Shia Dreams vs Sunni Dreams

This topic Shia dreams vs Sunni dreams. What is it about?
Basically, this is the outlook which these groups have towards the future.
Now what will a 'Shia dream' be like. A Shia dream will be that someone from family member of the 'clan' will emerge and 'look after the future interests'.
A 'Sunni dream' will be that they will 'swallow the opposing parties' and they will become 'like them' and then leader can emerge from either the 'original Sunnis' or the 'new Sunnis'.
But both the parties are in for disappointment.
Because the 'leader' Sunnis would be waiting for may not be a Sunni. He may well be a Shia. Also, Sunnis will get a rude shock 'in time'. Because, mankind is a 'conflict oriented species'. And Sunnis will find differences among themselves as well. Also, the 'great dream' of Sunnis to convert the 'mass into Sunni' may never materialise. Shias will remain Shias. The leader Sunnis are expecting may never come from Sunnis.
I will say that the British empire which ruled over the Indian subcontinent was like Sunnis because they wanted to convert people into someone like them. But ultimately they got 'rude shock'.
The 'Shias of India' rose up against British and they had to leave the Subcontinent.
Let us not look at religion. Let us look at the essence of what a race is like and in that sense "India is like Shia". Also we can say that the ongoing tussle in Pakistan is between Shia and Sunni elements. We cannot pronounce entire Pakistan as Sunni. There is a 'definite Shia soul' inside Pakistan.
How will the Shia dream never materialise? Shias expect someone from 'their family clan' will emerge as a leader but the fact is such a leader may never come. It may be an endless wait. And since they are morally and ideologically opposed to Sunnis they will never accept a Sunni as their leader.
What will be the result? It will be like "In a kingdom of blind, one-eyed jack is the king".
Both the dreams are likely to fail and mankind would be waiting for a huge disappointment.
Unfortunately, we can term or classify the entire world into these two blocks of Shia and Sunni. And neither block is perfect or can provide a perfect solution.
Whether we admit it or not, we remain either Shia or Sunni no matter what religion we follow.
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Watched one more movie over the last week and the movie is 'Boss'. Movie is okay for a one time watch.

Three more movies

Watched three more movies over the last few days.
"Lootera" and "Krrish 3". The first one was on internet and next one on the big screen. Both movies are okay. While one shows how people can be like good while being evil. Other one also shows the same thing. But Krrish 3 shows like how family is important. It makes the full movie like a family affair.
Like what I had said about Indians being more similar to Shias and Iranians is clearly visible in the movie. Especially people from Mumbai hold much similarity to Iranians.
One more movie for which I am editing the topic headline as well as the post.
"Cycle Kick". Too good movie. I liked it super-very-much.

Western double standards

I think the way the press and people and leaders of West are able to potray the Taliban as villians is simply mind-boggling.
It is they Western nations and NATO who have invaded the Afghan lands and killed and maimed Afghan civilians including women and children. They are the biggest terrorists on the face of the earth.
Casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan are in tens of thousands.
Not only Afghanistan but Iraq and Libya and Syria also through their paid and funded terrorists and mercenaries. Casualties in Iraq are in millions. And so is the case in Sudan, Algeria and other countries.
And they are able to brand Taliban as terrorists. At they same time they are attacking and killing leaders of Taliban through drone attacks and want to derail the peace efforts made by Pakistani Govt.
The Indian Govt. and Indian people are more than willing to "join the bandwagon".
Indians want to 'reap the maximum benefit' from the West ongoing conflict with the 'so-called terrorists'.
India being the most populous and most powerful country in the neighborhood will stand to benefit most from NATO withdrawal if it ever happens as it is supposed to happen in 2014.
Whatever happens it is fully beneficial to India and Indians are more than willing to 'piggyback on the conflicts made by the West'.
It doesn't matter if BJP or Congress or NDA or UPA wins in Indian elections the Indian policy will not change.
It is like whether Democrats or Republicans be in US, overall the 'hawkish US policy' will not change.
They i.e. the West force a war on hapless citizens of a poor country and once they destroy all opposition they move on. They are like pests. Like locusts. In the movie 'Independece Day' they show aliens as villians and US President as hero.
Just see from a detached perspective. Here US and NATO including Britain are like villains from the movie of "independence Day'. It is but natural to resist them and fight them and it is not terrorism.

