by Niranjan Jha
In identifying those responsible for the attack, there were three viewpoints. That a very powerful and complex terrorist group, able to successfully cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out the attack. This is the main viewpoint advocated by American statesmen. But the truth was that that some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to save the Zionist regime. The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view. It was carried out by a terrorist group but the American government supported and took advantage of the situation.
The sin of today is the fashion of tomorrow!
The crime taking place anywhere is a danger of everywhere. After seven years of 9/11, the same kind of orchestra took place in India when the terrorists attacked Hotel Taj and Oberoi in Mumbai. The Indian politicians hired Pakistani mercenaries to kill so many innocent Indians just for their political gratification. The government has not yet punished one terrorist who was caught bloody handed, because he has threatened the government that if he is killed, he would reveal all the secrets. The most despising secrets of the fifth column who caused a psychological attack on humanity!
The back-seated prime-minister Sonia Gandhi hasn’t been able to punish the assassins of her husband yet because her government is backed up by the same people who killed Rajeev Gandhi. A fifth standard educated Italian girl Antonia Maino who worked as a waitress and sales executive in the USA and UK, holding a fake degree in English of Cambridge University cannot do more than what she is doing. And if you want to know about her son, he is also making big stories. He has been caught in three cocaine cases outside India, and his girlfriend is the daughter of a Columbian drug mafia, and he uses his name Raul Vinci outside India holding dual passport. Wow! I think Hitler was not wrong when he said – Let them be ruled over who don’t know how to rule. These so-called Gandhis have taught us enough to rule. That is why the education minister of the government is taking the examination of tenth standard.
Sometimes it feels that the world is such a loop, as much you untie so much it gets complicated. I was trying to resolve the complication of my life not knowing that the wind was blowing against me.
The white-collar job that I was promised to be given turned bluish in a month, and my hope for betterment was strangled by the insult I was left to bear. Failing to keep my existence secure, after six months of the stay, I had to come back to India.
“Following your wish can be dangerous, but neglecting it can also be depressive.”
Chapter Nine
“To a man, the greed for women is more dangerous than the greed for money.”
‘Who created this file in the computer, sir?’ I was asked by Ameena Khan.
‘The computer itself,’ I replied.
‘No, I can’t believe this.’
‘Why?’
‘Because it reads, Ameena, I love you.’
She was appointed as a computer teacher of the institute I had opened in New Delhi. She was considerate, ambitious and helpful to me. The day I saw her I fell in love, and since then I was trying to make her understand my feeling. After she read the sentence of the file, she wore a smile on her face which was clearly indicating that she had understood everything. I hid my face to control the hesitation, and feeling shy, I couldn’t look at her any longer.
A twenty-year old Bengali Muslim Ameena had recently come to New Delhi. A month ago, she dropped in the institute to make an enquiry for getting trained on English and computer. In a short period of time, she improved her knowledge a lot, and so, I decided to appoint her as a trainer. My tender heart, tender feeling and tender path ahead were keeping me a little hesitant to propose that day. Living in the middle-class conservative Hindu community, proposing a Muslim girl could possibly put me in trouble, but I encouraged myself to accept the challenge. Otherwise, it was barely true that I was at such a Rubicon from where stepping down could make life meaningless and cluster-molested. I was in the need of a woman – yes – obviously a wife. Just one week ago I had got an idea which was very simple and sober to propose her. And that was the result that she wore a smile on her face that day. But exactly a week ago something very interesting had happened.
While teaching English I asked her a question. As she was coming for a month, and in that period of time I had proved myself one of the best teachers for her, so I knew that if I tell her to do something, she wouldn’t deny. I had already framed up a set of questions to ask.
‘Ameena, can I ask you something?’
‘Yes, please!’
‘I have got a friend who I need to tell something but the problem is that...’
‘Yes?’
‘The problem is that she understands Bengali language only.’
‘So, what do you want me to do?’
‘I have written a letter in Hindi that you’ve to translate into Bengali.’
‘Ok, I will do that.’
God is great! I thought for a moment. I sensed the arrow going at right direction as I saw that she waited for five seconds to reply but finally nodded with acceptance. I was immensely ecstatic to hear that she had accepted to translate the letter because I knew what I was going to write in it. It brought a broad smile on my face. I felt like I was going to get victory over the war of Sparta. Winning the heart of a lovable woman makes a man the most happiest. He feels blessed and blissful. He feels his life revived and soul vivified. I recollected ten times the words she had said.
