bharat band – bloody hell!!!

july 5th, 2010.

this day will go in my memories as a day when the whole concept of democracy was used to convert an otherwise normal day into worthless day. to my irriattion, first of all it’s being promoted as ‘bharat bandh’  or ‘भारत बन्ध” instead of ‘bharat band’ or ‘भारत बंद’. anyways, what the heck, everyone understood the meaning of it.

i demand to know how would it help our economy or country but who would i ask this question to. so i started to wonder over it myself. my logical brain tells me to analyse it logically, however, i don’t have much information over it. i gathered whatever i could from the bits and pieces of news and over-heard conversations.

it appears that the opposition called for the nation wide ‘bandh or band’ to protest the hike in current fuel price, even the left front is supporting it. they have a reason for it which seems logical at first. a man of my stature won’t accept it though, without mulling over it.

so i decide to think over it, i recall how the opposition lost the power because of the steep increase in the price of onion, a common household commodity. i also think about the state in which the states govern and run by left-front are, pathetic. now, you might start to think that i am a supporter of current government or to be precise of ‘congress’, well, i am not.

i support only the right decisions and steps taken by any government, be it is a one of ‘congress’, ‘bjp’ or anyone else. while, i support and appreciate the efforts taken by than ‘bjp’ goverment to create a road-infrastructure across india and opening indian market for foreign investors and companies by ‘congress’ government. work done by modi in gujrat also worth mentioning as well as by nayadu in andhra.

on the other front, i won’t forgive congress for imposing emergency in india, or bjp for demolishing babri-masjid only for a political profit. modi will not be spared for what he did during godhra riots. naydu, had already been punished for forgetting farmers/peasants, just to focus more on information technology.

i have my views on indian politics and on pretty much everything. however, i don’t like to get into arguments based on any of these. i simply believe to argue only over the things, on which you are in-charge to make some changes. i condemn this bharat band, i believe it will not achieve anything substantial as it doesn’t have the right motive. it’s a merely ill-politically- inclined show-off.

many of you will disagree with me but my views are too strong on this. even if the government will take back the price hike, i don’t believe, we will achieve something great. eventually, the price-hike is a need to compensate the subsidy, which has been eating our economy. we as a country need to work more effectively and save fuel and energy to compensate this fuel hike and the one’s which will have to come in future.

i had a conversation with someone yesterday and he supported this band claiming that the life of ‘aam aadmi‘ is going into gutter because of this ‘mahngai‘. well, yes it does effect a lot. forget lower class, even the middle class suffers a lot. on a personal front, in last 18 months, the rates for a ‘parantha‘ has changed drastically from inr 10 to inr 20, without any substantial change in my salary. it’s pretty much same and my appetite is also same. this is just an example how price-hikes been crippling life.

still, i don’t want to go on a strike. i believe, i need to increase my work efficiency and earn more and save more. i need to find ways to cop-up with these hikes. it doesn’t mean that i am in favor of these hikes but not more than often these hikes are necessary. you as well know how much ‘mahngai‘ is there now in the market. if you are from information technology industry. you must be aware of your exploitation in the name of recession. everything became costly, while salary and perks even went down.

we were told that the market was in bad shape, companies had to cut expenditures, where were the company savings? no one asked. no one complained when in such bad phase government increased salaries for it’s employees. people claimed government saved enough money in past to do it. why didn’t they ask the government to postpone it till recession goes away as they supported private companies?

even now, when recession is over, no-one has been supporting the demands made by us to give us a raise. so must we stop working and come out on roads? no, i don’t believe it will help our condition. i remember a japanese story. workers in a japanese shoe factory were really disappointed with their owner, when the talks failed, the workers decided to protest.

they didn’t stop working and came out on roads like us, rather they stopped making shoes for right feet and doubled the left-feet. when owners accepted the demands they did the same for the left feet. in this way they produced the same number of shoes, they were supposed to. i believe this is a perfect example of protest without hurting the economy.

people talk about the need of strike, to shut down things in order to pretest, jerks walk out of your fucking lives and look at the people who can’t feed themselves on a normal day when they work because their wages are too low. these are the people who wake up in the morning just in the hope to get some work in the day to eat dinner. yet, they sleep hungry at times and those nights are frequent. how will the feed themselves?

did you ever think of this morons? i hate and condemn such people who believe in blocking the highway just because someone died in a road accident or beat innocent people because some actor, who they considered a god dies because of normal causes. bloody fuck, if he was really a god, how did he die man? or break havoc in form of riots just to get some kind of reservation because they are not capable enough to be a man.

people use your brains and say no to such ‘band’s‘. if we have to protest and we believe we will have to because no government is full of saints and people who really put people before themselves. we must find creative and innovative ways, after all we are no idiots, we are simply basterds

post script: i have not been writing for last few week for several reason, the major being my website had some technical issues. as well as i was too busy in my personal life. it appears now that i would be in the same busy mode for couple of more months. i just hope, i would be able to write during them, even in bits and pieces.