All Hail NAG – The Jet Pilot Union.

Jet Airways, India’s largest private airline service probably has been the first to get hit for the corporate atrocities. Earlier this week Jet Air ways has laid off two pilots allegedly for forming a Union, though no official reason has been stated. It has been a new corporate culture to give pink slips to employees just on email with no prior notification, giving no reason for termination. The National Aviation Guild, the newly formed Jet Pilots union went on a mass sick leave following the termination of their colleagues. I would really appreciate the courage and patience shown by the pilots in fighting the corporate culture of the day.

The corporate sector in India is in peaks of labor exploitation, I shall here name several IT companies operating in India, who openly violate the labor laws of the land, asking their employees to work on Saturdays and Sundays and even on national holidays with out compensating any the additional work days of the employees. Associates are made to work at the peer pressure for more than eight, to a pitiable eighteen hours a day to bring down the labor cost and to maximize the profits of the company. The pity here is the law being violated by Indian players rather then the foreign ones in the industry. To the viewer outside, the IT Job or in fact any other corporate job means lavish life with only earning fat packages and irresponsible spending. But in reality most corporate employees earn a pay check less than 4Lakh per annum, sensing the horrors of the day to day corporate life complying with loads and loads of pressure from the peers, who in turn suffer from their. The chain ends at only the board of directors.

Amidst this chaos in the working class of the day, I shall term the first flag of union hoisted by Jet Pilots is definitely a courageous step towards a change in the attitude of the corporate. When companies let employees resign with only a notice more than a month prior, the same needs to be applied in converse also. The companies should notify their employees sufficiently prior before termination. It’s not just an email that should carry the message.

The laws of the land have also been unjust to the corporate employed people, leaving them no option to form a union by distancing them from the term working class that is vested in with a right to do so. The court calling the union of jet pilots illegal has been extremely unjust on the part of all the corporate workers. The definitions need to be broadened and redefined to include several other exploited employees in working class, providing them a right to form a union and fight against the exploitation of the day.

The government should itself change its way calling employees of the country as resources. The government and corporate sector should realize that humans are no natural resources like iron and coal to be exploited. The term resource it self has a right to be exploited and so be banned from usage. The new style of corporate should emerge with a respect to the emotions of the employees, recognizing them human rather than office operating modern robos.

To Sir With Love.. A tribute to YS Rajshekar Reddy

The most shocking and disappointing news to the people of AP and India came this morning as the death of beloved CM Andhra. Dear YS, though we had an ideological differences, sir our thoughts found a confluence in the welfare of people.

Of all the CMs who ruled India, Sir, you are the only one who really deserves to be knighted. Sir, who else in India could have dared to introduce welfare programs in the mass scale as u did. There was no CM in past to who cared so much for the health of people. May be it being a doctor personally that got your attention towards the health of people. Sir, people in lakhs were benefited by the health insurance scheme given by you. Sir you were the first to introduce the 108 service for the emergency health care to the needy.

Sir, I saw a CM by name NT Rama Rao who gave 2 Rs Kg rice in 1980 when rice was 10 Rs Kg in market. But Sir, even when the price of rice went sky rocketing at 40 Rs you filled the stomach of the poor common man of AP. Sir, you were the one who gave pensions to old, and you were the one who gave free power to irrigation purpose. Sir, it was only you who gave the fee waiver to the economically backward sections of society. You were the only CM who built houses for the under privileged and attempted to build houses to the middle class. Sir, you were the only one who cared no critics to implement what you believed is welfare to people.

Sir, there have been people who criticized you giving free perks to people. I also acknowledge the misuse of the schemes. But Sir, all your schemes intended not to lure people with perks, but meet the basic needs of poor and unprivileged. Sir, no country is called developed for the technological advancement alone, when half the population lacks the basic health needs, and is not able to feed one third of population. Sir, you were the one who laid the bricks to the progress of India as a developed country.

Long long ago, Sir I heard that there ruled a king by name Ashoka, who loved his people and dedicated his life for their welfare. The legendry king was praised “Deva naam piya (priya in Sanskrit)”, beloved of Gods. Sir, I know not if he was really loved by Gods, but Sir you are the one who is truly loved by his people and forever you live eternally in our hearts as the Ashoka of modern day.

May your soul rest in peace.

The 100 days of UPA.

Dr Manmohan Singh has created a history in Indian politics by winning the faith of the nation consecutively for the second time. He has been the second prime minister after Pundit Nehru to achieve this in the history of India.

