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Apr 13, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have to confess and I am not ashamed in the slightest to say that I am not an admirer of India. I was educated in Canada and I do love Canadian culture and what it stands for. I think Canada is one of the finest countries on the map. It if was not a small country (over ninety percent of Canada is inhabitable) with a small population, Canada would have outshone the US for a place where people would prefer to settle
Sadly, one of the most admirable politicians of the 20th century has been overshadowed because of this smallness. I refer to Pierre Trudeau. For me, he remains one of the finest politicians the post-war world has produced. I have never been to India but my whole life I have studied world cultures and though there are fantastic things about India’s culture, there are frightening aspects of its –  acceptance of the caste system (that even a giant like Mahatma Gandhi accepted); obsession with European skin texture; inherent flaws in its religion of Hinduism (with emphasis on natural inequalities, skin colour), its permanent feudal system of politics and society; its total unconcern about the atrocities that take place in the world (in this regards it has a friend in China)
What is taking place in India right at this moment before the eyes of the world is too unspeakable to contemplate. Next month, one of two persons will become the Prime Minister and both are horribly unfit to lead that great country and I will not deny it is a great country. Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi should be in jail for crimes against humanity. This is an obnoxious human who reveled in a small episode of genocide he instigated in India
In 2002, in savage anti-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat (the state where Hindus worship the rat and where the worst bubonic plague in the world in the last few hundreds of years occurred in 1994; while worshippers pray in the temples the rats are running about on the worshippers and the food on the tables), Modi as Chief Minister, actually encouraged the pogrom. How the International Court of Justice has not charged him remains an eyesore on that body.
One of Gujarat’s most gifted poets was burned to death in the riots and if you read the account of a BBC journalist’s talk with her days before they killed her it would move you to tears. Do not go to Wikipedia for an account of Modi’s role in the anti-Muslim genocide. It white washes his participation. It may have been written by Modi himself knowing the inherent weakness of Wikipedia. For a graphic account of Wikipedia’s congenital dangers, read the page on John Mair who writes in Guyanese newspapers as Bill Cotton. Be careful what you read on Wikipedia
This same court has the temerity to continue to seek extradition of several African continent politicians for war crimes that are insignificant compared to what Modi has done. India is on the brink of destruction if this man wins. He hates Muslims, refuses to apologize for his atrocities and proclaims himself a Hindu nationalist. If he wins, one hopes all Muslim countries boycott India in its entirety
Opposing Modi is the great grandson of the first post-colonial Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nehru/Gandhi dynasty believes and accepts that it owns India. Rahul Gandhi is the son of former PM, Rajiv Gandhi. Rahul had to be head of the Congress Party because he was told this from birth. He will tell his children too that his family owns the Congress Party and India.
At forty two years, Gandhi has no political experience and I doubt he knows in which country the EU head office is situated. I doubt he knows what is the NAACP in the US. Like Sarah Palin of the USA, he probably thinks that Africa is a country and not a continent. This is what is taking place in India right now, right at this minute as voting goes on
We may have laughed at Italy when it had Berlesconi. We may laugh at our own President here in Guyana. We may laugh at the hat the President of South Sudan wears all the time. But what is taking place in India is no laughing matter. The great Nietzsche once prayed for a superhero to save the world, India better start praying for one.
Frederick Kissoon

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