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Reversed Sensibilities
It is surprising their own people , while sitting on hot chairs of authority and power become so insensitive towards other human-beings. The human drama going on at Campa Cola premises in Bombay, is a glaring example of this human insensitiveness towards basic human sensibilities and life essentials.
How and why these people have been sitting silent and blunt towards enforcement of normal law of the land, in respect of that building till now? Who allowed that to be built? Who were the builders? And most importantly, who later on since then , have been sitting with inverted vigilence, on these violations of the building rules and any other law implied in house-building ? Why not book them all and punish them, for the fraud they have perpetuated on the unsuspecting common man, who craves for a shelter, which he can call his own in a city like Bombay?
Why not arrest them all and the builder and confiscate their property,to punish them properly and directly as per the law. But what makes the law enforcement authorities decide to demolish the building which is the result of their fellow public servants, who cheated everybody including themselves and the helpless residents who staked their hard-earned money in aquiring a modest living facility in the city? Why rob them of that? Why not demolish their residences as a retaliation?
Another argument, Many illegitimate children are born and the our laws punish the offenders, when they are caught. But the law there does not order killing of the children, like demolishing the building. My argument may sound raw and uncommon, but it is very logical in comparison.
The demolition order is against the human-rights conscience and the raw logic of life over death. Where are those activists by the way? Perhaps there is no glamour here.
Then why demolish the building, illegally made and deprive the helpless residents , women ,the children the aged and the ailing, of their ‘Ashiyana’?
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American Diplomacy
America has perhaps the smartest brain or say has a very shrewed thinktank. Infact without being the strongest economy in the world, with the fate of dollor fluctuating at unkempt speed and its valadity after the Petro-Dollar scam, might have become questionable, but the trouble-shooters of America have been able to smuggle out of the dark period and establish its credibility once again.
It is strange that still America rules the economy of the world, whether by the force of the dollar itself or by the way it handles the dollor, so that dollar still commands the uniqe position in determining exchange rates for world currencies. No country has been able to smmugle out of its influence and the hedgemony continues. its supermacy does not end there , its diplomacy too is amaging. The Euro-states are practically its followers. At any given point they seem to be falling in a line behind America with a chorous, though they continue their efforts to increase their own spheres of power, not only in politics but also in economy.
America at the same time has the crudest mind as well. It plays its political chess like a wizard by keeping all other countries at check-mate , for one reason or the other. Now take the example of Asia – China, India, Pak., Afghanistan etc. it has been playing its political cards so dexterously that everybody fails to grab America’s real intentions behind its moves. Its involvement militarily and financially in Afghanistan has been well to contain Russia at first and after having practically completed that objective, and later creating a geo-political condition involving all concerned nations it is now managing its withdrawal from the region. But not without letting lose a pandora’s box spitting out one political paradox after the other and has very successfully engaged and inetrengaged the cluster countries in a vortex of complex political uncertainties, yes, a very fluid and politically very volatile state.
In fact America is selfish to the extreme. It never keeps the interest of any other countries in mind while ensuring its own ambitions and objectives but interestingly enough all the concerned nations are made to feel comfortable with a feeling that their interests would be safe. With its direct involvement in Af.-Pak. Affairs, it is not the question that it is friendly either with Pakistan or Afghanistan. Certainly not, but yes, Pakistan is very valuable for America on its political chess-board and the hand it is playing at any given time. But of coarse it successfully manages, giving out an impression that it is helping Pakistan in all manners by dumping huge amounts of dollors in its economy and arms and ammunition in their latest versions.. It thus puts Pakistan in a state of perpetual indebtedness and as a result fully dependent on America. America knows that the type of armament it is supplying Pakistan is not necessarily meant for fighting out the terrorists, but it seems to give Pakistan ample relief in its belief that it is militarily becoming equally powerful against India, its presumed arch enemy. America keeps on smiling while India keeps on complaining and to assuage its feelings, offers India yet another pakage of more powerful armament. Thus killing two birds at a time, selling its highly costly warfare and pitching both recepient countries perpetually against each other and asking for more. The hidden agenda is that America does not want India to constantly keep on developing so that at any time in future it may not be in a position to rub shoulders with America, hence it should be kept at a check-mate position at all times. Pakistan ,of coarse has no identity of itself as a powerful nation of the world. It is only a stooge of America and the US wants to keep it in that place always so that it serves again two purposes, fighting America’s war with the terrorists and as a constant nuisance state for India. It is also aimed at keeping Chinese influence contained. Thus Pakistan is fighting America’s war against the terrorists by consuming its own forces and resources without America sacrifycing its own soldiers leading gradually to its own destruction by itself. .America has not an iota of love-lost for any of the three states for him. Shrewed intenational diplomacy warrants keeping all these states in good humour, but at the same time its efforts are always meant to either harass or annoy them to an extent that they cannot have either very good relations or very bad ones. Its always walking a tight rope for them and wasting their time, money and power in containing one another among themselves, so that the scales always keep coming down, then rise and then dip and again rise and dip. A constant relationship never develops, it is ensured. Mutual distrust is injected periodically through diplomatic misbehaviour, to keep the uncertainty permanent.and it serves America’s interest exquisitely. The two Asian giants simply keep on struggling and can never become a cause of concern for America. India’s or Pak.’s good is never on the cards. It is always a mock drill of pleasant bonhomie which is only an arm of a complex agenda.
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Rahul Enigma
Congress suffers from a compulsion of putting all its stakes on the Gandhi family, as a catalyst for defusing all internal equations whether right or wrong and for uniting all major power centres, deflecting forces, clashing personalities and bringing them together under one banner, the only banner provided by the Gandhi family. Congress has many veteran leaders with a rich load of experience and expertise but they don’t respect one another and they don’t trust one another. Hence the need for a permanent binding and guiding force. That force is Gandhi family from the beginning and perhaps it would last till the end. Precisely for this reason Rahul is all important and he has to be cajoled, groomed and hijacked as the only competent leader to lead this illustrious political party and hence become the Prime Minister.
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Business Essentials
360* feed back, zero percent attrition, prioritised excellence and as a prize tons of stress, this is the modern concept of running a business. This undefined, unparalled and unachievable business paradigm, - Certain net-savvy and idiomatic culture concious vocabulary, too has come in place, in defining business goals and the techie- path to be followed to achieve those goals. The net result is that neither the management is definite about its needs, nor the professionals are very sure of the route to achieve that. And pathetically the poor employee is at the receiving end ,for no fault on his part, of the ever changing work culture , as they happen to call it – the innovations.
Now alongside there is another growing class of business psychologists, analysts and the thinktanks that constantly keep on churning out newer phraseology and stratagies for the still newer goals, while the older ones keep on scraping and developing. This tells very heavily on the practically lost, if not actually cofused,employee and he suffers with this new management desease, the ‘stress’ and to cure them, different levels of tolerance and stress quotients are being determined.
There are companies which press for zero percent attrition, a state of presumed efficiency which is immpossible to achieve with human fodder, which itself is always liable to attrition, for it is made of flesh and blood. The modern gadget – the computer – also gets its attrition stage at one point or the other. So the only alternative is to keep on renewing this.
Well , its true that with a good work culture with a good employer, the efficiency levels improve and tend to be constant as the employees get to work in an atmosphere where they tend to merge their life and work. Life means work and work means life. But still renovation is needed at some point to avoid stagnation, which can prove to be a curse for the health of the group.
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Constitution Must Prevail
Digvijay Singh this time certainly needs a few words of praise for his bold stand against the system of two power centres, operating in the government, saying the system has failed. Even if the statement is taken to be his personal opinion, the fact remains that it has come from a veteran congress leader which displays a ripple of discontent, vibrating the congress thinktank, may be in hushed tones. Otherwise also how can we think of having an unelected person holding absolute power and guiding the nation, obviously in the name of the Prime Minister, from behind the curtains, without having any responsibility either towards the people or the constitution of India. In a democracy only an elected representative of the people has a right to lead the government for he is answerable to the electorate. And lastly when two persons have to decide upon any given point, conflict of ideas can always be expected. In that case whose views should prevail, that of the elected represetative of the people or an extra-constitutional authority from behind the scene, with no constitutional sanction and no responsibility towards the people and the country?
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Wake Up Fellows !
Time has come when India i.e. Bharat, Bharatvarsh, Aryavart or whatever name this great country , the ‘Sone ki Chidiya’ hamara Mahan Bharat, should open its eves from self-satisfaction, self-praise and self worship and start looking at the stark realities of today’s India which defy all these adjectives and many more nomenclatures and should sit down to meditate on the countless ills and self defeating satisfaction under which illusion its Jakels and Hydes are assuring successfully its millions that they are the real savoiours of this country which is sitting on a disaster.
We are in fact living in sleeze. The country’s environment is squalid. You cannot imagine a department or a babu who is not a life partener in this game , where you don’t have to invest anything but which starts giving you your share the moment you join the league. It is full of mire, filth with a very thin protective layer. If you happen to put your finger in the pie, it goes straight into the foul smelling excreta like atmosphere, and you feel the stench. By eating state and adulterated food the nation has become used to this foul stench of corruption. We have forgotton fresh clean food and fresh air to breathe in.
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Television Its Use and Misuse
Television is a source of enjoyment of millions across the country. Most housewives watch their favorite serials – hundreds of which are being telecast everyday 24x7. In fact TV channels have become big corporate business and the channel owners are minting money day and night--- 24x7.
Now the use of TV time is, in some way or the other, controlled by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and it seems to be protecting the interests of the viewers, but in fact TRAI, like any other government agency or department dealing with the public, have been found hand and glove with the agencies and or business houses, involved in this business with a vast potential, and seems to be engaged in practices which certainly do not speak well of public concerns and the interests of the viewers. TRAI is supposed to and seems to be controlling the use of time and space by TV channels, to regulate the use of time in a way that public interests are safeguarded. But the prevailing conditions speak otherwise.
It is good TRAI has, after all, realized about the blatant misuse of a mass-media, like television, by the channel owners. But I wonder who has been till now, controlling this thing? Why the channels have been allowed so long to play with the peoples’ interest. Why they have been, till now, being allowed to grossly misuse the telecast time practically against public interest? Why they have been given a free hand, for taking the people for a ride? Public interest demands that the channels are made to show serials, to the millions of viewers in a right perspective of the interest of the viewers, who are paying through their nose ,to watch the serials and certainly not to be compelled to watch those absurd ads for 50% of the episode time. Ads should be allowed to enjoy a fraction of the ½ an hour time allotted to the episode. After all, even those paid channels are telecasting innumerable money churning programmes and on the free news channels, 20 out of 24 hrs are being used for frivolous programmes and advertisements alone. Then why can’t the TRAI force the channels to show the serials in the right spirit of public entertainment, with a single break of three minutes in between? They are after all free to use the rest of the telecast time the way they like.
Now, The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has expressed deep shock and concern on the telecom regulator, TRAI’s latest order which mandates broadcasters to restrict the duration of advertisements ,in their channels to a maximum of 12 minutes in any given clock hour. They say, they are appalled by the way, TRAI has issued the most sweeping and intrusive controls, not just regulations. They feel, that if implemented, the regulations, will force many news organizations to shut down. Now the most interesting observation they (the NBA), have made when they say ‘that the order would take away their Democratic Right to inform and Educate and to do it independent of the government. The claim of the newscasters, that showing silly and many a times obscene and unwanted advertisements is their democratic right to inform and educate. What a cheek and what a claim? In fact these channels have become practically advertisement tools for big business houses and corporate at the cost of the viewer, who watches them helplessly for almost more than half the time of any given news bulletin. They have added that with the general elections looming, it would appear, that this is an attempt to muzzle the media by taking away its ability to operate independently. This is an attempt to draw public sympathy on their part only.
Here it is to be clearly understood by all concerned that media has certain well defined public objectives above their unlimited business interests. They have an obligation towards public too. They are not running a grocery shop
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Better Late Than Never
‘Who Coined the Terms VIP, VVIP’ asks the Supreme Court.’
My blog lines on these vulgar tones resounding the corridors of power and being traded shamelessly among our own representatives, were practically ready when to my surprise and pleasure, this news item with the above caption appeared in Times of India. I am happy that the apex court of the country has, after a long silence over this very anti-democratic and vulgar use and mis-use of this status symbol by our own power hungry and crazy for undeserved status leaders has taken this welcome step.
