Rama was the epitome of virtuosity in its complete sense and forms.No wonder he is not revered in this age and times .So musical were the chants of ‘Jai Sriram’ when a mere two-M.P.s party rose up magically to form governments at the centre.Almost magically,the number of elected parliamentarians rose up and accumulated.As mystically, their rank and file stopped uttering the cry of ‘Jai Sriram’ and their strength dwindled as mysteriously ,almost wiping out the very face of the said party from the national scenario.
What ails India?
Is it the society or the unsocial elements courting politics,business and every other sphere which has led to no more whispers nor wishes to establish a ‘Rama Rajya’ in the great land known as ‘BHARATA’ since times immemorial?
Rama Rajya is no utopian dream.It in fact was the ultimate form of existence of a democracy within a monarchy.The lone near resemblance if any of the golden scheme of such a king belonging to the subjects while being led to govern for the welfare of the people comprising the kingdom is Britain.India is a far cry from Ram Rajya.Why?
Since no man is a Rama in our land today .Not even yours truly was obedient to a wonderful father [I had spurned lucrative MNC offers to set up practice ,against the advice of a doting father who knew the toll a hectic life would take upon his son]whereas Rama did not bat an eyelid in obeying his father Dasaratha’s unexpected command to forsake the throne and go into exile in a jungle.
No man in our country today would drive his spouse away based on heresay of a lowly washerman’s scolding of his wife .Rama exhibited the quality of being a king first and an individual placed below the people’s voice.
Rama went in search of Rakshasas[demons] who were disrupting the yagnas[prayers and penance] of great rishis[sages and medicants] in the forest and vanquished them to enable the pious to offer prayers in peace and happiness.No man in our land [myself no exception]would consent to conscription or compulsory military service against terrorists in Kashmir region or even in our own cities of residence].
Rama was faithful to his wife,Sitadevi and went in search of her .No man in this country today can even think of roaming on foot across the length and breadth of this vast country .Partly because the twelve years of exile would be completed even in making the rounds of the dozen or so police-stations one would have to run around even to have the First Information Report lodged ,in such tragic circumstances.
Rama was like no man alive today .Therefore no man today [especially the ones who occupy the seats of power ]can be equated with Rama.
Mere mortals reign today .Rama was a human form who rose to the exalted position of a Lord incarnate of God Almighty through an exemplary life of tests of ethics,equality and even the strength of character .None dare even imagine measuring up to his exemplary and wonderful ways in a whole lifetime: not even Obama or Osama nor the Chinese Premier[who are the most powerful men alive on the planet today].
So,it is impossible to bring in a RAMA RAJYA in this the 21st century of our times on earth.It is especially impossible in India.
‘Mera Bharat Mahan’ is a slogan ,not a statement of Rama,the doer of action positive,in the overall good of humanity’s quest for peace,law,order,prosperity and dharma[justice].
‘Hey Ram’,said the Mahatma in his last breath.
‘Oh My God’ say the anglicized Indians .
One ought to say ‘JAI SRIRAMA’ at least today ,
the day of Sri Ramanavami.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
MASS OF ALSO-RANS...!!!!
Mass frenzy grips the nation. It does not mean a mass of people being in frenzy en masse .Nor does it merit frenzied mobs going berserk .
I mean the mass of frenzied mindsets who seem to both hate others as well as love themselves -all at once .Both the acts of humanity seem contradictory but being self-obsessed, there seems to be no contraindication of the vacuum which fills their mass called the brain itself.
Neither the legislators nor the business-folk;not the peasant nor a countryside farmer; not a casual laborer nor the self-employed, the ones who really seem to be the only employed are the ones who are termed ‘middle class’: these constitute the likes of all those who can neither stoop to the level of kowtowing to the rowdy across the street who is a self-styled leader who distributes pattas [titles of land]or one who would throw around wads of notes to pay the ‘black’-money component too of the exorbitant cost of lands.These are the mass who keep alive the notion of there being in existence a higher force of nature called GOD and the many who keep any religion alive .
Mass frenzy is the order of the day . Be it adorning the mainroads with huge statues or be it garlanding a not diminutive sized woman-leader with huge garlands of currency-notes repeatedly in full public view .Same would be the situation when the living house of the main opposition leader in a state was razed to the ground .Likewise is the situation when magical sounding phrases like IPL or SRK are bandied about to invent thousands of crores of rupees worth of a parallel economy .And an even greater number of idlers and sycophants across the nation.
