Sunday, October 05, 2008

My 12 Questions for "Some" Irrational and Fanatic Muslims

I respect beliefs of people and believe every religion has some fairy tales which becomes part of it in due course of time. There is no harm in believing in fairytale unless its start harming others physically and try to destroy them. I have belief in God and I believe that God is same for all of us. I dont have problem in anyone's belief as its upto an individual how he sees his own way, but when stupidity and brainwashed illogical brains commit crime in name of God than it hurts everyone to see how someone can be killed in name of God. Brainwashed people generally follow a cult where they are not allowed to think beyond what is written in some manual and they commit heinous crimes because of their illogical belief in certain things which takes away their right to think. In this light I tried to understand Quran and came up with few questions.. I hope if common Muslims read them than they will also know that its time for reason to prevail over bigotry...

1)What is the reference in Quran regarding throwing stones at Shaitan while performing Hajj? If there is none than and why people still do it?? Isnt it would be better not to do something which is not there in Quran??

2)How come that Stone is Symbol for Shaitan? You are not supposed to use any symbol for religious things if you are a Muslim. Why then people think that stone is Shaitan? If there can be a stone symbol for Shaitan than why not for Allaha? Isnt that stone is also creation if Allaha? So how come Muslims are thinking a creation of Allaha as symbol of Shaitan? Are Muslims not committing greatest sin here?

3) When Quran say that no one can be seen as partner to Allaha than why Muhammad will sit with Allaha for interceding on day of Qayamat and Allaha will listen to his pleading and act while Allaha being omnipotent should know everything and shouldnt require anyone's help in judgment?
4) Can God be different for Different people on earth? Or can God reward some killer just because he happens to have a name belonging to particular geography on earth and punish the good person who doesnt worship God or worship him in different ways than prescribe in a particular book??

5)Tell me how come Shaitan can become so powerful that he can even inspire the Satanic Verses? Does Allaha not know what Shaitan is going to do ?? Why Allaha even allows Eve to to eat the apple in Eden? If he was so concerned he should have prevented that Satan from instigating Eve from eating apple.. right?? How come Shaitan is acting on his free will and challanging almighty Allaha and even winning at times from him? If allaha isnt that powerful that Shaitan isnt in his control than how come he is going to control the world and universe?

6)Why non muslims have to pay Jajiya and feel subdued in a Dar Ul Islam? Why they cant live with their self respect? Why they have to pay special tax? Isnt it a form of torture? Paying tax for just worshipping in some other ways.. isnt that wrong on part of any so called God?

7) When people like Zakir Naik quote Hindu Shastra than Its nice to see Muslims are reading Hindu religious scriptures. But I just cant stop smiling on the fact that all these Sanatan Dharma religious scriptures which are being quoted are much much much older than time of Quran. So if truth as I already have mentioned was already known from Hindu Shastra than what was the need of Quran in first place?? Now dont say that all old was corrupted otherwise you wouldnt have been quoting Hindu Shastra here..so truth was/is already present..

At the best what I can understand is, it was external ways of worshiping which got changed. So if it was only external things than why would someone like GOD would be worrying the way people worshiping him? In the end they are worshiping him..right?? So much bloodshed just for all this external way of worshiping and not seeing the truth in heart.. which GOD can approve that??
8)And when the word is fulfilled concerning them, We shall bring forth a BEAST of the earth to speak unto them because mankind had not faith in Our revelations. (Quran 27:82)

Here Allah is promising that he will send a beast to bring his message to mankind in future.. Now Muhammad claimed that he is seal of prophecy..but here Allaha promising a BEAST :) as future messenger to mankind.. Now Either Allaha is right in saying this or Muhammad lied through Quran about his being seal of prophecy.. And why some beast as messenger? cant we have some direct Angel whom we can understand more properly??


9) Why Allaha has sealed the heart of Non believer? Now if I think about it than it seems to me that it Almighty Allaha's fault and not any non believer's.. isnt it?? If He wanted to reveal himself to all than what was the need to seal hearts and than saying get Jajiya tax from non believers or treat them differently. Is in not wrong on Allaha's part?

10) If Quran claims to be a clear message for believers than how come so many sects of Muslims are there? If believers have so much trouble in understanding teaching of Quran than what fanatic Muslims expect from non believers?? If Quran is clear in message than what is the meaning of "Alif Lam Mim" which appears in several verses.
11)YUSUFALI: None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things? (Noble Quran 002:106)


"We substitute something better or similar" Allaha thinks that his earlier version of truth in Torah and Bible were not good and since Hinduism is no truth for fanatic Muslims so I havent written it here with Bible and Torah. So Allaha is correcting his past mistakes in Quran.. The conclusion is Quran says God is doing mistakes.
12) Since Muslims have to wait till day of judgment after they die to go to heaven so isnt it a injustice for those Muslims who died 1400 years ago from now? Since they have to wait these many years than those who die now or will die in future. Isnt this scheme of justice already doing injustice to those who already died?
As I said earlier I dont have objection when people believe in fairy tales but these tales should limit to their own mind and shouldnt become a tool to harm others. I invite all Muslim scholars to give me explanation of these 12 points. If They cant then they must accept that there are several ways to reach one common destination as described in Veda's as "Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudah Vadanti" means the truth is only one and wise people know it by different names.
Vande Mataram
Jai Hind
www.himalayan-swastika.blogspot.com

Friday, October 03, 2008

Unity In Diversity: Is it Impossible To Achieve OR So Easy That We Just Ignore It?

Watching TV news or reading new papers of any country in this world is not comforting these days. I do it just out of curiosity. I like to know what is going on in the whole world. Google’s news application is pretty handy in this regard. Through it you will be able to know about opinions of different news papers on the same issue. If you really have an open mind you can see pros and cons of that issue or news and make up your mind to oppose, support or be neutral about it. If you already belong to certain ideology then you will pick the points which suits your way of thinking. There is plenty of material available on internet to strengthen your way of thinking either way for any issue. Then there are Community Forums of social networking sites like Orkut or internet chat rooms of Yahoo and other sites where you will be amazed to meet people with great knowledge. World population is coming closer to each other and I think after 50 to 100 years there will be very less conflicts in the world. Why I think like that?

I think like that because majority of the times its communication gap and no detailed knowledge which makes people suspicious of each other. This less or no knowledge about particular place, personality or religion is what creates a mentality of us versus them. When we have made up our mind that other person is our enemy then we majority of the times just try to find faults in them. That’s why ignorant Christians find so many faults with Hinduism and thinks Islam as their second rate version, ignorant Muslims find Christianity as second rate version of itself and doesn’t find Hinduism as a way to worship almighty. Ignorant Hindus find Islam barbaric and Christianity full of deceit that is just hell bent on destroying them by any mean possible. Now I am going to let my mind dwell deeper and write what I think is correct. There is one basic concept in which I believe in. I believe that there is Ishwar/God/Allaha or any superior force which makes functioning of this world and beyond possible. That God is one and same for all and people just have different ways to worship the same reality. You are free to agree or disagree with me as always.

There is good in every religion. There has to be good in the thing which calls itself a way to reach God or Allah or Ishwar. Otherwise this thing is of no use. Religion offers humans an explanation of the unexplained. It tells you about the things which are beyond control of science. This topic is of great interest to me. My search for knowing truth began when I first read commentary on Bhagwat Geeta’s chapter 2 and 3 given to me by my friend. This book was written by Acharya Rajneesh. Those who have studied Osho’s books know that that it leaves a profound impact on your mind and you yearn to learn more. I was hooked. I read him days and nights by borrowing and purchasing his books on all topics. Although I don’t agree with him on all things but still those books gave me many answers I was looking for. After that I read Bible, Quran and other Hindu religious books like Upanishads, some part of Vedas and writings of Vivekananda.

