the lotus eater ..

yes . opeth's new album shares the name with what has happened in indian politics .. shall i also say it was a 3rd front eater ??
i am no hard fan of any party or any person, but its too obvious why congress outperformed .. .as told by the inlighted people, this is the first time the young generation (40% of population) is going to vote . this young generation is however different from the previous young ones. . they are grown up after 1991 liberation of india ... that is actually a big turning point.. we know that the next generation would be learning all about the 1991 reforms, but though we're unaware of the importance of it, we've grown up in it and have just taken up stand against many things ..

firstly the religional divides. no guy supports it and it wont work. next comes development. we are pretty much aware of inclusive growth and think ideologically that with our increase in income, the poor should benefit as well. the days of lack of information are over . all the information is at a touch of a button. we are intelligent and thats why we decide after thinking. anyways, the major reason of the 'lotus eating' was rahul gandhi. the girls swoon over him while the guys consider him an intelligent guy after listening his conversation.

anyways, i am not a fan of his but there is just one thing the congress can boast of and that is the young brigade, with jyoti scindhya, sachin pilot etc . the point is that all the BJP leaders were due to emergency in 1971 and after that, no leader has come from its wings .. they have just grown older. even lalu, nitish were offsprings of 1971 emergency. anyways, the rahul factor has helped newer faces come into an imperialist party and helped its cause . thats why he got the praise which he deserves. coming to congress, it means business and it should, too . it should focus on inclusive growth, have a left inside it (to prevent any wrong action, which would make india suffer, cause though they are fools, they helped the last regime big time by stopping certain decisions on disinvestment and policy making. ) an example is the trouble chinese govt. is in and indian govt. hardly has a problem with US now, after its collapse is that left guys prevented indian PSU banks to buy fraudulent securities (of the AAA companies at that time) and it helped when we they crashed . had congress been alone, we'd have been in a bigger mess that we are in right now .

so, you've eaten the lotus, now you must open your minds policy makers ... think and think hard ! cause indians are good at it and we have that foresight to get us to greater heights than never before.

2009-terrorism

well, i intend not to make this article anti-US, but just cannot help. just like the export of recession, they have successfully created a more dangerous opposition for not only themselves, but for the entire world.

well, to go back in time, afghanistan's demise was caused by the russian invasion.(the 1st at fault). in the years to come, the prosperity enjoyed by afghans never came back and such resentment was bound to grow into harmful activities. Our honorable neighbours (with financial support of US) provide the training camps, ammunition and skills to the rebels so that they fight against the russians. fuelled by US initially the taliban, which in the name of restoration law become a military rule and no peace, no effort to restore a social life is made. friends turn into foes when taliban tries its hands at destroying its creator and things just go worser. and worser.

now,alongwith the arms and ammunition (provided for the afghan war), pakistan gets enough funds to carry on it's agenda for kashmir. the training camps and other infrastructure easily available, pakistan up's it's offensive on india.
and what happens after is that we all know.

i dont say that its india who is the sufferer. india has had it's share of bad practices and policies done in the name of vote bank politics. communalising hindu-muslim factions, the babri masjid riots, sikh riots, gujarat riots etc are a few to name (which were internal matter of the country and dealt wrongly). but whats the future now ??

mumbai attacks has opened up our eyes for rethinking and restrategizing just like recession has been an eye opener,too.
i read a very important idea which is worth mentioning here. India, has successfully solved problems of terrorism earlier (the sikh riots) by no military action- like our honorable US did for iraq and afghanistan- which is a TOTAL BLUNDER which indians cannot afford to repeat (learning from west's mistakes rite?? ).
BUT
in the case of sikh riots, india eradicated terrorism from its roots by making the place prosperous, inviting trade and making people self-dependant. at the end of the day, a prosperous person can never commit extremist steps.

if there is terrorism means pakistan's and afghanistan's government failed to make the society prosperous. so, to eradicate terrorism from its roots, we must find ways to rethink and make the impoverished, frustrated community of these countries more prosperous rather than keeping them at war (which is defering the situation right ??? )

to read about history of taliban::: www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1815/18150760.htm

2009-recession

its been an eye opener for the entire world. the start of 2009 has witnessed harsh reality and is the time to rethink and re-evalute the direction where we are heading to.

facts::
West (read as the motley of 1st world countries) has failed with its idea of capitalism.
Global recession (an essential product of US) has clearly indicated the fallacies in judgement of west.
though most millionaires of the west have been bailed out by the socialist west, its the poorer and developing nations which are suffering.

let me try making sense now.

though i am not a follower of socialism (i hardly know anything to be a follower), but am sure that the preaching of capitalism theories (sharply criticised by marx as a cycle of boom and bust) by the west has been wrong. What the west has over the years done is that they have strengthened their internal economies to be competitive through capitalism and the weaker ones have been either 'bailed out' or 'outsourced'. now, the preaching of capitalism comes in. in the name of 'competitive cost advantage' and 'open markets' for the developing nations, they have coupled up other nation's economies and sold their products at higher prices (to maintain THEIR citizen's lifestyles) and got cheaper services (again to maintain THEIR citizen's lifestyles). any faults in their system are met with provision of assistance to their citizens (thats what socialism is, rite?). in specific context with india, first, the west wants free flow of money across the world. then they start pouring in money like hell to make the economy of india seem like the biggest in the world (with NYSE trading around 13000, india's is trading around 22,000). then they extract all of it and get lots of profit (to help maintain THEIR lifestyle in troubled times) in doing so and play the blame on recession. US played bull in markets and who has to suffer? the indians, who, stupidly (and with rising salaries thought of using that extra money) put the money into stock market. had the markets not been open, the sensex would still be trading at 10,000 in jan, so that people would'nt have turned into fools(as it is today). so the sufferers have been developing nations as their money is sucked up to the US (do i need to write 'to help maintain THEIR lifestyle' again?? )

but here's the catch. till what time can all this continue ??

how much more can, and the US govt will DO to continue with this policy. i believe these protectionist schemes and 'bail outs' or wateva are just there to defer the bust that marx predicts. its time to wake up and accept the past and change your attitude for tomorrow ...
"this world has enough resources to fulfill necessities of every person. but not enough to fulfill the desires of them" .Gandhi.