Sunday 10 December 2017

Finding God

One of the most subtle yet conspicuous concept in this world is of “God.” Nobody knows who created the God, nobody knows whether God was ever created or not and nobody, in actuality, knows what is GOD. Albeit some have the proclivity to deem themselves as “atheists”, some consider themselves “theists” while some other live in agnosticism, yet there is not a single being who has been able to remain unpartisan and unfazed by the notion of God. For the nonce, let us forget your predilections towards the respective topic and become disinterested in dealing with the veracity of the context. There is not a single human being who doesn’t desiderate to meet God, some want to have a ‘dekko’ of him to achieve utter bliss, some want to ascertain whether he is actually extant, and some want to curse him for all the adversities that they have faced throughout their lives. Throughout our lives we are in the pursuit of God. Knowingly or unknowingly, we base our propositions on him. In fact, Science talks about nothing but the ultimate unification of how the nature works and nature is indeed an even more subtle term for God, so Science is looking for God also. While some are pursuing their dreams of reaching God through science, some adopt austere lifestyle of ascetics and those who can’t go either way end up erecting their own realms about God. In fact the biggest question that the world has ever faced or will continue to face is “WHAT IS GOD?”
We all have our own proclivities regarding God. Some envisage him standing in the ground of Kurukshetra with a handsome countenance and the enigmatic azure colour, while some may imagine him sacrificing himself on the crucifix to redeem the mankind of its maladies; but unlike our naïve minds which have presented God as an individual belonging to only one section of the mankind, a great poet envisioned his truth:
Nida Fazli once said:
Ghar se masjid hai bahut duur chalo yuun kar len,
Kisi rote hue bachche ko hansaya jae
The mosque is too far, so for a while
Let us make a weeping child smile
So much ingenuity is hidden in this couplet that the one who can unravel the real meaning and induce it into one’s life won’t need any further exposition germane to God. The most pitiable thing about our life is that we are not living at all, we are just surviving the daily affairs. We have crowded our lives with so many complications and superstitions that we have impelled ourselves to forget the cardinal meaning of life. Isn’t human life a big wonder in itself? Have your ever extolled yourself for your body is not a mere piece of flesh, so much internal work is going in inside you that science may not replicate it in the coming five hundred years, yet we take our lives for granted. Have your ever felt yourself? Have you ever given time to look into yourself rather than onto others? Nida Fazli hints that living life is God and I believe that the paramount reason why we fail to achieve bliss is because we shun the real God and look for the immaterial questions and answers. We all have been given this life just once, yet we waste it peering outside and floundering ourselves with things that don’t matter. Our life is nothing less than a miracle. You look at it from any dimension, scientifically, spiritually or psychologically, our body, our cells and our mind are such wonders that can never be created by any artificial means. We often fail to adulate that great gift that we have been bestowed with, we often fail to belaud the God that has been embedded into us and try to look for some charismatic personality that indeed doesn’t exist outside of us. Human beings have got unlimited potential. If you peruse Liao Fan’s lessons, one obvious takeaway that you can get is the kindness is fate and fate is God and God is you. The biggest happiness that you can ever derive can only be extracted by helping others. The day you resort to helping the needy, caring for those who can’t care for themselves and eschewing fallacious beliefs and inspired notions about the myths, all manacles will be broken; fetters will be annihilated and you will find the God. You have been endowed with this life through an excessively remarkable combination and permutation by the nature and each and every person must be proud over this fact. All our life, we make goals for ourselves, when we reach those goals, we make new goals and we continue doing it till one day death strikes our door and we understand that indeed we did nothing. A life that has not been dedicated to helping the impoverished is life wasted. So many people are going to walk this earth but only a few will be remembered, only a few will be the source of inspiration to many and the thing that differentiates them from others is that they dedicated themselves to their God and their God was their kindness.
Buddha preached agnosticism because he knew that everybody possess God but nobody would ever realize that and hence it is better to say that you can never ascertain whether there is God or not. Rather than digging deep into the questions that are of no utility to the mankind, he asked people to look within themselves and find their God. “Looking within oneself” has become a cliché yet this “self-mirroring” process eludes almost whole of the humanity.  Looking within oneself means being thankful and appreciative of this colossal universe and of being given the chance to make a change come true in the lives of those who can’t effect changes themselves. Looking with oneself means feeling your body and gasping the difference between your spirit and your flesh and understanding the egoism won’t last long, that superciliousness will be battered down and only the inner kindness in you will leave an indelible mark on this world.
Try to “look into yourself” rather than “looking onto others.” Till the last moment of your life, strive to do things that can make a crying child smile and let me tell you it is not that easy.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Wednesday 1 November 2017

When...

When times are not right and things go wrong,
When you are left behind and world moves on,

When the Sun has gone down and darkness refuses to recede,

When you are trying harder but success is not gonna pay heed,

When gloominess strikes and success eludes,

When the world is unfair and life remains impertinent and rude,

When answers seem abstruse,

Painful are, failure's scars and defeat's bruise,

When sorrows are abound and catharsis inevitable,

Wanton is life, nothing is tractable,

When merriment seems gone,

And fear of getting back up is chilling your bone,

When you no longer believe in yourself,

And have lost the track,
When defeats have take you aback,

When you have to stand alone,

Others refuses to trust or bank on,

When the apogee seems esoteric,

The acme seems aloof,

Every moment, dejection is striking hard,

Stay calm and DON'T YOU DARE TO RETARD,

I know it's heartrending,

But don't you dare to plummet down,

This journey is yours and you are its path,

Did you come this long only to fall apart!

Amid the din of harangues,

Listen to that silent yet blazing fire,
Rekindle it and veer your ire,

No matter what you do,

Don't dupe the traveler's desire,

Hilltop may be invisible for the moment,

But the clouds can't stay for long,
Through sheer tenacity,
Subjugate the impediments' throng,

If you can't run,

Just crawl,
Your fate can be redeemed by none,
But your own soul.


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


Thursday 19 October 2017

It's sometimes fair...

