Congratulating BBC

I happened to see a physically handicapped (or challenged, the politically correct version) anchor, that too in a wheel chair, in BBC channel the other day. It was quite refreshing. Here in india it has gone primitive, as is expected, and they focus more on body and its unique expression called body language and other crude nuances, adding to it, amazingly puerile nonsense as news and high claims on freedom. They also have sponsors stampeding them, to somehow hoodwink people to buy. It is called business model.  

Though, as mentioned earlier, standard of BBC has plummeted quite drastically, they are about “monarchial butt” –quoting the speaker in a debate about monarchy in Australia. Australians are such primitively feudal people to have British monarchy as their head is amazing. The aborigines should demand the ouster of this nonsense.  

Indian elitizens too are quite keen on monarchial matters, as it justifies their feudal gains. Some in mysore claim that it was the royal family that created the city and its infrastructure, it may be true, they were known to be benevolent, indeed it was expected from the rulers. Period. In the contemporary time it is disgusting to refer back to them as torch bearers and the ‘incumbents’ given respect which is not at all due. It is a sickness. They should have absolutely no role in public functions especially festivals like dashara, it is a deviant tradition. Instead citizens who have contributed exceptionally to the society should be taken in as guest of honour. Royal family and their minions have no place in civilized society, their role is over. And yes thank you for ruling well, it really shouldn’t be allowed to stretch any further. 

There are people who conduct heritage walks, and take tourists to look at these monstrous structures. I had that offer but I said thank you. These are nothing to be proud of, indeed in mysore the palace is shoddy copy of Europeans, and lacks any local understanding or innovation.  I am not at all impressed by royal fleet of cars, it made me puke. They should dump these into some garbage yard and convert the space into organic farm or something, or maybe a science park. A democratically elected government is expected to see to that any reference to ‘royal’ is removed from any dealings and leftovers be treated like ordinary citizens. It is too much to ask from sycophantic mindset that characterizes Indians, which is so cleverly capitalized by elitizens. It is also not uncommon that some novae rich want these royal treatments be extended to them, while others cling on to traditional claims and entitlements. The only heritage I am keen on is natural heritage, and they are making all effort to see that it is plundered in the name of development.        

    

Biradri ki aukat: making of high culture family

Crude woman was saying “har biradri ki bhaisaab apni apni aukat hothi hai. Ham logon ko hi dekh lo. Hamare hi log hai mandiron me. Tum logon ka kriya karam bhi hum logon ke hath me hai. Hum logon ka bhagwan ke saath seedha connection hai”. Her high culture claims was blatant take on casteism was not lost, she even stressed that it has to do with “superior genes”. “hotha hai bhaisaab, kudrath me yeh sab hoth hai, aap mano ya na mano. Some people are always superior to others”. “Dekh lo Sharma log kahan tak pohunch gaye hai. Agar aap bbc dekhoge tho hamare log, Amrika jaoge wahan pe hamare hi log hai uche position par. Akbaar kholo tho mishra, cricket dekho tho sharma. Kya bathaye hum logon ke biradari ke naam pe pahad bhi rakh diya hai amrika me. Ye sab natural hai bhai saab”. “Bharath bana he hai ham logon ki karam se, freedom fighters se lekar patrkar sab hamare biradri ke hai” “ab bolo kya bolthe ho” “bolthi bandh ho gayi kya?” 

If you are thinking it is fiction then you are grossly mistaken. These are fragments of discussion one catches while travelling. So what is morality of the story here? The caste reference is quite clearly claimant for superior genes by primitives in this part of the world, though the fact is India as a society is amazingly mediocre. Also those who carry these as identities should be aware how it percolates down into racism and prejudices. Mishras and Sharmas (of course our little Pande) claiming high moral ground should be put in their primitive framework. Indian zombies will take time to understand these, it is too entrenched, but international community should take stern actions. I strongly believe it was Gandhi and his ‘moral’ reach that emasculated these matters, hence the blinkers, as people suffered untold misery. They quite effectively hid these primitiveness with heightened secular claims. Gandhi saw the glimpse of it not in poor marginalized muslims in here but by supporting calipha in Turkey. In school, I distinctly recall, this was regarded to as his “masterstroke”. It is this superficial secularism that some elitizens practice and even claim more than their share of returns –it has become a game, as poor people suffer and mullahs embolden.  Casteism is racism and the fact that Indians are blatantly racist should be accepted. It is in the same context that the mountain that was named after an Indian recently, unfortunately, represents racism.           

Crude Indian media slips further down the drain

We all know how obnoxious Indian media is, with very rare exceptions it is such a nuisance.  You really have to flip through many channels and printed materials to take the average to make sense of what is really happening. Despite these you still have to create your own medium to get quality news and views. Thankfully internet is an effective alternative. Every channel and newspaper is in its own little pit, very effectively coalesced by the market scramble for selling. The framework is going from crude to crude and hitting the bottom of sanity. A minor skirmish between an actor and her partner becomes a major concern, in the meanwhile a journalist at a TV channel (India TV) attempts suicide accusing the management of serious violation is blocked, by all the media outlets. It is the temple squatter’s framework: instead of finding out the problem and addressing it they close rank to ward of any threat to their power and prestige. Such hypocrisy is natural in scheme of things, it is a tradition. The readers will know that the squatters spread with much alacrity wherever there was opportunity to lick it big time (indeed they didn’t have any competition) so shifting from sanctum sanctorum to controlling news, therefore opinion, therefore blackmail, wasn’t that difficult. From tirupati to cricket to media to politics to entertainment the shift is rather swift (see it even rhymes, there must be some divine cause to it!!). Sharmas and Mishras have done it with much ease, and now they pass on to litters as legacy. The crude market has only consolidated these, indeed the crudeness has become an advantage, a sign of smartness. It is in the same context I express profound shock that a mountain that is named after an Indian carries a caste reference, it is regrettable. I request people to be careful while dealing with Indians, they bring load of muck, and therefore should be closely scrutinized. It is for the same reason that international community should declare caste as worst than racism, and any reference to it condemned. There are Indians who have been hanging around with high culture claim for sometime now; some even come with Gandhian charm. 

So it is with this charisma that Kasturi&sons have taken the responsibility of playing granddad of media, pointing to the hypocrisy of Indian media for blocking the news of journalist as also bring home some bitter truth about functioning of media. However the slave they recruited has an axe to grind (which is also quite normal, these deviousness. Wonder where do people get Pandita as surname?! Must be foreign return innovation by our little scoundrel, they get heightened culture consciousness once they are abroad, very easy to sink down the traditional muck). The fellow, quite sycophantically, points these firmly as hindi belt deviance. People who speak and conduct themselves in Hindi will very definitely have to be substandard, in turn Kasturi &sons with their fake sophistication and English (matching the british) are much better. The fact is most Indian media, in particular English media, are load of nonsense, indeed English media with its reach to the powerful and high intentioned grievously intrude and degrade institutions. So it seems news ‘stuck’ between luxury cars and colas are much better standard than “Amul Macho and Barnala Sariya”. Sample these lines by our little slave to know what English elitism and prejudice means “They knew the algorithm of elections and vote percentage. But many among them also brought with them various deep-rooted complexes about, among other things, the English language. They grudged a handful of journalists who could converse in English, who dressed in a particular way, and who thought nothing of a female colleague lighting up a cigarette”. Quite ironically the colonial minded slave has himself brought in “deep-rooted complexes”, further cigarette smoking is a stupid thing to do, male or female. Our juvenile seems to be stuck in ‘bollywood’ inspired surrogate ad sponsored route to emancipation, that keeps some people very happy and wealthy. Grow up kid. 

This is the version of journalist (of India TV) who attempted suicide, you will get insight into how these people work…

I joined India TV in February this year (2014) and things started to turn sour within a month. Senior Executive Editor, Anita Sharma repeatedly humiliated me in front of colleagues and belittled me on every occasion. She'd find faults with everything, from the way I looked, to the clothes I wore, to my hairstyle. I was told I'm not glamorous enough and that I didn't know how to carry myself. Anita Sharma would constantly criticize my voice and say it's too harsh but no one in the newsroom complained. In fact, I routinely gave voiceovers for special features - why would they let me do so if my voice was so bad?" "I asked whether it was for an interview or a byte but she never responded clearly. She kept telling me that she would like to send me out for some other reasons and once, when I insisted, stated that I could earn extra money if I agreed." "I used to cry every day and broke down finally. As a final resort I messaged MN Prasad (Senior Executive Editor) simply saying that ‘I am resigning'." Prasad said he'd discuss the issue, but he made no effort to call me or hear me out. While standard procedure across organisations need an employee to submit a formal resignation letter, but Prasad treated my one-line SMS as a formal resignation and asked me to leave without giving me a notice period or taking an exit interview. This is rather surprising considering the contract does not allow the employee to terminate his/her services." "The HR acted more or less like a puppet in the hands of the management and I was told to leave", she says. Dejected she attempted suicide. 

