A reprehensible silence.

A new hope was allocated to the people around three years ago on April 1, 2010. A whopping auspicious belief was made accommodated to the people of India that now Education is going to soar here and every child would be imparted education. This hope was equipped to the people by the Right to Education Act. This was a historic day for the people of India as from this day the right to education will be accorded the same legal status as the right to life as provided by Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. Every child in the age group of 6-14 years will be provided 8 years of elementary education in an age appropriate classroom in the vicinity of his/her neighborhood.

 

But the truth is sometimes very bitter and being candidly I can assure you that the truth is not bitter here as it is very very much bitter here. And the authentic fact is that overall RTE (Right to Education) has failed its exam very badly and shamefully and till now has been a farce.

Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) blatantly and vehemently screamed that the learning outcomes in the government schools are unacceptably low. Education which is the most important and crucial thing in a nation’s development has been snubbed by the government and the administration has been evasive on this issue. The reticent government just allocated 3.5% of GDP (Gross Development Product) contrary to Kothari Commission headed by D.S. Kothari asked the government to roll out 6% of the GDP for a steady and stable growth in the education sector.

The RTE act was made to influence and mould the worsening education system in India which has been stung upon by thousands of odds. RTE, although promised free education for children upto 14 years of age, has not been able to tackle to problems of the Education system. Even recently Supreme Court of India taking into cognizance the deplorable as well as scandalous state of government schools in India cued the state governments to rectify the system according to the RTE act. Eighteen (18) states have filed affidavit that they are all following the RTE act strictly but still the truth is appalling that the children still don’t get good education and there is a black truth behind such things. The schemes which have been commenced by the Government of India for the welfare of the nations’ students have not been implemented properly and have been assimilated by corrupt and dirty officials and the money rolled out for people has been obliterated for satisfying the needs of the sleazes and the scoundrels.

Situation in the country’s government schools have been worse and the worse thing is Hindi-medium teaching. When English is the official language of India so why are you teaching the children Hindi in the schools? Why not provide the students of government schools with good teachers who can help them cope with English as well as with English Medium syllabus of those of the Private and public schools? Why the government is not doing anything like this? Why not make the children of India equal? The government should definitely do something like this but the reluctance to do anything at the grass root level is really reprehensible.

We all should think and ponder over it.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharati

 

 

 

Learn from the blunders: A lesson for Pakistan.

Evils don’t die. They just fade away or become an exemplary and paradigm for other budding evils. The same thing applies for Pakistan’s former despot Pervez Musharraf. The only man who can be attributed for giving birth to the biggest rivalry between India and Pakistan. The man who arranged for Kargil and always says that, “He doesn’t regret Kargil war.” But this man is really wonderful. He has again made a comeback to Pakistan. You have to acknowledge his valance. The man who nearly obliterated the country says that “Where the Pakistan, he left years ago has gone?” The Pakistan whom he wounded years ago by the bruises of Kargil war, the Pakistan whose relation with one of its most important neighbouring country nearly broke down due to the war strategized by Musharraf in order to sabotage India and he is again demand for the same nation. Isn’t that ridiculous and absurd thing? It definitely is. This seems odd to the one who debilitated the country but still Musharraf who came back after a self-sought exile laments saying, “I cry when I see the state of Pakistan today” while addressing a group of people.

Delusion is an ailment. It’s a sweet death. The person affected by it even doesn’t know that they are victim of delusion and sometimes it proves to be very detrimental. Same thing is for Pakistan’s former tyrant dictator.

Pakistan is definitely in need of saviour. Saviour from what? Saviour from the choice. Pakistan has only got despair from its democracy. In the year 2007 youths in the age group of 18-29 age group say that 50% of the youths say that the nation is going in the wrong and destructive direction and ponder that Sharia would be a better option and opt for Sharia. And now the figure has shot up to 94%. They have entered into a state of despair and hopelessness due to the scams and corruption allocated and gifted to them by democracy. People like Musharraf who have given the nation nothing but in toto sorrows and grieves. And these sorrows and conducive to such option of Pakistani youths and this is very distressing.