For life is not always fair,
It’s sometimes fair to let go,
For the Sun can’t shine always,
It’s sometimes fair to trust the darkness,
For the sea can’t always beget nifty waves,
It’s sometimes fair to accept your flaw,

It’s sometimes fair to cry,
It’s sometimes fair to go wry,
It’s sometimes fair to fail,
It’s sometimes fair to fear the gale,
It’s sometimes fair to feel bad,
It’s sometimes fair to not be always glad,
It’s sometimes fair to reckon back,
It’s sometimes fair to stop and feel bad about where you lack,

But it’s never fair to incinerate your hopes,
But it’s never fair to feel that everything is gone,
Cause one day the tides will come and the sun will shine,
That grandeur will be thine,
Because day the darkness will go away and the fruits will be borne,
Because one day, life would stop being wanton and merriment will be grown,
Because one day, your stint of years’ scoundrel failure,
Would be minute,
In front of a day’s success of your worthy resolute.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI




Friday 29 September 2017

Misguided Pluralism.

Around the world, the momentum being developed is of “Right vs. Center”. In the US, the democrats and republicans are busy wrangling, in the UK the Labors and the Conservatives are busy underscoring the chasm and in India too, the so-called debate has sneaked into the limelight. The issue became even more flagrant with the election of Mr. Trump to the presidency of the US and since then there has been no end.
Some are averring that this is rightist’s epoch. With the Republicans taking up 33 out of 50 gubernatorial posts in the USA, Brexit in the UK, rightist politicians have certainly hit the bull’s eye. Though the statistics are easy to expound why this is rightist’s period, but still pasting them on the Indian subcontinent and furnishing exegesis based on the same would be nothing short of a tomfoolery because in India there is indeed no right, left or even center. Here we don’t understand the directions but we believe in time. If you are in power, head to whichever direction you want, but unfortunately if you are resting outside the parliament make your needle stick to the center and ensnarl the world through you pluralistic approach to ride back to power. This is not something novel. In fact, this is a synoptic version of our 70 years old political theory. Ideologies here are not paramount requisite to win but if you lose, your ideology will certain spring up to consciousness from its graveyard and you can beat the entire bush around this tractable phenomenon.
Elite cliques of erudite journalists and authors are busy terming the current scenario as that of “ Pluralism vs. Majoritarianism” but none is indeed ready to ponder on from where this concept came.
Pluralism means that we accept that many different identities can be extant together maintain perfect harmony and no infringements will be made to the rights of any identity in the nation. Through pluralism is a seemingly easy concept to apprehend but to find the real pluralist is an abstruse task. In India, self-proclaimed pluralists abound but only in the opposition parties. Notwithstanding having enjoyed so many years at the helm, these self-proclaimed political parties are now finding it difficult to even reserve a seat or two in the parliament and certainly, there has to be a reason. Either the Indian citizens are themselves disposed towards majoritarianism or the opposition pluralists are hoodwinkers. And our work is to scrutinize both the things in an outrightly disinterested manner.
India is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Our demography gives a considerable speech to religions world is not even aware out. Our neighbors are filled with the multi-cultural entities and our famous judicial system has set precedents which are enough to corroborate the in the name of law, religion is “in-toto” eschewed. I won’t shy away from accepting that there are a few differences, but still the bonds that we all share together far outnumber the differences. The Muslim population in our country exceeds the combined Muslim population in various Islamic countries. Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists and many other religions exist under the shade of brethren. To an outsider, my words may seem are aggrandized and supercilious but to an Indian, I don’t need to expound further. Even the self-proclaimed pluralists term us as a multi-cultural society with tolerance towards every religion in the world and hence Indian public can be exonerated from this accusation.
Since our first accused has been exonerated, we must commence mulling over the next one: the opposition party’s pluralistic theme. This is going to stretch further since we need to exhume our past. 
If we glance through our past, it is not hard to see that everyone swings with time and pluralism is more about fear. Congress has always worked through this frame of pluralism. Today, it counts itself as the biggest sympathizer of Muslims but it fails to answer as to why 42.7% of the country’s 180 million Muslims (Census 2011) are still unlettered. Those who brand everything as Dalits vs upper castes fail to answer a simple question: Who gave the slogan- “Pandit shank bajaega, haathi chalta jaega.” None is ready to answer because everybody has always operated through fear.
The single instrument that can conquer the world is ‘fear’.  Here also fear is the key factor. In the previous 70 years, what the so-called pluralist parties have done is nothing but inducing fear in the minds of people. Muslims have been taught that BJP is against Islam but the preachers of this belief fail to answer the question as to why Muslims account for only 4.4% of all the students taking up higher education despite making up 14% of the population. This is the second time when BJP is in power. In our political history more than half of our period as an independent nation we have seen the governments of other parties, but still nobody has got anything. The same pluralistic flag bearing people who decry the current government of being pro-Hindu fail to answer the question as to why they didn’t do anything when they were themselves in power; the Left parties which are being vehemently censorious of the current government fail to answer as to what they did in regions like Bengal, when they were cherished with unquestionable power;   the self-proclaimed pro-Dalit forces fail to answer as to why social engineering is their forte and not the upliftment of Dalits and other backward classes. Our politics has always been a politics of fear. Muslims are being infused with a fear of Hindus, Dalits being imposed with the fear of upper castes and this list continues to strain further.
Until and unless this fear is there, many such factors would continue to operate and obfuscate us all. The founders of this nation had an entrenched belief that we all can coexist with peace; that our Gods can be different but our nation can be one. Fear is indeed the potent nemesis of this beautiful proposition. The educated Indian is becoming more and more aware of this fact and hence today the so-called pluralists have been trounced in every respect. The India of today doesn’t want dichotomies, it wants peace and progress. It is a shame that when the whole nation is looking forward to joining the elite international groups, some are still canvassing for themselves through these petty measures.
Pluralism is a great concept, but if misunderstood, its results can be devastating and surely India must be aware of this pluralistic approach.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI



Sunday 24 September 2017

WHY CHINA WON'T LET NORTH KOREA OUT OF THE BAG?

