I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

What a ‘Phenomenal woman’!! Deeply saddened. 

Election Commission needs to be stricter

People are participating and exercising their voting rights in a democracy in the faith of not only getting their representation as also with the expectation that their voting should be kept secret. This privacy is to be maintained and safeguarded by the EC. How many vokkaligas or chokkaligas or other crap liggas of what religion, voted for whom and from where shouldn’t be in the public domain. When the person’s identity is kept secret then how is that a community’s voting pattern deciphered and revealed? This is a mischief which the elite then use to create divisions among the society. It is a simplistic version of how and why people vote, an exaggeration that undermines common people and their aspirations. This assertion of elite, who have a tight hold on narration, is then sought for manipulation and bargaining, at the cost of common people. People are therefore pigeonholed and ghettoized, their aspiration stifled. They are seen as zombies without any say on their will. It undermines the intelligence of common people. This attitude of elite section is nothing new but the EC shouldn’t be alibi to it. EC have duty to perform.  

Also during the counting process why are the areas of the constituency revealed? The mediocre market media then speculate in terms of which section, which subcaste, which god damn what, controls or not controls the areas and then predict the pattern. These obnoxious people are also journalists, and as the case is come from same milieu, so give them assured status to their demented views. Their limited view on common people is therefore understandable. These mediocre people also have discussion wherein they utter high sounding words like jathiwad samikaran and other nonsense, as they try to understand common people but as always through their blinkers. It is not amazing that they never really get anything right. Further it is much easier to work on these speculations as it is devoid of any ground work, since that would require traveling to remote areas and spending time to understand people. Simplistic version works within the traditional framework –this is something they have been trained in and entitled to, so the views from this hole their sacrosanct obsession. People have moved on. 

EC commission has failed to keep the privacy of common people, and playing into the hands of elite manipulators and helping them inflate their bargaining chip. This is not the role of EC. This intrusion into the rights of common people is to be taken grievously. It is undemocratic.   

An unopen letter to Gandhi’s grandson

The market liberals, right on money to save the nation, have this to offer from their backyard. http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-suitable-boy-and-girl/article6020584.ece please read this before you come to this column. 

Kasturi&Sons are incorrigible casteist buffoons is known, they run their legacy from holes of family burrow (which incidentally is by product of these advantage) is also quite known. That they quite blatantly aspire to be bigtime saviors is unpalatable, and should be exposed. Their feudal hold is rather weak, running a media house is nice substitute. I guess it comes with inbreeding, these higher nuances from primitive framework.   The world should know their true color. 

Incidentally Gandhi’s grandson also had something to say from the same space ironically on the same day. It’s understandable that his Gandhian angst will not see anything wrong in these caste propagating columns. It is what they call Idea of India. He is feeding on his grandfather’s name is not quite unclear, he has gained quite a lot from these subtleties and so has become an alibi for self serving do-gooders. Incidentally I don’t think even Nehru in the first election got 100% vote, despite crudely feudal setup, so his clever double edged views are rather trite. Nor did it prevent, much later, Rajiv Gandhi from playing communal card, that has since severely bruised Indian society. Mr. Modi has the mandate to rectify these mistakes, clearly feudal crap nonsense that has been imposed in the name of secularism should go. My concern though is crony capitalism and impact on fragile environment, which ofcourse Gandhi’s grandson will not find of utmost importance. 

Fatherhood of the nation cannot hide nor can deny Gandhian hypocrisy –that Indian elite found these as signs of mahatmahood is quite in place with the way the society is structured. It is therefore incumbent on Gandhi’s grandson to explain why he is writing articles in the newspaper which carries these blatantly casteist articles.  He must be aware of the history and crude world it hinges on, and untold miseries it spreads. I am quite aware why some Indian writers prefer international newspaper of repute, Indian media is mediocre and self serving with few exceptions here and there –who also work under constraints. Indian elite are quite average people, and the views of Indian intellectuals among the international community are also quite insignificant. Indeed India itself is quite insignificant in the world community, sucking the national resources and exporting therefore increasing GDP will not change this reality. It is skewing what is crude into vulgar. It is a society that lacks empathy, and every structure hinges on this. Kasturi&Sons are hypocrites but they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with these, and their subtle positioning (that comes with inbreeding) should be exposed. Studying in the best of educational institute in the world and exposed to best of what world has to offer has only made them cunning, this also very much an Indian idea. So as they learn they get more cunning, the new gadgets are used to spread these deviance and manipulative intent.  

Gandhi’s grandson has lots of explaining to do, his higher concerns can wait. If he is claiming Gandhian legacy (which ofcourse he is, otherwise I don’t know where does he figure in billion people) then he has to explain whether he is also party to furthering Gandhian hypocrisy. He must apologize for using this newspaper for expressing his views and so has become part of regressive mindset. Atleast his other sibling was better he was only peddling luxury pen. Gandhi’s grandsons are known to carry Gandhian legacy bit too far!!        

