The Iron Sieve!

This article was written many years ago and posted on UKResident.com.

A travesty

Recently I happened to watch the economic summit that took place in a European city, in which financial leaders of many nations participated. I saw it on the BBC. It was done in the background of the economic meltdown in the US. The tremendous self-confidence exuded by the Asian side was remarkable. The economic power is shifting to the East, and the West is going down.

The whole scene was dripping with tragic levels of un-understandings. Let me explain. It is a most complicated scenario.

The changing scenario

There is money in the Asian economic leaders, and they are readying for the leap into the vast unconquered domains. It is a scenario that should bring happiness to the people of the east; well, would it? I doubt. As to the west losing the economic power, well, is the West really economically powerful, if the English nations, and a few others are not taken into account? Is Russia really powerful? I am not talking about the technology in the war machinery. What about the East Europe? Is it not West? What about Germany and France, who literally have economic and social systems that swing from one extreme to another periodically?

The source

Let me start from a bit farther back.

At least till some fifteen years back, the splendid ‘knowledges’ were in the hands of the US and the English nations. I admit that I am being biased in these words, for other European nations were also in the know of many things. Yet, basically information dissemination started from Britain over the years. (My explanation in this regard later).

Magnanimity towards the scheming

Then came the open mindedness of the English Universities to bring students from all over the world to study their sciences. It was a very noble endeavour, no doubt at all. Yet, look at the other side. If there was such information in any such nation as India, China etc. does anyone think that they would allow any outsider to come and collect them? Only a very, very foolish man would think so. Remember the story of how the ancient Chinese tried to protect their silk manufacture monopoly by restricting the taking out of the silkworm from their nation. It is a story, I do not know if it is true.

Opening Pandora’s box

Now look at the scenario. The basic idea of computers came from Britain (English nation), and developed in US (English Nation). Now the technology is in the hands of the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and much else. Like that, every other item of information and technical knowledge that were discovered in the English nations is in the hands of nations that had no legacy to it. Think of microbiology, Medicine, Mobile phone technology, Modern Textile manufacture, modern technology in Iron & Steel manufacture, and every other item. Beyond all that think of such things as Aviation and Weapon manufacture; and also of Nuclear technology, including nuclear bomb manufacture. I must admit it is a terrifying thought that terrible technologies can now be in the hands of touchy social systems.

Where it all garners

Everything is in the hands of nations that are literally the very antonym of English nations. Now, look at the international power struggle scenario. The English nations have been over the years giving money and much other assistance to the developing nations. This money and the assistance end up in the hands of a few persons in these nations. They individually develop and garner strength to come back and compete with the English nations. Looking at this scenario from a feudal language scenario, the English nations have been utterly foolish and gullible.

The creamy layer in the citadel

Now, look at the economic scenario in such nations as China and India. By viewing a selective scene in these nations, one is impressed by the looks of the few who are riding high on the huge economic surge. Yet, there is a huge mass of people who are not touched. Why? Is it because they are slowly approaching the wealth, which is on their way? No, not at all. Only a very stupid person would say that what they lack is wealth. No, the situation is not so easy; it is a bit more complicated.

Poverty as a component of social communication

I have heard of US and UK ‘experts’ talking of daily wages being only a few dollars in some of these nations. The reality is that these ‘few dollars’ do have the same power locally as what a similarly placed persons in an English nation can derive in their own nation with their daily earnings. To put this perspective in place, I will relate an incident, which was related to me by another man. This happened some twenty years back. I am taking it from my memory.

A South Indian person was employed as a cook with an Arab household in the Middle East (I think in the current UAE or some similar nation). Though in the Middle East context the pay was negligible, what was happening in the native state was simply of the supernatural level. The very fact that this man was employed in an Arab’s house had the value of gold in the local society; including the banks. He was able to built a huge house, have a number of servants and a buy a few buses and such. Still he continued as the Arab’s cook in the household, for this was the fuel that made this splendid social machinery churn. One day he, in a desperate mood to convey his realities to this Arab boss, invited him to this native land. When the Arab came, what he was to witness was really of the stupendous order. Actually, his cook was in reality the possessor of a much bigger capital than he himself. Only thing; if the items of possession were converted into Middle East currency, they would diminish heavily in value. Yet, there was no denying the intrinsic value.

Actually, the poverty stalking most of the developing nations is not a lack of resources, but in the social design, which does not allow equitable distribution of human personality. I am sure this is may seem a very weird contention.  It is true that there are nations in Africa, Asia and South America, which are seemingly so lacking of resources that poverty is only a natural component of their society. Well, the truth is that it is not so. For example, if the whole population of any of a state of India are replaced by the British, with access to the same resources as to the earlier natives, what would happen? Or, consider the population of Britain are removed and replaced by a same number of people from India. What would happen? Both the places would simply display the quality of the people residing there.