The tremors of the soi-distant “Hydrogen Bomb” test conducted by North Korea were enough to heat up the political lobbies of the congresses around the world. The Trump administration has sprung into action with its threats of strangulating the belligerent nation through its military and trade policies, South Korea is in a quandary as President Moon Jae-in’s attempts to reinvigorate the “Sunshine Policy” to lure Pyongyang into disarmament through economic engagement have been futile per se, and People’s Republic of China (PRC) is too facing predicaments pertaining to the reprehensibly defiant attitude of the North Korean despot Kim Jon-un.
The Korean nuclear crisis go back to the events following the aftermath of “6-2-5- Upheaval” or the Korean War.  Much as the Pyongyang led by Kim Il-sung was able to repel the US forces with abetment received from the Chinese as well as the Soviet army, it become well conversant with the fact that its belligerent predilections would be a juxtaposition with the increasing USA’s influence and the hiking economic horizons of Seoul and ergo North Korea led to the commencement of its “all-fortressization policy” which rose to its summit in 2006 and struck open the contemporary Pandora’s box –North Korean Nuclear crisis.
Though, to most, North Korea seems to be an esoteric country led by an egotist and egoist tyrant, it seems much abstruse as to how the nation notwithstanding various sanctions continue to soar high in the development of ginormously detrimental weapons of mass destruction. If we dig deep down, it is not difficult to find out that one of the many reasons for the existence and the unfortunate success is the dragon’s tail.
The US President’s tweet including a warning that he’s gravely considering “stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea” was decried and termed as a diplomatic faux pas by many American policy analysts (they say that the first rule of democracy is never to make an inexecutable threat), but still it sufficed to convey how much hapless the US is at the Mandarin’s illegitimate support to the North Korea.
But, it is no covert fact that Chinese too have a huge stake in this business. In fact, taking up the 90% of the total investments of such an erratic nation would never be at the Chinese desk had North Korea not been a weapon against the American influence in the Korean peninsula regions. China doesn’t want US marines on its borders and is wary of the fact that the degeneration of the Kim Jon-un’s regime would ultimately lead to nothing less than US’s invasion of its border and it certainly wants no South Korea near its periphery.
This Chinese policy too started with the culmination of Mao’s China. PRC had been in existence for less than a year, but Mao knew that striking at the US would ultimately be a big leap for the newly erected communist regime. Sans any delay, Mao Zedong deputed as many as 3 million military personnel under the banner of People’s Volunteer Army. His policy worked in a paragon manner. Chinese belligerence on the pretext of its help to the North Korea remained largely successful in its various operations and Chinese, being proud of this achievement, still continues to meddle with the “rogue” North Korea in order to subvert the USA’s influence in the Eastern region.
North Korea is presently China’s 82nd biggest trade partner. China’s unqualified support to North Korea has led to escalation of trade turnover from $550 million in 1995 to $5.6 billion in 2011. Indubitably, China is North Korea’s trade lifeline. 57% of the latter’s import and 42% of its export is directly germane to China. According to Chinese government, Pyongyang’s export to China amounted for $3 billion and imports shot up to $3.6 billion. China, indeed, is the major reason behind the survival of North Korea. For more than half a century, the 20 miles long “The Friendship Pipeline” running beneath the Yalu River has been serving as the North’s lifeline. Exact figures of the Chinese export through “The Friendship Lifeline” are not reported. Chinese government stopped citing the figures related to the pipeline a few years back. Nautilus Institute, a think tank specializing in North Korean energy statistics, believes that with the spur of economic growth, Kim Jon-un may be importing 850,000 tons of crude oil this year. According to various statisticians, North Korea uses almost a third of the crude oil import to fuel its military equipments for routine, nor-wartime usages.
No matter how much China exhibits its affectations of stiff action towards the growing North Korean military prowess, it is wary of the fact that any kind of trade embargo imposed on the North through the Chinese side would only undermine its influence on Pyongyang. Steve K. Bannon, Trump’s ousted Chief strategist outrightly said, “This is 100 percent about China. You have got to sanction the Chinese company and Chinese financial institution.”
No matter how much the world talks about constricting the North Korean animosity, until and unless China is pressurized to restrict its trade with Pyongyang, we must expect no change. War is certainly not a viable solution, but diplomatic policies can ultimately lead to a triumph in this inexplicable harrowing impasse. The ball remains in the Chinese court and the question is still: To Do Or Not To Do.    

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


THE NORTH KOREAN PHILOSOPHY

It was the gory summer of 1989. After the rapid developments in the post-Mao China, country’s inscrutability on its human rights stance had infused fears in many bourgeois Chinese denizens, students, and NGOs. Nobody wanted an opaque system concealed enormously from the ones who indeed coalesce to give rise to China: the Chinese people, and hence various student’s organizations and NGOs had gone for hunger-strike in order to galvanize support for their worthy cause. But, unfortunately Chinese government had something else in mind. Deng Xiaoping, the then paramount leader of PRC’s (People Republic of China) deemed these benign protestors as an exigently impending political threat. What ensued further was nothing less than a macabre slaughter. Mobilization of more than 3,00,000 Chinese troops in Beijing led ultimately to deaths of thousands of students at the infamous Tiananmen Square, as the military used heavy grade weapons and tanks on the unarmed protestors.

28 years have passed away, but still Chinese stand on the human rights activists remains as much abhorrent as before. Though Xi’s China is much more developed than Deng’s China, the unscrupulous behavior regarding those wanting a transparent system in their nation continues to be a daymare for the Chinese people.
A recent report published by an international watchdog organization, Human Rights Watch, exclusively covers the severe crackdown by the Chinese officials on the human rights activists. The disturbing report lucidly blames the UN for its complicity in the illegitimate Chinese acts of oppression against those demanding basic rights that must be guaranteed to the citizens of a nation.  

The report starts with a scathing remark about how the United Nations is far away from living up to its tenets. When Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the PRC, stood on the podium to give his keynote address, a queer situation engulfed him. Unlike other addresses on the rostrum of UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council), Mr. Xi’s address was particularly different. Various officials and human right activists were made to leave the council, NGOs was barred from entering the complexes and facilities like parking lots etc. were complete cordoned off. This was particularly not the first incident on the board of the United Nations. In April 2017, security officials in the UN headquarters, New York City, forcibly sent out the ethnic Uyghur rights activist, Dolkun Isa. Mr. Isa was participating as an NGO member when he was confronted by security officials who ordered him to move out of the premises. No credible reasons were quoted by the organization and the UN remained utterly evasive of any questions on the issue.     
      
