Thursday, February 5, 2009

Public Display of Affection

It is not about superstar Richard Gerre and superfamous Big Boss girl Shilpa Shetty.
We complained against saffron group when they objected over the kissing incidence between the two famous personalities. May be it was a way to gather attention.
What if a common man and his wife are taken in police custody by the government police just because they were kissing alongside a railway station?
That is how the world's largest democracy works. You need to look before expressing your most honest and legitimate emotions. Police may call it obscene you know, police decides what is moral and what Indian culture is.
The good thing is Court dismissed any sort of criminal proceeding against the couple, yes the married couple. At least Indian court allows a man to kiss his wife, yet Police may beat a man's ass for doing so.
Yet, courts are also not so flexible, an Israeli couple was fined $22 for kissing after getting married in a Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan. Can you believe this? A newly married husband cannot kiss the wife in India, because it is India.
We can conveniently pee near bushes and other public places kisses by even married couples is not allowed.
Is it the problem of those saffron brands or is this the problem of well-educated next generation youth of India, the same youngistan?
In 2004, when some college students of Bangalore were interviewed, most of the male students expressed their opposition to Public Displays of Affection (PDA) while most of the girls were in favour of it. Yes, Indian girls are more open minded about the issue.
It is not only about kissing; people do not support public hugging between girls and boys too. Ahh boys cannot give "Jaddu ki Jhappi" to girls, sorry Munnabhai!
When Ram Sena attacked public pubs in Mangalore, all blamed the saffron group, yet in comments to Times of India Editor desk in 2007, most of young educated Indians with no connection of saffron group were opposing the idea of pub, smooching, kissing hugging in public places.
Is that why the kissing dragon Emran Hashmi being praised by some Indians? He may bring some "revolution" in India regarding Public Display of Affection.
The question is, is kissing really alien to Indians?
Historical facts suggest that Indians discovered the art of smooching and kissing.
Four Vedic Sanskrit texts, written in India around 1500 B.C., appear to describe people kissing.
In Mahabharat, kissing on lips is described as sign of affection, Vatsyayana Kamasutram, (Kamasutra) also describes variety of kisses. I am sure most of the Indians do not realize it now. Yet, the problem is not about kissing, it is about Public Display of Affection.
It is none of other's business what people do in their private life, but everybody started getting the pinch of salt if it is a public display of affection. Obviously it describes the importance of private property again.
For most of the people, watching Public Display of Affection becomes either amusing or embarrassing because Indian's are still not used to it. If a girl goes with a boy, taking his hand in hers on roads, everybody will stare.
Not all think it is wrong, immoral, or even disturbing. Watching couples, including newly-weds holding their hands or putting their arms around each other makes one feel happy, happy about the happiness and satisfaction of life, about the idea that all is going well. Even elder Indians does not think it is very forward or awkward when a recently wed-couple hold hands and walk in public places, one may see many old couples too walking in public gardens holding their hands together gossiping about their old days, ohh yea the dearly oldie love stories of their passed young life. Yet, if some young couple do the same in front of those old couple in public, they may feel embarrassed, disturbed, or disrespected?
In Indian colleges, girls and boys may suffer harsh punishment including suspensions if they are found roaming around with each other with necking or kissing each other.
Not all colleges are like that; Jaipur MNIT was not like that. I know it was full of full of Romeos and Juliets, some of them are married couples now. That's how life goes, guys and girls attracts, kisses, have sex, marries and make a good beautiful happy satisfied couple.
Anyways, let us think for a while, what makes kissing or smooching in public place a crime? Why should police need to arrest the couples kissing in public place? The same police which is just ineffective in every other department, why does it start showing its efficiencies in harassing honest innocent citizens.
Kissing in public is not at all an offence, not even of the type of victimless offence.
Yet all cultures, not all countries provide similar liberties to the individuals.
Now here is the hypocrisy, the same Indians who usually enjoy the boldness of the opportunity to diplay their affection publicly when they go outside India, may not support idea of PDA in India.
India is a country which provides liberty to pee here and there and spit gutkhas out there on roads, bus stands and railway stations. Yet one cannot display any sort of affection to the one he loves on the same railway station.
One can guess why the rigid irrational common legal ideas about date rapes can become extreme tyranny in India.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

So why do I like Ron Paul

Because he dares to live Honestly, because he dares to speak the truth.
Because he is not a power vulture and he doesn't compromise on the ethics and rationality.

