Hate Communities on Orkut

The other day I received a mail in my inbox stating that I report abuse about a particular community on Orkut (I do not want to name it). This was a hate community against a country.

Just like any other community, there are people who are in favor of and people who are against it. Obviously the mail I received was from a user against it. Before I report an abuse, I just wanted to take a look as to what the whole community was all about. As I was going through the views expressed by members, I realized that the name of the community was misguiding people, and the views expressed by most of the members of the community was against the name of the community. It was a hate community but surprisingly a majority of the views expressed was of peace and love, and in fact, some of the members was questioning the hatred.

Well, it is quite possible that this might not be the case with all the hate communities, but it was certainly refreshing to know that there still are people in this world who can see the bigger picture of life.

The bigger picture is that the common man does not have time to hate someone, as he has his own responsibilities and duties to fulfil. It is only the politicians and religious leaders, who for their own personal gain, manipulate the minds of people and instigate hatred in them.

In my opinion, all the terrorist groups are nothing but organizations led by brilliant psychiatrists who are misguiding volatile minds into doing something that they otherwise would not do. Imagine if these brilliant psychiatrists were to work for world peace or for the good of the world. It is wishful thinking. The fact is that these brilliant psychiatrists are the real misguided mentalities. They feel that others blood can wash away their sins, the fact is that they are committing sin by killing others.

The People's President

The Presidential Elections 2007 once again proved that the elected representatives of the people DO NOT care about what people really want. It once again proves that Indian Democracy is not OF THE PEOPLE but of the so-called representatives who go by their party leaders' whims and fancies.

The Presidential Elections 2007 was far from being democratic, definitely not OF THE PEOPLE. If there had been a General Election for this, Mr. APJ Abdul Kalam would have won it with a whopping majority. Unfortunately for the Indians, this did not happen, simply because their "so called" representatives did not care about what their people really want. All they care about is the whims and fancies of their party leaders. The President who really was an inspiration, loved by every Indian (I am not considering the corrupt politicians' views), who dared to speak the right things, who was not simplyl a puppet of the ruling party, was not elected by the "people's representatives".

This is another proof that politicians are not people's representatives but party representatives. They do not truly represent us.

President Kalam, we Indians love you. Forget what our politicians have to say, but given a chance we would want you to be our President once again.

President Abdul Kalam's Speech in Hyderabad...

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.


Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance. Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours. YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, the airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.


YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand. Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India? Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay, Mr. Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels? In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of ? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money. Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....


'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'



Let us do what India needs from us.

...and we talk about mercy

Ever wonder how many times in our life all talk about the word Mercy? We use this word a lot of times but we hardly know what it means because we are so narrow minded. We assume that this word is meant only for human beings and not for innocent animals.

Pigs are roasted alive in many parts of the world. Does it not feel pain?

In Norway, baby seals are killed by smashing its head with an iron rod. This is a 'Winter Sport' and there are some heartless tourists who visit Norway only to "Murder innocent Baby Seals". Shame on them.

Animals are murdered in the name of religion (by the way this is prevalent in all religions).

Lobsters are boiled alive in a cooker. Imagine yourself in a Sauna for more than 15 minutes, which is 1/1000 the intensity of the cooker. Does it not deserve MERCY?
In Goa, there is a popular sport, where a piglet (baby pig) is skinned alive. They first tie all four legs of the piglet, and then they rip open its skin by their mouth (piglet is still alive). Imagine when you were trying to cut vegetables and the knife cuts the edge of your finger, how much you cried in pain. Now imagine the amount of paing the piglet (a child) endures when people are biting it and skinning it alive.

In the so-called developed world, where even murdering animals is automated. In the "modern" slaughter houses, the cows are suspended by their hind legs and a machine slits the throat. Even before the cow is dead, another part of the machine starts to remove the skin off. We call ourselves civilized, but we are still as barbaric as our ancestors were.

Crabs are killed by frying them alive on a hot frying pan with oil in it. Imagine when a drop of oil fell on your forearm while you were cooking. You cried in pain and applied the cream to heal it. Now imagine the pain the crabs suffer while their whole body is being burnt with burning hot oil.

It is a shame that we do all these inhuman acts and still expect God to forgive us. Talking about Mercy is not what matters, but what matters most is to practice it. The word Mercy does not apply only to humans but even to the innocent animals around us.