A Vote of Thanks: Jago Bhopal Blogger Symposium 2008

Thank you all for making this event the most successful one I have ever organized in my life. You will laugh at this statement but this is the truth.

These four responses to my words from people I don't even know, I haven't even met, are more precious to me than those from people I know. It fills you with pride that such people are there in our society who are ready to listen to strangers, it fills you with responsibility that people are listening to you, watching you, talking to you.

Since this was an unadvertised (and random) event by an unknown representative of an unknown party , I was hoping for just one response this year to continue this mission, but got four instead. Apart from the above, it also signifies that how grim the situation is, how fed people are with the system, how they are willing to change it, even run it. It hurts all of us that our country is not going in the right direction and we are unable to do anything about it. As said in 'A Wednesday', we are a part of this rot not by choice but by force.

I want to stress again the point that this problem stemmed from democracy and democracy alone can solve it. The secret ballot is the most powerful weapon in this war, nobody can tell whom have you voted, that's a power par excellence.

The main problem today however is the Crisis of Leadership, we don't have right people at the right places, I think most our problems will be solved if we can ensure this. For this people, the common citizens have to come forward to contest elections and participate actively in our polity. Nobody has probed the pulse of the citizens, Jago Party can and should be that platform, why should people be afraid or ashamed of doing something right.

The job that requires the least qualifications but has maximum impact on our lives has no takers of good people, why do we fear this job, we just have to order the bureaucracy and the government machinery that people want this get this done. They have to do it, its their job to do it and the job of people's representatives is to ensure and supervise this work and change the leaders of the teams if found inefficient. Is it a very hard job? Why don't people come forward to accept this simple fact and their responsibilities?

These four people are thus worthy of respect and a hearty thanks, because they came forward when nobody else did.

Leaving you with this video hoping that you may awaken (pay attention to what Gehlot has to say):



Do you remember the lines,
Shame on you if you fool me once,
Shame on me if you fool me twice!

Keep thinking over these lines, think about what's going wrong,

Jai Hind.

Latent Dissent.

JAAGO INDIA. . . .!

Clip showing: Daler Mehndi singing Jaago India !



LAWYER FILES CASE AGAINST DALER MEHNDI FOR THE SONG JAAGO INDIA:
“I have filed a criminal case against Daler as the lyrics of his song ‘Jaago India’ sounds demotivating and is in bad taste. The lyrics of his song abuse people of the country, which is completely objectionable and is not in the interest of the nation,” Kunjaraman told IANS here Wednesday.

“I decided to file a case against the singer and take it further for the interest of the people,” Kunjaraman added.(READ FULL STORY HERE)

'Prabhu' Kunjaraman people in many districts of my state Madhya Pradesh are dying of hunger, my own city is facing water shortages but bore wells are being dug every minute, your activism is desperately needed here, let them sing a song and do the ding-dong, LETS SOLVE THE REAL ISSUES!

ANY TAKERS OF MR. KUNJARAMAN !

ARE THE LYRICS IN BAD TASTE & OBJECTIONABLE?

Lyrics (of Jaago India sung by Daler Mehndi for the album Mission Shanti):

Tum saare sote raho, Maarne wale maar rahe hain,

Tum 'saale'/saare sote raho, Maarne wale maar rahe hain,

Tum 'saalon'/saaron rote raho, Maarne wale maar rahe hain,

Tum 'saalon'/sab rote raho, Maarne wale maar rahe hain,

ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago India.

ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago India.

Mazhab nahi...

Tum sab lut-tay raho, lootne wale loot rahe hain,

Tum sab lut-tay raho, lootne wale loot rahe hain,

Tum sab pit-tay raho, peetne wale peet rahe hain,

Tum sab pit-tay raho, peetne wale peet rahe hain,

Allah te...

ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago India.

ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago ae.. Jaago India.

Sare jahan se achcha...

He Isn't The Stupid Common Man. . .

He isn't the common man because he is not adjusting to the situation, he is not getting used to the situation. He is doing the pest control himself, he simply isn't the common man.


THOSE WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED THIS MOVIE (A WEDNESDAY) MUST WATCH IT, IT'S EXCEPTIONAL!

YOU MUST READ THIS: Was a long and dark December. . .

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow

Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below

When the future's architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You'd better lie low

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

Priests clutched onto bibles
And went out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

Bury me in honor
When I'm dead and hit the ground
A love back home unfolds

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

I don't want to be a soldier
With the captain of some sinking ship
With snow, far below

So if you love me
Why'd you let me go?

