Bleeding Valley

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Hope you all are doing fine.

Violence is a disease, You don't cure a disease by spreading it to more people.

-Game of Thrones on terrorism via Gecko & Fly

The world is now almost in a stabilized condition, I mean there are no world wars, or a great plague or a famine all the countries are looking towards one primary goal that is developing both economically and culturally, not to forget the responsibility to save the natural habitats and flora and fauna of that land.

Even though India is an excellent county with ancient heritage filled with inventors who thought beyond all times and were successful in building beautiful empires and enchanting dynasties, and reached new heights in spirituality which even today id the supreme knowledge that mankind ever saw,  we have ended up in some serious issues in one of the beautiful valleys of Asia.

Kashmir since Independence has always been facing problems of many kinds like Pakistan occupied Kashmir and the Indian occupied Kashmir, countless sacrifices of our brave soldiers at the line of control due to ceasefire violations.

After the Uri surgical strikes conducted by our forces, Pakistan without any option is now resorting to proxy and guerrilla warfare in the name of stone pelters, and we all remember the brave act of Major Gogoi who tied up a stone pelter to his jeep and paraded him in the valley.

Since last week there is a lot of aggression and violence going on the in the valley, it has hot the papers and all the prime time debates are filled with this one topic: the Ramzan cease-fire issue.

The implications of the Ramzan cease-fire has turned ugly, it lead to the death of two eminent personalities, please read the media report which I have collected about them.

Journalist Shujaat Bukhari shot dead by gunmen in Srinagar

Source: TOI

SRINAGAR: Veteran journalist and Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari and his PSO were shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside the newspaper's office in the heart of Srinagar, police officials said on Thursday.

Bukhari, who was in his 50s, was leaving his office in Press Enclave in the city centre Lal Chowk for an iftar party when he was shot, officials said.

While one of the personal security officers (PSO) guarding him was killed, another policeman and a civilian were injured, they added.

The condition of the two injured in the shooting, which comes a day ahead of Eid, is critical, they said.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said in a message that she was shocked and saddened by Bukhari's "sudden demise".

"The scourge of terror has reared its ugly head on the eve of Eid. I strongly condemn this act of mindless violence & pray for his soul to rest in peace. My deepest condolences to his family," the chief minister said on Twitter.

Terrorism, she said, has hit a new low with Bukhari's killing, "that too on the eve of Eid".

"We must unite against forces see9king to undermine our attempts to restore peace. Justice will be done," Mehbooba said.

It was not immediately clear how many gunmen attacked Bukhari, who earlier worked with The Hindu newspaper as its Kashmir correspondent.

Bukhari was instrumental in organizing several conferences for peace in the Kashmir Valley. He was also part of the Track II process with Pakistan.

Here is incident number two:

Abducted jawan Aurangzeb killed for being a buddy to Army officer

Source: The economic times

Pulwama district J&K: Abducted jawan Aurangzeb who was killed by terrorists in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday, could have been singled out because of his closeness to an army officer who had gunned down Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sameer Tiger in Kashmir in April.

In a video released on social networking site, Twitter, Aurangzeb during his abduction is seen being interrogated about his closeness to Major Rohit Shukla, who had killed Sameer Tiger.

Aurangzeb confirms that he is Shukla’s ‘buddy’. A buddy is like an officer’s own “shadow”, moves with him, knows every detail about him, goes to operations with him and even proceeds on leave with him.

What is also coming to light is that an army deserter is suspected to have been behind Aurangzeb’s abduction, according to sources.

This detail about the incident is still being verified by the Army and the J&K Police. Special teams have also been formed to track down the killers. Major Shukla became a big name in Kashmir after he led the operation against Sameer Tiger and killed him. Shukla had suffered injuries during the encounter.

 A day before the meeting, a video of Tiger threatening Shukla went viral.

In relation, Aurangzeb could have been singled out due to being close to Shukla. Aurangzeb is a rifleman posted at the 44 Rashtriya Rifles camp at Shadimarg in Shopian.

On Thursday morning, some army personnel from the unit had stopped a car asking the driver to drop Aurangzeb in Shopian. The Rajouri resident was going home for Eid.

Later, terrorists stopped the vehicle as it approached Kalampora and abducted the jawan. Hours later, his bullet-ridden body was found in Pulwama.

So these souls, who were brutally murdered by mindless militants, were two kinds of heroes, Mr Shujaat Bukhari was a warrior with the pen, and Mr Aurungzeb was a brave jawan and a rifleman of the Rashtriya rifles who was returning home to meet his family for the festival of Ramzan. Shujaat Bukhara’s body was rattled with bullets, just outside his office when he was on the way to a gathering.

Dear readers now please think, do the above men deserve this? A jawan who protects his nation has no protection and an honest journalist who fought with his pen and brought awareness to many people, shot in cold blood?

