India will break the ice.

India being such a humongous nation,

Needs people’s leadership rather than the namesake elite’s imagination,

If India wants to rise above the bar,

And forget away the past scars,

And relive the glory that it once acquired,

And win the credit of being the best, from which it was ousted and fired,

India needs people’s creativity,

To be the best once again,

To break the past curses and banes,

And not live or wander in vain,

To once again relish the days that have gone past far,

To once again cross the excellence’s bar,

Rather than complaining about our facilities and amenities,

India needs Indians’ creativities,

Notwithstanding blaming our leaders,

Calling them slouch and cowards,

Rather than waiting for a messiah to come,

Rather than leaving on top only some,

Rather than sleeping in our house and blaming the policymakers,

Rather than calling our leaders tainted,

We need to move up, scramble up hard with utter open heart and resolution,

We again need to make India realize its past achievements,

Which changed the world for better,

And show the world that India is the only trendsetter,

Today India has more than a billion hands to irrigate its barren lands,

And rather than only bucks,

We need the courage to fly high,

One day there will be no milestone to be reached in the sky,

Indians will surely one day break the ice, break the ice.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

MODI FERVOR HAS NOT VANISHED

As the by polls results in Bihar was announced, the whole of the nation was keen to get a glance of the result which would decide whether the adversaries, those saying that BJP has lost it is influence, were right or whether pro-BJP and pro-Modi supporters were right in their assumption that Modi tsunami continues to exist.

When the results came, both the adversaries as well as the Modi-supporters won and you can easily say that there was a tie between the both. The results were as follows:-

BJP won 4 seats out of the total of 10, while RJP of Lalu Prasad Yadav won 4 seats, JDU of Nitish Kumar clinched 3 seats and the Congress was again made to end up poorly at 1.

According to political pundits, this time BJP was made to lick the face of defeat which in the 2010 by polls won 6 out of 10 seats and the grand alliance of RJD, JDU and INC(Indian National Congress) remained successful with winning 6 seats in the by polls, but according to me still the BJP was triumphant in winning the by polls. Many pundits averred that now the Modi fervor among the denizens of nation has gone sour but I still believe that Mr. Modi still hold a large ground among the people’s heart.

First reason due to which I believe that Mr. Modi has still won the race is that after becoming the Prime Minister of India Mr. Modi has been very much busy in his work as the Prime Minister and has been engaged in his foreign policies as well as internal policy matters and due to this he has been unable to pay much attention towards the policy matters of the state of Bihar and due to this he was not able to clinch the victory.

The other thing is that no big party leader in the whole of BJP went to Bihar in order to campaign and still notwithstanding this fact, if BJP is able to win 40% of the total vote’s share then that is truly exemplary.

The other thing is that the game of election around the whole of the country has transformed into a BJP v/s rest game. Today all the parties in India are against the BJP because of the paradigm vote share that it was able to get in the recently concluded 2014 General Election. Due to this, currently all the parties in the nation have teamed up together in order to stop BJP from winning the state election with the same thumping vote share and to prevent this many parties has colluded with each other. Just like JDU and RJD despite of such great rivalries have come up together with the INC in order to take the anti-BJP campaign forward and certainly this has led to polarization of votes at many places due to which the BJP was stopped at 4 only. But still the vote share that BJP has got is good and truly wonderful and this clearly shows that Modi fervor has not vanished up.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

ISIS- An impending danger.

Recently the whole of the world was shocked into doom by one of the biggest terrorist organisations in the universe- ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). The barbarity of the terrorist group has been in the news for a long time when reports came that the group was beheading children in Iraq and raping the women from other communities but now as this reprehensible group released the video of decapitation of American freelance journalist James Foley, the whole world couldn’t believe the cruelty with which the journalist was beheaded by a militant (suspected to be from Britain) and even Chuck Hagel, the American Defence Secretary, was forced into saying that the group’s funding, sophistication and military prowess was beyond anything seen.

ISIS group is at present one of the world’s most despicable and barbaric terrorist organization which has till now killed lakhs of people in Iraq and have taken cover of a large part of the Iraqi nation.  Today it would not be an inauthentic thing to note here that today majority of the area of Iraq is completely under control of the ISIS.

