~YOU

Open face

2013-07-22T00:49:00.000+05:30

“For years, we have been emotionally attached to this place. For us, it’s a dream land to reach. And for me alone, it’s a matter of prestige. I feel always, my destiny is to where I can find waters all around. I feel always that it’s the blueness that can cure our sins back home. And we wrote it in our minds long back, even when we knew the least we could do is just to dream about it, that this is destiny. We have no idea we will be here. I have lost my friends, far away, high above. I only need one real good help to find me my way back to my planet, where I can prove that to reach heavens, we need no die. I can understand you from your faces, you can do it. I want to go home to rewrite the history. You are our gods. This earth is our heaven. And I am real.”

Translated lines from OPEN FACE.

Aroon Che

Mirrors never lie

2013-07-22T00:47:00.002+05:30

"A minute ago, I remember you telling me that you are strong enough to go and lead a life. But having me now besides, you look strange in this sudden change, I must say this. People meet you once in a day or may be stay along with you the whole day in work or at home. You think, we know you well. But then, it isn’t that way. We never know, even after you win, how great your desire to do it was. We only know, you had a dream, like many who can’t even dream the best we wish you all the way and encourage every time whenever we are with you.

It adds nothing. I know all this praises and flattering make you feel you already won the race. But to say, we are a waste in case you have your vision of what you are doing. We are neither profiteers nor losers in your life. You will have new bunch of people around you when you win, and you will not even have us around to listen when you fail. For us, you are just a part of the day, like we do many things in a day, we praise you, flatter you, and encourage you for what you aren’t even. For us, you are just doing or may be trying to do something which we never even have it in our dreams.

Some friends are just as good as an oak tree. You can rest in their arms for a while, but you have your own destinations to reach, for your reasons. Let not oak tree advice the next turn, nor even praise you having chosen the road to travel. Because it knows the chosen is a different path, but not how difficult it is, not that enough to map it for you. So friend, I encourage you for trying different. But you should have your own mirror. May be because, like us, mirror never lie."

Aroon Che

Two things...

2013-01-19T21:55:00.002+05:30

TWO THINGS.

It is true we all are quite busy with our own lives. I agree. Your family. Your job. Your future. Yes, it is no one’s right to take them away from you and no one’s right to plan them for you. all of these what is yours is very precious. We are, today in a situation of losing a lot in this competitive world, if ever we were late in, right from catching bus to taking a simple decision. But even then, if you ever you missed in meeting the expectations, you aren’t dead at the end of the day. You are just going to lose money, not the mind. You are just going to lose job not your knowledge. On the way around, it is we ourselves who are making everything more precious than they actually are to be. Just relax and look at the world around.

A little far away from your difficulty in choosing the color of a shirt, lives children exposed bodies. Not far from your unhealthy pizza centers, lay huts in where the family head finds difficulty to explain to why he hasn’t enough money for the day’s meal to his waiting children. Not far from your high wattage home theatre music, waves the cries of infants unable to intake anything from the dried up mother’s breasts. When I was taking to an economist, I got to know that only if such poor exists, the rich like us have value in the world. In his world, poor is necessity to maintain the value of being rich. Communism failed to explain why it didn’t work out to melt these differences. Socialism even did try to explain but couldn’t. But now the worry isn’t about how to bring equality, it is rather to find the roots below these differences.

Ever you traced a life of beggars you find on the roads, you will find why would someone who was born same like us just turned to choose begging as profession. Situations turn everyone to level down their idea of surviving. Education alone won’t help or reduce poverty. It might just help one to get a job. But the real education lies living responsible and happy. A plan-less parent, a drunkard father, unfaithful children, cheating friend and the mindset of concluding everything to fate are some of those virtues that make a family come to streets.

An old lady, whom I talked to, just to know what made her to beg for living, has told me of her son who was unfaithful and left her on streets after getting his life settled. In her words, I found that she and her husband spend their whole life as construction labors to run the family. Later when her husband died in a misshapen, her son and daughter in law left to another town and left the old lady homeless. An old sage in a temple told her that it’s all the game of fate and god is there to help you. But didn’t offer a meal.

This old lady spent a week on tap water and being helpless to lose self-respect by begging, soon became weak enough to faint. She finally decided to spread her hands to everyone she come across. Some of the intellectuals who have this idea of not encouraging beggary just ignored her and some good Samaritans gave her alms pitying at her age. It was then she got rupees ten and had her first meal. And she had come to know this is how god helps her for the rest of the life. She became a full time beggar. Hunger is more powerful than proverbs. It finds you the real god. Every beggar has a story. It was either his or her mistake that led them to arrive to such position or it was the world around them.

A father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a friend, a teacher and a neighbor can influence your life. None of us aren’t independent of anything around. If any one of the above is bad or irresponsible, it affects your life to great extent.

