Dedications

In every calamity there is an opportunity, but in India, every calamity has been an opportunity for governments to blame someone else. According to today's government, all calamities in this country are because of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and anyone in the opposition in the states.

​The dichotomy or paradox is that in every calamity, there has always been prosperity for ministers in the ruling party. They can even create a calamity to ensure their own prosperity. Prosperity to levels that ensure their future generations are planned to be in power. They ensure their prosperity in every calamity, or ensure there is a constant calamity so there is perennial prosperity for their generations to follow.

​Is winning elections to stay in power the only motto, rather than building a nation that is powerful? Winning a World Cup in cricket will not take away the cup of problems the nation is facing. We should be winning against all calamities with self-sufficiency, where citizens never face cruel hardships like those seen during COVID for gas cylinders, or today, with citizens queuing for cooking gas. The same cooking cylinder that was used as a political campaigning exercise, fooling the poor, is now a struggle to obtain for many.

​With the war crisis in West Asia, there is a shortage of fuel. What have all the governments done since the time of India got it's independence? Having hostile neighbors, what have we prepared ourselves to take pride in, where basic survival security is concerned? The tallest statue in the world, which was built with Chinese help, also leaked? The biggest cricketing stadium, named after a living and ruling Prime Minister, which was a mess in the first monsoon? And finally, the Ram Mandir, which also leaked? If God cannot be protected from the rain, how can the country be protected? 

​India has among the largest reserves of thorium, which can be used to generate electricity. That can produce cheaper electricity, than what is now produced with coal, gas and uranium which is a huge percentage of imports and other imported fuel material? Or has the invention of Modi, of making gas from sewer drains been proven successful? As of now, it is a nation going down the drain along with the war crisis. ​Even biogas can be generated from human excreta. New building constructions that are mandated to have rainwater harvesting could also be told to have septic tanks for human excreta to generate cooking gas.

​If politicians could stop mudslinging between the opposition and the ruling party, which could honestly be termed, in a crude but real way, as 'shit-slinging'. So much Parliament time wasted could have been used to plan how gas from human excreta can be implemented on a war footing. In times of war or otherwise, our energy imports could be reduced drastically.

​Ending on a lighter realistic note: one man’s food can be made from fuel of another man's sh*t.

What is happening now is that politicians are simply feeding us sh*t of divisive politics and hate. Irony is many are even eating it. Bon Appetite, India!

A country with a Prime Minister who even refused to declare his marriage when he filed his papers in 2014. Now wanting to dictate citizens rights on marriage, religion and even succeded banning consumption of beef on religious grounds. A source of cheap protein food for the poor. 

●Mandatory prior declarations before a District Magistrate

●Police inquiries into the reasons for conversion

●Criminalisation of conversions associated with marriage

●Third-party complaints by relatives or unrelated persons

●Reversal of the burden of proof

Stringent bail provisions and enhanced penalties

No citizens in any civilized, allegedly democratic and secular country want to be dictated human right who to marry and which God they want to believe and pray to? If a person cannot change his religion, then what next? A married person cannot divorce and marry someone?

Why are these laws not applied to ministers who jump ship and go to another party? Obvious what has happened in the recent past, with tainted ministers of corruption, joining the ruling party and all their cases or corruption cleared. So is this not conversion by force. Coercion of opposition with money to join the ruling party. Freebies offered to citizens to vote for a party. All this applied to common man for his right to decide who to marry or change to another religion? Why the draconian laws not applied to ministers? 

What about Political Jihad on opposition using IT, EoW, ED and jail opposition with some case with no proof, something happened with AAP leader, Arvind Kejriwal? Christian community which has some of the most respected educational institutions have shameless politicians who pride being educated from these Institutions. Shameless as these are the same politicians who make laws on inter caste marriage and religion conversion rights.

India does not need laws on personal rights on marriage and religion, instead a government needs to focus on women safety, not rapists given bail claiming good behavior in jail, ignoring good quality of infrastructure, quality of food and air. Indians need to awaken to divisive politics and secterian atrocities. As the day will not be far when citizens names would be decided by the government who now decides change of names cities and roads, decide what you can wear, what language you can speak or the way it is going not able to speak at all. 

​After Vietnam, this war with Iran is something the USA will regret. As this war will ensure the complete annihilation of the USA from its military superiority—less a superiority but more of a terrorist. Then it will be its dominance in the financial world and the might of the dollar, whose value would be that of toilet paper.

​When Donald Trump wants to bully Iran and thinks he is awakening the Iranian people to fight for a regime change, it should be the Americans that should be ousting the worst dictator and terrorist it has: an American President. Voices are being silenced who express their opinion against Donald Trump. It's time he realized he is Donald Scum. A leader who is caught with his pants down with the Epstein files. Using all forms of distraction like war or toppling leaders won't help him to get his pants up.

​America needs an internal revolution for its survival. The world is an awakened world and is questioning why America is meddling with world issues, overthrowing rulers of nations which enjoyed prosperity but are now reduced to rubble. Just for oil? Or be a challenge to American interests? If Americans don't wake up soon, they may wake up to an America with homelessness increasing, crimes threatening daily lives, and inflation that would make it difficult for Americans to afford their daily bread. Even invoking the Lord's prayer will not work, as even God cannot save America.

​Choosing Iran as an enemy was the worst and biggest mistake done by America. The stupidest mistake that followed was that by the GCC and Arab nations. Their foolishness in not investing their prosperity into education and research has left many in the generation that followed as zombies living in wealth and with no brains. If Israel and Singapore could arise out of the desert and wasteland and, with no oil or any resources that could catapult them to prosperity, yet ensured they are prosperous.

​How did these nations achieve it? No brainer; they used their brains. Brains to research in medicine, agriculture, technology, and defense in a desert like Israel; a financial hub in a wasteland like Singapore? Why could or why did the Arabs not do it? So where did the Arabs go wrong? Developing countries went about using the talents and brains. Developing space stations, medical science breakthroughs, ensuring defense security, food security, etc.

​What the Arabs did was fall into the trap of the USA, who were and are using them only for their oil. Would any of the GCC countries be where they are if there were no oil? So when the developing world was innovating and researching, Arabs were only praying and preaching the superiority of Islam and what a peaceful religion it is? Is it? When the world, including India, was sending rockets to space, what were the Arabs doing? Screaming prayers into space.

​Back to the USA, this war with Iran will ensure it becomes the United States of Ashes.

The story of the thirsty crow was what I was reminded of at Mass today. The parish priest, whose sermons sound like a crow cawing, accordingly delivered a sermon with a cordless mic, so he could caw close to the laity seated in the pews. This is the same priest who tells lectors not to be dramatic and theatrical when they read.

​Hilarious were his theatrics when he started preaching—I mean cawing his sermon—he came with a pot in his hands. The sermon was displayed by the pot on top of his head or cradled in his arm at his side, showing how women in rural India fetch fresh water and walk miles to get it. The sermon was about the Israelites complaining to Moses about how thirsty they were, and the reading was on Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for a drink of water.

​All this to explain the importance of women in today's world. Little did this Thirsty Pastor know; he had not drunk of the history of Women's Day before weaving biblical gospels and readings to glorify and respect women. Above all, carrying a pot to the sermon, little realizing that potters are in a mainly male-dominated craft industry.

​Just like the Vatican, which has idiots like this who demean women being at the altar.

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​The Church, which is male-dominated, should never be speaking about the importance of women. Hypocrisy is worshipping, venerating, or respecting Mary as the Mother of God. So a woman can be the Mother of God, but she cannot be the head of the Church? Nuns cannot have equal rights as priests and celebrate Mass? What Women's Day is the Church even trying to preach? Women's Day, or the recognition of women, was women fighting for their rights with the women's liberation movement. It was never the Church that came forward in history to give women their rights, nor will it do so in the future. Or is the Church wanting nuns to emulate Mary Magdalene, who poured expensive perfume from an alabaster pot on the feet of Jesus and wiped it with her hair?

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Then there was an anecdote the Pastor tried to explain about why a woman who had everything was unhappy. Apparently, it was because she had married a non-Catholic and she was not attending Church services and Christ was missing in her life. What is the message being driven, especially now in India, which is torn with religious divide? So, will a non-Catholic woman marrying a Catholic be happy? Are people in other religions not happy? Or was the Pastor unhappy that he cannot marry?

​As for this Thirsty Pastor who came to preach with a pot about the importance of women, he came with an empty pot. I wish it had some water so it could quench his thirst for knowledge and history.

​The body and blood of Christ is a metaphor. "Take, eat, and drink; this is my body and blood" is not any spiritual savagery or cannibalism. It is a metaphor of speech from the region where Christ was from. It is like in Britain when a person dies, it is referred to as having "kicked the bucket." So, too, are there metaphors in every culture where a literal translation makes no sense.

​When Christ said, "Take, eat, and drink; this is my body and blood," it meant to take his teaching and the example of his life and live it the way he did, and then go and preach it to others. Unfortunately, today there are only preachers and no examples from the clergy as to how Christ lived. It is not just the clergy; even among the laity, no one is living Christ-like. Everyone is preaching what Christ was like, ending with Christ not liking any of it.

​Even his death, which is explained as "he died for our sins," is a completely wrong interpretation. He died because of the sin and evil practices of the world he lived in, where innocents were also crucified. This is just like in today's world, where innocents are killed in war and others are incarcerated in jails through no fault of their own.

​So, let this period of Lent be less about only what Christ taught us. Let it be about what he actually meant and how much we are living our lives based on the life of Christ.

​Let it not be only the Stations of the Cross and readings of the Passion of Christ; rather, let us give it meaning through the way we lead our lives. How many people’s crosses will we lighten? How many will we avoid crucifying with our greed to succeed and accumulate worldly wealth? Even Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this earth."

​This does not, again, mean the literal interpretation of what Christ said to a rich man when he asked how he could follow him. When Christ said to give up your riches, share them with the poor, and follow him. What he meant was to give up your ego and pride. Share your talents with the less privileged and help others grow. Let it be a resurrection for the underprivileged who are being killed by the capitalism and greed of the world today.

Let us feast on his body and blood of knowledge of what he taught us.