For the UPA government led by Mr Singh, it has been 100 days since the reinstatement for the second time. The people of India has laid utmost faith in the Congress led UPA as evident form the better numbers gained in Parliament by Congress in battle 2009. The people of the country have reinstated Mr Singh back to power with a hope, a hope for betterment of the economy in the lieu of global economic melt down, a hope for better governance on a whole for a better tomorrow for the generations to come.

It shall not be right on the part of any critic to slam or praise the government for a mere hundred day rule or just less than one seventeenth of the total spam of entitlement to govern the nation. But for this has been a only a continuation of the previous term, I feel that Mr Singh deserves an appraisal for his performance over the past 6 years.

I shall start the process of appraisal with the department, for which Mr Singh is considered an expert of his contemporaries, the economy of the country. In the turmoil of the global economic melt down I shall appreciate Mr Singh for not letting the ill effects of recessions reach the average Indian so long, but I shall certainly term it a failure on his part for the sky rocketing prices of essential commodities. The price rise has not been an unusual phenomenon across the globe, but is defiantly an issue to be pointed in India for the reason, the price rise of the world has been by product of recession, where as in India it is set on run by the greed of the traders by illegal stocking of food grains in godowns. The performance of the government in this concern has been poor and deserves a rating below 4 on scale of 10.

The next on list is health ministry for the inefficiency to face the crisis like swine flu. It’s a matter of national shame that only 4 labs all across the country have been equipped for a long time when the disease was on spread to test this. Mr Azad also deserves no more than 4 for his poor show.

The other major aspect has been with security and defense, the government seemed to learn no lessons from the 26/11 attacks. An American national has recently traveled all over the country with an illegal possession of a gun in his baggage via air. This exposes the severity of security lapses across the country and the side effects of the VIP syndrome from being frisked in India. I am glad that there have been no significant terror attacks in the country in recent times, but I shall not call this an achievement of the government for the reason it may be a clam before a cyclone or the international pressure on terror breeding countries post Mumbai attacks.

The bilateral talks with Pak have been proved a diplomatic blunder by Mr Singh for the inclusion of Baluchistan issue which had rather been an internal headache of Pak for decades. It was a complete failure of diplomacy in this regard. Also the ways pursued by th government to put the master minds of 26/11 before bars has added to the failure of external affairs.

The drought had been yet another failure of the government. Though it has been anticipated by the end of June for the less rain fall to come in the days to follow, government has taken no steps for the drought relief to the farmers of the country. This has been yet another poor performance of the ruling body.

Amidst so many failures I term only one person successful in the whole government. None other than Mr Kapil Sibal for the educational reforms he structured for the sick educational system prevailing in India, which credit and torture students to score marks. He is the only one in the whole government who deserves applause from every section of society.

For the overall performance of the government has been very poor and far below the line of expectation of people of the country. To the end I would like to advise Mr Singh to not let down the people of the nation for giving him a historic second chance to rule the country. I shall remind him of the Independence Day speech for the special provisions being formulated for the minorities, its better in a secular country if he viewed the all the sections of society with eyes of equality for the reason there are many more people even with majority section who need a bail out package from government. I hope Mr Singh sets aside this minority appeasement and the vote game in the days to comes and reaches out to every deserving individual.

BJP and Jaswanth.

To the fact I have not read the book by Mr Jaswanth Singh on the partition of India, still the reviews in media provide enough air to speak of this. So I dare to write this blog.

Jaswanth Singh has raised the controversy of partition of the country again by claiming Nehru and Patel to have caused the partition of India than Jinnah. He opines, it was the reluctance of Nehru to share power with Jinnah that brought about the creation of Pakistan. Singh also has praised Jinnah to be an ambassador of Hindu- Muslim unity in early days of freedom struggle, only on his alienation in Congress has he moved into Muslim League. Jinnah no doubt was a great freedom fighter along with Gandhi and Nehru, and also an ambassador as termed by Jaswanth, to Hindu- Muslim unity in early days. But the fact still remains, that only on his call to Muslim League workers was the huge scale of communal violence instigated during partition.

