Primitive India’s million mutinies

Thanks to some amazing thinkers, revolutionaries, inventors so on in societies across the world we have the freedom and modern amenities to make our life comfortable. To understand this scan even a couple of centuries back the luxury of the most powerful kings and sundry you are in the contemporary world infinitely better placed. Indians have all the freedom compared to other societies as also egalitarian traditions but these are increasingly threatened with squatter spread as power is institutionalised and consolidated. Skewed ways of market has sought to instigate these as money power and devious ways overwhelms the democratic structure while debauchery establishes in camaraderie. Every individual has immense potential but in primitive societies, like in individuals, has it saturation point. Primitive Indians had reached the saturation point long time back about the time when the britishers left, it’s been downhill since then. Democracy and egalitarian ways, which obviously is alien understanding in this part of the world, has helped unstifle voices though despite best efforts it has not stopped repressions and exploitations. Inventions in the outside world has increased the comfort and reach but the society pupate in putrid pits, the modern amenities and thoughts only adding to arsenal of cruder expression and cleverness, assured in the ordained self they have exaggerated claims. This regressive society has nothing to offer and cannot be expected anything for the world indeed it will degrade and corrupts as it spreads. The spiritual mumbo, that is served as a claim, is essentially the trace of egalitarian traditions that is being severely threatened by democracy empowered power structure as debauchery seeps in. It is hilarious when squatter ensconced try appropriating spiritual thoughts. It’s like a rabid animal acquiring human speech and equally miraculously espouses morality and higher thoughts. It’s an Animal Farm of cannibals. 

This society can only waste its time arguing who can enter where and how? And other compelling disgusts. And yes there are people who eulogise ‘argumentative indian’, this name dropper even tried the enlightening sanskrit frame as subtle rapprochement to changing reality but alas. Meanwhile the governor of Karnataka (who shows all characteristics of enthusiastic domesticated primate) elaborates that speaking sanskrit exudes vibrations that spreads peace!! ISRO chairperson,  on the dais, was seen congratulating the governor after the speech, even exchanging words of appreciations. On his part the godforsaken scientist (it’s becoming clear that these are political appointments, within the frames of debauchery and camaraderie), who is keenly seeking a post retirement plump, questioned Nobel prize given to Chinese in Medicine this year claiming these were part of ancient Indian knowledge. Well played sir. Now for some facts: Ancient Chinese medicinal practices are quite systematic, it undoubtedly has its share of nonsense the reason why endangered species like Tigers and Rhinos are being killed, but it goes to the credit of Tu Youyou that after years of study and research she was able to isolate these as ‘novel therapy’ for malaria. Artemisin has saved millions of lives. We are extremely grateful to likes of Ms Youyou. Meanwhile, understanding of squatter’s, isolated from surroundings as they were –a crap elevated as apara vidya, was shoddy effort and whatever significant was based on knowledge of tribes and observant people, practitioners, connected to nature. How much Buddhism helped consolidate and provide an egalitarian frame for spreading these was referred by this blogger in my blog on birds (www.iseeebirds.blogspot.com) in context to Itty Achuthan, as also how Dutch understood the significance. Meanwhile ISRO chief should try find out why they haven’t yet invented the vaccine for malaria, that affects more Indians than Chinese. I am told TIFR is on the verge, being on the verge is a state that seeks divine intervention. Those who are able to contact these mysterious forces should now take over, surely Indian scientists are known to have expertise on these!!   

