India wins...

(After suffering from a huge writer's block for the last 6 months - I am back again)

A quote from morning daily Times of India today reads "India is not a secular country because Indian muslims want it to be secular; It is secular because Indian hindus want it to be secular". Honestly, this is the best line I have ever read about Indian hindus and the fact that it comes from an Indian muslim - MJ Akbar makes it more credible.

Election results for LS polls 2009 have slapped divisionary politics; politics which divides you on your caste, politics which divides you on the strata of society you belong to and most importantly politics which makes you believe that "every human has an equal right to live, to belong to India because of his origin" is no longer valid. I have never understood divisionary politics right from the day I could understand politics probably because I was raised in colony where muslims and christians were our neighbours for almost 20 years. Thankfully that taught me to respect all religions; celebrate and enjoy all festivals and live peacefully with differences in opinions and values (One thing which my mom didnt like though is that it also taught me to eat non-vegetarian food as well). I believe most of us Indian's are the same! Each of us (well barring a few offcourse!) knows how to respect a different religion than our's; tolerate views and opinions; and build a society of communal harmony and peace. Our principle is simple - "Live and Let live".

Unfortunately, some of the political parties has not understood that very fact. Dude who the f*&k in this fast world has wasteful time to spend on things like religious idealogies? and who the bloody hell knows that his god is better than other gods? Broaden your perspective; god (not matter which) will only help those who help themselves. Stop dividing people based on their race, colour and god that they worship - no body explicitely had a choice to choose a god when he/she was born into this world. There are much more important things to focus on anyways - education, poverty, child labour (which I believe is the biggest crime of all), employement ... and now India wants a government which looks at these issues rather than one which promises to bomb the neighbours house if one kid over there has thrown a stone on your house. I dont mean to say that governments should be ignoring crimes; however punishing the innocent for mistakes of a few is bigger crime to commit.

True - People always vote for change; and the change this time is that we want our government to be more proactive in decision making think of broader good and balance socialism with capitalism. We want our government to be educated and most imortantly we want our prime minister to be a person whom we can all look up to. May be that's why INC has won; safrron has to learn what the new Indian wants and hopefully the red realises that its better to shut down if idealogies remain the same. For the rest, stop bringing criminals to poll !!

**** oopss sorry - just one last thing! ... Quite frankly I am bored of "Hindutva" and I always wanted to ask this to LKA "Abey C-K-B tujhe kaise maloom ki 400 saal pehle baabri masjid ki jagah ram mandir tha?"