कभी कभी

Posted on October 10, 2010 by indra

एक मास में,
एक रात के
पूर्ण चन्द्र की
स्निग्ध चांदनी
कितनी मनभाती हैं .
पर कितनी ऐसी रातों में
इसे देखने
हम बाहर होते हैं .
कभी कभी बारिस की
जब रिमझिम बूँदें
मोती बरसातीं हैं.
कभी कभी सूरज की किरणें भी
कितनी अच्छी लगती हैं
कितने हम में बाहर होते?.
कभी कभी उन गुलमोहर के पत्तों का
झर झर कर गिरना,
खुद अपने उन शोख रंग के
फूलों से मोसम में सजना
राह किनारे.
हरसिंगार के नन्हे नन्हे फूलों से
धरती का पटना,
और हवा को मदमाती कर
धीरे बहना,
और वंही मिट्टी में मिलना
कहाँ आज कुछ याद दिलाता?
प्रकृति सुंदरी का यह श्रृंगार
लोगों को अब नहीं लुभाता.
कभी कभी अच्छा लगता है
प्रात: प्रात:
नए शहर के मुख्य मार्ग पर
मुझे भटकना
और कभी यह अच्छा लगता
बिना निमंत्रण
उनका आना .
सभी व्यस्त हों
या वे मस्त हों
दरबो में या फिर महलों में.
हमें एक इच्छा है होती
मैं चिलाऊँ
‘बाहर आओ, खुश हो जाओ
देखो सूरज, महती धरती
और बहूत आगे बढ़ जाओ.’

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Indians Getting Attention in US

Posted on October 8, 2010 by indra

If US wouldn’t have the bookstores such as Borders or Barnes and Nobles, perhaps it would have been difficult for me to enjoy my America’s long stays. Anand had taken me to Borders in Cary, but I didn’t find that to my satisfaction. On October 6, Anand took me to Barnes and Nobles. The collection and ambience both were to my liking. I went through some of the magazines and found Indians in the news that I shall like to share.

Fortune has a major article, ‘Touched by scandal‘ on Rajat Gupta, one of successful IITians. However, this one relates to a bad aspect about Rajat if it has any truth whatsoever.

Gupta has been the only non-Westerner to have served as managing director of storied management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., adviser to CEOs the world over. In a front-page article on April 15, the Wall Street Journal reported that the government was investigating whether Gupta had shared confidential information with his onetime friend and business partner Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund heavyweight whose $3 billion Galleon fund disintegrated in October 2009 after authorities announced sweeping charges of illegal trading. Between 2006 and 2009, Gupta picked up seats on the boards of five public companies — American Airlines parent AMR (AMR, Fortune 500), global outsourcer Genpact (G) (of which he is also chairman), Goldman Sachs, audio equipment giant Harman International (HAR), and Procter & Gamble. He also joined the supervisory board of Russia’s Sberbank and the board of the Qatar Financial Centre. Altogether, those positions paid him more than $3.2 million in 2009.


The same issue of Fortune has selected PepsiCo Inc chief Indra Nooyi as the most powerful woman in U.S. business for the fifth year in a row According to Fortune, “Nooyi completed the purchase of PepsiCo’s two largest bottlers, bringing revenues to a projected $60 billion,” Fortune said. “Now she’ll have to deliver the $400 million annual cost savings she promised. Investors seem assured: The stock is up 12 percent since September 2009.”

Technology Review has published its list of 2010 Young Innovators Under 35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35, whose inventions and research TR find most exciting. Their works span medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more that are changing our world. Three of them are Indians.

