Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Let me put it this way...
Let me put it this way...
When we head for a long journey by car, there are times when we are enjoying, there are times when we are feeling irritated and also there are times when we do not feel anything.. there is a numbness in the nerves..We feel nothing is moving, the journey is stalled you don't have option to retract nor you feel like moving ahead.
Sometimes we actually feel this is life also..Things look so unlike they are. Feels as if there is no one around, that sense of insecurity of losing things/people starts playing on mind and suddenly the journey you were enjoying becomes a dull, uneasy sort of a going. And this feeling gets quite complex when there are many other things going around as well. Some important works, some important decisions to be made, something you daily see/read/hear and all this makes it really tough to concentrate on exactly what do you want and that in turn drifts you away from what you thought you would do. You don't even get to know that you have been drifted as if you are in center of an ocean and the undercurrent has taken you somewhere. This somewhere is very annoying if at all you realise it. And you realise it only when after sometime you don't see yourself heading towards where you planned to.
So now the bigger question comes 'should you even try planning the future? Well, as human beings we all do, but ideally we shouldn't. If human beings can't do what ideally should be done then who is ideal? Anyway we tend to plan future and if it does not go the way you planned it (which generally it doesn't) then you should ideally have courage to accept that which is easier said than done. So if you cannot or do not want to accept it then what is the way out? A long holiday? Isolation? mental conditioning? getting away from the people whom you thought were yours but now realising they are not? Or just such a thought just for the time being?
I mean its quite complicated sometimes when you do not exactly understand what the problem is and you are not liking your journey as well.
I often feel like some people whom I think are close to me, are they actually so close? Or I want them to be close and push them a bit and when they do not respond the way I want I feel bad because they are not so close to me as I want them to be. This is critical because a lot of decisions depend on the way they respond. Further life gets complicated when you think a little too much. When you see a negative macro atmosphere around you. See, in past 1 year when ever I have turned on news, I am just seeing how bad India is struggling with corruption, there are new scams unfolding everyday, we are seeing the politicians/corporates whom we idolised until recently are the most corrupt people around, we see the judiciary corrupt and when we actually enter the working area, we see a lot of things around us that leaves us shattered to the core, because in the transition from a boy to man you get to see a lot of activities at macro level that you never imagined could happen and then you do not trust anything.
Boss growing up is a serious trouble. But still we all grow up (no other option) but there are certain phases in this journey which we do not like and wish thwy never existed!
Signing off
Siddharth
Friday, July 6, 2012
Idiotism Passion Thoughts Wonder
Dear All
Missed the June blog. This year I had planned to write 1 blog each month atleast. But you know the honest writers cant write the way they plan to..it depends on mood; words do not flow all the time!
This time its not politics but something I am unable to express from a long time. I am still perplexed about what I am feeling!
I dont know why people live? What I understand is that there is a supreme reason why we live and that is we are given life. But then the question come how do we live?
As they say everything is illusion and I often feel so. Everything is illusion except your thoughts. Ability to think is probably the most crucial ability that God has bestowed upon us.
Lets take what I am writing, I am thinking this way this time but tomorrow I may not..But the fact still remains that what one thinks is the most important thing and rest all dies.
Those who still live are those whose thoughts were profound and the way they implemented their thoughts was the amazing part. For example Hitler. One man's passion to rule the world changed the course of hitory forever. I am not discussing what he did was right or wrong, but the reason I like that man is his passion. How passionate you can be to achieve somthing. Gandhi & his way of ahimsa is known to all. That old man with stick, again, had that fire in him to do something and he did. There are lot of people who are what they are just because they had thoughts and passionately implemented them.
Yes, everybody faces troubles, but if you have heart in what you are doing, no trouble is too big.
My friends brother is a passionate cricket (SRK - KKR) lover and I love his passion..
I live in this world not because I am born, but to live after I die. Give this world so much that whole of it is proud that you were born. By world here I mean your world which can be limited to your family or your surroundings or your nation or actually the whole world.
And all along never forget the contribution of those who sacrificed a lot of things for you. Yes a lot of sacrifices goes into making of a passionate idiot.
I believe I am a passionate idiot. There are a lot of thoughts waiting to get implemented. There is a itch that somehow never dies thanks to my dad who carried the same itch to so something for the world. He is no more physically, but yes his thoughts, they exist. They exist through me. Those thoughts keep burning in me and keep me awake all the time.
And something which I have never written before, my mother is the fuel who keeps the fire burning always. She is the power behind everything I do. Take a bow you two people!!
And my sister who is an idiot herself. A brighter idiot that I am..That keeps me happy!
Seems this blog is going like an award acceptance speech. Well it's not so!
I just wanted to explain the importance of your family/people around play the most important part in your being able to think freely and passionately.
Therefore it's very important for some people who have that tinch of idiotness to come forward and take the lead. If there are thoughts and passion to implement them, impossible is nothing!!!
As the say:
"Eventually we all will die, but do something that won't"
Signing off
Siddharth
Sunday, May 6, 2012
President!
The President of India is the head of state of the Republic of India. The President is the formal head of the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary branches of Indian Democracy and is the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. The Powers to pardon and clemency vests with the President of India.