Now can Musharraf who five such a huge wound to the nation make the country resilient? The man who gave the country its worst struggle, the man who created animosity between India and Pakistan is going to replenish it with friendship. The man who even doesn’t apologize for such a bad, barbarian and savage thing is saying that he is going to carve out a better nation. I think that there might have been a crocodile boom in Pakistan and the new crocodiles have learnt to shed crocodile tears to woo and befool the denizens of Pakistan. From the previous experiments of Musharraf Pakistan has to lose many things and I think that Pakistan is not going to give another chance to him. But saying things now would be hypothetical.

 

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

What's going to happen?

North Korea is at it again. Recently it proclaimed that it has entered into a state of war with South Korea and now it has asked for its embassies in the South Korea and US to mull over evacuation.  North Korea on Friday told its embassies to deem the situations correctly and has asked the embassies to consider evacuation because there are many chances of war contemporarily. North Korea while a US army practice drill with South Korea. North Korea which has been expanding and augmenting its army strength. Lately North Korea also made its third nuclear test and since then it has been dealing with South Korea in a belligerant mood and has been threatening to assault South Korea. South Korean media have also published reports of the North Korea's loading of its missiles towards South Korea and has also alleged that North Korea has hidden its missils in the eastern coast. Reports have stated that North Korea want to attack on the military bases of USA ( United States of America) entrenched in South Korea but the US has also retorted by dispatching advanced missile interceptor systems to its base in Guam. South Korea has also not lacked behind it has also equipped its borders with advanced system to monitor the situation of North Korea.
America has taken these threats seriously because North Korea has been exhibiting a very combative attitude as it has recently tested its missiles, has conducted a nuclear test and that's why it is becoming more perilous and dangerous and is creating big problems and troubles for South Korea.

China which has been pampering North Korea has also expressed its concerns on this thing and therefore it has called for the both the nations (North Korea and South Korea) to arrive on a preaceful conclusion and People's Republic of China is trying to alienate itself away from the matter by saying that the influence of China on North Korea is limited and China doesn't encourage such reactions from North Korea.
But what is to be seen now is that what's now going to happen and if anything bad happens then it is going to be worse.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

A vexing thing.

Lately Sanjay Dutt, a renowned and big bollywood thespian, was sentenced for 5 years as some weapons pertinent to 1993 Mumbai blasts were procured from his house and after 20 (twenty) years of the adjudication of the matter Sanjay Dutt was sentenced for a term of 5 years.

Recently in the in-toto Delhi we saw an avalanche of slogans and plethora of demands of justice as recently many cases arise in the recent time for. Ex. The brutal and savage murder of a 23 years old Delhi girl and many other things gave rise to a deluge of protests. But nowadays the definition of justice has been altered and true justice is facing a huge crisis as well as lack of completeness. Many big cases just get pointed to one or two people or some fall into the ditch of obsoleteness.  Let’s for example take the case of 1993 Mumbai Blasts.

The case is now not more than a film star’s tale and just nothing more than the casting of aspersion on Sanjay Dutt. But here are some things that are needed to be arbitrated in the case which form the crux of the situation.

The first point which has not been emphasised correctly and assiduously is that the real people behind the 1993 Mumbai blast attacks, which are the worst of their kind, are moving free in Pakistan without any impunity. The mastermind of these assaults Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and there benefactors and financers in Pakistan are there freely moving living just like common people. Indian government as well as intelligence agencies have not dealt this matter meticulously. They are having every detail of these people but still the Indian administration is reluctant to catch them as they are in the safe haven of terrorism in Pakistan. These people are the valuable guests of ISI but still India is not doing anything.

The other thing is the pardoning of Sanjay Dutt. It has been a very serious as well as mindboggling matter. Should Sanjay Dutt be granted bail of humanitarian ground just because he is a good and famous actor and having a huge fan following then some other convicts like Zebunissa Qazi who even didn’t know that ammunitions have been concealed in their house should also be pardoned. Why don’t we raise the case of these people? In front of law everyone is equal whether he is a pauper or a millionaire so why should we just beg pardon for him. I am clearly not saying that he should not be given pardon but I am saying that others who have been fighting this case for years who even didn’t know that ammunitions and arms have been there in their houses etc. should also be given pardon (Only if they are right).

