Life Is A Movie Worth Watching

- Here jobs are reserved for people on the basis of their ‘caste’ and ’religion’

- Here everybody is required to mention his/her ‘religion’ in most of the Forms submitted in various departments, offices etc. of the government or even in the private sector

- Here the words Hindu, Muslim etc. are often used to describe an area, an organisation, an educational institution etc. e.g. Aligarh Muslim University, Benaras Hindu University, Indian Muslim League etc. etc.

- Here people do not have a Uniform Civil Code

- Here even Constitution of India uses the words scheduled ‘castes’. It clearly shows it recognises caste system in India. It should have used the words ‘Economically Backward People’

- Here even prominent people often identify themselves as belonging to a particular religion as if they have no other identity e.g. A Sikh Prime Minister, A Muslim President etc. etc.

- Here even the Prime Minister of India - Dr Manmohan Singh talks of giving special incentives or creating special economic measures for minority classes. He even directly uses words like ‘Muslims’ from the Red Fort in his 15 August address. It clearly shows that his Government is so poor in understanding human sentiments. Why he needs to use the word ‘muslims’ ? It shows either he has done some crime against Muslims for which he wants to apologise or he had neglected them very badly in the past. Both are wrong.  As  a Prime Minister he should simple say every ‘deserving’ Indian needs to be given attention whether he is ‘Muslim’ or ‘Hindu’ or anybody.

A secular state is one where there is no need to use any word like Muslim or Hindu etc..

The only basis of helping poor people should be their economic condition and nothing else.

He has said many times that one should do whatever one loves to do, is passionate to do and then money and success follows as a consequence, as a shadow.

If a Government can achieve 100% success in these two basic duties all other jobs will be done by people themselves and people will be much happy and confident about their rulers. But in their lust for more powers and their urge to rule over others, politicians and their Governments have taken up many impossible, un-necessary and in-competitive jobs to do e.g. trading, manufacturing, health care, education, art & culture, tourism etc. etc..

There are more than 45 central ministries and many more departments etc. in the Government of India which are supposed to look after so many different matters. It is simply IMPOSSIBLE for any organization (i.e. a Govt or a political party) to achieve any excellence in so many areas. And surprisingly, especially in India so far no Government has had been able to achieve abovesaid two basic duties i.e. security and justice for its people.

Ever since its Independence on 15 August 1947, India is struggling with both external as well as internal security problems. After 1971 India is struggling more with its internal security due to increasing terrorism and regional insurgencies in many border and other states. An ordinary person in India has no faith or trust that his life is secured from any terrorist attack and he is also not confident that he can get justice from the Judiciary in India. If the Government gets some spare time after doing these two duties then its third duty should be to ensure education for its people.

But sadly nobody has ever taken time to look around and see if we are really independent. If you compare India just before 1947 and India of 2008, I do not see much difference except the names of the rulers have changed i.e. from British rulers to Indian rulers but their policies are almost same.

Moreover India is still grappling with same problems which it inherited from the British like Kashmir problem, Hindu Muslim divide and communal riots etc.. In fact today India has got more problems than it had just before 1947. For example there were no sign and existence of problems like :

Terrorism
Inflation / High Cost of Living (energy, food, housing etc.)
Competition (everybody seems interested in overtaking another one which creates rivalry, egoism, tension ..)
Traffic problems in every city
Corruption (bribery, favouritism etc.)
Debt (internal and external)
Tension (of work, competition )
International Problems (USA pressure for freeing its economy, Pakistan’s mischiefs in Kashmir ….)
Loss of Faith of People (People have no faith, trust and respect in the Government and its leaders )

There are many questions on this populist idea but there is one single question which is very much disturbing. The Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told the Lok Sabha on 21/22 July that about 4 crore farmers have been benefited by this loan waiver.

Does it mean or is it ever possible that on average one single farmer owed Rs.17,500 crore worth loans to the Govt ?

If there was a mistake by Mr Chidambaram then what is the average loan amount per farmer which the Government has waived off ?

Presuming (on a very higher side) each farmer, on average owed Rs.1000 crore, does it mean or is it possible that there are 70 crore farmers in India ?

There seems something very very wrong in the figures circulated or published by the Govt.

- It is presumed that people are intelligent enough to elect ‘the best person’ available in their constituency. The fact is that most of the MPs or MLAs who win the elections are not ‘the best person’ by any standard.

- There is no qualification required to become an MLA or MP except the contestant needs to be a good orator or just a popular person (e.g. an actor, a player etc.)

- To be a King, Ruler or Head of a State one needs to work very very hard and needs to have some really great qualities like courage, committment etc.. The single most quality required is that the Head of State should not be afraid of any person in the world otherwise his decisions will be biased.

- The MPs or MLAs elected are very much afraid of taking any tough decision because they are afraid of losing their seat in next election

- There is no rule which makes voting compulsory for every eligible voter. Elections or voting are a non-serious matter for most of the voters in India. In fact most of the educated people do not vote and enjoy the voting day as holiday. And whoever votes are mostly rural people who are, ofcourse not intelligent enough to elect ‘the best person’ in their constituency.

- The rule of having a majority in the Lok Sabha is also wrong. It only allows small parties or individual MPs to exploit this rule (the recent Trust Vote on 22 July 2008 is the single most convincible proof).

- While it is difficult to expect from people to elect even one ‘best person’ in the country, it is almost impossible and rather too much to expect people to elect 543 ‘the best’ persons in the country. Therefore there is a need to atleast let people only elect 1 ‘best person’ from each state and then those 25 or 30 persons should elect one person as their ‘Head of State’ or Prime Minister.

- is based on un-natural and un-sustainable principles of ‘competition’, ’survival of the fittest’, capitalism etc..Competition always promotes rivalry, exploitation of the weak / ignorant, wastage of resources etc.. Similarly ’survival of the fittest’ notion makes life more and more difficult for people who are un-educated, simple, short of resources etc..

- is not in line with natural flow of things or scheme of things in this universe e.g. except we humans there is no race or specie on this earth who compete among its own members. It is only man who is so keen on ruling over this earth otherwise no other animal tries to overstep his territory.

- is eating up so much natural resources that one day this earth would be emptied of useful resources or/and will be filled with so much wastage and garbage

- is not required for the survival of the human race. Human race was much happier living in small communities in the past

- is not contributing in making people happy on a sustainable basis

- is creating more and more cornering or concentration of wealth that the divide between rich and poor is widening day by day

- is making life more and more difficult for those who are not as clever, educated, manipulative and resourceful as those who are encouraging or demanding more and more free trade in the name of ‘globaisation.

- has given birth to large scale terrorism, climate change, economic invasions, frauds, failure of the financial systems etc. etc.

- is making one community suffer for the mistakes of others e.g. if US economy falters the other economies start trembling

Any historian can easily tell us that ever since this Globalisation started, there have had been more conflicts, threats like global warming, terrorism, shortage of natural resources like food, metals etc. in last 10 years than in previous 20 years or more.

GLOBALISATION will surely take us to mass self-annihilation sooner or later.

But since our MPs do not keep quite even when the Lok Sabha Speaker requests them with folded hands, it is very much clear that our MPs do not have very basic human tenets of respect, courtesy and the ability to listen.

The single most weakness of most of the MPs is their in-ability to even listen to each other forget about understanding or agreeing with each other.

I have tried to find out the reasons why they do not have even this much patience or courage to listen to others. Here are my findings :

- Each of such MPs has really nothing to say hence he tries to disturb others so that nobody else can listen

- They, in their mind very well know that the person speaking is quite right hence they have no concrete reply except crying

- They have no patience or self-confidence that even if they let somebody finishes his speach, it will not harm them at all.

On a larger scale this inability of listening is with most of the human beings. But it is atleast reasonable to expect this much common sense from an MP that he has this much patience or self-confidence in himself and his party that just ‘listening’ is not going to kill them.