I had been watching and reading about rapes in moving cars in Delhi so frequently that now i have lost count of them.Latest case is the gang rape of a medical college student in a bus by its driver,his brother,cleaner and 3 others who are all arrested now and being tried in court.There is a public outrage over the incident and demand for a death penalty or castration or chemical castration of all the 6 guilty persons.why this anger by delhi students was not expressed when two manipur post graduate students were raped in a moving car in Delhi and then thrown out of the car mecilessly?Is it so that the girls of north east such as nagaland,manipur,assam etc are not equal to average middle class girls of Delhi.
Another factor which is working against middle class girls in delhi is the animal like status of working class people.Some time back during trial and investigation of Arushi talwar murder it was very much evident.Three nepali workers of dentist parents of Arushi were implicated by group of doctors of delhi, and these innocent workers were given third degree treatment by CBI officers so that they admit murder and the needle of suspicion on the parents of the girl is removed.In delhi household workers are treated like animals and quite often beaten physically.When human beings are treated like animals in capital of India,Delhi, then the reactions of these underdogs should not surprise us.
Third factor which is responsible for recuurrence of sexual assault on females is the male domination of our society and money plays an important role here.Earning money in lesser educated families is the responsibility of male offspring and he need not be educated.So in case of families owning kirana stores,general stores,medical stores,the male children are natural heirs and ownners of family buisiness and become money earners and moneyed persons even before adulthood.The girls in these families are not that fortunate and they have to fend for themselves,so they concentrate on their education and often do better than their brothers in their studies.But their position in their family remains weak due to money factor and even though better educated than their brothers,they are looked down by family and the reason is just because they are girls.they do’nt have the freedom which their brothers enjoy.
A lot of introspection is required in Indian society,apart from protesting against police,government,criminal elements etc.Why still male child is preferred in Delhi and other northern states?Why literacy rate is 50% or lesser in northern states of India?Why dowry is still a dominant practice in Delhi and most of other states in India?These are the issues which were raised by our leaders long back but why we have not been able to eliminate them from Indian society?We have to address these issues to ourselves and find solutions,otherwise Delhi will remain a rape capital of India.
IAC(India Against Corruption) is actually not so much against corruption as much it is against INC(Indian National Congress).Arvind Kejriwal who was running IAC has now become a politician and has launched a party naming it ‘Aam Aadmi Party’.Before this Anna Hazare,Baba Ramdev and Arvind Kejriwal were trying together to bring the present union government down in the name of fighting corruption.Then Baba Ramdev openly started supporting Narendra modi and other BJP leaders and abused congress party for all the corruption in the country.Differences among these threesome came out in the open and RSS and BJP were behind their anti-congress campaign,that also is not a secret now.
Why Arvind Kejriwal’s newly formed party’Aam Aadmi’ is not fighting elections in Gujrat,can he explain this to the common men like us?Does he think that Gujrat is a corruption free state and all the corruption of India prevails in Delhi under the chief ministership of Sheila Dixit.He has never uttered a single word against Narendra modi and Gujrat so far.In the name of attacking BJP he only targets Nitin Gadkari,who is also attacked by his own BJP colleagues Ram Jethmalani,Yashwant Sinha,Shatrughghan sinha,Jaswant singh, so, that does not prove that Arvind Kejriwal is anti-Bjp.His secular credentials are still suspect.
He has still not released the manifesto of his party.But observing him so far it becomes clear that he is least bothered about communalism prevailing in the country as potently as corruption.But in his over enthusiasm for attacking congress party he has completely ignored the communal factor.Will he be happy with a corrupton free communal India comparable to Saudi-Arab or Iran run by a dictator?Bias towards a particular religion and hate towards another religion is corrupt practice according to him or not?He will have to answer all these questions to the common men of India.
Gujrat elections are due in december 2012,so Arvind Kejriwal’s litmus test are these elections which he must fight and prove his mettle.So far what he has done is ‘hit and run’ type tactics.Every now and then he puts some allegation on some minister or some higher up and then he disappears and never pursues the same to bring it to its logical conclusion so that the guilty can be punished.Actually the record of congress party is better than him as far as punishing the guilty is concerned.
Therefore so far Arvind Kejriwal has proved himself to be a damp squib and he has yet to prove his credentials.
‘You said it’that famous cartoon of common man in daily news paper’The Times Of India’ by R.K.Laxman which has made him a living legend,i had been seeing from more than 40 years,is the work of a genius.Recently i saw a play also titled ‘The Common Man’which was based on cartoons of common man by R.K.laxman and common man was the hero of that play,which i thoroughly enjoyed.
