He is been famous for his experiments, denounced for his world famous acts and maligned for his brave but wrong gone steps. He is disliked by his own historian, defamed by almost all the novels and historical books and carried the tag for modern day politicians whose decisions often stand wrong. Whether it is transfer of capital, use of token currency, the expedition in Himalaya or agriculture reforms, he is been criticized for each and every step which he undertook as a supreme commander of medieval army. There would be very few who don’t know the name of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, India’s often tagged as a medieval king.
Showing posts with label Rational. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rational. Show all posts
Is Nirmal Baba third eye program a fraud
Whenever our ability to reason out on the things ends, we do start believing in any miracle which comes in front of us. When Jayant Naralikar quoted this sentence in one of his books, his intention was clear. He nearly believed that superstition in India will never going to vanish. Today, sad part of the story is that we have turned his simple assumption into a universal conclusion.
A few lifelong lessons to learn from the movie Dil Chahata Hai
Among-st the one of most benevolent places of Goa, there lies Chapora fort. At this place sea becomes flamboyantly silent and a ship tries to find its way through far end. Minutes of silence fills the place with aroma of beautiful thoughts. No one is in hurry to talk, they are happy with the calm atmosphere and the way it is giving shape to their thoughts. Finally the first person breaks the silence.
Why we have to still believe in Aam Aadmi Party ?
The time has become really hard for Aam Aadmi party. Nearly all the pre-poll results are showing a sliding loss to the party. Every self acclaimed intellectual from each corner of India has targeted and criticized the one time favorite group. Party's own men have become hesitant to contest with the party ticket. Common workers are denying the ethics on which the group was formed.
Why Aamir Khan should be awarded with Bharat Ratna for his documentary on Satyamev Jayate
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Last year India did witness one of the greatest silent revolutions of all time. That too without wasting a single drop of blood. Aamir Khan and his Satyamev Jayate became a hot topic of discussion in every sectors of India. The only reason was his great researched documentary on building a prosperous nation. He covered almost all the topics with same intensity and perfection. For an actor it becomes difficult to handle both movies and documentaries. But the great national hero did this with a ease and showed the world that patriotism still exists. This year he has also come up with five day documentary on India. The shows will definitely going to wake up India.
His first documentary of the season two showed the condition of women in India. He presented as how rape victims have to suffer from the hardships of system? In each subsection of a program he put a light on worst conditions of Police stations, Medical Examiners and Judiciary. He argued and demanded the need of separate place for women related complaints so that within a month or two the case can be solved. His research explained that the number of goons present in our society is very small. However, our inability to tackle makes them powerful. So we have to unite so that we can tackle them.
Last year he was invited by standing committee of ministry of commerce. He was the only actor who was invited by any parliamentary committee. That time the issue was whether to allow FDI in retail or not? Aamir in his one of the documentaries ardently opposed the FDI in medical. The reasons which he gave surprised many people.
In the year 1993 the World Trade Organization reached on consensus for the trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS). The licensing of drug became a compulsion for medical companies. Due to this they got the monopoly in producing the generic medicines. It became impossible for common man to buy the medicines because of their high price. The cost of simple medicine increased by 100 to 500 times just because of monopoly over licenses.
It was not for the first time that the issue of generic medicines became a topic of discussion in India. But the awareness and realization was impossible to achieve. Aamir raised this issue in his show and the results were amazing. The Supreme court refused to renew the licenses of pharmaceutical companies including American heavyweight such as Ranbaxy. Executive body of Indian parliament ordered to hold on the FDI in medical sector. The ill practices of doctor were banned. Many pseudo doctors were forced to close their offices. The relationship between doctors and middlemen was brought into light. There was a sense of renovation in the medical sector.
His other documentaries did have a same impact. Such as his show on protecting child rights made a meaningful impact on looking at the problems of children. This issue was also presented in the movie 'Tare Jamin Par.' In the movie he showed the problem of dyslexia in the small children. He gave solutions to these problems in the form of compassion and love. He forced us to hold on reservation policy for a quite long time by showing that untouchable people still exists. It made us think that the problems of castes are still present in its old form.
