Showing posts with label Prime Minister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prime Minister. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

My King of Kings

Speaking of [Prime Ministers], there are a host of candidates to choose from.  There is the prince Rahul Gandhi, theres also the new prince Akhilesh Yadav and then there is the Old man of Bengal, Pranab Mukherjee.  I tend to believe that voting is a very compulsive exercise in India, we can vote based on the ideologies but we hardly do, as a matter of fact, the educated well to-do Indian is not too interested in voting, as they tend to believe that whatever the outcome it will not affect them.  After all, if one has a big pocket, then there is the Diesel Generator for the power cuts, and submersible pump for the water shortage.  If there is a security issue then hire some personal security guards, so much so, when the swine flu epidemic hit us, there was a segment of the population that horded the medicine not waiting for a solution from National Health Service.

I wonder, if it does make more sense to run a parallel government wherein we pay taxes to the people who actually will provide us electricity, water and security.  For instance, let these well to do personalities who have no fear of the government, start out-sourcing their services to other people in their region.  We would then find a section in the local yellow pages for the A-Governance or Alternate Governance.  The theme could go as follows :


                                     Classified Avertisement
                                     Clients sought by A-Governance firm
                                      for internal governance

                                      available for outsourcing

So how would A-Governance be defined -  it is an outrising of a serious and urgent need to bring responsibility to governance.  Internally and externally, there has to be a set of well defined objectives.  If any governance functions within those objectives it is then accepted by the citizens or clients.  On the contrary, the current governance in the country is [unacceptable] and therefore like mobile number portability, that is the ability to shift your mobile service provider without changing your number, a citizen must have a choice of shiting his or her governance model without changing their existing address.

Government today has become unlawful and immoral in its action.  With five years required for any government to go out, a interim arrangement of A-Governance would step in to solve the issue.  So what are the premises of A-Governance, below appears a 10 point charter :

1. A rational legal framework.
2. Sound internal Governance.
3. [Total Autonomy].
4. Governance Portability clause.
5. The constitution of a board, responsible to public interest.
6. Internally [responsible] to its citizens and externally function within the framework of the erstwhile existing elected O-government 'read Old Government.
7.  A-Governance to imbibe its values and morals within itself as also to its citizens.
8.  Also introduce common moral standards, supervise their implementation, and serve as an important force to develop industry culture and self-discipline.
9. Donors, beneficiaries, collaborators, media, the general public, independent auditors and the government all need to be involved in the management of A-Governance.
10.  Finally, it is necessary to set up a mechanism of extensive participation of citizens.

Why must we restrict ourself to a form of government that doesn't serve our purpose, that is self centric and unresponsive.  Citizens have a right to Alternate-Governance if the existing tenets fail to deliver what is required.
Any form of Monopoly breeds corruption, the [Gods] of the Land must be [crazy].

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Hail the new Prime Minister

Dogs are such a source of positive energy.  They radiate it because they understand what humans want.  They are here to live with them not against them.  Brownie adopted me, maybe because he needed a human friend.  He waits for me, looks up to me even follows me into the house much to my wife's chagrin.  Surprisingly, he listens to her, sits when she tells him to, eat when told to.  And ofcourse I am his buddy so he doesn't give much heed to me, but wants to play with me, bite me and run with me.  Anita keeps complaining either you get some shots or get him vaccinated but I am still thinking, if I get the shots he could still bite someone else and infect them.  So better if he gets vaccinated.  Maybe next weekend I will take him to the vet.

Brownie has these loving eyes but he sure as hell can bite.  All the creatures, both canine and human tread carefully around him.  I once saw him getting chased by another stronger dog and he handled it pretty well, diverted the stronger dogs attention and then scooted back and tried to launch an attack from behind enemy lines.  I guess I get so involved with animals that I think of them as thinking four legged Confucius.  For me to watch them in action is the most profound experience with the logic of nature.  They are pure unbridled energy and live for the moment in passion or hatred.  It takes little to incite that in them.

Speaking of Confucius, wasn't it him that suggested that "when rape is inevitable sit back and enjoy it".  I guess that is a typical male chauvinist comment.  He obviously never experienced rape and so was not in a position to comment on it. If on the other hand he was inferring to rape as a down state of the mind, even then his comments were way out of line.  What person would link rape with say the plundering of a civilization.  It is a sick and dastardly conclusion.  When the Greek Civilization was on its decline I never heard Aristotle proclaim, we are being raped sit back and enjoy it.  They fought tooth and nail against their enemy or whoever they perceived their enemy was.  I am sure Indira Gandhi would shudder at the thought of saying "I raped Pakistan" because then by the same logic "Nehru would have been raped by the Chinese".  Therefore that logic was all warped up in male chauvinism. 

However a thought does come to mind that we did give away land too easily to the Chinese, never fired a shot in the valleys.  No wonder they still shout out to us as the victim, scaring us, taunting us and have us scampering for cover.  It is like we are the sheep and they are wolves in every encountered.  What a precedence Nehru set with the Hindu-Chinni bhai bhai statement.  One brother stabs the other in the back and the other justs rolls over and dies.  They say Nehru died because of the Chinese betrayal, I say it was his time to die and thats why he went.  Interestingly some people believe it was his legacy that had a more profound affect on the Indian psyche than Mahatma Gandhi's tryst with non-violence.

We are but mere animals of our past, deemed to repeat our previous mistakes if we haven't sorted our past.  But Brownie never makes a mistake, as he diverts the enemies attention and then launches a rear guard action.  Hail the new king, hail the new emperor.
Nominate Brownie for PM.