Just these words make me feel that it is suppose to be the most respected and in all senses a sacred post. The current debate about who is going to be the next President of India is breaking all the dignity and standards of the post. Well, what is the reason for that? What I can understand is that that the post of the President is being politicized. And politicized from the time Sh. APJ Abdul Kalam ended his tenure as the President. That was the time I realized that how important is that post because I was too young when Sh. Kalam was being elected. I just had read President in my civics book. But now when I started understanding the political system of the country, I realized how bad was Congress and for that sake some other parties in politicizing everything. Congress and some other political parties have the power to politicize everything, from a poor kid’s death from mal nutrition to a starving farmers’ suicide; from a riot control activity to ‘minority interest’; from brave police officers death in Mumbai attack to Batla house encounter. And from last 5 years they are busy politicizing the most respected office of the Republic of India ‘President’.
Yes they do say it’s a rubber stamp position, but Head of the Country should be held by a person of high repute, respect and who is not just another person who has been picked by some foreign national (acting as the head of government). So in last 5 years India have seen a Rubber Stamp Prime Minister and a President and for me the last 5 years have been the most shameful 5 years as the citizen of this country.
Let’s have a look at who all were the Presidents from the time I was born.
1. Sh. Ramaswamy Venkatraman (1987-1992): Supreme Court Lawyer, a freedom fighter and an alumni of Loyola College Madras.
2. Sh. Shanker Dayal Sharma (1992-1997): Gradute from St. John’s college, Agra, Punjab University and Lucknow University. Gold Meadlist from Cambridge University and taught there as well.
3. Sh. KR Narayanan (1997-2002): This is what Wikipedia says about him:
“Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service under the Nehru administration. He served as ambassador to Japan, United Kingdom, Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America and was referred by Nehru as "the best diplomat of the country". He entered politics at Indira Gandhi's request and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha and served as a Minister of State in the Union Cabinet under former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Narayanan is regarded as an independent and assertive President who set several precedents and enlarged the scope of the highest constitutional office. He described himself as a "working President" who worked "within the four corners of the Constitution"; something midway between an "executive President" who has direct power and a "rubber-stamp President" who endorses government decisions without question or deliberation. He used his discretionary powers as a President and deviated from convention and precedent in many situations, including - but not limited to — the appointment of the Prime Minister in a hung Parliament, in dismissing a state government and imposing President's rule there at the suggestion of the Union Cabinet, and during the Kargil conflict. In the country's general election of 1998 became the first Indian President to vote when in office, setting another new precedent.”
4. Sh. APJ Abdul Kalam: The name says it all!
Now I am not going to describe the current President of this country as I already feel ashamed of having such a President heading the country. It seems like she was the only person left. She started her career as a politician. Let me put up some words what Wikipedia says for her:
“On 14 June 2007, United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the ruling alliance of political parties in India headed by the Indian National Congress, and the Indian left nominated her as their candidate for the Presidential Election to be held in July that year. She emerged as a compromise candidate after the Left parties would not agree to the nomination of former Home Minister Shivraj Patil. UPA chairwoman Sonia Gandhi proposed her: (No Indian is now capable enough even to propose a President for themselves, pity on all big names like PM Manmohan Singh, Kapil Sibbal, Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and the whole idiot fleet) her loyalty to the Nehru-Gandhi family was widely perceived to be a major factor in her nomination (It was a President to be selected not the National Dog; loyalty). With the possibility that she might become the first female President of India, Sonia Gandhi described her nomination as a "historic occasion" (Coz never in the History of India we had such a President who was being elected because of ‘loyalty’ to some family)”. {Words in bracket are additions and not from wiki}.
So what is happening is that this country has now a battalion of heads who are there because they are ‘loyal’ to a family and not the country. This is one of the worst phases in the history of this country. At least spare the President!
We do not need one more rubber stamp; our PM is being that for a while now. We need a President who is dynamic, reputed and not loyal to the country. The President represents India to the world and not a family. It’s about 121 cr people of this country. There are hugely reputed people in this country who are not politicians. May it be Sh. APJ Abdul Kalam or the CEC or Sh. Harish Salve etc. But please spare us from a politician.
Because if again a Compromise President is elected or a politician or some body loyal to ‘THE FAMILY’, then believe me, this country is going to be in huge unrest.
Signing off
Siddharth
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Don't test us more!
Dear All
Today morning Ketan called me up to inform that another scam (Coal Mining Scam, from 2004-2009) has been unveiled by the CAG and the loss to exchequer has been (as estimated) Rs. 10+ lakh crore! Whooping number!!
I am sure we will get to hear very soon that there is actually ZERO revenue loss or there is RSS working behind it or both.
But let us introspect as citizens: Why all these scams are coming up now? Was CAG not aware of these before? If these scams are coming up why some are made scapegoats and then the whole issue goes into the cold bag? I mean these scams cannot be done without the connivance of whole of the system. I do not believe the fact that we have a bunch of stupid people running the government; I do not believe that they do not know anything of this sort and magnitude going on under their noses; I do not believe that the opposition does not get to know it.
We have supposedly the best brains running the government for us. Needless to say that PM, home minister, finance minister, commerce minister etc are few of the best brains not only in India but the world. But the sad part is that they are proving this wrong time and again. And I cannot believe that scams worth 1.76 lakh crore, 10+ lakh crore can happen and these top shots remain ignorant about them. probably there is lack of political will or I must say a hell of a lot of political pressure to ignore these things when they happen and when they are exposed, there are set guidelines to be followed by the government. There is a set standard that if something wrong is exposed, all the mechanism in government (and also outside the government) will try and divulge the media attention from the issue, will try and harass the people who exposed.
