tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396127394001390882024-03-27T02:38:02.745-04:00bhArata-bhUtibhArata<sup>N</sup>:: <i>king Bharatas's realm i.e. India; inhabiting Bharatas-varsha i.e. India; devAtas of the sun shining on the south of Meru </i>
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bhUti:: <i> existence, being; wellbeing, thriving, prosperity, might, power, wealth, fortune; Welfare personified</i>RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-77137170338359290522018-08-13T10:07:00.000-04:002018-08-13T16:16:48.300-04:00Arya Chanakya - Takshashila University<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Part 1: <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2018/08/arya-chanakya-authoring-arthashastra.html" target="_blank">Arya Chanakya - Authoring Arthashastra, A Revolutionary insight</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The city of Takshashila was so called as it was built with cut stones. The university was established between the Sindhu and Vitasta rivers by SriRama’s brother Bharata, according to the Mahabharata. It rose to fame as the central university to supervise over all the other ancient universities in the Hindu country. This university was renowned many centuries prior to Christ’s birth. Students from many foreign lands studied here as well.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students learnt the VedaShastras under the guidance of expert Maharshi Pandits. This was a university that was revered by people from all religions. There were also teachers belonging to other religions. Subjects like Vedas, Vendangas (auxiliary Vedic sciences), Darshanas (philosophical guides), Ayurveda, Ganita Shastra (Mathematics), ArthaShashtra, RajyangaShastra (constitutional science), AyudhaShastra (weapons science), Geography, Astronomy, MantraShastra (science of Mantras), Gandharvam etc. were comprehensively taught with a practical approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sixty four arts were all taught with perfection. The methods and approaches were such that the students believed that all sciences and arts they studied were aligned with the Arya Sanatana Dharma. <b>Nothing that doesn’t abide by Dharma was taught</b>. Knowledge that would make living in a society comfortable was imparted. Only because the correlation between society and knowledge was distinctly stated, the university gained such respect and renown. Rather than working towards financial ascent or towards attaining fame, it adhered to its quest for truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Jeevaka and Buddha also studied here</b>. Atreya Rishi was Jeevaka’s guru. One of Atreya’s disciples, Charaka was a Physician who taught the Ashtanga medicinal science here. The first of the five hundred students In Varanasi, SwetaKetu entered Takshashila for advanced education in the field. <b>Panini Acharya</b> authored the Ashtadhyayi, Dhaatupatha, and Unadi Sutra in the Vyakarana Shastra while in this University.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each sect is taught their respective Veda entirely as it should be. Every subject has seven levels within it. Only the worthy students for advanced education are admitted into the university. Primary and secondary level education isn’t available here. This is an esteemed education center. Students from all over the world who have familiarized themselves with the subjects up to the age of sixteen come here for the next level education. When a student completes his seven years of education in a Shastra here, there is hardly anything left for him to learn in it. Not only does every student gain immense knowledge in the subject he has taken up, but also considerable knowledge in three other related subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All Gurus were unbiased Maharshis. Some were wandering ascetics. Dharmics who lived solely to spread knowledge. <b>Students were those who set out for to protect Dharma and those who solely lived to attain knowledge</b>. It is not an exaggeration to say that the students would have exceeded their Gurus at the end of the seven years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the <b>protection of Dharma is the foremost priority of every Guru in Takshashila</b>, certain appointed wanderers introduced Anga Samudrika scholars to foreign lands to inspire and send any child that had the characteristics of a future king, an emperor, a religious leader, or a great scholar to the Gurukula. To put in huge efforts into nurturing these promising students through education and making them brilliant protectors of Dharma is Takshashila’s primary endeavor. The university’s plenipotentiary takes special interest in these students as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the education is complete, the students are provided with an ace level examination to test their expertise. In certain Shastras, not only is the knowledge/conceptual understanding tested, but also their ability for practical application. These examinations were conducted using the best methods. Without letting the students realize that they were being tested, the Guru’s observed their students learning and declared whether they passed. For a test on medicine, students were required to list the properties of the leaves, herbs, creepers, climbers, roots, and grass in area surrounding the university. When the students passed the practical tests, they would be blessed to travel around the world and win royal accolades, also be reminded to never forget the protection of Dharma, and then be graduated. Some would remain and research their subjects, discover great things and give them to the world in the form of Granthas. For their contributions to their subject, they would be given the title of ‘Maha Parangata’. Some others would teach within institution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though the university taught the Chaturvedas, Shadangas, Shatshastras, Chatushashtikalas as well, <b>it gave the foremost priority to strategically producing efficient leaders, kings, and ministers who would protect Dharma</b>. For this reason, they picked well-gifted students to make them efficient. They were taught the entire DhanurVeda, and made successful in Shastra Vidyas. As it majorly relied on kings and ministers to protect VaidikaDharma, it took their oaths to do so. Kings and emperors of different regions sent their princes to be educated here. A hundred and three such princes studied and learnt various administrative strategies here and ruled their kingdoms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of all its important repositories, Takshashila’s treasury of the palm leaf manuscript Granthas is its most prized. This is the residence of the students who have attained the title of ‘Parangata’ and continue to carry on research in their fields. This repository stands in a cave carved to be around a half-mile wide on the hillside. Here and there were ruby columns that were like lamps that didn’t need oil, shining light untouched by shadows. Vents were made for fresh air circulation. Inside racks made of polished marble slates were the Granthas neatly and orderly arranged in rows in different sections according to the respective Shastras. Each section’s title was mentioned above it in Devnagari script. Ladders and ropes appeared intermittently to be used to place and retrieve Granthas from the higher shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The granthas belonging to a particular Shastra were all under the supervision of the assigned master of the Shastra. This person sat across the section of his Shastra, facing it on a tiger skin Asana. He would have studied all the Granthas, passed a special examination, and knew what information was available where. Researching students just needed to tell him their topic of research for him to be able to point them to Granthas which they needed to study for that sake. He was also able to tell them which parts of these Granthas they were likely to find the necessary information in. He would get someone to retrieve necessary Granthas and give them to the students. Apart from this person, in between sections of Shastras were emerald elevations, on them were deer skins spread, and on which sat the advanced researchers, facing North. He would suggest possible paths of research, <b>explain the intentions and perspectives of the authors of the Granthas</b>, clear doubts, and guide of the researching students. This Acharya argued with the students and encouraged their radical thoughts despite them being against the religion he practiced for the sake of progress and prosperity. He also cautioned them on their efforts. He would have done his own research on the Shastra, authored Granthas with new theories, and be titled as a ‘Maha Parangata’. Mostly such Acharyas were wanderers who relinquished all comforts and pleasures, or devout life-long bachelors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is more than 2300 years before present day. There are five to six hours to go before sunrise. It is Visakha Shudda Panchami. In the section of political treatises in the huge repository of palm leaf manuscripts inside Takshashila Vidyapeetha, in a corner is a radiant young man of age twenty three years, surrounded up to ten feet by ancient manuscripts lying open, carefully consulting and comparing manuscripts to arrive at meaningful conclusions, writing them down on leaves, absorbed in the gathering of information for the composition of a new text. To his left is another young man of his age, leafing through more manuscripts, occasionally sharing something insightful with his companion, discussing, and being helpful. The first is Chankya, and the latter is named Indusarma. Beside them is the researcher and their teacher, Sukalpaswami, testing and commending their knowledge and skills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: It means it is mostly done. It won’t take much longer to complete the text. Why have you chosen to author Arthashastra rather than a discourse on the first Purushartha? A discourse on Dharma would also be your duty as a Brahmin, wouldn’t it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Guruprabhu! Artha (material means) is necessary for Dharma (duty). Artha helps realise Kama (desire). Since the other two are tied to Artha, attaining it would help attain the other two. This is why I am focussing on the second Purushartha as the first and fourth have been extensively discoursed and written about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are only a few texts on Arthashastra. It can be said that there is no text on Kamashastra. I will attempt to fill this deficit. I am currently working on Arthashastra, and with time if God desires so, I shall also write on the art of Kama. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Your intention is good. Are your studying the texts on the Arthashastra written by our ancestors and following their footsteps? None of them cross the limits of Dharma. These limits aren’t to be crossed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Guruprabhu! I am researching all ancient texts – Barhaspatya, Manava, Aushanasu, Aambhiya, Visalaksha, Vatavyadhi (Uddhapa), Pisuna (Narada), Bharadwaja (Dronacharya), Kounadampata (Bheeshmacharya), Baahudanti Putra (Indra) are all my sources. I have absorbed all knowledge that is available regarding administration and ruling. All such texts put Dharma before Artha. I think that the Dharmarthas in the texts do not concur with today’s circumstances. For this reason, I have made changes that I have deemed fit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: How come Chana? You are making changes to Dharma according to the times? Isn’t Dharma constant with time, similar to the substance that the soul is made of? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Yes. The core principles of Dharma do not change. But the paths on takes to follow Dharma have to be changed with the times, Swami! So these changes were necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: What? Are you capable of showing better ways to follow Dharma in comparison to those shown by our ancestors? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: It is true that our ancestors had shown optimum ways to follow Dharma. They were the right paths for their times. Today, they fail. No one today can reach the destination if they follow those paths. So these ways had to be changed. Today’s people require paths to be thornless even if they are long and meandering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: So you have shown twisted ways to Dharma in your book. Acharya Kalyanaswami had already forewarned me of your unconventional approaches, said that you could appeal to the people according to the times. You Telugus don’t seem to blindly follow. You use your ability to discern the truth and scrutinise all knowledge that has been passed down. You are skilled in reasoning. I’ve heard that Kalyanaswami had named you ‘Kautilya’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Yes. It is the pet name Kalyanaswami Guru has given me. I have practiced Artha and Dharma at his feet. He loves me like a father. He initially didn’t think much of me for not understanding Dharma and interrupting his lessons with constant queries. That was when he jested, ‘You are not Kautalya, but Kautilya.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: I see! So your Gotrarshi is Kutalya Maharshi! Then you become a Kautalya, but Guru has added an ‘i’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Since that day, all my companions have addressed me with the ‘i’ sound. Later on, Guru came to take to me since being able to change his opinions finally. “Your ways might be unconventional, but suitable to our times. Write Arthashastra your way and bring the world together,” saying so, he gave me his blessings and led me here to research under your guidance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Indusarma: I see! So that is how you acquired your name. I was unaware of the story behind it. I did not study Mantra, Ayurveda, and Jyotishya with you under Kalyanaswami Guru, so I wasn’t aware of the origin of your altered name. So, Kautalya became Kautilya because of Guru. You are Chanakya because you are Chanaka’s son. What is your actual name?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Vishnugupta. My mother Devaki, is a devotee of MahaVishnu. She routinely recited Vishnusahasra. I was born to my parents late in life. Unable to tolerate the pains of childbirth, my mother prayed to Vishnu that she’d name me after him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In: Yes. Right from the start, he cultivated the hobby of petting doves, pigeons, parrots, eagles, monkeys etc. and using them as messengers to deliver messages to other regions and to gather information. No one can match him at it. As he is the Swami of those who catch birds, he came to be called ‘Pakshila Swami’ (Swami of birds). There are people eager to learn this art from him. Mallanaga is a cultural name. Mayaandhras are a Nagajati. This region of Takshashila was their first residence. Mallanaga is also a title given in praise to a person of eminence from the Nagajati. It refers to our Jati’s culture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: I had forgotten, Chana! Isn’t your gothra Srivatsa? You mentioned Kautala? Then, why are you called Vatsayana? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: As my maternal grandparents did not have any sons, I’m the only son to both families, so I’ve attained both Gothras. My maternal Gothra is Srivatsa. So I am also Vatsayana. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: You have many names! Your mother, father, race, Guru etc. gave you your names. Your enjoyable nature has gained you another name. There seem to be more titles waiting for you. But why are you missing teeth at such a young age? Have you been ill?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: I haven’t lost my teeth to any illness, Swami! This is the result of my father’s deeds. Unlike everyone, I came out of the womb with milk teeth already grown. My father was anxious and consulted Physiologists. They said, “You are very lucky. Your son could become a sovereign man. Even if it appears to be a deformity, from looking at his other features, it can be said that he could become a great protector of dharma, a King.” Since I was the only for both sides of the family, they couldn’t tolerate that my teeth suggested that I’d become a King despite being a Brahmin. ‘Rajyante Narakam Dhruva’, they said. Both families would be corrupted and the Pitaras on both sides would find no peace and be left without any place to go to. They investigated Dharma Shastras and decided to get my teeth removed at that tender age and performed Shanti Karmas. At the age of eleven when I grew my wisdom teeth, my mother followed my father and convinced me to get them removed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Ah! Even if your parents were not so bent on Swadharma, you do possess the ability to make a king and rule through him. You could then be the prime minister. Then it would not clash with your duties as a Brahmin. Both the astrologer’s foretelling and your parents’ concern would be met this way. But I digress. Your book seems to elevate Artha over Dharma. Ancestors have preserved the various Dharmas in Shastras and carefully passed them down through the ages. Our university’s foremost duty is to preserve this Dharma. You are attempting to destabilize the foundation and setting out to deprioritize and argue against it. How can your work be respected when you don’t concur with the source material? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Forgive me Guru! It is true that all ancestors have given Dharma the top priority. But with passing time, the Dharma bound in those texts came to be out of reach for the commoners. The people have slowly side-tracked from Dharma and have become desirous of Artha. It is not possible now to turn them away from the aspiration of comfort and pleasure, and put them on the path of Dharma through force. Our ancestors had written the Dharmic texts so it would attract the common folk of those times. They wrote the texts and cemented the Dharmas without considering the inconstant nature of the minds of people. They had not taken into account the changing times and prescribed punishment if the mind lost track. Acharya had written that there isn’t a better way than the method of punishment to the end of attaining control over the elements. Do you agree? Everyone has a different personality, and not everyone has a natural affinity for Dharma. And when such people find it difficult to follow Dharma to a tee and are consequently punished, they become frustrated gradually avoid Dharma. Acharya hadn’t considered it. Such harsh punishment makes people resentful. That doesn’t mean that mild punishment is effective. It would make the king appear ineffective. The punishment should be in accordance with the crime. Such well-suited and considerate punishment makes people want to behave according to Dharma. Inconsiderate punishment as a consequence of Kamakrodha (desire and anger), or Agyana (ignorance) angers not only those in the Gruhasta Ashrama, but also those in the Vanastha Ashrama. In the absence of punishment, the strong will abuse the weak. A punishment should be such that it imparts culture and humility to one. That is when it is beneficial. Do you think my argument is wrong? If you are ready to forgive, I would like to explain some of my other thoughts on the issue of Dharma. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Chana! What about this do you have to ask forgivance for? Even though we are used to the trodden path and are somewhat hesitant, your thoughts are well-articulated and meaningful. You can fearlessly speak your mind. It would conflict with the researching spirit for one to suppress individual opinions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: As the chief researcher you have accepted me, but not everyone has been so graceful to me. I implore to you, Dharma that is against justice has to be shed. A very important Dharma cited in the Veda is ‘Satyam Vada (speak truth)’. At times when it clashes with justice, this truth has to be compromised. The word ‘Satya’ in Veda originally means Nyaya (justice). This wasn’t grasped, so it came to mean ‘the truth exactly as it happened’. This is a misconception. Let me present an example. A hunter is chasing a cow. The cow runs to an ashram that belongs to a man who has vowed to only speak the truth. When the hunter arrives at the ashram and enquires about the cow, should the man utter the truth about the cow, or try to protect it and preserve justice by lying? Dharma Shastra was written to protect Nyaya in the first place, so when Dharma and Nyaya clash, why is it that Nyaya should be forsaken for Dharma? It should be Dharma that is forsaken for the sake of Nyaya. Dharma Sutras should be taught based on the context of Nyaya. Nyaya should be imbued into people’s hearts. It is impossible to make people follow Dharma that appears to be conflicted with Nyaya. One has to bring out the Nyaya immersed within the Dharma and present it while commenting on the Sutras. This will bring people together. This new trend is necessary for our times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: How So, Chana! This is odd. You are ascribing a difference between Dharma and Nyaya. What is the difference between the two? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: You are right. There is no difference between the two. Our ancestors have written the Dharmas with Nyaya in mind. But with the time and use, a difference has been introduced; it has been meddled with to present it in a perspective that focuses on the manner of ruling. But the intention behind such ruling hasn’t been explained. The Nyaya part that rationally presents this has been forgotten with time. As the people who came after followed in their footsteps and meaning faded, commenters have failed to understand the intention behind the manner of ruling and relied on the blind notions of the day to spread the autocratic propaganda. When the Maharshis themselves failed to understand the basis on which the Dharma Sutras were written, the kings also relied on the beliefs of their time and used punishments to protect Dharma. In this manner with the passage of time, Nyaya came to be buried under Dharma. Reasoning went out of practise. Several wrongs have happened due to blindly following. It is now necessary to bring a timely revisal to Nyaya. Isn’t it improper to comment on Nyaya with blind beliefs and without the prerequisite understanding? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Your argument makes sense. I would like you to give an example of how a Dharma Sutra has been misunderstood by our ancestors and also to see how you would interpret it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Look how this Dharma Sutra had been distorted by blind beliefs. Dandasmruti states a Sukta that goes “Yukta Karmani Chayuktanya’ (When a person performs a karma he is ineligible for, he should be punished). It was interpreted as, “Shudras and the others who are unfitting should be punished for performing the pious acts meant to be performed by the worthy Brahmins and others”. When such tyrannical statements are made and followed, won’t people be offended? How can Dharma be understood by them? Scholars have only written the Sutras, they should have been well-intentioned. Gradually, they have been misinterpreted by the commentators. As they based their comments on the blind beliefs of their times, differences appeared. This is why I myself am commenting on my Sutras. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Blind beliefs passed down for generations can prevent even those who are intelligent from being touched by the rays of wisdom. It is only an Arthashastra Sutra that prescribes punishment; it has nothing to do with caste. An ‘Ayukta’ is someone who isn’t deemed fit by the king to perform the task. He then is ineligible. ‘Yuktakarmanu’ means that when a person other than the person who has been picked by the king to perform a task does it, he is to be punished. So an ineligible person isn’t to perform a task that an only eligible person is to do. This is my interpretation. There are many such misinterpretations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Oh, I see! Your interpretation is right. I like your unconventional thoughts. It is hard for me to shed my beliefs, but your thoughts provide fresh light. If you continue down this path, you will definitely benefit the world. Why don’t you write a commentary on the entire Dharmashastra in this manner?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: Guruprabhu! I do not want to attempt such a feat at this moment. I am studying only that which I require from among the Dharmasutras to be able to understand and form my thoughts on the Rajyanga Neeti (Constitutional ethics).However brief I intend to be, my Shastra already seems to come upto six thousand manuscripts. The elders are already angry with me as they think I misinterpret and misrepresent the DharmaSutras conveniently. Would they let me live if I were to comment on the entire DharmaShastra?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Yes, there is always the blind faith. Once you introduce changes in the administration, the rulers that implement them will soon be able to bring light to a new perspective on the societal norms. The elders should rather blame their own blindness that is obstructing your fresh approach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: In my ArthaShastra I’ve written that the kings should maintain a spy organisation, should lure their enemies and defeat them, should create a rift between the enemy king and his people. The elders are dissatisfied as they consider this to be deviant. There were also some necessary changes to be made to the king’s council to maintain balance. All these changes are just. Even then, the elders are propagating that the changes go against Dharma. I’ve also written other things to provoke such a response –divorce, remarriage for those who were married to outsiders and those with deceased partners, Swayamvara for pubescent women, ways to remove hindrances, supress/kill slanderers, confiscate/draw excess wealth from the rich etc. All this could have caused displeasure. DharmaSutras have to be viewed from the perspective of justice. None of the discussed changes go against Dharma. I stand by this despite all the opinions circulating against me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Chana! I would have agreed to their views had I not personally heard it come from you, but now I can see that your thoughts aide and seek justice, so I wholeheartedly agree with them. If wise men contain their thoughts in fear of ridicule and opposition, it would be a disservice to the society. The world can decide for itself what justice is. Why point fingers at each other then? Anyway, it would be good if you could take a suitable king under your wing, teach him your ArthaShastra, and counsel him closely. It will be seen how much of your vision can be implemented. Your writings might benefit when implemented. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: You have spoken my mind, GuruDeva. I am on the lookout. I’ve written it for the right ruler to be able to implement and benefit from it. I too wish to witness their fruit when implemented. It shall unfold as per God’s grace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Chana! Your wish shall come true for sure. You are capable of realising your plans. You were supposed to be a king. Your parents might have gotten rid of the signs, but your destiny hasn’t been erased by just that. If not the king, you will at least have to become the prime minister. I bless you so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ch: I am grateful. Your blessings are unfailing. Although, I am sometimes discouraged when I think that I am wasting time over worldly matters and therefore obstructing spiritual Dharma instead of performing penance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Su: Do not think so. This is divine work. By protecting Dharma, you will become the one to have shown the spiritual path to many. If you were to perform penance, only you would benefit from it. Isn’t it wrong for the able to sit and wait out the decline of Dharma? What takes priority for a Brahmin over the protection of the Vedic Dharma? Isn’t this what Vasishtha and the others have done? It isn’t new for Brahmins to establish Dharma through kings. Any work done for the world’s well-being is God’s wish. Unselfish deeds enlighten one. Enlightenment is what leads to Moksha (liberation). Shed your doubts. You have thoroughly researched thus far. I might be the research guide here, but you have become my guide now. I am very happy. There are no bounds to the happiness of a teacher whose student surpasses him. Live long! May your wishes be granted!