Since many years the physically disabled community was asking for renewal of disabilities act of 1995. It was because of his show that government of India brought renewed protection of disabilities bill (2013) in the Parliament. An unnoticed concept such as staircases with Iron holders was introduced because of his efforts.This act was also made com-pliable to United Nations Convection on disability.
The problem of honor was presented in his show. This gave the answer as how Khap Panchayats (local illegal governing bodies) hold power over the basic right of an individual. He also argued as why parents need to allow their child to choose their marriage partner? Aamir made India realized that it has a long list of things to achieve. Though we are assuming our self to prosper towards developed country, still lots need to be done.
In his last show he presented the problem of human trafficking which has became a great problem not only for India but for the whole world. He argued that in modern it is a responsibility of society to free women from illegal gangs. We have already reached a threshold as far as the issues of women safety is concerned.
Aamirs Khan's efforts can be compared with Raja Ram-mohan Roy, India's first social reformer. Exactly 300 years ago it was impossible for Ram-mohan Roy to introduce changes in a conservative society. However he believed in himself and carried forward his effort irrespective of social pressure. His efforts gave India a semi liberal status. This time the problems are new but they still have a essence of a conservative society. Aamir Khan is a person who can change India from is semi liberal attitude to fully pragmatic society. This all can only be achieved if government recognizes his work on national as well as international level. This can only be done by awarding him with a highest Indian civilian award of Bharat Ratna.
Why Government offices need to take lessons from the Passport office of India.
Sam Pitroda, the pioneer of Indian IT revolution, once suggested to abolish the attestation of any paper copies so that we can save our valuable time. It's been 10 years since he gave that suggestion and situation has not gone anywhere. People here always wonder as what prompts him to think like that? Does he believe that good governance is still possible in India? Or he is just one of the virtual believers of Hippocratic Society where decisions can not be implemented because of Red tap-ism.
Why does Congress desperately need Pranab Mukherjee to be its PM candidate?
Congress party looks to be in one of the greatest crises of all time. Nearly all the opinion poles are predicting less than 90 seats for Congress in the assembly election. The task of securing 272 seats in the election looks impossible for Rahul Gandhi. This time they don't have Pranab Mukherjee to act as their dependable troubleshooter. At the age of 80 plus, he is enjoying his duty as a president and as a nominal head of India.
Many people still asks this question as why did he abandon Congress? Specially when he could have got Prime Minister's seat in the lower house. Pranab gave a simple answer to this question. He said that he does not possess excellent oratory skills, specially in Hindi, required for the top post. This was an intelligent answer but there is no doubt that he was sidelined just because of dynasty politics.
It is not the case that Congress is not aware of Pranab's capabilities. They have seen his political aggression when Mumbai attack happened. At that time, there was a leadership deficit at the top level because of weak leadership of PM Manmohan Singh. Sonia was unable to do anything since she was not on any official post of cabinet. So this five and half feet tall guy came to India'a rescue. He gave orders to army to remain on standby. It is because of him that the jets were securing the aerial territory of Mumbai and Delhi. He put forward a strong case for India on international level. He gave strong signals to Pakistan and warn them against possible consequences if they would not act on Kashmir militants.
Whenever opposition parties jammed Loksabha on any issue, it was Pranab who acted as a strong mediator for the Party. When he was the finance minister of India no one dared to talk against him. Like that of Atal Bihari Vajpayi, he was also respected by opposition parties. Whenever he used to stand in Loksabha
for any speech, the assembly would go for a pin drop silence. Pranab's negotiating skills with the opposition and with the international counterparts was an extraordinary one. He is firm and confident in his behavior and can take India to the next level.
The present situation is unavoidable for the Congress. Rahul Gandhi is not able to establish himself as a great leader. His interview with Arnab Goswami was a total failure. India saw that he can't even take a firm stand on any simple issue. When the burning issues were in-front of him, he decided to remain silent like his mother. Nirbhaya case, the protection of rights of North East students, Telangana bill are some of the issues on which he did not take any stand. When India is on the verge of issues like corruption, strong international presence and good governance, he only concentrates on some old issues like that of women empowerment and reducing poverty. Even after the highly paid campaign he is unable to gain the trust on the important issues.