The recent example is that of Lokpal agitation. When the government found it hard to counter it with words, they fell to extreme levels. Thrown Baba first, beat Mr. Bhushan, framed Income Tax charges against Kejriwal and did not even leave India’s one of the best Cop Mrs. Bedi.
So this is the very nature of the government that they cannot do things right and cannot see other people finding faults against them, else they will be ruined.
So what do we do as citizens? Not everybody can join politics, not everybody can go on streets to start an agitation, not everyone can shout slogans against the corrupt but what we can do best is VOTE and vote for the candidate who is young, clean and educated. We do not need to vote for a specific party but for a person. Yes the people of this country have time and again shown that they do change the trends but we need to do that radically in the elections of 2014 and show to these inefficient people that stop testing the patience of a commoner. A Wednesday (the film) was a message to the common man as well as the government and the system that if common man’s patience is put to test time and again, he can go to any extent. Somebody asked what a common man can do? The simple answer to this is ‘Revolution’. May it be the Russian Revolution of 18th century or the revolutions in gulf countries recently, the common man if unites, can change the course of history. We will have to do that if the system does not improve in time. Our patience is being tested and this government has done everything to stretch our patience to the extreme levels. We are running a system of a week administrator and a week opposition. Here the king maker is strong and the king is just like the king on the chess board, moves the way the player wants.
The time is close when we will say ‘Boss, enough’ and mind me the day the youth says this, the new chapter rather a whole new book on Indian History will be created.
Signing off
Siddharth
Today morning Ketan called me up to inform that another scam (Coal Mining Scam, from 2004-2009) has been unveiled by the CAG and the loss to exchequer has been (as estimated) Rs. 10+ lakh crore! Whooping number!!
I am sure we will get to hear very soon that there is actually ZERO revenue loss or there is RSS working behind it or both.
But let us introspect as citizens: Why all these scams are coming up now? Was CAG not aware of these before? If these scams are coming up why some are made scapegoats and then the whole issue goes into the cold bag? I mean these scams cannot be done without the connivance of whole of the system. I do not believe the fact that we have a bunch of stupid people running the government; I do not believe that they do not know anything of this sort and magnitude going on under their noses; I do not believe that the opposition does not get to know it.
We have supposedly the best brains running the government for us. Needless to say that PM, home minister, finance minister, commerce minister etc are few of the best brains not only in India but the world. But the sad part is that they are proving this wrong time and again. And I cannot believe that scams worth 1.76 lakh crore, 10+ lakh crore can happen and these top shots remain ignorant about them. probably there is lack of political will or I must say a hell of a lot of political pressure to ignore these things when they happen and when they are exposed, there are set guidelines to be followed by the government. There is a set standard that if something wrong is exposed, all the mechanism in government (and also outside the government) will try and divulge the media attention from the issue, will try and harass the people who exposed.
The recent example is that of Lokpal agitation. When the government found it hard to counter it with words, they fell to extreme levels. Thrown Baba first, beat Mr. Bhushan, framed Income Tax charges against Kejriwal and did not even leave India’s one of the best Cop Mrs. Bedi.
So this is the very nature of the government that they cannot do things right and cannot see other people finding faults against them, else they will be ruined.
So what do we do as citizens? Not everybody can join politics, not everybody can go on streets to start an agitation, not everyone can shout slogans against the corrupt but what we can do best is VOTE and vote for the candidate who is young, clean and educated. We do not need to vote for a specific party but for a person. Yes the people of this country have time and again shown that they do change the trends but we need to do that radically in the elections of 2014 and show to these inefficient people that stop testing the patience of a commoner. A Wednesday (the film) was a message to the common man as well as the government and the system that if common man’s patience is put to test time and again, he can go to any extent. Somebody asked what a common man can do? The simple answer to this is ‘Revolution’. May it be the Russian Revolution of 18th century or the revolutions in gulf countries recently, the common man if unites, can change the course of history. We will have to do that if the system does not improve in time. Our patience is being tested and this government has done everything to stretch our patience to the extreme levels. We are running a system of a week administrator and a week opposition. Here the king maker is strong and the king is just like the king on the chess board, moves the way the player wants.
The time is close when we will say ‘Boss, enough’ and mind me the day the youth says this, the new chapter rather a whole new book on Indian History will be created.
Signing off
Siddharth
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Budget Proposal
Dear Mr. Mukherjee
The budget date is closing in and today itself I read in a newspaper that government is busy preparing the budget, which they should be at this time. Preparing a national budget for a country like ours is far more a tough job than I can imagine. You have to have skills of a politician, diplomat, miser, visionary, party men and last but by no way least an economist. There has to be an element of propriety, thought of a king and feeling of a poor. There has to be the lavishness of a lion and cunningness of a jackal. We are fortunate that we have a finance minister of your caliber.
