DIDI AND HER PLOT!

THE INSIDE STORY OF DINESH TRIVEDI STEPPING DOWN AS THE RAILWAY MINISTER AND THE ROLE OF MAMATA BANERJEE IN IT!

The literal meaning of the Hindi word "Didi" means an older sister, right? And an older sister's one who helps you in the direst of stress, protects you from all harm and danger, fights for your right and restores your dignity and honour in the face of others.
Fine, ok.

That's not your sister or mine. But the "didi" I'm referring to here is none other than the "Always clad in cotton sarees...... spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi.....in the process of establishing herself as a national leader..... Chief Minister of Paschim Banga: Ms. Mamata Banerjee!"
She is a true leader because of which I'm in complete awe of her.

And why is that, you ask? So let me tell you here that she is extremely modest, down to earth and works only for the welfare of the down-trodden. I mean, just look at the recent case of the railway budget where the railway minister Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, was asked to step down.
WHY?
Because the budget for the railways for the year 2012-13 had explicitly increased the fare for the passengers commuting by train. A budget which had been ratified by the Government, A budget which had been expressed to "DIDI's" closest aid, a senior
bureaucrat, a budget which would have rendered 2 lakh people employment....!!!
But No. My true National leader who works ONLY for the welfare of the Aam Aadmi, felt it did grave injustice to the people whose daily mode for commuting is the railways.

SHE KILLED THREE BIRDS WITH ONE STONE!
HA...

Its like watching a Hindi movie where a group of corrupt politicians are sitting in the living room of a huge mansion sipping tea, or more likely indulging in alcohol and plotting their next move after harassing an innocent and law abiding citizen. I can so imagine Mamata Banerjee along with Gautam Sanyal and other politicians deriving sadistic pleasure on Dinesh Trivedi's stepping down as the Railway Minster.

Sorry, i completely forgot to tell you how she killed the birds... So pay heed to this. It is all substantiated and not just manifestations of my mind.

NUMBER 1:
She NEVER wanted Dinesh Trivedi to be the Railway Minster, She had recommended
Mukul Roy's name but due to certain objections he was rejected. A mere puppet in her
hand and a complete yes-man, Mukul Roy was shown the door and in came a principled
man, who practiced what he preached and a true patron of Rabindranath Tagore: Mr.
Dinesh Trivedi.

NUMBER 2:
Mukul Roy becomes the railway minister due to her persistent nagging and threats, that Dinesh Trivedi should step down as the railway minister, Knowing fully well, that if her demands were not paid heed to she would withdraw her party's support from the UPA government which is already on crutches. Several allegations leveled against Dinesh Trivedi and he gets humiliated on national television.

NUMBER 3:
She garners the support of the middle class by quoting fare hike as an increase of woes for them and proceeds a step further in establishing herself as a national leader, by winning the confidence and trust of the poor, emaciated, illiterate class.

DO YOU STILL NOT GET IT????

IT WAS ALL A PRE-MEDITATED PLAN, OF ERR... DIDI! A POPULIST STUNT.

She always knew that this would happen. And how do i say this? Well, hear this out.
In the words of Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, an astute senior journalist working with Times Now, who is known to have political affiliations, confidently claimed that "DINESH TRIVEDI WOULD NOT BE THE RAILWAY MINISTER AFTER THE BUDGET." MR. Trivedi who heard this himself said that it came as a surprise to him when it did actually come true especially since the journalist was no astrologer. The bureaucrat that I mentioned, Gautam Sanyal, had been informed of the fare hike personally by the minister. So how is it that Mamata Banerjee was kept in the dark?

She appeared to be all beleaguered by the hike, going from channel to channel claiming to not have known anything about this. I'm sorry but everything does indeed connect.

The chances of a new promising leader are quite bright in today's scenario when the
voter has no confidence int the present government or its allies or even the opposition for that matter. And didi sure knows how to make use of a situation like this.
Mr. Trivedi not wanting the already handicapped government to encounter another
crisis, stepped down without giving any clarification. In an attempt to improve the
conditions of the railways, enhance the dignity of the masses while traveling, and
offering 2 lakh new jobs, Mr. Trivedi was shown the door in the presence of ALL who'd initially expressed no objection with respect to the railway budget.

IS THIS THE ACTUAL PLIGHT OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT?

SATYAMEV JAYATE. The truth does indeed prevail. If not today, then tomorrow it will.

But what do we do till then? Just sit and watch and ponder? Take no concrete steps?
Why do innocent people face the brunt at the hands of shrewd, cunning people who just feign interest in the lives of the AAM JANTA? In the lives of YOU and ME.

I feel helpless out here. Right now there is no way that i can raise my voice to do
something regarding this issue, except posting it out here.
Till then i hope you ponder over it.

After all, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,

" We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

CHECK OUT THIS LINK:
http://www.timesnow.tv/Direct-Dinesh-Trivedi-1/videoshow/4398447.cms

FDI IN RETAIL: IMPLICATIONS

Hey! With the FDI in retail creating a huge controversy, I'd like all opposing the government's decision to consider this. PLEASE.

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES.

An amazingly well-written article lays bare all the facets of this decision and the counter effects of implementing it. go ahead and give it a reading.

ONLY THE UNPATRIOTIC WILL OPPOSE FDI IN RETAIL!

Short sighted! Self-seeking! Cynical! Even unpatriotic!

That’s the only way to describe the opposition of the BJP, the Left and sections of the UPA to the imminent entry of large global retailers into the country.

Consider this: almost everyone and his uncle opposed computers when they were introduced in a big way in the 1980s. And most politicians resisted economic liberalisation half a decade later.

Imagine what would have happened if they had had their way.

* We would not have been an IT superpower;

* Infosys Technologies, TCS and Wipro wouldn’t have been the blue-chip generators of millions of jobs they are today;

* Our economy would not have been the toast of the world; and

* We would have remained the Third World basket case we were in the first four-and-a-half decades of Independence.

Those of you who are 40-plus will remember what the (then strong) Left, the (still minuscule) Right and parts of the (Left-leaning) centre had said computers would do to the Indian job market when, in the mid-1980s, Rajiv Gandhi spoke of taking India into the 21st century.

I still remember one speech by Jyoti Basu, the chief minister of my native state, sometime in 1985 or 1986.

“The Left Front would never allow computers to be introduced in India,” he thundered at yet another half-a-million-strong rally that brought Kolkata to yet another grinding halt on a working day, “because one computer can do the job of four people. Computers will throw Indian workers out of jobs and fill the coffers of imperialism (IBM was then almost synonymous in India with the clunky monochrome desktops that were making waves around the world).”

Cut to 2006: Basu’s handpicked successor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee won a landslide in the assembly elections promising to usher in, among other things, a computer revolution in the state.

“We made a mistake earlier by opposing computers,” the CPI(M) admitted.

Result: Millions of young boys and girls, as well as dozens of entrepreneurs, in Bengal who could have been at the cutting edge of India’s tech revolution, are today leading mediocre lives as lower division clerks, sales reps of companies based elsewhere or as part of a vast army of frustrated educated unemployed.

When Dr Manmohan Singh ushered in economic liberalisation in 1991, the same prophets of doom predicted that Indian industry would be swamped by MNCs.

What does the report card say after 20 years?

* The Tatas, Birlas, Reliance and other Indian business groups have become world-beating MNCs in their own right;

* The MNCs, which were supposed to take over India, are nowhere in sight;

* India is now the second-fastest growing big economy in the world and a toast of the world;

* 300 million Indians have pulled themselves out of socialist drudgery into the burgeoning middle class;

* The 2.5-3.5% (so-called) Hindu rate of growth that the socialist intellectual elite had condemned the country to is now a distant memory;

* Even worst-case scenarios predict a 7%+ rate of GDP growth.

The Left’s opposition to FDI in retail is understandable – albeit cynical. They will oppose anything that their dog-eared, and completely outdated, Holy Book disapproves of.

Then, the politics of aspiration – as opposed to the politics of grievance of earlier decades – as a result of rising income levels and greater exposure to the world, have driven away two key Left constituencies – the youth and the middle class.

The CPI(M), groping desperately for relevance and a constituency in 21st century India, realises that the raison d’etre for its existence will disappear if this new circle of prosperity expands to encompass the semi-urban middle-class and the rural poor.

Many old-school Congressmen and some UPA allies like Mamata Banerjee, too, have not been able to shed their instinctive ideological opposition to free markets – as well their fondness for the politics of patronage.

Hence, their strident opposition to the move!

But why on earth is the BJP, which has a stellar track record of pushing reforms when in power, opposing FDI in retail? Could it be because several leaders are jockeying for pole position in the “party with a difference” and all of them feel competitive populism over this emotive issue can take them over the finish line? Hopefully, better sense will prevail after the initial cacophony has subsided.

After a long time, the UPA government seems to have overcome the paralysis that had set in and come out with a bold step to take the country forward.

INTERPRETATION OF FREEDOM.

