What causes the Insomnia

Before going into that, let me finish my writings on my Wikipedian Experiences. There was a general attitude of distaste and concern that my ideas would get readers attention. This can be more understood as more attention on me. However, the straight fact is that they are imagining that I am like them. I am not like them in any sense. Neither intellectually, personality-wise, in financial acumen, profession, professional qualifications nor in moral standards. In many of the items mentioned, actually I would stand far below them. However, I have no position of competing with them. I do not compete with them nor would I compete with them. Even drinking I do not do with others, unless I feel quite at home with them. I rarely feel quite at home with many persons who are habitual drinkers. So, generally I end up not drinking. It does not mean that I am a better person than them. I do not have any such claims. However, I should state categorically that I am not like them, and they cannot measure my intentions through their own intentions.

If at all my writings were getting exposure through Wikipedia, it is only human knowledge that is being disseminated. May be not peer explored knowledge. But then these so-called peers especially from nations like India do not come up anywhere in innate knowledge. Actually, I have come across people in India who do not posses any qualifications, but have a treasury of celestial information right inside them.

So, I do not want to be peer tested or peer evaluated.

I am not forcing others to come and read my books. I am only informing them of a possible repository of un-discussed information. It is their prerogative to read or not. However, the loss of sleep that catches hold of the Indian constables on Wikipedia is not an altruistic attitude. It is rank blocking of information to others.

There are an immensity of information that is forcibly been inserted into the heads of people. For example, my own children who were quite busy with an immensity of work, training programmes and self-studies, and physical trainings were forcefully made to join low-class village schools where the teachers themselves were below many levels of intellectual standards. If my posting a link to my free writings, in my own Profile Pages on Wikipedia is a breach of Wikipedia security and an infringement of Wikipedia rules, well then what about this forced teaching that was imposed on my children. They lost many years of time and were made to observe and take part in low standard, personality depreciating training programmes? Well, I have not complaints in that regard. For, I deem it their fate. As to the Wikipedian Indian Page administrators’ habit of casting aspirations upon me, there also I have no means to defend myself. It doesn’t really matter. For, Wikipedia was not the place where I tried to post a link to my writings. My aim on Wikipedia was just to correct utter nonsensical information.

At Wikinews

I had quite another experience with WikiNews. Once I found a particular news about an incident in London. I wanted to input an information which emerged from my understandings on feudal languages, which I felt had some relevance there. However I found that I couldn’t log in with my own Wikipedia Username: VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS. So, I made another Username Ved Victoria Institutions. After posting there, I went to my own TalkPage and gave my profile information with links to my own Writings Pages. This I usually do on all website where I do postings, if I have time. Within one day, I saw a very funny comment from someone who claimed that he was deleting my TalkPages, for it amounted to advertising. {TalkPages are visited only by persons who take a particular interest in the contributor}. He made another comment about my books or writings as ‘Self Publishing’.

Well, giving a links to my writings does not seem to be advertising, but only giving vital route to more information. If that be the case, teaching me Physics and Chemistry compulsorily could be deemed as some type advertising of the peers in these subjects. For, it is simply given leadership to such peers. As to joker being allowed to make such cheap comments when I have written some words as advertising, instead of intellucutal inputs should be taken as an insult. However, ultimately these things should not matter. I am used to many other similar comments on Wikipedia, made by persons who find my route quite at variance with theirs: 

DIGRESSION

I find it funny that the Wikipedia page on Mother India by Katherine Mayo has been deleted. This book, which I have not read, has been acclaimed as a real portrayal of nationalistic India, which befools its own citizens.  A page on Katherine Mayo on Wikipedia describes her as notorious for writing this book, even though in my childhood this book was considered as a very ‘famous’ book. I wonder what level of rights has been given to Indian administrators on Wikipedia, in their endeavour to block all information of their misdeeds and looting of the nation. There is no difference between them and Gandhi who wrote thus about this book:

QUOTED from Wikipedia: This book is cleverly and powerfully written. The carefully chosen quotations give it the false appearance of a truthful book. But the impression it leaves on my mind, is that it is the report of a drain inspector sent out with the one purpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon, or to give a graphic description of the stench exuded by the opened drains. If Miss. Mayo had confessed that she had come to India merely to open out and examine the drains of India, there would perhaps be little to complain about her compilation. But she declared her abominable and patently wrong conclusion with a certain amount of triumph: 'the drains are India'.

