My Views: Rushdie and Henchmen

My Views: Rushdie and Henchmen: The 'festival' ended.I am talking about the so hyped and so called glamorous festival of 'literacy' ended with due controversy in Jaipur.Th...

Rushdie and Henchmen

The 'festival' ended.I am talking about the so hyped and so called glamorous festival of 'literacy' ended with due controversy in Jaipur.The organizers, from the beginning want to make this affair remember for a long time.Unfortunately Jaipur festival will be remembered for its controversy.The buck started with the name of Salman Rushdie.

The indian born controversial 'author', authored a book called 'Statanic Verses'.In his book he outrightly criticised on Islam and prophet of Islam.His book is banned in India.He not only criticised Isalam also wrote filthy about Hindu Gods an Goddesses.And to all his buck he says that it is 'Freedom of speech'.And some protagonists of freedom also support him.

When the Jaipur literature festival started it was clear that this is started not in the favor of Literature, but to enrage some communities and communal ism and controversy.So the organizers playing the role of Rushdie's henchmen, invited the beleaguered  author.But after protests and agitations his attempt to land at jaipur festival was foiled.He even failed to address the audience through video conference.

But this festival unveiled one thing.The intention of the organizers being cleared.People must know that organizers were not at all in favor of freedom of speech. They just wanted to create controversy and enrage communal tension and nuisance.But the secular and realistic Indian population rejected their bid by agitation.God bless our pluralistic society which respects each others religion, caste and creed.

Statue-tory Politics

Setting up statues of political leaders is a common activity in India.And so is followed in Andhrapradesh extensively.You can see Statues of leaders of different levels.In fact one of the main attractions of Hyderabad, Tank bund is known also for the statues(Damaged during the Million march of Telangana agitation) of different leaders on the banks.The unfortunate thing with these statues is the utter negligence by government and some times damage by some hooligans.Recently some statues of Dr.BR Ambedkar were damage in East Godavari district.

The intention behind this act was not clear still, but it has raised a new controversy in the state.At the same time it also gave a chance to stage political dramas for some opportunistic politicians.These statues were damaged amidst the  discussion of ignoring the lower castes in the State cabinet was going on.Some political leaders of backward classes were seen criticizing their top leadership.

So the timing of this incident(damage to the statues of Ambedkar) raises doubts.However state government responded to the controversy and assured to arrest the culprits very soon.But before that BJP leaders protested against this 'damage' and staged a dharna in front of a Ambedkar Statue.

Before this incident there was another story of statues was on, and that was the statement of TDP prez N.chandrababu's comment on the statues of late CM, YSR.Naidu in his statement told that all the statues of late CM, YSR should be demolished.By giving such statement he invited the flak of all YSR 'Abhimanis'.He was severely criticised for that statement.And again if we think these statements shared were revolving around  a 'Statue'.
Mostly when a statue of a leader,either a political or religious leader is erected it will be remembered for a short time.And the statue gets the prestige and importance on some 'special' occasions.But as the time passes on these statues are neglected and some time fall pray to weather hardships.I have shared my views on this topic.We have to think over the erection of statues of leaders once again.Are we giving respect to the leaders or using their 'effigy' to get some benefits or hurting their soles...

Somalia Calling

Man is a social animal.A common proverb, which many students come to know during their schooling.But now these 'social' animals are busy in social networking sites.They cut themselves from the social life and still proclaim to be a socialite.Many such 'Animals' want themselves to be known as  a socialite.Here, I am not talking about a particular group of people or people of a particular region of the world.

From the proverb mentioned above we can happily omit the word 'Social' and the remainder will be an 'animal' obviously.Today on this earth human beings are living with new technology and latest updates in the many domains life.But these human beings are encompassed in their own circles forgetting the whole world around.And some of the groups of Human beings are bearing the brunt.

Such are the Somalians.Their mistake is to be a part of 'human beings' it seems.The reason is they are being forgot by the whole community of Human being.The situation in Somalia will never allow human beings to ignore them like this.Thousands of people, most of them women and children are dying daily due to hunger.Somalia is now under a severe feminine conditions.Many lands of Somalia gone drought and lacks of people migrated from the main land Somalia.

The cities of Somalia are deserted and desert became the graveyard of many innocent Somalians. Somalians, the unfortunate human beings, are now looking for the help and aid of the other human beings.If we are social animals we have to think about other sections of Human Society.The whole world is a human society.If we ignore Somalians in their bad times then we should think whether we are human beings or anti human beings.We call ourselves a social being and still we ignore other people of our society.

State Cabinet

Andhra pradesh state, for a long time, known as a stronghold of congress party.Among 42 Parliamentary seats here congress managed to fetch 32 seats.But now the times changed.The separate statehood Telangana issue quelled without any proper solution.But the 'Chingari' of revolt is not silenced.The demand for telangana still remains among the people.Though the Telangana issue is not on the cards of political leaders, the sentiment is not on the roads.On the other hand the Telangana Congress leaders are agitating against the Seemandhra domination in the cabinet.