Are we a frenzied nation .Or am I working up a frenzy about this mass of do-nothing-but-seem-gooders?
Whatever it is all much ado about nothing .Them all, I mean .Not the realists.
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I mean the mass of frenzied mindsets who seem to both hate others as well as love themselves -all at once .Both the acts of humanity seem contradictory but being self-obsessed, there seems to be no contraindication of the vacuum which fills their mass called the brain itself.
Neither the legislators nor the business-folk;not the peasant nor a countryside farmer; not a casual laborer nor the self-employed, the ones who really seem to be the only employed are the ones who are termed ‘middle class’: these constitute the likes of all those who can neither stoop to the level of kowtowing to the rowdy across the street who is a self-styled leader who distributes pattas [titles of land]or one who would throw around wads of notes to pay the ‘black’-money component too of the exorbitant cost of lands.These are the mass who keep alive the notion of there being in existence a higher force of nature called GOD and the many who keep any religion alive .
Mass frenzy is the order of the day . Be it adorning the mainroads with huge statues or be it garlanding a not diminutive sized woman-leader with huge garlands of currency-notes repeatedly in full public view .Same would be the situation when the living house of the main opposition leader in a state was razed to the ground .Likewise is the situation when magical sounding phrases like IPL or SRK are bandied about to invent thousands of crores of rupees worth of a parallel economy .And an even greater number of idlers and sycophants across the nation.
Are we a frenzied nation .Or am I working up a frenzy about this mass of do-nothing-but-seem-gooders?
Whatever it is all much ado about nothing .Them all, I mean .Not the realists.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
NOT AN ENACTMENT...!!!
Act of God is a valid defence under the law of tortious liability.To the layman,this would mean that natural calamities such as an earthquake ,a tsunami or a cyclone preventing the due and timely or diligent carrying out of an obligation under a given contract would be regarded to be factors beyond the control of human actions .So, any default under such a scenario would not impose automatic liability on the defaulter for such a breach.
Act of State would certainly include within its ambit the action of a war breaking out between two countries.Of late, the social situation has been refined by acts of terrorism to include a finer differentiation between ’state-actors’ and ‘non-state actors’ in such a warfare directed at destabilization of another country,society or economy.
It must be in this backdrop that the seemingly hi-tech sounding CIVIL liability for nuclear damage Bill has to be understood.It is a law sought to be passed in consequence of the Nuclear Treaty signed by our country with the USA.
It is good that the said bill got derailed today in the Lok Sabha.
In its present form it lays a limit on the amount of compensation payable to the sufferers,affected parties [and often times,these would but be legal heirs of deceased victims in a nuclear accident]at a figure of Rs.300 crores[convert this in terms of U.S.Dollars and see the real sum total of upper limit pre-decided as being payable by the 'operator' of a nuclear plant in India.
It says says that the operator would not be liable for any nuclear damage if the incident was caused by 'grave national disaster of exceptional character, armed conflict or act or terrorism '.Imagine a scenario wherein negligence being attributed to the operator himself [without allegation or evidence of act of terror'].
It has incorporated provisions that would enable the government to either increase or decrease the amount of liability of any operator [it isa gateway to lengthy and cumbersome litigation since it is not specific when it could be hiked or lowered] .
Union Carbide Gas tragedy of Bhopal has been a real-time experience for this nation comprising of a largely gullible and often helpless majority because the bills are enacted by those few seated in the haloed floors of the august Parliament .Real expression of concern on such a vital issue cannot be staged through mass rallies by so-called protestors nor can it be ignored if INDIA IS TO SURVIVE IN THE WORLD COMITY OF NATIONS and reach the coverted membership of the U.N.Security Council.
Hence, all right thinking intellectuals and jurists of the country should brain storm with legislators and parliamentarians ,present and past in order to arrive at pragmatic and valid provisions in the proposed Special Law.
A reasoned Act of Reason must not be reprehensible to the good conscience of a peace loving overly populated society as ours .Hence,a serence and better sense should prevail .Parliament should not act in haste and let the country’s people repent at leisure.This is the the need of the hour.
Act of State would certainly include within its ambit the action of a war breaking out between two countries.Of late, the social situation has been refined by acts of terrorism to include a finer differentiation between ’state-actors’ and ‘non-state actors’ in such a warfare directed at destabilization of another country,society or economy.
