Biggest loss - Loss of HUMANITY

Today the biggest question to be addressed is, where have we lost all our humanity? What led to this stage where we all have lost sense of empathy? Where did we gave up our emotions in our pity arrogance. How did we lose the sympathy we had for each other in the dust of ignorance?

The news which made the headline today in the newspaper  was the gang rape case of Bhopal. Rape is the most hideous crime anyone could commit. These rapist should be hanged in the middle of the road in front of everybody. Yes! I agree with all the girls voicing up for the capital punishment for such crimes. 

But today when I write this article I don’t want to talk about what should be done to these criminals rather talk about what happened to  our society and the people living in it. A girl gets dragged in front of them and no one cares to notice it. The rape victim, after collecting all her strength that is left in her, after the physical trauma she goes through comes to the police station for aid, instead of filing her complaint, the police makes her and her parents run between three police stations. Have we really lost all the love and compassion that we talk about in our scriptures or they are just the mythological stories we like to chant. 

We always tend to blame Pitamaha Bishma, when we talk about the epic Mahabharatat, why didn’t he say word when Dropadi called out for his help. That Girl must have called out for succour, why didn’t we do something. When she and her parents went to the police, why did police came into the role play of Dhritarashtra closing all eyes and ears.

Today, I was sitting with one of my friend in canteen who belongs to a very small town. During the conversation he was telling me the benefit of living in small town is, people are very much compassionate towards each other. If you are going through any financial crisis, your neighbour will make sure you manage through your month. 

Then, what is the advantage of being so developed? What is the benefit of this artificial development, if we lose the essence of our true Indian nature where we talk about “vasudhev Kutumbakam” or “sarve bhavantu sukhinah”. 

Even today when someone dies in a village of India, the whole community living in that area gathers up just to help the family. Here, in a developed city, a state capital, a girl gets raped and so called prudent police, who is here to help the society does even care to give her tragedy a ear. Tell me what did we achieved by this wordlly progress, maybe just height of insensitivity. 

Strict punishment for the rapist should definitely be decided soon. But the penance for ourself, as the part of the this society who allowed this incident and many more to take place needs to be decided by us.

Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshastriya Adhyayan

Dr. Ankur Pare : Book Review of “ Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshastriya Adhyayan ”


Author - Dr. Ankur Pare
Country -   India
Book -   Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshastriya Adhyayan
Language - Hindi
Publisher - Sunrise Publication, New Delhi (India)
Publication Year - 2017
Media Type - Print (hardback)
Pages - 183
ISBN - 978-93-80966-70-0
Price - Rs. 800

INTRODUCTION –
Dr. Ankur Pare is a famous young sociologist and author. Many important research papers have been published by him at International and National research journals. His major research work was displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation.






PLOT –

The author Dr. Ankur Pare has done a scientific research study of the problem of displacement in his book " Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshastriya Adhyayan ". Economic development is essential in all countries but positive and negative effects of development projects also emerge. Displacement is a global catastrophic problem. Displacement due to development has emerged as an international and national problem. At the global level Tehri project in Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Ghana, Indonesia and India, Uttarakhand, Bisalpur project ( Himachal Pradesh), Sardar Sarovar project (Gujarat), Kudankulam project (Tamil Nadu), Narmada project (Madhya Pradesh), etc due to these projects the problem of displacement occurred. The proper implementation of development projects can be done. Dr. Ankur Pare in his book “ Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshashtriya Adhyayan ” has interpreted applied research regarding displacement.

EDITION –

The book of Dr. Ankur Pare, " Visthapit Parivaron ka Samajshastriya Adhyayan ", is published in the year 2017 by India's leading publication, Sunrise Publication, New Delhi (India), ISBN 978-93-80966-70-0.

CONCLUSION –

Sociologist Dr. Ankur Pare has done extensive scientific study of social, economic, cultural, religious and political effects of displacement. He recommended to follow " Minimum Displacement and Maximum Rehabilitation ".

Hindutav - meaning and perception.

The preamble of our country's constitution describes our nation as a secular one. Which surely is true and fair because we have infinite numbers of religion and beliefs. When we talk about the country like India, it’s really unfair to describe it as a secular in a written form because we belong to a nation, which has been secular in its practice since the ancient times. Secular state is a sate which neither supports religion nor irreligion. Now the big question arises what was the basic law in those times which allowed everyone to practice their own beliefs and culture. What was there in those times, which from our understanding we call undeveloped state, which allowed everyone to follow their own paths to reach the ultimate power. Answer would be hindutav. What today has been misinterpreted as something which divides our nation, which today has been misinterpreted as something which cultivates the seed of communalism. 
In context of today’s politics all the parties are trying to suppress rising party BJP on name of hindutav. Where every other party is trying proving themselves as the worshiper of secularism and equality while on the other hand t portraying BPJ as someone who is trying to cross the border line between Hindus and Muslims.
What exactly is hindutav is a necessary question and the question whose answer should be well perceived. Let’s first talk about from where did this term originated -  V.D sawarkar coined the term in his essay, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? As an atheist, he took pains to emphasize that Hindutva was not synonymous with Hinduism. The addition of –ism links the term Hindu with all the cultural beliefs and norms. His concern was political; the political mobilization of Hindus into one nation. 
What is hindutav that RSS and BJP talks about? Hindutav was never related with cultural preferences or worshiping one god, it basically means a way of leading a life. Hindutav talks about “serve bhavantu sukhinah sarve santu niramaya” which means May all be happy, may all be healthy. It has a nature to nurture and respect every individual. Hindutav has dynamic concept which is above all spiritual goals. 
Another concept which is related to hindutav is known cultural nationalism which is widely spoken by RSS leaders. They urge on having one unique identity of our country. Which by all means is a Hindu nation. That simply doesn’t mean neglecting other cultures because most of it like Jain, Buddhist, Sikh took birth into it. Where on the other hand culture like Persian or Muslim were never part this holy land either they invaded or came as a guest to our country. Of course for most of them, as savakar quotes, “ it’s their birth land or say pitrbhu since they were born and bought up here but it will never be their holy land or as we say punyabhu. Anyone whose pitrabhu and punyabhu is India is a Hindu. 
India is not only the state where cultural nationalism is talked about. Cultural nationalism was and is the key topic of U.S.A. France identified itself as a cultural nationalist country though having different cultures within a nation though they do have developed respect for the other cultures present in it. But these all nations were smart enough to understand the importance of their languages, beliefs, and cultures. That is the main reason why as soon as they got independence, they fought for their nationalism and thus became the most developed nation of the world. France leaders always believed "their language is the key of their independence and prosperity". But the irony of India is, we didn’t understand the value of our identity back then nor today the so called leader’s of our country are trying to. 
When a Muslim community is given around 50 minutes off from their work hour to recite their prayers then how come chanting a bhajan gets communal. When a Christian is a proud Christian, when Muslim is a proud Muslim, then how it gets communal to be a proud Hindu. Being secular is different and neglecting our own tradition just to support someone else’s is different.
BJP and RSS leaders have always been very vocal about hindutav and always been alleged on destroying our country on the name of community by the opposition party. What baffles me is how being the one who exactly you are becomes the topic of controversy and debate. When a citizen of America is an American, then why the citizen of Hindustan, the land Hindus, can’t be a Hindu.
Usually the debates which run over and around the place are if we call it a Hindu nation what will happen to other religion who are residing in our country? How would they survive? Concerns are well made and well defined. But what I believe as I said above, need is to understand the meaning of hindutav by our dear politicians and byall the so called prudent secularists.
Recently an article was published in Times of Indian where the writer went on saying “hindutav in state through crack down on illegal slaughterhouses, setting up anti Romeo squad or ban on wearing jeans by govt. officers shows that in hindutav style govt. there little space for individual right and free will” now what I don’t understand is how we can relate the activity of closing down something illegal to hindutav, how making sure no girl gets eve teased on road can be related to a belief system and how a step of maintaining decorum in an office becomes hot topic of dispute about the free will of an individual. 
Modi government regime which tried on creating a national identity while focusing on the development of the nation has left the entire opposition spell bound and probably made their thinking capability inefficient. Maybe that’s the reason of making all flawed arguments by the opposition party members. Sab ka sath sab ka vikas in my belief is true picturisation of the most controversial subject “hindutav”.
  

An open letter to peace.

Peace,

Today once again I raised the volume of music to lower the voice running inside my head. Today once again I tried to murder my thoughts. Today once again i tried to ignore the haunted words racing inside me. even  Today a moment came where I ignored all the emotions which were surfacing my head. I don't know till when it's going to happen to me. Until when I would go through this insane pain. Until when I would die daily. I have developed the habit of running away from my own feelings.

Dear peace, I miss you.

Sometimes I hallucinate, there's a knock on my door and I run, I run quickly. As I open the door, I see you. I watch you standing there giving me your hand. Asking me to hold it. You give a comforting smile. Your smile assures me that everything would be fine. Everything would be normal again. You give an expression which makes me believe, this pain, this trauma would end soon. It would just melt down when I will hold your hand.

 But, but oh my beloved peace as I try to hold your hand, as I try to touch you,As soon as I try to come close to you so that I could find my solitude, you just disappear. You just fly away. You just disappoint me by playing a hideous prank with my emotions like everyone else. You just go away. I stand still. I stand numb there watching you running away from me. I do try to chase you. Trust me, I try to chase you but all my efforts, all my struggles go in vain. I then simply stare at you with blank, tearful eyes, while you vanish somewhere in the dust.

My Peace, please stop playing hide and seek with me. Please come back to me. Come I need you. Its terrible out here without you. I surround myself with people just to forget that we are no longer together. I work day and night just to make sure I don’t have a spare moment to miss you. I try to party hard and dance like a maniac, hoping I would fool myself that I m happy without you. But I don’t know how and why all of the sudden a moment arises where all my demons, all my fear come on surface and then I miss you.

Your long lost friend,
an empty soul.

(it’s not the story of my life or your life. It is somewhere or the other story of everyone’s life. We are so much into the habit of neglecting our emotions on the face and the name of work and pressure that we tend to forget what we are missing. We are all trying to find peace today, which is somewhere lost in race of our life. We all come across a night where we badly need a sense of contentment which surely we cannot derive from a bottle of alcohol or getting lost in the crowd. Lets try to spend a little time with our self without ignoring any single thought, “peace” must be somewhere inside those thoughts.)