I have read that late Bal Thackeray also had started his career as a cartoonist in a newspaper Free Press Journal in 1947 alongwith R.k.Laxman and both of them were inspired by a british cartoonist David Low and used to follow his style of drawing.Later on Thackeray started his own marathi weekly cartoon’Marmik’which could be popular only among marathi manoos.Bal Thackeray called himself a political cartoonist but actually started politicising regional centiments of local marathi people against Dangey and other communist leaders of mumbai that time.He instigated them against the trade unions which suited the industrialists,corporate houses that time and so thackeray got favour from them.Indian national congress that time faced challenges from communists in mumbai so Bal thackeray got soft corner from congress party also.Politics that time was divided between left and right,so in a way thackeray aligned himself to the right wing politics.Left parties were completely marginalised with the help of Bal Thackeray who openly became pro-rich and anti-poor in mumbai.
Bal Thackeray formed his own political party ‘Shiv Sena’ in 1966 and till 2012 he maintained that he was not a politician but a political cartoonist which proves his authoritarian nature.Nobody in India knows Bal thackeray as a cartoonist,and everybody knows him as a militant hindu politician.He openly admired Indira Gandhi when she declared emergency in 1975,against the wishes of all indians who were opposing her and her draconian emergency.He openly praised Hitler and his politics.It was part of his politics to beat muslims as anti-nationals,south indians and north indians as out siders.With this kind of divisive politics he found a natural ally in the form of Bhartiya Janta Party and together they played havoc with the nation which is now a history.After aligning with BJP he openly played politics with the public,like making all sorts of promises which could never be fulfilled.He promised all slum dwellers of mumbai to shift them in to high rise buildings once given the power.In a sindhi hindu township named Ulhasnagar,a nearby suburb of mumbai,he promised to rename it as ‘Sindhu nagar’.Lately all of them realised after giving SS-Bjp the power that his all promises were false and empty and he is not going to do anything for them.It was heard during their tenure that shiv sena goons were extorting large sums of money from buisiness people of mumbai and this was all going in to the coffins of shiv sena.Finally this fanatic combo has lost power and mumbaikars took a sigh of relief.Slowly his party members realised that his kind of divisive politics will get them nowhere,so one by one they started leaving him.Chhagan Bhujbal,Narayan rane,Sanjay nirupam and finally his nephew Raj Thackeray.It seems he did not trust anybody also otherwise how could he make his son Uddhav thackeray a political novice,heir to his throne,ignoring all those senior colleagues.So a divisive politician ended up himself as brutally divided.
RIP…Bal Thackeray saheb,my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and duped shiv sainiks,may god give them courage and peace to the departed soul….
Today is the polling day for the election of president of united states of America.The incumbent president is Barack obama,the first black president in the history of America,who is contesting for the second term as president.I whole heartedly supported him during his campaign for his first term in 2008 and challenged my friends that he will win the election cent percent although they had doubts that americans having killed Martin luther king an earlier black leader,can never elect a black leader.I was damn sure about Obama because i knew that americans were disgusted with the foreign affairs of George Bush,the earlier president,specially his blunders and vindictive actions in Iraq.George bush destroyed Iraq and Saddam hussain because of personal vendetta.United nations also were not convinced by republican president George bush’s actions on Iraq,in fact the entire world was not convinced with what George bush junior was doing that time.So democrats and Barack obama seized the opportunity with the help of Clintons and defeated George bush convincingly.Initially Obama’s own party Democrat’s ally Ms Hillary Clinton posed a challenge to him but later she was convinced that Obama was the better candidate.
This time Barack obama’s main campaigners are Clintons,specially Bill Clinton two time president elect democrat whose views are not like George bush about middle east and Afganistan. Republican policies during George bush were disturbing the world peace and America being the world leader in this unipolar world after soviet disintegration,could not afford to continue them.Mitt Romney is republican party candidate who is contesting against Barack Obama and surely at a disadvantage because of his party line.Americans will never like to see those days again when George bush was the president.Barack obama also has an edge over Romney because of his efforts to help the victims of superstorm Sandy.
Therefore Barack Hussein Obama seems to be all set to become the president of United States of America second time and i wish him best of luck for that.Pollsters also are showing him having slight edge over his republican contestent.I wish politics in India also improves taking clues from american elections,since both are democratic republics,but India has to improve on many counts specially on communalism and corruption to become at par with America.
