It’s binary when you invoke divine intervention.
While expecting miraculous receiving through prayers, chanting mantras, visiting temples, churches or mosques, either you get what you want or you don’t get it. Probability is half either way.
It’s binary when you invoke divine intervention.
While expecting miraculous receiving through prayers, chanting mantras, visiting temples, churches or mosques, either you get what you want or you don’t get it. Probability is half either way.
Ever since my first child was born some 31 years back, Santa Claus has been visiting our home without a single miss. He brings gifts for all every Xmas eve. He doesn’t know or care about my faith. He visits like a spirit or angel bringing unconditional love. He is always there celebrating birth of Christ with the world. Santa is just supremely epitomised embodiment of happiness anyone willing can embrace.
When we were growing up in Shimla there used to be snow fall almost always on eve of Xmas and we used to look up to falling flakes giving us illusion of rollercoaster ride towards heavens. For those few wintry days when world celebrated arrival of Christ we used to rest all other personifications of God and associated tales and saying and used to just enjoy this moment in this form. Perhaps Gods from our parental faith too celebrated this day with us.
I believe God in all His manifestation would never pitch His one IMAGE against Other. He won’t be God any more for that. If we are staging that rivalry we are possessed by satan.
To me the Santa is the happiest Godly someone among all what God would like his blessings be represented by for our times.
Rest all are merely best suited representation of what we imagine what God should be though He possibly would keep us guessing only of what He be. Let’s just celebrate.
He was indeed best PM after Jawahar and Indira.
Political class trying to usurp legacy of Narsimha Rao was the one which went viciously after him from 1993 onwards.
Do dig into real happenings and stop learning history from sources like whatsapp which manufacture it rather than record it as what happened. That period was not so ancient that one can't look into archive of newspapers or search authentic sources now to educate oneself.
He indeed was great PM because he worked taking all along and took best of the talent for advisers even adversaries. If one were present during those days, post schooling, (means had grown up to know what was going on, and is not still left naively low wit juvenile ), do recall to understand which political class was blatantly after Narasimha Rao, dragging him to courts on dozen of false made up cases and pulling him for such humiliation like that from Harshad Mehta’s flimsy allegations, or importing unknown gravely old men from US to file idiotic cases against him, making him appear such a politically untouchable person in lates nineties that even Congress was pushed to back-foot and attempted to avoid him lest that causes it any further political damage to already out of office weak party. With political posturing and amplification Rao was made pariah to that extend that even Congress was left itself distancing from him.
Narrative from those who were in reality working relentlessly against Rao when he was in power to project him like a political untouchable, imported aged obscure businessmen from US with stupid allegations to drag him to courts and celebrated his near arrest. They openly supported a thug stock broker crook who claimed carrying 500 kg cash in hands to bribe a PM walking a km past toughest security. They asked for Rao’s ouster repeatedly and publicly.
Even after leaving office he was made to visit courts for years. He was treated like a culprit during a decade he was out of power and that time govt was not of Congress.
Those vicious forces smartly changed the narrative on Narsimha Rao later and Congress fell for these tricks and acted stupid.
Those who are now claiming rescuing his image and his contributions and his legacy had brought his downfall and dishonoured his achievements. After two decades he is darling of same political class. What a farce.
Foundation of every religion is on 'after life' or 'after death'. Either no one knows what happens once the body stops functioning or no one wants to believe that this is ‘The End’ of the subject human in all of its entirety.
Knowing this impossibility, some influencers, availing the opportunity handy from this unknowable, decided to create myths using their wizardry of storytelling laced with gifted eloquence, thus making public easily reposing faith in those hyperboles. The influencers became closely related to that god thus earning residual collateral respects. God or gods too became characters of new geographic specific historical myths and religions got born. New influencers continued to this day.
Be five minutes late and you are dropped. Board the flight and still find yourself being chucked out dues to overbooking. Lately, airlines have been going berserk on arrogance.
Passanger considerations are just no one’s business whether by airlines or by airports administrations as they continue to fleece them with unbounded fees, fares and penalties. Cancel ticket and get peanut in refund. Facilities at airports are being created not for passengers whose convenience should be primary stake holding of such premises, but for creating commercial opportunities to make more money.
