Those who have power to impose sanctions would continue to do so unreasonably as well, unless we rise to that level of economic, technological or defence empowerment and could design enforceable sanctions favouring us, it is futile exercise to sulk. Currently the direction we are in, doesn’t cue towards anything optimistic for next few decades unless we reset hard. Only the era of Nehru was completely transformative for India. Had we continued with that vision we would have been ahead of China today. Rest all episodes of political changes were merely fall and recovery phases only. The present one being the abyssal. It will take time from here to return to even normal what we had been.
राहुल गांधी
देश के हर नागरिक को राजनीति करने का अधिकार है। जिसका बाप प्रधानमंत्री भी रहा हो उसको भी।
यदि सन् २००५ में १०० मीटर की स्प्रिंट दौड़ते और जीत जाते थे तो शायद लोग कह पाते कि इनको तो नाम का, ख़ानदान का, और पिता का, माँ का, और रेस के आयोजकों तक का सहारा मिला होगा और स्टार्ट लाइन से आगे खड़ा कर दौड़ाया था। सही है, किंतु ये राजनीति की रेस दो दशक से भी ज़्यादा की मैराथन निकली। आज २५ साल बाद और मैराथन के लाखोंवें मरहले या गर्दिशों के बाद भी कोई ये कहे कि परिवार के नाम की बैसाखी लिए है तो ये निरर्थक बकवास होगी।
इस दौरान राहुल ने इस दौड़ के हर मरहले, लैप में अपनी निजी क़ाबलियत का प्रदर्शन बखूबी किया है। सब्र से इतने ताक़तवर दुश्मनों का सामना कर, तिरस्कार और गाली गलोच तक सह लेना किसी को भी तपा के ख़रा कर सकता है। जो धनाढ्य व्यवसायी अपनी अयोग्य औलादों को बोर्ड में ऊँचा बिठा लेते हैं, जो नेता अपनी संतानों को नाकाबिल होने पे भी बड़े सरकारी पद या खेल का प्रबंधन दे देते हैं, जो फ़िल्मी हस्तियों अपनी औलादों को हीरो बना देते हैं और उनके लिए फ़िल्में बनाते हैं, वे सब मुनाफ़िक़ भी परिवारवाद का इल्ज़ाम लगा कर राहुल का उपहास करते रहे हैं। लेकिन ये शख़्स अपनी क़ाबलियत पे खड़ा है, परिवार की नहीं । किसी का डरना मुनासिब है।
US not laggard , man. You are.
For those who are foolishly saying India is doing great while US is laggard!
Any entity which is prosperous and whose business is widely spread tends to carry more debt also.
For instance, Reliance Industries has debt exceeding ₹1 lakh crore, and Adani Enterprises has debt over ₹50,000 crore—because these are wealthy business conglomerates. In contrast, the small grocer next door likely would not even have a ₹1 lakh business loan.
Next, growth of an entity or even a nation even if it seems modest in percentage terms, is significantly higher in absolute value. 6% growth on $4 trillion economy (₹4 lakh crore dollars) would yield $240 billion next year. But even a 3% growth on $29 trillion economy (₹29 lakh crore dollars) would results in $870 billion. Means $630 billion more. Lower percent growth on larger base yields much higher absolute growth.
let’s not even discuss per capita income in the U.S. and in India. It would be embarrassing. It’s less than 4% of US per capita income.
Herbs, Ayurveda, Homeopathy and modern medicines
Traditional knowledge might have been useful for the limited needs of the people of old times for being of magical novelty and also because the raw observations and heresy instead of scientific logic were the settled regime for healthcare in that period. Adopting those ancient practices for love of past without test of science is dangerous. If it works it should prove through science.
Even many of modern medicinal practices , when looked closely, evolved through what had been observed or known as raw knowledge. However those observations were tested through scientific methodologies, refined, developed and debated in community of experts before bringing them to our hospitals and dispensaries after years of research.
Just because some herb was known to people in old times as useful doesn’t make people of that period any scientifically advanced. Since beginning , people used to discover random herb or animal product useful for health through sheer experience. This is like they learnt to sow seeds for food or make stone tools or started fire or smelted for iron. These were chance discoveries of human. However those people could never explain what caused all that they found nor did they possess that urge to know what actually worked behind these discoveries. That's why they were never able to isolate antidote from snake venom or pencillin from fungus. That was exactly what we call lack of scientific temperament.