Only two things. Be good. Be responsible. Out of these two things comes the happiness. one couldn’t choose whether to give some money to the old lady, indirectly encouraging her to continue to wait for these alms or making her join in an old age home. Because I don’t like the old sage’s words to come true but then I cannot help myself to go to the roots and find her irresponsible son to teach him a lesson. Should we help the downtrodden making the concept of fate more strong or turn the culprits to a responsible living? One should just compromise and choose the first one. To the old lady, someone who helps might be a god. But to me the real god is one who changes her son and reunites him with his mother. This is the irony of life. The third thing.

-Aroon

Allah told me

2013-01-11T09:51:00.001+05:30

Allah never told me ...

From the pages...

2013-01-01T12:32:00.000+05:30

“We had wars. I know we are having one now. But what’s more disturbing is either of us didn’t win anyone of those bloody wars we fought for. Well, that’s what wars are meant to be. If either of us get the faintest idea that with a war we can gain something, this world is going to witness more and more of them. Before that I wanna stop them and go home.”

Live as you like

2012-11-23T14:39:00.001+05:30

If you die, you would'nt know who feels happy and sad.

So you struggle to figure it and fix it all the way when you are still living.

This is where you are actually dead.

-aroon

Feeding Hands

2012-11-07T15:29:00.003+05:30

a boy with crumples of bread to feed the birds

“Like those birds, high in the sky,

We rove all the day, every edge of the space,

We look like we are above all,

We see that everything below is tiny.

Lest the mind come to know,

The verity behind everything below,

We don’t fly more high and high,

Else, we come to reach the tangible

Little we know, the hands that feed us,

We just glide all our life,

Searching for something afar.

This is how it works, the inkling of looking for gods

How can we overlook, these little hands.”

-aroon

I never like to join them

2012-11-05T14:27:00.001+05:30

I never like to join them

They remain beautiful when single

My life is like that…droplets on the glass

A drop for everything I like to be,

For everything I have to be like…

For everything I hate …

For everything I love….

For everything …that’s me…

For everything …that’s trying to be me alone…

And in the end the suns wipe the glass…and rains come again…

But I never like to join them…

They remain beautiful…seasons after seasons…

-Aroon

Home Independent

2012-11-01T06:44:00.001+05:30

“As long as we think, the place we are habituated to live in is the only home we know,

we aren’t independent." -aroon

GOD isnt

2012-10-08T12:24:00.004+05:30

"GOD isn’t about reason behind creation. It’s about being human.

It’s about being helpful and reachable to the needy.

I wonder how many of us considered this and left all these stories behind." -aroon

Rebel-In Pop...Michael Joseph Jackson

2012-09-03T17:09:00.001+05:30

Rebel-In Pop....RIP...

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).

It doesnt matter, you are black or white.

At the end of the day , all that matters is your mind.

The deep inside lonliness

2012-09-03T14:42:00.000+05:30

"People prefer to walk with you, Mostly in their own shoes, not in yours" -aroon

DESHI BASARA

2012-08-02T15:20:00.001+05:30

"WHEN WE ARE BEING DROWNED EVERY TIME,

THE NEXT THING TO DO IS TO RISE" - aroon

DESHI BASARA.....!

Being Key-less

2012-07-26T10:46:00.001+05:30

"If I have the key for every door, I will never know how thick the walls are" -aroon

Looking at Stars_by ir.raju

2012-07-18T10:30:00.001+05:30

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night,

I bet they would live a lot differently ....

like I am a small tiny speck in the whole universe and

all my biggest struggles won't even count as a noise ...

and that star I am looking at right now might not even exist as the light

that touched my cones would have left it 1000s of years ago

*precious life* <3ing it”

-Rama Raju Indukuri

http://about.me/irraju

Do we need him? The making of a Politician

2012-07-13T16:58:00.000+05:30


Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy (file photo)

