Varanasi is as old as Indus valley civilization, finds IIT-KGP study

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey | Feb 25, 2016, 11.49 PM IST

Kolkata: It's a perfect example of science meeting faith and technology buttressing myth. A detailed study conducted by IIT-Kharagpur - using GPS, one of the latest tech tools - could well turn the clock back on Varanasi, indicating that the holy town has been a continuous human settlement since the days of the Indus Valley Civilization, around 6000 years ago.

The project, funded by the Union ministry of human resources development (it has released Rs 20 crore just for the first phase), has even attracted the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM made it a point to explore the project's progress on Sunday at Varanasi, when he met the IIT-Kgp faculty members and inquired about its possibilities and scope.

The results that have come from a detailed geo-exploration (exploration conducted through GPS technology) conducted by seven IIT-Kgp departments, tracing the different stages through which civilization progressed, and how Varanasi has been able to maintain continuity as a living civilization, unlike comparable seats of human settlement in the world. The researchers have dug 100-metre-deep boring holes all over Varanasi to conclude that there is evidence of continuous settlement at least till 2000BC. There are enough indications that by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.

The oldest part of this civilisation has been traced to the Gomati Sangam area of Varanasi, as indicated by the underground layers that have already been tested.

It is perhaps time to take a re-look at India's history. IIT Kharagpur is about to make an explosive announcement. It is ready to put the clock 6000 years back on Varanasi, bringing it at par with the Indus valley civilisation, if not older. What's more, the seven departments of IIT Kgp, that are working on the project, are tracing the different stages through which the civilisation has progressed and has yet been able to maintain its continuity as a living civilisation, unlike comparable ancient civilisations around the world.

The project, which is completely funded by the union ministry of human resources development, has attracted the attention of none less than Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who made it a point to explore its progress on Sunday at Varanasi, when he met the IIT Kgp faculty members and inquired about the possibilities and the scope of the project.

The results that have come from a detailed geo exploration through the GPS conducted through 100 metre deep bore holes all over Varanasi shows continuous settlement history till 2000 BC. The indicators are that at the end of data collection, this will be put back another '1500 years to establish the final habitable antiquity of Varanasi at 4500 BC.

The geo-exploration, that is being conducted jointly with the British Geological Survey, has already established the existence of Naimisharanya, a forest that finds mention in the Vedas and in the Kashipurana. This forest was considered mythological all these years.

The researchers are also trying to set up a riverine route from Kolkata to Varanasi to Prayag (Allahabad). "Since ancient times, people used this route but the advent of the railways stopped it. We are trying to re-establish that route," said Joy Sen, a senior faculty member of the school of architecture and planning, who is also the chief of the project that has been christened Sandhi. The other departments that are involved in sandhi are humanities and social sciences, computer science, information technology, electrical, electronics and telecommunications and oceanography. The riverine route will be developed to carry tourists, said sources.

Separate heritage trails leading to the five oldest ghats - Asi, Kedar, Dasashwamedh, Panchaganga and Rajghat - are also being created. "We are tracing the ashrams of ancient yogis and spiritual leaders of all religions that dotted the lanes leading to the ghats. Some of these are extinct now, some dilapidated. We will reclaim and restore as much as possible," Sen explained.

A large part of the project, which began in August last year, aims at creating a green rim and reclaiming the greenery and waterbodies that dotted the entire zone from Sarnath to the campus of Benares Hindu University. Efforts are on to remove encroachment and illegal constructions so that the earlier ecosystem is reclaimed as far as possible. "Varanasi has been the seat of all religions and their holy men, who will all be represented elaborately in the project. Efforts are also being made to establish special zones in areas that are dominated by old age homes and shelters for widows," Sen added.

Language, music and iconograohy play a major role in Sandhi. Old texts like Kashipuran or Skandapuran, Mahabharata and Ramayana and the Buddhist text Anguttaranikaya are being re-read for descriptions of Kashi and Kashiraj that were considered mythological all these years.

"We are encountering surprises every day. What was thought to be lore or myth is gradually getting established as history, and that is our biggest achievement," Sen said.

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The MHRD is completely funding the project and has already released Rs 20 crores for it.

Audio transcript of discussion with S Gurumurthy on Quantitative Easing

America which introduces more cash into system is to finance largely imports at the consumption level but in Japan it is quantitative using is to promote exports they do export financing. For example Abe govt (Japan Government) decides that they would pump in $50 billion a month over the next 18 months.

They will finance the Japanese corporate for their exports, in which let us assume Japanese govt. insists on 60% of the exports to be funded from Japan that is the import content of a project of say in Bombay-Delhi corridor, if they say 60% of the export from Japan and they finance this 60% so they convert this inflation into income without affecting the local economy, so the most important thing is you export your currency virtually.

This is because Japanese is savings driven economy but in America same may not work as it is a consumption driven economy, there you are financing consumption, here you are financing exports, which add to GDP, there you are financing consumption in imports which reduces the GDP so there is a huge difference.

How do you see the Quantitative Easing in Europe?

Quantitative Easing in Europe is again because of the weakening of the society which places burden on the state. Most of the economies except Germany weighed down by the enlightenment aged progressing into atomization of families and society. So state dependency is increased; so in 2006, there was a paper circulated in European Union where they discussed this issue, what is happening because they can’t discuss very directly just as you can’t discuss secularism in India, you can’t discuss limitations on individual rights, nobody has the guts & these is no leadership but China can do it, Japan can, even Russia can do it, none of these Anglo Saxon countries or Continental Europe can do it because they just don’t have the intellectual leadership which can take on present situation as they discuss in a very subtle manner how the families and communities has weaken in the process burden on government has increased.

