Thursday, May 29, 2014
Education and Character
A mail forward is going viral
with educational qualifications of Ministers of HRD / Education ever since we
got our Independence. Great luminaries with even better accolades of
educational qualifications. Target being our current Minister of HRD &
Education being a 12th pass candidate. Allegations being that she
lied in some affidavits of her educational qualification. We have a Prime
Minister now, who was shy from declaring his marital status and something which
was declared only recently. So which is better? Someone who lacks character of
acceptance of his marital status, is now going to run the country, or someone
who is not a graduate and ‘maybe better off in character’.
What are the educational qualifications
of all the jokers who are in Parliament? What is the character displayed in Parliament?
Chairs being flung, idiots getting into the well of the house, missiles of
microphones pulled and flung, stalling proceedings of the house, watching
pornography on their cell phones, enjoying subsidized food at rates
unbelievable, and having a swell of a life at tax payers cost. Is this all fine
‘even presuming’ all of them are educated? What have all the ministers prior
holding the portfolio of HRD / Education done for education? Are our
professional qualifications even recognized globally? Our Doctors are not recognized
in Europe or America and are made to go through additional local qualifications
of the country for them to practice.
Is our education system vocational
based? After ten years of schooling most of the students till date do not know
what to do and it is herd mentality of college education which does not
guarantee any prospects. It’s only a very thin wafer crust and many a times the
privileged that get into professional colleges and make a career, and most of
them, who would just want to look abroad and have no values of character to
contributing to the nation. Some of ones who stay back their lack moral values
and we have cases of Doctors running sex determination test / abortions /
kidney trading, etc. Engineers who compromise and we have the state of roads
and infrastructure we are living with. Only place where there is efficiency is
the government sector, where there is excellent efficiency of corruption.
Where is research in our country
happening? Which technology innovation can we think of where we are exporting
to the world? Once a self-sufficient country in food, today we have to even
import food. Our defense sector is ‘dependence sector’ on imported technology.
So where is all the education gone when we had great intellectuals heading the
HRD / Educational Ministry till yesterday. Today the current HRD / Education Minister’s
qualification is questioned, as to what can she do when she is not adequately qualified?
What are the qualifications of some of the Ministers who hold key
responsibilities? It is not just only qualifications that can judge the
capability, but it is three things more prior, and that is Character, Responsibility
and Integrity.
We have had all this while
murders, rapists, thugs and even idiots from inside prison running some states
in our country. We have had ministers who have managed Sports Ministry. What
sporting achievements can we boast of in the International sporting arena? We
opiate on cricket which is tainted and tarnished with match fixing. We have
other sporting events where players don’t even basic facilities. Whatever
sports is now being today promoted, is more from the private sector, which is
purely another expansion into their businesses.
We have a ministry looking into
Child and Women welfare, when child labor is rampant and rape news today don’t
even stir the conscience of the average man. We have a law ministry and cases
are dragged on for years. We have a ministry for forests and forest cover is
decreasing. We have a ministry for agriculture and farmers are committing
suicide and agriculture land is slurped for real estate in the alleged garb of
nation development. What development are we talking about when till date there
is no basic right to education, and we question the qualification of the HRD /
Education Minister?
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Piss off
An anonymous group in Bombay
armed with a water tanker, water cannons people urinating on the streets. A
viral video of the act shows people watching helpless people getting water
cannoned, as funny. The group named ‘Clean Indian’ is out to clean the streets
of people urinating on them. Ajit Pawar deputy Chief Minister of Maharastra who
was once concerned about the draught in the state once remarked “If there is no
water in the dam, how can we release it? Should we urinate into it? If there is
no water to drink, even urination is not possible." Now we have a group
armed with water having issues with people who urinate, what a dichotomy?
No one would want to urinate on
the streets, if there were public toilet facilities. How come the ‘Clean
Indian’ group, be not be an ‘Intelligent Indian’ group, and not understand this
problem first? Why hit at soft targets who have no place to relieve themselves?
What is law machinery doing about people taking the law into their hands? So if
a ‘Clean Indian’ group can do this and get away, what can stop some other
‘Idiot Indian’ group come with some moral code of dressing and start spraying
people who are not modestly dressed. Come to think of it is happening in Delhi
the most, just that there do it by rape. Politicians who are raping the country
and defecting cities with posters during elections, the ‘Clean Indian’ group cannot
see that. In fact if you look at the faces of the politicians on these poster
they even look like feces. Who cleans that up? On the contrary they stink with
their feces like faces staring at us, long after elections are over.
Not that I am any political party
supporter, but this election I punched the button with the broom symbol. At
least some ‘Brave Indian’ group is attempting to make a change. Change can be
only made from inside the commode of the dirty system, than trying to change by
targeting those who don’t have a commode to relieve themselves. For those who
feel all parties are the same and did not go to vote, could have at least opted
to punch the NOTA button. I felt proud taking my wife to vote who hates to
vote, as she only complains saying what is the use? I told her to exercise the
NOTA option. She realized when one punched NOTA option, they do not support any
of the candidates. Later asked her what the acronym NOTA stood far and she
instantly replied it meant ‘None of the Ar##Holes’…………what an ‘Intelligent
Indian’, I mean wife.
So this ‘Clean Indian’ group
could have gone about educating Indians about NOTA, if they did not favor a
party. Gone about cleaning the city of feces faced politician posters. Used the
water to serve the many who stand for hours for a pot of water……….or done ‘Gandhigiri’
and washed the walls where people urinate, in front of them to drive a message.
Instead firing them water cannons, unless the aim was to make funny home
videos, where you see the bystanders watching the spectacle, laughing their
guts out. Why can’t this ‘Clean Indian’ not create an awareness of cleanliness?
How many people will they water cannon? How long will they water cannon?
