Mindless Talk

There is no absolute truth. All we have is just a pliantly swaying sea of fractional truths. We draw out our share of truths from this sea that will be suitable and complement our sense of identity with the self, i.e., ego, our perception of the world, our vision of the world and the people around.

A beautiful woman's beauty is nurtured and blossoms by the relentless stretch of appreciating words by her lover like a rose blossoms by the dewy intoxication during misty nights. But how long the poor lover can continue to shower the words of unquestioning praise?!! After caressing the rose, the lover also feels the pricks of reality around the beautiful flower. It is called the lover's awakening from the blindfolding slumber. So the words of all pervading praise dry up. The beauty sulks and her narcissism also feels deprived of its customary diet of acclaim. It is now better to go for a new lover. Because during the initial phase of courtship the new lover will again feed her narcissism to help it blossom at its peak again!

A beautiful woman is like a fragrant beauteous hedge. Beauties and aesthetics apart, it has a tendency to grow heavenwards driven and pulled against gravity by the soothing sun of narcissism. But this growth also tends to turn it wild. So the beauties, the hedge and the woman, need an upkeeper, the labouring pruner who maintains the shape. In case of gardener it is done through cutting tools. A man as a lover does it through much hyped love, care and share.

Women are humanist!! Almost perfect except one thing! Their humaneness crosses the zone of perfection and slightly touches an arena where bitchiness for their own sex starts in free flow. It is here that men's chance to appease their women opens up its welcoming arms. A man has to realise that it is more practical to say a few negatively critical remark about other women than millions of appreciating remarks about his woman!!

Ode to Educated Hindus!!

'Educated Hindus', read it as synonym of 'pseudo secularists', consider it their Bhagwan-ordained duty to criticize any type of Hindu cultural pro-activity. They press the panic button if Hindu consciousness takes slightest political path. They start croaking in large numbers, putting their knowledge and linguistic skills to the best of their abilities. Haa haa funny species!! They end up creating more insecurity in the minority community. This type of hypothetical lip service also qualifies as a form of communalism. The world will be a far better place if these champions of secularism try to bring down paranoid insecurity prevailing archaically in the minds of the minority community.

Well so much for the debate!! Pseudo secularists have made it endless to keep their language skills sharp. Away from this world, a Hindu commoner was heard lamenting: 'The worst of a Hindu will still be less aggressive and more accommodating than the best of a Muslim!!' How do we change this world for the better with such differentials??!! Secularists of all genres need to focus on this!!

Yours truly is a big fan of Hindu leniency!! Hindu pliancy flows even swifter than the Ganges in Monsoon torrents. Fastly carried by the forget and forgive dharma, the educated Hindus would prefer to just flip over gory pages in Indian history--such as Taimur Lung wiping out the entire Kaafir population of Delhi and thousands of desecrations of Hindu temples and idols to build mosques having gates upon Hindu idols so that the true species of Allah could walk over them--and gloatingly stuck at pages of Hindu tyranny like semi-aggressive acts of naked Sadhus breaking a mosque to just commemorate the birthplace of Ram Lalla!!! Hindus can afford to be better students of History!!  

Random Thoughts

Despite hogging some mediocre limelight for making advancements in various fields India still ranks at the bottom of the list in terms of quality of life. In fact even very poor African countries are better placed than India in this regard. The reason is simple: the economic statistics that put India in the league of fastly developing economies are just limited to the economic fortunes of mere 1 percent of the total population. How has this miniscule section of Indian population come to grab almost 80 percent of the total wealth and give a very deceptive picture of Indian growth and development? The answer is very simple! Political-industrialist nexus has allowed the plundering of resources to an unbelievable extent. Take for example coal. The industrial house acquiring a coal block has to spend just 100 rupees per ton (including royalty and extraction costs) and gets legal rights to sell it for 5000 rupees. This is plain theft!! How can anyone justify such mammoth profit margin? It applies to rest of the resources including minerals, forests, petroleum, natural gas, water bodies, lands, etc. All that a big industrial house is required to do is to take the particular minister heading a crucial resource ministry into confidence, set up a deal regarding the massive returns for the party, individuals and the institutions. That is how unimaginable sums of money get deposited in secret accounts abroad. This money is then used, not for development works, but in parochial ways meant to perpetuate the ways and means of the system that allows this loot. Consider a reverse scenario! Suppose rules and regulations are reformulated to increase the royalties to the extent that the industrialist is left with a logical profit margin on the basis of investment made. Like if the industrialist has to pay back 2500 rupees out of 5000 rupees made for per ton of coal. These 2500 rupees coming back into governmental coffers as direct visible money can be used for developmental works directly related to the quality of life of the 99 percent of the population. It will avoid a situation where just 1 percent of the population sits on majority of the resources directly or indirectly. This is no communist dream! It is pretty much based on market principles. Let the investing industrialist have the best returns as per the money-making ratio in rest of manufacturing and services sectors where people put up best of their management skills to earn decent sums. If it is not done then we will definitely have scenarios where the Prime Minister has to eat humble pie at the hands of criminal coal ministers having nexus with coal mafia and big industrial houses.     

