The ghettoisation represents and defines the communal schism

Ostracising ‘others’ is organically built into some societies. 

The ghettoisation, which represents and visibly defines the communal schism between Hindus and Muslims, is itself result of deeply segmented self imposed societal compulsions we had lived in for centuries. 

We had been observing ghettoisation in villages and cities where you can still find Brahim pada to Bhumihaar pada or Santhaal pada, Chamaar Dandi, Jain mauhalla to Gur Singh enclave. Even in hostel messes I had seen Jat mess, Jain mess, Andhra mess, Pahadi mess, at least we had that in college I studied. ‬‪Communal segmentation is extension of that deep rooted malignancy. 

Faiths and castes are similarly weighed for deciding relations, neighbourliness, even touchablity. It’s our collective burden. Secularism, the way it was broadly observed during first thirty years post independence, had started mitigating those negative ancestral values with visible impacts. We had started turning more concerned for basic needs and personal development than knocking the past for both validation and retribution as we experience today. Alas, We have quickly been falling apart now. ‬

Evolution : States and kingdoms

There had been geographical boundaries made by nature as had been for Caspian Steppes and for Chinese plains, but the kings and their kingdoms were sovereign independent rules everywhere including Indian region. They considered invading neighbours as their prime job and necessary show of strength. Boundaries of these countries kept changing every now and then in India as well in north Africa and Indo China. For a Bactrian, Persian or central Asian kings like those of Kushans, Huns and Sakas or Greeks invading Sogdia or Macedonian, Egypt or India were of no difference. All were just doing what kings were doing those days. These were governed not by any faith as there hardly any used to be of permanence but by greed for wealth and power. Even today politicians are doing the same, a bit differently. In 8-9th centuries Chalukyas were invading Pallavas or Gangas and even present day Andhra and destroying, to your surprise, not just cities and palaces but temples. So did Cholas after them who invaded Orisa or even Bangal. Harsha did the same. All were sovereign nations under respective kings. 

Supporters of mythological history resort to seeking proof from their so called religious literature almost all of which appeared in distributable printed form just couple of centuries back and has been collection of stories told or made up by some one mainly brahmins of the royal courts who claimed to know by heart. Most are mere imaginary tales. There has never been proof of authenticity. These stories got new modern facility of offset printing in 18th century and become widely distributable. And started getting quoted as if true. Not different from what WhatsApp is doing. However real history is out come of intense scientific research using modern tools of archaeology and study of available ancient edicts and coins which reveal very good estimate of what had been happening in past few millenniums. You have faith of optimism but science wants to explore facts on ground. Referencing merely some mythology to prove history will never stand test of reality.

States are modern concept and created for ease of governance. Don’t confuse kingdom nations with present day states. That would be dissociative fallacy to make a point. Modern nations like India are mature outcome of people’s collective mandate and is not one person’s authoritative dictate as used to be of past kings. We are a single nation now though sorry to disappoint you, never had been. Though yes a ‘region’ of similar kind faiths did exist south of Himalaya for over three millenniums. That too unified by none but Buddhism first time and for almost 1000 years continuously !!! Jainism too had good run under patronage of several kingdoms. Rest all were minor, scattered faiths which got amalgamated into monolithic modern religion we know and define as one now.

Before these ancient civilisations emerged, the ones like Indus valley, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mayans, we were primates just evolving into full blown Homo Sapiens and learning to live in communities and under collective customs and rules and authorities. It was a slow process. World was not always as it appears today or as mythology fantasises for us of our past. We were really animals who evolved pretty slowly into intelligent fighting, killing, loving and arguing( as we do today) species.

People look for their Gods, Heroes and their magnificent stories in depths of bygone time. Universe is complex. All those splendorous , bejewelled, large people, devi, devta, angels, sages and flying objects and speaking animals and their magnificent stories, revelations of holy books if not outrightly imaginations, must have occurred at some other planet or may be in different dimension of which we are yet not aware of, nothing happened on our planet in dimensions we know about. I am sure is 3.5 Billion years of life on earth, nothing of those sort happened as per every possible scientific tool we could deploy to explore. I don’t intend to disappoint anyone. All stories , postulates could be true but may be awaiting evidence to emerge on rational plane.

Villains too were heroes someday

कोई भी मिथ्यायुक्त हास्यास्पद प्रॉपगैंडा हमारे धर्म को संबल नहीं करता बल्कि अन्य धर्मावलम्बियों के लिए हमारी आस्था पे संदेह सुदृढ़ करता हैं। जन साधारण सही ग़लत सभी निर्णयों को समझती है। राम तो समझते ही होंगें।याद रहे रावण के राज का काल संकड़ों साल बताया गया है। १४ साल राम का वनवास तो नगण्य है इस के सामने।कंस ने भी दशकों सफलता और लोकप्रियता से राज किया, कृष्ण के जन्म से पहले । हृणयकश्यपु तो हज़ारों साल राज किया और इतना ताकतवर हुआ कि भगवान को नीचा समझने लगा। अपने उस वक़्त में उस का घमंड चरम पर था। होना भी चाहिए। कोई चुनौती नहीं थी। लोग उसे ही भगवान मान बैठे थे। मूर्खता ऐसी ही तब भी रही होगी।  

