805 English CrossWord Puzzle No. ybcw 005,, and musings on Supreme Court Judgement on Land Acquisition

YB CROSSWORD PUZZLE No. ybcw 005.

Here is our Crossword Puzzle No. ybcw 005. This time, we have reduced the grid size to 10 x 10 cells, to reduce the workload from the puzzle. For these 100 letters, we have 53 clues- 28 across, and 25 down. We have tried to eliminate the 'two letter words'. Some repetitions were found from the previous puzzles ybcw 001 to 004. This seems to be unavoidable, as filling the grid is done on 'random' basis, by the Linux qxw package, generating the crossword puzzles. We have one flexibility. We can edit the source dictionary 'American English'. In case of Ubuntu, it is stored at /usr/share/dict/AmericanEnglish file, which is a txt file. We can add / delete entries from this file. But we have to use 'sudo' password to open text editors such as gedit, geany. In qxw, in Autofill, there is one option, to add our own dictionaries. We can create some new dictionaries such as medicdicti, herbadicti in our home or Desktop Folders, and add to the autofill/dictionary menu. We can also add other language dictionaries such as Danish, French, German, Italian. Probably, we can also use some utf-8 languages. But, these additions made in the qxw autofill, will only be temporary. In a way the 'temporary' addition is an advantage, in the sense that we can temporarily add more and more dictionaries, such as Sports Dictionaries for creating a Sports Crossword, Film Dictionaries for Film CrossWords. In otherwords, we can create Specialised Crossword Puzzles in specific subjects.

CLUES
Across

1 Quantity with magnitude and direction. (6)
6 do. (3)
8 Currency of India. (5)
10 A photography enthusiast. (10)
14 Babyname, to mean 'son of Samuel'. (9)
15 A Church dress. (3)
16 German babyname 'little one'. (4)
18 reis (4)
21 Suffer from sickness or some other malaise. (3)
22 Floating & flying aircraft. (9)
25 Planner. (10)
26 Curses. (5)
27 Response to tit. (3)
28 Accelerate. (6)

Down
1 American philanthropist, founder of Vassar College. (6)
2 One which breaks into pieces, eg. bread. (8)
3 A ballet skirt. Also a South African Leader. (4)
4 Chose. (5)
5 Wind. (4)
7 Attached label, ticket. (3)
9 A language in Ireland. (4)
11 Healthiest. (6)
12 A plant scientist. (8)
13 Loosens a knot. (6)
17 English babyname, meaning 'noble stone'. (6)
19 'Space Above and Beyond', a T.V. Serial. (4)
20 Spanish baby name, meaning 'shining light'. (5)
23 Creator God par excellence. (4)
24 Gets old. (4)
25 Short for satellite. (3)

CPM does not seem to have learnt anything from the Supreme Court quashing the 2006 Singur Land Acquisition made by the Left Front Bengal Government led by CPM, to hand over the land to Tatas, for erecting a car factory. At that time, Ms. Mamta Banerjee, Trinamul Congress Party Boss, (2016: CM of Bengal), went on a 26 day fast, on behalf of the displaced farmers. click to see http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/ratan-tatas-legacy-tarnished-by-supreme-courts-singur-verdict-1452882 .

For those who wish to download the Supreme Court Judgement, a pdf: Click, to read online/download supremecourtofindia.nic.in/FileServer/2016-08-31_1472646846.pdf

ybrao-a-donkey's personal view:-

CPM went wrong in their forced land acquisition at Singur, because they were siding with the industrialists, to deny an intensely cultivated land to farmers. Soon after the Supreme Court Judgement, CPM ought to have apologised to the Bengal farmers and the Indian Nations, and ought to have promised to guard against recurrences. The Left Leaders seem to have an ego, apart from nursing a misconception hitherto a manic only to bourgeoisie parties and Governments, that rapid industrialisation heralded only by private industrialists alone can generate employment. "Private employment" as a solution to the problems of unemployment and poverty, is misguided and a fallacy.

