Loving Rascal

What is caste? Is it applicable to Muslims and Christians? It is not in my knowledge. The Caste-based Reservation Quota System is the worst thing that happened in independent India. It is sheer unfairness towards the poor people of the general category. Children of wealthy politicians, professionals, and industrialists of the general category can afford payment seats or study abroad. The poor people of OBC and Islam will get reservation seats. What about us? The poor general category people are the casualties of this gross injustice. Why can't the government grant benefits to people based only on their economic and educational status? Disappointing Modiji and Rahul Gandhiji.   Why even mention the name of the caste in an era when we identify individuals by their Aadhar number? Like religion, people must not be pressured or allured with benefits to disclose their caste. Taking a caste census is an egregious decision to placate a section of t...

“I did not [do it to] my son, but I [did it to] those who [did it to] my son,” a crucial Mohan Lal dialogue in the end that sums up Thudarum.   Thudarum is a thrilling murder mystery with an engaging tempo and a relevant message for Kerala society today. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, and there is hardly a dull moment. The plot is carved so meticulously that even the seemingly less significant happenings add detail and hue to the story. These unimportant events help make sense of the ulterior intentions of the characters and the sequence of events. For instance, even the insignificant irritation of the villain cop towards the protagonist, who comes to wash his car at an awkward time, turns out to be an invaluable clue in the end.   The car is a distraction. The story truly unfolds only after the relational dynamic is revealed. A superb villain who veils his ulterior vicious motives with a sinister grin, his leery subordinat...

Kintsugi is a Japanese technique to repair broken vessels with genuine gold. It does not hide the break marks but repairs them and highlights them. Onesimus, a runaway slave, was useless to God, Philemon, and Paul. Paul met Onesimus in jail and led him to Christ. Paul loved him so much that he called himself Onesimus' father in the Lord. Paul interceded for Onesimus with Philemon and reconciled him to Philemon not as a slave but now as a grace-healed vessel of God, a brother in Christ.  Moreover, God transformed Onesimus by his grace, and eventually, the church tradition says that Onesimus became a Bishop. The word Onesimus means "Useful." God's grace transformed a useless person into a very useful one. Life circumstances may have broken you. But God can do His Kintsugi work in you. His beautiful work in you will make a difference in the lives of those around you. Thus, for those who are hurt by challenges in life, a Kintsugi vessel symbolizes their resilience and tra...

After everything that happened on that horrific day, Pakistani cricketer Afridi thinks the Indian army killed Hindus for Allah in Kashmir and put the blame on Lakshkar. Manipulating data to its peak, a Congress party leader stated that the terrorists did not tell people to recite the Islamic creed. "Do terrorists have so much time," he argued. In effect, he denied all the eyewitness accounts and the heartwrenching testimonials of the wives and children of those who died. It seems such brazen liars exist only in the Congress party. You can't insult the families who lost their dear ones to make some communities that are your regular voters feel nice about the actions of people from their families.   The Congress leader also said that Modiji failed to curb this terrorist attack. Many Muslim people are mocking Modiji online, stating his failure to stop this attack. First of all, let me congratulate you on your success. Modiji and his military failed to ...

Lately, a Muslim brother said to me, "Sir, there is no place for terrorism in Islam." I liked his assertion. He is so confident that Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, and Atheists did all the terror attacks in the world until now. We must acknowledge such people's knowledge of others' knowledge and their confidence in their ability to convince others of what they believe is true. I wish what he said was true. However, if you take the sheer data of how many Muslims committed Terrorism and what their percentage is in this matter when compared to other religious communities, you would be left astounded. More than ninety-nine percent of all terrorist attacks in the world were the gift of Islam.   Still, he defends the people of his religion brazenly. This conversation happened immediately after a group of terrorists brutally killed twenty-eight people in Kashmir in front of their spouses and c...