Graces in seclusion

Now, what actually has happened is that information and technology has passed on to a few persons in the developing nations. Persons who are connected to them will also reflect the glorious times dawning on them. Yet, the majority population would remain the same. None of the persons who have got the blessings of the technology would like to share it with their lower level fellow citizens. (The only way for it to go down would through the marketing stance of huge MNCs, who want to gather a wider market).

How the fortress can be infiltrated

At the same time, what is happening to America? The situation is a bit dangerous. What was more dangerous was the mood of splendid placidity. As if America is living on a pedestal where it remains above the scheming of the others.

The word recession is dangerous; as of now. It is not like the earlier times. During the recession of the 30’s, American recession did not happen when the economic leaders of the feudal language nations were in powerful situations. Yet, now the situation is dangerous. For, if America goes down, American institutions, built on English communications systems will get bought by the sneaky economic leaders of the feudal language groups. It is an experience that has not fully dawned on the English speakers. Only the English men who lived in the colonial nations understood its power in its full awfulness.

Arranging seclusion from the alien cultures

Here I need to slightly digress to emphasise this point. Even though the English ruled India, they couldn’t mingle with the Indian crowd much. Not because the Indian were of the inimical type, or because the English were of the superior types. The reality was that the English were weak in the Indian systems, and the only refuge for them was to keep away from the Indian systems, other than from a position of superiority. It is a big topic. Just one minor point would give an inkling of what I am alluding to.

Consider an English man in colonial India who teaches English named ‘Harry’. Can he allow his students or the Indian social beings to address him as ‘Harry’ or even ‘Mr. Harry’? When his wife Alice, is going to the town, can the locals be allowed to address her as Alice or even Mrs. Alice? These questions may seem quite silly. Yet, it is on the power of these silly understandings that Indian languages and society works. If anyone say that nothing will go wrong if the people were to come and call her Alice, then this is the stark un-understanding that I am referring to.

The folly of the stupid

In the Economic Summit, I referred to in the beginning, the American Treasury Secretary warded off the threat to American economy by the growth of the Asian economy by saying that this was good for America, as it would give more market to the American goods. He said it was a win-win situation for everyone. He was smiling when he said this, and seemed to give the impression that he was clever and had thought about this situation thoroughly. No one else laughed, and seemed to gaze at his thorough gullibility with a mood of disbelief. For, when the Asia economic leaders take over the stage, everything imaginable in English would change. There is not going to be a win-win situation for everyone. It would be a situation where the Asian monarchs will simply override everyone and everything.

Creating Shah Jahans

They are the new Shah Jahans of the Economic World. Look at the Taj Mahal. Does it reflect the reality of India? Well, it does; but not in the manner, the shallow experts declaim. It reflects a language and social system, which focuses the whole level of power and reasons for existence on a few persons. Others are simply slaves; yet, willing slaves, who find salvation in displaying stolid reverence and obedience to the master class.

Reflecting hierarchy in architecture

Again a slight digression. I have seen on Discovery Channel various documentary films on such cultures as the Maya, the Inca, the ancient Egypt and others. The commentary talks with splendid ignorance and expert assertiveness on the social compulsions of these cultures and their glorious achievements. Actually, most of the splendid structures that is on display are not examples of glorious scientific achievements (may such achievements are there; may be not); instead what they display are the extreme feudal communication structure of the social system. In heavily feudal communication systems, there is need to exhibit terrible levels of might and power to enforce the huge canyons of difference in the hierarchy. In many ways, it only shows the mediocrity of the people involved. Even in present day India, when the top or lower persons are from a mediocre tribal class, there is need for majestic buildings and very obsequious behaviour patterns to enforce the communication system.

Actually, even in English systems, where there is a feudal content in the communication, there ought to be similar buildings; like for example, where the monarchy dwells.

Shah Jahan as an exponential force

The modern economic leadership of the Asian nations are simply the modern Shah Jahans. Their power is of a very different kind. Everyone below falls into line in the local language system as the ‘Shah Jahans’ become more and more powerful. This power goes on increasing exponentially. It is like being a part of the military machine. Persons who become part of the management systems are willing slaves who also get a beautiful share of the glory; the majority stands outside this shower.

What has the English nations done by empowering the capitalists of the feudal language nations? They have only created ‘Frankensteins’ (the word is wrong actually; check the story) who will come to take over the English economic systems, and then move on to corrode the English social systems.

In another communication design

Going back to the Summit meeting. The conversations were in English. Imagine the scenario if the whole conversation was in Hindi or Tamil, Chinese, Telugu, Malayalam etc. The world becomes different. In the current situation, nothing grave would happen; for the understanding is there that the leadership is still in English hands. Yet, if the leadership is in any of the aforementioned feudal language persons, then the dialogues would bear painful spikes and pounding hammers. If this dialogue of mine remains un-understood, then the English economic professors are simply wandering in shallow waters; they have no inkling of the dangerous depths.

