tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89938054726608116782024-02-18T18:52:56.881-08:00on a conveyorThe blog is about what i see and experience everyday. I have tried to capture things that interest me through words and sometimes photographs.samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-84096199754224646602018-05-21T04:33:00.000-07:002018-05-21T04:35:04.690-07:00 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the GLOCAL Factor <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Since coming to office Modi has hugged his way through many countries. Though many have mocked his hugs it was part of a global strategy. He was giving a new style to Indian diplomacy - being braggadocio. This was combined with using the Indian diaspora across the world to indicate his worth in foreign countries to people in India.The cherry on this ‘soft power’ was the global recognition of Yoga. The other side of this coin was the surgical strikes carried out inside Pakistan and Burma. Such occasions gave Indians an opportunity to puff out their chests. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Within India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team spoke about Indian mythology as if it were history, created an environment where Hindu hardliners had a free hand and reframed laws to undo what he had called ‘1200 years of slavery’ in his maiden Lok Sabha (Indian Parliament) speech. Since then he has torn into the icons of the Indian freedom struggle and ridiculed the performance of the country in the last 60 years. Though there was not much substance in these, the sheer insouciance of what he said swayed people. This was the local part of the Glocalisation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">This glocalisation formula gives the BJP the aura of a national party. Unfortunately, the Congress (I) has not come up with a blueprint for its position as a national party. It is hampered by the fact that Rahul Gandhi is taking baby steps into the political sphere. This would have been commendable and inspiring if he were in business or if India were still a monarchy or he did not represent a dynasty.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Thus, it is important that the Congress (I) and even other parties learn from the BJP. These are the things that work for the BJP within the ambit of the Glocal philosophy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">What is the message that the Congress (I) wishes to communicate to Indians? It cannot be ‘oppose the BJP’. It has to be at the realm of ideas, ideas that can draw people away from the BJP. By asking people to ‘oppose the BJP’ the Congress is telling people that they were wrong to vote for the BJP further it is creating a ‘us’ against ‘them’ situation which is unwinnable in the current scenario. The BJP is selling a product. What product is the Congress going to produce that attracts people to it? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Indians want leaders who strut their stuff abroad while keeping to their roots. It is what modern India is morphing into. This is the narrative that Modi has created within the Indian diaspora and with the people of India and is what Glocalisation is about. At this juncture the Congress cannot depend on one person to stand against the onslaught of the BJP. The only way for Congress to survive is to let its young leaders represent the country in India and abroad</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">A recent survey suggests that Indians believe that the BJP has enhanced India’s image abroad even though the same people think the government has not been able to tackle rising prices or crimes against women and children. There is enough grist in the mill for the Congress to create a counter narrative, will it do so by going the Glocal way?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-62009900371233019412018-05-19T08:23:00.001-07:002018-05-19T08:25:57.421-07:00Indian Politics - The Art of the Impossible<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">The 17</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> of May 2018 is a date that many in Karnataka, a state in India, will remember. Emerging from a closely contested election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has formed the government in Karnataka. Though it is the largest party, it does not have the majority required to do so. The incoming Chief Minister </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">BS Yedyyurappa</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> has 15 days to prove his majority. (Yeddyurappa resigned today the 19th of May). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">He needs to attract eight newly elected representatives from other political parties to join him.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">This is the art of the impossible in Indian politics.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Horse trading is nothing new in India. Over the years, elections and regular politicking have caused political ships to flounder. The picture that comes to mind in the aftermath is of the well known pithy about rodents deserting a sinking ship.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">But it is not only self-preservation that makes politics in India the ‘Art of the Impossible’, it is also politicians knowing their weight in gold. This self awareness opens up a‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">mandi</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">’ every now and then. So it comes as no surprise that political leaders have carted off their juniors to secure locations to ensure they do not succumb to the apple proffered surreptitiously by the opposition.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Self-preservation and self worth are two sides of the same coin. Power and pelf are the accoutrements that politics provide. One is not speaking of the official perks, recognition and salary that elected officials get.There are other benefits that go along with this vocation which increases when one gets a ministerial berth. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">There is another aspect to self-preservation and self worth. It is recognition for being a ‘dedicated party member’. One has often heard of politicians switching allegiance because they were not offered a ticket or a ministerial position post election . This is self preservation kicking in due to a dissonance between how the party sees the politician and how they perceive themself. The politician relocates to another party which promises more.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Gordon Gekko</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> said ‘</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">"</span><i><span class="15" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">Greed</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">, for lack of a </span><i><span class="15" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">better</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> word, is </span><i><span class="15" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">good</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">."</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> and many politicians couldn’t agree more. Inspired by Gordon Gekko, many politicians have what is today called an </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">open relationship</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> with ideology. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">But it is not only the politicians who live by this revolving door philosophy. Many in the nation sell themselves to the highest bidder. Bankers in Goa have told me that there was a cash crunch in the state because a lot of money was being pumped into the Karnataka elections. Papers have reported of vote-buying going digital in these elections. There are non-monetary methods which have positive socio-economic impacts. Just before the elections the Congress government in Karnataka gave the Lingayat community special minority status. Today, immediately after being sworn in Yeddyruppa waived off farmer loans. However in many instances, willingness to be bought has to do with putting food on the table. The fact is that politicians pave their way to power with the desperation of the common person. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Yedyyurappa</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> trotting out his MLAs to prove his majority will be an interesting moment. The Congress has already identified </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">MLA</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Vijayanagara</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> MLA</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> Anand Singh and Maski MLA Pratap Gowda Patil</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> who may have turned saffron. Others may be induced to come out of their party woodwork. The question at this juncture is how saffron is the colour of money?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Politics in India reduces a mountain to an accessible platform where a buyer and seller can meet. The greedy get a better deal while the desperate are given a pittance. It has been said that </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">money makes the mare go. </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: normal;">In the Indian political context it is a succinct explanation to the impossible transformation of a minority government into a majority.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-41066905935806915192018-04-10T21:22:00.000-07:002018-04-10T21:22:06.837-07:00Is Our Optimism Threatening Our Very Survival?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I happened to come across a recent blog post of a Director of a known environmental organisation. Writing on the current environmental situation and resulting crisis that we are facing the Director lets out that she is an ‘Optimist’. What struck me in the article was the endearing human quality of drawing a silver lining in the dark of the smog that now envelopes us. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Psychologists have told us that optimists are happy people. They are able to cope with adversity because they see the glass as half full. Instead of crying over the many lemons that life gifts them they use it to make lemonade, not to ‘drown their sorrows’. This ability to rummage through the rubble to find something salvageable has stood us in good stead in dealing with our personal problems.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But is it something that will ensure the survival of the human species? </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to recent reports, plastics have been found in the stomachs of the creatures living in the deepest bowels of the ocean. Finding this synthetic fibre in beings that live 11 kms deep in the sea is a consequence of the 8.5 billion tonnes of plastic produced since the 1950s. Scientists have found plastic in 83% of global tap water samples. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The World Health Organisation has announced a review on the potential risks of plastics in drinking water after recent studies determined that 90% of sampled popular bottled water contained plastic.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As 2017 came to an end, there were reports indicating that it would be the hottest year on record. In January 2017, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">National Aeronautics and Space Administration</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NASA</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NOAA</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) stated that 2016 was the warmest year. It wont be surprising if we are told at the fag end of 2018 that it was the hottest year on record. A</span><span class="15" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">ccording to the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NOAA</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the US is still assessing the cost of </span><span class="15" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria</span><span class="15" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but till Oct 6 2017 there have been “</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">15 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Right now the 'Beast f</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">rom</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the East' has a large chu</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">n</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">k of the world in its jaws.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Combined with this is the news that we are in the middle of a ‘great insect die off’. Over the last few months, the Guardian has been reporting on species dying because of “</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">habitat destruction, over</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">hunting, toxic pollution, invasion by alien species and climate change.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” The biomass of flying insects in Germany has dropped by 3/4ths since 1989. Insects are pollinators, keep the soil fertile, are fed on and feed off each other. This is a disaster that not many speak of.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In such circumstances, being an optimist puts to shade the fable of the ‘Ant and the Grasshopper’.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sure we have ‘accelerated our response to climate change’ but that is just one theatre of war. We have launched an unprecedented attack on ourselves, and therefore the planet, on various fronts at a scale that is jaw dropping. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, we scour through all this for that silver lining.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I would hazard a guess that the current levels of optimism are a mix of the ‘superman effect’ - a potent mix of righteousness, vanity, high levels of self belief in ones abilities and the work one is doing mixed with the inability and even unwillingness to see the ‘whole picture’. As a race we are keen to juggle many balls or multi-task but are we really equipped to handle and solve these many problems all at once?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Given the Augean stables that we have constructed for ourselves and now live in, what can the answer be? </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In such a situation the optimism that many feel is a rose tinted lens that prevents an honest view of the true value and impact of the work vis-a-vis the gargantuan problem. The belief in the effectiveness of the work is akin to that of the pre-iceberg Titanic, therefore opportunity for course corrections are limited or don’t exist. It goes without saying that each NGO does what it is best at according to its vision and philosophy. Collectively they are like fish bowls placed side-by-side each with a single fish in each of them. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Based on the work being done in our current circumstances one has to question the credibility of this optimism. Is this positivity for the future blindsiding us to the real extent of the threat and the viability of our endeavours to contain it? How different is it from the belief the French had on their Maginot Line? Optimism is about making the best of a bad situation. It is not about misreading a situation. Are we misinterpreting what optimism stands for and the efficacy of our work? Is this therefore threatening our survival?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-82927021978423000082018-04-01T23:08:00.000-07:002018-04-01T23:08:18.364-07:00The Environment Identity Conundrum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We are currently in the throes of a new iteration of how individuals, societies and countries view and portray their identity . There was a time when the urge was to find commonality between identities while also celebrating uniqueness. This ‘Brotherhood/Sisterhood’ resulted in the formation of the United Nations and its many organisations and also NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The world has moved from Woodstock, about which Joni Mitchell</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> said, </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Woodstock was a spark of beauty where half-a-million kids saw that they were part of a greater organism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ to Live Aid where the world came together to help the people of Ethiopia and now to Glastonbury and Coachella which provide platforms for the audience to celebrate their uniqueness while enjoying music.