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JNUSU elections 2007-08 is taking place arn1dst acute national crisis. which is ideological as well as systemic Wh1le a time has come wherein 1he concept of systemic cl:lange broached by ABVP needs to be discussed in the public space, the ideological perversions set in motion by the f30iiti~a1 parties 1n power needs to be arrested. In sucl1 a cntical sit·uation when various groups are hankering for their share in .the pie and are ready to sacrifice the national interests. the student community of JNU would strengthen lhe nationalist spirit by voting for the ABVP that represents selfless dedication to nationalism and unity and integrity of India. .
The opportunism of the left stands exposed in the campus by the manner in which the anti-farmer anti-poor incidents have been takmg place in West Bengal in the form of widespread food riots and killings of farmers in Nandtgram and Singur It is most shameful to note that the CPM activists in collusion of the Pollee are committing genocides in West Bengal and forc1bly grabbing the lands of the farmers. While the left was vocally opposing the SEZs throughout the country it went on to implement it in Stalinist manner in West Bengal Finding that the obsolete and obscurantjst Marxist ideology that led to the collapse of USSR and other communist countries as redundant, the communists have finally moved towards extreme capitalism and anti-people measures. .
In the recent years, under the UPA we have seen the re-emergence of the politics of minority appeasement with Sachar Committee report and attempts to give reservations on religious lines The most recent examples being the granting of reservations to Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh despite the courts verdicts to the contrary. While divisive vote bank polrtics 1s shamelessly practiced by the UPA and left, Vande Mataram is opposed. Bhagwan Ram is portrayed as my1hical and Ramsethu is sought to be destroyed seeking to humiliate and insult the feelings and religious sensibilities of the Hindus. The UPA .
has been also reckless in making India an appendage to the global capitalism thereby creating a situation wherein a large number of farmers are compelled to commit suicides, price rise has become the order of the day and poor sections of the populations continue to grovel under acute poverty. While anti na1ional forces like terrorism, maoism and naxalism are strenghtening their position in lhe country. the UPA government at the centre is busy in striking nuclear deal with the US compromising the national security and long-term .
national interests On the campus, AISA-SFI has continued to indulge .
themselves in lumpenism denigrating the student activism .
and JNUSU by taking the registrar of the university, Mr. Avais .
Ahmad hostage. They were able to escape punishment by .
writing apologies to the university and due to some shady dealings with he administration without the knowledge of the student community They have remained inactive despite the fact that so far around 450 P-! Category students have not got the hostels accommodation. They have not spoken a single word on the implementation of M.Phii!Ph.D fellowship from April 2005 and have accepted the administration's dictates in this regard. To demand Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for economical'ly and socially deprived sect1on of the society is also not on the agenda of the SFI-AISA led JNUSU.There is also an unfortunate trend wherein the caste-politics has entered the realm of JNUSU elections at the behest of the communists and Youth for Equality (YFE). The divisive caste politics played by these outfits have further vitiated the university environment. .
Elections to the JNUSU are known to be contested on both national and campus issues That a rich climate of intellectual debate has prevailed in the campus is primarily due to the presence of the ABVP, for we are the only organization in JNU, which can justly lay a claim of having an alternative vision for the nation and the society. All other organizations are lined up to appropriate the dominant Nehruvian agenda which draws intellectual nourishment from a set of values originating from the modern European .
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intellectual tradition grounded in the century Enlightenment. What the other organizations debate among themselves is not this central agenda but their relative abilities of pushing it forward. We contest this agenda itself and suggest an alternative political, social, economic and cultural model based on a deep study, definition and redefinition of our indigenous intellectual tradition. In other words, we stand for decolonization in all spheres of national activity with acceptance of only those foreign values which can further enrich our indigenous cultural core. .
The ABVP is a nationalist student organization which stands for cultural nationalism. Even if the nation itself is a modern phenomenon -as is claimed by theorists of nationalism and nation-states the world over -it does derive popular legitimacy from the past. This legitimacy is based on notions of past cultural continuity, and shared historical memories and experiences. India being no exception to this, we reject the notion that Indian nationalism was a product merely of the opposition to colonial rule, and that the 'impact-response' model convincingly explains the 'imitation' by a colonized, 'child people' of the political institutions of the colonial masters. Our nationalism is entirely indigenous to us, and is based on a celebration of the cultural linkages -as also the . harmonization of differences through historical processes of collectivization -that can be traced back to the times of the Vedic culture, the epic tradition, the egalitarian Bhakti Movement, etc. In more recent times. these processes of national collectivization have been carried forward by the contributions of men like Gandhi and Vivekanand. and organizations like the Arya Samaj and the RSS. .
The commitment towards the celebration of our national culture would be rendered meaningless if we were to fail to make a Significant contribution to the decolonization of our education system. Our education system is strll based on the colonial model, and can be seen as a direct off-shoot of the colonial state's policy to educate a handful of lnd1ans 1n western thought, literature etc., with English as the medium of instruction. The aim of this venture was clearly hegemonic : having established political control over India, the colonizers were now seeking to perpetuate the Raj through moral, social and cultural control; through a projection of notions of 'British superiority' which were being sought to be established by the deculturization of Indians through the institutionalization of alien modes and forms of knowledge. The knowledge system thus imposed had an epistemological basis in the 'Enlightenment' discourse -the dominant intellectual tradition in Europe at that time. The categories constructed by this European intellectual tradition -such as 'progress', 'rationality', 'scientificity', 'secularism', etc. -made their way into India and have unfortunately become uncontested 'truths' for us. An alternative, indigenous system of knowledge can be structured only through a questioning of these categories and the construction of alternative categories, which have indigenous roots; which are an outcome of a comprehensive and critical study of our own schools of thought and cultural values. The ABVP stands firmly in favour of any such venture aimed at the indigenization of our education system. .
