A lot of people believe that India qualifies to be a next super power just on the basis of its population. Others believe that the arguably great Indian culture rest on the community dynamics of the society. This dynamics give the Indian society its unique flavor and conscience.
But lately, this same “Society” is, holding India at ransom. Earlier the mob was seen as the main villain in riots, destroying people property and humanity in the name of religion. But lately their presence has greatly increased.
They block national highways to seek reservations, murder and burn public property to protest accidental deaths, attack and kill policemen, take law and order in their own hands by punishing criminals and even the ruling of panchayat of murder and rape being executed by the mob.
The mob, part of a society is going against it.
This could be more detrimental for India then the terrorist attacks.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Nehru Cup
India wins the Nehru cup for the very first time. A glorious victory in football after five years for India. A great performance of an Indian team, in a game other then cricket. And not a single news article in any newspaper/bulletin of any channel, that talks about this victory, miss the words “Chak de India”.
I love the bond between us and movies!!
I love the bond between us and movies!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Underdogs
As an addict of movies every time I watched a Hollywood movie featuring a bunch of misfits going ahead to win a match of football(the longest yard), basket ball (Glory Road), ice hockey(Miracle) or boxing(Rambo Series of movies)…. I wondered why like Hollywood, Bollywood do not repeat this formula instead of love storey with father playing the villain formula.
It finally happened and Chak de India released.
There is something about this formula that touches the heart, in real life and in reel life. I remember vividly the finals of Wimbledon in 2001, when I witnessed Goran Ivanisevic win the title. He was the only person to win the men’s singles title as a wildcard.
Movies, which talks about, how success is close to you anywhere you stand on the rating chart of life are appealing. It’s the wisdom of life …that something’s like hard work, focus, honesty and some madness…almost always work to get you anything; you set your heart at.
It finally happened and Chak de India released.
There is something about this formula that touches the heart, in real life and in reel life. I remember vividly the finals of Wimbledon in 2001, when I witnessed Goran Ivanisevic win the title. He was the only person to win the men’s singles title as a wildcard.
Movies, which talks about, how success is close to you anywhere you stand on the rating chart of life are appealing. It’s the wisdom of life …that something’s like hard work, focus, honesty and some madness…almost always work to get you anything; you set your heart at.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Happy Independence Day!!
In many sections of Indian society, couples on their sixtieth wedding anniversary, get married again. Along with, a generally extended family, a lot of mixed experiences of life and earned wisdom, they redo their vows.
I believe that’s exactly what India should do on the Sixtieth Independence day.
I believe the real threat to India is not from the terrorist but the fundamentalist; not from the criminals but those who resort to destroy public property as a mark of protest on any and every issue; not from law-breakers but from people who have made finding loop-holes in law and manipulate witnesses; not from the corrupt bureaucrats but those who do not raise a voice against them; not hideous politicians but those who refuse to vote out of the despondency of the situation.
I think the seven vows that we need are, based on the experiences of last 60 years.
Vow 1: First and foremost we should safeguard the most precious thing called democracy. All political party should be made to follow rules like not inciting violence, respect secularism and law. Any violation to these laws should result in dissolution of the party by the election commission.
Vow 2: The judiciary, which on more then one occasion have proved as the sanest and most unbiased institution in the company, should work to come up with a process to dispose the cases at the earliest. Because we have seen over and over again that justice delayed is justice denied.
Vow 3: The education at schools should be overhauled to prepare students for self-employment rather then university education. The current system of education is single handedly responsible for the blooming service industry and crashing agriculture.
Vow 4: We should do everything to stop the rise of caste-based divide. This divide was caused by reservations in modern times, hence they should be discontinued immediately, except for reservation in education institutions and jobs based on physical (and if possible, few types of mental) disabilities.
Vow 5: Women need to be empowered. I strongly believe, the way to empower them is not be any reservation but by making the society very safe for them. Neither their parents nor they should miss opportunity because some job, some area or some city is not safe. The laws to safeguard them should be strictly implemented and any case involving crime against women should be solved with in a year, to help the victim carry on with her life.
Vow 6: Growth of population need to be addressed with punishments like loosing promotion and loosing government jobs, some incentive for girl child can also be planned. Not more then two children should be allowed per family baring exceptions.
Vow 7: India in my view took a great decision in the past of being member of group of non-aligned nation in the past. It should once again lead the world, in terms of opinion and guide the world away from the big brothers who are immature and whimsical and patronize nations and they only damage the peace of the planet.
Some one thought, motivated, worked, suffered and even died for the freedom with which we live, think, dream and express today. Long live Independent India!
Happy Independence Day!!
I believe that’s exactly what India should do on the Sixtieth Independence day.