It must be in this backdrop that the seemingly hi-tech sounding CIVIL liability for nuclear damage Bill has to be understood.It is a law sought to be passed in consequence of the Nuclear Treaty signed by our country with the USA.
It is good that the said bill got derailed today in the Lok Sabha.
In its present form it lays a limit on the amount of compensation payable to the sufferers,affected parties [and often times,these would but be legal heirs of deceased victims in a nuclear accident]at a figure of Rs.300 crores[convert this in terms of U.S.Dollars and see the real sum total of upper limit pre-decided as being payable by the 'operator' of a nuclear plant in India.
It says says that the operator would not be liable for any nuclear damage if the incident was caused by 'grave national disaster of exceptional character, armed conflict or act or terrorism '.Imagine a scenario wherein negligence being attributed to the operator himself [without allegation or evidence of act of terror'].
It has incorporated provisions that would enable the government to either increase or decrease the amount of liability of any operator [it isa gateway to lengthy and cumbersome litigation since it is not specific when it could be hiked or lowered] .
Union Carbide Gas tragedy of Bhopal has been a real-time experience for this nation comprising of a largely gullible and often helpless majority because the bills are enacted by those few seated in the haloed floors of the august Parliament .Real expression of concern on such a vital issue cannot be staged through mass rallies by so-called protestors nor can it be ignored if INDIA IS TO SURVIVE IN THE WORLD COMITY OF NATIONS and reach the coverted membership of the U.N.Security Council.
Hence, all right thinking intellectuals and jurists of the country should brain storm with legislators and parliamentarians ,present and past in order to arrive at pragmatic and valid provisions in the proposed Special Law.
A reasoned Act of Reason must not be reprehensible to the good conscience of a peace loving overly populated society as ours .Hence,a serence and better sense should prevail .Parliament should not act in haste and let the country’s people repent at leisure.This is the the need of the hour.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
GOD DAMNED MEN ?
God disposes when man proposes .Not the other way .This has become amplified umpteen number of times since times immemorial.Of late, scoops and revealations have brought home the point to the fore. Sadly though the discoveries of escapades and wrongful exploits of criminal mindsets has helped fan the theory of the non-believers that it is right to disbelieve in the existence of God.
God is real .God exists. Unless this truth of human existence be admitted, death cannot be accounted for .No other authority superior to mankind exists in the universe’s order of things .Hence, a supernatural force [call it GOD if you please!]prevails ,always.And,irrespective of whether or not one and all of humanity acknowledges or bows to God.
Idolatory may be reprehensible to the minds of a few .Others more evolved would denigrate the very idea of a God .Stranger then that although idolatory is frowned upon, these very people flock to the cameras and the studios or exhibit their photographs in full make-up and bright fineries.
Godmen is a wrong phrase put up by the loosely minded among the mass media. As is customary ,successive generations merely ape the predecessors. There is never any actual ,real application of mind to understand either the words or the sects of such beings on earth.After all, they too eat, drink ,sleep and the whole lot of physiological actions undertaken by fellow human beings. So, what needs to be understood is that God is a concept relating to the Soul of the being and not concerned with neither body nor form.
If there be no God and all who believe in the existence of a God Almighty are termed,dubbed,clubbed with the likes of phoney’godmen’,then all religions on earth would bear neither justification nor an explanation for their existence.
God Save Mankind.
God is real .God exists. Unless this truth of human existence be admitted, death cannot be accounted for .No other authority superior to mankind exists in the universe’s order of things .Hence, a supernatural force [call it GOD if you please!]prevails ,always.And,irrespective of whether or not one and all of humanity acknowledges or bows to God.
Idolatory may be reprehensible to the minds of a few .Others more evolved would denigrate the very idea of a God .Stranger then that although idolatory is frowned upon, these very people flock to the cameras and the studios or exhibit their photographs in full make-up and bright fineries.
Godmen is a wrong phrase put up by the loosely minded among the mass media. As is customary ,successive generations merely ape the predecessors. There is never any actual ,real application of mind to understand either the words or the sects of such beings on earth.After all, they too eat, drink ,sleep and the whole lot of physiological actions undertaken by fellow human beings. So, what needs to be understood is that God is a concept relating to the Soul of the being and not concerned with neither body nor form.
If there be no God and all who believe in the existence of a God Almighty are termed,dubbed,clubbed with the likes of phoney’godmen’,then all religions on earth would bear neither justification nor an explanation for their existence.
