Pseudo...

'Pseudo' meaning 'bogus, sham, phoney, imitation, artificial, mock, ersatz, quasi-, fake, feigned, pretended, false, faux, spurious, counterfeit, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, assumed, contrived, affected, insincere' is a very effective prefix to nouns. It's a very potent weapon to hide personalized opinions and malafied judgments to pass as universally acceptable, nicely-packaged theories. Pseudoism is very convenient. It's a very presentable mask to hide the ulterior motives. Truth has never been convenient. Pseudo-truth is a sugar-coated candy, leaving us water-mouthed with anticipation. No wonder pseudoists have been more successful than their unprefixed brethren.

Pseudo-secularists (product of seven decades of pseudoist education under Congress) shine as orderly intellectuals; secularists pass of as mere bunch of disorderly people, not able to maintain the hypothetical sanctity of their opinions. Pseudo-nationalists like Nehru annexed power at the time of changeover, while true nationalists like Subhash Chander Bose, like thousands of others of his league, disappeared.

Isn't it the height convenience by pseudo-all Nehru, who was chronically friendly with Stalin responsible for the death of 20 million people. During 1937-39 alone 800,000 people were purged for being the imagined enemies of the state. Of the many theories about Bose's death, one is that he died in Stalin's prison in Siberia. Even BJP is playing safe and taking up the convenience of maintaining friendly relations with the erstwhile superpower at the cost of the reality behind Netaji's death. If they tell the truth, how will it affect our relations with Russia? Even if the theory of Netaji's death in Stalin's prison is true, nobody can blame Putin's Russia. That was under Stalin's Russia, who purged his own people.

Going against the instincts

We have wreaked havoc with nature. Forget about our behaviour, even birds are changing. Basic instincts carefully nurtured by nature, and coded into genes across generations, to entitle survivabilty are being jolted. A massive money-plant has grasped our neem tree. It is a parasitic effort at survival. Nothing against nature here. A dove put a few sinews just 4ft above the ground in the fragile lap of these leaves. What a short-cut. Less labour, almost no pains to ensure survival of the hatch-lings. There are cats. It laid 2 eggs. Was seen for a couple of days. But its shortcut on maternal pains wasn't enough. Then it was gone. Today one egg is gone..and the other is fruitless.

Caste-based Job Reservation

Jats you do not deserve reservation, just like no other community in India does. If not for political expediency, the concept carries no advantage. In fact it keeps the caste identities, the bane of Indian society, alive and kicking well into the second decade of the present century.  

Caste based job reservation has become too big an element of politics in India. The issue is politically so sensitive that just an off hand remark by RSS chief was enough to decimate BJP's hopes in Bihar assembly elections. So nobody dares to touch the issue at the practical level. I have seen three generations of elite dalit families reaping reservation benefits to rise on the socio-economic ladder. On the other hand, I am surrounded by poor educated dalit young people who haven't benefited from reservation in any way. The solution can be: Let reservation be a first generation benefit, i.e., the children of a reservation beneficiary will not be eligible for the scheme. When a dalit gets a job on reservation, he/she is supposed to bring up his children in a way that they can compete against the best. It will help in spreading the reservation benefits horizontally rather than the vertical compilation of benefits in the already rich dalit families. Unfortunately it so far has been the trend. Job reservation is supposed to provide more and more people with basic amenities of life rather than some particular families reaping the benefits on account of the already existing benefits.

Schopenhauer

Will to life...unavoidable helplessness to fall in love .... to reproduce ... to procreate. Schopenhauer tells how the will to life ensures survival of species. In animal world it is the direct spark of mating and procreation. In humans it is pleasantly drawn out to involve romantic situations. ...of falling in love...of enjoyment...of pain..ecstasies and all.

Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita

Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita. A poignant memoir, it throws light on tragically understated history of violence against Kashmiri Pandits. Kashmir is too big an issue, and common tragedies of the common people too small. They pale into the shadows of mighty forces fighting for it. Read it and you will have more pragmatic assessment of the contemporary issues. You might even become free of conceptually-aligned, hypothetical-hold of pseudo-secularism. It will help you in criticizing religion-ordained violence without getting scared of losing your status of an enlightened, secular person. Evil mutations of misinterpreted theology are eating into the body spirit of a shared humanity. It has turned the body diseased. It needs surgical operation. Doctoring, knives, scalpel, injection, bitter pills. I wonder are these the only options left to deal with the affliction. Well, beyond critical limits, I think it's the time of decisive action.