I believe the real threat to India is not from the terrorist but the fundamentalist; not from the criminals but those who resort to destroy public property as a mark of protest on any and every issue; not from law-breakers but from people who have made finding loop-holes in law and manipulate witnesses; not from the corrupt bureaucrats but those who do not raise a voice against them; not hideous politicians but those who refuse to vote out of the despondency of the situation.
I think the seven vows that we need are, based on the experiences of last 60 years.
Vow 1: First and foremost we should safeguard the most precious thing called democracy. All political party should be made to follow rules like not inciting violence, respect secularism and law. Any violation to these laws should result in dissolution of the party by the election commission.
Vow 2: The judiciary, which on more then one occasion have proved as the sanest and most unbiased institution in the company, should work to come up with a process to dispose the cases at the earliest. Because we have seen over and over again that justice delayed is justice denied.
Vow 3: The education at schools should be overhauled to prepare students for self-employment rather then university education. The current system of education is single handedly responsible for the blooming service industry and crashing agriculture.
Vow 4: We should do everything to stop the rise of caste-based divide. This divide was caused by reservations in modern times, hence they should be discontinued immediately, except for reservation in education institutions and jobs based on physical (and if possible, few types of mental) disabilities.
Vow 5: Women need to be empowered. I strongly believe, the way to empower them is not be any reservation but by making the society very safe for them. Neither their parents nor they should miss opportunity because some job, some area or some city is not safe. The laws to safeguard them should be strictly implemented and any case involving crime against women should be solved with in a year, to help the victim carry on with her life.
Vow 6: Growth of population need to be addressed with punishments like loosing promotion and loosing government jobs, some incentive for girl child can also be planned. Not more then two children should be allowed per family baring exceptions.
Vow 7: India in my view took a great decision in the past of being member of group of non-aligned nation in the past. It should once again lead the world, in terms of opinion and guide the world away from the big brothers who are immature and whimsical and patronize nations and they only damage the peace of the planet.
Some one thought, motivated, worked, suffered and even died for the freedom with which we live, think, dream and express today. Long live Independent India!
Happy Independence Day!!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Lajja …
When India became independent, she decided to be a secular, sovereign, republic. And when the world got polarized during the cold war, she decided to be part of the group of non-aligned nations. She was known to be immensely tolerant in temperament.
But attack M. F. Husain & other painter by Hindu extremists, court case on every song lyrics/film scene that reflects on any faith or rituals, controversy on history books, hue and cry over even voluntary conversion of religion and recent attack on Taslima Nasrin shows how a handful of fundamentalists with the motive of getting political mileage and spotlight, can cast a shadow on creative arts and make a non-sense of unimportant events, even when there nation is suffering through population explosion, lack of education, national calamities, ignorance and low standards of living for majority of population.
But attack M. F. Husain & other painter by Hindu extremists, court case on every song lyrics/film scene that reflects on any faith or rituals, controversy on history books, hue and cry over even voluntary conversion of religion and recent attack on Taslima Nasrin shows how a handful of fundamentalists with the motive of getting political mileage and spotlight, can cast a shadow on creative arts and make a non-sense of unimportant events, even when there nation is suffering through population explosion, lack of education, national calamities, ignorance and low standards of living for majority of population.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Choose your friends …
Its funny how politics teaches you to choose your friend’s and foe’s with wisdom…
In 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war, America candidly helped Saddam Hussain with financing, intelligence and military. The same man which was later target of the witch hunt conducted by the U.S., after being casted as the sole enemy of freedom, democracy and humanity in general.
The U.S. is also known to have helped Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries with arms against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista. The man who later dodged American-sponsered-assassination attacks, exported refugees to U.S. and got the world almost at the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
Similar is the case of Dawood Ibrahim, who seeked shelter in Pakistan, and managed to live a luxurious, fearless life for years. The passport of his happiness in Pakistan was the fact that he had greatly hurt India. But now as U.S. seek his arrest, he is in a very uncomfortable position as Pakistan is very keen to wash their hands off him; may be reclassifying his friend's and foe's.
In 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war, America candidly helped Saddam Hussain with financing, intelligence and military. The same man which was later target of the witch hunt conducted by the U.S., after being casted as the sole enemy of freedom, democracy and humanity in general.
The U.S. is also known to have helped Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries with arms against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista. The man who later dodged American-sponsered-assassination attacks, exported refugees to U.S. and got the world almost at the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
Similar is the case of Dawood Ibrahim, who seeked shelter in Pakistan, and managed to live a luxurious, fearless life for years. The passport of his happiness in Pakistan was the fact that he had greatly hurt India. But now as U.S. seek his arrest, he is in a very uncomfortable position as Pakistan is very keen to wash their hands off him; may be reclassifying his friend's and foe's.
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