The court has asked the centre about the genesis of the terms VIP and VVIP in official circles and wanted to know the necessity of these in a democratic country like India, “We would like to be enlightened about the origin of VIP and VVIP and its place in our democratic polity?”
Further more importantly the court was intrigued by the commonly employed classification of public fuctionaries (I would like to call them more appropriately, public servants) in these catagories meant to connote very important and very very important for deciding the level of security cover and the court has asked amicus curiae Harish Salve and additional solicitor general Siddhart Luthra to inform the rationale behind it.”
Now this is a real serious matter which has been forced upon the people of a free country, who everyday watch with helplessness the over-powering misuse of this status symbol by their so-called representatives, who have become their masters, masquerading in a very offending manner to their daily discomfort and inconvenience, may be at times being responsible for the death of certain critical patient. So much so that lately one after the other they have started asking for this status symbol as a matter of right, in the name of security which they neither deserve nor rquire..
Let us hope the apex court won’t stop at that and go into this unholy and anti-democratic and anti people practice and take appropriate action to uphold the spirit of democracy and equal status and rights of its citizen as per our constitution and scale down this practice of squandering public money for political showmanship and not allow the common man to be left out on the streets unprotected to his fate.
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Of Governments and the People
Modi’s statement about governance and public relations appear a simple statement but if we really care to read between the lines and try to evince the message it tries to convey and try to define and may be redfine governance, we can certainly turn the shade of the events and eventual conclusions and contradictions. It is not a new definition of anything as it is being made out to be. It is only an assertion of of a reality, which perhaps is not being allowed to surface. For long politicians have taken to themselves to define priorities in public life and the means to achieve them or address to them seriously on the platform of governance. If we just stop for a moment and read the word -governance- we would find a world of public concerns and priorities woven around it. But have the successive governments of the country, over the last six decades, able to convince themselves to devise and decide the main parameters of governance accordingly? Till now it has been defined and used by the governing parties according to their political priorities and assumed exegencies of time.only. They define the matrix of good governance as the end result of how to ensure being in power by masterful manuvouring by artful craft of politics, of the peoples needs by extra efficient means, whether ethically, socially and or morally questionable. But if they feel they are politically viable in producing the desired results by ensuring the electoral gains, they are good and acceptable and therefore should be acceptable to all.
This compulsion of ensuring their staying in power and guiding the nation or rather driving the nation as per their skewed norms of a good governance, is unwittingly pushing the political parties in a certain mode of defining public priorities under that norm which necessarily does not reflect factual needs and priorities of the people at any given point of time. Now certain priorities and public concerns are based on the immediate needs of the prople, but the difficulty arises when these needs are dipped in political potions and are used in a questionable way. It is there that the definition of governance goes haywire and public concerns get lost or get driven to the margins. Waving of farmers’loans and the recent indecent show of generousity by UP government by distributing laptops are examples in sight.
There are countries in the world just the size of one of our states or a province, but they have developed themselves in a way that they have outclassed us and left us behind, way back in their race for development and as a result, we are compelled to produce the inventory of our needs to them for procurement. It has been possible for them because they have dedicated people who work day and night to do what they want to do for their country because - the country comes first- for them, while we keep on engaging ourselves in the number of frauds and pay-backs practically in all our major defence procurements. And because of the latest such disclosure and the country has been made to feel ashamed that after all, our able defence minister has after all suggested that we go in for Indianisation of our defence production. It is possible in this nation for we are an exceptionally big country, with exceptionally large number of talented people, but unfortunately for our people they come first and not the country. This is a fact of our national life and this the reason India is knocking at the doors of small nations of the world for meeting its needs, which the country has failed to achieve and provide because of the great divide and culture of greed and self glorification against the broader good of the country and its people.
Honesty, austerity and integrity are now only public subjects. They have been removed from the manual of politics, which keep on being redefined as per available opportunities in political life. And politicians make their own laws. Laws of the land are meant for lesser human beings, that is public, and not for the political manipulators and trend setters which have become going norms for them which they keep on improving for personal and political exegencies and eventualities, mostly engineered by them. Each generation of politicians re-defines its code of conduct and public behavior, as per the changed requirements. After all inclusive development is the key-note of political science.
Further in the name of secularism, we are, instead of respeting people of all religions and welcoming them, as citizens of a free country, we simply use them as agents of political ambitions by dividing the society and breaking its national character. This is what political parties mainly the Congress, has been doing. This slogan of secularism only applies to Muslim population of the country because they are important for deciding the fate of many political parties, otherwise there are many other religious groups in the country, but they are not impotant hence neglected or overlooked. Vote banks of religious groups are harnessed to political ploughs and are used to sow seeds of dissensions and diversity. Unity in diversity or the word unity has been erased leaving the diversity to be exploited politically, and there is a constant effort to unite politically only.
And after all what this political mantra, rather than a social outreach, and a jargon for election platforms, has ultimately given the country or precisely the Muslim community. It has in fact not given anything to anybody accept perhaps the congress party which has over the decades been able to carve out a totally different place for Muslims in the mainstream society of the country by establishing a clear divide in the society which they wanted. Muslims have not been allowed to become normal citizens of the country by giving them a different nomenclature ‘Minority’, though nobody has ever tried to explain to the nation what minority means? But there has been a well calibrated effort to divide the nation on the platform of Secularism, which is very wrongly promoted as a mantra of social reach for integration.of the society. Muslims have been given a separate identity only, unfortunately for the country and specially, for the Muslims themselves, they have agreed to that segregation. They have failed to present themselves as any other normal citizens of the country and have been trapped politically to look forward to the government for their upliftment, but for what is unknown? This has robbed the Muslim society of individual enterprise, initiative and participation with a normal tab of Indian citizen in the national perspective by making them self complacent which has retarded their all round development for they have been made to learn to live on government largesse and painfully, they have succumbed to that bait.
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Receding Morals
The traditional rivalry between political parties is an established fact of political system. This is also normal that this rivalry sometimes slips a few notches down of normal political ethics though in recent times India is specially witnessing this downfall in basic rules of behavior that have gradually gone down the level of decency and or respect for the rival.but because of strange and particular scene and pattern of politics in our country the basic rules of contention have shrunken to a little too far, between rhe contending political parties and basically between the two major political parties of the country – Congress and the BJP. Other parties are just local and or marginal, though they play a big role in the formation of government at the center and the state levels and are expanding their wings further but are no match for any one of the two major parties. We as a student and or an observsr of politics the world over, generally find that the numbers of contending parties are limited and there are only two parties in the field in all major countries of the world, representing two major national political themes and yes, for them the country comes first, not the party and or personal ambitions. They represent two distinct political thinking and philosophy and they restrict themselves to their declared political policies, aims and objectives. They have clearly drawn party politics and political strain of governance and political and social system they proclaim to profess. They generally don’t seem to abandon their loyalties. Nowhere in the world, the growth in the number of political parties, has been seen as in our country. This is mainly because individual power hungry persons refuse to go along with the party line which sure fails to cater to the individual ambitions of one and all. And individual unlimited ambitions of our political players are now well known, not only in the country but the world over. This personal and individualistic approach in our political system has generally transformed the political scene in the country, but certainly not for the good of the country nor for a healthy sytem of politics.witnessed in most developed countries of the world, where the different political philosophy norms and principles of contention and competition are really praiseworthy in others too they are very clearly defined and are seldom overcraossed.
Lately the country is witnessing that the political and politically induced public morals are being sacrificed on this alter-ego of personal aspirations and political loyalty and faith are already things of the past. Even our tallest leaders can be seen stooping down too low beyond the thin line of decency and morality in their public behavior and do not fight shy of adopting tools of mean methods to remain in power and trying to drive the opposition against the wall even by misutilising government funds and agencies against them relentlessly and harping on other’s political mistakes if any, over and over again in a very blatant way of fallen priorities. Modi bashing has become the main stay of not only the congress but other parties too, who survive mainly on Muslim vote and have been using them for an unseen divide of the mainstream society.They fear the rise of Modi which they feel can be a potential challenge to them. But inspite of all this relentless tirade against Modi, for the last decade, his popularity is growing, not only in India but in other countries of the world as well. Still more his stature in politics is growing each day too to the utter discomfort of the congress party and hence they are engaged day and night to defame him by digging Gujrat roits graves regularly as a campaign, but perhaps it is proving contra –productive. Present political outfits – I purposely call them outfits – are completely bereft of personal and public morals, integrity, honesty of purpose, faith and loyalty even to their country and countrymen. This has resulted in individuals shifting their loyalty from one party to another and trading theit fidelity, and or declaring still another political outfit of his own by buying fidelity of the required number of persons for that purpose, which in the ultimate analysis becomes a nuisance after getting easy recognition by the election commission, by engaging in unholy alliances and horse-trading in their efforts to destabilize the legitimate government thus becoming an irritant in any coalition government. We have witnessed many such examples in the recent political past and today the country has to deal with so many such outfits with so many different agendas, many a time coming in conflict with the declared agenda and policy of the major government forming party, ultimately resulting in misrule or no rule at all. They infact proclaim themselves as king-makers. We have now such power-brokers in large numbers on our political horizon, leading to caotic conditions in our politics today.
And surprisingly enough for the support of this poltical fragmentation, to suit their unholy intensions, our leaders in power have enacted laws to facilitate this separation by giving instant recognition to defectors to join another party, while remaining in the house, or float their own . How can a person, who has been elected to Parliament by the people as a candidate of some party with its declared agenda be allowed to change his political religion overnight and adopt another one, for his own convenience or to support any other unholy alliance, to destabilize the government or making its existence doubtful? Or how can they be allowed to form another party and start their unethical and unholy conduct with no agenda having been put before the electorate who returned them to power on specific grounds?
They are defectors, the unfaithfuls and they desrve to be thrown out of Parliament and made to face the electorate again on their own new agenda, whom they have cheated for their mean interests?
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Emerging Asia
Asia no doubt is fast emerging as the most powerful catalyst in world relations. China and India are the two most important countries that are fast emerging as very strong nations, and though apparently both these nations are trying to establish normal relations in trade and other spheres in their normal national development efforts, but inspite of everything seeming normal, India has to remain very cautious and alert in reading the finer points in all Chinese efforts to expand its friendly relations with the countries of Asia. With China’s history of past adventures and continuing pin-pricks on our borders, India has to remain alert all the time. Otherwise also China’s relations with its other neighbouring contries are not absolutely friendly or even having friendly relations with them. China keeps on engaging itself in actions and exercises that do not match its obvious overtures. India in this regard has to remain extra vigilant because of its past experiences with that country. And therefore we find it difficult to repose faith in China in its diplomatic overchures. Though we are having quite normal diplomatic and trade relations with China, we find it hard to take any action on its part on the face value. Inspite of everything seeming normal on all fronts, not only India but other countries of the world too fail to repose the normal faith in its international relations. China itself is responsible for this image for in fact China always keeps on trying to insert one irritant or the other in its relations with other countries. And all these actions point towards the fact that China has no doubt hedgemonistic intensions, which sometimes are evident in its belligerent moves in normal circumstances. China’s moves to establish itself in countries around India, in several ways point towards its such ambitions.
China has gradually in a very calculated manner, therefore gone far beyond its boundaries to establish its power-centres in countries around India. It has already got foot-hold in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, places where it should not show extra undue marine interest. And now, with its agreement with Pakistan for taking over its port, very important, for it has tremendous strategic importance and implications. These are overt actions and efforts for enlarging its sphere of influence by planting its maritime presence around India.
America seems to be watching all this development with a cool head perhaps with amusement. America fully understands the implications involved, but perhaps keeping India in its fold, America also wants to keep India on tenterhooks vis a via China, so that both these fast emerging nations, keep themselves engaged, in wasting their energies among themselves so that they can never become a challenge to America. With the same objective America keeps on assisting a rouge state like Pakistan so that Pakistan continues to be a prankster, playing its dirty game of destructive politics which in no way can be defined to help Pakistan develop as a contender in the region. America is continuously keeping Pakistan as a mischief monger in the region with only a nuisance value, even though sometimes this country seems to be challenging America with a pigeon-chested defiance to its amusement.
