Saturday 31 December 2016

WHO CARES ACTUALLY: A MESSAGE TO PM

As all of us prepare for a toodle-oo to the grand old 366 days that we spent, let us recount the things through which our nation underwent.

The nation was in a state of dynamic equilibrium till the government rolled out its grand scheme of demonetization. Prior to demonetization, the nation was going through the diurnal political process where the opposition and the government were busy playing the blame game. Wherever they faltered, they faltered, no opportunity was let go to pose themselves as mere scapegoats. But something happened in the penultimate month of the year that, in a kind, ransacked the nation completely.

The demonetization drive commenced by government shook the whole nation through its foundation. There could have been no person who wouldn't have felt the tremors of the "GREAT DEMONETIZATION GAMBLE."

It all started with a great intention, the intention to curb the black money (which remains unfazed by such poor actions), to eradicate terrorism ( after just two weeks, fake currencies came up for the new Rs.2000 tender) and to annihilate Naxalism (Naxalites subdued and exploited the benign tribals and villagers to get their money exchanged). The intentions were worth exaltation but the execution of the process on ground zero was pitiful.

The nation received the shocking news from none other than our own Prime Minister when even he didn't know what his words would do to the nation and the rest which followed is a miserable present. The very next day, denizens of the nation were stuck up in the bank line. People didn't go to their job and stood in the bank lines but banks were helpless too, the government had forgotten to deliver cash to the bank. But this was a small mistake, who cares if the daily wage workers, farmers, bourgeois of the nation had to stand in queues only to be returned back with no money in hand.

Some series of "minute" mistakes followed on.

Since now, the middle class had got its 85% of money scrapped (their Rs.500 and Rs. 1000 notes amount to nothing but "a piece of paper"), the great Indian consumption theory came to an in-toto halt. The middle class' consumption broken down. It doesn't require you to be an economist to understand that if the middle class recedes back in its spending, the lower classes are the ones who are affected most harshly. The same happened here. People working as labourers, carpenters, workers etc. had to bear the brunt, since now all their potential employers were busy getting their money exchanged from the banks. But does it matter if lakhs of people are left unemployed by just one decision? Who cares actually!

All the farmers were left with nothing except desperation. People didn't have any money in cash, so they resorted to buying things from big supermarkets leading to complete undoing of the small vendors of fruits and vegetables. Now, since a deluge of vendors were left with no money, they stopped buying from the farmers, and lakhs of farmers, in just one day, were left hapless.  But, farmers are worth nothing. They are innocent people who can be easily swayed at the time of elections. Who cares about them!

Auto drivers, shopkeepers, small scale business etc. were left with no employment. Now, since people were left with no money, they couldn't buy new clothes, accessories etc. which led to a nosedive in the sale of each and everything ranging from food to clothes and to all the basic need. People now couldn't hire auto leading to complete disaster of so many drivers who had no means of making both ends meet except running their vehicle. Their children and family could do nothing except succumbing to starvation. But who cares! These people are poor and insensible. No matter what you do to them, they will still vote for you, and hence they don't deserve anything.

The nation's condition was so much bad that people couldn't ever perform cremation rituals of their parents, relatives etc. I saw a woman, whose daughter died because she didn't have enough funds to get her operated. Due to demonetization, she was also made deprived of the money she had. So, she borrowed money from people in order to perform final rites of her daughter.  But since she had to pay back the money, she was standing in a long bank queue completely left distressed by the death of her daughter. But what could she do? The nation doesn't care for her. Imagine a situation, where a person
who meant life to you, died and you can't even weep for him or her because our Prime Minister says that we need to give him 50 days, because some cynical bastards say that if you don't stand in a line you are not a patriot, because some foolish teenagers say that if they can stand in lines to get movie tickets, why can't they stand in lines to collect money and above all because some insane so-called economics(who certainly have not studied anything about economics) say that this is for the betterment of the nation. But who cares!

The kind of tomfoolery that I observed in the last few days of 2016 will surely suffice for so many days but still WHO CARES!!

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017

As the new year is going to knock your doors in a matter of few hours, today is a day to reckon our failures and our success that we accumulated last year. It's the time to mull over, where we lacked behind, where we made mistakes and where and why (most importantly) things botched up when we wanted them to be perfect.

Most of the people around the world will be busy today, meetings friends;  attending parties, hoping a good new year ahead but veridically, the person who is going to have a good new year ahead is not someone which is just wishing for a good new year; a serene and enriching new morning will await you only and only if you plan for it today. This is a period, to think about our bitter past; where we tried to strive hard but couldn't due to various other problems, where success just eluded us at the eleventh hour because of some goof up that we made, where faux friends and ersatz well-wishers were revealed and where we learnt the values of different things in life.  Today, have a dekko over the highlight of your past and sum it up to learn from it so that a stint of the new year, which is in itself a great chance for a new (psychological) beginning for a novel commencement of some great events, is not wasted upon is not squandered over learning from past (when you can do it today only). 


Remember, time waits for none. Don't let this year pass, because nobody knows how many new years we can celebrate. Every new year comes with a hope, come with the blossoming of new dreams and you must welcome it wholeheartedly.  Do feel lucky for all that you have and never stop aspiring for things you "can" have because,

"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW  WHAT YOU CAN BE."

 JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Wednesday 28 December 2016

From the year 2016

As the dawn of the New Year is approaching at a blistering speed, I thought of penning down a crucial lesson that life taught me this year.
All of us have been endowed with the exact same 86,400 seconds in a day. In these seconds of life, the winners and losers, the audacious and the cowards, the champions and the mediocre are made. The only thing that matters ultimately in life is how we spend those great moments every day. This whole time period is irreversible, even a single second that you let go off through procrastination or any other trifle can never be retrieved in future. If you can tell me how you use those seconds every day, I can impeccably foretell you about your future because these minute seconds determine the greater future.
The paramount division in a winner’s usage of his time as well as a loser’s usage of time is about “investment of time”. Keeping it as tractable as possible, winners invest on themselves, their forte, their craft and losers spend the tantamount period on “others”. The preponderance of what I learnt this year is that, in the end nothing counts, no mark sheet, no evaluation certificate etc. The two things that are ample in making a difference in only life are:  what skills have you acquired veraciously and how you perceive yourself.
In this world, no evaluation but the one which has been prepared by your inner heart can actually arbitrate your true character. When I was in school, I spent my whole school life fighting a race. The race to be the best in class, the race to outshine others in the study and various other things in which I believed I was better than others. But like most others students, I could never unsnarl the real reason as to why I wanted to indulge myself in the race. I wanted to get a 10 CGPA but never thought why.
From the very beginning, the society has told us to differentiate each and everybody on just one basis. It has taught us to discern the toppers of the class, coaching institute etc. as the shining stars of tomorrow and to think of others as being the “less-privileged” in terms of mental IQ and to consider them as gangue. Each and every student who goes through the ordinary school procedure experiences the same notion. When we grow up, we don’t learn how to come out of this entangled net, but we actually learn to hide it by putting on an ostentatious face marred with ostensible reasons. As we move to higher classes, we start pretending as ranks don’t matter to us but the truth is that all of us are running behind ranks, running to outperform each other. This race is very much vital in terms of the function of a normal social society but is, in the same amount, detrimental to the athletes running in the race. What happens actually is that while running behind something that we don’t have a passion for, we lose over the novelty of thinking. After slogging for the first twelve years of life, we start toiling hard to pass in our colleges, then to get employed and after all these things, we realise the fact that we have done nothing in this great life which was given to us out of 1.2 billion other probabilities. We were accommodated with such a great life, but what “we” did to our life? We wasted it, doing no good to the society and doing no good to ourselves. We didn’t live this life; we just somehow survived those years.
You tried your best to live up to other’s expectations but in the end, you will find out that the only person, on whose expectations you couldn’t excel, is none other than you.  You lived your life fighting to become the number one in things which you never liked. You just did that because you didn’t want to forsake the race. You continued to run like a herd of sheep and the lion inside your heart could never come out. You always thought of becoming the best in other’s perspective but you failed yourself in your own perception. That’s because you did justice neither to yourself and nor to the world. You could have allocated so much to this world through your forte or the things, only you were dexterous at, but in the end, you chose to run in the race, you opted out to go and on, never reckoning about your happiness, never caring about your inner peace.
And in the end, the horrendous fact was that the race ended with no winner. The best athletes of the race were forgotten in a day or two and a new race was commenced again for the fresh recruits. The trap which we proudly dub as “life” was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme that would go on and on.
While you were running in the race, there were some who chose not to go further through the same way. They thought of carving out their own way. They were the ones who chose the formidable path of action. Though their path was difficult but they still persisted, they continued to perfect their craft, they carried on to do what “they” wanted to do. First, you mocked them and did your best to belittle them. You deemed as them a pariah, but in actuality, they were not the outcast but you were, in every sense, an obsequious follower of the bandwagon. And till the time you got to the middle point of the race, they had already achieved a far greater sense of life which is inexplicably cardinal.
Steve Jobs took the matter correctly and said, “The thing that you call life was invented by people no smarter than you.” Do you believe that the people, who were no smarter than us, can invent a system to take us to the heights of greatness? Not at all! They can only guide thy to an inconclusive race.

So my friend, stop going ahead in this desultory race. Think about contributing to the world through your talent, through your greatness and never be marred by mediocrity. Greatness is not any esoteric thing. It resides in all of us, we just need to look it more closely and specifically.

Now it’s on your to decide whether you want to flow like a guarded and coward sheep or roar like a lone but warrior lion.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


Sunday 18 December 2016

UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES.

The recent upheaval in the Indian economic system reminds of an old but still noteworthy Indian legend. No matter how much advanced we become, some old-school stories never become anachronistic and this is one of them.

A woman was very much vexed with her son who used to eat a lot of jaggeries. The conditions of his teeth had worsened and notwithstanding so much harangue he didn't abandon his habit. After becoming much fed up of the habit of her son, the mother took him to an eminent and sanguine priest of the village. She elucidated her whole problem to the priest and after taking a note of her problem the priest took a dekko over the toddler and asked the woman to come back after to him after one week. The woman was very much excited and assumed that after one week the priest would use some kind of magic wand and her son would stop eating jaggery. 

After one week, the woman gathered up all her excitement and went to the priest along with her son and reminded him of their meeting last week. The priest, on being reminded, prompted to ask the boy to come to him. He took hold of the small boy by the toddler's shoulder and said, "Don't eat many jaggeries, this might ruin your teeth and overall health." On listening to this the woman became much offended. She asked,"If you had to say the same thing that I have been telling him for years, why did you ask us to come to you after one week?" The priest laughed for a moment and replied, "How could I ask him to stop doing what I have doing, myself, for so many years?" He added, "You first have to inculcate in yourself what you want to see in others." 

The same teaching fits unequivocally in our present system and is the most quintessential advice to the government. How can the government hatch plans to sabotage the black money empire of corrupt citizens when its own representative party (along with all other political parties of the nation) are themselves safe havens for black money. 

In the year 2015, the present government said in the honourable Supreme Court of India that political parties can't come under the gamut of RTI (Right to Information Act) by saying that political parties can not be deemed as public authorities since this would disrupt their internal functioning. Such a colossal irony it is that the parties which talk about becoming public servants for five years shy away from considering themselves as public authorities. This issue was so much supported by all the political parties that this rose as one of the few issues in the history of the Indian parliament that the parties which are generally at loggerheads came exhibited exceptional unity in order to do the best they could in order to thwart any attempt to make their funding etc. come under the scope of RTI. Some even said the CIC ( Chief Information Commission) was not competent enough to look into the matters of political parties because they are not public authorities. 

