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Why Ban Airtel – Ban MediaNet Too

July 6, 2009 at 6:23 am (Uncategorized)

Trust me when I say that there is extremism to stupidity and ignorance prevailing in our country and yet the commoners are sleeping. Sometimes I wonder does the common man of Maldives really need every 30 years to wake up and open their eyes or do they come out of hibernation after every 30 years?

Anyways that was a general frustration released in a due course. Now from the general context, I will just narrow done myself and come down to just one turning point or fact.

Let me begin this with a simple question, how many media providers are there in Maldives? Ah simple “MediaNet and Bnet” and everyone knows that Bnet is merged down with MediaNet. Whenever a company tries to come up in this area or field, the monopolistic company who have already build the empire takes over the tiny newly build up castle.

Today on haveeru, I read that Maldives Islamic Authority has banned the import of Airtel receivers because of the various complaints they have received. Few days back, I have seen an article in Haveeru saying that “Airtel should be banned because it is showing GOD TV and spreading Christianity”. I don’t know in this era who is going to buy that article and the funny to core is the reasons why Airtel has been banned according to Islamic Majlis is because of this reasons of indecency shown or this broadcasting very particular channel.

But I have one question to this author of the article, why haven’t you written any article regarding the famous Saas Bahu serials which are so widely viewed in each household in any corner of Maldives from the very remotest to the very developed corners in Maldives, from morning till late evening – the women, children and now men are busy watching these serials/soaps/drama.

Why haven’t he mentioned that in all this serials/soaps/drama the main focus is religion and how well they worship the idol? Or how different they worship the idols? Or what and type of worships they do. For e.g. Choti Bahu – The main lead is always worshipping Lord Krishna (Idol) and you would see a different puga (prayer) every other day performed. Damn!!! I don’t know the names but all I know is that which ever serial we take – they are talking about religion (hindu) and this are channels which are been provided by MediaNet and in case Medianet stop telecasting Sony, ZEE and Star plus – Trust me, no one would buy that and then all this channels show it or try to spread religion. They censor some programmes like ramayan or mahabarata etc but the major serials which everyone watch are actually the real spreading of religion as they talk about how to do this and that. (but accepting a religion or adopting a religion is something that belongs to one person and him/herself and how you try, you can’t take that persons ideology of been rational – I am muslim and I will always be one and I will follow the path of Islam even if I see any of this and nobody can change that view of mine )

Thirdly, this is 21st century – each and every household in male’ and most of the islands are connected to the World Wide Web and to get information about a religion or to watch any indecent thing, it is just a click away. You can access this through not only computers but yes you can use your mobile phone in a remote area and visit any of these sites and see – hear what you want. This is technology and we are talking about providing technology which is already in place. If you don’t know then let me tell you (aimed at a certain group of personals) that in Airtel there is something called parental control and there you can delete all this unwanted channels or you can even unsubscribe such channels. This is technology and the price they give is the price it should be given and talking about price……

The packages in medianet are simple and it starts with 280 and goes to 500 MRF and if you take the 280 package you basically get all the free to air channels. When you go for the 500 MRF you get some good watchable channels. I was using it for a long time and I used the 400 MRF package as that is the best package (cheap) for the sports and movies.

Then last year December I came across Airtel and I thought, I would give it a try and brought it into Maldives and Voila – I could watch channels (much more with good quality) and more importantly at a much cheaper price.

Imagine this: I bought the Airtel package (the receiver/dish and 6 months package) for just 930 MRF. Where as for the Medianet one, I paid 1500 for the receiver and connection and another 350 as the package rate for one month and my question is the price really SO high? Or just a way to cheat the common man and get the money from the common man by means hook and crook?

For a year in Airtel I had to spend only 1580 MRF, where as for Medianet for an year I have to spend 4800 MRF which is actually 300% more, which means I can use that money to buy another 3 years subscription for my Airtel Package.

You talk about indecency on one hand when it hurts your business or your profit earning ratio, or else who cares. I would say… Ban broadcasting all channels as in sports they wear shorts and it is indecent, in movies they show intimate scenes and that is indecent, in dramas they show different religion – In English they keep saying ‘Oh jesus’ and ban news channel as they keep showing what pope or what hindu or buddist say – lets plug ourselves to one channel called TVM and just watch ‘Kudakudinge TV’ –

I would stop this by saying that “If you want to rectify don’t pluck the top branch, the root is still there and it’s been watered, the branch will grow again – so just cut the damn root and get it cleared out”.

This is link in haveeru – http://www.haveeru.com.mv/?page=details&id=85177

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I was arrested – I was jailed – I was on hunger strike

April 20, 2009 at 12:50 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: maldives, parlimentary elections, politics

“I was arrested – I was jailed – I was on hunger strike”

This statement is a very frequent statement that we are hearing in the past few days from our national TV “TVM” during the so called debate of the candidates for the upcoming parliamentary election. During the debate, majority of the seconds given to each candidate is used on throwing dirt on the other candidate. There was a time when I thought, are we contesting for a seat in the fish market or local market where one or the other is trying to sell their products by going to an extreme where by they don’t have a clue of what they are saying or doing.

When I see any candidate, be it from any party or any constituency – going through a speech during the campaign, they make sure that they could possibly talk less about what they have in them but rather abuse or criticize the other candidate and then pile up a whole lot of day dreaming and present it towards the general public of that particular constituency.

Moving back to a normal citizen life, when a citizen try to approach a interview and when he/she pass through the hardships, they have been asked to do a medical checkup and more importantly provide a police report – certifying them of been good and loyal citizens of the country without any offence in their past history.

Then come a situation whereby, if a citizen during his juvenile days if committed a crime and if that is in the police report – chances are high that he may loose the job irrespective of going through all the hardship of the interview process and medical checkup. Sometimes they are able to go through also after considerations but then also once you enter the premises of the jail, you have already got that big stain on your body which could not be washed off easily in our society.

Moving forward with the current situation, we see most of the parliamentary candidates promising, abusing and negotiating every other day. But then it is politics, I also understand that politics is known as the “dirtiest game” in the world after mud fight. But then again, it’s time that we don’t learn things from countries around our isles but we implement a few role models to other countries.

Normally a habit is that we always implement things that we see in other parts of the world and other societies and try to implement those activities directly into our society without doing any analysis or cross examination or alterations which is suitable to our society. But now it’s time that we shall not repeat the same mistakes all over again, its time that we not only observe what and how others are doing but bringing in our own culture into it and then try to adapt into our society.

From what I have observed, I see that most of the candidates are following the Indian ongoing election process and learning from there. But that’s the second largest populated country and our total population is just as small as one of those villages of that country.

When Varun Gandhi gave an anti-secular speech against Muslims favoring Hinduism, he was arrested and jailed. But then now when he is released he has come out more matured and with vengeance but not the guilty feeling that India is one of the most secular country and his remarks on the minority was a real drawback. Now BJP is using him as the tool for the election. But then again there is something else also we could learn from that country, When Mahatma Gandhi was fighting for India’s freedom he was arrested, he was abused and he was jailed several times but then again you won’t find him using that as the qualification for him to fight for a cause or a reason. Whereas he never mentioned about it and moved on with his own non-violence means of struggle to freedom and by the end he got freedom for India.

When we look into our society, we already have a messed up youth and young generation who have lost the trails or the paths of what is right and what is wrong. We already have a situation where we are not been able to control them and every other day we are able to hear some or the other stories.

“Few believe that it’s the influence and some says that its parenting and I believe its both”

Now in a situation where the normal citizen are tackling all this problems of getting too much exposure to the western culture or eastern or southern or even northern and the conflict of controlling the emotions is on high rise – comes this new high selling mechanism of the candidates “I was arrested – I was jailed – I was on hunger strike”

This statement by them had given me a feeling that well in this country, to be a politician and to contest for any seats – first thing I need to do is get jailed for some or the other reasons (political, drug, prostitution, terrorism, pedophile etc) and when I come out I would get my PG. politics (Prisoner of Graduation in Politics) and this would be first qualification. Followed by abusing all the other candidates, followed by the ultimate way of showing unrealistic & unreliable high dreams to the voter class of that particular constituency.

