S Satish
This might be out of focus at this very moment, but the right time to chip in since talks though not noisy are constantly hitting the desk of Govt. Fuel hike is one of the important indicator of inflation if I could use that term aptly. Price of fuel if I remember was around Rs.47 6 months back. Now it has just rocketed madly to Rs.60.
When I used to fill petrol I just notice the quantity that falls in the screen which was around 10.28 litres for Rs.500. Now it is 2 litres short which is approx 28kms loss on one trip. Now I would like to bring here two issues into focus. 1. The Bharath Bandh that followed rise in price of fuel as well as essential commodities; 2. Strikes and lockouts.
Bharath Bandh
The cause for the Bandh is good but the Bandh as I heard from sources cost the Govt. 10,000cr. Now this money is also to be compensated which adds to the problem. I totally understand the current situation and support the cause. I am not taking this from a political angle, rather from a aam-admi's perceptive. I can see things getting costlier which once were stocked for no need. Now time has proved so. I dont stand for any of the parties since each one of them have different views of seeing a problem. I would like to raise voice on asking whether Bandh is the only situation.
Strikes and lockouts
Most of the corporates and others whose employee union command a tough tag over the company generally resort to strikes, lock-outs, phase-outs to redeem their requests. But requests cant override the policies of the company which is generally no loss of labour due to strike, temporary separation etc. Many companies went on to face a severe problem when the union went on frequent protests. Normally all the big players like Reliance, Tatas, Aditya group try to passify their strength on relationships with the employees. But they dont compromise on their policies or any other intangible matters. Thats the nomenclature and a sign for effective management. In a way our Govt. too should atleast try to pull out the velocity of the opposition parties from opening their voices at the Parliament frequently without sacrificing their core policies.
This can sit in your minds heavily but we have literally no control over it. Only a consensus of mind can resolve this issue which is not happening these days.
Lets see how the Economist PM and Pranabda move their coin.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thursday, November 26, 2009
NATO - No Talk, Action Only
To All My Fellow Citizens,
I am really unhappy being a part of helpless Indians where we are most often mute spectators and just go by what happens next (being reactive and not proactive).
It is one year since the 26/11 terror strike and still justice is on its way. Neither our country doesn’t enforce a strong action nor has the Pak govt. come up with a strong reaction. They rather stick on to their only recourse of asking India to prove the circumstances.
One lone terrorist is on his acceptance and pleads guilty and what more do you want from India. This is not a political statement instead a mind-steering one. I have got nothing to do with the governments of both the countries. I am just putting across that it takes such a lot of time to punish the criminals and all the innocents are severed the gun-strikes instantly. I don’t think the way of death can function like this.
Yesterday late night I received a message from my friend stating to remember the one year anniversary of the dead soldiers and others on 26/11 last year. I was really shocked and replied saying “It was not a festival or an event to come up with every year. We are so helpless that we mourn for 2-3 minutes and the terrorist hits our sad silence too. Instead forward to all asking to be cautious and united like our brave soldiers to fight out the coward terrorists”. It is no one’s mistake to remember the lost lives. But how long can we worship this custom. Such stray incident shouldn’t have happened had our security been tight and alert. Such incident shouldn’t have repeated had we punished the terrorists instantly.
I am still under this dense cloud of confusion as to what is the process of justice. I mean lives can be played with.
Regards
Satish S
I am really unhappy being a part of helpless Indians where we are most often mute spectators and just go by what happens next (being reactive and not proactive).
It is one year since the 26/11 terror strike and still justice is on its way. Neither our country doesn’t enforce a strong action nor has the Pak govt. come up with a strong reaction. They rather stick on to their only recourse of asking India to prove the circumstances.
One lone terrorist is on his acceptance and pleads guilty and what more do you want from India. This is not a political statement instead a mind-steering one. I have got nothing to do with the governments of both the countries. I am just putting across that it takes such a lot of time to punish the criminals and all the innocents are severed the gun-strikes instantly. I don’t think the way of death can function like this.
Yesterday late night I received a message from my friend stating to remember the one year anniversary of the dead soldiers and others on 26/11 last year. I was really shocked and replied saying “It was not a festival or an event to come up with every year. We are so helpless that we mourn for 2-3 minutes and the terrorist hits our sad silence too. Instead forward to all asking to be cautious and united like our brave soldiers to fight out the coward terrorists”. It is no one’s mistake to remember the lost lives. But how long can we worship this custom. Such stray incident shouldn’t have happened had our security been tight and alert. Such incident shouldn’t have repeated had we punished the terrorists instantly.
