This is what Shehlaji’s second email said, and in the first one she was (I think) angry with me for organizing an event randomly. Now I know why, she runs an event management company and my behaviour was like an insult to her profession, no proper planning, no advertising, just doing what you please to do, a highly undemocratic act. I apologize for this but the intention was to do something good.
But a question bothered me for the whole week. I was wondering why she responded when she could have ignored me, I was thinking what ‘pl dont waste time..’ meant, was it a warning to stop bothering her or was it an advise to stay out of the mess. Thinking this I visited her blog yesterday where I found these articles, (I am linking these articles without her permission):
A corrupt bureaucrat is trying to ruin her business because she refused to pay him bribe. She has complained to various authorities even The President of India but to no avail. (I think.) I am too afraid to ask her about it, I know I can’t help her, she will be hurt more if I asked her about it.
I won’t bother her but won’t accept her advice too (of not wasting my time on this); I will keep trying, keep spreading the word that we need to change the system, that’s the least I can do for my country.
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,
(VISIT HERE OR GOTO THE END OF POST FOR THE ORIGINAL COMMENT)
Anshuman,
Buddy don’t get so charged up. No ideology is inherently bad, what people do with it make it good or bad. You say that Communists are corrupt, I don’t agree. I want to give two examples.
The first example is from our country, you might know about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Union Carbide and now the Dow Chemicals don’t want to own the responsibility of the Gas Disaster. Both are from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Our governments were also at fault but the issue could have been handled ethically by these companies. So, even though Capitalism brings money, power, development and innovation, it does not guarantee ethical behaviour and a greed and pollution-free world.
Coming over to more contemporary issues, What US is doing right now by granting bailout packages to its companies through taxpayers' money, it is following the SOCIALIST ideology. If it were true MARKET ECONOMY it would not have done that and let the (knowingly) erring CEOs kicked out of the system and allowed the economy to repair itself. Don’t you think this will also increase government’s interference in the US economy and this will provide role model to all other countries of the world. (remember package announced a few days back)
CORRUPTION exists everywhere and in many forms, the extent of it in a country makes it a problem or not. It is not that Communists are Corrupt and Capitalists are not. A CORRUPT PERSON HAS NO IDEOLOGY APART FROM GREED AND SELFISHNESS.
Adding to that I want to say that if somebody is not forcing an ideology on you, you must also do the same and uphold the real values of Democracy.
As for the reforms agenda of our country, I think we have tried to find the solutions for our problems all over the world for these sixty-seventy years, copied something from here, something from there, it's high time we introspect and devise new and local solutions and ideas too, rather than just following ('copying') other's examples.
BUT I AGREE THAT INDIA SHOULD BECOME A POWERFUL AND PROSPEROUS NATION. LETS MAKE THIS DREAM A REALITY.
Regards,
Latent Dissent.
[THE ORIGINAL COMMENT -Posted By Anshuman Arun On 24-12-2008
The United States is an economic powerhouse of the world because it doesn't have CORRUPT COMMUNISTS here. Similarly, India can be the most powerful nation on the earth if we can push a joint effort to scare away all the communists from India.]
I was reading through people’s queries on Jago website and the most common questions were related to its policies: Can it be done, how would you do it, etc. I have written about it many times (see here or here) but a new insight made me write this.
The question of implementation of promises and proposals is a crucial one for every concerned citizen but asking right questions at the right time is equally important. (I’ve got stuck in questions after the Where’s the Question article)
What has happened is the faulty functioning of our politicians for past many decades have changed our definition of a politician, we now see him as a bureaucrat-politician, one who does transfers and posting right from bottom to the top, who personally ‘delves’ in the matters of day to day administration and is remotely concerned with policies and agenda. After every election we see a series of transfers, cancellation of transfers, re-transfers, continue for many days.
Given such kind of functioning our bureaucrats have also turned the traditional definition of a bureaucrat upside down, they don’t hesitate to meddle in politics, many are directly involved in electioneering for their political bosses, they have turned into Politician-Bureaucrat. Any Politician-Bureaucrat is a darling for our politicians, who chase him till he does not join anyone of them.
This has made us ask administrative questions from politicians and political questions from bureaucrats. Ask a party why did you not do this work instead of asking how you failed to do it, Say I will vote for you once, you have to make sure all that you've said is done in 5 years otherwise I'll kick you out.