Congress must have to see their leadership in Pranab Mukherjee. He is the last person who could save them from historical loss. The question of bringing him back is not a difficult one. Congress will just have to handle the ego issues of some of its ministers like Chidambaram. They will simply have to ask Pranab to resign from presidential-ship and immediately needs to indirectly put him for the leadership role. He has the capacity to change the results of upcoming elections.
The whole Congress could be reinvented for the election, if he will again join the party. As it happens in politics the wind can change its direction in a day specially when it is blowing in Narendra Modi's territory. For countering the strong challenge of Narendre Modi and his good governance, Congress needs strong candidate of his caliber. As Thomas Macaualay has said people starts believing something if they are shown the thing again and again. So in order to turn the prismatic society of India into a diffracted one, we need Pranab Mukherjee to be the Prime Minister Of India.
Many people still asks this question as why did he abandon Congress? Specially when he could have got Prime Minister's seat in the lower house. Pranab gave a simple answer to this question. He said that he does not possess excellent oratory skills, specially in Hindi, required for the top post. This was an intelligent answer but there is no doubt that he was sidelined just because of dynasty politics.
It is not the case that Congress is not aware of Pranab's capabilities. They have seen his political aggression when Mumbai attack happened. At that time, there was a leadership deficit at the top level because of weak leadership of PM Manmohan Singh. Sonia was unable to do anything since she was not on any official post of cabinet. So this five and half feet tall guy came to India'a rescue. He gave orders to army to remain on standby. It is because of him that the jets were securing the aerial territory of Mumbai and Delhi. He put forward a strong case for India on international level. He gave strong signals to Pakistan and warn them against possible consequences if they would not act on Kashmir militants.
Whenever opposition parties jammed Loksabha on any issue, it was Pranab who acted as a strong mediator for the Party. When he was the finance minister of India no one dared to talk against him. Like that of Atal Bihari Vajpayi, he was also respected by opposition parties. Whenever he used to stand in Loksabha
for any speech, the assembly would go for a pin drop silence. Pranab's negotiating skills with the opposition and with the international counterparts was an extraordinary one. He is firm and confident in his behavior and can take India to the next level.
The present situation is unavoidable for the Congress. Rahul Gandhi is not able to establish himself as a great leader. His interview with Arnab Goswami was a total failure. India saw that he can't even take a firm stand on any simple issue. When the burning issues were in-front of him, he decided to remain silent like his mother. Nirbhaya case, the protection of rights of North East students, Telangana bill are some of the issues on which he did not take any stand. When India is on the verge of issues like corruption, strong international presence and good governance, he only concentrates on some old issues like that of women empowerment and reducing poverty. Even after the highly paid campaign he is unable to gain the trust on the important issues.
Congress must have to see their leadership in Pranab Mukherjee. He is the last person who could save them from historical loss. The question of bringing him back is not a difficult one. Congress will just have to handle the ego issues of some of its ministers like Chidambaram. They will simply have to ask Pranab to resign from presidential-ship and immediately needs to indirectly put him for the leadership role. He has the capacity to change the results of upcoming elections.
The whole Congress could be reinvented for the election, if he will again join the party. As it happens in politics the wind can change its direction in a day specially when it is blowing in Narendra Modi's territory. For countering the strong challenge of Narendre Modi and his good governance, Congress needs strong candidate of his caliber. As Thomas Macaualay has said people starts believing something if they are shown the thing again and again. So in order to turn the prismatic society of India into a diffracted one, we need Pranab Mukherjee to be the Prime Minister Of India.
What prompted the historical fight between Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru were soul-mates of each other. If we closely looked at the history then we will see that they were immensely dependent on each other. Whenever a kind of crisis arose on each of them, they cooperated each other so that the other partner would be quickly brought out of the situation. Gandhian ideology and the ideology of Nehru were similar for most part but still they had the recognizable differences.
Pandit Nehru was influenced by the Russian revolution of 1917. So from the early days of his political career he supported the socialist movements. The setting up of left parties particularly during the decade of 1930 made him believe that it is only socialism which could bring India out of dominion status. His political tour for Farmers organisations in central province made him aware about the problems of farmers. He never wanted to part away from the Congress instead he had a dream to move it more towards communist views.
