Whose Resources are these?

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I have read and heard many discussions about Naxalism, well many enough to form atleast an opinion. But I don’t know why, in the case of Naxalism i’m not able to choose a side. I can’t decide who is right and who is not? Who is the victim?

So, when I chose to write under this category, I thought why not get my confusion cleared. I’ll just break it for you and you can help me pick a side.

I’m breaking the whole issue in three groups; tell me which one would you not support?

The People

By “People”, here, i’m referring to the people who are living in the states or the districts affected by Naxalites. People who are living under the poverty line, who struggle to earn their bread. The People who are stuck between Indian government and Naxalites. People who are being killed in the war. People who live in states like Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh who are rich in minerals and ores, Indian economy depend on them a lot, but why are they still poor. They have lived their whole life in the same state …….why aren’t they getting anything out of the resources which is from their state. Maximum of the steel which is been extracted from Jharkhand is exported to Japan, other North Eastern Asian Countries, Gulf Countries at a high rate but what are these people getting from it. These people are still at the same level, under poverty line. Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were broken away from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, respectively, because the government was not able to concentrate on the uplifting and development of the tribes and people across many districts. But, making new states didn’t help, the new government took the advantage too and exploited the resources. People like Madhu Koda, who became billionaire, just being the CM of Jharkhand. He brought big companies to Jharkhand……..gave them the land to work on and made good money out of the deal. What did the “People” get from the deals?

Government took their land from them at prices which just a fraction of what government sold the big companies to. Big companies came and uprooted the jungles of Jharkhand. Jharkhand was a state were rare tribes used to live……but with the depletion of Jungles……these people are suffering to find a safe place to live.

Mittals have been allotted a space for their plant which will affect the Kulada jungle, Sainsera jungle, Regare jungle, Lappa jungle, Kabaspur junble, Nagda jungle, etc. This may bring jobs and financial support for the locals but this will destroy the ecology, dry the water level and pollute the surrounding

So do you support them???

Naxalites

 

Naxalites are people who rose from the PEOPLE above. These are the people who said, we won’t let these big companies and government exploit us. These people picked up arms to fight for the families and for their rights. If their government is making money out of selling their land or resources from their mother land…….then they should have the first right in the profit too. Though, these people have been misled by extremists but i won’t blame them much. These are the consequences of government plans for the welfare of THE PEOPLE which never got executed. By killing 76 CRPF men, then blowing the bus which killed 80 people including children and ladies, they have proved that they are not stopping at anything and if they need to kill THE PEOPLE to prove their point, they won’t hesitate even a bit. Naxalites are now active in 20 states across India with Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal being the worst affected.

One part of me do agree with these people to, i mean you should fight for your basic rights, though I don’t agree with killing people but this was something similar India independence fighter did who are now called martyr, may be one day …..the people who we are calling Naxalites will also be called by some similar names.

Recently, Author Arundhati Roy said she supports the Naxal’s reasons to fight, and doesn’t mind being sent to jail for feeling this.

So do you support them?

Indian Government

Operation Green Hunt

What does Indian Government think of this? Well, during one of the discussion I heard on the same topic, the official said that India is a democratic country and the resources belong to the whole nation and not just to a particular state. I agree with this ……….it’s a valid point. If we agree to the policy that every state should have the first right on the resources than the dependent states can be easily exploited by other. This is how you work with different countries not within a country. Agreeing to this will support people like Bal Thakre’s and Raj Thakre’s “Mumbai for Mumbaikers” ideology.

But, one part of me doesn’t support government on this issue. Well, they are people who are exploiting the people there too. Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, I believe are the richest state in accordance to their mineral ores but also they are the poorest of states. First, when they were part of big states like Bihar and Madhya Pardesh, they were ignored by the government and now when they are independent states…….government is exploiting them.

So do you support them?

I have always thought of me as confused person who always get confused after seeing the two sides of the coin. So, really need to you suggestion to come up with a clear opinion. I mean all three groups can’t be right, right?

