Kapil Sibal – A perfect Stooge of GOP’s Clique

While the whole world knows that the current Indian acting telecom minister for his famous zero loss theory in 2G case, now he also seems to be capable of gagging by his arrogance. His complaint is that in the internet space his master is not presented well. And he wants all the social networking sites to do the pre-screening before content is uploaded. Somebody told me that he was a Harvard educated lawyer, don’t know what he studied. And his efforts to impress up on the oligarch are intensified. I have seen a post in Face book which shows Sonia Gandhi wearing Manmohan Singh’s mask, and many other posts which shows Sonia as real master and MMS as a puppet. People pick up their ways to show dissent in whichever is convenient to them and what is sibal’s problem? And nobody has commited an offence against state. In a liberal democracy freedom of speech and freedom of expression is at the heart of constitutional framework and India is one such country in whose constitution there are clearly stated provisions which are meant to uphold the fundamental rights. Now the GOP plagued with many problems right from BOFORS to 2G, people dissent it to the core. In a knowledge economy like ours subjects do know who the reason is for their suffering and they express their displeasure through a convenient medium, apparently Internet- a social networking site. Only Muslim countries which operate based on medieval laws would go-ahead and ban social networking sites and stone woman for adultery.

 Sibal argues that the content posted is defamatory and the sites must not allow it. Let’s go by the standard definition of defamation – “Defamation is the publication of a statement which reflects on a person’s reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally or tends to make them shun or avoid him” – jurisonline.in

Does posting of such contents lower the person’s reputation in the estimation of right-thinking members of society? I don’t think so. On the contrary it confirms the assertions of right-thinking members of the society. The congress is out to destroy this country in every aspect and the majority opposes it. It seems someone from the staff of networking site using common sense asked him to show a court judgment based on which they decide whether a content is defamatory or not. 


I am really thinking if what Dr.Subramanya Swamy is right. Once he said commenting on sibal’s 2g zero loss theory “Sibal has become a yapping dog of Sonia”. Now he seems to be really a yapping dog of Sonia. Recalling the west boro church case (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-751.pdf) even when the activists displayed their signs about the dead soldiers in a worst possible way, the Supreme Court stood for west boro church’s fundamental rights and did not pass any strictures. And that should be the guiding principle of a liberal democracy. In this domain we as Indians have to learn a lot from Americans. When a protest is breaking out people burn effigy of a political leader they dislike, is it not defamatory? May be I am not a judge, I think Sibal is. What moral right this govt. has to tell someone to regulate when it cannot regulate itself and going for outright deregulation in every field. Already protests are started in full swing against sibal’s misdemeanor. 


After being victims of GOP’s tyranny for many decades we could see people activism emerging, which means we are improving as a country. And congress’s stooges like sibal cannot restrict it at all. May be congress can try with Emergency-II. I don’t know if Sonia is herself worried about this content posting. All that sibal needs is a chance to prove that he is loyal to the master, instead he should prove that he is loyal to the Mother Land. I don’t know even Indira Gandhi enjoyed such a patronage like Sonia does. Manishankar Aiyar once said that people who go to Akbar road(Congress party head quarters) as people going to circus and the power lies in 10, Janpath road. Until the real democracy functions people will continue to show their dissent and nobody can stop it. It’s time for yapping dogs to realize that we are not living in a feudal society.

The Leftist Nonsense

We could trace the origin of the word “left” to the days of French revolution which coined the terms left and right. In the estate generals meeting hall who ever sat on left was for more egalitarian society and the right wanted to retain the old traditions. I think this was necessary as the conditions which triggered the French revolution were demanding such approaches like an organized and a systematic revolution to bring about a change. I know many scholars have argued about the ubiquitous guillotine invented to eliminate those not favoring the left. Thousands perished but still the hard-line leftist’s call that is the best way out. The right might have had wrong intentions but the approach was not bad when compared to the left. Right never wanted to consider killing people as a solution. Then we had industrial revolution where the owners of factories were exploiting the workers and the messiah – The Marx fell from sky on the earth to lobby for them which was good and he had good intentions to improve the lives of proletariat. The frequently asked question is whether the ways prescribed by Marx become a panacea for the whole world today which was more relevant when discovered by Marx to the unique conditions of fledgling industrial revolution. In his theory Marx did have a reference which says the communism could evolve to the changing times and that could be called as dialecticism, which was never applied to the spirit of its original meaning and this was also used as justification for misdeeds of greedy dictators akin to Joseph Stalin. It is ludicrous to listen the leftists when they talk about the classless society, this is simply not possible. How come a software engineer and Kooli could earn the same salary hence classes in society is inevitable and I am not talking about the race when I utter the word class. I know people like Mao dreamt about exporting the revolution throughout the world which is certainly idiotic and unrealistic. As we have exceptions in everything in this world there is only one Fidel Castro and not many and we can count few in Latin America and not many. But we have many terrible examples starting from the Khmer rouge to Pinchot all killed people and were parties who committed genocide. And North Korea’s collective madness is another example. If left’s only enemy is market economy then they are really naïve because we don’t have many success stories of state controlled economies including the super power USSSR then what is their real problem ? Coming back to original purpose of this note ie., consider the situation of left in India and how it affects India’s growth. Firstly we have many noted pseudo-intellectuals who are well qualified with relevant degrees but do not realize that they live in a nation state era and national unity and nationalism is of utmost priority then their unrealistic goals which they tend to achieve through communism. And the left in India is necessarily is a victim of china obsession.

