Proud To Pawn 'Draupaties'!

The government of India has always stood for 'the pawnning of Draupathies' by which
the Yudhishtiras can get a hard kick in the stomach from those who accept this pledge!
This is how the governments have been running the financial things all these years!
This is how the banks and financial institutions and money lenders were "forced"
to lend by the finance ministry all these decades since our Indipendence!

The respective governments and finance ministers all these years have not done anything
to stop this as all the financial institutions, including banks, have been asking
those who are in need of money, to put their mothers, sisters or wives as guarantees or
guarantours for the amount they take as loans from these financial institutions,
most of the times at inexorbitant interest rates! And millions of people have already
pledged or pawnned "their Draupathies" and millions are waiting to have thier turn!

It is great that all the governments we had since our liberation from the foreign rule
in 1947, have taken a great leaf out of the great book Mahabaratha, that everyone in India
can have their own "Mahabaratha Yudh" as and when they pawn "their Draupathies" and lose
badly, as the present day "Yudhishtiras" can never afford any other one of the Pandavas
or a Krishna to fight in "the great battle of Kurukshetra" they fight in their lives!

One of the great advantages the modern day Yudhishtiras have is that they get plenty of
opportunities to 'Pawn Their Draupathies" as the original Yudhistira had only one chance
to pawn 'His Draupathi"! Let us thank the governments which made it possible for
the modern day Indians/Yudhishtiras to pawn "their Draupathies" a million times! The governments should be saluted as the financial systems of the developed world, which we assiduously follow, dont have this sort of a great opportunity infused into them for the people who take loans from their financial institutions; and they pay low interest rates too! But, dont ever think about an Indian "pawnning his Draupathy" at lesser interest rates! It's a shame to him to "pawn his Draupathy" at lesser interest rates, as for him, "Bharat Nari" is to be considered Goddess, according to 'Our Great Indian Tradition', and in India Gods and Godesses are never cheap!

And, hence, in thousands of places these godesses are giving thier thumb impressions and signatures on the stamp papers to get themseleves "pawnned" and thousands of these godesses are waiting in wings to grab this great opportunity of turning themselves into "Draupathies" that they can serve "their Yudhishtiras"!

Foot Note: In the Indian Epic 'Mahabaratha', all the troubles started when the eldest of the Pandavas, Yudishtra, pawned and lost his (and other four Pandavas') wife Draupati to the eldest of the Kauravas, Duryodhan, in a Royal Game of Gamble!

The Media Bullshitting!

1) The much trumpeted – all over the media- price hike in the motor vehicle space- four wheeler- never took place. Media asked people to ‘BUY’ vehicles before the last day of December 2007, as they were cent percent sure about the impending price hike!

2) Another much trumpeted ‘Home Loan Interest Lowering’ never came into being;
media this time gave a lot of ‘Basis Point’ reduction & all sort of statistics to make the home loan taker smile for a very short while!

3) Despite the hype & the media trumpeted publicity of the strong fundamentals & all of the Indian Economy & Growth, the Sensex crashed to make thousands of paupers.

4) The people who believed media reports- as they don’t have any other source of information!?!-that depicted a very rosy picture of the sound Indian Economy & the ‘Projected Image’ of the Companies, over subscribed heavily over priced public issues of “The Golden Companies Prescribed by The Fourth Estate” to find themselves in the gutter just a couple of weeks after they subscribed to these public offers.

5) When “the people in the know- media” ‘Projected’ results of the polls in Gujarat the common man trusted them to be fooled again by “The Very Surprising Results!’ And now we have the same with the Karnataka Poll Analysis & Projections!!!

6) When the media stated in VERY BIG letters that ‘Sawariya’ will be the NEXT BIG THING people believed it to see it bombing in the box office in a couple of days. These sort of 'Targetting People' without having anything to back the said/stated things at all, has beed a fad in the Fourth Estate for quite a long while now!

These sort of things have been happening for decades now.....The media always ‘supported, projected, favoured, highlighted, glorified, beatified and did whatever they wished to do’ only for those who paid them, backed them in situations, had enough power and money to do whatever they wished to do, had given them patronage, had the same outlook in any situation etc.Media, most of the times never stood with the common man; because, as the fourth estate pretty well knows, the common man can be and should be taken for granted and he will never be in a position to pay or back the media. Hence, media channels are mushrooming and more ‘Projections, Special Reports, Exclusive Editions & the like things’ are coming in hoards!

THE 'BIRTH' OF THE MODERN DAY SCRIBE!

The standard of modern day reporting/jounalism has come down to such a lowthat the word has lost the real meaning of it! Now a days anyone can be a reporter or a special reporter as there are no criterion or criteria to be a reporter or journalist.To become a journalist or news reporter, what is required is some sort of qualityless diploma or degree or anything in journalism- even if you havent any you still can become a journalist provided youhave the proper sort of connections- and some sort of brazenness or arrogance that will fetch you good marks as far as a job in the journalism field is concerned!

One, for a starting, will be asked to write/report about something that is of lesser significance, as 'important' work will be assigned 'only' to trusted and proven reporters! One starts out to prove a point or two, reading some write ups or articles and related things from some low class magazines, weeklies etc. or some reports based on 'nothingness' or someinternet gossip on the subject. He askes some questions to someone whom he thinks very related to the subject he is 'working on'! Despite analysing- for that one needsa lot of accurate data and enough sense- all the 'gathered' pieces of 'false and half baked information' he embarks on the great voyage of article writing! He writes it and getsit published in the news paper or magazine or whatsoever he is paid to work for!

The next time anything even distantly related to the subject he has written comes to a point of being written about he is asked to do the job and in time anything or everything related or 'unrelated' to the subject he has written for the first timewill have a 'piece of opinion' from him. He will be trumpeted as the master of that particular subject or topic or a couple of other 'related or unrelated topics' that he becomes an integral part of any symposium, seminar, workshop, debate,talk show related or unrelated to the subject he has written for the first time and a 'great' contributor to the caucuses or pressure groups etc. He is always 'invited' to 'analyse' any given situation and makes his 'educated' predictions and suggestions and remarks that the 'ordinary' people get the 'clear' picture of the things existing and feel elated!

As he has become 'really important' because of 'the great research work' he has done in any field of journalism and 'the expertise' he has gathered over timehe should show a little bit of arrogance and 'never learn' anything substantial in any field or subject, as he 'is capable of' speaking, talking and writing off handon anything or everything under the Sun! He should be 'boot lickingly loyal' to his paymasters and whatever he writes should be perfect fit for the 'small circle of freedom'he has in 'his news producing organisation!' He should 'never ever' focus on 'the real' problems and issues and should always focus his attention on 'microscopic foolishnessand stupidity' of any insignificant topic and 'Himalayanise' them, writing volumes about them! And he should always act extremely busy that no one should takehim for granted! He should write whatever he 'feels' is right and should 'never' go into any subject deep, that he should know only 'skin deep'! And, he should assume the importance and significance of the Almighty that people should think 'only' what he tells is right and nothing else is, even if, most of the times he does notknow what he is talking about, and try to become a talk show or news hour hostof a TV channel! And the great 'Modern Day Scribe' is born!

Catch 22 Situations! Catch If You Can!!!

1)When a mobile phone company dupes people by selling sub standard handsets with poor quality batteries,at hefty prices nobody is bothered!

2)When antivirus companies sell products which never effectively prevent damages, for premium prices, noone is worried!

3)When doctors cure patients "for the time being" and make the patient come back again and again for the same ailment he or she went for the treatment in the first place, nobody is held responsible!

4)When the auto man charges you double for the only mistake you did that you called him and argues and shouts at you even after getting double than what is due, no living thing is upset!

5)When the courier man returns a parcel saying a particular person "can not be found", after calling the concrned person over the phone and telling him that he would be coming to his house in an hour's time, no question is asked!

6)When a regular postman fails to deliver letters and parcels and keeps all those things with him in the office, only because he has a VERY BIG Ego to satisfy, he pretty well gets his monthly salary and no one is troubled!

