Monday, May 11, 2009

RECESSION DEMYSTIFIED


The whole world is engulfed in a cacophony of recession. Every capitalist country is worried about it and every communist country too is. Emergency measures are being hurriedly explored. Newer packages are being doled out by the hour. Tax structures are being refurbished. India too is taking precautionary measures.

Many people have tried to comprehend this quagmire from an economist’s perspective. Well known sociologists and economists are unanimous in their pronouncement that in précis, recession means greatly diminished purchasing power of the individual.

Strangely, they are unable to convincingly define” the common man”, “recession’s effect on him” and “his purchasing power”. Even men of wisdom refrain from speaking about effects on the common man and digress the discussion towards sensex, export-import deficit, demand-supply anomaly, up-down inflation, growth rate etc.,

The real worldwide effect seen post recession is that petroleum products’ prices crashed to a fourth within a few months. The moot question is –did the purchasing power of common man across the world suddenly deteriorate proportionally? If production did not increase, demand did not decrease, then how did we arrive at this huge fluctuation? Some banks in the US went kaput, others went into red, but how did it affect the petroleum products primarily?

In the Indian context, the second immediate visible effect was that the sensex came down sharply. Five years ago, on the eve of the present government assuming office, the sensex was at around 6300 which came crashing down to 5000 three days later. In just 4 ½ years, the sensex zoomed up to 21000 and in the last six months crashed to 11000. Where is the recession here? In 4 ½ years if the sensex zigzagged its way from 5000 to 11000, is it recession or progression? Assuming that our nation’s growth rate is 9%, the corresponding sensex at 11000 is still too high a growth tangent. Why all this worry and fuss? Who benefitted when it went up from 5000 to 21000 and who lost when it crashed from 21000 to 11000? The fact is that whereas in 1998, there were more than 22 million retail investors in the Indian stock market, the number today stands at less than 19 million. Either way, the rest of 100 million odd populace of India remains unaffected by sensex.

Another issue the economists are worried about is the growth rate. It is incomprehensible as to who is affected by it. The growth rate of the poor in India stands at 1% whereas that of the affluent is at 17% and the mean is taken to be 9%. In the altered scenario, it may perhaps be a mean rate of 7% between a high of 13% and a low of 1%. The point is –the rate of growth of poor will still hover around the 1% mark.

The biggest cacophony is heard in the real estate and housing sectors. Rates are falling in both the markets. Ideally, this seems to be the solution rather than a problem. If housing prices are falling, how can it be termed as a crisis to the society? Interest rates for potential home buyers are being slashed. Why give relief to them when prices are falling anyways. Why give such a double advantage? It is beyond anybody’s logic as to how recession is adversely affecting the 80 million people who aren’t part of this weird economic ballet.

Unemployment too is a fancy referral. One does not see any variation of employment/unemployment in the 80 million poor working class in the unorganized sector. The rest 20 million above poverty lines’ employment scene may oscillate, but that cannot be termed as a national crisis. In the last five years, employment has risen frenziedly only in the urban, affluent, intellectual sector and not in the working, poor village class.

The real meaning of recession is a decrease in the economic will power of the individual and certainly not a decrease in demand. If people speculate that exorbitant rates of goods will come down to an affordable level, they postpone purchase. Purchasing power is not something that crashes worldwide overnight. The real issue is -what should be the governmental role in such circumstances? If this is a market game and the governments were not players when it was boom time, it is imprudent to intervene at bust time. If the theory of free market is practiced, why arrest fall now when no ceiling was put to its unbridled growth.

If diesel and petrol prices fall, if bikes become cheaper, if housing starts becoming affordable, if intellectual labor costs plummet, then it seems an ideal solution for all the ills plaguing the poor workaholic villager. How can it be justified as a problem?

The truth is that recession may be a problem for affluent nations, but for countries like India, it seems like a boon. In spite of this, if the government intervenes in this issue, it will only unmask its stated position of being pro-poor.

There are two types of governance in the world today. 1) State controlled. 2) State protected. The first is seen in communist nations and dictatorships and the second is seen in democracies and capitalist countries. The first one has withered. The second type has demonstrated its limitations ahead of its full bloom.

The moot point is, we as people have to evolve a newer system of economic governance which is immune to such wild oscillations. There can be three options. 1) An uncontrolled economic mechanism. 2) An independent economic institution on the lines of legislature, executive and the judiciary, 3) De-centralized unitary economies which are autonomous to a certain degree.

Which is the best may be an issue of debate and will need our further collective deliberations…








Thursday, April 30, 2009

TRUE FREEDOM


The foundational triad of a society is Faith, Authority and Wealth. Any unevenness in this triad leads to escalation of problems. The triad that is elementary in any Faith is Devotion, Knowledge and Austerity (renunciation). The triad of Authority is Chastisement (Penalty), Justice and Preservation. The Wealth triad comprises of Nurturing, Prosperity and Charity.

When faith/religion clears the cobwebs of ignorance, devotion and charity reveal themselves. When authority rids itself of injustice, there will be no need for either penalty or preservation. If wealth eliminates dystrophy, prosperity and charity automatically come to the fore. The society, for that reason needs a balance of Knowledge, Justice and Nurturing.

Perversely, when Ignorance, Injustice and Exploitation gang up together, the situation worsens, and complicates. This is the current scenario.
The need of the hour is to wage a war against Ignorance, Injustice and Exploitation.
Only then true freedom of man can manifest itself to its potential.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A NEW PATH ========================

A NEW PATH ========================




………………..the writings are the analyzed adaptation of the writer’s global personal experiences, broad inter-personal relationships and organizational know-how; the thoughts cataloged are nonetheless, ever-evolving………………………………………………………………..

Stray thoughts and ………………….…
……………………………contemplations of an Indian Citizen

...........................The entire constitutional structure of India is a fusion of exploitative conspiracy against the Polite, the Poor, the Proletariat, and the Common citizen hatched by Criminals, Capitalists, Intellectuals and Politicians. We too are either overt or covert facilitators in fortifying this status-quo. A cerebral deliberation is essential to break this status-quo....


Society is supreme, nation its organ, state an aid and  religion its guide. The root of all contemporary problems is the intense competition by The Nation, The State and Religion to assert themselves and marginalize The Society. A Systemic overhaul is called for to bring The Society into this mainstream.…………………………………………


Siddharth Sharma Sankranti, 14th January 2009

DEFINITIONS
1. Definitions are important to arrive at conclusions. It is but natural that if definitions are wrong, so will be the conclusions.
2. In India, innumerable definitions are erroneous. They are either formed with a foreign perspective or arrived at with an ulterior motive.
3. The common man of India is ill-advised regarding the definitions of freedom, price-rise, inflation, unemployment, poverty, common civil code, common code of conduct, etc., Clever people leverage this gullibility to make new definitions and the resultant outcomes are drastically altered.

