It is unfortunate to note that in Post Freedom Era our leaders have missed opportunities of developments in all fronts. In last 60 years we could not link our rivers and understood its importance. Non congress Governments made efforts like linking the Roads and proposed many to minimise the Gap but failed due to vote bank politics. The current Govt. has identified this but have to take rapid steps for Uniform education, labour, sharing natural resources policy. The intellectual participation to apply policy be mandatory to avoid dangers of divide.
We Indians are first to blame the other side when things go wrong. Its disgustful to learn that after several years of different parties ruling India its hard to believe the truth that whatever improvements, growth, knowledge we boast is equally ridden with deep corruption, most unreliable police system, corruption in judiciary, low quality officials in govt., caste based merits not related to efficiency, great political mileage in every step, India is a still unpredictable nation when the poor, honest, educated and law abiding citizens ate deprived of justice. The criminals who have a large following rule the govt. Truth is just a camouflage of hope and nothing is hoing to happen. A country is known by its happy people here few crooks who earned by fraud are proud about the nation and the rest whose property, rights and justice were just ignored consider it as a cursed nation. No macro thinking can change the nation. Persons on the top should ensure strict enforcement of Laws, punishment to the guilty, inefficient corrupt staff to be dismissed and make the culprits fear the law.here its opposite the educated people fear law as the system overrules them and the criminals are friends of system. We need to make people smart not cities smart. Only strict obedience to law can ensure peace,safety, prosperity.
especially those in North India, are just too ignorant and naïve to understand what real issues affecting them are.
They are either deluded by the Congress which keeps talking about or exaggerating the sacrifices the Nehru Gandhi family made for the sake of the nation or by the BJP which keeps talking hyndu.....muxlim.....hyndu.....muxlim.....culture.....nationalism.......patriotism.......as though these are words patented for exclusive use by them for furthering their political interests.
If not misled by these two parties, those commoners are led astray by myriad regional outfits that owe their existence and survival to the hero-worshipping or cult following traits of people.
The issue that is arguably the most important and pertinent for Indian commoners is alleviation of poverty - especially the kind of grinding poverty that continues to prevail in very large tracts of India, more specifically in North India.
One of the main reasons for the continued prevalence of grinding poverty is landlessness among peasants. The landless class - that still makes up more than a third of the population (and between a third and a half of the population in states such as Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, M.P, etc.) - has traditionally been employed as bonded labourers on the farms of landlords. These landlord castes (Thakurs, Bhoomihars, etc.) hold such a vice like grip on the frontline political parties such as the Congress and the BJP that the latter never have and never
Re: The great majority of Indian commoners,
by piri on Apr 17, 2016 07:17 PM
will move towards doing justice to the huge numbers of landless peasants employed by them for a pittance to do their farm labour.
Daily wages still prevail in the Rs. 80/- to Rs. 150/- range, working hours still extend beyond 10 hours per day, there is still no pay for off days, no kind of provisions are made for medical support (govt healthcare is grossly inadequate), no kind of provisions are made for the support of education of the workers' children, education of the laborers' children is still actively discouraged or often, violently interrupted, government schools (that are the supposed refuge of the lowest strata of society) are still denied any kind of meaningful investments, there is absolutely no trace still of the institution of safe working environments...............the list of human rights violations by those Thakurs, Bhoomihars and others lengthens with as much impunity today as it did in centuries gone.
Despite widespread popular demand and despite demand from within the party itself, the Indian National Congress sabotaged attempts to make land reforms and land re-distribution a central subject in the Constitution. Bowing to pressure from big landowners / zamindars and landlord party leaders, the Congress left the subject to the states in the constitution drafted by the constituent assembly.
As a result, the only 3 states that have truly carried out land reforms and land distribution to the landless peasants and others are Kerala, W.Bengal and Tripura.
Re: Re: The great majority of Indian commoners,
by piri on Apr 17, 2016 07:19 PM
And in these 3 states, it is only Kerala that managed to complete the re-distribution of farmland and truly impose the land ceiling act. Each of the other states found one topic or the other to divert the attention of their still illiterate masses.
And what did the BJP do when it came to power in so many states and remained in power for several years in many of them ??
Well, it dutifully followed the path of the Congress in every way to evade the topic and successfully retained a majority of the people in their states in poverty, deprivation and bonded labor on others' farms !
The only difference between the Congress and the BJP in the matter was that while the Congress used platitudes in the name of freedom, independence, unity, Nehru, Indira, etc to divert the attention of the masses, the BJP is doing so using terms such as nationalism, culture, patriotism and a host of hindi and sanskrit words !!
Speaking as a layman, I think it's a real pity that such intellectual giants as Prof. Dixit or his mentor, Robert Solow, have wasted their time and energy on this pseudo-science called Economics. As Keynes himself once said, “the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” The Solow growth model, for which Robert Solow was awarded the Nobel Memorial prize (will come to that later), is itself less than half accurate. In any other field of actual science, such a model would have been trashed straightaway. Solow himself has stated that the neoclassical model "is a theory of growth that leaves the main factor in economic growth unexplained." And it took a couple of physicists to explain why - because economists in general totally ignore the role of energy in economic growth. Many economic theories even ignore or willfully violate the basic first law of thermodynamics. As for the Nobel Prize, please note that there was no such prize in Alfred Nobel's will. The Nobel prizes have been given starting from 1901. The prize for economics is not a Nobel prize per se. It was started only in 1968, as the Nobel Memorial prize in Economic sciences, instituted by a donation from the Swedish central bank, Sveriges Riksbank. Read the criticisms against such a prize on the wikipedia page.
People will debate others who hold opposite views, but will not think that those differing views automatically make the others traitors or devil-worshippers or communists or whatever may be the favored condemnable category of the day.
Very True. India's young is spoiled of 1) Bad Quality Education 2) Lack of Parents commitment to their children 3) Lack of skill sets. 4) Media role in inculcating hatred among the youth. Net result: Demographic dividend is destroyed.
Re: Demographic Dividend
by jignesh narayan parmar on Jul 18, 2016 11:36 AM
INDIA IS A FOOLS PARADISE - and deserves what it is today - the so called common man who blames the govt IS also corrupt .Just switch on a news channel -- and what one hears is -- killings - loot - floods - conflicts -- terrorists -- and above all foolish bollywood - music videos with With - heros in 6 pack abs kissing a girl in bikini and dancing -- on foolish music which has no sence . ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS - KEEP THE ear plugs while walking or travelling - listening to all useless music . and wearing dress like tight jeans to show they have become macho mans and keeping beards.
these students or fools dont hesitate to give bad words to the elderly or hold their collars to show how macho they have become .or DABANG .
Very True. India's young is spoiled of 1) Bad Quality Education 2) Lack of Parents commitment to their children 3) Lack of skill sets. 4) Media role in inculcating hatred among the youth. Net result: Demographic dividend is destroyed.
Very True. India's young is spoiled of 1) Bad Quality Education 2) Lack of Parents commitment to their children 3) Lack of skill sets. 4) Media role in inculcating hatred among the youth. Net result: Demographic dividend is destroyed.
Very True. India's young is spoiled of 1) Bad Quality Education 2) Lack of Parents commitment to their children 3) Lack of skill sets. 4) Media role in inculcating hatred among the youth. Net result: Demographic dividend is destroyed.