T H E M A K I N G O F A P O L I T I C I A N

Do we or don’t we? I would like to divide this opinion of mine into six parts and present them, so as anyone other than intellects can easily understand it. This opinion of mine to limited to a simple understanding and is written not only to explain why the political leaders form into the mucky shapes we see them daily in, but also a direct explanation to why Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy in particular, happen to get through the recently held bye‐ elections in the state of Andhra Pradesh and what all the factors made the voters to believe in him. I hope to cover every single point, other than what we see daily in news.
Let us put this question aside for some time and learn some economics, which you would be finding helpful hereafter as you go through the further explanation of mine.
Talking in the words of a common man’s economist, I would divide the society; I mean you and me, into four different levels. These levels of society lie on each other with the bottom ones supporting the rest and the top ones feeding the levels below them. If these levels don’t support each other, there could be evidence of disturbances in the whole of the society. This can be clearly pictured by an example of a simple beast of burden, which we don’t see many of them out these days. In the concept of beast of burden, a man (also called as master) carries a load for his business on a donkey,
ploughs his fields using oxen, and transports people using horses. In looking at these types of burden, the donkey or the oxen or the horses remains blind about what they are doing actually for their masters and are ignorant of what kind and extent of monetary profits do their master get from loading, unloading ploughing, or transporting. All these animals rest at the end of day in peace after they eat the meal and get ready for the work again next day. In one case, where a master feeds his beast of burden properly, he finds the loyalty shown in return from the animals. In second case, where the master when is more concerned about the business and doesn’t feed his beast in time properly , in no time he can smell the weakening of the animal’s contribution. As everything has a breaking point, the master will soon lose certain amount of business and finally gets rid of the animal, but if he changes his way towards the beast and get the loyalty of the animal, he need not keep on changing the beast of burden. So coming to where we started this economic class, all these intolerant behaviors and loyalties what the beast showed to their masters also hold good with the humans too, but vary with different parameters. The outcome, getting rid of masters, is the same as it was in the case of the animals. But how?
As far as everyone knows, all of us live in more or less the same societies. Societies might change a little with different countries, with different regions, and different people, but the core philosophy remains the same. All which I mentioned in the previous sentence are a few examples of the parameters which affect us in a lot many ways. These parameters range from a country to a street. In India, no street is same, although everything appears to be under the same rule.
The levels of the society, according to a common man’s economist, I would mention, are Level‐one viz. raw material (ranges from coal to live stock), Level –two viz. production (ranges from small scale industries to nuclear power sectors), Level‐three viz. market (ranges from selling a safety pin to space ships) and Level‐four viz. service or intelligence (this includes all the classes that support the issues rising from rest of the levels, ranging from school teachers to investigating agents).
Don’t mind me taking three paragraphs to explain all this, which many of you might be already knowing them. But I took all this strain to make sure that I don’t miss any part of the circle, which I should cover in knowing about the life of a politician. Then here comes the new word. Who is a politician actually?
Now that we learnt about the system, we are now at the point to know about the individual. A politician rather. Politics as I see now, most of them use it as a wrong word, something to describe a bad action. Be it a parliament or a simple consultancy. But the word politics doesn’t exist the way we look at it. Politics is a science of dealing with the society and confirming that all the four levels of the society are governed well, round the clock. We should educate ourselves about the way we should look at politics. But how come this word has turned into a bad thing? To example this, a group of players can spoil a game by misusing the rules in it. This we see it now a days in cricket match fixing. Now who do we blame, the game or the player? I don’t see anyone blaming the game for not having simpler rules, so that one can misuse them easily not making much crime. But instead I see that the player is blamed all the time. Politics is also something similar. The politician misuses a system. We can conclude with any hesitation, that we have a nice political system, but not a good politician. But why was that the system remained to be good and the politician failed to be?
This is where the actual discussion would start. And this is the point where we should come out of the generalized statements and start talking specifically. Because there are certain parameters that
affected us resulting to arrive to this state of hating the system directly, I would certainly say that a bad politician is the product of a bad voter and bad customs of the society. India differed a lot from other nations in terms of politics due to its varied range of cultures and people. It being one of the major democracies, one has to wonder how this heterogeneous mixture of mob stood on one word for every time in every election. If we assume that Indian is united and when we go further to describe things, we might miss and things ,come to conclusion and find yourself annoyed for starting with such wrong assumption because, this nation is not as united to its core as it was written in our social studies text books. And that’s the ground reality too. Amidst all these constrains like caste, religion, economic standards or an individual standards, there exist another parameter which is quite common all around the world. This is the animal instinct that prevailed in us and can be seen anywhere in the world in any mammal. That is what we call competitiveness. Desire to be the ultimate and supreme, brings the concept of competitiveness in an individual. Competitiveness is not a human term alone. It existed everywhere in the world, in forms of struggle for existence, in areas where the demand is more than the supply. But being sportive is what we humans added and established the difference from rest of the animals. Now coming to the point, where we are here to discuss, why would a politician end up being bad in the eyes of society, which elected him/her? There are more of loose ends to explain this situation, but I would prefer to take the simplest way to describe this. I have seen elections for the first time when I was in schooling, where the school needs a monitor to look after the disciplines of rest of the pupils. He/she was called the SPL , school pupil leader. To decide who should be the leader, there was this tradition of electing the nominees who stood by themselves to fight ethically with each other by gaining a pupil’s confidence. I would still remember, never a common pupil stood as a nominee for those elections. The list of the nominees consisted of either the brilliant and studious fellows or daring and rebellious ones in the campus. And the final day would come for each of them to stand up in public and talk to pupils about their ideologies and qualifications. We all listened to them standing in sun, decided to vote