The government is no more able to discharge the burden. They will be citing Scandinavian countries which are just nothing (in size), they are not even half the cities of India. So this is actually a State-Society imbalance in bearing responsibilities which is reflecting in economies. It is the western economies which are now failing and they are trying to correct it within the scope of system which is not going to work unless a very large part of responsibility is given back to the society and the family which they will say is republican approach. It is not correct having destroyed the family you can not hand over responsibility to weaken the family if you have to recreate the family. What you need is not economy, you need culture, tradition, religion which you don’t have and you need reverence. Modernity actually targets reverence. Actually there should be no reverence for anybody and there is a lot of study on all of these individually.

Paul Woodruff has written a book titled Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. How everybody is equal teacher and students are equal, parents and wards are equal he says, a huge economical consequences this affects propensity to savings, it affects the type of savings whether equity or fixed rate of return so all these are now to be read into economics. So the only Asian can probably re interpret the economics. it is not possible for Europe. May be America will be able to do it because very large part of America even today is religious.

Sree Iyer

This is what you call middle part of the country; i. e. in terms of the economy what it contributes is overall economy is probably is 20%. This is Pareto principle (80:20) the thing is West Coast and East Coast are the ones that are the engines of America, the middle not so much. If you look at really where the productivity of America happens is usually on the coasts.

Gurumurthy

No, I am not talking about economy, I am talking about sustainability. Sustainability of life model is very different from the contribution you measure in economic terms. So that in respect I believe normative living is the only way economy will sustain. There is no normative living, there is regulated living. Normative living is something which is generated by society, family without the intervention of formal system. Formal system is regulatory, so I think ultimately you have got to align normative life style which we call “Dharma”. Where there is self restraint, nobody restrains from enjoying, you restrain yourself. Modernity says you go out and enjoy, who are you? Who is anybody to question you? These are 2 different paradigms even if they tell we don’t do it that is a sustaining the fact you go out and enjoy the world, the world is open to you for enjoying it. This is the basis of modern economics but why you are not doing it?

Sree Iyer

As a rule it was true… One thing is over last 5-10 years small changes are happening… i. e. if a student is going to college for studies, the student loan debt is so high that he/ she doesn’t have a realistic way of paying back that and then start saving to buy a house. So what is happening amongst all families now is that these students are beginning to come back and live with their parents after they do their under graduate education because there is no other source, in a way it is forced upon them. I am not saying it is true for everybody but there is a trend towards that.

Gurumurthy

These are all marginal developments, how many American students are going for higher studies that is percentage of students going for higher studies?

Sree Iyer

Right now everybody has to do an under grad degree rather bachelors degree. One : Two – That is I would say 50% and the other one which misses out are the single families, minorities or where there are immigrants who have just come in so they are not able to get into the system and so on and so forth. This is still one of the highest numbers in terms of people applying to go for under grad education that is going up.

Gurumurthy

See, there are only 28% of American families having husband and wife living with children “Only 28%”. About 21% couples living without children. Parent family is about 20-21% and balance is all……

If you see the rise of single parent families and children and couples with children there is inverse proportion. One is going up and other is going down. See what will happen after 30 years so ultimately if you say single parent families are unable to educate their children’s single parent family are rising. Can you prove it in economics?

Sree Iyer

They get a lot of breaks, though in the sense if you show aptitude the state underwrites a lot of education.

Gurumurthy

So again, it means you are putting burden on the state. See basically you don’t have a self restraining mechanism which says I will sacrifice for my child unless the parent thinks like that it is burden on the state. Unless the child thinks like that, the burden is on state. So how are you going to generate that spirit that is my duty to take care of their house. You can destroy it but cannot recreate it. This is what I think is going to be a terminal issue in the western model f what is known as “A Methodological Individualism” which is foundation of efficient market theory. The problem is with that you are measuring efficient market theory on the paradigm which is failing.

Sree Iyer

What is your outlook on Indian economy in next 4-5 years? How do you see it progressing?

Gurumurthy

See, India will rise because Indian Entrepreneur spirit is on rise. I am not talking about educated entrepreneurship. India is a paradigm of a Uneducated employer and educated employee. Go to Tiruppur, Ludhiana, Patiala etc.., out of 35% largest exporters one half of them is less than 5th standard.

Sree Iyer

I completely believe you, I studied in Hyderabad in Agarwal High School where attendance at school was optional but attendance at shop was mandatory. 3’0 clock after the class we had to go to the shop for collection.

Gurumurthy

RKR institution campus with 30000 students is owned by a person who is 8th standard pass but he is making business out of education

Sree Iyer

Sometimes I think, not educated also helps because you don’t worry about lot of other things that might go wrong

Gurumurthy

You become insecure if you are educated unless you have a fixed income.

Source: performancegurus

India Holds Bill Gates Accountable For His Vaccine Crimes

Christina England

October 5 2014

As Bill Gates faces a lawsuit for the illegal testing of tribal children in India, it appears that his crimes against humanity have finally caught up with him.