Pakistan was no brain child of Mr Jinnah, but still to the end he was the leader who caused the difference by advocating the need of Pakistan. To be clear in words he made use of the opposition in Muslims towards a democratically elected Hindu Prime Minister to create Pakistan. He was the one who, to meet his own political desires brought about partition of India. Jinnah being senior to Nehru in Indian politics could not bare the dominance of Nehru during and after freedom struggle, also feared his political future. There by he went about with creation of Pakistan to sustain his political domination and supremacy. The means he used to attain his goals were definitely communal and he was the one behind the human slaughter during partition. Its a pity that leaders of BJP are taking turns to praise him secular. I fear the word secular may commit suicide for the way being attributed to communal people by modern politicians to meet their own ends.

Mr Singh also needs to be reminded of the basic principle of democracy, the one with majority backing can be called a leader and can hold the post such as Prime Minister. Nehru was the one who had the backing of masses than Jinnah during independence and he by no means can be blamed for not sharing power. Democracy is run by majority masses, but not by communities and communal leaders. Jinnah apart from creation of Pakistan, has left a long communal gulf in India that has ever lasted since Independence. So in no terms he deserves to be called secular.

The next controversy put forward by Mr Singh is the alienation of Muslims in India. I shall ask Mr Singh if he could list one right that Muslims have less than rest communities in India. When the world is learning rocket science and advancing to new shores of technology and living comforts with a progressive thought of liberty, whom does Mr Singh want to blame for the growing demand for Madarsas than Schools. Government has always tried for the upliftment of Muslims by recognising education in Madarsa equivalent to CBSE. I shall take the opportunity to ask which secular country in world funds all money for a religious tour like Haj. If he wants to speak of socio economic conditions, then i shall remind him the number of Hindus and Christians with similar conditions are more. I shall only term the claim another minority appeasement scheme in lines of Congress.

To conclude, Mr Singh has every right to publish his thoughts and do all the minority appeasement he whishes to as a citizen of India. But before hand he should have voluntarily resigned to BJP, when he found his ideas in contradiction to party's core principles. The media is only tyring to demonise BJP more than Jinnah and there by trying to project BJP as anti Muslim to gain its own TRP. The fuss raised is Media is not worth watching for the fact Mr Singh good or bad penned down his thoughts, which when found contradicting to party's ideology was expelled.

Tryst with destiny - First Words of Freedom

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.

That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

To the people of India, whose representatives we are, we make an appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.

The appointed day has come-the day appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about.

It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!

We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrowstricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.

On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation [Gandhi], who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.

Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death.

We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good and ill fortune alike.

The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? To bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.

We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.

And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.

This was the first address to nation after Independence by Pundit Nehru.

Jai Hind.

Drought & Contingency

Drought or a situation of below normal rainfall is not some thing new to India today. There have been several such instances through out the world all through the history of man kind. The great Bengal famine as described by Pandit Nehru, in his autobiography, has claimed lives of thousands of people and livestock owing to the negligence of the then British government. There is no wonder learning some foreign government bestowing the step mother affection on the people whom it treated no less than slaves, but it is shocking to see that the later governments of Independent India have learnt no lesson from this, paid no attention to build in a contingency plan to the rain dependant farmers of India. It worries me more to see that even in the age where technology has grown drastically taking the world to new peaks, farming in India is still dependent on most uncertain monsoons which have been regularly skipping the course in recent years. Still to the amaze of the nation's populace the government has no plan to deal this situation, added to the astonishment of the people a popular leader of North has funds to erect statues but not to deal drought.

The country has been claiming to touch new heights in stock markets, calling itself a booming economy. The ground reality is out of proportion growth of prices of essential commodities. The cost of rice, the fundamental need of every Indian has gone up by 100% in the last five years, this alone explains the price hike of the rest commodities. The drought that has hit the country this year has already come in picture with the economic consequences to face. The cost of pulses have already started to soar high.

Government every year takes the pain to identify the drought effected districts in the country and provides the people with a minimum period of employment. It just clears the tears off the eyes, but is not the required healing touch. No government has acted on to take the challenge of liberating Indian farmers from the monsoon dependency. The rulers and leaders of the country may have asked the farming sections to switch towards electric pumps for irrigation, but still will the power production of the day meet the demands and needs of all the people even if this is to happen. The alarming fall of ground water levels is another big concern and a challenge to the Indian society. Governments may not be able to reach out to every village and colony to harvest rain water. But the attention paid towards creating an awareness in people towards ground water table and rain water harvesting techniques is poor and unsatisfactory.

