I DO, WHY YOU

                                                

Of late, the overall political scene in the country has suddenly turned hot on the issue of conversion. So far it was going on silently. The missionary religions like Islam and  Christianity in particular were having a field day in India. They applied all types of tricks and allurements to lead the lower strata of the Hindu society to garden path to come to their fold. Thus the Muslim population rose so fast that they carved out two separate  Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh with over 400 million Muslims. In Kerala they forced the state govt to make a Muslim majority area a separate district of Mallapuram. Entire Northeast is almost converted to Christianity and these neo-converts are so intolerant that they create problems for non-Christians. The situation in the hilly belt of MP, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal is worse where the Christian missionaries with well established educational, health and other institutions  have enjoyed a field day so far as the conversion is concerned.

To the dismay of these missionaries, now the Hindus have realized that if they remained in slumber, the 82% Hindus will be reduced to 42% in near future. The Christians and Muslims took advantage of the Sanatan Dharm not giving entry to other religionists. The Arya Samaj took a lead by starting the movement of ‘shuddhikaran’ under which a non-Hindu could be ritually purified and readmitted to its fold.  The Arya Samaj, RSS and many such outfits spead in far-flung areas and started educating the locals about their own  great culture and warning against misleading propaganda of others. Meanwhile it has transpired that huge money is being pumped into missionaries in India by different churches in the West to carry on large scale conversion.

The Hindu outfits know that the present Muslims and Christians are all Hindu converts. So they are reminded of their past and persuaded to come back. This call is called ‘ghar vapsi’ (home coming). This has antagonized the above missionaries. Their job has become tougher because they are not finding new preys easily and facing the problem of keeping the old flock together. They charge that the Hindus are doing so under duress. Arun Shourrie, the then BJP/MP had placed Christian texts in the Rajya Sabha to prove how the illiterate and poor Hindus were cunningly made Christians. The real cause of Cristian and Muslim anger is ‘I do, why you”.    

DOES IT CONCERN ANYBODY

Some developments of the last week in the world have connotations which may disturb any thinking mind. However, I personally feel that present generation, particularly down with the hit of opium (‘religion), cares a fig for the other social sensibilities. Where this crude thinking will lead us to, have we ever cared to gauge?

What happened on Dec 16 in a Peshawar army school? Just cold blooded massacre of 132 innocent students. In today’s educated families, where one or two-child norm is practiced, losing such a priceless issue simply brings killing shocks to the parents. What were the crimes of those minors except that they were the wards of militarymen? Some of them could have shown their talents and made Pakistan proud. Are not these butchers worse than the Nazis? Pak army has gone whole hog for reprisals. India has assured its moral support. Afghanistan is also ready to cooperate. Pak Govt. has forsaken its hesitant attitude and ordered quick hanging of over 8,000 such convicts. But the lingering question is are these sufficient? It is a global problem and the matter requires global reprehension.

We know that the present Govt in India enjoys a clear-cut majority in the Lower House. But against 132 opposition strength, it has only 88 seats in the Upper House. As a result, the sullen opposition has made it a point to chastise the ruling party on every issue. In this funny tug-of-war who wins? Ultimately the nation loses and the voters are just flabbergasted.

Today when the West Asia is suffering under prolonged social and political upheavals, Europe almost kneels down due to economy melt down and South East Asia is also perturbed by the sluggish economic growth, there are countries engrossed in other games. While China is spreading its wings to deserve a super power status, Russia is caught in an unprecedented economic collapse. The China-like chase for super power position for the USSR/Russia has brought the country to this sorry state of affairs. Its Rouble has crashed so badly that the country is on the brink of an imminent break-down. Is it not like a joke to hear from President Putin that he is presently in love? Putin, an ex-KGB professional is  one of the top rich in the country. We wish him to decide which should get preference, love, personal business or national economy. 

SIDELINES OF MARRIAGE

                                  

There is an old saying that marriages are decided in heaven. Who and when said this? Imagine about our forefathers of lakhs of years ago leading a bestial life and hardly ever thinking that in future, sex life of human beings will be channelized by an institution, known as marriage. Where was that heaven or God those days?  If the first man was born (according to some historians) some 14 crore years back, where was this superman then and why he could not conceive the idea in the heaven of finalizing marriages?

