New Developments in the Miserable State of Affairs

I actually feel bad writing this post, but this is the stark truth as I perceive.

The first thing to be mentioned here is the nasty court battle regarding an abortion of a fetus above 2o weeks old. This was really uncalled for and took hold of the entire media attention. Things which are to be close door affairs are discussed in full glare of the media and setting a different tone all together. I am not against abortion or for abortion, but I feel there should be some ethics followed in this practice and the abortion laws of 1971 still stands fast in spite of lot of advances in the medical facilities, I am not sure if this is (modern medical facilities) a gift or a bane to the human kind. No one is sure until the baby is born if it is disabled or has serious health conditions later in life, it is just tests which is not completely conclusive. But there is a very wide gap in ascertaining the survival of the unborn baby.

I think every fetus should be given a chance to be born, of course not in some cases where there are serious other issues involved. If the court allows the abortion of the fetus above 20 weeks, euthanasia should be legalized. There is more involved in this, the main thing is man playing god. It has been a disaster in every region where man has try to change the natural flow of things and this is no exception.

But now what is on the news is that the concerned lady has had a miscarriage, it really puts doubts in the minds of people. It is blamed on the media that the stress and attention given to this case has led to this miscarriage, very convenient. So the intention, so the outcome. I do not want to comment on this further. It is their conscience and it is a matter of ethics.

The Amarnath issue is getting worse further and further and the government at the centre is just watching as an outsider. This behaviour of the Hindus and Muslims of J&K is totally unacceptable. This kind of situation is not there in any part of the country except J&K, it makes it worse because the centre does not have a strong backbone to crush the situation and bring normalcy. What do the people gain by this sort of mindless and wanton disruptions of peace and tranquility? Nothing, the produces gets rotten in storerooms and the godowns and no safe passage to the markets They do not realize that these kind of disruptions give a mileage to the politicians and the people with vested interests.

But the great news is Abhinav Bindra has won the first gold medal for India in the Olympic Games. This is a great news and a reason for the entire nation to rejoice. Thank you very much Mr. Bindra. This is totally an individual's effort and the unquenchable thirst to succeed.

There is a totally a misguided false sense of Patriotism, on the Independence day. Later all the promises are forgotten, no wonder Samuel Johnson said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." And Malcom X said, "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."

I am not going to end this post by saying Jai Hind, but I strongly stand by every human being in this world and there is more than some love to one's nation alone.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw.

Good times and Series of Uncertainties.

The magic of Olympic games is back. I used to enjoy the entire games watching on the TV in my very young age. The excitement, the vibrancy, the mix of people, the courage, the indomitable spirit, the patriotism, the competition, the joy, the ultimate test of endurance and stamina, all these and much more. When the games come to an end, I used to feel a void in my life after sharing this period with the entire world. I want to appreciate the Doordarshan for bringing in the highlights of the day, which was an anticipated event in our life during the 80s and the early 90s. Sebastian Coe, Carl Lewis and the beautiful Russian gymnasts who used to bring in joy and excitement during those days.

The Chinese have recreated history again with their mind blowing display of fireworks and spirit of life once again. But, I don't want to comment on the politics and other issues where the world is divided. Yes, there are a lot of ethnic strives and discontented souls, but this is not the right arena to display this. The Tibetan issue, the communist regime and other political uprisings. Now is the period to rejoice and give an opportunity to bring out the good in the mankind. Healthy competition and friendship is what we should to be focusing now. There is a different place and venue to fight out these issues. Let us enjoy the moment and forget about the present day-to-day problems, which is going to remain much after the games are over.

Now back to the Indian politics. The Amarnath Cave Shrine land transfer has gone bad to worse and the entire state is paralysed. Now, what I don't understand is you have a different rule for the Kashmiris and the rest of India. The non Muslim Kashmiris cannot buy land and when some part of their land is temporarily leased out for some good cause can create a situation where the demography can change and entire state comes to a standstill. I blame the centre and the policy of minority appeasement.

