The unspooling of these thoughts are intended not for projecting yet another dimension of the on going recession in the world economy. They are meant not for suggesting remedies to the sinking economy, either. The inspiration behind these stray thoughts lies in the reading of two novels recently by this Blogger. Though both the novels have been authored by Indian writers, their form, content, narrative style and treatment of the novel are exclusively mutual and independent. One is an epistolary novel, the narration of which has been done in the form of a letter written by its protagonist . The other one is the story of the protagonist told from the mouth of his close friend.
Despite distinctive variance in these areas, the common theme around which the fulcrum of beehive of characters move around, is one and the same – that of modern civilization whose shaky structure has been built on the foundation of the concept of materialism, thereby burying the spiritual quest as relics of the past.
Let me let the cat out of the bag to break the suspense. The first novel is “The White Tiger” authored by Aravind Adiga, an Indian writer in English. The book is his debut venture, however to be honored with the prestigious ‘Man Booker’ award for the year 2008. The other novel is “The Strange case of Billy Biswas” by Arun Joshi, a brilliant scholar of rare sensibilities and intellectual capabilities like his protagonist, Billy, in the novel. The whole novel of Joshi is like a philosophical treatise on modern civilization and man’s inability and incapacity to rise from the embers of sufferings fuelled by his total leaning towards materialistic interests, thereby burying the spiritual quest as an unwanted baggage of the past.
Since these two novels have dealt with the strengths or otherwise of the modern civilization and materialistic interests in their common theme and since the globalized economy of the present day has capital-centric boulders of foundation to hold the super structure of commodity-making machine, devoid of spiritual interests, we shall stray a little and try to understand the basic causes underlying the on going crisis in the world economy.
Economic pundits are still pulling their sleeves up. An understanding of the anatomy of the under belly of the deep economic slump, is still elusive. Bail-outs may help see through safe passage of tottering business corporations to safer shores for probable rebuilding but we have no idea who is going to bail out man from the abyss of his greed for materialistic-oriented life, devoid of happiness to his soul. The greed of man has gone to such unfathomable level that it seems to have left deep scars on the Mother Earth by his continued exploitation of the planet, without abatement. We have emission-ed and blackened the world with enough carbon to hurt our hearts, globalized poverty from scattered confines, have subjugated humanity under the weight of disposable commodities to the infinitive number.
No doubt, capital-centric economic model has come into being in the conducting of world economic affairs. With the advancement of technology, reversal to labour-centric economic concept has become the most despised idea in the sweep of globalized economy. All economic endeavors that deserved to be directed towards the achieving of maximum good to maximum number of people, seem to be failing. Human interest is considered to be ultimate goal of all human endeavors – be it innovation in economics or science or technology. But human interests themselves have been destined to recede to the level of acquiring all the garbage of gadgets being churned out by technology without leaving scope even for simple happiness, which otherwise would be possible even without such heaps of gadgets. Did not Henry Thoreau prove that he was able to experience maximum happiness by being one with Nature and his Walden Pond ?
Wealth creation objectives, steeped of materialistic interests and greed, have pushed man’s quest for spiritual wealth to the deep abyss of non-recovery. In the endless urge to make wealth and more money, man appears to be steering his endeavor wagon on the over-inflated wheels of greed to be ruptured any moment. That is why we have witnessed bursting of housing bubbles, bankruptcies of banks and falling grandeur of financial institutions.
Aravind Adiga’s protagonist Balram Halwai in his novel ‘The White Tiger’ is the embodiment of modern man. In his dictionary, the word “crime’ has a definite place but not the word “punishment”. He is conscious of his subservient position in the class strata but he does not want his crime to prick his conscience. He slits his master’s throat with a broken piece of glass from an empty but costly whisky bottle – a symbol of vagaries of the moneyed society. He grabs from his master’s car a bag full money in currencies of higher denominations and throws his master’s blood stained body in the road side bushes. He then goes to Bangalore with the stolen money to be become an entrepreneur and owner of a fleet of Qualis, transporting in them employees of call-centers working under different time zones and at odd hours at night. His bribing of police officials to hide his identity as a killer, he feels, is part of his entrepreneurial duty and he does not feel shy of his action. Though the novel tries to portray the protagonist as a product of class struggle prevailing in India, in a larger sense, he is also a victim of modern civilization which revolves around “a peg of money” (quoted from Arun Joshi’s novel, ‘The strange case of Billy Biswas’).