 

The other thing is the riots that took place.  According to some figures in 1993  blasts 257 people died and in the riot that were concomitant to the blasts took the lives of around 900 (Nine hundred) people. The blasts were very violent and were incited by the communal forces. The people who also took advantage of the blasts should also be judged and if found guilty should be treated just as a conspirator of blasts.

The people in authorities should definitely consider these things and should deem this as a big question in the blasts.

An impeccable mistake.

By 1985, India had started having balance of payments problems. By the end of 1990, it was in a serious economic crisis. The government was close to default, its central bank had refused new credit and foreign exchange reserves had reduced to such a point that India could barely finance three weeks’ worth of imports. India had to airlift its gold reserves to pledge it with International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan. The economic crisis was primarily due to the large and growing fiscal imbalances over the 1980s. During mid eighties, India started having balance of payments problems. Precipitated by the Gulf War, India’s oil import bill swelled, exports slumped, credit dried up and investors took their money out. Large fiscal deficits, over time, had a spillover effect on the trade deficit culminating in an external payments crisis. By the end of 1990, India was in serious economic trouble.

This was a short outlook of the 1991 Balance of Payment Crisis in India which quitely miffed and vexed the whole nation. But still the question which has not been unraveled is that who should be attributed for this crisis, Former Prime Minister of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi or Mr. Vishvanath Pratap Singh, another former Prime Minister of the nation.

The tapes recorded by RBI (Reserve Bank Of India) of interview of about 40 officers from the bank and Finance ministry reveals a lack of correct judgment and adjudication. There has been a humongous faux pa and goof up by the Indian administration in the 1991 crisis. If the matter would have been dealt with accurate and impeccable judgment by the authorities then there would not have been anything like that.

At the time of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister, correct heed was not paid to this matter. Albeit the finance ministry officials allocated him a flawless suggestion but the advice was not aptly applied. The ministry proffered him to go to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the Managing Director of IMF then, Mr. Michael Camdessus told Mr. Prime Minister that the IMF could sympathetically view the matter, but Rajiv Gandhi at that time being accused of being embroiled in the Bofors Scandal (in which he was accused of taking kick back of Rs. 64 Crore) decided not to the IMF. By the middle of the year 1988 Rajiv Gandhi had been persuaded to complete his whole term and Rajiv Gandhi procrastinated the matter till the next national elections.

But in the year 1989 the Congress was trounced and V.P. Singh formed the National Front Government (backed by Bhartiya Janata party (BJP) and Commuinsts from the outside).

But this time everything got wrong and annihilated. The finance secretary committed a humongous blunder which was going to cost the nation much more. During the recording he confessed that he thought that it would not be a right thing for the PM to approach the IMF because the government was backed by the Communists and therefore thought of getting money from some other resources. And nothing was done in this crucial period of time, so the crisis resulted in a huge disaster and calamity for the whole nation. India was broken, the credits were dried up and now the country had nothing. The matter aggravated and completely exacerbated when the V.P. Singh’s government fell down and Rajiv Gandhi favored to support Chandra Shekhar as the Prime Minister of the country.

After that Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister  went to Japan for help but the Japanese even didn’t receive him in a cordial manner as those days were haughty days for Japan. But everything gone futile and no money materialised. And it took country very long to come up triumphantly.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai ma Bharti

 

Natural Resources.

On the sidelines of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Prime Minister of India Mr. Manmohan Singh mooted the topic of dam construction. Mr. Manmohan Singh by raising the topic of dam construction on Brahmputra River by China has articulately and eloquently made this matter a highly sensitive one in the whole world.

From the very beginning Beijing has been a reticent global state in the whole world and in the Brahmputra Dam issue too, China is conducting a contemptuous issue towards the other countries. Many south east nations have assorted to denying and repudiation of this conduct and demeanour of China towards other nations. China is not maintaining a global transparency towards other nation which is the bone of contention that other nations are facing with China.

For a very long time Chinese literature, satellite mapping and source reports have not been able to reveal much about the altercations being made in the Chinese region of Brahmputra river and this thing has augmented and have mutilated the transparency on the issue of Brahmputra river.

Recently media reports stated that Chinese officials plotted to divert around 40 billion cubic meters of water from Brahmputra River (known as Yarlong Tsangpo in China) in the year 2003.  But the Chinese administration shelved this plan out but the major tensions again woke up when a massive land slip blocked portions of the river at an unknown region called Great Bend but the tensions were terminated and quelled after the water cut a course through the blockade and flows returned to normal. In both the cases the Chinese remained taciturn. But after many efforts from India side the Chinese agreed with the request to share hydrological data.

