Thursday, March 20, 2008

Controversies....Part-2

......+Controversy:- M.F.Hussain has made a few paintings for which he was opposed by some(actually many) so called guard of hinduism and , patriots. Mostly his two paintings one is of Hindu Goddess Durga portrayed nude and another painting of bharat mata is also nude.

......+But :- Hinduism, my inherited religion(of course inherited,i didnt get any chance to bargain on any other options). But yes i can describe too many great things in this religion,but that would lead to a different topic.

.........Let me ask all those who hates M.F.Hussain a very simple question. If M.F.Hussain was a hindu and had made the same paintings would you have still hated, and oppossed him. If your answer is yes, than go and hate The Great Mahakavi Kalidas, destroy all his Mahakavyas, and remove his name from Indian History because he is also a culprit of you. He has elaborately narrated the romance(foreplay would be certainly a perfect word) between Shiv and Parwati in eighth Chapter of his wellknown epic "Kumar Sambhavam"(I wont use the word freedom of expression for defence of MFH ,because freedom of exp. doesnt mean that you are allowed to violate the religious beliefs of people). But on the contrary we have written his name in golden letters. The only thing i want to put here is that the contemporary hinduism has become just an anti-islam version.
..........I am not telling that MFH is a good painter because i personally dont know anything about that art. But if Kalidas had not written any vulgar poem, MFH has also not drawn any vulgar painting. It's not fair that if one person does something, it is labeled as 'ashlil' and the same thing is done by the other becomes ' shrungar'.

Controversies....Part-1

....................Having known the issue about the British author Sir Salman Rushdie n Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, Having Seen the paintings of the famous(notorious) painter M.F.Hussain , Having watched the movie "The Da Vinci Code", I will add few more lines to already written hundreds of pages about all above issues. May be the subject is divided into more than one posts. Continue.......

........* The Satanic Verses(by Salman Rushdie).
.........+Controversy:- I have not read this entire book. But mostly the Controversy has arose because in this book the author has narrated the wives of Prophet Mohammad as "whores" and also claims few mistakes in some verses of the Holy book Quran. As a result The Muslims Mullas all over the world has declared fatvas on him.

........+Qustion:- Do you believe that only god is free from committing mistakes and no human can be perfect. If the answer is yes than stick to it until the end of this post.

........+But :- Islam ,I love this Religion for its Intellectual Concept of God. I can say that Salman Rushdie has criticized the Quran in his controversial book. He has pointed out some fundamental mistakes(atleast he has claimed that) in Quran. The muslims believe that(same for hindus n others) their Quran is perfect and there could not be any mistakes.First of all let me tell you that a religion is just a human-made definition of the GOD If it were established by GOD it/her/hisself (ya God must not have any particular gender,name,size,colour as this attributes only belongs to Humans, and must be beyond such humanlike identification), was he/she/it so confused that he/she/it made too many religions. So and Since this is a human made concept,it is not beyond imperfection, there can be or must be many loopholes, so is about the holy books. The Quran is written by PM, and the PM however great, was a human he might had made mistakes in Quran(same for Gita and Bible also). One may argue that PM was not a human he was a child of God himself. Nope, never, I counter argue that why all the so called children of God or Birth of God were born as a male? PM,JC,Krishna,Rama,Budda,Mahavira all were surprisingly men. GOD could have born as a Female. GOD could not be so unjust to women (jaago naari jaago). PM was supposed to make mistakes, and if a muslim wont criticize his own religion than who else is supposed to do that.

.............Still you believe that Rusdie was wrong, than dislike him, oppose him, abuse him, but you can't kill him, no religion gives you that right..

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Indians on Forbes

Read the news?(I hate this word read,you will never know whether it is Rid or Red). Indians are conquering the Forbes list of the richest persons of the world. Gautam Adani is also listed on the Forbes. Hurray, Celebrate.

But something is missing to note..

Once our professor had said(of course with a little exaggeration)that the 90% of our national income has been possessed by the top 10% people and only the rest 10% of national income has been shared by the rest 90% of population. Seeing American names on the list of toppers is surely a matter of feeling proud for themselves because they are having a car per family. They are having a strong middle class and far less income inequality. Whereas India is having 30% of its population below poverty level
. But we Indians are just used to over-react on any matter either it is Ambanis or Sunita Williams.

