Deciphering politics

Indian politics continues to be the one thing which incessantly amazes me. It is something that I would never fully understand, no matter how hard I try. Just like electronics, the subject that I took up for Engineering studies.

But being a responsible citizen of this country, I can't fully turn my face away from politics. I need to know how my country is being run, by the representatives who are chosen by the people of this country. So, this post is the beginning of my humble attempt to analyze, understand and extract the valuable politics lessons, using the current happenings as my reference. I would also try to know about the various qualities that a politician should necessarily possess in order to lead this country to prosperity. If you are a mortal in a similar confused state as mine, join in, be a part, learn these valuable lessons, and throw in your suggestions. Or if you already claim to understand politics, there.. take that envious look from me.

Lesson no.1 - Never ending fight against corruption


Yes. That's something that politicians are supposed to do and talk about, throughout their political careers. Sorry. both are same. Talking is mostly what they do. Right? You can see corruption allegations being hurled at ministers and prominent leaders very often, and never think that it's for ruining the image of the enemy or for any sort of political gains. It's all part of the selfless fight. Want to see an example? No need to look too far.

If you have been reading the newspapers, or watching any of the news channels, you would know. The Bihar government was alleged of certain financial irregularities in the recent past. The opposition is demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar's resignation. Now, if you ask me, whether the allegation has truth in it, I don't know. That is definitely out of the radar of this blog. My focus is, the fight. Have a look at a few glimpses of that.



Bihar Assembly was in utter chaos, during last week. Now, for us, no better example can be found. How to fight against corruption is just being illustrated in the picture. Still don't get it? Let me explain

You can see the picture of MLC Jyoti Kumari throwing flower pots around. Flower pots made of clay tend to break when thrown from a particular height. What an effective way to protest against the alleged financial irregularities! But this particular technique works well only if the flower pots are the taxpayer's money. That's probably the reason why the respected MLC Jyoti Kumari didn't bring her own flower pots to implement this sophisticated yet effective way of fighting corruption. A slipper was flung at the speaker by someone. You might be thinking that it was a bit of an undisciplined act and all, but that's all part of the fight. A microphone was removed and thrown away, and lot more. Read the full story here.

I have studied about our political system in Social science, during my primary school days. But I never knew the practical side of it. Neither did the school Parliament teach me anything like these. Being in the school parliament was so easy, actually. No body threw slippers at each other. But the reality seems to be different. Chaos has prevailed in many of the state legislatures recently.(Link). So the school Parliaments need to change as well. Physical training is essential for the students. Or shall we club the school parliament with, say, Sports day or something? Training in Hammer throw, Shot put etc. might turn out to be pretty handy in the parliament.

Watch out for the coming lessons. Soon.

Why I want to be a Maoist

Note :- This post doesn't have any serious political/ideological implications. Most of the posts in my blog fall under one category, nonsense. This post isn't an exception.

Quick disposal of cases against them through fast-track courts. Surrendered Maoists will go through counseling and vocational training by an NGO nominated by the state government.

They will then be provided margin money up to Rs 2 lakhs and bank loans up to Rs 10 lakhs to start businesses

This appeared in the newspapers around a week ago. The rehabilitation package offered by the West Bengal Gov. to the surrendering Maoists.

I went through this thing again and again, scrutinized it several times, tweeted about it, pondered over it again and again, and now, I have reached the conclusion. What a tempting offer! You can't blame jobless people in this country, whose I am a representative of, if they think that this is the best beginning that they can have.

Why work for a corporate company? Work for yourself. Start a business of your own. And there, the Government is, to help you with the capital. You figure out what business you want to do.

Now that I have made up my mind and chosen the different and bold path, Got to move forward with the execution. I have to surrender. But in order to surrender, I have to be a Maoist first. I am pretty sure that I am qualified enough. I have plenty of experience in putting holes on the foreheads of my opponents and spraying their blood all over. Yea.. in first person shooter games, of course. That's the closest that I was able to get to that experience. Not my fault, you know. Oh wait.. I have hit balloon targets very accurately with an air gun. Now that makes me a potential candidate.

I'm not very sure about how the applications are to be submitted. Do the Maoists have a website or somethin, where I can upload my resume to their database? They must be having something like that. I can't go all the way to West Bengal for submitting the application.

I'll get selected for sure. Unless they have a minimum height-weight or a minimum GPA criteria. Come on.. you need not be a Salman Khan to shoot innocent people or remove the fishplates of railway tracks.