On the other hand, Arun Joshi’s protagonist Billy Biswas, unlike Adiga’s protagonist Balram Halwai who is a thick-skinned fellow bothering nothing other than becoming rich, is an intellectual individual. Billy is the son a Supreme Court Judge and is sent to America to pursue a course in Engineering but Billy comes out with doctorate in Anthropology. He is traumatized by the modern civilization and its all round vagaries. He comes back to India not to pursue a profession commensurate with his education qualification. His relationship with his wife is one of misunderstanding and unpalatable. Though his relationship with a Swedish psychiatrist in America is one of intellectual relationship, he is unable to cope with the surrounding situations. To him, his friend Romy, his wife and his girl friend in Bombay are all products of modern civilization. His heart and soul are running backwards to join the world of primitiveness. He runs to Mykala forests in central India to be identified one with a tribal group. His relationship with the tribal girl Bilasia is one of supreme mingling with the almighty. He finds the right place for inquiring into his soul’s purpose. Though, ultimately gets killed by the police in their attempts to capture him, he is considered as god reincarnation of the tribal group amidst whom he made a real living and understands the meaning of his life.
If Adiga’s protagonist is symbol of sensuousness, Joshi’s protagonist is an embodiment of finer sensibilities and intellectual superiority. There is an under current of the philosophy of existentialism running through the whole novel of Joshi. Ideas of Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus find subtle references then and there. Beyond everything, there is an under current of Indian philosophy running through the whole novel. For Joshi, the concept of ‘East is east; the west is west and never the twain shall meet’ is true and complete.
In these troubled times, will man, like Joshi’s protagonist Billy, take time to see inwards into his soul to identify what went wrong with him and the world than committing himself to become Balram Halwais of Aravind Adiga with all the attendant superficial richness and happiness?
It is now Bye from Chandru till next blogging.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
WHERE DOES 'TERROR-DEBATE' TAKE US ?
Just now, when striking of terror on the fragile-looking peace of the civil society of Mumbai by the Jeans-clad, gun-totting and evil-indoctrinated gang of thugs, was said to be over, war of semantics along with proclaimed war on terror has taken centre stage in the Indian sub-continent. Intellectuals (?) to illiterates are under the spell of new found love for choicest vocabularies to some how express their views on the terror issue and patriotism in any available medium of expression.
Even before the soil in the grave yard where the slain were laid to rest dried, endless and unimaginative ideas are being spewed by anyone and every one to add to the already stinking debris of ideas, as if to show that these so called ideas are the ultimate and final voice of the people of India. War of words is being waged in every available print and visual media. In driving home their ideas, people like to take rigid and extreme postures. Though free speech is the hall mark of the concept of democracy, such freedom, one hopes, shall not go to the extent of shaking its very foundation. No doubt, civilization itself has evolved based on ideas. But constructive ideas are different from ideas of retardation. In the war of words, People tend to become intolerant to the extent of spitting vomit-springing bile on the opponents, thereby digging their own grave yard; Coffins are cut to lay bare those thoughts that have at least the semblance of ideas.
This Blogger had the occasion to browse in the last one week through certain leading blogs emanating from India. Writings emanating from intellectuals occupying the status of ‘God of Big Things’ to prattling of plagiarists seem to suck the search engine oil in steering home their views. The moment an article appears in a noted blog, comrades of commentators wield their pen scythes to tear apart the views of the writer. Comments from the level of moderation through comments of vituperation and carping to meaningless verbal diarrhoea are vomited to lay siege on the writer(s).
