Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Indian Establishment and its Mercenaries

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In politics where there is a presence of strong "establishment" it is hard to differentiate between ideological adversaries and their nescient mercenaries. It is even more difficult to define the word "Establishment" which usually holds some minor strings of power.

“Establishment” is not something which gets replaced or voted to power with democratic elections but a cabal without any democratic legitimacy but has some control or influence over the institutions, committees and organizations of a democratic and sovereign nation. A large typical establishment in a democratic republic would have its hegemony in the aspects of Arts, Culture, History, Universities, Awards, Media and other social institutions with or without the support of government.

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The 1960s and the early 1970s are important in modern Indian history.
  • After the China war of 1962, India realized that they need to have a strong Army unlike what Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru envisioned.
  • War with Pakistan in 1965 kept us vigil as it exposed the evil ideas of Pakistan.
  • Genocide in East Pakistan which resulted in 1971 war contributed to the rise of patriotism in Indians.
Other things happened in 60s and 70s.
  • Indira Gandhi, whom I consider to be a patriot with flaws made a deal with Communists due to political compulsions where she agreed to install Communists and their comrades as the heads of Indian institutions.
  • Amar Chitra Katha started to become popular.
  • Rise of Left terrorism.

"Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram"

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I told myself that I will be less acerbic in my views and ignore the ranting from the usual suspects but decided to hold it back partially due to bunkum published by Troll.in and Co.

"Bharat Mata" sounds offensive for Sharia Bolsheviks not just because it has idol form but also because it doesn't represent country as "Fatherland".

The concept of "Motherland" is ingrained in Indic thought and philosophy, this concept doesn't get total approval in Monotheism and Communism.

"Fatherland" is what Communists have been preaching for decades with very rare exceptions, some Socialists prescribe to the term "Motherland" opposing the leftish rhetoric, usually they are from a land which has rich cultural and literary heritage.

Cultures & Traditions which are not substantially exposed to organized religions and not strongly influenced by Communism refer to their country as "Motherland".

"Bharat Mata" comes to every Indian by default because the idea of a nation can be associated with a female form. No one says "Bharat Pita".

How many nations achieved freedom based on a slogan associated with motherland? Indian freedom struggle got amplified by "Vande Mataram". The slogan "Vande Mataram" was the essence of Indian freedom struggle, the origins of nationalist movement happened through "Vande Mataram". I am aware that it has became an irresistible fashion for some Urbans to support the slogan "Pakistan Zindabad" and make a mockery of "Bharat Mata" and "Vande Mataram".

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad resolved these controversies long back but they come back again with help of Left Liberals and their hatred for some individuals. I am not in favor of compelling others to say "Bharat Mata" or "Vande Mataram" as I am a supporter of Freedom of Speech and expression, but remember that these are the slogans which represent and encapsulate the ethos of India.

Indian Frontier Policy - Tournament of Shadows

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"Tournament of Shadows" as many called it was the rivalry of British Empire and Russian Empire in their pursuit to dominate Central Asia.Though history text books seldom mention the "The Great Game" (Tournament of Shadows), as a history lover I felt that it is an interesting topic to ponder over as for over a century, Central Asia still remains a Geo-political-strategic mystery. Tournament of Shadows had similar features like Cold War and doesn't have a precise starting date. The end of this quest to dominate Central Asia was followed by World War 1, World War 2, Start of Cold War, End of Cold War and "War on Terrorism", all the previous event which got mentioned had active participation of Russia and Britain either as an ally or a foe.


Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) which devastated Central Europe culminated with the 1649 Westphalian sovereignty where European powers agreed to respect the sovereignty of their neighbors didn’t transcend into Central Asia and the Indian sub continent. India was a precious territory and European powers were more than enthusiastic to posses India.

When keys are handed over to the new owner of 10 Downing Street, there is an unwritten custom where the predecessor passes on vital verbal advice to his successor - for example "Keep your hands away from Central Asia". Lessons learnt by Soviet Union for their misadventure in Afghanistan are now being taught to America. White House is calculating the number of days left for American soldiers to leave Afghanistan a midst the incomplete goal to destroy Al-Qaeda, unresolved aim to stabilize the democratic government of Afghanistan and unachieved target to confiscate the presence of Taliban in Afghanistan.