Its congress’s misrule which lead to bad state of affairs in this country where Indian flag is burnt by the Muslim fanatics but nobody does anything about it – I think the Indian Flag Code does not apply. I shall say that this grand old party of India did re-discover the word “secularism “and manipulated that concept according to its whims and fancies. In India secularism is generally propagated by leftist media and the congress as Anti-Hindu. If someone talks Anti-Hindu he is secular, what a pity. In his words of the noted internationally acclaimed intellectual Dr.Subramaniya Swami “Congress always wanted to rule this country with coalition of minorities”.

Now the question arises how the right wing differs with lofty left. In our country all those who propagate nationalism and talks about the Hinduism are called right wing (fundamental right wing – in their words of many pseudo-intellectual leftists). Now what is wrong if I want to save my country’s inherent culture? May be the fierce full nationalists may not agree with the nomenclature – right wing, because for them it simply does not matter. As Aristotle asserted man is a political animal, we shall deduce that the right, left and centre are merely ways through which people can realize their dreams which are essentially political. It is a fact that the communism literature has produced people like Bhagat Singh – listening to his name the blood rushes through my veins. And also it has produced nationalists like Harkishan Singh Surjit – To write about his patriotism it could be a topic of another book.

As already mentioned the current state of left in India is such that they are victims of Chinese obsession. And they term the Chinese aggression not as a belligerent action but an act to liberate India from capitalism, what a ridiculous approach it is. Now all the wrongs committed by the left throughout the world can be justified under the shelter of dialecticism which is highly controversial because different personal tyrannies have different explanations. The Cambodian killings can be justified by the Khmer Rouge and so is the case of Stalin in Russia.

We shall recall Fidel Castro who is an exception. And exceptions cannot be examples or precedents. The major problem is it’s obsession with proletariat and it’s bankruptcy of ideologue and imagination. The left thinks that India is still facing the situation of Indigo growing farmers during the regime of the police state.

Going by what people think about the left in India can be seen by its representation in parliament and legislatures. Now a long time ruled state like West Bengal has already disowned the left. It survives in the circle of few educated elite. There is really a grim chance of survival for left in India if it does not change and drop its china obsession. We have few left leaning newspapers in India who justify anything and everything done by China from Tianmen to the Tibet’s Peaceful Uprising. And the other common selling point for left is communalism and referring it to Hindus. It calls secular Christian and Muslim organizations and communal Hindu organizations. It cannot tolerate the India’s marriage with USA and in its understanding it is an imperial force which may be true but that is not the point. The China is itself moved away from the Maoist thinking and now works hand in hand with US on many global issues.

To conclude the left must change its attitude and develop positive approach and stop thinking of importing revolutions and not to propagate the divide else it is set to lose the confidence of Tripura too. 

Sharing the fruits of development

The traditional and utopian assumption is that the result of development must be shared with all the stake holders. Now the million dollar question arises, who are the stake holders ? Though it will be distinct and separate topic to discuss debate and arrive on a consensus on who are stake holders. Let’s take an example of state sponsored terror. The state acquires land for a private party under the pretext to foster the industry and drives out the original inhabitants. Thanks to the prevailing Illiteracy. Else the state may have to pay a lot of money to acquire the land because more the awareness to the subjects more the problem to the state. And they protest for their land at times peacefully and sometimes taking up arms for which the state is the only reason. Now in our case we have three stakeholders 1.State 2.the private party 3.original inhabitants/owners. In my opinion the true stake holders are original owners.

