அசீமானந்தாவின் அதிர வைக்கும் பேட்டி!

எந்த பயமும் இல்லாமல் ஆர்எஸ்எஸின் மோகன் பகவத்தின் தூண்டுதலால்தான் இத்தனை காரியங்களையும் செய்தேன் என்று துணிச்சலாக பேட்டி கொடுக்கும் இவனை நமது ஊடகங்கள் எந்த சலனமும் இல்லாமல் பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும். இங்கு சொடுக்கி முழு கட்டுரையையும் படிக்கவும்.


யாருக்காக இந்த கொலை வெறி! முற்றும் துறந்த ஒரு சாமியார் அப்பாவிகளை கொல்வதுதான் இந்து தர்மமா! அன்பையும் அஹிம்சையையும் போதித்த இந்திய வேதாந்திகளின் வாக்குகள் என்னவானது? இந்த ஆர்எஸ்எஸின் பின்னணியில் நாளை பிரதமராக அமரத் துடிக்கும் மோடியின் ராஜ்ஜியம் எப்படிப் பட்டதாக இருக்கும்? எனது தாய் நாட்டின் எதிர்காலம் மிக சூன்யமாக தெரிகிறது. முழு கட்டுரையையும அதில் வந்துள்ள பின்னூட்டங்களையும் படித்து தெளிவு பெறுங்கள்.

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"SWAMIJI KO BULAO,” the jailer ordered. Call the Swami. Two police constables scurried out of the jailer’s office and onto the grounds of the prison. A deafening noise reverberated through the room, as if a hundred men outside the walls were howling at the same time. It was visiting hours in late December 2011 at Ambala’s Central Jail.

After a few minutes, Swami Aseemanand, the Hindu firebrand accused of plotting several terrorist attacks on civilian targets across the country between 2006 and 2008, stepped into the doorway of the jailer’s office. He wore a saffron dhoti and a saffron kurta that hung down to his knees. The clothes were freshly ironed. A woollen monkey cap was pulled down over his forehead, and a saffron shawl was wrapped around his neck. He looked bemused to see me. We exchanged namastes, then he ushered me through a door into an adjoining room, where clerks in white dhoti-kurtas were poring over titanic ledgers. He sat on a large wooden trunk behind the door, and instructed me to pull a chair from a nearby desk. He was informal, like a good host, and asked me about my visit. “Somebody has to tell your story,” I said.

This was the beginning of the first of four interviews I had with Aseemanand over more than two years. He is currently under trial on charges including murder, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and sedition, in connection with three bombings in which at least 82 people were killed. He could also be tried for two other blast cases; he has been named in the chargesheets, but not yet formally accused. Together, the five attacks killed 119 people, and worked as a corrosive on the bonds of Indian society. If convicted, Aseemanand may face the death penalty.

In the course of our conversations, Aseemanand became increasingly warm and open. The story he told of his life was remarkable and haunting. He is fiercely proud of the acts of violence he has committed and the principles by which he has lived. For more than four decades, he has loyally promoted Hindu nationalism; during much of that time, he worked under the banner of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s tribal affairs wing, the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA), spreading the Sangh’s version of Hinduism, and its vision for a Hindu Rashtra. Through all this, Aseemanand, who is now in his early sixties, has never diluted the intensity of his beliefs.

After the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Nathuram Godse and his accomplice Narayan Apte were executed by hanging and cremated at the Ambala jail, in 1949. Their co-conspirator, Godse’s brother Gopal, was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment. “I’m kept in the same cell as Gopal Godse,” Aseemanand proudly told me. Today, Aseemanand is perhaps the most prominent face of Hindu extremist terrorism. Journalists who met him in the years before the bombings described him to me as an extraordinarily arrogant and intolerant man. What I saw in the dark records room of the jail was a man subdued by his imprisonment, but void of remorse. “Whatever happens to me, it’s a good thing for Hindus,” Aseemanand told me. “Logon me Hindutva ka bhaav aayega”—it will stir Hindutva among the people.

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