India was British Empire's jewelry which it used to flaunt proudly before the world but they were constantly on vigil as they feared that they can lose their precious possession if they cannot contain Russia in Central Asia.




North West frontier of India was dominated by Sikhs, but their decline started with Sino-Sikh war followed by the results of first and second Anglo-Sikh wars, where the British eventually got hold of small but crucial part of Central Asia. John Miller Adye was a British General who served during the Crimean War (fought between Russia and Britain), India's First War of Independence (1857) and he took part in British Empire's progress in India’s North West frontier. General Adye gives an awe-inspiring description of British Empire's policy in India on the North West frontier in his book "Indian Frontier Policy" first published in 1897

Bumpy Journey of BJP in the Telugu land

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Allow me to start this post with ironies surrounding the BJP. BJP has no active role to play in the politics of West Bengal which is the birth place of one its ideological founder. BJP was officially founded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K.Advani, who have taken the party from 2 seats to 3 digits. Out of the 2 seats which the BJP won, one was from Andhra Pradesh and other being Gujarat and history tells us how BJP progressed in both these states.

When there was no strong opposition to counter the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, NTR formed Telugu Deasam Party (TDP) with a landslide victory on debut. In May 1983, NTR successfully held a meeting of opposition leaders spanning across the country at Vijayawada which was attended by MGR, Ramakrishna Hegde, Farooq Abdullah, Sharad Pawar, Menaka Gandhi, L.K.Advani and others. NTR was not hesitant in showing that his regional party can play an active role at national level but the same spirit was never found with the BJP which was a national party to be an active regional player in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1994, NTR was back with a bang. TDP+ won 250 out of 294 assembly seats and L.K.Advani in a discussion with Prannoy Roy said “This marks the beginning of the end of the Congress party as the dominant political force of India”, L.K.Advani is right but the lotus failed to bloom in Andhra Pradesh despite the chances given to them.

It may come to many as a surprise that the first mayor of Vishakhapatnam (Vizag) was from BJP. N.S.N. Reddy was elected as the first mayor of Vizag and also served as an MLA. It was because of the lack of clarity and direction in state unit, the BJP could not take its leaders and ideology into the masses of Andhra Pradesh.

Arvind Kejriwal and David O. Selznick

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After the hung verdict given by the people of Delhi, political parties have found themselves in a quandary. Eventually BJP decided not for the government, and the first time AAP was in a trickier situation than other political parties. Arvind Kejriwal had no option but to come out with his thoughts when several allegations were being leveled against him and his party AAP as they were reluctant to form the government when there was a chance for a minority government and support by the Congress party.

Arvind Kejriwal came out with 18 conditions to Congress and BJP for AAP to form the government by taking either of their support – Congress accepted those conditions, now Arvind Kejriwal said that he has to take the opinion of people to whether to take support of Congress to form the government. Frankly, asking people to give their opinion again to on the issue of forming a government is nothing less than making mockery of democracy. What makes AAP sure that only the people who have voted for them will respond? There is a chance where supporters of BJP or Congress may sabotage this opinion poll of AAP. What if this turns to be a fractured opinion?

What Arvind Kejriwal and his followers do not understand is that the election verdict given by common man is the ultimate opinion, there cannot be an explicit opinion than an individual coming to voting booth and casting his vote. AAP has not only made a mockery of democracy but they have ridiculed the electoral process by making fun of the people’s opinion. Did Arvind Kejriwal has taken the opinion of families of Delhi blast victims before declaring Batla House Encounter as fake? Of course not – though AAP is a new political party, Arvind Kejriwal knows how to exploit the emotions of people.

David O. Selznick was known as one of the mighty film producers of Hollywood. Actions of Arvind Kejriwal reminds me of David Selznick in many ways. Selznick was famous to the outside world for making "Gone with the Wind", which is a celluloid extravaganza but it’s the inside story which gives a different picture of David Selznick. Though there were many differences among the IAC members they worked as a team to gather the momentum across the country for Lokpal bill.

Thoughts on Delhi Election Results

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There is nothing wrong for them to be ecstatic when their party has done exceedingly well on debut. AAP is a phenomenon, may be short or a long one but the results of the Delhi assembly election forces many to do an introspection, not the same "introspection" as mentioned by Rahul Gandhi.