I tried to make a list of how a system should function , so that we can understand the difference between a politician and a bureaucrat.
1. The Political Party & The Politicians: a group of citizens who come together based on their belief in similar ideas and solutions. It contests elections, if comes to power makes the policy decisions (based on its manifesto and ideology), selects the leaders (not the whole bureaucratic team) for its implementation and supervises the work.
2. The People: decide what the direction of the nation should be through the elections. They are the real owners of the agenda of the political party they have voted in and they make sure that it’s implemented by the party by the fear of getting voted out in next elections.
3. The Government & The Bureaucracy: It is the tool, the instrument, the machinery that does the work assigned to it by the elected leadership, it does the all work, what it should do is decided by the political party in power, who is elected (decided) by the people based on the proposals and promises of the party.
The Conclusion is: (To Reiterate)The Bureaucracy does all the work, The Work is decided by the government which is a part of Political Party that gets voted in by the people. The People decide which Party gets their votes by the party’s agenda and manifesto.
Then the natural question is why people criticize the policies and proposals of a political party even when they can simply ignore it by not voting for it. The best explanation for it to me is that people feel somewhat connected to the party and its proposals, they try to test the resolve of the people behind it, they want to see are these people plain opportunists or persons of altogether different mettle.
Write an article on any one of the following topics:
1. India of My Dreams.
2. Is Jago Party a better option than other political parties of India.
Just remember these simple entry rules:
1. Publish the entry on your blog and mail it to latent.dissent@gmail.com or pos
t the link on the symposium notice form on jagobhopal.blogspot.com
2. Send the entry directly to latent.dissent@gmail.com or jagobhopal@gmail.com along with your name.
3. The date of entry is from 22 december to 28 december 2008.
INVITED BLOGGERS:
1. Vidhu. 2. Aadya. 3. Uday Kant Dixit. 4. Gurleen Kaur. 5. Ashish Menon. 6. Shehla Masood. 7. Rajey Sha. 8. Renu Sharma. 9. Amitabh Farogh. 10. S M Shukla. 11. Chaitanya Chandan. 12. D K Sachdeva. 13. R D Saxena. 14. Gaurav Bhatnagar. (Sorry buddy misspelled in the message!) 15. Proloy Bagchi. 16. Sharat Rajmohan Verma. 17. Ritesh Agrawal.
This is not an exhaustive list of the bloggers who have written on Mumbai Terror Attack, I know I might have missed many of you and your ideas, so kindly accept this as a personal invitation for participating in the Symposium.
Sincerely, Latent Dissent (who is Waiting for True Indians).
For the past many days I have been thinking about the 2001 Parliament Attack, today I thought of sharing my views with you.
Starting from the start, Even in 2001, my view was that the brave policemen should not have done their duties, let a dozen of MPs die so that politicians get a sense of reality, I knew or rather we all knew their relatives will suffer, and it happened and is going on. Is it that people shout unnecessarily against government or the government doesn’t do anything for them, Afzal Guru’s example can be used for showing government’s outlook in the matter.
Coming to 2008, the Mumbai Attack never came as a surprise, we all knew it is going to happen, we imagined BLASTS but they used guns this time as they used in 2001. I asked myself, why common people rather than high profile politicians then it came to my mind, in the Parliament Attack the terrorists were five in number and were able to kill seven, mostly policemen or lower staff. This was a failure on large scale for them, first because of the extent of damage and people’s response (I see myself here for I am always ready to spare a dozen of politicians’ life, they deserve it.)
This time they attacked people and not high profile politicians because they knew the people are not bothered by politicians’ death, even more why kill a person who is helping in one’s mission, don’t we all know what our politicians are doing. I can cite personal examples other than that of my social circle and what I have read and saw, for it but I think it isn’t required. (I don't want to rant that the terrorists are cowards, lets fix a day and place and have a war like older days, etc. When time comes it will all be seen.)
But the question is what do they gain from these attacks, they can’t subvert us by these tactics rather they bring us together and closer, they instill motivation in us to eliminate them, what makes them believe that we are cowards, we will never step on the line of fire for our nation, what’s missing in us that makes them believe this.