the eligible candidate the next morning. It was then, I got this doubt, why would a normal pupil like me and many others stand up as a nominee and get elected by the campus public, and the answer was quick in form of a fear. What if we fail? To fail in getting elected. I felt very weak in those schooldays and after many years I got to know that public will respect and elect the men who have assets. Be it the pupils or citizens, everyone go after these men who have assets. And when I go back, I find I have no assets in those days. I was an average student, never spoke to anyone, never proved myself in games either and I was just a normal guy, a geek probably, thus under qualifying myself to stand for school elections as a nominee. I had nothing what a normal student can appreciate me about and take me as an inspiration for. The conclusion was pretty clear. One needs to have many other assets to be a leader, other than leadership ideas alone. There were a lot of other brilliant colleagues, who never attempted to give a nomination to those school elections. May be because they were brilliant alone and doesn’t possess many other things. Well, things changed and now that I am looking at the real time politics, fascinatingly I see that the rules of my school elections remained the same. Many intellects and diplomats remained to work as administrative officers or other high profile jobs, but never ever attempted to come into the politics. There is nothing for me to wonder at this reluctant mindset, for I was already eye‐opened with the explanation to why those intellects remain far from politics. Well, to move a little bit forward, we need to look at how Indian politics rose to this stage.
Most of us are still aware of the fact that India is a kingdom turned democracy. The British, whom I prefer to, call the fathers of classic democracy, played the catalyst role in this transition. What
existed earlier were removed or changed a lot, but certain things never left the nation till date. The caste system. This system’s origin has a lot of supporting stories and a lot many opposing ones to terminate but having lived with this kind of system for ages, we find very hard to take it out of the minds of the people. It is being inherited to the next generations and is made to stand proudly, defensible. There was no education to exterminate it. High castes saved this system, only to be respected by others and often weakened the low caste people depriving them of having certain privileges, like leadership. This has been linked to religion, Vedas and god by the high castes to make sure nothing crosses the lines in future. If a village consisted of two people, it doesn’t need a leader. If it has two families, it doesn’t need a leader either. But if the village consisted of many families of various attitudes, professions, and castes, it needed for sure a leader to govern everything. And obviously these leaders came out from the high castes. If there is only one high caste, and is soundly populated in a village, the villagers unanimously elected one from that caste. If there are more than one high castes and are equally populated, the villagers are to are to elect one from those castes. This is where the actually meaning of politics rose to the stage what we see now. If a high caste has more than one eligible candidate, there would be again elections to pick up the right guy. So castes competed with each other, families of same caste competed with each other, brothers of same family competed with each other to project the inner leadership desires to outer world. It would look more or less the same like sports, where on the whole it looks like nations competing with each other, but there is a war among the states in the nation itself to who should get the winning credits, and men of the same state competing each other, to who should get the winning credits alone. I could see clearly this kind of competing in the present Indian cricket team. The motive of leadership turned out to be a competition and self esteem among the eligible leaders. Being a leader is portrayed to be a prestige issue, rather than a responsibility. Demeaning the competitors, assassinating physically and ethically, rising conspiracies became tools in hand for a runner up to get rid of the winner in these competitions. Now that India got freedom and democracy is induced, this kind of unhealthy competition managed to exist in the nation till date. The parameters like caste, money and religion remained to be the deciding factors. If one finds that his or her competitor is rising to be supreme, there is no doubt , he or she will be pulled down in no time by any manner. Right from Gandhi’s strategy behind killing of Bhagat Singh and Bose, with an intention to inject his voice of Satyagraha and non‐violence deep into the nation, to the recent assassination of Y S Rajashekar by the congress themselves, this one mindedness of winning the leadership prevailed in different forms. I would like to quote, at this point, the words of Hitler, through which he tries to explain why he disliked democracy of Austria. I would summarize his words as “democracy is like millions electing 300 members to look after them, and finally ending with those 300 fighting among themselves to who should look after the rest of the 299”. Referring his book Mein Kamph, I would like tell his idea of leader in a democracy as “the highest seat , like a swing in the children’s garden, where we see children standing in a queue behind the swing, waiting for their chance to enjoy. I see that the children become intolerant if any single child is not leaving the swing for others to enjoy after a stipulated time. They end up in arguing and bashing up each other until an elder comes and settles everything.” Unfortunately we don’t have any one elder above the present politicians to control. There is still a president, but every time stands as a biased one. The Indian president should be a robot, and if he tries to beyond it, something that Mr Abdul Kalam tried to be, will be removed smoothly in no time. So even if you were good and humane, even if you were aspired to serve people, and have caste, money and everything that qualifies you to be a leader, you still lack a big part if you don’t play tactics while standing in the queue to get your ride on the swing. You are just
the unqualified and remain to be in the queue for ever waiting. To be qualified one, what else you need to do? You need to bribe the guy standing in front of you in the line and move forward or you need to deviate his or her attention by showing alluring thing than swing ride, or you can simple bully and move forward. This is only in the case of a single party. And one can imagine how dirty it would be like if five or six such parties exists. You can be simply bought or sold like goods or just careworn to leave the competition. Now that all these politicians come from the society how was all this cat fighting what I told is linked to the same society? And should we conclude that no successful and genuine politician exists?
