Copenhagen Fiasco

The clock is ticking to Friday, when heads of state will descend, all to sign a global ‘accord’ or at least some pact on how the world will cut emissions. Things are deadlocked, seemingly stalled. But this is only for the eyes of the uninitiated.

The fact is that the spin-masters are at work, feverishly building momentum for the blame-game to culminate — finger-pointing to countries, which are blocking the deal, destroying the one chance the world has to save the planet. India is already moving to the top of that list.

This when the industrialized world has refused to put anything meaningful on the table — no reduction at home, no money or technology transfer agreements. Instead, the two draft agreements for negotiations only harden their position. They demand, first, that developing countries (India) take on emission reduction targets, without any financial assistance. That is not a problem.

Our minister has already ‘offered’ that India will cut its carbon intensity by 20-25% by 2020. We have accepted the white man’s burden as our own.

But what the minister did not perhaps know is that he has now stepped on a slippery slope. The next demand is already ratcheting up. Industrialized countries have now demanded in no uncertain terms that all actions done domestically must be internationally monitored, reported and verified. The reason is simple as by doing this, domestic targets become legally binding global commitments. The language is getting nasty as well. ‘‘We cannot trust these nations,’’ is what US envoys said. Others repeat.

The call is growing that India wants its right to pollute. In all this, the worst fears of the Indian establishment are bound to come true: we will get isolated and blamed for the failure of the global agreement. We will be hated in the rich man’s world.

This situation is of our own making. The fact is that when the minister declared the domestic target in Parliament, he changed the goalpost. He accepted that India must switch sides to join the league of polluters, instead of being able to demand its right to development. He accepted that there is no distinction between the countries which have been historically responsible for creating the problem, and the rest, who need funds and technology to make the low-carbon leapfrog so that the world can avoid emissions. He, therefore, also implicitly rejected the notion of an agreement based on equal-burden sharing.

The carbon sums are clear, any which way: From 1890 to 2007, rich countries contributed some 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere; India some 3%. US, with just 5% of the world’s population, alone is responsible for some 30% of the carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere.

But forget the past. If you factor in the targets of the rich world (and US), which Copenhagen is poised to endorse, industrialized countries will still occupy some 50% of the global carbon budget till 2020. US, assuming for a moment that their Senate endorses the 3% reduction over its 1990 levels, will still use up a fifth of the world’s carbon budget between 1890 and 2020.

Worse, India with its self-imposed domestic target will get some 4% of the global carbon budget between 1890 and 2020 for its people who add up to 17% of the world’s population. This agreement, therefore, will freeze inequity in the world. This when it is known that these negotiations are about the right to development. No country, as yet, has delinked the growth of its economy from emissions of carbon dioxide.

So, we can now cry wolf. But this is an outcome of the ‘pragmatic global diplomacy’ that many in the government believe is the need of the day. They openly reject the idea that global agreements can and should be based on principles of equity or justice. They say this is old-fashioned and idealistic, not fit for the real world. Their world is about global deals that give and take. The question we in India must ask is what did we get: other than the official stamp of a third-class citizen of the world?

The circle has closed. Gandhi took on the British Empire when he was thrown out of the first-class compartment. He refused to be a third-class citizen. In Copenhagen we may just decide that we must wear that shame forever.

Dr. Abdul Kalam's Letter to Every Indian

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours..
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand ..
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan ..
Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too…. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr.. Abdul Kalam

Recent Changes

Once........

1. We used to maintain a dedicated address book for our emails, and used to forward interesting pieces religiously.
2. We used to BUZZ each others on Yahoo messengers just for fun.
3. We used to forward SMSes to each other
4. We used to religiously follow the profiles of people on Orkut, especially their relationship statuses.
5. We used to switch off the TV when Aaila Sachin used to get out.

Life changes, river flows, time changes, priorities shift, new winds blow.
May be for the best...

Dragon Challenge.....

October 2009: China invited strong protest from India after it issued separate visas for Indian Kashmiris.

June 2009: China objected to an ADB loan to Arunachal Pradesh, claiming it's a 'disputed territory' between India and China

February 2008: China again objected to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh the year before that, in May, China denied a travel visa application from an Indian Administrative Service officer in Arunachal Pradesh, saying that since Arunachal is China's territory, the official did not need a visa to visit his own country.

November 2006: China and India had a verbal spat - India accused China of occupying 38,000 square kilometers of its territory in Kashmir. China claimed the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as its own.

September 1999: China objected again when India established a new Indian Army Unit in the Ladakh region

A recent poll by chinese Government says that 96% of chinese feel agitated by indian PM's visit in Arunachal Pradesh

. What does the above mentioned incident shows ?? It is clear that when a nation develops
economically the first thing it tries to do is to wrest control the neighboring countries.
In geopolitical term this is called muscle flexing.It is again quite clear that the dragon
challenge will grow leap bound as Chinese economic and military power increases exponentially
compared to Hindu growth rate.And our sleeping people will only wake up when yellow short
people with the most evil government of the world will dance on our head the one which happened in 1962.

So we have to start learning the fact that to survive in this precarious situation
in the subcontinent we need some solid plan.We have our blood enemy Pakistan in the east
,down south there is LTTE ,in nepal there is Maoist insurgency along with permanent disturbances in Bangladesh and Myanmar and there is one common fact with all these countries is that they have a very good infact excellent relation with Chinese and very bad relation with their immediate neighbor, India.Now this should certainly be designed because its not co incident that the only governmet that recognizes Myanmar,s military dictatorship is China,the only governement which provides arms and strtegic knowhow to paistan nepal and Srilanka are Chinese(APart from US).

