According to the study, the most important tool for small businesses to succeed in 2010 is search engine marketing, while email marketing, public relations and social media cited as crucial for success.
23.8% of all small businesses reported that search engine marketing was the tool most needed for their business to succeed in 2010.
www.onlineuniversalwork.com

Emperor Ashoka is one of the great emperors in ancient India. He embraced Buddhism from the prevalent Vedic tradition after witnessing the mass deaths of the war of Kalinga, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest. He was later dedicated in the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha. (Modi and others including Lt. Col Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh can follow the path of Ashoka)

Why did he leave the prevalent Vedic tradition? Was that tradition blood thirsty? We know that Ashoka born 2300 years before.

If Ashoka lived in this times, what will he do after seeing such bloody killings happened in Malegaon bomb blast, Mecca Masjid bomb blast, Nanded bomb blast, Samjotha bomb blast, Ajmer bomb blast, Gujarath genocide, Orissa and Karnataka riots. Do you think he will accept Islam?

Of course, I do feel that he will leave the present religion and he will accept a Peaceful way of life. All the Hindus should think about this matter very seriously. If Chandragupta Maurya's grand son changed his heart after seeing a single bloody battle, what about normal Indians like us will do after seeing like raping a pregnant and slitting the wombs and picking the embryo in trishul? Hundreds burn to death, thousands killed by swords and many more massacred by riots and bomb blasts conducted by swamis, sadhus and sadhvis?

If anyone thinks, RSS and VHP is helping and supporting Hinduism, it is absolutely wrong. They are killing Hinduism.

I request you to comment. Let our thoughts be progressive.

Dear Amitava & others,

Your experience with VHP made me recall my personal experience with RSS and its Shaka pramukh. We used to live in Timarpur area near Delhi University in late 1960s. The entire area had government quarters allotted to primarily Lower Division and Upper Divsion Clerks working in central and Delhi government. My mother too was allotted a quarter as she was a senior teacher with Delhi Administration. As a 4th grader when I reached that area I soon made friends with other boys whose fathers were 95% clerks and none had their mother a working woman. To all of them it was quite shocking that a Muslim woman is not only well educated, doesn't do "parda", wears sarees, teaches senior classes and has been allotted the govt quarter! My late father being a senior journalist with Indian Express could not have availed this as his was a private sector job.

Around grade 8th I found a sizebale number of the boys with whom I used to play started attending Shakhas. So I too started going with them to Banarsi Das Estate parks. Behind Banarsi Das market in one such park which was very near to the Mandir, Shakhas would be held. We were made to play games for about an hour. And when it would become dark only then the "sermons" by the pramukhs would start. I still recall the bhawad dwaj being stuck on the ground, we all doing the RSS prayer by bringing our right hand at the end of our sternum, bow the head and sholkas in sanskrit would be recited. But prior to the sermon being started we were all made to call out our names and tell what our fathers do, where we live etc. This would happen in all the meetings to enable each one becoming familiar with others' names etc.

No sooner the pramukhs learnt I am a muslim (by my name obviously) and the name of my father, I can still recall the change of their facial expressions. Interestingly there was one pramukh who was about 5-6 years older to me and who later joined one of the campus colleges. He also got elected to the student union of DUSU as probably a counsellor, obviously on the ABVP ticket, though I did not know at that time. I used to meet this pramukh almost daily on the Delhi Milk Scheme booth where I would go to buy milk and he was certainly a very calm, pleasant, jovial and friendly character.

One day my father learnt I have been going to Shakhas. He gave me a good beating and so I stopped going there after attending it for close to 10 days!

In early 1980 one day I ran into the same RSS Pramukh in the Gulmohar Park market where we now live in Delhi and was surprised to meet him after so many years in my colony's market which is primarily of Journalists, as I knew well neither he nor any of his family had any thing to do with journalism profession. He immediately recognized me and told that he lives just outside Gulmohar Park opposite Amitabh Bachan's house DDA flats.

Now is the thing for which I wrote this entitre background.

It was Oct 31, 1984. Time was around 9.00pm. I had just finished my dinner and the news was coming on TV how anti Sikh riots have started almost all over Delhi. I reviewed the situation with my father on dinning table and told him I am going out to warn all my Sikh friends living around to become extremely cautious, including my own PhD supervisor who was a Prof in IIT Delhi. My father just warned me to be careful but never discouraged me or tried to stop me from going out that violent night. Probably he was reminded of his days when he was saving Hindu families in Lahore at the time of partition.

On coming out at Green Park Bus stand I saw the taxi stand is on fire. There was no traffic coming from AIIMS side towards IIT, Delhi. I went to Huaz Khas, Green Park, and IIT and warned my known 5-6 Sikh families. Being a Muslim and son of a journalist I very well knew what riots mean and what happens in such riots. When I returned in about 30 mins or so, I could now see from a distance that the Gurudwara of Green Park is being burnt which lies on the Uphaar Cinema side. I slowed down my motorcycle and moved cautiously on that side of the road on which normally traffic would be coming from AIIMS but right now it was empty as I had decided to turn towards Gulmohar Park to brief my parents of what is the situation outside on roads. I stopped the motorcycle right opposite the Gurdwara and behold what I see. I SAW THE SAME RSS PRAMUKH DIRECTING THE RSS GOONS BY WAVING AND SHOUTING WHAT TO BURN, WHAT TO SMASH, WITH A LATHI IN HIS HAND TOO!

