Hindutva Propaganda = Disease!

[I started off writing this as one single post - but in the end it's becoming so damn HUGE that I've planned to split it up into parts]

The Students' Film Society (SFS) had recently organized a mini film festival called Vikalp. It screened some rare (mostly unreleased and un-certified) documentaries, two of which have really got me thinking. Both of them were on very sensitive issues and the reaction of certain sects of the audience has actually disturbed me.

The first movie was "Men in the Tree" - a movie on RSS - how they recruit, the way they organize, the "education/knowledge" that they impart to their swayamsevaks, and basically how they organize and mastermind riots (especially the demolition of the Babri Masjid).

The second movie, "The Final Solution" - was a movie on the Godhra riots. It had people (mostly Muslims) talking about the way they were brutally killed, hacked, burnt, raped by the Hindus hand in hand with the Gujarat police. Apart from other things the director had actually followed Modi on his Gaurav Yatra trail, and it made me almost puke when I heard him proclaiming that there had been no riots in Gujarat and all this is just a concoction of the "enemies of Gujarat" (Congress) to mar the BJP's and the states image!! Further on, the bastard went on to proclaim that "all this" (whatever it was) - was just a reaction to what "they" did to the karsevaks in the Sabarmati Express! He was actually justifying the riots. And then, clipping of the VHP propaganda VCDs which showed footage of the burning train and the funeral rites of the victims with a marquee (scrolling text) which read something to the effect - "These are the karsevaks that had been brutally burnt/murdered by Islamic terrorists in the name of Jihaad!"

I could go on an on about what the movie uncovered - the way the BJP/RSS bastards were clearly instigating gatherings and spreading communal disharmony - but that would be in vain - all of us know that politicians are the scum of the earth. The are mother fucking bastards!

But what disturbed me more was the reaction of the audience, students from IIT Kanpur - the so-called "cream of the nation" - the intellectuals of the country. After the RSS movie people actually got up and started shouting and giving useless arguments.

The auditorium was turning into a catfight - so the SFS folks shut down the audi and asked everyone to continue the discussion outside. So I ended up "discussing" with an RSS hardliner outside the auditorium for a complete 1 hour or so.

[Their (RSS bigots) pscyhe is so damn botched up that reproducing each argument verbatim would take up so much of my blog space that I think I'll need to put each of them as separate posts.]