The fate of two quarantined Arabian horses presented to Chief Minister Amrinder Singh by Pakistani Punjab Chief Minister Pervez Ilahi shows how we Sikhs are 'enjoying' the promised 'glow of freedom' in the world's largest demoNcracy - India Amrinder not allowed to ride the 2 horses!
A thousand armed Naxalites chanting 'Dilli chalo' mount a successful, & the biggest ever, daylight raid and occupy Jehanabad district 30 miles from the Bihar state capital of Patna and its huge Army cantonment
The beginning of the end of India is here!
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 23, 2005 -Nothing is more symbolical of the low third class status of the millions of Sikhs, captive since August 1947, (in the world's largest oligarchic, Brahmin-caste-dominated, demoNcracy - India) than the sad tale of two magnificent Arabian horses, one named Sultan, the other, called Son of a Gun, gifted in 2004 and 2005, to Punjab Chief minister Amrinder Singh (a scion of the Royal house of Patiala) by the Pakistani Punjab's Sikh-friendly Chief minister, Chaudhry Pervez Ilahi.
Readers may recall that Punjab Chief minister, Amrinder Singh, was snubbed by a lowly official of Indian Customs (in the presence of his Pakistani hosts who had come to see him off at the Indo-Pakistan border) when he tried to cross over from Wagah in Pakistan (after his 3-day state visit there in January 2004) along with a magnificent silver grey Arab stallion named Sultan, gifted to him by the Pakistani Punjab's Chief minister Pervez Ilahi. Captain Amrinder Singh, a chief minister of an Indian state, and scion of the Patiala Polo playing family to boot, was told rudely by a lowly Customs officer, at the Atari/ Wagah border, that the Arabian horse he had brought from Pakistan had to be quarantined as he might be carrying dangerous germs. The horse Sultan, a delicate Arabian mammal which needs constant tender loving care, could not take the shoddy treatment and died in 2004 after languishing in squalor for months in Indian quarantine in some dirty stable.
On learning of Sultan's death, during its 'incarceration' by the Indian Customs, the Pakistani Punjab Chief minister gifted another Arabian steed, named Son of a Gun, to Chief minister Amrinder Singh and sent the horse to the Wagah border (under instructions from Chandigarh) in April 2005 to replace the dead horse, named Sultan, gifted earlier to Captain Amrinder Singh. Instead of feeling guilty or scared about the earlier extra judicial 'murder' of Sultan in captivity, the Indian Customs did not relent from repeating their arrogant behavior again. They incarcerated the second horse, Son of a Gun, also and it has been rotting in quarantine, since April 2005, in some filthy stable near the Indo-Pak border. Eye witnesses believe the second horse, Son of a Gun, is also being slowly starved and it may also die soon. Obviously a lowly Customs officer, cannot administer slow death to two horses gifted to Punjab Chief minister Amrinder Singh on his own, unless he has a 'wink and a nod' from higher authority, which is using the two horses to show to the Sikhs who is the 'czar' and who is the 'serf' in the Brahmin-ruled Republic of India.
Readers may recollect that in early January 2004 the Pakistani Punjab's Sikh-friendly Chief minister, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, telephoned Indian-occupied Punjab's Chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh and invited him to visit Lahore, Pakistan, as a state guest, during the three day World Punjabi Conference, to be held in Lahore from January 29 to January 31, 2004. Captain Amrinder Singh, a son of Maharajah Yadavinder Singh and grandson of Maharajah Bhupinder Singh of the Patiala dynasty, accepted the invitation over the phone and thus became the first Sikh Chief minister of East Punjab to be officially invited to Pakistan since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 when the British Colonials quit their South Asian colony. Badal had made a low key visit to Lahore, in 1999, as part of the then Indian Prime minister Pandit Atal Bihari Vajpayee's entourage.
