Nautilus paradigm in mass extinction

This is Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), a cephalopod that evolved around 500million years ago, it has therefore seen all the major extinction events that wiped out 99% of species ever lived. This living fossil is a remarkable success story that oversaw billions of species vanishing around it over millions of years of earth’s tumultuous and violent history. Starting with major extinction event around 444million years ago; the End Ordovician extinction that wiped out 86% of species which bloomed during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. The biodiversification unfortunately led to too much CO2 accumulation over millions of years, that eventually caused glaciation. Life had not evolved onto land hence the extinction was confined to ocean. Nautilus survived this first big extinction event. Next was Late Devonian extinction that happened around 365million years ago again in Paleozoic era that took away 70% to 80% of species, caused by culmination of series of events over millions of years but mainly due to drastic drop in O2 in Devonian ocean because of sedimentation. It needs to be pointed out that life had moved to land to create first terrestrial ecosystem consisting of trees and tetrapods, these terrestrial ecosystem within few million years developed into carboniferous forest. At this geological time scale landmass of earth had coalesced into supercontinent Pangea (meaning all lands). The ocean moisture did not reach the interior of pangea, there was severe drop of humidity and temperature which led to dying of carboniferous trees. Next big extinction event was one of the catastrophic occurrence that very nearly wiped out life from earth.  The End Permian extinction event happened about 250million years ago. Geological evidence through Siberian traps points to massive volcanic event that went on for millions of years, covering the basalt lava to a landmass as large as America in a mile deep, this activated a cycle of acid rain and huge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, the situation was made much dire by methane hydrates that accelerated into runway greenhouse, increasing the temperature by as much as 10degress Celsius, wiping out a staggering 96% of species. Nautilus survived this one too, and it need to be noted that all the species, including Homo sapiens, that survive today are from the evolution of this 4% left over species. About 50million later another major extinction event referred to as Late Triassic extinction wiped off 76% of all marine and terrestrial species. The exact reasons are not yet confirmed but seems to culmination of series of unfortunate events of glaciation, volcanoes and possibly asteroids. Ofcourse this event has reference in popular imagination as it snuffed out the apex predator opening it in favor of dinosaurs, who ruled for millions of years evolving and occupying all niche of ecosystem.

The next extinction event is arguably the most discussed and much exposed in mainstream media and entertainment. The End Cretaceous extinction event or Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event or simply K-T extinction event happened about 66million years ago, it wiped out 75% of species, significantly the charismatic dinosaurs. The evidence of asteroid strike got emboldened in thin layer of cretaceous clay without marine lifeforms sandwiched between abundance and handful marine lifeforms. Lucky find for geologist Walter Alvarez whose meticulous persistence with some providential insight from Nobel laureate father paid off big time. It was his physicist father who came up with the wild idea of clocking the clay using element Iridium. 

 Now, Iridium is extremely rare on the surface of the earth but much common in meteorites. Bits of meteorites constantly rain down on earth but the amount of Iridium in the clay sample was way off the chart. It had to be asteroid. Corroboration through ‘shocked quartz’ consolidated asteroid impact hypothesis. Final conclusion came with the discovery of ‘crater of doom’ –a 150km wide crater was discovered beneath Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, widely known after the nearest town, as the Chicxulub crater. All because of clairvoyant collaboration of geology and physics upping the providence. The reason why it is increasingly important to have collaborative study, open outlook and inquisitive inviting mindset. All these singularly absent in our education system. One is reminded of Feynman (today quite coincidently is also the birthday of the incredible man) “If our small minds, for some convenience…divide this universe, into parts –physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on –remember that nature does not know it!”     

Cephalopods like ammonites (quite popular among fossil collectors) too became extinct in the K-T event, but nautilus survived this one too. A comparison of ammonites and nautilus is worthy focus here. While ammonites produced very tiny, barely a millimeter, eggs, the resulting hatchlings just floated near the surface of the earth while Nautilus eggs were very large, indeed largest of all invertebrates, over two centimeters in diameter. Hatchling emerge only after a year of gestation, which swam into the depths for food. These critical differences set ammonites for extinction although they were perfectly adapted to their ecosystem but couldn’t take the abrupt change. Nautilus survived all these extinction events and is living among us. And now after 500million years it is on the verge of extinction pushed by the greed and misplaced priorities of an upstart specie. Wonder what nautilus thinks about humans?  I guess it will just try to avoid. That surely is the best option to deal something that doesn’t care to understand the meaning of it all despite amazing level of insightful knowledge nor the mindfulness to experience, and all the while carrying grand illusion of itself exacerbated by the systems it has nurtured. In the words of inimitable Carl Sagan “…The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark…”    

 After billions of years, when oxygen producing cyanobacteria changed the content of atmosphere leading to mass extinction of countless species of anaerobic bacteria, it is for the first time that a specie has so catastrophically impacted the survivability of earth’s life form. We are firmly in Anthropocene extinction event or Anthropogenic impacted extinction event. The cataclysmic changes humans have brought in an insignificant geological timescale is unprecedented and is indeed alarming. The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has sounded the beagle. More than one million species of plants and animals are at risk of extinction, and are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. The Report finds that more than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened, and at least 680 vertebrate species had been driven to extinction since the 16th century.  Based on a review of about 15,000 scientific and government sources and compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries, the global report is the first comprehensive look in 15 years at the state of the planet’s biodiversity. The report includes, for the first time, indigenous and local knowledge as well as scientific studies. They found overwhelming evidence that human activities are behind nature’s decline. They ranked the major drivers of species decline as land conversion, including deforestation; overfishing; bush meat hunting and poaching; climate change; pollution; and invasive alien species. It’s an ominous scene. Dead zones in ocean are increasing, latest data points to about 400 of them covering thousands of acres, forests are becoming silent as insects are vanishing, and grasslands are becoming deserts. The report succinctly points that we must radically change the way we live, including how we use energy to power our societies, grow our food, and manage our waste.

