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Koshish

Kashmir Bacho

Kashmir

Ek Mazdoor

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"You" and "We"

The identification of subject is quite obvious these days for people living in Mumbai. Subject was very flammable and full of community hatred. Provoking words were raised to create an identity among masses , to create a foundation for lost identity,to create an influence over people and above all it was an attempt to create a dividing line. Dividing line with a background and a foreground based on ethnic foundation.
I have two things to say:
One is , there is not doubt that mumbai is fed up of people and she has become a collection these days. Due to that public sector services are getting worse day by day. Which is resulting in form of lesser healthy living environment. Also it is affecting the voting system because 60-70 % people are not from Mumbai or Maharashtrians. Marathi has lost its meaningful ground among the ghetto of these English, Hindi or other language speaking people. So the issue was valid but raised in a wrong tone or voice and with dirty intentions.
Secondly, the dust of community divide is quite allergic and it create a divide in certain communities. India is made from states but it has identity of her own which is created from diversified culture of each individual states. It is nonsense to propose a dividing line between between communities or states in the time of globalization across the boundaries of nation.

Two things are obtrusive to me. People used to took 'Marathi' word carefully in crowd and 'Thakre' surname comes with delirium in my mind.

I found it posting while I was in Goa this new year

I got this picture of a 10 year old boy serving tourists on Goa beach ( Anjuana ). I have no reason for putting this pic. on this blog but I found it interesting while I was in conversation with him. Her mother was looking at him from some distance in pic. You can see in the pic. And certainly she was trying to scrutinize his child's skills ( remotely control )of trading 'Maalas' to me.

Pakistan lost the headlines

Gujarat 2007

Eye on Gujarat

This is cruelty of Gujarat riots.

An unknown Resume

This one I got it from one boy working in my Office ,used to clean office floor. Although he was familiar to the induastrial terminology of 'Resume' but after introspecting, his pain was prevailed after I interviewed him.

Mantri Saab Ruko ( Please stop minister sir)

This is a paradigm of new age.

Band in oblivion

From some days I have been observing 'Ganesh Puja' as a state of celebration with placing a cacophony of localized Band played day and night next door to me. In certain time I have designed my faith in religion and its advertising elements in a way to satisfy my logical thrust. I tried to relinquish the disturbance of redundant music played across the place but at last I lost to my idea of patience. Then I tried to look closely over this festival and they way it is organized among people. People gave identity to this festival.
First of all this festival was having a political motive to unite people at the time of fighting against British 'Raj' when it was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. This was an unique approach started and appriciated by then freedom fighters against the another approach proposed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Mahatma Gandhi ) , The Salt Movement ( Namak Andolan and Dandi Yatra ). Both movement had deep impact over people of India at that time and both have mobilised people of different sect , with different cast and creed with the one aim of freedom from Raj.
Although Salt march was more globalised in terms of understanding, emotions and sensibility in comparision to Ganesh Puja, where it was more regional in terms of its understanding in terms of culture, language and identity.
Moreover, Ganesh Puja was the festival of Hindus where 'Salt March' was movement of a common man.

Now we are living in a free nation at least in some senses. We had recovered our freedom from the most aggressive race, which had discovered many nations, which had provided distinct learning processes, a race which is superior in many senses; from them we have snatched our freedom. We have sense of pride for our freedom. Pride which could be uncertain for certain masses, pride which could be politicized and religious in nature but modern India was founded on the grounds of political and social anarchy and conflicts of religious boundaries. In fact having such diversified history sometimes we are unite belligerently on chauvinistic and religious issues or some moments of celebrations like these festivals. But chronologically these moods of festival have been changed with respect to human sprit of celebration. Festivals have become the mode to target ‘Junta’ for money making on priority. There is a significant change happened in the modus operandi of organizing and carrying the festivals of these days. People used to drink liquor and other narcotic drugs which left them in pseudo-transcendental mood.

Indeed, the small community organizes their own Puja on such occasions and play musical bands with an unusual cacophony. And such strident and unwanted noise going to distract people always from such spiritual occasion of celebrations.

The mode of celebration has been politicized and contaminated with a mob-psychology where people gather just to mark there presence and hubris of pride that this time they have contributed from their side.

