Death of India’s Democracy

The Indian freedom struggle was the most important period in the Indian history. The struggle where freedom fighters were doing everything to get rid of the British Raj, but the elders have something different to say. I have interviewed over 100 surviving elders from pre-independence era; they said that they were happier under the British rule. Although they said that they didn’t have the liberties and didn’t have right to vote, yet the civic services, water, electricity, good roads, clean environment, better living, employment and many other administrative services were above standards.

 

Today India decides their government with only 40% people casting their ballots. That’s not how a democratic society is governed. Many would argue saying that if people don’t vote then how we can have reform. But the facts are if all the political parties are founded on the basis of crime, corruption, fear, violence, brutality and breaking laws, then how can sane citizen decide whom to vote. Many parties but choice is less. One example is the Professionals Party of India (PPI), a party formed by educated people from the society. When they contested in 2009 elections their candidate was defeated by a bigger margin by a corrupt party candidate. Indians are so used to live in filth, crime, corruption and destructiveness that they are still not prepared for a reformed or a decent party to be elected.

 

It has been observed that in Five years no high level criminals are charged or sentenced to punishment. They come on the news channels under breaking news everyday like havala scam, murder, rape, bribe, terrorist links, barbarism etc., Thereafter, no news channels cover these accused and as to what really happened to them, were they sentenced, all we know is those criminals & politicians are free in the  society.

 

I wont take you very far away in the village areas, but the worst example of the failures of Indian civic administration is that just 5 kms away from Mumbai ( Bombay ) city the adjoining towns don’t have proper water and electric supplies.

 

While driving in the cities of India, one can casually break the traffic rule and escape penalty by just bribing the less than a dollor to a Policeman.

 

 

Pollution control is just not understood by the Indians. Vehicles on the road discharging black fumes, I bet take a one hour bike ride on any Indian city and then wipe your face with light colored cloth, you will find out for yourself. The Industries just don’t seem to follow any procedures that declare hazardous to the environment and also dump their toxic waste not far away from the site.

 

The lower middle class and the middle class have given up their rights to take rice, wheat, oil & kerosene from the ration shops. The reason the rice & wheat will have about 10% of small stones in it, or the ration shop doesn’t have stock, or the shop is closed, or the ration shop owner has sold it in black-market.

Further the escalating prices of basic food items have either doubled or unavailable in the stores. Fresh fruits & vegetables are only limited to the rich class because of the high prices. The majority of people in India will have rice, chapatti or lentil soup. More than 5000 children below the age of five have died in last four years everyday due to malnutrition or some sickness.

 

Health services are not worth discussing here as they really not worth discussing as I consider that these services are no longer available free or minimum cost for the impoverished class. I won’t talk about the rich class here as 80% of the Indian populations still are poor. Just four or five cities in India don’t make up for the entire Indian population. I guess that’s what makes many farmers & villagers to leave their dwellings and head to cities to start a new life or if not, atleast they can beg and earn more than farming. However, the atrocities cast upon the farmers in many states by the local landlord’s makes life nearly suicidal as these farmers are fully cheated in debts by those landlords. There is a high rate of suicides amongst the farming community all over India.

 

Crime rates in metro cities and the fast life doesn’t allow the people to look anywhere into the activities of the government. People have taken a false way of life as a real & practical way of life. The voice of the common man has been lost , very much after the Independence of India.

 

I can go on and on but even after reading this article many Indians will just nod and continue with their day to day routine. No one would dare to rise against the present anarchy and death in the face of Democracy government.

 

That’s why the elders say “wish we had not driven out the British”. Today news channels are being ransacked, reporters, journalists’ is being attacked. Where is the freedom of speech? Just because a particular party doesn’t like a news covered against them. Time & time the Police fail to nab the real culprits. The offenders are never touched and even if they are arrested then there is big uproar by their party members and the offender released.

 

Ministers can have scams of millions of worth dollars and still claim their innocence and never to be tried.

 

Terrorism is supported from within the government against its own people and we will just blame on the neighboring countries. I don’t say that those countries don’t endorse terrorism on Indian soil but how many of those incidents are related to our own or supported by within. Maoists continue to kill the Indian army personnel and poor villagers and still the government is deciding a specific strategy. Very soon this terror will spread across other Indian cities & states and we shall do nothing.

 

Indian freedom fighters did not dream of such future, all they wanted was for the people and of the people, how much has come in reality. Lets see how Indian democracy survives the burns of anarchy and evil.

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Dark Side of UAE

All the sky touching towers, Mega shopping Malls, five star hotels, express highways, McDonalds, KFCs, Pizza Kings and all that which glorifies the Sheiks of the land. Indeed I never thought that UAE would be such high flying place on earth. People from all corners of the world come here to fulfill their families’ requirements and achieve their career and financial goals, but little do they know that this land has its own toll, after all it’s a place which is dwelling on desert and they are dealing with the Arabs who for centuries have been killing and slaughtering people. The only difference is that now these Arabs don’t ride on camel back but they drive 4.5Litre Land Cruisers & Hummers.