If we are barred from assuming political parties to be public institutions, we must safely assume them to be "private institution". So here we have some private institutions which can't be arbitrated by anyone or accounted for anything. 

The basis of all donation to a private institution is some specious and ostensible benefit which the donor wants to incur from the parties. It's obvious that political parties are not going to open NGOs etc. in order to help needy directly, which ultimately means that the money is for the sole benefit of the party in the time of elections. And ultimately this money is used in order to win an election through wrongful methods.  In Lok Sabha elections a candidate is not supposed to spend more than Rs. 15,00,000 in one election. But who cares about the legit process? You might have yourself seen how much money was spent in the 2014 General Elections. The Chief Election Commission has written to every government in order to emend this lacuna in the system but in actually the spaces left deliberately are not replenished by those who left them and unfortunately the nation continues to believe in these parties not even knowing their actually image. The ones who promise to become public servants are actually fooling the public for so many years and the crux of the situation is that the benign people of the nation don't even know about it.


Now comes the main thing. Mr Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the nation, talks about making the nation clean and honest at a time when his own party doesn't give any account of its donations etc. to anybody in the nation. Who can justify this action where on one hand, people around the nation are dying for getting petty amounts of money to be exchanged for the new notes and on the other hand there are political parties which can't be judged, challenged and questioned about anybody in the nation. How can Mr Modi ask the people of the nation to become "transparent" when his own party, as well as other political parties, are themselves not transparent and accountable to us all?  Let me give an advice to Mr Modi: People who live in glass house should not throw stones.


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Wednesday 14 December 2016

To my friend in pain.

This is for one of my best friends who lost his parents on Monday this week. The pain of losing one's parents at such a small age is an inexplicably appalling pain which leaves behind so many lacunae which can never be filled again. In his life also, this grievous incident has left so many voids, which can never be filled again, but he has to get back up because now he has an increased burden. Now he has to live not only for himself but for his deceased parents too. I know, no words can soothe his pain or allay his fears regarding the tough challenges, he is going to face ahead in life but he has to get back up again for himself, for his sister and for his parents because I know that his parents have not brought up a weak son.

I know, it’s hard,
But I also know,
That you are strong and resolute;
And your talent can’t be marred,
I know you have lost so much,
The origin of your life exists no more,
But today you face a tough choice,
Either you cry out and make noise,
Either you let them be forgotten,
Either you let them slip into oblivion,
Either you let the world efface them from its history,
Either you let them pass away as some forgotten mystery,
Either you let their dreams die,
Either you set on fire along with them, their vision for you,
OR you forget everything for them and pursue,
OR you work hard to immortalize their soul,
OR you become resolute enough to reach their desired goal,
OR you stop crying and start moving on this formidable path,
OR you make their name registered in the history of the greats,
OR you don’t let them die in vain,
This is your moment of test,
Life will only choose the ones, who stood as the best,
Till now, they saw their world in you,
But now it’s your time to live as their image,
To show that they taught you not to fail but to show courage,
To show that they begeted a son, powerful enough of carrying their legacy,
Now you have to complete up their dues,
By becoming a man of great character and hues,
Now two more lives are going to reside in the heart of your soul,
My friend, don’t disappoint them,
Because they just want their wonderful son to be determined, powerful and bold.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
  


Sunday 11 December 2016

Decoding the Demonetization.

With the midnight stroke of the 8th November, the nation saw a huge upheaval. A sense of eerie confusion ran among the nation as the Prime Minister of the nation Mr. Narendra Modi took the major step of devaluing the old Indian currency tenders of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 which accounted for around 85% our net money. On the day of announcement of this surprise test for the nation, Mr. Modi described this approach as a colossal surgical strike on the black money, but whether this method has proved to be a successful ambush on the black money “indeed”, is still a billion-dollar question.


