Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ordinary Things to Say.(About Secularism)

I have pretty ordinary things to say. No Discoveries. Nothing Remarkable. Just limited use of common sense*

No. Terrorism doesn’t start and end with Pakistan. It’s a lot more complex than that. There is a reasonable theory that one of the motives behind the Mumbai Attacks was to divert the Pakistani Army from the Afghan borders and to create a crisis between both the nations. The terrorists hit two targets with one shot. They degraded the Indian Government, created fear among the civilians and on the larger grounds they spoiled all the diplomatic advances made by both the governments in the line of peaceful relations between the nations. AL Qaida receives funds from a lot of sources including its own illegal businesses all over the Middle East. So don’t blame Indian government for not slashing down Pakistan. Government is a lot wiser than you. I am not a congress supporter either.

Anyhow, do you know who suffers the most from a terror attack apart from the aggrieved? The ordinary Muslims. They are treated with suspicions and hatred.  India is really secular in a good sense, it never showed hatred and dominance against its Muslims or other minorities. But please don’t change this. Saying that Pakistan doesn’t treat Hindus well is not a good excuse to treat Muslims here without sense.

What the hell is Democracy when you don’t have the right to choose your religion. Make India a Dictatorship or forceful regime before trying to stop people from converting from Hinduism or any other religion (By the way, if a person is accepting cash in exchange for his religion, even that is his OWN decision). Or before telling SRK to stop making his personal comments about his business. Or before banning valentines. Or before stabbing people who want to go to pubs. Otherwise we have no right to blame the terrorists. We are one of them! And if all this is just for one thing called the vote bank, we know how that worked!

Anyhow why in the hell would you want India to be only of Hindus? Why do you want to make other people your subordinates? Is it divine according to some Veda or Bhagavad-Gita? Is that some kind of anti-poverty policy or something? I never said Muslim extremists are right. But that doesn’t make right your stupid ideologies, does it? BJP has its ideology as Hindutva even today with added flavor of “tolerant, inclusive” outlook. My comment is “Tolerate who? Are we talking about animals? And why do we ‘include’ them when they are already one of us? Why should the Musalmans in India remain silent if they want to live here. You have your rights to speak out, why shouldn’t they have their rights?”

Why do you care when someone follows some western culture? English is western. Fucking motor bikes, cars.. all that technology is western! Jeans is western! It Is quite a lifestyle now. Show me one guy in India who is not used to them? Even the priests think it’s cool. We accept jeans and cars as a part of how we live. We don’t go on cattle or horse to a vegetable market! I don’t see many ‘warriors’ wearing Dhotis to work. Then why can’t we take other practices in the same spirit of individuality and accept things as they come. So every goddamn thing you say about invasion of alien cultures doesn’t apply when it comes to you, does it?  No one is taking away your chances of survival by selling you a greeting card. In fact, no one is forcing you to buy it. Just don’t get pissed off at others buying it.

Please live your life however you want to and let others live it the same way. Not however you want to but however they want to.

When you try to argue with a “Just Hindus” enthusiast, all you get to hear is what there is in the History books written by some 60 year old following and filtering everything which went against the Hindu “Innocents”. With proofs of how cruel the other communities were to the Hindu people and statistics of how many people were killed by Muslims in Godhra or Ayodhya. I’ll never say something like that isn’t true. Thousands of Hindus were trapped and killed in rail bogeys just for the heck of it. What I say is its only half truth. The other half, if these guys dared to face, would show that there is equal cruelty on the part of the Anti-Muslims who either acted or reacted in equal evilness killing as many people in the name of God (Hindu God). How in the world would they justify their identity as an Hindu when they advocate Ahimsa which I read no where as the Hindu-Dharma.

I don’t give a thing about gods or religions. Technically I, too, am not a Hindu. Kill me.

*        I am not a Muslim or Congress supporter. Anyhow, majority of Muslims are good people and congress is secular at least in records.

 

Friday, February 12, 2010

Characters we come across

The One with smile and nothing else.

Laugh at something, he laughs back. Laugh at something, he doesn’t understand the joke, but still laughs back. Try and piss him off, he will still manage a smile!

The One with the counters.

He has a punch line or at least a counter emotion for whatever goes past him.. Good to have around..time pass

The Mature one.

Acts as if he knows everything and whatever topic you bring out with him, he seems to be laughing within himself at your silliness. You have to act serious and mature with such people, or you’ll not feel good.

The Innocent.

Its hard to get along with these guys. You know so little and this dude doesn’t even know that!

The Bug.

He knows it already. But just wants to hear from your mouth. The bug..

The Dominating One.

Like Prakash Raj in Bommarillu except that he’s not your dad.

The Push over.

The opposite character of above. He doesn’t have an opinion. He wants you to decide. Whatever you decide, it is good enough for him. You want to go to a Chinese restaurant, he is ok. You want to go to a bakery, he is ok. You want to go to hell, ok..

The Moody Guy.

If you can make him smile, you can win over the world!

The Happy Go Luckys.

No one knows what they are so happy about in this sick world :P

Practicals.

He is similar to the Mature guys. But have a mix of Straight attitude. Add some logic to that.

I can go into depths of this thing. But no, I can’t do this. This topic is too dangerous..