What I would do if I were India’s PM

As the world’s biggest democracy goes to polls in April and May, Reuters India gives its readers the chance to say what they would do differently if elected the country’s prime minister.

Will you speed up foreign investment projects? Will you focus more on agriculture, putting more money in the pockets of farmers? How will you tackle militancy? And what will you do vis-a-vis Pakistan?

What Prathapan Gopalan would do:

April 27th, 2009 8:48 am GMT - Posted by Prathapan Gopalan

If I were the PM of India, I would first of all try to enact laws to ensure that corruption is eradicated from the face of Indian politics. That would be just one of my priorities. The most important things I would do is to uplift the downtrodden from the shackles of poverty. Ensure that good transportation system is established across the country.

Will provide better educational facilities. The farmers will be given incentives to boost agriculture. The industrial production in the country will be enhanced through good incentives to both small and large industrial houses. A better healthcare and welfare system for all countrymen will be provided. Will do everything to ensure the country is safe with strict orders to the armed forces to strike at enemies with an iron hand.

Will take the country to the next level in every which way to see that India becomes a superpower that is second to none. The secularism in the country will be safeguarded at all costs, where all people of all religious faiths will live harmoniously. In fact, I will do everything to ensure that my country, India, is the paradise on earth.

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Akshaya Tritiya

Akshaya Tritiya 2009 - Akshaya Tritiya is a widely celebrated Hindu festival in India. In South India, this auspicious festival is celebrated with great faith.

 

On Akshaya Tritiya day, the Sun and the Moon are most radiant and best placed, and hence every moment on this day is considered as auspicious. It falls on the third day (Tritiya) of the bright half moon of the Vaisakha month of Hindu Calendar which happens in April-May. This year (2009) this auspicious day comes on 27th of April, as per the Calendar (Mathrubhumi).

Akshaya Trithiya, or Akha Teej, is a highly auspicious day which falls on the third day after Amavasi (no moon) in the Hindu month of Vaishakha. As per Hindu astrology and almanac, each second on the Akshaya Trithiya day is auspicious. It is said that there is no need to look for a ‘muhurat’ on the day. The word Akshaya means ‘that which never diminishes’ and the day is ideal for beginning new ventures as it is believed that all investments on this day appreciates.

Akshaya means one that never diminishes, and the day is believed to bring good luck and success on whatever you initiate. Hence it has been in practice of buying valuables, especially long term assets like gold, silver etc on this day, hoping to bring good luck and prosperity.

Lord Vishnu and his incarnations are worshipped on the day. People also conduct Lakshmi puja on Akshaya Tritiya.

According to Puranas, this day marks the beginning of Treta Yug. It is also the Birthday of Sage Parasurama, the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Parshurama is considered to be the personification of valour and devotion.

Mayawati Mulayam

No Prime Minister material this, Maharaniji.

 

Believe me, we do not wish country-bumpkin personas to be the Prime Minister of India at any time. Neither we do wish to see Mayawatiji statues gracing wherever we go in our beloved country, India. Dear Saddam had a craze for erecting his statues at prominent places in Iraq. These have now been grounded by the powers that be. So no more statues please for God's sake.

In the same fashion, as far as the English language is concerned. Mulayamji ought to say quits to politics, for we Indians have no problems whatsoever with English language being used in India. We are for English to be widely used in India so that every Indian can go places in style. Style in the sense that they have no problems communicating with the fellow human beings wherever they go. Today the world is one global village and no one can say which language one shall use or speak. If I ask Mulaymji to stop using Hindi and start learning Tamil to speak in that language, what would he say to me.

 

If Mulayamji is hell-bend on banishing English from U.P., so be it. Then we need to banish Mulayamji from other States in India. Jai Hind.

Prathap G., for Administration Manager

 

My name is Prathapan Gopalan, or Prathap G., in short.

I am in search of a management position in the United Arab Emirates. I am convinced that I can do the job of an Administration Manager in any large multi-national company with great ease, and to the entire satisfaction of the management.

I am an expert administrator, just as the General Managers and CEOs I have been associated with hitherto. My salary would be AED.25,000.00 per month or more with company accommodation or HRA, a Car, and any other benefits the organization may provide.

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Please invite me for an interview, which no doubt, will be the beginning of a healthy relationship between me and my future employer.

Prathap G., Sharjah.

Note:

Prathap G., Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (is also a probable candidate for the next general elections in India).

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Non-Resident Indians

To

The Government of India,
New Delhi.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Allowing Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to vote in the general elections.

We, the Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), are Indian citizens over the age of eighteen and are living in different parts of the world.

We strongly believe that it is our legitimate right to be able to vote in the general elections in the country. This is because we feel that being Indian citizens, we have the right to remain stakeholders in the system of governance and polity in our country, regardless of where we physically live and/or work. It is needless to add that, we as non-resident Indians, have our interests and stake as much in our country's welfare and progress as any citizen who is territorially and/or physically present in the country. Likewise, any political or non-political event of any significance that happens in our country touches our lives and impacts us as much as it does our fellow countrymen back home. We, therefore, sincerely urge your office to take up our cause and ensure that we are able to vote in the general elections in India.