Intellectuals and opinion-makers seem to be more interested in recording their views in indelible ink and blow their own trumpets about their existence more than suggesting solution for the on going problems the country faces. In the process, they seem to be adding bundles of chaff as fodder to the gossip mill than to find the kernel to help heal the deep wounds of those laid their life, be it Commandos or Commissioners of Police to the commoners who were gullible to become prey in the cruel hands of terrorism.
All the sound and fury that enrage and follow ceaselessly and seamlessly, seem to be not interested in knowing the voice of the lay men of the country who form the very basis of the fabric of the country, that is India. This Blogger upon an informal chat with a number of ordinary people in the past one week, has been made to reach logical inference that they are very up set over what had happened in Mumbai. Visual-media whipped-up anger still linger in them. No doubt, visual media trigged heightened sense of patriotism in them. At the same time, with all the sundry and news volleys being injected into their heads by media, common laymen in India seem to be unaware of the basic problems haunting the country. For instance, a few questions posed on issues like Kashmir, probable reasons they think for the causes of terrorism in the country, plausible and probable solutions they think fit to be tested, Pakistan’s interest in Kashmir and such other related issues did not evoke simple answers from them. In matters of suggesting solutions for the problems besetting the country, intellectuals are none better than the illiterates. They fall on the same line.
The following questions were posed to these ordinary people:
1. Why do our brethren in Kashmir endlessly engage in fighting with India ?
2. What business Pakistan has got do with Kashmir, which is an integral part of India ?
3. Why does India have to enter into dialogue with Pakistan about a problem concerning a state (read Kashmir) of India
4. Why the laws of India generally do not apply to Kashmir, even though Kashmir is an integral part of India ?
5. Are they aware that lakhs of Hindus have been displaced from Kashmir and are living away from their places of birth and nativity ?
6. Has the accession of Kashmir to India at the advent of Independence gone in accordance with the standards of international law?
7. Despite Kashmir being an integral part of India, the reason for giving special status to it under the Indian Constitution ?
8. Do they know what exactly ‘secularism’ ?
9 . Do they know that there is no common civil code for the whole country
10. What is their opinion about according freedom struggle status by some to the fight by the Sri Lankan Tamil militants against the Sri Lankan government and not giving the same status to the militants in Kashmir ?
Other than bursting with anger over the terrorists acts, none was interested in the intricacies and plausible answer to the above questions. This is how our rulers have kept the country in ignorance, more specifically the common man. On second thought, why alone common man ? A big chunk of the population in the country has been wrapped in ignorance and is highly confused over many national issues. Either the successive rulers were inclined to keep the mass in perennial and perpetual ignorance or that the intellectuals are living in ivory towers, bothering nothing about the common man’s ignorance. Eventually, healthy discussion becomes the first casualty on national issues. Will the intellectuals come out of their cocoons and help enlighten the common man about the problems laying siege in the country, instead of taking perverse pleasures in word play and in showing off their understandably most un-understandable pseudo intellectual culture. The day is not far that the anger being displayed by the gullible mass against the politicians will also turn against the intellectuals in the country.
Even before the soil in the grave yard where the slain were laid to rest dried, endless and unimaginative ideas are being spewed by anyone and every one to add to the already stinking debris of ideas, as if to show that these so called ideas are the ultimate and final voice of the people of India. War of words is being waged in every available print and visual media. In driving home their ideas, people like to take rigid and extreme postures. Though free speech is the hall mark of the concept of democracy, such freedom, one hopes, shall not go to the extent of shaking its very foundation. No doubt, civilization itself has evolved based on ideas. But constructive ideas are different from ideas of retardation. In the war of words, People tend to become intolerant to the extent of spitting vomit-springing bile on the opponents, thereby digging their own grave yard; Coffins are cut to lay bare those thoughts that have at least the semblance of ideas.