Well regarding the decision taken by the home ministry regarding the Ramzan ceasefire I am not the right person to comment as I actually do not know the complications and circumstances which lead the ruling government to take this decision, but I would like to say if really people wanted to be true to their religion and celebrate Eid al-Fitr they would not have required a Ramzan ceasefire, because peace-loving people would not have demanded such stoppage of the forces as their mission is to just gun down the bad guys irrespective of any religion. 

I got this chunk from an interview of Jitendra Singh a BJP minister to Hindustan times:

Q: What were the gains from the ceasefire?

A: As a noble gesture, maybe the government sent out a message that if you are a pious Muslim, you are observing Roza, then as good human beings, we will cooperate with you. But if you are not faithful to your religion, to the sanctity of the fact that you are observing, where it is mandatory that you don’t think evil, you don’t harm anybody.

But if you don’t find that discipline, if you are not faithful to yourself, nothing prevents me from protecting myself. I think those who have not stuck to the sanctity of Ramzan stand fully exposed.

So the above answer says it all, you stand exposed who kill in the name of religion.

I would urge the forces to go all out on the enemy and punish the offenders and bring peace to these innocent souls who get targeted like trees in the path of a tornado.

I pay homage to these two great souls as well as all the other people who have laid down their life for the sake of peace in the valley.

Let good times eclipse the terrible time and with it all the destructive forces, who don’t know the meaning of peace.

I agree the blog has become a bit longish today, but I think it is worth the extra few minutes of our time taken to read let us all pray for their peace.

Mr.Aurangzeb and  Shujaat Bukhari - Victims of a cowardly act
by Pakistan Proxies.

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Whining

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Hope you are doing well.

“Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

ref: Inspirational Quotes (52278 quotes) - Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/inspirational?page=52

Do people get attracted to negativity? It is easy to say no and sleep off than to tell yes take responsibility and go for it! It is well known that people tend to be pessimistic than optimistic.

Similarly, people are used to complaining about almost everything from the time they get up in the morning, till they sleep we have made it a habit of nagging and complaining in our daily schedules.

Let us discuss, do you think our responsibility is over once we complain about a person or a system or an institution?

Is it right to complain all the time or can we also try to change the way things work?

I would want to stress on this by saying, just by a little complaint no problem will solve automatically, so what is the use of pointing fingers at people?

There is a complaint cycle which goes on in our lives which is irritating to the people around you who keep listening to you repetitively.

You know the word complaint and nag goes hand in hand, when you keep on repeating your dissatisfaction about something you don’t like it becomes a nag, people call you a nag.

 My opinion is, of course, you have the right to complain, but then there is your part as well, it is not finished once you nitpick and leave it there.

If you are dissatisfied with the way, things are not going your way you need to stand right up and work on it so that it will improve or change for good.

Or else there is no point grumpy like a jukebox all the time.

I will stop here and leave the thinking to you. Try to be more futuristic when you want to carp.

Thanks for your time.

Helios

Denizen - Wake up!

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Hope you are fine today.

India has a vibrant history, the level of maturity and advancement of our ancient civilisations is still not known to us, and we have also not made an effort to understand and realise it, as I always say we get easily attracted to orthodontic methods and systems as they are easy to perceive.

Even before the English laid siege to India, Hindustan had a great patronage and history so many stories to tell, which was just snubbed and hushed up by all the invaders who started insisting on applying their methods here, like vernacular education, policies, bureaucracy and organizational structures that would directly reflect the way affairs went on in Britain.

Do we all know during the golden periods of the great kingdoms of, Magadha, Kadamba, Chola, Vijayanagara, Mysore, Marathas and so on they all had a perfect organisational functioning system and departmentalisation to deal with different issues of the state?

But the sad part is we are seldom proud of our own culture and not interested to read more about the real Indian history, we all just still understand and look at the Indian History in the eyes of a white man.

We have never made our minds to move on and go back to the thinking of great people like Chanakya, Sri Krishnadevaraya, Ashoka, and Chandra Gupta Maurya, Chatrapathi Shivaji.

I was reading this excellent book written by Sri Subhas Chandra book himself “the Indian struggle from 1920 to 1942", in Netaji’s own words the first chapter of the book describes numerous references to the ancient history of India and Netaji applauds the great civilisations discussed above.

Unfortunately, we fell into the trap of a Britisher and started thinking in the view in which he believes, including this language ( English) in which we all are so proud that we are so fluent.

So if you imagine that there is a curtain and you are behind it, then that curtain is modern history that is the period after 1600s’, now try to open that curtain you will soon see the forgotten beautiful history of Hindustan the great velour of our kings their methods of cultivation of land, law and order principles, the advanced engineering techniques which they used in machinery and manufacturing.

