Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death

RECOLLECTIONS

Founder/President of
Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting,
Kumar Jahgirdar has helped so many people,
that he has lost count himself.

Many have asked me, what is a young guy like me, doing in the Men's Rights Movement. Some are amused, some are curious. This is the story of how I ended up here and why the movement has my undying support.

There comes a time in everyone’s life, when their path shall cross with something greater than themselves. When that happens there are only three ways to do things: you go about your business as usual though amused and intrigued, you decide you will take control and lead or you stand back and enjoy the show. I’m the third kind of person. Eventuality is taking shape in front of me, and I am a proud witness to have the knowledge of this ticking bomb.

MRM is the story of Men and Women in the process of building that bomb. I have seen their faces. I know each one of them. I wish I could say I want to sit back, relax and laugh as hard as possible when these terrorists take India by surprise. But they don’t believe in hiding much. In fact they are everywhere. Perhaps you may have seen them on TV. But the Indian news media is downplaying them. They are morphing the names of their organizations into entirely fictional ones so that the media’s own agenda is complied with. They call them as guests on talk shows and turn it into a 7 against 1 argument. They portray them as buffoons, lampooning and reducing them into caricatures. They dismiss them thinking they are misogynists.

Witty, smart and universally known for his misplaced
jokes, Atit Rajpara was the President of MRA, Pune
when I first met him. Since then he has moved on
  and embraced the Men-Going-Their-Own-Way view of
Men's Rights Movement. He has been a
source of great inspiration and a Mentor no less.

Why? Because the media probably does not understand them either. These so called misogynistic cultural terrorists are not exactly saying things that are in vogue. In this country we have had a great history of dismissing people before hearing their views and banning books before anyone reads them. But the Men and Women that belong to the rising tide of the Men’s Rights Movement in India, are unshaken. Their resolve is untarnished. This is the story of my path crossing with theirs.

After an episode of seduction leading up to a ridiculous break-up in college three years ago, I went into a frenzy. As a boy fresh out his small town existence, I was shocked to see the kind of apathy I was met with outside of a circle where people knew almost nothing about me or my character. I was studying in Pune then. My so-called ex-girlfriend accused me of “kind of” raping her. (The truth was she just wanted to get rid of me, because she had found a man whom she saw as better than me.) This was enough gunpowder for those closest to me, to turn their backs on me. My own friends looked at me with disgust. I made the mistake of confiding into some by telling them that I wasn’t guilty. Some wanted me to “act mature”, “suck it up”, “man up” and “quit complaining”. Others were of the view that it was “probably your (my) fault”, “no self respecting woman would accuse a guy of rape just like that”, “I should be sent to jail”, “quit troubling her and trying to ask why, or we will go to the cops.”

Jyoti Tiwari is many things. A wife, a mother, a sister.
But that is only her alterego. She's also a superhero.
A firebrand MRA and is often seen on TV kicking the wits
 out of Five to Six Feminists single handedly. Her position
 in the Men's Rights philosophy not only shocks women
but men too. Very analytic in her approach she is known
for sticking to facts and being extremely vocal about
counter-data. She also blogs quite often.

A few came up with rather creative ways to substantiate and connect dots that never existed in the first place. It was an attempt to make me look as if I was a pervert. Very soon even my blank gaze into abyss was turned into an urban myth. A friend later revealed that many thought that I was a pervert who stares at his colleagues’ boobs. Many suddenly "got the feeling" that "I have my eye on them."

Here’s a question: what if the girl in question, wasn’t a self respecting woman? If we were to crawl out of the holes of ignorance induced by nearly a hundred years of feminist propaganda in India, male shaming and false claims of a little thing called ‘patriarchy’ it is easy to see that not all women are born with a dash of self respect. Women are as human as men, and share similar, if not the same flaws as men today. And if the reader of this piece were to reduce this to the age old cliché argument of “most women are not like that” I would ask the reader to substantiate any of their claims beginning with “most women”. Most of these claims about “most women” begin with most common myths and assumptions about them. Myths that are so old that may have been true once upon a time, but in this age of Third Wave Feminism, have no ground.

