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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Unfortunate but a valid point!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
We the silent majority...
The following piece in the HT 07-10-08 reflects what people like me are going through today ..hence I present it here for you verbatim...
- about the current state of affairs of the nation and how it has impacted people like me..
The last line underscores the mindset of people like me, who feel helpless about the law and order situation around me, are seeking... and believe me, we are not insane, when we demand a gun for ours and our family protection....
are we not looking at signs of what one can call.. a civil war????
on a side note, I see a parallel between India today and the US of the past, which might have led the gun laws to be set up there 'cos I think the US has probably gone through similar times before it reached today's state.
But that does not help me today 'cos my safety is at stake and I need protection from what the state has failed to control... increasing violence and reducing value of the human life....
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Searching high and low for the law - Gautam Chikermane, (HT)
There are two forces of physics acting upon a changing India today. On the economic front, as India expands into global terrains, a centripetal force is gathering momentum, best represented by the country’s 8 per cent growth rate. This force, however, is being pulled back, through an equally strong centrifugal force that looks inward, is fragmented and savage in its execution. Caught in between are the rest of us. If economic development and mass prosperity have to be delivered, the politics of violence that the centrifugal force represents needs to die. And there lies a political opportunity for
Elections 2009.
The most high-profile wart of this centrifugal force is the Nano’s undignified exit from Singur. Last week Ratan Tata had said that Mamata Banerjee had pulled “the trigger on his head”, forcing him to move out of West Bengal to Gujarat, the trigger being his employees’ safety.
Earlier, L.K. Chaudhury, CEO of the Italian company Graziano Trasmissioni, was beaten to death by workers in Greater Noida, some 20 minutes from the national capital, with the Labour Minister subtly trying to build political capital from the crime by saying, “This
should serve as a warning for managements.” (He later backtracked, but the damage was done.)
North Indians are being targeted in Mumbai by Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as an investment into future elections to garner jingoistic support. Churches are being burnt in Orissa and nuns raped under the blind eyes of the police while the state’s highly articulate Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik says he’s doing his job. A
young journalist dies a mysterious death in Delhi and its Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit says women should not be “adventurous” and that companies, not the police, should take responsibility for their safety.
The message from our politicians who have built walls of protection with taxpayers’ money around themselves and their families: India is,and will continue to be, run by thugs, so please watch out for yourselves.
As the rest of us take events like these in stride and get desensitised by the never-ending images on TV, permanent headlines in newspapers and infinite opinions on blogs, never has the need for law and order as the first and foremost electoral expectation of voters been so high, so acute. Law and order is something we are supposed to
take for granted. It is only riding this safety infrastructure that we can do anything else — pursue jobs, buy groceries, watch films.
On the other hand, we are gradually beginning to accept lawlessness,particularly by the rich, the powerful and the organised mobs they manage to cobble, as one more dinner-table discussion — ‘Pass the death toll, please.’ As this anarchy gets political support, we are gradually being pushed into a corner, where an unvoiced frustration with governance is systematically eating into our democratic and civilised innards. With weapons in the hands of a small clutch of ineligible political aspirants, the man on the street has never been in as much physical danger as today.
Lawmakers are breaking the law as if it’s their birth right. And when stopped — as Virendra Kumar Khatik was, as he tried to barricade the arms of the law from an anti-encroachment drive, only to face collateral damage — action is taken, not against the honourable Member of Parliament for attempting to come in the way of the law, but against the junior policemen who tried to implement it. They’ve been charged with an attempt to murder and have been suspended from duty. Shed a tear for them.
Those whom voters have entrusted with democratic power and white car privileges — and with them the responsibility to provide law and order — are all but numbed into submission under this new force gathering strength, issue by issue, in state after state. Leadership at the highest levels is reeling under the weight of a moral compulsion to let people, who any right-minded person would call murderers, rapists, repeat offenders, and bad characters, have a free run on the rest of us, feed on our livelihoods, our fears. And our freedoms. (“Today, terrorists are being worshipped,” said Justice J.N. Patel referring to Raj Thackeray, who, in turn, instead of feeling the fear of the law as any law-abiding citizen should, is brazenly asking the court to “define a terrorist”.)
The CPI(M)’s West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee virtually offered a free hand to Mamata Banerjee and her mob to stop workers seeking nothing more than an honest day’s job from working. The Congress’s Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is standing still, watching non-Maharashtrian citizens of India being beaten and
threatened, their businesses, taxis and trade being destroyed. The Biju Janata Dal’s Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has nothing more than lofty words to offer Christians being mauled in his state.