The first major confrontation came during the start of Civil Disobedience Movement. At that time Lord Berkinhead challenged if Indians could make their own constitution. So Motilal Nehru, father of Javaharlal Nehru took the responsibility and gave India its first mini constitution in the form of Nehru report. However, it was opposed by nationalists including Javaharlal Nehru as it contained dominion status instead of full independence. Gandhi supported Motilal as he thought that it would be easy to negotiate with British with lower demand. Nehru and his friends were not accepting Gandhi's views. They wanted full independence with sovereignty. As a result Congress party was divided into two parts, one supported by Gandhi and Motilal while other by Javahar and Subhash Bose. As it has always happened in history, Gandhi negotiated with Nehru and promised him the launch of Civil Disobedience for negotiation with the dominion status.
When the movement was over, British gave opportunity to Indians to take part in elections. This elections was a part of the historical act of 1935. So again there was a question in-front of congress whether to take part in it or not? Right wing of the Congress supported elections. Initially Gandhi did not like the idea but looking at the mounting pressure he also decided to support elections. Left parties wanted revolutionary protest instead of only election participation. At this time Nehru acted as a negotiator and it was decided to participate in election.
Congress came in power after the elections. Their period was dominated by pro-British activities. Lot of right wing candidates took decisions in the favor of Moneylenders and powerful people. Common people were deprived of their fundamental rights. The whole Congress party became the caretaker of moneylenders. Nehru did not like this situation. He started opposing the overall nature of Gandhian philosophy. He started believing that Congress is a party of people who supports only powerful people.
Nehru thought that Gandhi's methods are nothing more than a compromises. He told his supporters that the full independence can not be brought out piece by piece. Instead we need a movement which will going to revolutionize India. He put forward the socialist views on the lines of Russia. He developed a new concept of 'struggle-victory' instead of Gandhi's 'struggle-truce-struggle'.
Nehru opposed the idea when the question partition of India came forward. He advised Gandhi to show determination against communal forces. However, respecting the fabric of socialist views he never incited violence.
The fight between them was not only of finding the best way to achieve freedom but about the basic ideas which need to be established in free India. Gandhi always believed in development through constructive works while Nehru believed in total socialism with a scope for nationalized industries. They both never compromised their own ideas for each other. At the same time they never broke their friendship for their ideas and for the sake of national interest.
Pandit Nehru was influenced by the Russian revolution of 1917. So from the early days of his political career he supported the socialist movements. The setting up of left parties particularly during the decade of 1930 made him believe that it is only socialism which could bring India out of dominion status. His political tour for Farmers organisations in central province made him aware about the problems of farmers. He never wanted to part away from the Congress instead he had a dream to move it more towards communist views.
The first major confrontation came during the start of Civil Disobedience Movement. At that time Lord Berkinhead challenged if Indians could make their own constitution. So Motilal Nehru, father of Javaharlal Nehru took the responsibility and gave India its first mini constitution in the form of Nehru report. However, it was opposed by nationalists including Javaharlal Nehru as it contained dominion status instead of full independence. Gandhi supported Motilal as he thought that it would be easy to negotiate with British with lower demand. Nehru and his friends were not accepting Gandhi's views. They wanted full independence with sovereignty. As a result Congress party was divided into two parts, one supported by Gandhi and Motilal while other by Javahar and Subhash Bose. As it has always happened in history, Gandhi negotiated with Nehru and promised him the launch of Civil Disobedience for negotiation with the dominion status.
When the movement was over, British gave opportunity to Indians to take part in elections. This elections was a part of the historical act of 1935. So again there was a question in-front of congress whether to take part in it or not? Right wing of the Congress supported elections. Initially Gandhi did not like the idea but looking at the mounting pressure he also decided to support elections. Left parties wanted revolutionary protest instead of only election participation. At this time Nehru acted as a negotiator and it was decided to participate in election.
Congress came in power after the elections. Their period was dominated by pro-British activities. Lot of right wing candidates took decisions in the favor of Moneylenders and powerful people. Common people were deprived of their fundamental rights. The whole Congress party became the caretaker of moneylenders. Nehru did not like this situation. He started opposing the overall nature of Gandhian philosophy. He started believing that Congress is a party of people who supports only powerful people.