The wisdom of the ‘White Man’

Around the year 1997, I met one persons of severe feudal language personality making haste to go to America. He was a computer professional. He knew a sprinkling of English, which was enough, since with that much English he could do Visual Basic, C Plus and such other things. I tried to imagine the scenario of such persons becoming a link in the English social structure. I simply asked him one question: ‘If so many computer persons enter America, what would happen to the local English society there?’. He immediately gave a very remarkable answer, ‘The White men there are very clever and know what is what. They would allow only the correct number of persons who are required, and so it would be good for everyone’.

Now, this answer I knew was of a silly level, and from my own experience in 1987, (when I saw persons in another place planning to entering to enter America through Mexico), I knew was not correct. Yet, what was remarkable about this answer was that the so-called ‘White Men’ were not very intelligent. For, in spite of being the best in scientific knowledge, good in natural resources, fantastic in infrastructure, and many other things, the power is draining out to the inimical sides. Beyond all that, America has allowed itself to be engaged in so many world conflicts where all it has gained is a reputation of being an associate of evil regimes or senseless happenings.

When communication moves through valves

Some ten years back, one very patriotic person came and told me in a most boisterous mood that the majority doctors the public health service in England were from India. I am not sure if this information is true. He was only boasting about the capacity of the Indian doctors. Well, I have not found that Indians are intrinsically of lesser intellectual capacity. Yet, my thoughts simply went in another direction.

It was like this: In Indian communication systems, every person in the communication link has a relative value, (it can be a number, if one can visualise it as such). When information, queries, commands, requests, and such things move in through the links, there is inner code that works and check, the relative value of the recipient as well as that of the sender. Actually, I am talking about spoken communication, either directly or by phone (written communication is slightly less influenced). Depending on the relative differences, the communication moves through a sort of valve. When the results of the checking is positive the message, information, query, command etc. moves; otherwise, the valve blocks it. In short, everything moves only in certain directions, and to the other direction the communication gets halted.

Since Britain is fully English, the effects of this valve wouldn’t be much. Yet, as more and more persons of the same feudal language become part of the communication link, there is bound to be a strange level of inefficiency coming into play. It is strange because, the persons concerned may even seem to be very effusive in their work, and also much committed. Yet, things get delayed, infrastructure starts getting inadequately maintained and such. In the macroscopic level, it can cause national havoc.

Luxury of an emotion

Coming back to the Economic Summit, there was one person from some Asian nation who talked voluminously about the fact that most of the wealth of the world is concentrated in the ‘West’. He was arguing stolidly for the poor and their requirements. Yet, this person himself looked pretty well-fed and seemed to have remarkable similarity with the political and social leaders of such nations as India. They all are pretty rich, and move around in international circuits; their servants sleep on the floor, and have to use very reverential words to them. Yet, they are disquieted by the riches of the ‘west’; their own riches they seem to consider as some personal grace of god.

This person’s one dialogue was very illuminating. The fact that what the ‘west’ give as food to their pets is enough to feed the poor in the world. The problem here is that in the English nations, many persons show very good consideration to their pets. Many Indians would look with incredulity at the affection some dog-owners show to their dogs. (For, many high caste Indians were trained to treat low caste Indians as dogs (not English dogs, but the variety that are around them; that is kick them). Now, the same treatment is given to the Indian citizens by the Indian bureaucracy).

The other issue about this dialogue was that the ‘west’ should give more to the leaders in the east, so that they can pile up their coffers more.

Opening doors to rudeness

Now, there is another scenario to be taken up. If America goes down and lots of people from other nations simply clamour inside in the ensuing melee and bedlam, what happens to the society there? An Indian poor is different from an American poor, not necessarily due to colour, but due to other social factors. For an American-Indian is remarkably near to a White American in demeanour, than to a rich or poor Indian. So, the problem the English nations need to be weary of is the wearing down of their social interaction system; more than anything else.

For what can enter English nations along with feudal language communication systems, is a strange level of rudeness; more or less, created by the inner working of the feudal communication among the new entrants. Yet, it can create sever jolts in the English community; and slowly it can create similar behaviour systems as reactions in the locals. Here the issue is not at all connected to colour but to real irritants in the communication signals.

Enforcing democracy in feudal structures; a case of jumbling designs

Now about America running around trying to teach democracy to the other nations. It is a pretty silly endeavour. For, democracy has nothing to do with the process of casting votes. It is very much connected to the freedom for articulation; not necessarily in the political circles, but in all arenas. In modern English, democracy is a natural component.