God Save Mankind.
HOUSE OF DOLLS….!!!
I could never fathom the fun and exclusivity of dolls and doll-houses being offered especially to little girls,across the world.It has taken all of two decades of public interaction to realize the purpose and intent behind the customary way of looking at things.
For one, there never was the concept of ‘gender-discrimination’ those ancient days .It was just the fact of co-existence of the males and the females of the human species.Secondly,nobody ever complained of the woman staying back at home to be branded the ‘housewife’ whilst the man of the house went out to fend for the family’s livelihood-becoming the ‘house-holder’.Next,technology was conspicuous by its absence leaving no room for the spread of either mass movements nor the concept of ‘equality of woman and man’.
I now seem lost and forlorn in my cry for a re-thinking on the unchecked and unbridled use of freedom of thought,life and liberty by excessively liberated folks who choose to ignore the pleas of the conservative and the tradition-bound mindsets of the disciplinarians.Every ear is deaf it seems ;every mind has stopped its original functioning it appears .All are beset by the mass propoganda unleashed through popular media and in corridors of power.
Whither the concept of human security and security of life?Is marriage no longer an institution?Are womenfolk going to be rid of the harrassments and domestic violence being meted out to them with the mere passage of the bill categorizing them in the legislative sphere?What is required to prevent the dressing up of mannequins and dolls or the conversion of an august house of wisdom into a doll-house?
An ounce of honesty ,a good measure of self-introspection and a whole lot of goodwill for all the women of the country-be they from a rural or urban region;be they literates or illiterates;be they young or old.
Mangled ideas and hasty bills cannot reset lives nor dictate reason into the bad conscience of a whole nation who seem to have been left in a state of uncertainity,confusion and ennui in the name of a people’s democracy.
Acts of preservation are of paramount importance ,not an act of reservation for a few.
For one, there never was the concept of ‘gender-discrimination’ those ancient days .It was just the fact of co-existence of the males and the females of the human species.Secondly,nobody ever complained of the woman staying back at home to be branded the ‘housewife’ whilst the man of the house went out to fend for the family’s livelihood-becoming the ‘house-holder’.Next,technology was conspicuous by its absence leaving no room for the spread of either mass movements nor the concept of ‘equality of woman and man’.
I now seem lost and forlorn in my cry for a re-thinking on the unchecked and unbridled use of freedom of thought,life and liberty by excessively liberated folks who choose to ignore the pleas of the conservative and the tradition-bound mindsets of the disciplinarians.Every ear is deaf it seems ;every mind has stopped its original functioning it appears .All are beset by the mass propoganda unleashed through popular media and in corridors of power.
Whither the concept of human security and security of life?Is marriage no longer an institution?Are womenfolk going to be rid of the harrassments and domestic violence being meted out to them with the mere passage of the bill categorizing them in the legislative sphere?What is required to prevent the dressing up of mannequins and dolls or the conversion of an august house of wisdom into a doll-house?
An ounce of honesty ,a good measure of self-introspection and a whole lot of goodwill for all the women of the country-be they from a rural or urban region;be they literates or illiterates;be they young or old.
Mangled ideas and hasty bills cannot reset lives nor dictate reason into the bad conscience of a whole nation who seem to have been left in a state of uncertainity,confusion and ennui in the name of a people’s democracy.
Acts of preservation are of paramount importance ,not an act of reservation for a few.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
WISHING A FISH...!!!
To or not to bite the bait?
So ask the fish,big fish,small fish,bigger fish ,all of them.
They know they are not amphibian creatures nor are they akin to man.
Mankind they know can be very compassionate ,when it chooses them to be.
It is a man’s world after all. No right thinking water-fish would ever dare to leap out of the safety of the deep[even shallower]waters and risk the prospect of ending up on the dinner-table of a big-fry man.
I would forever rate the famous lesson of Bible [teach a man to catch a fish for a living rather than feeding him fish]as one of the apt morals for living.The art of living does not comprise merely of rubbing shoulders with all and sundry or painting spots on a cat’s skin to make it appear a leopard.It has more than the science of make-up ,technology or no technologies…!
So, arise ,awake and stay vigilant all you piranhas ,cat-fish,sharks, whales and the littler sweet ones .Do not become fodder for snarling ‘fish-eat-fish’ carnivores nor those who stalk unsuspecting edibles,irrespective of the prey being molluscs or edible fish.
