Story of an Old Camera: Disguise Of Present Time

Though I have misused it many times that’s why my Camera forgot me and left for an unfinished journey to find out his ideal or most suitable 'Mallik' ( Owner) exempted with fake glamour, owner with great human values and pride, owner who seeks his multi dimensional photo frame in creativity, owner of enthusiasm with an élan to capture the image of sun, owner who has courage to climb the mount Everest and use myself to capture the most joyous event of life; the victorious moment.

Usually he tried to talk to me about his needs, his attitude, his way of life in which he desire to capture the life in different frames but my greedy nature never allow me to think beyond my long lasting fulfillment of intoxicated desire with respect to common ground for enjoying human life. I forget him before the opera of white skinned nudity or I caught in the deepness of social sickness for my amorous appetite, I forgot his desire to discover a new passion of life, which leads generations to pinnacle of life and evolve them from the penchant of idealness, morality, deep rooted leadership and respect for all being, I forgot so I lost him at last. I live with him almost three years and he must have reminded me around thousand times to take care of his needs but I never thought about his need in due course of my fantasy for money, fantasy for sex and violence, remarkable hold of corruption in society and remains of great cultural identity and destruction of historical events marked in great Indian history. Media, my partner has lost his identity in dogmatic principle of capitalism and ideological flow of west. Creativity was his core strength to put a multi dimensional light on the bureaucracy of contemporary times, overflowing political corruptness and duality of current economic strength of nation like India.
Though I had used my Camera for manifestation of the sexual heterodoxy on ‘Page Three’ in some ‘Times of India…’ regularly to make my identity on the same plane but it was a complete lost of identity in fact a dogmatic lost of purpose for it was driven to hands of contemporary Media. I have created many school of negative thought like pornography, breaching of private life, political violence in the name of Religion and Race, criminalization, sexual atrocities, gender inequality and massacre of humanity and programme for purposeless publicity. Every flash of him reminded me of shivering naked truth situated before my eyes and nervousness hovering on my body is witnessing the existence of remaining ethical values in mankind but I was suffering from megalomania and became the victim of dilemma between crossovers of boundaries. I completely lost in another world that were fulfilling my fantasies. Subjectivity of naked truth in front of camera jolted me from inside but my eyes weakened to the state where I could not distinguished between thinking and doing of myself which were followed by a dilemma of pluralism of life and languished to a situation of amnesia. Every time I was using him for selfish purpose and yet again I was deceiving myself.
Was it a chronological stride towards postmodern era, which is pointing towards the selfish nature of social events and its pertaining organizers? Or it was an unscrupulous attempt of institutional power to keeping juvenile intellect to away from the main play ground of science and humanity.
I think it is undiscovered disguise of present time to fulfill our desire in order to find out new cultural identity that is indeed contaminated with the undesired elements which are having properties of exploiting science and humanity and up to some extant the autonomy and hegemony of static boundaries.
I have weakened the foundation of my own home with my own hands and become the victim of vengeance, which is regenerative and destructive in nature.
Parameters needed to conclude the event, which is representing the whole mechanizing world, which has a strong hold upon the daily life of mankind. Eventually it can be speculated to conclude that there is a need to discover the occult science with help of theses materialistic things to see the pervasive effect on human kind and to refrain from pathway, which leads to degeneration of human kind.

Congress Election Manifesto: Back to some fifty years ago

The congress has always stood for the Indian people. In the past it offered a plateform to all sections of the community who aspired for national Independence. As the national independence deepened, it succedded in unifying different sections and their conflicting interests in the common fight against Britain. When independence was won, there was considerable speculation about the future of Congress ( Indian National Congress) and the role it could play in a free India. Political freedom had been the rallying point. Would the congress be able to maintain its hold on the people after its major task had been accomplished? The question was relevent and natural, but it did not become urgent or insistent enough not to brook any delay. For political freedom came with partition, the ravages of which had immediatly to be repaired. There was also question of native stated which had be integrated with the british administrative services under the aegis of Mr. Mountbetton ( then governer general of India) . As power was transferred to Congress it automatically bacame the depository of the nations trust, its hands were full with pressing and urgent problems which demanded immediate attention.

The first Government formed at the center was consciously made into a Government of the best talents then available in the country, and though it was the congress party which formed it, pains were taken to give it a national character. Then came the consitituion and the first general elections which the Congress fought as a party and won. Since then, Congress has functioned as party but is has nevertheless continued to claim abd retain the allegiance of nearly all sections of the people. In the next five years instead of opinions being crystallised on party lines and other parties gaining in strenght and organising themselves effectively in order to bring about a different alignment of political forces, oposition has not ceased but it has failed to get politically organised.

On the eve of the second general elections that the Congress will fight, therefore, its election manifesto cannot be and should not be judged as the programme of a single party which the voter is free to accept or reject. It is useless to ask today is it that Congress is the only party that contends for political power. The election manifesto has to be judged by other standards. The Congress has to satisfy the people from whom it draws its strenght that it is responsive to their aims and aspirations and that it can give the fittest expression to them and that even in the implementation of its various policies, it will win the active support of the people and uphold the faith of those who put their trust in.


