Christian-Muslim Animosity Threatening India

Terrorists attack on Indian soil is nothing new. But after the massive bomb blast in Hydrabad which has killed more than 60 people and that too after few days of the attack on Taslima Nasreen, compelled to think about the world scenario from a different angle. I do not know how many of you will be ready to take my view on this? But I have reasons to believe so if I recall the history of more than 500 years of world.

Indians and Hindus are suffering heavily of the animosity of a new kind. The reasons are vague and ambiguous. But it is interesting to analyze.

I want to raise a simple question. How many of us will agree that there is an animosity between Christian and Muslim? I think – everyone irrespective of caste, creed, religion or region. After 9/11 this animosity became the world affair. Earlier this animosity was being fought under the carpet. Hardly any intelligentsia from Hindus, Muslims or Christians took notice of happenings. But now world is witnessing Christian-Muslim animosity.

It all started with the division of Indian continent. Till today, BBC is unable to carve Kashmir with India to ensure that the wound remains live. Why?

There is a new dimension to the world problems. India is suffering heavily because of Christian-Muslim animosity. But the most important question comes, why India is suffering as a result of animosity between Christian-Muslim?

India remains on top in the map of Muslim terrorists after USA, UK or Israel. India suffers because of this on regular intervals. A weak governance act like fire and Indians suffers without break. The world media, intelligentsia and powerful lobby are unable to notice the India’s situation. Indians leaders and media are illiterate enough to ignore this.

The attack on twin tower killing 4000 at once was a clear indication of Christian-Muslim animosity. This brought the animosity in open in the eye of the world. Today, it has reached at peak when US is attacking on Afghanistan and Iraq and now planning to attack on Iran. The world is sorting out the old issues. There is a possibility that the animosity will convert to friendship in some form or other because it is an unequal war, but it has to take some time.

Now the question comes, in such turning moment, how India is going to save itself? USA and even UK are able to protect themselves and save the anticipated huge blasts one after other. But what is going to happen to India run by weak people at top from Sonia to Manmohan to Pratibha Patil.

Indians are suffering miserably. The toll has grown ominous. For the past two years, India was second only to Iraq in the number of terrorist fatalities worldwide, with 1,361 deaths in 2005 and 1,256 in 2006, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. government's National Counter terrorism Center.

India has to suffer. Indians have to face the music. Indians are being killed on regular basis. Indian Muslims are becoming terrorists. Indian people are getting killed. And all these happen because of poor law and order and above all poor appreciations of the global situations. Indians will remain deprived and become terrorists. Whether Indian Muslims become terrorists or Hindus are killed, it is a loss to India.

I was shocked to see the news analysis in one of the Western channel (Yahoo News) that: a pair of almost simultaneous bombings by Islamic extremists tore through a popular family restaurant and an outdoor area on Saturday night, killing at least 42 people in this southern Indian city was because of Hindu-Muslim tensions.

Did anybody talked about Christian-Muslim tension when world trade center was brought to ground? How can the systematic and planned bomb blast on poorly managed Indian city be attributed to Hindu-Muslim tensions? It is pathetic to find that even Indian reporters do not notice these writings. Why should not this biased approach of western media be reported on Indian TV channels?
Similarly I was surprised to see the article of Daniel Pipes. He in an article ‘Ban Islam’, published in New York Times writes, “In perhaps the most serious contemporary attempt to ban the Koran, a Hindu group argued in 1984–85 that the Islamic scriptures contain "numerous sayings, repeated in the book over and over again, which on grounds of religion promote disharmony, feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and incite people to commit violence and disturb public tranquility." It is good for Western thinkers to quote Indian statement for their benefit.
One side they talk about Hindu-Muslim tension other side they write something else. The same yahoo news writes, “Officials confirmed on Sunday that foreign-based Islamic extremists may have been behind the attacks.” Then from where the question of Hindu-Muslim tension was raised and why?

It further contradicts on its own idea of tension when it writes. "Available information points to the involvement of terrorist organizations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan," Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, where Hydrabad is located, told reporters after an emergency state Cabinet meeting. Combined Forces are attacking in Pakistan without asking the local government to ensure that terrorist activities are curbed. Reporters must understand the responsibility of combined forces to fight against terrorists.