Biodiversity is important in the survival of the ecosystem which is very much connected to human survival. It is also a repository of diverse genetic database of millions of years of evolution as also unique insight into the strategies of survival. Each specie is a genius of its habitat and miraculous ability of life to survive and thrive.  Nature works on mutualism and cooperation, any disturbance of this balance has a reaction that goes deep into the connected equilibrium of life. Nature is an inspiration, guide and source of our wisdom, creative impulses and deepest connection to our being. The loss of each specie diminishes our ability to connect with our planet as also with our own self. We have lot to learn from nautilus.     

Terrible angst when the lick is not the same

The despicables who were nurtured, copiously fed, presented with dripping easy licks by caste cannibalised feudal state have shown all kinds of signs of extreme desperations during last five years. They have been cunningly using their devious skills and influence gained from last many decades –fed as legacy of entitlements in amazing milieu of mediocrity commensurating remarkable levels of arrogance in the self-assuredness of ordained place in the universe, to wrestle a narration of angst for the sake of common people. The guardian angels of primitive society that seeks astonishing ways to cannibalize itself estimates as overseers of moral authority, attempted by gandhian mucks as trustees to awe the world (hedonist fattened British fluffs vulnerable to colonial anguish were easy target, who took in from there to piggyback gandhi into stratospheric levels of moral authority, not in small measure, normalizing depravities) as also ooze the semantic puss from the putrid pit into the english. Meanwhile castetva playing liberal were quick to mark english as sign of high merit, with all the inbred skills through frog leaping from depraved sanctum moral vacuum traditions of sanskrit as defining value. Wherein it never occurred to the amazingly limited intellect that language is only a medium, and it fails if it doesn’t connects to surrounding, empathize with people and nature. Hence persistent mop up work through appropriation, plagiarizing or heuristic opportunism, as expected ends up to showcase hypocrisy and hilarious gandhian gaps.

        Now it has reached a frenzy as they drool unaware of their own cringing lacuna and nonexistent credibility. With the caste feudal, ie Castetva, losing the grip over state machinery manipulated narrations and the vice grip over common people –that was so very deviously fostered over the decades through degrading and appropriating egalitarian values, the background clatter has become deafening. While they rant, mostly in their own well fed echo chambers, as always keenly keeping score over each other and pleasure thereof, they tirade dire levels of breakdown that common people are to face and attempt to even threaten. Since these specimen were nurtured by state, and were meant to showcase as embellishments in the existential attempts to civilize as liberal, secular, they rarely had any impact on common people (nor were expected to, since these were meant for faraway audience) hence this constant itch to morph putrid pits as diversity while they desperately stitch unity part. West is always the reference for these attempts in their lifelong desire to be accepted, while surreptitiously teaming to conceal putrid hometruth as they sashay into foreign lands as representing top predators in gandhian moral web. Meanwhile in the last many decades castetva has, apart from heli-dropping caste feudals as leaders, hedonists with hint of art hence assumed as liberal, opinion makers, artists so on through state largesse dumped on to beleaguered people. They cultivated ecosystem that nurtured these as aspirational, while these cunning hopped to squatter temples for hapless people to emulate so as to improve their chance with fate as has so miraculously happen with them. Castetva has finally left the putrid society at the doorstep of hindutva. Hindutva is the real deal while castetva is fake, and indeed worked to create a degraded ecosystem for hindutva to function. If this society had taken the opportunity provided by democracy to work on progressive anti-caste egalitarian value system and long rich traditions of enlighten thoughts that can be traced from Buddha to Nanak -who were forced to move out of putrid pit instead by cunning caste cannibals, who, as is the nature, aligned with power to control narration thus degrading the society and causing untold misery to common people as also exposing to marauding invaders and colonizers. There is a narration pushed by castetva, now handed over to hindutva, that india –assuming it was single entity, was a ‘sone ki chidiya’. The sad reality was that the valuables (including soul of people) were sucked in by devious squatters into sanctum leaving a mediocrity thriving cannibalistic impoverished society exposed and vulnerable. Sone ki ghanta.

It is contribution of these depraved narration that castetva nurtured exotic pets with Muslim names (minor reference of christian names, rarely Sikhs or Buddhists –who are seen as slaves hence proprietorial right), while semiliterate were rounded in with religious pandering of the extreme kind, nuance was sought with hedonists. The society suffered severely because of the devious value system of the arrogant and entitled. The backlash against serious sinister wahabi salafi sunni intrusions have communalized societies and wiped out benign traditions. I have travelled, indeed cycled, along the west coast stretch and it’s easy to see the impact particularly in Karnataka. It’s also not uncommon that this castetva deviousness has helped unleash crude form of reactionary hindutva in these regions.

So, today I was reading one of the exotic pet with muslim name, many columnists (assumed to be opinion makers but hardly matter except in echo chamber of feudal liberal posers in little pits of big cities) and so called journalists like him, who were fed and fattened in last many decades to strengthen devious narrations, are getting restive and indeed spewing propaganda against hindutva (who ofcourse have their own deafening echo chambers energized with enthusiasm of new entrants into the game). This sycophantic ‘senior’ journalist, as expected casteist to the core –designed to the requirements of castetva, is a class act to understand these exotic species, at one instance he elaborates that he “travelled 110countries, and would like to be born again in India”. The deep state has evidently nurtured him and so he knows how to play the game, hence assertion to be “born again” by a muslim is tick on the box of syncretic culture. Indeed this representative specie has been thriving on this fertile ground that is carefully constructed as syncretic, fulfilling all the castetva requirements These inane statements though ridiculous has been carefully calibrated into high art, as also its sly wink at sanctum “born again through which vagina” record keepers (I am told purity mami –the inhouse disgust at Kasturi&sons draws ‘kolam’ on Sundays in marina beach to propitiate secular liberal gods for matrimonial profit. Such is the scrotum scratcher’s legacy that soda sugar seller nooyi muyi also acknowledges from US of A that its a divine gift specially packed and sent through dick-vagina intersection). 

