Dance of Democracy - When good sense failed to Prevail.

                       16th May 2014 will go down in the history of Indian elections as the day when Propaganda won over good sense, 2014 Lok Sabha elections no doubt is India's first intensively televised election, which leaves many uneasy question's that needs to be answered by the media first and then the parties who have funded this entire grandiose exercise using questionable resources. All that one can expect now from the newly elected government is to see it exhibit right intentions and vigor in taking forward this nation of 1.25 billion into the future it has been promised.

Dance of Democracy - Seriously Speaking.

             The greatest trick  a proponent of kleptocracy can pull on anyone is to make him or her believe that he is the change, and the masses perennial clamoring for change at times give's Such venal vermin's the chance to cast their spell which appeals only to the naivety of the masses as it is oblivious to the facts that would accompany change, for change can happen only when there are reason’s and those reasons  can hardly be entertained to arise out of the masses understanding of the inconsistencies which they have been putting up with, as it should be the case, but that would become detrimental to the efforts made by the vested interests. So it is made to arise out of the masses naivety which is rooted in their gullible nature which seeks not the ability to inquire but an illusive perception which seeks to perceive the claims or promises that are being made about providing better infrastructure, better schools, better hospitals, price control of essential’s as good as of those promises that have been delivered upon, that’s the kind of effect a venal politician aims to inflict upon the masses when he chooses to position himself as the change with the help of the effort's put in by his entire propaganda machinery to win in an election. Does this seem like a familiar story ?, then it must mean that you don't belong to the pack.
                     Promises of Good roads, schools, hospitals, jobs, industries, farmer welfare schemes, electricity, piped water connection, affordable higher education, reservation for minorities, eradication of malnutrition and child labor, upliftment of the poor, empowering women, eradication of female infanticide are the promises that most political parties did make in the elections conducted way back in 1952, the funny and as well as the sad truth is those promises still remain as promises worth making to win votes even in 2014. Indian rupee has been steadily losing its value against dollar since the day our government decided to devalue it in 1966 owing to external pressures, in contrast the prices of the essential commodities have been steadily increasing leading to a ripple effect resulting in price escalation of every known useable item whether its perishables or durables, the life cycle of the perishables have been going up but still we have thousands of farmers who not being able to meet their debt obligations are committing suicide, on the other hand the life cycle of the durables have been steadily decreasing and yet it seems to have little or no effect over the profits determined by the consumption pattern whose function is predetermined by the need to economize. The fact of the matter is in 2014 there are 330 million people in this country who have no access to any kind of amenity which would make their life comfortable as it was promised to them by the politicians who fought way back in the 1952 elections, This raises many questions about the sensibility of the Indian voter leaving aside the conniving spirit of our political honchos which has always tried to capitalize on that sensibility, looks like the Indian voter is content with the promises that are being made to him every 5 years.
                               It is quite disturbing to see how naive most of the citizen's in this country are if one were to take the Exit poll's seriously, the poor beings that we already are don't even have the middlebrows capability to have a composite understanding of what it mean's when 30,000 crore rupees gets spent in the name of elections by those who are fighting the elections, we gullible beings expect all those people who have invested such huge money to do good to us just because we went to the polling booths in droves to cast our votes, if only we had the understanding of what and how a change would look and feel like we wouldn't have got swayed by the most elaborate marketing exercise in the recent times which through every instance aimed at positioning Mr. Modi as the change, If we really want to know how change would look like we have an example right next to us in the form of China, in china since the day Mr. Xi Jinping who is 60 years old now took over as its president 2 years ago has been going after corrupt low level government officials and top members of his Party's Central Politburo Standing Committee, in the last one year alone around 54 top Chinese government officials have committed suicide or drank themselves to death, the recent one being Zhou Yongkan one of the most powerful man in china he has gone missing, his illegal assets worth 15 Billion $ have been frozen by the Chinese government, and now here in this country people like you and me, people who are gullible and who have very little understanding of democracy have persisted long enough under the influence of multi crore " Modi Advertisements" with the notion that this nation's decisions be left in the hands of men like Mr. Modi who even before assuming power had asked corrupt venal vermin's like Mr. Yedurappa and SriRamalu who have looted this country's natural resources left right and center to help him win the elections in the state of Karnataka, is it any wonder, saddled as we are with our present parliamentary system, that we are unable to find any solution to our many difficulties? and we are still left with 330 million people who live in unimaginable conditions, Why, placing this tedious democratic exercise aside we may as well ask a committee of robbers, dacoits & murderers union to run the affairs in this country.