I immediately recognized him and called out his name in astonishment as to what is he doing there. (Honestly I could not connect all the things at that moment immediately. It all fell into place by the time I returned home and sat with my father to analyse all that I had seen.) Pramukh too was shocked seeing me as he was not prepared to be caught by some non RSS person (that too a Muslim from a journalist background) when he is leading his team of RSS cadre in burning the Gurudwara! Smart that he was, he changed the subject and asked me where I am heading to. I forgot that I was returning to my house and replied I am going towards Nankpura to warn some other Sikhs whom I know and is therefore going towards AIIMS. He immediately sat on my mobike, handed the lathi to one of his RSS cadre young man and accompanied me.

Once we raeched the Ring Road, we saw Army truks were moving into Delhi with armed jawans in them. At the Kamal Cinema crossing two trucks were burnning and a Sikh Major had been surrounded by around 100 rogues with all kinds of improvised weapons in their hands. I was still on my mobike with this RSS Pramukhs sitting behind me where I had stopped due to this crowd. Suddenly I realized two Army Jawans who noticed the Sikh Major has been attacked and crowd has started tearing his clothes, became ready with their SLRs to fire in Air. The pramukh at that juncture jumped from my mobike and slipped into the crowd. I turned my mobike and sped as I knew firing is going to start. I may not have gone 200m when I heard the sound of gun fire. I did not look back and dropped the idea of visiting Nanakpura.

I had seen RSS in action on the eve of Indira Gandhi's assasination!

regards,
Ahmad Cameron
IIT Kgp & Delhi: M Tech & PhD
AMU: B.Sc & M.Sc
Brampton ON
Canada

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Amitava Biswas
To: ahmad cameron ; Brij Bhushan
Cc: Amaresh Misra ; Pradeep Anand
; Pradeep S
; Sumitabh Kansal ; Chander Dhawan
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:20:03 PM
Subject: Re: For those who want to defend Sonal Shah

Hi All, here is some of my experience regarding VHP.When I was in high school , some 20 years back, VHP and RSS began recruiting among the teens in the locality, one of my friend had joined them and had also tried selling to me I should join too. This was the very fellow who never bother to join Indian National Cadet Corps at school, which was the rites of passage for many in those days. Fortunately even at a very young age I was little distrustful about people who preach from moral pulpit about precedence of the after-life compared to happpenings and sufferings of this life, so I got spared. However through my friend I used to get a lively report of what used to go on in the VHP/RSS sessions. Some of their activities were religious teachings and traditional weapon training (dagger and stick fights) - a very heady combination - because violence to make others suffer then tends to get rightous approval of God. And it was a clear case of preperation for violence.Right under our noses that friend began to change, the first category of people that became the target of his ire were the poor santhal (a tribe) community leaving in the local villages.This I understood were results of the lessons he was getting from the VHP-RSS leadership. I worked with Oxfam in muslim communities in Ahmedabad, I know their penury and vulnerability, first hand. While staying in Ahmedabad, I had a friend, who was a high ranking manager in a public sector large bank in Ahmedabad, he could not get an apartment on rent to stay in well to do locales in Ahmedabad because he was muslim ! He was forced to stay beside the slum which was the only ghetto in Ahmedbad where a muslim can live. That friend was not even a pious kind of muslim who will only stay near a mosque, he used to often lament that he was being forced to bring up his daughter in slum envioronment even though he did not deserve it. I am also aware the kind of work the Christian missonaries do in India especially in poor tribal communities, they really follow the motto - "soup and soap first and then salvation later", I also know why we have a high rate of literacy and development among tribal communities that got converted, these are the very people who got thwarted by mainstream hindu community in the first place and was helpped by christian missonaries. Later on I read about Nazi/SS, Ku Klux Klan recruitments and read reports how Talibans catch their members young and train them. I could see a lot of commanality between these and the VHP.So I do not have doubt in my mind what type of show VHP runs. We Indians are atleast better than US people in many regards, thanks to our free and secular education system which enables people to get free higher education and a lot of importance is given to education instead of the bible, otherwise by this time the only qualification to hold Indian PM and president positions would have been how big your turban is, how long your beard is, and how saffron is your dress. I also understand that the monetary strength of VHP comes from the dollars sent from north America, Indians sitting in India are more practical, they dont waste cash on this issues. Whereas here when we often get thwarted due to our race, we naturally develop a tendence to huddle together and become little more religious, start going to temples and socio-religious get togethers, where money is often collected or the first recruitment step begins. Little do we Indians sitting in north america understand, what type of show is being run in VHP chapters in India and how the money is spent. Problem is most of us do not have the vision to realize the implication of such activities carried out by such religious groups whose focus is not help people, who tend to give precedence to religous pride over assiting fellow beings. I remember in one of such meeting in Canada, where a religous leader was preaching that instead of sending help to Asian Tsunami victims we should instead ask them to chant the name of a hindu lord to forget about sufferings and embrace the eternal truth. It was very painful to observe how much bullshit the educated audiance was eagerly gulping down. Yes, VHP do runs some charities, and that is a definite problem, because these very effectively hide their other activities about which I wrote above. It is the same phenomena how dollars used to get into hands of Taliban from donations collected in north america in name of religious and charitable activities. Poor muslims in India have atleast have sufficient rationale to remain vulnerable to extremist ideals, but well educated Indians sitting in North America do not have such justifications.So I think, we, those who are the creamist layer of Indians should be extremely careful whom we give our money and support, and try to deter those who unknowingly fund or support organization like VHP and expose those who do it knowingly. With that purpose I would gladly support Ahmed's enthusiastic dissent and to others who would like to oorganize any campaign to make people aware of these elements in Obama team (I am sure that the democrat lawyers who check on people before recruiting had no clue what VHP actually is, they have their own problems to solve). But we surely dont want any powerful VHP sympathizer in the US govt for many years to come. The other thing is the VHP connections, gives a sure indication about the intellectual capacity of Sonal Shah element. It is actually dangerous for Indians to have her there, because instead of helping India to benefit economically she is more likely to help those elements that sure problems for India. However I suspect much of the vociferous support for VHP in north America will come from people who had unknowingly suppported VHP in past and dont want to accept any wronng doings of VHP, simply because they themselves would look stupid that they had suppported VHP - the classic denial or "grape is sour" syndrome. So be ready to get that type of resistance. RegardsAmitava ----- Original Message -----
From: ahmad cameron To: Brij Bhushan Cc: Amaresh Misra ; Pradeep Anand ; Pradeep S ; Sumitabh Kansal ; Chander Dhawan Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:29 PMSubject: For those who want to defend Sonal Shah
Dear Brij,

