Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
We Must Stop this State Greed
Carving out state after state is not going to solve the problems of the people in any significant way. From the administrative point of view small states does have an edge but as in the recent case of new states all the policies and agenda has been hijacked by a nexus of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who are the main beneficiaries with no substantial improvement in the living conditions of the people.
The Centre is also to be blamed to meekly surrendering to fasting politicians. If tomorrow fasting politicians from nine more regions demand separate, what will the Centre do? Certainly Centre has set up a dangerous precedent and as the era of coalition politics gets more solid roots in our polity we will witness more demands of statehood and hatred as in the case of Maharashtra.
The Centre is also to be blamed to meekly surrendering to fasting politicians. If tomorrow fasting politicians from nine more regions demand separate, what will the Centre do? Certainly Centre has set up a dangerous precedent and as the era of coalition politics gets more solid roots in our polity we will witness more demands of statehood and hatred as in the case of Maharashtra.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
When will Politicians do what they are supposed to do?
A 17-18 years teen has immediate concerns about his career,and the current socio-economic developments with burning issues like climate change and inflation which affects each and every section of the society.He or she has nothing or least concern to do whether a temple is built or not. A huge population of our young electorate are silent and helpless spectators as our politicians fight and waste taxpayers money on fixing responsibility and blaming every political rival.
Why cant they devote some more meaningful time on issues which are of immediate concern to a common man? We are proud of our democracy but we are the victim of distorted and the democracy hijacked by the politicians and the wasted interests.
Why cant they devote some more meaningful time on issues which are of immediate concern to a common man? We are proud of our democracy but we are the victim of distorted and the democracy hijacked by the politicians and the wasted interests.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Poor Service of Reliance GSM
Reliance GSM has launched a massive ad campaign claiming to be the cheapest mobile operator with lowest tariff in all areas of mobile operation. It may be cheapest but the call quality and connectivity of Reliance GSM is worst in Delhi. The most problematic areas are poor signal, call drops and poor GPRS operation. Reliance Communications must address to these on urgent basis. Consumers can not be fooled for too ling just on the ground of cheap tariff but poor quality of service when the mobile subscribers have so much choice of operators and coming mobile portability scheme.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Can Our Youth Afford Babri Obsession?
Politicians on either side are suddenly laced with the Babri ghost to fight their political battle. Are their 'concern' affecting the common man who is already burdened with inflation and pressure to survive in this hostile world? India consisting of youth and crores who are born after 6.12.92 are in the midst of fearce competition to gather foothold with exciting career opportunities. What will they gain whether Advanis are hanged or Congress is declared highest on the secular pedestal? It is high that the good sense prevails and our politicians concentrate on the challenges facing the country in this era of globalisation.
How many of us will admire Thackerays and fire the youth icon Sachin Tendulkar? We have to believe the role models like Sachin and not the desperate and intellectually bankrupt politicians who have only hatred and enemosity to offer.
How many of us will admire Thackerays and fire the youth icon Sachin Tendulkar? We have to believe the role models like Sachin and not the desperate and intellectually bankrupt politicians who have only hatred and enemosity to offer.
How to Associate with Unworthy Politicians?
How can a common man associate with the fighting politicians who are subverting the nation to a position where a man on the street has growing disenchantment and apathy with the political system? Abandoned and marginalized politician like Bal Thackeray is desperate to regain his ground and spewing venom by attacking a nationwide youth icon who has only concentrated on what he is supposed to do -play cricket and nothing else as alleged by the Thackerays and Company.
Now the storm over the Babri demolition is witnessing some heavy bombardment of poisonous vocal outbursts by the politicians on each other and even getting into physical fight to finish as the helpless nation watched in the Rajya Sabha on 24th November on the cost of heavy expenditure drawn from the law abiding taxpayers.
The common man already burdened with the growing inflation and totally hostile environment to cope with is the real loser in this democracy with which we are so proud of. What will our Prime Minister discuss with Obama? Certainly not the ongoing ding dong battle and mud slanging by the politicians.