Now China’s three dams on Brahmputra River that are

1.    Jiexu

2.    Zangmu

3.    Jiacha

India although in its diplomatic talks with Mr. Xi Jingping’s predecessor, former President of China and the Chinese foreign ministers. The distance between the three dams is around 25KM and these things have been ominous to threats from the Chinese side.

These are around 550 Km level from the Indian border. The first one has been an independent projects which doesn’t impound much water in the river, while Zangmu, whose construction word began in 2010, is uncertain about its being Run of River (RoR) variety while the third which is a 320 MW dam will be erected at Jiacha about a dozen Kilo-meter from the Zangmu downstream.

 

Due to all the things as well as moulding and diverting of Brahmputra River, India’s fear have been augmented and incremented notwithstanding being assuaged and allayed.

 

China now has a strong need to forsake its belligerent as well as non-transparent attitude towards other countries. Without the help and co-operation China can’t emerge out as a great power and it is also having many problems due to its this attitude (in South China Sea) and now therefore China needs to do something on this issue otherwise it will not be able to do anything and could neither become a regional power. It needs to focus heavily on the transparency of the Brahmputra River as well as other things.

 

Here we lack!!!!!

“Education is not something that you merely learn, it is something that you assimilate and use in our life.”

Discourage rote learning

In India we used to have the above mentioned tradition years ago, epochs ago but the tradition has somehow become oblivion. The students or scholars learning about a century or more ago in the ages of saints and monks were not just confined in the four walls of schools, their intelligence was no just constricted to only themselves, they were encouraged and motivated by their GURUS (Teachers) to use their learned things in the milieu and were inspired to use the things that they were being taught and to apply their learned concepts in their daily life. And most probably this was the most crucial and ingrained fact behind the world’s first and most successful university i.e. Nalanda University (established by Pala Dynasty), this was the covert technique used by the Takshila University (Now in Present Day Pakistan) to make its students one of the best scholars of the world. The real application of the concepts was the secret behind the success of Aryabhatta, India’s greatest mathematician ever who discovered the number zero(0), Acharya Chanakya, The greatest politician, financial and kingmaker born ever in the nation, Srinivas Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who discovered the value of Pi (π) up to the million decimal places (sans any equipment or machine used). This was the thing that used to make the capabilities of students transcend any limit, reaching to their maximum summit and pinnacle of potential.

But now India is lacking behind in all these things. Here nowadays rote learning is encouraged. Teachers and students nowadays are not having that great reputed relationship that they used to have with each other. The teacher just enters the class, starts teaching what is written in the book, never encouraging the students to think out of the box, the other thing is nowadays students are also not having that immense passion to learn that their previous generation counterparts used to have. Children just learn, not absorb they rote learn the things from the examination point of view, not from the using and applying concepts point of view.

Lets for example take something that every student knows, the fundamental rights allocated by the respected constitution of India. If you ask the rights everyone would give you a previously learned definition but if you ask them how these rights can be asserted then the hapless children would give the same absurd answer- “NOPE”, because they have not been taught to do anything like this in the real life.

For another example:- IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Why the bar of IIT is deflating day by day? This is the reason behind this. Children take help of coaching centres and then the coaching centre make them do every type of questions due to which they clear the entrance exam but the thing is after clearing the JEE they are not able to do something new, they are not able to create a miracle and that’s why the level of this reputed institution is declining globally. It is not able to produce worth students who can really do anything.

And that why India is being trounced by other nations in terms of education.  This is the reason due to which we people are having dearth of great engineers, doctors and scientists who are able to do something new.

 

This problem is eating the country’s future and is very perilous for the people. But now the government has a great need to prepare teachers, to infuse the teachers with the passion to teach. Most of the teachers or budding teachers here are for earning good sum of money not because of the thing that they want to teach.

This is not the time to dither; we have to expose children to veritable learning; we have to mend the sagging education system; this is the time to make our education system impervious of rote learning. We have to prepare good teachers now who want to do something for the welfare of the future of the nation and that are why now we need to do something.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti