Wednesday 29 August 2007

Political leadership of India

Political leadership of India

How long will we suffer the inscrutable leadership? We celebrated our 60th Independence. But it is clear that still we are in the chains, we are not yet free. India is a democratic nation, are we satisfied with our political leadership? Today we have perilous political leadership. How can we say that India is a developing nation? We faced famine, recession, etc.. But now have the caliber to change our country a developed.

We need political and economic freedom. In some part of the country there still exist cast discrimination. In some states there exists small percentage of illiteracy. Our politicians have a lack of integrity. Corrupted, unscrupulous people are now India’s political leaders. Are they committed to the country? Obviously no. We all know this fact. So why are we keeping silence. It is the high time to react. Every Indians got a vivid idea about the super Indian politics.

It is high time to revamp our outdated politics and also by the mean time we need powerful politicians. Most of the contemporary politicians are corrupted. Such politicians are actually intimidating our country. India’s greatest curse is these types of mentally outdated and expired politicians. For the past many years India’s political leadership was too dormant. India’s politicians are not exact “politicians” they are “politricians”.

Indian politics are impinging our day-to-day life. We should realize that India is the land of powerful voices. Why did our freedom fighters sacrifice their life? We want a liberal politics. We need powerful hands. Politics is a part our integrity. Wake up and realize the truth. India is eagering for the powerful voices and hands.


Richy D Alexander

Global Terrorism

Global Terrorism
The impact of globalization was very much. It entirely changed our life. We gained a lot of things. We got both the good and evil through the globalization. Now we realized what is global terrorism. As global terrorists are constantly hitting new targets, the risk of possible new threats is accordingly increasing. What the last attacks proved in reality is that the capability of terrorists access to subways, which are considered to be surrounded with protective measures. What are global terrorists trying to achieve and when are the countries struggling against global terrorists right or wrong in their attitude towards them? The real damage that all terrorist attacks cause is the trace of chilling fear that stays in people’s minds. This situation can be described as the second wave impact of terror on massive parts of public on a large scale. Terrorist organizations are not structures, which are strong with their own capabilities. The solidification of these groups depends on the wrong reactions to their deeds. Terrorist organizations act with the purpose of speeding up societal disintegration and decomposition and at this point, they have to follow a strategy that completely contradicts with that of state forces. Both, societies and states must do what they are required to do, search for their responsibilities, and look at the other side of the mirror after each bomb attacks. If there is a growing trend of global terror and the clash among different cultures and beliefs is increasing, the terrorists are responsible for this picture. The people of the part struggling against terror must not disintegrate and must develop collective measures. Struggle against terror requires sincerity. The first condition is to remove the double-standard among countries. To realize this, disregarding the boundaries, countries must act collectively. We must take into our minds that terrorism is a fact that can be manipulated despite its origins, actors and places. At this point, the thought that “your terrorist” or “my terrorist”, namely the concept of possessiveness, should be avoided and the issue should be looked at from the general framework. India has suffered for the past nearly two decades from terrorism in Punjab, in Jammu and Kashmir and in other parts of India. Countless innocent lives have been lost to the terrorist's bombs and guns. In January 2000, the United States and India announced the establishment of a Joint Working Group on Counter terrorism. We could see that how many terrorist attacks happened in India. Terrorism is a threaten to our nation. The past so many years we faced many terrorist attacks. The terror attack at IISC Bangalore in 2005, the parliament attack in 2001 and the recent Hydrabad bomb blast were greatly affected our country. The 9/11 and the London terror plot revealed that all countries in the target list of the global terrorists. We cannot predict the terrorist attack but we can prevent by the cooperation of all countries. We need a global unity.

Richy D Alexander

Monday 27 August 2007

A decade after liberalization; Is India growing in the right direction.

A decade after liberalization; Is India growing in the right direction.


Liberalization is one of the most controversial issues that recently we hear. Its pathos and havocs are being popularly discussed. This was accepted by India before thirteen years. The aim was the quick and rapid development in all economic territories. The liberalization paved the way for huge private investment mainly in industrial and service sectors. When we analyze the increase in the private investment due to the liberalization, we have to evaluate its effects and defects also. We can see an increasing trend in the private investment in public sectors and service sectors. When India become a republic the public sectors and the private sectors were being safeguarded giving monopoly for the welfare of the general public. The government control was mainly for the welfare of the people. The prime motive of this sector was not profit maximization but service maximization.

The liberalization movement helped for decreasing the inflationary rate, created more employment opportunities, earned more foreign exchange and overall the financial system of the country became more stable. Due to the rapid industrialization, unemployment is curtailed. As more employment opportunities are created, the income earning capacity of the people increases. Hence, the status of the people also increased. The liberalization will help the allround development of the people of a country and the country become a developed nation. When we measure the development of a country based on the increase in the per capita income, the accurate temperature of the development may not be measured. Always the development should be in compromise with the physical development and the inner development.

Liberalization aims at the maximization of physical development. In the path of this development, more inequalities are created. The gulf between the haves and have not increases, even it will not affect the per capita income. Here a majority class is being depressed and suppressed by the haves. Else, the liberalization leads to capitalism and the result will be old evils of capitalism. The last ten decade, India is also in the way of capitalism, because a large number of private investors have doubled their working capital and the profit earning capacity. Once, the government controlled the share of the public sector undertaking. But now the gigantic private investors control the share market. As the control is in the hands of the private investors, they change the economic system according to their whims and fancies. As the profit maximization is the prime aim of the investors, they do not care the welfare of the public. In the last decade of liberalization, several employees were retrenched. The welfare of labour class is not protected. The investors need only the experts and efficients. But in the society of labourers there are efficient and inefficient based on the surroundings in which man live. So this differentiation has created an ethical problem and has created a society, which is full of fire, covered by ashes. The great result of liberalization (negatively) is the creation of these dissimilarities.

In India several socio-cultural organization has researched and pointed out the harms of liberalization. Moreover as I pointed out earlier, in liberalization the investors do not care in the development of the primary sectors of the economy. Once our country and our great leaders gave more importance to the agriculture sector. The development of India can expect only through the agricultural sector, because more than 70% of the people in our country live in the villages and they directly or indirectly depend on agriculture and traditional works. This is the backbone of our county and economy. But the investors neglected this sector and several farmers and traditional workers of different states had committed suicide, because their existence was dangerously hampered. This dissatisfaction is not the dissatisfaction of a minority class, but the discontent or dissatisfaction of a majority class. Now the government has agreed that there are defects in the liberalization policies. It is a good symptom of economic revitalization and again some control of the government in the private investors.

Hence, we should see that liberalization is a better means of development. But it is like a chariot without a charioteer, it is like a flood without proper water management. In short, I would like to say that always there should be a compromise with the effects and defects of liberalization and should be at the maximum welfare of the people, because the people in a country are its most valuable assets.

Richy. D. Alexander