Dance of Democracy - What they wont tell you.

               Here is a man who has strived enough to get through school in order to make himself capable enough to get into IIT and then this man here takes up many high paying jobs which allows him to become somewhat settled in his life, at one point he takes a decision to change the affairs this country has been putting up with and starts to raise many questions in the name of ordinary citizens because he understands those problems better than your usual politician does. At first he is one among the many so they don't bother about his questions, then he becomes prominent and raises many more uneasy questions which they just ignore, but when those questions become so uncomfortable for some and realize that many have started to ask the same questions, they retort to those questions by talking about the person who has raised those questions, they say that you cannot ask those questions because you are not an ordinary citizen, you are an anarchist, you change your mind every now and then, you just drop things as they are and don't see it through to the end, you cannot speak for the people you say you are speaking for because you are not one of them as you are now staying in a 85,000 rupees rented apartment, they say you are a liar, you just accuse and don't prove anything. And meanwhile the gullible people that we are miss the whole idea and start to question the person instead of pondering and seeking answers to those questions which has been raised by that person.

                   The recent deluge of accusations that have been hurled against AAP and its leaders are attempt's to push the masses towards that direction, its an attempt to divert peoples attention from the real issues, its an attempt to make people concentrate on the messenger rather than on the message. Because they know that its easier to kill the message by killing the messenger than to kill the message itself. They wont 't tell you how Mr. Kejriwal can afford to pay 85,000 rupees as rent and why he cannot move out of the house right now in the midst of his busy election campaign schedule, They wont 't tell you why they called the toppling of a few metal detectors by the sudden surge in AAP supporters exiting a railway station as " vandalism " while they called the throwing of Chappal's, lattis and chairs against the police by hundreds of BJP workers in a rally as just " Commotion ", They will tell you that when a chief minister of a state indulges in a protest as a last resort in way of finding a solution to the reasons that drove him to protest is just not right and hence its Anarchy, but they wont tell you to look into that part of history where in a few take a controversial political stance knowingly and make a Rath yatra just for the sake of being in the headlines and in the process they create a huge communal divide in this country which would lead to a chain of dreadful events starting with a Mosques demolition, followed by several bomb blasts, and several terrorist attacks, and several communal clashes ending up in the deaths of children men and women in thousands, when one looks into such a history the question really arises in ones mind is protesting based on legitimate reasons to find solution's Anarchy or its creating a political climate which leads to killing of thousands of innocent men women and children. Everyone one who has ever been up against the might of the wrong have all had to face this kind of persecution, every leader who has ever had the chance to put himself or herself to test have all had to face such persecutions, Nelson Mandela did, Mohandas karamchand Gandhi did and so will Mr. Arvind Kejriwal.

Dance of Democracy - What should really matter.

              Its a shame that we the people of this country even after having the tendency to blame venal establishments, corrupt politicians, inefficient government machinery, unthoughtful government policies for all the ills this society puts up with day in and day out we have very little understanding of what we  actually are blaming about and what it takes to be successful in Indian politics, more so we have very little understanding of politics itself. Its an undeniable fact that Money is a huge enabler that allows one to gain traction in Indian politics, and where and how one gains that money determines ones " true political agenda ", if only the so called masses whose verdict is seen as a dictum of our collective democratic right arised out of the infallible thorough nature of our powers of observation as it would be in the case of an assumed ideal or hypothetical world, we wouldn't have had the misfortune of coming to terms with our own inabilty to make the right choice's which has allowed criminals, murderers, rapists, decoits, kidnappers fill up our parliament, a recent finding shows that one third of our parliament is filled with men who are of dubious nature with serious criminal charges against them.
               If only people had the brains to work out the cost behind vote seeking advertisements that the political parties have been bombarding the masses with through every medium thats available,  if only they had the brains to workout the cost of BJP or congresses 30 second advertisements during prime time television shows people will be dumbfounded and will be forced to ask themselves how on earth these political parties happen to have so much - So much of money at their disposal considering their 97 percent of cadres are people belonging to the lower social strata, and why on earth these political parties spend such HUGE MONEY in order to make their reach wider leave alone them spending money on Smearing campaigns which ridicule other political parties, People don't have the time or the will to find answer's to such important question's but these very frugal minded nitwits or dimwits or whatever, who after listening to relentless propaganda and lies about AAP being Anarchic, and the B- Team of so and so party have all the time in the world to worry about Mr. Kejriwals 5 Bed room flat, or of him having not vacated his government accommodation just after demiting office, or for that matter the assaults he has been through during his road shows, were they staged or not?, With such important question's occupying our small minds all the time we wonder why on earth we are not able to do something about the 30 crore people in this country who go to sleep empty stomach every night in the hope that they will wake up to a new beginning one day.
































