Those who know me know that I am open to each and every religion. I am one of those who takes full interest in other religions (which is why I read Bible, or some of Quran) . Which doesn’t mean I agree with them or not, but I do respect other religions. Anyways. I have tried to keep this blog away from my fury towards Muslims, but I guess, I am gonna break that. I have Muslim friends and they have been awesome, but I still say it (aloud) and I assume those and others agree with this. Today the greatest pain in neck for the world is probably Muslim terrorism. I am not just calling it terrorism, I am using the word “Muslim Terrorism”. Weather they are in Israel, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan or India, they are threat. I am including India as well, because India has maximum amount of Muslims. And Indians sure know how horrible it has been. “Economic Times” is one of the finance news papers in India. Rather I should say Economic Times is the only proper finance news paper in India. And it keeps itself away from general Indian life or politics. And of course, it attracts only the educated people of India. All this means that they are usually logical. Anyways, this is what they had to say after recent Mumbai incident :
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My the best memories of Cricket are of course that of Sachin’s. His batting is the only thing that makes me watch cricket. I can not also forget those awesome innings which Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly played together. No doubt most of the Indians enjoyed Saurabh Ganguly’s glory days. Then came the time when he slipped down in performance (and team spirit as well I believe). Anyways, it was his last inning 2 days back. A test match against Australia. His performance was good in first inning. But in second inning, he got out duck. Zero runs in last inning of his test cricket life. Surely a sad story. But then Bradman also got Duck in his last inning. Anyways, of course his fans and his rivals put that video of his last inning on youtube. Since I don’t watch TV, I turned to youtube to watch that final moments, but it so seems that BCCI has made google remove those videos. Why? Well, I don’t know. BCCI doesn’t even have the copyright on those videos. This is what youtube says about those videos “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Board of Control for Cricket in India”. No, I do not understand. First of all, BCCI doesn’t own any copyright on these videos. Second of all, even if they were afraid that people will insult Ganguly, where is the freedom of expression. Didn’t they insult Ganguly by kicking him out of team for sometime. And didn’t they insult him by making him play under a junior’s captaincy who once played under Ganguly’s captancy. And what about the fans? The fans who couldn’t watch his last inning. BCCI simply snatched the freedom of expression. And of course Google supported them.
So, I was going through some links talking about IPR situations in India. In India people usually do not know what “copyright” is. Copyright is not even enforced to normal people. I guess its limited to large scale industries. The main reasons for this are mainly 2. 1: that people are not at all aware of it. 2: that India is a developing country, and enforcing copyright here will mean enforcing them to choose alternatives. I remember talking to an employee of this big firm (name/company-name compressed) who said that “we” know about piracy. Rather people sell pirated CDs in ground floor our office. “We” do not stop that, “we” encourage it.
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose said that English strategy was “Divide and Conqueror”. I think the following image says more than that.
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