Face the heat

 

Climate vulnerable Indian subcontinent that is home to millions of extremely poor and exploited people is facing the heat wave. It’s acute in big cities where millions live in congested concrete dwellings that faces the brunt of heat island effect and pollution. These are spaces that have been stripped clear of trees and vegetations while water bodies converted to disease spreading sewage for development. Very soon climate change will have to be declared as health emergency. Migration, exposed to extreme weather, malnutrition…will have devastating effect. There is a need for climate emergency cell to coordinate relief measures. Any concerned society would be investing on climate adaptive measures to save lives and salvage nature.

Earlier this month I was in Nagpur. Temperature crossed 42 degrees centigrade. Nagpur faces extreme heat but it rarely happens so early in the summer, elderly shopkeeper I was interacting with concurred and was sensing changes that he couldn’t comprehend. Even on morning walk I felt the sun as if it was scorching midnoon. You don’t see too many people on streets, mostly airconditioned cars whizzing past. Its like you are in some desert. I saw this man (pic herein) much earlier in the morning vigorously trying to wind up his chores before the heat picks up. He swept the dust off the concrete fragments of what was supposed to be a footpath. A meaningless task that he carried with Sisyphean enthusiasm. Why would you clean dust while contributing to particulate matter in the process making matter worse? I have seen these kinds of “cleanliness” in cities that defeats any logical reasoning. It’s an extension of value system of a society that obsessively delves in stupidities of purity lacking even basic understanding of hygiene. It’s the confluence of racist victorian tidiness and caste cannibals limited intellect that is exhibited into public space as revered ritual. Meanwhile mostly corrupt and mediocre decision makers are busy showcasing their blessing and lessons on fate for common people to emulate into painful absurdities denying life. The only cleanliness that matters is picking up and collecting plastics for recycle. Let the fallen dry leaves be. Let the dust be. Please do not give lessons on existentialism as fate. Ridiculous ironies will excite fattened fluffs in West to settle cozily into the narration of exotic Indian's otherworldly mystical mirth hence value their patronizing potential. Plastic pollution is a serious matter.                       

Threat to democracy

 

Democracy is the best form of arbitration. It hinges on evolved human beings for progressive society that values liberal ideas and expressions to associate and explore. For human beings to evolve education -that emphasis on critical thinking and logical analysis while nurturing creative minds spiritually involved with nature and life as a part of living system, becomes the lynchpin. A society that invests on these will naturally attune to better world.        

Anything that infringe on humanity is a threat to democracy. Anything that prevents assertion of being a human is a threat to free world. Religion therefore becomes a threat to democracy and all the evolved values and possibilities herein. The reason why some societies fail to nurture democratic values and ideals and are incapable to value individual liberty and equality is due to pernicious presence of feudal norms, patriarchy mindset and an incapacity to optimally use wondrous faculties of brain and senses. It is clear that religion creates frameworks that impede into progressive ideas. There is a valiant attempt to pose better version of religion to contrast the worst version in an attempt to wrest narration of religion into progressive space. Though noble it’s a futile attempt. It may help to control the herd into lull than fractious mob but its short term. Life has to be alive to thrive. Anachronistic religions have become serious threat to humanity hold ever minuscule chance of redemption. It’s a decaying premise. It’s an assault on human mind and demeaning billions of years of evolution of life to accept the ridiculous premise of religion and pose as progressive. It makes the best of intention hypocritical, and threatening.    

Butchery of Bucha

 There is enough evidence of crime against humanity, and nature. That this wanton massacre is happening in 2022 to a democratic and non aggressive nation shows gravity of human predicament. Meanwhile climate collapse and incapacitated greedy ego driven humans are scripting catastrophe.  

Support SriLanka

 

 We must make every effort to support SriLanka. The corrupt incompetent elite have created such a situation. This country was recovering from decades of mayhem. If Indian government creates fund for SriLanka we would like to contribute.

Comrade morons

 

The arrogance of communists in India is typical of the society we live in. On the one hand they profess the voice of downtrodden while on the other reflect deep flaws of the primitive society. It’s the template of crawling for the people more powerful simultaneously brutalizing people who are below in power matrix or are powerless and vulnerable. Hierarchal mindset that elaborates blessing. Recall when Pranab poured milk, he was consolidating expected behavior from those who are to serve him (though the man is dead but it's very important to know him to understand the degradation, he did immense damage. When i saw him twice or rather blocked me twice, incidentally as President, he was rushing to temples. He could have used his time and money invested in him to visit local school or nearby tribal settlement or even the wildlife sanctuary but he chose none). Being a President, it was simultaneously a lesson on fate to common people in a corrupt and nepotism driven society: useless people like us could reach to most powerful positions is because of the rituals we perform and the temples we visit. He was elucidating template for good fortune and ways to work on fate (hence the stampede by herds on auspicious days to temples of powerful gods, and ensuing histrionics as rituals). He was cunning to use his position nurtured by castetva forces (that severely degraded democratic institutions as also the society by undermining egalitarian humanist traditions). While most castetva leaders leapfrogged from sanctum vacuum into positions of power through camaraderie and nepotistic connections meanwhile nurturing the herds into deeper muck. They shifted their sycophantic value systems and hierarchal minds from sanctum to family, the Gandhi family, who became their new favorite god -ishta devtha, all the skills of pleasing were updated for this reality. Lacking any mass base or discernable skills they cultivated manipulators and fixers around the power centers to create perceptions, exaggerate self, while pleasing the family. Meanwhile likes of Pranab though gained from sycophancy worked their powerbase through temple hopping and creating alliance of camaraderie with squatters. Squatters had immense clout as faith hawkers and a lethal grip over hapless herds as they dangled fate and after life visions, they extended their clout over local feudal forces and nepotistic connection with power. The reason why Pranab was able to challenge the family was because he assiduously built these bases while also creating crony capitalist circle of influence. He was a astute player in a flawed society. The influential castetva media were fed and fattened -given access, awards and positions -it’s the same that now whine in desperation for imagined values. Hence Pranab was narrated and drummed as the “best PM we never had” while jittered family and cronies tried to placate him with President’s post. The powerful base he created through decades of manipulation was such that he became a go between gaining Hindutva and loosing Castetva and was even seen a PM candidate in case of hung parliament. His value for Hindutva, and their desperate need to get his clout, could be gauged from the fact that Hindutva decided to bestow highest civilian award -Bharat Ratna, on him over likes of Advani -who essentially played a pivotal role in its growth. Such is the way these people work, and this is what I was witnessing when I decide to focus my attention, and yes wasted my time and energy but insights need to be documented. It's a unique position and a rare opportunity. There is a reason why India languishes at the bottom of all international indices and humanitarian concerns as the manipulators created their narration that pushed most people out from ambit of concern.  

