“Idle hands”

At present India’s GDP is $1.243 trillion or Rs 57.178 trillion (1 dollar= Rs 46) and we are the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world. According to economists, by 2020 we’ll be the frontrunners of growth. Complacency can be sensed here as we are satisfied with the current happenings as well as the forecast. But I think that by now we could have been the fastest growing economy. Why wait 2020?

India’s population is 115 crore. This means that in India we have 230 crore hands (leaving physically challenged aside) and each hands per capita is Rs 24,783 to the economy. Don’t you think this is less? I think it is.

9.5% of Indians are unemployed. But are they the only ones who negatively hit our economy? Well this article talks about those who doesn’t do any work (inspite being capable), those who wrongly use their power, those who should not be doing the work they are doing, those who doesn’t have work, those who doesn’t allow others to work and those who work but doesn’t add anything.

1. In Bharat (poor India) a farmer perseveres as he extracts the rich food from the soil. But impediment like drought forces him to sit idle because more than 60% of Indian farming depends on rainfall. If these unrewarded farmers are provided with irrigation facilities, technical know-how, training and credit from the GOI, we Indians will not only feed us but the whole world.

2. Government doesn’t create wealth but people do. Each and every Indian industry is operated by its labour force. But when they goes off work & strikes it affects the daily productivity and we loss crores of Rupees. Similarly, teacher are quintessential to school and colleges. But several hours of education goes unutilised when they sit on their notorious dharnas. In a nutshell, strike is detrimental to any country

3. The king of government offices i.e. its officials, love tea breaks, chatting and gossiping, use office phones to converse with relatives. Rules say “stay in line” but I ask why there are queues in India? Undoubtedly, when an incapable person is employed at the counter, queues have to be longer and files have to wait. .

 

4. Police is the busiest authority in India. You can never find policemen idle though actually they are. Police is never interested in writing down the FIR as a few FIRS reflects low crime rate which portrays the hard work of police. And if written then who is interested in solving the case? Or sometimes it’s better to fake the encounter than to play the chor-police game.

5. Considerable time of any proletariat Indian goes in commuting. The majority use public transport. Sadly, India’s public transport cannibalized with wheels and a speedometer up to 200km/hr is one of the sluggish. State owned buses don’t turn up and if they come they travel in pairs. It’s a trick they use. Private buses can’t afford its passengers to be on time. They don’t run unless there are enough commuters. The passenger trains in India are the worst example of punctuality. Even sometimes this character is also happily portrayed by our passenger airservices. Every second wasted cost our GDP

6. There is another service which takes 15 years to deliver. Average time consumed by our judiciary to decide a case is 15 years. So Indians prefer to be a victim than to be involved in court cases.

7. Sometimes, we are forced to sit idle. Power failure is ubiquitous in India. As power fails, every major activity comes to halt. Traffic jams, data loss, no entertainment, no rest/sleep, no production, no customer handling. People say “no power-----no water.” Infact many villages are still to be electrified and a few which are electrified enjoy very less number of electric hours. So Bharat have only sunlight hours to work.

8. The so called creative people in India believe that grass is always greener on the other side. They do creative work but don’t apply their creativity. They are our idle brains. Copying somebody’s music, lyrics or even film and saying we are inspired from it is a cushy number. A few uses a whole book as a script and then don’t even credit the writer. Even article and column writers keep pasting each others work in the journals. Some anxiously wait for foreign authors to write something so that they can also get inspired from it. Some only believes that life is an internet and follows Google for every question without pressurizing their 1.5 kg (containing 50–100 billion neurons) brain.

9. As the saying goes idle brain is the home of the devil. Partisans influenced by politicians create violence and dismantle the whole public property. Several are killed, many injured and the state comes to rest. Why? Because some people migrated to our state and grabbing our pie of bread. At times reasons are that we want a separate state because we are discriminated. Nothing is worst than a curfew imposed and all movements sealed.