Stay in your bounds and do not let them befool you into imagining that the boundaries for a woman’s domain have widened with the passage of the so-called Bill.
After all, any reservation fixing a quota will automatically become a constricting noose which restricts your ability to dribble all across the playing field.
And,the Parliament or the Assemblies alone are not arenas where you womenfolk require reservation,recognition and ‘respect’.
Food for thought?
So ask the fish,big fish,small fish,bigger fish ,all of them.
They know they are not amphibian creatures nor are they akin to man.
Mankind they know can be very compassionate ,when it chooses them to be.
It is a man’s world after all. No right thinking water-fish would ever dare to leap out of the safety of the deep[even shallower]waters and risk the prospect of ending up on the dinner-table of a big-fry man.
I would forever rate the famous lesson of Bible [teach a man to catch a fish for a living rather than feeding him fish]as one of the apt morals for living.The art of living does not comprise merely of rubbing shoulders with all and sundry or painting spots on a cat’s skin to make it appear a leopard.It has more than the science of make-up ,technology or no technologies…!
So, arise ,awake and stay vigilant all you piranhas ,cat-fish,sharks, whales and the littler sweet ones .Do not become fodder for snarling ‘fish-eat-fish’ carnivores nor those who stalk unsuspecting edibles,irrespective of the prey being molluscs or edible fish.
Stay in your bounds and do not let them befool you into imagining that the boundaries for a woman’s domain have widened with the passage of the so-called Bill.
After all, any reservation fixing a quota will automatically become a constricting noose which restricts your ability to dribble all across the playing field.
And,the Parliament or the Assemblies alone are not arenas where you womenfolk require reservation,recognition and ‘respect’.
Food for thought?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
ENABLE ,NOT EMPOWER…!!!
Empowerment of women is the slogan being bandied about by even dynamic females of the human species.I beg to differ.Empowerment is not required;enable a woman.
Be it one’s sibling,spouse or a mere stranger on the street,bills and laws;policies and awards;quotas or reservations would be rendered meaningless as well as impotent unless enablement is a reality.
Allow the girL child to be born.Let the young women have a choice to select their life-partners.Banish the pernicious evil of dowry-harrassment and oneupmanship .Married ladies ,whether housewives or career-builders ought to be let to rest atleast once in a while.Widows and aged womenfolk ought to be given preference from among the supposedly ‘reserved’-portion allocated for womenfolk.
A thing well begun is half well completed they say.Euphoria and mirages galore in a woman’s lifetime-markedly more in our society.
Therefore,be not led or misled by the cries of hurrah or the gaiety being marked across the nation in the backdrop of steeply risen prices of essential commodities.
Where a woman be respected and revered ,such a society shall be a happy and prosperous one.A household-unit is the place to start this campaign,not the high security well of the Parliament.Empower the lady of the house .Enable HER empowerment.And,you would but be a mighty drop in the vast ocean of human kindness,compassion and understanding.
One would naturally do well and hasten to add the necessary caution that not all females are women eligible for such an honourable treatment - or else there would be no MCP in existence .Extreme elements of nature render certain womenfolk to be dreaded by even other women in the society[No,am not referring to the soap-operas of saas-bahu drama but to real life characters who make life miserable for entire lifetime.Many a client testifies to this sad fact .
All said,we ought to restore the pristine gory of our nation whose tradition and culture carried the ethos of respect for woman - not the pathetic display of revulsion or disdain for their concerns.
Enable them,empowerment is automatic.
Be it one’s sibling,spouse or a mere stranger on the street,bills and laws;policies and awards;quotas or reservations would be rendered meaningless as well as impotent unless enablement is a reality.
Allow the girL child to be born.Let the young women have a choice to select their life-partners.Banish the pernicious evil of dowry-harrassment and oneupmanship .Married ladies ,whether housewives or career-builders ought to be let to rest atleast once in a while.Widows and aged womenfolk ought to be given preference from among the supposedly ‘reserved’-portion allocated for womenfolk.
A thing well begun is half well completed they say.Euphoria and mirages galore in a woman’s lifetime-markedly more in our society.
Therefore,be not led or misled by the cries of hurrah or the gaiety being marked across the nation in the backdrop of steeply risen prices of essential commodities.
Where a woman be respected and revered ,such a society shall be a happy and prosperous one.A household-unit is the place to start this campaign,not the high security well of the Parliament.Empower the lady of the house .Enable HER empowerment.And,you would but be a mighty drop in the vast ocean of human kindness,compassion and understanding.