This Blogger had the occasion to browse in the last one week through certain leading blogs emanating from India. Writings emanating from intellectuals occupying the status of ‘God of Big Things’ to prattling of plagiarists seem to suck the search engine oil in steering home their views. The moment an article appears in a noted blog, comrades of commentators wield their pen scythes to tear apart the views of the writer. Comments from the level of moderation through comments of vituperation and carping to meaningless verbal diarrhoea are vomited to lay siege on the writer(s).
Intellectuals and opinion-makers seem to be more interested in recording their views in indelible ink and blow their own trumpets about their existence more than suggesting solution for the on going problems the country faces. In the process, they seem to be adding bundles of chaff as fodder to the gossip mill than to find the kernel to help heal the deep wounds of those laid their life, be it Commandos or Commissioners of Police to the commoners who were gullible to become prey in the cruel hands of terrorism.
All the sound and fury that enrage and follow ceaselessly and seamlessly, seem to be not interested in knowing the voice of the lay men of the country who form the very basis of the fabric of the country, that is India. This Blogger upon an informal chat with a number of ordinary people in the past one week, has been made to reach logical inference that they are very up set over what had happened in Mumbai. Visual-media whipped-up anger still linger in them. No doubt, visual media trigged heightened sense of patriotism in them. At the same time, with all the sundry and news volleys being injected into their heads by media, common laymen in India seem to be unaware of the basic problems haunting the country. For instance, a few questions posed on issues like Kashmir, probable reasons they think for the causes of terrorism in the country, plausible and probable solutions they think fit to be tested, Pakistan’s interest in Kashmir and such other related issues did not evoke simple answers from them. In matters of suggesting solutions for the problems besetting the country, intellectuals are none better than the illiterates. They fall on the same line.
The following questions were posed to these ordinary people:
1. Why do our brethren in Kashmir endlessly engage in fighting with India ?
2. What business Pakistan has got do with Kashmir, which is an integral part of India ?
3. Why does India have to enter into dialogue with Pakistan about a problem concerning a state (read Kashmir) of India
4. Why the laws of India generally do not apply to Kashmir, even though Kashmir is an integral part of India ?
5. Are they aware that lakhs of Hindus have been displaced from Kashmir and are living away from their places of birth and nativity ?
6. Has the accession of Kashmir to India at the advent of Independence gone in accordance with the standards of international law?
7. Despite Kashmir being an integral part of India, the reason for giving special status to it under the Indian Constitution ?
8. Do they know what exactly ‘secularism’ ?
9 . Do they know that there is no common civil code for the whole country
10. What is their opinion about according freedom struggle status by some to the fight by the Sri Lankan Tamil militants against the Sri Lankan government and not giving the same status to the militants in Kashmir ?
Other than bursting with anger over the terrorists acts, none was interested in the intricacies and plausible answer to the above questions. This is how our rulers have kept the country in ignorance, more specifically the common man. On second thought, why alone common man ? A big chunk of the population in the country has been wrapped in ignorance and is highly confused over many national issues. Either the successive rulers were inclined to keep the mass in perennial and perpetual ignorance or that the intellectuals are living in ivory towers, bothering nothing about the common man’s ignorance. Eventually, healthy discussion becomes the first casualty on national issues. Will the intellectuals come out of their cocoons and help enlighten the common man about the problems laying siege in the country, instead of taking perverse pleasures in word play and in showing off their understandably most un-understandable pseudo intellectual culture. The day is not far that the anger being displayed by the gullible mass against the politicians will also turn against the intellectuals in the country.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
MUMBAI BLEEDS : AN OPEN LETTER TO UNCLE SAM
Uncle Sam dear,
When the seize of Mumbai is said to be over, the seizure of a wish for securing selective amnesia supremely reins high in us – not because our collective national conscience has lost its balance; neither our anger has caused cultural atrophy leading us to lose our senses to acquire the disease of decay of memories; nor have we become shameless creatures to keep quiet after ‘living’ those carnage and killings by those senseless animals. No. Comparing animals to these blood hounds would be highly injustice to the animal genre and the law of comparative study. Leaches, perhaps could be plausible comparison to these terror strikers; nay, even leaches would rankle us for insulting them for dirty comparison with terrorists – after all, leaches also do service to humanity in the filed of medicine for sucking bad blood from wounds of patients.