Now read the response by the India TV channel, I am tempted to add my observation in the bracket… 

Ms XY had joined in February 2014. She was still on probation as her three month probation period had been extended since in her first three months she had made two serious mistakes on air. First time, she was laughing on air during live news while presenting serious news (well well, what do we say to that?! Are there any serious issues in news?! Isn't having winning body language the major journalistic concerns these days? Such delicate matters!). She had been warned. Second mistake she made was that while she was on studio duty she left the studio and newsroom, putting her phone on silent was sitting in the cafeteria. Due to non-availability of anchor, the channel had to give breaking news without an anchor on just graphics (and when did any news channel had any non ‘breaking news’ occasions?). She was given a second warning by HR. Complaints regarding her behavior were reported regularly. The last incident was a minor reprove by her senior in the girls make up room in the presence of two other female anchors (so the major part of job involves makeup room inspirational get-together. Aha how charming), after which she sent a message that she is resigning. It was confirmed with her by her immediate senior and then forwarded to HR. HR sent her a mail and informed her that her resignation had been accepted and she should come and meet them for the relieving formalities. She came and met them, handed over her I-card, collected her belongings from the make up room and left saying good bye to her colleagues. And the matter was amicably closed. During her service she never made any complaint of harassment or even shared it with any colleague. India TV was amongst the first few channels to have instituted a complaint redressal committee for women employees which is headed by a Supreme Court lawyer, if she actually had any issues she could have approached the committee. The two people she is blaming are very senior and highly respected professionals in the industry. The lady she is blaming has trained hundreds of young producers and anchors and is respected and appreciated very much (yes we know the standards the dimwits have). She is herself a mother of two girls, (aha we are now back to ‘I too have girl child, not one but two’ emotional drub, that is quite effectively used. I presume they are high culture family!) these false allegations have caused a lot of harassment to her and her family.

Geez I am drooling….

Cheated by FIFA

This is the second time it is happening, first it was Ivory Coast and now Mexico. I am shocked that there isn’t any remedial measure against these blatant cheating. We all, placed thousands of miles away, saw it in happening. The penalty was given wherein there was no foul, the teams were cheated by the system. Why cannot there be a second referee, who could have easily seen the replay, and denied the penalty? Atleast in case of penalties (which is as good as gifting goals) this could be done. In the context of things it wouldn't farfetched to point out that both the teams to gain (ie Netherlands and Greece) are European teams. It is truly unfair, there isn’t any providence in these matters, it is nothing but incompetence on the part of FIFA. 
 

Mediocre Indians peeps in: Watching FIFA matches is always such a pleasurable experience. Unlike stupid market friendly ‘sport’ like cricket there is no space for advertisement, which is such a huge respite. The hooligans masquerading as sellers have seriously negated watching experience (they have even invaded social media with their primitive gusto). They lack basic etiquette and decency, as is the defining characteristic of this section, they barge in with noisy and appalling ways to somehow make us buy their product. Market friendly commentators even see them as agent of change!! The uncouth young Indians also make their ‘smart’ presence felt with their easy going ways, as if the product is because of them, worst still having these products somehow make them smart as the inventor! Market apart from being ‘agent of change’ has also severely degraded the cultural scene. Small time actors are the biggest problem, hoisted by crude market, these pests barge into even wildlife related channels. More than mediocrity it is the audacity that is astounding. They consistently degrade institutions and propriety, and I am quite sure they are into all kind of unethical activities, right from invading privacy and manipulation for gain at the expense of people. Clearly market is helping dimwits to make huge amount of money. They even can make decision of buying a car by watching some stupid ads. Such is the quality of elite in a country where majority are poor who cannot even afford proper meal. There surely is lots of black money doing the round, many times what is in foreign bank…

Coming back to FIFA, though we are saved by Indian presence through crude ads, but you still cannot push them out. A small time actor, I gather, was anchoring the discussions before the match. It also included another actor, whose claim, I am told, was to have acted in a football related movie!! Such is the ways of mediocre Indians. Anything that is degradable will be degraded is the motto, you cannot really blame them, its india’s population driven feudal development pattern that fattens these crass wonders. My only request is to show some respect to millions of football fans by being professionals for atleast sometime, Brazilians will do the rest.   

