Citizenship and Responsibilities

Canada chooses to not deport convicted terrorist jihadist to home countries, which implies Canada accepts responsibility for consequences of their acts! Was this choice made with consent of those whose consent was not asked in the first place for the terrorism, never given to the said terrorist acts?

Recall the German reaction to Versailles treaty terms, resulting in WWII with all its horrors. Now ask if Canada held responsible for an act of terrorism could be asked to make reparations by the victim nation. The difference is, most of Germany was united in standing with their warmonger leaders, each time, WWI and WWII. 

So the leaders of Canada might, as duty of leaders of a democracy, have asked their citizens to vote in a referendum about taking responsibility for the terrorist acts of such jihadists and other terrorists who happen to have migrated to Canada and taken citizenship. 

And just how would anyone make up for the lives lost in such an act? For example in the flight blown up a few decades ago over the Atlantic ocean? 

http://torontosun.com/2017/06/27/america-and-india-tackle-terror-while-canada-plays-identity-politics/wcm/fc657b41-6245-457c-8405-1414e31241b8 

Re Merit Equations

Take another look, and the statement by Ms r implies "all Brahmins have merit, nobody else has any", which is too stupid for a Brahmin to think or say.

Go deeper, and the statement from Ms r exposes the following - while conversionist religions demand faith in institutions and book that control mind of the followers of those religions, demanding that followers stop independent thinking and absolutely no arguments allowed, on the contrary Hindu thinking only offers knowledge without asking people to stop thinking, and in fact one is not only told one can become one with the Divine, one is celebrated if one finds a new path.

Only Hinduism has and can produce great spiritual beings such as Buddha,  Vivekananda, and hundreds more, of every caste - and yes, not restricted to male gender either. Because no stop is put on greatness being born or blossomed into its full extent of greatness.

Reflect on this - while priests and teachers have been Brahmin, Gods and Goddesses and saints and generally spiritual persona were of various castes. And do the worshippers care what caste Gods and Goddesses  are when incarnated? Ridiculous.

This is just one facet of the larger picture. Indian castes are different from the castes elsewhere. The former are categorisation of works of males, while the latter, castes everywhere outside India, are about power, wealth and race. And women aren't on par except in Hinduism, in India.

So if Ms r thinks merit is Brahmin, there is a germ of truth there,  which us the following. It's not that anyone thinks brains or merit is equated with or restricted to Brahmins. It's a greater picture in the sense of Indian system as different from caste systems elsewhere.

India did establish a far superior system in not putting power and wealth, gender and race as criteria, and such thought is superior to the more primitive structures of other cultures and faiths, where it's about "have faith, stop questioning, arguing is sin, bow down to power, bow down to wealth, women are less, lighter colours of physical parts such as skin or hair or eyes is superior not only in beauty but in every other quality, ..."!!!! 

No, India never had such stupid diktat.

And one more thing common outside India but never part of Indian culture, is "droit de seigneur", the landlord's absolute right to every female in his domain.

India on the contrary has the great epics where a woman can refuse a powerful man in Ramayana; a king in Mahaabhaarata goes to the woman's father to ask for her hand even though they are poor and not high caste, and the father refuses until promised his daughter's children will rule, and they do.
So much for those who denounce Hinduism, India, for Indian caste system.

Look into your own hearts and ask, who would rather be a poor Brahmin than a powerful king, a wealthy trader? For Brahmins have generally been poor, since they aren't allowed to charge for services as priests or teachers (unlike people in trade or plying crafts), and must accept only what is offered.

The anti Brahmin drive was the colonial regimes' drive to break the spine of Indian culture, set in words by Macaulay and followed thereafter with more righteousness assumed fraudulently,  but used before too by other regimes. But fraud it was and is.


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Choices - Mind vs Matter

An article one came across on fb, very interesting for several reasons is

https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/11/21/john-urschel-nfl-ravens-mit-mathematics


Well written and interesting except for one thing - it looks upside down when not seen from point of view of what seems to constitute an average mindset of US,  due to the preference and almost a reverence for physicality, for physical power, and consequently for sports and jocks, which latter includes too the regard that amounts to almost reverence for money - albeit its respect for earned rather than inherited money in case of US, unlike UK and Europe and rest of the world outside India, where inheritance acquires the patina of class.

All this is upside down when seen from the world view that holds preference for world of mind as normal as looking up to mountains, and consequently an academic choice over sport jock life as an intelligent one beyond question. When it comes to mathematics, moreover, it's a no-brainer - if one is capable of doing it, any other choice is not merely dumb,  it's out of question. Having seen this work out in life with several young men, pushed by their parents into choices considered safe from earning point of view, who turned around at some point to nevertheless drop the parent's preferred path and go on to mathematics, this man's choice is quite obvious, especially since the supposedly safe alternative was not engineering or medicine as in India but the US one, sport, that too, what US calls football!