An impassionate observer can sense the quality of Gandhi as he tries to define Katherine Mayo as a drain inspector.These types of usages are used in India to socially atrophy other persons whom one doesn’t like. The idea is to associate the other person with toilets. What Gandhi has strived to do is to bring in the nearest term possible to that of Toilet Cleaner, which is a term quite part of the local social mentality to those one views with contempt. Now, this emotion of Gandhi should be converted to any ‘Indian’ vernacular and see what would be the stature of Katherine Mayo in the hands of such persons as Gandhi. The She, Her, Hers etc. would literally go down to the sh*t level. Without understanding all these things about the innate disposition of Gandhi, one should not go around parroting his greatness. 

Where Wikipedia became a knave

It is here that I need to speak about a very terrible cheating done on British national heritage by some Wikipedia contributors. It is about the posting of photographic copies of paintings that are in the National Portrait Gallery, London on Wikipedia pages and giving them Public Domain status. It is a very powerful issue and the nonchalance of the US-based Wikipedia is quite evident. See these:

The legal point that I see is thus: Only the photographic copies of paintings that have lost their copyright have been thus used. So, naturally there is no copyright over these painting and anyone can use it. That much is allowable and no one can attack that claim.

However, there is the issue of where did one get the photographic images from? In this age of digital copying, there is only one way to encode a digital right over anything. That is to define a parameter of Rights of Use on the Users. For, copying can be done spontaneously with the least of labour and actually millions of copies can be made with the least of physical labour.

Many of the current day laws have to be adjusted and updated to correspond with this new age digital power. Laws should not be like the Acts Indian Parliament makes. The majority of the people in the Indian Parliament do not know much about anything. However, they are diligently making rules on issues wherein they are mere novices.

The photographic copies of the images in the National Portrait Gallery, London was kept in the web server of the Gallery. It can be accessed through the Internet. However, the persons who access these photographs are allowed access only through the acceptance of certain binding rights and limitations of usage. It does not include a right to post them elsewhere on the website for free download or viewing.

Actually every right that any person has on anything are connected to terms and conditions, which are generally in a written form. For instance, I have seen many people come to my house and ponder over old land documents, going through each and every word to find out how much right they have over, what part of a property. This document is not physically connected to the property in question. It is a piece of paper, which is in a land registry office. Similarly the items placed on the website of National Portrait Gallery is also having certain possession rights which are written in a separate area. It is by admitting to the powers of these encoded rights that modern civilised life can continue.

Now the issue can be properly understood from this allegory: One man has made a lot of photocopies of paintings. All of the paintings have lost their copyright status. He keeps the photocopies in his room. People can come and see them, study them and even make writings about them. However, they are not allowed to take them away. This rule is enforced through the help of proper security men posted all around the place.

However some group of people breach the security at night, when no security men are on prowl. They break open the door and scoot off with one set of photocopies. Now they are in possession of photocopies which have no legal copyright status. However, what about the illegal entry, breaking in and scooting off with that man’s property? This is the issue that I see with regard to the totally self-centred attitude of Wikipedia. It cannot take up others property and say that it is distributing it to the poor. Moreover, in reality, the users of Wikipedia are not the ‘poor’ in any sense of that word.

In reality, I find that America is going on a route of becoming a nation with lesser and lesser links to the quality of its Founding Fathers. The Constitution of US written by the Founding Fathers were fit for people who came from an English nation. However, imagine it being made the Constitution of India. Will it suit or be able to survive the frill requirements of Indian Culture?

Now, this context brings me to two different themes for discussion. One is about the so-called Greatness of America. The second is What is Indian Culture?