Communists come from the same stock and now they decide (in TN) that they need to participate in temple histrionics to influence herds as an antidote to rising Hindutva. The vicious Castetva forces controlling media is fueling the narration of neglecting caste and other herd faith muck as the reason for loss of traction. These are the same that cannibalized the society, stripping it of egalitarian movements and vibrant humanitarian participation -the anti-caste movements and anti-superstition values that seek humans from herds. They conveniently undermine that DMK won thumping majority on Dravidian movement values that attempted squatter free temples -making it open position not based on caste, removing caste names from streets (the braying singer nurtured by castetva posing as high end savior felt the heat) and other egalitarian measures that defined their anti-caste foundation of humanist concerns. Castetva forces degraded TN in the last many decades and have created putrefying caste pits by emboldening likes of CR -this corrupt caste lout did immense damage as he was recruited for the job through nepotistic connections. Communists never got any traction in TN because they were arrogant squatter ensconced (imagine devious Kasturi&Sons as comrades! The reason why there is trust deficit) and couldn’t understand the reality and struggle of common people. They created a mirage through colonial literate Bengalis but got wiped out at sudden hint of reality. It’s better for comrades to join Hindutva than creating another ruse and become a joke. The shift in ideology is always easy since it lacks any involvement with reality or empathetic concerns. There are many in Kerala who have shifted from red to saffron in blink of eye. As Hindutva gains grounds and reaches a threshold gravy you will see mass movement of worms. Communism is important because it gives significant insights into society. It helps critically scrutinize capitalism. They are good opposition to herd controlling systems, and helps develop insight. But they are never good at controlling power since they slip into authoritarianism. Socialism as political power is better placed to work through democracy into egalitarian values.   

Comrade rot is precisely what is happening in Kerala. Comrade morons have got power in their head after they won unprecedented second term despite serious allegations of corruptions. People really don’t prefer salivating infighting castetva congress -these feudals are mostly default option due to politics at the national level.  As is the case comrades too come from degraded putrefying society hence unbridled power are seen as sign of blessing and god given authority over beleaguered people hence this easy shift to authoritarian context. Densely populated, environmentally and geographically fragile Kerala is highly vulnerable to climate change, and recent events have shown its precarious position and glimpse of things to come. The herds are blissfully incapacitated in their ego driven consumerist holes of wholesome entertainments. Comrades were expected to show some concern but comrade morons too are incapacitated as they belligerently push for misguided k-rail project -that is set to connect the state and reduce time for travel. Already this route has railway connectivity this project is set to reduce time by few hours. Couldn't they have worked to improve the existing connectivity? Also, what are people going to do with these few hours gained? Consider that world is now much connected hence physical travelling may not be that important in most cases. They though insist on the project -it has become a case of fragile egos of comrades, even after massive protest that is gaining momentum. Characteristically it is confined to as social issue whereas the environmental ramification -that is significant, is kept as minor matter. The same energy and time could be used to massively invest in adaptive technologies and measures against climate change. 

The coastal areas of this narrow strip of land are going to face the onslaught. This is the land crisscrossed with rivers and lakes and is vulnerable to cyclones and floods, and landslides from forest stripped hills. This region was provided with nature’s bounty hence relative stability and peace but unfortunately primitive society created the worst of humans. Arrogantly complacent putrefying pit is set to face cataclysmic events. 

Crass comrades: They called for two days all India general strike. Nobody in India were much bothered except Kerala where it was complete lockdown since it was supported by communist state government. They threatened people who tried to open the shop (in my neighborhood where the fellow had opened the milk shop, since it is an essential commodity, they threatened him not to sell flavored milk. Such is the bullying by comrades. All for people’s sake!) and thrashed people who took out vehicle. Hapless people who had started to come out of pandemic were left to fetch for themselves for 48hours. Why is this kind of hooliganism allowed? It is a failure of a political party if they give misery to common people to make a point. Yes, capitalistic forces are trying to undermine unions and creating situations to exploit workers. Millions of youngsters (mostly from poor vulnerable sections) are in gig economy without any safety nets and are exposed to exploitations. Government has not created any regulatory mechanism or safeguards. Why are these not taken on priority basis? Yes, protest is important and comrades have got the ideas right but they must find some other method that is democratic and doesn’t impinge on basic right to livelihood. Judiciary must intervene and pass strict orders on these matters. Comrades can easily shift to authoritarianism if not kept in check.

In the evening walk I saw this crass display (while people were bundled up at home and daily wagers struggling) comrades were enjoying crude loud song at public space while a young girl performed what cannot be called a dance. The crassness of it. This society will find the lowest denominator of everything. Pity this society.

   

Artificial intelligence 

Locating patterns that humans cannot conceive 

When they conceive it presents what cannot be perceived

Artificial is as natural it gets

Astounding alteration in reality beyond human conception

Deep learning algorithm glimpse in discreet setting

Humbling limitation of reason

The logic of time scale

Past present and future

All capsulate in one quantum swing at time

The part is a moment, a pause

Perceive the beginning and the end  

In the iterating consciousness of cosmos.  

