tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218256682024-03-18T17:10:40.710+05:30E=mc^2“Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.” ― Friedrich NietzscheSujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.comBlogger559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-44536742944502127672022-01-23T23:55:00.003+05:302022-01-23T23:55:40.762+05:30So, what is Bitcoin? Is it like Gold, or a Currency, or a Stock? <p> <span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">IS BITCOIN LIKE GOLD?</span></b>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I am told that bitcoin is like one of those
rare objects, like diamonds or gold, and therefore humans crave for it. <span> </span>Rarity, or limited supply, is what makes
humans covet them. <span> </span>Bitcoin is rare,
therefore humans covet it, is how they reason. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I personally do not think that is the
case.<span> </span>Take Astatine, which is one of the
rarest element on the planet Earth.<span> </span>It
is rare, and yet, humans have no craving for it.<span> </span>Or take Iridium, a rare metal, which is also permanent
like Gold, Diamond and Platinum, and yet, it is not a coveted metal. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I think humans like trinkets, baubles,
something intricate, beautiful, or shiny, or glittery, something they can wear,
something they can show to others, and amongst these intricate, shiny and
glittery objects, the rare ones turn out to be most coveted, and therefore
expensive.<span> </span>That's the reason why Art by
famous painters is expensive.<span> </span>They are
rare, but they are also considered beautiful.<span>
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Lot of people tend to think of Bitcoin as
Gold.<span> </span>That is not the case. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Bitcoin is more like Astatine or Iridium.<span> </span>It is rare, yes, but it is NOT a trinket, a
bauble, intricate, beautiful, shiny or glittery.<span> </span>Like how humans showcase glittery ones to
people, nobody showcases their Bitcoins.<span>
</span>It cannot be shown. The owner doesn't feel the same way, the way he
feels when he showcases his Kohinoor diamond, or Picasso painting, or vintage Ferrari.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">When shit hits the fan, Gold still has
value, because humans like to continue to possess it. Because it is shiny. <span> </span>Nobody cares for Astatine or Iridium, even
though it is rarest of rare.<span> </span>Nobody
wants to buy it. <span> </span>Same with Bitcoin. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Bitcoin has some fundamentals that are
wrong, concerning human nature. <span> </span>Humans
covet certain objects across generations, across cultures, almost giving it
universal appeal.<span> </span>Gold has withstood
that test of time, and remains coveted across generations, cultures, and
probably for a very long time into future.<span>
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">However, there are some fads that remain
confined to certain times and certain regions, but very soon fall out of
fashion.<span> </span>Bitcoin is more like that
fad.<span> </span>It closely resembles the Dutch Tulip
Mania, but still falls short, because Tulips were at least beautiful to look
at.<span> </span>Bitcoin does not. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Bitcoin has nothing that makes it appealing
like Gold.<span> </span>It is not a bauble, a
trinket, intricate, or beautiful.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Therefore, Bitcoin is nothing like Gold. </span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">SO, IS BITCOIN A CURRENCY?</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Yes, a currency may have no intrinsic
value.<span> </span>The paper currency has no value.<span> </span>However, it is a promissory note. <span> </span>Its credibility comes from the fact that a
sovereign nation has pledged that promise.<span>
</span>Therefore, when shit hits the fan, the hope, or the assumption, but most
importantly, the trust, is that this sovereign nation is going to take its
promise seriously and will give you something back in return for that currency
note.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">A sovereign nation could always do
something else to compensate its citizens.<span>
</span>It could give out land, it could dole out food, it could give gold, it
could convert their currency into future bonds.<span>
</span>It could provide future employment, future loans, or future
prospects.<span> </span>And that's why people trust
in a sovereign nation, and consequently, they trust the promissory note issued
by that sovereign nation. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">That's why the more stable a sovereign
nation, the more valuable or trustworthy its currency is.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The more likely a sovereign nation is going
to default, go bust, or renege, the less valuable or less trustworthy its
currency is. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">US Dollar is coveted, not because of its
intrinsic value, but because of its credibility.<span> </span>US is seen by the people as a sovereign
nation that has stable future, a solid future, a permanency, stability, and
most importantly, the credibility, that it will not renege on its promise.<span> </span>Whether it is indeed the truth or not, is
debatable, but the perception is such, and therefore the US Dollar is coveted. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">What happens to Bitcoin? <span> </span>Is it a promissory note? If so, who is going
to stand as guarantee? When shit hits the fan, and you want to cash in, which
bank do you run to? Who is going to honor the promise? Who do you hold
accountable? Who do you make pay for it something in kind, something else in
return? </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">When shits the fan, Bitcoin is going to
disappear like thin air. There is nobody standing behind the counter to give
something else back to you.<span> </span>No sovereign
nation.<span> </span>No bank. <span> </span>And that's why it is NOT a promissory note. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Therefore, Bitcoin is not a currency. </span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">SO, IS BITCOIN A STOCK? </span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I see Bitcoin ONLY as a stock.<span> </span>Because people buy a stock hoping its stock
price goes up in future. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">And in that regard, Bitcoin behaves
absolutely like a good stock.<span> </span>As long as
its price goes up, one likes to buy it. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">But the essential problem is: Bitcoin
doesn't have anything intrinsic.<span> </span>It is
not a commodity, like aluminum or gold, which always have some intrinsic
value, and it is NOT a business which shows growth and has future
prospects.<span> </span>It is NOT a currency either. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">So, what is it? And that's where it becomes
problematic. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Because it is completely thin air, Emperor's
New Clothes. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">It is an artificial system created for rich
enthusiasts, like a game, where one could keep propping the stock price up, by
enrolling more and more people into buying thin air. <span> </span><span> </span>Some
MBA colleges play this game, where they are given artificial money to play
with.<span> </span>Bitcoin is something like that. <span> </span>A game for rich enthusiasts to play with.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">People who are committed into it or vested
into making a profit out of this game, keep propping it up, but otherwise, it
is just a game, of people buying thin air.<span>
</span>And like Tulip mania, which went bust, one day, the hype of Bitcoin is
just going to end, and it will just fall down, to become almost zero value. <span> </span>Tulip mania at least created organic trash,
which could be used as manure. <span> </span>In this
case, one just has to shut down the computers, and it’s all gone.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">And after hundred years, like how we read
the Tulip mania, the future generations will read about Bitcoin mania, and they
will wonder how foolish our generation was.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">PREDICTION</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">
I have an ongoing bet with a friend. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I predict that Bitcoin will be less than $5
by 2030. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">He predicts that Bitcoin will be nearly a
$1M by 2030. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">If he wins, I have to buy him the most
sophisticated smartphone of that time. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">If I win, he as to buy me the most
sophisticated digital camera of that time.</span></span></p>Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-66113787602750667972022-01-01T14:13:00.005+05:302022-01-01T14:14:30.996+05:30‘If Germany and Japan could do it, why not India?’<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">In many
discussions and debates amongst the urban middle class, the common refrain has
been:</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">‘If
Germany could get back to become an economic superpower after being bombed to
smithereens in World War II, and if Japan could come back to become a super
economy in the aftermath of being atom bombed, why could India not achieve
super economy?'</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">The above
observation is slightly flawed.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">As an
organization in Japan that can build a Toyota car, even if the entire factory
is obliterated, but if you still have 70% of knowhow in the workforce and
leadership, you can always create another factory to create a Toyota car within
few years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">But a
country like Ethiopia may not be able to do so even if it is given 100 years.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">Comparing
Japan to Ethiopia is therefore patently wrong.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">Japan,
even after extensively bombed, can get back on its feet, because of the
knowhow, the ability to tap into capital, create a new factory, based on
experience, which Ethiopia thoroughly lacks. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">A person
who is well-educated, has experience under his belt, could get into
entrepreneurship, and for some bad luck, could fall into harsh times, lose
everything, all assets, all wealth, all cash reserves, and hit the rock bottom,
BUT still could recover within few years, recover from penury, and hit another
good idea, pursue new startup, use existing network to raise capital, create
teams, and become prosperous and successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">However,
a Dalit, caught in vicious cycle of poverty, facing discrimination, owing
people money for the loans he took, lacking education, lacking access to
opportunity, lacking network, lacking capital, even if given a lifetime, may
not escape poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">There are
two lessons here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">India
cannot be compared to Germany or Japan after World War II, because our
experiences have been different prior to World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India had to go through necessary
experiences, which is currently going through, to become an economic
superpower, and it takes time, takes decades, to be able to acquire the
experiences, have access to capital, create talent pool within, so as to become
an economic superpower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: small; line-height: 125%;">The
experiences of privileged class person going through poverty cannot be compared
to a Dalit who has always been caught in the vicious cycle of being at the
bottom of socioeconomic pyramid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
it takes few generations for someone caught deep in caste-based discrimination,
poverty, and indenture, to break the shackles and start climbing the ladder of
opportunity.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span>Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-69132628564229209342021-04-26T13:14:00.012+05:302021-04-26T13:20:10.893+05:30Fights, Causes and Protests: Righteous or Not?<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We witness many types of fights and protest across the
world and in India.<span> </span>We see people
fighting against Farm Bills, some fighting against CAA+NRC, some people
participating in Black Liberation Movement protests, some in Hong Kong
Protests, and so on.<span> </span>We see people
protesting for various causes.<span> </span>When we
witness these protests, sometimes we get this vague feeling that not every
cause is the same.<span> </span>Some causes, we believe
are really worth fighting for, a righteous one, and some others, we somehow
find it not to be righteous.<span> </span>So, how do
we decide what is a righteous fight and what is not? </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are 5 different types of fights.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>1. Fight for oneself</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These are the fights for one self and one's family. One’s
interests, rights and privileges. Example: Someone fighting for water at home, for
electricity at home, for one's job, for one's individual rights.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>2. Fights for other person</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These are the fights for justice to another
person.<span> </span>Example: People fighting for
freeing a journalist, for rights of an artist or a painter, for justice for
Jessica Lal. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>3. Fight for one’s group identity</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These are fights for one's group rights, for one's
group justice.<span> </span>A Dalit fighting for Dalit's
rights and representations. Telangana people fighting for separate State.<span> </span>Blacks participating in Civil Rights
Movement. Indians fighting for freedom from British. Women fighting for better
laws to protect women. <span> </span>Muslims against
CAA+NRC. <span> </span>Indian Farmers fighting against
Farm Bills. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>4. Fight for other group identities and universal
injustices</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are fights for rights and privileges of other
group identities, and sometimes for universal justices, such as fight against
death penalty. These are done in support, in solidarity of other group
identities, or for achieving universal justice.<span>
</span>Example: Whites fighting for Black rights. Hindus participating in
CAA+NRC protests. <span> </span>Non-farmers protesting
with Farmers against Farm Bills. Fight against death penalty.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>5. Fights to deny other people of their rights and
privileges.<span> </span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are fights which people take up to deny rights
and privileges of other group identities.<span>
</span>Example: Whites protesting against integration of Blacks into colleges
in US.<span> </span>Upper Caste protesting against
Dalits from drinking water from the village well, or men asking for removal of
women's seats in buses.<span> </span>Samaikyandhra
Movement to stop formation of Telangana State.<span>
</span>Anti-reservationists seeking removal of reservations for lower castes. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amongst all the above the first 4 are righteous
protest, in the increasing order of righteousness, from 1 to 4. Fighting for
oneself though righteous is still selfish, compared to fighting for another
individual.<span> </span>Fighting for one’s group
identity, though righteous is still a bit selfish, compared to fighting for
rights of other identities. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whereas the 5<sup>th</sup> type is egregious one, the
ugly kind, on all counts, because it is a fight to deny others of their rights,
their privileges and their opportunities, and it is universally agreed that it not
a righteous fight. It is a despicable one. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a chance that some of the fights that originate
as category 1-4 may spill over into type 5, and that’s when it starts to become
problematic.<span> </span>For example a fight for
better climate may lead to coercive mandates on poorer countries where the poor
get affected.<span> </span>And that’s when it won’t
be a righteous fight anymore. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<![endif]-->Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-25414265735825870042021-03-21T23:37:00.001+05:302021-03-21T23:38:25.180+05:30Did Reservations really help the SC and ST in India? <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">This question is posed
by many, with the assumption that Reservations-based-on-caste is merely a tool
in the hands of politicians to create vote banks, but that it does not really
help the SC and ST populations in India.<span>
</span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">So, let’s a take a look