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b>Indrani Medhi, 32, Microsoft Research India

Based at Microsoft Research India’s Bangalore lab, Indrani Medhi has conducted field research in India, South Africa, and the Philippines to design text-free interfaces that could help illiterate and semiliterate people find jobs, get medical information, and use cell-phone-based banking services. And there are 774 million adults worldwide who cannot read
Medhi used symbols, audio cues, and cartoons that are specific to particular poor communities. They still did not fully understand how information relevant to their lives could possibly be contained in or delivered by a computer.
To overcoming this problem, Medhi offered a five-minute video dramatization when an application is launched, illustrating exactly how it is supposed to work. For example, the one that accompanies her job-search interface features an upper-middle-class couple that needs a domestic helper. The husband posts the requirements to a job website that is subsequently accessed by unemployed and illiterate women at a community center. The video ends with a woman being hired.
–Guy Gugliotta

Rikin Gandhi, 29, Digital Green
Rikin Gandhi, founder of the nonprofit Digital Green, has developed a pilot project that offers a solution: simple videos starring local farmers themselves. Gandhi demonstrated that for every dollar spent, the system persuaded seven times as many farmers to adopt new ideas as an existing program of training and visits.
Villagers produce the videos using handheld camcorders; workers from partner nongovernmental organizations then check the quality of the videos and the accuracy of the advice before screening them in the villages with handheld projectors. So far 500 videos have been made, but three times that number–which should reach four times as many villages–are currently planned. –David Talbot

Ranveer Chandra, 34, Microsoft Research
PROBLEM: Wi-Fi uses frequencies that can’t carry a signal more than a few tens of meters. TV stations, on the other hand, use a portion of the radio spectrum that lets signals travel long distances, and the end of analog television has opened up unused slices of the spectrum between stations. They could be used for wireless Internet service, but it has been difficult to take advantage of these so-called white spaces without causing interference, because the exact frequencies used by TV stations vary geographically.
SOLUTION: Ranveer Chandra made the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, his laboratory for the first large-scale network to demonstrate the potential of using white spaces to deliver broadband wireless. Links in the prototype network can span up to two kilometers. To avoid treading on the toes of TV broadcasters, his system uses GPS to determine its location; then it checks the Web to find out what stations are active in the area. Chandra’s devices can also listen for nearby transmissions from wireless microphones, which use the same bands. When a conflict is detected, they switch to a backup slice of unused spectrum on the fly.
Chandra’s prototype network has the potential for white-space signals to connect large rural areas with minimal infrastructure. –Tom Simonite

Interestingly, all the Indian scientists in TR 35 are connected with Microsoft Research in India.

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Between Sandip, Nitish, and Lalu

Posted on October 6, 2010 by indra

The Nitish–Lalu Bihar War 2010 has been declared and will get fiercer in coming days before the final onslaughts. It will be all over before I return to my Noida home.

Lalu has declared the heir-apparent of his party. He also has selected the male child instead of the female one as Sonia did few years ago. But he has finally decided to keep the mother of the heir apparent also in the fray and that too she will be fighting from two constituencies to have a sure win.

I wonder if the electorates of Bihar will prefer to go for establishing the Lalu clan on the throne. One can imagine what can happen if by some chance Lalu wins the battle. Will there be no tussle between the father, mother or the son to occupy the throne?

But will these announcements from the horse’s mouth not help Nitish in winning the battle or the great voters of Bihar overlook this perpetuating of the family rule of the state that was faced already by the state for almost three decades?

Many including myself wish Nitish to return in absence of any better choice. Nitish might not have been aggressive enough to pull up the state from its bottommost position in all the rankings among the states of India. However, Nitish did make a beginning. The development has got on track. I wish he goes for a kill in the next tenure.

Nitish has indicated his intention of development for the next term in his latest blog. However, in the next three years Nitish must establish a thousand skill-building centres, that, if necessary, can be run in second shift or evening in at least one rural school in every panchayat. All the children of the rural Bihar before reaching 16 years must learn at least one skill for employability. Nitish must seek the assistance of all including the institutions such as Anji Reddy’s Nandi Foundation or individuals such as Ratan Tata, Anand Mahindra, or Mukesh/Anil Ambani. To start with, Nitish can use the locally available artisans and skilled persons for training.

Nitish must think of handing over the task of regulating and controlling the discipline and quality of school education to outside agencies such as Pratham abolishing the inefficient and corrupt government inspectors.

