Do present day Sanatanis really rever cow ?

Sanatanis pride themselves in proclaiming that they revere all forms of life in general and cows in particular. It indeed speaks highly of the moral values that were laid out for them by their forefathers. But how is the implementation of these values on ground in current times. 

To put it rather bluntly, cow belt Hindus are the biggest hypocrites in entire world.

They portray to themselves and to the world that they are great cow lovers and put them in the same bracket as their mothers, but in reality they just love their milk . They subject her to all form of torture just for her milk. It includes impregnating her against her wishes, putting her on lease for a better part of her milch life, separating her from her male offsprings , injecting hormones to squeeze that last drop of milk from her udders and may be more which am not aware of.

 As soon as her body wilts under this cyclic torture and plunder and she is no longer able to rear offsprings , the revered Gau Mata is abandoned. Now she will either become a 'plastic' cow or be kidnapped by slaughterers .

Cow belt Hindus have never ever shed blood for saving their lives. Lip service for cow welfare is their only expertise. Instances of shedding blood for protecing cows in history has been accomplished by Sikhs and Marathas. Haven't ever heard of any cow belt Hindu who did so.

Get well soon, cow belt Hindus.

 

Bharat Mata... Did she really achieve freedom or was it another superb marketing by Britishers?

India as it exists today is unarguably the most complex, the most diverse and also the most interesting place in the entire world. What has shaped Indian diversity over thousand of years is its fundamental etho of 'Live and Let Live'. There has been relentless attempts from foreign invaders to break this etho of hers by unleashing wave of terror and plunder but some brave and selfless sons of her have always sprung up to prevent the idea of India from destruction.
However Britishers realized that the way to break the uniqueness of India is not by force but by hijacking our minds, by brainwashing us to believe that their ideas are supreme and correct. And we have to admit that they have been successful in their designs to a very very large extent.
The most obvious testimony of Britishers selling their ideas to India successfully is nothing but our own constitution. Our constitution as it exists today is primarily a copy paste exercise from constitutions of British and some other western countries. Our penal code is nothing but a lift over of "British India" penal code. All of us know that the laws that British formulated to govern India were meant to denigrate and exploit Indians and its wealth for the benefit of ruling government which was British. All well and good as expecting a just and mutually beneficial relation between a conquerer and a conquered will be nothing more than fooling oneself.
However the biggest irony is that now even when Britishers have left long ago we continue to be governed by same set of laws and with the same mentality of ruling class. All kind of attrocities and injustices can be brushed under carpet in the name of saeguarding and withholding the decree of constitution. Just to give you an instance of exploitative nature of our laws we can pick up Land Acquisition Act. It was formulated in the later half of 19th century to usurp land of individuals and communities in the name of national interest without giving any voice to the land holder for appeal against this shameless land grab. This Draconian law has made millions of Adivasis refugees in their own country and snatched from them life of dignity. A big chunk of urban poor we see today are a victim of Land Acquisition Act. The present government has tried to rectify this historical and grotesque injustice to fellow countrymen by bringing some serious amendments to this law in the year 2013. However how much this translates into change at ground level is highly questionable.
The bottom line of this discussion is that why do our rulers vouch for constitution as if it is a word from god when in reality it is primarily a set of laws intended to trample upon its masses as a victor quashes vanquished. It is time to realise that it is no use calling us free when we continue to be governed by the same exploitative laws which were formulated to drain us financially and to smash our collective self esteems by a foreign power more than 100 years ago.

Our karmas will set us free

Though I am not a religious person and hardly if ever read any holy book, but have begun to accept whole heartedly the Karma theory. In reality laws to lead a happy life are very few and very simple. Where most of us falter and what really is the cause of all the misery around us is that we don't stick to these laws always. If there is one rule of life in which we all should believe,its the theory of Karma.
It simply says that your destiny is the result of your karma. The real heroes in world are those who give it all to their karmas, be it good or bad. The ones who hold themselves back from karma due to what so ever reason simply add to the crowd. Look around you, who are the ones whom the world salutes.They are the ones who indulged in their karma with full conviction, be it good or bad. It can be Hitler or Vivekanand or Menaka Gandhi. So, don't curse your job or your destiny. Simply give it all to it even if it is not to your liking. Then one day the gates of opportunity and prosperity will open up for you. The arithmetic of Karma is always at work. Higher you score luckier you get. So simple, yet so difficult to follow.
The paradox is while am giving my two cents to Karma theory, I have shunned myself from karma and waiting for some miracle. Oh, what a wretched and defeatist thinking. My karmas or rather the lack of it have failed me.

Sal forests - The best that peninsular India offers

2nd Jan, 2012 was truly an eventful day. Having reached Baripada on 1st Jan 2013 which is one of the towns in Northern Orissa I frantically searched for a convoy which may be making a sojourn into Simlipal forest the following day. My initial plan was to piggyback onto one such convoys, so as to save the expense of a solo trip. However after checking it out at the hotel and its tour operator I failed to find one, hence decided to go all by myself by chucking out a hefty sum.
So, after handing out the entire trip expense of Rs 2550 to operator on night of 1st Jan, 2013 it was a wait for next morning. We (me and the driver) set out at 7 in the morning after packing our quota of eadables. After registering our trip at forest entry gate at Pithabhata (around 20 km from Baripada) we set out on a trip to land of Sal trees.