I wanted to go to the root of conflicts and see why they are there. Why people are fighting in the name of God which was meant for giving peace to all of us. Human stupidity has reached its height when anyone murders in name of God. How any God is going to be pleased by seeing murders of his creation in his name? Why anyone like God would have problem in way people worship him? All religion say God is almighty, omnipresent, who knows each and every thing in people's heart and beyond then why religious fanatics believe that its only their version of God which is true and all others are false? Why some fanatics believe that its particular name of almighty which is important? How any God like thing can say that he will protect a particular community or person who belongs to certain geography of the world even though they can be bad and criminal but will not hesitate in punishing good people who are worshipping him in some different way? Those who have problem with the way God is worshipped by people either that section of people in world hasn’t understood what God is all about or they are misusing Gods name by dragging him in their own fight for obvious benefits. Why?? Because its such a basic thing in which people don’t even think that there cant be different supreme reality to different people. Any God who claims that he is the only true God and all others are false can not be a God. God is God because he doesn’t involve in human like competitions of being number one or two. He is God because he is beyond all. God reveals himself in each of his creation. Its all him everywhere you see and whatever you see or don’t see or experiences through your senses. Each of us shares a special bonding with him because we are from him. He cant differentiate between Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Jews, Atheists, low or high caste, black or white race. He cant , he simply cant do anything like favoritism. If anyone is trying to impose this differentiation human feeling on God then he is actually doing a great disservice and greatest sin towards God.

Yes God does justice like an honest judge and no one can hide his or hers rights and wrong from him. The God will punish the wicked and reward the righteous and caste, creed, community or a particular way of worship shouldnt matter for him. If these things matters for any one like God than he is not a God. He doesnt deserve to be known as God. The simple fact is its us humans who have degradded his name for our own selfish narrow interest. He has given humans lot of freedom by giving them power of thinking. He hasn’t done that with any other creation. A simple example is animal baby is born without any protection and assistance from anyone. A particular geography and climatic condition has that type of animals. When its cold God has given them lots of fur. When its hot God has given them smooth skin and capability gather food in their own ways. On the other hand humans don’t have that natural protection but God has given us brains to use. With this brain we have changed climatic conditions, used animal skin to protect us. It means we are God’s freest creation and he has put a lot in our hand and brain. Its up to us how we use that intelligence. But seeing all this fighting in name of God makes me wonder has he done a right thing? Wouldn’t the world have been a better place when we would have been living like animals do? With no bomb blasts to worry about, no ideological battle to fight, no money to run after, no concern for Ozone layer hole, global warming and terrorism, just two needs of gathering food and reproducing babies when time comes.

Don’t you all think that we have made this world a disaster? Is this God would have wanted when he has created us? May be he might not be having fun with all goodliness of animals and their regular things. Well if there would have been no human on earth than we all wouldn’t have been discussing God at all. It means he wanted us on earth and wanted us to know the best by use of our brain. But I guess majority of us is not using this wonderful gift of God in proper way.

Well while going through all these different religious and philosophical books I came to know a lot about different amazing things. It’s a personal liberating journey of truth which makes your mind open with wonder. You feel like you know so little in vast ocean of knowledge. I wanted to become a monk but I guess that desire wasn’t strong enough. I just want everyone to take that journey. It makes you think about lot many things and perhaps this is the reason India has produced so many towering personalities. When mind is free from a sense of victimhood it lets you do wonderful things. Otherwise you will forever going to remain in miserable condition.

The common problem with some Muslims in India is they think that its state and police which is acting against their interest and justify bomb blasts as a way to avenge that sense of victimhood. I have seen many educated Muslims using the same argument. But I would like to tell them that this sense of victimhood belongs to every poor and less privileged in India. In India people with money and political power many times abuse their fortune by indulging in extortion of masses. It happens. It happens with every common Indian when they come in contact with any government office for doing their work and police and administration is part of that. So this sense of victimhood belongs to everyone who is less privileged in India and its not a Muslim specific problem. Majority of common Indians tried avoiding this sense of victimhood by sending their children to private schools and many times at cost of their good life style. They made every resource available with them in good education of their children. Even though they were poor they borrowed money or took up any other job but made their children study. On the other hand lots of Muslims send their children to Madarasa. I am not against any Madarsa education but education in Madarsa is of no practical worldly use. How can you expect someone having a Hafiz or Pandit course to be employed in an engineering firm? Its easy to have a sense of victimhood and blame all your troubles on someone else. But wouldn’t it be nicer that people just stop complaining and become partner in growth of India like all others?

I am not turning my blind eye towards stupidity and generalization that has crept in common population in India. I wouldn’t have believed that discrimination but it happened with one of my dear friend. He was denied a house on rent since he belonged to a particular religion. It made me sad as I know my friend is very good person and I complained and written to new paper editors about it. I went with him to argue with land lord but to no avail. I went again to land lord alone and asked why he is doing that after talks with him I realized that there is a general impression that many people although eat non vegetarian food but don’t like cutting of any goat in front of them. I couldn’t do anything and felt so helpless. It was a good thing that my friend got house just near by. I thanked God for this. People are generalizing a lot and situation like involvement of educated and well to do young boys in bomb blasts is not helping situation in any case. I am for co mingled community housing societies. Ghettos filled with one particular religious community or people from one region are bad for country as diverse as India. Housing ghettos like those just reinforce sense of victimhood and create misunderstanding towards other view points. It generates feeling of us verses them and not good for a country like India. The solution of this type of problem can be open declaration of any housing society rules and clear definition that there would be no discrimination on basis of caste, community or religion. Yes, a housing society can declare that there would be no cutting of animals in their society complex and other external things like that and I hope no one would have problem with this kind of rule and many people including me don’t like seeing animals being cut either in any temple or other religious activities. As I think there are enough butcher shops available if you want to cook non vegetarian food.

Christian missionaries have done great serice for poors in India and I admire that. But will anyone like Jesus be happy when he sees the methods adopted by some missionaries in coverting innocent tribal people? I dont need to elaborate on this as its well in public domain. They take name of constitution and say its freedom of religious propagation in India. But why they are confusing freedom to propagate for freedom to conversion? What anyone can get by converting someone to some other religion? Its madness to convert people by using means of money and fraud. No one would object to teachings of Jesus but when NSCN IM in Nagaland declares that they want Greater Nagaland in name of Christ than all partiots would get a feeling that either these guys havent understood what Jesus taught or they are just becoming some Christian Taliban. Those who seek converts in their religion think that theirs is the only true way while others are false. But cant they understand the simple logic that if God would have wanted it to be like this than He wouldnt have made so many different ways in first place? Serive for poors and unpriviledged is the greatest way you can worship God. But when this service comes with a motive of converting than it becomes a give and take business of soul. When missionaries get target of converting some number of people every year than it just denotes that how much business is involved in business of God. I am not against conversions. If anyone feels like worshiping the almighty in some other ways than I am least worried about that. But when there is business of faith for political power and breaking national ethoes than I just cant remain silent. I am sure that true followers of Christ would understand this.

