Britain's Karma. India's Karma
Karma
is the key concept in
Hinduism and Buddhism
where it is linked to the cycle of rebirth
and the ethical dimension of our actions
The Law of Karma explains that for every action taken determines the consequence, reflecting the cycle of past deeds until the goal of rebirth is achieved. The implication is usually attached to a negative impact caused by an equally destructive behavior. The teaching of karma is to improve humanity, and with good behavior, increases better karmic balance.
The possibility of the karmic cycle of white supremacy, over several centuries in suffocating and oppressing people of color, from slave trading, tyrannizing to colonizing, believing in their superiority solely to benefit trade; the God of balance will turn around and point its scepter right back at the perpetrator. The Age of Aquarius recycles the Law of karma and prepares the world for the consequence of past deeds.
So, let’s pick the British Empire and it’s colonization. To compact history down to just three pages, with the intent of not boring the reader, it will begin with controversy. The Royal Charter granting monopoly to run trade by the East India Company on British Indian opium, seized an offshore base in Hongkong to safeguard its profitable monopoly in narcotics to ferry opium into China.
Karma revisits: Heroin now retraces its steps to seaside towns from Blackpool all the way south to Bournemouth. Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth labelled the “heroin capital of England” in recent years, despite being only a stone’s throw away from one of the most expensive stretches of coastal real estate in the world.
“The Mountbatten Plan” drawn between Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India and Mohamed Ali Jinnah in 1947, divided the subcontinent of India, we know now as Pakistan. Mountbatten was King Charles III favorite uncle and mentor, whose own Karma got him bomb-blasted on the Irish sea in 1979 by the IRA.
Half a century and a couple of generations later, the incompetence of Liz Truss’s brief time in 10 Downing Street got her economic policy wrong largely down to a fundamental misunderstanding about how markets work, and how fragile Britain’s economy was at that time. It gave way to the rising power of Karma from colonial times, making it abundantly clear the cycle of re-birth has just begun.
Karmic reflects to past deeds for Rishi Sunak to rise, to restructure and bring back economic stabilization. In the United Kingdom we now have the first British Asian Prime Minister Mr. Rishi Sunak, 43 a Punjabi Hindu descent, his parents immigrated from East Africa to Britain in the 1960’s. He studied PPE from Oxford, earned an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. Started his business career with Goldman Sachs having joined the Conservative Party earlier on.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted that he is the right person for the UK’s top job, especially at a time of rapid technological change and tough economic challengers in an interview with ‘The Times’. He noted: “You can start to see now that there is a prospect of wage growing faster than inflation going forward. I’m really proud of our country and what makes us special. I’m really optimistic about the future.” The general election expected around mid-2024, the Conservative Party government under his leadership is now pitching its tent to start wooing the electorate.
It's a long road between the two nations, Pakistan to Scotland, but the distance was shortened by Scottish nationalist that picked Humza Yousaf , a 37-year- old Punjabi descent, born in Scotland of Pakistani immigrants as Scotland’s Nationalist Party's First Minister. Studied Politics from the University of Glasgow and joined as parliament assistant to Bashir Ahmad, the first Muslim elected to the Scottish Parliament. His function as the First Minister includes promoting and representing Scotland in an official capacity at home and abroad.
In the city of Big Ben, there’s the Mayor of London, Sadiq Aman Khan, 53 yrs, a Sunai Muslim, the eldest of the three mentioned, was born in Tooting from Pakistan immigrant parents. From humble beginnings, his gratitude at having the chance to live in the UK, continues to send money back to relatives in Pakistan. Tooting, a district in South London in 1970, prevalent with racism he and his brothers learnt to protect themselves, and took up boxing at a nearby Boxing Club. Khan joined the Labour Party, a balance to Sunak’s Conservativism, and is considered a social democrat, earned his law degree at the University of North London. A solicitor on Human Rights issues, Khan also became a Councilor for the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Over the pond, heading towards the symbol of Freedom of the Statue of Liberty, preparation is underway for a new and difficult election challenge. Trump’s selection of sexual offences, against contender Nikki Haley, the youngest Governor of South Carolina. Of Indian descent. Nimarata Nikki Randawa'a parents are from Punjab, her father received a scholarship to the University of British Columbia in Canada and subsequently immigrated to South Carolina.
America’s population is experiencing demographics of economic and social changes called the Historical Reversal, where the ageing 65 yrs old and above outnumber children under the age of 15.
And if by a twist of luck, fate, or karmic leveler, as a cushion to Haley's loss, the world’s most powerful leader could be Vivek Ramaswamy, the young and capable 38 yrs old Republican Party candidate for the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election. A Hindu, born in Cincinnati Ohio, his parents immigrated from Kerala, Southern India. His credentials outshine many previous Presidents. A Harvard College graduate Summa Cum Laude, and a fellow member of the Phi Beta Kappa. His entrepreneurship in biotech is phenomenally successful and rumored to have a net worth of US$500 million. He made it into Forbes list of America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40.
With Congress back-up of three ethnic Indian descent Hindus; Shri Thanadar (D) Bobby Jiwal and (R) Pramila Jayapal (D): this could revolutionize humanity to a better existence or fail abysmally to ruin.
After all we are all made of the same cloth, greediness mixed with benevolence, killers mixed with healers. All worshipping the same Almighty but designing them to fit each of their needs.
Picture the White House lawn
with two of the most powerful leaders on the podium
US President Vivek Ramswamy and UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak
addressing the issues of the world.
All at once the shudder of anxiety, undeniable goosebumps kept hidden for the ethical dimensions of previous generation’s conduct is about to surface.