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

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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

Color of the sea

 

Grey in the dawn 

Steely blue in sunny morning

Soft green of the day

Wild ochre in dusk

In the moonless night

frothing fringes mark the dark and the sane.

Some nights the moon melts

and lit planktons in blue green of the dreams.

Does the dolphin know the color of the sea?

Does he dream the color of earth?  

Does he dream? 

Book recommendation for the month end:

Obviously when they don't want you to read something they take you as herd. Human beings can take their own decision. Read what they don't want you to read. Think what they don't want you to think. Write what they don't want you to write.

The Thuggery

 

Shouldn’t it be Britishery?

The question here is where does the reference thuggery come from? How did it get into English? Thug in hindi means cheating, and is commonly used. There is no word as thuggery in hindi it’s a british creation. Thug gets its reference from medieval times when small time highway robbers looted and strangulated travelers. When Britishers started to colonize the region through East India Company they exaggerated these and portrayed them as blood thirsty monsters in the process the racist colonizing exploiters were positioned as benign protectors. Many of these highway murderers were classified as criminal tribes and the tribe members prosecuted for no reason. Studies points to these portrayals as mostly a construct -based on no empirical evidences, by cunning britishers with narrative control ably helped by caste cannibals -playing the traditional role of enthusiastic sycophants to power. Britishers therefore created Thug Department (the irony!) in 1830s to demonize and contain these threats. These small-time criminals were isolated from their socio-economic conditions into monsters who believed in divine sanction for killing as some kind of ritual. It’s quite obvious that the myth of divine sanction can only succeed socio-economic factors, it can easily be understood as an attempt to moralize their transgress. Thug narration was worked as metaphor of other -the unpredictable sinister natives. This gave colonizers a moral authority to justify acquisition and exploitations. After transfer of power Castetva forces instead of rectifying these grievous mistakes continued with these brutalities. Ganesh Devy (in a study conducted in as late as 2000) notes that some of these tribes continue to suffer from human right violations that in many cases go unchecked by the law enforcement authorities -the police, the continued teaching of the Criminal Tribes Act in the curriculum for police training is cited as a major reason. He claims that the police are “taught” to believe that they are born criminals, leading to their continued persecution in spite of legal safeguards against the same.

In a much reasonable narration thugs can be viewed as those who rebelled against the system of exploitation and exacted what they thought appropriate in their circumstance. Thugs did in open what squatters did inside sanctum. Thugs sacrificed humans while squatters sacrificed souls. The audacity of colonizers to classify thugs as criminal tribes while they themselves were racist murderous exploiters spanning the globe needs special attention. All these elaborate ruses were hinged on something called justice system that they conceived. These were meant to streamline exploitation while giving the semblance of propriety -which was to be taken as justice. These famously harmonized with squatter’s cannibalistic framework. Therefore, the critical and common-sense question of how justice can prevail in injustice system was never confronted. There is a reason why Indians took up to becoming lawyers and ended up serving the colonizers with gusto (one fellow even went all the way to South Africa). Even now the tardiest and one of the most incompetent judicial system on earth has lawyer luminaries many of whom control power at the top most level while the society suffer.

The question that bothers me though is why the word thuggery was accepted into English without any challenge. It shows amazing level of moral vacuum among Indian elite who actively connived to normalize these (ofcourse there are worst references from putrid pit into English which is as worse as racism but still normalized, these should be expunged at the earliest). Why is that racist colonizer Britain doesn’t have any reference in English that is concomitant with its past brutalities?

Why is thuggery a word in English while britishery isn’t? Boris Johnson represents the britishery. 

Grateful

   ...for helping to understand and insights during trying times in my 20s. Mindfulness. 

*Imagine if squatters and their depraved value system had not strangulated this region we would have such wonderful people amongst us here in India (what is nurtured now is parody of entitlements and arrogance, obnoxious self help gurus trying to play Zen masters with hilarious outcomes). Also, we wouldn't have to waste time and energy on regressive values and general crassness that one see all around. Ofcourse Buddhism is another system with herds who can create horrors in Myanmar, SriLanka, Cambodia...but if you are not a follower but an observer then there is enough space for syncing with being a human, awareness of existential absurdity and humbleness of present moment.  

What kind of religion is this?

 

We know that religions are source of untold misery and remain potently so. Christianity has actively participated in atrocities of colonialism, nurtured racism and had nudge and wink relation with Nazis. These institutionalized depravities happened till few decades back. It is a grim note for a religion that traces back to 2000years. Indeed, it was democratic secular institutions and rule of law based on egalitarian values of liberty that reined in religion. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that remnants remain. You see these expressed across the world (not that other religions are doing better. Religion by its very nature lacks humanistic apprehensions, its concerns are status quoist for system perpetuation controlled by entrenched interests) through daily nuisance that has consolidated into alarming proportion in USA. Humanity reels under onslaught of religions that reduces decent human beings into blood baying herds or the least segregating into competing forces without any concern for any reality or existential threats.

It is in this milieu of depravities that one reads about abuse of children in Churches. Then you read that the topmost functionary of the system i.e. Pope was involved makes you sick. The fellow Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict from 2005-2013) was fully aware of the atrocities. He was incapable, indeed incapacitated, to do what even a normal person would do in such circumstances. A grievous matter like child abuse should shudder any human being and instigate immediate remedial action. Unlike “woman abuse” which can be subjective and needs investigation since it involves adults -who can be scheming, children are innocent to the darker ways of humans. There really cannot be any crime worst than what is committed on children. It’s a crime on human conscience. That a religious head couldn’t make himself cognizant to even this basic human value speaks volume of the system.