In this some bit of experience I can understand that it’s not only the finance ministry that on its own can make a budget. There are a lot of agencies and people involved in working for that all important briefcase of the year that’s generally opened and read on the last day of February, but this year due to the historic elections, it has been decided to open that magical briefcase in March. There are a lot of agencies, committees and people who are asked to provide valuable inputs and suggestions and also there are some unsolicited advices like this one. As a young citizen of this country, in consultation with my friend Ketan, I propose that the word ‘TAX’ be replaced by term/phrase ‘CONTRIBUTION TO CORRUPTION (CTC)’ in all the tax laws (pardon me, CTC laws). This has a purpose. All of the Indians, right from the former PM of this country to the proposed PM of this country know and accept the fact that if the government sends Re.1 from the center, only 10 odd paisa reach the intended receiver, rest 90 paisa is what we call corruption. So if I pay 25000 bucks as what right now is called as tax, I am contributing 22500 to the rampant corruption. And if I am salaried, my contribution to corruption is fair and square, because my tax is deducted at source (TDS) itself, which can be renamed as CTCDS.
We Indians somehow have this habit of living in denial and we have a long history to prove this. Right from Mahabharata when Duryodhan lived in denial that all the kingdom belongs to him to all the elections in which all the parties live in denial that they are going to win the election which can be very well verified in the current UP elections where there are 3-4 parties whose spokesperson are daily discussing what they will do when they win!
The whole public was confident after India trashed Sri Lanka in Australia by chasing 321 in less than 37 overs that we are through to the finals. The ministry of external affairs always believed (and still does) that Hindi-Chini bhai bhai! The home ministry still lives in denial that problem of Kashmir can be solved by ‘High Level Diplomatic Talks’ and exchanging dossiers! Congress party still lives in denial that but for them every party follows ‘dynasty politics’. Mr. Anna Hazare and his team lives in denial that government will pass their Lokpal Bill (I mean that’s funny now)! Mr. Singh, a famous politician still believes that it was not Hitler but RSS responsible for World War II. MP’s still believe that calling Parliament a place where there are many criminals is hurting the ‘Garima’ of the Parliament!
So there are many (or almost all) social, local, regional, personal, national & international issues for which we Indians live in denial.
Sir, I would propose that you set a precedent of bringing us out of this era of denial and replace the word Tax by CTC. Because this is a fact and we must accept that even if ethically incorrect, this is a fact. In past 65 years, we have not been able to curb corruption, so now is the time we accept it and do that in style. Please have a look at some of the changes that the change will bring:
1. Indian Income Tax Act will be replaced by Indian Income CTC Act.
2. Excise, Custom & Service tax will be renamed Excise, Custom & Service CTC.
3. The demand notice u/s 156 will be titled ‘Demand for Contribution to Corruption u/s 156’.
4. A return for CTC will be filed every year.
5. The income tax refund will be known as Refund of Contribution to Corruption.
6. The search & surveys will be conducted to find out how much a businessman/individual has not contributed to corruption.
Some of the advantages will be:
1. There will be no need for DTC as already tax (CTC) laws will become very easy to understand, even an engineer/MBA will be able to understand them.
2. Payment of bribes will officially be treated as Advance Tax.
3. The government will not have to worry about daily questions raised by people like Mr. Hazare
4. The people will actually know for the first time the correct answer to where their money is being spent.
5. All the money parked outside India will be automatically brought back, as no one will be afraid of keeping black money & if they fall in trouble, they can pay a bribe and use that as advance tax credit!
6. The government will be able to regulate the flow of money.
7. The RBI will understand why the inflation is not coming down despite ever rising interest rates.
8. India will rank among most friendly tax (CTC) nations.
9. The netas will not be called as ‘chor’.
10. Our reputation in the international level will increase as the successors of Raja Harish Chandra.
11. We will be known to be the people who have concurrence of what they do and what they say.
This is just an inclusive list and the advantages are many more.
Therefore it is a serious request that we must stop living in denial that we collect tax and spend the money for development of the country. We as the hard working people, the professionals, the businessman of this country work our day and night so that we can contribute to corruption. In fact we have a better underlying principle; we believe that it is development of an individual/cast that is necessary. And of course, when the individual grows, nation must grow (though debatable)!
Sir, my proposal be accepted (until accepted, I am living in denial that it will be accepted)!
Sigining off..
The budget date is closing in and today itself I read in a newspaper that government is busy preparing the budget, which they should be at this time. Preparing a national budget for a country like ours is far more a tough job than I can imagine. You have to have skills of a politician, diplomat, miser, visionary, party men and last but by no way least an economist. There has to be an element of propriety, thought of a king and feeling of a poor. There has to be the lavishness of a lion and cunningness of a jackal. We are fortunate that we have a finance minister of your caliber.
In this some bit of experience I can understand that it’s not only the finance ministry that on its own can make a budget. There are a lot of agencies and people involved in working for that all important briefcase of the year that’s generally opened and read on the last day of February, but this year due to the historic elections, it has been decided to open that magical briefcase in March. There are a lot of agencies, committees and people who are asked to provide valuable inputs and suggestions and also there are some unsolicited advices like this one. As a young citizen of this country, in consultation with my friend Ketan, I propose that the word ‘TAX’ be replaced by term/phrase ‘CONTRIBUTION TO CORRUPTION (CTC)’ in all the tax laws (pardon me, CTC laws). This has a purpose. All of the Indians, right from the former PM of this country to the proposed PM of this country know and accept the fact that if the government sends Re.1 from the center, only 10 odd paisa reach the intended receiver, rest 90 paisa is what we call corruption. So if I pay 25000 bucks as what right now is called as tax, I am contributing 22500 to the rampant corruption. And if I am salaried, my contribution to corruption is fair and square, because my tax is deducted at source (TDS) itself, which can be renamed as CTCDS.