I am still under this dense cloud of confusion as to what is the process of justice. I mean lives can be played with.
Regards
Satish S
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Its Congress' Party
The LS Election results are out in favour of the Congress Party.
This time it was something near to a 100 constituency margin still the figure waving in the channels. Dr. Manmohan Singh gets chance to prove himself a dynamic leader making the stable government move a step higher on the ladder to a stable-dynamic govt. Indian Janatha would be awaiting for Singh to look upon issues like 26/11 Kasab and the LTTE war in SL. There is a chance for India to experience the change like what happenned in US this year Jan 20. Coming down south the Congress Ally DMK has won the majority. I dont know much about poilitcs and sense who really deserves place, but the party handling power must bring about the change. BJP must have lost favour when Varun Gandhi opened his speech and still I stick to the point that I have a very little knowledge to comment. Though I am 19, I had no vote this time. But smiled when Kamal too dint. Still my vote would have raised UPA's victory.
This time it was something near to a 100 constituency margin still the figure waving in the channels. Dr. Manmohan Singh gets chance to prove himself a dynamic leader making the stable government move a step higher on the ladder to a stable-dynamic govt. Indian Janatha would be awaiting for Singh to look upon issues like 26/11 Kasab and the LTTE war in SL. There is a chance for India to experience the change like what happenned in US this year Jan 20. Coming down south the Congress Ally DMK has won the majority. I dont know much about poilitcs and sense who really deserves place, but the party handling power must bring about the change. BJP must have lost favour when Varun Gandhi opened his speech and still I stick to the point that I have a very little knowledge to comment. Though I am 19, I had no vote this time. But smiled when Kamal too dint. Still my vote would have raised UPA's victory.
Monday, May 4, 2009
A word on Vodafone
Yeah! Its Vodafone now topping the charts for best coverage usage and services. Vodafone users are a plenty so as Airtel, but there is something different in the two. The former has some special credits to it. Now you see the services from Vodafone, the request replies, queries are handled quickly and in a neat manner. Talk and see of the town is the latest AD sensation of Vodafone. New types of ads that promote their business are in a more exciting and a trendy way that someone has never seen before. They are really cute and makes sense.
Jai ho Vodafone!
Jai ho Vodafone!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
An eye on India
Hai Folks
This is to everyone who wants to help? You know there are some 8 lakh odd people in our country (India) without eye sight. And there are 9 lakh people who die away with their eyes serving the ground. People who die never know their d day. But an effort to spare your asset by donating your eye to the visually challenged makes a difference. People who have the brilliance but not the power of eyesight may find a chance through the rich to get alongside the hidden colours of life.
Requests
S Satish
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Arms or Arms?
C M Devarajan
At CAFI Conference
I am honored to share a few thoughts, on the destruction that war and weapons can cause to our civilized society, and liberty that is the birthright of all living on this earth.
A comic book on gun violence written by victim of gun violence – young children was released. I felt comics were part of our young life to make us laugh. But this comic book was pulling our heart strings to say the least.
Weapons are meant only for destruction of life and properly. It was stunning to vote that guns were offered for sale – with a free offer that is a land mine was offered as an add on to the sale of gun.
A knife is a knife – different uses for peaceful as well as for killing but a gun is only for destruction and killing.
We have attained freedom from the British rule but yet to achieve freedom from want and fear.
An official on the border was stopped for checking and from allowed to proceed, but after he moved ahead he was fired upon. The official stopped and questioned the living to which the authorities casually said it was a mistake and that he should pay for the bullet fired. It means they would prefer to recover the price of bullet before the victim dies.
The impact of gun violence is an irony of fate that would make the great Mahatma resting in Raj Ghat in New Delhi turn in his grave. And talking of the Mahatma it is a matter of pride for us Indians to know that the United Nations has declared the year 2008 as the year of Non violence and further the birth date of the Mahatma October 2 as a day of Non Violence.
As Indians born in the land of the Mahatma, it is only right and logical, that we set an example to the world, on how to spread peace in the world, through Ahimsa, Non Violence.
It is indeed sad that we need to have a conference for this reason but that is the bitter truth, the tragic reality. I for one believe that Non Violence ended with violence, on the day the Mahatma was assassinated here in New Delhi on January 30, 1948 and ever since we have witnessed more such cruel and heartless killings, making this conference very relevant and a dire necessity.
