We have an advantage that we have abundant natural resources in our country,this including a talent pool of educated people, literate people and uneducated people with wordly wisdom.
We also have several advantages like booming sectors in flourishing economy temporary minor hiccups not taken into consideration ,a maturing entratainment industry which we relish in our spare time, a expensive but renowned health care industry, network of educational establishments churning out street smart kids.
We also have a third or second largest economy in the making within a span of 15-20 years.
During the election campaigns in US, we closely followed Mr.O'bama's campaign and was thrilled by his caption "yes we can". Have we wondered whether we too can have this feeling of "yes we can"?
My following text is to highlight a pressing need of the hour for a silent but non-revolutionary awakening among us for a minor change/amendment in our political system. The makers of our constitution who have been geniuses in coming out with a fine blue print for democracy have but failed on 2 counts. I make this statement with due respect to our makers of our constitution , but with a humble spirt i make these observations.
During the 26/11 attacks we watched our youth spearheading a campaign mouthing slogans of delhi chalo to wake up our leaders in the parliament to pressing need for effective security techniques in the country. i could see in the tv , a spirt of bapu, a dynamism of nehru, a steely resolve of sardar, a determination of bhagat amongst the mindset of the youth.
Coming to brasstacks, we see a profileration of parties based on ideologies,caste based ideologies. While the democracies in US and UK with thier two party system are able to move ahead peacefully without any confusion of sorts, we are not able to do so in a streamlined manner. The reason being that during elections the voter is not able to make a clear choice in his descion , since there is a plethora of parties for a choice to be made and well as leaders of parties are confused and seem to make alliances based on permutations of future coalition parties.
Is it possible for the younger generation among us, we the people in our generation to make a campaign assertively stating that "yes we can" for a 2 party system. his would solve most of the confusion in our country as a first step.Could we press our leaders for a 2 party system at the center by making minor amendments to that effect. In this way caste based politics wont be there , in first step and the voter would not only choose between the two of parties at the center. Once this goes successfully , the success plan at the center would percolate at the states, where finally a 2 party system is also at the state.
I request our friends to think deeply with existing clarity and make up thier minds so that future generations dont go through the confusions of past and present generations.
A very simple solution being that the major and second major party could be taken as 2 parties , and remaning parties made to join these parties , either the largest or second largest party. By largest i mean in terms of party membership.
AN e.g from my humble view is that we have parties , largest being congress and the BJP, the other parties willing to form a coalition stake could fuse themselves into congress or BJP, thus dissolving thier party indentities.
I think from my humble opinion that this is way for clear cut electoral policies as well electoral choice as is prevalent in US or UK.
sincerely.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Social observation(Bapu..Bapu)
It was morning and the day was getting hotter,by hotter I mean peoples emotions
were getting fiery. There were news of clashes between 2 castes,there was a news spreading by way of hearsay that a strike had gone violent.In another part of the country there were rumors of regionalism raising its ugly head and a couple of people had been roughed up in that region on grounds that they were not born in that native place!!.
In addition the suffering old men and women were trudging on barefoot, this was the army of hungry old people trudging on bare foot expecting a meal or two from the flashily dressed people driving fashionable cars and bikes.. thier pumpled egos and fantasies driven up by movies and the feel good factor that economy was booming for them. An old lady begging for food was completely ignored by a set of young men and women poised in couple of tables on a road side famous eatery. The old lady clutched her under belly in deep hunger and the muscles in her abdomen were corroded by the gastric juices..symptoms like fainting and low blood pressure were assailing her senses and she had to endure this suffering of going without food for this day too..
Few couple of lovers were seen handing thier hands and enjoying the fleeting moment and time,oblivious of the scene that a young infant had been let to handle crumbs of breads in roadside while the mother was seen begging in the fleet of cars waiting at the signal which was about to turn yellow(those were the good old days..Mumbai Express!!!).