So, I’ll just repeat the question for all you people once more.

Whose resources are these?

The People, Naxalites or the Government (Nation). 

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Anger All Around India

India is a big nation. By big, i mean its the 6-7 largest country, landscape wise. This makes it really difficult to run a nation like this big. Yes, we all are different. People in India say, "in India the taste of water changes every 4 miles and language changes in every 2 miles". This is to show the diversity in India. Some say this diversity is good, it is one the unique feature about India that we are so together and united even after so much of differences. But the same thing is also bad. Being a big democratic country and trying to satisfy or atleast meet every-bodies requirement isn't a easy job. And if even one is left out, anger and hatred is induced in the heart's of people. The width strains against the failing hate.

I don't think there is even a single state, out of the 28 we have, which can be described as perfect living conditions.

Hatred is all over India. Northern India is majorly affected by the terrorist activities across the border, blame it Pakistan, Taliban or any major Terrorist Community like Al Quaida or L-e-T. But those people are responsible for the agitation in Northern India.....especially Kashmir and Punjab. Some time, i feel till what time we'll fight for the question "Who own's Kashmir?" because obviously, we can't afford the causalities happening cause of it. I know, soilders are trained to die for their country but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything saving those lives.




Central or Middle India is affected by its own internal crimes. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh are the worst place to live, if you'll ask me. The crime rate, abduction's, contract killing, land Mafia, communal fights, killing of girl fœtus, rapes etc. You name it, they have it. I have lived in Uttar Pradesh and i know how bad it can be espcially be.





Eastern India is majorly affected by the naxalites. They aren't hurting local residents. Their fight is against the government who have deprived them from their fundamental Rights. They sabotage the government property and abducting government officials. They do have arms and always protect their living area by planting land mines around the area. They have killed many police personals and government perosnals too. They aren't affecting the people directly but the effect is there cause everybody is part of the same democracy.


Western India is all about religious riots. India's worst communal riots broke out here. It was an obvious religious riots between the Muslim's and Hindu's where many Muslim's were killed. One of the prime suspect of the riots was the current Chief Minister of the state. One of the fact about that planned riots was it was planned over a month. Hindu's did a census in the nearby area to count the number of Muslim families living by them and then on the day, it was massacre. People were burnt alive.



Southern India is driven more by discrimination. People in the Southern part of India are different culture wise. I mean even people of same religious belief living in North and South India will have differences and a lot of them. Also, you can say monetarily states here are in better situation. However, government scams and forgery is prominent here.

See, if you were thinking India is the best country in the world, well its not. But, still urge the people to come up and help me and yourself for the best of our community and country.

Jai Hind

Hitting Delhi Again

Today when I woke in the evening, I heard news on TV which stated that there is another bomb explosion in the capital of India (Delhi) that took place moments ago. This time, too, it was a terrorist attack where they are trying to prove their presence in the capital by killing people around the city. This is the second instance in last one month where people were killed in an explosion.

When I heard this news, I couldn’t stop myself to curse the people who are behind all this “shit” happening in the city. It’s not just because this time my neighborhood is under attack but this series of blasts all around the India is killing the innocent people who doesn’t even know why are they being attacked? They don’t even know what made these people go against them. Today itself, the two guys who came riding on a bike and dropped a bomb near a shop when a small kid try to help them by carrying their bag back to them, they ran away and just after a few seconds, the bomb exploded and killed the innocent child.

This is just one story and there are hundreds more. People say that there terrorist groups are killing people in the name of god………..and I said that’s all bullshit …… I have never heard anybody saying that their religion or god tells them to go ahead and kill innocent kids, women and old peoples. These people can’t even hurt anybody physically. What I think about them is that these people don’t have any religion because these people not only kill the people from other religion but also those people who follow the same religion as they do.

Even if they want to fight against the system or injustice then too…………is this the right way to do it? If Mahatma Gandhi had also thought like this then India would have never reached its freedom.

