Mixed race kids can be OCI card holders. OCI stands for Overseas Citizen of India. This card is like the American Green Card. India does not allow full fledged dual citizenship for security reasons. So a kid who is an American citizen is allowed maximum to hold only OCI card in INdia which is good enough. With this card, the kid has lifelong green card/residency status in India while retaining his/her American citizenship. The children are entitled to the fair legal share of inheritances. Can opt to live for lifelong in India with both passports. Can own/buy/sell real estate property in INdia, operate bank accounts, work or whatever. No restrictions on owning real estate or holding bank accounts in the US. Will have to file two tax forms (IT returns) that’s all! What is ruled out for OCI guys is only the VOTING RIGHT. The OCI cardholders cannot exercise their adult franchise casting their ballot in the Indian national parliamentary elections. Other than that practically the OCI/NRI (non resident Indian) children can enjoy the benefits of dual citizenship upto some 99%.
Benefits for kids: OCI card holding kids of Indian origin/mixed race with one parent having been born in India living in America, may be eligible for admit into choicest academic institutions under NRI quota. Which means they can get payment seat in esteemed private medical universities under this quota. We have friends’ kids with OCI who have done this. The children went back to the US for their residency alone on having completed their medical degrees in India in premium private medical colleges in the city. A couple of kids even attended A class residential schools that follow international curriculum and also teach Indian fine arts and culture such as Carnatic/Hindustani classical music, Bharatnatyam – the classical dance of India. Apart from this Yoga and meditation are mandatory in these schools. The kids have holistic all round development.
Check out these residential schools in Chennai – around for decades.
A friend of mine is a follower of Sri M. Long back she narrated to me his story. He is a muslim by birth. In one of his previous janams (3 or 4 births earlier), he was a brahmin who was born in a very traditional family steeped in aachaara, anushtaanams. The family followed Mahaavatar Babaji. The young man in the family also followed their footsteps. He wanted to lead a yogic life and so he went to the Himalayas to do his sadhana/meditation/tapas where he found himself a guru. One day he was disturbed by a muslim seeker who wanted to learn the ways to self-realization from him. A fakir whose disciple he was, had sent him there. The brahmin was enraged that a muslim asked him to accept him as his shishya. He refused to teach anything to the muslim man. His guru then said, he would have to take multiple rebirths for that one sin and he would have to be born a muslim in the last birth of his to attain Nirvana. Every single sin or mistake of ours must be corrected and we must learn our lesson. It takes million rebirths to be born the perfect one like the mahaans. In his previous Brahmin birth of his, Sri M was too very close to get liberation from the birth cycle. It was to be his last. But a small slip pushed him back into the rebirth cycle. He endured a couple of more births to learn his lessons. Sri M who is now a born muslim, in his late teens or early 20s, met his guru when he was not looking for one. Later he remembered his previous births and especially the one wherein he refused to teach the spiritual ways to someone who was not brahmin by birth. This probably finally is his last birth. Sri M now is an enlightened being. Sri M’s rebirth story is of relevance to everyone including me me on faith. The depth and reach of Hindu dharma is unbelievable. Buddhism was born out of Hinduism and adopted 90% Hindu philosophy tweaking original Dharma here and there. Such a profound treasure is Sanathana Dharma (Hinduism). Blessed to be born a Hindu. And to be vegetarian from birth is one of the greatest blessings/birth privileges.
Got nothing to do at all with the Abrahamic philosophies. Jesus spent 6 out of 17 of his unknown years in Hindu Kashmir and Puri in India to learn the Hindu scriptures – the Vedas and the Upanishads from Hindu gurus.
Some copy-paste job on Jesus from Google that no Bible can teach them :
How long did Jesus spend in India?
He crossed Punjab and reached Puri Jagannath where he studied the Vedas under Brahmin priests. He spent six years in Puri and Rajgirh, near Nalanda, the ancient seat of Hindu learning.
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Did Jesus learn yoga in India?
Chetan Nath, a leading entity of the Nath Yogi Sampradaya, is considered to be guru of Jesus. It is believed that after crucifixion, he revived Jesus by his yogic powers and returning to India, Jesus lived in Himalayas in Kashmir for the rest of his life. Jesus eventually learned Kriya Yoga technique from Chetan Nath.
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Is Jesus mentioned in Bhavishya Purana?