Now we have two questions before us. Firstly, how is all this seat‐fight linked to the public? And secondly, is there no genuine politician among us? We all knew how an individual gets qualified to be a leader of Indian masses. Apart from caste, money the fear factor also helps a lot to make the aspiring politician to move forward for an instant swing ride. This can be clearly viewed in the present politics of the Karnataka state, where a people elected leader was blackmailed to leave his seat, just by painting cases against him. Though the cases were genuine as addressed by the state’s law body, the then chief minister Mr Yeddurappa wouldn’t have gone through all this mess if he did listen to his poking colleagues and competitors to leave the swing ride for them. Even when the mass has elected him as their leader, there are lot of things that can be changed post public decision. This is where the animal instinct what I mentioned is crystal clear. Desire to be supreme. Leading the mob is the highest qualification of a society. And no one is distasteful to have it. So if you just read all your civics texts books and jump into streets to enter the politics, you are just a half dead man. You should have a good number of people, strategy to maintain them, bribe them periodically so that they don’t back stab you sometime. Unity is just a word; it exists only when you maintain your colleagues in whatever the way they should be. Even if you are genuine, and is qualified to have the seat in the capital, your party representative in the remotest village might go wrong and end you and your party in chaos. The best example is Mr Jayaprakash Naryana, who is an ex‐IAS, has prepared to compete with the rest to become a leader and change the society. Now guess what percentage of the Andhra Pradesh state public vote for him, even knowing he is qualified than many others. It is less than the population of an average sized Indian constituency. He alone won in the recent election, and the rest of his party members faced the defeat, only because they remained to be with the principles, when the rest of the world around changed the politics into a bull game. They are less known to the level one of the society, for they hail from level four. The level one is where the dogmatic approach of electing a leader is still followed. If one could get the good will of this level one, he or she is sure to remain seated as the supreme for a desired time. And same is the opposite of it. No leader lives to his next level if he or she neglects the level one of the society, because the other levels doesn’t vote very often and doesn’t bother about who is going to lead them. But only if this level one doesn’t get trapped in the illusion of a politician’s words, it can remain to be the deciding factor, which many a times doesn’t happen. Politicians became richer misusing the position and voters remained poorer by using their vote wrongly. This is where the public looked at and prejudiced the opinion that politics is utter business, and no politician can be trusted. In true, it was the voter who fails every time. So in order to attain the position to serve the public, a politician has to go through the phases of double‐tongued, bribing, back stabbing, flattering, mesmerizing, conning, because the kind of colleagues he or she face are humans like him or her and moreover thirsty to be first in the race of leadership. If you remain be close to the principles, you will never win an inch. By this time, if you were a daily news reader, you should
understand my briefings. All this cat fight is only to attain number one and top position in the society which in return gives respect and honor you framing as the ultimate. Here comes the first question, how are these linked to the public?
To know how this is linked to the public, we need to go back to what we have discussed in the first lines. The levels of society. If you were an able person, you can just look at the levels and link them now to the politics, subjecting which layer affect politics in what way, and which layer depends wholly on politician’s decision, which layer is controlled by the politics. On a wider view everything depends on politics and runs on decision of the government. But the ground reality is something different from what we imagine, different from what we write in facebooks and twitters. Because the real world isn’t still as developed as we imagine it to be. Coming to the point directly, the level of the society which is affected directly by the government or politics is the level one, where raw material extracting / producing is carried on. Ranging from coal mines to livestock, this part of the society consists of farmers, agricultural labor, miners, milkmen, dairies, mine owners, poultry and lot of labor that helps in running these activities. These mostly are uneducated and get low income which makes them to depend on the government for safe and secure life. Being linked directly with the government in form of land, water, electricity, selling of the raw material to industries, loans and seeds, neglecting the wants and demands of this level, a political leader faces a lot of trouble in many other rebellion forms, very recently being the crop holiday. This was what happened to Mr Chandrababu Naidu, the ex‐chief minister and president of Telugu Desam Party. In his reign , never was shown the interest on the this level one, instead he invested a lot of ideologies in developing the cities on one hand and digitalizing the state to a level where every software industry walked in freely to invest. But those investments remained to be in the level four of the society never drained a drop to the lower levels. This was where the whole of the cities lived in a cyber cafe munching burgers, while on other hand in a distance, the bead of farmers started falling to the grounds, barren grounds starving to death. There is No suitable selling price for the crop, there are no seeds, and even nature has shown its share. One only could imagine, the state ate integrated chips and imported fast food stuff on the corpses of the farmers. To this, I even had a bunch of the pride software engineers, measuring this Chandrababu Naidu as a lord of development. Surprisingly most of these pride software engineers, who lie in the level four, never vote, and were also sons/ daughters of farmers, may be rich farmers. When the level one isn’t working fine, no nation can flourish, wherein most of these aren’t paid well and made to remain poor always. Upper part of this level one consisting of land owners, mine owners were immensely affected with the labour going desperate and jobless. Many of the labor left to the cities for a better job like construction labor and scavengers, thus diluting a large part of the level one in due course. This is what i prefer to call uneven balance of development ideology. The result of this was clearly balloted in the next election. Though Mr Chandrababu Naidu was able to gain the support of the techies who never vote, he directly lost the trust of the level one who always plays a critical role in a leader’s position. All because, he brought multi speciality hospitals but not the cheaper treatment, all because he brought technology to cities, but he turned villages to burial grounds. No offense though he for redefined cities to mega cities.
This was where a politician took a nice turn. During the same reign, his opposition leader Mr YS Rajashekar, a doctor turned factionist turned politician, roamed on the village roads leaving the cities to Mr Naidu’ hell. He then calculated that health and wealth were the only things any government could give to an individual apart from other social security, to gain good will of the mob.