One would naturally do well and hasten to add the necessary caution that not all females are women eligible for such an honourable treatment - or else there would be no MCP in existence .Extreme elements of nature render certain womenfolk to be dreaded by even other women in the society[No,am not referring to the soap-operas of saas-bahu drama but to real life characters who make life miserable for entire lifetime.Many a client testifies to this sad fact .
All said,we ought to restore the pristine gory of our nation whose tradition and culture carried the ethos of respect for woman - not the pathetic display of revulsion or disdain for their concerns.
Enable them,empowerment is automatic.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MOTHERS OF NATION…!!!
Euphoria has been the blessing of mankind to womanhood.Man is born and made ,from the umbilical cord of life to the end of a domineering stint on earth.
No woman on the face of the planet has ever been a truly blessed being -be it as a child,a sibling,a daughter,a mother, a spouse ,a granny or just a companion or co-worker at the work-station.
I am not being pessimistic nor castigating the ilk of chauvnists who persistently look down upon womenfolk.It is high time the ebb turned a full wave and Women are truly permitted to bask in the glory they deserve and seem to seek [albeit through the activist groups that have been espousing equal rights campaigns].
It is not a centenary of celebration of womanhood as an annual tribute nor is it a paen of praise for the motherhood of al mankind which prompts yours truly to put things in perspective after witnessing all the hullabulla of 14-years in the Indian Parliamentary corridors.
Fourteen years was the span of the great Mahabharata war.It is also the time-period of epoch-making Rama’s exile and trysts with demonic forces.While analysing the fracas and histronics put up in the august upper house of the country ,it is but essential to observe that not one of those macho men who seemingy want to be credited with the ‘passage’ of the bill for 33% quota of women[The bill seeks to reserve for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 out of a total of 4,109 seats in the 28 State Assemblies]has ever debated nor spoken up for the cause of the poor womenfolk who get ‘fined’ under the SITA[Suppression of Immoral Trafficking in Women Act]or for those who brides who got burnt for ‘dowry’ nor of those pityiably hapless women who get moested in public viewing on charges of black-magicand sorcery].Not one has the moral courage to vacate his seat in the legisature and offer it to a servant-maid of a neighbour or the washer-woman of the village,either!
It ought to be viewed in its true picture.Constitution of India provides for a bill proposing such an amendment to be passed by a 2/3rd majority also in the lower house[Lok Sabha]when it is piloted in the other house and ‘passed’,as was the case yesterday.
Watching the charade and parade of several vested interests and chauvunistic elements occupying important seats of ‘power’,it is wel nigh impossible to have the law reach the statue books after ultimate Presidential approval,eventually.There is many a slip between the cup and the lip - as every housewife and girl-chid in the nation knows.
What is the meaning of such an imaginary reservation for women when compared with the actual census-figures of female population in the vastly over-populated nation?
This alone will hold the key to all remedial laws in our democracy.How ese would one explain the false bravado being exhibited by those claiming credit for the show in the Rajya Sabha as also the exhibitionist showmanship of those who had to be bodiy lifted out of the upper house ?
‘Bharat Matha ki Jai’ !
Jai Hind!!
HAIL THE WOMAN often martyred from birth,betrayed by marriage and revered after all…!!!
No woman on the face of the planet has ever been a truly blessed being -be it as a child,a sibling,a daughter,a mother, a spouse ,a granny or just a companion or co-worker at the work-station.
I am not being pessimistic nor castigating the ilk of chauvnists who persistently look down upon womenfolk.It is high time the ebb turned a full wave and Women are truly permitted to bask in the glory they deserve and seem to seek [albeit through the activist groups that have been espousing equal rights campaigns].
It is not a centenary of celebration of womanhood as an annual tribute nor is it a paen of praise for the motherhood of al mankind which prompts yours truly to put things in perspective after witnessing all the hullabulla of 14-years in the Indian Parliamentary corridors.
Fourteen years was the span of the great Mahabharata war.It is also the time-period of epoch-making Rama’s exile and trysts with demonic forces.While analysing the fracas and histronics put up in the august upper house of the country ,it is but essential to observe that not one of those macho men who seemingy want to be credited with the ‘passage’ of the bill for 33% quota of women[The bill seeks to reserve for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 out of a total of 4,109 seats in the 28 State Assemblies]has ever debated nor spoken up for the cause of the poor womenfolk who get ‘fined’ under the SITA[Suppression of Immoral Trafficking in Women Act]or for those who brides who got burnt for ‘dowry’ nor of those pityiably hapless women who get moested in public viewing on charges of black-magicand sorcery].Not one has the moral courage to vacate his seat in the legisature and offer it to a servant-maid of a neighbour or the washer-woman of the village,either!
