INDIA : a political view

Where is independence..??

When I was in my 8^th standard, I have studied in my textbook that how India got independence in aug’47 after so much struggle by our freedom fighters.

But few days back, my cousin showed me video clips of what exactly happened at that time. And then I decided to share my feeling after watching those clip.

Very few of us knows that India and Pakistan were divided by britishers by making a law named : “Indian independence act- 1947” according to that law, India and Pakistan are two dominion states under Great Britain. This is the reason why till today the name of Britain’s Queen comes before the President of India.

You will be shocked to know that our entry in commonwealth nations is as “British Dominion” not as “Indian Republic”.

Today when I am in the beginning of my twenties, I am busy in finding the facts and searching that where is “Independence”..?? I want to ask my elders, and my ancestors that are we actually living in a independent country ? My question is to all those soldiers who are guarding our nation 24*7 from the terrorism that is it worth devoting major part of your life to this country..??

If you just pick any newspaper of year 2010, I can ensure you confidently that you will find a news related to corruption in our country. We all know that today this corruption is in the roots of our country’s democracy and even then we all are still busy in making our own status in the society. I want to ask directly to citizen of India that Why we all are now slowly forgetting how many thousands of crores of the common man were wasted in the name of “Common Wealth Games”. I have already given the statistics in my earlier blog .

According to me the reason is that in the past two months some more severe corruption scams come into the media namely “ Adarsh Society Scam” and “ 2 G Spectrum Scam”. where one more zero is added to the amount corrupted.

Why in lok sabha the demand of opposition of “Joint Parliamentary Committee” to enquire the case of 2 g spectrum is not accepted till today even after 21 days of strike (longest strike ever in the history of lok sabha). We all will be shocked to know that the corruption charges in 2-G spectrum case are approx. 17 thousand crores . which is equitant to our defence budget.

With all such scams in news one thing is very clear that leading party of the nation “ Congress” is not with AAM AADAMI..

Even the history of the party reflects the same. I would also like to share one more incidence about which I came to know in the recent past.

Very few people know how Jawaharlal Nehru was elected as the first prime minister of independent India.

In year 1947, it was decided it was decided by congres that the person who will be elected as the party president by voting among 15 party members will be the first prime minister of India . and in that voting 14 votes out 15 were in the favor of Sardar Patel , because no one in a congress party was in favor of Jawaharlal.. Because of his sycophancy among britishers . but Nehru was not in a mood to accept the decision of the party so he approached BAPU” Mahatma Gandhi” and warned him to break the party which will give britishers to live in India for some more years. And as per the last phase of “ Gandhi vangmay” a book named “ Puran Ahuti” was written by pyare lal ( secretary of mahatma Gandhi) . In that book a letter by Gandhi ji to Sardar Vallbhbhai Patel is also printed. As per that letter.. Gandhi ji requested sardar patel to withdraw his name from the party to make the Jawaharlal Nehru a prime minister.

And sardar patel was the great follower of mahatama Gandhi , so he agreed. You can also check it with this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel . This is the story how our first (and to the date longest) prime minister was elected.

With two different aspects written above I would like to conclude by asking from you that “How can we let our next generation to breath in the same corrupted Indian democracy” ??

All what I want to say is that :- we know our past, we know our present, and now it depends on us how we would make this country’s future. Now its over to you to think upon this..!!

Is Our Nation’s Pride For Sale..??

By watching news regularly from the past one month on my television screen, reading the national newspapers and discussing this topic on facebook, the only question which comes to my mind “is our nation’s pride for sale??”

Barely 45 days are left with our country to organize one of the world’s most prestigious games in Delhi. ie; “COMMON WEALTH GAMES” (CWG). And now “Brand India” is attached with these games. Organizing games at such biggish level will surely represent India to the world and its success may attract many global organizations to invest in our country. This can be understand more clearly with the past.. taking into account that how the “Beijing Olympics 2008” had helped China in increasing its GDP, it became the member of WTO and their was a flood of foreign investments, which is a record in itself. And we are very much aware that today China has left India behind in the race of superpower ( explained in my previous blog). The same was the case with Australia after the success of Sydney Olympics.

Now we all are very much clear that how much important is the success of the games for the development of our country. But the billion dollar question is :- Does the kind of preparations which our government is doing are sufficient ? Its very uncollectible to say that CWG is becoming a serious victim of corruption in the country. Corruption, which is one of the major hindrance in the development of the country is also destroying this Golden Opportunity.

The Central Vigilance Commission (cvc) has unearthed my document by which the multidimensional loot that is taking place has come into focus. Jawaharlal Nehru stadium had to be upgraded for the games at estimated cost of Rs. 580 crore. This renovation cost went upto Rs. 961 crore, which is almost double the estimated cost. The common wealth village if far from satisfaction. No one is allowed to take the camera view . each and every stadium tells the same story. Under the pressure of the politicians, now CVC has also put the official seal of disapproval regarding the loot in the games.

There is one another group of people who feels strongly that in the country where half the people live below the poverty line, the games are simply the unwanted luxury. Why it was necessary to spend 30,000 crores on the games? Why the estimated cost has jumped up to 17 times in the past 7 years? For tha inugral ceremony Rs 100 crore were kept aside which has now gone up to Rs. 375 crore.we will have the balloon touching Delhi’s sky which cost 80 crores. The gas will have to be imported from that balloon. Can we afford such luxury?

In my opinion, CWG has become a shameful blame game. Organizers have forgot what the were organizing. We seem to have lost the plot completely. I’ll not be shocked if their will be questions raised about our capability to host big international events. Who will pay for the loss? Organizers, who are right now busy in filling their pockets and at the time of enquiry, they will just pack up their bags. But the nation will have to find the answers to these uncomfortable questions. It will be BRAND INDIA which is going to suffer, not those organizers who flouted the rule book.

That’s why organizers must wake up now. We still left with one month to rectify the mistakes. After all if you are playing with our country prestige, then we are not going to leave you.

Are We Actually Living In Dual Personality??

What a great revolution IT has brought in our lives by introducing social networking on web. This is the best gift to all the youngistan people in the 21st century . Today we are surrounded by a large number of social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, orkut…..and many more which have million of users who incorporate these sites into their daily lives, checking their profiles multiple times a day. one of the main reason for its popularity is that it is really for the people, bringing every kind of social group together in one place and letting them interact is really a big thing indeed.

These sites were introduced after 1997 and the popularity has increased in a exponential manner. By taking an example of the well known site Facebook, which was launched in February 2004 has 500 million active users till July 2010. and still counting.

Isn’t the figures sound amazing … !!

Though social networking proves to be advantageous in many contexts yet it has been emerged as reason for disaster of one’s own life. If we put some light on the darker side of this great invention… then we all will be shocked by analyzing its consequences.

if we put some light on the darker side of this great invention… then we all will be shocked by analyzing its consequences.

You must have heard of the term “Facebook Addiction,” “Internet Junkie” or “Net Junkie”? Any of these labels sound familiar? These unflattering labels are used to categorize an individual’s obsessive dependence with the Internet, more commonly known as Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD. People suffering from such disease are being forced to portray themself as refined person with flawless quality, just to survive in the cyber world of materialism, glam and so called friendliness.

The extravagance of one’s personality during social networking leads to identity crisis. In this era of so hi-tech technology, I guess human beings have restricted themselves into four walled rooms and with one to many interactions through these sites. We are being fooled by ourselves with the varied personalities on the internet and off the internet.

Being plugged in means to pay a lot of attention to a lot of things at once, we can get overwhelming and stressful. It is as if the floodgates were opened and everyone jumped into one big pool trying to get seen and heard while at the same time trying to share and connect as much as possible. This is forcing us to spend time as much as possible on internet and cutoff our personal time to ourselves and our families.

This disposal of time versus the benefit of engagement needs to be balanced at some point otherwise we will create a culture where private time, thinking time, and contribution time are nearly gone. Sometimes we even use the words beyond humanism and humbleness, all to win the race in getting popular and famous.

Ofcourse no body knows you and nobody can see you…you may be very ugly looking but your presence of mind and sense of humor..all helps you getting good amount of followers..that what counts..!! Its just the matter of what you write no matter you may in real life be against of that fact. If people are appreciating your writing, you don’t have to think even once about whether its right or wrong..

This leads to death of your thoughts and your views.. It simply creates your mirror image which is exactly opposite to you.. And obviously more popular than you… But the real you is what matters who has lost deep beneath many shadows of this ruthless and selfish net world…!!

THE SUPERPOWERS OF TOMORROW

The word “SUPERPOWER” is used to define a country that has a capacity to dominate any where in the world and plausibly fulfill its own interest.

Yes, this is true that there is a immense competition between the two legend nations India and China to become the super power. One of them will surely become superpower very soon as we know that the British empire “where the sun never set” doesn't exits any more. The mighty of USSR has disappeared, there is no historical reason to believe that the richest and the strongest nation will remain like that forever. This is aforementioned that the center of power is shifting from U.S. to Asia. mainly India and China. Now the eyes of whole world are on the two nations and the race has already begun.

Talking about India, we can say that it can become a superpower in the span of 15 -20 years, If we get a good leadership to lead us. All the human and material resources are present in the country which are required to become a superpower. All what is required is to put them in the right direction. We all know that Indians are among the most intelligent people of the world. The software engineers of the country have made a Silicon Valley.

While talking about china, The story of superlative is not only restricted to population. China is one step ahead from India in the growth rate . Comparing the economies of the two nations, the economy of china is the third largest in the world after united states and Japan with a nominal GDP of $4.99 trillion in 2009, while the Indian economy is eleventh largest with a GDP of $1.236 trillion. China is the world’s fastest growing major economy, with an average growth rate of 10% for the past 30 years. comparing the per capita income china’s GDP per capita $3,677 is much higher than India’s per capita i.e. $1,030. World’s largest and modern stock exchange i.e. Shanghai Stock Exchange is in china. The Indian economy is the fairy tale since 1991, when the government of India introduced Liberalization , Privatization, Globalization., which allow foreign investors to invest in the country. Since than it has become an attractive business destination for investors.

In this golden era the problem plug-in the two countries are quite similar. Poverty is the biggest hurdle of the two countries. According to the world hunger index of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) India is ranked 94th out of 118 and china is 81. major evils like Corruption and the backwardness of the public sector leads to the poverty. Corruption is the root cause of backwardness in the country.

Taking into discussion the political parties of the two countries. In China the “communist party of china” (CPC) is the founding and the ruling political party . it is the world’s largest party with about 78 million members at the end of 2009 which constitutes about 5.6% of the total population. Where as in India there is a multi-party system with predominance of small regional parties. The ruling party is decided by the elections done by the election commission of the country the tenure of each ruling party in of 4 years. A huge amount of government funds are wasted during elections. the major problem is that political parties in India focus too much on the social and religious matters and too little on economic matters. Non economic issues like “Temples and Mosque” decide the result of elections in the country.

Discussing the demographic trends of the two countries which describe the changes in demographics in a population over time. The average age of a population may increase over time. It may decrease as well.. The demographics of India are remarkably diverse. India is the second most populous country in the world, with over 1.18 billion people (estimate for April, 2010), more than a sixth of the world's population. This is one of the major problem in the country which is creating a big hindrance in the development of the country

Even the china is also suffering with the same problem but it has introduced several policies to control the population growth ie: ONE CHILD POLICY.

One of the major official person of china once said in the press report that :- “ This is not a Rabbit tortoise race that Rabbit(china) will go off sleep and let the Tortoise(India) win the race.”

It would be safer to say that China has won the sprint and India is still gearing up for the MARATHON.