Reddy did not name any groups, but Indian media reports, quoting unnamed security officials, identified the Bangladesh-based Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami. Reddy declined to provide more details. "It is not possible to divulge all this information," he said. Harkatul, which is banned in Bangladesh, wants to establish strict Islamic rule in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation governed by secular laws.

The news article writes further about the tension that Hindu-Muslim animosity runs deep in Hyderabad, where a bombing at a historic mosque killed 11 people in May. Another five people died in subsequent clashes between security forces and Muslim protesters angered by what they said was a lack of police protection.

This is a terrorist attack and it has been confirmed by many earlier attacks.
"This is a terrorist act," said Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister for Andhra Pradesh state, where Hyderabad is located.

But I am unable to understand why these events are being categorized in animosity angle. This is ridiculous. From my point of view today world is facing the global threat because of the Christian-Muslim animosity and there is no reason to think otherwise.

Much of India's Hindu-Muslim animosity is rooted in disputes over the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, divided between India and Pakistan but claimed in its entirety by both countries. More than a dozen Islamic insurgent groups are fighting for Kashmir's independence or its merger with Pakistan. I doubt that any insurgents are fighting for Kashmir. They are fighting unresolved battle of Al-Qaeda who has successfully globalized the animosity between Christians and Muslims.

The report writes that more than 80 percent of India's 1.1 billion people are Hindu and 13 percent are Muslim. But in Hydrabad, Muslims make up 40 percent of the population of 7 million. But there has never been any fighting between Hindu-Muslims. If there are any it is all just a law and order problems. Even Gujarat has no such problems. India has been able to resolve the issues. Even there used to be riot in 70s or 80s but they were mere a governance problem because I can quote the example of Bihar where riots were frequent. But as soon as Lalu came to power in the beginning of 90s, there have been no riots in Bihar. Bihar has forgotten that there used to be riot, Hindu-Muslim riots.

The idea conveyed in foreign media and even Indian media reporting like this is poisonous to Indian society and global peace. The concept of Christian-Muslim animosity is deep rooted, it must have started with British overthrowing Muslims to rule over India in 16th century. A Christian as top leader may be a hidden threat to India and Indians.

It is unfortunate at this critical time that we have weak people at top in India. When George Bush is threatening Iran from Washington to face dire consequences for Iranian misadventure, Indian home Minister shows his incapability openly. "Our country is so big that even if we have the information that something is planned, we do not know where or when," Home Minister Shivraj Patil said after the Hyderabad attacks. It appears that a senior minister of economically fastest growing nation talks like coward manager as far as safety of the people is concerned. It is shame.

A series of terrorist bombings have ripped across India in the past two years. It’s all not because of Hindu-Muslim animosity but because of India’s closeness to USA. In July 2006, bombs in seven Mumbai commuter trains killed more than 200 people, attacks blamed on Pakistan-based Muslim militants. There have been some intentional biases in report like this what I saw in yahoo news. This must be going on for long time but in today connected world, we need to understand the world differently. This is a wrong way to understand the world dynamics.

Hindus have a long way to go before it becomes a potent threat to Muslims so talking about Hindu-Muslim tension from my point of view is ridiculous. But certainly as China’s GDP is rising with more than 10%, there is a possibility that Chinese-Muslim animosity will be seen in the world scene shortly. A changing geopolitical situation must encourage people to look the world from different angle.

Presently world must prepare and face the consequence of Christian-Muslim animosity. India has to prepare well to fight these ugly battles if at all wants to develop.

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Mashelkar Innovation

Dear Friend,

The program was available in iiuindia calendar. It was a usual evening Friday monthly membership lecture at AIMA headquarters at Lodi Road, New Delhi.

Like last time, we had lecture delivered by Shiv Khera, this time, it was delivered by Mashelkar.

Theme: Civil Society and Governance

Dr R A Mashelkar, Former Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, and Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, an eminent internationally recognized personality.

During Shiv Khera time, hall was full while this time all oldies were in presence. I personally feel that Mashelkar is one of the few well known scientists available in the country. I am privileged to know this man since last many years. I am fortunate interacting with him earlier too. This time also I enjoyed every moment I spent in his presence.

India needs not only few persons like him but many-many more. And I hope that India will have those people around.

It is my pleasure to present the abstract of his presentation (especially for those who could attend the lecture).

The topic is new for me but I will try to do justice with time and effort. I will be presenting outsider view of civil society. Basically, I am scientist and technologist.

Let us see what is happening around the world.

One new thing is eminent - Changing geography of science.

If we compare three different continents in the world – America, Europe and Asia, earlier research works in science were in the order mentioned.

Now it is in reverse order - Asia, Europe and America.

All the centuries have been ruled by IC

19th century – Internal combustion engine
20th century – Integrated circuits
21st century – India-China, but I say Innovation-creativity,

If we study history of growth and development, we find that it was always innovation and creativity which led to growth and development for human society.

I have done extensive research to find the definition of civil society.
Civil society is the integration of shared interests, shared values, shared purposes and collective action.

Corruption and re-tapeism are the biggest hindrance of civil society. There is an urgent need to take some concrete steps to remove this evil however this remains a big challenge for us. (A weak Prime Minister and a dump President can hardly give courage and confidence needed to hard working Indians.)

If India has to be a great nation it needs great governance.

I have also raised questions like, what academics are doing.
We need to have enlightened democracy. But how can we get enlighten democracy when it relies heavily on uneducated voters.

Information Technology plays a very critical role in the development of our society. It has changed life style. It remains a challenge for us to exploit IT for our growth and development. (On my question that why Infosys is still doing 90% business with outside India? Mashelkar had no answer. India needs to awaken of its own potential. India has yet to learn to respect its own professionals and experts.)

IT needs to be used to spread literacy and education. TCS has shown through practical exercises.)

With proper education, future should emerge like as follow,

Child centered education
Women centered family
Family centered humanity
Knowledge centered society
Innovative centered India

Civil society – refers unquashed, collective interest, shared values, shared purposes. However, even in governance, we are not using the combined wisdom for our growth.

I am pained to hear about the impositions of Directors by governments in all IIMs in the country. Higher institutions need to be protected for their autonomous functioning.

We need citizen centered democratic governance

But what is happening… we are in mesh… you are correct.

I am happy that at the end of the lecture he replied only one question and that was mine. Not only that, he was thrilled to know that I have developed a theory for human development and written a book. He took the book and promised me to give feedback as early as possible.

The book was also liked by Mr Prabhat Kumar, Former Cabinet Secretary, who remains the brain behind the series of lecture on Civil Society and Governance. He has also promised to read the book and comment on it as early as possible.

India needs innovation. Amidst all these, innovation must remain the priority of intellectuals. You need good theories, right innovations, enlightened democracy and a civil society with good governance.

Thanks.

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Squash Girls From New Delhi

India badly needs excellence in any field you can name. In spite of tremendous institutional growth achieved by individual inspired organizations, excellence at large is deceiving us at every front. Today when people’s President who still claims that India will become developed by 2020, I feel the need to talk about excellence becomes more important.

Sania Mirza is a big hope in this country of more than 50 crores females. Today Sania has reached to the final of the $600,000 WTA Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, where she will play with the top-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze, ranked No 7 in the world.

Amidst Sania and Saina, recently, National Squash championship concluded at Chenai. And two Chenai girls fought in final to clinch the medal. Joshna Chinappa defeated Surbhi Misra 9-5,9-1,9-4 in just 22 minutes and Depika Pallikal defeated Anwesa Reddy 91,9-3, 10-8 in 20 minutes and were in the final and Chinappa won the title for fifth consecutive times and over seventh time. It is a great achievement. Depika is following the path to achieve the title. She is just 16. She lost fighting but I expect that she may cross hurdle next time to win the title.

Today, when DSOI squash champion Sohail returned after the tournament, reminded us of condition of National Championships. On the boys’ side, Saurav Ghosal remains at top. He defeated Siddharth Suchde of Maharastra in the final. I remember him playing in last year final at Gymkhana club squash court. He is good and needs more support and encouragement to beat the battle.