at some of the results.<span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">The most important objective
of the preferential treatment policy of reservations-based-on-caste has been to
attain higher representation of the SC and ST (some of the lower castes in
India), in education and employment.<span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">Why education and
employment and not other fields, like sports and cinema? </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">
That is because the biggest problem faced by the lower castes in India is that
of socio-economic status, their inability to break the caste barrier to improve
it.<span> </span>This can be achieved only through a
rigorous improvement in their representation in both education and employment,
considered the vital and critical methods to improve one’s socio-economic
status.<span> </span><span> </span>In this article, let’s focus on one aspect of
education, the higher education, and another aspect of education, the overall
literacy.<span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span lang="EN-IN">Representation in Higher
Education</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">In India, </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">The percentage of SC
population is: 16.6% (the reservation for SC is 15%)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">The percentage of ST
population is 8.6% (the reservations for ST is 7.5%)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">Because of
reservations-based-on-caste, there has been a steady increase in enrolment of
SC and ST to higher education since 1950s. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">Percentage of SC
representation in higher education in late 1970s was 7%, which increased to
7.8% by late 1990s, and increased from 12.2% in 2012 to 13.9% by 2016. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">Percentage of ST
representation in higher education in late 1970s was 1.6%, which increased to
2.7% by late 1990s, and increased from 4.5% in 2012 to 4.9% by 2016. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">This is one of the
greatest achievements of reservations-based-on-caste policy of India, to have
increased the enrolment of SC and ST into higher education, slowly but
substantially.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">Of course, there is more
work to be done.<span> </span>To improve the enrolment
of SC and ST population into school education, and to improve the enrolment of
SC and ST into Masters and PhD education, and to improve infrastructure of
schools, give more facilities and amenities, including books, toilets,
awareness programs.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span lang="EN-IN">Population Growth of
SC/ST<br />
</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">The proportion of SC/ST
population in India has been steadily increasing.<span> </span>This is true of communities or identities
which have lower socio-economic status.<span>
</span>On a general note, lower socio-economic status groups have had shown
bigger population growths, while the most privileged groups have shown a
decrease in population growth. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">
In India, </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span lang="EN-IN">SC Population was 14.7%
in 1961, but has grown to </span><span>16.2%
in 2001, and is now approximately 16.6%. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>ST population was 6.9%
in 1961, but has grown to 8.2% in 2001, and is now approximately 8.6%. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span lang="EN-IN">Literacy Rate of
SC/ST</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>
The literacy rate of SC and ST population has grown over the last 70 years, and
thankfully to the current policies of affirmative action which include many
welfare schemes, one of them being reservations-based-on-caste, it has grown
faster than the general population, but in absolute numbers it is still below
the national average.<span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>
SC Literacy Rate was 10.27% in 1961, but has grown to 45.2% by 2001, and is now
approximately 66% (Indian national average is 74%). </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>ST Literacy Rate was 8.53%
in 1961, but has grown to 38.41% by 2001, and is now approximately 67% (Indian
national average is 74%). </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span>Conclusion</span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>Reservations-based-on-caste
and other welfare schemes have definitely improved the literacy rate of SC and
ST population in India, but have also resulted in higher representation in
higher education.<span> </span>Though the proportions
still fall short of their share in population, it shows the
reservations-based-on-caste and other welfare schemes are yielding
results.<span> </span>All the more reason to make the
current mechanisms effective, and not dilute them. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
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<![endif]--></span></span></p>Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-89345463809028379922020-08-28T15:58:00.006+05:302020-08-28T15:59:15.474+05:30Sushant Singh, Rhea Chakraborty, Arnab Goswami<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Started watching the breaking news on various channels regarding
the case of Sushant’s Singh death.<span> </span>At
the outset, I am not comfortable with Arnab making a “demand” that Rhea should
be arrested. <br /><br />Individual Justice, in the modern society, cannot be
delivered by opinion poll or by wish of the majority. <br /><br />And Arnab is antithesis of how you want to raise your
child.<span> </span>He is a bully.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-87959433827225789812020-08-09T19:29:00.005+05:302020-08-09T19:32:42.320+05:30Political Dynasties and Intra Party Democracy<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">What
is the problem?</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Most
Indian political parties tend to become dynastic, they turn into a fiefdoms, usually
run by one chieftain, who promotes his kith and kin, promotes nepotism, and
does not practice democratic practices within the party, chooses MLA candidates
who are subservient, whereby the MLA feels he/she is more accountable to the
chieftain than to the people who elected him/her. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Why
do most political parties in India tend to become political dynasties?</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Many
political parties in India, small regional parties and even large national
parties, have turned into political dynasties.<span>
</span>This tendency is all pervasive.<span> </span>The
reason for this is that while India as a nation is democratic, the inner
workings of a political party in India is not democratic.<span> </span>The leader of the party is not elected, and
if he/she is elected, those elections are mostly sham exercise.<span> </span>The MLA candidates are handpicked by the
chieftain, based on allegiance, loyalty, nepotism, caste equation, and many
other attributes, AND NOT elected by the party members of that
constituency.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Without a regulation
or a legal mandate, political parties in India are thus free not to practice
intra-party democracy. <span> </span>This is the
fundamental problem.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Only few
political parties have been able to instil and practise a small degree of democracy
within the party, examples being BJP and the Communist Party.<span> </span>Most other parties in India, including
national parties like Congress and most regional parties in India, have turned
into dynasties. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">What
is the Solution? </span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Many
political parties in various countries have either practiced intra-party
democracy voluntarily (like in US), or have mandated it (Germany, Portugal).<span> </span>Clearly Indian political parties have not
practiced it voluntarily.<span> </span>Therefore
mandating it is the solution.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Like how
electoral reforms have been brought, or how RTI was brought about, through an Act
of Parliament, political party intra-party democracy can be mandated through an
Act of Parliament.<span> </span>This could also be
tied to legalized political party financing to further incentivize. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">With that
reform, a huge change can be brought into Indian political party
functioning.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>What is Intra-Party Democracy?</b></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Intra-party
democracy has three essential attributes. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Chief
Minister candidate should be democratically elected by the elected legislative
members. </span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Elected
legislated candidate should be democratically elected by the registered party
members. </span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">Registered
party members can be enrolled through free and fair process subject to
scrutiny.<span> </span></span></span></span></li></ol><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="" style="line-height: 150%;">These
reforms will substantially put an end to fiefdoms and political dynasties in
India.<span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span>Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-52283503312198189782019-12-20T15:43:00.000+05:302019-12-20T15:55:04.475+05:30Why Indians protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine
4 people who have fled a neighbor country of India, because they were persecuted
in that country. Now, they are living
together in a small community in India. A
Shia who is targeted as anti-Muslim and blasphemous by the Sunni majority in
that country, a Ahmediya who is now considered non-Muslim in his Islamic
country, a Hindu, and a Sikh. They have
been living in India now for few years.
They have come to this country because this country has always taken
pride in treating all its people equally irrespective of their religion. Asaduddin Owaisi, one of the prominent Muslim
politicians from India, boasts that nobody in Pakistan or Bangladesh should
worry about Indian Muslims, because Indian Muslims have far better rights than
Muslims living in those countries. He goes
further to say that unlike in those countries where one sect of Islam is treated
as inferior, no such ill-treatment happens to any Islamic sect in India. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now,
comes Citizenship Amendment Act, which says that it is going to treat these
migrants differently, based on their religious identity, singling out Muslims. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because
of this Act, the Hindu friend and the Sikh friend become citizens in India, whereas
the Shia friend and Ahmediya friend are now shipped off to a detention center. It dawns up on all of us living in India, that
all of a sudden, this country has started to deprive someone of their basic
rights based on their religious identity, even though all of them came from same
country of origin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To
understand what it means. Let’s create another
scenario. Indians migrate to US, settle
there and become citizens there. But imagine
US passes an Act, which treats Indians differently based on their religion. It opines, since Hindus are in majority in
India, they are prosperous and well off and therefore do not need to migrate,
and then they go about denying Green Card and Citizenship to Indian Hindus while
naturalizing Muslims and Christians from India.
How would Indian Hindus feel? Shouldn’t
Indian Hindus protest? Shouldn’t Americans protest this egregious Act that
discriminates people on religious identities? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
reason why so many people in India, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Christians, across
different religions, are protesting against this Act, is not because of the
actual modalities of the Act. It does
not really matter if the Act affects only the immigrants or illegals and not
the citizens. What matters is that this
Act allows for converting the State into saying, ‘you are special to me only if
you are non-Muslim. I will throw you out
only because you are a Muslim’. The fact
that this nation has made a law that determines the eligibility of coming and
living in this country, based on your religious identity, is very problematic
to every Indian who has always believed in the basic tenets of Indian Constitution,
that it is secular, and that it treats its people the same, whether they are
Shia, Sunni, Ahmediya, Sufi, or Sikh, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or Jain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
reason why so many Indians are perturbed by this Act is that for the first time
ever, this nation has passed a law that will determine the legal status,
citizenship status, and thereby according them the basic rights, based on
religious identity. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This
is anathematic to all those Indians. We rejected
the model of Pakistan that constituted itself as a religious state. Indians
are genuinely upset. Hindus who took
pride that we have always been tolerant, Muslims who took pride that while
other Islamic countries discriminate their own fellow Muslims based on the
sects but India doesn’t, Sikhs who believe India is their home though they are
a minority, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, all living with pride that this nation
is truly pluralistic unlike any other nation on this planet, they all find this
Act abhorrent, dangerous because its sets a new precedent, and completely unconstitutional
because it violates the basic principles of equality on which this country was
founded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-53167084269748945692018-12-04T02:59:00.000+05:302018-12-04T03:00:54.458+05:30Why Naidu campaigning in Telangana is arrogant and hegemonistic?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Imagine Jayalalitha (erstwhile Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu) fielding her own candidates and campaigning in Karnataka Assembly elections! </span></span><br />
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who understands the political history of
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu would find such a scenario silly, weird and even
dangerous. The reason is: unlike two
friendly neighbours such as Odisha and West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
have serious issues over sharing of river waters, and those burning topic
brings people regularly onto streets in protests. Therefore, Jayalalitha fielding her
candidates in Karnataka would be seen as hegemonistic, a way of entering
Karnataka politics to subvert the political system, only to gain something for
her own Tamil Nadu State. It would
undermine the democracy within Karnataka.
Such a scenario is unlikely. Jayalalitha
would never have campaigned in Karnataka.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yet, today, we see such unlikely scenario
happening in Telangana. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two essential reasons why Naidu campaigning
in Telangana is not just downright amoral, but is sinister, and a threat of
democracy within Telangana.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rivalry between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is an
accepted fact. Almost every political pundit knows about
it. There are many unresolved issues pending
from the bifurcation, many corporations are still undivided, and most
importantly, there is this issue of sharing of river waters. Whenever Telangana moved ahead to build an
irrigation project within Telangana to tap into their rightful share of river
water, Naidu has objected to it by writing a letter to the Central
Government. He has demonstrated that he unequivocally
stands against the interests of Telangana and its people. Therefore, such a leader, from the
neighbouring state which is unfriendly, to come to Telangana to position his candidates
and campaign has only agenda: it is a subversive attempt to undermine the
interests of Telangana, an attempt to tamper into the democratic process within
Telangana to unfairly gain something for Andhra Pradesh. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, when Telangana State formation was announced on
9<sup>th</sup> December 2009 by P Chidambaram, it was Naidu and his MPs and
MLAs who stood against the formation of Telangana by protesting openly. Naidu was one of the main leaders of the
opposition to formation of Telangana. He sat on a strike in Delhi openly opposing
the formation of Telangana. After the
bifurcation, he used his clout as a partner in NDA to steal few of the mandals
from Telangana, which were then merged with Andhra Pradesh. He blatantly took the position of opposing the
interests of Telangana. Therefore his campaign
in Telangana once again shows the same arrogance of the Andhra leadership, the
very leadership Telangana fought against to form a new State. His
interests are antithetical to interests of Telangana.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His campaign in Telangana is not just amoral and
sinister, but it is hegemonistic and in every aspect completely anti-Telangana.