We, the silent majority, have allowed this small band of hoodlums to decide whether we have the right to work, to religion, to celebration, to life, to love. Too busy to look beyond the prosperity that the economic centripetal force has brought, in the form of our 2-BHKs and iPhones, we are allowing a new political culture to invade our country.
It’s almost as if we are being conquered all over again, this time by some of the smartest minds this country has produced, minds — like the smart lawyers, accountants and financial engineers who recently ran the global financial system aground — that are finding and punching holes in the law to usurp power.
A leveraged buyout is underway, where a small bunch of private interest groups cobble together to create visible damage for maximum impact. We are being forced into believing that violence is the currency of political or social intercourse in a modern, trillion-dollar economy. That if we want something bad enough, we can just go out and collect thugs. This faith needs to be destroyed. These mobs and their political masters need to be dragged under the purview of the law, before this belief system becomes a mass religion. For any responsible party, this presents a so-far ignored political opportunity. In the last elections, with a focus on economic growth, our attention moved from ‘roti-kapda-makaan’ to ‘bijli-sadak-pani’. It’s time now to go back to basics and devise a new slogan around ‘suraksha-kanoon-dand’ (safety-law-punishment) — and implement it ruthlessly. Political profits are guaranteed.
Until that happens, can anyone tell me where I can buy a gun?
(C) HT 07-10-2008
- about the current state of affairs of the nation and how it has impacted people like me..
The last line underscores the mindset of people like me, who feel helpless about the law and order situation around me, are seeking... and believe me, we are not insane, when we demand a gun for ours and our family protection....
are we not looking at signs of what one can call.. a civil war????
on a side note, I see a parallel between India today and the US of the past, which might have led the gun laws to be set up there 'cos I think the US has probably gone through similar times before it reached today's state.
But that does not help me today 'cos my safety is at stake and I need protection from what the state has failed to control... increasing violence and reducing value of the human life....
-----------
Searching high and low for the law - Gautam Chikermane, (HT)
There are two forces of physics acting upon a changing India today. On the economic front, as India expands into global terrains, a centripetal force is gathering momentum, best represented by the country’s 8 per cent growth rate. This force, however, is being pulled back, through an equally strong centrifugal force that looks inward, is fragmented and savage in its execution. Caught in between are the rest of us. If economic development and mass prosperity have to be delivered, the politics of violence that the centrifugal force represents needs to die. And there lies a political opportunity for
Elections 2009.
The most high-profile wart of this centrifugal force is the Nano’s undignified exit from Singur. Last week Ratan Tata had said that Mamata Banerjee had pulled “the trigger on his head”, forcing him to move out of West Bengal to Gujarat, the trigger being his employees’ safety.
Earlier, L.K. Chaudhury, CEO of the Italian company Graziano Trasmissioni, was beaten to death by workers in Greater Noida, some 20 minutes from the national capital, with the Labour Minister subtly trying to build political capital from the crime by saying, “This
should serve as a warning for managements.” (He later backtracked, but the damage was done.)
North Indians are being targeted in Mumbai by Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as an investment into future elections to garner jingoistic support. Churches are being burnt in Orissa and nuns raped under the blind eyes of the police while the state’s highly articulate Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik says he’s doing his job. A
young journalist dies a mysterious death in Delhi and its Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit says women should not be “adventurous” and that companies, not the police, should take responsibility for their safety.
The message from our politicians who have built walls of protection with taxpayers’ money around themselves and their families: India is,and will continue to be, run by thugs, so please watch out for yourselves.
As the rest of us take events like these in stride and get desensitised by the never-ending images on TV, permanent headlines in newspapers and infinite opinions on blogs, never has the need for law and order as the first and foremost electoral expectation of voters been so high, so acute. Law and order is something we are supposed to
take for granted. It is only riding this safety infrastructure that we can do anything else — pursue jobs, buy groceries, watch films.
On the other hand, we are gradually beginning to accept lawlessness,particularly by the rich, the powerful and the organised mobs they manage to cobble, as one more dinner-table discussion — ‘Pass the death toll, please.’ As this anarchy gets political support, we are gradually being pushed into a corner, where an unvoiced frustration with governance is systematically eating into our democratic and civilised innards. With weapons in the hands of a small clutch of ineligible political aspirants, the man on the street has never been in as much physical danger as today.
Lawmakers are breaking the law as if it’s their birth right. And when stopped — as Virendra Kumar Khatik was, as he tried to barricade the arms of the law from an anti-encroachment drive, only to face collateral damage — action is taken, not against the honourable Member of Parliament for attempting to come in the way of the law, but against the junior policemen who tried to implement it. They’ve been charged with an attempt to murder and have been suspended from duty. Shed a tear for them.