Coming back to ‘travelled 110countries’ fellow, also moonwalking as journalist, when cornered he will snarl and scrap even the bottom –that incidentally is defining characteristic. Such is the dedication to hand that nurtures. Look at the shocking assertion made by him that emergency “embarrassed Mrs. Gandhi herself which is why she called general elections”. Embarrassed you say you scoundrel. Embarrassed? When thousands and thousands of people were jailed and killed/maimed. What is beyond embarrassment was that she wasn’t held responsible and prosecuted for atrocities during emergency. The deep state (entrenched castetva force) needed her. Indeed none of these thugs masquerading as leaders were ever prosecuted. They have created a self-sustaining system that take cares of their needs, and common people are expendable as is fated. Millions of people in this country have the worst life than anywhere else in the planet, almost all of them sanctum fated. This society has rotted beyond redemption, and these liberal posturers are undertakers of misery. Meanwhile the fellow merrily carries on “Indira Gandhi appeared to have chastened into Hinduism once she returned to power in 1980. Operation bluestar was launched in this mood…” Mood?! Look at the audacity of this man. Not that we should be surprised, this man like many of his ilk that stampede power corridors of delhi was chosen and nurtured by caste cannibal feudals over the decades, and now he is duty bound to pay back the largesse. “Namak ki keemath”. Hence these maddening outburst which even tests reader’s sanity. He elucidates his ivory tower mindset (always obsessed with themselves and their ordained role, they lack respect and empathy for common people), the casteist lout eking on gravy train posits that caste politics weakens caste hierarchy, while hindutva stabilizes caste pyramid. In his enthusiasm he justifies castetva agenda, that hints as concern, of ardent desire to equalise the putrid pits. The problem here is; One, its remains a putrid pit meant to ensnare common people and society into degradation that is worse than racism. Second, the innate values associated with cannibalistic system doesn’t have any basis of equality meanwhile rich tradition of egalitarian value system seeks annihilation, nor does we need any system which tells humans living in neighborhood for ages are indeed equal! And lastly, common people have other existential issues, in what is essentially corrupt nepotism driven crude society, and however hard these pretentious scoundrels posit, these matter are crucial in their bleak life as they face all kinds of exploitation. Election provides an opportunity to assert their right, however insignificant it may seem. This seems to be the only hope, futile as it is, against overwhelming unsurmountable odds.  

Essentially these high end pretenders recruited by castetva forces to what is postured as attempts to stop hindutva is feeding on the corner of the same pit. To fatten over misery of common people. Castetva is fake, and have severely eroded indian society with state machinery and power structure in last many decades. Significantly it has played a major role in defining hindutva. Hindutva is real and to a large extend reflects the nature of society. Its rise to prominence, replacing castetva, needs to be noted as an assertion. It needs to be seen how it negotiates value system and assimilates society into egalitarian context, arduous task considering the damage castetva has done. Therefore the egalitarian traditions that has been negated must consolidate to assert, influence, and if need be, oppose hindutva. Though this blogger believes that the egalitarian humanitarian stream of Hinduism has lot to offer (within the limited context of absurdities of religions ofcourse). Meanwhile castetva, and its exotic pets and hanger on, have no role whatsoever. They can assilimate back into hindutva fold and have space  to push it into extreme right, as the cunning ordained mindset is attuned to, while it take common people as fodder for devious sanctum inspired fate.                      

                 

Extinction rebellion

Quite a significant movement

This a speech by Greta Thunberg, wonderfully precocious. 

My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I speak on behalf of future generations. I know many of you don’t want to listen to us — you say we are just children. But we’re only repeating the message of the united climate science.

Many of you appear concerned that we are wasting valuable lesson time, but I assure you we will go back to school the moment you start listening to science and give us a future. Is that really too much to ask?

In the year 2030 I will be 26 years old. My little sister Beata will be 23. Just like many of your own children or grandchildren. That is a great age, we have been told. When you have all of your life ahead of you. But I am not so sure it will be that great for us.

I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big. I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and yet now we may have nothing.

Now we probably don’t even have a future any more. Because that future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money. It was stolen from us every time you said that the sky was the limit, and that you only live once.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.

Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?

Around the year 2030, 10 years 252 days and 10 hours away from now, we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place, including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale, inventions that are supposed to clear the atmosphere of astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, these calculations do not include unforeseen tipping points and feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas escaping from rapidly thawing arctic permafrost.

Nor do these scientific calculations include already locked-in warming hidden by toxic air pollution. Nor the aspect of equity — or climate justice — clearly stated throughout the Paris agreement, which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale.

We must also bear in mind that these are just calculations. Estimations. That means that these “points of no return” may occur a bit sooner or later than 2030. No one can know for sure. We can, however, be certain that they will occur approximately in these time frames, because these calculations are not opinions or wild guesses.

These projections are backed up by scientific facts, concluded by all nations through the IPCC. Nearly every single major national scientific body around the world unreservedly supports the work and findings of the IPCC. Did you hear what I just said? Is my English OK? Is the microphone on? Because I’m beginning to wonder.

During the last six months I have traveled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere. And the basic problem is that basically nothing is being done to halt – or even slow – climate and ecological breakdown, despite all the beautiful words and promises.

The UK is, however, very special. Not only for its mind-blowing historical carbon debt, but also for its current, very creative, carbon accounting.

Since 1990 the UK has achieved a 37% reduction of its territorial CO2 emissions, according to the Global Carbon Project. And that does sound very impressive. But these numbers do not include emissions from aviation, shipping and those associated with imports and exports. If these numbers are included the reduction is around 10% since 1990 — or an an average of 0.4% a year, according to Tyndall Manchester.

And the main reason for this reduction is not a consequence of climate policies, but rather a 2001 EU directive on air quality that essentially forced the UK to close down its very old and extremely dirty coal power plants and replace them with less dirty gas power stations. And switching from one disastrous energy source to a slightly less disastrous one will of course result in a lowering of emissions.

But perhaps the most dangerous misconception about the climate crisis is that we have to “lower” our emissions. Because that is far from enough. Our emissions have to stop if we are to stay below 1.5-2º C of warming. The “lowering of emissions” is of course necessary but it is only the beginning of a fast process that must lead to a stop within a couple of decades, or less. And by “stop” I mean net zero — and then quickly on to negative figures. That rules out most of today’s politics.

The fact that we are speaking of “lowering” instead of “stopping” emissions is perhaps the greatest force behind the continuing business as usual. The UK’s active current support of new exploitation of fossil fuels — for example, the UK shale gas fracking industry, the expansion of its North Sea oil and gas fields, the expansion of airports as well as the planning permission for a brand new coal mine — is beyond absurd.