Nehru thought that Gandhi's methods are nothing more than a compromises. He told his supporters that the full independence can not be brought out piece by piece. Instead we need a movement which will going to revolutionize India. He put forward the socialist views on the lines of Russia. He developed a new concept of 'struggle-victory' instead of Gandhi's 'struggle-truce-struggle'.
Nehru opposed the idea when the question partition of India came forward. He advised Gandhi to show determination against communal forces. However, respecting the fabric of socialist views he never incited violence.
The fight between them was not only of finding the best way to achieve freedom but about the basic ideas which need to be established in free India. Gandhi always believed in development through constructive works while Nehru believed in total socialism with a scope for nationalized industries. They both never compromised their own ideas for each other. At the same time they never broke their friendship for their ideas and for the sake of national interest.
Why the book Atlas Shrugged changed millions of minds
Novel is a war between Dagny and some force or man who takes away her
every resource. Some power which is hidden and is taking away every talented
man who was wanted by Dagny to run a railroad which is a pulse of U.S.A.
Slowly every talented man starts vanishing. Someone in order to
suffocate America and its talent starts taking away people. Question
arises who is that man? Who is taking away talent from America?
Who is John Galt?
Miss Ayn Rand had already revolutionized whole world with her first book named as 'The Fountainhead'. In this book she mainly concentrated on explaining that only individualism is important. However, in her second book she explained that society also plays an important role in the life of an individual.
This is the story of railroad enterprise and wrong policy of irrational people which caused brave and talented people to loose their moral value and self respect. Story starts with Dagny Taggart a woman who is trapped in the middle of bad men and their policy of parasitical adventure which wants any work done even at the cost of self value.
Since Dagny always wants everything to be done in a rational way, She fights for the values against executive body of U.S.A in which her own brother is her enemy. Dagny always believes that working for wrong people is not a bad thing. It is the only chance through which we can bring the necessary changes in our people. Meanwhile story becomes a cause of a suspense since an unknown man starts taking away talented and skilled people throughout America on some secret destination.
While there are others in the story who believe that we must stop working for people who can't understand creative power of an individual and does not respect his skills and use his skills only for self profit.
Hank Reardent is such a guy and he is Dagny's friend who believes that working for wrong people or people who are not rational is a crime against humanity. We should not give our hard earned self respect for the sake of looters who feed themselves only on the skilled people. There is Francisco D'anconio who is also an industrialist and he himself starts destroying his empire of industries since he also believes that giving our talent and skills to people who can't understand rational approach is a highest crime. Working for looters, moochers or parasite is a crime against ethics and morality.
People always tell us that helping others without asking for favor is a good thing. People always tell us doing a work of social service without asking anything for self can lead us to a life of greatness. People even tell us that helping a poor and giving them money is a great thing. If you too think so then you have to change your thinking. The big question will be why? Ayn Rand has explained it in her breath taking novel of all time. Welcome to read one of the greatest novels of the century which changed the life of millions.
Novel is a masterpiece by Ayn rand which has established itself in the leading list of top 30 novels of the century. One not only learns but believes that asking for the payment of our work is the most important thing to do. Why working for wrong people is a highest crime? Why our self creativity is our asset and why we should not sacrifice it for others?
While reading this we totally established ourselves towards Dagny Taggard's side who believes having philanthropic and altruistic work is great but as novel progresses and mystery of that unknown man who is taking away talent unfolds, our side changes. The main character of that unknown man is introduced very late in the novel so mystery and enthusiasm starts picking up as we unfold every page. Join the journey to know Who was John Galt and why he fought for saving rationality.
Who is John Galt?
Miss Ayn Rand had already revolutionized whole world with her first book named as 'The Fountainhead'. In this book she mainly concentrated on explaining that only individualism is important. However, in her second book she explained that society also plays an important role in the life of an individual.
This is the story of railroad enterprise and wrong policy of irrational people which caused brave and talented people to loose their moral value and self respect. Story starts with Dagny Taggart a woman who is trapped in the middle of bad men and their policy of parasitical adventure which wants any work done even at the cost of self value.