Fares at some sectors would go up ten times for even one hour flights like to Dehradun, Dharmshala. And they are arrogantly allowed to do so without any public, govt, regulatory check or relief. What does that point to? Do they have access to political support to do all this knowing that they would get away with it? They are indeed getting away with it.
Before present era of modern sobriety and moral codes of living with organised collaborative way, took roots, every chieftain (king) was capturing or driving away other weaker ones of other lands and bringing bigger regions under his control for power and revenue. It was considered legitimate in those times. Killing other humans for sake of the king was patriotic and religions were being invented every now and then to normalise actions of the rulers of the time. Some stayed to our times.
Wikipedia isn’t reliable but is more useful than Community notes at least presently.
I vividly remember those days of Ramnath Goenka , Gurumurthy and Shorey leading frontal attack on Rajiv Gandhi using Amitabh/ Ajitabh, Ambanis and even then president Jail Singh through their columns in Indian Express. This assault from one media house was so incessant for almost two years on daily basis that Rajiv was almost politically drowned. Past 35 years of socio- political upheaval we see could easily find its genesis in that so called everyday journalistic revelations from those gentlemen during that period. They rattled the polity.
Few years later these same persons openly admitted of having particular party affiliations, when they found it convenient to reveal and enjoyed the rewards too.
When Jail Singh episode was catapulted on the pages of IE, the newspaper copies were used to be distributed free at Churchgate crossing where lakhs of office workers used to cross over on way to Nariman Point and Cuff Parade, something underlining the intent behind the campaign.
मुझे वे दिन अच्छे से याद हैं जब रामनाथ गोयनका, गुरुमूर्ति और शौरी ने Indian Express में अपने कॉलम के जरिए अमिताभ/अजिताभ, अंबानी और यहां तक कि तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति ज़ैल सिंह का इस्तेमाल करते हुए राजीव गांधी पर सीधा हमला बोला था। एक मीडिया हाउस का यह हमला लगभग दो साल तक रोजाना इतना लगातार हुआ कि राजीव लगभग राजनीतिक रूप से डूब गए। पिछले 35 वर्षों में हम जो सामाजिक-राजनीतिक उथल-पुथल देखते हैं, उसकी उत्पत्ति उस अवधि के दौरान उन सज्जनों के तथाकथित रोजमर्रा के पत्रकारीय खुलासों में आसानी से पाई जा सकती है। उन्होंने राजनीति को सदा के लिए झकझोर कर रख दिया। कुछ वर्षों बाद इन सज्जनों ने खुले तौर पर किसी विशेष पार्टी से जुड़े होने की बात स्वीकार की, जब उन्हें इसका खुलासा करना सुविधाजनक लगा। जब ज़ैल सिंह प्रकरण IE के पन्नों पर छाया हुआ था, तो अखबार को चर्चगेट क्रॉसिंग पर मुफ्त में वितरित किया जाता था, जहां लाखों कार्यालय कर्मचारी नरीमन प्वाइंट और कफ परेड की ओर रास्ता पार करते थे, जो अभियान के पीछे के इरादे को रेखांकित करता था।
The most important training a journalist must learn to possess is the neutrality particularly when reporting from a conflict zone where only NEWS should outflow not their running commentary colored with personal biases and instinctual national or ethical prejudices.
We could not have afforded to hand over Sri Lanka to China or pushed it under US hegemony or turn it into another Diego Garcia at our very doorstep. Sending IPKF to Lanka or the Maldiv operations were necessary to establish semblance of our control over Indian Ocean in our neighbourhood. Those were not just right steps but powerful demonstration of rising Indian importance in the region never seen even after those day.
Radio Jhootistan the satirical skit on All India Radio mocking Pakistani propaganda during '71 was hit among us children. Against tense blackouts in evenings and scary briefings in schools by army jawans , Radio Jhootistaan was perfect get away. We siblings and friends used to enjoy it and gossip about the Pakistani defeats and had also jingles made for Bhoto which we used to sing loudly. I vividly recall my father pasting carbon papers brought from office on window panes to block any light going out in night during blackouts. There were several trenches made near our locality for safety. When Pakistani attack happened on 3rd December children out of curiosity ran to higher places to see the night sparks in air.
This goriness raises the deja vu of continued violence such perpetrators have been inflicting mercilessly on innocent lives particularly against women and children world over. This is not the first of similar heinous crime against some woman, we have seen even people admitting having committed similar acts on camera earlier elsewhere. And the religion has nothing to do with this hatred as we can find them hiding behind garb of different faiths. In fact they first abandon their own faith than dye their hearts with vile immorality before committing such crimes.