In a remote region of the country 2 sets of regious people were seen fighting with one and another. Blood was running freely on the roads and pavements. Children were burnt alive. Young men were beheaded while young ladies were raped. The rapacious nature of both the sets of relegion forgetting that there could be possibility of GOD being one if there was one GOD, and it was just the matter of religions being different.
All the events were paradoxical to fact that there had lived a man who had belonged to humanity.This man was frail in anatomy but had led crores people in a non violent struggle from his place called Sabhartamti. He had had been called Bapu and was one of the first ever social prophets.His sayings were much respected and admired by the western world. People had forgotten this social prophet called Bapu in his own land (and dancing to the tunes of Bapu.. Bapu..).
were getting fiery. There were news of clashes between 2 castes,there was a news spreading by way of hearsay that a strike had gone violent.In another part of the country there were rumors of regionalism raising its ugly head and a couple of people had been roughed up in that region on grounds that they were not born in that native place!!.
In addition the suffering old men and women were trudging on barefoot, this was the army of hungry old people trudging on bare foot expecting a meal or two from the flashily dressed people driving fashionable cars and bikes.. thier pumpled egos and fantasies driven up by movies and the feel good factor that economy was booming for them. An old lady begging for food was completely ignored by a set of young men and women poised in couple of tables on a road side famous eatery. The old lady clutched her under belly in deep hunger and the muscles in her abdomen were corroded by the gastric juices..symptoms like fainting and low blood pressure were assailing her senses and she had to endure this suffering of going without food for this day too..
Few couple of lovers were seen handing thier hands and enjoying the fleeting moment and time,oblivious of the scene that a young infant had been let to handle crumbs of breads in roadside while the mother was seen begging in the fleet of cars waiting at the signal which was about to turn yellow(those were the good old days..Mumbai Express!!!).
In a remote region of the country 2 sets of regious people were seen fighting with one and another. Blood was running freely on the roads and pavements. Children were burnt alive. Young men were beheaded while young ladies were raped. The rapacious nature of both the sets of relegion forgetting that there could be possibility of GOD being one if there was one GOD, and it was just the matter of religions being different.
All the events were paradoxical to fact that there had lived a man who had belonged to humanity.This man was frail in anatomy but had led crores people in a non violent struggle from his place called Sabhartamti. He had had been called Bapu and was one of the first ever social prophets.His sayings were much respected and admired by the western world. People had forgotten this social prophet called Bapu in his own land (and dancing to the tunes of Bapu.. Bapu..).
Friday, August 8, 2008
Serial and Serious killing
I am one of the few lucky people to hold a futuristic device. The device can zoom onto any place in the city and pick up the audio signals as well.It is with help of a advanced satellite technology that i could be able to capture events in the city. One of the series of events i am to describe is the aftermath of people's reaction to the killing.
It seems a group of people are on the move killing people by striking thier heads with stones and burning them. It in some sense seems to resemble the period of stone age and the time when man started flint stones. The combinaton of these two is wreaking havoc in people's minds and triggering of unrest in people' physchology. More than the killers needing physchatric treatment the public seems to be needing the treatment.
One such event i was able to witness was on a busy shop next to a highway.The loudspeaker was blaring the song which i translate that into english.
"fear is stupidity, fearlessness is dravidian property( acham enbathu madamai anchamai dravidian udamai)". The group of people seem to completely ignoring this wonderful song. This song had in the past kindled the fire of action among people and triggered them into actions befitting a karmi yogi. Oppose hindi and seek not the fruits of the opposition was the effect of this song. Such was the powerful effects of this song in the past. Hovewer the song in this present times couldnt have any effect on the people.On hearing this song i myself felt a new energy surging into my physche.But among the public a strange fear still lurked. It made them wonder whether the physchos might have planted this song among thier midst either to mock them or make them fools. Groups of women who were interviewed by TV channels seem to howl about the killers. The target of the attack were nightwatchmen and thier wives howled out thier fears. The watchmen who were brave during normal times refused to do night shifts.A strange phenomenon witnessed was that earlier dogs were beaten and hounded out.The poor creatures on the dog , straying on the roads were beaten mercilessly and driven away were now treated with biscuits,bread and milk. It made me wonder the oppurtunistic tendencies among the people.WIse men say that "small rusted peice may be used for cleaning the teeth"(siru thirumbum palluku uthavum), i.e usefullness of even small things will be in a big way. The people who had treated the stray dogs inhumanly in the past nowadays treated them with purposefulness, note that it was not human kindness but only for the sake of the stray dog's purposefullness. It was belived that pack of stray dogs could ward off the killers.
