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The Radical Humanist To: Democracy Derailed 31 Satish Chandra Varma, Treasurer IRI, Jawaharlal Jasthi A-1/103, Satyam Apartments, Vasundhra Enclave, Delhi- 110096 THE RADICAL Page No. HUMANIST CONTENTS : Vol. 82 Number 11, February 2019 Articles and Features: Can see ‘replay’ of 1977 in 2019 elections: 4 Author-historian Gyan Prakash Monthly journal of the Indian Renaissance Institute PTI Devoted to the development of the Renaissance Movement and to the promotion of human Government meddling in RBI could undermine 5 rights, scientific temper, rational thinking and India’s financial stability: S&P Global Etnownews.com a humanist view of life. In RTI Replies, Evidence of How Modi Dragged 6 Founder Editor: His Feet on Lokpal Appointment M.N. Roy Gaurav Vivek Bhatanagar Advisor: The Great Betrayal of the Liberation War Led by 8 Subhash Chandra Bose by the Hindutva gang Dr. Narisetti Innaiah Shamsul Islam Editor: Mahi Pal Singh Why Do Minority Massacres Lead to Election Gains? 15 Ram Puniyani Editorial Board: Death of a Cow Has More Significance Than 17 Ramesh Awasthi, Rekha Saraswat, That of a Police Officer: Naseeruddin Shah N.D. Pancholi, Dipavali Sen Bulandshahr: Human rights probe panel claims 18 Printer and Publisher: Bajrang Dal’s role in Dec 3 clashes that killed cop in cold blood Satish Chandra Varma NCHRO Send articles and reports to: The shrinking space for public intellectuals 19 Mahi Pal Singh at E-21/5-6, Ramin Jahanbegloo Sector 3, Rohini, Delhi- 110085. The Sohrabuddin Judgment Is a Mockery of Justice, 23 (M) 09312206414, 08178491055, 07042548234 the CBI Must File an Appeal Dushyant Dave or E-mail them to: [email protected] or Gujarat Police Under Modi Confirmed Sohrabuddin 27 Encounters Were Fake, Not CBI [email protected] Sarim Naved Please send Subscription/Donation Thirty seven academics write to ISCA: 30 Cheques in favour of ‘Deeply shocked, disturbed’ Abha Goradia The Radical Humanist to: Democracy Derailed 31 Satish Chandra Varma, Treasurer IRI, Jawaharlal Jasthi A-1/103, Satyam Apartments, Vasundhra Enclave, Delhi- 110096. (M) 9811587576. ‘Secularism and democracy can be saved 33 only with socialism’ Email ID: [email protected] Dr. Prem Singh Please Note: Authors will bear sole God, Heaven, and Evil 34 accountability for corroborating the facts that they Ken Levy give in their write-ups. Neither the IRI/the Reader’s Comments 38 Publisher, nor the Editor of this journal will be Bimal Kumar Chatterjee responsible for testing the validity and authenticity of statements & information cited by the authors. Correspondence between Allen Roy and 41 Also, sometimes some articles published in this Warren Allen Smith Dr. Narisetti Innaiah journal may carry opinions not similar to the Radical Humanist philosophy; but they would be Readers of Hetuvadi 42 entertained here if the need is felt to debate and Telugu Monthly Magazine Conference discuss them. Report by Dr. Gumma Veeranna February 2019 THE RADICAL HUMANIST 3 Can see ‘replay’ of 1977 in 2019 elections: Author-historian Gyan Prakash Like Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also has traits of an authoritarian leader, said the professor of history at Princeton University whose latest book “Emergency Chronicles” hit the stands recently. PTI @moneycontrolcom The 2019 election could see a replay of the which PM Modi said ‘every booth in the country 1977 polls when the ruling Congress was should know him’. He didn’t say my political routed if opposition parties are successful in party but ‘me’, it is as if the whole fate of reflecting discontent on the ground, says democracy rests entirely on his 56-inch chest. author-historian Gyan Prakash, drawing “So that’s a very, very big claim. This is what parallels between post-Emergency India and leads to the rise of an authoritarian leader. You now. could see shades of the same in Indira Gandhi Like Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra too. He looms as large in Indian politics as Modi also has traits of an authoritarian leader, Indira once did. His photographs, slogans... said the professor of history at Princeton appear everywhere as hers once did,” the University whose latest book “Emergency historian said. Chronicles” hit the stands recently. The regime today enjoys unprecedented He also believes the situation in the country power and you don’t really need to declare an is far more “ominous” today than it was in Emergency, he argued. 