INDIAN DREAMS Vs REALITY: INDIAN REFORMS OR SHORT CUT TO DISASTER: ..Indian population of one billion plus had seen high hopes of an end to their woes and miseries in the hands of the trio of highly acclaimed economists but all their hopes and aspirations seem to have bitten the dust because they have miserably failed to put their knowledge to its best use. The polity has all along been thriving on hollow promises, high sounding slogans and true to its basic baser instinct of fooling citizenry at large and lust for power, UPA II has worked hard to manipulate the two path breaking reforms (in their words), namely the food security bill and the land acquisition bill.

It is not that the Indian government on the whole and these three musketeers in particular do not understand the total implications of their actions on the health of the economy and deterioration of the psyche of human resource of India. But their lust of power pushes them to the dictum of everything is fair in love and war, the war to grab power and dictates them to resort to anything and everything that can fetch votes, not withstanding its negative impact on the nation.

It is really sad that total Indian polity has failed to take the food security bill in the correct perspective and all politicians in the country wanted to excel each other in blowing away public exchequer in the most undesirable and inefficient manner. They fail to realize that the country's resources are limited but these vote banks are quite capable of blackmailing the polity into submission knowing its need to ensure votes for its mere existence.

Much has been said about land acquisition bill and that it will have far reaching effect on the fortune of our farmers. A few points any learned politician of the country will like to answer.

WE ARE ALL TAINTED, WE WON'T ALLOW OUR LIFELINE TO BE CUT

United we stand, divided we fall. The Indian polity remembers this saying only when their sole life line to existence in politics i.e. corruption and corrupt practices is endangered.The country had a glimmer of hope till such time the politicians were managing to have their will through deft manipulations on the floor of the house as was done in the case of Lok Pal Bill, forced on them by strong public and media pressure to do something to touch their most valued and cherished right, the  right to corruption and corrupt practices. The shameless polity couldn't care less for even Indian polity being branded as  an insincere polity 

As if not letting anything against corruption  happen was not enough, these guys have been emboldened even to negate the rulings/orders of the supreme court of India as was done when Rajya Sabha bypassed supreme court on convicted politicians. These are extremely dangerous trends because somewhere in the back of their mind that they are supreme, above any constitutional authority of the land. These parliamentarians who according to the constitution of India are the servants of people and they acknowledge and repeat the same thing umpteen times when they go asking for votes during elections. Below are reproduced their concerns against the supreme court order, the concerns of two legal luminaries of the country who are behaving worse than any practicing advocate, who is  wedded only to the loyalty to his client, his paymaster. For him ethics, truth, honesty, country etc do not exist. Are they not aware of the number of tainted legislators, the figure is as high as about 40% and still one man sees something wrong with the courts while the other sees a risk to democracy. Their intellect and the combined intellect of the house could not find ways and means so that at least legislature gets rid of such tainted persons.

These two noble men belong to Delhi, live in Delhi, the capital of bribery, graft, tax evasion and black money generation and consumption and yet have failed to see and recognize the demon of corruption and black money. Is the country to understand that one becomes blind to corruption and corrupt practices the moment one becomes a legislator.It appears to be so, perhaps because politics is corruption and corruption is politics.
God bless India, for what irks India's politicians is any thing that can contribute to the nation's fight against corruption and corrupt practices.

INDIAN DREAMS Vs REALITY: FOOD SECURITY BILL IN CORRECT PERSPECTIVE:

Food security bill is the latest burning issue of Indian politics and seems to highlight the compulsions of the polity. There is no denying the fact that food security is the first basic big element in the chain of value addition in the earning ability of an individual, his health and India's march towards poverty alleviation. Food subsidy bill talks in terms of providing food to 50% of urban India (377 million) and 75% of rural India ( 833 million) at highly subsidised rates at a whopping cost of Rs 1,30,000 crore to the exchequer. Add to this the cost of pilferage, grain rotting and logistics inefficiencies, an estimated amount of Rs 60,000 -70,000 crore. A cost of about Rs 2,00,000 crore for meeting the basic food requirements of 800 million of Indian citizens after 66 years of rule by politicians totally dedicated to the cause of the common man. A matter to be proud of ???? Still let the country grant them credit for at least imbibing the motto 'BETTER LATE THAN NEVER'. ( Excerpts from http://veekay-indiandreamsvsreality.blogspot.in/2013/08/wrong-economics-or-wrong-intentions.html )

There are a few basic questions that any well meaning citizen of this country fails to understand.

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WHAT IRKS INDIA'S POLITICIANS

While the word corruption irks the common man because it is the biggest impediment in his march towards end of poverty and miseries, the same word corruption irks the Indian politicians because it is the sole lifeline to their ability to earn a livelihood, to win elections, to come to power and to retain power.The political class as a whole takes a very strong exception when such comparisons are made but do not support any measure that could control corruption even in a small manner.

For achieving success in their lofty dubious goal of not allowing any controls on the demon of corruption, the evergreen goose that lays golden eggs for them, they sing the song of danger to democracy, danger to constitution, danger to principles of jurisprudence in complete harmony and unison. They have the power at their beck and call  to subvert and negate small actions by odd bold bureaucrats to rein in individual cases of corruption, a system under their thumb to neutralize bigger scams and legislative powers to annihilate even the observations/ rulings of judiciary.

And all this in the name of governance and policy making. Following actions and utterances of the polity during the last two years go a long way in showing the glaring differences in the perception of corruption mitigation of a common man and that of the rulers.

• Handling of Lok Pal Bill : The society wants it. All politicians want it as a public posture but nobody wants it in actual. In fact no body can deny the fact that An insincere polity is the crude Indian reality and it will never its own hands with any of its actions.
• Political parties under the Right to Information Act ( RTI ). The national government and the congress has been boasting for bringing in RTI but when Central Information Commission brought political parties under the ambit of this act, the same party along with all others has introduced a bill in Lok Sabha to keep political parties out of the purview of RTI act. Divided on everything else, political parties unite against RTI act as corruption and corrupt practices are their fundamental right.

• Supreme court directions on decriminalisation of poltics
• Supreme court directions to poll panel to act against election time freebies
• Giving autonomy to Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ), the caged parrot speaking in its master's voice.
• Politicians do not want Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG ) to keep a check on their dubious deeds,so much so that most of them say that CAG has no right to challenge government policies  even though they may be deleterious to the national interest and bordering on the realm of corruption and corrupt practices.

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HEARD ON THE STREET

Throw away your principles, values, virtues and imbibe all the baser instincts of life to give a go to all kind of lusts and be successful in all walks of life.

We, the people of India elect you to legislature to be our masters, to rule us, to have access to all the luxuries of life at our expense and in return give us all miseries.

A politician was once asked by a friend as to which profession he will choose for his academically brilliant son. Pat came the reply,' A good job in a multinational after doing an MBA'. 'Why not Indian civil service for him', Quipped his friend. 'No, I would not like him to be at the mercy of Indian polity, a vast majority of whom has no respect for any professional excellence, any human virtue or even a human being who does not subscribe to the principle of  'you scratch my back I will scratch yours'.

Of late a question on the supremacy of democracy vs bureaucracy is being raked up by certain politicians. One fails to understand as to what is the bone of contention. To any true Indian whosoever talks and performs in the national interest is supreme. Loyalty to the nation is the first and last expectation from all citizens of the country and different organs of state machinery have been created in the constitution to ensure that national interest is supreme. And each and every member of the machinery is supreme at his own place. When will the powerful individuals, power centres and lobbies understand this? 

MERA BHARAT MAHAAN

UP Welfare minister Azam Khan," Mines are open to loot in the state and everyone who can loot is free to do so". Utterly nationalistic!!!!!!!!

Another SP leader, Narendra Bhatti has lashed out at the suspended SDM saying it's the Chief Minister's prerogative/right to transfer/suspend officials to suit their whims and fancies. After all it is a crime to be honest in Mera Bharat Mahaan.

Nitesh Rane,"Those Gujratis who sing praises of Modi's development model should leave Mumbai and go back to Gujerat" What about 25 million Maharashtrian BJP supporters who like Modi and his model? Where do they go????