जिसने मासूमों की बेरहमी से हत्या की वह बन रहे है कोतवाल और न्यायाधीश। और जिन के लोगों की जान गई वह बन गए गुनहगार। वाह कांग्रेस के लोगों आपने तो सारी हद ही पार कर दी। आतंकी की आपने निंदा की पर जो इनको आतंकी बना रहें हैं उनको आपने क्या सीख दी? क्या आपने कहा, कड़े शब्दों में, की आतंकी बनाना बंद करो? अरे सारी दुनिया जानती है इनको। पर आपके तो आंखों पर पट्टी बंद गई। अब आप कहते हो मोदीजी दें इस्तीफ़ा।  क्यों दे मोदी–शाह इस्तीफ़ा? कहा जा रहा है कि मोदीजी ने कुछ एक्शन नहीं लिया। और अगर कोइ बड़ा कदम उठाया होता तो फिर आप क्या कहते? इतने बड़े आतंकी हमले के दौरान भी मोदीजी इंसानियत नहीं भूले। अभी ही पाकिस्तानी लोग भारत से जाने में कठिनाइयों का सामना कर रहे हैं। ऊपर से पानी भी भारत सरकार ने बंद कर दिया है। इतना एक्शन और मिलिट्री की कारवाही काफी नहीं थी क्या? और क्या पाकिस्तानियों के सर मुंडवाएं? प्रिय कांग्रेस के कार्यकर्ता, यह गंदी राजनीति करना बंद कीजिए। मांगना है तो उमर अब्दुल्लाजी से इस्तीफ़ा मांगिए।  हिंदुओं को चुन चुन के उन्हीं के देश में गोली बरसा कर मारा गया, मगर उनकी तरफ से बोलने...

My dear friends, The disturbing visuals of that woman running around seeking help after her husband was shot dead in Kashmir haunt my mind. I can't sleep. We feel a strange sense of abandonment within our country. How could the terrorist enter our soil and give our soul such a dreadful and deep wound? It was in India, was it not? There's no greatness in killing the unarmed innocent. No one can defend these indefensible acts. Yet, some are saying, "The killers were terrorists, not Muslims. The one who saved Hindus was a good Muslim." Then, who are the Hamas radicals? Good Muslims or Terrorists. Did they not do more atrocities on unarmed civilians than these Kashmiri terrorists? Still, some are demanding Amit Shah to resign. It's called "उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे।" (It is like a thief reprimanding the police officer). The ones who killed the innocents are innocent. Nobody cares about why they killed the unarmed civilians. All the so-called good Muslims rec...

यह औरत झूठ तो नहीं बोल रही। जो लोग एक परमेश्वर को मानते हैं और मासूमों से प्रेम की भावना रखते हैं उनके समाज में यह जाहिल आतंकी कैसे पैदा हो गया? उसने पहलगाम के निहत्ते बेगुनाह इन्सानों से कहा, "हिन्दू सब एक तरफ हो जाइए और मुसलमान दूसरी तरफ। फिर उसने हिंदू मर्दों से विनम्रता से बिनती की कि अपनी जान बचाने के लिए वह अल्लाह मियां से तनिक दुआ करलें। मगर हिंदुओं को न राहुल ने सिखाया न प्रियंका ने की यह नमाज कैसे पढ़ी जाती है। नहीं तो इतने लोग मरने से बच जाते। अल्लाह मियां जरूर उनको बख्श ही देते। जब उनको दुआ नहीं आई तो आतंकी ने गोलियां बरसादी। खड़ा रहा वहां पे जब तक वह लोग तड़प तड़प के न मरे! इंसानियत की भी दात देनी पड़ेगी। क्या कहें? यह है नया हिंदुस्तान, सेकुलर इस्लामिक रिपब्लिक ऑफ इंडिया। मारने वाले कौन थे? अच्छे मसलमान या आतंकवादी। कहते हैं आतंक का कोई धर्म नहीं होता, तो फिर मरने वाले का धर्म क्यों पूछा गया? कहा मोदीजी को बोल देना हम ने तुम्हारे पति के साथ क्या किया। मोदीजी को ही क्यों बोलना था और कोई नेता नहीं था क्या आतंकी का दुश्मन? भारत सरकार का धर्म कौनसा है? कहते हैं मोदी सरकार...

