The rainbow bridge

May 14th, 2013

Hi,

“30 percent is fate. The rest is a battle. You can only win if you love a good fight.” - from Shinjuku Incident (Movie)
An Out cast, I guess, that is how I am feeling right now. 30 days more…then I would be again on journey. Out again; out, to find a new place, a new search for bread and shelter.  My stay in Andhra has been a personal disaster except for the realization that i can still run long distance. Not fully without please, I will be leaving Vizag soon; too sooner  then intended. Off  to fight  another battle.
This journey would be a lot different then the one I had in 2010, then I had a money security. I could sit in a coffee shop and contemplate for hours. This time, this one, will be tougher. 
I know what Aline would say- you already have won the fight, just keep your belief in yourself up and you you will soon see that you have already won. ..Amen
…Apurva 

Familia: Alinea Concept- application 1: EU crisis

May 4th, 2013
a few years back, when I had started composing ‘The Alinea concept’ I did not have EU crisis in my mind. I was only thinking & thinking and thinking of the current nature of economy that has failed to lift the people out of poverty. The current economy has produced a lot of money but simultaneously has pushed the costs of living high enough to make the past’s ‘poor’ as today’s ‘very poor’. 
But then again, by the time I was finished with Alinea concept, the solution model that came out was of mutual cooperation among different economies. And it also included or should I say needed a higher financial body. A good match with EU.
Have I run simulations? have I done experiments?..I have not. I didn’t have a computer when I had finished the first draft. the posts that you will(may) refer to were written sitting in a cafe. with sheets covering me as whole. So, if you wish to run simulations before trying, you are free. but please do share the results. 
—Down to business, shall we-
A total of 13 chapters. 
I will pick up from the final chapter….
the two of final graphs.
I have given a lot of time in expressing in detail about all structure. and why the solution was proposed like this.
Here i only wish to express is that –only a banking system, in this case, ECB, the Europear Central Bank can not, alone, resolve the current crisis. 
Reason for it being is that, It can only pump in the system with more money. A lot of which is virtual money, also more money it pumps in- higher is the price rise. after a few short successes, some of which have already achieved, the more pumping in of money will only result in price rise or should I say, eventually another bubble. (long term).
This has proved correct in the past too, we have seen the collapse of 1990’s, IMF did succeeded for short period but then everything failed. The huge stimulus been put ahead by the world’s different banks has also triggered a higher cost of living(for the poorer)
the Alinea concept is like this..
http://datastore.rediff.com/h5000-w5000/thumb/59696F6D725E2C6F/g8c3p6uepm5ordeb.D.0.8wd4miptf81rocvn.D.0.14.bmp
Here the actions of ECB have been included as Ffin- a financial boost. If you will refer to chapters- Alinea: Ghost of Austerity I & II. It will explain where the current solution will lead to. 
The thing is- What ECB or for that instance any of such banks are doing is good. but it is not good enough, because they are trying to pull the economy up by themselves; which just doesn’t work.(has never worked).
what is needed, and this is only a theory, is a market oriented boost by another country.
and a venturing out of the country’s market( private companies) into a third nation’s economy.
the suggestion in pictorial form is like this-
http://datastore.rediff.com/h5000-w5000/thumb/59696F6D725E2C6F/ip8eziyq3jx4umsj.D.0.1niiw8dm8evyc878.D.0.23_-1-.bmp
I can’t write everything again, it takes a lot out of me. You can excess the whole concept at the address ..
I’ll only add a few questions ahead–
1. why would the ECB intervention not work?
I did not say it will not work, what I am saying is there is a better, permanent solution possible. as explained in the healing chart. the affect of providing liquidity is always temporary. You are providing money to the businesses. that is a good thing, they need the investment, they need the boost but will that work in long time. what afterwards, what if a second crash comes up? more liquidity?? are we not pushing the costs up. inserting and inserting money and none of it goes directly to the people. 
What you need to do is invest in people. Now you can not do that without making loss. a loss which at this stage you can-not afford to have. So let another country, friendly off-course, enter in your economy, in a suggested way, allow it to produce in your country, to give jobs to your people, in your state. and when I say another country, I am saying- the public companies of that another state & not the private sector.
At the same time, make your companies to venture out of your soil and build infrastructure in another country, a third state. And I am not saying enter their market, but I am saying build infrastructure for them. The required  technological support, the needed monetary support does has to come from a very healthy institution, in this case the ECB, same as they are doing it now. but now they won’t be alone in their effort.
If this particular model can be used…the government should have enough funds to build the infrastructure needed for expansion of the economy.
and the best part is, a web of this kind can take care of it self and the problem of over increasing demand and supply.
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if you have any queries..you can reach me at p.r.apurva@gmail.com
..THESE IS STRICTLY A PERSONAL WORK SHARED BY THE AUTHOR AT HIS OWN DISCRETION. PLEASE DO NOT COPY WITHOUT PERMISSION.
….apurva 


High above on a mountain 2

May 3rd, 2013
a war can always be fought,
but peace has it’s own glory.

you can always find men to die for a cause
but if you can build a generation of people 
who are ready to go all the way to keep peace,
to achieve the goal without the aid of a bullet,
you have actually added to the foundation of the society.

a war can always be fought,
but peace has it’s own glory.

give it a chance,
you know, peace;
give peace a chance.
worst that may happen is
you could loose,
but no-one in the history has ever lost a war,
the exchange of blood, thus started, has never stopped.

a war can always be fought,
but peace has it’s own glory.

the best that can happen is,
you may make a friend or two,
every legend that has made it to the history,
has friendship in it’s foundations.