7)When chain stores sell cheap & sub standard products, labelling them as "50 or 75% discounted" and squeez the customers by charging "Only" 50 or 75% of a heavily & stealthly over priced products, no one is disturbed or enraged!

8)When a vehicle which is "projected to" provide excellent kilometers fail miserably to reach somewhere near the projected kilometer mark, no question is asked or no complaint lounged!

9)When thousands come out of educational institutions, which are the founding stones of any country, inefficient, sub standard, qualitatively dumb, intelligently poor, subject wise or educationally nowhere, personally stunted and completly misfit for the society, no one is agitated!

10)When politicians stupidly try to lead from behind and spoil billions of tax payers money by stupidly dealing with any situation given, no politician is held responsible and no one is complaining!

11)When media "market" only those products and ideas and companies which pay them heavily and when the buyer or consumer or customer is taken for a ride most of the times, no human being is complaining!

12)When duplicate/grey market grows phenomenonlly just under the nose of those who are there and paid to curb these sort of activities, no thinking animal is taken aback!

13)When prices are hiked in the name of farmers' benifits and all and they never get anything out of the price hike, no one is raising questions in the respective forums, which are "constituted just to raise questions"!

14)When even an average earner is taxed through his/her nose, barely giving him/her a chance to have asset in his/her life time, no financial pundit is writting volumes about this and no one is burning effigies!

15)When "institutionalised exploitation" has become/is the order of the day and even those up there, who are there only for preventing these sort of cruelty from happening, walk hand in hand with the perpetrators, no 'super thinker' is protesting!

16)When Indian Credit Card Users shell out around 40% interest on the amount spent on their credit card when in the developed world people give away only around 20%, no financial expert is tensed or troubled!

17)When banks arbitrarily raise the interest rates even on the loans taken years ago on fixed terms, citing some technical reasons, burning BIG HOLES on people's pockets, no finance minister appeares to save them from the bolt from the skies;and it is to be remembered that no one comes proclaiming reduction in fixed interest rates when the interest rates go below the interest rates at which the loan is taken! And there are no protests!

18)When pestisides are found in the 'much popularised' multinational soft drinks and children go all out for them due to the super stars' suggesting and recommending them in no uncertain terms and languages all over the media, no social worker loses sleep over it!

19)When "the killer industry of tobacco" burns millions of lives into ashes, trumpeting the taxes the coffers get from it, no one is there to say 'No' to such foolish propaganda, and ofcourse not a single human right activist is worried to the point of going on even a single day hunger strike!

20)When vehicle owners are forced to pay heavy road taxes only to get themselves hurt travelling on the pot holed, unsymetrical, poor quality, vehicle damaging bad roads, no one is raising a storm over it!

21)When insurance companies conjure up new tricks and traps as a group to queez the customer and make him pay the maximum and give him the least, stating everything in undecipherable way and language, no thinking eye brows are raised and no complaint is registered!

22)When in a country, where safe guards for its citizens are not in place and the loopholes in the system are more than the holes fixed, where anti monopolistic, anti competitive, anti ethical legal structures are not in place to prevent the exploitation of people/customers in an effective manner/way, people are exposed to the system of the developed countries where all these protective systems are in place, no great lover of humanity or statesman of integrity is disturbed or mentally agitated to call a spade a spade!

My Thoughts Compiled!

I feel, whenever and where ever there is Real & Quality Human Thought, there lives The Real Human Being, who lives The Life as it should be lived! But, for the Quality Thought to arrive there should be floods of information that is basically correct and there should be people ready to share and discuss the pieces of information gathered and passed over!

Only then we would be able to expand the frontiers of our minds and make our minds in such a way that we get, share, talk about and spread Quality Thought that we live a life with purpose and as it should be lived.

We, then, would share what we gather as facts and make other people think over these facts and reach a point where from its only Real & Quality Thought all should have. We have to talk and share about what is there in one's life that we can have Real Thought in all the fileds of Life that we live Life as it should be lived!