India is a country of youth with a major percentage of population not even born before the Babri demolition. The youth are crumbling under the expectation of the demanding parents and in this age of cut throat competition how will they gain if the villains and martyrs of Babri are determined after good 17 years?
Certainly it would have been better had the parliament of our nation discussed the damning UNICEF report on the state of children in India rather in the past two days rather than making the Parliament a boxing ring.
Now the storm over the Babri demolition is witnessing some heavy bombardment of poisonous vocal outbursts by the politicians on each other and even getting into physical fight to finish as the helpless nation watched in the Rajya Sabha on 24th November on the cost of heavy expenditure drawn from the law abiding taxpayers.
The common man already burdened with the growing inflation and totally hostile environment to cope with is the real loser in this democracy with which we are so proud of. What will our Prime Minister discuss with Obama? Certainly not the ongoing ding dong battle and mud slanging by the politicians.
India is a country of youth with a major percentage of population not even born before the Babri demolition. The youth are crumbling under the expectation of the demanding parents and in this age of cut throat competition how will they gain if the villains and martyrs of Babri are determined after good 17 years?
Certainly it would have been better had the parliament of our nation discussed the damning UNICEF report on the state of children in India rather in the past two days rather than making the Parliament a boxing ring.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
India's Main Worry is not Pakistan but China
With growing economic clout China has started to assert their hidden agendas and their unfinished expansionist designs. Unfortunately it is India which will face the brunt of Chinese dangerous designs fanned by the Pakistani establishment. History is witness to the Sino-Pak joint efforts in uprooting India as a major power in South Asia. The interests of both these countries perfectly blend together in cornering India and rake up the old ''issues". Where does India stand in this bonhomie between the two nations ? No declared friends of India like Russia nor US will come to help in countering this looming Chinese aggressive designs. US acts only where its own interests are challenged and just turn blind eyes to developments where there is no direct threat to country's future policies. India has to stand up alone and firmly and swiftly put forward its views at the highest level that China has no bussiness in Arunachal Pradesh and should stay away from POK.Sadly India reacts always late.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Shortcut to Nobel Peace Prize: US Presidency
Since his joining the office in January there is nothing substantial on the peace front in any part of the world where US is involved. Bomb blasts in Kabul and Peshawar today and in all these places the US involvement is just a waste of US taxpayers' money. Neither in West Asia nor in any troubled spots there is no improvement in violence and bloodshed. India is facing the onslaught of terrorism fanned by the ISI and still US turns deaf and continues to pour huge financial and arms pushover to Pakistan. I do not think that in India with a population of more than 1 billion people not a single citizen will endorse the peace prize given to Obama.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Can We Overcome Moral Erosion?
How can India become an ideal nation on the issues of accountability? For the last two decades we have made rapid strides in the field of economic upliftment of the people, increased our international standing and are now a major power in terms of influencing the international policies and decisions. But where do we stand on the morality ladder? Public offices are fast becoming private property, politics is dominated by dangerous nexus of politicians and criminals fanned by inept and corrupt bureaucracy and now questions are being raised about the integrity and honesty of our judiciary. Our police are nothing but an essential evil which we have to tolerate. The irony is that we have accepted this dip in character in every walk of life and there is a sense of resignation and public apathy.
Are the politicians only to be blamed for the erosion of moral life? What about teachers, doctors and lawyers. Their professional duties are far from satisfactory. The watchdog of our drmocracy, the press is also corrupted with their dangerous liaisons with the politicians and the businessmen. The corruption in the business and economic sphere is also all pervasive.
What is the way out? We need strict laws, well defined in terms of legal and illegal. There is no harm in adopting some stringent laws from China. Why even after so many decades of freedom and despite of the strong public opinion the political parties continue to field criminals in the elections. This must stop as well as the wastage of money in the elections. Quick delivery of justice and effective punishment must go hand in hand .
Right to information is an important step in the goal of transparency which is so vital for a progressive and clean society. Above all in my view we should ensure that basic values are developed from the early stage. Here the role of school and family is most important.