Dismayed and disillusioned by how cruelly my friends and colleagues turned me guilty until

Easily India's answer to Matt O' Connor (from
the notorious Fathers 4 Justice in the UK)
Virag Dhulia does not even believe in bullshit,
much less buy it. Perhaps one of the most vocal
and articulate MRAs in India, Virag is a Technical
Architect by profession and an ass kicker by choice.
Virag has been invited to Rajya Sabha Standing
Committee and has taken the movement inside the
Parliament. He is also the head of Gender Studies,
at Confidare India and believes that the battle must
be waged on both legal and academic front.

proven innocent I turned to excessive intoxication. The pain of the break-up was hard enough already and the kind of social persecution I met with did not help. I was later to discover that the sword of legal intervention was hanging right over my head. The burden of constant accusation, judgement, heartbreak, dropping academic performance and a total alienation eventually pushed me to contemplate suicide. On October 17th, 2012 I was 22 years old. I decided that I will kill myself not because of a break-up, but because I felt that the self-constructed image of mine being holier-than-thou had been tarnished forever. Prior to the events unfolding as they did, I did not smoke, I did not drink, drugs were out of the question and the only definition I understood of the term, was medicine. All this in a college, where you were indeed judged for not indulging in these things. Not only was it okay to do it, you were not 'cool' if you didn't indulge. I took the judgement as and when it came. Sometimes I'd laugh it off. Other times it would get awkward, but I resisted no matter what. In retrospect, naïve as it may be I had a code for myself.

Eventually I started believing that I did in fact rape her. That it was my fault. Days passed, and on one hazy evening I drank till I couldn’t move. I lay flat on my bed, and kept crying. After looking it up on the internet I set my mind to buying a household product with chemical compounds that could prove lethal if consumed copiously. While laying there in the said condition I made token calls to people I had been closest to. My mother and my cousin I grew up with in my hometown, also studying with me. I love him a lot, I don’t tell it enough.

In the next two hours my cousin called up my roommate because of the way I talked got

Deepika Bharadwaj is a media person through
 and through. She's a journalist, an anchor
 and a filmmaker. For the past few years she has
 been struggling to complete her documentary
Martyrs of Marriage. A lack of funds has slowed
 down the film in its final stages. But she isn't in it
 just for the sake of a story or her film. MRM is
 no fun and games for her and she is one
 of the biggest advocates of the goals of the 
Men's Movement in India.

him concerned. My roommate expressed worry too. My brother arrived with a few of his friends and when he saw me lying in the condition I was in, he couldn’t help but slap some sense into me. I kept crying. He spent that evening calming my nerves and reminding me who I was and what kind of strong, honest people my parents were. And thus I was stopped from doing something stupid before I could attempt it. He had always known me to be strong as well. And when he saw how weak I had been acting, it really did scare him. A few days after the breakdown I thought it wasn’t worth it to go down without a fight.

My experience made me question everything. I knew that there was something called the Men’s Rights Movement in the US. I had watched some videos on YouTube and I felt that I was connecting really well to what was being said. I would later discover that most of these faces were very big names globally in the Men’s Rights Movement. People like Karen Straughan, Warren Farrell and Paul Elam. The consciousness western men had achieved, in terms of their role as a gender in their respective societies was shocking. In

Anil Kumar makes Robots for fun. No really,
that's his job! He is a Robotics Engineer, and 
is the true nightmare of Indian Feminists. 
The Director of Indian News Desk on the 
internationally acclaimed MRM mouthpiece
 A Voice for Men, his hobbies include revelations 
and debunking of Feminist influenced or 
sponsored "statistics". Soft spoken but stern, 
disliked by Feminists but respected by
 Indian MRAs in equal measure Anil is credited
 with bringing international attention to the 
Indian movement. He is also one of the
 founding fathers of the movement in India.
Even as you read this, he is busy creating Anti-
Feminist Terminators in his basement.

fact these people were fighting back. In India we are used to nodding and feeling ashamed of all sorts of fair and unfair accusations made by women towards men.