He is the current president of Bhartiya Janta Party and is surrounded by so many controversies lately.Firstly a girl was found dead in his premises and the relatives of the dead girl are insisting to police authorities that gadkari be made co-accused for the murder of their daughter.Then it was alleged that there were many irregularities in his buisiness dealings like several investers of his companies are fake,his drivers and astrologers are made directors of his companies,so on and so forth.Now we have heard him saying that swami vivekanand’s IQ was same as of Dawood Ibrahim.This last one is the biggest shocker for all of us Indians.And he said that he is speaking on the basis of science.There is a proverb in sanskrit’Vinash Kaley vipreet Buddhee’which we can apply for nitin gadkari as well as Bjp.
Since he has referred to the science,so we should first of all elaborate on IQ as to what it is and where from it came.IQ is an abbreviated form of Intelligence Quotient which is calculated by dividing one’s intellectual age by chronological age and multiplied by 100.This is a german concept and one’s intellectual age is calculated by various parametres like education,professional conduct,general knowledge etc but there are no scientific methods to measure spiritual content of a prophet or a saint,this fact west also recognizes.Therfore western countries calculate the IQ of presidents or other professionals but they never measure their saints by their IQ because there is something beyond these calculations where only saints like swami vivekanand can reach,that is higher plane of super-consciousness.Swami vivekanand’s greatness was well recognized by western countries but our own indian and that too the president of a political party which is famous as a party of saints and peers has compared one of the greatest saints of india with a smuggler and on top of it the other Bjp leaders are shamelessly supporting gadkari.Nitin gadkari should have compared his own IQ with that of Dawood ibrahim,then there would not have been any issue but now he will have to either apologise from all indians,which quality Bjp politicians dont possess,or he should be ready for some serious backlash.
Coincidentally the other militant leader of Bjp,Narendra modi nowadays is doing sadbhavna yatras displaying swami vivekanand’s hoardings alongwith his own equally sized hoardings as if comparing himself with swami ji.One fanatic is comparing swami vivekanand with Dawood ibrahim,another fanatic is comparing swami ji with himself.What is this going on?Where are the conscience keepers of the great nation India?Are we really going to be a banana republic?
Narendra Modi the chief minister of gujrat has ramarked about shashi tharoor’s wife as’50 crore girl friend’ during an election rally.Narendra modi always talks of character and gives references of gita and religion.This is what he has learnt from gita and religion.what regard he has for the institution of marriage and women of india,any body can understand.Shashi tharoor’s reply in response to modi’s stupid remark was fitting and graceful when he said that his wife is priceless and modi will not understand that since modi did not know what is love.Sant kabir so nicely had written’pothi parhh parhh jagg mua hua na pandit koi,dhaai akshar prem ke parhey so pandit hoi’.Shabash shashi tharoor,you have tried to teach a lesson to this murderer of humanity named narendra modi.
I was hearing the debate on various tv channels about the abovestated incident.When bjp spokespersons were asked that should narendra modi not apologise from mrs shashi tharoor for what he has said about her.Their pat reply as in all other such acts and outbursts was that there was no such need since modi was referring to corruption charges on tharoors.Calling somebody’s wife as 50 crore girl friend is not corruption charge but it is a character assasination.Where is narendra modi’s wife today and i have heard that he has abondoned her?why?Was she not of a sound character according to modi ji.Which lady in india or in the world is of a sound character according to modi ji.Common man of india would like to know all this from him.He never apologises for any of his acts of omission and commission.About gujrat riots of 2002 he said that he should be hanged if he was found guilty.If he is such a honest politician then first of all he should have resigned from the chief ministership as soon as the doubts were raised about his direct involvement in the riots.Being the head of a state he can definitely influence the legal process of the state and there were several instances when the state government was found siding and protecting the culprits of riots.So his behaviour about gujrat riots can be summed up with the proverb’chori aur upar se seenazori’.
Shashi tharoor compared to narendra modi is an indian who can be called an achiever.He is a reknowned Indo-american writer who has written several books,represented India in united nations,well known in literary circles.Even about twitter i read yesterday that more than 50% of narandra modi’s followers are fake and more than 30% inactive.What is it for which modi is bragging about except hindu fanaticism,and come to think of it that bjp and rss are backing him in all his idio-syncrasies.
