Why taxpayers’ money is being wasted for Mother Express?
Why taxpayers’ money is being wasted for Mother Express?
By Rupang Bhatt
Ahmedabad, 30 November, 2010
When I was in school, there was a chapter on Mother Teresa(MT) in my text book. I was taught how great human being MT was. By reading a chapter on MT, I too was impressed and throughout my student age I continued to have an impression that MT was like God walking on this planet.
Thankfully, I have grown up, and I’m realizing the reality today. I can easily conclude now that MT’s lesson in my text book was purposefully injected, and that could be surely a smart work of those who want to ultimately convert this nation to Christianity, like they did in Latin America, Africa, South Korea, like they have done in north east India and south India, like they have done in Gujarat’s Vyara or Dang and in many other parts of the world.
The lesson(still being taught) in the text book creates an impression that if white Christian missionary travels to India from foreign land, he/she does so to serve the people here. He/she sacrifices his/her life for poor and hungry person of our nation. And what a smart work? Each and every child in this country who goes to school, studies MT’s chapter in text book and start believing in her, and thus in missionaries.
They the men from missions actually come to India to convert the people here. And by doing this, ultimately they start dictating everything. In Kerala the Church dictates voters prior to election time openly.
The problem with MT’s charity work was that, conversion activity was involved under the wrapper. The other point is that her activities were over hyped, and purposefully marketed.
While religious conversion is legal in this nation, and hyping somebody’s charity is also legal, our problem should be that, the government jumps in this band wagon as an instrument, an agent and also as catalyst.
The latest is Mother Express initiative of central government. A whole train with moving exhibition about MT is being run by central Railway ministry.
Who pays for it? A tax payer.
Who visit it? Children and teachers of Christian missionary operated schools, newly convert or those in pipeline of conversion process, and ofcourse many other curious visitors.
Incidentally, the Mother Express entered in Gujarat exactly on the birth anniversary day of Shri Thakkarbapa.
Thakkarbapa was Gandhian social worker who devoted his life to tribal upliftment in remote corners of Gujarat. The service that Thakkarbapa offered to tribal people of Gujarat was amazing. Thakkarbapa never liked the motives of Christian Missionary ‘Muktifauj’, but Bapa didn’t attack ‘Muktifauj’ in Bajrang Dal style. Instead he started serving the tribals in far flung areas by establishing ashrams and schools there. Even today, wherever Thakkarbapa’s ashram are functioning, the missionaries are not there.
And like Thakkarbapa, there are many other who worked for upliftment and betterment of lives of poor people of this country. Even if I look around me just randomly, there are names like Jalaram bapa or Mekran dada who deserve ‘Bapa express’ and ‘Dada express’. It is our failure that we don’t promote these and many other selfless workers nationwide, against planted, funded, hyped and government supported promotions of MT.
One of the tendencies we the people posses is that we are impressed by everything that comes from abroad. Perhaps because we were ruled for about two centuries by whites. Our Yog was very much in existence, but when the western world started recognizing it by saying ‘Yoga’, we too started respecting ‘Yog’ as ‘Yoga’. We are impressed with MT as she got Nobel prize, but who knows whether that too was a global plan of influencing the people here, with prize as tool?
Why can’t there be a nationwide express train with moving museum on Aadi Shankaracharya?
Suppose if we demand such train, the ministry would definitely refuse it by saying that – India is secular country.
Interestingly, if we question why govt is operating Mother Express, or providing Haj subsidy, the government would give same answer that – India is secular country!
While figures of expenses behind Mother Express are not available at this time, the cost borne by the Government for Haj in 2007, 2008 and 2009 was approximately Rs.476.75 crore, Rs.894.77crore and Rs.689.91crore respectively. Now this is official figure taken from parliament records.
We don’t know whether central Railway minister Mamta Banerjee started this Mother Express to please Sonia Gandhi or not. Mamta has asked centre to release new coin projecting MT. We can’s understand that if MT was active in Bengal, and that thing excites Mamta as she is also from same state, then why didn’t Mamta demand a new coin projecting Swami Vivekananda or Ramkrishna Paramahansa?
Lastly, in inaugural function of Mother express, the Railway Passenger Amenities Committee chairman Derek O’Brien, while sharing his attachment with Mother Teresa, said that Sonia Gandhi had sent him a message wishing Mother’s birth centenary programmes all success.
If you didn’t spot something interesting in last two lines given above, then read it again.