Opportunity has arrived in the form of Supreme Court judgement, to enable CPM to correct its historical blunders and ways. But, the egoistic CPM Leadership seems to have failed to take up the cue.

Referring to the comment of Surjya Kant Mishra, CPM Secretary, Bengal, one can only ask: "What is going to be the difference in INdia, between a Bourgeosie Party and a Leftist Party?"

Is Supreme Court Industrialist-unfriendly, or Industrialist-friendly?

Ans. Neither. Supreme Court Judgments tend to depend on fancies of the Judges sitting on the Judge, this of course, Collegium may not agree.

Almost all the State Governments, and the Government of India, seem to believe in massive Land Acquisitions, maintaining land banks, and handing over huge swathes of lands to private industrialists either direct, or through the technic of SEZs (Special Economic Zones, IT Parks (Information Technology Parks), Industrial Corridors.

Now, the bourgeoisie Governments of the States, with the help of the industrialist-friendly Central Government, will try to make new laws, issue more ordinances, to nullify the outcomes from the Supreme Court Judgement.

POSITION IN ANDHRA PRADESH

The Government of Residual Andhra Pradesh acquired hundreds of thousands of acres of land from farmers, directly under Land Acquisition Procedures, and also through armtwisting the farmers through Land Pooling Scheme.

Supreme Court Judgements unfortunately tend to be non-repetitive, unstable. Non-Singur farmers, Farmers of other States in India, should not build much hopes.

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.

711 Is CPIM a bourgeoisie Party? Bengal CPM Secretary seems to be in a hurry to become CM !

The dividing line between Left Parties and the bourgeoisie parties has already disappeared. There is a proverb in Telugu: "Aru nelalu sahavAsam cEstE vALLu vILLavutAru, vILLu vALLavutAru.". English gist: If 'A' and 'B' make friendship for six months, 'A' will become 'B' and, 'B' will become 'A'. There will be a sort of "double de-composition" we see in Chemistry formulae. Craze can make Left Leaders speak and act in a more 'bourgeoisie' manner, than the traditional bourgeoisie parties.

Shri Surjya Kanta Mishra, CPM Secretary, Bengal, we can probably classify in that category of A becoming B, and B becoming A. He is reported to have said:

"...The first thing we will do is withdraw the case against the Tatas in Singur. We will create an industry-friendly climate..." "...(అధికారంలోకి వస్తే) మేము చేసే మొదటి పని ఏమిటంటే, సింగూరులో టాటాలకు వ్యతిరేకంగా, పెట్టబడిన కేసును ఉపసంహరించుకుంటాం. మేము పారిశ్రామికుల మిత్ర వాతావరణాన్ని సృష్టిస్తాము.

ybrao-a-donkey's humble comments. वैबीराव एक गधे के विनम्र राय . వైబీరావ్ గాడిద వినమ్ర వాణి. You have every right to differ with me. I respect your right. आपको मेरे मत से भिन्न राय रखने के संपूर्ण हक है। मै उस अधिकार को परिपूर्ण रूप से गौरव देता हुँ. మీకు, మీ భిన్నమైన అభిప్రాయాన్ని కలిగిఉండే సంపూర్ణ హక్కు ఉంది. దానిని ఎంతో నేను గౌరవిస్తాను. However, pl. examine this donkey's views also. परन्तु एस गधे के दृष्टिकोण को भी अनुशीलन कीजिये. కానీ ఈ గాడిద దృష్టికోణాన్ని కూడ ఓర చూపుతో కంటజూడుమీ, క్రీగంట జూడమీ.

One doubt which may come to us most of us, in the context of Bengal elections: Did CPM get any donations from Tatas? In India Today, parties can run only if they spend in elections, by collecting funds from industrialists and business persons.

In 2011, CPM lost power by befriending with Tatas, and alienating farmers. TMC seized the opportunity, befriended farmers and opposed Tatas, and captured power.