The Congress nor the so called secular parties can enforce an uniform law and are still trying to please every tom, dick and harry of a community for their safeguard of the future vote. Again I don't understand this, is the nation important or the victory in the next election important? They should abandon these absurd policies of secularism (pseudo-secularism?) and work for the common good.

Next is the series of bombings across the nation. This is a very coordinated effort by the subversive elements, but again what can the Intelligence agencies and the police do to prevent these unfortunate incidents? Nothing!

The problem is explosion of the population and you see concentration of the population in the urban areas and is drastically increasing and they become easy prey for these cowards (terrorists or as the Congress calls them militants) to act. The government is not concentrating on the rural areas, where there is ample opportunities of employment. Now with the rapid improvement in communication and accessibility, the government should focus on the farming and allied trade to flourish, so there will be no shortage on food requirements.

You find a lot discussed on the nuclear energy and some nonsensical talks about outsourcing industry, why don't they think about the basic requirements of the aam Janatha. There is also a growing discontent in the ordinary citizens that causes these sorts of problems. Here I am not commenting on the Muslim population which is really close minded and the efforts to broaden their horizon beyond the Quran and their strict doctrines has utterly failed. There is no respite to these issues and problems faced by the nation, until we have a structural and fundamental upheaval.

I don't believe in democracy, negotiations, negotiations and no action. Sick is not the word. The army comes up with an announcement they will tolerate to the maximum extent and then will use minimum action. This is bullshit, when the army comprised of a mix of the entire country fighting for the territorial integrity of the nation remains a mute spectator. This is absurd, we should rather give them their share of land and watch them go to the hell, the way Afganistan has gone. Let them uphold their idiotic dogma and rot.

Like I read some column in one of the major newspapers, when a minority of the nation becomes a majority, they take all the privileges and treat the rest as some sort of inferior creatures. What does Omar Abdullah mean by we won't sacrifice our land? This is absurdity, as there are millions of Muslims living in the other parts of the country and when everyone comes up with this logic, there would be utter chaos.

I feel anarchy and absolute anarchy can only save this country. Maybe we should give the Supreme Court the free hand to rule this country. With their acrid tongue and mind blowing observations they can bring any lowly crappy politicians to their knees, like they did to Karunanidhi.

Next is the entire drama of the confidence vote in the parliament. Lot of unwanted and belittling scenes happened during this period. Like the display of cash by the BJP members and the desperate attempts by the ever opposing left was a clear indications of making a fool of themselves. It really hurts to see veteran politicians to be standing in the wake of that maverick Mayawathi, who has no sense of decorum and decency. She projects herself as the future Prime Minister, god can only help us when she is. The wealth she had amassed can put a seasoned businessman to shame. The explanations by her are really hilarious, contributed by the people. Okay, if that was the case, where should the money go back to? The people, is it not?

The entire country is collectively mesmerised by this uncouth and so called dalit leader, whose only objective is create statues of herself and exploit the so called dalits and projecting herself as the future leader of the oppressed masses. These people will survive and they have no intention to upgrade their clan, so they have the advantage of the deprived community status. She has come up with some new absurd and nonsensical allegations that the CBI had offered to overlook the disproportionate wealth case, if she voted in against the no confidence motion. I am amazed at the fact that how low can one become to preserve their power status. The only upside of the entire no confidence motion proceedings was Ms. Priyanka Gandhi's attire, which was really hep and had a very confident and business like look.

The nation cannot save itself with appeasing every tom, dick and harry in each community, but by taking strong measures beyond the next general elections. If a work well done will be appreciated and any slip will be condemned. Get real Ms. Sonia Gandhi and clan. Just get yourselves clear and lead this nation out of its misery, even if you loose the next election.

The aim of the party should be nation first and next comes individuals. As long as there are power hungry politicians, there can be no progress. Take for example Deve Gowda, who is still making a spectacle of himself, who had become a prime minister by chance and not out of his personal charisma or the popularity of his party. Now, with reasonably average intelligence, anyone can get into politics and keep their poll worthiness by appeasing their community and giving false sense of pride.

