Greying perspective of a Budget

The Union Budget presented by finance minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on Ist Feb 2020 has been a praxis occurrence, that has traversed through septuagenarian India time and time again.
It has reached a point where the need to rename the cardinal word with 'Bahi Khata" has already been made, even there has been talks about its germaneness in context to the merit of the act and its propitious timing, being overrated, snide at for being impractical given its purpose and context. Leaving aside all the peripheral remarks aside, the "Bahi Khata" predominantly can be comprehended as a Book of Account.
This Bahi Khata aka Budget has been about a nation called India, just like the Bahi Khata we have in our family, where we keep track of our earnings, expenses, and savings.
The break up of the earnings and expenses of the Indian nation has been put out in the official Indian government budget website (India Budget Portal) which has given a break up for every rupee it has earned and the corresponding expenses made out of that earned rupee.

What can be understood from the image below is that out of the 100 paise or Re1 that the government of India earns 46 paise(17+7+4+18) is being earned from, "We the people", its citizens, through Income Tax, Excise duties, Customs and GST.
18 paise comes from the Corporations (derogatives of which are: Mallya's, Nirav Modi and others).
So, needless to say, is that India is still a democracy, thriving on its people, is very very clear. It is also clear as to, why whoever governs this sea of people is responsible and answerable to them and, them alone.
At the same time, it puts forward a question that if 46 % of the wealth is earned from the people of India, why do the people of India still remain in misery and hopelessness, about their country, its prospect and theirs.
Alongside if we compare the no. of taxpayers to the no. of tax returns the love for motherland saga says so much. (Number of Taxpayers)

Talking about love for your country a famous author says:-

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”― Thomas Jefferson

Now coming to the where the 100 paise or Re1 goes to. if we see in the image above, 66 per cent (13+10+6+6+8+20) of the expenses that the government does go towards things which include, Central schemes, Other expenditures, Central sponsored schemes, Subsidies, and Defence expenditures all of which have to be routed through bureaucratic babus, who are the pimps of their political masters, the political party minister-uncouth, uneducated, crooked, bigots and many more derogatory term attributable, at least from experiences in the past, then the leftist halfwitted self-proclaimed intelligentsia who debates the effectiveness of these spendings by conniving with the government and its agents, acting as a independent consultant through their money-making machines called NGO's, and shamelessly take a plunge at the victual of taxpayers money like a cur does to a piece of bread.

So needless to say, my dear countrymen, my greying hair perspective of the Indian Budget tells me, the government does not have any business being in anything but Defence, Policing and Regulatory control on public services. No matter how hard the government tries to be inclusive, the whole distribution chain needs to be rejigged, which can only be done by bold visionary leadership. Irrespective of who is in charge, it is important to take that one to the wire, at the slightest hint of a misdemeanour, or malfeasance, no compromise or chalta hai, that until we have got every cent accounted for. Else it would be what we deserve.

Let the Dhimmis of yesterday, be not Dhimma always !!!!

Vande Mataram !!! Jai Hind !!!

Hindu Madrasa

The evolution of the human race as pointed out by Darwin’s theory stated human beings evolved from monkeys/apes. For the sake of survival, they gradually evolved to discover fire, tools to hunt, learned to cultivate lands and thus ensure their own survival. After the need to satiate themselves. The human beings went towards building a society realizing the interdependence on each other, thereby classifying work according to the expertise and profession, needless to say, the basic necessity of procreation was also drawn along this convenience to maintain order and balance. Then at a time when mouths and aspirations grew, they ventured outside to survive from trade and commerce, bringing in vices like envy out of inadequacy. Along this time the importance of nature and its resources were felt deeply through its cyclical occurrences of events, in its impetus and benisons, which led the human beings to revere them as sources of power or Gods. This belief was passed on to generations through verses recorded or orally passed on to generations from the expert community of priests who lived on the practice of puja through chants and study of religious scriptures as commandments of the holy. The study and puja were done through the language of Sanskrit which was developed-

“Sanskrit Literature began with the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas from c. 1500 BCE, and continued with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India, the period after the Bronze Age began, around 1200 BCE. At approximately 1000 BCE, Vedic Sanskrit began the transition from a first language to the second language of religion and learning.

Around 500 BCE, the ancient scholar Panini standardized the grammar of Vedic Sanskrit, including 3,959 rules of syntax, semantics, and morphology (the study of words and how they are formed and relate to each other). Panini’s Astadhyayi is the most important of the surviving texts of Vyakarana, the linguistic analysis of Sanskrit, consisting of eight chapters laying out his rules and their sources. Through this standardization, Panini helped create what is now known as Classical Sanskrit.”

