Mani Shankar Aiyar misfiring on Modi

The purpose of this blog, indeed the purpose of all my literary endeavours, is to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Iyers are utterly ineducable and thus deserve Extremely Backward Caste Status.

Sadly, I can't rival Mani Shankar Aiyar in this respect.

Consider his latest article in 'Rising Kashmir'.

I think I have discovered why Modi loathes Jawaharlal Nehru so much.

It's because he let a cunt like you into the Foreign Service though, in 1962, you supported China against India while at Oxford. Modi, meanwhile, was attending an Army School where he joined the National Cadet Corps.

Nehru had a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

His major was in Botany- considered a good cramming subject for the competitive exams but not a mark of intellectual distinction. That is why he thought it plausible to argue to his Dad that he was too stupid to pass the Bar exams- which required nothing but a little cramming and the eating of dinners. Daddy, who had passed those same exams, put his foot down and so sonny boy did become a barrister.

It made him realize that to pull India and Indians out of superstition, from what Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore called “the dreary desert sands of dead habit”, modern India must cultivate a “scientific temper”, an expression that drives sanghis nuts because they like to believe the “udan katholas” of mythology were the earliest F-16s to be invented by Hindus and that Hindu plastic surgery, not a transplant operation, is what led to an elephant’s head surmounting Lord Ganesh.

Tagore had no degree and refused to become a barrister. But he did write some introductory books of a scientific nature for kids. The tragedy of the Tagore family was that the one promising scientists- who was also expected to take over their branch of the Brahmo Samaj- died young. That's why Rabi had to ponce around in robes.

For a poor and neglected section of the population to attain a 'scientific temper'- being sent to Cambridge is not an option. Instead, it is right and proper to suggest that the ancestors of those people had made scientific advances. Thus, they themselves can rise up through a scientific education. As a matter of fact, Hindus were ahead of Europe in terms of plastic surgery. One reason for this was that Indians had the habit of chopping off the noses of stupid cunts like Aiyar and thus there was a market for rhinoplasty.

Both these stunningly illiterate claims come from the mouth of none less than the PM of our country, whose acquaintance with higher education has gone no further than lying about degrees from Delhi and Gujarat University that he never got and who can obviously not tell a scientific proposition from a ‘dhokla’.

Yet Modi has achieved much while Mani is a laughing stock shunned by his own party because he loses them votes.

That, in itself, would not matter. For neither Indira Gandhi nor Rajiv Gandhi had a University degree and yet made good, perhaps even great, Prime Ministers.

The difference is that both Indira and Gandhi attended Cambridge. They didn't get degrees because they were too stupid and lazy. Rajiv was a terrible Prime Minister. But then, you had your hooks into him didn't you, you slimy little reptile?

Statesmanship is not a civil services exam and it is not necessary to go to University to reach the pinnacle of government.

Indira and Rajiv went to University. They still didn't get a degree. Rahul, on the other hand, did get an M.Phil from Cambridge. But he is a moon calf. He could have become P.M in 2013 but would not step up to the plate.

Perhaps the most famous example of that is Winston Churchill. But why lie about one’s educational qualifications – or lack of them? Unless, of course, such lying is a compulsive psychological disorder.

Mani may be a compulsive liar- a Diplomat, as the old English adage goes, lies abroad for his country. But, intelligent, useful lies are required. Stupidity, even if alethic, is to be avoided. Why does this idiot mention Churchill? Does he not know that Churchill attended Sandhurst? It would have been highly unusual for a professional soldier or sailor to attend University though there were some exceptions- e.g. Douglas Haig.

As for Modi- he probably does have B.As and M.As gained as an external student. It was one of the perks of his job- which otherwise offered precious little in material terms. Modi also attended a short course in the US focusing on P.R & 'image management'. Clearly, that proved a very good investment for his Party.

We have just heard from our PM (yes, he is the nation’s PM for another ten days or so) that he ordered the Indian Air Force to strike at Balakot despite heavy cloud cover because while senior Air Force officers were trembling their knees pleading for postponement of the strike till the weather improved, he (MODI) thumped his 56-inch chest and saw that heavy cloud cover was actually good for the Indian Air Force because Pakistani radar would not be able to penetrate thick black clouds.

Sadly for Aiyar, we can all now Google 'effect of heavy clouds on radar' and find that there is indeed significant detection range attenuation under heavy fog. On the other hand, assuming India was using a particular type of Israeli technology which has optical targeting, senior Air Force officers may well have wanted to wait. However, if the GPS coordinates were being supplied by a foreign power, the P.M would have been in a better position to make a judgment call. In this case, it seems reasonable to prefer GPS to optical targeting more particularly if a foreign power was providing real time satellite surveillance.

This is to insult our brave airmen and, above all, the Chief of Air Staff.

Nonsense! Chief of Air Staff knows very well that a foreign government may be providing helpful information on a top secret basis.

Not one of them was so ignorant of the fact that radar is not a telescope whose vision can be clouded over.

However, depending on the type of radar, there is detection range attenuation. Once again, this is an intelligence matter where a foreign government may have had superior knowledge which it shared on a top secret basis.

Radar is used precisely because, whatever the weather conditions, it can pinpoint incoming aircraft.

No it can't. Sophisticated attack vehicles take counter-measures. Atmospheric conditions are one variable among many. Modi is not a drunken buffoon like Mani. He was well briefed and took the right decision. No doubt, he is revealing this now for a strategic reason. One side of it is to signal something to the Pakistanis. The other is to get draw out idiots like Mani. Modi knows that the Indian middle class of today is tech savvy. They may not know much about Churchill, but they do take an interest in things like Cauchy's dispersion formula.

Did Modi take his senior-most Air Force officers for fools that he could trot out such ridiculous unscientific rubbish before them? And were they so pusillanimous that they dared not correct such a vacuous Prime Minister?

The only fool here is Mani Shankar Aiyar. Air force officials know there is an 'arms race' between anti-aircraft radar and the attack platform's counter-measures. Atmospheric conditions are one variable among many. If the Air force knew about the optical targeting capacity of the weapons but not that GPS targeting was third party sourced, then Modi's narrative makes sense.

The truth is probably more complicated than that. After all, there's a reason why this is the first Indian airstrike on Pakistan since 1971. Clearly Modi has made some useful friends on his foreign jaunts. By contrast, Rajiv Gandhi- when not firing Iyer Foreign Secretaries- was meeting Julius Nyrere and Kenneth Kaunda and screwing up royally in Sri Lanka.

This insult to our defence forces compounds another insult directed at senior officers of the Navy who were involved in December 1988 in transporting Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minster of India, and his good lady from off-shore Thiruvananthapuram to the Lakshadweep islands to witness the annual naval exercises that had been scheduled months earlier. Admiral L. Ramdas, then Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, and later Chief of Naval Staff, has gone on record certifying that only Rajiv and Sonia were on board INS Viraat when it sailed to Lakshadweep. Three other very senior Navy officers - Admirals Arun Kumar, Madanjeet Singh and Pasricha - who had personal knowledge of the voyage because they were involved in the arrangements, including one who was to succeed Ramdas as Chief of  Naval Staff, have publicly affirmed that there were NO foreigners on board the aircraft carrier.

Pasricha and Madanjeet Singh were taped by Vice Admiral Harinder Singh so as to prove that his senior officer was denying him promotion due to personal animus. The Admiral sought to use those tapes as evidence of transgression on Harinder Singh's part. But it is against natural justice for a whistleblower to be sacked for gathering evidence against a refractory superior.

There was a big scandal about this back when Mani was still relatively compos mentis. People can check the thing on Google for themselves. Why is Mani pretending that 'Madanjeet Singh and Pasricha' weren't then, and aren't now, timeservers simply?

The allegation that foreigners were on board was made by a serving Naval officer. Why has he not been sued for libel?

I can publicly affirm anything I like. I may lie and lie and yet escape any penalty for perjury. It is a different matter if I do it, under oath, in a Court of Law.

If after four of the senior-most Naval officers have said so, does not decency demand that Modi withdraw the allegations he has made about Rajiv using the Indian Navy as a ”personal taxi” to ferry “foreigners” to a holiday on one of the islands, Bangaram?

Decency does not demand this. Indians think that 'senior-most' Naval officers want to stay on the right side of the dynasty because of the sinecures that come their way after retirement. Some, like former Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, may go the extra mile to try to topple a BJP government even if it means being bilged out themselves. I may point out that it was the LSE educated 'untouchable' and former senior IFS officer, President Narayanan, who took the lead in this matter.

Narayanan was married to a lady from Burma. This never affected his professional decisions. Bhagwat was married to a half Muslim, half Parsee Communist. This could have been useful to our country when the Soviet Union still existed. It wasn't almost a decade later. An Admiral who fights the government, with his wife running the show, is no sort of Defense Chief. He is the only officer to have ever been stripped of rank and sacked.

Some journalists at the time tried to make out that President Narayanan was against this. They were telling stupid lies. Narayanan was from Kerala. He wasn't stupid.

As a Tambram myself, I have no hesitation in saying that any Malyallee is superior to us in Diplomacy. Narayanan was an adornment to his cadre. Mani was an abomination.

As a matter of record, it is only fair to point out that Harinder Singh was not 'anti-Muslim'. He hadn't attacked his superior's wife as 'half Muslim'. The guy was a gentleman from a rather superior sort of family. Bhagwat did go to Sanawar, but on a scholarship. Harinder Singh's background was top-drawer professional- his Dad was a Surgeon and he went to Bishops Cotton, Simla. Only an idiot like Prem Shankar Jha would have thought such a man would rant and rave against 'half Muslims'.

On the other hand, Jha knew Niloufer Bhagwat- who had previously used her husband's position to launch an attack on the Shiv Sena in Mumbai. She did rant and rave against all and sundry and was twisting her husband around her little finger. It was she who caused the Admiral to make baseless charges against his subordinates. Hubby was dismissed and gained ignominy. Her star rose. She gained fame as an activist. Though her husband's career was destroyed, perhaps her earning power, as a 'constitutional lawyer' increased precisely because she caused her husband- an honest enough officer-  to violate India's constitution. This was a case of cherchez la femme with a capitalist twist!

Niloufer, the Communist, did do some damage to George Fernandes, the Leftist. She played the Muslim card against a Christian. But this was only one episode in the long drawn out circular firing squad that marked the death throes of the Indian Left.

Mani, being a worthless pile of shite, was never considered a true Leftist by the likes of Niloufer. Also he was declasse and his accent not quite quite. Us Iyers are like that only. We are not heirs to broad acres, but vidushak clowns thrown up by the flawed combinatorics of adversely selective competitive examinations.

Still, if Mani genuinely believes Modi has committed an offence, then the Law offers an avenue of redress. But Mani is too stupid to go down the Subramaniyam Swamy route. So is Subramaniyam Swamy, precisely because he is a similarly deracinated dobi ka ghat, not Palghat, Iyer. But Swamy married a Parsee lawyer who should have been elevated to the Bench in the early Seventies on the basis of academic brilliance.  He too has brought disgrace on Iyers because he hasn't an ounce of Hindu humility.

How dared Swamy cast aspersions on Sonia- a pativrata widow- who is truly Indian for the same reason that Ruth, in the Old Testament, is truly Jewish?

His disgusting slurs caused us to see her true virtues. Yet, Swamy presents himself as a great friend of Rajiv!

Mani makes the same claim. But he has hurt Sonia and is now hurting Rahul. He was told to shut up, but emboldened by Pitorda's debacle, he has returned to wreak havoc. I am not saying that a fucking Dosco cocksucker can affect Indian elections. I am saying that Mani's casteism hurts Rahul because Rahul has now come out as a fellow Shaivite Brahman. Dalit intellectuals have always been amongst the smartest and best informed precisely because they were more likely to go to LSE than Oxford. They know about 'cheap talk' equilibria. What Mani and Pitordia have inadvertently done is show that the dynasty has no intellectuals with experience of office who will speak up now. Jairam Ramesh was supposed to be Rahul's Dronacharya. Look at his twitter account. The thing is pitiful.

Dalits- but also Muslim (again, some of the smartest, most patriotic, most decent people around)- are looking at this 'cheap talk' signaling deficit and drawing their own conclusions. We can all understand that the RSS will happily sacrifice Modi so as to get a foothold in West Bengal- the intellectual Ayodhya of Hindu India- which is why he and Amit Shah will have to go fight the invincible Mamta on her own turf and get mauled in the process. But we also know India wants not just good relations with Bangladesh, we want to emulate their Human Development success story. I am a big fat Hindu man. I want to invest my paltry savings in factories employing lots of Muslim women. I also want the truck drivers to be 'namazi' Muslims who aren't drunk off their head. Consider 'open defecation'. Muslims have much lower rates for this for purely religious reasons. As a Brahman, I would naturally like to shit all over the place like the holy cow. However, as an economist, I have to accept that my financial security in old age depends on my accepting this Muslim measure- championed by that bearded, Muslim looking, Modi- which will give females in rural areas security while answering a call of nature.

I genuinely hate all Muslims- especially Pakistanis- coz they are nice to me and bring me nice food and so on coz they think Hindus are nice people and maybe they were once good at studies or something of that sort. THIS IS A SATANIC PLOT AGAINST IYERS! As the careers of Mani Shankar Aiyar and Subramaniyam Swamy has conclusively proved- Iyers are moral imbeciles and complete mental fucking retards! Hence, we should immediately get not just OBC but Untouchable status!

I have written not just to Modi, but also Gadkare Sahib on this issue. Amit Shah, on the other hand, can go fuck himself. Me Tarzan, he Jain.

How dare Mani cast aspersions on our elected Head of Government? Easily. Aspersion casting is not illegal. How one responds is what matters. Modi does it cleverly. Mani does it stupidly.

How dare he cast aspersions on the patriotism of such distinguished veterans of our defence forces?

Modi is casting aspersions not on their patriotism but their venality and eagerness to please the dynasty. This is entirely credible.

Either Modi is lying or these four senior, if retired, naval officers are lying. How could two of them have been promoted to the rank of Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) – the highest post that a naval officer could aspire to - if their record had been blotted by their allowing unauthorized foreigners to be on board a naval ship bristling with the latest in warfare technology?

They were promoted by the Dynasty and its minions. How could they have avoided the sack if they had not bent the knee? What fantasy world is Mani living in? In any case, it was a Naval officer who made the original charge which Modi's people picked up.

Mani may be accused of 'anti-national activity'. However, he is a great asset to the BJP. He has turned his own anglophile Tambram class against Congress. Instead, we are now cheering for some Hindi speaking Gujju who is dismantling the caste system and raising the intellectual prestige of diverse occupational groups. This may be good for India, but it is bad for entrenched elites. It may be good for Hinduism as a great Soteriological Religion but it is bad for Hindus who butter their bread by pretending to be Secular and sucking up to Pakistan.

Modi needs to be warned that he is guilty of anti-national activity in trying to ride on the sacrifices of our army and CRPF martyrs in a dirty election campaign; of defaming the Indian Air Force by portraying them as complaisant idiots in his scientific illiteracy; and the Indian Navy as being packed at its highest echelons with traitors who would acquiesce in unauthorized foreigners being allowed to board a top of the line defence vessel.

Fuck is wrong with this cretin? The P.M is the head of Government. What he authorizes, is authoritative. A serving officer must first resign his commission and only then seek judicial or legislative review of any order he considers ultra vires. Consider the fate of Admiral Bhagwat. He was stripped of his rank and dismissed from service for refusing an order.  Mani knows this all too well- slimy little reptile that he is. Why is he telling us such stupid lies?

The answer of course is that, like me, Mani is fighting for the rights of us Iyers to be recognized as not just Educationally Backward but Mentally fucking Retarded and thus Constitutionally eligible for affirmative action.

But then, why bother? Modi will, in any case, be ousted by the people of India by 23 May. That would be a fitting end to the PM. Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?

Mani described Modi as 'neech'- lowly. This led to his own Party ostracizing him. Why? Currently Tamil Brahmins count as high caste whereas Modi's Ghanchi community counts as 'lowly'. Thanks to the brilliance of Mani Shankar Aiyar- not to mention people like me- Iyers will soon be regarded as the most 'neech' of all! Mani is a true prophet- verily a Moses!- who will lead us from jobs in I.T or Accountancy- to the Promised Land of affirmative action overflowing with the Milk & Honey of jobs as peons and chaprasees. Thank you Mani! Doon School must be so proud.