This blogger is shocked that the VC responsible for Rohith Vemula’s tragic death -it is undoubtedly a murder by primitive Indian society, is not arrested yet. The scoundrel has ‘gone on leave’, it seems. It sounds akin to market media patronizing Tendulkar as ‘being rested’ for the game. The primitive society has much ante up the sleeves. Meanwhile attempts were made to obfuscate the tragedy, a tragedy that has severely indicted the Indian society. Not that these heinous crimes have not happened before, indeed untold atrocities were committed over years and centuries that would make holocaust a minor blimp on human conscience. Rohith’s tragedy is telling on elite because he was able to articulate in English, it was heartbreakingly poignant. Uncouth indian elite has no place to hide, the world is also now aware that there is something seriously amiss in the carefully constructed mahatmaland, the home truth is open to scrutiny. This tragedy is akin to Nirbhaya case as it happened in Delhi, it needs someone to be brutally raped right next to them for these scoundrels to move their arse. Now poignant english has had them soul search. “They are indeed like us” is dawning on the uncouth. There is meanwhile concerted valiant attempts to show caste as not a factor, which ofcourse is such a benign tradition of this uncouth society, but yes the blame is attempted on ‘caste politics’. Incredulously we witness sudden spurt of suicides by students across the country. This is what makes it so charming about this crude society it is so easy to manipulate misery as we have surplus of it. The elite section highlights as it suits, the angst of elite women in the context of gender disparity is now served. So much so, that the clever Delhi CM knew the power of these cantankerous elite women to exempt them promptly from pollution issue. SUV driving abla nary is a compelling sight against air pollution and indeed a tribute to the sacrifice of Nirbhaya.

It also not amusing that CM of AP or Telegana didn’t even find it necessary to show compassion. These two are known to be ensconced to debauchery. Primitive KC Rao has been serial offender, probably he is atoning for an outsider entering the debauched frame, this ardent chicanery should help clear bad omen in the power structure. What a disgrace. Not unknown in a region (Andhra-Telengana) where TV channels are leased to broadcast lavish weddings, acutely many of these degraded people are engineers mostly working in US. Such obnoxious grace. 

       

Exaggerated presence of handful representing market media hence ability to twist and degrade narrations to the requirement of moneybags and debauchery is the mainstay. As politicians are dependent on money hence further degradation, democracy is reduced to farce while market creates the euphoria. This exaggerated presence of some as saviours of freedom of expression of more than a billion people is in itself serious threat; this irony is now an official joke. Sycophants in Congress have debilitatingly degraded institutions over the decades, as they hinge on baser emotions of keeping powers above happy, a feat that stint in sanctum sanctorum and precincts have equipped them well, and as they lack voters base (telling since feudal control is an easy vote base) they cultivated by dispensing patronage, clout and blatant corruption. They consistently degraded institutions and weakened the structures.  The list of Congress in Rajya Sabha is a testimony to this degradation. Manipulative geezers, with nothing to commend about, from Mani to Soni, embarrassing lafangas claiming cultural gatekeepers and other wastrels (to be fair scoundrel Mani has ‘Rajiv Chowk’ as a claim).  In a delicious irony they now claim that Arunachal Pradesh governor is being misused.

Sometime back I was flipping the TV channel and happen to come across Najma Heptullah (I feel sorry for her, this is the second time this one has become the victim of my channel surfing). She was giving a talk at Puttaparthi, she seems to be a bhakt of the charlatan Baba who attracted people with his stupid magic and juvenile tricks. Anyone with basic intelligence and character would be cautious in such surroundings or the least laugh it away but not tolerant people in this part of the world. It is when you are trapped in squatter (or other organised religion) that you miss the miracle of life and seek scoundrels. That people following different miracle driven faith come together to pursue common miracle is how syncretic culture get established in this part of the world. And the West is told to learn from Indian ways of life, on how to live together! Meanwhile Heptullah was introduced by former President Shankar Dayal Sharma, a veteran congressman (that in itself should caution) who being bhakt himself, the high tolerance saw that very soon Heptullah was Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha, and longest serving one for that, before she shifted to greener pastures and continues to be a Minister. This Madam Heptullah claims was blessing of Baba. We have such innumerable stories of blessing, quite coincidentally emerging from Rajya Sabha and other patronage dispensing pits.