I want to express my sorrow towards the people who have suffered through these kinds of incidents and also who are suffering because they have lost their loved ones in these kind of attacks. And I’d also like to tell that, people who are doing these things …………….i feel sorry for you people……..because at the end when you go in front of the God, you will be punished.

Delhi’s First Gay Parade

Homosexuality doesn’t have the same status in India as in other countries of the world where there are proper laws defined like the gay marriages. Also homosexuality isn’t new to India. I have read about some prince was thrown out of the family just cause he admitted that he was a homosexual. There also been many incidents where homosexuals were not allowed to live normal lives. Have heard some incidents where the said to be “normal” people beat or kill the other “abnormal” people.

What is with this abnormal tag…..???? Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. People just don’t want to get near to a homosexual man or woman. Don’t know what they think of them. These are people just like us who can do work as well as we do. The problem with the “normal” people is that they aren’t open to homosexuals. They don’t want to talk to them, not even try to face them. Homosexuality is a truth of present time and please, stop believing that its some kind of disease. Same kind of discrimination was seen in cases of AIDS infected people when people didn’t want to get close to them.

Some of my not so serious experiences of what people think of homosexual, was when I found out what my friends think of homosexuals. I’m a movie freak, like to watch movies as many as I can that’s why I’m open to all kind of movies. So this one time me and my friends were discussing about the movies we have seen. When I told them about the movies that I have seen which contains or based on homosexuality like Gia, Brokeback mountain, their expression was like “why are you watching these kinda movies…..don’t you these are gay movies…..it not something for us” and all kind of stuff. It was a long discussion. At the end I realized that now a day men fear homosexuals cause homosexual have induced a fear into men what was earlier induced by men in to women.

The fear, I’ll tell you this with an incident my friend gone though. One day me and other 3 of my friend was on a highway trying our luck for a lift a home before the bus arrives. So after some time, on the highway, a super sexy car stops. A red colored skoda. We asked him if he can drop us 4 to some place but he said he will only take one of us. So one of us, who was in a hurry cause of he had some class to attend, took it. Then after a day when I met the my friend he told me that that guy was a gay and after sometime they left us at that point he started flirting and getting a bit physical with him but he retaliated and asked him to stop.

The person didn’t do anything then on but when he was telling me the whole incident I could see the fear in his eyes. Something normal to a girl. Now a days most of guys don’t go alone on the highway, try to avoid lonely lifts or get someone to go through them or take a bus when alone. My friend never got on the highway alone again.

This post is to support the fact that discrimination should be stopped. People shouldn’t be discriminated on their sexual orientation. I don’t have any personal experience to share related to this but still I know that it is practiced. Also as I’m not a professional in writing, so would like to apologize if somebody get hurt with this post.

Double Murder Case In Noida……..The Arushi Murder Case

This is one of the most shocking cases of all time I have heard and seen about. Today is the 27^th day since the incident took place and from then till now not a single day been there when people don’t talk about the case. Every body has there own perception towards the case and everyone has an accused with all different motives. All the people around the nation are talking about this news. There is not a single day when one of the national news channels hadn’t broadcasted a show or special report on the case. Some of the news channels have hired private eye’s for this case on their own and some of them have become detectives by themselves.

There’s so much happening after the 15^th may case. There is a turn or something new is found everyday by the police, now CBI. With so much of talks going on around I sincerely feel about the family about what they have been going through since last month and if the police is right, that the family is guilty of murder, than what kind of parents are they? God

I really don’t want to talk about what have lead to the incident and what were the motives and don’t want to draw any conclusions, here and neither wants to comment something on.

But the only thing I would like to wish is that the investigation completes soon with the accused guilty person hanged. And also would like to appeal to the news channels to not create unnecessary hype about the case and try to be focused on the true story rather than following to the “bottomline”.

Why people say budget (2008) as Dream Budget ????

