CHARLIE HEBDO AND ATHEISM

 Atheism as a religion is evolving swiftly and was earlier followed by communist nation but now it has reached to liberals too.We live in a democratic country where freedom of speech,expression and freedom to choose any religion is constitutional right.Every individual has right to choose any religion and follow.We also have to acknowledge the fact that every religion has some taboo practices which are blindly followed by them  and they become very sensitive when a derogatory remark is made on their belief.Recently,Charlie Hebdo a french based magazine was in the news for publishing blasphemy caricatures on Prophet Muhammad which lead to heavy protest in Pakistan and other Arab countries.Even in India,boycott Charlie Hebdo was trending on twitter.French government never imposed a ban on Charlie Hebdo citing curtailment of freedom of speech is not acceptable,Although there is eight percent of Muslim population which reside in France according to latest census.

Charlie Hebdo label themselves as Atheist,Anti racist and secular.They not only target one religion but they have even published inappropriate caricatures on other religions too.Other religious people have also objected but they have been attacked twice in 2011 and 2015,both presumed to be in response to controversial Muhammad cartoons they published.The French government never banned this organization and the majority religion is Christianity,that accounts to 82 percent.Fun fact is they have not left even Christianity.

 These images are easily available on internet(not edited).

The question here is should we let these type of organization to run,where they can blatantly target one religious belief in the name of freedom of expression.No one can deny the fact that,there are certain taboo practices in every religion.Even in Hindu religion there are several images of deities which are negatively portrayed in the name of freedom of expression.

Today it's evolving as a culture to derogate any religion to get a short termed fame.Twitter has become a appropriate fertile ground  for these battles.It is really funny that on one side we say we are secular and on the other side we easily get offended.But,if a person keeps on passing and publishing such remarks,should the people and government not do anything as we are labelled as democratic and secular.Yes,certainly there should be restrictions on these magazines and publications but showing violence is not a solution,this will lead to development of these ideas to more and more people. 

 

  

SHOULD INDIA SIGN MILITARY PACT WITH USA?

 Intelligence report indicate that China has gained control of Indian territory around the Pangong tso lake,hot spring areas and Chushul and in total it has gained total of 1000 square km of Indian territory in Ladakh through systematic mobilization of troops and equipment. Recently,Indian Army captured the Black top post and uprooted all the Chinese cameras and surveillance equipment and China accused India of LAC violation.In response to this move USA deputy secretary came with a proposal to sign military pact with Japan,Australia and India to counter the Chinese aggression in LAC and South China Sea.Question here is Should India join the Military pact?For this lets analysis some facts from the past.

In 1960 when there was war of ideology going on in Afghanistan between the erstwhile Soviet Union and USA and when Russian invaded Afghanistan,USA started nurturing and funding Mujaheddin with the support of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.Pakistan was the place where these Mujaheddin were trained and it was getting funds from USA and Saudi Arabia.That was a tough time for India as the Pakistanis started deviating small amount of these funds to raise terrorists organization such as JEM,HM,LET and even if India raised the issue of Kashmir at UNSC it was always vetoed by USA.Now,these terrorists organization have become headache for Indian Army.

In 1971,Bangladesh liberation war,USA  deployed its fifth fleet in Bay of Bengal to put pressure on Indian government which was countered by our alignment towards the Soviet Union.In 1949,when communist nation of China was formed and they marched towards Tibet in 1959 for the sake of annexing it,which they eventually did was never opposed by USA.Moreover,the then president of USA Richard Nixon in order to improve relations with China deployed Pakistan to act as a mediator between China and USA.In all these process India was being sidelined.

Our relations with USA started to improve when Barack Obama visited India in 2008 before that we were just having trade deals with USA,in these years USA has pulled back from USA-IRAN nuclear deal,put sanctions on buying of Russia's military equipment which has impacted INDIA as well.See,in Iran we have invested heavily on Chabahar port which is a gateway to connect to middle eastern countries and Europe but in order to appease USA we have stopped purchasing of oil from Iran which was cheaper in comparison to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela,resulting in dropping from Chabahar port. Although we still buy military equipment from Russia but how this can escape from USA eyes.

Today,USA has military pact with Japan and Philippines and these countries pay billion of dollars to USA for the protection of their sovereignty.As we know that these countries have disputed islands with China in South China Sea.Whereas,we already spend massive 70 billion dollars on our defense which is the third largest defense budget after USA and China.Thus making us capable enough to fight for our sovereign rights.

But if we look at the positive side it will help our government to invest less in our defense forces and weaponry,will help our government to increase our stagnated health and education budget.Moreover it will make USA INDIA partnership to achieve greater height but simultaneously it will also bind us to indulge in a war if anyone of the country including JAPAN and AUSTRALIA start a war with any other country.So,before taking any decision on this all facts from the past as well as future should be taken into consideration.