Frame of reference

Evrything we say has a veracity only in terms of frame of reference, which also decides the depth of our words in terms of correctness. When we say that our country is doing great in terms of growth,poverty alleviation and other parameters than it also should depend on what we are comparing it with.The point i am trying to make is we indians are so much trapped in fairy tale solutions that we forget what exactly is our HQ ( Happiness Quotient). When our PM says that we are experiencing a very good GDP growth rate of 8% we forget our frame of refernce , which should be china ,instead we take it with rest of the devloping world Why are we satisfied with this growth of 8% when we have the potential of growing at least 14% if all our resources are unlocked in a efficient mannner. Actually historic prevelence like being self satisfied which is deeply inrooted in our culture has also something to do with it.But fact of the matter is we need exponential growth if we want to feed our hungry population.
This is another interesting example of our dogmatic point of view in almost everything which is simply presented to us.I was talking to one of my freind about the profitablity of government run companies(PSU) like Indian Railways, BHEL, and other companies .He told me its whopping 55,000 Crores and we as a nation should be proud of it. Now what he forgot to tell me was that in last 50 years Billion of dolloars was taken as loan from world bank(25 % of our budget stil goes for the interest payments and installments of these previous loans) and other foreign agencies to provide capital to these sickening PSU and they had all the support of government,absolute monopoly in the market( no competetiors is allowed in railways unlike 10 privare mobile players in a single circle apart from the government ones) and uninterrupted supply of natural resources(ONGC and other Oil companies gets crude oil free of cost when found by the government of india) but still the return given by these companies is nothing compare to the investments occured in it. So our frame of refernce should be those companies which are making much more profite inspite of the absence of above said things.
Our frame of refernce in terms of corruption is also astonishing.When mayawati is asked why she is building expensive statues by using taxpayers money ,she simply says that congress governments have used 100 times more fund than her short tenure to promote members of their party ,latest example is calling Bandra waorli sea link as rajiv gandhi bridge which is outrageous .So if we take congrees as frame of reference for mayawati she is fairly placed to be called honest because the point raised by her is true. We can see daily in our news papers everyhing being named after Nehru -Gandhi Family as if we are living in their kingdom. Rajiv Gandhi doesnt deserve to be called so great , he has done nothing extraordinary for our country .His legacy is remembered by Bofor's and IPKF( indian peace keeping force) failures.So why are we so obssessed with such people,don't our farmers,scientist and soldiers deserve much better place than politicians in naming project,parks, statues and monuments after them?? The answer is plain no,because we always get what we deserve , and we indians are ourselves so corrupt(World bank,WTO and amnesty international ranks india after many poor african countries in terms of corruption index) ,immoral and narrowminded that we deserve such politicians above us .Their mesaage is clear, you have committed a sin by selecting them even after their misrule in last 5 years,now they will show you the shameless misuse of public fund

Even in the field of sports we have a predefined frame of reference.We never want to be a number one in cricket,we are always satisfied by beating pakistan (Even if we lose to scotland it doesn't matter than).Its our target to get 4 gold medals in London olympics (Indian Olympic committee) because our frame of refernce is to be in top 20 rank .Why cant we just decide a rational method of getting number of medals which should be our ratio of population in the world.If we cant excel at least we can try to be an average player,but no we have already decided that being mediocre is fashionable because that is the democratic dividend we must get.It is like a headless chicken running in all direction .
Yesterday i was watching a news article in which our Health minister said that our death ratio is very less compared to western countries in swine flu pandeamic. There can be only two reason for such statements either he was being normally stupid or being dumb of everything .We all know that our helth care system is worst in the world and we wil be maximum hit by the virus if its not taken care of .Our frame of refernce in this case seems to have backfired because comparing with wrong and fictuous data can prove to be fatal.
In our daily life also we casually say that he is very intelligent ( What about Einstein than ,what kind of superlatives we are going to use for him),i have worked very hard in office( what about farmers than who work in sorching heat compared to us sitting in AC comfort and getting many times more pay than a labour or a worker in manufacturing industry).
The most potent criticism of above said things will be that setting high expectation levels doesn't mean you get the results accordingly ,but than i would say having the right frame of reference always helps in deciding and structuring the path because human being is made to conquer all the possible challenges given to him.

