Psychotic blunders.

India , a country touted to be the next superpower of the world, where the biggest democracy on earth runs its course sometimes does’nt look to be as perfect as it really seems.

Unity in diversity is India’s forte but at the same time, this same diversity brings unnecessary and precarious divisions in the common society.livid examples include incidents that happen quite frequently in some parts of the prominent cities of India.

I would like to throw upon some light ON a shameful incident that happened a few days back in Mangalore[Karnataka].When a few boys and girls were travelling on a local bus in Mangalore district,suddenly a pack of goons come and give them a sound thrashing.The craziest of the reason of the beating is that the boys dared to travel along with girls of a different religion.Interestingly , the goons were informed about this situation by some of the locals who were also travelling in the same bus. Unfortunately the self proclaimed saviours of religion are probably unaware or definetly have the audacity to break one of the most important fundamental right of Indian constitution.This uncanny act of breaking the right to freedom and publicly rejecting the principles of secularism is a blatant violation on part of the fanatics who felt it proud to give a thrashing to the innocent boys and girls.In fact, it was later found that the boys and girls were actually going to participate in a sports meet and were in no way guilty of spoiling the so called sanctity of pure religion.And what sort of the religion do these brutes follow when they punish their own brothers and sisters on incredulous beliefs of religious purity.

Why don’t religious fanatics understand that religion is only a path to trace our footsteps towards GOD and all humans are part of elite organisms who are a lucky to have attained an increased awareness of life , knowledge and freedom. Can we really afford to waste time on these kind of dysfunctional issues of communalism while scores of Indians starve under our own shadow.Why don’t these psychotic individuals realise that there are brave soldiers of different religions guarding our border and sacrificing their lives without bothering to see whether their blood compensates for the security of a Hindu, Muslim ,Christian or a Parsi.

I challenge the persons responsible for such dastardly acts to show their bravery on the frontiers of the LOC rather than showing off their so called devotion towards guarding their so-called, self proclaimed unethical tenets of religion.I can only pity those goons as they waste their time on mindless chauvinism.I hope that the snail paced long hand of law gives these brutes a be-fitting punishment.
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Sons of the Soil

What happens when a poor farmer in India is not able to repay his debt?
What happens when a farmer in India is not able to grow his crops because of failed monsoon or drought ?

The answer is that in India, our sons of soil find a way out of debts by deciding to assimilate themselves into the soil by committing suicide.
63 years of free India still does’nt give freedom to the farmers who till the soil to feed the billion mouths.The only freedom the poor farmer achieves is that his soul gets detached from his body after self annihilation.

Last year the barren land of Vidharba quenched its thirst by the suicides of hundreds of farmers while this year over 40 farmers in A.P have already left this world, for they could’nt achieve freedom from their debts in this lifetime.Taking one’s own life is the last and the most extreme step that one can think of when things go wrong. When one gets totally pushed to the wall and sees no way of achieving solace nor any path of survival, one is pushed to suicide.Unfortunately our govt has consistently been able to nurture this thought and push our farmers to commit suicide by not taking any concrete corrective steps .

It is a shame to live in a country where the hands that feed the country themselves cannot feed their own families .On one side, i read a daily report in the newspaper that keeps a count on the farmer’s deaths and on the other side, i read an article that highlights the surplus rotting wheat grains in the state of punjab.I would somewhat agree that 63 years ago, it was probably common that we did’t have the technology nor the ability to contain farmer’s deaths.But at this age of technology where we claim that India is going to be the next superpower,we are not able to stop the continuing suicides of our own farmers.

We continue to achieve a sense of satisfaction by looking at our GDP growth rate . On every independence day , i do find a lot of people who are proud to be born as Indians . I appeal to all those people to proclaim the same in front of the lifeless bodies of the sons of soil.

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The Naked Truth

India, the nation that supposedly treats women as Goddesses ,a country where women are worshipped as devis and given exceptional respect ,a land where the inhabitants bow to Lakshmi ,Saraswathi, and Kali is astonishingly approaching a state of naked paranoia.

Since the last few weeks, i have read around 3 reports of manhandling of women by unruly mobs .Yes, our motherland is turning into a victim that sheds tears of blood whenever a woman is disrespected.Last week a woman in Patna was publicly disrobed by a mob of senseless hooligans.The woman was publicly molested and manhandled for an unconfirmed theft that she supposedly committed.And we had the so called educated brutes watching the tamasha as if a public stage show was going on.The so called socially responsible TV channel that aired the footage made sure that the lady ’s victimisation is carefully taped to cash on its revenues.Thankfully the lady’s face was blurred ,albeit her soul would have also been blurred by the heart wrenching experience she had on the holy soil of India.

