Friday, July 15, 2011

Mood of the nation: How to read and flee?

THe Capital may be witness to PM speaking on no reshuffle till 2014 polls. But what are the chances of polls actually happening in 2014?
By stating that 2014 is the year when the country has to go to the polls, the PM has elaborately summed up the mood of the nation. THe mood that seemed to be no upbeat given the uncertainty that loomed over the chances of polls happening before 2014. So the countrymen can be assured that they can put their heart and soul to the festivities between now and 2014, even if their level of participation/support leads to a law and disorder problem. What the PM has assured is that the road bumps the sectors like infrastructure face the momentum won't be lost, the opportunity for getting spanked from different institutions won't be frittered away and one can expect the government to go by the expected level of performance which it has expectedly performed till now.
The mood fluctuates from morning to evening. In the morning if a gathering may look despondent the evening could herald good tidings given the frame of activities they are engaged in or attempting to get in or get out. It is just not the stock market or the scheduled arrival or departure of different modes of transport that keeps the public in different frame of mind; the ability to get in and out of one mode of transport to another in one piece can also provide a pulse to the mood of the nation.
The refrain that public transport and the limited hours that one can bide their time in has led to a great deal of resentment given the desire of a large block to stay away from place of work/residence. It is at these two places it takes no time for the mood to fluctuate to a point of no return. So an active redressal is on the anvil as one boards the public transport and vent his/her frustration for long hours on a cell and in between gives his/her compatriots a story to sell. If commute by a public transport provides a clue to the changing and reverberating mood of nation, the chances of the same being captured when one is in a personal transport is fairly less. Because most of the occupants are at the mercy of the machine and the driver whom they have occupied for different range of activities. Here the occupant can't spell out her/his mood or the state of the mood soon after s/he get down from the vehicle. Because the things that go through her/ his mind when he takes a personal transport are the period till which he would be in the clutches of those who drive his life and occasionally drive him out of his office and home. SO, in effect, the state of flux s/he is, doesn't endear many to get a sample of the prevailing mood.
Perhaps it was the Govt and Govt alone which wanted to set to rest the mood swings that residents were caught up with and this one declaration is sure to fire fiery imagination.
Perhaps the declaration from the PM, which is different from the asset declaration to known sources of income generation, was meant to set to rest the apprehension that country may well be looking at polls beyond 2014. Polls beyond 2014 has been the clarion call of those countrymen who have been revelling in the present situation, given the no pace or identfiable snail pace of activities. With decision-making bringing new forms of awakening, the people are desisting to take decisions keeping in mind the interest of their family. For long these countrymen had ceased to take decisions at home, and their family members, extended and on extension included, expect them to do the same in office. With no decisions emerging from emerging centres of power blessed with diminishing returns the scope for reverberations would be less and so would be claims for compensation. Keeping this in mind, the Govt of the day has decided that the momentum in circulation won't be fiddled with and if at all any decision has to be made it should be done post 2014.
And the govt's abiding faith to hold polls by 2014 is also meant to give no lease of life to tabloids which just swim with the hope that more sensational the coverage the more sense the people start getting in of the happening.This sense that the reader starts getting in is more sizeable the journo sense.
So to cut them to size from the present tabloid size they are in, the govt has spoken and the stories they may be attempting on all speculative days,months and years for elections and the perpetual ramifications have been laid to rest. After all, a good number of govt ads go to these tabloids and the speculative stories on perpetual poll fever is their year-long steroid.

$4bn is the sum and substance of war on terror. What about the terror heaped on us by private citizen?

$4bn is the sum and substance of war on terror. What about the terror heaped on us by private citizen?
$4bn is the sum and substance of war on terror. This is the report coming in newspapers. This is the figure collated after much research and how the war on terror has been fought. What about the terror that emanates from a private citizen household. Has anybody bothered to go into the sum and substance of this form of terror? Well the foundation for such terror was laid in 2004 and the entire base to unleash terror in all its magnitude established in March 2006. From March 2006, the architect of this terror ably supported by his henchmen began to unfurl the criminal designs and the results that have flowed have been quite impressive. This terror, which is no less than state terror, where money is exemplary employed to wreak havoc illustrates the desire of those who can't bear the fact that life has to be lived on simple terms, but has to be lived with an agenda where they draw support from the immediate neighbourhood to unleash and repeatedly unleash reign of terror with no inhibitions whatsoever.
It is the money power that these very private citizens have been armed with which has helped them to sustain their terror designs for over five years, with the avowed aim that if one does not yield to their range of demands you would be face to face with severe form of atrocities with no interruptions. March 2006 they spelled out their criminal demands and they continue to thrive as their henchmen are spread out across the length and breadth of the area they live in. These private citizens, armed with the expertise to turn black into white, would continue to intimidate those who won't bow to their demands and would flourish as they have consistently maintained that if for over five years they could spawn terror, they have the same and renewed right to do so in future as well as the money is what drives them.
Intoxicated with money and the criminal designs it spawns the den from where they have operated since march 2006 has given them thetime elaborating the total cost of this terror and the irreparable damage it has caused. belief that come what may intimidation and open threats would be bandied out repeatedly.
Detailed reports are to be filed in due course of