Misery driven agendas

 

Religion supremacists, bullies and thugs posturing for religions cannot and shouldn’t be allowed to dictate agendas. Herds as carrier of religions are given rights under democracy -which is essentially and ideally meant to give voice to humans in a participative form of governance with egalitarian intent. There are sinister forces at work. India has seen rapid communalization. It is but expected when religions are given preference over humanity and egalitarian values while worst kind of people churn degrading systems for personal gains and posturing. Unlike human being herds are easiest to deal and exploit. Instead of easing out of regressive anachronistic nuisance into universal humane concerns through awareness and immense possibilities of modern world, rabid forms of religions are spreading that seeks references from primitive past. Not at all surprising considering religions offers nothing, not even solace of existence, but mirage of grandeur as it is incapable to factor in complexities of contemporary world. It is stuck in time warp hence offer prescriptive miserable alternative least concerned about vibrant life. It can therefore only produce herds, unthinking minds, and trap dehumanized souls. It’s a failure of education. It’s a failure of society.  

Few incidents from my experience of miserable world that religion creates will help understand the immensity of crass world in an exceptionally crude society like India (one could have easily accept this as reality, and be an enthusiastic herd, but when one reads evolved thoughts and watch nuanced expressions and understandings, as also societies/individuals that value primacy of humane values, you become aware of the crude construct of reality and easily locate the arbitrators) while wile people pose as saviors. I recall as a kid when we went to Bombay (it was known as Bombay during 1980s) roads were blocked and we were asked to take a detour, it was told to us that roads are being used for Friday prayers that spilled from local mosque. The driver told us this happens in all the vicinity of mosques -and there were hundreds and thousands of males, ofcourse women have burden of modesty hence negated in public space. It created big problem for common people- as it is streets are always crowded. Nobody was bothered. These were nurtured by Castetva to showcase secularism and tolerance -clearly at the expense of common people over herds. Few years later Hindutva -through rabid ShivSena, saw the opportunity and start conducting grand maha artis right in the middle of the streets. Now cunning caretakers would argue whether these are “essential part of religion”?! Aren’t these mischievous? As can be observed; concerns of common people and their hardship were never point of reference. Castetva always had proprietorial role over common people, indeed they gained more credence through misery. (This whole narration of “essential part of religion” is mischievous Castetva ploy to gain credibility. The narration must be in the context of democratic egalitarian values and not primacy of religion. We must deny even if it is “essential part of religion”. We must protect democratic ideals and rights of common people over degrading powerful systems that seeks to trap). So, there were communal riots many common people got caught in the wrong place and were duly sacrificed for bigger cause and soon no more streets being used for praying purpose. Roads and streets were to be used as roads and streets and not for herd to congregate. Next incident was when I studying in Kerala. On Fridays we had long afternoon breaks so much so that everybody left making it half day. Now these long breaks were meant for praying time for muslims introduced as a secular masterstroke by wily Castetva congress corrupt temple hopping scoundrel who was ruling the roost. Quite surprisingly Karunakaran used to stay in our neighborhood and we all knew how corrupt and slippery character he was. Through remarkable sleight of debauchery he was also very pious. As college students we didn’t complain. We all went for movies or loitered on the beach or got drunk.

Next incident is from Delhi. I was staying at congested Nizamuddin, predominantly muslim area -as is the character of segregating religion and purity seeking caste cannibals. One day there was some loud hindu religion song from a house nearby -more noise symbolizing festive occasion. AND it went on throughout the night. Very loud. Very crass. Indeed, least concerned about others. It was probably the only hindu house in the locality. I couldn’t sleep. What kind of people would do such a thing? And, this loud Hindu cacophony was constant during my miserable stay in godforsaken place called Delhi. So much so that whenever I shifted to new locality, I made sure there were no temples or open spaces nearby (since it got converted for “function” -ranging from crude birthday parties, despicable marriages and uncouth religious gathering, had enough experience to anticipate). When I was in Bangalore once one of the students came with full face veil (whatever crap they call it) this revolting anti-social dehumanizing blot on humanity was presented in front of me. I was shocked I talked to the senior fellow at the institute expressing my discomfort. He said he understands but ‘we don’t want to create problem’. He was afraid. I too didn’t know what to do? So, ended up tolerating. I think I should have had a choice and the right to deny teaching (or even interacting) with people who aren’t concerned about others, represent worst of systems, and indeed lack basic decency. You can have your religion but cannot bully us and expect everything to be normal. There is a basic code of conduct to be followed when you are a member of society. Full face veil are not acceptable in any civilized society, those who promote these have sinister agenda and are least concerned about common people and their tribulations. I saw these amazingly crude expressions along the north Kerala - Karnataka coastal region during my cycling. Hapless people are being trapped by sinister sunni wahabi/salafi whatever and this in turn is fueling and complementing a rabid revolting form of hinduism (I recall mentioning this in my blog almost a decade back), not that caste cannibals were looking for excuses. While staying in south TN region during my cycle trip I was startled out of my sleep one morning by loudspeakers blaring from three mosques simultaneously in close vicinity.             

Caste cannibals sought redemption through mullah feeding and vicious forms of segregations as they worked into depraved caste diversity and equally impressing compromised West ready to patronize the lowest denominator. Notice whenever they mention about muslims they use stock pictures of full veiled Muslim women as if this is the norm. Cunning Kasturi&Sons expertise in this. It is meant to create negative feeling, and that is how you segregate herd. It is but natural that Hindutva is having it so easy. Also, crucial issues are being sidelined while religion-based rants occupy concerns. Beware of these conniving entitled scoundrels posing as journalists. They have no regard for common people. Even in this “hijab” case -where caste cannibals in media are over working to play savior, notice the picture used is that of full veiled wherein this is not the issue (taken from today’s Indian Express -another high moral posing caste cannibals seeking muslims to play savior). Full veil cannot be allowed in educational institutions nor in public space (you have all the right to use public space the way you want to but such expressions have severe consequences, there is a reason why poorer societies are being trapped by sinister forces to radicalize and segregate).

