One man show - an assault on diversity

 As you enter a restaurant you request for a menu card and look into variety of food available at the restaurant to pick the tastiest or new variety of dish. You visit a nearby cloth store and search for latest variety of clothing to be in tune with the latest trend. There are variety of books to read, variety of places to visit and variety of films to watch. In short we have been gifted with fundamental right to choose the best option among many.

Now imagine a situation wherein this fundamental right is abducted by a group of people or by an organization and starts imposing its one god, one culture, one language policy. You are right, this is what happening in our country wherein one man and organization which believes in one bigoted ideology are dictating terms to lure the people right from candidates we choose till the god we pray or religion we practice in the name of unification of thoughts and uniformity of choice.In military state this is done by showcase of lethal power, but in democracy this is done by invoking sentimental aspects of herd that is love for religion, love for the nation, love for the language and make the person poke the eye using his own hands. Laws are drafted in such a way that they are bulldozed upon the people who don't have numbers to stop it striking upon root of their distinct practices.

 A one man show who does not buy ideology of fellow human beings is always a danger to pluralism. He will expect the world to follow his wishes and believe in supremacy to arrest the creativeness in the people around. Every reason will be found out / discovered / invented using a dedicated team of hidden hands to convince the mass that this uniformity is for the bright future. The person who is benefited in the uniformity of practices is the person who wishes to rule as there is no need to give special attention to special requirements within the herd. 

 

Plurality can be practiced only by the person who has a broader vision w.r.t. the happenings of the world and unify different practices in such a way that they create a sense of togetherness. India has always been a proponent of unity in diversity and treating all groups of people with an equal yardstick before the constitution conferring equal rights without any distinction based on religion and caste.

 

Limits of My Bhakti

How do I feel when my beloved leader visits the temple which I visit? Elated!!! How do I feel when my beloved leader says I visit only the temple of your faith, build grand temples for you to keep so called OUTSIDERS at a bay to give wings to hate towards fellow groups and claims vote on that factor ? A bhakt would surely get elated at the this aspect for sharing that innate feel of showing places to the other sects. But a honest citizen who doesn't carry the burden of the past would show that leader his place instead for breaking the unity amongst the PUBLIC FORCE in the name of religion.

A mass leader is not a husband or a lover to say that he is reserved for that particular religion or sect. He is the head of the family who understands the sentiments of each and every individual and finds a mid path for everyone to follow. He is not here to pit one member against other and take sides based on the convenience.

 

Coming back to the factor of bhakti, its a completely personal. The God we worship is definitely a fact introduced to us by our parents. As we grow we imbibe those bhakti moments passed on by our parents and learn to live with it. But what happens when the same god becomes point of altercation amongst its followers and non-believers. Except atheist everyone has one or the other god to depend upon in difficult times.

It becomes difficult to digest a person who from no where enters the scene and says that the god we believe in danger due to the other gods. A terror minded person asks you to kill to protect your god, a religious chauvinists asks you to hate other gods to showcase love towards your God. Only a person with wisdom would ask you to chose the path of love to identify the god present within your self who cannot be stolen or desecrated by any other individual. 

Building huge places of worship doesn't mean you are doing great service towards society but the need of the hour is great buildings of world class universities and hospitals that provide relentless service to the people without differentiating as believers and non-believers. God resides is such selfless service towards society.

Terribulence

 Sharpest thing in the world is your immediate action, reaction to an incidence. That sharpness can have myriad of consequences based on what you are actually up-to with your actions. A welcome change or unwelcome response.

We have no log book for the actions but a selfless action will be appreciated if not immediate but in some form or the other. A smooth curve of life is not a guaranteed scheme. A turbulence shall be in waiting for which we have to be ready.

A solemn behavior towards  an challenge that arises during course of turbulence shall create an atmosphere of fulfillment and spring in a surprise feeling of being able to handle the vagaries stupendously.