10. Interestingly, Indian economy started showing losses in 1970 when skilled diaspora stopped returning to India and at the same time begins the America’s golden period. Though highly skilled professional people might be sending remittance galore but those hands could have worked for our motherland and the total money out of which small remittances are sent to us could have been generated here.

11. In every corner of our society, in each famous shop, at most of the thellas, factories etc. White Tigers of India are working as servants and cheap labour. At the age when their hands should be holding books and comics they do washing, cleaning, loading, sweeping, serving and begging. They are the future entrepreneurs, teachers, lawyers etc but if the situation prevails then one of them will be a local thief, one will join naxal, one with terrorist org. some will be unemployed and beggars and some will be drug addicts.

12. We have talked about idle hands, idle brain and now idle space. Materialism has impacted Indians profoundly. Everybody wants a personal car as a symbol of style statement. It hurts me to see that in the age of global warming most Indians prefer enjoying driving alone. No car pooling. Those empty seats if filled could have saved black gold and saved our lungs and our planet.

I don’t know that whether you’ll agree with me or not but I think our President’s hands have less to do. It’s a very debatable question that whether India’s PM is more powerful or President? Our President might be doing more work than our PM but don’t you think we listen more of PM. Our PM is more visible in news and is involved in almost all the decisions. What I’ve observed is that for everything we run to PM. Instead some of PM’s decision powers should be under President’s authority so the work is equally divided and decisions are taken speedily and considerably.

In this whole article I’ve tried to summaries the activities which add to non productivity, negative returns, decelerating growth and development though they might be numerous.

If everybody does the right work at the right time then we don’t have to wait for decades and miracles to be a superpower.

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Whoever coined the phrase, “Age is nothing but a number” was absolutely right. Whether you are 18 or 80, you are never too old or too young to seize the day.

Well, these above lines are for none other than the 2 great people of world cricket who are legends in themselves. They are Adam Gilchrist (former Australian wicketkeeper) & Anil Kumble (former Indian leg spinner & Captain).

You must be wandering that it’s been sometime that these two heroics have retired from cricket, so why this man is talking about them?

Well, “There is no smoke without fire”.  Indian premiere league’s (IPL) 2^nd edition in South Africa forced me to pen down my admiration for both theses cricketers. Its not that I am not a fan of these two. Due to my love for cricket, Anil Kumble has always been my favorite player for his “do or die” attitude. While I always looked up to Adam Gilchirist for his perfection behind the stumps and his cult batting style.

Both of them after giving their loads of contribution to the world of cricket chose the retirement mode when they were at their peak and their fans couldn’t stop asking for more. Their retirement broke many hearts; even I was too upset with it. This is because in any sport, when a sportsman took retirement it means “he is gone-forever”. You’ll never get a chance back to watch him playing again. That’s why sports are more energetic and powerful as players put everything they have, in it as who knows when retirement time comes. But Indian premiere league which is referred to as an Indian domestic tournament though no less than any international tournament gave these two guns an opportunity to get back to the cricket field for some live action.

In IPL 2009, Adam Gilchirist (Gilly) was made the captain of Deccan Chargers Hyderabad while Kumble (Jumbo) was not the desired choice for captainship for his team Royal Challengers Bangalore. His counterpart from England, Kevin Peterson got this job. Before the starting of this mega tournament, everybody marked 20-20 for young legs. Most suspected the capability of players aged above 34. The tournament kicked in style and on the very 1^st day in a match B/W Bangalore & Rajasthan, Kumble bagged 5 wickets for 5 runs which are till now the best bowling figure in IPL 2009 and 2^nd best overall after Sohail Tanveer’s 6 for 14. Due to his splendid performance, Rajasthan got out for 58 runs which is the lowest ever total by any team in 2008/2009. It was very clear that jumbo will not be easy to handle.