The other aspect was the resourcefullness of band of young men brandishing logs of wood in the night and roaming in the nights hoping to catch the killers. They could not go out singly for fear of killer or killers taking them out, but gathered courage only to roam around as mobs thus justifying that only mob rule and mob physchology prevailed in this part of the country as is in any part of the country.On 2 occasions the group of young men had gone overboard with thier enthusiastic energetic spirits had beaten a butcher in the morning. the butcher had it seems done his job in cutting down a goat and had his hands stained with goats blood . THe group had mistakem him to be a killer and in a frenzied mood mistook him to be the serial killer. On another occasion a resident of a locality had been mistaken to be a serial killer. The law came in between the hunt of these people and advice the young men to stop such tactics as it proved futile.Now the the men are nerve strung and stressed out.
As for the law the men are patrolling with minumum protection. While those in power are with unneeded and overdose of security the law enforcing people are patrolling with minimum weapons. It is such people who need the required weapons to tackle the gang of serial killers. Today a news came out that it was a gang operating such killings for monetary gains, but the puzzle is why the gang burns the victims.The law enforcers claim that its not physchos handiwork but only a gangs work.
Public's murmur can be heard here and there that it looks more like a masking effect and that real culprits are not caught.
A strange phenomenon is a shower of stones being pelted on hutments of people by a person or group of persons. ON lookout after the incident the person or persons are not at the scene of the crime. This has made the women stressed out and looks like they need physchatric counselling.The men thought put on a brave face still seem to have fears lurking within them.
Suddenly everybody has turned into a sherlock holmes .everybody suspects the rest and this interesting problem is apt problem to be posed to a mathematician.What is the probabality that a given person will be correctly judged to be a killer given that the opinions and thoughts of the people is BIASED.
Who will be the next victim? Who will catch the killer? Will the killer turn out to be a normal person or a physcho?These are thoughts running in the otherwise idle people's minds.The writer feels that a serial and a TV show can be hosted .The writer is sure that people will flock to see this serial or show, as thier is an element of suspicion and intrigue in the air.
The writer had first hand experience with a confused lad. IN a locality the writer interviewed a lad about the killings.THe lad pointed out some places where the killings had taken place. The lad was telling the truth but had an element of exaggeration and element of fear in him.To the writer there seemed a mathematical pattern in the spots in where the killers had done away with the victims.Could the killers know mathematics as well?
DISCLAIMER: the above is not meant to make fun of the fears of the people.The emotions are real while the people may be real based on rumours , hearsay and coincidence.The device is imaginary, and just a good old pair of ears and eyes of the writer were helpful in capturing the brave people's emotions
It seems a group of people are on the move killing people by striking thier heads with stones and burning them. It in some sense seems to resemble the period of stone age and the time when man started flint stones. The combinaton of these two is wreaking havoc in people's minds and triggering of unrest in people' physchology. More than the killers needing physchatric treatment the public seems to be needing the treatment.
One such event i was able to witness was on a busy shop next to a highway.The loudspeaker was blaring the song which i translate that into english.
