In most countries 5% of the population are educated/productive and pull the country forward. 95% of the population essentially has its head up its rear. The prosperous countries have govts that get out of the way of that 5%. In countries like India, not only is the govt. made up entirely of the head up rear, they ALSO put up as many road blocks as humanly possible to make the 5% fail. The results are simple to see.
Indian school students fared 2nd last in reading, writing and mathematical abilities in a test conducted by UN along Kyrgyzstan for 73 countries. the point to note is that our 15 year olds scored 200 points less than the global leader. These supposedly were children from the best run education system states, TN & Himachal.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Indian-students-rank-2nd-last-in-global-test/article show/11492508.cms
Actually , the US high school dropout rates would have been much higher than 40-50% if they did not follow a 'no child left behind' policy . US basically passes as many high school grads as possible.
US understood that the top 5 % manpower is what counts . And that top instis like MIT and stanford are not the places to indulge in democratization . And that merit should prevail in them. While the bozos who run India wanted 'democracy' everywhere . They wanted every ration card holder to go to IIT . And hence reservation was started. There is no reservation in US medical colleges.
So what does this test reveal? For me to start with it reveals that Govt. should simply shut down state run schools and start subsidising child education money directly to the accounts of parents for them to be able to send kids to privately run schools. Not all of them may be so great but they will definitely fare better than the Government run where teachers either don't come, even if they come, they come late or sleep in classrooms and indulge in politics. We must stop this 'Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan' immediately. Show me one success story of this initiative.
This glib talk of 'Inclusive growth' coined by morally and intellectually bankrupt UPA govt. is nothing but age-old CONgress idea of redistribution of wealth and keeping the corruption machinery running through various schemes to placate the local leaders, mostly teachers etc. If we want to realise our manifest destiny, we must educate our children and educate them well or we will loose this demographic dividend.
So basically democracy in Yindia means "dumb everyone down to the same level" That brings us to a fundamental question. Why was the institution of Government created? There can be 2 answers..
1. We are incapable of making of making right decisions so we chose few amongst us to guide society towards the final objectives through a chosen path. Imagining they are part of the 5%.
2. We created a system wherein we needed people to fulfill certain jobs i.e protect my rights as individuals, civil liberties, clean the streets etc
I for one believe the system of governance was created to serve us, Protect my rights as an individual and get paid certain sum of money for doing that job. Wherein in India (disease has moved elsewhere too) the government has moved to the upper sphere. In the name of 'inclusive growth' is robbing people of their rights and giving it to the majority. It has become the tyranny of dumb/delinquent majority.
Listen, my friends, Governments don't produce any goods or services by nature and by principle. It means they have to snatch them from someone and give it to the ones libtards call, Poor, destitute. Its immoral to say the least. Universal education does not mean that you block my path in the name of providing opportunity to others. you are virtually ensuring the destruction of future prosperity by blocking this 5%.
There is nothing called, 'Right' when it comes to Education, healthcare or food. It is an individual responsibility and I am all for Private charity not as an obligation but as providing opportunity. the nature of regulations is such that when you introduce one, you bring in 2 more to ensure the first one you introduced thus bloating bureaucracy. Time has come for all of us to start regulating the government and not other way round. It was meant to serve, not rule us or the day is not far when we will rob this nation of it's manifest destiny.
Evey new scheme that Govt. introduces become another lottery for the bureaucracy to make money. Rule of people is getting replaced by rule of babus and moronic Politicians. Time to look for new system of 'public service.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
India's blighted urban English speaking idiots and women emancipation
As a friend few years back called me a right winger and conseravtive, i kept on thinking about it for long. Is it bad to appreciate the heritage, culture and inherent reasons for existence of many of thse traditions? I felt proud of the civilisation that i am born in for the simple fact that it allowed divergent views.
Off late it has become fashionable to ridicule tradition in the so called, modern forward thinking world citizens. Many of whom watch NDTV or CNNIBN and use them as their primary source for world view. Wherein they talk about the pollution that comes on Diwali but never mention the tons of confettis that re blown away on Christmas along with the garbage, primarily plastic piling on the roads. They even ignore the cruel culling on poor animals on EID through a painfully process of Halal and go to the extent of respecting the sensitivities of Christans and Muslims. Fair enough, how about respecting the rights of other indians who follow Sanatan?