Since Dagny always wants everything to be done in a rational way, She fights for the values against executive body of U.S.A in which her own brother is her enemy. Dagny always believes that working for wrong people is not a bad thing. It is the only chance through which we can bring the necessary changes in our people. Meanwhile story becomes a cause of a suspense since an unknown man starts taking away talented and skilled people throughout America on some secret destination.
While there are others in the story who believe that we must stop working for people who can't understand creative power of an individual and does not respect his skills and use his skills only for self profit.
Hank Reardent is such a guy and he is Dagny's friend who believes that working for wrong people or people who are not rational is a crime against humanity. We should not give our hard earned self respect for the sake of looters who feed themselves only on the skilled people. There is Francisco D'anconio who is also an industrialist and he himself starts destroying his empire of industries since he also believes that giving our talent and skills to people who can't understand rational approach is a highest crime. Working for looters, moochers or parasite is a crime against ethics and morality.
People always tell us that helping others without asking for favor is a good thing. People always tell us doing a work of social service without asking anything for self can lead us to a life of greatness. People even tell us that helping a poor and giving them money is a great thing. If you too think so then you have to change your thinking. The big question will be why? Ayn Rand has explained it in her breath taking novel of all time. Welcome to read one of the greatest novels of the century which changed the life of millions.
Novel is a masterpiece by Ayn rand which has established itself in the leading list of top 30 novels of the century. One not only learns but believes that asking for the payment of our work is the most important thing to do. Why working for wrong people is a highest crime? Why our self creativity is our asset and why we should not sacrifice it for others?
While reading this we totally established ourselves towards Dagny Taggard's side who believes having philanthropic and altruistic work is great but as novel progresses and mystery of that unknown man who is taking away talent unfolds, our side changes. The main character of that unknown man is introduced very late in the novel so mystery and enthusiasm starts picking up as we unfold every page. Join the journey to know Who was John Galt and why he fought for saving rationality.
A critical case of a kiss from Kashmir
The one place which has amazed me from my childhood is nothing but the Kashmir. There is certainly a reason for that and it always comes from the one question. The question is critically simple, as why do Kashmir’s people hate so much to Indian army and New Delhi? The search for the answer has always led me to some astonishing discoveries. Few of them are certainly not known to this part of World. Finding the reasons to this, world’s most dangerous place is certainly a difficult task, as reason’s have to find being a neutral and as an ardent nationalist it becomes difficult task.
If someone is active on some of the English news channel pages on social network, which have some kind of connectivity with the valley, the person will see a group of people always engaging themselves in commenting against Indian army. These groups are definitely not illiterate; they are the young people who represented modern Kashmir. Most of them have someone of their family got killed through the hands of Indian army. Some of them are engineers, doctors and modern professionals who represent a new Kashmir. However, it’s not always compulsory that they are downtrodden by Indian army only; there are many factors which have influenced them towards the typical hate against India. One of the reasons is misunderstanding and second most important is not to know the actual history of the place.
First of all, separatist Kashmir mindset believes that Kashmir was their property when India got freedom. They probably think that India might have pressurized Hari-singh; then king of Kashmir. At that time people of Pakistan, mostly Muslims wanted Kashmir to be an integral part of Pakistan. Fearing that Harisingh might accede Kashmir in India, they sent the army. Hari-Singh requested India to intervene but India put a condition that it will help only if he will join India. So again to reduce loss of life he accepted Kashmir to be a part of India. So morally India forcefully included Kashmir in India. The second thing which Pakistan’s separatist have problem is with the forceful separation of East Pakistan from mainland Pakistan and formation of Bangladesh. Pakistan thinks that it is only because of India that the East Pakistan separated from them.
As far as Kashmir is concern whatever India did was morally right since both India and Pakistan were trying to include many states as they could in their own country. Politically, India used its tactics to include Kashmir in India.
Here we have to look at the situations and circumstances which were present there in the East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan were sufferer and they wanted autonomy from West Pakistan this is because the population of West Pakistan was much less compared to East Pakistan. So the east Pakistan never liked their country to be ruled by a country which has a less population.