India's Foreign Policy Debacle

Foreign policy is our long term strategy to deal with the international community for our best advantage(you may call it a jingoistic view). Our nation of 1.1 billion people (which incidently is one sixth of mankind ) has not been able to formulate any particular policy to establish itself as the world leader in positive way.We dont have a clear cut policy on how to deal with our allies and opponents on international turf.
Our basic thinking of viewing everything with prism of Pakistan has led us to be allied with a failed soviet state with phoney pseudo socialist agenda. Even that was not enough we started partying in NAM ( that is non aligned movement in spite of alliance with the soviet block) which was another big failure as it was a non starter. Our recent governements than took a U-turn and started wooing USA and virtually gave USA a free hand in deciding our policy on terrrorism by declaring pakistan a staunch fighter of terrorism and that may be india is responsible for some of the terrorist attack in pakistan's balochistan.

On china front our infinite series of failure continues because we dont believe in confrontation as we indians are peace loving people. What we dont understand is peace can only come if we are always prepared for war and ready to crush enemies in its own way.

We have a very sour relationship with all our SAARC neighbours as everybody considers us their adverseries. Even when indian students are beaten abroad no action is taken.( just try to touch any US citizen in india ,i am sure the crimnal will be found in less than 24 hrs as entire state machinery will be at them). These all failures are fundamentally, because we are weak nation and nobody takes us seriously . We can get strength only by buliding our economy .

But that is a long process till that time we cant let a population of 1.1 billion suffer humiliation because of our hopeless politician. Here are few steps which i think should be taken immediatly to reverse this:



1.There should be some kind of hawkishness which is always neccessary in external affairs matter as we all know Darwin's principle ( of survival of fittest),so we need to start having hard posturing towards our biggest competitor china ,which by the way is our threat number one in terms of geopolitical stablity.

2.Pakistan policy should be dealt independently as our relationship with it should not come in the way of our relatioship with other countries.

3.Being the largest democracy in the world it is neccessary to spread democracy in other parts of the world and this could increase our leadership position among neutral countries like for the case of Myanmar ,we didn't condemned the Aaung suu kee detention in the harsh manner which in the long run can backfire.

4.Our policy with US should be based in terms of mutul trust and mutual benefit because upmanship with US can go a long way.We should press for no governemnt intervention in terms of outsourcing and farm subsidies.

5.Our policy in WTO ( doha round discussion) and global warming issue (Kyoto protocal ) needs to be aggressively fought and we need to lead the point of view of BRIC countries in international negotiation.

6.Our standing in world also depend on our military might and technological devlopemets which needs intense focus.

7.In the end our political class must grow up and leave the job with experts in at least cricial matters like external affairs,people like Sashi tharoor are welcomed by the way.

Panic Flu in Pune...

Its not Swine flu but it seems lie panic Flu at least in Pune.You can see everybody wearing mask,taking all the precaution regarding food habits,socializing habits,malls multiplexes closed....people trying to avoid work, you can sense a look of unnerving calm on the face of every individual...fear of life has culminated in our soul more than the life itself. Childrens are scared by their parents to behave
otherwise the ghost of flu will gulp them in. and the big question here is who is responsible for it in pune ??..................................it mainly seems to be an urbane phenomenon
because of the affuluent people associated with it ....mainly business travellers to other countries bringing in it here. Our urban middle class who is so preocupied by its own consumerist problems that there is a deep rooted fear inside them about loosing everyhing. Poor are not much afraid because they already have malaria,TB,Cholera and other much dangerous diseases to deal with..
so this new flu virus is virtually unknown to them. Infact they didnt bring it here so they are not even responsible for its spread. But they will be blamed the most when it becomes an epedimic because of the moral degredation under which urban and richer india is suffering from

So as the blame game has been established its solution time.....
1.Panic needs to be toned down because panic doesnt help in these situation as well as there should be no complacency......so media can help in this by creating an educative coverage of the flu.
2.Again it has been proved that reserch in science and technology always pays off....so government policy should be of creating R&D atmosphere in the country because the cost associated with the delay in treatment far outweigh the investment in R & D.

3.Our usual cleanliness habits need to be improved because desipite being the worlds most sacred civilization we have to accept this harsh fact that we are the dirtiest nation in the world.We need to improve our overall concern to this topic.

4.Human body has a mechanism by which it itself produces a immune fro new virus.....as there are millions of new viruses created by our search for growth and our body has dealt with it by creating self immunization.......so my hope is that it will happen sooner or later till that time just keep ur self fit and healthy.