The first and foremost pleasure that the government took in its this decision was the element of surprise, element of ingenious hard-work and economic planning as well as the element of courage in the decision. I truly believe that the element of courage on the part of government is worth praise and government has also got its share by being rhapsodised day and night by all the media houses, businessmen, celebrities and other eminent people.
 But when I ponder over the other two things: the element of surprise and element of ingenious hard-work and economic planning; I believe the government need not be ascribed as much credit as it’s vehemently claiming.
Talking about the element of surprise, it was truly a startling thing for the nation to know about the black money, but it was not at all a surprising fact for the people who actually hold black money. Even the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) conceded to the claim that the new Rs. 2000 currency tender’s photo surfaced online even before two months of the official announcement of the nation. RBI, as well as the Union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley, said that it “might” have happened because somebody in the currency chest and printing units “might” have taken any photograph of the notes and would have posted it online. The RBI and the Government of India (GoI) deems it as a petty issue and try to be evasive about the issue, but the big question here is whether the issue is that much small. It’s a very common fact that if you are having a lot of unaccounted money from any source, and you even get a whiff of any such announcement coming out online or on any other place, you would certainly make up arrangement in order to escape the coming danger and a lot of people have actually done that. Recent news shows that every week, one or two people are apprehended with millions of new currency notes. These people never stood up in ATM of bank lines but interesting they are having so much of currency notes just people they had already planned everything beforehand. The people who are having a huge amount of black money in the nation are also the most powerful and robust people of the nation having connection everywhere from government to banks. The loophole, which the RBI and the GoI considered as a minor and minuscule one, has actually led to 30%-40% failure of this approach.  
According to senior economists of Bank Of Italy around $152-182 billion Indian currency has been stashed away abroad and this constitutes for more than 97% of our nation’s total black money (the rest 3% percent is present in our nation). First of all the measure taken up by the government is not going to take back even a single penny from those $182 billion dollars and hence talking about bringing the black money from overseas still continue to elude us. Talking about the black money present, on as estimate, the black money present in India is Rs. 2 Lakh crore. But is that money worth taking back through such procedures?
India made huge leaps of progress in economic terms due to its middle class. It’s a simple economic theory and actually, middle classes run the whole nation. When the middle classes earn, they spend a lot and this leader to the upliftment of the lower or impoverished classes. Let’s say you belong to the bourgeois society and you just get an incremental bonus in your salary. With that bonus, you decide to get you house painted. Now to get your house painted you employ two-three painters. These people constitute the economically backward classes of society. When these people get employed it leads to the empowerment of their society.  After that, you would also go to buy paints etc. in order to get the work done. This would lead to upliftment of another member of your economic class i.e. the shopkeeper and also of big corporate houses who own the paint companies. So the middle-class forms a chain in every economic progress, but unfortunately this step broke the middle class and eventually the lower class is the one which is the most affected group today (from this decision). The whole middle class is today standing in ATM and bank lines. Neither the ATMs nor the banks have got the money. Some bank branches have even said that for their 4000-5000 customers they just get Rs. 15 lakhs for three days, which is truly nothing in front of such a large mob of people. The middle-class people, having no high connections in the government as well as banks, have to continuously stand in lines in order to get their Rs. 2,000 exchanged or to withdraw their money. This has led to complete ruptures of the market. The small scale industries have now vanished away. Big wholesale markets, small industries of clothing etc., the poor workers of these industries are now unemployed. There are so many people in India who work on daily wage basis as painters, carpenters, plumbers etc.. These people have got all their employment sources scrapped since today, people are finding it hard to even make both ends meet with the old currency then who would employ such people for works. Fruits and vegetable vendors have been crushed down completely because now since people are not having money in cash they are moving to big outlets and departmental stores in order to buy various commodities and those vendors who have no other source of remuneration are being forced to starve to death. According to estimates of The Indian Express, the nation has incurred a loss of Rs 1,28,000 crores till now. Do you still believe that we need to bring back those Rs. 2 lakh crores back by crushing our lower economic classes and battering our middle classes severely. The government says that it is not released money as per the calibrated releasing process but let me tell them, every day their calibrated release of money is leading to so many poor people sleeping without foods because these people didn’t have any bank accounts owing to their limited reach to banks etc. and every day they have to stand up in line in order to get a small amount of money exchanged and if, unfortunately, the bank gets drained out of money before the ending of the huge line, they have to go back empty-handed.
The government of India said that now they have upgraded features of the currency note and that terrorists sitting in Pakistan won’t be able to produce fake replicas of our notes for their wanton purposes. But these claims too drained down just after one week when fake Rs. 2000 currency notes were taken under siege which means the new currency notes are also equally vulnerable to counterfeiting. One more horrendous issue came up which portrayed some minor flaws in the printing of Rs. 500 notes where the dimensions of different parts of two Rs. 500 notes didn’t match up. RBI said it’s a small issue but former RBI Deputy Governor said that this issue is of zero tolerance. If you, yourself are making two different version of the same note, this would lead to confusion in public and through this fake Rs. 500 notes can be easily made to resurface in the whole economy and that too to a bigger extent.
The common people still believe that this is going to benefit us all, but the truth is that it has actually done more harm. We are losing out so much on our lower classes. More than 90 people died in the bank lines (which didn’t happen in Jio or film ticket lines), the great consumption theory in the nation has come to a grinding halt but still the government is blowing its trumpet of greatness after taking such a “surprising”, “ingenious”, “impetuous” and “desultory” step.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI






Sunday 13 November 2016

Attaining spirituality.

Never, never, never run behind the materialistic things, aesthetics can be extirpated, commodities can vanish away but your inner talent can never degrade. In just one day, the 85% of our currency got demonetized,  In just a matter of a few hours, the money tender that ruled the nation, hypnotising the 1.25 billion denizens and enticing them to vie, itself became just a piece of paper. Now if such an invincible thing (like money) can be trounced, then who we are to think of ourselves as being the supreme of all.

Hence never vie for things,luxuries or amenities; never think of just achieving success, but just try to become worth being successful. Never think about outcomes, never fear about problems, never nag yourself to worry about the consequences. Your work is to do the things that you are required to do and not to ponder on the future. If you want to become a great singer, just do your work  of singing, your work is to practice day in and day out, the rest would follow itself but if you stop your work and start building castles in the air, nothing would be of value; if you stop in between and start taking interests in things that are not pertinent to your work, nothing would be fruitful. 

In this world, nothing carries value but your ability and character.  You can be duped by anything except your talent. Even if you are bankrupt and nobody is there to salvage you out, don't worry,  your cultivated talent can change your fortune overnight but even if you are the richest person on the earth and have no capability or dexterity, you would just simply drain off your wealth. The biggest happiness that you can ever get is from your talent, not from your money or resources. Cultivate greatness in yourself and the rest would simply follow.


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Saturday 12 November 2016

ROAD TO SUCCESS..

You are not what you are, you are what you can be. If you have not got what you want to get, don't settle keep toiling. In the end, only those people succeed in life who have practised incessantly and terrifically hard. It's not necessary to be the winner when you start. Accept the fact that every person you consider as your idol, every person you think is the "greatest" was once a small beginner who started alone, just like you are today. There was a time when  Albert Einstein was not at all known, there was a time when J.K. Rowling was just a bad failure in life. You don't get what you want, deserve or must have in the beginning because if you would have been gifted with such things there would have been no need for you to work hard and life would have been a boring and fractious adventure. You needn't be afraid of not having requisite things that you need to be strong enough to develop them. Everybody knows that you are unknown! but you and only you can see the tomorrow when you will be eximious; only you have the sense to foresee and foretell the future in which you would spring up as a star. Just know that you are going to be there one day because it's paramountly crucial that you are certain that you will be successful because if you can't compel yourself to believe that you will be successful, how can you ask others to believe that you will make it. Initially, people will make fun of you, try their best to belittle you but one day these things would subside and your charisma would blind them all. They would be forced to believe in your greatness but also keep in mind that to make those things come true, it is not a child play to perform an arresting feat. It takes guts, preparation and a desire to sacrifice your present for your tomorrow. 

If you have that, go ahead and take what you are born for.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Wednesday 9 November 2016

ENERGY OF THE WORLD

Discovering the world around us is truly a painstaking work. The world around us is changing every moment, the universe is not constant and hence unravelling the profound mysteries of the universe and the inhabitants of this great and queer civilisation.

Everything we do engenders a sort of change in the world. Since, the world comprises of us only, hence tremors in the world are truly inevitable if there is even a minute change is us.The most onerous work that we people have been deputed to do is to realise the vibration in the world.
"Whenever we want to achieve something the whole universe conspires to help us achieve it." This has now become a hackneyed statement but unskeptically it can never lose its essence.  When we resolve to limit ourselves to precedents, our inner soul, our soul creates a sort of vibration in the world and we would be acted by two kinds of forces inside ourselves. One would prompt us to go ahead and take the risks while the other would try to deter us to forestall our plans and here come the use of one more striking statement. "When your desire to succeed outpaces your fear of failure, you start doing wonders." When our internal forces trounce the unnerving forces (which also find their origin in us only), we produce an acceleration of the change. And then the universe recognises the strength of our decisions and the vibrations we create out of ourselves come back helping us in a positive manner.

Learn to work for that thing. Learn to produce so much positive energy so that all your negative energies get devastated and ultimately you will start winning every battle in life.

              JAI  HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Saturday 29 October 2016

HARYANA SWARNA JAYANTI

One November 1, 1966, India saw the dawn of a new state, the state of Haryana. Now as the state completes its interesting journey comprising of political, social and economic upheavals of fifty years, let us check, how much ahead the state has gone.

Haryana was carved on the basis of linguistic believes, the state of Punjab was divided into two factions bases on the linguistic structures of the two states. As per the census of 2011, Haryana stands as the eleventh most populated state in the whole of nation and the journey at which the state embarked on exactly fifty years ago, is truly worth reminiscing.

Haryana boasts of 44,212 km2 area. Its huge development in agriculture, real estate as well as other sectors has made it one of the most prolific states in the whole of South Asia. This is also the state which received largest investment per capita in the whole of the nation.

Much has been written about the state of Haryana in the ancient texts. The region of Kurukshetra, mentioned in Mahabharta speaks of the areas of states which now coalesce to form the modern state of Haryana. Panipat in Haryana has observed some of the most decisive battles in the whole Indian history, an eyewitness to the battle between Babur and Lodhis which changed the fate of Indian subcontinent for forever by entrenching the Mughal rule in India which then lasted for around 300 years.

The modern version of the state of Haryana became extant on 1st November, 1966. The Indian government set up the Shah Commission under the chairmanship of Justice JC Shah on 23 April 1966 to divide the existing Punjab, India and determine the boundaries of the new state of Haryana after consideration of the languages spoken by the people. 
The commission delivered its report on 31 May 1966 whereby the then-districts Of Hisar, Mahendragarh, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Karnal were to be a part of the new state of Haryana. Further, the tehsils of Jind and Narwana in the Sangrur district—along with Naraingarh, Ambala and Jagadhri—were to be included.
The commission recommended that the tehsil of Kharad, which includes Chandigarh, the state capital of Punjab, should be a part of Haryana. However, only a small portion of Kharad was given to Haryana. The city of Chandigarh was made a union territory, serving as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana. Today there are 21 districts, 62 sub-divisions, 83 tehsils, 47 sub-tehsils and 126 blocks. Haryana has a total of 154 cities and towns and 6,841 villages.

Taking about the physio-graphical division of the state, Haryana has Yamuna plain, Shivalik hills, semi desert plains and Aravali Mountain ranges too. Yamuna, which flows through the state’s eastern boundary, has made the state a very fecund land, thus making agriculture a top occupation around the whole state. Today the state has a whopping 84 percent cultivable area out of the total net geographical area with a cropping density of 184.81 per cent.

In manufacturing business also, the state has trounced many of its competitors. Gurgaon is truly the hub of the real estate business in the whole nation. It is home of India’s largest real estate company DLF. Faridabad has come out to be the biggest industrial city of Haryana as well as the north India. Rohtak has a complete industrial model township and has Asia’s biggest wholesale cloth market. Panipat is the home of various chemical companies producing a huge amount of steel and fertilizers to be exported round the nation.


Haryana State has always given high priority to the expansion of electricity infrastructure, as it is one of the most important inputs for the development of the state. Haryana was the first state in the country to achieve 100% rural electrification in 1970 as well as the first in the country to link all villages with all-weather roads and provide safe drinking water facilities throughout the state. Haryana has a total road length of 23,684 kilometres (14,717 mi). There are 29 national highways with a total length of 1,461 kilometres (908 mi) and many state highways, which have a total length of 2,494 kilometres (1,550 mi). The most remote parts of the state are linked with metaled roads. Its modern bus fleet of 3,864 buses covers a distance of 1.15 million km per day.

In sports too, the state has left no stone unturned in making the nation proud.  State’s famous wrestling players like Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari.  and boxers like Vijender Singh have made the nation proud in various international competitions like the Commonwealth games and Olympics.

The state has truly unearthed huge success in its journey hitherto. The great transportation, agricultural progress is in itself evidence of the state’s successful ventures. In terms of literacy too, the state has made immense progress producing a plethora of academicians and also serving the state’s youth population with decent education system comprising of engineering and medical colleges. All in all, a great work has been done till now. But still, a lot needs to be done. Crimes like honour killing and female infanticide and foeticide continue to besmirch the true progress that the state has made. Its lowest male to female ratio has tarnished the state’s image around the nation. Today is the need to effect a strong change in these social things so that the state can rise up above these stigmas.