EPW.

How do we remember Saddam Hussain? -I

History is quite fond of people and in the time they live in. Sometimes apearance is meticulously marked for future in history pages however some images loose their identity due to political and social pressure of that time. But certainly these people and time have meaningful life to fetch the ubiquitous zeal of submitting a sparking source to the collection political and social history of time.

Saddam Hussain was one of the personalities on whom coming generations can doubt under the shadow of anarchy in present Iraq with the image of political corruptness and tyrannical, apostate, dictator of present time.

This article of mine is an attempt to follow the time in which Saddam Hussain Al-Tikriti lived and also an attempt to delineate the image which Saddam carry after the cruel execution of him under the eye of US led government and its allies.

He was born on april 28 1937 in the town of Al-Awja 13 km from the Iraqi town of Tikrit in the Sunni Triangle, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group.

Early childhood of Saddam was quite cruel in nature from as his stepfather Ibrahim al-hassan treated him very harshly and due to that, he fled to Iraq at the age of ten and lived with his uncle Kharaillah Tulfah. Moreover, this time was almost responsible for shaping of his psyche with not accepting mode of cruel intentions of nature over his body and soul, emphasis mine.

However, certainly there were events in his life, which inoculate his mind for humanity some times, which results in form of question over humanity in present era of rising global powers as defendant of peace over world.

Tulfah, the father of Saddam's future wife, was a devout Sunni Muslim and a veteran from the Iraqi-British war of 1941. Later in his life, relatives from his native Tikrit would become some of his closest advisors and supporters. According to Saddam, he learned many things from his uncle, a militant Iraqi nationalist. Under the guidance of his uncle, he attended a nationalistic secondary school in Baghdad. After secondary school, Saddam studied at Iraq's School of Law for three years, prior to dropping out in 1957, at the age of twenty, to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter. During this time, Saddam apparently supported himself as a secondary school teacher.

Revolutionary sentiment was characteristic of the era in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. The stranglehold of the old elites (the conservative monarchists, established families, and merchants) was breaking down in Iraq. Moreover, the populist pan-Arab nationalism of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt would profoundly influence the young Ba'athist, even up until his death. The rise of Nasser foreshadowed a wave of revolutions throughout the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, which would see the collapse of the monarchies of Iraq, Egypt, and Libya. Nasser challenged the British and French, nationalized the Suez Canal, and strove to modernize Egypt and unite the Arab world politically.

In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General Abdul Karim Qassim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq. The Ba'athists opposed the new government, and in 1959, Saddam was involved in the attempted United States-backed plot to assassinate Qassim.

Now from here Saddam starts expansion of his political regime with global world powers that in turn creating the covert grave for Saddam Hussain by seeing his growing power and impression on Ba’ath party members and ofcourse on Iraqi peoples.

Having exultant attitude towards capturing the regime of Iraq with diplomatic psyche of politics he was exacerbating in the house of his own people with the growing threat of mass murder, executions, political imprisonment, merciless beatings, eye gougings, electric shock, amputations, beheadings, rape rooms, lethal concentration camps, assassinations and religious persecution.

Severity is still to discuss and will appear in next part of this article soon to follow the political life of Saddam Hussain and involvement of US-led diplomatic and shrewd policies into the making of new Iraqi dictator of that time also its effect on Iraq's political and economical career with restpect to the global acknowledgement of quality of human living standards accross the boundaries. In factIt was a starting point for the new identity of Iraq which was shaping through the hands and mind of its new president, new man in the army The Saddam Hussain.

First Shadow of My Lady

This is not complete yet. I'm still working on it.

This is for my dear friend Udayan.

Founding one Hundred Years of All India Muslim League 1906-2006

Mr. M.A. Jinnah ( Founder of Pakistan)

The Lost Kohinoor

It was from the memories of my childhood when I read my history textbooks with expired interest due to colossal collection of events and facts written across the thousand pages. At that time, I heard and read about 'Kohinoor' a precious stone and fascinated with the glory with this piece of precious stone shadowed with. That was the time when the quest to know more about this diamond, the glory hide inside my unconscious. And this is the time after more than 15 years when it comes to the swirling and rejuvenating memory of mine again during contemplation of this historical object, which is some kind of history in itself, it created a need to introspect to drive through the marked history that Kohinoor had in form of either a war history or inform of conspiracy model of long journey through time.



Kohinoor [Mountain of Light ] Picture is in right

Assuming history as a source of knowledge and information of events, some say that the Kohinoor was originally founded more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name of Syamantaka. Devout Hindus claims that Lord Krishna himself obtained the diamond from Jambavantha, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna. The legend says that the diamond was stolen from Krishna as he lay sleeping. By contrast, another source has it that the diamond was discovered in a riverbed in 3200 BC.

