Caught at silly point - my response to Bharatratna

With great respect to him – my response to Sri: CNR Rao

I don’t find any merit in the argument that all bright young guys are moving in to I.T because it has more money – I don’t think our Indian scientists are making any money less. So it is an individual choice people choose what profession he wants to be in. We have top IITians clearing UPSC and joining as Civil servants. People with great educational qualification in engineering and science quitting their jobs and starting business in hospitality & travel even SPAs. You can’t control that. After all a seasoned chef/attendant in good hotel makes the same salary of a mid-level IT guy. It is of the trend in India like mid-eighties and before my father generation felt happier to be an engineer or in Army. The current trend will be replaced by something else in the future.

Students are more interested in IT because of not only money but also

• It has more opportunities – creating thousands of jobs every year
• Life style of IT professionals is another attraction – after all  speaking English itself is a big attraction in our country- hope you get that
• Process of recruitment is faster than comparatively to any government organization – it does not take ages to select/Reject a candidate
• Flexibility to move to other organizations is more

It is a silly over-generalization by Bharatratna CNR Rao – wont it sound ridiculous if one says “investing so

much of money in Mangalyaan is useless in a country like India where more than half of the population does not even have access to toilets – and science is not going to change these lives” it will be really unfair to say that, agree?

I don’t agree with his argument of saying IT is not science – come on what is not science in this world?
Try to imagine our lives without IT - starting from Online banking to booking tickets online  - mobile phones, social media, it made our lives so comfortable – it is bringing everything to our finger tips

Another comment by him – IT folks are a bunch of dissatisfied souls – you would have people committing suicides in every form of business and  in every profession – there could be so many reasons behind it, BUT NOT because they work in “I.T” Rao sir – will it be fair if we say “all scientists are bunch of selfish people enjoying the money of people and not putting efforts to carry research on things which will change common man’s life rather space” ? – we are proud of our scientists for what they have done.

Look at the employment IT sector is creating every year – how many people are indirectly benefiting from it – you don’t have to degrade IT to prove scientists are great/superior.

I can’t agree more with him saying our politicians are idiots - fair enough, he made his point very clear .But don’t we know this already “why is he trying to reinvent the wheel? And getting in to trouble.

 India should invest more money in science no doubt in that – but India also should invest more in educaton,sanitation and many more – so science is not the only sector ignored by our politicians

At the same time look at any ground breaking invention from Galileo to Newton to Einstein – they did not do it with the help of governments – all inventions we enjoy today are not a result of institutionalized effort by government’s – they come out of intrinsic motivation to change the world and deep curiosity of a human being – govts can be of very minimal help.

Finally coming to the point of I.T guys being arrogant – I think to a large extent it is a perception – because they wear more westernized clothes, put and artificial English accent and speak English even in places where they can happily speak their mother tongue and other small things make them look arrogant – otherwise they are also working really hard to make their life better – earn more buy a house/car or go on a vacation.

More money invested by government will not guaranty inventions but creating infrastructure, nurturing the culture of science will definitely help our country. We Indians are so complex people we talk about improving scientific temper but ISRO chairman goes to the temple to pray that launch of mangalyan should be successful. Nothing wrong in it just that we are too complex.

We must invent a profitable business than "Politics" to save India

While we were in School and college we've read about wars for religion, for ownership on a place  but when we look at them now carefully it boils down to the fact that everything happened because of a business called "politics". In this century  this evolved as most profitable business for all crooked,cunning animals in human skin.Take for example America's war on Iraq  to today Telagana issue in Andhrapradesh- the entire media said america attacked Iraq for oil, the whole world believed it and whispered "How mean America is". I wonder if that is the truth all we are saying is that american politicians are so committed and biased towards Americans well being.Which is not true, all they are worried about votes, power so that they can protect their vested interests, enjoy their lives at tax payer's money and make more money.It is really surprising that we all force ourselves to believe that politicians are standing for a cause, they are protecting national interest.Get the most powerful telescope in the world and try to search for a leader like Abraham  Lincoln or Subhash Chandra Bose  -  for your disappointment you won't find more leaders.