Vedavyas, a research scholar with a doctorate in Sanskrit, discusses some important prophecies from the Bhavishya Purana, which he says dates back to 3000 B.C. He states that one prophecy describes the future appearance of Isha putra, the son (putra) of God (Isha)(Jesus Christ), born of an unmarried woman named Kumari …
When 15000 year old Hindu Dharma is sitting pretty here without spreading by sword (by conquering) (like Islam) or by bribe/brainwashing (like Christianity) as the ONE AND ONLY CONTINUOUS AND UNBROKEN CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD HISTORY, why do these evangelists/christian missionary mafia want to convert Hindus to Christianity. Your Christ learnt his trade from our Hindu gurus. I am not saying this. Research says.
FOUNDER OF HINDU DHARMA: UNKNOWN
BOOK OF HINDUISM (LIKE BIBLE/KORAN) – NONE (Vedas and Upanishads are scriptures but not the ultimate book)
MECCA/VATICAN FOR HINDUS: NONE – TOO MANY HOLY PLACES AND NOT ONE IN PARTICULAR.
This should shut some big mouths yapping about converting illegally minor children to christian faith which is ILLEGAL. THIS WILL BE VIEWED AS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE INVITING APPROPRIATE RESPONSE/ACTION.
But theft from Hindu Dharma to Christianity continues: Yoga is essentially a tool to be used for your self awareness. It is meant for both physical and mind control. The ultimate goal is renunciation. Now America has beer yoga, goat yoga. How to degenerate and dirty and trivialize anything sacred – the Americans know. They stole and patented mathematical formulas as their own. They stole medicinal acumen and patented them as their own. They are now out to steal even concepts like Kundalini, Avatars (rebirth) etc. See how you-tube is flooded with ‘those who have come back to tell the story having met jesus.’ How is this possible when your Bible never talks of rebirth. Soon they will absorb everything as theirs (christian). Cultural appropriation is their most trusted weapon. What they cannot conquer, they buy out/merge with.
No depth of philosophical knowledge in christian church. Blah blah blah. Such a shallow preaching and understanding of faith. That is why they sell Jesus like Harpic and Whisper door to door. To flush your closet with. To wipe your ass with.
Hindu way of life – Yogic (leading to renunciation as you age – gradual detachment from worldly life). Hindus believe in million rebirths. To escape the birth cycle, you have to have self realization. This is the state of Nirvana which must be attained in your living years. Both the body and mind are temporary. Only the Atma is permanent. In every birth you get a new memory (mind) and body – like a set of clothes that you shed on death. So don’t fret too much. In your next birth, especially if you hate middle east, you may be born in Yemen! To cure you of your evilness, that is how Karma will assign you your next assignment!
American/Christian way of life – Bhogic. Only physical pleasures such as booze and sex are of prime importance. Materialistic life is the meter of the progress of the nation. No attempt for self realization. This is the reason for lack of morality, integrity and ethics among them. No holistic development. Only physical gratification. Physical cravings. No food for the soul. Look at the mass school shootings. EVeryone on therapy. If they are not in the bar, they must be stoned. Junk. Extremely immature population. This is why Steve Jobs to Beatles came looking for a guru to India.
Is it possible to realize deities. Not a pagan without reason. Christanity is superficial and they know their shallowness. Their cunning lies in propagating and projecting the basics of Hindu dharma meant for layman as the crux of dharma, while remaining wholly aware of what is the essence of Dharma. This they have done to all native faiths that are far superior and richer in content than christianity.
Heaven for Hindus is collective conscience – merging with collective consciousness. Everything else – the deities, the heaven, hell etc., may be symbolic.
We don’t want those who are not born Hindu by blood into Hindu Dharma. As an Abrahamic if you realize on your own and you are really a spiritual person, you will be drawn automatically to Sanathani (hindu) way of life. The discipline, the morality, the ethics are for a higher purpose. The body and mind have higher purposes – not for gluttony and booze and sex and gambling alone. You can have your cars and skyscrapers. We shall have our harmony and our hearth.
HALF BAKED CASES with church doing the missionary work for statistics is hilarious.
