All the readers of and correspondents to LAW ANIMATED WORLD are hereby informed that the e-mail account malliksharma@yahoo.com which we have been using till now has been hacked by some miscreants and we are not able to open it even. Moreover, fraudulent messages that this editor, namely MALLIKARJUNA SHARMA, had gone to Nigeria, lost all his belongings and even his mobile and requests confidentially the recepient of the message to send 3000 dollars are being sent to each and every earlier mail recepient from that e-mail account. So many friends and well-wishers have anxiously enquired from this editor the real state of things and were shocked to know about this fraud. It seems some coterie among Yahoo employees who operate or use the servers or some other very versatile miscreants are behind this fraud. We do not know for what other dirty purposes too they may be using this e-mail account now. So we have decided to trash that e-mail account since all our efforts to at least open it once to at least copy the erstwhile address book in it have miserably failed and our earlier complaints to Yahoo Administrators have gone futile.
As such each and every one of the readers, well wishers and acquaintances of the LAW ANIMATED WORLD and its editor are hereby warned not to use that e-mail account ever again. We will not be responsible for any anxiety, tension or loss that may incur such persons who disregard our warning or who have already unwittingly done so. We will intimate our next e-mail account through this blog and also print it on the next issue of the journal but till then the readers, acquaintances etc. may use the account mksharma55@gmail.com to correspond with us through the net.
Sorry for the trouble and thank one and all.
I. MALLIKARJUNA SHARMA, Editor, LAW ANIMATED WORLD.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Republic Day Special issue 15-31 January 2008 issue of LAW
this is the editorial of 15-31 January 2008 Republic Day Special issue of LAW ANIMATED WORLD:
No right to life for animals?
Friedrich Neitzsche made Zarathustra speak up: “…Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixions hath he hitherto been the happiest on earth; and when he invented his hell, behold, that was his heaven on earth.” The mad culling of lakhs of chicken mainly in Bengal but also in other states, as also in various countries, only confirm that reading. Would or should we ‘cull’ entire populations if and when some hundreds of humans die en masse due to plague or other mahamaaris? What permits the human conscience to callously hatch them and breed them in captivity and then mass-slaughter in captivity with nothing like minimum freedom of life allowed? Arguments of vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism apart, have we no duty to all sentient beings – can we arrogate to ourselves the right to mass-slaughter animals in the name of protecting our own few lives - that too when there are indications that the bird flu itself might have been due to us humans polluting the environment? The latest WHO records show deaths of humans all over the world as 225 out of 327 reported bird-flu cases in 5 years (2003-07) but the number of birds culled might have easily crossed the one crore mark. We may conclude with these precious observations by the Kerala High Court in some other context: “Circus animals … forced to perform unnatural tricks, housed in cramped cages, subjected to hunger, fear, pain, not to mention the undignified way of life they have to live … Though not homo-sapiens, they are also beings entitled to dignified existence and humane treatment… In many respects, they comport better than humans, they kill to eat and eat to live and not live to eat as some of us do, they do not practice deception, fraud, or falsehood and malpractices as humans do, …they do not proliferate as we do depleting the already scarce resources of the earth, …nor do they inhale the lethal smoke of tobacco polluting the atmosphere and inflicting harm on fellow beings. …it is not only our fundamental duty to show compassion to our animal friends, but also to recognize and protect their rights. … If humans are entitled to fundamental rights, why not animals?” §§§
No right to life for animals?