</span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-58433793480043183162018-01-17T13:42:00.000-05:002018-01-17T13:42:28.284-05:00Traditions of India – a Dharmic approach to reformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There has been lot of debate on various Hindu and Bharatiya traditions as Bharat started to shake off the Secular shackles and particularly since Sri Narendra Modi’s election as Prime Minister of Bharat in 2014. Various Special Interest Groups and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are filing Public Interest Litigations (PIL) in courts to discontinue various traditions on flimsy grounds. In almost all cases this well coordinated high-decibel debates and PILs are only against Hindu traditions; and nothing against even more distasteful and eco-hazardous traditions of non-Hindu religions. The rare exceptions to this rule are the Triple Talaq bill and the Mehram criteria for Hajj pilgrims, which are actively contested by the associated religious organizations as well as self-declared atheist, secular, communist groups, organizations and parties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Often, these instances of contest against prevailing Hindu traditions are coming into public knowledge very late in the process; just before a court verdict or, in worse cases, after the court verdict leaving Hindus very little time and legal space to present their case and get a judicial outcome. Few examples of this challenge are to do with ban on Jallikattu, Sri Krishna Janmashtami Dahi Handi, entrance rules to Garbha Gruha of Shanisinghapur temple, entrance rules to Ayyappa temple and so on. In all these scenarios, the Hindu groups are left with post-verdict protest articles explaining the Hindu rationale behind these traditions and in some cases voluntary movements to continue a given tradition (Ex: women entering Ayyappa temple). This process is not only un-democratic and unjust to Hindu majority, but would slowly kill the Hindu Dharmic ethos that are enshrined in our society as traditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Does it mean Sanatana Dharma is against honest debate on traditions and discontinuing them if found to be unsuitable for a given region (<i>dEsa</i>) and time (<i>kAla</i>)? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The answer is an emphatic NO. One of the key foundations of Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism is to have a continuous awareness, observation and debate on all traditions and to discontinue or start traditions to fit into a given dEsa/kAla (region and era). That is why unlike non-Hindu religions, Sanatana Dharma delivered numerous Dharma Sastras written by various Rishis to suit a specific region and era. These Dharma Sastras are infinite even though many of us know very few of them like Manu Dharma Sastra, Parashara Smriti, Yagnavalka Smriti, Aapastamba Sutra, Chanakya Artha Sastra etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Is there a preferred approach to study, debate and transform Hindu traditions? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before going into this, it is important to touch upon a key aspect of Hinduism/Bharatiyata. This is called Dharma. Dharma has two aspects to it; the first one is eternal; as in Sanatana Dharma and the second one is contextual; suitable to <i>dEsa/kAla</i> as in Dharma Sastras. A Dharma Sastra must pass the criteria of Sanatana aspect of Dharma for it to be accepted by the society. In many scenarios, a Dharma Shastra was adopted as the constitution of Bharat of that era. It is important to understand the Sanatana (eternal) aspect of Dharma before defining contextual Dharma. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eternal Dharma is often personified as the four legs of a Cow or Bull; because Dharma gives the society nourishment as Cow’s milk and keeps us eternally faced /focused towards Shiva (universal consciousness) as Nandi does in all Shiva temples. The four legs of this Dharma are described as Satya, Saucha, Bhuta Daya and Nishkama Karma. A quick description of these are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By using the Dharma structure above, Hindus can analyze any tradition to check if it passes the eternal aspect of Dharma and decide if it is in Bharatiya Interests to continue that tradition. If a given tradition fails the Dharma test then laws to discourage and penalize those obsolete traditions can be formulated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Purva-Paksha</b>: Study and summarize a given tradition in terms of its context, usage, region and timing. Explain in what socio-economic-political background and circumstances that tradition came in to being and who are prescribed to follow it and at what time and location. Identify the people, places, flora-fauna, if any, that are adversely impacted by the tradition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Dharma Test</b>: Conduct a dharma test against the subject tradition using above model. If a tradition passes the above four aspects, then it is a Dharmic sampradaya; and it must be encouraged. If a tradition fails the Satya test then it is Adharmic and must be discontinued immediately. If a given tradition passes Satya test but fails one or more remaining aspects of Dharma, then it is Aapaddharma; a temporary deviation. This must be corrected as soon as the underlying root-cause is removed from the society. This author believes that most of repugnant traditions that exist in Bharat today must have come into being as Aapaddharma (temporary compromise) during the 1300-year triple-colonization (by Islam, Christianity and Secularism) era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In summary, neither Sanatana Hindu Dharma nor the Bharatiya civilization is averse to a structured debate on any of its traditions. In fact, Bharatiya civilization thrived by continuously rewriting Dharma Sastras (Contextual Dharma that passes Sanatana Dharma tests) to meet challenges thrown at it in every era. At the same time, it is important for Hindu majority to demand that any study and reformation of Bharatiya traditions is done based on Sanatana Hindu Dharma and not on Asuric agendas. Each tradition must be studied and tested for its compliance to Sanatana Dharma. Traditions that fail Sanatana Dharma test must be considered for reformation. At the same time, it is important to verify that current socio-economic and political environment and instruments of governance pass the Dharma test themselves. Laws must be formulated with the sole aim to lead the great Bharatiya civilization from Aapaddharma (survival mode) to Dharma (progress and celebration). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Karna </b>asks Krishna - "My mother left me the moment I was born. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it my fault I was born an illegitimate child? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I did not get education from Dhronacharya because I was considered a non-Kshatriya. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Parshuram taught me but then gave me the curse to forget everything
since I was a kshatriya.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A cow was accidentally hit by my arrow & its owner cursed me for no
fault of mine. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was disgraced in Draupadi's swayamvar.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Even Kunti finally told me the truth only to save her other sons. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Whatever I received was through Dhuryodhana's charity. So how am I
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Karna, I was born in a jail. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death was waiting for me even before my birth. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The night I was born I was separated from my birth parents. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From childhood, you grew up hearing the noise of swords, chariots,
horses, bow and arrows. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I got only cow herd's shed, dung and multiple attempts on my life even
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When all of you were being appreciated for your valor by your teachers,
I had not even received any education. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I joined gurukula of Rishi Sandipani only at the age of 16!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You are married to a girl of your choice. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I didn't get the girl I loved & rather ended up marrying those who
wanted me or the ones I rescued from demons.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I had to move my whole community from the banks of Yamuna to far off
Sea shore, to save them from Jarasandh. I was called a coward for running away.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>If Duryodhana wins the war you will get lot of credit.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>What do I get if Dharmaraja wins the war? Only the blame for the war
and all related problems.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Remember one thing Karna....<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Everybody has challenges in life.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>*LIFE IS NOT FAIR ON ANYBODY..*<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Duryodhana also has a lot of unfairness in life and so has Yudhishthira.
<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>But what is Right (Dharma) is known to your Mind (Conscience)....<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>No matter how much unfairness we got, how many times we were disgraced,
how many times we were denied what was due to us, what is important is how you
REACTED at that time...<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Stop whining Karna.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Life's unfairness does not give you license to walk the wrong path of *अधर्म.*</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I got irked at the logic attributed to Sri Krishna because
the Jagadguru who gave us BhagavadGita never speaks in fatalistic language. Sri
Krishna taught us Karma Yoga, the Yoga of Action. Of course, all actions will
result in consequences and Sri Krishna asked us to be equipoise about these
results. But the emphasis is always on Karma to be done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Sri Krishna of Mahabharata was very clear on Dharma and
never minced words to stand for it irrespective of the occasion, circumstances
and opponents. The Sri Krishna that I know would have answered Karna as below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stop talking nonsense Karna, you are out and out Asuric
person. Here is why...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Karna, you didn't know you are an illegitimate child
until I told you so just before Kurukshetra. By which time, you are at least
50Yrs old, got married, have kids and so on... so all your Asuratva so far has
nothing to do with your birth. You were known as Radheya and a very well-loved
son of a charioteer (suta) family. Blaming it on Kunti at this point is nothing
but krutaghnata/ingratitude to the parents that raised you with so much love
& affection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Karna, you did get admission into Drona's university of Astra
& Sastra. It is your jealousy towards Arjuna & Asuric temperament that
made you go on your own to Duryodhana's camp. You left Drona varsity on your
own just because Drona refused to teach you Brahmastra as you weren't qualified
to learn it. Like today's secular & (self-declared) Dalit students, you
demanded professors to give Brahmastra even if you are unqualified and blame
them instead of working hard to get qualified. It's like an IAS student blaming
the professors for his failing in exams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Karna, you went to Parasuraman fully knowing well that it
is a restricted entry University. You put fake caste certificate like Rohit
Vemula & got expelled unceremoniously as they found the truth. So, you
don't mind breaking rules for your selfish benefits but cry victim when
found...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Karna, you were made Anga Raja by Duryodhana even before
he himself or Pandavas became kings. As on that day you, as a Suta putra, got
best parental love & care even Pandavas didn't get (there were life threats
for them from Kauravas), got admission into Drona Versity that even Ekalavya
didn't (he was son of a kirata king), training under none other than Parasuraman
(an Avatara himself), got to become a king of Anga. And you are telling us that
you didn't have proper childhood and opportunities & career growth? That
alone is enough reason to determine your Asuratva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Karna, even your loyalty to Duryodhana is not honest
because it is based on your common hatred towards Pandavas and the wealth
donated by Duryodhana. Do you think your loyalty lasts a single minute if Duryodhana
were to take back the Anga Rajya given to you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Karna, consequences must be faced even if you didn't
commit a crime intentionally. Fire will burn you if you touch it even if you
were a child. You aren't the first one in the world to pay for unintended
consequences. We all knew very well the story of Dasharatha & the curse he
got for (unknowingly) killing Sravana Kumara? Did you forget the curse king Pandu
got for killing a mating deer? And the story of Mandavya? Did any of them blame
others for their misfortunes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. Coming to Draupadi, I am glad that she rejected an Asuric
like you. She must be extremely wise to assess your Asuratva within a minute of
seeing you. Karna, you have no right to demand Draupadi select you. She has a
right to disqualify anyone from swayamvar and definitely a selfish Asura like
you; most likely she heard about your arrogance, Asuric entitlement & fake
caste certificate from her brother Drishtadyuma who too was an alumni of
University of Drona. You complaining about her and later disrobing her is
similar to a criminal stabbing or throwing acid at a girl who rejected his
marriage proposal. Like all the criminals, you too must perish Karna...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Finally a word about your charity... Karna, Dana is
something that you must earn dharmically to give to needy. All your wealth (Anga
Rajya) is a Dana that you got from Duryodhana. Yes, it's noble that you are a
beggar who donates part of his begging income to others. You taking Sakti from
Indra in return for Kavacha-Kundala made it a business transaction, not
charity. So, Karna, stop gloating about your Dana quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Karna, like all Asuras in history, you must pay for your Asuratva. You shall die a helpless death. If you die in war, at least you get
veera-swarga. Dear Karna, always be grateful to Kunti for passing her &
Surya 's veeratva in your genes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">** <b>Conclusion</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Karna is just a well-known character in Mahabharata to be sympathized
and lionized by anti-Hindu ideologies such as Baudha, Atheist and later
socialist and secular in their altered and plagiarized rendering of our great
epic Mahabharata. Not just commoners, but even learned people such as
Dharmaraja himself felt sympathetic toward Karna. Great sages like Sri Krishna,
Bhishma, Narada etc explain the Asuric nature of Karna to Dharmaraja so he
would understand that Dharma took its course on Karna and no injustice is done
to him from any angle of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently we have seen a new
narrative being created by current anti-Hindu forces under the garb of Dalit
rights. People like Rohit Vemula are imposed on Bharatiya consciousness using
fake caste-certificates and fake narrations. Gullible Hindus spend more time
(repeatedly) arguing and self-flagellating on these obvious matters instead of
factually and logically studying and understanding our own Puranas and Epics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If only Rohit Vemula is given a
dharmic understanding of Mahabharata, he wouldn’t have tried to steal others’
opportunity using fake certificate nor he would waste his precious life for
perceived injustice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thus, it is in the interests of
all Hindu parents to themselves study our Puranas and Epics and give dharmic
guidance to their progeny. The ultimate beneficiaries of this investment will
be our own progenies/Kula/caste. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Swasti!</span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-72961337188970069712017-05-01T15:18:00.000-04:002017-05-01T15:18:20.158-04:00The Pakistan Solution: Part 1 - Origins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” </span> </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- Santayana (in The Life of Reason, 1905)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />The raising specter of Islamic Terrorism across the world once again brought Pakistan into the center stage of world discussion. Investigations are proving direct or indirect connection to Pakistan in almost every lone-wolf terror attack anywhere in the world. Yet Pakistan is being allowed to put a mask of normal nation-state by a facade of democratically elected civilian government, functioning army and alas a quasi-nuclear-state. Various world powers are allowing this menace to survive in the hope to use it to subvert their strategic competitors, albeit with steeply raising costs to their own national-security interests.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />India has a vital interest in addressing this Pakistan problem because every aspect of Pakistan equation has a direct bearing upon India’s national interests. Pakistan openly declared India to be its existential threat and sole-target of its nuclear weapons. So it is in core Indian interests to address Pakistan problem head on and in a timely manner.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Solving Pakistan conundrum is not a simple affair. Pakistan is epicenter of clash of civilizations under nuclear umbrella with use of terrorism as state policy that can blow up into the worst humanitarian crisis the human race has ever witnessed. Perhaps this is the main reason why many strategic analysts recommend status-quo or worse rent-paying solutions when dealing with Pakistan. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />This doesn’t mean humanity cannot solve Pakistan problem with minimal costs. However, such a solution requires a clear understanding of idea of Pakistan and how it came to existence in the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">SOUL OF PAKISTAN</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pakistan might have taken the form of a modern nation-state on 14th August 1947 but its seeds were sown many centuries ago in faraway regions as part of Islamic invasions into Bharat. While other civilizations like Persia succumbed to Islam quickly (within 60 years), the Hindu Bharatiya civilization is the only one that Islam failed to conquer despite the biggest and longest holocaust in history. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />The civilizational fight between Islam and Bharat started in 640AD and has been continuing since then. In the past 1370 years of this war, many battles have been won by either side and the winning side establishing states (or kingdoms) reflecting their power. In this process various western-Bharatiya regions succumbed to Islam and created new Islamic invaders like Ghaznis, Ghoris, Khiljis, Tuglaqs, Mughals etc. Irrespective of nativity (as these regions fell to Islam) of these sultanates the underlying factor of every sultanate is persecution and subjugation of native dharma a.k.a Hinduism and its followers. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“The Mohammedan conquest of India (Bharat, as India was not born yet) is probably the bloodiest story in history. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period.”</span></i></span> -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Will Durant "The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage" (page 459) [1]</span><br /><br />As a typical invasive ideology/empire, Islam retracted to safe areas when in defeat and expanded when enemy is overwhelmed. We can see this in the expansion and demise of various sultanates in Indian-subcontinent between 640AD till 1670s as the native Bharatiya civilization refused to succumb to Islam. The sword of Islam (Zulfiqar) was blunted and broken by the coherent Hindu resurgence under the leadership of Marathas by end of 17th century. By 1760 the Maratha empire [2] extended to nearly 40% Bharat and was on its way to wipe out Islam from entire Indian sub-continent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />As fate had it, Bharat attracted the attention of European colonial powers at this juncture and as they say, the rest is history. Eventually the British came out as victors and they built an intricate model of governance that brought almost entire Bharat (Afghanistan, Parts of Thailand remained out of British control) under quasi-British rule. Islam had to retreat into survival mode in the face of a more powerful colonial empire during British era. However, this didn’t stop Islam from persecuting Hindus wherever it held the power as we can see from how Hindus were systematically harassed in Nizam empire. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">IDEA OF PAKISTAN</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />In the background of two world wars, the Indian Independence movement gained strength and Subash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army became an existential threat to British empire. The second world war not only broke Britain’s war fighting capacity but also its finances. As independence from colonial era became evident, the Hindu majority opted for ancient Bharatiya ideas like democracy, universal suffrage and uniform civil code as foundations of independent Bharat to much discomfort and existential threat to Islamic colonialism that is built on savage dictatorship, subjugation and exploitation of non-Muslims and sharia law that systemically enslaves non-Muslims. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />From this ideological friction came the idea of Pakistan as a separate nation-state as homeland for the sub-continental Muslims [3][4] where they can restart the Islamic conquest of Hindu Bharat. Thus <span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pakistan is presented as a political solution to help restart Islamic conquest of Hindu Bharat</span></i></span> where Islamists are not subjected to Hindu hegemonic imposition of democracy, universal suffrage and uniform civil code. The core rationale for a separate homeland for Pakistan is given by various Islamic thought leaders. Some of them are:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Hindus and Muslims differed in all matters and habits”</span></span></i> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">Al-Biruni (973-1048) [5]</span> summarizing the impact of Islam on its converts; that it would completely and absolutely removes and separates the convert from his or her native civilization.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Islam has taught us this and I think you will agree with me, for whatever you may be and wherever you are, you are a Muslim. You belong to a nation now. You have carved out a territory, a vast territory, it is all yours; it does not belong to a Punjabi or a Sindhi or a Pathan or a Bengali, it is yours”</span></span></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">– Muhammed Ali Jinnah 1948 [3]</span> calling Indian Muslims to shun their regional and linguistic identities and submit to Islam and Islam alone. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Britain, as the defeated colonial power happily embraced the idea of a separate Muslim homeland in Indian subcontinent for it served two key purposes. One is a natural desire to deny the victor, Bharat, a complete victory. The second purpose is more sinister where the <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">B<i>ritish colonial empire saw no basic conflict between Western imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism</i></span></span><i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></i>. The British secretary of state John Foster Dulles opined <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“The religions of the East are deeply rooted and have many precious values. Their spiritual beliefs cannot be reconciled with Communist atheism and materialism. That creates a common bond between us, and our task is to find it and develop it” <span style="font-size: x-small;">[7]</span>. Olaf Caroe, the architect of partition, advocated turning Pakistan into a base for a community of Muslim states that “would show the way for reconciliation between the Western and Islamic models”</span></span></i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />It is no strange that Pope Francis echoed this sentiment by proclaiming <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Islam and Christianity share an (sic) ‘idea of conquest’</span></span></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[8]</span> as he advised European Nations to allow Muslim immigration to repopulate Europe. One has to see no further than the commonality between these Abrahamic religions to understand the “idea of conquest” as they pillaging and genociding native populations and cultures wherever they set foot.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">EXISTENCE OF PAKISTAN</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Past seventy years of Pakistan’s existence is a testament to the fact that it is nothing but continuation of Islamic conquests of Bharat. Even an auspicious moment such as birth of a new nation (Pakistan) couldn’t hide this underlying pursuit of Islam to genocide and enslave Bharatiya civilization. The partition riots where ~2million killed (~8million deaths in today’s numbers) were nothing but a civilizational war of historic proportions. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />As soon as the military resources are split between the newly born nations, Pakistan jumped into action to conquer Bharatiya territories in the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir; which ended in a stalemate with Indian and Pakistan holding onto half of the territory. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />By 1950s Pakistan became a western ally and signed a mutual defense agreement with USA (1954), and joined Anglo-American sponsored Bagdad pact (1955) along with Turkey, Iraq and Iran fulfilling John Foster Dulles’ vision for an alliance between Western imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />The first victim of new Islamic sultanate of Pakistan are the core values of native civilization – democracy and culture. The sultanate of Pakistan opted to adopt an artificial language Urdu with Arabic script and Persian words over a plethora of native languages its population spoke, be it Bengali in East-Pakistan or Punjabi of West-Pakistan. Even its national heroes and icons have to be non-native Islamic conquerors such as Ghazni and Ghori to reinforce the invasive characteristic of Islam is maintained. This civilizational conflict of Islam with Bharat in (then) Pakistan prime minister (sic) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto words - "<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pakistan will fight, fight for a thousand years. If.. India builds the (atom) bomb.... (Pakistan) will eat grass or (leaves), even go hungry, but we (Pakistan) will get one of our own (atom bomb).... We (Pakistan) have no other Choice!"</span></i></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span><br /><br />Year 1971 saw another victim of Islam in the existence of Pakistan. Democracy had to be killed in order to ensure the idea of Islam triumphs over cultural identity and regional assertiveness, even at the cost of losing nearly half territory. Whatever be the reason, the Hindu majority India had to intervene and help creation of Bangladesh for the clash of civilization is yet to be over.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />The paranoia of Islam reached its peaks after 1971 defeat in the hands of Hindu-majority India and Pakistan became a client state of its sibling western imperialism. By 1980s Pakistan became the epicenter of new Islamic revival in the name of Afghanistan Mujahedeen which evolved into purer versions of Islam; Taliban, Al-Qaeda and now Islamic State.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Bolstered by the success of mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Pakistan introduced this model against its civilizational enemy Bharat in the states of Punjab (Khalistan movement) and Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir insurgence). Tens of thousands of Indians have been killed in these Pakistan sponsored terrorist acts (Terrorism is peacetime equivalent of war crime [10]). </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
finger prints of Islam clearly visible in every aspect of Pakistan’s
approach to Bharat; from its demands of Sikhs to pay jizya to visit Sikh
pilgrimage places to its suicide terror attacks in Bharatiya cities to
its sadistic mutilation of dead bodies of Indian Soldiers and so on.