Demolish the Idea of India

There are some in the elitizens who have constructed something called Idea of India, it is concoction of their manipulations and possibilities therein that perpetuate their hold over common people in a rather bleak attempt on egalitarianism. Gandhi was one of the founding members, it also has some hash of Nehruvian benevolence. Nehruvian values sought to put logical and attempt to broaden minds but it couldn’t disguise a deep felt dislike for Hindu ways, almost paranoid elitism mimicking British, that had come to define modernity among the westernized Hindus. Yes there are and were obnoxious Hindu practices but ironically elitizens (including Nehru or for that matter Gandhi) didn’t seek to demolish or even relegate deviant and exploitative Hindu structure. And so Mishras and Pandeys carried on their task of building the Idea of India without as much as showing any awareness of what their identity tag carried or meant. So they accrued from the feudal and inhumanly exploitative past, in the meanwhile it also gave them assured humbleness and direct access to truth. They have since expanded their horizon as spokespersons of Indians, some in an act of cession have completely migrated to west, but hung on to vasudeva kutumbakam as an act of chivalry.  The hallow of indecency and mediocrity that majority of Indians carry is not their fault, its an unique attribute mix of entitlement, providence and inbreeding.    

    

The Idea of India that works on entitlement driven worldview and values, and a relatively recent entrant called secularism. Secularism has since become a runaway success among elitizens that also help showcase themselves as world standard humanitarians and intellectuals. Incidentally this was added as an afterthought into Indian constitution, coinciding with Indira Gandhi’s manipulation of religious communities against each other, and Muslims as vote banks and mullahs as arbitrators. This was beginning of an exploitation even colonial Britain couldn’t achieve. Henceforth minorities were mullahs and muslims elites, and any hint of harm to them was seen as threat to secularism and therefore idea of India. Obnoxious practices of mullahs (that includes polygamy) and hedonistic lifestyles of Muslim elites were to be seen as signs of Indian diversity. In the meanwhile the exploitative hindu structure was kept intact with tacit acknowledgement, and even promotion through matrimonial columns and attending elaborate arranged marriages that was nothing but perpetuation of deviance and crude culture. All these while the lowest and poorest suffered, irrespective of religion and region. This therefore is the Idea of India that has been practiced and sought to be protected. They have added pointers of modernity to not only make it attractive to western narration but also the omniscient market which they are direct beneficiary of. 

Pankaj Mishra is another of elitizens, from distant shores, who has taken the cudgels of saving our souls  by also writing in foreign newspapers, this affliction tops elitizens bucket list. He may have humble railway colony background, that he may harp, but the Mishras are quite clear in their pecking order, and I am quite sure that he is fully aware how these translates into horrendous reality as it percolates down. So when they migrate to city it is matter of time when sanskaras and ideas of India will catch up to save them from ignominy. It’s about latching on, for Mishras it comes with effortless ease and opens up doors double quick, sometimes it is referred to as Indian tradition. It is subtlety between pure vegetarian and vegetarian which the ordinary souls will take few more janmas to understand. This therefore is idea of India. Mishra points to certain aberrations in Kasturi boys publication in context to mullahs angst in Kashmir (this blogger has already mentioned that Article 370 is divisive and discrimination against Indian people, it prevents assimilation. Under this framework military pressures are likely –that falls in the ambit of the duties of nation state, put that in context of rabid neighborhood), he may score some liberal brownie points but he himself represent a tradition of exploitation is not lost to us Indians (westerners may not get it, that is the saving grace of Indian liberalism). That Mishra didn’t find any problems with matrimonial columns nor the little brahmanical faith column that has obnoxious temple squatter’s piety as enlightenment, which no civilized newspaper would carry, is instructive. Thankfully Kasturi boys stopped astrology, another of idea of India that invades channels early morning with all kinds of charlatans working on future of our souls, in a very taut exploitative framework. I am told they have problems with superstition, which is practiced by common people for immediate succor from misery, but these kinds of nonsense that come in TV or street corners are I believe part of idea of India. The other day I came across article by Padgoankar (weebit unhinged fellow is now completely unhinged), you must observe his bearings, the vintage Nehruvian liberal concerns, put up mannerism and speech (the accent should make Mrinal Pandey –another bearer of truth, extremely content), but doesn’t find anything amiss in mentioning the President as ‘brahmin’ (in association with other fine qualities, by default he himself claims), such blatant casteism would have been shunned by civilized society but in the idea of India these are valued. He himself comes out amazingly liberal with heightened concerns for safeguarding Idea of India.  

  

It’s time to demolish the Idea of India that is holding common people on ransom, the new political dispension in centre is least likely to do it. Indian political elite is only an extension of exploitative framework, and so is the game of secularism and acquired pointers of liberalism that is firmly fixed to seize the western imagination. This blogger will make all effort to consistently expose these scoundrels who have gotten hold of our narration and even deciding what is good for us, taking high moral grounds, in the meanwhile exploiting common people and accruing feudal benefits.     

Post script: any guesses what do these people, whose pictures are there in this blog, have in common? …liberalism comes so very easy as much as fundamentalism for some. It is a cult feeling that find outlet in different context but seeks benefits nevertheless. The burden of Idea of India falls on very few people, indeed only few can understand it. It takes only 100 Rs (just about1.5$, to give an international perspective) to change your surname!! But that would be emasculation of Idea of India. Sambavani yuge yuge!! You cannot take high moral stand from a primitive framework, this hypocrisy has been allowed for too long, will not be tolerated, credentials will be scrutinized.   

  

Wow !!

The change is always for better.  But this is stupendous. Incredible indeed.  Though other results were on expected lines but I am shocked by BSP performance.  Immediate threat: crony capitalism and entrenched coteries around lutyens delhi, who should be dismantled … in the meanwhile political appointees should resign on their own (like they do in US) rather than playing martyrs (this include those who are clutching to chairs in Prasar Bharathi, get used to different ways of accent that Indians speak in. We common people don't have West as reference. Got it).

It wouldn’t be as bad as Indira Gandhi’s regime

There are apprehensions being raised (by none other than the likes of Salman Rushdie, who spends few days in a year in India) about threat to freedom of expressions and so on under Narendra Modi’s government. Firstly, people are assuming it will be Modi’s government, though there is a large likelihood, these have got consolidated in recent time with him being blamed for all and sundry happenings, and all kind of crooked and disgusting people masquerading secularism. It has acquired a cottage industry status to save the country from Modi with dubious people and attention seekers stampeding for light under the sun (or is it camera). There is a massive positioning going on. It has less to do with common people and more to do with elitizens positioning (competing is a better word) with each other for whatever they can gather. 

Secondly, Emergency was the worst period in independent India's history. Indira Gandhi should have been tried for treason, or atleast banished from public life. Emergency was an unpardonable act. The kind of atrocities committed has not been completely brought to light. Rajan murder in Kerala was only the tip of an iceberg of colossal miseries (It is akin to Sikh massacre which only came into significance after Gujarat. Unlike Narendra Modi, Rajiv Gandhi was never seen to be part of the conspiracy, I find that amazing. Is it good looks or good english and sophistication, I am wondering what is it? Or is it mullah’s angst masquerading secularism?). There is a massive cover up by the section of elite who gained and therefore played their part in degrading the opposition leaders and parties, during and after the emergency which paved the way for Congress return. They haven’t allowed these atrocities to be mainstreamed. Some of their progenies have migrated to foreign land (mostly Europe) and have since become our long distance conscience keepers, therefore corruption is never an issue as they gain from these. It needed a hindutva consolidation to challenge this monopoly of Congress at an all India level, this again is elitist but does break the status quo. The hegemony of exploitative corporate will therefore continue.

The kind of quelling that Indian people saw during emergency was the nadir and I don’t think any government will ever come close to it. The people involved in these atrocities continued to be in political life without as much as battling an eyelid. Take for instance, Ambika Soni who till few years back was Union Information Minister (it’s akin to Tagodia becoming Minister of Tolerance!!), she was subsequently dumped due to incompetence. I guess garb of secularism can wash away even the worst of crimes. Nobody objected to these is a serious question mark on competence of media. Also the remnant of highhandedness still exist, state media is being used as personal fiefdom even now, recent incident are only symptoms of bigger malaise. Wonder what Mrinal Pandey has to say on these matter, I am sure she has resigned or is she still concerned about how people pronounce the word ‘media’ and other bedtime anecdotes, hilarities! 

The new entrant in media radar is Priyanka Gandhi, I am wondering who is she. I see her before every election waving at people and blurting one-liners that media laps. Last time, in what was a disgusting attempt to woo the voters, they even brought her children to campaign. Indeed the media (as well as so called intelligentsias) interest is nothing but feudal. Priyanka Gandhi has not held any position of authority in government or in the party then what is her locus standi? Why is she given importance? Furthermore in an amazing act of indecency she snubbed Modi for ‘calling her daughter’. There is a difference between calling someone a daughter and ‘daughter like’ (which is a common usage).  This kind of visceral reactions are uncalled for and has brought down the standard of political debate and social etiquette. 

Media should explain on what basis they are giving importance to Priyanka Gandhi, if they mock dynasty politics (which indeed is not confined to congress nor to political field) then their interest in her is nothing but feudal. Vice-versa these deviant interests are being milked by someone who is not been responsible for anything. So what is the authority of her statement? In that case each Indian’s statement should be headlines. In the last many years she hasn’t had any involvement, so why now this sudden interest before election? I find that obnoxiously opportunist, pliable media –who themselves are product of feudalism, is playing ball as they always do. I am told India is world’s largest democracy. 

  

Stop the Gandhian non violent casteism or demolish the temples

 People protest against heinous culture inside temples (this time in Udupi). Supreme court should take suo moto on these. There are too many entrenched interest in these miseries. If they find it difficult to change their culture then demolish the temple and make a park or public toilet. Park is a better idea, since it would add to greenery as also as an Indian male I have the right to piss anywhere including parks, while you cannot make a park inside a toilet.