not have one,nor do any of the other Western nations where nuclear power potential has been tapped for years. The location of the project is the ecologically sensitive Sahyadris in the Western Ghats. India had applied to UNESCO for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme status for the Western Ghats in 2006. It says: This part of the country is densely populated. According to a report of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences,the government of India has not been fully transparent with its citizens… We have to halt to the Jaitapur project,reassess it and go ahead with it only when it is safe,sound and sensible.
Court of opinion
An article in Panchjanya about Binayak Sens bail questions the double standards of NGOs and activists,saying these so-called civil society groups and individuals hailed the Supreme Courts decision to grant bail,but the same people had raised questions when a lower court had handed down a sentence to him and three others earlier. It says tempers had run high when the Bilaspur high court had not granted him relief.
For such secular intellectuals and so-called human rights activists,no matter the logic,circumstances or evidence,it is justice if bail is granted and injustice if punishment is meted out,says the article. It says there is not an iota of doubt that there is evidence regarding Sen helping Naxals. It adds abetting the activities of Naxals is clearly sedition,and the fact remains Sen has not been given a clean chit,and nor has the governments evidence been disproved.
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