When we gather ourselves like phoenix from the ashes of the dying ambers of our brethren in Bombay (Bombay sounds well too, instead !), we are exorcised and haunted by the ‘original sin’ behind the emergence of cult of violence and atrocities against humanity, a sin, which, we as a nation state definitely did not commit. India, never in the history of its existence, aspired for the forbidden fruit of territorial expansion and imperialism. In the four thousand years of its human history, India had only bled in the hands of vultures of intruders from many parts of the world. But, a ceaseless civilization built on tolerance, kindness and the philosophy of concern for all living beings, made the spirit of India to train itself to imbibe plurality of cultures, multitudes of languages and in the rearing and retention of religions.
Just now, after making much noise, preceded by the parading of armchair terror experts, our media people are planning to get back to their studio cocoons. In between their war on terror, they repeated visuals of the other side of the post-terror ‘sanitized opulence’. Collective anger sprang high, whose splintering arsenal had the sting of leaving a permanent scar mostly on the breed called politicians and lesser wounds on bureaucrats. Terror-struck, even our attempts to drive home a point compel us draw terms like arsenal and blood. English speaking seemingly urban upper class people turned to be more in numbers in the venues in such visual media-sponsored debate as the vox populi representing the country. Anger of the people made heads rolling. High command of ruling party was compelled to draw into secret alleys of party offices to plan for axing individuals as scape-goats. “High command” are epithets antithetical to democratic ideas. One is at loss to comprehend as to how terms like “high command” crept into the vocabulary of Congress, despite the words carrying meaning of military or authoritarian authority ! Be that as it may, in the thick and spell of these horrifying acts, no introspection was immediately possible for the Indian mind to engage in inquiry into the original ‘sin’.
Three information in the Mumbai terror attack demand serious introspection. In the first place, 49 of the nearly two hundred people who lost their lives in the terror strike, are Muslims. Secondly, when the Mumbai police wanted to hand over the bodies of the nine terrorists to the Muslim clerics for burial, they refused to do receive the body on the ground that the terrorists had committed the gravest of crimes against humanity and Islam. Thirdly, in a flight 9W – 114 of Jet Airways ( between Aurangabad to Mumbai on 3oth Nov.2008, post terror attack, a passenger on board the plane asked a lady crew member of what her name was, despite her wearing her name plate on the chest. She was further asked by the passenger to tell her religion. On her having told that she is a Muslim, the passenger is said to have literally started abusing with his lung power thus: “Why, you Muslim people do all these harm to India ?” The lady, without losing balance, told the passenger that she is an Indian and that the Muslim religion has nothing to with the terrorist attacks. But the passenger is said to be bent on continuing the verbal assault and the lady was all in tears. She was whisked away by a colleague after she underwent all these trauma.
Uncle Sam, what do all these bring home to your mind. Kashmir imbroglio, Palestine-Israel conflict, Iraq Shia-Sunni scuffles and others are all local struggles confined to the respective territories. If the long arm of terror reaches nook and corner of the world, what does that mean ? America, Algiers, Afghanistan, Bangkok, Britain, Indonesia, Mumbai, Islamabad and even Singapore were battle ground for bleeding blood and the list seems to be not abating. Like capital centric global business, terrorism is also being exported. In other words, global terrorism has come into being and the latest incident in Mumbai is yet another edition. Post 9/11, they could not do anything with America, Briton, Europe and Australia and therefore they have shifted their operation to soft states reeling under their own problems.
Terrorism knows know religion; it has grown to breach national boundaries. It has two-fold ambitions. The globalized capital-centric-consuming to carbon manufacturing-human content less-industrial culture is an anathema and therefore its first target is democratic structures practicing globalization. The second is to register terror’s signature for creating a world of fundamental ideas without giving scope and space for free interplay of cultures and plurality of religions.