I know, we know, the past,
hands given for friendship have been cut.
People approaching with pure heart 
have stepped into a grave.
but you see each such loss
has thus become a sacrifice.
a foundation for immortal songs.
and the roars which thus were born,
have returned victorious,
not only in fields but also in hearts.

Remember my brother,
a war can always be fought,
but peace has it’s own glory.

[always...give it a chance]


..apurva

high above on a mountain

May 2nd, 2013

Hi,

Ladakh is high on my texts. where I stand largely affects my choice of words.

what is it that we want
to be, where on the map of history, we wish to stand, who we wish to be.

history talks, how we interprete it is a choice that we make.

cont.


rock by rock- that is how you climb

May 1st, 2013

it was supposed to be tough,

what did you think
it would be easy?
when none goes that way,
when each preaches against
and hold envy to them who give it a try?
what did you think
it would be easy?
rocks them say,
make you better,
but first you need to be brave
brave enough to reach for the height,
brave enough to stay behind of others,
and prepare.
take the loosing at it’s face
and learn.
it was supposed to be tough.
it was supposed to be tough,
and my boy, 
you must fight it out,
fight it ahead,
it was never meant to be easy.


A little address

April 29th, 2013

Hi,

Since this stuff is going to be in center of most of my posts in section “just a pinch”. I don’t want no-body wondering what is this “Alinea Concept”.
Check Page - “I India” >> “The Alinea Concept”
the whole concept is available there. and future posts relating to economics applying the concept will be added to it.
…Best Regards,
Apurva 


Born-live’d-existed

April 24th, 2013
you know the time is hard,
and what we find right,
is no longer accepted
as truth.
this age of fake money,
the age of fake property,
this age of education
that teaches not much.
but if we hold on,
longer and ever,
with the simple rules
taught & preached at home,
born,
when bread was rare.
when the sun rises,
and the humanity returns
to it’s real ways,
love, life and breath.
we may still have,
eyes enough to see
the direction,
friends and dear ones,
and build a life,
that satisfies 
birth, life 
and eventually a blessed 
crossing.


importing chaos- exporting self

April 21st, 2013

Character can not be replaced with qualification. 

In today’s giant economy, I understand, the pressures of making profit have increased enormously. Making systems along with people as robotic as possible has become the easiest way out. quantify everything so that it can be easily controlled and changed. Do remember -easiest is not the best way out.
In crunching everything into a  numeric box, may make the documentation easy, it may even help to keep a keen eye on the factors. but does it generate profit.

If you don’t have Gujarati salt in you, the term profit, off course is difficult to understand.( I mean the not-from-a-book version). but understand this- 
our exports, leave what we sell out after digging mother earth, are not applausible. Countries smaller then several of our states have more export revenue (in certain sectors) then our whole country. 
For the naked eye people-
2011- India stood 19th(including rare earth) in over all exports with nations as tiny as Hong kong and Singapore ahead of us. 
you may say- well Hong Kong doesn’t produce nothing. but that makes the blow more terrible. we do produce a lot and still we are behind. 
and If we go for sector wise exports. we stand behind a lot of such states. 

Delhi: the liquor towers

April 21st, 2013

Hi,

“a person drunk or under affect of drugs, yes, can not be held responsible for their acts; but then who is responsible for the chaos, are we ready to catch those who actually sell this addictive, over powering venom. It seems we are not because them who sell and market this venom provide revenue. thus are provided protection. but then who is responsible?
it all together comes on those who suffer, because in the end we are the one who accept them people in power, accept their families and their richness as part of our society, because it is we who vote for them. 
but then again we all don’t get to make that choice, do we? we got important things to do, like earn money to take care of our families, our children, our daughters. they are very much safe out there, aren’t they. -hmm WAKE UP!!
a city that earns a lot of it’s revenue via liquor what else do you expect from it? if not to support liquor trade, what else then you expect from the business owners? give up their trade? not to increase their profit? and what do you accept from the government? not to increase their revenue? 
We couldn’t even call for president’s rule there..Oh wait..Mr President does lives out there, with the National government out there, live there out(in) with all their protection. 
Come on! what do you want the police to do? on one hand they must protect the liquor businesses because they are the government revenue centers. at the same time, the same government employees, must protect the people, who by the way, don’t even pay them anything; perform an endeavor which may very well get them fired/transfer(ed).
I wanted to put it in the starting. but even here at the end it suits too. I find these article by MG written in 1921/1947 true and very applicable even today; applicable till the last word.
Mahatma Gandhi on liquor

