Saturday, November 26, 2011

FDI In Retail Sector - Existing Situation

         There is however another angle to this FDI thing in retail sector :the existing scenario is that the whole-sale traders procure food from farmers at a very cheap price and not only pass it on to retailers at their own determined price but a...lso hoard the food stuff to be released at exorbitant price when the supply decreases. At times, particularly when the crop is bumper farmers are forced to throw it on roads as the transportation cost is not redeemable at other times even picking up of the crop gets nonviable economically .The 1st picture is of potato cultivation in central UP and the 2nd reality is with tomato farming .More over the traders form syndicate to exploit consumers by artificial hike in prices as is happening now and our stupid ministers are stating that the high inflation in food items is due to increased demand as people are getting more money out of growth in Indian economy ,ignoring the fact that the growth they are talking of is only for a fraction of the population - for the rest it's job-less growth . To top it all we have those vested interests represented by central minister for lobbying for sugar and onion monopolists.                                                                                                                              The perceived threat is that big multinational players like Walmart ,Tesco and Carefour will eat up neighborhood retailers and once they establish their monopoly they will sell the goods at sky-high prices ,thus consumers will not be benefited , farm produce will be snatched away at throw away returns to farmers and 4o million small shopkeepers will be thrown out of job . 
Assumptions and presumptions are not wise man's way of taking up issues ,yes politicos have their compulsions of vote bank , but it is wrongly assessed since this 40 million is the one which has a money to invest in business and they are always free to switch over to some other business activity in case their present KIRANA  store thing is turning unprofitable as they did when these people shifted from photocopying to STD booths and to recharge vouchers for mobiles and even selling of mobile phones ,after-all they are enterprising - aren't they .
It is beyond any doubt that consumers will be benefited by way of quality and economy and by whatever mathematical calculation 40 million is too small a figure compared to 1.20 billion .Lets us also not forget that the arm-twisting days of Raj era has long passed its nightmarish life span ,they need our market as we need their money .One caution is there and it could be a Red Flag for those in power : don't let them violate the law of the land and ensure implementation of labor laws with a certainty of stringent punishment for any violation .The opening of these stores must not be restricted to cities with population of 10 lakhs and more as it could be a real game changer in employment market for educated youth .

Friday, November 18, 2011

On Revolution

1 . For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~ Mandela


2 . The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. -E Debs

3 . Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. -W Marsalis

4 . The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che

5 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK

6 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


7 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


"The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac



8 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


9 . Violence is man re-creating himself. ~Frantz Fanon

10 . I hate victims who respect their executioners. ~Jean-Paul Sartre



11 . Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~Simone de Beauvoir

12 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X

13 . A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~Tacitus



14 . The king must die so that the country can live. ~Maximilien Robespierre



15 . All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. ~Victor Hugo


16 . Tell the children the truth. ~Bob Marley



17 . Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ~Bob Marley


18 . Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ~Bob Marley



19 . Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ~Khalil Gibran

20 . Fight the power that be. Fight the power. ~Spike Lee


21 . He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ~Tacitus


22 . War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ~Thomas Carlyle


23 . Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover


24 . A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ~Elbert Hubbard


25 . A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. ~John Stuart Mill


26 . Those who live are those who fight. ~Victor Hugo


27 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


28 . To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~George Orwell


29 . History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ~Karl Marx


30 . Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ~Bob Marley


31 . Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ~George S. Patton


32 . First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mohandas Gandhi


33 . It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Mark Twain


34 . The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! ~Tupac Shakur



35 . Revolution is not a one time event. ~Audre Lorde


36 . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson


37 . You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. ~Ursula K. Le Guin


38 . Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable. ~Leon Trotsky


39 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur

40 . Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ~ Karl Marx


41 . I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.~Howard Mumford Jones


42 . It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. ~Frederick Douglass


43 . The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. ~Adrienne Rich


44 . To tell the truth is revolutionary. ~Antonio Gramsci


45 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


46 . The more you can increase fear of drugs, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ~Noam Chomsky


47 . The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.~Noam Chomsky


48 . If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky


49 . If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ~Noam Chomsky


50 . Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. ~Noam Chomsky


51 . "Revolution is not an action, it is a process." Huey Newton


52 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che

53 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che


54 . I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.- Che


55 . "Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies" - Leon Trotsky


56 . Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism" (Vladimir I Lenin)


57 . "Fascism is capitalism in decay" (Vladimir I Lenin)


58 . "Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot" (Vladimir I Lenin)


59 . "An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"(Friedrich Engels)


60 . Religions is the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" (Karl Marx)


