Re: [IAC++] Ms. Medha Patkar

Can e have open Debate-at the platform of IAC and thrash out issues-which may be Non issues.Why are we wasting time.Energy on hurling accusations against each pother .What is the net result of Arvind Kejriwal 's allegations against Politicians.Industrialists-As Digvejaysingh said-Expososure without substance.When you are in Public Life -Bricks will be more than Bouquet

 

RAMESH PATIL

President

MRCI

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From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: iac@lists.riseup.net
Sent: Monday, 19 November 2012 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [IAC++] Ms. Medha Patkar

Hi Mayank

I am Sarbajit Roy from New Delhi. I am the Hony National Convenor of the India Against Corruption Jan Andolan at the present time.

I received an email from the IAC++ list run by Ajay, where you have mentioned that Ajay did not post an email you had sent. Are you referring to the email below, or is there some other one ?.

Whereas I am sure that IAC's Media Coordinators (either or both of them) will reply properly to your email, may I just say a few things till then.

1) Your email appears highly evasive on the core issues.
2) Your attempts to mix in emotive aspects like your purported spirituality is pure "smoke and mirrors" to cloud the matter.
3) Your blog posts once again fails to address squarely the substantive issues raised in the Mumbai Mirror against you, your other family members and associates.

These raise various doubts. For instance

A) Did Deepak Parekh of HDFC and D.M Sukhthankar lie when they accused you in 2009 of misusing their names for ROMF ?

B) Did Nayana Kathpalia of CITISPACE also publicly disagree with you about ROMF ?.

C) Was Nayana Kathpalia not threatened when she disagreed with you ? Were shots fired inside Nayana Katpalia's house or not after that ? That seems like "mafia" action to me.

D) Is not one of your close IAC Mumbai aides largely financed by a Pakistani origin NRI billionaire who curiously was in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai (and survived when so many Hindus died) during 26/11 ?

I am putting these queries to you as conveyed to me by knowledgeable persons from Mumbai.

India expects that its future young (elected) leaders like Mayank Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to stay and give proper answers about themselves,their transactions and their associates instead of running away when faced with inconvenient querists.

Sarbajit
National Convenor
India Against Corruption (a Jan Andolan)

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mayank Gandhi <mayankgandhi04@gmail.com> wrote:

I wish Ajay Dixit explains his comment about my mafia links with truth and evidence and not some links and innuedos. We have all left our lives, comfortable jobs, families aside to fight for the nation against corruption. Do you think that someone who has a questionable past would take on the fight against the corrupt?

 

But one of the side effects of entering public life, are people like Ajay Dixit and his ilk. Initially, when I heard these unsubstantiated and cheap allegations against me, I felt like just quitting and going back to my cushy job - which I had quit on 12th august 2011, to fight the war for my nation. The negativity, the cheapness and the levels to which these accusers can go to filled my days and nights with questions and negativity. Prior to joining IAC, I was deep into spiritual search. Positivity and peace of mind were the effects of those meditational and blissful years.Some of my writings on spirituality can be found at http://mayankgandhi04.blogspot.in/

 

When Arvind asked me to take part in the IAC movement in Jan 2011, I decided to take a sabbatical from my activities and work for the movement. One of the primary reason was selfish. I felt that only when "What you think, what you say and what you do are aligned", do you achieve completeness, otherwise one is fractured from within. Having been exposed to the Indian knowledge system (meditation, yoga, ayurveda, astrology etc), I felt that it was the best civilizational ethos with one of the best conflict resolution systems and a holistic world view, and that this thought process based on knowledge, science and understanding should be the intellectual "jagat guru". Understanding that India can be the only "laboratory" of this knowledge system, it is extremely critical to make it a successful and prosperous nation. Therefore, when I think of the nation and what should be done to improve it, it was imperative that to become complete, I had to do what I believed in, even at the risk of destabilizing my life and exposing myself to people like Ajay Dixit.

 

I took up a job in 2006 end with my uncle's construction company to propagate his NGO "Remaking of Mumbai Federation" working as its secretary to plan an integrated, holistic redeveloped city to save the lives of lakhs of people living in over 20000 old and dilapidated buildings of south Mumbai. Unfortunately, my uncle died in March 2010 and the entire plan collapsed. I quit my job in Aug 2011, to fight for the nation, leaving aside my peace of mind and encountering a world which I never new - in which there would be people like Ajay Dixit whose only business is to throw muck. When the unfounded allegations against me surfaced by a RTI activist giving some interview to Mumbai Mirror, I tried to put the facts by writing a blog http://mayankgandhi05.blogspot.in/2012/03/romf-lok-housing-scam.html. But the innuedoes, dark whispers, trolling by BJP supporters and Ajay Dixits of the world is taking its toll.

 

I am asking myself again and again, whether anything is worth this kind of negativity, whether I should go back to my earlier ways. My peace of mind is being affected. But, on the other side, i have never been a quitter. If I quit now, I would let down lakhs of people who have given so much love and respect. The last two years have been tumultous. On one side are these Ajay Dixits (a handful) and on the other lakhs of wonderful people who have given so much for others, for society and for the nation. So, like a pendulum moving from one side "Brahma or God" to "Maya or worldy affairs", I keep on oscillating. But, the pull of doing the right thing keeps me on the track of working nevertheless.

 

May I request Ajay Dixit (or whatever his real name is) to remove me from this hacked list. You are welcome to write any nonsense that you wish about me. God bless you.

 

Love

 

Mayank

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