Historical evidence suggests that the Kohinoor originated in Golconda kingdom, in Hyderabad state of Andhra Pradesh, one of the world's earliest diamond producing regions. South Indian folklore is definite in claiming a local origin for the stone. It is certain that the stone was mined in India, as until the 19th century India was the only place in the world where diamonds were known. It is likely that the diamond was mined in the Kollur mines in the present day Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Khilji dynasty at Delhi ended in 1320 A.D and Ghiasuddin Tughlaq ascended the Delhi throne. Tughlaq sent his son Ulugh Khan in 1323 to defeat the Kakatiya king Pratapa Rudra. Ulugh Khan’s raid was repulsed but he returned in a month with a larger and determined army. The unprepared army of Warangal was defeated. The loot, plunder and destruction of Warangal continued for months. Loads of gold, diamonds, pearls and ivory were carried away to Delhi on elephants and camels. The Koh-i-noor diamond was part of the booty. From then onwards, the stone passed through the hands of successive rulers of the Delhi sultanate, finally passing to Babur, the first Mughal emperor, in 1526.

The first confirmed note historically mentioning the Kohinoor by an identifiable name dates from 1526. Babur mentions in his memoirs, the Baburnama, that the stone had belonged to an un-named Rajah of Malwa in 1294. Babur held the stone's value to be such as to feed the whole world for two days. The Baburnama recounts how this Rajah of Malwa was compelled to yield his prized possession to Alauddin Khilji; it was then owned by a succession of dynasties that ruled the Delhi sultanate, finally coming into the possession of Babur himself in 1526, following his victory over the last ruler of that kingdom. However, the Baburnama was written c.1526-30; Babur's source for this information is unknown, and he may have been recounting the hearsay of his day. He did not at that time call the stone by its present name, but despite some debate about the identity of 'Babur's Diamond' it seems likely that it was the stone which later became known as Kohinoor.

At that time it was said to weigh 793 carats, but through some incredibly ham-fisted cutting and polishing by a jeweller named Borgio it was reduced to 186 carats. Borgio had been working on it for years, but so enraged was Aurungzebe (the Emperor at the time) at the result that he confiscated all Borgio's worldly goods and contemplated executing him as well.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan — famous for building the Taj Mahal — had the stone placed into his ornate Peacock Throne. When Shah Jahan's son, Aurangazeb, put his ailing father under house arrest at nearby Agra Fort, legend has it that he had the Kohinoor stationed against a window so that Shah Jahan could look at the stone and see the Taj reflected in it. There it stayed until the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739 and the sacking of Agra and Delhi. Along with the Peacock Throne, he also carried off the Koh-i-noor to Persia in 1739. It was allegedly Nadir Shah who exclaimed Koh-i-Noor, the mountain of light! When he finally managed to obtain the famous stone and this is how the stone gained its present name. There is no reference to this name before 1739.

The valuation of the Kohinoor is given in the legend that one of Nadir Shah's consorts supposedly said, 'If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east, and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would equal the value of the Koh-i-noor'

After the assassination of Nadir Shah in 1747 it came into the hands of Ahmed Shah Abdali of Afghanistan. In 1830, Shah Shuja, the deposed ruler of Afghanistan, managed to flee with the Kohinoor diamond. He then came to Lahore, the capital of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, where it was given to the Sikh Maharaja (King) of Punjab Ranjit Singh, in which after, in return, Maharaja Ranjit Singh was able to persuade the East India Company to lend their troops and win back the Afghan throne for Shah Shuja. Ranjit Singh crowned himself as the ruler of Punjab and willed the Koh-i-noor to Jagannath Temple in Orissa while on his deathbed in 1839. But there was dispute about this last-minute testament, and in any case it was not executed. On March 29, 1849, the British flag was hoisted on the citadel of Lahore and the Punjab was formally proclaimed to be part of the British Empire in India. One of the terms of the Treaty of Lahore, the legal agreement formalising this occupation, was as follows:

The gem called the Koh-i-Noor which was taken from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk by Maharajah Ranjit Singh shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.

The Governor-General in charge for the ratification of this treaty was Lord Dalhousie. More than anyone, Dalhousie was responsible for the British acquiring the Koh-i-Noor, in which he continued to show great interest for the rest of his life. Dalhousie's work in India was sometimes controversial, and his acquisition of the diamond, amongst many other things, was criticised by some contemporary British commentators. Although some suggested that the diamond should have been presented as a gift to the Queen, it is clear that Dalhousie felt strongly that the stone was a spoil of war, and treated it accordingly. Writing to his friend Sir George Cooper in August of 1849, he stated this:

The Court [of the East India Company] you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor; while the 'Daily News' and my Lord Ellenborough [Governor-General of India, 1841-44] are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty... [My] motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift -- which is always a favour -- by any joint-stock company among her subjects. So the Court ought to feel.

