why 'indian' is a different breed altogether

Its been an age old saying, indian's being referred to as "a completely different breed altogether". Even indians believe that, (SRK telling on national TV about it).
our breeding into adultage and psychology makes us different i.e. even in an enormous amount of pressure an indian cope up living his life. Our feelings are fickle, (or hypocratic to say the least). Things of utmost importance lose flavor and we do nothing to tackle it. yes, am talking about the mumbai blasts.

much anger erupted in those days, when suddenly everything seemed possible and everyone wanted to do something. everyone has his own view at the story, everyone has a topic to discuss. the discussions lead nowhere, with the concensus that you can't do anything, so the resentment decreases and we are back to square one. we can just forget the most disastrous things, if it didnt affect us directly.

learn from westerners ??? french just had a united march against the government and it was really united.. (75% people approving the cause). here, we'll prefer having another topic to discuss, (with the result, more or less known that we cant do anything) so 'mitti daalo yaar'.

and the best is we cant do anything about it. no 'jaagore' tv commercial or anything will motivate us take the harder way while we decide to live our own lives.. thats why we're a different breed altogether. for the more adventurous, they either become social outcasts, eccentric guys or are too confused about what to do that they prefer talking motivational bull-shit which no one else is ever gonna chew.

PS: gandhi too was an eccentric chap with his ideology, but he got every guy/girl to do what he wanted ... that time were we the different breed altogether ?? but, now, we'd prefer talking about it. or would we ?

samsara-the cycle

"There is nothing called as NEW.. things just repeat over in a cycle."
A person may find topics as new and relevant today might have been existent in the same form centuries ago, though a person may be able to experience once in his lifetime, making it new. Conan doyle's short story (1890's)on sherlock holme's cracking up a bank robbery is the exact depiction shown in the movie 'The Bank Job'. More generalistically, recession is one topic once seen in the lives of our older generations. We're lucky experiencing it in ours.

Coming over, natural disasters arent new either, though they say the intensity keeps on increasing, to which i'd argue that its not about intensity but population density that's burning in your mind. Anyways, our scriptures (there's no harm in learning good things from them, OK??) too suggest similar things. What i find intriguingly relevant in hinduism is their philosophy of 'yugs'. Kalyug, the current time is suggestive of the kind of societal values we have and believe in. Buddhism comes up with the concept of cycle-the samsara, where an individual keeps on desiring one thing after the other and the only way out of this flowchart is the 'stop' symbol-death. Muslim religion reflects the straightforward, truthful obeyance to god, without any fickleness or hypocracy. Being orthodox in these contemporary times, we expect the rules of its religion to change. Learning from the past, its the same what happened with Christianity during the renaissance. It had become too 'ruly' and systematic for a person to abide. The lesson means that whatever be the religion, its NEVER a set of rules to follow. Its should be used as a guiding light to help the individual choose when in dilemma posed by the question of YES or NO.

Though we may call ourselves to be contemporary, modern or whatever, we still have some kind of 'habits' which may lead to superstitions in our mind. We give modern names to those-OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder), a lingo for the 'older' rituals or superstitions followed by our ancestors. in those days, people killed in the name of god and now they do the same. whats changed is 'lingo'. Begging, similarly dates back to jesus's time (or caesar's time).

oh.. global warming?? thats one issue which has never happened. Well, some staticians and models may help you negate the fact, but yes, that you may call something new.. i'd prefer calling it a new mask of some old issue. compare with recession, though the causes have been always different, the result is the same. bad time to come. similarly, global warming is just a cause. for something not good. (hope i dont need to be more verbose on this, you get it.. thats all )

I cant think of more contemporary issues so i'd stop here. but the point is, there's nothing called as new. not even patents ... (more on that later)

bedtime story

it's a good day and i have finally decided to go on for a walk cum jog. the weather is cool too, with no sun but grey tones in the sky. after a good day's work, am jogging with quite a few people, some of which i just overtook. the day is good and i am loving the puffs of smoke coming from my mouth in this weather.

its decision time on whether to go straight or right. straight, there's a building and right has an empty road, a little foggy.. but uninhabited. first i think of going straight, going on the other side of the road and i see a yellow gate. in between the bars, i see other people walking normally. i decide to go right only, not towards the gate. in the midst of this, the people i was with have been left behind, some going straight while some have already turned right and on the other side of the road, though am not alone, i see some joggers ahead of me.

all of a sudden, people ahead of me start running faster.. and i catch up too. someone comes from the other side, hinting me to stop, analyse and stay put. i dont. in the grossly bizzare situation, i run faster, risking myself... people ahead of me are shot. killed. for a moment, i decide to run faster and go away from the building .. and even make one or two shots of sprinting in despair.

then my senses dawn on me that the best thing to do is lie down as there is some kind of terrorists and am an easy target with my back all exposed and me running....
just as this happens, i stoop lower and from nowhere someone makes an impact on my head, with his legs, shoots at someone and covers me while i lay dorsal on the road...... he says, dont move, am from nsg, my eyes, on the ground open up and see someone just tryin to shoot me but getting shot by the guy.. he's on me, protected me and now i close my eyes.. feeling anxious, but thinking why i committed that mistake.... my mind running ..

i realise that if i feel safe, i may not be here .. but somewhere else.. i open up the eyes and my mobile reads 5:15. .... am lying on my bed .. and its my dream ..

