Mao's Communist Academic Soldiers are out to destabilize Indian Universities
- In History & Culture
- 12:38 PM, Mar 21, 2017
- Divya Kumar Soti
Recently, a sessions Court in Maharashtra's Maoist infested Gadhchiroli District convicted suspended Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba for being involved in over ground activities of banned Maoist organizations. GN Saibaba used his position as Delhi University Professor to mobilize various kinds of logistic support for Maoists and conducted propaganda activities under cover of a NGO. Last year when ultra-leftist students and Islamists raised anti-national slogans like "Bharat tere tukde honge, Inshaallah" triggering a nationwide outrage against the incident and Delhi police arrested few of these students like Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar, many JNU professors tried to defend them in the name of freedom of expression.
After the JNU incident, ultra-leftist students organized a similar drama in Jadavpur University where they went ahead and raised slogans like "Kerala mange Azadi". At that time, the Modi government facing attack from all directions over the so called "intolerance" probably did not find it right occasion to push JNU episode too hard and took it more as a mischief by ultra-leftist hooligans. So most of the people/students raising those anti-national slogans were never identified and booked under applicable provisions of Penal law. But in a year these slogans have reached Delhi University campus. When ABVP supporters and other students objected to Umar Khalid's planned address at the Ramjas College, supporters of leftist student union AISA started raising slogans in support of Freedom of Expression and dissent on campuses but in minutes they were raising slogans like "Bastar maange Azadi". It is quite clear that had Umar Khalid would have got an opportunity to speak he would have peddled a similar narrative. Some Professors were also caught on camera encouraging them. When GN Saibaba was suspended by DU administration on being arrested for his Maoist links, at that time too some left leaning DU faculty members had opposed his suspension.
Ground for this latest drama in Ramjas College was being prepared from early February when JNU's Professor Nivedita Menon was invited to Jodhpur University campus which has not been known for ultra-leftist student activities. There Prof Menon declared that people lacking in self-respect join the Indian army to earn their bread and butter. She explained to her audience that why India should evict from Siachen Glacier and free Kashmir and North Eastern states. Despite being a Professor of International Affairs, she conveniently forgot that Indian Army was sent to Siachen after a specific intelligence input about Pakistani plans to capture it and Pak Army had already ordered clothing and supplies required to sustain its soldiers in those extreme climatic conditions. When Pakistani Soldiers arrived, they already found Indians sitting over Siachen. Had Pakistani plan not been preempted, the Pak Army would have been occupying those strategic heights making our soldiers vulnerable. Anyway, Prof Menon proceeded to lament Hindu deities and prayed that Hindus turn into a minority in India. Progressive feminist Professor had objections to depiction and veneration of this land in feminine form i.e. as Bharat Mata.
To decode all these thoughts and attempts to destabilize University campuses it is necessary to take a look at the history of using campuses and students by Ultra Left to achieve their political goals. By 1966, Mao had started to feel that he was losing grip on the Communist Party of China and the government so he and his coterie started propping up Professors in Chinese Universities who raised a hue and cry that the Party and Government have been overtaken by "Capitalist elements" and Party has moved far away from Communist principles. Nie Yuanzi, a Peking University lecturer published a pamphlet in which she supporting Mao appealed students to throw out the "Capitalist" elements from campuses who according to him were obstruction in "revolution" and were not allowing freedom of expression to propagate revolutionary ideas.
Soon students instigated by such incendiary academic lectures started to organize themselves in groups which came to be known as Red Guards with stated objective of clearing Chinese Universities of Bourgeoisie elements and destroying the traditional Chinese culture, wisdom and historical symbols. Soon, membership of these ultra-leftist hooligan groups reached millions and they rampaged from campus to campus and street to street. Next Mao and his academic agents appealed to Red guards to obliterate ancient Chinese culture. So Red Guards went for burning and destroying temples, libraries, ancient manuscripts and artifacts. This Cultural Revolution ended up in death of 30 million Chinese people.
Readers may easily spot stark similarity of all this with Leftist propaganda at JNU and DU where they are constantly creating ruckus over the lack of freedom of expression and dissent at campuses. Expression of hatred by Ultra-leftist academia and students for ancient Indian wisdom, culture, methods of worship and it's golden past is directly derived from ideology of Mao's red guards and is depicted in events like "Mahishasur Diwas".
As Mao used academia and students to tighten his grip on the country operating under a one-party system, at least Red Guards were not for disintegration of China. But in India where left has failed to make any political headway beyond Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura, its objectives are quite different. First Nehru and then Indira in return of Soviet support had handed over India's academic institutions to leftists. With this came leftist hegemony over research and academic narrative. Leftists decided what should be taught at schools and colleges. In states like West Bengal, where they also had political power Communist government ran "shuddho movement" which involved white washing self-confessed atrocities of Islamic invaders from history books. However, unable to gain political spread across India, after Soviet fall, leftists found hope in naxalites of Bastar and European ultra-liberalism. So they prepared a new ideological cocktail which enabled Arundhati Roy to define Maoists as "Gandhians with guns". This peculiar cocktail of ultra-leftist and ultra-liberalism has even affected youngsters like Gurmehar Kaur whose father laid down his life while repelling Pakistan sponsored Jihadists. She thinks it is war and not Pakistan which killed her father. She has been made to forget that during Kargil war, which was started by Pakistan, Jihadist snipers used to shoot our soldiers in eyes with pinpointed precision.
It is very natural for the leftist academic cabal to be restless at a time when cultural nationalist movements are becoming more powerful in India as well as in West. Social media which has enabled commoners’ access to facts and ability to directly question left's "shuddho" activities is making their academic perversions untenable. So ultra-leftists are trying to spread to more and more University campuses inventing novel and sophisticated perversions of India's past and present. They are trying to defend their last bastions with utmost ferocity. Resistance to incendiary seditious slogans being raised by leftists is natural. But nationalist student organizations need to upgrade their ideological counter offensive and expose deeper geopolitical conspiracies behind these seemingly mischievous slogans and loony academic narratives.
Unable to gain political power in India through Constitutional ways, left wants India's disintegration. While Pakistan's intelligence doctrine is to bleed India through thousand cuts, ultra-left wants to nibble India piece by piece. Slogans for Kashmir's freedom are because left hopes that Chinese strategic expansion through POK will allow it to usurp Kashmir. They want Bastar's freedom because Maoists or Arundhati's "Gandhians with Guns" are already running a reign of terror there. They want Kerala to be "freed" because Left is already in power there and is running a systematic assassination campaign to destroy nationalist forces. It is for these reasons that Nivedita Menon's chamber has a map depicting India with Kerala at the top and Kashmir at the bottom. She is making her students used to seeing physical map of India in a particular way. It is a psychological operation. The unity and integrity of India is greatest obstacle in nefarious designs of these people and subverting the will power of next generation to preserve the political and physical unity of India through sophisticated academic brainwashing is their primary goal.
(A Hindi version of this article was published in India's most read daily Dainik Jagran on March 10, 2017)
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