We Indians somehow have this habit of living in denial and we have a long history to prove this. Right from Mahabharata when Duryodhan lived in denial that all the kingdom belongs to him to all the elections in which all the parties live in denial that they are going to win the election which can be very well verified in the current UP elections where there are 3-4 parties whose spokesperson are daily discussing what they will do when they win!
The whole public was confident after India trashed Sri Lanka in Australia by chasing 321 in less than 37 overs that we are through to the finals. The ministry of external affairs always believed (and still does) that Hindi-Chini bhai bhai! The home ministry still lives in denial that problem of Kashmir can be solved by ‘High Level Diplomatic Talks’ and exchanging dossiers! Congress party still lives in denial that but for them every party follows ‘dynasty politics’. Mr. Anna Hazare and his team lives in denial that government will pass their Lokpal Bill (I mean that’s funny now)! Mr. Singh, a famous politician still believes that it was not Hitler but RSS responsible for World War II. MP’s still believe that calling Parliament a place where there are many criminals is hurting the ‘Garima’ of the Parliament!
So there are many (or almost all) social, local, regional, personal, national & international issues for which we Indians live in denial.
Sir, I would propose that you set a precedent of bringing us out of this era of denial and replace the word Tax by CTC. Because this is a fact and we must accept that even if ethically incorrect, this is a fact. In past 65 years, we have not been able to curb corruption, so now is the time we accept it and do that in style. Please have a look at some of the changes that the change will bring:
1. Indian Income Tax Act will be replaced by Indian Income CTC Act.
2. Excise, Custom & Service tax will be renamed Excise, Custom & Service CTC.
3. The demand notice u/s 156 will be titled ‘Demand for Contribution to Corruption u/s 156’.
4. A return for CTC will be filed every year.
5. The income tax refund will be known as Refund of Contribution to Corruption.
6. The search & surveys will be conducted to find out how much a businessman/individual has not contributed to corruption.
Some of the advantages will be:
1. There will be no need for DTC as already tax (CTC) laws will become very easy to understand, even an engineer/MBA will be able to understand them.
2. Payment of bribes will officially be treated as Advance Tax.
3. The government will not have to worry about daily questions raised by people like Mr. Hazare
4. The people will actually know for the first time the correct answer to where their money is being spent.
5. All the money parked outside India will be automatically brought back, as no one will be afraid of keeping black money & if they fall in trouble, they can pay a bribe and use that as advance tax credit!
6. The government will be able to regulate the flow of money.
7. The RBI will understand why the inflation is not coming down despite ever rising interest rates.
8. India will rank among most friendly tax (CTC) nations.
9. The netas will not be called as ‘chor’.
10. Our reputation in the international level will increase as the successors of Raja Harish Chandra.
11. We will be known to be the people who have concurrence of what they do and what they say.
This is just an inclusive list and the advantages are many more.
Therefore it is a serious request that we must stop living in denial that we collect tax and spend the money for development of the country. We as the hard working people, the professionals, the businessman of this country work our day and night so that we can contribute to corruption. In fact we have a better underlying principle; we believe that it is development of an individual/cast that is necessary. And of course, when the individual grows, nation must grow (though debatable)!
Sir, my proposal be accepted (until accepted, I am living in denial that it will be accepted)!
Sigining off..
Monday, February 13, 2012
I am sad!
Let me confess…I am sad!
My personal issues are too meager to be sad for. I am sad for the fate of this nation, worried for its future along with mine and those lacs and crores of young people who live and grow up with a sparkling dream in their eyes. I am educated (that’s what I am often referred to as!), working, earning doing reasonably good at this age, but the thought that scares me is what will I be able to do from now? My countrymen are scaring me now because until I was I kid, I knew nothing, but now I am seeing things and the worst thought is that this is just the beginning!
A country that was formed on the bed of partition (with some men responsible for it), run on the wheels of democracy and exploited and developed at a rapid pace is now at a juncture where we are in a risk of pace of exploitation overtaking the pace of development. With all this development around, the exploitation has also developed. The one who wants to work sincerely and honestly has no or very little value, whether it is business or service. If I take up a job, I will have a routine life, with routine increments according to my degree and a routine dead end. If I want to start a business and do that honestly, what?? Business, Honestly!?? Business can be either run successfully or honestly in this country. Then what do I do?
If I start a business there are 14 odd government agencies who directly or indirectly get involved in it, if I take up a job, my progress may get restricted after a point and I am expected to pay my taxes honestly, I can’t use social media to my comfort (some minister will object to it), I cannot fearlessly commute in trains or shop in crowded markets, as I am not sure which moment I will be fired or bombed, I cannot enter into politics because I will have to make a huge investment there to keep senior leaders happy and with no guarantee of returns, I face the challenge of reservation almost everywhere demeaning my capabilities and thoughts, I cannot enter into good colleges because either donations are too high or my contacts are too low and there are many more things that force me to think this way!