Meanwhile angst against reducing tolerance and sickularism was succinctly expressed by one fellow I was reading the other day. He calls himself Jawed Naqvi and gets his bread n butter (quite essential these) and intents for much more as Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi. This fellow was in Kerala, his views therefore caught my attention, positioning that is symptomatic to bigger malice. While recuperating from bad lungs from Delhi in Kerala our fellow happen to watch Kalaripayattu, hence began his godforsaken musing. “I watched Kalaripayattu performed by group of Muslim men with rare spiritual joy” therefore began his sickularism rant. It is different matter that ancient martial art forms don’t have religion, and yes obeisance to nature is part of this and so those identified as muslims partaking these is no big deal, but our man was having vision of high tolerance. He was ready to take it to the next level by giving credence to squatter’s myth with a devious intent. “Another legend has it that Lord Shiva had taught Parasurama the art of Kalaripayattu. Parasurama taught his 21 disciples, all brahmins themselves, this art”. So you see the beginning of bonhomie, from myth to reality, from one elite placing himself in muslim frame to other elite in another crude frame, a feudal nudge and wink moment that is defining moment that seeps through this godforsaken subcontinent. This high level of tolerance game that gives life to Aiyerji vermin to work out his sickular world and depraved ways. Naqvi was riding his moral high ground, he points to obnoxious shariat compliant Malaysian airline –Riyani Air (they might start this nonsense in London, as a stretch on multiculturalism. If humans were to fly then god should have given them wings, clearly god didn’t want to. How about not using airlines therefore?!) in glowing terms. Intriguingly and pathetically this airline was started by Hindu couple, likely keralites. Naqvi points out that this also in response to a belief by people, of wrath by allah, on recently crashed malayasian aircrafts. What kind of god is this, indeed what kind of god’s conception is this that targets people who don’t follow thy? Naqvi, though had already scaled high moral grounds and had indeed start to fly, as it were, this Dawn’s correspondent signs off by adding a lesson for us “When in harmony with other religions every religious individual becomes more agreeable”. Aw. God save us from this harmony and likes of Naqvi. Dear fellow if accepting regressiveness and living out of other’s misery is harmony then it is time to blast that harmony. And that is precisely what women in Maharashtra temple and Haji Ali should do, if their basic right of offering prayer is denied then they should not back down and tolerate this injustice they must take it to the next level which could even be violence. If the institutions have failed to even provide the most basic right then what options are left for weaker section against the powerful entrenched interests. Further, gender parity in places of worship is only a beginning what about crude casteist bias in the traditions at sanctum?         

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is French movie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 directed by Luis Bunue) I was watching sometime back from my pirated movie collection. It is a take on cycle of hypocrisy, deceit and snobbery of elites as their wanton ways are frequently interrupted. Intervened by scenes of purposely walking to god knows where, but they seem determined and when they walk they don’t talk. The layered thoughts don’t mean anything except that they need to have their irresponsible and irrepressible fun. Precisely the way the mediocre entitled Indian elite negotiate patrimonial capitalism in the garb of competition. You could check out their carbon footprint and other degradation as they playact saviours. Meanwhile hereditary transaction, clout and nepotism cements the deal, risks are covered by gains from rent seeking and patronage. Add to it benefits of feudal framework consolidated by regressive ways sanctioned from appalling tradition. They are not charming, such attributes are uncommon in entitled world and don’t mind exhibiting their uncouthness at short notice. Meanwhile the regressive society putrefies in its own muck. The narrations of compassion and tolerant souls have been spread with much ease. Rigour mortis is cleverly presented as consent, silence as approval and on this the elite section works out pointers of multicultural tolerant world and they, conveniently, as the benign representation. These have been showcased to the world as vibrant ways. The harmonious ways of settled world is weaved by squatter’s juvenile bedtime stories and stunted myths that act as anchor for dubious morals and near absent ethical context.  These have been constantly used to subjugate and exploit the famished and disoriented people trapped in the pits of traditions and demeaning ways as they slowly turn into cannibalism. This therefore becomes social ethical mobility pointers. Over the centuries this is what is left in this pit. What is regressive is now sought to be established as culture and identity as the modernity open up values for scrutiny, the tethered elites scamper for legitimacy. Meanwhile benign ways that resisted these uncouth customs are being usurped into squatter’s way of life and presented as hindu religion. Temples, with scoundrel squatter intact, is readied to the world as benign place of worship and is sought to be equated into the frame of other religions wherein the narration is quite divergent. The hypocrisy is telling.