Delhi went through many changes in the last decade, the migrant population got increased, and the daily wage workers from neighboring states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar have migrated in large numbers. Elite closed circuits of Delhi do not hold the same intellectual grip in the social groups. Left Liberals of cocktail clubs have been forced to reduce the noise to accommodate new tenants who closely associate with the same brand of political cocktail.

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption movement attracted the huge Indian middle class and Arvind Kejriwal was able to hijack the imagination and the anger of the middle class against politics and divert them to AAP. Arvind Kejriwal and his team vehemently worked before the elections, their commitment and hard work must be appreciated and the results prove it.

Right to Reject and its Misuse

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This post is intended for self reference and can help many as it can be taken as a template to make some points after the 2014 General Elections irrespective of the mandate given by the people.

Parliament Democracy can be funny and it will turn out to be more interesting in the next general elections as Supreme Court okayed the "Right to Reject" option where the voter can choose not to vote for any candidate.

Example:-

Let us assume that there is a guy named NM who is contesting for the MP seat from XNagar.
Total number of voters in the XNagar constituency according to Elections Commission is 100.

60 people came out and casted their votes on the election day.
40 people voted for NM
10 people voted for Others (Others=Main Opposition + Other parties + Independents)
10 people used the new option "Right to Reject" granted by Supreme Court

NM wins the MP seat and if NM's party gets good results across India, he has the chance to become the PM of the country.

Activists, Left Liberals and Assholes:-

Now, lets look at Activists, Left Liberals and many assholes. Let us assume that as NM is a public figure and he attracts criticism and let us even assume that Activists, Left Liberals and Assholes are haters of NM and cant bear to see NM as PM. So, the following would be the argument by them:

100 -Total voters in XNagar
60- No: of people who came out to vote
40 - No: of people who voted for NM
20 - Didn't want NM (10+10)

According to Election Commissions data
40- People who didn't turn up on voting day (100-60)

Some perjurist Teesta or a crook Amartya or a jerk URA or a fool like Amitav would come out and say that 60% people didn't vote for NM and would exude their deep hatred by saying that he cannot be the PM of the country as 60% people of his own constituency didn't want him and he cannot be the PM of this country.

Division of Andhra Pradesh

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Last couple of days have been emotional for many Telugu speaking people. Telugu is arguably the second largest spoken language in India after Hindi. The state of Telugu people i.e. Andhra Pradesh would be divided into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (Andhra + Rayalseema). After independence, Sardar Patel unified India into many states, but there was another problem from South India where a man named “Potti Sriramulu” demanded a separate state for Telugu speaking people from the state of Madras. Thus began the formation of Indian states on linguistic basis and Andhra Pradesh being the first one. Irony was about to appear, the doubts over the separate state were cleared on 30th July and the birthday of Jnanpith Awardee “Cingireddy Narayana Reddy” was on 29th July who is well known for his song “Telugu Jaati manadi” which endorses the greater association of Telugu people from all the regions of present Andhra Pradesh.


When Andhra Pradesh was being pushed into backwardness, thanks to the governance of Congress and there was no challenging opposition to counter Congress, NT Rama Rao formed the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), he attracted intellectuals, Anti-Congress and youth, and K.Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) was one of the many who joined the TDP, later he would name his son as Rama Rao. Chandra Babu Naidu was at the helm of affairs when he removed KCR as the Transport Minister who would later form a new party by the name Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) which would fight for the cause of separate state of Telangana.

Dr. Manmohan Singh or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the UPA

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Well, as Manmohan Singh & his team has been saying that Inflation would come down since 2009, Congress is about to push the nation into doomsday by Food Security Bill etc... and the left liberals of media perpetuating their own venom - i came up with a solution for the common man of this country. This is the only way in which a hard working middle class man can survive.

Comrade Arvind Kejriwal strikes

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Couple of years back, a friend of mine got a call from his Delhi friend “Are you coming to Delhi to participate in the Ant-Corruption Movement?” My friend wasn't sure to go to Delhi or not, I was asked to give my opinion. Going by the draft of Lokpal bill, I wasn't in a position to endorse the bill and at the same time I advised my friend to join the movement as an honest tax payer there was deep sense of frustration and anger on the Congress Government.

Though like many, I didn't support the Lokpal bill but supported the Anti-Corruption movement and truly hoped that this unexpected huge accumulation of different levels of Indian middle class against the unprecedented corruption by Congress government would lead to many positive changes.