Industrialists and Business Persons want land. They do not mind even if it is snatched away from small and marginal farmers. Bengal is a land-scarce State. Be it TMC or CPM, where will they get land for pampering industrialists, without snatching it from small farmers?

India is a land-scarce country vis-a-vis its population. Bengal is a land-scarce state vis-a-vis its population.

Question: During the nearly 37 years of CPM rule when Mr. Jyothi Basu and Mr. Buddhdeb Bhattacharya were Chief Ministers, Bengal stagnated. It lost its prime place in the commercial and industrial map of India. Today, it is rotting. Do you want to bring back the rotting culture?

Ans: Industrialists accumulate land for speculative purposes, by inflating their land needs. For example, if they need 100 acres to establish a factory, they will make an application fora 1000 acres, and the Governments may either allocate them 2000 acres or 500 acres depending on the kickbacks exchanged.

Experience has proved time and again that business persons and industrialists are more intelligent than bureaucrats and politicians of 1947-2016 India. If they consider that a business established at place X fetches great profits on the basis of their own methods of calculations, they will not hesitate to buy land at market value and establish their units. Tax concessions for some years and cheap land and power alone do not prompt calculative industrialists to locate their industries.

This is a subject, which needs a thousand posts/pages to write about. For example, why did Mr. Ratan Tata choose "Corus" in U.K. to purchase at an exhorbitant price, rather than starting a new Steel Unit in Jharkhand itself at a reasonable distance from Jamshedpur? If Late Jamshedji TATA could take a decision in the early 20th Century itself which was a Great Success of the Century, when there were no computer forecasting Quantitative Methods, how in 21st Century, could his clan-person take a hasty risky decision to make steel in U.K. ?

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.

641 Indian Voters prefer to sell their votes for Rs. 1500 + liquor bottle + biriyani packet because there are not truly reliable Left Parties!

If a person does not change his words often, how can he become a politician? A politician should change his words like the Bhagavad Gita fame soul changes its torn clothes. Mr. Prakash Karat, former top boss of CPIM wants us not to forget this muddy and murky theory of politics which ordinarily bourgeoisie parties excel in, and he wants to prove that Left Parties can defeat the bourgeosie parties in Opportunism!

When workers whether agriculture, industrial or service sector, whatever hue they may belong to, who are more than 90% of Indian Electorate are misled by the bourgeoisie parties, it becomes the duty of the Left Parties to get voters back home ("ghar vApsi"). Instead of doing that, if left parties become opportunistic, they will be digging their own graves.

What the CPI and CPIM leaders forget so often, is that people have Great Expectations from the Left Parties. People expect a very very higher level of ethical behaviors and standards from the Left Leaders. Since these ethical behaviors and standards, are not forthcoming, and inasmuch as in the name of tactics Left Leaders are imitating the bourgeoisie leaders, voters are feeling a preference to sell their votes for Rs. 1,500/- plus a liquor packet and a biriyani packet.

Today, Indian voters are unable to find a truly reliable Leftist Party to vote for.

Question: Do you want Indian Left Parties to perish, by adopting rigid stances and strategies? CPI and CPIM are already in a State of Decay. Do you want them to become defunct and extinct?

Answer: A Party which makes it an infallible rigid philosophy (compare this with basic structure of Indian Constitution which can never be amended by Indian Parliament) to adhere to its basic goals and principles will never perish. It may temporarily become inactive. Goals, ideals, principles and theories are passed on from one generation of workers to another generation of workers like hereditary characteristics which are passed on across generations through mutations.

Just as one lamp can before becoming extinct, can light another lamp and keep on the light glowing eternally, goals, ideals, principles and theories are passed on through exchange of views and enlightenment between the youth and the aged. They are never lost. CPI and CPIM leaders ought not to have been panicked by temporary failures.

