Why I will criticize Modi..

Why I will criticize Modi..

Why I criticize? Because I have nothing better to do, may be. But I criticize because I care. Because I cannot take bullshit and nonsense and I will speak up my mind and about what I feel is going wrong.  It doesn’t matter what public opinion is as it can be misleading or as we have seen it is with the majority and majority is not necessarily right. It causes Tyranny of the Majority. I haven’t cared much till now what others think of me or will think if I do something, it is mostly not relevant to me, until I believe in what I am doing is the right thing to do. Well right and wrong and all are subjective, depends on situation and also a lot of philosophical, so let’s not get into that. 

I have a serious problem with people drawing a line. Like the USA had drawn during the “IRAQ invasion”. If you are not with us, you are against us. Same thing during the India “Against Corruption Movement”, if you are not with Anna you are for corruption. I was like fuck off.  I dint support it because I felt there are important and really effective things to do like calling back the MP’s and making them more accountable than going on the road to protest for a parallel, huge bureaucratic system to keep a check and balance on the corruption of the rest of the bureaucrats and expected to be a non-corrupt "Lokpal", it was idiotic for me. I had my reasons and even if I had none, still I wouldn’t go just because I felt like it, and that makes me pro-corruption, right these are the public perceptions and ideals they create.

I felt compelled to write this because, there is a new trend emerged since the BJP and especially Modi has come in Power. If one says something against Modi, or his policies or his silence or his approach or anything other than how great he is or how best he is doing it is considered “UNPATRIOTIC”. (As it is my patriotic definitions are changing since the BJP and RSS call themselves patriotic. Still i have a problem.) It is not even that one is against him, it is directly Unpatriotic. What the hell. When and how did my Love for my country and its people, its values (some which are left hopefully) its aspirations, all got converted into 1 person. No this is not acceptable, he is the PM and that’s all he is, he is not the metric of whether I love my country or I care or I am pro or anti development or not. No.

I had rejoiced Modi on his Independence Day speech, when he called himself “Pradhan Sevak, Chief Servant” of the country and how he made himself to be felt amongst the people and all. I have criticized before every possible minister and Prime Minister, exercising my Democratic Right. It doesn’t matter if I believe in it or not, I will exploit it, what I have at my disposal. The problem people have is that if I am opposing Modi, I am supporting congress. Why on earth I will do that, I have criticized and personally attacked some ministers of congress so badly that, they could have committed suicide if they would have read it. So who I am against and whom I am supporting. I will support who does good and when and fuck up everyone who fucks up. It is as simple.

What Modi has done in building the Foreign Relations is commendable, it is beyond anyone, who had done it before (credits to Ajit Doval), still he listens to good advisors is a great quality.

At the same time I will criticize and oppose when Modi is silent on the dirty work BJP VHP RSS and other communal organizations are doing since he is in Power. It feels like chained dogs are unleashed since he has come in power. I will oppose him when he asks his MP’s not to speak nonsense and give political mileage to opposition, but not controls them from hurting the minorities. I will oppose him if he still fails and continues to fail to understand that he is leader of the Nation and not of a fucking religion and everyone has equal rights and the minorities are more equals. I will oppose him if he talks of development and not looks after the people for whom the development is and only serves the corporations under its smokescreen.  I will oppose him till the time he acts on what he said and not just makes great stunts and PR statements.  

I will criticize Modi and all the others who fuckup, irrespective of the party and affiliations, as it is my Right and the one which I have decided to stand up by, the right I am and will exercise.

Dear Pakistan.. open your Eyes before it is too late..

Dear Pakistan what’s wrong. How could you think you could play with fire and not get burned?  What the fuck were you thinking? You see what happens when you nurture terrorists, exactly this, I am ok with them killing your soldiers, blowing up your army bases, blowing up government buildings and officials, because they signed up for it, they are part of what you are harvesting, terrorism. But not this.

What about those children, did they vote for you to come in power, to give home to those terrorists, did they welcome your dirty wars and trade. They do not know the Islam or god under whose name you and the terrorists are doing these killings. They did not opt for this and they are the one who die, for what, so you can destroy India. Isn’t that the whole aim of nurturing the terrorists in the 1^st place? Use them against India, take the revenge of 71 and Kashmir, fine send them to the border, why the fuck are you letting them kill your children. At least learn from us. Did you forget what happened to Indira Gandhi and Khalistan or Rajiv Gandhi and LTTE? We are examples in front of you how these things always backfire. At least in our case they dint kill children.

So what now, what are you going to do? A day after the attack on #Peshawar School, after the death of 132 children, you let that bastard #Hafeez #Saeed go on television and blame India for the attack. Are you that stupid? You still want to behave like an ostrich and look the other way when #Taliban (the bullshit story of good Taliban and bad Taliban by the US president Obama) kills your children. 
There is no sense in talking to Taliban as they have proved how much sense they have by doing this act and posing proudly for pictures under the name of fucking God. killing children for their fucking religious wars. But what about you, why did you let the children die?

 I mean fine I understand, your thirst for blood and vengeance against India and it is fine with me, deal with it the way you want, but at least fucking protect your children, school going kids whose bodies were all over the place, just because you couldn’t control it, or don’t want to. Let them not be a part of it, please, they are just kids, who have nothing to do with any of this.  

Every life is important. For adults at least they choose to do what they do, so it in a way if fine, as choices have consequences, killing soldiers, not their kids. Taliban is just a small part of the problem, not the complete problem. You are the problem, your inaction is the problem, your denial is the biggest problem, letting the kids die is your fault.   Each and every of the 132 innocent lives is your big fuckup.

What more of a wake-up call do you need? More deaths, more kids? Or some more cruel form of terror to make you realize who the fucking problem, the real enemy is.  

I am not a fan of yours, in fact I hate your policies, not just for what you do to India, that’s in a way understandable it is Power, Geopolitics, but not what you do inside your own country. The way you let your citizens and people die, the way you kill the minorities of your own religion. The way you let terrorists rule your cities and massacre at will. But this, this anger of mine is not at all about any of that, it is about the children, it is about your ignorance to see the real threat and incompetence to protect the children. This is because my heart bleeds for the kids and their families. They were children, going to school.

Do what you got to do in everything, destroying India is the main aim, keep it, fucking make it stronger if you wish, but at least protect your children, if for nothing, stand up for your kids, your children, they have nothing to with it..

Please Act. I plead you to open your eyes. Before it is too late.  

Why I support Kiss of love

If in the above picture, the nakedness offends you more than the abuse, beating, harm done to the woman. You are Part of the Problem. 

 

  I support Kiss of love

Kiss of Love protest #KissOfLove is a non-violent protest against moral policing. It started in Kerala and later spread to other parts of India.

It is as simple as that. It is against moral policing, which has nothing moral about it. It is against people who think they have a righteous high moral standing over others and that too backed by the cultural and religious values that make no sense.  These are the same people who are bystanders for everything right from an accident to someone teasing a girl or goons beating up someone, why? “It doesn’t concern us,” they say. “Why should I interfere?”, “Not my problem.” These are the same people who turn up in numbers, mind you in numbers not alone, as they don’t have an existence on their own, no thinking capacity, no individuality, no standing but in groups they can cause menace, terror, destruction, damage and even murder. For what? Because something offended them, something which they supposedly do not think is in line with their so called culture, tradition and religion.

It started because things were going out of hand. The moral policing was way beyond normal tolerance. Even the police were acting beyond their powers. The Law does not have anything about how someone dresses, where someone goes, or whether someone hugs or kisses in public. It has one word ‘obscene’ which is left for interpretation and these religious bigots made it very narrow. Hence this protest! All this is happening despite the fact that the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court have made it clear that kissing in public is not an obscene act and no criminal proceedings can be initiated, for kissing in public, through landmark judgments.

I am sad (not surprised) at how the media is portraying the Kiss of Love protest. It has lost its aim, and its way and is just being portrayed as something rude and against tradition and society. Not surprised because the media is falling in line with the government in power, the government with its militant religious wings let off leash the #RSS #VHP #Bajrang Dal and others.

 

#Firstpost one of the premier online news website of the country, has a headline which reads “Right issue, wrong tactic: Why Kiss of Love protests miss the mark.” It also goes on to say that All the attention is on the kiss rather than the travesty of moral policing. (Of course, that a reporter spent his time counting the kisses at a kissing-protest speaks volumes about our comfort level with the act.) This clearly shows the ownership and news, truth or a unbiased view's conflict.

 

Isn’t that the basic problem? The media is missing the point or deliberately making sure they miss it and not the protest. The protest is not missing the point. It is bang on the point. It is an expression of counter-power against the government, police and the organizations that have taken up the baton of moral policing. It is a reaction to say that this is what you think is wrong so we are doing it in public, in numbers just to tell you that this is OK. It is just an expression of love, of friendship, or care, or attachment, of emotions and nothing of nudity and obscenity.

 

It is not about kissing in public. It is about the ban, taboo, the moral policing on it, the social stigma that is attached to holding someone’s hands, hugging someone and expressing in public. About not making out in public, no one would want to make out in public, against the claims of the so called sophisticated, cultural people whose moral and ethical standings are hurt by it.

 

The whole point of this is a fight for Rights, Freedom, Equality. It’s about the Right of one person over his/her body, the clothes they wear, the time to go out, and the place they decide to go or not to go to.  It’s as simple as that. No one has the right to stop someone or abuse someone because they think it is obscene or that a girl of wearing too clothes or something. It’s about Freedom of Expression. The freedom to express their love, their affection via hugs, kisses and holding someone and not making out in public as the people who are opposing this protest and cutting it down on this issue. And it’s against Inequality, the protest is against the power the self-policing organizations think they have over others; to beat-up and abuse the so called violators of their superficial and hypocritical code.

 

It is very easy to put down the protest which people are doing and saying that all those supporting this, let your moms and sisters kiss a stranger and that is OK? And people are blindly following the west and all sorts of ludicrous and vulgar comments, while claiming the protest to be vulgar saying that the protest will give rise to increase in forced kisses, sexism, eve teasing and all. These are the people who have no idea what the protest is all about and are blinded by some crappy religious, cultural beliefs and or are the majority of the mob, mobocracy, and power in numbers. It is not following anyone, it is about the basic rights of individuals which people clearly are missing, as they want to as most of them do not know that rights are for and why are they needed for. They are just giving it a bad name for the sake of it. Even the media and many others who understand it are giving it a bad name becoming pets of the government. This is ridiculous!

 

This is where you miss it all. It is about personal relations, friendship and not random people kissing for the sake of it. The aim is to let people express their love, friendship and emotions without the barrier or law or some crazy misled male chauvinists who think they have a greater stake in the society.

 

I support this campaign for the things I have written and also anything that is against personal freedom. And something whose basis is religion and culture, opposed to basic common sense and freedom, for me this is surely worth fighting for.

 

Anand Mangnale.

Being Human Beyond Theories..

Being Human Beyond Theories..

Why are we so shortsighted? So closed? Why do we have to give names to everything? Fix people in boundaries and limit everything, limit the basic of being human, evolution. Have we forgotten that we are evolutionary species, we have evolved, to the point we are now. So why stop now and bind yourself? The main problems I have in this regard are the political theories.

Am I a Democrat, Free Liberal westerner (well I am from India, so cannot be a westerner), Capitalist, Neo-liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Pro-dictatorship, Radical Libertarian, Anarchist or other hundred theories. Theories of politics – and that’s what dictates our whole life, a theory and not what we are or what we do.

This way, I am no one. I don’t think I would and basically want to fit into any of these definitions. Why would I? I love my freedom and this freedom isn’t limited to my thoughts, my movement or my behavior, but also not wanting to be stuck, grouped, and cited to be a part of some theory is another of the reasons. I am a human, and that’s what it is, why is anything more needed? I evolve, I learn, I think and get new experiences every day, which change me, and I like the change. Why then would I like to be stuck with some abstract theory, followed by millions? That is another problem with me; I won’t do it just because people do and that to a large numbers.

I don’t think a political theory is needed to dictate one’s life! Well people need something, to tell them what to do, kick their ass and push them to do things and that is a sad fact. The basis of being human is to feel for others, feel the pain, injustice, wrong in the world and fight against it using whatever means possible. As Ernesto Che Guevara said, “Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.” That I feel is being human….does that make me a communist, a guerilla, again the worldly nomenclature? If it does I wouldn’t give a fuck.

If I am a fan of Ataturk and what he did in bringing Turkey from the 16^th century to the 21^st century, does that make me pro-dictatorship? It may, as the policies and decisions he took for the people and the way he enforced it, is worth admiring.

I feel that the world should be fair to everyone in spite of their race, caste, religion, ethnicity, and any other differences. Quoting Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  That’s what we should be concerned and worried about rather than politics. We can blame each other; the west can blame the communists, and the dictators, forgetting conveniently that most of them were installed to serve their own interests in the first place. The vast exploitation and atrocities around the world is caused by the self-righteous Democracies, the Liberal west. And who is to blame - the political theory of the other country. These Democracies are democracies at home, in their own country and colonizers, exploiters elsewhere. So what is the Democracy worth, if it is selective and privileged and that too with its own troubles? Condemning this makes me Anti-democratic, well cheers then. As Mark twain had said, “If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

The way world is going today, If the new world order means we are in the business of destroying anyone who questions our political agenda. I better be an Anarchist.

Religion that’s one thing I am proud of giving up early, I feel that’s the basic of injustice, inequality and bring bound. I would do right because I want to and not because of any religious practice. This is free will, to do good, be good; as we are born with feelings, emotions to help others and not make people outcasts, divide and blame on the basis of the religion.

 My attraction for Marxism is not for a political, scientific theory but it’s a passion for social justice.

I feel for the Incas in South America, about the rich culture and knowledge they had which was destroyed for commercial interests, feel nostalgic and connected to the people of whom I have never been a part of ever, feel the pain of the indigenous population who have to travel miles every day just for food, to whom the land belongs in the first place, who were driven out in the name of development. I feel for the Tibetans, who are self-emulating because of a greater force, China conquering it, I feel for the war torn people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and other countries who stood for themselves in some way for their betterment and the poor all around the world, and see Injustice and Inequality, poverty and exploitation everywhere and feel connected at some level, without even experiencing it ever.

What does that make me? Which political theory do I fit in? Does it make me weak? Vulnerable? Over-sensitive? Someone who is losing his mind? Socialist, humanist, communist or some other crazy new confused theory? I am happy to be a misfit. Whatever it may be I am happy to be this way. Knowing that the world is a fuckedup place and I will try and do my best to make some change one way or the other.

I know this all is pretty messy, untidy, unclear, bizarre, but that the way I get thoughts, thoughts which keep me awake for nights, make me think hard and long, which is an important part of my existence as a human.

What more beautiful than the song - Imagine – by John Lennon

"Imagine"

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one