1044 (First of ten series) It's great that our Hon. Prime Minister prefers criticism to allegations, shall we be wrong if we try our hand at criticism?

It is enlightening and gratifying to read that our Hon. Prime Minister prefers 'criticism' to 'allegations'. Here is the relevant link to news18.com, dated 20th Jan. 2018: Click here to go to http://www.news18.com/news/politics/there-is-less-criticism-and-more-allegations-on-our-govt-pm-narendra-modi-1637047.html. But my pessimist heart says otherwise. Anyway, if he is a criticism-tolerant Prime Minister, each one of the 1.3 billion adult Indians whom he represents will be delighted to know about it. Of course, Hon. Prime Minister may be replying to International Criticism against his Economic Policies, particularly in Economist.Com. I am not sure whether he will equally appreciate criticisms from his Indian Native Critics, who may differ with him on 'principles and practices' with no malice against him, personally. First, we shall start with some International Criticism against his Economic Policies.

The Economist (Economist.com)

1. Click here to go to https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21723830-he-more-nationalist-firebrand-indias-prime-minister-not-much-reformer. This report is dated 24th June 2007. This report is titled: "India’s prime minister is not as much of a reformer as he seems"... "... But he is more of a nationalist firebrand...". This Report has a cartoon of Hon. Prime Minister, riding on a tiger.

2. The above article, provides link to another article, from the same Economist.com: Click here to go to https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21723815-tax-reform-does-not-go-far-enough-land-and-labour-reforms-have-barely-been-tried-narendra-modi. The title of this Article is: "Narendra Modi is a fine administrator, but not much of a reformer. .." "...Tax reform does not go far enough; land and labour reforms have barely been tried. "

Click here to go to https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730880-consequences-are-beginning-catch-up-him-indias-prime-minister-focuses-too-much. This report is titled "..India’s prime minister focuses too much on appearances. ..." "...The consequences are beginning to catch up with him... ". This Report has a carton showing Hon. Prime Minister at the mic, with a long oscillating turban.

ybrao-a-donkey's personal views, not intended to be imposed on others

Mr. Narendra Modi is the fifteenth Prime Minister of India, since its independence in 1947. 14th Prime Minister, if we exclude late Gulzarilal Nanda, who was a Stop-Gap Prime Minister when India's First Prime Minister Nehru and its second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away in 1964 and 1966 respectively. Since his taking over the reins in 2014, Shri Modi, has in the arena of Economy, made some far-reaching changes, especially adverse changes, which 11 of his preceding 14 Prime Ministers could not do, and only the first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, and the 3rd PM Mrs.Indira Gandhi had tried to initiate. We require at least 10,000 pages to make a comparative analyses of the three Prime Ministers. This Comparative Analyses is important because in every one of heads of the nearly 5 million out of 1.3 billion Indians (after deducting children, too-old-to-think-continuously persons, lay persons, illiterates, semi-literates), may be worrying about the Economic Future of this country, whether led by IMF trained / Harvard / Delhi School of Economists or led by charlatans. I mean to say, what will be the Economic Destiny / Destination of this country,

whether steered by Western-trained-Specialists of Finance-Economics-Finance or,

Generalists who believe that they themselves are geniuses or

by some conscious thinkers who have done some diligent studies into the grass-root level problems of the agriculturists, landless laborers, unorganised laborers, poverty-struck masses of this Country.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
--A quote of Hannah Arendt

Prima facie Mr. Narendra Modi is also a mass leader, like Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Hence, there will be no wonder, if even after 14 months, Mr. Narendra Modi projects his decision of 'Demonetization' dated 8th Nov. 2016, as a big success.

Reason: What are the Grassroot level facts? Before de-monetization, millions of Indians were saving their hard earned monies in Banks, particularly Public Sector Banks. Today, as Bank have started allowing 'shuttered-down ATMs' to continue in their decay, for days together, and inasmuch as many Public Sector Banks are unable to pay cash to their customers in Banking Halls, as there is a severe Cash shortage, owing to RBI's inability to meet the demand for Cash from Currency Chest Branches of Banks, -- ordinary people (they do not have black money) are under compulsion to keep large stock of cash in their homes to meet unforeseen contingencies arising out of ATM failures and denial of Cash in Bank Branches.