They wanted autonomy as this was going to ease the administration and other important processes. Further, there was a difference of language as East Pakistan favored Bengali over Urdu. Another reason was the export, as some 80% of the total export of whole Pakistan came from east Pakistan in the form of jute and tea.
So the due to these reasons the freedom waves started to blow from Bangladesh. The common people got the support of Awami league which was in opposition at that time. The Awami league won the election held 1970. However, Yahya khan and Pakistan’s Muslim league never approved it.
At that time there was wide spread violation of human rights through the hands Yahya khan and his successors. Yahya khan and his successor Tikka khan led the massive destruction of human life which saw the death of some 2000000 to 3000000 people. So India had to interfere and Mrs. Indira Gandhi send the force of some 400000 Indian soldiers and in just 13 days. Bangladesh was formed out from East Pakistan with the help of Awami league and their leader Mujibur rahman called as Mujib became the main leader.
Many Pakistan’s scholars believed that there was clear cut mistake of Pakistan which violated the human rights. This violation is even compared with a million deaths of Jews which happened during the world war two.
Looking at Kashmir in 2013, the situation looks far more different. The Pakistan controlled military group Lashkar-E - Taeba and other 40 to 50 militant groups has nothing to do with freedom of Kashmir they just wanted to remain in news with arrogance of Jihadist mindset. The groups supported by Pakistan involve themselves in cross border insertion of Jihadist in India throughout the year.
From last decade or so Kashmir was silent even after silent establishment of Armed forces special powers act [AFSPA] which enabled Indian army to arrest any person in Kashmir without any warrant. This law also allows army to carry out search operation on civilians and to kill suspected civilian without having any accountability.
AFSPA is the third reason after first reason of separation of Kashmir from British in 1947 and separation of Bengal from Pakistan which prompts hate against India. There is certainly some harsh human rights violation from Indian side in Kashmir Indian army has killed thousands of suspected militants who were supported by Pakistan’s army.
A Few Good Men
There is always something to learn from war movies. It helps in knowing about two sides of the same person. One of-course is good and other not so good. I always believed that there is no such side as bad, the thing is that the other side is not that much good. War movies have always attracts towards essential part of a soldier i.e to follow the order irrespective of its consequences. However, what should be criteria for following the order is a question to be asked. Whether seniority should be a criteria to follow order or Junior soldier's own consent and understanding of a situation be a criteria, is a debatable question. The answer lies in Tom Cruise's A Few good men.
A Few good men is a movie directed by Rob Reiner with excellent massage. Military has tradition of punishing the soldier off the record, which is called as code red. In India it's called as Blanket Parade in which other soldiers punish a culprit, who has done some mistake at critical time in a mission. This mistake is generally related with forgetting one of the episode of the mission or some minor mistake which soldier often repeats. It does not include disobeying the order of the senior as for that there are punishments such as court marshal. This court marshal is of the type, where everything follows according to military rule. However, code red is nonjudicial punishment given to the soldier.
Code red and similar kind of punishment includes hitting a culprit soldier by a group of soldiers, putting blanket on him It also includes ragging at personal level with the permission of the authority. The military consider it as OK, since there is common thought that it makes improvement in the soldier.
The whole situation is beautifully explained in the movie with Tom Cruise starring as a lawyer who has responsibility to save two soldier who executed code red on a soldier named William Santiago. The conduct of code become severe when Santiago got dead. These two soldier thinks that they have done nothing wrong in giving code red to Santiago as they simply followed the order. So Tom and his team files case and search for real culprit who gave the real order. Their fight happens with a arrogant colonel who is
powerful and is misleading the trial starred by Jack Nicholson. Curiosity and suspense is equally maintained in the movie till last. Conversation between Tom and colonel who framed the two soldier on the charges of murder triggers the fight. Egos, ethics and human nature is equally described in the movie. Movie holds nerves to the most of the time. Dialogues with eye contacts between Tom and Colonel are great. So it simply becomes a must watch if you missed it when it actually got released in 1992. Don't forget that you cant handle the truth.
Fountain head : last book to read before you die.
