From: arun@sun1.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Arun Achyuthan)
Subject: Propaganda? (Re: The Hindu Digest)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:06:07 GMT

Looks as if the propaganda machinery of The Hindu Digest has spread
its tentacles to a.c.k. as well. Let us see how many "lies" they
tell in one article.

In article <Bzztrx.4Ix@ucunix.san.uc.edu> editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu (digest editor) writes:
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>From: kak@max.ee.lsu.edu (Dr. S. Kak)
>Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:21:33 CST
>Subject: The Roots of the Recent Violence in India
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>The Roots of the Recent Violence in India
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> by  Subhash Kak
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>More recently the leftist Janata party, has developed its entire
>political agenda on quotas based on caste divisions.  V.P. Singh,
>who was prime minister during 1989-90 used the recommendations of
>a certain Mandal Commission to announce reservations for more than
>70 percent of all jobs.  This triggered a wave of suicides by the
 ^^

70%? Has Dr. Kak provided an extra 20.5% in addition to V.P. Singh's
49.5%?

>youth that finally brought down his government.  Nevertheless in
    
What brought down the government was the Ayodhya incident in 1990,
though the decision to implement Mandal report weakened V.P. Singh government.

>the campaign that followed leading politicians like Rajiv Gandhi
>and V.P. Singh spoke of their support for further quotas, some even
>based on religion.
>

Note that this person does not mention the name of Advani, though BJP
was also very much in support of the quotas.

>Most recently the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government has passed a bill
>that would reserve close to 60 percent of all jobs based on different
>criteria related to circumstances of birth rather than fitness to
>perform the job.  

Fitness to perform a job? Very deceiving indeed.

>The logic of the quotas is to right a historical wrong.  The leftist
>parties in India have exploited the rhetoric of these wrongs and
>of caste bashing to hold on to their electoral support.
>

This person is again silent on the "historical righting" acts of
BJP, VHP, RSS, SS, etc.

>There is a feeling that the Congress party will not maintain power
>too long because of the international collapse of the socialist
>model of economy, which was at the heart of the party's policies.
>What we witness then is a bitter fight between the left and the
>right for the heart of India.

Looks like Dr. Kak is impervious to the reforms made by Manmohan Singh & Co.

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>An asymmetric law
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>*Repeal the law that bars the Hindus from running their schools and
> colleges.

Hindus barred from running schools and colleges? What about the schools and
colleges run by Chinmaya Mission, Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission etc.?

>
>In addition the press in India should be encouraged to develop an
>editorial convention to stop the incessant airing of historical
>injustices.  Bashing of any community and class should be made into
>a statutory offence.

I.e., gag the press to suit the needs of the majority, is it not?

Arun Achyuthan