Saturday, September 5, 2009

Why I support ruthless Osama Bin Laden.....



History of last 100 years tells us that the most viscious attacks on innocent civilian people was performed by the so called devloped countries of US and europe.Hiroshima was done by US,Polish atttcks and Nazi camps were performed by germans ,entire asia was illegaly occupied by britishers,and rest of europe made whole of africa their slaves.
Then in last 50 years of so called peace time was terrorised by US occupation and hegemony in almost entire part of world ....in places like vietnam,Gulf,korea and south america.
Now the question is if a talibani beheads an American or execute suicide attacks in europe,is that justified ?? My answer is absolutely justified .Explanation for this thought which may sound a cardinal sin lies in "self protection".. Imagine a situation where USE ( short form for united states of Europe) has no fear of anybody in this world ,what will they do ......going by their previous behaiviour they will certainly want to occupy oil rich arab countries,they would want to make indians as their slaves ( if we didnt had nuclear weapons they would have certinly done this some day), perform experiments on african people like rats and collaborated with so called white races to establish their supremacy.This attcks will keep them in check and will generate a thought process among their society that why exactly people hate them.
If Osama Bin laden attacks in US everybody calls him terrorist ,but when George bush kills 50000 innocent civilians in Iraq and afganistan everybody's defination changes . I think what ever Osama has done is totally justified because self defense is morally correct but what USE does is pure greed which should be condemned.
So please think twice before calling Osama bin laden a terrorist because he is fighting for the freedom of his country from a common opressors and an enemy of mankind .

Friday, September 4, 2009

Our Urban Fiasco...Do we Need Change ???




Three Indian cities, the national capital New Delhi, financial capital Mumbai and a south Indian metropolis Chennai are among the 10 worst cities in the world to be working in, said a recent survey conducted by an international consultant institution.
Sample surveys are considered as an important aspect of city planning and they are of many kinds like origin- destination survey, soil survey, surveys to check pollution level, standard of living and so on.
But for Indian cities we can have certain special and uncommon topics for surveying for example No. of persons irrigating trees by urinating along road side per day or No. of persons creating modern art by spitting on walls of govt. buildings per day or No. of persons fulfilling their water requirement through punctured water supply pipelines or Which city is accommodating maximum no. of innovative and creative beggars? (Based on their innovative style of begging) or which city is having maximum no. of multifunctional footpaths? (Multifunction includes serving as a bed to sleep, sulabh sauchalaya and platform for pedestrians off course) or which road of the city is having maximum road - vehicle interaction (because of traffic jams and standing hours on traffic lights) or which city shows maximum diversity on roads itself (diversity means motorized vehicles, non motorized vehicles, heavy vehicles, light vehicles, pedestrians, dogs, cows, donkeys, goats, pigs etc.) and there are so many or’s.
Above sentences gives a true picture of real India or we can say incredible India. It is easy to comment that a sustainable urban planning is required to gain a healthy Indian city but where are the planners??? Actually we Indians are excellent in multitasking so planners are busy in developing hi-tech cities and big residential colonies for HIG and our over talented politicians are looking up the task of city planning along with their other infinite tasks of nation building. They contributed their best in making Bangalore: a garbage city from a garden city, Mumbai: Flood capital from financial capital, and will surely keep contributing in giving some more such names to Indian cities. Other than this we have certain achievements also, we have Asia’s largest slum, our Yamuna river holds 10th rank in the worlds dirtiest river, two of the Indian cities holds 2nd and 3rd rank in the worlds most polluted cities and three of the Indian cities are among the 10 worst cities of the world.
Though the seven aspects of urban planning i.e. Social, Physical, economical, cultural, environmental, infrastructural and ecological are interlinked but dealing with the social aspect of planning is next to impossible because it includes the most complicated creation i.e. human being. On the other hand this complicated creation can only solve the problems related to urban as well as rural India.
In case of planning a city, solutions themselves create problems. For example Metros can be a solution for the problem of large commuting distance but at the same time it creates a problem of hollowing the earth and destroying the ecological barriers which in turn may result in other severe problems like earthquakes, low rainfall, global warming etc and than their solution will result in certain other problems.
Indian land and its people are used to this never ending cycle of problems and solution which is also a problem. They consider problem as their routine. King Khan has said very well “don’t be santusht, thoda aur wish karo”. Actually satisfaction is a hurdle in the way of perfection especially in case of a city.
It’s easy to say “wake up and do something” but in reality nobody follows “think first for nation than for state than for city than for colony and than for your own house” actually the concern cycle is just opposite. If an individual is getting cheap land in the outskirt of a city than while constructing his house he will never think of the burden on municipality for increasing water supply lines, sewer lines, electricity lines, telephone lines, waste disposal, roads etc. he will never think that his single house may result in the expansion of a city and can destroy its compact nature.
Actually Indian scenario is similar to the working of Indian police who arrives only after crime has already happened similarly in case of cities if problem is known nobody will look for a solution but if problem exist and reaches to its maximum than we will go for an already discovered solution by any other country. We never experiment and never initiate because we are afraid of loosing our factors of production.
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. “ -- Swami Vivekananda