For, when mind is seen as more important - as indeed it is when seen from the view of world of mind - one's brain is the most prized and precious possession, faculty, and not to be traded for a risky exchange for say millions of bucks, even if it is per year. And US football (what the rest of the world normally calls football is named soccer in US, hence the necessity of added caution) is now definitely known to cause brain damage to players, what with head butting being a norm, apart from other risks via various physical assaults normal to the game of US football. 

Here in this story, written for the US readership and by someone who is obviously born, brought up and never been out of US, this last point is treated almost with the same caution that normally applies to the so called left liberal world view re terrorism of mostly jihadist Islamism - that is, it's not only known but glaring in face, yet must not be mentioned, must be ridiculed, challenged if mentioned, contested with any possible arguments however outlandish, because - in both cases - not only tremendous power groups support the life risky thing, US football and terrorism respectively, but also if someone doesn't play the expected mute about it that person is risking reputation, possibly career, and quite possibly injury, or even life.

Hence this whole farce of surprise about this bright young man's choice of career, when in fact it's obvious the opposite is true- if one gets into a doctoral program of MIT for mathematics, if one is capable of doing the work in spare hours between games of brain risking US football and qualifying, why, one has no other choice! Any other choice is simply dumb, since it not only gives up the highest peaks of world of mind, but risks one's brain through playing a game known to cause injury, almost on par with risk a young woman incurs in marrying a wife beater sadist.

Yes, in the latter case too most of the world sees it normally as the woman's duty to nevertheless not only marry the guy but stick to him despite his beating her to pulp, every now and then, horrendously, and every other sadistic treatment of the wife and children - usually of daughters, of course - as well, this sticking to him considered virtue so much so any deviation - such as protecting a child by sending the child out to safety for saving it's life - is considered a blot on said virtue, and the child persecuted through life by society aiding the sadist in his pursuit of destroying the lives of the child and mother.

When and how did this perverse defence, nay, glorification, come about, of a sadist who destroys wife and children,  a game known to cause brain injury and damage, jihadist mindset that seeks to wipe out civilisation and annihilate not only thousands or millions of lives but preaches it as superior glory? When did these diverse manifestations of death cult worship, so false, so fraudulent, happen to rise?!!!!

If life exists, it can only be because it's the Will, whether one says of Nature or of Divine. It's the precious gift, and civilisation is how it's earned by humanity.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/11/21/john-urschel-nfl-ravens-mit-mathematics

The House in Prague - How a Stolen House Helped an Immigrant Girl Find Her Way Home, by Anna Nessy Perlberg.

The House in Prague - How a Stolen House Helped an Immigrant Girl Find Her Way Home, by Anna Nessy Perlberg. 

Reading any memoirs of the holocaust, or for that matter a book based on those times and those events, is hard enough. This one is by someone who was a little girl of ten by the time the horrors began, and the book begins with memories of the home of the family in Prague by the little girl, albeit written and published much later. The memories are of a beautiful life in a beautiful home, a large house on the hill in Prague, filled with music and more, with wealth of the educated, accomplished  and the connoisseur, rather than  wealth of the aristocracy which may or may not exercise their choice of ability to accrue all those qualities. The family moreover is of a mixed marriage, with a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, with much love and complete harmony.

This somehow makes for more horror for the reader who knows and dreads the subsequent events that will affect this family, their beautiful home and beautiful life filled with music, concerts, friends and family. Fortunately this family survived, by selling much of their prized possessions or using some to bribe whoever needed to be, to emigrate on the eve of the horrors descending on the world, centred on the continent. They managed to survive, do well, educate the children well, and live, in US.

But this only makes for a contrast when viewed in context of the family and friends and more that were lost due to not being able to, or in some cases, not choosing to, migrate as they did. A very moving moment is when the author, then still a young girl coping with high school in the new land, is asked by her father to accompany him to a synagogue for the first time - she is brought up Catholic - and mentions how the Rabbi asked if anyone lost a family member in the holocaust. She raises her hand, and looks around to see the whole congregation doing the same. They rise, sing prayers for the dead, all weeping.

It's a tale of life, survival and prospering of a few on the background of the six million or more that did not, and as such all the more poignant - for, obviously, if these people did so well, so could a large part of those that did not survive, and this loss of human potential and of quality was all because the lumpen that the perpetrated the events intended to wipe out human civilisation and all its achievements, in name of racial supremacy.

