Flesh Blood Bones and a Mind

Well that’s what the human body is made of. Somehow, I’ve always been interested in the evolution of human race, learning about where we came from and where are we headed has always fascinated me. From apes to today’s agile build to maybe a big supercomputer mind or whatnot. The possibilities with the upcoming new discoveries are limitless.

The human race as, other animals have been evolving steadily since their onset about 280000 years ago. The natural selection has played a very vital role in our development and has made us what we are today. From our tall and hunky ancestors we have become punier with more agility and our brain size has also shrunk. But the main question in front of us today is that are we still evolving?

The above daunting question has always aroused conflicting views. Some say that we have slowed down evolving with time. According to Darwin, individual animals best suited to their environments live longer, have more offspring, and so spread their genes through populations. This produces evolutionary changes. Large scale intermarrying and among humans has hampered this change as almost everyone’s genes are carried forward. Thus the opinion that we are heading towards an evolutionary standstill.

But there is another view. The difference between humans and other species is their ability to collect and preserve information in places other than their minds, and ultimately their DNAs. In species information is passed down through generations through the DNAs, that’s how they evolve. But the volume of information passed down by humans increased tremendously thanks to the amount of written matter which has been used to pass down knowledge from ages and the volume of which has steadily been on the rise over the last few centuries. This knowledge is making us more aware, more knowing, more complex and a more creative being and will shape our future.

According to some major scientists we would soon enter the phase of self designed evolution, where we can change and improve our DNAs according to our choice and priority. All major flaws of the DNA can easily be ironed out, or repaired in a more biological way of saying and new discoveries can pave ways to maybe even increase our intelligence and thinking power. The future holds endless possibilities and soon the key to their evolution would be in the own hands of humans.

Loser Politics

Well, let me be clear what I mean by the above term. Loser Politics is practiced by people belonging to a group mistakenly called politicians and who seem to think that that ordinary people would support them in their misadventures down the lane of what they think to be politics. Certain creatures belonging to this group of losers had recently got the opportunity to project themselves as champions of their unknown causes. Their causes which seem to resemble sentiment of people ages ago have recently come into light due to the Telangana issue, where due to fear that a fasting man may die and bring down the state in anarchy with him, the central government agreed in principle (read, just said it to bring the guy off his fast, without even analyzing the consequences of it.) to the creation of Telangana state from the Andhra Pradesh. The announcement was met with shock and brought the nation to chaos.

Whereas an anti-telangana movement broke out in full fervor in Andhra Pradesh, protests broke out in various parts of India with demands of new smaller states. In Andhra three disillusioned youths even committed suicide, as a mark of protest against the movement, maybe hoping to be remembered as martyrs for a cause. What cause I must ask? And no one apart from their families would bear the brunt of their foolish deed. No one would even remember the names of those wasted persons. Such persons are delusioned by the local leaders, who want a meatier role in the local politics, who in turn are being led by some so called national leaders into a cause meant to bring nothing but loss to the common man, just for some political gains for a political party or more for a person.

If all this chaos was limited to Andhra region, it was understandable. But after the announcement by the Home minister about the new state to be carved out, demands arose from all parts of India for creation of new states, small big, based on language, on a tribe of people living in a place, on some ancient region under a particular king, and what not. Even the chief ministers of some states and other politicians jumped in the fray asking their respective states to be divided into smaller ones according to their choices! Citing and quoting the ‘popular sentiment’ for demands of the ‘common people’ for their hidden agenda of breaking the states into areas with a mixture of the areas of their ’stronghold’ and the areas in which they are politically weak, so they are easily able to form governments in the smaller divided state. Funny, the same chief minister didn’t take cue of the popular sentiment and stop work of installation of thousands of her statues across the state when there was a hue and cry about it.

Apart from this, regional political outfits with names like ‘Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha’ or the ‘Vidharba Mukti Morcha’ have just sprung up out of nowhere and have started demanding statehood for their respective regions. The CM of Uttar Pradesh had also proposed a Bundelkhand out of UP, and ‘Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha’ is also demanding the same. But the head of a political party was heard saying that their Bundelkhand was different from Mayawati’s Bundelkhand as they differed by a couple of districts! I mean, what the hell! Demands are high for a Gorkhaland in West Bengal, and even a Bodoland, for the tribe in the East. There is talk of splitting UP in four and even for a Coorg out of the state of Karanataka. Has politics in India fallen to such levels? Or people are also as angry at these people calling themselves politicians and common man’s saviors, as I am currently?

States are supposed to be formed for better administration of a region. They are not and should not be formed on the basis of language, religion, color or some ancient connection. The central government should recognize this and drill some sense into the goons who considering themselves to be champions of people’s causes and are disrupting the common man’s life for goals they know can’t be achieved and goals even the common people know deep down that they do not want. What they want is proper administration with normal lives.

Then why the need of scuffling over statehood I ask? Why do some people try to infuse their parochial patriotism into the feelings for their home state when there is no place, and no need for that. All land in a country is the same and we belong to a single nation, isn’t it? Well some ‘national’ and local leaders certainly don’t consider so. They just seize their petty chances at playing whatever role they can play in politics and get in front of a TV camera with a reporter asking stupid pre-discussed questions. Such people are total losers. They know it. They know they have no future in politics and therefore, jump onto topics they know can cause some bus-burning, or even a little rioting if they are lucky and can give them a little muscle therefore a little political mileage. Such people can be put to rest only by the people, I say.

Denounce them, drill some sense into them. But first of all you yourself need to think up and decide what’s right and what’s not. It is for the people to shun such losers and decide what’s good and what’s not for them. It all comes down to that only.