House prices are too high. Rs 3500 for concrete square feet,  It is kind of scary. One slaves for his life, or cheats others to get this money, unless employed by big govt or corporations. Exceptions to the employment exists, lawyers, doctors etc could earn this much to live in those cells.

‘Greed’  has new denunciations, crusaders are American left,  included  Mr Krugman  here. Prof Arrow – One whom I looked to from distant ( among others)  when searching for an utopian scientific solution,  also writes of greed. Prof Arrow talks of some Chicago school.  Krugman might have been  too busy to clarify this much in his rants. It would explain in lot more clarity, of  they say economic assumptions of greed, or mention presumptions of Chigaco school vs Austrian School or Keynesian stuff etc etc.

  I didn’t watch NDTV recently, to find if Amartya Sen  has given new personal meaning of economic theories upon poor Indians.

[“I think there has been a general drift around the country towards the idea that greed is good”, Prof Arrow continues to deplore emphasis on popularization as a factor of deteriorating professional standards in his country- “But there is now more of an emphasis on popularization, which does improve efficiency but can also lead to an erosion of professional standards. There was this idea that professional standards were a mask for monopoly power--a Chicago theory” .

      Krugman  on the other hand is little bit of populist - “, Krugman has earned a well-deserved reputation for translating the jargon that economists speak into something that anyone with an interest--not necessarily a Ph.D.--can understand.” –says this product desc. “skilled at writing about economics for a general public”, says this. “he has probably done more than any other writer to explain economic principles to a wide audience” , says this. ]

  Money – It swirls around the devil, even deep inside modernity. A writer in Boston Globe actually writes it - “Despite millennia of folk wisdom on the topic, it wasn’t until a decade ago that researchers started to take a hard look at whether money really does have anything to do with happiness.”. It is hilarious, because  For millenniums, people have given hard look at money, and some  have occasionally chosen the hard surface on the banks of Ganga instead of banks of money. But here is an interesting, and rather disturbing quote :”It’s funny, everyone keeps saying money doesn’t make you happy, but money can change the world.  Only last week I had a discussion with my co-worker, he postulated, why certain descriptions could instead be in in terms of economic interest rather than of philosophy. Probably economy is good to change and disrupt.

When  german national socialists, and probably christian socialists  loved their great society,  they lost their discretion elsewhere, they massacred five million jews.

   Stalinist socialists – the father socialists,loved the great equitable society, they lost their descretion elsewhere,tens of millions were made starved in china,  millions were sent to gulag by Joseph stalin.

Modern anglicized Indian formed his civil and public society based on universal humanity, his power centers  ensured to remain silent on face of slaughter of uncounted number of hindus, up to 20% of the Pakisthani population. He didn’t defend one of the ancient  civilizations which he inherited, his love for western style baked chicken - Indianized with tandori, or realistically - love for a plum post  post in govt or media, earned through history and english education,   ensured that he lost  the art of balance between love and discretion.

Modern Indian, as a social reflection has lost the discretion that love is not the art of fire breathing revolutionary literature that the colonial masters taught it.

Link to a political add in USA. It was considered a celebrated cause to make millions, the american way. Smattering socialists who managed to land in USA instead of USSR or London, also agreed with the American dream. The linked add makes somebody's’ salary scandalous, the question of scandalous american dream. The cluster bomb equivalent of counter attack could be attack the party structure, the purpose based organization that has grown too powerful.

We lived in an era, augmented by the last decade, where  the right debate  replaced emerged as the top truth in a historical world. This has been so harsh in India, that one couldn’t aspire to have friends, when one  strongly disagreeing with rights stuff. in early 2000s and late 1990s, the hostile argument was for western enlightenment, one that left enough space for cultural development, but for some inherent flaws of being indian-ness  about the new ideal of rights.

Now the rights talk come to USA. A professor almost  dismisses the health care “rights” as questionable righteousness.

Of all rights noise, the “right” to vote seems the most truthful expression, Unfortunately I don’t cherish so much the right to elect a corrupted, party cadre  politician to lord over, to manage and lie to me.