It all started with throwing shit on the back yard of Russia (read Afghanistan) by your country in the name of neutralizing the influence of Russia. Now the toilet is over-flowing to India. You have produced Mujahedeen and left them in lurch. Captured Russian tanks and Kalashnikovs are getting corroded. These need oiling and blood for their survival. In the name of democracy and professing to destroy WMD, you have falsely cheated the world and continue to detonate Iraq. Again, in the name of giving a check to Iran, you produced the Frankenstein in Saddam Hussain. When the job was over, you threw him into the right place - dust-bin. While on the one hand, America never failed to boast that whatever it does (in the world) it is to protect freedom and democracies. But your country’s hypocrisy finds no bounds when it is bent upon promoting dynastic rulers in the West Asia and Pol-pot like dictators world over. Seymore Hersh, the investigative journalist of New York Times marshals his findings that a West Asian dynasty backed government finances fundamentalist groups with millions of dollars as “protection money” for avoiding over throw of their government for being corrupt, alienated from the clerics and monks and for displaying lavish life-styles with petro-dollars. Your country’s strategic interests for oil have made truths myopic. What is the fate of Resolution 1373 and 1566 of the UNO which clearly ban the financing of terrorist acts by sovereign member states and consider such financing, as crime. Your country, for obvious reasons of guaranteed oil, continues to close its eyes to these crimes.
Terrorists have one agenda. They graze on intolerant societies and terrorize and kill their own brethren. Their intention is to create Islam phobia so that the world hates them. Ultimately hated communities get radicalized and they would be compelled to fall in the band-wagon of terrorists – an ideal way of clamping and expanding the philosophy of terrorism.
Uncle Sam, will you stand up and say “enough is enough" for YOUR country’s continued hypocrisy and help bring a world order from the pestering menace of terrorism.
When the seize of Mumbai is said to be over, the seizure of a wish for securing selective amnesia supremely reins high in us – not because our collective national conscience has lost its balance; neither our anger has caused cultural atrophy leading us to lose our senses to acquire the disease of decay of memories; nor have we become shameless creatures to keep quiet after ‘living’ those carnage and killings by those senseless animals. No. Comparing animals to these blood hounds would be highly injustice to the animal genre and the law of comparative study. Leaches, perhaps could be plausible comparison to these terror strikers; nay, even leaches would rankle us for insulting them for dirty comparison with terrorists – after all, leaches also do service to humanity in the filed of medicine for sucking bad blood from wounds of patients.
When we gather ourselves like phoenix from the ashes of the dying ambers of our brethren in Bombay (Bombay sounds well too, instead !), we are exorcised and haunted by the ‘original sin’ behind the emergence of cult of violence and atrocities against humanity, a sin, which, we as a nation state definitely did not commit. India, never in the history of its existence, aspired for the forbidden fruit of territorial expansion and imperialism. In the four thousand years of its human history, India had only bled in the hands of vultures of intruders from many parts of the world. But, a ceaseless civilization built on tolerance, kindness and the philosophy of concern for all living beings, made the spirit of India to train itself to imbibe plurality of cultures, multitudes of languages and in the rearing and retention of religions.
Just now, after making much noise, preceded by the parading of armchair terror experts, our media people are planning to get back to their studio cocoons. In between their war on terror, they repeated visuals of the other side of the post-terror ‘sanitized opulence’. Collective anger sprang high, whose splintering arsenal had the sting of leaving a permanent scar mostly on the breed called politicians and lesser wounds on bureaucrats. Terror-struck, even our attempts to drive home a point compel us draw terms like arsenal and blood. English speaking seemingly urban upper class people turned to be more in numbers in the venues in such visual media-sponsored debate as the vox populi representing the country. Anger of the people made heads rolling. High command of ruling party was compelled to draw into secret alleys of party offices to plan for axing individuals as scape-goats. “High command” are epithets antithetical to democratic ideas. One is at loss to comprehend as to how terms like “high command” crept into the vocabulary of Congress, despite the words carrying meaning of military or authoritarian authority ! Be that as it may, in the thick and spell of these horrifying acts, no introspection was immediately possible for the Indian mind to engage in inquiry into the original ‘sin’.
