“Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history” ~ Wikipedia.

In an interactive session, at the Sahitya Sambhrama in Karnataka state, he argued that “BJP Government at the Centre is more hostile to writers, scholars and filmmakers than any Government in the past”.

Here the key word is “Government in the past”. Let’s look at the past governments. Since 1947, there have been seven Congress Prime ministers and had ruled Central government for four decades.

Everyone knows Ram Guha is fond of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s politics and in his fondness, he becomes so blinded that by his malevolent prejudice he is unable to tell the difference between hating Modi and hurting India.

Let me remind him of what his favorite politicians did to India which is much dangerous for a democratic country like India. If current BJP government were using same authority which “Government in the past” had done, Ram Guha would have been in jail for criticizing PM Modi. Thanks to his Stars that he has been criticizing BJP and PM Modi without spending a single minute of his life in Jail and his articles didn’t face any suspension.

Our first Prime Minister of India and Ram Guha’s guru, Jawaharlal Nehru, made first amendment in our Constitution which is considered as blot in an Indian history. The amendment was passed and it added “reasonable restriction” to freedom of speech. Nehru brought this amendment to ban Ramesh Thapar’s journal (Crossroads) because he had criticized Nehruvian policies.

But still according to Ram Guha that Nehru was epitome of “Freedom Of Speech” and so is Congress. Isn’t it blind love?

In 1951, Poet Majrooh Sultanpuri had spent a year Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail because he called Jawaharlal Nehru ‘a slave of the Commonwealth’ and ‘a Hitler’ in a labour rally.

Congress banned Michael Edwardes’s book, A Political Biography, because it was critical of Nehru. It was banned by Indira Gandhi.

There are so many songs and scenes were censored under Jawaharlal Nehru’s regime.

Someone can forgive Ram Guha’s for not mentioning all these facts in his books and articles but what about “Emergency” of 1975? Aren’t those were the dark days of Indian History? But Ram Guha’s love for Nehru’s family is so big that he always, as usual, forgot to mention about those dark days but he is so eager to mention that current BJP government is much dangerous than previous governments. It causes an inculcating rush of crashing happiness inside his nerves by hiding these facts of Nehru’s inglorious years. Ram Guha worshipped him even more than Rajnikanth’s fans worship Rajni.

Rajiv Gandhi had banned (import) of Satanic Verses. When his mother, Ex PM Indira Gandhi, killed by a Sikh and instead of curbing the violence and riots he famously said “When a big tree falls, earth shakes”. But still according to Guha, previous governments were very less dangerous for India.

An enormous number of books, articles and scenes in movies got censored during congress regime. If we leave Nehru’s regime and If anyone compares the restriction on “freedom Of Speech” with 10 years of BJP and last ten years of Congress government (Sonia Gandhi’s regime), Congress will win this battle very easily. And if we includes only Nehru’s tenure (10 years of his regime out his total tenure) then it would take almost 50 years for any non-Congress to defeat Nehru’s censorship.

His latest attack is on Virat Kohli and one doesn’t need to wear a detective hat to find out the reason. Virat Kohli met Narendra Modi several times and Kohli didn’t criticize demonetization and Modi’s policies which according to Guha is dangerous trend and celebrities lost the spine to speak against PM Modi. Ram Guha dislikes PM Modi so is this the reason that Kohli must also criticizes PM Modi? But, unfortunately, Kohli didn’t follow Guha’s line and he starts criticizing Kohli via his writing.

So eminent Historian Ram Guha’s augment against BJP government is just mere conjecture and it is equally despicable. Ram Guha’s and his so called liberal friends are all pygmies before Nehru and Gandhi’s family. By doing this, Ram Guha make himself to look like a lump in the eyes of the people of their own country. Someone aptly said: “Love is always Blind”.