Acknowledgement : Inputs taken from students of IIT Roorkee MURP Course

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Freedom of thought in censored India


“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.” Mark Twain

Right from the day i was born i didn't had freedom. I wanted to remain silent for first couple of years of my life but i was told to speak mummy and papa as my first words(ASAP),i dont know what exactly is the problem in indian version of it ( Mataji and Pitaji may be its too long or respect quotient is much higher or may be the former one is cooler) but anyways i was forced into speaking it.When i grew up i was admitted into kindergarten whereas i wanted to be at home . I was told to repect people who are elder to me in spite of knowing fully that all people who are elder to you dont deserve that much respect.My language of communication also changed from hindi to english (I want it to remain Hinglish) basically to cater to the demands of job market, while i always wanted to remain in the ambit of Hindi because i always thought learning a new language will hinder your thought process compared to those who speak in their mother tongue.In my school i was told to attend acedemic classes for 8 hours but i wanted to understand the practical implemention of everything.I have still not understood the use of learning Atomic number of Nitrogen as i think liberal arts subject would have helped me to understand the truth of everything.My flambboyancy was restricted and told to behave in a displined manner which would help my latter life( by ruining my present i was building my future) . People decided engineering as my subject and that too electronics and till date i have not been able to visualize a single electron.I got a job and told to say Sir to my boss otherwise my impression would go wrong ,i still cant understand what kind of self impression we want to create of ourselves in front of everybody. Our himalayan hypocrisy is increasing day by day in every field and which is ultimately leading to curbing of free thought process in every sphere of our life.

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” Betrand Russel

Society decides for me which movie to see ,which book to read ,which religion to follow ,what kind of work i should do,which girl to marry,what dress i wear (and in what quantity in case of girls),who my freinds should be,which countries are my enemy,which caste i belong to,what should be my eating and drinking habits be,and above all my direction of thinking.

“Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.”

Are we really an egalitarian society which our constitution aims at??Where is my freedom to think and do what i want to do??Am i slave living in the world of so called policy makers which are elected by me.How can some fundamentalist people decides that women in india cannot go to pubs.How can a so called progressive government of Gujrat ban a book which i want to read.How can a group of shivsainiks attack a movie theatre where i have come to see my favourte movie about whose content maybe they dont agree with.How am i forced to go back from a state by a small group of people ( in spite of constitution permitting freedom of work in any of the states in india) because they in their dreams think they belong to here. What exactly is Freedom to us if nothing is implemented accordingly.Should we consider than India is ruled by the whims and fancies of small powerful groups.Aren't we supposed to be a liberal and pluralistic society ,than how could we ban homosexuality which was til now a crimnal activity in india (Its legalised in 134 countries of the world including African and Arab so called undevloped countries) .We have killled individuality in the name of collective conscience.The roadmap is blurred and confusing.

I feel trapped under the rules of democracy where majority rules.But if majority are fools should we continue being ignorant. Why can't we just accept that majority is never right infact most of the time majority is wrong because the average graph of population shows that people below the average intellect consist of 75 % of population.( Now defination of intellect varies from person to person but i am quoting figures of IQ test conducted by various agencies)

Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech” Benjamin Franklin

Is it coincidental or our destiny that we are the youngest and poorest kind of group in the whole of civilization .This proves that there is something wrong here.And i guess that wrong thing is our tendency to curb everything and put it in dustbin. When freedom of thought is applied in various fields it lets to innovation,creativity,spiritual enlightment,and opens the door of ulimate truth which we all are searching . It makes you do thing which nobody can ever imagine and is the ultimate path to counter every misery . I hereby demand our government and civic society to stop curbing it and do their job instead of interfering in the private lives of comon people.

P.S ----These are my views ,if u dont agree with it than give me your view which counters it or convinces me otherewise accept it with dignity.