Friedrich Neitzsche made Zarathustra speak up: “…Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixions hath he hitherto been the happiest on earth; and when he invented his hell, behold, that was his heaven on earth.” The mad culling of lakhs of chicken mainly in Bengal but also in other states, as also in various countries, only confirm that reading. Would or should we ‘cull’ entire populations if and when some hundreds of humans die en masse due to plague or other mahamaaris? What permits the human conscience to callously hatch them and breed them in captivity and then mass-slaughter in captivity with nothing like minimum freedom of life allowed? Arguments of vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism apart, have we no duty to all sentient beings – can we arrogate to ourselves the right to mass-slaughter animals in the name of protecting our own few lives - that too when there are indications that the bird flu itself might have been due to us humans polluting the environment? The latest WHO records show deaths of humans all over the world as 225 out of 327 reported bird-flu cases in 5 years (2003-07) but the number of birds culled might have easily crossed the one crore mark. We may conclude with these precious observations by the Kerala High Court in some other context: “Circus animals … forced to perform unnatural tricks, housed in cramped cages, subjected to hunger, fear, pain, not to mention the undignified way of life they have to live … Though not homo-sapiens, they are also beings entitled to dignified existence and humane treatment… In many respects, they comport better than humans, they kill to eat and eat to live and not live to eat as some of us do, they do not practice deception, fraud, or falsehood and malpractices as humans do, …they do not proliferate as we do depleting the already scarce resources of the earth, …nor do they inhale the lethal smoke of tobacco polluting the atmosphere and inflicting harm on fellow beings. …it is not only our fundamental duty to show compassion to our animal friends, but also to recognize and protect their rights. … If humans are entitled to fundamental rights, why not animals?” §§§
Saturday, January 26, 2008
REPUBLIC DAY GREETINGS
LAW ANIMATED WORLD expresses hearty Republic Day greetings to all the readers. Please wait for our REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL ISSUE which will be released within a few days.
Friday, January 4, 2008
All righteous violence is the greatest Dharma
This article is recommended for reading by our readers:
DHARMA HIMSA TATHAIVA CHASwami Chinmayananda
Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death. The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance. His attitude is shaped into its distinct pattern by the ideologies and moralities preached in our national literature. And no single work in our classics has gained such a wide influence on our people as the Bhagawad Gita: and in, this century, no other single message had such a universal appeal to our countrymen as the single line, "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" -- "Non - Violence is the greatest Dharma."
This line in its over - emphasis, has sapped both initiative and energy in our millions, and, instead of making us all irresistible moral giants, we have been reduced to poltroons and cowards. And banking on this cowardly resignation of the majority, a handful of fanatics have been perpetrating crimes which even the most barbarous cave dwellers would have avenged. To clothe our weaknesses, we attribute to them glorious names and purposefully persuade ourselves to believe that they are brilliant ideologists !
Let us for a moment go to the original sacred verse and investigate the significances of the moral precept: Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah. This is the opening line of a stanza, and the very next line reads: Dharma himsaa tathaiva cha. "So too is all righteous violence." Indeed, non - violence is the supreme policy to be adopted by man to foster enduring peace in the world; but there are certain dire moments in the life of individuals, as of nations, when we will have to meet force with force in order that justice be done.
To every individual his mother, wife and children are the nearest dependents and to guard their honour and life is the unavoidable first moral duty of each head of the family. This is an obligation whether the victim be a member of the majority or of the minority class within a country, province or city.
By the over - emphasis laid on non - violence we have come to witness the pathetic situation of today, when thousands, in cowardly fear take to precipitate flight, leaving their innocent children to be butchered and their unarmed helpless women to be dishonoured or converted or killed. Under the cloak of glorified non - violence, an entire nation of cowards fly from their homes, when a small sect of fanatic barbarians boldly stalk in and out of their open undefended thresholds to kill, to rape, and to loot. When will we learn to fully interpret our Vedas, scriptures and Upanishads. If only we all learn that dharma - himsa is equally noble as ahimsa.
To me it seems that the only solution for the day's internal chaos is to bring home to the people the significance of the much neglected teaching of dharma - himsa. As it is, a misled and over - excited minority in the country has the sole monopoly of violence; and non - violence is a dangerous folly. However ideal a moral precept may be, so long as, in a society, innocent children, helpless women and defenceless old are left to be butchered dishonoured and tortured, while the youth of the land is made to watch impassionately the hellish scene, we are to conclude that either the idea is a dangerous one, or that we have not rightly understood the full meaning of the precept.