Today, 'Jallikattu' is referred as barbaric but the same crowd goes berserk as seeing bulls chasing 3 Bollywood actors in the popular movie 'jindagi an milegi dobara' . Is it the anglicised , metrosexual (feminine) heros with waxed chests look far more appealing to our world view of being modern and the VESHTI clad, skinny , dark natives running in front of bulls inTamil nadu are not so appealing that's why the whole acts is termed as barbaric?
One question which I want to ask the so called, modern, forward, English speaking , urbane population of this country is where is their famed nostril flaring anger at the murder of Bhanvari devi? I do know for a fact that if some CONgress politicians would not hav been involved then NDTV/CNNIBN would have taken the culprit to cleaners but as we understand you can't expose the people who pay your salaries. Most of the English media has concocted a story as of she deserved to die like this, murdered, burnt and pieces thrown into canal. Behind the exterior of sophistication is the real intent visible when they use the words like ,"small town woman", "big ambitions" and "dangerous liaisons". What a double speak this is. I know of many English speaking, career woman who did exactly the same as Bhanvari, slept with their mentors to have a great career, faster promotions or to have a life style that they could not afford. But off course , they are modern and definitely not small town . Moreover they speak English unlike Bhanwari Devi .
How blithely we abuse the Right for anything and everything that offends those who promote and practice unrestrained libertinism and are appalled that morals and scruples are still valued by the vast majority of the people of India. It is of little or no consequence to the critics of the Right that most of them lack the intellectual wherewithal to define and qualify the object of their hate. Despite the absence of any real understanding of what the Right stands for, in contrast to the Left, it is fashionable to mock at the former even for those whom the latter holds in utter contempt.
Hence the outpouring of abuse and worse against the Right following the attack on a pub in Mangalore, evocatively named Amnesia, by a bunch of goons masquerading as soldiers of Sri Ram Sena on January 24.,2009. Strangely, most of the scathing criticism of the Right was and is voiced by those whose dissolute lifestyle sets them firmly apart from conservatives as well as liberals. It is doubtful whether the Left, leave alone the Right, would endorse the enterprise undertaken by The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women to collect pink underwear, sneeringly referred to as ‘chaddis’, which was sent to Pramod Muthalik and his hoodlums on Valentine’s Day that year. There is nothing amusing about either this ‘creative’ protest or Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Choudhury’s call for a ‘pub bharo andolan’; both merely highlight the moral bankruptcy of a certain segment of our urban society which seeks to impose on India the trailer park ‘culture’ that permeates every aspect of their lives.
" The issue really isn’t one of culture and tradition, which are far too complex for those who look askance at responsible behaviour to comprehend, but the manner in which they view others who may refuse to embrace or applaud their lifestyle. It is also to do with perverse notions of ‘modernism’ and assertion of perverted ‘modernity’. For instance, The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women — this Facebook group also had men as its members — would consider women who don’t consume alcoholic beverages or smoke cigarettes, wear saris and are not necessarily long-suffering wives who spend their lives as home-makers but in building successful careers, as ‘backward’.
They would view working women who travel in over-crowded buses and commuter trains and return home in the evening too tired to contemplate a night out on the tiles, or those who contribute to the family kitty to keep the home fire burning and, therefore, cannot afford the luxury of scoffing exotic cocktails at pubs, as losers deserving of their pity. The women who scrub floors, wash clothes and clean dishes to eke out subsistence wages from which they save money to pay for their children’s school fees and books, and are regularly beaten black and blue by their husbands after they have had their fill of liquor at ‘pubs’ which cater to the underclass, simply do not matter and, hence, are not worthy of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women’s attention".
There is also the aspect of duplicity, the double standards which are practiced by those who equate ‘pub culture’ and its attendant libertine self-indulgence with being ‘forward’ or ‘modern’. For example, a woman with the pallu of her sari firmly placed over her head will be sneered at as not only ‘backward’ but also a ‘conservative’ who is preventing society from moving ‘forward’. But a woman forced to clad herself in an all-enveloping burqa will be seen as being true to her ‘faith’ and ‘culture’, which only underscores the amazing ignorance of those who do the tagging.
Who is to tell The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women, and their guardian angel Renuka Choudhury, that a vegetarian and a teetotaller, whether a man or a woman, who finds ‘pub culture’ abhorrent and distasteful, or those who reject conspicuous consumption since it clashes with their middle class values, can also be ‘forward’ and ‘modern’ in their personal lives?
"Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar did not give up his sacred thread nor did he get rid of the tuft of hair that denoted his caste; he wore a short Bengali peasant’s dhuti and used a coarse cotton chaador to cover his torso. He was a scholar of Sanskrit who was barely able to make ends meet, leave alone indulge in the smallest of luxuries. Such a person would be an object of ridicule and worse for The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women, especially the male members of the group who would burst into derisive laughter. That’s understandable. For those busy collecting pink chaddis would be blissfully ignorant of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s pioneering role in championing women’s emancipation and promoting widow remarriage. Nor would they know about Raja Ram Mohun Roy who led a remarkable campaign for social reform without abandoning culture and tradition: The Brahmo Samaj was — and remains — grounded in India’s civilisational identity and cultural ethos while repudiating aberrations and excesses of faith.
A last point that merits elaboration is the disdain which the pink chaddi brigade and charlatans who pose as emancipators of women and ostensibly believe that emancipation lies in sipping Bacardi or chasing whiskey while blowing smoke rings have for local community sensitivities, which are often casually referred to as local culture and tradition. Just because lip-locking or similar public display of carnal attraction (which is not to be confused with love) raises no eyebrows in the West does not mean the East must ape the mating game. It is immaterial whether individuals are comfortable with licentious behaviour in front of others. What is material and important is whether those around the individuals — in a street, a park, a café or a restaurant — are comfortable with it; if they feel discomfited or outraged, then their sensitivities must over-ride the presumed right to make a spectacle of yourself in public."
Let me tell you dear 'modern, loose moral, consortium of pub going men and women', you indeed are rootless, characterless and unprincipled zombies. You who've no strength of character. Even if Bhanvari did what she did, nobody has any right to kill her for ambitions and she deserves justice and yes more outrage. Where are the champions of women's modesty and her right o have a life that she wants and chooses for herself.
Remember PINK CHADDIS Bhanvari Devi has a 17 year old son and 2 daughters.
Quotes from Kanchan Gupta's article in January 2009
Off late it has become fashionable to ridicule tradition in the so called, modern forward thinking world citizens. Many of whom watch NDTV or CNNIBN and use them as their primary source for world view. Wherein they talk about the pollution that comes on Diwali but never mention the tons of confettis that re blown away on Christmas along with the garbage, primarily plastic piling on the roads. They even ignore the cruel culling on poor animals on EID through a painfully process of Halal and go to the extent of respecting the sensitivities of Christans and Muslims. Fair enough, how about respecting the rights of other indians who follow Sanatan?
Today, 'Jallikattu' is referred as barbaric but the same crowd goes berserk as seeing bulls chasing 3 Bollywood actors in the popular movie 'jindagi an milegi dobara' . Is it the anglicised , metrosexual (feminine) heros with waxed chests look far more appealing to our world view of being modern and the VESHTI clad, skinny , dark natives running in front of bulls inTamil nadu are not so appealing that's why the whole acts is termed as barbaric?
One question which I want to ask the so called, modern, forward, English speaking , urbane population of this country is where is their famed nostril flaring anger at the murder of Bhanvari devi? I do know for a fact that if some CONgress politicians would not hav been involved then NDTV/CNNIBN would have taken the culprit to cleaners but as we understand you can't expose the people who pay your salaries. Most of the English media has concocted a story as of she deserved to die like this, murdered, burnt and pieces thrown into canal. Behind the exterior of sophistication is the real intent visible when they use the words like ,"small town woman", "big ambitions" and "dangerous liaisons". What a double speak this is. I know of many English speaking, career woman who did exactly the same as Bhanvari, slept with their mentors to have a great career, faster promotions or to have a life style that they could not afford. But off course , they are modern and definitely not small town . Moreover they speak English unlike Bhanwari Devi .
How blithely we abuse the Right for anything and everything that offends those who promote and practice unrestrained libertinism and are appalled that morals and scruples are still valued by the vast majority of the people of India. It is of little or no consequence to the critics of the Right that most of them lack the intellectual wherewithal to define and qualify the object of their hate. Despite the absence of any real understanding of what the Right stands for, in contrast to the Left, it is fashionable to mock at the former even for those whom the latter holds in utter contempt.
