Thorns of Secularism

It was in the 1976 when the authoritarian female, daughter of the author of socialist dream for the country introduced the sacred words ‘Secularism’ and ‘Socialism’ in the constitution. In the coming years the ‘isms’ and the dynastic surname will hijack the true spirit of a civilization and the truthful cause for nationalism.

The great old religion, which has shown the way for the rest of the mankind for thousands of years, now lies in a poignant state; it desperately needs the help of the same mankind which it served sincerely—unfortunately the same mankind is now corrupted in every possible way.

The great grand old religion was passed on to the most untrustworthy creatures on this planet called ‘Humans’, the humans of the 21^st century have broken the sacred fabric of trust with the religion and have gone ahead with the infected philosophy which is being polluted with the help of outsiders. It was politely asked to take on suicidal endeavors under the delusion of ‘Brotherhood’. By the way, the word ‘Brotherhood’ is the joke of the century—of course, when seen in contrast. This great religion which is the pure offspring of Mother Nature has accepted Atheism, Nihilism and Agnosticism has also shown tolerance and carried the seeds of ‘Secularism and harmony’ for greater good of the mankind. The seed of Secularism has grown into a rose plant, everyone was overwhelmed by the so called beauty of the rose flower but the thorns which came with the flower were ignored, which would eventually guide them to the path of disaster.

Does this great religion still hold the right to be called as ‘Great’? Was its own mistake to trust a heinous race like humans? Or the followers of this religion are to be blamed for getting deceived by its counterparts in the name of Secularism? Or is it the wicked conspiracy successfully pulled off by the pseudo intellectual, who have always advocated that every religion is equal and have cleverly hampered the common man from practicing his common sense. ‘Is every religion equal?’ Or shall I put this sacrilegious question in a more rational perspective – ‘How can every religion be equal?’

I fail to fathom the helplessness of the victimized, what’s stopping them from unleashing their revolting skills against this intolerable fraud? Are they intimidated by the liberal claques, who are the witches taking breathe on this auspicious land? Is the majority awestruck with the stinking mediocrity, or got trapped in the labyrinth of hospitality? Did the human race start to unlearn something? or Pondering over the untimely interruption which conflicts with peanut benefits? Did we lose the guts to question this immoral decadence?

Can GOD (If he exists) save the immortal land from this evil? Can the people get rid of this eternal nightmare by themselves without waiting for divine intervention? 

Happy Women's Day

Deepa Mehta’s film ‘WATER’ starts with the mention of text from the ‘Manusmriti’ which is slightly edited.

By violating her duty towards her husband, a wife is disgraced in this world, after death she enters the womb of a jackal, and is tormented by diseases of her sin.

Today on the ‘Women’s Day’ I had an informal chat with an upcoming Marxist-Feminist activist. In the small little chat she was expressing her frustration against Indian culture as she felt that it is unfair to women and her descent disapproval of Hinduism in context of women could not be ignored by me.

Manusmriti was written in 200 BC when people preferred to count the years backwards and when many civilizations around the world weren’t even born. The intriguing part of our great Indian feminists is their strict reference to the negatives of Manusmriti towards women and constantly trying to snub the good parts of Manusmriti towards women.

For decades Women under the name of Feminism have deceived their real cause for emancipation and will continue to do it. Even philosophers have been consciously misinterpreted to suit the assertive statements of Feminists. Friedrich Nietzsche, the great 19th century philosopher, who still attracts the 21st century folks, was also misinterpreted for his views on women. The problem with Nietzsche’s philosophy is his blunt frankness which makes people hard to comprehend the real meaning behind his thoughts on women, his references towards women are often funny, sarcastic and also stunning.

Nietzsche in his masterpiece ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ starts with

Suppose that truth is a woman – and why not? Aren’t there reasons for suspecting that all philosophers, to the extent that they have been dogmatists, have not really understood women? That the grotesque seriousness of their approach towards the truth and the clumsy advances they have made so far are unsuitable ways of pressing their suit with a woman? What is certain is that she has spurned them – leaving dogmatism of all types standing sad and discouraged.

It can be quite possible that the hatred towards Nietzsche by Marxists-Feminists is due his love and admiration for Manu Smrithi and Upanishads.

Ayn Rand, perhaps one of the rare species of women which many of our feminists try to bash for her Anti-Feminist views has been deliberately misunderstood as the time in which she gained popularity for her works coincided with the feminist uprising. She was verbally attacked by feminists in reference to her novel ‘The Fountainhead’ where Dominique Francon was raped(According to our great Feminists) and her views on a women sitting in the White House. Strangely, the same feminists who are critique of Ayn Rand’s works do not respond when referred to works of Nobel laureate ‘Rabindranth Tagore'.