That another ideology in name of equality of all did much the same to a large proportion of the world population behind respective curtains of the totalitarian nations, only makes it worse. One is, of course, happy these good people did survive and did well.

Children's Day

Short hours of
Light, long nights of
Winter dark of
Nordic latitudes continent

Hordes from sunlit deserts
Swarm up, exploding the
Peace and bliss of
City of Joy,
Quiet efforts of
City of Lights, to
Lighten the dark cold winter

Hordes swarm up from sunlit deserts
Exploding the stoic peace, quiet endurance
Aims they include in their agenda of death, reducing
World to ashes, spreading desert

Their flag is green, colour of life,
Life, they hate!

They have tried, repeatedly, to extinguish the land of
Light, and failed, hating the failure, breaking it up,
Turning pieces into opposite,
Over and over, attempting to extinguish the
Light, piece by piece, photon by photon,
Photons grow, and forces of dark are
Desperate,
Biting the hands that fed them through their centuries of despair,
They hope to conquer
Light and hope and life, joy and
Peace!

Bose - and idiots who equate him with abominable

Another internet post brings rather surprising equations and comparisons forth. A simplistic mind runs rather stupidly equating Bose with the people whose help he sought to struggle for independence of his nation.

Gandhi cooperated with British, unlike the fighters of 1857 or subsequent Bhagat Singh and others; does not mean he was in accord with Dyer or Macaulay; allies included USSR, emphatically does not mean Roosevelt was anything like Stalin. You are being simplistic to the point of abhorrent stupidity in comparing Netaji SubhashChandra Bose with the German leaders of that time whom he wrote of his disapproval of what was wrong in their regime that he could see.

Much of what they did wrong was not apparent until the allies invaded, for that matter, and allies discredited Jewish reports arriving, and refrained from bombing the railway lines that were used to take Jews to camps - this makes allies not like those who were running the camps and executing Jews, either.

Spectrum in Time

Dawn begins from
Deep Blue Gold Heaven
Held gently secure in it's cocoon
Until ready to burst forth
On the pre dawn
Starlit blue waiting in a silvery sheen
Dawn lights up
Eastern horizon in its hues
Red and Gold, Pink and Peach and Apricot

Dawn brings reds and pinks and golds and
Colours of life to
Life on earth, and
Earth responds
Blossoms of all hues on carpets of grass and trees and forests
Green of life glows.
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Spectrum of Light
Somewhere in the spectrum of all wavelengths of existence
Somewhere held in spectrum of Light
Colour spectrum as known to life, humanity, us,
While on Earth

Reds favoured by babies, toddlers -
And they are quite capable of fighting for their beloved
Scarletts and Reds, Apples and all
Crimson hues of dawn of
Life on Earth
So easily found by the babies' little eyes searching for colour
And so, favourite -

While their moms prefer gentle blossoms on sunlit grass
A happy garden for the child's life
Visible on the child's attire
Mother's wishes and blessings from deepest of her
Heart that is now the child's for ever.

And so the babe wins
As long as the mother pays attention
To the whims of child -
Reds it is as long as the baby insists.
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Somewhere later comes a liking for
Gardens of mothers
Blossoms on carpets of brilliant sunlit greens
Life wanted by her for her heart's brood

Somewhere then comes
Soft grey of clouds
While brilliant green grass is shaded
Under tall deep green trees
A grey of thought, of mind and more
While deep green of
Life
Struggles to grow,
Wanting sunshine and
Shade of grey
All at the same time -

Deep green of shade of tall trees
Soft grey of clouds heavy with
Life giving rains
So needed in the early burning heat of morning
And it continues if one is lucky
Until forenoon sees a descending sun
Heat now on its last brilliance
Western horizons about to be lit up
With sunset brilliant hues of
Reds and golds that
Autumn echoes on earth.


Now the skies are clear
Brilliant sapphire blue
Just as they were on eastern shores of an
Early morn

Only, now the heat is already a
Welcome warmth
No longer in need of the ocean breezes

But the ocean awaits
Off western shores - just as it gave one
A shore to climb out of waves
A lifetime ago
East in the morning.

Blues of heavens now echo the
Blues of the ocean
One reflects other and
Who knows which is reflecting, which the real primordial
Light refracted from all that
Earth receives every moment -
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Blues with white flowers large
A cherished gift once
Mother wrapped around one, now remodeled into a suit that
Already seems thoughtless
Oh, one ought to leave alone
Heaven's gifts of
Love.

May not be too late -
Maybe the  heaven would wrap one again in
Soft blue with large white flowers
Until then one waits, breathes in


Hoping one sees the loved ones in the
Blue that one is cloaked in -
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