Statue of Unity or Goonity ?

When India got it's independence and started framing it's own constitution, parallely two great men were working for the stability of acoustic India which was hit by a major pogrom during those days. People across border were chopping themselves as a butcher chops meat into pieces. The purpose was "political" and had nothing to do theoretically with "Sapno ka Pakistan". These two great men, one being Nehru and the other Sardar Patel, two chosen, quite wisely in a combo pack by a sage named Gandhi, tried their best to contain these riots and let not out-breach it so that it may lead to demand of separate "Khalistan".

Nehru, being modern, worked as a Prime Minister and went on establishing schools, colleges, research institutions, industries etc. Patel being a Home Minister proved his legacy and worthiness for that job by adding the princely states, all of them (an impossible task according to the then Viceroy of India himself), defeating and pushing the invading forces out of this country in the peaceful valley of Kashmir.

In-spite of differences over several issues, these two men worked like blood brothers, which the Mother India had dreamt about. Definitely, if you are working for similar purpose, difference of opinion is liable to occur. But few goons took it as if Patel was being sided and intentionally neglected over several issues despite this fact that Nehru, don't know how many numbers of times, yielded to the ideas of Patel.

The Story of the Successor 

Patel belonged to Gujarat and a politician, who is a prime ministerial candidate this time, also belongs to the same state. He has proposed a statue in the honour of Patel who unified India and kept India intact, under one umbrella. The statue will be 182 metre statue at Sadhu Bet island near the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat. The site is stunning, on the far bank, about 400 metre away, the land is still untouched. In order to set up this land, Kevadia Area Development Authority (KADA) has been created. The KADA project is supposed to affect around 70 villages which is almost equal to 67 sq. km of Narmada district and the nearby area is majorly inhabited by tribal population. The rule is this that a land owned by a tribal person can only be sold to another tribal person. But under KADA, agricultural land can be declared  N.A. (non-agricultural) Once done, as according to the farmers residing nearby, they will be left with no other option than to sell their lands.

If this happens then government drop them off as PAP (project-affected-people). And hence, no compensation because it is not the government which has moved them, they themselves sold their land and moved away because it was N.A. More than that the local activist maintain this fact that the norms of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2006 has also not been meted out.

The areas of concerns are too many, it's difficult to mention them all here, since most of you who are reading this have "matured", I just want to give you a very small advice for free, you have internet and trust-able media groups such as Economic and Political Weekly, Frontline etc. Being a voter, you should search it out.

More than that, this successor claimed that there were always difference of opinions and Sardar was always sided away. I don't know how this Sardar went on correcting Nehru on countless issues when he was always sided. They cited few books which mentioned the differences over opinions. Well, I must say ," Sir !! that's not enough. I always have difference of opinion with my best friends when we discuss something of our common interest." I can't say what is in common interest of yours but I must conclude that mocking these great souls, which you could never be, is perhaps your hobby. And I also admit by observing the number of shares and likes on your promoted video of so called "Statue of Unity" that Katju was not wrong when he said, "90% of Indians are fools." Indeed these observations made him the number 6th judge of Supreme Court and the present Chairman of Press Council of India. And you must admit, these are responsibility which one doesn't get by making the mockery of this great democracy as you did.

Conclusion

Your project costs 2500 crore and you claimed yourself to be successor of Patel who unified this country. I pose this challenge to you, he unified all the princely states which was considered to be impossible, can you unify these Rivers which could put an end to the droughts and can become the jeevandayini for the farmers who depend on the market traders for their livelihood? Come-on Sir, this job is considered as "Possible".

I must not say anymore but the kind of support which your project has got, I must say again, Katju was no wrong. For me it does not represents "Unity" but it definitely represents " Goonity". Patel must be turning in his grave !!!

West, The Holy Bible and India

The intent of this article is not to hurt any Christian sentiment but it is an attempt to expose to the reader the another version which is very less talked about, though, it’s impact is unmeasurable like the Hindu extremism and Islam extremism.

