The current UPSC row.

As the recent row over the UPSC exam pattern has escalated for worse only, something needs to be done; for sure in order to tame the problem or the problem can definitely inflict a huge attack on our motherland.

The contemporary fierce battle over the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission of India) CSAT exam is completely a language issue. On one side there are students who don’t want English to be included as a compulsory language while on the other side of the issue are those who consider English as a vital and crucial tool required to be handled by sophisticated to-be officers and therefore their aptitude and knowledge test (which demands a good grasp of English language upto class X level) is a must to check whether the aspirants are really able to handle the matters and duties assigned to them after becoming top class bureaucrats.

As far as my knowledge is concerned, the English aptitude and comprehension test is pretty much crucial for the applicants who want to succeed as top class bureaucrats in the future. Those who would one day be made to deal with high level matters need to have a very good hold on their language skills. In fact, it would not be a wrong thing to say that English is the language of the world. Today most of the nation’s (most of the European and American nations) speak English while those who don’t have their officials who have a good grasp of the language so as to avert any problem that could arise out due to language barriers in international meetings and dialogues, while on the other hand Hindi continues to be a limited to India only, and the fact is that it is not even spoken in whole of India. In our own nation we have half of our population (Southern India) speaks English and prefer English rather than Hindi. Let’s assume that today the government concedes to the demand of students protesting in order to snatch away the title of compulsory language to English. Now when these students go on to become IAS officers or IFS officers then surely they would be made to talk with envoys from different countries, they would be required to work as officers at various international institution like UN etc. and in various other countries, so what these officers will do when they would go to work in those countries which have English as their most-spoken language. How would these officers who are not even able to talk with people there, would lobby to get things in the favour of our nation? This is one of the most important reasons why I deem the current protest by students against the inclusion of English as a compulsory language, completely preposterous.

The other thing is that some people have jumped up in the protest by proclaiming that it’s a matter of national pride as English is threatening other Indian languages. Now let me some established fact. India is the nation having more English speaking people than anywhere in the world. While on one side when English is spoken all over the world, Hindi is not spoken completely in India only. It is good to regard our regional languages as they maintain our nation’s huge civilization but still we need to be practical. If we continue to have the same approach that we had forty-fifty decades back and we stop teaching English to our coming generation, then we would not be able to communicate with the world for ever our basic needs and that would be a serious problem. What good can our language do to us if a Tamil can’t understand a Gujarati? It is good to maintain old heritage but it is more important to change as per the demand of time therefore rather than decrying change, we should embrace it whole heartedly.

One more thing that I would like to emphasize on is that rather than blaming the students for the protest completely we should have a look at the previous government policies which are today proving to be a nightmare for the whole country. Those who are today’s applicant for the UPSC exam might have graduated from their school around 3 to 5 year ago and these people might have joined school around 15 to 16 years ago. Going into the past, we would uncover the bitter truth that at that time, at government schools, Hindi was the teaching medium and even today in most of the government schools, even science and maths books are in Hindi. When students who have been taught even maths and science in Hindi, aspire to crack IAS, English would definitely be a barrier for such students. Today just because of the unworthy policies of the previous governments, today these students are made the scapegoat while on the other hand those responsible for all the mess are hardly blamed. Even today also, NCERT maths and science books are published in Hindi and just to please the world, a slim short English literature book with difficult meaning and summary in Hindi is provided to the Hindi-medium school student. This is exactly the ground reality of the great developing India.

Today something needs to be done. Rather than blaming the students solely for all the protests, the central government needs to rectify its own policy to prevent the devastation of the upcoming generation due to such language barriers.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

True sons of motherland.

When you lie down in the lap of your loved ones,

On the far end of our borders, motherland loses many of its worthy and valiant sons,

When you sleep in the beauty of your dreams,

They are uncertain whether they would rise up again or sleep for the rest of their life owning to enemy’s bullet’s beams,

You feel secured and proud to be in your nation,

But remember, they are the ones behind our nation’s creation,

Whenever something threatens our unity,

These sons of mother India restore our nation’s integrity,

They work relentlessly to make your life a success,

And in order to do that they bear the brunt of enemy’s unholy mess,

Sometimes terrorists, sometime enemy, sometimes huge hindrances try to threaten them and make them fall down,

But these great souls refuse the hardships of life and remain duty bound,

Sometimes snow tries to chill them up,

Or cold water makes their temperature go down,

But these great souls, whether its is sizzling sun or thunderous zephyr, 

remain duty bound,

They don’t know who you are,

But still they are ready to transcend any limit or bar,

To avert any problem that threatens the credibility of the nation,

They work day and night as unselfish masons,

Helping the nation develop day and night,

They are the courteous sons of the motherland, even ready to die in this fight,

They don’t know what the next moment may bring them,

Whether it’s 1962 or Kargil, they continue to be at the helm,

They don’t know if the coming enemy’s grenade may cease their life’s lease,

Making them rest in peace,

But they are busy leading us out of darkness,

They are not afraid whether they will die in the coming passage of time,

They just feel proud to say, “O’ my great nation, you are mine.”

They will for the sake of nation sabotage any attack,

But the whole world knows at last that Indian army will never back…will never back.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Is cricket eating our heritage???

As the Glasgow 2014 Common Wealth Games start up, there is hardly any fervour seen in India related to world’s second biggest all in one sports gala after the Olympics. Notwithstanding having various exceptional players, expected to bag medals in these CWG, a large proportion of the populations seems to be hardly aware of the fact that any such even is being organized in the world and that India is taking part in it and this clearly reveals the true condition of sports as well as that of sports players in India.

