Some thoughts on Independent Kurdistan – II

A Path from the Alleys of Histories

The socio-political values and structures of the current world order are greatly influenced by Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) religious thought. The defining characteristics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have followed a progressive pattern that can be summarized as under:
Judaism – Concept of exclusivity
Christianity – Concept of exclusivity + Universalism and
Islam – Concept of exclusivity + Universalism + Close-endedness

While the influence of Zoroastrianism on early Christian thought is evident, the universalism in religious thought as an outcome of early Christian interaction with the Buddhist thought remains an important hypothesis. But the fact remains that Abrahamic religious thought has impelled people towards a coherent, straight-jacketed version of history. The role and scope of prophets in Christianity and Islam follow this trend. The role of the history as a tool for compartmentalization and validation of linear prophetic truths is similar in all three religions. No wonder the ancient histories which with few exceptions always survive in mythic formats have to undergo infinite cycles of dissected and stitched for creating a coherent historical narrative.

Abrahmic religions for historical reasons have allowed the religious identity to take preponderance over ethno-cultural identities. And this venture of religious identity in polity and statecraft has sown seeds of perpetual social strife in these societies. Such strife when united and projected toward other/outsider it became perfect strategy for spread of thought and successful colonial ventures. But make a small scratch and beneath surface depicting order and unity, a complicated working of ethnic connections becomes visible.

Non- religious layers of identities are now becoming important due to democratic and scientific reasons. No wonder that scientific thought face most dogged and unrelenting opposition in Abrahamic religions. Though great leveler and liberator, scientific education pushes orthodox further into the shell. Even today the theory of Evolution is fighting hard to get due recognition; and traditional religious structures are fighting hard to retain the power created by the science, like technology, social and economic thoughts. But none the less a globalised media and communication technology is also molding the new man in the land of ancient history. How the evolving Human thought across the globe in complex web of academics, research, corporate structures and strategies and globalization policies would act in and interact with the new crystallizing religious identities? This question would be central to any student of modern history.
Mutual interactions of adherents of these religions, their cooperation and antipathies, harmonies and contradictions, understandings and mistrusts, sincere efforts and deceits etc. have exercised disproportionately high influence on collective human thought. This proved even truer in post industrialization era, when more than 60 percent of the world population is connected to the Abrahamic world-view by virtue of religious affiliation. Along with that, a large population of people belonging to other religions and civilization are influenced by thoughts emanating from Abrahamic world due to intellectual, technological, occupational, socio-political and economic considerations.
The unique nation-state conception based upon religious homogeneity has allowed states to act in unduly intolerant, suspicious and repressive fashion, to its minorities. Apart from routine discrimination by the states, rampant misuse of blasphemy laws against minorities is not uncommon. In such a scenario rising clout of tribal and clannish identities and role are on rise in Middle-East, if is not allowed to settle properly in political structures, this is a perfect recipe of disaster.
That Huntington’s idea of clash of civilizations suffers from errors in its classification of countries under civilization. The primary clash is internecine; it’s amongst religions of Abrahamic faiths. The Classification of civilization would be on broader religious line following Abrahamic/Dharmic/Pagans/ animist type classification. Other cultural-civiliational inheritance like Iranian, Arabic, Indic, Chinese, African, European, Nordic, American etc. would play more of indirect and subtler roles.