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">An article in the Japanese Times suggests that the reason Japan continues to whale is to show it ‘</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">isn’t cowed by </span><i><span class="15" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">gaiatsu</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (outside pressure)</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’. Another article suggests that Japanese recalcitrance to bow to international pressure on this instance is because of their fear that it can open the floodgates to other similar demands on other aspects of Japanese way of life. This just goes to show how a cultural and dietary habit can grow into a form of nationalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Over the last week I was bombarded with a thesaurus of festive wishes - these include ‘Happy Holidays’, ‘Seasons Greetings’, ‘Merry X’mas’ and ‘Merry Christmas’. Along with these rainbow of felicitations are messages denouncing some of these greetings as not kosher given that they seem to ignore the religious aspect of the festival. You could say that this once again shines a spotlight on how divisive religions and their practice can be. It may also suggest that the interpretation, practice and celebration of religions must expand to embrace the evolving human mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">This Battle-for-the-Correct-Christmas-Greeting had its most famous proponent in Donald Trump. During his 2016 election campaign he had promised to bring back the usage of ‘Merry Christmas’. On Trumps election, his </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> said </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">“You can say again, ‘Merry Christmas’ because Donald Trump is now the president”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">. Trump in a recent speech said ‘We are going to be celebrating Merry Christmas Again’, he also tweeted the following on the 30</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> of November ‘</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Today is a day that I’ve been looking very much forward to ALL YEAR LONG. It is one that you have heard me speak about many times before. Now, as President of the United States, it is my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">’.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Given Trumps track record it was par for the course for this leader of the freeworld, who has made his billions through capitalism and with his fathers money, to play to the blinkered evangelist gallery with this Christmas thingamabob. Capitalism is what has made Christmas so secular. Adam Smiths invisible hand of Laissez Faire directs this evangelisation of Christmas. It could also be argued that because Christmas celebrations, like other similar religious occasions, are socio-religious it provides space for everyone to partake in its festivities.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Sure people have forgotten that alcohol was earlier used as a preservative and to keep warm and not to bring in Christmas cheer. And that the ‘Christmas Spirit’ is not the name of some potent seasonal alcohol but the joy and gratitude which when shared is magnified manifold, something milked by marketeers today. So it comes as no surprise that malls have Christmas Trees and Santas at this time of the year and big named hotels organise the so called ‘traditional mixing of Christmas Cake’. But that has not prevented people from finding ways to keep this candle lit by coming together in homes to get their hands dirty with cake mix or from reaching for their wallets or from decorating Christmas Trees and constructing the Nativity Scene irrespective of religion. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Many fear that the reason for the secularisation is the watering down of the religiosity of this festival. There may be some truth in this dilution, but even so the cart is being put in front of the horse. This fear is an ill-informed trend in Christianity if not in other religions too. It has also percolated to how we practise our politics. The truth is that people are drawn to the person and not what s/he stood for. It is simpler to worship a person and celebrate the birth, sacrifice, victory or their return than to live by the ideals preached and practised. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Does one need to be of a certain persuasion to aspire and work towards being a Maryada Purush? </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">The words of the greetings for this season should not distract us from the life of the first Che’ Guevara born over 2000 years ago. It should not blind us to the fact that we don’t know the date of Christs birth and this celebration is more about the principles he stood for and is an opportunity to put into practice those which are acceptable to us.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">The Spirit of Christmas cannot be bottled or sold. There is no one way to share the joy of what this birth and life stood for. By debating the form of greeting an opportunity is lost to share a moment of joy or do an act of kindness. Isn’t finding occasions to give back, to show gratitude and thankfulness part of what makes life worth living ? And if it is so shouldn’t the Spirit of Christmas and other festivals be around 365 days of the year? </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-35461943034036121552017-10-27T03:20:00.000-07:002017-10-27T03:20:52.910-07:00Love is.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">First of all lets breakdown the modern day news as seen on television to its key constituents. There is the news maker or event, then there is the journalist who reports on it and the journalist in the studio who is more of a moderator than an anchor for news shows, the experts whose knowledge, emotions and urge to speak are harnessed and moderated and finally the audience who watch the news. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The two lovebirds and their love are the main news event. However, the life cycle of this piece of news is such that the duo play many roles. In the beginning, like investigative journalists, they dig into the past of their lovers directly questioning the other or sussing out information from others on the sly as a means of understanding the other and also wishing to find new nuances to this person. Undeniably, these efforts are also to check for skeletons a positive fall out of which is the reinforcing and validating of the commitment made to the relationship. As experts, they share their life experiences/lessons to support and bolster the other and to find other streams of confluence. This sharing becomes an opportunity for each to enact the role of a moderator encouraging the other to explore and dissect what is shared while suggesting different angles from which things can be looked at. Interestingly, both are also the audience, avidly consuming what is shared. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With the freshness of the story comes the desire for social approval. The lovers individually report this moment with closest friends and family. These people provide expert opinion and dissect snippets of conversation and incidents that one half of the loving pair share with them. On account of their experience-lived or otherwise, they suggest the next steps that need to be taken to their friend without actually meeting the other half of the duo. These discussions and viewpoints add to the excitement in the stories and to the enthusiasm of the pair. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Soon, the story enters the next phase when these experts become the audience. The lovers go public and introduce themselves as a couple to the world. In other words - </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘ the word becomes flesh and blood and dwells amongst them’. The audience plays the role of a fact-checker corroborating the information about the other given to them by one part of the loving duo. The freshness of this news event is enhanced by the lovers PDAs, quick surreptitious snogs, each telling the others story and so on. All are surprised, including the couple, when they inadvertently complete each others sentences or share a thought simultaneously. This is taken as unassailable proof of the deep love that the lovebirds share. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is the time when the experts turned audience inadvertently become closer by imbibing in the common delight of watching this pair. Consequently they begin discussing the love birds amongst themselves in private. They generate and consume news of the lovebirds away from the lovebirds. Rumours and gossip float around as all wonder about the credibility, worthiness of each individual of this pair and their viability together. When the grapevine brings such talk to the ears of the pair it is vehemently denied and doubts are cast on the source of such tattle even as motives are questioned.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The transformation includes a chosen few becoming moderators. Their role involves everything from being a sounding board to mediating a tiff between the lovers to stemming the flow of gossip.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In time the lovebirds find that there are no new angles to be found. The kind of response that their first holiday together or the first cake one baked for the other elicited is not matched for similar events. The freshness of the love, the thrill which the lovers felt and which was shared with the audience cum experts is long past. Even as this love gets relegated to ‘less important’, the lovers still generate news between themselves which is consumed by all. Such events are piecemeal, far and few between and does not sustain the main news which is now declining in novelty and news worthiness.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The audience disengages and disinterest sets in as the lovebirds have nothing more to offer. The moderators and experts whittle down to a few with the lovebirds having nothing more to delve into. Regular news of increments, examinations, office politics etc regain lost space in the lives of everyone. The lives of the new couple also get consumed with the everyday. Eventually, in the natural course of things the couple become the newest members of the audience waiting for the next piece of news to surprise, enthrall and engage them.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-58226689760282778702017-10-06T03:06:00.000-07:002017-10-06T03:10:57.234-07:00What does Swaach Bharat Undermine?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">India is getting over the annual hangover of cleaning the country. Narendra Modi, in one broom sweep has created an eternal monument to himself. Whenever a broom is picked up in front of cameras thoughts go out to our dear Prime Minister. Many also point out that he has reduced Mahatma Gandhis philosophy to that of just </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘cleaning up’. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But, this is nothing new, as Indians we constantly litter and spit. It has got so bad that walls have tiles portraying Hindu gods and symbols to prevent people from spitting there. It is not that there are no bins, people refuse to go close to the bin to dispose their waste. Like bad hoopsters they throw their waste from distance, hoping it enters the bin. So, one finds the area around bins covered with waste. People are unwilling to make the minimum effort to properly dispose the waste they generate. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Which brings us to another issue, the habit of keeping a home clean at the cost of their surroundings. Amitabh Bachchan has been promoting the Mere 10 Guz initiative. As per this campaign people are asked to keep a few square feet around their house/office/shop clean. Where will all the waste and dust go? This campaign could inadvertently begin ‘border violations’ between neighbours.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Growing consumerism increases the quantum of waste generated - both biodegradable and non biodegradable. One does know that composting or bio-methanation are ways to deal with biodegradable waste, but what about non-biodegradable waste. What does one do with the 1 Re sachets and the kaleidoscope of packaging? The easiest answer is convert them them into fuel pellets. This is once again an End-of-Pipe solution which is not only polluting but also exonerates the companies who use and push such kind of packaging. Companies that manufacture and sell products need to be responsible for the packaging they use. What this means is that they should have a system to ensure that the packaging is returned to them. Thus, Coke and Pepsi would have an empty bottle collection system, a similar system would be necessary for white good manufacturers. As the size of products sold by FMCG companies varies they should pay a fee to municipalities for the waste they cause and for the proper collection and disposal of the packaging.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Swaach Bharat campaign has led to clones. The Rally for the Rivers is an example. The Rally for the Rivers suggests growing trees on the river banks to save rivers. Like the Swaach Bharat campaign this one too is foisting an untenable End-of-Pipe solution. No mention is made about the rivers dying because of agricultural run-off and the dumping of raw sewage into rivers. The photographs of the aftermath of the Ganesh and Durga poojas shows another aspect of the threats faced by rivers.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-25891694727760554872017-08-18T02:38:00.000-07:002017-08-30T04:55:43.099-07:00Who is the next face after Prime Minister Modi?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> India</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">’s </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), rose from the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The RSS is a Hindu-Nationalist Rightwing organisation which spawned the BJP. However, even though the BJP draws its ideology from the RSS, Modis tenure as the Gujarat Chief Minister and his subsequent 2014 national election campaign gave the illusion of him being his own man. In his campaign there was no blatant mention of a Hindu agenda or the construction of a Ram Mandir which his party has worked for earlier. Modi spoke of his 56 inch chest, alluding to him being the Alpha Male. The promise was to build an India that Indians could be proud of, an India that would hark back to the ‘glory days’ of yore. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Modi led his party to a resounding victory in the 2014 national elections even though the opposition</span> made much of the Gujarat riots during his tenure as Chief Minister. As India’s 14</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> Prime Minister, he hopped across the globe basking in the adulation of the Indian diaspora as his image managers built a profile of global appeal; a form of ‘Halo Effect’ on a much larger scale. During the election he portrayed himself as the THE Indian; with his foreign jaunts he gave a new face to India. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The image of Modi playing the Taiko drums in Japan, bear hugging leaders of foreign lands sent a message of arrival to all at home. The RSS had been trying to create an image of a macho Hindu to deal with what they believe was its emasculation over the last hundreds of centuries caused by non-Hindus ruling this land. This need to regain their perceived lost manhood could explain their quasi martial rites and the use of violence or its threat by organisations spawned by it. Modi with his exploits brought a long absent sense of bravado and machismo, revitalising and infusing a sense of purpose into the lives of many people who felt wronged by history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The new found post-Modi-victory-virility has percolated to the the tone and depiction of Hindu memes and religious motifs. One of the iconic images of the monkey king Hanumanji, the much loved devotee of the Hindu god Shri Ram, has been of him tearing open his chest to show the image of Shri Ram and his consort Sitaji. However, Hanuman has gotten a makeover, he has been converted into a monkey king with a dark sinister and hostile look that promises violence . The genteel beatific look that shone through in the countenance of Shri Ram and Laxmanji in their individual pictures or as they stood together has changed. Today they are ripped and look hard and determined, their long hair ruffled but contained. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The creation of these images and their oozing through society goes hand in hand with the RSS and their cohorts constant desire to undo and rectify the past, to remove the black mark on, what they believe, is an otherwise unblemished history. One outcome is </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">patriotism morphing into rabid saffron hued nationalism. Is an environment similar to that before the ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;">Kristallnacht</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">’ being inadvertently created? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Which brings us to the choice of a nationalist Hindu priest - Yogi Adityanath - as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of Parliamentary seats (80) out of which the BJP won 71 and is also the state where the disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janma Bhoomi (birthplace of Lord Ram)is located. The RSS and Hindu nationalists want to build a temple on that spot. Building a temple there has religio-nationalistic overtones. Its construction will, in one swipe, sanctify the birthplace of Shri Ram, begin to undo the destruction,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">and the resulting </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">‘</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">psychological scars</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">’,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> caused by the Muslim invaders and simultaneously cock-a-snook at fellow citizens who are Muslims.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When Adityanath was chosen as the new Chief Minister, media houses tripped over themselves to show that he was not rabidly anti-Muslim. They wrote and broadcast stories of how Muslims work as his staff without fear. Strangely these stories never came out when this very same man spewed venom on Muslims over the last many years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">With a Hindu priest as Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh, the RSS has an opportunity to make real part of their fantasy. The success of their venture in this state has the potential of galvanising other BJP led states into further action. Modi was the image for the aspirational Indian who was given reasons to begin shedding the burden of self-anointed victimhood foisted by history. In this new enterprise, Yogi Adityanath will become the face of the Indian who finally realise their India’s aspirations. Will Yogi Adityanath then become the First Priest and Prime Minister of India as a Hindu state?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-58884649092167624822017-07-10T21:47:00.000-07:002017-07-10T21:47:17.142-07:00International Yoga Day - A Fine Example of Multiculturalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">The media bent themselves backwards covering the 3</span><sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt; vertical-align: super;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"> International Yoga Day. Photographs of people in various asanas at various iconic locations - from the Great Wall of China to Machu Pichu littered on-line and off-line media. Cities across the world carved out space and time for their inhabitants to practice this ancient form now seen as an exercise. The Indian Army had their soldiers perform postures along the country</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">’s</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"> snowy borders, the Indian Navy had their sailors perform asanas on board their ships, the Indian Air Force could not find any asanas to perform in the air. The Prime Minister of India crowed that Yoga binds the world. It would seem that the Prime Minister, like every other proud India, has laid claim to the power of Yoga. Unfortunately, enlightened as he may be, Modi like the rest of his brethren are willy-nilly ignoring the worlds willingness to try out something alien to their culture. They choose to repudiate the global open-mindedness that results in the acceptance, respect and practice of Yoga. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">It appears as if Prime Minister Modi is doling out largesse to the rest of the world. The imagery of the world being gifted by India does make many Indians proud. Be that as it may, is the very reason for such benefaction the predilection for recognition, something which Modi of the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and their ideological fount the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh covet so hungrily? Should there therefore be pride in such an oblation when the underlying rationale is more selfish and less selfless?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">There is a concentrated endeavour to internationally showcase and promote this land as being a societal and civilisational cradle. The need to be acknowledged and celebrated as being some kind of originator and an original bolsters the argument of this lands glorious past and validates attempts to return to this bygone era. The process to regress to this much heralded glorious past requires divisive repression of minorities. Thus even as Modi feeds of the world</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">’s </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">multi-culturalism to promote Yoga, the idea of diversity, its, practice and respect is dying in India. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">One can see this trend. What began as a sly mudslinging has now become sinister and life threatening. The word secular was morphed to </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">‘Sickular’, while liberals were branded as ‘libtards’. However, now people identified as such face death by proponents of the Right Wing Hindutva philosophy. In the recently concluded meeting of Hindu organisations, Sadhvi Saraswati is quoted saying seculars will be the first to be attacked. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">This conclave which this individual was part of deliberated on ways to ensure that India would be converted to a Hindu state by 2023. People at this conference also disavowed the Indian Constitution and stated that the constitution for India was written by Ram and Krishna. They also demanded the public execution of those consuming beef. One would have drawn strength and comfort from the thought that it was the fringe speaking if it were different from what elected BJP politicians have been voicing. These politicians are suggesting the death sentence for those found guilty of slaughtering cows. States ruled by the BJP have in place laws that provide for life imprisonment, while police in some of these states plan to use parts of the National Security Act in such cases.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;">It is disconcerting that the international multi-culturalism that Modi and his ilk enjoy and manipulate is not accorded or practiced in India. The Prime Minister of India, the RSS and the proponents of the so called Hindu Rashtra should learn from the acceptance of plurality and diversity that has resulted in the global celebration of Yoga. But it seems that they would rather use this multi-culturalism abroad to achieve their own saffron hued mono-cultural xenophobic wonderland at home.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-64649107580546096012017-06-27T07:24:00.001-07:002017-06-27T07:54:43.363-07:00Modis Triumphant US Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">In India there was a breathless buildup to the visit of Prime Minister Modi to the US. The media reported on the planned ‘red carpet’ welcome, the working dinner at the White House which was the ‘first for a foreign leader’. Much was expected from the meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump. The joint media briefing addressed by Trump and Modi turned out to be a love fest. So powerful was the bromance, that for the first time ever Trump put another leader at par with himself. Trump called himself and Modi ‘world leaders of social media’. In one swoop Trump did what Modi and his team have been trying to do - place Modi on the same level as that of a leader of a superpower. Our Prime Minister does have a true friend in the White House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">But Modi like Trump does like to blow his own trumpet. It was therefore pre-ordained that in his address to the Indian diaspora he would mention the surgical strike and his governments spotless record. On the surgical strike Indian media reported Modi as saying “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">When India did surgical strikes the world experienced our power and realized that India practices restrain but can show power when needed.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> and “No nation questioned India’s surgical strikes”. Modi never shared with his captivated audience whether the strikes reduced the threat of terrorism that we in India face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">He also spoke about the stain free government that he leads. Is greasing the palms of people the only form of corruption? Modi, did not speak about how young minds are being corrupted instead of being ignited. No mention was made about young men being brainwashed into lynching others for their food habits. He chose to ignore the rot within the government that fosters institutionalised efforts to target minorities. Modi failed to mention the unofficial acceptance of half brained pseudo science as proof of this lands glorious ancient culture and scientific achievements. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">One of the outcomes of the Modi-Trump bromance was their promise to work together to eliminate Islamic extremism and radicalisation. The commitment, totally blindsiding everyone to what their governments are doing to foment these very two things. In the US and in India minorities, not only Muslims, are facing the brunt of their elected governments isolationist and xenophobic policies. How successful can they be in eradicating global radicalisation and terrorism when the right environment is being created to breed it in the US and India.</span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-63827010810590136322017-06-25T04:32:00.000-07:002017-06-25T04:37:37.618-07:00President Trump and Prime Minister Modi As Different As Chalk and Cheese?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">One is not sure whether Prime Minister Modi’s and President Trump’s meet on the 26</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> of June will be Chaplinesque. In their context it is easy and safe to discard and discount similar traits between them. What is beguiling is not only their common traits but the manner of manifestation and therefore the course they have chosen for their countries. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">In their election campaign Trump and Modi vociferously asserted their status of being outsiders to the politicking and horse trading in the capitals of their country. They also swore that they would ‘drain the swamp’ if elected. Trump used the aforementioned term while Modi was more specific he said ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’. They emphasised the size of their body parts, Modi his chest and Trump his hands, as proof of their capability and capacity to lead their country to new heights of glory. Both these men spewed venom and ridiculed their opponents. Both were unrepentant for their past acts of commission and omission. They had a retinue of apologists defending them and rationalising their actions. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Interestingly Trump does not belong to any particular ideology, he is an opportunist who saddled the most amenable horse. Modi, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">on the other hand</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">, belongs to the Right Wing Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On coming to power, both began dismantling and replacing policies and institutions that had strong socio-economic rationale. Modi began replacing the heads of institutions with people aligned to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Right Wing Hindutva philosophy or were RSS products. Trump corralled together billionaires and millionaires with no experience or with expressed desire to reduce government control to head various departments in his government, he rescinded policies that protected minorities and walked out of international treaties.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Trump and Modi, and for that matter even their supporters, dislike dissent or opposing views. They do not have a good relationship with the media. During their election campaign both claimed that the press did them wrong. This led to Trump labeling the liberal media ‘Fake News’ even as he reached out and promoted conservative and alternative and conspiracy fed news forums. In India today, Modi has got most of the media wrapped around his little pinky. This has been enabled by his supporters viciously trolling journalists and his government and BJP spokespersons and other Right Wing espousing individuals labeling the media ‘pseudo-liberals with an agenda’. One of his ministers, who also happens to be the former Chief of the Army, coined the term ‘Presstitutes’. The situation is so vituperative that Indians and the few news channels that question the government are branded as anti-nationals. They face government ire in the form of reduction in government advertisements, harassment by authorities and appearance boycotts. Today, most Indian media have joined the governments jingoistic, saffron hued nationalism without much ado. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">For individuals with so much power and who tout to be Men these two love to be the centre of attraction. Can anyone forget Modi pushing Zuckerberg aside or Trump doing something similar to the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Duško Marković, the </span><span class="15" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: normal;">Prime Minister</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> of Montenegro</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">? Even as their actions went viral and created internet memes, they and their votaries remained unaffected, it was water off a ducks back. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Both love to talk to the people they rule. Trump uses his thumbs to communicate with the Americans and infact the world. Modi, uses a monthly radio show - ‘Mann ki Baath’ - to wax eloquent on topics that are not necessarily burning issues of the country but are programmed to indicate his concern for the public. The outcome of both these forms of communication is that people feel that they are directly connected with the person in power. Americans believe that Trump can be trusted because he speaks his mind - ala tweets. While for many Indians still unwilling or unable to shed the shadow of feudalism, Modi ‘directly’ speaking to them harks back to the era of a benevolent king holding a durbar. These ultimately result in a cult like following where the person in power can do no wrong. This becomes justification enough for Trump and Modi to continue on their course. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Though it was the Trump administration that seeded the term ‘alternative facts’ in the global psyche, it was the Modi government and their cohorts that perfected this arcane art. Indians have had to bear a steady onslaught of alternative facts. Some of which are - Modi proclaiming that genetic engineering was prevalent in ancient times in this land, a minister claiming that cows exhale oxygen and a high court judge piously saying that the peacock is India’s national bird because it does not mate. Trump and team use ‘alternative facts’ as a defense while Modi and his squad use them to create narratives which instill religio-nationalistic pride. This is the grease that eases the implementation of their grand schemes. It should come as no surprise therefore that both men and their administrations are constantly trying to undermine democracy and social cohesion. The most recent case is the law that prevents the sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets in India and the travel restriction order in the US. The argument for the former is prevention of animal cruelty and for the latter is keeping America safe, interestingly both these laws target minorities. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Trump is veering towards isolationalism and reduced international responsibility while Modi seeks global recognition for India’s Hindu-cultural history. But the desired outcome of their design is the same, Trump wants to ‘Make America Great Again’ while Modi fantasises of making India into a Hindu ‘super-power’. The path they have chosen demands that minorities be ignored, media be curtailed and those with opposing views be given short shrift. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;">Given their similarities and personality types will these two navigators of their country’s destinies put themselves before their nation when they meet on the 26</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> of June? Will Trump try to use his handshake to put Modi in his place, or will Modi sidestep the proffered hand and go for a bear hug to indicate that he is equal to Trump? Will this </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-style: italic;">Mano a Mano</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"> impact the outcome of the deliberations between India and the US? We know what happened after Trump returned from Europe. We wait with bated breath.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-78178338332725603642017-06-08T05:29:00.000-07:002017-06-08T05:39:04.514-07:00Covfefe - A word malleable enough for all situations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Trumps 31</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> May early morning tweet introducing the world to his new word ‘covfefe’ left the world agog. Though the word uses English alphabets its etymology is for anyone to guess as is its meaning. This is a good thing, because the word is not beholden to any one language making it truly global. Further it allows one to work with the word to see what Trump-created-situations most befit its usage. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Trump made the term ‘you are fired’, used so brilliantly by him in ‘The Apprentice’ a household expression. This phrase exuded power and indicated who the boss and minion were. Therefore it would have come as no surprise if Trump thought he could use it during his tenure at the White House. However, this phrase has a very limiting jurisdiction and does not do justice to the vast powers that come with being the President of the United States of America. The word ‘covfefe’ may have many ways of pronunciation but it means just one thing and there are no two ways about that. It has the potential to not only describe a Trumpian world but also emotions raised by Trumps decisions. Though Trump introduced this word a bit late in the day it does help bigly.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Would ‘you are fired’ have made sense to the Native Americans whose lands, water and way of life are threatened by the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that Trump has okayed? Of course it wouldn’t because they are not Trump employees, they are American citizens. With the signing of Executive Orders that advanced the approval of the pipeline Trump has presidentially told these people ‘You Are Covfefed’. The use of ‘covfefe’ in such a expression makes utmost sense as it highlights their plight and predicament, this pipeline not only goes through their sacred grounds in complete disregard of their heritage but also endangers water bodies like </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Lake Oahe</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> and the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Missouri River</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">This is just one example of the potential of ‘covfefe’, and was restricted to the United States of America. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Infact, ‘covfefe’ does justice to the dominion Trump has over the world. When he signed the Global Gag Rule which bans his governments funding to international NGOs that offer abortions in other countries while also stopping the funding to the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> which provides </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">family-planning and reproductive-health services</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> to women and girls in more than 150 countries he covfefed the lifes of millions. The impact of such a covfefed-up order was such that European countries came together to fill the atleast 600 million USD vacuum with a beginning of 32.5 million USD.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Trumps under the surface simmering desire to leave no stone unturned to covfefe-things-up has gone beyond boundaries, friends and foes. One saw him curtsying to the King of Saudi Arabia and promising them a good deal on American weapons which meant he was going to covfefe American business. However, in this instance one needs to add to the current connotation of covfefe with ‘back-stabbing’. Trump intended to </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;">Make America Great Again</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> by giving a bargain to the Saudis, who he has belaboured as being the fount of terrorism, at the cost of American business. How covfefed-up is that?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">But even after Trump retreated to his cave to lick his wounds post his first international tour he promised more. After introducing covfefe to the world he later tweeted on the same day “</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;">I will be announcing my decision on Paris Accord, Thursday at 3:00 P.M. The White House Rose Garden. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">” then on the 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; vertical-align: super;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> of June he posted ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;">Join me live at the @WhiteHouse</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">’ after his “We’re getting out” speech he tweeted ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;">My job as President is to do everything within my power to give America a level playing field.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt; font-style: italic;"> #Americafirstus</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">’. This was the cherry on the bringing-back-coal cake. With these decisions he has surpassed the human powers of the American President by not only covfefing this generation but the generations to come. His power is so ‘unpresidented’ that without pressing the Red Button (not to order a coke but a nuclear strike) he has covfefed the planet.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"></span></div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-61651510402943206242017-05-26T21:05:00.000-07:002017-05-26T21:05:02.469-07:00Righting the Left<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Left needs to balance its own cosmopolitan world view with that of the masses, which is more local and basic
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As the Right triumphantly marches on through the wasteland left
behind following the destruction of the political Left’s support base,
there is much to learn from the tilt. The Left was left behind as it
excluded and derided contrarian views. Not only were such ideas
ostracised, people who espoused them were labelled as ‘antediluvian’ and
self-centred. The Left, while claiming to represent the silent masses,
ended up creating an entire population that felt disenfranchised. When
their issues got hushed aside, their fears increased.<br />
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To hunker
down when threatened by an enemy is animal instinct. To convert the
threat into an opportunity, to use it as a magnet to draw the
dispossessed, is political instinct, one that came naturally to the
Right. It appealed to the people’s fears with ramped-up rhetoric. The
Left’s tactic — of playing down the fear element and appealing to the
brotherhood and humanity within individuals — did not find currency
among the electorate. However, there were also other common elements in
the Right’s approach, across different countries where it gained
popularity.<br />
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<b>Tunes of the Pied Pipers</b><br />
The Pied Pipers
of the Right, be it in India, the United States, Turkey, or European
countries, had the following tunes in their repertoire.<br />
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The first
involved an unrelenting appeal to the baser instincts of the electorate,
which included fear of the ‘other’. For Donald Trump, this included
Muslims, for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it was the Gulenists. All this played
to the gallery in making them believe that it was this ‘other’ that was
taking away their jobs, their social and economic entitlements.<br />
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The
next tune included the projection of a leader who the dispossessed
could identify with. Narendra Modi projected himself as India’s ‘macho
man’ and the initial few months of his tenure as Prime Minister were
filled with newspaper reports extolling his strength vis-à-vis the
weakness of his predecessors. Mr. Modi became the face, the image of a
confident and resurgent India. Filipinos liked and voted for Rodrigo
Duterte because they believed that he was honest and could get things
done. Mr. Trump sold himself to the American electorate as an astute
businessman, an image attribute he has retained.<br />
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The third tune
among the Right’s leaders is their ability to be both inward-looking and
international, simultaneously. One of the first things Mr. Modi did
after becoming the Prime Minister was pay a visit to the Indian diaspora
in different countries, even as he spoke of bringing back India’s
‘glory days’. Mr. Erdogan has a major fan following among the Turkish
diaspora across Europe. Mr. Trump, in his efforts to protect America, is
influencing policymaking in Mexico, China and Europe. Mr. Duterte has
threatened to leave the United Nations and has been making overtures to
the Chinese.<br />
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The
fourth tune is ‘keeping it simple’. Whenever Mr. Trump, during his
campaigning, mentioned his rival candidate Hillary Clinton, the halls
reverberated with cries of ‘lock her up’. When Mr. Modi vowed to create a
‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ (an India free of Congress), the crowds knew he
was assuring them of a country that will be free from corruption and
sycophancy.<br />
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The tunes of these Pied Pipers relied on a common
emphasis: ‘Messages need not be factual to strike a chord with the
people’. When Mr. Modi, a few months after his election, spoke of
plastic surgery having been present in ancient India, it appealed to a
section of people desperate to seek solace in ancient pride. Mr. Trump
and his administration have been instrumental in the coinage of the term
‘post-truth’.<br />
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The inherent DNA of the Left makes it difficult for
it to copy these tunes. This DNA is about freeing people, about
emancipating the masses, about bringing up thinking and empowered
citizens capable of making decisions on their own. However, it has
ignored a consequence of such liberation — the weakening of the
foundation on which an individual society is built. Further, the Left
assumes that everyone wants the freedom it offers and also agrees with
it on the manner in which it needs to be achieved. This assumption leads
to a let-down when society refuses to embrace such an emancipation. Is
it any wonder that internationalism and cosmopolitanism are crumbling
under the desire to protect an identity?<br />
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A large section of the
population, across the world, consists of people whose world view begins
and ends with the fulfilment of their basic needs. Could this explain
why messages that are simple, despite not being factual, are easily
digested because they pander to this ‘world view’? How will the Left —
whose beliefs are premised on truth, logic and a perspective that is
global — ever deal with this? The Left can surely learn a thing or two
from the Right about simplicity. It needs to tackle the fears that
internationalism generates and has to find a balance between its
cosmopolitan world view and one that is more local. The answer is not to
ape the Right but to reimagine the role the Left needs to play in
today’s society.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/righting-the-left/article18411713.ece" target="_blank">Published in the Hindu May 09 2017</a> </div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-63953460370597538942016-11-12T05:17:00.000-08:002016-11-12T05:50:33.716-08:00Listen America! India Did it First<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The American elections has everyone looking on in horror as a
nightmare unfolds into everyday reality. Stock markets have been on a roller-coaster with the White House<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being
converted into Trump House. Can one compare a person whose qualities include
being a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sexual predator, misogynist,
racist, duplicitous, business failure <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with someone cleared by the FBI for being <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stupid enough to use a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>private email server for government business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can the 2016 US Presidential elections<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>really
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did the Congress I against him. Modi, who was later to become the 14<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prime Minister of India had been Chief
Minister of Gujarat in the period of the Gujarat riots. The BJP was also
reeling under financial scams in the state of Karnataka. The Congress I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was no vestigial virgin, it was at the helm
during the 1984 Sikh riots. The incumbent UPA II government (2009-2014) led by the Congress I stood mute as
its allies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made hay while the sun
shone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could there have been a greater
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in its 2014 elections. As a nation India should be proud that the US is happily
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of science and this lands contribution to it. Indians have grown stronger with
servings that has included plastic surgery was invented in India as was Genetic Engineering. Other not so well known dieticians cooked up and
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hounded out - the media and society called out the government’s actions, but
the government diktat prevailed. Cultural institutions of national and social
import are now headed by people who, though never at the top of their field,
scored well in being in the good books of the government or their ideologues. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, the history of this land is being
reconfigured to meet an ideology that is divisive and anachronistic and goes
against the very concept of pluralism in all its forms.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Further, the Indian government led by Modi has not been very kind to the defense veterans of this land. </span>Trump has taken a leaf from the Indian governments book and has bad-mouthed war veterans and the families of those killed in action.</div>
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and that has left a trail of divisiveness, insecurity, bitterness and lack of
trust for the government and the election process. He has already shred the
electoral process and has promised to dismantle Obamacare, he will remove the
Environment Protection Agency, renegotiate international treaties and so on. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is every chance that Creationism will
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as a PM was to visit countries that have high Indian expatriate populations. He
used this community to gain international acceptance. The world helped Modis cause by
inane <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gestures that meant a lot to India
craving for recognition – World Yoga Day comes to mind, and more recently the
UN Headquarters being lit up for Diwali .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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win -- that you're going to be begging me: 'Please, Mr. President, let us lose
once or twice. We can't stand it anymore.' And I'm going to say: 'No way. We're
going to keep winning. We're never going to lose. We're never, ever going to
lose.". If the impact on the world and the US following Trumps victory is
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Anglers love telling stories about the-one-that-got-away. Likewise,
people back from a visit to a Tiger Reserve always have a story of
how they almost saw the Tiger (fresh pug marks are a favourite). A
tiger sighting or its absence, leads to fond reminiscing regurgitated
for various occasions. These stories are the same no matter the
geographical location of these Parks. There is disappointment, but
instead of an air of despondency surrounding these raconteurs, what
one senses is a distinct resolve to try ones luck again. Such
unrequited visits only increases the desire to sight this noble
beast.
