Positives of the Anna Movement

After yesterday's discussion of govet with team Anna it seems quiet clear they are in no mood of withdrawing the bill. The assumption is quiet clear that if they withdraw the crap produced by five eminnent guys will hurt there ego. I wonder where the ego was present while drafting the bill? i have my doubts on there intention of meeting the demands of team Anna. They are calling the meetings just on the basis of pressure, not from heart. So outcome is getting more predictable.

The very next day after the world cup, the country started following Anna and the indian across the globe as well. There was hope of something positive should emerge out of this. But the more i am folloowing the more i am harassed by the politician and there double standard. One thing i realise all politician in common they talk unreasonable thing in farely reasonable manner. But the end user know the real motives are. Personally in the process of following the news, a new desire of being a politician arises, where i can speak my heart out. I can support a cause than a cause itself. Politician today hiding behind the parliament very well knows they are the victim of the bill. In this situation i don't know how a fare minded person will sign his own warrant. At the same time tired of listening to political people. I wish i had a "SPAM" year which i could engage when they talk without troubling my real ear and cerebrum which listen and comprehend for me.

I am pissed off by two things in the whole movement by government. When they say 1. Parliament should be respected 2. Mr PM says he doesn't have a magic wand. But my dear politician pleas try to realize we are respecting little too much thats why it took 4-5 decades for us to get together and put our thing on the table. Where is your feeling of parliament when you prepare the crap bill, where is the respect to parliament when u eat the public money, where is the respect when you see the people who send you to represent in parliament shouting at the gate with heart out. When the same people demand something which is legitmate, you say unconstitutional. And the 2nd point when Mr prime minister says we don't have a magic wand he sounds equally helpless as a ordinary citizen. My dear PM if you don't have it then when why don't you take it what team Anna is gving? It won't disappoint you and would not be no less than a magic wand. And for god sake don't repeat that line again.

The whole movement has some positive amid of all anxiety and frustration. It tells people of there democratic right, more than merely voting once in five years. Which is a good sign. From now on section of peoplewill have a watch on type of bill govt authoring. It creates a political aspiration among few. "If Kapil is not doing, i could have done this if i were him." That feeling creates a political desire. I am sure few people will be there on the same page. its different story unless electoral reform happens difficult for people like me to go there and survive.

Having said all these, i am still watching the progress of IAC. If Congress led govt didn't do much on this i have decided for next 10 years i am not going to vote for them no matter what. I will pledge my people to do the same. Next two term go home and respect parliament from chandni chowk. By saying all this i really don't support the opposition on there stand on Jan Lokpal as well.

"Maharaja" Time for a silent exit

When i say Maharaja, you know what i mean. If not it's Air India.

I don't know, but anyhow i don't consider it an airline anymore. What sort of airline is an airline that frequently change the route, that drops the profitable root for the private player to rule, take new route that was never existed earlier. It doesn't have the money to pay gas companies, lethargic empoyees hardly manage to move there ass are in a industry whose dynamics keep changing in every passing seconds, yet they do strike. Are these all symptoms of a flourishing airline?

Whenever I see Air India it reminds me of Tony Fernandese of Air Asia. OK the story as it goes when he tried to set up an airline in Malaysia and got a chance to meet Dr. Mahatir. he suggested him to take over the laggard existing airline instead of setting up a new one. Air Asia was in a mess when he took over and rest is history.

The point here is, if there is a bail out or loan given which is public money on a highly non-professional airline, for its employee to be in the safety cocoon of govt of India. I don't see any other reason. Rather than pulling, dragging it to run in a less loss mode why not dilute the stake and sell the major chunk to a private player to operate. And i am pretty much sure from very next day it will run on profit. There is no rocket science needed to manage the Airline. GoAir can go from 10 to 78more in few years, Indigo from few to few hundred, so why not Air India. And i am sure you know why not?

This is high time, govt should genuinely diversify it's stake in those sector or companies that no longer profitable or can't be managed by bureaucrats. You can't take the tax money to keep alive the dead sector who are in comma with no chance of revival just on ventilator support (public money).

it's intersting to know there are some companies owned by Govt of India that are into cements, salts, cotton and don't know where else.

I don't support Ramdev, with all due respect

The moment i make my first statement, i might sound odd. Isn't it? But that's the truth. Here i am not questioning the intention of Ramdev, or his fasting but what i dislike about the whole affair is his solution to curb the black money. There are something you should leave the experts to do. You just initiate the process, monitor it but not a part of it.