UAE might boost its amazing growth rate and a high GDP compared better than the rest of their folks in the Arabian Peninsula, but what happens here is never discussed on news channels or published in print media. They claim that they are least corrupt in administrative and bureaucratic front but lets not believe what the local news agencies have to say. Corruption is as high as any other underdeveloped country in the world, the crime statistics are never made public and the other atrocities by the locals on the expatriates are only rumored. The living conditions of the 1.6 Million Asian construction expatriate workforce are not worth describing and they live under very inhuman conditions. A ten feet by ten feet room with single toilet and bathroom will have ten to twelve workers sharing, this room will not even have a place to keep your foot. These workers have paid about Rs.100,000/- to Rs.120,000/-( Approx $ 2500 ) to a recruitment agent back in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. The worker thought that he would recover that amount within a year and he was also promised excellent wages plus lots of overtime, but when he lands in UAE. First his passport is taken by the employers PRO and he is made to sit in Minivan like a slave and dropped to his labor accommodation. The feeling for that worker only gets worse when he realizes that he has to share the room with ten more workers in a most unhygienic condition. The other workers usually will be very hostile with the new guy and they find all the reasons to vent out their frustration on this new guy. The next morning the new worker has to sign loads of documents , agreements’ & undertakings less then a minute. He is supposed to keep copies of the same or neither can he read them. These undertakings are signed to fully protect the employer not the employee. The new worker understands that his dream of becoming a rich man back home is only a dream and he has to face the fact that he will be working 12 hours a day without overtime in scorching heat of over 50 degree Celsius. He has barely any money for himself and all he thinks is how green were the pastures back home and how will he collect money for his daughters or sisters marriage or how will he educate his children. This new worker will get his vacation only after 4 years and during those 4 years he only knows work and two square meals.

Although the country doesn’t tax anybody but there are several other ways that the government gets money from the tourists and expatriates working here. You pay for the visa, identity card, for get employment, for water, for sewage, for electricity , parking, house rent tax, municipality charges, real estate charges, medical card charges and list of other services ( Note the UAE is highest in the world for its charges on services ). A person earning $ 3000 per month will barely have any savings at the end of the month as he has incurred all on the services. The government does issue a medical card but its very funny to know that the medical card doesn’t cover any medical insurance, I never understood then why issue a medical card on the first place. The amount spent for renting an apartment in UAE for two years will fetch a house for a person India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Almost 45% of the salary will go towards house rent.

Banks have their Kiosks all over, to lure the expatriate community for credit cards and personal loans. Claiming these cards are free for life without yearly charges, but one only gets fooled when realizes that even a minimum monthly payment sometimes becomes impossible. A person with a minimum salary of Dhms.2000/- ( $546 ) can also get a credit limit five times his salary or a personal loan 20 times his salary. Its only matter of time when the individual realizes that he was better off without a credit card or a personal loan. Since August 2008 many expatriates have lost their jobs due to recession and proof is hundreds of cars parked at the parking lots without the trace of the owner. However, even these cars were brought on loans. The expatriates who lost their jobs find it difficult to get jobs in their home country and many have even committed suicide.

I know one businessman Mr. Abdul Aziz who was awaiting his outstanding payment for his products sold for about 3 Million dirhams ( $ 815 thousand ) and the company owing him had fled the country. Mr. Abdul Aziz had registered a complaint to the authorities, but in vain. Eventually he was finding difficult to pay his employees, so he decided to take loan and pay them, he did release his employees to find jobs somewhere else. Little did he know that he would find difficult to pay the loan amount to the banks. Later the Bank filed a suit against Mr. Abdul Aziz, he was arrested and put into prison, his wife and children were not allowed to leave the country and they had to literally beg / borrow to even get one time meal.

Another instance I met a young expat who was cheated by his employer, mind you this employer was one of the biggest retailer in Dubai. They promised this guy named Karl a salary of Dhms.3000 per month but when he reached Dubai he was asked to sign an agreement of Dhm.900 per month for the job of Showroom Sales. Upon discovering the fraud Karl decided to approach the Ministry of Labor Department, he registered a complaint and was waiting for over a week for action to be taken by the Labor Department. Karl was living on the streets of Dubai without food or water, luckily we found him sleeping on a bench and we decided to help him. Karl said that one policeman had taken Dhm.2500 from him on a pretext to help him, thereafter the policeman supposed to be Capt. Mohammed Al Hashmi from Dubai Police wouldn’t help Karl or return his money. An official complaint was lodged at Murraqabat Police Station by Karl against Capt. Hashmi but no action was taken against him. They said “The Capt is Dubai local and a Muslim , we don’t cheat anybody , trust in Allah and one fine day the Capt would return your money”, this is not funny at all but what Karl had experienced in Dubai was one of the most horrific acts of he expats living here. We decided to lodge complaint with Indian Embassy Dubai, Indian Embassy Abu Dhabi & with the Police Head quarters so atleast Karl could get out of the country and Capt. Hashmi & Karls employer be punished. There was no response from any one of them. Finally Karl had to ask his relatives to transfer money to his employer sign an undertaking that he doesn’t have any case against the company and only then they allowed Karl to exit the country.