As a scion of the Patiala ruling family, known for its boot-licking of every, and any ruler, of Delhi after the British capture of that city in 1803, Captain Amrinder Singh decided to show his docility by writing to the Indian External Affairs ministry in Delhi seeking its permission for him, to visit Pakistan on an invitation sent by the Pakistani Punjab's Sikh-friendly Jat Chief minister, Pervez Ilahi. To the bigoted Mandarins of the Indian Foreign Office (dominated by the anti-Sikh Brahmin/ Bania nexus) any Sikh/Muslim get-together causes suspicion and becomes a matter of concern as these 'Babus' don't trust any turboned Sikh, no matter how loyal the Sikh. They want to keep the Sikhs captive behind India's electrified barbed wire 'Berlin Wall' they have built astride the Indo-Pakistan border. These Mandarins, like any typical Indian Babu, just sat on Captain Amrinder's letter, without even acknowledging the Punjab Chief minister's petition seeking permission to be allowed to visit Pakistan. Earlier in October 2003, the Indian Foreign Office, had also used the same tactics and did not allow the Punjab Chief minister, Amrinder Singh to lead a trade delegation of Punjabi industrialists to China to explore various possibilities of trade and investment like other Chief ministers of other Indian states have been doing all over the globe all the time. The Indian government obviously, does not like any Sikh-Chinese relationship either!
When there was no response from the Union government in Delhi, despite numerous phone calls, the humiliated Punjab Chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh went public. The Tribune of January 21, 2004, (www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040121/punjab1.htm#2) reported that the Punjab Chief Minister had called off his Pakistan visit as he was upset over the central government's negative attitude regarding clearance of his Pakistan visit in response to the invitation by the Pakistani Punjab's Chief minister. Despite the bravado in the newspaper story Captain Amrinder Singh, ate the humble pie and flew to Delhi on January 21, 2004, to beg the then Indian Prime minister, Pandit Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to intercede with the Foreign Office to allow him to proceed to Pakistan for a three day visit as he otherwise would 'loose face' as he had promised his Pakistani counterpart that he would visit the Sikh holy shrines located there. Finally on January 23, 2004, 48 hours after the Prime ministers order, the Indian Foreign Office relented, and granted the Chief minister permission but said nothing about his ten-member entourage made up of Punjab ministers and officials. Permission for the 10-member delegation was grudgingly granted, after a lot of to and fro hassle, about 24 hours before the departure date for Pakistan on January 29, 2004.
The 'head-of-state' level protocol/ security and the warm welcome given by the Pakistani Punjab government, and people, to a Sikh Chief minister like Captain Amrinder Singh, during his January 29-31, 2004 visit to Pakistani Punjab, was in marked contrast to the public humiliation the same Punjab Chief minister had to suffer as a Sikh at the hands of the central government and its minions. If this is how the Sikh Chief minister of Punjab, a former Mhaharajah, is treated one does not need great imagination to figure out what an ordinary working class Sikh has to face everyday at the hands of the minions of the communal Brahmin-dominated Indian state.
Some political observors believe that some honest remarks made by the Punjab Chief minister Amrinder Singh, during a press conference on January 30, 2004, have also alarmed the Bania/ Brahmin ruling nexus. According to a report by Varinder Walia, in the Tribune of January 31, 2004, (www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040131/main4.htm) Capt Amarinder Singh had said, in that press conference, that he would explore avenues of bilateral trade in which wheat would be on top of the agenda. That staple, the Punjab Chief minister pointed out in the press conference, is being sold in India at the low government controlled price of Rs. 670 a quintal whereas it is being sold at Rs. 1, 260 per quintal in Pakistan only thirty miles from Amritsar. This January 30, 2004, statement by Chief minister Amrinder Singh sent a chill through the 'fat belly' of every usurious Bania/arrti in Sikh Punjab who has his fangs out and sucks the blood of every hard working Punjabi wheat farmer come harvest time. No wonder the Indian Customs officers at the Atari border are not bothered about the two horses. They are only interested in humiliating a Sikh Chief minister of Indian occupied Punjab.