I was graduating in Media and 2 years of studies had taught me that there is absolutely no such movement or idea that is being discussed somewhere in the world, and not in India. We really do have everything in India, if we look really hard. So as I sat in the computer lab of my college I ran a search for Men’s Rights Movement in India, and indeed it was there! Not just that, it was already eight years strong, the largest and most vibrant movement anywhere in the world, minimal split when compared to other parts of the world, but above all, untouched by western

Sandesh Chopdekar (centre) is one of the chief counsellers
 at Men's Rights Association, Pune. He is one of the most 
influential members in Pune and has admiration from
 other members. His resolve to make good and fix things
inspires everyone and as the person who has heard 
hundreds of stories of the victims of false cases or just 
plain gender bias against men, and his own legal 
knowledge make him a very sharp individual. Even though 
there is practically nothing you can say that he can't
 counter -argue, he has a policy about new members. 
He allows new guys to express their emotions as much 
as possible. 

conservatism and an intervention of religious orthodoxy. I found myself on the SIFF website and I did not know it then, but I had called up the Bangalore centre. After a short talk I was welcomed into the movement. That Friday I found out about Men’s Rights Association, Pune. I went to meet these people, expecting an office like other NGOs I had previously been to.

To my absolute amusement it was only a large group of guys that only met in a public park. Under a shade these guys sat together in groups offering each other legal counsel, emotional support and above all allowed people to cry. They accepted masculinity as it came. They did not just assume there was something wrong with people who came to see them. They were not a mission to fixing men. They were only asking to curb and revoke unfair and biased laws. They were demanding back something which was rightfully ours – our dignity. They were willing to listen.

Manpreet Bhandari is only his alias.
He is really Superdad who is often seen
standing on the streets of Bangalore,
protesting for equal rights of parents
towards shared parenting.

In months to come, I would realize that my problem was nothing in comparison to what other people are going through. They couldn’t see their children, have turned practically broke paying constant alimony, have been duped by lawyers several times, have had their entire family jailed over false dowry cases, over false domestic violence cases, sisters have lost their brothers, mothers have lost their sons. And all, for what – an assumed imagery of women being always right and moral? I met people and I talked to people that changed me. It wasn’t about me anymore. It wasn’t a grudge I was harbouring due to a failed relationship and the unfairness I was met with. This had become larger than me.

I’m still studying to shape my future and career. And

The mysterious Jay Man, is largely
unknown. He is seen on Facebook,
has confirmed that he is not a lawyer,
but has immense command over law.
He has been secretly waging a war on
both the Indian and American legal
system, to get the custody of
his son back from his estranged wife.

since last year I have come back to my hometown of Patna. I do not get to frequent MRA, Pune as much as I would like to anymore. But one thing is for sure. I am never going back to who I was. With all our flaws and internal differences within the movement, we are still the best in the world. MRM has given me a reason, never to be ashamed of my gender no matter what anyone says. I won’t be held liable for acts of criminals and murderers just because they happen to be male. In time, I shall carry the philosophy of MRA wherever I go and whatever job I do.  And when I’m done, I will return fully committed. Until then I will keep causing trouble for all-feminists and misandrists.

NOTE: The images of Men's Rights Activists displayed on this post are the people who have inspired me the most or have been close acquaintances.

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~The RED Indian~

'The Walking Dead' vs. 'Breaking Bad': Comparison isn't fair

REARVIEW

There is little doubt over the fact that 'Breaking Bad' is one of the best written shows on television in recent history. However I feel that we have been spoilt due to the perfection of it all. Fan hostilities towards anything else on AMC that is not 'Breaking Bad' is well known. 'The Walking Dead' is in many ways a victim of that phenomenon. Those who ignore the show will probably never know how good it really is.

