Karl Marx once famously said ......." Religion is the opium of Masses".
And my experience with the religion compels me agree with his view point.
Thousand years ago what started as a mission to civilize the Barbaric human society has become an instrument of converting humans into barbaric beings.At that time there was no civilized society , no constitution , no I P C and no competent rulers. That society was just different from the animal kingdom which we nowadays see in the Animal planet.The vacuum of rule of law was
quickly filled by the pagan religions.It started with human societies worshiping things which they where afraid of. Thus started the worshiping of sun, thunderbolts, rain ,beasts etc.Then came the concept of a higher authority which has control over all our actions and can punish us in the present life or in the after life. All the religions evolved from here. Then came the modern religions which exist today.The new religions where more ordered and brought more stability to the societies. The fusion of politics with these religions which made them a force to reckon with. Soon the whole world was brought down to its knees by them.With these religion the religious fundamentalism which was present earlier too got institutionalized. The world thereafter was dominated by the Politico-religious movements . Only few non political religions like Hinduism and Buddhism could survive this great on onslaught.
But do we need these religions nowadays in this modern world.The debate was first started by the famous statement of Karl Marx. Has the human society advanced beyond the religious limits. Are the religions a stumbling block in our further development.
The basic need for the religion to exist in the society does not exist today. Now our social structure is far more better that the founders of the great religions could have envisioned.
Instead of bringing peace to the society these religions are bringing conflict.
Socially too it has become a mental block. Now its the time to remove this block.But its easier said than done. Because our society is under the influence of the opium. Its is too high under its influence to understand these things. Go to any religious function and u will realize this. The dedication of the men in the prayer will make u laugh.
The rituals there will make even the most barbaric culture seem modern in comparison.
What do people expect from god after participating in those barbaric rituals.
Will god become happy with u if u cry "god is great" or" bhagwan ki jay". If god really exist then I don't think that he will be flattered by this great sycophancy.He will be flattered by ur right action, ur good way of life.
As already stated ,the big question is "whether religion has lost its importance".
This question is dealt with in a right way in the novel Da Vinci Code.
Its true that religion started as a stabilizing force and ended up as a disrupting force, but still world needs a god, a religion and a divine force which can guide them if the need arises.world doesn't need the politico religious movements whose only aim is to glorify some individuals or god.
We need a religion which doesn't attaches politics to itself ,whose only aim is to bring peace to this materialistic world and provide strength to those in need.
In fact a world without spiritualism would be a skeleton without flesh over it.Lets change the religion in a way which suites us.Today all of us follow the religion which suited the society thousands years ago.These religions are totally out of sync with modern world. We need to take the element of politics out of the religions and steer it towards spirituality. We need to have religion which makes a god out of every individuals, not just glorify somebody as god when in reality he too was a common man like us.
In short we need to customize the religions to our need or just see them fading into the oblivion.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The illusive girl ..........
Online chatting is a craze among youngsters. In the computer center of my institute u will find that more than half of the boys are chatting with some Tina , Mina, Priya so on.
Some use their original ID and some fake or proxies.But one thing is common among them, they have a craze for girls.Most of them have come from a back ground where they didn't had an interaction with the girls. Most thought nothing except studies in their school. Some of them where really lucky to reach here and some really... really unlucky enough to land in this institute. But the craze for girls is same in all of them.The matter is aggravated further by the fact that there is no girl in our batch and this make the boys to look outside for some flirting and fun.Net is better than any other place for this purpose.And orkut and messenger are just customized for this purpose.
There are boys who are bold enough to approach the girls and there are boys who just roam around the girls in their friend's friend list like bees around their hives. This has created a short of cold war among those belonging to the first category and the second category. The bold boys do all the kill and the others like vulture wait for the remains.
There has been few success story in this online romance. One nice boy got hooked to a nice girl from distant Maharastra. Every thing went fine, the jan pahchan grew into love and even their where plans for marriage , but only then the girl asked for boys photograph.The demand was met and after that he never heard again from that girl.