On the other side Deccan chargers (DC) registered 4 consecutive wins under Gilly & were sailing at the top spot with 8 points. The team which fetched only 2 wins for themselves under VVS Laxman in IPL 2008 looked solid with only 1 motive: to lift the IPL trophy. Some superstitious people attributed their earlier wins to their newly selected blue color dress compared to their colour cream and black in IPL 2008. But their captain behind the stumps with his green coined eyes looked harder and hungrier for the win than any body else in the team.

After there 1^st win Bangalore lost match after match and they once again looked weak as they were in IPL 2008 (winning only 4 matches under Rahul Dravid and finished 2^nd last in the points). Due to the England-West Indies test & one day series to come by, Kevin Peterson called off. He chose to play for his country rather than in IPL. This gave Kumble a chance to lead Challengers & the team bounced back to victory in a nail biting match against Punjab.

There were ups and downs, infact less downs for team Deccan in the tournament but under the extraordinary guidance of Gilly they were able to give power packed performances when needed the most to remain in the semifinal run. Gilchirist himself took the charge in many matches and batted destructively. He was the 2^nd highest run getter in the tournament. He scored 495 runs, 77 runs behind Mathew Hayden.

Kumble’s Bangalore lost the momentum in between but in the late league matches they thrashed every team which came their way. They chased 180+ runs to beat Team Kolkata and they then defeated the 3 strongest teams- Delhi, Chennai & Deccan in a row. Jumbo’s experience on the ground is such that he didn’t allow these 3 teams to cross 130+ score in those 3 matches. As a result, Deccan & Challengers both made it to the Semis.

But it was never easy for both Deccan & Challengers. In semi finals they had to face formidable Team Delhi which lost only 4 matches out of 14 and Team Chennai which had smitten other teams. But despite Delhi’s huge potential they couldn’t make it to the finals as Adam Gilchirist created history by scoring the fastest 50 of IPL & going on to score 85 off 35 balls against them. He led his team to victory on his own terms. He is the 1st person to score 900 runs in IPL.  In the 2^nd Semifinal match, Chennai the obvious choice for win against Bangalore lost their ground to Jumbo. He was very calm & composed on the field in that match and his batsmen did not let him down and chased the given target firmly.

The tables were turned, what could not be expected took place. The IPL 2 final match was going to be played between the 2 weakest teams of IPL 2008. The 2 teams finished with last (Hyderabad) and 2^nd last (Bangalore) rank last year.

The downturn was only because of change of captains. Both Kumble & Gilly were able to extract performances. And extracting performances is the trait of a leader.     

Gilly used RP Singh, Rohit Sharma & Pragyan Ojha very well. RP Singh finished with highest number of scalps (23) in the tournament. While Kumble got Kallis, Taylor, Parveen Kumar worked for him very well. He himself got 2^nd highest number of wickets in the tournament, i.e. 21.

Well, in all if we see, IPL 2009 will be remembered for players aged above 34-35.

Players like Mathew Hayden, Murlidharan, Symonds, Kallis, Sachin and Shane Warne contributed to the high performance graph of senior players. Hayden (a retired cricketer) was the highest run getter, while Warne another retired player is the coach and the captain of team Rajasthan (which won IPL 2008). He looked dangerous and keen in his performances this time too. Some 35+ aged people didn’t get the chance to play like Mcgranth, Shaun Pollock, and Chaminda Vaas. Saurav Ganguly (India’s most successful captain) wasn’t thought capable to lead Team Kolkata. As a result the team slipped to the last position with 3 wins.

The 3^rd edition of IPL is round the corner and I am looking forward for some out the box action from these guns.

So its better that we don’t underestimate these aged people. It’s just your desire and attitude that matters the most. And as some one said “life starts at 40”.

But from IPL, we can learn a lesson. In India, the population above 65 i.e. retired age is above 50 million. They are the resources which is going unused. So much money is being spent on pension schemes. Though this force will not be efficient in the physical work but there can be a field where they can outperform any one.

