Are Rioters BORN or BORNE?

Who are these people who we call rioters? Are they are part of us-the common man. Do they eat,drink,sleep? Do they have jobs to go to everyday?

A lot of such questions arises in my mind when I think of riots. Today morning I saw that civil riots have claimed 100 lives in Syria. Well, Syria is far away , what about  the ongoing riots in Assam? So many lives are lost, and in a nation where we are already reeling with many natural issues like floods and drought at certain parts of the country such a riot means wastage of tons of money.

Where do these rioters come from? Are they made or they are born rioters. Here I remember writing an essay during my school days : Are criminals born or they are made? Well the essay aptly fits this purpose. Rioters are none but criminals only the nomenclature is different.

So how do a normal human being become a criminal. There are quite a lot of opinions on this . Many say its the family they are from and many say its their nurture which makes them a criminal. But there are other opinions too. The famous psychologist Sigmund Freud was of the opinion that every humans have a criminal tendency but the socialization process curbs down the criminal tendencies.

Theres a saying that every human being has a good element as well as a bad element in his/her. It depends on a lot of factors which one comes out. I feel it also depends on that person as to what he wants to be.There could be a lot of reason for a criminal mind. A child witnesses crime in his/her home, stays in an area where crime is rampant can make him a criminal or might make him a very good person who hates crime. Thats where a psychology of a person comes into picture. But these are exceptional cases.

We mostly see  crime getting in ones nerves , which is contrary to many who say crime is in the blood. A doctor can have a child who in years to come can become a criminal , on the other hand a criminals son can become a doctor for the poor.

I personlly believe that crime is not born in an individual, it is borne. The greatest example being the hundreds of militants in different parts of the world-they are recruited in a good name, their brains washed and made into an animal who lacks all human touches. They become so out of the world that they fail to recognise their own parents, relatives and friends. Moreover there are certain terrorits who are well eductaed ones too and come from a good family background. So how comes they turn into criminals? e.g Osama Bin Laden- the dreaded terroist whose head had a million dollar bounty from USA. Not only Osama bin Laden , but there are more such militants across the world who chose the wrong way. There are many scientists who are found to be a part of these groups. Even it has been found that people in a country's army were in cahoots with a terrorist group.

Coming back to rioters who are also criminals after all, are not born but borne. They are either brain washed to cause damage to society and take law in their own hands. Think of the various riots in India itself. Starting from Independence , the most common riot in India has been based on religion. The main two religions in this subcontinent, the hindus and muslims have fought since time immemorial. Whether you talk about the Bombay riots or the Godhra riots or the 1993 ayodhya riots which shook india and its tremors are heard still now in Indian Courts.

What do these people gain from riots. Crusades and riots have never helped anyone since time immemorial. The 9 crusades which the world knows off happened to regain back religious territories like Jerusalem being a important place. The first crusade was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II in response to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested western volunteers to help him repel the invaders from Anatolia. Here again we learn that he asked for volunteers but nowadays are any one asked to volunteer, people just raise their voices to promote themselves and people surprisingly do fall for the trap too.

So we humans have a long way to go , righfull education is not the only way to avoid riots and innocent people turning criminals, there is a special need of psychological education so that one donot turn to a rioter. Proper education, not in terms of pure bookish knowledge but a knowledge find ones spiritual self to maintain oneself in the righteous manner and not against the law is of utmost importance.

If WIKILEAKS were in India!

Julian Asange- the name is familiar to almost everyone now and so is the name WIKI LEAKS. The founder of wiki leaks is Julian Asange. He has been in the news since wiki leaks started publishing inside stories of governments across the world. He is not only in the news , he is also on the run for getting sentenced.
Doesn't this resemble our India's Tehelka? Tehelka brought out a huge storm in India a few years back, we learnt how the editor in chief had to face numerous odds because he spoke the truth about the politicians and their numerous scams in our country.

So think now, if Wiki leaks starts publishing details and scams of our country god knows how many more scams are going to come out. India is already reeling with controversies and scams, with wiki leaks our investigation depts will have a helluva task on their heads and we will find regular uproars in the parliament and in the VidhanSabhas. We might also see a few fights in these places of power which we saw a few years ago in UP.It will be a great pandemonium show from India.

I was thinking if really such a day arises when we wake up in the morning , the newspaper man drops in the paper and we find the headlines: WIKI LEAKS DOES IT AGAIN: New scam unearthed in India. We will find not only newspapers bearing the same headlines but all news channels with the same breaking news. The named ones will have their own ways of defending or running for cover. The parliament will have no more topics to discuss, the opponent political parties will again ask for resignation of the PM as usual.

The government in power will issue a notification that it has asked CBI to look into the matter and CBI who already has its hands full will have one more to pursue which will result in one more file in the Indian Courts where there are already a plenty lying for a final judgement. As of Dec 2011 there are 3.2 crore pending cases in the Indian Courts.

In August last year wiki leaks reported a few names of black money holders in the country who have stacked their money in a German bank. So think if wiki leaks leaks out the whole list there will be countless names running for cover. Will it increase the load on our income tax officials, every one or the other day there will be raids in one or the other house. It would be a countless list of politicians, businessmen and who not.

Now think if Julian Asange comes to India !!! will he really dare to come here looking into the backgrounds of many of our politicians. Would he like to risk his life, wont he feel safe in Ecuador where he has got shelter now.

Talking about what could happen if wiki leaks was in India full fledged, there are other concerns too. Concerns of the safety of the country as there would be many such leaks which are not supposed to come out in public. Every country should have something which should remain undercover else it might cause security concerns for the country.

Bringing out details of corruption and inefficiency is good , it makes people aware of whats happening in the country with the tax payers money but secrecy should be maintained too in scenarios which could cause harm to the security of a country. Wiki leaks runs basically on donations and on information from whistle blowers thereby making it a powerful organization with lots of information. To quote a famous dialogue from the movie SPIDERMAN : With greater power comes greater responsibilities, aptly fits the purpose. Julian Asange can be a friend to many countries too where he has become a FOE for many now.

Do we Indians really believe in the equality of all?

Have anyone seen the recent promos of Kaun Banega Crorepati this year. There are quite a few amazing promos but two of them stuck a chord. I feel these promos have been made as a PR for KBC but if thought of it otherwise it is also applicable to our society.

Its a known fact in our country how a poor can be deprived even though he/she has all the abilities. Here I am talking about being poor financially and not by caste and class. The affluent few can move their holds and use them for better prospects of their children whether it is about admission in a good school, college or even in job markets. Government jobs are rare for the poor, a very lucky few gets them and those whose parents/relatives are in some good govt posts already gets the job easily even though they are not fit for it. The aphorism here is quite true even though pompous.

One such promo substantiates this. We see a small boy who is brilliant in his studies as well as sports but cant reach the 1st position as there is someones else son who is given the 1st position every time.Even when he is about to get a job he misses out on that too as the concerned employer gets a call.... Is it because his father is poor and the other child has a rich father?

This really happens in our country since ages. The schools are supposed to be neutral in nature, they are supposed to give moral support to these poor children wherein they fail to do so either because of some rich parents who might be donating a lot of money to the school every year or might have a lot of political connections. Having a lot of political connections is quite common too whether it is in a village or in a city. The free government schools who impart free education to the poor are also in this. They give importance to those children who have politically influenced parents.

India is a country where more than 33% fall below the BELOW POVERTY LINE(BPL).Then a majority is the great Indian middle class and then the rest falls under the affluent category. We Indians have politicized this BPL matter too. During times of election we see the candidates running after this BPL category people with heavy promises of their uplift. The government of India have launched a BPL card which many are yet to receive. I remember when I was in Calcutta a year and half back i overheard a rickshaw puller literally slanging the local corporator and MLAs for making false promises. He was of the opinion that these people will make the worlds biggest promises if possible before the elections and once the election is over everything is forgotten. He was saying he is not going to caste his vote this year as according to him its of no use.This rickshaw puller even though not educated enough understood the fact behind vote banks, hopefully we all will do one day.

India have a long way to go, affluent people will always rule over the poor but there should be a parity in situations where a brilliant and a deserving person is shown the door or is deprived, institutions will keep asking for donations in the name of development fees but they should also have the ability to rise over the bribes and the affluent people in our country should know the actual credibility of their siblings. Of course exceptions are there...not necessarily all siblings of affluent people do not have merits and vice verse, that's why a parity , a sense of equality should be there in all...

India in a Turmoil-II

In my last post for INDIA IN A TURMOIL , I talked about the ongoing riots and communal diversification in the country. Today I am writing part II of it..

Today I would like to talk on the plight of our fellow Indians from the north eastern part of our country India who is considered as one of the largest democratic countries in the world.Students, working professionals from the north eastern parts who are staying in different parts of the country are running for their lives, we hear these people who are staying in parts like Bangalore , Pune etc leaving in hundreds.

Why this his happening. Yesterday 2 students as young as students of class X were threatened to leave PUNE in 2 days..WOW! 2-3 days back Pune station saw all of a sudden more than thousand people from north eastern states flocking to Pune station to leave for their land. Doesn't it sound Ironical...Leave for their land...aren't they Indians...isn't this their lands too. After all India is a motherland for all of us. They have the same rights as much we  have in cities like Pune, Bangalore and such other cities where they are facing atrocities going as far as their lives are at stake.

Which parent would want their children to stay in a place far from them where their siblings life is at risk without any fault of theirs. I remember my school days, college days where I had a lot of friends who are from the north eastern states but it never came to my mind they are not a part of our country. Depending on the geography of the north eastern parts they look similar to the Chinese but does that mean that they are from China.

A few days back there was a news that many Indians are joining medical colleges in china rather than their home country as cost of MBBS or MD is cheaper in China compared to India looking into the huge donations which needs to paid to the medical colleges. Can you imagine people from western countries come to India for undergoing different surgeries as it is cheaper here and those who are operating on these westerners are trained in china??

Well the reason why I talked about Indian students going to China is because if the same thing happen to our students in China how would we feel? So are these people going to go to China to fight...they would not dare to. Riots in Assam are happening for multiple reasons..starting from hunger for power and land, a wish to have their own state for some groups like the BODOS and one will find more such reasons if one starts searching for one.

So why should we penalize those who are not a part of these rebels. Its like the north easterners have become a brand now to be kicked out. Remember a few years back there was such a same plight of many people from Bihar, UP who were asked to leave the state of Maharashtra by a political group. History repeats itself, now from people of Bihar, UP attention have turned towards people of the north east.

This is absolute bigot ism on the part of a few people who love wear and tear of our society and thereby our country which is already bleeding with a lot of scams, eating out a lot of public money.There is not a year where there is no scam in our country.Bigots and the so called puritans of our Indian society have come out in the masses to clean the ones which according to them are the dust, forgetting the dust they have collected on them since long.

The worst of all , these issues turn political, so called political gurus of India start an uproar during such shameful acts in our country hoping to increase their vote banks and we Indians do fall prey too. Its high time we Indians, esp the common masses come together to choose what we really want in the country, and we know whats causing a bad image for the country.