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Senseless Barking Won't Help
We are a lot of strange people. The moment something happens and/or the government announces something, bouts of BADI BAHAS start scorching our TV screens. It has infact become a ritual. Specialists, professionals, experts and self styled sentinels of public morals and concerns, start this competition. Very soon the discussion turns into arguments and arguments in high pitched accusations. This exercise invariably ends up in barking. Each one shouting at the top of his/her voice, which all of them, refuse to listen and understand, in a civilized manner, and in doing so they present a slide-show, perhaps nowhere witnessed, in the world. This crass barking creates a very Indian way of out-cry, which gets lost in the din of the noise generated, by the end of the day and is forgotton to prepare for the next round.
This ritual of barking without purpose, on a subject or point of law, they are hardly competent enpogh to speak, or the fine aspects of law and constitutional parameters or not, they all create their very own logistics and their own parameters according to their own definitions. Barking becomes all the more naïve and pointless, completely shorn of any creative content when it ends up in congress accusing BJP and BJP accusing the congress for all the ills of the country. The whole thing becomes hopelessly boring and disgusting. The unruly behavior of the participants is of a very low caliber and quite mean in their objectives. The political lust for supremacy and power at any cost, even at the cost of national interest and prestige, they keep on accusing each other for things perhaps for which they both are responsible, and shouting , barking and relaxing endlessly making a fool of themselves. One morning it was pathetic and disgusting to hear one of the participants showing a soft corner for a terrorist, who attacked our Parliament.
We witness such situations because in such sensitive matters our policy is, that we have no policy at all. Hence whenever we face such a situation, when the whole nation should be standing unitedly, our various leaders of all caliber and character start barking in different tones and directions, making an uncongruous noise, which delivers no message but an indecisive, incoherent and self-defeating chorous of political non-sense, incriminating one another, not only for the present but start digging graves of the past political blunders, the burden of which this unfortunate nation has to carry every day , with the overloading increasing each day.The politicos engage themselves in endless and shameless politic only trying to prove the other one more foolish but end up in making fools of themselves, of our national policies and of the common man, who utterly fails to fathom their political wisdom and responsibility towards their country.
India represents the oldest civilization of the world. We are a conglomeration of multitudes of cultures, races and religions of the world. Our country represents a uniqe example of assimilation and dissemination of major religions of the world and endless tolerance. We have taken a lot from other religions and given back much more. Every citizen of any race or religion is free, at all times, to express his angst and or happiness in a way he likes. The self-styled protagonists of different cultures start practically everyday with shouting in harsh and unpleasant voices. They seem to be expressing concern for everything, including the rights and priviledges of a culprit of the deadliest crime against the country. This freedom is not, perhaps allowed in all countries of the world. Cheap popularity is one thing but being outright loyal to your country is another. The honour of the motherland should be supreme.
Barking, it seems, is a pastime with us, but this barking could be welcome if it leads to some creative and constructive results with prudent solutions. This seldom happens. The barking gets lost on the political horizons which themselves get cloudy with no direction and little or no national wisdom. But if these attributes are present, the barking can become suggestive, creative, constructive and valuable and lead to desirable results in strengthening the nation. But because of the mean objectives of the barking political class that even after more than six decades of a chance to recover, re-build, re-inforce and recreate the country’s old magic, cultural wealth and a robust society, its strength and identity they are unwittingly driving the nation on a path, that leads to no-where to any defined destination but only aimless and shameless political catharsis.
Moti Mudgal
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Monday, February 25, 2013
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Monday, February 25, 2013
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Monday, February 25, 2013
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Friday, February 22, 2013
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Prof. Prem Mohan Lakhotia
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Friday, February 22, 2013
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Friday, February 22, 2013
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Ambreen Zaidi
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Moti ---- Mudgal
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Didi, you are no more on the Streets
Mamta Banerjee started dabbling in politics at an early age from the streets and bylanes of Calcutta.She has always been on the streets prior to her victory and becoming CM. she endeared herself to the people in Bengal,for she really represented them by remaining very much as one of them. On this political platform she has continued to get public support which has finally got her the dream success of her life. Routing the leftists in their citadel and her home town too, has provided great relief to the people of Bengal which they urgently needed for they had become tired of left intolerance of everything on the right and were hammering their ideology down on the masses in all places with great precision and undemocratic means and objectives. People had started feeling choked for they felt that they were being forced to breathe from their left nostril only. Bengal had been practically painted red during their long and politically ruthless rule. This acute anti-incumbancy which had peaked proved a turning point for Mamta, known to her followers as Didi.
But she perhaps has not been able to digest her success and seems to be in a hurry to bring about the political order she wants by dismantling left ideology planted in every walk of life in Bengal. Still worse she has not been able to dilute her hatred for the past rulers and patiently tread her political path to bring in the necessary changes in a respectable democratic manner. During the struggle of her political life she has suffered immensely at the hands of the police, which the left government was brutally using against its opponents and seems to be bent upon, for revenge, in her rage and hurry to change the state to her people friendly ideology in politics and its implementation. This impatience sometimes blurs her objectives and takes precedence over thoughtful governance and results in political blunders and or irritants for the people and opposition. If she really wants to bring about a permanent change in Bengal through practice of normal declared policies, she would have to adopt a calm and calculated mode of governance without being crude and unpleasant to any section of society, more so the segments which she has to depend upon and use successfully for implementation of her political programme.
She has to own the establishment and tools of governance not use them alone. She cannot blame the police force for their role. They have to serve the masters and 20 years is a long time to keep their impartiality. They have to become used to getting used and exactly that’s what they did. Didi has to take that arm of administration into her fold by being normal to them and use them honestly and democratically to take full advantage of the big opportunity she has got to change the lot of the common man in her homeland, for which she has been yearning for decades of giving her people a chance to recover and regain a normal coarse of life and prosper in a free democratic atmosphere. She has been a fire brand crusader, but now when she is at the helm of affairs, she has to deliver, not demand from anybody. And that needs all the political and worldly wisdom to tread very cautiously and encourage the people to do, honestly and sincerely what she wants.
We wish her success.
Moti Mudgal
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Friday, March 01, 2013
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Moti ---- Mudgal
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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Nani Manna
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Can We Now Say----‘Yes We Can’
Whether it was his reluctance or a period of indecision, the phase is now over, If we can believe the whole commentary of the full drama at the concluding phase of congress party;s “Chintan Shivir’at Jaipur, the curtains are finally drawn. But nobody can deny the fact that in a democracy and in a political party, which has written country’s history of independence, that type of clamour and or chorous of public adoration for him cannot be welcome. But this country can welcome Rahuls coming on centre-stage of the country’s politics when the political environment of the country is fluid.We fail to witness signs of any assurance from any corner of any party, that they are capable of running the fate of this vast land, deeply drowned in the mire of personal politics, baseless promises and very shaky or rather immoral game-rules in day to day politics of the country. The present scene is hopelessly uncertain, immoral, unassuring and visibly undependable. The country, at this cross-road of political and democratic count-down, needs a drastic overhauling and re-building, which no party at present seems capable of providing.
At this critical point of time in the political history of independent India, when members of all political parties are very faithfully engaged in proving true the proverbial harsh and defamatory words of Churchil, about the people of this country at the time we attained independence, we need very much to disprove his derogatory prophecy about the people of the country which the Britishers were compelled to vacate by very unconventional means of international war of independence. Our so called worthy gangs of politicians engaged in a Tu-Tu Main –Main of a very decadent variety and making a fun of democratic values and morals and abusing them by forging unholy alliances and temporary brotherhood in avery fluid political collage of crumpled politics, for their mean immediate objectives and interests at the cost of building healthy democratic practices and dependable characters, committed to national and common good, they have developed a very low type profit- sharing political companies with doubtful electoral share-holders, who stand to gain nothing and are only serving junck political food to this unfortunate country, tearing off mercilessly at the fabric, its dedicated soldiers had passed on with their selfless and devoted patriotism. The present cauldron of desecerated poisonous political concoction is very damaging for the health of this young democracy.
And further, in the present hopeless, remorseless and stubbornly arrogant political establishment his party has perpetuated, we can welcome Rahul Gandhi preparing himself to lead them and carry forward his promises and plans, he shared with others for the first time after his crowing at the Chintan Shivir, He would have to mercilessly trample on the deeply carved political clitches on the clutches of personal aspirations and or frivolous efforts to find place on the seniority list with queer behavior, established by the old guard and give a new dose of inspirational and motivative guiding principles based on common man’s needs and aspirations of the young generation, with a well chosen team of young energetic workers and not the old hoards of ageing and representative of a decadent political methodology which is completely cut -off from the masses and its aspirations and national needs and compulsions. He would have to push arrogantly his vision and suggestions he has put forward for the renewal of the system. Winning back the trust and faith of the people would have to be his priority which has been squandered by his mentors.
He has ascended a throne of thorns and now the affairs of the country can be brought back on tracks by ruthlessly demolishing old concepts of governance and edifices of personal aspirations put up by the stalwarts of his party who are enviously and compulsively power-drunk and arrogant and refuse to listen to reason or request, logic being a far fetched option for them. Therefore Rahul has to bring in a new team with a blank note-sheet and only eager to deliver and implement a new agenda for a new political and social order. And to make this happen all old wrinkled faces of the party even those who were viying with one another in advocating his leadership, would have to fall in a line at attention to listen to what the young kshatyap has to say and not only announce their wholehearted support for the young agenda but with the same dedication and honesty of purpose would have to follow him sincerely to help him execute his plans. They would have to listen and act as he pleases, not to placate him but to ensure that their aspirations and declarations about him, they made so faithfully, are translated into action with their full support. They would have to change themselves to look like people’s representatives in deeds and action. They would at the same time desist from making their day to day childish remarks and arguments with BJP and relieve the nation of CON> BJP BJP parrot- like chant wasting their energies and precious time endlessly, which cries for action instead.
Rahul would have to develop a corporate like work-culture into the party with a monthly agenda to be executed for implementation of the agreed plans, ruthlessly by the young team of his choice, honest and hardworking faithfuls, not necessarily to him but the party. The old approach , the old methods and work-culture, the word-mongering, the accusation- trap and the rude attitude would have to yield to an appreciative, heart-warming and endearing reach to the masses and the youth of the country which to-day stands absolutely disenchanted, disillusioned, neglected with a work-less bind and who are restless. He would have to relate to them by practically reaching out to them by addressing to their problems and making them active participants as agents of change. He would need to prove his critics wrong and re-establish his party’s lost credentials.
Moti Mudgal
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A New Awakening
On the eve of the New Year, the country has witnessed, with assurance and re-assurance that the coming year and the years ahead, would be youth driven. This limit-less manpower seems to be determined in its efforts to bring about a change. We have witnessed in large measure policy paralysis in the ruling class and when it came out of its slumber they have confronted the nation with absolute arrogance of power which has further bashed up the already bruised soul of the nation, at the hands of a political coterie gone berserk with power and has been pre-occupied with only self-enrichment, at the cost of colossal national loss without showing any remorse.
We have further witnessed a deep disconnect between the arrogant power-brokers and the helpless and hapless people of the country. The mass participation of the youth of the country against the rampant corruption and now crimes against women, shows an anguish, going over the brink of patience against the ruling class and the political parties going unaccountable in a most offending manner with intolerable arrogance and how the youth of the country, supported by its vast middle-class, wants a change for a brighter future. They are now challenging a political establishment gone corrupt to the core and are making a determined effort to empowering themselves for education, health and infrastructure and jobs, the rights and opportunities denied to them so far and in the absence of which they are being drawn towards crime and violence.
The nation is at the cross-roads, addicted to too much talk, lot of hollow brinkmanship but too little governance. The youth is engaged in a determined undertaking of resurgence and awakening of the power-house that they are. Their suppressed ambitions and anger have taken a shape of a revolution. The young generation is showing a dedicated participation in employment, love and politics. They are leaving a mark everywhere, in arts, science and business and the time is showing its readiness for a struggle from the roads to the Parliament. It seems the Proud of the Nation is going into the hands of its pride-ful young generation, with a welcome to the New Year and the years ahead.
