Das Kapital

I am thinking about reading Das Kapital for the first time in my life.. Just wanted to know what is in there..

BJP's defeat in Assembly Elections

BJP lost in Maharashtra, Arunachal and Haryana. BJP's elite Brahmin leaders do not want to share their powers with OBC leaders. That attitude lead to the downfall of BJP. BJP's brahmin baniya leaders think that OBC's and SC/ST followers will always stick with them if they just talk about Hindutva. That is gone.

Are we just sympathizers...

When we hear stories of horror related to other human beings, we just sympathize with them for a moment and then goes back to our daily life. Is it because we think that we cannot bring any change to our world.

Why there is a delay in the Poll Results?

Why the Election Commission of India is delaying the poll results. The assembly elections were only conducted in 3 states. And delaying the poll results does not make any sense.

How dare the Chinese?

How dare the Chinese to object the Indian PM's visit to a state within India. The Chinese are going too far in their arrogance against India.

The Indian government is so soft that even their respond to the current Chinese arrogance is almost muted.

The Indian government should show some guts in dealing with China. If we continuously think that we will lose a war against China, then we will never win over them.

We have to take the Israeli strategy. They are not afraid of their enemies and their huge military. Their existence in the Middle East is only due to their attitude.

We should change our attitude. Otherwise our enemies will grow strong on us. We should tell the Chinese to mind their business and should tell them this is not the 50's. That India is gone. We are an emerging super power and if they don't respect us, then tell them we know how to make them respect us.

But these power and money hungry corrupt and spineless politicians of India will do nothing.

Pakistani Terrorist Attacks

There was a terrorist attack on Pakistani Army HQ in the last couple days. I hope they are learning the lesson now.

They flowed money to Indian militants to attack Indian establishments and now they are feeling the same heat.

What goes around will come around...

The birth of my political aspirations...

I was 8 years old when I started to have an interest in politics. There was a lok sabha (Parliament) election happening on that year. It was the year 1984 and it was the 8th Lok Sabha election.

The candidates from Kottayam parliament constituency were Advocate Suresh Kurup of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI(M) and Skaria Thomas (I think...) of Kerala Congress.

My school did not have any student politics and because of that we didn't have any student political organizations in the school. But during student strike time, students from the nearby schools used to come to our schools and conducted strikes there.

One particular student organization caught my attention and it was the Students Federation of India (SFI), the students organization of CPI(M). The reason was whenever they come with strike, our principal would shut down the school for that day. On the contrary, Kerala Students Union (KSU), the opponents of SFI, were not that powerful in the eyes of our principal. So he rarely shut down the school when KSU conducts a strike.

This made me think that SFI is a powerful organization (it was.. and still is..) and that made SFI attractive to me.

My interest to SFI made me like Suresh Kurup. And even though my Mom was a center-right person, I became a pro-leftist. My Dad didn't align with any political parties. He has his own politics.

Suresh Kurup and his ideologies became so interesting and I began to consider myself as a socialist from then on...