PROBLEMS
1. India is facing five kinds of problems: - A) Real. B) Simulated. C) Natural. D) Myths. E) Global.
2. The Real issues are the ones which do exist and have not yet been solved. For ex,. Theft, Robbery, Dacoity, Terrorism, Rape, Adulteration, Fraud, Corruption, Economic disparity, Labor exploitation.
3. The Simulated issues are Casteism, Communalism, Unequal distribution, Threat of Multinationals, Ruined morals.
4. The Natural issues are Earthquake, Tsunami, Epidemics, Diseases etc,.
5. The Myths are Price rise, Poverty, Illiteracy, Inflation, Educated unemployed.
6. The Global issues are Environment, Population explosion, Water scarcity.
7. Our priorities in problem solving should ideally be 1st Real, 2nd Simulated, 3rd Natural, 4th Global. Myths have to be altogether shattered. Sadly, the present approach is exactly the reverse.

ADMINISTRATION, GOVERNANCE
A system is one in which:
a) the society exercises its control over anti- social elements, and
b) society functions smoothly.
-A self evolved, long-term, self-regulated group of people is called as a society.
-Anti-socials are those whose acts are hostile to the tenets of the society.
-A nation is not an independent unit. It is an amalgamation of societies. A nation is bound by geography, a society is not. In fact, societies transcend national boundaries.
-Due to a systemic breakdown of social structure and faulty definitions, a situation has arisen today in which nation has become bigger than the society.
-Nationalism helps maintain order whereas jingoism does not. Jingoism is also a hindrance for a world order.Jingoism can neither differentiate between- A) Justice and kinship, B) Violence and Non-violence, C) Nation and the world, -nor strike a balance amidst them.
-In India, the state has declared itself to be the nation. Governmentization is called nationalization.
-In reality, nation is part of the society and state should act as a facilitator for the society.

CONSTITUTION
-To usher in a systemic approach, the society formulates a concrete unit. -This unit is called as The government or The state.
-The system belongs to the society. The State is only the implementing agent.
-The document that defines the maximum scope of interference, authority and duties of The state is called as the Constitution.
-Constitution and Laws are different. Constitution defines the maximum authority of The State and the minimum authority of The Society, whereas laws define The Society’s maximum and The State’s minimum rights.
-Society represents the whole world and the state represents the society. -For this reason, the whole world needs one constitution and one government. Due to the unstable form of societies, States have declared themselves as societies. This will only be a transitional phase.
-Any constitution has two qualities that make it a balanced document:
A) isn’t too elastic so as to make governments wild, and
B) isn’t too rigid that governments fail to function.
-The only benchmark of a constitution’s success is the guarantee given by the government to the security of its citizens’ fundamental right.
As for the case of moral turpitude, the blame squarely lies at the constitution’s altar.
-There are only two reasons for moral degradation. Harsh control over the society which makes administrators wild; or absence of control by administrators due to which citizenry goes wild.In the Indian context both the above reasons hold true under different scenarios.
-It is illogical and comical to blame implementers rather than the document. It is like a doctor of a mental facility bemoaning that patients do not listen to him. The constitutions’ very existence is meant to leash people of immoral character. If everyone was to behave lawfully, what is the need for a constitution?
-Constitution is meant to protect the good against the sly.The present constitution has failed due to:
1) Stress on welfare rather than on crime control,
2) foggy language, double imports leading to multiple interpretations,
3) Recognition to classes,
4) Exaggeratedly idealistic format,
5) Refusal to accept family as a constitutional unit,
6) Enumeration of The State’s role as of custodian instead of manager.
-The entity which is a balance of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary is called as The State/Government/System.In a democracy all the three complement each other in addition to providing checks and balances amongst themselves.In case this triad, instead of self balancing, begins accumulation of power and competing amongst each other, the system gets weakened.
-If this trend continues over a period of time, democracy’s credibility is eroded.In India, the three arms of the state are competing in the sphere of power accumulation.
-The job of the legislature is to guide the executive from within the perimeter of the constitution.The legislature, under no circumstance can violate the borders framed by the constitution.
-The brief of the constitution is to control the legislature. Resultantly, the authority to amend the constitution cannot be vested in the legislature. This is a grave error.
-In India, the legislature has misused this error to further its agenda on innumerable occasions.
-The subject matter of a constitution is a sociological matter, so sociologists must arrive at content conclusions. The language of a constitution is a political issue, so politicians can formulate its language.Sadly, both the content and the language of Indian constitution were decided by politicians. Sociologists were not consulted. Even tall men like Gandhi, who represented a harmony between sociology and politics, were sidelined.
-Due to this, the parliament was accorded the status of Custodian rather than a more logical status of Manager.
-Furthermore, this custodianship was enacted for perpetuity which smacks of a conspiracy. We, the people of India are unto this day serving that sentence.
-The sociologists of this nation need to brain storm and arrive at some conclusions.The constituent assembly displayed exemplary partiality in making The State unilaterally powerful. Its high time sociologists come together and redefine the boundaries of the state and the society.

HOME RULE or SWARAJ
1. The greater the distance between the policy maker and its ultimate beneficiary, qualitatively lower is the result. To minimize this distance and the ability of a unit to take unitary decisions is Home-Rule or Self Government.
2. When a unit delegates its power to take decisions to another unit, the right metamorphoses itself into power of the receptor unit. This is called centralization.
3. If such a right is given back to its original unit, it is called Decentralization.
4. Self administration is better than the best of alien administration.
5. If the intention of such a system itself is in question, continuing under such a system is symbolic of slavery. The intentions of present day system raise serious suspicions.
6. Power has certain compulsions:
1) Fragment the society into different classes, and then create hostility among them, so as to culminate it into a bull blown class conflict.
2) Strengthen the concept of a Ruler and a Ruled class. Instill a sense of superiority among the ruling elite and inferiority in the minds of the ruled. To spread the canard that India’s common man is uneducated, incapable and incompetent so as to perennially maintain their own relevance in the power equation.
3) Frame more and more frivolous laws so as to create guilty consciousness in every citizen.
4) To push back intellectual issues and rake up emotional ones.
5) Dole out overt subsidies and covert taxes on the poor- and simultaneously, direct tax and indirect subsidies to the rich. Ex., Cycles, Staple foods are taxed, and fertilizers subsidized for the poor whereas LPG is subsidized and income is taxed for the rich.
6) Weaken the concept of society and strengthen the concept of nationhood.
7) Solve administrative problems by economic mechanisms, Economic issues by administrative mechanisms and social issues economically. –all oxymoron.
8) To ensure that a) the economic divide is never bridged, b) system always gives the impression that it is trying its best, c) weaker sections are always on an emotionally simmering state.
9) To reverse the priority- fundamental issue of crime control is pushed to the bottom and other simulated non-existent issues are dealt as priority.
7. The present Indian power structure behaves in the aforementioned way to sustain itself. Opposition too follows the same principles to attain power.
8. Panchayati Raj is delegation of power –not delegation of authority. It is given under law and hence can be taken back under law. We need constitutional validity to these entities.
9. Authority, if slid down rapidly to its original unit is called decentralization of authority.
10. An individual’s behavioral boundary is decided by the authorities, religious heads and institutions. Startlingly, the behavioral boundaries, authority and conduct of these entities are decided by themselves. This is an irony.
11. There are two sections of the society: a) Those who believe that the common man is incapable, uneducated and incompetent, hence take over their welfare responsibilities upon themselves. They are called Rulers or Religious heads. b) Those who themselves believe that they are incapable, uneducated and incompetent. They, therefore voluntarily subscribe their welfare to the rulers. The common thread between both is that due to the ruler-ruled syndrome, the common man’s will of self governance is today a stillborn idea.
12. Decentralization of authority is the solution to most of the problems. Gandhi was a synergy of constructive activity and resistance. Vinoba Bhave stressed on construction more than on resistance. Jayaprakash Narayan emphasized on resistance more than on construction.
13. Gandhi toiled for: 1) Free individual, 2) Powerful society and 3) A reined State.
14. Post independence, Gandhiji advocated minimum state interference whereas Nehru Ji postulated for maximum state control. Gandhi was for self-governance, Nehru for good governance.
15. Post Gandhi, the nation was reassured that, in lieu of personal liberty, good governance would be provided.
16. The Indian masses accepted these manifold curbs but its lot never improved. In this way we lost Self-rule and never attained Good-rule.
17. The Executive should have minimum responsibility and maximum resources. Currently, it has maximum responsibilities and minimum resources.
18. The only difference between communism and dictatorship is that dictatorship is of an individual and communism is dictatorship of a class.
19. The difference between Self-rule and democracy is that democracy is representative in nature whereas self-rule is participatory in nature.
20. There are two states of a democracy:
1) Democratic ruling-styled and
2) Democratic life-styled. In western countries democratic lifestyle has gained ingress whereas in India and other Asian countries, it is still in the nascent democratic rule-styled. The major trait of a Democratic Rule-styled system is that it is prone to anarchy. Anarchy leads to dictatorship. Dictatorship can take various hues –personal, of a class, of a party, of the military, or some novel model.
21. The way out is to adopt a democratic life-style. This is nothing but participatory democracy.
22. The common perception about democracy today is that it is a “system of peoples’ representation”. This definition needs drastic alteration to mean “peoples’ control over the system”.

CRIME
-An infringement of the fundamental rights of a person is called as a crime.
-Except crimes, all other infringements of authoritative laws are called illegal acts. They cannot be considered as crimes.
-Criminals are called anti-social elements.The crimes are: - Robbery, Dacoity, loot. Rape, Adulteration, Fraud, Goondaism, Terrorism, and Coercion.
-Acts like gambling, alcoholism, atrocities against women, dalits etc., tax evasion, are illegal not criminal.
-Among the Indian populace, criminals constitute 2% whereas among politicians, their number swells up to 15%.
-Anti-social elements though in a minority are imposing themselves on the society.
-In the last 60 years of multiple party governments, a common factor is that the morale of anti-social elements is incessantly expanding and the morale of The Society is continuously deflating.Those who break the law are ceaselessly going up the success ladder and the law abiders are perennially unsuccessful.
-Decent people are not allowed to coagulate. At the first sign of their coagulation, professional politicians fragment them in the name of: - religion, caste, gender, age, economic status, consumer-producer, language, region and nation.
-When citizens ask for a peaceful atmosphere, they are given newer, worthless laws.The result is that 95% of Indians live with a notion that they are guilty of some crime. This is due to non- delineation between Crime & Illegal Acts. A multitude of laws is the reason for this acute feeling of guilt.
-The remedy is to drastically reduce the number of laws by 80%. This will augment the ability of the Police and Judiciary to deal with the criminals swiftly and decisively.
-The Society should never be totally dependant on the Government.Ram-rajya means a crime free society. The number of temples or mosques is not its benchmark.
-Anti-social elements employ diverse charades like- crocodilian sympathizing with emotional people / compromising with vested interests / threatening the feeble people -to succeed.Cunning people are regularly seen prominently at marriages, religious functions, conventions, games events, and elections. They work in a high profile manner on such occasions and gain goodwill.
-In ancient times, knowledge and renunciation were autonomously valued commodities. Later on, wealth and status gained value. Today success is quantified by cunningness and hooliganism.
-The borders of a nation are guarded by the military and the borders of personal liberty are guarded by the police and the courts. National boundaries are secure, personal liberty is insecure.In India, less than 5% of the total union/state/local budget is allocated to secure the citizens. 95% is allocated to developmental works which includes external security.No party has an effective manifesto for crime-control.
-In the last 60 years, we have progressed in welfare schemes and development but regressed in crime-control. Interestingly, all politicians as well as social scientists/workers refrain from mentioning crime-control.
-We elect lawmakers to enact laws in parliaments. Instead of seriously enacting laws, they toil on issues such as electricity, road, water, and appointments etc., menial jobs which essentially fall under the sphere of ordinary local employees.
-The Society is supreme. The System is a part of The Society.The System is infringing upon the authority of The Society.A powerless society and an all-too powerful system is an offensive concept.
-Congress: wants to retain power at any cost; BJP: Wrest power by dividing nation communally; JD: Get to power by fragmenting castes; CPI/M: Economic polarization; Regional Parties: Whip up regional emotions; No party in India seems to work towards fusing decency.
-World over, utmost exploitations, atrocities and killings are done in the name of religion, second in line is politics, third is casteism. Personal vested interests are last in this list. Consequently most of the social institutions employ religion, politics and casts as arsenal.
-Legal problems have to be solved legally. Social issues by employing social solutions and economic issues have to be tackled economically.Currently, legal problems are given a social dimension, for ex., “change of heart” technique on naxalites; and enactment of laws to eradicate social problems like untouchability, dowry, and prohibition. This is an oxymoron.
-Crime-control requires balanced use-of-force. Under-utilization of force results in the amplification of criminals’ resilience.Presently, use of force is sub-optimal. Resultantly, crime graph is depicting an upswing.
-Fear is the easiest way to make someone behave as we please. But it is also the most unjust and inhuman way.
-There are three kinds of humans: 1) Social 2) Unsocial 3) Anti-social; Social man helps accident victims, Unsocial man ignores accident victims, and Anti-social man robs accident victims.
-Encouragement to the socially inclined, guidance to the unsocial and crushing the anti-social is the prudent approach.
-Change of heart of anti-social maybe ideal, but impractical.
-Contemporary social workers are erring in seeking to amend them this way. The next error we commit is to seek and support laws for prohibition, gambling, prostitution etc.

JUSTICE
-Too much burden on police and justice department has eroded their work ability.
-Since independence, police & justice department personnel have not increased in absolute numbers in proportion to population increase.
-Judiciary is shunning away from crime-control. It has contained itself to protecting civil rights of individuals which have been infringed by the police and arbitrations.
-Diminishing fear of law among criminals and diminishing faith in law by the common man are worrying aspects for any democracy.
-Courts and Police do not defend justice, they defend laws as they are bound by justice according to law.
-An erroneous trend has developed in India where failure of Security & Justice is attributed to courts, whereas laws are wholly enacted by the Legislature.
-Three reasons for crime are repeatedly touted: 1) Compulsion, 2) Illiteracy, & 3) Chaos….. The bizarre aspect is that the economic situation today is far better and so is the education scenario. Still the crime graph is upwardly mobile.
-The real reason is the absence of fear of either The Society or The Law.
-It is a misfortune that the system tries to find solutions to this malaise in economic means. Conversely social organizations find the elusive solution in mythical propositions like education, character building & prohibition.
-Justice and order are complimentary to each other.In the last 60 years, without consideration to capability, a highly idealistic and ambitious system has been set up. As a corrective measure, it is high time to evaluate the capability of the justice delivery mechanism and enact laws on realistic scales.

CODES
-Common civil code means same laws for all citizens of India. India will be a nation of 1.1 billion people, not an amalgamation of religions, castes or languages.
-There is a difference between common civil code and common code of conduct. Both are different.
-Conduct or behavior of a person is a personal issue. The government can neither interfere, nor enact laws to regulate it.
-Civil conduct rules may need to be enacted.
-Any act, unless it infringes upon the other person, is a matter of personal conduct.
-To eradicate classes from the society, common civil code is a necessity.
-BJP’s demand for a common code is limited to curbing Muslims.
-Common civil code will not infringe any Muslim’s rights because marriage is an issue of personal conduct.
-Womens’ oppression by men is a faulty statement. Not shifting according to changing times and not giving equal opportunity to women was a blunder on the part of men folk. It cannot be generalized by sweeping statements such as oppression. If men were cruel, women would not bemoan their men folk’s death.
-Women are denied rights in family and not in society. Ex., Wife of a high ranking official dictates terms to her husband’s peon.
-Women’s reservation bill will concentrate power and control into the hands of fewer political families.
-A unit is formed when a man and a woman shape a family.
-A woman is more pleased if her man would get a job instead of another woman, -as envisaged in the women’s reservation.
-The backwardness of many castes is the result of reservation followed by elite castes for millennia.. Merely overturning the same formula will not accrue any benefit to the society.
-One way forward could be to cream out families who have already benefited from reservation policies. This prescription will bring down substantially the number of people claiming reservation.

EQUALITY
-Equality itself is a deceptive and hazy word. It is an oxymoron.No two people are equal. Nature has endowed people with different attributes and capacities. Hence the results emanating out of such deeds and actions are bound to be different.
-To equate such dissimilar results by The State is neither probable nor appropriate.
-The real definition of equality should be equitable conduct between The State and its citizenry.
-People involved with The State and Politics always endeavor to widen the chasm of disparity amongst people. Conversely, they also endeavor to seem to work towards disparity mitigation. They are very sincere that the disparity is never alleviated.
-Politicians hoodwink people by promising them perpetually elusive equality.
-In the Constitution, instead of the word ‘equality’, equal opportunities need to be incorporated.
-There is an urgent necessity to shrink economic disparity in the country.
-Freedom and equality should arrive at a synergy and become complimentary to each other.
-One way could be an equal percentage of tax on property and equitable distribution on such revenue.
-Economic disparity and Disparity of right. –both are dangerous.Economic disparity less so. A poor man is not directly threatened by a rich. But a common man has a lot to fear a dictator who has the police, military and law at his disposal.
-Reducing the socio-economic disparity is the duty of the strong-not the right of the weak. Touting it as the right of the meek is regrettable on the part of our political class.
-Nobody in India is speaking out on the issue of disparity of rights.

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
1. Fundamental rights are those rights of an individual which cannot be curtailed by anyone including the State under any circumstances unless he himself infringes upon such rights of others.
2. Fundamental Rights are four in number: 1) Life, 2) Expression, 3) Self Decision, 4) Property.
3. Employments, Religious belief, Education etc., are by design incorporated under self decision.
4. If right to property is removed from fundamental rights, The State will develop into an enormously powerful entity and its right of interference will have grave consequences.
5. Fundamental rights are bestowed by nature. The State only validates them.
6. The rights bestowed by the constitution are not fundamental rights. They are merely constitutional rights.

LEGISLATURE
1. Legislature functions with the harmony of higher bodies -like Loksabha & Rajyasabha -and the administration.
2. Elected people represent policy & intention whereas officers reflect work capability. Elected people should represent wisdom & discretion whereas officers should represent expertise.
3. The only yardstick of the competence level of an elected individual is the trust of citizens. The employees’ yardstick can be age, intellect, or other such parameters.
4. The concept of minimum qualification for elected representatives is flawed. The trust of citizenry is proof enough.
5. The legislature is the authorized unit that frames rules for the systematic and just conduct of the citizenry.
6. The best government is one that governs the least. In India, this theory has been turned on its head.
7. In India, the legislature has complicated matters by framing unnecessary rules. The legislature’s brief is to examine four situations before framing any law: - 1) Level of Injustice in the society. 2) Priority of that injustice according to magnitude. 3) Administrative capacity to implement the new law. 4) Comparative analysis of the pros & cons of the proposed law.
8. Ensnared to cheap publicity, the legislature in India is ignoring three situations and unidirectionally moving full steam ahead towards social justice.
9. It is a wrong notion that election reforms can attain much. The present anomaly is due to centralization of power and the only solution is devolution of power.
10. To ensure political stability, a system wherein 1/5th of Loksabha seats fall vacant each year can be adopted.

FAMILY and its STRUCTRE
1. Family is the first LIVE unit of the society. In the Indian context, family in itself is an independent unit unlike the western system where it is a union of a male and a female. Man and woman are complimentary to each other and are not exclusive to each other. It is fatal to promote man & woman as separate segments. It fragments the family as well as the social fabric.
2. The India constitution does not recognize anything regarding family or family structure.
3. Family deserves constitutional recognition.
4. Family is an assortment of people who are together on the basis of collective ownership and collective responsibility.
5. Each person will have equal rights on the property of the family, meaning that none will have the right to liquefy it as long as he is part of the family.
6. All good and bad deeds of a family will be the collective responsibility of each member.
7. A family needs two designations: 1) The Chieftain, the executive who is elected by everyone’s consent. And 2) The Premier, the traditional formal head who is the oldest in the family.
8. There shall be no discrimination regarding age, gender or competence as to property division, selection of The Chieftain, participation in discussions and decision making in the family.
9. A family need not be designed on blood lines. This new concept is an amalgamation of the Chinese commune, Gandhian trusteeship model and the traditional Indian family system.
10. There are three concepts to wealth till date: 1) Western model of individual wealth. 2) Gandhiji’s trusteeship model. 3) Communism’s collective wealth. In the proposed concept, the wealth will belong to the family till an individual/group separates, at which point that individual/group can take away his/their share of wealth. This wealth will then get automatically absorbed into the new family, that particular individual must compulsorily get himself admitted into.
11. Every individual must be part of some family.
12. Traditionally, in a marriage the following is the norm: 1) Bride & groom’s mutual acceptance, 2) Family’s consent. 3) Society’s permission.

LANGUAGE
1. Language is a medium thro which we convey our emotions and thoughts, exactly as they occur, to the other person.
2. Language always belongs to the listener, not to the speaker.
3. Language should be such that the listener easily grasps the speakers’ intent.
4. It is incorrect and damaging to relate language to nation, culture or religion.
5. Any unit cannot impose upon other units the language they are necessitated to bilaterally communicate in. It is free to choose a language in its wisdom.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
1. Indian foreign policy is based on higher idyllic nationalism. Hence it should refrain from unnecessary confrontations.
2. Punjab and Sri Lankan issues are examples which should edify us not to be intrusive.
3. Foreign policy should arch over nationalism and be inclined towards a world order. There should be a constitutional provision not to reject decisions taken by world bodies like United Nations without detailed deliberations.

EMERGENCY
1. Emergency is a state -whenever a system is provided with special powers to deal with a situation in which all general solutions have failed.
2. Three situations of emergencies: 1) National emergency –i.e., a real and present threat of foreign attack. 2) Economic emergency –i.e., economic disparity is too much. 3) Social emergency –i.e., crime prevention has failed. Society is fearful of deposing against criminals.

POLITICS
1. No political party has solutions for the major problems facing the society in India today.
2. In proportion to business and administration, there are more number of corrupt individuals in politics.
3. Every political leader charges his opponent with corruption to establish his own honesty.
4. Today, India has innumerable laws. In this haystack of irrelevant laws, vital laws have lost their significance.
5. Over time, thro a continuous process, power is getting centralized in the hands of politicians.
6. A family is neither an exclusive producer, nor an exclusive consumer. Politicians divide them into different sections and raise their pitch for or against both at convenient times.
7. Compared to judiciary and the executive, over time the legislature is becoming powerful. Parliament is supreme has become every parliamentarians’ pet slogan.
8. Judiciary, executive and the legislature should act within their frameworks but presently all the three are in a race to prove their respective supremacy.

LABOR WAGE ESCALATION, UNEMPLOYMENT
1. It has become an accepted norm that a trader’s objective is to earn money. Consequently, unfair trade means are symbolic of deftness.
2. Successful politics should mean minimum variation of pricing between producer and consumer.
3. Businessmen never give tax. Tax is given by producer and consumer. Trader is only a medium.
4. Tax and controls are springtime for traders. These are very helpful in corrupt trade practices.
5. Taxes and controls are the root of corruption. The more they are in numbers and quantity, higher will be the prevalence of corruption.
6. The labor wage declared by the government is called artificial labor wage. The wage an individual earns for actual labor done is the real wage.
7. Minimum wage is that at which the government is bound to provide employment.
8. In the western countries, artificial energy is labor complimentary whereas in India it is labor substitute.
9. Massive mechanized industrialization is beneficial only if a weak consumption area lies outside the industrialized area. These areas eliminate unemployment in that area but generate manifold unemployment outside it.
10. Cheap non-renewable energy is the root cause of most of India’s economic maladies. Hence, massive increase in its rates is the most efficient solution.
11. The other maladies of massive consumption of artificial energy are: 1) Consuming non-renewable energy generates added pollution. 2) Mechanized production is cheaper than labor intensive production. Resultantly, unemployment increases due to non requirement of labor. 3) Labor wage does not increase proportionate to profit. 4) Shortage of foreign exchange occurs, as a remedial measure essential goods are exported. 5) Essential consumer goods get taxed. 6) Income of the rich increases, whereas the reverse happens to the poor. 7) Foreign borrowing increases. 8) As a result of cheap transportation, industries get centralized. 9) The expenditure is decreased and income of the rich is augmented, but a poor man’s expenditure is increased and his avenues of income decrease. 10) As urban living is more employment friendly and cheap, there is mass exodus from villages.
12. It is a wrong notion that energy costs have escalated in India. If purchasing power of a Rupee in 1971 is compared to today, we shall find that energy costs in fact have, in proportion, decreased substantially.
13. As prosperity increases, so does dependency and usage of non-renewable energy. As poverty increases, so does dependency on labor and bread.
14. The definition of unemployment has been imported from the west which is useless in the Indian context. The west is labor-scarce whereas India is labor-surplus.
15. Nobody is unemployed in India. If they are, it is because they are unwilling to work on minimum wage.
16. There are two types of unemployment: - 1) Artificial, 2) Real. The difference between the declared minimum wage by the government and the actual wages earned is real unemployment. All the rest are artificial unemployment.
17. The purchasing power of every individual has increased in India.
18. The purchasing power of the poor has increased arithmetically and that of the rich exponentially.
19. The statistics of the Indian development reflects that 33% of the proletariat have grown at 1% and the elite 33% have grown at 17%. The government proclaims the mean growth rate at 9%. Even today 23% of the Indian population subsists on less than Rs. 21/- daily.
20. There are four conspiracies to exploit labor :- 1) Regulation of artificial energy costs. 2) Governmental definition of minimum wage. 3) Government’s farcical efforts at eradicating educated unemployed. 4) Great priority to social justice.
21. The easiest way to eradicate economic inequality is to hike labor cost. The capitalist and the intellectuals work diligently on the above conspiracy to regress labor cost. Rightists and leftists in India are in the same boat as far as labor exploitation is concerned. The leftists declare themselves as labor friendly and at the same time vociferously oppose energy cost hike. 22. Most of India’s socio-economic problems can be unraveled within the ambit of hiking labor cost.
23. Hiking labor cost will also partially assist in crime prevention. It will also have a positive impact on social justice and will be helpful in law and order too.
24. There are two classes of people in the Indian Economy :- 1) The villager, proletariat, manufacturer of basics, below poverty line. 2) The urban, intellectual, elite, industrialist, above poverty line. We need an economic policy which encourages the former even if it is partially adverse towards the latter. Unfortunately, our economic policies are encouraging the latter more than the former.
25. The demand by the intellectuals that expenditure on education be hiked is a way of labor exploitation. There are three kinds of people :- 1) Uneducated. 2) Student. 3) Educated. It is an injustice if the uneducated class is taxed to educate the mass. Barring fundamental education, all expenses on education should be borne by the elite class.

SURPRISES
-In India, labor intensive products such as beedi leaves, seeds, timber, forest produce and essential usage items like wheat, textiles, medicines, cattle-feed, bricks and tiles are taxed heavily.
-In India, artificial energy is subsidized. Newspaper, paper products, postcards are subsidized too.
-Its an incomprehensible theory that the poor will die if postcard rates are hiked and he will thrive in spite of taxes on grains, clothes, medicines etc.,
-In India, cycles are taxed at approx Rs. 300/ bicycle. It is surprising that no party, media or organizations are agitated over this issue.
-Indian politicians and sociologists are unaware that trees, bamboo etc., grown by one’s own labor on one’s own land is taxed. Cycles are taxed. Grains, textiles, houses, medicines, cattle-feed are taxed.
-All major policies in India today is comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. No one is delving in this elementary subject.
-Every party in India is highlighting the shortcomings of other parties but are silent about their own agenda. Congress harps against communalism, BJP against pseudo-secularism, Communists against capitalism, Regional parties against Congress. Everyone is against something. People seek enlightenment regarding what they really stand for.

TAXATION, FOREST POLICY
1. Inflation means decreasing purchasing power of the rupee and it results in indirect tax burden upon liquidity
2. Inflation does not affect people who do not have cash or bank balances.
3. Inflation and price rise are different topics. Inflation does not affect the common man whereas price rise does. Price rise means increase in the cost of products in proportion to peoples’ purchasing power.
4. Price rise occurs in specific goods and not in all products. If there is an across the board rise in prices, it is called as inflation.
5. In India: - 1) Gold, silver and real estate prices have gone up piercingly. 2) Government jobs have become modestly costly. 3) Lentils, labor and artificial energy costs are stable. 4) Grains, Textiles, and other consumer products have become cheaper. 5) Conveyance, paper, mail, watches, pens, phones and electronic gadgets have become incredibly cheap.
6. Economic disparity has grown rapidly. Rich have grown rapidly and poor have grown slowly. This disparity is incessantly increasing.
7. Increasing economic disparity is the reason behind public discontent.
8. The hue and cry about price rise is made by :- 1) The affluent class to divert attention of the society from the prevailing economic disparity. 2) Politicians to usurp power. 3) Administrative employees to fleece maximum benefits.
9. In the last 60 years land prices have increased unbridled. The fascination for land has also bloated.
10. Land levy (cess) in India has remained stagnant whereas the rupee value is at two paise to what it was.
11. This land revenue stagnation is hugely profitable to those land owners who purchase land with an intention of future land value appreciation.
12. Increasing land cess by 50 times is the best solution to land problems. Real estate rates will fall as a result. Fascination for land will end as land will be released from the clutches of land owners to real farmers.
13. If a uniform 2% tax is levied on all property including land, then land cess can be omitted altogether.
14. Aforestation is not enough to offset environmental pollution. Cutting down on pollution is also a necessity.
15. 100 trees are needed to recycle smoke emitted from 1 tractor for 8 hours.
16. Conservation of petroleum products is a right, although small step towards environmental protection.
17. The best way of environmental pollution control is balanced industrial growth.
18. Bread, clothes, medicines are taxed in India to nullify the effects of pollution emanating from a motorcycle.
19. In the last 50 years, population has trebled, but transportation has increased 50 fold because of greater purchasing power and cheap conveyance.
20. A large tree recycles 1.50 lakh tonnes of Carbon-dioxide into oxygen in a year.
21. Population explosion is a global phenomenon. To blame it for all of India’s ills is spreading falsehood.
22. If forest produce is exempted from tax in India, forest area in non-administered areas will enlarge automatically.
23. It is the very nature of The State to provide overt tax & covert privilege to those it wants to reward, and provide covert tax & overt privilege to those it intends to cheat.
24. In India the elite is overtly taxed & covertly privileged (income tax v/s subsidized gas, energy) whereas the poor are overtly privileged & covertly taxed (various subsidies, schemes, NREGA, v/s everyday consumables are heavily taxed). We need to reverse this trend by taxing energy heavily and freeing consumables from tax vice.
25. The fundamental principle of taxation is to list the consumables in their order of priority of usage and start taxing them from the bottom up. For ex., Food will be topmost and luxury cars would be near the bottom of such a list.
26. As regards to forests, India has adopted a policy of conservation whereas it should adopt forest expansion policies. The environmentalists should take note of this.
27. It is a misconception that cities pay more tax than villages. 70% of India is rural dweller and their everyday consumables are taxed. The calculation thereafter is simple.

KASHMIR
1. A large chunk of India and Pakistan’s development is sacrificed at the altar of Kashmir issue.
2. Prior to independence, the British encouraged the two factions of Muslims and Hindus to achieve the goal of civil war. When common Hindus & Muslims were fighting for freedom, the Hindu brigade was sowing seeds of mistrust among both the communities. That is the reason why barring Savarkar, none else from the Hindu brigade participated in the freedom struggle.
3. By the time of attaining freedom, a big chunk of Muslims sided with its communal leadership. This did not happen with the Hindus. If at all Hindus would have been mobilized, then a civil war would have gripped India.
4. The partition of India was not a division between two brothers, but rather a walkout of one brother from a joint family.
5. Post independence, Kashmir’s king was Hindu and the subjects Muslims. The opposite was true of Hyderabad. India attacked Hyderabad and Pakistan attacked Kashmir.
6. Post the assassination of Gandhi, the Congress, instead of suppressing communal Hinduism, adopted a policy of appeasement of hard-line Muslims. No doubt equilibrium was achieved between the Hindus and Muslims, but hardliners on both sides began to flourish. The congress ceaselessly and unilaterally continued Muslim appeasement which resulted in reciprocal reaction from hard-line Hindus.
7. Kashmir’s merger with India was conditional.
8. Kashmir is the playground on which establishments of both India and Pakistan play their respective power games. Play whenever you like, rest at Shimla when you tire. Both the nation’s governments are not interested in resolving this dispute. The people of both the countries need to realize this and force their governments to resolve it somehow.
9. Akhand bharat is merely a slogan. If such a possibility arises, the BJP will be its fiercest combatant as it will increase the Muslim population in such an India from the present 12% to around 20%.21.

DONATION, CHARITY, ALMS
1. Donation is: - a) voluntary, according to donors’ capacity, b) full right to the beneficiary, c) given without asking. -Donation cannot be taken back once given.
2. Charity is: - a) Collective, b) full right to donor, c) given after mutual consultation. –Charity giver may ask detailed accounts and can take back if situation so demands.
3. Alms are: - a) voluntary according to beneficiaries’ needs b) full right to beneficiary. c) Given when asked. –Neither can account be asked neither can alms be asked back.
4. Charity is a profitable venture in which there is never any loss. Even if economic benefits do not accrue, social status is bound to get better.
5. Anti-social elements take recourse to unregulated strikes and unregulated charity to further their agenda. The society needs to regulate them.

CORRUPTION
1. In India, corruption is rampant from top to bottom. An estimated 100% of politicians, 95% traders, 75% judiciary and 90% educationists are corrupt to some extent.
2. Out of Rs 100/- paid by public as tax, Rs 15/- reaches the administration. Out of that which the administration gives to the public, only Rs 2/- reaches them. In effect, the government is collecting Rs 100/- to provide relief worth Rs2/-.
3. Laws and corruption complement each other. Laws intensify corruption and corruption intensifies laws.
4. When a person’s rights are transferred to another, they metamorphose into power of the recipient. This then becomes a law. This is the genesis of corruption.
5. The quantity of power (laws) in a system is the same as the quantity of corruption.
6. Power decentralization in India will help reduce corruption.
7. Transparency, decentralization and reduction of laws are the simplest method to eradicate corruption. Nationalization too must come to an end.
8. Except crime control, the system should de-burden itself from most other duties. Most sectors like education, health, transportation, trading etc., can function smoothly at the local level without administrative intervention. 90% of the departments will cease to exist due to this measure. Corruption too will die away proportionately.

SERMON, DISCOURSE, LECTURE, EDUCATION,EMOTION, INTELLECT, DISCRETION
1. A balance is essential between emotion and discretion in all the actions by humans. Emotion symbolizes sacrifice and discretion denotes knowledge.
2. Predominance of emotion is an impediment to balanced judgment. An emotional person cannot arrive at a balanced conclusion.
3. Selfish elements in the society continuously strive to enlarge the emotionality sphere because discretion is an impediment to their motives. Emotive issues such as religion, caste, language, gender, age etc., are their weapons. Most social and religious institutions are continuously working towards emotional expansion.
4. Good intentions make a person decent. Discretion makes him intelligent.
5. Decency is the meal of the vulpine. Cunningness rides on the shoulder of decency.
6. Decency is concern about one’s own duty, not rights. Intelligence means equal concern about one’s duties as well as rights. Cunningness connotes concern for one’s rights, not duties.
7. When the social structure is consistent, then decency is advisable. When the social structure is unreliable, decency facilitates cunningness.
8. In present times, it is advisable to drift in the direction of intelligence rather than decency.
9. A decent man is highly appreciative of another person’s intelligence. A cunning man is vexed of a decent man’s intelligence.
10. Sermons are: - philosophical, of high moral character, understandable, subtle and original in nature.
11. Discourses are: - artful, moral, heartwarming and original in nature.
12. Lectures are: - artful, heartwarming, not necessarily original, character is an irrelevant issue.
13. Education: - Balance of philosophy and art, heart and mind. Irrespective of either character or original thoughts.
14. Present education does not help in character building. It only enhances a persons’ innate capacity.
15. A decent man is humble; an intelligent one has high self esteem. The vulpine is overtly humble and covertly entertains massive false pride.
16. There is a tendency to resort to propaganda, sloganeering and appeals if something cannot be proven logically and theoretically,
17. When someone is unable to argue his points, he resorts to dogtailing his statement with a quotation from some historical colossus.

NAXALISM
1. Propensity to take up arms against the present failing system is called naxalism.
2. Naxalism can be considered as an extreme an undemocratic form of communism. Presently though a lot of criminal elements too are infiltrating it.
3. If a systemic overhaul is not forthcoming and the people do not get justice, then they will resort to arms. Killing such people in the name of naxalism too will not subdue such a violent revolution.
4. Naxalites have a plan to force out the present system of governance but nothing regarding the possible future dispensation.
5. Violent revolution to achieve the purpose of systemic overhaul is called naxalism and the non-violent revolution is called Sarvodaya. Presently, naxalism has wandered to merely mean power transfer.
6. In place of the present dispensation, ushering in a new model and installing it in a non-violent democratic manner is the only solution to naxalism.
7. There is a difference between naxalism and dacoity. Dacoity is anti-social and naxalism is anti-system.

ORGANIZATIONS, STRIKES
1. In India, due to the erroneously acknowledged clout of organizations, there is a race to form ever newer of them.
2. All organizations seek patronage from bigger and powerful organizations and hatch plans to exploit the unorganized.
3. The distance between the organized and the unorganized sector is widening ceaselessly and it cannot be bridged by forming still newer organizations because virtually all organizations themselves thrive on collision, revulsion, contempt and covetousness. Hence a challenge has to be mounted on their organizational ability as well as their utility.
4. Religion, caste, language, gender, nationality, geography, age, economic status, manufacturer-consumer etc., are the unsocial basis of organizations. This tendency needs weakening. All good people should unite against anti-social elements. The present organizational structure is a serious impediment to this end.
5. Most strikes are synonymous with more and more power acquisition and a medium of exploitation of the unorganized.
6. Most strikes are a blackmailing tool against the system. They inflict pain on others for realization of their own selfish motives.
7. When there is no democratic way left to exercise our democratic rights, only then can strikes be resorted to. In slave India, it was a necessity and in free India it is uncalled for.
8. Most movements are dominated by anti-social elements.
9. In earlier times, politico-social organizations resorted to strikes to solve problems. Today, problems are sought to start agitations.

FAITH, DHARMA, RELIGION, SECTS
1. Any act in the welfare of the other without selfishness is called righteousness or dharma in traditional terms.
2. Righteousness and liturgy (way of worship) are different. Of the ten attributes of dharma, God or worship do not find a mention.
3. An organization based on liturgy is called as a sect.
4. Righteousness is quality oriented and not quantity leaning. In a sect, quantity is paramount, not quality.
5. Hinduism flourished by logic, Christianity by service and Islam by organization (regimentation).
6. Unbridled violence in ancient Hinduism was the genesis of Buddhism & Jainism. Their respective unilateral non-violence pushed India towards slavery of the central Asians.
7. The unilateral violence of ancient Jews gave birth to modern Christianity and Islam. The results of unilateral violence by Islam will manifest soon.
8. The success of Gandhiji’s non-violence was situational and not dogmatic. If in place of the refined British, India were to be enslaved by Muslim or communist forces, then he would have adopted a different approach.
9. Flaunt of philosophy is religion and the philosophy of flaunt is politics.
10. Violent struggle should always be the last resort. Gandhi was right in the freedom struggle and the extremist freedom fighters were in the wrong. Gandhi used non-violence as a weapon against cowardice. Today peaceniks are applying it to cover their cowardice.
11. In the present context, use of violence by any citizen under any circumstance is wrong.
12. Communal organizations feed upon each other. Muslim hardliners and Hindu hardliners thrive against each other and the net result is escalated communalism.
13. In India, the credibility of seculars is in doubt. Most secular people and organizations oppose Hindu extremism but are quiet on Islamic extremism. Today there is a real danger of cessation of Assam and Bengal in the wake of massive infiltration. Surprisingly, the seculars are silent on this front.
14. The whole idea of Minority and Majority is conceptually a very dangerous one. In reality, decent people are in danger of becoming a minority.
15. The communal Hindu and the communal Muslim attack each other from opposite poles. Peaceful people living in between are sacrificed in the cross fire.
16. In a communal clash, neither a communal Muslim, nor a communal Hindu is killed. All the damage is done to we the people.
17. There are four sets of religious people: - 1) Staunch believer with a staunch behavior. 2) Moderate believer with a staunch behavior. 3) Staunch believer with a moderate behavior. 4) Moderate both as believer and in behavior.
18. Hard-line Muslims fall under the first category. Hard-line Hindus fall under the second category. Moderate Muslims fall under the third category. Moderate Hindus fall under the fourth category. We need to demolish the 1st, regulate the 2nd, reform the 3rd and encourage the 4th category of people.
19. Hard-line Hindus and Hard-line Muslims would dislike such a blend.
20. Unity of religions is no remedy for social ills. Even if Hindus, Muslims, Christians unite to form a single religion, it will not lessen robbery, dacoity, rape, adulteration, terrorism and such other crimes.
21. Righteousness is in danger and defending righteousness should be paramount. Hindus, Muslims, Christians and all religious people should unite and launch a movement against evil forces.
22. Managing religion is a livelihood for some. Hence it is their compulsion to define it favorably.
23. Hypocrisy affects our free thoughts unilaterally, irrespective weather it is political hypocrisy or religious.
24. When society is endangered by anti-socials, it is faulty priority to raise issues such as temples, mosques, reservations, national language etc.,
25. An alternative for the Ayodhya dispute could be:- a) accept Ram as a constitutional figure. b) Build a magnificent monument in his memory. c) The idols should symbolize the truth that is Ram over the evil that is Ravana. d) No religious practices be allowed at that place. e) Temple and mosque to be built at some distance from that site. f) To utilize the monument as a research facility on Ram. g) Accept court ruling as final.
26. Politics and religion should ideally, complement each other. Religion is successful in changing of hearts and politics restrains a person’s extravagance.
27. Religion and science should be close to each other. Science arrives at conclusions and religion inspires behavioral attitudes.
28. The greater the distance between science and religion, the greater the hypocrisy. Presently this gap is widening.
29. Spirituality is an understanding of the triad of: - oneself, his surroundings and their mutual relationship with the Creator.
30. A System is the result of a synergy achieved amongst spirituality, religion, society and government. If any of the above is weakened or strengthened, anarchy swells.
31. Spirituality makes a person soul-centered, contemplative. Righteousness inspires a person to his duties towards others. Society disciplines a person. The State governs, manages a person.
32. Currently, The State has swallowed The Society. The State is persistently getting stronger and The Society is steadily growing frail. In fact, The State has declared itself to be The Society.
33. Whenever such a crisis is confronted upon, righteousness and spirituality come to the aid of The Society. In Ramayana, the sages not only gave wisdom, but weapons as well as training too to Ram. In such times, the definitions of truth and righteousness undergo a change. Killing Bali, disruptions of Meghnad’s yagna rituals etc., point towards a new definition of righteousness and resultant actions (karma). In the Mahabharata too, truth was given a practical meaning in many instances.
34. In the present day, righteousness and spirituality should come out to protect The Society with practical definitions.
35. Presently, the sympathy quotient of people is at an acceptable level, but the empathy level is rapidly diminishing due to the vulgar promotion of individualism.
36. Over the millennia, humanity has evolved to such a towering state due to the adaptation of co-operative lifestyle. Sadly, post industrial revolution policy makers have exalted the mantra that competition is the optimal driving force of humanity.
37. Ideals were the lynchpin of life for generations. Today they are substituted by aspirations. Ideals are firmly grounded, as for aspirations, sky is the limit.

SWADESHI
1. There are four systems of governance in this world. A) Personality oriented, B) Religion oriented, C) State oriented, D) Society oriented. In democratic systems, personalities are dominant. Religion is dominant in Islamic countries; in communist countries state is dominant. India sadly is an ad-hoc mixture of all the above. There is no system in which society is dominant.
2. In the Indian political constitutional context society should have been dominant; religion, state and individual should have been its adjunct.
2A. Most of the individuals and institutions involved with the Indian political constitutional creations are purchasable. Many such of them procure funds from capitalist countries and propagate that child marriage, child labor, population explosion, environmental pollution addiction etc., are the key problems of our nation. Others procure funds from communist countries to spread the canard that price rise, unemployment, social disparity, hunger, poverty are in fact the main issues facing the nation. Some other entities funded by Islamic nations indulge in the sycophancy that minority protection is India’s greatest challenge.
2B.The Indian governments too keep changing the policies under their influence.
3.A lot many institutions, off-shore funded too have joined this bandwagon in putting forth fallacious issues and brush under the carpet the real issues. None of the above raises real issues such as increasing crime graph, the security and justice that The State owes to its citizenry, corruption, labor exploitation, economic disparity, unequal distribution of wealth, morality in public life.
4. Since independence the nation is in a state of perennial divide between the urban India and the rural Bharat.
5. India is facing eleven prominent problems. 1) Robbery, dacoity, looting, 2) rape, 3) Adulteration, under weighing, 4) forgery, swindling, 5) violence, terrorism, coercion 6) corruption, 7) moral turpitude, 8) communalism, 9) caste acridity 10) economic disparity, & 11) colossal labor exploitation.
6. Out of the eleven problems, the first five are due to the administration’s laxity and the last six are a result of the administration’s hyperactivity.
7. All policy architects in India sadly try to establish that the first five problems are less important, and the last six are more important. Hence, one gets the feeling that every important thought in India is up for sale.
8. The simple solution for all of India’s problems lies in the need for a native constitution which will pave the way for a native format of governance. Unfortunately, many intellectuals limit themselves to promote home-made soap, oil, cold drinks which for them are proof enough of swadeshi. The swadeshi movement in India doesn’t realize the true impact of the word native.
9. To easily verify the integrity of the present representatives’ and intellectuals’ intentions, a start can be made by demanding universally accepted norms like incorporating in the present constitution, provisions for: a) right to recall any peoples’ representative for non/under performance. b) In the directive principles of state policy, delete the word “not” from article 37. c) In article 243G, insert “shall” in place of “may”. d) Add “local bodies list” in addition to “union list”, “state list”, and “concurrent list”.
10. No movement presently exists in India which reviews and questions the authority of The State. They instead have narrowed down to mere questioning the actions of The State.
11. Gandhi, Vinoba, Jayprakash Narayan put in their lifelong efforts in questioning and reviewing the authority of The State. Unfortunately, their followers contain themselves to merely inquiring The State’s actions.
12. A possible solution to all contemporary problems can be a movement which: A) Questions not the State’s actions but rather its authority itself. B) Is not funded offshore or by Indian industrialists. C) Redefine swadeshi from its present flawed perspective and move towards a native constitution and a native system of governance. D) Give equal and proportionate importance to original thoughts as well as character.

JOY – GRIEF
1. The difference between the reality and possible result of any action can be quantified as happiness or unhappiness.
2. The reason for joy-grief is the inaccurate approximation of possible result. The more practical the estimate, lesser would be the joy/grief.
3. Joy-grief originates in the mind. They are no way related to the events.
4. A person should habituate himself to correct assessment of situations & their outcome.

THINKER - LITERATI
1. Ideas and literature are different and may be found in the same person or in different ones.
2. Ideas are: A) conclusions arrived at after contemplation. B) Intellect oriented. C) Cannot be projected without literature. D) Difficult to comprehend.
3. Literature is: A) the medium of communicating the conclusions to the society. B) Artfully oriented. C) Strengthens the emotions. D) Easily understood.
4. Ideas and literature are complimentary as well as dependent mutually.
5. Whenever there is a dearth of thinkers, the literati, politicians, sociologists or religious heads start arriving at, and resultantly defining the conclusions. This results in misdirection of literature as well as society. This is actually occurring presently.
6. Conclusions arrived at only after deliberating different ideas can be emulated.

MAJORITY
1. If 20% of an elected unit veto against a resolution, then it should be considered as disputed.
2. Such an issue should be sent back to the electorate for a referendum.
3. This rule should be applicable from the local bodies to the parliament.
4. If an elected member vetoes thrice ad infinitum, his membership may be put under question.

IF I HAD THE POWER
1. Would bring in a constitutional amendment by which- barring five departments, viz., finance, foreign affairs, justice, external security, internal security, - all other departments would be quashed and would delegate administration to family, village, district and state units.
2. Would abolish all taxes and levy a uniform 2% tax on all movable and immovable property of every citizen. Would also double the toll of artificial energy.
3. Would end all reservations and increase the demand for labor to such an extent that there would be a massive appreciation of labor cost.
4. Would abolish individual ownership of property and declare it as a family asset on which each individual would have equal rights.
5. Would make it compulsory for each citizen to be part of some family. –necessarily not blood relatives, rather like minded people would be considered as a family unit.
6. Abdicate the moment, the above become law.

Karpuri Thakur

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