This sadism gets into ISIS proportions to the minorities living in its
captive territories; all in the name of blasphemy. Pakistan is Islam
manifested in Bharatiya territories</span></i></span>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Reciprocating India’s nuclear tests, Pakistan demonstrated its own capability to produce nuclear weapons in 1998. This ushered a new era – Islam under nuclear-umbrella. Lt General Khalid Kidwai, the longtime head of Strategic Planning of Pakistan’s National (Nuclear) Command Authority, declared that <span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were aimed solely at India”</span></i></span>. This classification makes real sense nearly two decades since then as Pakistan declares India capturing Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a threshold that would trigger a nuclear attack but didn’t have any problem donating part of (same) Kashmir territory to China in 1963 or ceding strategic control over PoK to China as part of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Similarly, Pakistan doesn’t have any problem with USA bombing various groups using drones in the name of Global War On Terror (GWOT) and doesn’t consider it threat to its sovereignty. This is very important to note because Pakistan’s sovereignty comes under threat only when Hindu Bharat violates it but not from western imperialism. <br /><br />True to its Islamic foundations Pakistan started to bite the very hands that feed either to demand more Jizya (the tax non-Muslims must pay to live in a Muslim world) in the name of aid or out of the natural desire to cause mayhem. Over the past two decades Pakistan evolved into the terrorism epicenter of the world, exporting Islamic foot soldiers to all four corners. Today there is not a single terrorist event anywhere in the world that doesn’t have Pakistan connection, directly or indirectly. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />By gaining a sanctuary in fertile regions of Indian Subcontinent, Islam thus built a terrorist empire under nuclear umbrella over past 70 years of Pakistan’s existence. It threatens to commit a nuclear suicide by constantly reducing its nuclear-threshold as India becomes stronger. Soon one shouldn’t be surprised if Pakistan threatens a nuclear attack if India tries to respond to Pakistani terrorist attacks.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Does this mean the Indian subcontinent has to live with Pakistan’s Islamic terrorism even at the cost of thousands of lives and $billions of economic costs? Should the world community accept Islamic sadism on Pakistan’s own citizens in NWFP, Gilgit-Baltistan, PoK, Baluchistan, Sindh? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />This author doesn’t think so. We will explore the costs of Pakistan problem from various angles and explore how the Idea of Pakistan can be turned on its head to prepare civilizational solutions to Indian-subcontinent ending the 1300-year clash of civilization. </span></span><br />
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References:</h2>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>The biggest holocaust in World
History...whitewashed from history <a href="http://bnp.org.uk/news/national/biggest-holocaust-world-historywhitewashed-history">http://bnp.org.uk/news/national/biggest-holocaust-world-historywhitewashed-history</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>Maratha Empire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>Two Nation Theory <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation_theory">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation_theory</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>The Idea of Pakistan – Stephen B Cohen <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-idea-of-pakistan/">https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-idea-of-pakistan/</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #252525; line-height: 107%;">Stanley Wolpert,
Jinnah of Pakistan</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of
Pakistan <a href="http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1016/pakistan.html">http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1016/pakistan.html</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>The Political Economy of Growth, 1957 - Paul Baran</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>“Islam and Christianity share an ‘idea of
conquest’” - Pope Francis <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/17/islam-and-christianity-both-have-an-idea-of-conquest-says-pope-francis/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/17/islam-and-christianity-both-have-an-idea-of-conquest-says-pope-francis/</a></span>
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Administrative Reforms Commission, Government of India (June 2008)</span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-70067362086740397662017-03-26T12:57:00.001-04:002017-04-06T12:15:05.347-04:00Swa, Para Ramayanas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ramayana
is said to be the Soul of Bharat, the united India extending from today’s
Afghanistan to Vietnam. Over millennia, Srimad Ramayana stood for the ultimate
pursuit of every Bharatiya to be like Sri Rama, embodiment of Dharma. Given
that Sanatana Hindu Dharma emphasized in punar-janma (rebirth), every Bharatiya
took each life time as a step towards self-realization, which is becoming the Atman
that is Sri Rama (TatTvamAsi).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
origin of Ramayana maha-kavya itself is worth learning about. In a conversation
with sage Narada, maharishi Valmiki asks if there exists (currently) a person
with 16 virtues or characteristics (<a href="http://www.valmikiramayan.net/utf8/baala/sarga1/bala_1_frame.htm" target="_blank">Balakanda 1-1-2 to 1-1-5</a>); considered
to represent a self-realized embodiment of Dharma. To that question Narada
answers affirmatively and briefly narrates the story of Sri Kausalya-putra
Rama, son of Dasaradha. Then Brahma proposes maharishi Valmiki narrates the
story of Sri Rama in detail, which leads Valmiki to write the story of that Dasaradha
Rama as Ramayana (Rama + Ayana = Journey of Rama).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At this
point, it is important to note that Kausalya-putra Dasaradha Rama was not the
first Rama of Bharatiya puranic lore. There were many Ramas before Dasaradha
Rama. In fact, there was a Renuka-putra Jamadagni Rama (famously known as
Parasu Rama), who was also an avatar of Sri Vishnu and a chiranjivi (immortal),
who would live till end of time (this sweta-varaha kalpa). But none of their
autobiography will ever be called Ramayana in Bharatiya puranic lore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If
Ramayana (Rama + Ayana) means Rama’s journey, why can’t the journey of any and
every Rama be Ramayana? It can be in a literal sense. But that will lead to two
problems. First, it will lead to plagiarism of Valmiki’s intellectual property.
Secondly, it will be an Asuric-wart on Bharatiya civilization. If an author persists
to do it, it reflects the author’s prejudices not Ramayana nor Bharatiya
civilization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then
what is the essence of Valmiki Ramayana? Bharatiya Rishis used two tools to
explain a scripture’s essence or purpose. First tool is called “Anubandha
Chatushthaya”, which explains </span></span></div>
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<li><i style="color: #212121; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Adhikara</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> – the required qualification of a
reader of that scripture</span></li>
<li><i style="color: #212121; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Vishaya</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> – The object or body of knowledge presented
in the book</span></li>
<li><i style="color: #212121; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Prayojana</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> – The purpose or result the reader would get out of
the book</span></li>
<li><i style="color: #212121; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sambandha</i><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> – how the reader is expected to approach the body of
knowledge in the book </span></li>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second tool is phala-shruti of a given scripture.
For example, Valmiki explains the phala-shruti of Ramayana in shlokas <a href="http://www.valmikiramayan.net/utf8/yuddha/sarga128/yuddha_128_frame.htm" target="_blank">6-128-108thru 6-128-125</a>.
Interesting minds can read.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many
seekers, poets and authors took inspiration from Valmiki Ramayana and retold
that story in their own words and prejudices. We can group all these non-Valmiki
Ramayanas into two groups. First group of authors merely retold Valmiki Ramayana
as a celebration of Sri Rama without altering the Anubandha Chatushthaya. Few
examples of these Ramayanas are Agastya Ramayana, RamaCharitaManas by Sant
Tulasi Das, Kamba Ramayana in Tamil, Ramayana Kalpavriksha by Sri Viswanatha
Satyanarayana in Telugu etc. It is important for readers to note that such
Ramayanas exist even outside todays nation-state called India. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
second group of Ramayanas are distortions of Valmiki Ramayana to fit into a non-Hindu
religious or ideological perspective. Examples of these Ramayanas are Dasaradha
Jataka in Buddhism, Paumachariyam in Jainism and a communist distortion of
Ramayana called Ramayana Visha-vriksha by Muppalla Ranganayakamma in Telugu. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps
an analogy would help better understand these distortions of Ramayana. Imagine a
sugar-cane juice center on the road side, a common scene on Bharatiya roads.
Often it is a family enterprise; a woman acting as table-server and running
cash counter while her husband or a man running the hand-operated sugar-cane
mill to extract juice. We can observe all kinds of people in such a shop; all
came to enjoy the juice but make different observations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Few enjoy the juice as
if it is amruta, oblivious to the surroundings or few ogling at the beautiful
woman at the counter, few others jealously wondering how much profit this family
must be making, few feeling disgusted at the not-so pristine environment, few others
getting upset at the socio-economic exploitation of this poor family and a
beggar hoping to catch the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">magnanimity </span>of the shop-owners for a free juice and so
on. But the family running the shop are detached from all these feelings,
unless expressed aggressively, as they are busy with their swadharma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly,
Valmiki’s Ramayana swadharma is its Anubandha Chatushthaya. <b><i>Any translation or
re-rendering of Ramayana that honored the original Anubandha Chatushthaya is
considered as Swa-Ramayana (our Ramayana)</i></b> by Bharatiya civilization and
celebrated as thus. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Any Ramayana that distorted this Anubandha Chatushthaya of
Valmiki is considered as para-Ramayana (not Ramayana)</i></b> </span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by Bharatiya civilization </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">even if it tells the
story of that very Kausalya putra Dasaradha Rama.
Reading a para-Ramayana is like a seeker eating the sugar-cane trash without
juice in the above analogy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks
to triple colonization of Bharat by Islam, Christianity and Secularism, a new
wave of Ramayanas are being unleashed on Bharatiya consciousness. These
renderings are neither the stories of Kausalya-putra Sri Rama, nor they honor
the Anubandha Chatushthaya of Valmiki Ramayana. They are stories of non
Bharatiya individuals packaged as Ramayana with a single motivation to distort
and confuse. <b><i>If there ever was another hero like Sri Rama, who demonstrated the
16 virtues described by Valmiki, it is our dharmic duty to recognize those individuals
as avataras of Vishnu in their own names without any shame.</i></b> If they do not
demonstrate those qualities, then applying Ramayana name is nothing but
plagiarism of Valmiki’s work and insulting Sanatana Hindu Dharma. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is
little one can do to stop such deceptive, unethical authors from plagiarizing
Ramayana, our Bharatiya dharmic and cultural heritage. It does not matter if the author is erudite or even Veda-acharya. Almost all of our Puranic asuras, such as Trishira and Ravana were great Veda panditas themsevels, but were killed as they misinterpreted, mis-lived Veda vangmaya.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However,
we can warn the readers on avoiding such distortions and ku-panditas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As
individuals do a critical study of Dharma, thru Ramayana or other Sanatana
Dharmic scriptures, there will be two outcomes. One is the seeker gets results
of their pursuit (called Tapas if done individually and Yajna if done
collectively) in physical, conscious and causal realms. This also includes
the impact of the seeker’s pursuit on surroundings (environment, society and
other seekers). Mind you, a wrong seeker can get right followers and
vice-versa. In the past, a seeker didn’t share his/her methods and
observations until one got Siddhi (fulfillment) or concluded their pursuit for
lack of Siddhi. Few shared their failed methods and failures as a warning to
others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the
current era, the environment and tools (such as internet and social media)
permit a seeker to share their study and methods in real time as they plan,
prepare and do their pursuit. We can’t be sure if this is a good or bad thing,
but it is very important (for the followers) to know that the seeker is still on their own journey
and haven’t concluded their pursuit or got Siddhi. Another important fact to
note is that many followers are following a seeker while the seeker
himself/herself is in the journey without knowing to what purpose the pursuit
is, at what stage the pursuit is, for how long it will continue and to where it
goes and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is
like people running behind Forest Gump in that famous Hollywood movie. One fine
day the seeker (Forest Gump – a humble person literally running away from his own
fears) will stop running and goes home leaving his followers stand confused in a
road to nowhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Swasti! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Related Reading: </span><a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2016/06/surpanakha-modern-daughter.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Surpanakha - A Modern Daughter</a></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-15357376693881222502017-03-24T15:56:00.001-04:002017-03-24T16:01:54.007-04:00Ideas on Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Disclaimer:</b>
This post was made on <a href="https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5479#p848916" target="_blank">Bharat Rakshak Forum</a> on 1<sup>st</sup> April 2010. I
request interested readers to visit the forum to read associated discussion and participate.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #212121;"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Background</span></b></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The conventional wisdom in Indian strategic community is that India is a poor nation and it cannot afford to have both butter and guns so Bharat must sacrifice its security (territorial - PoK, Aksai-Chin, Tibet etc; Civic - terrorist attacks, law and order; Civilizational - Reclaiming occupied temples etc) for economic growth. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><o:p><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I disagreed with that conventional wisdom and wrote a series of posts on how Bharat can plan achieve all rounded glory using existing economic resources.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><o:p><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This post is on the topic of Education.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Ideas</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are
three parts to the Education focus area</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>1. National Literacy Program</b>: <b>(Budget: Rs 10,000
Crore Per Year for 10 Years)</b></span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Objective:</b> National Literacy Program is to achieve
near 100% literacy throughout India. The definition of the literacy program is
to make an individual learn to Read, Write, Understand any Indian language, in addition to obtaining a National-ID plus Voter Card/Ration
Card.</span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Methodology:</b> All undergraduate and graduates
students can join this voluntary program and earn Rs 500 for each illiterate
member:</span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div>
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A volunteer joins NLP by applying its
teacher-membership.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The volunteer member identifies the
illiterate people and submits their forms. If the students (illiterate) do not
have National-ID cards, volunteer makes sure they obtained them. The Program Officer
confirms that they are not duplicate entries after checking the National ID
database and NLP Database.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The volunteer helps educate the beneficiary on prescribed course work and helps the beneficiary prepare for the exams.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Examination: Pro-metric type computerized test centers in all towns. The participant has to show national ID card (Aadhar) as proof. Must get 70% correct answers to pass. Can take exam as many as times needed till passes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Course content includes</span></li>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
<li>Language Skills - Reading, Writing and Comprehension</li>
<li>Math – Simple Arithmetic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li>History – National History, Geography</li>
<li>Governance – Local/State/Central governance structure</li>
<li>Law and Order – What are their basic rights and responsibilities</li>
<li>Form Filling – How to fill a Voter card, Demand Draft, Ration Card form, etc.,</li>
<li>Civic Sense – Basic understanding on civic sense – Rights and responsibilities</li>
</span></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Cost Structure:</b></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Book – A single handbook – Rs 250</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Examination costs – Rs 250</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">NLP volunteer – will receive Rs 500 for each
passed student</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The participant will receive Rs 1000 cash upon
passing the exam.</span></li>
</ol>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;">TOTAL = Rs 2000 per illiterate.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;">With an annual budget of Rs 10000 crore, we can
have at least 4-5 Crore people become literate every year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Risks:</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212121;">There will be a significant amount of
corruption in the beginning by already educated people. So be it. If an
educated person is willing to learn the above items and pass the pro-metric exam
for a Rs 1000 benefit, it is worth the investment.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #212121;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>2. Primary Education (Budget: Rs 97,632 crore
including 2 meals a day and 100% Health Insurance)</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><i>Note: These were 2010 estimates based on 1.13B population.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div>
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Any graduate and above who completed their BEd
(Bachelor of Education – How to teach, method and art of teaching) can
participate in this program.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A group of 10 graduates must join and apply as
a group to start a school. Govt of India will offer them Rs 5Lakh as loan to
kick start the school. This amount becomes FREE GRANT if the school continues
for minimum 3 years.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Each school can have as many students as
required. They will receive Rs 250 for each registered student, with
National-ID as proof, per month. They can charge additional fee if the parents
are willing to pay the additional amount.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The current public school system will be
modified to make a village as a unit. In towns each municipal ward will become
one unit. All schools in that unit, primary/secondary/high schools, will be
combined to make a single unit for efficient management.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A school must maintain maximum 1:30 teacher:
student ratio.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li>
</ol>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Cost Structure:</b></span></span><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;">Note: All
existing govt. schools will be combined within a village up to 12th grade and will
be converted into residential schools operated by GOI.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A School with 1000 students (30-35 teachers)
will receive ~Rs 30 Lakhs per yer from Govt grants.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Offers employment opportunities for upto 4.5
million graduates. If graduates are encouraged to have similarly qualified spouses,
the family income would be around Rs 1.5-2.0 Lakhs per year, bringing them
into the 15% IT bracket above Rs 1.5 Lakhs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Will open ~13,500 Akshayapatra type modern
kitchens (each kitchen supplies 10,000 students or 20,000 meals a day). Offers
employment to at least 135,000 non-graduates. If we can integrate the
supply-chains of this Aksyapatra kitchens with my Farm subsidy returns (Rs
10,000 or 30% of crop returns, whichever is smaller will be collected by govt
from 4 crore acres of food grain crops) then we can achieve an efficient
food-management supply chain within India.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background: white;"><b>Risks: </b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212121;">Standardization. Each school may have a different style of education (within approved structures) to achieve and maintain differentiation. But it could a boon in
disguise having non-standardized education up to 10th grade.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #212121;">Further work</span></span></span></h3>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Collect data on Central and State budget allocations for primary and secondary education, health-care and mid-day meals program. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Revise estimates based on 2017-20 population data and demographics.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Compare the cost structures and supply-chain employment opportunities for skilled and unskilled labor in Mid-day meal programs and primary health-care sectors.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Define the course framework to be implemented across the nation while giving scope for differentiation by schools.</span></li>
</ul>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Following is an attempt to create a repository of class-room
lessons on Hindu Vedanta. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
<b>Experiment - Part 1:</b><br />
Close all the doors and windows of the class and make the room as dark as
possible. Then put a lamp (preferably a ghee/castor oil lamp) in the middle of
a pot with lot of holes. The light from the lamp shall brighten different
places in the room.</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask the students what they see. Some see parts of the board, windows, someone's
nose, someone's hand, someone else's chest etc.,</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask the students why they see only parts of the room.<br />
Ask the students if other sections of the room exist even though they are not
visible.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask the students who/how they see things.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 2:</b><br />
Ask the students to close their eyes.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Do they see the different spots of light?<br />
Do they exist even though the light or room is not visible?</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 3:</b><br />
Ask the students to keep their eyes closed. Make a sound by hitting one of the
objects in the room with a stick. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">N</span>ote: For better results preset
the class room with different sound making objects like drum, bell, water pot
etc)</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask the students if they hear anything.<br />
Ask them if they see the sound.<br />
Ask the students if they can identify the object you hit just by using sound.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Repeat this experiment with different objects</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask the students who/how they hear things.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 4:</b><br />
Ask students to open their eyes and close the ears. Then make sounds using
different objects. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask the students if they hear the sounds.<br />
Ask the students if they see any sounds.<br />
Ask the students what they see.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 5:</b><br />
Ask the students close their eyes and ears. Light an incense stick </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask if they see anything. <br />
Ask if they hear anything.<br />
Ask them if they can guess what is happening. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Repeat this experiment with different smells.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask students who/how they figured out what is happening.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 6:</b><br />
Ask the students to close their eyes and ears. Take a warm-air blower and
expose the warm air to students.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask if they see anything <br />
Ask if they hear anything<br />
Ask if they smell anything<br />
Ask what is happening in the class room.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask who/how they figured out.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 7:</b><br />Questions: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ask the students following questions.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask if/how their perception of the class room different when they used
different sensory organs.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask if there is any common thing that is knower in all these experiments.</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 8:</b><br />
Show the students images of how Sun/Sky looks in different electromagnetic
spectra (visible, thermal, x-Ray etc)</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask why they cannot see any other views of the sky/sun except visible spectrum.<br />
Ask what could be the real existence of the universe (when combined with all
these <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spectr<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span></span>)</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
Ask the students what is the real source of the knowledge of existence of
different parts (the light, or the eyes that see or the objects in the room?)</span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 9:</b><br />
Prep one of the student to tell a story of his dream last night. Ask him to
select of his classmates and tell them that he gave them Rs5 in his dream last
night and ask when can he expect the money back. Let the dialogue play out.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask the students what's happening. Ask them if/who is wrong for what reason.<br />
Ask them if the people in their dreams were real. <br />
Ask them if the things done in the dream carry over reality once they wake up. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Experiment - Part 10:</b><br />
Explain the students deferent states of consciousness - Jagrut, swapna,
Sushupti and the consciousness that is common in all states of being. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Questions:<br />
Ask them how each state is different, what works and what is inactive.<br />
Ask them who/what stays in all these states and how.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Explain the students about the consciousness (Atman) that is
common in all states of being.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Lesson:<br />
Teach the following sloka (from Dakshinamurti Stotram) and explain its meaning.