United Nations’ silent and unqualified support for a country that has not allowed a single visit by the UNHRC’s human right commissioner seems to be a vehement digression of its core principles. The HRW (Human Rights Watch) report points out that Beijing has been intentionally dilatory regarding the visits by rapporteurs working on political rights issues. “… although the Chinese government accepted visits by the special procedures for food, debt, discrimination against women, and extreme poverty over the last 15 years, it has rejected 12 other visits, especially visits by rapporteurs charged with protecting various civil and political rights, and for over a decade has been unwilling to accept a visit by the UN high commissioner for human rights,” the report adds.

Besides this, the ingenious report also talks about how China is making up a clique of like-minded countries on the UN’s forum in order to snub off any discussion regarding its exploitation of human rights. China’s entente with countries like Egypt, Algeria, and Cuba too helps it obviate any questions and scrutiny regarding the human rights issue.

For a country housing 1.379 billion people, such egregious floundering of basic human rights is in-toto reprehensible. Even though China is taking major roles at the international center-stage, but if its own people are deprived of the basic rights then that progress would be extremely hollow. There are numerous Cao Shunli and Dolkun Isa in China who are currently being reprimanded for speaking up for the rights of common people and unfortunately, this flagrant act continues to happen in front of the eyes of the world’s biggest organization, the UN. The most barbaric sins are truly committed transparently.

“…the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” – John F. Kennedy


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 3 September 2017

The Godman

Human beings are always stranded by predicaments. We all are surrounded by unanswered questions and abstruse answers which aggrandize our curiosity to reach out to solutions which are indeed immaterial in changing anything in our life, and in this quest, we start fanatically holding on to those who promise to bless us with inexplicable panaceas.

In this world, the concept of God is the most debated and simultaneously most un-debated topic in the world. Between this profound abyssal the wandering benign human mind goes astray and is inflicted with incurable injuries sending him in an interminable fugue.

 Since our very inception into the world, we have been taught that this whole creation has been erected by an esoteric personality whom we would almost never behold. The concept of questioning the existence of that elusive creature is termed as ‘taboo’ and though most of us are suspicious of his/her very basis when we are young, but as we grow we start liking him for it is so easy to blame him for our faults, problems, failures, and inactivity. When things just don’t work the way they should, we blame this naïve creature – the God- for almost all the unintelligible reasons and since we won’t have a rendezvous with him anywhere he won’t defend himself thus making the thought of having God at our disposal seem so much enticing and relaxing. This customary practice has been in existence for years and we have now become so much inured to it that life seems incomplete sans our scapegoat- THE GOD. After playing with this easy-to-execute for long, we try to learn more of this incredible figure and here start the actual conflicts of life.

Much as the concept of God is a fact regarding universalism, but human beings have a natural fancy for individuality which fails to conform to the teachings of standard religion and the old religious scriptures. The teachings of Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Quran and other books take a considerable beating to be unraveled and hence a ‘normal’- not so religiously enlightened person- is ultimately left in a whirlpool of dilemmas. He cannot dare to forsake his pre-conceived notions about God nor can he understand the meaning of the great religious books demanding exceptional scholarly visions. If he does the former, his own cranial conflicts will strangulate his soul and also the fear to be contradicted on every turn by those who have an entrenched- though unconfirmed- belief in religion would no less than be a daymare and if he tries to brainstorm into the aphorisms of religion, he won’t have time to earn his livelihood and take care of his family. Haplessly in both the cases, he is destined to be doomed. In the actual world, we are always trying to stick somewhere in between the two extremes.

Synoptically, everyone has prepared a false reality around himself. Though this falsehood is easy to be abolished, still to sneak out of our previous dilemmas we don’t toy with it. We let it survive the way it is and continue to survive with it. This reality may seem robust from outside but from inside it is a vulnerable vacuum. In this aura of ourselves, we deem that God is extant and form in our head different anthropomorphic images of God. Some might think of him as being the unceasingly handsome Krishna while some may think of him as a benign Christ sacrificing himself for the benediction of the world. These images of divinity may prove fascinating at first but after some time, the veracious vacuum in that spurious reality again starts devouring peace and serenity out of us. No matter how much great our fantasies are, still they are ill-adept at answering to our woes. Even though we have been incessantly ascribing Krishna, Christ or Allah for our worries and jinxes, but our problems are finding no end at all. Our big visions of spirituality are again eschewing us and albeit we have left no stone unturned in arrogating our actions to them (only bad ones), they are still nowhere to be found to extract explanation or replies. Our efforts have again been contravened by that harrowing vacuum and again we need some more false realities to make things work out.

Our new realities will be based on those who present themselves as the ‘executives’ of God who have been sent to vanguard the human race to ‘moksha’ or ‘salvation’. In actuality, these “God-men” are none but some sly individuals who have learned to exploit the eerie milieu around the God. Taking complete advantage of our tomfoolery about God, these people spread apocryphal stories about their humongous powers and magic and here we all commit to some beautiful lines of Ghalib,

ham ko ma.alūm hai jannat  kī haqīqat lekin
dil ke  ḳhush rakhne  ko 'ġhālib' ye khayal achchhā hai”
(We know the reality of paradise, but to console our heart, it is indeed a worthy perception.)

  For long, we were devoid of any mentally perceivable concept of God and now somebody has suddenly emerged out of somewhere and says pleasing things about our God and promises to be a ‘messenger’ of the guy we have been looking for years. Our emotions just blow out and in this deluge, we have flown away to one more false reality- this time even more perilous than before. Soon we forget the God and head on to revere this individual whose identity is unknown to us, who ‘so-called’ powers have never been observed by our eyes and whose vision of God is as much hypocritical as ours. The only digression between that “Godman” and us is that he is more cunning than us. He has learned to use the arcane lines of religion to his own benefit and on the other hand, we have resolved to be hoodwinked on the pretext of our false realities.
The actual fault in this game is not of that “Godman” but of ours. Our ostentatious understanding and proximity with our intrepid- but untested- beliefs in our God have allowed him to creep insidiously into our minds. Our vacuum has given space to the genesis of these people. Though there exist people who claim themselves to be purely ‘human’ and try to guide us all through perfect empirical thinking, but our reality restrains us from hearkening to them. We want nothing less than “Godly things” to enter our vacuum and ultimately there is nothing left than doubt, suspicion, buffoonery, and debilitation. These unlettered “God men”- the executives of God- continue to preach through their cockeyed minds which have nothing more than craps with respect to God and finally there is a trail of superstitions, orthodoxy and sometimes even bloodshed.


In spite of blaming these people for their acts of crime, why not inculpate ourselves for our ignorance. For a moment let us become conscious of our own acts of sin and embark on the journey to self. The only way to find God is to reach out to yourself and explore the matters deep in your heart because the one who knows himself has actually seen the true form of God.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Monday 21 August 2017

For a bigger international role.

As the Chinese government is incrementing its bellicose strategies and with its intrepid belligerence at the border posts along the India-China border are certain causes of great worry for now. Though the prospects of a direct war are completely bleak but still an off the border was must be fought with the disputation neighbor.
Since the whole world has now turned over to gruesome direct wars to surreptitious ‘machiavellian’ tactics, the new age PRC has too shifted its goalposts. The new tenet to become a global power is to become the ‘big brother’ and Chinese policies lucidly speak of this belief’s dispositions. The One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, China’s continuous pestering in the South China Sea as well as its initiative to irrupt into the East African market after Chinese military base stationing in Djibouti pellucidly exhibits how the overarching tentacles of the 21st century Mandarin thought.
Though we too have observed a cosmic transmutation in our 70 years but still the tendency to remain insular remains mores in the common Indian ideology. This fact is clearly expressed when the opposition parties repeatedly try to ensnarl the current Prime Minister in their stricture against his foreign visits. But, leaving out the political part, there is no skepticism that a radical change needs to be inducted into the system. Fortunately, we have already started. Although our some of the programs are inchoate, they are extremely propitious to become successful in the upcoming future. One such program is the newly announced Indian entry in the East African countries. Finally, New Delhi and Tokyo have prepared the blueprint for the development of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa. The first SEZ, of which Indian countries are going to be a part, is to come up near the Mombasa port in Kenya, which is currently being developed with the Japanese assistance. Mombasa, which is the gateway to the East African countries, can certainly lead to huge change in the Indo-African relationship and as the African Union has 54 member countries in the UN, our bid for permanent seat in the UN can also be strengthened to a much bigger extent provided the substantial power of the African nations.

Apart from this, the SEZ program, which has already garnered the support of 10 major Indian corporate houses, can do wonders for a poverty-stricken Africa. Development of economic zone in Africa nations can engender huge employment, a source of income, and a huge trade between India and African nations. Moreover, infrastructure development and the introduction of state of the art technology can lead to an unprecedented change in the lives of African people. The excessive poverty and harsh living conditions have till now left no stone unturned in alienating the African people from the mainstream world. Besides this, being devoid of modern technology has affected the lives of millions of African negatively. The development of these SEZs will surely allocate employment to poor African workers, lead to excessive development in fields of economics, infrastructure, trade, and engineering. The skills of Indian and Japanese company matched with the huge labor available in the African market can surely help the whole of the Africa to a much bigger extent.

This pioneering project is certainly a win-win situation. Through this project we are aiming at entering into the global arena and on the other hand the great wonders that the project can do in Africa can be indeed paragon. The parochial approach was obviously the only choice back in the 1900s but this 21st century India is destined for a much bigger role in the international market and political lobbies. If we are to become a developed country and a super power then we must embrace the challenge to mould ourselves to the growing international demands and must take special interest in the global affairs.  As we are getting poised to be internationally accepted as a globally significant country, we must also not shy away from taking up the cards on the worldly tables.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


Tuesday 8 August 2017

Why banks are not the victims in NPA generation?

Stakes regarding NPA (Non-Performing assets) are at its record high and perspicuously if there is anything pivotal in the economy after G.S.T, that thing is NPA. In July this year, the government of India passed the Banking Regulation (amendment) bill which cued the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) to direct all the banks to initiate stiff loan recovery processes against big loan defaulters in order to recover ‘bad loans’ from the NPAs. Further this month only Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitely announced that the requisite proceeding against 12 big load defaulters has already kicked up.

As the processed commenced, the banks projected themselves as mere victims and are demanding their money relentlessly. But are banks really the actual victims? This needs a lot more clarification because it is not a hidden facts and banks do encourage risky industrial ventures to pump up their lending.

Bhushan Steel was once a very well known name in the steel industry of the nation. When India’s automobile industry was incipient, in the year 1987 Brij Bhushan Singhal and his two sons - Neeraj and Sanjay – acquired a loss incurring steel factory at Sahibabad. In the 1980s the whole steel business was controlled mainly by the state owned company and Bhushan Steel saw a big opportunity there. Having imported the latest technology from Japan, they started the production and soon the profits of the company shot up. Though they had become a famous name in the steel circles, but still their control was much confined and hence following the stellar performance, the company decided to build an integrated steel plant in Odisha.  Big automobile companies like Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra and Mahindra wanted to set a firm foot in Indian industries and hence those were the golden days of steel industry when the steel was sold at around $1300/tone. With big corporate houses in their order books, Bhushan steel was a perfect contender to get huge bank loans and its new to-be plant at Odisha made the company a most promising company in the nation. The prosperous days were still not over. For the 2008 Olympics, Beijing’s need for steel soared to an all time high and steel was the insurmountable king of the industry. Bhushan Steel Ltd. made net profits of Rs 3.13 Billion and exported goods worth Rs. 12.57 Billion. By 2007 the company had already established itself as India’s biggest auto-grade steel maker.

But things took a complete 360-degree reversal after the 2008 Olympics. The whopping demand from China tapered and prices kissed the nadir as fast as they had hugged the summit. The construction of the Odisha plant had only started in 2005 and was to take eight years and hence the company had no option but wait. By 2010, the industry was bearing a debt of more than Rs. 11,400 crore, still it banked heavily on the prospects of its Odisha plant and continued its borrowing spree. Then came 2012, the worst year for the industry. Steel prices touched an all time low with just $300/ton and Bhushan Steel was now amid a huge disaster. At this point, banks could have easily ceased any further lending and would have played safe by taking their money out of the gamble but everyone played facetiously and pinned their hope on the upcoming Odisha plant. In November 2013, the newly prepared plant failed miserably in testing stages only. The plant’s furnace blasted off which left 32 people injured; three of them succumbed to the injuries. This incident marked the final fatal blow to the Bhushan Steel. In 2014, the company was paying an interest of Rs 1600 crore and contrasting was making an abysmal profit of Rs. 62 crore.
After such a disaster, any company would have started extracting its money out of the debt-ridden company but banks further issued fresh loans of up to Rs. 18000 crore. Notwithstanding knowing that the stocks of the company could never pay such humongous loans, the banks still preferred to secure the loan through the stocks which were then at an all time low. 

Today banks continue to project themselves as the victimized ones but veritably they have tried to play with risky projects and have shunned any business sense related to lending. It had become clear that the company was borrowing from one bank to pay the interest rate of the other and this was a very well known fact in the banking circles. Still, banks continue to fund the such a disastrous venture and these hapless victims continued to flounder common business sense up to last year in March 2016, the company was under a debt of Rs. 42062 crore (which is the total amount of money that the government aims to spend on school education this year).

All this is a lucid portrayal over a how everyone makes profits from the rise and fall of companies- only the players change not the profits. Initially, the company rode huge waves of success and now the banks are having their time when they will take back such a huge amount along with interest worth hundreds of crore. Nobody is a victim in this process; it’s just about time and luck. This must always be kept in mind as to how the bank deliberately continued to hike up their lending in spite of being aware of the fact that the company would never be able to pay such a huge loan.

Everything is actually a trap. Some day or the other everyone has to pass through this, but it’s all about turn is currently going on.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

What your parents never told you about?


None, but a parent is the veracious preceptor of a child. Our parents are the inexplicable great beings who induce us into this world, introduce us with the characters of this stage, and then prepare us to become good characters ourselves. The core existence that we carry is definitive just because of our parents who forget each and everything after they see the countenance of their children, the ones who learn to sacrifice their needs so that the money could be spent on our toys, the ones who learn to forget about their own requirements so that we could be sent to a good school. They are the ones who forget that they used to have a life when we weren’t in this world, and hence there can be no one as much wonderful and incredible as our parents. Words fall short to describe their essence because, if we weren’t allocated with these two beautiful people, our life would carry no meaning at all. And hence these words are just abysmal in front of the grandeur of love our parents shower on us.
Indubitably, they try to prepare us to become immaculate denizens of this world and do something different, but because of the excessive love that they have for us in their heart, they keep many things covert. With great love comes a great sense of protection, and in this safeguarding they conceal many things from us. Though we can’t blame them for this act because this benign act is out of pure love, but still one must unravel some things that one is not told about by one’s parents.
1. LIFE IS HARD: Parents will always protect their children and let them live in their own realms but not telling them how cruel this life is; by not telling them how much cut-throat competition is out there in this world. Their veritable love just restrains them from telling us about this cruel world. They will never teach their children that life is not a Cinderella’s dream, because they don’t want our innocence to recede into a constant alertness against this world. They will always try to affect that life is a rose-laden carpet but will always curb themselves from adding that post script that roses has thorns too.
2. YOU WON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: When we are growing up, we get used to getting everything we desire for. We get used to be treated like kings in our small castle – our home. No matter how much things were difficult, we always got what we wanted, and we effected the opinion that life is also going to bless us with the things we want – even before we want those things. But our parents never told us that life was going to hit us hard and fling us down to the ground. That many a time failure will strike us hard and no matter how much we try, we won’t be able to get back up again, that Rome was not built in one day, and that some of our wishes will never come true.
3. THERE ARE NOT ALWAYS HAPPY ENDINGS: As toddlers, we all loved listening to various wonderful fictional fables or stories from our parents. We used to blossom up when the story would end at a happy note and our parents also told us only one thing – every ending is a happy ending. But unfortunately life doesn’t correlate with them. Not every ending are meant for a happy face, so endings take tears; not always will you get what you want in the end, sometimes you have to compromise with what you have got; not all dreams come true, sometimes a weeping heart has to console itself with a defeat.
4. HOW HARD IT IS TO EARN MONEY: When we are children, nobody talks to us about money. We start believing the money is for granted because our parents never made us wait to get toys, chocolates, school bags etc. We start believing that money is not at all important because our father never told us how many nights he had to wake up to meet the deadline set by his boss, and because our mother never told us how many times she wanted to buy things for her own but couldn’t because she had to save money for our tuition fee. As we grow up, we realize that the money which we deemed secondary is actually the most pivotal things sans which this world doesn’t work. Believe it or not – you parents ingeniously prevaricated this issue and fooled you to believe that money is always there.
4. HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT THEM? : Our parents teach us so many things but never tell us how to live without them. How to help ourselves when our mother would no longer be there to care if we have eaten our lunch? How to help ourselves when our dad’s shoulder is no more to give us a place to weep and let our heart out? How to sort out things when there seems no way out? How to laugh when the one who gave us this countenance is no more to feel it?
The pious bond that we share with them obviated them telling us the truth, but they were right at their own place since if the gardener told the seeds how ruthlessly their flowers will be plucked when grow up, the seeds would never germinate.

