Mr.Barack Obama, your recent visit to India proved that you are just another business man

While in USA, I visited Atlantic City, famous for Casinos and night life and parties, along with my friends.  Our actual plan was to return from there at 11 pm but once reached there, my friends changed their mind, and we were there till 1.30 am next day. If I had not taken a stern stand, they would have ended up spending the whole night there.  Unfortunately, they all had stopped talking to me thereafter because they felt I am a country fellow not worthy enough to make friendship. New generation is great but still a notice can be seen pasted on the wall just above gent's urinals like 'Don't spit chewing gum in the urinals' even in big IT companies where these new generation techies are working. Indians, whether old or young, lack self discipline. They spit and piss in public places and then shout against the systems for not cleaning it!

Sorry, I diverted a bit from the actual topic. My friends cannot be blamed because the atmosphere there was such that even those who are not interested in night parties and Casinos will be tempted to spend maximum time there, Atlantic City is one of the best places on earth for that. My friends were all young and getting tempted by all these is very natural and therefore, understandable.

We reached there at around 3 pm and spent some time on the bank of Atlantic Ocean. There were many out there on the beach. Then for a couple of hours, we roamed around the city from one end to the other. There the life actually starts after sunset and it continues till dawn. There was festive mood everywhere and streets were crowded with men and women most of them wearing sexy fashionable dresses (that was from my point of view but for them, it was their normal dress!).

Atlantic City

After light dinner, we proceeded to our next destination, a Casino. We had a very memorable experience when we entered the casino.

A beautiful young woman, who was drunk, embraced all of us. She was brimming with joy because she had earned few bucks from gambling. There were a gang with her and all were drunk. They were not exception. Almost everyone there were drunk. They were there for that only!

Inside that Casino, I saw all kinds of gambling. Few friends started gambling. Two of them lost $50 each within no time and they stopped. Third one played for almost 2 hours and he gained $15 and he was, like that young lady who had embraced us, brimming with joy. But that happiness was momentary but the loss of two others were not and therefore, their despair was clearly visible on their face rest of our journey. That is all about Casino!

While my friend was doing gambling, one young lady who was ninety nine per cent naked started singing and many gathered around her. They were all more interested in her hot curvy body.

It was almost midnight then and I reminded others about it. They had no plan to listen to me but I was adamant on our return soon.

A Casino in Atlantic City

As we spent more time than expected in Casino, we could not experience the taste of night club party and the hot strip dance (striptease) that lasts till dawn there. Moreover, it was very expensive and again, drinking alcohol was mandatory to spend time there. In fact, that was their actual business because the price of even beer was very high, in some places two three times more than its actual price.

Night life in Atlantic City: Life and even night is beautiful here

That is a different world altogether. But I have a problem even while spending and enjoying time in places like that, some other pictures like the one below come into my mind without my permission. And when I compare these two extreme happenings on the same planet, earth, I feel like all those who are living such luxurious life in the so-called western countries are terrorists because their life style kills millions of children even before they could see this beautiful planet every year. Frankly speaking, I don't see any difference between what ISIS and these irresponsible westerners are doing.

But outwardly, we become upset when we see the brutal killings by ISIS because what they are doing is clearly visible before our eyes like chopping of head, stoning to death, burning alive etc but unfortunately, we don't mind or simply ignore the death of millions of children and infants every year due to poverty and malnutrition mainly due to unequal wealth distribution, we are the culprits and therefore, responsible, because their death bring no threat in our life and moreover, it never gets the much needed media attention. Most of the time, we come to know about it through a UN Report on it or a small news item somewhere in the last page of the news paper.

Isn't this silence deliberate? I strongly feel so. They are left dying unattended by you all so that you can continue with your luxurious life. It has nothing to do with that natural theory of survival of the fittest because what will remain in the end is you and you are not the fittest because your lifestyle has made you the most vulnerable creatures on earth who has to depended on everything every time for survival. What is shocking is the fact that you are not worried about even your own coming generations and consume their share of wealth for your luxury and therefore, they will be the worst hit when they visit this planet.

