Cycle

In this big world which is getting smaller day by day, as I get more educated, there is one thing for sure; the number of cycles that I know is going to rise exponentially.

If we recall from the early childhood the cycle of cycles started with Carbon di oxide cycle, then oxygen, nitrogen, going on to citric acid cycle, menstrual cycle and on and on. It’s not as if only chemistry or biology students suffer the pain inflicted by the venomous fangs of these cycles. Every ology in academia is ingrained with these cycles; I wonder why we don’t have a subject called cyclology. Even supposedly simpler subjects (my perspective) like economics, philosophy etc. do also boast a very high density of cycles like cycle of markets, or rise and fall of economy or what not cycle. These omnipresent cycles can also explain the election results using the anti incumbency factor( although only after the results)...I am feed up of cycles yaar!!!

But this was not meant to be a post on cycles. I had planned a really different kind of post for today. But yesterday when I went to T.V. lounge around midnight, which is my usual T.V. + 3or4 newspaper time, the terrorists succeeded in taking some amount of much coveted space on my blog.

Aaj Tak, sabse tez channel, probably for the news but also for repeating the interview of same person at the time of blasts at least 3-4 times in a span of 15 mins. Either they couldn’t find a lot of ‘Chasmdeed gawahs’ alive or there was too much competition among the channels to interview people, so ‘jisko jitney interview mile woh utne hee dikha raha tha’.

So how are goddamn cycles related to the terrorist attacks?

As usual I come up with the worst possible analogy to explain the phenomenon. I think it’s a called ‘cycle of civilizations’ which explains all the ‘utha patak’ going on in the geo politics of the world right now. And I hope that this term i.e. cycle of civilizations has already been coined, so that I am not cursed by the generations of students to come for making another painful cycle.

I remember listening to a documentary that the rise and fall of nations, cultures etc. is a cyclic phenomenon with a period of around 400 years. The period is not a concern; the concern is that the explanation comes entangled in the language of cycles. I was forced to agree to the kind of rational arguments that were given. To substantiate, the downfall of Indian civilization started around 1600 AD and the way things are going we may as well see the rise of India by 2050 AD. By the time I die India would change from being ‘Karz kee chidiya’ to ‘Sone kee chidiya’. The reason, for exceeding the time limit of 400 years I believe is; it is IST and as usual Indians are never on time.

Now from the other side of coin, the western perspective, we are looking at a cultural alienation of westerners from there own and they are embracing the culture of simplicity, yoga, and back to the basics kind of life style. Where as Indians who have been living, or have been forced to live this life style (which can be termed as poor) are running like kangaroos towards the glittering western life style. And don’t forget that we used to have same kind of life style 400 years ago when Europe and USA were nothing more than nomadic people.

What the heck, I still didn’t give reason for Terrorist attacks!!!

Well since I am talking about cycles my processor is in overdrive and kind of heated up also hence it will take sometime to make the links clear.

Who are these terrorists??

These are the bhookhe, nange of Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, or which ever place, I don’t care about. Let’s take example of India itself. Which states have most naxalite problems? Bihar and North east.

They are the poorest regions of the country. Every heard of any son of crorepati or in more polished terminology millionaire becoming a terrorist and sacrificing his life. I haven’t. Why would he?

Hunger is the most fertile breeding ground for Militancy (in the words of western media) and terrorism (Indian perspective). But hungry people can’t make weapons by sacrificing themselves. They need to be brainwashed feed and supplied with Rs 5000(that too Pakistani i.e. Pakistani currency is cheaper than Indian) to cross the loc and kill people here.

So where does cycle come in this terrorism!!!

I think terrorism is not a local problem. Because Pakistan doesn’t have money to fund these people. The probable source of money is gulf or our new love USA. I think people are trying to stop the cycle of prosperity from moving on. They have enjoyed the prosperity for so long that they can’t digest other people enjoying the same. Since they have the resources like free uneducated hungry people all around, they are used or in terms of so many European humanitarian organizations ‘EXPLOITED’. A lot more goes in this war for freedom then what we know.

But can the cycle be reversed or stopped. I doubt. In Hindu mythology even the gods have to do karma, do the part assigned (Janam aur mrityu ke chkara mein to ram bhi aaye the), to phir yeh ameer log kaise bach sakta hai. Ab hamari baari hai beta !!!

There are some key steps in every cycle. And we need eccentric people like Geroge bush to kick start those. I think what Bush has done in Afghanistan and Iraq may seem two different events may be the starting events for the overhauling of the engine of world which has been rusted after ~55 years of peace. And there is no visible force like old USSR which may be able to put some brakes on the road roller.

Wars, blood, killing of innocents can be criticized and should be criticized. But how many of us do think that it can be stopped. I am sounding very pessimistic here but I can’t help it after looking at the front page photograph of Hindustan times.

I do fear the world today is sitting on a time bomb and this time the number of causalities will not be in lakhs like the earlier world wars.

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