“YOU SHOULD NEVER TELL A CHILD THAT DREAMS ARE FAKE, IT WOULD BE A TRAGEDY IF THEY KNEW.” – PAULO COELHO


Monday 26 June 2017

Solving Hunger needs a Revolution


When around seventy years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent our great nation, they knew that a time will come when we will be made to change- change not for change’s sake, but change to endure- and today that time has indubitably arrived.
India has made unprecedented processes in the seventy years of its independence. After being left completely robbed of its charm in the hands of the Brits, our nation was thought to be nearing apocalypse. Moreover, our uncanny experiment with democratic ideals compelled the world that India doesn’t need any antagonist it will self-pulverize itself. However, the clairvoyance of great economic, social and political pundits was purged when India stamped on their prediction to appear into the limelight as the pioneer of this new epoch.

The nation has certainly exhibited a paradigm progress in its term as an independent country, but unfortunately, the societal chasm in our nation has also widened to a greater extent. Though our advancements are exemplary, still we have been unable to prune the great divide in our country which has been conducive to the rich becoming richer and the poor becoming poorer. One of the worst faces of this thrutch has been ‘hunger’.
Such a pity it is that the nation which is home to the fourth largest population of millionaires also shelters 15% of its population which is not even able to feed itself two times a day! Hunger in this nation has always been a major issue. Notwithstanding our big strides in all the directions, this problem has consistently been a problematic issue for the nation. It has been a heartrending fact that the colossal economic progress that we have made has not been able to engender substantial transmutation in the respective scenario of the nation.
Every year 16th October is treated as the “World Food Day”. The world gathers to pledge many novel initiatives in order to tackle the problems of malnutrition and hunger but unfortunately after a few day that craze fades into oblivion and nothing changes. Our careless attitude towards such a grave problem leads to the death of 3000 children every day in our own nation. The disheartening figures here limpidly exhibit the current state of so many people around the nation and certainly, it is high time that we realized that we are currently in a situation of “either do or die”.

Whenever a harsh problem strikes our door and there seems no way out, a great revolution is needed to transform things for better. There used to be a time when our country’s agricultural and milk products were unable to feed the growing population of the nation. The agricultural and dairy equipment, as well as the methodologies that we had been using, were antiquated and in spite of veracious efforts, our produce was meager and abysmal. A humongous abyss was created between the demand and supply and anything fruitful remained elusive. When nothing worked, two great people came forward- Mr. M.S. Swaminathan and Dr. Verghese Kurien and we got our Green and White revolutions which changed the nation for forever. The ginormous extent of progress turned the once deficient nation into a surplus one. This problem too needs to be dealt in the same fashion. A radical change with a stiff approach to get the work done is the only way ahead. When more than 192 million people are stuck in this vicious problem, when more than half the pregnant women in the nation are anemic due to malnourishment, only a great upheaval can take the nation forward. It is difficult to even envisage the condition of a family that is not able to even afford a two-time meal; it shatters our heart to even imagine the great plight these people are in. It is their right to live, the right to sustain themselves and hence it’s our onus to effect a revolution for the sake of these people who can’t help themselves.  

How can we bring in a revolution?

The basics of hunger have always been wrongly understood in our country. Surprisingly, there is enough food to feed everyone in the world. If the food resources are distributed equally around the world, there will be plenty for everyone, with enough to spare. Today the world produces 10% more food than is needed, but unfortunately, 30%-50% of the produced 1.2-2 billion tonne food is wasted and as a result of this the poor are not able to feed themselves. Despite being blessed with enough resources to feed the whole world, our own injudicious use of our food resources has led to the genesis of various problems. The need of the hour is not to produce more food; it is to save the already produced food. Such a humongous amount of our food resources are made futile because of our imprudent attitude. The need of the hour is to infuse a revolution in the behavior of people. There have been so many programs aimed at generating awareness regarding this topic, but we have actually missed the most important thing i.e. changing the mindset of people. A revolution to decimate hunger will certainly revolve about inculcating though into people, that the food that they consider ‘extra’ and ‘waste’ can help many people go to sleep with a content stomach. The food that they leave out in hotels and marriage function can help a small child live his life and redeem himself of the shackles of malnourishment.

Our simple choices can lead to inexplicably great changes, our ordinary tweaking of our habits can paste a smile on so many faces- so why not step ahead and make that revolution start from ourselves!


THE REVOLUTION IS NOT AN APPLE THAT FALLS WHEN IT RIPE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT FALL.---CHE GUEVARA






 JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Letting the cats out of the bag.

North Korea seems to be a perennial issue around the political lobbies of the political lobbies of the world. The dictator regime has always been an issue of concern for the Americans and the South Koreans but with its advent and rapid upgrading of the technologically advanced artillery, issues regarding the vision of the capricious regime of North Korea continue to be clad in a nebulous enigma.

Rocket men of Kim Jong Un are having hard days. With so many military exercises, artillery explosion and testing, the North Korean despot is incessantly striking the top headlines almost every day. The immense surge in the military activities of this secluded nation is of nightmarish concern to the think tanks around the world. According to the available numbers, the North Korean army launched eight missiles in the incipient two years of their contemporary tyrant, but since then there has been no looking back. Kim Jong Un has pressed the throttle hard and now the country launches more than 15 missiles every year. The country is also suspected to be making arrangements for its sixth nuclear test. Currently, North Korea has garnered enough power to haunt Japan as well as its southern counterpart- South Korea. But Kim Jong Un seems not uncontended with that much progress. Lately, he has also said that the country is taking huge leaps forward in the development of ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles) which could cross even the Pacific. Though Mr. Trump has replied back to him by saying that this won’t happen, but still the international pundits don’t rely on such fallacious assurance, for North Korea’s nuclear program doesn’t let them deem the nation as a scrawny one.

It is no hidden fact that internally North Korea has been at a receiving end of various maladies. The country is struggling with underfed population, weak army, and a hobbling economy. But, notwithstanding being marred by blights from inside, Kim Jong Un, as well as his predecessors, have somehow made the nation appear as an international threat to the peoples around the world. Though the grandeur of North Korea may look mighty, but a close scrutiny lets the cats out of the bag.

