Suchin Dailies: February 2008

Feb 17, 2008

Prediction from 1998: Happening now...

Sometime in 1997-98 I had read predictions made by some pandit from Karnataka, which was published in a kannada magazine "Taranga."

One of the prediction was about a degree tilt of earth's rotational axis, caused due to a natural disaster. This, he predicted, will change weather conditions drastically all over the world. Where it hardly rained will start having rains, where it had never snowed will have snow....so on.

NASA has registered this change in earth's rotation axis too. I find one more detail description of this in NewScientist. (updated in Jan 2005)

Another prediction seems to be coming true too. I just read about this rising seas around the world and how human resource misutilization is causing the effect. As per the prediction of that Pundit, most of the world's coastal lands will go under seas. From California to Africa to Australia...most of these countries will lose their lands. Very clearly he had predicted about Java and Sumatra's disappearance after Tsunami. India lost a good amount of the Tamil Nadu coasts.

I remember most of the predictions made by him. Seen them happening all the way, including Tsunami, Vajpayee's short term PMship and a long full term one. Sonia Gandhi's term (proxy though) and return of BJP had been predicted by the same Pundit.

He had also predicted that after 25 years of a era of natural and political disasters, epidemic deaths, new deceases ....whole world will experience a calm again. There will be a shift of economic power from the West to the East. One country will survive all the chaos around the world and emerge as a powerful country. This country will be looked upto by others for its wisdom. More or less he pointed at India being this country, but well who would believe it at this point? Lets wait and see.

Feb 14, 2008

Why blame only Sangh Parivar on Valentine's day if .....

... the reaction to it in other parts of the world is the same.

One female in Africa writes this in her blog:

"In the old days we had no clue what the date February 14th was all about. But today! LO! all the fracas and circus of people actually dressing themselves up in red and all! One gets to think that people have nothing better to do than carry around red roses, spending lots of hard earned money in a day to impress a loved one. OkI understand if its in the western countries, well its agreeable for them to go through all the hype. But in Africa, where does Valentine fit in the African context, really?"

Living in Canada, Pavan says in "I Blog, Therefore I am":

"I know it has become a ritual for intellectuals to bash up Valentine's day on every 14th of Feb, so I wouldn't criticize the stupidity of this day but the state of our society."

Why Valentine is Bad? explains Jennifer Hammitt:

I've never been a big fan of Valentine's Day. I mean I get the whole it used to be a pagan holiday. Basically it was a tribute to one of their Pagan gods. The names of women would be put into a basket and they would be drawn by a teenaged boy. It was sort of a dating/hook up lottery. Well obviously this did not go over well in the Christian church. The church's attempt to do away with it became a day associated with St. Valentine. He was beheaded by the Roman Emperor Claudius II , for performing marriages (Claudius had sort of banned them). Somehow the tradition of sending notes or offering notes to women men wanted to court in St Valentine's name became the new tradition...........

I was trying to think of anything I could put down for items I wanted, and that is when I realized I cared more about Chinese New Year than Valentine's Day. I just do not get the commercialized behemoth it has become."

Phoenix wrote in 2004 on Ubersite as:

"I don't like Valentine's Day because in America, a society already stock-full with its share of laziness, we've used Valentine's Day as an excuse to be lazy in love." ""Celebrate Love" doesn't mean go out and buy things that Hallmark says are the meaning of Valentine's Day. "

Reasons why Valentine's day is sexist: Kathy Greaves grieves!

"Our society is set up in such a way that single people feel like losers on Valentine's Day"

The FoxNews wrote:

Some feel icky about the sappy quality that characterizes Feb. 14. Plenty of Valentine’s Day scrooges despise what they say is the corny, forced sentimentalism of a contrived, overly commercialized holiday.

A Valentine's Day hater writes:

"To sum it up, Valentine's Day is a socially constructed concept created by mad scientists for the express purpose of adding stress that takes an additional 3 to 4 years off your life expectancy."

Whatever said and how many times ever it is repeated, Indians love anything that is imported. No reasoning beyond that. Period.

Feb 11, 2008

John Dayal's blog: His version of Terrorism!

"Sangh Terrorists" by Dr. John Dayal,
National President, All India Catholic union [ 2004-]
Secretary General, All India Christian Council [ 2000-]

I could have simply written my comments to his article. But why in the world would he love my curses at him? So I thought I rather counter him in my blog. Since there are lakhs of trained and salaried missionaries like him in India, my remarks to his thoughts will almost go unnoticed. But I cannot just ignore the pitiable humans like him. For the fact that India must one day put a stop to any forced conversion from any religion to another, these missionaries would have no way to 'cajole' unsuspecting tribals into giving up on their customs and traditions. This is being done like how he has written in this article: Call Sangh as terrorists to cover up their own 'cajoling' activities. John Dayal infers:

"It is high time that more and more people get to know about these criminal/anti-human actions of the Hindutva terrorists. The mischievous and highly motivated understanding that a particular community, region or religious ideology is more prone or more susceptible towards what is known in popular parlance as ‘terrorism’ or ‘terrorist activities’ should be refuted at all costs. People need to be convinced there is no qualitative difference between terrorist acts committed by suicide bombers of the LTTE or the jihadists of the Al-Qaeda or Khalistani terrorists, or adopted by followers of the Hindutva formations."

After reading his whole article I have the following questions for him:

Define your "Terrorism" first.
How do you compare Jehadi terrorism to Hindu 'Terrorism'?
Looking at the facts you see about support to Jehadi terrorism from within India, do you have a divine vision' to separate the good Muslim from the bad?
How and why do you want Muslims to be taken into IB? I do not have this fact, but I am questioning your own logic. A country like US themselves put them under critical screening.
Even while you have concentrated albeit selfishly only over the RSS/Hindu organisations, your own Christians being killed by Muslims in other parts of the world should probably be brought to your notice in this context. You are sure aware of this more than any one else, but you are conveniently masking those to keep reader's attention only on RSS.
Being a member of National Integration Council, one would not expect you to loosely identify RSS, VHP and BD as terrorist groups when even the CBI or IB or Government have never made such reports on them. You just can't counter the obstructions to your activities and hence you term them so.
Tehelka reports you have picked up conveniently could not bring any of their 'accused' to the courts yet. So you and me can do a journalism of that kind. By the way which government ordered narco-analysis and brain mapping of suspects related to bomb blasts at mosques?!!
You seem to give a verdict on the bomb blasts in Chennai to be a conspiracy of RSS themselves! While you are completely ignorant of the fact found by the IB, that entire activity was carried out by Anjuman, an Islamic student group. Use your ways to fool people, which is your official method anyways.
Your main objective should have been to compare organisations. But you have again conveniently separated Sangh Parivar as a group and identified others as religions. This is a foolish thing to do.
If there were no organisations such as your evangelists who are the root cause of all the hatredness you have inflicted in the minds of people who consider the religion should be left to the individuals' decision and you are NO superior to the religions and practices that were here for thousands of years, there would have been no necessity of RSS and its organisations to be stopping you from your evangelists activities.
Answer for all your above article, is simply YOU. You change your habits of psychologically weaning away tribals, scheduled castes and tribes, illiterates to Christianity and claim that they do it on their own, then organisations who are against you, including the Muslims will stop persecuting you.
Who are you referring to as "Founding Forefathers" in your blog header? Those missionaries who set their first foot in India in 17th century or the fathers of this great nation who had achieved Vedas even before your Jesus was even born? Better you stop contradicting yourself throughout the article.