God must love stupid people - he made so many of them!

The problem with the concept of God  is twofold. It is illogical and is also dangerous.
The main problem is internal consistency. Which of these opposing beliefs do you accept?

• On one hand, they say that destiny is preordained. On the other, they exhort you to work hard so that you may change what is destined..
• On the one hand they say that God knows best, On the other, they reject what God's wisdom has decided for us and have a different wish list instead.
• On one hand they say that God is the loving, merciful father while on the other, we find him more cold, objective and punishing than a Supreme court judge.

Beyond internal consistencies, I find other disadvantages in accepting a concept of God and his omnipotence.

• Firstly, it engenders a belief that someone exists who can change your fate. Life doesn't have to be this way; there is someone who can change it. This belief shatters acceptability of reality in one stroke. And once we can envision a future different than what is, the present becomes repugnant. If the rising of the Sun in the East were not inevitable, we would have been very unhappy with it rising that way. But since we consider it inevitable, it does not merit attention any more. We just live with that fact and adjust accordingly.
• Being uncomfortable withe the present creates desire. The utility of desire itself is quite illogical because we don't know even know what will eventually be good for us. Here's an example. On any given day, several people get late in the traffic and throw tantrums on this loss of valuable time. But those who got late in reaching the World Trade Centre on 9/11 must have rejoiced later. What they had thought to be bad for them turned out to be real good. We simply don't know what is good/bad for us. This is so because we project our present needs in the future and desire something for that scenario. In this projection, we fail to realize that thousands of other co-actors of that scene wold have changed in that projection. In those changed circumstances, what is good for us can not be known now. So why not sit back and enjoy.

Peace and tranquillity can never come to a God believer because he believes that all that is happening will not happen if only one guy ( God) can be tamed. Or, so he thinks. Only later does he realize that he lost out on both counts.

Indians blame others - never their own.

Over the last few days, a lot of Indians are calling names to Pakistan (Sarabjit case) and the Chinese ( the 19 Km intrusion, sorry, acne, case). Not too many are blaming their home country for the situation it is finding itself in.

Guys, don't blame Pak or China. They are not answerable to you and me. But the Indian government is. Or, at least, it should be.We pay for every subsidized plate of chicken biryani they have in the parliament canteen (and then go home, without transacting the business of the parliament).

Let us take a systemic view of what is happening -

• No one outside India feels any need or compulsion to be nice to us. We have neither the power, nor the inclination, to do anything to anybody or give anything to anyone. Well, if you had such a non-entity around you, would you really bother ? Spineless and visionless guys on top have done this to a country of 121 crores and an army of 12 lacs.
• The government as well as the opposition is bothered only for their community and those in power. The common man is just not there on their radar. They know damn well that their vote bank does not get affected by what the people think of them after individual incidents All you have to do is to brazen it out for, maybe, 4-5 days.
• In any case, UPA knows its goose is cooked. It is beyond all redemption. Realists, they surely are!

Some specifics now.

People are blaming Pak for delaying the departure of the plane carrying Sarabjit's body, since the Indian officials are not able to supply the NOC. I say it must have been some real inefficient Indian officials who didn't even think of this? Where is the coordination and planning? Are they dumb? No, they are not. If it were the body of someone of the ruling class, would our guys have been so careless? What if the body was that of a dog owned by someone in the Gandhi family?

This is the same country which did not bother when Pakis cut off everything from a living Lt Saurabh  Kalia, a brave soldier in Kargil. If the country could do that to an officer, would they bother for Sarabjeet? Aw, come on, man! Get real.

Sarabjeet kept shouting from the rooftops that he is likely to be murdered soon in the jail but no one bothered except, maybe, dashing off a letter to Pak. After all, we are the ultimate 'dossier nation'. In the same week, Indian govt announced Z level security for an industrialist, Ambani. Though security is a state subject, the central govt did not miss a chance to ingratiate itself with Ambani. Clearly, Ambani and Sarabjit are different classes. Elections are close and Ambani can fund part of it.

And now Sarabjeet's body is being flown in by a special aircraft, a crore and a half rupees have already been promised to the family, daughters will be given jobs and ----- and -----  Punjab will have a 3 day state mourning! What if Pak announced a state mourning on the death of Ajmal Kasab? Why do we forget that Sarabjeet was convicted of bombing and killing 10 Pakis, by nothing less than the Supreme court of the country he was caught in? How humane were we in handling the requests of Afzal guru's family concerning his dead body? Our government chose to look after only  its perceived interests. At least, Pakistan did return the body of Sarabjit to his kin.

On 3 May, the CM of Punjab and his full cabinet will attend the cremation.  PM call him a' brave son of India'. Khabar na li umr bhar jinhone, unhi ke kandhon pe jaa rahan hoon. The body is being kept in a Gurudwara. It is the same Gurudwara administration which refused even a bhog ceremony to an Indian General, just a few months back. Fantastic. Clearly, elections are approaching.

Why don't elections take place every month or fortnight?

Indian govt wants special probe into how Sarabjit got killed in the jail. They forget that prisoners keep getting regularly killed in Indian jails. Who cares? And what about Chamel Singh, the other Indian prisoner killed in Pak jail, just a few months ago? No aircrafts, no crore and a half for him. Clearly, the elections were too far when he died. No benefit in giving him money. 

What a country! Guys, don't blame others. Your own leaders are screwing you. Royally.