Ronald Reagan as a Gandhi

Now, think about how other nations, I mean feudal-language nations function. May be I can illustrate with an example. Many years ago, Ronald Reagan was shot at by a bystander. He did not die. Now, think that he had died on that occasion. If it had happened to such a leader from India or Pakistan or such else, this is what would come about: There would be an enforced national mourning. Then there would be clamour to take on the mantle of ‘chosen-heir’. One man would finally fit in this role, and he would ride to success in the next election, on the sympathy wave. The school syllabus would then start teaching about the dead ‘Ronald Reagan’ who would look remarkably like a saint. As generations go by, he would rise much above the common crowd as a divine person; and his followers would bask in the glory. This is the social scenario into which America is interfering with no understanding, with a beating stick called democracy.

Lending legitimacy to the diabolical

Here what needs to be brought into study is what is it that the US is doing by joining hands with the establishment in such nations, and lending legitimacy to their doings. It is doubtful if there is any Asian nation where social liberties can be equated to that in an English nation.

Ceylon as an example

Look at the case of Sri. Lanka. It was first Ceylon. When the British left, there was haste to make it Sri. Lanka. This haste does denote many other factors; that of local cultural issues trying to come back into power. Now what is wrong in local cultural factors? Well, Sinhala language could be feudal, where the lines and designs of hierarchy are perfectly in alignment to persons who follow that system. Yet, when persons from another feudal language system is asked to show subservience or alignment with that design, it wouldn’t or cannot happen. If the designs are studied, it would be seen that both have spikes that cause hurt to each other side followers when they come close. Incidentally, English has the ability to dissolve or at least non-detect these spikes. So, it can be understood that it was the presence of English language in supremacy that allowed both the groups to exist in harmony. When English goes out, then there can only be spite, spikes and hurt. The best way out is to live differently; and have a detached attachment. This issue is one of the causes of existence of the LTTE. (There is another cause also which does not fit in here). Now, in the fight going on there, why is the US coming as the saviour of one side, and that too the stronger side is a moot question.

I remember the documentary film ‘Battle of Britain’ about British people motivation to meet Nazi danger. Women are seen readying themselves for battle. It was really inspiring. Now, what is wrong to get inspired by seeing Tamil women training themselves to meeting the Sri Lankan army. If USA sides with the onslaught, it would be a case of heady stupidity which can call for divine retribution.

Hostages as sureties

Here again a slight digression: The so-called terrorist groups in so many nations including South America take hostages. UK and US consider them as terrorist based on this action. Well, it is only intelligent to understand that in most nations like India, Pakistan, South America etc. when a person is arrested by the police or army, it would be good to catch the concerned police official’s someone as a sort of surety or guarantee (that the person will be returned in the same shape as earlier). Actually if a woman is captured, a woman from the official’s side should be captured as a surety. This is the only manner in which it can be assured that the captured person would not be terribly ill-treated. It is not a case of the officials being bad or the other side being good; it is only a stark explanation of how persons in custody in feudal language nations will be treated. It is not an issue of individuals being good or bad, personally. For the US to be judgemental about people’s actions in other social systems, by understanding the words police and army as one understands them in English systems is being very, very stupid. I have no doubt that no English nation would willingly allow their citizens to be in the possession of feudal language police systems; (even in Philippines). If this be so, can one find fault in other groups also demanding protection from their own police and army personnel.

The one and only one legitimate rebellion

The US is conditioned to consider only one rebellion as legitimate; and all other rebellions and revolutions are illegitimate; and this legitimate rebellion is the American Independence war. Compared to the immense causes that spur revolutions in many other nations, the reasons that made the Americans go to war with their mother nation was downright stark stupidity.

Democracy and its strange bedfellows

Also, harping on democracy will give strange bedfellows for America. For example, under this label, India and America are equal, or at least India is better than America; at the same time, UK is a criminal. Possibly, in the distant future, Indian army will have to join with the US army and go shooting the British Monarch; ostensibly to enforce democracy there.

The US goes around giving huge aid packages to the varying nations in the third world nations. Does it in anyway check what happens to the money thus spent? It is only intelligent to understand that most of this money gathers into private hands, who are bureaucrats and politicians. They gather strength and later appear as global business leaders.

The disaster in the offing

Now about the current economic problem of America. Was it unexpected? I think the only question was when; and even now, remedial measures can be taken. I remember stating in some of my writings that the new concept of globalisation is a very strange phenomenon, much different from anything that can be conceptualised by traditional economic theories. For, they all functioned from an English point of view as far as feudal language nations were concerned. Now, the focus or let us say the power has shifted; the logic of international relations and economic activity will be dictated by the codes in the feudal languages. 

Bedlam as an effective political strategy

Now look at the situation in Iraq. Actually, what America is facing is a typical reaction. The enemy is not bothered to win the war, but to spoil the situation. In many ways, this is a situation in many feudal language nations. I am not very sure if the language in Iraq is feudal; it may only have a certain level of negativity, slightly different from such nations’ as India, Pakistan etc.