Related to the question of education is the issue of rewriting history. The initiative of the NDA government to rewrite history textbooks came in for severe criticism at the hands of the left. They argued that history was being sought to be 'saffronized' and 'distorted' by the Vajpayee government. So far as the 'saffronization' issue goes, the intellectually colonized cannot appreciate the indigenization of education and are constrained to give negative connotations to it. Where 'distortion' is concerned, any serious scholar of social sciences can understand that history is not a body of factual information but a discipline based on contesting approaches to past questions. Any interpretation based on sources and coherently argued can constitute a legitimate approach to the past But so far as textbooks are concerned, care should be taken not to make them an instrument for the propagation of a particular ideology, least of all an ideology that has no popular support in the country! The earlier NCERT textbooks played precisely this role : they selectively concealed and overemphasized facts calculated to further the political cause of the Communists and the Congress, to the total detriment of the Hindutva ideology. That is why the Modern India Textbook of Bipan Chandra, which is otherwise obsessed with 'communalism', conveniently omits the important historical evidence regarding SUJ3port. fo~ the Pakistan Movement by the CPI -the mother orgamzatton of the CPI, the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML). .
The ABVP expresses serious concern over the threat of fundamentalism of all hues -religious and 'secular' -which seeks to reduce the complex of reality to a narrow, monolithic code of ethics and behaviour. It divides the whole material and spiritual world into two watertight compartments -'truth' (which it alone possesses) and 'falsity'. While the .
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Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington Commanding General Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker and Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Commander Col. Mike Henderson presented certificates and other awards April 12 to volunteers during the joint base’s annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony in Fort Myer’s Spates Community Club. JBM-HH volunteers donated some 82,000 volunteer hours in 2015, equivalent to about $2 million of work, according to officials. (Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall PAO photo by Delonte Harrod)
With the aim of dedicated selfless service to humanity in distress, Guru Ji (Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan ) has constituted a specialised disaster relief and welfare agency called Shah Satnam Ji Green ‘S’ Welfare Force Wing…. This organisation of selfless and fearless volunteers was mooted to help during disasters and large scale humanitarian projects.
Moshington Dossfest | Scruffy Murphy's, Birmingham | 11th June | Kafka, Scrage, Suicide Watch, Honour your pain, Selfless.
That's Buster on the cover. From this a legend was born. Photo and cover by Wayne. Sunflower by nature.
caring, naggy, generous, hormonal, kind, selfless
cooks amazing food in a ridiculously short amount of time
often strides well ahead, requiring an offspring to hurry nervously after her
sings incredibly well
points out interesting flora and fauna
Just a few things that come to mind but she is so much more. I have immense respect for my mum and can only dream of being half as capable as she is.
Happy Mother's Day mummy, I'm grateful to you and I love you
pic: we shared this crayfish sometime ago and when I went to take a photo of its tattered remains, she rearranged it so that it would look "more presentable"
*rolls eyes* *face palm*
FearFest 2013 @ The Asylum 2, Birmingham. Day 2 Saturday 5th October.
Photographs by Tony Gaskin for Midlands
Rocks
© 2013 Tony Gaskin - Stagedive Photography
Revered Swami Sarvalokanandaji Maharaj, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi delivered an inspiring talk on "Bharatiya Bhava on Seva: Understanding the Roots of Selfless Service" at a seminar organised by 'Students for Service' in association with C20 (a partner of the G20 movement) at the Conference Hall, Delhi University (North Campus), June 9, 2023.
FearFest 2013 @ The Asylum 2, Birmingham. Day 2 Saturday 5th October.
Photographs by Tony Gaskin for Midlands
Rocks
© 2013 Tony Gaskin - Stagedive Photography
With the aim of dedicated selfless service to humanity in distress, Guru Ji (Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan ) has constituted a specialised disaster relief and welfare agency called Shah Satnam Ji Green ‘S’ Welfare Force Wing…. This organisation of selfless and fearless volunteers was mooted to help during disasters and large scale humanitarian projects.
Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington Commanding General Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker and Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Commander Col. Mike Henderson presented certificates and other awards April 12 to volunteers during the joint base’s annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony in Fort Myer’s Spates Community Club. JBM-HH volunteers donated some 82,000 volunteer hours in 2015, equivalent to about $2 million of work, according to officials. (Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall PAO photo by Delonte Harrod)
Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington Commanding General Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker and Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Commander Col. Mike Henderson presented certificates and other awards April 12 to volunteers during the joint base’s annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony in Fort Myer’s Spates Community Club. JBM-HH volunteers donated some 82,000 volunteer hours in 2015, equivalent to about $2 million of work, according to officials. (Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall PAO photo by Delonte Harrod)
Revered Swami Sarvalokanandaji Maharaj, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi delivered an inspiring talk on "Bharatiya Bhava on Seva: Understanding the Roots of Selfless Service" at a seminar organised by 'Students for Service' in association with C20 (a partner of the G20 movement) at the Conference Hall, Delhi University (North Campus), June 9, 2023.
FearFest 2013 @ The Asylum 2, Birmingham. Day 2 Saturday 5th October.
Photographs by Tony Gaskin for Midlands
Rocks
© 2013 Tony Gaskin - Stagedive Photography