Sunday, October 24, 2004

Bachelor of politics

India, my motherland. gone were the days when we argued about why India is
still in develping countries list, in block 5 and 7 of AU hostels.
everyone had their own thoughts, but all the thoughts narrowed down to two major issues. one is India's population, and the other is the Indian politics.

First, let me tell something about the population. India often boasts about the
human resources available and the quality of each people. To me, I feel that the
quality is being eclipsed by the quantity of the people. as the head count increases
basic requirements for food, shelter, employment.... keeps increasing and
of course, we are not able to meet this requirement.

Although india is the seventh biggest country in the world, the cultivable
land space is less, even if it is available it will be under some problem
and less funds to improve the quality of the cultivated food.

considering north india, Kashmir problem is a major problem and most of
the funds needs to be allocated for defence and for day to day threats,
same with the case with east india. considering south india, there is always
some communal problems and race problems (aryans and dravidians, still!!!),
and regional problem (kaveri water dispute) and lots of funds and energy
is wasted solving these problems, instead they can be used for getting
basic amenities. So, inorder to tackle the increasing population, we need to
solve the communal problems and regional problems at first place.

Now, comes the second issue into picture. In most of these communal problems,
politicians role is major. If you take north india, the issue would be raman
temple and babri masjid, if you take south the issue would be cauvery water issue.
and these politicians campaign and sustain their throne using these issues,
and spend less time in these.

The solution that immediately pops on the top of mind is recruiting PMs, CMs,
ministers, only if they are literated. My strong belief was illiteracy
in the government circle is the major reason for these things. even I was thinking
of a new course which only teaches politics, Bachelor of politics.

But I was shocked when I heard that a party with more number of corrupts is from
lalloo's team, and also it is the party with maximum number literates among all
the parties in india. Literacy should be injected to commoner as well,
so that atleast, they can choose their well-wishers, deliberately.

I feel that there is a big hole in democracy. it says it is for the people,
by the people, and of the people. and the most funny thing is people exploits
democracy. there should be strict rules, hard and fast, to make people abide
the rules of the government. the number of decision makers should be decreased,
so that we can arrive at some conclusions faster and will reach people fast.
I am not saying some sort of autocracy or dictatorship, but tuning the demcoratic principles.

Personally, I feel that communism is the best.

(excerpts from gist of gita ;-))

Whatever you have, you have received from Him (Government).

Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.

You came empty handed and you will go the same way.


But I know that it is tangential what's happening in india, and quite difficult
to implement.

The last thing to say : unless we realize ourselves we cannot make india a super power, even in 2020. realization should come from oneself. just think of a country
like japan, which was in bad shape, before 50 years, when we were in the same
position. now, japan has grown to an extent, which will take india for another 15
to 20 years, to reach.

let us keep japan as our role model, and in future other countries will keep us,
as their role model.

BFN.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nanba "enathu porataggal" padichittu communism paesurae.

To make india a super power, every indian, atleast educated citizen should understand the global economics and politics, Else we(u) can talk only like this. It is merely a emotional feeling. Not a logical/practical way to make things work. Sorry for my storng comments. Ready for the argument :)

M

Krishna Ram Kuttuva Jeyaram said...

muthukumar tholarae,

"enathu porattam" is not about communism.
infact it speaks racism and capitalism,
not about marxism.

"understanding global economics" might be easier
for you people, but not for ignorant people like me.
unless the government is supportive, no one can come out
of their ignorance. go and take a person from US or china,
are they really aware of global economics? does every
american knows about the top companies in india
and their role in global market?

knowing about global economics might be next level,
first of all, we do not have primary education in place
and how many are educated in india? throwing some ways
on achieving it.

injecting litercy inside the commoner will automatically
make them to learn global and local politics.

i do not support communism fully, but i could say that
democracy, is getting exploited here.

Lumbergh-in-training said...

Brother, the reason for us being like this is the big size of the government, being in anything and everything. This was worse before the socalled 'liberalisation'. I say, the government should get out of businesses, manufacturing, and others and should concentrate on what it should be doing - governance. What the hell with government know about manufacturing goods and providing services? Leave it all to the private companies. What we need now is not government handouts; just look at South Korea, we started at the same level in the 50s. Look at its position now, and our position... There are a lot of examples all over the world; Air Indian/Indian Airlines vs British Airways, the various private houses in India under strict government control vs the chaebols of South Korea, Malaysia, USA, Canada (basically, all the developed countries and the SE Asian countries). Please don't say anything about China; even though it is a authoritarian state, the global businesses are all privately held.

Krishna Ram Kuttuva Jeyaram said...

manoj,

i agree with you upto some extent. how about indian
railway? indian railways is one of the biggest and
successfull organization. the government should give
the control to private sctors after establishment,
instead of taking FULL control over it and doing nothing.

Lumbergh-in-training said...

I don't know about Indian Railways man... you are correct to some extent, IR is one of the few better organisations in our country. but, what can you say of a service company where the staff are courteous, trains run on time, trains not over-filled and bulging at their seams, where demand for seats is met and sometimes people turned back, clean toilets, tea & coffee not watery, edible food on board, etc etc (the good but someitmes bad aspects)? definitely not Indian Railways. but the people must be praised that inspite of being a government company, they have managed to provide some good service. don't you think this would improve with privatisation? You are right again in saying that goverment should get out of these things. :)

Krishna Ram Kuttuva Jeyaram said...

manoj,

yes, u r right. privatization should be done,
but after the system gets established.(upto some extent).