Now in present times we work with rational of science and have to test and validate every finding on established scientific principles. That’s why modern medical system is superset of all medicinal knowledge known so far and everthing which doesn’t conform to scientific validity must fall outside this sphere of acceptability. Even this also could be argued that many modern medicines are product of some plant, mineral or animal but here every process is scientifically reasoned, documented and validated on proven standards, principles and evidences besides questioning by regulators and peers.
Govt wants to Regulate ACs at home
It appears rulers have got addicted to Orwellian high. Covid’s arrival was providential when they found limitless authority over people. Once in life time dream of people to own a car is already strangulated with huge taxes and only 10 year roadworthiness. Every now and then they ask people to go to banks for KYC. In Delhi from early morning they start barricading roads to jam traffic and to line up endlessly till Mr VIP passes away. Now even AC temp they want to control. AC has become basic need these days. Every state road transport public bus , every public train , every school should be aimed to be made compulsorily Air conditioned. Such steps will actually make us perform better and achieve high rank for most valued economy status , instead they use easy shortcut to enrich few bulky businessmen for garnering some overall 3rd 4th rank on GDP which is actually inconsequential to most of those who suffer on roads during summer heat and perform inefficiently
Patriotism
Govt is not nation. Patriotism is never directed or valued for govt in power. Sometime going against incumbent govt too is patriotism. Questioning failures of govt is just and democratic. Don’t judge anyone just because they are judging govt officials in power. Also the labels of patriotism if any is gained for how consistently our actions help our nation grow stronger in stature, strength and reputation in future, these virtual labels of patriotism are not distributed by bullies who think sloganeering and politicising for garnering votes and creating disruptive narratives is patriotism and having illusion that such certificates they would be distributing.
For perspective, US lost Vietnam war not because it fell weaker against locals but because of strong US media which reported atrocities of US forces and uselessness of war. Same was for Afganistan. Those true patriots were never called antinational. Some were even honoured. Seymour Myron an investigative journalist exposed notorious the My Lai massacre of Vietnam for which he got Pulitzer Prize, also received public and govt recognition in US. It was free US media which was first to expose such wrongful acts of their own country without any fear of being called antinational. Watergate too is fresh.
Godi Media during war
Our brave hearts were anyway dealing with the enemy the way they best capable of, but how godi media was found dealing with Indian sensibilities with shameless warmongering, spreading fake provocative news with doctored visuals, anchors indulging in juvenile theatrics with communal tones, is nothing short of war crime, something which must never go unpunished even if that takes few more years of waiting knowing the hands of protection they enjoy. They sullied India's name and image during war time in eye of international community. Who in global audience would believe our factual official communication now given this 'wolf and shefard' narrative created by these channels. This is an antinational act of first degree. It's unfortunate that we have weak opposition acting ineffectively.
Get prepared
Though people who have nothing to lose are the most charged ones on social media calling for immediate action, practically it does indeed take time to be effective for gaining success in modern multifaceted war.
For perspective, even though for some ignorants of today who learn common basics at whatsapp, the war of 1971 might be just a quick fortnight one, however it had practically spread over one and half years since the time West Pakistanis started their nefarious atrocities over Bengalis in east Pakistan.
While army prepared the ground and fought adroitly when the actual time came, the war machinery in terms of international diplomatic manoeuvres, public mobilisation and resource built up were being fortified months earlier. That enabled forces to keep focus on the task they were best at, rather worrying about external interventions and resource crunch or lack of public support which was handled by political leadership. Govt not just proactively took people of every opinion along but also prepared them well ahead and also held extensive international diplomacy at the same time to win crucial support. Imagine the outcome, if the plan went day or two to either side of operations when even US was at our doorsteps but before we completed the task and declared 'it's over'. Leadership played most vital role.
Much before all that, black out drills were norm for more than a year in towns and villages across northern and eastern India. All vehicles were forced to blacken upper half of head lights. Residents were asked to paste black papers on window panes ( people even used carbon papers). School used to have army officers address students about safety and precaution very regularly months before the war. Bunkers too were prepared in most of the border states for public.