I agree 100% with you that in our lives we have come across "individuals subjugating individuals for exclusively personal reasons". But I am not talking of individuals here. I am a proud son of a freedom fighter and coming from the family of freedom fighters who fought for India ’s freedom but never took a penny as a Freedom Fighters pension all their lives! And whatever I am today it is the gift of India not of any other country. So I owe it to that nation and ensure it is not turned into a fascist state to the best of my ability.

Sonal Shah and her father, Ramseh Shah's, case is an open & shut case of being active fascist ideology believers and part of implementers of organized, designed and well planned set of actions to primarily sabotage the Indian Nation State by ensuring that if it cannot be governed by Hindutva forces then it is better that it gets divided & fragmented. As in such a situation again the Hindutva forces will emerge to rule in these smaller entities by the shear money, educational, global corporate support they have been getting for decades. This also fits well into the US and other western designs for that region as proposed by Kirkpatrick in Research Papers submitted by her to Reagan regime in early 1980s!

I am attaching below the latest article by Amaresh Mishra, historian and author of the treatise on Indian First War of Independence viz., 1857. My suggestion is to put aside the analysis part of Amaresh Bhai. Just pick up the paragraphs in quotations which include exerts from prominent VHP, RSS, BJP spokespersons, Media backing these fascist organizations and lastly the Shankracharya who has been firmly against these fascist designs. Read for yourself how the interaction between Sonal Shah & her father Ramesh Shah took place with Shankracharya!

Finally do not forget that the genocide perpetuated by VHP, RSS, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini, Shiv Sainiks in Gujrat took place in 2002. Amitava, our IITian here saw first hand on visiting Gujarat after this genocide, when he replied to my mail about Sonal Shah to all of you. And Sonal Shah was a member of American Chapter of VHP in 2003 plus visited Gujarat as she met the Shankracharya then. This she herself has accepted and so has the office bearers of VHP in America ! My first set of questions is

1. Did Sonal Shah not know even after visiting in person Gujarat after 2002 genocide what VHP stands for, when Amitava could who visited it almost in the same period?

2. Did she condemn the pogrom of Hindutva forces after her return from her Gujarat visit in 2003-2004 while being an executive member of VHP in America ? Answer is NO!

3. Had she condemned it or resigned from that position immediately thereafter, she could have cited those things now when her true face is being exposed. Her silence and absence of not taking such actions is a tacit proof of with whom her heart & mind lies i.e., VHP, RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena. Rather her executive membership “ended” and she remained on it for its entire duration!

4. Though this is US State departments responsibility to decide yet the question to the brainy guys from IITs that we all are is another: Will any government, say of India in this case, allow an Al Qaidea, Taliban, Hell’s Angel, etc kind of ex-member to be inducted into the advisory body of government?

On the larger future of India is my other set of questions which we all as born Indians must think seriously.

a. Why is it that whenever BJP and its ilks are in danger, only then bomb blasts take place e.g. Parliament episode takes place when a no confidence motion was to be debated based on Tehlka's revelations about Kargil!

b. Recently, when Orissa massacres of Christians become focus of attention of International & National Media, bomb blasts take place!

c. When ULFA leader is ready to show the linkages of involvement of RSS in recent Assam bomb blasts, CBI, IB and Home Minister Shivraj Patil try to push it under the carpet.