I took my love down to violet hill
There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still

So if you love me
Won't you let me know?

If you love me,
Won't you let me know?

NOW COMES A R ANTULAY:

WAKE UP PEOPLE HOW MUCH MORE YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THESE KIND OF CHEAP STATEMENTS,

1. HE SAYS, IT WAS AGAINST PROTOCOL, TELL ME TERRORISTS HAVE ATTACKED, YOU MUST FOLLOW THE PROTOCOL OR REACH THE SITE.

2. SOMEBODY MISGUIDED THEM, DO YOU HAVE ANY PROOF MR. ANTULAY OR JUST MAKING AN ALLEGATION FOR POLITICAL MILEAGE?

3. KINDLY READ THE EYEWITNESS CONSTABLE'S STATEMENT OR WATCH THIS VIDEO AND YOU WILL STOP TALKING RUBBISH.


4. WATCH THIS VIDEO FROM HU TU TU PEOPLE, YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE AWAKENED. (badi ajeeb cheez hoti hai ye siyasatdaan khud se chala nahi jata desh ko chala rahe hain! NANA PATEKAR AT HIS BEST!)


JAI HIND!

THE POLICIES & PROPOSALS OF JAGO PARTY ARE HARSH/ INHUMAN/ IMPRACTICAL/ AMATEURISH, I ALSO THOUGHT SO !

The first impression of these policies and proposals do seem amateurish and impractical, the first emotion to emerge is that of fear, the images of a police state comes to mind, the

horrors of emergency (if one has seen) are recalled.

The reason for it is that we think that if corrupt and criminals will have this fate what will happen to us, this too is not wrong for the corrupt, the criminals, the ‘bahubalis’, the ‘bhais’ today represent power, they are considered super-males, for an ordinary person cannot and does not break the rules, kill a person, rape someone, harass someone, exploit someone, and walk free without a guilty conscience and without police arresting him. Who can give punishments to such powerful people can surely and easily destroy me.

We start imagining a police (government) that controls each and every action of the citizen just like a fascist state or an authoritarian state and adding to that the stories of Police Excesses are well known all over the country. But this is wrong; I think the aim was to evoke fear in those who need to fear the laws (i.e. The Criminals) and not the common person. The aim was to tell people that this is possible, but people who are daily fed with facts from media (both print and electronic) and education system has entrenched in them that we have to work/ function under this system only, there is no need for change and change is bad.

We are the Champions of Legacies, the bureaucracy, the political system, the judicial system , each and everything copied borrowed from some other country, students in Class 10 learn a list of more than 20 countries from where our constitution is borrowed. Economic Model, the India’s innovation, The Mixed Model, we will have both Public and Private Sectors, we will neither on this side nor that, if anything goes wrong blame one part and the next time blame the other, and keep on this cycle for eternity. We will make 4 pillars of State when all the other countries have 3, we will give each a constitutional status so that everyone has a guarantee to loot the system and never be thrown out.

See this The Mixed Model Strategy, The Search for Best of Both World, leads us around a circular path and each time we stop we are at the crossroads, we have given this model 60 years, I say why not give a chance at least to a Model that takes one side instead of both, kick them out after 5 years, at least you could say that we experimented with it and the idea failed, but the problem is we have learned and built so many excuses that even a small step now look impossible. But whatever be your thinking, remember that the people who have vested interests in the system won’t gift you your rights at their own cost.

Coming back to the harshness issue, what I thought when I read various topics was that the person who has written this is influenced by Shankar’s two movies Naayak and Aparichit, the level of desperation, the thinking, the explanations can be seen in these two movies. Take for example the following clip from Naayak:

I have put my first and second impression of the policies and proposals of Jago Party before you. Now you have to decide which course you want to take, but wait just read what Mr. Nandan Nilekani has to say on these very issues, CLICK HERE ! Hope you find something similar, NOT THE LANGUAGE BUT CERTAINLY THE IDEA OF REFORM.

BUT THE MOST BASIC MISTAKE WE ALL MAKE IS TO SEE OURSELVES ON THE RECIEVING END NOT THE GIVING END, WHY CAN'T WE BE POLITICIANS, YOU REQUIRE THE LEAST QUALIFICATIONS TO BECOME ONE YET YOU ARE AFRAID OR DO YOU HAVE A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX THAT POLITICS IS A WORK OF LESSER MORTALS. . .PLEASE ANSWER. . . TO YOURSELF. . .TO ME IF YOU LIKE.