Today it really pains me to see that for majority of people in India are more inclined in getting materialistic Gandhi's personal items as compared to Gandhi's values and teachings. There have been controversies after controversies as soon as James Otis announced that he will be auctioning the items that were used and belonged to Gandhi at some point of the time.
No doubt these items are a valuable and precious part of Indian history, but was the Indian Government sleeping all these years? Is the Government saying that they had no clue as to where these items were? Indian Government is leaving no stones unturned in trying to procure the Gandhi's personal belongings and it has resorted to threats, pleadings, legal methods in order to bring these artifacts back to India. It seems that Indian Government were left red faced when they heard about the auction and wanted to avoid humiliation and at the same time wanted to score some brownie points with the people of India as elections are coming up soon in India.
In trying to save their face by getting the Gandhi's items, the Indian Government broke every possible value that Gandhi believed in and preached. In doing so Government have definitely proved one point that we are concerned more about Gandhi's items than his teachings. Also it so happens is that these items that were to be auctioned, were given away or gifted away by Gandhi himself and if it is true then Indian people have no right to it. Of course it would have been a different story altogether, if they would have been stolen and smuggled out of the country.
Talking about stolen and smuugled national treasure, the Indian Government should also show equal determination in getting back the Kohinoor Diamond back form England, as the same was definitely looted by the British empire during it rule over India.
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A Political Strategy - RIOTS.
Recently the headlines of all the newspaper and news channel have ‘Breaking News’ of rioting in various cities of India and rioting takes dangerous propositions especially when they are based on religious sentiments. I am sure that all readers will agree that this kind of negative publicity will definitely drag India back by few years.
Whenever you switch on a news channel or pick up a news daily, you will come across sporadic incidents of religion based attacks by one religious group on a group of people from different religion which then takes the form of rioting which becomes free for all to attack whoever is swept in their way similar to Tsunami wave or a Cyclone, rioters fail to realize that the people they are hurting are the same people with whom they co-existed peacefully few days or months back.
Anti-Christian violence in South, bomb blasts in various cities of India, Clashes in Srinagar presents an ugly face of India that we shudder to think of and it seems that our country is reverting back to dark-ages. This definitely forces us or should force us to think are these sporadic incidents a result of unplanned anger and impulse or are a result of planned movement that uses ignorance of certain people to their advantage.
It is a worldwide situation and there are many conspiracy theories on the grape-vines that no group of rioters can take dangerous propositions without the help of certain selfish groups for example regional political parties or Government who want to undermine their political rivals which is gaining power or popularity in a certain part of the country. It is also seen or heard that the police or anti-riot troops reach a riot infected place much later when the riots have already scaled to a very violent stage and this clearly proves that the rioters are given a free hand to run amok.
Does this mean that India is getting intolerant towards each other’s religion, but that is not the case as there were few articles regarding Muslim actors performing Ram Leela and in the blasts that took place recently in Malegaon, where a group Hindus and Muslims helped the victims. If these reported incidents are true then where is the question of intolerance?
If the riots are caused due to impulsive nature of people, then such behavior does not spread in to massive fire ball that threatens to engulf a complete state or for that matter of fact a complete nation unless and until this impulsive anger is continuously fueled by a group of selfish people who want to right their own wrong and do not want the people to understand the real motive.
We need to ask ourselves again and again that why a certain selfish group control and orchestrate this mob frenzy. Is it that we have become no brainers and believe in what we hear and not apply our mind in order to look in to the reality of the matter and each one of us has to raise a question to our self is does such behavior shows our nation in good light…. This question can only be answered when we all look in to our own hearts and decide that enough is enough…
Whenever you switch on a news channel or pick up a news daily, you will come across sporadic incidents of religion based attacks by one religious group on a group of people from different religion which then takes the form of rioting which becomes free for all to attack whoever is swept in their way similar to Tsunami wave or a Cyclone, rioters fail to realize that the people they are hurting are the same people with whom they co-existed peacefully few days or months back.
Anti-Christian violence in South, bomb blasts in various cities of India, Clashes in Srinagar presents an ugly face of India that we shudder to think of and it seems that our country is reverting back to dark-ages. This definitely forces us or should force us to think are these sporadic incidents a result of unplanned anger and impulse or are a result of planned movement that uses ignorance of certain people to their advantage.
It is a worldwide situation and there are many conspiracy theories on the grape-vines that no group of rioters can take dangerous propositions without the help of certain selfish groups for example regional political parties or Government who want to undermine their political rivals which is gaining power or popularity in a certain part of the country. It is also seen or heard that the police or anti-riot troops reach a riot infected place much later when the riots have already scaled to a very violent stage and this clearly proves that the rioters are given a free hand to run amok.
Does this mean that India is getting intolerant towards each other’s religion, but that is not the case as there were few articles regarding Muslim actors performing Ram Leela and in the blasts that took place recently in Malegaon, where a group Hindus and Muslims helped the victims. If these reported incidents are true then where is the question of intolerance?
If the riots are caused due to impulsive nature of people, then such behavior does not spread in to massive fire ball that threatens to engulf a complete state or for that matter of fact a complete nation unless and until this impulsive anger is continuously fueled by a group of selfish people who want to right their own wrong and do not want the people to understand the real motive.
We need to ask ourselves again and again that why a certain selfish group control and orchestrate this mob frenzy. Is it that we have become no brainers and believe in what we hear and not apply our mind in order to look in to the reality of the matter and each one of us has to raise a question to our self is does such behavior shows our nation in good light…. This question can only be answered when we all look in to our own hearts and decide that enough is enough…
