Whats wrong with the JNU incident .

The recent happening in the JNU is despicable and anti national to say the least .The politicians , teachers and the students who are now demanding the release of students are fanning a dangerous fire .I DO think that booking a few rowdy students who were shouting slogans for Kashmirs liberation and Afzal Guru is not a bad idea .I also feel that all the “left” intellectuals who say “we condemn the slogan shouting” are playing the cat and mouse game .They are running with the hare and hunting with the hound .
I cant for the life of me understand why and how such a event was allowed to be organized at the JNU .It would be naïve to believe that the university did not know about it .There is a line that connects the Maoists ,the Kashmir seccessinists ,the Award Wapasi Brigade, Afzal Guru supporters, the bizarre philosophy of human right activists and the event organized at the JNU .Fishing in these troubled waters as always are the remnants of a badly mauled and moth eaten UPA .Some of them know they cant ever be worse than getting 40 odd seats out of nearly 550 Lok Sabha seats .Some members of the press were who are sidelined also jumped into the fray to support anything which can damage the man who has if nothing else given India a absolutely corruption free government.
.The questions arises –why did such a prestigious university get involved with Maoists ,pseudo human right activists ,pro separatist Kashmir sympathizers and people who do not swear and believe in the territorial integrity of India ( why don’t the Maoists and the Hurriyat contest elections instead of blowing up human beings ,schools ,hospitals ,roads ?)
The answer is simple –they have not accepted Modis victory .The coming of Modi to power has threatened the outdated Marxist diet they have been brought up on from the time India became independent .At that time Russian system ,ideology and the way it ran its politico-economic system was “imposed” on India .Over the years socialism has failed –including in the country of its birth .But India has been held captive by a left intellectual group who believe in “intellectual ethnic cleansing” ,and they dominate all universities .Any wonder why the student movement was fanned so much recently in Hyderabad ? The great tragedy is that in JNU room rent is Rs 11/- per month annual fee is Rs 219/- per year( payable in 2 installments) mess bills are subsidised through free manpower and infrastructure and from 11 hostels in1990 there are now 22. More outsiders and illegal occupants can now stay in hostels at night , there is one professor for every 15 students.The govt spends , Rs 3 lakh per student .!! Who pays for all this –yes ,you and me as taxes !!As Tavleen Singh writes –Its time to close down JNU ,BECAUSE IF Jihadis are celebrated as heroes then this is not a University any longer but a fifth column.
We must get out of the clutches of this left intellectual elite otherwise India will continue to pass disastrous bills like the RTE and block the GST and Labour Reforms.We must see through this game of their ideologues branding everyone who challenges their way of thinking as “right wing RSS “ ,and who come on TV Shows in the evening saying that they condemn all anti India slogan slogan shouting ,while plotting through the day and night planning exactly that !! Its all so simple !!.All of us kow what this “tactical maneuvering” is all about .We may not be Marxists and Maoists –but we have read them as well .

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Dubai - some reminiscences .

Its nearly a week since I left Dubai – nearly !! However it seems I have been here for years .India is truly an amazing country .There can be no two places on earth that are as different ,as Dubai and India .Dubai is glitzy – lights ,perfect roads ,unreal malls ,amazing food ,great looking people ,law abiding ,rich ,high speed internet , not a second of life without electricity or water - in many ways like paradise would be .India is more or less the opposite – if you find the select city mall ,kingdom of dreams ,Maurya and Kempinsky Hotels ,Genesis School ,and the crowd in Connaught Place or Khan Market uppity –then you have to see Dubai. It makes even cities like Hong Kong ,Tokyo and Singapore look like sophisticated villages .

Yet there is something incredible about India .It pulsates with life .Real life –life that goes beyond the roads ,the dresses ,the malls .Here the rich rub shoulders with the poor and are not emabarrased .The poor are not overly antagonistic towards the rich .Here in a garden party tucked and surrounded by semi slums –people clink glasses of the finest whiskey ,and eat piping hot kebabs straight from the tawa .The men and women may not be the best looking that the world has to offer –but there is suggestion in their movement and a attraction in their eyes .You can feel the power of your gender here in India .In India everyone can exhibit their power –the school master ,the school Principal ,the doctor ,the vegetable seller ,the fish monger ( if he is kindly disposed to towards you –he will secretly pull out the best fish from his secret closet – nothing like that can ever happen in Dubai !).
Finally –this is where ones roots are .The family ,the friends .Your enemies .The burial places .You belong here .You grew up here .You must be very unlucky not to die here !! In incredible India !!!.

Suresh ji -He spoilt me rotten !!

When one comes back after 5 years to a place where one fought and won many a battle ,one notices both change and continuity .The approach to DPS Jaipur is now flanked by buildings on either side of the NH 8 .At one point of time –it was the “outpost” of Jaipur .Parents used to hesitate sending their kids to study in such a “far off school”. Not any longer .The road is now a host to a number of buildings and showrooms on either side ,and if it was not for the signage on a very raised platform that reads “Delhi Public School” –one could miss it !!.The traffic is chaotic and the memories of open fields and a trickle of vehicles on the single road are buried under the harsh realities of todays traffic and concrete .
But some things haven’t changed - the support staff still bend down and touch your feet inspite of you reprimanding them not to do so. I don’t know whether they do so mechanically –but I don’t treat it so .I accept it with a great sense of responsibility and advice them “ please aisaa mat kareyeh”. I tell them that times have changed and even my son does not do so .They smile –almost in disapproval !! And they continue the ritual .
Sureshji my peon ( the photograph below), has not changed a inch .Physically or mentally .He spoilt me rotten by the time I left DPS Jaipur . I used to just walk out of office –and Sureshji would make sure that my computer ,my pens ,my purse ,my coat –anything that I left behind –would be brought back home , neatly packed.I dont remember ever carrying back and forth my 500 gms computer to office !! .I never packed anything –I just walked back talking enroute to kids or teachers .He also made me 3 cups of green leaf tea and got me a samosa everyday –though I was firm on refusing the samosa –but still once or twice a week he would slip it in with one of my cups of tea. “Garam hai” , he would say without a smile .
But when I shifted to Ahmedabad and then Dubai –I had to do all the packing myself .There was no Sureshji there .There would always be something I forget –a pen drive ,a key ,(once Mt Blanc pen !) .It was such a tension –had I put everything into my bags ? I hope I had not left behind my keys ,or my specs ,or my charger ? I once reached my home in Ahmedabad and realized that I had forgotten the key in the drawer of my desk in the office !! I used to blame Sureshji for spoiling my habits.
I now bask in carelessness again!! I am back to feudal living !! I am loving it !! And more than anything else –these kind of things drive me to give off my best !! I am not going to give off my second best to people who give me their best !!