India has been a country of cricketers. Hardly has there been any game other than cricket which is played in all the parts of the nation with enthusiasm and zeal. Cricket has reached to such a depth in Indian sports that today Indians have forgotten their national game, which is in fact hockey not cricket. Great games like football and tennis, remain confined to only some states West Bengal, Goa and Kerala while significant sports like hockey hardly hold on to any significance in the real India and that’s the main reason why we continue to show up a very bad tally of medals in Olympics. Till now a nation of 2.137 billion has been able to grab only 26 medals which are not far more than the tally of 22 medals of the American swimmer Michael Phelps. With this all the sports in the nation continue to bear the brunt of the apathy of the whole nation. Sports like football, hockey etc. continue to suffer and lot and sports players much than the sports themselves and that’s the reason why today parents don’t want to make their children sports players thus overall producing a generation which is either good in Cricket or at nothing else thus marking the doom of all the other sports in the nation.

Today Indian sports continue to be at their nadir. Today the Indian hockey which accounts for 11 medals out of the 26 Olympic medals continues to experience its worst period in the history of the game. Today the players of our national sports are even such a financial state that they can’t even afford to buy hockey kits for themselves while on the other hand, cricket players continue to ear crores from IPLs, T20s, ODIs etc.

 The condition of athletic in India also continues to be pitiable. This great nation doesn’t even have more than ten to twenty athletes who have made any significance at the international level. In sports like swimming and diving, India continues to be a failure while in sports like sprinting etc. Indian athletes are not even able to qualify to participate at the Olympic levels while on the other hand small nations like Kenya and Jamaica continue to produce world class record holders.

If we talk about tennis then there has been no player which has been able to win the Wimbledon cup in singles. No player except Leander Paes has been able to grab up a medal at the Olympics. Today India continues to perform a poor show in grand slams, having no great player currently who can make his presence felt at the international level tennis competitions.

Lets now move on to the world’s greatest sports i.e football. It would not be a wrong act to proclaim India as an underperformer in the football world. Indian national football team has a ranking of 151 in the FIFA list which is even lower than that of nations like Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Despite of having a pool of wonderful players in the states of West Bengal, Kerala and Goa, the nation has not been able to completely exploit its talent to the hilt because of reluctance by the authorities to take the game forward.

Today the condition of sports in India is so much disgusting that even one medal at Olympics comes as an unexpected serendipitous gift for the nation. We continue to be counted among the worst performers at the international gala but we continue to forget it all up and engage ourselves into the matches of cricket. Today so many exceptional players are there, but just because of no scope of different games in India, these players have to do pitiable works day and night in order to make both ends meet. This ultimately demoralizes other budding sports talent who want to play games other than cricket thus forming a cloud of despair over other games.

Today we need to revise our spots strategy and need to incentivize other sports too in order to entice the new talents to come up rather than remaining hidden doing unworthy works or the future of Indian sports will be lost forever.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

History repeating.(USA and Russia)

Recently a great catastrophe struck the whole world as the flight MH17 was dashed down into bits and pieces due to an inhumane act by some horrifying people. As the MH17 was gunned down, 289 benign souls were made to leave this world. Those who were dreaming of a good future were made to get the whole of their life devastated. Those who dreamt of moving ahead were ravaged completely. The Boeing 777-200ER airliner went down debilitated near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine at a distance of about 40km from the Ukraine-Russia border, slaying down all of the passengers just due to international animosity arising out of the Crimea issue.

The Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was scheduled international passenger flight flying from Amsterdam to Kaula Lampur that crashed on 17 July near the Ukraine-Russia border. The calamity that struck the travellers was in itself a huge shock to the whole world, but now the results which are going to ensue this incident can be much more horrifying.

To understand the profoundness of the matters that just took place, we need to plunge back in time, to know about the Crimean disaster. The Crimean crisis which recently came into the limelight involved Russia and Ukraine over the control of Crimean Peninsula until its annexation by the Russia. This move of Russia was unwelcomed by various powerful heavyweights of the world like United States of America, France and Germany and then these nations decries Russia for intimidating Ukraine and forcefully annexing Crimea which was actually a part of Ukraine while on the other side Russia remained stern on its position and thrived on its stance by citing the result of the Crimean referendum in which people residing in the Crimean region were asked to vote in a referendum on whether they wanted to join Russia or if they wanted to restore Crimea’s status as a part of Ukraine. In the referendum 96.77% of the voters voted in favour of assimilation of Crimea in Russia. Russia officially recognized the results of the Crimean referendum and claims that unilateral Kosovo declaration of independence has set a precedent, which allows secession of Crimea from Ukraine. Such parallels are disputed by Western scholars, however.

 Russia put, in its favour, this argument against the condemnation of countries like Germany, United States and France and European Union. While later thirteen members of the United Nations Security Council voted against the referendum quoting it invalid and Russia vetoed it.

After than EU, USA, UK etc. came ahead to snap various embargoes on Russia citing the problem with Russia on the Crimean issue but the Russia refuted to abandon its stance and therefore continued to take Crimea as a part of Russia. This suddenly led to the polarisation of the whole of the world into two half just like the condition of cold war. One side of the world which has some contention issues with the Unites States accumulated in the side of Russia and the rest went to the Unites States. Again the issue went silent on the international forum as EU imports many things from Russia and didn’t want to break up from Russia snapping up the supply of various commodities.