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/sanskrit/

The importance of Sanskrit can be cogitated from the links given below: -

1.https://alphaomegatranslations.com/foreign-language/sanskrit-three-reasons-it-is-important/

2.https://bstrategyhub.com/sanskrit-is-the-best-language-for-artificial-intelligence-says-nasa/

Not that, since the westerners incline towards this language it should make us interested, but  the very fact all of us know in spite of our limited knowledge of Hindu religion limited to the ever and anon ostentatious occasions of religious prodding, that the Vedas, the text which reveals so much about everything from the start of the evolution, having its history older than history itself is written in Sanskrit, and us having connatural existentialism with it should be able to fathom its grandeur.

Sanskrit studies and research, along the lines of the madrasah system of education-which yields no benefit, at least in seeming history, and serious doubts of it ever becoming one.

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312146408_Madrasah_Education_in_India_A_Need_for_Reformation.

But unlike the madrasah system of education, including a formally recognized education system encouraging the study of the Sanskrit language, research of puranic texts, should be encouraged by the government. A Research and Development Ministry to undertake to encourage such development and research work should be thought of by the Government, the sooner the better.

To conclude as a bit of information in case you want to learn the Sanskrit language by yourself can go through the below link: -

http://sanskrit.samskrutam.com/en.sanskrit-indology-directory-universities-schools.ashx

Jai Bharat!!! Vande Mataram!!!

Human Capital, The Force---Often underrated!!!

With the Population Demographic dividend, India as a country has a low average age of its workforce which is very clear from the below graph.

We should be fortunate for having such great resources at our hands and reap the benefits while it is there.

With the advances in medical science and an increase in life expectancy of an individual, this is just a short-lived luxury, just as any nonrenewable resource available to us at this moment.

In 70 years of our Independence the population which has been often painted as a bane for all problems, has also been seen as a huge market size in Capital economy perspective and the young population as a great Demand Factor to cash in for the Markets-Internal and External.

Sadly, we haven’t been able to tap the potentials of it for such a long time given the similarity in the timeline of Independence amongst our other Asian counterparts- China, North Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and others.

Economic growth in these countries has surpassed ours and they compete with one another to become greater market hubs for manufacturing goods and services, owing to qualities that are no different from our labour force.

Then the question arises, why did we lag behind?

To which only one thing comes to my mind, that is our lack of pragmatic policymaking, which has been disconnected with the realities in the ground, failure to gauge aspirations of people, faulty and propaganda-driven education system, lack of opportunities resulting in brain drain, corruption en-masse leading to frustrating loss of qualitative value and increase in the cost of services and capital, and above all lack of leadership.

We could definitely be at the top of our problems only if, we focus on nation-building, and it has to start with every citizen at his/her individual level; since we haven’t had a leader till now, or haven’t allowed ourselves a leader, to lead, we need to take it upon ourselves to pave the road of development for ourselves. But, how do we do that? In the micro sense, we do it just as we do anything when it comes to the interests of our own family. Be vigilant and informed about the policymaking by the Government, it affects our lives and livelihood, say no to corruption, educate and spread awareness to the underprivileged, build self-help groups  to help each other, make the development of the Nation a Mass Movement, unlike the other causes which are becoming one.

Jai Bharat!!! Vande Mataram!!!

CAB CAA NRC NPR...Alas !!! Awake !!!

In hindsight of situations happening in my great country, I find the current protest about CAB, CAA, NRC NPR nothing but a political tool to arm-twist the government. Having said so I want to be clear about my leanings (political), not to please anyone but to give my perspective.

I definitely lean towards the right wing, for I, have lived through left-wing in my youth and seen their hypocrisy and suffered consequences of it, whereas the centre has been anything but balanced, I have always found it to be the centre of the right or left, the way it is now is the way it has always been, nothing but a shifting paradox, of leaderless herds of sycophantic morons. I mourn their imbecility much unlike to their own realization.

It seems the current political dispensation has been basking in the glory of its numbers and the brownie points it scored towards some really tough decision making, which was needed definitely, and worth every seat it won - Abrogation of Article 370, Triple Talaq, Ram Janmabhoomi had earned it a distinction as a secular rather than sickular. However, in my view the complacent, conceited and foolhardy political judgment is turning the otherwise good run-up to now, to a comedy of errors.

Not that I do not support the issue of CAA, but I think the announcement for a nationwide NRC, NPR was a foolish hyperbole, when the country needed much attention towards pressing issues like messy economic slowdown, slow GDP.

In the intoxicating fervour of power, a mistake was committed and I can’t help myself but quote a line used by a friend in WhatsApp chat, amongst friends, not quite appreciated then, holds true nonetheless, in this context.

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

                                                                                                            George Bernard Shaw

Another dangerous trend set are the remonstration about political or ideological differences outside the boundaries of the Republic, which is nothing short of perfidy.

The set standard now therefore is taking to the streets against the populist government and its policies, factionalism preferred over federalism. Judiciary the third pillar in the democracy is being turned into a political tool, when it takes 7 years to convict a rapist in NIRBHAYA.

Alas! So much solicitude, to the people, for the people, by the people.