China: Things where its better than the rest of the world

China is a miracle story.

There are endless and infinite possibilities in terms of areas where China is better than rest of the World. Out of all the points I am going to mention, one is excruciatingly important.

China has brought over 800 million people out of poverty and hunger & given them good housing, clothing, and education. All this in three decades. It lifted over 68 million people out of poverty in just 5 years! Nothing as beneficial to humanity has happened in the history of this world.

Apart from this, here are the top most areas that come to my mind:

• Manufacturing:

• No bonus points here.
• From steel, electronics, textile to plastic products. Name any product and there is at least a 50% chance that China is an unbeatable manufacturing king in that industry!
• Bullet Trains
• It accounts for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in commercial service.
• It is the world's longest HSR network and is also the most extensively used.
• Picture this: China launched High Speed Train Operations Program in 2008 and by 2013, it had the World’s Largest High-Speed Train Network across the world. This speaks about endless opportunities of magnanimous possibilities in China.

Partition of India - The biggest screw up in history

History and India always walked hand in hand. And when the question about the biggest screw up in history how can as an INDIAN and the world forget about the murderous orgy created by the British. ( World may hate Hitler but we had more worse demon than him ).

PARTITION OF INDIA.

Well the divide and rule was simple and old master stroke that British played many times over their cruel reign. A country with so many cultural differences it was hardly and genius thought to divide and rule. But what the ultimate nail in the coffin was the partition of India and Pakistan.

True partition was inevitable. The Muslim community fueled by Muslim League and the personal ambitions of one man ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah) created a euphoria among the Muslim. They were made to dream up about disney land.

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One cannot blame Jinnah and the Muslims as even after 65 years of independence India is still seeing small Jinnahs. Every other day a community starts protesting for their own land and state. Does we are right blaming Jinnah when we cannot remain united in our country.

Okay coming back to the main topic the barbaric of the British.

The midnight between August 14 and 15, 1947 .. the night that created two great nations well it was not a happy start.

A botched process of partition saw the slaughter of more than a million people; some 15 million were displaced. Untold numbers were maimed, mutilated, dismembered and disfigured. Countless lives were scarred.

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Bollywood’s passive-aggressive attitude towards Hinduism

My daughter was insisting that we watch “funny videos” on YouTube (casting on TV) while she had her scrambled egg breakfast and waited for her math teacher to show up. When I started the YouTube app, I came across the trailer of the upcoming Amitabh Bachchan-Rishi Kapoor flick, 102 Not Out. I like both the actors, so I insisted that before we proceeded to funny videos, we should watch the trailer.

They show lots of stuff in the trailer and eventually, they show that Rishi Kapoor’s character is going through some existential dilemma and he ends up sitting in a church. Something in the scene put me off and without making it apparent to my daughter, I changed the video quickly and loaded one of the funny videos she was insisting on watching.

After reading what I’m writing, you may think that I am raking up some conspiracy theory or, I’m one of those “Right Wing” Sanghis constantly demonizing minorities and claiming that Hinduism is being targeted.

My grandmother often used to say that before my birth, she had never seen a disabled person. After my birth, she could spot people with disabilities everywhere (because I was born with a disability). My disability sensitized her towards a part of worldly reality she was totally oblivious to simply because she hadn’t experienced it herself.

Something of the same sort happens when you have been sensitized towards a particular issue: you begin to recognize patterns that others can’t. Of course, sometimes you begin to see patterns where none exist because you are too eager to find those patterns. But sometimes these patterns are too obvious.

In the above-mentioned movie, why did Rishi Kapoor’s character sit inside a church? Why not in a temple? Is he a Christian? If yes, why does the theme have to be about Christian characters? Would the characters look uncool had they been temple-going Hindus? Do the makers of the movie think the urban audience won’t be able to relate to temple-going characters?