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Sunday, April 30, 2006

rule 49

I am belong to one of the millions who whole heartedly wants to see our nation thriving in all the fields, excelling in business and no doubt we are on the right track. BUTTTTTTTTTTT ( pardon for the double entendre ) our respected politicians doesn't feel the same. There are a few wolves among the sheeps who put themselves above the nation. For those chosen ones there is a perfect provision in our constitution. Our constitution is a one of those flawless biblical reference which has answers and solutions for all the problems. Agreed it can be manipulated by unscrupulous opportunists , but surely provides ways to give brick for a brick. Of the several provisions there is one RULE 49 in the conduct of elections which provides all the frustaed denizens of this great democracy to retaliate against all the malaise in the politics.
According to this if a citizen feels that during elections no candidate is appropriate for his vote , his vote would be counted and would accumulate in a seperate category i.e rejecting all the candidates standing in the elctions . It can be one those boosters for all the citizens to take part or be a part of the elctions even if they feel that nobody is worthwhile to run the nation. It can help political parties to undestand that they should give party tickets to those thieves and gangsters or else public is going to make the elections null and void. Its another way for different classes of people ( here i am not dividing the people on religions or caste ...there can be different ways to classify and one of the ways is means of livelihood ) to protest agains any wrongdoing by the politicians in order to get quick votes.
Let us again concentrate on the reservation bill in higher institute. It is an impasse which would take some stern , daring decisions from the ministers to solve it. Now here is what i intend to do after this provision becomes an act. The parties would be force to rethink their agendas when 50 % of the voters would refuse to supprot any candidate.Taking my vision one step further , imagine before elections political parties would debate openly as to what is acceptable to common public , otherwise they would feel the heat , after spending crores of money there would be total rejection.

Lets stop here , i am going for the lunch

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Its one of the most entertaining, humorous stories i have ever heard . There was a lawyer who had his very expensive cigars insured with a company . Guess what the insurance was against fire. So this lawyer ployed for earning quick bucks , just smoked his cigars and filed a case for the insurance . The court very well acknowledged that the claim is frivolous , but the object having been insured against fire , company have to bear the consequences. The company , instead of fighting long court battles agreed to pay the lawyer 15000 $ .
:) But they filed a case against him for arsonist tendency , that is setting an insured object on fire. The lawyer was imprisoned for 24 months and fined 25000 $.This is what i call- you reap what you sow

Reading 'GOOGLE story' about this marvelous true entreperneurs...Larry page and sergey brin
who set out to change the rules of the game . I have never noticed their LOGO on the home page where they keep playing with it and call it doodle. Their persistence to avoid throwing their homepage to the advertisers which could earn them in the short run. For them its not about money but their passion , to create world's best search engine.

SOMETHING NEW : They are planning to launch a service where their subscribers can match their genes...yes they are catching up in biotechnology where the users can learn about their genetic behaviour ...though i don't have sufficient details .

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Another bitter pill

I am one of the millions , belonging to the suffering class who are moaning over the decision made by one of the opportunistic , savvy politician who has played the dice to hit the jackpot when his retirement was being designed. ARJUN SINGH , stunned the whole of india especially his own party members, by bringing the law for increasing the SC/ST OBC quota in all the govt. institutions to 50%. The argument given is that they are following the constitution . I know i would be repeating the same old reasons for not endorsing this quota gimmick, but i feel we as educated persons need to weigh the situation not driven by the emotions but with rationality.
I feel it is our duty to propagate the right approach with whatever medium possible and i intend to do just that.
First the quotas has always been the famous ploy to lure the ST's to become the vote banks of those unethical politicians. What they need to realize is that ultimately it would be the backward people themselves who will be the sufferer even if the quota law passes . They can just gain the entrance to the premeir institutions but their goal is to provide a decent carreer out of the education which would land them to the competitive private industry where the survival is not based on your cast , creed or religion but solely on performance and if they don't have it in them they won't be able to survive. The same holds true for all the genral category people. So the idea is that govt. can't bring quota in the jobs (i suspect even thatis also waiting to be rolled out) but even if that comes out they non performers would always be the liabilities to the employer.
Instead they should boost the primary level education in the backward areas. I have seen my kaamwaali bai sending her children to school. So point is that to promote education not creating the shortcuts because i believe there aren't any. There have been sufficient successes but a lot still left to be done. and we should not let such mean politicians to hinder our progress as a nation. I sincerely want to ask everybody please give your 2 cents against this law. Ultimately there are no profiteers but OUR RESPECTED ARJUN SINGH ( you ****************)

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

From coal to diamond

'A diamond is nothing but a piece of coal who did well under pressure'

This is for al those people who having been victimized or observed the corruption , assails the democracy and supports somewhat improbable or out the box solution to the malaise stating that solution is dictatorship. I don't support the idea but perhaps it was worth mulling before i started with ' Argumentative indian' by Amartya sen. A wonderful holistic picture of india explaining all the knotty points covering the centuries old history.
democracy really gives you the independence of putting your views with any hindrance. Remember the emergency raised by indira gandhi . The picture appeared rosy initially but with time the public realized and started missing their rights and the result was that congress was out ( thrashed is the right word) in the next election . Thats the real power of democracy , that one vote you carry . But still needs to explore ways to reach out to common man and make him realize the difference between the biscuit earned and cheese to lure the mice.

Arguments are the only ways to reach to a fruitful conclusion and everybody irrespective of his position , maturity , knowledge ( i have changed the parametrs from caste , sex, religion which were there in the book) should be given a fair chance. I would say that sometimes its not the speaker who provides the solution but the listener who generated a conclusion out of the arguments. Its all about about active listening.

Above ideas are not from the book per se but generated by me after reading it.
The great history kings like Ashoka and Akbar , rising above the religion factor and appointed people from different cultures in their court to advise him. Some times we need heterodoxy which will become a new benchmark or the rule to be followed in future. Those can be rebellious but who knows we might miss one copernicus who discovered the right planetary movements around the sun rather than the earth which was concurred by the church in those times.