As the Supreme Court had said even god cannot save this country. This is not a cry of desperation and is the truth. Infighting, infighting and infighting. It is better off to have anarchy and everyone is for himself than having this drama of democracy. (In anarchy you die only once and not everyday)

The latest Tamashas (as my friend puts it)

Left is really becoming a pain in the ass for the UPA as well as the whole nation. What have they done other than bickering and raising more than 300 oppositions in the past four years. I think the Manmohan Singh led UPA should say good riddance to these Non Indian Residents, whose allegiance lies with China and the Maoist principles. I feel instead of going in for a strategic partnership with the US, they should have gone to the French who have a clear mandate and their 80% of the power needs are taken care by nuclear energy. But, the US would not let this happen, they want to sell the out dated technology to India, typical capitalist tendency, cash in maximum out of the advantage. I am not arguing in favour or against, but as far as the deal goes it would do good to India, we will be not isolated from the NSA and we would have more Uranium, this should be taken as an advantage and the govt. should proceed and get the deal finalized. Damn the left, their only concern is to put brakes where ever it is possible, just because they are left.

Next is the Aarushi Talwar case, this is a shame on the nation and the entire case has taken so many U turns and twists that it would put a detective novel to shame. It was first blotched up by the UP police, then the media took over and next the CBI is on it . I think this should be ended at the earliest, because

1. The humiliation cause to the family and the intense pressure on them which would make their lives difficult in the days to come.

2. The classic example of who done it, should be rested and all the fingers point towards the servants of the Durranis and the Talwars and these servants had easy access to Kukris and the circumstances points a strong connection here.

3. Aarushi was a such naive 14 year old girl and her name dragged to dirt should be avoided. This is where the 'champion' of woman's rights Renuka Chowdary should step in.

4. Now it is the tendency to sensationalize each and every incident to the maximum extent possible by the media, there are so many new agencies, newspapers, TV channels and 24 hours new channels who are fighting for TRP ratings, they try to get the maximum leverage of these crimes to hold the attention of the viewers.

This is where the government has a pivotal role to play, put a blanket ban on the proceedings and come up with a conclusive and final outcome.

Next is the Mayawati wealth hoarding. It is great that the CBI has reopened this case. Some say the new allegiance created in the centre has prompted this measure, I am sure this is a good start for a gross violation done by this iron lady, who has played a very cunning role in getting the votes by playing the caste card and the even garnering the Brahmin votes. She says that the Rs. 60 crores wealth is a contribution of the people, but where should this go, this should have gone back to the people in form of welfare and other measures and not to her personal coffers. Hope this case come to a logical end and this should instill fear into future wannabes to think twice.

All these incidents are just the history repeating itself, but when will this vicious circle come to an end?

Disturbing Trends in India

The past two months India has seen some of the most interesting, disturbing and mind boggling activities, politically and otherwise. First the Gujjar agitation. This whole concept of getting a backward status for a few sops from the government had put the entire Rajasthan out of gear for more than a fortnight, trains disrupted and the entire state coming to a stand still. A lot of people were killed by police firing. Then after a lengthy parleys and meetings by the leaders of the state ruling party and the Gujjar leader Bainsla, it came to a "favourable end" for the Gujjar community. You could see that how an entire state could be brought down by a small community to the knees. Now the trend is any minority community can put in unreasonable demands and can get away with any atrocities committed during its agitation and get want they want. This can spread to other parts of the country. The leader of this agitation was seen flying all around in helicopters and the state treating him as a celebrity. But, what exactly the government should have done is arrest this character for disturbing peace, disruption of day-to-day activities, creating mob frenzy, loss of public property and bringing loss to the exchequer. He was given a high pedestal by the state government and his unreasonable demands were met. This way the government has set a precedent for people of every minority community to come up with this frivolous and unreasonable demands and hold the government for ransom.