Perhaps bjp is trapped in its own chakravyuh and it does not have any other option except to toe the line of militant hindus like modi,kalyan singh,varun gandhi etc.
If we study post independence politics in india then it becomes clear that indian national congress was the only national party which enjoyed absolute majority in indian parliament.This party was formed initially to fight british rule in india and to make india a free independent democratic republic.Its founder members were many freedom fighters like Mahatma gandhi,Jawaharlal nehru,Mohammed ali Jinnah,Sardar Patel,Maulana Abul kalam Azad,Acharya Kriplani and many more who went to jail for many years fighting british rulers and finally succeeded in liberating india from the clutches of british. But they had to pay a very heavy price in the form of partition of india and formation of another country named Islamic Republic of Pakistan headed by Mohammed ali Jinnah an erstwhile prominent congress member.Mohammed ali Jinnah was a very tall congress member and wanted to become the president of indian national congress but Jawahar lal Nehru and Sardar Patel were interested in organizational elections and an elected president.So the differences cropped up between senior hindu and muslim members of congress resulting in Jinnah leaving congress party and joining another party named Muslim League.After that Jinnah demanded a separate nation for muslims on the pretext that muslims can not be safe in hindu majority india.The result was partition of india at the time of freedom of india.
Other parties which were active that time were communist parties and Janasangh(political representative of RSS and Vhp)which were not a serious challenge to congress party.The first serious challenge to Indian national congress was posed by Jai Prakash Narain an erstwhile freedom fighter who challenged the then prime minister and congress chief Mrs Indira Gandhi in seventies when emergency was declared in India. Jai Prakash Narain first time offered Indian voter a third alternative forming a political party named ‘Janata Party’.Before this Indian politics was divided between left and right.Left was represented by communist parties of India and right was represented by Indian National Congress which was having majority of upper caste Hindu leaders although they followed Indian constitution and believed in secular democratic India. Jai Prakash Narain’s Janata Party defeated Indian national congress headed by Indira Gandhi in 1977 and that was the emergence of third front in India.But its life was short-lived due to the internal differences between socialist leaders who believed Ram Manohar Lohia and Jai Prakash Narain and right wing Hindu leaders Atal bihari Vajpayee,L.k.Advani who were card carrying members of R.S.S.Soon Janata party disintegrated and so was the third front and Indian National Congress headed by Indira Gandhi came back to power.
Time to time socialist leaders tried to revive the third front and every time right wing hindu leaders became the party to break it. Janata party was literally hijacked by Hindu communal leaders in the form of Bharatiya Janata party which is nothing but a militant religious Hindu outfit backed and supported by RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal etc.BJP headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee came to power also and during this regime we saw the worst kind of communal riots.
Major problems of our country still remain the same,poverty,literacy,unemployment,communal harmony but it seems that rightist parties Indian national congress,BJP have not been able to tackle these issues and instead they indulged in corruption and communal-ism. Leftist parties have not been able to make a dent in most of the states may be because of their non belief in religion and India’s majority being firm believer in one or other religion.Therefore as in the past during Indira Gandhi’s regime,today also there is a solid scope for a Third front which can cater to the needs of vast sections of poor,needy,under-privileged who can prosper only when given the power.
Majority of the world population follows one or other religion.There is a section which does not believe in god and the persons belonging to this section are called atheists and there are among them communists also who believe in the ideology of Karl Marx or Mao tse Tung.To be an atheist or a communist is not blasphemy.Blasphemy is when somebody is disrespectful or wicked or making a mockery of god,prophets and their believers.Recently i heard one famous Indo-pak American writer,Salman Rushdie who has written a blasphemous novel’Satanic Verses’which is disrespectful to Quran and prophet Muhammed,saying that blasphemy is a freedom of expression and good for the world.I totally disagree with this statement.
Freedom of expression is with human responsibility attached to it.If our expression is hurting the beliefs of millions of people all over the world then it is better not to express.Salman Rushdie is an indian born writer whose family migrated to Pakistan and he was educated in and migrated to west.We can under stand that he was influenced by western culture and comfortable lifestyle and security and protection bestowed upon him.But all this luxurious life style at what cost?He used to call himself an atheist(non believer)in the beginning and later he said he converted to islam(perhaps out of fear when Fatwa was declared to kill him by Ayatollah khomeini of Iran)and now again he is talking in favour of blasphemy when some film’Innocence of muslims’ is being shown on you tube,a vulgar film disrepectful to prophet muhammed,made by some criminal.This kind of conduct by a famous indian born writer raises questions about his character.When an offspring of muslim parents settled in west is hurting the faith of billion+ muslim world then the person is definitely not having a sound character.I admire our late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who had banned his book ‘Satanic Verses’in India.