ISIS is a deadly terrorist organization which is working in the heart of the Middle East region and has the sole aim of turning the whole of the world into an Islamic world and introducing Caliphate, in all parts of the world. It proclaims that it has complete religious authority over all the Muslims around the world and it can do anything with the infidels (those who are not Muslims) and those who refuse to convert to Islam.

This group hold in toto animosity with the Shia Muslims around the world and hopes of converting the whole of the world to Islam. In Iraq also this group has raped thousands of women and has gunned down lakhs of men who belonged to the Shia ideology or were of some other religion. According to various international agencies this group has forced lakhs of Yazidis (a Kurdish ethno-religious community) to convert to Islam while on the other hand, those who rebutted to convert to Islam were mercilessly and brutally murdered.

Owning to all such disaster in the state of Iraq, United States of America, recently launched air strikes in order to kill the militants and to supply food and other necessary commodities to Yazidis and Christians hiding in order to save their lives. The air strikes by the US proved to be fruitful and therefore, a large number of ISIS militants were gunned down in the strikes and being angered by this step of the US government, ISIS beheaded an America’s captured journalist and has even threatened to slay down more of American if America doesn’t stop intimidating this group.

Today this group is a threat to the whole world and the pace at which this group is advancing is in itself the omen of the great disaster that could arise in front of us if this unpleasant group is not stopped from advancing forward. Due to internal pressure, big powers of the world are also not very much active on the matter and that’s why this group is gaining more and more momentum.

And if this group is not restrained from advancing forth, it can wreak huge havoc on the whole of the world.

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Showing the door to Pakistan.

Recently after so much endeavors in foreign countries (as compared to the time passed by Mr. Modi in the PMO), Mr. Modi has again, as expected by people around the nation, has taken a very stiff and welcomed stance against Pakistan owning to its reluctance and procrastination in taking the matters of peace forward.

It would not be a spurious thing to mention here the Pakistan from the very beginning has been a very vexing and dismaying partner for India. From partition till hitherto Pakistan has never been a good neighbor. First it tried to suppress the Indian state with direct wars and when it could not succeed, it resorted to proxy war and terrorism in order to annoy the state of India and still even 68 years after the partition of the two countries, Pakistan has not matured enough to stop trying intimidating a nation like India with some disdainful techniques and fortunately all have been futile.

Recently the Modi government took a very decisive step by canceling the scheduled visit of Sujatha Singh, Foreign Secretary of India to Pakistan. The decision in itself is a heavyweight one and there somehow shocked the political thinkers from both the countries.

Just as I wrote above Pakistan has been a menacing nation for India. Due to latent state of the previous government in handling the matters of Pakistan with delicacy and meticulousness, Pakistan has exacerbated its activity much more than before. Due to the reluctance of the Manmohan Singh’s government Pakistan took India just as a fragile neighbour and its army as well as its intelligence agency ISI left no stone unturned in conducting terrorists activities in India. From the very beginning Pakistan has been breaching all the agreements regarding the border issues and has been very active in activities against India. According to a report in the year 2013, Pakistan breached the ceasefire agreement 3 times on an average in 40 hours.

If we talk about the terrorists activities, then Pakistan is the first and foremost nation which has been allowing terrorism against India to breed on its ground. Terrorist organization like LeT and Indian Mujahideen have been active on Pakistani soil and are getting full cooperation of the Pakistani military as well as intelligence agencies in conducting operation against India. Terrorists from the region of Pakistan have conducted various attacks in India like the Parliament attack and the 26/11 attack. Assaults like the 26/11 assault on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai left 164 people dead and 308 wounded and the Indian Parliament attack of 2001 have been a stigma on the India security agencies. Such action by Pakistan have definitely aggravated the Indian state and the agenda of Pakistan on meeting the separatist groups in Kashmir (Abdul Basit from Pakistan met various Hurriyat leaders from the Kashmir) has definitely the work of adding insult to injury.

The Modi government has surely taken a stiff step in order to show Pakistan that India can transcend any limit in order to protect the integrity of the Indian state and the step is heartily welcomed by the whole of India.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Indian healthcare system- a stigma.

India, today is a nation engulfed by thousands of prospects and incentives of growth while on the other hand at the same time is shrouded by innumerable catastrophes waiting it to fall into the ditch of poverty, corruption and lack of technology and many more harsh things.

