A couple of news items in past week caught my eye on some inherent contradiction , thought of sharing this with you :
1) Cricket with Pakistan
Prima facie seems innocuous & constructive step , though essentially propped up more by political considerations than sporting urge . Hence some voices of dissent including that of Sunil Gavaskar appear discordant
Counter thought :
If all events / relations with Pakistan were suspended after the 26/11 .... wondering , are we doing this ' restoration ' of relationship because we feel that the reasons for our suspension been conclusively addressed or are we doing it out of a realisation that the suspension that time itself was wrong ?
If suspension of relationship was to bring the Terrorist state to mend its ways .... bring the culprits to book ... has that happened now or do we ( as always ) naively believe that restoration of cricket ties will get the Terrorist state to handover the culprits to us .... or is it ( as always ) an impotent surrender of the Victim state to the Terrorist state ?
For those who advocate separation of sports & terrorism , take an analogy :
If you belong to a family which has suffered life & wealth losses due to repeated attacks by a rough family with malicious intent , you are fighting for justice through ' proper ' channels but the rough family has not been brought to books . Now suddenly you receive a marriage proposal from a boy form the rough family for your daughter ..... would you be dispassionate enough to take a call on the proposal quite independent of the pending justice on the murders committed by the rough family
If your answer is a ' NO ' in the interest of our family & pride ; why would we want our Nation to lose its right to justice & pride ?
2) Muslim convention by a political party
Another political event prompted by state elections which are drawing closer .
There is nothing wrong with organising any such convention , if your intent is constructive & genuine to help any such community ; I'd greatly respect such an initiative .
However the problem is the intent ..... first of all there never has been any ( constructive ) content behind any such initiative ..... certain religious community have only been exploited as Vote Banks under ' minority ' politics by communal politicians ..... without doing any visible , progressive work for the community .
It's sad that communities whose only galvanisation is by the name of the religion , have blindly allowed to be exploited .
That the intent is facile is clear , since it did not happen in last 4 years , but at time , closer to the election ; it is also malicious , only to polarise society along religious lines ..... if this is not the case & if the objective is to mobilise different communities to understand issues to take up for resolution & if you really wanted to do something for the depressed classes ...... why does this political party or any other party not call for a Women's convention ..... if at all , in our country , more than any caste , religion ; women is the most exploited section of our society
Counter thought
I believe , in the convention , Leader of the party ' promised ' that a certain % of candidates will be from the community -- great idea ! ..... along the same lines & with the ' genuine ' intent of uplifting the exploited classes ; how about the party announcing close to 50 % tickets in the election to women ?
I'd be a staunch supporter of such a progressive move !
1) Cricket with Pakistan
Prima facie seems innocuous & constructive step , though essentially propped up more by political considerations than sporting urge . Hence some voices of dissent including that of Sunil Gavaskar appear discordant
Counter thought :
If all events / relations with Pakistan were suspended after the 26/11 .... wondering , are we doing this ' restoration ' of relationship because we feel that the reasons for our suspension been conclusively addressed or are we doing it out of a realisation that the suspension that time itself was wrong ?
If suspension of relationship was to bring the Terrorist state to mend its ways .... bring the culprits to book ... has that happened now or do we ( as always ) naively believe that restoration of cricket ties will get the Terrorist state to handover the culprits to us .... or is it ( as always ) an impotent surrender of the Victim state to the Terrorist state ?
For those who advocate separation of sports & terrorism , take an analogy :
If you belong to a family which has suffered life & wealth losses due to repeated attacks by a rough family with malicious intent , you are fighting for justice through ' proper ' channels but the rough family has not been brought to books . Now suddenly you receive a marriage proposal from a boy form the rough family for your daughter ..... would you be dispassionate enough to take a call on the proposal quite independent of the pending justice on the murders committed by the rough family
If your answer is a ' NO ' in the interest of our family & pride ; why would we want our Nation to lose its right to justice & pride ?
2) Muslim convention by a political party
Another political event prompted by state elections which are drawing closer .
There is nothing wrong with organising any such convention , if your intent is constructive & genuine to help any such community ; I'd greatly respect such an initiative .
However the problem is the intent ..... first of all there never has been any ( constructive ) content behind any such initiative ..... certain religious community have only been exploited as Vote Banks under ' minority ' politics by communal politicians ..... without doing any visible , progressive work for the community .
It's sad that communities whose only galvanisation is by the name of the religion , have blindly allowed to be exploited .
That the intent is facile is clear , since it did not happen in last 4 years , but at time , closer to the election ; it is also malicious , only to polarise society along religious lines ..... if this is not the case & if the objective is to mobilise different communities to understand issues to take up for resolution & if you really wanted to do something for the depressed classes ...... why does this political party or any other party not call for a Women's convention ..... if at all , in our country , more than any caste , religion ; women is the most exploited section of our society
Counter thought
I believe , in the convention , Leader of the party ' promised ' that a certain % of candidates will be from the community -- great idea ! ..... along the same lines & with the ' genuine ' intent of uplifting the exploited classes ; how about the party announcing close to 50 % tickets in the election to women ?
I'd be a staunch supporter of such a progressive move !
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