The top court earlier passed a slew of directions to states, asking them to send migrant workers home, register, counsel and help them find employment.
Indians have ceased to be ‘argumentative’; instead, they have started surrendering. There’s no intellectual debate; only status-seeking, clever discourse.
The very popular, but quite cynical, perception...
Sam Pitroda can help Congress by pasting some strong, sticky tape all over his mouth and then spending the rest of the 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign in silence. He has done enough damage already.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
A next generation extended stand-off air-to-surface missile test fired by IAF, ROCKS has been designed & manufactured by Israeli defence major Rafael, keeping India’s needs in mind.
The methods adopted by corrupt to sustain corruption is either by way of an autocratic rule as we we have seen in most of the countries which got independence after the second world war.
India adopted a different technic, we corrupted the entire country systematically. It is now so easy to go after anyone because the spread is complete. This was a perfect democracy for all the beneficiaries.
The correction could only have come from someone like MODI, so the beneficiaries with their collective financial muscle and friends all over the world are putting up the resistance.
The colonial rulers established devices to rule with an iron fist, the subsequent rulers put a velvet glove on it to fool the population, the purpose changed from ruling to money making even co-opting the opposition instead of crushing it like in the neighbouring countries.
It is very easy to say that State institutions are failing the citizens because they are. But those responsible for this are the citizens themselves.
Sample this
The other day while driving on a road I saw a vehicle parked right in the middle of the road, unloading some stuff. I pulled up, walked over to the driver who was at the wheel, possibly waiting for the unloading to finish, and politely requested him to move the vehicle to the side of the road so that traffic is not held up. He looked at me with an air of ownership and quipped in Hindi “Tera baap ka road hain kya, side se Nikal” (translated: “Does this road belong to your father, get past from the side”). He was right. Obviously, the road did not belong to my father. But then….
One more…
The media always stands up for the rights of its citizens and touts freedom of every kind at the drop of a hat. So, it is intriguing why does not the media come out vehemently against those who willfully and repeatedly violate the constitutional rights of millions of citizens by blocking and disrupting public conveniences in the name of protests? Even the judiciary is against such “protests” which by its nature results in injuries and fatalities. Whose freedom is it anyway?
One more…
In older democratic countries, one is taken to the cleaners for not mowing the lawn or not using a baby seat in the car or spitting on the road….you may argue that people here don’t have houses (for a lawn) or cars but only babies…the point is not that, it is about responsibilities that come with freedom.
Well, who really cares as long as we are able to discuss “freedom” of every shade,” liberalism”, “progressive ideas”, “secularism” (???), college politics, “expert” opinions and propped up authors.
Recently our media has gone gaga on a couple of Western, self-styled donation based (money talks?), biased organisations criticizing our Nation. Yes the institution of the media too have not come out from the colonial syndrome.
The cry of “freedom” is just a façade to deflect criticism so that the media can continue to be a marketplace for trading “spicy” materials to influence rather than inform. E.g. dissent of dissent is presented as strangulating!!!!! How absurd!
Tail piece: So come up with what a vast majority of the citizens are not doing right to enjoy freedom. Once this happens, the State institutions will correct themselves. Get real.
True… Culturally these institutions have borrowed from the manner in which the British officers spoke and interacted with the public. Their interactions is often contemptuous and condescending. They lack empathy and a view that people that they interact are their fellow citizens and it is their job to respect them and help them. The prime example is the Police force. They want to beat you up and lock you in prison. They want to enforce their Authority. Authority is a term of control. We need radical changes in our bureaucratic training.
Excellent write-up. I fully agree. The problem is misuse of our RESPONSIBILITIES. We hold the authority for the wrong reasons than using them for CITIZEN SERVICES. The moment you have this attitude of GOVERNMENT WORK IS GOD’s work, things will change.
Very true. With the continuation of the laws and administrative system created by the British Raj, India has replaced one set of rulers with another. GOI despite lacking capacity for governance wants to run temples, businesses, banks etc. thus controlling every facet of social and economic life of it’s subjects. Added to this, the belief that only denizens of one particular family are entitled to rule over and control the destinies of India’s multitudes makes India a pseudo-democracy.
The methods adopted by corrupt to sustain corruption is either by way of an autocratic rule as we we have seen in most of the countries which got independence after the second world war.
India adopted a different technic, we corrupted the entire country systematically. It is now so easy to go after anyone because the spread is complete. This was a perfect democracy for all the beneficiaries.
The correction could only have come from someone like MODI, so the beneficiaries with their collective financial muscle and friends all over the world are putting up the resistance.
The colonial rulers established devices to rule with an iron fist, the subsequent rulers put a velvet glove on it to fool the population, the purpose changed from ruling to money making even co-opting the opposition instead of crushing it like in the neighbouring countries.
It is very easy to say that State institutions are failing the citizens because they are. But those responsible for this are the citizens themselves.
Sample this
The other day while driving on a road I saw a vehicle parked right in the middle of the road, unloading some stuff. I pulled up, walked over to the driver who was at the wheel, possibly waiting for the unloading to finish, and politely requested him to move the vehicle to the side of the road so that traffic is not held up. He looked at me with an air of ownership and quipped in Hindi “Tera baap ka road hain kya, side se Nikal” (translated: “Does this road belong to your father, get past from the side”). He was right. Obviously, the road did not belong to my father. But then….
One more…
The media always stands up for the rights of its citizens and touts freedom of every kind at the drop of a hat. So, it is intriguing why does not the media come out vehemently against those who willfully and repeatedly violate the constitutional rights of millions of citizens by blocking and disrupting public conveniences in the name of protests? Even the judiciary is against such “protests” which by its nature results in injuries and fatalities. Whose freedom is it anyway?
One more…
In older democratic countries, one is taken to the cleaners for not mowing the lawn or not using a baby seat in the car or spitting on the road….you may argue that people here don’t have houses (for a lawn) or cars but only babies…the point is not that, it is about responsibilities that come with freedom.
Well, who really cares as long as we are able to discuss “freedom” of every shade,” liberalism”, “progressive ideas”, “secularism” (???), college politics, “expert” opinions and propped up authors.
Recently our media has gone gaga on a couple of Western, self-styled donation based (money talks?), biased organisations criticizing our Nation. Yes the institution of the media too have not come out from the colonial syndrome.
The cry of “freedom” is just a façade to deflect criticism so that the media can continue to be a marketplace for trading “spicy” materials to influence rather than inform. E.g. dissent of dissent is presented as strangulating!!!!! How absurd!
Tail piece: So come up with what a vast majority of the citizens are not doing right to enjoy freedom. Once this happens, the State institutions will correct themselves. Get real.
True… Culturally these institutions have borrowed from the manner in which the British officers spoke and interacted with the public. Their interactions is often contemptuous and condescending. They lack empathy and a view that people that they interact are their fellow citizens and it is their job to respect them and help them. The prime example is the Police force. They want to beat you up and lock you in prison. They want to enforce their Authority. Authority is a term of control. We need radical changes in our bureaucratic training.
Excellent write-up. I fully agree. The problem is misuse of our RESPONSIBILITIES. We hold the authority for the wrong reasons than using them for CITIZEN SERVICES. The moment you have this attitude of GOVERNMENT WORK IS GOD’s work, things will change.
Very true. With the continuation of the laws and administrative system created by the British Raj, India has replaced one set of rulers with another. GOI despite lacking capacity for governance wants to run temples, businesses, banks etc. thus controlling every facet of social and economic life of it’s subjects. Added to this, the belief that only denizens of one particular family are entitled to rule over and control the destinies of India’s multitudes makes India a pseudo-democracy.