Among these things stands Indian healthcare system, which even today continues to be marked as a blot on the image of this developing India. Health of the denizens of the nation means more than anything else in determining the further course of advancement of the nation. If the health of the nation is robust and appreciable then the nation is surely going to bear a deluge of assets which can truly help in the process of nation building while on the other hand if the health of the citizens is not satisfactorily good then the nation is sure to plunge to the nadir to be bound by the fetters of innumerable problems which in the long run hinder as well as sabotage the progress of the nation.

Today’s Indian healthcare system can’t be even called a healthcare system and the quality of health services being provided in the nation continue to stigmatize the nation. Here are some shocking truth revealing facts which can shock you completely to the hilt,

WHO (World Health Organisation) has claimed that India can be ranked as one of the lowest in the availability of beds in the nation. Currently there are 0.9 beds for 1000 citizens of the nation which is far worse than the global average of 2.9 beds and according to Indian’s national health profile there are around 0.5 beds for 1000 citizens of the nation.

The other thing is the lack of hospitals. As I just mentioned the lack of the number of beds in the whole of the nation, India continues to fare badly in the number of hospitals in the nation and also in the efficaciousness of the hospitals around the nation. In India there are only 11,613 government hospitals in India in which the poor can be treated but unfortunately out of these 11,613 only a few hospital (just like AIIMS) are able to be up to the mark. Due to various problems at the grass root level, like corruption in the government hospitals, lack of perfect and required machinery in order to operate the patients continue to shift the whole of the burden on the shoulders of the pauper citizens. In India a liver transplant costs more than Rs. 24 Laks per person and unfortunately except AIIMS, operation like liver transplants etc. are not being done in other government hospitals leading to demise of lakhs of poor around the nation.

 One more thing to note here is the declining standard of the AIIMS also. Today the salary of doctors at AIIMS start at Rs. 51,600 which is pretty dismal if we compare it to the hard work that the aspirants do in order to become doctors upto the standard of AIIMs and currently researchers doing their work at AIIMS are resigning from the institution in order to practice medicine outside India in nations like US and UK where medical practitioners are revered for their hard work and necessity.

Currently India spends a meager 4 per cent of the GDP(Gross Domestic Product) on the health care system of India which is far lower than many other nations. On the other hand People’s Republic of China spends around 5.4% of its GDP on the healthcare system and Unites States of America spends around 17.9% of its GDP on the healthcare system. If we talk about the healthcare then you would find out that there is not even a healthcare system in India. Nation like USA and UK prepared their whole of the healthcare with so many benefits to the ordinary citizen a long time ago but even today India is unable to take the benefits of medical advancement to the house of common Indian people and this has definitely exacerbated the whole of situation.

One more thing to mention here is that there is not equitable distribution of medical facilities around the nation also. In some rich posh areas there are lot of private institutions while at some places there is not even a government hospital for the people. According to a report, rural citizens of the nation have to travel around 30 km in order to reach the nearest hospital available for them.

All this shows the neglect through which our healthcare system is undergoing and this surely is something to detest. A nation with 33% of the population as youth is not even able to provide a good healthcare system to the citizens of the nation. Today if we want our citizens not to die of various diseases which are even curable we need to think, if we want to see our nation progressing, then we surely need to think in order to stop our nation from disintegrating into a land of epidemics and disasters.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Only the ones who succeed.

Only those who are not fearful of defeats,

Mesmerize this world with astonishing feats,

Only those who remain unfazed by the darkness of failures,

They are the ones who carry out extra-ordinary endeavors,

Only those who are ready to burn themselves to shine bright,

Only they are the ones who take this universe out from darkness with their light,