Dalhousie arranged that the diamond should be presented by Maharaja Ranjit Singh's successor, Duleep Singh, to Queen Victoria in 1851. Duleep travelled to the United Kingdom to do this. The presentation of the Kohinoor to Queen Victoria was the latest in the long history of transfers of the stone as a spoil of war. It was later proclaimed by Indian government on the return of Kohinoor to India claiming Duleep singh as an 16 year old boy as king, as innocent child, who was not aware the historical and cultural values associated with the precious Kohinoor.

The Kohinoor was first displayed to the British public or in fact to this scale of public at the Great Exhibition staged in Hyde Park, London in 1851. Although the diamond was showing the brilliant in itself in terms of its size and shape but some elite thinkers or valuators thought and quest that the stone is displaying insufficient fire. It was decided to re-cut it from its original Indian form, and a member of the Amsterdam firm of Costar was called to London to cut the stone. A steam-driven cutting wheel was set up, and Prince Albert see the stone on the wheel, while the Duke of Wellington started it. The cutting took 38 days, but did not add much to the stone's brilliance. It was rather believed that the cutting diminished the historical value of the diamond. In addition, the value reduced to the 105.603 carats. Later the stone was mounted in a tiara with more than two thousand other diamonds. And used in several celebrations in Royal house and later it is been procured in crown of jewels after the death of Queen Elizabeth ( Queen mother) in 2002.

After the historical description of associated events in transfer of Kohinoor from hand to hand in very brief and chronological time frame it can be said that there is a conspiracy associated with it with respect to the persuasion of this great stone which has a distinct cultural meaning for the inhabitants of different regions where this stone was there for some time. Now after having a close look to the events, this diamond was either looted by some mogul dictator or been snatched away by the British conspirators. Historically this diamond belong to India and have lineage of history and a cultural style which was persistently been a part of India as people said that India was a country of Gold before looted by her British invaders. India was been exploited by it mogul ruler and East India company at last. Now this is the time when we are approaching towards a global identity with predefined intellectual associations with future, we need to acquire our cultural inheritance by regaining our precious emblems through diplomatic talks. Although the Kohinoor is one of the Noors[Crown], which India had before long years of slavery under different rulers of different regions, but we cannot eviscerate this precious and meaningful object from our historical inheritance to procure our unique cultural style in this globalize village of present time.

Follow-up :Sino-India war 1962

Indian soldiers struggle to move artillery into position in 1962.

Founding Sino-India War-1962

"All our old maps dealing with the frontier should be carefully examined and, where necessary, withdrawn. New maps should be printed showing our northern and north-eastern frontier without any reference to any 'line'. These new maps should also not state there is any undemarcated territory...this frontier should be considered a firm and definite one which is not open to discussion with anybody."

On July 1, 1954 Nehru wrote a memo to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Engineering Exploited

Humanity is inside the cuts.

Boundary,n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, seperating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
-Ambrose Bierce

But if images are the base for making decisions or you can say our thinking is driven out of every image resides in our mind. Than how 'imaginary' could be imaginary?
Isn't it refelection of reality?

or the above sentence by Ambrose is portraying the wrong image.

Is it a Mirror?

Interpretation constitute decision over images of many kind residing in our mind. We gave it an order , modify it according to our needs and present it for others to play with their emotions. And the after effect reflect on our face to show that life is beautiful. I interpreted life as a mirror in which you can not see your image but you could the collection of images of people sorrounding to you. And creation of your emotions and facial expressions created when you saw them weeping, laughing and cheering. And that make you angry or happy.

Commenting on Exploitation

Dr. Kancha llaiah , First thing first- you can assume your inspiration or community’s mode of survival. But they (idol) are not god and can not be. Because god is an ultimate truth not reality, which is very well explained in Hindu scriptures.
Now in India we have gone across several years of slavery. Here our fate has been decided by people sitting on throne. They are the god alike because they were reason for survival of the community and for that you have to make them happy; by any means. Even people used to send their wives and daughters to 'Rajmahal'. It can be seen today even.
But theocracy allows only the pragmatic approach towards the god. Could be distinct! Could be identifiable! Could be an illusion, but this comes in this way.
Before going to school I thought parents are god, but in school my teacher became my god. For that some time I have to feel some kind of resistance as well, which is restricted to my self only.
It doesn’t matter that who is our god but the concern is to understand the religious truth and where we want to put our boundaries for making a strong standpoint.
Killing a mocking beast for fulfillment of our needs in front of any deity doesn’t look pragmatic approach to identify our ideology of production and community living parameters.
Ex. In Islam circumcision is process backed by scientific reason of their origination; making it a religious standpoint is mockery of scientific system.
I thing we have published different ideology for different community. We have institutionalized the caste/religion for particular community to leave it into a quagmire.
Version of Brahmanism has been changed over a period of time and has been related to restrictions of work and named as 'CASTE'.
Don’t forget that Dalits have been named after 'Harijan'; "Bhagwan ke Log". The respect given by Gandhi to the community, even some ~40 % is reservation is reserved by government policies and rest 60 % is shared by so called general strata of social communities; Why does any one not say about the irrationality of this politically corrupt system? In fact from some corner I think mass of the Dalit-Bahujan-Harijan theorist or activist had always spoken about the regulations and the pro-dalits policies. They never interpreted the problems in the language which is either globally accepted or understand.
Now if you talk about Dr. Ambedkar , than opposite of his living standards of fellow dalits he wore Tie, foreign made suite and professed the philosophy of discrimination against all dalit samaj, exploitation of them by the general caste where most of the India was poor ,exploited and fighting with the communal viruses which were agonizing the Hindu-Muslim bloody clashes.
All the drama was for putting a new issue on the board to surface the wickedness of Indian poor or poor India.