Those Hindus who are killing innocents of other faith are doing the same heinous crime. A Hindu cant have problem with anyone worshiping anything because all ways leads to almighty only. I wonder which Rama or Krishna will be happy by seeing rape of a woman. They dont go and eradicate evil like misunderstood casteism which has taken away self respect of so many people. They are not going and eradicting social evils like dowry and female foeticide from their own house and than blame others for exploiting the same. If you keep your house clean than who will dare to point fingers?

Why it becomes so hard for people to understand that every religion has its share of fairytales. And these scriptures may have been manipulated by humans for solving their own purposes. If anyone believes in any fairytales than it doesnt harm anyone untill some people start claiming that their's fairytale is only true and others have to follow it or die. The best approach for solving this problem is to live and let live according to some common laws based on todays time. This approach is the only guarantee for a peaceful coexistance of different communities. Faith in God is really a personal matter and religions are meant for transforming you from with in.

India is very diverse and diversity should be its strength. There is one beautiful story about first ship of Zoroastrians or Parsis arrival on Gujarat coast to save themselves from persecution in their home land in 8th Century. King Jadi Rana sent a pot filled with milk to Parsi elders on ship denoting that he doesn’t have any space left in his kingdom. The Parsis returned that filled pot after adding sweetener to milk denoting that they would live in his kingdom like this and add value. To this day these Paris even after 1300 years stick to their commitment that their forefathers gave to King Jadi Rana and you can see that commitment in likes of Tatas, Maneckshaws, Godrejs even today.

This is an ideal example of unity in diversity. That concept remains valid today too where everyone has to play his or her part to make India a greater place to live. God wanted us to live and co exists with differences. If God would have wanted just one type of things than he wouldn’t have created so many different races and religions, he wouldn’t have created so many colors in nature, he wouldn’t have created so many different animals, and he wouldn’t have created so much of bio diversity. I don’t understand why it becomes too hard for all people to understand this. Cant they just see it around them? They are working against will of God if they are destroying others in his name. Unity in diversity is what God want us to see and believe. He wants us to understand it all. We all educated people should make it our duty to make this known to everyone in our beloved motherland. Since we all have to emphasize more on commonalities than on differences if we want peace and prosperity for all Indian citizen. May God direct our intellect in right direction.

Vande Mataram
Jai Hind
Hemant Dubey

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The Jammu & Kashmir Saga- Root Problem And Its Effective Solution

ओ भारत के वीर जवानों , माँ का क़र्ज़ चुका देना ,
कटे फटे इस मानचित्र को अबकी ठीक बना देना !!
पटना साहीब से मीलने को ननकाना बैचेन खड़ा ,
अबकी तीरंगा रावलपिंडी में घुस कर फहरा देना !!
अटक कटक से सिन्धु नदी तक सब कुछ हमको प्यारा है ,
कश्मीर मत मांगो कह दो पाकिस्तान हमारा है !!


जो उपवन से घात करे वो शाख तोड़ दी जायेगी ,
जो पीछे से वार करे वो बांह मोड़ दी जायेगी ,
जो कुटुंब का नाश करे वो गर्दन तोड़ दी जायेगी,
मेरे देश पे उठती हर एक आँख फोड़ दी जायेगी ,
जो देश द्रोह की बात करे वो मनुष्य हत्यारा है ,
कश्मीर मत मांगों कह दो पाकिस्तान हमारा है !!


अपनी झीले, नदीयाँ, पर्वतमाला कैसे दे देंगे ?
भारत भर की रूप सुधा का प्याला कैसे दे देंगे ?
वैष्णो देवी , बाला अमर उजाला कैसे दे देंगे ?
अमरनाथ का बोलो पुण्य शीवाला कैसे दे देंगे ?
गंगा से मीलने को झेलम का बैचेन कीनारा है ,
कश्मीर मत मांगों कह दो पाकिस्तान हमारा है !!


I first heard this poem at Annual Dashahara Kavi Sammelan in my town when I was 13 yrs old & than again at annual Hindi poem recital competition in my school. At that time I wasn't that aware about world and Indian politics but somehow this poem agitated me from inside. I still remember that day coming back home with a heavy heart. The feeling that someone wants to take away my mother India's belongings created a deep sense of rage. Probably I count that day as the day of my political awakening. As a child I forgot the rage and anger after 2 or 3 days but that poem always echoed in my mind. When I started writing my diary of poems and sher-shayaris, I wrote this poem there too. Although it wasn't originally written by me but the emotions that I felt after hearing its recital, was a special memory I wanted to keep alive. That day I felt so Indian that I wanted to go out on border and declare war on Pakistan.

These were the magic words and today inside my mind I am again hearing its recital. I dont remember my schoolmate, who was reciting it but since than I recited it so many times that each and every word of this has become written on my heart. Some one is again trying to snatch my mother's belongings and again emotions are taking control of my mind.


I wanted to write about whole Baba Amarnath – Kashmir fundamentalist -terrorist issue before but decided against it to see reaction of the all sections of media intellectuals and general population. I did that because I wanted to be sure that what I write should include every aspect of the problem. Again I admit that I am nobody but still democracy gives each and every small or big citizen right to express their thoughts freely and that's what I have done till now.


But some people doesn’t know what is freedom with responsibility. Likes of Shabana Azmi, Arundhati Roy and many so called pseudo secularists, human right activists come in this category. Even though they have their best time in India but they never miss a chance to destroy India’s pride and take advantage of largely tolerant, liberal and truly secular Indians. Yesterday in paper it was Shabana Azmi who was complaining that minorities are being denied opportunities in India. Well ShabanaJi, tell me, who made your father such a great poet in India? Who accepted you as an actress who won several awards and become a MP? Does Indian not buy Cds of the songs written by Mr Javed Akhtar? Or does Indians haven’t gone and seen “Dil Chahta hai” or “Lakshya” directed by Farhan Akhtar? Or does Indians have stopped watching cricket when Azharuddin or Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi were captains of Indian cricket team? Or does Indians stopped watching movies in which Shahrukh, Salman, Amir, Saif, Fardeen, Imran or many other minority community actors performed? Or any Indian has given any less respect to Dr Abdul Kalam Azad? Or Indians dont want to listen songs from Adnan Sami or Mehadi Hasan? FYI Shabana Ji, its Pakistan which is not allowing their citizens to hear songs from Lata Mangeshkar and Jagjeet Singh. I don’t deny that people don’t have problem when Dilip Kumar goes to Pakistan and donate for Cancer Hospital while doing nothing for any Indian one. People will have problem when they see any Indian who is enjoying fruits of liberty and money earned here and simultaneously abusing the Indians and favoring other hostile nations.

Now Arundhati Roy, today I read that she is saying Kashmir needs azadi from India. She has gone to attend Hurriyat’s rally in Srinagar yesterday and after coming back from there she made this comment in TOI. These five star celebrity stupid people who doesn’t know reality on the ground just get overwhelmed by any anti national activities in name of human rights. I would like to ask her why she doesn’t go to Pakistan and suggest people over there that Balochistan and NWFP needs azadi from Pakistan. Why don’t she goes to Afganistan and suggest to Hamid Karzai that Taliban wants to rule Kabul so please leave Afganistan for Taliban. Why don’t she goes to Saudi Arabia and tell the kings there to leave Saudi Arabia for Osama since he wants to rule Saudi Arabia or why she haven’t still commented on what Chinese has done to Tibbetians or Uighur Muslims in Xinxiang? I guess China would be more interested in hearing her since she is one of the pro communists. But we all know she wont do that because all the above mentioned people will kill her for these stupid advices. Just writing some fictional books and winning only one award for that doesnt make any one so special that they can play with integrity of the nation. As per her logic there should be atleast 3 billion countries since I guess half of the world population wants some or other kind of freedom from their present governments. I think people of India need some kind of freedom from people like Arundhati Roy and I wont mind if people teach her a lesson so that her mind get a proper mental balance, which I guess she has lost after writing God of small things.