Captain Amrinder Singh, a wealthy individual in his own right, has quitely taken the insult about the horses from the Bania/Brahmin evil nexus, as he has much to lose, but the poor and hungry, muscular Naxalites, have nothing to loose. Last week, on November 11, 2005, they launched (arguably the most daring day light attack in the history of their movement) in Bihar. Over one thousand Naxalite armed cadres of the Communist party of India, fighting against India's unfair caste-ridden social/ economic order, launched the biggest ever daylight attack on Jehanabad district headquarters, a town located about thirty miles from Patna the Bihar state capital and its huge army cantonment. The Naxalites disconnected electric supply to the city and, two days earlier on November 09, 2005, had disconnected telephone services to the district headquarters particularly the jail and Police Lines area. They then surrounded the city like an army, sealed all the exits and entry points on November 11, 2005, and then launched synchronized attacks and captured the district jail (along with its 341 prisoners inside), the district court, Police Lines, district armoury, the residence of the district judge, and the S. S. College, where a para-military forces camp had been set up. They were all chanting the slogan 'Dilli Chalo, Dilli Chalo' the destination of their 'Long March'. This unbeleivable Naxalite success indicates meticulous planning by the Naxalites and reflect sweeping intelligence failures and security lapses by the state and central government which has a two million strong army at its beck and call.
This Naxalite success at Jehanabad is bound to echo in other parts of India, with the rebels' Central Committee having reportedly called for another round of their 'tactical counter offensive campaign' in 'weak states' - and there are twelve of them - half of India - where the Naxalite writ holds sway.
'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' Shakespeare in Hamlet.
The Naxalite rebellion in India also reminds one of English humorist and novelist, Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam DICKENS - pseudonym 'Boz' - born 1812-1870) and his masterpiece The Tale of Two Cities which gave a birds eye view of the French revolution in the 18th century. The novel brought to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. Dickens opens his novel with the following immortal lines, applicable to today's India:- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredibility, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--- in short, the period was so far like the present period..." Nay, Charles Dickens (after Sir Walter Scott undoubtedly the most influential of all British fiction writers (famous for his novels like, Pickwick Papers-1837; Oliver Twist-1839; David Copperfield-1850; Hard Times-1854; A Tale of Two Cities-1859; Great Expectations-1861 and many more) was presciently describing present day caste-ridden, oligarchic, India at war with the Naxalites, and umpteen other armed insurgencies. A country ripe for a revolution, which artificial entity will soon break up into such buffer states as Khalistan, Kashmir and Nagalim.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", William Shakespeare, (1564-1616) English playright and poet in Hamlet.
Postscript:
Typical of the rotten state of the Indian state is the ongoing attempt in the Punjabi media to fool the people of the Punjab, and some of their naive 'leaders' with dezinformatsiya, nay lies, to hide the loss of face suffered by the powerless Punjab Chief minister, Captain Amrinder Singh, who could not even clear, through the Indian Customs (at the Atari Indo/Pak border) in two long years, the two gift horses, (named Sultan & Son of a Gun) mentioned above.
Punjabi print media in Indian occupied Punjab (Ajit Jalandhar November 22, 2005) is trying to suggest that a 3-man delegation led by Punjab Animal Husbandry Development and Fisheries Secretary D.S. Bains (members; Dr H. S. Sandha and Dr P.K. Uppal) currentrly visiting Lahore, Pakistan, will escort the gift horse Son of a Gun to Amritsar as Chief minister wants them before he leaves for Pakistan shortly. The Indian Spin Masters, true sons of Channakiya, forget that in this age of the internet, disinformation, lies, and dezinformatsiya get exposed pretty quickly via a Google search.
On November 17, 2005, Express India carried a Reuters story (and Reuters news agemcy is NOT beholden to India) headlined, 'India warns neighbors on terror'. (www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=58485) The last paragraph in that Reuters story, mentions the tale of the two quarantined gift horses, Sultan & Son of a Gun, (as an example of the difficulties of Indo/Pak trade) and reads as follows:-
"Perhaps, symbolising the obstacles is the tale of two Arabian stallions, one named Sultan, the other, Son of a Gun. In a show of warmth last year, the head of Pakistan's Punjab, Pervez Elahi, gifted Sultan to the Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh. Although the only thing that distinguishes the two Punjabs and their people is the barbed wire and landmines at the border, India put the horse into quarantine, where it died. Elahi sent Son of a Gun as a replacement in April. He too is now stuck in quarantine.