PS:: though am not perturbed ever by the terrorism n stuff (never in my mind .. comes such things.. seems funny now thinkin bou it ), i dont know why this came to me ... but the problem is if it came to me, what bout the sensitive and people who have ever witnessed things like these ....... what's in their mind ?

2009- mangalore, terrorists and society

another issue of national importance has emerged out from the mangalore rioting and extremism. the whole idea of beating girls in a 'pub'lic place is a devilish and a heinous crime. however, there is more that meets the eye from the whole incident. at first look, the fingers point at bjp and the mass hysteria that such an event could do to tamper its image. even our home minister, chidambaram said it was an attempt to defame BJP. clearly, this is a game of simple politics in the election year. its common sense that BJP would not only gain mass support from such acts (u'll understand why) but be given a boost of votes because of such things rather than tainting it's image.

anyone remember's babri ? oh yes ... it was a heinous crime too. now, that was clearly openly done. this is a more subtle deed. any opinion show on the news channel may provide 2 conflicting opinions. one, the 'conservatists' of liberalisation pointing to the freedom of expression and the other the conservative conservatives trying to show the light of uncultured and immoral practices being followed in metros.

both are equally sensible and yet conflicting. we deserve the right to experiment and express. but in the name of expression, we need not forget our culture, our heritage and certain rules not dictated by the constitution, but by the rich history of our ancestors.

let me be brief. our modern culture cannot be based on live-in relations, teenage sex and pregnancies because these are the vices of western civilization. rather than learning, politicians know metros have fallen prey to it. britain battled of teenage pregnancies 3 years back and found that 80% of young girls losing virginity. nothing is immoral according to the law, but not scientifically and socially, NOT ACCEPTABLE.

now then, any fight has always helped BJP get the masses from all the states (except educated metro people) syncronise with BJP and thats what it has understood it must do. india shining failed badly because the target was middle-class, while congress had been fundamentally supporting farmers and other lower class (though never in the name of factious politics). BSP. the brilliant example of grassroot level politics.
so, anyways, It is definately going to help extremist politicians ruling our country helped by the fickleness of the masses.
admit it, for a common man, I'd always go for preserving our culture and define mangalore acts as barbaric, but think that the distorted culture of metros need be stopped.. this is when i start getting in sync with the ideology that i had initially opposed. cant understand? read again .. you wont anyways...

2009-terrorism

well, i intend not to make this article anti-US, but just cannot help. just like the export of recession, they have successfully created a more dangerous opposition for not only themselves, but for the entire world.

well, to go back in time, afghanistan's demise was caused by the russian invasion.(the 1st at fault). in the years to come, the prosperity enjoyed by afghans never came back and such resentment was bound to grow into harmful activities. Our honorable neighbours (with financial support of US) provide the training camps, ammunition and skills to the rebels so that they fight against the russians. fuelled by US initially the taliban, which in the name of restoration law become a military rule and no peace, no effort to restore a social life is made. friends turn into foes when taliban tries its hands at destroying its creator and things just go worser. and worser.

now,alongwith the arms and ammunition (provided for the afghan war), pakistan gets enough funds to carry on it's agenda for kashmir. the training camps and other infrastructure easily available, pakistan up's it's offensive on india.
and what happens after is that we all know.

i dont say that its india who is the sufferer. india has had it's share of bad practices and policies done in the name of vote bank politics. communalising hindu-muslim factions, the babri masjid riots, sikh riots, gujarat riots etc are a few to name (which were internal matter of the country and dealt wrongly). but whats the future now ??

mumbai attacks has opened up our eyes for rethinking and restrategizing just like recession has been an eye opener,too.
i read a very important idea which is worth mentioning here. India, has successfully solved problems of terrorism earlier (the sikh riots) by no military action- like our honorable US did for iraq and afghanistan- which is a TOTAL BLUNDER which indians cannot afford to repeat (learning from west's mistakes rite?? ).
BUT
in the case of sikh riots, india eradicated terrorism from its roots by making the place prosperous, inviting trade and making people self-dependant. at the end of the day, a prosperous person can never commit extremist steps.

if there is terrorism means pakistan's and afghanistan's government failed to make the society prosperous. so, to eradicate terrorism from its roots, we must find ways to rethink and make the impoverished, frustrated community of these countries more prosperous rather than keeping them at war (which is defering the situation right ??? )

to read about history of taliban::: www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1815/18150760.htm