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But, there is a tale to be told of the process that gives one this
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This tale is a rare mix of Greek heroism laced with the absurd.
There are certain facts that give meat to this story. People can
visit the Core Area or the Buffer Zone. The possibility of sighting a
Tiger is far greater in the Core Area, but entry is limited to
approximately 900 tourists daily at the Kanha National Park. There is
no such restriction for the Buffer Zone. This attempt to regulate
tiger tourism created an <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD97GL1OrKY3cQOq9wqXVT6DND2OzkgE3bMaQMALpabx_63lhNIdhZJFJkdvuwdaN2ycAAi10GR2JHy609vfjQgk_5TrlYoTt_Ggdv2jP6SbTrCIAyuGKJp-Usmf_PAAtu6Qp-cH3Pn5Nv/s1600/DSCN0174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD97GL1OrKY3cQOq9wqXVT6DND2OzkgE3bMaQMALpabx_63lhNIdhZJFJkdvuwdaN2ycAAi10GR2JHy609vfjQgk_5TrlYoTt_Ggdv2jP6SbTrCIAyuGKJp-Usmf_PAAtu6Qp-cH3Pn5Nv/s320/DSCN0174.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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Now comes the clincher, online bookings for entry into the Park need
to be done 2 months in advance if not earlier. Those who get to Kanha
without a pass can get lucky at the ticket counter by purchasing the
few tickets that are sold or wait for a ticket cancellation. Others
reconcile themselves to visiting the Buffer Zone.
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The entry to the Park is through three gates, Khatia, Mukhi and
Kisli. Khatia, by far has the highest population of resorts and
therefore tourists, jeeps and guides. 140 jeep rides and four
government bus runs are split into morning and evening visits into
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My presence in Khatia was serendipitous. While travelling on the
soon to be shut Narrow Gauge track I realised my proximity to this
Tiger Reserve. So I hopped into a bus that dropped me three
kilometers from the Khatia gate. The final leg of the journey was on
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This sudden diversion from my planned route made finding a place to
stay difficult. The process of getting a room gave me opportunity to
talk to quite a few locals including a resort owner. Their insights
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I was intrigued by the stories of all night vigils at the ticket
counter to get a pass into the Core Area. They told me that people
form a queue at 8 pm the day before for a pass for the next day. So I
decided to put myself through this grinder just for the experience.
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After a post dinner coffee I walked to the ticket counter. There
were just two people talking to a guard, it was 10 pm then. I was
intrigued at the absence of crowds and so asked them, they replied
that I should return at around 12 am. I walked back to my room, some
distance from the ticket counter, through the silent dark looking for
the glow of wild beady eyes. Tethered buffaloes loudly exhaled in
bursts as I passed darkened huts. The sky was lit. Later the next day
I asked the locals about the absence of dogs and goats, I got a one
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On returning at 12 am there was already a line of 15 people with a
rudimentary tea stall to serve them. One of the tourists had taken
up the task of writing down names of people serially so that their
place on the line was on record. This person was a tourist too, he
had come from Bhopal. Like a good hunter gatherer he stood at the
ticket counter while his family slept in the warm confines of the
resort room. The ticket counter had an all-male-line-up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tourists come in their own vehicles for a day or two. The personal
vehicles are switched for a jeep that takes them into the forest for
a 5 hour morning tour or a three hour afternoon tour. Tourists then
return to their resort and may take another trip through the forest
the following day. After which they drive back home, mission
accomplished or not.
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Stories of happenstance flew up and down the line - visitors catching
a tiger on their first visit others who had passed through the gates
22 times without a sighting. The tea man was berated by some for
putting too much sugar in his tea. He was told they have 'sugar'
which he and everyone in the line understood to be Type II diabetes.
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Time flew on the wings of these stories. Those who came later were
directed to the scrivener so that they could put their names down,
after which they got in line. The line grew and the number of tea
stalls increased to three.
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Some of those in line had come along with 'attendants' from the
resort. I think the role of the attendants was to stand in line for
the guest so that the guest could relax, but because names were being
recorded this luxury met with an early death.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">While sipping tea with one attendant he explained
that the number of rooms were far greater than the access to the Core
Area. They were not sure of the number of resorts built in close
proximity to these 3 gates but estimated their number to be 55 with
rooms numbering 10-90. They spoke philosophically saying that if it
rained daily and there were 70 umbrellas then only 70 people would
remain dry. They discussed the demeanour of the tourist. Before
getting into the line the tourist was like a veritable king of the
jungle, once he saw where he stood in the queue he transformed into
this mass of uncertainty trying to find an easy way to get a pass.</span></span></span></div>
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Back in the queue I heard confidence boosters being passed up and
down the line even as alternatives were provided. Those in the first
10 were assured of getting a vehicle. As newbies realised that each
jeep took 6 passengers they began asking those ahead if there were
spare seats. Others opted for a trip </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the two buses that carry 18
passengers each. Those at the bottom the list reconciled themselves
to a visit to the buffer zone or to a hopeful wait for a cancellation
from an online booking.
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By 4.30 am forest personnel manning the ticket counter came and began
asking those in the line to park their cars at some distance. This
was to make way for the jeeps and the two open air buses that would
take tourists in. With the first hint of light the jeeps began
trooping in. A surge of anticipation and despondency ran through the
queue as they realised that only a lucky few would get an opportunity
to ride in the jeep into the Core Area.
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The ticket counter opened at 5.45 am and the gates to the forest at 6
am. The line that was so orderly before the counter opened was now
under threat of dissolving into chaos. However, after a few shouts
and fights things settled down. Two middle aged men in queue with IIM
Lucknow sweatshirts saw similarity to the US Visa line of yore when
visa hopefuls would either sleep on the pavement off the US Embassy
or pay others to do so. They spoke highly of the online visa service
but were not happy with this system to enter Kanha. They complained,
like many others, that they would have to plan their holidays months
in advance which was not possible in this day and age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The jeeps begin entering the forest, women tourists seem to be better
dressed than the men. Shades of various shapes and sizes adorn well
rested faces. Those in the line watch all this glumly while others
who have procured a pass from the counter hurriedly call their
families telling them to get ready. People at the back of the line
use their voices to get ahead, but sound has no weight here.
Desperation causes the line to melt into a scrum at the counter. I
join in deciding to get the 'whole experience'. I shout out 'single,
bus' not as a plaint of my marital status but of my status of one
person inclined to take the bus tour. I get the last seat in the bus
on count of me being alone.
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In a few hours there will be a queue for the limited seats for
'matinee show' but till then there will be those willing to buy a
pass to the Buffer Zone and take their chances there.</span></span></div>
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<b><i>Read about my travels through India in my book '1400 Bananas, 76
Towns & 1 Million People'</i></b></span></span></div>
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Getting to the Narrow Gauge platform in Nagpur is similar to getting to the 9 ¾ platform from which the Hogswart Express leaves. Walking on Platform 1 of the Nagpur station one comes to a pillar that separates this platform from the path to the narrow gauge platform. On this pillar is a little board that announces 'To Narrow Gauge'. You could easily miss it. Walking past the board, one gets a view of the Narrow Gauge track. There is a soon to be extinct Narrow Gauge train on the platform, it is heading to Nainpur in Madhya Pradesh.<br />
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The Narrow Gauge line in Central India began in the 1900s. The Gondia – Nainpur line was opened on the 13th of April 1903, there was the Chindwara-Pench Coalfield line that began in 1906-07. The 2ft 6 in (762mm) gauge line extended to just over 1000 km.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMPnK9tDJ8aerRdPXIF9em0fDHGvNopQpZT0PNaxZgzp8dwnv4NwxTOqgRcSzhdRMZlIRx5B55lM96DNBgff7iuwLf1mI4qg9PKpW1KIv42OFmYM9HrxKDGlU8SHk67O5RRfXV6VlA2eI/s1600/DSCN0001.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMPnK9tDJ8aerRdPXIF9em0fDHGvNopQpZT0PNaxZgzp8dwnv4NwxTOqgRcSzhdRMZlIRx5B55lM96DNBgff7iuwLf1mI4qg9PKpW1KIv42OFmYM9HrxKDGlU8SHk67O5RRfXV6VlA2eI/s320/DSCN0001.JPG" width="320" /></a>In this railway division the conversion to broad gauge began in the December 1992.When I heard that the remnants of the Narrow Gauge line was being finally shut down I decided book myself on a rain travelling between Nagpur and Nainpur. This being the longest route, I hoped it would give me a full experience of travelling on this line. <br />
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I booked my tickets on-line and chose a sleeper class seat, the idea being that I would be able sleep and also walk to the general compartments between stations. The sleeper bogie on the Narrow Gauge line is very different from what the passengers of the Broad Gauge line are used to. Here the bogie seats 38, there are 10 sleepers that hang above the benches. <br />
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This means that only 10 of the 38 onboard this compartment can buy the privilege of lying down. The only difference between the general compartment and the sleeper is the absence of these overhead berths.<br />
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The train left on time – 12.45 pm. As the train headed out of Nagpur, we passed through shanties that were at arms reach from my window. The tracks are part of peoples courtyards suggesting that people had encroached on railway land or the railways had usurped land from the people. One of the first things one appreciates on travelling by the Narrow Gauge is that speed of the train does not match its sound and fury.<br />
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The Narrow Gauge connects the less developed areas of this region. This fact was brought home by the stations we stopped at. Many were just signposts, others had a little concrete shed which also served as ticket counters. Being a single line, there were a few stations that were a little more elaborate to ensure oncoming trains could pass each other on parallel tracks and then get back on the single track.<br />
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As these tracks were built to connect the hinterland there isnt much distance between stations. The train stopped every few minutes, my fellow passengers were all of the short haul variety. As I was travelling before Dushhera many were headed back to their villages/towns. </div>
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There is not much to eat at these stations. Any lone snack stall at these halts does quick business. Many villagers sell fruits and vegetables here and Sitaphal seemed to be the fruit of the season. While sharing a piece of this fruit with a student headed home he told me that the best of these fruits are found here and that the tastiest Alu Bondas are found at the Karaili station on the Beena line.<br />
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Before becoming part of the Indian Railways behemoth, this Narrow Gauge line was known as the Satpuda Railway which was developed by the Bengal Nagpur Railway. Nainpur was the hub of this section. The train passes through the Maikal ranges of Satpuda hills and we covered some densely forested areas. Once in the hinterland, the train chugged past mud houses surrounded by green fields bordered by jungle. In the forested areas there was a lot of gauge <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbUwNVyDm4jjJU-QwydmSnYrluYT3sxRseZrbRPsnJd5Uk2deJoTDuC4cR6I2Q6I3IV38d_tS8PMsD1NaTcgPnd2dY0A1kB8CkSPUb_a-bZgUN0-kZlk6zGyb_UkscRQaiJAdnaK2uOOZ/s1600/DSCN0024.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbUwNVyDm4jjJU-QwydmSnYrluYT3sxRseZrbRPsnJd5Uk2deJoTDuC4cR6I2Q6I3IV38d_tS8PMsD1NaTcgPnd2dY0A1kB8CkSPUb_a-bZgUN0-kZlk6zGyb_UkscRQaiJAdnaK2uOOZ/s320/DSCN0024.JPG" width="320" /></a>conversion work in progress. Stones dumped in huge piles, cleared areas deep in the forest, concrete sections that would soon become part of a station or a bridge popped up at frequent intervals on this journey.<br />