Considering the bureaucrats, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists …their teritorial behaviour, socialist structure is far from utopian. They are all bound by class or grade created by the party. The Millionare and beggars are replaced by grade-A servants, and grade-D slaves. After a long time, people expect to be grade A, they secretly feel inferior  when they are not grade-A, top demagogues etc.

Funny that I write it, It sounds interesting that circles can be placed inside the lines( rectangles), the  lines could be places inside circles  ….and it could go on, like a circle. There are big big lines, there are ever present intricacies of circles….and what else I am missing in the picture ?

 

A previous considered disowning ‘myself’, the pretense of  search for void, to be less egoistic as a new intellectual phenomena. The public face of  Gandhian humanists used this deceit of selflessness  for promise of a better  society. This void argument was targeted at specific people  for whom these concepts mattered, but was considered difficult enough. The deceit of collective selflessness was like a promise of  fast liberation. In reality, the intended, disowned peaceful void is missing. There was no such utopian reality. The reality is filled with daily maoist attacks, boisterous into bigger political parties, bigger govts hyper active on managing its subjects. Gandhian news paper helplessly write maoist attacks day in and day out, it celebrates their leaders.

The ‘ article ’  is written by a powerful  black intellectual in the USA. He is trying hard to justify a Harvard professor who was reported to deviate from the script -  “"You have no idea who you're messing with.” – he said that to a police officer. The black english professor was not disowning himself, he was not pretending the deceit of a collective larger goal, the black professor managed to speak the truth that he was powerful. The disowning oneself is not as popular in USA, it is popular among intellectual power elite as powerful argument to fix communal responsibility, and hence the defense.

The interesting observation is that the article doesn’t do much to justify itself, but for in a place where ‘arrogance’ is not  such a central word of the cosmos as immorality would be. Mr Robinson observes the power structure, who has, who hasn’t, the institutions and celebrities ….”But for the sake of argument, let's assume that Crowley's version of the incident is true -- that Gates, from the outset, was accusatory, aggressive and even obnoxious, addressing the officer with an air of highhanded superiority. Let's assume he really recited the Big Cheese mantra: "You have no idea who you're messing with. …. I can attest that meeting a famous Harvard professor who happens to be arrogant is like meeting a famous basketball player who happens to be tall. It's not exactly a surprise."

The point is most of the deceit of transcendental, organizational collectives, build to last towards utopia could as well be  …deceit. The void will not come. The deceit would have disowned the lighter and relatively selfless only.

• This was a slogan in a medical palmlet, posted in a clinic. The poster was celebrating mothers. Safely it was visualized in a place where god is an extra terrestrial  male.
• Navneet notebooks are readily available in this part of India, in the stationary shop for school kids, bit costly but okay quality. Its cover paper has race mobikes  and cars, with  half a page of its description The bikes include Suzuki Hayabusa, Hoonda etc. The description is from an American website, it  celebrates American innovation. I am not sure how it is useful for the Indian school kids .

      Together it means decline of original thoughts, expression. It means a big copycat and efficient machine churning out information for profit.

• Manmath Nath Das died today. He was a vice chancellor in the then biggest university of the state. I grew up remembering these names as symbols of everything good about modernity, education and so on…Dr Das was a historian. When congress party was made to revive by unseen forces using the Aryan/Dravidian ideas to divide people, Dr Das joined the congress party as a nominated MP. That was quite a big disappointment. The very idea of light was acting dark, supposedly nationalist, Gandhian and humanist had lost voice to write a single article criticizing the racial formulation that became so important again in 2000s.

       Manmath Nath Das was no symbol. History is it was  a stale subject, filled with gossip, with least appreciation of either arts or science. He had got a position by acting agent of a copycat and efficient machine –  that supported or colluded for racial construction of India.  The power structure had made these people vice chancellors and MPs. Today local news paper(samaj) mentions that he made history interesting.  Me thinks Dr Das missed one article in Samaj, to make the weakest attempt to extricate India out of the colonial story.