In this great world only few have been able to attain success,

But go in their past, these people have paid a lot of cess,

Success was also not an easy thing for them,

They had perspired, cried and bleed to reach the helm,

When others were resting in the lap of their mothers,

They were working day by day even harder,

This great world, on being jealous, tried to tear them down,

But unlike others, they kept on,

And watching their efforts, so profound,

Even God at last had to come to ground,

Whenever you work hard,

First this universe would try to get you barred,

It will combat you tooth and nail,

So that you can never set the sail,

If your remain unbound by this trivial affairs of this universe,

This universe will take your action as an abuse and curse,

Then comes the second phase,

When your ship will encounter haze,

The future may seem unclear,

And life more than obscure,

This universe might try to harm, by throwing some mighty waves,

Because in this universe, success is one for which everyone craves,

In this phase a lot of people get out of battle,

And get themselves with a pity amount, settled,

And only handfuls are left,

Who are deft enough to try,

The braves surely one day,

Defeat the great waves,

The mist flies out,

The mist accepts defeat and loses the bout,

Then this universe conspires to help you get the things you love,

Then this world engulfs you in its lap,

Where you lie unharmed from craps,

And then you admire the success you have achieved,

And then you live the dream, you have always believed,

But this journey is not too small,

These three phases are not abysmal,

You might cry, you might hate, you might sweat, you might bleed,

But those who are ready to persist,

Are truly the ones impossible to resist……

COMPOSED BY- Harsh Sharma

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Happy Independence Day and the road ahead.

Today the whole Nation commemorates the great sons of motherland who gave up their life in order to make us independent in our life, those who got themselves decapitated in order to salvage us from humongous and formidable problems. Today we all celebrate the 68th Independence Day of the nation in order to mark the great glory and proud we all feel over being an Indian. Today we all celebrate this great day not just for fun or to fly kites with friends but today we celebrate this great day in order to rejoice and really unravel the meaning of the coveted independence with which we have been blessed. Today the whole nation recollects the memories of old time during which our ancestors fought with tooth and nail and dashed the greatest and most powerful nation of that time in sand. Today we remember those inexplicable moments when this paradigm and exemplary nation was unleashed from the cruel fetters of the British civilization. Today we celebrate the victory of good over evil, today we feel proud to be sons of the greatest nation of the world and today we feel proud to be born in the world’s oldest and worthiest civilization, today we all really feel proud and exalted on being an Indian.

India hosts world’s second largest population concurrently having people from all the religions, castes and groups from around the world. It is just like a garland manifesting flowers of every different breed but still intact and robust. India even today believes in the custom of unity and diversity and has hardly ever flouted this great revered flagship of the nation and therefore India continues to be great. Love among people is itself a vital thing to possess but still we need some more things in order to touch the pinnacle.

Heraclitus once quoted,

“There is nothing permanent in this world except change”.

When our forefathers carved out this great nation they knew that one day we all will have to change, change not our love for each other but change to endure the hardships of this world and today the time has come when we need to change. But whenever we think of changing ourselves, a question strikes our brain, “How do we need to change”. To answer this difficult question, I would like to refer to the marvellous speech of Narendra Modi which came out of heart rather than from paper, which has indeed filled this whole nation with zeal and enthusiasm, and this speech is worth thinking about.

1.    The first and foremost thing on which Mr. Narendra Modi focussed was about equitable distribution of resources among the people of the nation. He even went on to talk about his promising plans to allocate every person of India with insurance and a bank account. This really means a lot to the whole nation. Today India is a country marred just because of the poverty that has been biting up the nation’s deserving progress and therefore today we surely need to induce a change in the whole nation in order to completely eradicate poverty and create a nation that is robust, powerful and great and therefore the saying of Mr. Narendra Modi truly hold a lot of force. A lot of people might think that Mr. Modi was just trying to build castles in the air but I believe that “Vision without action is a daydream and action without vision is a nightmare.” Mr. Modi has shown us the way and if the whole nation resolves to bring about the desired change then what can’t happen. Therefore today we all need to be united in order to create a powerful nation.

2.    The other thing he talked about is the current scenario of poverty in the nation. He started by giving his own instance. He hinted at how he himself from a tea vendor become the Prime Minister of the nation and therefore tried to infuse inspiration as well as courage in the whole of the nation and tried to ask the impoverished people of the nation to come ahead rather than blaming their own fate and try to contribute in the process of nation building.

3.    The other thing that he tried to do was to inculcate zeal in the hearts of the bureaucrats. Today problems like corruption exist mainly due to tainted bureaucracy therefore leading to huge shedding out of nation’s money. Due to latent state of previous governments in the upliftment of the bureaucracy, while it’s a true fact that nation can’t revamp itself sans a good, untainted and worthy bureaucracy and Mr. Modi just struck the right chords by trying to think about this important functioning body the nation. Hence we believe that changes need to be induced in this important functioning body the nation.