Not only with spirituality, in every other field Hindus/Indians are good and exceedingly good only. If they have NASA we have ISRO but we are not their level because CIA assassinated over 5000 scientists of ours in last 7 decades. Unexplained inexplicable mysterious deaths including high profile ones like Homi Bhaba, founder of Indian Atomic Mission. USA are better than rest of the world because they KILL,, sabotage and wipe out others. Its not that others are not competent enough. Its just like when their Jesus had a Hindu guru, they don’t speak about it but try to convert rest of the world to Christianity.
Friends’ daughters are all my daughters! Really, they make up for what I lack and long for always: A DAUGHTER. Of course my granddaughter filled up that vacuum.
Daughters are always the fashion advisors for moms. I am at a great disadvantage that way with nobody to tell me what is the latest trend. That is when I miss a daughter most!
But I do have friends’ daughters giving me grooming tips! What to buy. What is in. What should go with what.
I am that ‘fair & lovely’ girl who never used another day cream in my life. At night sometimes if I would remember, the good old Ayurvedic Kumkumadi tailam which is oil actually. Nothing more. When I started an anti-ageing cream in my 40s, a friend asked me to stop it because anti-ageing formula is addictive to the skin. Its also expensive. You have to keep feeding your skin the lotions lifelong. I immediately gave that up and moved to simple moisturizers mostly from Bodyshop. Why Bodyshop? Because their products are vegan, for no other reason. Plus supposedly organic.
Friend’s daughter said that was not enough. She said I had to start using vitamin c serum. It was she who put me on that routine – after I crossed into my 50s! Seriously never knew of this basic skin care idea! Then one day I applied the serum and went out in the desert sun. When I told her she was appalled! ‘Aunty you can’t do that!’ Your facial pores will be open on vitamin c application and you will be tanned like tar!’ It was too late and the damage was done! I was under direct sun with vitamin c serum for hours for continuous 2-3 days when there was national holiday. By fourth day my skin looked beyond repair. It took months to get back my normal tone. Its from that day I started googling about skin care – or if I started a new routine. You needed to know the followups and the do’s and don’ts. Now I go as per her advice: vitamin c + moisturizer + spf cream for sun protection even if I am home and for the evenings too because we have radiation from our phones and laptop monitor. I can’t believe I wasn’t even aware of this fundamental skin care until I hit my half century! Well, that’s what we need a daughter for! But I hope my coconut oil applications for decades and healthy skin maintenance the natural way have somewhat helped me even if I failed to keep up with the chemical skin care routine of the modern world. If not for this girl, I would have never bought a vitamin c serum in my life! But then, none of my school friends use one either! They won’t listen to me either and condemned my recommendation to the backburners of their mind! They don’t have to. They are all beauties without any of this extra attention to grooming.
My friend’s daughter also took one look at my eye bags and dark circles and recommended certain brands of under-eye creams. I follow her advice but I also apply aloe vera fresh gel plucked from my plant. On and off I would use the aloe vera extract straight on my face and neck along with honey. For de-tan or tan removal, I used to mix lemon juice in honey or simply rub a tomato slice on to my face. Mostly I have followed natural methods only so far. But on taking special care of my eye bags, I see a lot of improvement. Its slow progress but its happening.
On my ex friends’ gang’s insistence I once tried Keratin straightening. But when I googled it, I was shocked to discover that the chemicals in the treatment included formaldehyde which is a toxic carcinogen. I stopped forthwith plus I hated the straight hair and missed my frizzzzzzzz!
My friends’ daughter asked me to avoid shampoos with paraben and sulphate. So I dropped all the global brands and settled mostly for Bodyshop again. Two years back the girl asked me to quit Bodyshop so I did! Introduced me to Sephora where I never gave ample business! Before she spoke about them, I never even noticed the Faceshop or Mac honestly! She recommended coffee in everything! Coffee base for under-eye cream. Coffee for hair, everything coffee coffee coffee for an already hyper coffee lover! So I switched over to Herbal Essence coffee (shampoo)!
Just today the brat said I can’t be using shampoos with di-sodium EDTA and tri-sodium EDTA and perfume in my shampoos when I picked up a coffee shampoo from Watson’s. I got confused. Because, I never knew that shampoos contained perfumes in them! She put back whatever I took in the basket and gave me what she thought was safe! I put back what she selected for me from the store reading the price tag! The girl then asked me to get Husk from Lulu then that would fit my budget! Still the price is 30 riyal which is 10 real more than the 19 riyal Herbal essence! But considering her valuable inputs and health advice, I shall consider her recommendations!
