Arunachal Pradesh and the Chinese Connection

Ya, the heading of this post is ambiguous by its nature. But, certainly not an ambiguous statement for the Indian media. Name it - be it the TOI, HINDU, or any other leading dialies or weeklies - they have plethora of things to write about, at least the nonsensical thing pertinent to Arunachal Pradesh.

One would notice, most of the news, I mean the supposedly highlighted and important news about Arunachal, remains to be about the unsubstantial territorial claims of China being made.

Tawang and some other parts of Arunachal Pradesh are claimed to be an integral part of China, thats what at least the beacon of our informational sources highlights. I don't get an iota of why such misinformations needs to be misinformed through the major media houses.

Now, when we talk from marketing point of view, I guess, everything that has a chinese tag these days sells. Same rhetoric could be applied for the Indian news that somehow wants to add a bit of chinese in them. World market is overwhelmed by flooding cheap chinese goods these days. Now, I don't understand why the same logic has to be applied here, ie, the Indian media bringing in chinese everytime, Arunachal needs to be mentioned.

Media and Central government apathy cornered for Arunachal Pradesh is not a new thing to be pondered upon.

Lately, I am having a tough time explaining lot of my friends ( from mainland India ) whenever they start asking me about the " Chinese claims " being trumpetted by media, again and again.

A double standard at its work - They ( media ) find it an important relevant fact to describe the chinese claims ( which is something we can do least about ) in their headlines, but never bothered about printing down, what Arunachali exactly wants.

Yes - We want to be heard. We want the whole nation to know that Arunachal still remains the most backward state with rampant corruptions everywhere and a zero level of civic sense that seems to find a popular call amidst the youth.

Arunachal would be really grateful to all of the media houses if they could use the columns and the sections of newspapers they waste in talking about the meaningless claims of China upon Arunachal, and talk about the Real term needs of the hapless people, who have nothing but to face every wraths of the politicians and their chamchas.

I am pretty sure there could be lot many other Arunachalis staying outside the state for studies, works etc and are facing the questions similar to what I face ... and a subsequent feeling and the stare that you start getting, with an innocuous presumptions of you having been a Chinese rather than an Indian all these years.

Please, my fervent request to all the preposterous self-acclaimed FREE Press houses of India, stop playing games.



But, who CARES?

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Second Hand Smoke

I choose smoking over drinking, but that's something people warn me about all the time. Reason - you need an occasion to drink and there are times to do the same. But smoke - you can do it anytime of the day you want. And smoking can be a lot many times harmful than the alcohol...

I don't get the essence of choosing the mode of killing yourself. " Different forms of suicidal acts " - I would rather say. I come up with this question every other time, why should it sound so attractive or rather say, so glorious about the immaculate act of killing yourself - by either hanging yourself or jumping from the roof of the tenth floor building. The idea remains the same - You kill yourself.

Smoking, as people would put up - helps you ease tension. This again flummoxes me! How can smoking ease my tension, when I know for the fact that - I get tensed when I don't smoke. So there is a vicious cycle that engulfs the self-made hypothesis of smoking for good. Good thing being - that you're freed from tensions of the world. To be honest with you - I start my day with a different kind of tension. A kind of tension, which has its root culminating to the biological aspects of my rudimentary and bowel canals. Ya - getting the adequate pressure for the potty without a cigarette is near to impossible thing. I knew the scientific reason for that, which was something I had studied during my school days. Good thing is - I don't remember it now. So the obfuscating part of getting further embroiled with complicated aspects of the toxicities involved with my dear cigarettes and the aphrodisiacs fragrance of its smoke.

However, my very intention of writing this post was to write about why Passive smoking is harmful... and this has certainly deviated a way long - Ya, finally, me taking the side of cigarette.

But, however this shouldn't be a thing of concern for the rest of the folks, non-smokers alike, which becomes a victim of my incessant effusions of Secondhand Smoke(SHS), which is also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke(ETS).

Before I further research or google down on the various aspects of why Passive smoking is actually more harmful than the actual smoking( as most of the people tells me ), I want to highlight what is that I had always thought about the same.

OK ---> I have been telling this to a lot many people upon being asked or questioned over the supposedly myth of " Passive smoking being more harmful than actual smoking ".
My answer, suffixed with some rhetorical scientific explanation would revolve around the Chemistry lessons that we had during our school days.

" See, the smoke that a smoker inhales consists mostly of CO2, and upon puffing out the smoke, some sorts of oxidation process occurs ( was it because of abundance of O2 outside ) due to which CO2 gets converted to simply CO ( carbon mono-oxide),which is regarded to be much more dangerous than its CO2 counterparts.

Well, thats what I have held it all these times. And I am certainly not sure if its how it works.

I shall get back to details with more scientific convulsions and confusions pertinent to the context of Smoking, in my next post.

This much for today ....

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