Well folks, my blog "Freedom of Speech" mentions a very strong, yet important word of the English language. "Freedom"! And as we approach the day our country achieved freedom against the British raj, i had to write a post about it. Different people across the world interpret this word in different forms. I read this story a really long time back but it is somehow etched in my memory since it taught me a profound meaning of the word!
An English gentleman decided to take a walk in a park, one fine day. As he was in good spirits, he started twirling his umbrella around as he strolled down the path in the park. Unfortunately, the umbrella ended up smacking another pedestrian on the nose, and the second gentleman was understandably very upset about this. When the injured man took up the issue with the first man, the first man said "I have the freedom to walk around in a public place in any manner i choose fit.” The second man replied, "Sir, your freedom ends where my nose begins."
This particular story redefines the word freedom for me. My rights should not hamper the way in which another person is accommodating his. Freedom has been a rallying call for reformers and revolutionaries throughout human history. The passion and sacrifice poured into that cause has however, not been based on any general consensus about the definition of the term. Almost the first thing to strike any student of the subject is the bewildering variety of concepts, social constructs and meanings that have become attached to this single emotive word. This is an issue in human history far too important to be ignored. An attempt must therefore be made to build the idea anew on the base of an acceptance of the axioms and choice of the dogma, and on the principles and aim of the society that arise from those decisions. The principle establishes that our survival both as individuals and as a species depends on our willingness to co-operate with one another, and to accept and maintain the degree of social order that makes a mutually supportive communal life possible. If it is to be consistent in its teachings therefore, the society should hold that freedom can only be enjoyed under conditions of social order compatible with that principle. The society will always teach that without stable social order no-one can hope to live long enough, or have sufficient liberty from the struggle to ensure the infinite survival of our species, to be fully free. This defines the word “freedom” for me!

IF ONLY.....

She came out of the house
remembering her childhood
when she played with dolls
wishing "if only i could"

she had cried bitterly
'coz of continuous blabbering
and then she realized her childhood dream
"if only i could sing"

the day had been a tiresome one
working, cleaning dishes
but she occasionally dozed off
wishing "if only i could recall those wishes"

only days had passed since she got married
but treated like a maid
her in-laws butchered her gruesomely
all she wished
"if only these memories could fade."

she remembered her parents
and her playhouse shack
but sitting under the kitchen roof
she wished "if only i could get those days back."

days went by, months went by
and so did years
her pain had turned to agony
agony to tears.

those tears made her frail
and weak
but her values taught her
to be gentle and meek.

and now hanging by the fan
with a note in her hand
her in-laws rest in jail
cursing those "torturous days"

the girl's dreams left with an "IF"
none of them fulfilled
to condemn such acts
the field of knowledge has to be tilled!

GIRL CHILD

The tender cry
on the soft pillow
drifts away the heart
far below

finding it might be difficult
as the heart drifts away
but killing the child forever
is a sin committed today

girl child, yes
is whom i'm talking about
but you don't care
as you yourself act as a lout

the poor soul
cant say a word
but hopes to fly away from you
like a bird

high up in the sky
will it soar
but you kill it
without a feeling in your heart's core

sons are all
you wish to have buddy
but killing the child,
is an act fuddy-duddy!

WHAT EXACTLY IS ENGLISH?

- By Ekakshra Mahajan

“Oh! My god! You’ve submitted your resume stating that you cannot converse in English! Is that true? Mr. Rathore asked the new employee. “ Yes” answered Mithilesh, since this is all he could to utter after understanding bits of Mr. Rathore’s flabbergasted look. Mithilesh had just come to this new alien town in search of a new job. His situation was stiff, he being the only earning member of a family of 8. His father had died when he was 10, and his elder brother had been a victim of acute pneumonia. Already been refused job in three offices before, he turned towards his rented accommodation with a heavy heart, cursing the language that he never got to learn- ENGLISH!

His refusal was not because he was incapable of working or that he did not possess a good degree. No! It was because that mithilesh had completed his high school and college in the national language of his country-HINDI! A language that he had been proud to learn through all those years of study, hard work and toil. But he had never realized that this alien language had uprooted our national language and had spread its roots deep in our mother soil. He felt the need to replace this language, awaken our citizens and make them realize the importance of our language. After all our language has a history, a contemporary history with proofs and theories. But he felt helpless. And so do I…………………..

This brings me to the point of my article.

Q. WHAT EXACTLY IS ENGLISH?

Q. HOW DID IT EVOLVE?

Q. HOW DID IT MANAGE TO COPY THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES?

If ever you might have pondered upon this language, you would have noticed that most of the words have been derived from Latin, Greek, Sanskrit or Arabian. Four languages, which have a History of how, they evolved and how each word that was formed had a meaning, whereas in English, each word is derived from a word from another language.

To be continued…….