Year 2020

 The Earth has rotated the Sun in full
 The season has changed from cold to cool
 The time has passed and went into the past
 Some moments cherished many forgotten
 Here comes the New Year, draped in wool.

 A new decade, many resolutions
 At the brink today of exciting future
 The last tenner was the continuum
 Of realization and liberation
 May time bless this child of ten
 To bring the meaning of being with Earth.

Paradox of speed of light

The speed of light in vaccum, a constant and an absolute entity. It can be called a derivative of space and time which breaks its own narrative. A beautiful symphony and an absolute silence. It is paradox of paradoxes.

The light travels at ultimate speed. If something wants to achieves this speed, nature bends itself to safeguard this principle law it wrote. Space compensates by shrinking itself to keep the law intact.
By Einstien's special theory of relativity if any particle achieves speed of light, space compensates by shrinking itself as a dot, i.e. space reduces itself to perfect zero. So for any particle at speed of light, universe becomes non existent, and since space is reduced to '0', time also loses its meaning in that frame of reference as ceases to be '0'.

Lets forget about mathematics of above deduction and think about just the non existent universe at speed of light.

My Political Viewpoint From 1996 To 2014.

I still remember the day, I had to get up early to go to my school, but that day I had one additional thing to do. I turned on the TV and there was Atal Bihari Vajpayee talking on possible invite from President for attempt to form government in center.
I was at Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, that time, studying in class V at Maharishi Vidya Mandir. That school made us to inculcate certain values, which I had not seen in schools before that and after that. But I think news reading is one of the common things that most of schools ask their students to do. I think, that this news gathering from Doodarshan breakfast news program and Times of India morning edition, inculcated my interest in current affairs and politics.
That government lasted thirteen days before Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee making an emotional address in parliament and putting his resignation due to failure of test of majority. I was in Nainital that day at my fathers' friends' place, and was watching this proceeding live. I was not in the grasp of the exact situation but picked some sense from the talks of adults in the room. What struck me that day, was eloquence of Shri Atal Bihari, his style, the glare on his face and the hidden pain in his voice  still mesmerizes me. I mark that day as my formal day on interest in politics but informal introduction dates further back to Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh as his short name and my short name ( VP Singh ) are same.
The Atal government was gone, and all other national parties were in huddle. I was looking into newspapers with some interest and was also trying to interpret the articles and columns to find out speculations. I still remember how Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav were in news, how there was a news that carved out Jyoti Basu as a consensus name from that huddle. Finally out of nowhere HD Deve Gowda was declared as consensus prime minister, there was Doordarshan news  program that night showing a little background and his native village. It was however known to all, including my little sense that the fate of that government was written on day of swearing itself.
When I think of that time I still find it very hard to believe that I started having interest in the system by that age, I think maybe it was audacity of press or the restlessness of the society on many issues or either being from a state that is the epicenter of Indian political system.
When i try to remember about the Deve Gowda government, I fail to recall anything that had any historical value in the sense. However the things that I can recall are the one that have comic value in it. The way his long name was, had some entertainment value for north indian people, and the excerpts in news that how he used to sleep on podiums and political stages. I also recall reading in India Today how he was not so bothered about security and even told his security staff that he needs not be cared as Rajiv Gandhi was cared before. My little mind was not able to capture any other vivid memory of that time, apart from these nuances.
Deve Gowda had to go as Congress did not liked him, maybe a ploy by then Congress president Sitaram Kesari to rise himself to the supreme position. Again a political war broke out and Indra Kumar Gujral emerged out as a consensus candidate from the United Front fold. I do not remember any golden legacies that he left during his tenure. Hindi vernaculars coined "bakra dadhi" for his french cut beard, bad names do have longer shelf life. Indra Kumar Gujral was last prime minister from Janata Dal Parivar, circumstances led the downfall of his government. Jain commission completed the inquiry in Rajiv Gandhi assignation case and allegedly alleged role of Tamil heavyweight DMK in the ruling coalition. Congress had it chance to withdraw support, which it did and snap polls were called.
Year of 1998 was the pivot of change in Indian politics. Indian democracy since inception was running on socialist and a hint of communist political ideologue. The power produced monarchs in our democracy and monarchs promoted corruption corruption to ensure power remains with them. United Front government posed presidential rule by using article 356 ousting BJP government of Kalyan Singh. BJP cadres were buoyant with the oppression and they considered United Front government as illegitimate and a nexus rather than a coalition. This was a shared sentiment with masses of north India. The change was on the horizon.