</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">नानाच्छिद्र घटोदर स्थित
महादीप प्रभाभास्वरं</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">ज्ञानं यस्य तु चक्षुरादिकरण द्वारा बहिः
स्पन्दते ।</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">जानामीति तमेव भान्तमनुभात्येतत्समस्तं
जगत्</span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">तस्मै श्री गुरुमूर्तये
नम इदं श्री
दक्षिणामूर्तये ॥</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swast<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i||</span> </span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Note: I request readers to read this post in conjunction
with my post on <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2015/11/sa-varna-and-sa-kula-marriages.html" target="_blank">Sa-Varna and Sa-Kula Marriages</a>. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Often, we hear people quoting Manu Smriti on Anuloma and
Pratiloma relationships between different Varnas claiming that as proof of
in-built prejudice in Hindu Dharma Sastras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here is my attempt to give a different perspective on
that topic. As always, appreciate comments/feedback.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In general, Anu & Prati (in Anuloma & Pratiloma)
have been translated as Natural/preferred order & Unpreferred/adverse/lower
order. I think this is not entirely correct & is a Indic middle age (read
Charwaka era) imposition. Both Anu/Prati in AnuSarga & PratiSarga mean
successive or secondary additions.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I would translate Anuloma as one type order
(patrilineal) & PratiLoma as a secondary/different (matrilineal) order.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ManuSmriti just says what the progeny of different orders
are called.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very mention of these in a
treatise like ManuSmriti indicates the prevalence of such marriages in that
time. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At this point it is very important to note that ManuSmriti
is just a Smriti defined to create order in then prevalent social system, not
some outsider imposition. Manusmriti is compilation and structuring of that
era's socio-political order, same as how BR Ambedkar's Constitution of India is
reflective of Indian society in mid-20th century. Like Manu of Manusmriti, BR
Ambedkar too didn't find any new truth in his constitution. Both of them just
laid down a reasonable structure for the society to prosper given the
prevailing socio-political conditions. As these socio-political conditions
change, it is our duty to write new Smritis/Dharma-Sastras/Constitutions
instead of distorting those treatise. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now let's come to science...</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In nature, we can observe two aspects, seed &
kshetra/soil. When we plant a mango seed we will always get a mango tree. The
nature of the soil only determines the characteristics such as size, color,
taste etc of that mango fruit. Different soil types create different varieties
& tastes of mango fruit; some good for pickle, some as fruits, some for
juice etc.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ManuSmriti considers the man in a couple as seed
contributor & woman as soil contributor. It & other dharmasastras only
propose what variety of mangos are generally good for what purposes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It doesn't
mean one can't make pickle from Alfanso mango & enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Swasti!</span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-68401609715127199832016-06-13T13:29:00.004-04:002016-06-13T13:33:05.395-04:00Secularism - Bane of Bharat!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Secularism is yet another
experiment of Indian society that failed to prove any tangible value so far.
The cruel joke it played on India is that even after 40 years of its inclusion
in constitution of India by an emergency government without any due process, no
one in India knows for sure what it means and what value it meant to provide to
its stakeholders.</span></span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are three angles to
this Secularism question in the context of this election. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first dimension of
Secularism is religious dimension and it influence on definition and vision of
India’s identity. Secularism gives equal say to all three major systems Hinduism, Christianity and Islam </span></span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in defining and pursuing Indian Interests</span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.
This means Indian Christians with their minuscule 3% population and Indian
Muslims with their 15% population will get equal vote in defining Indian
Interests same as the Hindus that make 80% of the nation. Another aspect of this
equation is the disproportional international power links Christianity and
Islam bring in to bear upon India. This is where definition of Indian Interests
gets hijacked by Christian and Islamic interests leaving 80% of Indians high
and dry in protecting their native civilization.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
second dimension is
economic and civic infrastructure. Secularism, by definition, gives
into the sway of more organized and disruptive faith systems. One
type of these forces is what we have seen in Kudankulam protests. This
anti-nuclear agitation was aimed at partnerships with Russia (alone),
were majorly funded by
Western Christian organizations and were conducted by internal
Evangelical
organizations. Another type of these forces is what India has seen in JK
terror attacks and
11/26 Mumbai attacks. In both cases the national economic and civic
infrastructure was held hostage by religiously motivated group while
secularism
failed to resolve these challenges in the national interests. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;">The
third aspect of secular
debate is Law and Order. Secularism does not have any well-defined role
and
mandate when it comes to law and order issues involving religiously
motivated
groups. This causes a paradox for Indian minorities as their religious
demands
and social vision often contradict with that of Hindu majority leading
to
distortions in national posture and power projection. Recent episode of
an
Indian diplomat getting arrested on false charges and cavity searched in
the
United States is an example how the internal secular dynamics can be
exploited
by external powers. The witch hunt for Saffron terror and meddling of
NIA investigations into terror attacks by Indian Mujaheddin amply
demonstrated how the state Law & Order machinery is intentionally
subverted to keep the facade of secularism by
various political parties and governments. The proposed Communal
Violence Bill
takes this aberration to the extreme by protecting the minorities
irrespective
of cause and perpetrator of the crime, thus making the Law and Order
apparatus
subservient to religious identity of the people involved in the issue. </span></span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On one side of this debate
stands BJP. This party recognizes the incorrect application of Abrahamic social
issues on Indian society and wants to remove this aberration. This party
promises to provide equal socio-economic opportunities to all Indians with its
‘equal opportunities for all, appeasement to none’ position. This political
stand automatically removes the external handles (and their influence) on
India’s internal social, economic and religious debates. </span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Congress and its allies, on
the other hand, demand that the nation must give special treatment to followers
of Abrahamic faith even at the cost of social, economic, national security and
in some cases even democratic implications to the entire nation. This means
Indian interests will be permanently mortgaged to Abrahamic faith systems whose
core power system is outside Indian control/influence. This effectively means
indirect colonization of India using Secularism for/by Abrahamic faiths. </span></span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notes: This piece was written as part of another post on this blog: <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-fight-2014-elections.html" target="_blank">The Fight - 2014 Elections </a>in April 2014.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently I came across a face book post about a
daughter-mother conversation on Ravana and Rama. It goes like this</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">*** </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">A pregnant mother asked her daughter, “what do you want – a
brother or a sister?”</span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Daughter</b>: Brother</span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mother</b>: Like Whom?</span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Daughter</b>: Like RAVAN</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mother</b>: What the hell are you saying, Are you out of your
mind?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Daughter</b>: Why not Mom? He left all his Royalship &
Kingdom, all because his sister was disrespected. Even after picking up his
enemy’s wife, he didn’t ever touch her. Why wouldn’t I want to have a brother
like him? She continues… What would I do with a brother like RAM who left his
pregnant wife after listening to a “dhobi” though his wife always stood by his
side like a shadow? After giving “Agni Pareeksha” & suffering 14 years of
exile. Mom, you being a wife & sister to someone, until when will you keep
on asking for a “RAM” as your son?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Mother was in tears.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Moral: No one in the world is good or bad. It’s just an
interpretation about someone. Change your perception!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">***</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sounds very logical and emotional, right? As the Moral at the
end says, it is just an interpretation of a Ramayana event, to fit someone’s
prejudices and temperament. After all Ravana did what he did because he too
interpreted Dharma as he wanted. Perhaps then we must accept that Ravana faced the consequences of his interpretation of Dharma.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But let’s ask a simple question. Did the girl in above
example take all the facts about Ravana, Surpanakha into consideration before
making above interpretation? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the mother in above scenario read Ramayana herself, then
her answer would be something in the lines of…</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Ravan like brother would deny <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his sister</span> (the girl in
above scenario) marrying someone <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">she loved,</span> a Danava Vidyutjihva, from a different caste. A
Ravan would honor kill Surpanakha's newly wed husband.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Ravana's sister would go around enticing men, even married
men. A Ravana's sister would try to marry Rama, then Lakshmana when Rama
rejects her, then again Rama when Lakshmana says no; all in an hour or so.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Ravana's sister would try to kill Sita (the very Sita our
protagonist is so concerned about) when Rama
rejected her. She would kill other women to marry their husbands; same as
Muhammed killed the husbands to marry their wives/women.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then a Ravana's sister advises her own brother to
have/kidnap Sita, a fellow woman & married woman, so he can avenge her
Asuric lust.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ravana like brother <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">would not </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">abstain</span> from touching Sita out of respect for wom<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">en. He do<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">es it out of fear for his life, as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he</span></span> got a curse from <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his own great<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">grandfather, Brahma, that his head will <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">explode</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">if he touches a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">non-consenting</span> woman</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.</span></span> He got this cu<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">se <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">because he raped Rambha who is his daughter-in-law <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by relation, same as M<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">u<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ham<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">med cov<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eted Zaynab.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No mother in the world would want a son like Ravana because
he would listen to his asuric/lustful sister, kidnap a married woman on his
sister’s words and then end up destroying an entire Asura empire for his
murkhatva.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With Ravana like son and Surpanakha like daughter the mother
would end up crying now and forever. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Herein lies a lesson for all Bharatiyas, who, sooner or later, will be facing their progeny overwhelmed by secular interpretations of the world around them. Read Ramayana and Mahabharata yourself and understand the Dharma for what it is. This will help guiding your own children away from Asuratva and eventual survival and progress of your own caste/race/lineage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text"><b>Dharma
eva hato hanti, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text"><b>Dharmo rakshati rakshitah ||</b></span></span></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text">(</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text"><i>One who destroys Dharma is
destroyed by Dharma</i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_3_1465398172201_1805" itemprop="text"><i>One who protects Dharma is protected by Dharma</i>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The other day I was reading “<i>AntarArtha DEvi BhAgavatam</i>” and
came across the definition of Dharma. It says, Dharma is the nourishing milk
giving Cow with its four feet as – <i>Satya</i>, <i>Saucha</i>, <i>BhUta-Daya</i> and
<i>NishkAma-dAna/Karma</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This made me wonder if the current Prime Minister of India,
Sri Narendra Modi is subtly building a DhArmic-RAshtra thru many English
sounding schemes. Let us explore:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The first foot of Dharma is <i>Satya</i>. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What is <i>Satya </i>for a society like <i>BhArat</i>? It is nothing but
the true essence, nature, spiritual character of BhArat and BhArat alone. This
is exactly how Sri Modi described BhArat in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4X1byojvq8" target="_blank">his Idea of India speech</a> on the floor of Indian
Parliament. In summary, Modi’s definition of Satya (or Idea of Bharat) is - <i>SatyamEva
JayatE</i> (Only Truth Prevails), <i>PaudhA me bhI paramAtma hota</i> (Plant life too is
the god-consciousness), <i>AppO deepO bhava</i> (Just be a light unto yourself), <i>Tena
Tyaktena Bhunjitha</i> (Renounce and Enjoy), <i>Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve
Santu Nir-Aamayaah | Sarve Bhadraanni Pashyantu, Maa
Kashcid-Duhkha-Bhaag-Bhavet | </i>(May All become Happy, May All be Free from
Illness. May All See what is Auspicious, May no one Suffer.), <i>Naari, tu
Naarayani</i> (Woman, you are none other than Narayani/Goddess), <i>Janani
Janma-bhoomi-scha Swargadapi Gariyasi</i> (one's mother and motherland are dearer
to him/her than heaven) and so on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have heard many of these <i>Satya-vaakyas</i> throughout our
life as we celebrated our <i>Bharatiyata</i>. None of the Abrahamic ideologies like
Islam and Christianity, nor the modern ideologies like Communism, Socialism and
Secularism talk about <i>Satya</i>/eternal-Truth in these constructs. In fact, all the
non-Bharatiya ideologies stand against more than one of the above “Ideas of
Bharat”. Thus Modi’s definition of <i>Satya </i>is nothing but Veda-Dharmic <i>Satya</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Second foot of Dharma is <i>Saucha</i>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Bhagavatgita </i>explains that <i>Saucha </i>as combination of
<i>Subhrata</i>, <i>Swachata</i>, <i>Sundarata </i>and <i>Pavitrata</i>. <i>Subhrata </i>means getting rid of
filth and corruption amidst us. <i>Swachata </i>is the process of adopting the set of
practices that help maintain health and prevent corruption. <i>Sundarata </i>is the
body of aesthetic knowledge that makes our surroundings and society a
celebration. Finally <i>Pavitrata </i>brings the sense of reverence towards our own
surroundings, society and nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If we closely observe various schemes initiated by Modi
Sarkar, we can see the ground work to bring Saucha to Bharatiya society and
consciousness that will eventually lead to the Satya (Idea of Bharat) described
above. Programs like Toilet construction, Swacha Bharat, Smart Cities, Model
villages, Namami Gange and religious-tourism circuits are all part of this
Saucha-Bharat initiative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When completed, these programs together will increase the
<i>Saucha</i>-Quotient of India to Vedic-Bharat levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Third foot of Dharma is <i>BhUta-Daya</i>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>BhUta-Daya</i> consists of two parts. The first aspect of
BhUta-Daya is reverence and kindness towards and protection of flora-fauna of Bharat. This is
stemmed from the root consciousness of Vedic-Bharat that says “<i>PaudhA me bhI
paramAtma hota</i>”. The Bharatiya concept of <i>BhUta-Daya</i> cannot be found in any of Abrahamic
ideologies that are ruling rest of humanity. All these Abrahamic ideologies
view the nature as something meant for human consumption (God created earth for
human consumption).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the angle from which we must see the Beef Ban and
anti-Cow-Slaughter movements. When Hindus agitate against Cow-slaughter, they aren’t
denouncing only cow-slaughter but supporting goat/chicken slaughter. Cow is the
symbol of all animal-world in Hindu lore. It is same as Indian parliament being
the symbol of our democracy and any attack on the parliament is seen as an
attack on Indian democracy and dealt accordingly. So when a Hindu is agitating
against cow-slaughter, one is agitating unnecessary consumption of animal
meat/products. As someone said, a Bharatiya killing an animal out of hunger is
a reflection of poverty of the nation, a Bharatiya killing animal for taste is
one living in lowest level of human consciousness a.k.a ignorant (For one can
get same/better taste in vegetarian food) and finally a Bharatiya killing an
animal for pleasure is nothing but an Asura to be punished/killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Following is an info-graphic of eco footprint of various types of food. A conscious society will prefer to satisfy its food security covering minimum eco-footprint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Modi Sarkar’s stand on these issues are to enforce better living conditions
in animal farms and to ban export of animal products. We have to understand
that the indigenous breeds of cattle and flora-fauna are natural evolution over millennia to survive and sustain in indigenous climatic conditions. Foreign
imports can give only temporary reprieve and can never be a permanent solution.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second part of <i>BhUta-Daya</i> is to develop our forestry,
natural eco system so it facilitates and nurtures next level of human
evolution. The impact/results of this can be seen only in long scales of time
often going beyond hundreds of years. Modi Sarkar’s focus on environment, renewable energy and economy and river-cleaning projects like <i>Namami Gange</i> project has
the potential to create such a mutually supporting and sustaining eco-system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Fourth foot of Dharma is <i>NishkAma-Karma/dAna</i>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At Rashtra level, <i>NishkAma-Karma</i> translates into a
corruption free and efficient governance system. The administration is represented by
people working in and representing various arms of Rashtra. They are expected
to work towards the glory of Bharat without narrow-minded translations and
comparisons of their services and sacrifices into monetary gains. For example,
recently there was a social media outrage about an IAS officer’s salary being
higher than that of a soldier posted in Siachen. This is not only a ridiculous argument
but also an insult to both the soldier’s <i>karma</i>/action as well as that IAS
officer’s. <i>Karma </i>of any Bharatiya, be one is a teacher, soldier, doctor,
riksha-puller or a farmer, is no higher or lower than anyone else's. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Modi’s focus on minimum government maximum governance and SabkA
sAth, sabkA vikAs are the foundations of this <i>NishkAma karma</i> awareness. It
enforces the sense of belonging and awareness among BhAratiyAs that their
individual success/action/well-being comes from collective success/action/well-being.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>NishkAma-dAna</i> in this context represents the state support
to poor and down-trodden. Not every action/profession can result in monetary
results. There could be many reasons. But we cannot condemn a small farmer or
daily-laborer or unemployed post-graduate for their poverty. The nation as a
whole has to offer them a basic level of social security that ensures that no
Bharatiya goes hungry, unhealthy or lack an opportunity to succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is where Modi Sarkar’s schemes such as Jan Dhan Yojana, Universal Social Security, Universal Health and Life Insurance scheme and MUDRA bank etc come into
picture. All these schemes, as they gain traction, will form foundation of
<i>Nishkama-dAna</i> aspect of Dharmic Bharat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Conclusion</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seen from this perspective, we can safely conclude that Sri
Narendra Modi is establishing foundations for a Dharmic Bharat whose
<i>viswarUpa </i>may appear in a decade where Bharat grows to become a $20T economy and
Bharatiyas get to enjoy first-world Human Development Indices with minimum environmental foot print and without compromising on
their natural Dharma that is Sanatana Dharma!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At this juncture it is important for all Bharatiyas to not
get distracted by secular propaganda and become part of Sri Narendra Modi’s <i>Yajna
</i>in regaining our Viswa Guru position sooner than later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This is the single most service every Bharatiya can do to
oneself, to our motherland and entire humanity</i>! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Swasti!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bhagavan Sri Krishna in BhavatGita
says that <i>catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah</i>; “the Varna of an
individual is determined by the combination of Guna & Karma”, including the
karma of past lives. If an individual is given an option to choose one’s Varna,
s/he would choose the Varna that resonates her/his Guna (temperament, attitude)
and karma (<i>Buddhi karmaanusaarinaa</i>! In other words one makes one’s own fate).
