1. Malicious political propaganda is being spread that exodus of Kashmiri Hindus started when "BJP man" Jagmohan was governor & BJP was in power at Center.
Let's set the record straight.
#KashmiriPandits exodus started in 1989 itself, when Rajiv was PM. Farooq Abdullah was CM
2. VP Singh, Minister in Rajiv's cabinet became PM on 02 December 1989, when Rajiv lost the election due to Bofors scandal. BJP supported him from outside, but did not join govt. In less than two months, on 18 Jan 1990, Abdullah quit as CM.
3. As if on cue, the very next day, posters appeared all over the Valley asking Hindus to leave. Calls were simultaneously made from mosques asking them to 'Convert, leave or die'. The killings began and they fleeing became a flood.
4. Jagmohan was nowhere in picture then. He was re-appointed appointed Governor on 20 Jan. Reached valley on 22 Jan. He tried to bring the situation under control, but by then it was too late. 5
5. The brutal killings & treachery of neighbours had forced Hindus to flee with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing. 5 lakh fled.
Jagmohan was not a BJP man, then. In fact he was first appointed Governor by Indira Gandhi in 1984.
6. He resigned in July 1989, and was asked by Rajiv to contest elections on Cong ticket, which he declined. Before resigning, he had warned Rajiv about the dark Islamist clouds that were threatening the Valley.
7. After being made governor again, when Farooq quit as CM, Jagmohan wrote an open letter to Rajiv Gandhi, warning him of dire consequences if nothing was done to check the Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism that had taken over the Valley.
1. "They boasted of 36 methods of torture. My body was lacerated all over. My ears were disfigured. My left hand was paralysed following the insertion of needles under my fingernails;
2. they tore my whiskers, hair by hair, & drove an iron rod up my arse. They would tie weights to my testicles & drag me on the floor by one leg, with one man sitting astride my back."
- Captain Ranbir Singh Rathaur, of 11 Garhwal Rifles who spent 11 years in jail.
3. This case starts with an arrest of gunners Swaran Dass & Aya Singh in 1975. Both were arrested for Spying for 🇵🇰 but Court martialled for Absence without leave & not espionage.
Ashokvana is close to the birth place of Hanuman, a master of Vedas.
Inspired by Adi Shankaracharya.
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Universe of Bhartiya Vidya is the syllabus taught in this Vidyapeetha.
It will include - 4 vedas, 4 Upvedas, 6 Vedangas, Puranas, Saddarsanas, Dharmashastra, Gauraksha, etc.
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It will include 64 branches of Art - including music, dance, acting, creative writing, drawing, wood carving, Vasrushastra, cooking, embroidery, handicrafts, gemology, metallurgy, art of massaging, Indian languages, traditional games, exercises along with English & Hindi.
Just visited the Adi Shankaracharya's establishment (Sharada Peetham) at Sringeri, Karnataka. What surprised me, & even shocked me was the fact that at the free meal (Prasadam) served there,
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I saw some women wearing full #Burqa , with a band of their children & their men eating the Prasadam.
Mind you, Adi Shankaracharya represents core #Hinduism and people visiting the place are staunch #Hindus .
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Obviously, the meal cooked was not at all #Halal and yet these #Burqa - wearing females and their families had no problem eating their meal there.
Needless to say, no one objected to them partaking the meal and they were served as happily as anyone else.