It should be summarily rejected by the
people of Telangana. </span></span></div>
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Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-27517230821900221662017-09-23T14:33:00.004+05:302017-09-24T21:40:58.459+05:30Telangana in Movies, Is it a Dialect, Accent or Slang?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Warning</u>: This article has A-rated content. Not for
people younger than 18. Definitely, not
for the two peevish Telugu Anchors. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the peak of Telangana Movement, I wrote two
articles, <span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2010/08/telangana-59-why-do-we-accept-telugu.html">Telangana
59: Why do we accept Telugu movies?</a> And </span><a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2010/08/telangana-58-impact-of-movies.html"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Telangana 58: Impact of Movies</span></a>. In one of them, I wrote: <u><span style="color: blue; line-height: 150%;"></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>For a very long time Telangana people were
ashamed to speak Telangana in front of others, and the practice continues even
now though it is declining. Many Telangana people hide their accent when heard
in public forums. In some families, Telangana people ridicule their own
folk who speak Telangana and try to correct them. Some Telangana families
grew up imitating their Andhra neighbors completely rejecting their identity.
They hate being associated with the tag of Telangana. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Formation of State of Telangana has changed all that. Now, people are not afraid or shy or embarrassed
to speak Telangana. In fact, there is a
generation of young Telangana people who think it is uber cool to speak
Telangana. Therefore, it is not a
coincidence that formation of State of Telangana has heralded four successful
movies in the last one year that have a dominant Telangana element: <i>Pelli Choopulu, Ami Tumi, Fida</i> and<i> Arjun
Reddy</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When referring to Telangana language in Telugu movies,
what I have noticed is that most people in the film industry refer to it as <b>Slang</b>.
That’s when I find that characterization problematic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So, is Telangana a dialect, an accent or slang? </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dialect is another version of a language with
completely different words and phrases for expressing the same, sometimes
following a different syntax and grammar.
We have many dialects of Hindi in India like Bhojpuri and Haryanvi. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An accent is when you pronounce the same word
differently. Australians, New
Zealanders, and Americans pronounce the same words differently. In India too, Bengalis and Malayalee would
pronounce similar words quite differently. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slang is an informal version of a language. The way Blacks in United States use informal
words, like chill or tripping. Most
often, slang is spoken colloquially, and is not considered acceptable in
written form, because it is informal. <i>Of
late, what Black people speak is considered Ebonics, a dialect of American
English. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a long time, Telangana was derided, ridiculed and
insulted because it was considered informal, something not worthy of being
written in a formal context, a slang. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But in reality, Telangana is a dialect (and not a slang), with its own
history, culture, and words and phrases (like Thokku for pickle), and now in
the State of Telangana it is a formal language, and therefore words spoken in
Telangana are no longer considered informal, but acceptable. That is one of the moot points of Telangana Movement. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As predicted long ago, formation of Telangana has brought onto the scene a new genre of Telugu movies, where hero or heroine or both speak
Telangana. K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), while
delivering on the State of Telangana, inadvertently delivered on something
else, a new film industry which is based in Telangana. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now here comes another problem. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cuss words in <i>Arjun Reddy</i></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The movie <i>Arjun Reddy</i> depicts in-your-face
Telangana, incorporating those cuss words that some Telangana youth speak quite
freely. And that has created furore
amongst some Andhra TV anchors. It goes
without saying that the objections raised now against <i>Arjun Reddy</i> have the
similar Andhra-Telangana bias, where those who grew with Andhra ethos could not
digest how people could speak such a language.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Arjun Reddy</i> used the Indian version of Motherfucker
(Madarchod) which created outrage amongst two Andhra Telugu anchors. They started calling it an insult to
Mothers. In reality, most cuss words are really not a
direct reference to one’s mother, one’s sister, one’s father. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To understand <i>Arjun Reddy</i>, one should look at Irish
language. It is a dialect of English
language, but the population in Ireland use cuss words quite freely in their
day-to-day life. They use words like
fuck, bollocks, shite, cunt, even at a family dinner and the same is reflected
in movies. Not everyone does, but some
do. And it is quite OK to hear those
words in an Irish film. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not everyone in Telangana uses the cuss words spoken
in <i>Arjun Reddy</i>, but some do, and it is quite OK to hear those words in a Telangana
film. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a small history of usage of swear words in
Hollywood movies: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7lr05vnr8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7lr05vnr8</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looks like Vijay Deverakonda is the Samuel Jackson of
Indian movies, if we were to go by how many times Samuel Jacksons says it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use of Motherfucker by Samuler Jackson:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU</a></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Samuel Jackson says it, it is not an insult to a
mother. It is a part of the language. We
can debate whether that language is a good thing or not. But it is still part of the language. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A word to the two peevish Telugu TV anchors</u>: <i>Arjun
Reddy</i> is an adult film, to be watched by adults. If you have a problem, don’t
go to the movies. You could continue
watching your hip-gyrating, double entendres, vulgar insinuations, slapping the heroine
on the butt, pressing her bosoms, in the other Telugu movies with your families,
as is your wont.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But no one can stop the sweeping phenomenon. Telangana
movies are an in-thing now, and they come with our idiosyncrasies, our habits,
our cuss words, and our endearing words.
You may not like it, but they are not going to go away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, Welcome Telangana! The new Hollywood of Indian
movies!</span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-13204632939168885952017-03-01T09:57:00.002+05:302017-09-24T21:43:49.275+05:30‘I hate India’<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>hen
you hear on TV that <b>Someone</b> said the above statement, the first thing that
comes to your mind these days is, that <b>Someone</b> must be
anti-national. That <b>Someone</b> doesn’t
deserve to be in India. Ministers who have
the important job of running the country are stopping their work to tweet, or
grab the nearest TV camera, to say, ‘<b>Someone</b> should be thrown out of the
country. Why live in this country if you
hate it?’ </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">So
what does it mean to say ‘I hate India’?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">‘I
hate India’ says an activist</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">An
activist who is fighting against construction of dams, after being harassed,
arrested, and tormented, says, ‘I hate India, for its apathy towards those who
have to leave their homes’. All of a
sudden, this sentence doesn’t look anti-national anymore. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">‘I
hate India’ says a tourist</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">A Indian
tourist who travels the world gets back to India, and looks at the pollution,
the dirt, the trash, and the garbage everywhere, and says, ‘I hate India. I
think we should start cleaning our cities first’. All of a sudden, this sentence doesn’t look
anti-national anymore. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">‘I
hate India’, says an angry mother</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">An
old Indian mother who lost her husband, says, ‘I hate India. Which makes me
stand in line for many months before giving me my pension’. All of a sudden, this sentence doesn’t look
anti-national anymore. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">‘I
love India’, says a terrorist</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">Before
blowing up a big bomb in an Indian city, a terrorist records his voice and puts
on internet, ‘I love India. I love it so
much that I really want every Indian to feel the pain of love I have for them’. All of a sudden, ‘I love India’ doesn’t sound
so endearing anymore. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">Spoken
words should not be legalized</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">Words,
these are merely words. They can have different
interpretations. The one who uses the
word ‘hate’ for India is not anti-national, the same way the one who uses ‘love’
for India is not a patriot. Getting
riled over what every Indian citizen says on social media is going to be quite
exhaustive exercise for Indian Ministers who stop in their tracks each time
someone says ‘I hate India’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">The
spoken word should have unequivocal freedom, its citizens the inalienable
rights. No ifs, No buts.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>The
State cannot dictate what can be spoken in what form, because words have different
meanings, and one cannot simply conclude what they could mean. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">Laws
such as sedition (IPC Sec 124A), which says, that ‘Whoever, by words,</span>
attempts to bring into hatred towards the Government in<sup> </sup>India shall
be punished with<sup> </sup>imprisonment for life’, have <span lang="EN-IN">no place in modern societies. This was the law that was used by British to
jail Indian nationalists. Now, India
uses it against its own citizens. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">Grow
up, India </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">Especially,
Grow up, Indian Ministers. Get on with
your work, and please ignore what every young person living in India says on
social media. Just because one young
angry woman says, ‘I hate India’, it doesn’t make her anti-national, and it
doesn’t mean she supports terrorists, or the enemy state, or that she is bent
on breaking up India. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">And
ah, this goes to Cricketers and Actors as well. </span></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-53311144468878828042016-11-21T01:04:00.000+05:302017-09-24T21:44:13.728+05:30Demonetization: The essential objectives<div style="text-align: justify;">
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in here are personal and do not reflect the opinion or the position of the
organization that the author works for.]</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">It is becoming evident from the long lines at
ATMs across India, and the troubles faced by the farmers and small-time traders,
that the implementation of the demonitization initiative has been quite
poor. Clearly, it could have been
planned better and executed better. As
Supreme Court of India warned, if things don’t improve, we could see riots in
this country.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">But the poor implementation is not good enough
reason to conclude that this exercise will not achieve its objectives.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">So what are those objectives?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Unlike most people in India, including those who
actually introduced this initiative – namely the Prime Minister and his team, I
don’t have unrealistic expectations from the current initiative of
denotification of the existing 500 and 1000 rupee notes.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">According to me, the objective of this exercise
is <b>not that much about curbing counterfeit money</b>, <b>nor about trying to
‘get out’ the black money</b> from their hideouts. Yes, the introduction of new currency notes would
obviate the problem of counterfeit notes, but only for a while, because if the
enemy is insistent on copying and releasing even the new notes, they could do
so, given some amount of time. And,
unlike what most people hope, there is no need for black money to be deposited
into the banks. If that money cease to
exist, it is good enough. The shortfall
in circulation or non-existence of the black money is good enough for the
Government to infuse more printed notes, thereby giving itself a fillip in public
spending on infrastructure projects.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Also, the objective is <b>not to remove the
higher denomination notes </b>just because it makes it easy for hoarding black
money. With introduction of 2000 note, which
is higher than the erstwhile 1000 note, that objective is anyway not even
addressed. And most importantly, <b>India
can never become 100% cash-less society</b> either. Cash will continue to be a
dominant form of tender, but cash-less transactions will increase
exponentially.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">So, the moot question is: why support this demonitization
initiative if the above ‘stated’ objectives by the Prime Minister and his team are
not so important?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">I think there is another unstated objective
which, according to me, is far more important.
It is about putting our house in order<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">1. To change the way we do business
going forward</span></b></span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">For any country to be effective, like any
organization, the formal discipline of doing business is important. For a company to be effective, one of the
first steps is to streamline the processes, make the stakeholders accountable
and trackable, so that you have a grip on what’s happening in the company. Only when you have control on the proceedings
and the actors, can you plan for efficiency, profitability and pursue
excellence. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">And yet, that’s not the case with our
country. With bulk of our business
transactions being conducted in an informal, unaccountable way, there is no way
one could keep a check or track on what’s happening. This doesn’t allows us to strive for
improving the system and get the best results.
Most of the rewards, if any, are squandered away. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Imagine a company like Microsoft. Instead of the company making profits on the
sale of its software, if each employee is selling the software on the side, how
would Microsoft survive? It would go defunct.
That’s exactly what was happening in India. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
Far too many transactions, trade, business, real estate, jewellery, employee
salary and wages, were all being done without accounting for them. That’s loss of tax revenues for the state, allows
for unmanageable inflation, and creates a shadow and alternate economy that
competes with the mainstream economy by creating uncontrolled disruptions –
imagine one employee of Microsoft suddenly releasing 1 Million copies of its
software into the market, competing with the company itself. What would be the profit to the company? You
can only imagine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Streamlining the businesses not only helps the State,
but also helps the traders and the wage earners who it is hurting right now
owing to cash crunch. Because they currently
conduct their business in hawala, or black, or in unaccounted way, the prices and
quality of products cannot be regulated, their business agreements cannot be
legally honoured - the lack of accountability leads to inefficiencies and sporadic
losses. But if these businesses are
streamlined, the overall business health improves, the traders get secure, and
they can use their legitimate assets to raise capital, and apply for insurance,
and get legal help where necessary. If
things don’t go well, they can file bankruptcy and save their families in a
legal way, instead of facing blackmail, threats, mental pain and agony. Meanwhile, the wage earners will develop a
credit history, use that to avail car loans, home loans, and buy health
insurance. This will secure their
lifestyle. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">For far too long, our businesses have not had
proper accounting methods, their transactions were not reported, and taxes were
not paid. Only 3% of India pays
taxes. Most of the transactions are
based in cash – mostly to avoid taxes, but they end up not creating the
necessary formal accounting procedures.
The cash that is obtained without paying taxes is called black. Some of it is stored as cash, but most of it
is converted into buying property or gold.
But even the transaction on buying property in India is shady – where only
a little portion of the property is paid in white, while the rest is all
black. This is once again done to save
on property tax. So, the vicious chain
continues. Most Indians have got into a
habit of not paying taxes, telling themselves it is OK not to pay taxes. Give such self-feeding mechanism of saving
your taxes a few decades, what we get is a completely broken system. And that has been India. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Putting a small company in order after 3 years of
bad accounting takes few months to clean up.
This country has been doing bad business accounting for many
decades. A move like this, though a
shock treatment, is essential to set the ball rolling towards proper accounting
methods. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">The biggest outcome would be: we would have
achieved a change in attitude, of the people, of the businesses, on how we
trade, and how we buy and sell. Our DNA
would have changed. All of us will
insist on proper method, and oppose improper methods in our transactions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Like how an Indian landing in US suddenly starts
following its rules without putting up any resistance, following rules in
accounting, adopting formal policies, doing it the right way, will become
natural to Indians. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Therefore the primary objective of this
initiative is to streamline our businesses forcing them to adopt legal and
accountable methods, which the current initiative of demonitization will
achieve. This has far reaching
implications on the overall economy of the country, and that takes us to the
second objective.</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">2. Improve the overall economy.</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Though there could be a lull in the economy
during this transition period, eventually the economy will get a fillip. With more deposits, the banks will lend out
more loans, at lower interest rates. The
government will earn more tax revenues from accounted transactions thereby
leading to lower income tax for people and businesses. This will give more spending power to people,
and increase industry in the country.
This will further increase the GDP and further increase the tax base. Real estate transactions becoming accounted
will give the State more revenues, decrease the real estate prices, and the buyers
will now avail the legal way to finance it without resorting to convert their
white money into black. Knowing the
exact circulation of the currency in the market allows the government a good
handle on inflation, which in turn has a bearing on reducing the interest
rates. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Doing it the proper way gives financial security
to people and businesses. They will no
longer feel compelled into storing or stashing their savings in the form of
cash, property or gold. Secure businesses
and secure people take bold decisions in business. Such an environment creates more
entrepreneurs. It allows for businesses
to scale in legal way, go public using stock market. The accountable way of transactions will
discourage people from parking their money in real estate or gold, and instead put
their money into institutions like banks, funds or stock market, which in turn
will help Indian businesses to scale and grow. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Yes, the government has bungled its
implementation, but the decision itself is bold, transformative, and laudable,
and will bring in positive results in the long term. </span></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-15298777444446067882016-11-17T02:38:00.003+05:302017-09-24T21:43:59.198+05:30Demonitization: Will it work?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">I
hear lot of criticism launched against Demonitization. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cite some of them here. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘Poor
people are suffering’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘It
is the common man who is hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at
the long lines at each ATM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
standing there for hours’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">And
yet the narrative is not as simple as it sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When these people standing in line at ATM are
asked if they are facing trouble, almost all of them say, ‘Yes’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when asked if this move is good, they all
say, ‘Yes’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they add, ‘This is an
inconvenience, but in the larger good, this is OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the whole, we support this initiative from
Prime Minister Modi’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">So,
it all depends on what part of narrative you want to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you hear only the first part, it does
clearly say that people are inconvenienced to a great extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you hear the second part, common man endorses
Modi’s demonitization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Did
Government bungle up its implementation?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">First,
it did not prepare itself with enough new rupee notes it wanted to
introduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should have had enough
stock with it before announcing the demonitization of old notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The paucity of new notes is creating lot of
trouble to many businesses, including the common man. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Second.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did they not create 500 and 2000
rupee notes the same size as old 500 and 1000 rupee note? That would not have
required the calibration of ATMs which is currently underway, and is causing
the impediment in delivering cash to people. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">It
definitely looks like Indian economy has come to a standstill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, given few more days, with more new
notes brought into circulation, the problem of paucity of notes will fade away
and normalcy will be restored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘We
will not get the black money into the banks’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘Most
hoarders will not return the money to the banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will either find methods to convert it,
or just throw the cash away’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Actually,
the government doesn’t need the hoarders to return the black money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that such money doesn’t exist, and
will never come into circulation, is good enough for the government to print
notes in excess to compensate for the loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is in fact better than getting that money back as bank deposit – because
when it is deposited, it is with the banks (and not necessarily with the
government).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if the hoarders
don’t return the old notes, the difference that is printed is in the hands of
government to fund its schemes and projects. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">In
summary: there is no necessity for hoarders to return the black money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that those old notes don’t exist
anymore is good enough. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Coming
to the second point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hoarders cannot
convert their entire cash using other people’s accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just look at the math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To convert 14 Lakh Crores of black money, one
would need 7 Crore peoples’ accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is just not humanely possible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the best a black money hoarder
would be able to convert is 1 Crore of his money using 50 of his known associates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even that is on the higher side. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘The
actual black money is in the name of <i>benaami</i> lands and jewellery’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Yes,
but that is not what the current initiative aims at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The current initiatives starts with attacking
the physical black money, which forms the base of the pyramid of illegal
transactions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>benaami</i> lands
and unaccounted jewellery could be the next target, which come above the base
of the pyramid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless the physical black money is attacked, addressing<i>
benaami</i> lands and jewellery does not make sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the current move can be seen as
the first move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there are good
reasons to believe there are more steps in the offing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, let’s not despair. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘What
about the lull in the economy? Who is going to fix that?’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">There
is definitely lull in the economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Transactions have stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State
Governments are not making money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Businesses have stopped buying and selling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traders have stopped trading. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">But
this is not going to be forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very
soon, once enough cash is in circulation, the economy will kick in and <b>business
will be as usual once again.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Hmm...
<b>Not really.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me pause
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason why I endorse this
initiative so strongly is because it changes exactly that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Business will not be as usual after this.</b>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">What
were our old habits?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">For
a very long time, most of our business was done in cash, and the advantage of
that has been that the buyer and seller didn’t pay tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The employer gave employee his salary in
cash, once again not paying the tax. This accumulated black money, the money
that is unaccounted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over a period of
time the accumulation was so much, that it could fund political parties to win
elections, and entire real estate market turned out to be based on false reporting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also made land acquisition by the
government quite impossible. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Jewellers
traded in cash, their transaction values running into crores of rupees per day,
and yet they didn’t pay any tax, so is the case with cloth merchants, real
estate contractors, commodity traders, and even the wholesale merchants of
fruits, vegetables and flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all
traded in cash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the movie producers
traded in cash, so did, many small manufacturers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">But
that will change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">What
is going to change? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">What
is already changing is the attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Attitude towards how we go about doing business, and how we are going to
trade, how we are going to pay salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Unlike
most other pundits who do not believe that legislation helps in changing the
culture of a nation, I <b>tend to believe that a legislation indeed is a very
powerful tool</b>, and it can change the attitude and culture of people of a nation,
and that it can also alter its course in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Take
for example, Hindu Code Bill, which reformed our age-old traditions, with respect to how many kids we have, towards
contraception, towards family, towards marriage, towards treatment of
women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or for example, Right to Information
Act, which changed the way we look at facts given by the government and how we
use the information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take TS-iPASS bill
passed by Telangana State to give clearances in 15 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The change is fundamental, and has
dramatically transformed the way government dealt with investors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No amount of coaxing would have achieved
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one law brought a sea change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Looking
at examples of South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, it becomes obvious that certain
fundamental legislations have transformed their cultures and economies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">This
demonitization is one such step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
going to bring in fundamental change, and may alter our DNA.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">A generation is a nation in itself. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Thomas Jefferson</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"><br />
The upcoming generation in this country will not believe that there was a time
when almost all our business transactions was done only with cash, and most of
it without paying tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">We
are already witnessing change in attitudes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many business people are ready to streamline
their processes so that they are never caught with their pants down like this
ever again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The businesses will stop
doing cash-only transactions and instead use checks, banks, credit cards,
e-transactions, whereby the government actually taxes these transactions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">What
is the positive outcome?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">In
the first 3 days after demonitiziation, banks received 3 lakh crores of
deposits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The banks expect a total of 10
Lakh crores of deposits in the next month. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is approximately 12% increase in the total
deposits, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">qual to</span></span> 10% of India’s GDP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will have a profound effect on our banking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a starter, the interest rates would go
down, borrowing becomes easy, and more loans will be available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, the cost of capital, which has
always been very high in India, is going to drastically reduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that will spur the economy in many
ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>More infrastructure projects can be funded. States
can negotiate for a higher ceiling on their borrowing capacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Industry can raise capital to scale their business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">And now
for more interesting aspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tax
revenue is going to drastically increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>For all these years, most
business transactions were unaccounted for, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was</span> loss of taxes to the
government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, these transactions will
yield substantial increase in tax revenue, so that the government has more
money to spend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could even result
in decrease in personal income tax and corporate taxes, which will further
improve the economy, industry, and employment in this country. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘Why
issue 2000 rupee note when it is clear that higher denomination leads to black
money hoarding?’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Well,
I fundamentally differ with the premise itself. Some people believe that having
a higher denomination allows for black money hoarding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is patently wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A higher denomination just makes it easier.
It is not a cause. It is just one of the possible methods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The b</span>lack money hoarders can hoard their wealth
in the form of diamonds, or gold, or iron ore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just because we get to know that people are hoarding gold, we don’t put
a ban on gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same way, banning
higher denomination is not the solution, not even close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">In
fact, India needs higher denomination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For its size of economy, it cannot trade in just 100 rupee notes, which is
equivalent to $1.3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine US de-notifies
all it currency except $1 and asks everyone to trade using that – that would be
insane. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">‘People
will now hoard 2000 rupee notes, makes it even easier’</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"><br />
Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In theory. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">But
in practise, people are afraid that there could be another demonitization in
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mere threat or fear that
there could be another demonitization in the next few years stops most business
people from hoarding cash anymore, and pushes them to go for white
transactions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Summary</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">For
now, the chaos and confusion will continue to torment the common men and
businesses for the next few weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the good news is that demonitization is
already working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real success will
become obvious over a longer period of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-47495821176239736052016-11-11T21:51:00.002+05:302016-11-11T21:52:27.527+05:30Demonetization: Defining moment in Indian History<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> am not a Modi-Bhakt. In fact, I have been a big
critic of Narendra Modi, when it comes to his tolerance of religious
intolerance in this country. And yet,
today I stand in support of his historic decision to invalidate the legal
tender for the existing 500 and 1000 rupee notes that are in circulation. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Those who meet me usually ask me for a solution to
some of the problems that we face in India, probably because I tend to maintain
the attitude that I do have a solution to such problems ;-). So, over the last many years, when anyone had
asked me, ‘How do we root out black money in the country?’ my answer was, ‘In
fact, the solution is quite simple. I
would make the 500 and 1000 rupees notes invalid as of today. And everyone has to come to the bank to
exchange and get new notes starting tomorrow.’ </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">The discussion would then usually go into whether
the political leadership in India would ever do it. The answer would be – ‘it is not a very
pragmatic decision for a political leader, he would invariably alienate most of
his colleagues in politics, because politics in India is funded mostly by the
black money. One would really need balls to do it, and our
politicians rarely have that’.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">And yet, three days ago, I get a call from a good
friend. ‘Watch the news’, he said. Unfolding before me was the one of the most
defining moments in Indian History. Prime Minister was announcing the
demonitization of 500 and 1000 rupee notes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">In 1947, Nehru in his famous <i>Tryst with
Destiny</i> speech, said:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">A moment comes, which comes but
rarely in history, when we step out from the old to new, when an age ends, and
when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">On 8
Nov 2016, Modi in his speech announcing demonetization of old 500 and 1000
rupee notes said:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">There comes a time in the history of
country’s development when a need is felt for strong and decisive stand… there
come moments, those moments come but rarely.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And we
will all remember this moment twenty years from now, where India stepped from
the old into new. Where an age ends, and
a new age begins. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And yet
I find some criticism, some naysayers. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">How
could you not celebrate this moment? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yes,
there would be some hiccups. Never will
such a transition be smooth for everyone.