Now these are only some of the experiences I have mentioned above. The worst cases I have witnessed is human trafficking and children abuse. Dubai has the highest number of girls who are sold or forced into prostitution. I have seen and heard with my own eyes at one of the night clubs a Ukrainian girl being sold for Dhms. 30,000/- ( $ 8200 ). I was with one of my clients and he said these deals are very normal here sometimes girls are sold even for Dhms. 12000 ( $3300 ).

There is a very high percentage of girls from Eastern Europe, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, North Africa, East Asians being illegally brought into the country and forced into prostitution. No wonder Dubai has a Disco, Night Club and bar practically on every street. In the nights one can just see girls roaming the streets of Dubai. These girls are not even scared of a passing Police cars, as I understand that most of the Policemen are the local sponsors and owners of these girls.

All the glamour, blizz, international sporting activities doesn’t make a country developed. Neither does high rise buildings, indoor ski, water parks, seven star hotel make UAE a country to be pursued. One must not forget that it was Dubai which shelters some of the worlds most wanted criminals and refuse to handover these criminals to their respective countries.

People leave their families and head towards UAE to make their future, the laws here only protect the locals and hardly sentence the locals for any crimes against expats. Alcohol & prostitution are the major two elements where young expats get trapped and spend all of their fortune on both. Many expat females get sexually abused by their senior managers or locals without anything coming to the news. Many girls who are forcibly brought to UAE are murdered and killed and never return back to their home countries. Many expat employees get cheated and loose their savings which they had paid to the recruitment agencies, many girls get pregnant and quietly undergo abortion in UAE or fly to Mumbai to abort their unborn, high percentage of men & woman expats who leave their country have illicit or live in relationship which is unknown to their spouses back home and they say that due to financial crunch that was the only solution, many expats are locked up in the prisons of UAE for reasons unknown even to the Police. UAE and especially Dubai is the place which is very attractive but it has its own toll on the poor expats.

This country has a DARK SIDE which is world has unheard off, this is the place to magic , this is the place of curse , this is the place of material happiness or a place of life to get worse….

this is UAE.

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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

The number of spiritual, god, holy, healing and religious channels on the TV are on rise. Not because of the growth of spirituality or people following the faith, but all intended to make thousands & millions of dollars. The Media has played an important part to support the preachers, healers and the so called sons of God. The Media downplays any criticism against these preachers and controls any truth from directly affecting the beliefs of the followers. Perhaps, there have been many experts and authors who want to share the facts of religion or faith with the people. However, the media and rich people behind the preachers don’t allow these facts to be published and the outcome they declare the works of the people who uncover the facts, merely as fake or fabrication or misleading the followers.

Preachers like Billy Graham, Beny Hinn, Joel Osteen and may others are quite wealthy and fully backed by the government, rich and the elite. The backing comes  as huge sums of money is involved and it works for the government to control the people and to deceive them. The common people have been controlled and manipulated in the name of the religion. The Roman Catholics, Protestant, Jews & Muslims have all been trapped in the same hole. The whole idea of the government is to divide them and unify them and make money out of them. The different sects and religions are all the time busy in fighting each other than reconciling with each other, as the government decides. One thing is certain these Rich businessmen, politicians and preachers don’t have any religion and I wonder if they even fear God.

 

The common man / woman is always under the stress of what is the right way of worshipping God, how do I pray? Should I dance , should I sing hymns, should I clap or should I kneel down,. I have researched and witnessed that people change their churches atleast 4 to 5 minimum in their whole life time. The reason is they enter certain congregation and are overwhelmed by the praise & worship, healing, miracles, prophecies, testimonies etc., and feel that “yes, this is my church, this is where I belong, thank God I am in this congregation”. They even spent 20-30% of their earnings on the church, the pastors become rich and the church has more flamboyance and color. After experiencing holy spirit in this church ( I am not sure with all those occult practices if that’s the Holy spirit they felt). They are so sure that whatever good or bad happens in their life they thank God, the pastor programs them that in even the worst of sufferings the people are made to believe that those are the acts of God. Therefore, the pastors don’t have any real opposition or substantial criticism.  During the times of trouble I have seen people shed more than 50% of their earnings. I guess the pastors & preachers like this situation of their followers as more money and they can profess some coming soon good days. When these followers discover the real agenda of the church and a great deal of envy is created among themselves over certain key positions in the church, the believers start to fall out and look for another real church, they want to be born again once again, they want to be Christians one more time. Oh! What a sorry state they are in during this phase, as they even stop praying to God during the transition period from one church to another. Apparently the same story continues in the next church and after that and after that. The followers are just deceived in following these pastors, preachers, healers and holy men, without understanding the real meaning of the word of God or knowing the Gospel.

