Had been to Church gate and had observed the colour of the sea .. a thought came "Is the Arabian sea brownish in colour ? "..... the colour of water was unusually not blue .. is said that human activity has made the colour brownish .. but what i thought is that the colour of the sea represents the mix in culture of Mumbai .. Mumbai or as a whole a part of India is not for a part of people .. the mixing and the intermixing of diverse culture is what India is all about ... and if all the culture can intermix and live in complete harmony then it wont be a herculean effort to destroy all the evil communal and regional blues of our society and make them turn to one unified brown colour ....
No one can claim the colour of a particular area .... as it's for all and all have the share on it ... if we are all togther and think together then no Thackrey or no Osama can make us divide ... The brown colour of the Arabian sea says us live and love together ....... and feel the complete Indianness amongst all oriyas ,bengalis , madrasi , gujju etc and etc ...
Saturday, July 12, 2008
THE WEEKEND STORY ...
Of my two last weekends in Mumbai , I have been two Santacruz and Vasai road to meet my relatives .. As I communicated with them I found a really wonderful outcome .. people really looked forward to high inflation at the time ... do u know why ?
Having his own home is always in the basic dream of every man .. and having a home in Mumbai ... a really great one .. and this has really attributed in some highly exagerrated prices ... people are ready to pay 7500 for 1 sqft ... because the liquidity is high ..India is growing at high pace .. bank is paying easy loans and buiders are busy collecting money ...
What the high inflation will make sure is that the growth will face hurdles .. the liquidity will be temporaririly evaporated and the property prices will get a hit .. the reality can be checked in some of the areas where 5-6% downward journry has started ..
Now what that says is the old legend .. what must go up has to come down ...as nature has everything for our need and nothing for our greed .. then if our greed is not controlled by ourselves then it has to be brought down by nature itself ....
Having his own home is always in the basic dream of every man .. and having a home in Mumbai ... a really great one .. and this has really attributed in some highly exagerrated prices ... people are ready to pay 7500 for 1 sqft ... because the liquidity is high ..India is growing at high pace .. bank is paying easy loans and buiders are busy collecting money ...
What the high inflation will make sure is that the growth will face hurdles .. the liquidity will be temporaririly evaporated and the property prices will get a hit .. the reality can be checked in some of the areas where 5-6% downward journry has started ..
Now what that says is the old legend .. what must go up has to come down ...as nature has everything for our need and nothing for our greed .. then if our greed is not controlled by ourselves then it has to be brought down by nature itself ....
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
A sisyphean task ...
One more day of heavy rainfall .. and once more the chaos . be it the City of Joy or the Finance Capital .. the situation becomes more or less same ... The same breaking news of putting the blame on government .. Will there be any end to this ? .. Practically saying a big NO is the answer ..
If we just try to find the reason then we can know that we are the cause ..we never think while throwing our polythene on the road .. never care to take a bag to the market and never care to see if the drainage system in our locality is fine .. we take everything granted .. we think if we are paying the tax , governmnet should do all this (not like to say about who avaoid tax) ... we are happy to dine in a five star resturant in weekend .. and we are fine travelling to picnic spot and making it more dirtier .. our rivers are choking for our activities and we seem so ignorant ...
We have excuses for everything ..
I am also part of the system and I also do think like all of us .. But as long as I am not willing to change .the bedlam story of monsoon worries will continue ..
If we just try to find the reason then we can know that we are the cause ..we never think while throwing our polythene on the road .. never care to take a bag to the market and never care to see if the drainage system in our locality is fine .. we take everything granted .. we think if we are paying the tax , governmnet should do all this (not like to say about who avaoid tax) ... we are happy to dine in a five star resturant in weekend .. and we are fine travelling to picnic spot and making it more dirtier .. our rivers are choking for our activities and we seem so ignorant ...
We have excuses for everything ..
I am also part of the system and I also do think like all of us .. But as long as I am not willing to change .the bedlam story of monsoon worries will continue ..
Monday, June 30, 2008
We must be accountable
When India and US are trying to put the ball in each other's court for the current global crisis of high food prices and oil pices , surprisingly me ,an Indian thinks that India is responsible ... but not as US shows us .. in a different perspective ..
The simple law of economics says as demand increases supply should increase and if supply wouldn't increase then demand has to go down .. Now as the crude oil price goes on increasing , our government is tryin to shield us from the high price by providing us subsidy .. this subsidy is allowing to keep the demand high and as the supply is not increasing the price is rising .. due to ths subsidy RBI is trying to compensate this by priniting more paper money and hence too much money runnning for not so high products . putting the infaltion bug-bear in full throttle ...
US says India and China are responsible for food price increase as they are consuming much more because of their growth .. i am unable to find any base on this argumnet .. but I would say as India is playing its part in global price increase through hoading .. in order to curb inflation government has banned the export of food grain and thus the artificial hoarding is making the global food price high ...
think about this as the oil price is high the OPEC and oil rich countries are not willing to drill more oil and are also doing the same thing what India is doing for food ..
Hence for the "invsible hand" of economics to come true and make everything as usual we should make our market complete free .. a "laissez-faire " approach .. which will make all of us to become more responsible for what we are spending ..and doing .. and not make responsible government for everything .. austerity hence is the call ....
