Dec 20, 2010

Chinkileaks

Leaks of America's secret cables have swayed the world's media. Less known are these leaks from the Chinese embassy in New Delhi.

Greetings to the Politburo!

Let us start with a good news. Indians call us Chinki-s. And so do they call the inhabitants of the Chinese territory they claim as their "North-East". It seems that they secretly 'know' its ours!

Long back when China was illiterate, we have tamed our huge population, with our Chairman's favorite - bullets. Now that illiteracy in China is extinct, we can do that with our strictly controlled media.
Its a lot different here in India. Although a third of India's population is still illiterate officially, we have a fair hunch that it is more widespread given the cheap gimmicks that Indian politicians perform to get support - a concept they call Democracy. People are controlled mainly by false promises - which form one of the basic foundations of India's Democracy. Media is free from Government's control, but is largely controlled by money to iterate between the zillion scams unfolding everyday. Nothing is followed up till the end. Indians profoundly believe that after all, its the journey that matters, not the destination.


As you will be knowing, the Indian state claims to be non religious - the government's activities are not determined by religion (as opposed to China's irreligious - the Communist party is officially irreligious), there is not a single politician here who has the 'gun mein dum' (yep, sounds like Mandarin, but means courage locally) to claim himself as an atheist - not even the mainstream communists. Religion and religious favoritism form the core of India's politics. And to add to this confusion, there are multiple sections within the prominent religion, sworn foes to one another, always fighting over "Chairman knows what"! In the stead of leaders leading the people, Indians have a bunch of followers fanning their most immature sentiments. Leaders leading them where? Good for us: nowhere! 


There is one metric in which China will love to lose the first spot to India. In the next fifteen years, India will be the most populous country in the world. Some fools here - even those without turbans, think it is a great feat. While we managed to strictly imposed our binding one-child policy, India's two-child policy is non binding. Even their prominent political leaders flaunt ten children. And they will be completing this so called feat with an interesting demographical statistic. The capital and the adjoining north-western states already  well known for their low sex ratio - caused by rampant sex-selective foeticide and infanticide. People in these areas see their newborn children as a means to earn money -  by a proudly held custom called Dowry. The girl's side pays the boy's side a huge sum of unaccounted money for no bloody reason at all! By the way, this custom is termed illegal from the very inception of the Indian state. But like everything bad, it is passe as custom. We are still utterly confused about how such lawlessness can thrive so perfectly.


Back in China, we groom bright children to have good education and end up in the Communist Party's important posts. And so we have Engineers and scientists among our ministers and important state officials. In India, a typical politician would be an illiterate convict who would be a blood relation to someone else already in the government. Your good characteristics do not determine your political destiny. In fact, it may work as a disadvantage. With personalities towering over ideologies, India aptly deserves a monarchy.

In China's communism, government workers have learned (arguably the hard way :) ) to be hard working. Indian people vie for Government posts to get a reprieve from working. The so called right to strike have made our communist namesakes here our unofficial  agents. In the name of seeking worker rights, they have managed to make India utterly unproductive.  State run hospitals, banks, and manufacturing units are known for their profound inefficiency. The rich, powerful and informed keep away from them.

India also provides protection to the so called backward communities, and reserves a certain portions of government jobs for these people. In the India social chemistry, this translates to communities competing with each other for being recognized as backward!

All of India's sporting feats are out of individual brilliance. The role of the State being a big zero. Had they been Chinese we would have groomed  them  to world champions. Almost all funds meant for development of sports, and even international sporting events are looted openly. Something which would have won the looter a firing squad in China.

Let alone Beijing and Shanghai, India's huge cities do not compare even close to our second grade ones. Most cities are heaps of filth, wrapped with bumpy roads, covered with slums, with the unruly traffic signals, bugged with beggar syndicates.

Our dear friends on the Western frontiers are continuously providing constant support to destabilize India. But it seems Indians do not need this spoon feeding, they are already helping themselves.

And last of all, things here are not improving soon - Indians are not interested in changing anything.

Dec 1, 2010

Being vegan

Why do I eat vegetarian?

Because I cannot even imagine the vagaries of a slaughter. Non-vegetarianism makes you the reason for a murder. Don't the desperate cries of the unfortunate animal tender your heart? It has to wait for its death - most probably watch its friends and relatives murdered openly before its own eyes. It is not just blood, but motion which makes life so real in animals. Shells and clams feel the same pain as goats and chicken.

Scientifically, plants have life as well. Life is after all just a series of chemical reactions. But do all living beings  have feelings?  Movement seems to make a point - but not always: Mimosa pudica moves - so do Sunflowers. I would say a fear of death does make a valid point about rights for animals. The crave to live - the fight for survival is seen most openly in animals. Well, plants do need an honorable mention - they too fight for water, nutrients, and sunlight - and devoid of them, die. After all you have to jump, shout and say that you don't want to die. Remember, germs (some of whom are taxonomically Animalia) are exceptions - firstly, they don't shout and then we need to kill them to remain alive ourselves - I am not eating them after all.

Eggs don't shout, but are after all living cells - each a possibility of a new animal life. So what if  seeds in fruits are eggs  for plants -  fruits do not have the stench of eggs!

It is strange that my set of teeth has four canines. Evolution too is oblivious of animal rights. Wait, canines come good in eating sugarcane!

Lets make this rule: living beings which shout have rights. Correction, life which moves feels pain. More correctly, life which fear death are to be shunned. Well not all of them. And some others outside this. To  refine the rule still further - I will hand pick living beings which will be on my palate, and I don't have a damn logical explanation for that. Come on, it is for me to decide what I eat!

I am logically starved. I will logically starve.