Monday, July 11, 2011

When rains lashed guruvayoor

Cabinet Rejuvenation and those desiring to stay away

As the cabinet reshuffle-cum-rejuvenation event gets over, the assimilation for some and annihilation for others would be an exercise that won't get the desired eyeballs - and fewer would be the eye contact post the half-hearted surgery. After the surgery has been performed by the Doctor residing in Race Course, the attempt would be to have no eye contact whatsoever with anyone till they are holding on to the chair. As the Cabinet stored the possibility of getting reduced by a quarter if not half, this exercise is meant to rejuvenate the very foundation of having at least a Cabinet of one where one entity could handle multiple departments given the multiple efforts he or she made to reach the pinnacle from where the down slide is assured with assured thickness of allegations. Returns would be pathetic given the firefighting mode the crowned-now-and-to-be-displaced-later entity would be engaged in to dismiss all allegations as nothing more than a futile exercise from a club which hasn't had requisite sleep since ages. Sleep is hard to come whether you are holding on to a chair or attempting to hold one or refusing to hold and yet being penalised for not holding.
The brief would be simple: let no decisions be made; let files keep rotting in the godowns - from ministries the next depot for all files thick and threatening land up in godowns for detractors to have a fresh perspective and fire a fresh round of salvos armed with a bag of wheat which the authorities willingly want to disperse free of cost - and try to be invisible to elements of probing and pestering nature as that would give no handle to your critics that you are on an overdrive. Indulgences the new members and those who are yet to be shunted out could indulge in are: excessive sleep followed by elaborate meals and all elaborate deliberations at home among family members on ways to lighten the new responsibility. Attendance to All-Cabinet Meets, different from All-party Meets where all rise settle and disappear in one go(places where they disappear for long are yet to be identified), would be nil and so would be the attempt to deflect all calls from Party High Command and those emanating from Nature's Demand.

The rationale to be furnished by these members of the Cabinet would be: In keeping with the sensitivity of the Indian Public and to sanitise with what the public desires and yet failed to express, we as soldiers with more than foreseeable responsibility on our shoulders and with our feet firm to the ground and less in the air given our sensitivity to the exchequer, have decided to refrain from expressing on anything including the deterioration the toilet set up in our accommodation has underwent even before we could do our bit. Let Cabinet meets happen and go and the govt's stability flow here and there, we would be confined to our rooms of the govt accommodation. Discussions amongst the family members would be on the windfall that stares us as the MP Land/local Area Fund has maintained the upbeat posture - hiked from 2 to 5 cr - and how best we could make use of this opportunity. We were better placed as MPs and the decision to placate us as Cabinet Members hasn't placated us by any length as it attempts to stonewall our attempts to make the best use of this opportunity. Funds which can remain unutilised if extra responsibility is thrust on us thereby deflecting our attention from the funds that are meant to raise our status and of those surrounding and disappearing at alternate hours.
Probably this could result in mass exodus from the Cabinet and it could well be faced with the prospects of shrinking by half if not three-fourth. And the way out from this dilemma could be: the head of the govt followed by different spokespersons operating during day and night giving bytes on the impending reshuffle and yet that never taking place. With no threat of Cabinet Rejig, the members who have been spared from being included would see to it that the funds would get the desired outcome and those inside the Cabinet the assurance that post LS polls the new combination minus them would take wings.
As for commoners, they would be drowned with the responsibility of keeping a tab on black money and how it is generated and what are their chances to see it if not feel it. What is black money, how it is generated and how different it is from pink money (those in the pink of health), blue money (fighting the blues of life through blue imprints that brothers concerned at their constant deterioration of health have regularly doled out) and sink money (the notes with which the people rise, surprise, get uncivilised and sink in no time. As they would be required to do a detailed study, they would come across a new buddy when the colour of the money changes as it unleashes huge unaccounted exchanges.