Those whom voters have entrusted with democratic power and white car privileges — and with them the responsibility to provide law and order — are all but numbed into submission under this new force gathering strength, issue by issue, in state after state. Leadership at the highest levels is reeling under the weight of a moral compulsion to let people, who any right-minded person would call murderers, rapists, repeat offenders, and bad characters, have a free run on the rest of us, feed on our livelihoods, our fears. And our freedoms. (“Today, terrorists are being worshipped,” said Justice J.N. Patel referring to Raj Thackeray, who, in turn, instead of feeling the fear of the law as any law-abiding citizen should, is brazenly asking the court to “define a terrorist”.)
The CPI(M)’s West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee virtually offered a free hand to Mamata Banerjee and her mob to stop workers seeking nothing more than an honest day’s job from working. The Congress’s Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is standing still, watching non-Maharashtrian citizens of India being beaten and
threatened, their businesses, taxis and trade being destroyed. The Biju Janata Dal’s Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has nothing more than lofty words to offer Christians being mauled in his state.
We, the silent majority, have allowed this small band of hoodlums to decide whether we have the right to work, to religion, to celebration, to life, to love. Too busy to look beyond the prosperity that the economic centripetal force has brought, in the form of our 2-BHKs and iPhones, we are allowing a new political culture to invade our country.
It’s almost as if we are being conquered all over again, this time by some of the smartest minds this country has produced, minds — like the smart lawyers, accountants and financial engineers who recently ran the global financial system aground — that are finding and punching holes in the law to usurp power.
A leveraged buyout is underway, where a small bunch of private interest groups cobble together to create visible damage for maximum impact. We are being forced into believing that violence is the currency of political or social intercourse in a modern, trillion-dollar economy. That if we want something bad enough, we can just go out and collect thugs. This faith needs to be destroyed. These mobs and their political masters need to be dragged under the purview of the law, before this belief system becomes a mass religion. For any responsible party, this presents a so-far ignored political opportunity. In the last elections, with a focus on economic growth, our attention moved from ‘roti-kapda-makaan’ to ‘bijli-sadak-pani’. It’s time now to go back to basics and devise a new slogan around ‘suraksha-kanoon-dand’ (safety-law-punishment) — and implement it ruthlessly. Political profits are guaranteed.
Until that happens, can anyone tell me where I can buy a gun?
(C) HT 07-10-2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Emotions of India
We all know and read in several business mags and in industry reports which talked about the emerging market that India was a few years back. In order to familiarize the world with what they should expect of India, and it's markets, one thing that was starkly contrasted is the psyche of India per se - it was clearly underscored that Indians are an emotional lot.
That they take a lot of their decisions based on emotions than informational logic.
The best example industry that one can see that has exploited this aspect of the nation is the Entertainment industry - what with all the soaps and sagas that tend to whip up emotions of the audience to convey a message.
No doubt, there are other countries and people too who are emotional but for the Indian industry, this nature has been clearly highlighted so that businesses coming into the country understand how to milk this market.
What better demonstration of our psyche than the Lok Sabha TV broadcast of yesterday's trust vote proceedings.
You can thus imagine, if the representatives of the people are such an emotional lot, what would be the state of mind of the people they represent.
And mind you, in the term 'emotion', the term logic does not blend so easily and the term 'emotion' represents all shades of this human expression.
All of which were fully on display for the world audience to watch and measure the emotional intelligence and maturity levels of the representatives of this nation - a collective term that I state - 'Emotions Of India'
Since my main topic of interest, learning and sharing is related to emotional intelligence, I am able to easily connect with the emotional content of one's personality and learn by observation how they display this parameter of their personality.
Yesterday's proceedings starkly contrasted how well the educated and mature lot of the parliament were presenting themselves in an emotionally intelligent manner and how the immature, power hungry(another emotion) and probably the less educated class of representatives presented themselves in a totally chaotic manner.
Gentlemen - the term stands for people with superb reputation and presentation skills - emotionally intelligent people basically.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, our Hon. Prime Minister is one such individual I hold in VERY HIGH regard. An extremely emotional individual, he has the maturity and ability to present himself - however upset he would be - in a very dignified and calm manner. This in addition to his immense knowledge, experience and ability make him a person worth emulating and a role model. I would hold him in the topmost category of leaders our nation desperately needs more of.
Lalu Prasad Yadav our Hon. Railway Minister has carved a niche for himself in the Indian politics. This individual, however tainted he has been since the early 2000, when he actually shot into the limelight, has developed into an extremely affable and oratorial individual who, though not 100% emotionally intelligent, is able to make the most of the chances given to him. He would be a role model for his mannerisms and his ability to handle any situation thrown his way.
Rahul Gandhi is definitely worth a huge mention. This 70s generation of India representative is one individual who has matured tremendously with times.
If he gets a very positive response from today's mature young India, he should join the political arena because he has in him, the real vision of real India, the learnings and outlook of the current generation and the background of his political family.
I probably would join politics if he assumes leadership and asks for support from young India.
These 3 people represent probably a 180 deg. hemisphere of the circular spectrum of Emotional India.
and this article here brings forth some poignant observations on the whole deal...
A few other points that are of note here are
- the date of this trust vote 22/7.
The date that represents an irrational number ~ indirectly hitting on the irrationality of the Indian polity.
- the drama that unfolded with the currency notes showed the real face of India today.
The amount of 'shock' factor that the newspapers highlighted about cash being brought and displayed in the parliament house didn't really move me. Reasons -
- I have become so used to the fact that in India money rules, that I expect that even the most influential people to use money to get their work done. Thus, the use of money to win votes was not something I didn't expect.
For some reason, the trust factor that this country really needs is missing in it's very fabric and that is a very dangerous state to be in. Hope things get back to a more civil state soon.
India has a far way to go towards emotional maturity.
That they take a lot of their decisions based on emotions than informational logic.
The best example industry that one can see that has exploited this aspect of the nation is the Entertainment industry - what with all the soaps and sagas that tend to whip up emotions of the audience to convey a message.
No doubt, there are other countries and people too who are emotional but for the Indian industry, this nature has been clearly highlighted so that businesses coming into the country understand how to milk this market.
What better demonstration of our psyche than the Lok Sabha TV broadcast of yesterday's trust vote proceedings.
You can thus imagine, if the representatives of the people are such an emotional lot, what would be the state of mind of the people they represent.
And mind you, in the term 'emotion', the term logic does not blend so easily and the term 'emotion' represents all shades of this human expression.
All of which were fully on display for the world audience to watch and measure the emotional intelligence and maturity levels of the representatives of this nation - a collective term that I state - 'Emotions Of India'
Since my main topic of interest, learning and sharing is related to emotional intelligence, I am able to easily connect with the emotional content of one's personality and learn by observation how they display this parameter of their personality.
Yesterday's proceedings starkly contrasted how well the educated and mature lot of the parliament were presenting themselves in an emotionally intelligent manner and how the immature, power hungry(another emotion) and probably the less educated class of representatives presented themselves in a totally chaotic manner.
Gentlemen - the term stands for people with superb reputation and presentation skills - emotionally intelligent people basically.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, our Hon. Prime Minister is one such individual I hold in VERY HIGH regard. An extremely emotional individual, he has the maturity and ability to present himself - however upset he would be - in a very dignified and calm manner. This in addition to his immense knowledge, experience and ability make him a person worth emulating and a role model. I would hold him in the topmost category of leaders our nation desperately needs more of.
Lalu Prasad Yadav our Hon. Railway Minister has carved a niche for himself in the Indian politics. This individual, however tainted he has been since the early 2000, when he actually shot into the limelight, has developed into an extremely affable and oratorial individual who, though not 100% emotionally intelligent, is able to make the most of the chances given to him. He would be a role model for his mannerisms and his ability to handle any situation thrown his way.
Rahul Gandhi is definitely worth a huge mention. This 70s generation of India representative is one individual who has matured tremendously with times.
If he gets a very positive response from today's mature young India, he should join the political arena because he has in him, the real vision of real India, the learnings and outlook of the current generation and the background of his political family.
I probably would join politics if he assumes leadership and asks for support from young India.
These 3 people represent probably a 180 deg. hemisphere of the circular spectrum of Emotional India.
and this article here brings forth some poignant observations on the whole deal...
A few other points that are of note here are
- the date of this trust vote 22/7.
The date that represents an irrational number ~ indirectly hitting on the irrationality of the Indian polity.
- the drama that unfolded with the currency notes showed the real face of India today.
The amount of 'shock' factor that the newspapers highlighted about cash being brought and displayed in the parliament house didn't really move me. Reasons -
- I have become so used to the fact that in India money rules, that I expect that even the most influential people to use money to get their work done. Thus, the use of money to win votes was not something I didn't expect.
For some reason, the trust factor that this country really needs is missing in it's very fabric and that is a very dangerous state to be in. Hope things get back to a more civil state soon.
India has a far way to go towards emotional maturity.
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