Real problem with the CPI and CPIM is, they have become stooges of the Congress, and Regional Parties, in the name of fighting BJP, calling it communal-force. Truth is: If BJP is a majority Communal Force, Congress and Regional Parties are Minority Communal Forces.

Though globally, Communism lost its supporters, and though in India Communist leaders and workers are languishing and dying due to aging, still there is an underlying latent positive outlook towards Communism, Marxism and Socialism.

The most vocal and high-profile among the Indian Classes i.e. the Rich and Upper Middle Class do not appreciate Communism-Marxism-Socialism-Equalism because they thrive on exploitation and special rights they claim on the grounds of their (non-existing) superior skills and talents, polished and refined appearances, they do not want to allow Equal Rights to the Workers, who are coarse and rugged.

This does not mean that the Worker Class and the Lower Middle Classes are averse to Communism-Marxism-Socialism. They are only apprehensive about the dictatorships which result from induction of Fake Communism, through the so-called barrel of Gun Revolutions. They do not want to fall from penam (pan) to poyyi (fire-stove).

To continue. सशेष्. సశేషం.

497 Not cat, but grimalkin! बिल्ली नहीं मार्जाल ! పిల్లి కాదు మార్జాలం !

In Telugu language, we have a maxim: "pilli kAdu mArjAlam!". Its approximate English gist is "Not cat, but grimalkin or pussy!" .

तॆलुगु भाषा में एक कहावत है कि: पिल्लि कादु मार्जालम। इस कहावत की मतलब यह है: बिल्ली नहीं., मार्जाल।

తెలుగు భాషలో ఒక లోకోక్తి ఉంది: పిల్లి కాదు మార్జాలం !

This proverb is used when persons persist with the same thing, in spite of criticisms, demors, and objections. They simply remove the word which faced a hurdle, replace it with another word which means the same thing, just to show that , they are making changes. But no change is made in reality. In the above proverb pilli and mArjAlam mean the same thing. Billi and mArjAl mean the same thing in Hindi. Cat and grimalkin mean the same things with minor variations.

Recently, the Congress of the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM or CPM) held its jamboree Congress in Visakhapatnam. They replaced their Party's General Secretary Mr. Prakash Karat with Mr. Seetharam Yechury. They tried to create an impression that they are going to rebuild the party afresh, changing everything.

But indications are, that nothing drastic will really take place.

Let us take for example: In Bihar, CPM may allow its State Unit to make seat adjustments with Laloo-Nitish Combine, along with Bihar's Congress Party. In West Bengal, since Ms. Mamata Banerjee has become formidable (दुर्जय), CPIM may allow its Bengal State Unit to have electoral seat adjustments with Congress.

CPIM top bosses should understand that playing second fiddle to Congress and Regional Parties, in the name or electoral alliances or seat adjustments, has ruined the Party, because by doing so, CPM will be indirectly asking its supporters to vote for the bourgeoisie parties. Even after elections, CPIM will have to, and will continue its soft pedalling with the bourgeoisie parties.

In Telugu language, there is another proverb: Aru nelalu sahavAsam cEstE, aTu vALLiTu, iTu vALLaTu avutAru. Approximate English gist: When two persons make friendship for six months, both the parties exchange their characters and characteristics, and barter their personalities. That means a left party like CPM will become a bourgeoisie party, and bourgeoisie parties like Lalu-Nitish combine, Congress will behave like Leftist Parties.

తెలుగులో ఒక సామెత ఉంది. ఆరు నెలలు సహవాసం చేస్తే అటు వాళ్ళిటు, ఇటు వాళ్ళటు అవుతారని. అంటే వామపక్షం అయిన సీపీఎమ్ బూర్జువా పార్టీగానూ, బూర్జువా పార్టీలైన లాలూ నితీన్ మసాలా, మమతా బెనర్జీ గారి తృణమూలం, వామపక్ష లక్షణాలు సంతరించుకుంటాయన్న మాట. ఇంకా ఉంది. To revise. सशेष.