I can explain what I mean to say with this historical example. When the British were ruling India, they brought in democratic institutions. In the three Presidencies viz. Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, regional assemblies were created with a lot of elected Indian politicians filling in. It was a historically rare opportunity to get trained in such elevated political concepts for the Indians. Yet, there was one party under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru’s father, the Swaraj Party, which had only one agenda; that of simply get elected and once inside the assembly, simply create obstruction to the smooth functioning. In many ways, this activity would get them political mileage on the rude streets; yet, it was simply a negation of a divine opportunity. Now, this is the typical manner in which feudal language situations function.

I remember when I was in my college, where the communist party students’ association was powerful, they wouldn’t allow any other party functionary’s to make speeches. They would be shouted down. In many ways, the very hearing of another ideologist’s idea was frowned upon by the party leadership. It was not a communist issue actually, but that of the feudal language communication design, wherein even a simple hearing of another persons’ ideas or a simple acknowledging of a person from another group would create ruptures in the enwrapping leadership structural design. 

Similarly, what confronted the US in Iraq is an attitude of wanton senseless destruction. The reader may remember when Iraq was conquered, there was a spree of burning up of oil wells everywhere. There was no thought that un-replenish-able global natural wealth to which they had no rights, were being destroyed. I should say there is a lot of minor understandings connected to this wanton act that still eludes the US policy makers. I remember the shocking scene when the American Secretary of State Rice replying to Senate Members using meaning less terms from the subject called International Relations. What was shocking was the tremendous level of un-understanding that nations do not really runs on the principle inside that subject, but on deeper emotions.

Encrypting hate and revenge through generations

One of the real items missing in English understandings is the hate and spite and the recurring urge for revenge that gets encoded/encrypted into the designs and links in the feudal language communication structure. All these malicious contents get spread through the links in the social system. Even though, there may not be persons who understand this concept in the precise words that I have said, actually the members of these social systems are very much aware of all this as a social mood. Yet, the English nations when they intervene in self-encased alien social systems, they have not much ideas about this. This ignorance really portends danger.  

The false inspiration and the real trainers

Obama is impressive; yet, what has he said today? That he gets inspiration from Gandhi. Actually what is evident in Obama is the effect of English training on persons coming from non-English genetic pool. Yet, he does not seem to remind himself of this. When mentioning Gandhi, he is actually talking about things he has no idea about. It is like the advertisement I saw by British Airways, wherein a BA airhostess is saying a Namaskar to the passengers. BA evidently does not understand the real meaning of this gesture when a serving person is addressing thus a group of customers. (I would suggest that BA stick to English manner of welcoming. It is more elegant and also what they understand more).

Remembering a genius in social understandings

I would still say that Robert Clive some three centuries earlier had more understanding and sense about alien social and cultural scenarios than modern exquisitely-educated experts.

I have not written this much to caution about English knowledge, wisdom and information spreading to other social systems, but the need to carefully map out the ways and manners of how it should be spread. For, these things are entering into systems where the concept of free will is really a utopian concept. Everything moves along unseen and binding lines of conduct; everything including thought process. Let English knowledge spread out lending light and leadership to the hopeless; and let them also acknowledge the source.

I would have liked to write more, but words have exceeded beyond expectations. Moreover, time is also a very precious thing. Yet, most of these ideas are there in my book that I wrote first in 1989: March of the evil  empires; English verses the feudal languages

This is chapter from my book: My Online Writings. Persons interested in this book can view it on Kindle 

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Idiocy of the Indian Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act!

Macaulay was the person who drafted the Indian Penal Code, which came into force in the year 1860.  It is possible that most of the legal luminaries in India who drafted the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act wouldnt be much aware of these lines. It was written by Macaulay when his dear sister got married. His sister had been close to him, but then he insists the predominance of the new relationship that she was now having, and the relative insignificance of her affection to her brother in comparison. 

The attachment between brothers and sisters, blameless, amiable, and delightful as it is, is so liable to be superseded by other attachments that no wise man ought to suffer it to become indispensable to him. That women shall leave the home of their birth, and contract ties dearer than those of consanguinity, is a law as ancient as the first records of the history of our race, and as unchangeable as the constitution of the human body and mind. To repine against the nature of things, and against the great fundamental law of all society because, in consequence of my own want of foresight, it happens to bear heavily on me, would be the basest and most absurd of selfishness. 

A Sample Chapter from my book!