The implications of Independent Kurdistan to put mildly would be, immense. Some effects and questions that would be relevant are freely speculated here:
- This may mark a start of ultimate weakening of the religious-historical narrative/understanding in Abrahamic civilizations. Thus this can give religious fundamentalists a strong reason to fight, the internecine clash of Abrahamic Faith.
- The ripple effect of Kurdistan will be felt by immediate neighbors Persian, Syrian, Turk, Arab, Balloch, Tajik and the Pashto people and on regions like South Azerbaijan, Afghanistan (excluding its Turkic Northwest), FATA and Baluchistan of Pakistan.
- Independent Kurdistan should be seen in juxtaposition of the populist rebellion of local population against the regimes of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. These have been more or less civil resistances with some obvious touch of Islam. What one cannot ignore is the ethnic and nationalist overtones, which are more democratic in nature. It would call for a sincere accommodative framework for the region.
- Issues determining the current power equilibrium are- situation in Iraq, US-Iranian standoff, Israel – Palestinian issue, future of Saudi monarchy (which is getting more susceptible to new emerging Sunni orthodoxy of Al Qaeda and Muslim brotherhood kind) and energy politics. Other countries more concerned by their energy security issues would work hard for a stable order in the region. This will be their motive in engagement. But the question is that with such an easy availability of weapons and religious motive, how much feasible and lasting such interventions would be?
- Turkey’s in some spheres at least, would be a destabilizing regional power. Reason being its peculiar position as a NATO member, prospective EU member, Middle East issues and Islamic aspirations. How will the things in Middle-East settle if increasingly Islamist and ambitious Turk identity finds favorable grounds in central Asian republics? Islamist Turk identity would find relevance in China would touch Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (indirectly), and rub its shoulders with Iranian and Arabs for leadership in the region.
- One another trail of development that is to be looked at is the reactionary chain of radicalism. The West has made a peace with its past in the classical divorce of the Church and the State. It was taken as a role model by majority of countries around the world. As this didn’t happen in Islamic countries that way and energy need, cold war etc. ensured no such developments in the Middle-East, the religious fundamentalism has steadily grown in Islamic world in 21st Century. In many ways Islamic societies and government policies have become more conservative and orthodox today than what they were 50 years back. And the glorious past of the Islamic dominance always propel the Islamist to find his deserving role and place in destiny.
- This hardening religious identity in Islamic world has started affecting non-Islamic societies also. Issues like non-integration of immigrants, opposition to Sharia laws, Halal and Hizaab etc. are increasing temperatures in European, African and Asian countries. Chancellor Merkel’s obituary of Multiculturalism can safely be assumed as the referral point for this phenomenon.
- Alternately, Islamic civilizations are plagued by numerous difficulties to retain its unity amidst widening divides of – Arab/ Iranian, Shia-Sunni, Wahhabi-Non-Wahhabi, monarchical and civil-political, African – Asian identities. Any inability to come-up with a collective Islamic response at times could destabilize the whole order and the threat is very real. OIC has a herculean task ahead namely rebuilding the Islamic Ummah amongst politician and lay faithful, in this age of science. If things go this way the religious fault-lines are bound to widen and the internecine clash of civilization would not be that far.
Now, Kurds can be the change agents. With indigenous (Hurrian) root, Iranian and Islamic legacy and strong collective binding if they succeed in achieving independent Kurdistan, it can make a new opening.
- If the Independent state of the Kurds will come into being? Would the disturbed order make people face and challenge religious identity based world view? – is far too speculative right now. Whatever may be the case the Historical issue of Kurds is going to be a very important and it deserved greater attention. Histories are open again in identities and thinking. As to Kurds, they can’t disown their past for therein only lies their future.

