Young India concept- The "Ideanation"

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth atiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

-- Robert F. Kennedy (19251968)

The journey has begun.

It's our wish how to drive.Either we can look straight ,forget the sides and trace a straight path or we can look around the and take the corners ,caring for others on the way.First method are for selfish .They dont care for the corners or who are with them and move through the easy path.Such people reaches the desitnation pretty much faster than the second.But they don't create any ripples and they lack energy.Second method are for the real humans,one who has eyes to look around,one who has the will to help others.

We constantly hear about the young India ,India going young in the parilament and all sorts of publicity stunts putup by the political parties and supported by the medias.In my personnel opinion,the number of young MP's in our parliament is a false statement.99 percentage of these so called MP's are the sons,daughters or kins of some reputed politicians.Young India lies not in the mercy of these politicians or in the angles of the parliament.India lies in the villages and towns where still the 3/4th of the indian population still struggles.Among these 3/4th, almost another 3/4th are living below poverty line.This is the real frightening face of our 'Young India' even after 62 years of Independence.

We can no more bank only upon the politicians for rebuilding our villages and provinces which were once self sufficient.If we can combine the ripples that each one of us make,it is going to be much faster ,much stronger and much stable .I have got some ideas in this sense.I hope these idea can atleast triger a small wave and energise others.

Idea no 1. Start from the root. Our country is strongly rooted to the villages.Conditions very much deplorable,where old and evil practices still prevails.Light of knowledge restriced at many places even in this modern era. The outcome of the rural education schemes like Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme etc are rather dissaponting.The pace which these schemes are intiated are to yet to catch the pace with the modern methodologies.Free school education and higher education for the deserving ones have to implemented on a more effective way.Indian heart lives in the rural area and unless we make rural India literate ,India can never really wear the tag of a developed nation.

Idea no 2. Rural Infrastructure development . Deteriorated living conditions,lack of water supply,power supply ,roads etc are the facebook of rural India.We have to convice our 'millionaires and semi millionaires ' to contribute to the infrastuctural development on a moral ground . It will take ages if we rely upon government schemes.Tax reduction for those who contribute in this manner may encourage many rich to start donationg.But ultimately the mesuers are to be taken by the government.

Idea no 3. Increase the productiveness. Unproductivity is the worst phenomenon the stands as a hinderance in way of development.No matter whether its a city or a town or a village ,it is there everywhere.I personally have seen in the slumps of Bhopal where youth kill there time playin cards,carroms and cricket allround 24 x 7.Then they place the guilt on the government body fot the innefectiveness.Waiting for the grants and subsidies they waste their precious time.If we can make them understand ,realize there real capablities and gravitate towards the economic develoment ,it will be a very good idea. Place to place "Eye Openig Camps " may be a good idea.But for this also a collective effort of individuals and government will workout.

I agree with the fact that its very easy to caricate the methods but diificult to implement.But if we are really passionate about this,if we can afford to have the same fire in the belly,if we are strongly determined ,its not impossible! Mine is just 3 of the million remedies.If each one of us can figureout atlest one solution then a million solutions are well and by far going to be enough.

Let us just do it.!

Manchester United is still the Best..!

Back to the business again after a short break.

Yesterday...It was a horrific day.

UCL final Barcelona vs Manutd.

All day, I was anxious for finale kick off.I sufferd from a slight cold and head ache.I feared ;was it a bad sign? Normally,I get a gutt feeling who's going to win the match .This time I was cynical.But still I outsmarted my heart .I found relief when my head stressed for a Manchester victory.Any way match started.I saw the match only for 10 minutes.I new exactly where it was heading when Eto-o struck the early goal.All my anxiety was washed out like in a heavy rain.I took the sleepimg pills and went to my bed,had a sound sleep untill my sweet brother(eh) animated me .The result was written on his delirious face.I acted like I was unmoved by the stupid result ,turned to the other side and emoted into the sleeping mode.I was very much disturbed because Messi scored the second.eh.After some laboriuos sorting out in my mind i went into sleep.I accept it was an unspirited behaviour ,but. My 09 Champions league final was a disaster.

Okke its fine now.Barca may have defeated Manchester United ,but still I believe Manutd is the best. They are the first team to play back to back champions league finals.Usually the holders are thrown out of the tournament in the pre-quarters. This is nothing less than an amazing achievement. Even without UCL, Manutd are still treble winners bagging Club world cup,League cup and Premier League.25 match unbeaten record in UCL.Manutd regularly generates legends rather than buying.Sir Bobby charlton to Ronaldo...the list is uncountable and many more to come.18 EPL titles , 3 UCL , 2 Clubworld cup and many more .Adding to that,the gaffer Sir Alex Fergusons's presence provides a special charisma and dynamism to the club .