When I began watching 'The Walking Dead' I was trying to fill the void left by 'Breaking Bad'. One must realize that almost anything will seem average after you watch 'Breaking Bad'. 'The Walking Dead' is not just a great show; it is a very very good drama. For once in a Zombie Apocalypse, the Zombies are not the primary focus, but the drama of it all. They've taken a few liberties from the original comic. It is definitely not a 'Breaking Bad' and it stands on its own. Earlier I had complained that the show wasn't engaging enough. That was probably because my scales were all wrong. I was trying to feel for the characters that died or were barely alive in a world full of the undead. But that has never the intention of the show itself.

Rick Grimes: Then and now.
He has almost a Harry Potter like predictable presence
when he debuts. The viewer actually enjoys his
slow unnerving downfall into the cruelty of the apocalypse.

The complete and utter apathy of the viewer, towards perfectly good individuals who are forced to do bad things is quite a phenomenal achievement for writers who have rewritten the comic for television making it unpredictable. It's something that is very different from 'Breaking Bad'. There you had only one person driven to bad things first as a necessity and then as an obsession.

The Governor is one of the best written roles
for the screen, on the the show. Originally a
Hispanic character, the Governor has been
turned into a Southern Caucasian male. The role
is so masterfully portrayed by David Morrissey,
you will forget he's actually British.
However, he's no Gustavo Fring.

Walter White's world was a sane one where life gave him a chance as every corner. It was he who did not take it. 'Breaking Bad' has imperfect people, proving their imperfections every step of the way. Here you see perfect people, monotonous people content with their mere existence, whether good or bad. Rick Grimes has almost a Harry Potter like predictable presence when he debuts. He wakes up in a cruel world, untouched by evil. He has clear definitions of good and evil, right and wrong and initially it makes the show very annoying. He's a cop and (seemingly) a cowboy, pretty slick with a gun. Nothing can hurt him. But with every episode there are subtle transformations, in not just Rick but everyone who comprises his survivalist group. These changes are so subtle that you do not realize the changes till say, 10 episodes have passed and a good amount of narrative progression has taken place.

Of all the transformations on the show,
Carol's is the most shocking.

You're uncomfortable because you are apathetic. You don't care who lives or dies no matter how long they've had their presence on the show. In fact you secretly wish for some perfectly fine people to die for no reason at all. The show gives you an illusion that it is unengaging. By the second season one of two things will happen. Either your annoyance (with yourself) will provoke you to quit watching it, or you'd be annoyed but still choose to go with the flow. There is a subtextual message to the connoisseurs and haters. I imagine it to be something like this: "Only those who are really interested are allowed to go beyond this point. The rest can scram!"

A cross universe fan-art making a statement.

It is ironic at many levels because the real joys of the show are beyond that point of peak annoyance. Perhaps this is the only thing 'The Walking Dead' and 'Breaking Bad' have in common. It is a horror-drama which will not surprise you, shock you, make you laugh, make you sad or afraid. So where is the horror and where is the drama, some may ask. The real horror and the real drama are within you. Your apathy will scare you.

I made the mistake of asking a colleague an awkward question about 'Breaking Bad' while binge watching the first season. "This is boring. Does it get better?" I said. He said "I don't care what you think. I watch it for the complicated characters and plot." That is also the case with 'The Walking Dead' in a certain regard. There is no well defined moment or episode or a three-episode event that takes the show off. It happens for different people at different places.

The question is, whether you really want to watch, perhaps a five season long show about a Zombie apocalypse. My answer is yes, you do. This February the second half of the fourth season will premiere on AMC. I, an absolute hater before, am now hooked and want more.

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~The RED Indian~

A Request to all Men's Rights Activists

OPEN LETTER

Dear fellow MRAs,

For a very long time I have been a skeptic and critic of the Jan Lokpal Movement or Anna Movement or Aam Aadmi movement. I personally feel that the first two versions were non-viable on their own. I was right. In fact 2 years ago I wrote an editorial for a friend's website (which has since become one of India's most popular online counter-culture youth magazines). You can find the link below.