The way Dr. llaiah is explaining the mechanism of cast conversion is looking that he want to politicized an issue which was raised by Jinnah some 60 years back to regain the ideological foundation of Pakistan. As like him he is defending all backwardness of Dalit-Tribal group on illogical foundation by comparing the cultural activity of Hindu class and dalit-tribal groups. For example from his article

He was praising the profundity of knowledge system developed by Christian Missionaries in order to acknowledge the education system developed among dalit bahujans to excel them to found a driven position in the society. Then he forget to analyze the whole process of cast-conversion where the converty has to speak English and follow the order of Jesus in order to make some money only, which is quite necessary to come out of the social trauma of poverty and prolonged backwardness.

I would say Dr. llaiah was contradicting his own statement of preserving of the dalit-tribal-bahujan cultural richness by leaving them to cast conversion policies in order to gain places among so called developed social counterparts by their Dalit-Bahujan organic intellectuals [ as he say ].

By going through the article when he was discussing Hindu namaste as folding your hands to greet someone and articulating it as a restriction in your thought that you want to respect someone but he does not want to touch him, I thing he forget ‘Charan Sparsh’.

He was so bluntly commenting on the hindu rituals in order to praising the hand shaking of Christians and physical embrace of muslims as these rituals looks alien in to today’s daily emotional exchanges of common man of India irrespective of cast and creed. I would like to say to Dr. llaiah that eating meat, smoking by women or men is not dalitisation with proud but it is influence of modern thought and cultural education.

I remember some words of Gandhiji:

Going to school and learning there is completely different than use of learnings in your life.

I think he means a lot to his words.

I have some questions to put for me and for readers as well.

Dalit bahujans-harijans are ready to convert to Buddhism, Cristianity, Sikhism, Islam [after 9/11 and London terror the conversion rate must be down] but they hesitate to convert to Brahmin [any living body can be Brahmin. For details some keywords are: Yagyo-upavit sanskaar, dvij (second birth)].

Why Gandhi ji name Dalits as ‘Harijan’?

Who is the reason for exploitation of lower-caste people? Does they really been exploited or it is just a conceptual phenomenon to make it an industry to grab rights and to make it a political issue.

Related Reading:

http://let-speak.blogspot.com/2006/10/reservation-seems-panacea-but-in_06.html

Why does India not speak infront of ?

As yesterday I was reading one article from "OutLookindia.com" stating the line "We have put Pakistan On Notice" in the subject line noticing the event of PM's address at the Combined Commander's Conference.
The subjectivity of the subject for which Manmohan Singh ji was addressing was looking somehow distracted or there was some overlapping of linguistics of speech to the Bush’s word. Rhetoric can be ignored as all ‘aalla afsar’ pass-out of Cambridge Univ. or equivalent. But if some one is talking about nation’s interest; it simply can’t be ignored.
Let’s put the statements:
‘We face a world of unprecedented economic opportunities and, at the same time, unprecedented political dangers. To navigate our way through these, calls for statecraft of the highest order.’

Discuss controversial SEZ policies and of course about the political dangers: does that mean for the for the formation of allied government for so many years in lack of clear verdict and also danger of no anarchy /reelection as no power given to president of India to run states.
Where are the public interests/reservation issue/ Delhi ceiling issue/ recent Mumbai blast/ and finally Mohammad afzal hanging issue.


International terrorism is the principle challenge today to plural and democratic societies. It not only destroys human life and property but also endangers democratic values,social harmony and economic well being.

Cruel

One of the Holocaust Image

A child dying in the street of a ghetto during the Holocaust.

This disturbs me a lot.

Source of the image click here

Eye & Shadow Media Production

Today is the foundation of my own media house "Eye & Shadow Media Production" to propose the idea of sharing knowledge and different thoughts on the online sharing network to create a distinct approach towards people, society and its different standards.

I expact from my self that I shall kept the integrity of all rituals and profoundity of all knowledge system to best of my abilities.

Thanks.