It ought to be viewed in its true picture.Constitution of India provides for a bill proposing such an amendment to be passed by a 2/3rd majority also in the lower house[Lok Sabha]when it is piloted in the other house and ‘passed’,as was the case yesterday.
Watching the charade and parade of several vested interests and chauvunistic elements occupying important seats of ‘power’,it is wel nigh impossible to have the law reach the statue books after ultimate Presidential approval,eventually.There is many a slip between the cup and the lip - as every housewife and girl-chid in the nation knows.
What is the meaning of such an imaginary reservation for women when compared with the actual census-figures of female population in the vastly over-populated nation?
This alone will hold the key to all remedial laws in our democracy.How ese would one explain the false bravado being exhibited by those claiming credit for the show in the Rajya Sabha as also the exhibitionist showmanship of those who had to be bodiy lifted out of the upper house ?
‘Bharat Matha ki Jai’ !
Jai Hind!!
HAIL THE WOMAN often martyred from birth,betrayed by marriage and revered after all…!!!
ACT OF GIVING.
India has a great tag of being a nation of ‘givers’.
Philosophy of life revolves since centuries around the acts of philanthropy and caring for mankind.
History is replete with instances of ‘giving’ turning out to be ‘grieving’.
How?
The moghul invaders were offered hospitality but they used the sword to overpower and plunder the riches.
When the English traders were welcomed ,their interest in commercialization of the natives got the better of their initial taste for spices and condiments alone, they enslaved a whole sub-continent.
Out-sourcing is the name of the game with contemporary mercenaries of mankind.
Our youth give their ‘all’ literally to the foreigner ‘masters’ and in lieu of few green dollar-bills ,they work their guts out during nights and catch up on few winks during waking hours …
Giving is a fine art indeed. I for one was brought up on such ancient ideas as to partake of your meal with guests and strangers too before attending to thy own self. In course of real-time life experiences in practice as a ‘generous’ and ‘blind’-giver,I discovered the stupidity of it all. Giving ought not to be ‘blind’ nor ‘automatic’.
Give by all means .Be philanthropic certainly but all within bounds and measures .Measure the need and requirement of the asker ,so to speak.
Only such a ‘donation’ or ‘act of giving’ would count and be purposeful as would indeed enable the receiver .Not every gift or act of giving will reach the balance-sheet of God or man. Rest assured that giving is the mark of a human-being. Compassion is the sole attribute which makes a man humane. Kindness must not be misread nor misconstrued as cleansing one’s own sins or commissions and omissions in leading the lifestyle of one’s choice .
Giving must therefore be the exercise of discretionary power which determines the intelligence of the giver as well as the utility of the recipient’s efforts at enhancing the lifestyle of the society in general or of a definite segment ,in the least.
Philanthropy/Giving in India requires a new-age definition to help streamline its vast charitably disposed givers and doers towards effective attainment of their respective goals in life.
Philosophy of life revolves since centuries around the acts of philanthropy and caring for mankind.
History is replete with instances of ‘giving’ turning out to be ‘grieving’.
How?
The moghul invaders were offered hospitality but they used the sword to overpower and plunder the riches.
When the English traders were welcomed ,their interest in commercialization of the natives got the better of their initial taste for spices and condiments alone, they enslaved a whole sub-continent.
Out-sourcing is the name of the game with contemporary mercenaries of mankind.
Our youth give their ‘all’ literally to the foreigner ‘masters’ and in lieu of few green dollar-bills ,they work their guts out during nights and catch up on few winks during waking hours …
Giving is a fine art indeed. I for one was brought up on such ancient ideas as to partake of your meal with guests and strangers too before attending to thy own self. In course of real-time life experiences in practice as a ‘generous’ and ‘blind’-giver,I discovered the stupidity of it all. Giving ought not to be ‘blind’ nor ‘automatic’.
Give by all means .Be philanthropic certainly but all within bounds and measures .Measure the need and requirement of the asker ,so to speak.
