Monday, November 07, 2005
Reservations to minorities in INDIA (Andhra Pradesh)
This blog is to present my view on Reservations to (Religious) Minorities in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh introduced by Government. In this blog I am going to talk about.
Is it justified to have reservations on communal basis?
What good does this do for the people who really in need?
The motives of Government in introducing reservations?
The reservations make sense if it helps in the development of people who are at disadvantegous position. Does people of minority religion are at disadvantage just because of their religion? Is there anything in this country that puts minorities in disadvantegous position? The simple answer is no, then what the heck in this world justifies reservations on communal basis? Giving reservations to miniorities gives unfair advantage to them.
The reason given by political parties for reservation was miniorities are poor and they are lagging behind in all the fields. Does reservation solve the problem what they are talking about? No it is not going to solve the problem, previleged people (who can afford better education) in the community benefits more than people who really in need. If some one is really trying to change this they should concentrate on the root cause.
The root cause of the issue is unawareness or may be people are aware but not willing to do right thing as it is against the religious faith. Some people preaches that having more number of kids is required according to their religion and lot of people follow that. The end result is more and more poverty in the families already suffering with poverty. If a family is in the low income class and if they have more kids how can they afford better education to every one? How can they provide resources what they need to be successful in life? I have friends whose families are in same income level as mine, they only disadvantage they have is number of people in the family. Because of family conditions they couldn't able to pursue higher education where as I could. They have right to have as many kids as they want but one can't blame the system for this. People need to make decisions in the best interests of their families, reservations are not going to solve the problem.
The government's decision about reservation is just political, they are just trying to extract the votes of minorities nothing more than that. All the political parties who are talking about reservations and not talking anything about the root cause and they make some funny comments (those comments are so pathetic it make me cry to see what kind of leaders we have).
I appreciate the High court decision on reservations for Minorities in Andhra. It makes more sense to provide reservation based on the economic conditions of their families rather than on some meaningless grounds like religion.
Dear politicians think what you are doing, it is just not votes all the time. Where as every one looking to go forward, policies like this take us one step back. I beg you to concentrate on the root cause of the problems and address them, don't make the problems more complicated by making some stupid decisions like this.
Is it justified to have reservations on communal basis?
What good does this do for the people who really in need?
The motives of Government in introducing reservations?
The reservations make sense if it helps in the development of people who are at disadvantegous position. Does people of minority religion are at disadvantage just because of their religion? Is there anything in this country that puts minorities in disadvantegous position? The simple answer is no, then what the heck in this world justifies reservations on communal basis? Giving reservations to miniorities gives unfair advantage to them.
The reason given by political parties for reservation was miniorities are poor and they are lagging behind in all the fields. Does reservation solve the problem what they are talking about? No it is not going to solve the problem, previleged people (who can afford better education) in the community benefits more than people who really in need. If some one is really trying to change this they should concentrate on the root cause.
The root cause of the issue is unawareness or may be people are aware but not willing to do right thing as it is against the religious faith. Some people preaches that having more number of kids is required according to their religion and lot of people follow that. The end result is more and more poverty in the families already suffering with poverty. If a family is in the low income class and if they have more kids how can they afford better education to every one? How can they provide resources what they need to be successful in life? I have friends whose families are in same income level as mine, they only disadvantage they have is number of people in the family. Because of family conditions they couldn't able to pursue higher education where as I could. They have right to have as many kids as they want but one can't blame the system for this. People need to make decisions in the best interests of their families, reservations are not going to solve the problem.
The government's decision about reservation is just political, they are just trying to extract the votes of minorities nothing more than that. All the political parties who are talking about reservations and not talking anything about the root cause and they make some funny comments (those comments are so pathetic it make me cry to see what kind of leaders we have).
I appreciate the High court decision on reservations for Minorities in Andhra. It makes more sense to provide reservation based on the economic conditions of their families rather than on some meaningless grounds like religion.
Dear politicians think what you are doing, it is just not votes all the time. Where as every one looking to go forward, policies like this take us one step back. I beg you to concentrate on the root cause of the problems and address them, don't make the problems more complicated by making some stupid decisions like this.
