The Great Indian Tamasha

Democracy, trust, government, rule, power, nation.

The biggest tragedy of India is that, it is a democracy. A policy, how much ever good will face opposition. And a bad policy among detractors will always find supporters. And the lower house of parliament, the house containing the policy makers of the nation has always engaged in a Ruling party v/s opposition party battle, rather than battling a common war for the nation’s interest.
Each session of parliament brings forward new elements of power psychosis in politicians. The extent to which they may stoop to remain in power, no mater what happens to the country, is always on show.

Hence, this session of parliament convened for the no-confidence motion against the UPA government was no different in the plot, sub-plots and climax.
The plot again saw the politicos putting party needs and power greed ahead of the nation’s growth and development. And the climax as usual saw the nation’s interest fail. The sub-plot saw glaring double crossing and horse trading.

The Left wingers couldn’t stand the humiliation at the hands of congress any more. The left was treated like a small kid for the last 4 years by the grand old party of India, the congress. When the kid becomes delirious and gets insistent for an expensive toy, the clever parent bribes the kid with a chocolate bar and sweet talks the kid out of its demand for the toy. It was a similar ploy congress employed on the left. But this time the left wasn’t to be bluffed and pulled the plug out of the UPA coalition. But it is a different story altogether how the weakest PM ever of the largest democracy along with the US money and one broker named Amar singh showed all, that shamelessness has no bounds.


This congress government has only taken the nation from one depth to another depth over the last 4 years. The general feeling in the nation is that of anguish, desperation and hopelessness. Right from the beginning days of this govt, it has been involved in vote bank politics and played a game of pseudo secularism. Far better are the ways of BJP, which acknowledges that India is a Hindu nation (with a population of over 80% Hindus, how can India be any thing other than a Hindu nation), and need to progress forward on the fundamentals of Ram rajya.
Now, the pseudo secularists may draw swords at this reference and saw that there are Muslims and Christians and Buddhists too in this nation, then how can India have Ram rajya.
What’s wrong in it? Hinduism either as a religion or way of life doesn’t indulge in violence/force full conversion/aggression/cruelty and inequality. My advice to them would be to be Vedas and puranas literate. A Ram rajya is a rule bereft communal/caste divide, it is rule of equality in each and every sphere of life. It is a rule where there are no criminals; it is a rule of complete harmony, kindness and joy. It is rule of building friendship and allies. It is rule that sees no difference in man/woman/animals/trees. It is a golden rule of sufficiency and creative excellence.
Then why are these secularist tu tuing a Ram rajya??? Because in the disguise of secularism, they are scheming ways of winning the minority vote bank and use it to consolidate their hold on power.


This is the government which has kept a terrorist like Afzal guru from hanged to death, yes, he is the same guy who master minded the attack on parliament, how good would it have been if few of the laloos, sonias, sorens in the house would have been their victims rather than the poor guards.

This is the same government which has increased the quota reservation to almost 60%. Their basis of conclusion was that the SC/ST/OBC/minorities population in India is 60% hence the reservation. A 1 year old kid, an 80 year old woman were all part of their count, who would apply for a seat at IIM or government service this year… this is as per the govt study.
How many among the 60 % are actually eligible for the reservation, let that figure decide the reservation basis point. If there is a more detailed census taken, we would find that out of the SC/ST/OBC/minorities population, more than 50% are illiterate. So what the govt is telling is that it has reserved seats even for those who are illiterate and are in eligible for that course or vacancy. How more glaring can be injustice???
The same if compared with that population of India, which is termed general, you would find at least 80-90% of them eligible and literate.

So, where do you see the problem is??? At the top level or the grass root level???
These govts should understand that there is no quick fix/magic potion to solve the issues. In this case, the problem is illiteracy. Govt should be concentrating on educating and developing the skill set of that section of nation which is in the darkness of illiteracy. And start towards educating each and every child in India rather than blatantly put up reservation for the undeserving….while their own kids are enjoying the equal and free societies of the US and UK.

Then there is the inflation, that is on a all time high of 12% and still increasing. The govt shamelessly points out that the growth rate is 9%, a jump from 8%.
Is India so foolish not to understand why the growth increased?? When the inflation is more than 120% more than it used to be during the NDA rule???
For a middle class family, he may do some sacrifices in luxuries and tide over the inflation, but what of the section of society who live on daily wages??? When the essential commodities are scarce and prices sky rocketing, how are this section of people going to make their ends meet?? There are people who earn just over Rs70 per day. They have families; there are children too there, who have never known what it feels to have a full stomach. What plans does the govt have for them??? How are the reservations helping them???
Shouldn’t there be a more effective central distribution scheme in action??? Government Go downs are stacked with cereals and pulses for effective distribution among the poor, but the conniving power mongers indulge in literal looting from these go downs. Annually tones and tones of grains go rotten and wasted, while a part of nation doesn’t necessarily go to sleep having 1 square meal. The stacking of food grains is for use during a natural calamity, emergency or extreme food shortage. But in the name of foresight and preparations, it is a gross wastage. There must be a better ways of utilizing and managing these CDS.