A recent report published by Health Impact News has reported that the Gates Foundation has found itself facing a pending lawsuit, due to an investigation that is being carried out by the Supreme Courts of India.

Health Impact News stated:

“While fraud and corruption are revealed on almost a daily basis now in the vaccine industry, the U.S. mainstream media continues to largely ignore such stories. Outside the U.S., however, the vaccine empires are beginning to crumble, and English versions of the news in mainstream media outlets are available via the Internet.

One such country is India, where the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and their vaccine empire are under fire, including a pending lawsuit currently being investigated by the India Supreme Court.” [1]

The Health Impact News article centered largely on a four-page report that was recently published by Economic Times India.

Eager to know more, I investigated their story and discovered that the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and two organizations funded by them, PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) and GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), have found themselves under fire, after a writ of petition originally submitted to the Supreme Court of India, by Kalpana Mehta, Nalini Bhanot and Dr. Rukmini Rao in 2012, was finally heard by the courts.

The petitioners submitting the petition stated:

“BMGF, PATH and WHO were criminally negligent trialling the vaccines on a vulnerable, uneducated and under-informed population school administrators, students and their parents who were not provided informed consent or advised of potential adverse effects or required to be monitored post-vaccination.” [2]

Young Tribal Girls Tested With HPV Vaccines

The Economic Times India published their report August 2014. They stated that in 2009, tests had been carried out on 16,000 tribal school children in Andhra Pradesh, India, using the human papiloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil.

According to the report written by KP Narayana Kumar, within a month of receiving the vaccine, many of the children fell ill and by 2010, five of them had died. A further two children were reported to have died in Vadodara, Gujarat, where an estimated 14,000 tribal children were vaccinated with another brand of the HPV vaccine, Cervarix, manufactured by GlaxoSmitheKline (GSK).

Shockingly, the report stated that many of the consent forms used to vaccinate the girls were signed “illegally,” either by the wardens from the hostels where many of the girls resided, or using thumbprints from illiterate parents.

This travesty was not discovered until a team of health activists from the non-government organization SAMA, an organization specializing in women’s health, decided to investigate what had been going on.

According to the report, they were shocked to discover that a total of 120 girls had been taken ill, suffering from a variety of symptoms, including “epileptic seizures, severe stomach aches, headaches and mood swings.”

The Economic Times stated:

“The Sama report also said there had been cases of early onset of menstruation following the vaccination, heavy bleeding and severe menstrual cramps among many students. The standing committee pulled up the relevant state governments for the shoddy investigation into these deaths.

It said it was disturbed to find that ‘all the seven deaths were summarily dismissed as unrelated to vaccinations without in-depth investigations …’ the speculative causes were suicides, accidental drowning in well (why not suicide?), malaria, viral infections, subarachnoid hemorrhage (without autopsy) etc.”

This information is even more shocking when you discover that the organization funding the study was none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who declared the project a total success.

Kumar wrote:

“According to the BMGF, the WHO, the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, and the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India have all recommended vaccination ‘as a proven and highly effective preventive measure for cervical cancer.’ The project used vaccines that are licensed in India and that have been administered safely around the world tens of millions of times, preventing countless cases of cervical cancer illness and death, ‘maintains a BMGF spokesperson in an emailed response (see GAVI & PHFI create incentives …’”

He continued:

“BMGF’s role in funding the controversial studies, however, has led to many healthcare activists in India voicing their apprehensions. ‘BMGF has to take full responsibility because PATH is funded by them. It is also unethical when people championing the cause of vaccines are the same ones who are also investing in vaccine development,’ said V Rukmini Rao, one of the activists who filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court in connection with the HPV vaccine studies.” [3]

Absolutely, and this is not the first time that these organizations have been caught illegally testing vaccines in developing countries.

Gates Foundation, WHO, PATH, GAVI, UNICEF Behind Chad Vaccine Disaster

In December 2012, in the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert, five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education.

These children were vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge. This vaccine was an unlicensed product still going through the third and fourth phases of testing.

Within hours, one hundred and six children began to suffer from headaches, vomiting, severe uncontrollable convulsions and paralysis. The children’s wait for a doctor began. They had to wait one full week for a doctor to arrive while the team of vaccinators proceeded to vaccinate others in the village.

When the doctor finally came, he could do nothing for the children. The team of vaccinators, upon seeing what had happened, fled the village in fear.

The original report written in a small, local newspaper called La Voix, the only newspaper to have published the original story, stated that forty children were finally transferred to a hospital in Faya and later taken by plane to two hospitals in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad.

After being shuttled around like cattle, many of these sick, weak children were finally dumped back in their village without a diagnosis and each family was given an unconfirmed sum of £1000 by the government. No forms were signed and no documentation was seen. They were informed that their children had not suffered a vaccine injury.

However, if this were true, why would their government award each family £1000 in what has been described as hush money?

The only mainstream news channel to have highlighted the plight of these poor children was a local channel called Tchad, which filmed footage of the then-Prime Minister of Chad visiting the children in hospital.

VacTruth has copies of both reports, along with medical and government documents.

Despite this evidence and VacTruth’s detailed and extensive coverage, including highlighting television footage, once again, the vaccine program was hailed a success. To watch videos reporting the story, see the references at the end of this article. [4] [5]

The groups involved with this project were PATH, WHO, UNICEF, and the Gates Foundation. During investigations, it was discovered that the whole project was being run by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In a press release, the Gates Foundation stated:

“MenAfriVac is a tremendous success story for the global health community. It is the first vaccine developed specifically for Africa, and it proves that global partnerships can develop and deliver high-quality, low-cost vaccines.