If he is telling, govt should bring the money back to India that is hoarded in Swiss Bank, I am with him. One more point he was making is to stop the bigger denomination of 500 and 1000. Here lies the difference. I know his intention is to stop hoarding the black money. As a citizen, popular citizen you can ask for the transparency or the progress report on the issues that you have. But the moment you are pointing what needs to be done then there is a problem. Lets talk about the denomination. We are in a age where 9-10% of inflation is quiet natural. So in layman terms Money is loosing its value by 9-10% each year. So the amount of thing that you can buy in the Year 1991 on 100 rupees note, the same amount will cost you 560 rupees in 2011 considering 9% of inflation through out. So all the transaction in 100 rupees currency is equally painful for normal man.

Another point i would like to mention. This time govt was little pro-active in persuading in what is going through and what are there plans. They received Ramdev and finance minister talk to him personally. The minutes of meeting has never surfaced officially neither from him nor from government. So we as a common man never got to know what in reality stops them from getting the money back to India and on the black money curbing what are the steps govt is taking. If Ramdev doesn't like the Govt initiative then why he doesn't like it? Nothing in reality has come out publicly.

So my humble request will be creating agitation, and mobilizing a mass movement in anyway will put tremendous pressure on a ruling side, and sometimes powerful enough to put a functional govt to a defunct state. So lets keep the pressure on without squeezing it too much. There are several ways you can put a check on black money segment, apart from high value denomination. So let's have something concrete rather than going for a fast to see wonder overnight, as if Manmohan is sitting with Swis Bank user ID and password will log in and transfer all the money back to India. Just to give another example Singapore has a currency of 10000 sing dollar. Can you imagine one note is equivalent to 3.6 Lac rupees. So the country should be heaven for black money hoarder. Answer is a big NO. You put the check and balance in several places, that's it. Don't ask me how? I will leave this to experts to decide.

By saying this i no way defend the action that was done by Delhi police on the people who are sleeping silently and protesting. Again on the flip side I don't accept the fact where Ramdev was talking about keeping some trained young people with weapons for RavanLeela at Ram Maidan if things happen again. So the bottomline is if i am concerned about something, i will try to initiate the process that will mitigate the issue, but not by myself. Indira Gandhi during her tenure very intuitively know that science has to grow for the country to flourish. ISRO formed, atomic research center formed, even sent man to moon during her period. She herself didn't study science for the growth, she made the environment conducive for the rest to flourish. So let me re-iterate you let your concern send across the table but not the solution.

Honestly i sometimes feel you are good at the shows at morning 4 o' clock doing pranayam. You are good at that stick to it. Else always remember great power bring great responsibility. If not well directed might work as double edge sword.

Boddu, I am waiting

I hate when a man turns to soul, i hate even more when it turns out to be a near and dear. Yesterday had a painful news, news of your.... I didn't know whom to call and verify. How come you left so early not even notifying? Is it fare Annaya?

I call you Boddu. I asked you few times about me calling you by that name,and you always gracefully smile and say "No issues bhaiya". If there is a guy whose leg i normally pull, and pull frequently you are the one. Half of my coffee i had with you in office, coffee was just an excuse, to hangout was the real motive. I still remember, you used to come to me every now and then try to speak in Hindi. Things turn worse when you explain me your ROL incidents in Hindi.

I don't know why you were so close to me? We don't have much in common in terms of language, food or anything but we were gelling so well. You have called me before you left Singapore, and you told me we will meet once you are back. Is it right you won't keep your word. Please Boddu ra ra.

I still not in a mood to believe the fact you are not here, i don't want to wish for soul. I don't care. I want you back to your work smiling as usual. Waiting for an "hi" on Monday. They tell us miracle do happen here, waiting for one now. Please surprise everyone. I don't mind if you fooled us. We will have coffee at lounge. Don't forget we will take the same bus to Bedok.

I will not talk to you if you don't turn up. Never.

Love you.

(Photo i have taken on my mobile during JP Morgan race, April 2011)

Samparkiya (Odiya)

I was thinking of writing something in odiya for long long time. But never be able to do that as not much of software, or user friendly font available. If there difficult to edit as i never use them in day-today life. But while sitting in the empty office (pre-Christmass) thought lets write something on my own language, which was (is) part of my life. I know there are lots of grammatical mistake, better if you ignore them while reading.



Thank You.

Incredible India !!! Probably in relative term

More or the less every individual might have heard these promotion about India, yes "Incredible India". When you see it you feel good about it, even i am. Since my childhood days i learnt to praise my country, i was told to love every aspect of it, and i was doing it religiously, and i am doing it even now. But as i grow i see people, i travel across the state, sometime across the country. When i did its always a comparison that flashed in my backend brain. When i was there US, i saw people excited about the country, the places, the people, road even cars. We sometime don't mind to take a snap in front of a Hummer parked somewhere in a desolate place, and put it on a networking site. But when i see all of these the basic question that comes to my mind is can't the same thing be implemented in India. So these continuous feasibility study goes on and on. I never charmed by the beauty of the foreign country but constant Why and why not puts me in a fix whether to be proud of it or not.

We take pride of inventing Zero, take pride of good at mathematics, land of algebra but when all these happened. Its roughly 300BC. Aryabhatta contributed a lot to mathematics, trigonometry, pi value at 400 BC. India has the biggest and hopefully first university recorded in the history probably 500n BC(Nalanda) before it got ruined by Bakhtiyar Khilji to establish Islam. We have Ayurveda (Indian form of medicine and surgery) probably thousands years back. So whatever we did we did almost hundred generation back. When i just peep back i see nothing
i don't mean ZERO though. Tell me something that i should be proud of in last fifty years. Someone might argue in terms of road, infrastructure, heath care, GDP. Agree. But in relative term we are far behind. Singapore became an independent country in 1965, 18 years after India got independent. Each year china is adding equivalent amount of power generation that India has in total. I am not doing a detail research just to give an idea, if you look with in we look good. We are proud of unity among diversity, we feel good about so many colleges around, we feel good
about our largest military troop, we are good about so many things when we don't compare. That's why it's Incredible. The moment you peep out of window and see all around we tend to loose the confidence. That's why Einstein told nothing is absolute. In this relative universe i don't find much reason to celebrate "Incredible India".

I wish my India where the Kids can go to Govt schools without the fear of the quality of education which might justify "Right to education" in true sense, i want my country where we can have our indigenous fighter plane, no one will die on road without medical attendance, judicial system should be strong enough to screw a powerful person, no one should die out of hunger, country can able to accommodate dozens of "CWG" or even Olympics without preparation, i want a national football team that represent country in football world cup, i want where there is no corruption at all, i want a country where politician fight for country not for mere politics. I know i am day dreaming.

I really never thought i will put Mr. Salman khan's note in my blog. but it was so thoughtful lines worth being mentioned on India

“What’s India? Nation where Pizza reaches home faster than an Ambulance & Police, where you get Car Loan @ 5 percent but Education Loan @ 12 percent, where Rice is Rs 40 but Sim card is free, where people worship Goddess Durga but want to kill their girl child?,” Further he added “Olympic shooter wins gold, Govt gives 3 crores. Another shooter dies fighting with terrorist, Govt pays 1 lakh. Really, Incredible India!”


In spite of all i am still optimistic about my country. Wonder where it is coming from. oh it's independence day, that's why. Happy Independence day to all of you in a thought it is going to change sooner.

Cheers

Friends

Lets not define the term "friendship". It bears its own definition depending on the individual and the context. But one thing for sure, irrespecitve of the individual opinion everybody will agree to the point its Sweet. It gives more than it demand. This relation is not a blood relation yet more than that. I sometime wonder about the person who invented the term 'Friends', i mean define the relationship in a sweet word. Why at all we have friends or we make it? If i think again and again on it i feel this might be the reason "as we are spending lot of our time outside be it school, work or anything for that matter, we meet more with non-family member on day-to-day basis for a substantial amount of time". It is such a relation you dont need a cerificate, dont need to solemnise as friends yet it happens.

They say if u have one real friend in your life assume it as a accomplished life. I don't know how to differentiate between a normal friend, true friend, real friend. But i know they are there when i need them, they are there when i want to laugh with them and they are there when i am at my lowest point as well. They dont say it. There silence does the speaking. So lets drop the adjective before it, it's just FRIEND. I have few of them, definitely more than one, and in true sense i can say its a pleasing experience. Even though Chanakya says there is no friendship without self interest, its absolutely fine for friends. They don't mind being used and vice versa.

I thought i could write so many things here, but when i think about them i travel back to the past, recollecting the wonderful time i have spent with them, and my finger stops moving on the keyboard. Few lines almost took a week but even then i hardly written anything about them. So lets not write any specific name or event those were engraved in bold in the brain cell, just thanking them to be part of my life, making it a complete one. I wish i could tell each of them what i feel about them, how much i love them. Words and distance both are playing the spoil sports.

But one secret, i enjoyed writing this article a lot as dont remember how many times i went to flashback. This one helped me in blowing the dust layer over certain incidents those i have almost forgotten.

Love you all.
Happy Belated F'ship day.