     The power and glory of modern India that Dr Das seeked  is no more with this former vice Chancellor and former Member of Parliament.

That is a benign headline, Considering the contents of the article, it could as well be titled “economics Fanaticism”, “ blind belief of economists” , “ the economic bureaucracy” or quite simply “principles of economics”.  Summary of the article :

• It introduces Ferguson, an economist of Harvard, who has authored an interesting  book The Ascent of Money .
• partisan recriminations: "Free-market ideology" is a standard scapegoat of current economists, though it masks the fundamental ignorance.
• so was the subsequent invention of finance -- the saving and investing of money – The saving of the money was considered a different subject both with implication for progress and instability.
• finance occupies a peripheral position in mainstream economics. It's studied by a subset of economists, and financial markets -- their ups, downs and side effects -- are not considered big sources of economic expansions and slumps. Economists tend to focus directly on the spending of consumers, businesses and government. It was also widely assumed that deposit insurance and the existence of the Federal Reserve would prevent financial panics.

       That is economists don’t understand finance. It is a simple yet revealing thought!

        I can add that Amartya Sens of the world were  indulged in a lot of  cheap colonial  politics for euro-national socialists, and somehow manage awards by white men, and earn godly status in “developing” countries inhibited by less civilized, half converted ones– all in name of economics. It was kind of scary to read the  way Sen applies linier algebra after  tossing  poor people into “sets” [ collectives] , it was from here that he has managed to write on democracy etc. I am pretty sure,  A power plant boiler plate would burst, if finite elements are tossed in to a set and linier algebra is applied to solve the induced stress.

    Very interesting paragraph to understand the economists :Overshadowing the misunderstanding of finance is a larger mistake: ignoring history. By and large, most economists don't care much about history. Introductory college textbooks spend little, if any, time exploring business cycles of the 19th century. The emphasis is on "principles of economics" (the title of many basic texts), as if most endure forever. Economists focused on constructing elegant, mathematical models. "For years theorists held the intellectual high ground," writes economic historian Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley. "They were the high-prestige members of the profession."

  I would say, it is not that they don’t care much about history, it is that they think they know principles of history, which they presume as predictive and ***. Amartya Sen is quite comfortable at idea predictive history, he never objected to racial analysis of Bharat, in fact he was comfortable with marxist and colonial analysis where categories of class, race  operated as objects in the presumed principles of history.

Egoism – is a word of contemporary use, it means about “my self’. It had a central , inescable and different use in Bharat, where the purpose was not to search void, talking points not necessarily designed to disown “myself”. While search of void in modern times, disowned “myself” superficially and without any understanding, the liberation theology extended to colonial places has a niche place. Here, “myself” is celebrated when it added to victimhood. It was repeated that a hungry man need not worry about god , morality, metaphysics or  in general stuff other than food. Hungry man is a “victim”. Even Gandhi gave this comparison.  It was humane to sympathize with  talk of “myness” of victims. Victims are less than liberated. If one is a victim, then he was held to lesser “moral” standards of disowning. The idea was that, Once they were fed by the state schemes, they could be led to egalitarism, utopian voidness.

•      Iyer, Iyengar, Iyenagar are there levels of ego, one of my Brahmin friends used to quote to deride the egoistic Brahmins . It was in Tamilnadu  when the selfish, dictatorial Dravidian politicians took over, though in good talks tamil own of Ramanujam, Subramanium **** .
•    “Hindus are arrogant” – This was the justification when the hindus were driven out of Bangladesh.
•       Events in far off places have contemporary resonance too, one of my well read, analytically leftist, intellectual  friend  sways frequently to logic of  “Brahminical arrogance”, though he has no personal complains on it, except some professional issues with his liberal  boss.
•   Kashmir terrorism where lakhs of  pundits were driven out was a initially a case of Victims of Jagmohan and Victims of financial neglect from Indian state. Most  Intellectuals ( including marxist, Gandhian and islamic)  fought hard to avoid giving it a political color.
•   When the maoists were portrayed as a spontaneous agitation, the Gandhians and intellectuals remained silent on the external co-ordination, arms smuggling, massive intellectual and media support. Maoists were not judged on violence they perpetrated,  merely because they didn’t stake claim on morality.The Revolutionaries could wear the “myness” because  they were victims. Last year, there has been a news headline almost on everyday on maoists in the local newspapers. Probably the Gandhians and intellectuals will compromise and do a “peace deal” with those people some day with distribution of welfare money. There is also a good chance that the maoists drive away the Gandhian and intellectual pretense, and establish rule of permanent victimhood.

It looks at all these places modern intellectual was trying out “morality”. This trial has been destructive, it has only produced fake Mahatmas.

welfare economics  is an influential subject for determining the economic victims.

From the empty space,

beyond, far beyond the clarity of space, the heat fields,

perhaps from hazy clouds, perhaps unknown cold regions ,

emerges a ray of force,

unhindered it travelled the universe,

to act on its master in matter,

its master was attacked by man, by manly force,

the force of the universe collided with power of the man,

the power of the man has bonded force, even through nukes and magnetism,

the power of the man was intellectualism, or may be modern logic…

or whoever  said what it is ,

The  man emerged victorious  in moving matter,

then human  societies celebrated humbling of force,

force apparently retreated and  unsung in next pop album.

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      -* Couple of vague  lines on two characters :- face and belly *-

1-

A mud face hanging from nicotine gum inserted into the mouth,

Hanging in the surface, it looked  deep,

its belly was dissolved away in last flood.

2- A Belly was floating around,

Its mouth was chewing gum and looking around.

There was a day when the west traded slaves,imperial powers had  scanty concept for the people of world, unless it was there to be stolen and appropriated. A lot of Philosophical activity about the colonial subjects was about measuring the skull sizes of colonies to measure humans, or targeting to break down societies. A lot of education in colonies involved helping subject to contempt themselves, conversion to using a better European language, conversion to only religion(s) and civilized culture.

British authors have assumed how it was destined to be colonized – often described as burden of civilization. They have measured human specimens from the length of the country to find the human values . Yet the Indians were not convinced, the caricature of colonial superiority was no less funny in many local usages. In search for a coherent onslaught, the colonial scholarship has pushed the existence of lot of Bharat  to margins, has brought on the void and denial into the existence. Of few things that Max Mueller liked, one was Sanskrit verse about a lot of non existence.   Post 2000, many have re-interpreted Budha in terms of nothingness as a denial.

  It  is as if this denial is developing to a new logic. “Farewell to an India” – This is not the India where medieval European philosophers found concept of freedom of mind, some found Brahmins spending their life in quest to question their mind. In NY Times article,  Author Giridhar Das bids farewell to to something he “Hardly knew”, the void, the unknown comes off as so dear and  beloved to the author,  it deserved a farewell !

My thoughts are “ not again” !

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“The first thing I ever learned about India was that my parents had chosen to leave it.” , Giridhar Das, on his introduction to an unknown country..

“It was wrong, yet easy, to feel that we did India a favor by coming home.” – Giridhar feels doing a favor by coming “home” – Home ?

Giridhar an American, among others “because I felt that to say otherwise would be to accept a lower berth in the world”.

Yet it was “It was the chauvinism of uncles who asked about my dreams and ignored my sister’s.” .

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For Giridhar, “What it meant to be American was to be free to invent yourself, to belong to a family and a society in which destiny was believed to be human-made.” – Presumably that explains why  some are aghast at  GW Bush, often described  to have looked to higher something for deciding Democracy in Iraq.

“I looked around in India and saw everyone in their boxes, not coming fully into their own, replicating lives lived before”…Like “, so-and-sos’ marriage would be more like my parents’, with verve and swing-dancing lessons and bedtime crossword puzzles; so-and-so would study history and literature, not just bankable practicalities..” . Like ?