War is fought by every citizen alike.
This is just to post a perspective when we drill out a practice now.
Muslim are indeed taking over most of the casual professions
It's reality that not just the puncharwallas but majority of the plumbers, electricians, barbers, carpenters, masons, vegetable vendors, mobile repairers, riggers, mechanics, runners, couriers, tailors and hospital staff are now muslim youth. We also see now comparatively far many muslim doctors and lawyers. This is the story of every town or city today. Meanwhile almost all essential skilled jobs are being given away or proudly sacrificed on the altar of faith by those youth who prefer to remain engaged months in yatras, kanwars, organising bhandaaras amnd jagrans, chasing cattle vendors, brandishing sticks and swords on roads , dancing in front of places of worships of other faiths, making and watching communal reels and whatsapp messages and also monetising self respect by becoming use and through cheap gadgets and rubbers of political parties during elections. It's like getting high on some drug unbothered to the crippling of the society. They are right that their faith is definitely in danger, but from within.
यह हकीकत है कि सिर्फ पंचरवाला ही नहीं बल्कि प्लंबर, इलेक्ट्रीशियन, नाई, बढ़ई, राजमिस्त्री, सब्जी विक्रेता, मोबाइल रिपेयर करने वाले, रिगर, मैकेनिक, धावक, कूरियर, दर्जी और अस्पताल के कर्मचारी भी अब मुस्लिम युवा हैं। हम देखते हैं कि आज कल मुस्लिम डॉक्टर और वकील भी बहुत हैं। आज हर कस्बे और शहर की यही कहानी है। इस बीच लगभग सभी आवश्यक कौशल वाली नौकरियाँ उन युवाओं द्वारा आस्था की वेदी पर गर्व से बलिदान की जा रही हैं जो महीनों तक यात्राओं, कांवड़ों, भंडारों, मवेशी विक्रेताओं का पीछा करने, सड़कों पर लाठी और तलवारें भांजने , अन्य धर्मों के पूजा स्थलों के सामने नाचने, सांप्रदायिक रील और व्हाट्सएप संदेश बनाने और देखने और चुनावों के दौरान राजनीतिक दलों के सस्ते गैजेट और रबर बनके अपने आत्मसम्मान को भुनाने में लगे रहते हैं। यह समाज को अपंग बनाने की चिंता किए बगैर किसी नशे में धुत्त होने जैसा ही है। और वैसे ये सही हैं कि उनकी आस्था निश्चित रूप से खतरे में है, लेकिन भीतर से।
Dehradun- The decay
There would always be some connoisseur of relaxed living, who can understand the guillotining of slow leisurely life and the drive, best. To reach Dehradun, there are two expressways build in past few years and two more under construction from Delhi and Yamunanagar. What for? Is it some heavy trading port city? Why people need to speed up to Dehradun from Delhi in two hours as being proudly claimed, when they are already just good four and half hours drive away only now. Have we completed all rural infrastructure? Dehradun once used to be holiday or retirees' retreat with lots of lichee and chakotra gardens and several streams or rivulets. In name of offices it had few cool elitist ones like Survey of India, Indian Military Acedamy, Headquarters of ONGC or its institutes, Geological survey offices or iconic Forest Research Institute. The authentic doon bakeries used to flavour the streets. Now it is turning into noisy and ugly road side highway town.
Namaz on roads and streets
It is illogical argument that muslims spill over to roads as show of power or because they are indisciplined. Even if others dislike or fail to appreciate, the way muslims indulge in worship is as per a defined set of rules which are obligatory on them. How namaz is offered also has set of commands requiring muslims to pray in particular way, standing, bending, sitting and prostrating to complete the namaz with such units of prayer. This all needs far more space per person than usually others occupy when they pray as per their faith. Mostly those in masjids which are smaller and get crowds beyond capacity, people occasionally spill over outside onto streets as community namaz can't be performed in cramped up space. People of other faiths holding ceremonies and marches too spill over to streets and roads if their place of worship fails to offer enough space. It's normal. Harmony is in tolerance. For nuisance there are of course law enforcers.