I mean it’s been 65 since independence, after numerous elections, number of prime ministers, number of chief minister, hundreds of ultra intelligent people sitting and planning for me, I fail to understand what I must do and how I must proceed.
If anything has grown in this country at rapid pace, it’s been corruption. Along with corruption, ugly politics and transfer of funds to Swiss bank have increased the pace of exploitation. The number of scams I get to see daily make me feel cheated at every moment. Let me list a few of them:
1. Commonwealth Scam
2. 2G scam
3. Mining scam
4. Rice export scam
5. Tax evasion scam
6. Stamp paper scam
7. Taj corridor scam
It’s a never ending list and believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg. You put up ‘list of scams in India since independence’ on Google and it results in 57000 pages in .27 seconds!!
So how do I survive? Somebody please help me. I am not a loser for sure, but I need not be forced to fight for what belongs to me. When fight for independence against Britishers was being fought, look at the way those people fought, with all their heart and body and resources because they were fighting for themselves against outsiders. Now, I am being forced to fight with myself against my own men. I stand here as Arjun, with whole of his family against him, and he was reluctant to fight. He knew he can fight, he knew he will win, but for what and against whom? Own people?
It was unacceptable to him that time and to me now. But when time will demand, I will have to start firing arrows against my own men. Be aware, my own people, the moment I gain unity with myself and let my flood gates go loose, the history will change forever and for better. I am positive, I want to grow along with everyone and become recognizable and I am confident that I possess the power to rewrite history.
I am the Youth!
Signing Off
Siddharth!
My personal issues are too meager to be sad for. I am sad for the fate of this nation, worried for its future along with mine and those lacs and crores of young people who live and grow up with a sparkling dream in their eyes. I am educated (that’s what I am often referred to as!), working, earning doing reasonably good at this age, but the thought that scares me is what will I be able to do from now? My countrymen are scaring me now because until I was I kid, I knew nothing, but now I am seeing things and the worst thought is that this is just the beginning!
A country that was formed on the bed of partition (with some men responsible for it), run on the wheels of democracy and exploited and developed at a rapid pace is now at a juncture where we are in a risk of pace of exploitation overtaking the pace of development. With all this development around, the exploitation has also developed. The one who wants to work sincerely and honestly has no or very little value, whether it is business or service. If I take up a job, I will have a routine life, with routine increments according to my degree and a routine dead end. If I want to start a business and do that honestly, what?? Business, Honestly!?? Business can be either run successfully or honestly in this country. Then what do I do?
If I start a business there are 14 odd government agencies who directly or indirectly get involved in it, if I take up a job, my progress may get restricted after a point and I am expected to pay my taxes honestly, I can’t use social media to my comfort (some minister will object to it), I cannot fearlessly commute in trains or shop in crowded markets, as I am not sure which moment I will be fired or bombed, I cannot enter into politics because I will have to make a huge investment there to keep senior leaders happy and with no guarantee of returns, I face the challenge of reservation almost everywhere demeaning my capabilities and thoughts, I cannot enter into good colleges because either donations are too high or my contacts are too low and there are many more things that force me to think this way!
I mean it’s been 65 since independence, after numerous elections, number of prime ministers, number of chief minister, hundreds of ultra intelligent people sitting and planning for me, I fail to understand what I must do and how I must proceed.
If anything has grown in this country at rapid pace, it’s been corruption. Along with corruption, ugly politics and transfer of funds to Swiss bank have increased the pace of exploitation. The number of scams I get to see daily make me feel cheated at every moment. Let me list a few of them:
1. Commonwealth Scam
2. 2G scam
3. Mining scam
4. Rice export scam
5. Tax evasion scam
6. Stamp paper scam
7. Taj corridor scam
It’s a never ending list and believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg. You put up ‘list of scams in India since independence’ on Google and it results in 57000 pages in .27 seconds!!
So how do I survive? Somebody please help me. I am not a loser for sure, but I need not be forced to fight for what belongs to me. When fight for independence against Britishers was being fought, look at the way those people fought, with all their heart and body and resources because they were fighting for themselves against outsiders. Now, I am being forced to fight with myself against my own men. I stand here as Arjun, with whole of his family against him, and he was reluctant to fight. He knew he can fight, he knew he will win, but for what and against whom? Own people?
It was unacceptable to him that time and to me now. But when time will demand, I will have to start firing arrows against my own men. Be aware, my own people, the moment I gain unity with myself and let my flood gates go loose, the history will change forever and for better. I am positive, I want to grow along with everyone and become recognizable and I am confident that I possess the power to rewrite history.
I am the Youth!
Signing Off
Siddharth!
Friday, January 13, 2012
Confused!
Dear All
Its been long I am writing. Was to busy in all the wordly affairs (if I must say so!)all these days which has made me a wee bit wiser.
Anyway, I can write only when I have a calm brain and some time has passed since I was last busy. I got up today morning from an eight hour sleep, after which I was a bit tired (you know when u do the same thing continuously for 8 hrs, you are bound to get tired). Relaxed a bit and now almost in a mood to write (you must already be finding the title apt!).
So, let me come to what I want to write. Its been a while since a good news has struck the country until we all heard that India has not reported a single polio case in last 1 year!