  

Please donate generously to Greenpeace

 It’s getting clear that we are in for a virulent form of development. The far right parties in West (specifically US) see nature as exploitable commodity, clearly it has semantic religion background to it – the one that seeks to dominate the earth. The economic model and patterns of ‘development’ is hinged and decided by these. It is therefore unfortunate that the incumbent government has sought to take this path that leads to wanton destruction and alienation in the name of development. 

Indian society, in its non brahmanical framework, has always given importance to Nature. Such was the reverence to the Nature that the elitist conception, the temple squatters, had to cleverly adapt to the need and be sensitive to the surroundings. The impetus of Jains and Buddhists, as also traditions of great souls and seers influenced Indians to see earth as Mother Nature and respect its myriad ways. This brought deep soulful understanding of surrounding and realities of existence. While the temple squatters saw only idols and pecking orders, devoid of any soul or any understanding to the realities, their grand views therefore became elaborate sick jokes. The temple squatters consumerism (read exploiting the devotees) was consistently devoid of these connections that bound societies and its culture, they saw it as commodity as much as what they saw in fellow human beings. This framework quite easily is in sync with exploiting market. The rabid grandness of civilization role of India as superpower hinges on this framework. Everything has to be subservient to goodness of nation. Previously it was some amazingly tawdry miracle stories of gods as saviors of nature while the people held nature as savior, the godly push to the conception was partially successful. So what started as prayer to nature forces (like tree, mountains so on) acquired brahmanical pointers, it opened the gates for charlatans. The mountains were codified for temples, the same happened to rivers, the places of worship of nature morphed into religious centers of exploitation. Though it seared the soul of the society and its people but thankfully the primacy of nature was maintained. Can you imagine that they cut the mountains at bellary (it’s only a small example in this nation of humungous exploitation) and also donated huge amount of gold to Thirupati temple, and quite understandably temple squatters wallowing in millions (in the name of god, of course) accepted it gleefully. What amazing debauchery.  

When environment is destroyed in the name of development, when mountains are flattened in the name of progress it is the common people who face the impact of the destruction. It is also disconnects their fragile relation with the surrounding that sustains them. It puts their lives at risk as also our biodiversity. It also puts the future of society at peril. The understanding that Nature sustains us and its wanton destruction will put the future at immense trouble is only beginning of an understanding of how earth functions.    

It is in this framework that the con work of pliable bureaucrats (steel frame my foot) who have come out with some wonderful notion on NGOs, specifically Greenpeace and other environment protection related organization that are doing job of sensitizing the people of the loot and destruction that is being unfolded in the name of development. The report by IB is a shoddy attempt to work out a threat, and it is also quite clear that some big money is making its move. The likes of Aggrawals (Vedanta) have been salivating for sometime now, in the meanwhile they branded themselves as socially concerned (it’s is a strategy to win over poor hapless people, it’s a invite to marginalized people to cannibalize themselves). Pronnoy & his angels have been ever gracious in the hypocrisy, with harebrained actors they have converted Vedanta into savior industry. Such is the power of money, and reach of erstwhile kabadiwala –the quintessential Indian rags to rich by manipulation and exploitation story. These type of exploitative development is a rather feeble feudal substitute for vibrant innovation oriented development that Indian elite lack. Indeed with rare exception this is the claim to riches of most, either service (english and superficial sophistication) or exploitation (feudal norms and crony capitalism). 

It is clear that things are going to get ugly from here. Any trampling with the environmental laws and laxing of its provision will be severely dealt. Any attempt to jostle people into submission will be replied with equal force. The development cannot be at the expense of natural wealth, and the greed of few and exploitation of nature and its people. This will resisted. Organization like Greenpeace is doing a wonderful job. This blogger requests everyone to contribute to these organizations and strengthen them. There seems to be renewed belligerence from the part of exploiters.  It is possible that if peaceful means are exhausted then things could get violent. One thing though is clear: development will not be at the expense of future. Nature will be represented and defended, it will not be left to hooligans to work out their exploitative model.