Pradeep Sharma
shm.pradeep@gmail.com

26-Oct-2006

Story of an Old Camera:Disguise of Present Time

Though I have misused it many time that’s why my Camera forgot me and left for an unfinished journey to find out his Cameramen or handler, owner with great human values and pride, owner who seeks his multi dimensional photo frame in creativity, owner of enthusiasm with an élan to capture the image of sun, owner who has courage to climb the mount Everest and use myself to capture the most joyous event of life; the victorious moment.

Usually he tried to talk to me about his needs, his attitude, his way of life in which he desire to capture the life in different frames but my greedy nature never allow me to think beyond my long lasting fulfillment of intoxicated desire with respect to common ground for enjoying human life. I forget him before the opera of white skinned nudity or I caught in the deepness of social sickness for my amorous appetite, I forgot his desire to discover a new passion of life, which leads generations to pinnacle of life and evolve them from the penchant of idealness, morality, deep rooted leadership and respect for all being, I forgot so I lost him at last. I live with him almost three years and he must have reminded me around thousand times to take care of his needs but I never thought about his need in due course of my fantasy for money, fantasy for sex and violence, remarkable hold of corruption in society and remains of great cultural identity and destruction of historical events marked in great Indian history. Media, my partner has lost his identity in dogmatic principle of capitalism and ideological flow of west. Creativity was his core strength to put a multi dimensional light on the bureaucracy of contemporary times, overflowing political corruptness and dual natured economical strength of nation. Though I had used my Camera for manifestation of the sexual heterodoxy on ‘Page Three’ in some ‘Times of India…’ regularly to make my identity on the same plane but it was a complete lost of identity in fact a dogmatic lost of purpose for it was driven to hands of contemporary Media. I have created many school of negative thought like pornography, breaching of private life, political violence in the name of Religion and Race, criminalization, sexual atrocities, gender inequality and massacre of humanity and programme for purposeless publicity. Every flash of him reminded me of shivering naked truth situated before my eyes and nervousness hovering on my body is witnessing the existence of remaining ethical values in mankind but I was suffering from megalomania and became the victim of dilemma between crossovers of boundaries. I completely lost in another world that were fulfilling my fantasies. Subjectivity of naked truth in front of camera jolted me from inside but my eyes weakened to the state where I could not distinguished between thinking and doing of myself which were followed by a dilemma of pluralism of life and languished to a situation of amnesia. Every time I was using him for selfish purpose and yet again I was deceiving myself.
Was it a chronological stride towards postmodern era, which is pointing towards the selfish nature of social events and its pertaining organizers? Or it was an unscrupulous attempt of institutional power to keeping juvenile intellect to away from the main play ground of science and humanity.
I think it is undiscovered disguise of present time to fulfill our desire in order to find out new cultural identity that is indeed contaminated with the undesired elements which are having properties of exploiting science and humanity and up to some extant the autonomy and hegemony of static boundaries.
I have weakened the foundation of my own home with my own hands and become the victim of vengeance, which is regenerative and destructive in nature.
Parameters needed to conclude the event, which is representing the whole mechanizing world, which has a strong hold upon the daily life of mankind. Eventually it can be speculated to conclude that there is a need to discover the occult science with help of theses materialistic things to see the pervasive effect on human kind and to refrain from pathway, which leads to degeneration of human kind.

Where is East?

This is not a direction but it is directing towards comparatives to the global world powers of present times which are influencing the living parameters and social systems of her neighbor countries and strategy of strong hold on distant/remote control over the political and economic force of south-Asian countries, middle east, and far eastern region on the global map of world.
Evolution on earth has some reason to proclaim the supremacy of god, the illus ional power behind the mechanization of living bodies [universal animal; accepted] in multidimensional boundaries of social and political frame. It also includes the appreciation of mankind to the omnipresent in form of human relations and for chance of survival of her breed for so long time. Thank god! Process is not reversible, hence destructive in nature.

Expansionism of human race created some boundaries based on race, language (as it changed with time), land, power and religion lately (after declarations of states independent and centralization of power after many invasions, cold and civil wars, and world war I and II). Moderation of power leads to nomenclature and protection of boundaries in form of sovereign states. We will not talk here about the achievements driven by western powers and atrocities done by them and its remains in contemporary times but look on the parallel image imposed by west on the east in due course of their want of power and dominating commodity in race to the globalization and its concurrent processes like labor exchange through boundaries and culture due to inception of neo-liberal economy and free market culture in the arena of world economy.


Demographically the political map of world has been divided into seven continents and each having its own measure of people, culture, and political and social system.
It contains countries, states and its inhabitants but diversified linguistics, cultural an social values. Identity in terms of economic and political power, which incept only a few countries which had raised after world war I and II (or recover) after scrutinizing there political, social and economical subsystem and reformed their cultural and traditional needs with respect to there needy inhabitants and put an extra effort or to remove the proximity with poverty, self insufficiency, unsecured boundaries, unfair race conflict which has active shadow or impression on third world countries till now. Later on in influence of their shrewd democrats and wake of power, liberal market policy, land, oil and superiority of race lead to the turmoil of inter or intra nation conflicts as Columbia war, Vietnam war, Gulf war, Iraq invasion, 9-11 attack, Bombay blast cases, US-Israel axis to destroy Hizbullah led Lebanon and Palestine issue held with Israel again established from late 70s and Baluchistan turmoil after killing of Nawab Bugti. Although all these events termed as needs to stabilize political and economical crisis in respective nation or need for humanitarian intervention to protect the interest of people or save them from anarchy existed in respective state.

