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Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Phony Saint!!

I remember a recent statement made by BJP’s leader and Gujrat’s chief minister Narendra Modi regarding our worthy/unworthy Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling him “Maun Mohan”, got highlighted in almost all the newspapers and magazines of the country even made a place in the minds of all the Indians.  I believe not only Narendra Modi but anybody else is not being wrong in making such  statements for him as our PM has been inactive, inefficient even indecisive in almost all the political matters. Our highly honored economist and scholar has remained quite unresponsive to any such comments and even at many events where he needs to be pretty active and striking.

“It astonishes me when he talks so little and be so barely visible that we might be forgiven for thinking that India has an imaginary Prime Minister,” wrote a celebrity-journalist in his blog a few months ago.

Where in India with issues like prices hike in Petrol & cooking gas, scams like 2G, Coalgate and CWG, with serious allegations on Salman Khurshid, Virbhadra Singh, Sushil kumar Shinde catching fire at a high pace our Prime Minister has remained insensitive and has nothing to say, not sure about others but this certainly has taken my breath away.
Our Prime Minister is nothing less than a “Saint in Disguise” who’s living in the Self Actualization phase of his life. We can easily sense his abstinence from the political matters and him maintaining a state of nothingness has actually become a national issue. As a prime minister of India was't he supposed to be active than just following solely asceticism. The man who has been accepted by majority of the Indians as their leader should be more efficient and prominent in his activities. Mr. Singh has been talking about the economic growth ever since he got the status of a PM but unfortunately he did not understand the fact that the lack of direction, delays in much needed reforms are the reasons stopping us to achieve the same.
I am quite apprehensive about his vision for our country as well, in a speech he gave at a public conclave held in the Capital, Manmohan Singh said: “I do not want India to be a super power; I just want India to stand in the comity of nations.” has certainly left India embarrassed at an international stage, even then if we see him as a leader of our country, I must say that the benchmark of being a leader has certainly gone down to a great extent.

Mr. Singh's abdication of responsibility and his aversion to risk is striking today, not least because it encourages others in India's government to go into hiding the moment there's a sign of trouble, our former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee stated this in one of our Lok Sabha meeting. During the “anshans” held by Anna Hazare as a part of the revolt against corruption Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to meet PM asked him to take a decision. He told, I said to PM, “Pradhan Mantri saab aap koi nidnaya kyun nahi lete? Desh main itna sab kuch ho raha hai. Aapko nidnaya lena chahiye.(PM sir why don’t you take any decision? A lot of stuff is happening in our country. You should take a decision.) Then He told what our PM replied, “  unhone jawaab diya ‘nidnaya na lena bhi ek nidnaya hai”. (PM answered ‘Being indecisive is itself a decision’) and he seems to be true to the current scenario since the buck never stopped with him at the first level, somebody else (Sonia Gandhi) is holding the political reins.

He undoubtedly seems to have no stakes either in his political party or in the country? He is being reluctant to the odd situations we are facing. The man carrying the highest authority, power and stature in our country is nothing less than a phony saint and we still respect him for the nobility and sorry to say but the lackadiasical attitude he carries.
Nobody else but we are responsible for what we are facing today!!

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Beautiful Days..!!


The sun is still not up..here we are awake at 6 o clock sharp..adorned in uniform & bag packed with new note pads & text books, pencil & lunch boxes, that’s how the innocent childhood took a step forward. I don’t remember any single day when we did not collectively prayed to God at the bus stop for a surprise school holiday! (No wonder some of us ended up being such staunch atheists)

Bells of assembly, singing chorus, the inhibition of being caught up during inspection for anything wrong or not so good was always there.

We started off with pencils & wanted to color the world with crayons & sketch pens. With new books & happy faces we began with remembering alphabets & numbers followed by tables, every mathematical problem we did in school was the easiest of all while the home work ones used to be really tough, cant forget the way teacher’s gave us a helping hand & were always ready to listen and be a friend, they brought in the confidence in us, every praise by them was the biggest achievement for us. Time spent in Hindi classes doing chit- chat (as if we were the masters in Hindi) or sometimes reading our favorite comics, brings smile on face even today. Playing Dum Charades, pen fight, what color you want and many other games which I don’t even remember now in every free lecture was so much fun. School was the place where we perfected the art of making planes & boats. We used to finish lunch in the short break so that the lunch break can be for our favorite candies, popins, mango bite or sometimes for the games I just talked about, ate Lays for their Tazos, bought Complan instead of Boost for the free tennis ball.
The games classes was awaited more eagerly than any thing of utmost importance, we probably played every sport known in the world that too in the scorching heat & we never felt tired with that. Those were the days of fight with friends and making up, without any conspiracies…those were the days of competition…those were the days when we wanted to raise our hands before any of our classmates to answer the questions of our teachers. Celebrating birthday’s at school was another lovely experience where in we had the courtesy to wear any dress of our choice, giving out chocolates to everybody and getting their wishes in chorus made us felt like none less than any Oscar winning celeb.
The craze of being a part of the Sports or Annual Day & excelling & giving our best in them (as if we were the Michael Jackson & Sachin Tendulkar) makes me excited even today.
Half yearly & annual exam days were the only stressful days for us, I remember the long nights we spent in practicing & mugging up long chapters, trying to give our best even in the subjects we detest the most. Anxiety for results & umpteen ideas to defend ourselves in case of average performance in any subject was a part of it.


It’s in school that we made our first friend, had our first crush, competed to excel, ate lunch boxes during classes and learnt our first lessons about life. Can’t bunk classes now…gone are the days when we sat to chat with friends on stairs for hours..!!

 

Will cherish the School Days Memories Forever!! J