The roots of misery
Preface
This is a book for which I have been collecting
material all through my adult life.
The general contents as well as the intensity
of my feelings have varied reciprocally to my age, the extent of my experience
and the depth of my knowledge of the universe; nevertheless, the central query has remained consistent: Who am
I? What is my mutual relation to and with the expansion known to me as the
surrounding space and the secrets hidden beyond the horizon? What is wrong with
the world I live in? And why?
The book is written in three distinct sections.
The first section describes me, because the
kind of subjects I am dealing with in this book demand certain minimum
qualifications – which I claim to possess.
In the next section though most of the comments
and study is based upon
The intention is to establish that the misery
prevalent in these areas is as much a work of the local collaborators as that
of foreign exploiters. I assert that in all these countries the future of the
majority of the individuals is determined before they reach the age of ten.
Excepting some of the more primitive nations
where brute force is still used,
this fixation
of destiny is done by the subtle use of
`the language´ and ´the religion´, two elements on our life which
decisively shape the social structure in a people.
I chose to use
A number of issues raised in the book are quite
disturbing and in contradiction to the tradition of keeping the secrets of the
East undisclosed. Revolting against all of my inhibitions I have bared the
sensitive nerves if the Pakistan society because I know it for a fact that no
foreign investigator, no matter how thorough his research or acute his
observation may be, has ever been, or may be, permitted to reach those strata
where most of the filth from the society is hidden under the decorative
carpeting. Thus the traitor, and I presume that that is what the guardians of
the Eastern Honour shall call me, has to be an inborn.
In this attempt I am most obliged to an
American citizen who put me on the right path. He was a black deserter who
talked much against his country. One evening I questioned his patriotism, when
suddenly a special look crept into his eyes. With his stare locked into mine he
whispered in his smoky voice “Brother! If some one sticks his finger up my arse
hole then I have every right to open my mouth and yell “Stop, it hurts “.
With my eyes still locked into his I
experienced an instantaneous vision of the naked truth.
To say that the
The third section of the book deals with a
global tragedy which I a precipitation of the minds of a certain breed of
persons which is found all over the world. I have done my best to capture the
foulness of this crime in as few words as possible; being afraid that any
unnecessary detail shall ferment dramatization, and thus weaken the impact. I
understand that much more insight and detailed investigation is required in the
very near future by the Just in the world to fight off this hideous plot;
nevertheless, a warning at this stage is not premature and is laid out.
The last chapter contains some conclusions and
a few suggestions.
This book is not aimed exclusively at the
scholars and, therefore, I have used a language, in direct communication and in
simile, which will be comprehensible to the people from all walks of life. Thus,
the language used in shockingly Public, although
I could very well have chosen words which dampen the impact to the
oversensitive minds. The book is written against the euphemism in life; and
that entails, when appropriate, calling the shit as the shit, and a prick as a
prick, and not using shock absorbers like the refuse or the generative
organ instead.
There is one more explanation due; in this book
I have discussed and criticised the people who call themselves as the Muslims,
Jews, Christians, Hindus or Buddhists and those beliefs which are practised by most of the followers in these systems.
If there are a handful of secluded scholars who happen to know the absolute
truths contained in the sacred books of these religions and faiths then they
are not relevant to this book, because the subject matter here is hat which is
known, believed and practised by the majority. Same applies to the various
interpretations of the religious beliefs as they are known today. If any of these books contains truths which are endorsed,
but yet not known to mankind, then obviously my present criticism does not
apply to those apodictic tenets which shall become known one day. At no place I
have intended to insult any deity or the absolute sacredness of any true belief; on the other hand I see no
reason to refrain from disclosing the deliberate misinterpretations which are
current in our days, nor do I profess to accept the beliefs which are
definitely false. Thus, any accusation of blasphemy will be irrelevant because
either my criticism is justified or the holders of the truth have failed to
make their views clear to the majority.
I was declared born on
My father is a Punjabi, as was his father and
grandfather and…
They were from
My mother originally from
To keep the records straight I might as well clarify
here that the conversion to Christianity was made by maternal grandparents. My
grandmother was born at
In spite of two major languages spoken at home-
Punjabi and Urdu- I was sent to an English medium school, till it was set on
fire in 1947 as a sign of the burning enthusiasm for our liberation from
colonialism. Thus, from my childhood I was brought up split between two
religions and tree languages at home and several others outside in the street.
Though I was only six and a half years old when
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Now
The next five chapters deal mainly with
Although history is an interesting subject for
the study of the past and as a guide for the future, it is often used as a
hindrance for resolving the exiting problems in a people by those who like to
burden the present generations for the faults, real or concocted, of their
predecessors.