When I was in higher school and going through the ancient history of India, I came across two terms, "Aryans" and "Dravidian". A basic delve will reveal that Aryans were those who resided in Northern part of India and Dravidians were those who had loosed at the hands of Aryans and pushed to the Southern part of India. Aryans being a very-very talented race, outperformed the Dravidian and became the ruler of this country of great diversity called India. 

One question which arose in my mind later was, "Why there is no mentioning of such history in the ancient transcripts? Why do I find them only in the modern history books? Is there any transcript or manuscript which talks about such version? If it is then why doesn't it find it's stand in the present days as a proof ?"

The questions were too much and I don't remember them all, but as I grew these questions got modified. "Is it just a simple version of history to make the things more clearer? Is it just an attempt to make us understand about the times through which our ancestors have gone? Or is it something else ?? "

These questions got a "push" factor when I came to Kerala, God's own Country. As I researched on this, I found answers which did not only shaken me up from toe to head but also forced me to think, " The amount which many of us fund to many missionaries without prior research analysis about them, does it make it worth of it or it goes in drawing fault-lines in my own country? " The answer perhaps turned out that a few institutions in the name of the Holy-Bible are not only promoting evangelism in the name of few perks but also jeoparadising the integrity of India.

Aryans and Dravidian

The term Aryans and Dravidians (as a historical concept) are not Indian. They were introduced and promoted by Britishers itself. These two terms got there significant impact in the syllabus of few recognized South Indian University. The funda of the westerners at that time was very simple "Divide and Rule", and that is what they did. Research were organized by them in a sequential pattern for drawing fault-lines :  first they, with the help of old testament of the Holy Bible, proved slave trade, punishing slave etc. legal and few Christian priests endorsed them. (http://www.amazon.in/Bible-Defense-Slavery-Origin-History/dp/1151170895/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382187235&sr=1-2&keywords=bible+defense+of+slavery) They used this as a tool wherever they went. When they came to India, they took the advantage of it's diversity.Lord Risley, Monier Williams, Karl Wilhelm Freidrich Schlegel were few of the people who were busy in giving shape to this fact that Aryans were of European origin, few of them migrated to India and with their great skills pushed the "locals". But later their great culture decayed because they got mixed with inferior race. Paralley, the Church evangelists were busy in creating a "dravidian" race which had to be basically based on Christian philosophies and not Indian. Such was their desperation that they got many Tamilian scholars as their supporters and a reknown tamilian scholar, M.S. Purnalingam Pillai's book, A Premier of Tamil Literature(1904) took the missionary thesis as the basis. This book was written specifically to fulfill the university examination needs, and even included an appendix with sample questions for students. 

Pillai assigned the Kural(this book is considered as a holy scripture by the South Indians and indeed, it is) to the Sangam period upto 100 CE, which he claimed was the most influential Tamil period and free from the influence from Aryans and Sanskrit. Alexander D. Campbell and Francis Whyte Ellis, then collector of Madras wrote Campbell-Ellis book, Grammar of Teloogoo Language (1816), opened doors by arguing that Tamil and Telugu had common non-Sanskrit ancestor. No Indian thinker had made such a claim before. (for details read Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines).  

The Criminal Tribes Act was passed in 1871 which made it lawful to perform genocide against a list of tribes who were deemed to be "criminal", endorsing the slave argument in the Old Testaments of the Holy Bible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery). They were executing every action to justify their culture and prove this to Dravidians that they were considered as slaves by the Aryans and treated according to Bible in a "Holy" way.

Veena Oldenburg's book, Dowry Murder has given details on how Britishers through there convoluted logic promoted dowry and it was during British times that dowry gained its ground in India and not before that. What they had done was very simple, they took away women's traditional right.

Everything here was being done on the name of Churches, which were meant to be for social cause, and the Holy Bible, but the story was completely based on self-interest and easy expansion, no matter it follows genocide or worse than that.

Attempts were made by many great Indians to demonize this theory and they succeeded to much extent but could not eliminate it. B.R, Ambedkar rejected the "Nasal Index" theory of Britishers which was a parameter for distinguishing the Aryans and Non-Aryans but the story still carries on. 