Overcoming drought is not a overnight fight, it needs years of planning and hard work from each section of society. The central and state governments across the country now looking for a action plan is just a stunt to show people that it is a prime concern at the minute, where as the reality goes far different, and nothing is feasible to save the nation from clutches of this drought in this short span. Governments lacked professionalism to address such a key issue in a country like India where irrigation is the prime occupation to majority masses. Its time that governments wake up and come up with strong action plan to face future famines. The people of the country learn how foolishly they have been dependant on monsoons and should look for other options breaking the dependency. The awareness of the ground water table and the ways to harvest the rain water are the key stones to answer the situations like this in future.

Parliament and TV Shows

Such Ka Saamna, an Indian version of Moment of Truth of Star World raised a hue and cry in recent Parliament sessions, the questions asked in the program have been entirely personal and could be devastating the family relations. The questions aim the relationships between the family members, and are a concern in a country like India, where the society still holds a strong family system. Not just with Such Ka Samna but most of the reality shows being telecasted these days need a inspection of vulgarity and nudity.

The committee to moniter the media as suggested by Parliament looks a necessity to rate the programs telecasted and warn the parents regarding the programs having adult content. It is absolutely necessary in the manner that movies are sensored, TV programs also need a sensor cut that controls the obscenity and vulgarity of the programs telecasted. TV shows of the day are the biggest distraction for the younger generation of the day. The citizens tomorrow shall only be responsible and respectable if they are groomed properly today.

The decision of committee to be laid to moniter media looks to have caused a great turmoil in media as evident by the way they have been collecting opinions in metros regarding the same, the levels of frustration seem to be so high that one of the popular journalist took every opportunity to bash the Legislators and Parliamentarians in his blog. He has even advised them to work for the benefit of society rather than discussing such issues. Never did I understand what he meant by society. I shall take this opportunity to challenge the journo and media who have been collecting the opinions of people in metros, concerning this issue, let there be a referendum across the country and then you will know the true pulse of India. Its not just the people living in metros that count for Indian population. Look out of the window, there is a lot more unseen world.

I pity the understanding of people in Indian metros who take the opposition of government, and question the rights of government for the content being telecasted in media. I shall ask if it is okay to telecast a porn movie in a entertainment channel, of course this spoils no body's life, and also is being watched by people on their wish, also being acted in by people on their wish? Will this be acceptable to the so called broadminded people of metros. If a reality show with semi vulgarity and nudity is accepted then why not a porn movies. Logically I see no difference. Its the time media wakes up and learns to be responsible speaking sensibly, keeping in mind of Indian masses.

Politics of Vendetta

Indian politics have always staged the drama of revenge ever since the independence. Nehru was the first to start with dismissal of left government in Kerala. The latest attacks on Mrs Ritu Joshi are an act of shame undoubtedly. The statements made by the PCC chief are derogatory and unpardonable. But no word of her statement meant ill regading the dalit issue. Still for the reason being a dalit on the recieving end, she was booked under non bailable SC/ST act. What more can be a bigger misuse of law when a CM herself comits to it. While the law has its own course to take for the remarks made, torching the personal properity by alleged BSP workers is condemnable and unaccpetable in a democracy.

This has not been the first time that Mayawati has taken to politics of Vendetta. Varun Gandhi has been a target earlier for his communal remarks by being invoked with NSA. The vote bank of certain communities in election had been the reason behind the whole game. The main agenda was to break through the votes of the community who in recent times were considered loyal to her opponet Mulayam. The issue submerged only when the Court of law has ruled out the possibility of invoking a NSA. The eposide next had been after elections when Amethi and Raibarely had to face water and power cut in the worst ever way modren India could have heard of, with more than 16 hrs a day just for revenge against the people for victory of Sonia and Rahul.

Mayawati had been a canditate of high expectaions as a CM, owing to the poverty she faced in her childhood and the struggle she led to reach the highiest stage of UP. The middle class expected her to be a step towards change and development like that of Mr. CB Naidu in AP. BSP was considered a party with ideals at the time of debut, cherished highly for the idea to upbring the backward sections of the society. As the times passed by, the ideas and Ideals seem to be dead and burried along with its founder Kanshiram who put his heart and Soul to uplift the weaker sections. BSP was no different from other political parties in recent election in competing to field candidates with crimal background. The alligation of killing a public servant for not funding the b'day of Mayawati added to the growing bad reputation of the party. The staues of Kanshiram, and Mayawati being errected in all parts of the state wasting the public money and with no appent use has worked against BSP in recent election.