हिटलर ने भी लगभग सारा यूरोप जीत लिया था। उस समय लगता था बस वही सब से योग्य है। प्रोपेगंडा मशीन पूरी ताक़त से चल रही थी।ये सब अंत में अपने अपने युगों के सब से अधम विलयन साबित हुए।

विवेक कब उठ जाता है पता नहीं चलता।

Any false and ridiculous propaganda does not strengthen our religion but instead strengthens the doubts about our faith for the followers of other religions. Common people understand all the decisions, right or wrong. Ram must have understood. Remember that the period of Raavan's rule has been said to be hundreds of years. Ram's Vanvaas of 14 years is nothing compared to this. Kansa also ruled successfully and popularly for decades before Krishna was born. Hrinayakashyapu ruled for thousands of years and became so powerful that he started considering God as inferior. At that time his pride was at its peak. That’s natural. There was no challenge. People considered him as God. The foolishness must have been like this even then.

Hitler had also conquered almost all of Europe. At that time it seemed that he was the most worthy person. The propaganda machine was running at full strength. In the end, all of them proved to be the worst villains of their respective eras.

It is not known when sagacity dies.

We have better life than our ancestors

We love to eulogise past. Despite all what people call as sins of our generation from eating burgers to partying and getting overworked with competing workplaces, we are not only healthier but live longer than our forefathers.  

Our ancestors were consuming what was available for them and their physical performance used to be what was required as per available resources. Their days had limited hours to accomplish whatever they had in hand. Beyond six in evening they must finish eating and sleep. There were no lights for darkness.

Our generation has more hours to do useful work. We find time for workout and go on vacation and avail better and modern healthcare which our ancestors lacked, we know what would go wrong since prudence for health forewarns us and we take care.

Life expectancy is most important criterion for measuring quality of life. Life expectancy before 1947 was averaging at 35 years. Now it is 71 years. US has it at 79. It must have been worst in deeper past. There were times when pandemics and endemic had been rampantly wiping out populations all over the globe. This happens rarely now, thanks to science and means communication and connectivity which keep these in check. 

Quality of life in present era is improving so also the age we die. Because of scientific advancements there may be time fairly soon, when most human would be enjoying burgers, pasta, street food, till age of 100 and dying on euthanasia willingly. 

Which period would one like to be born if given an option?

Universes: Beads in rosary of Big Bangs

Universe is so complex to even imagine. Its enormity of distance and size is perplexing in perspective of how we perceive objects and their depths and volumes and the dimensions. 

The expanding universe has Big Bang at its genesis, the blast triggered by unknown. Big Bang of the universe we are part of,  is still not exhausted or has not ended as we still keep learning of its continued expansion.

Postulate: There could even be some another ‘Big Bang' occurring for some other universe behind which had triggered our Big Bang which formed this universe which we struggle to explain. And there could be yet another Big one behind that too triggering one Big Bang there too, and so on endlessly triggering one from another in endless chain of Big Bangs causing infinitely unending rotary , or a rosary repeating endlessly- blasting, expanding, forming and collapsing and then triggering many such blasts and then blasting yet again to repeat circularly. Do we see all this happening in circular succession events tied into a chain or rosary?

EVM/ईवीएम

Challenge should not be thrown at the doubters to prove the authenticity of EVM, but challenge should be accepted to prove their own winnability despite EVM. Those who think they are unbeatable, and rightly so at least presently, should themselves come forwards to accept this challenge lest the suspicions deepens.Those who are best to win would win anyway whatsoever way the votes are counted.

Question should not be whether an electronic gadget can be manipulated remotely, or during manufacture or while handling? Question should be as to why such a vital and fundamental measuring tool of democratic sustenance continues to be relied upon if even one single major participant refuses to accept it. That should be the maturity of democracy.

EVM were deployed primarily to shorten the election periods and finish the process quickly. This was to avoid giving longer period for political bitterness to rise and brinkmanship to damage the very process of elections. However it never happened that way. We have been having uncomfortably large periods of elections spreading into weeks before we get the results. The purpose is already defeated and we have issues of trust with accuracy of the devices and rampant suspicion, baseless so be it. It should have been enough of these reasons to replace EVM and go back to ballot at least to restore the confidence.

There are more advanced nations which can technologically refine their EVMs to most acceptable standards but they are not doing that because there are democratic participants who refuse to accept these. Only we are continuing with these devices despite so much of logic against.

