Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Kerala - Terrorist Camps of Another Kind
On one side when the Hindu population in Kerala have a high rate of suicides there are hardly few Hindu NGOs. They fail to work, pauperised Hindus have no background in this area. While there are hundreds of Christian NGOs, they become the saviours. Lavishly supported with state funds, though they get aid from the international church agencies, these are active not just in Kerala but across India. The state government has a coterie of minority officials and politicians who manage this for the last several decades. They have people in the central government as well, it is an old nexus. Places like Thiruvalla have innumerable agencies which pool in international church funds and send it to myriad organizations across India, from tribal movements in the nooks and corners to famous urban (secular, leftist) NGOs. The latter make the buffer as they give the legitimacy through media statements etc and the church outfits do the dirty work later.
Politically also they are powerful and can swing votes without being noticed. For example some of the Kerala organisations were behind the precipitation of tribal home land movements like Jharkand, many in North East. Later the Hindu organisations cleverly took the winds out of their sails in Jharkhand when the BJP itself demanded separate states. In the North-East they are having a free for all and could turn Nagaland in to a Christian state in no time. Men and money flew in from Kerala. It goes on unnoticed. Meghalaya is a mini-Kerala with the Syrian Christian community from Kerala calling the shots. They manage to place their people in important posts there. Many of the divisive groups also get funded, the 'Hindu India' is different from 'Tribal India', 'Christian India' are common refrains here. Tutored for convenience.
Almost all of the Christian NGOs are run by the Syrian Christian community of the state. Kerala also has a substantial population of Latin Catholics, converted by the Portugese earlier, and other converts but they are not as rich or powerful. Perhaps they did not know the commercial applications of faith. As the Portugese were the arch enemies of the British, the Latin Catholics did not prosper like the Syrians who were clever and converted every time a new European church came ashore. With the Portugese, Dutch, British. The last a watershed for them. They have all the Christian denominations of sub-faiths in Europe and more. Funded by each one. Just as they have Communists, Congressmen.
While operating in the north many of them are good samaritans. Thus 'Father' Thomas Kochery, a fisheries sector crusader from Kerala, is known only as Tom Kochery in the North, the 'Father' prefix and the ceremonial dress are dropped. They have also penetrated the media at all places and can manipulate public opinion, it is all part of planned strategies. The leading Malayalam newspaper from the Syrian Christians, Malayala Manorama can make or unmake governments in Kerala. They toppled the Karunakaran government once with a fake story of espionage in the ISRO, got their man A. K. Antony in the Chief Minister's chair. 60 to 70 percent of secular Malayalis read Manorama still!! It is the Kerala Bible. How now Kerala is 'leftist and secular' but ruled by the Muslim League and Christian Kerala Congress. People fear to tell that they are Hindus, it sounds 'communal'. That is secularism in Kerala.
They created the myth of 'savarna fascism' upper caste oppression to neutralise the Nairs and the Brahmins. Following the foot steps of the cunning missionaries who wanted the leading communities to be weakened. Media reach of the groups rendered the so called 'upper castes' confused, the mass hypnosis made the others suffer a 'persecution complex'. Later this spread all over India. The Syrian Christians were themselves promoting untouchability as history tells, but they keep silent on that and present conversion as the tool of liberation. Their offer of heaven to the tribals in Kerala however ended up as hell, they stole their lands and threw the tribals out. What is forgotten is that there are social hierarchies, not seen by the people, even now. Say, does a peon eat with a Managing Director in the westernized society. But the missionary tales still run. Propaganda mills work over time and the naïve Hindus accept it, fight over that.
As the NGOs go scot free with their silent campaigns, with jargons of secularism and communalism it becomes easy to twist public opinion. What is happening all over India, but least noticed. Thus the Western Christian point of view is reinforced as the only right approach. In a post-colonial society this is easy and the tool of NGO helps in the exercise. Not that there are no NGOs doing good in the country, there are, but the fact that the Christian NGOs and funding agencies are controlling the field cannot be brushed aside. For they have tremendous capacities as they work among the grass root people. Obviously it is linked to the global economic imbalances with the Christian west controlling the world capital, resources, in the post-colonial world. How these become sensitive and tabooed topics and the western values, views and even laws are used to stop such debates. The Indian idiom suffers as a result and that cannot be in the good interests of the country. That includes all the people living in India, the minorities included.