When Telangana was struggling for statehood, many people complained of
inconvenience caused by strikes and bandhs, and I asked, would you rather allow
a large section of people not have their freedoms just because you are inconvenienced?
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Like
how a small child cries in pain when given vaccination for her own good, these
are nothing but small inconveniences that we face right now, but we would have
found a cure to curbing black money in this country. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Let’s
celebrate. And take inspiration to do something
bold!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">This
message is for all state governments across the country. Pass those bold bills, take those bold
decisions. Go against the tide, piss
your colleagues, challenge the status quo!
Reform, rectify, improve, break down, invent, be creative! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
Carpe Diem! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">For a
change, be bold!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Thank
you, Mr. Modi. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Coming
from people like us, you should take it as a compliment! ;-)</span></i></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-28497701123406872102016-11-04T09:39:00.004+05:302017-09-24T21:44:41.515+05:30Why do our roads and cities continue to fail us? <div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=21825668" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=21825668" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In August 2015, we landed in Taiwan a day
after Category-5 Super Typhoon Soudelor made a landfall with destructive winds
reaching 215 km/h, with torrential rains causing widespread damage and
disruptions, accumulating 632 mm of rain in 12 hours, where a record-breaking 5
million households lost power on the island, <b>and yet</b> the roads were
intact, and the city came back to life within a day. Looking at how well
the city looked and functioned, we couldn’t believe that they had experienced
such a powerful typhoon the day before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In September 2016, Hyderabad city faced a
24-hour long rain fall from the active south-west monsoon, accumulating 164 mm
of rain, <b>but </b>that brought the city to a standstill, resulting in
inundation of several localities, breaching of drainage system, with many of
the roads completely damaged, causing hours of traffic jams across the city. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, storms,
flash floods - these are some of the extreme but routine natural weather
conditions that hit most parts of the world. Developed countries tend to
face them as much as any other country. And yet, the roads in those
countries don’t get damaged the way Indian roads take a hit after a single
large rain. Those cities don’t get inundated and don't come to a grinding
halt so easily as Indian cities do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why is that? </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Before answering that question, let’s make
another observation. Why do the roads on Outer Ring Road, or the airport tarmac
of Hyderabad, withstand the same rain, while the roads of urban Hyderabad get
potholes and get eroded with one single rain? Why some parts of the city,
especially the older sections, are not inundated, while the newer sections are submerged?
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here we need to understand one crucial point
- it’s NOT just because of maintenance, but it is because of the way they were
built. It’s NOT because of tropical climate, or because of monsoons, or
because of global warming. It’s got to do with the fundamentals of how we
build them in the first place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example 1: Podium at KU, Warangal</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=21825668" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=21825668" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I grew up in Warangal in Kakatiya University
campus, where we played on a podium that was built in mid-70s. For nearly
three decades this podium withstood all kinds of rain, sun and wind. It
remained intact even after repeated use. In mid 2000s, it was decided to
increase the size of this podium. A new construction extended the podium on
three sides. Within 6 months, the new construction began to crack and crumble.
The tiles broke into pieces and jutted out its sharp edges, the plaster fell
off the whole section, and if you walked to inspect, you could clearly
delineate the older section from the newer section – the older sections still
remained intact while the newer section was completely broke.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How did this happen, in this country, that
methods of construction deteriorated over a period of time, while the
technology and quality of materials actually improved in the last thirty
years? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Are we one of those unique countries on the
planet who have actually reversed the arrow of progress? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example 2: Kagdaspura in Bangalore</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bangalore city has some really nice layouts
that were made in 70s and 80s. Even today these layouts continue to have
nice parks, wide roads, and traffic doesnt't come to a halt. And most
interestingly, these colonies don’t get clogged during heavy rains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the last 10 years a new layout came out –
called Kagdaspura. When it was decided to include this village into the
city municipality under urban planning, there was a huge debate and furore from
the residents. The decision to develop it by Bangalore Development
Authority was turned down through intense lobbying efforts of the people who
held these lands. The land was now sold by individual owners without any
planning. The small lanes of the erstwhile village became the arteries of
the new city. The result is one of the ignominious experiments of how <b>collective
greed</b> combined with <b>short-sightedness</b> could become a debilitating
mess for modern cities of India. The roads turned out to be crooked and
narrow, and the new locality doesn’t have sewage system or the gutters.
One particularly important road, which connected few lakhs of residents to the
rest of the city, is so narrow that only one truck could go either way at a
time. Every day in the morning, entire traffic comes to a grinding halt
and it moves at snail pace. And when it rains the entire place is
submerged in water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here we need to acknowledge something
profound. It is not because we don’t know how to build better cities that
failed us, but it is because we decided succumb to a Funny Form of Democracy
that we created such a mess for ourselves. This Funny Form of Democracy
comes from our inability to understand the full extent of our constitutional
democracy – wherein we use citizen forums to pander to a collective greed while
flouting the laws and disavowing the best practises. It is the form of
democracy where we believe a group’s demands are right even when it tramples
the rights of the others to lead a decent life. It is this form where the
collective greed of the majority overwhelms the collective good of the
society. [Can we all vote and use our majority to repeal all the
laws?] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bangalore is now a crumbling city, with worst
traffic, frequent inundation and damaged roads after each rainfall.
Interestingly, Karnataka Government had earlier come up with an act to
regularize illegal constructions through acceptance of a small payment – and it
was aptly called Akrama Sakrama (which literally means ‘Legalize the
Illegal’). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example 3: Indian Software Services</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 2003, I came back to India after living in
US for about nine years – it was my first job in India, and first time in a
software services company. In the division that I worked as System
Architect, there was a software module that consistently failed – it was listed
as ‘critical’ for over three years. Because that software module produced so
many problems continuously, the five engineers who worked on it were always in
fire-fighting mode. Since most others didn’t understand the complexity,
these engineers were treated with utmost respect, considered ‘most
valuable’. They were paraded as prized fighters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I was given the task to oversee the
solution to one of the problems in that software module, I hit upon a
realization – I summarized it as follows to the team: There is a man who
keeps falling, and each time he falls, he gets hurt. What you are doing
is fixing the external bruises and the cuts, with band aids and bandages.
Each time he falls, you add another layer of bandage. Now the bandage
itself has grown so thick that it is somehow acting as a crutch for him to
walk. But you have never fixed the real problem. The real problem
is that the patient keeps falling because of the broken bone, and it has never
been fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When the team was confronted with the reality
that they need to fix the basic architecture of the software, they just balked.
They were in a state of denial. They thought they didn’t have authority
to make a design change, and didn’t want to admit it needed a design change.
Here is another syndrome – <b>Indian software services syndrome</b> in
action. The team was refusing to see the stark reality – a change in the
design. And there was an ulterior motive for the management to continue
this kind of continuously fixing the software. Because it perpetuated
their revenues. It served a business interest. If it was fixed
permanently then the team of 5 was not needed, and they would get less money. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is exactly what is happening to our
Indian roads. <b>We are not fixing the actual problem, because it is hard
work, and also because not fixing it serves a business interest. </b>Nobody
wants to fix the problem which could involve a new architecture or new
design. Instead, each time a rain washes off our roads, we lazily put
another layer (like the band aid). This serves the interest of certain
sections. Those who fix the roads continuously make money, and those who
are in the thick of action are always considered important. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What is the problem with us in India?</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is clear that our roads are not designed
properly. Though the city planning is a well-understood science and technology
in the world, even the most basic principles are not implemented in
India. We built better roads and better cities in 1970s and 1980s than
now. While most countries in the world are adopting better engineering
techniques, clearly our methods are deteriorating. How is it possible? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As a country, we are suffering from an <b>insanely
debilitating malaise</b> that is caused by a combination of <b>collective greed</b>
and <b>short-sightedness</b>. We have created a political, bureaucratic
and societal system which doesn’t allow us to promote excellence in
engineering, design or architecture of our roads and cities. Our
short-sighted approach doesn’t allow us to solve the architectural problems,
and our collective greed perpetuates these problems because of vested interests.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is our undoing. As a
society, we could collapse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cure 1: Architecture fix in the software
module</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Going back to the problem with the software
module. Back then, I had recently come back from US, and was enjoying the
experience of being back in India. In fact, I went to office daily
telling myself that I am going to be fired that day. That gave me immense
courage to speak up, face any authority, and propose solutions – because I
didn’t fear for my job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I took the responsibility of redesigning the
architecture, to fix the problem once and for all. I spoke to client, got
two engineers allocated, and we made the required changes and fixed the
architecture in six months. Bugs reported from that software module
reduced drastically. And after a year that module was no longer featured
as the hot item. In fact, nobody talked about it. Only one person
was assigned to maintain it, that too with half of his time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘It's the Fundamentals, Stupid!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Right now, our roads are built with a
technology that must be more than 100 years old. Our roads have no conduits, no gutters, and
no drains. Any road in the Indian city would not be more than 10 -
15 cm in depth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of engineering! </b> We need to build our roads as per actual engineering
requirements. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belgium roads follow this rule: </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The new
pavement is a 23-cm CRC slab over 5-cm of bituminous interlayer, 25-cm of
cement-treated granulated asphalt rubble, and 15-cm of granulated lean concrete
rubble</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is how a concrete road is built in
Germany (90 cm depth). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Belgium’s first concrete overlay even
after 45 years in service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take a look at this video, where they build a
tunnel under a highway over one weekend in Netherlands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEa9jrkQm0c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEa9jrkQm0c</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Though it is clear that we need to embrace
technology and engineering to solve our problems, we are in fact moving away
from that – a dangerous sign. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Way forward</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We need to say, <b>Enough is Enough</b> (in
fact, that could be our slogan). Enough of this collective greed, enough
of short-sightedness, enough of inferior road building, enough of unplanned
city making. Enough of this incompetency!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We need to plan for future, and stop this
short-sightedness that has been plaguing us. Instead of maintaining the
road every 6 months, thereby spending thousands of crores of rupees over many
years, we need to heavily invest our monies once and build roads that last more
than forty years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We need to combat the collective greed which
creeps under us as a Funny Form of Democracy. What we need is political
leadership which says, ‘I am gonna fix it’, and then go about really fixing it
in spite of antagonizing the large clout of contractors who benefit from such
continuous road-laying, and it needs to stem the corruption that feeds the
government offices to continue the same practise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And what we need in India is to have more
experienced engineers to be taken into urban planning- and they need to be at
the helm of affairs, not just in supporting roles, so that we do it the right
way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-41767043212168554052016-07-08T13:37:00.000+05:302017-09-24T21:45:09.550+05:30Salman Khan felt like a ‘Raped Woman’<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R</span>ecently,
Salman Khan in an <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/what-salman-khan-said-immediately-after-the-raped-woman-comment-went-conveniently-unreported-2866158/">interview</a>
said he felt like a raped woman. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“While
shooting, during those six hours, there’d be so much of lifting and thrusting
on the ground involved. That was tough for me because… When I used to walk out
of the ring, after the shoot,<b> I used to feel like a raped woman.”</b></i><b><i><span lang="EN-IN"></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">The <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/salman-khan-raped-woman-comment-in-interview-twitter-reacts-2865456/">twitterati</a>
went abuzz taking umbrage to this remark: One person asks, ‘</span>how does he
know what a raped woman feels’. <span lang="EN-IN">Amir Khan thought it was ‘insensitive’.