Just think about it. Old is Gold!!!!  


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More than 26.4 million number of cases are pending in the Indian Subordinate courts. 38.7 lakh cases (as on 1/1/09) are pending in High Courts while 2.64 crore are there in the Trial courts.  On the other hand Supreme Court, the highest court of appeal in India has more than 52 K (as on March, 09) cases pending. Yes I know that this figure has taken you aback as it did to me but it is just one aspect of the laziness of the Indian judiciary. Meanwhile we are also short of 234 HC and 2998 lower court judges as on October, 09.

Now as a common man I don’t know about the salaries of the judges (HC & SC), I am unaware about the working of all types of courts in India, what it takes to be a lawyer and how a lawyer becomes a judge, how a judge is decided for a specific case and etc etc etc………n items.

I just want to ask these black and white people that what’s going on? Is it a joke? Are you guys on a holiday? Why you all are not working and if working then why work like a bullock cart and having brakes of a Hayabusa.

In today’s India of Google chrome, nuclear deal, a non-left government, 3G, worlds cheapest car and our 3 Oscars why justice even after 62^nd independent year is like a battle to be won? Why it takes not months not years but several decades to solve a court case? And if you are still lucky then only you can attain justice.

Frankly speaking, I find Indian judicial system the most corrupt and most lethargic in the world. It has turned itself into a fixture for powerful people. Undoubtedly it lacks accountability, infrastructure, speed (infact sprint), competition, compassion, pledge, rewards and suffers ineptitude and corruption. In a nutshell it lacks revolution.

Before going further let’s take a few examples. A father is fighting for the justice for his daughter who was ragged to death for 10 years now. Every week this man travels from Kerala to Supreme Court. A case of a land being illegally used by government authorities during partition for refugees is still on. Lets not forget the infamous Bombay blast 1993 case (14 years and the longest running trial in Indian history), the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case (25 years), Uphaar cinema fire case 1997 (4 accused died in the first 7 years of trial, with 344 hearings the case ran for almost a decade), BMW case 1999 (9 years), Bhopal gas tragedy 1984, the world’s worst industrial disaster ever (25 years) and many more.

Ok let’s take a fresh one. We all know who Ajmal Kasaab is and what he did to India on 26/11. There are several videos showing him carrying a gun and firing like anything. The only terrorist who was nabbed after 26/11 had confessed his crime and we all know that he has no chance of escaping and a punishment of less than a death sentence will not be accepted to any Indian. But the case is still on to punish a barbarian like him.

A charge sheet of 11,000 pages was made for his trial. I can’t believe it that in a milieu of global warming and a stress on conserving trees our judiciary wasted precious 11,000 pages in just writing what he did and under what section he can be punished.  Even a car was hired for bringing that charge sheet to the court. I am again repeating, every one knows what he did so can’t we put it in a simple way. Like a single file or a CD. Our court is still finding the witnesses to identify Kasab for the massacre which was witnessed by the whole world. But we can’t do anything, in actual our system lacks. Why there is not a single judge appointed for every case and why he is not accountable to solve the case? In some cases 35 different judges presided over a single case in different hearings.

Why there is not an expense fixed for every case? Victims have complained of spending even crores in a single case. It means the poor doesn’t have the right to justice.

Why there is not a time period for a case to be solved within every level of court (HC, SC, district etc)? Like in some cases 5^th generation is fighting for the justice.

That’s why our politicians commit crimes so frequently and easily. Infact many cases pending, are, of politicians. Till the case is solved (if any) the politician is too old or have died. Ruchikas case is a recent example.

The fact that a country of more than a billion has only 1 Supreme Court bewilders me. Under which act this unintelligent rule is incorporated? For God’s sake, one SC means that a person living (says Assam) will have to travel every week or month to Delhi in case he has appealed in SC. And we all know that how fast our cases are solved.

