View From The Right: The Greater Good

Support For PM

The cover story in Organiser, ‘Noteworthy Qs’ is about the people who support the demonetisation move of the Central government. It quotes persons like auto-driver Radheyshyam who says: “Saaheb, I know that I am unable to pay my auto installment this month because of the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, still I am with Modiji in this fight against black money.” It underlines that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar “has openly supported PM Modi’s move” and says that “demonetisation has stunned political parties, especially, in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab”. “Former Chief Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi also supported the move and welcomed Modi’s decision,” it says.

The article says that a “large number of common man is facing problems in withdrawing their money but they are happy with the decision of scrapping notes”. “There is some temporary inconvenience but it’s a great move,” said Sudhanshu Pathak, a vegetable vendor. It also notes that after demonetisation “terror funding has come down to zero in Jammu and Kashmir”, as “stone pelting and other subversive activities virtually came to standstill in Kashmir in recent days”. “It is known to everyone that Naxalites have a long list of foreign and anti-India elements funding to buy arms and ammunition,” it says, adding that “according to the media reports, following the announcement of demonetisation, Naxals have stashed over Rs 7,000 crore at their dumps in Bastar region”.

Leftist Tyranny

An article in Panchjanya says that “the Leftist writers have very cleverly controlled Hindi literature”. “A piece of literature could be quality work, but if it is not written by a Leftist, the piece gets trashed.” “On the other hand, poor work by a Leftist writer is praised and its writer rewarded,” it says. “Literary parameters did not decline in a day,” it says, adding that “its beginning can be traced to the progressive era (1936)”. The Hindi poetic syntax was destroyed in the name of experiments that left the Hindi poetry impoverished in terms of form. It names writers like Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan who also experimented with poetry but “they were not despotic and destroyers like the progressive poets”, but had “creative” sensibilities. It then notes the anomalies in this year’s Bharat Bhushan Agrawal award given to young Hindi poets. Shubham Shree, the winner this year, has written some fumbling sentences but “Leftists poets, who have destroyed Hindi poetry in the name of experiment have spotted an experiment here too”. The reason for this award, the article says, is that “she also follows the same ideology” as was followed by the jury.