A few years ago we read reports that in the US, some kids carried guns to school and we were more shocked to read about kids using guns to kill their mates, emphasizing that gun killing in schools had come to stay in the US. We perhaps never imagined this would come soon to India. My dear friends let’s wake up to this gory fact that this is now happening in our own country as well and it is not something we can feel proud of.
Some weeks back there was a documentary on the BBC channel on gun culture. We got to understand how children were easily able to get guns from the market through contacts and used these guns as a tool of power and a means of threatening others. By wielding the gun, they were able to get things done their way. How easily and casually these children were able to access these guns is a shuddering thought. This is the real scene in our own country today. We can’t afford to close our eyes. It is time we understand the seriousness of the predicament we are in and try to find ways to tackle it head on and nip it in the bud.
Our Govts are too busy with many issues. Maybe they tackle the gun violence issue from their own perspective and it is obvious we are not getting the desired results. Why should we, who love our country, depend only on the Govt’s efforts to find a solution? As countrymen and women we can help the govt by supplementing their efforts in our own small way.
Wars are fought by nations and each country has their own agenda. It needs a Mahatma in every country to understand and make others understand that wars only destroy and bring no peace at all. Where is peace? How can a mother who loses her son, live in peace, even if her country eventually won the war? Where can one find peace for little children who have lost their father? The impact is shattering to say the least, or a wife who loses her husband and has to singly face life with children to be looked after – where is the peace? Wars and Weapons mean only destruction and if this goes on unabated, humanity will soon degenerate into a beastly and chaotic race.
Trust me and the movement that organizations like CAFI and others are leading, ONLY a civil society can handle this. Civil liberties are everyone’s right and no one can infringe on this liberty. Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. We all have limits to our liberty meaning we cannot infringe on other’s liberty
For generations India has taught the world the lesson of non-violence and how powerful it is, that it can even win a war. Let us relive those days, take valuable lessons from history on non-violence and put it to good use in the present day context to tackle the growing menace of gun violence.
Let’s mobilize ourselves and teach our children to get into the habit of peace, love and friendliness, so that we make the world a better place to live, for the incoming generations. Good character, behavior and manners begin at home and as adults we should cultivate these good traits at home, so that our children easily pick them up. Don’t we all know that children in their formative years only imitate adults and learn from them?
Remember the three R’s. (1) Respect for self, (2) Respect for others and (3) Responsibilities for all our actions – we all do err but once we realize it, it is up to us to gracefully accept it. That would cool things immediately. Today a lot of us have forgotten to smile and to be friendly. Right from junior school, children are taught that they must be aggressive to succeed. We need to turn this around – we need love in our life in a world that is influenced by hatred.
When blood is required to save a life, it is not measured in terms of caste, colour, creed or nationalities rich or poor. The colour of blood is the same in all of us - blood is the unifying factor amongst us. Peace comes through the act of blood donation.
This indeed would be the most wonderful change – a change of heart that can happen in this strife- ridden society, ravaged by wars and destruction. Blood is meant for circulation and let us helps by donating blood to those who need it. Let us not shed it in warfare and killing.
A report of the UN says gun violence kills more than 3,50,000 people a year and injures more than a million. Paradoxically, yet the global trade that fuels the epidemic of armed violence is not subject to international regulations. The arms industry operates without regulation. If the tally of death, injured and disability resulting from small arms were categorized as a disease, it would be classified as an epidemic.
To address this issue, global initiatives have been started and since October 2003, Control Arms has gathered the support of over one million people worldwide. In December 2006, over 150 governments voted at the United Nations to start work on developing an international Arms Trade Treaty. The UN Secretary-General has called for governments to submit their views on the feasibility, scope and parameters of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to ensure that recommendations from governments incorporate the views of millions of people around the world who are affected by armed violence every day. To ensure that the millions of people who support a strong treaty based on international humanitarian and human rights law are taken into account during the government consultation process, People’s Consultations were organized in over 40 countries around the world to give people and communities a forum to demand that their governments take action for tough international arms controls. In Chennai we held a very impactful People’s Consultation meeting where we had representation from the Police, judiciary and the policy makers of the country and presented a set of pointers for the ATT.