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Note to the editor of deshgujarat :
Here,I wish to point out something you have written about religious conversion is legal in this nation.you are right when you say religious conversion is legal in this nation but exception to this rule, we have anti conversion law in 6 states Gujarat, rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Himachal Pradesh.The rule for this clearly says that the people who convert by “force”, “fraud” or “allurement” are subjected to legal prosecution.
It should be called CONVERSION EXPRESS and not mother express.
Very very good article !!! I am french, and unfortunately born christian …. I had no choice … my parents put me in the christianity as I was only 1 day old !!!
But, after years an years, slowly I began to feel how wrong was this religion. Infact, behind the pseudo-christian charity, they are carrying hate for the other faiths, and espacially Hinduism, considered by them as superstition.
Mother Theresa was a part of this way of thinking. Her charity was only in the purpose to convert people to Christianity.
Also, what is important, and reported even by american doctors, she was believing that suffering is redeeming. Because of that christian’s dogma, a lot of people have been suffering in her “hospitals”, receiving only some aspirin, as they were at last stage of cancer …….
And now, they are trying to let her recognized as a saint !
In 2003, I made a shruddi ceremony in Arya Samaj to be a part of Hinduism, and my hindu name is now Shakuntala.
I love India and indian culture, so I hope that you will fight against this peril that is christianity for indian Traditions.
You have the best culture in the world, BE PROUD of It, and resist with all your possible strenght !!!
Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat
This Teresa express is intended to carry out more victims like Priyadarshini Maatoo around the country.
To prevent this mischief perpetuated by the goondaaraj Kangress conversion machinery, EVERY Hindu (be they from any panth) should carry out at least ONE good volunteer work EVERY DAY with TOTAL selfless intention, and convey वंदे भारत मातरम्!
Listen to your parents guru, Care for your near and dear ones and always think of the poor/unfortunate ones before throwing away your money and precious free moments in cheap entertainment. The best way to come up is to think जय श्री राम!
I am sorry to say but unfortunately seeds of conversion are sown by hindus only. Problem of hindu religion is ..it has always stayed away from the real problems of the society and some castes were deprived so badly. Lower castes were forced to live like animals.
We cry when people get converted to christians but where were we when those poor people needed medicine, education, a little bit of support. None of the hindu organisation came looking for them.
Christian missionaries rightly recongnised that vacuum and helped those tirbal people. No doubt, missionaries had their own objectives to achieve but at least they helped those tribes and dalit people. Gave them new name and the respect in the society.
Even today in 21st century, Hindus have not grown above the cast system. Situation is still very bad in villages. How many upper caste people are ready to buy food items from a shop owned by a Harijan / Dalit in any town ?
If anyone interested more, read “Swami Sachidananda”. He has rightly pointed out the root causes of conversions.
Until, we eradicate those problems from hindu society, we can’t stop conversions. At least, we can start with is ..make people aware of such conversion issues and realise the reasons ….Good work DJ.
I do not know whether DeshGujarat will publish this letter or not.
Before anything, please let me tell you, I am a Hindu and proud to be a Hindu. I think Hinduism is much mature than other religions. But…
Are we not being blind to ourselves? OK Christian missionaries are doing charity for conversion. But where are we? How many of our DharmaGurus are doing such things? (Situation has improved, but not to a satisfactory level). When a missionary comes, he/she builds a school and a hospital first. We build temple first. In my opinion there are too many temples now. There is a need for schools, colleges and hospitals. I know some sects run schools, but they have to obey all the rules of those sects. This is not the case with Christian run schools. My son has studied in Christian run school from nursery to 12th standard. He was never told to attend church or perform any ritual of Christianity. If we Hindus have problems with conversion, why don’t we go to the poor, serve them, educate them and convert them to Christianity? (Problem will be in which caste they will be put? Whether they will be untouchable?!!) Of course there are some names like ThakkarBapa etc. But we have to search for them. While they have a lot of such people.
Subsidy to Haj yatris and Madresas is definitely a vote bank politics of Congress and has to be opposed.
We Hindus have a lot of elements which should be discarded. (There may be such things in Christianity also. But instead of making their line shorter, let us make our line longer). Killing of girl fetus, difference in developing a boy and a girl child, Dahej, untouchability, division of Hindu society in so many castes etc etc. Let us first remove them.
MT or any other receiving Nobel Prize is fixed by some global plan. For example, Gandhiji did not receive any Nobel prize, but Nelson Mendala, who influenced by Gandhian thoughts did. President Carter can win the prize for being instrument of Israel-Arab peace treaty, but Gandhiji not honored for freeing India from slavery.
