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Babur

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I choose to write this, only because everyone's talking about it these days. As a history enthusiast it is my humble attempt to write what I feel really happened and objectively to see what is right. Let us suppose, someone drives you away from home. They occupy your house illegally . After some time, let us for the sake of ease assume 15-20 years, your son, tries to get back the land. But his brothers and sisters, brand him communal! Yes communal! They call him a religious bigot and a fundamentalist. They turn a blind eye to the fact that his house has been illegally occupied. Does all this sound like non-sense. How can this happen in today's world you say? Well, welcome to the largest "democracy" in the world. Welcome to Pseudo Secular India! "You are communal! You are a hard liner! You are anti-minority!" I get this from all my pseudo secular friends. It does not matter that I reverently bow at Sufi Shrines. It does not matter to them that I can quot...

How much do I love you?

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How much do I love you Oh mother what am I without you? Blessed are we to be born In your blessed soil never felt forlorn You are of civilization the cradle Your purity and perfection are to others a riddle Beautiful forests, mountains and streams are all over Why go to heaven, You are of happiness the bestower Your holy soil produced the Vedas With relish took incarnations did the Devas The lord manifested again and again As saints, Sadgurus and Avatars in your divine region The children you reared Never any land invaded Only came out messengers of peace From this beautiful place Barbarians came into your divine land They too were blessed by your bountiful hand Oh mother you are like a river pure For both good and bad, quenches thirst sure Or like a bountiful tree Which gives fruits when stoned for free Why should you be victimized oh mother? By the devil to the west and to his east his brother? Their agents are crawling all over Why dost thou give them shelter? Your own children are ...

It is Communal

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It is communal to punish those who displaced thousands of Kashmiri Pandits It is communal to punish the perpetrators of the 1984 riots who murdered Sikhs It is communal to hang Afzal Guru It is secular to malign and "grill" Narendra Modi It is secular to investigate Malegaon It is secular to help thousands of Bangladeshi immigrants It is communal to help Kashmiri Pandits who are refugees in their own country Hats off to the justice system in India, Hats off to the UPA government and the Media Having sold your soul to the devil, you continue to perpetuate crimes against the innocent It is only a matter of time, before your wicked deeds hit back at you I pray to the lord, to rescue the nation from you demons Where are the Savarkars, the Madan Lal Dingras and the Tilaks We need them more than ever Come forward oh brothers and sisters and all well wishers of the nation Put aside your differences and help the nation Which alone can preach the world Values of Tolerance, love and Go...