Like other issues, this to ultimately boils down to appeasement of the so called minority communities in the society. I have no qualms against any protests, but as far as it remains peaceful and reasonable. We need politicians with strong backbone and tackle issues with a rational mind and not playing to the tunes of these so called minorities. I am not against reservation, but the reservations cannot go on and on for ever. It is more than 60 years after Independence and still the mindset is way back in the 1940s. Has there been any survey as to determine the status of the backward communities? NO. Has there been any study so as to find out who is benefited by this reservations? NO. Still the government depends on the survey done ages back when the British were ruling India. Times have changed and the only people who were benefited by this reservation is the people living in the urban areas, who had the resources to utilize these reservation and kept this to themselves, their progeny and vigorously protects their territory. They say the reservation should exclude the creamy layer of these backward community and after bringing in this resolution the government raises the bar for the average income of the creamy layer exclusion. Again, all this is done for vote bank politics. But, whereas these backward communities in the rural area are still in the primitive shacks, with no facilities for education, health and these people have no inkling of the entire reservation schemes and if they knew about this, they don't know whom to approach. The reservations is just restricted to the urban areas and whereas this should have benefited the needy in the rural areas.

The next issue is the ongoing mockery of the constitutional rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution, the tirade against the non Marathis in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray can go on issuing dikats and giving virulent speeches of Maharastra only for the Marathis and the north Indians and the others should not be allowed to co-exist there. This man should be arrested and criminal proceeding should be taken up. But, instead the government is still dilly dallying with these bigoted idiots, who think that the great city of Bombay was created by the Marathis and the long dead Chatrapatti Shivaji, who was just a guerrilla fighter who never had the guts to fight a full fledged war against the Moguls, but actually what Bombay or Mumbai is now, is because of the migrants and their hard work. When the tilling, sowing and taking care is done, these sons of the soils come for the harvesting. The same goes for the great Bal Thackeray, whose ancestors according to some reports say that they came to Mumbai as migrants in search of a better life. When the constitution has given every Indian the right to travel and make a living in any part of India, it has to be enforced to the core. This issue is not only subjected to Mumbai, but to whole of India, where this kind of discrimination is rampant, if not as outright. Migrants face a lot of taunts, abuses and ill-treatment by the local community, which is pretty bad in some cases. Or it would be the best to segregate India into linguistic and religious regions and all given the independence to be independent countries, with independent polices and rights.

The third one is the agitations going on in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, I find it funny when the government is allotting a few acres of land for the pilgrims to the Amarnath yatra, for their basic needs such as temporary shelters and toilets, at the same time the government is providing massive subsidies for certain community to go and perform religious duties in foreign countries. These agitating people must be ashamed of themselves as they think that by allotting of 100 acres of land would lead to the population explosion of the Hindus and thereby their majority would be reduced. Here again the local politicians play a big part in stroking communal emotions to disrupt the daily activities of the entire state.

Anyone can protest against anything in the country, but by peaceful means and not by these divisive tactics and resorting to violence at the drop of a hat. These leaders who instigate such riots and communal feelings should be arrested and taken to task. The should be made accountable to all the loss faced by the government and there should be a law to curb any violent demonstrations and strict action to be taken on all the perpetrators of this mindless and wanton disruptions and destruction. And not appeasing these so called minority leaders for a few more votes in the future elections The power hungry politicians in the centre and the state are to be blamed for all these issues, we need someone with a strong backbone to bring out some sense of responsibility and accountability to this country and its country men.

I am ashamed to live in a country where people want to call themselves backward and underprivileged, where the constitution says that all Indians are equal. This caste reservations, caste system, divisive policies, minority appeasement, religious bigotry and the list goes on are the true bane of the country and not the population explosion or illiteracy which are presumed to be the stumbling blocks of growth and prosperity. I think the present day politicians have taken the old British way of dividing and ruling policy and now these politicians have perfected this art.