Now should we be raising panic button to the extent that all diplomatic tie ups be stopped
till Chinese government come to negotiating table....I dont think we need to do that..we can shift entire focus of discussion by internationalizing Tibet issue and also start demanding Aksai -chin
part of J & K which is with China. Or we can give arms and ammunition to the independence
demanding groups within china to bring then to the negotiating table.All these decision making
requires political will power off course.We need aggressive diplomacy which i am reiterating
blogs after blog besause when we appear weak on our face people take us for granted and
all the talk about first becoming economic superpower and then protecting our interest is bullshit,we have umpteen number of example where we can see that india is in general a weak nation in international scene ..much weaker than even Iran ,Israel and some other nation
who are smaller than us in many terms.

The dragon challenge is also important on another level because of the Alice in wonderland thinking of some Chinese think tank who have been planning on the destruction of entire Indian nation state.Several Chinese think tank have proposed to divide India into different states to govern the new world order in which Chinese people have the area till Assam under their control
so that they can remove the human rights of those areas and imply their communist rule.

I am not a war monger at heart ,i want the problems and dispute solved peacefully...there is
also talk of arms lobby of developed worlds adding petrol to the fire but there's certainly
some fire and that's why smoke is coming again and again..but again the
same cliche "For Peace we need war preparations".If insiders and strategic think tank are to
be believed China will most probably attack India with co-operation from Pakistan and
nepal to satisfy its domestic audience and keep them united.People of China hate Indians more
than an any westerners because of our comparative size,markets interest and future superpower status.If we want to avoid 1962 when we were caught unaware by Chinese and were fooled by " Hindi chini Bhai Bhai " slogan we have to become more proactive.China had already captured close to 90000sq km of Indian area including that of Tibet which should be a free nation.Chinese government is the evil most empire in this world because who you can expect to attack their own citizen by tank at Tienanmen or attacking the most peace loving people in the world that is Buddhist monks of Tibet...We should be fully beware of the monster in our east becuse there is a saying in the hindi " Savdhani Hati ,durghatna ghati".

Maharashtra Votes...For What...There is going to be No Change..

Incompetence in any form along with corruption is never to be rewarded ..Bhujbal was incriminated for the Telgi -stamp paper scam ...Chavan --is a nonentity ..whats his claim to fame ---being a congress loyalists son ..who is surving on his fathers illgotten wealth of corruption ??
.How are we allowing them to come back ??



LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER


Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Pune.. Mouse at least squeak but we don't even do that.
Today I heard your speech. In which you said 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed. Your statement 'NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED' is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India.
Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima.
We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbai to be Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.
Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn't it?
I am born in Bihar and bought up in Maharashtra for last 25 years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.
To purchase a house everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn't it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.
If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.
Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn't even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.
Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.
Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?
Amresh Sinha
C-11 Sanskruti Prangan
Baner Road Balewadi
Pune 411045
9970616250

Dont waste Food.....

1. Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow. 2. There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world. 3. 1/3rd of the world’s hungry live in India. 4. 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day. 5. Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight. 6. 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars. 7. India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92. 8. 99% of the 1000 Adivasi households from 40 villages in the two states, who comprised the total sample, experienced chronic hunger (unable to get two square meals, or at least one square meal and one poor/partial meal, on even one day in the week prior to the survey). Almost as many (24.1 per cent) had lived in conditions of semi-starvation during the previous month. 9. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day. 10. Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year. 11. Despite substantial improvement in health since independence and a growth rate of 8 percent in recent years, under-nutrition remains a silent emergency in India, with almost 50 percent of Indian children underweight and more than 70 percent of the women and children with serious nutritional deficiencies as anemia. 12. The 1998 – 99 Indian survey shows 57 percent of the children aged 0 – 3 years to be either severely or moderately stunted and/or underweight. 13. During 2006 – 2007, malnutrition contributed to seven million Indian children dying, nearly two million before the age of one. 14. 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anaemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anaemic. 15. The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).

Sources :

UN World Food Programme

UN World Health Organization: Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, 2006

UN Food and Agriculture Organization: SOFI 2006 Report

National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (India)

National Family Health Survey 2005 – 06 (NFHS-3) (India)

Centre for Environment and Food Security (India)

Rural 21 (India)

Global Warming or Global Hypocrisy

I want my sucking up of oxygen to be turned into some kind of payback...i dont want to be like moron animals who keeps utilising every last thing given to it without using their top of head.I want my life to be different from animals , our so called undevloped versions.... is it too much to ask..but my fellow homo sapiens don't allow me to do the same,they keep forcing me to continue being animals...they still prefer burning carbon to atmosphere so that we can melt icecaps and submerge our coastals. and thereby kill ourselves.. they keep forcing me to use coal and oil to run ACs and other machines to feel comfort at the cost of poor lives...our animal instinct is making comeback again and again and its very hard for lesser mortals like me to resist the temptation.Even the ultimate tool of human animal nuclear arsenals are so casually talked about that our existence in this human species depends upon certain conditions.I want all the
the nuclear weopons and the elements required to make them to be dumped into our favouirte
planet mars.Blanket ban on oil usage, instead of cars cycle can do ..newton made laws of motion and thats enough for us.
Rules of games should be laid out and religiously followed otherwise its doom and boom.There should be some strict international norm for unstoppable expedition and usage of natural resources. We cant continue to use it on the name of natural justice...which obviously is
a big paradox by our action. "Moralilty versus reality versus practicality leads to death
of humanity" and i cant let it happen that easily. Global warming just cant be allowed at all
and obviously the western countries have to take lead ...but we cant just wash away our hands.
Western hemisphere has to reduce per capita carbon intake, civil society has to show some civility. Although our average per capita carbon intake is lowest in the world but we as poor and coastal nation will suffer the most so we cant cut the branch on which we are sitting.
New age people have to stop from their work and start thinking and setting their priorities
right otherwise water in moon will certainly be required for us to settle their.