A normal human being has a life span of 55 – 75
years. Events which took place hundreds of years ago have no valid relevance to
a person’s right for decent living in his own life time- the masochists among
the Christians and Jews, who love to believe that they are still being punished
for the sins of their first parents, are an exception to the common wishes of
mankind. What possible personal connection can I have with Mr. Adam, the Arabs
of the eight century, the Mugals
of the sixteenth or the English of the nineteenth century? Yet all my fortunes
and misfortunes are related to the rights and wrongs of the generations from
the past by those exponents of the history who would like me to believe that I
am a product of the careful planning and design of the Almighty God and, therefore,
as an individual only a negligible entity in a series of events from the past
into the future. What a sadistic way to sooth my pains! If some grim Indian
steps over my toes today then I can neither spit on the face of a Mugal
tyrant from the past for the misuse of his power nor blow kisses to the Messiah
of the future who shall one day remove the differences between the Hindus and
Muslims in the Indian peninsula. My actual problem is to resolve my differences
with the antagonists in my life during my life time; and then draw lines for
the mutual progress in the future.
Similarly the decisions and acts of the
ancestors of the present day Pakistanis should have no hold over the deplorable
conditions which are now prevalent in
their society.
Who said what and where is an interesting
factor for a historic reference, but that which can be said and done now ought to be the focal point of
attention for finding solutions of the existing problems.
Each generation in any society is directly
responsible for its own well being, with a certain debt outstanding to the two
generations immediately before them for their planning, an investment in the
affairs of the two generations immediately afterwards for their prosperity and
conscious attitude of looking-after of the planet in which we live. Claims
which are drawn either from the books of antiquity or the pronouncements of the
departed ancients assert only that the present situation of the contenders does
not justify their existing demand; otherwise there would be no need for them to
draw their support from the events of the distant past.
As my American friend said to me “If there is
someone’s finger in your arse hole now, then
now is the time to struggle and get
rid of it. To sit on it and wait for a better moment is merely to prolong your
suffering.
My study deals with now, and what can be done now and in the near future. I do not
believe in the prophets or messiahs for the distant past or future.
The object of the study is to delineate the
confusion which prevails in the matters of national identity, national
language, national religion and other social relations in
The motive of the study is to assert that most
of the misery which abounds in
The study, I hope, is applicable to all those
places in the world where the few
fortunates extort the many
unfortunates.
The land and its People.
Racially the Pakistanis are a mixture of the
natives and all those people from the north who invaded old
As if the diversity in the natural looks was
not confusing enough many Pakistanis make the issue more complex by claming
themselves to be from those fare away places and people which have ceased to be
note-worthy in their home grounds but are kept alive and important in the
Pakistani mind. The lass massive mixing of foreign blood in
There are several classifications of its people
possible if I were to follow the intricate system of Caste and Tribe- a system
much over-worked and spurious. Loosely speaking the whole of
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Language
There is ample documented evidence that Jinnah was a
brilliant lawyer and a shrewd politician; yet there is just as much sound evidence that he was no linguist.
His few attempts at addressing the people in their newly selected national
language, during speeches made in 1947-48, should have been discouraging enough
to convince him that such punishment must not be inflicted upon millions of
illiterate followers, he made a very poor show at speaking Urdu; nevertheless,
under some disoriented conviction he declared Urdu as the nation’s language,
and it has remained so ever since.
In a country where 80% of the people cannot
read or write, and the general public communication system is still alarmingly
poor, the imposition of learning a new language is a very foolish endeavour.
The language is the most important ingredient in the development of the mental
capacity, and its subsequent application. To enjoy speaking a language it does
not suffice to memorise a vast number of words and then utter them in a
grammatical order. It is a process far more intricate and demanding than what
is generally understood by the people. The words we learn in our mother tongue-
the language we learn from our childhood- are impregnated with psychological
nuances, which connote straight word-object meanings and invoke feelings. To an
Urdu speaking child the word Chapatti
not only conveys the information about a baked mixture of flour, water and
salt, but also, very probably, includes a sensation of warmth, proximity of the
mother and perhaps induces a feeling of hunger. Words like Bread, Pan, Bröd,
Khubz, even if he understood their implication, shall pass the idea of an
eatable product but no more. The same is true for most nouns and adjectives in
any language. Very many of them are quite interchangeable with their dictionary
equivalent in various other languages, yet the words and expressions which are
associated emotionally with a person have no reciprocals. The word Yar in Panjabi- lexical meaning- friend-
lacks its emotional equivalent in words like Dost, Amigo, Pal, Vän and Friend
for a person whose mother tongue is Panjabi. All of the other words in the preceding
sentence meant to stand for Yar
shall, is the Panjabi under consideration learnt the other languages, only
convey the similarity of relationship between individuals but
not the depth of relationship. It is
the sensual pleasure, in prose or poetry, of a mother tongue which stimulates a
person’s mind- it is not the conscious and analytical understanding of a
sentence but the subconscious gratifications by the emotional content which
determines the nearness between a person and the language he uses.
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Religion
Officially 97% of the Pakistanis are Muslims.
In reality, and on closer scrutiny, less than 1% are
acquainted at some length with the religion Islam.