Dear Muslim brothers and sisters,    Thank you, for your kind reward for giving you equal citizenship rights and a Muslim (OBC) quota in our country. Look at the sheer number of deaths and terror attacks: all by peaceful people of the Peaceful Religion. May Allah reward you more and more. We won't retaliate, but we wonder how and why your conscience never pricks.   "Go tell Modi what we did to you," said the circumcised Terrorist who shot a man dead in Kashmir to the man's wife. Before saying it, the Terrorist asked the Hindu man's name, demanded the man recite the Islamic creed, and checked his private parts. In sharp contrast, two thousand years ago, another circumcised man said to ten lepers who came to him for healing. “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed (Luke 17:14). Jesus came to heal; the terrorists to hurt.   Terrorists are cowards who attack innocent civilians. After almost a decade of peace, Terrorists hav...

In a famous movie dialogue from Dabang, the heroine tells the Robinhood Police officer who proposes to her, "Thappad se darr nahi lagta sahib; pyar se lagta hai." (Sir, I am not scared of beatings. I fear love.) Love is the crucial ingredient of God's character that makes the devil tremble. Many of us assume that the devil fears holiness and loud rebukes. On the contrary, he is not scared of self-righteous people's holiness or loud rebukes of spirit-filled prophets. He fears love, genuine love. Jesus Christ defeated the devil's hatred expressed in people's rejection by his love. He came to his people, but they chose to disown him. Even so, he chose to love them more, so much more that they didn't know what he had accomplished for them upon the cross. Many people must have thought that God punished Jesus. They were right about this first aspect, but little did they know that God had laid their punishment upon him. Like sheep, they had wandered away, but, in...

  Bengal is burning. Mamata has no mamata toward Hindus. She's busy appeasing the violent Muslim community. A Muslim mob hacked two Hindu men to death, and 400 people fled their homes. Armed Muslim men looted Hindu homes and shops. Did these poor Hindu people create the amended WAQF laws? What's the point of such reckless violence? You say, "Muslims are under threat in Hindustan." To me, it seems that the opposite is true. In the middle of all this, Empuraan is spreading Hinduphobia.   In 2002, Muslims incinerated a train full of Hindu pilgrims to Ayodhya. In the Hindu-Muslim riots that ensued, people criticized Modi-Shah for not responding adequately. Today, it was Mamata's turn. She is quiet about the violence done to Hindus and perhaps quietly condoning it. Or is she? Kerala Communists and Socialists are afraid of Sangh Pariwar, but they don't fear injustices done by the Muslim community that they support. Muslims are not the only persecuted people, as ...

First, they convert and welcome people into God's family. Then, they stereotype, isolate, and wreck the new Christian's life. After this, they make fake stories and send them to their original religious group. Then, they mock the new Christian, saying, "God will help," and waste more of their time. The person is neither here nor there, treated mercilessly. Many may give up life; some may give up on eternal life, and others hang on by their fingernails only to notice that they fought and labored in vain. The day of the Lord is near! He will punish the wicked Christians before he holds other nations accountable. Let him who has ears hear!   If your community cannot care for new converts after they join you, don't convert them into a new faith. Once a person leaves their Hindu community, they join the new religious community. People believe and join the new faith. They lose many things and relationships. And, finally, they are left with nothing...

The one creator, God, created the cosmos. He is the Supreme Controller. Yet nobody feels his control over anything. That's how God governs his creation. He always works behind the scenes without making his authoritative presence throttle his creation. Parents must provide their children with a fabric of loving care without making it evident so that children do not feel coerced to placate them. God is so gracious that he doesn't even demand people to acknowledge his presence. Likewise, the WAQF board, if it belongs to the creator God, should not come in the face of poor people (Peasants, Trusts/Societies, or Shopkeepers) with claims that threaten their existence.   Instead, Waqf must be a source of comfort to the hurting. If anybody can donate their properties to it, anybody can also be its beneficiary. Why do the Pro-WAQF politicians find it difficult to vote for the amended bill? Do they not care for the poor Muslims whose rights are denied due to the one-sided laws? Why d...