Indian politics had for long worked on socialist principle where state owned industries and business. I agree with adoption of socialist and left of center politics in first 20 years since independence, after that socialist principle just hindered the growth, made people dependent on doles and subsidies. The wealth in society was not growing rapidly giving fewer margins for reinvestment and development, more or less Indian society was living hand to mouth. The Idea of Janta Dal by Jai Prakash Narayan gave new hope and people thought that it will a fresh air. Janta Dal was also founded on socialist principles and by renaming a process one cannot change the outcome. The Janta Dal fell flat on the promise of "samajvaad", and samajvaad just become a term and an idea, which just scratched the surface of Indian society in terms of good, but created problems which were long lasting then goods its delivered. Samjavaad produced political stalwarts like Lalu, Mulayam and others which drove the Samajavaad deep into caste politics and centralized the power of state politics in hands of few and their families. These forces were however rampant those days not as weak as today. Socialism produced a farce democracy, socialism claim that power is decentralized and remains with people, but the means of power, the wealth is controlled by State. This wealth gave rise to feudal, monarch culture and created a vicious cycle of power to wealth and wealth to power over time. The result was rise of feudal characters, centralization of power, muscleman, nepotism and corruption as these tools ensured the successful run of the vicious cycle. The Indian democracy was now rearing for change from left of center to right of center.
Cable TV made big progress into middle class providing a fresh line of information which was not state controlled but moved with sentiment of people and was market driven. The unfiltered and fast information was reaching to people, the aspirations of the society were slowly climbing. Earlier information was broadcasted via state run Prasar Bharti, and thus the government. The era of open television debates and interviews was picking up. News hungry society created demand and competition that no one can one handedly control. The Indian society was on the path of citizenship rather than being subject of the state.  
The election of 1998 gave the final right wing chase, the idea that had inception from the time of Jan Sangh. The next 6 years saw what that did not happened before. Atal Ji had become prime minister for the second time and BJP bettered its tally from the last time. This was again a coalition government, and was full of truckloads of expectations and ambitions of regional parties. Sonia Gandhi ousted Sitaram Kesrai from Congress top post and was in rein of things. Sinister political game were underway and Jaylalita took the support from BJP government after some secret deal with Sonia Gandhi. The government fell in 13 months bettering its previous score of 13 days.
However this was remarkable time in Indian history. After a long time India dared to perform nuclear test, putting India back into global arena more strongly. There was overall a sense of pride in people and assurance that this government is not afraid to take strong decisions. Many political and trade scansions were imposed on India by USA, but India sailed through them well. Meantime Pakistan also performed its nuclear test, putting the hot region into more simmering position. However this gave India a new confidence. Atal Ji had a dream of lasting peace with Pakistan. Both countries developed their nationalism over territorial dispute over Kashmir for long time. This issue was used on both sides as a passion inflator by politicians, and ultra nationalist ideologue developed due to this primarily, along with many other issues. Pakistan long used Kashmir issue to not only develop international alliances (which others did with Pakistan for their vested interest in cold war era), but as a tool of their foreign and military policy. They bread non state actors which with time become non obedient and challenge to state itself, Kashmir issue has become two edged sword, one cutting on Indian side by promoting terrorism not only in Kashmir but pan India and one cutting throat of democratic process on Pakistan by introducing political instability and weakening of civilian government against military might and non state actors supported by later. Over time Kashmir issue did become a challenge which ran into unsolvable state, a tough riddle with layers of challenges. Atal ji knew that this problem can only be solved over time when the passion on both side will wane, but alas time not remains same and change is the order of nature. Kashmir issue needs long civilian governments in Pakistan and doing real development for people so that people have something else to work upon rather then worrying for food and Kashmir. Poor people are more gullible due to lack of education and less opportunities to engage with. So what a statesman like Atal ji can do, he thought of an idea of people to people contact,  which if bread over long time will align the aspirations and the issue which looks humungous can become irrelevant with time. Atal ji started Lahore bus program and himself took first bus to Lahore and to be greeted there by none other then Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The world saw this gesture and praises were everywhere, but wheel of time turned again.
The military coup in Pakistan due to developments in Kargil, caused exit of Nawaz Sharif. The Kargil ploy orchestrated by Pakistan military headed by Parvez Musharaff, to again draw world's attention to Kashmir, may be he feared too much goodies with civilian governments on both side may push Kashmir onto back burner. Indian army fought fierce and controlled battle with terrorists supported by Pakistan army. This was not a full blown war, but much trust was lost then was ever built with Lahore bus initiative. This incident went down into history as a betrayal. The trust that was lost that time, still remains in oblivion.
Other important initiative that was taken by Atal Ji was the road project. Golden quadrilateral, Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojna were started with a far reaching vision. This project was a key economic driver for many industries for long time, by creating substantial demands and generating employment. Road and Rails are the veins of development of a nation, if government creates or enables mechanism for creation of roads and rail services, I will say that government works on the principle of development. The indian socialism driven governance model created several institutions in past, they ensured several mechanism for public good in form of doles, reservations, entitlements which were required for young nation, but now were stretched. Narshima Rao government took courage to correct the industry problem and Atal government was taking the second step, providing ground infrastructure to industry and people for a sustained growth.

--To Be Continued --
  

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What will happen when economic depression will hit india.

We are nowadays regularly talking about an economic crisis in our country, the falling rupee, the failed investor romance and policy paralysis.
Things are certainly bad if not worst right now. The utterances from political, industry classes are also not helping our cause. It certainly feels like a failed romance, where you have disbelief in everything the other do, in wake of trying help. Sometimes this help is wrapped in illogical and seemingly foolish ideas.
With the wake of political condition on our country, where political future is at large uncertain. The muddy water is made more and murkier with every passing day. Allegations, cross-allegations, paid media, survey reports are adding to chaos every day. This is causing the butterfly effect, where every cause is driving exponential effect. The effect can be measured on several quantitative parameters apart from qualitative parameters. Inflation, GDP etc are there are mirrors which show the condition of physical economy of a nation, but the common people on streets, the concerns they talk about, their hopes shows the physic condition of a country. A person with a weak body and good physic condition can do better, and is better than a person with a strong body and weak mental abilities. If I extend this analogy then today our country is with a medium strength body laced with several diseases and very weak mental abilities.  And the situation is getting bad by every passing day. The drugs that we are providing to this ailing stature are also medieval age, the drugs that shown an adverse effect in the known history.
When economy cripples in a nation that has the substantial population under poverty, nations responsibility is to provide jobs to people. Infrastructure investment is one way to guarantee such jobs. These jobs should be constructive in nature and tied to a bigger mission where monitoring is possible. Government sponsored jobs through NREGA have paved a way for corruption and sucked the manpower from rural economy. This is causing an adverse effect on medium farmers who do not get required manpower when they need it. Majority people do not want to toil if they can get easy money from corrupt practices. Rajeev Gandhi said that government spends a rupee and people only get ten paisa from it, so its time to minimize outflow of funds in name of corrupt social security net, and make people work for their bread. The system of freebies needs to be tightly controlled and should be made available to one who really needs it. The definition of needy is tough for politicians to define, but people of the country already know that who is eligible for freebies and subsidies.
So we started with the topic of what if depression hits India, however, I do not see any such chance in near future. Depression comes when there is a curfew like condition on the roads of prosperity. The monetary transactions go down considerably and people start thinking about very basics necessities of life.
Once this happens it will erode away the shine of the vessel of the economy and will open the unprotected walls against harsh environments to rust upon. People will invest less and less in commodities like house, automobiles, electronics and all other things which fall under nonnecessary categories. A large part of city dwelling population which is dependent upon these pillars of the economy will face the worst situation. The job loss will be reciprocal and spread in no time. It looks like a doomsday figure just like an excerpt from some Hollywood movie, but it's possible and it happened before too. Agriculture is the core engine of the world economy, all other jobs are created over the layer of agriculture, and over the period of time, this engine created several economic engines in the shape of manufacturing, construction, services, information technology and many others. These other sectors are the sectors which laid the foundation of the modern world, our life revolves around them and they depend finally on agriculture. Now let's talk upon the problem, that is agriculture can generate food but not enough money, and to feed all other engines we need that extra money. This extra money is generated in mines, the manufacturing  sector, energy sector and then is distributed with the help of services, entertainment like sectors to other section of masses. This depression causes blocks on this very road of development. This is the road which carries a maximum of aspirations and milestones by which qualitative parameters could be measured. It feels like a cholesterol blockage in arteries resulting hemorrhage and heart attacks. So given this context, it could be very well said that following may happen if Indian economy enters this dark area.
1. Failing of top-tier economic sector sectors of services and entertainment. Loss of direct and indirect jobs in this sector will push people to move to other tiers of the economy. This will cause demand supply crunch on other tiers.
2. Will come fall in the lower tier of the economy like private sector construction due to rise in inflation and abetment of liquidity due to rising bank loan rates. This will also cause migration of labor to next tiers.
3. Sectors of manufacturing will cripple due to dropping demands as result of job loss in above sectors.
4. Sectors of FMCG will also see the downside because of declining demand from above sectors.
5. The investment will cripple causing a reciprocal cyclic channel of fiscal crisis.
6. The purchasing power of currency will erode away with the rising inflation. Resources will go scare due to lack of production causing a social crisis. Theft, dacoity, corruption will rise steadily. Law and order will get paralyzed.

These are some of the many problems, the list is very long. This is my thought, but I strongly believe that it is not impossible, if we do not have right people, at the right place and at right time.