Saturday, July 22, 2006

yes !! i m an atheist


ATHEIST is the one who do not believe in the presence of any omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God.

An atheist is not the one who is rival of God and nor the one who believes or declares himself to be the supreme human being (God). This is so because in both the cases an existence to God is provided which is an antithesis of atheism.

But let me make it clear that it is the insecurity or weaknesses in the human minds to shoulder the responsibility and face the distress which make them bow their heads. In other words it could be said that human has created the god and not the otherwise.

It could be said by few that it is due to vanity (ahankaar) a person pretends to give up the faith in God. But it is not so. It is in fact the self confidence to face the worst to worst situations without sharing the burden with any self –created, non-existing and hypothetic power or person.

Yes I m an atheist and committed to stand like a man with an erect head to the last, even on the gallows.

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Inspired from an Article by Bhagat Singh "Why i am an atheist?"

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

“Some are more equal than others”…


Although the members of a society, group, etc appear to be equal some, in fact, get better treatment than others.
This phrase is used by one of the pigs in the book ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell:'all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’

In spite of my conscience agreeing to the fact that this should not be done, I admit the fact that this is done … done everywhere in society … school, college, village, city, states… everywhere in this secular country.

Is there any religion or caste above humanity??? Can there be any demarcating line among the human beings that could repute a person higher or lower merely because one belongs to a particular religion or caste???

Could it make a difference to the real character of a person if he is a Hindu or Muslim or Brahmin or Baniya or Chamaar or Schedule Caste or Schedule Tribe??? “Chamaar” is a word which is used as a taboo word… why???

What is this schedule caste/tribe???The only thing I know is that there are few castes/tribes that are notified by the President of India as Schedule Castes/Tribes that it considers being socially and economically backward [Articles 341 and 342 of the constitution]. Objective is just to uplift these castes/tribes socially and economically.

Is demarcation of human being necessary to serve this righteous objective??Yes!! certainly yes. But not on the basis caste or tribe. This demarcation has merely revived Casteism which the Constitution of India vigorously intended to end. Castes are anti-national; they bring about separation in social life and generate jealousy between caste and caste.

People of so-called-higher-caste treat so-called-lower-caste as beings given the body of humans but with polluted blood. [Note: “beings of polluted blood” …these are not my word. These are the word from a person belonging to so called higher caste]

Now the question of demarcation:-The demarcation of human beings is necessary to uplift the real deprived people…. people who really needs reservation. These people form a class in them selves… i.e. a class of “HAVE NOTS”. And so the demarcating line should also be purely on economic basis irrespective of any religion, caste and tribe.

Reservation :-I m not against reservation … and I m not going into the question that what percentage of seats should be reserved. Reservation is meant for uplifting the deprived and underprivileged class. It is not meant for economically sound bunch of people belonging to so-called-lower-caste (creamy layer).
Because this is a vivid fact, that although the objective of reservation is genuine and vital, the fruits of reservation are gulped by the people belonging to strong economic stand i.e. creamy layer. And people who are in fact targeted by the reservation do not get any benefit out of it.

So the only way out is CLASS demarcation and abolition of CASTE hypocrisy.