Death as a "Dalit" student: Rohith Vemula is the final act of defiance

Before getting into this let’s point out that there is an ever strong attempt at classifying as Dalit in the mainstream narration wherein this is a reference used in context of discrimination, hence in a machiavellian twist, by giving identities squatter’s template is sought to not only authenticated but seen as compassionate. Meanwhile in another compelling scuffle, that determines these primitive frontiers, Guhaji’s tweets express angst for Kashmiri ‘pandits’. The matrix is well defined only the playact differ, the narration strongly focussed on showcasing as civilised. Kasturi&Sons, with blessing showered from debauchery, have been in the forefront of providing intellectual solace. The reason why you need to target them, they also pose as left leaning intellectuals in an attempt at copying the enlightened sections in Europe. Valiant attempts at ‘social grouping’ ‘pride, prejudice and preference’ are attributed as a legacy of some kind of exotic culture to hide brutal realities. There is also an attempt by elitist left to give a communal angle to what is essentially brutal casteist acts, it’s a habitual attempt at obfuscating boundaries and bring in legitimacy to their nefarious angst.  Meanwhile, as always, feeding crude mullahs is showcased as defining moment of tolerance, how much these have degraded society doesn’t even need any study but what needs study is how much debouched indian elites have degraded countries like Britain with their conceptions. The regressive multiculturalism is quite clearly spiralling down Britain and is indeed constant threat to the world. Progressiveness is much enlightened thought that really cannot come from primitive crude settings, the least from Indians. To start with Britain needs to answer a basic question: why it is allowing spaces for discriminations in the name of faith? If a mosque perpetuates gender discrimination in its religious space, if temples allow discriminations in the name of ‘fatal accidents’ of birth (to quote Rohit Vermula) as in the credential of priests as also primitive identities …then these should be demolished. Meanwhile gandhians are on the lookout for non-existent harijans from their deepening caste pits for immediate patronizing and claw their way to high moral grandstanding.   

Indians have much freedom compared to other countries but that doesn’t translate to any form of responsibility, empathy or excellence, indeed it has become outlet for all kinds of regressiveness and pathetic ways, outsiders are fed on exotic cosmic chaos. Truth is much humbling and devastating. Indians are constantly meshed in their own crude conceptions meanwhile having high estimate about themselves. This crudeness controls all the institutions that attempts at giving high moral narrations while treading crap. Indian media, who tends to play some kind of benign intellectuals, should be severely censured for perpetuating caste cannibalism in crude ways of reporting, matrimonial columns so on. The worst is the judiciary (that have been elevated by market media as saviours) who play super squatter’s, and indeed very much susceptible to debouched influence and camaraderie. The reason why Kasturi&Sons and higher judiciary constantly fed and nurtured buffoons like Subramanium Swamy, there is a dangerous pattern to this. If far right in US have guns as defining identity then crude Indians have their caste, they both have high estimate about oneself and ready with dubious god ordained reasoning. In the US they kill here they cannibalise. In US they are simplistic while in India they are so cunning that they constantly, and with much ease, shift all spectrums of thoughts, in camaraderie, in high moral jubilance. They could be left, right, gandhian or marketers or what not that makes it sinister. This cannibalistic society is going nowhere despite high inspiring good intentioned talks by the PM.

This is the suicide letter by Rohit Vemula, a poignant final act of defiance and yes Indian elite shouldn’t be allowed to latch on with their habitual angst. Meanwhile this blogger again call upon international community to classify India as a racist country and severely stricture this primitive society.  

Good morning,

I would not be around when you read this letter. Don’t get angry on me. I know some of you truly cared for me, loved me and treated me very well. I have no complaints on anyone. It was always with myself I had problems. I feel a growing gap between my soul and my body. And I have become a monster. I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. At last, this is the only letter I am getting to write.

I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second handed. Our love is constructed. Our beliefs colored. Our originality valid through artificial art. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt.

The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of star dust. In very field, in studies, in streets, in politics, and in dying and living.

I am writing this kind of letter for the first time. My first time of a final letter. Forgive me if I fail to make sense.

May be I was wrong, all the while, in understanding world. In understanding love, pain, life, death. There was no urgency. But I always was rushing. Desperate to start a life. All the while, some people, for them, life itself is curse. My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from my childhood loneliness. The unappreciated child from my past.

