Bad neighbor

How dare any one say our neighbor is good. He is bad. I have been told they are gun toting, bomb blasting, stone pelting bad guys and God help those who say otherwise. Who is this Ramya? Who wants to pollute the air with her poisonous thoughts. What if people started to think the neighbor is a good guy? All hell will break loose. All the years spent telling people how bad they are will be waste. And at this time when their own politically motivated brothers had started supporting our cause.

Go to the neighbors house. Enjoy their hospitality. Why? We go there too! But don't praise them. Certainly not in public. It is very anti national. We are the best. There are no better people on earth and you should know it.

Atta Girl! Keep Going!

Sindhu is back and we have honored her the best we could. We met her at the airport in hordes, we garlanded her, told every body who cared to listen that our daughter has saved India's respect while our sons were busy soiling it.

Dipa, Sakshi and Sindhu. We even gave them a Khel Ratna. Okay fine. Now it's been a long day. Yawn, gotta have some rest. In a few days we will forget these names unless they keep winning, and stay in the news, which is unlikely. Back to business guys party is over. 

That's how we do things.

If we really wanted to honor these women would pledge not to rape, to give the same amount of respect to the women in our lives as we give the men, give them proper education and equal opportunities, and allow them to live instead of killing them in the womb.

Can we do that?

Here come the cow protectors!

First it was Bhajan Mandals now cow protectors. The government is doing everything it's power to give credibility and strength to the Hindutva mischief mongers all the while lying that they will bring perpetrators of vigilantism justice. Dream on guys of minorities that one day there may be peace. It seems these guys don't want it.

Beating Phelps

The Indian contingent to Rio Olympics is having fun. They are not winning any medals so I am assuming this.

I don't want to demean their efforts, but since they are not winning they might as well enjoy their outing in Rio. You know what I mean. When you know you're screwed, lie back and enjoy. It may be too early to rethink our games strategy. We will leave that till after the closing ceremony. 

But, first things first - who the fuck has been thinking and rethinking our strategy all these years?

Easier said than done m'boy. However, as a friend hoped yesterday, some day we will be strong enough to beat Phelps medal tally. 

Beating Phelps

The Muslim as the villain

Zakir Naik speeches pro-terror, IRF paid money to lure youth for conversion: Mumbai Police report – Indian Express

Traveling by the local train you get to meet or observe many people. There are many types, kinds, etc. I leave it to your imagination to form your own different categories. Religion, caste, colour, region and what have you. Actually get to meet is an old way of traveling. The new way is to watch what they are watching on their big screen phones. One day, finding no place to sit I started looking around, as usual cursing my luck. Since I had an optimum view of other people’s phones I started looking for a good film to watch. Mind you I was just not in the mood to take out my own phone since I was afraid of dropping it while swaying to the shaking of the train. I found that almost all the screens had the hero – be he from the south or the north – beating up a guy who looked seriously bad. Bad as in dirty bad. Someone, who you would never talk to on the street. And this bad guy was either wearing a skull cap or a Pathani dress. Gone are the days when the Muslim used to be a good friend of the hero standing shoulder to shoulder to fight the bad guys.

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The Daily Dose of Paranoia

The daily dose of conspiracy theories being fed to us keep the fires burning. Literally in some senses. Sentiments are being flared. Houses being burnt. Bombs being thrown. People being mowed down. 

Then there is more rhetoric. Nothing to smoothen ties, nurse egos or root out the evil. There are just more stories. Stories on both sides. In fact there more than two sides. There is the victim's side, the perpetrator's side, the right side, the wrong side and of course the side we hear on the news. 

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The Masters of the Universe

Flying Saucers Vimans and other facts

It is a scary situation when you are confronted with a fact that only can be thought up by a twisted mind. Imagine living in a world where your knowledge is of no use. When you realize that what you have been taught was false and a waste of time. What's more, whenever you open your mouth to state a fact as you know it you are laughed at since it does not exist in history and it has been recorded differently.

The point is that young minds are the easily influenced and eager-to-learn kind of sponges, but if you are deliberately feeding it nonsense and packaging it sweetly in the name of patriotism then by the time this young mind steps into mainstream career market it is already late for him to restart and there are high chances that he may take the easiest route out of this situation and join the many goons languishing under some higher power's bid and command. Gau-Rakshaks anyone?

Out the ever angry bahu. In the calm son.

With Ms Smriti Irani gone fears are that Mr Javadekar will be far more efficient in saffronizing the education system than Ms Irani would ever be. Sometimes you wonder that the whole appointment and release of Ms Irani was preplanned and all the critics of Ms Irani, who felt she was not qualified enough would feel vindicated and would welcome a well-educated and always smiling Mr Javadekar with open arms. He would then proceed to wreak havoc in the education space effectively and without hindrance. He has recently consulted with RSS experts on the education policy.

Maybe the RSS would become successful in creating a China like situation of factories catering to the whims of the fair masters of the western civilization who the RSS usually claims to oppose – in terms of dress and valentine. However they agree the Aryans should be master and everyone else should be slave. Everyone is equal, however, someone should be first among equals. Aryans!

The RSS bastions have already produced people who are ready to kill without much provocation. With the saffronizing of educational institutions it will not be surprising if we have terror groups in every Street. Maybe as time passes people will realise how wrong they were, and there will be condemnation, but the damage would have been done. A whole generation of Muslims, Christians and Dalits killed for political reasons and many generations of Hindus who would have no proper education.

Whatever the scenario, it does not look good in the immediate future, not for minorities, neither for India as a country. At best it would be a factionalized country overwhelmed by in-fighting and gnawed away by the very neighbors we so proudly abuse from our living rooms.

Colonization still exists

The superpowers have always succeeded in colonizing states for their personal gains. Other countries usually stood around looking helplessly. Now in the name of terrorism the colonizing has taken a legal turn. The countries that dominate still remain the same. India on the other had seems adamant to become a colony rather than be independent.