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

People always tell me and the other millions of school strikers that we should be proud of ourselves for what we have accomplished. But the only thing that we need to look at is the emission curve. And I’m sorry, but it’s still rising. That curve is the only thing we should look at.

Every time we make a decision we should ask ourselves; how will this decision affect that curve? We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases. We should no longer only ask, “Have we got enough money to go through with this?” but also, “Have we got enough of the carbon budget to spare to go through with this?” That should and must become the center of our new currency.

Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you “solve” the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you “solve” a war? How do you “solve” going to the moon for the first time? How do you “solve” inventing new inventions?

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

“So, exactly how do we solve that?” you ask us — the schoolchildren striking for the climate. And we say, “No one knows for sure. But we have to stop burning fossil fuels and restore nature and many other things that we may not have quite figured out yet.”

Then you say: “That’s not an answer!” So we say: “We have to start treating the crisis like a crisis — and act even if we don’t have all the solutions.”

“That’s still not an answer,” you say. Then we start talking about circular economy and rewilding nature and the need for a just transition. Then you don’t understand what we are talking about.

We say that all those solutions needed are not known to anyone and therefore we must unite behind the science and find them together along the way. But you do not listen to that. Because those answers are for solving a crisis that most of you don’t even fully understand. Or don’t want to understand.

You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

Sometimes we just simply have to find a way. The moment we decide to fulfill something, we can do anything. And I’m sure that the moment we start behaving as if we were in an emergency, we can avoid climate and ecological catastrophe. Humans are very adaptable: we can still fix this. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We must start today. We have no more excuses.

We children are not sacrificing our education and our childhood for you to tell us what you consider is politically possible in the society that you have created. We have not taken to the streets for you to take selfies with us, and tell us that you really admire what we do.

We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.

I hope my microphone was on. I hope you could all hear me.

Where the time stops

Over the horizon

Billion ants held their mandibles across the earth to knot  

that spread to include all beings in a cozy set up

buoyant in the perilous journey across the blasé sun.      

Human, a casual presence in an indifferent universe,

sights the eye of an aloof black hole

stupefied by insignificance in the churning darkness.

A bottomless abyss of matter and time

and the nodding squint of praying mantis silhouetting  

on the window sill  

Indians deserve much better

Having understood how the mediocres have kept common people in vicious snare, while licking the gravy under the garb of high intending words, they take it to the next level during election time. Everything that is debauched is on display by these posturers. They come in the form of media person and journalists, the one that is being elevated as fourth estate by democracy. With the exception of some rarest of rare (as is the nature of effete) most are limited by their own inbred limitations. They also go abroad to acclimatize themselves with civilized ways and latest semantics to cover their uncouth self. This then becomes the basis of competence, and claim of expertise. They write columns and articles and seek to influence where they cannot except some limited circles which they promptly try to exaggerate. Ditto is the case of TV channels that is spread across the beleaguered society in predatory alliance with the market. There is always a celebration to trap people, even during the worst of crisis and tragedies where humans die they don’t forget to break for market to hawk their goods (such is the despicable insensitive system they have conceived to keep themselves fed, and we are told this the best to offer). So now the caste feudals, mostly of the variety with squatter references and other despicable value systems, ransack TV studios with their views and opinions. These are not only crass but carefully set the agenda to demean common people, their aspirations and values, into caste pits. They create all kinds of matrix and charts to justify the claim. They not only lack civilized value system but indeed subtleties of thoughts and ideas, and most significantly any hint of empathy on people's plight. They even lack as basic as discussion skills, while on one extreme we have people screaming at each other in righteous indignation while on the other there are whispers in designer cloths by cunning nepotists of the worst variety that gives the impression of high sophistication and concern.

These are the worst kind of people, leapfrogging from moral vacuum into entitled positions as arbitrators of beleaguered society, adept in ensnaring common people and exploiting them into further misery while giving the impression of guardian angels. Look at the front page in one of the despicable newspaper (chosen randomly): election is declared as ‘luck’, hence more than billion people queuing up in hot sun to express their aspirations for a better future are reduced to chance, of fate. Now if this is happening in 2019 (that too so openly, on a headline of a newspaper) just imagine what this primitive society had to endure all these decades in garb of democracy. These were fed and fattened by cunning caste cannibals who ruled for last many decades severely degrading the society and its enlightened value system as also any possibility to negotiate future challenges. 

This society tends to gnaw itself when given an opportunity to have progressive value system. Putrid pits like Kerala is where Indians with literacy but no capacity to educate and value subtleties of life end up in. The most important issues in this pit (where various religions find its lowest base, and will keep digging), according to market manipulated TV channel, is Sabarimala issue (indeed not progressive aspects of it but uncouth in the garb of rituals which caste feudals identify with). This is the state which has seen the worst natural calamities in recent time, devastating floods as also cyclones crossing from east coast to west coasts for the very first time with increasing intensity and frequency. This is a region extremely vulnerable to climate change impact but the blessed effete entitled posing as journalists seem least concern as they stampede for next lick in the blessed land. Urgent issues that has potential to create most misery and devastations are left for people to fend. Its characteristic cunningness to take people for granted and place these in the realm of fate while they fine tune repertoire of speculation, BS astrology as science that only blessed have unique insight into in the whole of universe. Such is the estimation of arguably one of the worst of humanity.

Now the above newspaper is owned by a fellow with muslim name, quite expected since these are fed and fattened as exotic pets by caste feudals to showcase their benign nature as also gravy points on secularism, then ofcourse its about stratospheric liberalism meant to awe strike the west and to create mystical nature that sneaks between truth and untruth that blessed Indians have access to. There are many caste feudal wastrels with muslim and christian names who have been fed to perpetuate these.

Phir ek baar Modi sarkaar? Though this blogger has no inclination for any political party, and consider them all opportunists of varying degree, but the greater impact on society of these power structure is significant. Hence needs closer scrutiny. One will prefer Hindutva over Castetva. Though both are unenlightened frame and cause misery to common people in varying degree of debauchery but the preference is based on two predominating thoughts. Firstly, Hindutva is real, it is not fake. It in many ways is able to coalesce the conflicting value aspiration of vast nation, though in a way taken to extremes but the nature of hinduism prevents it being taken to catastrophic effect. It finds its regressive balance. While Castetva is fake. It works on pretentions of liberal and semantics stolen from west to cover its uncouthness. They have severely degraded the egalitarian nature of hinduism in last many decades and have done irreparable damage to the society. English talks, linguistic chicanery and designer cloths doesn’t create sophistication nor deviant value systems assure diversity. Feeding monster mullahs and designed as ordered, market operated, feudal muslims, and then inflicting these on common muslims is not secularism. They have taken, with characteristic cunningness, common people for granted and with increasing audacity and self-assuredness used them for their despicable end, meanwhile nurturing high end manipulators as leaders and air dropping them on hapless people. When push comes to shove these caste feudals will scamper into hindutva fold. This homecoming is expected since, despite its high posturing, castetva is only a subset of hindutva. This can easily be gauged from the fact that hindutva owes almost everything for its rise on castetva. Since Castetva basically associates with regressive nature of hinduism they milked it and ballooned it into Hindutva. So whether it is Ayodhya or recent Sabarimala you can find the unmistakable footprints. Since they have arrogance that is liberal coated and sanctum driven on feudal values meanwhile west remains a constant reference (hence have cultivated these and placed their litters, thus ‘international’ concern on hindutva is pushed on fortuitous occasions) they treat common people with utmost contempt. Hence collective conscience like nation is subservient to their intense need for higher acclaim in western mind. While hindutva being quite connected to common people, in a visceral way, understands nationalism and capitalise it to the hilt. Hindutva with its nationalist posturing is least bothered about West. The positives, if ever, here is atleast Indian life is not cheap. One can see the difference in the response to Mumbai attack (that surely needed a much stricter response, it still is shocking) and attack on soldiers in Phulwama (that surely didn’t need such an extreme response, nevertheless considering how these were being handled in last many decades it seems appropriate). Controlling jingoism is a tricky thing. Furthermore, though hindutva is casteist to the base -since the society is degraded by castetva forces, it needs it as cohesive unit. This gives hint to seeking egalitarian nature of hinduism, while you can see castetva (with its well fed exotic pets –read, high end muslim/christian opinion makers) blatantly work -indeed viciously in recent times, on nurturing caste, working on segregation and divisions, and have no qualm in exploiting these at the expense of common people. Hindutva has brought essential balance that reflects the nature of society -however crude, while castetva had severely degraded the society for regressive nature of hinduism to rise -not that anything better is expected from anachronistic frame of religion hinged as it is on mass hallucination. Castetva has done immense damage by not only undermining egalitarian value system that has contribution of great souls like Buddha, Nanak, Kabir…saints who trace values from anti caste empathy driven pointers of bhakti movements that forms the basic foundation of the society which is severely weakened since independence as caste cannibals took control over narration with power infrastructure and state authority. Had Hindutva ruled after independence it would have created opposing force that could have genuinely worked for egalitarian value system. The opposition would have provided essential value system and infrastructure of resistance that enhanced the society. Castetva with its fake posturings and cunning semantics is the reason for this impasse of rise of regressive nature of hindutva. The society therefore is now hard positioned to assimilate resistance from degraded value system. It’s an arduous task.  

       

Secondly, last five years has not seen major problems that could be called as devastating failures that calls for the ruling party to be removed. There are serious problems, that can be factored in as aspiration related disappointments, as also five years is too less a period for new entity. There has been attempts to dilute RTI but transparency seems to have improved. There were significant attempts made to shake the status quo and unhinge the entrenched groups and interests (most significantly those posturing as opinion makers with connection assiduously cultivated by manipulating sycophants without any mass base). Mr. Modi has shown lots of maturity in handling many issues and seem quite connected with the masses. However, there is a flamboyancy bordering egotism (common trapping of power) that could backfire. Consider his appalling attempt at humour on Congress leader regarding dyslexia. Most significantly he is a one-man show, minus him BJP is in serious bother. Nevertheless, he remains a charismatic leader.                                                      

Beleaguered society seeks redemption

It’s a society that dwells in the putrid pit, the bleakest references of humanity, but still carries a very high estimation of itself. The hallucination is such that they sometime fancy as moral authority of international community. Gandhi is thrust in every conceivable occasion to refurbish the image as self-appointed caretakers –trustees, of the world. The sham has gone for too long. It’s about time that Indians apologise to the world community for inflicting a casteist racist opportunist patriarch on the world. To start with each and every positive reference of Gandhi must be removed from African continent. Meanwhile caste cannibals masquerading as entitled kindred souls in international forums must be booted out. Castetva forces that ruled India, and firmly controlled the narration, for last many decades have nurtured and fed primitive entrenched groups across the world that expertise in playing liberal. Subtle semantics and cunning positioning is added ammunition to awe strike the world. Meanwhile whatever they delve in is degraded and taken to the worst possible denomination.

There is always the highest estimation, so the entitled mediocres are ever ready to take on Einstein, Newton…revisit quantum or whatever is being dealt by the best of human minds. Blessed Indians failed to understand how is that these aren’t being attributed to their all-knowing civilizational greatness. It baffles them meanwhile Indians remain a bunch whose civilizational as well as contemporary contribution to humanity remains an embarrassing apology. Mostly showcasing as ace replicators and shallow incrementalists, all negotiated as if it is a ritual. Give them the template they will figure it out, cheaper and clever additions. It is in the same exaggerated narration, that the blessed claim to see future, these are taken as higher knowledge (in a society which rarely values knowledge except as auspicious multiplier of money hence blessing). Something no other people in world (indeed universe) can accomplish. The BS vendors are quite naturally esteemed members of primitive society, they are positioned as wise men who are consulted for making the occasion propitious by bending the laws of nature –in all humbleness, it must be added, into their favour. The deep nature of beleaguered society nurtures these conmen. Market media, despite its highest claim as guardian angels, is an extension of travesty meant to trap common people into putrid pit. This clippings from few newspapers (indeed one can safely assume that these ‘news’ must be there in more newspapers and other news outlets too, that’s is how the racket works). It’s about two ‘prominent’ astrologers (an indication of primitive society that showcase these con artists as prominent!) predicting that state government of Karnataka will fall by March 5^th (that is tomorrow!). Market media finding these con artists as ‘vidwan’ (scholar) shows how much they are complicit. Further, this nonsense as news is symptomatic to larger muck that is persistently sought to envelope the society and relegate common people. This is where Castetva and Hindutva forces meet to exchange notes. While irresponsible media institutionalise these baloneys, its impact on society and hapless people can be easily be gauged, meanwhile it also opens up the insecure politicians to cultivate these to survive. Thus common people’s needs and aspiration are countered while a cunning narration, to appease unknown forces that has firm control on fate, is pushed in. These are the same who classify society as benign castes groups (community used as clever euphemism, the world needs to now rethink as to what community means. Such is the sickness of this society) ready to be herded as vote banks, while third rate casteists are elevated as astute leaders all the while degraded journalists morph and bring their innate nature as astrologers, ready with incisive crap talk on anything and everything. It’s a stellar performance. It’s a different matter that they rarely get anything right, including predictions, ironical! Devastating that maybe but they are back with renewed vigour befitting con artists assured of easy licks.