Well, these days all the Indians are so exposed to corrupt practices, that for me, its hard to believe the above fact. India has not reported even a single polio case because not even a single person was hit by it or its a fabricated number?
You know, being of this age group (23!) one is very positive about life and country's systems, but on a consistent basis since the UPA has formed the government the 2nd time, things for a layman and youth have not been very rosy!
We are so much exposed to corruption that a brain that is developing in this age gets corrupt automatically. In Mahabharata, Anhimanyu learnt the art of getting in a 'Chakraviewh' in the womb of his mother when she was just listening to it. We all are listening to the corrupt practices of government on a daily rather hourly basis, what are we learning?
May it be the 2G scam (where there was as per a learned Cabinet Miniter of the government there was 'ZERO' revenue loss) or the Aadarsh scam, for which a CM had to give up his chair, or the Lavasa project, or the Commonwealth scam (because organisers actually thought it was common wealth they are managing) or Mining scams around the country, or defence scams or whatever, everywhere the government miserably failed to show any exemplary decision.
Other than these scams, we badly failed in our defence (internal and external), railways, infrastructure development, economic development and pity on Moral Policing by the great Minister!!
Let us discuss some of them in brief:
1. Defence (Internal & External): I have used defence as a broad term here to include foreign as well as home affairs. Thanks to one of our Ministers, we have faced a lot of humiliation by some of his very irresponsible 'readings' or may I say due to him being very over aged for the position, he has lost his great sense of understanding. The internal conditions are not worth even discussing! After the change in Home Minister, we had some hopes, but all we got were some sick dossiers!
I think the government missed a political trick and defamed 2 of its senior leaders where as they could have done it without defaming the other. I don't know why the previous HM resigned, because he was also not doing anything and getting a bad name for it, the new one also did nothing and got defamed. Government could have avoided humiliation of one of its ministers at least! The naxals are still operating the way they were, rather expanded, Kasab is more confident that he will see his grandchildren at least, Afzal has now started shaving, first he had lost hope! There is still great corruption in police, rather tremendous. So the PC has caught a lot of viruses and failing miserably to reboot, needs to be turned off!
2.Railways: Hats off to Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav (i miss you as the railway minister), who in actual sense of the word, changed Railways for good. But again, politics takes its toll and we have seen some of the most furious accidents, compromising security, and above all, losses again!
We have again turned to red, both on tracks (due to accidents) and in books!
3. Infrastructure (no) development: I live in a state that proudly boasts only 2 -3 hours of power cut a day in cities! Thank you Mr. CM. I wish I was born in Gujarat or Mr. Modi in Rajasthan! Not only electricity, but the infra spending has slowed down like anything. Government, I guess is scared that better infrastructure facilities will allow more people to come out in rallies of people like Mr. Hazare and create problems for the government!
4. Economic development: Is it? I have been losing money in stock market from a long long time! And I know, government cannot do much about it because the concerned minister is too busy resolving intra - coalition disputes and pleasing 'didi' in WB! The head, being a super economist, is don't know busy where, and another good economist is looking after home (wrong job may be)!!
5. Moral Policing: This is humorous now!! Human resource development!! I laugh my stomach out when I hear HRD!! Kindly concentrate on the grass root level, Sir. Look at the quality of teachers this country has in villages, cities and even private schools. Pls make teaching a respected profession in this country, where when people like me delivers a lecture to CA final students or some other professionals, people call 'Master ji'!! Pls improve the quality of miserable teachers and condition of government and private schools. Pls give youth the direction they need or create youth leaders in every city who can guide the youth. Take young professionals in your team, pay them well, and see wonders happening!
On one side we have almost obscene Parliament, morally corrupt politicians (some interesting cases in state of Rajasthan itself, which involves a former minister and a few MLA's involved in a sensational murder), our censor board passes films like 'the dirty picture' and on the other side we are talking about legal action against social networking coz they freely allow people like us to openly talk about your 2G (Madam G and Bhaiya G, who was also awarded the title of 'Rashtriya Nasamajh' by some social media). This is height of hypocrisy, sir!
And in any case, the telecom ministry should have gone to the person whom everybody calls and tells the secret every time. So that he could ban outgoing on team Anna's phone network as well as outgoing on Ramdev Baba's phone network. Actually he got a phone call from some body who told him that baba is a 'thug' and disclosed it to the media!!
So we are in funny state of affairs which is miserable too!!
I am too confused to understand why the PM is silent (well not even the experts have been able to answer this in last 8 years)? Why is issue of moral policing is important in a country which witnesses a murder every 30 seconds? Why is fb, twitter etc are being threatened in a country which still has highest number of Mal nourished kids? Why is prices rising like hell in a country where there a highest number of poor people? Why is money siphoned out of the country where people in the country don't have it? Why cant we even touch the naxals and maoists and Kasab/Afzal when we can throw a baba and a peaceful crowd in a few hours?
There are a lot of questions and now I am hell confused!!
I hope I am able to find answers in my generation at least!
Signing off
Cheers!
Siddharth
Its been long I am writing. Was to busy in all the wordly affairs (if I must say so!)all these days which has made me a wee bit wiser.
Anyway, I can write only when I have a calm brain and some time has passed since I was last busy. I got up today morning from an eight hour sleep, after which I was a bit tired (you know when u do the same thing continuously for 8 hrs, you are bound to get tired). Relaxed a bit and now almost in a mood to write (you must already be finding the title apt!).