Quaint culture and expressions are being pushed out by competing forces. This picture here was once quite common in Kerala and still is but increasingly threatened, wherein a small colorful scarf -mostly symbolic than anything else, is being replaced by vicious form of herds. Ideally education institutes should not have any space for expressions of religions but we live in an extremely primitive and dehumanized society. Even egalitarian attempts at gender free uniforms are being questioned by religion supremacists. I think common people must start asserting. We cannot let religion play its sinister game. Also, the credibility of people who are seeking to represent is also questioned. Castetva forces created an ecosystem wherein caste cannibals worked their narrations. These were awarded and offered gravy positions. Those days are over. They don’t represent common people nor can claim to represent. They are standing on foundation of misery and dehumanized value systems. How did these mediocres emerging from putrefying pits acquire the position and clout, and seek to control the narration for common people? A country languishing in the bottom of HDI and in all known calibrations of civilization shouldn’t be allowed to take high moral grounds. Those who are posing as arbitrators -the representors, must be closely scrutinized. They are standing on misery of common people in a deeply flawed society. Caste cannibals have no place in civilized setting.       

Ramukakas of Congress

It's an existential moment for sycophants and freeloaders -the infighting is bitter. Grab and bust scene. Meanwhile as wily Ramukakas abandon the ship Sibal Ramukaka has become a rebel while Aiyer Ramukaka has gone silent. Journalist Ramukakas desperately try to workout some narration to portray as saviors. Ah the angst of feudals.  

Pope must step in

 As politicians and multilateral agencies like UN have failed to bring some sanity Pope seems to be the person who has enough clout, influence and is well placed to intervene. He is non partisan with humane concerns. He must not restrict to tweets and praying. This war is escalating dangerously...PLEASE DO SOMETHING. Meanwhile the world needs concerted efforts to face climate crisis, everyday we are crossing new signs of breakdown.   

UP has gone the Kerala way

 

In the aftermath of emergency in 1970s -when untold atrocities were unleashed on common people while democratic institutions vandalized, Congress lost miserably all over India except in Kerala. Kerala had witnessed vicious form of violence wherein state machinery was used as killing machine by feudal forces accumulating as Castetva congress headed by scoundrel posing as leader -Karunakaran. Communism had worked through literacy to create awareness and was posing as a threat to entrenched feudal values of what was essentially a horrendous society. Kerala was hell hole that needed outside forces like Christianity, Islam and Communism to bring its humane references and enlightened ideas. In the end all these systems though created meaningful impacts and significantly added to the narration but were coopted into putrefying pit. Communism too is now reduced to another laughable ritual but still offers compelling alternative to ever salivating infighting castetva congress.  Literacy was incapable to create humans out of herds. It created stenos with pleasing attributes and duty-bound pious workers who migrate with specific intention to multiply money and establish blessing, now they export semi-literates as engineers, teachers, nurses  while scientists perform experiments as rituals. Meanwhile compelling artform create nostalgia for putrid pit as also norms and values that made literacy meaningless.  

Despite evidences of horrors of emergency (particularly in Kerala where awareness of systems was high) Congress was voted shows that voters were turned into herds, nurtured by cunning Castetva congress. Feudal forces work on creating misery and then capitalize on fear while they cleverly pose as benevolent savior for beleaguered people. Kerala is a lesson for India on the failure of literacy and its incapacity to create education -this gets infected in all forms of collective expressions including democratic institutions, art forms, norms and values. Lacking any egalitarian foundation, the primitiveness is all pervading bringing in lowest denominator of anachronist religions, patriarchal communism and consumerist capitalism. It’s also a lesson on healthy people benefitting from high health indicators/human indices but celebrating sickness of mind. It creates a rotten society that is incapable to value its natural wealth and quaint expressions of verdant nature. It’s a paradox that signals culminating pangs of humanity. Nothing positive is expected.  

Castetva forces has now devolved the society into Hindutva. As mentioned earlier Hindutva is the real deal as it connects to majority of common people in a primal way. If Hindutva were ruling India in the last many decades India would have been in a better position to handle religious extremism and general degradation of society. The narration against state nurtured obscurantist forces would been stronger. Castetva degradation used semantics of modernity to hide their primitiveness thus creating complacency and undermining vibrant humanistic narrations and history. They did immense damage to Indian society. They were posers who were creating liberal narration to please West while they cannibalized. It was all a show that increasingly lost audience as Hindutva gained ground posturing as masculine alternative. Horrible heart wrenching tragedies during pandemic wherein hundreds and thousands died and state government was seen woefully lacking, people lost livelihood and dignity in the process, despite all these they vote for the same government in UP with thumping majority shows that people are being converted to Hindutva herds fed on grandeurs of temples and mythical narrations of invincibility. However, one cannot completely blame Hindutva since Castetva never really invested on primary health centers or any vibrant health or education infrastructure at grassroot level as people suffered. The reason why Hindutva focused on toilets -connected to common people they are aware of how much it impacts and matters than big talks. Castetva forces nurtured caste politics to keep people busy and miserable as also an ecosystem that produced Castetva journalists -mostly leapfrogging from sanctum vacuum as fourth estate arbitrating democracy -which they were woefully incapable of, created narrations of self-indulgence, limited in intellect, lacking any connection with realities and aspirations of common people. Hopefully with Castetva politics Castetva journalists sucking in gravy holes of misery too are evicted.      