Why do we need this heads or Members of Parliament? To let the high authorities above them who are running the government turn the ship out of the whirlpool and to anchor it in safety? Or to cut the anchor and cheer the country ship into the whirlpool and then sinks our culture and society and makes profit out of it?

Some say that most of the candidates who have out rightly spoken about the getting imprisoned during their past history were to get the basic citizen rights be heard and change those prevailing situations to the present situation? I might agree with those few who really did get imprisoned for this but those others who were jailed for other purpose but now using it as a tool to campaign. What about them?

Anyhow – my ultimate concern in one sentence is:-

When candidates are speaking about been jailed or going to jail or been arrested and been manhandled by the police on national TV and other mass media or during rallies or speeches are giving a very wrong picture to the already messed up society where by youths are already loosing their rightful paths.

I just hope from the bottom of my heart that the present generation of our society doesn’t take this as a role model and think “ITS COOL TO GO TO JAIL” or commit a crime. Instead these candidates should be talking about what they can do realistically or what an MP means and what an MP can really do.

* I haven’t aimed at any particular candidate – it is in general context.

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Earth – A Gorgeous creation by Almighty

March 29, 2009 at 3:19 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: Earth, Earth Day, protection

Yesterday, we celebrated Earth Day – perhaps for the first time in our lives but it dwindled up and open many questions in my mind. It made me wonder how commercial we all have become, in order to create or pass such a message – Thousands of currency from different corners of the world was spend to save energy for just an hour.

Is this because we lack the information on climate change? Is it because we are not educated about the dreadful impact we are incurring on the mother nature and it’s resources? Is it because we are aware of all this? But then when I don’t have to think even for a millisecond and the answer are yes – we know all this but we have generated a habit of close your eyes to things that you don’t want to believe. This could be even clearly visible yesterday when few of those educated bunch actually went on to the streets with their vehicle and few of them even lighting up the whole house because they think it was a political move. They are educated but still they are uneducated about the ethics or the difference they could do.

I agree with this initiative but I believe it would have been more effective if this activity had a longer time period rather than just one hour of a 24hours of a day. Now I feel like this is also another day found out in the calender to sight out as a reason to celebrate and infact use as a commercial purpose. But here we are not talking about valentines, diwali, Halloween etc but here we are talking about the place were we celebrate all this. If Earth is not there then where would we celebrate all this? in space? under water?

“Protect Earth not for yourself but the generation that would follow us” -
It is not our duty but it is our responsibility,
It is not by saying but it is by doing and
it is not by wishing but it is by making a change.

I might be one individual but I know one Individual could make a difference and I would protect the Earth where I am living now so that the generation ahead won’t look at me and say “He is the culprit, if he had opened his eyes way too early then we could have changed this happening from where they have left but now they have left us no option and nowhere to live”.

Earth Day is not just one day out of the 365 +/- days in a year , it comes out through every day of every week of every month of every year and it is called the life span of every single being in this world.

Earth

Two people make a couple and three people make a group!

March 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm (Uncategorized)

One individual when joins another individual for a common cause it is termed as couple and when a third individual joins the same cause it is called a group and when a couple of individual join together they are known as a GANG.

Whether it is a Gang, a group, a couple or an individual still they all are human beings. The force lies within us and not with someone else but yes the courage or the power to overcome something is always gathered, pooled and directed into one target only after one of the individual takes the decision to do so.

Why I am talking all this? Some days back I read about the young guy who was stabbed, chased and who died on the Hospital theater room. The story of a guy been stabbed by the gang because the main individual who formed the group (gang) sister was continuously harassed by the victim (although a various version of the stories are running around the small country). When the gang attacked the victim and later he was chased and when he collapsed on the busy streets, it was said that nobody passing by or no onlookers dared to come and question or take this guy up but instead the attackers themselves came and put this guy onto a pickup and send him hospital. Is this because we are pretty much occupied with our works or is it that we don’t have the balls enough to face these guys?

