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THE REALITY CHECK....

THE REALITY CHECK

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a country of 1.25 billion people where 2-5% of it enjoys the luxury of owning 80-85% wealth and resources. 60% people lives below poverty line and enjoys their livelihood at 32 rupees a day. Where an Economist leads the country as a PM and thinks that rising SENSEX is the true measure of country’s growth and decisions are being taken on the basis of the credit ratings provided by the credit rating agencies that are mainly responsible for 2008 debacle in US when they have given the AAA+ ratings to the most companies who filed the bankruptcy much earlier than others i.e., Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG etc..

In a country where a women CM of a major state says that a budget of Rs 600 a month is well enough for the livelihood of a 5 member family, where number of judges and courts can’t be increased as it will reduce the defense budget which is unlikely in the presence of neighbors like Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, even if it is responsible for a rape in every 22 minute in the country.

In the same country when a father is forced to sell his daughter or force his daughter in to prostitution because of poverty, in the same country if you think that one day the condition of women will definitely improve and in future we will see a generation of empowered women, then am very sorry to say that either your brain has stopped working properly or you are the biggest fool on earth who still thinks that a Gandhi – Nehru family heir, Rahul Gandhi will bring a drastic change in the country and one day it will happen.

That is why there is a statement at the start of this article which proves that this is the only reason why we are in such a pathetic position.This is the time when we don't need consensus, we need sense; where we don't need a relation, we need a family. We know its tough at a time when material values are much higher than spiritual values, but its not at all impossible as if we improve the country will definitely improve. 

UPA 2 - The Economy Killer

The Economy Killer

“An Economist is a person who can sacrifice a million people just for the sake of saving an Economy” – Anonymous.

Indeed it’s true and when it comes in the perspective of India which is lead by an army of Economists (i.e., Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr P. Chidambaram). This so called great army of economists is failed to understand the need of the hour and sticking to achieve its goal of containing fiscal deficit up to 5.3% of the GDP till the nest budget which is due in March 2013.

In the recent past a number of statements were attached with Dr Manmohan Singh like “Underachiever” by TIMES magazine. Now it seems like true to everyone because of the Real Policy Paralysis.

“There can be economy only where there is efficiency” – By Benjamin Disraeli

If we go by above statement we will be able to find that Dr Manmohan Singh and His team or you can say the UPA – 2 has failed to curtail the economy related problems. At a time when rupee is troubling against Dollar, Crude Oil Prices are increasing day by day and what the government is doing is, increasing the prices of Oil and Gases in the name of reducing unwanted pressure of Subsidies on the economy.

Well when we are thinking about the reason behind this continuous increase in prices of oil and Gases we think of depreciation f Rupee and increasing Crude oil prices which is but obvious. But the question is what about the two fire accidents happened in Jaipur and Surat and responsible for a loss of millions of liters of oil, why public shall be made to pay for it when it is seriously the mismanagement of the Oil Marketing Companies or if we go by the conspiracy theories it was an effort to hide the ongoing stealing of crude oil. If you remember in the month of December Rajasthan police caught a gang of people responsible for stealing crude oil from the pipeline which is not at all possible without the help of the employees of the Oil Marketing Companies. And when this fire broke out it was just an attempt to hide this stealing of Oil and the poor public is paying for it now.

So, this clearly proves that there is no efficiency in the working of the Oil Marketing Companies and partially they are responsible for the increasing burden of subsidies on the government.

At the same time there are numerous allegations of corruptions in the fields of allocation of natural resources which shows that if there was an efficient thoughtful process has been adopted it could have generated a reasonable amount of revenues which could have helped the economy in a better.

The last point I want to mention is that a number of countries are using a mix of Ethanol and Oil which is known as E10 or E15 depending on the percentage of Ethanol in the mix. The only negative point it has is that it decrease the engine efficiency by 3.3% which is not at all a bad option when we know the impact of CNG and LPG on the engine.

But when we talk about the positives; it will certainly help in reducing the demand of imported Oil which in turn help in reducing the burden of oil subsidies on the Indian Economy. Secondly, it will help all the cane growing farmers as they will get good prices for their produces. Thirdly, when the oil prices decrease it will certainly reduce the cost of agricultural as well as industrial productions which will help in curtailing the problem of inflation in the country.

The present decisions of De-Regulating the diesel and increase in the prices of petrol and LPG will make the situation only worse as the increasing prices of energy along with the RBI policy of no decline in the interest rate is only drying up the liquidity in the market from both ends.  

The question is why? Because the increase in Oil and Gas prices is certainly increasing the prices means supporting the inflation and RBI will not decrease the rates as the inflation is rising and in this case business men as well as people will have less money to save or spend which actually end up in recession or a big slowdown.

So, if government is really concerned about the economy they have to take foresighted decision rather than short sighted.

The need of the hour is reduction in the consumption of all the imported oil and this can be done only by mixing Ethanol or by increasing the use of Bio Fuels ( from Jetropha etc.). But unfortunately government is going on the wrong way to kill the economy of India.

The Aftermath of 16/12/2012

“This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first & foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects.”

-By Swami Vivekananda

We have many holidays in a year most of them are in the names of great speakers, scholars and leaders and many a times our current generation political leaders are idolizes them as well. But are we passing on their values through our education system to our coming generations or not.

This is a big question in the perspective of current situation where youngsters are out fighting for bringing justice to that 23 year old victim who succumbed not to the injuries but to the brutality of those monsters, beasts whatever you call.

At a time when half of our country is following up the one of the biggest movement of our time at the back drop of one of the most heinous crimes; a big question is arising. What is the root cause?

Well, debates are going on the news channels a number of socialists, educationists and activists are giving their opinions on it.

Some blame it on our judicial system, some blames the law enforcement agencies and some blames media and Bollywood Masala and then comes a think tank which says that we all are somehow responsible for it, which is true as well.

But still we are only seeing the symptoms not the actual picture. Some very well known influential people came up and tried to blame it on the globalization or urbanization or our so called modern world. Well this seems close.

It has a very possibility that this curse is spreading because of it is still early days for the mix of the west to east i.e., urbanization. But then comes the stats that there is hug increase in such case in the rural India and this defies the whole above logic.

So what is this??? What is the root cause???

And the answer is our education system, which we are providing to a big number but its quality is negligible. You have the stats in front of you, in 80% India is still depending on government schools where either student ratio is very low or it is almost negligible. Students sit in pathetic class rooms and none existent school teachers were there to teach. They only care for their monthly salary not the quality of education they provide.

Recent CTET exams results suggest that after two rounds of screening there are less than 1% aspirant who are capable of clearing these exams but still their capability of providing quality education to our new coming generations.

What values we provide to our kids is really a matter of concern, we can’t easily get of this chart but certainly we need to improve it on a war foot basis otherwise there will be no stopping of such cases even in the presence of harsh laws, increased policemen etc.

The reason is the output of our system is the one who will go out and man the posts which are meant for enforcing the law for the benefit of the society.

Unfortunately this is not going to happen as our main focus is on bringing the culprit to the death penalty and the politicians wants us to do the same.

Hope people will understand the value of education not of the literacy rate which is increasing but it’s good for nothing as we all are witnessing.

Well all this debate raises some questions in my mind as well. Some slogans like “my voice is higher than my skirt”, and the way all these women activists are chasing up each and every one who are advising the women on their dressing sense are really mind boggling. It only forces me to ask a question to them that whether wearing a skirt is the only parameter of judging the freedom given to women by the society.

Hope you will answer me.

Struggle with Democracy or What?

On a one fine Sunny Winter morning that too on a weekend, when most of us are lazily enjoying Morning Tea and Coffee in our beds and watching News Channels, A war was on at India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan, Raisina Hills.

All praise to that group of courageous young boys and girls who taking on a ruthless police force who are taking use of Water Canon, Tear Gas and Lathi Charge to disperse them.

An incident which has shaken all of India protests are going on in almost every major city and at the same time there is one Panchayat which attached a price tag on women of Rs 150000. Even after 65 years of independence this kind of incidents are disgraceful. How can we call ourselves the biggest and greatest democracy when the voice of the public has been heard once in every 5 years only.

What example can be more prudent to this that at a time when youngsters are protesting in the tough winter and facing water canons and brutal lathi charge of police none of the political leader forget about ruling party not even from opposition party came to stand by them as a support to give them a sense that their voices will be heard.

Sometimes it also feels that the demands made by this courageous group is more or less an impulse wants to act against several people ( those 6 rapists), some wise people suggesting to amend the laws for more stringent actions against such culprits.

Most of these tasks relates to the after maths of the incidents and based on to induce fear in those minds who even think of doing it. But no body is interested in thinking about those laws which are stringent and still no actions have been taken by the police force against the culprits rather it has played a role of defending the accused most of the time so making a law stringent will not help the cause anyway.

However, the most crucial thing at this moment is to stop this kind of heinous crimes. Which requires an effective control and utilization of our police force and other law enforcement agencies otherwise this exercise of making a strong law will go in vain.

What we can summarize from all this that our politicians are ruthless, emotionless, brainless and selfish that is why political parties are giving tickets to the accused of murders, rapes and other criminal cases. They are not leaders who can lead this country to a really shining India to a really growing India.

These politicians only talk and divide the country by Caste, Religion, language and region. They always talk about bringing in reforms in the Police and Administration process but they are too busy in economic reforms for the betterment of that 15-20% population which contribute to the donations for their election campaigns.

Where are these so called women leaders Ms Sheila Dikshit, Ms Sonia Gandhi etc who never shies to talk about how they always speak for the women rights. Ms Sheila Dikshit coming on national channel crying and saying and am ashamed and tell me what can I do I am doing whatever I can???

This is so pathetic that a leader like a CM of Delhi is making such a statement. She has to demand to the Congress chairman Ms Sonia Gandhi and to the Prime Minister of India along with the President of India to call for a joint session of the both houses of the Parliament and pass all the Bills required to bring in the reforms in Police Force, Judicial Reforms and all the administrative reforms.

Otherwise the both the governments the Delhi state government and the Central Government has no right to stay in power.