Beyond all attributes showed in above mentioned paragraph I need to raise doubt on development processes govern by bureaucrats, intellectuals, socialists, politicians of nations like India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan except Japan, China, Russia figuratively in Asia who are trying to find out the solution of the many problem in a way suggested by America or her allies without contemplating the compatibility of there historical cultural identity and behavior of there people with the Western post-modern cultural style of living. Though it is infected with some self-created social viruses of superiority but somewhere it identify better means of life and establish many institutions and theories (political and social) to admire. Now sometimes it look to contradict own module of thinking but there is a need to appreciated the political upfront discovered by western ideology to give a strong foundation to many debate on social and political issues and gave a chance to creep into undiscovered Institutions of Religion as well as protection of human values. I think there is a need to compare or scrutinize the quintessential events, which lead to, or becoming a reason for proclaiming the supremacy of Western Unit of powers to identify where have we went wrong? And also we have to find out the reason for defaming or chronological loss of cultural and social reputation of East or the Asian countries (even some of the Asian countries remain intact with the Western cultural style and keep following their leftover political lessons). Is it a propaganda of western powers or the inferiority of East with respect to the prolonged incursion of state by western power in the deed of exploration of world ancient civilizations and expanding their rule and power through the boundaries of different nations or is it a future east has inhabit from the will of nature or holism principle given by acclaimed superior races of intellect.

There is some strong grabbing of West in terms of:

Institutions for delivering profound knowledge and research centers for accumulating (Global flow) human resources for production for principles and theories for better means of civilization and to explore the vast knowledge society beyond the autocracy of time frame (When it comes it has difficult to manipulate because it comes from inside of the system). Institution of education is foremost conceptual foundation of any society because it produces key performers in areas of social developments.
In words of Noam Chomsky
“The student movement today is the one organized, significant segment of the intellectual community that has a real and active commitment to the kind of social change that our society desperately needs. Developments now taking place may lead to its destruction, in part through repression, in part through what I think are rather foolish tactics on the part of the student movement itself. I think this would be a great, perhaps irreparable, loss. And I think if it does take place the blame will largely fall on the liberal enlightened community that has permitted a situation to arise in which the most committed, sincere, and most socially active of young people are perhaps working themselves into a position at the end of a limb, from which they may be sawed off at great cost to all of us and to society as a whole”.

Foundation of most celebrated institution of political gimmicks the Democracy, which gave voice to the people after the tyranny of world war I and II and the right to speak for their own rights and there own theory for acceding the modern life standards under the aegis of their own leaders of present time.

Continual improvement in production cause the self-sufficiency of West in terms of energy, goods, and nourishment, health figure out by political and economical theorists and empiricists in respective fields to conquer the worlds leading problem of poverty, unemployment, poor health standards. Indeed these institution evolve the tightly bound law theories related to removal of gender distinction, eradication of race conflicts, women empowerment, protection of human rights and foundation of secular constitution to avoid any kind of conflagration among people caused by social injustice to any community specific to any specific religion or specific to unprivileged strata of society.
Set up of different cultural units to procure the interest of there own people, which leads to the liberating people from the boundation of social problem of unemployment, population blast, nature unbalance, transgression of borders and better means of life.
Procure Monuments for history and historical events to create inspiration among people to spread the regional feeling of their superiority.
Protection of boundaries and people interest and setting up a democratic up-front to their people to speak up in front of situational political or social weaknesses.

Apart from all these continual sign of social, political and economical development West has intervened into the autonomy of her neighbor countries or many times she had fired missiles on the autonomy of Islamic countries in influence of some political or economical interest sovereign by US, Britain and allies and termed it as humanitarian intervention by her theorists. The mirage of prosperity is hiding the greatest evil to humanity.

Recent Reading

I have just finished a book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
"Freedom at midnight"
This is a good book with the good potrayal of historical events related to Indian Freedom struggle contemporary to Indian Independence.
It contains a lot of information as I feel and suggest this book as an comprehensive analysis of the events marked in Indian history with some annoying fact which look pro-British Raj but apart from this it is a good reading.

Reference to the Different Subjects

Here are the references:

Where is East? ( Still working )
1) http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20060807.htm
2) Mag: Frontline ( www.frontline.in), August 11,2006
3) An Interview with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian
4) News articles published on web and print media

Go parallel ( Pub Date-16 Aug 2006 )

1)Mag: Economical and Political weekly, Jan 15-21 ,2005
2)Book: Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
3)Self Interpretation of various historical and contemporary events.