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Some railway gangmen got on board a few hours later. They said that even though this line would soon be shutting down the Railways would ensure that they worked for their money. <br />
We reached Nainpur on time – 2.30 am the next day. The Nainpur station was lit and there was activity. Like in other stations people were sleeping on the platform, porters carried the trunks of guards and drivers to rest areas. However, there was a sense that this place had seen a far greater rush in earlier times. I walked into town to find a place to stay but at this early hour the hotels/lodges were shut and their attendants fast asleep. I returned to the station to chat to the owner of a tea stall there. Just then a near empty passenger train <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStAe-MaNkPlbFGtEkHleGMkLB9FRbTiKkFEeeh8PObQHd07jOxvppEoTu2IHXqwiZdRhbDdhGe-aGEVLgP1jeprR2HxpGvQmBLSV3_8HoC_WdXWK9lmlSiBcrshWc5lCHBbkCtofeXrs6/s1600/DSCN0055.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStAe-MaNkPlbFGtEkHleGMkLB9FRbTiKkFEeeh8PObQHd07jOxvppEoTu2IHXqwiZdRhbDdhGe-aGEVLgP1jeprR2HxpGvQmBLSV3_8HoC_WdXWK9lmlSiBcrshWc5lCHBbkCtofeXrs6/s320/DSCN0055.JPG" width="320" /></a>rolled in. While pouring me a warm cuppa chai, Babloo Kushwa, the owner told me that the station used to be packed at all times of the day. He reminisced that this train that had just rolled in used to give him a business of more than Rs 600/-. But with hardly any people using it, it was difficult to make even fifty rupees. He said that as train operations had been slowly whittled down people were forced to use buses.<br />
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He said that Nainpur was a railway town and its economy revolved around the presence of the railways. When I asked him what he would do once the station shut he said he had not thought of it as yet. My question was answered by another passenger who said that in all probability the tea stall owners would take their business to the bus station.<br />
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The ordinariness of these trains could not take away from the important role they played in the socio-economy of this region. Students, migrating families, regular passengers, vegetable sellers, tea stall owners were all linked to these Narrow Gauge tracks. <br />
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<strong>1400 BANANAS, 76 TOWNS & 1 MILLION PEOPLE</strong><br />
A journey along the Indian coast with interludes of history, food and conversation<br />
Samir Nazareth<br />
Leadstart Publishing; 378; Rs 399<br />
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<i>1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People</i> is a record of a journey that <a class="storyTags" href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Samir+Nazareth" target="_blank">Samir Nazareth </a>-
after resigning his job in a multinational non-governmental
organisation (NGO) involved in protecting the environment - undertakes
from Bhuj in Gujarat, down the west coast of India and up the east coast
to Kolkata, and thence to Darjeeling and Nathula, on the border with
Tibet. He starts in the first week of March and is back home (in Nagpur)
by late September, though, oddly, we are left to guess the year. The
manuscript was ready in 2007 and it took Mr Nazareth seven years to find
a publisher; the frequent references to the tsunami that ravaged the
coast of Tamil Nadu in December 2004 and conversations with survivors
indicate that the journey must have been made in 2005 or 2006.<br />
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The idea, the author says in the first chapter, was to visit the
lesser-known towns of coastal India and explore the regional foods in
all their variety. What drives him is the prospect of ending each day
with "feasts for both the eye and the palate", but, given his budgetary
constraints, bananas become a dietary staple - he gorges on eight
bananas a day, eating a total of 1,400 (the figure mentioned in the
book's title) in six months. He makes up for the lack of variety by
eating large quantities of the inexpensive local street food, describing
in great detail how vendors prepare each dish and only indulges in a
mini feast on his 33rd birthday, which he spends in Diu.<br />
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Describing himself as a "travelling gourmand", he is surprisingly
unaffected by all the street food he eats. The reference to "76 towns"
is not explained, but one infers that it must have been the number of
towns he drove through, while the reference to "1 million people"
remains a mystery. Could he really have met so many people? Oddly again,
hardly any dates are mentioned. The only map is a most unsatisfactory
sketch, and the tiny sketches of scenes that the author comes across
tell the reader little.<br />
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Mr Nazareth's sheer inquisitiveness gives the book the level of detail
of an hourly maintained diary. The tone is a curious mix of wry humour
and stiff and formal Victorian English. (Sample the following sentence,
in the section on Jamnagar, where he mentions his decision to use the
postal service to communicate: "With the intention of living up to my
epistolary resolution, I enter the school post office.") One would have
thought that a travelogue needed a more relaxed and conversational
style.<br />
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However, there are insightful observations about those he meets on his
journey - both local residents and fellow tourists - and his encounters
are both amusing and a revealing comment on his fellow countrymen. There
are detailed conversations with rickshaw-drivers, priests, itinerant
salesmen and especially fishermen, some of whom he accompanies when they
go out to sea. Mr Nazareth soaks up information about their lifestyles
and the techniques they use to make their boats and nets. His interest
in all things nautical is a mystery until he explains that before taking
up a desk job he had "travelled the oceans as part of a crew engaged in
protecting the environment" and had once also been a deckhand on a
converted North Sea trawler. He tells us little else about himself.<br />
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Mr Nazareth is blessed with an equable temperament. He finds that
grabbing a seat in a bus is akin to fighting his way through a wrestling
ring, and most budget hotels are far from ideal in hygiene and
cleanliness. He is often denied accommodation because he is travelling
alone, and language is a barrier in several states - but to him all
these are par for the course. He merely records every experience, mostly
in a non-judgemental way. A mild sense of irritation is all that he
allows himself - at infrequent intervals at that - at the far-from-ideal
conditions or the idiosyncracies and intrusiveness of his
co-passengers, who ask him the most personal questions and freely offer
advice, including on how he can improve his marital prospects and why he
should stop being a wastrel and take up a job instead.<br />
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Mr Nazareth often goes off at a tangent, interrupting his narrative with
private musings and epiphanies. Sample this: "Being in perpetual
motion, the Mumbaikar has evolved into a species with blinkers. They
only look ahead and cannot deviate from the path the city chooses for
them. To do so would make them dysfunctional." Again, overhearing one
man tell another matter-of-factly that a cheque for Rs 10 lakh has not
bounced, he concludes: "In Mumbai, privacy has nothing to do with
proximity, but with the knowledge that people are too busy to pay
attention." And on the subject of technology, he writes that "there is
no truth to the statement that technology enhances freedom. In fact,
technology creates an unnatural need to communicate". Such musings are
merely minor distractions.<br />
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With his eye for detail and descriptive ability, Mr Nazareth has
produced a tour diary that makes for absorbing reading. It is a welcome
addition to the genre, for travelogues - as distinct from travel guides -
on India by Indians in the English language are a recent trend.</div>
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samirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165030932629816310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993805472660811678.post-60707931871774222452015-06-25T07:10:00.001-07:002015-06-25T07:12:42.281-07:00On the streets of Nagpur 25 June 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
All in all the movie was very well packaged. For me the takeaways
were not the maturing of Bollywood or the attempts to juggle many
experiments within one movie – successfully at that. What stood out
was the role of the moustache in the movie. The other thing that
found resonance was the plot about making a deal with the devil
ie getting the Japanese into Calcutta in exchange for 'freetrade' of
sorts.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
You could say that there was scent of more than just a movie in
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy.
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</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">It
is believed that t</span><span lang="en-GB">he moustache is a symbol
of machismo and virility. It is supposed to embody manliness and the
male qualities of courage, valour – most kings who ruled this land
and or parts of it wore these hirsute principles. The moustachioed
male twirling his moustache adds gravitas to the moment of
contemplation while also showcasing his manliness.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Byomkesh has a moustache too. However, unlike the characteristics of
the moustachioed, the hero comes across as someone with a gentle
soul. This is first put across to the cinema goers when he is slapped
by Ajit Bandhopadhyay in the first few minutes of the movie. The slap
floors him and he remains one with the floor as the camera pans the
smoke heavy room with the carom playing crowd. The next time we are
accosted by his sensitive spirit is when he turns his face to avoid
looking at the ghastly wound on the leg he is holding. This persona
is constantly brought to the fore in the movie - when he does not
come to the aid of Ajit when they are accosted by a group of men who
begin roughing them up. His flinching when Ajit raises his hand even
though a slap seems to be furthermost from Ajit's mind.
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Though the gentle demeanour hides a brave and enquiring spirit the
value of the mooch on him is watered down by the heroes actions or
want of them.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This watering down is complete when one compares the actions of Ajit
who is not only clean-of-face but wears spectacles, is short, a tad
rotund and wears a look of constant wonder. This man slaps the hero,
exercises vigorously, shows off his boxers and fights a gang of men.
These are the exploits of a hero, of a go-getter ie of someone who
many would like to see with a moustache.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This hero's sidekick does not wear wear a moustache but displays all
the faculties of someone who is moustached. So, is the common refrain
'mooch nahin tho kooch nahin' false? Yes there have been movies where
the hero is clean shaven but he acts like a hero, bashing up villains
and what have you. However, one has not come across a movie where the
clean shaven 'side-kick' ostensibly performs this function of the
moustachioed hero which is so popular, widely accepted and ingrained
in people.
</span></span></div>
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</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The movie clearly assigns the role of the thinker and of the action
man to two different people, usually the hero does both. In doing so
the director has also subverted the much held hirsute principles.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Dibakar Bannerjee, the director, also speaks of the dangers of acting
on the ' enemy of my enemy is a friend' philosophy. The young
freedom fighters who join Anukul's plot to get the Japanese into
Calcutta and so rid the city of the British realise much to their
dismay that they are pawns in a far greater conspiracy. Their desire
for independence had made them puppets to a drug laced conspiracy
and had blinded them to the perils of opening the gates of the city
to another imperial army.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though
Byomkesh saves the day with some dexterous planning and quick
thinking there is much food for thought at the end of the day. W<span lang="en-GB">hat
would have happened if the Japanese did finally control Calcutta?