Are the politicians only to be blamed for the erosion of moral life? What about teachers, doctors and lawyers. Their professional duties are far from satisfactory. The watchdog of our drmocracy, the press is also corrupted with their dangerous liaisons with the politicians and the businessmen. The corruption in the business and economic sphere is also all pervasive.
What is the way out? We need strict laws, well defined in terms of legal and illegal. There is no harm in adopting some stringent laws from China. Why even after so many decades of freedom and despite of the strong public opinion the political parties continue to field criminals in the elections. This must stop as well as the wastage of money in the elections. Quick delivery of justice and effective punishment must go hand in hand .
Right to information is an important step in the goal of transparency which is so vital for a progressive and clean society. Above all in my view we should ensure that basic values are developed from the early stage. Here the role of school and family is most important.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Minister and His Cattle
Here is a minister in India calling people whom he is supposed to serve as cattle herd. The furor over his remarks is right. Why are we so obsessed with what the ministers utter? The values of serving and addressing the genuine concerns of the people has only become a showpiece and there is no secrecy in the fact that our ministers are there only to serve their own ends with total disregard for the common man.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Shocking Senence
The arrest and the sentence of 20 years of a journalist in Sri Lanka has shocked human right activists and media watchdogs. this judgement follows the recent human rights violations in the Sri Lankan army war against the LTTE has confirmed the worst fears of the human right watchdogs and the international media about continuing human rights violations in the island nation.
In the entire South Asia and South East Asia there are dark spots as far as the rise of dictatorship and human rights violations is concerned.Now there is a growing demand in India and mainly in Tamil Nadu that India should not send its cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 1st week of September.Will it serve any purpose. boycotting of the sports events has not helped in the past and there is no point in stopping the team to tour the island nation. Instead ground should be prepared to put forward the views diplomatically and in a cordial atmosphere.
In the entire South Asia and South East Asia there are dark spots as far as the rise of dictatorship and human rights violations is concerned.Now there is a growing demand in India and mainly in Tamil Nadu that India should not send its cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 1st week of September.Will it serve any purpose. boycotting of the sports events has not helped in the past and there is no point in stopping the team to tour the island nation. Instead ground should be prepared to put forward the views diplomatically and in a cordial atmosphere.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
India's Meek Surrender
The complete diplomatic surrender by India by "submitting" to a joint statement with Pakistan on July 16 is totally shocking. Indian diplomacy managers and weak political leadership will lead the country to embarrassment and humilation at every international forum. This is the second diplomatic failure after agreeing to a discriminatory declaration on carbon reduction at G-8 summit in Italy.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
India's Electoral Verdict 2009
The success of Congress led UPA in the recent Lok Sabha elections can be attributed to voters’ desire for continuity and stability but to insist that this verdict was the endorsement of all congress policies and the magic of Rahul Gandhi would be highly exaggerated. For few general elections such as those in 1977 (post Emergency) all general elections in India it is the provincial issues which determine the outcome. In Bihar the voters only supported and endorsed Nitish Kumar and the Congess plank of stability and continuity was never a decisive factor. Similarly in Orrisa Naveen Patnaik prevailed over the clean image of Manmohan singh. Why did the voters in these two satatea as well as in M.P and Chattisgarh opt for Congress in a National election? The Congress gained with the anti-incumbency factor in Uttarakhand and managed to win in Andhra Pradesh. In UP it was the triangular contest and sharp polarisation pf voters on caste lines which has resulted in the fractured verdict which has gained the Congress more than the charm of Rajiv Gandhi. The congress also gained in a way that this election was not taking place against the backdrop of deep discontentment among the electorate in general.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Pakistan and Taliban
Taliban the Monster Now Galloping the Creator
The press and electronic media are flush with reports about possible Pakistan break up with some experts commenting it to be the reality in less than a year. The prediction may be a bit vague but we could not dismiss it altogether. The spread of Taliban is not confined to a province but it has spread to every region as in the case of recent incidents in Lahore.
