Dostoevsky's Gambler

Conceptualized set of sins and vices! Too hypothetical concepts to tame the basic instincts in humans! A vice is not a vice everywhere. A so called 'vice' with larger motivation loses its dark shades. Without a supportive chorus in the background it again becomes a loathsome act in abstract. But there is hardly anything in total abstractness, except in pages of books and brains revising these for oneupmanship to win a point. Reality is too muddled up. There is hardly any vice that goes totally unjustified. Read Dostoevsky's Gambler. It treats gambling as a viceful and then not viceful art driven by pure psychosis of a helpless heart mad after chancy windfalls of win and even loss and even beyond.

Love your chains

We can fly and rise higher only if we are tied to certain responsibilities and commitments; our freedom-lorn spirit tamed to an extent by social conventions, individual values, family setup, the sweet-sour tides in our offices, etc. But most of the time we find it as a drag on our real enjoyment of life. We just feel how great life would be without all such traditional stuff. But guys tell me, can a stringless kite fly?The kite flies because there is a string pulling it to higher skies. It also tries to negate the limitations set up by the string. It shakes its head in negation. OK! What happens when its dream to be string-free become true. It just takes a few ecstatic circles in air and falls onto the ground. Those free dives of its dreams prove to be its death dives. We are the stringed kites fella. We fly and rise high only because our destructive passions and traits are tamed and tied by a string. So love your commitments, your responsibilities, and your struggles for small small things in life

Impediment to Humanism

Times changed over centuries. Almost everything changed as well. But religious differences are the same. Bloodshedding in the name of religion is the same. Is not it high time that world community start dismantling the hold of exclusive religious principles on people and states? It is the time for an all inclusive world religion, the religion of all humanity, humanism. It can have Allah, Jesus, Buddha, Hindu Gods and other major deities in its fold. Main issue is how can the Islamists be convinced to see beyond the rigid confines of their unchanging tradition?! All other religions are melting under the warm sun of internationalism. But icy blocks of Islam are holding their medieval solidly crystallized layers like polar snows. Will Islam ever be lenient to non Muslims!? World peace and harmony depends on this question. If internationalism succeeds to liberate humanism buried inside Islamic fanaticism, we can expect to have a peaceful world following the religion of humanism. 

In any case religion has to be systematically dismantled to lay the foundation of a common world, like it was constructed in ancient times to stamp man's authority on earth under subversience to natural forces

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.