Would Anukul have become the drug lord he wanted to be under Japanese
rule? Would the freedom fighters have realised their dream of freedom
under the rule of another imperialist? Would the Japanese have
diluted their imperialistic ambitions for the dreams of these people?</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thankfully, the answers to these questions will remain conjectures.
However that being said the movie does bring to light the pitfalls of
blind nationalism of any given time. Such fervour catalyses decisions and actions that on the
surface seem correct and justified, but in fact may only bring horror
on an unsuspecting population.
</span></span><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Samir Nazareth is the
author of '1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People'</b></i></span></div>
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‘Old and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very
often, not from the lips of the old nor those in their teens but from
those in their mid-thirties. The manner in which it is said is very
matter of fact but in it there is a tinge of palpable apprehension.<br />
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Shakespeare has written about the seven stages of
man, Hindu texts have kept it simpler and deigned them to be only
four. But, whichever version one looks at, there is an
understanding of what each age brings to the table. There is a to-do
list, there are inherent goals which society recognises and which the
individual works towards. Each stage prepares the individual for the
next.<br />
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It would seem that past a particular age group
getting ‘old’ has become profane because it suggests an inability
to be what one was. There was a time when the young wanted to grow up
because accumulating the years meant freedom, independence and
shouldering responsibility for the self. When someone brands a
particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable to see the two
as separate then there is a problem.<br />
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Those who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold
of two very disparate ages. They bridge the ages of youthful
daredevilry of the young adult with the more serious pragmatic,
responsible age of the just pensioned and elderly. The future
looks uncertain but the past, which was known, sure looks rosy.
For many, after a point, age is no longer just a number; it suggests
less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of health, lack of
earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to, for want of a
better term, have a good time.<br />
</div>
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Though one would like to come across as
experienced and worldly wise there is now need to hide the rigours of
the process which brings it. Many speak of the ‘child in me’,
there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan Complex’, while a
billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to look, if not
remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.<br />
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We try to look younger, behave younger and find
opportunities to do so in our attempt to retain the things we derived
happiness from in our younger days. Evolution is a
natural phenomenon that feeds of the surrounding environment. This
phenomena is not only biological, but cultural, social and
psychological. So, the idea that the manner in which we attain
happiness and the form of our happiness will remain unchanged over
time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores our progress
as individuals but the advance of society.<br />
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Even as we middle aged work with our turmoil of
finding ways to remain young, what of the young who see us? Are we
encroaching on a space that is theirs? What goes on in their mind
when they see us at a pub screaming along with Bryan Adams as he
swears ’18 till I die’? What do children feel when </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="dd_start"></a><i></i>mothers
look young like them or their father’s become a ‘dude’? Do
youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the presence of the new
young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’ passed on to an
even younger generation who will define middle aged as old?<br />
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‘Old and boring’ is a desire to not accept
what experience brings – maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young
disregarding and even disrespecting the self’s progress on all
level’s? Would an engineer choose to use his skills to solve second
grade mathematics? The need to remain and even act young is
something similar to a child’s first day at school- he clings to
his parents, afraid of what is out there. We, the middle-aged are
comfortable acting young because we have been there. Also, now that
we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no one to answer
to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the lost
opportunities of our youth.<br />
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The fact remains that we could be boring at any
age. There seems to be a lack of faith in oneself when one assumes
that with age one becomes boring. Why should we choose not to
build on a life time of experience and instead opt to regress? Why
should an interesting life become dull when one grows older? When we
find an answer to this question, we will realise that ‘old and
boring’ have a dissonance to them that only maturity understands.</div>
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Published in<a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/old-and-boring/" target="_blank"> Free Press Journal</a> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Old and boring…</span></h1>
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<b><i>SAMIR NAZARETH says that increasingly being old means being boring and redundant in today’s youth oriented society.</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Shakespeare
has written about the seven stages of man, Hindu texts have kept it
simpler and deigned them to be only four. But, whichever version one
looks at, there is an understanding of what each age brings to the
table. There is a to-do list, there are inherent goals which society
recognises and which the individual works towards. Each stage prepares
the individual for the next.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">It
would seem that past a particular age group getting ‘old’ has become
profane because it suggests an inability to be what one was. There was a
time when the young wanted to grow up because accumulating the years
meant freedom, independence and shouldering responsibility for the self.
When someone brands a particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable
to see the two as separate then there is a problem.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Those
who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold of two very disparate
ages. They bridge the ages of youthful daredevilry of the young adult
with the more serious pragmatic, responsible age of the just pensioned
and elderly. The future looks uncertain but the past, which was known,
sure looks rosy. For many, after a point, age is no longer just a
number; it suggests less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of
health, lack of earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to,
for want of a better term, have a good time.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Though
one would like to come across as experienced and worldly wise there is
now need to hide the rigours of the process which brings it. Many speak
of the ‘child in me’, there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan
Complex’, while a billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to
look, if not remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">We
try to look younger, behave younger and find opportunities to do so in
our attempt to retain the things we derived happiness from in our
younger days. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that feeds of the
surrounding environment. This phenomena is not only biological, but
cultural, social and psychological. So, the idea that the manner in
which we attain happiness and the form of our happiness will remain
unchanged over time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores
our progress as individuals but the advance of society.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Even
as we middle aged work with our turmoil of finding ways to remain
young, what of the young who see us? Are we encroaching on a space that
is theirs? What goes on in their mind when they see us at a pub
screaming along with Bryan Adams as he swears ’18 till I die’? What do
children feel when their mothers look young like them or their father’s
become a ‘dude’? Do youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the
presence of the new young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’
passed on to an even younger generation who will define middle aged as
old?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and boring’ is a desire to not accept what experience brings –
maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young disregarding and even
disrespecting the self’s progress on all level’s? Would an engineer
choose to use his skills to solve second grade mathematics? The need to
remain and even act young is something similar to a child’s first day
at school- he clings to his parents, afraid of what is out there. We,
the middle-aged are comfortable acting young because we have been there.
Also, now that we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no
one to answer to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the
lost opportunities of our youth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The
fact remains that we could be boring at any age. There seems to be a
lack of faith in oneself when one assumes that with age one becomes
boring. Why should we choose not to build on a life time of experience
and instead opt to regress? Why should an interesting life become dull
when one grows older? When we find an answer to this question, we will
realise that ‘old and boring’ have a dissonance to them that only
maturity understands.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: 100%;">(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People’)</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i>SAMIR NAZARETH says that increasingly being old means being boring and redundant in today’s youth oriented society.</i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Shakespeare
has written about the seven stages of man, Hindu texts have kept it
simpler and deigned them to be only four. But, whichever version one
looks at, there is an understanding of what each age brings to the
table. There is a to-do list, there are inherent goals which society
recognises and which the individual works towards. Each stage prepares
the individual for the next.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">It
would seem that past a particular age group getting ‘old’ has become
profane because it suggests an inability to be what one was. There was a
time when the young wanted to grow up because accumulating the years
meant freedom, independence and shouldering responsibility for the self.
When someone brands a particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable
to see the two as separate then there is a problem.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Those
who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold of two very disparate
ages. They bridge the ages of youthful daredevilry of the young adult
with the more serious pragmatic, responsible age of the just pensioned
and elderly. The future looks uncertain but the past, which was known,
sure looks rosy. For many, after a point, age is no longer just a
number; it suggests less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of
health, lack of earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to,
for want of a better term, have a good time.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Though
one would like to come across as experienced and worldly wise there is
now need to hide the rigours of the process which brings it. Many speak
of the ‘child in me’, there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan
Complex’, while a billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to
look, if not remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">We
try to look younger, behave younger and find opportunities to do so in
our attempt to retain the things we derived happiness from in our
younger days. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that feeds of the
surrounding environment. This phenomena is not only biological, but
cultural, social and psychological. So, the idea that the manner in
which we attain happiness and the form of our happiness will remain
unchanged over time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores
our progress as individuals but the advance of society.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Even
as we middle aged work with our turmoil of finding ways to remain
young, what of the young who see us? Are we encroaching on a space that
is theirs? What goes on in their mind when they see us at a pub
screaming along with Bryan Adams as he swears ’18 till I die’? What do
children feel when their mothers look young like them or their father’s
become a ‘dude’? Do youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the
presence of the new young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’
passed on to an even younger generation who will define middle aged as
old?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and boring’ is a desire to not accept what experience brings –
maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young disregarding and even
disrespecting the self’s progress on all level’s? Would an engineer
choose to use his skills to solve second grade mathematics? The need to
remain and even act young is something similar to a child’s first day
at school- he clings to his parents, afraid of what is out there. We,
the middle-aged are comfortable acting young because we have been there.
Also, now that we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no
one to answer to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the
lost opportunities of our youth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The
fact remains that we could be boring at any age. There seems to be a
lack of faith in oneself when one assumes that with age one becomes
boring. Why should we choose not to build on a life time of experience
and instead opt to regress? Why should an interesting life become dull
when one grows older? When we find an answer to this question, we will
realise that ‘old and boring’ have a dissonance to them that only
maturity understands.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: 100%;">(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People’)</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i>SAMIR NAZARETH says that increasingly being old means being boring and redundant in today’s youth oriented society.</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Shakespeare
has written about the seven stages of man, Hindu texts have kept it
simpler and deigned them to be only four. But, whichever version one
looks at, there is an understanding of what each age brings to the
table. There is a to-do list, there are inherent goals which society
recognises and which the individual works towards. Each stage prepares
the individual for the next.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">It
would seem that past a particular age group getting ‘old’ has become
profane because it suggests an inability to be what one was. There was a
time when the young wanted to grow up because accumulating the years
meant freedom, independence and shouldering responsibility for the self.
When someone brands a particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable
to see the two as separate then there is a problem.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Those
who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold of two very disparate
ages. They bridge the ages of youthful daredevilry of the young adult
with the more serious pragmatic, responsible age of the just pensioned
and elderly. The future looks uncertain but the past, which was known,
sure looks rosy. For many, after a point, age is no longer just a
number; it suggests less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of
health, lack of earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to,
for want of a better term, have a good time.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Though
one would like to come across as experienced and worldly wise there is
now need to hide the rigours of the process which brings it. Many speak
of the ‘child in me’, there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan
Complex’, while a billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to
look, if not remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">We
try to look younger, behave younger and find opportunities to do so in
our attempt to retain the things we derived happiness from in our
younger days. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that feeds of the
surrounding environment. This phenomena is not only biological, but
cultural, social and psychological. So, the idea that the manner in
which we attain happiness and the form of our happiness will remain
unchanged over time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores
our progress as individuals but the advance of society.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Even
as we middle aged work with our turmoil of finding ways to remain
young, what of the young who see us? Are we encroaching on a space that
is theirs? What goes on in their mind when they see us at a pub
screaming along with Bryan Adams as he swears ’18 till I die’? What do
children feel when their mothers look young like them or their father’s
become a ‘dude’? Do youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the
presence of the new young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’
passed on to an even younger generation who will define middle aged as
old?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and boring’ is a desire to not accept what experience brings –
maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young disregarding and even
disrespecting the self’s progress on all level’s? Would an engineer
choose to use his skills to solve second grade mathematics? The need to
remain and even act young is something similar to a child’s first day
at school- he clings to his parents, afraid of what is out there. We,
the middle-aged are comfortable acting young because we have been there.
Also, now that we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no
one to answer to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the
lost opportunities of our youth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The
fact remains that we could be boring at any age. There seems to be a
lack of faith in oneself when one assumes that with age one becomes
boring. Why should we choose not to build on a life time of experience
and instead opt to regress? Why should an interesting life become dull
when one grows older? When we find an answer to this question, we will
realise that ‘old and boring’ have a dissonance to them that only
maturity understands.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: 100%;">(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People’)</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i>SAMIR NAZARETH says that increasingly being old means being boring and redundant in today’s youth oriented society.</i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Shakespeare
has written about the seven stages of man, Hindu texts have kept it
simpler and deigned them to be only four. But, whichever version one
looks at, there is an understanding of what each age brings to the
table. There is a to-do list, there are inherent goals which society
recognises and which the individual works towards. Each stage prepares
the individual for the next.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">It
would seem that past a particular age group getting ‘old’ has become
profane because it suggests an inability to be what one was. There was a
time when the young wanted to grow up because accumulating the years
meant freedom, independence and shouldering responsibility for the self.
When someone brands a particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable
to see the two as separate then there is a problem.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Those
who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold of two very disparate
ages. They bridge the ages of youthful daredevilry of the young adult
with the more serious pragmatic, responsible age of the just pensioned
and elderly. The future looks uncertain but the past, which was known,
sure looks rosy. For many, after a point, age is no longer just a
number; it suggests less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of
health, lack of earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to,
for want of a better term, have a good time.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Though
one would like to come across as experienced and worldly wise there is
now need to hide the rigours of the process which brings it. Many speak
of the ‘child in me’, there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan
Complex’, while a billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to
look, if not remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">We
try to look younger, behave younger and find opportunities to do so in
our attempt to retain the things we derived happiness from in our
younger days. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that feeds of the
surrounding environment. This phenomena is not only biological, but
cultural, social and psychological. So, the idea that the manner in
which we attain happiness and the form of our happiness will remain
unchanged over time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores
our progress as individuals but the advance of society.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Even
as we middle aged work with our turmoil of finding ways to remain
young, what of the young who see us? Are we encroaching on a space that
is theirs? What goes on in their mind when they see us at a pub
screaming along with Bryan Adams as he swears ’18 till I die’? What do
children feel when their mothers look young like them or their father’s
become a ‘dude’? Do youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the
presence of the new young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’
passed on to an even younger generation who will define middle aged as
old?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and boring’ is a desire to not accept what experience brings –
maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young disregarding and even
disrespecting the self’s progress on all level’s? Would an engineer
choose to use his skills to solve second grade mathematics? The need to
remain and even act young is something similar to a child’s first day
at school- he clings to his parents, afraid of what is out there. We,
the middle-aged are comfortable acting young because we have been there.
Also, now that we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no
one to answer to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the
lost opportunities of our youth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The
fact remains that we could be boring at any age. There seems to be a
lack of faith in oneself when one assumes that with age one becomes
boring. Why should we choose not to build on a life time of experience
and instead opt to regress? Why should an interesting life become dull
when one grows older? When we find an answer to this question, we will
realise that ‘old and boring’ have a dissonance to them that only
maturity understands.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: 100%;">(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People’)</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i>SAMIR NAZARETH says that increasingly being old means being boring and redundant in today’s youth oriented society.</i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and Boring!’ one gets to hear this very often, not from the lips of the
old nor those in their teens but from those in their mid-thirties. The
manner in which it is said is very matter of fact but in it there is a
tinge of palpable apprehension. </span><a href="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg"><img alt="lead 2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-573366" src="http://www.freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lead-21.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Shakespeare
has written about the seven stages of man, Hindu texts have kept it
simpler and deigned them to be only four. But, whichever version one
looks at, there is an understanding of what each age brings to the
table. There is a to-do list, there are inherent goals which society
recognises and which the individual works towards. Each stage prepares
the individual for the next.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">It
would seem that past a particular age group getting ‘old’ has become
profane because it suggests an inability to be what one was. There was a
time when the young wanted to grow up because accumulating the years
meant freedom, independence and shouldering responsibility for the self.
When someone brands a particular age as ‘old and boring’ and is unable
to see the two as separate then there is a problem.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Those
who are newly middle-aged are at a threshold of two very disparate
ages. They bridge the ages of youthful daredevilry of the young adult
with the more serious pragmatic, responsible age of the just pensioned
and elderly. The future looks uncertain but the past, which was known,
sure looks rosy. For many, after a point, age is no longer just a
number; it suggests less options, a slowdown caused by the shackles of
health, lack of earning capacity and seemingly less opportunities to,
for want of a better term, have a good time.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Though
one would like to come across as experienced and worldly wise there is
now need to hide the rigours of the process which brings it. Many speak
of the ‘child in me’, there is constant research on the ‘Peter Pan
Complex’, while a billion dollar industry has risen from the desire to
look, if not remain, young. This façade gives people an option of
straddling two very disparate worlds.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">We
try to look younger, behave younger and find opportunities to do so in
our attempt to retain the things we derived happiness from in our
younger days. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that feeds of the
surrounding environment. This phenomena is not only biological, but
cultural, social and psychological. So, the idea that the manner in
which we attain happiness and the form of our happiness will remain
unchanged over time is juvenile to say the least. It not only ignores
our progress as individuals but the advance of society.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Even
as we middle aged work with our turmoil of finding ways to remain
young, what of the young who see us? Are we encroaching on a space that
is theirs? What goes on in their mind when they see us at a pub
screaming along with Bryan Adams as he swears ’18 till I die’? What do
children feel when their mothers look young like them or their father’s
become a ‘dude’? Do youth feel claustrophobic and xenophobic with the
presence of the new young? Is the fear of getting ‘old and boring’
passed on to an even younger generation who will define middle aged as
old?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">‘Old
and boring’ is a desire to not accept what experience brings –
maturity. Isn’t wanting to remain young disregarding and even
disrespecting the self’s progress on all level’s? Would an engineer
choose to use his skills to solve second grade mathematics? The need to
remain and even act young is something similar to a child’s first day
at school- he clings to his parents, afraid of what is out there. We,
the middle-aged are comfortable acting young because we have been there.
Also, now that we have the money, can rationalise morality and have no
one to answer to we are trying to make up for what we believe are the
lost opportunities of our youth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The
fact remains that we could be boring at any age. There seems to be a
lack of faith in oneself when one assumes that with age one becomes
boring. Why should we choose not to build on a life time of experience
and instead opt to regress? Why should an interesting life become dull
when one grows older? When we find an answer to this question, we will
realise that ‘old and boring’ have a dissonance to them that only
maturity understands.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: 100%;">(Samir Nazareth is the author of ‘1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People’)</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">A few days back India woke up to a
photo of an experience many have heard about or have gone through –
cheating in exams. The photograph was of rampant cheating occurring
during the board exams conducted by the Bihar Government. This
unfortunately is not a new phenomenon in India. The same event was
captured a decade back, nothing has changed. But cheating is not only
rampant amongst the youth, news channels broadcast cheating that
occurred during a promotion exam for junior judges. Is the education
and evaluation system in India promoting cheating and cheaters? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">Rote is the method of learning that
has been most prevalent in India. This is not surprising, given that
it was memory that was key to handing down various prayers and texts
through generations in ancient India. Memory was seen as a virtue
which also stood for a particular class of people. This could be a
reason why memorising is such an important part in teaching and
learning in India. </span>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Today,
the use of rote is also an outcome of the schooling system that sees
reduced number of teachers and higher number of students. In 2010,
the then Minister for Human Resources Development stated that there
was a shortfall of 12 lakh teachers while 5.23 lakh posts were
vacant. In rural India, 11% of primary schools have a single teacher.
In such a situation rote is indeed the only way for a teacher to
impart some form of knowledge. A student blindly vocalising what the
teacher says may just be parroting the sounds he hears but the
student is being kept occupied for those hours. Thus it comes as no
surprise that, one of the main findings of the 2014 Annual Status of
Education Report is that approximately half of the Standard V
children surveyed could not read at Standard II level. The report
claims that </span></span><span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">“</span></span></span><span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close
to half of all children will finish eight years of schooling but
still not have learned basic skills in arithmetic.” </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">So, there is every reason for students
to cheat when they are tested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">Besides indicating a breakdown of the
education system cheating can also be seen as a symptom of a society
lacking moral fibre. But how can one grow this moral fibre when not
only the education but many in society are complicit in creating
cheaters? Teachers, instead of teaching in class conduct tuitions,
parents prepare their children's class assignments. It would be
pointless to teach students citizenship in an atmosphere that
disrespects it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">But this is not just the case in
India, there are instances of cheating in the US and UK too. These
however have more to do with schools getting accreditation and
therefore funding. Chinese students have also resorted to
malpractices to crack exams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Finland must be
doing something right. Their education system has constantly been
rated high. The main objective of the Finnish education policy is to
offer all citizens equal opportunities to receive education.
Therefore the focus is on learning and not on testing, thus teachers
and schools are not forced to get students to perform in tests. This
is not to say that students are not assessed constantly, but this is
upto the teacher. Students come face to face with exams when they are
16 years old when they answer a mandatory standardised test. Most
importantly the teachers are highly qualified, they are selected
from the top 10% of their graduating class and have state sponsored
master's degrees. The education system is publicly funded in Finland.
A teachers job is highly sort after, it has been reported that in
</span></span><span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">2010, there were 6,600
applicants for 660 primary school training jobs. In Finland, High
school teachers with 15 years of experience make 102% more than what
other graduates make. It could be said that Finnish society give
their teachers the same status as that of lawyers and doctors. </span>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;">In
India, teaching as a career option is not the first choice and many
institutes offering a Bachelors in Education are of low quality.
This is the reason why many States in India have sought exemption
from the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) which is an essential
criterion for teacher recruitment and was started in 2011. This is a
classic case of which came first – the chicken or the egg, on the
one hand there are low quality teachers because of teaching is not
rewarding monetarily and then the government is reluctant to give
permanent posts to the teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Any
education system needs to be built on foresight, in terms of what the
child needs, what the child will do for the nation and finally what
the nation needs. However in India, a judicious use of hindsight
would be more appropriate before looking into how the education
system can create the citizens of tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ARIAL, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Samir Nazareth is the author of
1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People'</b></span></div>
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