The actions of both Israel and Hamas against each other should be considered a threat to global peace and the pace of its development.
While one derives legitimacy from being a formally recognized state, the other is still an illegitimate militia whose brazen violence knows no bounds. However, both also fully recognize each other's formal enemy status.
The human atrocities they both commit on innocents of their region and the uncalled for hardship their actions cause to other countries and the people around the world should be considered crimes against humanity, which the world collectively needs to deal with sternly. It is their wounds that other people have to bear.
What we are seeing in Gaza, Israel, West bank is result of continued mutual political intransigence, communal hatred and above all, stubborn indifference towards global peace. These should be good enough reasons for the rest of the world to rise up and pay serious attention to work collectively towards an implementable and enforceable parmanent solution to this conflict. The genesis of this problem, though irrevocably settled now, also lies in some collective decision enforced decades back from outside only, so might it work for resolving the present crises too permanently. People are tired.
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जहां एक को औपचारिक रूप से मान्यता प्राप्त राज्य होने से वैधता प्राप्त है, वहीं दूसरा अभी भी एक नाजायज मिलिशिया है जिसकी निर्लज्ज हिंसा की कोई सीमा नहीं है। हालाँकि, दोनों एक-दूसरे की औपचारिक दुश्मन की स्थिति को भी पूरी तरह से पहचानते हैं।
दोनों अपने क्षेत्र के निर्दोष लोगों पर जो मानवीय अत्याचार करते हैं और उनके कार्यों से अन्य देशों और दुनिया भर के लोगों को जो अनावश्यक कठिनाई होती है, उसे मानवता के खिलाफ अपराध माना जाना चाहिए, जिससे दुनिया को सामूहिक रूप से सख्ती से निपटने की जरूरत है। ये उनके घाव हैं जो दूसरे लोगों को झेलने पड़ते हैं।
उनकी आपसी राजनीतिक हठधर्मिता, एक-दूसरे के प्रति सांप्रदायिक नफरत और वैश्विक शांति के प्रति जिद्दी उदासीनता बाकी दुनिया के लिए इस संघर्ष के कार्यान्वयन योग्य समाधान की दिशा में गंभीरता से ध्यान देने और सामूहिक रूप से काम करने के लिए पर्याप्त कारण होना चाहिए। संघर्ष की उत्पत्ति भी दशकों पहले बाहर से लागू किए गए कुछ निर्णयों का परिणाम है, हालांकि वह अब एक स्थापित वास्तविकता है, संयुक्त राष्ट्र के माध्यम से सामूहिक रूप से वर्तमान समस्या के लिए वैसे ही समाधान को लागू करना मुश्किल नहीं होना चाहिए। लोग थक गये हैं।
Temple building boom during medieval times particularly in south, predominantly and popularly symbolised power and authority of the Kings. When Chalukyas raided Pallavas or Rashtrakutas sacked Chalukya cities or Cholas went all the way Orissa and Bengal they took down temples as show of their power and to humiliate the losers. World during those times was like that all over. Kings were using religion almost as it is being used by rulers of today. Mughals, Turks or Abbasids or our own locals Kings were doing nothing against their moral standards. They all were ruthless politicians at heart. Their standards of morality were not as developed as we have today. Sacking places of worship, taking away women of defeated armies and destroying their intellectual properties, and viharas, temples and palaces was casually done as legitimate actions by every ruler and that had nothing to do with their religious faiths though they might have used that to rationalise their actions as some muslim rulers did. They were all the same. Hun, Turk, Mughal, Kushan, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Cholas all did it. They were all politicians like of our times masquerading as religious faithfuls with purpose to subjugate public.
Against Corona was a global war, no one nation fought alone. That’s why we all, in every nation of the world, defeated it without as much of damage as it was perhaps being feared for initially. All the vaccines were collective efforts of scientists and pharma companies at diverse places all round the world. And were result of already undertaken efforts of decades even before corona impacted us.
Years of legacy researches resulted in quick roll out of covid vaccine. In India primarily it was Oxford Astra Zenca vaccine ( not an Indian one) which was foundry manufactured as Covishield by smart local pharma company appreciatively. Our vaccine dispensation for rural and urban infrastructure which had always been known as gold standard since decades came handy for fight against corona as platform for vaccines dispensation.
