The Great Indian Emergency

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
                                                                                                                                        Doug Larson

"'Foreign' hand behind Anna Hazare's anti-graft movement, the Congress" Times of India 17th August '11 - was the take of Congress over the gruesome yet peaceful protests by the Gandhian. 4 decades back another Gandhian Jayaprakash Narayan(popularly known as JP) protested over the increasing malevolence inside the Congress and its repercussions(JP movement). The same words were spoken by the then Prime Minister of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi and was described as the handiwork of external forces.
The year was 1971. India was as colourful and frolic as it is. Indira Gandhi won the election (the same year) by record margins. The opposition on the other hand did accuse them of malpractices in elections. Raj Narayan lodged a case against the PM for using state vehicles for election purposes at the Allahabad Court.
India was going through a lot the same time --> The Indo-Pak war, The Global Oil crisis. The illiteracy levels to farmers suicide –all were at a boom after 24 years of independence. The worst struck state of Bihar started satyagrahas to protest aginst the same under Jayaprakash Narayan(Gandhian and Marxist). Indira Gandhi already tarnished her public image by minting her “face-coins”. Meanwhile ,JP’s movement gained nationwide recognition.JP gathered hundred of thousands of people at the Ramila Grounds to rebuke the present government actions.
On 12^th June 1975, Allahabad high court justice Jaganmohanlal sinha found the prime minister guilty on the charge of misuse of state vehicles for her election campaign. The court declared her election null and unseated her from her seat in Lok Sabha. The court also banned her from contesting any election for an additional six years. The Times described it as 'firing the Prime Minister for a traffic ticket (it is a notice by law enforcement official to a road user for violating the traffic laws)'.Mrs. Indira Gandhi was in lot of trouble as the Lower-House lost confidence in her , thus passed a no-confidence motion.25^th June 1975 was the day the “no-confidence motion” was passed and the 26^th June was when she was to resign.

President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a State of Emergency upon the advice of the Prime Minister on 26th June 1975, bringing the democracy "to a grinding halt". All opposition leaders including JP were arrested over-nite. Fundamental rights were withheld along with the power of press. She amended the Representation of the People Act and two other laws in such a retrospective manner to ensure that the Supreme Court had no other option but to overturn the Allahabad High Court verdict. When she felt the existing laws were too slow, she utilized the President to issue "extraordinary laws" (Ordinances) that bypassed Parliament altogether, allowing her to rule by decree. Many newspapers didn’t have the courage to defy the censorship, except a few like The Indian Express. On June 28^th of the same year, The Indian Express carried a blank first editorial and the Financial Express reproduced in large type Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high” concluding with the prayer “Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.” Also, she had little trouble in making amendments to the constitution that exonerated her from any culpability in her election fraud case, declaring President's Rule in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu where anti-Indira parties ruled (state legislatures were thereby dissolved and suspended indefinitely), and jailing thousands of opponents.

Accusations of the Emergency-era may be grouped as:

• Detention of people by police without charge or notification of families. According to Amnesty international lakhs of people protesting were killed and some 1.4 lakhs arrested.
• Abuse and torture of detainees and political prisoners. The famous Ranjan Case in which Ranjan an engineering student of Regional Engineering College was arrested by kerela police on March 1, 1976 and tortured to dead later to be disposed.
• Use of public and private media institutions, like the national television network Doordarsan, for propaganda.
• Forced sterilization of men and women under the family planning initiative. Indira's son, Sanjay Gandhi, was blamed for this forcible treatment of people.
• Destruction of the slum and low-income housing in the Turkmen Gate and Jama Masjid area of old Delhi.
• Large scale and illegal enactment of laws (including modifications to the Constitution) which shifted the country towards socialism.

This terrifying ordeal ended in January 23^rd 1977 after the president dissolved the Lok Sabha. The Janata Party won full majority in the elections. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai became the first non-Congress party Prime Minister of India. In popular culture the smell of those murky days still linger. Satyajit Ray’s timeless classic Hirak Rajar Deshe was a satire on the Emergency.

Source: Internet and Aaj Tak(watched an documentary there on the emergency of 1975)

Thanking the Reader Munai "Venom" Das Udasin

An Atheists Manifesto

GOD...if you go for the defination then it is the ultimate "super power" that controls every laws of physics, cellular reactions of biology 'nd geological wind systems. He is single-handedly responsible of the existence of the universe 'nd most importantly us. Now we the "His creations" do various wenny little things to have Him happy; 'nd thus don't bestow unfortunate luck upon us.

Hindu worships in temples,Muslims have there namaj, Christians to there churchs.Myself being a sceptic, find all of these bereft of logical grounds.Sadly we live in a world in which obvious is always veil by matter of principle. And what is obvious is argued; an atheist does the thankless job to present to you the "obvious".

World population is divided into three categories:-

1. Theist
2. Weak Atheist
3. Atheist

Weak Atheist are those ambivalent people who feel what ever I would speak from now is all correct but still will pray GOD....say at the time of examination....that is when they feel presence of GOD...or to be specific the need of GOD :) Whereas, Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Well, let me have a observation in Homo sapiens that created the Creator. Human nature has 2 parts a positive part 'nd a negative one. Positive in the sensejudging different patterns of the world. Positive part is the one giving us the biological energy needed to get pass every hurdle that merciful life provide us.This goes on decreasing with every year of our life passes 'nd every unsuccessful attempt to pass the hurdles.Older persons for that reasons are more of a worshiper then we the young.

So what is your problem ?why are u interfering with my beliefs?

And I say i have no problem with your beliefs. But i do have problems that your out of this world belief can cause. This concept of Creator has cut into pieces the whole world. Men of same blood, scientifically the same race Homo sapiens are being differentiated as

"U r a Christians 'nd i hate them...!!!"...knowing not he is a good person or not......

In India the Hindu-Muslim clashes causing so many a lives are all fought on the basis of a non-existence GOD who controls everything(even whatever i am typing against him...strange :\).

This goes for the GOD, did He quiet delibrately made all the happen?What was the omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate GOD doing as the blood of so called Hindus and Muslim mingled?

Only atheist has the courage to admit the obvious; these poor people were under the influence of an imaginary friend(...must bounder or knave is exists anyway.....) and died fighting for Him.

Guess what the religious people will still say..."their past life woes met the the end they deserved"....Let us see now; GOD almighty is omnipotent and controls our action. Then he controlled our past life too.So it again comes back to Him.

Remember the partion of India was all due "Muslims getting less preference in a Hindu majority nation....". So GOD playing a part here too.....So THANK YOU GOD......

All of you put your hand on your heart and ask "Does GOD really exists?".....and u will get the answer.....