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Introduction to Gita - Part II
The Holy Geeta, one of many Hindu religious scriptures1,3, in 18 chapters offers a synthesis of all relevant Upanishad teachings, an estimated 3,500 years old ancient literature. Indias oldest scriptures are Vedas, which are more than 5,000 years old. Geeta is also spelled Gita. The Gita describes all yogas or paths of selfless action to seek God. Seekers are free to choose or select one or more of these paths. All paths are equal; there is no one path superior to other; they all have equal weig...
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Basic Hindu Beliefs and Scriptures - Part I
The document was prepared for student with 10th grade and higher education. For some topics familiarity with introduction to higher education in science may be advantageous.Youth and young adults may and should use my articles as introductory information. I want to stimulate their interest and thinking with outlines I have provided to motivate them to increase their knowledge of Hindu heritage for them to pursue if they have time and curiosity to learn more about Hinduism....
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America - Two Responses - Part I
American Administration and Pakistan representatives were negotiating and a Pakistani requested Dont think of us as terrorists or warlords for the proxy wars in South and Central Asia.American: So, what are you?General: We are the executors of the Offshore War strategy.Both America and Pakistan are in a hellhole created by the al Qaeda operatives. They indulged in discussions and a few war strategies for a decade and offered excuses for how they got there and who was responsible but so far that ...
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Influences of Poor in Democracy
Globalization has led to a focused attention of developments in South Asia; Pakistan as an American front line ally against war on terrorism and India as a newly emerging economic power. The two countries of South Asia became independent at the same time, August 14-15, 1947. Only India managed to develop as a constitutional democratic republic with a government of, by and for the people for last 62 years. Unlike Pakistan, India is now at the threshold and statistically unlikely to deviate from e...
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True Education and Poverty alleviation
Seek Knowledge even unto China, Commanded Prophet MohammedAll the money in the world cannot help a village, if they will not help themselves, Swami VivekanandaIndia is a rich county. Most people are poor to very poor, this I believeSummary: The article focuses on my beliefs. ...
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Afpakia War: America"s necessity
Americas offshore strategy of war (Part I) has yielded many unintended consequences. Both America and Pakistan are paying heavy price in material, military and civilian losses, not to mention sufferings of millions in tribal Afpakia areas. Dr. Farrukh Saleems article, Great American Failure (http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=202682) offers partial details of costs so far incurred by America....
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America: Offshore Strategy of War
In Part I of two part series I present information on the Americas post-WWII strategies of wars. I have also outlined evolving policy for sustainable American and international aid packages for and to stabilize Pakistan. America contents that such economic aid will stabilize the region - Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.The economically powerful nations have been drivers of international wars from 1945 to present. For protecting engine of its economic power driven by a determination to secure ass...
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Warlordism to Democracy - Part III
Part III describes political paradigm shifts from warlordism to democracy. Warlordism is a Third World way, the way it plays out in nations that follow political Islam of the Arab lands. Latin American and communist nations politics is also not democratic, but they are not a part of this discussion. Unlike in lands with leaders and clerics held infallible and rulers are dictators, elected or not, in democracy leaders are not infallible or a breed apart. The democratic leaders are not held in thr...
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Non-Violence to Warlordism - Part II
Two theories of evolution were examined in Part I, Evolution and Human Behavior of a three part essay Evolution and Political Paradigms to understand why the idea of reverting to past for a utopian world is inconsistent with human nature of thinking, creativity and innovation.Both Hinduism and Buddhism advocate non-violence for virtuous living. The dvaita concepts of Kapilas Sankhya system were incorporated into Hinduism and Buddhism. Buddhism is renowned for Middle Path teachings, including pri...
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Evolution and Human Behavior
Unhindered access to historical information is one of most significant applications of digital technology. By instantly spreading news and other information IT has limited abilities of politically motivated entities to control and censor information dissemination.A problem with promoters of the concept of adhering to or reverting to medieval and pre-medieval practices is that they may be naive and ignorant of impacts of evolution on human activity and behavior. Christian belief of creationism an...
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Wars of Choice and Necessity
The war making has undergone paradigm shifting from WWII to Cold War, to Clash of Civilization and now America is entering a period of serial war mode. Ongoing war in the Afpakia region, lessons learned from the Iraq war (2003-08) and internal political compulsions have led America to start preparing for a serial war mode for next few decades. In Iraq America fought a war of choice to establish a friendly regime. The gains made in the Afghanistan war of necessity in 2002 to destroy al Qaeda and ...
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Reforming Education in Rural India
The presentation offers an innovative true education program called the Y4DBRABT (Youth for Development Empowered with Basic Rural Agro-Biogenics Technologies) to improve secondary school education for rural youth. The true education programs are designed to stimulate thinking abilities and challenge students creative and innovative talents for intellectual development and wealth generation1* (*see references). ...
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Pakistan: Flawed Beliefs
The weekly Saturday Opinion column (Dawn, August 1, 2009) by Mr. Irfan Husain illustrated that social change or activism is globally proliferating through cyberspace. The cyber revolution is making life difficult for those trying to impose censorship or self-righteous views. The elites of 21st century who promote that maintaining medieval and pre-medieval social order for governing traditional Islamic lands should remember words of poet Iqbal quoted above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_I...
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Rebuttal : West and Muslims
I am not comfortable that some Muslims settled in the West are complaining about violation of their constitutional rights. If true, I consider it as abrasions; call it collateral damage associated with on-going clash of civilization. The Muslims blame America and the West for their misfortunes ignoring who started the clash of civilization. West in general and America in particular is in a ...
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PAK: Impact of Radicals and Weak..
Pakistani rulers and army generals completely underestimated the impacts including unintended consequences and insecurities, etc that radical jihadis will have on internal security of Pakistan. America never suspected that in 2001 its homeland security will be shattered as a result of direct attacks by a handful of Arab terrorists trained in areas now labeled Afpakia. The War on Terrorism from 2002 to 2008 destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan and delivered a windfall of billions in diplomatic oil ($12...
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