</span>Kangana Ranaut thinks <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">his</span></b> comments
were ‘horrible’. Anurag Kashyap felt
they were ‘<span lang="EN-IN">very thoughtless’,
while Freida Pinto takes ‘offence’.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Such
a reaction is quite understandable. This
is definitely an insensitive remark in the modern context. Now, with so much awareness in gender
discrimination, sexual harassment of women, and child abuse, these statements
sound very insensitive and callous. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Yes,
insensitive and callous, statements of bad taste. Agreed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">But
are these statements illegal? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">An
FIR was <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/kanpur-fir-against-salman-for-rape-remark-2870349/">launched</a>
against Salman Khan for this remark under the </span>Section IPC 294 (obscene
acts or words in public) and IPC 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult
the modesty of a woman). These sections
have provisions for three months and one year of jail term.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">National
Commission for Women (NCW) has <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/national-commission-for-women-ncw-summons-salman-khan-on-july-8-for-rape-remarks-2886404/">summoned</a>
Salman Khan to appear before the Commission, or they ‘</span>may proceed to
take such appropriate action as it deems fit’. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">They
further write:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It
is important to drive home the point that just because you are a celebrity you
can’t make off-the-cuff remarks. The comment he made is very injurious to the
esteem of a woman</i><i><span lang="EN-IN"></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">A
gang-rape victim from Haryana sent a <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/gang-rape-survivor-seeks-10-cr-in-damages-from-salman-khan-for-his-comments-2860688.html">legal
notice</a> to Salman Khan seeking 10-Crores in damages for ‘belittling rape
victims’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-IN">What
is the problem?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br />
What I find problem with the current India is that they don’t know the
difference between actions and words of <b>bad taste</b> versus actions and
words which are <b>illegal</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">There
is a big difference between morality and legality. While
Legality can be enforced through law of the land, morality cannot be enforced. And the fact the most Indians do not see the
difference between these two seems to be creating lot of problems in this
country. Many statements are considered
seditious, anti-national, illegal, and so on, worthy of prosecution, harassment
and life-long persecution. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">In a
<a href="http://ww.itimes.com/news/entertainment/case-filed-in-up-courts-against-salman-khans-rape-remark-273461">petition</a>
filed in Lucknow, a social activist, asked for legal action against Salman
Khan, for showing “disrespect to rape victim” and which “revived the ugly
memories of such heinous crimes”. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Someone
may say, ‘Man, the kids from neighbourhood were on a rampage at my home. It felt like a terrorist-attack on my home’. This does not necessarily mean ‘disrespect’ to
terrorist-attack victims or that it amounts to reviving the ugly memories of
such heinous crimes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Words
and phrases have many meanings. Like how
erstwhile HRD Minister reacted, rather sheepishly, to the word ‘Dear’, many of
these words don’t have one-track mind like peevish Indians do. The
word rape itself connotes many meanings. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">After
coming out of a brutal and horrific interview, one may say, ‘I was literally
raped in there’, which does not mean he is being insensitive to thousands of
rapes happening in the country, or that he is trivializing those rape
incidents. It only means, he is saying, ‘The
torture they were inducing onto me was being enjoyed by the interviewers, but I
was not enjoying it. I had to endure it
against my will’. Instead of saying that
long winded description, the guy says, ‘I was raped in my interview’. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">This
is no different from saying, ‘those parliamentarians <b>murdered</b> our
Constitution on that day’. It does not
mean trivializing the sacred concept called murder, or being insensitive to
thousands of murders happening in this country.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">In
fact, the word Rape is used in many contexts, like <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nanking.htm">Rape of Nanking</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Belgium">Rape of Belgium</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Europa">Rape of Europa</a>, <a href="http://www.barefootsworld.net/constructive_fraud.html">Rape of United
States Constitution</a>, and so on. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">The
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">You
may get into a bar, get groped around by other men, and come out say, ‘Man, I
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Freedom
of expression includes </span><a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2010/12/freedom-from-persecution.html">Freedom from frivolous prosecution</a>. Slapping every insensitive remark made by
someone with legal charges leads to <a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2011/11/run-away-from-indian-flag.html">curbing of freedom of expression</a>. Freedom of expression allows for making
insensitive remarks, which can then criticized and lampooned. But making it a legal matter is altogether a
different matter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of these insane laws which allow for frivolous
prosecution have to be <a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2011/06/scrap-insane-laws-immediately.html">scrapped</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> have not seen so
many anti-nationals in my lifetime. It’s
like raining traitors this season in India.
All of a sudden, there are traitors and anti-nationals everywhere in
this country. Like how the enemies of the
State suddenly came onto the scene from within in various countries of Europe in
early 1900s, like in Germany, and in Italy, there are enemies of India everywhere
from within India. These enemies of
India come in the form and shape of protesting Dalit students in university
campus, they come in the form of ordinary farm worker who ate beef, and they
come in the form of journalists and editors.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sedition cases,
those used by the British Empire to incarcerate the freedom fighters of India,
are springing up everywhere like it’s the Spring Revolution of Tunisia. This country is geared for
witch-hunting. All of a sudden each of
us is asked to prove our patriotism. To
do that, we have to chant a devout slogan for a Goddess. Otherwise we are traitors who will sent to
Pakistan. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And how do these
traitors look? They look just like you, the ordinary people, they are your nice
neighbors. Oh! Don’t be fooled! They are
all traitors, they are all anti-nationals, as the Hindutva leaders tell you. They come in the form of liberals, the
seculars, the communists, the socialists, the SCs, the STs, the OBCs, the
Muslims, and the Christians. They come in the form of students, the teachers,
the professors, the journalists, the editors, the book writers, and the movie
makers. They are everywhere. They are the enemies within. And amidst all these anti-nationals, there is
only one patriot. He wears a Khakhi
uniform or wears a tilak. And he owes his allegiance to Hindutva ideology.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there is only
one prescribed and sanctioned expression of love for your country. You have to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Anything less, you are traitor. ‘Jai Hind’ won’t do. ‘Hindustan Zindabad’ won’t do.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there is only
form of patriotism. The Hindutva form of
patriotism. Every other form of
patriotism is nothing but sedition. The Brown Shirts did it in Germany, the
Blackshirts did it in Italy, and the Bolsheviks did it in Russia. Now it is the turn of Khakhi Shorts in India.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After World War I,
the defeated nation of Germany started to find enemies within the country. Once the bereaving nationalists, feeding on a
desperate need to claim superiority of their race and nation, started looking,
they started to find enemies everywhere.
The Jews, the Communists, the Gypsies, the intellectuals, and the
liberals. The innocuous neighbors
suddenly became enemies of the State. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, in India,
we see the same frenzy. The great
nation, the super power, all of a sudden has become weak. Because it has enemies within. The nationalists want everyone to prove their
patriotism. Chanting a certain slogan,
eating certain food, wearing certain clothes, have now become a test of
patriotism. The witch hunt is on. It has started with hunting down the students
and the universities. Next, it is your
turn and mine. </span></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-36702487405568032632016-03-16T21:33:00.001+05:302016-03-29T21:38:55.629+05:30Bharat Mata Ki Jai – Does it have religious connotation?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the <a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2016/03/why-i-wont-say-bharat-mata-ki-jai.html">controversy
surrounding</a> Asaduddin Owaisi’s refusal to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-buck-stops-here/row-over-chanting-bharat-mata-ki-jai-patriotism-or-politics/408002">Bharka
Dutt</a> of NDTV asks Owaisi, ‘Why would you say NO to a slogan which does not
have a religious connotation - that simply describes the country to be a
motherland?’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I Google Searched ‘Bharath Mata’ in Images, this is
what I get. The<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span>e are the first few
results. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sXigBaVN99Q/VumDooGlKgI/AAAAAAAAGVs/YtEnumnYXKsSH5Wcfs4uGMYVXp-hRKW3w/s1600/Durga-Mother-India.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sXigBaVN99Q/VumDooGlKgI/AAAAAAAAGVs/YtEnumnYXKsSH5Wcfs4uGMYVXp-hRKW3w/s400/Durga-Mother-India.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of them unmistakably depict a Hindu goddess, with a halo
around her head, wearing a saree – similar to the representation of any typical
Hindu Goddess. Clearly, Bharka Dutt is
wrong in her assertion that 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' has no religious
connotation. Most Hindus do tend to see
their country as a Goddess, and therefore singing a religious hymn like <i>Vande Mataram</i>, where the country is now
Goddess Durga, comes naturally to them.
However, expecting every other religious group in India to subscribe to
the same Hindu Goddess doesn’t make sense. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the entire discourse, Owaisi’s refusal to chant
‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ was taken as lack of respect and lack of love for the
country. Though he chanted, ‘Jai Hind’
and ‘Hindustan Z<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>ndabad’, the Hindutva Brigade is bent on chasing him to make him say ‘Bharat
Mata Ki Jai’. Without that, they believe Owaisi doesn’t
respect India. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Worship and Respect are not the same for everyone. While for most Hindus these two words may
look very similar, and they may be synonymous to some extent, it is not the
case with many other cultures. Germans respect
their Fatherland, but not necessarily worship their Fatherland. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Hindus, worshipping comes very easy. They worship almost anything - from a tree to
a snake, from a hillock to a stone, from a person to a rat, from breast to a
phallus, from a demon to an actress. They
even worship their father, their mother, their teacher and even their guest
(Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava, Acharya Devo Bhava, Athidi Devo Bhava). Also, for most Hindus, worshipping is the
highest form of reverence. And since most of us tend to believe that a country should be given
utmost respect, Hindus believe that worshipping it with highest devotion is
their way of paying respects to the nation.
In their worldview, one<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> has <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">worship</span></span></span> Bharat Mata, which closely resembles Lady Durga
sans the extra hands, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to express <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">love and respect to one's country</span></span>.
That is a very convenient picture for Hindus. </span></span></div>
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Doesn’t mean that all religions and cultures look at their nation in the same
way. Most Americans love their country,
but do not necessarily pray to it. And
for most Muslims, personification and deification of earthly objects, like a
tree or snake, or a person, or a country, are problematic. Their religion forbids personification and
deification of people or natural objects, and that includes even a
country. They do not pray to Mohammed
Prophet, because they believe he is a Man and not a God. For Muslims, even Jesus is a Prophet, and not
a God. Similarly, they do not even pray
to their own mothers, though most Hindus find it very easy to pray to their
mothers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all have different ways of paying respects to our objects
of reverence. Many North Indians touch
the feet of the elders to pay their respects.
Imagine <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">such a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> North Indian</span></span> meet<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing</span> an African of a certain society which treats touching
of feet to submission of a slave. If
that African refuses to touch your uncle’s feet, does that mean he is being
disrespectful to your uncle? What if he
says, ‘can I just bow down to your uncle to express my respect?’ Would you
still believe he is being disrespectful? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Failure to understand other cultures and other religions,
believing that ‘the way I live is the right way to live, and everyone else
should live like me’ – these are the attitudes of current Indians which is
creating so many problems for most of us.
I don’t eat beef, therefore you shouldn’t eat beef. I sing Vande Mataram, therefore you should
also sing it. I say ‘Bharat Mata Ki
Jai’, you should also say it. And if you
don’t, we will call you anti-national and put you in jail on charges of
sedition. That is the prevailing
atmosphere in this country. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have to put a stop to this fascism that is being preached
and propagated in this country. Fascism
always starts with refusal to understand or respect other person’s culture or
identity, and with promoting your own way of life as the only way of life,
thereby assuming the seat of superiority.
Germans did that in early 1900s, Italians did that, Japanese did
that. And we saw fascism on this planet
showcase its devastation that led to nearly 50 million people dead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Right now, Hindutva brigade has to let go of their monopoly
on defining the expression of patriotism for all of us. There is no single expression. Just because someone does not pray to one’s
country, and does not personify one’s country, it
does not necessarily make him a less of a patriot! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A</span>nother controversy is now brewing across the
country. Asaduddin Owaisi, MP from Hyderabad, said that he won’t
say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. He insisted that <b>he won’t chant this slogan even if
someone puts a sword on his neck</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Owaisi says he is a patriot, but not a nationalist</b> (the
way RSS defines). Mr. Rakesh Sinha, the
other commentator, says that a person who doesn’t say, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’
cannot love his country. Whereas Owaisi <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">asks</span>, do you have a problem if we say, <b>‘Hindustan Zindabad</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>'</b>? [H<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e la<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ter said, <b>'</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jai</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Hind'</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on TV]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This raises fundamental questions about how we view
our country. <b>What is India to each of
us?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it a geographical entity with political borders? Or is it an administrative unit governed by
Legislature, headed by Executive, and monitored by Judiciary? Or is it a constitutional entity of people
who are guided by the same set of rules and laws given by our Constitution? <b>Or is it a Mother (literally)?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am one of those Indians who get irritated when
people take this country to be a literal mother – this came up during my
debates on M F Husain’s paintings where some of the Indian Hindu nationalists believed
India to be a real mother, and therefore portraying her nude was tantamount to
portraying his own mother nude. I find such
metaphors, probably hyperboles, extremely dramatic - may give you some kicks in
your otherwise mundane life, but does not actually bring in a reasonable and
rational discourse. Because there could
be a moron out there who believes India is a real Mother and then stops
drilling bore wells saying, ‘you are murdering my Mother’. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Think about this – We have different emotive feelings
for people, institutions and places. We
cannot go about legalizing or mandating our feelings. For example, I <b>adore</b> my mother, I <b>like</b>
my alma mater, and I <b>love</b> my
hometown. Different set of feelings for
each. My feelings for my alma mater
(college) stops at being liking, but not loving.