It’s also important to note that over 85 percent people in India were vaccinated with this originally Oxford researched AstraZeneca vaccine called Covishield. Other locally acclaimed vaccine Covaxin had only 12-15 percent usage in India. This vaccine also did not get universal approval as many countries refused to accept its claims on tests. It would also be almost blasphemous rather just only cheap allegations to speak ill about mRNA vaccines, which most of the western world used successfully to contain spread of covid. Being expansive to deliver at remote places it was not popular in developing nations who skipped it. However mRNA research has been one of the most innovative in recent medical development and not just for Corona it has reported potential to save humanity from many such virus afflictions, disease and malignancies in future.
जैन और तद्दपश्चात बौद्ध धर्म ही विशेष रूप से संगठित एवं नियम बद्ध मूल धर्म रहे हैं सदियों तक भारत के। अन्य समुदाय अलग अलग देवताओं को मनाने वाले विभिन्न संस्कार, कर्म कांड करने वाले पंथ भर रहे है। तथाकथित वैदिक लोग भी शायद इन्हीं में कुछ थे जो बौद्ध धर्म के उत्थान के साथ और नगण्य हो गये या कालांतर में बौद्ध धर्म में समाहित हो गये ( और जैन-बौद्ध धर्म से ही निकल, नये देवताओं और कथाओं के साथ पुनः भी पनपे और सशक्त भी हुए कुछ सदियों बाद)। बौद्ध धर्म ने चौथी शताब्दी ईसा पूर्व से लेकर लगभग ११०० साल हिमालय से दक्षिण समुद्र तक एक छत्र अपना प्रभाव रखा।
Nothing is Indian, Chinese or American these days. We are global village. No country barring one or two can go self reliant and manufacture even a missile without using significant hardware procured from outside (though it feels pleasurable when a politician tingles your patriotic soft nerve saying we are self reliant).
Go maufecture a satellite without Korean or US made miniature components or write its code in sanskrit inspired shlokas, you can’t. Humara nuclear reactor, humara missile , humari vaccine, humari local cars all are to please your that nerve. Yes quality of manufacturing differs. In India it’s difficult to get SUSTAINED quality from most brands. Most of Indian cars brands have USP of best roadside assistance and wide street side repair workshops, precisely because these are cars we find mostly stranded on road. Yes I am talking about Tata cars, Mahindra and Maruti. This all is because we are not bothered about quality of service at human level.
A bolt or bearing in my car can be of best quality but its fitment will be done casually by a stressed bidi smoking man at shop floor who has been recently harassed by his boss. All this we accept because of the same ‘who cares?’ attitude. This goes for most of the thing we manufecture. Finally a middle class person saving earnings to buy a phone or car must have option to same quality of product as any consumer any where globally. Middle class Indians have been long blackmailed to go for substandard products in name of patriotism. While same people who preach this, buy expansive imported cars, phones, suits, watches, teleprompters and even planes.
Lion is ferocious beast which neither possesses discernment of just or unjust actions nor has humility to submit to rules of any social order. It never made itself useful to human. Its glory remained only in fables, myths and fantasies. For all that, it always remained confined to jungles or recently to zoos and circuses. There should be no pride in being a lion.
Even if they prove that some old books have some reference to Bharat for part or whole of the peninsula, that can’t challenge that ‘India’, ‘Indian’, or its variant have been popular word referring to this land in most global and Indian languages for past two and half millennia. Greeks, Achaemenids, Kushan, Saka all knew it as India for 3000 years. Poor British came just 300 years back.
Forget India, globally ‘Indian’ or its variant have been most popular and refer to soul of something inherently belonging or resembling to this land. Even places or people who resembled circumstantially to this land have Indian or Indo as primary prefix for their identity. So vital India had been to the world. Indo China, native Indians of America, Indian ocean, Indonesia, West Indies. India is not just name of a nation it also represents our stature and importance we should be proud of.
Not just respecting and but assimilating good from other faiths is what makes ours distinctively superior to every other. Amusingly majority of the pseudo activists from right, sleeper cells and kartpushers of dark brigade infesting every WhatsApp group, reels, and X these days, appear to know more about Islam and muslims than any Mufti, Maulvi or Maulana in Cairo, Deoband, Barreilly or Lucknow would ever know ! And surprisingly charlatans know little about flexibility, vastness, universality of their own all encompassing faith as also its stark imperfections which they ignorantly celebrate over rather prioritising to reform.