(… Speculation concludes)

Some thoughts on Independent Kurdistan – I

The Geo-political power equations today appear conducive for independent Kurdish state. Sitting on huge oil reserve, Iraqi Kurdistan has already become a power center in Iraq. The political situation in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria all together appear amenable for a Kurdistan.
Independent Kurdistan would prove a defining event in the region and the world. This will bring many changes in the existing formats of engagements. An important possibility would be opening up of the societies of the region, to non-religious nuanced social perspectives in polity and governance.

Kurds in History
The Kurd history is strange and important. These are ancient people of Indo-Iranian ethnic stock, who have lived in mountain ranges (between Iranian plateau and Euphrates), that spread into Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The population of Kurds is between 30 – 50 Millions. Like other ancient people Kurds are heterogeneous with diverse groups, histories, roots, cultures, languages and religious beliefs. Again, like any other ancient people they appear trapped in homogenous religious people-nation-state conception. Kurds are bound by a fluid yet strong Kurdish identity, something that has withstood the onslaught of Arab, Iranian and Turk forces for centuries. While identities and fate of their tormentors have changed over time, Kurds have remained deeply rooted in their heterogeneous identity.
Kurds, with roots in mountainous regions are closely knit in their indigenous complex network of religious, societal life and cultural tradition. They have survived on a cultural fault line of Arab-Iranian divide. Perhaps the hoary past links and mountain for refuge helped them in survival strategy. There long experience with other players in the region has helped them in evolving a complex and mulch-layered response and understanding in dealings with dominant exclusivist religious ideas. No wonder Shia or Sunni, a Kurd, unlike other orthodox Muslims is invariably strongly attached to some Sufi order. It won’t be farfetched to recollect here nomadic pastoral Van Gujjars of Northern Himalayan region who are Sunni Muslims and socially divided in clans and gotras like Hindu ancestry and are strict vegetarian!
Kurds speak various languages. These languages are classified in dialect groups like Northern Kurmanji (dialect group), Central (Sorani dialect group) and Southern group (Part of the Sorani dialect group) including Kermanshahi, Ardalani and Laki etc.
Majority of Kurds are Muslim followers of Sunni and Shia schools. The rest Kurdish people follow diverse ancient faiths like Yezidism, Yarsanism, Alevism and also Christianity. Kurds have ancient Hurrian roots; that connects them to Kassite and Hittite people of mid- second millennium BC who, as increasing evidence indicates, were connected to the Vedic Aryans.
Kurds succumbed to Islamic forces in the 7th century; assimilation into Islamic fold was as often as were the revolts against the Caliphate.
Kurds came under Ottoman Empire around 13th century AD. In 1920, after World War I, with the dissolution of Ottoman Empire, the Treaty of Sevres was signed. It proposed an independent Kurdistan out of the Ottoman territory. This treaty was rejected shortly.
When the state of Turkey came into being in 1923 and the treaty of Lausanne was signed, it refused the autonomous Kurdish state and in years to follow, armed uprising of the Kurds for independence was suppressed.
Kurds have been persecuted by Iraq, Iran and Turkey singly or in unison. Stateless Kurds have been cynically used (for destabilizing other country) by one and all. They were used by the Turks in Armenian genocide with brutal effect. Kurds have been fighting for their independence often changing sides and partners. The mass gas poisoning of Kurds by Iraq (with support of countries like US, Germany, Britain and France etc.) has been a cornerstone Kurdish history. Kurds remain what they often repeat – the largest nation in Middle East without a State. Today when political stability of many countries is on a slippery ground, Independent Kurdistan can be start point for new alignments.
Then who is afraid of Independent Kurdistan? – Almost ‘Everyone’! Why? Because on the stake is our modern understanding of concept of nation and state that constitute the bedrock of world order.
The modern concept of nation and state is based on a religious, ethnic-racial homogeneity. Homogeneity is considered as the unifying force for a nation. More homogenous a nation is, more focused, decisive and efficient and powerful government will be – the argument goes. It was this premise upon which American and British diplomats wrote-off India and bet upon Pakistan, as potential successful state, in 1947. The insidious aspect of this argument namely the status of minority in such a state is now rarely spoken of today. Countries and UN has surrendered humanistic values for petty diplomatic and political benefits. No wonder OIC in garb of religious rights is arguing on issues that were plainly impossible a couple of decades ago.

( to be concluded)

प्रिय मैं तुम्हारे उच्छ्वास हूँ

प्रिय मैं तुम्हारे उच्छ्वास हूँ

रोम – रोम में क्षण – प्रतिक्षण

जो भाव वर्तुल उठते हैं

अंतर्यामी ! सब तुम्हें ही खोजते हैं .

तुम मेरे श्वास हो प्रिय

जब तुम्हारे चरण चित्त में उतरते हैं

ह्रदयकमल में भ्रमरपंख छूकर घन

राग आल्हाद छेड़ते हैं .

श्वास-उच्छ्वास की तरंगों पर खेलती

प्राणों की नौका ही जीवन हैं

कभी तुम मैं बन देखो तो जानोगे, राम

असीम का आस्वादन कैसे होता है ?

Where the Scientific-Industrialization is leading us to?

Science driven Industrialization model of development in wider reference, may be seen as something to which (in parts)– the cultural historian used to call ‘the West’, a political scientist today can call ‘US-lead world order’ (that was previously ‘British empire lead European power’s dominance’); a philosopher may see it an ‘age’ of science, an economist can call it an era of globalization and convergence and a scientist may like to call this age a pinnacle of technological advancement, so on and so forth.

It is important however that there is no some type of universal narrative that is shared by all. There exists many ‘Other’ differing terms of reference or perspectives about industrialization. For example many Islamic thinkers perceive it as an order of domination lead by Christendom; a person from dharmic tradition of course easily identifies this with ‘Kaliyuga’, an age dominated by darkness and sin.

This industrialization is not only ‘not-owned’ by all, but people ‘owning’ it owns it for varying degrees and proportions; espousing it together with differing perspectives and different reasons. There are people who are desperately waiting for an avatar, messiah, or prophetic ‘Day of Judgment’. Yet more troubled is that set of persons which is deeply in to this scientific industrialization and is getting wary of it. The Promised Land that science claimed some steps ahead is nowhere visible in horizon and instead there is growing debris of destruction-plunder; pollution and population.