1975 when Gandhi imposed Emergency and “Support by ground troops — Bajrang Dal Modi enjoys the same position she did at that and the like — which Indira’s Emergency rule time. never enjoyed, and a largely compliant or “It is clear that there is a very enduring crisis corporatized electronic media, which did not in the farms. The farmer crisis is real. Job exist in 1975-77... this regime enjoys growth hasn’t happened even for young unprecedented power. people. So if political parties actually reflect “It is also equipped with the powers of the the discontent on the ground on the issues, you administrative state, including the law against could have a replay of 1977,” Prakash told PTI sedition, AFSPA (Armed Forces [Special while discussing his recently out book. Powers] Act) for use in so called ‘disturbed In the 1977 elections after the end of areas’... with all these resources available you Emergency, the Janata Party — a hurriedly don’t have to declare an emergency,” he said. stitched alliance of several parties against then In Gandhi’s case, Prakash added, the prime minister Gandhi — defeated the ruling decision to impose Emergency was, in a way, Congress and formed the government under an “acknowledgment of her weak power”. the leadership of Morarji Desai. She might not have resorted to Emergency While the Janata Party won 298 seats, the had the verdict of the Allahabad High Court Congress tally plunged from 350 seats to 153. gone in her favour. The Allahabad High Court There are many comparisons to be made in 1975 convicted Gandhi of electoral between Modi and Gandhi, Prakash said. malpractices, debarring her from holding any “Recently I was reading a news item in elected post. 4 THE RADICAL HUMANIST February 2019 “Today, there is no formal declaration of Emergency was they spoke, they spoke loudly, Emergency, no press censorship, no lawful they corrected her (Indira), and three years suspension of the law. But the surge of Hindu later when Janata Party did not delivered they nationalism has catapulted Narendra Modi into corrected them too,” Prakash noted. the kind of position that Indira occupied only Prakash, who is the Dayton-Stockton with the Emergency,” he writes in the book. professor of history at Princeton University, is But Indian voters, especially the poor of the also the author of several books, including country, are very smart and have consistently “Bonded Histories” and the widely acclaimed “spoken loudly” with their votes, showing the “Mumbai Fables”, which was adapted for the door to those who they thought didn’t fulfil film “Bombay Velvet”. their expectations, the author told PTI. Published by Penguin Random House India, “You think those (poor) people are not his latest “Emergency Chronicles”, priced at educated so they will not understand the true Rs 699, argues that Emergency, from June 25, value of democracy? The truth is that they do 1975 to March 21, 1977, was as much Gandhi’s understand. It is the middle and upper class doing as it was the product of Indian who have abandoned democracy, the poor democracy’s troubled relationship with popular understands its value politics, and a turning point in its history. “In fact, I think one of the lessons of Published on Jan 8, 2019 Government meddling in RBI could undermine India’s financial stability: S&P Global S&P’s lead global sovereign analyst said last week that India’s 7 percent annual growth would be enough to keep the Indian government’s investment grade BBB- rating stable. London: The increasing involvement of the “Sustained and intense external pressure from Indian government in the affairs of the country’s the Indian government risks eroding these (central central bank is a negative for the ratings of giant bank independence and prudent policy) settings Asian economy’s banking system, S&P Global over time, and could also undermine the long- said on Monday. term financial stability in the country.” “S&P Global Ratings views as credit negative S&P’s lead global sovereign analyst said last the circumstances leading to the recent resignation week that India’s 7 percent annual growth would of Urjit Patel, governor of the Reserve Bank of be enough to keep the Indian government’s India (RBI),” S&P analysts Michael Puli and investment grade BBB- rating stable. Andrew Wood said in a note. Courtesy Etnownews.com, Dec 17, 2018 The Radical Humanist on Website ‘The Radical Humanist’ is now available at http://www.lohiatoday.com/ on Periodicals page, thanks to Manohar Ravela who administers the site on Ram Manohar Lohia, the great socialist leader of India. Some of Roy’s important books are also available at that site. - Mahi Pal Singh February 2019 THE RADICAL HUMANIST 5 In RTI Replies, Evidence of How Modi Dragged His Feet on Lokpal Appointment The selection committee of the Lokpal met for the first time more than 45 months after the BJP came to power, an RTI query has revealed. Gaurav Vivek Bhatanagar New Delhi: In the first 45 months of Modi’s In her application, Bhardwaj asked for reign, he didn’t chair a single meeting of the information regarding the selection committee Lokpal selection committee. In response to a constitution under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Right to Information (RTI) plea, the Department Act, 2013. In particular, she sought details of of Personnel and Training (DoPT) further the number of meetings of the committee held reveals that no meeting of the search committee since January 1, 2014; dates and minutes, was convened during that time either.
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