Bihar doesn't seserve a special status

In the Arthashashtra, Chankya states that the actions of a king have a direct bearing on his subjects. And for any wrong that happens the King stands guilty as expected but the subjects are guilty as well of choosing such a leader and following him. Therefore by default they will have to bear the burden of the wrong actions of their leaders. Bihar is a prime example of this fallacy. At the time of independence and a few decades after that Bihar was one of the most developed states in that India. Few people know that apart from the metros Bihar had the highest per capita income at that time and was far more industrialised than the rest of the country. From such a prime position if today it laggers far behind the nation something went very bad. Post JP movement in 1970's Bihar became the epicentre of political rot. People of all hues, no credentials, no ethics, no morality and no statesmanship took up poltics as an occupation of convienece. But in the end who chose these guys, the people of Bihar. And so if they destroyed Bihar the people are responsible for it as well and will have to bear the burnt of their action.
Currently the special status is enjoyed by all the north-eastern States, J&K, Himachal and Uttarakhand. These are staes with a hilly terrain and geographical isolation making them unfit for investment or industrialisation. Bihar, thankfully suffers from no such disadvantage, it is located on prime alluvial land and is by no means isolated. A state which once pioneered development in Eastern India cannot become disadvantaged over a few decades. Bihar's problem was and continues to be its leaders superficially. But deep down lies the inability of Bihari to shun identity politics and chose statesmen who can lead Bihar.
From a staunch supporter of Nitish Kumar earlier, today I end up criticising him. This, because of the drama he has propogated of the special status rant. Eight years into his rule and he finds himself at the recieving end of people's ire. Not because he hasn't worked, mind you he has worked much much better than his predecessors, but he is not a statesman. What he tried to do was project himself as one, similar to Indira is India it became Nitish is Bihar. The propoganda was so influential that it raised people's hopes and desires beyond reasonable limits. And he can't fulfil it which he knows clearly, and has therefore brought up the bogey of special status. Eight years of his rule has not attracted the any major investment no has it created any job oppurtunities nor has it changed Bihar. Bihar is what it was 10 years back with some sustainable and some cosmetich changes. Instead of acknowleding this he projects a completely different Bihar which is far from truth.  
There are other states similar to Bihar, Orrisa, MP, Chattisgarh, UP, Rajasthan. Does anyone of you think that Bihari is more disadvantaged than Chattisgarh? 70% of the districts there are under Naxal menace, these are areas where the Government of India doesn't rule, the tribals live such a heinous life that you can't even evaluate them. If such a state doesn't deserve  a special status, by what logic does Bihar ? Giving Bihar a special status would be injustice to people of these states. Nitish Kumar says that India cannot develop if Bihar doesn't develop. He is again wrong, India is not because of Bihar, India can develop even if Bihar doesn't as it has over the years. It is upto Bihar to become part of that development becuase and for that it needs no special status, it needs young and motivated leaders and not by products of identity politics. Yes Nitish Kumar is a good politician but in the end he too is a by product of identity politics and no statesman. He can't put the welfare of his subjects before poltics because he too has been grooved by the same mantle as Lalu. When Bihar decides to shun identity and chooses development it will itself find itself flying on the wings of growth.

How Gandhi destroyed India- !

PART 1

My late grand-father was a renowed historian of Bihar, a staunch congress supporter. followed Gandhian values throughout his life. But even he when in an unbiased mood would accept that most of the ills plaguing tthe country today are a gift of Gandhi and his self styled followers. I doubt if anyone of would even bother to contradict me, most of us dislike Gandhi but because of reasons we don't  know.   

When India won independence most of the civil servants (at that time they were indeed good) felt that Sardar Patel should lead the country. Gandhi interfered and Nehru became the PM, do i need to tell you the mamoth blunders of Nehru or his flawed policies and useless leadership. But herewith began the culture of politcal heirachy. That was the first time in independent India that personal choice dominated reason. And since then reason has taken a back seat - Nehru was followed by Indira, Sanjay, Rajeev, Rahul and most intrestingly Sonia. Many beleive and not without reason that Patel would have brought about a different India, you should know that he united 610 princely states as India, the India you know today is his work. That small blunder as it may seem of Gandhi changed the way of governance in India. Gandhi  patronised his followers and disregarded the rest nationalist whether Bhagat Singh or Bose..............today you need to appease Madam Gandhi. Gandhi practised politics without any office or authority or responsibility, that is what many Godfathers do today Sonia or Lalu, Left or others.


