Where deeds don’t matter

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“Adapt the good and discard the bad”, is a common statement we all get to learn while growing up. The current Indian Government has very keenly adopted the dynamic media presentations of the west. So now, the Prime Minister and the media spokesperson, like a theatre act, walk up to the media ramp in front of the cameras, to deliver their speech – Sound familiar? Yes, it’s the style used by the President of the United States of America when the White House addresses its nation.

Though it’s a good idea to adapt good things from the most powerful nation, adapting only the plastic presentation part is not really prize-worthy. If the Government had to adapt something, they should have adapted a bit of their foreign policy – or at the very least, learned just a little bit about dignity and self-preservation. One should take an example from people and nations that do not hold back when it comes to protecting their citizens and their rights. On the other hand, our current Government seems obsessed only with their vote bank; their every statement and decision reflects political agenda.

A Government has to have the correct set of implementation policies and ministers to protect and see these policies through. It’s been over 6 decades since we attained freedom; this freedom has produced plenty of people who prefer to think about their own financial enrichment. The saddest part is, no one cares about where our National Treasury is heading to. The financial stability of a country is based on a set of proper implementation scenarios by its Government. If the Government itself is involved heavily in dozens of scams, who is really the one guarding the future of Indian Citizens?

Rather than protecting its citizens, suppressing corruption, and taking our nation to a stable and secure state, the current Government has failed to protect our citizens, their rights, and even our national borders. Nothing is more shameful for a nation than having two of its neighbouring nations continuously intruding it’s limits. To top it up, our Government has nothing to do about it. Is submitting an appeal for help to foreign powers the best we can do? And do nothing about the situation at hand ?

No, If something must be adapted from the super powers, it has to be guts to retaliate against foreign threats and neutralize them on high priority. Dynamic presentation is needed to gain an audience, not to run a nation.

Thoughts of a common man, Utilizing the Right to speech and expression

Welcoming Terror

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What you sow today, will yield tomorrow. This saying says a lot for everyone. India is not among the self-proclaimed super power nations, but we do have sufficient resources to kick away or even respond to terror threats that are imposed on us year after year. Mumbai, Delhi , Pune & many other cities have been terrorized so many times till now that we have lost count.

We are not USA, we don’t go to war to manipulate our economy, nor for the sake of vengeance against the terror imposed on our soil which is necessary. We are India, but are we the nation that welcomes the death riders & terrorists into our country & then feed them for years, respect their religion and then pardon their sins for god knows what possible reason ?

Well, we are becoming a nation that beats our sleeping citizens in a mass fast camp. We are becoming a Nation that imposes rigid no cooperation & discussion policy towards the people who at least dare to care for the worsening situation of our country. We are a nation that instead of punishing terrorists, is respecting their rights. We are a nation whose Government respects a religion that can help them stay in power. The core on which our Nation is built upon does not keep affirmation with all that is done by the Government today.

The question here to ask is why ? why does our Government provide so many resources to these terrorists, the terrorists that ruined so many families, killed our people like they don’t matter, terrorized our cities & left so many black days in the history of our country. Someone said “ we respect their religion, so we provide them food & necessary things according to what their religion demands & their human rights”. Well, we all respect every religion there is. We respect the people following that particular religion but what about the human religion, what about the rights of the victims of terror ?

In my opinion, these messengers of death have no religion. They don’t have human rights as only humans have human rights, savages don’t. If you consider them human, you talk about their human rights, you let them petition & appeal in courts & even to the President, the last pardon Authority, you are giving these people a chance to commit terrorism and then live their life like celebrities.

Unlimited amount of money has been spent in the day-to-day requirements & security of different terrorists while they sit comfortably year after year till their cases in our courts are settled. I ask, what if this amount of money was invested for the betterment of our nation, our community, by providing resources to the common people who need them the most.

We certainly don’t have the courage to settle our affairs like American forces did in Pakistan, when they killed Laden. Their President made a promise to the general public that the perpetrators responsible for 9/11 will be brought to justice & the promise was kept. They did not capture Osama & fed him for years before his crime gets a pardon on some crap basis.

Let me remind these policy makers that We, the people make this nation & it’s economy. We are the backbone that runs the nation. India is a democratic republic. It makes me sad to see that in our free country, our rights are suppressed to benefit a particular group. Our say does not matter to the people sitting at the top of the decision making chain.

The ones responsible, the ones living their lives after killing hundreds of innocent people should be brought to justice without any delay & without caring for the vote bank of a particular religion, as the people belonging to any religion demand priority justice. Religion in our books comes second & first we all are Indians.