The Dalit Sikh bs

Sikhism was a forceful attempt to remove caste and create egalitarian humane society. The primacy of community dining, common surname, as also assertion of shared humanity through prose of enlightened Kabir in sacred holy texts were meant to create awareness against caste cannibalism that had degraded this region. It was also an attempt to create resistance against invaders wherein caste cannibals incapacitated. It was an attempt to face reality. Castetva forces always had problems with Sikhism. Vulgar jokes against sikhs/sardars were normalized into mainstream as bunch of people who were stupid while inbred intellectually challenged Castetva posed as intelligent saviors. Castetva worked with colonizers to bifurcate Punjab and sacred places -they could have easily negotiated for birth place of Guru Nanak. Later the impunity with which Castetva congress created secessionists like Bhindranwale and then attacked most sacred Sikh site -the golden temple, massacre of Sikhs and complete apathy to pursue the culprits meanwhile cunningly orchestrated these under Sikh as President of India -an under qualified sycophantic simpleton who demeaned by proclaiming that he would sweep the street if asked to, all shows arrogant uncouth Castetva policy maker’s disgust for Sikhism and what it stood for. It is in the same narration that they made a “dalit” Sikh CM  -the patronizing attempt here is what makes Castetva congress despicable. Castetva media latched on to create narration of benevolence and diversity -in their self indulgent arrogance they think people are stupid. The audacity of it. To classify a religion that has anti caste in its core. Ofcourse now as any other religion Sikhism too is reduced to a joke of fancy dress and anachronistic nuisance of herds that fattened fluffs in west value as diversity. However hard Hindutva may try it is nurtured with Castetva as reference hence they will inherit the legacy of primitiveness. Unless they make concerted effort to shun. It’s dangerous syndrome. Pranab’s syndrome that degrades as it spreads. It was nurtured by congress as perpetual claim to power.  

You must scrutinize

Located in an overwhelmingly primitive society like India -while Indians have highest estimate of themselves that doesn’t pass any scrutiny on any parameter, it is but natural that education system too is rather shoddy reflecting the limited intellect. Education is about compliance. Youngsters are prepared for exams -as answering machines, the more the marks better the performance, who then are awarded for being successful. These deviant ideas of success and failure gets replicated as the systems that perpetuates these get consolidated. Education is rarely about questioning or exploring new ideas. Since success is about asserting the system -that design these parameters, the successful therefore replicate the system. It’s about status quo. This primitive society would have putrefied in its own muck had it not been the intervention of outside forces. Imagine a society that stands to gain much from marauding invaders and colonizers.

Indians therefore generally work well as status quoists, safe keepers, charming mediators for the system. If ever, it is about safe accretion or else as assurance of everlasting gains. Almost all the CEOs -international or even national -taunted by some as civilizational success, are mostly those who played it well for the system. It’s about working for years within the system to gain confidence, about jockeying for position, about servility – keenly aware of hierarchy and power matrix, about safe bet for the investors. Unless it has exciting new research or vibrant ideas or possibilities I cannot even think of working in a system for more than few months. People who are trained to be successful are most dangerous to humanity. They are infected to do things without worrying about ramification or even the need. They do to gain, to please. This also has essential element of blessing connected to it. Religion therefore deeply entrenches these deviances. Power, money, position, so on becomes essential characteristics of success which then is worked as fortuitous blessing if pleased sufficiently. It’s a degrading loop that has kept this godforsaken wasted society busy. Imagine a religion that instead of opening to immensity of life reduces to binary of success and failure, and then cunningly positions as harbinger of perpetual gain. Imagine the crassness of it, and now imagine the mindsets that emerge from these.

Education is about learning; it’s about knowing and thinking on what you understand. Which in turn helps you to formulate your own ideas, it’s an assertion of your unique presence, this then contributes to evolve humanity. Societies that understand the value of education have produced better humans and have contributed immensely to progress of humanity. They have helped assert values of liberty and consolidate democratic institutions. Herds then appropriate these to misuse, vandalize and degrade into worst possibilities.   

Religion cannot be allowed to be expressed in educational institutions: There is a reason why uniform attire is insisted on in educational institutions. It’s an attempt at providing egalitarian space for children to explore and learn. Hindu bindi, Sikh turban, Muslim hijab…as also caste reference or regressive markers must be removed from child’s name during admission (I recall one class teacher in a school in Sagar -MP, that I studied briefly, made egalitarian attempt to remove caste references in names, it had funny outcomes though when students had similar first names -which is quite common, so we had sunil one, sunil two…Thinking back, this happening in impoverished, mostly illiterate caste exploited hellholes, that too four decades back is amazing. Obviously that remarkable teacher must been dumped. There is a heavy price paid by society to create gandhi) so on has no space in children’s life as a learner. Further, the onus is on humanity to insist on secular progressive space. It also opens up children to the realization that religion is not sacrosanct, and that there are evolved spaces and humane options.  

Ideally religion shouldn’t have any nurturing public space but then we don’t live in ideal place hence we need to tolerate these transgressions -this perversity has no reason to be celebrated as some multicultural expression or diversity. But yes, full face cover is an assault on humanity and a gangrene on soul. In a free society everybody has right but there are consequences too. There is a reason why societies are getting radicalized. Why is that normal people when they migrate to West (specifically UK) become radicalized? (the other day I was listening to ‘indian’ girl from Britain speaking rabid hinduism, eloquently ofcourse -british accent is an advantage in a subcontinent where people are scampering to learn English to showcase their merit). There are also attempts made to normalize religion driven patriarchy. Caste cannibals are using religion fault lines to position themselves as compassionate savior, at international level they pout as liberal (it’s easy to play compromised monarchy patriots looking for something to hinge for redemption). These segregatory values and dehumanization attempts have created untold misery to common people as also diverting from existential problems. Beware of herd controllers they degrade cherished values for immediate gain to position as liberal. They prey to cannibalize soul of humanity.  

Sinister attempt at ridiculous binary to create narration of religion. 

