Global Scholarly Community: Made in America ‘Indian’ Leftists and their comical ways
By Radha Rajan 21 February 2016
When you spit at the sun you should not complain when what went up obeys the law of gravity and hits your face on its return journey. As little known facts about Rohith Vemula and the reasons which drove him to take his life appeared in the public domain, the 129 self-proclaimed “global scholarly community” (GSC) who wrote an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (UoH) in less than 48 hours after Vemula committed suicide, probably kicked each other’s derriere for getting it wrong on all counts; and for creating the situation where like the emperor, they were seen to have no clothes.
Their collective spittle instead of landing on the face of the country’s Prime Minister, Minister for Human Resource Development and the Vice Chancellor of UoH as they had intended, came flying down towards their faces under the weight of their scholarly falsehoods. This article is law of gravity in action because Rohith Vemula’s suicide and GSC’s foolish letter precipitated the imminent expose that India’s institutions of higher education - IIT Madras, UoH, FTII, the largest and foulest of them all, JNU and almost certainly other universities and colleges have become the hunting ground for seditionists and secessionists, some abroad, some here with the active and deliberate instigation and encouragement from some members of the teaching faculty.
At the heart of the matter was the fact that Rohith Vemula’s suicide was not a case of Dalit harassment by his “political rivals”, meaning Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), as deliberately misrepresented by the GSC but the culmination of a series of events triggered by Vemula and his treasonous friends belonging to Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) offering prayers inside the university campus for terrorist Yakub Memon, the day after Memon was hanged to death. But for the GSC, in the war against India, truth was an expendable commodity. While I think the GSC letter is both brash and insolent, as a student of English I also find the semantics of their self-anointment both comical and queer.
Going by the contents of their letter which have been conclusively disproved and discredited, the letter is hardly scholarly and this is not a “scholarly community” global or otherwise. These are 129 college and university teaching staff, which like the teaching faculty in the Humanities in IIT Madras and JNU, have very ordinary minds filled with very ordinary ignorance driven by Hinduphobia - around fifty each from the USA and UK besides eleven from Germany, four from Canada, two from France and Norway and one each from Singapore, Netherlands, Italy, Qatar, Karachi, Denmark and South Africa and one signatory who except for his name has not specified what or from where.
While Global Scholarly Community is not quite Order of the Garter, the appellation also suffers from lexical and logical semantics, another sign of ordinariness. “Scholarly” bent of mind we understand and “scholarly” lecture; but “scholarly community”? If 129 individuals in the world call themselves “global scholarly community”, rules of lexical semantics say the rest of the global community is un-scholarly. Or did they actually mean community of scholars as opposed to community of imbeciles? Any which way “scholarly community” is a semantically flawed construct while “global” is a logical semantic flaw. A hundred teachers - fifty each from the UK and USA out of a total of 129 is hardly global and 129 individuals from among the total world population calling themselves “global” is akin to a speck of dust grandly proclaiming itself to be the cosmos.
Why Indian Leftists are in America and why America allows them to graze on capitalist pastures
First things first; having chosen to leave India and live in another country of their choice, the Indian origin GSC members (no matter which country’s citizenship they now have) forfeited the right to demand anything from any Indian authority. Aliens may call themselves anything - Global Scholarly Community, Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), human rights activists, USCIRF, or Busybodies Without Borders - but Indian officials and Indians in public life including the Vice Chancellor of UoH are accountable only to the Indian people, Indian government, Indian parliament and Indian judiciary. Second, non-Indians in this list are only “global” sewage inspectors with no locus standi in India. The letter therefore and its contents do not merit any response.
This article is about the cringing cowardice, total absence of intellectual integrity and fidelity to truth of these bleeding-heart GSC who have not squeaked or whimpered, forget writing letters to protest against racism in American universities and even relentless persecution; but they did get together ‘”globally” to write to the vice chancellor of a university in India because GSC is Left and Vemula’s suicide was an excellent opportunity to beat up Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, the rest of the world Right, Left and Centrist perceive to be the most successful and powerful symbol of Hindu political assertion. In India, Hindu nationalism is neither Right nor Left; it is Right, Left and Centre and all spaces in between but that is a theme for another essay.
Emboldened by the fact that neither the state governments of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu or Karnataka nor the central government had dealt appropriately with student hooligans in FTII, APSC hooligans in IIT Madras, and ASA anti-nationals in UoH who offered prayers for Yakub Memon, students of JNU and their communist faculty mentors decided to prod the BJP worm again. They held a commemorative meeting on the third death-by-hanging anniversary of another terrorist Afzal Guru, on February 9, inside the JNU campus. S.A.R. Geelani, former lecturer in Delhi University and Afzal Guru’s sidekick, was invited to JNU where not only was a film on the dead terrorist scheduled to be shown but anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru slogans were also raised.
Later on February 10, S.A.R. Geelani gave an encore performance at the Press Club of India knowing well that he will get his two minutes of notoriety on television channels. The GSC spittle which went up after Rohith Vemula died, and was supposed to gather momentum on February 9 in JNU, came flying down when Kanhaiya Kumar, President of JNUSU was arrested for anti-national activities inside the university and sent to police custody while S.A.R. Geelani has been charged with sedition and several students have now been arrested/detained by the police.
Fishing in treasonous waters, political leaders peddling different political ideologies united by Hinduphobia and their fear of Narendra Modi and led from the front by Rahul Gandhi, descended on JNU in support of students who made martyrs of Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru. If Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister can describe Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as freedom fighters then the same twisted logic can describe Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru as martyrs in the cause of the global caliphate. The Islamic State has tasted blood and is certain to want more.
Congress, JDU, CPI, CPI (M) and Trinamool Congress are now emerging as India’s domestic political front for jihad against India and apologists for IS. And in a macabre replay of history, just as Imperial London stood by and watched (and covertly supported) Muslim jihad against the Hindus, America is watching from the sidelines as jihad raises its head menacingly yet again. For America, like for Imperial London, jihad against Hindus and India serves their geo-political objectives and so long as their backyard is not threatened, they see no need to kill the monster.
If anything they are breeding little monsters in their own backyards to be used in target countries; and that is why Washington and London are baying for Julian Assange’s blood. Assange exposed the Generic Church’s military-industrial complex (MIC) crafted world order and the methods used to put that world order in place where 10 Downing Street and the White House are expected to play only supportive roles. MIC is new for old Bretton Woods Bandits.
These Leftist South Asia “experts and scholars” of the GSC kind are farm-bred creatures who have been domesticated and trained by America for a purpose. These have been bred in captivity by the American political establishment and therefore cannot act independently. Hindu nationalists who accuse them of duplicity should know that America allows Indian Leftists to graze on American university and other pastures only because they produce anti-India, anti-Hindu manure to throw at India and India’s Hindus. These “South Asia” creatures have been permanently genetically modified so that there is an unbroken supply of anti-India quislings who are bred for anti-India dung.
Ghadar produced PROXSA which produced FOIL and FOSA which mated to produce Coalition against Genocide which has now spawned GSC and AJA - these are fly-by-night entities and their one-night stand issues begot Angana Chatterjee, Akhila Raman, Shashi Bulluswar, Vijay Prashad, Meenakshi Ganguly and countless others. These Made-in-America Indian Leftists and Anarchists who continue to manufacture anti-India dung for the privilege of grazing in America’s capitalist pastures have been trained as South Asia experts, entrepreneurs, and human rights defenders in American farms and Noam Chomsky is the American farm manager.
It is Chomsky’s job description to make sure that the dung produced as natural result of grazing on American pastures is not used against America; as America’s official professional dissenter, that is Chomsky’s sole prerogative. While Chomsky may call America the most fundamentalist country in the world, that liberty may not be taken by Indian American quislings; they may however sing hallelujahs to Chomsky.
Other South Asia creatures which America breeds in its geo-political factories include Pakistan’s ISI, LTTE’s FETNA, Nepal’s anti-monarchy offspring of Marxist-Missionary cohabitation, Khalistanis, Cubans and Iraqis of the Ahmed Chalabi kind.
It must mean something that America refused to hand over Headley to India and even if Headley is singing like a canary from American soil and it is a command performance, notwithstanding Headley’s so-called damning indictment of Pakistan’s ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Barack’s America has finalised the sale of eight F16 fighter jets to Pakistan. But again as mentioned earlier, presidents and prime ministers have little to do in geopolitical games except to support the MIC as it re-arranges the world pecking order to its taste or maintain silence when they disagree.
Or if you are India and Barack is your friend you are allowed to squeak in protest, nothing more. It is also the way of MIC world order that Modi’s NSA like P. Chidambaram may only send proof dossiers to Pakistan demanding action against 26/11 terrorists but may not send the army or elite commandos into Pakistan to extract and/or exterminate Dawood, Hafeez, Masood and Lakhvi.
When victims push back—the all-American persecution of Ward Churchill
“We of the global scholarly community make an urgent appeal that justice be done in the most recent case of caste discrimination in Indian higher education, that of the University of Hyderabad’s prejudicial suspension of five young Dalit men pursuing PhDs. It was ordered under political pressure, without even allowing the young men in question to speak in their own defence. It directly contravened an earlier decision made by the University administration itself, which had exonerated them of any charges of wrongdoing – charges which had been trumped up by political rivals opposed to the activism of these young men.”
The GSC letter on the face of it was about Dalit persecution in India’s educational institutions to which we gather they opened their eyes like Aamir Khan and his wife only after May 2015 when Narendra Modi became prime minister. They had hoped that their letter which was generously laced with anti-Hindu political prejudice and unsubstantiated innuendos would invite the negative attention of other international predators who ignore overflowing sewage in their backyards but make a living out of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and who GSC hoped would force Modi and his government on the defensive. This article is about how the dung manufactured by Indian “South Asia” Leftists is India-specific and will therefore take up racism in American universities and the persecution of Ward Churchill as two of the best cases in point.
Ward Churchill is a Native American author and political activist. He was Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder until 2007 when he was fired for “research misconduct” which is polite for “we cannot admit publicly that Native Americans and African Americans do not enjoy the same privileges and rights like white Americans but you have to be punished and made an example of for your anti-white American research and books and politically incorrect views on 9/11.”
Once in 1995 and then in 2000 I picked up several books authored by important Native American writers, African American authors and thinkers, books about African American feminism and eco-feminism. These were books that looked critically, even harshly at the foundations of what is today United States of America - Slavery, Atlantic Slave Trade and the genocide of Native Americans by European Christian hordes from 1492 when Columbus landed in North America until the present day; and because these are written by the victims of white Christian colonialism, the narrative is credible and legitimate.
The two most definitive and scholarly books on the genocide of Native Americans have been authored by David Stannard and Ward Churchill: The Conquest of the New World: American Holocaust by David Stannard, Oxford University Press, 1992 and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1997.