Ganesh Puja and Durga Puja where in the end of this festivals/puja; the statues of their idol have to be drowned in River or pond left some reasonable and hazardous environmental impact. I think, this has more discussion value rather than ‘Ram Sethu controversy points’ or any doomed subject discussion.

Although Ganesh Festival has been over and all Ganesh idols have sink in local ponds or adjoined Arabian Sea. But the concern over the integrity of such festivals in contemporary times where people are subjugated with fear of terror attacks on such occasion and leading the meaning of such festivals have been rises over the period of time. I’m not saying that we should not celebrate such festivals but society should take steps to prevent this cultural identity before it got wither away.

World From one eye

These days hotest news all arround is coming nuclear deal of India with US. Although deal has been quagmired in between left's(CPI(M) and company) attempt to get a stay over it and stewarding prime minister Manmohan Singh.
A deliberate attepmt has been made from congress side to get clear this deal from parliament atleast without knowing Junta's look over the nuclear deal.
PM is clear about the national benefit written in the name of congress by this nuclear deal or strategic deal per say by reminding his talks about integration plan for economic reform proposed in 1991. At that time he was critisized by many people of the house. He defended himself as steward of this whole nuclear deal with a vision of india getting into 21 centuary and also on to the track of global competetiveness.
I have some points to add on this burning issue.

Will this nuclear deal provide the enough energy resources and strategic development with US to India? Will such strategic tie up with US gonna affect India's relationship with China and Pakistan.

How many other levels of nuclear issues related with India's scientific research and development will be opened and closed by the time when we are going to make agrrements with IAEA and NSG.

This deal will create a big financial burden on India's soulders ( ~130 billion $). Does India ready for such investment while other challenges ( Agriculture, dying farmers in many regions in India, primary education , health care) are pending from last 60 years. There is a need to address the energy crisis in India as well but going for such support from US will disrupt India's grip over there own program of development of fossil fuels.
Such huge investment on other sectors like research and development could ensure better energy resources in near future.

If anguished left withdraw his support from government at this point of time, what will it cost to goverment and people? What would it cost to market? What would it cost to political arrangements during interregnum.

What is the possiblity of midterm polls and does government is ready for pay such a big price for deal to be accomplished.

If nuclear deal is accomplish successfully, how would the pros n cons use in next assempby election pending in 2009.

Certainly left is carrying his anti-US ideology in ruling states of Westbangal and Kerela. So definitly they will raise point against the Congress's dreams of shaking hands with US. But certailny CPI(M) cannot drag India into a bad situation of poor governement by commenting "Sarkaar to Aaati hai, Saarkaar to Jaati hai" ( Government come and go, CPI(M)top leader comment recently) Although lot of thinking is required before letting India to struck into any labyrinth of political,social and economical subjects.

Imbecile Painting Mood

My First Experiment with colors.