Every religion which claims true connection to God is fake and based on ancient and ever evolving imaginary stories created, modified and redeveloped to entertain, control or brain wash masses into stark unquestioning subjugation of the Masters of Interpretations, Rituals and Ceremonies, who claim to know more and better and are prime movers of traditional religions as we know. These masters are to religion as much religion is to them.
For centuries every next transaction of these stories has been altering and adding new content to the original which keeps blurring in meaning or in its lesson to ultimately unrecognisable irrational and illogical form while masses still kept hypnotised to believe them as what happened. Though these never happened as told.
Understanding of existence or even absence of God has nothing to do with these stories or rituals based on mythical imaginary tales.
However following religious practices and even rituals, nevertheless based on imaginations and being no mean to reach associated God, have though selectively, potential to show value in creating order in society and bringing integrity of moral conduct conducive to harmonious existence and growth of overall humanity and every other life on the planet. To this extent religions can meaningfully be worthy to make human life better and more eligible to attain nirvana by understanding existence of God or even realising God’s absence on a good laugh.
If one still finds it necessary to follow, every mythical, religious story and ritual which provides universal moral preaching and imparts respect for every life, idea and belief, may not be valued on its genuineness for practical consideration but as mean to achieve better human progress, peace, happiness and societal integrity.
You are handed over a bed time tale or you conjure up a fantasy propelled script or some unproven learning is poured on your head by some smarter idiot whose chief qualification is to speak better than you even if that is devoid of any worthy content or is full of political lies. And you name the wisdom so acquired as your faith.
It’s well so far, no one minds.
However you go all out to bind others holding them against judging, commenting negative or expressing even iota of disbelief about your story or knowledge which you consider as your belief and your faith.
That becomes a huge social problem at home, among friends or in society.
No one but you, is responsible for your state of emotional wellbeing or for any mental fall nor is anyone accountable for keeping your faith unbroken.
Your faith is your private personal attribute. Don't let egoistic pride borne out of that knowledge induce fragility to the heart and mind and suck out rationality required to maintain social order and peace. Have heart at least if you are not given a good brain. Try.
Fossil fuels have been our most potent energy partners and engine of growth for achieving present prosperity, the kind we gifted to ourselves during past 150 years.
Track has been laid by West on which we all are running and competing presently. That’s a given advantage they have which they attained during past five centuries of incessant smarter work culture and display of courage to take extreme risks to conquer diverse geographies and control over scientific narrative.
New India !!
Before advent of formal democratisation and/or republicanism and emerging of more rational science guided human consciousness, world was ruled by various kings, princes, Jamindaars kinds, who used to take over charge as caretakers or keepers or just plain usurper of territorial authority.
I am waiting for the day when AI generated images and videos too, like the one in circulation these days claiming greatness of our ancient Rishis who could do surgery and were discoverers of many laws of science which westerners stole from India, would source genesis from some ancient myth and try to prove how advance those mythical characters were.
Civilisations have been progressing and developing linearly upward over 8000 years. People in olden times too were aware of many processes and procedure like days, months, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and surgery but learnt from sheer observations. Some resourceful ones recorded that too when they learnt to write and found something to write on like clay tablets, or rocks or even some leaf. However they never could anywhere explain the logic for the conclusion they arrived at. Gods of many kinds and their divine actions, charms and magics were their excuses to explain what they otherwise observed.
Mesopotamians, and Sumerians at least 7000 years before were making canals, developing languages and were writing on astronomy and medicine on tablets which are available to verify today. SURGERY was common in Mesopotamia too some 6000 years back. It was common in several places in later civilisations too. Not that Indians might not have known these things. May be, but those experiences or even of say Mesopotamians, no where can be compared to modern science to make false claims of suprematist greatness using fakery.
To associate Newtons findings to falling apple is kiddish. Newton's observation was not restricted to just recording somewhere on dry leaf what he observed. He went ahead and developed full theory and scientific reasoning around his observations and proved those laws for universality using complex mathematics and by submitting his finding to critical analysis and peer review and were later led to consistent practical purposes and inventions. All those finding of various hardworking men during past 6 centuries have led us to have today tools like aeroplanes to fly to foreign lands to become NRI and enjoy AI which creates such fake videos to covert and indoctrinate even educated, experienced elders into mediocrity.