After the selection, do they have a training program? I'm a fresher, new in the field, right? So I need some training. Guns in computer games don't have weight. But in real, they are all very heavy. So I might take some time to adjust with it. Hopefully, the training program will add value to myself. I wouldn't mind being in their training campus for a couple of months, unless twitter is blocked there. Can't miss the controversies that Mr.Tharoor creates. They are priceless! They come out one per week, right? Or is it one in two weeks?

During my short term tenure as a Maoist, I would like to be interviewed by Arundhati Roy. She thinks that all Maoists are Gandhians. Did she really mean that? oh.. I got it. She might have compared Maoists with the politicians in our country. Killing people with a single bullet fire is a very benign act compared to making people rot in a corrupt country.

At the end of the interview, I would like to ask her something back. She has been telling that the mining industries are disrupting the lives of tribes and they are joining the Maoists because of the Government's negligence. So how come not even a single industry been attacked by the Maoists? Why all the attacks are directed towards civilians/Policemen/Jawans? Or may be I'll find out the answers myself when I'm a part of them. Fine.. That'll do.

The interview with Arundhati Roy will appear in a major magazine/newspaper, which will make me kind of a... celebrity, you know. I like that. One lakh followers in twitter. People discussing about me being gay/not gay. Marriage followed by an immediate divorce. So, I can sell the broadcast rights of my surrendering act to a TV channel and make some money that way also.

What awaits me after the surrendering act? I would have killed a dozen people and been a part of sabotages which might have taken a couple of hundreds of lives, by that time. So, they will put me in counseling. Now, if you've been through an Engg. college, and if you haven't been the 'teacher's pet - class topper types', I am sure you've experienced intense counseling, abuse, threats etc. So counseling and all related stuff is gonna be a cakewalk.

That's all. Right after that, I will be a businessman. What business will I do? I'll decide it later. Or considering the celebrity status that I would have acquired, I might be able to make a living, endorsing products, or judging reality shows. That ain't bad either..

P.S:-

The picture was added without any intention. But the girl standing next to the guy in white dress looks good. Yet another reason to be a Maoist.

I hate MNS!!

I have always been totally against Mr. Raj Thackeray and the his party, for the totally absurd things that they are doing. They belong to a state where farmers are facing an utter debacle and the suicide rates among the farmers are increasing continuously. Instead of taking up any issue that really matter for the people, they stick to the highly reprehensible way of functioning. But the fact that keeps me worried is, in spite of all these bullshit, they are gaining some popularity in Maharashtra.

Now, the assault in the Maharashtra assembly has turned out to be yet another reason for me to detest MNS. What is wrong if someone takes the oath in Hindi? Isn't Hindi our national language?

If we listen to Mr. Raj Thackeray, we will have to split our country and make each state a new country.

Now, I hear a new opinion that the whole incident in the assembly was a drama meant for publicity. http://shobhaade.blogspot.com/2009/11/fully-bogus.html

The people of Maharashtra need to reject this MNS idiots and wipe them out totally

Pakistan needs to act

Terrorists unleashed yet another attack on Pakistan, spreading chaos all around. All the recent attacks that occurred in Pakistan were highly organised and exceedingly well executed, leaving the common people traumatized. The Pakistan Government will have to act rigorously, that too, as quickly as possible. Questions concerning the legitimacy of Pakistan has already been raised several times, in the International arena. Strict and clever action will only be the proper reply.

Once, the Pakistan Government got enticed by the destruction of India and tried to use terrorism as catalyst for it. Now, their country is facing a snub due to that foolish decision.

The other countries, especially India, need to be concerned about the happenings in Pakistan. Plenty of proof has been obtained for the nexus between Taliban and the anti- India extremist groups. We can't even deny the possibility of the nuclear weapon reaching the hands of these these groups, if their rein continues. In case that happens, the consequent catastrophe will be too severe us to stop. So, our Government will have to see the current events in Pakistan as a premonition and exert pressure on their counterparts to do the required.

Election thoughts

The Maharashtra assembly elections are going on. Just like any other election, it provides us with plenty of things to ponder about...

Political parties use film stars and other celebrities to entice the common people and make them attend their rallies. It is a highly bad and reprehensible custom. Parties should try to attract people with their pragmatic approach to common man's problems.

The assets of a Maharashtra MLA grew by RS.520 million between the election in 2004 and this year!! I was totally astounded.. I don't think that these people are paying any sort of attention to anything other than their own euphoria after they are being elected by the stupid common men..

The BJP - Sena ally seems to be totally out of touch in Maharashtra. They are still to recuperate from the debacle that they had to face when MNS grew as strong menace. MNS, at the same time, has grown pretty much in popularity. But, quite unfortunately, MNS leaders have got hardly any time to scrutinize the problems faced by common people. They are concentrating on changing the names of institutions and assaulting people from other states. Many of the statements by MNS leaders are totally against the concept of national integration. But besides all these, they have succeeded in gaining some popularity in Maharashtra. That seems quite a premonition

An award which Mr. Obama didn't deserve..

I am having a hard time these days. My preparation for MBA entrance exams is not going that well. My performance in the last two mock tests were poor. In the day time, I try to burnish my problem solving skills and make some changes happen. But still, I can't see any change. Have got an exam tomorrow. Let me see how I perform.

Yesterday afternoon, I was lying on the bed, with some similar thoughts in my mind. I knew that I was not going to make anything happen thinking, and doing nothing. Only a pragmatic approach could make a difference. Right then, my mobile rang. It was the regular news update. "Nobel prize for peace will be awarded to Mr. Obama" - It said..

I was totally surprised. That was really unexpected indeed. Especially, considering the fact that only twelve days were left for the nomination after Mr. Obama took charge as the president. It was highly improbable that he could contribute heavily for world peace within those twelve days.

I myself, saw the election of Mr. Obama as a good sign. He was a man with some good intentions. The public did have a heavy amount of hope on him. But, he has not been able to live up to all those expectations.

His promise of closing the Guantanamo has not been fulfilled yet. Most of the people from Yemen are still being detained there even though people from some other countries have been released. The problem is that Yemen does not have a good rehabilitation program and I don't think that it is a good enough reason for denying someone freedom. Mr. Obama has not done anything to solve the Palestine - Israel conflict. Solving it was also among his pre election promises.

The Nobel prize has given a very bad indication to the ordinary people. No one, including an American president should have been given such an award for simply talking about the action plans to sustain peace. This award seems more like "come on.. you can do what ever you talked about" sort of award. It is an encouragement for what he is supposed to do in the future rather than a recognition of what he has already done. And that was the worst way to give away this award..

How do we tackle the food crisis?

Seems like books are the subject about which I write, most of these days. I don't want my blog to be a boring book review blog (as one of friends told after looking into it).. nah.. not at all.. But what to do? I love books and that's what I feel like writing about most of the time.

The statistics about climate change and food crisis that appear in newspapers are really astounding. Today, I read an article, according to which the demand for food in 2050 will be 70% more than the total food that we produce now. I was sort of shocked. Is our food grain production going to increase substantially in the coming years? I don't think so.. Unless we do something miraculous about it.

I, myself am coming from a village in Kerala. During my childhood, people of my place used to rely heavily on agriculture. My village used to be so beautiful, with greenish, splendid paddy fields spread around. Those paddy fields are still there, but no one is interested in taking up agriculture as a profession these days. There is an enormous decrease in the availability of work force, due to the increased migration to the cities. My grand father owned some paddy fields, where, we have planted trees now.

But in spite of the falling food grain production, it is estimated that we do produce enough food to feed all the people currently living in this world. But, the problem is that a large amount of people are far too poor to buy anything to eat.

Our politicians(most of them, of course) have no time to seriously think about all these and do something effectively. They are all busy, playing the religious card or making money for their younger generations.

The rich, educated class of our country is also not actually doing anything. They are happy as far as they can stay rich. They live, leading a fake aristocratic life, being least bothered about the poverty or food crisis.

BJP and obscene western music

Seems like this world is going to hell!!(So am I.. But who cares?) Every day I see the news about climate change disrupting the normal living of people all around the world. News paper reading is a tough task these days. Yesterday, in the opinion page of 'the hindu', I saw the picture of an African child affected with malnutrition. It's condition was so pathetic that I couldn't think of anything else for the next two hours.

But the news on Indian politics do provide some relief. BJP has promised the people of Hariana that the party will ban obscene western music, if elected. This statement was in their election manifesto and when a party spokesperson was asked about this, he failed to define what obscene western music was. A few more questions, and he was totally exasperated. He said that the party is not going to win the elections, so, why make a big fuss about what ever is said in their election manifesto.. Well.. This is hilarious isn't it? I had a good laugh over it..

BJP will have to ban item numbers in Bollywood before they ban western music. They will have to conduct a meeting and sort out the difference between obscene and decent western music.

Do things like this happen only in Indian politics?