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 Even before counting the verdict is out in Haryana. Congress is nowhere in contest in 9 out of 10 seats. Only in Rohtak, the much pampered home constituency of chief minister hooda, there is a close fight. Even this small chance of a Congress win has been purchased by Hooda for his son Dipender. It is proved by a mathematical logic. In agreement with BJP the haryana chief minister ensured that BJP fields its weakest candidate. Captain Abhimanyu, BJP national spokesman and the the man who has kept BJP flag alive in Rohtak during so many past elections, was not given ticket this time. The reason is simple! The chief minister would have lost even this home constituency. And consequently the last corner of his clout where he has pumped unimaginable sums for development works at the cost of development in other parts of Haryana. The only question that remains is the amount of money or some other give and take between BJP and Congress in this matter.

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Nature is not with anybody. Neither is it against anyone. It is for us to decide whether we are with it or against it. The onus is on us! Since we r a part of it, it suits our purpose if we go with it!! Going against it means going against ourselves. Bt that is what v r doing presently!!

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Mr Mulayam Yadav, y dnt u gt khatna done and become a real mullah. Then u will have the support of all indian Muslims. With tht Azam Khan would not b required to bark out shit off his mouth like he is doing now. Allah has given him a hole somewhere else to let out shit. Mouth cn b put to better use. Also Mr Mulayam u r lucky that the women and girls of ur family always have gun totting security around them. So how can v expect u to b sensitive on heinous crimes aganst women. Mr Mulayam the more u speak in Taliban tone, the brighter become the eyes of traditional muslim believers who treat women like animals. It is not a slip out from ur old head. It is a calculated political statement, again to appease muslim voters. Looking at mulayam singh yadav and azam khan's mindless talks, evn rabid dogs must b feeling intellectuals and worthy of being in parliament.

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From Sonipat BJP has given ticket to Ramesh Kaushik. This corrupt Congressite used all means of corruption during the last ten years and now jumped out of the sinking ship to hitch onto the soon to be victorious chariot. COMMON VOTERS believe he has purchased his entry into BJP by paying crores. The same has been done in four other seats in Haryana where congress hoodlums hv paid massive sums to enter BJP. BJP has thus cheated its own cadder in the state. So all those who r agnst Congress r feeling cheated. It is like agn voting for Congress. It proves there is no fundamental diffrnce btwn Congress and BJP. I had joined AAP for some time thinking it is a movement bt aftr sm time realised they r into evn smarter and more shrewed politics. Bt already they r paying for it. Evn here donation was the main criteria for getting Lok Sabha ticket. So our choice is INLD of Chautala clan. They at least r a farmers party and r behind the bars for giving jobs to 3100 youths.

The Boss is Watching Indian Elections!!

Starting from caves to the plans for settlement colonies on Moon and Mars, the evolution of human systems has been in synchronism with the evolution and nature of leaderships. Leaders, leadership and their functional support systems have changed over the ages at all levels beginning from family, village, state, province and international levels. Leadership is followed both through unwritten norms as well as duly established systems of governance and administration.

When you land up at an alien place, US dollar in your pocket is the most assuring factor for your safety and upkeep. If US dollar in every nook and corner of the world gives you a feeling of protection as a world citizen possessing some purchasing rights, then does not it speak about America as a world leader in more ways than one? Nothing wrong with that! The fight for the topmost sayer in world affairs has not been assigned to the Americans by their constitution makers. They have managed and earned it.