4.    The other thing on which Mr. Modi focussed was about the safety and power of women of the nation. He talked at length about the real power of the women of the nation, and even went on to talk about the contribution about the women in the recent CWG games in making India proud and this truly encourage the people around the nation to revere the women around the country and to watch them as the nation’s strength and pride.

5.    The other thing is that Mr. Modi talked about the cooperation that India can acquire with SAARC nation in order to promote regional progress and development in the Asian continent thereby trying to make India a key player in the development of the Asia as well as the globe around the world.

6.    The last but not the least and presumably the most important product of him speech was that he asked the manufacturers around the world to come and invest in India and make India a manufacturing hub around the world and gave the slogan of “Make In India” thereby asking the companies around the world to make “Made In India” a great brand around the world which truly signals his great belief in the power of technology and business.

These were the things on which the whole nation must ponder and change itself for the better. May God bless India, May God bless you, May God help us all.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Helping Kashmir move up.

Recently Narendra Modi went to Leh and Kargil, twin districts in Jammu and Kashmir separately ruled by autonomous councils in Ladakh. As Narendra Modi visited the two important cities of the nation, one which even hosted India’s one of the most deadly wars with Pakistan, a lot of media attention has gathered and with attention speculations are also rife about the visit of Mr. Modi in the land of Jammu and Kashmir.

According to me, this visit of Mr. Modi to Jammu and Kashmir means a lot both nationally as well as internationally. Jammu and Kashmir from the very beginning has been a battle ground for Mr. Modi. From the debate of article 370 to that of Kashmiri Pandits, Modi has been vigilant in the state’s affairs for a very long time, from even before the commencement of his PM campaign as the BJP’s candidate. Jammu Kashmir was also one of those few states which got complete attention of Mr. Modi and as a matter of fact, even after becoming the Prime minister of the nation, Modi has visited the state two times thus showing his alacrity to induce reforms in the state.

The two aspects, I would like to talk about in this article are the national as well as international significance of Modi’s visit to the state.

Let’s first talk about the international aspect of the visit of Mr. Modi to the state. Unlike the previous governments at the centre, Mr. Modi from the very beginning has been watchful over India’s foreign diplomacy with other global states and especially its neighbours and Pakistan is one of them. Mr. Modi has been keeping a tough eye on Pakistan over issues related to border terrorism and ceasefire agreements on the borders unlike his previous counterparts who just knew to give message of peace and do nothing else.

During his visit to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Modi seriously decried the proxy-war tactics being played by Pakistan and also hinted at warning Pakistan of dire consequences if it aims to breed terrorism on its soil against India. This has truly been a great effort by Mr. Modi. The regime of the previous government of UPA was marked by a large number of terrorist activities and cross border terrorism. In one of the assaults the Pakistani soldiers even decapitated two of Indian soldiers and the previous government unfortunately didn’t do anything in order to stiffly condemn the inhumane act of Pakistani forces. But as Mr. Modi has been very much particular about topics related to Indian security and integrity, he would surely try to abate such activities and why only abate, he would surly try to eradicate and sabotage all such plans of Pakistani terrorists, in order to safeguard Indian unity, integrity and power. And this surely appeals much to the Indian denizens who were eagerly waiting for such a robust Prime Minister. One more thing that I would like to add is that such actions being taken by Mr. Narendra Modi are sure to increment his popularity in the international forums too, in which he will take part in the long run as the Prime minister of India. This would surely position him as a strong Prime Minister of India.

One more aspect about which I would like to talk about is Mr. Modi’s national plan regarding the state. Even before being elected the Prime Minister of the nation, Mr. Modi announced his progressive and promising plans regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir and after being elected the Prime Minister with such a thumping majority, Mr. Modi didn’t forget to fulfill his promises. As promised, he started the work to reestablish Kashmiri Pandits in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and one of his ministers also announced that the plans to roll back article 370 have also started. This shows the profundity of his interest in the state. But unfortunately due to a different structure of the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, nothing can happen in the state until and unless the state government clears the projects, but as we all know that contemporarily there is a government of Omar Abdullah in the state (who is also one of the biggest critics of Narendra Modi), Modi would not be able to do much in the state, owning to concurrent circumstances. Therefore if Mr Modi really wants to induce changes in the state, he needs to have his own government in the state and that’s one of the biggest motives behind his frequent visits to the state.