Currently, Section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, disqualifies a non-resident Indian (NRI) from getting his/her name registered in the electoral rolls. It consequently prevents a non-resident Indian from casting his/her vote in elections to the Parliament and to the State Legislatures. The Representation of the People (Amendment) 2006 Bill was introduced in the Parliament, on the 17th of February 2006, with the objective of amending Section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 in order to enable NRIs to vote. The said Bill was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice for examination on the 27th of March 2006. The Parliamentary Standing Committee, which presented its Report to the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha on the 4th of August 2006, while agreeing with the letter and spirit of the amendment, further, made the following observations:

1. There has been a recent trend the world over by various countries, whose citizens are residing in other countries, as regards the need to acknowledge the existence of their citizens and to protect their interests in the country of their origin. In the process they have gone to the extent of protecting their social, economic, cultural and political rights.

2. Indians living abroad take keen interest in the affairs of the country and are participating in the nation building through various methods and are also helping in mobilization of the resources for the country.

3. Section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 already contains a number of exemptions to the term ordinarily resident. It would be more appropriate if all the exemptions were provided at a single place in a single exemption clause.

4. Wording of the proposed amendment Bill would sound better in the following words: A citizen of India, who has not acquired the citizenship of any other country, shall be deemed to be resident in India in any constituency of his choice notwithstanding his residence outside India whatever its duration.

5. It is proposed to insist for the passport and the permanent address in India shown in the passport as the condition to identify the constituency where the person concerned could get himself enrolled in the voter's list.

6. The Committee would like the Ministry to explore various modes/options available in order to achieve the purpose for which the Bill is intended i.e. enabling the NRIs to participate in the democratic process of the country in a meaningful manner.

Despite the report submitted by the honourable Committee over two years ago, the Government has, unfortunately, failed to act on the recommendations so far. The Bill was introduced in the last budget session of the Parliament to the Lok Sabha. Sadly, however, there was no action taken once again.

Prathap G., Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (A probable candidate for the next general elections in India).

Great Depression

Death of economics and the Great Depression II
Author: Dr Raju Mathew
Published: Sun April 5, 2009 2:05 pm

INTERNATIONAL. The world is under a great financial and economic crisis. To almost all finance and management experts it is just a financial meltdown or a credit crisis or at the maximum a recession. But for the economists with strong backgrounds in Economic Theory, Policy and History, who are very limited in numbers, it is the Great Depression II, far more severe than the Great Depression of 1929.

CEOs and MDs

Economics has been denigrated into oblivion in the onslaught of the glittering courses of the Modern Business Schools and their high salaried and bonus earning graduates as CEOs and MDs or top managers, during the time of the just receded Boom, However, the present crisis brings back Economics into the forefront for drafting strategies and policies for making a speedy recovery. In the height of the crisis, as almost all the products of the Business Schools, including Harvard turned like ostrich dipping their heads in the sands. Now they are accused the prime culprits of the present crisis. Now they are treated as dirty as pick-pockets and street pimps for their greed and immorality.

Breach of Trust and Mismanagement

Almost all products of the B- Schools who are elevated to CEOs or MDs of big corporations in the banking, insurance and financial sectors are charged with breach of trust and mismanagement besides eating away the big bonuses and committing money laundry, presenting false and fabricated statements, for their greed and fraud .In their passion for glamour and glitter, they violated the basic principles of management due to their ignorance of the fundamentals of Political Economy, as their knowledge, more correctly information, is in capsule form without any deep understanding of theory, history and strategies.

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Shashi Tharoor

I wrote in my Blog on Friday, June 29, 2007 that we believe the world community has lost a golden opportunity by failing to elect you, the charismatic Indian, as the next Secretary General of the United Nations Organization.



I hold the same view now that you are the most eligible candidate to be voted to become the next Congress MP from the constituency of Thiruvananthapuram. I have read a lot about you and your articles, and I believe that all your writings reflect the mind of a true statesman, an Indian to the core, just the way I perceive myself as an Indian.



Once in parliament, apart from your ideals and principles, you also need to educate the Indian Government on the importance of allowing the Non-Resident Indians to exercise their votes through the Postal System, the Web, or the Indian Missions abroad. If such a facility existed, you could easily have got three votes, i.e. that of mine, my wife's and my daughter's, and needless to say, the votes of all my relatives and friends.

Here's wishing you every success in your election campaign in Kerala to become a Member of the Indian Parliament representing the Congress Party.

Jai Hind, and good luck to you dear Shashi Tharoor.

Om Namah Shivaya

Prathap G., Sharjah, U.A.E.

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Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake .
-- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali).

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