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.

Modern Leaning

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Hope you are okay today.

Altruism, duty, family, country, humanity are the prisons of the soul when they are not its instruments.

-Sri Aurobindo

I was thinking about some new topics to discuss today.

let me tell you what was in my mind: the first one I wanted to write was about: cyber-dyne with an artificial intelligence theme the name is taken from James Cameron’s fictitious company which produces computer chips which are deployed into terminator androids which would replace humans, that's for later; I changed my mind and thought I should write about trends this time around.

What is a trend? It is nothing, but what people follow or the waves of appreciation is going towards a particular theme of music, art or sport, the latest trend of fashion and so on.

Is this world driven by trends, yes of course! We all live in a trending world.

So what are the latest trends that you follow?  First on the list would be your clothing? Supported by technology especially your cell phone, which you always want it to be at its edge and updated.

Who sets these trends? Celebrities? Of course yes they are the most successful and appealing in the marketing industry, we buy what they promote and automatically develop that brand preference and loyalty.

I agree that following trends is like the stock market sometimes there would be a buying trend which supersedes the selling trend and the rest of the time vice-versa.

Ok, that  was about the commercial trends let us talk about some other type of patterns, for example, your ideas of a healthy society, if you try to record it on a sheet of paper in a survey mode certain criteria’s you would come across points like what are the views of an individual to make it a better society? How can we think proactively to improve the systems working around us? how can you make our country corruption free?

Even though many of us may be apprehensive about the ideas which I discussed in the previous paragraph and say these are not trends but as an opinion and ideas which need great implementation, so be it, because my motive here is for you to get the idea of what I am trying to convey.

It is essential to discuss this because I see a very vague kind of living among us the gen y or the youth or known by several names, we are wasting too much time fan following celebrities fashion trends the immediate example that is striking me now is the IPL!

I agree that I don’t like the concept of sportspersons being sold to big business tycoons like horses! in the name of cricket, and now if you see cricket well it is no more the cricket the beautiful game I knew which involved skill and perseverance. It is just smashing the ball all around the ground like some artificial batting machine and also it is commercialised to the core I truly feel the spirit of the game is gone, some people say it is entertainment but I fail to agree because it more or less looks like a social media relief for social media addicts who want their selfies to be posted on the internet!

I may be a critic or one amongst hundred who does not like the idea of this level of commercialisation in any sport for that matter.

At least I appreciated when they came up with the idea of Indian football league, hockey league and Kabaddi league, as these sports do not have so much recognition in India, even though Kabaddi and hockey is an original game of India.

Why can't we think of methods to uplift our Olympic participant count?

The IPL example is just one example there many examples like these, where we waste too much of our productive time.

So my dear readers please try to follow better trends which would add value to yourself and also our country, try to analyse the political situation of the nation, think what can be your contribution to make the situation a better one, come out of the smartphone cubicle and walk to a library and start reading books and understand India as broad as possible.

let us not be the cult of ignorance!

Please remember all types of freedoms we are enjoying today, we have got it at the cost of sacrifices of millions of people, and they sacrificed thinking and hoping that India will have a better future, let us make their aspiration come true, let us make our modern leanings in the right direction.

Thanks for your time, hope you liked this blog.

Hey, this is 200th blog. I thank all my dear readers for all your support, comments and feedback.

Helios.

Newfangled Relationships

Hello reader

Hope you are happy today.

I wish my life had background music so I could understand what the hell is going on.

-Anonymous

So what is happiness according to you? Is it doing what you like, or following your passion says being part of a band, or following your favourite pop star or being part of your favourite sport can be considered happiness. Ok here is question number two: Is falling in love or being a close friend of someone a passion or an experience, should you take responsibility for it? I will try to put down my thoughts about this today.

The times are tense and very dry, people have lost meaning to words like compassion, empathy, care, sympathy and love. Every word which is linked to an emotion or a value is just taken at its face value, and nothing is considered solemn, and above all, there is this one thing which people look at money.

Do you think it can have an impact on a person’s life if you play with a persons' feelings or emotions?

Of course, before I even tell, you know the answer for this is, so sighting that it is a yes, why do people play games around others just to hurt them and make them feel as if they were fools to "believe" in them or “trust” them and finally end up in a hollow mind.

Even though belief and trust are synonymous I see it as comparative and superlative degrees, you first develop the belief in a person which will later become trust which is stronger than belief/faith.

I feel it is more of a psychological game when we think why such ordeals happen.

Think about this if you decide to manipulate someone for your gains and become that “close friend to him or her” or give that new trade name which is a boyfriend, girlfriend or a gig.” 

And once what you accomplish it is achieved sideline that person or start a gossip shows on him or her among your peers and destroy his entire morale is it fair?

I think the person at the receiving end would have had a very tough time digesting all this garbage if he or she is healthy in mind.

Unfortunately, who is very weak and sensitive, end their lives because of this, I don’t think the people who commit suicide are not thinking about their own lives and the people whom they care about before they take that extreme step.

 For all the people who are in weak mind, why do you care for someone who dumped you, be thankful to them because they made you understand that people can do this to you too! And you were not all “so special” to them after all? Do you think your birth just happened as part of a biological process? Of course, not all the cosmos is responsible for your delivery, so please don’t wash it away by just strangling yourself!

For the people who play, manipulate or cheat with their close buddies in the name of love, affection true friendship, bonding, my god! The list of these catchy words is endless! Don’t think you are victorious just because you were successful in what you think was a game plan.

Games are always meant to be both won and lost, next day it will be your turn to suffer and feel broken about it, so it is better you don’t try to invade in somebody’s mind who trusts you, at least then if someone ditched you there will be others who will stand by you and console.

I hope you liked this blog, please let me know your comments and thoughts on this passage.

Remember money lost can always be earned again, but once you lose a person’s trust or his compassion for you I am sure it won't be the same as it was the first time, I think the only exception here can be a mother.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.

Sequestration - The right to privacy

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Hope you are doing well.

I will ask you to respect my privacy, respect my decision and just respect my right to be myself.

-Eddie Compass

The last blog I wrote about our lost old culture and the marvellous intellect of our ancient people needs to be studied and understood in detail surely will write more blogs like those shortly. Coming back to modern times let us discuss a more recent and “in the media” subject which is data mining.

We all have heard about the above term in one or the other channels of social media, the internet the sources are almost many.

There are concerns about this term called data mining, the word was first quoted by CIA in the mid-60s where the cold war was at its peak with the Soviet Union. Data mining was carried out to know if the Russians possessed some secret advanced technology that would be a threat to the USA. Imagine they quoted the term even before the internet came into existence?

Well, that was one phase of data mining, but later after the cold war was over, the CIA continued their data mining activities not any foreign spies or intelligence officers but on its citizens.

 The first whistleblower who exposed that Government agencies data mine was Mr Edward Snowden who was exiled from the USA on the grounds of conflicts of interest and not abiding by the NDAs of his workplace. He is presently living in Russia.

Question: Are we all confident on the statements released by large institutions like NASA, FBI, CIA and KGB are right to the end or is this answer a little shaky?

The truth is that there is a significant PR (public relations) department in each of these institutions which are trained and told to what to disclose to the public and what not to, the ex-employees who worked there confirmed this.

I had to go out a little bit out of the topic of data mining because it is also part of discourse and secrecy which I tried to discuss in the previous paragraph.

Data mining can be defined as the examination of an extensive database to extract new information.

An example will help you understand, imagine you have the database of 1000 employees and you are the and your company deals in the big data business which is a method business analytics which is used by Google and Facebook to understand customer behaviour and manipulate the market and make their subscribers more profitable.= by introducing only the ads relating to the most sold phones for instance.

So everyone should be aware that we are almost data mined either through our phones or our computers including our location details.

Recently I saw video which was being circulated in WhatsApp, where a person spends a day with two android phones with one of them in which he had switched off his location and another in which he had switched on the location at the end of the day when he compared the results by loading it to a software, it reported very accurate results like location, the time and date when the person visited those places.

 The kicker is that the results were almost same on both the phones the on with the location off and the second one in which the location services were on.

To conclude, modernization and technology is no doubt convenient and has taken our communication to the next level, but don’t you feel it has taken control of our privacy from us?

Why should always be glued to social media applications and websites, why can't we get stuck to books? And try to get some real knowledge; I am sure we have a lot of secrets to unearth.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.