Look who’s cribbing…..

There’s hullabaloo on the street. Thanks to Shoba karandlaje and her war against the cooking gas mafia. Now,India spends a whooping 12000 crores on subsidizing your cooking gas. However, thanks to the mafia, at least 40% of this reaches the black market and is used for purposes other than the intended “cooking at home”. It is siphoned of to hotels, to heat water and to fuel cars.

So who is the gas Mafia?  Mafia is our friendly neighborhood armchair intellectual, who can talk hours on how our country is being looted by the politicians, while he uses  subsidized cooking gas to fuel his car.Mafia is you and me who don’t mind shelling 3-4 thousand for a single meal in a restaurant but crib, crib and crib some more on the government proposal to do away with the subsidy to cooking gas.

Think about it. An average family will require, 10-12 gas cylinders per year. An extra burden of 400x 12 is 4800 per year.  If the govt gives subsidy for 4 cylinders as is being proposed and you are willing to take alms, the extra burden further comes down to 3200/year or roughly 270 Rs/ month. That is not a big amount to most of us cribber’s. But we are up in arms, anyway.

We crib whenever govt rises the price of petrol too. Stop cribbing and start using the public transport. Better still, GO, TAKE A HIKE…..

 

” CRASH ”

“Crash” is one of the most powerful movies i have seen in recent times. It deals with racism in a honest, blunt and on the face manner. It makes us look inwards. It makes us realise that most of us, including the ones who rabidly speak against it, are also racist at one level or the other.

Our prejudices are so deep-rooted, that we label others without thinking. We think we are different. But, are we? The” racism” flaw ( or casteism, in the indian context)  is in each of us. Some are blatant and unrepentant about it. Some subtle. Others, just ignorant to the fact that they are flawed.

The iranian shooting the latin locksmiths daughter was one of the most powerful scene i have ever seen in  a movie. It had a nice build up and a unexpected ending. Maybe i felt that way, because i am a father. But i wanted to sob…. now when was the last time i felt like sobbing when watching  a movie……. Hmmmm….. never.

This film is not going to make you feel happy or good. But it will make you think. I think It’s a brilliant movie. As it is. No nonsense, no political correctness…..

The day Mangalore was shamed…..

A handful of narrow minded,ill informed,fanatics and extortionists have tainted the name of mangalore forever.”We are not like this”,i want to scream to the world, but my scream is lost in the din and frenzy of media coverage of the unscrupulous mob.It’s time we stood up against this madness or sooner or later it will consume us,one way or the other.

In recent times we have seen a number of such organisations springing up all over karnataka.Some  profess to espouse the cause of kannada,some caste and some religion.Under our constitution they have all right to do this.Each one has a right to opinion but no one has the right to take the law into their own hand.When this happens we cease to be a civil society.It’s time the right thinking among us,who i am sure is the majority ,albeit the silent one,start taking a stand against this.

In 1946 Niemöller wrote a poem of the holocaust. First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.

The politician who encourage these groups for narrow political gains fail to understand,how in the long term these things harm the country.It’s difficult to understand what the police is afraid of.Can we trust them to protect us from terrorists when they cant protect us from a handful of goons?or is their hands tied?The brazenness of the mob and their gall to invite the press to watch their vandalism suggests that the police is going soft on them.

Who let the dog’s out?who,who???

Ours is a strange country.Here the rich and the famous and of course our judges seem think dogs are more important than children.That is the only conclusion that can be drawn by the spate of judgements in the recent past.

There are four kinds of animal lovers in India

1.Celebrities looking for cheap publicity

2.bored rich searching for a cause

3.”animals” trying to make a quick buck under the banner of various organisations espousing the cause of dogs(ofcoures there are a few genuine ones)

4.genuine animal lover’s.This i am sure is the minuscule minority.

Kindly note that all the above groups and our honorable judges travel in A.C cars.Even when they are in contact with dogs(some animal lovers do come in contact!!!!),its in a controlled environment.

Sure we have to treat animals humanely in a civil society.Sure animals have right too.But all that applies only after we start treating human beings humanely.Here we are equating human life to that of dogs.Is a litter per year bitches grief at loss of a puppy same as that of the mother who looses her child?Is the effect on the dog’s same as the devastating effect that a loss of an earning member will have on a human family?

Why is it that a dead dog becomes so important in a country where all kinds of animals are tortured,killed and eaten?Is this Because they are presumed to be intelligent?According to some research pigs are more intelligent than dogs.Just because they can be trained,they cant be termed intelligent.In fact the reverse may be true.