World always existed beyond Kandhar and Sindh and prosperously too. Most of the history of the world here and also away from boundaries of the subcontinent as we mean India today, is as what had happened, though of course doped, some what faked and exaggerated with narratives ordered, commissioned, inspired, by powerful rulers as well, still vastly established and corrected with modern tools of investigative archeology, literature and language.
Credibility of Obama among global statesmen is undoubtedly on much greater pedestal than even most of the leaders holding formal statuses as heads of states. It would be immature to confront his opinion with juvenile arguments chastising him for his personality and background and his mistaken faith and also on irrelevant and connected topic of wars US fought in middle east under his presidency. It’s highly unlikely that global audience would consider Obama’s opinion as biased and based on hearsay just because we disagreed with him and countered with our rebuttal so clumsily.
Raha was compulsive smoker, loved single malt and he indeed used to break accepted norms for that and for pushing his agenda and his opinion. Some times he did conduct little harsh or acted bit too quickly publicly ruffling egos of colleagues and subordinates, albeit avoidable indeed when we recapitulate that conduct. However such strong headed persons are known to always keep some little aberration that makes their stories romantic and readworthy when we look back !!! We should focus on what defined such a person in overall perspective of achievements he delivered as Chairman of ONGC.
Some people riding on prowess of natural gifted power of oration love to display serious malignancy of their knowledge and wisdom, all for sake of cheap popularity they acquire over gullible masses who are now becoming sore point of our modernity and civilisation taking nation to destructive path on pseudo nationalism forgetting that world beyond India always existed and to surprise always quite prosperously!! Even today.
Ankor Wat was built by local blood Khmer kings particularly Suryavarman II in 12th century when Chola kingdon was already in decline in India. Cholas did raid parts of southern Indonesia but never succeeded. Khmer was never part of any Indian king. Their kingdoms only had loose relation with Indians as they had with Chinese and even Arabs. Mahayana and Therwada Budhism had brought lots of similarities of Hinduism to those lands. Khmer King Suryavarman II adopted Vishnu as his chief God and in Ankor wat shows himself as Vishnu.
Just because Suryavarman name sounds south Indian doesn’t make him any Madrasi. Khmer kingdom was one of the largest in its time that world had. Indian kings of those times were way smaller to them in many ways like in territory they controlled and and in riches.
Yes, because world those days was very collaborative and inclusive unlike now what we are turning into, Ankor Wat had lots of influence from Tamil architectures. May be some architects and workers were brought from India. Trade between Indian east coast and far east was flourishing those days.
Possible that Ankor Wat might have been just a beautifully built religious monument and may not be a worshiping place, a display of local spiritual culture and Khmer king’s faith and his power.
वापस ? किसको वापस करना है? कौन है जिसको हैंडओवर करना है ? साधु भेष में टीवी पे कलयुगी मैला फैला रहे बाबा लोगों को? जो मंदिर एवं अन्य धार्मिक स्थान पब्लिक ऑर्डर और पब्लिक हित में हों सभी govt कंट्रोल में ही होने चाहिए । जो नहीं है वे भी होने चाहिए। झूठे सांप्रदायिक भेद भाव फैला रहे निर्लज लोगों को नहीं दिया जा सकता व्यवस्था का नियंत्रण। ये जनमानस से अन्याय होगा। ये देश लूटने वाले वास्तविक अधर्मी हैं। सालों से ये यही कपट कर रहे हैं और लोगों को वर्ण, जाती और धर्म में बाँट अपना उल्लू सीधा कर रह हैं।
वैष्णो देवी यात्रा पुराने समय में पूर्णतः अव्यवस्थित होती थी। पंडे परेशान करते थे। यही विश्वनाथ टेम्पल में था। सरकार का कंट्रोल आते ही काफ़ी सुधार हो गया। त्रिरूपति के सुंदर इंतज़ामात एक मिसाल है। ये सरकारी नियंत्ररण और पब्लिक जवाबदेही की वजह से है । आप सब क्या ये खोना चाहते हैं और निजी मठों और आश्रमों के पंडे साधुओं और उनके अनुयायियों के हाथों की बदइंतज़ामी और जबरन चंदाकशी में स्वयं को उलझाना चाहते हैं?