India’s experiment with Haryana has been a marvelous one but still some lacunae need to be weeded out which would certainly take huge beating.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI






Thursday 27 October 2016

Attaining Divinity.

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In my small experiments with spirituality, I have been able to unravel just one thing. Spirituality or divinity is nothing but controlling your desires. When you can edify your mind exactly what is the right thing to do rather than flowing away with your capriciousness, you are becoming, in the purest sense,spiritual.

Controlling one's desire is truly the most intractable thing to do. We all are very well-versed with the consequences of all the actions that we are committing. Let me give you a simple example of a student. A student knows exactly that he is bound to fail if he is not going to study, he knows that he won't be a successful person if he doesn't work hard; but since his whims to enjoy the life rather than striving hard, outplays his dedication to become successful; he ultimately loses out on success and fame. Just like this student, all of us exactly know what would come out of our actions but still since our mind, since our actions are not in our control; we just can't snub away the unnecessary things. 

Now, it has become a hideous and vacuous custom to burn Indrajit's effigy along with that of Ravana and Kumbhakaran on the day of Dussehra but nobody knows the fact that Meghanat was called so, because he had won over his mind and had actually amalgamated his soul and his mind by the thread of spirituality. (Now some stupid people might reason that notwithstanding being the master of his mind; he chose to fight against the God but let me tell you, he knew that Rama was invincible but he chose to combat him because it was his duty, his requisite Karma to fulfil his role as a son and that's the ultimate reason also why he achieved "moksha" or redemption of soul from the hands of the almighty himself.)

Controlling oneself in life is the ultimate goal of every human life. If we are able to control our desires and do what is necessary rather than doing what is more pleasant; when it becomes impossible to discern any difference between the way we are living or the way we should live; when impetuousness is replaced by sensibility and prudence; you achieve spirituality. 

Each one of us is so close of divinity. We are human beings, that truly means that we are half-way to spirituality, the rest half just depends on some simple actions that we need to take in the right direction.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Friday 21 October 2016

Walk...

Walk alone,
or you may be deceived,
Walk farther,
Or your fame may be ceased,
Walk right 
to set an example,
Or take the wrong steps,
To be ultimately trampled,
Walk independent,
Or you may be purged,
Walk with pride,
No matter how much difficulties surge,
Walk with principles,
Or you may not reach the summit,
Walk, armed with abilities
Or your opportunities will be ransacked,
Walk cautiously,
Or your ideas will be hacked,
Walk defiantly against the wrong,
Or you will never get it right,
Walk with benevolence,
Or you might never lead,
Walk with facility,
Or you might die unknown,
Walk with integrity,
Or you will be subdued by adversity,
At last it's on you to decide,
How you choose to walk,
Whether you walk, run or crawl,
The final destination lies only,
In achieving the desired goal.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 16 October 2016

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM FOR DEVELOPMENT

         Sustainable Tourism for Development

As per the reports by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), in the year 2013, receipts in destination worldwide from the expenditures conducted by the tourists on accommodations, food, clothing etc. fetched a whopping USD 1159 billion and the good news is that these figures are bound to undergo huge increments of up to 5 percent per year in the upcoming years. All in all, on an average the international tourism generates around USD 1.4 trillion in export earning everywhere. In the United States of America alone there has been an increase of 6.9 percent in the tourism receipts from 2014-15, while other hotspot tourists’ destinations such as Thailand and India registered a record 16 and 17.3 percent increment respectively in the receipt of their tourism.

All the aforementioned figures veraciously portray the huge success attained by the tourism departments around the world. With more income flow in the developing countries as well as the generation of sophisticated transportation amenities, these figures are surely constrained to soar high. But just as many other things, tourism too cast a huge influence on the environmental issues. To have a small dekko at this facet, let me tell you that aviation alone constitutes for 55 percent of transportation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Now when tourists travel to a different destination, they use the energy, fossil fuel etc. of that place, coalescing to form a huge chain of environmental effect. That’s why according to reports by the year 2050; tourism sector would alone be the sole sector responsible for 40 percent of global carbon emissions. The main causes of such a rapid and horrendous change would be aviation, deforestation (to create lands for tourists to take stay around the tourist destinations) and industrialisation in various places powered by their tourism sector. One horrifying example is that of Mount Everest. At the base camps situated on the mountain, 12,000 pounds of human waste is generated by around 70,000 visitors who visit the mountain annually and unfortunately since there is no service provided to dispose of the waste, the waste is accumulated on the mountain and this has been going on for years.  

Hence, tourism, notwithstanding being a humongous income generator, is also transmuting itself to pose a grave danger to the climate and environment.

Owing to such issue, today we face an impending need to do something in order to tackle this serious trouble. Since we can’t and mustn’t stop tourism in any way and we can also not dare to assault our much-degraded environment anymore; we must resort to finding a method to fillip our tourism as well as environment simultaneously and here comes the role of SUSTAINABLE TOURISM.

Sustainable tourism is, in fact, a new aspect of sustainable development which focuses on using our resources judiciously so that the coming generations can use them, thus enforcing the belief that “we don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Keeping in mind that we need to pay our dues back; sustainable tourism is a must for this technologically advanced century.

To know more about sustainable tourism, first, we need to have a clear understanding of the stakeholders in sustainable tourism.

The foremost stakeholders would be the ethnic communities of the different tourist destinations around the world. They can range from tribal communities to developed societies, depending on the financial status of the area being visited.
The next in line is the government. It is the government of the nation that manages the influx of tourists and hence conducts all the activities regarding the tourism from arranging things on a national base to publicity of various places that would try to elevate the interest of the coming tourists.

NGOs (Non-Government Organisation) too play an indispensable role in this issue. Bishnoi community in India and Moscone Center , San Francisco, USA (who have a wonderful recycling and solar power plant) are just a few examples of organizations who are working to ensure the safety and health the places near them and this in itself is conducive to sustainable tourism. Such organizations largely help the tourists in the area by informing them about the necessary things about the area and also restrain them from anyhow disturbing the serenity of their places.

Now as we know about the stakeholders, now is the time to have a pensive look at the sustainable tourism and its principles.
After the Rio conference of the year 1992 regarding issues and development, a major upheaval in the United Nations policy came up in the year 2012 in Rio again (Rio+20 summit)when UN assembled to talk on the sensitive issue of sustainable development. Sustainable tourism is also a brainchild of this convention only and the convention mapped out some serious ways in order to boost sustainable tourism.

Some of the key guidelines were to notify the tourists about the different ins and outs of the places that they are going to visit. This would include information about local beliefs, ethnicity of the place and also about the culture and economics about the communities in their destination; asking them to support the entity and integrity of the local communities involved, to make purchases only from businesses which guarantee no environment degradation; to use least possible amount of the non-renewable resources and above all to be environmentally cautious. 

It’s much tractable to talk about these things but when it comes to their execution, it’s a pretty formidable task to apply the things into action. The biggest problems that we face originate in the developing nations especially in Africa and Asia. The indigenous people have to pay a brutal price for the sake of tourism. For example, in the year 1996, 5200 residents of the city of Pagan, Myanmar were forcibly displaced in order to create space for the “Visit Myanmar Year’. One significant case is of our nation also. After the 2006 tsunami Southern India, Thailand and Sri Lanka earmarked the traditional lands of the tribes for tourism which led to the displacement of millions of people. One more significant case in the African continent is of Maasai tribes.

These communities are completely battered down by such relocation and to add injury to insult they are not even paid their rehabilitation money to a satisfactory extent. Due to the red tapes and rampant corruption, tainted officials suck out the money meant for these needy people and at last, they are just left out to live a life of misery and agony.
One more serious issue is that of illegal profit-making. Nowadays sustainability has actually become an oxymoron as well as an ostentatious concern. Various corporate activities covertly extort out the land which is the birthright of the indigenous tribes or population and in the court of law, the voices of these people are subverted in the name of sustainability and conservation of environment. These companies then erect lavish hotels etc. on the acquired land and benefit immensely through tourism.

Coastal tourism has also led to much concern. Destruction of water species near the coast as well as the displacement of the tribal groups in the coastal regions, is also a big issue that needs to be addressed in an exigent manner. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia which is currently in a much severe condition holds tourism as one of the culprits behind its current scenario. Though tourism can be attributed to around USD 1.52 billion income but it has also left no stone unturned in disturbing the natural makeup of the reef. Fragile corals are broken by reef walking, dropped anchors or by boats dropping fuel and other sorts of pollution. Even the number of people in the water with the associated run-off of sweat and suntan lotions may well have a negative impact on the fragile reef environment.

The world has tried to develop the issue of sustainable tourism so as to lessen the harm that it afflicts to environment by attaching the sustainable tourism with the development strategy. By merging up the principles of sustainable development in their development strategy for the area, by compensating all the tribes to the best extent, by decreasing the government’s dependence on corporate sector, to deal with these specifically precious areas, we can surely lessen out the damage. There has been the promotion of sustainable tourism practices surrounding the management of tourist locations by locals or the community. This form of tourism is based on the premise that the people living next to a resource are the ones best suited to protecting it. This means that the tourism activities and businesses are developed and operated by local community members, and certainly with their consent and support. Sustainable tourism typically involves the conservation of resources that are capitalized upon for tourism purposes. Locals run the businesses and are responsible for promoting the conservation messages to protect their environment.

Community-based sustainable tourism (CBST) associates the success of the sustainability of the ecotourism location to the management practices of the communities who are directly or indirectly dependent on the location for their livelihoods. A salient feature of CBST is that local knowledge is usually utilized alongside wide general frameworks of ecotourism business models. This allows the participation of locals at the management level and typically allows a more intimate understanding of the environment.

The use of local knowledge also means an easier entry level into a tourism industry for locals whose jobs or livelihoods are affected by the use of their environment as tourism locations. Environmentally sustainable development crucially depends on the presence of local support for a project.  It has also been noted that in order for success projects must provide direct benefits for the local community.

These methods are surely going to fetch respite for the displaced communities as well as the environment but still, much work needs to be done since we can never compromise with the security of our environment and mother earth.

Albeit we stand on the frontiers of this great 21st century of technological advancements but surely we can’t snub asunder our environment because if there is no environment, there can be no civilisation in the world and sustaining the environment would eventually mean sustaining the human race. Now the decision lies on our shoulders.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI



Wednesday 12 October 2016

Remembering Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia

Today the nation paid homage to one of its greatest sons ever produced, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. On this date, 49 years ago, Dr. Lohia, an audacious freedom fighter, a renowned socialist bade adieu to the world leaving behind his great legacy of informed thoughts. 

Dr. Lohia continues to be recounted in the nation for his spirit of squarely voicing the needs of the bourgeois and the ones who were unable to care for themselves and his life will continue to be deemed as a legendary one, an idol to be followed and loved by others.

Dr. Lohia was born on March 23,1910 in Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh in a prosperous family. From the commencement only, he held visionary plans for the nation to rise up out of the shackles of slavery. To give fire to his thoughts, Mr. Lohia joined the Vidyasagar College, under the University of Calcutta and in 1929, earned his B.A. degree. He decided to attend Frederick William University (today's Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) over all prestigious educational institutes in Britain to convey his dim view of British philosophy. He soon learned German and received financial assistance based on his outstanding academic performance, studying national economy as his major subject as a doctoral student from 1929 to 1933.

After coming back, with all his might, he relentlessly worked for the freedom struggle and continued to inspire the masses through his contructive writings and thesis on different facets of attaining independence. He is generally known for his contribution to the Quit India Movement, after which he gained prominence around the nation. With his ingenious plans, Mr. Lohia played a huge role in making Quit India Movement a huge success throughout the nation to give a clarion call to the Britishers that Indians had started their campaign for  "Poorna Swaraj " or complete independence.

Though we still remember Mr. Lohia, but still it's a matter of shame for the nation that we have indeed discountenanced his vision. The India which he dreamt of, is still a long way to go. He had a dream that one day out of sweltering heat of discrimination, crimes and terror, India would rise as the oasis of freedom. He had a dream that one day India would be at the helm of all political affairs around the world. He was not satisfied with denizens of India dying of starvation, he was not satified with the great financial and social divide, present in India contemporarily. His par excellence thoughts never dreamt of an India vulnerable due to its religions or castes but dream of an India strenghthened by its diversity and its brotherhood.

Today, we face the challenge of making the vision and dream of such a great patriot come true. Today, each and every Indian has a need to adopt the dreams of Mr. Lohia. Rather than paying homage to him just as a formality today we need to decide whether we want to rise with his vision or perish away in oblivion and ultimately this onus is on our shoulder and we are the ones who need to engender that change in the course of history.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Tuesday 11 October 2016

RAHIM DOHAVALI: Expectations of the world.



In this world, each one of us actually looks the same. All of us have the same anatomy as that of a normal human being, but still, all of us are different. Some are their one the peak of their success while some are still finding ways to make both ends meet. The world doesn't arbitrate about us based on our countenance or our physical structure but indeed on the grounds of what we can proffer to the world.

Rahim here uses the correct analogy of a crow and a koel ( a cuckoo bird). Though both more or less look on same, on the basis of appearance but as soon as they open their mouth, the truth plunges out automatically. 

This world doesn't care about how you look or where you come from. If you are trying to change the things, the world only expects courage and capability on your side. There are more than seven billion people around the globe but still they don't have the same amount of money, amenities or fame. That's just because, each and every person out of those seven billion people, carries something different than the other. There might be so many people around the world who are physically fit, look handsome but still, they end up making nothing out of their life while on the other hand there are some phenomenal people like Nik Vujicic who are there without limbs, but still they reside in people's heart and notwithstanding facing so many adversities; they overcame all the challenges to become successful. 

What you get from the birth never matters, but what you acquire yourself is going to be the central point of your success or failure. Stop making excuses that you don't look good, you don't bear a good physique; if you are capable of making a transformation in your life; go out and change the world; because you just need one thing to become successful i.e. "COURAGE TO SPEAK UP YOUR MIND"


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 9 October 2016

THE MEANING OF SUCCESS

Many people find the abstruse definition of success pretty intractable. Success is a concise work in just its length, and not in dimensions since its dimensions are truly boundless and its meaning impeccably larger than life. Some people use the notion that success is a journey and not a destination but I believe that success is truly a journey of an "achieved" goal because nobody can ever relish an unachieved goal and hence success doesn't matter in a goal you have not taken up. By unachieved goal, I mean to talk about things in which you don't succeed "ultimately" and not about things in which you fail in the process of achieving success.

If you don't ultimately reach towards your goal, success means nothing because history, present as well as the future in penned down from the perspectives of the winner and since winners don't prefer inclusion of losers in their manuscript of the world, a loser's description never gets published. Many people would confront my approach towards the situation as being too rude but unfortunately, rudeness is in itself a distinguishing characteristic feature of the world. My words are undoubtedly crude but they define the world's reality. Simple words might sympathise with you, but they might never unravel your pain and agony. Plaintive words might prove comfortable but they will never comprehend the gravity of your emotions. Hence, never, never and never try to settle down or compromise for less than what you can achieve. Life only gives us one chance to do what we had been longing for so long and if you miss anyhow in that moment, no matter how much exceptionally you perform but if you miss out on the decisive day, no feat of yours would be counted in the realms of history.  Winning is a matter of inches. If you lose out by one inch, you don't get it correct, and ultimately lose out in the race to become the best. You achieve 'success' only and only if you have a thing for success, your name would be remembered and you will achieve the true meaning of success but if in this attempt you somehow, make any blunder; success would continue to just serve as a mere banal word.

 JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Friday 7 October 2016

The challenge.

The grave challenge of growth comes when you get knocked down,
When cures are obscure,
But wounds are still abound,
When agony knows no bound,
No restraint of pain is found,
You face the harsh test when you ultimately get knocked down,
There are times in life,
When happiness vamoose, 
Unfortunately, with pain you engender a perennial truce,
When no matter how much you try,
Every time you are dashed to the ground,
The grave challenge of growth comes when you get knocked down,
You would be belittled and derided,
Life would play so many formidable games,
You would feel as a sobbing kid continuously chided,
When striking waters shake your sail,
When the world is engulfed by nothing but a horrendous gale,
When the dawn seems reluctant to arrive,
The courage in you is no longer extant to thrive,
And a fable for gloominess is all the rage around,
The grave challenge of growth comes when you get knocked down,
Getting back up is a work of true valour,
But who said that the violent waters were for the tyro sailor,
Shrouded by oblivion and gloominess,
You need to carry on and win the battle, in which you were about to be trounced,
The grave challenge of growth comes when you get knocked down,
Your dreams can't perish and you have to survive,
Show the world,
The victory is yours and yours is the crown,
Get back up again since your opponents deserve nothing more than a loser's frown,
No matter how much darkness engulfs the path ahead around,
Show the world, you will get back up, as many times as you get knocked down,

Unprecedented must be your victory,
Your medals should be your pain's scars,
Since you have the audacity to win,
I challenge, nobody can get you barred,
Either you die today or live in the realms of history, 
Whether you get back up or die as an uneventful mystery, 
It's is your choice to decide, 
Whether you strike back again, 
Or flow with the mediocre tide, 
Your victory, only, must make the throbbing sound,
Prove the world you passed the test by rising up,
After getting knocked down. 

                               JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                  JAI MA BHARTI