By far the marriage was brought into vogue by the men who left the forest life in third millennium BC, had his own house and decided to lead a family life. In entire human history, the God, whether He is there or not, has proved to be the oldest and greatest policeman. Even today, several crimes are not perpetrated because it is construed that He punishes such anti-social elements. As a matter of fact these early men wisely thought that the open sex would disturb social equilibrium and so decided to allot one woman to every man. So that each remained loyal to the other, they applied sacrosance to this institution by declaring it to be the heavenly will. It was such a lopsided decision that the husband was supposed to be next to God and the wife could arrange her deliverance by  ungrudgingly serving him. In last two hundred years, the advent of modern education has encouraged the fairsex, always at the receiving end to challenge this injustice.

A man in most of communities can practise polygamy but not a woman. On the death of the wife, the man can easily re-marry. If the husband dies even two days after the marriage, the innocent Hindu bride will have to lead a stoic way of living lifelong. What is her fault if the bridegroom died in an accident or some natural calamity? Widows in such societies are hated like a cursed lot and are forcibly kept away from festive occasions. Remember the inhuman ‘Sati”. They cannot opt for any colour other than white, cannot touch non-veg food and cannot make-up to make themselves presentable. Can a man be subjected to these cruelties whose wife died? Obviously the womenfolk are so outraged as they being physically inferior, cannot resist. Moreover, due to lack of education and being shrouded in blidfaith, they  tune themselves to thinking that the heaven had fated them to be so.

Let the society come boldly forward to relieve them from this predicament. We will have to realize that if there is any God in this nuptial knot, He cannot be only for men. Marriage is just a social institution consummated by men for its smooth running without any providential interference. If meeting together of a boy and girl is welcome, why when they cannot smoothly go ahead, separation should be equally easy and healthy? If the man is fatally diseased, morally wretched or having some highly objectionable traits in his personality, the other party has every right to bid adieu. The modern marriages are done in courts and so are the divorce cases. Unfortunately, the divorce is not treared honourably in our society. It is a legal arrangement to come out of a problematic wedlock which has gone beyond redemption.

To conclude, we wish every boy and girl to be happily married but also suggest that in the eventuality of disturbed conjugal life, there is no harm in trying peaceful and legal separation. So, if marriage is heavenly, so is the divorce.    

CONFUSIONS ON ECONOMIC FRONT

                                                Since Narendra Modi came to power on May 26, 2014, the opposition has been castigating the regime for not ushering in the ‘achchhe din’. The opposition has a role of criticizing the government, but that does not mean that nothing really has been achieved on the ground.

After six months, one can find different perceptible encouraging indications on the economic front. In the beginning, onion tried to make consumers weep like one had seen in Delhi when Smt Sushma Swaraj was the Chief minister. However, the NDA Govt at the centre took some emergent efforts including an effective ceiling on its export and detrreents on its hoarding which kept the consumers smiling. The sky rocketing prices of consumer goods did not immediately go down which allowed the critics to further murmur. Once again the regime threw itself whole hog into the task and thus favourable results started accruing.

Not only the availability of household goods but their prices too stagnated for sometime and started going down. This trend fortunately continues.Prices of petrol and petroleum products which were harassing the people, have gone down at least four times under the present regime. The work culture including punctuality  in offices is a welcome change which has among others been also appreciated by the US President. If the militancy in J&K and the mischief of Left extremists are ignored, the overall social peace is paving the way for developments on all fronts. The Sunsex, roving above 28,000 mark can make the nation proud. The only objectionable angle is the losing cost of public sector shares. Does not the govt need tightening the grip over this sector? Inflation has definitely fallen appreciably but the industrial growth deserves further augmentation.

Despite this almost rosy picture, what is disturbing the people is that the real benefits of these salubrious indications are not reaching the mass in right measure. In this backdrop, we can simply pat on the back of the policy makers but at the same time urge upon their implementation wing to improve the ground level distribution mechanism.