Conclusion

Definitely one need to re-look over this concept of Aryans and Dravidians or Dasyus and if necessary, eliminate it not from the text necessarily, but from our soul which was implanted by foreign powers who ruled us for 200 years. More than that one can definitely argue that untill and unless we could not free ourselves from this concept and keep on believing these Missionaries (not all of them) which have still kept us in British India, we are "not free India".

Beyond Sachar......

In 2005, in lieu of the critical situation of Muslims, Government formed a committee named Sachar Committee which was asked to collect all relevant data which could provide relevant information on the backward situation of this minority. As per the government, this committee did an appreciable job when it submitted its report in 2006 before the lower House. Definitely it went through enormous amount of criticism because of it's only cynical views and no specific solutions for that. Now let us have a brief look over what Sachar revealed.

Results of Report

In it's report, committee well highlighted the critical situations of Muslims, a few of which are as under:

Identity-related issues: Muslims carry a double burden of being labelled as “anti-nationalists” and being appeased at the same time. The fact that the so-called appeasement has not resulted in any benefits is ignored. The feeling of insecurity among Muslims is high, especially in communally sensitive states and among women. The discriminatory attitude of the police and others compounds this feeling; ghettoisation is a result of insecurity and discrimination in housing, schools and jobs. The perception of discrimination is widespread, leading to a sense of alienation and thus appears as an important cause of inequity.

Analytic Interpretations : 

Muslims constitute about 13.4% of the total Indian population and 15.7% of the OBC population. A larger proportion of Muslims live in urban areas (36%) as compared to the population average (28%). The community is also geographically concentrated in specific areas – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra. Studies suggest that the population share will stabilise at less than 20% by the end of the century. Fertility rates among Muslims are higher than average but are declining, and converging towards the average. Muslims use family planning methods and the contraception prevalence is about 10% points lower than average. Definitely education has to take its concern over here. 

Literacy rates among Muslims are lower than most other SRCs (except for SCs/STs) and are not increasing fast enough to converge with literacy rates of other groups. In-fact in recent years, the growth in literacy rates among SCs/STs has been higher than for Muslims. Dropout rates are the highest among Muslims and this seems to go up significantly after middle school. School enrollment rates are among the lowest but interestingly have improved in recent years.

When we come to employment profiles, than as compared to others, Muslim workers (especially women) are concentrated more in self-employed (home-based) activities and their share in regular work, especially in the government, public sector and large private sector, is very low. Some even complained for discrimination in interview. Also in case of Bank related concerns, the share of Muslims in loans is relatively low but deposits relatively high, at times almost close to their population share. Thus, the notion that Muslims do not participate in banking is a myth but their participation is lower than that of other SRCs. One obvious explanation for this low share in number of loans and loan amounts is the lower demand for credit due to high levels of poverty within the community. For participation in government programmes, coverage of Muslims in regular programmes is generally limited. But participation varies with programmes. For example, the coverage of Muslims in the mid-day meal programme is decent in relative terms but the overall coverage is low while the coverage of Muslims in ICDS is low and so is the overall coverage.

Also, in general, the mean per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) is lower for Muslims than for all SRCs except SCs/STs and the incidence of poverty (headcount) is also higher for Muslims than for all SRCs except SCs/STs. Internal differentiation in the community is a reality. Several studies over the years have distinguished three broad groups within the Muslims that roughly correspond to high-castes, OBCs and SCs in the Hindu community. These are ‘ashraf’, ‘ajlaf’, and ‘arzal’. In large data sets only the Muslim – general and Muslim-OBCs can be meaningfully distinguished; the sample of Muslims with SC/ST background is too small to undertake any meaningful analysis. Thus, the “socio-economic hierarchy” among these SRCs is reasonably clear: Hindu-OBCs are on top followed by Muslim-general and then Muslim-OBCs. Thus, if reservation is seen as the policy option, a “most backward” class (MBC) status for arzals would make sense.

These all analysis has led to a very important conclusion : Should there be any margin in the OBC reservation for Muslims ?