Ten years ago, we invested in the Meningitis Vaccine Project,  an innovative model that brought together PATH, the World Health Organization, African health ministers and the Serum Institute of India today, we celebrate the result: a modern vaccine selling for less than US 50 cents per dose with the potential to end Africa’s deadly meningitis epidemics.

We believe that vaccines are one of the best buys in global health. In January, Bill and Melinda Gates called on the global community to make this the Decade of Vaccines. There is no better way to launch this decade than with a new vaccine that will improve and save lives.” [6]

VacTruth can prove otherwise.

Government Inquiry Holds GAVI Accountable for Multiple Deaths

Despite the fact the Gates Foundation call vaccines “one of the best buys in global health,” a government inquiry in Pakistan has found the complete opposite.

In 2011, the Express Tribune published a story stating that:

“ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan.

The startling revelation is part of an inquiry report prepared by the Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC) on the working of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). The PMIC, headed by Malik Amjad Noon, has recommended that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani immediately suspend the administration of all types of vaccines funded by the GAVI.”

According to the Express Tribune, the main vaccinations in question were the polio vaccine and the 5-in-1 pentavelent vaccine, which were said to be responsible for the deaths and disability of a number of children in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Japan.

The vaccines were funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization (GAVI) an organization financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Program, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.

Writing on the official report, made exclusive to the newspaper, the Express Tribunestated:

“The report states, ‘The procured vaccines are not tested in laboratories to confirm their efficacy and genuineness. This leaves room for use of spurious and counterfeit vaccines.’” [7] (emphasis added)

If this is true, then once again the Gates Foundation has been linked to mass vaccination initiatives using untested, unsafe vaccinations.

The Gates Foundation and WHO Labeled Unethical by Medical Experts

In 2012, Ramesh Shankar Mumbai, an author writing for the Pharmabiz website, reported that two medical experts from India had accused the Gates Foundation and WHO of being unethical.

In his report, Mumbai stated that Dr. Neetu Vashisht and Dr. Jacob Puliyel of the Department of Pediatrics at St. Stephens Hospital in Delhi, wrote the following information in their report in the April issue of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.

“It was unethical for WHO and Bill Gates to flog this program when they knew 10 years back that it was never to succeed. Getting poor countries to expend their scarce resources on an impossible dream over the last 10 years was unethical.”

Pharmabiz.com reported that Dr. Vashisht and Dr. Puliyel had continued their report by stating:

“Another major ethical issue raised by the campaign is the failure to thoroughly investigate the increase in the incidence of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) in areas where many doses of vaccine were used. NPAFP is clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly.”

Pharmabiz.com continued:

“The authors noted that while India was polio-free in 2011, in the same year, there were 47500 cases of NPAFP. While data from India’s National Polio Surveillance Project showed NPAFP rate increased in proportion to the number of polio vaccine doses received, independent studies showed that children identified with NPAFP ‘were at more than twice the risk of dying than those with wild polio infection.’” [8]

The corruption and deceit by these organizations does not stop there.

The Gates Foundation Blamed for 10,000 Vaccine-Related Deaths

In 2013, yet another report named the Gates Foundation and GAVI as being responsible for multiple deaths using untested vaccinations on children from the developing world.

The report, published on the website Occupy Corporatism and written by Susanne Posel stated:

“It was found out through an investigation, that GAVI was using an untested vaccine; giving this dangerous vaccine to Pakistani children shows the lack of empathy associated with these organizations.

GAVI was blamed for the deaths of 10,000 children in Pakistan when they came in and administered polio vaccines that resulted in casualties.” [9]

As we know, GAVI is heavily funded by the Gates Foundation. [10]

So, what was the name of the organization that investigated GAVI and found them using untested polio vaccinations in Pakistan?

According to the Express Tribune article, which I referred to earlier in this article, it was none other than the Indian government, who, upon discovering the shocking truth, recommended the immediate suspension of the administration of all types of vaccines funded by GAVI. [7]

In a recent radio show hosted by Sallie O. Elkordy, Susanne Posel gave her frank and honest views on the whole sorry mess that we find ourselves in today.

Warning: This report is not for the faint-hearted. [11]

Conclusion

It is difficult to believe that, despite the mounting evidence outlining the many crimes against humanity that have been committed by the Gates Foundation, GAVI, UNICEF and PATH, Bill Gates is portrayed as a hero among many.

However, according to the definition of hero in the Oxford Dictionary, the word hero means:

“A person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” [12]

The dictionary I used said nothing about vaccinating innocent, vulnerable children with untested and unsafe vaccinations, causing them to suffer agonizing, untimely deaths.

