Women's bill : Another unfortunate chapter to Indian Constitution

Everywhere in media there seems to be a good feeling that finally after 14 years, the women's reservation bill got passed. The women activists are so happy that finally their efforts got a government stamp and they believe now for women's everything will change the way it has changed for SC/ST/OBC over more than 50 years of reservation, which I doubt. However nothing dramatically has changed for lower castes because of reservations, whatever has changed its due to various socioeconomic initiatives by various government, corporates and NGOs.

Lest look a bit closer to the Bill, the reason bill got approved on upper house has different meanings to general public and politicians! The bill will be abused like anything to strengthen nepotism, already prevalent in Indian politics, and make the political families more and more powerful as more and more family members , now of course womens, will join the feast. So, the joy and cheer should be amongst the elite political families who are already in lower/upper house rather than a common women in our or your houses. I am wondering how media is praising this bill without showing the ill effect of the bill? not to forgot, political families owns hug stakes in media companies so I guess their pens can't write anything against.

Being a clairvoyant Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru Ji had protested against any form of community quota in the constitution as it will harm the very fundamentals of constitution. The SC/ST/OBC quota has never been critically reviewed by experts, instead it has only been abused by the government as a poll tool. It was suppose to get reviewed periodically to assess its effect and to make appropriate amendments, the castes who have got a better deal with the quota should be removed from the schedule so that the other castes in the same schedule should get a chance, it should not happen that only few castes in the schedule are getting the benefit, which is quite prevalent in current scenario. It must be applied with statistical granularity of each and every caste rather than clubbing them anonymously in a single schedule to satisfy the poll marketing strategies.

Now if we see this women's quota will be instrumental in making the existing political families more and more influential and it will become more and more difficult for new comers to join politics. For example, if the principle constituency of the prominent party leader comes under women quota, then probably his wife/daughter/Mother will contest on his behalf and ,of course, he will contest from some other constituency hence end up eating another seat which could be of a new comer and increasing his stake in the party as well as in Indian politics.

Nevertheless, there is hardly anything we can do except writing these benign blogs, having some discussions and then forgetting everything and get busy with routine work to make our future secure by spending more time in office, getting salary hikes, paying more taxes without knowing the fact that the same money would be billed against expense incurred in foreign trip of our minister's family in ,of course, an official visit.

Jai Hind

The Indian skepticism

The Core values

India has become synonym for cultural values across the world. And its value system has always been the heart of Indian daily life style or so called religion. As the time passed and people migrated to India and got indianized, however, many of them never accepted it.
The basic core of this cultural value system has been preserved for thousands of years but at the expanse of much unwarranted modulation, mainly due to contemporary political situation.

India stopped growing

Foreign rule is not a strange thing in history of India. People came here as foreigner, ruled here, some became resident by Indianizing themselves (though unknowingly) and some left the land along with the booty. The frangible states of north-west frontier were not enough to check the waves of central Asians who were very much exited with their newly adopted value system of the drought prone Mediterranean gulf, which has actually united the fighting clan. However, the unity was not enough to reckon with China, so they concentrated to most fertile peninsula of the continent called Sind. They neither had time nor patience to learn the new civilization so they tried to transform it to their own way.
When a civilization is forced to follow new things it may react in two ways, one to resist or fight it second is to get contained inside only. The India followed the later way and since then stop developing its own way in fear that it will attract unwanted attention of the aliens hence creating more problems. So, the very first seed of pessimisms got implanted into the soil and it was just the beginning. India preferred to follow the best practices known rather than inventing new ones. In this way India stopped developing something of its own about 1500 years back! The innovation on new areas almost stopped. What best could be done was just to sustain the old system and if possible magnify it. Today we have all our systems from astronomy to medical science everything is millennium old.

More ironically, now the mammoth civilization was illiterate as per the newly civilized central Asian, the Turks and Mangoles, So a 3500 years old civilization started learning the basics of civilization from the aliens who were merely few centuries old.

The Hard leanings

A new learning drive started. Whatever the India knew was of no use under the new system. So either you learn or run a parallel system. India did both of them. Few get aligned with the new system (or in religion term got converted) other remained adamant to their roots and continue to preserve its old best known practices but at a cost, which never been anticipated. The best practices got modulated under the influence of the new system and over a period of centuries few of them remained as dead rituals and sometimes ill practices.

While all these demographic changes were going on all across the region, the whole Indian community as a whole was unknowingly inculcating skepticism deep inside its roots. In earlier phases it was not very visible or nobody bothered to notice it, however, down the time it started bursting out as the most evil practices in the world eg Sati, Child Marriage, and widow trafficking. Although contemporary reformers took step to check them and shown the way to get out of it, but failed to actually address the root cause of it. The greatest of them were Swami Vivekandan, Raja RamMohan Rai and Mahatma Gandhi etc.

Again back to school

A new civilization teacher was about to come. Earlier it was central Asians and now it was Westerners. Hence, for last eight hundred whatever India had learnt was now futile under the new system. So once again India compelled to start from zero. So what to do? Learn the new system or get back to the old system, though badly modulated, for rescue.
The whole India got confused and scattered. It has got three systems but which one to follow? One the oldest, though modulated second the central Asian though borrowed from Arabs or the third one the new western system.

Hence in middle of everything,India choose to amalgam all of them to start a new civilization. But whether that was chosen by India or forced to; is of little concern.

Starting a new life

Post colonial period started with full of challenges, but thanks for the leadership of that time, it didn't worsen. Although late, we survived.

politics and business

I was wondering going across all the new channels or site, that there was one thing common; the prime news is either a political or a business related news. Moreover, if we look across our society (irrespective of country we live) the most influential person around would be from either fields. However, I don't see most people go for it as there career?

Its getting difficult for me to understand why we opt to follow some path for ourselves which we know is not going to be very dynamic, rather it will be very limited to my own world itself. But the question is what is our world? Is our family, office friend circle and official meeting are our world? Perhaps if you are thinking that its your world you may be mistaken.

The world is much larger than what we see. Its those influential peoples across the world indirectly decide your world. There decisions today or tomorrow are going to change your so called small world forever. Lets take one by one example from each of the fields.

First if we take the political decision, which may not be restricted to one country rather has consequences far reaching across the boarder. The simplest example would be war. And taking the second one could be very familiar now days are the business related which is quite obvious from this downturn/recession, for which we all suffered was merely the (wrong) decisions by business world people across the globe.

So, why we serve whole of our life for others in this way. Just being a slave of predefined systems. Its time to create our own.