Wednesday, January 6, 2010

India consternated with vile politics and bemused society
An area of 32, 87,263 km2 is doing splendid but tardily, once in a month we hear from the Finance ministry or from the PMO quoting that “India will achieve 9% growth” but actually speaking, very less is pumped in educational sector and the policies set by the ruling coalition at present are propitious towards the Khaas-Admi’s pocket. Few candidates from some political party gibe with the Rule 49-0 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, which furnishes with an opportunity to vote none of the above and whereas Russians have this option, countries like Australia, Belgium (since 1892) go for compulsory voting, India should follow this for better governance because Indians complain a lot against government and thus ignore voting opportunities. This won’t do. When 26/11 took place, India expected Mumbaikars to vote in the general elections but unfortunately 46% voting was recorded (not even crossing 50%). Then I think just sitting in an air-conditioned office and cursing government isn’t constitutional. Eunuchs are better than these Indians. When asked to these Indians, they quote “All candidates are one and the same, our vote won’t make any difference”, and then simultaneously they don’t have any right to blame politicians, either people must keep their halitosis mouth shut or else modify the situation through actions …such as RTI, PIL, social activities contributed by each and every Indian will surely make a lot of difference. The Government of India must create a fundamental right for each and every Indian to perform social activities, filing RTI, helping deprived class, etc once in six months and it must be made applicable to each and every class, caste and gender, profession, etc and on this , some kind of incentives , tax cut, etc must be endorsed. Let me also bring to the notice of the Government that they better provide people with ‘None of the Above’ option during electoral process and if there is anyone who gonna disagree then politics is not their vocation, for these kind of people they’ve made politics as their avocation. Candidates’ assets and income profile must be made available online and for those who can’t afford online, the administration must anyhow reach this class and inform them.
Food is the basic necessity of any living being, when talking about Social animals they are likely to abhor the word ‘Food Inflation’ which now has peaked at 19.5%. Bad control on population, nexus between corporators (politicians) – builders, adverse policies on farming sector, poor infrastructural and urban planning, black marketing are the causes of Food pinching the Aam-Admi’s pocket. Few years back, we’d a saying: “Hum do, Humare do” but now in my era, I hear: “Hum do, Humare Ek”. Still our population is growing tremendously and are in competition with China. For a better future, we need family planning; more emphasis should be pumped in rural areas. We’ve more young people in our nation still unemployment prevails despite the ruling gov. initiative like NREGA, even corruption at the lower level of this initiative is beholden, very soon we will see rise in stipend in this scheme from Rs.100/- to Rs.150/- and many private-public companies will initiate education to workers under this scheme for projects which is indeed good. NREGA must now be more modified and innovated to reach extreme poor people, physically-disabled people. Recently, Justice Suresh Tendulkar presented a report on Below Poverty Line (BPL) in India which is around 37% whereas the Gov. showered us with stilted statistics concluding BPL at 27.5%. I plead them to visit Bhakatara district in Chattisgarh, Sadguru Kheda in Bihar, Bundhelkhand district in U.P, Amravati district in Maharashtra or just talk to a cobbler at the railway station. The economic-polices must be formulated to involve not only Relative poverty but also enlisting Absolute poverty. When you are in a developed foreign land to donate some stuff, you’ve to search poor people but in India, you can easily spot poor people. Despite Rs.10,000 crore loan packages waived for farmers in Maharashtra , the suicidal rate is still escalating…factors of Global warming are the best foe’s of this people.
Hon’ble ministers and highly respected political party workers, these days, are more concerned about bifurcation, trifurcation of Indian states. As per this ideology, small states create good governance and better functioning of administration but this case fails in the newly-formed states of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh where deprived class and many people still forage, were boycotted and thus creating one more tension for this nation – Naxalites. Since their movement incepted in 1967 but yet they are not complacent with the Gov. Programmes, poor PDS in their respective states and police harassing them: “Society prepares the crime and the criminal commits it”. We need states for progress, development and contribution to our economy but on the basis of administration not on linguistic line otherwise after 100 years; you’ll be requiring Visa to travel from Mumbai to Lucknow or from Hyderabad to Vishakhapatnam. Sir Winston Churchill, correctly said, India will one day divide among themselves and we are doing our best to pursue his dream, isn’t this an act of impudent? From the long-term point of view, we don’t need any more ‘’Second State Reorganisation Commission’’ but we surely need ‘’Nation and State Development Commission’’, think now before it’s too late!
Vada-Pav is liked by everyone who’d. It is also known as ‘’Food of Common person’’ but now it costs around Rs.6-Rs.7- , the regional party in Maharashtra – Shiv Sena , which is pride of Marathi people recently started their stalls across Mumbai to compete with McDonald’s, etc , their vada-pav costs at Rs.6/-. How much Vada-pav can a poor person or a beggar have in a day? With this, NCP in Mumbai is coming with Kande-Pohe costing same. These parties talk about eradication of poverty during releasing of election pronunciamento, at least they can make such tasty food affordable to all section of class.
I am still in doubt; I think only a notice from 10 Janpath can help me. Why PM was discombobulated during general elections in 2009 with independent candidates contesting in our so-called Democracy? Many newspapers quoted him saying that “Independent Candidates divide votes” but don’t you think its unfair saying this in our Democracy, Can not an ordinary person contest election as an Independent in our Democracy? Why do we’ve leaders saying this? Why certain Opinion leaders of some religious section issue fatwas pre-elections directing its people to vote only for the candidate who belongs to their caste or community? Isn’t this harming our basic fundamental rights in our Democracy? And there are some who always talk about building Ram temple but even during their tenure they couldn’t build? Will they actually build or just gossiping like mindless bollywood actresses? Why aren’t they focusing on the purification of River Ganga or even modifying the Ganga Purification Project? Then there are Marxists and Communists in India who are afraid of loosing elections in 2011 WB Assembly elections and they feel xenophobic to Naxalites and Marxist-Leninist? These Marxist and Communist people have finally agreed ‘’Corruption at the lower level of their party” now, they oppose SEZ in India and on the other hand appreciate SEZ in Guangxi province of China, they also condemned Han Chinese atrocities on Uighur Muslims to appease their vote bank here but why they don’t seriously fight for the implementation of Sachar Committee recommendations which strives to strengthen minority communities.
We call Mahatma Gandhi “Father of our nation” but we don’t follow his principles. MP like Vilas Muttemwar in Vidarbha district of Nagpur in Maharashtra coronal statue of Gandhi and then give their ‘’Babuic Baashan’’ on bifurcation of Maharashtra, fortunately it was only the statue of Gandhi, if he would’ve been here and other freedom fighters as well, I assure they would’ve burst in tears looking at the present situation in India. Just think over this, readers!
Many youngsters likely desire to build their career in MNC’s, Business Organisations, Banks ignoring vocations like teaching , science, law, history, politics etc and thus we lack proficient people in the said areas, the Gov. must take this issue seriously and pump in more funds in this educational area, create opportunities. An ordinary citizen surely can’t contest elections even at the local level because buying a ticket costs up to Rs.10K, canvassing up to Rs. 10-25 Lakhs, even doing social/noble work and earning goodwill among the people isn’t as easy as many Indians aren’t aware politically and are agog about Salman-Katrina private life. Media and the Journalism is complacent with their TRP theory and not researching more on theories like Uses and Gratification, Agenda-Setting, etc. Indians are active audience and Media has contributed a lot still the Journalism is bemused. Indians need to develop neoterics thinking, just by wearing modern or western dress won’t make us Modern thinker. We must ne’er be complacent with the short-term objective. Our Media talks about the Voice of Democracy but let me present some dinkum instances so that you’ll believe me – Newspaper organisations, TV channels are now more indulged in marketing. The widely read English Broadsheet across India called Mr.Lalji Tandon, BJP MP from Lucknow , and said that they will give wide coverage to him if he paid to their packages. Many paid news content can be easily beholden in Dainik Jagran, Gujarat Samachar, Eenadu, Navabharat. Newspaper like Punjab Kesri having readership of Rs.1.04 crore admitted that they made between Rs.5 crore to 20 crore during assembly election. Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit said that a news channel in Delhi called him to pay Rs. 3 lakhs so that they can give best and positive coverage to Rahul Gandhi visits during general elections in 2009. Mr. P.K.Rama Rao from Loksatta party, Warangal , Andhra Pradesh, paid Rs.50,000 to Eenadu (Eenadu is a telgu daily) for three articles. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is loosing reputation every day as their chief and CM Mayawati of U.P. has spend Rs.3000 crore in building statues of Kanshi Ram (founder of B.S.P), Dr. Ambedkar, Elephants and also of her, one of the party member Akhilesh Das who is also a MP admitted that Media doesn’t give importance to them and write anti-B.S.P. Personally speaking, even when I interned in some Hindi news channels, I was told every time by my producer or senior editor, whenever I used to go on reporting, to get some kind of ‘’Masala from Coverage’’. The credibility of news is diminishing; it’s nothing but a product. Media is the fourth estate of our democracy, it’s the most powerful tool in the world, it can make gov. or it can abolish gov., it can create fame or it can defame you, me or anyone. Media is not God but people specially Indians believe and treat Media as God, hence this is why we are called ‘’Active Audience’’. When politicians like Madhani (Madhani is from PDP, this party is based in Kerala and other parts of India as well but this person was involved in Coimbatore blasts in 2005) can easily contest elections, hence you can define ‘’Election Commission of India’’, there are other great like Laloo Prasad (involved in Fodder Scam), Abu Azmi (involved in Cobbler Scam, his assets declared in 2009 elections showed Rs.124 crore, so you can well imagine undeclared assets).
India’s defence isn’t strong compared to China because most of the defence deals give birth to scams. Renowned are BMW Submarine Scam, Falcon Planes Scam, Bofors Scam. We also have thousands of vacancies in Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air-Force, and Indian Police Force.
Rail Commuters in Mumbai board and alight suburban locals like animals, travelling in packed and suffocation, still unsecured and some idiots talk about attorning Mumbai into Shanghai. Mamta didi is putting more emphasis to North and North-East Railways as she is hyped about achieving power in WB in 2011. We lack efficient Urban Planners and are set to believe to build states and cities. Water Harvesting cannot be done in Mumbai , hence Mumbai adopted to Cloud-Seeding in this July 2009 which was grimaced by BMC (Budmaash Municipal Coprporation ….ooppss….sorry ….BrihanMumbai Mahanagar Palika), in BMC office one can easily spot rats and files and the most secured person in India are Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab. “Justice delayed is Justice denied’’ , hope CJI K.G.Balakrishnan does something soon. Lust is found more in Indian men, India ranks high in rape and sexual molestation, through Travel and Tourism Ministry initiative - “Incredible India” we invite foreigners and ultimately foreign women in this nation are raped more compared to others. We talk about Racism in Australia as if Racism is new to us and we are purified souls, then why dowry system, assault on women and senior people, atrocities on dalits and Christians take place here. One of my aussie friend told that Indians behave in Aus. like blocking subways and chatting in between, loudly talking on phone, peeping on women and bikini women, promoting Indian groupism, speaking sometimes bad English (even my English isn’t good), if this is so we complain then why Chinese aren’t attacked?
Even I abhor criticising my friends, enemies in India but we Indians must accept the truth and start working upon it, let’s stop violence and say no to drugs and do many things which needs immediate attention before the planetoid Apophis hits the earth and India in 2036.

(Blog posted as on Jan'10)


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