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997 Some musings on the occasion of the Death Anniversary of Late Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India

"Much excess" and "Much scant" are two extreme global and human traits. But Indians seem to excel the global standards, at least in respect of these extremities. We rarely adopt a Middle Path, preached by Gautama Buddha, who tried to give us a different direction. Yesterday, 27th May 2017, was the Death Anniversary of Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the First Prime Minister of Independent India. The State of the Art chic post 2014 May India Administration is to belittle Jawaharlal Nehru and highlight Late Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel, the First Dy. Prime Minister of Independent India. Both of them were associates of Mahatma Gandhi, who, it is generally believed as the one who brought Freedom to India, through his non-violent Satyagraha methods, consisting of Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience. History of India's Freedom Movement was penned by several writers, with some varying emphasis-es and stresses on different Leaders.

As expected, Mr. Narendra Modi, the incumbent Prime Minister of India (from May 2014) has not given much importance to the Death Anniversary of Late Jawaharlal Nehru. As far as I can trace on Internet, this is the only News Item, about our Prime Minister telling something about Late Nehru, on 26th and 27th May 2017. I might have been mistaken. Anyway, here is the link for the tweet:--Click here to go to https://mobile.twitter.com/narendramodi/status/868270091187625984?p=v. Beyond that, he has not visited the Shantivan, the Memorial for Nehru, while the President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Former Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh, Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi visited Shantivan, to pay a ritualistic floral tributes to Late Nehru.

Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi Verified Account
@narendramodi
Tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.
5:58 PM - 26 May 2017

Personal views of ybrao-a-donkey not intended to be imposed on others

I do not wish to find fault with our Hon. Prime Minister. He is a very very busy person. He must, and might, have had his own priorities. At Shri Modi's Twitter handle, the Readers were more outspoken. It may not be wrong to quote a few Comments of Readers, about Shri Modi's Tributes. I am omitting names.:

"...He doesn't deserve any tribute sir.. ..."

Another Reader replying to the above Reader: "...Yea, u r right Godse deserve this...".

"...Seven reasons why Nehru was a bad PM. sify.com/news/seven-rea… ..."

"... He is responsible for illogical partition of India which made me a refugee in my own country, no homage to Jawaharlal Nehru . ..."

"...Comunist. ..." (sic)

"...किसी श्रद्धांजलि की कोई ज़रूरत नहि ह उनको देने की....सारा फ़साद उन्ही की ग़लत नीतियों के कारण हो रहा ..." (Approx. Engl: There is no need of offering any tributes. All the fracas-es are owing to his faulty policies.)

"...यह जिंदा होते तो पता नही अपनी अययासी से कितने घर उजाड़ते मेरी भारत माँ के कितने टुकड़े करते ..." (Approx. Engl. Had he been alive, it is not known, for the sake of his debauchery(ies), how many homes he might have ravaged, and into how many splinters he might have fractured my India...)

"...No "Veer" Savarkar deserves it ...".

RELATED LINK for the VIP visits to the Shantivan

Click here to go to http://www.india.com/news/india/narendra-modi-pranab-mukherjee-sonia-gandhi-pay-tribute-to-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-53rd-death-anniversary-2174274/ . The peculiarity of this web page is, it has a sub-heading titled 'Who was Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru?' !!! !!! No wonder, this heading is very apt, because notwithstanding the publicity given by Nehru dynasty leaders in the past, hundreds / thousands of stadia / structures / Institutions named after Jawaharlal Nehru, Citizens themselves seem to have forgotten Nehru. The Nehru dynasty rulers, particularly Mr. Manmohan Singh and Ms. Sonia Gandhi were more enamoured with commemorating Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as Saviors and Martyrs of India.

Click here to go to http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/news/india/jawaharlal-nehrus-53rd-death-anniversary/sonia-gandhi-pays-tribute/articleshow/58870440.cms

Vocabulary Help

splinter/ˈsplɪntə/ noun: a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece. verb: break or cause to break into small sharp fragments.

yb-donkey continuing

The main problem with understanding / interpreting history (If generalisation is not correct, I shall write 'understanding / interpreting Indian history'), is when a person comes to power, all his merits both human merits, and super human merits, come into fore. The favor-seekers and position-seekers surrounding the person MAGNIFY HIM-HER INTO A LARGER-THAN LIFE-SIZE DEMY GOD, OR GOD-HEAD. The moment he passes away, there will be lot of hagiographies.