Nitish must encourage the private and government colleges to compete with the best of those in other states or to close if they can’t. Nitish must kill all the malpractices in education and examination system.

Nitish must get at least one hundred engineering colleges established in the state that must cater to the demand of the state and cut down the worries of the parents of the children getting exploited by the institutions in other states.

And if Nitish does not have a man to do that I can do it for him free.

One thing for sure I hate his banning of political leaders of his own alliance to campaign in the state. I also pity BJP to compromise on such a highly undemocratic and humiliating step of Nitish. I do not know if I can call it large-heatedness, magnanimity or cowardice act of BJP. I don’t know how the people of Bihar take it. How can Modi or Barun become untouchables, if BJP is not? I can take it as the statesmanship of Modi. It is strange that Lalu still prides himself of being the one to arrest Advani. Does not the Nitish’s act resemble or smell the same?

I don’t know how the people of Bihar will go in this election. But when I was just getting into a nightmarish mood so far away from my own country, I came across the news report related to Sandip’s unique innovation the folding bicycle.

For me Sandip is more important than Nitish or Lalu. And I wish I could be of any help to Sandip to make his dreams coming true. I wish Sandip could contact me. Or will Nitish, still the chief minister, the governor of Bihar or for that matter anyone help Sandip?

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US, China and Emergence of India

Posted on October 4, 2010 by indra

Every time I have come to US, I found it getting more and more dependent on China. Most of the things in American household have Chinese level. Every doll that you see with kids is from China. Even medical aids and accessories such as massagers though of American design are those manufactured in China.

While buying the books for Puchchu’s collection such as the selected titles from Amar Chitra Katha and Mahabharata in comic form, I could not control my temptation to buy Raghav Bahl’s recently published book, ‘Superpower? The Amazing Race between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise’. Raghav has really done good job. He is lucid, informative and forthright too. I don’t know why the government and the administration don’t take corrective action even when specific flaws are identified about which there can’t be any controversy. I have hardly found a book so well written. I wish the book is made a must reading for the officers who matter in the task of development of the country and even if India considers China not a competition but a benchmark.

In 2008, when I was here Anand had ordered a book by Robyn Meredith ‘The Elephant and The Dragon– the rise of India and china and what It Means for All of Us’ on my request with Amazon. It was waiting for me. I went through the same too after completing Bahl’s book. The data are older. China has moved ahead to become the second largest economy of the world. But her suggestions for US are still very prudent.

I have found a major change in views of the writers in America about China and India since 2005 when I came to US for a longer stay for the first time. Book shops and magazines in 2005 were full with China-related volumes. Over the period, India has emerged as an important economic power attracting authors of books and articles to write about it.

The Economist’s September 30 issue has a cover page with India represented by a tiger and some revealing articles.
A bumpier but freer road: Despite all the mess and chaos of India, the country’s business is booming.

“Chetan Ahya and Tanvee Gupta of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, predict that India’s growth will start to outpace China’s within three to five years. China will rumble along at 8% rather than double digits; India will rack up successive years of 9-10%. For the next 20-25 years, India will grow faster than any other large country, they expect. Other long-range forecasters paint a similar picture.

Previous Asian booms have been powered by a surge in the working-age population. Now it is India’s turn. The proportion of Indians aged under 15 or over 64 has declined from 69% in 1995 to 56% this year, says the UN. India’s working-age population will increase by 136m by 2020; China’s will grow by a mere 23m.

China’s growth has been largely state-directed. India’s, by contrast, is driven by 45m entrepreneurs.

In Dharavi, a Mumbai slum with perhaps 1m inhabitants has also Bhaskar Chaudhary’s tiny factory that works day and night turning out back pockets, which are whisked to a bigger factory, sewn onto jeans and exported to the Gulf.”

India’s surprising economic miracle:The country’s state may be weak, but its private companies are strong.

“India’s individualistic brand of capitalism may also be more robust than China’s state-directed sort. Chinese firms prosper under wise government, but bad rulers can cause far more damage in China than in India, because their powers are so much greater. If, God forbid, another Mao were to seize the reins, there would be no mechanism for getting rid of him.