My cynic view ON Sachar Report

As per my view, many jobs in which Muslims have remarkable dominance have been left out, for example, in Bollywood which may employ very less number but the dominance, is it discrimination ? What report failed to distinguish is the contribution of the migrants from Bangladesh who are coming under this purview. They constitute to the 8% (estimated on the data provided by previous governments : UPA gave 13 million and NDA projected it 15 million, but let us take the lower one, to be on worse calculations ). According to the Sachar report (appendix table 4.1), Indian Muslims have a 59.1% literacy rate, which places them well below the national average of 65.1%, with a literacy rate even below that of SCs/STs. If, for the sake of argument, however, we were to assign the 2002 Bangladesh literacy rates – 31% for women and 50% for men – to 8% of this total, then the literacy average for the remaining Indian Muslims would rise by almost a full percent nationally, and by somewhat more than this in states such as Assam and West Bengal in which illegal migration has been the greatest. On other factors such as our estimates of Muslim poverty levels the difference might potentially be even greater. Much of the analysis March 10, 2007 in Sachar focuses on education, but the report still leaves the reader without a good sense of which factors leave Muslim children, and especially Muslim girls, without sufficient access to primary, secondary and higher education. But this cannot be the total answer, because in some states Muslim participation in education is much higher than the norm. In fact, on many measures Muslims are doing better in western and southern states than they are in the rest of the country. Just to give one example, although in general Muslim literacy rates are below the Indian average, in 10 of the 21 states studied (including Maharashtra Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka) Muslim literacy rates are actually higher than average (SCR: 53). So there is clearly something that is state- or region-specific that seems to be making a major difference to Muslims’ life chances.

Now comes a 65000 dollar question, is it necessary to give a special concern to Muslim OBCs in terms of reservation. My answer, "NO", perhaps there should be no reservation at all, let me put it this way:

Nehru said once 

"The only real way to help a backward group is to give opportunities for good education.  That includes technical education, which is becoming more and more important. Everything else is provision of some kind of crutches, which do not add to the strength or health of the body.”

“But if go in for reservations on communal and caste basis, we swamp the bright and able people........ I am grieved to learn of how far this business of Reservation has gone on communal considerations. It has annoyed me to learn that even promotions are sometimes based on communal or caste considerations.”

“This way lays not only folly but disaster. Let us help the backward groups by all means, but never at the cost of efficiency.”

Hindu India : Future and Perceptions

With the outbreak of Muzaffarnagar riots and the recent disturbance in Bihar over communal issues, a wave arose among those whom I consider as educated goons that why not to go for a Hindu India, 100% Hindu people so that there should be no similar disturbance or pogroms and everybody will be in a 100% peace? Well I know, casting pearls in front of swines should not be anyone's priority. But still, let me try. Suppose India becomes 100% Hindu, and according to my Genius buddies, a dream Nation which anyone posses. Definitely after India becomes 100% Hindu, they (those who made this dream come true ) will go for few major reforms because everything in this country has been established to make Mahatma's dream come true : A person who was shot dead by a Hindu extremist, oopssss!! Sorry, a Hindu Hero, Nathuram Godsse .(Protagonist, O yeahhhh !!!!!)

Let us consider those reforms.

Reforms : 

Shutting down every mall which has western content, particularly the apparels, new dress codes for our derailed youths, particularly girls, rectified age limits for marriage, shutting down the co-ed institutions, even those which are research ones because they may interfere in their way, youths will be forced to join the new Gurukuls and abandon the old Schools, if not suddenly then gradually because gradual change is stable, a "banned" Discovery of India and "eulogised" Discovery of New India and so on.

I am pretty sure that this won't be enough to quench their Hindu thirst, a few sector may move to so called " Rajtantra" because things were so perfect those days. If the number favours one side, then definitely one can expect only one caste or creed, may be Dalit or may be the Upper ones. All sins will be rectified and doors for any outsider will be shut down because he/she may bring back the Old School. Since my knowledge regarding their sentiments is limited, I should not write further, only a thorough observation will work.

Conclusion

Its up to you !!!!!