I also hope that Jammu and Kashmir would also soon get a BJP government in order to observe progress rather than protest, in order to observe advancements rather than unworthy politics and that Mr. Modi would soon change the state for better.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

From riches to rags: The Bengal saga continues.

IF we turn the pages of history in order to reach to the British Colonial Era, we are sure to find marvelous significance of one state i.e. the state of Bengal. Bengal was, before the British colonization and for some years during the British epoch too, was the hub of all Indian activities, i.e. from industrialization to patriotism, from trade to manufacturing and was once of the most remarkable and power-wielding state of India whose significance can never be denied. But unfortunately as time succeeded, Bengal receded to a nadir and haplessly today Bengal is one of the most impoverished states of India, undergoing minimal advancements and progress therefore sliding into oblivion day by day.

Gokhale once said, “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”, but today this quotation by Gokhale seems to be nothing more than a preposterous curse. Today most of the problems that are being faced by Bengalis can be owed to the unworthy leadership of various lumped politicians who have done nothing in Bengal rather than devastating its stature and position. The problems that we encounter today in Bengal actually commenced during the pre-independence era.

Even Britishers were pretty much jealous with the development and pace of advancement being experienced by Bengal at that time, and on finding that Bengal was the center of the whole nation’s progress and power, Britishers hatched out many plans in order to completely annihilate this great state of the nation. The foremost and the most decisive step that Brits took in order to disestablish this great state was to strip away the state’s business. Britishers knew that as long as the traders and manufacturers in Bengal survived, they would never be able to carry out their own work in the nation and hence they went on a rampage in order to shatter the whole of the business activities in Bengal. Therefore Britishers ripped off Bengal from its jute mills, engineering units and many other crucial units in order to mutate the whole of Bengal from a fertile state to that of a barren piece of land.

After that when India was freed from the shackles of colonialism, Bengal could have been made a paradigm for all other states if appropriate actions would have been taken but due to negligence portrayed by political parties and leaders Bengal slipped out of the race of becoming a developed and prosperous state. Although BC Roy, the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, used much of his influence and power in order to fetch jobs to the state, but the number of jobseekers soon outnumbered the number of jobs available and again Bengal was left with nothing and all the efforts remained futile. After that, migration of six million citizens from East Pakistan between 1947 to 1973, added fuel to the fire, therefore increasing the population density of Bengal to two and a half times to that of India. Haplessly India moved ahead but Bengal didn’t take a step forward therefore left out of the mainstream.

Then to further the loss, CPM which took charge in 1977, thereby starting the story of complete decline of Bengal. Despite of distributing land among the people, Left followed a very much secluded and cloistered policy therefore taking the state away from progress and jostling it into complete devastation.  The communists taught the Bengalis to do nothing but protest. Bengal protested against everything. From a single rupee increase in bus fare to small pity things, Bengal was regularly burnt in protests but unfortunately the people of Bengal never gained anything out of the protests while on the other hand the CPM thugs at the grass root level licked away all the benefits from the common man’s pocket and made itself superior.

After that a wave of change was observed when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tried to influence his party to ameliorate the level of urbanization and industrialization in Bengal but this didn’t impressed those ground level thugs and in order to stop Mr. Bhattarcharjee from taking progress to common people these thugs shifter towards Mamata Banerjee who was at that time also improving her condition in Bengal as a better and powerful alternative than Communists. People of Bengal therefore voted for change and TMC (Trinamool Congress) swept the whole of Bengal’s elections therefore making the left demit from its 34 years long rule in the state and then Mamata Banerjee sat in the Writer’s building.

Unfortunately Ms. Banerjee also let her state down and even send out various investments like Tata’s Nano Project etc. out of Bengal (which was later taken up by Narendra Modi-led Gujarat).  Her whole tenure was smeared with allegations of corruption and misbehavior with the denizens of Bengal. Here callous stand on various issues also aroused huge public fury and her arrogance also made the whole of the state flow into resentment and criticism.

