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Jesus!
There He is, stretched out on the cross! Wicked nails protruding from ripped hands and feet. Rough splinters from the wood of the cross rubbing against a back with no skin on it; removed by severe lashes Roman soldiers so freely had given him. His head dripping from the thorny crown that had been forcibly pushed down, nearly gorging out His eyes.
His eyes, open; Lifeless!
“Why did He have to die?” the crowds murmur, “We saw Him raise people from the dead!”
“Heal lepers!”
“Give sight to blind men!”
“Why did He have to die? He could have crushed the Romans with just a wave of His hand! Millions of angels would have come to His rescue! Why did He have to die?”
And the same question is asked to those who preach the Gospel of Jesus; why do you have to tell people of a man who died on the cross?
The absurdity of the crucifixion!
And those who preach about Jesus reply, “Why do you think God created us? Why did He create the first man and woman?”
And you shake your head because you’ve never thought of that. You don’t know.
“He created us for His own company! He wanted to walk and talk with us every day! He wanted to share our stories and even our jokes!”
“God?”
“Yes God! He created us so we could share a relationship with Him. And then He couldn’t anymore!”
“Why?” you ask.
“When you have a friend, don’t you want him or her to be like you? You wouldn’t have friends who are criminals or thieves, would you?”
“Never!” you say.
“And that is what separates us from a close relationship with Him! And even if we try our hardest, we can never get rid of our wicked ways, our thoughts or our deeds!”
“So that was the end of a great friendship?” you ask.
“Yes, but God missed us, even as we also missed God!”
“But there was no meeting point!” you whisper.
“Unless someone pure, someone without sin, took the punishment for all our wrong doings and wrong thoughts, and that is what He has done on the cross!”
You look at Him: Jesus!
Stretched out on the cross! Wicked nails protruding from His hands and feet. Rough splinters from the wood of the cross rubbing against a back with no skin on it; removed by severe lashes Roman soldiers so freely had given him. His head dripping from a thorny crown forcibly pushed down, nearly gorging out His eyes.
His eyes, open: Lifeless!
And suddenly you know why Jesus who raised Himself from the dead three days later, decided to die on the cross: You know that with His death, and with you accepting the fact He died for you, your punishment’s been taken care of!
So, now walk with Him! Talk with Him! Laugh with Him! And feel His hugs, and even as others practice social distancing during this coronavirus time, He won't!
That’s why today, Easter, is a good day: A Celebration of the return of our relationship to God!
Wouldn't you like it to be your celebration too?
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Some of the most remarkable stories from the Second World War, concern children during the wartime in England and what they learned from their parents!
How their parents handled fear, their tempers, their leadership qualities at the time of crisis like food rationing and bombing and their reactions on seeing friends and relatives falling victims.
Out of parents who displayed courage and yes, love, came strong, brave, good children!
Today, you and I have such an opportunity!
Use it well!
Children, quite often like animals, are intuitive, they smell fear, even as they sense positivity, what is the atmosphere that pervades your home? Is it fear? No doubt all and sundry are talking of coronavirus lurking just outside your door, but does your child look out fearfully thinking there’s a monster outside?
Or do you have enough of a stillness, not make-believe stillness, but real, to be able to bring into your home, a sense of peace?
If you aren’t doing that, start. Spend time together, reading passages from the scriptures which bring calm and quietness into the minds of family members, and the first shout of joy from a child or teen shows you are succeeding.
Kick fear out of the window!
It’s so easy today, to get lost in our WhatsApp chats even as close members of your family sit round you. What a waste of an opportunity, to bring everyone closer. Start a conversation, and please allow others to speak, you don’t have to be the speaker always, but move back into your favourite chair and listen. These are times when you could even encourage a shy member to speak out and then listen amazed as wisdom flows!
That family member, could walk out of this lockdown, a confident person!
As you are confined to very definite, closed areas, tempers may get frayed, and angry words may leap out, but watch out, because every bit of such behavior is under scrutiny! Bring control into your speech, gentleness into your demeanor and even in hurtful situations, react slowly!
These are only some of what you can practice doing at home, and I’m sure there are more, which I’ll put up later.
But remember, this is an opportunity, a window period where you are on display in a showcase, and how you behave, what you say, and your actions and reactions, will be stamped in the minds of your children always.
What is your child learning from you today?
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I’ve been seeing videos of policemen thrashing men and women venturing out of their homes during curfew, beating them mercilessly with their lathis, and under the forward of the video was a comment from the sender, “I support the police for this action!”
I wanted to send a rejoinder but decided I wouldn’t get into an argument with fear of the virus taking logic out of our minds.
And then I got this piece of news on TV, that 15,000 litres of milk and 10,000 kg of vegetables were dumped as police beat up e commerce vehicle drivers and cleaners who are delivering essential items like groceries, medicines, and food to cities. These men carrying supplies are facing attack from law enforcement officials!
Must have been a severe thrashing for commodities of this proportion to be dumped, right?
But, that is what happens when we give license to brutality. The lathi cannot differentiate between what is right and what isn’t.
The courts do, and whatever the situation, we have to allow the law to be enforced by the legal system. In Mumbai, breakers of the curfew and even some students playing cricket in a housing colony were arrested and taken to the police station.
They were not beaten up like criminals.
I remember the long trial of the terrorist Kasab. Like everyone else, I was sick and tired of the long wait to see the man hang. It was a lawyer who explained to me, that even the worst offender of the law, had to get a fair trial.