Hence the outpouring of abuse and worse against the Right following the attack on a pub in Mangalore, evocatively named Amnesia, by a bunch of goons masquerading as soldiers of Sri Ram Sena on January 24.,2009. Strangely, most of the scathing criticism of the Right was and is voiced by those whose dissolute lifestyle sets them firmly apart from conservatives as well as liberals. It is doubtful whether the Left, leave alone the Right, would endorse the enterprise undertaken by The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women to collect pink underwear, sneeringly referred to as ‘chaddis’, which was sent to Pramod Muthalik and his hoodlums on Valentine’s Day that year. There is nothing amusing about either this ‘creative’ protest or Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Choudhury’s call for a ‘pub bharo andolan’; both merely highlight the moral bankruptcy of a certain segment of our urban society which seeks to impose on India the trailer park ‘culture’ that permeates every aspect of their lives.
" The issue really isn’t one of culture and tradition, which are far too complex for those who look askance at responsible behaviour to comprehend, but the manner in which they view others who may refuse to embrace or applaud their lifestyle. It is also to do with perverse notions of ‘modernism’ and assertion of perverted ‘modernity’. For instance, The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women — this Facebook group also had men as its members — would consider women who don’t consume alcoholic beverages or smoke cigarettes, wear saris and are not necessarily long-suffering wives who spend their lives as home-makers but in building successful careers, as ‘backward’.
They would view working women who travel in over-crowded buses and commuter trains and return home in the evening too tired to contemplate a night out on the tiles, or those who contribute to the family kitty to keep the home fire burning and, therefore, cannot afford the luxury of scoffing exotic cocktails at pubs, as losers deserving of their pity. The women who scrub floors, wash clothes and clean dishes to eke out subsistence wages from which they save money to pay for their children’s school fees and books, and are regularly beaten black and blue by their husbands after they have had their fill of liquor at ‘pubs’ which cater to the underclass, simply do not matter and, hence, are not worthy of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women’s attention".
There is also the aspect of duplicity, the double standards which are practiced by those who equate ‘pub culture’ and its attendant libertine self-indulgence with being ‘forward’ or ‘modern’. For example, a woman with the pallu of her sari firmly placed over her head will be sneered at as not only ‘backward’ but also a ‘conservative’ who is preventing society from moving ‘forward’. But a woman forced to clad herself in an all-enveloping burqa will be seen as being true to her ‘faith’ and ‘culture’, which only underscores the amazing ignorance of those who do the tagging.
Who is to tell The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women, and their guardian angel Renuka Choudhury, that a vegetarian and a teetotaller, whether a man or a woman, who finds ‘pub culture’ abhorrent and distasteful, or those who reject conspicuous consumption since it clashes with their middle class values, can also be ‘forward’ and ‘modern’ in their personal lives?
"Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar did not give up his sacred thread nor did he get rid of the tuft of hair that denoted his caste; he wore a short Bengali peasant’s dhuti and used a coarse cotton chaador to cover his torso. He was a scholar of Sanskrit who was barely able to make ends meet, leave alone indulge in the smallest of luxuries. Such a person would be an object of ridicule and worse for The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women, especially the male members of the group who would burst into derisive laughter. That’s understandable. For those busy collecting pink chaddis would be blissfully ignorant of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s pioneering role in championing women’s emancipation and promoting widow remarriage. Nor would they know about Raja Ram Mohun Roy who led a remarkable campaign for social reform without abandoning culture and tradition: The Brahmo Samaj was — and remains — grounded in India’s civilisational identity and cultural ethos while repudiating aberrations and excesses of faith.
A last point that merits elaboration is the disdain which the pink chaddi brigade and charlatans who pose as emancipators of women and ostensibly believe that emancipation lies in sipping Bacardi or chasing whiskey while blowing smoke rings have for local community sensitivities, which are often casually referred to as local culture and tradition. Just because lip-locking or similar public display of carnal attraction (which is not to be confused with love) raises no eyebrows in the West does not mean the East must ape the mating game. It is immaterial whether individuals are comfortable with licentious behaviour in front of others. What is material and important is whether those around the individuals — in a street, a park, a café or a restaurant — are comfortable with it; if they feel discomfited or outraged, then their sensitivities must over-ride the presumed right to make a spectacle of yourself in public."
Let me tell you dear 'modern, loose moral, consortium of pub going men and women', you indeed are rootless, characterless and unprincipled zombies. You who've no strength of character. Even if Bhanvari did what she did, nobody has any right to kill her for ambitions and she deserves justice and yes more outrage. Where are the champions of women's modesty and her right o have a life that she wants and chooses for herself.
Remember PINK CHADDIS Bhanvari Devi has a 17 year old son and 2 daughters.
Quotes from Kanchan Gupta's article in January 2009
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