Source: vactruth

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पिछले कुछ दिनों से लगातार देश के इलेक्ट्रॉनिक, प्रिंट और टीवी जैसे आम जनता तक पहुँच रखने वाले प्रजातंत्र के चौथे स्तंभ का प्रयोग देश की सुरक्षा सेनाओं के तीनों अंगों (थलसेना, वायु सेना और जल सेना) के भूतपूर्व सेवानिवृत सिपाहियों की एक रैंक एक पेंशन की शांतिपूर्ण माँग को भ्रमित कर कुछ सरकारी अधिकारी देश के आम नागरिकों और नेताओं को नाकि केवल गुमराह कर रहे है वरना सिपाहियों के खिलाफ दुष्प्रचार कर उन्हें बदनाम करने की साजिश कर रहे हैं. मेरा यह प्रयास है कि देशभक्त सैनिकों के साथ होने वाले अन्याय और नौकरशाहों की घिनोनी साज़िशों से भारत की सेना का सर्वोच्च सम्मान करने वाली जनता को सत्य से अवगत करवाना है.

भारत की शांति प्रिया जनता शायद इन तथ्यों से अवगत नहीं है कि किस तरह भारत के चंद नेताओं ने अपनी झूठी शान और आत्मग्लानि को पूरा करने के लिए सशस्त्र बलों को ना कि कमजोर किया बल्कि अपनी कुंठा को दूर करने के लिए देश औरसेना के साथ छल भी किया|

इतिहास के पन्नों से

15 अगस्त 1947; को जब भारतवासियों ने 1100 सालों की गुलामी के बाद आज़ादी पाई; तो पूरा भारत खुशी से झूम उठा;जहाँ भारत के सशस्त्रबलों (थलसेना, वायुसेना एवम् जलसेना) ने तिरंगे को सर्वोपरि रखकर देश की संप्रभुता एवम् अखंडता को बनाए रखने की शपथ ली; वहीं कुछ नेताओं और नौकरशाहों ने सेनाओं की निजी संप्रभुता को स्वार्थों के कारण अपने हाथों की कठपुतली बनाने की कोशिश की| जिसका पहला परिणाम 1954 में जम्मू और कश्मीर में सेना के उच्चाधिकारी और नेताओं के बीच होने वाली बहस का नतीजा था | इस सिपाही और नेता नौकरशाहों के टकराव के परिणाम देश के लिए बहुत ही घातक और सेना के प्रति नेताओं की घृणित सोच का जन्म हुआ| क्योंकि जहाँ एक तरफ जम्मू और कश्मीर के नेता नेहरू जी के बहुत करीबी थे वही दूसरी तरफ नेहरू जी का सेना के बारे में जानकारी की कमी भी मुख्य वजह रही है|

जब इस घटना का पता प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू जी को चला तो उन्होने नेताओं और नौकरशाहों का साथ देना उचित समझा और सेना की सर्वोच्चता के काल्पनिक भय की वजह से सेना को अपमानित करने की साज़िशों पर साजिशें रच डाली |असहज भय की वजह से कि कहीं सेना ज़्यादा मजबूत ना हो जाए; तो सेना को नीचा दिखाने और नेताओं तथा नौकरशाहों का गुलाम बनाने की साजिशें रचनी शुरू करदी |

इस साजिश के पहले परिणाम का पर्दाफाश तब हुआ जब नेहरू ने कृष्णा मेनन को रक्षामंत्री (17 April 1957 – 31 October 1962) नियुक्त किया | दुर्भाग्यवश वो कृष्णा मेनन जिसको रक्षा का क, ख, ग का पता नहीं था वो भारत के सेनाओं के प्रमुख बन गये और चमड़े के सिक्के चलाने लगे | नेहरू जी ने सेना के खिलाफ हर वो कदम उठाया जिससे हमारी सेनाओं को कमजोर किया जाय और उन्हें भारत माँ और भारतवासियों की सेवा ना कर नेताओं का गुलाम बनाया जा सके | प्रधानमंत्री नेहरू और कृष्णा मेनन की साजिश का पहला शिकार थलसेना अध्यक्ष जनरल के एस थींमईया बने जिन्होने 1959 में रक्षा मंत्री की ग़लत नीतियों के विरोध में सेना प्रमुख से त्यागपत्र दे दिया था. भले ही बाद में त्यागपत्र वापिस लिया ओर 1961 में सेवानिवृत हुए;  लेकिन सेना और नेताओं नौकरशाहों के बीच में मेनन ने कभी ना भरनेवाली अविश्वास की दरार डाल दी | जहाँ सेना पूरी सत्यनिष्ठा और देशभक्ति से ओतप्रोत हो कर देश सेवा में सदैव लगी रही; वहीं नेहरू और मेनन ने परोक्ष रूप से तो सेना का सम्मान का ढोंग किया और उसके विपरीत अपरोक्ष रूप से सशस्त्र बलों को नीचा दिखाने की साजिशें रची जाने लगीं | इसी दौरान नेहरू ने सभी राज्यपालों को सेना के उच्च अधिकारियों को देने वाले सम्मानों में शामिल ना करने की राजनीतिक चाल चली वो अभी भी कायम है |

