The Alien World

Brief History

I have given sequence of events which were source of present day Naxalite movement.

• First communist party (CPI) was formed in 1924 by M N Roy in wake of Russian revolution.
• First sign of armed struggle by communist in Telengana(district of hyderabad) region in 1946.
• Followed by reorganization within ranks of communists and introspection.
• CPI split-ed and CPI (M) was formed in 1964, which was to follow chinese model of revolution.
• During same period peasants forcefully occupied lands in an anti-landlord movement on 1967 in small town of Naxalbari in West Bengal at Indo-Nepal border. The word Naxalism has been driven from word Naxalbari.
• From the shadows of two big parties, who had gone soft over period of time, emerged All India Communist Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR) in 1968.
• Another party on principles of Lenin and Marx was formed by Charu Mazumdar in 1969
• Yet another party by name of MCC was formed under Asit Sen.
• Agrarian struggle in Srikakulam(Andhra Pradesh)
• Struggle started on 1959
• Meager wage of less than half a rupee and only 59 kg of grain a year.
• Land once mortgaged was not returned.
• Not allowed to use traditional method of farming.

Naxalite affected areas

• Bihar
• Jharkhand
• Madhya Pradesh
• Orissa
• Chhattisgarh
• Andhra Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Karnataka
• Tamil Nadu
• West Bengal
• Uttar Pradesh
• Uttarakhand

Brief history above tells us that it is basically an agrarian movement started by peasants against the atrocities committed by landlords or so called high caste people against low caste people. Later all aggrieved people formed some kind of organisation under leadership of some leader, so that they can fight for injustice caused to them. So question is “what’s wrong in fighting for their basic rights”. Naturally answer would be “yes they should fight, but within constitutional means not by violence”.  Well we will come back to same question little later.

Who is responsible?    

Most people reply, would be, “its inapt handling by government”. Well, it is right to some extent. We must not forget that in democracy, government is ‘by the people’, so government reflects ‘we the people’. Therefore, we too are responsible for naxalism. I will put in better words, “ its, we the people, who have started the problem of naxalism and when it went out of control we want government to solve it, without realizing that such a problem should not have arisen at first place.”

Situations

Let us consider following hypothetical situations:-

• Mr, P  owns a flat/house legally. He goes for vacation abroad for a month. When he returns back he is shocked to see his flat being occupied by some big shot politician’s son. You being good citizen you fight a case in court but you lose.
• Mr, Q gets phone call that his son has been kidnapped. He again, good citizen reports to police, to his utter dismay, police recommends him to pay ransom and show their inability to handle the situation, so Mr X has to fend for himself.
• Mr. R and his daughter were traveling in train. Few goons too boarded the train and molested his daughter in front of her father. Police again shows inability to handle the situation.
• Mr. S, seeing atrocities on rise files a PIL in Supreme Court to bring strong laws against rich and powerful and for safety of general public. Supreme directs government to take action. 10 years have passed but still legislation for having strong law is awaited.

Seeing no light at the end of the tunnel, Mr P, Q and R under leadership of Mr S forms the organization against a government where they kept, VIOLENCE, as one of the means to achieve their aim. Four situations cited above shows failure of judiciary, executives and legislators, these are three pillars on which edifice of democracy rests. Or in other words system of democracy or government has failed, so if it has failed why not change the system. So these fours gentleman started campaign to change the system with option of VIOLENCE.

Now, let’s go back to Naxalism. Land grab policy by land lord (equivalent to house grab of Mr P), failure of security, self respect and human dignity (equivalent to situation of Mr Q and R) and failure of constitutional means of waging war (equivalent to hypothetical situations mentioned above) has led to what Naxalism is today. Now back to previous question in paragraph 3 above. Now why not VIOLENCE be means to achieve aims, after all Chinese leader Mao Zedong had led Chinese revolution on Principle ‘power flow from barrel of gun’ and he was successful and in present day world US and China are only super power in the world.  So is the case with Moaist of Nepal. Therefore  naxalite,  too follow principle and theory of Mao Zedong, hence Naxalite are also known as ‘Left Wing Extremist’  with insignia as sickle and hammer on red background.

Do I support Naxalism 

No, I don’t support Naxalism but I know the problem. Nor I am in favor of changing the democratic system of government after all it has proved its worth since time immemorial. We must understand that Naxalite are the people who have been alienated from mainstream. Solution lies in rectifying the wrong which has been done to them (almost like returning house of Mr P or giving justice to Mr Q and R), ensuring safety and human dignity of all(Human Right Commission I hope you are listening).

What  ‘we the people’ should do

I am very happy that ‘we the people’ fighting for Ruchika to get her justice in ‘molestation case by DGP Rathore’ (equivalent to atrocities committed by landlord or upper caste). Problem is, are we fighting for hundred of Ruchika who have been molested, raped and killed by DGP Rathore equivalents. No, we are not fighting for hundred of Ruchika residing in Naxal areas, so if we don’t fight then Naxalite will fight for them. And they are fighting with VIOLENT means (may be they are cornered with no escape route).Well I know we can’t go out of our ways and fight for justice, otherwise org will suffer for which you work, but at least we can do following, and act as retardant, so that Naxal like problem don’t arise and even if it arises, it does not proliferates.