                      The englishmen of 19th century also wished so, for historical studies they collected the Indian specimens – including from Bengal, using the colonial understanding of 19th century, they prepared a pyre through a racial story,  called the Indian history,  then they threw the Indian manuscripts   into that fire of racial analysis. In addition to history,  Indians were often  expected to conform to dress complete with neckties, like it is snowy day in the middle of Indian summer . The blue  berries and  straw berries …  just across the pine woods  in sun bathed northern fields  is vividly described in literature. It would be considered  success of literature,if young Indians to identify more with berries, pine trees rather than  the mango trees and the ever present rice plants. India was expected to appreciate “literature”, long before that thought came to Giridhar. It did  before West would appreciate comparative trivialities such as “Power Yoga”, vegetarianism ,  Deepak Chopra etc on pyres of revolutions and burnt and defiled societies in India. It did so, when west appreciated  the idea of   Free mind, India appreciated ossified sahibs supporting free revolutions.

   In 19th century, ships in their onward journeys carried boxes of civilization arrogance, in its return journey it carried back spice and money. The civilization arrogance captured and collected Indian specimens, it measured their nose and skull sizes to determine their character and civilization standard. Sometimes, as in case of MaxMueller, it found indirect ways to achieve this result – the linguistic analysis they had learned from India with fail grades. They all saw a deformed nothingness, however The Nothingness that MaxMueller managed to appreciate in India was rather cosmological philosophy, the nothingness that the anglicized brown sahibs later repeated  is not so subtle , Giridhar describes it well:- “The first thing I ever learned about India was that my parents had chosen to leave it.” .

That certain trotsky is the real communism, daily violence, national suffocation are mere aberrations is as lame an argument as it could be. The trotskites however seemed to own that argument in 21st century leading to daily maoist violence in places like India. Another lame argument, but quite misleading is another such argument posted in a comment in an Am forum:

It amazes me that the Republican/Conservative movement continues to portray socialism as a political system. It is in fact an economic system, which has no bearing upon the governnment's exercise of its power over its citizens. Russia, China, Cuba, etal were dangerous because they were dictatorships (a political sytem)and the persons in charge used police and military power to maintain their grip on power. Only coincidentally were they also socialist or communist countries (an economic system). Denmark, Sweden, and to greater or lesser degrees, all western democracies are socialist economies but we continue to have democratic forms of government.

 It is true that socialist economists were considered intellectuals and higher mortals for their scientific pretense of socialism, less political compared to the maoist  party machine . The distribution economics however operated to serve a political system, patronized by such system. The socialist organization looks state as a feeder organization, or its duties extending to more aspects of family or individual life. They call the dependence of people on a massive organizational structure as equality, top leftist economic professors have surmised this could be conflicting with ‘democracy’.

The socialism is not separate from political doctrines and process. In fact, many its economic presumptions are shaky at best, it can be knocked off or compartmentalized if the political component, community or cader organizing go missing.

I am not confident about the details, somehow confidence seemed to be important while I was touching off a management type interview after the graduation. I was confident in all trivial matters all along, I thought I was quite knowledgeable with general and introductory ideas of subjects of interview,  but confidence required that I be confident in matters such as how to fix problems of a state or city – I didn’t know these subjects, I had no relation to myriads of such hypothetical or complex issues, but confidence was required. Of course a confident “no” is not easy in formal environments, some systems of philosophy would interpret it as contradictory – with common meanings of words.

Confidence has been a question since long. In real working life, this was used in sense of audacity, in a sense of guess work, while wading through postulations. For the most or probably almost all jobs, for the diligent,  There may not so many postulations that one worked through, so confidence was not an issue for everyday working life. In different business,  A confident sales rep usually is not the one who has diligently evaluated the pros and cons and delivers that info, a  confident one would be the one who delivers words as  certain and unique in some ways. Here one could be misleading and still be confident. Confidence is obviously not about misleading.