Squash is not very familiar game in India. This has some recognition in defence frorces and we need to be thankful to British for this. For civilian even the resources are not available in general. Now a days, this game is gaining popularity and many courts are being constructed. People are finding fun and opportunity to reach to foreign univerisiites through such game. But achieving excellence is tough because we do not have good court, good coach, competitive players and world class kits. One has to put up too much effort to make good all these.

In such scarce situation, when Rahul arranged a summer squash camp at Kendriya Vdyalaya R K Puram in New Delhi, all the five squash playing girls like Sachika (Delhi champion), Shelly, V Shruti, and Janet were there. For fifteen days, it was good fresh up camp and training for good squash under the guidance of Col Manprit who himself was a national champion for many years. The boys and girls struggled hard to learn and horn their skills for the game.

The training resulted in Delhi boys’ team coming third at national level. As per Sohail, it is a good achievement. Girls’ numbers were not enough to form the team. The coach working at DSOI, Dhaula Kuan confirms his helplessness in generating interest in people to play games or encourage their children for games.

Even if Delhi Chief Minister relative plays squash, this game has very few takers. Media hardly talks about these issues which remains busy in the runs made by Sachin Tendulkar. Individuals have to put up tremendous efforts to achieve a simple growth. Excellence is too far even to be talked about. A highly developed city of India New Delhi has no girl’s team in squash. There is no plan. There is no encouragement. There is no awareness. We still have a long way to go as far as achieving excellence is concerned.

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Wonders of the World

We all are aware about the wonders of the world which our ancestors have made through bricks and stones. From my point of view, they are just the physical wonders. If I compare today with modern wonders, I find them insignificant. I will talk about few virtual wonders about which experts are not talking today, people are not discussing about but for the betterment of coming generations, we must discuss more and more about these wonders that I am going to write in this blog. And I will try to explain that why they are better wonders than physical wonders.

These few virtual wonders occur because of technology, globalization and democracy.

The technological wonders are now everyday affair for many people in this world. These wonders are airplanes, computers, and mobile phones and so on.

The wonders because of globalization are alleviations of poverty. The accumulations of assets by individuals in this world have been done not through the efforts of few generations but just in one generation. I like to quote few of these individuals. Narayana Murthy and Ambani from India who created billions in just one generation, Bill Gates and Google brothers from USA created billions and so on are wonders of 21st century. Are not these a wonders?

But my focus today is for democratic wonders.

The democracy is a beautiful form of governance in this modern world. All conscious and educated individuals feel the necessity of these. You ask any free people he or she will never get tired of telling the plus points of democracy but when people want to die for democracy in the countries like Nepal or Pakistan, it speaks volume. People even in the Muslim world will be ready to die for it if they taste freedom just once. Till the time rituals keep them busy and entangled, they may be controlled through military rulers or dictatorships or pseudo-democracy but once they are free from rituals to think aloud, they would like to have full real democracy where any individual can get capability to create wonders.

A point to note: In 21st century, every individual has the capability to create wonders!!

That is what happened in the recent elections in Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state of India. Democratic wonders have occurred. All intelligence failed. All predictions lagged behind. The established organizations were demolished. Communist and Congress lost to harness credit for past glory. The established khandani party managers lagged miserably in their strategic efforts. Gandhi failed. Bachchan failed. A wonder took place. Mayawati wins election with majority. Mayawati is a democratic wonder.

She wins when Gandhi was at peak with young Rahul taking politics as his birthright. Young Priyanka tried all her smiles to rule ignorant crowd. But democracy played its wonder. It produced Maya. Sonia may complain about organizational fault but she must know basic. If Congress has no strong organization, then who has better organization on this land - Mamta, Jaya, Rabri or Chandrababu Naidu? The time for established khandani elitist has come to the stage of extinction. Now, Gandhi will be wiped out from this land in next 4-5 years.

Earlier and even now our media, print as well as TV, experts are hardly aware about the reasons of these wonders. They keep guessing and wasting educated and intellectual’s resources. They keep talking about caste, which has no relevance to this flat world. The established intellectuals and social researchers like Yogendra Yadav and others are unnecessary talking about caste. Because of these people are forced to waste plenty of time discussing insignificant issues. Is it a surprise if established and famous people do not have time to breath properly?

Talks about these wonders will be the topic of discussions for long time to come. Like people are studying the success of Lalu all over the world even in Oxford University, they will study about Maya for long time. The change in syllabus will be essential necessity for growth and innovation.

But is it easy to understand these wonders of democracy. It is not unique, there are many and I would list few of them-

1. Obama thinking to become President of USA
2. Bill Clinton as US President and now trying to be the first husband.
3. Hamas ruling Palestine
4. Ahmadinejad ruling Iran
5. Rabri as Chief Minister
6. Lalu as Railway Minister
7. Jayalalita as Chief Minister
8. Uma Bharti became the Chief Minister

There are many examples but I shall leave them for my readers to guess.

Talking about all these wonders extensively in blog may not be feasible especially when people hardly have time to read the write up from not so famous writer. People have no obligation of regionalism, casteism or religious backing to read and praise. All are happy in their small circular world in this flat environment. The fantastic writings and superb analyses go waste most of the time. I have given the glimpse of many of these happening in the world in my book written in 2005. But, people are still searching for reasons and wasting their time. They are busy in reinventing wheels and claiming to be their innovations and contributions. With time, this disrespect to creations has to vanish for the growth of human beings.

But for the time being, this much is good enough to throw some light especially for those who dare to respect innovative ideas.

How wonders like Maya occurred to this civilization. I challenge to all the experts to throw some light upon this, I doubt for their successes. They will fail. Not because they do not have intelligence, it is because they have never witnessed such changes. They are trying to look towards future with the spectacles of past. Can you ever know future without experiencing the changes? You have to live to experience. There are no write-ups for such successes. Writing about 1857 is different ball game. Writing about these wonders of 21st century is another. How can they predict?

Even India Today does not hesitate to show Maya dictatorial view when it writes, “The age of Maya will be marked by dictatorial temptations of the supreme leader.” What are they talking about? They still think in the dictatorial terms of Congress rule of 1947 when there was no opposition. Today there are list of oppositions. Mulayam, CBI, Rahul and Kalyan will ever allow anyone to rest? It may be easy for our established analyst to write about dictatorial mentality of Maya. Can they ever dare to write dictatorial mentality of Arjun or Sonia when she forces all poverty stricken polices for the nation? We need to understand the ground situations in new perspectives.

Like technologies have produced wonders in the area of product and services, can you expect that it can produce wisdom and experts too? Just think over. And read the reasons for how the wonders like Maya are created because of democracy. Few of reasons for democratic wonders are as follows.

1. Never ask favour from established professionals
2. Focus on your wisdom and direction
3. Don’t rely on old conservative intellectuals from developing world
4. Set your goal and unique path
5. Never talk to Press because most of the time they are part of established organization which has no future unless revamped.
6. Disclose destinations at time but not path, let people keep guessing
7. Leave parents shadow to give due gifts of 21st century – Don’t behave like Abhishek or Anil to remain in the shadow.
8. Never get discouraged from the view of majority because they are the part of feudal system
9. Use modern resources to augument your efforts
10. Search a godfather
11. Create wisdom domain
12. Do it alone.

How difficult it would be for Maya to prepare herself for such a big achievement all alone? There is no coterie, no managers and no family to share the successes. That’s why she almost giggled during swearing ceremony. In this if she behaves sometime like Jaya, sometime like Lalu or other time like Sonia or Indira Gandhi, she has all the right to behave like that. She has to set her own goals. She has to scribe her own reactions. That is where I feel I have explained in bits and pieces about the growth mechanism of individuals like Maya.

Life has given you opportunities. Everyone has capabilities to do wonders. You have potential. You are not scheduled caste, backward or forward, you are not Sikh, you are not Muslim, you are not Bengali or Tamilians. These are all wrong perceptions. You are energy. You can create wonders. Believe me!!

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