Politically also they are powerful and can swing votes without being noticed. For example some of the Kerala organisations were behind the precipitation of tribal home land movements like Jharkand, many in North East. Later the Hindu organisations cleverly took the winds out of their sails in Jharkhand when the BJP itself demanded separate states. In the North-East they are having a free for all and could turn Nagaland in to a Christian state in no time. Men and money flew in from Kerala. It goes on unnoticed. Meghalaya is a mini-Kerala with the Syrian Christian community from Kerala calling the shots. They manage to place their people in important posts there. Many of the divisive groups also get funded, the 'Hindu India' is different from 'Tribal India', 'Christian India' are common refrains here. Tutored for convenience.
Almost all of the Christian NGOs are run by the Syrian Christian community of the state. Kerala also has a substantial population of Latin Catholics, converted by the Portugese earlier, and other converts but they are not as rich or powerful. Perhaps they did not know the commercial applications of faith. As the Portugese were the arch enemies of the British, the Latin Catholics did not prosper like the Syrians who were clever and converted every time a new European church came ashore. With the Portugese, Dutch, British. The last a watershed for them. They have all the Christian denominations of sub-faiths in Europe and more. Funded by each one. Just as they have Communists, Congressmen.
While operating in the north many of them are good samaritans. Thus 'Father' Thomas Kochery, a fisheries sector crusader from Kerala, is known only as Tom Kochery in the North, the 'Father' prefix and the ceremonial dress are dropped. They have also penetrated the media at all places and can manipulate public opinion, it is all part of planned strategies. The leading Malayalam newspaper from the Syrian Christians, Malayala Manorama can make or unmake governments in Kerala. They toppled the Karunakaran government once with a fake story of espionage in the ISRO, got their man A. K. Antony in the Chief Minister's chair. 60 to 70 percent of secular Malayalis read Manorama still!! It is the Kerala Bible. How now Kerala is 'leftist and secular' but ruled by the Muslim League and Christian Kerala Congress. People fear to tell that they are Hindus, it sounds 'communal'. That is secularism in Kerala.
They created the myth of 'savarna fascism' upper caste oppression to neutralise the Nairs and the Brahmins. Following the foot steps of the cunning missionaries who wanted the leading communities to be weakened. Media reach of the groups rendered the so called 'upper castes' confused, the mass hypnosis made the others suffer a 'persecution complex'. Later this spread all over India. The Syrian Christians were themselves promoting untouchability as history tells, but they keep silent on that and present conversion as the tool of liberation. Their offer of heaven to the tribals in Kerala however ended up as hell, they stole their lands and threw the tribals out. What is forgotten is that there are social hierarchies, not seen by the people, even now. Say, does a peon eat with a Managing Director in the westernized society. But the missionary tales still run. Propaganda mills work over time and the naïve Hindus accept it, fight over that.
As the NGOs go scot free with their silent campaigns, with jargons of secularism and communalism it becomes easy to twist public opinion. What is happening all over India, but least noticed. Thus the Western Christian point of view is reinforced as the only right approach. In a post-colonial society this is easy and the tool of NGO helps in the exercise. Not that there are no NGOs doing good in the country, there are, but the fact that the Christian NGOs and funding agencies are controlling the field cannot be brushed aside. For they have tremendous capacities as they work among the grass root people. Obviously it is linked to the global economic imbalances with the Christian west controlling the world capital, resources, in the post-colonial world. How these become sensitive and tabooed topics and the western values, views and even laws are used to stop such debates. The Indian idiom suffers as a result and that cannot be in the good interests of the country. That includes all the people living in India, the minorities included.
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"That includes all the people living in India, the minorities included."
Dear Pradeep,
One thing - There are NO minorities in India. Even SC had made this land-mark judgement recently. I dont understand why SNDP-NSS is not exploiting this like the evil Bishops.
Only terrorists, traitors and anti-nationals use this to tarnish and loot our country.
See how the Govt. and politicians respond to the attacks on Panmana ashram (no reason for the attack) and a Bishop's house in TVPM(links with spirit mafia, intra-church rivalry). Please expose this.
Raj
Dear Pradeep,
One thing - There are NO minorities in India. Even SC had made this land-mark judgement recently. I dont understand why SNDP-NSS is not exploiting this like the evil Bishops.
Only terrorists, traitors and anti-nationals use this to tarnish and loot our country.
See how the Govt. and politicians respond to the attacks on Panmana ashram (no reason for the attack) and a Bishop's house in TVPM(links with spirit mafia, intra-church rivalry). Please expose this.
Raj
Please do not generalize the syrian christian community.It is not a homogenous group.
There are numerous churches belonging to Catholic,Orthodox,Protestant ideals,and within them a dozen sub divisions.
some churches are in a warring path with court cases,violent incidents and media warfare...
The catholics,pentecostals,etc get lots of foreign money and are under foreign supervision.
While the Orthodox,Marthoma churches are entirely under Indian leadership and has almost no foreign funds.But these two communities are comparatively more prosperous.
The orthodox,jacobite groups hardly even convert people anymore,the only converts they have are from other christian churches (by marriage,voluntary change etc).
The catholic church has "rites" or smaller churches which are meant to take followers away from the syrian christian churches like jacobite,orthodox and marthoma....
so there are lot of tensions within the christian community.
Please do not be confused into thinking there is somelarge "plot" or common christian "agenda" for conversion.
Some syrian christian churches are under the threat of conversion themselves by foreign churches.
There are numerous churches belonging to Catholic,Orthodox,Protestant ideals,and within them a dozen sub divisions.
some churches are in a warring path with court cases,violent incidents and media warfare...
The catholics,pentecostals,etc get lots of foreign money and are under foreign supervision.
While the Orthodox,Marthoma churches are entirely under Indian leadership and has almost no foreign funds.But these two communities are comparatively more prosperous.
The orthodox,jacobite groups hardly even convert people anymore,the only converts they have are from other christian churches (by marriage,voluntary change etc).
The catholic church has "rites" or smaller churches which are meant to take followers away from the syrian christian churches like jacobite,orthodox and marthoma....
so there are lot of tensions within the christian community.
Please do not be confused into thinking there is somelarge "plot" or common christian "agenda" for conversion.
Some syrian christian churches are under the threat of conversion themselves by foreign churches.
we people whether hindus christians or muslims communists come from the same stock INDIAN.
we avoid paying taxes,we see that our courtyard is clean by putting all our waste into our neighbours courtyard, we blame outsiders for all our woes (germany , japan russia have been devasted in world warsto cite an example) we make laws but no one is ready to follow them, nepotism rules the roost.
and keep blaming the british, portugese, french, mugals,the west and may be martians in future for everything.
have we been able to implement a single law thoroughly?
how can we divide people into hindus, muslims, christians communists etc and say that they are responsible because there are hindus muslims christians communists etc in other countries also and all these problems do not exist in those countries. This is essentially an INDIAN problem.
thattipu and vettipu are our hallmarks from time immemorial.
unless we obey the laws in letter and spirit and wrong doers are not punished we will have all sorts of troubles
we avoid paying taxes,we see that our courtyard is clean by putting all our waste into our neighbours courtyard, we blame outsiders for all our woes (germany , japan russia have been devasted in world warsto cite an example) we make laws but no one is ready to follow them, nepotism rules the roost.
and keep blaming the british, portugese, french, mugals,the west and may be martians in future for everything.
have we been able to implement a single law thoroughly?
how can we divide people into hindus, muslims, christians communists etc and say that they are responsible because there are hindus muslims christians communists etc in other countries also and all these problems do not exist in those countries. This is essentially an INDIAN problem.
thattipu and vettipu are our hallmarks from time immemorial.
unless we obey the laws in letter and spirit and wrong doers are not punished we will have all sorts of troubles
i doubt why the nair community failed to recognise chattambi swamikal? where sri narayana guru was unanimously accepted by the ezhava community. the merging together of the ideals of these two gems of kerala could pave the way for the reserruction of the kerala hindus.
may god bless us all.
may god bless us all.
Dear Pradeep,
Syrian Christian community came to India in the first millenia when Kerala was ruled by Chera and Pandian kings and the country when Buddhism,Jainism and Dravidian religeon reigned supreme. The Syrian Christians were not definitely Namboothiris as they would like us to believe as Brahmins migrated to Kerala en masse only after 800 AD due to the Muslim threat in the north. Namboothiris as an ethnic group evolved only after 1000 AD same time when Nairs are mentioned for the first time in the Thiruvalla Sasanam. In none of the Sangha literatures Nairs are Namboothiris are mentioned. The pre Nair History of Kerala prior to 800 AD is safely forgotten by Christians as well Nairs.
There should not be any doubt that the Syrian Christian community which was an absolute foreign minority group in the 1500s (about 10000 to 20000),who were using foreign languages ( Syriac or Pahlavi) for sermons were rapidly transformed by the blood wealth and power of the Portuguese. They remained as a single group under the Portuguese until the Koonan Kurisu Declaration in the 1650s. The Syrians mixed freely with the Portuguese. Portuguese while looting burning down many Temples in Cochin and Kottayam areas built most of the Syrian Churhes in the Kottayam area. The admixture of foreign blood especially Portuguese created a people who are half European and Half Syrian who hardly have any respect for Dravidian traditions.
The Nairs who had mixed with Northerners and perhaps partially Aryans or Scythians themselves imposed strict Varnashrama Dharma on the predominatly Dravidian populace. The ancient Kerala before the arrival of Nairs before 800 AD never had untouchability or four fold caste system. This led to large scale conversions under the Patronage of Portuguese. The new converts eventually joined the Catholic and Syrian churches and formed the Malayalam speaking Christian community.
The Americans and Germans in the 1950 onwards promote this foreign tribe at the expense of Native Dravidians. Many hilly areas in the southern India the Native populations especially tribals have been completely diplaced by Syrians. Some of the tribal populations have become completely extinct in many areas. The Kanikkars who once ruled the hills of Kottayam no more own any land.
Though in Kerala the Christians are about 25 percent of the population all the key posts are held by Foreign blooded Christians especially Syrians and Portuguese descendents who form the cream of the society. The native Dravidian converts occupy a lowerer hierarchy in the Syrian Church.
If the Syrian Christians are accepted as an upper caste in kerala it sets a dangerous precedent. Any foreigner can come and settle down in India and be readily accepted as a high caste. Most of the foreigners are fair so they will be fairer and taller than native Dravidians. Gradually all the people with native Dravidian blood including Nairs will be thrown to lower rungs of society as more and more foreigners are yet to come in the future to Kerala and India.
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Syrian Christian community came to India in the first millenia when Kerala was ruled by Chera and Pandian kings and the country when Buddhism,Jainism and Dravidian religeon reigned supreme. The Syrian Christians were not definitely Namboothiris as they would like us to believe as Brahmins migrated to Kerala en masse only after 800 AD due to the Muslim threat in the north. Namboothiris as an ethnic group evolved only after 1000 AD same time when Nairs are mentioned for the first time in the Thiruvalla Sasanam. In none of the Sangha literatures Nairs are Namboothiris are mentioned. The pre Nair History of Kerala prior to 800 AD is safely forgotten by Christians as well Nairs.
There should not be any doubt that the Syrian Christian community which was an absolute foreign minority group in the 1500s (about 10000 to 20000),who were using foreign languages ( Syriac or Pahlavi) for sermons were rapidly transformed by the blood wealth and power of the Portuguese. They remained as a single group under the Portuguese until the Koonan Kurisu Declaration in the 1650s. The Syrians mixed freely with the Portuguese. Portuguese while looting burning down many Temples in Cochin and Kottayam areas built most of the Syrian Churhes in the Kottayam area. The admixture of foreign blood especially Portuguese created a people who are half European and Half Syrian who hardly have any respect for Dravidian traditions.
The Nairs who had mixed with Northerners and perhaps partially Aryans or Scythians themselves imposed strict Varnashrama Dharma on the predominatly Dravidian populace. The ancient Kerala before the arrival of Nairs before 800 AD never had untouchability or four fold caste system. This led to large scale conversions under the Patronage of Portuguese. The new converts eventually joined the Catholic and Syrian churches and formed the Malayalam speaking Christian community.
The Americans and Germans in the 1950 onwards promote this foreign tribe at the expense of Native Dravidians. Many hilly areas in the southern India the Native populations especially tribals have been completely diplaced by Syrians. Some of the tribal populations have become completely extinct in many areas. The Kanikkars who once ruled the hills of Kottayam no more own any land.
Though in Kerala the Christians are about 25 percent of the population all the key posts are held by Foreign blooded Christians especially Syrians and Portuguese descendents who form the cream of the society. The native Dravidian converts occupy a lowerer hierarchy in the Syrian Church.
If the Syrian Christians are accepted as an upper caste in kerala it sets a dangerous precedent. Any foreigner can come and settle down in India and be readily accepted as a high caste. Most of the foreigners are fair so they will be fairer and taller than native Dravidians. Gradually all the people with native Dravidian blood including Nairs will be thrown to lower rungs of society as more and more foreigners are yet to come in the future to Kerala and India.
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