Manutd will surely rise from this ash and the wounded RedDevils are much more dangerous . All sadists can enjoy for the moment .

Manutd fan fore ever.

The Elephant,the Tiger,the Cell phone and the Congress Ticket..

Yesterday(19March'09) after hearing the list of MP candidates from Kerala,one name caught my attention and I was very much delighted.After all the suspense and anxiety,Trivandrum Congress ticket is finally awarded to Sashi Tharoor.I was elated not because I am a Die hard fan of him nor the congress,and I am not into any party sort of things.But because ....because atleast now a genuine person is there in the fight from Kerala.One who ,if he wins ,can become the Face of Kerala.

Well if one is not sure of Tharoor's credentials, you can get as many as details from the

internet...Born  in London,educated in India and US,First editor of Fletcher Forum ofInternational affairs,Author of nine fantastic books( including award winning ones like The Great Indian Novel and the latest The elephant ,the tiger and the cell phone), Former UN-Undersecretary during Kofi Annan regime,Offical nominee of India for UN general secretar post which he came second out of the seven competitors.Very well respected in the international community.There are many more awards and recognitions credited to his name ,but my theme is not to campaign for him..!

These are the type of personalities that we should be looking for.Out of the twenty current MP's from Kerala or the ones from the past ,how many made an attempt for a single speech or to voice for our state?? Ofcourse once but it was rarest of the rare incidents and it did'nt find any solution.Before and after that, there is none.!! The problem is they just cant raise their voice upto the National leaders or rather they get intimidated by the North Indian approach of how getting things done. Tamil Nadu is far better in getting things done.We have seen how fast the coramandel ports are growing.The elavated highways..!How fast cities like Banglore,Hyderabad and Ahmedabad are growing.Lalu Prasad doing great things for Bihar in alloting more trains,Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar working wonders for their respective states,Shiela Dixit doing it for Delhi..And why its not happening for us? When is the construction of Smart City going to start??So what is the problem with us?? The problem is lack of communication skills,lack of leadership quality at the national level,lack of passion for development and welfare of the people,lack of international exposure,lack of charisma and lack of professionalism.

Change is inevitable ....and so our politics.We should fort,develop and encourage as many such leaders.Leaders who can argue for our needs...one who knows how to get things done..who can approach professioanlly...one who can keep their heads high in any situvation...who can become the Face of the Nation..!!Whom we can be proud of.Is this the begining in that direction??Even the left parties have given party tickets to young cadets,some of them having potential to beacon at the capital.I am optimistic that our future is going to be bright.But as if now,Shashi Tharoor is the only one who has that dynamism to stand upto anyone.Hope if he wins,he keep up his name.

Else we will continue hearing.. Kerala ignored in Railway budget,there is not enough in the Finance budget,no metro railway for Cochin,no Vallarpadam an so on..So which is better???? 

Namesake........! where is the freedom of Rights?

Recently All India Barber's Union filed a case against the Srk starring Billu Barber,the remake of our very own 'kathaparayumbol'.They felt that the name is insulting the profession of hairdressers.For avoiding further controversies, the producers of the film were swift to change the name to just BILLU..! After the name change too,Srk's residence was attacked...!What they need now? Can't even agree that the name was derogetory for the barber community.

When SlumDog Millionaire baged the Golden Globes and attracted

 apprecitation from all over the globe, some groups in India were

 busy trying to play with the name of the film as well as the content. Some said its tarring the image of shining India projecting the life in the slum.Some concentrated that 'Slumdog' is insulting the sentiments of the people in the slum.But they are not understanding the fact that this is real India where 60% lives in slums and rural areas.What is the mistakes in others knowing this?Easy to shout on the name of a 'name' but solutions of the real problems are hard to find out.!

On Janvary 24, the pub Amnesia and ladies in mangalore were attacked by a group of animals who themselves called Sri ram sena. Sad, a group which is named after Ram getting engaged in such animous activity.Proclaiming as the moral police and trying to save the Indian culture,they rampaged into the pub, terrorised the women community partying inside the pub and assaulted the stranger who came speaking for the 

girls.Next day Sri ram sena, an unknown entity till last year went famous...!So as Pramod Muthalik.Last year it was MNS and Raj Thackerey who struggled to make their name heard in the news channels.Renuka Chowdri,Minister of state for women and some feminist organisations came with words of anger in the intial state but soon went into oblivion.

  Chinese proverb had stressed-" Every one is free to swing his arms,but his arm should end just before other one's nose."