Fountain head was first published in the year 1943. At that time America was on the edge of world war two. Exactly 69 years after that whatever united states has achieved, I think a lot of credit goes to the book. United state is the first country which evolved through the process of modernist, capitalist, and objective oriented society which never frightened from bringing new ideas into reality. This was possible only because of freedom of ideas, freedom to do new things, freedom to support new things, freedom to respect new things.
Fountain head is a story of a hero who fought for saving his ideas. It is a story of architect engineer who decided to rebel against the conventional standards. It is a story of a guy for whom selfish person was more important than selfless person. It is story of a human who fought a battle against the crusaders who try to destroy him. It is story of his love with a beautiful woman who tried to destroy him. It is also a story of a girl who married his opponents so that her love can be saved.
Howard Roark, an architect is a person who leaves his college and bright career just because his drawing teacher asks him to draw a drawing of conventional building. However , he refuses to do so because for him working on a project which already has been covered and established is an old idea. He wants his work to be a modern such that it has not been repeated or worked out. For him setting a new standards was important as mankind has always gone to the new level of prosperity whenever it has chosen new path.
Ellsworth Toohey is a a self aclaimed intellectual and powerful man who shapes the opinion of public against protagonist Howard Roark .He also leads the battle for Howard Roark's enemy. Peter keating is a graduation friend of Howard who belives in collectivism. Fears round of arguments between Peter and howard sets up the story. One holds his breath when interaction between Howard and Ellsworth took place for the first time. There is a Dominique Francon, a girl who marries Howard Roark's enemy so that she could save him from his Enemy. There is a Gayle Waynand who can only understand Howard Roark.
"I swear by my life and my love for it that I will never work for another man nor ask another man to work for me."
Most important thing of the novel is that while reading it we also become arch enemy of the character of Howard Roark. As a reader we can't accumulate the Idea of Individualism against the collectivism. We firmly hold our stand in a basket of collectivism against Howard's individualism. However as novel progresses our view starts to change. We started realizing that it's not his attitude, it's not his ego or selfishness but a selflessness which drives him to creativity.
Fountain head is a story of a hero who fought for saving his ideas. It is a story of architect engineer who decided to rebel against the conventional standards. It is a story of a guy for whom selfish person was more important than selfless person. It is story of a human who fought a battle against the crusaders who try to destroy him. It is story of his love with a beautiful woman who tried to destroy him. It is also a story of a girl who married his opponents so that her love can be saved.
Howard Roark, an architect is a person who leaves his college and bright career just because his drawing teacher asks him to draw a drawing of conventional building. However , he refuses to do so because for him working on a project which already has been covered and established is an old idea. He wants his work to be a modern such that it has not been repeated or worked out. For him setting a new standards was important as mankind has always gone to the new level of prosperity whenever it has chosen new path.
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common : that the step was the first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received-hatred. The great creators -the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, -stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was termed foolish. The aeroplane was considered impossible. Power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won."After that whichever institute or company he joins they threw him out. His battle for setting his own standards earns him a lot of enemies. He become outcasted as his only priority is to build unique design which has not been made yet. A design which is not a copy of anything. However, because of this attitude his enemies bring him in a condition where he can not have even a place to live. He becomes a mere beggar. His battle continues.
Ellsworth Toohey is a a self aclaimed intellectual and powerful man who shapes the opinion of public against protagonist Howard Roark .He also leads the battle for Howard Roark's enemy. Peter keating is a graduation friend of Howard who belives in collectivism. Fears round of arguments between Peter and howard sets up the story. One holds his breath when interaction between Howard and Ellsworth took place for the first time. There is a Dominique Francon, a girl who marries Howard Roark's enemy so that she could save him from his Enemy. There is a Gayle Waynand who can only understand Howard Roark.
"I swear by my life and my love for it that I will never work for another man nor ask another man to work for me."
Most important thing of the novel is that while reading it we also become arch enemy of the character of Howard Roark. As a reader we can't accumulate the Idea of Individualism against the collectivism. We firmly hold our stand in a basket of collectivism against Howard's individualism. However as novel progresses our view starts to change. We started realizing that it's not his attitude, it's not his ego or selfishness but a selflessness which drives him to creativity.
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