Till now the tensions had not even been abated and yet another problem arose in front of the world. The recent airliner crash! Now the US and its allies are blaming Russia, calling it culprit of the recent crash while Russia says that the Ukraine government needs to take up the responsibility of the attack as it took place over the territory of Ukraine.

At this time, when all of the nations in the conflict are equipped with nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction, neither USA nor Russia would want to enter into a state of cold war but tensions can definitely trigger between the two old enemies. USA wants to minimize Russian influence on previous USSR nations and nations neighbouring Russia while on the other hand Russia wants to regain its influence on various neighbouring nation and when the beliefs of these two world powers collide, something bad can happen at any point of time.

Therefore the world today needs to be careful about the results that can follow the current problems rising between Unites States and Russia  and hence something needs to be done on the matter. Today various international organisations like UN should intervene in the matter in order to help the countries make a settlement rather than condemning one another.

Hope that the peace will be maintained and nothing bad like Cold War would once again shroud the whole world.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Indian future jeopardised.

The new budget which came as a respite in a major way for all the India had far more delighting things than were expected. Contemporarily it is not a covert fact that India is treading behind many other developing nations in terms of science and according to some new reports published, India notwithstanding carrying a population of 2.137 Billion invests much less in science than needed and ultimately all such thins ultimately amalgamate together to constrain the real talent of the nation from being unleashed.

But as the new budget was announced, the new Finance Minister of India, it seemed that Mr. Arun Jaitely, truly comprehended the gravity of this issues and therefore the Finance Minister also rolled out plans to erect five IITs and IIMs and four AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidarbha and Purvanchal regions.

Although without scepticism, it seems truly correct that the current laggard situation of our medical research would have goaded Mr. Jaitely up to announce the decision of opening four more AIIMS, but what’s needed more is to learn from our past failures first rather than going on committing the same mistakes in the future. Though Mr. Jaitley’s decision is heartily welcomed by me and probably by whole of the nation but the new government should also go one to learn from the previous fiascos due to which we continue to be beaten up behind.

AIIMS continue to be India’s most prestigious medical hospital and college which is attributed of conduction the best medical operations and researches all over the nation with the best faculty of doctors and specialists and the thing holds true till a large extent. AIIMS came up in the year 1956, with an initial endowment from New Zealand of a million US dollars. At that time AIIMS was just a tentative experiment and nobody was sure of its future but today resplendently, AIIMS treats 10,000 satisfied patients everyday thus becoming country’s lifeline hospital which operates the rich as well as the poor with the same precision and care. But there is also a truth behind the real image of India’s this marvellous institution.

Today AIIMS continue to be engulfed by various problems. Some of them are here.

The first problem continues to be of the whole nation. Lacks of doctors predominantly scares the whole of AIIMS. Today AIIMS is operating on just two-third of its required strength falling short of more than 200 doctors. According to some recent reports on the AIIMS College, around 53% of the graduates from AIIMS immigrate to various other developed nations in order to practise medicine. This problem arises due to, lack of incentives to doctors, lack of funds for research, lack of proper instruments in order to treat the patients and poor working conditions. All these problems sum up in order to be converted in the problem of brain drain which leads to loss of huge talent pool of the whole nation.

The other thing is that the previous governments completely overlooked the real need in order to reform this crucial institution which works nor only to save the life of people but also to save the hopes of hundreds of others associated with the patient. Paucity of beds at AIIMS continues to horrify thousands of patients from around the country who come to be treated at AIIMS. According to one estimate, more than 7000 people visit AIIMS OPDs everyday but even AIIMS reception counter is not able to hold such a large capacity of people, what about the beds in the hospital. Many patients continue to be there in open hoping for the attention of the life giver doctor.

One more thing that continues to jeopardise a bright future of AIIMS is the pay and working conditions at this institution. It takes more than five years in order to get an MBBS degree and even longer in order to become a specialist in a particular field. After spending around a decade of their life focussing on become a good doctor, the graduates also want to be reciprocated for their struggle and hard work that they had put in their studies but at the end they get a minimal salary of Rs. 51,600 a month. Today engineers earn more than lakhs per month which doctors who gave away so many years of their life in order to achieve the dream of their life get such a minimal amount which doesn’t even let them make both ends meet and at last these doctors are forced to settle in some other country. Imagine that your parents spent a large portion of their salary in order to arrange coaching for you to clear the medical test, then they spent a lion’s share of their salary in order to get you enrolled in a medical college, then they spent money for over a decade in order to let you complete your medical studies and at last when you earn such a less amount of money then, it just hurts everyone and therefore our doctors go on to move to countries like United States where medical profession is much more revered than in India.

According to some statistics in the year 2020, India would need an additional workforce of more than 4 lakh doctors and around fifty thousand new medical centres in order to successfully treat a large portion of the nation’s population, but according to the current circumstances it seems that it’s pretty difficult to reach upto the target, but we can surely help ourselves out of the problem if we pay heed to these problems plaguing our system for such a long period of time. If such problems like lack of incentive to doctors, poor working conditions etc. continue to hover over our medical workforce then a lot of people would be made to lose their life just due to our negligence and inability in tackling the problem and therefore a lot needs to be done.

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

BRICS by BRICS

Recently the whole of India witnessed two huge celebrations back to back with humongous fervour and zeal. First one was the Brazil 2014 FIFA world cup and the second one was the BRICS summit, in Brazil’s Fortaleza. Although the football aficionados were not quite happy with the result of the coveted FIFA World Cup as Indians’ two most favoured teams Brazil and Argentina could not grab the chance to hold the world cup trophy but this season gave the nation yet another surprise, the surprise of the relishing success of the BRICS summit 2014, Brazil that just carved out history with golden world and gave the world a signal that the BRICS houses world’s upcoming leaders in every field.