Apologies to Africans

I would like to apologise to Africans for my racist comments.
I feel Africans have contributed a lot to the development of the world in general and US, UK and France in particular.
We owe a lot to them.
I request God and Allah and Lord Jagannath to forgive my sins.
My comments were not nice and without Africans our culture of mainly US based culture and Islamic culture would be poorer. The first follower of the Prophet (PBUH) who gave the first call to prayer was an African.
Life originated in Africa and that is where the human race owes its origins to. How could I criticise such a pious continent.
I hope the Almighty forgives my sins.
I do not need to criticise anyone. I am becoming very small by criticising people for what they are.
Only one black guy alone in a room with me for two minutes can teach me a lesson and what I am. In front of the entire Black or negro race, who am I? I am a nobody. I cannot even stand for two minutes.
I will immediately proceed to delete my racist blog post. If you have not read it I am glad for you that you did not get a sample of what a worst kind of human I could become.
Because the racists are really the worst kind of humans.
I am more in favor of Abraham Lincoln kind of guys. One who stands for equality and end of oppression.
I like movies like 'Pulp Fiction' and "The Unforgiven" and "Django Unchained".
Those movies are required for racial equality and it gives a 'kind of pride' watching those movies.
I am fan of Michael Jackson and Usher and Rihanna and Chris Brown to name a few.
You don't have to force black characters down my neck. I am their fan anyway.
And for the people of the West, Black people form a mass against the Indian-Asian nexus. Black people have more commonality with Whites due to their long association together (through unfortunate reasons like slavery and natural reason like geographical proximity) than with Asians and Indians.
If there were no Black people, people from the West mainly US, UK and France would be "swamped by people from sub-continent" i.e. Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis among others and will lose their cultural identities.
Blacks in Western countries help 'provide a bulwark' against this kind of 'Eastern expansion' originating from Middle East and Indian sub-continent.
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Watched one more movie. Actually due to upset stomach woke up day-before-yesterday night in the middle of the night and watched the movie on HBO. "Vertigo-High Lane". Actually had seen in movie earlier in 2009 on the internet. It was like a 'refresher'.
While writing this entry does the word 'ache' comes from 'stomach'-->stom+"ach(e)". We can think about it.
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My new blog is http://anup201314.blogspot.in and henceforth I would be posting in that blog. In-fact, I have already started from this month (November). This post is only to bring the number of posts in this blog to 100. (This post has been moved from the newer blog to this blog.)  The number of posts came down to 99 after I removed the objectionable and hateful post described above for which I am extremely sorry.

Windshield Incident : Additional points

Few learnings from the windshield incident and additional points are discussed here.
On Monday May 25, 2009, I had told an office colleague as to how good the office in Electronics City is and that there is so much parking there.
What happened in earlier Castle Street we used to park cars in front of the Sacred Heart Church and inside the church compound and two wheelers we could park elsewhere near that building of my company which was Samrudhi Bhavan.
Later the Church authorities stopped parking facility to cars as they were to 'tile their land' i.e. cover it with tiles. But they threw open  a basement parking in a building which was work-in-progress behind the church.
But in that basement parking even lesser number of cars could be parked. And that was one of the reason (lack of adequate parking) my company had decided to shift the entire office to its own premises in Electronics City.
Thus I had praised the Electronics City office in the very first day itself and told that I will come by car because if I do not come by car then what will happen to my car. "We have to do puja" I had said it means 'we have to worship the car if we do not use the car'. That probably became a "Nazar" or 'Evil eye'.
We have to guard ourselves against the 'evil eye' always else our lives may get devastated in the process.
In earlier office I used to park in Garuda mall and they used to take 100 rupees for vehicles crossing 6 hours parking. It was better for me as the 'new basement' provided by the Church was dark and small. The Garuda mall basement was spacious by comparison.
In Electronics City, the basement was comparable to the Garuda mall and we did not have to pay anything as being employees we could use it for free. Thus in haste I had spoken thus to my office colleague and look what happened.
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Subsequently in the months of 2009, I took BMTC Volvo bus pass which allows a person to travel in any AC Volvo buses of BMTC, the public transport operator in Bengaluru.
I also took our company bus pass. This company bus pass was chargeable and company deducted funds from our salaries. I found that if we go by BMTC bus we could 'leave for office' at anytime (let us say at 8 AM) but if we wanted to go by company bus we needed to leave house by 7:15 AM because the bus came at 7:30 or 7:35 AM max. Also, my life was such that daily I could never go to office by bike. It was also combination. Sometimes car. Sometimes by bus/auto. Especially when the work pressure was too much it was my nature to proceed by 'public transport'.
Because during work pressure my mind used to get 'unsettled' and it was better for me if someone else 'did the driving'.
Also, earlier in Castle Street office there was no company bus but Electronics City office there were company buses and I was inclined to use that. Also public transport was there but when I left my company (July 2011) there were no BMTC bus which used the 'Elevated Expressway'. To use the 'elevated expressway' one had to use the company bus. These days there are special buses which go all the way to Electronics City by Elevated Expressway alone.
Company bus or BMTC bus is safer in the sense that there cannot be a 'windshield incident' in that case. Also, since 'our liabilty' is limited to the bus pass amount we do not need to suffer risk and 'no madman will damage a BMTC bus' because then he will face 'the full force of the law'. But he can attack our private vehicle and get away with it.