Unhappy over the recent cabinet 'induction'.State government,being pressurized by Chiranjeevi bandwagon, inducted its two members in the cabinet.Though many sections of Congress party were against such 'induction'. At the same time the seema leader and PCC chief Botsa were of an idea to induct his men in the cabinet.Where as Chief minister was also busy in lobbying for his men.But Congress high command does not bent to both of the leaders and permitted only two PRP leaders to be inducted in cabinet.The oath taking ceremony was very simple and fast.The two were given two portfolios. But the uneasy feeling was visible right from the start of this debate of expansion in the cabinet.Telangana legislators were expecting berths in cabinet as they were reportedly promised by the High command.

When the Telangana issue was on its peak, the Telangana congress leaders were told to keep quiet.In return congress leaders were lured with the promise of rewards and posts in party and government.But only few leaders from Telangana got the 'rewards'.So, naturally the other Telangana leaders feel they are in lurch and lagging in nabbing the posts.

The other congress leaders expected to get berths in cabinet.But meanwhile the merger of PRP raised identity problems for the Telanagan leaders in congress.The bigwigs of Telangana were ignored or marginalized in party after the induction of PRP MLAs in the party.

But now the Telangana leaders are not showing any interest towards any activity of party and they are also threatening to ignore the campaigning of upcoming by elections in the Telangana region.Congress is fearing to lose the support of its own party leaders.Analysts and some sources in Congress party are saying now that there will be another shuffle in State Cabinet to cool down the Telangana Congress leaders.Let us see what happens to the Kiran's Cabinet in the near future..

BSF (Brutal,Silly,Filthy)

This is second time i am writing about Army.As an Indian I obviously salute the military and other defence personnels who are guarding the nation across the borders.But recently we heard about a silly and shameful act of BSF Jawans near the Indo-Bangla border.

After looking at that video one can understand how cruel are those Jawans.They don't have any respect towards Humanity.No doubt the duty of Border security forces is to protect the nation from any kind of infiltration and invasion as well.But humiliating a unarmed and civilian cannot be supported.However the eight BSF jawans were identified and suspended from the services.

The jawans not only stripped the Bangladeshi national, they also beaten him up and tortured. One of them, obviously, was busy in recording that 'activity'.We are not supporting the victim as he in filtered into Indian territory illegally.But the way he was treated is in human.No body will support such treatment.The Jawans must have to report the higher authorities.BSF jawans unnecessarily tortured the Bangladeshi national.This not only tarnished the image of Indian Army but also raises doubts over the deaths near borders.By stripping a person and beating in a brutal way now BSF jawans also stood by side of American Marines who are well know for their torturing acts.Specially in many hidden Jails American Marines torture the jail mates mercilessly.But fortunately the Border Security force authorities announced that the incident will be probed and strict action will be taken.

Government vs Army

Its a tale of two countries,two governments,two Generals and very much similar two problems..these countries are neighbours and Nuclear capable...
  In any country the Government and Army are the two major institutions of power.In fact they are the main power centres of any country.In our country the Army and our democratically elected government show a great understanding. But for some days there are some misunderstandings between Military chief Gen.VK singh and the central government.The misunderstanding is about the date of birth of Army chief.If we look at the version of Gen. singh he says that his date of birth is May 10, 1951.Where as the government says that the actual DoB is May10, 1950. If the version of government is assumed correct then general Singh has to retire in May this year.

But if the General's version is right then he can serve as an Army Chief for more one year.This rift of DoB emerged and came into light recently when Gen. VK singh's tenure neared to end.Gen.Singh moved to Supreme court against this 'misunderstanding' of Central government.This is the first time when when an Army chief aproached apex court against Centre.

This is the case in India.If we look into the political developments in our neighbouring country Pakistan there are many similarities.In Pakistan we have seen that government and its Army stood opposite to each other on the issue of a 'Secret Memo'. This memo became a Scandal and got the name 'Memogate'. As a nearest neighbour India is more expressed concerns on the developments in pakistan.

Pakistan's Prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and President Zardari with other cabinet colleagues recently had a meeting with Pak Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.The political leadership of Pakistan clarified the doubts of Army chief about the Secret Memo. Actually the Memo gate involved the United States as a third partry.Political leadership tried to impress the Army with good will gesture. In the case of Pakistan it is a historic fact that the democracy lied fragile.Where as in the case of India the Army-Government row is of domestic nature and no other country is in no way involved.Here Supreme power is democracy and in Pakistan democracy is on the mercy of Army.

But interestingly these two Nuclear capable neighbours are facing  the similar problem i.e.,rift between Government and Army....We hope, on both sides the problem will be resolved very soon....Long live Democracy.....