Turning the clock forward,  I have asked this question in some of my previous blogs, what do you think the situation of India today would be minus the British invasion and the slavery of 200 years? Do you think was it like a meant to happen case and that we did not have any other option than to get exploited, or you think we could have kept our values high and threw them out with mighty arm of unity? Let me know your thoughts on that.

Anyway, the reality is that we cloned ourselves to their system and today our country continues to function in the British administration methods.

Why should we vote?

We all know that India is a democratic republic; we all enjoy the fundamental rights as per our constitution, not to forget we also have specific fundamental duties which need to be carried on.

Even though the universal adult franchise or commonly known as the power of voting a member of legislative assembly or a member of the parliament which is given to each and every citizen of India who is above the age of eighteen, is not a mentioned in the list of fundamental duties, I would say we need it add this to the list.

My appeal to each and every citizen of my dear country is that please cast your vote, consider elections as a severe matter please note it is merely not pressing a ballot button and inking your finger and just forget about it for the next five years.

The real responsibility as an educated citizen is to make sure that the leader whom you elected is trying to move in the direction of what he claimed during his election campaign and fulfil his promises.

If there are any diversions in his or her plans, we as citizens should question the leader and government which we elected.

Please note to all my friends who still consider polling as a joke, the babus whom you vote are the servants of the country who pledge themselves to serve, so if you keep voting some person randomly and be very callous about it, you are not on cheating yourself but you will be responsible, or you may call it helping a person to become a hero in the wrong way with his wrong doings!

The need to become proactive citizens has increased substantially.

There is a new trend now, that people show they are apolitical and vote for the “none of the above option” or popularly called in India as " Nota" , I would leave to them to decide: well do you want say you do not support any party and become a helping hand for an undeserving candidate to become your leader or you will think otherwise.

Please note voting is almost the spine of democracy, please do not consider this a joke, read manifestos of political parties before you vote, do your homework like your boss evaluates you in your workplace for a year, you need to be proactive and then talk about dynamic leaders.

Life should be great, rather than long.

- B.R Ambedkar

By doing this, you would never say what we always end up saying: “this country has no future, and all the Netas are useless” please remember you also have a part to play in this system other than just getting inked.

Please think freely about it.

Thanks for your time, have a great week ahead.

Helios. 

Anubhava - A Teacher

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Hope you a are doing well.

When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience will go with money, and the man with money will go with experience.

-What I have learned from Russell S

There are many strict teachers in the world one amongst them, who teaches you lessons in the hardest way possible is “experience”.

The Sanskrit word for experience is called "anubhava."

The beautiful sculpture.

Birth is one of the greatest miracles which happened in this world and continues to; we can call it the chemical and spiritual magic for all times.

Till date, the famous biologists have agreed on the presence of soul when a soul leaves its body or what we call as death, and you know the evidence for this is the sudden loss of weight of a person the moment his heart stops.

It was said and proved that approximately 25 gms of the body weight are lost as experimented by Duncan MacDougall in 1907 at Massachusetts.

Does that leave a chill down your spine, hearing that fact well this is also an experience, so now your perspective and thinking will change about soul and your body?

That is the beauty of experience it just as a surprise for you each day which opens up spontaneously.

We were discussing birth after the miracle happens you will learn to lead your life, Oh my god I think that is the longest and the best learning process which we continue until the end.

How important is it learns and grow? It is as important as your heart beating to keep you alive, as vital as you lungs constricting and comforting to hold you live;  without learning you are just a lump of flesh and physical weight.

Learning and experience go hand in hand, each person will have their way of thinking, but there can be a convergence of thought after they experience and conclude that what they felt was something different then what they expected but now their feeling about that thought or process is matching with what his friend thought it would end up as, so we come to point of agreement based on our perspicacity.

So experience is one brilliant phenomenon which will bring people together, at the beginning of the passage I mentioned experience as a strict teacher. So it turns out either you learn based on others experiences and moves on the right path or you get tutored the hard way from professor “ experience.”

For a sculpture to become beautiful, it takes many blows from a chisel before it becomes that beautiful piece of art.

Please do not feel disheartened, depressed, agitate or feel desperate in your life when things don't go your way that is to say you are currently having a bad experience in your family or work or your business ; these are all class tests and exams devised by professor "experience" which he wants you to come out with excellent marks of maturity and enthusiasm which may probably make you understand the purpose of your life and move on like a man who is always protected by a shield of  patience and wisdom, which will help you just to smile at the people who try to flatter you, betray you or think you are not understanding their hide and seek game. that is the result of the excellent coaching of your pedagogue.

Try to help people around you to move in the right direction and also which will, in turn, help you and make you stronger and boost your self-confidence to pass these brief moments on earth, make it a memorable one.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks for your time

Helios.