Just have a look at Telangana Issue - Governments have been cooking it for over 5 decades now at the cost of utmost discomfort to people,great loss to both the regions in Andhraparesh and suddenly when a decision has been taken politicians from both the sides start playing the role of saviors, comes on to the streets to save interests of their regions,fight for their region's share in water,irrigation projects, revenue.Every day and night you keep reading statements made by politicians on how they want to protect people of their regions, and the way they protect people is by calling for a strike - No schools for children,no government office will be open,all the public services are halt and no cost effective transport system will function during strike.All this happens under the slogan called public interest.Well the question we need to ask here is "where have you been" all these years when I could not get drinking water everyday, when I have been denied a government service which is my fundamental right, when farmers are committing suicides? Politicians wont be there for the obvious reason that there is "no money" they can make out of these.But when they fight for Irrigation projects, Roads,Airports there is huge amount of money in each of those.If these kind of projects wont get started  they cant make money - so they fight for money - sorry in their language "for people".

Why it has become a business?

It is very simple: most of the political leaders today would have started their careers as an entry level volunteer in a particular party. From that stage to now they would have spent at least 20 years of time, during this period  for a serious political leader there wont be any time left to take up any other occupation to earn money, so from where they should get money? how should  they live? how should they support their families ?The nominal pay for leaders at panchayath, Mandal and district level wont be sufficient to survive by maintaining stature in political circles.So all the investment one made in the form of time,physical and mental hard work over those 2 decades will give him  an opportunity to convert that investment made in to  money once h wins an election.Hence politicians create divisions,movements,fights and chaos to make more and more money and to get much more powerful.

There are 3 simple  options here to be clean

1) Do not get in to politics to earn livelihood : Fortunately or unfortunately in India it is always believed that politics are for unselfish public service, so only people who does not want to make money using politics are welcome here, if you want to make money choose another career, why come in to politics to suffer and to be called corrupted - please don't " if you want to make money, you are disqualified". You can not buy a BMW, or a Villa neither you can send your children abroad for education with the honorary expenses paid by the government. Please be reminded that "Politics are  only for people who wants to remain poor in the process of  making public  rich", yeah true politicians also public they also vote so there is not really a great deal of  wrong in they becoming rich - alas this cant stop corruption

2) Earn money then enter politics : This is a good option, make enough money save it and enter politics.I think most of today's politicians are doing this - just that their habit of earning money does not die easily, so they continue the same even after entering in to politics -Pccch  can't help 

3) There is something called community service while you are working as a teacher,engineer,Lawyer or a business man  you could do service to gain support from public - if you are genuinely helping public you don't have to spend money to win elections. When was the last time a public servant was elected without spending money in elections? how many of our current MLA's or MP's have this kind of background? not many of them i don't think this model will work for India. Leave this too.

Actually i cant really think of any good option - the best solution for this would be we discovering a better business which is more profitable than Politics, so that all crooked will go there  and at least there will some space for good people in politics. Anyone who discovers this kind of business should be given a Nobel prize.

It went and kissed my living breath

It was not born with me,

Nor my body was made to sustain it

It never helped me to improve myself emotionally or intelligently

It is not at all a companion during my sorrows or my victories

Every moment I took it in to my hands it waged a war on me

It suffocated my body, it contaminated my blood

It went and kissed my living breath and whispered death

Ohh how many times I called myself a fool

For buying cancer and carrying it in my pocket

Ohh! How many times I asked myself why is it so difficult to quit

Why is it so difficult to stop pumping nicotine into my lungs?

All through I knew that I can do anything I want to with it,

I can light, I can kiss it, I can crush it

All I forgot is that I can  tell that it is the dust bin where you should go

NOT MY BODY – now I am saying   :-)

Hypocrites have no right to ask for a clean system

I have asked myself so many times before writing this, as in if I have moral right to make a statement like that, the answer was yes predominantly, hence here you go.

Why am I writing this?

After Supreme court gave the verdict barring individuals from contesting elections if they are jailed, i started thinking about how much good/bad this can do for Indian democracy, i am elated with the verdict because of the reason that it will  stop at least a few Mughals of corruption and criminals. But in the  the process of thinking the sociological aspect from where corruption/crime draws its first living cell amused me.I would like to pen it here and leave it for your good senses to say right or wrong but after dealing with the flip side of the decision.

It is a great decision, but we all know our respected politicians are extremely efficient in abusing power and satisfy their vengeance against rivals. We have seen in the past an old man got arrested in the midnight, similar things happened in Andhra Pradesh too. So if the current party in power is hopeless and has not done anything for the people and on the verge of losing in next elections, all they will do is - use their power and get opposition leaders behind the bars under a serious offence. Hence this needs to be discussed in wider forums and needs to be made robust in a way it is not abused.

Now going back to my statement:

How many acts/verdicts like these will bring in change? How may policemen we think we need to clean up the system?

Have a look at the report of transparency international, none of the so called powerful nations with hi-tech police system, judicial mechanism are not featuring in to 15, for more details see here

Rank	Country	Score	Surveys Used	CI: Lower	CI: Upper
1	Denmark	90	7	87	93
1	Finland	90	7	85	95
1	New Zealand	90	7	87	94
4	Sweden	88	7	85	91
5	Singapore	87	9	83	90
6	Switzerland	86	6	81	90
7	Australia	85	8	83	86
7	Norway	85	7	82	87
9	Canada	84	7	80	87
9	Netherlands	84	7	81	88
11	Iceland	82	6	75	89
12	Luxembourg	80	6	75	85
13	Germany	79	8	75	83
14	Hong Kong	77	8	74	80
15	Barbados	76	3	65	87

You can’t bring in positive change even if you get an act every minute, even if we employ police double of our population, change will come only through large scale social reforms and change will come only through cleaning the system from the roots. When I say this I am not referring to large scale movements like Anna Hazare is doing because of the reason that though I believe Anna Hazare I don’t trust those thousands of people gathering and chanting for him. I am not being cynical here, let me tell you my personal experience, While I was in college we started a youth association our aim was to conduct programs to spread the spirit of National unity, encourage students and community service. We ran this successfully for a period of 3 years till time of general elections, during elections time number political parties approached us to support them and canvas for them by offering gifts and stuff like that – because you know we all had voting right and we were a large group of educated youth, being the president it was my strict decision that we won’t accept anything from anybody and do not support anybody. But after few days I got to know that my friends have taken a cricket kit, that’s all I quit. The Irony the same group of people who sold their votes for a cricket kit and continue to do so started postings on Facebook supporting Anna Hazare recently. The whole mechanism is working like this, people think that it is ok if I take something from politicians but they should serve us with honesty. If we can’t wither away this hypocrisy, we will remain nothing but a bunch of hypocrites craving for fair society. The whole India need to ask the following very simple questions before asking for a clean system

a)      If you are demanding for dowry – do you have the right to ask for a fair society, isn’t this system of dowry causing deaths of lakhs of women across country – suicides or killed by in-laws/husband, isn’t it one of the key reason why crime rate in India is going up?

b)      How many of us like having a baby girl? or wish to kill her in the womb itself? And bribe doctors to do that? Doctors are coming to us to do this, we are going to them. Isn’t it the most criminal activity manifestation in a different way?

c)      If I am luring an official with money for a work I am not supposed get or for a job for which I am not eligible for– do I have the right to ask for a clean system?

d)      How many of us got our driving licenses by throwing bribes? Why do we have given it? Because we cannot pass the test, because we do not quite know how to drive

e)      Apart from voting (40% of them won’t even do this) what is my contribution to the village/city/colony I am living in?

f)       How many of us are evading taxes?

g)      How many of the politically active youth are hiding behind the ideology of HINDU,MUSLIM,COMMUNIST etc though you know it is not going to work out , it is the correct way – just to achieve your personal ambitions, breaking rules, setting buses on fire, conspiring murders/kidnaps

h)      How many of us vote to XYZ because he/she belongs to particular caste?

It is we who made it look ugly, it is we who created this suffocation, and it is definitely we who invited this violence. It does not make sense when you are shaking the foundations and asking for strong building. If you are not fair, you have not right to ask for being treated fairly

All of them who crossed the age of 16 are the children of this so called corrupted ill society. It is not wise to have any hope on that generation. Let us focus on children under 15 years,, let them learn good things at school, let us give them an opportunity to strengthen their wings, let us give them confidence to live on their own, let us teach to respect others, let us teach them good and bad – because we know the bad very well, we have been seeing this all through our lives, we contributed to it.

Let us allow children to born whether boy or a girl. Let them grow hearing you don’t have to cheat anyone to become strong, you  don’t have bribe anyone to get what you are eligible for, that you don’t live long enough hence it is not worth enough to commit crimes for living, Beg don’t steal, borrow don’t threaten.

The curse of coalition politics - India is going to be an orphan for five more long years

Voters have been defeated continuously

I am one of those people who always believed, Indian voter is the smartest and have great respect for him for the events he dictated to take place in India-post freedom, starting from out throwing Indira Gandhi from power as a sign of punishment during 1977 to rejecting BJP in 2004 elections for trying to misguide the nation. But the irony is Indian politicians are smarter than voters and they are more powerful, few are coward too. Take a look at for example voters never voted for Deve Gowda to be the prime minister so is Chandrasekhar and IK Gujral,these were  purely orchestrated by Indian politicians through which  they tried to make PM less powerful or instate puppy if I can say that.

So Indian voter and politician trying outsmart each other, one with the honesty and urge towards nation’s progress and the later for his own good sake to make money sufficient for fewer generations of his family paved path for coalition governments. Loyalties of voters changed dynamically and so are the priorities of politicians .But I strongly feel that the root cause for coalition governments in India are in the freedom struggle during 1945 to 47, where Indians needed one strong united voice – so most of the people with difference ideologies came under one umbrella called Indian National Congress   by which killed the an alternative for Indians. I would like to call this as an unwanted “side effect” of a great medicine.INC won successive elections under Nehru ji’s leadership leveraging the sacrifices made during freedom struggle, common man never was is need for strong opposition neither for another leader, sudden demise of Nehru opened a vacuum which was never filed at least the true spirit of him for the nation. Have a look at the below data it tells everything about Indian politics over half a century.

1951 to 1977 – for 26 years, there was no strong opposition for congress, had Indira not announced emergency I don’t think any party would have grown stronger enough to form a government.

So what is the problem with coalition governments now?

We’ve had unstable governments either they were in minority or in coalition, which caused damage for the whole nation – none of these governments could dare to take decisions which will help this country to progress faster for  example interlinking rivers .The biggest drawback with a coalition government is they become consolidated sum of vested interests. The more allies you have greater the problem is.Now we need a powerful government which can drive us through this difficult period – the whole developed world is experiencing recession for long, we have a killing threat from terrorism, crime rate is increasing, corruption paralyzed entire system. We need a leader who can lead a government with guts more over who can build trust and get more seats for his party in order to provide stable government and take courageous decisions for the bigger cause of the nation.

So who that be – Rahul Ganghi or Narendra Modi?

There are number of discussions already took place on Newspapers, national TV channels on who will make a great prime minister among these two and who has more promising prospects. Well, to me it looks like none of them are going to be prime minister after 2014 elections primary reason being none of them qualifies to be one, of course there were people who became prime ministers before who themselves would not imagined that they would.

Now-  let me deal with why I think none of them will become PM or should not become PM:

Rahul Gandhi :

I was in college, doing my MBA when Rahul Gandhi announced his political entry, I had great hopes on him and it increased as the days goes  – till last couple of years. Now I realized I was impressed by him not because of the promise he shown but he was efficient enough to hide his inability and lack of knowledge. But one thing is for sure I am truly impressed by his nature of not so blatantly exploiting his position and being born to Rajiv Gandhi unlike sons of few chief ministers. But that is not good enough to qualify him for the most powerful role in the country. He has not done anything except talking very superficially about change, corruption. His lack of knowledge about serious problems like electricity, irrigation, unemployment, creating new business opportunities, handling terrorism is extremely evident whenever he spoke about them in the media. He never opened up to prove himself clean on coal gate scam, common wealth – suresh kalmadi episode and most importantly on his brother-in-law’s episode. Should we believe that al these happened without the knowledgeof  his mother and his mother hid these from him. Above all these

1)      Rahul Ganhdi’s political experience is enough to judge that the current government lost its reputation and will not be voted for power this term – why would he be ready to announce himself as captain to the sinking ship, given the bitter experience he had in the Uttarpradesh elections. He may not risk his political career for this term so he would love to remain as the prince with lot of power and without any accountability.

2)      Even if they win, they have people like Mulayam singh Yadav who freshly sacrificed chief minister post to his son, and would not throw away an opportunity to become PM

Naendra Modi :

Successful chief minister of a progressing state, commands great respect in Gujarath and in the industrial, business fraternity including Tatas,Reliance.Has good track as chief minister, has great ideas of creating new business opportunities but will his model of Gujarath work for the whole nation? Why would BJP allies let him do things at the pace he is operating in his state? He has advantages like – no corruption allegations so far, and he can go back to his state if he fails at national level politics. His knowledge and ability to handle problems across country like the Telangana issue or conflict between states over river water is questionable to an extent – because he never seems to have mentioned these on any forum. The other is he being accepted given the reputation of religious fanatic he has. He neither took responsibility nor apologized for what happened in Godhra. Even if we assume Modi or his government never encouraged riots, how you ever entrust such huge responsibility of guiding the nation to a person who could not control situation because of which 2000 people were killed. Above all he has bigger problems

1)      Nitheesh kumar does not like Modi’s reputation at all – they are scared that Modi will drive Muslim voters away from their party. He is ambitious too, he announced his intentions during the big public address recently

2)      LK Advani – the father of BJP’s renaissance – wanted to become prime ministers all his life – if at all they have enough  number to form government why he would he throw way the opportunity to fulfill his dream

3)      Sushma Swaraj,Arun Jaitely, Jaya Lalitha – will have better acceptance from allies – They might not believe Modi given the reputation he built of taking decisions unilaterally.

So we will end up having another weak prime minister who will dance for the tunes of their allies, curse peril whatever you call it is, it is not good for the country. I will be extremely happy if Indian voter and politicians proves me wrong

Once there was a King who ordered “Dinosaurs must be domesticated not killed “The question of how do we deal with brutal criminals?

This is in response to the statements made by few celebrities (like Rahul Bose, Arundhanthi Roy), intellectuals recently on Delhi gang rape and execution of Afzal Guru, I would like to start this  with a story and get in to the issues one by one so that we get to the core of the problem, before that let me warn you – “if you are a person who is not bothered about incidents that takes place far “from where you live” (as you like to believe), please do close this and move on to a topic of your interest. Let me start now

230 million years ago, there was KING who is mighty, clever – he won almost the world and ruling it successfully – he is left with only wish that people should treat him as GOD, he announced himself as GOD so many times but his people were not convinced . So he had been thinking within himself what heroic stunt will make his people believe him as GOD. Luckily for the king, one day a court man of his came running to inform him on a very dangerous problem for the whole world -he said “My king, we are all going to die if we won’t get prepared soon, there is a monster on the rampage, killing hundreds every minute” king was baffled and said I am the mightiest of all on earth, nothing  can destroy  my kingdom, “calm down and tell me” he ordered the court man who explained “My king “ we are attacked by a monster dinosaur, it is on a rampage, destroying everything on its way – currently it is 15 miles away  from here and  can reach here anytime – I am the only one from that place  who survived to carry this message to you, King you are mightiest please save us – we beg you. “Nothing will happen” he assured him and ordered his army chief to get ready with all weapons and announced he will be back after an hour to go on a war against dinosaur.

Well ,while he was going to his home to inform the queen about war, he was struck with great feeling of victory - he thought this is the right chance for him to prove as GOD, that he can kill this dinosaur and prove to his kingdom, but he questioned himself later “Will my people start treating me as “GOD” if I kill this dinosaur – they may not, because “I have done lot bigger things than this before” – so it is not a right idea to kill the dinosaur.

The KING came back to the court and announced “My dear people “as I told you before I am the GOD, and I have not created any species to hurt my own people, this dinosaur might have gone mad, so let us capture it and domesticate it, so that it goes back to his original nature I gave , “Let us go” he ordered his army.

KING and his army successfully captured it, though KING lost few best of his soldiers, nobody dared to ask him if you are the GOD – why do you need to fight to capture it – just order and make it behave, that is the irony. So they captured this dinosaur and put in big cage like park, started feeding it daily. Next day this news reached other dinosaurs ,they laughed at KING’s stupidity and decided that they will intentionally get captured one by one and get into  the park so that they can get food for free without any labor, all the dinosaurs stuck to the plan started attacking kingdom, so for king’s army it became a routine every day to fight dinosaurs capture them and put them in to the park and feed, but gradually king’s army reduced to a few numbers because every time they fought a dinosaur they have lost lives, and food reserves in the kingdom also diminishing, finally there comes day where king does not have any men to fight except himself- he and a bunch of Dinosaurs – so he ran away  in to a  deepest cave to save his life”

Let us end the story there – it is already quite a long, let us get in to the core problem now. First things first – execution of Afzal Guru and the response few intellectuals across in India – that he should not have been killed rather imprisoned for life- because death sentence is very cruel and uncivilized. Now there are few things we need to consider

1)      Argument: Death sentence is archaic, medieval times method and uncivilized – well please do not conveniently forget that civilized procedures are for civilized only – and there is difference between human and animal rights – do not get confused, unless you consider Kasab & co and brutal rapists as humans, incase if you do so, please answer me if they are humans “what are we then? – the” KINGS” in the STORY? trying to prove ourselves “intellectuals” if one take down the list of terror activities, bomb blasts and rapes in India for last one decade – you will get hundreds of incidents now need to see how many were punished, how many death sentence have been awarded by the courts and of them how many have been actually implemented, we can count on fingers, it won’t be not even 10 though. We are so far from awarding justice to the affected families and victims – we need to fight to have the justice done to the victims fast and should not be debating on why Afzal Guru should have been pardoned and how you can reform the brutal rapists.

2)      Argument: If they proved to be criminals don’t kill them, give life time imprisonment: Just as the king did underestimate the problem of dinosaurs, our intellectuals are underestimating the problem of terrorism and treating these criminals just like any other. Point here is you are sending a message in to the society with the way you are treating these animals – now we need to take a call whether we would like to send a message like the KING with his hidden agenda in the story OR we act sternly. When you see snake you will kill it – 99 times out of 100 times you do that – at least you will try to kill it – and we know why – because we know it is our death, now as we not affected any terrorist activity, as of now our kids safe – we preach about peace- when the same problem touch our life our heart starts burning, we cry our heart out. Please allow your soul to work for a minute – you won’t be able to eat – you are killing the soul every minute in pursuit of being called intellectuals.

3)      Argument: We are world's biggest democracy, we stand for peace: the crucial point is “at what cost you would like to be a civilized society” – like in the story the king chose to “capture the dinosaur and domesticate it “wiser one would probably choose less dangerous event to prove your so called “unflinching will for peace” and India being a fair state which gives fair opportunity to even most cruel criminals. just try to have look a the incidents took place from 2001 to now while we had the parliament attacks culprits in the jail enjoying the hosting of indian Governament, their men continued killing hundreds, to whom are you trying to preach peace, they do not understand your language – the only language they understand is “KILLING”. it is easy to make them understand just by doing the same when they are caught. For thirteen we wasted time, now by killing him we made him Martyr.

“Look at the history of India, one became GOD after killing an evil being ” Lord Rama to Sri Krishna. Killing brutal criminals is not a sin, but not killing them is one and it more uncivilized than killing them. Cutting the overgrown part of your body(Let us say nails) is not hurting your body but protecting it.  One who kills “innocent” deserves to be killed with in law but quickly – see my next post - my take on  fast tracking this.

Rahul Bhai, Arundhati Didi-  I know you are thinkers, shift your focus to another happening thing – do not make yourself funny – the entire media says you guys are great and  intellectuals ,why are you trying to do circus still.