North Korea’s success is in pure terms accidental. The country is not riding on its own success but is simply accidentally exploiting the circumstances of its neighbors. The acrimonious relations between China and the US have led to an extended fling for the country. The US stands well established on the South Korean as well as the Japanese coasts, and this has led to US’s wielding of huge influence in the Indian Ocean as well as strategically pivotal Asian countries. And as the USA is busy channeling its friendship to more and more Asian countries in order to pulverize and tame the Mandarin influences in the area, and in the midst of all this, the Chinese authorities are bound to rank resentment. Though, Chinese are also not far behind and have always vehemently reproached the growing influence of the American Marines on its neighboring shores, but they too, are well aware of the fact that sporadic claims of ownership of the South China Sea can’t suffice for the dragon’s humongous ambitions fraught with the desire to rule the world. Thus North Korea is actually a trump for the Chinese to keep the Americans at bay. North Korea’s serendipity lies in its geographical countenance on the globe.

China is well conversant with the fact that the abdication of the North Korean regime will lead to the presence of gum chewing Marines at its shores and soon the dragon will face impending jeopardy of its dream to project itself as the super-power of 21st century. Therefore China has decided to bring up a skittish regime on its borders rather than the Uncle Sam. This policy started after the Korean war and since then, it has not betrayed the Mandarins even once. Moreover, the development of the nuclear supplies of North Korea has turned it into an even more faithful neighbor for the China since now the world knows that meddling with a flippant nuclear power is nothing less than self-destruction.
Thus one can veritable claim that North Korea is an accidental regime. To ward off the Americans, China is helping a perilous and belligerent regime. But one thing that Chinese are also worried about is the faithfulness of North Korea. Although North Korea is useful for China, but the question of the reliability must also be haunting the Chinese leadership. The soaring extent of its defense advancements is slowly accommodating freedom to the North Korean regime. Its nuclear program and missile testing are making it more and more powerful and soon that day is not far enough when North Korea won’t deem China as a crucial element of its survival. And it is high time that Chinese too realized the fact that breeding nations like Pakistan and North Korea will lead to the genesis of self-destruction. China can’t remain sangfroid after threatening the whole world with disasters. An excessively empowered North Korea will be nothing less than a suicide bomb for the Chinese. Though it may harm others, still the biggest pain is borne by the one who is wearing the bomb armor.


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Friday 16 June 2017

How to be an inspiring leader.



If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more –You are a leader.”
-JOHN QUINCY ADAM

A leader is indubitably the most pivotal link in any organization, the one who coalesces various discrete departments to collaborate together. Visions don’t beget leaders but leaders do create them. The part and parcel of any defined structure is the paramount vanguard which will lead the institution to accomplish victory and veritably there is no doubt that having no leader at all is better than having an insipid leader. Having no leadership will corroborate defeats but having a vapid leader summons catastrophes too.
In this cut-throat competition, a strong leader is a sine qua non. Any institution that wants to conquer this competition ought to have a robust leadership and an inspiring leadership is hence, certainly indispensable.

So, how can you be an inspiring leader? Though the process is not that much of a cake walk; but, it is not impossible either. Here are two step which can guide to engender in yourself, the requisite charisma needed out of a stimulating leader.

1. WHO IS A LEADER?   - The first shot that you can have at solving anything is to understand the thing! A leader is not an esoteric person who is immaculate, exceptionally proficient in everything he does; a leader is also not the one who talks in the language of assignments and deadlines; but in fact, a leader is simply a person who inspires action.  Leadership is not some elusive quality; it is just the courage to inspire others to find the latent leader in themselves. Wolf of Wall Street expounds the vitality of an inspiring leader. Jordan Belfort(Leonardo DiCaprio) just comes in and evokes action out of a dull set of employees and just through the powers of his inspiration, these people go on to play one of the biggest Ponzi games in the world.
 Leaving out the treacherous conclusion of his inspiration, we can actually infer that inspiration can indeed move mountains, and to get some incredible results out of your employees, you have to be inspiring. Hence, a leader is none but a “motivational creature”.
Great leaders are products of necessity and opportunity. Nobody needs inspiration in serenity, we demand leaders when we are walloped into pandemonium and hence leadership is all about taking responsibility when others are making excuses. Napolean Bonaparte has correctly quoted, “A leader is a dealer in hope.”  When turmoil is around, the pretentious ones will step aside and a veracious leader will rise to the helm. 


2.  HOW TO INSPIRE? : The first step might have seemed pretty simple; so, here is your cup of tea- the formidable path.

Famous leadership programs author John C Maxwell has given his criterion for the true quality of a leader by saying: Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough to motivate them.

The first step to perform well as per Maxwell’s rubric is to strike the right chord with them, to find a shared ground and to make them feel that you care about them. You must condescend to their level and listen to their problems, in order to unravel what’s troubling your employees. No good organization can go on to achieve “bigger” aims if it continues to be deaf to the “smaller” problems of its employees.

Next, comes the most crucial part of Maxwell’s statement – “to be far enough to motivate them”.  Since you want to distinguish yourself as a leader, you must have a limpid vision over how to extirpate the problems in your workplace. Once you have deigned to the level of your followers/ employees, use your intuition to find the optimum solution. People look up to a leader because he/she can allocate them with remedies to their problems; once you understand their problems, you have to look out for exacting cures. Don’t bludge away with excuses; instead, be honest and work for them.  Use your understanding to come up with novel plans to obliterate various nagging issues. Start from the scratch and then go on to annihilate the problems engulfing your workplace. Here your experience will come in handy (remember you need to be far ahead). When you creatively look for ingenious solutions and put things into action; you will indeed inspire leadership in your office/ area etc. A true leader inspires by action and not by abysmal hyperbole. Inspire your people not to work half-heartedly for their job but to work full-heartedly for you.
Jeff Bezos, founder-CEO of Amazon says, “Believe that your company is a successful one when your employees feel proud to be referred to as its employees.” People working in Google and Microsoft do feel proud to mention that they are working at these dot coms not just because they are big names in the market but because of the great overall atmosphere that these companies present, the milieu which these companies render to their employees is the biggest reason behind the success of these tech giants and hence a leader must understand how to create the perfect setting for his work and this, in fact, motivates people to forego the worry of projects and deadlines, and  indeed work for their leader.


Set precedents for others to emulate and this will in itself motivate people to action.

Follow these two not-so-simple steps to tread on a journey not-so-simple to be forgotten.
 JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI