Terror and I

Terroism looks like the big things that's on every Indian's lips. Common man suffering for no reason, people are getting and aggitated with the government, people in power trying to save their 'chairs'. A feeling helpless and a sense of powerlessness travels in the air.

There is a Gosho* which say "If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds pure so is their land, there are not two lands pure and impure in themselves. The diffrence lies soley in the good or evil of our minds."

Thinking about this i wonder, if the minds of the people in my country impure? probally 'yes'. I am so ashamed to type 'Yes' to this question but this is the fact. Govt officials and people in position are corrupted. People who are supposed to protect the nation are protecting themselves. I believe its a total cowardice act. Media on the other hand are trying to reach out people, with and intention of increasing their TRP rating and not finding solutions to the trivial issues in the country. People who are supposed to give support and encouragement to common man are no where to be found. On the other hand common man are stupid enough to vote for the same leaders, year after year which has led our country to what it is today. The terroist have taken advantage of this situation making our country one of the 20 most dangerous country in this world. How saddening.

Our country strongly needs a democratic change, a change that makes every individual happy, and i feel this should start soon with the elections comming up next year. it needs to be a one with total diffrence, our country needs youthful minds to govern. A strong character who will put a fullstop to this nonsence, think more for the common man and country and less about him. Will this ever happen, if yes then who is that person and which party will win is a million dollar question? but i feel its also upto us to make sure this happens.

As for me i shall start by praying for, the right goverment to get ellected in the coming elections. Each and every individual to be throughly aware of the politicians before they vote. Every individual, young and old to actually caste a vote.

2009 will be a year of youth & victory: - Let each and every individual arise with a youthful spirit and stand up with the youth.
* Gosho- The individual and collected writings of Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282), which contains (1) treatises setting forth doctrine
(2) writings remonstrating with government authorities
(3) letters offering advice, encouragement, or consolation to believers, or written in answer to questions
(4) written records of Nichiren's oral teachings, including his lectures on the Lotus Sutra.

For a change - Vote by Not Voting

I happened to come across the Gani website, as a friend of mine and i were blogging about the voting system in our country. I was impressed to come across an excellent Tamil writer, journalist, theatre person and a film maker.

This is what he has got to say about 49 O. Read on...

http://www.gnani.net/

And the link to my friend's post about the same topic. http://gopal-2expressmythoughts.blogspot.com/

I really wish that Gnani's words in Tamil reach out to the common man and the root cause of our current political scenario gets addressed.

If only i knew to read Tamil
If only i was in India
I would have read this out to those people in the slums next to my house.