"fear is stupidity, fearlessness is dravidian property( acham enbathu madamai anchamai dravidian udamai)". The group of people seem to completely ignoring this wonderful song. This song had in the past kindled the fire of action among people and triggered them into actions befitting a karmi yogi. Oppose hindi and seek not the fruits of the opposition was the effect of this song. Such was the powerful effects of this song in the past. Hovewer the song in this present times couldnt have any effect on the people.On hearing this song i myself felt a new energy surging into my physche.But among the public a strange fear still lurked. It made them wonder whether the physchos might have planted this song among thier midst either to mock them or make them fools. Groups of women who were interviewed by TV channels seem to howl about the killers. The target of the attack were nightwatchmen and thier wives howled out thier fears. The watchmen who were brave during normal times refused to do night shifts.A strange phenomenon witnessed was that earlier dogs were beaten and hounded out.The poor creatures on the dog , straying on the roads were beaten mercilessly and driven away were now treated with biscuits,bread and milk. It made me wonder the oppurtunistic tendencies among the people.WIse men say that "small rusted peice may be used for cleaning the teeth"(siru thirumbum palluku uthavum), i.e usefullness of even small things will be in a big way. The people who had treated the stray dogs inhumanly in the past nowadays treated them with purposefulness, note that it was not human kindness but only for the sake of the stray dog's purposefullness. It was belived that pack of stray dogs could ward off the killers.
The other aspect was the resourcefullness of band of young men brandishing logs of wood in the night and roaming in the nights hoping to catch the killers. They could not go out singly for fear of killer or killers taking them out, but gathered courage only to roam around as mobs thus justifying that only mob rule and mob physchology prevailed in this part of the country as is in any part of the country.On 2 occasions the group of young men had gone overboard with thier enthusiastic energetic spirits had beaten a butcher in the morning. the butcher had it seems done his job in cutting down a goat and had his hands stained with goats blood . THe group had mistakem him to be a killer and in a frenzied mood mistook him to be the serial killer. On another occasion a resident of a locality had been mistaken to be a serial killer. The law came in between the hunt of these people and advice the young men to stop such tactics as it proved futile.Now the the men are nerve strung and stressed out.
As for the law the men are patrolling with minumum protection. While those in power are with unneeded and overdose of security the law enforcing people are patrolling with minimum weapons. It is such people who need the required weapons to tackle the gang of serial killers. Today a news came out that it was a gang operating such killings for monetary gains, but the puzzle is why the gang burns the victims.The law enforcers claim that its not physchos handiwork but only a gangs work.
Public's murmur can be heard here and there that it looks more like a masking effect and that real culprits are not caught.
A strange phenomenon is a shower of stones being pelted on hutments of people by a person or group of persons. ON lookout after the incident the person or persons are not at the scene of the crime. This has made the women stressed out and looks like they need physchatric counselling.The men thought put on a brave face still seem to have fears lurking within them.
Suddenly everybody has turned into a sherlock holmes .everybody suspects the rest and this interesting problem is apt problem to be posed to a mathematician.What is the probabality that a given person will be correctly judged to be a killer given that the opinions and thoughts of the people is BIASED.
Who will be the next victim? Who will catch the killer? Will the killer turn out to be a normal person or a physcho?These are thoughts running in the otherwise idle people's minds.The writer feels that a serial and a TV show can be hosted .The writer is sure that people will flock to see this serial or show, as thier is an element of suspicion and intrigue in the air.
The writer had first hand experience with a confused lad. IN a locality the writer interviewed a lad about the killings.THe lad pointed out some places where the killings had taken place. The lad was telling the truth but had an element of exaggeration and element of fear in him.To the writer there seemed a mathematical pattern in the spots in where the killers had done away with the victims.Could the killers know mathematics as well?
DISCLAIMER: the above is not meant to make fun of the fears of the people.The emotions are real while the people may be real based on rumours , hearsay and coincidence.The device is imaginary, and just a good old pair of ears and eyes of the writer were helpful in capturing the brave people's emotions
The actor and the fool
The actor had just got out of his car. he was puffed up and laced with lots of make up.he was around 55 but looked 25 owing to his cosmetic makeup. the fool was a die hard fan of the actor and raised slogans shouting praises of his idol.
The lives of the fool and the actor were inter dependant. the fool was paid 50 rupees per day while the actor was paid crores per day for his histronics.from politicians to policemen the actor was praised for all his gimmicks. the actor was swarmed by groups of college students and girls who tore at his shirt once he came out of his mercedes benz.