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Even till now Bengal is facing the consequence of bad political leaders and insensitive leadership and this great state has been a exemplary of “riches to rags”. But today something needs to be done for sure. A change needs to be effected in the whole of the state to make this great part of motherland soar high.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

TAMING THE JUDICIARY

A war was recently waged in the lobbies of the Indian judicial system when Chairman of Press Council of India Markandey Katju went on the rampage to disclose some flabbergasting and astounding activities being conducted in the world of Indian judiciary.

It all commenced with Markandey Katju’s 20 July blog post entry in which he accused the former UPA government as well as former Chief Justice of India Justice Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, of indulging in illegitimate activities and disrupting the procedure prescribed by the law by choosing an unfit and illegible person to work as an additional judge in the high court. Justice Katju in his blog post pasted on record many arguments and cited his own personal experience with the corruption in judiciary. Justice Katju in his explosive blog post lucidly accused former three Chief Justices of India (CJIs) in giving extension to the term of a tainted judge notwithstanding being fully aware of the unlawful activities of the corrupt judge.

Justice Katju wrote that while he was working as the Chief Justice of Madras High Court from 2004 to 2005, he came to know about various astonishing acts of an Additional Judge of Madras High Court. Justice Katju wrote that the alleged judge was first a district judge and because during his tenure as a district judge in Tamil Nadu, he had granted bail to a political leader from a party which was at that time an ally to the Congress part. Due to this act of the judge, the alleged judge soon gained prominence and he despite of 8 adverse entries against him on record was selected as an Additional judge in the High Court of Madras.

When Justice Katju went to Madras in order to head the Madras High Court, he came to know about the judge and asked the Chief Justice of India at that time, Justice Lahoti to get a covert Intelligence Bureau (IB) investigation done against him. Justice Lahoti executed the same and corroborated to the belief of Justice Katju that, that judge was actually involved in some heinous activities.

After that Justice Katju tells that he came to know that the tenure of that alleged judge was coming to an end and Justice Katju assumed that the accused judge would be sacked from his position on grounds of the IB enquiry report but paradoxically all thing went against his assumption. The alleged judge even got 1 year extension to his tenure.

Later Justice Katju writes that he came to know about the true facts of the situation. He writes that at that time three senior most judges of Supreme Court namely Justice Lahoti, Justice Sabarwal and Justice Ruma Pal, asked the government to sack the alleged judge after the end of his tenure in view of the consequences of the inquiry report against him. The three judges therefore sent their recommendation to the Government of India, but amusingly the Government of India asked the then CJI to extend the alleged judge’s term. Later Justice Katju found out that, as former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh was leaving for New York in order to attend a meeting of New York General Assembly, he was notified by the leader from Tamilnadu (the one who was granted bail by the alleged judge) that Mr. Singh’s government would fall by the time he returns back to India owning to the ousting of the alleged judge. This panicked former Prime Minister of India, who asked his close aides to do something in order to avert the toppling of the government at the center. After that a message was sent through PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) that a crisis would engulf the whole nation if the alleged judge is ousted from his position. After getting to know about this, the then CJI gave in and yielded to the pressure and finally extended the term of the judge. The addition judge was later given another term as Additional judge by the new CJI Justice Sabarwal and then the next CJI  KG Balkrishnan confirmed his as a permanent judge(but transferred to another high court).

In yet another blog spot Justice Katju made some new revelations. This time on the target was Justice Kapadia. In his new blog post Justice Katju tells, that on ground of suspicion of suspicious activities being carried out by a judge in the Allahabad High Court, Justice Katju arranged for numbers of 3 agents of that judge through which he used to arrange for bribes. Justice Katju gave the numbers of the agents to the then CJI Justice SH Kapadia and asked him to get the phones of these people taped by authorities in order to check whether the doubt of Justice Katju was reasonable or not. After some time Justice Kapadia informed Justice Katju that his suspicion was correct and the judge was indulged in such activities. On account of this Justice Kapadia was required to pass an impeachment motion against the judge but unfortunately justice Kapadia did nothing.

While some judges including the former CJI who have been accused blame Justice Katju of defaming judiciary but has Justice Katju done anything wrong? I clearly don’t believe in that. First of all the accusations alleged by Justice Katju clearly have many facts supporting then and therefore hold true. If exposing corruption is a bad task then one day corrupt ministers would blame organizations like CBI etc. of defaming the government by exposing the corrupt activities of the government.

