A flower nipped in bud

Take a look around you, fellow countrymen. What do you see? I know you will see nothing because we all have become so used to not seeing the stuff that makes us uncomfortable. Our eyes notice the torture but our hearts just don't feel it, our ears hear their apathy but nothing triggers of those neurons. You can't see it still! I knew you will still not get it. Okay, I will tell you all.

Don't you see that poor kid working in your neighbor’s house; he is what i am talking about. And to pacify the so called women right activists I might as well add "she is what i am talking about". It is a common sight to see in our mahaan bharat. Kids working in inhuman conditions, packing lunch boxes for their master's son as they get ready for their school, wiping the floors as the pet dog runs across the hall, FREE. Washing a truckload of utensils as the trucks park outside the DHABBA (eatery) he/she works in. The society is full of them. 'So what?’ you may say, 'we can't do anything, it’s government's headache'.

Pity, we Indians have still not realized the meaning of democracy. It is the rule of people and that does not mean 'only voting'. We have the power, we select the government, we bring them down but what we don't realize is that we have the power to make them listen as well. Lawmakers know only how to formulate a law; it is us who have to ensure that it gets implemented. Let me ask you, how many of you have seen a child labor and complained to the authorities? Oh! Do I see a few hands? And how many of you have complained about your relatives or neighbors or friends or colleagues in this matter. Ah! Just as I thought, none. This is the problem. We will let the torture continue if it runs the harm of souring our relationship with someone and in our culture, where we live, we develop a relation with every tom, dick and harry around, so there is none left to rescue around us.

These children deprived of a proper childhood, proper education and proper upbringing are easy prey's to anti-social elements. These poor, tortured souls have no one to show them the path of righteousness. So are we, who turn a blind eye to the apathy of these little angels, not equally responsible for the rise in crime rate?

Think and ponder, are we not deserving of this rotten system? Are we at all playing a pro-active role in the democracy?

Don’t say "MERA BHARAT MAHAAN"
Say 'I will make "MERA BHARAT MAHAAN".

Stop being a chauvinist and accept the truth that we are what ail the system.

That is the truth....and the truth always hurts.

Should Gods go on strike??

Strike, strike, strike!! It is one word you hear more often in real life than in a baseball game. A word which brings entire life to a standstill, which can close an industry, can ensure you get to see rerun of your favorite program on TV.

So you did not get your pocket money, blame it on the strike at your father’s mill. You could not reach at your interview in time; blame it on the transportation strike. Your grandmother died for lack of medical care; blame it on the doctor’s strike.

Why? That is an oft repeated question by striking doctors.

All other professions go on a strike, then why such a hue and cry is made if doctors do it. After all isn’t it just another profession. We too have problems, we too need solutions. So what does it matter if we strike too?

Let me answer that for you.

Yes ours is a profession, but ours is not just another profession. It is one such elite one where a strike is always catastrophic. Can you imagine what will happen, if one fine day our military goes on a strike?

Scary, isn’t it?

In the same way, a strike in our profession means irrecoverable damage and it harms the very soul of our job. It harms, ‘The HUMANITY’.

Now let me tell you the basic reasons why doctors have become so much pro-strike.

1. To achieve quick solution from concerned authorities for our grievances.

2. In response to clashes with attendants of a patient on charges of negligence.

Let me say it bluntly. Strike is no solution to these problems.

Just tell me what exactly is the mistake of an elderly patient, suffering a heart attack, brought to a clamped shut emergency. Is he responsible in any way for the stupidity of a few medically illiterate people crying negligence?

The question then arises, what exactly must we do? What alternatives do we have?

While interacting with people on social media and especially to my uncle, who happens to be a top notch orthopedician, I have come to realize that the doctor-patient relations are at an all-time low. Because of our strikes and stuff like NRHM scam, doctors are fast losing their prestige in the eyes of those very people who once respected us as gods. The negative approach of media does not help either.

But coming back to the question, what do we do, if not strike? The solution is simple, TALK. Hold meetings with concerned authorities choose wise representatives put your problems in front of the administration in a civilized manner. If they still don’t pay heed, then selectively boycott them.

Talking can also save the weakened thread of doctor-patient relationship. Talk humbly to the attendants. I have myself seen some doctors talk shabbily to the attendants. Humbleness is one virtue every doctor must possess. If we are rude to the people, then there will be a backlash from them.

My uncle always says that patients are the biggest assets of a doctor. We have to invest in that. Building good rapport with our patients can ensure that they will vouch for us and support us in our issues.  After all patients are our trust banks.

Always remember, everybody needs a doctor and everybody avails our service more than a few times in their life. Every one of them will feel for us if and only if, we display the virtues of a good doctor. The onus is upon us to save the doctor-patient trust before it hits abyss.

Once again, let me sum up the problems with a strike by doctors

1. It results in avoidable suffering and death

2. It is a breach of implicit contract doctors have with patients

3. It is against our Hippocratic Oath

4. It amounts to holding to ransom a weak & vulnerable segment of population for material gain.

5. It shatters the image of doctors as selfless healers.

Remember, 2 wrongs never make a right. In case of any strike, don’t we cry ‘why me?’, then why is it justified when we do the same?

I know many will disagree with me on this but….

That is the Truth…and this truth not merely hurts, it kills.

A woman's greatest enemy is a woman

So they passed a new bill in the parliament. It is supposed to act as a deterrent for those who commit crimes against women. This much publicized and highly debated bill was prepared by the government in collaboration with the women NGOs. Sounds like a positive story, doesn’t it?

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! And thank you, you dumb idiots for believing that these people actually want to do something. For your knowledge, the women are still unsafe, nor will they ever be because this bill was specifically created with the sole intention of taking us citizens for a ride. Not one concrete step has been taken to address the root cause of the menace which makes us a misogynistic society. Instead we had a cornered misogynistic system in cahoots with these misandry consumed NGOs. A perfect recipe for disaster and disaster we were served with, indeed. Hence I have no qualms in saying ‘The greatest enemy of a woman is a woman’.

It explains why the so called high decibel feminist organizations did not push for long term measures and came up with stop-gap solutions. When the government was on the back-foot, instead of going for the jugular of this monster, why did these women rights activists aimed at clipping its toenails?

This problem of women oppression is not something that you can solve in days, weeks or even years. Let me tell you what I wanted these pseudo-activists to do.

1. The core of this inequality lies in our education system or the lack of it. Even after 6 decades of independence our literacy rate is poor, the whole primary education is aimed at seeing students get through class 5^th and it misses the ideal ingredient of moral education. What was needed was to push for education reforms with special emphasis on gender sensitization of these young, impressionable minds who are so used to seeing women oppression that most of them grow up molded by the same mindset that they witnessed as kids.

Off course, this is a long term measure and its effects will not be visible for decades, but when you are trying to change a society that has been framed in a misogynistic way since centuries, you have to start someday. This was the opportunity which was deliberately let go of by these NGOs. Instead of ensuring that the coming generations have empathy towards the plight of Indian women, they pushed for laws that instill fear in them. And fear can only breed hate.

2. Another issue that was needed to be addressed with urgency was the long overdue police reforms. Police system of India is in such a pathetic state that people fear police as much as criminals. The women are scared to approach police with complains against eve-teasers. Not much will change with the new law because that boogeyman of a police we have, remains.

3. The third issue needed to be tackled was the poor public transport system in nights especially. Had there been availability of public buses, the poor sister of ours would not have needed to step foot into that vehicle of death. Even today, if you are women and you get stuck in the city anywhere after 10 pm, you will be aware of the hardships faced.

These are a few of the basic problems that were needed to be addressed. But no, how can they ask for that. These NGOs do not care for women. After all if women are not victimized, how will there shops run. You don’t shut down your own business, do you?

Today, the bill stands passed. It is another shameful story that even then the esteemed parliamentarians did not deem it worthy enough to attend, discuss and vote. The government on the other hand breathes easy, the NGOs sit content in their offices waiting for next rape to happen and appear on TV again. The media is happy counting its TRP, that they generated by discussing the age of consent while ignoring the core issue. Sex sells for sure.

Meanwhile the khaps are busy in honour killings, the madrasas are busy issuing fatwas to keep women oppressed and the Hindu fanatics like bajrang dal are waiting anxiously for next Valentine’s Day. All this while girls and women are still being raped, wives are still being oppressed, girls are being molested and India breathes in shame. Oh! And the poor girl’s family still waits for justice in an open and shut case.

Women if you expect these NGOs to be your savior, nothing will change in this country for you. Rise up, get united and take what is yours or stay content with ‘all women’s bank’.

This is the truth and the truth always hurts.

Post independence or post apocalypse?

15^th august 1947

The beginning of post-apocalyptic chaos

Have you seen walking dead? Yes, that post-apocalyptic zombie television series. Have you seen any movie set in post-apocalyptic world? Book of Eli, resident evil or any such movie? If your answer is yes, do read on but if your answer is no, I request you to watch something on this line and then come back to read.

Oh! Just Google ‘movies set in post-apocalyptic world’. Stop badgering me.

Okay, so all of you familiar with the genre or still interested in reading, let’s roll.

15^th august 1947 is the day India got independence. It was believed that the worst is over and a bright new day lies ahead for this great nation as there was a change of guard, when the clock struck midnight.

Identical to the post-apocalyptic movies. When a comet, an earthquake or a zombie plague wipes out almost the entire population of the planet, those who survived look ahead, assured that the worst is behind them and they will build a better world now( please watch the last scenes of ‘the day after tomorrow and 2012).

See the similarities? Yes? Well good for you smart ones. For those still confused, read on.

Governors are good orators, fearless leaders and have great communication skills.

So in the post-apocalyptic setting, comes a hero (usually someone who led valiantly during the apocalypse), like the governor character in walking dead. Oh just go to Wikipedia, I am not going to tell you about governor now. Anyway, he leads the poor fellow survivors into building up a new system. The common folks work hard to set up and get the system running. The governor meanwhile gets poisoned by the power he holds, slowly and steadily. He forms a coterie of his trusted lackeys while the others toil.

Similarly began the story of free India. The politicians became our heroes, a system was built as the common men and women worked while the ‘governors’ got addicted to the power.

I hope you can clearly see where I am going. If not, then either read on or quit because your power of deduction has clearly been numbed by decades of running behind your leader like a sheep.

Governor keeps his dirty work out of public's vision

Now that the governor has earned the confidence of people, he quietly carries on with his shady activities behind the scene. His lackeys suppress the truth from reaching the common folks. His trusted aides to get stronger. All this while the people carry on in blissful ignorance.

Likewise in India, the politicians kept getting stronger. They indulged in scams, murders, rapes, extortions, feeding crocodiles and all such nefarious activities. The media tried hard to suppress the truth, bombarding the people with distractions like films and sports, pointless debates and over the top anchoring. If something got out into the public domain, they were given an overdose of it before quickly changing with the overdose of another. Public has short term memory after all.

Okay, by now if you are not able to see the similarities, then I urge you to click that small cross icon on top right corner and go back to that dumb movie playing on telly.

Governor loses control and the society breaks down

Anyway, let’s take the story forward. And please watch walking dead. Highly recommended by yours truly.

Soon, in any such post-apocalyptic society, dissent begins to grow, revolts happen, factions are made, chaos ensues, lawlessness prevails, order breaks down and the apocalyptic forces strike back. Meanwhile some sheep still keep grazing the grass in the wonderland.

Exactly the situation in India and in most democracies at present.

The foreign occupants were our zombies, 15^th august 1947 was the day we thought that apocalypse has ended. Hence, today we are in a post-apocalyptic, lawless and chaotic world. The governors/politicians have lost control, the heroes( read soldiers, whistle-blowers and citizens) are being massacred, the lackeys have become powerful enough to run free, the factions( our political parties) are fighting amongst each other, indulging in opportunistic alliances, defections, trading loyalties etc. just to take control of this world. And the apocalyptic forces (china) are just at our door step, waiting for us to let our guard down. Some have crept in (naxalites, terrorists, traitors, bomb blasts etc.) already.

 

When will an Alice arrive to deliver the justice?

The climax lies in the near future, but for now it seems that Arvind Kejriwal is playing the rick grimes of the walking dead. But is he? Only time will tell.

A friend of mine asked me about my zombie love. I told her why I adore zombie films and stuff. Because in reality we already are zombies. We are living but emotionally, spiritually, ethically and in every other way that made us human, we are already dead.

This is the truth and the truth always hurts.