Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

Seems the Norwegian Killer wanted Hindus in India to assist in his global war against Muslims. Well Mr. Breivik you are asking for help at the wrong place. The religion which calls for "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" which means that whole world is a single family, can't help in your flawed Europe for Europeans ideology. Did Mr. Breivik forget that a similar ideology was used by some Mr. Hitler, calling it Europe for Aryans and I am sure that Hitler's ideology didn't do any good for Europe or the so called Aryan race.

Moreover today you are asking help from Hindus to fight Muslims, when Hindus start growing in Europe, you will ask help from Muslims to fight Hindus. There is no end to hatred, it needs a cause to breed and a keen person can find plenty of causes for fanning his/her hatred. Yesterday it was Jews, today it is Muslims, tomorrow it could be Hindus or even Christians. Since homo-sapiens (name of our species) were born in a small part in Africa, aren't each one of us except a few Africans living in Africa, some sort of immigrant?

There is also a misconception that people who let other beliefs to thrive are weak. In-fact these are strong men and women, because they are confident about their own beliefs. Won't Earth be a better place if everyone respected other's beliefs and didn't try to force their beliefs down others throat? Yet I agree that some practices which are based on out of date beliefs must be stopped unless we don't want to change or grow. Evolution happens not just at level of species but also at intellectual level. It is time we humans evolve from the baser instincts that tie us to cave men trying to safeguard their hunt from other tribes or may be I am hoping a bit too much!!!

The real champion of freedom, liberty and values

The real champion of freedom, liberty and values: Watched a documentary about Tibet last weekend and I did a sort of RCA (Root Cause Analysis for non-tech guys) for the real reason of Tibet problem. What dawned upon me has been elaborated in the few lines below.

The real reason for TIbet's problem lies in the fact that Tibetians have taken refuge in India and they expected India to support them wholeheartedly against expansionist policies of China. Tibetans were wrong, in 1950's, India was proud of being the father of Non-aligned movement and any pride that was existing for being the only place in the world for providing refuge to people around the globe for thousand of years, was slowly slipping by. And in present times, India doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of China in a wrong way, lest it disrupts the economic boom that has been sweeping India despite all the bomb blasts, high inflation, crime and corruption. So what if we have given refuge to Tibetans and Dalai Lama, so what if we have a moral reason for supporting Tibet, so what if China attacked us and made us eat a humble pie in 1962, so what if China openly supports our neighbors against us with weapons, so what guys! Laws of economics don't understand all these reasons, isn't it?

Pardon me for wandering away from the actual topic in hand and going into bashing Indian policies, but that seems so very natural. Anyways, so what should Tibetans do now which helps them in achieving indepndence or gaining the middle path against the mighty China?

They should actually plead for help from the country which has been champion of freedom, liberty and values for last 60 or so years; no no you are wrong, it is not USA but our beloved neighbor Pakistan.

The list of Pakistan's contribution to the freedom and values of mankind is huge, absolutely huge. Pakistan has fought alongside Palistinians, Afghanis for their freedom from foreign occupation; have been in a state of war against India for last 60 continous years for the K in Pakistan that is Kashmir, have helped in carving out a completely new country named Bangladesh out of their land, and have been supporting an independent nation inside their boundry (named Azad Kashmir).

So your holyness Mr. Dalai Lama, now you know whom to contact for the liberation of Tibet. The icing on the cake is that Pakistan is a very very close friend of China and this friendship might help in gaining the freedom of Tibet.

Apart from helping Tibet in their freedom struggle morally and emotionally, which they do to Kashmiris (shhhh! they don't do anything else) Pakistan will also teach Tibetans the following, which will help in raising the plight of Tibet in useless international forums:-

1. How to create propaganda out of no where.

2. How to swell the number of 1.5 million Tibetans killed in freedom struggle to 150 million.

3. How to make bombs, use AK-47 and kill innocent Chinese. Oh come on Mr. Dalai Lama, this isn't violence, this is freedom struggle.

4. How to convert the beautiful Tibet into a god forsaken territory.

5. How to eat grass and still fight for 1000 years.

6. How to name the missiles which were secretly acquired from 3rd country.

7. How to make nuclear bombs.

All this and more, if you request the champion of freedom, liberty and values for helping you out. And still if Pakistan is not able to help Tibet out, then they will take a chunk of Azad Kashmir and present it to Mr. Dalai Lama for establishing a new Tibet. That is how Aksai Chin became part of China.

I firmly believe that there is light at the end of tunnel and may be the people of Tibet will one day have enough right to determine if they want to continue with China or go back to the dark ages of serfdom (as per Chinese propaganda man!). Good luck!

Indian fortune and Temple riches

Temple riches can be utilized for building schools, flyovers, education, curbing poverty blah blah blah? Oh, do you think temple riches will solve all of India's problems? Will it resolve all the poverty and problems in India? Come on wake up, its almost noon, don't be so naive!

If confiscated by government, temple riches will go into the pocket of selected few who will grow richer and rest of us will read stories about how the files related to the temple riches suddenly vanished in thin air. We will discuss on FB and all social sites about these riches and the vanished files, will curse the government and then will be back to ways of earning our livelihood. There will be some court cases which will drag for years without any end and finally will result in rebuke to the government, dismissal of some babus and everything will be back to square one.

Temple riches are not the solution to India's problems. What we need is good governance and accountability, we need awareness, education, love and understanding among everyone. We need to stop discriminating and fighting among ourselves on the lines of religion, caste, language, creed and state. We need to remember that "God helps those who help themselves". Awaiting the change of fortunes due to some magic will only lead to doom. Even if temple riches are distributed evenly among poor Indians, it will not last them for more than few days or months. Then what? Will we ask government to sell the stuff in museums or stop the Indian space research or dismantle the huge Indian army?

Lunches are not free unless you are in Google, or was it Apple; anyways the point is that assuming some 100 Billion or 1 Trillion dollars will solve all our problems is foolish because no amount of money can solve the problems once and for all. Problems will keep creeping up one after the other; what we need to distribute among Indians (and its true for every country, yes even for Pakistan) is the will and courage to face the problems, the necessary education and knowledge to solve the problems, the perseverance to stand stiff against the force of adversity and come out unscathed.

Remember Temple riches will come and go, the riches of heart and mind will live until you are alive and if channelized properly will reach your next generation as well.

So don't await any miracle, be the miracle (inspired from the movie Bruce Almighty)!

Do Lyrics speak more than Music???

Do Lyrics speak more than Music???: "Listening to Senorita song from 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara' (really nice song) and the thoughts about the degradation of lyrics in Hindi songs flashed my mind and I decided to write few lines for this song...Here is an excerpt from my creation...Just listen to the Snorita song from the You Tube link below and try to plug-in my lyrics mentioned below. Hope you enjoy it if not feel disgusted :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhSKDV3E1Yc


'Main jo chahe,
lyrics daaloon dhun pe,
Tum kya bigaad logi mera,
Senoreetaaa.
Bhagaoon DK Bose,
Chahe nachaoon Munni ko,
Tum kya bigaad logi mera,
Senoreetaaa.
Do chaar shabd,
agar daal doon angrezi ke ismein,
Ban jayega yeh hip gaana,
Senoreetaaa.
Aise hi gaane,
chalte hain aaj-kal,
Lyrics se aakhir,
kee farak hai padta,
Samjhi kya Senoreetaa!!!'

P.S: No offence meant to song writers all over the world :-)"