There is no escape from this. Probably that's why Bhagavan continues his statement
with <i><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333;">tasya kartaram api mam</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span class="italic">viddhy akartaram avyayam</span></span></i>; “thus
determined, even I cannot undo that”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now if we look around, any
individual with absolute freedom to choose one’s <span> </span>life partner, would choose someone that
resonates with his/her own Guna & Karma; in other words Sa-Varna marriage. That's
why we see the so-called love marriages to be of Sa-Varna in nature to the
extent that IT people marrying IT people, doctors marrying doctors etc., of
course for convenience and mutual compatibility. In a Sa-Varna marriage the
Guna plays dominant role while Karma follows it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When the society gave the
education and work/social profession suitable to one's own Varna, there was no
need for love-marriage because parents found them to be not against the system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Coming to Sa-Kula marriages,
these are mostly arranged by families or outsourced to parents by young for,
again, convenience. Parents, in addition to looking at basic socio-economic
comfort zones, rely mostly on already established Kula-definitions; which themselves
started based on some Varna a long, long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In a Sa-Kula marriage, parents/families
rely more on Karma (the reason why a soul chooses a specific life in a given
cycle) than Guna because they assume the Karma (or initial conditions) have
more influence on a certain outcome than an individual's choices/perseverance.
This is no different from the secular and modern liberals thought process
concerning things like IITs and Ivy Leagues. Getting into an IIT, the initial
condition, is good enough to determine one’s social recognition, irrespective
of one's intellectual aptitude or social contribution. This is just a less
risky option for individuals. This is same as an Indian preferring an Indian
spouse than say an African spouse; Kula being a much more specific preference
group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Going thru the life trajectories
that we have gone thru in our lives and those of people around us, we can
sufficiently understand and appreciate this rationale. Only a handful of us
moved beyond the life-changes that are destined by our initial conditions be it
in social, economic, spiritual or nationalistic planes of mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For example, say I am an Indian
and my spouse is an African. When someone asks our children about their background
and my children respond with Indo-African (mixed blood), neither my children nor
the society get worked up. But secular minds get worked up if/when my daughter
says she is a Nishada because she is mix of Brahmana-Sudra parents! English
words are good, Samskruta words are bigoted/outdated to a secular mind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sa-Varna marriages (a.k.a Love
marriages) bring a new dimension in to social discourse; what happens to the
children of these marriages? Their parents created a new “initial condition”
for these children. So it is only natural for these children to face problems
(in some cases) when they want to rely upon the existing Kula-structures and those
families are apprehensive if a Sa-Kula marriage would work for the child as
his/her initial condition is more Guna based than Karma based. Often such Sa-Varna
children ending up blaming the Kula-structures instead of understanding this
simple logic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Author’s note</b>: This opinion is
written as part of a discussion on <a href="http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=1689598#p1689598" target="_blank">Bharat Rakshak Forum</a>. Request readers to
visit the forum to get complete discussion and participate.<span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a nation to be strong, it has to find an efficient way to provide employment to all its citizens in a way that their incomes are above poverty line (so can be taxable, if needed) and contribute towards national self-reliance, wealth accumulation, and power projection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recent economic earth-quake reset certain economic rules that have been prevalent for the past century and half. This proposal is based on the ground rules that, India must:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be able to achieve food security for its huge population.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Develop renewable energy sources (in the absence of proven oil and gas reserves)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be environmentally conscious</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work towards improving Gross Happiness Index</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that, the end result will be a happy, healthy, environmentally-sound base-economy that can offer high level of employment opportunities to its citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The subsidy structure allows that small farmers get the most benefit.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st acre – Rs 2000</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2nd acre – Rs 1000</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3rd acre – Rs 750</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4th acre – Rs 250</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2000+1000+750+250 = 4000 = Rs 1000 per acre on average.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Note: This proposal was originally made in 2010. Adjusting to inflation, these amounts should be anywhere between 150-200% of these amounts.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This plan envisions to provide a subsidy of Rs 1000 per acre-month (pro-rated) for all the farming families up to a maximum limit of 4-5 acres per family. For example, if a farmer has 1.5 acres of land, s/he will be eligible for Rs 3000 farm subsidy per month and if a farmer has 10 acres of land her/his eligibility will be limited to Rs 4000 per month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This subsidy if not 100% free. One can either opt to return this money interest free or pay it thru the harvest up to 30% of the yield, whichever is lower. For example, if a farmer owes the government Rs. 18,000 (12 x 1500) and have a total harvest of say 8 tons of rice in that year, s/he can either pay the Rs 18,000 in cash or submit 2.4 tons (30% of 8 tons yield) of rice at Food Corporation of India (FCI), whichever is profitable to the farmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This plan also acts as crop-insurance, because in the event that the farmer got only 3 tons of harvest in a particular year, s/he would return only 0.9 tons of harvest and the loan is closed. The farmer will take a new loan next year towards next year’s harvest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Employment Scheme in Farm Sector</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>From CIA Fact Book on India:</i></span></div>
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<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">India Total Land = 2,973,190 Sq.KM = 734,691,248 Acres = 73.47 Crore Acres</i></li>
<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Irrigated Land = 558,080 Sq.KM = 137,904,571 Acres= 13.79 Crore Acres</i></li>
<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Arable Land (48.83%) = 1,451,809 Sq.KM = 358,749,736 Acres = 35.87 Crore Acres </i></li>
<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Non-Arable Land= 1,521,381 Sq.KM = 375,941,511 Acres = 37.59 Crore Acres</i></li>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Out of this available land area, taking out the populated areas such that:</i></span></div>
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<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">100 Cities (population: 20L-1Cr) = 90,000 Sq.KM = 22,239,484 Acres = 2.22 Crore Acres</i></li>
<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1000 Towns (population: 50K-20L) = 25,000 Sq.KM = 6,177,635 Acres = 0.62 Crore Acres</i></li>
<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">600000 villages (1 sq km) = 600,000 Sq.KM = 148,263,229 Acres = 14.83 Crore Acres</i></li>
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<i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TOTAL Populated Ares = 715,000 Sq.KM = 176,680,347 Acres = 17.67 Crore Acres</i><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>And permanent Forests of about 27% of total land area</i></span></div>
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<li><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Permanent Forests/nature = 806,381 Sq. KM= 199,261,164 Acres = 19.93 Crore Acres</i></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the non-irrigated arable land area of 35.87 crore acres, Government of India can assign 5 crore acres to 1 crore below poverty line families and offer them Rs 1000 per acre per month subsidy for first 5 years on the pre-condition that they grow:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other type (teak, deodar, other forest type) – 1 Acre</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Permanent Crops (fruit orchids, bamboos, Eucalyptus, type) – </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 Acre</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bio-diesel (Jatropha, palm oil etc) – 2 Acres</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arable (vegetables etc) – 1 Acre</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Arable land - land cultivated for crops like vegetables, wheat, maize, and rice that are replanted after each harvest</span></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Permanent crops- land cultivated for crops like citrus, coffee, and rubber that are not replanted after each harvest; includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber</span></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Other - any land not arable or under permanent crops; includes permanent meadows and pastures, forests and woodlands</span></i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given the fact only 20% of the land is used for regular farming, it is highly possible for these farmers to achieve water self-sustainability by following efficient rain-water harvesting techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This plan will automatically bring 1 crore families (~4 crores population = 4% of total population) out of poverty immediately while adding:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 million acres of new forest lands</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 million acres of commercial timber</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20 million acres of bio-diesel = ~3 billion gallons of bio diesel saving ~$3B oil imports from 5th year. The best part is this is green energy and renewable. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 million acres of additional food produce.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">100 million carbon credits (2.5 credits per acre for the first 3 categories) = 100 million megawatts of electricity production = India can add another 11000 MW of thermal power generation without violating Kyoto protocol.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If allowed to rent the land to establish Sterling Energy Systems’ solar power dishes at 3-4 units per acre (so they do not over crowd the land) the farmers can earn additional rent at least another Rs 500 per acre.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus India can achieve all the stated objectives: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poverty alleviation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Security</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Energy Security</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forests & Environment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Economy (eco-friendly employment creation)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cultural preservation - the tribal population is given economic security without threatening their unique cultures built around environment.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This program envisions a budget outlay of Rs 108,000 Crores split between</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Farm Insurance Program: Rs 48,000 Crore for 1Cr small farmers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Agriculture Sector Employment Program: Rs 60,000 Crore for 1 Cr BPL families</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even in the worst case, the Farm Insurance Program will return a 30% of the total outlay, equal to 14,400 Crores. The actual subsidy component will be between Rs 33,600 Crores to Rs ZERO. This covers all the small farmers in India.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As mentioned above, the Agriculture Sector Employment Program will self-finance itself after five years creating 1 Crore permanent jobs. It is calculated that a Rs 1000 Crore investment in industrial economy would create 15,000 permanent jobs. In this proposed program an investment of Rs 3,00,000 Crore (5 years x 60,000 Cr) is creating 1 Crore permanent jobs compared to 45 Lakh permanent jobs the industrial economy would create for the same amount of investment. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Program Risks:</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The farm subsidy program needs National-Id in place so the program is not misused and the target </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">population receives the benefits directly to their account IN CASH.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close integration is required between Farm Land registration, National Id program, and Farm Subsidy </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">programs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The FCI channel can be abused (already highly corrupted channel) during crop collection.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unemployment Program has to be devised in a way that the land is allotted to Tribal populations only and not sold/resold to politically motivated groups</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Author's note:</b> This proposal was originally made in <a href="https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/" target="_blank">Bharat Rakshak Forum</a> in 2010 under Alternative Budget Scenarios thread. I request readers to participate in the discussion.</i></span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-72272843196169077942015-09-16T14:15:00.001-04:002015-09-16T14:15:45.441-04:00Indian Agriculture Sector, at Cross Roads!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the gods of nature <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">disfavor </a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span><span></span></span></span>their
source of identity and livelihood, a major division <span class="MsoCommentReference"><span><span></span></span></span>of
Indians who are associated with the agricultural sector are standing at the
crossroads of despair, revolution, vision and opportunity. The political
fortunes associated with this ill-informed majority are attracting all
varieties of shrill politics, further muddying the national debate on this key
aspect of national interest. This article attempts to present various
dimensions of this national problem so readers are better informed, and aims to
contribute towards a more positive debate and a more purposeful national
strategy. The need of the hour is a national vision that views India’s
agricultural sector as an opportunity, rather than the cynical political
ideology that is trying to throw this ill-informed sector into rhetorical
despair and inspire rebellion against a democratically-elected government. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">India’s Agri-Sector problems are multi-dimensional and are
impacting both bottom-line efficiencies and top-line opportunities of national
development. Each of these dimensions individually require focused study, and when
they are intertwined the way they are, they require even more careful strategic
management. Superficial analysis of such complex problems will only lead to an
incorrect understanding of the problem and the deployment of knee-jerk
strategies that, in the long term, will only lead to harm to national
interests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Definition of
Agriculture </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First of all, there is no comprehensive definition or policy
regarding the agriculture sector in India. There is no clarification for whether
fisheries, poultry, animal husbandry, medicinal herbs, commercial timber, or other
forest products fall under the scope <span class="MsoCommentReference"><span><span></span></span></span>of
the agriculture sector, and there is very little policy on how to address the
natural inter-dependencies of all these sub-sectors. For example, a sudden
change in a region’s agricultural produce (say, from rice to medicinal herbs or
commercial timber) may have a devastating impact on that region’s animal
husbandry ecosystem. A policy decision to encourage beef-production/exports may
cause the extinction of low-milk producing but drought-tolerant native cattle
species, causing permanent damage to our ecosystem. These complex inter-dependencies demand attention, else disaster strike. By conceptualizing
the ecosystem as a complete system and designing healthy relationships between agricultural
products and practices, India can identify new top-line opportunities in the agriculture
sector, and make it a pivotal part of India’s transformation towards a
renewable economy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Food Security of the Nation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A second dimension of this problem is the food security of
the nation. Not all sectors of the nation are suitable for pursuing blind
comparative advantages, and the food security <span></span>of the nation is one such area. While India
achieved food production self-sufficiency decades ago, one-third of Indians are
still suffering from malnutrition. A solution for this chronic national problem
must travel on a sound logistical and food-processing roadmap to achieve this
necessary bottom-line efficiency. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Farm Size and Ownership</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another core aspect of India’s agri-sector landscape is the limited
farm size. A study conducted by S. Mahendra Dev presents that “<i>there were about 121 million agricultural
holdings in India in 2000-01. Around 99 million were small and marginal farmers.
Average size has declined from 2.3 ha. In 1970-71 to 1.37 ha</i><sup> </sup><i>in 2000“</i><sup>[1]</sup>. Given this scenario,
there are two approaches to reducing the labor involved in this sector – (a)
make mechanical farming accessible and affordable to small farmers or (b) allow
people to accumulate large farms to absorb the high cost of mechanization.
Unfortunately, the second strategy goes against a different socio-economic
policy called the “Land Ceiling Act”, which limits agricultural land ownership to
5-45 acres based on various factors. Those who want to mimic the success of
agricultural reforms in countries like the USA must remember that the average
farm size in 1900s America was 147 acres, making the base conditions for reform
very different. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><b>Labor Force excess-capacity</b></a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there is the problem with the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">labor excess capacity</a>
in the farming sector. Studies put nearly 60% of 600-million person labor force
as dependent upon the farming sector. However, some of this labor force is not
involved in the farming sector not out of choice, but due to a lack of skills
and opportunities to move into the industrial and service sectors. Thus, reducing
the percentage of the labor force in the Indian farming sector to the levels
existing in industrial nations would require facilitating the transition of
nearly 300-million working-age people into the industrial and service sectors.
To put things in perspective, this would be a feat similar to building a new
America, from the ground up, in India without adding a single inch of land or any
natural resources. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) studies estimate that
nearly 60 million jobs were created between 1999 and 2004 whereas only 15
million jobs were created in next eight years (2005-2012). Assuming that the Modi
government repeats the performance of the previous NDA1 government, it would
take at least 25 years (that is, from 2015 to 2040) to transition the labor-excess
capacity from farming to industrial/services sectors, even if we freeze the
population growth and demographic trends at today’s levels. But, given the current
demographic trends of the Indian population, India will gain more than 350-million
working-age people while losing only 150-million people to retirement, thus
adding an additional 200-million labor-force people to the agri-sector labor
excess capacity problem. The underlying truth is that no matter how quickly
India industrializes, it will have to live with its farming-labor excess
capacity for at least the next 20-25 years, with the majority being in the 40-70
age group, and therefore too late in life to acquire new skills. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have done a study in 2010 (posted in Bharat Rakshak Forum<sup>
[2]</sup>), and calculated that it will cost up to $2 trillion to retrain and
employ 150-million of the agricultural sector labor into industrial sector
labor. This cost estimate covers both retraining costs and the capital required
to set up industries that would provide permanent employment. If the target is
to transition a 300-million workforce, then the cost would double to $4
trillion, two times the current GDP of India.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another factor that has yet to be considered is what will
this gigantic industrial base, consisting of 200+ million labor force, produce?
How much resources will it process annually, and who will consume its product?
This is where the three slogans: Make in India, Made in India, and Made for
India have to merge and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span>transform
into India’s national power</span></a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span><span></span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Genetically Modified
Organisms Vs Organic Products</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An additional technological, and even ecological problem we
need to solve is whether the Indian farming sector should take the path of GMO
crops or Organic farming. Interestingly, the majority of cotton-farmer suicides
in India are attributed to the so-called “GMO-terminator” cotton seeds or their
fake cousins. On the other hand, the developed world is reinventing the concept
of Organic farming for its real or perceived health benefits and long-term
health-cost savings. If India decides to take the GMO route, it needs to
develop and build the necessary scientific and industrial base. If India
decides to take the Organic route, then it needs to detoxify its farming
community, which is chronically addicted to chemical fertilizers and
pesticides. Given the fact that the farming sector also includes aqua-culture
(fish, prawn farming) and animal farms, India needs to alter its land usage for
different types of crops (fish/cattle feed vs grains/vegetables etc.). Each
choice impacts the Indian farming sector in a fundamental way and needs lot of
work to reach the final goal. While complex, this aspect of the farming sector
can open up new topline opportunities in terms of long-term health and ecological
benefits to India.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Price Support, Food Storage
and WTO</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another key aspect of the Indian farming sector is the
pricing mechanism. There is no scientific analysis of the total economic cost
of each crop and what the price of the produce should be. Oftentimes, the price
of farm produce is determined by logistical and political inefficiencies,
rather than the cost to produce. For example, after setting consumer
preferences aside, a kilo of beef costs a fraction of its calorific equivalent
of vegetable food grains because there is no cost-accounting of the materials
required to produce a kilogram of beef compared to other food products. Oftentimes,
the farmer doesn’t even get a fraction of the consumer price for his produce,
just because the farmer doesn’t have awareness of or the necessary logistical
access to the demand side. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>The Objective</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I urge the readers to not fall into pessimism after reading the
above data. The larger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I believe that
current state of India’s farming sector is a boon to India’s national interests
because it has the potential to majorly contribute towards a multi-faceted
socio-scientific revolution that India desperately needs to get out of the
quicksands of triple colonization the nation went thru in the past 1400 years.
Only a mind that is firmly rooted in local flora-fauna that can think out of
the western-box can propel a well-rounded development of India in next coming
decades.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is where the national vision comes into picture. Modi
government correctly identified that Indian Agricultural sector can be and must
be turned into a national asset from a drain on national resources and reservoir
of national poverty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stated goal of Modi government is to increase the share
of agricultural sector in national GDP to 33%. Given the exponential growth
India is poised to experience in next couple of decades (a 7% annual growth
projects India’s GDP in 2040 will be 5 times that of today), this means two
separate goals to the farming sector.</span></span></div>
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Increase share of farm sector in national GDP
from current 18% to 33%. That translates into a farming sector GDP of $660B
instead of current $360B in 2015 terms. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maintain share of farm sector in national GDP at
33%. This means the farm sector GDP continues to grow at the rate of rest of
economy.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once achieved, these two goals will allow at least 33% of
labor force to continue agriculture sector while maintaining comparable
per-capita incomes with those in industrial and service sectors. At one go this
vision reduces the burden of labor force transition by a whopping 100 million,
reducing the timeline of labor excess capacity transition by 10 years (from 25
yrs. to 15 yrs.). The savings achieved in the process (~ $1.5 trillion) can be
diverted to transform Indian farming sector to build a renewable national
economy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>The Roadmap</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Given various dimensions of agriculture sector and the
stated goals of Modi government for this sector, we can identify following
opportunities for the nation as a whole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Unified Agriculture
Sector definition, vision and policy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An opportunity opens up for the nation to integrate all
forms of agriculture into one sector and identify synergies between various sections
of agriculture. For example the definition of a farm can include, but not
limited to, a solar farm that doubles as cattle-shed, a cattle-farm that
doubles as captive organic-fertilizer factory, a farm that contains a mix of
commercial timber, bio-diesel plantation, food-grain field and vegetable-farm and
so on; the possibilities are endless. Such a definition would facilitate
long-term large capital induction into farming sector that is not available
today, because diverse product base in the farm will reduce overall risk
profile of farm loans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Farm Ownership and
Land Acquisition Bill</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Indian society, land ownership is not just a financial
aspect but a socio-cultural aspect. There are historical reasons emanating from
India’s prolonged fight with colonial ideologies and the entities behind them.
The spiritual and emotional attachment that Indians have to land is similar to
their emotional attachment to gold; land is Sri Bhudevi and gold is Sri Lakshmi
– both consorts of Sri Mahavishnu. Any person or policy that is perceived to be
cutting this emotional bond will therefore be seen as an agent of yet another
colonial player. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In its current form, the Land Acquisition Bill offers a
onetime non-reversible financial transaction to acquire land from current
owners. A better approach can be to provide more flexible options to the landowner,
such as (but not limited to)</span></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Land will be acquired permanently for roads and
other public infrastructures, but 99-year land lease agreement will be made for
the industrial sector. This will address the concern that land is being
transferred to corporate owners.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Equal amount of land swapping within a
meaningful distance (say 10KM) for farmers who are not interested in losing
their agricultural land holdings.</span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Flexibility for the landowner to choose between
a one-time cash transaction or a mix of at-face-value shares in the
SEZ/Industry. This can also include the economic benefits from public
infrastructure. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Land Acquisition Bill will have more approval and support
from landowners if its focus changed from changing land ownership to
facilitating the transition of landowner from one economic sector to another sector,
along with their land holding. The bill would create new opportunities for the
people to transition from one sector to another without losing their financial,
and most importantly, emotional, attachment to their land holdings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reorganizing the Agriculture
Sector Labor Force</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The agricultural sector labor force is not a single monolith,
and consists of many groups, often with conflicting interests. Remember that 99-million
out of 121-million agricultural land holdings are small and marginal farmers,
with an average land holding size of 1.37 hectares. There are also millions of
farmers who don’t own land, but rent or lease land for farming, in addition to many
more millions of daily laborers. The farming sector employs people as young as 12
years all the way to octogenarians. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a great need and opportunity in developing a
national registry of all of our agricultural labor force and performing a
detailed analysis based on their demographics, region, skills and economic
status. An accurate understanding of the labor force is necessary for effective
land reforms, skill development, and re-employment in non-farming sectors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Various government schemes and policies can be utilized to
reorganize the farm sector labor force in the most effective manner. Some ideas
that can be used in this process are:</span></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Bring farm labor above a certain age group into a
newly unveiled Social Security scheme in such a way that they live above the poverty
line. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span>Identify suitable non-landowning labor for skill
development and reemployment using MNREGA-like schemes.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turn agricultural subsidies into long-term loan
contracts, so that the farming sector can get the necessary capital resources
to transform itself into a renewable economy. A recent economic survey<sup> [3]</sup>
puts the amount of agricultural subsidies (not including Railways, fuel,
electricity and water subsidies) at more than Rs 235,000 Crore per year.<span> </span>This works out to be an annual subsidy of Rs
23,500 for those 100 million small and marginal farmers. There is a lot of room
for opportunity in utilizing these subsidies better.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ecological Security
for Food Security</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nature, by definition, is the manifestation of the optimized
ecological balance of a given region. By extension of that definition, India’s ecosystem
is the most optimal balance of India’s regional conditions. India’s long-term
survivability and success therefore comes from developing on this natural
balance, rather than from disturbing it. Indian crops, fisheries, cattle etc.
evolved, by natural selection over millennia, to survive and sustain in local
conditions in the most efficient way. The human aspect of our great
civilization can thus prosper by designing its own vision within this ecosystem;
not, outside of it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Studies tell us that for all of humanity to live at the current
USA/European levels of consumption, we would require more than five Earths. Reaching
China’s current level of consumption would require one and half Earths. Any
logical mind will realize the futility of India trying to tread this path. However,
that doesn’t mean that Indians cannot achieve the quality of life enjoyed by
other advanced economies. India just needs to prioritize improving its human
development indices while having the minimum possible impact on its ecosystem.
This task is not difficult if the national agenda and policy is built around a
renewable economic model from the get go. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Agriculture Sector as
a Renewable Economy</b></span></span></div>
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India’s agricultural sector can give the necessary impetus to leapfrog the Indian
economy from an agrarian-economy to a renewable-economy, bypassing the
industrial and service phases. A renewable economy is where 100% of human
socio, economic, and technological prosperity comes from renewable sources and
processes. The advanced economies are already moving in this direction because
the age of human and industrial colonization is ending, and each civilization
has to live within its own natural means. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Agricultural, industrial, and economic scientists must bring
their minds together to identify various models to achieve target per-capita
incomes at small farm levels (~5 Acres) using a mix of complementing energy,
commercial-timber, animal-husbandry, fisheries, food grains and medicinal herbs
farming models and technologies. Governments must change policies and laws to
recognize the farming sector as a small & medium business, and encourage
necessary innovation in this field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">India’s agricultural sector is a complex multi-dimensional
socio-economic-political problem with far reaching consequences to its national
security. India, as a civilization, has not just a material, but also emotional
and spiritual connection with their land holding. The problems manifesting in
India’s agricultural sector are also a reflection of problems in other sectors.
A proper understanding of the national vision, overall civilizational needs,
and India’s objectives is required to realize the underlying opportunities and
possible solution strategies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An effective strategy and efficient execution of India’s national
vision is necessary to achieving a purposeful transition of labor force excess
capacity from the farming sector to other sectors.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Modi government, as articulated in different forums, has
set the right national vision as far as the agricultural sector is concerned.
Different policy decisions made by this government emanate from that vision to
elevate farm-sector as an equal partner in the national economy. Schemes like
JDY, Universal Social Security, and farmer pension schemes are nothing but a few
relevant parts of this national vision.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All the noise from the political opposition is just tactical
maneuvering for their political survivability. There is no alternative vision
proposed by the opposition groups, except for demands for the continuation of failed
policies and corrupt practices. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Modi government has many other forums to explain,
educate, train, and help the agricultural sector in its transformation into an
equal pillar of the national economy, along with the industrial and service
sectors. As its vision comes into execution, the beneficiaries would be the
millions of people making up the agricultural sector, as well as the nation as
a whole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[1] <a href="http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-014.pdf" target="_blank">Small Farmers in India: Challenges and Opportunities</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[2] <a href="http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5479" target="_blank">Alternative Budget Scenarios for India</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[3] <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2014-15/echapvol1-03.pdf" target="_blank">India Economic Survey - Wiping every tear from every eye</a></span></span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-50531595010020471142015-02-13T10:42:00.004-05:002015-02-13T10:42:58.922-05:00Learning RIGHT lessons from Delhi results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all, my heartfelt congratulations to Sri Arvind
Kejriwal and Aam Admi Party for winning an unprecedented mandate in Delhi! I
truly hope they will deliver a corruption-free, stable and progressive
government to people of Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many have analyzed this election in detail to understand how
AAP was able to get this stupendous mandate and most importantly how all the
pundits missed this tsunami. Here is my analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>I will start with 2013 Delhi State Elections.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The background of this election was (1) public anger against
corrupt Congress government (2) a highly successful movement by Anna Hazare and
Baba Ramdev’s India Against Corruption (IAC) and Congress government’s high-handed
response to it. At that time Narendra Modi was far away as CM of Gujarat who stayed
away from these elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was obvious that Delhi voters were going to punish Sheila
Dikshit’s Congress government and they had two choices in the form of BJP and
AAP. In those elections BJP secured 33% votes, AAP got 29.5% votes and Congress
24.6% votes. Together these three parties got 87% of votes. At this point of
time AAP’s core vote base had two components. The Leftists+NGO groups and the Hindu
vote base that was genuinely smitten by Anna Hazare, Aravind Kejriwal and the
youthfulness of Aam Admi Party. I would put this Hindu voter base at 14% of AAP’s
voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It resulted in a Hung Assembly and subsequent resignation of
Arvind Kejriwal as CM of Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Then came 2014 General Elections.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The background of this election was Modi’s call for a “Congress
Mukth Bharat” and a decisive mandate for his “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas” agenda.
In these elections Modi entered Delhi seeking votes while Arvind Kejriwal left
to Varanasi to fight Modi for Lok Sabha. Another fact is that majority of AAP
Delhi leadership also moved out of Delhi to contest/campaign Lok Sabha
elections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So the 14% Hindu voters who voted for AAP in 2013 Delhi
elections went to BJP for they preferred Modi than Arvind Kejriwal. This
increased BJP vote share to 46% in Delhi. On the other hand AAP got its vote
share supplemented by two vote banks. First one is the Muslim vote bank.
Muslims are well known to strategically vote as a block to any candidate who has
a chance to defeat BJP candidate. In 2014 elections it became obvious that Modi
is riding a wave and the Muslim vote bank in Delhi realized that Congress has
little chance of winning. So they chose their next best option based on 2013
election results, hence went with AAP. Congress lost 9.5% of its votes in 2014
elections compared to 2013 Delhi elections. In 2014, these three parties
together got 94% of votes, 7% more votes than 2013 elections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>That brings us to 2015 Delhi State Elections.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The electoral landscape
of Delhi changed again for these elections. Modi is acting Prime Minister of
India and Arvind Kejriwal came back to Delhi as CM candidate. As observed in
2013 elections the 14% Hindu voters prefer Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP to a non-Modi
led BJP, so they went back to AAP. Given the utter defeat of Congress in 2014
general elections, the Muslim vote back stayed with AAP for they have the best
chances to defeat BJP candidates. We can see Asaduddin Owaisi MIM’s efforts
from this perspective. Congress party on the other hand continued to lose its
core vote back and transferred another 7% votes to AAP. I think this is the
Christian vote bank, given the Church-vandalism incidents and Obama’s comments
to that extent. Congress is left with hardly 8% votes in these elections. Together
these three parties secured 93% of votes in these elections indicating the
overall electoral space of Delhi did not change between 2014 and 2015
elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Wrong lessons for BJP</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The media and secular intelligentsia is trying to portray
AAP’s victory over BJP as a failure of Modi and is a warning by the nation to
him vis.a.vis Hindutva. They are trying to impose the lessons they want on Modi
Sarkar because they know that Narendra Modi is steering the nation towards an independent
Bharat, free from colonial hangover. Some of these wrong lessons making rounds
in TV studios and Social Media are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Curtail Hindu resurgence and stop reminding the
nation of its Hindu identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Stop reconversions into Hinduism while
ignoring/facilitating Christian Evangelical organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Go slow on Islamic Terror and make peace with
Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All these are wrong lessons for Modi Sarkar and the nation,
for these are mere continuation of colonial rule of India. If BJP goes this
path it will lose its differentiation and becomes Congress party without
Gandhi/Nehru family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is important for BJP to learn right lessons from these
elections because it is not only in the interests of BJP the political party
but in the larger interests of the whole nation, especially 900 million Hindus
who are suffering from the triple colonization of India by Islam, Christianity
and Secularism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Learning RIGHT lessons</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Modi Sarkar is on right path and must continue
with its plan to remove colonial hangover in policy, law and justice, police,
planning and economic agenda.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Modi Sarkar must perform better than AAP
especially in areas like fight against corruption, good governance and
inclusive development. Not just that, it must be able to pass the message as
well as benefits to the common man. When this becomes visible on the ground,
the floating Hindu vote base (14% which is with AAP now) will come back to BJP.
If Modi were to be the candidate of BJP, it would have gotten 46% vote share compared
to AAP’s 39% (53-14%).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BJP must reorganize itself to become a youthful
party. This need not mean it will have to get rid of all these party workers
who are 40+ years old. It will have to push the youth leaders into public and
legislative arena while the seniors contribute in party and policy roles/matters.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BJP must plan to get majority vote (51%) moving
forward. Now that Congress is decimated, all anti-Hindu vote banks will unite
to fight BJP. There will be attempts to splinter Hindu votes on caste/creed
lines but all non-Hindu votes will be focused to defeat BJP candidates.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Telugu patriotic poet Gurajada Apparao said thus “<i>DEsamantE Matti KAdOy, DEsamantE ManushulOy</i>” which means “<i>It is the people who make the
nation, not the soil/land</i>”. So the people must be made to feel proud of their
Hindu identity before this nation becomes a Hindu nation again. This pride
comes only when there are ample real-life examples of successful Indians who
live and assert their Hinduness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>When Modi Sarkar gets rid of corruption,
poverty, filth, unemployment without compromising on its core values; Hindutva
will become cool for hundreds of millions of (now) secularized Hindus</u>. THAT will be
the day India achieves true independence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tathastu!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-19841162053930653492015-02-10T19:31:00.001-05:002015-02-26T14:13:24.820-05:00Playing Obama's game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He came, he hugged, he saw, he said and he left!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modi's government left no stone unturned to make this
unprecedented visit by Barack Obama a grand success. Protocols were set aside (Obama
in his Ghost on Rajpath), legal hurdles (nuclear deal) smoothened and
strategic-relationship turned into personal friendship. All this ended with
Obama's unsolicited advice on India's unity and religious tolerance or lack thereof.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Social media went crazy over Obama's lack of Atidhi-Maryada
(guest's etiquette). World-media ensured
that intolerant nature of Hindu majority is well understood by colonial west
and dictatorial middle eastern kingdoms. Indian intellectuals subtly advised
Modi govt to get rid of RSS and those assertive saffron BJP MPs, if he were to become the darling of leftist, Islamist and evangelical power-network. Some Indian
media divas like Shekhar Gupta went to the extent of attributing BJP's rout in
Delhi city-state elections to this issue alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why this message and
why now?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get a complete picture of the value proposition of India
to the world, please read my earlier blog-post <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-prize-that-is-india.html">The
Prize – That is India</a>. As many studies (every notable
strategic/economic/consulting firm has a study on this) indicate India is
poised to spend at least $1 trillion on infrastructure development over next
decade, in addition to more than $100B on defense acquisitions. On top of this,
if Modi’s call of “Make in India” were to succeed, India will need another $2 trillion
to train and employ 150+million labor force that currently employed in Agricultural sector [<i>see table below</i>]. This is the rationale behind Modi’s FDI (Foreign
Direct Investment to First Develop India) slogan. These numbers may sound astounding
to some but over 10 years all these investments amount to hardly 10% of
India’s GDP. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modi, as soon as his election as Prime Minister of India,
went on a world-wide tour seeking investments and transfer of technology
selling India’s growth story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modi had to politely set aside <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/China-to-invest-100-billion-in-India-over-5-years/articleshow/42386772.cms">China’s
offer of up to $100B investments</a> for this offer came with caveats that require India compromising
on its territorial integrity, national security and absorbing Chinese manufactured products undermining the ‘Make In India’ initiative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Russia’s <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2869167/Sanctions-hit-Putin-visits-India-boost-energy-trade-ties.html">Putin
visited India in December 2014 and signed 20 bilateral agreements</a> estimated
at $100B over next decade or so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japan, Australia, Singapore and EU wanted to partner with
Modi’s “Make In India” vision for they see Indian economy as a stable and
profitable opportunity for their aging economies and inefficient pension funds.
But all these nations needed their big brother, USA’s, approval before they can
make any financial or technology commitments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Modi’s meeting with Obama in
USA set the stage for strategic alignment of India with USA, then Obama’s India
visit was supposed to be the culmination of that partnership. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is why Modi's government left no stone unturned to make
this unprecedented visit by Barack Obama a grand success. But there is one
important thing that USA (and Europe) needed from Modi’s India before they can trust
India and start investments; Modi's compromise on the civilizational identity of India. To
understand this equation, please read my blog-post <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-fight-2014-elections.html">The
Fight – 2014 Elections</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The essence of that article is simple. A resurgent Hindu
Bharat is a civilizational threat to Abrahamic USA and Europe. USA and Europe
(along with their Asian partners) cannot and will not invest in and empower India
unless it severs its ties with Bharat, the civilizational India. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is why decades old #Gharwapasi is brought into media
glare, few cases of Church arson were presented as harassment of
religious minorities in India (forgotten are the continuous attacks of Christian missionaries on Hindu temples and culture) culminating in Obama’s unsolicited advice on religious
tolerance as precondition for India’s territorial integrity. The secular Media
started spinning the electoral victory of Aam Admi Party (which got more votes
from those very Hindus who overwhelmingly voted for Modi just 9 months ago than all the minorities in Delhi combined) as
a warning shot to Modi to denounce his Hindutva identity and politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is Bharat worth it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next logical question is “Is Bharat Worth It?”. Do we
need to protect Bharat at the cost of leaving India poor, weak and unworthy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let’s look at the alternatives first!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should India convert amass into Islam and evolve into world’s
largest Islamic nation? Will this make Pakistan and Bangladesh redundant and
lead to unification of Indian sub-continent. Then why did Bangladesh separate
from Pakistan to begin with? Did Pakistan/Bangladesh’s Islamic identity lead to
wealth, strength and international stature that India is seeking? The reality
is right in-front of us staring into our eyes thru the mirror of Islamic State!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or should India convert amass into Christianity and evolve
into world’s largest Christian nation? Will this alone turn India into a
wealthy, strong and world-power? What happened to all those African nations
which converted into Christianity? Why are they still reeling in filth, poverty
and sickness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do we do now? Perhaps our ancestors realized this question a long time
ago. How else can we fathom the untold sufferings of hundred+ generations of
our ancestors who fought and withstood the double colonization of Bharat by
Islam and Christianity just to save our Bharatiya identity? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/WGM%20-%20Review%20Packet%2007112013.pdf" target="_blank">Studies</a> indicate that India pulled more than 200 million Indians out of poverty in the past 20 years (since 1991). That means we can get the remaining 350m poor out of poverty and can </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">grow wealthy, strong and powerful on our own in next 20-30 years. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What glory there is on earth than we becoming rich, healthy
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does it mean we have to make enemies out of the Obama’s of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not necessarily. There is a Bharatiya way out of this
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Playing Obama’s Game<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before we play this game, we need to understand the game.
Please read my blogpost <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/08/usa-vedic-civilization-on-abrahamic.html">USA
– A Vedic Civilization on Abrahamic Foundations</a> to understand the rules of
the game. In the USA, the state enforces the rules of the game while
Christianity remains the foundation of that society. Similarly India too can
realign itself in such a way that Govt of India enforces the rules of the game
while Hinduism remains the foundation of our society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How would such a game play out?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Modi welcomes Obama’s comments while subtly reminding the world about India’s
painful past under Islamic and Christian colonizations. Then Modi changes India’s
laws & governance structures to closely reflect the systems of USA/West. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Define Ashrama-Vyavastha as it is how in the USA
and enforce it by rule of law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Define Varna-Vyavastha as it is how in the USA and
enforce it by rule of law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Equip the justice system to process cases within
reasonable timeline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Thoroughly desensitize Law and Order apparatus of
religious sensitivities and prosecute Church/Temple/Mosque attacks as per the
law. Give multi-life sentences to the culprits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Redefine Educational and National Policy
institutions based on Hindu foundations of India. Shun out Leftist
intellectuals from educational and national policy institutions following the
footsteps of Joseph McCarthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Ban foreign funded NGOs on national security
grounds. Or at least tax them at the highest rate possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Ban public and religious slaughter of animals on
health and civic sense grounds. Establish and enforce strict animal rights laws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Release Hindu temples out of government control
and a put all these properties under a private national fund for Hindu temples
& organizations. Most conservative estimates put the value of these
properties at $100B. Pay this Hindu fund $5B/Year as reparations for next
10 years. Allow Hindus to run private religious educational and medical
institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Enforce absolute freedom of speech. Allow Indian
media to run various investigative and historical shows on Abrahamic faiths
like The Borgias, The Tudors, Secrets of Vatican etc., <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Enforce absolute freedom of propagation of
faith. Allow Hindu #Gharwapasi while allowing Christian/Muslim conversions
(minus foreign funds).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>Build huge museums for Islamic genocide of
Hindus and Christian genocide of Hindus and dedicate them to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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media team should present each of these measures comparing them with corresponding
US laws so there is little confusion within and without. Simply put "</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bharat is Hindu America!"</b></div>
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nothing to complain about Bharat’s pluralism for the state is thoroughly
separated from religion and is governed by nothing but rule of law and pursuit
of liberty and (individual as well as national) happiness. </span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-65352315576434888552015-01-13T08:03:00.001-05:002015-01-13T08:16:58.841-05:00Why do Muslims kill people?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The other day my niece asked me "Why do Muslims kill
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How to explain it to a 15 year old about how Muslims are come to be and behave they way they do? This is how that dialogue went.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Imagine when you wake up tomorrow morning, your sister reaches
out to you and says, hey I gave you 100 bucks last night and you promised to
give them back today. Can you please give my money back? You would be like
what$ at first, then ask her when and where she gave you 100 bucks. Imagine she
tells you that she gave you the money in her dream last night and you promised
to give it back in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What will you do? At first you laugh at her. If she keeps insisting
you call her crazy. As you debate with her she starts getting abusive and
that’s when you call your parents. Imagine she insists you return the money or
she will hurt you and you know she is serious. As time passes and you resist to
succumb, your sister gets more and more abusive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece:</b> That's crazy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: May be for you. But your sister sincerely believes that she is
right and is throwing rage fits, throwing stuff at you and your parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: Perhaps we give her Rs.100 and get over it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Yes, that is one option. In such scenario she is happy and will
calm down for today, but tomorrow is a new day and asks for 200 and the cycle
continues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: If she does this again, I will slap her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: What if she gets increasingly abusive, irrespective of your
response for she not only believes that she did give you money in her dream,
but also believes that you are always wrong and are born liar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: I don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: This is called Drishti-Srishti vada in Hindu Vedanta. You claim
something to be true because you perceived something; be it in awaken state or
dream state or schizophrenic state. This is what exactly happened with Islam.
Muhammed claimed that Allah spoke to him and only to him all those things in
Quran. Unfortunately Allah didn't speak to anyone else to double-confirm what he
told Muhammed (this will be un-Islamic by the way). And Muhammed insisted that
he is the last guy Allah is ever going to talk to. And Muslims believe that
whatever is in Quran is exactly what Allah said to Muhammed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: How do you know, did you read Quran?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Yes. Never believe anyone. Quran is hardly 500+ page book,
smaller than your Harry Potter book. You should read it for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: What did Muhammed say in Quran?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Muhammed says that only Allah is the God. And Muhammed is his
last prophet. The universe is created for Muslims to enjoy in the path of
Muhammed and non-Muslims are born sinners and liars. And that it is every
Muslim's duty to convert or kill non-Muslims so one day the whole humanity is full
of Muslims (who accept Muhammed & Quran) and nothing but Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: Does Islam tells Muslims to kill others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Muhammed himself killed and raped women as he spread Islam. He
killed children (by our definition). He had slaves. And Quran says everything
is fine in the path of converting non-Muslims in to Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: Did Muhammed say to kill children?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Islam says that anyone who entered puberty is an adult and can
be raped/killed. That is why they killed those school children in Pakistan
recently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: Wait, why did they kill the children?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Because the parents of those children, Pakistan Army, were bombing/killing
those Muslims who want to spread Islam. So the children of Pakistan Army are
enemies of Islam and those who achieved puberty are considered as enemies of
Islam and were killed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In fact Muhammed himself has killed children who had pubic hair in Banu Qurayza, an encounter with Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: So even a Muslim who fights against fellow Muslims are enemies
of Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Yes, because the ultimate goal of every Muslim is to establish
Islam over entire humanity. This is Jihad. In that path any obstacle is
considered enemy of Islam and can be killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: That means, normal Muslims who don't actively do Islam with
others are Bad Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me</b>: Unfortunately, yes! If you believe in Islam & don't do your
Islamic duty, you aren't a true Muslim. This is like your sister calling your
parents who took your side as liars for calling her dream falsehood. Anyone who
denies her dream, in this case Islam, are liars, enemies & suitable for
killing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another interesting point is, the Pakistani Army which appears to
be a Moderate Muslim in this scenario itself is guilty of genocide
of non-Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh in addition to using Terrorism
as a tool to hurt its enemies such as India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So as far as non-Muslims are concerned, they are enemies of Islam
irrespective of how good/bad Muslim you are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: So Muslims must convert or kill non-Muslims if they want to be
true to Muhammed & Quran. But why are we told Muslims are good?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then she will get irritated and if you continue further she will be upset and
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What will your Muslim friend say when you say "Hey Ayisha,
you look, talk & behave same as I do. You even dislike Muslim terrorists.
You too must be a Hindu inside!".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My niece</b>: I think she will be offended if I call her a Hindu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-19047789879627689852014-09-30T20:36:00.004-04:002014-11-06T10:34:58.554-05:00Modi's speech at Madison Square Garden!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a case for India to be the leader of 21st century, not China</b>. For this he put
3-D value proposition (Democracy, Demography (young nation) and Demand). This
is a direct hint to American businessmen. This week’s Hong Kong demonstrations
proved that China’s democracy is weak; China is getting old (by 2030 – another
15yrs, china will start getting old) and China’s weak internal consumption (its
economy is export economy and not consumer economy like India). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hinting American industries to invest in and work with Indians</b>. He made few
points to this effect – Asking Indians to return (this will weaken American
companies that depend upon India), Hinting that India will need 2kinds of FDIs
(Foreign Direct Investment must First Develop India) and also visa on arrival
for Americans. He is kind of saying imagine you have New York and San Francisco
offices then add Madurai office also. You can travel to these offices within
the day because I am developing smarts cities etc., Imagine what happens if 50%
of skilled NRIs return. These will be 1 million (10 Lakhs) high tech jobs which
make >$100K (Rs 60 Lakhs) per yr. You are looking at $100Billion (6 Lakh
Crores) revenues to India every year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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industries Modi is trying to pitch to America are – Tourism</b> (Yoga/Hindu places
– <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/american-yoga_n_2251360.html" target="_blank">there are ~20 million Yoga practitioners in USA</a> – imagine they visit India
every year/two yrs. It will be $20+ Billion/120,000 crore tourism industry),
<b>Technology </b>and <b>Education</b>. He knows that the biggest problems in realizing this
potential is <b>(1) Visa/Governance</b>– Hence Visa on Arrival <b>(2) Cleanliness</b> – Lack
of public involvement in cleanliness, hence Swaccha Bharat plan <b>(3) Skilled Human Resources</b> - Hence Education/Skill Development programs <b>(4) Cultural Heritage</b> – Hence “Har Har Gange” Plan (for Yogis) <b>(5) Civic Amenities </b>– Hence Smart cities and so on..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(scientist-professional-business) collaboration that worked very well in USA to
India. He is going to develop India as Bharat; not some Philippines or South
Korea or Malaysia</b> (notice his mention of them developing as someone else).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-82160298527732918502014-08-16T11:39:00.002-04:002014-08-16T11:39:54.692-04:00USA: A Vedic Civilization on Abrahamic Foundations?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">US is like a Vedic civilization with Abrahamic foundations. For a moment let's forget how it came to existence & call it a Pralaya for Natives.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />What I see is following patterns (again at a large scale) with exceptions...<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />1. Varna Vyavastha<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The intellectual class (whoever opts it) are given all state support needed in their pursuit of knowledge (research funds, labs and what not) but are kept barely above BPL in terms of personal wealth.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Kshatriya class has strong hold on enforcing this entire Varna-Vyavastha. It also has unquestioned say in the national resources<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Vaisya class is allowed to accumulate wealth and as a tool to extend US interests. But even this so powerful Vaisya class is allowed to be free only as long as the profits flow back home. This class is ruthlessly curtailed if/when they try to build a center outside of core US.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Sudra class is kept in an extremely well orchestrated bliss of materialistic pleasures. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />2. Individual freedoms - as long as the individual is moving in the prescribed order of Varna/Ashrama Vyavastha the individual is given lot of freedoms be it in terms of right to bear arms, or sex or pursuit of & access to materialistic excesses.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />3. Ashrama Vyavastha - the Balya avastha was enforced by forced schooling upto highschool (?). The Brahmacharya (higher education in this society) is made in such a way that by the time an individual comes out of it, he has enough debts (assuming no parental support) that he will remain in debts for rest of life. The whol Grihastha Ashrama is about working for retirement & paying debts of Brahmacharya. The retirement is more of a solitary contemplation in retirement homes with little association with family & society.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />4. Environment/animal rights - even here the environment & animal rights are sustained and supported only as long as they do not come in the way of their Abrahamic foundations. Hurting a dog is animal rights but slaughtering of billions of cattle, turkey's etc for food is completely ok. A time magazine report a few months ago reported that all native species have seen a remarkable turnaround and are now in more numbers than they ever were in 200 yrs.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For an Indian (or any immigrant for that matter) the Abrahamic foundations are not visible and are kept away from the highways and malls that the immigrants visit. So the immigrant only sees the Vedic structures and fall for the underlying Abrahamic traps</span></div>
RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-74066005778293448442014-07-31T22:37:00.002-04:002014-07-31T22:37:44.127-04:00Geopolitics V2.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every empire must end. But the sun setting empire can, and often does, select who will be its successor. We could see this throughout the history.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is said that Britain identified USA as its successor empire after WW1 and passed on the baton to USA after WW2. Eventhough USA was once a British colony and fought a violent war of independence, the British empire thought USA to be a more 'natural' successor to the empire than say Russia.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Even USA as the sole superpower after Cold War, it started propping up China as its potential successor if chips fall down and we started seeing the G2 scenarios evolved in past decade.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If we the world map we can see two set of groupings, more like compatible civilizations. In the east we have Russia, China, India and Japan. In the west we have USA, Europe, Britain and Canada. The Brazils of South America are same as the Austraila/Newzealand of Asia; at best They are representatives of outside block in the core pool. Canada is to west as Russia as to east; a vast territory with lot of natural resources but very small local populations. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The melting pot is the ME region and Africa. The colonial hangover (of last two empires - British & USA) is currently holding them in Western control, while their real value proposition is for East. West is trying to harass and delay raise of East by holding on to the two USP's of ME, namely Oil and Islam. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Given this background, it is not only natural but also desirable that the Asian group makes much needed compromises in their internal dynamics before one of them can take the baton from the west as the next empire. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The key sore points in this equation are Pakistan, Indo-China border issues, Energy security, China-Japan and Japan-Russia border issues etc., None of the Asian group powers can become the next empire without solving these issues. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Can China trust India to be a natural successor for it when the time comes? Will China benefit to have India as its successor empire than say Turkey?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />What can be done to this end? Following are some suggestions.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- China cuts its relationships with Pakistan and supports India's pursuit to take over PoK. China also gives up its claims on Aksai-Chin. This will severe the Islamic corridor between Pakistan & Xinjiang and distance China from Islamic nuicense.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- Russia and China extend their proposed Oil/Gas pipeline network into Burma/Inda thru Yunnan province. This will be connected to India's own Oil/Gas grid in North-East India.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- India develops a undersea Oil/Gas pipeline from Iran and connects it to the Russia-China grid. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- This will setup a Oil/Gas network stretching from Iran-India-China-Russia-Japan. This will connect two major suppliers with three major customers. At current rates this is a $500-600B energy grid completely liberating Asia from Western energy politics. India & China can balance each other supply routes by controlling their grids.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- Once cut from their Asian markets the ME islam can be turned to focus on their western frontiers like they did during crusades. Europe & USA will be natural places for Islamist hordes to enjoy the fruits of civilization.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />- This will force West to use Pakistan as the spoiler of Asian game. But surrounded by the entire Asian group on all four sides Pakistan will not last more than a week and cease to exist as an western agent.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This will move the frontiers of Asian group to Africa and Australia for the next round of geopolitics.</span></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-65175013517157857932014-05-27T10:59:00.000-04:002014-05-27T10:59:39.042-04:00A quick analysis of Modi Cabinet!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am grouping the ministers into different groups<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 1: Seniors, long-time party loyalists</b>., People I wish
didn't get into the cabinet, because I think this is a Modi Sarkar and not BJP Sarkar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Arun Jaitley: Defence, Finance, Corporate Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. DV Sadananda Gowda: Railways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Prakash Javadekar-Information and Broadcasting
(Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 2: The Dynamites</b> (People who can push Hindutva agenda
unapologetically if needed)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Uma Bharati: Water Resmy ces, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 3: The Get'it done'ers</b> (Task Masters).. My Dream
Team... I want these types in key areas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information
Technology, Law and Justice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj,
Drinking Water and Sanitation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 4: The Dynamic lot</b>. My Dream Team... The new comers I love...
I want the whole cabinet is filled with these<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resmy ce Development<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Piyush Goyal-Power (Independent Charge),Coal (Independent
Charge),New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman- Commerce and Industry
(Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. General V.K. Singh - Development of North Eastern Region
(Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 5: Party poopers</b> (in my highly biased opinion based on
Paid Media reports. My sincere apologies to them). I wish they are pushed aside
completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 6: I don't know them'ers</b>. So I presume (again with
bias) they are so..so<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labmy and Employment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas
(Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao- Planning (Independent Charge),
Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), ]Defence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar- Textiles (Independent
Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resmy ces, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik- Culture (Independent Charge), Tmy
ism (Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas
(Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal - Skill Development,
Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. Dr. Jitendra Singh - Science and Technology (Independent
Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel,
Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of
Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara - Civil Aviation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14. Shri Manoj Sinha - Railways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15. Shri Nihalchand- Chemicals and Fertilizers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16. Shri Upendra Kushwaha - Rural Development, Panchayati
Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17. Shri Radhakrishnan P - Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18. Shri Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19. Shri Krishan Pal - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Agriculture, Food Processing
Industries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava - Tribal Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve - Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai - Mines, Steel, Labmy and Employment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat - Social Justice and Empowerment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 7: I miss them</b> What happened???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Amit Shah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Meenakshi Lekhi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Nalin Kohli<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Shaina NC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Group 8: My favorite oldies </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Subbu Swamy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Arun Shmy ie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. MJ Akbar??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Rajiv Malhotra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Baba Ramdev<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Sri Sri Ravi Sankar....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adding Modi (he himself is == to 10 cabinet ministers; so the
total Cabinet strength is 50 ), I got
20/50 ministers in my Dream Team (Groups
3&4 Plus Modi). About 6/50 are BJP Seniors and 24/50 are I-don’t-know them
types. Assuming 50% of Group-6 passed Modi's selection process my Dream team is about 30/50 that is 60% of
cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Group 1 is important for they ensure the party BJP and
its core is in firm control of the political dispensation. These people went
thru many ups and downs with the party and developed a long institutional
memory. Combined with Group 2 on certain initiatives they can make the
yindootva-fundamentalists very happy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Group 2 is very much needed for the REAL freedom of
Bharat from the triple colonization (Islamic, Christian & Secular). I wish I
have two more people in this group but I hope a couple from Group 1 will
provide issue-based support to Group 2. This is the group that will make sure
that Ram Mandir, A370, UCC etc are not forgotten in my pursuit of creating wealth, lots of it. Who
knows, in right circumstances Group-5 can become martyrs for the right causes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I can see majority of Group 6 are from coalition
partners, which I need to respect because I want the BJP alliance to do well
throughout the country. So I need to live with this 10/50 (the other 50%
qualified into my Dream Team) that 20%
of coalition Dharma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't find more than 3-4/50 people in Group 5 (Once
again this is my highly biased and prejudiced opinion reading the Paid Media.
My advanced apologies to them). So this is less than 10% of the cabinet strength.
This kind of people can cause harm only when the "Silent Majority" is
Secular. Given the fact that I have my dream team in majority, they will behave like
good citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This brings us to the missing names!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope Group 7 has been given much larger tasks than I can
imagine, hence are kept out of this cabinet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personally I hope my favorite Amit Shah joins the team
officially. He is the ideal candidate for defense ministry given the
challenge-quadrant: (1) External Threats, (2) Force Development, (3) >$100B
procurement in next 5 yrs and (4) building MIC from bottom up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a personal fan of many of Group-8 candidates. But I
think they, with lots of respect to them, will be failures in a cabinet setting.
I think they should be used to educate, convince and change the national
perspectives on some larger-than-one-administration issues such as (sic)
Secularism, UCC, A370, calling my nation
as Bharat instead of slavish-India etc.,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Overall I will give this cabinet 8/10 marks.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Swasti!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-34862283132488762102014-04-08T19:04:00.002-04:002014-04-08T19:04:46.440-04:00The Roadmap<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Part 1: </span><a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-prize-that-is-india.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Prize - That is India</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Part 2: <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-fight-2014-elections.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Fight - 2014 Elections!</a></span></div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Food
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If there is one sad story
about India, it must be the nation’s failure to achieve food security. Food
security doesn’t end with a nation’s ability to produce food grains but its ability
to ensure all its citizens can afford and access those food grains and are free
from hunger and malnutrition. India’s gross food grain production [1] alone can
ensure that all 1.4 billion Indians can get an average food intake of 2000
calories. Add this to fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat products and the
nation should have a highly nutritious food security. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While it is true that India
achieved food-grain self-sufficiency, majority of Indians are still far from
free from hunger and malnutrition. No, it not the fault of the geography nor
the fault of primitive farming techniques or the illiterate farmers. Even with
all those inefficiencies India achieved self-sufficiency in food grain
production; but it is the fault of successive governments and the administrative
structures that failed to achieve food security for all Indians. Fortunately
governance and administration is much easier problems to solve than adding
arable land or significantly improving crop yields in short duration. In the
first phase, the next government should introduce world-class food-product
supply-chain technologies and processes in food collection, storage,
processing, marketing and supply to India. Key aspect of this strategy is to
establish the supply-chain infrastructure that makes entire India into one
single food-market thus removing regional price imbalances. This will help both
producers and consumers while significantly reducing wastage of perishable
goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another aspect of Indian
agro-sector is that almost in every crop type the average yield achieved in
India is significantly lower than the best in the world yield rates[2]. Just by
improving the yield to half of world record levels, India can more than double it’s
agro-output or reduce its ecological footprint for its food security by nearly
half. By achieving these yield levels, India can save nearly 500,000 Sq.KM
arable area, nearly the size of Ukraine, for future generations. This in turn
will make India’s water, eco-system security a reality. In the second phase the
government should identify achievable yield-goals for each crop variety and
build necessary research, industrial, training facilities to achieve those
goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the third phase the government can identify and convert
excess arable-land to produce bio-energy, renewable timber thus transforming
agriculture into next generation renewable industry. These measures will bring
the inflation down, introduce much needed technological and process
efficiencies into this sector and most importantly facilitate smooth movement
of human resources into industrial sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second problem area for India’s future growth is energy
security. As far back as 1950s, Indian visionaries such as Dr. Homi Bhabha
realized this challenge when they formulated three-stage nuclear programme.
Indian policy makers knew all along that they will have to rely on foreign
energy suppliers if they follow the same technologies of energy rich nations.