Given the choice between doing business in China or India, most foreign investors would probably pick China. The market is bigger, the government easier to deal with, and if your supply chain for manufactured goods does not pass through China your shareholders will demand to know why. But as the global economy becomes more knowledge-intensive, India’s advantage will grow.”

The Economist had published an interesting article ‘Contest of the century‘ a month ago: As China and India rise in tandem, their relationship will shape world politics.

Every now and then one comes across the news report of the rising India. ‘India will replace the US as the world’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) market in the next six months.’ It gives hope. All the media mess on CWG didn’t deter the nations around the world. Not one of the 54 participating countries and 71 teams has backed out of the Games.

India has simply become too important a player in the world economy.

And the gala opening of CWG have proven every one wrong. Yes certainly, I wished India to repeat or improve the eerie precision of the Beijing Olympics, and the glitz of South Africa’s World Cup instead of the patented chaos of India. But there is nothing wrong to hope. So did on Thursday, Delhi’s lieutenant governor, Tejendra Khanna, when he said, “Many foreign delegates during their visit were so impressed with our facility that they have told me that we should bid for the Olympics now.”

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Ajodhya Verdict: My Views from Cary

Posted on October 1, 2010 by indra

Let me confess something. I believe that Rama was born, may or may not be in the place in the Ajodhya conflict, as all of us were in some place. But then it was the creative minds of Valmiki, someone else, or later on Tulsidas that transformed him into incarnated Vishnu or Maryada Purushottam.

Perhaps, none but media in India wished or expected the verdict on Ajodhya’s land of lord to create so much of fuss. But the government and its law enforcing agencies did everything to avoid one.

Indian judiciary has shown wonderfully innovative maturity to steer clear the nation from some major expected communal troubles. And perhaps the verdict has a national interest behind it rather than just the legal one. It usher well for the countrymen.

Many have given their own verdicts on the verdict of the three judges. Editors have expressed their opinions. TV anchors as well as reputed journalists have commented in their own way. But what was this verdict? Was it only to decide who owns that 2.7 acres of land? But then why have the judges talked of archeological evidences and mentioned about the birth place of Rama?

Babri Masjid would have been in its place in the period when Tulsidas lived in Ajodhya and was penning down Ramcharitmanas. However, it must not then be considered as the site of birth of Rama, otherwise he would have been the most tortured person as poet and would have mentioned about it directly or indirectly. The conflict was created by some unscrupulous ones at a later date and then politicians took over. As reported, goons and criminals run a number of temples at Ajodhya. I know at least about one.

Time and again, the political and religious leaders of Hindus talk of building the grandest temple that will mean lot of money coming from different sources, mainly through charity. But who will manage it? Will it lead to another CWG like corruption story?

And should not the Indians try to know about the money collected by the organizers for building the temple in 90s? What happened to that? Should not the organizers come out with an audited report in media?

India has many wonderful temples. Rama does not need one more. Let the Hindus vote for building one International University, the best and largest in the world where the students and teachers from all over the world converge to get and expand the knowledge for the benefits of mankind.

Alternatively, can the professional architects of the country and the great ones from abroad be invited by Indians including Hindus to come out with an innovative creation that combines the themes of all world religions that make Ajodhya a place of attraction for every one coming to India?

Will the Hindus and Muslims of India be open enough for a change?

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Raleigh and Gandhi

Posted on September 28, 2010 by indra

Saturday, September 25 was the birthday of Zach. It was an off day too for all. Zach is two now. Shannon had arranged a visit to Marbles Museum, a museum for kids in Raleigh that is the capital of North Carolina.

And you can see that on your own what the museum contains

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Shannon has arranged a wheel chair for Yamuna. And Yamuna could be wheeled everywhere in the museum. US is one of the most handicapped-friendly countries. Every facility that Americans design meets the basic requirements for the handicapped. One can have a feel of it on every footpath, street corner, mall or shopping centres.

