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Arun Shourie's Ass Whupped
Updated 10:50 PM May 26, 2000
By Sid Harth
Arun Shourie's Ass Whupped
I, personally, like Arun Shourie. This has nothing to do with his literary talents. Everyone should have Arun's presence of mind and sharp eye on things happening around.
Alas! That is how much I like him. I guess, not much.
I like Deccan Chronicle too. Maybe too much. They are very astute and do not mind inviting rabid RSS to downplay what they present with adequate proof and strong arguments.
When Deccan Chronicle writer, editor, guest columnist writes, I listen. That is how much I like Deccan Herald kind of journalism. Not flashy, not titillating almost plain Jane affair. The truth comes in all shapes, sizes, colors including but not limited to black and white. No adornment are necessary when the truth needs to be presented. No introduction, rather glowing, puffy, and full of superlatives.
Here is how one Deccan Chronicle mangles Hindu hoodlum, Arun Shourie, now a minister in the RSS rats' cabinet.
Trust Shourie to create truth: Book
Guwahati, May 26: “Arun Shourie can be appointed to the Ministry of Truth. He is capable of producing truth at his whim, of changing, transforming and making it mean the opposite.
He can create history, rewrite it, re-interpret it to suit any of his theories and speedily change camps and take the opposite position.” These are excerpts from a booklet called A Cry in Pain widely circulated by some organisations in the Northeast.
Besides launching an attack against the Sangh Parivar, the booklet has targeted journalists reporting ongoing conversions and other Church- related activities in the Northeast and elsewhere in the country.
Though the booklet claims that the Press Watch Cell Nagaland has published it, insiders say the booklet has been compiled and published by some Christian organisation in New Delhi and was circulated among selected readers.
The booklet, strictly for selected intellectuals and largely for in- house circulation, has also criticised the national media for wrongly portraying the image of Christian missionaries in the country.
A copy of the booklet in the possession of this correspondent has devoted more than six pages on Union Minister of State Arun Shourie, charging him with being “an eloquent spokesman for the Hindutvawadis.”
It says: “Arun Shourie is a highly gifted writer. He was educated by the Christian missionaries, the very people whom he pictures as anti- national. He recounts the mistakes of some individual Christians several generations ago to humiliate the present generation of
Christians.”
“If he is so keen on remembering the mistakes of the Christians in that era, let him also remember the attitudes and practices prevalent among his co-religionists at the same period of time.
Let him recall how British efforts for reform, under missionary
inspiration, were seriously opposed by the Hindutvawadis of that period...” it adds. Obviously upset with Shourie’s writings, the Christian outfits have tried their level best to project him as a representative of the upper caste.
It says, “The Christian missionaries provided the much needed social criticism for the transformation of Indian society those days. Those who loved their country, like Raja Rammohan Roy, called for reform.
Others like Arun Shourie and Kamath today felt threatened and began building up a philosophy for maintaining status quo and perpetuation of the domination of the higher castes over the masses.”
It adds: “Don’t blame Arun Shourie alone. He is representative of a streak in our national character. Under the leadership of men of that calibre we cannot rise. They lead the nation today.
Their interest is the nation’s interest. Any criticism of them is an anti-national activity. It was their ancestors that expelled Buddhists from this holy land, who hijacked the Bhakti tradition, who took over the leadership of the socialist movement.”
As we are talking about heinous Hindus proving or disproving, yeah, disapproving scandals of yesterdays, todays Hindu shenanigans need no attention from the Hindu hoodlums such as our slick Willie, Arun Shourie.
Hindus suck big time. Here is a substantial proof, thanks to the Indian Express dated May 27, 2000.
Phone records make CBI zero in on Delhi captain Ajay Sharma
RITU SARIN
NEW DELHI, MAY 26: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has zeroed in on Delhi's Ranji Trophy captain and former Test cricketer Ajay Sharma as one of the crucial links in the match-fixing case they are investigating.
Voluminous phone records examined by the agency have shown that Ajay Sharma has been in touch regularly with ``several'' members of the current Test squad, including former captain Mohammed Azharuddin, as well as a number of identified bookies. ``Ajay Sharma has emerged as an important link in the case and we are planning to question him soon,'' said a member of the CBI's investigating team.
The numbers of a Delhi bookie and restaurant-owner, Ratan Mehta, figure prominently in the reams of print-outs of telephone records obtained by the CBI. These records pertain to a five-year period, and sources say if the need arose, records prior to that can also be asked for.
While Sharma left for London sometime in April, ostensibly to play county cricket for the Padiham Cricket Club, Mehta is said to have gone ``underground''. The CBI has visited Mini Mahal, the restaurant owned by Mehta in Vasant Vihar, but could not learn anything about his whereabouts.
The agency is now in the process of contacting the Secretary of the Padiham Cricket Club (located at Burnley B B 128, JS, England) to find out whether Sharma is actually on contract to play with them till September as they have been told. The CBI has learnt that Sharma holds a valid passport issued in June 1998.
The CBI is said to have obtained this information from Sharma's wife, Sanjana, was well as his employers, the Central Warehousing
Corporation. Once the information about his contract with the Padiham Cricket Club comes in, the agency may decide to question him on the phone about his frequent contacts with bookies and cricketers.
Sharma made his debut for India in 1988 and played 31 One-day
internationals but only one Test match against West Indies. Since then, he has been popular only in the domestic circuit.
But his association with the Indian players obviously did not end and, sources say, besides being in constant touch on phone, Sharma
wasregularly visiting the hotels where the Indian squad was staying during international fixtures. His contacts with bookies intensified during these tournaments.
Ajay Sharma has been juggling at least four to five cellphones and CBI sleuths are going through the laborious exercise of listing the names and numbers of players and bookies called. His links with Sanjeev Chawla, the Delhi-based bookie who left for London when the match- fixing scam broke, as well as Kishan Kumar and Rajesh Kalra -- prime suspects in the case being handled by the Delhi Police -- are being investigated. His assets, business and professional income are also being looked into.
While these are leads collected by the CBI, it is to be recalled that a mysterious Indian player whose name begins with ``A'' finds mention in the Hansie Cronje tapes. A weekly news magazine had earlier described Sharma as a ``cricketer-bookie king'' and published a list of phone calls exchanged between Mohammed Azharuddin and Sharma in March this year (during the India-South Africa series).
The telephone record was the result of surveillance done by the Delhi Police, and the magazine had reported that between March 1 and April 18, Ajay Sharma had run up a bill of Rs 12,000 on just one cellphone and that some of the numbers called belonged to well-known bookies in Delhi.
Copyright © 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
Sid Harth..."RSS bastards like Sudheer Birodkar are exhuming the dead and deluded dunces of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar faggot kind while Hindu morality takes a dive in Delhi."
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