And this wasn’t an easy job as it looked. Promising the mob just by saying simple things would have worked to him, but he gave the same promises in surprising packages, which many of his colleagues would still now quote as something impossible in Indian politics. Any politician would face a kind of situation wherein, to get hold of the chair, he or she needs to be tricky inside. In the villages he roamed, it was only when he was so close to the ground reality of the life led there by the agricultural labor and farmers, that he soon found it was the only chance to surprise the mob and take advantage of the weakening enemy of his. Checking up each level mentioned in this chapter, there was a neat sketch laid to which level the government should satisfy for attaining the supreme post forever. The public listened to him and his estimations, the majority which was neglected by Mr Naidu voted their new face for chief minister. He, also called as YSR, stared his career with a simple tool called, the bribe. Bribe any face that lends him ideas for life. Though his final destination is to establish a monopoly in the state, he was confident in doing it under the mask of Indian national congress, which people still have blind faith in. With congress on his face, his mind covered each inch of the state, just by satisfying every lending hand that was part of his ideologies. Right from cinema to dairy products, he never neglected anyone, if he did so; he was sure to lose his position in no time. As his calculation goes on, to cure every poor patient, mainly suffering from cardiac problems, one needs a lot of money to spend. Who shall lend such huge amounts to the government? More importantly he was stubborn in his ways to serve some patients at free of cost. So linking up the hospitals to form a group and treat the patients free of cost was the idea that weighed a lot in view of many of his opposition leaders and his own ministers, surprisingly making a mile stone in his journey. He was from a large background of rich landlords and factionists, and knew where to press the button for desired output. These words FREE OF COST wasn’t actually free of cost. In order to rope finances for this programme, activities for joining many super specialty hospitals into this programme that includes bribing the hospital owners and doctors in form of foreign tours, lands , permissions from central institutes, medical college permissions ,sometimes money, just needed to find the source of income by the lending lands , permissions to investors who were mostly industrialists. Very sooner, on the other hand the every city outskirts were turned to SEZs a.k.a special economic zones, resulting a sect of people to lose their lands and homes for cheaper prices. Airports were born, roads got widened, projects started and large part of concrete business ran into millions and billions of rupees. These were inter‐linked with the health programme, in a way, if donators help to run the programme well, in return were given project contracts and many other perks. Every inch of this had a minister to accelerate the actions, and undoubtedly a part of the money was lost in the hands of these middle men and politicians controlling it. Bribing, bribing , bribing. This was what lived under the mat of development. In very less time, ministers were happy with these programmes, and every such new programme like the great water project were taken with great interest by various ministries of the state and was passed in the house of commons with majority accepting it, all because the extent of bribing involved in them. On one hand, there was rise in the good will from what the health programmes did to poor and water projects brought to the farmers, and on the other hand there were a huge total of state properties that were exchanged to investors of the programmes. The concept of Robinhoodism comes in here. Rob a lot, keep a little and donate a major part. That’s the reason, why Robin hood even when considered as a criminal in minds of the rich, he existed as a god in the eyes of the poor and the needful. In this case of YSR there was a little change, the rich who are the majorly benefited from his programmes need him as their leader, the poor who were served a lot by his programmes also need him as their leader, the rest which includes the losers hated him a lot. The losers ranged from ignorant social network users
of level four to a common man who lost his land in marking up of SEZs. In his mind, Mr YSR was clear that the major part of the level one isn’t neglected and also had seen that the benefit of his programmes crept even to the low salaried of the upper levels like peons, divers and many merchants. Citizens like an auto driver, a farmer, a construction laborer, were among the people who liked him to core. The list goes on and on. Lengthy was also the list of people who hated him. Parameters. Parameters. There were list of other programmes that followed the similar modus operandi rose him high to skies, and equally bagging a lump of hatred feeling from different sects of people. There are many to examples the ways he followed, for example Sri Satya saibaba, who was demigod to many, also comes under this Robinhood philosophy. The difference was, the later bought out the humanity from the masses, by projecting sacredness into the ignorant minds. This looks like sedating people to a stage where they blindly follow and never question. If not his way, how possible it would be for an individual to start a multi‐specialty hospital and give treatment for free of cost? If you even have money and everything to do, a lot factors would stop you to do that good act. So the only thing to do is bribe them, emotionally or financially.
Referring to the earlier part of this discussion, Mr YSR was one of those children in the park who managed to stay in the swing ride for a while and started projecting an idea of monopoly to the central ministries waiting behind him. I need not tell again, what would be the results if a politician goes out of control of the High command. If weak, he will be bribed, or else will be just poisoned. We have been seeing this from a long time such things, from the death of the Bose, from the actual truth behind the doctor’s failure in treating injured Indira Gandhi, and from the assassination of Rajeev Gandhi, to the present tragedy of this YSR. So even if you tried to be good, you would fail to be if you make other envy at you. You will be soon pulled to ground. Very soon.
And finally the question of the moment, do we need his son, who is presently struggling and fighting with the same dishonest central ministries for his own version of justice? The answer is embedded in all the explanation above. For one cannot find a genuine politician, may be because no perfect man exists in politics, one only has a chance to go with these Robinhoods to move forward. I always wish, why everyone wouldn’t genuinely assist someone whose mind is full of dreams for ideal societies and make them as the leaders. I think it too utopian to think about such happenings. We , the voters never looked at person’s goodness beyond the lens of caste , creed and money. We, voters never respected and supported an ideal person in politics and fight back these entire corrupt ones. What if, Mr JP had ideas for better society; he was just overshadowed by many corrupt politicians and the voter’s blindness in addition. There are many intellects and diplomats who are equally qualified to be an ideal politician, but they are simply neglected for the reason they don’t have high caste profile, they don’t have a political background, they remain to be with principles and cannot be bribed or simple they are too correct in their living. Level two that consists of industrialists need politicians those can be corrupted to attain illegal licenses, medical seats, and permissions. Level three consist of merchants, who also need these corrupt politicians for more or less the same reasons. When every one of them needs a corrupt politician to pace their own works, there is no reason to why a common man should vote. We only can sit back and respect these Robinhoods , who rob from some, share it to the rest, saving for themselves a part of it. Because witnessing a complete goodness is foolishness, we only can see a part of it happening here and there atleast. But then a friend of mine questioned me “if you believe there is no god, do you start following devils?” To this I have only one answer, “there are no god and devil, there are only needs”. The one who was benefited by his father’s development programmes need him more, the one who was cheated by his father ideologies doesn’t need him anymore. You can be someone, not everyone. Every time.
‐Aroon
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Hisotry Lessons