Poverty prevails in many regions of the world, and there are whole nations struggling in abject poverty. And it is believed that this leads to a lot of gun killing and violence. This may be true but to a very miniscule extent. If the civilized world can rise above nationalities and other dividing factors these can be easily taken care of. Today an Arms Trade Treaty and efforts of organizations like the Control Arms Foundation, is a necessity and perhaps the only remedy to save society from disintegration.
Being in India, let us give some thoughts to the teachings of Mahatma and our very renowned Bhagavat Gita. The Mahatma gave us a valuable and strong teaching of Ahimsa or non violence and he proved its strength by fighting many a battle to secure India’s freedom.
The Bhagavat Gita teaches us thus:
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce which has been destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born
Whatever you have, you have received from Him
Whatever you will give, you will give it to Him
You came empty handed and you will go the same way
Whatever is yours today, was somebody else’s yesterday
And will be somebody else’s tomorrow. So, why worry unnecessarily?
I am sure the violent groups in our society can be transformed by the majority of the population in the world with love and care, for a life of peace and happiness. It is in our hands to make this happen and it can happen. Let’s strive to make Gun violence, war and destruction a thing of the past, recorded as a minor aberration in the history of human civilization. The money spent on arms and ammunition, the budgets for which is increasing in all nations can be put to much better use to make human life more happy, peaceful and meaningful.
I would like to conclude with the words of Mahatma Gandhi. He said “Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds” Let’s strive to urge leaders of nations in the world to see the wisdom in Mahatma Gandhi’s words by setting an example ourselves.
Let us use our arms (God given) to do away with arms (man made) or else it would mean the end of society. Jai Hind
A comic book on gun violence written by victim of gun violence – young children was released. I felt comics were part of our young life to make us laugh. But this comic book was pulling our heart strings to say the least.
Weapons are meant only for destruction of life and properly. It was stunning to vote that guns were offered for sale – with a free offer that is a land mine was offered as an add on to the sale of gun.
A knife is a knife – different uses for peaceful as well as for killing but a gun is only for destruction and killing.
We have attained freedom from the British rule but yet to achieve freedom from want and fear.
An official on the border was stopped for checking and from allowed to proceed, but after he moved ahead he was fired upon. The official stopped and questioned the living to which the authorities casually said it was a mistake and that he should pay for the bullet fired. It means they would prefer to recover the price of bullet before the victim dies.
The impact of gun violence is an irony of fate that would make the great Mahatma resting in Raj Ghat in New Delhi turn in his grave. And talking of the Mahatma it is a matter of pride for us Indians to know that the United Nations has declared the year 2008 as the year of Non violence and further the birth date of the Mahatma October 2 as a day of Non Violence.
As Indians born in the land of the Mahatma, it is only right and logical, that we set an example to the world, on how to spread peace in the world, through Ahimsa, Non Violence.
It is indeed sad that we need to have a conference for this reason but that is the bitter truth, the tragic reality. I for one believe that Non Violence ended with violence, on the day the Mahatma was assassinated here in New Delhi on January 30, 1948 and ever since we have witnessed more such cruel and heartless killings, making this conference very relevant and a dire necessity.
A few years ago we read reports that in the US, some kids carried guns to school and we were more shocked to read about kids using guns to kill their mates, emphasizing that gun killing in schools had come to stay in the US. We perhaps never imagined this would come soon to India. My dear friends let’s wake up to this gory fact that this is now happening in our own country as well and it is not something we can feel proud of.
Some weeks back there was a documentary on the BBC channel on gun culture. We got to understand how children were easily able to get guns from the market through contacts and used these guns as a tool of power and a means of threatening others. By wielding the gun, they were able to get things done their way. How easily and casually these children were able to access these guns is a shuddering thought. This is the real scene in our own country today. We can’t afford to close our eyes. It is time we understand the seriousness of the predicament we are in and try to find ways to tackle it head on and nip it in the bud.
Our Govts are too busy with many issues. Maybe they tackle the gun violence issue from their own perspective and it is obvious we are not getting the desired results. Why should we, who love our country, depend only on the Govt’s efforts to find a solution? As countrymen and women we can help the govt by supplementing their efforts in our own small way.
Wars are fought by nations and each country has their own agenda. It needs a Mahatma in every country to understand and make others understand that wars only destroy and bring no peace at all. Where is peace? How can a mother who loses her son, live in peace, even if her country eventually won the war? Where can one find peace for little children who have lost their father? The impact is shattering to say the least, or a wife who loses her husband and has to singly face life with children to be looked after – where is the peace? Wars and Weapons mean only destruction and if this goes on unabated, humanity will soon degenerate into a beastly and chaotic race.