Roads in Mumbai
In early nineties, they started concretising the roads in suburbs with same great fanfare and with promise that within couple of years when that finishes Mumbai (then Bombay) would be transformed. They gave example of durability of Marine Drive concretisation done in thirties to raise hopes about this round. It is surprising that roads are still dug up after 30 years. It is never ending loop. You finish the last and restart the first. Civil works particularly roads are biggest money making machines for making black and white wealth.
Popular people misuse fan following for misdeeds
Beware of those who use eloquence, magic skills, reputation of their parents or ancestors, talent of yoga , success of the business, or success in films, to bring large followers around them and then use that occasion or platform to give political or racially or religiously bigoted sermons on usefulness of being a dumb follower and to further indoctrinate useful public to turn into low quality citizens. Ram Dev, Harsh Goenka, Anand mahindra, Mittals, Rahul Kanwal, Sadguru, SS Ravi, Akshay Kumar, Dhirendra, Pai to name few who use this very jugglery to vitiate societal harmony.
Vile people use social media and other comm channels like television and stage performances to deliver goodies of niceties to make significant crowds of fan following but once surrounded, they actually deliver poison capsuled in sweet candies to intoxicate gullible commoners to follow theirs and their master’s bigotry too.
Judiciary and a democratic nation
Anywhere, in a democratic nation, people don’t elect absolute monarchs or dictators. They elect some officials like Presidents and Prime Ministers and representatives to assemblies who occupy positions defined by set of rules governing a democratic country, which are called the constitution. There has got to be an independent parallel institution to check that these elected guys actually keep their assignments as per constitution and don’t get into thermal run away kind of uncontrolled flare to please a popular vote bank. That is judiciary. It defines and moderates (not controls) the actions of President, Prime Ministers or other elected officials to ensure those remain within limits of constitution. That’s why on that perspective judiciary is indeed powerful and should be so. It’s defiance should be punishable to make it effective.
NPS and market crash
Stock market crash must have impacted NPS and employees’ pension hugely that no one is speaking about. Whether for those in govt or those in private service, one important very concerning issue should have been continued fall of stock market. 30-40 percent of valuations have been wiped out even from most of the mutual funds. NPS corpus too is market driven and is nothing but actually mutual funds investment only. And mind it, the bedrock of old age pension or security whatever you call, had been pension funds particularly NPS. Employees particularly govt employees in states and centre have all future retirement contributions transferred to NPS. NPS as alternative to old pension has been sold with big dreams by govt. There must have been massive devaluation in this corpus of the employees during this crash. Every employees private or govt must have been hit particularly those who are retiring now. Most of the people may not be knowing as their direct exposure to market is bare minimum. They will realise it sooner.
Zelensky and Indian leaders
Laughing at Zelensky is disrespecting bravery. Scores of Indian rulers from Marathas to Rajputs stood against invading forces and we respect them even when we know many got defeated and killed. We never call them weak immature jokers. There were others who surrendered and gave in and gave even their daughters and wives to invaders to buy so called peace as some of you most clumsily appear to prefer. They are not our heroes. We admire Indira who showed spine in Oval office and did not buy peace from Nixon and Kissinger on their terms. She rather raised peace on javelin in battle field and gave fitting reply. We must not admire a leader who doesn't give back on being bullied by host. We want strong wiser leader who can look into the eyes of global adversaries and stand for India. We don't want actors who have zero knowledge but have audacity to display infinite stupidity in full public glare. They can only giggle when get humiliated abroad.
For politicians and faith charmers religion is mere prank
Politicians have created icebucket challenge kind of frenzy for a religious event with lies to ensure strengthening of captive vote bank. People are taking up this as challenge just because others are doing it. On other hand the political and religious chieftains who are spearheading this mass conversion of innocent people into zombies with mindless medieval irrationality, themselves exactly know the futility of religion and rituals because they have no fear of God or his disapproval of their own acts of befooling public in name of religion.
For politicians and faith charmers religion is a prank. For them urge to promote paramountcy of their current political and material gains is far more compulsive than to be seen as benevolent leaders or saints any time in future. They actually know and laugh at the gullibility and stupidity of the puppets they play craftily with.
