Living different lives in one life

A person performs multiple roles in different periods of his/ her lifetime. The person transforms in shape and size, age and activity, thought and action, work and leisure, income and expenditure, day and night till death. Many a time the person's thought is not consistent but keeps changing depending on the perception of a thing but sufficiently influenced by self interest, however high or low that individual might be.  That is the reality. 

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The Speaking Tree ( TOI, Mumbai, Sunday, November 16, 2014)

The concept of moral or immoral changes with the times, points out former diplomat and Governor of West Bengal, Gopal Krishna Gandhi at a talk in Chennai, Narayani Ganesh reports:

" Today adultery is not looked down upon but cheating is. This is a moral advance. Today sexual freedom is welcomed, but cheating on the spouse is unacceptable. The same goes for alcohol and tobacco use. What is not accepted today is sexual misconduct and domestic abuse under the influence of alcohol, not the consumption of alcohol itself"

Gandhi adds that individual, social and national morality is interrelated,; honesty links all three. "Today hypocrisy is culprit No. 1; hypocrisy should be brought to account quickly." 

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Attack on the press-persons

A terror attack on the office of a weekly magazine known for sarcastic cartoons and located in Paris killing some ten print media persons including the editor and two policemen two days ago by Alqaida group has been planned and executed with professional skill and committed jihadis.

Subsequent attacks on the following two days in different locations of Paris with the two original attackers still untraceable by the police exposes the vulnerability of law enforcing authorities even in the capital of France, a formidable force in Europe.

When a group of individuals or an unlawful organisation is bent upon unleashing terrorism and killing human beings without any qualm or remorse, hardly anyone can stop it anywhere in any set up or place. Islamist groups are indulging in such acts fearlessly and inhumanly, thanks to their upbringing and brainwashing.

21st Century citizens of our earthen globe have to live with this phenomenon for a few decades to come!

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Maintenance of Natural balance

Maintenance of Natural balance for the survival of species on this planet among the land and water creatures is ensured by natural scavenging by superior species on inferior species or their own species (Ex: man poaching on wild life, the latter chasing and killing the domesticated or lame animals, natural disasters destroying human beings and their settlements, pigs eating the human wastes in developing world, vulture eating the carcasses of animals etc.). In the absence of such an arrangement by nature, the earth will find it difficult to contain and correct the treatment of wastes or overpopulation of those very species surviving at present.

What a perfection in the work of The Lord of Universe or Nature in this regard!

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A view of life!

Contrarian view of priests and politicians

Osho in ' the speaking tree' in Times of India dt. December 17, 2014

" I would like you to become a lily, a flower, unconcerned about the future, unconcerned about the past. The past is no more and the future is not yet. Only the present is there. Bloom in it, be happy in it, rejoice in it, celebrate in it, and you bring a great revolution in the world."

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The Hindu December 5, 2014

Three arrested for sexually assaulting, murdering minor girl (10year old) at Kamatchipuram in Theni district. In the postmortem the government doctor found the girl was sexually assaulted before the murder. The three accused persons were of 19, 25 and 23 years in age.

The facts are: girl is a minor. Not only sexually assaulted but murdered too.

What authority or a social right these persons had over the minor girl for gang rape and murder? Modern social thinkers and some jurists might think leniently and award a punishment less than death. 

Visionary like late Justice Krishna Iyer and some editors of newspapers may strongly plead for abolition of capital punishment!

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Five farmers end life in three days (December 2, 2014)

Mounting debts take toll on villagers in Marathwada, Vidarbha.

The wave of farmer suicides continues unabated despite the new BJP government announcing relief measures to combat the agricultural crisis affecting more than 19000 villages in the state of Maharashtra.

I remember the days of Dr Manmohan Singh as PM visiting and promising the region for better treatment and salvation from this malady but he along with the state government failed miserably despite spending a few thousand crores of rupees.

Let us see how the BJP governments - both in the state and Centre tackle this issue.

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