To the Moderates

…I ask you to accept my evidence that the country as a whole is sick of the drink curse. Those unfortunate men who have become slaves to the habit require to be helped against themselves. Some of them even ask to be helped. I invite you to take advantage of the wave of feeling that has been roused against the drink traffic. The agitation arose spontaneously. Believe me, the deprivation to the government of the drink revenue is of the least importance in the campaign. The country is simply impatient of the evil itself. In no country in the world will it be possible to carry on this traffic in the face of the united and the enlightened opposition of a people, such as is now to be witnessed in India. Whatever the errors or excesses that were committed by the mob in Nagpur, the cause was just. The people were determined to do away with the drink curse that was sapping their vitality. You will not be deceived by the specious argument that India must not be made sober by compulsion and that those who wish to drink must have facilities provided to them. The state does not cater for the vices if its people. We do no regulate or license houses of ill fame. We do not provide facilities for thieves to indulge their propensity for thieving and perhaps even prostitution. Is it not often the parent of both? I ask you to join the country in sweeping out existence of drink revenue and abolishing the liquor-shops. Many liquor-sellers would gladly close their shops, if the money paid by them were refunded.

 What about the education of the children? May be the question asked. I venture to suggest to you that it is a matter of deep humiliation for the country to find its children educated from drink revenue. We shall deserve the curse of posterity if we so not wisely decide to stop the drink evil, even thought we may have to sacrifice the education of our children. But we need not. I know many of you have laughed at the idea of making education self-supporting by introduction of spinning in our schools and colleges. I assure you that it solves the problem of education as nothing else can. The country cannot bear fresh taxation. Even the existing taxation is unbearable. Not only must we do away with the opium and the drink revenue, but the other revenue has also to be very considerably reduced if the ever-growing poverty of the masses is to be combated in the near future.

 And that brings me to the existing system of government. The country is the poorer for the reforms. The annual expenditure has grown. A deeper study of the system has convinced me that no tinkering with will do, A compete revolution is greatest need of the time. The word revolution displeases you. What I plead for, however is not bloody revolution, bu a revolution in the thought-world, such as would compel a radical revision of the standard of life in the higher service of the country. I must frankly confess to you that the ever-increasing rate of salaries paid to the higher branches of the Civil Service fairly frightens me, as I hope it would frighten you. Is there any correspondence between the life of the governors and of the governed millions who are groaning under their heels? The bruised bodies of the latter are a standing testimony to the truth of my statement. You now belong to the governing class. Let is not be said that your heels are no softer than your predecessors or your associates. Must you also rule from Shimla? Must you also follow the policy that, only a year ago, you criticized severely? …..I would gladly think that , as I really believe, that you are not responsible for the atrocities that are at present being perpetrated in the name of peace and justice. But you will not let the public or me to day that you are helpless, where you are not hood winked. That, however, would being me to a discussion of our ideals, which I must not enter upon at this moment. If the country can only get your assistance in stopping the drink traffic, you will certainly add to the many services that you have rendered in the past, and, may be, that one step will open your eyes to many other possibilities. (Young India, 8/6/1921)

….It is criminal to spend the income from the sale of intoxicants on the education of the nation’s children or other public services. The government must overcome the temptation of using such revenue for nation-building purposes. Experience has shown that the moral and physical gain of the abstainer more than makes up for the loss of this tainted revenue. If we eradicate the evil, we will easily find other ways and means of increasing the nation’s income. (Mahatma Gandhi. Harijan. 21 September 1947)”


log April 2

April 20th, 2013

The time has always been hard with me, I think this is the nature of my partnership with time.

After my last spell of sickness, I am giving life a try again. Not possible at work, there I am only suppose to accept that I am worth nothing. Nothing abnormal my friends, as much as I know, most of the indian organizations work the same way. keep pushing the people down until they break enough to surrender. 
As I said, I am giving life a try again. have started running again. not as much as I used to do earlier but I have started again and that is what counts. Keep on trying to improve my life and eventually it pays off. I mean,  if you keep your spirits up, it does pays -if not at work then at home, I mean you work only 10 or 12 hours a day. your can still get atmost 12 hours for yourself.
The one thing I have finally started accepting is that life is a hard ball and it is going to remain so for your entire life and it can not be changed. If you are in college or in starting years of work and if you are expecting - work hard today and tomorrow will be a shiny bright day- and CAUTION– dead turn ahead. the struggle never stops. and as I get it, it continues till the end of life. 
So, prepare yourself, being soft has got nothing to do with kindness. you have to harden yourself.
I tell this to myself everyday, I may be less skilled than what I am accepted to be but I have a worth and it will remain so- always; and that I will  respect myself and  my life and will never give up on myself.
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