(I have my personal experience while executing a UNDP funded project in NIC, when I had learnt Shivraj Patil as Minister for Science & Technology in 1987-89 was a RSS sympathizer. I stood against it then, in spite of being in the government.)

d. How is it that Sadhivi Pragya , Col Purohit, Seer "Pandey" and others have been caught now? Isn't there a compliance between RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal moles inside IB, CBI, Police etc and these Hindutva forces spreading terror so as to polarize and retain political power which is gradually moving into the hands of Lalu, Mulayam, Paswan, Mayawati, Makwana, Buta Singh etc kind of breed. We are ready to accept Obama and hail his victory as of blacks over whites or more precisely a defeat of Anglo-Saxons. But we cannot allow the same to happen in India ? Isn't that the bottom line?

e. Last but not the least, MNS unleashes terror on Bhiaris & UP Bhaiyas in Maharshtra through Raj Thackrey and is out to divide the country on regional lines. But there are no sedition charges on Shiv Sainik leadership!

Now please read Amaresh Misra's article below. Yes it will take time. So to cut short you may read the high lighted portions only and complete article later. But as individuals who love India, it is our "dharma" to read it and at least understand who is who in this game?

I have other links too which I have researched about Sonal Shah and her back ground published in press and available on Internet. Any one wants I can share with them.

regards,
Ahmad Cameron
IIT KGP & Delhi M.Tech & PhD
AMU: B.Sc & M.Sc
Brampton ON
Canada

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Amaresh Misra
To: misra.amaresh@ gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:09:25 AM
Subject: urgent

The Curious/Criminal Case of Sonal Shah…and another instance of RSS involvement in Bomb Blasts in India

By Amaresh Misra and the All India Patriotic Forum (AIPF) Team

The euphoria over Obama's election is still not over; yet secular Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in the US are livid over one major transgression committed by President-elect Obama's transition team. According to news reports, Sonal Shah, a successful US based Indian-Gujarati businesswomen and founder of Indicorps—an organization active in several sectors, facilitating exchanges between Indian and US mainly software professionals— with links to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), two notorious, Hindu supremacist fascist outfits of India, has been appointed as one of the advisers to the new President-elect.

This might have gone unnoticed were it not for the spirited defense mounted by Sonal Shah's supporters, mostly RSS and VHP people in India. In fact the Secretary of VHPA (America) has gone on record stating that Sonal Shah was a member of the organization but that her membership has expired. Overlooked by the English media, several statements of RSS leaders have appeared in the Hindi Press. One truly bizarre assertion made by an Indore based RSS leader in the Dainik Bhaskar goes on to "extol Ms. Shah for belonging to that super breed of Hindus who have entered the haloed precincts of the US Government and who now should do all in her power to see to it that minority appeasement ends in the US too!"

Minority appeasement in the US! Is it not true that America has elected a minority President? So the American electorate has committed the greatest sin—appeasement of minorities! And the RSS leader of Indore is hoping that minority appeasement would end through a Hindu fundamentalist working in the office of—hold your breath—a super-product of minority appeasement!

Another gem comes from Kota, a small town in Rajasthan. Here in an issue of Rajasthan Patrika, two RSS and VHP leaders have in a joint statement hailed Sonal Shah's appointment in Obama's team. They have gone on to state explicitly that "no matter what—let the Indian Congress Government appease minorities. President Obama has shown determination by appointing a proud member of the VHP, the daughter of Ramesh Shah, a very senior VHP leader, in his team. After all, American NRIs have really helped the Hindu cause here by sending us money. In fact during the Ram Mandir movement, they were very generous. Then that Masjid was demolished; which was something very good. Shri Ramesh Shah was in the forefront of rejoicing after the Masjid was demolished. Now his daughter has been anointed and it is good for Hindus the world over".

The third `praise' appears in Dainik Jagran, a rabid Hindi newspaper, known for stoking the fires of bloodthirsty mobs out to kill Muslims right after the December 6th Babari Masjid demolition; and known also for obliquely supporting Narendra Modi at the height of Gujarat riots. While commenting on the Sonal Shah phenomenon, RSS and VHP leaders have "condemned Muslim groups agitating against the appointment of Sonal Shah. These leaders (Muslim) are all pseudo secularists—they do not know ABC of secularism. They are being joined by pseudo-secular Hindus. The fact is that the Congress Government is arresting Hindus for the Malegaon blasts. The Government arrested Saadhvi Pragya Singh and then they are now questioning Mahant Adityanath, the great BJP leader of Gorakhpur. Sonal Shah's appointment has sent the right message. In India, Hindus are being persecuted while in America they are being felicitated" .