It needs people connected to surrounding reality with necessary quality of empathy that frames mindsets to understand and perceive, something blessed entitled acutely lack, indeed incapable, hence these bullshit vendoring. This fellow Verma, manipulating for bigger lick, kickstarted his ambitions by informing common people on how to pronounce, of all things, ‘lingerie’ and now refers primitive casteist feudal society as “most refined society”. Quite clearly he is degrading to factor himself in (if we have stricter understanding of ‘refined’ then a fellow with caste reference, despite adept in cunning semantics, will be early causality and kicked out), hence this constant strive and desperation. Two decades back I ticked him out. But the persistent fellow is adept in his game, a clear understanding of nuances to latch onto gravy train stampede. His career path and trajectory shows a conman at work, now though he must be securing for his litters like any nepotistic gene donor of ever refining society!

This hapless society values intelligence in bureaucracy, it’s as if bureaucrats are harbingers of wisdom. These were created to efficiently function the administration hence britishers gave them much power (and ofcourse prestige, with added money on the sly and easy privileges) so as to streamline and optimise exploitation. For beleaguered Indians with no reference of excellence or competence these become platform to showcase intelligence! Probably it fulfilled all the criteria of blessedness –power/prestige/money/privileges/hierarchy. What more divine intervention do you need?! What a disgraceful bunch. It is such a shame. So even now there is much fanfare for these jobs, and the entrance to these have been showcased as sign of high intelligence of Indians. So those already in ‘services’ (never did a word meant just the opposite, another of ‘refined’ indian marvel with words!) are seen as carriers of infinite wisdom. The truth being these are just government employees meant to execute government policies. Most really don’t have much knowledge nor understanding of wider world, stuck in manipulative surroundings throughout their life they generally become painful presence. However, with clear indications of blessed life they quite easily fall into the illusion of wisdom and grandness of being (it’s always excruciating, nevertheless funny, to watch a retired police officer or indulgent diplomat elucidate on some higher ideas of world, with characteristic authority, without absolutely no idea on what he is talking about). Just because you carried out government policies for few decades doesn’t add to anything. Just a cog, that is all. They ofcourse do write books, like any entitled Indian, to showcase higher bearing and authenticate blessings. The reason why books by Indians (with rarest of rare exceptions) are just lot of garbage.

So there, ego driven power salivating bureaucrats are the carriers of intelligence and high knowledge that is so widely acknowledged in this godforsaken society that there is a stampede, even youngsters fit in core and exciting cutting edge persuasions get into the nonsense. This society persistently creates value systems that works against in its own interests and wellbeing.  Big corporate names, prestige, is other options to showcase their heuristic value base. Then they cross link with other thriving mediocrities like stupid wastrel’s game cricket to further degrade sports (and convert people into pliable thumping couch potatoes) and amazing disgraceful fare of Indian movies as art! (every pit contributes it worst, but the cream I reckon is telegu- atrocious, its spreading). This then therefore is the culture that impressionable minds are exposed to. So, excellent engineer turned into exceedingly exaggerated dumb bureaucrat or diplomat is celebrated as intelligence, richest sporting body IPL digs the pits to shame even the idea of sports, while richest Indian movie –bahubali, is an embarrassment that in many ways defines Indian take on art (with the same amount of money other societies would have made something to savor): crass, lacking any nuance, subtlety or evolved idea. Last but not the least look at the dwelling the richest Indian (not rich because of any amazing innovation) has made for himself! If there is lowest possible expectation from any society (ofcourse except mullah’s barrenness and racist Trumpster land) in the world, then it is this.    

Work will not set you free

Perception managers have only one use of reality and that is to manipulate it to their advantage. In a degraded beleaguered society with well-established cannibalistic value system these get heart wrenching. So they insist and orchestrate as work will set you free. Don’t worry about outcomes just keep working. God is watching, so you will no doubt get your dues in next life. Meanwhile charlatans and devious frog leap from sanctum ethical moral vacuum to cosy entitlements as foreseer and arbitrators. There are also constant celebrations of higher possibilities that is ofcourse limited by their own limitations. They also, with riveting purpose, emulate liberal values from west, hinting also at modernity. It’s a compelling charade if you catch the nuance. Meanwhile keep the common people occupied in their misery, drivel into them their fate that is so tenuously hinged to largesse extended. Also, constantly degrade since they blossom in muck. Standards are therefore always kept low (check mediocre movies exalted as art and stupid game cricket as sport) while entry carefully calibrated. Enterer is constantly kept in check by reminders of fate, that could easily be turned into deep shit. Low standards create manipulative space hence are potent weapon for reiterating and perpetuating the sanctum sanctioned morally dubious value system, that works as the deep nature of state. Every society has marketeers but in here they are the core to which politics, business, media etc. coalesce to perpetuate the deep nature of society. The worst of capitalism without any innovation or competence is the model here. Crony capitalism produced millionaires, little trumps, in every conceivable disgusting indianised ways while millions go without basic needs. It’s a camaraderie racket that constantly faults facts, eschew social data and avoid complexities of the society. Patronising elitism with sanctum entitlement is the safest bubble from which critical issues are arbitrated. They also recruit and nurture role models as distraction to keep common people occupied in their misery while firmly tied to fate that could ofcourse be improved substantially by vigorous penance and being fleeced from their meagre living in the alter of sanctum. It’s a devious conception and there surely is no escape, atleast not in this life. These are carefully drivelled in as modern gadgets are accrued as god given good fortunes to further these primitive ways. It is no surprise that Indians value themselves as facilitators, hence whatever educational qualification or skill one may have it need to be evaluated through money and power, hence managers/MBA and bureaucracy/IAS/IPS (?!) as pinnacle of life’s ambition, also valuated as excellence and ofcourse the great mediocre Indian self-asserting urge for merit. It’s a constant strive, ofcourse passed through primitive family value system in each home, that gets it succour from sacred sanctum, to be seen as controllers of other’s fate, as someone working over others. The more people under you (or crucially, dependent on you) better the fate, definite sign of blessing. There seems to be no understanding of knowing yourself and surrounding, to create life affirming value and worth. No wonder this is a vassal state for worst kind of marketeers from across the world, and every now and then little Trumps gives thumbs up sign as success story for market media to chew on so as to redefine blessing in modern times and people to gawk at.       

Work will not set you free. No amount of meaningless dehumanising rotating of charkha will change any reality. These symbols were carefully calculated (despite valiant intellectualisation by devious gandhians) to trap common people into submitting to their divine duty, their fate, while being readied to exploit their body and slowly deliberately extinguish their souls. “By doing the same thing day after day mechanical skill may be acquired; but the mind like a mill-turning bullock will be kept going round and round a narrow range of habit. That is why, in every country man has looked down on work which involves this kind of mechanical repetition” (Rabindranath Tagore, "The Cult of the Charka"). There is no pride in degrading jobs. There is no life when body is just an instrument for extraction of profit. Hopefully automations will reduce these dehumanising jobs. Government meanwhile must initiate targeted basic income to vulnerable people, specifically marginalised women (now that many have bank accounts, as also women’s empowerment), so that people (significantly children) feel sense of security and can get some respite from dehumanising money making drudgery and institutionalized exploitation, hence can thrive to their potential as humans and not cog in machine for devious to exploit. Chatter box will chatter about where will the money come from (as if the money these market created dubious jobs get them is what their value is!), quite ironically since almost all are entitled rent seekers and sanctum blessed with minimum of skills. The elected representatives are duty bound to provide basic income to vulnerable. Money can come from natural resources (nature has not conceived billions of years of its resources to be fed to fattened ambanis and aggrawals, and to increase their blessings) or through innovative ways like income from data, inheritance tax so on. Even at international level there is a need to create fund for climate change adaptation, as the millions of vulnerable people with arguably least carbon footprint pay the price. About time to tax international financial as well as data transactions, akin to much touted Tobin tax.  

Much to the man is undue

         

Where honours are due

There is absolutely no reason why the highest honour of the land is not extended to Shivakumara Swamiji. Belonging to lingayat tradition, part of rich legacy of bhakti movement, initiated by saint Basava that strived for egalitarian society, stridently against caste and value system that degraded the society while working within Hinduism to remove these dehumanizing structures that squatters worked from sanctum control. Unfortunately, in recent times these have been co-opted by primitive nature of society that seeks to appropriate egalitarian values into caste fold through state institutions and power. As also these are now being beaten into divisive political agenda, and become part of cunning political dealings that reduced it to caste groups with uncouth haggling as leaders. Its despicable, this society seems to be fine-tuned to reduce everything into worst possible references and bleakest outcomes, very much orchestrated by devious people nurtured by deep state. Meanwhile there is absolutely no reason why anti-caste movement like Lingayats are not separate religion and given minority status so that these subtle thoughts and ideas are protected from crude nature of society, this has support of common people. These situations and demands becomes painfully ridiculous when put in context to members of stupid game (read cricket) who were honoured by state (disgracefully the market nominee in amalgam with deep nature of state was seen promoting products despite the highest honour. In a crude ecosystem you cannot expect finesse, at the most well calibrated humbleness. Such is the greed and degraded nature of society that nurture these).

Swamiji, who passed away two days back at the age of 111, was a part of rich legacy that constantly worked for betterment of humanity, these have been instrumental in providing quality education and primary health care for millions of desperate people who were discriminated by society and state institutions -its carefully worked out lopsided nature of development that failed to care for vulnerable, marginalised and exploited. By honouring Shivkumara Swamiji the government is not only honouring a remarkable individual but a tradition that traces its roots that thrived from Buddha to Bhakti movement to Nanak despite primitive caste feudals constantly intruding through clever semantics, state power and money.   

Casteless economic criterion for affirmative action: Though it is political move this blogger would like to congratulate the government for taking steps towards much saner form of affirmative action. Unfortunately, the primitive nature of society, controlled by entrenched power brokers, will make it difficult. They thrive in degraded ecosystem, where manipulating and controlling common people is easier while stampeding for representing their angst, as also easy template for playing liberal. Further anti-caste measures need to be taken that makes it difficult for casteist to work their devious ways. Meanwhile the most marginalised and systemically exploited needs continuous attention and support. Massive investment is needed in primary education and health at grassroot level, unlike trickled down by mediocre caste feudals and their pious interventions that was the norm for last many decades.       