Prasanna Kumar 

12 Years a Slave

I was totally speechless after watching this movie, 12 years a slave wrenches the sense of freedom out of you for you to recognize it all over again and makes you to see the sacrifices that have been made to make the words like dignity, equality, fairness and justice mean what they mean today, as someone who has always been in awe of the sliver light that streams above ones head to cast moving images on a silver screen in a scale that is breath taking as such, veiling the darkness that one doesn't have to endure in exchange for an experience as only celluloid could offer, i find it difficult to make a distinction as to what it is that makes this movie profound, is it the cast which pulls of an uphill task of putting themselves in the shoes of men and women who lived some 200 years ago or is it the depiction of the sheer brutality man is capable of showing to his own kind, i don't know. But all i know is i have watched an amazing movie about things that happened in no good way......

In this country everything happens in the name of the poor

          Lot has been undone during these decades of total disregard shown by many elected representatives to the edifice that stands as a symbol of our democracy, Parliament and state assemblies which were once revered as the sanctum sanctorum of the ideals that gave strength to our democracy is now being just seen as a place tainted by the vile spewed by the unworthy uncouth abominable's who lack sincerity and respect to the office they have been voted into by the people of this country. Often state assemblies have been turned into venues for Chappal throwing matches and shouting matches even while there are millions out there who go to sleep hungry everyday with the hope that someone in the government will change things for them tomorrow, and one got to see the very same scenes in the parliament today, how did it all come down to this ?, How ?, Sometime back I read an article about India having half of worlds modern slaves, 67 years !, even after 67 years. This is the most shameful thing that can ever happen to this country, it either means Indians don't have a clue as to what they need to do to make their lives as well as others around them better or its just that they are some grungy creatures capable of exuding only one human emotion which is that of "selfishness". Such a shame, every politician who is as old as someone like Lalu Prasad Yadav who when they started their political careers made certain promises to the people of this country to win their trust and these very people even after being in politics for more than 40 years are making the same promises even today to win votes, these are the venal vermin's this country has to do away with. 

                        Democracy would become meaningless when a mob is allowed to have its way whether its inside the parliament or outside it and one got to see pretty much the same happening today- democracy becoming meaningless, its a shame that we call ourselves a democracy, its a shame that this is the State in which our country is even after 67 years of independence, shame on all the political parties who keep aiding such unruly elements who hold democracy to ransom with impunity even inside the parliament, Shame on all the political parties who have ruled this country and have still left the conditions in this country to degrade according to the will of the people who are acting against the interest of this entire nation, this nasty habit of politicians to use region and religion to further their interests has been causing havoc in the lives of ordinary people, In the recent past there has been a huge exodus of people from North into other Indian states which the Indian government has failed to take notice of, its really sad that people have to leave their home state to be able to survive, this is not the kind of right to dignity our constitution promised to each and every citizen of this country. All is being done to create a new state in the name of the downtrodden, downtrodden ! one finds it illuding that in this country everything happens in the name of the poor but still its the poor who suffer the most, Its the poor who get recruited as terrorists and its the poor who get blown up by them, its the poor who are easy targets for marketers of religion and its the poor who die in any communal violence, its the poor who sweat it out in the watch towers in the border making sure that we all remain safe and its the poor who die in the open during heavy rains, during extreme winter, during extreme summer, its the poor children who get wooed to the schools by the promises made to them about a good meal and its the poor children who die in hoards once the election objectives have been achieved, everything in this country happens in the name of the poor, political parties win elections in the name of the poor, billions get siphoned in the name of poor and even after these many years if this is the condition this country is in one can only feel ashamed of the Apathy that brews all around.