Monday, October 31, 2005
What India is doing to prevent terrorism?
What India is doing to prevent terrorism? The simple answer (in my opinion) is not much, even if there is any effort that is very ineffective. These political leaders suck, I think most of them don't even know what they are doing.
Where is the plan to prevent terrorism? (These policy makers are busy in keeping their seats ... it is hard for them to find time to do anything)
What actions did government took to prevent this from happening again? (They announce some compensation to the victim's families and talk something and in the end do nothing)
Why can't we learn from Other countries like USA? (Our leaders can learn how to become more corrupt, I don't think they are ready to learn good things from others)
How long this country should bleed like this? (Unless this political system or policy makers transform completely, I didn't see any hope) There is one more hope, may be GOD can save us from this.
I am not an expert, but Read this article in WSJ about Terrorism in India. That explains better about the state of our Government efforts.
India on the Frontline
By BRAHMA CHELLANEY
October 31, 2005; Page A17
The Indian capital has faced several major acts of terror since the 1980s, but the serial bombings targeting festival shoppers over the weekend were the deadliest yet, leaving at least 61 dead. Yet India is responding typically to the latest horror -- with brave words that can do little to hide its lack of both a coherent counter- terrorism strategy and the political will to go beyond mere reprobation.
The latest bombings -- crude in their indiscriminate targeting of civilians and sophisticated in their synchronization -- were carried out at the start of Diwali, the country's main festival holiday, to maximize the effect. Although an obscure underground Kashmir outfit has claimed responsibility, there is widespread suspicion that the attacks were masterminded by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based, al Qaeda-linked group labeled a terrorist organization by India and the United States. The attacks occurred on the same day that a New Delhi court had been scheduled to sentence six convicted Pakistani members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and their Indian associates for involvement in a previous terrorist attack.
[Manmohan Singh]
The bombers have driven home a political message: India, despite its rising international profile, is powerless to stop terror attacks. By audaciously carrying out bombings right under the nose of the Indian government, the terrorists may also be seeking to rattle foreign investors and undermine India's booming economy. The bombings also have the potential to undercut the credibility of the bureaucrat-turned-prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and constrict his leeway in the ongoing peace process with Pakistan.
Mr. Singh is the latest in a succession of weak, aging prime ministers whose absence of decisive leadership over the years has resulted in the failure to formulate a prudent counterterror strategy backed by firm resolve. Increasingly, terrorism has been treated as a law-and-order issue requiring more policing. To regard terrorism as a law-and-order problem is to do what the terrorists want -- to sap your strength. No amount of security can stop terrorism if the nation is reluctant to go after terrorist cells and networks and those that harbor extremists.
The Indian and U.S. responses to terrorism are a study in contrast. No Americans have been killed by terrorists in the United States since 9/11 because the U.S. military has gone after terrorists overseas. India, in contrast, has suffered its biggest terrorist strikes since 9/11, including attacks on the national Parliament, the Kashmir legislature, the 17th-century Red Fort, three major Hindu temples and several military camps.
Every time India is tested by terror, it characteristically responds by talking tough but doing nothing. New methodology employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Terrorism Analysis shows India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of terrorist incidents.
India has become such a happy hunting ground for terrorists that several major acts of international terror have first been tried out against Indian targets before being replicated in Western democracies. They include attacks on symbols of state authority, midair bombing of a commercial jetliner and coordinated strikes on a city transportation system. In using India as a laboratory, the jihadists have been guided by the logic that if the world's largest democracy can be shaken, so can others.
For instance, the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, replicated the midair bombing over the Atlantic of an Air India commercial flight from Canada in 1985. The same Air India bombing technique was also used in the Libyan-orchestrated attack on a UTA jetliner in 1989, which blew up in midair over the Sahara.
The 1993 Bombay bombings, which targeted India's financial institutions and left hundreds dead, have served as a model act of mass terror to international jihadists. The Bombay bombings, according to Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, were "eerily similar in modus operandi and targets to 9/11 in their synchronized, serial character and targeting of state and economic symbols."