Some others where lucky enough that their romance didn't go that further. One of my close friend set a date for himself. She came ,but along with another girl. That was a nice package. Set one and get one free. He never told us that what happened to him during the date.May be he feels that we might grow envious.That girl still calls up the boy to look for another date dinner but he turns down each offer. May be he got his quota full at the first time itself,but it is unlikely and and the reasons are for u to guess.
The world is full of such examples.This makes me to think over the future of relationships in these communities.
Can they be substitute for the interaction in the real world.I think it is highly unlikely.
These online interaction is not the permanent solution. They are just a place for frustrated youngsters to relieve some of their frustration. How can u have real friendship with a person u have never met,never seen and never felt.
After all we aren't even sure that the girl with whom I am chatting is really a girl or not.May be he is a boy in disguise of girl. The search for a friend ( no matter girl or boy) should start from the real world.There u have a higher chance of meeting the right person.
May be u can take the help of latest technology in ur great endeavor.
The right place to look for one is in ur surrounding.
But my Insti friends should be forgiven for taking the direct short cut. The reason being ....u need to have one in ur surrounding to up look to. Unlucky boys..............
Some use their original ID and some fake or proxies.But one thing is common among them, they have a craze for girls.Most of them have come from a back ground where they didn't had an interaction with the girls. Most thought nothing except studies in their school. Some of them where really lucky to reach here and some really... really unlucky enough to land in this institute. But the craze for girls is same in all of them.The matter is aggravated further by the fact that there is no girl in our batch and this make the boys to look outside for some flirting and fun.Net is better than any other place for this purpose.And orkut and messenger are just customized for this purpose.
There are boys who are bold enough to approach the girls and there are boys who just roam around the girls in their friend's friend list like bees around their hives. This has created a short of cold war among those belonging to the first category and the second category. The bold boys do all the kill and the others like vulture wait for the remains.
There has been few success story in this online romance. One nice boy got hooked to a nice girl from distant Maharastra. Every thing went fine, the jan pahchan grew into love and even their where plans for marriage , but only then the girl asked for boys photograph.The demand was met and after that he never heard again from that girl.
Some others where lucky enough that their romance didn't go that further. One of my close friend set a date for himself. She came ,but along with another girl. That was a nice package. Set one and get one free. He never told us that what happened to him during the date.May be he feels that we might grow envious.That girl still calls up the boy to look for another date dinner but he turns down each offer. May be he got his quota full at the first time itself,but it is unlikely and and the reasons are for u to guess.
The world is full of such examples.This makes me to think over the future of relationships in these communities.
Can they be substitute for the interaction in the real world.I think it is highly unlikely.
These online interaction is not the permanent solution. They are just a place for frustrated youngsters to relieve some of their frustration. How can u have real friendship with a person u have never met,never seen and never felt.
After all we aren't even sure that the girl with whom I am chatting is really a girl or not.May be he is a boy in disguise of girl. The search for a friend ( no matter girl or boy) should start from the real world.There u have a higher chance of meeting the right person.
May be u can take the help of latest technology in ur great endeavor.
The right place to look for one is in ur surrounding.
But my Insti friends should be forgiven for taking the direct short cut. The reason being ....u need to have one in ur surrounding to up look to. Unlucky boys..............
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Why Muslims should themself dismantle the mosques at Mathura and Kashi.
This winter vacation I went on a trip to Agra and Mathura.
The two places which are completely distinct from one other or I would say diametrically opposite to each other. One was the center of Islamic power for over three hundred years and The other one of the major cultural center for Hindus since the begining of the Hindu culture. The difference was clearly visible.
While Agra stood in its magnificent glory , Mathura stood defaced and humiliated.
What a stark contrast.
The Moti masjid adjacent to the place of the birth of Lord Krishna tells the whole story.
Mathura is one of the holiest place for the Hindus and destruction of the temple their amounted to the humiliation of the whole Hindu community.Though I will never advocate the forcible removal of the mosque from there ,but I strongly feel that it would be good if the Masjid is removed from that place by Muslims themselves. By now u must be thinking that I share the views of like of Praveen Togadia and company. But the fact is that my views are not guided by some religious jeleosity or madness. I am advocating what is right for India's future ,our future.
From the time when Mahmud Ghazni started plundering of Hindu temples( for whatever reasons) till the death of the great tyrant Aurangzeb, Hindu temples have been razed to ground . Throughout this Islamic rule over a Hindu India ,the rulers made it a point to suppress the Hindus( again for whatever reasons).This treatment of Hindus has created a rift between the Hindu and the Muslim community.The communal tension which we see nowadays is not a result of the actions of some Narendra Modi or RSS but is a direct result of the bad blood which has always existed between the two religions in India. The Muslim rulers had scant regard for the religious sentiments of others.Now I don't want to discuss the crimes perpetrated by the rulers.If u are ignorant about history then please refer to some good history book( but not those written by some communist).The names of Babur and Aurangzeb should find a special place in this discussion.Their acts have made a scar on the Hindu mindset which will not go easily. The destruction of the Ram temple by Babur and the cruel rule of the great Aurangzeb altered the mindset of the Indian society for ever. Somnath temple was destroyed and rebuilt six times in a span of 700 hundred years.No community however peaceful can tolerate such deliberate humiliation of their Gods. Ayodhya and Mathura are to Hindus what Mecca and Medina are to Muslims. Can a Muslim( no matter how tolerant he is) sit quite if same treatment is meted out to their religious places by say...United States of America. They are making such a hue and cry over the hanging of Saddam Hussein.The protest is not because Saddam Hussein was innocent but because he has been hanged by an aggressor of some other religion. The whole Islamic umah was up in arms when one newspaper printed a photograph of The Prophet .And when it comes to respecting others sentiments they destroy the Bamiyan , The Somnath ,The Ram Mandir and kill innocent people in Sudan and single out non Muslims for ill treatment in Afghanistan and so on.
The point is that why should Muslims themselves dismantle the mosques in Mathura and Kashi.I am not a religious person but still I strongly feel that those two places rightly belong to the Hindus. The whole foundation of religion is based on belief and my Muslim brothers too would agree with me on this point.Hence if Hindus have the strong belief over these place then it makes those places important for them.As I said earlier those places are the most holy sites in the Hindu religion.But whats the importance of those two mosques for the Muslims. They are like any other place of worship for them. Mecca is special for Muslims because they believe that Prophet was born there.But like Hindus they too believe that god is every where.Hence even if the mosques at those two places are shifted to some nearby places then it would not make much difference for them. But for Hindus it would mean finally getting a place where they can worship their god in the place of his birth.
Politically it will have far reaching change on our society. The Hindu hardliners will be left powerless without an issue .
But the most important thing would be undoing the some misdeeds of our past rulers like Babur and Aurangzeb. It could begin the process of heeling of the wound of Hindu psychology. A wound which has there since past many century and threatens to create problems for our future and India stability.
The two places which are completely distinct from one other or I would say diametrically opposite to each other. One was the center of Islamic power for over three hundred years and The other one of the major cultural center for Hindus since the begining of the Hindu culture. The difference was clearly visible.
While Agra stood in its magnificent glory , Mathura stood defaced and humiliated.
What a stark contrast.
The Moti masjid adjacent to the place of the birth of Lord Krishna tells the whole story.
Mathura is one of the holiest place for the Hindus and destruction of the temple their amounted to the humiliation of the whole Hindu community.Though I will never advocate the forcible removal of the mosque from there ,but I strongly feel that it would be good if the Masjid is removed from that place by Muslims themselves. By now u must be thinking that I share the views of like of Praveen Togadia and company. But the fact is that my views are not guided by some religious jeleosity or madness. I am advocating what is right for India's future ,our future.
From the time when Mahmud Ghazni started plundering of Hindu temples( for whatever reasons) till the death of the great tyrant Aurangzeb, Hindu temples have been razed to ground . Throughout this Islamic rule over a Hindu India ,the rulers made it a point to suppress the Hindus( again for whatever reasons).This treatment of Hindus has created a rift between the Hindu and the Muslim community.The communal tension which we see nowadays is not a result of the actions of some Narendra Modi or RSS but is a direct result of the bad blood which has always existed between the two religions in India. The Muslim rulers had scant regard for the religious sentiments of others.Now I don't want to discuss the crimes perpetrated by the rulers.If u are ignorant about history then please refer to some good history book( but not those written by some communist).The names of Babur and Aurangzeb should find a special place in this discussion.Their acts have made a scar on the Hindu mindset which will not go easily. The destruction of the Ram temple by Babur and the cruel rule of the great Aurangzeb altered the mindset of the Indian society for ever. Somnath temple was destroyed and rebuilt six times in a span of 700 hundred years.No community however peaceful can tolerate such deliberate humiliation of their Gods. Ayodhya and Mathura are to Hindus what Mecca and Medina are to Muslims. Can a Muslim( no matter how tolerant he is) sit quite if same treatment is meted out to their religious places by say...United States of America. They are making such a hue and cry over the hanging of Saddam Hussein.The protest is not because Saddam Hussein was innocent but because he has been hanged by an aggressor of some other religion. The whole Islamic umah was up in arms when one newspaper printed a photograph of The Prophet .And when it comes to respecting others sentiments they destroy the Bamiyan , The Somnath ,The Ram Mandir and kill innocent people in Sudan and single out non Muslims for ill treatment in Afghanistan and so on.
The point is that why should Muslims themselves dismantle the mosques in Mathura and Kashi.I am not a religious person but still I strongly feel that those two places rightly belong to the Hindus. The whole foundation of religion is based on belief and my Muslim brothers too would agree with me on this point.Hence if Hindus have the strong belief over these place then it makes those places important for them.As I said earlier those places are the most holy sites in the Hindu religion.But whats the importance of those two mosques for the Muslims. They are like any other place of worship for them. Mecca is special for Muslims because they believe that Prophet was born there.But like Hindus they too believe that god is every where.Hence even if the mosques at those two places are shifted to some nearby places then it would not make much difference for them. But for Hindus it would mean finally getting a place where they can worship their god in the place of his birth.
Politically it will have far reaching change on our society. The Hindu hardliners will be left powerless without an issue .
But the most important thing would be undoing the some misdeeds of our past rulers like Babur and Aurangzeb. It could begin the process of heeling of the wound of Hindu psychology. A wound which has there since past many century and threatens to create problems for our future and India stability.
Monday, July 31, 2006
India's future " a race against time"
India shining campaign launched by the NDA in 2004 elections was ridiculed by a large section of the society. Its deserved to be ridiculed. Achieving over 8 % growth in one year does not mean that India has started shining and everybody has become well off. In fact what I believe is that even such a rate of growth for two decades might not make India shine.
India's future will be decided by an ongoing race between forces which are developing India and those which are trying there best too retard our economic growth and even nullify the progress which we have made since the last hundred years.
The government here has been focusing all its attention on the economic growth only and according to some only an sustained growth of over 8% for a long period of time can solve India's woes. But the fact is that the economic development is perhaps one of the parameter which decides our society's well being and if the dragging forces become too strong then it can negate the benefits of the economic growth.
Economically our country has been doing quite well in patches. Some of the states have developed really fast and have left other regions behind by many years .
The private sector has been the engine of this growth and its speed is going on increasing.
But the benefits of our developments have not reached every body and this is a major cause of concern. This not a case specific to India only. Even countries like China ,Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia face the same problem. But given the volatile political situation here,the result could be more devastating for India. We have got a whole pack of demagogues who are always ready to utilize any kind of resentment in the public for their benefit.
The rise of crimocracy( sham democracy run by the criminals and strongmen) and absence of a potent force to counter it has become perhaps the biggest problem faced by India.
And this is where the danger lies . A nation whose rulers are hell bent on destroying there country.
Frankly speaking our country is slowly slipping towards chaos and this is in spite of the economic development taking place.
The dangers might not be clearly visible to everybody.
The problem of armed communist is not being tackled properly and they have taken control over more than 150 of the districts and are running parallel governments there.
Result of this unchecked growth of maoist will certainly start showing on our society in near future.