Let me be clear on certain things. I am not against any caste, community, region or religion. I am against corrupts and anti nationals whosoever they are. There are certain things I would never compromise while dealing with any separatists or terrorist. First there is not going to be any negotiation on territorial integrity of present Indian border, second there is not going to be any special provision in governance, foreign policy, law and order and defense for any state as all people enjoy the same freedom and all are equal. After agreeing on these two principles there can be negotiation on special economic packages for development of that state. I am not denying the fact that successive Indian central governments are responsible for the mess in J&K and north eastern states. North eastern states militancy except Nagaland has aroused mainly on the account of non development. Nagaland and Kashmir (Jammu and Lddakh are with rest of India) have peculiar problem and it can be solved with national resolve and will to take on the anti nationals. I will discuss Nagaland in some other blog. In this blog I would like to go in depth about Kashmir problem.

Brief History of Kashmir from 1850 Onwards:-

Jammu and Kashmir that you see in Indian maps is total undivided J&K with area 2,22,236 sq Kms. Out of this area PoK is having 78,114 Sq Kms and China too is enjoying the party by having 42,685 sq Kms. The word Kashmir is contraction of the word “Kashyapmeru means mountain of Kashyap”. According to Nilmata Puran Kashmir valley was fully under water and it formed a big lake by name Satisar. Geologists have also proven this fact that whole Kashmir valley was once under water. Nilmata Puran says Sage Kashyap drained that primordial lake of Satisar and now because of that we have beautiful valley of Kashmir with us. Kashmir’s population before Islam was basically Shaivite Hindus. After a treaty between Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and British in 1846 Kashmir became part of Dogra ruler’s empire. Before this treaty Kashmir was ruled by chieftains belonging to empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab. Mr Karan Singh who is a congress MP is direct descendant of Maharaja Gulab Singh. I guess this is sufficient for having a little background on history of J&K.

As you all know we had two golden chances of solving this problem in past. First in 1948 when India got independence, Pakistan attacked Kashmir. Indian military forces captured most of the Kashmir and were on their way to capture rest of it. But Mr Nehru under influence Lord Mountbatten took this matter to UN. UN called for the cease fire and the present LoC became line of cease fire. For this mistake of Nehru, we are still paying even after 60 years. Anyways we had another golden chance in 1971 when we defeated Pakistan and captured 91,000 soldiers. Indian Gandhi failed to capitalize on this opportunity and didn’t press for permanent solution of Kashmir. She and Julfikar Ali Bhutto signed Shimla Agreement which called for settlement of Kashmir dispute to some later date through dialogues and that date still hasn’t come. In these two golden opportunities we could have managed to get the PoK back under our control but anyways history of India is of lost chances where our rulers in modern times, except Chankya and ChandraGupta, failed to be farsighted.

Nehru did another major blunder when he agreed to give J&K special status in Indian territory through article 370 in Indian constitution. This at first gave J&K its own flag, its own prime minister, its own constitution and even you and me would have to show passport to travel J&K. we are not carrying our passports while going for pilgrimage in Vaishno Devi and Baba Amarnath because of Dr Shayama Prasad Mukharjee. Dr Mukharjee was cabinet minister in Congress govt after independence. But as he saw Mr Nehru doing great injustice to the nation by granting special favors to his home state (Mr Nehru was a Kashmiri Pandit), he resigned from Congress and formed Bhartiya Jan Sangh with help from RSS. He decided to travel J&K without any valid document as any ordinary Indian would go to any other state of India. Sheikh Abdullaha arrested him and put him in prison. Dr Mukharjee died in prison in June 1953. His death mystery is still unsolved. After seeing this supreme sacrifice of a respected leader, Nehru amended his mistake regarding travel documents to J&K but rest of the things remained unchanged.

J&K was in relative peace till 1988. After getting defeated in 3 direct wars against India, Pakistan changed its tactics. After seeing success Iranian revolution and Jihad against Russians in Afganistan, General Zia Ul Haq, the military ruler of Pakistan, changed his game plan for destroying India. Pakistan got initial success with Sikh militancy in Punjab so they decided to do the similar thing in Kashmir. On the top of it 1988 general elections in J&K were rigged in favor of Abdullahs by New Delhi. This created a greater resent in Kashmir Valley. By this time Afgans, with help from western countries and Pakistan, were successful in throwing Russians out from their territory. This gave great impetus to terrorist and jehadi elements in Kashmir, who thought that similar thing can be implemented in here. J&K which was known for its tolerance and real secularism was systematically converted to hardcore Jehadi Islam. Kashmiri Pandits who were some 3 lakh in number in valley itself were told to leave or get converted to Islam or be killed. It worked out very well for Jehadis as there are only 10,000 of the Pandits still left in the valley. Around 1000 got killed in terrorist acts after 1990 and rest migrated to other parts of the country and world.

So far none of the great secularists and human right luminaries of India has done any thing about these people who are living like refugees in their own land. And that’s why I believe that so called human right activists and seculars are nothing but anti nationals, who start crying when some one convicted terrorist like Afzal Guru get caught. Well they are on pay roll from foreigners and they are doing their job, atleast they are loyal to some one. But they have forgotten most important thing which is interest of their own country and rest of its population. Anyways I will deal with them in another blog.

After long spell of mayhem and killings J&K again started its walk towards peace after NDA govt under Mr Vajpayee gave them one of the fairest poll. After terrorist attacks in September 2001 in US, things changed for Pakistan. As US woke up after going through the pain which India is suffering from many years. The global war on terror is been beneficial for India and whole world pressurized Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism. People of Kashmir liked taste of peace after so many years. Economy started booming, Hurriyat broke up between so called hardliners or anti national terrorists like Geelani and so called moderates like Mirwaiz Omar Farooq. Well for India none of these Hurriyat people are of any use unless they have some divine revelation of stop spreading hate or getting killed one by one.

Now after successful elections in 2003, J&K was again going for election in this year. And here comes politics of self interest which brought situation to this level. Let me give you some background of political parties in Kashmir Valley who are supposed to have belief in Indian democracy. The main culprit for this current fiasco is PDP of Mufti Muhammad Saeed. Mr Mufti was home minister in VP Singh’s govt. He is the same union home minister, who some says staged kidnapping of his own daughter so that some dreaded terrorists in Kashmir can be freed. Well its just typical Indian politician behavior and I would have ignored that since lots of time has gone by. But my doubts against him and his daughter Mehbuba Mufti as anti nationals and terrorists sympathizers are getting stronger day by day. His party put forward many mind boggling demands which were not even made by dreaded terrorists. One of them is allowing Pakistani currency in Indian Kashmir. I mean what?? Who can say things like that unless they have very sinister, anti national design behind it?
Shri Amarnath Shrine Land Diversion Issue and Real Agenda of Anti Nationals:-

Yatra to Shri Amarnath dham is not started after Buta Malik discovered the route for some 150 years ago. There is a record of pilgrimage to Shri Amarnath Dham in various Hindu scriptures. The real story behind finding of the route involves story of a sage who gave a bag full of coal to Buta Malik so that he can cook food. But as Buta Malik arrives in his home and opens the coal bag he finds gold instead of coal. After seeing gold in bag he wanted to thank that sage and he went searching for him. He couldn't found the sage but he found alternate route to Shri Amarnath Dham. Hindu pilgrims involved family of Buta Malik into management of annual yatra and still give portion of offerings to his present family for doing this favor to them. Have you seen anything like this in world except India?? Shri Amarnath Shrine land diversion issue, which is the starting point of this time wasting anti national agitation, was just a routine land transfer for giving pilgrims more facilities in hostile environment. This land diversion was done to provide temporary pre fabricated shelter to pilgrims in hostile living conditions.

Mufti Sayeed's PDP which came to rule after elections transferred hundreds of acres of forest land to create Baba Gulam Shah Badshah university in Rajori, no one objected to it. Than he ordered cutting of thousands of trees for creation of Mughal Road, no one objected to it. Even though cutting of these trees have created question mark on existence of highly endangered “ Wild Markhor Goat” species. These goats are just 200-300 in numbers in whole world and have been declared highly endangered species. But why Mufti and his ilk will care about endangered species when his like minded anti nationals have driven out another endangered species by name Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir valley? Than he transferred hundreds of acres for Islamic University in Awantipur, no one objected to it. Land to these two universities was given free of cost but when Jammu demanded similar concession for Sharda Peeth University, it was denied. Than he transferred lots of land for various other commercial use and no one objected to it. The land he transferred was also forest land but on one objected because it was right thing to do. But suddenly when some 100 acre of land was transferred for use of pilgrims than whole hell broke lose. His own ministers transferred the land but since he received orders from Islamabad so started playing part in conspiracy created by anti nationals. His daughter along with Omar Abdullah said its their land and they wont give it to any one even for creating temporary shelters.

I once regarded Omar Abdullah as a good leader and even included him in my would be prime ministers list. But after seeing his ugly face in this land transfer issue, he seems to me just like some petty corrupt politician, who can go to any length for getting some stupid votes. Anyways he decided to play regional politics knowing fully that he is just playing in the hands of separatists and anti nationals. When you already have bigger terrorists for the same cause why would someone listen to him? I guess for this decision he and India going to pay heavily. Well I am done with Abdullah.

All these anti nationals along with Hurriyat created fear in Kashmir's general population that permanent colonies are being created in Kashmir and this would change demography of Kashmir. The Hurriyat and all anti nationals failed to remember that its them who changed demography of Kashmir for real since 1989 after driving Pandits out of valley. At that time none of the local Kashmir population protested. Well leave local population, no one in India protested on plight of these Pandits who are living like refugees in their own land.

After our spineless central government bowed down to these separatists false propaganda and canceled the allotment of land people in Jammu instantly felt agitated. There have been no riots in Jammu or any other communal clashes although people were provoked so many times. But denying land for use of temporary use for pilgrimage touched raw nerve of the population and Jammuites belonging to all religions and political affiliations joined the protests against injustice meted out to them for past 60 years.

Even though the Kashmiri anti nationals got what they wanted through concealment of land order transfer they were just waiting for another false propaganda to stoke up hatred against Jammu and rest of India. Kashmir for the first time got the taste of another similar agitation where some people from Jammu attacked trucks from Kashmir. I don’t deny this fact and this happens in all agitations where vehicle on the road become target for mobs. Anti national PDP and Hurriyat lost no opportunity in creating another false propaganda of economic blockade of Kashmir. Even though Army cleaned up the National Highway pretty soon, the anti nationals started March to Muzaffarabad in PoK. One of their leaders Sheikh Abdul Aziz got his punishment of highest order when police got rid of him during those protests. This made whole Hurriyat realize that there number is not far from list of dead so they back tracked from that false march and start shouting in different tunes.

Now you can see the whole game plan from anti nationals. They started their whole activities on false issue and sustained it through false issue and now they don’t talk about it any more because they used those to their favors and now showing their true colors where we can see SA Geelani saying, he is Pakistani. They just wanted a chance to create trouble as its their nature not to remain peaceful. They have been successful in making relatively peaceful Kashmir to troubled region again. Even though Kashmir and its people sustain on us tax payers from India than also instead of being grateful they shout slogans against us. I have solution for their and ours troubles. Just read on..

Solution for Kashmir Problem:-

My proposed solution to Kashmir Problem involves solution of many problems in Af-Pak region too.  I know it wont go down well with so called secularists but for any right minded Indian these points may prove to end what we have as every day problem in Kashmir. As per me the best solution to Kashmir problem includes in making Kashmir non exclusive state and treat it as per with other Indian states. Following are the points we should think about from Indian perspective of solving this issue;

1) I had given lots of thought about making LoC as international border between India and Pakistan. It means that Kashmir’s part which is already there with Pakistan will remain with them. I further thought that those Kashmiris who don’t like to live in India and hate us can simply go and live over there. So if people like SA Geelani and his supporters want we can give them free pass to go and live in Pakistan. All fanatics who think Pak as their country should just go and live there. Let's see that time, if Pakistan accepts them or not. They should be given three options, a) Stay in India Peacefully b) Go and live in Pakistan and do whatever they want over there c) live in prison. Its as simple as that. I don't know why these cheerleaders of Pakistan want to merge with Pakistan when they are seeing what happened with Mujahirs and what is happening in PoK. The whole world is saying Pakistan is a failed state and these morons are cheering for Pakistan.

But this solution is not sustainable as the same problem which we are facing today will still remain. So some major changes in thinking is required. I am NOT in favor of making LoC as international boundary. We need to have the full J&K with us. 

2) The whole Kashmir as you see in map can be ours only if as per current scenario Pakistan breaks up in different countries and its territorial realignment with India & Afganistan. The Af-Pak region realignment would work as follows
a) PoK will be part of India, the sindh province of Pakistan should be given option of merging with India or remain independent. 
b) Balochistan- after merging Afghan & Pakistan territory there should be a new country for Balochs. 
c) Pakhtunistan- the NWFP of Pakistan should be merged with Pakhtun dominated areas of Afganistan. 
d) The Taziks & Uzbek dominated territories can either be independent countries or should get merged with Tajikistan & Uzbekistan. 
e) The pakistani punjab can remain the whatever is remained of Pakistan. 

If religion could unite people in one country their wouldnt have been 56 countries in OIC.

3) Abolish article 370 and let people of India become legitimate part of the state electoral process. This will bring majority of the anti nationals in Kashmir to minority.

4) Divide J&K into three states of Jammu, Kashmir and Laddakh.

5) Just kill those found to be involved in terrorist activities & murders. When China kills Jehadi militants in Xinxiang province than no country on earth criticizes them than why should we bother about criticism.

Independent Kashmir is not an option because independent Kashmir cant survive and any level headed person knows that. Pakistan through its proxies like SA Geelani will annex Kashmir as it has done with PoK.

Greater Autonomy for Kashmir is not an option as I dont know what else we can give as autonomy. So if given autonomy in all aspects of life isnt working fine then just take it back and make this state as any other state of India.

There is a new talk among so called intellectuals of Indian secularism. I mentioned Arundhati Roy earlier. Now we have Vir Sanghvi, Swaminathan A. Aiyar and Jug Suraiya included in this list. They say just give Kashmir away because it seems their majority wants it to be like that. But my dear intellectuals it was the same situation in Punjab, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and even Naxals wants it in all over India so are you guys going to suggest the same thing if some bunch of fanatics and anti nationals get together and demand something from you? If some jehadies get succeeded in getting what they want in Kashmir than whats the guarantee that some Jehadi from bordering area of Assam and Bengal wont start for the same demand. What is the guarantee that some LTTE like organization will also demand the same thing? What is the guarantee that some Khalistan Zindabad Force starts demanding the same thing in Punjab? What is the guarantee that some minority dominated districts here and in India wont start demanding the same thing? These so called intellectuals are just bunch of thugs who wants to comment on any thing in the world. They just think to be different from present prevailing mood they have to resort to cheap gimmicks and risking national integrity to gain some publicity.

Solution to Kashmir problem lies in making it non exclusive as any other Indian state and this policy will change the face of Kashmir. The current agitation for Amarnath Shrine is not a fight between Hindus and Muslims but its fight between Nationals and patriots verses anti national parasites. Those who compare Kashmir with Tibet Issue of China miss one important fact. Tibet was never part of China’s Geography and never linked culturally with China while Kashmir from time immemorial is in ethos of India. We already suffered one partition of our motherland but not any more. These solution require the will of a nation to stand as one in case of situations like this but when we have so many anti national, publicity hungry secular columnists and intellectuals, we will continue to face all sorts of difficulties as these parasites and viruses are making India sick from with in. the sooner we get rid of these viruses the better its for health of the nation. Arise and awake Indians. Take destiny of this nation in your hand. There should be only one Passion.. Rise of this Great Nation…

Hemant Dubey
Vande Mataram
Jai Hind.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

One Abhinav Among A Billion In 80 Years: Is This What We Deserve As A Proud Emerging Power?

Abhinav Bindra you made me and entire honest Indian population around the world proud. Is it just a coincidence that we have "Singh is King " movie ruling chart of the box offices and Bindra a Sikh ruling hearts of a billion plus population. I have often wondered about why the nation of a billion plus population doesn't even have a single gold in individual events with participation history in Olympic Games which goes to 80 years.


Although modern Olympic Games were officially started in 1896, India started her journey to become best in sports in1928, Amsterdam Olympics. We played our best in field hockey and won eight Olympic gold medals, the last one around 28 years ago in Moscow Olympics. Now see the absolute disgusting turn of events where we have even failed to qualify for the present Olympics. Hockey being the so called national sport should have been given the priority over everything, but when we have our failed Cricket Superstars ruling ad campaigns who cares about anything else.


I cant say all but majority of Indian kids have played cricket once in their lifetime. I used to play too. Cricket became hugely popular after our win in 1983 world cup. Another factor which comes to my mind behind the popularity of sports like cricket is because its really cheap as far as initial investment goes and you don't need any big ground to play it out. You can play it any where. Majority of the Indians being not so well financially looked cricket as their national pass time sport. When you have your stomach to worry about than I guess you won't think about any sports as you career option because you know that in the end, the big burocratic and corrupt setup will kill your ambition and you will be left with nothing in the end.


Because of the employment reasons majority of Indian middle class parents pushed their children to study more and more so that they can have a meaning of livelihood with them. I guess most of us have the same story. Even if someone did well in sports they knew that their parents wont agree with their idea of becoming sportsperson as sports except cricket isn't known to many as means of earning some money. I guess our parents were right in this regard as there was really less money and there were a lot of things to do with that limited fund.


The successive Indian governments which have shown their callous attitude towards even providing basic amenities like education, health, drinking water and electricity to their general population then no one can expect them to provide some best athletic facilities so that India can win some medals in international competitions. You can check any particular sports federation in India and you will find some stupid corrupt political thug ruling that federation and treating it as his personal property for granting favors. The sports complexes around India have become Goonda producing complexes and no one gives a damn about that. Well when you have your livelihood to worry about than who cares about what is happening in some sport complex. The officials and politicians have become so corrupt that they denied one promising woman weight lifter "Monica Devi" to participate in 2008 Olympics. They charged her for taking banned drugs but recent tests again shown that she wasn't taking any drugs and it was some stupid personal rivalry and vested interests which denied India a chance for another medal along with Bindra.

There is no hue and cry in media over this open assault on the nation's soul where a honest promising woman athlete and subsequently the nation gets denied a chance for a medal in Olympic by some corrupt officials. If this thing can happen with a athlete of such a high repute then you can imagine what can happen to a ordinary citizen and that's why sometimes I thank my parents to keep me on the track of education and nothing else. In India everything has become a politics and like they did in recent trust votes politicians can go to any length to earn some more money. They don't have shame and their skin has become so thick that we can make them live along rhinos in Kaziranga National Park.


Abhinav Bindra's success is his personal success where no Indian or Indian government can take claim of even doing anything for him except giving him an Indian passport. He could manage to achieve what he has because of determination and resources provided by his father. His father saw his unique talent as early as he was some 7 years old and harnessed his potential in that direction. Since his father was resourceful, he could arrange Abhinav's coaching in Germany and for that training government of India paid nothing. It was a personal effort of a proud and resourceful father and his determined kid. And you can see the result with this Gold Medal.

My question is, when some Abhinav, after getting training in Germany can shoot for Gold than why you or I or our future generations can't do it here in India if we have facilities. I guess if it was there than we wouldn't have waited for this Gold for past 80 years. The government which should have provided athlete like him world class facilities in India, some times back went on blocking the bullet supplies for shooting championships all over India. As these bullets are not made in India they had to be imported and government said its against national security. How silly these arguments are when we have Dowd and ISI smuggling all RDX and Kalashnikovs and their bullets all over India under the nose of the government. Well better sense prevailed and the supplies were restored.


An interesting fact is China was nothing in Olympic Games until 1984. I am not a big fan of China but I admire their strong will as a Nation. They have got a national character and when they decide they have to go behind something they will just declare an open war sort of thing for that. That's another story with Human Rights and data manipulation but keeping discussion relevant to this topic I just liked their strategy for winning the ultimate crown in Olympics. They first focused on some specific sports like gymnastics, diving, badminton, table tennis and shooting. You can see their record that they have become one of the best teams in these sports. They were second behind US in Olympic medals in last 2004 Athens Olympics and they are trying to become number one in this one. In such a short span they have achieved a great feat and that's because of dedicated, mostly non corrupt officials in sport field and a national desire to become best. I guess mostly the sports officials in India are there to eat and suck player's flesh and blood. Indian sport officials don't know anything about that sport but they corrupt these places by playing dirty politics and indulging in corruption which amounts to crores of rupees.


We have achieved tremendous success in information technology because government wasn't aware of what is going on. India's problems are its politicians and corrupt officials. First we have to kick out all politicians ruling the different sport federation and replace them with former athletes of respective fields, as they will understand the need of the players better than anyone else. There is no need of separate sports ministry in India. This ministry is of no use. Its another layer of eating into funds for different sports federations. Instead finance minister should directly give amount to these federations every year in annual budget. We should initially concentrate more on few sports which involves less physical strength like shooting and archery, than gradually move on to others like badminton, table tennis and kayaking. If we start preparing now we have chance of winning atleast 10 gold medals in these fields in next 2012 Olympics.


I hope general public will start finding more heroes in other sports than in drastically inconsistent Cricket team. We should support Hockey, Football and other teams where we have chance of winning. All sport teams in India except cricket are self made. All they need is our support. Cricket has become like a rich spoilt child with no responsibility at all. This is the time when we should shift our attention to other neglected children in family and provide them with all necessary things so that they can come first in their class and make us all proud. I want many more Abhinavs in all sports in India.. I don't want to wait for another 80 years for another gold medal in Olympic. Now is the time for us .. Now is the time for youth of India to show what we are capable of to the whole world. Arise and Awake Indians .. Take Destiny of this great nation in your own hand..


