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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Tujhe pata hai......(aricent EP2 discussion)

Please dont think on the topic too much ...you wont get anything conclusive ...as expected:)

Today I saw a banner advertising for a kindergarden. The advertisement had all the keywords such as learning,fun games,etc etc ...(well actually i can help them coining really good catchy phrases but they are not paying me so I wont write them here .....hehe another reason can be that I am not able to recollect them) .There was one phrase that caught my eye ....the building is built on DDA land...for all the non delhites, although I assume that they can recall the MCD drive which is hovering on all news channels and somewhere has not been tackled properly by our media, but might not relate to it with deserving compassion.Infact I believe even delhites not directly been affected by it do not understand the gravity of the problem..... yahaan peit ka sawaal hai. I think the banner provides an example of the penetration of some controversial decisions, affecting all our thinking process , modulates our acceptance level of anything remotely connected to the issue.
Lets put some facts first
We all agree that planning of the capital has gone haywire. Infact there is no planning visible
visible,there are commercial entities sprouting in every residential area.Is that what we expect to project to the whole world , we are expecting to be induced in the united nation security council, a business hub of the world ( more precisely offshore service hub) where business executives visit often and complain about the degraded, messy infrastructure and take back this belief to their country. So when the time arises when India looses its low cost advantage then all our business allies would turn to say african continent who are yet to realize or should i say reap the profits. We need to project ourselves as a incredible country with credible business friendly nation. Dont we get the first image of a place by its visual likability ( i dont whether that word exist). We all sing praises of phoren country because it is well planned.
Hence we need to uproot the weeds from our crops

Now the million dollar question is whether the weeds and so deep rooted that they cannot be pulled out wiithout affecting the plant itself. The small shops , small departmantal stores, saree shops , book store ......other innumerable dukane in the residential areas are running well and are feeding ( here feeding implies prosperous) whole families. I agree that the families are or with god's grace will never starve for food but therewould definately be few upheavels in their lives and chances are that there will be a considerable fall in their standard of living.
Believe me being poor doesn't hurt any human that much when the misery is compared to that of becoming poor from being rich . Its the fall that hurts you the most.I have heard several stories where the whole families are ruined because their shops were sealed and they had no other alternative source of earnings

I believe these are facts and perhaps i have missed some ......this can go for ever. I finfd myself incapable of arriving to a decision. When I put these fors and against on a weight balance , I dont know which side is heavier but for our country holding the weight balance itself seems tiring and frustrating. I wish there is some miracle and we get everything without suffering much.

7 Comments:

At 7:34 AM, Blogger shantanu said...

mainu sab pata hai... ;)

 
At 6:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

yar bada dimag lagata hai tu...

 
At 6:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

upar wala comment mera tha...
neelabh...

 
At 1:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would rather critique it :

i) Lots of typographical errors disturb flow of words.

ii) When you want to discuss controversy, better come out with facts.

iii) Indeed a good observation.

iv) You didn't plan its flow well.

Anyways keep it up. :-)

Abhisek R.

 
At 3:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some loose strings of thoughts:

The often talked abt question today is "is the indian judiciary crossing its limits, transgressing into the boundaries of the executive?" Doesn't delhi sealing drive incident reflect the statemnt?
Another view gives - "is the executive carrying out its duties responsibly and within its limits?"
Now coming to the point. Proverb says that it takes two to do a tango, who r the two in this episode? Of course one side is the "ordinary" citizen (oh....democracy and still the citizen is called ordinary). Is the other side composed of ministers (technically legislature)? I say not. If it were so, the sealing cld have been stopped by agitating ministers (both inside and outside the cabinet). Its the executive...the MCD......
Just think why laws r made? Bcoz if kept unchecked, humans tend to easier criminal options. Why cant they go for illegal settlements then? (jahaan peit ka sawaal hai!!) It needs executive to check their illegalities and if it doesn't do so, same applies to judiciary then to check executives' illegalities.
Why then, bring it all to common men when democracy is supposed to be citizen centric? Where is the fixing of responsibility
to those who r supposed to bear it? India can live without being a security council member but families cant survive without daily bread and butter.

 
At 5:56 AM, Blogger sameer said...

ohri ka comment tere post se bhi bada hai :). mujhe lag raha hai tera post padhne ke baad neelu waapas india nahi ayega

 
At 5:31 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

the two important steps that would help in this directions.
1) make the major componenet of the MCD worker salaries based on performance.

2) make that portion of salary more lucrative.

These would basically helps in reducing the corruption which is the root of all sins in India.

 

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