This was PC’s (P. Chidambram’s) 7th budget but what made this budget especial and something to which whole nation was looking eagerly towards was that the elections are around the corner. Even a common man like me knew this budget will offer something to cheer for the common man, obviously cause of the elections and that is what it turned out to be, may easily can be classified as the best budget presented or the “Dream Budget” as they (read media) say.

But what are the things that make it so especial? The major cheering point was the changes in the ranges of Income tax slab. With income 1.5 L being exempted from being taxed, the common can take a sigh of relief. Same can be said to the others classifications of the slabs. There also been cut off’s on excise duty on general rate, cars, two wheelers and most important the life saving drugs. With these tax slashing the small cars are now Rs 20G’s cheaper.

The budget also raised the service tax exemption limit for small service provider upto Rs. 10L and also the tax on cash withdrawal has been scrapped.

With about Rs. 50,000 crore worth of loans, that overdue till December, being completely written off. Also let off for the bigger farmers as they now have to pay 75% of their loans if they like to not pay the 4th quarter of loan amount and this let off is worth Rs. 10,000 crore.

With this kind of large exemptions for both the farmers and the common man, the opposition and lefties couldn’t argue with PC and this should have given a moment for the congress party to cheer about.

The budget also has some bad things too like raise in outlays of health, education but overall from a common man’s vantage point this budget better than expected.

Barbarism in Bihar (India)

Well Bihar is one state which is always competing to reach the top stop at the crime chart. One of the states where the crime and criminals are growing at faster rate than the law executers. Everything constitutes to the environment in now in Bihar-poverty, corruption, jungle “raaj” rule, unemployment- and many more can follow.

Just saw news where a accused man was beaten to death on road. People beating him with everything they reached and I saw a man in the footage who threw a brick at him atleast 6-7 times in the one minute footage. Whatever crime he committed (he wasn’t a murderer) it was not worth of this kind of punishment. Even the judge thinks 10 times before awarding a capital punishment (death penalty) to somebody but the people in the footage seemed so barbaric that it didn’t even felt that they were human beings.

This is not just in Bihar, the law and order in many states and cities of India are below standard. Even the metropolitan cities of India aren’t safe. There were as many of 3 cases that I heard of on 1st of Jan where girls were molested by mobs.

Just because of low standards of law and order life is not as beautiful as it could have been.

I know all can’t be changed in just one day but a start now can make life better tomorrow. As said by some one don’t really remember the name “A thought of today can be tomorrow’s law”.

Thakre Reunion

Submitted By -- Hitesh Rawat

When the “Raj Thakre” comment on North Indians made public on national T.V, I was watching it with my whole family. My mom asked why suddenly Raj Thakre id doing this. Obviously she didn’t know that this is a tradition and heritage, which he got from Mr. Bala Saheb Thakre. Although I respect Bala saheb as a great leader but this is one of the points where I don’t agree with him and truly it also hurts the nations “unity in diversity” fact which we have learned since we were in school to college or anywhere in the life.

My mom asked again “why???” I told her this is not the first time they are doing this. These kinds of cases are normal to “Mumbhai”(I like to call it Mumbhai), its only the faces that change like not more than a year ago Hema Malini made a comment is I think almost sound similar if not exact. For which she also gave clarification on national TV.

But why is all this happening ???? I ask myself and all my non-politically motivated friends from school, college and my muhallah . Some say Raj Thakre is doing this to be in news so that he can make a name in Maharastra politics. There are also some other weird explanations.

But for me no explanation or argument can judge this act as moral. What if every states asking for same, then no body in this world will tag India with the “largest democracy ”.

And also I would like to ask ………..what is said by Raj thakre is he representing the voice of local Mumbhai people……do they want the same…..??????????????

I would like to apologies if I have hurt someone with my feelings. These are my feelings cause I ‘m just a student and not at a position where I can represent voice of a group. And would like to tell the people who own or positioned at respectful seats in the democracy that they are really talented to be there were I can’t be.