Free Speech और इंडिया

अपनी अपनी दिलचस्पी होती है। तो I am like Modi. वो कहते हैं विकास, उसी चीज को मैं कहता हुँ economic growth ---- बात एक ही है। तो मेरी उसमें काफी रूचि है। सामाजिक मुद्दे पर भी रूचि है लेकिन मुख्य रूप से आर्थिक मुद्दा पर है।

मीडिया थोड़ा अपरिपक्व है। मैं ईमानदारीपूर्वक एक बात बता दुं। जैसे कि कोई एक घटना हुइ मानो। जैसे की एक आया था दादरी। फिर एक सुसाइड का आया था। तो मीडिया एक घटना पर लटक जाती है हप्तो। मेरे को लगता है वैसे ढेर घटनाएँ होते होंगे। सिर्फ न्यूज़ में नहीं आता। नहीं तो उतना बड़ा देश है और सिर्फ एक वैसा गलत घटना घटा हो तो वो तो बहुत ही ख़ुशी की बात होगी। कि इतना कम। लेकिन मेरे को लगता है मीडिया थोड़ा अपरिपक्व है। एक ही घटना को दो चार हप्ते दौड़ा दो तो फील्ड वर्क ज्यादा नहीं करना पड़ा। रिसोर्स भी कम होंगे।

अभी बात आया है फ्री स्पीच का। तो फ्री स्पीच का मतलब क्या? आप बोल सकते हैं। आप ने कुछ बोला उसके आधार पर अरेस्ट नहीं हो सकते। लेकिन फ्री स्पीच का मतलब ये नहीं कि आप हिंसा का आह्वान कर सकते हैं। आतंकवाद को दुनिया के प्रत्येक लोकतंत्र में गैर कानूनी। आप कहेंगे ये उडा दो वो उड़ा दो इसे मारो उसे मारो तो वो तो फ्री स्पीच नहीं हुवा। पकडे जाओगे।

फ्री स्पीच यानि कि शांति के परिधि में रह के। हिंसा गैर कानुनी होता है।

दूसरा फ्री स्पीच का मतलब ये नहीं कि मेरे को जो मन में आए बोला फ्री स्पीच है तो फिर मेरे को कम्पनि ने नौकरी से क्यों निकाला? किसी कंपनी के अपने नियम होंगे कुछ दस्तुर होंगे। कंपनी बोले के आधार पर अरेस्ट नहीं करवा सकती। लेकिन नौकरी से निकाले जा सकते हो।

फ्री स्पीच का मतलब ये नहीं आप किसी के घर गए और गाली गलौज किए। और घर से निकाल दिया तो आप ने कहा फ्री स्पीच। घर वालों का अधिकार है निकाल दिया। उसी तरह एक संस्कृति की बात होती है। राजनीतिक संस्कृति। एक सभ्य परिधि के अंतर्गत रह के विचार आदान प्रदान करेंगे --- सभी पार्टीया मिल कर कुछ वैसी राजनीतिक संस्कृति का निर्माण कर सकते हैं। वो भी फ्री स्पीच ही हुवा।

फ्री स्पीच का वास्तविक मकसद ये होता है कि समाज में वैचारिक विकास होने के लिए। किसी ने कह दिया पृथ्वी गोल है तो उसको फांसी पर मत लटकाओ। नहीं तो विज्ञानं का विकास तो होगा नहीं। फ्री स्पीच के बगैर साइंस और टेक्नोलॉजी संभव नहीं।

मेरा अनुभव रहा है एक आम अमेरिकी के तुलना में एक आम भारतीय बहुत ज्यादा opinionated होते हैं। जैसे कि सब्जी किन्ने जाते हैं तो भारतीय वहीं पर मोल मोल्है शुरू कर देता है। जब कि अमरिकी का व्यवहार ऐसा होता है कि लगता है ये नार्थ कोरिया में रह रहे हैं। प्राइस टैग देख के पैसे दे देते हैं।

आर्य भट्ट ने शून्य का अविष्कार किया। वो बगैर फ्री स्पीच के संभव नहीं हुवा होगा। मैं ये नहीं कहता कि जितने अच्छे चीज हैं सब भारत के इतिहास में हैं। नहीं। लेकिन जो अच्छे हैं वो अच्छे तो हैं।

Smriti Irani

Hillary's Emails (2)

Hillary's Emails

I am beginning to think maybe it was not Hillary who was reading the emails in Westchester. Maybe it was Bill Clinton, and there is nothing wrong with that. As both a husband, and a former president, I guess he could do that. Hillary was reading the emails in DC, Bill Clinton was reading the same emails in Westchester, and they were talking long distance on the phone. I am guessing.

The law of term limits has been a Republican conspiracy to make sure the best of Democrats don't make it too far. Don't laugh. Look at the facts. Bill Clinton outside the White House has been fish without water. Another one is about to feel the same way. And on many counts this one is even better.

So why does Bill Clinton simply not own up to it and put the matter to rest? As in, lay your hands off, it was not her, it was me.

Because both the media and Bill Clinton know. So far that guy has been very disciplined. He knows he is being goaded, but so far he has resisted. Because he knows he can't hog the limelight like the media wants him to. If he were to drink the email fiasco poison, a whole bunch of dead newspapers will come back from the dead. He still has that kind of wattage. Hillary and Trump and Bernie could move to page A2.

Donald Trump's Supporters Are Valid

One person, one vote, one voice. People may peacefully assemble, they may peacefully organize, they may vote, they may speak. And so, Donald Trump's supporters are valid. They might or might not be correct, but then what's correct?

Free speech is not only when you are right. What's right? Who is to decide? Precisely because there is no way of telling who is right and who isn't, we fall upon the arithmetic of one person, one vote, one voice.

I think the message is there is economic anxiety. And that the Republican Party's time is up. And that the white identity has been a cultural confusion. Beyond lack of pigments, what is it really? Is it to hate others? What?

The Trump supporters have to be listened to. There is anxiety, but then I knew that. The arithmetic of politics, of democracy, is not just about counting heads. Or hands.

Donald Trump, Islam And Coded Language

Donald Trump saying he hates Muslims is coded language. That is his way of saying he hates black people. I want the black people to find out.

Hillary's Emails

English: Donald Trump's signature. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Donald Trump says he will prosecute Hillary Clinton if elected
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump today said that if elected, he would prosecute his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a private email server when she was the secretary of state.
US presidential hopeful and quote machine (See this and this) Donald Trump today said that if elected, he would prosecute his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a private email server when she was the secretary of state.

I think the whole email blowout is so stupid. Spare me, but I have not been following. I have not been reading any of the news stories on the topic. I'd rather read about the ninth planet in the solar system. I am intrigued.

I doubt Hillary might have sent all the emails she is said to have sent. These are pre-email people. I am not even sure she knows how to send faxes. (I don't either). I think what might have happened was, she was perhaps attempting work-life balance. She was working from home. She probably thought, I don't have to read these emails at the office in DC. I could print these emails out at home and read them while in Westchester. Or maybe she was seeking feedback from her husband who, many might say, is not that dull of a political brain. I don't know what was going on, I don't care.

Emails, by definition, you should be able to read from anywhere you can log in from. That is the whole idea. What's the question? Why are you reading your emails in Westchester? Why are you not reading them in DC? Maybe she has internet access at home. That's why.

I mean, right now I am neutral on Bernie and Hillary. It is not like I even matter. But I am neutral. Bernie has surprised me with how well he has done. So I decided on neutrality. And it's not like I dislike any of his ideas.

But Donald Trump should challenge Hillary on policy. Maybe he thinks Hillary's airstrikes in Libya is how ISIS was born. That would be a legitimate line of attack. Or maybe he dislikes her tax policy. In which case he will have to study the policy.

Even snail mails you could read in Westchester, if you could safely carry them with you. And a Secretary Of State should be able to safely carry snail mail from one part of the country to another. Otherwise the country is not safe enough.

I don't think anyone is claiming her email account was hacked.

A Secretary Of State should be able to log in to her email account, not only from any part of the US but any part of the world. It is not that hard to do. As in, lot the log in, I mean, it is not. I mean the safety part.

Emailing 101. While we are at it, let's also start a training program on Microsoft Word. Donald should sign up for it. He knows how to use the phone, but does he know how to use a word processor?

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Smriti Irani, Mayawati engage in a verbal duel in Rajya Sabha
Jesus Christ was a Tamil Hindu, claims RSS founder's book. Aiyyo!
Christ Parichay, the book that claims Jesus Christ was born a Tamil Hindu, will be released in Marathi on February 26.

Jesus was a Vishwakarma Brahmin by birth. ..... Okay, so now are we also going to claim that we gifted Statue of Liberty to United States of America? .....

Ganesh Damodar claims that Christianity is a sect of Hinduism.

..... Christ traveled to India and learnt yoga ..... Christ's real name was Keshao Krishna ..... his mother tongue was Tamil. ..... Christ's sacred thread ceremony (janeyu) was held when he was 12, according to Brahmin tradition ..... Apparently, Christianity was never a separate religion and it was a Hindu cult and doctrine introduced by Christ. ...... Christ was saved after his crucifixion by people from the Essene's cult, who practiced Yoga and spiritual science. ..... He was given medicinal herbs and plants for his recovery from the 'deathbed'. Christ also was taken to Kashmir. ..... It was in Kashmir that Christ prayed to Lord Shiva and he spent the last days of his life in the Himalayas.... Damodar claims that Christ's family dressed in an 'Indian' way and had Hindu signs on their bodies.

Over $500 million ISIS cash reserves destroyed by US airstrikes, reports say
In an attempt to weaken ISIS, the US military has struck at the terror group's finances.

To prove the successful targeting the US-led coalition released video of one of the Mosul airstrikes that showed what appeared to be large amounts of bills fluttering in the air after the airstrikes. ..... The slashing of perks and salaries of its fighters across the region is one of the reasons why the American officials think the strikes have had an impact on ISIS' operations.

When Mayawati Express ran into Smriti Central
In Rajya Sabha, BJP leader and Union HRD minister Smriti Irani and BSP supremo Mayawati got into an ugly spat over Dalit student Rohith Vemula's suicide case.

The Budget Session of the Parliament today witnessed something very similar to TV operas. ...... a visibly furious education minister Smriti Irani replied, "Mayawatiji, you and your BSP leaders and workers, hear this out for once and all. I will cut off my head and present it at your feet if you are not satisfied with my reply."