This is the reason science driven Industrialization model of development is under threat today. The not so striking fact is that it is crumbling under its own edifice. Along with this is declining – ethics and morals, art and aesthetic, demographics and socio-political order, all that once supported it; something to which we are so intimately addicted to is also showing marks of decay.

Those who are not into this mainstream (by mainstream I mean, English literature, academics, popular art and media etc.) are in comparison living in a state of bliss. They are not inheritors of guilt. And among these also people with ancient cultural traditions and philosophical thoughts (Chinese, Japanese, Iranians, and Indians etc.) with these alternative perspectives are better placed to understand the malady. They have rich repository of experiences and variety of standpoints to compare, analyze and understand the scene and at least some signs are there of the triumph of cyclical nature.

The effects of Industrialization are now making themselves felt. Despite sincere effects to hide, if possible, to correct them are on; there is also complacency perhaps arising out of a simplistic logic that poor masses of Africa, Asia and South America would be first and perhaps sufficient to satiate the hunger of climatic changes including the global warming.

In this model of Industrialization, power is generated and enhanced through surplus/ accumulation and this power is becoming more intangible. Currency and monitory instruments that used to be repository of value of an economy has moved into a notional value regime. This is maintained and determined by complex multilateral agreements by nations. Nations trying to ensure maintain the benefits of lead taken in initial stages of industrialization and subsequent scientific and technological advancements. Some other countries attempting to enter into this power club and so on.

Systematization of scientific advancement along with multilateral institutions, political and military management has stabilized monitory system that stands for the power of accumulation and surplus. (In time prior to industrialization the barbarian and brute people/tribes had almost a divine right to destabilize the stable civilized world and ensure equitable distribution of resources. Religions played divinely sanctioned role in such enterprises. Nature ensured equilibrium through its judicious mechanism)

Science lead Industrialization takes accumulation to its extreme. It gives no safety valves for the divergent elements. It negates them and in process strengthens forces that are set out to weaken it. As accumulated surplus that has monitory system as its base with arbitrary narrow conception of ‘value’, the scientific industrialization model is wasteful.
It cannot be anything else. We just have to see at the wasteful food (should we include overeating also in it!), clothing and whole lifestyle of an average American or a European. It celebrates insane accumulation, consumption and productivity. No matter if the produce is wasted and thrown in Sea. The distortion is to be maintained at any cost. Such exponential accumulation of money is not possible in sectors that are crucial for human beings like agriculture or allied sector. The ‘real’ money lies in creating wasteful wants on one side and controlling the scarce resources on other. This of course also means growing market, increasing population that requires sympathetic ethics and moral values that translates in medical and pharmaceutical policies.

The ‘wealth’ generated in sustainable economic model, through predominance of agriculture and tertiary sector is existential. The life cycle of human beings and host of living beings is embedded in a cyclical natural order. The traditional economics is based on the surpluses out of the natural productivity. The nature has various loops and cycles of climate variables affecting the surpluses. This order has place for other species of living beings. Man, animals and nature coexist in a cycle of give and take. Can a farmer’s son waste edibles that have sweat of his family? a crop that they sow, fend and reap?

Industrialized farming, fishing, farming etc. has distorted the fragile ecological order. The accumulative greed has lead to wasteful exploitation on resources. Values in such a milieu are inconceivable and are rightly used as a part of diplomatic and strategic purpose.

The scientific Industrial model is interventionist and seeks to create an order based on ‘human reason’, science and Judgment. So a farm is a factory. Animals are to be replaced with more efficient machines. Animal energy is to be replaced by fossil energy. And wherever animals are required they are just means of production. Economics condone all abuse and maltreating till it makes economic sense. It allows genetically tempering of flora and fauna. This is the grand ethics of utilitarianism of the reverend JS Mill. We should remember that sense of hollowness and ennui felt by the rich today is not without reason; it is not that innocent either. Perhaps the only thing worse than this ‘sense of hollowness’ is working to fulfill it.

Industrialization had had an environmental cost. This had been hidden beneath the surface by corporate world and governments. Even today the CSRs and social activities of many corporate and many a governmental social schemes targeting a particular region /population or legislative measures to ensure spending certain percentage of revenues of development are half-hearted attempts in this direction. Interest of an industry polluting a fresh water stream is in collusion of interest of farmers, fishermen and people dependent on the stream for water for use. The sheer capacity of self deception and delusion among human beings is amazing. But the problem is that with growing population this is not easy.

Developed societies have already reaped the economic dividends of population growth. Population is market wherein rests the economic and trade power. This is now favoring countries like China, India and Brazil etc. And there is no dearth of Money. Inflation driven economic policies has ‘empowered’ nations around the globe for more consumption. The grips of governments are weakening in developed world. US subprime crisis is just one example. The ownership of capital becoming transnational is leading to a veritable policy cacophony. It is democratic and it is also dangerous. The social freebies are no more feasible even for the developed nations. The capital is gone gaseous from liquid as it has now freed itself from the narrow space-time (nation-state) limitation. In fact the monies are not in the present it is in predicting, tapping if designing the future. This is where the real danger lies. This world is getting more erratic.
The way corporate lead capitalism is allowed to run the show, the pusillanimity of governments to rein them in is creating a chasm in democracies. In absence of values and sense of Justice the foundation of this order is collapsing. The greed that is always myopic, assisted by fickle monitory instruments is the cause of real threat. Today monitory system holds the key for it ensures order that has political and military power supporting it. But it is this nature of monitory order that is greatest threat to the order than anything else. And weakening of this would give rise to a host of problems.
Problems are many. But we can rest assured with the power of Time. The pace of events takes away sting from the greatest of outrages and then are we not people with limited attention span and pretty short time conception today?

 

Looking at La Rushdie affair on the eve of the Republic Day

The coverage of Rushdie Affair at Jaipur Literature Festival on Television channels and in newspapers left those in Media business, literature and some audiences aghast, at what seemed as utter contempt to the rule of law and order. The image of event producer, maudlin on the stage; the emotively charged Barkhas and Arnabs in studios and dead serious  Vinod Mehtas, Shekhars, Swapans, Gilani’s and of course Sir Rushdie- all made a perfect material of entertainment, somewhat akin to the tear-jerking blockbuster.The package was complete. It appeared, the experience as a cathartic was success and the relief was complete. Today everyone sat with ease thinking and sharing observations and being eve of republic day it is sounded all the more pertinent. To enumerate my observations:

1. It exposed the utter disconnect of the English speaking, thinking and writing fraternity of this blessed country from the people (often called Mobs). This class enjoyed privileges like no one ever since the ‘Raj’ days. First time this class, majority of who subscribe to ‘liberal’ values found a mirror. They enjoyed upon liberal cultural and traditional values of this land, ridiculed it without a miss; this time ended up heaping upon itself tons of ridicule and found its impotency exposed. They are nothing in democracy and this democracy also, is worthless without Indian cultural ethos.
2. The artificial construct called ‘the republic of India’ that was made to trample Indian values and severe all connections with the tradition, in an attempt to implant democratic values from   experience of Western democracies has been shown its limitation. The fact that it is the respect of diversity imbedded in the Indian experience and not some ‘secular’ word in some book called the ‘Constitution of India’, which has kept this nation so accepting to narrow identities.  The multitudes of Indians who didn’t side with the ‘liberal’s outrage and historically-misguided ‘Hindutva’ proponents does deserve our gratitude and thus they outwitted the fundamentalists design to vitiate the atmosphere. The western democratic tradition work for homogeneous, monolithic cultural identities and concept of nation there is based on some such values. So, if a group there, feels its identity threatened or disparaged, they require a constitutional guarantee from the monolithic –homogeneity promoting state. If someone asks a wider question – what if beliefs of two groups clash together? Answer is – Simple – read Huntington’s Clash of Civilization.
3.  The great intellectuals who were discussing the issue of ‘freedom of speech’ in cozy television studios and newspaper space were somewhat misplaced about time and geography. The battle ground for the freedom of speech is between Europe and Asia and not India; and battle lines have been drawn on the issue already with Geert Wilders trial in Denmark, Burqa ban in France, post 9/11 action in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. and conflict is steadily spiraling towards the ultimate showdown.

Is there any lesson for us to learn? I think, two lessons can be taken from this incidence:

-          This clash (of civilizations) is going to be mortal and fight is between two thoughts that subscribes to exclusivist claims; East, and especially India (China and Japan know this very well) has no partisan ‘role’ to play here. We have to be careful about misinformation spread among the locals through use of new terms, concepts, categories and identities. The way would be seeing world around through local languages, idioms and context sets.

-          Each individual should strive to reach at his values that would guide his conduct as individual and member of family, society and the country. He should find it in his tradition and culture; reason it out and imbibe the essence. It is the only way to reach at values which are universal via locality. The West considers this would lead to disorder and chaos. It may but for them, in their narrow construct;  which anyway growing out of size has started crumbling under its own weight.

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Where is the Vision of the CSR and NGOs?

That the industrialization lead by growing population or even exports is antithetical to Sanatana thought, which is more based a concept of Yajna (sacrifice to Gods and receiving sustenance).

This developmental model is not only harming the Sanatana-Vedic culture but is a threat to humanity and existence itself.

What we need is nothing short of a Counter revolution from Indian stand point, something that will rediscover its values and relevance. This is the real challenge before the corporate sector, political class and Academia.

In this sense corporate entities by not searching real alternative sustainable models, are doing a great disservice to humanity. Their greed is potent and its pernicious effects are on polity, science, education and every facet of out life.

This high population, energy hungry, and narrow values conception of development is succeeding; owing to some historical -civilizational reasons despite its obvious limitation.

Indian intellectual class in general has betrayed its lack of commitment to values and understanding of the happenings and there is hardly any important ‘visionary’ corporate leader, historian or thinker who took this cause of the country.
The unsavory irony of the situation is that the riches and prosperity of this Bharatvarsha is used to undermine the country and its values and environment.

From Indian point of view we cannot accept it patiently considering this as Aapat-Dharma or Vyavharika reality that we are following under an overpowering external order. This is so because then in such a case there is needed genuine evidence to show that we have in our hearts true allegiance to the tradition and we are not part of the adharmic forces that are driven by greed and consumerism.

There is need for Organisations to revisit their orientation and work for strengthening the environment that is conducive to sanatana tradition. This all is possible only if the corporate decision makers are aware of their responsibility to the Sanatana tradition. Unfortunately this connect with the tradition is greatly dented by the education that has little faith in Dharmic values and is molded in Abrahmic-Geeco thought. But it is not simple as this would mean that the philosophy and basic assumptions of self and other their interrelation and connection, society, work and environment is reassessed. How many of the corporates can muster courage ? ( Vidyaniwas Mishra’s ‘Hindu Dharma Jeevan Mein Sanatan Ki Khooz’ and Rajiv Malhotra’s ‘Being Different’ are good referral point to revisit these assumptions).

The alternative in form of social activities that corporates and organisations are promoting though does fill some vacuum it cannot be an alternative as this whole thing is alien and narrow. Majority of NGOs and Social work etc. lacks depth, roots, connection, value systems and investment in the tradition. Their rampant usage of fragmenting methodologies imported from western socio-political academics are playing with the age old values and sustaining structures of the society. Thus Indian mind is shifting from a dharmic value oriented to political values orientation. While these socio-political constructs are alien and at times hasty and mischievous, there is no Indian response to it.

So we need promotion of dharmic values with Gayatri-yajnopavita, Vedic Patha, Gau Sewa and Geeta at level of Samskara; sharing of tales from Itihasa and Puranas at familiy / society level; right pronunciation Samskrit and Vyakrana, art in education and so on. This is not difficult also as one small step can lead to great change. For example if we can rehabilitate Veda-Pathi Brahmins in the main stream life as teachers for primary classes for Hindi, Samskrit and subject like moral sciences etc. and so on. The connection with Language, Grammar and by implication with the wider Samskrit universe can be achieved very easily.

Today the Nitya and Niamittika Karma have lost and so also the Aatmic connect with the universe and the Rta. A child brought up with these values the connect with the tradition will create a better – citizen, member of family, society and world.
(This rant is edited portion of a mail that I had sent to a friend)

सीता का संध्यावंदन

:: श्री ::

गरजते गिरते उठते
साँझ में श्यामल बादल घने
धरा पर लौटने को आतुर
मरुतों पर सवार अनमने
जूही चमेली को लहकाते
इन्द्रधनुष लाँघ घेरते आसमान
वन अशोक के दमकते भोगों में
जानकी के शोकांकित नैन घने
ताल से जब झाँकते कमल-नयन
श्वास के साथ उठते उर्मिल प्राण
जल बिन्दुओं पर झिलमिल मित्र में
सहस्रपुरुष विभु नयनाभिराम
आर्य कुमार को सर्वत्र देख
नेत्रों से अश्रु अर्घ्य दिया
प्रिय प्राणों को प्राणप्रिय में मिला
सीता ने संध्यावंदन पूर्ण किया