(Context: Tony Blair's Foreign Minister Jack Straw was in India in 2002. That time he accepted that Kashmir issue was created by British policy. There are times when the truth slips out of the mouth of the shrewdest person. So it slipped out of Jack Straw's mouth as well. Now this is a different story that people like Miliband don't understand or act insane on purpose. I am sharing an article written on Jack Straw's 'confession' back in 2002)
Mr. Jack Straw Sahib,
Prostrations, Me Lord. You are Foreign Minister of the mega-empire that build our nation (India). You are worth worshiping, even though your name has 'straw' in it. Ever since you have become a shameless wagging dog of US, it seems there is only straw (fodder) in Britain. In fact, here in our country we don't even have that. Whatever little fodder was left for animals, the politicians have scandalized it (Fodder scam). For us you are a 'jack' - a support apparatus to remove a punctured tire. Even if Britain is now only a 'master of none' but for us you are still a 'jack of all'.
Actually Britain sucked India dry. From a 'Golden Sparrow' it became a wandering beggar. There was a decent enough national integrity which you dismantled by dividing among religion. On this basis the itch you started has now become decaying leprosy. In the Jalianwalla Bagh (fenced park in Amritsar) the marks of your love for justice are still intact. Your queen is a gutsy lady. She came here, saw the Jallianwala Bagh, but didn't express the slightest of guilt or sorrow over the massacre of 1919 of innocent civilian men, women and children. Macaulay spent the money for Indian education on a new education system to inbreed clerks for the British empire. Filled Indians with an inferiority complex for India itself. We have started considering not only our language, culture, food, history, traditions but also our parents as a thing of shame. Through the grace of intellectuals like Catherine Mayo (author of Mother India) India, over time, has gained the status of a very backward and uncivilized country in the world. The Dhaka cotton (malmal) that won't let Manchester rise, was systematically ruined just like the industry and labor of this region. Priceless things like our Kohinoor and many Indic manuscripts are still with you.
America apologized for dropping the N bomb on Japan. Pope apologized for the gross deeds of the priests. Japan apologized for its soldiers' atrocities on women (Nankin). Jews even today make Germany pay through the nose for the atrocities of Nazi Hitler.
You have shown signs of a big heart by acknowledging that Kashmir is the brainchild of England. But to sit on the chest of defeated history, you don't need a big heart but a big scumbag. India is grateful to England even today. If not for Britain who would have built the Presidential palace, Parliament building, Connaught Place, railways for us Indians? Who would have established rule of law in a lawless land? Without English, how could a multi-lingual country engage in conversation and how would have freedom movement started? In here, we still have people singing praises of the British Raj. And you are repenting in guilt? This doesn't grace the 'brave', the 'victor'.
We are still walking in your footsteps for India's progress. By regretting, you will weaken our self-confidence. Someday if you have time, come over, and we will show you how we have made English even more mandatory than air and water. All expression of thought has to abide by Oxford English Dictionary. We have been so meticulous in breeding herds of clerks that farmers have resorted to suicide. Earlier we used to burn bonfire (Holi) of foreign goods, now we pride by doing the last rites of Indian goods. Earlier, industrialists were respected and today we are eager to sell whatever government industry at whatever prices to whomever. Now, ghee,milk, fruits, grocery, cloths, grains everything has started coming from foreign. Even in this hot tropical country, people have left the natural buttermilk and fruit juices and are dying for carbonated cold drinks.
We drink even more than Europe. We have washed and dried Gandhi squeaky clean. Come and lets see, there is not even one Gandhi cap in the parliament. During election campaign a fake Sachin wearing Gandhi cap was a source of entertainment. The nation that you divided on the basis of religion, we are taking it to the natural conclusion of dicing and slicing it on caste and subcaste. You used to do education development with liquor tax. Whether or not we developed education, we have made sure to have opened a liquor shop in every nook and cranny. We never listened to Gandhi who said if they made him dictator for a day he would close all liquor shops. The old geezer was senile! How can you run kingdoms and empires without liquor? In the media we ourselves strip our sisters and mothers.
We look for reasons in films for national disrespect and riot but ourselves sell bidi and tobacco with the photo of Ganesh, Tulsi, Ram or Shiv. Women are not safe in home, college, market, office, road, anywhere! In the name of Mother Goddess Shakti, the malpractice of Sati is being praised. There is religious (dharma) uproar but actually evil (adharma) is on the soar! When you left there wasn't any debt. Now we have attained the goal of 200 billion US greenbacks (back in 2002). Population is three times and criminals will soon have a majority in parliament and legislative assembly.
Someday, take out some time and purify this land of India with the holy dust of thy Holy Feet. Come, see, the destruction and ruining that you could not complete what all we have done to ensure that and tell us what more we can do. How else can you guide us in this regard?
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Translated from the original works of Ramesh Joshi from the following blogs - Jhootha Sach (True Lies) and Joshi Kavi (Poet)
Original (c): Ramesh Joshi. Translation (c): Shashikant Joshi
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why not:)
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