‘Ok, I will do that.’
The words of her echoed my mind for many days keeping me cheerful and delighted. The very next day, with all my linguistic strength, jotting down the jolting words, I composed a letter adding all the flavors and fragrance showing the tender feeling over-flown. It wasn’t addressed to anyone, just the words…
‘Life is beautiful but it becomes more beautiful when one falls in love. I have no intention to bother you but just I want to tell you something. My life is blissful since I have seen you. I don’t know how to tell, because I hesitate a little, and I would hate myself if I made you upset of anything, but I cannot control myself without telling you also. I don’t know what I should do.’
With shivering hands, I put the letter in her book without letting her acknowledge that the letter was written for her. The book I put the letter in was one of her thickest books – the dictionary. When she was about to leave the class that day, I told her to get the letter from the book after reaching home. The next day she came and gave me a paper on which everything was written in Bengali. It was too early to expect her reply, still with a burning quest I rushed to an old man who knew Bengali, and I asked him read the letter. All the words were same what I had written; still it made my day chuckling round the clock because I knew that I would let her know one day who I really had written the letter for. And that would be the happiest moment for both of us!
“Men do not live for bread only but confidence, sympathy, appreciation also.” –Emerson
Chapter Ten
“Millions said the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.” –Baruch
I was concentrating on my teaching profession putting every single effort ensuring that the students get proper learning. The power of motivating the students was one of the best qualities of my teaching as I used to make it clear to them that – The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. We shouldn’t waste our life in doubts and fears: rather spend our
selves on the work before us, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
In life you will face lot of challenges and uphill battles that will try to stop you from achieving your dreams. Difficulties will arise that will make you stumble but don't let those difficulties make you crumble. Just be strong. Trials will knock you down but you can choose to get back up. Knowing that we have tried with all of our might is the comfort we seek. There are events and things in life that we cannot change. When we have done all there is to do, it may take some practice, but once you know your efforts were complete, letting go of the worry is a blessing. There are times when people attempt to do us wrong and situations may not go well for us, but regardless we can still smile and not let the troubles of this world weigh us down.
We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try and live up to it. People ask many times what the meaning of life is. Giving friendship to the friendless, encouraging the discouraged, giving hope to the hopeless.... These are the stepping-stones to achieving or understanding the meaning of life. Once you start taking these steps, you yourself will start understanding the meaning of life.
I had begun to teach English and foreign languages from 1996 starting from Bihar, then Jharkhand, Kerala, America, and now in Mumbai. I am thankful to my American students who learnt French and Spanish from me patiently. I chose teaching profession because of my own interest, and got success in it.
To live life, I had got education and I was earning money too. But the only thing I didn’t have was a life partner. In order to find her, I was bound to run from pillar to post and turn all the stones of the way. I had understood long back that a sleeping fox catches no poultry. My family had stopped supporting me since I had become the reactionary to the social injustice I victimized of. And it was also true that, I myself wanted to search for a girl of my choice, and for that, Ameena was the best. She was gorgeous and smart with all the qualities a woman should have. And being in love with her was the most fortunate time for my life, and I had broken the ice giving her first letter assuring myself that I would get into wedlock very soon.
But I had no intuition that my love would end at a lethal cross-road because the world would not accept us, and my search for a soul-mate would never end. The religion, creating all havoc, would invalidate any possibility of the nuptial tie I wasn’t aware. For her, I knocked the door of the highest Muslim priest in India – Mulla Bukhari of Jama Masjid of Delhi. I was ready for my conversion in Islam. For my love, I reached the Tees Hajari Court, and went to Bhajanpura Police Station three times to get help. But all efforts went in vain. As I was turning every single stone to get her in my life but each stone was becoming a blocking fence in our way.
The world has always been suffering from theological diversities.
No matter how much you talk about peace and harmony, people are diversified. The majority of Muslims never believe that in a church or temple the same god is worshiped whom their Quran proclaims. A corrupt belief that – their Allah is the only god is misleading Islam since ages. Jesus and Krishna have been clearly falsified by their scripture. Who says Islam and Christianity are same? Just look into the Quran and you will find out the answer. Preaches of Moses and Jesus in both of their scriptures cannot nullify the friction between these two religions. The Christians and Hindus also look at the mosque with ill prejudices. They think mosque is a place where some sort of devil is worshiped. Have you ever seen an outcaste bowing down in front of a mosque? In many verses of Quran it is written that it is the religious duty of a Muslim to behead him who doesn’t believe in his Allah. Seeing this, a non-Muslim can ask whether Quran is a religious book or a tome to trigger wars.
Why are Muslims so blind that they believe slaughtering non-Muslims is their right?
People say that Islam encourages killing but I would say not only Islam but Hinduism also encourages killing. The Holy Scripture of Hindus – the Geeta begins with the instructions of war and ends at the same. I think in the time of tumult, war is necessary for human being on the earth.
If you have some curiosity, then let’s look back into past to see why Islam is accused of being the religion of war. The time when the platform of Islam was being created in Arabia, the Pagans, Jews and Quraishi Sardar in the pre-Islamic history were so uncivilized and unlawful that humanity was nowhere in their account. So when a new belief with strong fundamental of monotheism, unity, and reformation was to be formulated, it had to go through a lot of challenges, massacres and wars. The pre-Islamic Arabs never wanted the new religion to be established. That is why, in the time of war-at-every-step, the Quran depicted the view of killing non-believers. Otherwise, they themselves would have been eliminated from the world at the early stage. And that is why Muslims are hardliner, and in some exceptional cases, the world is blessed with some liberal persons like Mr. Barrack Obama. God bless him in winning the election of 2012!
A religion is to lead to the people, but it also needs to be reformed from time to time. The reformation has to take place. But when reformation comes, first it has to fight with the established fundamentalism of the existing belief. The biggest mistake of all the religions existing on the earth is that they never tried to control human population. And why did they not do is because they prophesized that a man is born on the will of God, so putting a cap on human birth was going against the will of God. These days, the root cause of all the problems of the world is that – Necessity is more than availability. The religions, being the guides of human being have already said that injustice on the earth would go out of control and that would bring annihilation for sure. Now the question is that, if annihilation will definitely come, then what is the use of following religious doctrine? And why can’t the religions stop annihilation?
Some questions remain unanswered, and they remain because there is a flaw in the doctrine. In this current era, human pollution is the biggest threat to the world. We human beings are nothing but viruses replicating in number. And that is devastating the world inch by inch. If the scriptures had taught us to control population, we had a better world today.
But who cares? Behind every motive there is selfishness. I am thinking of making a religion which would allow the followers to carry guns. Sword is old!
“Money is the sixth sense, if you don’t have this, you cannot enjoy your five senses properly.” –Anonymous
Chapter Eleven
“We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.” –Jim Rohn
I let one week pass, then wrote a second letter with more meaningful and convincing sentences. She translated back that letter also without adding any extra word than what I had written. I was dreaming of her every moment, and little by little, it was being known to the busy-bodies and goody-goody kind of the people of the locality. My family in Delhi and mother at native place got upset after hearing that I was going to marry an outcaste. They were planning to isolate me from the society. I was determined to face any challenge, and that is why, without wasting any more time in beating bushes, I wrote her the last letter. It went like this…
‘Now don’t translate this letter Ameena. All the three letters were written to you. I love you and I want to marry you. If you want to be my life-partner, please reply.’
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. Everything was clear to her in the very first sentence. She came to the institute next day but did not reply anything. I got a little nervous apprehending her disturbance. I thought if I am the reason of her disturbance, then I was better in the illusion of her love before. Why did I trouble her? But till the time reply wasn’t come, I was a little hopeful to positivity. I looked around her face letting my eyes whisper the words�
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‘If you’ve really felt bad, it would hurt me a lot, and I would never forgive myself for that.’
She didn’t speak anything that day. As she went home, the beauty of the weather was also gone with her. I had to wait for her till twenty-four hours counting the ticks of the clock. Next day she came but kept silent until the class got over. But while going back home she told that she had put the letter in my book.
Boom!!
I felt an explosion in my mind. Just after she said, she rushed down and went away, and I spin my head towards the book to get the letter. I thanked God several times while reading her reply. She had accepted my proposition and written that she loved me too. Just she was a little afraid of her parents because they were very conservative. I thought if she is agreeing, then other issues would definitely be taken care of. I read the letter almost twenty times. The next day was Friday, which was the last working day of the week.