The Killing Spree

Israel's tirade against Hijbollah could be understood,but its wanton destruction of Lebanon's social life is totally unjustified. They are working towards a total destruction of stabilizing factors of the Middle East and that would cost them dear. There is whole lot of dissatisfaction in rest of the world, not to speak of Israel's neighbours. Any cynic might be instigated to some drastic step like that of 9/11 at this point of time. This fear of increased insecurity would only lead to more and more aggression as the only means of security by Israel. This is the harbinger to the Third World War. A war that would be most unusual of its kind. The war not among the nations only. But a war between peoples around every nook and corner of the globe with rich and poor elite and vagabond all in the quagmire of this kind of destruction. No one would be able to find enemy. As, the societies, countries and continents would be split apart from the pressures of legitimising the unjust and attrocious actions. Everywhere nowdays the state is relinquishing its duty of maintaining the social order, and who knows, the time has come for THE END OF THE STATE.

The Unusual Shock

Life has many ups and downs. Struggles make it beautiful just as a smile following a frown. But, which struggles make life beautiful? Yes! this is the key question. Those struggles that are part of one's goals and objectives in life. These are the struggles by choice. They are pursued for they are the most needed ones. No body thinks of avoiding them, they are thought of each day with more determination and pledge that one is committed to wade through. The struggles that come with the fallibility of mind, with the error of judgement, passion for certain things, betrayal of trust, on account of ignominy are usually unacceptable to one's mind. They are very much there and one has no choice but to face them with patience and wit. The shocking aspect of this struggle is that one's walking into these traps with clear conscience and noble heart. This killer of one's personality and emotion has far reaching effect over one's future prospects of leading a normal life. He may at best recuperate from the damage but throughout his life he seems to living on restraints and advise. Human relationships there are an abode of insecurity for the very reasons they should have given protection to us. And, thus the end of the self begins. As, one tries to end the history of his life, one goes into oblivion living permanently into a position that is most uncared for. Looking for a way out by someone's help!

The Good and the Bad

The work is very unique form of self-cognizance. If, you are a professional, then there is a creeping sense of alienation in your mind that renders you a secular perspective. This is very vital to help judge various process and objects that come to your way. This is also very helpful in other letting you know by the most consistent variable. But, how it changes when this secular built bursts out like a water bubble when the same alienation turns into a lonesome journey. The very idea of getting into a submarine of narcism that would never come out keeping you gaping for air. As the moment approaches closer to you, you suddenly want to jump out of your bogey of professionalism. Here, where the bads are born. They are adjectival bads, the bads you need to live your life full to the brim, the bad whom you expect to relieve from the morosity of life. The bad then finally melts down into the feeling of joy till it gets a satiating stretch in your mind. Finally, the time arrives to judge it, and you find that again the good has come upto you again, and you are once agian ready to go down with your submarine into the sea of value judgements.

Three types of women that I love

I had been one of most uneasy person with my relationship with woman. Be her my mom, sister or wife, perhaps the closest of my acquaintance. Then they do constitute the most known types. Somehow, it may look a sadistic approach to woman as gender. But, I have always had a desiredness of abandonment of whatever love quest, I had come across. And, this disenchantment from the woman has always being a cramp to my life. It's not that I am some Casanova, but one specialty that I endure about my self is that I get closer to woman deep through her eyes just like a mesmeric feel when seeing through the eyes of a black snake.
This, is the first type of woman that I love to see often and again. She is dark complexion, with copper like tan skin. She has hard looks and healthy gaze at the things around her.
The second type of woman is the one who is hard core professional and like life to be lived in some kind of philosophy. She has every complementariness to my professional side.
The third type of woman is the one who makes the best of the bedtime. She has all consummation for the orgies that renders sex as alien identity when single objective lay as a common soul.
Having said that, and that too whilst staying married sounds quite revisionist. Well! not really intend to see things right on the ground where I stand, but they certainly could be a part of the rainbow that sometimes comes across to one's life. And, I am sure you agree that, rain is felt best if it winds up with a rainbow rather than a dawn that reminds us of a uncomfortable passage of night.

The Indian Character

Recently I have been in a grip of uneasy state of mind. My friend has had a tiff with a colleague at her workplace. Now, that chap keeps on stalking her with an aim to spoil her research work. This chap is of an average academic quality and somehow has managed to get into the good books of the boss. He wants that she should not be able to get ahead of him. A typical male jealousy as well as also a bitter truth about his incompetence.
Her boss is equally a fat headed lady, who hardly has any academic aptitude and only sees the matter with utlitarian interest. She has no academic profile worth recognition and just mad about her jewellry and daily new sarees. She is infact the real incompetent figure, who only needs the flatters around her.
If you look into various sculptures and mouments of Indian temples, there are man and woman relationship depicted in such symbolic forms, and there is profound attitudinal similarity with those elucidated here above.

Course on Afghanistan

My experience with teaching a coursework on Afghanistan has been quite refreshing. I had to venture in those areas which are considered rather unconventional for a geographer. I had took up the issues of ethnicity and conflict in the region and worked out the social system modules in which these relations lie. This has been very informative and learning experience for me. I have also been able to have a good repository of articles database that I find handy while referencing my work.
But, I feel that area studies apart from what they have become as territorial studies de facto, should conisder to venture into those areas or phenomenon, which are trans-boundary in their impact. This not only brings into focus the geographical forces, but also the nations and their polity in the geopolitical environment. Documentation of foreign policy and history of relations is only one part of the story. The real objective of any area studies research shold be to provide across the board analysis of various segments of a part of political landscape, defined as, the nation. In this, one must consider the dynamics of people's moving around the nations and their in carrying these influences to a signficant stage.

Life and the Estranged Self

It happens that sometimes the whole load of relationship goes off the mind, just a memory wipe out. And, the alienation is a state of inebriation with an estranged self that keeps occluded pressures of daily life. A new taste of same banality that is suddenly transformed in relishing moment. How does the morose things turn into the sticky skin embodying the self? This can only be perhaps seen as the pressures from day to day material life. But, more from the fact the appreciation of the very same matter is different for the two individuals who do not wish to subscribe to each other's understanding. The individualism has nothing to do it, here.
The fact is that value systems that individual inherits from one's social ecumene and cultural traits are the real forces that drive the serious discordants between the two. And, the effort to get something new out of it becomes a herculean task. The only answer left it to detach this self, which is no longer the individual self, but individual identity of social self. And, the tragedy is something similar to the Nutty Professor, inflating beyond proportions before bursting under the stress. One, only hopes to enjoy the thick filthy falbby self that is more personalised more lonesome and more detached to any sense of past personality cults.

Resolving Nepal Crisis

The situation in Nepal can only be rendered solvent from the perspective of the parties engaged: the King Gyanendra, Nepali Congress, Maoists and the Nepalese army. At the moment, the king and the army are together against unusual cobbling of seven party alliance (SPA) plus the maoists. The offer made was no newer trick to split the ranks, but the king has failed to recekon this time that the situation has gone far his petty maneuvres.
There is need to have a stable transition process so as the king is assured of his stakes in Nepal nation-society and the people's aspiration are carefully weaned off any militant characteristics that are potentially dangerous for the neighbourhood. The demands a peace process along the lines of BONN AGREEMENT. The Bonn Agreement can serve as model to step by step transition to democracy, in which the king to can be party to constitution formulation. No doubt, avoiding any electoral process cannot be the solution. Hence, people and the king should come to a set up where the constitutional dialogue can be initiated. There is need to carefully condition this process externally. SAARC can be the appropriate platform, where India and Pakistan can take the lead with China and the US as strategic players, which they are in any case.