Freedom Completes a Year

Its been a year when I wrote the first Post on this blog and it really feels great to write this post on the first Birthday of Freedom !

I want to thank all the people who have encouraged me to keep posting on the blog and also spent their valuable time on writting comments and reading the post . Thanks Alot !

Adulterated Life..

Nothing seems real these days, the milk we consume, the sweets we eat, the edible oil we use, the pulses we eat, most of them are getting adulterated as people are poisoning them to make some easy bucks and putting life of thousands of people at risk. This is turning out to be a bigger risk today, even bigger than the external threats which we read in newspapers every day.

Past two weeks have been rather low as I am down due to Typhoid. The reason behind the illness is again spurious water I consumed from our regular supply of Kingfisher Water. Until now it appeared to be genuine but only after both I and my friend got Typhoid, we found out that it’s spurious. The bottle and even the seal will look genuine but some people have perfected this art of selling poison to such an extent that it’s difficult to find out what is original and what is duplicate. So even after paying 3 Rs/ litre for something which should be free for me I am not sure whether it is genuine.

The biggest setback is the lost of trust. Just yesterday my father asked me to buy all the medicines again from some good medical store as he thought the one I bought earlier might be spurious. The story doesn’t end here, as per the latest reports from RBI there is a significant fraction of currency notes which are spurious. So right from food to the currency notes, the complete system is getting poisoned.

Where exactly are we heading, what will technology and growth do if we can’t even tackle such basic issues. How is the government safe guarding the interest of the people who are suffering due to the menace of adulteration? I don’t know any of these answers.

BJP: What went wrong?

Jaswant Singh might not have had the slightest idea of getting impeached from the BJP party over his praise for the founder of Pakistan. What prompted him to write such a piece of literature which is totally against the ideology of the party which he served for 30 long years is a big question?

The case of Mr. Singh is not the only case where BJP has lost its image in public but unfortunately there had been countless number of cases and incidents off late which had made BJP suffer in public. Ever since the fall of the “ Indian Shining “ campaign BJP has not recovered yet and is not able to provide good competition to Congress. It’s not that they are not able to digest the defeat in the election but I believe their downfall is has more fundamental intrinsic and extrinsic reasons behind it.

Succession Planning : - Not only the corporate world but even the political parties requires proper succession planning , With the ageing of the founding members of BJP there is no clear leader which had been identified to take on the responsibility of the next leader and it had made people fight for posts inside the party . With Gandhi’s as a controlling centre of the Congress it had never been the case with Congress.

Conflict about Hindutva Ideology: - With the growing liberal face of Indian society and a major proportion of Indian population being in mid twenties, it had become rather confusing for the party to stick to their long term political ideology of Hindutva. This confusion has created a loss for BJP as even the staunch supporters of BJP are now confused about what BJP really stands for.

Rise of SP/ BSP: - Success in UP was one of the reason which made BJP prosper in the national politics. There was a time when BJP used to win 50 seats in UP. The rise of BSP and SP had made the equation very tough for BJP in UP where elections are closely integrated with the game of caste politics. Now we have four ways fight in the UP elections with Congress emerging as a strong force. This year assembly elections might be very interesting and there are strong chances of revival of Congress in UP.

Demand and Supply …

Down with typhoid I went to the doctor for a X Ray and while I was returning back home I went to a Fruit vendor to buy some fruits, When I enquired about the prizes , I found them astronomical high. I asked him “ Bhaiya you are quoting really high , what is the reason ? “ He immediately replied in the local language , “ The supply of fruits is reducing due to less rainfall and delayed monsoon , and as more people are falling ill the demand of fruits is increasing which is driving the rate up due to demand supply mismatch “ . I felt that half of the people even after MBA can’t give such an apt reply, what is he doing here selling fruits.

When I was returning back after buying 2 kg of fruits he added one more dimension which was even better , he told me “ As the rate of fruits increases people tends to buy them more ,as the people thing that the dearer the prices better the quality “ . Wow behavioral aspect of fruit selling business!

Allowing China to come closer to Srilanka , A strategic mistake

China is now the major suppliers of Arm and Ammunition to Srilanka which is fighting a War against LTTE. Is it a strategic mistake by India?

India is surrounded by host of unfriendly nations, China being the most powerful and seen as the next superpower after the decline of USA. In such a scenario allowing Srilanka to be used as a new base for China puts India in a scary position. When Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Srilanka it was not seen as a logical decision as we were putting life of our soldiers at risk but if we see the diplomacy behind it, it was a great decision. It prevented Srilanka from becoming a new base for both USA and China.

India should have done what China did for Srilanka , it would have also improved relations between the nation which are becoming sore due to problem of Tamil killings and Tea exports.

Is the pressure of coalition politics that high that we can compromise with the National Security?