A scene from Kerala, India: Life is not beautiful to many.

I am writing this blog not to narrate our trip to Atlantic City but to tell certain things to Barack Obama. Before leaving India after his visit to attend Republic Day parade as Chief Guest, he argued that India had an obligation to curb greenhouse gases despite its economic challenges.

I have no doubt about it. I would like to expand its horizon by saying that if these so-called developed and developing countries continue their irresponsible and insensitive stand on the threat of climate change, global warming and other such natural calamities (due to human activities) and prefer agree to disagree on these issues like the one happened in Copenhagen Summit in 2009, it is better if we extinct so that the rest of the living beings as well as those unknown tribes who are still leading a natural way of life in places like Amazon forest may survive longer.

However, Obama has no right to tell countries like India, where millions of people are living under poverty line, about their obligation. Before doing that, he has to look within his own country and the life style of those who live there. Atlantic city is not an exception. You can see such irresponsible life almost everywhere in the USA. I had seen it in New York, the heart of the USA, and New Jersey, the two places I had visited during my visit.

I am not saying that you should not enjoy life. I say you must enjoy it especially because unlike what you all believe, I am sure that there is no life after death and therefore, we all must enjoy life to the fullest before we die. But why should you all spend the whole night in strip clubs and casinos which is in fact will gradually create problems on your body and health? I say you spend three or four hours there and then go home and sleep well. By doing so, you are giving adequate rest to your body and mind and then you will save some bucks. That saving is enough to feed those hapless children die due to poverty and malnutrition elsewhere on this planet.

There are two important points I would like to remind you all here. First one is, what I said just now that you should do is not a favor from your side but it is a fundamental right of each and every child irrespective of their nationality or race. If you are not giving to them their dues, that itself is enough to label you as terrorists. First mend your ways and then teach other countries about their obligations.

Before telling the second point, I would like to tell you that some of your statements after sworn in as the President were simply superb and those comments were proof of your in-depth understanding of democracy and its principles. Let me tell you a couple of such statements. One you said while addressing the nation after becoming the President first time and that was an assurance to Republicans.  That statement was somewhat like this, "Though you voted against me, I am your President too and therefore, I will work for you too...." This has paramount importance in Democracy. Unfortunately, Indian leaders don't know about this all important democratic principle and therefore, here in India, there is no Indian Prime Minister but BJP Prime Minister or Congress Prime Minister!

Second statement is the one you said very recently. When someone told you that it is your last term and therefore, you have no chance to contest election, your response was somewhat like this, "I know. I have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I have had since the day I swore and oath on the steps of this Capitol - to do what I believe is best for America." It shows that your agenda is not your welfare but the welfare of the people. It must be like this and I appreciate you for doing so. Again in India, leaders are doing anything keeping the next election in mind. They do nothing for the welfare of the people but for their own welfare!

But though you were talking every now and then about change, your vision was narrow in that respect because your vision had borders and therefore, you could bring changes only in the USA. I emphatically say that when we talk about democracy, we must expand its horizon, I mean a kind of global democracy where all those who lead an honest life will have a chance to enjoy life. That is because we are neither superior nor inferior to others and that is my second point.

You know Obama, though it was you who were talking about change every now and then, it is Bill Gates who is doing his best to bring the actual change and he was successful in bringing smiles on more faces. On the other hand, you came to India and met Prime Minister, who is not as good as people think (I am not saying this based on what happened in Gujarat but based on his and his party BJP's use of religion to obtain power which will create havoc in this country) who is pro-rich and all the business tycoons here, that too twice. Don't you see your actions contradicting your big fat statements, you just another business man? 

I would like to end this blog by reminding all Americans, Europeans and those rich elite class who are leading a luxurious and irresponsible life while millions of hapless children and infants die elsewhere on this planet that you are all not superior to those who die due to your lifestyle and those who are yet to come that is the coming generations. Yes, we can, Obama but for bringing that change we must introspect first which will help us to have an all inclusive global vision. Yes, we can, I am optimistic.


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http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/i-have-that-dream.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/a-pathfinder-to-world-of-peace-and.html