 

I fail to understand if God did allow suffering than I am sure he wants us to learn something from that, or maybe we are not on the path of faith. There has to be some sense. Perhaps the sufferings have befallen upon us due to our own inequities. Yet we blame God. Why do I need to sing in a certain church, dance, clap, fall in trance, music, loud shouting’s by the preacher “ You are healed”, “The spirit has touched you”, “ Jesus has touched you” and so forth and so on. I don’t think that God ever wants me to indulge in any stupid or foolish traditions of the world to follow him. Why? Don’t we have our own copy of the Holy Bible, maybe we didn’t read it properly, or maybe we just read everyday because our pastor made us feel guilty to read without really understanding what we read.

 

When we have the Gods word at our disposal and when the instructions are made clear, we fail to even follow the basic instructions given in the scriptures and get confused by so many traditions of the world. We were born of sin, sin is committed everyday, we shall commit sin tomorrow and after tomorrow, some way or the other. We forget that Jesus Christ was born, baptized and died on the cross for our sins, to wash away our sins, to forgive our sins and to lead us to salvation. Literal sense we even sometime use that “all our sins our forgiven”, so give ourselves room for allowed sins so that those words are like medicine that our sins our forgiven, it’s not the license to sin. When I understand, I know the scriptures and yet I sin than I cant call myself as Born again (Not related to any church but our spirit & mind born again).  

 

We commit many follies and disgraceful acts just in the name of the father and assuming that “ All our sins are forgiven”, a sure acts of deliberation, how can w be saved in such deceitful tactics with God. I discovered that more and more people are becoming less & less fearful of God. Or else we won’t have so many people falling into devils plans and in wrongful actions and blasphemies against God. Easily following the pastors, leaders, preachers who lead us to follow the devil. When it’s said God is within us we go and seek him in idols, holy men, miracles, churches and everywhere but do not give him a chance to live within us, all the while we try to throw him out of our body with all the unholy actions.

 

I conclude that when we are aware the exact do’s & don’ts mentioned in Gospel and yet challenge God that means we really underestimate God and don’t care for him. How we live our lives on earth in sinful ways and throw away the eternal life after judgment just because of few years of LIVE LIFE on earth. Lets not commit our follies, inequities, follow false prophets , traditions, sins, lust, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER….

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Kids become MTV roadies

 

We are indeed becoming a country influenced by west. I was browsing through the TV channels when I came across the MTV Roadies selection. Although I don’t watch TV much, but that minute while I was on this channel I seen something extremely strange character of the Roadies show. There were three MTV VJs who were interviewing the prospective participants for the show. One participant was asked to walk like a dog on his hands and legs, go outside the studio and bite five persons. The participant was given a choice if he doesn’t want to do it, then its ok they shall give him a different task. Fearing that the interviewers would eliminate him, the participant agreed to do so, because he was that desperate to be on the Roadies show. It was very humiliating and embarrassing as even for the sake of fun, I don’t think that a sane person would do that.

The next participant was a female, she was in her late teens, she was asked something about her mother, what does she feel about her. The female replied “Oh! These mothers and father are very irritating and very imposing”. Then she was also proudly showing a knife cut mark on her wrist that she had because she wanted to commit suicide, reason, she was angry with her dad. The interviewers asked her a last question how many boyfriends she had this year, she was trying to recollect and count on her fingers and then she came up with a figure, she said “Maybe seven but I think more than that, not sure”. When asked when did she have her first boyfriend? She replied “I had my first boyfriend at the age of 13 and ever since I have forgotten the count, can’t remember all of them and I guess I lost my virginity at 13 or 14 something like that”.

 

Now I am not upset on those kids, who portray themselves in such a filthy manner on a national TV. Perhaps I am only disgusted the way their parents have raised them and I am totally upset by the manner those parents have taken care of their kids.

 

I am not even trying to imagine what’s the future going to be like for those kids , who have lost track with morality. Somewhere into their minds the media, movies and television has played a very destroying role. They have been nurtured in sinful thinking and sinful was of life. I don’t compare Humans with animals as , one can understand they are animals, but off course, animals live on instincts and natural pattern. Animals have been living in that pattern from the beginning of time, not us.

 

Parents can either spare the rod and destroy their kids or do the other way and guide their kids to a better future.

 

 

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