Parallels have also emerged between the 1999 hijacking to Kandahar, Afghanistan, of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and the 9/11 hijackings, including the similar use of box-cutters and the terrorists' knowledge of cockpit systems. Long before the London and Madrid bombings, terrorists had staged coordinated attacks on city trains and buses in India.
Transnational terrorists see India as an easy target because it imposes no costs on them and their sponsors. If any state strikes deals with terrorists, it not only promotes stepped-up terrorism against its own interests but also creates problems for other nations.
A classic case was India's ignominious surrender, on Dec. 31, 1999, to the demands of hijackers holding passengers aboard an Indian commercial jetliner at Kandahar in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In a surrender unparalleled in modern world history, Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh personally chaperoned three jailed terrorists to freedom in a special aircraft. One of the freed terrorists, Ahmed Omar Sheik -- a British citizen of Pakistani descent -- went on to help finance the 9/11 attacks.
For India, the chickens dramatically came home to roost when evidence on the December 2001 attack on parliament revealed the involvement of one of the terrorists hand-delivered in Kandahar -- Masood Azhar, who had formed the Jaish-e-Muhammad group in Pakistan.
What India needs is a concerted, sustained campaign against the forces of terror. But what Prime Minister Singh has offered are only words to comfort the nation. If India fails its latest test, it will only be a matter of time before the terrorists strike again at a place and time of their choice.
Where is the plan to prevent terrorism? (These policy makers are busy in keeping their seats ... it is hard for them to find time to do anything)
What actions did government took to prevent this from happening again? (They announce some compensation to the victim's families and talk something and in the end do nothing)
Why can't we learn from Other countries like USA? (Our leaders can learn how to become more corrupt, I don't think they are ready to learn good things from others)
How long this country should bleed like this? (Unless this political system or policy makers transform completely, I didn't see any hope) There is one more hope, may be GOD can save us from this.
I am not an expert, but Read this article in WSJ about Terrorism in India. That explains better about the state of our Government efforts.
India on the Frontline
By BRAHMA CHELLANEY
October 31, 2005; Page A17
The Indian capital has faced several major acts of terror since the 1980s, but the serial bombings targeting festival shoppers over the weekend were the deadliest yet, leaving at least 61 dead. Yet India is responding typically to the latest horror -- with brave words that can do little to hide its lack of both a coherent counter- terrorism strategy and the political will to go beyond mere reprobation.
The latest bombings -- crude in their indiscriminate targeting of civilians and sophisticated in their synchronization -- were carried out at the start of Diwali, the country's main festival holiday, to maximize the effect. Although an obscure underground Kashmir outfit has claimed responsibility, there is widespread suspicion that the attacks were masterminded by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based, al Qaeda-linked group labeled a terrorist organization by India and the United States. The attacks occurred on the same day that a New Delhi court had been scheduled to sentence six convicted Pakistani members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and their Indian associates for involvement in a previous terrorist attack.
[Manmohan Singh]
The bombers have driven home a political message: India, despite its rising international profile, is powerless to stop terror attacks. By audaciously carrying out bombings right under the nose of the Indian government, the terrorists may also be seeking to rattle foreign investors and undermine India's booming economy. The bombings also have the potential to undercut the credibility of the bureaucrat-turned-prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and constrict his leeway in the ongoing peace process with Pakistan.
Mr. Singh is the latest in a succession of weak, aging prime ministers whose absence of decisive leadership over the years has resulted in the failure to formulate a prudent counterterror strategy backed by firm resolve. Increasingly, terrorism has been treated as a law-and-order issue requiring more policing. To regard terrorism as a law-and-order problem is to do what the terrorists want -- to sap your strength. No amount of security can stop terrorism if the nation is reluctant to go after terrorist cells and networks and those that harbor extremists.
The Indian and U.S. responses to terrorism are a study in contrast. No Americans have been killed by terrorists in the United States since 9/11 because the U.S. military has gone after terrorists overseas. India, in contrast, has suffered its biggest terrorist strikes since 9/11, including attacks on the national Parliament, the Kashmir legislature, the 17th-century Red Fort, three major Hindu temples and several military camps.
Every time India is tested by terror, it characteristically responds by talking tough but doing nothing. New methodology employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Terrorism Analysis shows India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of terrorist incidents.
India has become such a happy hunting ground for terrorists that several major acts of international terror have first been tried out against Indian targets before being replicated in Western democracies. They include attacks on symbols of state authority, midair bombing of a commercial jetliner and coordinated strikes on a city transportation system. In using India as a laboratory, the jihadists have been guided by the logic that if the world's largest democracy can be shaken, so can others.
For instance, the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, replicated the midair bombing over the Atlantic of an Air India commercial flight from Canada in 1985. The same Air India bombing technique was also used in the Libyan-orchestrated attack on a UTA jetliner in 1989, which blew up in midair over the Sahara.
The 1993 Bombay bombings, which targeted India's financial institutions and left hundreds dead, have served as a model act of mass terror to international jihadists. The Bombay bombings, according to Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, were "eerily similar in modus operandi and targets to 9/11 in their synchronized, serial character and targeting of state and economic symbols."
Parallels have also emerged between the 1999 hijacking to Kandahar, Afghanistan, of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and the 9/11 hijackings, including the similar use of box-cutters and the terrorists' knowledge of cockpit systems. Long before the London and Madrid bombings, terrorists had staged coordinated attacks on city trains and buses in India.
Transnational terrorists see India as an easy target because it imposes no costs on them and their sponsors. If any state strikes deals with terrorists, it not only promotes stepped-up terrorism against its own interests but also creates problems for other nations.
A classic case was India's ignominious surrender, on Dec. 31, 1999, to the demands of hijackers holding passengers aboard an Indian commercial jetliner at Kandahar in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In a surrender unparalleled in modern world history, Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh personally chaperoned three jailed terrorists to freedom in a special aircraft. One of the freed terrorists, Ahmed Omar Sheik -- a British citizen of Pakistani descent -- went on to help finance the 9/11 attacks.
For India, the chickens dramatically came home to roost when evidence on the December 2001 attack on parliament revealed the involvement of one of the terrorists hand-delivered in Kandahar -- Masood Azhar, who had formed the Jaish-e-Muhammad group in Pakistan.
What India needs is a concerted, sustained campaign against the forces of terror. But what Prime Minister Singh has offered are only words to comfort the nation. If India fails its latest test, it will only be a matter of time before the terrorists strike again at a place and time of their choice.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Political Leaders in my State (Andhra Pradesh, India)
It's been a while since I blogged, finally I decided to blog on political leaders in my state (Andhra Pradesh located in South India). I am fustrated with these political leaders and their policies, so I want to express my side of this.
All the parties are increasingly favouring one group or other for getting the votes. Here are few striking things that came to my attention.
Congress Party:
Naxalite Issue:The first thing they did was lifting the ban on Naxalites and working on discussion process with proper plan or approach. The made mocery of the whole system. Lifting the ban on Naxalites nothing more than getting their votes and winning support. The way this process happened it seems to be they never had intention of solving the problem.
Reservations to Minorities: This is another meaning less policy. How the reservation is working for the benefit of people? Is it justified to provide reservations on communal lines? Society is already having enough problems on communal lines, this is one more to add on to that. I never seen any concrete plan that describing how this is going to be beneficial? Just common sense is enough to understand why this has been incorporated.
TDP
I used to have some respect to TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, now I lost the completely they way they are doing. They are just criticizing what ever the ruling party is doing, sometimes I don't know what they are talking about. At one instance both TDP and Congress are fighting on reservations to minorities. This exaplins what kinds of approaches parties are following for votes.
TRS
This one party that came into existence with the agenda of regional division. They wanted to divide the state based on the regions. What kind of language they use in the meetings, they are just provacting people on regional lines. I never seen anything logical behind their arguments, didn't see any plan the could help in developing the region either.
In conclusion, the political system is so corrupted and parties are going any extent to get their Votes. What a shame on these parties for practising such a stupid vote bank plicies. All the parties use some thing like Region, Caste, Religion favouritism for getting their votes.