But if the person, instead of passing away, loses his-her throne in such a way that there are no chances of his-her getting resurrected back to his-her past glory, the same flatterers start belittling the super-God. All his known and unknown DEMERITS AND DRAWBACKS are highlighted. Purpose: To win recognition and appreciation from the New God, and get hold to some position of power.

Like all of us, the mortals, Jawaharlal Nehru too had his own merits, strengths, and demerits and shortcomings. We cannot get all perfect-individuals. There is nothing like perfect white or perfect black. We are all admixtures of some shade of grey, consisting both of strengths and weaknesses.

Even before Independence, Jawaharal Nehru reached the top of the country, and was the Prime Minister, in pre-Independence Cabinets. Eulogising him by flatterers started even prior to independence.

We cannot say that during his 19 years Administration, Jawaharlal Nehru had not done anything significant for this country. It is also unreasonable to hold him as the culprit responsible for all the problems being faced by this country, owing to myriad reasons.

This is a 1000 page subject.

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826 (Part 2/10) of Indian Corporate Governance -Continuation of Tata Mallya discussion

This is in continuation of this blog's post No. 825 Click to go to post No. 826., wherein I have made it clear that my analyses are not about Mr. Vijay Mallya or Ratan Tata or Cyrus Mistry in particular, or about the United Breweries Group/KingFisher or the Tata Group in particular. What I wish to make clearer, is: Like their Global counterparts, most of the Institutions in India are in a mess, not only the Corporate Sector, or the Economic System, but also every other System, Sub-System. I do not wish to attribute this atrophy and latent collapse and decay to reforms such as LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation), because the atrophy and latent decay of INdian Economy were there even before the advent of P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister, and Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister. The duo have only accelerated the processes to make them more pronounced and visible. Probably, they might have existed even before 1937.

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AND MAHALANOBIS MODEL OF DEVELOPEMTN

By taking the Socialist path, Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, though unintentionally, has tried to sideline the Tatas, Birlas et al. Unfortunately Nehru did not take it up in at least 80% of its potential. He did not do it whole-heartedly, because he had to carry himself along with other Congress Stalvarts, and Regional Congress Leaders. By pioneering the advent of Public Sector in India, and endeavouring to take it to commanding heights, Mr. Nehru tried to set aside the dynastic and the dhan-terah gambling Private Sector, but he could not succeed, probably because there was a Chinese Invasion 1962, and he had to suffer premature death.

LATE LAL BAHADUR SASTRY, the second Prime Minister

His successor Late Lal Bahadur Sastry, the Second PM, did n't have time to attend to the maladministrations and mismanagements of Indian Corporate Sector, because his attention was DETRACTED by Pakisthani intrusions, invasions and the consequent 1965 Indo Pak War.

LATE INDIRA GANDHI, the third Prime Minister

The third PM, Late Indira Gandhi d/o Nehru, had all the time, but she had no will to correct the rot in Private Sector, because Congress and Opposition Parties by that time have started living on the donations of industrialists for amassing wealth and meeting election expenses. For political reasons, Ms. Gandhi went on a Nationalisation Campaign of banks, Oil Companies, Insurance Companies, sick Coal Mines, sick Textile Mills, but only to allow them to be mismanaged letter. To cover all these things, we may need 100,000 print pages, and internet pages, but all of such pages may end up to be junk because nobody will read them.

CONGRESS AND UPA

Today, the dynastic political bosses and the successors of Nehru Dynasty in Congress Party wants to claim credit for the legacy of Nehru, while they know nothing about Nehruvian Economics or they are not inclined to continuing Nehruvian Economics, in spite of knowing. I believe that they do now know what Nehruvian Economics truly is. Otherwise, why should they carry Mr. Manmohan Singh who introduced diametrically opposite and anti-Nehru policies, on their shoulders for nearly 20 years? I must say, though it may sound arrogant, that the Nehru Dynasty Congress bosses know nothing about Indian Economics.