Have these animals and bird lovers given any thought to the wild animals in our so called zoos?Wonder why our learned judges don’t pass orders to set them free.A swift painless death is much better then a lifetime of imprisonment.Why does not eating chicken tandoori or fish fry not prick the conscious of these animal lovers?

Have these animal lovers ever seen a child die of rabies. Please watch http://www.metacafe.com/watch/388523/poor_filipino_child_with_rabies/ .  This is a very innocuous video compared to what happens. Usually these patients suffer physically but are very alert mentally and are aware of the impending death.Have they ever wondered what must be going through the mind of that child’s mother.I know of a 6 year old child who went on asking the mother weather he would die and kept repeating that he did not want to die.He did this till he died…….

Each of these animal lovers need to ask themselves a question.Would they kill a thousand dogs if his child’s life was at stake? I am sure they would not mind killing a million.But now it’s not their relatives that are dying.It’s mostly the poor and the wretched that  are dying.Those, who don’t have a voice.Those who are incapable of arguing their case in front of the learned judges.Forget dying of rabies these people are unmoved when children were mauled by stray’s recently in Bangalore.

Here In India 25000-30000 people die a slow torturous death due to rabies.Add to that the scores of two wheel riders who get injured/die because of stray dogs.The only solution i think , to keep this under control is to kill as many stray dogs as possible till the time we learn to be more humane to humans.Then we can think of being more humane to dogs…..

O’PALESTINE,MY HEART BLEEDS FOR THEE….

Its ceasefire time…… or is it?After 22 days of hostilities the two warring sides declared ceasefire.but there are reports of continued gun battles and rocket attacks.Even if there is peace everyone knows it will only be temporary .soon there Will be another round of blood letting.There never seems to be any end to this vexed problem.The western powers not only colonised every region in the world but when they left they made sure that the region would never be in peace.Be it India-Pakistan or isrel-palestine.

Brief history-If there is no bible there is no israel.There is no promised land.This land according to the hebrew bible was promised to them by none other then god.This myth,not substantiated by any archaeological findings is the basis of  israel and the of zionist movement.Although god promised them that land,not once in the entire history did they manage to rule that land,expect indirectly for a period of 60 years when egypt was ruled by  king’s called antiochus.Later it came under romans.The jews rebelled against them and were massacred.All this happened around 130 A.D and after that the jews were never the majority in palestine.

Modern history-Although the struggle for the promised land is centuries old,the Zionist movement for the formation of israel started in the late 1890′s.In 1917 during the first world war,the British desperate for support promised the jews israel by signing the balfour declaration,which stated that the British Government  viewed with favour the establishment in palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.At that time the jewish population was round 55000 of the total population of 7,30,000.

As the jews started immigrating to their promised land,resentment among the palestenians who had been residing there from centuries grew.There were violent attacks against the jews.The british responded to the pressure from the majority arab’s by imposing immigration restrictions.Although the immigration abated a in the 20′s,it again picked up steam in the 30′s when there was persecution of the jews in europe.The arabs revolted against this.The british sided with the arabs.The jews revolted violently through their terrorist organisation’s like the haganah and the stem gang.By now the jewish population had increased to 4.5 lac out of the total 15 lak.Please note that even then they were the minority.

Britain had enough.They transferred the matter to UN and announced they would withdraw by 1948.The UN decided to split palestine into israel(53%)of the total land and arab state(43% of the total land)

 

.As expected this was rejected outright by the arabs and a war ensued as soon as the british withdrew.The jews won that war and the subsequent wars and greatly increased its area by occupying west bank golan heights gaza strip.

see  http://www.essayexpress.com/essay/001720.html  for information on post 1948 israel arab wars.

CONCLUSIONS

1.There is no archaeological proof that jews were ever the rulers\or majority  of  this land at any point in time.

2.They systematically destroyed the original inhabitants  the palestenians and drove then out of their own country where they had lived for thousands of years.

3.For the past 80-90 years they have used terror,and embargo to drive palestinians away from their own country.They were literally starved and denied basic necessities.

4.USA is as much responsible for this disaster as israel because without their support,israel would not even  exist today.

           Just picture this. Jews formed just 11% of the population in 1922.By forced immigration they became 30% in 1942 and now they form 80% of the population.The palestinians ,original inhabitants are  homeless for the past 60 years and live in refugee camps.Of course the jews have been persecuted in the past,all over the world but what they are doing now Cannot be justified.

WILL THIS CONFLICT EVER END?