Survival of the fittest

The theory of natural selection says that nature choses only the fittest to survive. I have seen numerous documentaries which show how difficult it is for a new born of a wild animal to survive in this treacherous world. A new born calf of a deer can't stand on its legs and the mother watches helplessly its struggling infant. The calf finally manages to stabilise itself and suckles at its mother to extract life . Nature by its nature is very unforgiving and does not give any second thoughts on eliminating a weak offspring. It even compells animals to eat their own kind when the situations get very severe. These offsprings start withstanding all the hardships and begin the journey of their life. Their parents always teach them the skills necessary to survive in the jungle. If it is deer, it is always told to be alert and hide behind the tall grasses to avoid being spotted by a stalking lion or a cheetah. If it is a lion's cub it is told to always stay away from serpents or other big male lions. The hunters are taught the skill to hunt and the prey is taught the skill to hide and dodge the hunter. One of the most important lessons taught to them is to respect the nature because it is nature which is their playground and the workplace. They are always taught to work with nature and not against it. One of the most beautiful and complex creation of nature is what we proudly call is - US , no no not the Unites States but us- human beings. Nature almost marvels itself upon the creation of such a complex system. Most of the times when a human baby is born it is in no condition to help itself and crawl to its mother. Mother holds the baby in her hands, supports the baby and gives it the milk of life. I see some kind of partiality here on the part of nature.Why does it allow a human baby to be given a supporting hand while the children of the other species are denied this support. We as human beings are created more intelligent than any other living speices in the world. A human infant is prone to many diseases in the initial part of its life and might not be the fittest but we make it possible for the baby to survive. It is because we are more intelligent than other animals. I believe what we perceive as intelligence is nothing but a second chance given to us by nature. We have used our intelligence for the development of our world and our species. But in the process of development we have lost the respect for nature which has given us the power of intelligence. It would be a cliche to say that we are working agianst nature; that nature which has presented the cradle of life to us. The worst part is we do not realise that by doing so we are getting weaker every moment. This realisation stimulates us time and again when we hear about Tsunami and devastating forest fire. Nature has allowed even the weakest of human beings to suruvie but I guess we are quickly reaching a threshold point after which indeed only the fittest will survive and at that time I am not sure how many of us will back themselves as the fittest.

Is this Democracy

India is one of the biggest democracy in the world and infact America imported polling machines from India to hold its elections and the Election Commission of India is consulted by various countries for holding elections in a systematic manner. Does this make India a democratic country? Some would say why not. After all millions of people in India cast their votes to elect their representatives but still is this democracy. Jawaharlal Nehru was our first Prime Minister and intersestingly his daughter became Prime Minister whose son Rajiv Gandhi also became our Prime Minister. This does not sound democracy to me. This is no different than a monarchy where a king's son/daughter inherit the throne of a country. One example is not sufficient to emphasise the point I am making. Orissa's current Chief Minister is a son of Orissa's former Chief Minister. Kashmir's chief Minsiter shares the same heritage. Devegowda who enjoys the privilege of being the CM and PM of our country ensured that his son also tasted the power of becoming a CM. Stalin in Tamil Nadu is lining up to replace Karunanidhi. Akhilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam is getting ready to hold the reigns of Samajwadi Party in UP. Madhav Rao Sindhiya's son is already a sitting MP. Bal Thackeray will some day anoint his son as the king of Shiv Sena. Sanjay Dutt convicted for TADA is raring to join politics; his sister is already an MLA. Democracy is just a farce in India; a ludicrous idea and we as Indians have been made to believe that we are living in a democracy. Politics in India has become a business where the the sons/daughters inherit it from their parents.Democracy gives us the choice to choose but our politicians have masterminded a plot where you are given an illusion of making a choice. Did we chose Manmohan Singh democratically? Are we being asked if Rahul Gandhi should take over as the leader of Congress party. I guess just voting for the politicians in the election does not warrant a democracy. Democarcy in India is nothing but a shameless act of nepotism. We have to break out of this matrix , open our eyes to the realilty and come out of this pseudo democracy otherwise by the time we realise this, someone serving a life imprisonment sentence would be making a speech from Red fort and we would be cheering, waving our national flag and proudly telling our generations to come- This indeed is democracy.

Pakistan aka Afghanistan

Is Pakistan the new Afghanistan that's the big question I guess. It is quickly heading towards becoming a terrorist nation. There has always been a fine balance between fundamentalism and liberalism in Pakistan and though there is no dearth of religious leaders in Pakistan it has always managed to keep these people out of power which clearly reflects the minds of the Pakistanis. But you can't live peacefully if you do not let your formidable neighbour live in peace. The outlook of Pakistan towards terrorism been dual. It had openly supported the terrorists in past spreading terror in India and has brazenly hailed them freedom fighters but now when the bug has bitten them they have no choice but to condemn the terrorists. I think I can postulate the three laws of terrorrism:
1) Terrorism continues to be in the state of motion unless dealt in a hard manner.eg: Punjab
2) The force of terrorism is inversely proportion to the strength of the government
3) Most important- For every action there is equal and opposite reaction. eg: America creating Osama, Pakistan spreading terror in India.
Pakistan I guess is slowly coming to realise the second and third laws of terrorism. Its government has always been unstable oscillating bewtween democarcy and military rule; and so much time and effort has been lost that Pakistan has lost control of the terrorist outfits which it gave birth to. The foreign policy of Pakistan has been a one point agenda- Kashmir. Recently the Pakistani government signed a cease fire agreement with Taliban which goes to show the weakness of the government and irony that it was pakistan which created Taliban and is now begging for mercy from them. It(Pakistan) has to realise that terrorism is not a chemical reaction but a nuclear fusion which is uncontrollable if not nipped in the bud. India has to remain wary of this situation as Taliban was atleast a country away from us but now seems like our ministers would soon be dealing with Taliban officially in Pakistan. Religious fundamentalism can coexist and can be accepted fully among the people which has been demonstrated successfully by Iran, Saudi Arabia. Pakistan should apply for a crash course of social reforms in one of these countries to pull itself out of the black hole which it is creating.