Because he is simply great, because he is LIBERTARIAN



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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Kishor Kumar's magic Cheel Cheel



Ok I love Kishor Kumar, even though he died in 1986, the year I opened my eyes first time.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Human Rights and Self-Governance


After the mutiny of 1857, when Indian intellectuals started gathering up and knitting up a base for the development of Individual against Society, the sounds of Self-governance started to evolve from the farms and streets of Indian society. It was the first evidence that the imaginary of society was loosing grips over the Individual, and Individual was struggling for his Independence, his own freedom. That was the importance of Bal Ganga Dhar Tilak's call for self-governance. When he said "Swaraj Mera janmsiddh Adhikar hai" (Self-governance is my birth right), He obviously did not mean that he wanted to take power away from British rulers to become the ruler of India himself. He strictly meant that he recognizes no government over him, and self-governance of his own life on his own voluntary terms is his birth right.

Before talking of "Birth Right" we must understand the term "Right" what does it mean.

A right is the moral standard, which allows a man's freedom to act in a social premise.

There can be only one fundamental right and that is, a man's right to own his life to be free of any obligation to not to be a birth-slave to anybody. All other rights are just the consequences or results of this fundamental right, the right of an Individual to own his life. Life is a self-generated actions, the right to own one's life is to self-governance oneself, to be free to take all the actions required by the nature of a thinking man to support, progress, aspire, fulfil and enjoy his own life. Such is the meaning of Self-Governance, or Swaraj. As Bal Gangadhar Tilak stated, it is a birth right.

Self-governance means freedom of action, freedom from any sort of physical coercion, compulsion or intrusion by other men, or society. Thus, the right of freedom, of Self-Governance means a moral allowance of a positive kind for an Individual to act freely on his voluntary judgment, for his chosen goals, by un-coerced choice. His actions cannot be restrictive to other individual of the society, as all have this right of Self-Governance.

Every other consecutive rights of the right of self-governance are the rights of actions to lead a free life. Freedom of speech, expression, and even the right to property, is the right of action. Right to property is not a right to an object, it is a right to act to earn that object, or to create it.

In 1947, there happened a shift of ruling power from British government to a democratic government of India, chosen by the will of political freedom. Thus, Indians acquired a political right on 15th of August 1947.

Political freedom means the freedom to gather or attach with any political party freely without any physical coercion. It certainly was the first step towards the Individual Freedom, the sovereignty and Self-Governance of an Individual.

Yet, India was not freed, it remained under an amendable constitution based on which, the government rule was applied on Individuals, neglecting their Birth right of Self-Governance and making up a social right base instead of Individual Right base, hence forcing the Individual to sacrifice for the so-called imaginary good of imaginary society.

  1. Right to equality
  2. Right to freedom
  3. Right against exploitation
  4. Right to freedom of Religion
  5. Cultural and educational rights
  6. Right to constitutional remedies

Right to equality certifies that the state cannot discriminate against anyone on the basis of caste, creed, colour, sex, religion or place of birth. Yet, constitution itself provided powers to the state to discriminate people on the basis of caste and sex by allowing state to divide people and rule over them by playing "reservation game". Since India never accepted an Individual's right to property, he always remained a slave of government, and hence government became a legitimate owner of whatever a Man earns or produce, he has no right on whatever he creates. First, he needs permission to create and then a permission to enjoy his creation. (see here)

There is a right to freedom, yet it is bound with emotional restrictions. Since there is no property right, No one can say or express anything, which may hurt societal emotions, there is censorship which only government can enforce.

Thus, even after gaining Independence from foreign rulers, Indian were enslaved with the majority rule of society where every Individual is enforced and coerced to "sacrifice" his life. No one got any right to Self-Governance which Bal Gangadhar Tilak aspired as their Birth Right. While the socialist leaders of India kept increasing the list of various rights to delude Individuals. It became a collectivist tyranny.

Collectivist rulers do not enslave a country by confiscating its values, material or moral. The collectivists proceed through internal corruption, to make Individual sacrifice his existence and to suffer. It provides a fake sense of "rights". In the cloud of these rights, the fundamental right of Self-Governance is negated and mystified.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Economic Crisis and Solution

Ron Paul on Economic Crisis--


“We got here by spending too much money, borrowing too much money, and inflating too much money — with the Federal Reserve too involved in central economic planning through the manipulation of interest rates, and the congress passing too many regulations. As long as we think that’s benign and has nothing to do with it, then I guess it seems very logical that we come up by spending more money, borrowing more money, printing more money, and writing more regulations - and think that we’re going to get different results.

It seems to me today that the big argument is who the central economic planner is. Is it the treasury, or is it the congress, is the FDIC, is it the federal reserve? Believe me, central economic planning doesn’t work - that’s why we’re in this mess.

If we’re looking for a solution, we have to have liquidation of debt. We don’t want to prop up the bad debt. The problem was created by bad policy. The longer that you delay the liquidation of debt, the longer the agony will be.”


Read more here--

Economic Crisis and Fiscal Stimulus by Government