If we want India secured from future invasions & attacks, we need to make it clear to these dealers of terror that attack on India is a punishable deed & they cannot take us for granted & if it comes to it, India will not pull back from taking necessary steps to ensure the safety of citizens & the ones responsible will be held accountable as we do not welcome terror.

Remember I am just speaking my mind, my observation to words
No offense to any particular religion or community is meant

Destroying hope

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I have written before about the economy, the policy makers, the unjustified life style that people below poverty line or even on and above the poverty line have to live. It would sadden any rational & intellectual human being when the true face of society we live in & sometimes feel proud about shows itself.

The life of any person starts from a dot, just like a seed when it spurts out of the ground. That seed if provided with proper additive, grows into a healthy & blooming tree. It becomes a home for birds & other creatures, gives us fruits and shelter. Same theory applies to a human being. Any child if provided with proper resources & help can become a good citizen and play his/her part in the upliftment of the society.

One of the resources extremely necessary for any person is food. In a country where even today thousands and maybe even more people sleep hungry at night, that includes little children, it is saddening & shameful that our Government lets tons of eatable goods go to waste. Instead of only planning & promising good storage facility & maintenance, construction of actual shelters and storage units can save a lot of resources that add to the overall economic stability. Recently it’s wheat, sometime back it was potato farmers that suffered in similar way because there was no storage or shelter to protect these goods from bad weather conditions.

 When 20 lakhs can be shelled out for a minister to buy a car or millions can be spent to construct a bungalow or even a park, is building a storage or shelter for such important resources that hard ? What can be the justification for this ? There can be tens of questions that can be put out, but there is no answer that might come from these policy makers. The agonizing outburst of people who suffer with hunger, poverty & disease seems to fell on deaf ears.

Politics is a science as said by many great writers. Today it has turned out to be a game. The game that if played well earns you wealth that you might not see otherwise. Today, a politician can make an uncountable amount of money & is still considered poor according to books, but a common man making Rs.32 or Rs. 26 a day is not considered poor.

Every single seed destroyed, destroys hope for a brighter tomorrow. It is essential that substantial steps be taken to prevent such mishaps in the future. The steps can lead to decreased inflation & will, for sure, add to the betterment of the economy & lives of the common man.

Oh My Media !!

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The word Media is referred to every branch of press i,e newspapers, electronic media etc. that exists. Almost every industry out there has developed with developing times. So has the information industry. The different forms of media have grown over the years and have turned from being the information agencies to the fourth pillar of the society or per say the backbone of any economy.

Over the years media has undergone a vigorous transformation cycle and now it gives out an impression of a change in it’s core values. The values in terms of written word means solidarity, openness & authenticity in information. I am not saying that every thing associated with Mass Media or better call it the press has changed. As does everything, media too has good and bad sides. It does work in many good ways to help amplify the voice of the ones who are mostly left unheard within a crowd. Many have gotten justice because of the media & likewise many lives have been destroyed by Media.

These Information agents are considered to be the history shapers & yes they are. Many major incidents are recorded and archived by the media. What we know about history is because of the written word, the written word that was recorded at the time of the incident by somebody. Ask yourself a question, What if, the incident recorded sometime in history has been recorded incorrectly ? perhaps manipulated ? It’s a question beyond the scope of this article but the manipulation in presentation of information that we see today, brings us to a point where it seems anything is possible. Maybe the type of suggestive news we get today, the type of subjective opinions that the press presents to the viewer certainly lacks the moral & professional ground that the press should maintain.

What we write today will age with time & sometime in future it might actually gain some authenticity, even if what we write today is just a figment of our imagination or in simpler words fabricated.

Media today is responsible for controlling the thought process which we all use today. It’s the media who shapes the information flow to present a particular news with either positive or negative impression. The part of the media in the information flow should actually be neutral. Presenting authentic information is something the media should work on.

When any piece of information is provided to the audience, there are a number of filters that are applied to make the news look sensational. The thing to understand is that any news/information should be edited only to the extent that it must not loose it’s real meaning. Same sentence said in two different ways can alter the meaning completely. I might say “ That person is addicted to movies “ but if i take out “to movies” from the sentence, it become highly offensive to the person in context. This trick is widely used to achieve audience to a particular scheduled program. This way Breakdown & reconstruction of information is highly prejudicial.

Media has turned from a information providing agency to a fascist organization that tends to control the flow of information to either benefit itself or to benefit someone with power or control. Democracy requires free access to information, the information which is not filtered or manipulated to suite someone in particular.