“If I say, the world will dance…”, it was a local  song playing in FM, targeted at the youths. How even the youth could handle this cheap and arrogant lyric? May be the lyric was delivered confidently, there was certainty and finality to the audacious declarations.

  Confidence is close to being certainty.  Certainty is not much of an issue for direct observations. However confidence is scrutinized for analytics. If an analytical system has assumption of certainty, then even trivial advocates of such system would come out as more confident. Conversely, just being confident  on matters of world is a statement of nature of analytics.  “If I say, the world will dance…”  is more than an individual opinion in a democratic setup, it is about the cultural setup with assumptions on analytics and certainty. 

   Vernacular literature in India has seen significant changes   post 2000s , with a new vigor – The  linguists, fiction writers, historians, columnists redefined the word “Hindutwa”,  as opposite of scientific ideas and temperament. An occasional physics professors, long time communists in maths depts joined them, but mostly it was led by people and arguments from “arts” pr humanities dept, these arts and culture people were driving “scientific” attitude . How did the humanity depts  connect with a subject that they ditched from childhood ? Certainty ! Pretense of predictive history, historical plans and its certainty – mostly  through race and genes. Confidence of dictatorial socialist  style . A faith in Certainty of racial connotations as conjured by colonists made an assumption of analytics, which was safely scientific in pre-hitler era.

In english language, pertaining to english civilization, where  they still have a queen even though marx lived there, a British snide could include words such as “pompous”, “arrogant” and similar . In colloquial usage, I  know a word with  direct affront to confidence in certainty, I know of no other living person who uses that word, generations ago the literary revolutionaries would have found the word Brahminical and would have stopped using it.

The 2000s were an interesting time – It could be in Indian history. Few times in Indian history would we have such a massive attack on non-criminal, highly educated apolitical people – that is the exploitive middle class, the upper castes, and the fascists – sometimes lead editors of national dailies justified them as worthy targets of islamic terrorism just because they had sinned enough by being middle class. Suddenly each mailing group discussing these, these derogatory terms driven by highly established old-men who failed the masses, India was breaking out of the pseudo ideas of public distribution with lot of energy, and there these almost retired men were finding a last chance to be relevant.

  One issue was islamism. It was a hot wire to mention this. For Kashmir, the extreme secularist was willing to concede that the Pakisthani state instrument of ISI or at worst Jagmohan was responsible for it.  They won the argument through brute force.  But chilling stuff was happening then….

  In London, in 2000, I met Sandhurst-trained Pakistani officers who had been recruited from here and were being sent back to Pakistan to instigate a military coup. – This, says a person who describes his means of knowing as “British members of HT also played crucial roles in exporting their group to Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Mauritius, India, Egypt and Denmark, among others. I know because in each case I know the people who did it.”

   It was happening in India, and a worthless slave generation was finding the fascists in people who saw it. It wouldn’t be out of way to says these were the comrades in complementary to  sandhurst trained Pakisthani officers….

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/21/hizb-ut-tahrir-pakistan-islamism'

Gandhiji continued to play fraud through such gimmicks and that was how he and the Congress party succeeded in depriving Dalits of certain special rights through the Poona Pact of December 24, 1932,'

  The above by Mayavati.quoting Ambedkar ! The Gandhians would have unleashed police had it been by a lesser mortal. They did that to a person who wrote a critique of Gandhi in vernacular language. This is not to say that Gandhi is not being criticized – He has been criticized for letting the partition happen with all its miseries. On the other hand so called dalit publication once brought up a book called Sepoy Gandhi. Many secularists have been going after Gandhi when they need maoist militias, while they themselves appropriate Gandhi on the other hand to give a different message to general population. There are publications on failures of Gandhi  from secular perspective - people who would have liked to unleash discredited material analysis on people , but for popularity of Gandhi.