Why Food Security is Justified !!

The day National Food Security Bill (NFSB) was passed, stocks crashed 600 points and it lead to a national agitation, with so many negative posts on Social media regarding the future of country. These comments were vague as per my view, because most of the posts failed to convey on what assumptions did they blame government over the NFSB. Many economists argued on the cost of implementing NFSB, many of them said that one needs not to implement it if we rectify our food storage problem which incurs a loss of 44000 crore rupees just because of lack of storage. May be they are true, but what do they failed to realise is the short term demands of the country and only took into account the longer one.

Calculating Food Security

One of the most magnified calculation is that of Surjit Bhalla which argues that the cost of implementing the Food Security will be somewhere near 3 lakh crore a year. Well it has been already challenged on the grounds of the "Leakage" assumption which it has put. And the leakage he has assumed is quite appreciable, it's 40%, and it's an accepted one, many schemes run at a leakage of more than 60%. But what he failed to realise is that, those schemes which run at a leakage of 40% or more or whatsoever, they don't take into account those leakage for their calculation. What he projected is 8.3 kg per person instead of 5 kg per person, I guess government policies don't run this way. People may get less than 5 kg but they are never going to get the desired target. Leakages are addressed by reforms not surplus calculations.

Similarly, many other calculation including that of CACP ( Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices) assumes 75 mn tonnes of commodities while what is required is just 62 mn tonnes. CACP has projected a cost of 6.8 lakh crore for 3 years. Another vague assumption is the Production Enhancement cost which go up to by 25 mn tonnes which arrives in the wake of minimum 30% procurement which must be maintained. How could they take this into analysis when the procurement is already around 30 % ?

Another estimate comes from Ministry of Food, which projects the cost, at what I suppose a justified one, around 44,411 crore to 76486 crore. This has also been challenged by EPW author Dipa Sinha on the grounds that it takes into account the Centre-State conflicts and many other parameters.

Declining Leakages and Moving Agriculture

In recent years, there has been much changes after 2002-03 where the leakages has come down from 54 % in 2004-05 to 44% in 2007-08 and 35% in 2011-12 (as per National Sample Survey Office). What is matter of concern is that still we have 35% leakage, which needs to be tackled with major reforms, I guess here digitisation of PDS will work 100%, that's how states like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh (which has been acknowledged a lot for that), Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and others have worked. 

More than that, the quantity of damaged/non-issuable grain has come down from 1.35 lak tonnes in 2002-03 to just 1454 tonnes in 2012-13 as per Food Corporation of India (FCI). Likewise there has been many reforms at executive level despite we have a sharp decline at political level in governance. 

Moving Forward

Definitely, certain major level correction are required in the bill, such as identification of those who will be covered in the program, the commodities which NFSB will cover, the criteria for the historical setbacks which prevail even now, such as malnourished children, special attention for women and old etc. But, leaving criticism behind, one need to move forward and say a "go" for NFSB because in recent times we need it. We have still around 70% population for whom food is a lottery !!!

You Guys have some Manufacturing Defect !!

According to Mohan Bhagwat , the Supreme Chief of  Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, crime against women happen in India not in Bharat. He said this without taking into note that according to Court Data, nearly 75% of the India's rape convictions hailed from "Bharat" and not "India". The data was collated by Dr Mrinal Satish, associate professor of law at National Law University, Delhi.

He also failed to take into account that according to Census 2011 rural population constitute to nearly 68.84% of the population, and the convictions 75% (reported ones). India stands at 132 out of 148 in Gender Equity Index, and the reason attributed to such a critical situation, as according to major researches and surveys printed in various issues of Economics and Political Weekly, the best journal considered in India and one of the best in entire Globe, is definitely majorly due to the subdued position of rural women. Their inaccessibility to education, jobs, pathetic social security, forced marital sex, domestic violence, suicide and list goes on.... Definitely, the urban women are also prone to these(common, that is why we stand first among the G20 countries when it comes to most dangerous country for women), but the situation is much better than that of rural women because several factors such as inaccessibility to education is insignificant as compared to rural population.