The police and judiciary is in total mess and this is helping the rise of Crimocracy. And the government is doing nothing to cure it , resulting in a slow decay of the society.
Then comes the quota system of the government. There is a race to win over the OBC , SC, ST etc and the merit has been severely been compromised in the name of their up liftment.
Nobody is trying for their real Up liftment. But the OBCs, SC and STs are too happy with the current state of affairs. They are happy to be on life support systems. Instead of spreading the education at the grass root level and then making them independent on there own, the government has decided to give a crutches to them. This at the cost of our future.This reservations are there in each aspect of the government functioning. Right from higher education to jobs to promotions and to the parliament too. Hopefully the government will soon extend it to the private sector thus pronouncing a death punishment to it also. The reservations might be extended to the minorities also. After all they too would like too have a life where government provides them complete care right from cradle to grave. After all 95% of humanity loves not to work.
The final major threat comes from the rise of religious fundamentalism among the minorities and the response of Hindus to this .The Hinduism has undergone a lot of transformation and it will no longer be a mute spectator to the challenge from minorities. It is sure to create a friction in our country. The minority population is growing disproportionately and the demagogues are patronizing the hardliners among them for their votes. This has emboldened them and it is a recipe for trouble in future.
I have painted a frightening picture of future.
But in reality it might not be so. Because economic development and these negative forces are counter balancing to each others. It will depend upon our economic elites that how they reign in these crimorates. They are the forces capable of doing that. They can force the government to take the right path. It will benefit them and us too. The common mass of India is too disillusioned too rise too this challenge.
The other silver lining is that it take only a single good leader to change the fortune of a nation.
And like Jews , India too is waiting for the messiah too arrive before its too late.
India's future will be decided by an ongoing race between forces which are developing India and those which are trying there best too retard our economic growth and even nullify the progress which we have made since the last hundred years.
The government here has been focusing all its attention on the economic growth only and according to some only an sustained growth of over 8% for a long period of time can solve India's woes. But the fact is that the economic development is perhaps one of the parameter which decides our society's well being and if the dragging forces become too strong then it can negate the benefits of the economic growth.
Economically our country has been doing quite well in patches. Some of the states have developed really fast and have left other regions behind by many years .
The private sector has been the engine of this growth and its speed is going on increasing.
But the benefits of our developments have not reached every body and this is a major cause of concern. This not a case specific to India only. Even countries like China ,Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia face the same problem. But given the volatile political situation here,the result could be more devastating for India. We have got a whole pack of demagogues who are always ready to utilize any kind of resentment in the public for their benefit.
The rise of crimocracy( sham democracy run by the criminals and strongmen) and absence of a potent force to counter it has become perhaps the biggest problem faced by India.
And this is where the danger lies . A nation whose rulers are hell bent on destroying there country.
Frankly speaking our country is slowly slipping towards chaos and this is in spite of the economic development taking place.
The dangers might not be clearly visible to everybody.
The problem of armed communist is not being tackled properly and they have taken control over more than 150 of the districts and are running parallel governments there.
Result of this unchecked growth of maoist will certainly start showing on our society in near future.
The police and judiciary is in total mess and this is helping the rise of Crimocracy. And the government is doing nothing to cure it , resulting in a slow decay of the society.
Then comes the quota system of the government. There is a race to win over the OBC , SC, ST etc and the merit has been severely been compromised in the name of their up liftment.
Nobody is trying for their real Up liftment. But the OBCs, SC and STs are too happy with the current state of affairs. They are happy to be on life support systems. Instead of spreading the education at the grass root level and then making them independent on there own, the government has decided to give a crutches to them. This at the cost of our future.This reservations are there in each aspect of the government functioning. Right from higher education to jobs to promotions and to the parliament too. Hopefully the government will soon extend it to the private sector thus pronouncing a death punishment to it also. The reservations might be extended to the minorities also. After all they too would like too have a life where government provides them complete care right from cradle to grave. After all 95% of humanity loves not to work.