Christianity in putrid pit: like erstwhile colonies Christianity spread with brutalities of colonialism. It was in a mission to civilize. Indian society being amazingly depraved that even brutal racist colonizers did end up giving contexts of civilizational values. Though flawed in many ways it did provide framework for democracy and help underpin alien values of equality and liberty into a ruthless society. Christianity -in its vigor to spread, opened up many educational institutions thus nurtured unanticipated values of knowledge to a primitive society. That ends there. Kerala is a prime example of how religions can severely degrade society -it’s a meeting ground for lowest denominator of every religions (even communism -which has become another religion with well-defined rituals of power) to cannibalize the herds while charlatan politicians squeeze benefits. It’s a putrefying pit that Indians -as they gain literacy, are heading to. Limited by their own limitations.

To be fair Kerala had religions landing up much before the other parts in the region. These are seen as some kind of achievement but the reality is they worked to segregate an already despicable bunch. In the early part of 20^th century there were many positives, and I am not here to elaborate these, it’s the contemporary concerns that matters. There is nothing charming about religions in contemporary world. Christianity in Kerala is nothing but another bunch of power broker haggling for their herds. They construct ugly monstrous structures in already densely populated region to awe the herds indicating lack of concern for contemporary reality and evolved nuances of living (huge temples and mosques are equally cringey and nauseating) and drill in miracle book that contains regressive anachronistic values and isolate from realities of life.  Kerala had the advantage of literacy that can be easily traced to Christianity but now its presence is regressive. As with everything in a primitive society religion has a control over media hence charlatans in political parties. Media outlets effortlessly identified caring interests of respective religion. Christian controlled media is quite powerful and influential meanwhile equally regressive for market driven concerns of putrid pit. They play beleaguered minority at the national level and pose as some exotic savior of secularism. These are the worst kind of people taking advantage of cannibalistic value systems that permeated into every aspect of sickening lives of herds from sanctum irrespective of religion. Christian media vehemently promotes caste organizations as part of news and shows enthusiasm for squatter’s world view as they assuage Christian herds of their special place in diversity. Degraded media is habituated to pose inanities as news. Wonder whether to call herd controllers and power brokers as journalists. They are known to openly align with Castetva congress working the narration of liberal secular saviors. A party essentially of bickering feudals. It must be reminded that it is such a deviant society that it was the only state in India that voted Congress even after brutalities of Emergency (now Hindutva has nurtured such deviant herd vote bank in north India). Such is the level of degradation. A congress “leader” (byproduct of nepotism) was quoted recently “Gandhi only said when somebody hits you on the left cheek show them the right. He never said what happens when somebody hits you on the right cheek. We will break their jaw”. It’s a veiled threat to Left party on campus violence wherein the ideas of awareness of politics in youngsters through education system is diverted by charlatans into puppets for political vendetta. Kerala finds the lowest denominator on every egalitarian attempt. Literacy is ineffectual to extricate humans out from herds. Meanwhile the 'communist' CM is in 'imperialist' USA for treatment. Now that the Kerala model has collapsed. Kerala capitalized on christianity and communism to rise spectacularly in 1960s and 70s but the primitive society just couldn’t work on itself. It now spews grandeur of putrefying pit to rally the herds.    

 

   

Commemorating Kumar Gandharva

 

Not into Indian "classical" music, actually don't even recognize it. Exposed to Carnatic music -that is ensconced in squatter's world, and with very rare exception I find it tedious and unable to connect -shows the quality and self assured arrogance that permeates the music. They are promoted by racket while 'folk' is alive and strongly connected to verve of life. There is a reason why western classical connects (not the high pitch singing though, I even went for paid sessions to understand but just couldn't connect to this one) sometimes brimming in tears -its searing and yes scary that you will be lost in a such beautiful world that you may not be able come back. Hindustani has much openness but trapped in "pristine purity" of cringe -the spiritual religion. Kumar Gandharva worked his magic by bringing in the subtleties of 'folk' into 'classic'. And really changed the syntax and aesthetics of music, context and narration. I wasn't aware of him until happen to land up in a festival on Kabir in late 1990s. When it comes to Indian music Kumar Gandharva is right there in a special place. The other day I was listening to him and realized it was his death anniversary. Humanistic prose of Kabir find voice through Kumar Gandharva and epitomizes everything that is human. These humanistic value system were severely degraded by Castetva forces and now passed onto Hindutva (and the worst binary projected through Islam). Religions are serious threat to humanity. Any system that seeks to nurture religion is therefore a threat to humanity. Religion can exist in sidelines but cannot be given primacy that is being appropriated for last many decades. It cannot be allowed to intrude into human identity. Religion is a pity, and really is woefully incapable to contain vastness of life. 

Ud jayega hans akela...is hauntingly beautiful rendition.

Imagine a world where language could listen

Words could understand

Say the things soul sense

And express itself in pause 

Imagine the words as breath itself

That gives life in prose, and music

Black hole 

There is a stillness that grows and summons at busiest of hour

Reaching the expanse of blue sky, envelopes the darkness of the space

Relating with random breeze, synchronizes with fireflies

Merges into the pastel yellows and blues of garden flowers

It presents in the most chaotic occasion as a drop of silence

Eating into loudest of noise, turning gibberish into music

Scatter thoughts into meaningless, memories into hallucination

Past into illusions

It exists, you can sense it, but is unknowable

Like a vortex in space time

When you know you cannot tell, if you tell it vanishes

What goes in cannot come out, if it comes out it’s not the same

Event horizon a realization  

Of living and dying into expanding still.