In addition to these, the so called Bharat, almost 2500 years ago has written so many scripts on sex that it is worth of mentioning and also we have a special God of Sex like the ancient Greeks, but we have a very different statistics as compared to Greeks when it comes to Women. Perhaps, Mohan Bhagwat can answer this, you know, he is a Genius, he can interpret without any survey or any data.

Another parameter which he failed to take into account is about the hung posters in every office of RSS, Vivekanada and Ramkrishna Paramhansa. How did he forget about Swami Vivekanada who acknowledged West for its credibility for Women which India lacked through so many ages, how did he forget about Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa who being an illiterate, always hailed and praised women as Durga and was perhaps considered as mad due to his over-attention. 

Was that a clamour from males due to their dismay which he spitted? Or was it a depraved satement?
Well, whatever it was, you Guys seriously have some Manufacturing Defect !!!!!!!

Why India was Conquered?

We all know how many times our country was invaded and how many times it bravely defended itself from falling into the hands of perpetrators. Definitely I am not going to talk about that in this blog, because repeating same type of history once in 6th, then again in 8th and once again (dedicated to our patriotism!!! Congrats) in 10th and finally for most, a Board exam which puts an end to that, clears our concept of "How India was conquered?" and a one line answer to " Why India was conquered?" (definitely due to its enormous wealth). Now, let us focus on the following paragraphs.

Discovery from Discovery of India

While I was going through the book Discovery of India, one of the best written books about India till now, by one of the best men of the world, Jawahar Lal Nehru, in an indigenous way, I discovered this question, Why India was conquered? Unfortunately it varied a lot with what I was taught in my secondary education, and the difference was completely having a profound impact on the way I had thought and the way I had grew. What added to the proof of my perception was an article in the most reputed and perhaps the most clean daily, The Hindu. The article, named "Inaccessible India" written by Rohan Mukherjee dated 13th August, 2013, without any doubt cleared my perverse about the knowledge sharing India. 

In his book, Nehru not only put the conservative Indians who secluded themselves from the rest of the world assuming that not only their culture is the greatest but also their knowledge is. They were so proud of the wealth they possess that only a few Indians bothered to look into the outer world and share knowledge, technology with them. People from nations far away came to India and also hold clergical posts, helped this nation and when went back to their country, went with translated manuscripts for their people. In Baghdad, perhaps a library was established which had a separate section for what their alumni had learned and brought from India. Even in modern days, you visit any library, there will be a massive collection in it which will be Indian. 

But, hail India!!!! What do we have from them, neither you can say nothing nor you can say something. 

From Inaccessible India

While I was having a discussion with one of my Sri Lankan friend on Visa related issue, he made his point that one has to go through relatively tougher rules in case of India as compared to other SAARC nations. I thought that it may be part of his hatred due to the old Tamil and Lankan controversy. But then came this The Hindu article followed by my own amateur research on this issue. Clear enough, we are strict followers and firm believers of "History repeats itself". When Britain denies visa for education we make an outcry so loud that within the next few days it is resolved. Well, vice-versa is not true. Many of them have stopped making any kind of outcry. Tourism visa is so easy to get but visa for internships, research, and accessing Indian article is so tough to get. Universities simply deny to put their outdated research paper on their websites, going digital is strictly against their principles and definitely, in many cases, it has much to do with sentiments of some of the residing sects. 

Let's Import

We all are completely aware of this fact that what inspired Vivekanada the most in his foreign trips, what imprint it had on us when we went global during Ashoka, and what value we lost when we denied to see Britishers as a threat because they were Alien for us and thus, powerless. For me, India was conquered not because it was invaded but because it secluded itself (and most of them still want to practice the same) in its conservative society. Technology it never practiced and never bothered to practice and test. The extent of negligence it showed and still continues to show when it comes to sharing of knowledge, the extent of underestimating one's culture and denying the forward loop it has on the sheer basis of its few backward, and the best part, being cynic to itself when it comes to financial markets and ingenious products. 

I guess sometime, why our other activities do not reflect as that of our financial market, I mean, we import a lot !!!!!!