All said and nothing done. But it is better than being unsaid. BJP, Congress or communist; no matter which party, unless India has better leaders who think about India and its people rather their party’s power adjustment, India will continue falling deeper into the depths of social/economical and cultural degrade.
For not even a single split of second should anyone mistake that leader to be Rahul Gandhi, who started of his speech in lok sabha stating “Today I speak as a true Indian…..” we Indians should have better vision and see through nepotism and plans of one single family who has exploited a great lineage’s name.
Gandhi, is only one and that is Mohandas karam chand Gandhi. Completely apolitical and so have been his true descendants.

In this whole discussion I have not once mentioned N-deal and that was purposefully.
In my next blog I will delve upon the much discussed N-deal. I have been going through the IAEA and US Govt’s websites and other independent forums on the actuality of N-deal. Once, I have a complete picture I will be publishing my findings.

Names

Names names names… Whatz there in a name? name is after all a reference to an object. And it is the thing that is referenced that matters, may that be named a, b or z for that matter.

But still most of us are very much attached to our names and love it.there are other few who do not like their name for the plain reason that it is either too long, Funny sounding or simply too old fashioned.

There is a lot of thought process that goes into naming the baby by the parents.
We in India give a lot of importance to the astrological timings and the position of the planets at the time of birth of the child to decide the name or the starting letter of the name; there are others who look at the names numerological aspect. In 7eventies and eighties it was a trend to name the child after a great personality/leaders and actors…. Then there is a safe path chosen, by naming the baby after the parent’s favourite diety….

Whatever it is, either ways the parents wish is that under all situation their kid is going to be a victor and all the good luck would belss upon him/her And hope that these names would prove good for their little bundle of joy….

Now as the kid grows, he identifies himself with what his name actually means. now if you are one among the many who doesnt know the meaning of your name...then please visit this link
http://www.behindthename.com/name/

Now a person name "Gyani" may feel from inside he is a very learned person....even though he may hate books ...."Shwetha" may not be exactly snow white in complexion. "Vivek" may actually be an Aviveki.
"Vijay" may not have known what success is all about and be closer to failures. "Muskan" might have actually given more cry faces than smiles. "Shanthi" may have made many ppl restless and "Prem" may be hated by more people than he is loved.

Yet, you make a connection with your name and accept it. But some folks are so very frustrated by their names that they seek the legal way out and just get their names changed.
a "Madhavan Kutty" may become "Madhav", a "Rajappan" would like it better as "RAjan" and for guys named "Veerappan" it would be a blessing if it could hv been "Veer" and so on... but i am not saying every1 would opt for name change.

and yes, when writting abt names...how can we missout on the various nick names?? it is like a caption to the new block buster movie... "If you have a name, then there will be nicknames ".............
as for4 me "VIVEK"...it is easy to have nick name, mom calls me "Viveku", others in family callled me "vivu" and also "vibu"...there was a time when ppl called me "batman" (still dunno why, and no wonder i have grown to love batman more than the other super heroes bcoz of this association, i think they actually meant badman)...in school/college it had always been vivek, but every now and then i would also acknowledge to avivek....there were some who called me vicky.There was a phase in life when i was also callled "Voki"....after that person's pet, which had got lost. At the same time there were other names "Kongu", "King kong"............

In office as most of you know you need to give your full name....
and mine being Vivek Edasserivallapil Ashokkumar... i felt Vivek E Ashokkumar would be a favour i would be doing to all....
and yes it was......
my email id was crucifixed as vivek.ashokkumar and mails were recieved by others as Ashokkumar, Vivek (silly stupid americans)... and what more you need i am known as Ashokkumar to entire office and to the very little others as vivek.
now i regret that favour i did, i should have gone wit my full name.....and no wonder ppl would have found vivek much easier than edasserivallapil.....and i could have been known as vivek....
but for one of my collegue who has a beautiful name in Aravind, happened to provide his full name
Aravind kopparappu. no prizes for guessing what he is now known as around the office....""Koppu"
mmm...when in the US, ppl there found it easier to call me vivek and i am greatful that they did call me by the name i loved the most. but again there was a circle of friends who called me "Viv".

now, apart from these... there is an other aspect to ur names/nick names..... if there is more than one person in the room with the same name as your's ????
These are the times when the physical attributes, state,hobbies etc.. come forth in deciding the differentiation factor....
there were 2 balajies in the college and thankfully one was as thin as any one could get and teh other was well built, so we had "body balaji" and "balaji".
in my colony we had 3 Govinds... one was from delhi, other from bombay and the other from Madras...we just prfixed their hometowns to differentiate them. in school we had many manjunaths.... each had differnt initals, one was L, the other SM, the other TM and K....so we ghad Lmanja, Tmanja,Smanja and Kmanja... wonder how they all are now.... had seen them last in 10th std.....

In my own case we have 2 vivek's in the team and 1 in the product support team... and to worsen things i share my cubicle with one of the namesakes. We have a tuff time if some one calls out Vivek.... but as i said thanks to the display on emails... i am ashokkumar, and one is karwa and the other nashi.....but it so happened that in a conference with the Business unit, all 3 of us were 2gether and the italian -american client had a harried time ........

and when ever we called her seperately... she had to make note that this the proffessional vivek and this is the personal vivek....and we still wonder who among us was the professional and personal...as we both have had our share of personla discussions with her....



names names names.....whats there in names???yes, if it is someone else's name, there is nothing there... but if it is your's there is everything in the world in it.

Just reflect back and try sorting out the nick names you had and still have and have a hearty laugh....