    What was Gandhi doing so as to draw ire of Amedkar ? More importantly what was the British and Ambedkar doing when Gandhi lead the freedom movement ? Ambedkar for long periods was an employee of British. The British were stroking up anti-nationalist politics based on identity and the idea of race they invented in India. Gandhi opposed the division of population based on race and such stuff, British succeeded in stroking Pakisthan but failed to make riots in another two areas they had targeted. There idea was to weaken the opposition and culturally destroy their subjects. The reservations in area of voting rights were one such agenda.

  Ambedkar says “'Congress would only always remain like a step-mother to them'’, Jinnah used similar rhetoric to split Pakisthan and manage slaughter and displacement of about 5 million people. The idea was to make India sacrifice itself, be made ungovernable chaotic place lead by mafia acting according to  british contempt's. People at that time rejected Ambedkar. If Ambedkar succeeded, it is far from certain that that Mayawati would be CM. Other possibility include a male leading a bankrupt dalit vote bank. A stronger party structure rather than the weak party affiliation that lead to regular govt changes through voting.

“Chasi Mulia Adivasi” union members have forcibly occupied 400-500 acres of “non-tribal” land …… 4000 members carried their “traditional weapons” to spread fear and terror in the area.

   The above is rough translation of front page news published in an influential Gandhian news paper ( samaja-16th June). The “traditional weapon” was celebrated when ManMohan Singh gave it to some people in a cultural ceremony in north east. It was a front page news. However their Top Broker, Manu Bhai Patel found a “fascist” in Vajpayee when he gave a sword in a traditional Jath ceremony. Gandhian dalals talk of non-violence when their party is not in power. By holding that traditional sword, Vajpayee had become a fascist equivalent, un-gandhian. How long these Gandhian imposters would fool themselves and the world is still an open question.

  This is not mere hypocrisy, rather it is close to a modern instrument of war. if the above eulogizes Maoists,The same tactics have been used elsewhere, the idea is to find unsuspecting people and give them an ideology of historical injustice, bribe them with free land to buy there loyalty for atleast a generation. Destructive political doctrines spread from imperial revolutionaries of london have surprisingly left london  with its queen. These are racists. Take away the race, wealth of london may as well be redistributed forcibly by the govt.

Long back I had built a poetry website, in vernacular languages. It had a Java applet, I had also tested a activex control, to add poetry dynamically through web forms. Only one font was available, Those days Java scripts were used for lesser purpose, mysql was not in horizon, it stored poetry in flat files. My web page declared a single line in its main page, to increase understanding through language.

That sentiment was echoed by my friend – an author and literature professor, when I accompanied him to a Sarala Awards ceremony, a literary award carrying 2.5 lakhs prize money. Literature removes all differences, it enlightens – He declared jokingly to lighten me up. Less than two hours later, I repeated the opposite, Sir, Literature also could instantly add poison in an otherwise benign evening, I said to him. He almost agreed for a moment, though literature is half his life, and I won't insist it to him in normal times.

It was story of a destitute, with a heavy and inspiring voice, the Sarala award winner started delivering his acceptance speech. The awardee mentioned how he is not associated with any organization lifelong, and is in debt. How he is going on inspite of his poverty, homelessness at the old age, his fathers house crumbling in his village. How he is going on with the poverty, carried by his arrogance of poetry,  in spite the publishers occupying air conditioned offices and not paying enough money. With language of lifetime’s experience it potentially could bring tear to half a mortal, I asked my friend, was this guy unemployed through out ? No, he is a retired professor, my friend said. It meant the professor had a dream job during his life time, just below the top notch IAS officers. As a retired professor, he would be eligible for one of the best pension rates, usually good enough to feed a couple of people with comfort.