In-nocent Tasleema

Babri Masjid demolition became the reason for many quirks in social life of people specific to Hindu and Muslim religion. India was burning in flames of communalism, barbarism and innocent lives were living on the verge of high level of insecurity, curfew, police exploitation and community fear. People of both the religion were cursing each other and secretly there were parallel worlds from politics and criminals who were engaged in doing best to their thoughts. State security measures tantalize and incidence of Babri demolition and Bombay riots gave an identity to India on global scale of terrorism activated region. When these activities were affecting internal parts of India on various scales, other part of criminalization and demolition were happening in Bangladesh, India’s neighbor country. During those periods of riots in Bangladesh, Tasleema came in picture and write actively about riot cases and property; life vanished in Bangladesh during riots. She forms all his thoughts in form of one book ‘Lajja’. The content of book agonized her critique sitting on political chairs and religious fundamentalists groups, who releases fatwa against her to kill her. [As for Salman Rushdie]
That fatwa forces her to leave her country and she absconded to seek loyalist rehabilitation from Indian government and her people. Although thousands of Bangladeshis migrate to India legally or illegally but this time the migration of a writer was different because such migration was protested by Indian counterpart of religious fundamentalists and their leaders. But some how she managed to have a safe (unsafe) place for her being India as a mediocre.
The reason for writing this article was a recent attack made by a mob of ~30 MLAs and localites from Hyderabad to controversial writer, Tasleema, while she was visiting a conference to release her book. A lady (women) was brutally attacked by goons and gundas in front of media and people, breaking all the law and order by stating that Tasleema and her thoughts are harmful for Muslim community and people. Logically and legally no buddy can attack on a public meeting where thoughts and ideas have to share in context of removing religious ills and describing the outfits of any religion. In fact we are living in a society where we have rights to share information, rights to express and live. What could be the consequences of ideas formed by Tasleema Nasreen for a particular society of people irrespective of person who belongs to a particular community?
This is the personnel guilt of fundamentalist and extremists who think that such an idea of having religious amelioration lead by a woman who is certainly a bit controversial and bit foreign to us and our society is provoking their religion for any kind of wrong doing and wrong reason. Up to an extent Tasleema has written about restrictions imposed by Islam on women, women outcry in her community, atrocities, exploitation, terror surmounted on women, women empowerment and revival of male psychology relating to relationship with female. And she is not the only one who is writing about these entire topics and expressing a general concern over such areas but there are many activists working in these areas. Then why she is been beaten by Chappals in Hyderabad. Who has relegated these MLAs and Gundas to adhere such steps in day light breaking all legal and constitutional rights?
And question remains the same, who is responsible for this? Tasleema or We?

Why do we conclude in the end?

With most of the articles, news, essays, books it is obvious to find the conclusion part in the end. Because, it is believed to be in a particular format for better understanding of text or our narration of context rather than following a complex or unsystematic way of explaining something assuming human intellect has not conspicuous boundaries. In cultural context sometimes it is meaningless to subjugate self imagination and creativity for driving a better product or media to explain our stance in global social life. It is not a problem but it is ‘formatism’ in which we have started believing from some time. And we have become true follower of this formatism that we fear to question some of the rudimentary ideas of thinking most of the times. Moreover I would say that to overcome such formatism looks out of our pragmatic way of giving reason and solution because now such formatism is promoted by global market, global need and inter-society agreements on which cultural transactions made possible. There are increased chances of conflicts as well.
We fear of god whom we don’t know. We have just an idea given to us by scientific linguistics that how these powers operate. But again it is a mystery by now.

Dilli Darbaar

Context of finding this topic is present party political chaos in President Election this time after 1947. Election was glamorized, politicized by media and its inhabitants and later handed over to political parties for dubious foreplay of honorable presidency election. Candidature was quite obvious this time but the representation of both of the candidates was so rough that it is showing the manipulated character of typical Indian politician. Previously Kalam was undisputedly chosen by both parliamentary houses, albeit his clear image was not the choosing criteria on first hand but it was makeover time for NDA government and their image which were they carried from ‘Babri maszid’ demolition case and finally Kalam raise above the tower of Babel (The Indian Parliament).
The amendments to the psychology of common people by media were having enough gravity to influence people of home town of Mrs. Patil, which create a reason to celebrate while knowing the political inertness of Mrs. Patil in comparison to her competitor Mr. Shekhawat. Best part of this show was created by media people in terms of creating an awareness to country’s president and of course his/her involvement in political corruptness and nepotism favored by each candidate in their political career up to some extant.
This was the first time when each party was quibbling over support to their candidate while they forget to keep the sovereignty of both houses and political rituals. Congress is playing cards to deploy puppets on the driving seat and NDA is busy in opposing UPA's choice to play a level making opposition. And others and media is pulling legs of each other and representing there ownself as bulletdodger. But certainly congress can use this support to Mrs. Partil as a support to women empowerment in India and can install this as a product to woo votes in next general elections. But running all these threads from so long there is a need to scrutinize our political system and its sub systems of democracy in terms of a linkage between its peripheral body of people and their culture and other influent media.Otherwise it could be end up in a quagmire or deadlock situation between democratic parties and bureaucratic system and of course ‘Junta’ while Mrs. Patil has taken oath as India's 13th and first woman president.

Peacock Story

I found it beautiful bird recently. And it is actually beautiful.


One of the image is taken from National Geographic.com