Cartoon: Very Resilient Democracy
Kartikey Sehgal
Kartikey Sehgal
[October 13 is voting day (State Assembly Elections) for Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh]
The voting day for Mumbai, Maharashtra, and wherever that scary phenomenon called elections is occurring is a dry day. Meaning no alcohol. People could have voted when drunk. That chance is lost.
The phenomenon is scary because apparently, if you don’t vote, you are a monster and directly responsible for the country’s misery. You see, before you stopped voting, the country was very rich and prosperous and gold would …
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The author writes that, “‘Indian culture’ is a cover-up for religious enforcements. Most colleges that enforce codes to ‘protect’ culture are protecting the religion. If Indian culture was so dear to them, then the study of Indian philosophy would be an important, if not a compulsory part of the curriculum.”
A popular college in South Bombay (Mumbai) had, some years ago, and much to the dismay of the students, banned the prom night. Nobody called it a fascist (oppressive, dictatorial) move. …
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(The author states that, “You may dream of aeons of bliss for mankind but your nature will stop you from achieving your goal for a reason as simple (when compared to world saving) as gardening. Tend to the rose plant, planet-tending can wait".)
It has been a long week. I have many things to say and I have had the time to pen them down. But I resisted. I didn’t fight my self. The mind agrees to write and the heart stops it …
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“These born-in-India-but-actually-alien intellectuals don’t want to be identified with Gods and snakes. Meaning they feel good that they belong to the culture, helps in party circles to tell stories about the exoticism of the nation and surprise women with unbelievable tales and how they have come out of that backwardness…”
Intellectualism does not seem to be an Indian concept although Indians are considered smart and intellectual. The trend is to move away from the Indian philosophy and adapt your thoughts to western ideas. …
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(On the notion that India was never really a nation because of it’s pluralism.
The author writes that:
Pluralism is a human quality that transcends itself into the society. Our nation is criticized for being disunited against foreign aggression; ‘hence the concept of nationhood was weak’. Does this mean that aggression and cruelty are the hallmarks of a nation?)
Physical reality and spiritual reality are inseparable. The mind and the decisions that probe the physical reality are worthy of worship. The scientist …
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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 a part of …
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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 cry, you will come to …
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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 spreading communal poison.” …
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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 be required only once per …