  The recipient of the prestigious Sarala award was delivering his rant against the publishers in AC rooms, oblivious to his  surroundings, incidentally AC  in the top public auditorium of the city was much better than an window conditioner in a small office. It is as if, he was doing a favor, yet to bring out the worst. What followed was a rant against traitors, a rant against sanskrit, a rant against one of the popular sanskrit slokas…”Traitors” – These were the people who remained silent when a person composed an extremely humble  Sanskrit sloka to lord Jagganath. In the finest traditions of colonial machinations,  It was a linguistic war against the mother language of Bharat. Oblivious to the scandals of racial  linguistic nationalism, a subject that has made languages cheap, common – if the commonness means sexual innuendoes of a college going brat, if it means rage of alienated then that rage  perpetrates the linguistic culture. Lack of acknowledgement of his superbly air-conditioned surroundings of the auditorium, that most low priced publishers would lack is one thing. It is another level of fanaticism and deception  to impose expectation on history, that the “traitors” should have insulted people imparting knowledge in sanskrit, which they themselves practiced, and perhaps indulged in a degraded macaulayian linguistic analysis for fostering colonialism[ By silent practice, instead they should have  learned english].

By the end, this author and recipient of  prestigious Sarala prize said not a paragraph on his creations. Probably they were not his fascinations to begin with. Probably the colonial history of racial linguistic attracted him more. By end, I was almost incapable to raise my hand for a final clap. The poverty sticken professor had made history poor, Filled the present with desperation and discomfort. In the beggining, a speaker had said how we would be connecting with the world through literature. We connected with it indeed, the slanderous history of racial linguistic analysis.

In the audience, there was a distinguished gentleman, Mr Sitakanta Mohapatra, people from the podium specifically addressed him to greet in speeches. Few years back I had read a story by Mr Mohapatra on his visit to Harvard, and how one Prof Witzel took care to show him around the university. Prof Witzel of Harvard is an expert and world leader of modern times  in converting Indian story to a racist linguist one, in deplorable traditions of Max Mueller. Mr Mohapatra’s effusive praise on Witzel had no space to write these inconvenient aspects. The access is a big thing for such trivialities as insulting one’s own story. Perhaps we are still waiting to be civilized, not much options left than to getting civilized, if a senior retd IAS officer has teamed up with Prof Witzel, we get finest bureaucracy of colonialism expressed in literature.

It was early evening in a remote village, a shop owner returned home after closing the shop to find maoists waiting in the house. Following events included the house owner pushed out of his house and out of the village, his daughter and wife might not have got a chance to lightup a lamp,  wishing his wellness -  for they were tied. These are pretty tumultuous movements, as vacuum descends in a place that was filled up with so many things from years, In this case the vaccum was shattered with gunshots from the end of the village.

  The maoists released a note saying this guy was less than perfect in his fair price shop. The other side of the story was that this guy had informed the police about maoist activities before. Fortunately the other side of the story existed, and was reported in the media.

  Everyday the maoists kill in this part of the world, today the news reported they killing a liquor seller, where 3 people had died after drinking liquor a couple of days ago. People are generally against liquor until they get a chance to drink with the high society, so this liquor guy will not have any sympathy. The news paper mentioned that he was selling liquor, and 3 dies after consuming it – In this case maoists delivered justice for the population. There is no other side of the story, if the maoist comrades dies because of excess drinking, or if this guy didn’t succumb to blackmail of the maoists to get free liquor, or he belonged to an independent group that maoists didn’t tolerate.

  Strangely, it is the same argument for taliban, it delivers justice.

  Indian court system is generally subverted. To start with, probably it is incompetent and disorganized.  If taliban and maoists relish in delivering the justice,  the court has become activists too, it can deliver a “justice” on poverty schemes or find out a “human right”, direct govt  administrative issues – at this rate, there is no clear line when the court will settle philosophical issues. All this while, sometimes it is difficult to file an FIR.

  Injustice – It was like the fire breathing  pseudo-instrument. Arsonists representing various utopian,  liberation , and colonial organizations, each promising greater and easier utopia   staked a claim in it . Together they raised  it to to a  cheaply accessible scientific  and art form . Cheap  Politicians, NGOs and activists often burrowed this art form to claim their superiority, and in turn patronized it. It seems the world is unforgiving, Long after tyranny of maos, stalins et al, the careless play with fire has ignited once again.  Justice is again ready to be delivered from the oven of arsonists.