ईवीएम की प्रामाणिकता साबित करने के लिए संदेह करने वालों को चुनौती नहीं दी जानी चाहिए, बल्कि ईवीएम के बावजूद अपनी जीत साबित करने की चुनौती स्वीकार की जानी चाहिए। जो लोग सोचते हैं कि वे अपराजेय हैं, और कम से कम वर्तमान में तो सही भी है, उन्हें इस चुनौती को स्वीकार करने के लिए स्वयं आगे आना चाहिए ताकि संदेह गहरा न हो। जो लोग जीतने के लिए सर्वश्रेष्ठ हैं वे वैसे भी जीतेंगे, चाहे वोटों की गिनती किसी भी तरह से की जाए।

प्रश्न यह नहीं होना चाहिए कि क्या किसी इलेक्ट्रॉनिक गैजेट को दूर से, या निर्माण के दौरान या संभालते समय हेरफेर किया जा सकता है? सवाल यह होना चाहिए कि लोकतांत्रिक निर्वाह के इतने महत्वपूर्ण और मौलिक माप उपकरण पर भरोसा क्यों किया जा रहा है, अगर एक भी प्रमुख भागीदार इसे स्वीकार करने से इनकार करता है। यही लोकतंत्र की परिपक्वता होनी चाहिए।

ईवीएम को मुख्य रूप से चुनाव की अवधि को छोटा करने और प्रक्रिया को जल्दी खत्म करने के लिए तैनात किया गया था। इसका उद्देश्य राजनीतिक कड़वाहट बढ़ने और चुनाव प्रक्रिया को नुकसान पहुंचाने के लिए अधिक समय देने से बचना था। हालाँकि ऐसा कभी नहीं हुआ. हम असुविधाजनक रूप से बड़ी अवधि के चुनावों का सामना कर रहे हैं, जो नतीजे आने से पहले हफ्तों तक फैलते रहते हैं। उद्देश्य पहले ही विफल हो चुका है और हमारे पास उपकरणों की सटीकता और बड़े पैमाने पर संदेह के साथ विश्वास के मुद्दे हैं, चाहे यह निराधार हो। कम से कम विश्वास बहाल करने के लिए ईवीएम को बदलने और मतदान पर वापस जाने के लिए ये कारण पर्याप्त होने चाहिए थे।

ऐसे कई उन्नत देश हैं जो तकनीकी रूप से अपने ईवीएम को सबसे स्वीकार्य मानकों तक परिष्कृत कर सकते हैं लेकिन वे ऐसा नहीं कर रहे हैं क्योंकि कुछ लोकतांत्रिक भागीदार हैं जो इन्हें स्वीकार करने से इनकार करते हैं। इतने सारे तर्कों के बावजूद हम केवल इन उपकरणों का उपयोग जारी रख रहे हैं।

Abandoned sons of Gods

When you abuse people of other faiths and THEIR God and that God fails to come forward to either stop you or protect His faithfuls and also YOUR God too fails to either reward or punish you for what you did to those people of other faith and their God, implies that both Gods are of same kind, either, powerless fantasies or, who knows, they are kind of evils enjoying making you both sides fight among themselves for some power who is actually no where. You decide what your God should be if you are of this kind of human. You are either Devil's child or child of some God who has definitely abandoned you for good.

जब आप अन्य धर्मों के लोगों और उनके भगवान को गाली देते हो और उनका भगवान आपको रोकने या अपने वफादारों की रक्षा करने में विफल रहता है और आपका भगवान भी आपको उन कार्यों के लिए पुरस्कृत या फिर दंडित करने में विफल रहता है जो आपने अन्य धर्म के लोगों और उनके भगवान के साथ किए, इसका तात्पर्य हुआ कि दोनों भगवान एक ही तरह के हैं, या तो मात्र शक्तिहीन कल्पनाएँ या किसी  तरह के दुराग्रही जो दोनों पक्षों को किसी ऐसी शक्ति के लिए आपस में लड़ने का आनंद ले रहे हैं जो वास्तव में कहीं नहीं है। यदि आप इस तरह के इंसान हैं तो आप तय करें कि आपका भगवान क्या होना चाहिए। 

Stray dogs must be removed from streets

Stray dogs are menacingly dangerous particularly during early morning hours and roam in fearsome packs always on edge of aggression. 

We must value human life at supreme and leave no space for such brutality over itself. Stray dogs have no place in any civilised society and must be removed from streets with every means we have in hand. People feeding them must be punished. If physical calming or putting strays down is needed, so be it. We don’t stick to that animal love syndrome to spare mosquitoes and virus for same reason. 

Only pets should be allowed with defined restrictions. No civilised nation allows strays. 

Those animal rights organisations which help cause this brutality to happen must also be made to compensate victims of stray attacks as fine.

Aryan migration to India

Some charlatans fail to appreciate that during boundaryless ancient world people were simply moving and spreading out to find better places for living on whatever transport they could invent or discover.

Whole life of few low wit minds is spent on failing attempts to dig some link to prove that we Indian never migrated from anywhere and are original habitants of this land. At core of their struggle is that we are greatest and grandest of all civilisations and that crown would get sullied if are to be told that our genesis is elsewhere.

Why can't we feel proud of what we are, irrespective of where we are from anciently? One can be part of great civilisation even when one's father or grandfather were not. If you are great today as you consider yourself, enjoy this moment, why do you need to keep agitating your empty brains to prove something no one else believes, not yet.