Chapter 3

What the Act enthuse

Let us first examine what the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 proposes to do. It does not aim at the protection of the unit called family. Its name gives the impression that it is putting up defences against the physical assaults of the husband on his wife. Yet, in reality it goes much beyond the scope of this definition. Moreover, the ways and manner of its doing is not conducive for a healthy family life. For, once the provisions of the Act are used, the continuance of the family as understood in the Indian social context becomes a farce. It is a situation wherein the husband literally exists in terror of eventualities, as experienced by him. So, in effect this Act is only a handy piece for the blackmailing wife and her relatives, including her father, mother, uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, sisters, their spouses and others. There is no scope for any healthy married life, in the aims of this Act.

Recourse to justice: If it is physical attacks that are the issue, then there are laws in force to curtail, control and punish it. They can be used. In fact, if either side does physical violence, then these laws can be used. For example, a wife beats up her husband at the behest of her paramour, parents, boss and other superiors. The husband will have recourse to justice using these laws. There have been cases of such incidences.

However, the Act that is being discussed here is totally a one-sided one, with more or less no provisions for safeguards for the wrongly accused person. For, it needs to be understood that usually no ordinary (notice the words usually and ordinary) Indian wife would go to the police station and give an accusation on her own. She will be led by her parents, or some other persons who dominate her mind. Here itself the issue of the wife being under the control of an outside entity comes in.  

Contravening the provision of the Constitution of India: Next is the issue of: How can a one-sided law be enforced in this nation? There are provisions to equality in the Constitution of India. How can they be simply ignored?

Well, the answer can be that the plight of many wives in India is terrible. The answer to that is that the plight of most people in India is terrible. For example, if one goes to the plantation areas, one can see plantation workers living a life, if seen from the outside, of terrible slavery. Yet, that does not mean that one can take them out from there and keep them as their own serving class.

Going beyond its brief: The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005goes beyond its brief. Instead of seeking to bring in support to the existence of the family unit, it gives legitimacy to rank outsiders like the wifes relatives to interfere right inside the household.

Defining the concept of a family: What the government should have done before embarking on this un-understood topic was to first define the concept of a family life, and its parameters. The family is essentially a nuclear one. All the local religions support this concept, in the face of very ferocious onslaught it will have to bear from the claims of various outsiders. Even though the wife of a person is his own, the common social system, enforced by the feudal language did give outsiders many claims on the wife.

Examples of outsider rights over the wife: For example, in the utterly stupid Matriarchal system, the husband was more or less reduced to nullity. It was the claim of the wifes granduncle to decide who she should live and sleep with. The tremendous power in the feudal words, made more powerful by the matriarchal system was to give this draconian right to a rank outsider who claimed to be her uncle. Now, the issue is also connected to the fact that most women who had to experience this sleeping with socially high-class outsiders did not really mind the issue. For, it was in a way, a way to enjoy the thrill of adultery with socially desirable personages, in a most legitimate and socially acceptable manner.

During the earlier centuries in many areas of India, the local feudal lords could lay hands on the wife of the lower class man, by simply taking her for employment in his household. The husband was literally a helpless creature when this happened. For the feudally crippling words and usages made him a sort of slave to the situation, even though there were no chains, which are usually used to define slavery.

Liberating a sheltered female: Then there is the continuing issue of the wifes family literally entering into a highly liberated mood the moment the marriage is over. This issue can be explained thus: When a girl is brought up, she is generally kept in a sort of closed enclosure. She cannot go out wherever she wants. She cannot be outside in the evening hours. Being outside on her own, in the night-time is totally out of question. Her going in the company of outsiders is prohibited. She has to get the permission of her parents or uncles or aunts or elder sister or brother, or even sometimes of her younger brother, if she wants to go outside on her own.

Even though all this extremely cautious stances may be seen as a very good idea, given the general insecurity in India, actually the fact is that it is all a facade. For, all this very obvious acts of bringing up a virtuous girl is aimed at maintaining the marketability of the female in the marriage market. For, the moment the marriage is over, the parents heave a sense of relief. For, from now onwards the girl need not seek anyones permission. The attitude changes to: Why should she ask his (her husbands) permission for going out? She is a free person. She can move with others if she likes. He is being very suspicious. Let her study what she wants. What is the problem is she accompanies another man in a journey to another place?

Now the whole issue of a suddenly socially-bursting out wife is on the shoulder of the husband. Now, here the reader may think that the writer of this book is being supportive of the husband. However, this is not the truth. For, both the Indian husband as well as the wife is from a horrible social mentality. Whatever they are bearing, they will also make others under them bear. It is not a case of them being good and the others being bad. It is a mentality that everyone carries, and uses on persons who come under them.

What the Act mentions and what it forgets to mention: Now, when the Act is talking about the prohibitions on the husband, it is quite idiotically being silent on similar prohibitions that have to be placed on the wifes parents, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, cousins and others.

