Post by RickSanchez on Apr 11, 2017 18:08:59 GMT
Liberals these days are being branded as anti-nationals and not in line with the nation’s interests. Can you not be a liberal and also be pro-nation?
The problem is that I don’t know what is liberal and what is left-liberal. There are a bunch of people who like to sip the best Scotch in Delhi Gymkhana and call themselves left-liberal. What is left-liberal? If you’re a leftist, you can’t be a liberal. If you’re a liberal, you can’t be a leftist. I think these people who go around are usually sons and daughters of bureaucrats, politicians and diplomats who have lived a very privileged life. They operate out of a five-kilometre zone that is centred in Chanakyapuri. They call themselves the left-liberals of India. They are lying. They have no connection with the people of this country. They live in big houses in Vasant Vihar; they have super luxury lifestyles, largely subsidised by previous governments. The change in government has taken away these privileges from them, and they’re feeling uprooted from their life of privilege. If these people are the liberals of India, I would say it’s an expensive way to subsidise liberalism in India. To be a true liberal is to understand the pain of the people of India.
To be a true liberal is to do stories and reporting that talk about the pain of the people of this country. Not to sit in India International Centre and do ooh-la-la champagne parties and talk about how India and Pakistan should come together. That’s very fake. To be a true liberal is to ask why people in India still don’t get enough to eat; why Muslim women can be divorced on WhatsApp with triple talaq; why is someone not allowed to enter temples. To be a true liberal is to ask questions of the corrupt. During the Commonwealth Games scam, some news media companies — and I suggest you do some investigation on this, because one TV news channel that calls itself very liberal was taking money from the organisers of the Commonwealth Games. While I was exposing the Commonwealth Games scam and Suresh Kalmadi and taking on the Congress, another news channel was doing paid for — paid for — stories that were subsidised by the CWG, and how great a job the Commonwealth Games was, and how fantastic it was for the country. These people call themselves liberal; I call them compromised.
My definition of liberal also means that I do believe that you need to be pro-army and pro-country. People say if you are pro-army and pro-country, you become right-wing. In that case, I strongly suggest that 100 per cent of India should become right-wingers. This section that calls itself left-liberal is a very, very, very small section. They have not worked their way up in this country. I have. People like me have come from normal middle-class backgrounds and worked our way up. I’m ready to take on these children of privilege right now, and they’re feeling extremely threatened. I intend to do a little bit more. I don’t believe in this concept of liberalism. In no country do people talk about liberalism as much as they talk about it in India.
Is it liberal to denigrate Bhagat Singh and call him a terrorist? There’s a book on Indian history curated by three people, including Bipan Chandra and Mridula Mukherjee, which uses the word ‘terrorist’ to describe Bhagat Singh. Now if you ask these people questions, then these liberals would not have answers. They don’t like me asking these questions. Bhagat Singh was described as a terrorist because the Gandhi family did not want the attention to go away from Jawaharlal Nehru. So, Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh and all these people were considered to be terrorists. And Nehru was considered to be the saviour of the Indian National Congress. This history was written by a bunch of co-opted historians who were then given big positions and professorships in government universities. There was nepotism that was going around between these people. I have, over the last three to four years, started asking very straightforward questions to these people. This is also the award wapsi gang, who did not return the awards when 1984 happened. When Sikhs were butchered, they didn’t return their awards because Congressmen were involved in that. Suddenly they have developed their conscience after Narendra Modi comes into power. There are deep hypocrisies and contradictions that I’m exposing of these so-called liberals. To be a liberal is not bad, but to be a fake liberal, to be a pseudo-liberal or a left-liberal is questionable.
The problem is that I don’t know what is liberal and what is left-liberal. There are a bunch of people who like to sip the best Scotch in Delhi Gymkhana and call themselves left-liberal. What is left-liberal? If you’re a leftist, you can’t be a liberal. If you’re a liberal, you can’t be a leftist. I think these people who go around are usually sons and daughters of bureaucrats, politicians and diplomats who have lived a very privileged life. They operate out of a five-kilometre zone that is centred in Chanakyapuri. They call themselves the left-liberals of India. They are lying. They have no connection with the people of this country. They live in big houses in Vasant Vihar; they have super luxury lifestyles, largely subsidised by previous governments. The change in government has taken away these privileges from them, and they’re feeling uprooted from their life of privilege. If these people are the liberals of India, I would say it’s an expensive way to subsidise liberalism in India. To be a true liberal is to understand the pain of the people of India.
To be a true liberal is to do stories and reporting that talk about the pain of the people of this country. Not to sit in India International Centre and do ooh-la-la champagne parties and talk about how India and Pakistan should come together. That’s very fake. To be a true liberal is to ask why people in India still don’t get enough to eat; why Muslim women can be divorced on WhatsApp with triple talaq; why is someone not allowed to enter temples. To be a true liberal is to ask questions of the corrupt. During the Commonwealth Games scam, some news media companies — and I suggest you do some investigation on this, because one TV news channel that calls itself very liberal was taking money from the organisers of the Commonwealth Games. While I was exposing the Commonwealth Games scam and Suresh Kalmadi and taking on the Congress, another news channel was doing paid for — paid for — stories that were subsidised by the CWG, and how great a job the Commonwealth Games was, and how fantastic it was for the country. These people call themselves liberal; I call them compromised.
My definition of liberal also means that I do believe that you need to be pro-army and pro-country. People say if you are pro-army and pro-country, you become right-wing. In that case, I strongly suggest that 100 per cent of India should become right-wingers. This section that calls itself left-liberal is a very, very, very small section. They have not worked their way up in this country. I have. People like me have come from normal middle-class backgrounds and worked our way up. I’m ready to take on these children of privilege right now, and they’re feeling extremely threatened. I intend to do a little bit more. I don’t believe in this concept of liberalism. In no country do people talk about liberalism as much as they talk about it in India.
Is it liberal to denigrate Bhagat Singh and call him a terrorist? There’s a book on Indian history curated by three people, including Bipan Chandra and Mridula Mukherjee, which uses the word ‘terrorist’ to describe Bhagat Singh. Now if you ask these people questions, then these liberals would not have answers. They don’t like me asking these questions. Bhagat Singh was described as a terrorist because the Gandhi family did not want the attention to go away from Jawaharlal Nehru. So, Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh and all these people were considered to be terrorists. And Nehru was considered to be the saviour of the Indian National Congress. This history was written by a bunch of co-opted historians who were then given big positions and professorships in government universities. There was nepotism that was going around between these people. I have, over the last three to four years, started asking very straightforward questions to these people. This is also the award wapsi gang, who did not return the awards when 1984 happened. When Sikhs were butchered, they didn’t return their awards because Congressmen were involved in that. Suddenly they have developed their conscience after Narendra Modi comes into power. There are deep hypocrisies and contradictions that I’m exposing of these so-called liberals. To be a liberal is not bad, but to be a fake liberal, to be a pseudo-liberal or a left-liberal is questionable.
