Thursday, November 1, 2012

Politics is the art and scope of possibilities

                                  "Politics is the art and scope of possibilities"

                  Arvind Kejriwal, a cogent orator and an impeccable strategist is catching the public attention and     as the nation was looking for a hope, a stage has been set for a new kind of politics and if there is any person who has took the complete advantage of this is Kejriwal, himself.

                 The man with simple looks and fine ideas is naturally a better leader. He wrote in 'Swaraaj' about self-governance, giving power to local bodies and village budgets.The fathers of our constitution couldn't give much freedom to villages keeping those day circumstances in mind.
 
                Now the time has ripe for many things and people are ready to follow a leadership of honest origins and sensitivity and Arvind is banking on it but the real question is, Is his approach right? Could he lead this movement in future with the same momentum? Does his perfectionist stand will help to take right measures to build a right nation?

             This nation in many ways is a paradox. We believe our system as a pseudo-democracy largely controlled by opportunist-politicians and crowny-capitalists. Arvind  believes the same and  has spoken of over-hauling the system in mere 10 days after he gets into power.If it happens,world history will have a page for miracle.A miracle larger than the collapse of Berlin wall.

           In the same nation,the media has utmost freedom,the people are free to pursue their interests and they can hit streets whenever they want.They can burn any effigy of their choice and they can bring any one to power and they can throw any one from power peacefully. More than this,this nation had seen a brilliant set of political reforms in the recent past. Majority of this political reforms have taken place with out people hitting the streets and irony is the majority of people didn't even know about these political reforms. All the memory can catch is RTI.

         Before taking on some one,its important to understand, who are the victims? and who are the culprits? and in Indian system, we largely find victims rather than culprits.The politicians and capitalists,whom the general public hate a lot are victims. If the system was right always,they would have been right in many ways. Now if you speak of punishing every one even not leaving the victims may work for some time but its end results will be unfair for the majority.

         Instead of concentrating on past happenings, blame-games, if Kejriwal team can think about right policy implementation and instead of entertaining people with plenty of issues,if they can concentrate on taking up the few issues and fight till the end will make a sense,if they want to institutionalize the honesty.
 
       Its not a 3 hour film which can be shot in an year or so and released for a week in a theater and then count your collections based on the entertainment you provided to the people and in films you can create as many villians as you want but the nations can't be build in an year or you can't run a 'change reel' for an odd 3 hours.It needs unending patience and if you keep on telling people that we will change the nation pretty soon, there is a chance of killing the movement in the same time-frame they are visualizing.

      The perfectionist stand will definitely not help as the politics is the art and scope of possibilities. We cant run the show as we want. We need to run it as per the possibilities. If you keep on building pressure on victims,who may be in power now; it deteriorate things rather than helping the things.Some one need to learn of making the way brick-by-brick and i.e., an amendment after amendment.

       Definitely, we need a nation where right and instant justice will be the pillars of our governance but at the same time we need to understand that we don't need a nation only for prosecutions and punishments.

         The think-tank of Kejriwal team has to introspect this question-What the end result we want out of this movement in both the best and the worst case?Biting more than what your mouth can afford is suicidal and in this nation its pretty possible to build a silent and strong revolution and Arvind and his team has every advantage now.

         



               


Friday, May 25, 2012

The Indian Socialism


It will be difficult for any one to implement two different ideas at the same time. After 1991,India has been facing the difficulty.We can't give away the Socialism for different reasons nor we can completely stick to capitalism.

The exemptions offered to profit-making corporates indicate our capitalism and the freebies given to normal public indicate our socialism .Does this sort of capitalism and socialism is delivering results? The magnitude of freebies is rampantly geeting increased and same the case with the revenue foregone.

The socialism, we adopted  may be the reason behind the increment of inflation rate.The socialism we adopted is unable to increase the standard of living.Any support should not stay for too long.The support should be provided to the people to let them make their own course of living.The socialism should also help to increase the skill of people involved.

Are we able to achieve the desired results through our socialism?

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The caste


The unique system in India which evolved politically is caste system.The heated arguments about elimination of caste is on the board every now and then. The main argument behind denying caste is in support of equality among citizens.

The caste in many parts of rural India is an identity. A few cooperative societies in rural India turns into caste-defined elections and the particular caste participates in elections to elect the president for their caste proudly.

The caste is in flesh and blood of many people in rural India.The segregation of villages into colonies based on caste  is quite evident. Its an identity. The eating habits of a few sects of people may differ from other villagers but they living in their own colony and eating their desired food doesn't affect others and its a win-win situations for every one. It can be compared in other issues too.

Certain  bureaucrats has always tried to go to the depressed classes first like the first bore well in the village to be in the depressed classes colony or over head water tank near to the depressed classes etc.,Other caste might have denied to go to that place but they tried.

Always caste played an important role in implementation of government schemes and poverty studies can be amalgmated with caste studies. Does the argument to eliminate caste fit in ? or a deep study on the trends of poverty and other parameters along with caste will fit in?

Monday, May 21, 2012

The crisis


A little problem between two villagers becomes problem of two political parties in no time. This is common observation for any person who lives near to Indian villages for at least 6 months. Sometimes, the political party leaders standing behind persons do good as our beauracratic system needs stimulation every now and then.

Politicians always play a great role in attracting attention and their main agenda is to mobilize people, attract more people .For this, they have to take a stand in every conflict. Whenever a political party tried to take a mid-way on any issue, people rejected them. Whatever the issue it is, our main stream political parties has put an outstanding efforts to reap benefits out of it and it’s an amazing job altogether.

 Majority of the people in the villages are affiliated to one or other political party? This point can't be ignored when we speak about change in this nation. So, if we establish a new political party, full of ethics and people empowerment as agenda, we are going to bring the right change in the nation. Will it happen that way?

First thing, any new political party coming into the zone has to bank on voters in the village to win and 90% vote bank is already affiliated to already existing political party. So getting them to the new path is very difficult because many of our village voters are loyal to the leaders. No one is going to believe a new party because every party at the time of emergence speaks of values and they will tend to corrupt day by day.

So a new political party bringing the CHANGE is a myth. What can be the solution for our value- crisis in the political system?

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Some reflections before I arrive at the time of speaking out....!

In 10 months,some sentences I heard,
"Many issues in the system remains unnoticed.So No problem,we can commit mistakes."
"Government works on Paper"
"Its not honesty which will be awarded,its diplomacy."
"The money should go to the person who bears risk if any thing goes wrong.Don't name it corruption."
... "Local Governments are always local."
"If you start seeking clarifications,there will be many so better not seek any."
"We are not here to do benefit to anyone.We are here simply to carry on our work."
"You may not be knowing.Your seniors know everything."
..........Much more...........content banned,regulated and stopped...!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

My counter take on education

Before 3 years,When I tried to study the Indian education system in a constructive way,it was giving me interest and at that time I didn't see it as a real problem of India,may be lack of sensitivity or failing in understanding this diverse experiment called India.

Yesterday,in group discussion I made a very interesting statement(it's interesting for me :-) i.e., 'this nation has failed because we tried to educate traditionally' and this is the real-outburst.I don't know that I can make this statement.How can you really expect a statement from a guy who has written to governor to implement a comprehensive system of taking help from well-educated students to educate children and asked to ignore the people who crossed 20 years.Now,I'm changing my thinking and that statement witnesses that.Education is much needed evil in this nation but not learning of alphabets,signatures or reading panchatantra stories.

I know,people are going to take a toil on my words and I also know that I have to check the sustainability of my thoughts.'Whether reading Panchatantra stories or R.K.Narayan or say cartoons' is necessary to guide your inner creativity or paper crafts are going to teach the slum child about innovation? I won't say,"Definitely not" but my answer because of my present state of mind is "NO"

This nation needs skill not arts and if anyone proves me wrong in my argument, I really love to be proved wrong because I'm not comfortable with this thought but trying to understand the reality.Reality really sucks.I loved that film 'Taare Zameen par'.It's really good for that child because his father can afford a beautiful residental school for him and Amir Khan is on enough payments to afford his time but that is not real India.(I still love the film)


When I was trying to make some suggestions to the education system and when I have given a decent briefing right from independence,Gokhale's comission,vietnam and Cuba eduacation revolution,I remember those applause and everyone was happy with my study but today I feel,I'm failed and I was in the trap of people I read.That day,one of my friend has written a mail making a point about the importance of providing skills in schools and I made that point but with less emphasis.


We need 'Ranchos' of 3 idiots I'm not behind his intelligence or coolness.Remember the climax,he makes a flour-maker machine through Scooter power and also teaches children to innovate and this sort of innovation is needed.Education makes a real impact on any nation's future especially in a nation where population is the prosperity and it really makes me sick when I hear Rajiv education mission reports that 7 standard students are unable to solve 3 standard arithmetic and we have to work on it but don't prioritize it as first.Skill provision should be taking the first place in India and after that the need of arithmetic or newton's laws.