Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Look !! who is talking.....

Lakhs of dead people in and around Iraq, thousands in Vietnam, millions around Asian-African borders.....they were all not humans. Deaths of those people dont matter to anyone. Everyone knows who is responsible for all those deaths. The one and only Super Power ......
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/29us.htm
made me really laugh.

T V Parasuram in Washington | March 29, 2005 09:50 IST

India's human rights enforcement record has been poor and needs improvement despite being a vibrant democracy with strong constitutional protections, the United States said in a report.

The State Department on Monday, however, said the new UPA government at the Centre has started addressing rights concerns.

While lauding the Centre for "rewriting school text books" and "addressing the aftermath of the Gujarat riots", the report reiterated its concern over the situation in the state.

"Following its electoral victory in May, the government began to address a number of human rights concerns that have arisen in recent years. For example, it moved quickly to rewrite school textbooks, in order to stress the contributions of the Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Christian minority communities," it said.

However, it said, the rewriting of the textbooks has not been completed, and alleged that the Gujarat government has not recalled its old textbooks or announced plans for their replacement.

"The government also began to address the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots," it said and noted that the Supreme Court had ordered local courts to reopen over 2,000 cases connected with the post-Godhra riots.

But by the end of last year, "the report on the number of cases that should be reopened had not been submitted to the Supreme Court, and only three cases related to the Gujarat rioting had completed trial in the lower level courts," it charged.

The report claimed that human rights organisations and religious groups remained concerned about allegations of witness intimidation by local leaders in Gujarat.

You get the picture right??

I found another link somewhere else....and it made lot of sense. Esp ..in a country like Pakistan, a paper publishing this kind of article....wow....our media needs to learn a lot.

The Myth of History: Prof.Shahida Kazi" and its URL is:

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag1.htm

Why dont we present the truths about our History?? If Germany can tell their kids that Hitler was not a hero..why cant we tell our kids that Ghazni, Ghori , Akbar and Aurangzeb are not heros?? If it hurts a community...let it be.

If they can write in text books about the evils of Hinduism ...why cant they write about the evils of Islam, Christian evangelism etc.

I still wonder how rewriting school textbooks related to Human Rights * shakes head in confusion*

Thursday, March 24, 2005

I wish all Ye blog-izens....



A very very great Holiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii


















Monday, March 21, 2005

Motive behind Narendra Modis' Visa

Sonia should have played her cards well. But she is not a master of these political games even though she is good. The Jharkhand and Goa issues pointed towards the power hunger and ruthlessness of Sonia. She has to do something to shift the focus. There is should be some other issue to divert the attention of non-exixtent "media watch dog".

Then came the Condolesa Rice's visit to India and the first meeting she had was with Sonia. Violaaa...!!! The visit came as a blessing in disguise for Sonia. A proper plan is chalked out and immediately, the foreign consulate of US of A rejected the VISA for Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on Human Rights grounds.

Entire media and country turns towards that and suddenly everyone forgets about Jharkhand and Goa. Do we call Sonia politically immature???

People of India , beware. She is here for a purpose and she is ruthless in execution.
What a way to divert focus??

The great indian intellectauls are still lost in debating about the VISA issue. They completely forgot about Jharkhand, Goa and an imminent Bihar.

A country of billion gullibles........hats off to the lady from Italy.

Monday, March 14, 2005

A Day for Women...!!!

Warning: This post might contain some so called "Sexist" opinions. Women who feel strong about it may refrain from reading.

yatra nAryasthu pUjyanthe ramanthe thatra dEvatAh |


yatrEtAsthu na pUjyanthe tatrasarvAsafala kriyAh ||

An Approximate translation would be :

"Gods bless that place where Women are respected and wherever women are not treated peoperly, obstacles will come in all the way."

This is the verse I was taught when I was a kid. I could never forget this verse because I always asked why that elevated place for women? Why cant we say that Men and Women both are same. Ofcourse, a mother always scores over a father, a sister always scores over a brother etc.
Women were given this elevated status becuse they are the only beings who can create life other than God himself. Women were considered as divinity and sanctity personified.

Every year on 8th March I get this queer feeling that all of us are cheating Women. Men, Media, countries and the so called progressive people...all are cheating women.

On 8th March 2005 I took one of my office shuttles to home. I got a seat and was lost in reading a book on "Aghora". I was disturbed by a lovely voice asking me something.

She: why cant you give some consideration to a gal , at least on International Womens' day??
Me: Yes Ma'am, what can do for you?
she: You can see that I am standing, why dont you give your seat to me??
Me: Ohh...sorry, I am one of those people who believe in gender equality. I dont want to insult you by offering a seat. That will prove that you are weak and cant even stand for some 10-15 minutes.
she: You are sad!! ( this is most common in Bangalore)
Me: I knew !!

One of those Radio City anchors was yelling on top of his voice " it is International Womens' day and many wishes to all the women in Bangalore". I cursed his loudness and lost in my book again.

I really dont understanding these celebrations of Womens' day. I think we are caught up with western consumerism and forgot to respect our women in true sense. Almost all the Women in my office assembled on that day for 3 hrs and one of our VPs( a lady) addressed them.

I asked one of my female collegues about the it.

My Colleague: some boring stuff yar. They juss gave us some stuff to eat and drink. Then that lady spoke for more than 40 min.
Me: What did she say?
MC : Some shit yaar. She was telling us "what is to be a woman and working?". Then about dressing. ( I suddenly got interested...)
Me: What did she tell you about dressing??
MC: samthing. We are not ramp models, we are professional who come to work here. We should look decent and professional. Dress tells so many things about you and all that stuff.
Me: So, she told you people not wear those lowrises and tank tops at office??
MC: Yeah, something similar to it.

It was really funny looking at my colleague then. She was completely cursing the lady who asked her to wear decent clothes.

What botehrs me is people give in too much to the hype and forget the real purpose. Why shouold we celebrate a Womens' day at all? We are never heard of any Mens' day. When both the genders are equal why should we have special days for one of the genders?

Ofcourse there are many atrocities that are being perpetrated on Womne all over the world. But how does these days help in reducing those atrocities?? Do these days help those women who are actually marginalied in all aspects of life?

How many of these bigmouthed people who shout all over the media about Women empowerment actually do something about it?? Is wearing skimpy clothes and getting drunk on par with men a sign of empowerment??

So, who is the most empowered woman in India?? Mallika Sherawath or Bipasha Basu??