the visionary

I must call myself a visionary man, whatever could have gone wrong, went wrong :). I rejected the truth, truth reciprocated and rejected me. I tried to challenge Acharya Chanakya, the great man born with nothing but comitment and nationalism who founded and administered the post powerful nation of the world when Jesus wasn't even born. I was bound to fail.

It took its time but did come back with a solid blow.

Find out the truth objectively

Understand it, accept it without any biases or hard feelings

Try to change what you think could be changed

rest all is fine

:)

Mr. Chidambaram (Shivraj Patil Reloaded) ! Either do something or atleast stop talking and instigating the maoists.

Around one and half year back Mr. Shivraj Patil-I resigned as HM 'cause of 26/11 and his repetitive statements and expression of sorrow and shit, and the Ministry of Home affairs was handed over to the Shivraj Patil of the Finance Mr. Chidambaram by the PM Manmohan Singh (The Shivraj Patil of the whole government).

May be it's the time for our HM Mr. Chidambaram (or may be could also call him Shivraj Patil Reloaded ) to stop talking and do something if possible. It's been quite noticeable that the loss the nation made in past one year (after HM's new approach to counter left-wing-extremism) in this "people's war" is way to much than what we have lost in last 42 years of naxalism. Naxalism was always here (since 1967) but since the SHIVRAJ PATIL-II took up the issue, he kind of instigated them, and the death toll had shot up like hell. Lately the whole media business is continuously rallying around Naxal attacks on our jawans and HM's humble request to "quit violence and sit and talk" and commitment of "not using the air force". I guess may be this time the HM "Mr. Shivraj Patil Reloaded" could book a conference room and talk the Maoists to death like what they are trying to do with insurgents in J&K.

The annihilation of almost the entire Alpha Company of the Central Reserve Police Force's 62 Battalion, which lost 74 of its 80 personnel in an ambush at Chintalnar, is the largest single loss Indian counter-insurgency forces have ever suffered.

Many in India's police and paramilitary services say that the annihilation of Alpha Company — like the many similar disasters which have scarred New Delhi's ongoing anti-Maoist offensive — is an inexorable consequence of an ill-planned, tactically unsound counter-insurgency mission.

Like most of the estimated 57 battalions of Central police forces pumped into Maoist heartlands over the last year, the 62 Battalion had a simple mandate. It was to clear the Chintalnar area of insurgent groups, hold the territory to ensure that Maoists were unable to re-enter, and, finally, prepare the ground for developmental projects by civilian agencies.

In practice, none of the elements of the United States-inspired “clear, hold and build” doctrine ran according to plan. Much of the battalion's energies was spent on securing the single, ramshackle road that linked their outposts on the southern fringes of Dantewada, bordering Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, to the CRPF's logistics chain. More personnel were tied down to guarding their camps against attack.

For the first several months of its tour of duty in Dantewada, the 62 Battalion was unable to execute meaningful offensive operations. That was supposed to have been the task of the CRPF's CoBRA force, an elite jungle warfare formation recently renamed the Special Action Force. SAF operations, though, were scaled back in response to allegations of human rights violations. For all practical purposes, the 62 Battalion was doing little other than guarding itself.

Pressured by its headquarters, the 62 Battalion ramped up offensive operations. But, untrained in specialist jungle warfare skills and operating in company-sized formations, its personnel had limited success. Notably, the Battalion was unable to prevent the large-scale laying of mines and the massing of the hundreds of guerrillas who were eventually to destroy it.

Late last week, Alpha Company was sent out on another search-and-destroy mission into the forests. When insurgents opened fire on its personnel, they responded in textbook fashion, taking shelter behind rock formations, trees and in ditches. Each of the likely positions was, however, already fitted with pressure-triggered improvised explosive devices. An armoured vehicle sent in to evacuate casualties was destroyed. Alpha Company was, quite literally, blown apart.

Bar its scale, there was nothing new in the Maoist ambush. Police fighting in regions as diverse as Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh had often suffered losses in tactically-similar ambushes. Back in 2003, Maoists almost succeeded in assassinating the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in a multiple-IED ambush.

The losses, experts say, illustrate that large-scale force deployments can end up creating targets for attack rather than deterring insurgents. Instead of attempting to dominate the ground, they say, strategists ought be focussing on creating elite jungle warfare units such as the Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds, who execute intelligence-led precision strikes before retreating to safe bases.

“There's a simple reason why this effort to saturate the ground with forces will not succeed,” says Ajai Sahni, Director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi. “It's called arithmetic.” The battalions pumped by New Delhi into the six worst-affected States, Dr. Sahni notes, have each some 400 operational personal available on the ground. That means fewer than 23,000 men are expected to protect 446 million citizens, living on 1.6 million square kilometres.

“It's just plain silly,” he says.

Failure to learn

Little imagination is needed to see the core irony: anaemic State police forces unable to fight the Maoists have been bolstered by ill-trained Central forces. In part, this was because the Ministry of Home and the Central Reserve Police Force refused to draw on the rich expertise available to them.