I am not hurt at this moment. I am not sad. I am just empty. Unconcerned about myself. That’s pathetic. And that’s why I am doing this.

People may dub me as a coward. And selfish, or stupid once I am gone. I am not bothered about what I am called. I don’t believe in after-death stories, ghosts, or spirits. If there is anything at all I believe, I believe that I can travel to the stars. And know about the other worlds.

If you, who is reading this letter can do anything for me, I have to get 7 months of my fellowship, one lakh and seventy five thousand rupees. Please see to it that my family is paid that. I have to give some 40 thousand to Ramji. He never asked them back. But please pay that to him from that.

Let my funeral be silent and smooth. Behave like I just appeared and gone. Do not shed tears for me. Know that I am happy dead than being alive.

“From shadows to the stars.”

Uma anna, sorry for using your room for this thing.

To ASA family, sorry for disappointing all of you. You loved me very much. I wish all the very best for the future.

For one last time,

Jai Bheem

I forgot to write the formalities. No one is responsible for my this act of killing myself. No one has instigated me, whether by their acts or by their words to this act. This is my decision and I am the only one responsible for this. Do not trouble my friends and enemies on this after I am gone

The amazing “Copenhagen wheel”

This is the most exciting invention. Simple, elegant and yes redefines wheel!! 

At Indian Science Congress, matter of forward looking imaginations

This blogger had the opportunity to attend Indian Science Congress, for layman like me it was quite an interesting experience. Visited stalls exhibiting the latest achievements of premier institutes of the country like DRDO, CSIR, ISRO so on as also attended few talks. The number of talks and the topics dealt were mindboggling. The children’s innovation section was quite interesting. Unlike last year in Mumbai this year care was taken to see that the squatter inspired pseudo-science is not given space. These nonsenses should be dealt severely. But unfortunately it cannot be avoided as it is part of the psyche of this mediocre society that has high estimate about itself, while adeptly playing high moral liberal game cleverly reminding our jagath guru status. The playact of couching arrogance in humility is spell binding performance. With rare exception the calibre is quite low, they just replicate things and dedicate themselves as part of ritual, mostly emerging from entitled worldview they also see themselves as scientists, without even basic aptitude of inquisitiveness or the context. When the ISRO head is busy with voodoo act at Tirupathi before an important space mission, instead of being responsible to the situation, we know the extent of appalling degradation. It needs to be pointed out that since independence, with transfer of power, the squatter hold over Hinduism has been incrementally overwhelming. Till recently it was nod and wink with western sophistication now it is open and on your face squatter. The former therefore accuse the later of betrayal, of intolerance. The authority ordained and through hold over democratic process, money and the feudal nature of society had played to consolidate this power structure, cementing hold over democratic institutions, extending through market and entertainment. The egalitarian ways, quaint culture, have been consistently side lined. The degradation of democracy and consolidation of mediocrity has been the constant narration in the last many decades. Meanwhile the narration of progress is mostly hinged on replicating modernity through acquisitions and copying west facilitated by entitled ways, patronages, hereditary transactions and nepotism. These largely remains the framework for upper mobility, hence entrenched uncouthness and manipulations. The reason why Indian attempts mostly lack the depth, authenticity or requisite competence. The sheen is shallow and no amount of self-congratulation and patting oneself can improve these. Fortunately this society’s pit is not the reference there are some extremely smart and excellence driven frames that values rigour and is stridently scrutinised. The squatter nonsense cannot pass the crap test. It cannot even hide behind the garb of religion as it isn’t one nor can they mullah feed their way to enlightened values. Indian elite stands exposed as they cling on to their primitive identities simultaneously defending turfs of modernity. It’s a predicament that deserves no sympathy and indeed should be dealt with all righteous ferocity. No amount of intellectual posturing nor defecating arguments or felicity with words is going to help. Mishras and Chaudharis needs to pause and give a long look into the mirror, the blighted home truth that they seek to intellectualise, before they venture into another well-meaning moral hike.       

