tea shop visiters are uncivilized? may be adicts but uncivilized...just wandering...
that reminds me of:
mrityu-devi kI mukhya-sevikA, hai chhalanAmaya madhushAlA,
madhushAlA kI hI anujA hai, chhadma-veshinI 'TEA'-shala
(=> tea-shop is only a younger sister of the famed madhushala)
by the way world is a small place. just asking... by any chance did we meet last month at a function in Calcutta Club? Expressions, sentiments, and *facts* presented in the arguments were the same, so I ask. Though on second thoughts, this brand of thought is easily found in every corner these days.
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Last week I have been traveling in the ganga-jamuni-doaab - region so named by the secularists and islamists - the area of UP that is between the two rivers of Ganga and Yamuna. Traveling from the rural areas of Rampur-Moradabad in north to Badayun in mid and Aligarh-Firozabad in south - I could not help noticing the tremendous economic changes that have taken place in the last 10-15 years. One must be blind or insane to say that the economic betterment has not reached the rural areas.
Power is better, roads are good, irrigation is better. schools though not very good, but are at least functioning. Could see students learning and teachers teaching. New paper sales (Hindi) are on rise in rural side, and so is the mobile and TV penetration. People are much more aware. Presence of cold storages, public distribution of fertilizers and other assistance, BT, and so on was visible everywhere. Every few KMs on the rural roads were the state govt offices for farmer assistance. Generally people were appearing happy (comparing with what I have seen before or elsewhere). Though expectations always rise and nobody can ever be content with what they have. But old generations know what they had 30 years back. Of course centuries of illness will take decades of cure. patience.
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While traveling in a passenger train, between Aligadh and Gaziabad, I was sitting on a crowded seat with two young kids near me. Suddently their talk surprised me. The elder of the two - a girl of not more than 6 or 7 - was reporting to her mom, "The other asked if I was a Muslim?" "I told my Ammi is wearing a Burka, cannt you see, I said".
These were kids of such young age and aware of a "Muslim" identity. I just have not come across such awareness of branded religious identity from Hindu kids. But then this is the Ganga-Jamuni-tehjeeb that the secularist dont get tired talking about.
These already developed districts will stack up higher for further development by the Manmohan Singh's plan of Minority Budgeting because of their heavy muslim population (Some as high as 50%), whereas starving Bundelkhand districts will not figure in that priority list - as those are full of Hindus - leave them for Maoists-Missionaries to feed upon.
Maoist "action". Let me guess where you will represent 'India' - at farewell party of Fidel Castro? or at First Independence day parade of Islamic Republic of Kosovo?
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someone said WB is a wasteland. Not really. Just wait and watch. Bangali people are still strongly rooted in dharmic culture. The commie-islami-missionary hagemony has still not been able to shake their roots up. While the noise of "Valentines Day Celebration" could be heard in the new mahA-nagars of Noida-Gurgaon-Bangaluru, students in Bangal were happy celebrating Vasant Panchami in worshipping Mother Saraswati on the same days. (TOIlet and CNN-IBN would never report this)
that reminds me of:
mrityu-devi kI mukhya-sevikA, hai chhalanAmaya madhushAlA,
madhushAlA kI hI anujA hai, chhadma-veshinI 'TEA'-shala
(=> tea-shop is only a younger sister of the famed madhushala)
by the way world is a small place. just asking... by any chance did we meet last month at a function in Calcutta Club? Expressions, sentiments, and *facts* presented in the arguments were the same, so I ask. Though on second thoughts, this brand of thought is easily found in every corner these days.
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Last week I have been traveling in the ganga-jamuni-doaab - region so named by the secularists and islamists - the area of UP that is between the two rivers of Ganga and Yamuna. Traveling from the rural areas of Rampur-Moradabad in north to Badayun in mid and Aligarh-Firozabad in south - I could not help noticing the tremendous economic changes that have taken place in the last 10-15 years. One must be blind or insane to say that the economic betterment has not reached the rural areas.
Power is better, roads are good, irrigation is better. schools though not very good, but are at least functioning. Could see students learning and teachers teaching. New paper sales (Hindi) are on rise in rural side, and so is the mobile and TV penetration. People are much more aware. Presence of cold storages, public distribution of fertilizers and other assistance, BT, and so on was visible everywhere. Every few KMs on the rural roads were the state govt offices for farmer assistance. Generally people were appearing happy (comparing with what I have seen before or elsewhere). Though expectations always rise and nobody can ever be content with what they have. But old generations know what they had 30 years back. Of course centuries of illness will take decades of cure. patience.
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While traveling in a passenger train, between Aligadh and Gaziabad, I was sitting on a crowded seat with two young kids near me. Suddently their talk surprised me. The elder of the two - a girl of not more than 6 or 7 - was reporting to her mom, "The other asked if I was a Muslim?" "I told my Ammi is wearing a Burka, cannt you see, I said".
These were kids of such young age and aware of a "Muslim" identity. I just have not come across such awareness of branded religious identity from Hindu kids. But then this is the Ganga-Jamuni-tehjeeb that the secularist dont get tired talking about.
These already developed districts will stack up higher for further development by the Manmohan Singh's plan of Minority Budgeting because of their heavy muslim population (Some as high as 50%), whereas starving Bundelkhand districts will not figure in that priority list - as those are full of Hindus - leave them for Maoists-Missionaries to feed upon.
Maoist "action". Let me guess where you will represent 'India' - at farewell party of Fidel Castro? or at First Independence day parade of Islamic Republic of Kosovo?
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someone said WB is a wasteland. Not really. Just wait and watch. Bangali people are still strongly rooted in dharmic culture. The commie-islami-missionary hagemony has still not been able to shake their roots up. While the noise of "Valentines Day Celebration" could be heard in the new mahA-nagars of Noida-Gurgaon-Bangaluru, students in Bangal were happy celebrating Vasant Panchami in worshipping Mother Saraswati on the same days. (TOIlet and CNN-IBN would never report this)