MRA Pune protesting against the government to
rollback IrBM in June 2013.

In the light of the recent events and AAP's victory in Delhi, I urge you to reconsider some of our prospects. While we know that any political party especially AAP will not back down completely from the feminized and hollow patchwork agenda of "women empowerment", it is up to us to present our arguments and reasoning to the AAP because from hereon we know that for Delhi atleast they are a force to reckon with. They have been elected on the agenda of representing the oppressed common man, so the least they can do is atleast listen to the reasoning and argument of the common 'man'. 

It will be very unproductive and unhealthy if we deem Kejriwal and the lot as misandrist and not meet the party heads without presenting our views to them. In the light of the false allegation against Dharmendra Koli, this is the right time to strike. Of those of us who have lived in Delhi at some point or another, I think we all agree that Delhi is unsafe for both men and women, and women are infact more vulnerable there. But how Marital Rape bill, and capital punishment will help in empowerment is something to be questioned. We have all at some point or the other have expressed that we as men would also like equal empowerment with women. 

Fathers 4 Justice, UK members dressed up as superheroes
while protesting in favour of Father's rights in the UK.

So it would be only appropriate that members and activists in Delhi atleast hold a meeting with AAP, explaining our perspective. We have never wanted to take anyone else's rights, we just want our own! This sort of false empowerment of women is also teaching them to beg and demand things and choices that aren't necessarily theirs to make. It affects us men in all the wrong ways. MRAs who have been harassed and exploited themselves, know this pain. 

CRISP Bangalore used a similar strategy when
Manpreet Bhandari dressed up as Superman
protesting in favour of vistitation rights for
divorced fathers. 

Once again I urge activists in Delhi and nearby areas to hold an informal meeting with AAP, because other than gender issues they are raising all those issues that all of us do have a problem with. Inflation, minimization of corruption, law and order, education etc. We push for IrBM again and again, but should we not explore this avenue again and again too? We may have our individual opinions and differences in nitty-gritties over these issues but considering that AAP is the only party in Delhi state assembly with enough guts to speak against issues BJP and INC will not dare to speak for the fear of losing their seats, we must atleast put our opinions out to AAP. This is a party who is now planning to enter the Lok Sabha. One MP can change the course of history or atleast the way the nation thinks. We have witnessed it time and time again. For the first time in the history of this country, issue based politics is taking shape. This is not the politics of caste, religion, secularism, communalism, blamegame, "bayaanbaazi", corporate robbery etc.

The Aam Aadmi is truly angry. And in Delhi it has been proved that if you give us one viable option which is not a choice between Congress and BJP, UPA and NDA, we will take it! This is an opportune moment. We should atleast attempt to ride this wave, for our own sake, for a world where differences between the genders are acknowledged as equality in different contexts. 

Regards,

Rishabh Kumar, 23

Member/Online promoter

Men's Rights Association, Pune 

[LINK]: Fighting Others' Battles - Youth e-Magazine Dfuse.in

NOTE: This is not the official or collective view of Men's Rights Association, Pune. The views expressed here are solely those of the author in his private capacity.

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~The RED Indian~

Raanjhanaa: A Passage to India and your Heart

FILM REVIEW

Sanskrit plays, Hindi literature and Indian cinema have for long been about something for everyone. Around a decade ago Indian cinema witnessed a clash between the underdogs of Indie and Indie-like productions and moguls of mainstream. Stories no longer had to take a backseat and they didn't have to make way for entertainment alone. Today the audiences have changed, and even for mainstream cinema, story has started mattering much more than it ever did in the history of Indian cinema. Let’s face it, Guru Dutt’s masterpiece 'Kaagaz Ke Phool' too was a massive flop. And yet for the first time ever Indian cinema is attempting to find a middle ground. Our film Industry has truly come of age.