    

The squatter’s uncouthness spread through feudal leaders, elitist bureaucracy, confirmed by medieval judiciary.  Meanwhile these crude ways were mainstreamed by market instigated media hence becomes the mainstay of entertainment (this blogger suggests FTII should be privatised).  Deviant squatter culture and traditions were consolidated and mainstreamed as Hinduism and even ways of life. Since these were patently primitive the egalitarian nature and compassion driven values that resisted squatter’s deviance were appropriated to give a narration of moral consonance. The reason why even while they discuss science and rational ways, they just cannot stop showing signs of entitlement, the superior selves as carrier of grander tradition that no science can possibly even attempt to evaluate, indeed understand. Some kind of enigmatic access to mystical ways that the world will understand only in some later date. It is so pristine and pure, hence by extension themselves -an indication of self as possessor of superior knowledge that no science can reach or logic can pursue, it is ordained as special gift. Primitive squatter sometimes try Zen master ways, the obvious contemplative lack and practical deficiency makes it a hilarious effort. This blessed haughtiness is what defines this putrid pit. It predates and concludes all the worldviews in its condescending sweep, that includes science. Here a talk at Indian Science Congress on renewable energy, specifically gobar gas, ends with holy cow and a shloka, hence by implication a claim of greatness of prescient tradition that the speaker represents. Reality check here being gobar could be even be from buffaloes or organic waste, as also there is no shloka on gobar gas or that it is methane. A scientist should strictly avoid these references but then that is asking for bit too much. That in short are existential challenges faced by Indian scientist.

I was reading this brilliant book The Ascent of Man (by Jacob Bronowski), there is an interesting take on Art and Science, the cave paintings as 'power of anticipation', 'forward looking imagination', the ability to visualize future. I reckon this is beginning of great art of science fiction, that many a times preceded the actual invention. The reason why I am referring this book is the critical cultural foundation of giving primacy to ‘grasping the world by action’, hands being more important than eyes. These are not fickle foundation that ‘believed that the world has only to be seen and thought about –and who practiced no science’. This blogger thinks this is quite strongly linked to egalitarian ways and practices that becomes basis for ethical ways in society. “We are more than a symbolic accident in the evolution of man, that it is the hand that drives the subsequent evolution of brain. We find tools today made by man before he became man. Benjamin Franklin in 1771 called man ‘a tool making animal’, and that is right”. Interestingly steel was first invented in Indian subcontinent 10,000years back. It is a remarkable achievement, but as the squatter spread their tentacles these were reduced to degradation, shockingly blacksmith is seen as 'lowest' hence humiliated and exploited. While Japanese were able to take steel to high caliber weapon in an amazing amalgamation of art form and science: The samurai swords. The same was done by Chinese on bronze metal. Meanwhile Indian degradation was compelling, there were sparks of brilliance here and there, but these were despite squatters. The suffering and torment of mathematicians like Ramanjum is a clear reference that if he was born in some other society he would have contributed much more significantly and systematically. And yes there have been many like him in societies across the world the reason why Homo sapiens are able to land probe onto comet. So it is nothing unique to this part of the world as is being spread by squatter enthused as some kind of divine happening that only some have access to. Also one need to point out the brilliant loses over the centuries as primitive world spread. As Ramakrishna Venkataraman (scientist, Nobel laureate in Medicine, on his work on ribosomes) said in a talk, that I attended a month back, ‘observation has to go with speculation’. Unfortunately lacking observation skills speculation became basis of understanding in this part of the world. It gives an all-encompassing feeling of jagath guru to what is essentially a mediocre bunch of people enmeshed in primitive ways. It is a desperate attempt to bridge the entitled, the ordained selves, and the realities. In the last many centuries there were egalitarian spaces that resisted degradation of squatters, providing ethical context for common people. These have been significantly reduced in the last many decades as power structure gets consolidated and squatter worldview acquires primacy. It is a putrefying society that has achieved unique unity in diversity despite ‘different castes’. It is an amazing achievement; it should keep the world amused. 
                    

Post script: this blogger has nothing against cows, indeed loves them as much as I love dogs, cats or aquarium fishes, all animals, but squatters will not be allowed to weave their cunning little world of compassion.