Moti Mudgal
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Towards a Clean Drive
After all, the Finance Ministry of the country has accepted the alarming state of mismanagement of public funds through our banks. As I wrote before sometime in my blog that Bad Debts or for a respectable nomenclature ‘Non Performing Assets’a very deceptively comforting and naively coinvenient way of expressing an unpardonable misuse of our national wealth, to grease the electoral machinery of all major political parties, through the device of faked banking failures. There is a strong apprehension in public minds about this dismal picture of public funds going dead i,e, which will never be recovered. (Dooba hua Desh ka dhan). There can be no acceptable argument or explanation for this dismal failure on the part of our national banks.
I had wtitten in my blog earlier that practically little or no efforts are made to recover those loans to big business houses and corporates. Otherwise how can one explain that the NPA”s which stood at Rs. 94,000 crores in Nov. 2011 shot up to 1.75 lac thousand crores in Sept. 2012, an astonishingly short period.
I suggest that before every general and other elections the amounts of donations by each industrialist/ big business houses should be made public and at the same time the amount of unpaid bank loans outstanding against the company. This would help remove doubt in public mind and efforts should be made at the highest level to recover those loans. Political donations from such companies having large amounts of unpaid loans should not be accepted or rather they should not be allowed to donate. This is necessary for a clean and transparent governance.
Moti Mudgal
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This is India. The consumer is on the gallows
All the various government departments, boards, corporations etc. which provide essential services to the people, are always the real culprits for the huge lossess in their respective fields of operations, but it always happens that the lossess are passed on to the consumers through enhanced rates, under so many excuses though the standard keeps on going down.
Electricity :- This is practically a monopoly service. And that almost all Electricity Boards are running into lossess every year. It is common knowledge and the various government surveys also show that transmission lossess in India are enormous and are much more in coparison to other countries. Now who is responsible for upgrading and maintenance of transmission lines? It is the responsibility of the boards. But after decades and decades of intransigence and neglect nothing is done to improve the situation. It has also been reported that the boards carry a heavy inventory of unused and surplus store items but the greedy officers keep on adding to the stocks by purchasing items which are not even required, Heavy lossess continue and the per unit rate too continues to rise. Why?
Sanitation :- Sanitation is the responsibility of the Local Self Government i.e Municipal Corporations and Municipal Committees in metros and cities, for which they tax the citizens in so many ways. Jaipur Nagar Nigam has an army of sanitary workers but sanitationwise the condition of this beautiful city is horrible. Workers just do not work instead they work in private houses but are paid salaries by the Nigam. Hence contracts are given for cleaning the city, crores are spent but again no work is done, a state of ultimate corruption prevails. Now the Rajasthan government, in a strange move, is going to tax the consumer according to his electricity bill, as cleaning charges, a retrograde and offensive order of governance. For decades the Nigam is planning and planning to improve the city’s drainage system, but it continues to remain where it has been but they corner a hefty amount for the job every year.
Banking :- Banks in foreign countries work on very thin margins of profit, but earn huge profits. In India they work on much higher margins but still keep on showing a hopless bottomline. The rates keep on fluctuating at an alarming rate, causing insecurity and uncertainty in trade and business circles. Common people and small borrowers suffer heavily while thousands of crores of public money of these banks is locked up as ‘Non performing assets’ in the form of loans to big business houses, who just refuse to pay back and the banks decide to sit back.
Public Transport (Roadways):- A private bus service operator earns in lakhs with his one single bus. But the State Roadways Corporations generally, as a rule, go into huge losses. If the services operate under honest hands, the profit would run, not into crores, but hundreds of crores for they hold very large fleets of buses in thousands.
In a recent very indecent development Rajasthan Roadways is now buying large number of Volvo chassis only instead of original buses and are building bodies locally with increased number of seats, squeezed into a minimum of leg-space, to the utter, not only discomfort but literally torture of the passengers. This cruelty does not stop here. They charge exhorbitant fares almost double the A/C train fares between Jaipur and Delhi. But perhaps there is no public sentinel to watch consumer interest in this country. And shamefully perennially they are running into lossess. Why there is no such agency in the country to ask why?
Toll-Gates :- The ever increasing numbers of toll-gates across the country is yet another shameless effort on the part of the government to fleece the public. The recovery at these gates never seems to stop, rather goes on and on indefinitely. Perhaps there is no audit of this government activity. This seems to be an organized exercise by the government in connivance with private operators to seemingly permanently go on fleecing the people. Between Jaipur and Delhi a private car has to shell out hundreds of rupees at various toll-gates, while a truck perhaps has to dole out in thousands. This is added to the freight rates which ultimately results in steep increase in the prices of commodities. The consumer is the last sufferer. This is going on endlessly and the people in power are gleefully supporting it by giving funny reasons and naïve explanations which point towards mass corruption in road building contracts.
Railways :- Indian Railways is a colossal enterprise, may be the biggest in the world. But even after more than six decades of independence of the country, the picture has not changed, rather has gone from bad to worse. There is utter lack of facilities, bogies, including the dinning cars, are infected with rodents and cockroaches, food served is hopeless and many a times unfit for human consumption. The condition of Railway stations has remained unchanged. They are just like museums of the railways’ past. Compare it with the progress in the life of our MPs and politicians. They are no more commoners or their representatives, they lead a royal life even our former kings and emperors did not enjoy. Now we don’t have one but a bunch of Neros playng on their fiddles while the commoners, the consumers are lashed financially and otherwise.
The consumer has been put on the gallows, but not allowed to die. He is being made to suffer a slow and torcherous death.
Moti Mudgal
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The Naxal Movement and Its Present Fall-Out
Naxalism has basically grown in the backward areas of the country, inhabitated mostly by tribals. It is now being realized that the developmental process in the country failed to reach those areas. Broad based development including work and job opportunities are urgently needed to fill the vacuum in their lives. This has to be backed up by a massive drive for providing education to connect them with the mainstream life of the country to make them a part and feel as a performing group of the society. Cutting the arterial connection with the Nepalese ideology which has its life line attatched to Chinese cultural and political offensive in the area is the crying need of the hour, to contain the present hostile Naxalism in the country, which is spreading its tentacles unabashed from the time of its first signatures in Naxalbari though it has changed its coarse and immediate objectives.
Long congress rule in West Bengal had practically collapsed and leftist waive had taken over, after the United Front government was sworn in. it was aperiod of transition in West Bengal. One after the other radical party was being started. Soumen Tagore with his type of radical ideology started his party. Jai Prakash Narain launched his Socialist Party. But in Naxalbari, a nondescript village outside Siliguri in North Bengal, Charu Majumdar started an armed struggle of peasants in 1967. He was supported by a large group of Leftist activists, men and women who formed the core group of the movement with their strategy. CPM became the CPI (ML) Janshakti Party. Mujibur Rahman, Khokan Majumdar, Khadan Mallik, Shatibala Munda and Suniti Viswakarma were its politburo members. These people call themselves the real communists – men and women who were the real followers of Charu Majumdar. They still believe that the movement has not failed. It is ridden by internal fighting and has splintered existence. They do not believe in CPI(ML)’s militarism. They assert that without the mass line, that is peoples’ movement to fulfil peoples’ demands across the country, the movement cannot succeed. They don’t believe in borrowed ideology and follow it under outside guidance. It is because of this that their real movement failed. ‘Chiner chairman amader chairman. Keno?’ (Chinese chairman is our chairman, why?) That could never have worked, they feel.
West Bengal during that disturbed period suffered much. The trade unions became aggressive to the extent that they started physically assaulting managerial staff in the factories and the owners of small units. They practically created a reign of terror. It was a peculiar situation. It was their government and it were they who were indulging in violence in industries and declaring strikes throughout the state. SUC (Socialist Unity Centre) was a partner in the United Front Government then. Its leader Subodh Banerjee, a very sauve and gentle person otherwise, became the Labour Minister in the UF government. He propounded the theory of ‘Gherao’ in which the managerial staff of a factory was held captive for hours and days sometimes, without food and water, to pressurize them to accede to their unjustified demans. This became a very disturbing and violent tool in the hands of the workers. And it created havoc in the industrial circles. The workers targeted even the best managed companies of the state. Usha Machines was one of them where every worker was an income tax payee. But the overjealous trade union leaders destroyed that company and the unit had be closed. Similarly many good units were closed and they migrated from the state. It was a big loss for the state famous for its industries. Subodh Banerjee often used to visit our office at 1A - Vansittart Row, Dalhouse Square, with his young comrade partner Fatik Majumdar. We practiced in labour laws and adjudication. Subodh Da really felt sorry for his Gherao theory, which he openly expressed before us. We had very good relations with all trade union leaders, firebrands included. Patit Pawan Pathak was a CPM leader. He was also their regular lawyer for all labour cases in the Industrial Tribunal. We had a special personal equation with him. Once he invited us to his native village on the occasion of the birthday of his son. We attended that and experienced their village culture and shared it. Patit Da was really happy that day and we too.
Jyoti Basu was also a firebrand leader of CPI(M). He hailed from Kharda, a suburb of Calcutta. They represented a contained version of the movement. In the Raniganj/ Asansol coal belt he was supported by another local leader Haradhan Roy, a dreaded figure in trade union circles. Bengal Paper Mill, Raniganj was his centre of operations. I had occasions to face him many a times. But reasoning really worked with him. The Omnibus Industrial Tribunal had given an Omnibus Engineering Award for all engineering units in West Bengal. Its implementation created a terrific industrial strife in the state. Every unit, big or small faced labour unrest of the worst type ever. But even in that turmoil Haradhan Roy displayed complete faith in me and he visited our factory and accepted the overall settlement as per the award and explained it the workers. It was a great moment. As a gesture of goodwill I visited his den at the top floor of a building, outside the gates of Benal Paper Mill, and surprisingly enough G.L.Goenka, the Managing Director of the factory agreed to accompany me because of my assuring him. We thanked Haradhan Roy for the peaceful agreement with the workers. He did not allow us to come back without having a cup of tea with him.
After that during the decades old, left rule in Bengal things changed dramatically. The Maoists thought that perhaps Bengal was won and therefore started spreading down south in Orrisa and further, and their journey continues with our various political parties defining Naxalism in their own ways to suit their political objectives and local priorities. Containing it as a menace, indulging in senseless murders and looting and destroying government property does not count with them. For them their various political theories and objectives ride over all other considerations. To hell with the nation! ‘ We have to rule and rule at any cost’ and the drama goes on and the violent form of Naxalism is having its way unabated tearing at the fabric of the nation, causing tremendous harm to the country, socially, politically and morally. Only the common man and innocent tribals suffer, while the white-clad well-wishers of the country, masqurading in the cental hall, many in fancy dresses, are enjoying, and the bargaining on the lives of the common man and officers continues
Moti Mudgal
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Whither India ? We are in a seize.
The country needs a messiah. Dark clouds of corruption, deceit, failures, crimes and embezzlements have rattled the nation, and shameless and remorseless political culprits are assuring and reassuring the nation in whom people lost faith long ago. Law has taken a back seat. Tolerable and credible leaders have been pushed to side-lines. There seems to be no alternative to this national catastrophy in sight. All political players are only scratching their own faces. The nation is on the cross-road of crisis. Have a look :-
The throaty pleasure - gurgle of Lalu seems gangrenous and obscene. We are made to bear a gang leader who keeps on preaching with an offending body-language.
Congress is becoming notorious like a band of robbers, who are being exposed one by one but are still stuck to the saddle and flogging a dead horse of a party, but continue to behave as if they are riding an elephant.
BJP is a party of clashing personalities with a floating ideology which keeps on changing coarse, and is rudderless and aimless not knowing where to go? Naturally it fails to draw people for nobody knows where it is headed for?
Leftists are riding a beleaguered philosophy which has lost its credibility and relevance in the present times, even in their mentor’s country.
Mamta seems to be fighting for the rights of the common man while riding rough shod on
them, indirectly by being overjealous in persuit of het own brand of sreet ideology, with a harsh tone of assumed morality, though still shows hope but has to be consistent if she wants to achieve something and forge an alliance with others.
Famous political gurus and preachers are sitting over and snarling like a lion sitting on a kill by the lioness.
UP has an amoeba like leadership, changing colour and coarse overnight leaving the pedestrian politicians gaping and seasoned ones cursing themselves.
Can you play chess (a game of wisdom) with such a hand spread on board? You cannot make a single move without attracting a check-mate.
Summary:-
All political parties are engaged in mutual bickerings, mud-slinging and only self-promotion. Nobody cares for the common man, who is suffering endlessly from one political onslaught or the other. In doing so political parties are simply projecting themselves and proving themselves as non-essential commodities, while the poor are being forced to forgo their staple food. .
Stuck up we are!
Moti Mudga
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Posted on
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
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Living on the Verge or What?
Transition in society does not come overnight. It takes a long time even decades to get set, on the toes and go. It has been quite a long period since the time parents started worrying about the life-style of their children since they started challenging the age –long accepted and established norms of society, in which they lived. But as they found that those norms are no more sacrosanct for their children, they started feeling uneasy and affronted. They questioned but the silent glances and typical answers or rather their manners to relate to them, surprised them. Disobedience or challenging their parents’ guide lines to lead their lives, gradually became normal with the new generation. The reason perhaps was the fast pace with which the society, the world was changing with the times, with the advance of progress of science and technology were making and their immediate impact on human life in all spheres and the multiple scientific gadgets were made available to the coming generation. Perhaps the human mind was also developing or going under transition to face the changing spectrum of life which was quite different from the established one, at the same rate which was beyond the comprehension of the parents and they failed to absorb the norms of the new order of their children.
After globaisation still more avenues opened for the children and an amalgamation of their restrictive life-style came in conflict with the free life-style of the say Americans or other developed nations. As a result a period of assimilation and confrontation, of adoption and rejection, of hesitation and giving-in, but because change for a freedom in life is always attractive, the young generation gave-in. they found the abandon of that life-style very attractive and they crossed the threshold.
But in many ways our young boys and girls re-modelled that foreign life-style of abandon, to suit the very Indian needs and ethos, which aspect pleased their parents. As a result our young generation has evolved their very own life-style but of coarse some essential ingredients of American model have stuck. It is this portion of their living life that worries the parents. Still our children have not gone awry, but of coarse they need their own time-slot which provides them complete freedom to surrender to the new order and evolve with time physically, mentally and morally. But happily our children have not abandoned the basic values of our life and they very much love their parents and have regard for them, though they may be failing in displaying those sentiments, but it is a very hard fact of their incessant life-style that our boys and girls respect the Indian psyche and are quite religious. They do believe in God and seem to be in complete control of their lives and future.
Though my observation is quite late but still remains quite relevant because age- old traditions, norms and social behavior take their own time to react as they have taken centuries to evolve and the transition goes on.
I am not advocating a wild leap of absolute freedom, but a well regulated and self-controlled voyage in an orbit giving you rounds and rounds of a joyous ride on the new wave of freedom. Long live our children. The country is safe in their hands.
Moti Mudgal
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Sparrow Gets a New Life
‘Eye‘; as a magazine has completed two years. In its anniversary issue it has published this article ‘as a space Marketting Iniitiative. ONGC with ‘Action and Research for Conservation in Himalayas’ (ARCH) launched a programme ‘Save the Sparrow Programme’’ on the ONGC Day, August 14, 2012 by their MD Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva. House sparrow numbers are declining at alarming rates especially in urban and suburban habitats all around the globe. In 2002 House Sparrow was added to the Red Data list of birds Conservation Concern. The two organizations have come together to give the House Sparrow a fresh lease of life by encouraging their population growth, by installing predator and accident proof nest boxes. These nest boxes would first stabilize and then help population grow.
Research and surveys have brought to light various reasons responsible for the global decline of this once common species. Few are as follows:-
Modern Architecture
Insecticides and Pesticides
Mobile Towers
Vehicular Pollution
Noise Pollution
Food Scarcity (Child Starvation); Lack of seed food during winter and Lack of summer food such as invertibrates
The decline in Sparrow population is a natural indicator of the rapid degradation of our environment. Sparrows live only where mankind dwells. It is also a warning bell that alerts us about the possible detrimental effects on our health and wellbeing. By conserving the Sparrows, we will be conserving the entire urban flora and fauna, for Sparrows need an environment where they are constantly interacting with human beings.
The first World House Sparrow Day (WHSD) held on March 20, 2010 can be best described as a campaign by the common man, for the common man and of the common man to save a common species from the brink of extinction.
Long Live The Sparrow Darling
Moti Mudgal
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An open letter to the President
( A sequel to my blog (‘Democratic Practices ? Constitutional Values’?)
President is above politics and rightly so, for he heads the country and not any political party. One another most important duties of the President is upholding the Constitution.
Now the present congress ( government) not UPA, for all coalition partners are defying the government’s unilateral decisions, has, as per normal counting of heads to prove a majority, gone into minority. It is claiming its majority validity on the basis of the support (from outside, they are not a part of the government) of two major parties, the SP and BSP, who are openly opposing, government decisions and policy behind them, taken without their concurrence, an essential ingredient of any coalition government, on the floor of the house as well as on the streets outside. Their support is basically immoral and undemocratic which cannot and must not receive constitutional approval, precisely because you cannot support and oppose a government in one go. Yet there is another twist. These parties continue getting threats obliquely, that CBI enquiries against them would be revived against them into many frauds that they are deeply stuck in, if they do not fall in line.
Can you call it a democratic set-up? or democratic morality? But unfortunately a practice has developed in our country, to elevate an active member of a political party to the highest office of the President of India, by giving him a moral advice to remain apolitical during his tenure as President. But how can it be expected that the deeply ingrained political psyche of the person would evaporate and he would become a non- political personality over night. The behavior of our several past Presidents and Governors at many times have proved that they fail to convert and act very much politically in critical situations, contrary to what is expected of them.
By all this I want to drive home a point that because of the politics in his system for decades, the President /Governor fail to behave apolitical in many cases. So seen in a precisely democratic manner, any decision taken by any government which is of immense national importance must have a constitutional backing of a clean majority of the government at least , if not of the house as such. Otherwise it is simply an abuse of democracy and a clear violation of the will of the people.
What should be the role of the President of the country in such a tricky situation? A major decision taken by congress alone without the concurrence of the coalition partners cannot be termed as a government (UPA) decision, for it falls short of the government sanction itself, and hence should be dropped
That alone would be morally, a democratic way of ruling the country, and it is the constitutional duty of our President, to ensure that
Moti Mudgal.
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Democratic Practices ? Constitutional Values ?
For quite sometime the country is witnessing a strange political phenomenon. The democratic and constitutional values seem to be re-written on the floor of our Parliament. The congress being the largest party in the house has been allowed to form a government in coalition with other political parties ,willing to come together. It is only with their combined numbers, for when this cluster of various parties reaches the majority numbers in the house, they acquire the constitutional approval to form the government. The largest party by itself has no any sanction to do that. Therefore the moment the largest party distances itself from the coalition partners, it goes into a minority group in the house and must lose its right to be called a government. It draws constitutional approval to form and run a government only in a combined manner, when it turns into a majority in the Parliament. Therefore it a joint government of several parties and hence authorized to govern in a joint manner. Those parties have no locus-standii individually. And therefore it implies that any measure taken by the government, has to be taken by this conbined majority in the house. But the moment they stand apart and one party takes a decision how can it be called a decision of the government? A common consencious is implied in a coalition type of government that they are ruling the country in a combined group only.
Now in a democracy all laws are made, by majority decision of the house. A minority will, cannot be imposed unilaterally to become a law in the country. Similarly the minority cannot pass any order unilaterally, ignoring the coalition concensious. This is a sticky situation. If a law is made by congress or any major decision taken in clear opposition of the coalition partners, how can it become a law or a valid order of the coalition government, when not supported by a majority in the Parliament? This goes against the spirit of democracy and cannot be called a democratic government chosen by the people. It is only a group of representative of different shades and opinions, who come together to fulfil a norm of forming a government. Only in their combined form they become entitled to form a government and rule the country.but if on any point they differ, one single party cannot claim to be the government in power. It loses its power the moment it is deserted by coalition partners on any point, which they defy openly on the streets throughout the country. Therefore according to the spirit of the concept of coalition, that point, becomes redundant and hence must be dropped. It cannot be forced on the nation by a single party in a despotic manner, in clear defiance of the opinion of its coalition partners. Therefore it implies that the congress party is acting not only, in defiance of the basic principles of a coalition government but is also engaged in ignoring the basic principles of democracy and hurting constitutional values.
These are perhaps fine constitutional points which call for fine attention of the law makers and the judiciary. I hope my contention would attract the attention it needs, from the right quarters, to make democracy in the country meaningful.
Moti Mudgal
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हिन्दी दिवस --- कुछ स्मृतियाँ
हिन्दी दिवस की पूर्व- संध्या पर एक चैनल पर एक कार्यक्रम देखते हुए अचानक जयशंकर ‘प्रसाद’, महादेवी वर्मा, निराला के काल-खंड में पहुँच गया I अख़बार में हिन्दी भाषा में निरंतर आए बदलाव के विषय पर टिप्पणी थी I हिन्दी का पुराना साहित्यिक रूप किस प्रकार बोल-चाल की भाषा में अवतरित होता जा रहा है I समय के साथ सब भाषाएँ बदलती रहती हैं I भारत में पहले संस्कृत भाषा प्रचलित थी I उसके बाद अलग अलग काल-खंडों में परिस्तिथियों के अनुसार इसमें अन्य भाषाओं के शब्द समाहित होते गए और आज की हिन्दी हमारे सामने प्रस्तुत है I अन्य भाषाओं की तरह हिन्दी में भी दूसरी भाषाओं के शब्द प्रचुर मात्र में आ गए हैं I जैसे जेल, पुलिस , काँसटेबल, बाथरूम, किचन, अंकल, रेल, प्लैटफ़ार्म , टिकिट आदि और बयान , इस्तगासा, जिरह, पेशी, इकरारनामा ,कॉपी ये सब I
मेरे विद्यार्थी जीवन-काल में चालीस के दशक के अंतिम वर्षों में मुझे जय-शंकर ‘प्रसाद’ की हिन्दी से बड़ा लगाव था I उनकी ‘कामायनी’ एक कालजयी रचना है I उसकी शीर्ष पंक्तियाँ मेरे मानस में गहरे पैठे हुई हैं I शुद्द, प्रखर एक आत्म-बोध लिए छोटे-छोटे शब्द-स्वरों में ‘प्रसाद’ जीवन बिखेर देते थे I कामायनी में प्रलय का वर्णन है I वे पंक्तियाँ मुझे आज भी शायद कंठस्थ हैं I वे प्रलय दृश्य से आरंभ होती हैं ;-
हिमगिरी के उत्तुंग शिखर पर , बैठ शिला की शीतल छाँव
एक पुरुष भीगे नैनों से देख रहा था प्रलय प्रवाह ,
नीचे जल था, ऊपर हिम था , एक तरल था, एक सघन ,
एक तत्व की ही प्रधानता , कहो उसे जड़ या चेतन I
एक ही तत्व के विभिन्न रूपों में जीवन ऐवम विनाश दोनों निहित हैं I यही प्रकृति है , यही सनातन सत्य I
इसी प्रकार उनका गद्य ;-
‘किले की प्राचीर पर बैठे कबूतर ने पंख फडफड़ाये और क्षितिज की ओर उड़ चला I प्राची के सुदूर कोने से एक स्वर्ण-पुरुष झाँकने लगा था और देखने लगा महाराज की सवारी I
उगते सूर्य का साक्षात्कार हो उठता है !
लेकिन आज हमारा युवा वर्ग अपनी ही भाषा के इस स्वरूप से अनभिज्ञ सा है I हिन्दी बहुत बादल चुकी है I आज बोलचाल की भाषा हिन्दी अंग्रेजी उर्दू की मिलीजुली भाषा है जिसमे अब ई- भाषा के शब्द भी जुडते जा रहे हैं i आज की हिन्दी हमारी समझ से परे होती जा रही है और कल की हिन्दी हमारे युवा वर्ग से I यह जीवन परिवर्तनशील है I
मोती मुद्गल
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Education on Contract
The degeneration of the eduction system of the country is complete. The trend of contract faculties in our educational institutions has perhaps ruined the very concept of education as a means of enriching life. The aim and concept has been lost and absolute commercial aim has replaced it. As a result our educational institutions have been turned into commercial establishments, with the sole aim of making profits, like any other business. Therefore they employ teaching staff purely on yearly contract basis, to avoid paying them all service benefits and to save summer holidays’ salaries. New batch of teachers are appointed for the next session. This makes a mockery of providing adequate education to the students. Students have to face new teachers every year and this robs the continuity in teaching in the classes and the new incumbent starts teaching in his/her own way. The teacher student relationship goes missing. As a result it is only the students who suffer. It goes without saying that these faculties making rounds of different institutions on contract bsis are generally inexperienced for they are appointed on adhoc basis on adhoc salaries. You can imagine the standard of education the system can provide. The education of the students suffers and it has to be made-up by engaging in private tution by hired teachers at exhorbitant rates. In some cases it has ben found that a few teachers make friendly appearance in more than one school/collage, but they are not committed to any of them. In every case the hapless students are at the receiving end.
Therefore, now it is time that such schools and colleges need not be recognized by state authorities as institutions for education, but should be now registered as commercial establishments under the Shops and Commercial Establishments Act. That is the right action the government MUST take. Now a sign-board at the entrance of the institute should be made mandatory that it is purely a Commercial Establishment and all government help and aid in any form to them, should be abolished. Admissions in these institutions are practically marketed and are available in the blackmarket like cinema tickets.at exhorbitant prices. In this regard each institute has its own strategy in which admissions are traded and they go out of the reach of the needy parents and bright students. Some high-end schools openly charge high-end fees and so many other expences saying that after all they have to earn back their INVESTMENT, a purely commercial attitude and effort.
These institutes do not hasitate to levy any charges on the students, at any time without giving any reason and or listening to objections. Sending their children to these private schools and colleges has become parents’ nightmare, because even if they wish to give their children a reasonable education it can only be possible in private schools and colleges. The condition of government schools and colleges is known to all, it is pathetic. They cannot be called educational institutions by any definition. How can you expect anything better when every government of the country, central or state, express, their inability to provide funds for the education of the children of the nation? This clears the way for private players who have their way and impose their own rules and regulations giving them maximum financial returns on their INVESTMENT.
Therefore when they outlive those norms and conditions which entitle them to government benefits in all the ways, they should be debarred from claiming any concessions, and declared commercial establishments and normal provisions of the act should be applied to them
These institutions also bypass income tax liabilities by seeking exemption under the provisons of IT Act as charitable institutions, which they are not by any definition. This circumvention of the law should be checked and guarded to make them spill the beans and pay taxes as applicable.
Moti Mudgal
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Of Missed Opportunities and Wasted Talent
In to-day’s issue of Times of India the 1st Sept. on its Times Scholars page, there is a splash of exciting news which goes with a heading ‘An Indian In Every Chip’
It begins like this ‘It is said that every time Indians got a corner in Silicon Valley in 1960s, they cranked out a start-up. By 2000 there was rarely a start-up in the valley that did not involve Indians.’ Indian techies who stormed Silicon Valley in early 1990s became a flood at the turn of the century.
By 1998 Chinese and Indians engineers lapped up most senior jobs at the quarter of Silicon Valley’s new tech business. Intel’s first microprocessor introduced to the age of Pentiums was a brain-child of Indian chip technologist Vinod Dham, with millions of transistors on a single chip. The system was further enriched by another Indian engineer Arun Netravali. Then in 1967 a young Sikh Narendra Singh Kapany, who had created fibre optics made it public, the first Indian entrepreneur to do so. It was followed by achieving breakthrough in sond reproduction by yet another Indian, electical engineer Amar A. Bose. A few years later Thampy Thomas, a Keralite from BITS Pilani, found Elexi, one of the earliest valley ventures to make mainframe computers.
Then in 1981 a laid-off IITian Kanwal Rekhi with another IITian Inder Mohan Singh, founded Exelan, a company which they later sold to Novell for $ 200 million, a landmark achievement by a migrant company. Again Vinod Khosla another IITian started Computer Applications maker Daisy Systems along with Israelis. Immediatetly after that he cranked up Sun Microsystems which revolutionized the concept of open workstations on large computers with inter-connectivity. Sun continues to be the most lauded Indian Landmark in the Americn high-tec space. It is hoped Khosla would not only sustain in the market but would establish scores of edge-cutting high-tec companies worth more than $200 billion as the greatest venture capitalist of all time.
Incidentally the same page of the newspaper carries an advertisement of the ‘Times Foundations’ with a caption ‘A Bright Mind Can Shine Only, Under The Spotlight, Of OPPORTUNITY’. Read further and ponder fellow bloggers, - What is capability without a chance? What is talent without a stage? And what is a country with immense intellectual potential without a way, a means to find it.’ But who cares in a country of bloated egos and false political and social concerns.and compulsions which fail to trace the outline of the country and deepen it on the map of the world, where a great pool of talent of the country is denied any opportunity to work in a genuine atmosphere. Our institutions are plagued by criminal neglect and high-end corrupt practices.
Moti Mudgal
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To scratchmysoul.com
I have been watching your ‘Editor’s Pick’ column, keenly wherein discrimination is clear Like you have made a personal programme of a blogger a permanent fixture on your pick list, like an advertisement. Again you pick-up anything written by a blogger, who in each and every blog on any subject, invariably ends up with his stings on Babri, Modi, RSS and Hindu bashing, like a hate compaign. But you decide to neglect a piece written by me on the burning national issue of the moment, which is drawing attention from the media, the journalists, the social workers and activists, the politicians and equally by the intelligentiaand is resounding throughout the country. Whatever I have written is born by facts of history and manoured circumstances, government reports, including the one to the President of India, writtem by the Governor of Assam during the period insurgency was at its peak there. And now by the Bodo Territorial Chief, Nagrama Mohitary in very clear terms that the permanent solution lies in sending back the illegal migrants. And now finally the CBI investigation finds that the minority (the illegal migrants) group’s action triggered roits.
We are a free nation and have freedom of thought and expression and expression of facts cannot be a crime or a subject of selection and discrimination. It is the government of the country and its policies and actions affecting the people and the country, which are on my radar, and if the Congress happens to be in the saddle, it is their misfortune. Everyday a new fraud on the nation is being perpetuated and old ones are being brought to the notice of the people and still there is complete lack of shame and regret, their immoral vote- bank politics, notwithstanding, which has ruined this north-east part of the country, which is very fragile, which is very sensitive and which is very important strategically.
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3:59:22 PM
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Posted on
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12:21:08 PM
Modified on
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12:26:52 PM
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Prof. Prem Mohan Lakhotia
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How Dare CAG ….!
Jumping mandates is a common sport in this country and a favourite one. They simply relish treading upon forbidden territory. The fact that at the time of looking into accounts CAG slipped into banned territory and stumbled upon certain facts about the actions of the government, resulting in huge losses to the public exchequer, should not arouse anger within corridors of power. Let the exposer be relegated to the pool of so many other exposers, pushed into public domain. No doubt we get hurt if our own stooge, starts pointing finger at us, perhaps that is the case. How could CAG eat into the financial secrets of the MASTERS’, giving them chance to retort? It was posted as a guard only and was not supposed to peep into the bed-room. Therefore the reaction of the government through various agencies and spokepersons should not surprise the countrymen. If the CAG or any other such agency discloses some serious lapses on the part of the opposition parties, that is alright. It’s their duty to check fraud among those politicians, who keep on souting against the government. In that case it would have been doing its duty faithfully for the government. But how can it dare to touch its mentors with charges of such financial lapses, which has spoiled their digestion and they are throwing.
Ours is a democracy and even if by some mischance a big discovery is made, which is of immense interest for the country as a whole, concerned responsible party should humbly explain to the people whether it actually happened or not and not panic and react offensively by admonishing the defaulter, CAG in this case, which action only strengthens the charges raised, whether actual or imagined.
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Political Dichotomy
President Pranab in his maiden Presidential speech on the eve of Independence Day has, perhaps, let us hope inadvertently, shown a political concern for the minorities in the context of recent so-called ethnic violence in Assam, and specially its fall-out in Bombay, in a well planned manner. In Bodoland – Kokrajhar it was / is not a case of Hindu Muslim riots as we normally witness in other parts of the country, but it was a sort of taking over Bodos land forcibly and flushing them out of their natural age-long habitat, by the Bangladesi intruders. How the infiltrators from a neighbouring country have become naturalized citizens of India to enjoy government sponsored minority status, which attracts government help, attention and un-called for protection to gain unholy vote-banks, through anti-national mechinations defies imagination? It is not for the first time that such an observation has come from seasoned politicians of the country though unfortunately this time it has come from the First Citizen of the country who is supposed to renounce all his political thoughts and affiliations. But the lines once eched out by history in ones think process, do not get erased easily for they sort of get ingrained in the thought process and become a part of ones habit.
Muslim infiltrators have long been welcomed by the congress, the major political party of the country and neutralized as permanent lawful citizens of the country. They have been helped in every manner by providing them with shelters, money and foremost Ration Cards to legalise their citizenship for their immediate political gains, but with little or no concern for the damage their action has done to the locals and the nation at large. Bangladesis still continue unabated, to enter into India through our very porous borders, which we are reluctant to seal. General, S.K Sinha was appointed Govrnor of Assam in the year 1997, at a time when insurgency in that state was at its peak. In his 42 page report to the president of India on illegal migration from Bangladesh, he addressed the root cause of insurgency in Assam, but political wisdom and vote bank compulsions prevailed even at the cost of national security and unity.
Later also General Sinha in his book warned of this dangerous political game based on his first hand experience and knowledge of this during his stint as Governor of Assam. He had openly expressed apprehensions of the locals being reduced to a minority by the influx of these intruders over a period while the intruders would continue enjoying that status, courtesy the government of India, since their illegal entry into this country. Now in contrast to these ground- facts the newly appointed head of the country is calling these intruders as minorities and showing political grief, while these intruders have occupied locals (Bodos) land by pushing them out by force and taking away the source of their livelihood. Over the decades the locals, the media and the opposition parties have been raising this issue but the ruling party has stubbornly refused to listen and address to the problem. On the contray it has been denying any such possibility. Now the President bleeds for these illegal migrants who are forcing out the locals but not for the Hindus who are being ‘procecuted’ in Pakistan where they were living for the last more than six decades as natural citizens of that country. They are those who believed in Pakistan at the time of partition and stayed there in their homeland. Now when they are being forced out of Pakistan into India, our government is looking towards the Constitutional provisions of the country to give them temporary asylum only. How can they be allowed to become naturalised citizen of India because they are not Bangladesi Muslims, whom we are welcoming and allowing them to spread throughout the country unchecked. For them our government does not need the sanction of our constitution and instead of temporary asylum we issue them permanent Ration Cards to make them fake citizens of the country to create vote banks. What a political dichotomy with faked national concerns! This approach germinated politically has done irreparable loss to the national unity and peace in Assam. As a whole, political parties have played havoc with the social fabric of this country. They have misused the ethnic unity and peaceful co-existence among groups of various faiths and cultures, for immediate political gains and thereby they have destroyed the very essence of peaceful co-existence among them and take political mileage and advantage from that situation every now and then by playing them against one another. Still they keep on boasting of unity in diversity of the nation, which infact, they have already sacrificed on the political alter long ago.
The present unfortunate carnage and the anti-north-east wave in various states is the direct fall-out of those political sins and as a result those hapless people of the far eastern part of the country, who had started assimilating with the rest of the country peacefully, are at the receiving end for no fault of their own. Illegal infiltration of Bangladesis is a problem the central government itself accepts but is reluctant to do little or nothing to tackle this menace. Now the problem has gradually spread throughout the country and creating a national problem of a big magnitude. The national integrity and unity is being threatened. The Muslims, most probably Bangladesis from all nooks and corners of the country have turned rumour-mongers and targeting N.E. people everywhere and forcing them under threats of violence, to flee back to their homeland. Technical investigation has established that bulk of the incendiary images was first uploaded on blogs in Pakistan. This speaks volumes of yet another sinister move behind the carnage and countrywide panic. Further special trains leaving Assam to bring back Assamese are getting full with Bangladesis who are going there to grab jobs left vacant by the far- east people.
Under all these circumstances, it is a matter of surprise that we have a National Commission for Minorities (Muslims only) still operating in India, even after more than six decades of Independence. It was first formed by the congress, but is being perpetuated for only political reasons and benefits. There is, otherwise, absolutely no other valid reason /argument to continue it. At the time of partition a large number of Indian Muslims opted to remain in India their home- country for centuries, and not migrate to Pakistan, of their own volition. At that time they were normal Indian citizens like any other resident of this country. They should have been allowed to contue with the same status of their natural citizenship of the country of their residence. There was absolutely no need to define those Indian citizens (Muslims) differently and make special provisions for them. Muslim brotheren too must have shown the same feelings and concern for the country of their residence as ordinary citizens like any other religious minority living in India along with them. They were not strangers or foreigners here. They were in their home-land. They had all the opportunities and constitutional rights as any other citizen of the country. Why then treat them as a separate distinguished group is beyond comprehension? Why they are not being allowed to become part of the mainstream Indian society? Perhaps for dirty vote-bank policy only!
Muslims living in Bodoland are very much, illegal infiltrators, is a fact beyond doubt. But the National Commission for Minorities has observed that the clashes in Assam were not triggered by the infiltrators but was a fall-out of clashes between Bodos and resident Muslims. Now who are these so-called resident Muslims by the way? They too are illegal infiltrators who stormed BodoLand earlier and have dislodged Bodos from their land belongings and forcibly sharing the sources of their livelihood. The outcry for a separate Bodoland was a direct result of these Bangladesi illegal migrants. NCM is, perhaps trying to establish that no new infiltration is taking place, while the facts are otherwise. Illegal sneakers still continue entering India and are creating fresh problems. Serious national problems should not be tackled on political platforms. Wrong religious and political connotations, simply aggrevate the problems.
This political dichotomy has fragmented the monolith of composite Indian culture into warring ethnic groups, which are traded as trump-cards openly during election season without any qualms.
God save this country!
Moti Mudgal
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Nainy Sahani
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Banks -- Corporates -- Political Parties
Elections in our country are a big deal. For the political parties and their parasites, for the corporates, for the banks but certainly not for the common-man, because it his money, which makes elections such a big deal. Even after six good decades of the so-called social-welfare philosophy of the state rule in the country, the man on the street looks dumbfounded on the high drama during election season where money is splurged recklessly and drunken mobs rule the roads, fearlessly, unchecked and inhibited. Freebees flow and votes are traded, while the LAW takes a Sabbath.
One wonders about the amount and size of money which goes into Indian elections, the way it does, and no-one knows actually where this money comes from? Therefore in this context the performance of our banks draws uninvited attention. A recent SBI first quarter results reveal a growth in its income but equally the NPAs too keep on growing.
Now these NPAs generally do not attract much public attention. NPA means Non Performing Assets. This term mainly describes the Bad Loans or the public money loaned to big corporate and business houses, the chances of recovery of which perhaps don’t exist. The report boasts of a net- profit of Rs 3,762 crores for the quarter ended June, while the loans of over Rs 6700 crores slipped into non-performing-assets during the quarter, and at the same time as per banks speculation another Rs 3000 crores stressed loans may slip into NPAs in the next quarter. A great performance indeed! But this jargon of expressing the financial health of our primary state bank is beyond public comprehension. These NPAs perhaps, find place, in the bank’s balance-sheet as assets. If you take out the amount of NPAs from the balance –sheet of the bank it would show a galloping loss of thousands of crores, because a major portion of these NPAs is surely not going to be recovered. It would gradually slip into bad debts as destined. This is happening in our banks for decades and with this, thousands of crores of public monry has slipped into this category, which is never accouted for.
The strangest part of of all this induced exercise is that the banks do not obviously try to recover this money from corporates through legal proceedings and attaching their properties. But in clear contrast, these very banks immediately put their legal machinery in action against small borrowers, mainly small businessmen and small scale industrial entrepreneur, to recover a few lacs from them as a result most of them go bankrupt.
Now in this background, it is common knowledge and officially acknowledged fact, that these very corporates donate huge amounts towards election funds to various political parties, which money runs their election machinery. The country has so far failed to bring in any legislation in this regard and this illegal game is legalized politically. This is not my assertion, but general conclusion on the basis of the facts made public by banks, corporates and political parties. May be this arrangement of shared prosperity is mainly responsible for the ever widening rich – poor divide in the country, which is being perpetuated decades after decades of shining India.
Moti Mudgal
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Brewing Fresh Political Cocktails
L. K. Advani might have suffered some politically depressive moments and or fortune, but certainly has not lost his long earned political wisdom. It is only, an indirectly, veiled political bait and obviously a proposal to team Anna or may be now gone underground team Anna, since the activists against corruption showed their intentions to come on the same political page with other political parties. You mingle with us and you have your own Prime Minister, post 2014. He seems also to be sure that even if they, possibility of which is quitr remote, mingle with the congress, its team Anna who may get the P.M.’s post in the bargain, looking to the today’s political haze-like horizon.
It is a well conceived dart of fine politics with expectations to know whether the new additionto their tribe could land on the same game field with the bait. He has certainly not accepted defaeat but has indulged in remotely possible speculative politics.
Moti Mudgal
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A Wake-up Call
The front-page headlines of to-day’s – 30th – July ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ should be a wake-up call for the people of this ever suffering and deficit state of Rajasthan for long. The stark reality of the highly negligent conduct of its powerful senior beauraucrats should be taken on its face value.
The report says that Rajasthan could manage to get approval only for 13 projects in a period of long seven years and the state could complete only 2 of them. A history of criminal negligence and serious dereliction of their duties on the part of Lalit K. Pawar, Parvinder Singh Pawar, D.B. Gupta, G. S. Sandhu and P.K. Deb, who were responsible for the job. The achievement of other states, during this period, on this front, should be a matter of shame,for the state. The table runs as follows:-
State Approved Projects Completed Projects
Gujrat 72 32
Andra Pradesh 52 18
Karnatak 47 22
Maharastra 80 17
W. Bengal 71 13
Tamil Ndu 48 12
RAJASTHAN 13 2
This is a dismal performance and height of inefficiency, indeed! This should be treated as willful negligence and dereliction of duty and shouls evoke stringent disciplinary action it deserves. In fact our beauraucracy has little or no commitment towards their duty and when confronted, they simply reply in a very casual, evasive and irresponsible manner. Time has come when they should be shaken out of their stuper and made responsible. They have to work like corporate managers with a highly committed work-culture, where they have to perform and deliver if they choose to remain. They have practically lived too long, enjoying their status and salaries and handsome perks without being responsible and committed to anything. Now they should be slapped with clearly defined responsibilities to be completed within a given time-frame.
Such re-orientation of the duties and responsibilities of public servants is over-due. The people and the country should not be allowed to suffer at the hands of our neglectful, non-performing and corrupt beauraucrecy anymore. Provision of quick action should be made mandatory and the provision of seeking permission of the government should be done away with. It has become a fashion in our government administration to transfer a corrupt and or a defaulting officer, as a punishment. How do you call it a punishment? You are rather giving him a chance to dodge indignity and open shop at another place.
Our laws were made by Britishers, the foreign rulers, for their own officers to avoid punishment for them. Our beaueaucrats have fortified themselves by adopting those defunct rules of conduct, which in fact protect them instesd of punishing them for their offences. It is high time, that rules of conduct for Indian beauraucrats are re-modelled according to the needs of the country, to give them the necessary, edge and effect, for speedy judgement, which they have enjoyed for good six decades. The holiday should be over. It is this dead-weight which is stalling the Lok Pal Bill for pretty good 40 years with their political bosses.
Moti Mudgal
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The Civilized Primate
We all started life as primates and walked the jungles in herds. Now also, ages later, practically all animals/insects/birds and many other species live in clusters i.e. the natural way of joint family system, which continues till today. It was a means of survival too. Take any example – lions, elephants, zebras, deers, bisons, monkeys, wild dogs. Hyenas you go on counting, they all continue living in herds of joint families. Similarly birds of majority of species, live in flocks, then bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, moths, they all live in natural joint families. Bees and ants are the biggest and best examples of joint family system. But as Man grew, the intelligent humans started breaking their herds but still, yes, they lived in joint families. They still continue to do so in many parts of the world in many communities.This lead them to restrict their joint families of olden days in new form.
But now when the all round development of the human race has reached its peak, man has become utterly selfish and has started abandoning the joint family system. He now prefers to live alone with his wife and children and surprisingly in certain cases parents and children prefer to live separately. Their personal life is much dearer to them which they don’t want to share with anybody. Strange but it is true. Or we can say that their children literally desert them to lead their life separately. This is now being called a nuclear family. This getting apart, does not remain limited to physically living separately but the children refuse to take responsibility of their ailing parents and looking after them, hardly realizing that they would then pass on the same culture to their children. Children have already started life of their own. They remain practically cut-off from the life of their parents.
This has created a human species somewhere between animal culture and in human culture prevailing till now where-in elders did not have to worry about their sun-set years. The family members took care of them. But now things have changed. Instead children now deposit them in old-age homes and just leave them to their fate with no further contact. They practically abandon them, and we call it a civilized world. Among monkeys whenever a young one dies of any reason, the mother carries the dead body of her off-spring for several days may be months even after the body dries up. When grown up, the young ones remain attached to the troop. Similarly when a herd of elephants comes across the remains of their ancestors in the jungle, the whole herd stops there and literally pays homage to the dead soul. They remain there standing in silence for some time touching and feeling them with their trunks and then move away. But the civilized animal, the man’ just refuses to respect even his living parents and elders of the family, in complete disregard of his duty towards them and we call it a civilized world.
Moti Mudgal
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जॉर्ज एक पहेली
माउंट-आबू में एक जैन संत रहा करते थे I श्री शांति विजयजी I वे स्थायी रूप आबू के दिलवाड़ा जैन मंदिर में रहा करते थे I उनका एक शहर में भी निवास था – शांति सदन I यह आबू के बस स्टैंड के समीप था i शांति सदन एक बड़ा परिसर था I उसमें यात्रियों के ठहरने के लिए पर्याप्त व्यवस्था थी I उनके अनुयायी लगभग सब गुजराती थे I दिलवाड़ा में उनके एक अंग्रेज शिष्य भी थे – जॉर्ज I उन्हे हम बचपन से देखते आ रहे थे I शांति विजय जी की तरह वे भी केवल एक श्वेत अधोवस्त्र धरण करते थे I मंदिर के पृष्ठ भाग में जंगल की ओर एक छोटा सा द्वार खुलता था I उसी के समीप बाहर निकलते ही एक छोटी सी कोठरी में जॉर्ज रहा करते थे I वे बड़ा एकाकी जीवन बिताते थे I किसी से मिलते-जुलते नहीं थे I कभी कभी हम जब भी किसी मेहमान को मंदिर दिखाने ले जाते थे तो हम उस द्वार से निकाल कर उनसे अवश्य मिलते थे I हमें देखकर वे बड़े प्रसन्न होते थे I प्रणाम करने पर वे हमें अपने पास बैठा लेते और बातें किया करते थे I लंबा चौड़ा शरीर ,नीली आँखें और सुंदर गौर वर्ण - जॉर्ज बड़े प्रभावशाली लगते थे I वे लोगों से कम ही बोलते थे I बस अपने में मगन अपनी दिनचर्या में मस्त रहते थे I
जब हम कुछ बड़े हो गए और जॉर्ज बूढ़े, तो भी हम उनसे मिलते रहते थे I वे हमे देखकर मुस्कुरा देते थे I एक दिन हमने हमेशा के विपरीत उन्हे उदास देखा I वे अस्वस्थ भी थे I बातों ही बातों में हमने उनसे पूछ लिया कि आप क्या साधना करते हैं? वे थोड़े सकपकाए फिर दुखी हो गए I परंतु मुस्कुराते हुए बोले ‘कुछ नहीं और केवल ऊपर कि ओर उंगली उठा दी I फिर स्वास छोडते हुए बड़े दुखी स्वर में बोले ‘ मैंने बहुत चेष्टा की , बहुत संयम बरता परंतु मैं काम को मार नहीं पाया’ I हम उनकी ओर देखते ही रह गए I वे इतना कहकर बड़े उदास मन से अपनी कोठरी के अन्दर चले गए I उसके कुछ दिन बाद ही हमने सुना कि जॉर्ज का स्वर्गवास हो गया था I
मैं उस समय नवी कक्षा का विद्यार्थी था I मेरे एक दादा आबू में फोंरेस्ट रेंज ऑफिसर थे I वे अविवाहित थे I पुजा अर्चना में लगे रहते थे I मुझसे उनका बहुत लगाव था I वे शांति विजयजी के पास अक्सर जाया करते थे I एक दिन वे मुझे भी अपने साथ ले गए I उस समय वे शहर में शांतिसदन में रह रहे थे I वहाँ उनकी क्या बातचीत हुई मुझे याद नहीं पर जब उन्होंने मेरा परिचय कराया तो वे मुस्कुराए और अपने इधर उधर देखने लगे I फिर मुस्कुराते हुए उन्होंने अपनी कलाई पर बंधी घड़ी खोली और मेरी ओर बढ़ा दी I मैं खुश I वह एक छोटी सी चौकोर जॉन बैरल घड़ी थी I उसमें बड़े सूक्ष्म अंक लिखे थे और एक बड़ी सूक्ष्म सेकोंडों की सुई थी जो चलती हुई बड़ी प्यारी लगती थी I यह 1946 कि बात है I आज भी वह घड़ी मेरे पास है अपने मूल रूप में और उसी प्रकार आज भी समय बता रही है I आज की घड़ियों के मुकाबले बड़ी प्यारी लगती है I वह मेरी एक खास धरोहर है I उसके बाद जितनी घड़ियां मैंने काम मे ली हैं वे भी सब चालू हालत में मेरे पास सुरक्षित हैं I कभी कभी उन्हे अपने सामने रखकर देखने में बड़ा मजा आता है और उस समय का काल- खंड आँखों के सामने घूम जाता है
मोती मुद्गल
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Respite in Life, No Way
Craving for respite is one thing and the need for respite is another. But it all depends on ones outlook in life, one’s attitude towards time and the decibels of his determination to rise. Yes it is the composite amalgam of the traits of personality of a person, for it is this amalgam which finally decides the composite culture of his lfe. By this, I precisely mean his day to day reaction and response to the daily chores of a perfect professional. But then, for being a perfect professional, it is very important, as to how you calibrate your think process, in relation to your daily professional needs and your ultimate ambitions? The path to progress is quite challenging and this varies from situation to situation and person to person.
In simple form if you have to reach a particular destination within a given time, you have to keep pace with time and matching speed. Same way whatever may be your aim in life, it needs a definite work-culture or it is your work culture which in turn decides your destination. It is correct both ways. Your already inborn attitude in life determines your destination. But if the little extra grey-matter in your upper-story overtakes and compels you to re-define your goals and re-calibrate your attitude and aims, your path itsef takes a new turn. You keep on rising in life if you have an insatiable urge and ambition in life which drives you on and on, to revise your time-table each day and determine the use of time to speed-up according to the set goals.
The basic mantra to be going and successful in life is that there is no time to rest and relax. The moment one job is done, immediately the next one has to be taken up. There is no time to rest in life, for time and tide wait for none - hence you must move according to time, riding on the crest of the tide. Changing stress-levels gives you time to breathe freely which provides the needed oxygen to your system. You cannot lose sight of your destination. It has to be on your radar 24x7, making you restive to reach it in the given span of time.
Progress is a never ending game and satisfaction kills your urge to move, hence no respite. But yes – श्रम का परिवर्तन ही विश्राम है – so change your work and divert your attention and it would give you the needed respite.
Moti Mudgal
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Is Rahul Reluctant?
Rahul perhaps is not reluctant. Salman Khurshid’s observation was partially true or say relevant in the present scenario prevailing in the party. Yes, there is a paralysis in the party. It is precisely because the various party mouthpieces have, for a long time over, indulging in isolated assumptions and presumptions, not being the policy statements of the party as such. And these personal and unauthorized proclamations by these selfstyled party patrons, have been, in fact, doing a disservice to the party, in respect of its image, its authentic position in a given situation and its ability to think cohesively. This has created a false impression and sent out wrong or cofused signals outside, rendering party position incoherent obviously, which is not exactly the case, but an unexpected, uncontrolled and uncalled for behavior on part of these pompous, overjealous and unappointed policy hornbills of the party is responsible for the present state of hold in the party.
In fact the real problem in the party is that obviously it sends a message that it has lost party cohesion, the hierarchy discipline and the much needed respect for one another. Every member, worth some salt is, trying to prove himself and not the party. As a result there is a flow of floating suggestions and solutions making rounds in the party cadres, which in turn create confusion and therefore the party starts at one point and ends at one.
Same thing applies to the future place and role of Rahul Gandhi in the party. It has been made a subject of personal conjectures and off- the- cuff suggestions which are obviously uncalled for, for the prestige of the party. These statements coming from different quarters and different persons at different and unopportune times have made it rather difficult for Rahul to speak-up his mind. He is not being given the needed respite and peaceful isolation to help him introspect and define his own furure. In such times when even the stalwarts of any organization are or seem to be divided, confused and jumping party discipline and or guide-lines, they are simply making things difficult for him. Instead of guiding him to take his own decision on his own wisdom and ability things are being made unpalatable and difficult for him. If the so-called party bosses have faith in the young scion, they should fight shy of throwing conflicting opinions and suggestion for him and let him breathe in peace and freedom of thought and allow him to take his own decisions. It should be assumed that by this time Rahul has developed his own views, his own vision and his own determination to blaze the trail. Let him take his own decisions and carve out his role for the moment. It would be good for the health of the party.
Moti Mudgal
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लुप्त होती गौरैया
“शहरी ध्वनिप्रदूषण गौरैया के बच्चों को मार रहा है I” आज अख़बार में यह सूचना पढ़कर मन एकदम उदास हो उठा I गौरैया घर घर में बच्चों की साथी रही है और आज भी है , विशेषकर ग्रामीण इलाक़ों में I गौरैया एक बड़ी प्यारी और घरेलू चिड़िया है I गौरैया को दाना डालना , परहीडे बांधना ग्रामीण इलाक़ों में एक ऐसी दिनचर्या है जो उनके जीवन का एक अंग सा बन चुकी है I घर के आँगन में भी गौरैया दाना चुगते चुगते बच्चों के एकदम पास चली आती हैं और जब कोई बच्चा उसे पकड़ने को बढ़ता है तो पूरा झुंड एक साथ उड़ जाता है I फिर आ जाता है I
शहरों में भी ये समाई हुई हैं I हमारे मोहल्ले में कुछ माह पूर्व तक इनका एक झुंड सक्रिय रहता था I सामने के मकान में लगा बॉटल- ब्रश का पेड़ उनका बसेरा था I शाम ढले मैं और कौशल्या- मेरी पत्नी – बाहर बैठे उन्हे रोज निहारा करते थे I वे कभी एक साथ उड़कर मुंडेर पर जा बैठती , फिर एक झटके में एक साथ पेड़ में समा जाती I अंधेरा होने तक उनका यह खेल चलता रहता था I हमारी रसोई की खिड़की में उनका एक जोड़ा रोज आता था I कौशल्या वहाँ उनके लिए एक कटोरी में पानी व एक में रोटी मोरकर रखती थी I कार्यवश किसी दिन यदि वह रखना भूल जाती तो वे दोनों खिड़की में चोंच मार-मार कर कोहराम मचा देते थे I उनके कारण कौशल्या रसोई में कभी अकेला महसूस नहीं करती थी I वे सुबह शाम दोनों समय आते थे I धीरे धीरे उनका आना कम होने लगा था I
अब लगभग एक माह से उनका आना एकदम बंद है I गौरैयाओं का वह झुंड भी गायब है I कौशल्या रोज खिड़की में झाँकती है और उस जोड़े को नहीं पाकर उदास हो जाती है लेकिन फिर भी वह रोटी और पानी रखना नहीं भूलती I पर अब उनका आना एकदम बंद हो चुका है I सामने का बॉटल- ब्रश का पेड़ जो उनका बसेरा था , सूना सा पड़ा है I उसमें रोज शाम ढले जो चहचहाहट होती थी वह गायब है, अब वहाँ सन्नाटा रहता है I हम शाम को जब बाहर बैठते हैं कौशल्या पेड़ को एकटक देखती रहती है फिर मेरी ओर देखकर उदास हो उठती है और कहती है ‘जाने सब चिड़ियाँ कहाँ चली गयी ?”
आज अख़बार में यह पढ़कर मन दुखी हो उठा I यू. के. की शैफ़ील्ड यूनिवरसिटी की एक शोध से पता चला है कि शहरों का शोर गौरैया माँ-बाप की बच्चों की भूख़ की पुकार सुनने को प्रभावित करता है I वे अपने बच्चों को सुन नहीं पाते और बच्चे भूखे मर जाते हैं I
हमारी कॉलोनी के समीप ही एक बड़ा होटल है I उसमें आये दिन कई प्रकार के आयोजन होते रहते हैं I बड़ा शोरगुल होता है I डीजे की आवाज से सारा वातावरण गूँजता रहता है I भीषण आवाजों वाली आतिशबाजी होती रहती है I
कदाचित मनुष्य की इसी स्वार्थपरस्ती ने हमारे जीवन का कोलाहल छीन लिया है I वह चहचहाहट चली गई है I कौशल्या की उदासी देखकर मैं भी व्यथित हो उठता हूँ I हमारे मोहल्ले से गौरैया गायब है I
मोती मुद्गल
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Coming Events Forecast Their Shadows
The suddenly changed bodylanguage of Home Minister Chidambaram speaks of the coming fiscal policies of the government. He is slated to take over as the Finance Minister of the country next month. But he already seems to have become overtly pro-active assuming he is already in the saddle. His over exuberance also displays his confidence in himself, for assigning the finance portfolio to him by his party, would be taken by him that he is absolved of all charges being leveled against him from several quarters. This feeling should naturally give him the much needed confidence in himself and his government.
Precisely, therefore he has already started giving glimpses of his coming financial policies. But perhaps in his over enthusiastic assumptions he has started giving controvertial statements, not connected with his present portfolio. He seems to be speaking as the Finance Minister of the country already.
His statement regarding inflation, that when the middle class people can spend Rs. 15/ for a bottle of mineral water and Rs. 20 for an ice cream, why cant they spend one rupee more for a Kg. of rice or pulses? Fine! But when the would be finance minister of the country touches on the point of inflation inflicting the poor masses of the country in equal measure, he can ill afford to forget that a bottle of warer and a scoop of ice cream is not what the poor man working in the fields or on the roads and anywhere wants, he needs only his staple food – thick bread/ dough balls baked in cow dung cakes with a little chilly chutney, to be chewed and gulped with the water supplied by the corporation/municipality. So the ever rising prices of elementary food items and ordinary vegitables are a matter of big concern for him. The inflation hardly touches the political class and the babus, it only chokes the poor, the vast majorityof our population
His statement is not a good sign. He is in fact supporting inflation.
Moti Mudgal
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India’s River Water Sharing Sense
India itself is a scant rainfall country, that too being uncertain and hence, a water starved country. Every year we look towards the heavens and indulge in many rituals such as ‘Havans’ to please the celestial rain-gods to be merciful and kep life going atleast. With amatiated farmers sitting on their parched fields with a pathetic look on their faces is a common site practically every year.
Still under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, India has agreed to set aside 80’52% of the waters of the Six River Indus System for Pakistan, while retaining the residual 19.48% for itself. Is it not a stupid generosity, especially looking at the way that rouge country is behaving with this country? It attacked its benefactor and is engaged 24x7 in exporting terror to this country as a reward for its benevolence.
Similarly New Delhi in another naïve move wanted to impose on this country Teesta River Treaty with Bangadesh. Worldwide water sharing treaties do not allow even half the basin water to the down stream countries. But India with self defeating psychology, Man Mohan Singh, our worthy Prime Minister wanted West Bengal to agree to share half of Teesta River water with Bangladesh. Strangely per capita availability of water in Bangladesh is 8,252 cubic metres, while in India it has already reached a paltry 1,500 cubic metres. It looks like a beggar is trying to be over-generous towards those who are already in a position to dole out back to it. Infact Indians take pride in self-denial. Being overgenerous is supposed to be a vitue and hence a sign of self imposed greatness.
एक कहावत है ‘ घर के पूत कंवारे डोलें पाड़ोसी के फेरे ‘ I
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