सेना की छवि का पतन जो नेहरू की कुंठित मानसिकता से शुरू हुआ वो आज तक बदस्तूर जारी है | कृष्णा मेनन की बीमारू सोच का विनाशकारी परिणाम 1962 की भारत-चीन युध में भारतीय सेनाओं की प्रत्येक भारत-चीन सीमान्त इलाक़े में हुई लड़ाई का घातक परिणाम जवानो को अपना जीवन बलिदान देकर करना पड़ा | भारतीय सेना केवल नेहरू और मेनन जैसे नेताओं और नौकरशाहों की उपेक्षा का शिकार ही नहीं हो रही थी वहीं दूसरी तरफ युध के लिए ज़रूरी गोला-बारूद, हथियार और रसद आदि की भारी कमी की भी परेशानियों से जूझ रही थी | दुर्भाग्या से जितनी बार सेना ने मेनन को युध के लिए तैयारियों की कमी के बारे में बताया; वह एक रसोइए की तरह जवाब देता “जब ज़रूरत पड़ेगी तो समान लाकर खाना बना लेंगे” | ऐसे नेता, भारतीय सेनाओं को विरासत में मिले जो अच्छे प्रवक्ता और स्वार्थी अभिलाषी थे परंतु अपने ही देश की सेनाओं के प्रति डरी हुई घटिया सोच रखते थे |स्वर्गिया श्री जगन्नाथ बी ए ने कहा था "अगर नेहरू और मेनन की जोड़ी 1965 के भारत-पाक युध में होती तो इस बात में कोई शक नहीं कि आयूब ख़ान दिल्ली में ही नाश्ता करता" |

मेरे मन भी आज एक शंका है कि नेहरू को भारतीय सेनाओं से किस बात का डर था जो उन्होने सेना को नीचा दिखाने के प्रयास में लगभग पूरा लदाख ही चीन को गवाँ दिया होता?

क्या देशवासियों को पता है कि, अगर सेना में देशभक्ति और भारत माँ के लिए बलिदान का प्रेम और जनूंन ना होता तो चीन की सेनाओं को मौजूदा सीमा पर रोक पाना असंभव था परंतु यह बात ना नेहरू और ना मेनन ही समझे | हमारे सैनिक लड़ाई के हर सामान और रसद की अभूतपूर्व कमी के बावजूद अपने मोर्चों पर लड़ते लड़ते “भारत माता की जय” और “जय हिंद” के युधघोष करते हुए वीरगति को प्राप्त हो गये | बेशर्म नेता इन देशभक्त सिपाहियों का भी अपमान करने से नहीं हिचकिचाते; गद्दार कहीं के | हज़ारों भारतीय सिपाही नेताओं की मानसिक कुंठा और नफ़रत को जानते हुए भी देशवासियों और भारत माता की रक्षा के लिए हंसते हंसते अपने प्राणों का बलिदान कर वीरगति को प्राप्त हुए |

Wife of Soldier Kalpna Sharma candle march at India Gate 23 Aug 15

जय जवान जय किसान 

नेहरू की मृत्यु के पश्चात;  श्री लालबहादुर शास्त्रीजी ने देश के दूसरे प्रधानमंत्री बनने के बाद; भारतीय सशस्त्रबलों की ज़रूरतों पर ध्यान दिया | उन्होने नये रक्षा मंत्री यशवंतराव चौहान (14 November 1962 – 14 November 1966) को सेनाओं के पुनर्गठन में तेज़ी लाने की हिदायत दी | पाकिस्तान के हुक्मरानों ने 1962 भारत-चीन की लड़ाई से लेकर नेहरू की मृत्यु के समय तक हमारी सेना को एक कमजोर विरोधी के रूप में देखा | पाकिस्तान की इस सोच के पीछे अमरीका से लाए गये अत्याधुनिक सैनिक हथियार और टेंक थे जो हर तरह की लड़ाई में भारत की सेना के सामान से अच्छे थे| पाकिस्तान की और से युधस्तर की तैयारियों को ध्यान में रखकर हर संभव मदद दी जाए | शास्त्री जी ने पाकिस्तान की तरफ से की जाने वाली युध की तैयारियों की खबरो को ध्यान में रखते हुए सेना को लड़ाई के लिए ज़रूरी साजो सामान की व्यवस्था के आदेश भी दिए | इससे पहले की भारतीय सेना पूरी अपनी युध की तैयारी और युधाभ्यास में सॅक्ष्म हो पाती, पाकिस्तान ने 5 अगस्त 1965 को जम्मू और कश्मीर में आक्रमण कर दिया | इस विकट परस्थिति में भी भारतीय सेना ने पाकिस्तान को मुँहतोड़ जवाब दिया बल्कि 23 सितंबर 1965 युदविराम होने तक दुश्मन की बहुत सारे इलाक़े पर कब्जा कर लिया| एक बार फिर नेता और नौकरशाहों ने सेना के मनोबल को नीचा करने का काम किया और शास्त्री जी की मर्ज़ी के खिलाफ ज़्यादातर जीते हुए इलाक़े पाकिस्तान को लौटा दिए गये|  

शास्त्री जी जिन्होने सशस्त्र बलों; किसानों और भारतवासियों को आ नया नारा जय जवान ज़य किसान का नारा देकर अमर हो गये. क्या शास्त्री जी भारत के साथ होने वाले अन्याय को सहन नही कर पाए और आत्मग्लानि या किसी अन्य साजिश के तहत अपने प्राण बलिदान कर गये ||

सेनाओं का विपरीत परिस्थितियों में अदम्या साहस

भारतीय सेनाओं की अदम्या साहस और विपरीत परिस्थितियों में भी देश की सुरक्षा और अखंडता को बनाए रखने के अद्भुत योगदान को; जहाँ एक तरफ देशवासियों ने खूब सराह; वहीं दूसरी तरफ नेता और नौकरशाह; सेनाओं के खिलाफ छल, कपट और फरेब की नई-नई साजिशें रचने में लगे हुए थे | जबकि सब राजनीतिग और नौकरशाह जानते थे कि मजबूत और सूद्रढ सेना ही देश की सीमाओं की रक्षा बाहरी आक्रमणों से कर सकती है | पहले नेहरू और फिर इंदिरा गाँधी ने  नौकरशाहों के कहने पर सेना को कमजोर करने की चालें लगातार चली; जिससे सेना का मनोबल गिरे और नौकरशाह देश की भोली-भली जनता और देशवासियों को मुस्लिम हुक्मरानों की तरह बे-रोकटोक लूटते रहें और शासक बन कर छल की चालें चलते रहें | सन् 1970 का दशक आते-आते जब पाकिस्तान की फिर युध तैयारियों का पता चला तो सेना के उच्चाधिकारियों ने प्रधानमंत्री और रक्षामंत्री को भारतीय सेना की कमियों के बारे में अवगत कराया; तो काफ़ी समय बर्बाद करने के बाद नेता-नौकरशाह गठबंधन ने सेना को ज़रूरी युद्ध के सामान को प्राप्त करने का निर्णय दिया |

पाकिस्तान ने सन् 1971 (3 December 1971 to 16 December 1971) एक बार फिर भारत पर आक्रमण कर दिया और जम्मू कश्मीर से लेकर पूर्वी पाकिस्तान (मौजूदा बांग्लादेश) से लगी हर सीमा पर घुसपैठ शुरू करदी | भारतीय सेनाएँ एक बार फिर पुराने,बेकार और घटिया किस्म के सामान के लेकर सर्वोच्च मनोबल के साथ युध की तैयारी में लग गयी| थलसेना अध्यक्ष फील्ड मार्शल साम मानेक्शा के कुशल मार्ग दर्शन के नीचे भारतीय सेनाओं ने मात्र 16 दिनों में ही पाकिस्तान के पूर्वी हिस्से को काटकर नया इतिहास रचा और नये राष्ट्र बांग्लादेश को आज़ाद करवा दिया | एक बार फिर इस निर्णायक युध में नेताओं और नौकरशाहों का सेनाओं के प्रति अविश्वास और धोखे की चालों का तब पता चला जब सेनाओं के प्रमुखों का इंदिरा गाँधी और रक्षा विभाग के अधिकारियों से युधौपरांत संपर्क हुआ |

सिपाहियों के पेट पर लात

Author with RHS Members at Jantar Mantar on 21Aug 2015

    इंदिरा जी की बार-बार चेतावनी के बाद भी जब थलसेना अध्यक्ष फील्ड मार्शल साम मानेक्शा ने युध में अधूरी तैयारी के साथ जाने से मना कर दिया तो उस समय तो वो कुछ नहीं कर सकीं लेकिन 1971 भारत-पाक युध फलस्वरूप बांग्लादेश के जन्म होने के बाद नेहरू जी की ही तरह सेना को कमजोर करने के खिलाफ एक और साजिश रच डाली ; जिसके परिणाम हमारी सेनाएँ आज तक भुगत रही हैं| में इस छल कपट और फरेब की साजिश को देशभक्त सेनाओं के साथ किए जाने वाले अपराध की सबसे बड़ी प्रकाष्ठा मानता हूँ; क्योंकि इंदिरा गाँधी ने इस नीति से सिपाहियों के पेट पर लात मारी थी और हज़ारों वीर नारियों और शहीदों की विधवाओं के मुँह से दो समय की पूरी रोटी का निवाला भी छीन लेने की कोशिश की थी |

सबसे पहला सिपाहियों के पेट पर लात मारने का सुझाव खुद प्रधानमंत्री ने दिया| जहाँ 1971 के भारत-पाक युद्ध की अभूतपूर्व सफलता के लिए भारतीय सेनाओं को सम्मानित करना चाहिए था; वहीं इंदिरा जी ने नौकरशाहों के कहने पर सेना को शनिवार और रविवार के दिन विश्राम का नाम देकर वेतन काटने का प्रस्ताव दे डाला | बेशर्मी की सारी हदें पार करने की तरफ एक और घिनोना कदम था| थलसेना अध्यक्ष ने प्रस्ताव सहर्ष यह प्रार्थना करते हुए स्वीकार कर लिया कि अगर चीन या पाकिस्तान शनिवार और रविवार को आक्रमण करते हैं तो सेना युद्ध नहीं करेगी आप देश की दूसरे बलों को लगा सकती है | शायद इंदिरा गाँधी और नौकरशाहों को ऐसे उत्तर की स्वप्न में भी कल्पना नहीं थी | वो काँप उठे और स्थिति को बदलते हुए कहा हम तो मज़ाक कर रहे थे | कितने शर्म की बात है कि देश की प्रधानमंत्री थलसेना अध्यक्ष के साथ भारतमाता की सुरक्षा को लेकर भद्दा मज़ाक कर रही थी| बेशर्म नेता और देशद्रोही सोच वाले अधिकारी जिन्होने सेनाओं को पुलिस की तरह गुलाम बनाने की हर साजिश रची परंतु देशभक्त और देशप्रेम से लबालब सेना ने देश की सुरक्षा में कोई कमी नहीं रखी |

श्री जगन्नाथ बी ए ने 1973 के बाद कहा था “भारतीय सेनाएँ कभी भी देशद्रोही नेताओं और अधिकारियों को सबक सीखा सकती है परंतु उनकी भारत माँ और भारतवासियों के प्रति देशभक्ति का प्रेम रोक रहा है" क्या यह सच्च नहीं ?

पुनः सशस्त्र बलों के खिलाफ नयी साजिश 1973 में नौकरशाहों ने बहुत ही घिनोनी लोमड़ी और गीदड़ की संकीर्ण मानसिकता का परिचय देते हुए नये वेतन के मापदंडों को निर्धारित करने के समय रची  | भारतीय सेनाओं के हाजिर सेनिकों, उनकी वीर विधवाओं और सेवानिवृत सैनिकों के पेट पर जोरदार प्रहार उनके वेतन में छल, विश्वासघात और धोखे का उदाहरण पेशकिया|नौकरशाहों ने एक ऐसी साजिश के तहत सेनाओं के लिए जो वेतन मापदंड निर्धारित किए; वो आजतक भारत के किसी भी युवक को सेना में सेवा के लिए प्रोत्साहित नहीं कर सके | फलस्वरूप भारतीय सेनाएँ आज तक भूतपूर्व सैनिकों के वंशजों पर ही चल रही है |नौकरशाहों द्वारा 1973 की वेतन नीति के तहत जो लात सिपाहियों के पेट पर मारी उसका असर सैनिकों के परिवारों, बच्चों की शिक्षा और उनके पालन पोषण पर शीघ्र ही दिखने लगा |

सैनिकों की सेवानिवृत पेंशन मापदंड निर्धारंण में छल

नौकरशाहों ने जब 1973 के वेतन मापदंड तय किए तो जहाँ उन्होने अपने सेवानिवृत कर्मचारियों के लिए सेवानिवृत पेंशन उस अधिकारी की आख़िरी वेतन के 33% हिस्से को बढाकर 50% कर दिया; वहीं सशस्त्र बलों के सैनिकों की पेंशन को 70% से घटा कर 50% कर दिया गया | सेना को नौकरशाहों के सेवानिवृत कर्मचारियों के वेतन बढाने से कोई आपत्ति नहीं है; परंतु आपत्ति है तो वो यह कि देश पर प्राण न्योछावर् करने वाले सैनिकों से साजिश के तहत गद्दारी की गयी थी | इन सभी धोखों के बावजूद; सेना के सिपाही अपने परिवारों की आर्थिक तंगी से युक्त समस्याओं को अलग रखते हुए; इस उम्मीद में देश की सेवा करता रहा; कि हमारे अधिकारी; नेता और नौकरशाह  सैनिकों की घरेलू समस्याओं का समाधान कर देंगे | शायद यही उम्मीद आज जंतर मंतर पर सैलाव बनकर उमड़ रही है;  जो हर सैनिक और उसके परिवार की आर्थिक समस्याओं का मुख्य कारण बन गयी | 

जब भूतपूर्व सैनिको को इस अन्याय का पता चला तो उन्होने नौकरशाहों की इस नाइंसाफी के खिलाफ शांति पूर्वक वार्तालाप किया. सन् 1982 में सेवानिवृत कर्नल इंदरजीत सिह और अन्य सैनिको ने वन रेंक वन पेंशन (ओरोप-OROP) का मुद्दा तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री और रक्षामंत्री इंदिरा गाँधी के समक्ष उठाया | प्रधानमंत्री ने पूरे विश्वास के साथ भरोसा दिलाया कि इस त्रुटि को दूर कर सैनिकों के साथ पूर्ण न्याय होगा | श्री जगन्नाथ बी. ए. ने जब यह सुना कि श्रीमती इंदिरा गाँधीं ने ऐसा आश्वासन दिया तो वह हंसते हुए व्यंगात्मक भाव में बोले "क्या कभी, बैल भी दूध देता है" केवल एक और धोखा है |

ओरोप (OROP) के खिलाफ सोची-समझी साजिश

जिस देशप्रेम से भारतीय सेनाएँ देशवासियों क़ि सेवा में तत्पर रहती हैं सैनिकों की उस देशभक्ति की भावना का नेताओं ओर नौकरशाहों ने बार-बार अपमान किया | इस बात की सत्यता भूतपूर्व सैनिकों द्वारा बार-बार शांतिपूर्वक किए जाने वाले विरोध से झलकती है| इंदिरा गाँधी जी के मृत्यु के बाद सैनिकों ने फिर राजीव गाँधी से प्रार्थना की | पहले तो राजीव गाँधी ने अपनी स्वर्गीय माँ को श्रदांजलि देने की बात कह कर भरोसा दिलाया; लेकिन जब नौकरशाहों ने छल का पैंतरा फैंका तो बिना किसी सहयोग और स्पष्ट नीति के आठ वर्ष बेफ़्कूफ़ बनाते रहे | जब भूतपूर्व सैनिकों ने पुनः प्रार्थना की तो राजीव गाँधी ने 1991 के चुनावों तक इंतज़ार करने को कहा; लेकिन राजीव गाँधी की हत्या से एक बार फिर सैनिकों को निराशा ही हाथ लगी |

ऐसी कौन सी माँगे भूतपूर्व सैनिकों ने रखी थी जिसको तो भारतीय प्रधानमंत्री, रक्षामंत्री और नौकरशाह पूरी करने में 1982 से लेकर आज 23 अगस्त 2015 तक असमर्थ लग रहे हैं |

Source: bharatmata-voice