This 6^th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) can be declared as the best of all its previous versions concluded. Despite of being haunted by the situation of dead lock when nations like China continuously refute to change their stance, this summit was marked by the alacrity of the members of the summit to help each other move forwards and to provide a helping hand in the development of the whole planet. The BRICS forum which was till now considered just as a talking forum transmuted its reputation around the whole in this 6^th summit after the announcement of decisions to erect New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA).

BRICS nation account for almost half of the world’s population but still was not able to take up desired results due to the reluctance of its members to expedite the work of upliftment of this vital summit but now as the gravity of different members towards the group aggravated, the summit has not started retaining enormous importance and the blooming results which were rolled out were the fruition of the tenacity being shown by the members of the group in this 6^th summit.

The group discussed and pondered many issues of world security, United Nation, conflicts between its members and the talks this time produced marvellous and unprecedented results. One of the most prominent of them is the decision to set up New Development Bank. Although the proposal was there, pending in front of the BRICS nation, but this time no stone was unturned in making this dream come true and finally the BRICS group reached the consensus. Compromise on the size of capital was also reached. $50 billion are to be tentatively allocated to the bank and subsequently the money would be doubled up to $100 billion and Shanghai was chosen as the bank’s location. The bank will help the developing economies in infrastructural and development projects and will help needy countries to cope with the liquidity pressure.

After so many futile summits which resulted in no major breakthroughs, finally the BRICS summit has commenced evolving into a major world powerhouse and the proclamation of new decisions marks the will to mull over various issues with constructive help to each other.

This is the first time in the BRICS summit when the vision of the elite group remains clear. This time this world’s powerhouse seems to be taking a real initiative to effect an overhaul completely transforming the image of the BRICS group which was till now considered to be just like a group which convened to waste each other’s time making no significant decision but now after such stern decision by these BRICS nation, the probability of BRICS turning into a major world powerhouse has incremented by manifold proving the whole of the BRICS a robust support base to grow up and metamorphose itself into a reputed institution.

This is also a very good omen for the new BJP government at the Centre and I believe that Mr Narendra Modi deserves his credit also in representing India at this important world forum.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

We can't choose our neighbours.

Recently a survey was conducted by Pew Research Centre, in around 44 countries in order to know the perception of people of one country towards the people of the other countries and the results which came out lucidly expound all the ins and outs of the Indian relationship with the other countries.

According to the results, around 50% of the Indians watch in Unites States of America, their country’s biggest ally which on the other hand 29% denizens of India deem Russia as a dependable ally and around 26% Indians think that Japan is a reliable nation. And in a pretty well manner about 70 per cent of Bangladeshis polled approve of India. Some other countries with favourable approval rating for India are Japan (63%), Vietnam (57%) and the US (55%). So far the results were pretty good and optimistic. India according to the results mentioned by me so far seems to carry a very robust and wonderful reputation around the world.

But let’s now move geographically closer to our borders. Moving closer in proximity to our neighbours we come to exhume a very grave truth. Almost 72 per cent Indians believe that border disputes with China could lead to a military conflict, according to a new survey. While a majority of Indians (62 per cent) see Pakistan as a big threat. While nations like China and Pakistan also carry with them a very bad perspective towards our motherland India. 70% Chinese hold a not-so-favourable attitude towards India while a humongous number of people (87%) of the Pakistanis view India as a constant threat.

Today the most momentous problem that India faces is of its neighbour. What continues to prove to be a fetter in the overall growth of the nation is just the problem that India is having with its neighbours. Our greatest strategic failure in the whole of the nation’s history from independence to hitherto, is our inability to successfully manage our neighbours.

Pakistan, today continues to pose serious problems with issues like border conflicts and terrorism, on the other hand China has never been at peace with India. Due to neglect, reluctance and bad judgements made by the previous leaders of the nation, China has never been a friendly neighbour for the nation. On the extreme south if we move to Sri Lanka, contemporarily Sri Lanka is also at odds with the whole nation due to various issues. India’s procrastination to solve the Tamil matter with Sri Lanka has also contributed to this serious problem. Moving to the east, India is also not having a good relationship with Bangladesh. Despite of receiving a good answer from Bangladeshis in the above mentioned survey, India still continues to have many problems with the nation of Bangladesh which need to be mooted and discussed but due to delaying of many matters from our own side, we continue to face such problems.

According to Gilbert K. Chesterton, “We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour”. The quote seems to hold true in almost all of the cases regarding India. The root cause of all the problems and grudges that our neighbours continue to hold towards us is our own reluctance in dealing with our partners and also bad decisions made in the past. For example India has never had a good relationship with China because of a stint of careless decisions being made our predecessors during the war of 1962, and the two nations still continue to bear the harsh consequences of what happened so many years ago. With nations like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, we on ourselves have never commenced a constructive initiative in order to advance further. We continue to increment our problems with these nations rather than trying to cut the problems off. We still have not reached a consensus with Sri Lanka on the issue of Tamils and have never made substantial efforts in checking the terrorism and water issues with the nation of Bangladesh. Our, such kind of approach continues to mar the perception that others hold toward us.

It’s now high time that we mend our business with our neighbours because, we can choose our friend; we can choose our enemy but not our next door neighbour.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Earn more to spend more.