CURRENT NDA REGIME

Mr. Narendra Modi and Mr. Arun Jaitley are just continuing their legacies of Mr. Manmohan Singh, and Mr. P. Chidamabaram (Former Finance Minister). They have no capabilities or desire to clean up the mess in private sector. Nor, do they have any intent to clean up the Public Sector. Their interests seem to concentrate only on four things 1) Foreign Tours 2) Beg for Foreign Investments 3) Trying to implement what their Patron Industrialists demand. 4) Dispose off Public Sector units at throw away prices.

SELECTED READINGS

IT SECTOR VIS-A-VIS / VERSUS MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN INDIA

Here, one article by Vivek Kaul, dated 15h Jan. 2016, Click to go to https://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyview.asp?str=29976, is worth studying.

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665 You are my paternal aunt. How can I do this to you?

In my mother tongue, Telugu language, there is a proverb "sagam peTTi mEnatta anTE ela?". Its approx. English gist is based on a small anecdote: Once a nephew and a paternal aunt (father's sister) had a love affair, with a sexual intercourse. In most Regional sub-cultures of India, sex with paternal aunt is a moral taboo, and a sort of incest, though may not be absolute legal incest. This nephew, after half-penetration, suddenly got a moral dilemma and said "You are my mEnatta (paternal aunt). How can I do this to you?". He wanted to withdraw. This proverb, though somewhat obscene and un-parliamentary, has an important message, "Either we should have things in full, or not have them at all'.

What Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the First Prime Minister of India, and Late Indira Gandhi, the Second Prime Minister of India with Socialist Pretentions, did to India was the same thing. Though Late Jawaharlal Nehru pronounced that PUblic Sector in India will reach Commanding Heights, he did not do enough to introduce True Socialism in India. Either it may be his half-heartedness, or it may be teething problems which nascent independent India faced, or headaches like Jammu Kashmir, Goa, Pondicherry, or it may be non-cooperation from his Finance Ministers such as Morarji Desai, and T.T. Krishnamachary. Late Chakravartula Rajagopalachary (Rajaji) too might have resisted it.

As far as I can recollect, it was Mrs. Indira Gandhi, who got the word "Socialist" inserted into the Indian Preamble of the INdian Constitution. Though she has taken some courageous steps like Nationalisation of Banks, Insurance Companies and Nationalisation of Petroleum Companies, she did not go beyond populism. Total Removal of Private Property, Abolition of Stock Exchanges, Abolition of Currency System, Abolition of Private Trade and Industry, also ought to have been tried. It may be too much for us to expect that she would abolish Family System to emancipate Women from Family work, Abolition of Family System. She herself visited Babas to get blessings.

Whatever half-half things were done with various motives, gradually, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Mr. Manmohan Singh tried to UNDO, and take credit for it.

For this reason only, the above reference to the Telugu Proverb "sagam peTTi mEnatta" has become apt. Now, Readers will see! Mr. Bernie Sanders (Democratic Contender for the American Presidency), Mr. Jeremy Corbyn (England's Labor Party Leader), Mr. Alexis Tsipras (Prime Minister of Greece), all fall in this "sagam peTTi mEnatta" category.

Mr. Barack Obama eight years back raised GREAT EXPECTATIONS worldwide. What happened? Now, eight years elapsed. The US is at the same place, where it was eight years back.

The US will be at the same place in 2020, where it is in 2016, whether Mr. Bernie Sanders will win the Election or not. Even if Donald Trump wins the Elections, still US will be at the same place. Reason: They are just two cogs in a big machine. If they try too hard, they will be caught in some pinion wheel. Though they may not be assassinated physically, they will be made mentally imbecile. Besides, most Americans at least, as on date, do not appear to believe in the efficacy of True Socialism as a cure for all the viruses of Capitalism. Yet, they may elect Mr. Bernie Sanders, with a "small-boundary-limit" that he will not exceed their brief and will not go too far. They too want "sagam peTTi mEnatta".



Yet to be written. I shall write tomorrow.