The culture of pseudo secularism - appeasement and threatening of minorities was begun by Gandhi. In the riots of 1947 trains full of dead bodies of  were sent from Pakistan. The news was suppressed so that the Indians don't retaliate. But that was the beginning of another brand of Politics - even today after 60 yrs Congress still talks about the riots to the Muslims not development, they have been shown that if they want to live they need congress. Pakistan was not a country created by Jinnah, its first budget of 55 crores was donated by India on the insistence of Gandhi. Imagine a country full of hungry people giving one third of its money to a country which killed its citizens. No one else but Gandhi could have done it. He changed the meaning of secularism forever, now it was protection of minorities from the majority. He went to every rioted place to stop Hindus from killing, intrestingly he never visited any of the Muslim dominated areas or Pakistan, he could have easily gone there. And till today the secularism remains same. So whenever someone talks about the majority he is a communal one.
Gandhi's policies of winning freedom - satyagraha and civil disobedience have made the whole nation disobedient. People still go to strike for every petty purpose. Politcians have two mootos - when in power loot as much as you can when in opposition strike as much as you can. Have you seen those scenes in Parliament and assemblies ? Throwing chairs and uprooting the stage. We should be ashamed of electing such leaders and yet we donot feel shame because that is what Gandhi did ! People call strikes reminding Gandhi did it. The coomon man feared law before Gandhi who told them to break the law and you know what law means today. Meant to be broken, civic sense has been completely wasted. India is wayward today because we have lived in a India where law comes secondary to money and power.
                                                                    I know there is nothing to be gained from accusing him. But there is nothing to be gained from praising him either. I just read Digvijay Singh reminding people that Congress is the party of Gandhi, the most honest secular and social leader of all time and Congress follows his ideals. That is why we need to know that Gandhi's ideals were the biggest curse on India and Congress keeps on reviving it.

Is Nitish better than Lalu !

Okay for most of you this might seem absurd Nitish vs Lalu, oh my god you'r comparing the sun with darkness. Let me also clarify that I detest Lalu Yadav as much as you. Than why am I asking such a question ? Yesterday I met this gentleman from a well reputed company who had given up his job for studying Bihar and he had this question. I sounded aghast on hearing it but soon his arguments got the better of me.

                        See both of these leaders are products of  JP school of politics, so one thing that's crystal clear is both have the same mindset that of JP. You might think JP was iconic and instrumental in overthrowing Indira, perhaps he was. But the benefit of his movement is overshadowed by the ill after effects. The decay in India's education system is his biggest gift. Most of the Indian Colleges are full of hooligans today, the entry of such people in politics is also a gift of JP and that is turning out to be a big threat. What I am trying to point out is that both Lalu and Nitish have the same political education. In fact Nitish served Lalu for over 10 yrs in governance. Now that's a long time, so if he says that he left Lalu because of Bihar it sounds wrong. Both of them rose to prominence practising caste & only caste one talking of yadavs and other kurmis. Both of them have made controversial caste remarks, while you remember what Lalu said you have forgotten the same words of Nitish.  And now if one of them says that he doesn't believe in caste what does it mean ? You just need to look into his cabinet a wonderful conglomerate of all castes which voted for him. They are ministers not because they deserve infact of 28 ministers in cabinet 16 have criminal cases against them, 6 have even been accused of rape, so they are there because of their caste equations.