In stone age when man survived by hunting animals ie., even before the advent of the agriculture, he shared the gains with his community(not necessarily his own family).But in current case only the fittest survives. The Doctrine of survival of fittest applies. Darwin mentioned this taking in to account the animals of forest or wildlife. We are no beasts. Nehru always justified the suffering of a tribal of this country due to displacement. In political economy Land is an important aspect for business, without which the businesses may not flourish, but we need to know at what cost the development to be fostered. We have bill for this purpose in the anvil which promises a part of the revenue earned from the land to the original inhabitants. Hope this should help.

Irrespective of what type of government is formed in centre, I think there is no scope of change. So it is only the awareness of the people at the bottom could change the situation.

Unipolar World – The reason for Turbulence

The powerless has to obey the powerful; it has been in practice since time immemorial. May be the meaning might have been changed in the current days of being powerful. Those days (I am talking about Stone Age) being powerful means the physical strength to protect one and also the dependents, now it may be money and power. It is good to see that under the garb of democracy powerless have also acquired the bargaining power.

We are living in a world which is segmented and necessarily a multipolar. We have seen the unipolarity, bipolarity and now a new kind of environment. Power segmented in one area is surely a concern for all of us. In a world of competing interests if a country wants to boast itself it has to demonstrate its ability by which others can understand that it is really a super power. One important indicator is how strong and effective is its war machine, of course this is only possible if some one is economically strong.

I really don’t know if I can say the super power should take a fatherly role in guiding the underdeveloped or the thirldworld counties. And see what happens if more than one party competes for that role-super power. We know what happened between USSR and USA and what is happening with India and China. Ultimately for any one who is heading a nation state the interests of his own people are paramount. But once the interests are addressed what’s next?

The current fragmented state of this political world is a result of power struggle between the European rivals. Though their platform to fight was initially Europe later it spread out. Though the Imperial coterie ruled this world for many years what is that they have achieved, at last they have become victims of economic slump. It is asserted that to maintain the nuclear weapons in a ready state the super power spends millions of dollars daily.

The balance of power is perpetual and a never ending game. America thought by neutralizing the USSR it won the race and never expected that it again has to compete with China and of course India. Surely it cannot bomb china and India then claim the supremacy over the world. So Unipolarity is slowly becoming a thing of past. Arms race, wars, terrorism, uneven development, illiteracy, poverty, hunger all are result of Unipolar world.

If one country has to remain as a global rowdy (super power) it has to either grow or suppress others growth. And doing the later seems to be the most opted solution which creates divide. I aint no expert on United Nations but still agree with the majority which says there is no true representation in that body. It is a good news that in 21^st century we are seeing new power centers getting created, suddenly multi polarity seems to be all the more possible.

Lets abolish the UN and split (based on commonalities) the world on different zones and each zone would have an UN like institution and no zone would interfere with other except for consulting or co-ordination, then we don’t have to seek UN resolution to bomb some one. The only problem is how to deal with personal tyrannies. Otherwise in our generation I am sure that we all will experience the life in a multipolar world.

The Spark of Revolution

Revolution has really become a buzz word. When we utter this “R” word then our grey cells are forced to think about Karl Marx or French revolution. The source of current wave of upheaval in the Arab landscape seems to be a road side vendor. All this started when his vegetable cart was confiscated by the police and the reason cited is he did not have a license to run that business in Tunisia. This deprived him from his only source of income and subsequent persecution by the officialdom made him to self immolate. In a country where most of the people are languishing, the top brass stays unfazed and spends time in the most luxurious resorts. They ensured fruits of all business contracts or the MOU’s signed with other countries reached their kith and kin. seems to be worst of tyrannies. There were times it was thought that revolution is only a thing of the nascent days of industrial revolution or the early half of 20^th century, but what we see here is truly an example of dialectism what Karl Marx envisaged, may be a century ago. Most experts say that this is no one’s revolution but the one of a common man, meaning which no body did spearhead this, but the people on their own.  You name any dictator (some may under the garb of presidency) in the Maghreb or in the African continent most of them are perfect realists in its true Hobbesian sense. There will be genocides for money or power and also to establish the supremacy of the two great religions (Islam and Christianity) as is case of Sudan. Though the Tunisians were successful in showing the door to the malevolent dictator who ruled for decades, we need to see whether the other brothers of them would be successful from relieving themselves from the clutches of their arrogant dictators or aristocrats or monarchs.

