The Nuclear Race.

The nuclear race. (with help of my friend Wikipedia)

The members of the UN security Council are the biggest holders of nuclear power.
Namely:

1. The US.
When one talks about nuclear power the first thing that comes into mind is the US. No, when one talks about any kind of power the first thing that comes into mind is this big bullying superpower that vetoes and sanctions its political enemies into powerless miniatures.
This is the only country to have ever actually used it against any country, and not just as a means of intimidation either.
The first country to develop the Hydrogen Bomb.

2. Russia.
Yeah with the US comes Russia (oops! Soviet Union) and the Cold War(s) ;). The nuclear race among the the US and this country led to a power balance with both nations in the verge of a "day of reckoning".
And, the stockpile of Russia is big even after the Soviet breakdown.
It tasted the most power nuclear weapon ever detonated by humans.

3. UK
What next? Everybody knows all about the US collaborations with the UK, its open ally. The nuclear stronghold of the UK too was supposed to be used as a deterrent against the USSR.

4. France
Another "Free World Ally" of the US and UK.
Though it had reduced its stockpile, new weapons developed during the "Enduring Freedom".
Trust me, both the names in shackles (inverted commas) are as ironical as could be. Enduring Freedom? To hell, Bush!

5. China
You knew the name that was missing till now. The ever growing Asian Giant. And, against whom did they develop these weapons? The US and USSR. WOW! I really love whatever the Capitalist cum Communist Chinese bastards do.
Relations with Russia have grown better, but what about the US? It has its differences with everything that the US does, not unlike Russia, also Nuclear power!


and then....


6. India
"Smiling Buddha" was its first nuclear test, "peaceful nuclear device". Peaceful? My foot. Everybody knows how peaceful India was towards Pakistan and China. India didn't face a problem getting recognised, and not feared because it is a US ally!
They are still working out deals and agreements with the US about nuclear weapons. In fact, the US could be selling them weapons any time.

7.Pakistan
Aha! The British, History, revolution and separation, Hindus and Muslims, Bhutto and Gandhi, cricket and then, Nuclear warfare. Perhaps the most enigmatic among wars fought on Earth.
Bhutto: "If India makes nuclear weapons, we will also build nuclear weapons even if we have to eat grass."
Now, who helps them: of course the Chinese.

8. North Korea
At last, the country that made me write all this. A Communist and anti-US country making and testing nuclear weapons, and "weapons of mass destruction", how long can it last?
After US and of course another entity it owns: UN both sanctioned over this nation, this happens to its nuclear stockpile.
It literally "blasts" its towers and reactors based in Nuclear power.


Other nations to have Nuclear weapons:
Israel, obvious.
Iran,
Syria.
Yeah.

Siddhartha...the MAN

I recently read Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse. A good book. I want to talk about Siddhartha, the character.

He resembles in some way to me. Not a good compliment I am giving myself, nor a bad one. Siddhartha is a very ambitious person, not that he is portrayed as such and nor does he seemingly want to be one... but he is. His destiny, if it can be called that, is to reach Nirvana..or enlightenment.

A dedicated young fellow who does not believe that any teacher, including the Buddha, can guide him along his path and that he alone must attain enlightenment. He follows his dream with all his heart and effort. Getting dissatisfied with many teachers and ways... he moves on. And then at one point he falls in love. Not exactly. He wants to learn love from somebody who practices love as an art, Kamala. They both cannot fall in love, at least Siddhartha thinks this way. Ultimately, he is lost in material pleasure, riches and women.

One day he realizes it all and remember's his life's motive. His quest. And then moves on, leaving pregnant Kamala behind. He then lives whole of his life rowing a boat with an old man, who actually seems to be an enlighted being. He learns the art of listening. He learns life from the river. He learns that time also is like the river. There is no past, no future. There is only the present like the river. It is always there. It is there in the source. It is there everywhere, in the seas, streams,... everywhere and that everything returns like the river. Life is not linear.

This realization helps him reach Nirvana. Surprisingly, he attains it after he acknowledges human emotion like love.

Pashupatinath: EXPOSED

Exposed. Pashupatinath.

A sadhu. He is a virtuous person living his life out of begging and sacrificing everything material in quest of the immaterial. Hindu Sadhus are plentiful in temples because that is the place where generous people come and offer bountiful alms to them. It is their place of god.

Pashupatinath, June 21 Saturday.

Lots of police.Lots of protestors. Bricks. A wounded policeman, no, two wounded policemen rushed to the hospital. A tense situation. Eager people surround the place. Police charging on the aggressors with batons. I and "SP" sitting on a high wall having a good look at the broad-daylight excitement.

"What's happening sir?"
"I don't know. I just came."
"What's happening maam?"
"A sadhu had locked himself with two little girls. One, it was said, was already molested by the holy man, the other waiting to be before the bad wind somehow found its way to the people and the police.

A holy man supposedly sacrificing his material life for some ... i don't know what.
This mocks Pashupatinath. This mocks the blind faith people have on their God and religion and their temple.

Other things I hate when I go there:
"Only Hindus Allowed" (inside Temple premises).
The corrupt priests who take the millions from innocent Nepalese and put the organisation's money in their pockets and remitting it to India.
the way people make fools of themselves.