I am not telling you that Bihar hasn't developed it has definitely and and a considerable rate. But all these statements that politics in Bihar has changed or that Bihar has changed are misleading. Creations of the media. Talk of the elections last year the theme was that since Nitish has developed Bihar so all the forward and kurmis and dalits will vote for him. Did the yadavs vote for him where the nominee was not of their community. Talking of my college itself all my yadav batchmates voted for lalu (they said:परंपरा है निभाना है ). And when you see the vote percentage 34 % for NDA and 26 % for Lalu and co it should strike you that something doesn't add on of the victory margin 204-33 ? Infact what many people rightly beleive is that Nitish has increased casteism for his own benefits creating mahadalits out of dalits, dalit muslims......etc. He has used it to his own benefit. And still you will say that at least Bihar is developing under him, my freind Germany too developed under Hitler but what happened to the civilisation. Someting similar is going on in Bihar and rather India. We are becoming incresingly fragmented, restless and indivuliastic. Concrete jungles and sky scrappers do not bring development, it is the people who do. That's why Japan is a happier nation than USA. Strangely no one amongst us or the media see this fact, they esaily disregard it. This hullabaloo is something similar to India shining campaign.

                                                       In short I am not telling you to vote for Lalu, I wouldn't do it for myself. All I am asking you is too look with an unbiased eye. Most of you detest Lalu when you hear him because of the way he speaks: illetrate (he is a LLB) , how many of you have actually listened to what he says? That should not be the case, you should know how he destroyed Bihar and created a Jungle Raj here, then you should hate him. Similarly just because Nitish speaks in the manner we do, we should not overlook his wrong doings. In the end "IF BIHAR HAS TO CHANGE BIHARIS WILL HAVE TO CHANGE AT THE FOREMOST"

 

Celebrating the other half !

The Beauty Of A Woman






The beauty of a woman

isn't in the clothes she wears,

The figure that she carries,

or the way she combs her hair.



The beauty of a woman

must be seen from in her eyes;

Because that's the doorway to her heart,

the place where love resides.



The beauty of a woman

isn't in a facial mole;

But true beauty in a woman,

is reflected by her soul.



It's the caring that she cares to give,

the passion that she shows;

And the beauty of a woman

with passing years only grows

Forget Gandhi - Move on !!!

Writing after a long time in response to around 7 blogs that I have read yesterday, all dedicated to the man in the picture below.........
गाँधी जयंती के अवसर पे काफी लेख पढने ओ मिले , सब ने गाँधी जी के चरित्र की बात की उनके योगदान की बात की और न जाने क्या क्या . हर लेख को पढने में अपना सर घुमाना परता है , यार इतनी अच्छी हिंदी में लिखते है की पढना मुश्किल हो जाता है फिर गाँधी कम और हिंदी ज्यादा याद आती है . किसी को उनसे शिकायत है की वो वो नहीं थे जो हम उन्हें बना बैठे है तो कोई यह समझता है की वो वही थे जो हम उन्हें बना चुके हैं - देखा मैंने भी अच्छी  हिंदी लिख दी . येही  बात पसंद है मुझे गाँधी जी के बारे में जब भी उनके बारे में लिकोगे तो इतनी अची हिंदी दिमाग से निकलती है की बस मत पूछो . खैर बात गाँधी (जी) की उठी है तो मैं भी कुछ बोलने पर मजबूर हो गया हूँ , पर मैं किसी के तरफ नहीं हूँ इसीलिए () में जी लिखा ताकि किसी को भी कस्ट न हो .

Endless life.......