Still the establishment is putting a brave front and Musharraf during his Delhi visit dismissed the Taliban influence as minimal. The real issues to be highlighted are who is controlling Pakistan and what their long term interest is and what their goal towards their neighbours is. As is widely perceived it is the military and their agencies like ISI which are the real power wielders. President Zardari fears the increasing spread of Taliban. But we must keep in mind that it was Pakistan’s overt support to Taliban earlier when Taliban was ousted from regime and even earlier to keep its interests alive in the region. Now with the increasing US pressure the military/ISI the situation there is very confusing with two pillars of power military and the civilian government having their own agenda and each counter balancing the other. On one hand it appears that the army and the ISI are just not giving their support to political establishment in controlling the Taliban. The situation is really very frightening and it is evident that the monster that is Taliban created by Pakistan to check their neighbours is threatening to demolish the creator and the perpetuator.
The press and electronic media are flush with reports about possible Pakistan break up with some experts commenting it to be the reality in less than a year. The prediction may be a bit vague but we could not dismiss it altogether. The spread of Taliban is not confined to a province but it has spread to every region as in the case of recent incidents in Lahore.
Still the establishment is putting a brave front and Musharraf during his Delhi visit dismissed the Taliban influence as minimal. The real issues to be highlighted are who is controlling Pakistan and what their long term interest is and what their goal towards their neighbours is. As is widely perceived it is the military and their agencies like ISI which are the real power wielders. President Zardari fears the increasing spread of Taliban. But we must keep in mind that it was Pakistan’s overt support to Taliban earlier when Taliban was ousted from regime and even earlier to keep its interests alive in the region. Now with the increasing US pressure the military/ISI the situation there is very confusing with two pillars of power military and the civilian government having their own agenda and each counter balancing the other. On one hand it appears that the army and the ISI are just not giving their support to political establishment in controlling the Taliban. The situation is really very frightening and it is evident that the monster that is Taliban created by Pakistan to check their neighbours is threatening to demolish the creator and the perpetuator.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Varun -the Scapegoat
Varun Gandhi is attacked from all fronts for his election speech.What about hordes of criminal turned politicians and corrupt ministers and elected representatives? is hi crime so grave compared to all shameless ministers occupying top slots in the ministries. Here is a arrogant IPS officer holding ransom and capturing an old lady's house in Hauz Khas. Why not a single minister or politicians raised their voice on the plight of old and vulnerable people?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Why not Taare Zameen Par?
Slumdog Millionaire has bagged 10 nominations for the Oscars. This is remarkable achievement but the question is why not Taare Zameen par? Just because it was an completely Indian production. If you go by the subject of both the films, what is so unique in slumdog? Several pictures portraying Indian poverty, dirt and filth have praised and won accolades. We are more than happy to accept that we are a stagnant society if this certificate is given from the foreigners in the form of press, television and moulded into film. Tare Zameen Par was truly an extraordinary film which highlighted a genuine and mostly untapped problem of children suffering from dyslexia. The film beautifully displayed the trauma and struggle of a child who overcame his problems and earned his place in the society.
The time has come that we should not go overboard with foreign praise. We should first identify what we want and where the solution lies. The Indian media was overjoyed as soon as the news of Slumdog earning 10 nominations broke but failed to highlight the lacunae and biases of western media in celebrating our failures and just going blind in observing our successes.
The time has come that we should not go overboard with foreign praise. We should first identify what we want and where the solution lies. The Indian media was overjoyed as soon as the news of Slumdog earning 10 nominations broke but failed to highlight the lacunae and biases of western media in celebrating our failures and just going blind in observing our successes.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
How to become favourite/
Why do people have some pre-conceived notions? From home to office I have felt that some people will always will always remain bad for someone and some people will always be apple of someone.Unfortunately I am not the favorite of any body. it does have its advantages of maintaining a low profile. Some burning questions remains unanswered. Why I failed to become special for any body? Perhaps the fault lies in my personality and approach toward the others.
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