It's the time Maya realises that election can't just be be won forever in name of cast, creed and community. People of a democracy cannot always be sidetracked away from development in the name of above. Most people now seem to have lost their hopes in BSP supremo any more as a ray of change. But it's not yet too late that she realizes the expectation of people that gave her the chair of UP CM. Maya has to open her eyes to live eternaly in hearts of people rather than being a statue in a chowrasta.

The Blackmail Politics.. India Today

The generation next of Indian politics began after the defeat of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the elections held post emergency. A coalition led by Jana Sangh came to power in 1977 unveiling a new era of coalition governments in Indian political scenario. The sway of congress over the nation was brought to an end giving opportunities to new parties in regional interests in various states. The communists taking over Kerala and Bengal, the rise of DMK in Tamil Nadu and TDP in AP in later times battered the chances of a single party rule in centre. The regional parties laid emphasis on development of the states they represented and started out in building a new India.

The opportunists in various states succeed in creating a wave against existing congress through destructive means that endangered the unity and integrity of the country. The Tamil Nationalism started by DMK and the self respect issue raised by NTR in Andhra Pradesh. These parties which formed in opposition to existing congress lacked in principles and ideology. The issues raised by them brought a divide in the existing society. To keep the hold on the state after gaining the power, the regional parties looked towards news ways of development and there by gained the confidence of people and society.

It was by 1995 the regional parties occupied the greater part of the stage. The regional parties gaining countable power to make and break governments in national scenario started a new trend of black mail politics to meet more than the needs of their states. CB Naidu of Andhra Pradesh was the first to play this with AB Vajpayee government later followed by DMK and finally now it’s the turn of honorable rail mister Mamtha Didi. The regional parties started an exploitation of the national resources in the interest of their own states as evident form the huge funds that Mr. Naidu got during NDA govt. or the heavy development activities carried out by Maran in Chennai.

The political parties with numbers enough to make or break governments have now come to a point wherein they overlook the national interest and have started concentrating on their own states and to make their position safe by showering gifts and boons on the people of their state at an expense of the rest of the nation. The unequal distribution of wealth and development in country has a lot to do with these regional players. The transfer funds more than the deserved to some parts of country has proved expensive to the rest. It’s the time that people of the country wake up and realize that an India of equality in development and wealth stands more stable than being a nation of regional imbalances. The time is now ripe to redefine the constitution of the country restricting the regional players in national dais.

Jai Hind

Indian Educational System, 100 day Reform

May that be the growing stress on the kids or it is the dropout percentages after class X, that made the central educational ministry move one of the most appreciated reforms in Indian education system. It was late Guruji Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantinikethan that brought the first ideal education system to the country producing the best icons of the nation, Amarthya Sen and Mrs. Indira Gandhi. And it’s now the turn of Mr. Kapil Sibal who sought the crusade against the growing numbers of dropouts from school and the growing stress levels on school children at a tender age.

The new educational system scraps the board examination to class X students letting it be an option for students opting to vocational courses and to the students who prefer to pursue Pre College in different institute. The new system facilitates all the High Schools run by government to be upgraded with plus two facilitating the rural students in their respective places. This can greatly aid the government to bring down the drop out percentage in schools. The other expected outcome, reducing the stress levels on the students still remains a distant dream. The stress levels on the children are in direct proportion with the higher aspirations of the parents from the kids from a very early age. Though every parent has a right to dream and weave the future of their kids, there needs to be certain limits for this and parents should learn to show some restraint from forcing their kids into a career of their choice rather than the interest of the child.

Measures are required to prevent educational institutes from commercializing the aspirations of the parents leading to a mad race for the entry into certain professional courses. The mass brainwash carried out on the future generations of the nation and horrifying them with the consequences of not being admitted to certain courses. The cases of students committing suicide not being able to stand up the expectations the parents and the educational institutes have been reported over the past few years. The things that horrify me the most are most of the schools have now started giving up a sports hour from the weekly curriculum of the students. The stress that was laid in inculcating good manners and good ethics among students now misses in most schools. The parents seem to be happy with the numbers their kids score in the examinations conducted rather than the knowledge gained.

The heaps of work given to students to be done at home consumes their complete play time leaving them no time even at home for the extracurricular activities that help in molding the younger generations of the day to responsible citizens of tomorrow. Apart from the rubbish that’s being fed to the mind in school, most parents opt for tuitions to their kids pushing them further deep into the ocean of stress.

This first step taken by the government to reform the education system needs applause. Still there are many more steps to go in reforming Indian education system and bring it to the best shape. I feel that the whole system of examination be replaced with an open book mode. What help is of learning things by heart when they are all available in 101 forms to the people with an access as easy as a click of a mouse. Unless the attitude of the society and parents change and unless they realize that a student needs to have an all-round development the second objective of the government can never be achieved.

Red Voilence in Lalgarh

The Communist ruled West Bengal saw one of the worst ever hits of Naxal violence this week. Lalgarh dist of the state is continues to be in Maoist seize, in spite of BSF jawans and para military forces trying their best to bring situation in control. Keeping aside the outward show off of this violence, taking an insight to the root cause reveals a fundamental truth that humanity had been learning and forgetting since its birth. Let that be French revolution against the aristocrats or the Russian upraise against the serfdom to the grand old times of people revolting to change the rulers, the hunger of stomach and a burning desire of the masses for equal justices forces the hands to hold weapons, to revolt against the existing systems, to feed their basic needs .

Human race had seen many such instances in the history, which it forgot and moved back to the same old aristocratic ways, with names changed each time. The latest name of the mad race for the past 2 centuries being capitalism, the developing countries like India paid a blind eye to the bridge between haves and have-nots. The intelligent land lords masked themselves with new name forming trusts to protect their properties. The basic needs of the masses of the country are still ignored by the governments. With one third populations still lying below poverty line as per govt. stats shows the plight of the nation. The worst show is the most stupid method used by govt. to calculate the poverty line. Govt. calls the people who can afford to 2100 calories a day in urban and 2500 calories a day in rural areas above poverty line. The unanswered question here being is it food that is all a man wants in a day? The growing gap between rich and poor, the luxury and pomp of certain sections of society, while the brothers of the same race stave for their daily needs is the main provocation for the happenings of the day.

Violence of any form needs no toleration, still it’s not the masses that are to be blamed for the happenings. Govts carry the main blame in the whole show. Though the schemes like NREGS have been enacted by governments most of the benefits reach to the party workers rather than the deserved. No government has paid a proper attention to the needs of the poor and to the right of every individual for the basic needs. The starving stomachs see no other way than violence, branding them terrorists is no solution to the underlying problem. If the rulers of the nation spare some time to figure out the reasons behind the plight of Lalgrah or Chattisgrah or any other Naxal affected area with whole hearted approach solves the problem.
The political parties of the day shall come out with a solution to end the poverty for once and all, giving equal justice to every individual in the society. At the same time it’s the time of the Maoists to reconsider their path of violence, instead try catching the attention of the society with the problems faced by the masses and unveil the lapses in the administrative system and thus help in building a better India.

Feudal Congress, against Feudal titles

The party that has been in dynastic rule for more than half century has now asked its workers to shun their feudal titles. The leadership in party feels it a moral violation in politics to gain from the family name, so raises an interesting question, will the Gandhi’s give up the later half of their name and stop calling themselves Gandhi? For the reason, they have been gaining in every election not just for themselves but even to their followers in every election since independence in the name Gandhi. I would also like to point, if she were not a Gandhi, would that be possible to Sonia to reach the dais she stands on the day. There is also another point to make, how can congress stop people from recognizing the royal born as Maharaja or with some other title they hold on even after they renounce.

India had 540 princely states during independence and abolishing and preventing people from having the feudal titles is to symbolically kill the history of the nation and to wipe the prominence of great rulers who once ruled. The feudal powers of the people bearing these titles no more exist in independent India. Yet the good work done by their families still wins them respect and love in the hearts of people. The principle in politics is not very far from that of business, people look for a brand before they buy goods in market. The brand gives people an assurance of quality, so is it in politics. When a man from well-known family contests’ the election, a section of people feel secure voting to him with a confidence in the family that brought him up to the stage. Such leaders have exceptionally failed the voters of their constuency with their words and actions.

India had been a feudal country for the centuries and de privileging its workers from their origins is a step towards establishing the supremacy over the party by Gandhis, to make the seat even more secure from some royal born gaining advantage over their future generations. It’s a step to check the charisma of many leaders in younger congress who have fair chances to out beat Mr. Rahul Gandhi through the good work carried in the estates held by their families. I shall not miss the opportunity to ask Mrs. Gandhi if it was not the family name that has won her and her Party good will in the elections. Had she just been Sonia she would not have made it to parliament so soon and with so much of ease. Isn’t that the family name of Gandhi that Rahul banked on and raised to the place he chairs today and the respect he commands from many sections of Indian society?