Similarly I heard about another incident yesterday, where a group of kids attacked a person and beat him into pulp and still the guys in there evening best dress and on bikes didn’t even dare to get off and move them off and it seems that one of attackers were even saying “baaleh mulhi athuga ley”. The onlookers just watched the fun and didn’t do much to help or stop or intervene. The victim if survived wouldn’t be even complaining I guess nor I guess this was reported as I haven’t read about the incident anywhere.

But here I would like to ask, is the common man a larger group or a group of 10 individuals? If one stand would the others join? I seriously doubt that now in our society where we are so much scared of getting stabbed and killed or attacked. Sometimes later I thought that if I was in such a situation, I would atleast try my best to stop it, but now I feel that at the end I would be the only person standing against and I would be the second victim and killed in due course to let others open their eyes. Is this my belief or is this what the common man think and is this the reason why he/she doesn’t come forward?

Just give it a try – because always remember, if it is for the good cause the takers would be much more than for a bad work. If you stand against something anti social, then you are giving the confidence to the others. If you are joined by me and when we are joined by others, we are more powerful than them.

You might see a group hitting someone else, who might not be related to you of your any concern. But if you fight for that stranger, then you might never know when that stranger’s family person or relation stand in support of one of your family relation in a similar situation.

Help others to help yourselves and to make our country more peaceful. Guys out there, violence are not always the means, we can win a game with intelligence and we can win hearts only by rightful doing not by wrongful doings.

We a nation of just over 300,000 people, if we start killing each other or becoming enemies of our own. Then what would be the future of our country? We are not in a civil war nor we are thirsty of each others blood, we are country who loves each other. Let us be like that and let us live in those golden days of eternal brotherhood and sisterhood.

Violence have never been an answer for a problem, it has always shed thousand tears of thousand people just for the happiness of one person and that one persons happiness is short lived as he/he is either caught under the crime or is under the guilt.

I would end this with a note for thought which just came into my mind.

“If climate change is killing us gradually, then the civil unrest is killing us rapidly and both can be controlled only by us”.

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With the Last Rays

March 14, 2009 at 2:46 am (Uncategorized)

With the last rays, you always throw me into darkness

Sometimes I struggle hard to come back to life,

But every time I gather strength with a thought,

“I would see you again tomorrow early morning”

Like a fairy tale princess, you always show me –

A beautiful side of life and encourage me to live my life,

Then when I start to enjoy you after the passing morning to noon,

You drown yourself under the sea by letting off a fade light.

The vibrant colors of life can be felt when you bow down,

From yellow to orange to pink to red to violet,

Colors seems to be so full when you say “goodbye”

For the pleasing day with a nod of your head

The wait for you to show up next day,

Is eagerly anticipated with a rush of excitement,

To feel the blissful fall of those vibrant colors,

Turning my skin tones from yellow to orange to pink to red to violet,

How wonderful is to see your blissful blessing falling on to me,

Making the day fresh with the smell of sweetness and purity of light

I rejoice into a new a day with you,

With full of life and energy,

How I wish you could stay with me forever and ever,

With the last rays, you always throw me into darkness…….

This would be a feeling that one would go when he or she see their “love” on the day and have to part them after the night fall or even after day break. This would be a wait which they would be taking up in order to see a glimpse of each other the next day and this is what they mean when they say “ I Missed you dearly and heavily”

This is a Continuation of a previous half written words for a picture Goodbye Ma Lover!!!! taken of the same sunset on the same day at the same location..

Population Explosion!!

March 1, 2009 at 6:12 am (Uncategorized)

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This picture was taken in Noonu Atoll Manadhoo and this is how most of the roads in the highly populated islands of Maldives are like. Atleast in this island the population explosion have not reached a rate where you have to go out into the beach side from the sitting room of one house into the kitchen of another house and through the bathroom of another house and you wont even know where a house starts and where it ends if you are new to that islands.

What could be a possible solution? the promise the present government doing of putting up flats in small islands where a population of 400 person lives or would it be building infrastructure and housing facilities in some bigger islands and asking people to shift with incentives? Where do we stand? and where do we sit? in literal sense !!