मुझे गाँधी (जी ) से कोई लगाव नहीं है न ही नफरत है , पर उनकी कुछ बातें अची लगती है . अब इसका यह मतलब नहीं है की हर साल उनके जन्म के लिए हम छुट्टी मनाएं . कभी किसी ने मेरे जन्मदिन पे छुट्टी मनाई है - जो जिंदा है हम उनकी फिकर ही नहीं करते और जो ऊपर जा चुके हैं हम उनको बार बार निचे किचते रहते है . उन्होंने लारी की देश के लिए ६० साल पहले तो  क्या अभी लोग नहीं लरते है अपने देश के लिए - मैं भी लार्ता हूँ कभी कभी अपने परोसी से जिसको मैं पाकिस्तानी के नाम से जनता हूँ . उन्होंने सादगी सिखाई कम कपरे पहनो , सत्य बोलो , सादगी से रहो - वो तो अभी भी लोग सिखाते हैं पर हम न तो पहले मानते थे न अब मानते हैं . मेरे कहने का यह मतलब है की अभी भी आपको आस पास बहुत सरे गाँधी मिल जायेंगे बस आप देखना नहीं चाहते . मन में एक तस्वीर बैठा ली है की गोल सा चस्मा सफ़ेद धोती (तेज दिमाग - बदमाश जैसा कुछ लोग कहते है ) , और इस तस्वीर से बहार हम देकना नहीं चाहते इसीलिए उस एक गाँधी के पीछे अभी तक परे हुए है गाँधी से सूट भी पहना करते थे पर हम कभी उन्हें उस रूप में नहीं देखना चाहते .वही बात है अब गाँधी क्या थे कैसे थे यह अब कोई नहीं जनता पर हर कोई अपने मन के हिसाब से उनका चरित्र वर्णन करने लग जाता है .बक्श दो जीते जी तो इतना सुना ही उसने अब मरने के ६० साल बाद तक भी लोग उसी के बारे में बोलते रहेंगें तो उनकी आत्मा को शांति नहीं मिलेगी .  सही बात यह है की गाँधी जी एक सामान इंसान थे और यह उन्होंने हीं कहा था बस हम यह मानने को टायर नहीं है.
बेहतर  यह होगा की हम अपने आस पास के लोगों में गाँधी को ढूंढे  और उस महात्मा को शांति से सोने दे . सही है न जो बीत गयी सो बात गयी ................

Memoirs !!

Just trying my hands at collage, inspired by Sudesh. To have an engineer as your friend has an advantage that he keeps on reminding you that you lag behind when it comes to technology. Koi bat nahi har ............. ka din ata hai.

Medical Schools are a hell for your creativity and enjoyment. In such a draconian place there are a few moments to cherish one of them being SP in January. The marvelous decorations coupled with individual elegance makes it a memorable affair.

Ode to St.Paul's

ST PAUL"S

The first thing that comes to mind of the word "ode" is a poem of Thomas Hardy, the next we were in Std.9 and some south Indian taught us (forgot his name). Even now there many things that reminds me instinctively of my school days - 
* Like the prepositions Sudesh had an unparalleled aptitude for them he would bombard them untill we got one wrong (it didn't take long :-) quick), 
* Whenever I feel sleepy in a lecture Mrs Mamta Sahu floats in- I slept in nearly all of her classes and Nibir slept behind me. Interestingly I was never caught and even more interestingly Nibir was caught and had a fair bit of questioning on Caesar's wife. Course he didn't answer and that set the questioner on fire.... actually we had resolved not to comment on other's wives but she didn't know it, we were being noble.
* Whenever someone around me keeps on talking without a break Nikita and Ashutosh fly in, they would talk continuously at times to no use while at others lead to a smile.
* And yes whenever I hear an intelligent comment Ankur reminds me of himself. He used to comment on anything and everything, none of which could penetrate our thick brain but we were kind enough to smile !
*A beautiful teacher (there are none in the college of course but serials often through up a few) and all you can remember is Mrs Shipra, most of us kept on speculating how beautiful she would have been in her younger days (not me) and Prashant Ranjan made a habit of mentioning it every now and then.
*Sir Sarit Ghosh, he remains one of the most memorable people I have ever met. Whether it was his perfect anchoring, his scooter (someone tried to deflate it once), his threats of calling the parents or his teaching of History ( I never thought I would enjoy History, but I did) assembeled with an array of topics ranging from todays news to an actors nick name and many more. He was the most mimicked teachers of our time.
*And at last Miss Ganguly, she remains the best teacher I have  ever come across and she is why I took to books and made a career. 


There is much more to write about the school days unfortunately the net connection isn't helping me. I will try in the coming days to give you a brief of St Paul's through 45 years and my date with it. And yes, that I can still write a blog 4 years after giving up English remains another ode to the school. 
Haaappppyyyy Biiiirrrrtttthhhdddaaayyy.