We should check in at the right moment so that support structure shall be able to handle our emotions in dignified manner. Letting our faith in others be allowed to take a complete control during emergencies shall be a guiding star.

Jai Kisan

It has been almost 6 months since we have been allowed to visit the relatives house or freely visit a friends house. All thanks to Corona. It has strained already feeble relationship curve and created more islands of people to find happiness in loneliness.

 

This pandemic has been courteous to ruling class where the protests marches are avoided or not given permission showcasing the spread of disease as  a cause factor. But still on the other hand our brave farmers are out on streets protesting the recent developments knowing that dangers of pandemic are still hovering around them.

 No one knew that such times will occur wherein they will have to challenge the pandemic all for cause of making their stance loud and clear to the ruling class who otherwise remain mute to the expectations of the people around.There is no other option before the working class and they are forced to come out in such huge numbers. 

 

Hope ruling class gets acquainted to the fact wherein the farmers have taken risk to come out in huge numbers and has adequate data on this front which otherwise has NO DATA AVAILABLE on important matters.

Silence matters

The day your mobile is put into silent mode will be the most fulfilling day as you can look into the world different from the online hook up. No notifications, no calls to answers but vibration mode can still make your connection intact only if you carry the mobile with you.

The most important place where silence matters is the library where you are expected not to affect the book lovers who are in deep connection with their books. One creaking sound from chairs will make the heads turn towards you of course with a sorry look.

Second place where silence matters is in the class room during lecture. No matter how boring the lecture may be but you are supposed to hear the same without local commenting the process or the procedure. Next place where the silence is expected is during the yoga sessions to fell the divinity.

Even the most active person shall come under the shadow of the silence during their life time experience.

Rename, review, reclaim !!!!

Upon insistence of its ministers, government has setup a panel to study the misbehavior of Tippu Sultan and plans to mention it in the books for students. Yes, its the age of fact check. Great amount of time and energy is being invested in these fact checks. Till now people who were confined to paying fees have started questioning the liberty of the experts.

Science and mathematics cannot be tinkered so it is isn't part of propaganda. Literature and Social studies are being recooked to the taste of the present rulers. After they are tasted ok by propagandists the same will be fed to the children. The stories we heard aren't mere stories anymore, they have been upgraded as evidence for flourishing of social engineers.

When two people are in friendly relationship they would see their drawbacks in a completely different way. That is they would see it as wound to be healed and compensate each other. The same people when they turned foes would see the wound as an opportunity to inflict pain and expose the vulnerability.

But the same wound needs to be exposed and intimated to the doctor when it is beyond the capacity of the suffer to get it healed on his own effort. 

Digging the graves of the dead and highlighting their shady part for preventing the people to judge your authority can have unneeded repercussions.

NOT ALL SPICY FOODS ARE GOOD FOR HEALTH!!!

When someone says MY TAX MY RULES !!!!

People are under the impression that only income tax is the sole identifier for claiming rightful ownership to get tagged as "TAX PAYER".

When I refuel my vehicle I am paying tax when I register a property, when I buy medicine, when I dine at a hotel, When I watch a cinema in theaters. The only place where I don't pay tax is when I use public toilet, health and crematorium services.

I often hear people saying that they don't want their tax to used for incentivizing the poor. These are the people who will be ready to spend lakhs for building of statues, donate costly ornaments to decorate the idols, loot the people by collecting tax from them but hide it for themselves.

Tax isn't an investment to expect gains. It is a social responsibility of funding the social causes conceived by the proponents. We never know which part of our tax will be used to build that college or hospital. We never know who among the beneficiary would turn out into an APJ Abdul Kalam and secure that prominent place for our country. 

Lately our government is planning to honor highest tax payers by providing with benefits enjoyed by the diplomats. These initiatives are laughable as amount of tax payed doesn't translate into special affiliation to the collecting organization. Funding is just a part but the activity done using that defines its value.