   Why do these people have to write? If they are materially comfortable why cannot they do nothing? This doing something is the biggest scourge of the times we live in. Look at Putin, CocaCola, Shell etc. It's a beggar's mind. I guess, doing nothing requires to be a human. The reason why they nurture systems to convert humans into herds.  The reason why herd controllers write these kind of nonsenses. It is an effort to note how they attempt to wrench the narration. And yes herd enjoy being herd but humanity pays a heavy price. Sisyphus repeated with awareness of the absurdity of existence. Also, what he did was not threatening anyone. It was a symbolism of absurdity of life and motif to find meaning.   

  

It's dreadful

With everyday life in the luxurious complacency of modern gadgets while catastrophic events played as entertaining shows people seems to have lost the sense of dread. Nuclear explosions are real. Radioactivity is dangerous. Aftermath harrowing that will last for many generations. This could easily trigger other life threatening events as we are on the verge of climate collapse. Be afraid. 

Putin threatening with nuclear bombs is a serious transgression and must be included as crime against humanity. While the shelling of Ukraine nuclear powerplant -that is blazing and could explode -the impact we are informed going to be ten times Chernobyl, is another wanton aggression. Meanwhile ICC and ICJ shouldn't be bothered by any jurisdiction. We have well passed all that. What is concern of humanity is concern of international court.  

(pic herein of painting drawn by Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor Kihara Toshiko as she recollects what she saw: "As we fearfully crossed a railroad bridge, my two brothers and I saw bloated red, blue, green, and purple corpses floating"). 

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It is always an assault on humanity, and on sensibilities of being a human, when history repeats itself. It just shows how much systems are isolated from reality that human beings are not able to learn from past and move on to a better world. Though technologies have moved at breakneck speed societies are still living in caves. Some want to replicate template of past as if human mind has not evolved in last many centuries while others want to acquire and consume. Very few people are able to comprehend the exciting enormity of the opportunities contemporary world provides. It's simply amazing to be alive. Cyclical history also shows how few nasty crude people are able to control while majority are reduced to as either participant herd or spectator herd in some bigger scheme that they are incapacitated to comprehend. Pity this world.

Initiate prosecution ICC

 

International Criminal Court must take responsibility and initiate prosecution process against Putin based on compelling prima facie evidences in public space. ICC is quite active in prosecuting violent dictators in Africa -a geopolitically weak region. So now ICC will be scrutinized. It’s about “blue eyes and golden hair”. Ofcourse Putin has committed crime against humanity but evidences emerging from Ukraine doesn’t really show them in positive light -there seems to be entrenched racism. Also, as a faraway observer I am quite intrigued by Putin’s claim to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. There must be some substance in it for him to even suggest and expect it to stick. Charlatans are not stupid.

International community must make an example out of Putin so that no one will ever even think of enacting ventures like these without being aware of grave consequences. There are lots of wannabees across the world who are watching the international reactions and consequences quite closely. Putin is a done deal. Living too much in isolation of grandeur surrounded by sycophants he has lost the sense of reality. It was expected. It happens to all dictators, or else they become paranoid and are kicked out. The note of caution here is that Putin was vehemently against US-UK war on Iraq so when the leaders of these countries where not prosecuted for blatant crimes against humanity did it not embolden authoritarian leaders once they reached a threshold of control? If I have the power I can do anything and get away with it -mindset. It’s not confined to political leaders we see these exhibited through market wherein MNCs and moneybags do wanton destructions just because they have money and clout. It’s also seen in arrogance of money, power, position, at every level of society. Just that the scale and opportunities are lower makes it less destructive but these mindsets thrive. Lack of quality education while education is attuned to competition and acquisition creates adulterated minds.          

Meanwhile there is a strong international pressure against Putin. Russian economy is set to collapse. There is already substantial anger against Putin in Russia.  Widespread unrest is a possibility. Russian elites are one of the most corrupt -the reason why authoritarian Putin survived for so long (opportunists in West also help establish these corrupt moneybags as businessmen -all under the garb of liberal democracy), now when they start to feel the pinch the days will be numbered for the dictator. A country cannot survive in isolation in this deeply connected world. Its over for Putin, it’s a matter of time. Hopefully there is a revolt and he is evicted and, yes, prosecuted. Meanwhile international laws must be strengthened and institutions empowered. Russian invasion of Ukraine must be an occasion to reinforce international laws. Multilateral bodies like UN -that is made ineffective, must become representative and reflect the contemporary reality. Modern technologies like AI must be used to predict problem zones, enhanced peacekeeping mechanisms as also dealing with aggression. In short UN needs to be restructured and modernized. There is an urgent need for effective globalized collective action platforms and mechanisms. Less bureaucratic, more participative and vibrant to changing reality. It seems nobody is bothered. The future of humanity is hinged on globalized collective action. Handling of pandemic (vaccine distribution) and failing of climate crisis leadership shows some deeply disturbing value system. People are quite anxious and angry. The world really cannot be controlled by whims and fancies of few arrogant self-centered people.           

 

The puzzled woodpecker

 

These days the world blast into me

In sights and sounds of horror

Shrapnel hit aches that synapses cannot locate

Muted video of dreadful sights spills all over the floor

limbs, guts, blood 

paused.

 

Woodpecker on the palm rattles like a machine gun

puzzled at the midnight sun

Tree on the street corner takes the full brunt

Burning branches raised to sky

In a trance of great revelation

Taking in the last moments of closing eye.

The tragedy and travesty

International community has failed again atleast they could now work for complete cease fire. Meanwhile Russia cannot continue in UN nor any multilateral agencies (but then one cannot help bring the parallel of US-UK continuing even after attack on Iraq). What a mess, its always the common people who pay the heaviest of price. It's also failure of systems that leads to common people as fodder for bigger ambitions of sociopaths and megalomaniacs. If systems worked to enlighten people -assert their humanistic values, rather than convert them into haggling herds who are manipulated by controllers then they would be vigilant and work for better world. Democracy would have functioned as egalitarian expression. Each one of us nurturing regressive systems are complicit in deterioration that leads to such tragedies. Regressive system's grander worldview isolated from realities coalesces into producing horrible people as leaders. Market Capitalism and Religions are severely degrading societies, and is not allowing humanistic egalitarian systems to work and face the existential challenges.     

Crime against humanity

 Its also a failure of multilateral organization like UN that is least representative of contemporary reality.  Western leaders (expansionist NATO) are complicit too. These are not leaders but herd controllers haggling for power with characteristic ego that see everything disposable, an insatiable urge to acquire, grab and control. These are consolidated outcome of systems that are being nurtured. Its a byproduct of process that segregates and create the other. If you are actively participating in systems that insulates, isolates and dehumanizes then you are equally complicit. War happens when the other is completely dehumanized. Its a breakdown of care. Each death is a wail against systems that doesn't value human life and are least concerned about its impact on life on earth.   

WTF we don’t need this now

What a waste of energy and time. We don’t need this now. We have important things to work on. These are the kind of leaders we have produce when we give primacy to power, ego, greed, control, money and other superficialities. It’s a nation as business venture. These are what defines success in the contemporary world we live in. There is a stampede going on to acquire. These absurdities are what is taught as defining history and graded for future. How can one blame the leaders? 

War is an expression of entitlement of few over other. It’s an assault on humanity. It’s a gross violation of nature. What a waste. Despair. Cry.

History is iterative

 

History repeats itself first as tragedy then farce said Marx. How incapable must humans be if they are incapacitated to learn from experience or are unable to perceive their reality? Life learns from experience and every life form evolves with iterative involvement with its surrounding. Our senses are attuned to perceive. Every cell is open to experience the surrounding to survive. It learns, assimilates and grows. This diversity of life wouldn’t be possible if life was isolated from realities of its existence. Even mutation, the one that are successful hence replicated, is a not really a blind shot. It’s a sprint for survival that is very much hinged to existence. It’s a determined attempt to evolve, to latch the chaos, the potentialities and opportunities to survive and thrive. Life is in continuous iterative relation with its reality -immediacy of habitat and constancy of natural laws and limitations. 

History repeats itself if it is moving in a circle and is isolated from reality. History therefore can repeat if societies are incapable or are incapacitated to learn. This can only happen when societies nurture systems that insulate them from reality. Therefore, individually we perceive the threat while collectively the system makes us incapable to respond. We are incapacitated to trust our senses or use our mental faculties. If the reality becomes too oppressive we get into survival mode, it’s a short-term reaction to maintain the status quo that favours the powerful. The impasse Homo sapiens face is very much due to this disconnect. Religion and market are systems that worked for short term gains, its exaggerations and myth building enterprise are having serious ramifications with its overwhelming influence. Systems like religion that came into existence when humans rode donkeys, scooped water from nearest pit to drink, shat in the corner and sat around fire in caves open to elements, created myths to fill in the lack of knowledge and to feel secure while they perished from minor infections deemed as wrath, have become anachronistic nuisance that attracts dead minds and putrefied souls. Ridiculous holy books (that are understandings in its historical cultural context with some insights) have become sites for sickening sanctimony that attracts rabidity not seen in decent humans. The situation is dire. Humanity is on the verge of collapse due to ever encroaching signs of catastrophic reality that is framing the bleak future. The absurd show of grand conceptions cannot go on.          

For history to not repeat and end itself societies must invest on systems that are vibrant and attuned to senses and sophisticated to nurture the symbiotic relation with surrounding. It must evolve to be responsible and perceptive part of greater whole.          

 

Sculpting the social landscape

 

It’s a constant endeavor of controllers of institutions and narrations to convert human being into herds. The more unthinking they are the better it is to manipulate and control. This then takes the society away from social realities and contemporary crises. There is a reason why the power structures across the world have failed to address the urgency of climate crisis. There is a reason why media till recently tried to undermine, obfuscate and divert these existential crises (I was expecting the high-end British media like TheGuardian -that has wider audience due to colonial advantage and narrative control, to fail when it came to understanding movies like Don’t Look Up. And boy didn’t they mess up. The arrogance was typical). Self-assuredness of grip over herds and easy manipulated binaries leads to complacency. They really didn’t factor climate crisis would be this disruptive (likes of BBC taking their sweet time as they survey the scene for control). 

They are incapable to sense the reality of the situation since they are too preoccupied to manipulate the narration for control, as also showcasing themselves as some kind of saviour in this little world that they try to bludgeon us in. Facts becomes victim to narrative flair of emotions. Every news therefore becomes an occasion to control and manipulate, to give it the needed narration that seeks to undermine the reality. Systems that are hinged on this make-believe world consolidate the fake. Influencers like market feed this chicanery while religions ask us to strive. When you undermine the reality critical faculties of human beings get undermined. When senses are weakened, or told not to trust, the mind gets confused. The perpetual insecurity that follows is an indication of humans losing their grip into herds or are atomized as frustrated lives into escapism. They lose their capacity to use their intellect. As social landscape gets manipulated and sculpted in isolation it loses its vigor to face the reality. Systems failing to face the contemporary challenges is a clear indication of how much reality has shifted while herds are kept occupied in binaries of absurd and inane entertainments. There are reason why indigenous people -who are deemed primitive, are aware of the urgency. It isn’t a coincidence. Their society may not be as sophisticated to get the science and technology to travel to mars or edit genes but yes, they are well attuned to sophisticated world and natural systems that we are indelible part of. They know the waft of the dung and mind of the bird. It shouldn’t therefore surprise that science began its journey with this searing probe into reality. Somewhere down the line technology gave the herd their collective will. Its been downhill since. If we don’t become humans again, dismiss systems that dehumanize, and assert our humanity, reject vehemently and vociferously each and every attempt to undermine our being then it’s truly over for us. It’s a wake-up call.         

 

Wanted 

A threat to humanity 

Deeply saddened

****

The other shore

You will only know when you reach 

You sense in the presence

Ecstasy, and sadness

Glimpse the profundity of stars and flowers

And what connects

Getting the context

History is also about intersections. It has repercussions on contemporary world and interactions. I wasn’t aware much about Blacks and Jews and the context of intersectionality. Indeed, I wasn’t much aware about genocide of Jews either. I came to know about Concentration Camps in school history (most likely in 10^th or 9^th standard), it was a minor mention in international history. What I recall was me thinking it to be a place where people went to concentrate. One word that was drilled into me was: concentrate. I recall an English teacher (in KV Jaipur) who taught English in Hindi and used very few English words. And the word she used quite often was “concentrate” as she randomly hit notebook on the head of anyone giggling, talking so on. It was only later, in my 20s, I came to know about cruelty of Hitler, Nazis. Then I watched documentaries, read books, as also watched movies to get the full impact of the horrific events. I recall feeling extremely uneasy watching footages. What I wasn’t aware of was semantics used and the gravity and import of it, and recently I too have been keenly working on these usages and the contexts. Whoopi Goldberg incident is helping to get the grip. Last week I read Maus by Art Spiegelman that was banned in some school in USA by the Christian inspired administration (note I stopped using terms like far right/far left, no more fueling binaries. Looking for context of issues, and not polarization into baying groups). I immediately ordered a copy online. I am also reading much postponed Victor Frankl. Yesterday while thinking I recalled reading this (pic herein). It’s an instance of blatant racism on Black (Afro-American) by a Jew who had ironically survived the holocaust (ofcourse there is a context of him being paranoid about food/groceries but nevertheless there is something here). Black-Africans who were captured and sold as slaves have a history of horror and trauma of centuries that is beyond human imagination. And they still suffer and face discriminations, and what makes it singularly revolting is that it is because of something a human being is born with -the color of skin, and not because of believe system or voluntary choices. It is therefore is blot on humanity. It is in this context I find the rebuke of Whoopi Goldberg quite painful. There is a context that is being willfully neglected. It is much complicated than one cares.  

The more I read more I am convinced that Jew as a race is a construct. “Features” of Jews are caricatures based on prejudices that were generalized hence capitalized by Nazis to create the other. There doesn’t seem to be any other explanation however hard one tries. Religion is a construct, and any attempt otherwise is a violation of human right, a sinister attempt to segregate human, and negating contemporary reality. In the last few days I was trying to understand why this view a “profound ignorance”, none forthcoming. It is as if these are commonly agreed, understood and is a closed matter. Upstart like me has no business to poke, indeed not qualified or too insignificant. I keep an open mind. 

Controlling the narration

 

Religion is not a race. It’s a believe system. Nobody is born with, or into, a religion – if so then it is a violation of child’s right and restriction on humanity, a persistent threat. People are born into a race, into a region, into a gender. As societies evolve even these shouldn’t matter. Race, region or gender are insignificant in evolved society. What matters is worth of human. Worth of every life. Diversity then will be diversity of understanding, ideas, thoughts and expressions that contribute for better realisation.

Whoopi Goldberg is right when she asserts that holocaust "was not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man" or rather human being’s inhumanity to another human being. We shouldn’t forget that women were also equally active member and facilitators of Nazis. Nazis "deemed Jews to be an inferior race" doesn't make it a race issue. Surely what Nazis “deemed” shouldn’t be point of reference for any discussion at all. Almost all Europeans in 1930s were Caucasians. So, it’s clearly about religion being used to perpetrate and justify genocide. The narration must be about how religion is the cause of misery, and how Nazis used it to create myths hence enemies among friends and neighbours. It shows the hold of religion and fiction on psyche of people that they could condone murder and extermination of innocent people whom they knew. It’s the depth of depravity and must be recognised with all its cruelties and facts. If ever Ms. Goldberg can be faulted it could be the tone (“it’s about them the white people”), and that accusation too is tenuous. She was just asserting the facts. We live in crude, crass and increasingly polarized world where nuances get lost in the din. Also, the attempts at hyperbolic extrapolation of events in 2022 to 1930s is dangerous distraction. The world has evolved much since 1930s in a way that was unthinkable even few decades back. Few Nazis in some corner of USA is now flashed all across the world. The contemporary complexities are different. Likes of Trump (one feels violated to even mention his name) were mollycoddled and nurtured by greedy crass media looking for eyeball catching histrionics without any concern for repercussions. While people were too tired of mainstream politicians manipulating and using correct meaningless words while they sided with rich and powerful, and status quoist abuse and lack of innovative involvement in systemic exploitations. That this con artist carries on blatantly despite breaking law many times shows how much the deep state is compromised. The role of dark web and BigTech were also not taken seriously (the gravity of which the policy makers at the highest level must have been briefed). Attention seeking manipulative algorithms have polarized and degraded democracies all across the world. They have severely undermined critical thinking, subjectified facts and framework for sane discussion or communication. While billionaires becoming richer during pandemic points to serious flaw in the system. Climate catastrophes seems to be least of concern indicating even bigger existential malaise.             

Religion is not race. It cannot be. It’s important to be aware of semantics used and narrative control, the context and complexities, and repercussion on contemporary world. Racism is an important matter and shouldn’t to be diluted. It has serious repercussion on contemporary world. There is an attempt to sanctify and fossilize religions into race hence identity. It’s a gross human right violation and imminent threat to humanity.    

A threat to humanity

Its about time that the world takes the threat of likes of Rupert Murdoch seriously. There are little versions of Murdochs all across the world, and these greedy psychopaths have severely degraded democratic institutions and are having debilitating impact on humanity. Stop him.   

On the other side of mob

It could be the skin colour, the otherness of thoughts or attire

The accent, a rumour, or plainly you in the wrong place

A gap to fill time

The thrill to enact, or a game to measure

Bludgeoned bodies on scales of argument

Blood as elixir of power