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661 Part 1/100 of a long term Blue-Print for Introduction of Total Socialism into Democracies. भाग १ / १०० प्रजातंत्रों में संपूर्ण समाजवाद , समतावाद, या साम्यवाद को प्रेरणीकृत प्रवेश कराने के लिये एक दीर्घकालिक नक्शा । భాగం ౧, ప్రజాస్వామ్యంలోకి సంపూర్ణ సమతా వాదం, సమాజ వాదం, సామ్యవాదాన్ని ప్రవేశ పెట్టటానికి ఒక దీర్ఘకాలిక ప్రణాలికా పత్రము.

When you are writing about Total Socialism (Total Equalism), you are also making impossible promises. Then why do you criticise Mr. Narendra Modi , or Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu?

Answer:

1. Total Socialism or Total Equalism will be a success, only if bulk of the 1.3 billion Indians get a paradigm shift in their intellectual thinking. Working Class has to educate themselves. They have to get rid of their habits like alcoholism.

2. Changing and upgrading the intellectual thinking of 130 crore people will take at least 130 years, assuming that a crore population is upgraded every year. But, we must remember that people will not live 130 years. Replacement of populations will take place. For example, Mahatma Gandhi brought some changes in the thinking of Indians, when he led Freedom Movement of India. Thousands of people (satyAgrahis) bore blows of police lathis, quite voluntarily. Thousands of people spun yarn on spinning wheels and wore handspun Cloth (Khadi). This continued for two or three generations and lasted about 60 years. Today, there is no Gandhi-ism, though occasionally some interest is shown by some souls, and some pretentions are made.

3. The same Replacement of Populations theory, applies even to Communist Movement. In the days of Freedom Movement, as well as even in the early Post-independent years, Communists were a live force in Indian Society. Communist and Trade Union workers of those days used to be very much attached and committed to their ideologies, so much that for some of them it became a religion of a sort. All those generations died, or attained decrepit old age.

4. In other words, we may have to concede that, not only should intellectual upgradations take place in the Working Classes, but also they should be carried forward from one generation to another generation, like mutation of genetic characteristics. Continuous reinforcement is an imperative need. For this reason only, at least 130 years, or probably even 1000 years may be required for intellectual self-upgradations.

You may be wondering why I am saying "self-upgradations" instead of simple "upgradations" or "motivated upgradations". Reason: A self-upgradation which takes place in an individual after much contemplation and meditation lasts long, whereas imposed upgradations (they are nothing but disguised brain-washings) will either disappear in no time, or may only continue as "name-sake" fantasies, lacking sincerity and courage of conviction.

5. The Socialismw advocated by Pioneers in India like Late Jayaprakash Narayan, Lohia, Madhu Limaye, et al (There were several Socialist Parties of India, with different hues in 1950s and 1960s) were the Plebeian Socialisms, i.e. they aimed at gradualism. These were nothing but, a sort of imitations, of the Fabian Socialism and the Fabian Society of England of 1st half of the 20th Century. Gradualism has not, and will not work. Gradualism is like counting crows on a tree during dawn or dusk. Nehru's experiments with Mixed Economy was either because of his fancy towards the Fabian Socialism / Fabian Society or, a strategic maneoeuvre (व्यूहात्मक युक्ति వ్యూహాత్మకమైన యుక్తి) to consolidate his rule, against the more active Socialists like Lohia, Limaye, Jayaprakash Narayan, J.B. Kripalani, of S.P., S.S.P., P.S.P., fame.

The problem with or the Fabian Socialism / Gradualist Socialism is byy the time we count crows on one branch of a tree, new crows join, and some existing crows leave. When reforms are made in one Sector, decay sets in another Sector. Even if two steps forward and one step backward type of progress, will make a net progress of one step. But that is not the case with the Fabian Socialism as part of Democracy.

6. India's experimentation with "Mixed Economy" failed, because once there is a replacement of Old Generation of Leaders , with new Generation of Leaders, there is a drastic change in their beliefs and values. From 1950 to 1991, we had series of "Nationalisations". From 1991, till date, we are experiencing "Privatisations".

There is an impression that Fabian Socialism or the Gradualist Socialism has produced Liberalist Billionnaires. Our Liberalist Billionnaires like Messrs. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg are just posers, probably to extract more business from bourgeoisie rulers. You cannot expect compassions and sympathies from man-eaters and blood-suckers.

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