The husband should not use abusive words or insult them (his wifes various relatives). Well, that is good. Yet, where is the provision that they should also not do the same things to him? Well, the husband can take up the issue to the courts or the police station! Well, only a bloody idiot can believe that all such things are easy. It is quite possible that the drafters of this Act have had no occasion to deal with the Indian Police as a common man. Moreover, if this is the way the husband should react towards provocative actions from his wifes parents family members side, then why are they also not to take recourse in the same manner? Drafting a law that violates the very concept of equality before the law, with secure equanimity is something that has to be punished at an equal level of brutality. For, such laws have made the life of millions in this land a hell. This land is a hell for an immensity of persons. These mediocre drafters are adding to the terribleness.

The longer route to benediction: Before embarking on finding fault with one of the entities in an Indian married life, and daring to introduce rules and laws into it, there should have been a spirited attempt to first codify what the Indian institution of marriage means. These drafters have taken the easier route, befitting their illustrious mediocrity. That of standing as guardians to one of the entity, sending out a signal to the other that he is the evil side in the marriage, and that he better watch out.

Her man and his woman: Let us take the issue of the man-woman relationship in a marriage. The husband is her man, and she is his woman. Even though this may seem a very silly statement, the truth is that this is the very basis of true marriage, in its unfettered state.

The words his and her literally make the person a sort of property of the other. Well, would these words provoke the invective of the feminists and of the law makers? How can a woman be the property of her husband? Well, the question of whose property is she, then comes in. If the answer is that she is no ones property, then she becomes a free-for-all to seduce and secure. Well, that is quite an idiotic proposition and conclusion.

The fettering and the meaning: Marriage has its fettering, no doubt. Like a person who joins a labour force in a company. There are rules he has to obey, servitude he has to bear, seniority he has to display, and a link in a string/s he has to become. Like that marriage also has its meaning. Well, the exact design of the marriage depends on the language of social communication, and it is to a great extent redesigned by the language of intellectual pondering that one uses in ones brain. Feudal vernaculars design marriage quite differently from an English speaking peoples marriage.

The essential codes: What should the codes of Indian marriage include? Well, there should be a real understanding that marriage is a joining up of two persons in a special kind of union. All others are totally outside this unit. They cannot try to persuade, seduce, secure, make use of, or indoctrinate one of them without the full permission of the other. Well, they can try, for it is everyones freedom to do such things. But it is not a righteous act on their part. And it can be rightfully resisted by the other persons partner.

An external command: Even the calling of the wife by her parents without the permission or knowledge of the husband on a mobile phone is an act of intrusion and belligerence. For, simply compare the situation with a business organisation. When the personnel enter the premises, they are told to switch off their mobile phones. Why? Because, it is like an associate of theirs coming and talking to them right inside the business premises. It links their thought processes, to outside issues, which would make their commitment for work in doubt.

Here again there is a difference between an English work area and an Indian one. In the Indian one, the associates wouldnt use words of respect about the boss in their private places. So allowing outsiders to call upon the workers would amount to allowing them to use disrespectful words, right inside the owners own premises. It can really bring in issues of discipline, and efficiency in work. For discipline, regimentation, obedience, loyalty and such things are connected to the respect-subordination word codes. Mind you there are no such issues of indicant words in pristine English.

Similarly, a wife being called by her family, boss, professional associates, are all attempts to draw her out of her family affairs. It depends on how the husband views this. If these are persons, who are mentally accepted by the husband, and he knows his place of servitude or superiority to them, and there is nothing cantankerous in the relationships, then it might not be a problem. However, if there is an acrimonious tone in the relationship, then the wife has no business to attend the call. For, it is literally like her being called upon on the road, when she is walking with her husband, by a person whom her husband views inimically. For once married, she is a new person, with new links and attachments. Other attachments have no business to compete with this attachment. If benignly endowed, they can only send signals that empower this new attachment. And not that would spoil it.

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Chapters

Chapter 1
Introduction
The ambit
Indian Judiciary and its limitations
What was aimed at and what came about
The differing levels of freedom
The solicitors
Citizens of India
Indian police
All India Service Officers
Drafters of daft laws
Quality of the newly made executive orders
The right to say this

Chapter 2
The concept of equality
Codes of endearment
The powerful social unit
Tranquillity verses an earthquake
Error in making value judgements
The demeaning of the wife
Winning over a woman
A seeming slavery
The sacred partnership and the forced entry
The shift in the string
Subordination and the perching
The contest
The hierarchy in the family

Chapter 3
What the Act enthuse
Recourse to justice
Contravening the provision of the Constitution of India
Going beyond its brief
Defining the concept of a family
Examples of outsider rights over the wife
Liberating a sheltered female
What the Act mentions and what it forgets to mention
The longer route to benediction
Her man and his woman
The fettering and the meaning
The essential codes
An external command

Chapter 4
Leadership in the wife
What designs the domination
A disruptive coach
A tool for the upwardly mobile
The females also as detractors
Action by the aggrieved on her own
Spurring a revolt
The slotted arrangement
The English difference
The vernacular adjectives and the deciphering
A real test of marital loyalty

