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| A thought-provoking piece by Himanshu Kumar There are no rapes in Bastar. There is also no police in Bastar. In cities, there is the police. In cities, rape occurs daily. It is thus clear that the police cannot prevent rape. Only a society can. There is a society in Bastar. This society inspects everything that takes place inside Bastar. There, nobody acts against the decorum of the society. We have erected large businesses. We have also erected factories, offices, shops in large numbers. The worker and clerk come to work, and settle in a new space. That's how large cities are born. Different people, different cultures Different economical statuses The inter-mingling and interaction has almost died down All that remains are individual individuals That have no society of their own, to call their own Only my needs, and my individual strife for them That's how we began to crumble, crumb by crumb And life became limited to the individual and just the family Interactions with each other became only financial No economical gains? Then no need for relationships After all, we came to city to get lucky, to make money Now there are just two things to do To earn money, and to spend money  We have almost become machines Work with the head bowed down Earn eat earn eat Earn eat earn eat What kind of a culture with machines? What of dignity then? What of loss of dignity then? But the show's not over my friend When all of our villages All of our farmlands All of our forests Fall into the hands Of these rich profit-mongers When in the hope of a job we'd let go Our villages farmlands forests into such hands And head to the cities Then they will plough with these machines They will operate factories with these machines Then we'd be left with no village, no job Hunger will spread then Humans will only be a handful of meat Which would have no price And a woman's dignity will be A forgotten word, a relic of the past This is only the beginning Of this un-society-ing Halt it, if you can.  |
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relevance of Dr. Mahathir’s Letter to Barack Obama!
 January 1, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian. But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well. I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes. That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation. It is the custom on New Year’s day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change. 1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today’s wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated. War is primitive, the cavemen’s way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars. 2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you. 3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you. In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed. What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people. 4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently. 5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian. 6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries. Don’t kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway. 7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions. Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system. 8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements. 9) Show respect for the United Nations. I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake. But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era. If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them. May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency. Yours Sincerely, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (Former Prime Minister of Malaysia) ________________________________ * Source: http://yassarnalquran.wordpress.com/ |
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