I am not into politics nor I want to be in it, But my eyes are OPEN and so is my mouth

Should “Terrorism” be a new Religion? I shall PRAY

February 28, 2009 at 9:19 am (Uncategorized)

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Out of 100 people following a religion, if 25 people take the religion in a way in which they feel is the right way without respecting the views of the remaining 75 people or thinking what would even happen to them or how they would face the society -

Is it right to call the remaining people also extremists? is it also rightful to kill them just because the 25 people formed a version of the religion which they believe is right? Should the remaining people also suffer because of what the 1/4th of the group did? Should the remaining people also be sidelined because of what 1/4th of people did?

Should all of 100 people be called “TERRORISTS” Just because 25 persons did it?

Whether it’s Muslim, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists …. you name any religion, only 1/4th of the followers are mislead into violence and the rest follow the peaceful means of following a religion and thereby preaching it in the right manner.

My ultimate question would be “should “Terrorism” be a new religion?”

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Old mouse or New Mouse – its still a Rodent

October 28, 2008 at 11:41 pm (Uncategorized)

Finally the first democratic election of The Republic of Maldives is over with the announcement of the temporary or let’s says unofficial results, in which the ruling party got 45 % and the opposition got 55% of the total votes.

But what really amazed me the most during the whole episode from the preliminary campaign to the knock out stage to the final show down was that families parting ways and seeking hatred towards each other.

Father discarding the right of the son calling him “dad” because they both supported a different party,

A sweet loving couple getting divorced on the name of this,

A family separating its members on two halves supporting different parties,

Relatives stop going meeting and welcoming other relatives who supported another party?

A friend who played on the same sand for years and studied together and went for coffee together now hates the sight of each other?

Is this what we really wanted out of this so called “CHANGE”? Is this the CHANGE we were talking about? Is this what the Maldivian really wanted? Or should this whole process have gone in a better way? In the coming days we are going to see many shattered hearts and many shattered lives.

A logical man would have never brought politics into there personal life, but here the educational level is high but still the means of imparting the knowledge was not done properly nor bringing the reform was done properly.

Did any of the party try to mention this in any of there public appearance and shows and briefings saying that Politics should be different from personal life because,

When you are sick – you are not going to depend on any of these leaders as they would never remember you once they get the stardom. Ultimately it would be your family who is going to come to your aid at any time of the day to rescue you from any crises.

I personally believe that “whether an old mouse or a new rat comes into the seat, they still would be a rodent and eat whatever comes in there ways and when the greed rise beyond a level they would try to go into other holes and steal the cheese and you would be left alone to eat just your bread without any those sweet greasy thing applied on it”

Live the life the way you want it who ever or what ever is there – Live the life to the maximum but live life with love and peace and this can be attained only with your loved ones so keep them beside you and start to break that barriers which were created during this whole episode.

LETS MOVE ON!!!

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Chasing tomorrow!!

October 14, 2008 at 1:50 am (Uncategorized)

A friend of mine in her FB status said that “Irritated by like there is no tommorow”

While trying to reply something to her status what I really thought was – well she is right, there is NO tommorrow, its always a myth that has been created by human’s and tommorow infact never exsists.

This also made me really thing that infact when someone say “okay will give you or will do it tommorrow” infact they are lying because there is no tommorrow.

The funniest part is that everyday is a “today” and “tommorow” always run ahead of “today” and how much we try we can never catch it up unless and untill you can telepot yourself to just a day ahead and term yourself in future.

Now I have another reason to blame why I am so lazy because normally we say that “today is a boring day” or “today I am lazy” or “I am just sad today” as you can never say that “tommorrow you would be sad or bored or lazy” but the truth is that infact when you to the next day which was suppose to be tommorow – you are going to another “today” which in short is a brand new day which is a continuation of your today’s life into TODAY again (wat I am saying here – watever)…

The ultimate thing is that there is No such thing called Tommorrow and stop chasing it and start living in your today – this would make you feel much better…..

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