The debate on the importance of English has again started. The Karnataka government has now introduced English in all schools right from Class I. Students in school need to be taught all possible languages at different stages. This doesn’t mean that we are depriving them of their mother tongue, which, in our case, is Hindi.
We take pride in citing China as an example. However, while China is welcoming English for making the 2008 Olympics a grand success, we are depriving our children of reaping the fruits of English.
Outside India, people don’t understand Hindi; English is the universal language. Our children will lose their competitive edge in the global market if we shut our doors to English. Let’s embrace, and not scrap, English.
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"Hindus are Cowards... Muslims are Bullies".. It's not me or Ashok Singhal or even Francois Gautier, the bravest original thinker from Europe who said it first.... this quote is attributed to none other than Mahatma Gandhi.
After Gandhi introduced the concept of self-abnegation in the guise of "tolerance", apparently realizing the above mentioned ultimate truth about Indian culture (Hindus are C and Muslims are B), our mostly HINDU politicians took this step a bit further to introduce a policy of minority "appeasement" through quotas, tax-payers funds for HAJ pilgrimages and other policies that we are painfully pretty much aware of.
We all know the reasons for their behavior - but don't wanna say it out loud.. Muslims are tougher and more organized than Hindus, who are usually divided in castes, regions, languages, etc. And politicians, a.k.a immoral pimps, just want to exacerbate such differences between us so that they can stay in power and earn money for dozens of generations of their children.
And so, the once glorious people, whose history talks about "sages who could travel in time", "warriors who could kill millions of people by reciting a mantra on the twig of a grass blade", can do nothing but now bitch about how Assam went on to have 30% Bangladeshi Muslim population or whine about how their holiest temples have been demolished and replaced by mosques and how they cannot even fight the extermination of their own Hindu brethren, in some parts of the country, from the face of the planet.
Hindus definitely started acting more like stupid pagans, that they have been branded as by Muslim invaders.. aka Kafirs... they act more like animals, rather the cows they stupidly still worship in villages.. time and again, they prove that they don't have the intellectual vibrancy or any trace of it left over from the Vedic civilization with their self-deprecating behavior and lack of a "community spirit". In fact, its hard to believe that they were once home to all that advanced knowledge and culture. At the same time, they do not even adapt to changing times like Singapore, Hong Kong and other countries have (which is a positive aspect).
What Hindus need is a MAO... one who can organize a revolution against Indian government and its policies in general and have the unflinching support of military to rule it in the best interests of the nation.Someone who can think clearly and act decisively without resorting to emotional foolishness in a cool, calculated way.
Someone who would've ordered Masood Azhar to be beheaded in public and not exchanging him for the lives of IC814 passengers.
Someone who wouldn't flinch on nuking Pakistan and raping the shit out of Bangladesh if they do not behave.
Someone who would've ensured that Nepal always remains a HINDU country.
Someone who can value merit and restore some sense of ethnic pride among a people who is SORELY lacking one.
MAO wasn't actually a communist, he was a HAN racialist just like Hitler was for Germans. Communism was just a guise to keep all his flock together. His supreme interest was in the benefit of the HAN race. And he merely followed Sun Tzu's famous doctrine of how to win wars from the "Art of War". He only fought those battles which he knew he could win and he made sure he wont them emphatically. He was brutal and cold-hearted, but an amazing, shrewd military general and not a pussy like our Vajpayee or Manmohan.
Now the Chinese have built railroads into Tibet, while we hold negotiations with Bangladesh on how castrating, amputating and killing Indian soldiers "hurt our feelings"... Our politicians have definitely made us the ultimate pussies in the world.
While Chinese hold American bonds in their kitty and have already treated as the "most favored nation" by US, India has to take the permission of tiny Sri Lanka to patrol waters of Indian ocean !
Chinese are even beginning to control the non-mid-eastern oil resources by investing billions and billions of dollars in Central Asia, Latin America and Africa defeating almost all Indian tenders, India cannot even take proactive steps to restore her own energy needs !
Chinese have launched manned shuttles into space, while India cannot even manufacture an SLBM and its IRBMs are already quite inferior, something that even Iran has managed !
If MAO was in charge of India during the partition era, the following things would've happened -
1. India would've been ethnically cleansed of Muslims. Mao murdered just about 80 million people who didn't fit in his vision of a reformed, modern China... but it eventually led to HAN being the strongest ethnic group in the world.
2. There would've been no Pakistan or Bangladesh. All Muslims would've been thoroughly Indianized.
3. Indians would've had a concept of ETHNIC pride, which we now lack as is clear in the way many of our kind shamelessly worship WHITE skinned people.
4. Indian subcontinent would be united and there would be the largest country in the world with 1.4 billion people and it would've been listened to very carefully in world matters, not ignored as it is now. India would've been an economic and military super power.
5. No more self-deception that lighter skinned olive complexioned north Indians are actually WHITE and of ARYAN ancestry while the rest of the country is of inferior DRAVIDIAN ancestry. That is the myth of ARYAN invasion wouldn't have been possible if we had a different sense of ethnic pride - about being Indian - and not northie or southie.
For the bad things -
1. There would be less freedom to act as you want - that implies, not just not being able to pee on temple walls, spit on every visible spot of a sidewalk and animals roaming busy city centres, but also less journalistic freedom.
2. More executions.. probably India would've a 10-15,000 people executed by state per year to keep up order among 1.4 billion people.
3. Spread of Christianity would've been checked, like in China, but not sure if it's entirely a bad thing.
Film : Garfield 2
Cast : Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Director : Tim Hill
A WISE guy of a friend once told me, “How would you feel if I told you I dont like Calvin and Hobbes?” I almost choked. As words failed me, staring incredulously was all I could do. The wise guy goes on: “Thats how I feel when you keep telling me you don’t like Garfield.” Oops, the secret is out! Non-Garfield worshipper in the house. But seriously, how can you compare Garfield with Calvin and Hobbes ? Before this comic argument assumes Asterix vs Tintin proportions (we all know Asterix is far better), let us turn to Garfield 2 , the movie.
When they decided to make another of those comic strips into a live action movie two years ago, fans would have groaned. How could they get a cat actor that looks anything like the greediest cat in the world? The makers went in for CGI, and bad CGI at that, too. But largely due to the vocal talents of Bill Murray in the title role, the movie made enough money to warrant a sequel. Groan! The incredibly dumb Jon (played with utmost boredom by Breckin Meyer) decides to follow his girlfriend Liz (the cute Hewitt trying to look too cute and ending up as not) to London. Garfield, and that insult to caninedom, Odie, hide in the baggage. In the Queens land, Prince (Tim Curry), the pet of a late insanely rich lady, inherits her entire estate. The evil nephew Lord Dargis (Billy Connolly doing a terrible version of John Cleese) wants Prince to meet the God of Cats as soon as possible so he can get the moolah. Garfield and Prince accidentally switch places. And the movie drags along as only one with two terribly fat cats can.
Bill Murray tries his best to keep this madhouse afloat, but even he sounds bored. It doesn’t help when his co-actors together cook up the blandest possible dish. None of comic creator Jim Davis’ acerbic wit (you have to give credit where its due) is on display.
hey you beat me to it.
i wanted to post the same topic, guess have to shelve the idea.
well posted and presented!
Thanks...