Today we need to emend the procedure prescribed by the constitution in choosing high court and Supreme Court judges. Today we need to manage the influence of government in the selection processes of the judges while on the other hand the collegiate which chooses the judges must be made transparent also and for this purpose we need to make the process more pellucid and transparent. Then only we would be successful in taming the corruption in judiciary or many other matter like this would get unreported.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARATI

GO OUT AND DONATE

Around three decades ago, India was a nation completely deficient of voluntary donors of blood. Whenever there was a need to do surgery or operation blood had to be bought from people and you can also call that a barter system of blood, but this system apparently led to huge losses of life of poor people who succumbed to their injuries or disease as a result of not being able to pay the money required to buy blood.

Fortunately today the whole situation has transformed into a better. Today more than 40 lakh units are available for the needy people thus saving the lives of so many innocuous people on the earth. And the same needs to be done for organ donation.

The most important thing is to change people’s perspective about the whole situation. Around 30 years ago, people used to believe that blood donation was an unholy process and myths in the mind of people averred so many virtual and unauthentic side effects that most of the people declined this practice but today the situation has changed completely. With so many awareness programmes and drives today India is having a large number of people who are donating their blood for a better cause. Today the same needs to be done with organ donation.

Today there is a critical gap between the supply and demand of the organs. Today the number of those wanting organs remains to be high while the number of donors available for the purpose continues to constitute a meagre proportion of the population thereby leading to death of so many of those who could have survived  if they would have got organ transplants at the right time.

Let’s first talk about Kidney transplantation in India. Kidney transplantation in India started in the 1980s. At that time it was just a type of business in which poor people donated (not at all) their kidney to rich people in exchange for money and therefore only the rich could afford to buy the kidney and lakhs of paupers were made to die. Even the laws allowed the same and finally all this resulted in corruption by doctors and also illegitimate export of kidneys to western countries.

It was not until 1994 when the law was mutated and a new organ transplantation act was enacted to stop illegal organ trading and focussed on making organ transplantation for the poor and middle class.

But still the execution of the above mentioned step taken by the judicial services remains completely poor due to some reasons.

The first is that there are a lot of those waiting for transplants but not many people are there for donation. At present 1,50,000 people want a kidney transplant but still only 40,000 donors are there. Ever year our nation requires 4 crore units of blood but only 40 Lakh units of blood are available to the people. All this creates a huge situation of turmoil in the whole nation and at last because of such a great shortfall between the number of those wanting organs and number of those donating , the rich at last is at the receiving end while the poor is nowhere there or is just made to donate his organs due to lack of money.

The second thing is the high cost of transplantations. In India more than 95% of liver transplants are done in private hospitals which demand 16-24 lakhs per transplant. With post-transplant costs of about Rs. 10,000 per month for immunosuppressive drugs to restrain your body from rejecting the new organs, also exacerbated the problems of people thereby making it only an affair of rich people.  

The other thing is that in India even families of deceased people are not ready to donate their organs just because of some myths. In India only 5% transplantations are from deceased donors while in the western countries the figure is of about 80%.

So now the question that comes in front of us is how can we make the organ transplantation affordable for poor.

First of all we need to destroy the myths in people’s mind about organ donation. A large part of Indian population continues to be illiterate and therefore have no idea about the process of organ transplantation and have a myth that if they donate their organs (even after death) God will never forgive them. It is true that such things really exist in India. But now a change needs to be effected in the nation. These people need to be told that even in our mythology organ transplantation is there. Rishi Dadichi once donated his bones to make weapons out of them.  While on the other hand, some drives and awareness programs also need to be commenced in order to change people’s perspective about the whole situation.

The second step that we need to take up is with the brain dead people. Families of brain dead people believe that if the person’s heart is beating, there are chances of him getting recovered and therefore never donate the patients organs. But today doctors and other authorities should take up the initiative in order to tell the families of brain dead people about their exact position and ask them to donate the organs of the patient. More than 50 people can be saved by tissue donors and organ donors can save upto the life of around 8 people. Isn’t that amazing that so many people would turn over a new lease of life through the help of brain dead patients. That surely can serve that purpose.

 In order to expedite the process of organ transplantation, India need to educate its people and also make tougher laws in order to stop illegal trading of organs and to make the transplantation affordable to the poor people.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI