Saturday, February 20, 2010

Man in wilderness

When GODS failed to create a perfect being, How could Jesus, Mohammad, Budha, Mahavira. Ram or Zoroaster have succeeded. Gandhi, Marx and Martin Luther King had no chance what-so-ever in this grand make over of the faulty creature on this planet, earth. Surprisingly in this mad mad world no dog eats another dog yet man is swallowing down the entire humanity without any satiety. The greed is on and the need has no means. To top it all, it is said to be the most advanced and highly evolved. To him / her all modern marvels are attributed. Be they skyscrapers, Vast Dams, supersonic modes for travel to unknown worlds or timeless communication devices. yes, he/she has done most doables, but will it ever be able to improve upon his ownself and is willing to take up the job of doing the utmost, one that will, at its own, take care of the rest; a weapon of mass destruction of greed – the human greed, the cause of all ills and evils. Talks of religiousity, spirituality and austerity are mere talks and talk is what ? What to talk : Nuclear free world, Environmental protection, hunger, unemployment, safe drinking water, Health issues, National and Racial chauvanism – innumerable subjects, eminent people engaged in endless rounds. Results ? Cipher. No wonder homo sapiens have reduced themselves to a peck of ever salivating wolves. It is perfectly O.K. to save for the rainy day but how, which is a scientific question, can it be called sensible, rational and logical if all are running out of breath for more and more. Thinkers have proclaimed life, to be a bubble not an empty dream, which gives no time to stand and stare the glories of nature in many facets day in and day out. Then why, which is a philosophical question, go for accumulations. And see where we stand as on date. The entire life of man has been bottled, earlier – in several stories Ginnie resided in a lamp or a bottle; once out of it , it was capable of doing all impossible things. The Ginnie is out and all things thought to be impossible are no more so and we find miracle like inventions and innovation around us. The irony is that man is entrapped in the bottle, in childhood it is the milk bottle, you grow up and in adolescence this turns into sweetened coloured liquid bottle, as soon as one starts earning he graduates to a bottle of whisky and in old age the man is solely dependent on Glucose bottle. The development reminds of a short story, perhaps a Russian, one, where an announcement is made : The area covered from sunrise to sunset will be given away as a prize to the one doing so. Huffing and puffing a man, out of his greed, ran nonstop and encompassed an area of several kilometers only to fall dead. He was later burried in a piece of land measuring barely thirty square feet. Visualize the sequence of things that will come in-to play supposing : every person become Gates, Tata or Ambani, all hell will break out. How will assorted, diverse and miscellaneous works in the society will be done, particularly menial sundry job which are all equally important. Precisely scavenging is as important as going to the moon. A peon is as much a must as an officer, or a Head of the country is only as much needed as a sepoy posted under unhabitable and hostile conditions away from his near and dear ones. Contemplate this from another angle so as to have a better and a clearer picture : Are physical, economical, social or cultural requirements of one can be far different from that of another, certainly basic requisites of every man are same. Now look for the answer to question earlier raised, why this greed ? Inspite of all sort of revolutions – industrial, social, technological and communication, man has always been incontinent with regard to his greed and enslaved the fellow-beings, the desire to rule over others and exploit could be traced to ages. No matter how much ignoble it might be. Slavery though has been banned under most constitutions, still it does exist in varring forms and call this neo-slavery if you wish – a modern day curse, a bane of modern day society. Are we ready ? To do away with this criminal instinct, you need to have a plan and consequently an Agenda of action. Here, will is of greatest import – without it the picture will continue to remain grim. Impromtu you can’t achieve any positive results, so all good thinking and concerning people must come together to make the cause not a issue but a movement, a mass movement, cutting across National boundaries and racial prejudices. It is even more important looking to the fact that money can get you a plush apartment in a posh locality but not the pleasure filled life; it can buy best of diamond jewellery but not bestow beauty, it may ensure books on various subjects but not the knowledge; of course, it certainly will buy delicious foods but not the hunger. The much sought riches can neither get a good health not a peaceful sleep. Then, what should be the approach to restore life, way strayed ? One , universal Recognition and acceptance of basic human needs. Two government should make social security mandatory, last but not the least to draw a line which puts upper ceiling on accumulation of money - thereby, bringing an effective check on the greed of man. This way will not only give impetus to the human growth in all spheres, but also at a rate which will be uprecedented in the entire evolutionary history of man kind on this earth. An accommodating, satisfying and an enjoyable life full of quality time for work and play. Accomplish this and man will be God in his own self. The true one.

AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE MEET !

World leaders are meeting at Paris to discuss and debate a non-issue or rather a created one - of climate change and look for unworkable solutions. It has happened earlier, no valid reason why it once again will not be an another fiasco. In any case what is the problem ? Enigma is, our species is too intelligent to live without one or the another and the interesting thing is that we never care for the things staring in our faces. Take for one, Hunger. Are we concerned more than lip service – the same lip job initiated at Denmark, Kyoto will now conclude at Paris or perhaps get our jaws locked in some other world city with more Din in media and more an more money will be pumped into N.G.O’s for still hard breast beating. Of course, this exercise will not go totally in vain, it definitely will help divert attention from more pertinent stakes of mankind, like sitting on the mouth of atomic volcano and not ready to recede. Yet, talking of saving the planet from climatic catastrophe. So, the planet is warming; lot of carbon dioxide, nitrous-oxide and methane the so called green house gases emission is increasing – the ozone layer is depleting and causing climate change. But, change is the law of nature – why not just accept it, as it is. The conspiracy lies elsewhere, with industrial revolution begins the story of energy quest and this energy requirement has kept on increasing to keep enhancing production for growth for living an affluent life to which the developed Wild-West is so accustomed that it has become non viable or unimaginable to do away with it. Chronicle the annals of development : Cold, very cold planet starts cooling – earth becomes hospitable for life, habitable for man. This man on getting hold of energy move out to conquer country after country with the sole idea of getting cheap labour, practically free of cost, looting the natural resources of these enslaved countries for centuries. The so plunged wealth created much more industries back home. Buildings, Roads, Bridges, factories, hospitals, institutions of learning, and a wall street to crumble at their wishes. But, then it also created a demon – the lethargic man, the man of honour and prestige – who belittled every other fellow being. It hurt the pride of this man to live along side of others, it hurt his pride to sit and travel together with other man. Here is the catch, as said Americans have a life style such that if every inhabitant is to live a similar way – we will need three earth like planets to meet the greed. And be for sure after some more years four, five or even six earth like planets won’t be able to cope with this ugly demand of living an awfully filthy rich life style. So be sensible – West willing and live happily hereafter. Thus to restrict the poor or developing countries – their citizenry a dignified life, where they could have safe drinking water, sufficient nutritious food, a roof over their head and finally aspire for life at par with their Western counterparts. Just stop buying this silly propagandist story of climate change which will some day engulf everything !!!!!!!

PRIVITIZATION BY ANY OTHER NAME REMAINS A PRIVITIZATION

Congress started a disinvestment of public sector enterprises in 1991.Later,BJP led NDA government created disinvestment ministry.During 2004 to 2009 ,Congress could’t carry out this process further and had to put aside privatization of national assets due to its dependence on left parties who tooth and nail opposed neo-liberal regime introduced by Dr.Manmohan Singh as finance minister. Now,after being back to power at the center UPA 2 ,having received huge monetary help from private co-operative sector during last general elections ,is initiating disinvestment of PSU’s with a new tag ,’people’s ownership’.Another fanciful term is ,’Participative Development’. PSU’s ownership is with the government ;present government has never acquired this.People’s ownership of these public sector enterprises has been entrusted to parliament through the elected representatives of people of India .’People’s ownership’ is a newly coined blatant lie ,an it is in fact a disguised privatization in a gradual manner .The following table will give a better picture . Share holding of BHEL : Govt. of India - 67.72% Foreign institutional investors-17.03% Mutual funds-5.14% Insurance companies -3.83 % Corporate enterprises- 3.86% Small and retail investors-1.92% Almost similar is the status in NTPC and other blue chip PSU’s. Now the government is making 120 crore people backed Indian parliament subservient to share market so as to sell off national assets to chosen few.What say ?

Friday, February 19, 2010

PRIORTISING INVESTMENT

ANYTHING WHICH DOESN'T GROW ,IS NOT ONLY BOUND TO STAGNATE BUT IS DESTINED TO DECAY AND DIE .THUS IT IS IMPERATIVE TO GIVE OUR ECONOMY THE MUCH NEEDED BOOST TO TAKE IT INTO A TRAJECTORY WHERE DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH COULD BE ENSURED .FOR PARKING OUR ECONOMIC VEHICLE IN A SAFE GEO -POLITICAL ORBIT IT BECOMES PERTINENT FOR THE FINANCE MINISTER TO SET OUR GOALS IN ACCORDANCE TO THE NATIONAL OBJECTIVE OF PULLING MILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY AND RESTORING HUMAN DIGNITY ,DEVOID OF WHICH MAN IS REDUCED TO AN ANIMAL BEING .
BILLIONS HAVE BEEN PUMPED INTO RESTORATION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY FROM THE GREAT MELT DOWN IS ON WAY .NOW IS THE TIME FOR THIS MONEY TO BE GIVEN A DIRECTION -WHERE IT FEELS SAFE AND SURE OF RETURNS .IT IS A RARE HISTORIC MOMENT FOR US ,WHERE UN -CERTAINTY RIDE HIGH .SHOW FII'S THE TREMENDOUS UNTAPPED POTENTIAL IN OUR INFRA STRUCTURE SECTOR .OF COURSE PITCHING FOR THIS FIELD WILL ALSO GIVE THE MUCH REQUIRED ENHANCEMENT TO OUR CORE SECTOR INDUSTRIES ,WHICH AS A CONSEQUENCE OUGHT TO ESTABLISH JOBMORE GROWTH FOR LONG LONG TIME.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

THE CONSTITUTIONAL BETRAYAL

THE Govts. are bound by the constitution of India in our country and the ministers take oath at the time of induction into the cabinet ,still they are together in a collectively way making the sanctimonious governing bible -THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA bite the dust by failing to uphold the rule of law in matters of workers and employees .Can the PRIME -MINISTER CITE EVEN ONE LABOUR LAW WHICH IS BEING IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ,IN EVERY STATE ,DISTRICT TEHSIL OR VILLAGE .NO HE CANNOT .CAN THE PRESIDENT OF THE LARGEST CONSTITUENT OF THE RULING COALITION GOVT AT THE CENRE QUOTE/NAME ANY ONE DISTRICT WHERE ALL LABOUR LAWS ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED NO SHE TOO CANN,T. A MATTER OF SHAME AND DISGUST OR PITIABLE PRIDE .