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Month: August, 2009

Conversations: Kishore

Kartikey Sehgal

“How do you refuse your assailants? They are many, you are one. Kishore refuses the food. The group knows that Kishore knows.”

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Now, readers. You know that Bihar is a dangerous State. It’s capital, Patna, is a dangerous city. Naturally—you must imagine—the interiors, the smaller towns and villages would be dangerous as well. The dangers extend to robbery and murder and a little bit of every type of crime. Little economic development, and the people have been eroded from…

Culture for Krishna

Kartikey Sehgal

(The author attends Krishna Janmashtami Celebrations)

The hostess introduced the dancers and said that it is important to teach dance to young Indian girls. “Indian Classical Dance instills discipline into women. It is important for Indian culture.”

She also spoke about the Bollywood impact on children; implying that we need to move beyond recognising film dance as a substitute for traditional dance.
We saw a classical dance on a song from Lagaan, “Radha Kaise na Jale”; another one…

Krishna, the Consciousness of Bharat

Kartikey Sehgal

Celebrating the birth of an individual (God/Man/Woman/With Form/Formless) who is responsible for the nation that is India (Bharat). The oldest surviving philosophy and definitely, despite any arguments, one of the oldest cultures of the world. A sample of what he said:

“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.”

Such thought prevailed in Bharat in around 3000B.C. Is it religion or is it…

Should your Sister Cry, You will come to Grief

Kartikey Sehgal

The title is a line from a story published at vbelonghere.blogspot.com where Baskar writes:
What I mean is, what with our anxiety about the fate of our sisters, the love we have for them, the loss that we will suffer without them, and the grief their tears will cause us, I mean what is a gift or two to purchase some peace of mind?
He then states that “The second source of anxiety is that, should your sister

Now What, Omar?

Kartikey Sehgal

I had predicted problems for Omar Abdullah in my earlier story on Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Chief Minister.
“Omar would be better because others would be worse. And that shall be the bane of being Omar Abdullah.”
[Read that story Here]

The Omar led government is now funding an organisation that aims to spread jihad; and cleanse non-Muslims from the state. Former J&K chief-minister and Omar’s grandfather Sheikh Abdullah had described the organisation as “the real source for

Raksha Bandhan: When Sisters Steal Your Money

Kartikey Sehgal

But have you wondered, who is there to protect the men from women? Is their any festival that caters to demoralised men, wherein sisters promise brothers to protect them from evil women (or common women)?

The festival, Raksha Bandhan. Basically brothers get the Rakhi tied around their forearms/wrists by sisters and it means that we have to protect them and take care of them for the rest of our life. If this were true then the festival would…

Aliens Gatecrash Swayamvar Show

Kartikey Sehgal

In a shocking development, aliens gate crashed the finale of the popular television reality show, ‘Raakhi Ka Swayamvar’ claiming that Raakhi was one of their own. When asked by the security to leave, the aliens expressed shock and regret at not being welcomed by somebody who if not by looks then at least by antics was one with them.

When this reporter asked one of the aliens for his story he replied in a language not decipherable by anybody but…

Chanakya, Nationalism

Kartikey Sehgal

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Translation:The most important dharm is Rashtradharm

Actor Manoj Joshi tells the audience that his mission is Rashtravad. He shall perform his popular play Chanakya at various venues across the country.

Rashtravad could be called Nationalism*. Chanakya united the warring Indian factions under the leadership of Chandragupta Maurya to ward off the mighty Greek leaders Alexander and Seleucus. We need such leadership today if we have to survive the onslaught of terrorism. The terrorists are united…