The way Congress has volunteered asking its workers to stop use of any feudal titles is just a political stunt in the lieu of the fact that the party leadership itself is feudal from decades.

Jai Hind

Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan

It was in 70’s when Indira imposed an emergency over the nation, the days when democracy of the country was jailed, the youth of the country awakened against the rising evil. Those were the days a new leadership emerged from the educated India. The first ever winds of change were seen all across. None other than Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan, a freedom fighter and a close aide of Mahathma was driving force behind these winds of change, which shook the very base of Congress leading to the defeat of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay in the election that followed.

11th October 1902 was the day when mother India has seen the birth of a son another son who made her proud of. It was the day when an eminent freedom fighter and a renowned politician of Indian politics, Mr Jaya Prakash Narayan was born in Saran dist of Bihar. After Graduating from Patna University, he left abroad for further studies. On his return from US in 1929 he was an active participant in Indian freedom struggle, and was jailed several times. Narayan gained fame in 1942 during quit India movement, when all the senior leaders of congress were jailed for leading the agitations. He was known for setting up a left wing in Congress, Congress Socialist Party, also served secretary for the wing till Independence, which later on formed into Praja Socialist Party.

Narayan kept away from active politics after the Indian independence. He worked with Vinoba Bhave in Sarvodaya movement. It was then; he broke up with Praja Socialist Party and started pursuing Lokneethi. An ideal he believed in; the polity of People stands higher than Polity of state. He returned to the National Politics in late 60’s when election of Indira Gandhi was declared void by court of law. He called for Indira to resign, for which the reply came as an emergency culling the democracy of the nation. He led the student movement in Bihar in which he declared his wish for Sampoorna Kranthi, a complete revolution. It was this student revolution, that built up the generation next of Indian politics with new leaders like Chandrasekar, Murarjee Desai, A B Vajpayee, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar seeing a rise. His struggle against emergency imposed, and the Lokneethi he pursued got him the Title Lok Nayak. He was the main inspiration behind the early tides of change against the dynastic rule in Congress to touch the shores of Indian politics. The mesmerizing speeches of Mr. Narayan reaped in the elections with the defeat of Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi, bringing the Barathiya Jana Sang led coalition to power in centre. Despite his heroic struggle to restore democracy in India, he never fought an election, nor did he assume any post in any govt. Narayan expired in October 1979.For his selfless service to the nation he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1998.

The Front Factor in Election

A five week long marathon to elect the government of the world’s largest democracy has finally come to an end, with a verdict that showed unpredicted as ever. Despite several alliances that tried to influence the mind set of aam admi, the voters of India still preferred to be loyal to Congress. The fronts formed on no common ideological grounds certainly failed to mislead the democracy of the country into a hung. From the outcome of the polls it’s quite evident that the citizens of the nations are more concerned of a stable central government than having a handy number of petty fools gambling the national benefits in their own interest.

Left certainly carries the main blame in the whole game, trying to project America as a demon waiting to cripple the nation with pacts signed against national security. To an average Indian citizen US was certainly a land of dreams and the middle class of the country still sees it a pride having a NRI in family. The panic created by Left parties in lieu of the Indo US nuke deal backfired in the election.

The double standards of development followed by left in regard with development from West Bengal to rest of India has created an impression against Left in the mindsets of the intellectual society of the nation. Left had at been at its best in implementing the capitalist ways in Bengal, deviating from its basic ideology, on a contrary it hindered the basic development activities led by various state governments. Left was definitely with the UPA during all the price hikes, still tried to baffle people by the protests each time the prices went high. All these factors with the ideological non compliance of the so formed new fronts have proved negative impression in the mindset of middle class voters.

The third front on a whole was a set of opportunists trying to play a blackmail role in centre to fulfill their own needs with the numbers they gain in parliament. Not at least being able to project a leader to lead the nation ahead in 15th Loksabha, the newly formed fronts were bound to fail. The lack of a common manifesto, with no lack of highly opportunist politicians, it is no surprise in loosing election. The common man of the country was certainly aware of the communal politics played by a chief minster with the claim for the post of prime minister. And the anti English campaign led by the opposition leader of the same state paid then back with no favoring Congress in the highly decisive state of the country ruling out the chances of a Front lead.

The terror attacks seem to be less influential in the recent polls with recession creating more terror in the minds of middle class Indian citizens, the win of Manmohan a finance expert was obvious. Also the personal attack on a clean man of the current day’s politics created a wave of sympathy among the neutral voters turning the dice away from BJP.
The cheap ways employed by BJP to project the weak anti terror policies of existing government have shown a negative effect on minds of people.
Left and BJP deserved the defeat for their irresponsible behavior during the times of national crisis. Its time that they learn lessons from the experiences of this election and play a more constructive opposition in 15th Sabha.

Royal Congress, Loyal Media

Let that be Rajdeep of IBN or it be Pranav Roy of NDTV, Indian media played a loyal servent to Congress. The electronic media of the country contributed its best to reimpose the centuries old dynastic rule in Barath Varsha. The concern goes even high for that fact that its Sonia Mano rather than Sonia Gandhi who has her sway over the nation today. Rajdeep and Pranav lead the campaign of principle less foriegner dominated and foriegner established party on their shoulders.

The role of leading news channels of the nation in portrayal of Rahul as Prince of India stands a shock to most patriots. The way they tried the best to impose the centuries old dynastic rule over Barath Varsha seems evident form the mass brainwash campaign lead. The way the media channels of the country gave their best in polarizing the nation, to secure the votes of a section to Congress can be established in a very comfortable manner.

The pseudo secular media of the country has been at its best to save the life of terrorist Afzal Guru, the amount of attention being given to Kasab, as live demon of modern day shall certainly rise his image to a hero among Jihadis. The question that Mr Modi is always asked on account of Godra, I would like to put it back to media. Has the media ever telecasted the plight of the families of the Hindus burnt alive in train? What were the efforts laid by media in throwing light on the Kashmiri Pandits who were massacred and vandalised in their own land? Did media ever pay any attention to those pandits who fled in terror of terrorism from Kashmir? When so much attention was given to violence at Kandamal, did the media forget the murder of RSS activist of the place? Why are the seva programmes taken up by RSS in tribal areas of Chattisgrah and Madhya Pradesh overlooked by Indian media. The hate speeches of the minority parties never catch media attention. In the mask of secularism media has always tried to secure the vote bank of congress from certain sections of society. The success of this pseudo secular media of the country is so high that they even got the definition of secularism changed to being and following anti Hindu policies. In the lieu of above facts the argument of secret pact between media and Royal Congress party gains strength.

If the counter part of Royal Congress, BJP doesn't react even at this point then we can surely see a disintegrating India in near future. Media looks not bothered about the side effects that communal polarization of Indian Society can lead to. This loyal servant of Congress needs an eye opener to find the dire consequences that this lust of power can lead to.

Jai Hind.

Way to Delhi.. Y BJP lost

Like many patriots it was a great shock for me to learn the failure of BJP.  Was it the hindutva that back fired or is that BJP has really lost its ground? This seems to be a topic for most media people in the country now.  

Like always I shall certainly attribute the pseudo secular media a key role in this step aback of BJP.  Apart from the lolayity shown by media to Congress, seems that BJP has forgot the ground reality of its own existance.  The RSS that played the star innings in bringing up BJP from no where to a national hero looks to be left behind.  The lack of growth of sangh is one of the key elements that ruled out the possibility of a secular governament in Delhi. BJP can only win election where sangh holds firm. It has been tested and proved in Indian political scenario for decades. The leadership of the day is at it best to disown sangh, which proved a historic mistake for the saffaron party that has tradational Hindu voters as its strong vote back. 

A qeustion of partiotic sprit of BJP still rises when one looks how sangh has never tried its expansion in south. It had all the time been looking for a base in North India. The lack of party's influnce in south made BJP pay a heavy price this election . A political party should work not just for immeadiate results with tieing allies, but shall look in long term prospective of building its own base, strengthening the party from the roots and to motivate the people of nation to think in the ideals proposed. BJP though has tried to influence the nation with the constructive thougts like the black money issue, it has utterly failed in the very foundation.

BJP should now open its eyes setting aside the minority votes that it gets in numbers less than 5%, it needs to build its vote back, reconcile its postion in places where it already holds. The expsion to south holds the key to the power in Delhi.  BJP needs to realize the ground reality and should take steps towards 2016. Else this is the end for once and all.. 

Jai Hind..