Trust me and the movement that organizations like CAFI and others are leading, ONLY a civil society can handle this. Civil liberties are everyone’s right and no one can infringe on this liberty. Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. We all have limits to our liberty meaning we cannot infringe on other’s liberty
For generations India has taught the world the lesson of non-violence and how powerful it is, that it can even win a war. Let us relive those days, take valuable lessons from history on non-violence and put it to good use in the present day context to tackle the growing menace of gun violence.
Let’s mobilize ourselves and teach our children to get into the habit of peace, love and friendliness, so that we make the world a better place to live, for the incoming generations. Good character, behavior and manners begin at home and as adults we should cultivate these good traits at home, so that our children easily pick them up. Don’t we all know that children in their formative years only imitate adults and learn from them?
Remember the three R’s. (1) Respect for self, (2) Respect for others and (3) Responsibilities for all our actions – we all do err but once we realize it, it is up to us to gracefully accept it. That would cool things immediately. Today a lot of us have forgotten to smile and to be friendly. Right from junior school, children are taught that they must be aggressive to succeed. We need to turn this around – we need love in our life in a world that is influenced by hatred.
When blood is required to save a life, it is not measured in terms of caste, colour, creed or nationalities rich or poor. The colour of blood is the same in all of us - blood is the unifying factor amongst us. Peace comes through the act of blood donation.
This indeed would be the most wonderful change – a change of heart that can happen in this strife- ridden society, ravaged by wars and destruction. Blood is meant for circulation and let us helps by donating blood to those who need it. Let us not shed it in warfare and killing.
A report of the UN says gun violence kills more than 3,50,000 people a year and injures more than a million. Paradoxically, yet the global trade that fuels the epidemic of armed violence is not subject to international regulations. The arms industry operates without regulation. If the tally of death, injured and disability resulting from small arms were categorized as a disease, it would be classified as an epidemic.
To address this issue, global initiatives have been started and since October 2003, Control Arms has gathered the support of over one million people worldwide. In December 2006, over 150 governments voted at the United Nations to start work on developing an international Arms Trade Treaty. The UN Secretary-General has called for governments to submit their views on the feasibility, scope and parameters of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to ensure that recommendations from governments incorporate the views of millions of people around the world who are affected by armed violence every day. To ensure that the millions of people who support a strong treaty based on international humanitarian and human rights law are taken into account during the government consultation process, People’s Consultations were organized in over 40 countries around the world to give people and communities a forum to demand that their governments take action for tough international arms controls. In Chennai we held a very impactful People’s Consultation meeting where we had representation from the Police, judiciary and the policy makers of the country and presented a set of pointers for the ATT.
Poverty prevails in many regions of the world, and there are whole nations struggling in abject poverty. And it is believed that this leads to a lot of gun killing and violence. This may be true but to a very miniscule extent. If the civilized world can rise above nationalities and other dividing factors these can be easily taken care of. Today an Arms Trade Treaty and efforts of organizations like the Control Arms Foundation, is a necessity and perhaps the only remedy to save society from disintegration.
Being in India, let us give some thoughts to the teachings of Mahatma and our very renowned Bhagavat Gita. The Mahatma gave us a valuable and strong teaching of Ahimsa or non violence and he proved its strength by fighting many a battle to secure India’s freedom.
The Bhagavat Gita teaches us thus:
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce which has been destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born
Whatever you have, you have received from Him
Whatever you will give, you will give it to Him
You came empty handed and you will go the same way
Whatever is yours today, was somebody else’s yesterday
And will be somebody else’s tomorrow. So, why worry unnecessarily?
I am sure the violent groups in our society can be transformed by the majority of the population in the world with love and care, for a life of peace and happiness. It is in our hands to make this happen and it can happen. Let’s strive to make Gun violence, war and destruction a thing of the past, recorded as a minor aberration in the history of human civilization. The money spent on arms and ammunition, the budgets for which is increasing in all nations can be put to much better use to make human life more happy, peaceful and meaningful.
I would like to conclude with the words of Mahatma Gandhi. He said “Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds” Let’s strive to urge leaders of nations in the world to see the wisdom in Mahatma Gandhi’s words by setting an example ourselves.
Let us use our arms (God given) to do away with arms (man made) or else it would mean the end of society. Jai Hind
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