The movement was initially ignored by the media due to well-known reasons but later they were compelled to cover it even though some people were Unhappy. The media slaves of dynasty were forced to listen to the voice of the people ignoring the diktats of the dynasty. There, I felt that 90% of the battle is won but it got infiltrated with unwanted elements.
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During his visit to Chile, Barack Obama said, "I think it’s important, though, for us, even as we understand our history and gain clarity about our history, that we’re not trapped by our history". NO is a film about the historic plebiscite of 1988 on whether General Pinochet should stay in power for another 8 years and the role played by Television Advertising.

The important things which grew in the last 2 decades are Television and Internet. Both have shown enormous penetration and its influence. In India, both have taken a different path in the course of time. News has important place in both these areas and they have dramatically changed in the past 2 decades. From Arun Shourie's crusade against corruption by coming with a front page headline of "Good Morning Prime Minister" to a news channel doing a fake interview with a Bollywood star in his car asking about his political inclinations and on who is the best Prime Minister candidate in 2009.

Chile is a thin strip country on the west coast of South America. The plebiscite of 1988 is a divided into two groups, YES of General Augusto Pinochet who came to power by a coup and the NO camp who are a formation of several opposition parties who want to bring back democracy. The YES and NO camp would be provided with 15 minutes on Television for 27 days to come with their advertisements. The NO camp approaches a brilliant advertisement creator Rene Saavedra played by Gael García Bernal. Gael García Bernal is one of the very few young actors who travels continents with his talent. Be it with the Mexican film about dogs 'Amores perros', to act like a transgender in Pedro Almodóvar's 'Bad Education' and as a Chilean in 'NO'.

The first scene of the film made me feel that there was something wrong with my eyes but later realized that the whole film was shot with Sony U-matic magnetic tape to get the feel of late 80's. The decision to shoot the film with magnetic tapes had divided the critics but i felt that it was a smart decision and it added the impact which the filmmaker was intending for.

Narendra Modi, Bigots and Non Bigots

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The recent intellectual commentary of Mukulji on Narendra Modi is one of the best example of Desi Left Liberalism. In his first sentence he terms millions of Indians as bigots. Yes, millions of people who have voted for BJP for so many years are bigots according to Mukulji. Few days back, Pratap Bhanu Mehta came with a column which trashes the 9 years governance of Congress and he ends with this sentence.
After all we do have the vote. 
Mukulji’s bile for Narendra Modi comes with his Left Liberal hyperbole camouflaged under the generic word ‘Liberals’. He starts with…
Liberals fear and loathe Narendra Modi not because he is loved by voters who are bigots but because he appeals to some voters who aren’t.
So, let us assume for argument sake that millions of Indians are bigots and the rest who are attracted to them are non-bigots. Few questions which comes to my mind are:
  • Who are these non-bigots?
  • Why are they attracted to Narendra Modi?
  • Which category does these Non-bigots belong?

Inspired from Narayana Murthy, Rahul Gandhi asks another 10 years to turnaround India into a Super power

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Inspired from the vision of Narayana Murthy to turnourd Infosys in 3 years, Rahul Gandhi has asked another 10 years to turn around India. Speaking at a political rally, the 43 years old young leader laid out his vision to make India a super power.


He said "Congress party will focus on making India a Super power and will overtake China in economic growth" and added that his party would come up with new set of bills that will push forward the country into a new path of economic growth and asserted that the growth would be 'Inclusive'.

The list of the bills which will be tabled in parliament.

Right to Rights: The bill would ensure that every individual of this country has right to ask for a list of rights just by filling a form of 10 pages.

SPNUEGA: The Sardar Patel National Uraban Employment Guarantee Act will provide job guarantee for at least 101 days of employment for the Urban people.

Queen's Kitchen Cabinet and other thoughts

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“Let this be stated upfront. Muslims need not be apologetic at all in demanding a law positively biased towards them when it comes to the issue of targeted violence” 
The above quote is by National Advisory Council (NAC) member Farah Naqvi on the Communal Violence Bill (CVB) proposed by the NAC, headed by Sonia Gandhi.