The young lady also suggests a complete overhaul of my skin care routine but I said a big NO! This is more than enough for me! I am still happy with the Oud from the souq that I buy for 40 riyal. I have never bought a Burberry or Armani in my life! Only in last 2-3 years I am for the spray. I like the mild Marks & spencers ones. Never otherwise used perfumes. The girl admits the perfumes through our nasal breath enter our systems and affect the cell molecules. A chief reason for increasing infertility in women is this.
Anyway, passing on this tip when it comes to shampoo selection: check the constituents. I used to check for paraben and sulphates. Now I must also ensure that my shampoo also won’t contain the so=called di sodium EDTA and tri sodium EDTA and perfumes – besides parabens and sulphates ! These toxic chemicals are supposedly carcinogens.
My friend’s daughter recommended Nathabit from India, the Ayurvedic brand. Of course I got just that without knowing about it this time from Chennai. I got their lip balm and body moisturizers. I am loving them. For undereye cream as well, this time I got everything from India – all Ayurvedic products. In India, I always opt for Ayurvedic range.
I am also blank on fashion front. I check what is the latest and go for whatever. When we go shopping together, the kid dismisses most of my selections and picks up something for me. Priceless! Or if I want a suggestion she gives me. I really miss a daughter terribly in my life who could give me so much of grooming advice! What colour to choose, what to wear, how to take care of your skin, what is the latest picture, what is going on in Chennai, where to eat etc. I love the ice cream recommendations from here. Sorry can’t still recall the names. Will update soon. We don’t get that in India as yet. Heaven! I really don’t even know the cars of the city these days. I noticed the MG for the first time only this year after the girl got it. Yeah she drives an MG in India! My friends’ daughters are all queens! Until she told me I wasn’t aware that we have this car in Chennai!
When our only kid chooses to live abroad, this is what parents lose. Information on the latest trends. Mobile phones – we simply buy the latest on the scene, that’s all. From fitness to food ideas, cinemas to holidays, from giving us moral support to being ours for our lifetime, daughters are such a dependable pillars to families. Especially mothers.
I owe a lot to my friend’s daughter who is also like my own. Otherwise who will try to spruce the clumsy me up! I am popular for choosing wrong colours and mismatching accessories!
When we spend our time with the younger generation, we feel refreshed. Our mind is free. A daughter’s love can be so heartwarming.
Rounding off with my favourite song. My granddaughter is a blessing like none other. She fills such a huge gaping hole of vacuum in our lives with the sparkle of her presence.
August 12th is the World Elephants Day. I don’t have to say much. I have blogged enough out of love for elephants of India, especially the domesticated ones. May be in my previous janam I was a temple elephant. My elephantine love also has earned me a pet name from my friends, some of who happen to call me only by that name for years now! The Indian elephant: Such a gentle giant. Sweet and wise. Elephants are also very emotional creatures. Their communication in low frequency with their herd makes them a very intelligent mammal species. We may be the last few generations lucky to see the pachyderms in flesh and blood. If you are Indian, you may see a domesticated temple elephant walking casually alongside the road in heavy traffic! Cows, elephants and all at the green lights: that is India for you! The Indian elephants may go extinct by the turn of the century. Very recently was witnessed, the Wayanad landslide tragedy that buried villages. In the same river where a pregnant elephant stood dying having eaten a pineapple stuffed with explosives fed by villagers, at a different point in Wayanad, floated hundreds of lifeless bodies and torn homes. That is the power of nature. Karma is real. When the last elephant is gone, it shall take away the bees and the trees with them. Who is Shiva. Shiva is the elephant. Elephant is Shiva. Imagine barring elephants from elephant corridors that they walked and knew by instinct for millions of years. Destroying nature and doing your bit for quickening the extinction of a mammoth and distinctive species from the face of earth hardly counts to me as faith. Brutal inhumane treatment of the tuskers in our temples by those who swear by vegetarianism hardly makes sense. You know what is meant by halaal? Killing in one stroke going for the jugular – making it painless for the beast. What makes people judge races on their food habits. Its those who rear elephants in Guruvayur who are cruel and heartless. Not the beef eaters. The breaking of the will of the elephant calf – this can be heartwrenching. The calf that shall grow into a fine male tusker to bear the deities on his back starts believing that the chains are his limits. Broken psychologically. India has a chance if the temple elephant culture comes to a close. India can hope about adding a decade or more years to the elephants of the subcontinent if the Dasara parade of the elephants may come to an end. There is no point otherwise in the prime minister going on record about the world elephants day. It is still in the government power to do something about it. For those in power, everything unfortunately is about vote bank. They can never go against their vested interests. Such a sad day really.