I was left wondering as to what is the exact reason for common citizens to behave as sexual perverts.Does our religion teach us to punish the women by stripping them naked? Does our Indian tradition preach that the dishonouring of the lady be a means of achieving justice.The surprising part is that the barbaric Taliban also does’nt consider this brutal stripping as a form of punishment but we Indians don’t bat an eyelid when we strip,molest or humiliate women in public.The worst part is that the perpetrators of these kind of crimes continue to roam scotfree for the fact that our Indian law takes its own sweet time for punishing the criminals.

Every one of us seems to have developed this inherent feeling of apathy towards these kind of crimes .If at all ,there is a God or a Goddess, i sincerely pray that the brutes responsible for dishonouring the woman be publicly flogged till their blood cleans their dirty sins.

As i end this blog , i get an unpleasant feeling of utter helplessness .
I wish ,i were a dictator .

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Azaadi meri Dulhan Hai

”AZAADI MERI DULHAN HAI”, This immortal statement by the well known Bhagat Singh always strikes a sense of patriotism in my veins..But today, i would like to highlight an immortal incident in another revolutionary’s life..
Yes, this excerpt is about AZAD himself.
A very interesting event had occured in the life of Azad during his childhood.This incident was actually a lesson in our Hindi textook during my school days and this scene is very vividly etched in my memory. The description of the scene is as follows.

Azad was a teenager[15 years] when he was caught by the police and produced before the magistrate for a hearing .Azad was accused for demostrating in rallies against the British govt. When Azad was produced before the judge, the following dialogue ensued between the judge and him.

JUDGE; ‘Bachhe, tumhaara naam kya hai.’
[Boy, what is your name]

BOY; ‘AZAD’

JUDGE; Baap ka naam,
[Name of your father ]

BOY; SWAADHEEN
[self motivated and self-dependence]

JUDGE; Kaha rehte ho.
[where do you stay]

BOY; Jailkhaana
[prison].

The magistrate sentences Chandrashekhar that he be awarded 15 lashes on his bare back .Chandrashekahar kept shouting ‘BHarat Mata ki Jai’ as each lash from the whip ripped through his flesh until his young blood became visible.
After this incident , the name ”AZAD’ got attached to Chandrashekhar and from then on , the name ‘ Chandrashekhar Azad ‘ became well known .

Such is the courage of our great revolutionary that even after 80 years ,i feel a sense of awe and respect that i belong to a country where AZAD was born. I would be happy if i could emulate even an ounce of CHANDRASHEKAHR AZAD’S courage and patriotism..

So, the next time you face a situation where you have to decide what is right and what is best for your country, draw on the raw courage which AZAD thrived on and deal the situation with an iron fist.

”long live the revolution”

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Irrelevant magic

The magic box at the cauvery theatre junction of bangalore was never meant to work its magic right from day one. The major bottleneck on the airport road,yes the so called 6 ways built on the lines of the autobahns of germany is supposed to be signal free and junction free throughout the journey from the centre of the city to the ends of the world[read airport].But in the process of fulfilling this long standing promise our able engineers forgot that the first ever magic box that was built to reduce the congestion of the notorious cauvery junction [notorious for its unbelievable jams ] was actually a package in disguise to serve the crazy fancies of some very intelligent contractor. Intelligent , a word so common among bangaloreans is probably not a very nice adjective for the team that decided to build the magic box at the cauvery junction.I need to provide no justification for my sweet comments on this pilot project because the magic box itself writhes in pain when it sees that it is carrying the burden of unscientific and immature decisions of the engineers who conceived it. What appreciation do i think of, when i see that i am supposed to be cruising on a 6 lane road to the airport and i suddenly turn towards my left to bypass a not so busy road [the other road under the magic box which goes towards sankey tank] ,wherein the turn is so sharp that even a normal bmtc bus has to take a full 90 degree turn to steer [read cross side back in salsa] and re enter the road towards the airport.[the deliberately long winding sentence above is probably a metaphor of the traffic behaviour at the magice box]. The engineering team that had this revolutionary concept [i must agree] of introducing magic boxes thought that it is always better to divert a 6 lane ,hi density traffic to a small magic box bridge that can hardly accomodate a single bus. Even a school going kid from a local govt school [i salute the sarva shiksha abhiyaan and my humble respects to akshaya patra] would laugh at such a design concept as the kid would definetly know that he/she ought to give priority to a high density traffic rather than to a small bylane [ road towards sankey is a bylane when compared to the airport road /bellary road traffic]. This is a classic case of strangulation, i,e when you need to trouble the already agitated bangalorean, create a novel design of traffic flow to fool us into a game of round about nonsense. Hope some sense prevails among the road kings[ road traffic flow anlaysts of our govt] and they redesign the first magic box to atleast keep their faces in front of the media. Till then, get used to the 10 – 15 minute pass along the narrow magic box that weaves a beautiful magic act.
And yes.. i know what to do when i find the head of the team who conceived the first magic box,, i ll salute him …

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The Brutal Annihilation

A large crowd has gathered to watch a seemingly unimportant affair but the noise level in the crowd is almost akin to the sound of a pin drop .

2 women are dragged to the centre and are made to kneel down while their hands and feet are firmly tied . A veil adores the women while they prepare for their final journey . Suddenly a masked man weilding a gun swears that the women are accused for allegedly running a ‘So called Sex racket to satisfy the Westerners.

An eerie silence pervades. 2 guns point to the womens’ heads and then,at point range ,follows a crack of a twin gunshot. Warm blood splatters on the soil and colours it red .The women fall down in a thud as the earth shudders to bear the burden of the brutal Justice. The crowd disperses and and life goes on as normal in the ruins of the country.

This is not a scene from a violent film but is a stark reality which occurred a few days ago in the cursed land of Ghazni, Afghanisthan . Yes the Taliban is spreading its tentacles in the most menacing fashion than it has ever done before. In the midst of the war between the Western powers and the Taliban , the poor civilian is the silent sufferer. The Armageddon seems to have descended first on Afghanisthan as the world is still coming to terms with the gory terrorism.

In the name of Justice, religion and Tradition, we have been witnessing enough carnages all over the world . Hope we understand the importance of the great gift of life and not misuse our powers to unleash a bloody trail of destruction on our own fellow beings.

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News Courtesy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7504212.stm

ABSURD REALITY

Legend has it that the ‘the Joan of Arc’ was tied to the altar and burnt alive as a witch. Burning of witches was common place in ancient Europe .The pain of a burn can only be retold by the victim of Fire. Nevertheless, these episodes of burnings have become a thing of past in Europe but Behold…

 

In India the burning of Witches is as banal and as requent as it could get. Particularly , in Assam where families of witches are burnt alive for varied interests.Further more , the so called witches can also be buried alive.(Remember Kill Bill) . Unfortunately every so called witch does’nt have the skill of Uma Thurman.

 

In India, we could use the most absurd of the superstitions to get our greedy

interests take precedence. In the name of witch craft innocent people are murdered ruthlessly .The main motive of the people who instigate such incidents is to either take hold of the property or land of the victims.

 

The most important fact is that the community itself is made to believe that the victims are really some fictional  witches and thus the ‘tandav’ (read as dance} of death starts. It is highly incredulous to see that a whole village could be brainwashed into perpetuating a Joint  MURDER.

 

Hence the saying ‘the Human Brain is a wonder’. What are the underlying   easons of this mindless acts of violence? Is it that humans inherently seek pleasure in victimising the weak or is the Human psyche beyond the control of rational thought.

 

Sometimes, it is hard to find answers. For now. these are some questions to keep you pondering, I atleast hope our minds do not become a victim of  irrelevant violence.

 

Courtesy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7449825.stm

The Satanic society

The gruesome murder of an innocent girl by her own

parents in Hoshiarpur once again brings to light ,thebarbarism prevalent in India.Even after decades of

Independence,in the biggest democracy of the world ,a

girl is ‘consigned to flames’ because she dared to

love a boy belonging to a ‘So called’ Lower caste.Is

this the civilised society we all are living in ? Is

this what our religions preach? The deep and dangerous

divisions of the society on the basis of ‘Caste’ have

crippled us to such an extent that we do not even bat

an eyelid before killing our own sons and daughters in

the name of ‘False honour and Pride’. What is the

difference between the Taliban society and ours, when

such shocking acts are performed in one of the

prosperous states of India?It is high time that we put

behind the acute divisional casteism prevalent in our

lives and move forward with a much more broad minded

approach.The ’soul’ of the innocent 18 year old girl

would be writhing in pain by the ravages of India’s

caste based society and politics.I only hope that the

innocent Girl’s soul rest in peace .May such a

brutal act never be repeated on the sacred soil of India.