Promod Puri's Blog: Hinduism:beyond rituals,customs and traditions, page 49

Is Modi a narcissist?

As we look at his personality behaviour, especially since he came on India’s national scene as prime minister, the signs are there. A narcissist, per its definition, gives oneself extreme self-importance to the extent of falling in love with own image and decorating with a more elaborate personal presentation than necessary. Modi does this the way he dresses with extra crown-like attraction on his head. Moreover, as we have heard, he changes his dresses several times a day. People with narcissist behaviour have an inflated sense of their importance, a deep need for excessive attention, admiration, and troubled relationships. While …

END THE OLYMPICS FOREVER

Hosting summer or winter Olympics is not worth the trouble or the cost and the risks involved for a hosting country. Except for its entertaining value in presenting the opening and closing shows that are pretty creative, the Olympics otherwise are a mega display of acrobats in a sprawling gym. The Tokyo Summer Olympics, scheduled to open on July 23, is in jeopardy. Thanks to Corona’s worldwide pandemic. Countries are hesitant, participants are not excited, and public health experts are not down with their warning signs. Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases are not waning in Japan when only two percent of Japan’s …

The big challenge:

The big challenge to India’s integrity, democracy and secularism is not Modi but leaving behind his legacy of Modi-Bhagats.

Who is Winner, Who Is Loser!

Both Israel and Hamas claim victory. Then who is the loser? Ask the mothers who lost their children in 11 days of deaths and destruction.

Beyond Left & Right:

I’m too radical for the Right and too conservative for the Left. Promod Puri

BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT:

Leftist and Rightist ideologies create mindset behaviour resulting in political fanaticism. On the other hand humanism, rationalism, and being ethicist are better choices for personal and society’s advancements than going Left or Right. –Promod Puri

IS THERE ANY END TO THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?

Netanyahu says the bombing of Gaza will continue till “they get the message.” And “They,” the Hamas, is talking in the same tone with its missile barrage. The endless rounds of violence continue while the civilian population in Gaza faces carnage. There is no end to the horror and devastation, a repeat every few years. There is an asymmetrical balance of force between Israel and Hamas. The mode of thinking with the latter can beat the former with Iran-supplied military and monetary aid. But it will not happen, neither the finishing of Hamas, the de facto ruler of Gaza. A …

COVID in India: a tragedy with its roots in Narendra Modi’s leadership style

Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster India has set an unenviable new world record. More than 348,421 new infections were recorded on May 12, and another 4,205 deaths. The death toll now stands at more than 254,000 people. It is widely thought that these numbers may even be vastly underestimated. Meanwhile, as the body count continued to rise exponentially, the Modi administration held a workshop on May 5 for hundreds of top officials on “effective communication”, where they were asked to “create a positive image of the government”. This included setting up a “positivity strategy” to deflect criticism of government-handling of …

HE COULD NEVER GO BACK TO PAKISTAN BUT MOTHER NATURE CARRIED HIS WISHES

He could never go back to his place of birth, the home of his childhood and youth years in the racial-mixed company of his friends: Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Mr. Kundan Lal Bakshi always wished and prayed to visit, at least once, the warm and friendly town of Kotli in Pakistan’s Azad Kashmir. To roam its streets, speak his mother tongue, Mirpuri, freely, and get the nostalgic feel of the neighbourhood where he grew up. The family moved to Jammu, and so did Mr. Bakshi during the horrific and deadly communal riots of 1947. The existing Line of Control bars …

SOME BASIC REASONS WHY CORONA PLAYING HAVOC IN INDIA

Besides mass gatherings of people, like religious festivals, election rallies or cricket matches, as the super spreader of Corona and the Indian government’s insensitive handling of the pandemic, some inherent factors contribute to the catastrophe the nation is facing. 1. With a population of 1.4 billion, mostly living in minimal spaces, sanitation and social distances are the problems. 2. A vast majority of people are daily workers where the priority is to earn enough wages to buy food for the day rather than being concerned for the social safety net. 3. There is an embedded myth that poor hygiene trains …