During the pre-emergency and emergency days, Indira Gandhi had close associates and advisers who used to take part in making important decisions over the functioning of the Government, it was called "Kitchen Cabinet". The "Kitchen Cabinet" was accused of favoring a family instead of country. The "Kitchen Cabinet" had ministers, bureaucrats and 'family members'. The family members who are not part of Government took crucial decisions and had to face questions from other quarters. Indira Gandhi's "Kitchen Cabinet" is history. But the foundations for Dynasty politics that were firmly laid continue to go strong even today. It should not come as a surprise that the current Government has its own "Kitchen Cabinet".

The National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Sonia Gandhi is the "Kitchen Cabinet" of the UPA (or) of the Congress to be precise. There are some differences between the Kitchen Cabinet of the 1970's and the present one.
  • Most of the members of the Kitchen Cabinet are not ministers or bureaucrats.
  • Kitchen Cabinet does not report to the Prime Minister.
  • The 70's Kitchen Cabinet mostly comprised of elected representatives and the current one majorly consists of self-styled social activists.
  • The 70's Kitchen Cabinet didn't exist legally, but the current one exists on papers. 



The Creed of Carrion Eaters and a Credulous Mass - Indian Left Liberals

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I guess, it’s the recent Marxist bunkum of Girish Karnad against Nobel laureate V.S Naipaul and Ramachandra Guha's eloquent crap which has lifted the spirits of our desi comrades and Left Liberals. People like Girish Karnard & Co who are vehement claques of Romial Taphar versions of History are excited, pumped up and are busy breast beating due to many reasons. Indian Left-Liberal legacy of shooting over their mistress’ shoulders is well known and these days they are working sincerely.

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The Left Liberal  propensity of giving logic to endorse their propaganda is being replayed again in the on going conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza strip. Their glycerin tears for peace, their gimmicks for spreading victim-hood feeling, their social activities to melt ignorant hearts by showing images of the injured, their disgusting methods to manufacture truth by propagating the absurd statistics that Israel is a terrorist state and 'Hamas' is an innocent victim -- these mastered drills of left liberals are similar to the tactics and tantrums of Girish Karnard typos -- Accusations with no truth or acceptable logic behind them.
  • "Who started it?", 
  • "Why should they fire a missile in the first place?", 
  • "What's wrong if Israel retaliates?"

Husbands and Wives

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I am not writing a review for Woody Allen’s film ‘Husbands and Wives’ nor am i married to write about issues of ‘Husbands and Wives’. This post is about the controversy created by media and feminists regarding the statement made by Shriprakash Jaiswal.  This is what Shriprakash Jaiswal said while addressing a cultural event.
“A new victory and a new marriage have their own importance. But as times passes, the memories of a victory go old and as time passes, a wife gets old, the same charm is not there”
Women organizations protested, they criticized and some even said that it’s “Commodification of Women” and should be charged under IPC. Let’s just replace the word ‘wife’ with ‘husband’ in the statement made by Shriprakash Jaiswal. It would be…
“A new victory and a new marriage have their own importance. But as times passes, the memories of a victory go old and as time passes, a husband gets old, the same charm is not there” 
Does the above statement create anger? For me, the above statement is more like a gimmick of a left-liberal- feminist standup comedian. If you have visited a pub or a bar where these days the so called female standup comedians perform their acts, every alternate joke is about boyfriends and husbands and if they are out of sexist jokes they shift their attention on Penis jokes. Of Course, the performance of so called ‘Desi’ female standup comedians is of gutter quality, but no one questions the sexist remarks made by them. Why?


Dangling Pointers - Ideologies of so called Modern Indians

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I am a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate and the title of this post should be comprehensible for people who come from the same academic background and for those who don’t - below is the minimal definition from Wikipedia.
Dangling Pointers: Dangling pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations.


The presumption that an individual can be devoid of an ideology by being an active participant in social and political issues is not agreeable to me, for me it’s more of an hypocrisy and style statement and less to do with the social and political neutrality which an individual tries to project himself to keep immune from any disturbances. In this internet age, where one has the extreme freedom to express his views with anonymity and where one has the power to question and expose the lies of others, it’s imperative that the individual has an ideology. But, these-days I find a peculiar set of people who claim that they do not belong or associate themselves to any particular ideology but their views are based on greater good of the society and some clichéd stuff.