Is it not our indifference to people like Bal and Raj Thackray,
Is it not our indifference to our surroundings,
Is it not our support of Narendra Modi brand of leadership,
Is it not our support of Lalu Prasad Yadav brand of leadership,
Is it now our ignorance of our fellow citizens’ problems,
Is it not our indifference to Riots,
Is it not our indifference to people dying of hunger and diseases,
Is it not our disregard of fellow citizens when we fail to speak for them,
Is it not the number of NGOs in this country that do what the government has to do,
Is it not the our silence on killings of people like Satyendra Dubey,
Is it not our outlook of life where our pleasures matter even if they cost others pain,
Is it not our belief that nothing can be changed in this country,
Is it not our disrespect to people like Gandhi, Netaji Bose, Swami Vivekanand whose vision and ideas we have burnt in their funeral pyres,
Is it not our lack of will to cleanse our system,
Is it not our apathy to the victims of various crimes,
Is it. . . .
Sorry, the list seem endless.
The second aspect of this is if the politicians can plan and organize riots systematically, why can’t they explode a couple of bombs or pay for a couple of young boys to attack us.
I am genuinely skeptic about this, I wanted to write this point in detail later but, take for example the US War on Terror, Saddam Hussein was captured with ease but the Osama Bin Laden is still not captured. Can’t it be America’s ploy of having a permanent base in Pakistan and Afganistan to guard against Communist states Russia and China. Couldn’t they have paid Al Qaida for the Twin Tower Attack, like they paid them to fight USSR. You may call me paranoid but what can I do if such thoughts come to my mind.
What I can promise to do is to change myself, try my best out to reform the system, I would write about it here, in my blog.
(Swami Vivekanand once said Life's a battle, Let me die fighting, but a non-entity like me have small issues to deal with. My problem is the weight of the guilt that comes from my inaction and indifference , I can't carry it to my deathbed.)
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!)
First let me ask you or rather myself, where does all our skepticism go in front our netas and ministers, we laugh on Laloo Yadav’s Buffoonry, knowing what he has done, what sort of people he has given tickets to, when we should be ashamed. Why we always quote rote-statements from media and the so-called experts, why we think more of criminals, less of victims, WHY I ASK WHY? However. . .
This argument will be put through numbered points as there are limited points:
We had one of the best drafted Constitutions in this world, made under supervision and by people like Dr. Ambedkar, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Pt. Nehru, then why do we face current problems.
The answer to it is, following the law in letter but not in spirit. The Spirit, The Soul is essential for a Law to achieve what it was meant to achieve, just like it is essential for human being to be alive.
Then a reverse skepticism comes to my mind, when you follow a system and its provisions so closely that you can easily draft a perfect law, you are more in love with the system than against it. If you will change it all you efforts till now are ‘null and void’. The second related point is the most used excuse of our politicians, the bureaucrats have been in this system for many years they know all the loopholes, all the technicalities, what can we do if they fool us or we don’t achieve the goals. Okay Sir, your argument I for one accept. Just imagine why not we make a fresh start, neither you know the procedure nor do I, let the intentions be clear, let the goals be clear, let the targets be set, we will together deal with the technicalities, after all it’s OUR country, at least for once. There will be no excuses at least once.
The last reason is that this obsession with drafting and perfect letters proved fatal during the recent Mumbai Terror Attacks. You might already know, the CP of Mumbai sent request for help to Navy, which refused to send MARCOS (Marine Commandos) just because it was not properly drafted and undersigned by an officer of right rank. Just think over it.
Even if you are unconvinced then please tell me how justice is done in your home, how duties are divided amongst the family members, how do you plan your year/month/week, are all these well drafted and placed in front of you, so that you are reminded daily. Now don’t say that you do all of these informally, without a well drafted code, if this is the case just think over this last one, tell me if a person who elects his government can survive without written code why can’t a nation.
Most of us don’t need laws to govern and guide our behavior in daily lives, our family values, our education, our conscience are enough. And those people for whom these laws are meant for are sitting in our Legislatures, Lok Sabha, Vidhaan Sabhas. JUST THINK OVER IT.
I am a 20 year engineering student from ALLAHABAD. I believe in every word that has been written above. Truly speaking enough is enough. We were servants of the BRITISH for some 200 years and now are ruled by the selfish, disgusting and money minded leaders who themselves don't know where to take the country. I mean seriously these guys who have some years left in their lives are ruling and we the youth hate politics for being a dirty war arena.
May be its time for us to show that we the SONS of INDIA are capable of doing the same for the NATION as the MARTYRS of freedom struggle did. Let me ask u all a simple question, a very simple question : Where is our MOTHERLAND lost after INDEPENDENCE?? Did BHAGAT SINGH, AZAD. GANDHI, NEHRU, BOSE and all ever dreamt of this country where nothing other than CHEAP POLITICS, CORRUPTION, CASTEISM and all dominate the 1 BILLION!!!! I think THE TIME HAS ARRIVED for us to show and CHANGE the nation.
I have been thinking on this topic for quite some time, many people have outstanding professional record, they are darlings of media yet their personal life is/has been controversial.
We all know the case of KPS Gill, even Kiran Bedi has been criticized for being publicity monger and attention seeker, and getting admission of her daughter through tribal quota (I don’t claim factual accuracy of this point), etc. but the point is do we have a right to look into their lives or it is none of our business.
I think that the responsibility of a public figure is much more than a common person, they are role model to public, and people pay great attention to what they say or do. Apart from the needed privacy (nobody is saying to peep into people’s bedrooms) I think they should not evade public gaze because the real you comes out in private not in public (except for mob situation), how you behave in private reflects your general orientation towards your family, friends, society and life at large.
My belief is strengthened by the fact that Lashkar-e-Taiaba, which we all know is a terrorist organization, was doing charity and social work in Pakistan. Now, we see its profession (Terrorism) separated from its personal life (Charity & Social Work) but they see its profession (Charity & Social Work) and personal work (Terrorism) then what we call it would depend on which side of border we stand, but if we consider an overall, a composite picture of the organization we can easily decide on the matter. (kindly pardon my faulty reasoning,. . .)
So I think we must not be tunnel-visioned in viewing only professional life of the person while ignoring his personal life, at least not in the case of public figures.
It is believed that market is the best judge of people’s behaviour, as it understands the demand and supply pattern as also its survival rests on being dynamic and organic. Government institutions are considered defunct in this sense. And with time this sense is generalized to the system as a whole.
What we have not realized till now is that the basic framework of any society rests on its polity. The politicians decide the laws that govern the country, they lead the government and the country, and they control the armed forces, the police, the administration and above all the public exchequer. As we know the public exchequer is made from the taxes we all pay. The State acts as the judge between disputes, as the referee to ensure fair-play in the business.
If we leave politics for criminals and people of weak integrity and morals, the whole cycle gets oriented to serve the self-interests of these people who are aided by agents of all sorts and their counterparts in bureaucracy and business. The purpose of State, Democracy and Laws is defeated. See even after the Mumbai Attacks no party has a clearly drawn policy for terrorism, BJP wants POTA but how will they stop its abuse is not answered, all others are taking strong measures, what are these no one knows, Tell me if you have cracks in your house’s walls will you plaster it or whitewash it?
If good people stop entering politics, how will we see good politics and politicians, law and lawyers, policies and administrators, businesses and developed India? How can we strive for our own future when our collective future is at stake? We need to talk to our family members, friends and people at large about these issues.
The wave generated by the Mumbai Terror Attack is receding already when it needed to be turned into a Tsunami. Pakistan has slapped us in the face not once but many times that too in front the whole world. Then too our response to this is at best in the category of lax and don’t care. This is because people in power know that we have a habit of forgetting and ignoring their mistakes. This has to be changed.
This question now comes up everyday in my mind. Why do we care for anything rich and famous, why media is ever hungry to report on such happenings, when we don’t care about our own people even after knowing that people are starving, dying of diseases, and committing suicides in our own country?
Why do we care for camera flashes, diamond rings, expensive clothes and cars, when we don’t care about people living in Hell-like conditions just a couple of steps from our houses?
I hear voices from my childhood, ‘padh likhkar aage badhna hai, bada aadmi ban-na hai’, ‘netagiri me mat pado, ya to jail jaaoge ya ghaas chheeloge’, ‘netagiri kameeno aur bhrasht logon ka kaam hai na ki tumhara’. I now ask those voices ‘kya aaj jo ho raha hai uske zimmedar tum bhi nahi ho?’ Taking a bird’s eye view of our politics for past we can say that in three generations we have come to a point of total disintegration. The first generation, born before independence, could have relied on their leaders on a general basis or on an average. But the second generation should not have relied on them generally but specifically. What’s worse is that the tendency was passed on to our generation, when we need to question our leaders, watch their behavior constantly, logically evaluate their views and stand on various issues, we are sitting happily changing channels, erasing issues with each button press.
We are now building yet another excuse for our laziness, the excuse is ‘a person is killed or suffers simply due to his bad luck and nothing else. We are lucky to be alive and unhurt’. What we don’t realize is that this fatalistic approach on the surface gives us strength but like termites hollows us from inside, everything human inside us dies, we no longer feel the emotions and start believing that we are living in a jungle where each day is a battle for survival. What this thought reflects is complete failure of our society, as it can’t even give hope to someone.
Surprisingly the solution to it is very simple, as I have said before a couple of times. Devote a couple of hours daily to politics, not passive but active politics; it will not only help make people aware but also give you the satisfaction that you did not behave like Neroes of our country.. (‘jab Rome jal raha tha tab Nero baansuri baja raha tha’)
Sorry for bothering you again. I thought I had one more chance, I would write to you in English and if you find it useful you may help spreading the message for the national cause.
Like the whole nation I too was stirred by the blatant terror attack on Mumbai. I was very angry and started thinking about the solutions not only for Terrorism but bringing India to the top. One solution stood above all was that our Politics and Politicians were failing us. So the need for Political Reforms should be the topmost agenda of us, from political reforms would flow other reforms and we could have a strong, developed and united nation.
Naturally, present day political parties aren’t suitable as well as deaf for meeting these demands. They are happily playing the Musical chair of power aided by Corruption, Reservation and Religion. If the present process continues for another 10 years, I doubt that there will be any existence India as we see today, forget about the India of My Dreams.
People’s anger is at its highest this time but it is being expressed in the form of SMS, Candle Light Vigils, Posters, Banners and Pamphlets. I am not a votary of such tactics, though I used to do these earlier. Some more proactive citizens have started forming parties on the regional and local levels like that given in your report. I do not agree to this too, but I respect every persons fundamental right form association.
My main objection to local and regional parties is that eventually they lead to further fragmentation of our politics and delicately balanced governments that survive on whims and fancy (and corruption) of a local leader (e.g. Shibu Soren). In this context I would like to draw your attention to Jago Party.
Jago Party is essentially a party of citizens with non-political background, common people like you and me. It was formed with the major goals of eliminating reservation, tackling crime and terrorism with severest punishment (death sentence) and banishing corruption from India. The party devoted to bringing the activity of government to the basics and all other activities be divested or put under the private sector. The educational agenda of the party is free education for all in English medium in private schools. So is the aim of privatizing the Power Sector and Railways. Above all, the mission of Jago Party is to make India a very safe, strong and rich country.
Within 6 months, more than 2 lakh people have come forward to support the party. Sadly enough, the party is not well known in Madhya Pradesh especially in Bhopal. I think that becoming a part of a national party will channelize our efforts in one direction and bring fruitful results. Otherwise, though there may be changes at the surface nothing will change at the core of our nation. We are surrounded by enemies and are alone, if only all the Indians come together we can face the challenge. The politicians have developed vested interests in the system they will not gift us reforms, we have to snatch it from them and for that reason more and more people need to join politics so that politics does not stay the game of scoundrels.
If only people would know that work has already started and their help is absolutely needed then only we could expect a change of such magnitude. This is where you become the key element in the chain. I request you to make Bhopal aware of the Party and its goals and help the great cause.
Expecting the most from you in this work of nation building, Sincerely, Latent Dissent. (www.latentdissent.blogspot.com)
Piracy is stealing; it kills the industry associated with it. But it poses a greater threat, most of the pirated music and film business runs from Pakistan. Their websites as well as people earn money that belongs both legally and ethically with Indian Music and Film Industry.
But our industry is also at fault, they don’t listen to what the people are saying. Can you compete with a Free of Cost Download or a Cheap DVD by calling it illegal? No. The problem is first you yourself steal tunes, stories, etc. from somewhere else without paying royalty. Then you hide the actual cost of making the movie/album and financial sources thereof. Adding to that, you fail to understand the Demand and Supply.
Most trade analyst agree that the Film Industry now runs on the first three days. Why can’t you release the DVD or telecast it online or put it up on Movie On Demand channels of various DTH that are available on the fourth day. Plus the price of many DVDs is still prohibitive. You don’t give the customer a choice and call his actions flawed. Make the services available and people will turn to you. Nobody likes to steal, with proper awareness campaign more and more people will join in.
Similar is the case of Music Industry. The Technology has all changed but even before that people preferred Top 10 or Double albums than whole album. It is fooling yourself to say each and every album has all 8-10 songs perfect and likeable. Often there are only a couple of songs people want from your album nobody has the time or patience to analyze your album. Whatever pleases the person is in rest all is out. Coming to technology people now are keeping their songs on ipods, computers and mobile phones. The game of Tapes and CDs is gone. The Music Industry should start selling music online, that too individual song not the complete album (they can even have special offers for complete albums) at right cost. Start doing this and see people coming to you automatically.
What have they to loose. Music Albums and movies are made available for downloads the same day what do you gain from it? The person or rather country that gains from our efforts is Pakistan. THINK AGAIN !
With corruption a way of life now, a non existing issue now, we all a part of this great ‘Chakki’ (grinder). I find the concept of Karma useful here. You are responsible for your acts and not others’. Hindu mythology has a number of stories that deal with the issue. A solution was seen recently seen in the movie Rang De Basanti. Nobody is asking you to kill your parents, but try not to use the money or try to do some good work with it rather than conspicuously consuming it on yourself. Try to explain to them that you don’t need that much money.
Also remember they have lived their lives based on their principles, we can never understand the conditions they grew with. But we are responsible for our future and the coming generations, do you want your child ponder over this question, ASK AGAIN.
Whatever people claim, the reality is that USA funded Al Qaida and Taliban which turned into a menace. Even now, in lieu of the Pakistan’s support of War on Terror they are giving away million of dollars. Will they disclose the accounts that show what is happening to that money. Even the Iraq War started with the issue of WMD but it was part of their Oil Diplomacy.
First, proof is not out there. Then, as we are facing, Pakistan could also have disconnect between the government and the citizens. Even if we consider Pakistan guilty of the attack, we must also consider the scale of operation. They might have researched a number of loopholes in our system, bought off a couple of officers, consider the aftermath of attacking them. The whole world will laugh at us, let us first clean our house then take on the external enemies.
The scoundrel line is the triumph card of those in politics. Through it they can keep away people from politics thereby reducing competition and securing a place for their generations to come. Also by doing this, they can do whatever they want without any accountability.
First, you are reading this blog so its impact and reach can’t be doubted. Then the advertising cost can be severely cut through it. It can also help bringing in transparency as every step of politics and governance can be debated and discussed on it. Even the choice of candidate can be made on it.
Nobody has tried or proved it cannot be done, so we can try it. Remember, the smallest action is much better than the noblest intention.
The whole sub-continent is suffering from the problem of Family-based parties. Rather than focusing on What one has currently done, emotive statements are made of sacrifices made in distant past. Moreover, sacrifice is made voluntarily; nobody pushes one to it. If people want to show their respect they will. What kind of person are you if you sell the sacrifices of your near and dear ones. (N.B. Mark the difference between the People and the Government, their roles are different in such cases).
A Faceless Party is one where any ordinary citizen can become an MLA/MP based on his qualities and qualifications, not by serving the narrow self-interests of an individual or a group of individuals.
As the people are faceless so should be their party.
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I am a 20 year engineering student from ALLAHABAD.
I believe in every word that has been written above. Truly speaking enough is enough. We were servants of the BRITISH for some 200 years and now are ruled by the selfish, disgusting and money minded leaders who themselves don't know where to take the country. I mean seriously these guys who have some years left in their lives are ruling and we the youth hate politics for being a dirty war arena.
May be its time for us to show that we the SONS of INDIA are capable of doing the same for the NATION as the MARTYRS of freedom struggle did. Let me ask u all a simple question, a very simple question : Where is our MOTHERLAND lost after INDEPENDENCE?? Did BHAGAT SINGH, AZAD. GANDHI, NEHRU, BOSE and all ever dreamt of this country where nothing other than CHEAP POLITICS, CORRUPTION, CASTEISM and all dominate the 1 BILLION!!!! I think THE TIME HAS ARRIVED for us to show and CHANGE the nation.
Come be a part.