Clear the path, Yuvraaj’s are coming

Mahabharat is a great epic @ 8 times more than combined volume of odyssey and Eliot together it ought to be what it is, a comprehensive and complete guide of human nature and psychology. With each nuisance and details of human behaviour being spelt out in the form of various character so aptly written that they are still significant in today's era, but hang on why I am harping this today? Surely ekta kapoor's trash tele adaptation of this great tale is not in my must watch list nor it will be in future but while observing the recent election result of the great Indian election tamasha I observed that Vedvyas had understood a very powerful branch of human behaviour tree called paternal love, we love to call it Dritrashtra syndrome and we all fiercely argue that we are free from it but alas that is not the case.

On the onset let me clarify that i do not have the capacity not any intention to doubt the calibre of our newly elected MP's and am more than willing to accept that they are the finest 543 people available in the nation to lead us (aah, how much I wish that there was no criminal or don among them but I figure that some wishes are meant to make sure that you have something to look for in the future) but there are few things in this mandate which disturb me to the core, but let's first see what are good things in the bag, firstly we have a much stable govt at helm (I am not sure how much this logic that "hung parliament is good as it keep the netas on the toe" is correct but I still feel that this poor nation cant afford to spend 12000 carores every few year to decide which king it will have for the next few year)  than we have a really decent man at helm, just a minute, is it because he spent a good part of his life doing something productive as a technocrat whatever it may be but that surely a very good thing. What else??????? Well many say that we have youths coming up in the politics to take this nation forward huh what a great relive people who are productive have the leash of power to take this nation ahead people who are under 50, 60 is a age at which everyone who is not in politics is suppose to get out of the workplace and spent his time telling story to his/her grandchilds about the adventure they had in life. often dumped with one day of celebration and testimonials from everyone around about how good he or she was in his/her life, telling you in no uncertain words that your life is as good as over now get lost but in politics its not like that 50 is the youth there, there will be ads in the newspaper on your 50^th birthday urging you to continue screaming at the top of their voice "us oor zamana chalata hai jis oor javani chalati hai" reminding you that there is whole lot of life ahead to do big things and what not. But let's forget that for now we have a youth brigade in the parliament and they are surely going to take us places. But hang on is it really true that youth of this nation have wake up and ready to take the mantle or is it that yuvraajs of political families have come to age and have taken over the charge of roughly 1.5 million of their praja for the next five year? Rediff did this favour to me to let us know how many baba-log have been part of the crowd that will take the oath in the name of holy god or whatever they believe in to work for the people, by the mandate of people,to solve the problems of the people. So we have the scion of (i am using often used word so none of my imagination) Gandhi family of schindhiya family of saeed family of dutt family, of deora family, of patil family, of schindhiya family again, of yadav family of gowda family, of rane family, of Prasad family,of chaudhary family, and the list is just truly endless it will be even bigger if we add the candidate who lost the battle of rajgaddi  in some case even the Indian constitution was changed so that the young yuvraaj can claim his rightful seat even if he is was not eligible because of an absurd rule which try protect right of aboriginal tribes of that constituency, example are everywhere across the spectrum of our political parties and the most painful fact is that all those who fought so hard in the name of fighting against dynasty rule are doing exactly what they were fighting against that remind me the great story of premchand where son of a peasant who was so full of hatred against zamindaars become even bigger evil and chauvinist once he get the taste of luxury of zamindaar family, everyone seems to feel that no one in the entire universe is better than his or her son,  huh oh my dear vadvyas sahib how good and correct you were when you described Dritarashtra's love for Dusshashan. that was a blind love not because Dritarashtra was blind but because Dusshashan was his son, no no don't get me wrong I am not raising any question on the capability of any of these young and energetic MP's but how much I wish that other young people had the possibility and chance to serve the nation ok I know that the idea of being an MP has little to do with serving the people these days but still you can't say that in open and certainly not when writing about someone else. I mean tell me one person who can have the might and wealth of his own at the age of 26 or 30. Forget that without the might of his family or beloved father and mother who can fight a successful loksabha election today ? don't worry about the election commission guideline but you need at least 10 Mn Rs to do so and even that chances are that you will end up with less than 1 % vote (ask meera sanyal for details) so even if you win KounBanegaCarorpati and decide that you will spent your well earned booty on the election, chances are that you will end up an also runner or if I can borrow word of our beloved Prime Minister "a spoiler".

