24th October

Its hard for me to understand how people vote, I got further confused by how Indian democracy works by seeing the recent assembly election results. We all know governance of Congress-NCP in Maharashtra, the state was in news for all the bad reasons, be it 26/11, suicide in Vibdharbha, attacks on North Indian or decline of ranking of Maharshtra as powerful state.What good has happen in last years that this government got reelected again? When P Sainath has asked VilashRao Deshmukh to enumerate five achievements of his government for which he is chief minister for most of the time, he failed to list one apart from regular secular crap.
In Mumbai Thane region Raj Thackrey has got 19.2% vote and 8 seats, there are 35% Marathi people living in that region, from this statistics can we conclude that majority of Marathi people support his idea of Marathi Pride. He names his dog as James and bond, send his kids to convent school, drinks english alcohol,still fool people based on Marathi pride. What good has done Raj Thackrey to those people that they have given vote to his party and helped Congress to come in power again. For that matter what Mayawati has done for Dalits, Lalu Yadavs has done for his caste, that they pray them as God, when as Indians we will come out of this sycophant thinking.
Last week we saw a controversial statement by our HRD minister Kapil Sibbal to restrict students for appearing in IITJEE exam if they fail to secure less than 80% marks in class 12th. From last month or so he is too involved in functioning of IIT's and IIM. Its my sincere request to him to keep IIT and IIM issue on back burner and focus on Primary education which I feel is the main cause of income difference in India,do Kapil Sibbal knows how KV and other government school are performing as compared to other private school in Delhi or any where else. He wants to ban Coaching Institutes but Mr Sibal we go to coaching because we don't get good education in school. If you try to find the answer for "Why people who can afford,send children to private school rather than government schools despite many lucrative schemes by government such as Mid day meals etc" ? You can solve most of the education problems in India.
We are discussing a lot about Naxalism and internal security problem in India,I remember a good discussion with one of my friend on this topic, we are arguing who is fighting whom, Is our so called bureaucrats and politicians ever get any time to visit those areas except election time, Who is more close to common tribal a naxalite leader or a politician, we say we are always indebted to person who helps in our bad time, how can our Harvard educated home minister will detach this feeling of obligation of common villagers toward Naxalites,the feeling of Nationalism comes when most of other issues are resolved, thats the reason a person become more patriotic living a comfort life in western countries miles away from India. I got scared by thinking what will happen if Operation Green become a disaster like War in Afganisthan for US, there is nothing wrong in comparing Indian soldiers in Indian villages with US army in Afganistan and Pakistan as I feel both are alien in same way. I will biggest proponent of Naxalite if instead of killing common man they change their target to corrupt bureaucrats and politicians,why provide security and spend tax payer money on some one who is a driver 30 years back, now a multi millionere and have an ambition to become chief minister of Maharasthra. Mayawati is teacher 20 years now she has crores of personal wealth, IAS officer or a judge have no personal wealth when they join the job, if they perform well during their jobs most of them retires with abundant wealth for many generations to come. Can these person will be scared by our non voilence protest or RTI, some one has to take the gun and start killing them one by one, I don't have courage to do this work, but if some one does it I will support him in any means. Any revolution or new Gandhi will not change India untill we see the politicians scared from death if they do any thing unconstitutional.

People don't have time to complain

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. --Benjamin Franklin

No Time for Complaining:
There may be a positive byproduct of our troubled times: a decrease in the urge to complain. Job satisfaction is actually up, and according to a December 2008 survey almost 38% of respondents said they were "very satisfied" with their jobs, compared with 28% in 2007, a likely sign that people are grateful they're still employed. And every week now, we hear reports of workers accepting pay cuts or furloughs without complaint -- some of them acts of solidarity to protect jobs elsewhere in their companies. There is also a growing "noncomplaining" movement that touts the belief that whining doesn't work as a strategy. This Wall Street Journal article shares more. [more]

Be The Change:
When you catch yourself complaining about something, try turning your attention to what you are grateful for.

A Positively Charged attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearances, talents, or skill. It will make or break a company and a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past . We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life breaks down to the following percentage: 10% is what happens to you and 90% of life is how you react to it. We are in charge of our Attitudes."

May today find each of us making a conscious effort to embrace a positive attitude with grace and peace, no matter the situation in which we find ourselves.

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