Hemant Dubey

Vande Mataram

Jai Hind

Friday, August 08, 2008

How To Reform Politics In India: Bottom Up Approach Is the Only Solution..

There are sometimes in your life when you just want to throw out something like you throw out garbage from your home. You get a broom or a vacuum cleaner and then check every corner of your home and courtyard, make that stinky garbage come out from those difficult corners and floor then collect that garbage, throw it in dumpster and forget about it. I want to do a similar thing with all these corrupt and traitor politicians, officers and citizens of India, as these types of people are not more than garbage for me or for any law abiding patriotic Indian. I want to bundle all corrupts and traitors in some big bag and throw them in Indian Ocean. But like you clean your home every day from garbage, cleaning corruption will also be a similar process. Like a good housewife you have to clean your home daily otherwise that garbage would try to make its presence permanent. But for doing that you need a strong hand which can take the pain of cleaning it everyday so that all other members of the family can enjoy a pleasant stay in home.


Just think of yourself as that good housewife and all honest Indians as your family members and all these corrupt thugs as the garbage and you will know what I am talking about. My frustrations are not over yet. Deep down inside its hurting my pride as an Indian when I see so many corrupts from all political parties of India making an open loot of honest tax payers money. All these jobless politicians enjoy VIP security, plush bungalows in all prime properties in all states, uninterrupted power supplies, good schools for their kids and clean mineral water bottles to drink and leave common citizens like us to fight for each and everything in our life. These politicians survive on our money like parasite with no accountability towards common citizen. When inflation is reaching some 15 years high and prices of basic survival things like food is increasing every day these corrupt thugs are busy in paying each other crores of rupees in bribes. These politicians don't care about what you and me go through as an ordinary citizen, because they have rarely lived that ordinary life and those who in past lived like that have become immune to your and my problems as they have forgotten from where they have come from.


Politicians are a special breed of humans. There is a sentence which I read long while back regarding politicians. It says " A politician is a person who promises to build a bridge even if there is no river there." This definition fits any politician anywhere in the world most of the times. People may say that if you are pretending to know this much about politics then why don't you join the game and then criticize. Well good question and I guess I have a good answer. I was born into a lower middle class family, where much emphasis was given on getting good education and become something good professionally so that you can earn livelihood. I guess I chose a safe but wrong profession in engineering. I should have gone for IAS and I know that would have all my well wishers really happy. Why IAS? Because being an IAS/IPS gives you the exposure to the big political bosses in short time and from there you can affect life of so many common people positively and get their affection and respect. After that it becomes easy to get a Loksabha ticket from a party and fight elections. Being IAS/IPS makes you uncommon and gives lots of scope for nurturing your constituency. If I start by getting membership of any political party then I may remain just a member throughout my life that is just going to shout slogans when some big guy wants me to. Financial condition is not that strong where I can just go on and do something of my own. I know all what I said is going to be counted like excuses but still this is the case from my side. So I decided to get myself attached to the things which I can do by just being ordinary like donating for a worthy cause, making people aware of the real situation and things like that. As of now this is the only thing in my hand. I don't know the future but I am eagerly waiting for it. I would like to open a school, a hospital and an old age home for poor when I have enough money to do so. Anyways I guess its enough about me.


Well politics which was meant to serve the common mass has become a tool of exploiting the same. There is so much our elected representative can do for us by just doing their job properly but still they don't do it. the only thing on which they all agree inside parliament is when some bill comes up for raising the perks and benefits for themselves like how many free phone calls they will be allowed to make, how many train and plane ticket reservation they can have for free and stuff like that. Only communists oppose it for the sake of opposing it as they know that this bill is going to pass and I guess its one of their guilty pleasures since they like opposing thing. There have been so many cases of serious crimes against so many of our sitting MPs and MLAs. If anyone of us sees their behavior inside parliament house than head just wants to get buried in mud for thoughts that we elected these types of rouge elements to rule us who doesn't even know how to talk properly. Corruption runs deep in their vain as if they have some divine birth right to loot common public funds. These guys haven't even spared fodder for cattle, boots for soldier and policemen, wheat for poor in India from their list of scams. I sometimes wonder how these guys can have so much time for systematically looting so many public funds but no time to work of their poor constituencies. They come like some migratory bird once in a five year in your constituency for not to be seen again for another five years if government completes its term. Well I guess you know it all very well.


But why these politicians in whom the common people, who vote, put so much trust just betray their cause without even feeling guilty of their actions? How politicians skin becomes so thick that they can't feel the pain of the common masses? Why they just become disconnected with reality on ground? And how shameless these people are that even after doing nothing for 5 years they again come and stand in front of your door? well that's why they are special species and that's why we should control the quality of people who are going to govern us as politicians. When an IAS/IPS officer works so hard to get his job than why shouldn't we have some criteria for those who are going to give orders to these officers? Its not like that an IAS/IPS officer doesn't do any corruption but still they have some morality left in them. Having high education is no guarantee that a person wont indulge in corrupt and immoral activities but atleast that education makes a person aware about what is wrong and what is right.

An educated politician wont sign off some paper without reading and having understood all pros and cons. He don't have to rely on other people to make him understand the real situation. So what would be that level of education desired in a politician at any level of governance? My heart goes for a graduate but I know many people who are going to govern a village in Panchayat don't have luxury of attending the college. That's why we should have separate level of education at different level of governance. For Panchayats it can be matriculation or 10th pass as minimum. For Nagarpalika's in semi urban areas it should be high school or 12th pass as minimum. For urban area municipalities, state legislative assemblies and parliament it should be graduation as minimum education criteria. Well having that minimum education is first step than those who are getting elected should go to morality classes once in a year for rest of their five years as people's representative. These morality or people governance classes should be held by institutions of repute such as IIMs or other major business schools. The curriculum of these morality classes should include one lecture on religious aspects regarding corruption from every religion present in India. It can be collection of selective quotes from Bhagwat Geeta or other Ved and Upnishads, Quran, Bible, Buddhist and Jain literature, Guru Granth Sahib and Zend-Avesta. This class will make our politician aware about commonality in all religions against corruption in public life.


Another addition to this process would be we should be having an exam on the pattern of IAS for people who are interested in joining politics. Those who pass out from this exam should be absorbed by political parties in India. There should be a percentage of these pass outs in every party based on their primary membership. Some of you may laugh at me but see when MBAs and engineers from top colleges are so sought after in corporate class than why those who make policies for all of us shouldn't have any body of higher caliber. When an MBA or engineer is given so many responsibilities in corporate world than why our political parties don't have the same competent fresh blood every year. This will also solve the problem of youths not joining politics. These political parties can go on and take interviews of these candidates like any other company do on campus interview. The seats should be very limited so that they remain high in demand.

Another thing we can do is to make laws related to corruption crimes for anyone should be harsh so that anyone who is indulging in these activities would know that he or she is going to get a quick and severe punishment for what they are doing now. There should be separate courts for prosecution of corruption related crimes until we see reduction in these crimes. Common people should be encouraged to file complains against any government servant working in RTOs, passport offices, PWDs, SEBs, railway reservations and other departments like that.


I don't know if this will be a guarantee against all corruption that we face in our daily life but still when rulers are good than the workers or government servants working under them will also become somewhat well. All the above measures will take care of the Government related people to an extent but what about common people like us? We the common mass of India is also responsible in the same way. That's why when we cry for our rights, we should be ready to perform our duties for the nation. The least we can do is to go and vote on the voting day as per our choice. Whom you vote is not what I am looking for but you should stand up and be counted when the nation demands it from you. And that's what I meant by bottom up approach. We the common citizens are at bottom of governance pyramid but its us for whom the government is there. Government is there to serve us and not to rule us like kings. Government is there to make our life easy and not to complicate. This is an era of customer service, when you don't get that proper customer service from any of your service provider than you register your protest and think of changing the service provider. Something similar to this is needed when you get a dumb government. We have to make our fellow citizens aware about importance of their votes. Vote is the only thing you have to register your protest in democracy. Use it to change your service provider if you are not happy with them. Arise and awake Indians..


Vande Mataram

Jai Hind

Monday, July 28, 2008

Extraordinary Problem and Its Extraordinary Solution: Best Way To Tackle Terrorism In India

Till now after reading my previous blogs you all might have a little idea about my writings. I try to formulate a solution for a given problem faced by our nation. Many times these solutions may not be as good as I think of them to be but still I like to try and think about all which is going on in our surroundings and issues which affect our daily lives. I know I am nobody but still I like to spread my thoughts and that’s why I write to you all who know me. You guys are the best judge of my thoughts. I don’t like to be pessimist and always try to look for the positive side. But terrorism is one of the thing about which I can hardly see anything positive. This current blog is been written after thinking of many days where I tried to think different aspects of this problem. Best thing would have been ending of a ideal Bollywood movie where the bad terrorist would return to home after persuasion from his family, friend and lover and lead a normal life. But unfortunately real life is very much different than real one.

There are certain things which you should think before reading this article further on. These terrorists are not sparing anyone. Earlier they were just attacking police and army posts and taking their revenge against India. They shifted their pattern in Kashmir and Punjab in 1980s and rest of India after Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993. In this new pattern they killed civilians on streets, bazaars and trains. Than attacked places of worships and now with this Hospital blasts in Ahemdabad they have added another very soft target to inflict maximum killings and mayhem. According to latest new reports terrorists planted the bomb in the car which was continuously following the ambulance which was bringing blast victims to hospital. They blasted car in hospital to kill as many innocents as they can through that blast. Now after this act of heinous crime nothing is safe in India. So you never know when the next blast is going to rip your or your loved ones body apart anywhere in India. We are left with very few choices; either you can just sit and pray that you or your loved ones are never going to be victim of this heinous crime against humanity or you can learn by seeing deaths of other people’s loved ones and act now to become more responsible citizen and perform your duties for the nation. Problem is we in India never think of those who are blown apart in these blasts as our own people. Since we and our loved ones are not killed so we will just sit or offer prayers in our places of worship. We act as a passive society which just waits for another bomb blast and speak the same dialogue again and again after any of these acts. Just see our honorable home minister Shivraj Patil. There have been many bomb blasts in his tenure as 4 years of Home Minister and he repeated the same dialogue of not letting any culprit go unpunished for these crimes against citizens of India. Now its altogether a different matter that no prime suspect of any of these blasts has been caught yet. Even though the one who is inside the jail waiting for his death penalty to be executed for past 2 years (Afzal Guru: convicted in Parliament Attack Case of 2003) by authorities, is been kept alive because this stupid government think that it will anger some people of a particular community. I want to ask here if anybody who feels anger by seeing a convicted terrorist like Afzal to be hanged till death, then shouldn’t we identify that person as future terrorist. Why someone will feel anger by seeing a criminal getting his punishment? And if this government of Sonia Maino thinks that a particular community’s member will think like that than isn’t this government is the most communal government ever ruled in India? This government is saying that all members of a particular community sympathize with convicted terrorist and in my view it’s the worst thing you can do to someone.

So anyway Congress and its spineless leaders are not going to be in my good books because of their deeds against this nation. I just want that we should not wait for another bomb blast to happen which involves casualty of our loved ones. For me all law abiding Indian citizens are loved ones and anyone’s unnatural death because of crimes like this makes the same impact every time. Terrorism is not an ordinary crime and solution to this problem is also not going to be ordinary. Sometimes we have to swallow some bitter pill so that we can be cured of a major illness. My solution to this major illness is the same bitter pill. We can think over it and make our government pass this law or we can just wait for another blast to happen and than cry.

I don’t consider terrorists and their sympathizers as humans because they are involved in inhuman acts. Since they are not humans so there cant be any human rights for them. These terrorists are like mad dogs and we kill mad dogs if we find out about them, since there is a danger from these mad dogs to common society. But there is a little difference between dogs and humans. In humans we have something very special which is known to all of us as our families and close friends. We share our grief, sorrow and pains with them. Families and close friends most of the times act as support structure for any individual and most of the times all family members know whats going on with other members life. Parents watch their kids and hope for their wellbeing and most of the times they know whats going on with their kids. If not parents than close friends and siblings are aware of all or some of the mess which we have in our life.

I would like to propose for a anti terror law which gives the same punishment to immediate family members and close friends as of convicted terrorist which is death. Please don’t get mad at me as this is the only effective solution which can prevent bomb blasts from happening. This type of law will act as a deterrent in would be bomb planter’s mind about the consequences of his act. He or she will think thousands of times before planting any explosive device anywhere. Just finding and killing a hardcore terrorist wont solve the problem now. Because those who plant bombs to kill innocents don’t have any regard for their lives. They don’t care about their own lives. But when life of terrorist’s family members are involved, who most of the time know what their daughters and sons are upto, he or she wont try to do such type of inhuman act majority of the times.

We can have certain provisions which can give pardon to a family. Most important of this provision would be if family members themselves inform law authorities about their terrorist minded children than they should get immunity from punishment. This law will work wonders in many ways as parents will start taking care of their own kids so that they don’t fall in wrong hands and all would be terrorists think about damage involved after they get caught and convicted for terror crimes.

There should be a separate police and courts to tackle this type of problem, which should directly work under a committee headed by army chief. Involving Army chief will give assurance of impartiality for those who are getting convicted under new anti terror law. Legal experts can define several options which can prevent punishment for innocents. Terrorism is violent but more of the fear psychological crime which tries to feed fear in common citizen’s mind. We should have such a law which takes this fear to terrorist and their sympathizer’s mind. They should know that they are going to pay heavily for their inhuman acts. It should be the terrorist who live in fear and not the common masses of our country. Because its terrorist who are doing bad things and not the common masses.

This law will solve all types of terror by Jehadi fundamentalist, ULFAs, Maoists, Naxalites, NSCNs and likes of them.

Another must thing to do is form all India school curriculum and all children irrespective of their faiths and communities should be taught same course throughout India. If some parents wants their kids to have religious education than they can go there after school hours or on weekends. If some parents want their children to become Pandits, Maulavis or priests then there should be a curriculum dedicatedly dealing with religious education in all religion. But course taught should be from one central government authority and government may take help of all religious leader heads for making that curriculum. This type of thing would promote national harmony and will prevent kids from getting carried away with unhealthy thoughts.

I think I said enough. But still in my view these are the best solutions for terror free India. If you like it then please try to circulate it around. Please think on what kind of India we want for our future generation. Think and act. Time is running out. Arise and awake Indians..

Vande Mataram
Jai Hind
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