The simple law of economics says as demand increases supply should increase and if supply wouldn't increase then demand has to go down .. Now as the crude oil price goes on increasing , our government is tryin to shield us from the high price by providing us subsidy .. this subsidy is allowing to keep the demand high and as the supply is not increasing the price is rising .. due to ths subsidy RBI is trying to compensate this by priniting more paper money and hence too much money runnning for not so high products . putting the infaltion bug-bear in full throttle ...
US says India and China are responsible for food price increase as they are consuming much more because of their growth .. i am unable to find any base on this argumnet .. but I would say as India is playing its part in global price increase through hoading .. in order to curb inflation government has banned the export of food grain and thus the artificial hoarding is making the global food price high ...
think about this as the oil price is high the OPEC and oil rich countries are not willing to drill more oil and are also doing the same thing what India is doing for food ..
Hence for the "invsible hand" of economics to come true and make everything as usual we should make our market complete free .. a "laissez-faire " approach .. which will make all of us to become more responsible for what we are spending ..and doing .. and not make responsible government for everything .. austerity hence is the call ....
Saturday, June 28, 2008
From Mumbai .. Day three
For last two days I hav been travelling through the second class compartment of Mumbai Local ...ansd have been thinking what's making these people not feeling irritated and what's making them going on and on ... Sum will say we dont complain because if we will complain who will feed our family ... But the real answer .. I have got today .. on day three ..
As always I got into the second class compartment by pushing every other on my way to Churchgate .. Suddenly jai hanumaan sound was heard . i didnt try to figure out where it was coming as it would be a foolish attempt to do so .. Everyone in the compartment was singing and praying .. KIRTAN was going on .. Jai jagadish hare .. then Jai Hanuman gyan gun sagar . followed . everyone singing praising the lord ..
Bhaktton janoo ke sankat khana mein dur karoon .. om swami jai jagadish hare ..
this alone was able to life my mood also ..I was feeling rejuvenated .. my glucose level in my blood became high ... and I was no longer feeling the same .. dull and irritated ...
and after 15 minutes kirtan , the prasad was distributed in the compartment .. noone knew anyone .. but everyone was saying please take the "bhog" and was waiving their palm above them so that others could take a bit .. everyone was there for evryone . even though noone was there for anyone ..
This may not be the daily scene at the compartment .. but isnt this can be the tonic for the whole week ahead ?
SALAAM BOMBAY ....
As always I got into the second class compartment by pushing every other on my way to Churchgate .. Suddenly jai hanumaan sound was heard . i didnt try to figure out where it was coming as it would be a foolish attempt to do so .. Everyone in the compartment was singing and praying .. KIRTAN was going on .. Jai jagadish hare .. then Jai Hanuman gyan gun sagar . followed . everyone singing praising the lord ..
Bhaktton janoo ke sankat khana mein dur karoon .. om swami jai jagadish hare ..
this alone was able to life my mood also ..I was feeling rejuvenated .. my glucose level in my blood became high ... and I was no longer feeling the same .. dull and irritated ...
and after 15 minutes kirtan , the prasad was distributed in the compartment .. noone knew anyone .. but everyone was saying please take the "bhog" and was waiving their palm above them so that others could take a bit .. everyone was there for evryone . even though noone was there for anyone ..
This may not be the daily scene at the compartment .. but isnt this can be the tonic for the whole week ahead ?
SALAAM BOMBAY ....
Friday, June 27, 2008
Copy Paste Thoughts
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
:-
by Oliver Goldsmith
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
:-
by Oliver Goldsmith
From Mumbai ...Day one ...
I am writing this blog from Mumbai .. On my only 2 days in Mumbai , I am quite fed-up with the hectic life .. the rush for local train and the traffic.... While I was standing in the train one thought came to me .. the thought why Mumbai is like Mumbai and as the population will keep on increasing what will happen to Mumbai . can it sustain or explode ..
The solution to this problem may be to create more Mumbai at every corner of India .. As the unemployment ,corrupt politicians and bureacracy grappple rest of India , many part of India remain in darker side .. people from those parts migrate to Mumbai for greene pastures and Mumbai suffers . it's the greatness of Mumbaikars to make every alien a Mumbaikar and shower Spirit Of Mumbai ...
But it's for the betterment of Mumbai and whole India , we should learn from the Mumbaikars ..... how to create a plenty of Mumbais all over India with the same spirit ,same coherence of One Indianness among multiple diversity ... The 8%-9% growth story shouldn't be confined .. it should reach Kalahandi , Royalseema and rest part of India ..
The solution to this problem may be to create more Mumbai at every corner of India .. As the unemployment ,corrupt politicians and bureacracy grappple rest of India , many part of India remain in darker side .. people from those parts migrate to Mumbai for greene pastures and Mumbai suffers . it's the greatness of Mumbaikars to make every alien a Mumbaikar and shower Spirit Of Mumbai ...
But it's for the betterment of Mumbai and whole India , we should learn from the Mumbaikars ..... how to create a plenty of Mumbais all over India with the same spirit ,same coherence of One Indianness among multiple diversity ... The 8%-9% growth story shouldn't be confined .. it should reach Kalahandi , Royalseema and rest part of India ..
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