The imprudent philosophy called Marxism was not inclined to Feminism in the early stages, but later as time passed and the evil of Marxism has spread to considerable parts of this globe it evolved to be a manufacturing factory of Women-less souls. Women, who felt that their gender has been strangled by Men got infatuated to the baseless theory of ‘Equality’ by Karl Marx and thus led to the destruction of the real causes.

Recently a small incident narrated by a friend just refreshed my gray cells, he told the religious conversions happening in his village.

Women are asked to ditch their present religion and are advised to get converted as their religion provides freedom to women, unlike the other religion where women are subjected to harassment for centuries and does not allow modernity in women’s life.

Targetting women for religious conversion is a clever idea and can be a good case study for Harvard University. Coming to the point, women has been seen as a inferior in the religion which the above conversionist was referring but does one know about the harassements and humiliation which women faced in other religions?. The amount of freedom which Hinduism offers to living being cannot be equated to any religion and the core essence of Hindusim is the development of an individual. Like the words ‘Secularism’ and ‘Liberalism’ even the word ‘Modernity’ is seriously molested. What is modernity? Just a FCUK T-Shirt or a Levis Jeans or a Fastrack Sunglass or visiting 21+ Pubs define the modernity of Indian women?

On this women’s day I spotted a interesting situation, the female colleagues in our office celebrated Women’s Day-- female colleagues who usually wear Saris and chudidhars for office came in Jeans and who usally wear jeans and other western outfits came in Saris, this is a perfect snapshot of Feminism.

I don’t recommend Manusmriti, I don’t stop anyone from being converted to a different religion, I am not against women wearing any outfits, if men can enjoy alcohol so can women and I don’t force my opinion on others. Just one question to all women- What did you achieve in the name of ‘Feminism’.

Anyway. Happy Women’s Day. Even though, it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Maoist Diapers at Discount Rate

Let there be no ambiguity in establishing the fact that Vinod Mehta's OUTLOOK practices a unique Maoist allotheism. Vinod Mehta has recently stated that Outlook magazine is Centre-Left, the word 'Centre' makes a good adjustment for the last 3 pages of the magazine where we find reports and pics on pantyless actors, bikini models and feminine cleavages.

Coming to the point, Neelabh Mishra of Outlook comes with a article 'State Your Cause'on the recent episode of Maoists abducting a collector in Malkangiri district of Orrisa and the peace process between Governments and the Maoists. He writes

..government restrained the freedom of one such possible mediator, Binayak Sen, a couple of years ago and continues doing so..

Neelabh mishra unsurprisingly mentions Binayak Sen as a possible mediator between the Chattisgarh Government and the Maoists, but does he remember on what charges did the honorable court has convicted him? A man who has been convicted on serious charges is being endorsed for an official arbitration.

Neelabh Mishra talks about the feelings of released collector Vineel Krishna.

collector Krishna, too, made some interesting observations: he said time spent among poor tribals in Maoist areas had made him more sensitive to their troubles and that there could always be a debate on different development perspectives .....who have taken up arms for a “different development” perspective. 

Collector Vineel Krishna might be enlightened or is under a stockholm syndrome or something else, but the actual point is, on what condition are the maoists willing to talk? what is "different development" ? etc.. These questions will be answered the same stereo-typed talk without any concrete analysis on the venomous Maoist ideology and the ruthless violence which the maoists have been practicing for decades.

who were released by their abductors in response to appeals from rights groups.

 The Left-Liberals and the Human Right activists who have been an intellectual support for the Maoists fail to comprehend the danger involved. The Human Right Activists give us the impression that the sacred words of humanity are largely applicable only to the maoists and often portray Police as butchers, and the Left-Libreals who disagree to approve the fact that they are digging their own grave by giving their intellectual support as one of the maoists ideology is the eradication of Liberalism. Lets hope that Left-Liberals & Human Rights Activists will be proved as Contranyms  at least on the Doomsday. Remember China and what the 'People's Republic of China' has done, many people were killed during the civil war and there was a genocide and more killings after the Civil War ended when the folks who almost followed the same ideology captured power.

Dantewada Massacre

Neelabh Mishra once advocated that "the rebel armed Maoist groups of Nepal should be integrated into the Nepalese Army, otherwise the maoists may resort to violence." Making a rational conclusion out of the previous statement with the limitations of a Republic state isn't much harder. Neelabh Mishra writes...

Some uninformed commentary in the media recently suggested that the Chhattisgarh and Orissa abductions mark a tactical change by besieged Maoists, who are now taking recourse to kidnappings to force the government to release their comrades and meet their other demands. In fact, Maoists have carried out kidnappings a number of times as tactical manoeuvres or as political statements..........

I wonder if it is Mr Mishra's ignorance or his gimmick to prove his point, but if one looks at the history of kidnappings, abductions, killings of police officers and recently the rapes performed by maoists, one can hardly say that they are fighting for “different development”.

Moists derail a train.