Sal or Shorea Robusta is a tree endemic to Indian peninsula. A majestic tree with a straight trunk which can grow to a height 30-35 metre with a girth upto 2-2.5 m. The tree is a feast to eyes. Its straight trunks with chequered red bark and encircled by its dark green foliage and the sheer abundance of it in Simlipal takes us to an era when a big chunk of peninsular India would have been covered by sal forests. There was a time just a few thousand years back when the entire Indian peninsula, south of gangetic plains were an abode to dense forests teeming with mind boggling array of flora and fauna. The last remnants of such an era is visible in Simlipal. As our vehicle meandered through these forest, with acres and acres of Sal trees, I started to get a feeling that whole world is but a maze of dense Sal forest. Though it was not monsoon time, but the air in the densest regions of forest was putrid with smell of rotting animal and vegetation mass. For one's information Simlipal is the largest forest area in India and also a tiger reserve. Meandering through forest tract we visited 2 of the highest waterfalls in eastern ghats Joranda and Baherpani.
Finally we reached Chahala, a manmade salt lick site for animals of the forest. And animals surely did come in groups to have their quota of salt.We spotted Langurs, Chitals and a lone tusker. We left the place after that. However we now had a company, a forester of the STR(Simlipal Tiger Reserve) who wanted a ride out of the forest. We had a lot to talk as he enhanced my knowledge of the forest and some of the recent happenings there. He narrated an incidence of a tusker who had developed a liking for salt rich food leftovers thrown away by visiting tourists. He used to visit cliff edges in search of tingling salty taste of human leftovers. During one such attempt to get a tangy feeling one of the rocks on cliff edge buckled under the sheer weight of gentle giant. The elephant slipped off  and had its body shredded into multiple pieces by clif edges. The foresters knew of it only after a week or so when the intense putrid smell of rotting carcass filled the air. They had to meander all the way down into cliff to recover precious tusks of it so that it doesn't fall into wrong hands.

So our journey ended around 6 in the evening and we bade good bye to an eventful day.

Infatuation, lust, attraction, love or simply a game of power?

As I grow in age and soak in new experiences with each passing day, one observation is standing out true in all interactions between any two entities, be it among human beings, animal kingdom or even non living things. It is always a fight of supremacy or assertion and invariably its the powerful who has the last laugh. Questions of justice, morality stand a chance only if they are asserted by a stronger entity. MIGHT is ALWAYS RIGHT.
I try to illustrate this fact with respect to love between opposite sexes. Culturally we have been programmed to look at love as a tender emotion between two souls. Love is looked through the hallowed glasses of spirituality, sacrifice, purity and a slew of other higher emotions. However nothing can be farther from reality. Love is purely an assertion of might by one sex and subjugation to it by the other sex. To give few instances of it, a girl no matter how wretched and deprived of easy virtue she might be always dreams of a handsome hunk.Given a choice between two individuals, one who is physically not as endowed and having simple looks and manner but who has stood by her in her good and bad times and the other one who has just entered in her life but is physically superior to his counterpart, is of good looks and has a way with words, the girl will invariably choose the second one provided constraints of society and morality doesn't affect her decision. This is so because mother nature is thus programmed that it always tries for betterment of specie by creating best off springs. So, the chances of yielding a better offspring is more with a combination of good and bad than a bad and bad.
The same holds true when a wretched and miserable man is given a choice between a plain lady who has sacrificed a lot for him and an attractive and voluptuous lady who has just entered his life.
I can state it with so much conviction because I happen to be that simpleton who served a lady and also sacrificed a fair bit for her, but all this while she was having her share of pleasure with other men who were endowed with better physical and facial features and were at a better position of power.
So, all those simpletons who are religiously serving your lady love don't expect that your sacrifice will be reciprocated. She will dump you at the very first provocation. However I also know that you guys are mentally weak too and emotionally so enslaved by your leading ladies that you will continue being a faithful dog to them despite seeing with your own eyes what they are up to.

Such an awful state to be in!!!

Just when it seemed all was over,
All liaisons of heart were left dry and sunder,
Have I been struck once again,
And I find myself confused, though all in vain.

The effect was slow to grow on,
It never appeared it will get so strong
However as I write, I have indulged in deeds,
For which I have been ridiculed & often found myself in pits.

Though I have been enslaved of someone's thoughts before
And have craved hard for someone's attention.
But never have the sense of someone's rejection,
Have unsettled me and left me in dejection.

I have however learnt it well and clear,
That a beautiful thing, everyone finds dear.
What beauty seeks the most, is admiration
What vanity craves for, are multiple sources of adulation.

Therefore attempt not of keeping her in snare,
Do not wish that of her attention, you will get lion's share.

She is a cool breeze from mountains,
Laced with fragrance of flowers from valley.
It is for her to decide, where she will bring showers incessantly,
And whom she will leave parched and dry.

Why am I here..

Just because I have my own opinion about my capacity to ramble and I see a definitive chance of rousing up young impressionable minds. More to follow soon....