America possesses a deep knowledge of the internal affairs of nations whom it wants to manage in a broad spectrum of its policies chosen to keep its position as the most influential player in world affairs. By default this policy would not like too powerful nations to manage under its foreign affairs department. American policy through its brilliant network of hundreds of thousand CIA operatives is based on the basic parameter of finding the contrasting shades prevailing in the world at all levels ranging from nationalities, religion, geographies, histories and many more. These antagonistic parts jutted against in an issue are the two fronts that can be made to keep staring in each other’s eyes at the stake of larger issues of peace, progress and prosperity. American policy is to pick up these opposite elements in all issues across the world and keep them engaged in confrontation by either supporting one or suppressing the other.

When divisions can be maintained, it stops the emergence of strong nation states. For example a violent South Asia with India and Pakistan as staunch enemies is a safer bet for the aspirant world leader than a peaceful region with both countries using their money and resources to become more stable and prosperous. Similarly India and China throwing potshots at each other is a better scenario for the world leader. For example, to stop an escapist approach by India regarding China, America may support India to give it a semblance of confidence against the Dragon. When the weaker opponent finds some support in the form of the superpower, than it will definitely be less compelled to go to the negotiation table. It keeps the issues alive. That friction between the neighbours works as a sort of drag on their feet on the path of further peace and stability and consequent rise in the national power.

The same world leadership theory would also mean lesser chances of strong stable governments in countries across the world. China emerged to challenge America on account of the fact that they managed a very strong and stabilized system of governance over decades. State energy was used just in developing infrastructure, weaponry and industries. Consider it in relation to India’s tottering efforts with democracy. It has won us more praise in books for democratic values and less in terms of the results in implementation. Obviously we have been wasting too much resources on unnecessary issues.  

A vibrant India under a secure government run by a strong leader cannot fit well with the global theory of leadership that is presently being operated by America (simply because they are able to play it). Given the American efforts to manage the world in ways that are more suitable to them for the next coming decades, it is unthinkable that they will be just uninterested spectators at a distance while the biggest democracy goes for elections. Of course Americans will have their set of priorities. They will have certain things in their scheme that will keep them in a brighter position regarding India. And of course they do it subtly indirectly with the help of their vast networks at various levels. So crux of the matter is: A confident India under a stable BJP government under Modi is not a safer bet for America. As the world super cop it will any day prefer a India struggling politically under a motley mix of governing alliance run by some consensus choice. Whenever India had coalition third alternative governments, we had weakest short-term prime ministers.

Modi was clearly running to the dawn of glory. After the UPA disaster it was just expected that BJP might come to power with a comfortable majority. A strong nationalist leader having comfortable majority is always in a position to bring about major shifts in the plans and policies through constitutional provisions. To begin with, it is disastrous for Congress whose old system of catching onto its deprived vote bank will become outdated. At the international level it may push India on a path taken by China under a strong stable government where it started even retorting America. So obviously a weaker India always needing American help to beat the Chinese nightmares is a safer bet for the Americans.

In this context all the factors that may come handy in stopping the Modi wave and help in a fractured mandate will be facilitated by America. Nothing exceptional! It is just fitting with the world theory of leadership!!

How Ramdev and Kejriwal Missed it!!???

In the immediate Indian history two people have let the rope slip through their hands and fall back into the hole where they started from. They could have reached the summit being pushed and prodded up by the revolutionary fervour. Revolution is not just drastic changes borne of bloody battles and massacres. In contemporary times revolution basically connotes mass frustration reaching the boiling effervescent point and the spilling over froth carries a few chosen individuals as the representatives of the surge for change.

UPA-2 messed up things. Even the common man struggling on the path of survival felt its pinch. Scams, ever-rising cost of living and the deplorable living conditions of the people, the aam aadmi, whose representative UPA government claimed to be, disgruntled the masses. These small small agonies came to be voiced out by social movements. And these small rivulets of common man’s frustration merged to emerge as two streams that carried two individuals as the modern day revolutionaries. They seemed to hold the light leading out of the long cave of gloom and despair. Baba Ramdev and Arvind Kejriwal missed it!! Reasons have been that they ended too ambitious than they appeared. It boils down to their not doing justice to the image that people held them in.

A lot needs to be done in health sector in India. Inefficient health infrastructure, fake medicines, unethical ways and means adopted by the medical fraternity and on top of that stress and shortages of basic amenities of life mean that majority of Indians face health problems of all types across the year. Ramdev to begin with served a Yoga pill that appeared so easy and approachable even to the average Indian. His Yoga was customized for mass appeal. Given his vocal skills it was sold well. It caught mass fancy. People fed up with traditional system took a nosedive into the pool of Ramdev panacea. Ramdev also had very strong words against Pepsi and Cola. People in fact started to use these as toilet cleaners. Very surprising that he no longer talks about them. Skeptics say has he been silenced on account of some perks provided by the multinational giants??!!