2012-07-09T12:28:00.002+05:30

It’s from beginning that the theories of evolution, like many which we learnt in the schooling, are quite inefficient to explain to how a man can be renamed or made to look like in near future intentionally or un-intentionally. The intentions remained the same through the ages till date, only the objects changed. For why we have to be always manipulative, we never had a brief explanation, neither in the epics which just overlooked it as a natural instinct nor in the daily journals which never ever overlooked it as political. I have been going through all these days, from media to media, a long stretch of frustration from a common man in form of his / her testimonies in various social networking forums. Well, after I completed reading them, I felt quite bad about the concept of freedom of speech and why everyone needs to have it. Every one of them who text messaged his/ her ideas lived on the edges of what I prefer to call as a prejudice or a borrowed knowledge. To the briefest of times, never things like those ever lived for next generations in a fruitful manner. Understanding history is fine, may because some historian must have understood it to some extent and planted an explanation to the readers, who takes it as base for their future understanding and modifications. But on the flip side, history can be manipulated still because it’s a man not any other supreme being, who started reading it and re writing it to his or her comforts. Now that the Mr Kuldeep Nayar has come up with some intriguing points, one can’t blindly sit back and listen to whatever the historian says mocking at once praised leaders. Many still asked him indirectly why was this delay to write about the subject that is quite capable to topsy-turvy the present images of the subjected leaders and their then followers. There is still a dramatic counter to this, on why such delays are observed. The only answer is “reservoir news”. Sometimes this is also called as journalistic desire, to store a truth for future, to sell it for better fare, to kill it and just preserve it for future usage. When we go to the basics of history writing, journalism played a major role. It is now coined as journalism, but this kind of news capturing existed since the world got its anxiety. Everything that is royal is noted, from birthdays to end of wars, from raids to romances. To how everything evolved, these historians have answers for everyone. But still not many knew why we still mark Taj Mahal as a symbol of love, while many others just look at it as just another monument. Is it a made-up fact or baseless history? Journalism looked strong, but very soon it was identified to be the weakest profession. I am not here to scorn someone at, but to the bases of truth, I and everyone see, that a fact can be buried for time –being or till the end of time. Now that the media has many faces from pen to web, one has lesser chances to nullify a truth as easy as it used to be, but on the other side the manipulation is just multiplied with the increase in these faces of journalism and opportunity to peep inside and change. This is where assassination of Subash Chandra Bose is covered up and this is where many other leaders are made look like demons. We read this, pin it to our minds and lead forward in the movement of killing the truth and the fake thing prevailed until someone come up to correct it. And for every other ignorant among us, being in a democratic nation, could speak of it everywhere they like to. No one can ask them to know the truth, for the actual source of it was valved with many politics. So we die ignorant. If we don’t want to, better be silent at least rather than magnifying ourselves in public by the baseless truths we text message or tweet or status it to our profile. Save the truth for genuine history lessons.

