Mr. PM Modi, get your act straight...

State and Religion being together leads to a disaster, the prime example being Pakistan. NO this is not a problem of Islam, but the mix of Religion with State, Power and Authority. Any Religion for that matter.

A Government, State is for the People, irrespective of the Religion, caste, creed or the class of the people. What we see in reality is that the State is for the rich firstly and secondly for the majority, majority in terms of Religion.


People struggle and die for the basics of life of food and giving a blind eye to this, people fight and kill over Religion. The Nation and Leadership should distance itself from such matters. When the PM reflects a certain Ideology and Religion, he is born into it or not, it doesn't matter. Once you are the PM of the country, the religion, place, caste, or even political party for that matter should not matter. As one is doing the greatest service to the Nation, and still if stuck to these issues, it will be a disservice to the Nation in itself. I know what I am talking is impractical and too naive.


When you are representing a Nation, you are representing all the citizens and not the majority. Every vote is important, and people's opinion matters, isn't that the whole essence of Democracy, aren't we the world's biggest democracy..? Or just in name?

  

So I have every problem with ‪#‎PM‬ ‪#‎NarendraModi‬ gifting religious texts to the leaders of the Central Asian countries..
I don't have a problem with religious texts.. This issue could have been  handled with more sensitivity, if he had gifted all the Religious texts of India and not just Gita. He would have gifted Gita, Quaran, Bible, Guru Granth Sahib also along with Gita, as that reflects what India is, multi-religious, multi-cultural and not a Hindu country, just because Hindu's are in majority. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and all the other religions in India are equal, all the people belonging to these have equal right in the country as citizenry, the spirit, is what an Indian is and not the religion, especially not the majority religion. 

I fail to understand the logic people give that we are one of the two Hindu majority countries, and what is the problem if he gives Gita?, as it preaches peace, humanity and is the best book in the world, an ideal gift. Well, yes, we are a Hindu majority country, but that's all we are, a Hindu majority country. Not a Hindu country, We are a Secular country. Unless it is changed in the constitution, I would like people to understand and perceive it that way.
The other thing about Gita being the solution to all the world problems.
So is every other Religious text, according to all the Religions. So can we just skip it and go beyond it, but no the PM had to make a point by giving only it.

What harm right? There is every harm in it. May be the mild, liberal Hindus, not but the extremists and fundamentalists of the Hindu's (now don't start with the nonsense of, that the extremists are not real Hindus and all, as is the same with all religions, i will see what is in front of me right..!!!), will take it up in pride, that he took only a Hindu scripture and hence, he is projecting himself as a Hindu, which he may be, but right now he is heading the office of the Prime Minister of the Country, not a Hindu pundit, who is travelling the world promoting Hinduism.

Another harm is that it empowers the nuisance power of these extremist and fundamentalist groups which in turn causes communal and religious violence and makes the minority feel unsafe.

Even if nothing of this happens, the message it sends is wrong. The gifting of one religious scripture by the PM of the country who represents various other religions too. Religion in India is a personal thing, not a state matter. People do not understand this. Just because Hindu's are in the majority, does not give any right to the PM to do this.

Also, I feel he missed a great opportunity, as Modi is representing the largest ‪#‎Democracy‬ and when there are hardly around 56 countries that are democratic in the world, wouldn't it have made sense if he gifted the ‪#‎Indian‬ ‪#‎Constitution‬ to the world leaders when he visits them?
And that is when he himself had said once (before elections Ofcourse) that the "Constitution is the holiest book for him, above all"... Spreading the essence of a Constitutional Democracy, where people matter (in principle at least) should have been the thing to do rather than the religious texts.
This would have demonstrated that India is beyond ‪#‎Religion‬ and ‪#‎Hinduism‬ and we really care for people, and through governance it can change people's lives, not some nonsense.


‪#‎India‬ ‪#‎Modi‬ ‪#‎8legTour‬ ‪#‎CentralAsia‬ #Religion #Democracy

Democracy - Is it the last resort?

Humans have reached the moon. Well that was long back! Removed poor Pluto from the planetary system and again adding it as the 9^th planet, the Human Genome project, Curiosity (the Mars one), Chandrayaan (India’s mission to the moon), NASA’s Maven which was $671 million and now India’s Mangalyaan is $67 million, captured and killed Bin-Laden, 3D printer, Stem cell treatment, Bit coin, Amazon delivery via drones, the GOD particle and what not; all new mind boggling innovations and theories. 

We have theories for each and every thing, as everything started as a theory and philosophy. We even have Stephen Hawkins’s ‘The Theory of Everything.’ These studies and research gave us everything from Nanotechnology to supercomputing, bringing back the dead is the next step (if not already done) that’s where the medical innovations have also reached.

 In 2014, when there seems to be no end to human innovations and endeavors, we are somehow handicapped due to the political theories specific to “Governance”. There were evolution and we came from totalitarian, dictatorship to oligarchy to communism/socialism/Marxism and then “Democracy” and as we say today. Democracy is not perfect, but it is the best till we find some other form of Governance. It has been ages since we have found any other form. While the older ones still exist. Out of 193 countries in the UN hardly 48-51 are democratic, though many of them claim to be one. There is so much turmoil around the world the basic reason being the way or rather the form of governance. People in dictatorships want democracy; people in communist countries cannot do much, for them the ideas of freedom and independence are feeble. And then comes the righteous ones stuck in democracy, those who do not know what went wrong. Is this the way the ‘Elected’ Government is supposed to behave and govern? And these democracies have given themselves the superior duty of teaching the world democracy, (Good or Bad is contextual), but I have always believed that, one should govern themselves, however bad; rather than being governed by others, however good. For me that’s the basic essence of Life - Freedom.

 The one’s which are stuck in Democracy, don’t seem to move. No new ideas or ways of governance seem to come up. Considering today’s age of innovation and free flow of ideas, it’s weird. Which makes me wonder is it the most exploitative, most profit making venture for the ones who rule? Is it the safest way for the exploiters as they can manage and escape it if at all they get caught? The best argument against it being that people themselves have elected the leaders!

 An extract from the phrase "tyranny of the majority" (or "tyranny of the masses"), used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule, involves the scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those of an individual or minority group, constituting active oppression comparable to that of tyrants and despots. In many cases a dislike for ethnic, religious or a racial group is deliberately penalized by the majority element acting through the democratic process.

 Also Democracy is termed as “Mobocracy” many times. And if there is no logic behind all this and if the system of Governance of Democracy is so perfect why is no one satisfied? Well humans are never satisfied, but at least they are happy with what the government is doing, as they have elected them for some reason, to work for the people, for the betterment of their country.

People elect the government so that the government can run the country; and people can look after their home, family, daily businesses. But ultimately if citizens come on roads, protest against its decisions, to make them do something, for something which they have elected the government for in the first place. What’s the use of this system? 

Well, I know nothing is perfect and all. Of course how can it be? People who elect the government are not, for that matter.  So is it supposed to be like this? I guess, but the problem is that why haven’t we found an alternative. That’s the most important question, something more important than the lack of ideas, innovation. It points towards exploitation, money making and profitable ventures, to be in power always and all is what comes to mind. May be it’s the best form and this poses no problem with its governance and it’s probably just “My crazy mind.”

 I will end with a thought which has been on my mind for a long time. “If the new world order means, we are in the business of destroying anyone who questions the political agenda, then I will better be an Anarchist.”