Inspector-General of Police Durga Prasad, one of the key figures in shaping Andhra Pradesh's successful counter-Maoist campaign, was given charge of raising CoBRA. Prasad had insisted that the force ought be headquartered in Hyderabad, which would have allowed it to work closely with the Greyhounds. However, New Delhi eventually decided that CoBRA's headquarters would be in the national capital — a decision that led Mr. Prasad to return, disgusted, to Andhra Pradesh.

Little effort was made for the CRPF to have an independent intelligence capability, either. The former Andhra Pradesh intelligence chief, Shiv Shankar, was among a number of officers considered for the formation of a unit — but the plan went nowhere.

Ever since Central forces began to be pushed into the Maoist heartland, these structural weaknesses have manifested themselves in escalating casualties. Instead of looking for dramatic results, New Delhi needs to focus on the slow, unspectacular task of building counter-insurgency capacity.

“We must accept that we're not going to defeat the Maoists in weeks or even months,” says a senior police officer, “and unless we start working to a long-term strategy, we may never defeat them at all.”

शांति

जिसमें युद्ध का सामर्थ्य नहीं, वो शान्ति का अधिकारी नहीं | शान्ति कोई ब्रहामण को भिक्षा में मिलने वाला अन्न नहीं, क्षत्रिय को युद्घ में प्राप्त होने वाला पारितोषिक है | यही इतिहास है , यही नीति और यही धर्मं भी |

Sweet home

I graith walls,
Walls that art bulwark,
Walls that hark,
Walls that art soothfast,
Walls that conceal,
Who I am or how I feel.

I graith walls:
Walls to imbosk,
to cover what’s withinforth,

Walls that art strait,
Walls that even avert our eyen
From the tears those might incline.
I graith walls:
Walls that nowise let me, truly touch
Walls that I love so very much.
Walls that need to fall!
Walls that meant to be bulwark
art prisons after all.

I graith walls,
Walls that throttle aught but shack,
Walls that left us alack,
Walls that cumber us in relation,
Walls that don’t fie,
Certes, that art our creation.

Politics and philosophy

Few lines from a conversation between

two great patriots
two great pundit of politics
two great philosophers

of Nanda's era

महामात्य कात्तायण: आज मैंने देख लिया आर्य! सच की परिभाषा व्यक्ति के साथ बदल जाती है | जिनकी भुजाओं में शक्ति होती है , उनकी मुट्ठी में सच होता है |
महामन्त्री षत्ताअर: जब यह जानते हो तो फिर क्यों व्यथित हो रहे हो अमात्य | यही दर्शन है और यही राजनीति भी |

Why this and why not that

Many people in our country hold the view that any venture that we undertake should be based on a grand world-thought capable of rendering good to the whole of humanity eschewing all narrow limitations of the country, community or religion. In support of this view, some proclaim that in this age of missiles and rockets distance has vanished, boundaries of countries have become meaningless and the whole world has shrunk. They, therefore, feel that the very concept of country, nation, etc., has become outdated, that the spirit of world unity alone should inspire all our activities. They conclude that the modern ‘isms’ which have taken up ‘internationalism’ as their watchword can alone lead us to that cherished goal.

Now, the question that naturally poses itself before us is how far is the task of reorganising the national life of Hindus taken by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in conformity with the spirit of world unity and human good?

At the very outset, let it be made clear that it is not the modern thinkers who are the first in the field to think in terms of world unity and universal welfare. Long long ago, in fact, long before the so-called modern age had set in, the seers and savants of this land had delved deep into this vital question. The ideal of human unity, of a world free from all traces of conflict and misery, has stirred our hearts since times immemorial. Our one constant prayer all through the ages has been Let everyone be happy, let everyone be free from all ills While the present-day West has not been able to go beyond the motto of ‘the greatest good of the greatest number’, we have never tolerated the idea of a single human being – why, of even a single living organism – being miserable. ‘Total good of all beings’ has always been our glorious ideal.

But coming to the plane of the present-day world, we are faced with the hard reality of the all-round discord and disruption ravaging human society. Today, humanity is divided and subdivided into so many small exclusive groups called nations or states, each one of them devoted to its own narrow self-interest. And it is a matter of common experience that wherever there are groups inspired only by self-interest, there is bound to be mutual conflict. Obviously, human unity and welfare is impossible so long as this type of conflict continues. The present state of strifes and wars resulting in human destruction and misery has led many thinkers to conclude that the sentiment of nationalism which nourishes exclusive self-interest is the major obstacle in the way of world unity and human welfare. They, therefore, declare that nationalism should be rooted out from the minds of men all over the world. The Communist ideology which claims internationalism as its sheet-anchor often talks in this strain.

On the other hand, there is another school of thought, which holds that the roots of nationalism are so deep and long-standing that it is impossible to destroy them. Soviet Russia, which sought to discard nationalism in a bid to take to international communism soon learnt by experience that destruction of this sentiment deprives the people of the incentive for dedicated effort. In the first flush of revolution, material progress was no doubt achieved in Russia in a certain measure. Their first few Seven Year Plans were to an extent successful. But, by and by, the enthusiasm of the people began to wane, their incentive for work began to die away. Eventually, labour in big factories had to be forced to work at the point of bayonet. And again during the Second World War, when Hitler’s tanks were relentlessly pressing forward on the Russian soil, the slogan of ‘Internationalism’ and ‘Communism’ failed to enthuse the Russian people. This served as an eye-opener to the Russian leaders who found it absolutely essential to rouse the dormant patriotic sentiments of the Russian people by invoking their age-old loyalty to motherland and their heroic ancestors. It is evident, therefore, that it is devotion to one’s motherland, society and tradition experienced under the concept of nation that inspires the spirit of real service and sacrifice in the individual.