The fool tried to get close to his idol but couldnt reach the actor.the fool's dream to touch his idol was a continuing issue.the actor waved his hands and felt his pumped out ego even growing more. the actor at many interviews had stated that owing to his fans he had grown. not a single person had known the the actor had himself been a fool who had his own idol 20 years back. he had in the same manner tried to reach out to his idol 20 years back but each time had to return empty handed. many people at present had been lucky in touching the actor and a few had been more lucky in recieving flower petals from the actor himself.
The fool had a single meal a day while the actor was pampered in star hotels and grown fat while the fools stomach were carved inside owing to lack of food. .the fool though knowing that his and many people's money had flown in the actor's coffers had created this fat actor ,still insisted on following the actor on his trips outside in the city during shootings.
Many people had tried to follow the actor while shootings were taking place. People had grown mad about this particular actor.
They had lost thier sense of identity and individual thinking and whatever the actor was saying the people took to heart and followed it to hearts content.
While many in the crowd held the actor in a high pedestal a few were jealous that the actor was enjoying an unparalleled life style. Even political parties were wary of this particular actors popularity. though he looked faded in appearance he was considered an adonis and a dream boy and not a person bursting in his seams. He was a grand father at this time and still posed as if he was a youthful person.
All the actors and actresses poured praises on this actor fearing that thier careers would be affected if they didnt do it otherwise. A wise man was watching all this paraphenilia and felt that not only the fool was fooled but enmasse people were fooled by this actor.
Not only the fool was foolish but enmasse people were ending up in being fools in falling for this actors histronics.The actor was finally a person who like other persons eat ,slept and had the mudane feelings of others. It made the wise person think of the frailities and foolish imaginations of the public in holding this actor in such a high pedestal which he didnt deserve at all.
Had the person who was an actor won a nobel prize , the wise person himself would have held the actor in high esteem. To his perspective the actor was after all doing his job as other people were carrying thier jobs.
The hard earned money of all the people were ending up in the actor;s coffers after all for just 3 hours of so called entertainment.
It made the wise man wonder was thier a single fool or a pack of fools?
The lives of the fool and the actor were inter dependant. the fool was paid 50 rupees per day while the actor was paid crores per day for his histronics.from politicians to policemen the actor was praised for all his gimmicks. the actor was swarmed by groups of college students and girls who tore at his shirt once he came out of his mercedes benz.
The fool tried to get close to his idol but couldnt reach the actor.the fool's dream to touch his idol was a continuing issue.the actor waved his hands and felt his pumped out ego even growing more. the actor at many interviews had stated that owing to his fans he had grown. not a single person had known the the actor had himself been a fool who had his own idol 20 years back. he had in the same manner tried to reach out to his idol 20 years back but each time had to return empty handed. many people at present had been lucky in touching the actor and a few had been more lucky in recieving flower petals from the actor himself.
The fool had a single meal a day while the actor was pampered in star hotels and grown fat while the fools stomach were carved inside owing to lack of food. .the fool though knowing that his and many people's money had flown in the actor's coffers had created this fat actor ,still insisted on following the actor on his trips outside in the city during shootings.
Many people had tried to follow the actor while shootings were taking place. People had grown mad about this particular actor.
They had lost thier sense of identity and individual thinking and whatever the actor was saying the people took to heart and followed it to hearts content.
While many in the crowd held the actor in a high pedestal a few were jealous that the actor was enjoying an unparalleled life style. Even political parties were wary of this particular actors popularity. though he looked faded in appearance he was considered an adonis and a dream boy and not a person bursting in his seams. He was a grand father at this time and still posed as if he was a youthful person.
All the actors and actresses poured praises on this actor fearing that thier careers would be affected if they didnt do it otherwise. A wise man was watching all this paraphenilia and felt that not only the fool was fooled but enmasse people were fooled by this actor.
Not only the fool was foolish but enmasse people were ending up in being fools in falling for this actors histronics.The actor was finally a person who like other persons eat ,slept and had the mudane feelings of others. It made the wise person think of the frailities and foolish imaginations of the public in holding this actor in such a high pedestal which he didnt deserve at all.
Had the person who was an actor won a nobel prize , the wise person himself would have held the actor in high esteem. To his perspective the actor was after all doing his job as other people were carrying thier jobs.
The hard earned money of all the people were ending up in the actor;s coffers after all for just 3 hours of so called entertainment.
It made the wise man wonder was thier a single fool or a pack of fools?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Earth quake tamasha
The earthquake had struck chennai again after quite a long time. People were stricken with fear and were wondering the cause of this mild tremor.
I was watching some movie and had a power cut around 5.00 pm. I didnt know about this tremor as i had become thick skinned. Some time back i had commented to a friend of mine that people here had exceeded thier bad karmas some fury of nature would strike its hands on them to remind them of the merits of good karma. I felt that my words were becoming truer.
As i walked by the streets people were huddled together and whispering among themselves about this tremor.I got the information from them that a tremor had struck chennai.Some people attributed this as fury of GOD as people's relegious beliefs had dwindled down.While the non belivers who felt that its was thier supreme right to not believe in GOD relying in the scientists reasoning. Among the non-believers were those who inwardly believed in GOD but put up a face that they didnt believe in GOD. Among those who believed in GOD , they poured ghee,milk , burned incense sticks and chanted vedas hoping that a major quake could be averted.
The political parties workers felt that the opposition party had planted a huge device underground which could cause this tremor so as to de-stabilise the ruling regime. While the opposition party raised thier voices saying that unplanned draining of ground water could have resulted in this. Among the believers in GOD in opposition they felt that the leader of opposition was not given her right place so this could have resulted in the tremor.
The common man who by this time had got used to the common ramblings of the various groups felt his life at stake and a fear crept inside him. The next quake and he will faint.
For those who felt that brahmins were weak kneed, this tremor had shown that indeed all were weak kneed people. The papers potrayed how people with fears in thier faces looked at each other in thier faces., This indeed makes true the statement "kettle calling the pot black".
I felt before we make allegations at other group of people whether we are really morally right.
One more major earthquake in chennai and the true bravery of people will come to the streets.Its ironic that people pride in thier false bravery.
MORE TO COME.
krishnah
I was watching some movie and had a power cut around 5.00 pm. I didnt know about this tremor as i had become thick skinned. Some time back i had commented to a friend of mine that people here had exceeded thier bad karmas some fury of nature would strike its hands on them to remind them of the merits of good karma. I felt that my words were becoming truer.
As i walked by the streets people were huddled together and whispering among themselves about this tremor.I got the information from them that a tremor had struck chennai.Some people attributed this as fury of GOD as people's relegious beliefs had dwindled down.While the non belivers who felt that its was thier supreme right to not believe in GOD relying in the scientists reasoning. Among the non-believers were those who inwardly believed in GOD but put up a face that they didnt believe in GOD. Among those who believed in GOD , they poured ghee,milk , burned incense sticks and chanted vedas hoping that a major quake could be averted.
The political parties workers felt that the opposition party had planted a huge device underground which could cause this tremor so as to de-stabilise the ruling regime. While the opposition party raised thier voices saying that unplanned draining of ground water could have resulted in this. Among the believers in GOD in opposition they felt that the leader of opposition was not given her right place so this could have resulted in the tremor.
The common man who by this time had got used to the common ramblings of the various groups felt his life at stake and a fear crept inside him. The next quake and he will faint.
For those who felt that brahmins were weak kneed, this tremor had shown that indeed all were weak kneed people. The papers potrayed how people with fears in thier faces looked at each other in thier faces., This indeed makes true the statement "kettle calling the pot black".
I felt before we make allegations at other group of people whether we are really morally right.
One more major earthquake in chennai and the true bravery of people will come to the streets.Its ironic that people pride in thier false bravery.
MORE TO COME.
krishnah
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