NO MORE STATEMENTS BUT POLITICAL ACTIONS NEEDED

        Nowadays we are hearing statements from our Prime Minister every other day. In fact, the rate of frequency is definitely going up. One surely wonders if the Indian economy is not all too well in spite of its previous exemplary performance. But the statements come often enough as you might have seen if you are a avid reader of the daily newspaper. I can't say whether he actually means this or whether somebody or the other prods him to make this utterances. In any case, as far as the wordings are concerned it is rich in meaning and nuances much like inspirational statements made by our freedom fighters during the independence struggle.
       Yet. they don't unfortunately inspire the citizens as they use to do during the past. During those times they had a much larger than life cause. Of course, the present ministry also has, yet with a noticeable difference and that is people now wants less of rhetoric and more of action. Already the inflation is in double digits and there is no substantial increase in development activities in the country. Further, with all sorts of scams playing around the average man is becoming more irritated. And not in least are the picture of the economy and the low expectations in general.
        The people therefore expect things to be rather good for them which ironically isn't true. What they need is a government that has more action and not just lethargy and of course statements like our PN is making.

So, I request Sri Manmohanji in this way.
Aap sirf ek he baath sochiye ki kaisa hum apne desh ko vikas ke raste pe baddaye. Ye tab hoga jab aap vikas ke raste se jara sa bhi peeche na hatte. Aap jo raste abtak chuni voh hi raste se hame age ki aur badhana chahiye thaki aam janata ke hith ho and unko rojguajari and dhande ka kaam mile.

To Sri Pranab Mukherjee I request this.
Pranab dada,
Apni hoi to mone kichu sandeh korchen ki kamun ami aye desher 'economy' aage niye choli. Akhun to bahut kichu kaaj taaj baaki roiche. Kichu barosh aage sab kichu thik thak chol chilo. Kintu akhun kichu na kichu jagaye golmal hoi gache. Aapni jodi desher bhalo chayichen tho aapna ke sabche aage 'employment' thik korte hobe. Tahale to 'maoism' ar 'terrorism' bando hobe. Thayijone Mukeherji Saar,
             Amar Sonar Bangla ebong Amader Sonar Bharat Varha tahelai hobe

Hence, making statements isn't sufficient enough for the people of the new generation.

MORE MAYAWATIS ARE IN THE WAITING

     Mayawati has done it again. She has inaugurated a park with statues of Kanshi Ram, B. R. Ambedakar and of course herself. A lot of people think this is a waste of good money and empty braggadocio and arrogance at its all time heights. But just think. What in the world brought us into such a sad state of things? What were the ideals of our forefathers before the country got independence? After independence we forgot everything or side tracked everything connected with ethics, moral and just rule. Remember how many statues and naming of parks, monuments and other structures were named after the great Mahatma and Nehru and those close to the Congress. Why wasn't there even a generous sprinkling of such names for such structures for dalits or iconic figures belonging to the scheduled chaste or tribes? Aren't the rulers who have ruled the country by whims or fancies been able to remove poverty of the land? Weren't they as arrogant as Mayawati? Perhaps, they were more stealthy in their approach and harboring conceit and crookedness of the worst kind. Surely they did just what she did only by hiding cleverly their devilish intentions. Mayawati was a trifle too showy. In fact, it is rather difficult to identify address and streets due to the plethora of them being named after a few handful of great individuals. Mahatma Gandhi's name is okay as he is the father of the nation, but the names of others could be easily distributed among other greats of our country.
     If Mayawati has displayed arrogance then the other parties are not too far behind. In any case the polity will never look around for they are so engrossed in petty politics. The real power and wealth is actually the common masses who sweat and strain and most of whom don't have passports, credit cards, vehicles or even the basic amenities. It is our polity which should change. Mayawati has taken the cue of the misdeeds by similar parties thinking that this is the best and the right way of expressing herself to gather votes.
      Will this continue for long? I have my serious doubts and something like Egypt, Libya and other countries which we are hearing about every other day, can also abrupt here. The people of almost all walks of life have become fed up with such hopeless politics and no serious efforts for improving the daily life of the people.
       So, Mayawati is right in her own way. Nobody, especially the political class, has the right to protest.

DEMOCRACY IS BECOMING SICK

     There is a news that is doing its round everywhere. And this news although has been reported in some sections of the press in India and abroad is not a front page headlines and that is what is more worrisome. The point is that front page headline grabbing news has a tendency to capture it for the moment or at the most a week and continues only when subsequent impetus is given in the form of more such headlines. When the front page is no more fun to hear you get some lines (as decaying waste) in the inside pages and then given a quick easy burial with tons of fresh news to divert your attention away.  That is how the newspapers work. Well, in the case with less attention grabbing news that are hidden in the middle pages or some indiscreet corner of the paper, there is a tendency for such news to resurface on and on again no matter even if there is no repetitive headlines or a large write up.
      Well, this news that may sound 'no news' to some people is definitely news indeed. It is about the way the world democracies are functioning. There is a lot of reason to state that the health of democracy is fading in the areas or rather countries where there is a lot of assumption that the best form of governance is the democratic way. Sadly enough these very advocates of democracy are now stressing the word in a rather lesser ways than they did in the previous years. Of course it is truly a fact that unlike dictatorships a democracy has to deliver on and on again or simply lose its charm.
        See the case with US with its dual party system all seems like some fantasy. The horrible recession with endless trouble both in the economic and employment sectors. The freedom given to the capitalists now backfiring with them not keeping up to the promise and made a mess of the mortgage crisis and now still failing to deliver in spite of the huge stimulus package.
        The same is more or less in India too with the government not delivering on promises nor aligning with the wishes of its people even for a while. If this is the way then sadly we might see the demise of democracy in places where they sing quite proudly about while the other closed regimes are vying with one another to get some kind of democracy in place.
        Well, what has exactly gone wrong with both of the largest economies of the world. For one the two party system of US has more demerits than merits and the seesaw way is not the best way perhaps. Let some of the hinges come loose then the seesaw hobbles dangerously. The other extreme is India with its innumerable parties. To shorten this article I would suggest that all democracies have a minimum of three parties in a triangular contest while keeping the maximum limit to five.

DETACHMENT EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP OF ATTACHMENT ANYWHERE

        The Indian subcontinent is one of God's great discoveries in several unusual way. Sometime past in its history it detached itself from the continental plate of Africa and made a lone travel all the way to the continental plate of Asia now comprising of China and Russia. It was known as Godawana Land and for millions of years this drift and detachment was within its veins and finally when it touched down on the Asian plate it was as if in great doubt an attachment that it first formed the Tethys sea and later the great Himalayas.
        Did this detachment end there? Not quite. Ever since the time of independence we have been forming and getting used to the principle of detachment and this is particularly true to the political party which is presently running the country. The all prevailing and pervading detachment, if you may call it so, remains both in public and personal life of its citizens. The sense of that impeding gloom that comes with all sorts of attachment has become something like a smart card for the polity. It justifies itself by keeping a widening detachment to almost all things around it. Just look around the country and you will see a sense of this detachment in Telengana, Jammu and Kashmir, the North eastern states, the maoist attacks, the frequent terror attacks and the general apathy of the public system everywhere. Further, there is sense of great detachment in the implementation of proper sanitation, the spiraling inflation, the hikes of the essential items and the decreasing IIP data and the increase in unemployment. Worse still is the sense of detachment within the coalition. It has detached itself from its allies and has seen many of its allied party men in jails. Presently, it has detached itself from all public controversies within the party members themselves and has taken a denial mode ever since.
            Is that detachment of all things except for that immense attachment to the throne alone. One cannot help wondering.