So, let me come to what I want to write. Its been a while since a good news has struck the country until we all heard that India has not reported a single polio case in last 1 year!
Well, these days all the Indians are so exposed to corrupt practices, that for me, its hard to believe the above fact. India has not reported even a single polio case because not even a single person was hit by it or its a fabricated number?
You know, being of this age group (23!) one is very positive about life and country's systems, but on a consistent basis since the UPA has formed the government the 2nd time, things for a layman and youth have not been very rosy!
We are so much exposed to corruption that a brain that is developing in this age gets corrupt automatically. In Mahabharata, Anhimanyu learnt the art of getting in a 'Chakraviewh' in the womb of his mother when she was just listening to it. We all are listening to the corrupt practices of government on a daily rather hourly basis, what are we learning?
May it be the 2G scam (where there was as per a learned Cabinet Miniter of the government there was 'ZERO' revenue loss) or the Aadarsh scam, for which a CM had to give up his chair, or the Lavasa project, or the Commonwealth scam (because organisers actually thought it was common wealth they are managing) or Mining scams around the country, or defence scams or whatever, everywhere the government miserably failed to show any exemplary decision.
Other than these scams, we badly failed in our defence (internal and external), railways, infrastructure development, economic development and pity on Moral Policing by the great Minister!!
Let us discuss some of them in brief:
1. Defence (Internal & External): I have used defence as a broad term here to include foreign as well as home affairs. Thanks to one of our Ministers, we have faced a lot of humiliation by some of his very irresponsible 'readings' or may I say due to him being very over aged for the position, he has lost his great sense of understanding. The internal conditions are not worth even discussing! After the change in Home Minister, we had some hopes, but all we got were some sick dossiers!
I think the government missed a political trick and defamed 2 of its senior leaders where as they could have done it without defaming the other. I don't know why the previous HM resigned, because he was also not doing anything and getting a bad name for it, the new one also did nothing and got defamed. Government could have avoided humiliation of one of its ministers at least! The naxals are still operating the way they were, rather expanded, Kasab is more confident that he will see his grandchildren at least, Afzal has now started shaving, first he had lost hope! There is still great corruption in police, rather tremendous. So the PC has caught a lot of viruses and failing miserably to reboot, needs to be turned off!
2.Railways: Hats off to Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav (i miss you as the railway minister), who in actual sense of the word, changed Railways for good. But again, politics takes its toll and we have seen some of the most furious accidents, compromising security, and above all, losses again!
We have again turned to red, both on tracks (due to accidents) and in books!
3. Infrastructure (no) development: I live in a state that proudly boasts only 2 -3 hours of power cut a day in cities! Thank you Mr. CM. I wish I was born in Gujarat or Mr. Modi in Rajasthan! Not only electricity, but the infra spending has slowed down like anything. Government, I guess is scared that better infrastructure facilities will allow more people to come out in rallies of people like Mr. Hazare and create problems for the government!
4. Economic development: Is it? I have been losing money in stock market from a long long time! And I know, government cannot do much about it because the concerned minister is too busy resolving intra - coalition disputes and pleasing 'didi' in WB! The head, being a super economist, is don't know busy where, and another good economist is looking after home (wrong job may be)!!
5. Moral Policing: This is humorous now!! Human resource development!! I laugh my stomach out when I hear HRD!! Kindly concentrate on the grass root level, Sir. Look at the quality of teachers this country has in villages, cities and even private schools. Pls make teaching a respected profession in this country, where when people like me delivers a lecture to CA final students or some other professionals, people call 'Master ji'!! Pls improve the quality of miserable teachers and condition of government and private schools. Pls give youth the direction they need or create youth leaders in every city who can guide the youth. Take young professionals in your team, pay them well, and see wonders happening!
On one side we have almost obscene Parliament, morally corrupt politicians (some interesting cases in state of Rajasthan itself, which involves a former minister and a few MLA's involved in a sensational murder), our censor board passes films like 'the dirty picture' and on the other side we are talking about legal action against social networking coz they freely allow people like us to openly talk about your 2G (Madam G and Bhaiya G, who was also awarded the title of 'Rashtriya Nasamajh' by some social media). This is height of hypocrisy, sir!
And in any case, the telecom ministry should have gone to the person whom everybody calls and tells the secret every time. So that he could ban outgoing on team Anna's phone network as well as outgoing on Ramdev Baba's phone network. Actually he got a phone call from some body who told him that baba is a 'thug' and disclosed it to the media!!
So we are in funny state of affairs which is miserable too!!
I am too confused to understand why the PM is silent (well not even the experts have been able to answer this in last 8 years)? Why is issue of moral policing is important in a country which witnesses a murder every 30 seconds? Why is fb, twitter etc are being threatened in a country which still has highest number of Mal nourished kids? Why is prices rising like hell in a country where there a highest number of poor people? Why is money siphoned out of the country where people in the country don't have it? Why cant we even touch the naxals and maoists and Kasab/Afzal when we can throw a baba and a peaceful crowd in a few hours?
There are a lot of questions and now I am hell confused!!
I hope I am able to find answers in my generation at least!
Signing off
Cheers!
Siddharth
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