Recently, budget which was to make sure the smooth functioning of the new government was tabled in the parliament. Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India and Mr. Arun Jaitely, moved into the parliament with the burden of fulfilling their promises to India and with the budget which was going to anticipate the condition of the nation in this upcoming year. The thumping victory also added much pressure and load on the backs of the duo, but fortunately both Mr. Modi and Mr. Jaitley handled the pressure well, making this budget an affordable budget for the whole of India when fiscal deficit continues to ride high at 4.8% of the total GDP being valued at $88 Billion.

But one thing that needs to be continued is that here in India supply is less and with soaring population the demand is very much high. Today the number of consumers in India have outshined number of producers of various commodities and this phenomenon has paved the root of many evils like inflation, price rise etc. which ultimately shrouds the whole nation in despair. This problem only continues to be the root of various problems which appear out to impede the overall progress of the nation and mars all the achievements achieved by the nation.

The expenditure now has been hiked up from the total availability of funds due to the increasing number of consumers and this leads to increment in the nation’s fiscal deficit which then creates numerous problems and ultimately accumulating a humongous pile of problems.

So the big question here is what needs to be done? India is presently not in a situation to cut its expenditures. The subsidies in various sectors that the government has been providing cannot be rolled back immediately. Sincerely speaking, the nation still continues to have a large number of its population below poverty line and therefore removing subsidies can be a bed of thorns for the government and therefore something else should be done. 

Something else that needs to be done is raising the income. If you can’t cut on expenditures then simply raise the income and that’s what the contemporary government needs to do. Today rather than focussing on abating subsidies the government should rather ponder on improving the business conditions in the nation. Foreign investment and business is one of the most enticing income generating ways. The business doing procedures continue to be the harshest in the whole world. Red tapes corruption etc. tarnish the overall capability of the Indian soil and that’s why today many companies are shifting their destinations from India to countries like China and Brazil and this continues to be a big problem for the whole nation and this ultimately leads to a huge loss of overall money in the possession of the government and now if the new government really wants to ameliorate the condition of India then the government should definitely do something about reducing the red tapes and improving the business doing ease in India.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

The best is yet to come.

Germany and India have been bonding under a mutually beneficial relationship for a very long time. Both the nations share a very harmonious and wonderfully great relationship which definitely needs to be taken up ahead.

Now as Mr Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of the nation, is supposed to portray amicability and sophistication towards India’s current partners, Germany can be a great spot for Mr. Modi. Due to lack of attention being provided in the past by the previous government, the exemplary pace at which the relationship between the two countries was progress forwards was unfortunately slowed down but now with the new government in centre, which has already started it’s international campaign, it is now expected that Mr. Modi will leave no stone unturned in consoling one of the best friends India has ever had in its history, for good.

Germany for a very long has been a resplendent partner of India in many operations around the world. For machines to military both India and Germany have helped each other a lot and this is pellucid from the profound relationship that both the countries share. Even today, Germany continues to be of great help to India and vice versa. There are many marvellous achievements that both the nations have secured and I believe that the best is yet to come.    

The bilateral relationship between the two countries has achieved a lot in the past. The beautiful relationship that these two countries, Republic of India and Federal Republic of Germany share is truly prepossessing, envy for nations around the world. To understand the deepness and proximity in the feelings of both the nations, we need to jump back to the time of World War II. India was the first nation to end war against Germany and for better, unlike all the other nations, India waived all of its rights to give punishment to Germany and asking for compensation and this led to the foundation of the Indo-German relationships. From then on India became trade partner to the East Germany and West Germany and was one the staunchest supporters of the unification of Berlin in the year 1990 and from the saga of the beautifully crafted relationship between both the great countries with rich civilization and heritage continues.

Contemporarily Germany continues to be biggest trading partner of India in the whole of Europe. Germany is currently the eighth largest foreign investor in India and during the period 2000-2012 it’s FDI totalled 5.2 Billion USD comprising of 3% of the total FDI of whole of the nation. Germany is also a prominent supporter of India in various other fields too.  Germany contributed much to the development in the erection of IIT, Madras after governments of both the nation signed a treaty to help each other advance further in the field of science and technology.  Germany also continues to be the 5^th largest trade partner of India. In the year 2010, the trade volume between the two countries scaled up to €30 billion. Both the countries also enjoy huge cooperation from each other in engineering, telecommunication, food processing, pharmaceuticals and environment technology. Currently Germany and India both, are helping each other in fighting against terrorism and Germany has also supported India’s waiver from Nuclear Suppliers Group to trade nuclear materials and energy.  In 2008, the Indian Navy and the German Navy conducted joint exercises for the first time, following a defence co-operation agreement between the two nations signed in 2006.  India has so far launched seven German satellites into Polar orbits since 1999.

All this shows the depth of the relationship between the two countries and also expresses the need to move ahead taking this relationship forward with great power and prowess and now I can expect that Mr. Modi can do it all for better.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

To guide, not to misguide

This 16th Lok Sabha is definitely going to carry some vicissitude from other Lok Sabha that have concluded before. This time a powerful and tough BJP with a very well managed and organised spearheading group, is going to tackle the feeble and fragile opposition which in itself has no leader to lead. But this time the task is also going to take some beating. The newly elected government is here with its all new budget which will make sure whether the denizens will relish in the next year or cry with tears of blood in their eyes. And therefore the task remains too much strenuous and demanding and today the whole of the parliament needs to unite to fulfil the aspirations of the nation which were never even addressed in the last 66 years.