As far as Christian Missionary concerns, they behave like the camel in ” Camel and Arab Story”, ask for letting to be in and slowly take over. This happened in any country. I happened to be in Tamilnadu, where girls were not allowed to put on the gajara (jasmin garland) on their hair in the christian school since that was hindu tradition.
Now here, one problem is from us being Hindu which I have seen in the US, people put their children in christian school on the name of education and do not realize the pitfall.
Fortunately, so many Christians whether Catholics or Baptist, started to realize this blasphemy, just as Marie Clotilde did. Even in the US, Southern Baptists Churches exploit and influence politics.
Good example, President Obama has been branded as Muslim, Gov Bobby Jindal has to explicitly condemn Hinduism to prove his Christian faith in order to win as Governer of Louisiana. His parents and in laws both are Hindu and he married according to Indian custom.
True way to resist this conversion, is by instilling Sanatan Dharma in our life and spreading the thoughts. If each of us can be powerful by thoughts and have firm roots in our powerful heritage no one can break it. We even had resisted against the brutal force. Only thing we need, as Swami Vivekanand said ” Arise lion” we are lion’s cub, We can show the world: Way of living, Way of thinking and Way of Worship”
@Gujarati,
You are right. Sachchidanand has analyzed the problem rightly. I like his ideas. He is a real rationalist Hindu. But our traditional Hindu society will not accept. We are more interested in ‘Moksha’ and not real world problems. We run away from them. When we point one finger to other, we have to remember that the rest of the fingers are directed to us only.
There is no point in blaming Christians. They definitely are doing work for the poor (let their ultimate goal be conversion). We have to improve ourselves.
In my earlier letter, ‘If we Hindus have problems with conversion, why don’t we go to the poor, serve them, educate them and convert them to Christianity?’ should be read as ‘If we Hindus have problems with conversion, why don’t we go to the poor, serve them, educate them and convert them to Hinduism? ‘
Sorry for the error.
CAST SYSTEM.
Let me shock you guys. English started bringing cast system propoganda to divide Indians against Indians.First act of Company colonial sarkar was to do survey of hundreds of thousands of Gurukul type schools and universities in Indian states, having surveyed they ordered their immediate closer. And forbade any one donating towards or opening any Gurukul.
Then Macauley introduced English schools to make indian into westernised oriental gentleman (WOGS, now a swear word)Englishmen who hated their race and culture. This was to break Indian natives as they called all who lost to them.During English occupation Indians were slaves,and no more.
They started denigrating 9studing in their schools reading their controlled news media( they still do control) cast systems. Having been educated we stupidly follow them , without thinking.
Cast system was meant to be positive a social organisational engineering that protected Indian civilization and culture for 5/6000 years even under foreign occupation.
Brahmins were teachers educators so they were given higher status but were forbidden to work so they had to live by begging or Daxina so power will not go over their heads.
Rajputs were to sacrifice their lives ,Rajah owned all land but had to respect educated but poor Brahmins.In rational world politicians are the bigheaded as they have become to day in corrupt India.
Vaishya are business men always well to do but there status is lower so they respect a poor brahmin and a not so well off soldier.
People who were mentally ill and did not have skills or education served and became sudras.
All the cast were inter changeble.
Rawon was a Brahman but became a king a kashtriya. Valmiki was a mugger but became a rishi.
Patels were Kshatriya in Punjab but came to gujarat and are now Vaishyas.
Rajputs like Chavhan,Parmar are now low dawn because they now dont work as soldiers.
Do you remember when a child is born a Janma Kundli is made it also says what work you will do so that is your cast according to profession,decided by the position of heavens.
You know in England they decided to organise society so they came up with words like
Aristocratic.(not mentioned but it exists, read wiki leaks prince andrew))
upper middle class (Politicians.Rich.CEO.Professionals)
Middle class ( vaishya, and employed))
Lower middle class( un employed , dirt poor, mentally ill, disabled, Sudhra)
You bcan not abolish classes. Even communists failed in Russia and China.
Don’t forget even to day you are under a rule by not legally meant to be a PM, but is she not the power behind MMS? a foreign woman who is guided by catholic vatican and western proxy bodies from behind the scenes.
Even now you and I wont mind her ruling India if she was’nt such a corrupt and fraud, who ordered the murder of thousands of Tamils (so her part in using octovio to arrange through Prabhakarn) in Rajiv’s death will not be exposed.
@Soham.I think you have not heard about swami asimananda.he has been doing exactly what you have mentioned in the poor tribal belt including dang.he has successfully brought many people back to hinduism.he has been doing this for almost 10 years.Swami asimananda came from bengal and made gujarat his home.I think you you have not heard about “sabarimala” as well founded by swami asimananda.but sadly, swami asimananda has been arested without any proof by these so called secular congress organization CBI.we have anti conversion law as well in gujarat implemented in 2003 which is after Shri narendra modi became CM of guajrat. only 6 states have anti conversion law.
What a great article???????????????????? DeshGujarat really worries about tax payer money!!!!!!!!!!
DeshGujarat should mention more on 2G scam (which was a loot of Rs. 1,00,000 from 1,76,00,000 Indian citizens which equal to Rs. 1,76,000 crores). CWG scam which was a loot of (Rs. 70,000 from 1 crore people totaling to Rs. 70,000 crores) and Aadarsh Society.
It seems Desh Gujarat is selectively becoming Gujarat ONLY news by avoiding negativity! Most people reads news at national level if not international level.
I think RSS should take this congress corruption issues on hand and heavily protest throughout India to prove that they are really serving society to the nation.
May God Bless Righteous if not All!
p. s. Salute to Hari Gamadiyo’s thought of one selfless volunteer work a day!
I have said this before and I will reiterate it today that in India with Congress Government in power and corrupt media supporting them,
“Either you are a minority or you are communal.”
Definition of Secularism per Congress is Secularism = Minority Appeasement
I am sure the day Muslims stop voting for Congress, they will find significant improvement in their lives.
@great gujarati,
I do not mean that there is no Hindu Sadhu/Swami who had done anything for the poor. Of course there are few of them. But compared to Christian missionaries, the number is very small. Now our Swamis should build schools (which will teach formal education with no compulsion to follow that particular sect practices.) and hospitals instead of building Temples. We have got enough temples now.
@Chandu
Why are we always blaming others for our defects? You have given examples of conversion from one Caste to another, but have forgotten ‘Shudra’. Caste system is one of the biggest blot on Hindus. Caste system has divided Hindu society. Forgotten Eklavya? Of course British people have oppressed India. But they have done many good things also. One of them is Raja Ram Mohan Roy was able to abolish ‘Sati Pratha’ with the help of British. (I hope nobody will advocate ‘Sati Pratha’!!!!).
Sonya has approved a move to take Hindu Gods and goddesses names of Public transport in all congress ruled states.
This is to eliminate Hindu religion.K
‘Secularism’ hits Govt buses in Red Kerala
24/10/2010 15:03:13 VR Jayaraj | Kochi -Daily Pioneer
In Left-ruled Kerala, special bus services of public-owned Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) operating to places of worship will no more bear signs of praises to God, religious symbols or pictures of deities. The corporation’s headquarters has reportedly issued orders regarding this already.
Special KSRTC buses operating to the Hindu pilgrim centres used to bear signs like “Swami Saranam”, Saranam Ayyappa” and “Amme Narayana” but these would be avoided totally from now on. According to the corporation, this step is being adopted to avoid problems related to religious sentiments.
As part of the new bus-secularization move, special buses plying to Pampa, the base camp for the shrine of Lord Ayyappa among the Sabarimala mountains, would not have such signs or pictures of Lord Ayyappa. The Sukta “Swami Saranam”, which used to be printed on the tickets for the special buses, would also be avoided.
The annual 70-day Sabarimala pilgrimage season, during which an average of four crore devotees visit the hill shrine, will start on November 17 this year. The new secularization programme in the KSRTC is expected to be implemented on the special buses from this season itself.
A circular in this regard was issued to all units of the KSRTC by its Chief Traffic Officer In-charge and Executive Director (Operations) on Thursday last saying, “(Suktas like) Swami Saranam or Amme Narayana should not be written on buses or printed on tickets or exhibit religious symbols, suktas or signs while conducting special services”, a report said.
A report quoted Kerala’s Transports Minister Jose Thettayil as saying that the inscription of religious suktas on the buses could create controversies related to religious sentiments. It said he had given instructions in this regard to the managing director of the corporation earlier.
erala has already taken steps.
I fully agree with Chandu that castes are also existing in the west …..
Western people are always speaking badly of castes in India, but what about their own differences ?
For exemple, my parents had a backery in North of France, where there are a lot of rich people from the textile industries. I remember very well that, when there was a wedding, they managed to organize 3 separate receptions for three different “castes” we can tell, and the sweets bought by them were differents according to the category of people …. Is it not a “caste-mentality” ?
And now, when people are talking about castes, I used to ask them : Ok we are in Occident…. here there are supposedly no caste……… and how many advocates are spending their week-ens with dustmen ????
It is easy to see the mote in the neighbour’s eye …… What about the piler in our’s ????
If someone reads how Christianity was spread in the most parts of the world (Before it came to India, which given its cultural heritage, could only be won through non-violent socio-economic engineering, and not by force) – will not rate caste system more than a traffic rule violation.
Than you Shakuntla.
To day, those who study Indian Philosophy from outside know more about the deeper meanings of it then copy repeat media’s brain washed captive and kept ignorant by design indian population.
THE CAST SYSTEM WAS NOT ABOUT DISCRIMINATION BUT AN ORGANISATION OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY AS A USEFUL COG IN THE WHEEL.
The word Dharma in Sanscrit does not describe a religion. But Dharma is an acknowledgement of a citizens and a mombers of community,town or family’s set of viverse but personal code of self governance values and responsibilities.
If the casts were meant to be used to discriminate, then how can Sudama a very poor Brahmin boy can study in the same Ashram gurukul as Krishna a nobel mans son. How can krishna meet and play with ordinary town heards men and woman?
Also important concept in Ancient Indian Society was taking care of danger of human Personality disorder.
Sudama a poor Brahman’s son had to go with Krishna , a noble mans son to near by towns to beg for food and grains for all students and teachers of gurukul.
Humbleness was a virtue taught to all citizens.
East India Company took a survey and found almost every town had several free schools, children of all casts studied together.But they note more so called lower caste students studied then Brahmins children.They passed a law and closed all schools, with punishment for any one who donated or started a free Indian school.
In todays Indian Macauley type schools if you can’t make a big donation you cant get admission
But in Todays India with Macauley schools and colleges
Sorry.
My computer is set to USA (spellings) English and tries to correct strange indian names and words.
It also rearranges sentences and words causing strangely unfamiliar corrections and errors.
Even i cant accept or recognise my writings.
I wish DG introduces a temporary loading with spellings correction ability.
@Marie Clotilde,
Why are we worried about what Western people do? We have to see to ourselves only. We have to learn a lot from an average Western person like Obeying to rules, punctuality, cleanliness, straightforwardness etc etc.
It is beyong doubt that Caste System has done harm to Hindu society. Even in today’s world, don’t we see ‘Honor Killing’?
@ Soham
My purpose was not that you have to worry about what western people are doing….
My purpose was to set the facts in their true light, that means that, as Chandu has well explained, castes are also existing in Occident, even if it is more hidden, and if we don’t dare to call that “castes”.
We prefer to tell “levels of society”, it is more “clean” …..
But I insist, it is existing, and this system is also pitiless, even if (I repeat) it is hidden.
Also, may I be allowed to say that you seem to idealise the western world….. If you come here with such illusions…..you will have a very bad surprise !!!!
PLEASE VISIT THE LINK GIVEN BELOW AND READ ALL THE ARTICLES WHICH EXPOSES THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY BJP , HINDUISM AND ULTIMATELY INDIA.
http://www.itimes.com/public/people/xby9uh16cqdxq5j02k8fvsgr/blogs
Marie Clotilde,
Thanks for throwing some light about them as well.
Soham wtf does caste have to do with the topic at hand which is about taxpayer money being wasted on Xtian stuff?
Are you too freaking stupid to understand that?
Let me guess, you are one of these urban “upper castes” who wants to feel good by chatting sh*t against caste because that will make you look “progressive”. No one made you a spokesman for any other caste, as a Koli I detest people like you who want to act all holier than thou and try to act like you have some mandate of talking on our behalf.
If Xtians are so casteless then why are they demanding reservations for “Dalit” Christians?
Stick to the topic, taxpayer money should not be funding Xtian and Muslim crap. Get that through your one track mind and stop bringing in other issues like caste to a topic that has nothing to do with it.
As a christian I support my fellow christians in India
My forefathers were Hindus (Brahmin) but I am a proud Indian CHRISTIAN. No, matter what anyone says, I shall follow JESUS CHRIST to my last breath. No one can force someone to convert, it is a sin. One can totally accept the scriptures only by thorough learning and understanding it. Yes, there will be persecution for Christians in India but still the Gospel of Christ will be preached and will be accepted by many not by force but by understanding the scriptures.
I hope my comment gets published. May the good Lord bless all.
Your’s faithfully,
Anupam Sharma