Bigg Boss update

What happened yesterday to Sangram was really bad.
He started crying as a result of that. Actually people may not see it, but it is actually the girls who are taking kind of revenge for Sangram behavior when Gauhar left the house voluntarily.
At that time during a discussion, Sangram said that 'where is the person who took the stand?'.
Immediately, Kamya and Pratyusha were waiting to pounce on Sangram.
Ajaj also took immediate pleasure from this. And told "this is what I wanted".
Ajaj was the one who pointed out that Sangram was never nominated for eviction.
This is a fact which cannot be ignored and when the time came for Arman being captain to nominate a person since all the three newcomers were already nominated for eviction, he took Sangram name.
Arman did not want to take a girls name.
When the task came to form a party all girls joined the 'Pink party' and then were instrumental in shifting Arman to the pink party.
Then when Ely becomes captain of yellow team, Arman changes his colours.
It is crazy to think that Ely will be a more capable captain than Sangram. It is nothing but people taking out their grudges on others.
My point is that while in the case of guys like Arman or Ajaj and stuff it is visible but let us not think that girls are not like that.
Behind their innocent faces they harbour a lot of grudges and they take out on fellow mates. They may laugh and sound sweet but the plotting is no doubt there and they like to play one guy against another and that gives them immense pleasure.
I find a lot of change in Andy after he came back from the caravan. Mainly I suspect the change is due to the fact that he lost his friend Gauhar and lost faith in Sangram.
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Meanwhile watched one more movie. "Les Miserables". I liked this movie. Essentially the movie shows a good and evil side during tough times. How times are hard. And tough times proves tough for all. Survival itself is not guaranteed. It requires a combination of luck and 'thinking better'. We must always listen to our 'inner voice' that is the message of the movie.

Windshield Incident 2

As he sped away I followed him in my car. I had abadoned my specs which had fallen and possibly broken But I did manage to grab my car key ring. While he was trying to snatch the key he was not successful and only could manage to break the keyring which contained the image of Krishna i.e. Lord Krishna.
On the next signal which was Bommanahalli, I found a person from our office. I gave him lift and narrated what happened. He told that the person could have gone to Madivala police station which was behind Silk Board. If that person who took my ID card and broke my windshield was serious in going to the police station he would have "not sped away" rather would have 'escorted me to one'.
He said we can go office and then visit Electronics City police station if required. I said okay and drove all the way to office. There I narrated the incident to office colleagues and manager and they said no need to go to police station and just chill it out.
People asked me if I had noted the number down but I had not and since that person had immediately knocked my specs off, my vision was also hampered.
Windshield could be repaired by me and no need to file police report in case you do not need insurance. Only thing my manager told that I should not have given my ID card. But, I never knew that he would have driven off with my ID card. I thought he might have seen it and returned it.
Around afternoon (maybe 2:30 PM), I got a call from someone claiming to be from police station and he was speaking in Kannada that I need to visit the Madivala police station for the same.
I was ready to leave for Madivala police station and even told my manager but he asked to take it easy and not go immediately.
Then he made a few calls mainly to person who was the father of a contract employee who was earlier working in our team. That person was a cop. After several calls and two-three hours my manager told me that there was no complaint that had been filed and somebody had made call just like that or maybe that person had used his friends to 'extract money'.
That means if I would have gone to police station, it would be possible that they might have extracted money by threatening to file police complaint. Anyway, we do not know what would have happened.
We only know what happened. Evening, my manager and two colleagues accompanied me in my car from Electronics City to Koramangala area after office hours. Though I did not have my specs, it was not much of an issue to me. My manager had his doubts as to whether I could see properly.
But we reached safely. Subsequently, I took the vehicle to Service Station and there they told me that I could claim that coconut fell on the glass and claim insurance because if I claim that somebody broke it then police complaint would be required. So I got insurance to the extent of around 5000 but spent around 7000 so almost 75% got covered.
After that I went to my native place to attend to grand mother first year death anniversary and at that time my mother got diagnosed with cancer and 2 and half years later she was gone. Since that incident, two years later, I was transferred to M4 office which comes in Garvebhavipalya which is very close to Bommanahalli and I chose not to continue there which meant that I lost my job.
What I want to say that much more bigger things have happened but somehow that windshield incident is still something which defines me and shows that "People living in glass houses should not throw stones".
But I did not 'throw any stone'. I only was trying to reach office a bit faster by overtaking the Honda Activa scooter by honking which needs to be driven on the left anyway. Why did it block my path?
It was road rage which I saw.
At that time the Elevated Expressway was not yet 'thrown open' and work was still in progress. It was opened in February 2010 while this windshield incident happened on May 2009. In a sense the Elevated Expressway "takes the rage away" as people climb on it and get down after 10 kms. But people below the expressway suffer.