Meanwhile every elephant that walks on earth to me is saakshaath Ganesha! Cannot imagine our Vinayaka bound by chains, can you.
Hue and cry over Vinesh Phogat getting disqualified and denied the opportunity of winning the gold for India in the Paris Olympics wrestling. Before the finals, Phogal was found weighing 100 gms over 50 kg that led to the disqualification. The matter is in courts to get her a silver. But the Olympic committee wondered where to draw the line. Meanwhile speculations are rife in India laying the blame at the Indian govt’s doorsteps for thwarting the gold for Phogat because of her political involvement (into which I wouldn’t want to delve). Most athletes and sportspeople have come in support of Phogat including some international sportsmen. Many of them have also taken a careful stance expressing sympathy and not indulging in wild speculation. But it remains a fact that body weight is of key concern in the wrestling category.
such a bad luck! but the wrestler seems to be aware of rules and regulations. speculations must stop with this.
Aman Sehrawat the wrestler who won bronze for India in 57 kg category being just 21, shed 4.5 kg overnight reportedly to ensure his eligibility. In an interview he says he ate only the food from India and not the mess food while in Paris. His coach made him shed kilos of weight just the previous night before the round for his bronze. Here is a copy-paste job from Google.
Indian wrestler Aman Sehrawat won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but the victory didn’t come easy to him. Following his semifinal defeat to Japan’s Rei Higuchi on Thursday, August 8, the 21-year-old faced a daunting task—losing 4.5 kilograms to meet the 57kg category limit within 10 hours
Apparently two Indians have done that: Mary Kom for her gold in 2018 and Aman Sehrawat for bronze in 2024: shedding kilos of weight in hours to make it to the medal round. Saina Nehwal was the only sportsperson to say that the responsibility of body weight maintenance lay with the athlete. If indeed politics is involved it is a shame.
Phogat’s could have been the only gold for India after some let-downs.
For Neeraj Chopra who went from gold to silver, once you peak that is how you exit step by step. Even without injury matching Arshad Nadeem’s new world record in javelin would not have been a cakewalk. As Neeraj himself said, the day belonged to Nadeem. Lets close the chapter at that. But its still magnanimous on Chopra’s part not to explain his silver with the injury, not even announcing his injury in the event, and not to dim Nadeem’s light. This is the real sporting spirit.
As for Aman who was orphaned at 11 and raised by grandfather and uncle, the bronze is just the beginning. He becomes the youngest athlete in Indian history to win an Olympic medal. His story is incredible like that of Arshad Nadeed from Pakistan. Even Phogat’s story is unbelievable. I really feel sorry for her and that’s such a cliched word.
India’s Olympic rally has been good. For a nation like ours, bagging 6 medals at world level is still a feat. One or two of them must have been gold. Clear near misses. And a half a dozen fourth places which is no mean achievement. 10th in Steeple chase. We neither have the amenities nor the resources for even coming up to this stage. Its entirely upto our sportspeople to make theirs a success story.
Meanwhile there is more: Japan’s gold medalist wrestler Rei Higuchi who lost his gold to being overweight by 50 gms extends his support to Phogat. Did Modi stop even this gold medal.
Phogat has won everyone’s sympathy and the moral gold. Even the Sanghi capabilities have a limitation. They cannot extend as far as France or to the Olympic committee.
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Meanwhile our Nita Ambani never shy of stealing anyone and everyone’s thunder also posed with Manu Bhaker, the twin medalist in Paris.
Neeraj took a silver and his mother said, Arshad Nadeem from Pakistan who took the gold in javelin throw also is like a son to her. The beauty is, Neeraj never mentioned his injury anywhere that still got him silver. Its magnanimous on his part not to draw the media or world attention to his injury. He goes on to say the day belonged to Nadeem. It takes a big heart and real sportsmanship to do what he did. Neeraj is the kind of sportsman not only India but the world can do with. Respects for him. Its also unfortunate that Vinesh Phogat got disqualified for weighing 100 g in excess during the final. Even if one eats a plate of biriyani the body weight will increase overnight by 1 kg. Hopefully she is awarded at least a silver. Right now the hearing on the court case is on. Is it too much to expect to wake up with a medal news? Further hope there is no politics involved in getting her disqualified. India is very unlucky this time around. So far 5 bronzes and 1 silver but too many near misses for bronze. The famous 4th place for Indians in many categories. It still means they are the world’s 4th best. Unfortunately that is hardly a comforting thought. At least 6 more medals lost to India by whisker.
Why should the head of an Islamic state seek asylum in India, the Hindu country. Why couldn’t Sheikh Hasina flee to Pakistan or Saudi. What made Dalai Lama seek asylum in India. What made the Jews and Zoroastrians feel safe in India. That is the beauty of Sanathana Dharma, Hinduism, that eschews violence and adharma. Bharat is a sanctuary to all those repressed and on the run.
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How to push back the waves and waves of immigrants battering down the border. The spillover to India is going to have an immediate impact on our border states. Hindus are turning into minority in the seven sister eastern states of India with illegal Bangladeshi immigrants legalizing their residency and taking over villages. Its against the natural setting of predominantly Hindu India. The Rohingya muslims have made Kashmir their home. These disturbing factors are going to work against the majority Hindu state very soon as the muslim population in India thanks to unchecked refugee inflow is going to tip the already precariously balanced apple cart. In the state of Kerala we may be having a situation. Hindus have been reduced to mere 33% or even less and without family planning, the Kerala muslim population seems to have exploded. Wherever the native population has to dip, it is not going to bring in good news. The democracy of India in incumbent upon the demography of India. Hindus continue to have one or two kids maximum. Funny I don’t think that the idea of installation of Bhairava temples in the borders of India is strange at all, as suggested by a renowned Tantrik. With age you believe 100% in holistic ways to find remedy for situations including political and defence matters. With the Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina in India seeking asylum (hopefully on her way to UK), expect some 1.3 crore Bangladeshi Hindus to be hunted down by violent mobs. Any trigger in their political system, the Bangladeshi Hindus face instant backlash – with the women raped and the men murdered in the cold blood. Even temples get demolished and the temple priests hacked to death. The priests are the chief targets. All this for what? India investing heavily in Bangladesh. Bangladeshis given medical visas to get subsidized cataract surgery to cancer treatment in India. Our hospitals are teeming with their patients.
What kind of a state is that the head of the state must flee for life. This is not how masses in mature democracies conduct their affairs. Mass public looting looks scary. Most Islamic countries are societies where jungle laws prevail and the mob unrest is allowed to progress to extreme levels of even ousting the head of the state. Protests may be viewed legal so far as they remain peaceful and don’t turn violent causing damage to lives and public property. Arson is simply inadmissible. There seems to be a collapse of law and order in Bangladesh.
Had this conversation with a Zara shop girl. I said the quality of Zara is not what it used to be. The Filipino girl who was billing, whose face I don’t remember, said that is because the denim is now from Bangladesh NOT India and even the t shirts and tops were. To cut costs Zara moved factory to Bangladesh as India is expensive. Result: quality compromise. This is very much apparent in last few years. For a fact I shop for brands only when there is a sale. Even Zara fittings have gone haywire.
Why can’t nations take care of themselves and not disturb other societies. India needs to seal her borders and if possible install a barbed wire fence. This is where I can appreciate Trump! It is also time to check the sops offered to Bangladeshi citizens in India while our own are poor. Modi government must remember: whatever you do to this kind of society is WASTED. It will be naive of India to expect gratitude or understanding from Bangladesh or Maldives because they are not Hindus. At the end of the day they will belong with the Umma. In Tamil we say ‘vizhalukku iraitha neer.’ If Tamil nadu once upon a time had Srilankan refugees, they were all Hindus and they were very eager to get back to the island nation once things cooled down. Every single one of them has left the Indian soil. That is it about Hindus. While we can empathize with Bangladeshi Hindus whose ancestors have faced worst and violent brutality of the masses, India cannot take on 1.3 crore of them. Plus in the garb of the Hindus it will be mostly the Bangladeshi muslims who will be sneaking in.
This is just the first acid test. SEcond test will be when Pakistan may break up (eventually). That is going to be the defining moment for India. The breakup of Pakistan with refugees knocking at our doors could threaten us with a breakup as well. Guess in one of my posts I have expressed this concern of just not me but most Indians. India is sandwiched between two very violent and bloody and poor and backward Islamic nations. Its going to consume every single ounce of our nerves to plan and be ready for such a situation. I hope the country will be then in good hands like Modi’s. If a rat like Rahul Gandhi must be in charge, then forget Bharat Matha. What the mugals could not do, what the British could not do – this maniac will do ushering in the death of India and extinction of Hindus with his cunning and ulteriorly motivated stewardship.
Who can change destiny. I believe even nations have destiny. From since I read the book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuvah Noah Harari, the best way out of Hindus is to go extinct like the Parsis than live in a world run by ….
I am not watching the Paris Olympics. But this is super news. Media should also give equal credit to Sarabjot Singh who won the second medal for India with her.
Kamala Harris and Usha Vance both have their roots in my hometown Chennai, India. I can give this to them being a south Indian woman myself 😀 : They must have substance! Its American politics so its alien subject for me. Another Indian origin man with roots in south India Vivek Ramaswamy was also in the fray but bowed out. The three have not reached this level in the US without merit. Kudos to the Indian American community! Recently Elon Musk heaped praise on Indian origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy for being the reason behind auto pilot innovations in Tesla. Way to go! Another Indian origin NASA astronomer Sunita Williams is caught up in trouble in the space. Let us hope and pray she lands safe.
Wokeism is the rage of the day. Overhyped. I can’t look at it in one dimension. Those who have suffered persecution for centuries/generations will know. But taking it to extremes is a reason for worry. As Rajiv Malhotra discusses in his channel, this issue of taking wokeism too far like for instance when it comes to gender identity and therefore rendering the sexual orientation irrelevant, we may be treading into very dangerous territory. In fact, we may be going right against nature and in particular biology. Chemotherapy destroys the good and the bad cells in cancer patients. Wokeism is something like that. However with the bad, we cannot afford the good to be swiped down in real world we live in. You cannot nullify all that has happened up until today. That can only take us back to square one. However the racial and religious grounds remain tense global matters. In India we have lefties with radical views. Everything must have an anti theory for them. We are looking at a ‘free for all’ scenario – dope, booze and sex without censorship. To an extent we all are for equitable social justice. But history cannot be undone. Transgenders are recognized as third sex even in India and every application form for university or employment or banking or even train/flight booking gives the third sex option for choice. But parents do have a legal hold and say on their children until they turn 21. Losing an adult child can be painful. I am not a big fan of Elon Musk but in this one case, my sympathies are with him. May be someday there will be truce. For a brief phase, estrangement between parents and kids can happen. This is not unusual, rather part of the growth process for the teens. And this is not a permanent status in one’s life. Its my reckoning that Musk takes it as a personal affront that his son should choose to become a woman. America seems to be trendsetter in every field: from silicon breast implants and egg donations to surrogacy, sex change surgeries and all, and once you go down this lane, there can be no end in sight.
Surrogacy must be reserved for those who cannot medically conceive a fetus: not for those who are physically capable. You see even the Bollywood stars like SRK, Aamir Khan etc., going for surrogacy to have not their first but third, fourth kids. Tamil actress Nayanthara in perfect physical shape and fertile age BYPASSED LAWS and had twin boys by surrogacy. Meanwhile, govt of India preferred to look else where. When values are trodden upon for material/business reasons, when a mother would not even want to carry her biological children in her womb so as to sell her body without disfigurement to make more money, then what is there left in that society to hope for? I wouldn’t say India is any better than Europe of US. My autowala used to say, ‘amma you don’t look for these things. you keep searching for any hidden temple on the way! that is why you are missing what is going on all around you!’ He pointed to me a young guy sprawled face down on footpath with drug overdose. My heart skipped a beat. We have blatant misuse of surrogacy concept in India. Drugs are available in kirana shops. Modi govt has lost total control. Is ineffective when it comes to dealing with dope issues. Under DMK, Tamil Nadu is witnessing a hitherto unseen spike in use of spurious drugs. What is the law enforcement doing. Taking commissions from ganja dealers? Laws must also be spruced up to allow surrogacy only for a first child to medically unfit couple incapable of conceiving on their own. Recently there was a case of a young man expiring on surgery table on careless administration of anesthesia for hair grafting. In productive years, why are our youth pre-occupied with frivolous superficial matters? A friend told me that a girl from Delhi or Punjab (not sure) who was attending a deemed university in the city sold her eggs to buy an I phone. I couldn’t believe this happened in Chennai.
However, there is a tendency among the Musk-Trump tent to brush everything under the carpet in the name of ‘wokeism.’ One only has to recall the suffragettes, Martin Luther King etc., to be reminded why it is at all necessary. The coinage may be new but the concept is not. We live in a fairly decent era in the present thanks to the rebellions and coups of our ancestors: bloody or bloodless.
Wokeism for just purposes in a peaceful manner must be okay. You cannot put a blanket ban on every protest, every banner, every social cause. Some of the issues may be sensitive and may warrant action. Things will work out fine in the long run. The younger generation has no patience left to wait for such a day. Injustices are balanced by nature in course of time. Time alone can bring justice. We have reservations in India to compensate for centuries of caste discriminations. Every tilt to one side will correct itself given some time gap. America too has done a lot for restoring social justice and equality among genders and races. Human rights SUPPOSEDLY matter more over there!
Sometimes I am glad and relieved I am 55, and we grew up in a nice sweet innocent and warfree world. Chennai was good old Madras then, resembling a huge village. So green, unpolluted. We never knew the meaning for the word ‘violence.’ Not even biriyani was there! Never happened to watch a street fight. Dance, music, academics, art, temples – this was what life was about. Sometimes I wish I could return to the 80s when my peers all had rosy teen years. It was the last of safe times we were seeing perhaps, little did we know then. Our world was insulated from the harsh world reality of bloodshed and material greed. Our parents led a simple but satisfying and happy life.
I always factor in the variance – the standard deviation which accounts for a small percentage of noncompliance – the nonconforming. We need these odd balls to practise our tolerance. Variety after all is the spice of life. The diversity is what is the beauty of our existence than the boring monotony/familiarity. Once upon a time, Hindu women had to throw themselves into the funeral pyres of their husbands who passed away. Burnt alive. Probably a woke mind virus afflicted Raja Ram Mohan Roy to take up the social cause and correct the situation, right Malhotra ji? WAs India’s freedom struggle wokeism? The women and the shudras of my country had to fight legal battles to enrol in schools and universities. Nobody called it ‘woke’ but it was the need of the hour. When we skip or postpone righting the wrongs, we are inviting civil wars. However we can attempt to improve the situation than call for dismantling the establishment. Therein lies the difference.
SEx change in Hindu history Mahabharatha: SHIKANDI. Fifteen to ten thousand years back, India/Hindus recognized transgenders who even changed sexes supposedly. Both Malhotraji and Musk must note.
Poor Vivian/Xavier. We can all speak from the lectern. Post comments in social media. But what to say to a kid who is all confused about sexual orientation. It can be baffling. If this is not suicidal then what is. Someone is born a transgender not by genetic disposition or any disease. It is just a single chromosome going freak when the sperm breaches the egg. It can happen to anyone. Any normal healthy couple can beget a transgender kid irrespective of their race or religion or caste. Nobody to blame: not the genes or the family tree, not the community. Just one of those unpredictable accidents of nature. If Musk cannot understand even now, then its better that, that child of his is lost to him. Denial will someday hopefully lead to acceptance and understanding. All of it does not boil up to wokeism. Seriously we observe that there is a lot of mind related problems in the US. People care more for dogs and cats over fellow humans. We are all for wildlife and domestic pets – and in fact our forefathers did not bring any species whether human or flora or fauna to extinction like the Brits and other Europeans did. But if you have enough love to show for humans, the mind will be free on that one monumental expansion touching so many lives. There can be fewer counselling sessions and less medication. Regrettably India is walking down the same road.
Have all the freedom on earth – subject to limits. Your freedom ends when you stamp on your neighbour’s foot. EVerthing in moderation. Never take law into your hands. Go by the law. Play by the rules. Pieces will fall into their places with time. This is my final word for wokeism.
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