The last paragraph of the article is the hightlight, Mr Mishra tells us the political statement made by maoists by the abductions. I seriously ponder over the profound sympathy of Mr. Mishra for the Maoists by making such a imprudent conclusion. Mr. Mishra in his last statement writes..

It’s a face that the whole state and all its administration must show. Always.

So, in the end the article gives us the gyan that we need to extend the peace process even when they have waged war against the Indian Union?, ignore the fundamentals on which our country was built? Show Sensitivity when innocent people are killed by derailing the trains, beheading people, policemen are blown into pieces with the help of RDX and land-mines? The alumni and scions of JNU and other breeding grounds will  never create any deficit of Left intellectuals and the support for these butchers is guaranteed for another decade. To have peace talks with maoists is like sacrificing the spirit of our constitution, betrayal to the State and selling ourselves at discount rate. Finally what Mao Zedong has said long back and which our Indian comrades are following it sincerely.

"Revolution is an act of violence" ~ Mao Zedong

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Frozen Shots Project

Barry Lyndon(1975)

Dreams(1990)

400 Blows(1959)

Charulata(1964)

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid(1969)

Aakash Kusum(1965)

Three Days of the Condor(1975)

Taare Zameen Par(2007)

Match Point(2005)

Army of Shadows(1969)

Picnic at Hanging Rock(1975)

Midnight Express(1978)

To be continued...

Indian Ocean and I

Photo Courtesy: Piyush Singh (www.piyushsingh.in)

I was returning to my home in a RTC bus, sitting in a corner-- i was contemplating about the 50+ bucks spent on the audio cassette which i brought from Supreme music store (koti), i was thinking "Is this worth 50 rupees?, did i waste my pocket money?, etc.." . In those days 50 rupees was a substantial amount for me, i came back to my house, played the cassette in the tape recorder, and i was flabbergasted. The kind of music which i was hearing from the speakers of the tape recorder shook me, my ears were sensing the difference, it was a beautiful experience. All the cynical thoughts which were in my mind were erased after i listened to the music. The audio cassette was 'Black Friday' by Indian Ocean.

My ear met the music of Indian Ocean by accident, the film called 'Black Friday' was about to be released which was based on the 1993 Bombay blasts and the trailers were being shown in TV channels and thus i got to hear the music of Indian Ocean for the first time in my life. Something intangible struck me, i felt that the music was very infatuating, i decided to buy the audio cassette and tried in every music store which were in my locality but none of them had it and in reverse the guys at the music stores were asking me about the details of film. I decided to give my last try at the Supreme Music Store and to my surprise i find other albums of Indian Ocean too--but first i wanted to check the quality of the music in 'Black Friday' and then proceed with others as i don't trust my ears when it comes to music. I was on my way back to home in a RTC bus.

In the next 2 weeks i heard each and every song for around 100 times and was badly addicted. I was totally blown away by the music of 'Black Friday' and the internet music community was talking about the song 'Bandeh' which reached #2 on the music charts. I saved my pocket money and in the span of 1 month i brought all the albums of Indian Ocean.

The above mentioned things happened in the Nov-Dec of 2004.

January 2011: I just download the new song of "Indian Ocean", i didn't even look at the title of the track, i started playing it in the Media Player, after listening to the first 3 minutes, my mind traced back to the 6 year old memories. The song which i was hearing in the media player and the song which i heard 6 years back LIVE by Indian Ocean are the same.

Feb-2005, Euphoria, Vasavi Engineering College, Hyderabad.

My cousin informed me that Indian Ocean is performing in their college cultural fest, Euphoria. I was elated to hear the news and i didn't want to miss this golden chance to hear them LIVE. I was in Vasavi Engineering College, the band was on the stage and people gathered in the ground, 95% of the folk present in the ground had no idea about Indian Ocean and the slothful atmosphere was already creeping into the audience. I was bit disappointed with the crowd, nevertheless i was eagerly waiting for the band to start the show. The band performed many tracks from various albums, most of them present there were unaware of the music and they were hearing it for the first time and the very few Indian Oceans fans were in the front and enjoying the music, i wasn't in the front, i didn't shout, i was just listening and enjoying every second of the music.

Rahul Ram makes a small announcement, "We are gonna sing a new composition which is made for a film called 'Shunya', we are singing it for the first time, the name of the song is ''Bula Raha Hai Koi".

The first experience of watching the performance of band was amazing. After the show, i met the band members expect Asheem Chakravaty and took their autographs.

Photo Courtesy: Piyush Singh (www.piyushsingh.in)

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The song 'Bula Raha' has reminded me the last 6 years which i spent listening to the music of Indian Ocean. A friend of mine who disliked the music of Indian Ocean suddenly started to like them after he was impressed by the title track of 'Peepli Live'. The original track of 'Peelpli Live' song which is 'Des Mera' can be found in the album 'Jhini'.