Under the present available scheme of chaos in this country, when under the planned instigation of a few power blind, reckless men, a minority community is rendered into a murderous gang of fanatics, it is the duty of the majority to win back the erring thousands. The cure depends upon the disease; the potency of the medicine is decided upon the virulence of the illness. Today when looting, arson and rape are the dharma of a few, it is rank cowardice for the many to suffer the tyranny of the unprovoked violence in meek submission. In the battlefield, when violence is rampant, it is the dharma of everyone to meet that maniacal violence with determined, restrained, violence not only in self - defence but also to convince the aggressive vicious few that 'it rarely pays to be violent.'
DHARMA HIMSA TATHAIVA CHASwami Chinmayananda
Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death. The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance. His attitude is shaped into its distinct pattern by the ideologies and moralities preached in our national literature. And no single work in our classics has gained such a wide influence on our people as the Bhagawad Gita: and in, this century, no other single message had such a universal appeal to our countrymen as the single line, "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" -- "Non - Violence is the greatest Dharma."
This line in its over - emphasis, has sapped both initiative and energy in our millions, and, instead of making us all irresistible moral giants, we have been reduced to poltroons and cowards. And banking on this cowardly resignation of the majority, a handful of fanatics have been perpetrating crimes which even the most barbarous cave dwellers would have avenged. To clothe our weaknesses, we attribute to them glorious names and purposefully persuade ourselves to believe that they are brilliant ideologists !
Let us for a moment go to the original sacred verse and investigate the significances of the moral precept: Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah. This is the opening line of a stanza, and the very next line reads: Dharma himsaa tathaiva cha. "So too is all righteous violence." Indeed, non - violence is the supreme policy to be adopted by man to foster enduring peace in the world; but there are certain dire moments in the life of individuals, as of nations, when we will have to meet force with force in order that justice be done.
To every individual his mother, wife and children are the nearest dependents and to guard their honour and life is the unavoidable first moral duty of each head of the family. This is an obligation whether the victim be a member of the majority or of the minority class within a country, province or city.
By the over - emphasis laid on non - violence we have come to witness the pathetic situation of today, when thousands, in cowardly fear take to precipitate flight, leaving their innocent children to be butchered and their unarmed helpless women to be dishonoured or converted or killed. Under the cloak of glorified non - violence, an entire nation of cowards fly from their homes, when a small sect of fanatic barbarians boldly stalk in and out of their open undefended thresholds to kill, to rape, and to loot. When will we learn to fully interpret our Vedas, scriptures and Upanishads. If only we all learn that dharma - himsa is equally noble as ahimsa.
To me it seems that the only solution for the day's internal chaos is to bring home to the people the significance of the much neglected teaching of dharma - himsa. As it is, a misled and over - excited minority in the country has the sole monopoly of violence; and non - violence is a dangerous folly. However ideal a moral precept may be, so long as, in a society, innocent children, helpless women and defenceless old are left to be butchered dishonoured and tortured, while the youth of the land is made to watch impassionately the hellish scene, we are to conclude that either the idea is a dangerous one, or that we have not rightly understood the full meaning of the precept.
Under the present available scheme of chaos in this country, when under the planned instigation of a few power blind, reckless men, a minority community is rendered into a murderous gang of fanatics, it is the duty of the majority to win back the erring thousands. The cure depends upon the disease; the potency of the medicine is decided upon the virulence of the illness. Today when looting, arson and rape are the dharma of a few, it is rank cowardice for the many to suffer the tyranny of the unprovoked violence in meek submission. In the battlefield, when violence is rampant, it is the dharma of everyone to meet that maniacal violence with determined, restrained, violence not only in self - defence but also to convince the aggressive vicious few that 'it rarely pays to be violent.'
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
LAW ANIMATED WORLD NOVEMBER 2007 October Revolution Special issue
see the link http://www.zshare.net/download/60739278b1d12c/ for LAW NOVEMBER 2007 OCTOBER REVOLUTION SPECIAL ISSUE.
LAW ANIMATED WORLD 31-10-2007
Please see this link for LAW 31-10-2007 issue: http://www.zshare.net/download/60738146cc8a2a/
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