A Lie said a thousand times, might someday sound like the truth, but it will always be a lie. Press certainly has the power to say something, it has the freedom of press with it, but unwanted nosing in personal matters is somewhat uncalled for. In fact the people representing the press i.e reporters carry a attitude that should not be there in the first place. Press is not a governing body. They are most definitely not the decision or policy makers. Yes, their job let’s them keep an eye out for corruption or bad policy making, but that doesn’t give the media a right to hold, on the contrary it gives them an opportunity to be the voice of the nation & to work for the peoples benefits. Sadly, they do not.

Advertising has been another add-on that has evolved with the News industry. It has evolved so much that there is more to advertising then to the information/News it carries with. Media now looks towards the advertisers for funding rather then to provide quality information to the audience. Every Industry out there works for money, but Media seems to be reaching to a point where it will start working only for money & the code of conduct associated with press will seem vanished.

The Information industry should realize the fact that small scale press, mainly newspapers were the cause of mass enlightenment in our history. Be it the revolt against the British rule in India or Against the Nazi rule in Germany, the power of press did wonders when used with an open and clean gesture.

Fascism in media or the sensationalism of information might be a humorous topic for some, it certainly is not. We all should not think that “ Media is like that only” & “ Media can say anything”, don’t forget something said today might become a part of history someday & presenting the future generations with fabricated information is not the way to go.

There is a radical shift necessary in the field of information industry to keep the value of the written word intact & it’s our duty to make sure that the value of the written word stays intact.

Remember I am just speaking my mind, my observation to words,
no offense to any group, community or individual is intended.

The hunger that

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Whether a country is developing or developed, Western, Asian, European or else, the basic needs of a common human being are always the same, i.e food, clothing & shelter.

If we talk about India, on paper we are developing at a rapid pace, but if we talk reality not much has changed. Our nation might be getting upgraded in some aspects, the money, the technology might be flowing in, but what has been upgraded for the people that are below poverty line (BPL) or even for the common man that is in many ways the backbone of our nation.

The Common man here is the basic work force that drives a nation to a right path in terms of economic strength. This work force is in almost all sectors is under appreciated & under paid while people sitting higher on the food chain are over appreciated & over paid. There seem to be no balance between the different segment that exist in our society. Over the years the situation for people living BPL or near the poverty line hasn’t changed much, children in many parts of our nation still suffer from diseases that are certified to be eradicated, not only children but even grown ups suffer from imminent deterioration, that lead to shorter & miserable life span.

The Government announces a increase in growth rate, but what growth is growth when even a single person sleeps hungry at night. From decades, our economists are claiming to roll out better budgets that should control inflation & also decrease the poverty ratio. But to what extent all these policies work is unknown.

Some people say that corruption is a root cause behind all of this & making better policies & bills would add to the betterment of this situation. Lok-pal bill is believed to reduce the corruption rate & to better the situation, but is one bill or even hundred more of them enough ? Corruption roots within us. No policy can promise a better tomorrow  until & unless we eradicate the corruption within us. We all tend to add to this corruption when we bribe a officer, a clerk or anyone to either sort things out or get our work done before time. It’s we who tend to break the rules to prioritize our life.

But, I don’t intend to say that the whole problem is within us, in fact it’s just a fraction of the problem that we adhere to. Maximum of our policies were written decades ago, while changes have been made over the years to better these policies, these policies still need to be changed. The people who make these policies are not much educated & lack the wisdom & the power of independent & objective thinking that is a must for any policy that affects millions of lives.

I heard someone saying that “ Corruption is a disease, that cannot be cured”. This is just not true. Somewhere in my earlier posts, i have mentioned that it’s we who make this nation, we are the ones empowering the roots, it’s we who appoint these policy makers, so we reserve the right to change them or even change the whole outlook.

Many a ministers & policy makers tend to opt for “Ignorance is Bliss” as an option & just rely on their mouth to tackle most of the situations. I ask What is the basic criteria for entering politics or taking oath as a Minister ? & How many of the current ministers & even the members of the cabinet are true to these requirements, or maybe just being a sibling to some powerful person is a wildcard entry into politics without a need for qualification ?

I don’t intend to write numbers here, the point that I want to make is that all these policies, these new bills & budgets are pointless as they just don’t feed the hungry & they don’t treat the sick. Over the past few decades the situation of people living below poverty line has deteriorated even more. New Policies look good on paper as they project numbers stating thousand of new homes/shelter, hospitals, schools & other basic necessities but just on paper, what does happen in reality is a great mystery.

Our Constitution says that we are a free country & we have rights then why the authorities what should be protecting our rights just hinder them in the first place ? Things need to change & we all have to be a part of it. Give your coming generation a better tomorrow & make each day count.

Remember, I am just speaking my mind & i don’t want to offend any group or any individual’s opinion.