Sagaika Ghose, author of the book ‘Gin Drinkers’ states that her political ideology is ‘Liberal Democracy’ “Theoretically”. Barkha Dutt editor of NDTV enlightens us of what is bad by tweeting “Many of those tweeting in the name of the 'Right' online are the worst Ambassadors for their ideology. Mostly spewing poisonous garbage.”, We have B.Raman, who equates the restless right wing online people as ‘Nazi storm troopers’, the one and only Ramachandra Guha who is an expert in history, cricket, politics etc… and I suspect that his computer password is the pet name of the ‘The Greatest Indian after Gandhi’, the editor in chief of ‘The Hindu’ who has the unique power to read hundreds and thousands of pages of court judgments with in a matter of hours and write an editorial on it. All the mentioned esteemed people can easily be associated with one or the other ideology. The new group (I must admit that I found these creed recently, they may have come into existence even before my discovery) which deny any association to any particular ideology but project themselves as active citizens who have genuine concern towards society and politics amaze me and I call them as ‘Dangling Pointers’ and thus the title of the post. May be its premature for me to classify them, but taking of risk of going wrong, I would give a general classification based on my observations.

Forget Greek, what about the Indian Tragedy?

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“It’s the real Greek Tragedy” claimed my Left-Liberal friend after hearing the Greece Election Results. The phrase “The Greek Tragedy” is generously used by our Indian journalists and I am quite sure that 9 out of 10 journalists using the phrase have no idea what that actually means. With my limited knowledge of Economics and very little knowledge of Greek Mythology, I surprisingly find very less similarities of the Greece Economic Crisis and the ‘The Greek Tragedy’.

Its  one of my guilty pleasures to include Nietzsche whenever and wherever I can, in this case – I drag Nietzsche and elevate him to a different level, many may feel that it is quite unnecessary, but guilty pleasures hardly take care of others opinions.



“But, at this juncture, when the will is most imperiled, art approaches, as a redeeming and healing enchantress; she alone may transform these horrible reflections on the terror and absurdity of existence into representations with which man may live. These are the representation of the sublime as the artistic conquest of the awful, and of the comic as the artistic release from the nausea of the absurd. The satyric chorus of the dithyramb is the saving device of Greek art."

Right To Education - RTE

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Socialism is Evil.

I have said what i wanted to say in a nutshell in the first line, proceed and read to know the draconian 'Right To Education' bill, referred to other blog posts written by @realitycheckind on his blog and on CRI (Centre Right India)



and some gyan by Nietzsche on Education.

The entire system of higher education in Germany has lost what matters most: the end as well as the means to the end. That education, that Bildung, is itself an end — and not "the Reich" — and that educators are needed to that end, and not secondary-school teachers and university scholars — that has been forgotten. Educators are needed who have themselves been educated, superior, noble spirits, proved at every moment, proved by words and silence, representing culture which has grown ripe and sweet — not the learned louts whom secondary schools and universities today offer our youth as "higher wet nurses." Educators are lacking, not counting the most exceptional of exceptions, the very first condition of education: hence the decline of German culture. One of this rarest of exceptions is my venerable friend, Jacob Burckhardt in Basel: it is primarily to him that Basel owes its pre-eminence in humaneness.

What the "higher schools" in Germany really achieve is a brutal training, designed to prepare huge numbers of young men, with as little loss of time as possible, to become usable, abusable, in government service. "Higher education" and huge numbers — that is a contradiction to start with. All higher education belongs only to the exception: one must be privileged to have a right to so high a privilege. All great, all beautiful things can never be common property: pulchrum est paucorum hominum. What contributes to the decline of German culture? That "higher education" is no longer a privilege — the democratism of Bildung, which has become "common" — too common. Let it not be forgotten that military privileges really compel an all-too-great attendance in the higher schools, and thus their downfall.

In present-day Germany no one is any longer free to give his children a noble education: our "higher schools" are all set up for the most ambiguous mediocrity, with their teachers, curricula, and teaching aims. And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as if something would be lost if the young man of twenty-three were not yet "finished," or if he did not yet know the answer to the "main question": which calling? A higher kind of human being, if I may say so, does not like "callings," precisely because he knows himself to be called. He has time, he takes time, he does not even think of "finishing": at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child. Our overcrowded secondary schools, our overworked, stupefied secondary-school teachers, are a scandal: for one to defend such conditions, as the professors at Heidelberg did recently, there may perhaps be causes — reasons there are none.

~ Twilight of the Idols

Maoist Diapers at Discount Rate

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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