Bull and Dog story: giving humanly attributes to animals would be anthropomorphizing them, but I really don’t know how to define these two. I have been observing them for about two years. They are mostly seen together. First I thought it was a coincidence but realised that there is something more to it. The bull may look intimidating but is gentle, sometimes even snooping into the house to get some grub. The dog meanwhile waits, acts as an escort, keep an eye on the bull, while the bull too sometimes looks out for the dog. The dog is different from other dogs around he has a distinct wolfish face and rarely interacts with other dogs. It’s an unlikely friendship that seems to be made out of choice as they both live on the streets, quite rare to see these two species get along like this.      

Major security lapse and lackadaisical ways

It is such a shock. They had all the intelligence (indeed it didn’t need much intelligence) and the all the time in the world, and still we have a case of few people crossing the border with all the ammunition of their choice and enter into, what is supposed to be high security zone –military base for god sake, as comfortably. So much money is going into defence, at the expense of other basic and pressing needs of the country, and this is what we get. Some unfortunate soldiers were caught off-guard in the mess, the Defence minister was quoted as saying ‘unlucky’. When will these politicians know to keep shut? And then we have a senior army officer getting killed trying to defuse a bomb, it is clear from the reports that procedures were not followed. Nobody should die like this, that too a senior officer wherein the country has invested so much. Meanwhile we also have stories wherein soldiers held their position despite being grievously injured, includes a soldier who won gold medal in Commonwealth games. A major tragedy was averted because of bravery of these soldiers. They were ‘unlucky’ because of amazing incompetence of policy makers. Hopefully the nation honours them with highest awards. In the meanwhile Defence Minister’s (more significantly NSA) position is untenable, it is a job that needs high level of responsibility, clarity of action and collaborative ways. What is shocking is that they haven’t evolved a mechanism to deal with these crucial situations.   

This blogger is amazed by the shoddiness exhibited in Pathankot terrorist attack, it is a typical concoction of pettiness of protecting the turf, ego, general incompetence and sycophancy to superior forces. That people’s lives come low on priority is a known matter but this level of ineptitude is beyond words. This blogger is not an admirer of Army, and considers it as only a regrettable need and feel sorry for the people who have to join these. Exaggeration in popular media for army or uniformed forces is understandable reflection of jingoism that feeds patriarchy and feudal values, quite common in primitive societies. Incidentally this is true for most part of the world, the reason why the world is the way it is. There are some people who are ready to give away life for fictional realities and society consolidates this deviance as heroism, it is important for survival of nation state. So while they divide land into nations and fiercely protect, the wily corporate dig the land and sell it wholesale, meanwhile property sharks deal the people into dreams while family members kill each other for inherited piece of land. So much so for human being, and the way they keep themselves busy! This blogger was always skeptical of values of valour emanating from this framework that the West tends to fall back to romanticize, the jingoism of force of good. There really aren’t any good guys in the war; it is a matter of geography. But yes people who put their life at risk should be adequately compensated; the state is duty-bound. Hence this blogger asserts that this nonsense of one rank one pension makes a joke of this reality. There really cannot be One Rank One Pension. No soldier of the same rank can be compensated equally. It has to be dependent on the risk they have faced and critical responsibilities held while the serving the nation. It is not the rank or position you hold that is important but what you do. For preordained primitive Indians these surely are not easy to comprehend. We have had ridiculous demand of retired generals’ cribbing that someone from lower rank shouldn’t get more!! They have quite clearly taken concept of rank into squatter’s framework hence this arrogance and sacrosanct nature of demands. This society has lots of problems and needs but despite these defence forces have been looked after fairly well. The other day CNR Rao was saying that the money for higher research in fundamental sciences is going to nuclear and defence. The amount of money spent is staggering, even here the indigenous efforts have always been constantly undermined by vested forces and manipulators. HAL is minor example, of what could be produced is imported while projects are scuttled, delayed…so much resources are lost while friends and relatives of powerful people turn arms dealers and facilitators, jobs that mediocre manipulative Indian elites are so much suited to. Though recently things are changing, but it’s a long way to go….