Aroon

The brave can

2012-06-26T18:00:00.000+05:30


Only the brave can correct the existing

from my walls

2012-06-13T12:06:00.001+05:30

GABBAR SINGH LINES. PAWAN KALYAN

2012-05-24T18:12:00.000+05:30

This is the only other way.....

2012-05-18T15:18:00.001+05:30

"When some of us arent even aware how we are dying daily, the only enlightnement that opens every eye, is to sing to every ear we encounter, the song of our love , our labor , our lost. This is the only way out. This is the only way we can live futher. Never ever think you are a murderer, you are just cleaning your houses."

-aroon

Snippets from my book

2012-05-05T14:43:00.000+05:30

I am never dreamless

2012-04-17T11:14:00.000+05:30

Doesn’t exist

2012-04-16T16:35:00.004+05:30

Why don’t we come out of something what I prefer to call “doesn’t exist”?

Having observed any a time at a stray dog’s reaction, when you bend low pretending to pick a pebble, you will probably be very close to the understanding of a reflex. A reflex is a habit, un questionable, un reasoned, or never cross checked with the actual realities. The other day when I was playing with some kids, I happen to see some of them playing with the toy guns. What actually got attention of me, was the way they handle to toys guns, with no surprise, it was exactly the way it should be. The question is how these three year old kids come to know about guns and its rules. Their parents don’t tell them, their friends are peers to know it, so how do they do it ? Upon questioning them; I got to know that they got it from watching movies. And to my extended surprise, one of them told me that a senior corrected him when he was wrongly handling a gun, a toy one of course. Apart from applying brakes on seeing the red signal, buttoning your shirt, replying to a call, there are a lot of other things that are built inside us to react to the situations that encounter us. Programmed, aren’t we? Programmed is something that many of us never agree with. We don’t like to call ourselves robots. May be because we feel robots are bit stupid, even though we feel to be like them in terms of perfection. Even this disliking is also one of those programs. The way we look at ourselves, the way we estimate others, the way we deal things, the way we spend time for things, the way we deal fears and happiness, the way we relate to others, every part of us is a subset of something else. Something that might be as sacred as religions, as fetish as a superstition, as eluding as love, as tempting as a desire. So you can sit now and question yourselves, where did you get from, this everything what you use in and out of your day? If we were programmed, who did it for us? Your dad or mom, your friend or anyone else? Is it a book or an incident? Is it your daily endeavors or you simple prefer to conclude it as GOD. God didn’t program us, indeed, we programmed god how to be for us. It’s not a simple thing to answer, for you need to dig every minute of your past to clarify. The things we like, we hate, we follow, we desire to be, we never wanted to be, we idolize, we refer, and we customize and whatever it is, are just the abstracts of what we are made of. It’s not the birth that decides all these, but the way we are grown up that makes us what we are now. We are not destined to the present. We have responded to certain situations and arrived to the present. Some of these stick to us like unreasonable and unquestionable experiences/habits and we respond to every similar or assumed to be similar situation the same every time, like the dog that runs away even when you pretend to pick a pebble. Because we never take chance and come out of the act of being programmed which exists only when you surrender yourselves to it. And when you don’t, you can’t recognize your enemies any more.

A friend existed

2012-03-12T11:11:00.000+05:30

If it suits you, that’s not your greatness, that’s because it existed. I wonder every time when I talk to people who call me a friend and shared me everything they can. Though I don’t have many to boast about, I can count on them very appreciably. I soon sensed why every one had something like a friend. Not that I hastily conclude that man is a social being, as habit, I discovered it to be something that already exists and we are just discovering it. A friend is like a road, something like a road that you travel on daily. From your office to home, from market to home, or gym to home, which you get habituated to it, the more you travel on it. Very soon, you feel comfortable with it and come to know every turn of it, every kind of pit on it, and tune yourself to its traffic. But all this takes time. It takes time for every one of us to arrive to conclusions, that there is a kind of placate in being with someone else. And still it’s not that you traveled the road, in reality its great because the road allowed you to travel on it. Or is that the other way around, if I was wrong? I came to some odd conclusions when I depersonalized an individual as a road, but what I understood was these singular impulses I sensed generally exist in the world as a couplet, that is from the both sides, thus making the road as something that has senses. This made me to drop to the floors, where nothing existed in singular form, even the relations among us. You allow me to travel on you and I allow you to travel on me. Each of us is a road to travel on. And who you allow and who to obstruct, makes you the kind of friend you are. A friend is never created, it existed.