True that our economy is one of the fastest growing economy in the world,but that doesnt mean that entire India in all aspects is developing at the same pace. If someone says that our poor class is developing rapidly than I must ask why the NAXALISM is broadening horizons? NAXALISM is nothing but the consequence of the uneven developement of our nation. India is growing up like a handicapped child. India is undergoing rapid industrialization, but at the cost of Agriculture. The Higher class is getting more and more rich, but it is also a bitter truth that farmers are committing suicides across the country.

"Playing for India is surely better than having Ferraris in your garage"
-Dhoni on IPL

Friday, March 7, 2008

An Anatomy of Language


           

If you are not intrigued form the above title consider this: the reason behind the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear-attack was the wrong interpretation of a Japanese word. The reason behind the invention of Fax Machine (it was invented in Japan) was the language, because Chinese/Japanese language doesn’t comprise of alphabets, it is rather a picture language, so if you want to make a Chinese typewriter then it will consist of more than 50,000 characters(yes, four zeros). ‘Sanskrit’ is the oldest language of world.

What is Language? It hard to define what ‘language’ is. But it is easily acceptable that the Languages are basically for communication purpose. The language could be in many forms, but our conventional concept of language is comprised of four forms spoken, listened, read, written (say Natural Language, English, gujarati etc. ). But the language is not that much only. When a child becomes hungry and points to refrigerator or his mouth and we understand what he wants, what do you do along with wishing “best of luck”, or “all the best” to your friends in exam-hall? You may call it Body Language.

So it is clear that we have two ways for communicating with each other one is above mentioned Natural Language the other way is by using Body Language. As one can understand that the birth of any language can not be spontaneous rather it is invented, developed, modified by people over a huge span of time. The pronunciation style is also greatly affected by natural climate when it is created gradually. (E.g. there is a huge difference between Indian and American dialect). So one may argue that how came we choose Natural Language over Body language as our communication mean (the advantage of body language:-it can be made global, same gesture can be made across the globe if you want to say you are hungry) . It is because verbal language requires much less muscle movement, when movement of hand and fingers etc.. requires more muscle movement. So choosing any Natural language is economical in terms of energy usage. But the dumb people have to choose the uneconomical way.

One point is also about use of sophisticated language in oral form, the language you may find in dictionaries or in news papers. Personally I hate to use the sophisticated language, because the so called formal or sophisticated lang. has restricted the use of pre-linguistic words (want to know what are pre-linguistic words? Then prick a needle on your butt and the spontaneous word you will utter comes under this category). I firmly say that any language is not the possession of any litterateur or any Oxford or Cambridge dictionary, language representation doesn’t need any authentication. The richness of pre-linguistic or informal words in your language enhances acuteness of your expression, and of course that is the ultimate aim of mankind ….

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of mankind”

-Anonymous

Thursday, March 6, 2008

About

Hi,

     First of all let me tell you that I have never written even a single word myself (Except those few kilos of answer sheets), it is my very first attempt. Therefore I don’t claim to keep your attention over here from prologue to epilogue in any post. But usually I won’t be challenging your endurance. It would be my modest effort to express my views in a less acerbic manner. Over here I will be just encapsulating the things as I see, as I understand, as I enjoy, as I endure.

     I am also not confining myself into decent English, even not in English only(frankly, my English is not quite good). It is likely to be used slang a bit.

     There was a TIFFIN DISTRIBUTER. He always had a fist everyday. Reason? He used to browse through every Tiffin he got for distribution and take out his favorite recipe in small amount. The matter I want to clear to you is that I consider myself much like that tiffinman , the sort of thoughts or information I shall write in upcoming posts might be merely a compilation, like that tiffinman(In that case I will provide references). But surely it won’t be a Copy-Pest venture.

     After this entire so called Swearing-in Ceremony. It is informally declared that “મન થશે તેમ લખીશ થાય ઍ કરી લો."