Yet they consistently failed to dedicate enough national resources in pursuing
an independent and sustainable energy roadmap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In order to improve its economy, industry and HDI India will
need significant amount of energy resources. If India with its $1900B GDP is
currently importing energy resources worth ~$100B, we can only imagine the
energy requirements as India’s GDP grows to say $20T economy by 2030. It is not
simply a question of affordability of these energy resources for India, but the
real question is availability and sustainability of these energy sources. There
is no glory in becoming a $20T economy if that cannot be sustained for a long
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is where India needs to set its national vision very
clear and ensure that this vision is realized. India need to identify various
energy sources that it can domestically develop and sustain to meet 90% of its
requirements by 2030. There is no point running behind the strategies and
technologies of another nation that were built on that nation’s, not India’s,
strengths. India need to pursue those energy sources and technologies that it
can use to achieve self-reliance in addition to create national wealth by
exporting them to other energy starving nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">India should identify various non-crude based energy sources
and focus its research and development capabilities in those areas to make them
technically and economically viable solutions; be it is nuclear or solar or
hydrogen based energy economy. A mix of technologies can fulfil India’s energy
needs, even at developed economy levels, in a sustainable manner. For example a
mix of grid-connected solar energy for domestic use, nuclear and coal power for
industrial and infrastructure usage and hydro-electricity to support demand
peaks and hydrogen & bio-fuel based automotive industry can significantly
reduce India’s dependency on imported energy in addition to creating technologies that can generate valuable export
opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Key aspects to development of industrial infrastructure are
access to capital, technology and human resources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As explained before Indians will save nearly $4T in next
five years and majority of that can be made available for development of
industrial infrastructure by using a mix of policies and financial instruments.
For example GOI (with the help of RBI) can reduce the interest rates on other
savings and fixed deposits to say 5% APR (slightly lower than inflation rate)
while starting a 10 year infrastructure bond that yields say 8% APR (This can
be inflation adjusted with no maximum limit). Assuming GOI can attract 25% of
national savings into such Infra bonds, it can generate $1T of capital for
Infrastructure development. Assuming an 8% GDP growth and 10% tax revenues, GOI
can make a positive return on these investments even after paying 8% interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Such a low yield on savings and fixed deposits will reduce
interest rates banks charge for industrial/business loans thus making this
sector competitive in international markets. It is important to understand that
western financial markets are designed to get maximum return for their local
investors and add significant premiums on FDIs using various nomenclature to
complicate the risk profile of destination country. That is how even unrelated
things like HDI, perception of religious freedom also included in such rating
calculations. By channeling Indian savings to Indian financial & industrial
sectors the profits can also be kept within India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The second aspect is access to Technology. There is no easy
way for India on this except innovation, strategic acquisitions and trial and
error. The good news is that India should be able to acquire all technologies
that it needs to develop the basic industrial infrastructure thru outright
technology transfer purchases and strategic acquisitions. The technology
requirements for India of 2025-2050 must come from indigenous innovation and
international partnerships. The national leadership must prepare necessary
policy framework for each of these different goals and allocate necessary
resources, financial as well as human resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That brings us to the third aspect of national infrastructure
that is a national pool of quality human resources. As a mix of first
(Agriculture) and second (Industrial) wave economy, India has much to do in
this area. A previous analysis [3] estimated that India will have to spend
nearly $2T to train and transform majority of its existing agricultural labor
force into manufacturing sector. This can be planned in the first phase
(2014-2025) while the nation builds the necessary infrastructure to build the
national human resource pool that are educated, trained to innovate and
enterprise. A new education system, different from the educational paradigm
India followed so far, with emphasis on critical thinking and innovation is a
must to build the necessary human resource pool of next century. It is this
human resource pool that will lead and implement the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup>
phases of food and energy security roadmap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Civic infrastructure is the realm where Indians would enjoy the
fruits of their hard work in the form of roads, housing, water supply,
electricity, recreation, civic amenities and hospitals etc. This is the
structure that supports the Indian nation to provide and achieve highest levels
of Human Development Indicators. The necessary technology, industry and human
resources are already available in India as we can see in the some of the
modern communities build in various cities. The missing link is a planned and
standardized implementation of development plans. An effective and efficient
government can remove the lethargy in the administrative system and build a
sound civic infrastructure throughout India with 10 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The government has to not only provide this
multi-dimensional infrastructure but also ensure that all these places of
social interaction remain secure for all Indians. This is where a key aspect of
governance, Internal Security, comes into picture. India has no dearth of
external challenges. Unfortunately the successive Congress governments allowed
these external challenges creep into internal society in the form of various
interest groups. Over years these interest groups developed their own
mafia-like networks stoking communal, social and economic tensions costing the
nation enormously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The final aspect of Civic infrastructure is rule of law and
delivery of justice. There should be clarity and reassurance to all Indians
that the law will treat all Indians same irrespective of their personal
networks and ideologies. The next government must bring in a Uniform Civil Code
so there is no confusion between Indians on how their social interactions
should be conducted and will be viewed by rule of law. The second part of this
governance aspect is delivery of justice. Over decades delivery of justice
became a joke with even simplest civil cases taking decades and criminal cases
taking so long that many complete their punishment as under-trials. The next
government must bring in necessary structures and resources such that any
(civil or criminal) case is resolved within one year, with very few exceptions
in extreme cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The founding fathers of independent India made the first
misstep in our foreign policy by denying the millennia old existence and
accumulated energy of Bharatiya civilization and limiting its imagination to a
very constrained western-idea of India. This is like putting an elephant in a
rat-cage and it made both India and its observers very imbalanced over decades.
Even with all its poverty, illiteracy, abysmal infrastructure and heavily
constrained military, India is ranked fourth in National Power Index by
International Futures Model [4]. Yet neither Indian society nor the industry or
the government conduct themselves in a manner suitable to its national power. The
elephant doesn’t know its potential and is behaving like a rat running on a
pointless running-wheel and the nations observing this are very scared of this
running elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next political dispensation must re-educate the whole
nation for what it truly is; a civilization that withstood 1400 years of double
colonization and yet stood victorious and strong. India, as the latest
transformation of that great civilization Bharat, has its natural destiny as
world intellectual leader. This nation’s foreign policy must come this
self-awareness. Such assertive foreign policy is not only necessary for Indians
but in the best interests of the world. India cannot be a willing candidate for
another round of overt/covert colonization with all its 1.2 billion population
and economic potential for it will invite other world powers to compete for
this crown jewel and may cause next world war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once India defines a foreign policy fit to its national
posture many, other nations will follow India’s lead in becoming truly
independent civilizations. That in itself will lead to a multi-polar world and
a mutually respecting Vasudhaika Kutumbam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A key aspect of national power that is often lost in
translation its ecological security. This includes flora fauna in addition to
quality of air, water resources and their sustenance. The nation cannot survive
for long when the ecology around it is destroyed. A sound ecological system
also reduces the in-direct economic costs of other economic pursuits of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Securing the ecology of a nation also includes protection
and preservation of native and natural crops and their natural genetic
evolution. While it is very tempting to encash a sudden opportunity that arises
from a genetically modified seed/crop, as a nation we have a responsibility to
our future generations to pass on the natural ecosystem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">India must develop an ecological blueprint that safeguards
the national forests, animal species, crops, water resources and river systems
etc and interconnect them in such a way that the animal and bird migrations are
unhindered by human growth and development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With a long-term vision, careful planning and
meticulous execution India can set aside ~40 of its land area to have
interconnected eco-system that acts as the natural incubator for human
evolution, sustenance and more than anything happiness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">***</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Resources:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1783488927"></span><span id="goog_1783488928"></span>[1] <a href="http://www.agrioutlookindia.ncaer.org/news/news-jul-2013.pdf%20" target="_blank">India Food grain production estimates for 2012-13 </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India#Output" target="_blank">Agricultural Output in India in comparison with worlds most productive</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">[3] <a href="http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=848924#p848924" target="_blank">Cost of retraining and employing Agricultural labor force in manufacturing industry</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">[4] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Power_Index" target="_blank">National Power Index</a></span></div>
RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-55657633191381028262014-04-01T15:17:00.000-04:002014-04-01T15:17:09.345-04:00The Fight - 2014 Elections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Part 1: <a href="http://bharata-bhuti.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-prize-that-is-india.html" target="_blank">The Prize - That is India</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the core of this elections
is the fight between the forces that lionize and facilitate Western
Universalism (a.k.a Abrahamism) take over of India’s future and those forces
that want to define Indian identity, ethos and economy firmly based on its
native civilizational foundations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Both sides of this battle
have their own strengths & weaknesses. Neither of them can win this clash of ideas </span></span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">conclusively</span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">without absolute support of Indian nation and its human
and natural resources as the scales are finally tipping in favor of India;
hence this no holds barred fight for 2014 elections.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A very interesting point is
that even though these elections are fought in a multiparty democratic setup,
one cannot guarantee that this elections will ensure the survival of that very
democracy in its classical sense. Based on who wins this election and what kind
of mandate they get from Indian citizenry, the winners may be tempted to
permanently alter this equation in their favor. One must thank the illiterate
and poor Indians to keep the playing field open & fair for these opposing
world-views thus far, giving the nationalists a fighting chance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is these underlying
long-term civilizational currents that are manifesting into various key issues
raised in this election.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Economy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the first 45 years since
its transfer of power from colonial powers, India treaded a Socialistic
economic path. Then in 1990s it changed its economic direction to Market
economy. While the first model ensured that India remained poor, the second
model made its rich get richer. The proof of this reality lies in UPA
governments’ near back-breaking economic-security packages doled out to the
disadvantaged sections in order to ensure the social pressure wouldn't blow the
lid. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Given the fact that the
winning political dispensation will determine how to channel more than $1T tax
revenues directly and over >$4T national savings indirectly (thru economic
policy) in next five years, it will determine who the real beneficiaries are
and to what civilizational ends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;">The incumbent Congress party
is hell bent on continuing on its current path for it will give the selected
elite the freedom to exploit the national wealth while ensuring the majority is
securely under its (kleptocratic) control thru various family-named dole
programs. This alliance, if comes to power, will make India's economic
environment as an (controlled) extension of western economic system so its
political network can benefit disproportionately and make sure that the hold
over Indian resource flow by international business networks remains
unchallenged. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The main opposition party,
BJP, wants to change this model to a more inclusive economic model. If its
promises are fulfilled, it will transform the national resources into an
economic infrastructure that can be tapped by all Indians alike. This is meant
to give Indians the much needed incentive to innovate and enterprise; a
paradigm that this civilization set aside as part of its war-constitution it
put in place almost 1400 years ago to fight multiple waves of Abrahamic
invasions. If this alliance comes to power, we can expect establishment of
& state-support for native business networks that not only ensure a secured
access of resources to Indians but also bring them into India’s national power
spectrum.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there is the
manufactured Anarchic Agents Party in the guise of Aam Admi Party. Based on
available reports, this party is led by NGO owners who are propped, promoted
(using various awards) & funded by various western organizations and
intelligence agencies. There is no defined economic policy or vision for this
party for now, except disturbing any and every idea that is not in western
interests (hence Anarchic Agents) by manufacturing public dissidence as its
member NGOs have done in Kudankulam, Narmada River Project etc.,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This became the second most
important issue in this elections primarily for two reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First is the blatant and
universal nature of corruption & mis-governance demonstrated by two
successive UPA administrations leading to absolute disillusionment & electoral
anger in Indian public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second is availability &
demonstration of corruption free & efficient governance offered by Modi
administration in the state of Gujarat during the same period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These two visibly opposing
reasons gave the Indian citizens of other states a clear picture of not only
what they have been missing all these years but also a readily available and
proven solution for them to get a corruption free good governance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The emergence of AAP party
must be seen in this background. This party is nothing but a manufactured mask
of an alliance of internal & external powers that want to stop/deny Indian
majority from directly electing Modi's BJP against the corrupt Congress-system.
This is because a Modi victory is not just a political defeat for Congress but
loss of hold on larger civilizational resources for these international trade
networks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">AAP’s charade against
corruption and its proposed solution of anarchy falls flat upon close analysis
because the Modi government has already proven that good governance is a
leadership issue and not a structural issue as AAP. You don't have to bulldoze
your entire house to vacate a bully tenant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Secularism is yet another
experiment of Indian society that failed to prove any tangible value so far.
The cruel joke it played on India is that even after 40 years of its inclusion
in constitution of India by an emergency government without any due process, no
one in India knows for sure what it means and what value it meant to provide to
its stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are three angles to
this Secularism question in the context of this election. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first dimension of
Secularism is religious dimension and it influence on definition and vision of
India’s identity. Secularism gives equal say to all three major systems Hinduism, Christianity and Islam </span></span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in defining and pursuing Indian Interests</span><span style="color: #2f5597; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">.
This means Indian Christians with their minuscule 3% population and Indian
Muslims with their 15% population will get equal vote in defining Indian
Interests same as the Hindus that make 80% of the nation. Another aspect of this
equation is the disproportional international power links Christianity and
Islam bring in to bear upon India. This is where definition of Indian Interests
gets hijacked by Christian and Islamic interests leaving 80% of Indians high
and dry in protecting their native civilization.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second dimension is
economic & civic infrastructure. Secularism, by definition, gives into the sway of more organized and disruptive faith systems. One
type of these forces is what we have seen in Kudankulam protests. This
anti-nuclear agitation was aimed at partnerships with Russia (alone), were majorly funded by
Western Christian organizations and were conducted by internal Evangelical
organizations. Another type of these forces is what India has seen in JK terror attacks and
11/26 Mumbai attacks. In both cases the national economic and civic
infrastructure was held hostage by religiously motivated group while secularism
failed to resolve these challenges in the national interests. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #2f5597;">The third aspect of secular
debate is Law and Order. Secularism does not have any well-defined role and
mandate when it comes to law and order issues involving religiously motivated
groups. This causes a paradox for Indian minorities as their religious demands
and social vision often contradict with that of Hindu majority leading to
distortions in national posture and power projection. Recent episode of an
Indian diplomat getting arrested on false charges and cavity searched in the
United States is an example how the internal secular dynamics can be exploited
by external powers. The witch hunt for Saffron terror and meddling of NIA investigations into terror attacks by Indian Mujaheddin amply demonstrated how the state Law & Order machinery is intentionally subverted to keep the facade of secularism by
various political parties and governments. The proposed Communal Violence Bill
takes this aberration to the extreme by protecting the minorities irrespective
of cause and perpetrator of the crime, thus making the Law and Order apparatus
subservient to religious identity of the people involved in the issue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On one side of this debate
stands BJP. This party recognizes the incorrect application of Abrahamic social
issues on Indian society and wants to remove this aberration. This party
promises to provide equal socio-economic opportunities to all Indians with its
‘equal opportunities for all, appeasement to none’ position. This political
stand automatically removes the external handles (and their influence) on
India’s internal social, economic and religious debates. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Congress & its allies on
the other hand demand that the nation must give special treatment to followers
of Abrahamic faith even at the cost of social, economic, national security and
in some cases even democratic implications to the entire nation. This means
Indian interests will be permanently mortgaged to Abrahamic faith systems whose
core power system is outside Indian control/influence. This effectively means
indirect colonization of India using Secularism for/by Abrahamic faiths. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus the battle lines are drawn. On one side stands the
nationalist forces led by BJP’s Narendra Modi that want to complete India’s
struggle for Independence from double-colonization in social, economic and
intellectual spheres and propel it to its natural leadership position on world
stage. On the other side stands the multitude of political parties that unite
in their opposition to BJP and their tacit support for next round of
colonization by Abrahamic forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Both sides need
unequivocal support from Indian public in implementing their respective agendas.
<b>Perhaps it is time for Indian electorate to choose wisely and decisively.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2f5597;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next: <i>The Roadmap</i></span></span></div>
RamaYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04274627542578961474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39612739400139088.post-21222330254908482132014-03-30T21:19:00.000-04:002014-04-01T15:30:15.505-04:00The Prize - That is India!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Prize</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is the future holding for the great nation of India?
Why so much competition to win the heart and mind of India by various internal
political dispensations and external nations? What prize India holds in near
future?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since independence India has been consistently the ~10<sup>th</sup>
largest (nominal) economy in the world. The efficiency/inefficiency of various
governments pushed this position up or down by one or two positions but India
on the whole maintained the pace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the winds are changing now and India is at the cusp of a whole new world
where it is at qualitative advantage to propel into the distinguished group of
world powers. Let’s see what they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look at the information presented below graphics to get the
details. Following are the key trends:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At market exchange rates, India will achieve a per-capita
income of $5000 by 2020 (mid-level economy) and propel to an advanced economy
by 2040. In 2050, an average Indian will have higher per-capita income than a
EU citizen or Saudi Citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indian economy will be bigger than EU economy by 2030
and by 2050 it will be more than 5 times that of EU economy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indian economy will be 5 times that of Saudi Arabia economy
by 2020. An average Indian, with all its 1.4 billion population, will be richer
than a Saudi Arabian citizen by 2040.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Development Index (HDI)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Between 1975 and 2003 India has moved from a HDI score
of 0.4 to 0.6 with 1.0 being the highest possible Human Development Index.
India achieved this great feat while keeping the average per-capita Biocapacity
consumed constant. In comparison China moved from a HDI of 0.5 to 0.75 but at
the cost of double the bio-capacity, that is consuming nearly double the
natural resources to achieve same amount of HDI improvement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Continuing at this pace India can achieve a HDI of 0.8+
by 2025, thus making the quality of life of Indians at par with today’s western
societies. If India can achieve this while maintaining its Biocapacity score
that means Indian HDI is not only world-class but also sustainable. On the
other hand as other nations push to improve their HDI at the cost of
biocapacity then the western societies will be pressurized to control their
biocapacity usage which may result in reduced HDIs in those societies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the first time since Independence India achieved
a favorable dependency ratio, number of dependents per working person, around 2005.
In comparison China achieved this favorable demographic as early as 1980s,
which helped that nation to propel ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Interestingly China’s dependency
ratio optimized around 2010 and is trending –ve to reach unfavorable ratios by
2040. On the other hand India will continue to improve this ratio well in to
2030s and continue this favorable conditions much beyond 2050.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the other hand all most all western nations will have
an unfavorable dependency ratio during the same period making them face higher
social costs and unfavorable national power equations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The traditional national power measure is a function
of a nation’s population, economy (GDP), military budget and Technology. With improved
HDI and economic indicators combined with demographic dividend India is poised
to grow its national power significantly in the upcoming decades. Studies show
that India will cross European Union by 2030s and USA by 2050.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This brings us back to our key question - Why so much
competition to win the heart and mind of India by various internal political
dispensations and external nations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bright future opportunities described above holds a very
valuable prize for the leadership dispensation of this nation. Whoever oversees
this great transformation of India will not only define India’s future for next
century but also for the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If this transformation is controlled &
managed by Western handlers then we can be sure that the once great Hindu
civilization, that withstood centuries of Abrahamic onslaught, will permanently
lose its unique identity and will melt into Western Universalism. </span></div>
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hand if by fate Hindu civilization can own this transformation then it can instead
bring back the glorious epoch of Bharat when India was 30% of world GDP and Jagat
Guru (teacher of the world) and lead the humanity towards Vasudhaika Kutumbam!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How does this great prize holds for the next administration?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Depending on what political dispensation at the helm, during
2014 and 2019, India is expected to grow at a steady pace of 7-8%.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This translates into anywhere between $190B to
$279B annual tax revenues to the next government at a very conservative 10% tax
revenues as percentage of GDP.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Over next 5 years India will spend >$120B
towards capital investments in Military.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">India will have national savings in excess of
$4T over next five years.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Based on how much of these savings are tapped
for Industry and Infrastructure, India can add at least $1T to its capital
markets doubling its size in just 5 years without taking market growth into
consideration. In addition that India can self-finance its infrastructure
vision of investing $1T in next five years.</span></li>
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how $1T capital is spent every year from 2014-2019. This itself creates immense
political, economic and social clout for this political dispensation within
India.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That is the prize of
2014 elections!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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