Hindi → English transcript

Among us here is Brijmohan bhai who has arrived, he was stuck over there.

Your route was via Israel, Tel Aviv, and Jordan. Sir, when you came here,

you must have really enjoyed eating dal- bhaat, right?

It seems from that that you went into relax mode, like you’ve come home. I…

I swear to God,

now whenever I even think of going abroad again I’ll take dal and rice with me.

Because for the past one week we’ve eaten only refined flour. And there it’s beef,

chicken, mutton. Where all did you eat? In Tel Aviv, in Jordan…

Jordan is also an Islamic country, there also, you can understand…

Yes, there is one thing I must show you…

Look at the coincidence, this thing has probably stayed in my pocket.

I definitely ate this there. This there is, you know, a date, a date. Yes, yes, yes.

We ate this in Tel Aviv as well,

and after eating two dates I’d be fine for the whole day. That’s all?

Because I couldn’t eat the food they had there, I am vegetarian.

You are a sattvic man, a Sanatani man, right?

He used to eat only these two dates, but I will definitely say this,

you people should definitely order foreign dates.

So how many days in total were you stuck there?

From the morning of the 28th till, you can say, almost last night, we were there.

And we have now reached. You must have felt the sense of war, right? For three days,

from Saturday to Tuesday,

those three days we were in Tel Aviv. That was the wartime period.

It was that period, and now let me tell you…

You people were taken out of Tel Aviv and sent to Jordan,

and in Jordan there was also a bombing of the bus?

Then from Jordan you all were again put on a flight… Via London?

No, via— our route was not through the Middle East, but from London something…

Before that there was some route,

because they said that this zone was a safe zone from now on. This is what

we were told.

Because look, we were inside the plane,

but the officials there who were briefing us,

the RAW officers who were with us,

they said the route was being changed because if this… Because Iran… yes, let me

tell you one thing here.

We got some information from one person from Jordan…

from Jordan Intelligence During the conversation he really opened up,

he started chatting with us very nicely. Yes. He said, tell me this, you had some

journalists who were already living in Israel.

So did you people know that…

I said no, I was not one of them, I came later.

He said the Iranian government suspects that there are some such journalists,

Indian journalists who were already there in Israel, did they have an inkling?

Let me tell you,

those journalists definitely became a little more aware because Iran

has come to know of this and Iran…

That guy from Jordanian intelligence,

the ones who are deployed at the airport, while talking with us…

because he offered coffee, asked us questions,

said you people must have gotten troubled.

Then he said,“ So were you people also those same journalists?”

We said,“ No, I only came on the 24th,

when the Prime Minister’s visit was there, and after that we left.”

He said,“ No, but according to the information we have, Iran, this government,

is aware that some of you journalists,

the Indian journalists who were present there, had prior information…”

If there is anything like that, I say journalism should definitely,

at least a little, you should do it, because it might be that due to some

misunderstanding an incident could happen to someone.

Then you will blame the government. This is a serious matter, especially.

Yes, yes, yes. So Brij bhai, Brijmohan ji,

you watch Sadhna News and continuously in the meantime You have traveled to many

countries with the Prime Minister, and I feel that

this must have seemed like the toughest journey of your life, where…

was there ever a moment when you felt,“ I am not going to survive”?

You must have remembered Lord Hanuman then?

Look, I always carry the Hanuman Chalisa with me. That is something.

That is exactly why I carry it, and you will not believe this, there the most…

the people from the foreign ministry there, they said to me, “ Brijmohan ji,

keep reciting the Hanuman Chalisa.” Meaning it is not in anyone’s control at all.

And when a bomb explodes,

it does not even check whether you are Indian or Israeli.

True. And right next to you… you might survive bullets,

you will get hit on the right and left, you will not survive a missile.

And people say things like,“ The bunkers are very good.”

In a bunker one hundred feet deep,

we saw that people had died there.

And they are not telling you anything, what the reality is,

because we are told some… This is the Indian media, you should thank the government.

What an excellent government we have,

over there the government is not telling you anything.

You cannot take visuals of the bodies there. You cannot go to the hospitals.

And when an incident happens,

we have no idea which place it is,

the way you and I know that right now we have to go to Gaur City.

Which exact place we have to go there for the incident, we have no idea,

because who is going to tell us?

And when we are reaching there the next morning, and all the other journalists,

not just Sadhana, all the other journalists,

it is being said that only one casualty, one person died. But the locals there…

the Israelis who come here to Himachal and all to get high,

they told us there were four houses, nobody is alive.

From this it becomes clear that a major incident happened there.

And let me tell you the truth,

that so- called technology they talk about there,

the alarm used to go off— one morning at 5 a.m.,

let me tell you about that— the alarm did not go off at all,

there were just boom- boom sounds,

we found out things had arrived without any alarm. So the technology is a failure,

and when their drones and especially their missiles are fired,

we have no idea how far we are from our own two hundred meters.

And you must have found out just now that especially in the Middle East,

all the American embassies have been targeted by them.

It is possible that if they had targeted that one in Tel Aviv,

we would not have survived either, we…

then maybe you would have been reporting this news that our colleague…

No, no, we joked that if, you know, Brij bhai is martyred, then in his memory,

with the money we are earning from Facebook,

we will have a statue or something of his made for you. But that was said as a joke,

yet look at the heart of friends, it just keeps beating.

And I will not say,“ Escaped with my life and gained millions,

the fool returned home again,”

because the fool is no longer a journalist.

But when there are such international disasters,

where there is a danger of world war,

and missiles are falling everywhere,

then in such a situation, to save your life and come back to India,

to return to your home and eat dal- bhaat is the most precious thing.

So Brij bhai is welcome back in his own country. I must say one thing:

some journalists are still there, whose organizations said,

“ We will make arrangements for you,”

but they absolutely cannot make those arrangements.

If anyone can arrange for them to come back from there,

only the government can do it. And they really wanted to come for Holi.

One of them is a journalist who got married only eight months ago.

I do not want to take his name.

My appeal is that I would especially like to call the heads of such institutions.

Because they are

not showing anything like this or you will show them only this and that.

What do we have to do with Israel?

Someone will remember you when it is time to save the prince,

we have to save the prince, Show this kind of news for 24 hours.

Israelis are dying over there,

what is happening in Iran, hey, what do you have to do with that,

Are you caught up in the race for news TRPs? Let me tell you,

one of our journalists was detained in the Middle East for 12 hours.

I am telling you… I do not want to name him, he is going there… To cover the news,

they have been made to sit for twelve hours.

So please, in a way I am joining my hands and pleading with the media organizations,

with some of the heads whose representatives are there, please call them.

Because they were companions, I am also feeling bad, we have just arrived.

But there are still many people there right now.

So an appeal to media organizations,

please do not forcibly put your reporters at risk, risking their lives.

And Brij bhai is here,

and now I am going to take him to eat something sweet,

because we have met after a very long time and after coming out of this

particular difficulty, so it is the right thing to do among friends. And Devesh ji,

our companion from Banaras from Bhadas. Pranam, namaskar.