Free to choose

Having physical relationship with opposite gender is so important, then why we have so much romanticized celibacy? If someone who want to make love with same sex is guilty then why not one who don’t want to have sex for his entire life? Isn’t it against the law of nature?

If you are asking them that if your mom-dad were of that type, would you be in this world? But my question is why you are not telling the same thing to the people claiming to be celibate? Instead we worship them. Our Indian society has always worshiped chastity of women and celibacy of men but not the celibacy of women and chastity of men. If your argument is –sex with the same gender is violating nature’s law and if this so called ‘mentality virus’ has spread then how would our future generations form? Same theory applies for the celibates. They too are not contributing to the survival of human race. I am not against celibates but this logic forcing me to give this counter argument. According to me, everyone should free to choose whether they want to be celibates, want to make love with same gender or opposite. 

Why we are not free to choose? Even BJP is opposing this thing. Then tell me why you are worshipping god ‘Ayyapan’? (FYI-Ayyappan is a Hindu deity who is believed to be an incarnation of Dharma Sasta, the offspring of Shiva and Vishnu (in the form of Mohini, his only female avatar)) This is ironic that you are opposing same gender sex but worshipping god who is offspring of same gender sex. (even if Lord Vishnu is in female avatar) Means you don’t have any objection if one of the two is in female attire.

So the next time you are opposing homosexuality, I would request to come up with more logical arguments? Nature’s law, really?

~Digvijay Sanjay Patil

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Just Blog!!! – See, think, blog...

“Fill your paper with the breathing of your heart.” – William Wordsworth.

Why there is a need to write a blog? Why should we waste time in writing something? Don’t we are having other important things to do? Most of the time, we see many interesting things happening around us but we don’t give a damn about them. Do you? No. A dark no. 

I have heard a very nice quote about people behavior by George Bernard Shaw. “Two percent of people think, three percent of people think they think and ninety five percent of people would rather die than think.”

When you blog, you actually feel the things, you analyze them, you find reason behind them. Do you think all stories you see or movies you watch are come from the fantasies of writers? No, actually they are taken from day to day life of common people. (Don’t tell me about Sunny Deol or Rajnikanth) Blogging is the great tool to express you. 

Who you are? You are same personality in-between your photo on driving license and your facebook profile picture. I am not talking about your looks but whole personality. What world see you or what you show to the world and what you actually are, there is some (or in many cases ‘Hugh’) gap there. You have opportunity to fill that gap by expressing yourself. 

If you want to write personal things, make a privet blog. If you want to tell something to your loved ones and you can’t tell that thing in front of them, write a blog and make blog visible to specified people. These all functions are provided by blogging sites. And if you want to tell something interesting or things you deeply feel about to all people out there, write a blog. You can see 10 years later that how you changed during course of time. How your thinking is shaped by the external factor or introspection. 

You read newspaper, magazines; watch movies, sport, I don’t think you agree with all the things you see or do. If you feel, let those feelings shape on your life canvas. If you are writing technical, social or other type of blog, your knowledge in that field increases multiple times as you read, search, stay updated about that field. 

When I find some interesting topic to blog, I search about that topic on Google and many times I find many other interesting topic or websites. Google is incredible and you got power to know about anything within a minute by using your mobile phone or laptop. Then why we are wasting most of our time on face book? Blogging has other benefits too, like if someone has same problems as yours, and he is reader of your blog, you are actually inspiring him and it is great feeling that someone has inspired because of you.

Blogging needs high dedication, regularity. Many of my friends who started to blog, they did it for 3-4 months and left it. Don’t do that thing. Be regular, be patient to be noticed by the millions of viewers on internet, stay calm and write blog. Remember one thing, at the end of the day design, theme all these things doesn’t matter. What matters is your content. If you are writing publicly and want to get noticed and want regular followers to your blog, emphasize on your content, because those who are visiting, they are not wasting their time to see only beauty of your blog but what they want is a good, thought provoking content. So do some work on that. 

If you want to get started, I would suggest making your blog on blogger, wordpress or tumblr. You will need initial investment of Rs.0 as they are all free and have very nice features. So let’s get started. I don’t need to tell you how to make that thing possible as you are all smart folks. At any point you stuck, ask ‘Uncle Google.’ 

Most of us are not comfortable with writing in English. With the help of Google IEM, write in any language you are comfortable with.

You can download it here:

http://www.google.com/inputtools/windows/index.html

Happy blogging.

~Digvijay Sanjay Patil

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White lie or misleading truth?

What is right, what is morally correct? A lie or a misleading truth? To understand this, I am taking two examples.

Paula Jones brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton while he was president. During the deposition for the Jones lawsuit, which was held at the White House, Clinton denied having sexual relationship with Monika Lewinsky– a denial that became the basis for the Lewinsky Scandal and the president's subsequent impeachment charge of perjury. 

He told that he did not have sexual relationship with Miss. Lewinsky but what American people understood was, he had not sex with her, and even representative of Carolina asked defence lawyer the same question. In defence argument, lawyer said that you are misinterpreted the statement of Mr. Clinton. He never said that he didn’t have sex with Miss. Lewinsky; he only talked about sexual relationship. (Watch the video) It is good example of carefully worded denial.

He could have told an outrageous lie but to maintain the dignity and moral code he told the misleading truth.

Here is the second example in Indian scenario. Before election, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal said that, he will end up ‘Laal Batti’ culture. What people understood that, their cabinet is not going to take the government vehicles. But after coming to power his cabinet ministers accepted the government vehicles without ‘laal batti’ and when asked about it by media, he told, “Yes, I had told that I will end up laal-batti culture but I never made a comment about not accepting vehicles.” So what would you call to this – a lie or a misleading truth? Actually he has not told any lie, but he put in such a way that people would misunderstood.

From these two examples, misleading truth may give temporary benefit. People do lie thinking other will not find that thing forever. But actually misleading truth is as bad as a lie according to me even if it pays certain homage to moral law and self satisfaction that 'I did speak truth.'

I conclude it by giving mythological example from the great epic Mahabharata.

Well, we all know this story of Guru Dronacharya and Dharmraj Yudhishthir. Battle was getting worse for Pandavas due to multiple aggressive attacks by Dronacharya. Lord Krishna gives solution to Pandvas that if we want Dronacharya to be dead, we have to find his weak point and his weak point was his son Ashwathama. So Krishna told Bhima to kill elephant named Ashwathama in their army during battle and asked Yudhishthir to tell that Ashwathama has killed if asked by Guru Dronacharya. Lord Krishna knew that Guru Dronacharya will surely ask Yudhishthir because he knows he never gonna lie. 

At that time Yudhishthir was in same situation of telling misleading truth. Bhima killed an elephant named 'Ashvatthama'. Then he loudly announced for all to hear, 'Ashvatthama' is killed. Ashvatthama is dead. Drona was stunned with grief. Asvatthama could not have been killed by anyone. He had the blessings of lord Shiva. Not able to believe Bhima, Drona turned to Yudhisthira and asked if that was true. Yudhisthira said, Ashvatthama is killed " Elephant not the Man " he added in a low voice and the last part of the sentence was lost in the loud blowing of the conch of Krishna, Panchajanya. Now, Drona was so full of grief that he put down his arms and with a sword, Dhristadhymna cut off his head. It is said that Yudhisthira’s chariot always, moved four inches above the ground. So strong was his commitment to dharma. He had never spoken a false word till that time. After this act, his chariot came down to earth and he became like any other mortal.

Even our mythology suggesting the same that, even if it is misleading truth, it is not better than a lie.

References:
http://www.urday.in/mdronacharyadeath.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_misconduct_allegations_against_Bill_Clinton
justiceharvard.org

~Digvijay Sanjay Patil

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Justice -What's the right thing to do

Some days ago, I started to watch an interesting Harvard lecture series on Law. In this lectures, Mr. Michael Sandel has come up with the fascinating way to teach philosophy which everyone of us can digest easily, on many interesting issues. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic ‘Sanders Theatre’ to hear Michael Sandel’s talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship.

What I found after watching this series that- most of the times our thinking is biased about the things which surrounds us and we make impression of right or wrong without analyzing the other side. But when question has no correct answer there is only one honest response –the grey area between right and wrong.

Let’s take some of the cases which I find interesting.

If you argue, torturing people is wrong, how about torturing a person who is a suspect of planting a bomb which could cause thousands of deaths?  Is torture defensible if it yields valuable information? Or person’s human rights is first priority?

If law has made on stealing things, “Is a parent justified in stealing a drug for a child who needs it to survive if he could not pay?” Should law be different for different situations? And if it is justified then wouldn't people give justifications for every bad act they have done?

If government has policy of redistribution of wealth (means transfer of wealth from rich to poor) by additional taxation from rich people then isn’t it is forced labour? Let’s take an example. Bill Gates is wealthiest person and government asking him to pay 33% tax of his total income to redistribute that money to poor, then government actually asking him to work more and more to attain money he would have attained in first place. Isn't it form of forced labour?  

Is lying morally correct if situation demands even it hurts your dignity?  In many cases, the law can't be neutral on hard moral questions. Engaging rather than avoiding the moral convictions of our fellow citizens may be the best way of seeking a ‘just’ society.

These and many other cases discussed by Mr. Michael Sandel in a very narrative way and it makes us to think. If these cases interests you then visit this site.- http://www.justiceharvard.org/ 

I will discuss some interesting cases in my next blog. Peace.

~Digvijay Sanjay Patil

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