As i just noted down that the whole parliament needs to unite, even I couldn't believe in what I have written. United Parliament is something that the whole nation has been wanting from all over its independence but has never been made to see one. Parties in the parliament continue to rebuke and decry one another and that’s why hitherto the nation has never been given the privilege to see a robust and strengthened parliament which is ready to fight against the curses of the nation on its on with full determination.

Someone once said, “Opposition is not mean to dismantle the government but to debilitate the hurdles in the path of the parliament.” But unfortunately in the India the parliamentarians don’t portray any such good demeanour towards their rival and what’s more is that the opposition does anything it can in order to become a hurdle in the path of the functioning government. Notwithstanding aspiring for the progress and well-being of the government, our opposition tries to hinder the government’s progress as much as it can and at last this just struck my mind that how the BJP government which is at odds with all the opposition parties in the parliament will sustain? How will the Modi government carry out its works and the promises made to the people of the nation in the parliament with such a dirty opposition which placed thousands of tricks in order to restrain Mr. Modi from arriving the 7RCR?

Just as the budget session of the parliament started, Congress blurted out that it will not let the NDA government from performing up to the mark by doing what the previous NDA opposition did. Doesn’t that sound awkward and childish?

 First of all this sound completely beleaguers the current situation of the parliament. People chose the Congress MPs not to put a stop on the progress being done in the nation but to let the progress come with leaps and bounds, but this statement clearly and lucidly shows that the Congress in the opposition is not going to do that. 

The next thing that this statement portrays is the Congress’ fear in the parliament. After being routed completely in the parliament, the Congress opposition wants to again make place in the heart of people of the nation but not by doing something good by themselves but by restraining the BJP government from doing something good for the people of the nation. Such statements from the grand old Indian party which has ruled the whole of the nation for around 60 years, needs to be condemned and I believe that the whole of the party should be condemned for giving such an unworthy and immature statement which can do all harm but no good to the nation.

With the Congress, other opposition parties need to think about that too. Disrupting the proceedings of the house and trying to dislodge the government would never function if these parties really want to work for the well-being of the nation and hence they should also contribute to the making of the nation.

 Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

Learning from failed experiment:Indian Railways.

Railways in India carries much more utility than any other amenities being given to the people of the nation but one more thing that’s certain is that the condition of the railway system is also much worse than that of other transport services. Even the tagline of Indian railway reads, “ Lifeline of the nation.”

Today the total length of tracks which span across the whole India is 115,000 km across the whole nation and the no. of passengers travelling every day is almost humongous. Contemporarily Indian railway serves 8,900 million passengers daily. Today so many citizens of the nation are enjoying the facilities of the railway system designed in India but unfortunately the basic design system of the whole of the railways is replete of flaws which continue to mar the total popularity of the whole of the total railway system and deplete the credibility as well as the functioning ability of the whole of the railways.

Recently Mr. Modi, Prime Minister of India proposed to build a golden corridor of the bullet trains in the whole nation which would connect the all four metropolitan cities of India namely, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and this made me think about the current railway system of the whole nation. Having an outright vision of the future is a must thing for a leader and Mr. Modi has this thing but one thing that I would like to suggest him to do besides taking forth his vision for a bullet train, he should also focus on the laggard system of railways which is now becoming a menace for the citizens of India day by day.

Here I am suggesting a few measures through which the various problems tarnishing the Indian railways can be tamed:-

The first and foremost thing to do is to increase the revenue of the railway system. Because of the vote bank policies of previous governments Indian Railways has lost much of its share of revenues but now its high time we, despite of playing the appeasing policies in politics, we look forward to induce change in the whole of the railway system which would enable the whole of nation to travel in trains equipped with the best in class technologies. And hence I suggest that fares of the railways should be revised. I know the fact that a lot of people who travel through railways are very much poor and that’s why a pretty small increase should be made in the fares at first and then every year we can revise the fares a little bit till our demand becomes equal to the supply and this would lead to huge benefit for the whole of the railway system and also for all the passengers.

The other thing that needs to be checked in the railway department is corruption. Today much of the revenues accumulated, are drained into the pockets of tainted officials at both the grass root level and the higher level and this ultimately leads to the huge debilitation of money collected from the people of the nation through various measures like ticketing, taxes etc. Corruption continues to play a devil’s role in this place too, and small rackets of corruption by various officials demonises the whole of the India railway system making it much unpopular among the people. Therefore corruption needs to be checked in this field through constructive efforts which are meant to abate the level of corruption to as much as possible.

The third thing is the lack of technology in handling people. Today most of people who travel through trains never buy a ticket and illegally travel taking full benefit of the whole railways without paying anything and also causing problems for those who have paid. Lack of technology is also there in the trains which are deployed to carry people. Most of the passenger trains in India are pretty old and of very bad and vexing quality lacking any new technology or system. Speeds of these trains also continue to embarrass whole of the system. At a time when countries are introducing bullet trains, Indian railways continue to be run on the mercy of old and obsolete trains. Railways lines are also not pretty good and their bad arrangement has led to derailing of so many trains making thousands of passengers succumbing to death due to train related accidents.  This thing needs to be checked for the welfare of people.

Problems like sanitation, wrong signals, and open train passages continue to haunt people and these things also lead to deaths of thousands of passengers and therefore should be checked in order to maintain the trust of the citizens of India into the railway systems.

Today we need to make changes in our system; we need to overhaul all of the system in order to refurbish it to become an efficient and efficacious one. Today we need to learn from our losses rather than making new experiments. Today we need to change.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

A great man to be followed.

