TIME FOR POLITICAL CORRECTION

    There is a lot of news in the country and mainly about how we as citizens would aim to extricate ourselves from the dirty quagmire our rulers would have left us through several of their suffocating means. Existence in India, of late has become a suffocating experience more out of design than fate. Surely, the political class do outwit us every time by stating they are under duress to do any good to us however half wittingly they tried. They obviously are pressurized by naive talks of foreign governments in particular neighboring states which get their busy hands tied up for indefinite periods of time. Then comes those awful unseen hands that try to topple all their moves to bring about some form of running system that could deliver less of evil to the common man. Then not in least are those ghostly apparitions that count their success (as the political class say), due to their special might to tear apart all the good plans they have for their unwary citizens. Take the instance of the continued and recurring train tragedies in the country. It is indeed a wonder that even the best of the technologies in the land couldn't avert such tragic events or even minimize them as a simple good gesture at least. They say that public deserves the government they make. But commonest of the citizens do not anticipate such a muck of things. The wagon tragedy that struck has derailed 20 wagons in Kishangunj district of Bihar out of which 12 was full of diesel and the rest 8 full of petrol. Say aren't the oil prices in the stratosphere to call for some sane monitoring.
     Remains to be seen if the ordinary man has more woes during the coming festival season as gifts or whether there will be a political correction much like the stock market correction where the stocks (defunct ideologies here), have too much of an evaluation during their frenzied run up.

MEMORABLE ANANT PAI

    Today when I logged in to the Google I was transfixed by the illustrative piece of picture cum drawing on the front of it. Of course, as all of you are reading this blog must have instantly realized that it is the 82nd birthday of the Great Anant Pai whom we all know since our childhood days. To put it frankly I knew very little of Indian mythological tales having been brought up at Kolkatta in West Bengal where I studied till college and worked for a few years after my graduation. In fact I learned and was eventually drawn into the great epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata and other mythological tales through the memorable works of Anant Pai through his now world famous comic Amar Chitra Katha. The Tinkle too was my constant companion then. Eventually, leaving Kolkatta and hunting for jobs at Chennai and Bangalore or rather Bangalaru, I would still try to get hold of a few copies of Amar Chitra Katha from my colleagues or friends or buy them from any local shop.
     These creations of Anant Pai needless to say influenced my perception of my country about its vividness and history all throughout my life. Later on I went on to read and enjoy the great cartoons of R. K. Laxaman, Sudhir Dar, Shankar and Kutty and so on and felt the Indian touch of the realities around us in a way not quite easy enough for the Western mindset to understand. Raja Rao, R.K. Narayanan, Khuswant Singh were trend setters of the Indian fiction and were followed by the present writers who have discovered the art of writing in English with generous sprinkling of the Indian way of life in each of their fiction.
      LET US HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANANT PAI  TO MAKE OUR WORLD OF READING AND ENTERTAINMENT AN EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE.

MISHAP CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR

    It is human error that has caused the train tragedy at Tamil Nadu. It is better to name the whole state than particular area for if the things continue to be like this then there wouldn't be much space left for writing about the train tragedies after having duly noted the places where they have occurred. At least you can count the states in India which wouldn't at least feel numerous even though there are trends of Telengana issues and the like that would likely add to the number of states the Indian Union has.
      Now coming to the human error part it has been enlightened by the authorities and promptly reported by the newspapers that it is obviously a human error. Thank God! I was on the verge of writing that the mishap must have been caused by an ET.
       True, the cause of error is undoubtedly a human error. Yet the problem remains whom can we actually blame. We cannot surely blame the Railway Minister for the post has assumed a state of ambiguity since Mamata was at the helm. We surely cannot blame the railway authorities after all they weren't the ones who were driving the train. We cannot for sure blame the rules for the Indian Railway System like our democracy has so much of it that you can get in and wriggle out of it with pleasure. So who to blame. The train driver of course and his kith and kin for not teaching him proper manners and code of conduct.
       This now goes on record that when the next train mishap occurs we can blame the driver and none at the top.

HOCKEY STICKS AND SMEAR STICKS

          It is all over the media at the way our very own Indian Hockey Team was humiliated by a pittance of 25,000 rupees. Later of course, due to the ensuing hue and cry they are going to be handed over 25 lac of rupees. But that is not the issue here. The big issue is that how our political class treats our high performing players especially in the less glamorous sports. To tell the truth the 25,000 rupees was simply a spit on the very face of the enthusiastic players and then later on as if some thing ought to be done to condone off the insult due to huge publicity the incident received a clean handkerchief was offered to wipe the spit out.
           Come to think of those games which hardly ever get into news, but are there and at times contemplated upon just because they have to be tolerated. Something like those erstwhile French rulers who at their zenith of indifference have to bear upon the lesser mortals as if the whole place was contaminated. We too have our own solid examples of such indifference shown to lesser mortals of our country who are in the majority by our political class as they think they have to be tolerated for the sake of just that day of voting only. Frankly, just think of the sports and you will see certain games where a player simply goes on scoring ducks eggs and still manages to become a millionaire.
            Take the case of Kabbadi which is India's national game. During the time of naming the game perhaps the political class thought that they would have a popular poor man's game and then tolerate the sport as most of the poor Indian villagers play it and then later on relegate it into the background. Whatever titbits this sport players earns is not even worth a mention as it would obviously shame this nation. Reminds me how a politician somewhere once kissed a poor beggar child at a gathering and then went to wash his hands and face and all vigorously to keep of the imagined filth that was smeared on him. Something about the lesser sports tells its own sordid tale quite vividly in the Indian landscape. Are we sporting enough? Well, I surely have my doubts. Don't you too?

POOR'S DREAMS SHATTERING AWAY

     It has been reported in the New Indian Express dated 14th September, 2011 page 15 that the inflation affects the poor more than the rich people in India. Apart from the statistics that has been provided this is not news as we Indians have tried our best to live with inflation since a long time. The problem with the poor people is that they tend to avoid all the good food which they consumed during the non inflationary periods. However, with the economy on fast track especially for India which like other emerging economies this has become quite serious issue. This is more so with the weak IIP data that has in fact made the burden even more cumbersome as there will be unemployment and labor layoffs which is likely to exacerbate the difficulties of the poor man.
     Now with recession being experienced by US and other European countries this pain in the poor man's budget is going to remain for quite a long time. Sadly, our political class have not only goofed up the country's distribution network, but even all the projects that have been planned so far have remained only in the planning stage. Well then what else can a poor Indian do in such times. Call the Almighty to do his best.
     
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