Bloody hell a decent professional will earn less than that amount (at today's value) in his entire professional life and even after spending his whole life's earning, (earning not savings mind you) you are just a spoiler!!!!! Now we all know why Manmohan singh himself can't win a loksabha election of his own, good lord! It's good that is not the idea of serving for many people, I mean please explain this to me, we cant have a meera sanyal or any other person who can call himself a common man in true sense to win a election, and please don't give me that crap of MP riding to loksabha in a auto or a MP having 12000/- as assest, come on bill of the tentwallah for a decent program these days cost more than 12000/- and you are telling me that someone campaigned and won an election in less than that ? Crap. I know the next explanation is that party spent money for candidate yeah that true and where do they get money from? I recently read somewhere that a charted plane was despatched to fetch Ms Mamta Banergee from Kolkata, cool so guys and gals we have the formula for you if you have less than half a million rupee and still want to fly in a charter plane, become a neta but than that's my point is can a person without a godfather (actually a real father) can win a election of his own just based on his personal credentials and money, armed with the wish and lust for power, can he win? Well answer is a big NO. I said lust because I have not seen anyone really losing his/ her sleep when he or she sees apathy and misery no I don't feel that anyone should do that because that's the human nature. after all it took the turn of their host to die which woke pandavas up to kill Bakasur by sending Bheem in place of their host (ah Mahabharat you shine life a bright torch whenever human psychology need examples if Pandavas the shining beacon of all good things in life don't do anything to save innocent life of common man (until it happens to be their own man don't even expect that from anyone of real world in which we live).  So all i am asking is that one should not feel bad if a young graduate want to be an MP and want to pursue a lifelong carrier in using taxpayers money for various things yeah I know it's difficult you have to face appraisals every five year (or any time in between if you and Prime minister are not so lucky soul) but what's wrong if one want to get into Indian Politics inc where should he start with? By picking up the daries after the jansabha is over? And keep doing that for may be next 20 year? neah people are not that patient, and chances are not available otherwise so what do we do ? we become indifferent yeah it hardly matter if it's our very own soft speaking sardarji at the raj-sinhasan or poet heart atalji if the tide turns and company decide that your fat ass is too big a load on the company balance sheet nothing can save you, you are of your own and so what's the point of expressing oneself on the election day what difference does it make if i am sleeping on election day (remember our friendly agar election ke din aap vote nahi karrahe hai to aap so rahe hai campaign), well I truly believed that we can do the change but this election were kind of eye opener to me the money the muscle and the political power that has become a prerequisite in india is hard to get and slowly but surely Indian politics will drift to the path shown by bollywood (as Omprakash majeetha AKA SRK realize in OSO, if you want to become superstar born in a filmy family, i don't like SRK but some time his fils do teach us a lot).

I witnessed a funny discussion today

Topic was the income tax and people around me were convinced that the amount they are paying as tax is nothing but a kind of ransom taken by government and reason? well they have to cough up almost 20 % of their hard earned money to govt for ;at least for them, no reason “dekho garib aadmi ko loot liya ” was one of many comment flying around and another one “jitna kai logo ka salary nahi hai utna to hamase tax le leti hai govt.” i really could not believe that this song of sadness is from people earning around a million rupees a year, they almost forget to see that we use all kind of national service’s like highways, defense and many other with this money. obviously and sadly we have to nourish our corrupt system caretakers as well (including political leadership, bureaucracy and inefficient work force of government) but isn't it help as well many a time ? most of us have used the corrupt system to get some kind of benefit and still we all blame it to system so easily. after all how many time we have tried to bribe a traffic hawaldar so that gross monetary loss is 20 bugs and not the stipulated 100 Rs. any way it was really appealing to see people mourning so heavily for 20 % loss in their income. none of them talk about the fact that 24 % of their country mate are below poverty line and still many more don't make that much (equal to their tax amount) of money working whole year or if i may say, working or searching for work whole year where we are heading to if people can’t pay 20 % of tax? strange but not entirely considering the fact that these were people who had no way to avoid tax (as many of other people do have in private sector, come on guys don't start that old gyan of inefficiency of govt employees accept that they are the most honest tax payers of country and reason is they don't have any option:) coz they don't have their entertainment allowance equal to 2500 % of their basic salary and many such really funny things to help them "optimize tax".

but still some of the point raised were really worth pondering, after all for a salaried person does it make sense to get all these heavy dose moral value’s injection only to get back to their home and see a businessman zipping along in his Honda city who is "garib" in govt. account because he don't have a form 16 to make sure that they cant lie about their income and hence they almost always earn less than 1 lack in a year (this help them to use most of the govt. facility, I can recall one of my batch mate coming in his car to collect the "lower income group scholarship" ) isn't its time to streamline the assessment of income for businessman's and farmers; oops did I call farmers oh my my they are sacred one the people who give us food and hence should not be even thought of being taxed but may I ask why ? a million is a million whether earn by an executive in an MNC or earn by a software engineer or be it bread and butter of our local grocery seller or a holy farmer in Punjab. But no farmers cant be taxed this is some thing said by lord Krishna in Geeta and due to some printing mistakes is not in your copy of the book but remember FARMERS CANT BE TAXED got it? good . and the consequences, well nothing much but this is the reason why many IAS and IPS officer become one of the most successful kisan of the nation once get to an malaidaar post and do the best of the dry cleaning for their money available in the town.

Dear Finance minister I think its time to get back to our tax net and widen it a bit more. it won’t help to keep tapping the corporate and form 16 forever.