Recently a good news just struck my eyes. The news was that the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee research Foundation was retrieving information such as speeches, various interviews etc. of the revered son of India Shri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in order to rebuild his image again in the Indian subcontinent which was completely lost because of the Nehru-Gandhi clan members who had a grudge against Mr. Mukherjee on various issues.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, from the very beginning, had been a great leader to follow. His work for the motherland remains unparalleled. At a time when people used to think that no one except Nehru-Gandhi clan can run the nation, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee had a vision of providing people with an alternative and today’s BJP is also a brain child of this great man, who was the founding father of Jana Sangh and the political mentor of various politicians like former Indian Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s life is in itself a remarkable paradigm for others to follow. Even today after 61 years of his death, his good deeds continue to stimulate us to transcend all the limits of love for our motherland. 6 July 1901 marked the birth of Mr. Mukherjee. Mr. Mukherjee was born to Bengali parents in the heart of West Bengal, Kolkata. His father, Mr. Ashutosh Mukherjee was a judge under the British rule, at the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, Bengal and was also the vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. Mr. Mukherjee’s mother name was Lady Jogmaya Devi Mukherjee, while his younger brother was Umaprasad Mukhopadhyay, an eminent writer and a Himalayan lover.

Mr. Mukherjee from the very beginning was a very bright and brainy student who excelled in studies. He graduated from the University of Calcutta. He graduated in English, securing first position in the graduation level in the 1921 batch of the university and then went on to complete his Master’s Degree in Bengali and amusingly, stood first in this too in the year 1923. In the year 1924, Mr. Mukherjee enrolled himself as an advocate in the Calcutta High Court after the unfortunate demise of his father, but after sometime in the year 1926, Mr. Mukherjee left for England to study law at Lincoln Inn and became a barrister at law in the year 1927. And at the age of just 33, Mr. Mukherjee became the youngest Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta.

Mr. Mukherjee’s tryst with politics started in 1929 when he was elected on the ticket of Indian National Congress (INC) in order to represent the University of Calcutta. But after some time when INC boycotted the legislature, Mr. Mukherjee was made to resign. Subsequently, he fought the election again, this time as an independent candidate, to get an entry into the legislature again.

Soon Mr. Mukherjee came out as a Hindu leader after he joined Hindu Mahasabha and became its president in the year 1944. At that time some people opposed him by calling his somewhat non-secular leader in order to defame him, but if we try to see and review that situation again, then we could easily say that Mr. Mukherjee was the harbinger of the peace between Hindus and Muslims and always wanted unity between both of them. He once said that Hindu Mahasabha should not be only restricted to the Hindus, but should work for the welfare of the whole nation.  Mr. Mukherjee became a Hindu leader not to opposed the Muslims but to support Hindus against the misdeeds being carried out by Muslim National League such as a separate electorate etc. Mr. Mukherjee also opposed the partition of Indian with tooth and nail. He ran various movements in order to prevent the partition of India and the making of Pakistan but unfortunately, the failed strategies of the top brass of that time led to the formation of Pakistan. The partition deeply affected Mr. Mukherjee to the hilt.

After India achieved independence, Jawahar Lal Nehru on watching Mr. Mukherjee’s ability to have a deeper understanding of everything he did, inducted him into the cabinet allocating him Ministry of Industry and Supply. Mr. Mukherjee was deeply respected by all the members of INC and even by Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.

But soon Mr. Mukherjee’s stint at the cabinet ended after an altercation with Pt. Nehru on 1950 Delhi act and the formation of article 370. This ultimately led to huge difference in their beliefs and Mr. Mukherjee at last resigned out from the cabinet. Subsequently Mr. Mukherjee founded the Jana Sangh on 21 October, 1951 in Delhi and became its first president. His, this new sapling even got 3 seats in the parliament. He was always opposed to the formation of Pakistan, special status to Jammu and Kashmir and ban slaughter and that’s why till his last breathe struggled for his great motherland.  

Mukherjee also wanted India to be strong with respect to the defence sector and that’s why he also laid the foundation of the nuclear research in the whole nation. Mukherjee once proclaimed that nuclear research can create conditions of paradise on earth and relieve mankind of much of the drudgery which is responsible for the creation of societies composed of slaves and lords or capitalists and labours and also founded Institute of Nuclear Physics in 1948.

Mr. Mukherjee also had profound thoughts and vision about the foreign strategies and Indian democracy and at last was a great leader and son of mother India. Unfortunately on 23 June 1953, this great son bid adieu to the whole world silently but still continues to rule our heart. India today needs more sons like him.

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

  

Isn't that too much embarrassing?

Recently I penned down an article portraying the current peril through which the NDA government is going through. Today the Modi government holds a great responsibility on its shoulders, and with such a broad and brobdingnagian majority in the Lower House of the parliament, this onus extends further to be difficult and takes a beating to dealt with.  Even the Congress government, which just retired out of the crucial post of ruling the nation, knows every bit about the contemporary plight of the whole country.

As of January 2014, the inflation is the country was at one of its highest at 5.05% , while according to the Planning Commission of India, which wittily lowered down the poverty line rather than uplifting the poor under the UPA rule, around 21.9% of the India’s total population is under the below poverty line. Unemployment figures range high expostulating the works from the previous government. As of January 2010, around 27 Indian youths continue to be preyed by the demon of unemployment. What’s more is that, India continues to suffer a fiscal deficit of $88 Billion (4.8% of India’s total GDP). All these factors continue to manipulate the story of India Inc. for worse making the current condition through which the whole nation’s poor as well as middle class people are suffering completely pitiable.

But one thing amid all such factors and problems that continue to hover over my mind, dismaying me is the witticism that today’s political parties are showing against the current government. The UPA government itself made one of the worst blunders ever made by any government and continued to be shrouded by the disastrous catastrophic events which marked the dusk of the grand old party of India, but notwithstanding knowing all the ins and outs of the problem through which the current government is suffering its busy decrying the new government.

Recently the Congress party lashed out on the current Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley and Food Minister Ram Vilas on the current rise in the prices of commodities.

This made my mind propel its thinking process to find out the real reason behind all such things.

Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, once made a statement that “Farmers sell their grown potatoes at the rate of Rs 2 and then the potatoes go through all the processes like transports, middle men etc. to be sold finally at the rate of Rs. 15” but unfortunately the previous UPA government could not check the problem, or I should write that all the previous Congress government have just procrastinated the matter for the worse. Till now even after more than 66 years of independence, the party which ruled the nation for more than 50 years has not been able to do anything to check this problem. The commodities undergo a huge increment in their prices from farmers to the consumers. Today, India’s unlettered farmers are being exploited excessively. Our famers continue to die out of starvation which the middlemen and the agencies continue to put profits in their pockets. Till now no government has thought about doing anything for that, so how can the congress blame BJP and the NDA government for the present inflation.

Inflation also continued to be a huge problem during the reign of UPA-2. It reached new heights smashing all he heights and at last ousted the government of UPA. Now the UPA knows how hard it is to tackle and check inflation in such a big country. Prices of many commodities are set at international level and our government can’t do much on such things. For example due to the present Iraq crisis today, prices of oil, petrol and diesel are definite to rise up. While on the other hand prices of things like onion and other edible things continue to rise just because of illegitimate hoarding by touts and lack of storage area. In the previous 66 years of independences, we have not been able to provide our farmers with storage area. And this is the reason why every year we continue to shed out our stale grains while on the other hands, our farmers, the parents of the crops continue to die out of hunger. According to Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), India wastes 21 million tonnes of grains every year, making thousand die out a life of pity. What a ridiculous and embarrassing thing! So much shameful that we can’t even provide support or lend a helping hand to our people. Disgusting!

This entire phenomenon can be applied to the problem of electricity too. Today most of the power plants in the whole nation continue to underperform and produce less, not because they can’t but because they don’t have enough requisites in order to transport the electricity to the house of the people. Actually we are not even having enough wires to service the made electricity into action. And this definitely makes every Indian curse his/her bad fortune.

These things are difficult to be dealt with but we could have overcome that thing if our previous government would have been better, but the main problem is that the nation lacked even a single leader for the last 10 years.

Today the whole nation needs to do something, something for the sake of change, something different rather than blaming the newly elected government, something that makes a change come out.

Jai hind, jai Bharat

Jai ma Bharti

India, the cradle of Science.

  

Indian Space Mission scaling new heights.

 Recently Indian space mission reached to a new milestone, a new zenith transcending all the limits that the critics had once set for it. When the PSLV-C23 rocket jumped off to take off from its base, the whole world’s eyes remained relentlessly focused on India, the nation which has actually recognized this world with the true meaning of science. In fact, the universal language of science i.e. Mathematics does itself find its origins in India. From zero to different theories, Indian scientists have given this world much in order to relish and admire the true wonders of science and mathematics. And as Indian’s ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) launched one of its most promising and auspicious projects, the whole world remained astounded and the new height which this great nation has now scaled through this unprecedented venture indeed avers and asserts the true potential this great nation, whose saints once proclaimed that this world is made up of “atoms”, in the field of scientific research and technology.

 “Your limits are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.” For a very long time critics from around the world were alleging that now there is no development in India in respect to the space mission and technology and that the scientific glory that this nation of ours holds has somehow been loosed in oblivion. But now when the ISRO crossed all the limits to be par excellence and to shut up the critics the whole world watched the power of the Indian soil and moreover the courage that our great and glorified nation still hold inside its heart.

One more thing that the launch of this new satellite has made sure is that India is behind no developed nation in terms of scientific technology. Inside our PSLV-C23, India launched the satellites of big heavyweights of this field like Germany, France, Canada and Singapore. The new satellite that was launched on Monday carried a 740 kg French Earth Observation Satellite SPOT-7 as its main payload, with 14kg AISAT satellite from Germany, two 15 kg satellites from Canada CAN-X4 and CAN- X5 and last but not the least, a 7Kg VELOX-1 from Singapore. The five satellites were part of a foreign agreement that ISRO had struck with these countries. But now Indian subcontinent’s hunger has soared for better. Even Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi that India’s space programme must be made available to developing nations, and the SAARC countries in particular, minutes after witnessing the successful launch of five foreign satellites on board the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) workhorse the PSLV programme. “Today I ask our space community to make plans for developing a SAARC satellite, a satellite that provides a full range of applications and services to all our neighbours. There is a lot of poverty in the SAARC nations and we need scientific solutions for this. It will be beneficial for the development of all the countries in the region”, he added.

With the launch of this remarkable PSLV satellite carrying the load of so many other nation’s satellite, India has proved that its soil has not stopped engendering great sons. But what’s needed today is the guidance that these children of mother India really deserve but are unfortunately deprived of. Today the government as well as the whole society needs to think over the present advancements that the whole science and technology are making for a better world and that’s why now its high time we realize our potential and contribute as much as we can in order to facilitate and smoothen the approach of Indian scientific mission across the whole world.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti