Let Me Speak Human!My Heart
Pierced but
I may not sing like a
nightingale!
Diwali Dhamaka: Strategic Sale of PSUs may
Kickstart Soon
We live in a
global village.We are technically empowered and connected people worldwide!
But we are
restricted to speak! We are restricted to write.Our friendship is restricted!
Is it
globalization?
Universal
humanity is skipped.Man is skipped and excluded and it is class rule.Caste war
all over.Unprecedented violence worldwide. Continuous holocaust endless!
Continuous refugee influx as civic and human rights remain suspended!
Is it
globalization?
Tagore
called for universal fraternity!
It is all about
the agenda of Hindutva!
We may have
not a friend in Pakistan because Pakistan is an enemy nation.
We dare not
to seek friendship is China as China remains an enemy nation.
We liberated
Bangladesh,we boast but we should not have friend sin Bangladesh lest we might
be branded as terrorist.
I am afraid
that I have to delete the names of Ex PM Bhattarai and Ex Pm Prachanda from my
friend list because Nepal becomes the latest enemy nation!
Not enough
we should have not Muslim friends as they are treated as the enemies of the
Nation!
We may not
connect Kashmir as Kashmir Valley is a prohibited geography and every Kashmiri
is treated as the enemy of the nation!
We dare not
have any friend in either Salwa Judum or AFSPA region.We may not have friends
in central India,Adivasi geography or North East as we might be banded as anti
national,enemies of the nation!
Children no
more wants to live in with parents!
Parents
despise the children in return!
We have no
relationship!
No Love
left.
It is hatred
all over!
Amusing
logic! Quite funny as they claim that Saudi Arabia has banned PORK! Why should
we not ban Beef?I do not know whether Saudi Arabia banned Pork at all.But I
know that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled Islamic nation while we are People`s
democracy.
We have a
democratic and secular constitution irrelevant to the governance of fascism in
business friendly desguise. Irrelevant to the agenda of making Hindu Nation
within 2030 and Hindu Globe within 2030.
we have been
reduced to a Hindu Nation!
Humanity is
reduced to Hindutva only.
It is the
valley of death.It is gas Chamber!
It is all
about Gujarat Killings.It is not mere the reaction of Godhra,an accident or
planned.It is ethnic cleansing!
It is not
event the aftermath of Babri demolition.
Is is ethnic
cleansing .
We wanted it
and we justify it as we justify the Beef Ban and th killing of humanity for
meat!
In Bihar,it
is not an election but it is a Mahabharat of caste war,caste alliances as
Lalu explains very well!
In Bengal,it
is unprecedented violence for the power to hold on class rule and caste
Hegemony!
Is it
globalisation?
Please see
the video as my heart is pierced and I may not sing like a nightingale!
Modi
Sarkar begins work on formal policy on sale of stakes
The
government is drawing up a formal policy regarding the sale of stakes,
including transfer of control, in state-run companies as it revives the idea of
privatising non-strategic public sector enterprises (PSUs).
The
initial emphasis of the policy though is likely to be on loss-making companies.
Officials of the finance ministry and the department of public enterprises, a
nodal agency for all state-run companies, met last week to discuss details such
as rules for identifying companies and processes involved.
This
is in line with PM Narendra Modi's statement at the Facebook town hall last
week in the US that the government shouldn't be in the “business of doing
business“, referring especially to state-owned hotels.
The
government especially aims to exit all loss-making firms except for those that
have strategic importance, a senior official told ET. There were 71 loss-making
state-run companies in 2013-14 with aggregate losses of more than Rs 20,000
crore. “Preliminary discussions were held on how to approach strategic sales“
at last week's meeting, said the official, requesting anonymity .“As of now, we
have only a policy for diluting minority stakes in profitmaking companies and
to meet the 25% public holding norms.“
The
government has set itself an ambitious disinvestment target for this fiscal
year of Rs 69,500 crore, of which Rs 28,500 crore is expected to come from
strategic stake sales. The capital market regulator's listing norms stipulate
that there should be a public holding of at least 25% in state-owned companies.
“Any
proposal for strategic sale has to come from the ministry concerned. At
present, we are looking to set up some parameters which will define whether the
government should support such firms or exit,“ said another official.
NOT
MUCH PROGRESS ON STRATEGIC SALES
The
Modi regime hasn't been able to make much progress on strategic sales despite
reiterations by senior Cabinet ministers that the government may be open to the
idea.
Strategic
sales, including in profitmaking public-sector undertakings, were common during
the Atal Behari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance administration, a
period that saw the government hand control of a string of blue-chip firms such
as VSNL, IPCL, Balco and Hindustan Zinc to private companies. n May, Finance
Minister Arun aitley had said the government Jaitley had said the government
will proceed with strategic sales in some state-run enterprises.
“There
are some companies in which there is no difficulty (in strategic sales).
Ministry of tourism is already moving ahead,“ he had said.
Tourism
Minister Mahesh Sharma had later ruled out any disinvestment in India Tourism
Development Corp but said the government was exploring exits in eight
lossmaking hotels through public-private partnerships or leases.
The
heavy industries ministry has already floated Cabinet notes on the closure of
four entities, including units of Hindustan Machine Tools and Tungabhadra Steel
Products.Discussions are also on with the de fence ministry on Hindustan
Cables. As part of the new framework, “we are moving ahead with winding up of
Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE)“, said one of the
officials cited above. “The new policy will take cognisance of these parameters
for any revival proposal.“
BRPSE
was set up in 2004 to prepare plans to revive sick state-owned companies.
The
Vajpayee government had sold four loss-making entities, including two hotels.
It sold Modern Food Industries to Hindustan Unilever while Paradeep Phosphates
was acquired by Zuari Industries.Modern was recently sold to Nimman Foods,
which is backed by private equity fund Everstone Capital.
Indian
poet Rabindra Nath Tagore preached global peace and universal fraternity. In
his writings he vehemently criticized narrow parochialism, and urged his fellow
human-beings to unite for the progress of humanity. Tagore has often been
highly critical of fundamentalists, whom he dubbed as worshipping the “devil”.
In one of his poems he wrote :
“Who
is obsessed by religion
He
is blind
He
only kills and gets killed.
Even
an atheist is blessed
Because
he doesn’t have the vanity of any faith.
Humbly
he lights up his reason
Defies
the authority of scriptures
And
seeks only the good of men.”
[
Dharmamoha – from the collection Parishesh by Rabindranath Tagore.]
Tagore
opined that universal fraternity could be achieved only through proper
education of the people. He felt that India lacked western progressive thought,
and was bogged down by the shackles of centuries-old traditions. There was a
need to break free from these bondage of ideas. He said “Freedom of mind is
needed for the reception of truth”. In his drama “Chandalika” (about the
Untouchable’s daughter), Tagore condemned the caste system and wrote :
“By
preventing the touch of Man
You
have hated the God of man’s heart
For
anguished rage of the Creator, on the door of famine
You
shall have to take food and drink sharing with others
………………………………
Whom
you have pushed downward, will bind you down
Whom
you have left behind, will draw you back.”
As
a panacea for all the ills of disharmony, Tagore prescribed cultivating the
spirit of progressive thought. He advised, unlike Mahatma Gandhi, that India
should not boycott the west, but rather learn from it. To achieve a
cultural-intellectual revitalization ; India should open up to the western
liberal philosophies and not become mired in narrow nationalism. “We of the
Orient should learn from the Occident . . . to say that it is wrong to
cooperate with the West is to encourage the worst form of provincialism and can
produce nothing but intellectual indigence”
[
Kripalani, Krishna. Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1962.
page 294].
In
fact Tagore favored a grand inter-civilisational alliance; a majestic symbiosis
of the Orient and the Occident. By doing so, he was walking along a long line
of ancient Indian intellectuals who came before him. Buddha, Mahavira, Emperor
Ashoka, Emperor Akbar, Chaitanya and Kabir all spoke of fostering universal
harmony. However, what sets Tagor apart from others is his logic of taking the
ideology of global harmony to its logical end by denouncing all forms of
extremist nationalism and decrying fundamentalism.
One
of the most famous poems of Tagore is his song of inclusiveness — entitled
“Bharat Tirtha” (the Pilgrimage of India), wherein he exhorts all compatriots
to come together in their quest for universal fraternity.
“Where
men of all races have come together,
Awake,
O my mind!
Standing
here with outstretched arms,
I
send my salutations to the God of Humanity,….
Come,
O Aryan and Non-Aryan, Hindu and Muslim,
Come,
O English and Christian,
Come,
O Brahmin,
Purify
your mind and clasp the hands of all;
Come,
O Downtrodden, let the burden
Of
every insult be forever dispelled.”
This
is one of the main themes of Tagore: on a superficial level, the different
religions seem all different. But to a liberal mind, they reveal themselves to
be the same. True Spiritualism is intimately connected with finding the “magic
of life”. As they say, all roads lead to Rome. The Roads of Spirituality
however, according to Tagore, always leads to love, and not to any other
destination. Tagore often cited Sufi saints and Vaishnava Gurus to emphasize
his message of universal love. In his “Bhanu Singher Padavali”, Tagor adopted
the Vaishnava ideal of “transcendental love” by allegorically expressing it
through the earthly love of Radha and Krishna. Truly it was a rather great
spiritual revolution on the part of Tagore to say that all religions in essense
speaks of love. Not understanding this profound realization leads to erroneous
conclusions. This is the inclusive-philosophy which people need to promote
peace, and not the jingoistic parochial policy of fundamentalists of excluding
all, which some people talk about. Tagore indicates that any person who thinks
exclusiveness needs to ‘purify’ his own mind and ‘clasp the hands of all’.
KEEPING
THE POT BOILING Determined to keep focus on caste divide in Bihar, RJD boss
claims BJP-led Centre not concerned about poor
Lalu
Prasad is determined to keep the focus on caste divide in election-bound Bihar,
throwing a spanner in the works of Bharatiya Janata Party, which is seeking to
dissociate itself from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat's recent
suggestion of a review of the reservation policy and betting primarily on PM
Narendra Modi's promise of development.
Caste
is central to Bihar politics, the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former chief
minister told ETin an exclusive interview, projecting the upcoming assembly
elections as a battle between the upper castes represented by the BJP-led
alliance and the backward castes under the Grand Alliance, which includes his
party. “You cannot ignore caste. It is a reality in India,“ Prasad said,
seemingly undeterred by an Election Commission inquiry that he faces or raking
up caste in an election rally. “There are castes in animal world too. Elephants
have castes. It is not a dirty word,“ Prasad said on Friday morning, sitting
under a makeshift shed in the garden of his Circular Road house in Patna,
before heading out on a day packed with eight election rallies.
Prasad,
who was quick to latch on to Bhagwat's suggestion and slam BJP for its alleged
attempt to deny backward caste communities the fruits of the reservation policy
, has sharpened his attack even as RSS has said its chief was misunderstood and
BJP was quick to clarify that it would not tinker with reservation. His tirade
has put BJP so much on the defensive that the party has had to declare that if
it wins its chief minister will be from a backward caste.
“The
match is over for BJP. Both guru and chela (Modi and BJP president Amit Shah)
will have to pack their bags after their defeat in Bihar,“ he said.
Prasad
denied any differences with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Janata Dal (United)
leader and his ong-time foe-turned-partner, who is leading the Grand Alliance.
He said he simply walked next door to his neighbour Kumar's house if there was
an issue to be discussed.
LINKING
CASTE TO BACKWARDNESS
Linking
caste to economic backwardness and reservation, Prasad quoted from the
Constitution, Par iament debates and statistics culled from the centre's
Socio-Eco nomic Caste Census.
Armed
with statistics from the caste census, he reeled off the figures -manual casual
labourers, 51%; families living in one-room kuchcha house, 14%; landless
households, 30%.
“Go
and ask people living in these conditions their caste and you will know. The
government does not give even a second glance at the poor,“ he said.
Equating
caste with economic status, Prasad repeated his demand that the BJP government
at the Centre make the caste data public. “The government is behaving like
Soordas. How can they plan properly without taking the caste figures into
account? The Constitution says that reservation has to be as per population,“
he said. “Bhagwat blurted out the mann ki baat (real view) of RSS and BJP.“
Prasad
said BJP has already started the process of scrapping reservation in Rajasthan.
“In Haryana, only a class-X pass person can contest panchayat elections.We all
know, who all will be excluded in the process,“ he said.
Pointing
out that attempts were made earlier to introduce graduation as a criterion for
contesting Lok Sabha elections, he said, “Thankfully that did not happen.Atal
Behari Vajpayee lost elections to a less-educated candidate.“
He
further said, referring to his wife, “When Rabri won elections and became chief
minister, they ridiculed her. First, you keep all backwards and weaker sections
on the back bench, and then say they don't require reservations. A total
revolution is needed to bring them into the mainstream.“