Raanjhanaa is not just a film. It is a film event. It is the wet dream of the quasi-right wing fundamentalists. At the same time it is also a wet dream of the left wing fundamentalists. Better still it is the wet dream of adherents of a million other ideas in between. Wait…. that makes it every Indian’s wet dream! It is therefore safe to say that Raanjhanaa is all of India in a nutshell. It is a reflection of our times. It doesn’t tell you how we’ve reached here. Every other movie does that today. But it gives you a sense of where you are now, the good, the bad and the ugly. And yet it manages to stay a blissful romance. 

Like all Hindi films, it has something for everyone, but the packaging is undeniably different. It promises amusement and entertainment to the intellectual. It serves the same entertainment to the professional seeking enjoyment over the weekend. It bedazzles the lower middle class student. And makes everyone think, reflect and even cry. Raanjhanaa mocks everyone but does not offend anyone. It has characters from real life. Non-villainous police carrying out orders, the Tamil bureaucrat carrying out the orders from his superior, by-lanes of Benaras, Ganga, small town romance, clash of religions over marriage, the innocence and practical cunning of the Banarsi Pandit, parents trying to be the best parents they can with the irony of complying to social norms, the damsel-in-distress Muslim girl, the angry and empowered Muslim girl, the kurta-jeans wearing JNU romantic, the tongue-in-cheek portrayal of intellectual groups of JNU who discuss socio-economic issues on the most mundane things ever, allusions to Safdar Hashmi, you name it! The film asks you whether it’s fair to dismiss politics before understanding its dynamics. Then it dismisses it! Still it leaves the loose end as if it were saying that this is a possible end. You can change the end if you want. It tells that the power of youth is an asset when in control. But if its directionless it can break an entire generation. 

Among all things, it is a drama on a grand scale. Is it unfair then to call it an epic? Dhanush makes a statement with his performance that actors from the South need not be typecasted in the North. Perhaps it will break the barriers of the rightly accumulated contempt in the Southern industries regarding the Hindi film industry. The show however, is stolen (to our surprise) by none other than the lovely Sonam Kapoor. With this film, she has finally proven her mettle. All in all the film is a sheer joyride.

In case you’re wondering why the film is called Raanjhanaa, all you need to do is to go over the story of Heer-Ranjha. (Relax, there are no spoilers here.) The writer-director duo Himanshu Sharma and Anand L. Rai have taken care of the smallest of details in the story to make it as real and as believable as possible. Sometimes these details are heard in the ambient sounds, and can be seen in out-of-focus areas of certain shots. The duo are certainly the new badasses in B-Town. We expect more from you.

If you want to see what it is to be a human being in this great subcontinent, you must not miss this one. If you want to go to the movies to have a great time this weekend, you should still watch the film.

(P.S.: We know that in real life kurta-jeans-gamchha donning smart student leaders do not get the love of their life as easily, as portrayed. But hey it’s just a movie! Right?)

Rating: 4.5/5

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~The RED Indian~

Education 2.0

Pune: In the era of technology, evolution of socio-cultural paradigms and human race as a whole sprinting forward at breakneck speed mankind has offered itself, amongst other newly evolved ideas, the practical implementation of  imparting education through modern classrooms. “Back in the Nineties this idea, though spectacular, seemed like a trend of the west. It seemed rather far-fetched for Indian students like me.” says Manoj Azad an IITian and an employee in the IT department of Barclays India Wealth Management Services in Pune. Manoj, a local resident of Magarpatta City, adds that the very notion of modern classrooms, fully equipped with a multitude of technological amenities have made technology a crucial part of the education system today. 

Khusboo Ramchandani, a first year student at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (UG) supports the idea. “Even the so-called boring subjects have a have become appealing as the general experience of studying in a modern classroom is more interactive.”Khushboo’s colleague Aastha Srivastava says, “Access to the Internet, and online text is a huge advantage. A professor or teacher as skilled as he or she may be, cannot be expected to know everything. A quick query over the internet, on a big screen that everybody can see, always helps.”

