The MASALA subcontinent
The parliament of my country, India is facing a logjam. The
revered members wish to have a debate on issue of DHARAM that is religion
conversion. It is again been debated over during television PRIME TIME
projecting it as a very intricate issue, effecting life of billions as per
their understanding. My mind fails to decipher the age this parliamentarians
represent: because are per my understanding we have more serious but less
MASALA NEWS inline and waiting to be given due place.
I take pride in being an ASIAN, and love the fact that I am an
INDIAN, but my reasons are very different. I was born in the latitude and
longitude that gave me privilege of experiencing colors of weather, the
diversity of culture and a history that documents philosophy of YOGA and Vaisheshika ( school of
philosophy espoused a form of ATOMISM and based on logic).
The present is very
disheartening, my neighbors are making statements that are oxymoron: they are
talking about good and bad Taliban ( Despite of Black day-16 December Peshawar
school mass killing, they are willing to Toss the same planchet coin, not realizing
that none among heads or tails will have favorable outcome). Some of my
neighbors are still not having established precedents according to which state
should be governed.
This again is MASALA
only as this is just debated, discussed not remedied. This part of world is
least concern about problems we will be facing by the end of century. This may
be harsh comment, but I am documenting it with facts stated further.
People in Some parts of
this world ( capitalist countries mostly) are worried about feeding the people ( nutrition in food), changes in climate
( research to handle such changes will be and are funded by those countries ,
this part of world is contributing in creating impact not in remedy) and clean
energy, fuel efficiency, deadly disease like EBOLA, and a lot more…
(As per my opinion we
all bear common responsibility to this world, we cannot differentiate it . As
when we are connected globally, so are our sins and virtues. )
LETS BEGIN!
EBOLA: A deadly
disease, at present effecting majorly West African countries.
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So
when any person with this virus will land in India, his samples will travel
from any part of country to Pune, for testing and detection. We have only one lab that can test the
presence of virus, with efficiency. (
many virus get free travels, because we lack testing laboratories and other
associated infrastructure)
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We
will be opening new AIMS, but Indians in India are not doing any research on
treatment of this or many other deadly viruses ( maybe we had referred charak
samhita for some solution, and as we could not find we discarded it as God’s will )
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Not
this but in past 5 years only Indian drug to be approved for use in India is
JENVAC, so if those people in other parts of world will not do any research we
will face deadly consequences ( proving
Malthusian theory to be true)
FOOD SHORTAGE: World
will reach 9 billion people by end of this century, and this earth has never
supported this many human beings. Are we worried about providing food to them:
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Indians
will be contributing significantly in this count, but are we making any
arrangements to provide ( and moreover nutritious) food to those people
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I
came across a company BEYOND MEAT, funded by gates foundation, working on
synthesizing vegan meat, taking care of nutrition requirement and also quantity
of food required. (we will be needing their service, we will be consumer, no
supplier/developer in India)
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Our
culture includes our climate, our sacred grooves, our Neem, Tulsi and
mangroves. BUT, again we are not willing to IDEATE, INNOVATE to protect it. (we
are relying on developed world to do that for us) , Indian Americans will
contribute and we will add it our Glory board.
ENERGY, COMMUNICATION:
A proud record from past: most efficient mode of sending message was used in
India, by Ala-ud-din Khilji (using human messengers carrying message between
certain fixed points), But what about this century?
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With
sadness and great respect for Indian innovators at IIT and other revered
institute I say, they will begin their learning on Indian soil, but quote lack
of opportunities and--then develop in foreign lands.
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I
have nothing to say about Indian railways, Indian roads or present my views on
China-Nepal corridor that will dump more Chinese goods into this consumer
subcontinent.
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TESLA,
elon musk is the man of this decade; he will be giving world efficient and
clean road transport. This subcontinent who will be consuming cars, due to rise
in standard of living is least concerned about innovations and need to make it
clean and efficient.
A lot more to quote,
but this is enough to ponder on MASALA NEWS that we are consuming, the debates
on MASALA topics and protest on street for/against such MASALA issue.
Enjoy your MASALA tea,
with vada or samosa but next time when you see someone talking about religion,
conversions and hinduatava, just inform him/her about how he/she is being
manipulated/converted every second by social networking websites. Someone of
this era should be more worried about being used as Guiney pig for experiments
and surveys by DATA miners, and impact of such conversions, cyber-ideologies
than about Idols or Books based idiosyncrasies.