• Be human and respect humans and not religion, color, caste he or she belongs to.
• Be careful when you choose words when communicating with colleagues, stranger, friends, it should not show your biased nature. For e.g avoid using “you chinki”, “tum log to aise hi hote ho”, “aukaat men reh”,  “which religion/region/caste you belong to”, “whats your sur name”.
• Be analytical if human commits mistake and take required step with humane touch. Don’t be emotional (it can be anger, love, frustration, irritation, disgust, depression) as it may lead to inequality and biased solution to the problem.
• Don’t criticize someone’s custom, tradition, food and traditional attire rather respect it and show willingness to know more.
• Maintain human dignity.
• Remember no work is small or big. They may be tough or easy. Sorry, do not try to equate BIG with TOUGH and SMALL with EASY. It is almost like; LENGTH can never be equivalent to MASS.
• Remember, what you think is your RIGHT as human in order live on earth, same RIGHT holds good for every living human.
• Last BE GOOD.

I have tried to explain Naxlism in simple way, without going into theory of Marxism,
Leninism or Maoism; I have also not touched upon strategy: military, political or social to solve the problem, let government do it. I have written it for common men and women like you and me.

Everyone seems to be so fascinated with the word ‘Sex’. Our need to have sex is perhaps the only thing natural left in us. But this is not my topic for today’s blog…

Sometime back I was reading somewhere in china, a park breeds tiger, so that they can sell their meat in there restaurant. I wondered why someone will like to eat the most beautiful & fearful animal in the world. Then I came to know that Tiger’s & Lion’s genitals are costliest body parts in the Asian market (read China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, South Korea, and few other Asian countries). They have a belief that various tiger parts have medicinal properties, including as pain killers and aphrodisiacs. In fact, the market for tiger’s testicles has driven the Asian tiger to the brink of extinction. With the result, all tigers disappeared and ended up in man’s stomach. All living tigers and lions you see are now are in preserved wildlife parks and zoos.

Well strange it may seem it has its roots in the very ability for lion & tigers to have sex many times in a day. Have you ever wondered why a lion sleeps all day and lioness does all the hunting? Simple – he has to preserve all his energies for the act of love. Now here is the more surprising part, a lion can mate 150 times in just a period of 48 hours, with as many lionesses in the pride. It may seem like he is really a sex addict. Isn’t it? Not really.

A lion has to really work hard to pass on his seeds. On an average it takes a lion to mate around 3000 times with a lioness so that she can make a cub. So now you understand why lion has always sex on his mind!

Life has become so much uncertain that one never knows what may happen. The brutal act of killing civilians has been never seen before. At the time of national crisis when whole India was praying for the safety of the hostages and glued to TV, there were few  trying to increase the TRP of their channel or put their face on TV.

I m not trying to be generic but many of the media people and locals were insensitive to the whole situation in Mumbai.

Yesterday night, while many of the journalists were reporting on the camera about the operation at Taj hotel, many people standing behind them were smiling and waving at the camera… I just can’t stop wondering how someone can be so insensitive to the whole situation. On another channel CNN a foreign journalist was reporting from the Taj area, and people standing behind were more interested in her than in anything else. How can someone be so stupid to be on an international channel and behave so stupidly?

The news media only worry about their TRP ratings and how to make things sensationalized. It was pretty evident the way they were approaching the released hostages asking them stupid questions, when none of them were interested in answering them. It has also come to light that ATS chief Hemant Karkare died while trying to protect one journalist who was not moving from the scene.

In many of my previous blog entries, I have tried to justify why humans are aliens on earth. Here is yet another reason. It is our indifference to this planet that always makes me wonder if we belong to this place.

Earth is a unique planet, because of its ability to sustain life. Earth formed at the same time as rest of the 8 planets and yet life found its way only on earth. Earth is the only suitable place in the solar system to sustain life – neither too close to sun nor too far, making it just the ideal place. Mercury is too close to the sun and too hot. Even if water was on Mercury it would have long ago evaporated. Venus also is too close to the sun to have any surface water. Mars on the other hand is too far away from the sun, making it too cold for any water in liquid form. So, the conditions happen to be just right here on our planet Earth. It is just the right distance from the sun. Our Earth is of perfect size and the heat is neither more nor less, to keep water neither all frozen nor all gas.

Earth, as we all know today, was not always inhabitable. It took millions of year to have an atmosphere that can support life; otherwise earth’s atmosphere had only CO2. In those millions of years life evolved from one cell amoeba to a multi cell and more complex organisms, and then came humans.

Since then the rise in CO2 level is increasing. With each passing year we are producing more and more CO2. The CO2 generated in last 40 years is more than double of the CO2 generated in last 10000 years. The time is not far when there will be no ice on the poles, because of global warming.

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Superheroes are comic character, which do not exist in real life but deep down in our heart & mind we want them to be real.

Well 3 very famous Hollywood superheroes are Batman, Spiderman & Superman. There are many more, but from the popularity perspective these three are the top rated.

All the three superheroes protect New York City. Batman protects Gotham city & Superman protects Metropolis, both are fictional city based over New York. Why did New York need all the protection? May be it has got most number of criminals.

So who is your favorite one?

Bill’s favorite is Superman. Who Bill? Have you seen Kill Bill? Bill (David Carradine) is the one Kiddo (Uma Thurman) wants to kill. Well, this blog is not about Kill Bill, so let’s continue what Bill likes about superman… Here is what he says:

“As you know, l’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S”, that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears – the glasses, the business suit – that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He’s weak… he’s unsure of himself… he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race. “

Well to a great extent I really liked his theory on Superman.