Beware of Pied Pipers and Puppeteers of Doom

Taliban, Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin , Khmer, successfully titillated the masses and received applauds and welcome in beginning, only to lead their nations to destruction and suffering later.They all touched weak nerves to instill false pleasure and passion and people gave in and followed blindly. Deja vu looms, seeing so many being led away by Pied Pipers of Evil today in this nation to the same path.

No one  usurped power in India. Those who rule today are the ones we chose and we will have option to remove them soon. Those who are in haste are the ones who know they can't get past the rule book, so want to subvert the systems. If jackals enter my fields I am not going to light the crop. I am very sure majority of Indians will never hand over strings to puppeteers of doom. They will listen, learn and decide.

Political plays

Were, as it appears now, Cash-for vote, 2G, Anna - all hullabaloos apparently well story-boarded, thoughtfully scripted plays (ok, receiving applause for excellent enactment)? Isn't it time to gather all behind the scene thinktanks-directors, script writers , to the stage in finale to let public decide?

In eighties we had an ‘independent’, highly acclaimed ‘editor’ and an equally independent ‘economic analyst’ writing in alleged public interest for months on corruption in Govt and shaking it out. Both later turned out to be core brains for a political ideology and took formal positions in that organisation.We had constitutional and Govt functionaries who while in office took stands which rocked the Govts and later these gentlemen were quick to reveal their leaning and join their masters for gains .

Prancing kids on political arena....

A few rogue children have been pushed to play in the backyard, running amok these novice imps have been damaging every door and window of the house. They fight among themselves and call names. Those who had brought these kids up and had left in backyard , clap and rejoice from other side at the plight of broken window panes. It is time for firm action to pull their ears and ask them to shut up and leave and to go and hang around on branches at the other side.

Let faith be in heart and rationality in head.

Parsees were never Hindus. We must not assimilate them? Why do some think this land belongs to those only who fall/ fell into present day definition of Hindus? India is because of the reasons of GEOGRAPHY and HISTORY not because of faith. Where are Shuns and Kushans ? Millions of army from central Asia which came down to this land never returned. Where are they gone? Where from Mongoloid races of northern hills, northeast and Bengal ( !!) came from ?This is a complex nation and that's its beauty. Let's cherish that.

Let faith be in heart and rationality in head.

Faith has nothing to do with being Indian

My wife teaches very small children at Noida and , coincidentally , just a week back she shared an incident of organising fancy dress competition in her class . Parents were free to decide what they wanted their child to be. While many children came dressed like birds and animals , it was surprising that a Muslim child turned up as Krishna.

Indians are like this only for ages always. Some times, in their belief, they were Vedic , sometimes pagans , sometimes Bodh, Jains and atheists, sometimes Muslims ,as well - they were never different from one another. This incident is normal and nothing unusual . Unusual would be refusing to accept even a headgear presented as an honor just because it is also worn by people of different faith. Fortunately such people are real minority in this great nation.

Petrol Price Hike: Hypocrisy of certain vocal class

Vegetables, provisions had been scaling new heights every now and then without any rationale mainly to cater to greed of middle businessmen. Oil price hike , though due to sufficient evident reasons , makes whole media cry at rooftops...In past decade petrol price has only TREBLED but average family incomes have gone up 10 times minimum, even beggars settle for no less than 10 Rupees !! Cell Phone expenditure per family is in couple of thousand !! AC expenditure runs into thousands... But petrol price hike is NATIONAL DISASTER !! And cooking should be within Rs. 400 cost of gas cylinder per month !!

Hypocrisy of certain vocal class ( who actually make maximum out of every paisa hike in fuel-rationalizing it on collateral escalating effect ) is unparalleled in this country.

Petrol price hike actually affects car owners who incidently are most vocal part of society. Govt. is as such unable to manage public perception about its activities and is leaving vacuum for rogues to play spoilsport. I would love to get tank full at 30 a litre but so do I want a house at 10 lakh which now a days cost 70 to 80 lakh ( who explains that) . Fuel price needs to be deglamourized ,there are worse sore points elsewhere. Fuel price should be decontrolled way to petrol pump level.