We can thus conclude that nationalism cannot and should not be destroyed. Then the problem boils down to one of achieving a synthesis of national aspirations and world welfare. Synthesis of various kinds have been, in fact, attempted from time to time in the past. Imperialism has sometimes been claimed to be one such large-scale effort to eliminate conflicts between smaller nations by making them limbs of a single empire. But as it was basically motivated by self-aggrandizement, leading to revolts by the subject nations against their oppression and exploitation, imperialism failed to eliminate international conflicts.

The League of Nations, formed after the First World War, was also an experiment in avoiding wars and achieving world unity. But within just two decades of its birth, the League of Nations was shattered to pieces on the rock of unbridled national ambitions and consequent conflicts. A more terrible war than all the previous ones besmirched the face of the earth with death and destruction. The UNO too, formed after the Second World War, is faring no better. Our own experience in the case of Kashmir issue tells us that it is incapable of meting out justice, of pulling up the erring members and bringing about an honourable amity among nations. It has been converted into an arena for international conflicts, the powerful nations trying to dominate its forum to further their expansionistic ends. The world is overcast with the dark clouds of a third world war which may, at any time, mean the sudden and total end of the present civilisation itself.

We thus see that nations are not prepared to come together in a spirit of amity for the welfare of mankind. On the contrary, the national entities are getting more and more exclusive and their ambitions whetted day by day. Newer nations are also coming up on the world stage. The entire face of the world is covered with conflicts between nations.

In short, nationalism cannot be destroyed; all attempts to harmonise the national ambitions so far have also utterly failed; and the world is on the brink of a nuclear holocaust. Then, which way lies the salvation for humanity? No answer to this challenge seems to be forthcoming. Thinkers, the world over, are on the horns of a dilemma.

Deja Vu

Hahaha I know we're having a new crop of fresh graduates from "University of Intellectuals".well neither do the swallowing the scientific results and not intending to think about its great helping hands towards the destruction are gonna fetch us the solutions. With due respect I didn’t exactly count the number of paragraphs or the number of lines, where I asked you to think or so but I am not asking you to think I know its beyond you. People fight over hell lot of issues, you just can't relate it simply to religion. We all know people do die 'cause of religion, but people perhaps a lot more die beacuse of "Bizali ke jhatkey", nuclear bombs, chemical weapons, global warming and hole in ozone layer, what are you gonna do about it? whip chemistry and physics off. I am not against Science, I am myself an elec. engg from IIT. Where there is power, there is abuse of Power and Religion is the most powerful thing.
It depends on the people how they use or deal with it. It's rahter unfortunate people always go for the darker side, they are too blind to see the brighter side. Its quite evident that you too fail to see the depth of religion. You know about Bin Laden but you don't want to talk about Gandhi who controlled all this bloodshed on the west side during partition with Geeta in one hand and Quraan in the other.

You want to buy that cookie 'cause you're born and brought up in a society which talks about humanity, mercy, tolerance which comes from nothing but religion.

It's weird that you relate my comment with any kind of regionalism. I'd not comment on that.

i don't know why you ain't getting it but as far as I think you can't do a tripple inetgration problem just because you want to and you are concerned about it, you gotta have an understanding of Maths and a background in Maths. It's not rocket science and same is the case with society. If you don;t understand and respect their beliefs and values then may be you should.

In all that jugglery of adjectives you did in all those lines, you persistently seem to sing that “you are a fascist” song which is kind of funny, ‘cause as far as I understand, FASCISM sees pluralism as a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entire approach towards “nationalism”, you are reducing Natiionalism to another western bookish ideology. I tell ya what, Fascist is more of an epithet of contemporary era. People use it for addressing their political or ideological enemies. In “What is Fascism?”, George Orwell says .

“The word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation,of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’.”

So this fascist word doesn't mean nothing to me. It's for everybody, it's like you know I am your fasicts and you are my fascist. You questioned my question but eventually you did talk about that communal voilence.


Well I tell you writers who pondered the society and its grievances in their creations and they got respect, but again people who just advocate western ideolgies which don't suit our system. What hell have they done apart from criticising and making fuss about the contemporary system?

and on the last thing which you found funny had a lot of things

1. I don't and didn't bring up the personal relationships, you did.

2. My leaders don't have sons and wives, they are full time nationalists.

3. Like the way you feel for your mother, there are people who do feel the same for Mother India and Maa Sarswati.

4. Like you said "you don't know why your name is Rama, it could have been Spiderman or anything". But it's Rama and you don't know why. That was my whole point.


at the end you still haven't disclosed your ideolgy, your execution plan or anything.