Only such a ‘donation’ or ‘act of giving’ would count and be purposeful as would indeed enable the receiver .Not every gift or act of giving will reach the balance-sheet of God or man. Rest assured that giving is the mark of a human-being. Compassion is the sole attribute which makes a man humane. Kindness must not be misread nor misconstrued as cleansing one’s own sins or commissions and omissions in leading the lifestyle of one’s choice .
Giving must therefore be the exercise of discretionary power which determines the intelligence of the giver as well as the utility of the recipient’s efforts at enhancing the lifestyle of the society in general or of a definite segment ,in the least.
Philanthropy/Giving in India requires a new-age definition to help streamline its vast charitably disposed givers and doers towards effective attainment of their respective goals in life.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
A CAGED MAN...!!!
A free bird ,a free mind and the sunset of life shall be a happy combination for a story-teller.Not so this evening when one recalls the callousness with which martyrs are forgotten whereas deserters of homestead seem to be eulogized,for nothing…err,it is erroneous to thing it is all much ado about nothing .
Beg your pardon? Yes, smuggling of art and artefacts are frowned upon by laws of a civilized world.Money-laundering techniques include works of art being sold,undersold,oversold,insured and re-touched so to speak.
Am I touching a raw chord? No,it is a fact of life that whereas Salman’bhai’ was netted by the mullahs of religiosity for his seemingly uncharitable remarks, the old man by the sea who was a client in good old Hyderabad[his house was sought to be converted to an art museum post-gaja gamini episodes]seems to enjoy the full support of a tiny land of hefty commission-agents and brokers of oily deals[no pun meant,all straight-faced submissions friends!]…
Why then must the other desi old man by the Arabian Sea [again an uncanny resemblance of study in contrasting rise and eclipsing ,respectively]cry foul for a fallen man ?If in fact the one crying hoarse about being crucified by a section of politicos and busybodies in the world’s greatest secular land is indeed a patriot , would not he have gracefully ‘turned down’ the offer of citizenship by an alien land in which he was residing [no mere refugee]and returned to the lavish bungalow in Banjara Hills ,for instance?
Or is it a timely wake-up call for us all compatriots of a proud nation that it is high time to make an ‘open offer’ that whosoever[I mean all who have /are harbouring a secret desire]seeks to embrace another nationality [be it of the Middle East or of South East Asia or elsewhere]may please be welcomed to make an exit with all their mortal assets forthwith?
It will certainly help restore the greatness of a noble ,ancient civilization as Bharat’s and lessen the burden of population upon statistics [incl.productivity figures and per capita income]besides,making it a more enjoyable land for both the Natives as well as the ones who feel estranged after partition of the Indian sub-continent…
Amen?
Aye,aye,all…!!
JAI HIND !!!
Beg your pardon? Yes, smuggling of art and artefacts are frowned upon by laws of a civilized world.Money-laundering techniques include works of art being sold,undersold,oversold,insured and re-touched so to speak.
Am I touching a raw chord? No,it is a fact of life that whereas Salman’bhai’ was netted by the mullahs of religiosity for his seemingly uncharitable remarks, the old man by the sea who was a client in good old Hyderabad[his house was sought to be converted to an art museum post-gaja gamini episodes]seems to enjoy the full support of a tiny land of hefty commission-agents and brokers of oily deals[no pun meant,all straight-faced submissions friends!]…
Why then must the other desi old man by the Arabian Sea [again an uncanny resemblance of study in contrasting rise and eclipsing ,respectively]cry foul for a fallen man ?If in fact the one crying hoarse about being crucified by a section of politicos and busybodies in the world’s greatest secular land is indeed a patriot , would not he have gracefully ‘turned down’ the offer of citizenship by an alien land in which he was residing [no mere refugee]and returned to the lavish bungalow in Banjara Hills ,for instance?
Or is it a timely wake-up call for us all compatriots of a proud nation that it is high time to make an ‘open offer’ that whosoever[I mean all who have /are harbouring a secret desire]seeks to embrace another nationality [be it of the Middle East or of South East Asia or elsewhere]may please be welcomed to make an exit with all their mortal assets forthwith?
It will certainly help restore the greatness of a noble ,ancient civilization as Bharat’s and lessen the burden of population upon statistics [incl.productivity figures and per capita income]besides,making it a more enjoyable land for both the Natives as well as the ones who feel estranged after partition of the Indian sub-continent…
Amen?
Aye,aye,all…!!
JAI HIND !!!
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