After Salman rushdie’s book was published in west,there were so many blasphemous articles,cartoons and films published and exhibited in europe and america in the name of freedom of expression.America’s gun culture also is a form of freedom of expression which Salman rushdie seems to be liking.Average common man of the world does not like these acts of blasphemy,hooliganism and Salman rushdie seems to be interested in creating disturbance,chaos in the world,so the muslim world is right in trying to stop him from these blasphemous acts.
There are lot of disturbances all over the world due to various reasons,religion being one of them.Major population of the world is divided among 5 0r 6 religions i.e Christianity,Islam,Hinduism,Budhism,Judaism and sikhism.Among these also first four cover the larger chunk of population of the world which is around 7 billion+.Hinduism and judaism are among the older religions and christianity,Islam and sikhism came later.Prophets Moses,Jesus christ,Muhammed came in that order and their followers are jews,christians and muslims.Jews follow old testament of bible and worship prophet Moses who is referred in Quran sharif(The holy book of muslims)as hazrat Moosa.Jews also believe that their prophet moses will come again on earth to bless them.Christians believe in Jesus christ,who as i read it was born as a jew and had spiritual qualities of prophet and hence worshipped by western world as jesus.Jesus christ is referred in Quran sharif as Hazrat Isa and next prophet according to quran sharif is hazrat Muhammed(Prophet Muhammed).There is a conflict among jews,christians and muslims who are faithful to their own prophets but differ about the prophets of other faiths.During 1st and 2nd world wars since jews did not believe in jesus christ,they were persecuted in America and Europe specially by Hitler of germany and generally disliked by western world due to which they had to vacate europe and america and relocate themselves forming a separate country named Israel.The third prophet(Prophet muhammed)has also 1billion+ following and time to time differences crop up among christians and muslims and during these differences jews generally join hands with christians.Lately some of the christians and jews have started criticizing islam and prophet muhammed,by writing derogatory books,making cartoons and films showing prophet muhammed as a bafoon and characterless person which is not a healthy development.Muslims of the world also have over reacted violently to this ugly development. Several disturbing scenes are witnessed all over like attacking U.S and european embassies,killing western diplomats and ordinary citizens who are no way connected to those books cartoons and films derogatory to prophet muhammed.This sense less frenzy from both sides should stop thats what we pray because communal conflicts can have dangerous consequences,we know this from our past experiences.
Political scene in India is quite fluid after the prime minister’s announcement about new reforms such as foreign direct investment in multi brand retail section,which actually the indian industry has welcomed and were overdue from some time.Foreign investment in china is 10 times more and far easier than india.If we have to compete with China America and Europe then we have to continue the process of liberlisation and reforms started by p.v.Narsimharao government and there is no going back.All this hue and cry by BJP is just political opportunism for which they are well known now.Now the latest development is that Mamta Banerji the chief minister of west bengal and an important ally of ruling UPA has withdrawn support from central government and announced that her ministers will submit their resignations on fryday 21st sept 2012 after namaz,at about 3 pm.Personally i feel that there is no serious threat to the government because at the time of the election of president of india also Mamta banerji alongwith Mulayamsingh yadav opposed UPA and announced her own names for presidential election but finally UPA’s candidate Pranav Mukherji has won with handsome marjin and even Mulayamsingh has ditched Mamta at the last moment.The important point is that Mamta,Mulayam,Mayawati and even jd(u)’s Nitish kumar who are all regional leaders and prime ministerial aspirants can not come together and form a third front,so they are open to manoeuvring by bigger national parties.MulayamSingh has daclared that he wants to keep BJP away from power at any cost,so who is the beneficiary in this scenerio ? Indian National Congress and nobody else.BJP is all the time dreaming about congress downfall and in this madness it can not see its own house in disorder and shambles.Congress has 200+ seats in present coalition government of UPA whereas NDA has only 114 members of BJP and very few allies among which the biggest ally JD(u) is also not averse to join congress if Bihar is attended specially economically.So where does that leave BJP ? Nowhere actually,but this hindutva brigade never realizes that the common man of India despises its communal agenda.Mayavati the dalit leader has so far kept mum over the latest developments but she also supported congress and UPA during the election of president of india.