Three information in the Mumbai terror attack demand serious introspection. In the first place, 49 of the nearly two hundred people who lost their lives in the terror strike, are Muslims. Secondly, when the Mumbai police wanted to hand over the bodies of the nine terrorists to the Muslim clerics for burial, they refused to do receive the body on the ground that the terrorists had committed the gravest of crimes against humanity and Islam. Thirdly, in a flight 9W – 114 of Jet Airways ( between Aurangabad to Mumbai on 3oth Nov.2008, post terror attack, a passenger on board the plane asked a lady crew member of what her name was, despite her wearing her name plate on the chest. She was further asked by the passenger to tell her religion. On her having told that she is a Muslim, the passenger is said to have literally started abusing with his lung power thus: “Why, you Muslim people do all these harm to India ?” The lady, without losing balance, told the passenger that she is an Indian and that the Muslim religion has nothing to with the terrorist attacks. But the passenger is said to be bent on continuing the verbal assault and the lady was all in tears. She was whisked away by a colleague after she underwent all these trauma.
Uncle Sam, what do all these bring home to your mind. Kashmir imbroglio, Palestine-Israel conflict, Iraq Shia-Sunni scuffles and others are all local struggles confined to the respective territories. If the long arm of terror reaches nook and corner of the world, what does that mean ? America, Algiers, Afghanistan, Bangkok, Britain, Indonesia, Mumbai, Islamabad and even Singapore were battle ground for bleeding blood and the list seems to be not abating. Like capital centric global business, terrorism is also being exported. In other words, global terrorism has come into being and the latest incident in Mumbai is yet another edition. Post 9/11, they could not do anything with America, Briton, Europe and Australia and therefore they have shifted their operation to soft states reeling under their own problems.
Terrorism knows know religion; it has grown to breach national boundaries. It has two-fold ambitions. The globalized capital-centric-consuming to carbon manufacturing-human content less-industrial culture is an anathema and therefore its first target is democratic structures practicing globalization. The second is to register terror’s signature for creating a world of fundamental ideas without giving scope and space for free interplay of cultures and plurality of religions.
It all started with throwing shit on the back yard of Russia (read Afghanistan) by your country in the name of neutralizing the influence of Russia. Now the toilet is over-flowing to India. You have produced Mujahedeen and left them in lurch. Captured Russian tanks and Kalashnikovs are getting corroded. These need oiling and blood for their survival. In the name of democracy and professing to destroy WMD, you have falsely cheated the world and continue to detonate Iraq. Again, in the name of giving a check to Iran, you produced the Frankenstein in Saddam Hussain. When the job was over, you threw him into the right place - dust-bin. While on the one hand, America never failed to boast that whatever it does (in the world) it is to protect freedom and democracies. But your country’s hypocrisy finds no bounds when it is bent upon promoting dynastic rulers in the West Asia and Pol-pot like dictators world over. Seymore Hersh, the investigative journalist of New York Times marshals his findings that a West Asian dynasty backed government finances fundamentalist groups with millions of dollars as “protection money” for avoiding over throw of their government for being corrupt, alienated from the clerics and monks and for displaying lavish life-styles with petro-dollars. Your country’s strategic interests for oil have made truths myopic. What is the fate of Resolution 1373 and 1566 of the UNO which clearly ban the financing of terrorist acts by sovereign member states and consider such financing, as crime. Your country, for obvious reasons of guaranteed oil, continues to close its eyes to these crimes.
Terrorists have one agenda. They graze on intolerant societies and terrorize and kill their own brethren. Their intention is to create Islam phobia so that the world hates them. Ultimately hated communities get radicalized and they would be compelled to fall in the band-wagon of terrorists – an ideal way of clamping and expanding the philosophy of terrorism.
Uncle Sam, will you stand up and say “enough is enough" for YOUR country’s continued hypocrisy and help bring a world order from the pestering menace of terrorism.
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