The final major threat comes from the rise of religious fundamentalism among the minorities and the response of Hindus to this .The Hinduism has undergone a lot of transformation and it will no longer be a mute spectator to the challenge from minorities. It is sure to create a friction in our country. The minority population is growing disproportionately and the demagogues are patronizing the hardliners among them for their votes. This has emboldened them and it is a recipe for trouble in future.
I have painted a frightening picture of future.
But in reality it might not be so. Because economic development and these negative forces are counter balancing to each others. It will depend upon our economic elites that how they reign in these crimorates. They are the forces capable of doing that. They can force the government to take the right path. It will benefit them and us too. The common mass of India is too disillusioned too rise too this challenge.
The other silver lining is that it take only a single good leader to change the fortune of a nation.
And like Jews , India too is waiting for the messiah too arrive before its too late.
Monday, July 24, 2006
threater of middle east
The common people treats the crisis in the middle east as a conflict between Israel on one side and the Palestine/ hardliner Arab nations on the other side with U S and UK as marginal players. But what most people fail to see is the larger picture. Middle east in the energy source of the world that has necessitated the close involvement of the world power in its affairs. Its a conflict between the super power US and the oil rich Arab nations which are opposed to its dominance ( in reality dominance of any non Muslim nation / Muslims nations of other sect eg Shia or Sunni) in the Arab region. But the fact is that given the importance of this region for the world economy ,the world powers cannot leave this region in the hands of medevial regimes.
And here Israel comes handy to them in their mission. The strategic location of Israel (given that it is the only non Muslim country in the heart of Muslim world) makes it an ideal proxy for America to fight its war of dominance and control.On the other side Israel is perhaps the most threatened country in the world right from its establishment and it needs the support of US to survive . It knows that no amount of concessions to Palestinians can buy them peace. They can be in peace only if they cease to exist in that part of the world. This makes the relationship between the US and Israel a unique symbiotic one. Both use each other for mutual benefit and realization of there goal.
The response of Israel to the abduction of the soldiers is not only being silently supported by the US but most probably the action plans might have been finalized by Israel after close consultation with the US. Whatever is happening can be seen as a reply of US to the defiance of Iran on the nuclear front.The Hezbollahs are very close to Iran and it is said that they get there strength from Iran . Without Iran's and Syria's help they would be reduced to a mob retaliating Israels tank fire with their stone missiles.
Its is not that the whole abduction event is stage managed by US, but it is making ful use of the opportunity to fulfill its aim in middle east. By encouraging Israel in its attack, it is sending a clear signal to both Iran and Syria. That it is the boss and same thing could be in store for them too.I wonder whether the Israeli response would have been same if Hamas had done the kidnapping. But Hezbollah is a front of Iran and its destruction in front of a helpless Iran and Syria will send clear signal to the right place.
And here Israel comes handy to them in their mission. The strategic location of Israel (given that it is the only non Muslim country in the heart of Muslim world) makes it an ideal proxy for America to fight its war of dominance and control.On the other side Israel is perhaps the most threatened country in the world right from its establishment and it needs the support of US to survive . It knows that no amount of concessions to Palestinians can buy them peace. They can be in peace only if they cease to exist in that part of the world. This makes the relationship between the US and Israel a unique symbiotic one. Both use each other for mutual benefit and realization of there goal.
The response of Israel to the abduction of the soldiers is not only being silently supported by the US but most probably the action plans might have been finalized by Israel after close consultation with the US. Whatever is happening can be seen as a reply of US to the defiance of Iran on the nuclear front.The Hezbollahs are very close to Iran and it is said that they get there strength from Iran . Without Iran's and Syria's help they would be reduced to a mob retaliating Israels tank fire with their stone missiles.
Its is not that the whole abduction event is stage managed by US, but it is making ful use of the opportunity to fulfill its aim in middle east. By encouraging Israel in its attack, it is sending a clear signal to both Iran and Syria. That it is the boss and same thing could be in store for them too.I wonder whether the Israeli response would have been same if Hamas had done the kidnapping. But Hezbollah is a front of Iran and its destruction in front of a helpless Iran and Syria will send clear signal to the right place.
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