If you force me to love my alma mater, I will resist. I will say, ‘I don’t think I want to love it,
and who the hell are you to push me into loving it?’ Many of us have go to a college, not
necessarily loving it. Some of us go
there even while hating it. <b>Loving one’s
college is not a prerequisite to be attending that college</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s extend this argument a little further. You cannot force me to love my alma mater, or
my hometown, or my district, or for that matter my state. And by that extension, you cannot force me
to love my country. Whether I want to love
these physical locations or not is up to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s say I do indeed love all of these physical
locations out of my own volition. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even then</span>,
you cannot force me to personify them, equate them to a real Mother and force
me to love them the same way I love my <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m</span>other. It’s little too much to ask from me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love for one’s mother is a special feeling – it cannot
be extended to a college, a town, a state, or a country. My <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m</span>other is far more personal human being to
me. I don’t share her with billion other
people in this country. And she treats me
very specially, because she shares DNA with me, and also because she doesn’t
have billion other kids. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whereas, my college, my hometown, my district, my
state and my country, are different physical entities, so unlike my real
Mother. In fact I want to stand outside
and protest against my college when things go wrong there. Same applies to my hometown, my district, my
state, or my country. I want to be in a
position to criticize them. Because I could be angry at them when I want to,
and be able to hate them when I want to.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For me India is a political entity, a geographical
entity, a constitutional entity, but definitely not a Mother. There is nothing in Indian Constitution that
says that my feelings for my country should personify the country. I want to treat India as a country –without
bringing personification into the whole topic.
I don’t want to treat India as a mother, nor a father, nor an uncle or
an aunt. Does that make me a traitor? If
I refuse to say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d</span>oes that make me anti-national?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, Mr. Rakesh Sinha also accuses Owaisi of being
not a patriot because he doesn’t sing <i>Vande
Mataram</i>. I wrote long ago <a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2006/09/why-muslims-do-not-sing-vande-mataram.html">why
Muslims do not sing</a> <i>Vande Mataram</i>. For Muslims, who do not deify any object,
most importantly any real person, including Mohammed Prophet, praying to a
nation as a real mother or a real goddess is a problematic concept. They would want to love their mothers, but not
deify their own mothers. They have not <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pro<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blem in lovin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g their country, they just don't want to personify it<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just don't want <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to pray to it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the debates in 1937 on whether <i>Vande Mataram</i> should be National Anthem
for free India, Rabindranath Tagore wrote in his letter to the then Congress
President Subash Chandra Bose:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The core of </i>Vande Mataram <i>is a hymn to goddess Durga: this is so plain
that there can be no debate about it… No Mussalman [Muslim] can be expected
patriotically to worship the ten-handed deity as ‘Swadesh’ [Nation]… Parliament
is a place of union for all religious groups, and there the song cannot be
appropriate. [1]</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This foolishness of imposing onto everyone that India
is a Mother should stop. For each of us,
India is different. We love India in our
own way. It is foolish to say that, ‘if
you don’t send red roses, then you don’t love the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">person’. There are many ways of expressing one’s
love. Just because you think sending red
roses is the only way, please go ahead and send red roses. But don’t expect me to!</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Owaisi has no problem in saying 'Jai Hind'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRUf-WpPAAg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRUf-WpPAAg</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Links:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/those-who-don-t-say-bharat-mata-ki-jai-should-leave-india-bjp/story-WbK1RzJcSNwG4oxHnVIFtK.html">Those
not saying ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ should leave India</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Asaduddin-Owaisi-wont-say-Bharat-Mata-ki-Jai-Shiv-Sena-tells-him-Go-to-Pakistan/articleshow/51403423.cms">Shiv
Sena tells Owaisi to 'Go to Pakistan'</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/asaduddin-owaisis-bharat-mata-ki-jai-remark-shameful-venkaiah-naidu_1865890.html">India
is our mother and no one should have objection to pay obeisance to mother</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pil-against-owaisi-for-refusing-to-say-bharat-mata-ki-jai/">Sedition
charges against Owaisi</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://amp.twimg.com/v/04dbc090-ff56-44b1-9453-cfcc14291787">Owaisi says
‘Jai Hind’</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[1] Source: K Datta and A Robinson, <i>Selected Letters of Rabindranath
Tagore</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), Letter 314. From the
Book: The Longest August by Dilip Hiro. </span></span></div>
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Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-62126414241341466492016-03-07T21:47:00.002+05:302016-03-29T21:39:28.374+05:30Should we not protest against Supreme Court Decisions?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D</span>uring the course of JNU row many have contended </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span></span>n TV debates and
online discussions </span></span>that ordinary people in India do not
have a right to protest a Supreme Court Decision. One
anchor even asked a JNU student leader, ‘Do you think you know more than the
Supreme Court judges that you could protest their decision?’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most Indians tend to think that a protest against
Supreme Court decision should not be allowed.
However, in most mature democracies, including India, people have
protested against Supreme Court decisions. There are many examples. But here <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span></span> describe a notable one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When</span> Abraham Lincoln was t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he President</span>, the US Government
passed 13<sup>th</sup>, 14<sup>th</sup>, and 15<sup>th</sup> Amendments to US
Constitution to emancipate Black people in that country, giving them equal
rights. For about twenty years they
enjoyed this freedom as equal citizens.
However, a Supreme Court Decision (Plessy v. Ferguson 1896) reversed
most of these amendments thereby creating Jim Crow laws that implemented
‘separate but equal’ doctrine. Blacks
were segregated, lynched, and denied voting rights. Basically, the Black man was not treated as
equal citizen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It took major protests of 1950s and 1960s to reverse
the Supreme Court decision of 1896.
People came out in thousands to protest these laws. Martin Luther King is one of the leaders of
this Civil Rights Movement. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The doctrine set forth in US in 1896 was eventually reversed
by another Supreme Court decision (Brown v. Board of Education 1954) which later
led to equal rights to Black people. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we were to go about disallowing all protests
against Supreme Court decisions, we would have missed out on giving equal
rights to Black people in US. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In recent times in India, people came out onto
streets to <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/protests-held-across-india-against-supreme-court-ruling-on-homosexuality-544642">protest</a>
one more Supreme Court Decision that sought to criminalize homosexuality.
Examples are abound where Supreme Court decisions were challenged in public
forums and through protests on streets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a strong reason why people should <a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2006/10/supreme-court-ruling-afzal-case.html">protest</a>
Supreme Court decision regarding Afzal Guru.
The reason is clearly laid out in the Supreme Court verdict itself. It says (emphasis mine): </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“As
is the case with most of the conspiracies, there is and could be <b>no direct
evidence of the agreement</b> amounting to criminal conspiracy. However, the <b>circumstances,
cumulatively weighed, would unerringly point to</b> the collaboration of the
accused Afzal with the slain ‘fidayeen’ terrorists”. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“The
incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and
the <b>collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied</b> if
capital punishment is awarded to the offender.” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Supreme Court
admits there is ‘no direct evidence’, and that there was only circumstantial
evidence. Next, it says it gave the
death sentence to satisfy the collective conscience of the society. Now, that is quite troubling to some of
us. When did we start giving out death
sentences based on circumstantial evidence to satisfy the collective conscience<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the society? Especially when death sentence is awar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ded <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in 'ra<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rest of rare' cases?</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span>sn’t the entire premise
of modern legal system based on treating everyone the same without getting
biased or prejudiced by who is protesting outside the courtroom? </span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-49847751813687828172016-03-06T20:23:00.002+05:302016-03-29T21:39:42.817+05:30Is this ‘freedom of speech’?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Smrita
Irani, Minister for HRD, in her <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/here-is-the-full-text-of-smriti-iranis-lok-sabha-speech-on-rohith-vemula-and-jnu-row/1/604620.html">speech
in Lok Sabha</a>, while referring to a pamphlet on Mahishasur Martyrdom Day that
described Goddess Durga as ‘sex worker’, asks, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Is this freedom of speech?’</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">She
then asks, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is this depraved mentality?’</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">She
believes that a group which celebrates Mahishasur, and describes Goddess Durga as
‘sex worker’ is mentally depraved and she believes such a group should NOT be
allowed to express their opinion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
questions everyone else who is supporting JNU students:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘</span>Freedom of speech, ladies and
gentleman. Who wants to have this discussion…? I want to know.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">This
is where Hindutva gets it wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only
do they do not understand the concept of India, they fail quite miserably when
they try to define Hinduism for all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each time they try to bring a new section of Hindus into their fold enforcing
conformance in their definition of Hinduism, they alienate some other section
of Hindus. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Smriti
Irani is bang on in reflecting the true prejudices of Hindutva proponents when
she accuses the group identities that have distributed the pamphlets, in her
own words, “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SC, ST and minority</b>”
students of JNU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t this the same allegation
levelled against Hindutva groups? That they are against the interests of SC, ST
and minorities in this country? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The version of Hinduism espoused and promoted by
Hindutva brigade is that of Brahmanical North Indian Upper Caste version, and
each time they try to impose it onto all Hindus, they alienate SC, ST, lower
caste, and South Indian sections of Hinduism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Establishing Hindu Rashtra involves not only
establishing the primacy of Hindu identity as the only legitimate identity in
India, but it also includes establishing the superiority of twice-born castes,
establishing primacy of Hindi as national language, and conforming to the singular
definition of Hindu Gods and mythology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While establishing Hindu identity as the primary
identity for India, it alienates other religious identities, like Muslims and
Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While establishing the
superiority of twice-born castes as the caretakers of the Hindu religion, it
alienates lower castes, SC and ST.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
establishing Hindi as national language, it alienates Dravidian states of South
India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in trying to conform Hinduism
to only certain mainstream gods, it alienates various Hindu groups that do not
necessarily pray to the prescribed mainstream gods. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many versions for Hindu mythologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ramayana itself has many versions, wherein some
versions glorify the role of Ravana while some others completely demonize
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, Dravidian movement
witnessed a brief period where Ravana was deified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, even today, there are some temples
dedicated to Ravana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, unlike what the
pious TV-watching Indian middle class believes after watching the sugary
Ramananda Sagar’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ramayana</i>, there are
certain sections of Hindus who do not necessarily believe in mainstream version
of Ramayana, and may want to pray to Ravana. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That’s the beauty of Hinduism, which the proponents
of HIndutva want to destroy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
diversity in choice of gods, this diversity in various versions of
mythology. Threat to Hinduism comes from Hindutva groups,
the same group which monopolizes on being its caretakers and security guards. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mahishasur may be a demon and evil-incarnate to most
Hindus, but that does not preclude the possibility that some minority section
may want to pray to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looks like
indeed the case. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORHy70dufr0/VtxEVNc_g9I/AAAAAAAAGVU/DqhloOK4gAM/s1600/mahishasur-759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORHy70dufr0/VtxEVNc_g9I/AAAAAAAAGVU/DqhloOK4gAM/s400/mahishasur-759.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In that version, where Mahishasur is the hero for
local population, the Lady Durga could be the arch-villain, and in their
version of mythology, she may as well be described as ‘sex-worker’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such an alternate belief system is considered
an alternate view of the mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed it is a sad state of affairs when Madame
Smriti Irani thinks that the only version she knows is the true version of
Indian mythology terming all alternate versions as product of ‘depraved
mentality’. That is the exact problem of Hindutva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want to define it for all of us, who is
the correct god? What is the correct version of Hinduism? What is prescribed
lifestyle? What is the prescribed moral values? What is the prescribed form of
nationalism? What is the definition of true Indian? And so on. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She asks rhetorically, ‘Is this freedom of expression?’</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me answer that question:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes, indeed it
is. </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have the freedom to choose my god from the pantheon
of Indian gods, which run into 330 Million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I may choose to pray to the little plant in my backyard, or pray to a
monkey, or a snake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could pray to a
rat or I could pray to Ravan or Mahishasur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And in my version of mythology, it could be Sita tempting Ravana into
doing evil things, or it could be that Lady Durga is a sex-worker employed to
kill Mahishasur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When mythology is
imaginary, why can’t one group imagine an alternate mythology? Why should
mythology be legalized? </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then she quotes a Roman philosopher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one grand sweeping statement, she equates
these SC/ST/Minority students as ‘traitors’, calling them worse than murderers,
who are rotting the soul of the nation. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, the Hindutva brigade considers everyone who
does not subscribe to their version of Brahmanical North Indian Upper Caste version
of Hinduism as traitors and murderers. They want to charge them with sedition
and put them behind bars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If needed they
want to doctor the videos to set up the charges against them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this is done in the name of patriotism
and nationalism, where the true patriots and true nationalists are the Hindus,
not just ordinary Hindus, but the rabid ones, those who conform to the
definitions laid out by the Hindutva brigades. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do we need to fear such a trend?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed! </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the not first time such a trend has taken
place on this planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the early 1900s
most of Western Europe was reeling under the wave of nationalism and fascism that
spread across various countries, where nationalism was monopolized, and where patriotism
became intoxicating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, imaginary
enemies were created, the rights of citizens were surrendered, and the freedoms
were expropriated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It culminated in persecution,
ostracism, discrimination of large populations and eventually the Holocaust. <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-26762318556632578402016-03-06T11:26:00.001+05:302016-03-29T21:40:01.142+05:30Today I woke up in the land of Taliban<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">You know
there is something grossly wrong with a nation when it books a man on ‘sedition’
for demanding ‘freedom from casteism’, and books <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rewards-offered-for-silencing-kanhaiya-kumar/article8318624.ece">another
man</a> for ‘defacement of property’ for offering ‘reward to kill a real person’. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Today
I woke up in the land of Taliban – the fear that I expressed many times over
the last many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Look, I said so!’ just
doesn’t cut it anymore. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">The
fears that I expressed about this nation are slowly turning out to be
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Talibanization
of this country is now picking up pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nationalism is hijacked by one group, one ideology, who now portray
every other group, and every other ideology as ‘anti-national’. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Long
ago, I wrote (in 2007):</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"><a href="http://sujaiblog.blogspot.in/2007/12/first-they-came-for.html">First they
came for…</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">First they came for the Sikhs, and I didn’t speak up,</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">because I wasn’t a Sikh.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Then they came for the Muslims, and I didn’t speak up,</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">because I wasn’t a Muslim.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Then they came for the Christians, and I didn’t speak up,</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">because I wasn’t a Christian.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Then they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up,</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">because I wasn’t a Communist.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Then they came for the Liberal Hindus, and I didn’t speak up,</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">because I was a conservative Hindu.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">to speak up for me.</span></i></span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-80376526732324213702016-02-28T20:17:00.000+05:302016-03-06T20:45:05.285+05:30Why I am a traitor?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> eat beef</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, I should
be sent to Pakistan, but not any other beef-eating country such as England,
USA, or Japan.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I criticized death sentence to
Afzal Guru</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, I am a
supporter of terrorism. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I supported freedom of speech to
the JNU students.</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I could be charged
with sedition.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I believe that India is not just
for Hindus but home to many others.</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I could be labelled
as anti-nationalist. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I don’t think my country is always
right just because I happen to be born in it.</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I could be labelled
as unpatriotic. </span></span></div>
Sujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-11566065669138648582016-02-17T23:16:00.003+05:302016-03-29T21:40:33.961+05:30JNU Student Leader arrested on Sedition<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Right now,
as I write this, India is under a great threat.
India’s unity as a nation is under attack. An enemy has made his intentions clear - he
wants to break up India into tiny pieces.
He has the wherewithal to take away our freedoms, strip us of our
institutions, and then break up this nation.
And we are all reeling under the fear.
What we believed in all these years - that this country shall always stay
united - is all of a sudden put at risk.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
The enemy comes in the form of ordinary students of JNU campus in New
Delhi. What they said in their college
grounds, their threats to break this nation into tiny little pieces, has made
this entire country paranoid, and India has taken the necessary precaution to
stop them in their tracks. It has used
the same law that the British used to incarcerate Gandhi and other national
leaders during Independence Movement. On
the charges of sedition, the student union leader of JNU is arrested. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Social media
is buzz with support for the threatened nation.
They believe that this nation has done the right thing putting this evil
incarnate in the jail for his threats. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">What is my opinion on this issue?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">I believe that freedom of expression has to be absolute – no
ifs and no buts. Without that no country
can ever create a vibrant and strong democracy.
We have to allow all kinds of expression without getting into, ‘should
we allow it or should we not allow it?’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
If India is indeed a great country, it doesn't need protection from an ordinary
JNU student leader and his vitriolic campaign against India. If India is indeed a great country, it will
protect every voice that is spoken by its citizens, especially that voice which
speaks against it. On the other hand, India
becomes a puny country when it believes it needs to be defended from every vitriolic
speech of a student leader of a university.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Some of the great universities transformed societies and
countries. Universities like UC Berkeley have always been leftist-liberal in their
ideology, and have been hotbed of anti-war protests where <a href="http://time.com/3907444/flag-supreme-court-history/">US flag</a> was
routinely burnt, and yet, it is these universities which continue to lead their
country in liberal thought, setting a course of history in their country that eventually
put a black man as president of US. You
take away that freedom to those universities in 60s and 70s and today's USA
would have been far more hostile, far more conservative, far more jingoistic,
far more xenophobic, and far more racist.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
India needs JNU, how much ever we disagree with it opinions. If India has to remain a free and democratic
country true to its principles, we need their student leaders out in the open
enjoying their freedom to express their opinions however disagreeable it is to
most of us. Otherwise, we have another
choice, snub every dissenting voice, every disagreeable opinion, and become a
Pakistan or Bangladesh.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
It is an irony that the Sedition law, that infamous law, against which Nehru
spoke vociferously, the law that was routinely used to incarcerate Gandhi and
other Indian leaders, is now used by the modern, free and independent India to
chain its own people. Whereas the same law is no longer used by the ones who
created it - the British. Insane laws,
like the sedition law, have no place in a modern state. They have to go. Such
laws are routinely used to take care of political opponents, like in TN, or
snub disagreeable voices, like in JNU. But unlike what's its votaries
prescribe, it is seldom used against spies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
We speak of 'antiestablishment' slogans as something bad when in fact it is a
healthy sign in a vibrant democracy. Every establishment when it becomes
powerful threatens individual freedoms. And therefore it is the individual’s
voice of dissent that needs protection, not the powerful establishment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">‘Anti-national’
is a loosely and badly defined term</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
What is ‘anti-national’? Sitting when
national anthem is played? Stepping on the National Flag? Saying India should
not continue its armed forces in North-East? Criticizing India for its role in
Kashmir? It's a slippery slope. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
In some countries, burning a flag is act of protest, like burning a book, or
toppling a statue. And yet, if we single out one act, and say, 'if you put your
feet next to the national flag, it is anti-national' you run into problems.
Like how Sania Mirza was slapped with FIRs against her when one photographer
shot national flag next to her feet. Recently
two students were whisked off my police when they made some disrespectful but
innocuous comments during Bal Thackeray’s funeral procession.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Conclusion</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">JNU has
always had space for such protests. Many
students’ leaders expressed stronger opinions against this nation over the last
many decades. And yet, this nation stood
united without getting harmed. But with
the acquisition of new tools like mobile phone and video cameras, such slogans
are aired across the nation into the homes of peevish Indians who get ruffled
up easily. Video clips are shared over
social media to enrage the ordinary Indians who fear that the nation is going
to break into pieces of these slogans from JNU. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">But in
reality, what is under threat is not unity of this country but the freedom of
expression itself. Governments in power,
monarchs, the rulers, have consistently used the perception of threat to a
nation or kingdom to rob us away of our freedoms. And this is one of those instances. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The recent <a href="http://www.frontline.in/the-nation/noon-meal-without-egg/article7002995.ece">ban</a> of eggs in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/opinion/sunday/saving-the-cows-starving-the-children.html?_r=1">midday meals</a> to school children by Madhya Pradesh opens
up questions on how as a society we solve some of the fundamental problems in
India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the decision making in
the legislature, bureaucracy, activist groups, and media, is usually done by
the elite of India, who are most often well off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the challenges faced by the elite in
India closely resemble the challenges experienced by the people living in the
developed world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in most cases, like
in deciding the nature of food and diet for nutritional purposes, those
challenges are exactly reversed between developed and underdeveloped countries,
thereby putting the elite in India squarely incapable of solving the problems
of the poor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The challenge
faced by a software engineer in India is ‘how do I combat obesity in my kid?
How do I reduce his intake of candies and pastries’, while that faced by a
laborer in India is ‘how do I get enough food for my kid? How do I get him
milk, eggs instead of just rice, chili and onion every day? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Countries like
United States are suffering from the problems of overconsumption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly 35% of the population in U.S. including
the kids is obese and overweight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compare
this to a country like India where 40% of the children suffer from
malnutrition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different countries,
different problems!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The problems
faced in developed world when it comes to the quality and quantity of food are
quite unique and mostly very recent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
most part of human history, starvation has been the common theme for bulk of
the population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Majority of the
population in various cultures, sometimes nearly 95%, were peasants,
subsisting on the produce left after paying the taxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starvation and malnutrition was the common and
dominant theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a very small
section of the society such as the kings, the royalty, the feudal lords, could
afford overconsumption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But things
changed a lot after Industrial Revolution, even for the common people. Not only
did it mechanize the production of goods such as clothes and tools, it also
mechanized agriculture, thereby increasing the efficiency to such a great
extent that in countries like US or Japan only 2% of the population now
participate in agriculture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only
does the US produce for itself, it also exports food to other countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result of this Industrial Revolution is
availability of highly nutritious food at extremely affordable prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This accompanied by the massive consumerism
has transformed societies in the developed world and created populations of consumers who have been indoctrinated through media and peer
pressure to binge and overconsume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
has led to very recent and anomalous phenomenon of obesity, and related
diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The challenge has now reversed
for these countries, where they urge the populations to consume less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a thorough introspection phase, the
rich in the developed countries are moving towards low-fat and organic food,
which is actually more expensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the poorer sections in the developed countries are easily able to afford high-fat,
high-cholesterol, and high-carbohydrate food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this respect,
the rich and elite in developing countries like India find the challenges
common with those of the developed countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The elite in India are facing the problem of obesity and overconsumption
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the challenges of the poor
in India are completely different and more in common with those of
underdeveloped countries where availability of nutritious food itself is
expensive and not easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Therefore, while
addressing the concerns of the poor, the elite in India are ill-equipped to
find solutions, because they tend to view the world differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the rich and elite in India can easily
afford milk, eggs, meat, dairy products, and therefore may face the problem of
overconsumption, the poor and the rural population in India cannot get the same
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the rich can get their
balanced diet through variety of foods, the poor find that such a variety can
be expensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such inability of the
elite to understand the problem of the poor results in bad political decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Principal
Secretary to the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/veg-chouhan-blocks-eggs-in-anganwadis/">says that</a> ‘there are better, more nutritious
options available. Milk and bananas will be served, but never eggs’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eggs are much better source of calories, protein, fats and vitamins
compared to milk and bananas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover,
while milk can be diluted, and bananas can go bad, eggs come as a whole unit
and can be preserved for a long time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dipa
Sinha, an economist at the Center for Equity Studies in New Delhi, <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/14/422592127/egg-wars-india-s-vegetarian-elite-are-accused-of-keeping-kids-hungry">says</a>, “Wherever eggs are introduced (in schools), attendance
goes up. It’s very popular, because children don't get it at home.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In another state that provides eggs in the
midday meal, a Dalit Girl wrote: “Thank you very much. I got to eat an egg in
my life for the first time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is not to
dissuade the elite and the rich of India from attempting to solve the problems
of the poor but to highlight the bare essential fact that the elite do not
understand what the poor want and require in India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the natural course of things, the elite
would look at the world from their own perspective and would like to impose the
solutions on the poor while responding to their own challenges -– case in
point, the ban of eggs in midday meals in Madhya Pradesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If the elite and
rich are sincere about solving the problems of the poor, they have to abandon
their selfish worldview to espouse or embrace the perspective of the poor, and
sympathize with their desires and needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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