Go parallel

Yesterday India was celebrating her 59th Independence Day so is Pakistan. After observing subjugated diversified cultural, traditional and social similarity we share patches of blatant history [partition of India and Communal violence, Kashmir issue and terrorists attacks till now] but also the revolution, which started from 1857 mutiny, and movements for Indian freedom based on the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence against British Raj on common grounds. History, which had same source of origination, two different religious styles which divided this united thread into two parts; India and Pakistan after Independence which came on 15 August 1947 after struggle of 150 years.
Both nations made " Tryst with the destiny..." on this day as Nehru says and being as protective Jinnah told to their still born child: Pakistan that “. You may belong to any religion caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state. In due course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state.”
[Surprise came when we ping the history that while talking so much intellect, inflicting the pride of forming two sovereign secular state from their voice why they impose the boundary lines on the basis of ethnic diversification of Hindu and Muslims and presence of fear of exploitative nature Hindu and Muslim having towards each other…when sir Cyril Redcliff came to Panjab for sketching a boundary line and a question arose that where would they put Lahore (there were around 6 lac Muslims, 5 lac Hindu and 1 lac Sikhs in that region at that time of July 1947 ) after the partition. Redcliff was surprised to see the ethnic balance maintained by indigenous breed of Hindu and Muslim there at that time. ]

But did we choose or struggle for this kind of destiny where from last 59 years both nations are fighting for economic and social reforms, to survive from famine land, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and health services and last but not the least Terrorism.
On the eve of every Independence Day celebration we are imbibed with the fear of getting trenched by social viruses, we scrutinized with close cameras and monitored by trained eagle eyes but security breach happens at the cost of lives of innocent peoples Ex. Unprecedented terrorist attack on Indian Parliament; 13 December 2001, insane attack by terrorist on Akshardham, temple in May 2004. But I think every day is Independence day and any day if this kind of brutal act happens it will victimize only innocent life and then national security will be in question again?
Communal forces are so strong and dominating in the country that they created a sense of fear among the existence of minority communities in India and its neighboring countries, which results in the form of migration or breaching boundaries by victims for better means of shelter and rehabilitation.
Poor politics and shrewd bureaucrats are damaging the transparency of democracy in a way that democracy is loosing its moral values which comes in form of criminalisation of voting system and corruption in hierarchal flow of assets (human as well as natural) and intellectual property (ex. Science and technology) governed by government used for the development of state bounded regions and country itself. Politicians and leaders from different states trying to satisfy their vote-bank distinguished by oppressed classes of society and are searching for solution of problem of poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy in their ideological catalogue of corrupt and molested thought processes of their own.

After witnessing the flaws in the law and order resulted in increasing corruption and crime, which is disrupting the social structure and change of democracy into demagogue social virus kept their interests in exploitation of labor class and finding excuse for the slow rate of developmental activities across different states and accusing others for their exploitation. This kind of ignorance towards people result in social discontent among people and creates fear among them for questioning the survival of coming generation because degeneration is seen in obscure developments in different areas which are essentials for growth of society and its inhabitants.

Parameters have been demanded from time to time to evaluate the efficiency of current political and social architecture of society. Reports have been generated to show growth in limitation of human and natural resources. But we are not up to the mark, either we do not comprehend our intellectual properties in a proper way and using these resources for keeping eye on our object of national interests or current political or social system is in the grip of wood-ant.

Why I’m trying to imagine a utopian world, why I’m behaving like quixotic Gandhi rather than accepting empiricist and pragmatic idea of thought of contemporary leaders if they have so? Why I’m so skeptic?
I thing I’m worried. As MK Gandhi was at the time of partition because of ignorance of leaders towards the problem of people at grassroots level i.e. excessive work required to uplift more than 600000 villages residing in India so as in Pakistan.
Gandhi was very pragmatic thinker with little bit of controversy at that time. He prefer to have a bottom up approach of development for revival of India’s condition after Independence unlike Fabian Nehru and capitalist Sardar Patel who applied top-bottom down approach. Gandhi wants every Indian to be independent in her self.

Belonging to the same lineage India and Pakistan and the neighboring country are facing more or less same problem of slow economic and social reforms, health, population, illiteracy and terrorism mainly. All have to workout hard for resolute these problems. In place of cross-border infiltration we can share cross-country cultural exchanges to empower the growth processes in India, Pakistan or in any country. We can move parallel to achieve aim, which is same for India as well as Pakistan instead of crossing each others way to acquire sovereignty of there great nation.
So what should be aim? I think preserving national interest for better means of communication among people, maintaining communal harmony for energizing deferent processes of democracy and electoral process, law and orders.
Put an extra effort to keep the moral and ethical values of its native people so the new era of social, cultural and traditional value can be preserved to mark identity in contemporary ethos of world history.

References to the subject