As I right this already Egypt was successful in its revolution and many country’s leaders in Maghreb are in deep trouble, the case in point is Qadhaffi’s Libya.

The champions of democracy USA and select few European countries are known for their selective application of International principles and laws would definitely make sure that their permanent interests are not affected in the midst as Israel worried on Egypt’s liberation from Mubarak. The indigenous right wing tried to claim their share in the victory as Muslim Brotherhood did in Egypt by they were largely ignored. The revolution out of sheer frustration. Though it is broadly agreed that the law is the supreme command of a sovereign as per Austin, when leaders don’t respond and does not understand the needs of the populace this is deemed to happen. I know we cannot forget Charles Julius Guiteau who assassinated President James Garfield due to the frustration rose from the unemployment in the 19^th century in USA. As USA is a liberal  democrat they could meet the challenge through passing legislation there by abolishing the patronage system in the federal services. But the Arab world is different. Highly riddled by the religious fanatics, mass unemployment, and illiteracy are some of the problems to quote. 

Thanks to the liquid gold other wise I cant imagine living in these deserts. The realists who took the reigns of the power are not reasonable at all and continue to be unreasonable. Next to Tunisia and Egypt we have Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and don’t forget Libya is waiting to be liberated. All this inspires the mortals of suppressed civilizations/societies to demand better lives and social justice and fundamental rights from their masters. Let this be in the extreme east or Africa or Maghreb.

 Can’t we have a revolution in India to relieve ourselves from the yoke of kleptocracy?

Killer Seas - On Indian Fishermen Killing

Recently I have watched the movie Hostel in which a bunch of sick people kill their fellow human beings to relieve from stress or as an act of hobby (This is a must watch movie). Killing Tamil fishermen by srilankan navy (as it is alleged) is an act similar to the sick people in Hostel movie. When we talk about genocides of our time we only think about Hitler’s massacre. Being right wing is not wrong, the Sinhalese might have their own reasons why they want to consider Tamils as sub-humans but we are living in a world which is a liberal democrat and we are expected to honor human rights. The British (for that matter even missionaries) played their card by playing the divisive politics to further their own agenda. Between Sinhalese and Tamils we have a strong genetic link as we are from the same part of sub-continent. There is a theory which confirms that Sinhalese only inhabitated Ceylon only 100 years before the Tamils have set their foot so tamils are not aliens in srilanka.Month on Month we have a significant number of people getting killed by the srilankan navy as a result governments(centre and state) in India cries foul and for some time there is a truce and again the killing resumes.

Historically Indian government’s response was really pathetic on instances of this kind. Jayalalitha former CM of TN commented that citizens of such a mighty country like India which has a powerful military are killed by a tiny country like Srilanka is really unacceptable and in these circumstances if the PM does not know what to do he should quit. Her demand is convincing. This time there seems to be sudden interest may be because it is an election time in TN and the centre wants to show that they are defending their country men by sending the foreign secretary to Colombo and taking few series of measures which would project that GOI (government of India) is serious. But no body knows about results of the actions and steps which were taken already when similar incidents happened in the past. It is a matter of envy to any sovereign country when China showed its strong protest with Japan as its citizen was arrested on Diaoyu Island issue. China went on to suspend the export of rare earth. Not surprisingly Srilanka denies its Navy’s involvement in the killing of Indian fishermen and says it has ordered for the enquiry and we hope the report is out before the state elections in TN or at least after the elections. In India especially in TN this is mostly seen as an election issue, which is a black spot on the Indian democracy. When a fisherman of srilankan origin runs in to Indian waters we never kill them but follow the internationally acceptable legal/diplomatic process like deporting to their home land and/or trying them in a court of law which never happens in Srilanka.

India through its mighty soft power should compel this tiny nation to follow these acceptable procedures instead of exhibiting its behavior which is akin to racism. Politicians in TN assert that giving away the Katchatheevu in Palk Strait is an act of foolishness and reclaiming this territory is one great step towards solving the problem of fishermen killing. All rhetoric will sound like babble unless concrete steps are taken to solve this problem.

We can constitute a joint force of both the navies and monitor the troubled waters and identify the root causes. Also appoint a tribunal to try these cases of excursions as this will instill confidence especially to the Indian populace. Above all the governments of centre and state must pursue Srilanka to take effective steps to end this barbarian act of killing people of another sovereign simply because they have unknowingly crossed the international maritime border while fishing.