Aditya Akash, a third year student at Symbiosis School of Law comments, “Certain subjects are best explained with the help of examples and evidences which are otherwise difficult to produce in normal classrooms. In modern classrooms however this is achieved easily.” One can relate to Aditya’s logic. After all it is virtually impossible to become a learned student of Chemistry without conducting experiments in a laboratory. “It would be laughable, if I were to say that I’m a Surgeon but I’ve never performed surgery in my life. I therefore require a practical surgery session and it is a lot better if I’ve had an Audio-Visual session prior to my actual session. This saves time and other hassles as opposed to viewing a dissection when performed in a crowd, performed by a Professor.” says Mayank Nair of Armed Forces Medical College.

Raymond Kurzweil

The government and NGOs too seem to be looking at the advantages of technology for providing quality education in parts of the nation where the former isn’t easily accessible. In a remote corner of the state of Bihar, at Chamanpura village of Gopalganj district in Chaitanya Gurukul Public School was founded in 2009 by an ex-IITian, Chandrakant Singh. Bereft of electricity till date, about 450 children, both boys and girls, are imparted lessons in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer through Skype, video conferencing and Internet. 

Deepankar Kapoor, a senior third year student from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (UG) however chooses to state otherwise, “Having experienced education in a fully equipped modern classroom for three long years I would say that there some huge gaping holes in this system. With the introduction of Internet as a medium of education and assignment submission both in and out of class students has become lazier, due to the copy-paste culture. Air conditioners will put you to sleep no matter how hard you fight with your physical instincts, after a hearty lunch. Staring at a virtual projection has an adverse effect on the eye-sight as opposed to a good old fashioned black board or whiteboard.”

Everything said and done, Raymond Kurzweil the Dean of the Singularity University, funded by NASA and Google, and the spear-header of the Singularity movement has already stated that due to the exponential growth of Artificial Intelligence over the past decade, it is speculated via mathematical calculation that AI would surpass human intelligence by the year 2023. Human technology is learning faster than the human mind. It seems only apt that technology aids us in our learning process. Welcome to Education 2.0.

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~The RED Indian~

The Red Indian is Born!

Over the last few years blogging has emerged as a great weapon for people who want to make a point. It is like the mighty sword of the legend – the Excalibur – that has been pulled out of the rock, not by King Arthur but by the changing times and technology. It is a weapon for people with a vision; people shaping their vision; people who want to bring about a change; people who want to suggest changes; people with revolutionary minds, all from an intellectual point of higher criticism. Basically blogging is a boon for the intellectual world. On your weblog page you can be YOU! You can speak your mind without fear or being “politically correct”. Discussion is always healthy. For it is the central idea of “Humanity”. Entire ideologies, that run nations today, were formed by something as small as this (i.e. making opinions, discussions and considering its level of universal appeal).

However, today mankind is far more complex from what the early ‘Homo sapien sapien’ was. What appeals to the masses today may not always be the truth. What may appeal to you may not always be for your personal or common good. For such is the cunningness of the Human Mind. I write mind with a capital ‘m’ because the Human Mind has a persona of its own. Let it be by itself and it detaches itself from heart. It forgets compassion, ethics, righteousness, moral obligations, even courage and weighs all situations by mere logic. Sometimes logic and proportionality aren’t enough to judge a situation.

As I said before, blogging is a weapon for the intellectual world and more so for the intellectual community of India, because there are more intellectuals and opinion makers in this nation than anywhere else in the world; and each opinion is as varied as the other. ~The RED Indian~ will try and capture the spirit of this great nation, it’s citizen and the spirit of all those that find their origins in this ancient country. At the same time I will also add my personal thoughts, opinions and my personal experiences. I am open to everybody who thinks that I am wrong about something. If you really push me, I can also deliver a decent argument. This is my first attempt to write a blog. So bear with me if a make a few mistakes or display my naïveté here and there.  My opinions aren’t rigid. They may change if I find reason to the point somebody makes in the comment section.

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~The RED Indian~