Civic manners: Why India is in contrast with rest of the world
Unless we let our false supremacy bloated egos not control our lives and accept what others show us from the mirror, we will remain a globally despised trash bin. A routine image search on today’s Rwanda would open our eyes as to how a most hopeless considered society could transform itself within two decades and is almost matching west in hygiene, cleanliness and infrastructure. One should check on urban life in Africa and Central Asia. One would feel ashamed how fast those economies are developing leaving us eons behind. Mongolia, even today for some Indians could be a remote tribal desert land. That opinion would get shattered watching city of Ulan Bator which looks much advanced , clean and disciplined. Most importantly whole of central Asia , Europe, Americas are full of pristine natural beauty where mountains, lakes, rivers are left as nature built them. There are ravines and glaciers and snow capped beautiful wilderness. No where one sees these captured and sacked by local religious zealots. Here in India nature has been left with no significance of its own to be appreciated for. Every single pond, lake, mountain, river, stream, steppe, cave has been turned into religious place of worship. Fresh new mythical stories are being weaved even today to justify this associative obsession. This empowers religious rituals to control daily lives of commoners who sadistically love to be slaves of charlatans calling themselves political and religious leaders but having zero calibre to lead people towards better community. These rituals don’t include good civic conduct or teach caring for common societal causes. We would wash temple premises in housing society every morning but would be okey with overflowing drain nearby. We are almost done being left incorrigible by world.
Why do we fail to make Indian AI ?
Every transformative technological revolutions since the dawn of modern industrial period, has been brought and led by youngsters only. Youth were honed through groove of critical thinking and scientific temperament and were made to understand their responsibilities towards next generations and how important was to hard work for making human lives better. This still continues as we see great advancements blooming in west and in China, Japan and Korea being led by youth. Contrastingly, look what our youngsters are doing? For them participating in kanwad yatra, dips at Kumbh, being part of gangs of cow rakshaks or moral polices, promoting fake neo-mythical tales on reels and podcasts and hawking religious frenzy on streets are their ways for being successfully alive. These youngsters are not some uneducated ones, even persons who managed to study at prestigious IIT and IIMs can also be found doing these time-stalled rituals. Who will make Indian AI model?
Neither working 4 hrs extra every day waiting for Boss to leave office and spending weekends sorting his mails, nor raising a generation which loves dancing outside other places of worships and thrills partnering gangs preaching morality on streets, builds AI.
Why a lake or mountain must be place of worship to be of relevance to us?
I have been recently watching an arduous but beautiful journey of a youtuber biker travelling via Afganistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Kazakhistan, Russia, Mangolia to Japan. The central Asia is beautiful with landscape we have only seen in pictures or paintings. The mountains, lakes and steppe are awesome. The remoteness itself is so pleasing and peaceful that one wishes to stay back there. At the same time these countries are reasonably developed with well to do people, great roads, and good facilities for visitors and tourists even in remote places. Most surprising had been an observation that so beautiful, vastnesses, lake and mountains, but none of them being worshipped by locals or cluttered with places of worship or dedicated to local deities. People go there only to look, appreciate and enjoy the raw nature. In contrast I never understood here in India why every place of natural wonder whether mountain, cave, lake must get dedicated to some deity and compulsorily must be a place of worship to be of any relevance for visiting it. Raw nature as it is given to us seems loses all meaning here.
UPI is good but not good
It is easy to blame commoners for their folly to fall prey but question should be how banking has become so transparently hackable. There has got be something missing in security protocols in banks which enables this. They must introspect. There used to be built in difficulty to transfer money earlier requiring some kind of physical contact like cheque, debit card, payout slip, signatures. Those have gone and replaced with four digit pins. This makes it easy to send money but for criminals too it has become much easier to crack and enter our accounts to syphon off savings.
There are much more secure and convenient ways to make quick payments by touch of phones, watches and cards which almost all other nations prefer. Using such physical interfaces for authenticating a transection is globally recognised and widely used safer practice. UPI even though no doubt, is hugely convenient but depends on virtual authentications using OTPs and PINs which have been observed to provide easier means for targeting bank accounts by fraudsters. This is not considered a sound practice to promote quick street payments. UPI kind is a proven technology everywhere not something only India can have as some would like people to believe foolishly.
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