Ever expanding claims of low calibers

When entitled mediocres of a blessed society wallowing in its putrid pit encounters the subtler world they are baffled. It’s a mixture of exaggerated self-worth grandeur surveying the scene for indications of higher blessing (as has been predicted and guaranteed by intricacies of foretelling future, a ‘vidya’, specially gifted from abode that humanity is yet to understand, such is the extent of BS nurtured by the degraded society) while with limited intellect, to get traction for elevated self its assured place in brahmand. With it the eternal burden of rectifying the misunderstanding the world suffers about grandness of blessed Indians -that has already been authenticated from unknowable energies of universe. As much as Indian scientist is a joke, indeed an oxymoron if put in its blessed context, Indian Science Congress is a laughter to set the tone for the year for a beleaguered society. These are not something happening in last few years, nor these socalled scientist aberrations, it’s a legacy that has been viciously nurtured by castetva forces (with characteristic cunningness to keep people divided and trapped while licking the gravy and passing it on to exploitative feudals from islam and market to get the frame of secular and diversity. Such is the liberal ruse to awe the world). Castetva has already solidified the frame for Hindutva to work on. The deep nature of society -that is fed by castetva forces over the decades, nurtures these worldviews and place them in significant positions and responsibility –replicating the devious nature of sanctum (Pranab is one of the examples that was taken to the highest position without any discernible skills except high level cunningness and camaraderie. Collect the return gift from Ghana!), very much intended to be an aspiration for beleaguered common people as also an assurance to any threat to its worldview. These blessings are easily taken in by common people, hence the views and actions get credibility since blessing authenticate. Thus there is no right or wrong only blessedness, and there are some who even capitalise these miseries into high philosophy. This is how things were being orchestrated by depraved debauched posturing as leaders. Having lost the lick they are viciously conniving, and becoming blatant with caste degradations. And with persistent perceptions created by third rate market media –in its ever simplifying mandate, they posit that common people have nothing but caste to vote for and then cleverly wrangle the narration to gravy filled end for orgy of views and counterviews, judiciously playing sanctum immoral pointers to hunt the insecure politicians into caste paradise.

For hierarchical minded Indians life is about high and low, high is about sanctum characterized submissive subservience -beggar's mindset, that is ready to lick at the shortest hint while low is open to inhuman exploitations, being acutely sensitive of world scrutiny these morph as patronizing pointers as also values of diversity that must be preserved (similar to the one by primitives in sabarimala). For the same reason there is an eternal struggle to get the tag that would elevate them, ofcourse all these within the pit (that they are born into while ardently seeking to die in bigger pit). The reason for “senior”, hence senior lawyers, senior journalists, senior politicians…even senior scientists. VC of Andhra university was nurtured by deep state into senior scientist, and the onus was now on him to convert the senior blessing into bigger opportunity. Since they have highest estimate of themselves within fictitious frame it's but natural to extend the omnipotent fiction. Newton, Einstein, Darwin…nothing but the topmost is their target. This has the effect of catapulting themselves and sanctum blessing into highest level of reckoning. Taking on the popular also sanctifies the blessing with much easiness among common people -herd. Semantics and humbleness is judiciously mixed with cunning dexterity. It works with audience, while peer review and serious scrutiny is not effected by charlatan’s devious ways. So we are extolled to have open mind, “our mind should be like parachutes” exults the VC to audience as he elaborates on ancient Indian grandness wherein stem cell research was common as much as test tube babies while aircrafts flew around. It’s a different matter that too much open mind gets filled with bullshit, and for blessed entitled with low calibre these are easy matter. Gandhi by quote can be fit into any occasion. The arrogance and amazing level of self-assuredness while asserting these nonsense is what defines and needs special attention if one were to get into mindset of caste feudal blessed Indians. It’s the same frame that seeks itself as jagathgurus, as secular liberals patiently humbly waiting to awestrike the world with highest worldviews and carefully arranged kindred selves. Gandhi was a sample.

You may also visit me at https://depalan.blogspot.com/2016/01/at-indian-science-congress-and-forward.html for my visit to Indian science congress in 2016.  

I also had the misfortune of visiting All India Sociological Conference few weeks back. Although sociology is an interesting subject but when it comes to Indians it is the usual bullshit vendors in varying degree of mediocrity sucking on to get grants and positions. So I was here at about 10.30am as mentioned in the schedule. Everything was, as expected, badly arranged, nobody seems to be bothered, and when it started at 11.10am they had customary apology ready, that too nobody was bothered. Meanwhile I went about the stalls that were arranged (interestingly Oxford publication was making valiant attempts at positioning Gandhi as anti-caste. Hilarious and pitiable). Random photos of the books arranged will give you the glimpse of castetva control over narration. It’s disgusting, and I pity the younger generations who are fed on these nonsenses. Meanwhile back to the talk, a VC (self-proclaimed dalit) shows characteristics that got him the position. He was virulently casteist, mentioning “people are unfortunately moving away from caste identity while voting”, ofcourse to the intense delight of all the caste cannibals masquerading as intellectuals. There is a term in US “house niger”, it is quite suited here. Castetva forces have created such wonders to offset their primitiveness. Jagjivan ram was a prominent example. His daughter though competent had to give way to cunning Pranab, and was later summoned after BJP's candidate choice (there was intense revulsion among Delhi based chatterati as they had put their money on gandhi’s litter –who was judiciously nurtured). Later 'Dr.Shastri' spoke on ‘caste and elections’, and exhibited high competence by focusing on ‘dalit votebank’. The high decibel crude fellow was introduced as having visited 50countries (it was not mentioned as to for what reason –I pictured him in bermudas at Miami beach, but nevertheless it showcased his blessedness that cannot be denied hence authority) and was thanked for finding time from busy schedule. We were told that he was regular on TV discussions, and has written 100 op eds. Surely the fellow has found gainful employment from nothing! What he had to say was again the extension of BS that need no mention but it kept the sociologically inclined intellectually challenged audience riveted. High sounding sentences like “for your considerations” “interesting trends” “interesting observations” “stray observation” “I don’t have answer to it but it’s an important question” “take cue from my talk”…were liberally used whenever they were short on ideas. All the while the screen next to the dais was showing the pictures of hotels where the dignitaries were staying (pic herein). These ridiculous situations arise because these are not connected to the ground realities. They just float to blab and then move out, everything need to be arranged for them, the onus is not on them to even look around. So the computer technician takes the decision that effects all, nobody seemed embarrassed they carried on as if it is fated. Ideally the talker must be made to make all electric fitting, and all aspects of power point. Most of these people do not even have the competence to switch on the mike. I also observed many spelling mistakes in important communications.

At about 12.30pm, as discussion on the dais was heating up, I decided it was wasteful for me. It was while I was moving out that I found the audience had mostly vanished.  Lunch was being served, and all those whom I found riveted to the discussion had unhinged and riveted to stampede for lunch. It’s a remarkable attribute to shift attention so effortlessly that too in middle of discussions to lunch. They didn’t give any impression of having taken part in any sociology discussion only moments back as I listened to them exchanging travelling plans while stuffing their mouth. Indian sociologists are disgraceful bunch.  Hopefully these aren’t paid by the government.