Chapter 5
Verbal and non-verbal abuse
The expletives
Insubordination and the profanity
The right and the wrong
The spur
Non-verbal abuse
The despoiling, the terror and the effect
What provoked the husband
Non-verbal abuse in action
Where verbal abuse might be a better option
The diabolism in the language

Chapter 6
Wife working for another person
The right to work and the changes
The prop that vanished and appeared on the other side
A vital component in the machinery of leadership
Treachery at its finest
Where the Act has failed

Chapter 7
The fervent theme of male-female equality
Indoctrination in English verses that in the vernacular
Bringing up daughters as inferior or otherwise
Differing capacity scale
Ineptness of equalising unequal beings
A sly, standalone technique to overtake
Where females reach above
Equalising the unequal
A dramatic change
No such things as equality in India

Chapter 8
The theme of discipline
The tenterhook of intimidation
Comparing armed personnel quality
The vital leadership
Tumbling the leadership
The aspect of force and power verses regimentation
Punitive rights
Violence and provocation
What marriage is all about
Automating endearment
Woman as the master of the house

Chapter 9
A code to promote family life
Guarding the frontiers
The necessary statute
The threat of intimidation
The plight of the Indian womenfolk
The plight of the Indian men folk
Fidelity and infidelity
Sexual fidelity in women and men
Divorce
The lack of safeguards
Draconian rights to the police
A female in Indian police custody
Ineptitude of the Act drafters

Chapter 10
Who benefits from the Act
An illustration in travesty
A draconian Act and its frill elements
Business acumen verses formal education
The duplicity
A diabolic intervener
What the Act could and what it doesnt

Chapter 11
The tantalising aspect of physical violence
Fear and respect
A bit on Indian government
The crime of intruding into a family

Chapter 12
Defining the do-gooders
The trading of women
No infrastructure for the poor
The abuse from the do-gooders
What the do-gooders aim at
Corresponding changes in other Acts required
A conspicuous absence

Chapter 13
An active look at the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
A curious paradox
The ineffectual training
Keeping Satan away
Difference between India and England
Looking at the various Sections in the Act
            Aggrieved person and allegation
            Verbal and emotional abuse
            Economic abuse
            Returning the wifes financial contribution
            Coercing and unlawful demand for dowry
            Insults, ridicule, humiliation, name calling and about not having a child or male child
            Use or access to resource and facilities
            Sexual abuse
            Denial of sex by wife
            Denial of sex by husband
            Threatening a person in whom the wife is interested
            The non-tangible walls of a family
            Right to curse
            An example of an encroachment

4. Information to Protection Officer and exclusion of liability of informant.

            A police intervention scene
            The negativity of the Indian social climate
            Her children

5. Duties of police officers, service providers and Magistrate.

            What might happen in a shelter home
            Failure of formal qualifications

8. Appointment of Protection Officers.

Problem of giving arbitrary powers to feebly intelligent persons 
Facing the responsibility
Bodily injuries and such things
            Service organisations and a revolutionary proposal
Sensitising the police and other officials
Refining the judicial order
Possibility of a forging
A pipedream
A legal recourse to counselling
Contravening the concept of equal partnership

17. Right to reside in a shared household.

Mixing two basically different types of married lifestyles
What the wife can freely do, and what the husband cant
Right to live with enemies
Where will she go?
Cutting off communication routes

18. Protection orders.

Strings of hierarchy and the outbursts
Violence on dependents and other persons of assistance

19. Residence orders.

No restrains on the females side
The wobbling of the husband
Cordoning off the children from their father
Police protection to the aggrieved
Monetary obligations to pay for the attacking side
Imposing police terror
On returning the stridhan or dowry

20. Monetary reliefs.

Appropriating the money from the husband
Arbitrary custody of children

21. Custody orders.

Insinuation that the father may harm the children
Compensation for causing emotional distress

22. Compensation orders.

Ex parte orders based on affidavits given by the wife

23. Power to grant interim and ex parte orders.

26. Relief in other suits and legal proceedings.

Breaching the court order

31. Penalty for breach of protection order by respondent.

32. Cognizance and proof.

33. Penalty for not discharging duty by Protection Officer..

34. Cognizance of offence committed by Protection Officer.

Section 39- Cognizance of offence committed by Protection Officer.

Section 40- Protection of action taken in good faith.

 

Chapter 14
A critique of a Womens commissions ideas

 

Chapter 15
Generalisation of ideas in the Act

Commentary about the general impressions

Look at this illustration

The issues are not standalone problems

The basic mistakes in the Act

 

Chapter 16
The need for a code for Indian Married Life

What the Act fails in

The government endeavour, the codes in the vernacular and the strivings of the religions

About the word Obey