I took the wheel chair up to the entrance, while Shannon and Anand were managing the kids and buying the entrance ticket. To my utter surprise, I came across Gandhi, the father of nation for all Indians. Some local enthusiasts got installed this statue of Gandhi. I stood in corner to take some photographs. I found from among the visitors none even was looking towards our Gandhi. After the camera clicking, I moved towards the gate and waited to see if Anand and Shannon notice Gandhi. Surprisingly, they also did not rather they got a surprise when I pointed towards the Gandhi there.

But the place was a real interesting one for the kids to impart a lot of knowledge about many things placed in different enclosures dedicated to various subjects and to get entertained too. Kids were free to handle the things placed there in whatever way they wanted. And those accompanying them could also try hand and refresh some knowledge. With an entrance fee of $5 per person, it appeared to be a commercially viable too.

Both Emma and Zach enjoyed everything they came across, be it the model ship or submarine, or the railway system. Shannon found it useful enough to get a season ticket of the place for the whole year.

And finally we returned. But I have been pondering still how the sponsorers of the statue of Gandhi could have done a better job. How could the kids could have noticed him and known his name?

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Troubling Tuesday on Amtrak

Posted on September 23, 2010 by indra

At JFK Airport with Rajesh, Shephali and Svanik


At Little Neck residence of Rajesh

As Anand stated, I was the first from extended Sharma family who was taking a train to travel a major distance in US. I don’t know why but then I decided to take an Amtrak train for getting to Cary in North Carolina from New York.


At Penn Railway Station, New York

After three nights with Rajesh and spending quality loving time with Svanik, on Tuesday September 21, 2010 we got up very early at around 3AM to catch the train that was scheduled for 6.15AM from New York, Penn station. Rajesh didn’t have a dry run to find the traffic that is usually awesome around Manhattan. Rajesh was to return in time to take care of Svanik who would have been alone. Shephali goes early morning to hospital where she is doing her Masters. On previous evening, we had discussed to take a taxi but finally Rajesh decided to do it himself

Traffic was thin at that lean hour, but in a new place I was a scary GPS wonderfully helps reaching the destination. And then after parking on the street itself in a safe place in front of Penn station that appeared to me as an office high rise building we carried the three suitcases and other and went in the basement that houses the station.

Rajesh had to wait for getting the baggage checked in , but when the counter opened, at 5..15 AM, the person manning it said in the train that we were taking we couldn’t check in the baggage. For anxious moment I was cursing myself to having taken the decision. But in the meantime Rajesh talked with the porter on a counter who asked us to rest in waiting room and he would manage to get us in the train with baggage naturally at a cost. Rajesh advised me to pay him well and left.

I was worried as usual. But very soon the man took all the baggage and got us in the train that was in time on the track. There were hardly far passenger on the platform. We got in to the business class

In a new place it was natural to get scary in such a situation. But the train ride was very comfortable. The seats were wide. As one of the suitcases was bigger and heavier, we had to keep the same in front of our seats. For travelling in US, one must keep the weight in each suitcase less than 23 kgs.

But the journey was worth taking it. I could see US from a train I like the train journey even in India. The child in me keeps on seeing all around without a blink. US is certainly pretty industrialized and having a lot of forestry all around. But around Richmond, we found the train taking a different trek. It got delayed by almost an hour

I was in constant touch with Rajesh and then Anand took over. Finally we reached Cary late but pretty well in evening. Anand with Shannon and kids were on the platform to receive us. All worries got off the mind and the happy moments around

Even with companies as GE and other that have done great work in technology related to Railway engine, US is hardly having a developed railway system While china runs the fastest train in the world covering a 700-mile journey in five hours, by comparison America’s Amtrak takes eighteen hours to cover similar distance.

At Mount Rocky Station Platform of Amtrak

I was surprised that the concept of platforms nonexistent in US. The train coach had a small staircase that comes out at the platform that looks like a street. The conductor laid a small stool to help passengers to get down from the train.

I am sure US must go for better and faster railways just as China is going. It will save energy wasted in planes and cars that are the most popular mode of travel in the country. Recently I read about how the governor of California had travelled South Korea, Japan and china to explore possibility of getting a fast train system laid for travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles. I don’t know if Americans will like to switch over to train as and when it comes up.
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PS: While Amtrak crossed places such as New Jersey, Baltimore and Richmond, Yamuna kept on talking about some sweet memories of her 1993 visit to Anil Singh in New Jersey and Onkar Singh in Baltimore with Rakesh. Anil Singh is back in India, but Onkar is perhaps still in Baltimore as he is doctor by profession and had a very good practice. Many more acquaintances must be in places en route Amtrak from New York to Cary. Rajesh had been to New Jersey where Radha Khaitan had organized an HM Reunion. However, with time we keep on losing the contact and closeness and even basic courtesy to visit the known ones or be once in a while their host.

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Flying to New York, new Airport, and Air India

Posted on September 20, 2010 by indra

Is it not strange that I was asked to start at 7PM from Noida to catch a flight of Air India for New York that was scheduled to depart at 00.25AM on September 18, 2010? I was to take Yamuna to her doctor’s clinic for an injection so that she would get some relief from pain. Even with an already assured provision of wheel chair for her, I was not sure if she could avoid walking for reaching at the airline counter. However, at the last moment Yamuna agreed to drop the plan of stopover for injection, as she felt better with medicines. The taxi came in time, but the driver was hesitant to accommodate three suitcases. I had to a little tough to the extent of being harsh to get it loaded. We are one of those Indians who don’t believe in travelling light and that too when you are going to a different country where you shall be staying with the families of two of your sons.

The newly built airport is just impressive and world class. We got a porter service for Rs 200. The porter also helped us in getting the wheel chair. As Air India was manning only few counters, there were quite a few passengers in the queue. But the problem came when the porter loaded the three suitcases for check in. The overall weight was within limit, but the weights of two of the suitcase were more than 23 kgs. My nightmare started. I argued and expected that Air India would have some special consideration for senior citizens like us. The counter girl contacted her supervisor. She appeared to be pretty helpful. She took me to her boss, a young Sardarji. Unfortunately, the Youngman was neither courteous nor helpful. I asked him what to do as I didn’t have extra suitcases or bag to shift the weight from the suitcases to make all of them below 23 kgs. He didn’t have any suggestion. He did neither suggest if I could buy some bags or cartons. He didn’t listen. He rudely kept on insisting that I couldn’t travel without getting them within limits. It was just nightmarish. But then the help came from the person manning the wheel chair of Yamuna. He made the porter carrying the baggage to leave the cart. He got a carton and got some item shifted. However, it still didn’t balance the weight. But then he got a friendly Air India counterman and managed to get us through with the problem at a cost of Rs 1000. He got us to immigration. We had to wait on the special counter for the persons with wheel chair, as the officer was missing. Finally we reached the departing gate 24. The man left us and asked us to wait, but took his charge duly wrapped in a paper provided by him. That is the Indian way of making money and we all help it.

The Delhi Airport, built and managed by a private company, is really world class now with décor and facilities competing with any in Singapore, Hong Kong or Tokyo. I can’t compare it with Beijing or Shanghai as I have not visited them. Let someone do that or wait till I see them.

But will the employees of Air India and other government department be an improved lot? Air India must get private or get closed. Except for the reason that the Air India flight takes the shortest time, as it is nonstop one for New York, I would never have preferred it.

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Kashmir Crisis

Posted on September 17, 2010 by indra

For many years, I had been thinking of visiting the heaven on earth. As it appeared last year, I will be able to make it in my life. It got a boost when Popli returned after a holiday in Kashmir. But soon after, the trouble started. Today, I think the hope is bleak.

Is there any solution to Kashmir problem that India and Indians have lived with since its birth as the truncated nation in 1947?

Will the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the Valley bring peace?

Will some more economic packages improve the condition?

What is the ‘azadi’ demanded by the stone pelters?

BJP might have a brand of Hindu Party. But interestingly, none of the government till date including the saffron one showed any restraint on spending on Kashmir. As reported, the Centre spent over Rs 80,000 crore on the state. But the money didn’t flow to the right beneficiary. A handful of families, some of politicians, got richer. According to CAG, Rs 71,988 crore of excess expenditure between 1980 and 2008 is not accounted for.

Are the people in Kashmir more deprived and unemployed than those in other state? Not really. The unemployment rate is 4.21 percent and the per capita income was Rs 21,561 in 2008-09. Is it really frustratingly high or low respectively low causing the crisis? Not really. When India can employ Bangladeshi to the tune of the total unemployed in Kashmir, why can’t the unemployed of Kashmir with open borders get employed in India?

Unfortunately, India remains democracy. Even just hundreds of, may be paid, stone pelters can create crisis. Some unscrupulous can blame Indian armed forces for any death and injury and raise a bogey against it.

Perhaps today India must fight against the unscrupulous and their backers with a change in mindset. The political parties must go the people and convince that they elect the government. Let the people of Kashmir make all the leaders like Gilani, Yashin and Mirwaiz fight the election and transform the corrupt system and bring development that the few ruling families have failed till date.

If the police of the elected state government take responsibility, the armed forces can move in the operative zone along the line of actual control.

However, let every person asking for azadi must understand that India and its people can neither gift or allow the Kashmir to go to Pakistan at any cost. India can’t afford it.

I still dream to see the heaven on earth pretty soon.

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Gandhis Are failing India

Posted on September 15, 2010 by indra

Kashmir is burning. All the country men are watching the situation with immense interest. But the government is indecisive. The country doesn’t have a Prime Minister who takes the responsibility of the situation, as Gandhis have placed him in the chair. He hardly knows till date his scope of authority. And the Prime Minister in waiting doesn’t have Kashmir or for that matter any of the critical problems of the country on his priority. He is busy in building his party. If I am wrong, can anyone on earth tell me if Man Mohan Singh or Mr. Chidambaram can find a solution of Kashmir or Naxalites?

I wish young Rahul Gandhi would have shown some real interest in these two most burning problems that can endanger the very existence of the nation. Instead of focusing on Bihar and charming the young women in Santi Niketan, Rahul Gandhi would have tried to get a personal feel of Kashmir problem. Fortunately, most of the leaders in Kashmir valley today are from younger generation and well educated. Rahul would have gone into a conclave with Omar and Mehbooba. He would have taken the help of Priyanks Gandhi too to deal with Mahbooba Mufti. He could have kept Sachin Pilot and his wife into his closer circle for discussion on Kashmir. He could have invited Yashin Mullick, Sajjad Lone and Mirwaiz for personal chat on the issue and would have impressed on the need of maintaining peace in the valley. Both Mirwaiz and Lone are sons of fathers gunned down by militants. Rahul could have understood from them the Kashmir first hand. His inherent leadership quality would have got a real test. I am sure the issues involved are much more than what appears in media. The informal dialogues light have helped into finding a permanent solution. Why is Rahul not taking such a drastic step? Why is he not getting involved in the real national issues of the day? Is Sonia Gandhi against his involvement or is Rahul scared about his security based on the advices of his inner circle or the intelligence?

Will Rahul agree that with each passing day, the problems will get accentuated if it is not solved fast enough with determination? Is not Rahul not making the problem insolvable even by him when he takes over as Prime minister that the whole nation knows he is to do very soon?

I still hope the Gandhis must take the control of the governance in hand if they feel that they can do any sacrifice for India and not allow the situation to slip beyond the possibility of bringing it back on track?

Today no Indian has any moral right to blame the opposition for this situation, as the main opposition has lost its respectability of Atal’s days.

All Indians wish a miracle to happen to put back the nation on right track. And so Gandhis must not wait any more and take a plunge to save the country with keep Kashmir and other regions as integral part of it or get out of the country’s politics.
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PS: And when I expected written above, Rahul has come out with a statement on Kashmir: “Kashmir is a tough place and Omar is a youngster, give him time and support.” Doea the country expect only this much from the Prime Minister in waiting?

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