Who gives these guys to moral
police or hygiene police? We have cops who can’t do normal policing and target
young couples for indecency at beaches or places where they seek privacy, when there
are rapes, robberies, and other menace happening under their nose. We have
political parties who police morality of cultural values by making a noise on Valentine’s
Day, when political leaders are indulging in extra marital affairs. We have regional
parties that police outsiders from other states to theirs, when there is
infiltration from the borders, and terrorists come and bomb our cities.
The ‘Clean Indian’ group is a ‘Deaf
and Blind Indian’ group as they cannot see the bigger mess that needs to be
cleaned. They go around with a water tanker that is named the ‘Pissing Tanker’
with a message that reads “You stop. We Stop”. The point if we have to go, we
have to go, we cannot stop. You either help with a solution or just ‘Piss off’
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Father don’t preach
Father Frazer Mascarenhas’s
recent email to his students, was like another boring sermon at a Sunday Mass. Nothing new was
said besides someone new saying the same thing. Encouraging youth to vote is
excellent but why only target Gujarat model? Is this not a veiled influence trying
to be projected? Why was not Bengal taken as a point of discussion? A state
which threw out Tata’s, a corporation lauded for nation development.
Tata’s never ventured into
Bengal only for business growth and making profits, but also to make a change
in the quality of life for the people of Singur. Since the political system is
deep rooted with corruption, one can’t just pin down on one state to prove a
point that the leadership from that place is flawed. At the same time when a
priest wants to make a change he is suspended, Father M.T. Stephen from Trivandrum
archdiocese, who was running as an independent candidate in Kerala, was
suspended after refusing to end his candidacy. How come Fr. Frazer Mascarenhas has
not challenged this? Just because Canon law 285.3 states that clergy are
forbidden from holding public office whenever it means sharing in the exercise
of civil power. Similarly there was a canon law that forbade a priest from
washing the feet of ladies to commemorate a ritual that Christ did before the
last supper, where he washed the feet of the disciples. So when an Indian
priest later Father Hugh Fonseca wanted to set a new trend which would have
given respect and equality to women, he was asked to avoid it. At the same time
when Pope Francis did the same it was considered a path breaking change.
So if a white priest makes a
change it is a wow factor. That time the law is shoved into a canon and fired
into space. If an Indian priest attempts a change, the canon law is aimed at
him. How come Father Frazer Mascarenhas never raised a voice to this? So many fraudulent
land deals were done ‘by the Church’ in the backyard of Father Frazer
Mascarenhas in Bombay, but he cannot see that, but he can comment on Gujarat.
Maybe he is far sighted is what one can term it. He was vocal when a political
body opposed Rohinton
Mistry's book 'Such a Long Journey', at the same time he is deaf to Dr. Zakir Naik,
who through his television channel goes about proving Christianity and the
Church wrong. Why is Father Frazer Mascarenhas never questioning
the low standards of office, Indians have in the Vatican? When will the question
on why an Indian has never been a Pope, be raised by Father Frazer Mascarenhas?
How long are Catholics going to be fooled by a bunch of majority white
Europeans who gang up together and con to be praying for the Holy Spirit to
guide them to elect a Pope? Could it be that because the Holy Spirit is
depicted as a dove so only a white man can rule? Surprisingly Father Frazer
Mascarenhas states that “No magic wand or divine miracles will come to the aid
of the Indian people”. At the same time for electing a Pope it is divine intervention.
Father Frazer Mascarenhas citing
the example of education, “Schools for the ordinary populace show abject neglect
with a very high dropout rate in the last 10 years. Higher Education has not
been allowed to move forward. To take just an example, St. Xavier’s College
Ahmedabad, thrice NAAC accredited with an equivalent of the A grade, has not
been able to gain permission from the Gujarat Government for Academic Autonomy,
for the last 10 years and has finally won a battle in the High Court to
approach the UGC directly for this status”. The question is with the best of
educational facilities that Catholics Institutions can boast off, how many
Catholics end up really educated? Where is awareness for education, social
contribution, entrepreneurship an inward movement before trying to trumpet an
outward movement of change? How many Catholics can we pride to look at as
leaders, or entrepreneurs or academicians or scientists or for that matter
anything?
Another example of Father
Frazer Mascarenhas's statement is about a massive investment in health and education that is sorely
needed in our country of widening disparities and those who support big
business and its unethical profits will never agree to such public expenditure
for the masses. In fact, the worsening situation of environmental degradation
and depletion, in the lunge for growth and profit, shows up the real intentions
of the greedy. Through my blogs I have been trying to drive a point for years
why can’t we Christians stop the practice of burial of the deceased and start
donating the body for organs that be used by the needy? Is there a Canon Law
that restricts Christians doing this? Imagine the no. of eyes that could be
donated in this process, the amount of skin that could be harvested for burn
victims, and better quality of education for Doctors who don't have cadavers to study one despite being a populous country. Intentions of greed are so well highlighted by Father Frazer
Mascarenhas, but lack of charity even after death is worse than greed. A minority
community the Jains are the largest eye donors in India. Instead of only
praying and fasting on Good Friday Chirstians could instead go and donate blood
to commemorate the Bloody Crucifixion of Christ. Like Christ Blood, Christian
blood may not save the sinners, but it could definitely save a lot of lives.
It is definitely wrong and
needs strong condemnation of parties who raised their voices to the views of Father
Frazer Mascarenhas. He has the complete right as Indian individual who has the
freedom of speech to express his views. My point is why the reach of the speech
only limited to Gujarat, and not covering the limitations and short comings
in the Catholic faith and community.
So Father
Frazer Mascarenhas, let us start by removing the log in our eyes before we
attempt to remove the thorn in the way of development of Gujarat. Till then
Father don’t preach.
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