But here in India,one is crushing other's face.Some in the name of culture,some saying the case of insult.Where is the right of freedom? These issues mentioned above are just an example of a large category.This happens only in India.The rights are there only in  books of  the laws and those who are tipped to instal law and order convinently twist the laws in terms of their friends.Protest and demonstration by the opposition against the offenders capture the streets for a week and after that when the topic loses the charm,the public will soon learn to forget things quickly.

Concluding,in India....not only right of freedom ,but any right is going to be difficult to get inducted.Our law and security is so inneficient that no wonder why Jihadiz tempt to target Indian cities and people so often.We always like suffering.Will ever this situvation change ? Heh...well I am cynical on this issue.Looking forward to the Valentine's Day !!

  

Planet slum..in bhopal..

I was in Bhopal these days.Walking through the streets in the capital city of M.P, I realized some very abominable facts. Some facts which we have not seen.Especilally not in Kerala.Facts that makes us dingy.Its all about the Planet Slum ..in Bhopal..

I know the slum thing is not confined to Bhopal.Its there in Mumbai,its there in

Delhi,Kolkata,Chennai,Ahmedabad and so on...But what i have seen is disgusti

ng and depressing.

                                                

The deteriorated conditions of the houses(in fact it cant be even classified as a house..some what a like tent!!!), no toilet facilities muliplied with the high population  all make it a struggle of life.The height of these houses are 2 or 3 inches lesser than me with about 2 meter breadth n 3 meter length!!Well if that is not a problem,then the exhausting fact is the number of people in each of these houses.Imagine 5 to 8 people sharing 4x2x3 cubic meters of space..!!Approx. 3 meter square for each..!Yes thats the reality..!.

Those children over there just dont know whats a bath room or

 toilet is like!!!..often see these children do a wee-wee on sides of public road!!..By their appearence,its sure that water is an unseen chemical compund for them.I dont think they ever like to use a toilet..!when nature provides the space n they have the gutts,even if they have sanitary facilities..they might tend to use the roads...

I have also seen men who very cheerfully putting their mind and effort playin cards,carroms and 'chathurangam' all the time..!!Why are they just not puting these effort in doing some business and improve their current condition.??..Questions unanswered.!

Like they never care about their situvation...No determination to raise their standards or  of the family situvation,they just cant do it..!

No current,no water,no food, depleted roads,unclean living conditions ,unhygenic sourroundings all are perfect contribution for diseases and substandardness.

Thus...this is the story of the PlANET SLUM..! and this story is similar to all the hi-fi cosmos..!This is the story of real INDIA.Real Harsh WORLD!

Listening to the Song of the Waves....Volvo Ocean Race.Cochin stopover

It has arrived...much hyped,much awaited..Volvo Ocean Race..the first ever such event organized in an Indian city.Started in Alicante ,Spain ,sailed through the Atlanantic ,nailing the shores of Cape Town ,into the Indian ocean and now onto the beaches of the Queen of

 Arabian Sea...The life at the extreme continues

...

The mood and the energy 

is high in the Volvo Oce

an race village.The atmosphere has a

 special aura that we have never witne

ssed.All together its a good experience and a 

great feeling the I too became a part of this International event.

Ericsson 4,3s ,Telefonica blue,blacks ,Puma

,green dragon,delta lloyd and team russia - 

all came before the scheduled date.I was fortunate enough to spectate the a

rrival of Ericsson 3 ,finished 3rd at the Cochin stop over.There is a lot of

 diference in what we see in various sports channels

 and what we see in front of our eyes.I was amazed by

 the size of the mast and the overall size of the yacht.Itz really

 huge,but seeing through the 14 x 14 inche frame itz miniatureized to a considerable scale.A team consist of 11

 members and a media

 personnel.They were busy folding the wind screen and bayin the yacht to the deck.

Second time I went after the

 inaguration of the Race

 Village.After the checking ,we scraped into the  village.I was fascinated by the festive ambience experinced inside the village.I was also not dissapointed ....coz the collection was beyond my xpectat

ion..The foreign n desi girlz provided the

 much neede

 entertainment for my rotten eyes.Itz been a long time since my colege days i am doing this.After the terrible queue we steped into the Volvo Showroom.A variety o

f Vovlo cars with all the latest and sophisticated gadgets,truck engine

 ,propeller and so many engineering systems were very well organized along with 

charming young Models .Which was more beautiful?? well i can sey both..!!heh,.neck on neck.!

If the line up for showroom was terrible then the same for simulator was horoundus...!!After tryin out the queue for 15 mintz and realizing that

 itz a daunting task,we gave up moved into the Kerala Tourism Trade Fest.Hmm..but this was dissapointing.Showed all the qualities of kerala Government.Most of the stalls were vacant and those there were of poor quality.We brushed the stalls within

 5

 minutes..stormed into the Food fest auditorium. The odour was irresistible.But our pocket resisted the irresistiblity of our mind.!! For mere satisfation ,we njoyed the Chilli-vada as if we were having hyderabadi dum biriyaani.!Filling our stomach with so called 'satisfaction',we sugared with vanilla cone icecreams.I found out enough time and space for carriying out my skeching work in between these activites...As i was spell-bound i also made the caricature on the beauty of these ladies..Wondering ..heh...without them the event would have been a flop.,life would have been a boring affair..Evensome time I  think its for them we men are living for.!!!heh...Its too much to speak about them...As in the case of any festivalz...

I carried my 4 megapixel canon digi cam that proved instumental in framing those precious moments into a 1 gb memory card...to share those moments with my friendz...those who were not able to pride oneself with these flashes.

Well,one can read the technical details about the Volvo ocean race through http://www.cochinoceanrace.com/ .

So,i am not keen on repeating what has been written and said over there.Overall ,the event  turned out to be a huge sucess.Claps to the volvo ocean race committee,Cochin port trust, the CSGF personnelz ,local support and mostly the elegant, exuberent ladies who brought the colour and spice to the programme.Really hope this event will be flourishing in the coming years too..

Attacks and afterattacks..

For last one week,we are witnessing what we should'nt.The smell of blood,red flesh and a lot of dead bodies-these scenes  created a pulse in us.A pulse of anger!!!Well ,what ever we say, the past is past and we can't change that.What we can do is to channel our anguish into action.An action to eliminate the terrorist,an action to prevent these insanity .A determination to make India a safe nation.

Some of my earnest opinions of what should be done are listed below.Like everyone ,these are my personal opinions,some may be practical and some are not.

1. Perdicting and Contending the attacks : An effective and sustainable mechanism should be formulated on an  immediate basis to  ensure that these anti social creatures are checked even before they enter into our territory.

- Installation of the most modern and sophisticated gadgets where ever possible,

-Equipping our military forces with the latest technogical weapons that are combatible with any enemy,prevent

-re-orientation of our intelligence and police cell with 'inteligent' and 'efficient' personnels,

- Effective arrangements for the collection of information regarding any suspicious act...etc are some of measures that comes under the prevention of terrorist attaks.

2.Centralized security system : Our current structure is not good enough.The loop holes are many which the attackers can mobilize.A centralized security system will ensure better sharing of information ,better co-0peration and eliminating internal fights and egos between different departments .It will also enable us to act quickly according to the environment.There was a talking point on the delay for the arrival of the commandos.Had it not  been the case, we could have reduced the casualities.Any way ,now no place for had's and if's.

3.Deputize politicians with professionals : There are a large sector of people who see politics as a way to earn their daily bread.Even though it is impossible to eliminate or aviod them,the political parties should show some resposiblility in forting the important and diplomatic positions with experts and professionals.Those who know the technical and mangement aspects of their concerned field.

The days of tradional politics is over.It is the era of professionalism and that has to be implemented in to our constitution.What is happening at present in Indian politics is now way forgivable.

4.Treatment of the commandos : A small eg. -our Indian cricket team arrives into Mumbai wankade stadium in luxury buses.Look how these commandos,who faught selflessly for the country came to the attack spot??..Does it sounds awkward??.A change in this attitude is needed.Treat them well.They are the diamonds of our country.Life of each commando is precious.Things should be done to increase their moral level.Increasing their remuneration,providing with technologically advanced weapons ..and a lot more has to be done..do dat.!!

5.Take the cops away from the personal securty of politicians : About 10000 security personnels are takin guard of about 400 odd politicians.Such an absurd figure!! Clearly,they have been often misused by these politicans.Those Shiv Raj Patils and Raj Thackerys are mocking jokers.Why should they be safeguarded?Utilize the service of these guard for the protection of the public.

6.Pressurize Pakistan to take immediate actions : What all measures we have taken ,it will not be sufficient if our neighbours and one time brothers continue to a migrane.A per the recent scenario ,where some of the US,Israel,UK,Japanese,Australian,italian citizens became the victims,these attacks can be seen as a warning not only for India,but for the whole world.This is the time we have to get the support of these nations and put pressure on Pakistan to take the actions ASAP.

7.Each of us to be more alert : When officals forget their duty,we have to act responsibly.Due to technical or some other reason,the officials may not be able to spread their eyes to each and every corner.Its the duty of we, citizens,to ensure that right information reaches the right person and right steps are taken .At the end of the day it is the life of the common man that matters.

Much more can be done.The terrorist has no religion,no face and no soul but some inhuman hidden agendas.We have been on the passive side for a long time.Now ,its the time to act.If not now,then we will never.