सरकार किसकी है? सब की।सरकार हर जन का प्रतिनिधित्व करती है। सब से बेहतर बात कि जनतांत्रिक सरकारें जनता के प्रति जवाबदेह होती हैं। उनकी लापरवाही को लोग दंडित कर सकते हैं लोकतंत्र ये सुविधा देता है।मंदिर सार्वजनिक स्थान हैं। सरकार ही मंदिरों का जनहित संरक्षण करने में सही मायने में सक्षम है।
अन्य धर्मों के बड़े धर्म स्थान भी सरकारी कंट्रोल में होने चाहिए ये बात भी उतनी ही तर्क संगत है । जैसे अजमेर , निज़ामुदीन। यहाँ भी अव्यवस्था है।
It was 40 nostalgic years back when I used to travel in bus from Delhi ISBT to Shimla during my first job. The bus-stand was newly built but used to be dirty, crowded, chaotic, noisy. And those days too it used to represent the classical rudeness of Delhi.
Forward to this day, it was after few decades that I was traveling to Shimla in bus and visited ISBT again. It was early morning. The place is it still crowded, chaotic, dirty, stinking, noisy and now also almost threatening. And I heard it is renovated. It still represents what Delhi at the core is.
These places ( another disappointing one is outside New Delhi Railway station) symbolise quality of local civility and showcase raw street culture of the capital to the visitors.
Vendors, taxiwalaas, autorickshaw walaas in Delhi all need to be tutored by sending them to compulsory discipline and behavioural training to Mumbai, Kakinada, Cochin, Thirupathi for two weeks. Most Delhiites have this issue that they have never been to the world outside to experience what a good culture and public conduct is.
Disadvantageous disconnect of service industry with consumers is widening day by day. Monopolistic business environs promoted by neo-oligarchs are rampantly emerging across the service industry which fuel this apathy even more. Perhaps airlines to other service providers all disregard consumers once they know whom they need to please for business. ‘Kya ukhad loge’…
While Govts world over are proactive on competition redressal as what google vs EU was recently seen, no one bothers on abject fall in customer support from service industry globally like airlines which stonewall passengers grievances and fleece them with uncontrolled surges in fares regularly. Or cell service providers creating fake maze of customer support with bots ruining user experience with no where to go in distress. Or Insurance companies dumping unbelievable policies on people with sky high promises.
Human intelligence has been progressively improving exponentially for past several millenniums. People of some specific past might have been possessing superior intelligence and phenomenal wisdom but only accounted for up to their present with respect to their past. And we the people of present times have superior most intelligence and wisdom, human ever possessed before us. Don’t be judgemental about primitivism or even fabled supremacism of people who lived before us. Let them rest in history as characters of those stories.
Even though we do take pride in our past and rightly so but we must not close eyes towards outer world where human too made marvellous progress and some places even much earlier. Language too particularly written one has been known to evolve much earlier at several places and spread outwards.
Directors and CEOs of Indian PSUs traditionally are fond of good looking, smart, though no doubt efficient, youngsters to crowd around them in their MSGs ( Management services groups, executive assistants etc). This is long held tradition. These youngsters spend years in head offices of PSUs in Delhi offices, particularly in HR, becoming seniors and they decide on postings of those who are working hard day in and out in remote areas of NE , Karailkal, Offshore, Kakinada, Agartal at core business unites of say ONGC. Some of these MSG youngsters spend 20-25 years in head quarters and later manage to rise to higher positions of EDs and even Directors without or at the best with very brief stint of year or two outside in field offices. If one assess out profiles of MSG in CEOs and Directors’ offices of a typical PSU like ONGC for past 30 years, one will find 60 to 70 percent same persons continuing for decades. Directors change but these high profile file movers at MSGs remain firmly there.Sometimes they themselves become directors being well known to higher authorities or even ministries. Worst part they play for making PSUs inefficiently managed is that these assistant executives have influence in decision making. Being always around providing comfort of continuity and experience to shaky top leadership of PSUs which is already under daily threat from controlling ministries, they carry ability to put words in the mouth of directors and CMDs defeating very attempt to infuse new ideas of managing fresh challenges.
That’s core reason why a PSU like ONGC could stagnates or could avoid stagnating and become more efficient!!