                                So this system which penalizes people who are asking for a more honest deliverance of rights to which they are entitled to like better standard of living, better education, better hospitals, probity in the functioning of the government and provides incentive's to be corrupt has to go. This change will happen and no one can stop it from happening in a country whose median age is 27. If a few lakh ardent nationalists could make the British empire to squirm and make them leave India, its obvious what crores of young Minds who are constantly in touch with each other who don't want their politician to be some rabble rouser who knows only to throw chappal's in the assembly, or someone who only knows to swindle a 1000 crore every time he gets a chance. Politicians in India should realize that people in this country have recognized what they deserve, they know that they deserve much better than what they are being asked to subject themselves to. So Lalus and Rajas and Yadavs of this country pack your bags and be ready to face the wrath of this young nation which wont settle for anything less than what it deserves and it knows what it deserves and will get it no matter what. Its time for the common man to take up the mantle.

AAPanomics is it that contentious ?

                        Recently i have been getting to read too much of emphatic cavilings, remonstrates reeking with malice in lieu of  political thuggery over the recent Delhi governments decision to do away with FDI in retail, there are voices of descent from the industry says a prominent newspaper, there are apprehensions about this setting up a wrong precedent which will drive away foreign investments so says the party which was the reason behind such a situation to become a possibility. The foreign minister of this country who has always held a personal grudge against the year old party which is heading the Delhi government has spewed venom saying that its a party made up of third rate people who harbor Jurassic ideas, could it get anymore obvious than this, where were these opinionated people when 9 other states rejected this FDI proposal while it was presented to them by the government at the center. The real purpose behind the functioning of any democracy should be to throw up governments which would abide by our constitution which stands as the guiding principles for such governments to function in their full capacity in the interest of the people, corporate ideologies and their goals shouldn't take up the role of those guiding principles in establishing a form of governance which might in the long run end up being detrimental to the very foundations on which this country was built. Divers views and news's apart if one were to wield ones knowledge of economics into understanding the things as they have been presented it would become obvious that there seems to be a  wrong understanding in general about the relationship that exist between job creation and investment, & capital expenditure. Investments dont generate jobs as such, which is what an unassuming corporate psychoanalysts would want the general perception to be, but the fact remains that its not the people who invest create jobs but its the people who consume.              

  

                                       Addressing the concerns of the people who think that they have all the understanding of the free market economics just because they have read Adam smith and have become aware of his invisible hand theory is not the intention of this write up, nor its intentions are to make people realize how off the mark they go whenever they try to argue that there is a  direct relationship between investments and industrial progress which leads to job creation, which they always try to corroborate with  the workings of Capital expenditure which allows businesses to spend money either to buy fixed assets or to add value to the existing asset's which infuses usefulness in them extending beyond the taxable year to accrue future benefits by creating demand in future, adding to it their belief that an increase in the consumption can be created only through aggressive marketing. This write up is just an attempt to reach out to people who are wanting of a better understanding of what and how things should be after having realized how interconnected the businesses are in today's globalized world, how labor markets specific to a geographic location are free to serve the businesses located half the world across. So to start with capital expenditure the capital expended on creating more value over the existing assets doesn't happen unless and until there is a scope to enhance the output of product to out run the costs resulting in dividends after a period of time and that happens only to accommodate the consumption that is to happen in the future, though advertising plays a very important role in general which normally enhances the consumption it plays different roles in different economic setups at different levels, In a mature economy Advertising mostly plays the role of a whip which helps to drive down the competition as there is a limit to the amount of consumption that can happen in an economy or for that matter any economy so to speak, which is due to the constrains as set up by various other elements, if we were to discuss about those constraints this write up would take up more space than i would like it to. Its imperative to understand that our fiscal and monetary policies should be aimed at striking a balance which allows capital expenditure to increase vis-a-vis savings rate, that should be our real goal, that would take care of all the problems one would list out arising out of falling consumption owing to the fall in real wages, FDI in retail would drive down wages even further in the retail sector to keep up with the competition, no doubt consumers will get to gain but there are other ways to do that, its not necessary that we need FDI in retail to enhance the efficiency in the delivery system, such measures as such are only prosthetic in nature which in the long run would become detrimental to our economy .... 

















































Prasanna Kumar