On one hand the person is victimised and on the other he faces tribulations of an inferior service. This will continue till he decides to give in his towel. This is the sole reason Indians are scared of the world of courts. No one wants to be stucked up in the “court-Khechari ke Chakkar”. That’s why no one willingly comes forward to help the injured in road accidents, no one wants to be a witness in any court case. Because they know that they will be sucked up by courts endless hearings.

According to my point of view, there should be 1 SC in every state and capital territory or the least there should be 1 SC in every 4 zones of India. All 4 of them should have equal rights. Once the verdict passed by any SC will be accepted by other 3 as unswerving. At least it will be convenient for a person who is traveling from Kerala to Delhi every week.

Hitherto, I am constantly castigating the Indian judiciary but there are some other reasons also for the tardy results. The philosophy/ideology of our judiciary is that that it treats the accused as innocent till proven guilty. It hears both the parties very carefully and gives equal opportunity to both to prove their point. And it’s fine also that a death sentence or other punishment cannot be handed till the judiciary acclimatize itself to the case and circumspect before taking any decision.

But in this entire cycle, the lawyers/ solicitors are the real culprits who keep on extending the case as they are paid by their respective parties for every single hearing. It’s a shady business. Its archetype can be seen in the famous TV program “office-office” in which lawyers of both the parties were in unison and didn’t let the case to finish in order to fill their pockets.

Till now whatever I have vehemently said is only from the perspective of the common man. I don’t know and neither am I interested in the amendments, acts, sections, resolutions and jurisprudence of the Indian judiciary. I am only concerned about the delivery mechanism of justice. What interests me is the quality of service, so that I am not scared of entering the world of black and white. Any country is regarded successful or developed on the basis of the quality of justice it delivers in a constrained time frame to its citizens. As justice is the right to every citizen!!!


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"SHE"

We are still unsure who created this world. But whosoever did it knew this very well that the world can't be run with either of the chromosomes.

So the creator sent both the Adam and the Eve to the Earth. It means that the creator never distinguished Adam from Eve & Eve is equally responsible as Adam is in making this world the way it is today. But haven’t we pushed today’s Eve far behind Adam? Isn’t she exploited in every possible way?

A woman who gives birth is herself not preferred for the birth. People desire a boy. And if she is born her family feel robbed with it. Her struggle starts from the day she enters the world.

In villages daily chores are thrown upon her. Reason: she is to get married. In cities she is sent to school & even college but her education goes untapped when she is not allowed to work.

Girls always outperform boys in X and XII boards but very less pursue further education. Parents don’t want their daughters to go outside their respective states for studies. There has always been a scarce of girls in prominent IIT’s as well as IIM’s.

When a few makes it to the working stage they have limited choices which are safe, secure and a full 9 to 5 job. The ambitious women who wants to be a model,  an actress, airhostess, journalist, corporate, RJ, VJ, musician, IAS etc beleaguered against all the odds they have to face.

The media, film & fashion industry is notorious for casting couch. The Hindi films are continuing with their 40+ old actors who are always casted against a new actress aged 20-25 years for each film. Another example is James bond movies which exploit females only to add some masala. Similar is the concept of item dance in Hindi films.

Big corporate likes to have a female secretary to add charm & beauty to their office. In professions like police, journalism, corporate etc woman is underestimated. Males don’t like a female boss. Kiran Bedi though most deserving person for the Delhi Police Commissioner Post was overlooked, thus she resigned.

It is getting very tough for a woman to work peacefully. She is only considered for her beauty and not her brain. The exclusive Miss World/Universe contests’ are cashed only on her beauty.

A male child is preferred because parents want returns in theirs old days. And I am not blaming them. Everybody wants to feel secure in his old days. The girl will be married, so she will not earn and give money. It is only the son who can do this. But this is not the sole reason. The society norms have created a hell for the Y-chromosomes.

Hitherto, a girl lives with her parents they are always tensed about her purity & sexuality. They want to keep her safe and preserve her till her marriage. Why??

Because in our society views about a girl can be manipulated to such an extent that she could be tagged. This ultimately risks her marriage and it’s her family who has to bear the brunt. The struggle never stops here.

Parents are always in a hurry to get her married & to get rid of the burden of responsibility. And once marriage takes place it is she who has to leave her home, who has to adopt a new name (say, Mrs. Ram Kapoor). Her identity gets lost as if she is a property and has been bought. As a property is once sold the owner gets the keys. Similarly, she once married wears a mangal sutra, sindoor, sari, bindi, burqha.

I want to meet the person who created these laws. What I can say is that it is a man dominated society. Men don’t trust their own selves. Husbands enforce such things on their wives to protect them from other men & they themselves indulge in women exploitation in some way or other. Like, Polygamy & Triple Talaq is legal for Muslim men in India. Many Muslim wives are mostly kept in home and if go out then have to be entirely covered in burkha. Many households are only run by women with nasty men busy in gambling and drinking. Turpitude man beats her wife, leaves or kills her for dowry & pressurizes her to give birth to a boy. Man doesn’t stop his dominance here, some go on to the extent of illegal trafficking of women & opening brothels.  

When the answer to the controvertible question that whether the supreme power of the world is “he or she” is unknown then how can we be so prejudiced towards the human she? How can we consider her fragile and limp? Are we unaware of the hidden powers of a woman? Have we forgotten her different avatars? Like Goddess Kali she can devastate everything as Rani Laxmibai did to the British. As Saraswati she is the bank of knowledge and art like the legend Lata Mangeshkar. Like Goddess Lakshmi she amasses wealth as the richest Christy Walton or Alice Walton. But one role that nullifies every other role is that “she” is also a mother. Everybody in this world living or dead, achiever or loser, creator or destroyer, ruler or follower, thinker or non thinker is a child of one or other she. Mother has been given the most superior place in this world. She can’t even think her child getting the minutest of injuries then why we kill her, assault or mistreat her. The film “Juno” very beautifully portrays this when a girl aged 20 named Juno got pregnant and decided not to abort because as a mother she can’t kill her child.

Politically speaking India’s sex ratio is 933 females/1000 males and female infanticide is high. Eave teasing which is not even properly defined is common while rapist usually are not caught or let off. If the practices continue the future looks bleak & that day is not far off when there will be only grooms and no brides.

Most of the married women in India are homemaker though they are not given due importance as their husbands perceive that their wives do nothing. India functions because of its working class which mostly constitutes of men. The urban class enjoys at least a one weekday off but the homemaker don’t enjoy the same. Think for a moment, that if our loyal homemaker strikes and go off the work for few days, then will our husbands be able to cope with both work and home? We all know the answer. As India depends on its working class. The working class depends on ladies working at home. So India will stop functioning if our ladies gets off work.

My views in this article are not targeted towards any specific group. They are my personal observations. Some might say that I have taken a full stand for women though she is also blamed for epic wars like Mahabharata, Ramayana or Trojan War.

In encapsulation I will say that Parents love to have daughters. Some fathers wish for 2 or 3 of them but our society norms and culture prevents them from doing so.

But those girls who survived and nurtured well did wonders. Look around and you will see “She” is pervasively spreading the magic. From daring Barkha Dutt to imaginative Mira Nair, from courageous Sunita Williams to patriotic Kalpana Chawala, from the Queen Elizabeth to heart throbbing Shakira, from the gorgeous Aishwarya to in-command Sonia Gandhi, from powerful Agatha Christie to disciplined Kiran Bedi, from dreamer Bachendri Pal to mother of all Mother Teresa!!!

My inspiration is “Rachida Dati” the 1^st Muslim Cabinet minister in French president Nicholas Sarkozy’s team. She returned to work 5 days after giving birth.

So encourage her & let her live freely. Give her education, teach her self defense & show her love. If you’ll introspect you’ll realise She is no less than a son.


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