Like it or not, coronavirus or not, we are a democracy and have to follow the system, otherwise we will pay for it as the khaki clad guardians of the law get trigger happy and lathi charged, and take law into their own hands!
And it won’t end there.
It might end in your own backyard when you hear your son or husband, going out to get supplies or medicines was thrashed by the cops.
Yes, there is fear of the virus, and drastic steps have been taken on an unprecedented scale, but nowhere should we lose the rights and freedom which we have fought to get!
And if you don’t agree with me wait for the lathi to strike you from behind as you sit pillion on the back of your friend’s motorbike, when he inadvertently rode past a red light, and as you fall off writhing in pain you’ll know when it all started.
It started when you remained silent..!
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In the wake of Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) that has created havoc across, affecting millions of lives and world economies, the world today realises ‘Self Isolation’ is the only way to contain the deadly virus. The world never realized until now that this is exactly what the indigenous, un-contacted tribes have been doing since time immemorial.
The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are now in the global map of COVID-19 with ten positive cases confirmed and more expected. It all started with a group of people from the islands who had been to New Delhi for Tabligi Jamaat, only to return with the virus on the last day of flight operations, during the present Lockdown in India. The numbers are expected to increase though measures are in place to trace out people who might have come in contact with the already affected.
While the fear of death looms large over the population of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, it makes one wonder about the indigenous tribes of Andaman Islands who will be subjected to something deadly, without them being aware and for no fault of theirs?
When it comes to the indigenous tribes of Andaman Islands, the first that flashes in mind is the ‘Ang’ tribe popularly known as the Jarawa (a term in Great Andamanese language referring to an outsider). The Ang have been living in isolation in the tropical rain forests of Andaman Islands since 60,000 years along with the other tribes, the Sentinelese, the Onges and the Great Andamanese till the British made way, followed by the Indians. Their ancestors are thought to have been part of the first successful migration out of Africa.
The Ang resisted contact with the growing numbers of Indian settlers on their islands until 1998 but have been under serious threat from poachers who camp for days at a time in their forest, hunting the animals they depend on and bringing disease, violence and exploitation. As a result of contact with the outside world (the Indian Settlers), in 1999 and 2006, Ang suffered outbreaks of measles – a disease that has wiped out many tribes worldwide following contact with outsiders. Later they were subjected to Malaria, another disease that remained alien to them. ‘Fortunate’ were the Ang that the government that spread these diseases also had a solution, thus saving a human race from extinction.
It was just before the pandemic COVID-19 occurred, the world debated on isolating or mainstreaming of the Ang. The conservationists believed in the way of ‘self-isolation’ chosen by the tribe, while the development oriented focused upon mainstreaming them. Bridges and Jetties were constructed for the convenience of the debaters, without even trying to understand what and why the Ang chose to be the way they are. The Boxing Day of Tsunami of 2004 might have faded away from the minds of the debaters but if one turns back the pages, we would learn that while there were thousands of deaths, it was the Ang and their cousins who remained unaffected.
The Novel Corona Virus has not only closed these debates for the time being; it has also made the world realise on the need to sit back and think about the cost of development we pay now. The lockdown across the world has also shown us the real picture of Mother Nature, with wild animals reclaiming their land, which we had forgotten while in the race for reaching Mars.
The true guardians of nature have been the ones who have been living with it for thousands of years. They are none others than the indigenous people like the Ang, whose knowledge about nature cannot be ruled out.
COVID-19 is also one reason why we need to re-think, why the true guardians of nature need to be given a choice of their own which is ‘Self-Isolation’.
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Suddenly, fear has gripped the world. Not just a village or a township, not just a country, but six billion the world over are petrified. Every sneeze is looked with fear and every sniffle, suspicion.
Political leaders who sneered, jeered and hugged are now staying indoors and religious leaders now advocating caution, even with the very ingredients they used in their religious uplifting, like holy water and other supposedly miraculous mysteries!
How do you and I look upon the virus? It depends on how you and I look on death?
World famous author, and motivational coach Jeroninio Almeida, who co- authored Mann Ki Baat with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and with whom I’m co-authoring a few books, says ‘that to be reminded everyday of death prompts us to remember our mortality, and motivates us to produce the best every day!’
If I knew I was going to die today, everything I do today will automatically find purpose.
Which means the thought of the corona virus instead of causing us to continue in our own selfish paths could instead change our focus to becoming a better human being for the few hours, days or weeks we think we have left.
Instead of thinking this land called India belongs to just one group of people, we start realizing we may soon leave it in smoke from a crematorium chimney or become bones in a burial ground and might as well, share this temporary piece of earth with others who also consider themselves Indians.
Or maybe you need the virus to get even closer for that to happen?
The other thought that strikes me as the fear of corona looms over us, is, “Are YOU afraid to die?” and if so, “Why?”
If we have lived Godly lives, we should not be afraid, because the door that opens after death, is life with God.
Only, those who are not sure whether God will welcome them or not, are afraid. And maybe we have a little time before the virus hits us to remove that fear. We have time to do things God wants us to do. For starters, “Start loving your neighbour as yourself!” Even if that neighbour belongs to another faith!
Whichever faith you belong to, whichever god you worship, it is only a life of good that will take you fearlessly through the door of death.
So, instead of looking at the corona virus with fear and trepidation, look at it as an opportunity, telling us to quickly change our thinking, because my dear friend, if it’s not the virus, it could be sickness, an accident, or even old age, but ultimately YOU have to face death.
So live today like it is your last, and let our country become a better place, transformed by Corona!
If you can do that, you have beaten the Virus..!
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