Ramdev vaunted of mighty nationalism. People believed him as well. But we have to take it with a pinch of salt. If his Patanjali medicine outlets sell even his versions of sweetmeats then it shows more of business skills and less of a diehard nationalist. It comes down to make good profits as is proved by his millionaire status. Indians are very good followers. People raised him to the status of the savior of the country when he talked of bringing back black money from Swiss accounts. Almost 200 hundred thousand people clamoured under his leadership at Ramlila ground. People accepted him as a revolutionary taking India to a new dawn of major shift from a system allowing 10 percent individuals sitting over 90 percent of resources to a system where majority will get at least the basic needs of a common day. Such major shifts demand at least a few broken heads and bruises. Ramdev the nationalist then, scared out of his wits for his life, tried to run away from the show clad as a woman. The aura was punctured. Next day we saw the crying baba who had forgotten to change women clothes he was wearing and crying before the media. People just said this is no revolution and he is not the modern progeny of Bhagat Singh and Shubhash Bose he eulogized on the stage. Today all common Indians believe him to be a smart businessman.

Similarly, Kejriwal served a curing pill to the masses suffering from political illness and with no cure in sight. Social movements were just struggling as an ineffective appendage to Indian democracy. Then Anna was smartly portrayed as an icon figure by the smart group of people who voiced people’s frustration. Media is a new business. Its raw material is anything new and happening. So the Indian social movement that was hitherto sidelined was portrayed in modern clairvoyance as channels competed with each other to increase their TRPs. Whole of India saw a new creed of selfless Indians following Anna Hazare. They challenged the prevalent system in all its versions. Arvind Kejriwal and Co jumped to another orbit as this movement showed signs of halting. In his stupendous success as politician Arvind just cashed on the mass frustration at the collective level against the chosen few who were seen plundering the resources in various forms.

Kejriwal sold dreams. And rightly so. When things are effervescent you have to act as a catalyst to take it to the boiling point. When you can convince a common voter that you have equally bright chance to be an MP or MLA, it will at least ensure that people will come out of political apathy. Broom as a symbol and the very name of the party served as masterstrokes. In India symbolism is more powerful than the substance. So these symbols of cleaning the system and taking aam aadmi to the centre stage of development worked wonders for them in Delhi Assembly elections. People when conscious of themselves can spring a few surprises. And the surprise was thrown in the faces of mainstream political parties. AAP got 28 seats. But at this moment the common men’s juggernaut came to halt on account of still weightier plans of Arvind and Co. Delhi people had trusted them. They welcomed AAP’s decision to form a government even with Congress’ help!! People were expecting exemplary action. Unfortunately even as CM and ministers AAP leadership could not come out of their revolutionary and activist mode.

It was more than apparent that they were more interested in carrying on their movement that was catching mass fancy across India on account of unexpected success in Delhi. AAP leadership did not want to let go of their hold on common man’s psyche. So just hyper-sensitized all issues. The wheel of their popularity was rolling across India. So Kejriwal ever-eager to keep it rolling even during the parliamentary elections jumped out of CM chair and again started with the typical noisy accusatory game of hitting the big fish with verbal potshots. A lesson here. It is not possible to keep the graph of mass excitement at the same level for too level. As a leader you just cash on the temporary peaks of mass excitement like he did during the Delhi elections. But to expect it to spill over the coming months and do the same in parliamentary elections is like asking too much from the common man struggling and lost in the issues of bread and butter. It has been a historic blunder on Kejriwal’s part to jump out of CM chair and run for the PM chair. He could have done wonders as an honest administrator. People would have understood his handicap as the leader of a minority government surviving on Congress support. All his works would have set up a new criterion of clean and honest governance in the country.

Now when they slog it out across India there is hardly any difference between them and the other political parties except the cap they adorn. But how long common man will be impressed by the broom, tag of aam aadmi party, typical revolutionary accusatory shoutings, selling of mass dreams?? This distinction is going to be even more diluted as they take brave potshots with high and the mighty politicians. To sustain your visibility when the mass hysteria subsides, you need to have some accomplishments in your kitty. AAP could have achieved those small milestones in administering Delhi. But they have been dreaming too big and grossly overestimating the degree of mass hysteria.

How I wish Both Ramdev and Kejriwal had turned out to be the way they proclaimed. Alas!!!