The world of terror

Last week we saw two different realities in the world of terror. In Oslo Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel peace prize and thus becoming the youngest Peace prize winner at the age of 17. At her very young age of 11 she started writing a blog in BBC and then mobilized young girls of her age to pursue education which was banned and denied to them by the Taliban. She then withstood a terror attack on her and her companions after serious head injury. The world celebrated awarding her courage and will power with the Nobel peace prize.

The same week a military school in Pakistan was attacked by the same Taliban and 132 children and almost 20 others were massacred. The whole world condemns the attack and various governments vow to wipe out Taliban.

But who created Taliban? Who is responsible for the various terrorists who were rebels at first and then named as terrorists? On one side there are ‘good terrorists’ who found favor from some nations and they are instruments to fight against some evils. (This is in relation to the Pakistan PM’s adviser’s comment on 13.November on national security. “Why should we antagonize all groups (of militants)? Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies?”) Taliban was created and active in the 1970’s and 80’s in the fight against the USSR and well supported and nurtured by the so-called anti-communists. The history repeated everywhere even to the extent of creating and supporting ‘moderate rebels’ against Assad in Syria. Who is paying the price of all these ‘political strategies’?

As many other analysts notice, these terrorists or rebels are like the Frankenstein’s Monster. Creating monsters for a purpose and afterwards the monster starts to destroy the creator’s own loved ones. The monster once described as ‘beneficial’ and someone with the ‘heart of gold’ turns out to be a destructor.

On 23.June Hillary Clinton said, “You cannot allow poisonous snakes to have a nest in your backyard even if they bite the neighbor’s kids, because sooner or later they're going to turn around and cause problems in your backyard”.

As we journey to the Christmas week, our hearts are bleeding reading all these news from around the world. Innocent children are killed. Innocent people who are never responsible for any policies are killed in the name of religion. Many are killed only because they believe in a God and followed a religion their ancestors gave them. The memories of last Christmas, when hundreads of Christians were killed on the Christmas day in the churches in Iraq and Nigeria are still fresh. Hope this year we have a peaceful Christmas.

Jai Hind

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most structive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only”. Mark Twain.

On august 15 India celebrates its 66th independence day. Time for me to think about my nation.

I am very grateful to my mother India. India taught me to live and tolerate any one who accepts me and who doesn’t accept me. India taught me to be patient to all situations and to live in a diverse world of all different races, religion, language, color, etc.

I just wanted to mention my school experience. It was my best time. As a kid, I started to see kids of all religion studying together. Early morning we gather together before we begin our classes singing our national hymn. Then we recited our pledge. It is so even today. And then after our classes we end the day singing our national anthem. It taught us to hold our hands together to feel as Indians above all differences between us.

Just to add the pledge of India we recite every day morning during the assembly runs so.

India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.

I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.

I shall always strive to be worthy of it.

I shall give my parents, teachers and all elders respect and treat everyone with courtesy.

To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion. In their well-being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness.

That is the reason Shashi Tharoor said so. “Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy”.

Jai Hind

Rape and Economy

The recently published report of the chamber of commerce in India about the tourism in India shows some hope that at last the governing people with sit together to find a solution for the whole this of rape saga in India.  it is an international metaphor that the ruling body open their eyes when something affects the economy of the nation.

The case of all environment protection voices now days is an example. There was a time the whole so called developed nations were on a spree of modernization and now when it was observed that without caring the green the whole development is a waste and it will at the end of the day affect the financial stability.

The published report says that in the last six months time the foreign tourism in India declined by 35%. It is after the very brutal rape happened in Delhi. Those who have followed by blog would have already read at least three times I did mention about that and the various other incidents happening in India against women.

This rape culture has brought down the very high brand name ‘India’.  Apart from thousands of Indian women mercilessly being raped and killed in India, the world also noticed that the attitude towards foreign women were also not different.

 A Swiss woman was raped in March and then followed by many other incidents against foreign nationals. A British woman had to jump out of the hotel window to escape a rape assault by the hotel owner, an American woman was gang raped and to the latest that an Irish woman getting raped. These are only namesake known information and if we look into the reports we would see a lot of such incidents reported.

2 Million People are working in the tourism sector in India and 7 million people are profiting from the income from the tourists visiting India. The tourism sector brings every year 18 billion dollars to India. The government is concerned now as the decline of foreign tourists will affect the whole economy of the nation at least to some extent.

This is an eye opener and the government is thinking of measures to provide enough security to tourist areas and as well as to chart out a plan how to conscientize the whole of India about the value of respecting the freedom and integrity of women. Change can be invoked only when something affects the economy of the nation.