However, the same Dainik Jagran issue carries another statement by Swami Omnkaranand, a disciple of Jagadguru Swami Swarupanand, the anti-RSS Shankaracharya of Dwarika and Badrinath. While condemning Saadhvi Pragya Singh and the serving and ex-army officers accused in the Malegaon blasts, Omkaranand has branded `Hindu terrorists' as irreligious (adharmik) non-Hindus. When asked about Sonal Shah, Swami Omkaranand said that he "did not know much about Sonal Shah—but he knew Ramesh Shah, her father". When quizzed further, Omkaranand said that "Ramesh Shah had tried to seek an appointment with the Dwarika Shankaracharya— if I remember correctly he was accompanied by his daughter and her name was Sonal Shah. The Dwarika Shankaracharya met them—and the daughter and the father both requested the Shankaracharya to support the VHP. Then the Shankaracharya got angry—he lashed out at them and narrated an incident wherein he (the Shankaracharya) had a debate with Golwalkar, the RSS leader. The argument was about the status of Lord Ram—Golwalkar was saying that he did not consider Ram to be a God, only a Mahapurush; then the Shankaracharya replied that this is what Ravana used to say—so now in which category is Golwalkar who calls himself a true representative of Hindu interests, has gone on to stand?"

Swami Omkaranand further elaborated that "the Shankacharya asked Ramesh and Sonal Shah to leave the room as he considers the VHP, BJP and the RSS adharmik who have killed innocent Muslims in Ayodhya and Gujarat. Then Ramesh Shah tried offering some money to the Shankaracharya upon which the situation became very ugly and the Shankaracharya Sevaks would have given a sound thrashing to Ramesh Shah if he had not escaped".

When did Sonal and Ramesh go to meet the Dwarika Shankaracharya? The reference to Gujarat riots reveals that it was after that event—so if Swami Omkaranand is to be believed, Sonal Shah visited Dwarika to plead for the VHP, after the infamous riots in which thousands of Muslims were massacred and murdered brutally by VHP backed mobs. This proves that Sonal Shah is lying when she says that she had never been a member of the VHP—here she is trying to plead for the VHP with her father. This also casts a long shadow of doubt on the statement issued by the Shah family that they had condemned Gujarat riots.

The VHP-RSS-BJP seems to be a hydra headed organization with tentacles everywhere. They are supposed to have infiltrated the Indian and the US administration in a big way—the fact is that Sonal Shah has also been involved Ekal Vidyalas, the RSS run scheme of single teacher schools in tribal areas in India. The Ekal Vidayala has a full functioning unit in the US where they collect money in the name of tribal welfare and then direct it towards VHP activities in Gujarat and the rest of India. A recent UNI Press report categorically states:

"In the run up to the recent arrests of Saadhvi Pragya Singh and serving and ex-army officers in the Malegaon blast case, a whole lot of RSS run or affiliated organizations are under the scanner of the ATS Mumbai. There is an alleged link of several organizations based in the US. The ATS Mumbai has confidential reports on several US based organizations. They are alleged to have sent money to the RSS and VHP during the Gujarat riots. These organizations work under several heads in the US and change their identities frequently. They include `Overseas Friends of the BJP', the Ekal Vidyalaya, the Hindu American Foundation and the IDRA and several such outfits which keep mushrooming. There is also an allegation that the RSS related groups have ganged up with Christian Right-Wing groups to destabilize the US Government."

Despite denying her links with VHP, Sonal Shah has not denied links to Ekal Vidayalayas and other organizations. Her father continues to a leader of the Overseas Friends of the BJP. These organizations are accused to funding riots, pogroms and terror in India. What is her answer to this?

Then there comes the article from Vijay Prashad, the head of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford CT. Prashad mentions that "the Asian American Hotel Owner's Association AAHOA supported Modi in Madison Square Garden with empty chairs. Ms. Sonal Shah is a supporter of and gets support from the same organization" .

Vijay Prashad goes on to add:

"The BJP, the party in power during the Gujarat killings, but also a host of organizations known as the Sangh Parivar… these include groups whose U. S. affiliate drew in Sonal Shah's parents, and to which she also gave her time and energy. This is not in the distant past. In 2004, while at the CAP, Sonal Shah gave the keynote address in Miami for the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of the USA. The Ekal Vidyalaya is an organization given over to`education' in tribal areas of India. It is the policy of the Ekal Vidyalaya to organize tribal peoples into the "Hindu community" and to eschew the Christianity and animism that many practice. The climate created by the Ekal Vidyalaya and the VHP in the tribal areas of India led to the recent massacres of Indian Christians. Sonal Shah's father Ramesh is in charge of the Ekal Vidyalaya in the U. S. She didn't take the time in Miami to raise these concerns. Rather she talked about her Indicorps project, which has sent volunteers to work with groups like Ekal Vidyalaya. The language of social justice and cultural rights work well to cover over the fascism that is otherwise being promoted".

A new instance of RSS involvement in the recent Assam blasts has come to light:

"ULFA on Tuesday alleged that RSS was behind the deadly October 30 blasts in Assam and ethnic violence in Bodo Territorial Administered Districts (BTAD). The blast claimed 85 lives while 55 people died in the ethnic violence in BTAD areas. In an e-mail statement, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa further alleged that Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmah was an agent of RSS and was blaming ULFA to cover up his involvement in the blasts. "Whether Sarmah is in Congress or AGP, he is in reality an RSS agent and to cover up his involvement is making misleading statements like ULFA and Jehadi are the same," he said. Rajkhowa claimed the ULFA has enough evidence to prove RSS's involvement in the October 30 blasts in four towns of Assam, including Guwahati. "A few months ago, the ULFA in its mouthpiece Freedom had mentioned about the secret directive sent by RSS to carry out blasts in different parts of the country but the state government took no steps in this direction," he said. Moreover, the recent blasts in different parts of the country and the subsequent arrests have also proved that RSS and BJP are involved in blasts in states ruled by non-BJP governments, Rajkhowa alleged. He said that ULFA has never targeted indigenous Assamese population and has no links with jehadi or any other religious fundamentalist organization" .

A second instance of RSS involvement has surfaced in Kerala as recently as 11th November 2008:

"In yet another mysterious bomb explosion, two RSS activists were killed near Athyarkavu temple at Cheruvancherry here on Monday morning. Those killed were RSS karyavahak Kanhan Pradeepan, 38, and another worker Lalaveetil Dili alias Dileesh, 35. Pradeepan was an accused in the Ashna murder attempt case. Incidentally, the court had only announced a couple of days ago that the judgment in the Ashna case would be pronounced on November 14. According to the police, the explosion might have taken place while the two were engaged in making bombs. The impact of the blast was such that their bodies were blown to pieces. Burnt human flesh and mutilated organs were strewn in and around a well near the temple. Parts of the body of Pradeepan had to be scooped out of the well. Locals who rushed to the spot could find only the charred remains of the bodies. It was festival time at Athyarkavu and there were devotees at the temple late into Sunday night. The area is supposedly a BJP-RSS stronghold and the temple "under the control" of the latter. Reliable sources say the RSS workers were killed not while making the bombs but while shifting the bombs, kept in a hedge near the temple, to another place. The police sources, however, refused to confirm this version. The incident was as much a shock to the local people as it was startling to the police who are busy investigating terrorists links of youths in the district. Shops and other commercial establishments remained closed in Cheruvancherry town and vehicles kept off the road in the area following the incident. Forensic experts were trying to analyse the cause of the explosion, and police officials were camping in the area".

South India and West India have emerged as a major experiment ground of the RSS Sangh Parivar. In February 2008 the Tamil Nadu Police arrested activists of the Hindu Munani, a RSS outfit for planting bombs in the RSS Headquarters in Tenkasi:

"The cat is finally out of the bag. In numerous bomb blasts that have taken place in the country, the investigating agencies as well as the media swoop on certain Muslim organisations and brand them as terrorists, who perpetrated the ghastly crime. Irrespective of whether the crime has taken place in a Masjid or Mandir or Market, the same stereotype stories are flashed everywhere. However the Tamilnadu Police have turned the tables and their investigations have turned the tide towards the real perpetrators of such crimes. It has arrested 3 Sangh Parivar activists for triggering blasts in the RSS office at Tenkasi. Tenkasi is a busy town in Tirunelveli District of Tamilnadu. Since its location is close to the famous Courtallam waterfalls it attracts a large number of tourists. Hindus belonging to various castes as well as Muslims and Christians have been living in harmony in this town from time immemorial. Tenkasi means Kasi of South. This town has a famous temple called Kasi Viswanathar Temple. Though the local Sangh Parivar outfit called Hindu Munnani has been long objecting to the renovation of the Bazaar Masjid situated very near to the temple, perfect communal harmony has prevailed in this town. Muslims living in this town are basically involved in various kinds of trade.

The Sangh parivar elements have been trying to communally polarise this town for a long period of time. However their attempts in the past have become futile. But the killing of Kumara Pandian, an activist of Hindu Munnani in December 2006 disturbed the peaceful atmosphere in Tenkasi. Kumara Pandian was murdered by group of Muslim gangsters out of personal animosity. However the Sangh Parivar elements targeted leading Muslim businessmen as well as Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) and alleged they were behind the murder. On March 2, 2007, Mohideen Sait Khan the then District President of TMMK and resident of Tenkasi was brutally attacked by Hindu Munnani activists. He suffered grievous injuries in several parts of his body. However he survived the attack. The police arrested a handful of Hindu Munnani activists in this case.

Tenkasi was now boiling with communal fervour. On 14th August (just a day before the Independence Day Celebrations) 6 persons (3 Hindus and 3 Muslims) were hacked to death in a fight between two groups. These two groups comprised persons who were charged for the Murder of Kumara Pandian and assault on Mohideen Sait Khan and were out on bail. Police clamped down on both sides and arrested a number of persons from both communities. In the aftermath of these incidents, when Tenkasi was limping back to normalcy just two days before the Republic day, on 24th January, there were bomb blasts in the RSS office in Tenkasi and in the Bus Stand around 9 pm. The media carried big stories about the blasts. The Sangh Parivar organised demonstrations in various parts of the state, demanding the arrest of Muslim 'terrorist', who according to them have committed the crime. However the Tamilnadu Police did not budge like their counterparts in other states. A special team led by Mr. Kannappan, DIG, Tirunelveli range made a thorough investigation and have arrested so far 3 persons S Ravi Pandian (42), a cable TV operator, S Kumar (28), an auto driver, both from Tenkasi, and V Narayana Sharma (26) of Sencottai, all Sangh Parivar activists. The last name accused had assembled 14 pipe bombs in the office of Ravi Pandian.

Explosive experts were deployed to probe the blasts at the RSS office and the bus-stand. Earlier it was thought that unidentified persons had hurled crude bombs at these places. But now it has been found that low-intensity 'pipe' bombs had been placed in these areas, a police official told PTI. The power to the area was disconnected before the incident.

According to Sanjeev Kumar, IG, South Zone, the bomb blast inside the new bus stand was planned to divert the police investigation. DIG of Police Kannappan said the trio tested the capacity of the bombs at Papanasam before executing the plan. Since the bombs contained substances like ammonium nitrate, electric detonators, batteries and timer devices, the explosion was possible within 30 to 40 seconds, said Kannappan.

The Investigation is still going on. The Police said 14 pipe bombs were assembled and the operations began from July last year. The arrested persons have confessed that the trio executed the plan to create a divide between the rival communities and thereby pave way for a backlash and generate sympathy for the family of the four deceased. They have also confessed that in the past they could not generate support from the Hindu community in Tenkasi and thought this blast would give the right impact.

With the Lok Sabha elections approaching, it is reliably learnt that Sangh Parivar outfits want to repeat Coimbatore in Tenkasi to get sympathy votes. The BJP which contested the last Assembly elections alone drew a blank. It is desperate to mobilise the Hindu votes and enacted the pranks in Tenkasi—kudos to Tamilnadu Police who have exposed their nefarious intentions.

The Tirunelveli Police have also indicated that the explosives used in Tenkasi are similar those used in the Makkah Masjid blast at Hyderabad. They have also indicated that these blasts would not have been triggered without the knowledge of the top brass of Sangh Parivar outfits in Tamilnadu.

In the light of the revelations of the Tamilnadu Police, the CBI should reinvestigate the Makkah Masjid Blasts and other Blasts which took place in different parts of the country. In all these blasts, there is a general feeling that mechanically the investigating agencies have blamed certain outfits and booked innocent persons instead of the real accused. Will the CBI and Home Ministry wake up"?

These incidents follow the `terrorist' attack on Nagpur's RSS Headquarters, which were branded as fake by the Nagpur Police itself, and the Nanded Blasts, the Modassa incidents and the recent Kanpur blasts where Bajrang Dal members were found to have been making bombs.

A Narco test was conducted on some of the RSS affiliates accused involved in the 2005 Nanded blasts at the Bajrang Dal Headquarters. The results are startling:

"Hindu terror is here, if investigating agencies are to be believed. The arrest and subsequent interrogation of Sadhvi Pragya Singh, an Army officer and others for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon blasts of 2008 indicate the growing involvement of rightwing Hindu activists in terror acts. While 'Hindu terror acts' are made out to be a relatively new concept, the fact remains that the first signs of Hindu terror came to the fore as way back as 2006, when a bomb went off while bding assembled in a Hindu activist's house in Nanded, Maharashtra.

Confessions by those arrested in that incident, during a narco-analysis test, throw light on how some Hindus decided to execute terror strikes, their modus operandi and the source of funding. Two of the accused have spelt out in detail the reason for them taking the terror path, and investigating officers say the causes are very similar to the one being attached to the recent Malegaon blasts. Manoharrao Pande, one of the accused in the case, said they were trained in handling explosive devices. He also said one of the persons, Himanshu Pande, who died while assembling the explosives, was a master at it. He said all terror attacks that occurred in the Marathwada region, including in Jalna, Purnea and Parbhani, were planned by Himanshu. The explosives, he said, were stored in a gym and the same was brought by Himanshu from Pune.

Fund-raising: While businessmen from Saudi Arabia are believed to pump in funds to sponsor terror by Islamic groups, some Hindu groups mobilised funds from locals. Pande said they had collected Rs 45,000 for making bombs and a minor part of this amount came from the money earned by the gym. He also mentioned that some rightwing Hindu outfits and local political leaders supported them. The motive: Another accused in the same case, Bhanurao Vithalrao Choudhary, during his narco-analysis test spelt out the motive behind carrying out terror strikes in the country. He said the bomb that exploded by accident in Nanded was actually meant to target a mosque at Aurangabad the next day. He, too, mentioned Himanshu, saying the latter was the one who told them they needed to fight Muslim terror.

Choudhary said Himanshu was perturbed by the fact that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim [Images] had got away unpunished and hence revenge had to be exacted. According to Himanshu, Dawood was responsible for the Gateway of India blast in 2003 which killed many. Sanjay said the motive behind the attacks that were planned by them was to safeguard Hindutva by targeting the Muslim population in the country. Aleem Faizee, social activist working for the Malegaon blast victims, said during investigation the police recovered a map depicting the Aurangabad mosque. Worse, the cops also found fake beards and Muslim outfits. The intention was to plant bombs under the guise of a Muslim to mislead investigators into believing that the bombs were planted by Muslims.

Interestingly, the statements given by some of the accused arrested in connection with the recent Delhi blasts mentions that their leader, Riyaz Bhatkal, had told them the blasts were being undertaken only to avenge the Mecca Masjid blasts which, he believed, were undertaken by some Hindu outfits to shift the blame on Muslims. Faizee said the recent developments in the Malegaon case and the revelations by the two accused raised a doubt regarding the perpetrators behind various other blasts that rocked the country".

While the RSS is almost getting away with murder, the medical center of the All India Insitute of Medical Sciences refused to give the postmortem reports of the Muslim boys killed in the September 18th Batala House encounter in Delhi:

"Petitions filed under the RTI Act in connection with the October 19 encounter in Batla House have generated more controversy than information. Information in the matter was sought from the NHRC, AIIMS, Delhi Police and the Supreme Court by petitioner Afroz Alam Sahil. Afroz Alam wanted information regarding postmortem reports and the doctors involved from AIIMS, and also a copy of the postmortem reports…in a reply, officials from the AIIMS Trauma Centre stated they could not pass on information related to medico legal records under sections 8(1)b and 8(1)h of the RTI. These sections are meant for information expressly forbidden to be published by any court of law or tribunal, or the disclosure of which may constitute contempt of court.

An irate Afroz Alam states in his blog, Soochna Express: "The denial of information by AIIMS is illogical. In this case, the court has not issued any orders regarding the Batla House case and we are not violating Section 8(1)b of the RTI. They said that information cannot be provided because it would impede the process of investigation or apprehension or prosecution of the offenders. I want to state that information we sought is not related to any police investigation. "

The Delhi Police and Supreme Court have not replied to the petition till now. "If institutions like the Supreme Court do not take RTI seriously, then what is the use of having such an Act?" Alam asks. The information received from the NHRC states that 2,560 cases of police encounter/alleged fake encounters have come up and it has granted compensation in 16 such cases so far".

Finally, a significant section of Indian intellectuals and business leaders have come out in support of Sonal Shah. In signed statement they have distanced themselves from VHP and RSS and said that they believe Sonal is `distanced' from them. Here is a list of the signatories:

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research

Tarun Das, Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industry

Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for Advanced Studies of India, The University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, Convenor, Lok Satta Party

Ajay G. Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited

Pankaj Chandra, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Reuben Abraham, Professor, Indian School of Business

Roopa Purushothaman, Head, Future Capital Research

Veena Siddharth, Vice President, International Division, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Former Asia Division Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch

Amongst these names, Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a respected columnist of Indian Express; but Tarun Das, Devesh Thakur and Ajay Piramal are known to have RSS-VHP links at some point. In fact, Ajay Piramal belongs to the Piramal group of industries which has in the past has donated liberally to the RSS, VHP and several other organizations. Other corporate individuals have all had RSS links at some point or the other. And Veena Siddharth, in her own words stands guilty by association.

Liberal intellectuals in India have shown an amazing blindness to the fascist threat. In at least two Times of India edit page pieces, written by Yogendra Yadav and Brinda Karat, the Central Committee member of the CPI-M, the line of argument is the same that Muslim communalism must be condemned first; Hindu communalism is basically restricted to a few groups and likewise. Yogendra Yadav performs the unbelievable somersault of actually talking about `Hindu grievances'—he of course has nothing to say about the arrest of Saadhvi Pragya Singh, and the opening of a whole net of worms which day by day is exposing people in the army, members of Parliament of the BJP and top administrators, as terrorists involved in bombing Muslim areas in Malegaon and Hyderabad, incidents in which initially Muslims were arrested!

The entire conspiracy underway stinks from top to bottom—it seems that the RSS, in keeping with its history of organizing riots, an uprising against the secular Indian nation-State established in 1947 with British help, and pogrom against not only Indian Muslims but the Indian Communist parties as well, has now brought majority communalism to its logical conclusion. This is what Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru had argued all along—that majority communalism is more dangerous than minority communalism as the latter is defensive while the former has the ability to turn the Indian State into a fascist entity.

This is what is happening—the Indian State is turning fascist bit by bit—it is not going to survive for long. The latest revelation in the Malegaon incidents has an army officer saying that Muslims helped him in organizing the Malegaon blasts in Muslim areas. Last month the Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Hasan Ghaffoor held a Press Conference in which he states that Muslims helped him in nabbing alleged (Muslim) masterminds of the Delhi-Ahmedabad blasts from Poona!

What is happening? There is a conspiracy within a conspiracy—something sickening—it seems that Muslims boys angry over the Babari Masjid demolition in December 1992 were detained and tortured by Indian security agencies. A databank was made of these boys and they were allowed to go; then before Gujarat riots, Narendra Modi called a meeting of Muslim leaders, for `educational purposes' in Gujarat. This meeting was surrounded by Police personals; later, it turned out that the entire affair was set-up masterminded by Modi himself! The Muslims present in the 2001 meeting were all profiled and entered into a database—then their names started cropping up as masterminds of the Indian Mujahideen after the current spate of blasts!

Now where has Indian Mujahideen gone? The name of a new Muslim organization cropped up in relation to the Assam blasts. But even that name disappeared—now ULFA has come out openly to state that RSS is behind the Assam blasts.

When respected individuals like Brinda Karat write about BJP's double standards, they are right. But one gets the feeling that they do not have the full picture at their disposal. Brinda and others have consistently refused to acknowledge at least in print that SIMI and the Indian Mujahideen are basically inventions of the Indian security agencies. Brinda only has to watch the recent American film `Body of Lies', starring Russell Crow to see how terrorists are invented by security agencies.

Amaresh Misra