61 . "I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people" (Huey Newton)



62 . "I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images" (Huey Newton)


63 . "Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment" (Huey Newton)


64 . "Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system" (Stokely Carmichael)


65 . "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man" (Che Guevara)


66 . "I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting" (Che Guevara)


68 . "We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle" (Che Guevera)


69 . "Dont mourn, Organize" (Joe Hill - IWW Union Organizer, USA)


70 . The real revolution happened when people started using the internet to fight corruption and oppression. ~Mark Zuckerberg


71 . "Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall" Wolfe Tone


72 . "Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws" Leon Trotsky


73 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


74 . Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. ~Jesus


75 . Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.~Colton


76 . Revolution is the larva of civilization. ~Victor Hugo


77 . It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ~Thomas Jefferson


78 . The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. ~Phaedrus


79 . The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ~John Hay



80 . Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ~Thomas Jefferson


81 . One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. ~Lenin


82 . Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


83 . Revolutions never go backwards. ~William Henry Steward


84 . Revolutionaries are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost. ~Wellington


85 . An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ~Henry Clay


86 . To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.~Antoine Saint-Just


87 . A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. ~Bertrand de Jouvenel



88 . Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. ~John V. Lindsay


89 . The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ~Abraham Lincoln


90 . Everything in a revolutionary is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution. ~Nechaev


91 . Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ~Karl Marx


92 . If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~George Washington



93 . Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



94 . When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



95 . We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


96 . "The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac


97 . Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


98 . Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


99 . I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


100 . I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. ~ Martin Luther King , Jr.


101 . I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


102 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


103 . Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


104 . Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


105 . A riot is the language of the unheard. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



106 . A right delayed is a right denied. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


107 . A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


108 . A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


109 . Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. ~Karl Marx


110 . The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ~Karl Marx


111 . If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman


112 . No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is thought carried into action. ~Emma Goldman


113 . You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. ~Fred Hampton



114 . You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~Huey Newton


115 . The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of workers continue to beat. ~Ernst Toller


116 . The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~Abbie Hoffman


117 . I was born in revolution. ~Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)



118 . The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ~Toni Cade Bambara


119 . Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ~Toni Cade Bambara


120 . We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. ~Georg Buchner


121 . Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ~Georg Buchner


123 . A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ~James MacGregor Burns


124 . A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. ~Daisaku Ikeda


125 . Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ~C. Wright Mills


126 . All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ~Henry Ellis



127 . The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... ~ Jean Genet



128 . Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


129 . To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~Rita Mae Brown


130 . We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. It is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~Hoffer


131 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X


132 . If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. ~Mao Tse-Tung



133 . A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ~Mao Tse-Tung



134 . The seed of revolution is repression. ~Woodrow Wilson


135 . No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! ~Fidel Castro


136 . A revolution is not a bed of roses. ~Fidel Castro



137 . When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo


138 . You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ~ Joseph Stalin


139 . Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. ~Mike Tyson


140 . Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ~Rosa Luxemburg



141 . The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.~Rosa Luxemburg


142 . The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. ~Rosa Luxemburg


143 . Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ~Rosa Luxemburg


144 . Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.~Rosa Luxemburg



145 . The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.~Vladimir Lenin


146 . The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.~Vladimir Lenin



147 . The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.~Vladimir Lenin


148 . Sometimes - history needs a push.~Vladimir Lenin


149 . Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ~Vladimir Lenin

150 . Fascism is capitalism in decay. ~Vladimir Lenin


151 . Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ~Vladimir Lenin


152 . The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. - Johann Most


153 . Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! ~ Johann Most


154 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


155 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


156 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


157 . Give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry


158 . How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! - Samuel Adams


159 . Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx


160 . You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ~Malcolm X


161 . The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. ~Malcolm X


162 . Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. ~Malcolm X


163 . Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. ~Malcolm X


164 . Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ~Malcolm X


165 . If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.~Malcolm X


166 . It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Jesus Christ


167 . I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ~Malcolm X


168 . Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ~Malcolm X


169 . A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ~Malcolm X


170 . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ~ Thomas Jefferson


171 . He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.


172 . He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. Martin Luther King Jr.



173 . Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. -Karl Marx


174 . Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!" - Rosa


175 . “Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal

176 . "The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I." - Karl Liebknecht


177 . "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat." - Rosa Luxemburg

178 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur


179 . Revolution today or financial fascism tomorrow! ~Unknown


180 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK


181 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


182 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


183 . You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X

184 . Capitalist created GOD out of deceit and greed . ~ C.K. Pathak
                                                                                                                             
185 . Proletariat must capture Govt., to defend it's class interest . ~ C.K.Pathak