In
I might as well deal here with all those who
are likely to protest that reading Arabic
is not the absolute condition to be a Muslim; but the ability to speak it and,
thus, knowing the Quran. This is true. But
then the requirement is speaking and knowing the language not the mechanical
incantation of the Arabic words and verses without
understanding the contents of the recitations. As a matter of fact here
lies the different between a person who
is a Muslim because he reads and recites the Quran and after understanding
the meanings of what is read and contemplation believes in the religion, and a
person who claims to be a Muslim because
he believes that his act of reading or reciting of the Quran, without
understanding the meanings of what is read, as a mere reproduction of some unintelligible
sounds qualifies him to be a Muslim. That habit to recite the Quran as a kind
of sound projection is directly comparable to the ability of certain birds
which imitate human sounds. The faith of the majority of the Muslims in
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Leadership
Physically
While the sickness consuming
Pakistanis are not so lucky, at least not so
far. The Armed forces, the Mulla and the Capitalists
require detailed study, but first I shall discuss a few civilian leaders of
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Foreigners, Foreign powers, Foreign Relations and the Pakistanis.
I pointed out earlier that the Stare of
Pakistan was born sick, suffering from India-Phobia. The whole life of
To the people who are not in direct contact
with
The English – who still can not see the
difference between a Punjabi, Rajasthani, Bengali and
Hyderabadi, although they insist that the Welsh,
Irish and Scots are essentially people from other stocks – put the whole area
under the collective name India for the administrative purpose. I presume that
two hundred years are long enough to efface the realities from the past and
make fiction a fact. When the English left their
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FINALLY I have come to the chapter which is one
of the main reasons for writing this book. In it is discussed my hypothesis
with which I attempt to disclose, what I believe it to be, one of the most
cruel, ruthless and complicated conspiracies in human history. I shall call the
propagators of the conspiracy as ‘The Fear Sellers’.
Just after the World War II all the industrial
nations, along with their past and present colonies, were in a state of trauma.
General public as well as the professional soldiers were confused, hurt,
ashamed and, above all, unprepared for the resumption of renewed hostilities.
During that atmosphere of international vulnerability some of the financiers
and political technicians of the great powers put their minds together and
webbed out the filthiest of traps to misguide, intimidate and control the
people of the Earth.
The plan was based upon eventual international
elitism and the subjugation of the working people. Two major conditions were,
probably, set:
(1) The plan will be executed
internationally- no one shall escape it anywhere.
(2) It will be executed upon the working
class- the workers of the world will be encouraged to unite and form swarms of
operating hands, but will be kept as workers.
The conspirators were divided loosely between
the Capitalist and the Communist blocks, each headed by
Any country or nation which was forsaken by
God, gods or whatever spiritual source they believed in was to be approached by
either of the two bog brothers and comforted, enticed and then engulfed in the
ensuing mass confusion which was to be spread in and around it.
At that moment the financiers of the industrial
nations had enormous quantities of weapons at their disposal which lay wasted
since May 1945. At the same time the atom bombs thrown at the human guinea pigs
at
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The human problem.
What kind of future, then, can a nation like
The total situation is not as
desperate as it may appear from the above given picture. The land which is know as Pakistan
is a new entry in the books of history, but the people of Pakistan are an old
familiar face to the students of history. For these people the accidents in life,
although undesirable and uncomfortable, are neither unexpected nor
unmanageable. A human being needs two kinds of shelters against the hazards in
life- places for the physical refuge and protective beliefs against mental
shocks. A people who have a span of culture traditions which extends over
thousands of years must have a reasonable provision of both kinds of shelters.
Although there have been many adulterations in the culture of the Pakistan by
the intruders who visited old northern India, there remain many proven solid
supports from the old days which give strength to the structure of subconscious
beliefs of these peoples – those beliefs which really steer a person’s courser
in life.
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The lamb looked at the wolf and said “But, Sir,
the flow of the blood is from you to me, and then I do not even consume blood”.
The wolf smirked and said, “I did not say that
you consume blood”.
“But then what is my fault? Why do you wish to
kill me?” asked the lamb.
The smirked again and added “Because your very
existence proves that you have not contributed the blood, the sight of which
gives me pleasure and the taste of which I relish.”
The lamb looked a bit confused and then asked
“Do you need more blood? Already you
and your pack have taken the blood of tens of thousand Palestinians and
hundreds of thousand Bangladeshis. Is the addition of Sindhi, Balochi, Pathan and Punjabi blood a must?”
Zia smirked for the third time and stated “There
is no such thing as the Palestinian, Bangladeshi, Sindhi or Punjabi blood. Blood is blood, and thou shall we consume”.
I shall neither criticise
Are willing to perform anything from
arse-liking to cock-sucking so long as their Sultan rewards them reasonably
well and permits them to live and spend their time with other inmates of the
harem.
Whereas I found the Women if India- all over
Is the Sultan and his aristocrats really indisposable? Are these behavioural eunuchs rally impotent?
Do not the Pakistani women really want an identity of their own as independent
individuals?
If only they could talk to each other and if
only they could understand and believe that their destiny is merely an
extension of their own will.
July
25th –