Ads before us

As i scan through ET, which conveys the state of economy, given the number of ads it displays, the effort on Sunday had a story on Chicago with return fare pegged at Rs 55,000. For each day, accommodation coming for close to 1600rs and brunch for two 3500rs. As for the mode of transport and the taxis on the prowl, the total cost of an elaborate stay for 10 days would easily cross 1.5 lakh. This would be a feast for those who want to unwind with the unshakeable wealth they have and stretch out a narrative of never-seen experience. This effort on sunday had one other story on the uncivilised apparatus that surrounds us when we get swamped by cells and their ringing bells.
Ads convey a lot on the state of society but still miles away from the churning on the ground. The other day there was one ad on an upcoming meet in Going Went Gone Goa which would be hosted by Taj property and there would be 13 key speakers. The name along with the office/designation they are holding on to tried to underscore the significance of the event. Well such amalgamation of speakers holding such office and congregating in Going Went Gone Goa has not much substantive part to it except roll out such events in a location that is facing travesty of rules as far as environment is concerned.

Cabinet Rejuvenation and those desiring to stay away

As the cabinet reshuffle-cum-rejuvenation event gets over, the assimilation for some and annihilation for others would be an exercise that won't get the desired eyeballs - and fewer would be the eye contact post the half-hearted surgery. After the surgery has been performed by the Doctor residing in Race Course, the attempt would be to have no eye contact whatsoever with anyone till they are holding on to the chair. As the Cabinet stored the possibility of getting reduced by a quarter if not half, this exercise is meant to rejuvenate the very foundation of having at least a Cabinet of one where one entity could handle multiple departments given the multiple efforts he or she made to reach the pinnacle from where the down slide is assured with assured thickness of allegations. Returns would be pathetic given the firefighting mode the crowned-now-and-to-be-displaced-later entity would be engaged in to dismiss all allegations as nothing more than a futile exercise from a club which hasn't had requisite sleep since ages. Sleep is hard to come whether you are holding on to a chair or attempting to hold one or refusing to hold and yet being penalised for not holding.
The brief would be simple: let no decisions be made; let files keep rotting in the godowns - from ministries the next depot for all files thick and threatening land up in godowns for detractors to have a fresh perspective and fire a fresh round of salvos armed with a bag of wheat which the authorities willingly want to disperse free of cost - and try to be invisible to elements of probing and pestering nature as that would give no handle to your critics that you are on an overdrive. Indulgences the new members and those who are yet to be shunted out could indulge in are: excessive sleep followed by elaborate meals and all elaborate deliberations at home among family members on ways to lighten the new responsibility. Attendance to All-Cabinet Meets, different from All-party Meets where all rise settle and disappear in one go(places where they disappear for long are yet to be identified), would be nil and so would be the attempt to deflect all calls from Party High Command and those emanating from Nature's Demand.

The rationale to be furnished by these members of the Cabinet would be: In keeping with the sensitivity of the Indian Public and to sanitise with what the public desires and yet failed to express, we as soldiers with more than foreseeable responsibility on our shoulders and with our feet firm to the ground and less in the air given our sensitivity to the exchequer, have decided to refrain from expressing on anything including the deterioration the toilet set up in our accommodation has underwent even before we could do our bit. Let Cabinet meets happen and go and the govt's stability flow here and there, we would be confined to our rooms of the govt accommodation. Discussions amongst the family members would be on the windfall that stares us as the MP Land/local Area Fund has maintained the upbeat posture - hiked from 2 to 5 cr - and how best we could make use of this opportunity. We were better placed as MPs and the decision to placate us as Cabinet Members hasn't placated us by any length as it attempts to stonewall our attempts to make the best use of this opportunity. Funds which can remain unutilised if extra responsibility is thrust on us thereby deflecting our attention from the funds that are meant to raise our status and of those surrounding and disappearing at alternate hours.
Probably this could result in mass exodus from the Cabinet and it could well be faced with the prospects of shrinking by half if not three-fourth. And the way out from this dilemma could be: the head of the govt followed by different spokespersons operating during day and night giving bytes on the impending reshuffle and yet that never taking place. With no threat of Cabinet Rejig, the members who have been spared from being included would see to it that the funds would get the desired outcome and those inside the Cabinet the assurance that post LS polls the new combination minus them would take wings.
As for commoners, they would be drowned with the responsibility of keeping a tab on black money and how it is generated and what are their chances to see it if not feel it. What is black money, how it is generated and how different it is from pink money (those in the pink of health), blue money (fighting the blues of life through blue imprints that brothers concerned at their constant deterioration of health have regularly doled out) and sink money (the notes with which the people rise, surprise, get uncivilised and sink in no time. As they would be required to do a detailed study, they would come across a new buddy when the colour of the money changes as it unleashes huge unaccounted exchanges.
Blessed are those who stay in Udhagamandalam