If all these resources (time and manpower that goes in election campign, stupid strikes and meeting) are used in developing the state would have been in better shape.
I THINK (just my opinion) the government should run like a BUSINESS with Social Responsibility.
P.S: This is just opinion and understanding.
All the parties are increasingly favouring one group or other for getting the votes. Here are few striking things that came to my attention.
Congress Party:
Naxalite Issue:The first thing they did was lifting the ban on Naxalites and working on discussion process with proper plan or approach. The made mocery of the whole system. Lifting the ban on Naxalites nothing more than getting their votes and winning support. The way this process happened it seems to be they never had intention of solving the problem.
Reservations to Minorities: This is another meaning less policy. How the reservation is working for the benefit of people? Is it justified to provide reservations on communal lines? Society is already having enough problems on communal lines, this is one more to add on to that. I never seen any concrete plan that describing how this is going to be beneficial? Just common sense is enough to understand why this has been incorporated.
TDP
I used to have some respect to TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, now I lost the completely they way they are doing. They are just criticizing what ever the ruling party is doing, sometimes I don't know what they are talking about. At one instance both TDP and Congress are fighting on reservations to minorities. This exaplins what kinds of approaches parties are following for votes.
TRS
This one party that came into existence with the agenda of regional division. They wanted to divide the state based on the regions. What kind of language they use in the meetings, they are just provacting people on regional lines. I never seen anything logical behind their arguments, didn't see any plan the could help in developing the region either.
In conclusion, the political system is so corrupted and parties are going any extent to get their Votes. What a shame on these parties for practising such a stupid vote bank plicies. All the parties use some thing like Region, Caste, Religion favouritism for getting their votes.
If all these resources (time and manpower that goes in election campign, stupid strikes and meeting) are used in developing the state would have been in better shape.
I THINK (just my opinion) the government should run like a BUSINESS with Social Responsibility.
P.S: This is just opinion and understanding.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Dell in Developing countries
Lately I am busy with my house move and Busines Policy class, didn't get chance to catch up on my blog. This class is little hectic, lot of assignments and reading. I hate working on subjective things and writing, this is class is more of that. Trying my level best to stay up to the speed.
We have been talking about the success of Dell, recently came across an article that talks about short falls of Dell in the emerging Asian markets. Dell is not able to capture the market in Asian markets because of the following regions.
1. Dell's Direct model, this model is diffuclt to succeed in Asian markets because limited access/awareness to online shopping. Another important factor is there is no well established financial system (like credit cards ...etc) to pay online.
2. One of the important factor in Dell's success is their supply chain model, you can't have manufacturing/assembling plants in every major market hence tight monitoring of the process is not possible.
They might still be able to capture the market of big business customers, anyway that segment contributes majority of revenues so that would be ok. It would be interesting how will Dell do in these developing countries.
We have been talking about the success of Dell, recently came across an article that talks about short falls of Dell in the emerging Asian markets. Dell is not able to capture the market in Asian markets because of the following regions.
1. Dell's Direct model, this model is diffuclt to succeed in Asian markets because limited access/awareness to online shopping. Another important factor is there is no well established financial system (like credit cards ...etc) to pay online.
2. One of the important factor in Dell's success is their supply chain model, you can't have manufacturing/assembling plants in every major market hence tight monitoring of the process is not possible.
They might still be able to capture the market of big business customers, anyway that segment contributes majority of revenues so that would be ok. It would be interesting how will Dell do in these developing countries.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
BlogMap
Isn't it cool to have a blog map on your site. Use this link and follow the instructions. You may need to input your address and the site gives a piece of code which needs to be updated in your blog template the same as we set up site meters.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Protect your privacy
There are some sites on internet that lists lot of details about people for little money. One such sites is zabatools, I checked on couple of my friend's name that lists their current and previous address, phone number and month and year of birth. This information as such may not be very significant but I am sure for $20 -$30 they would be able to provide lot more information.
This issue is addressed in NBC article, follow the instructions mentioned in the article and act now to protect your privacy.
This issue is addressed in NBC article, follow the instructions mentioned in the article and act now to protect your privacy.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
My Opinion on blogging
Now I am done with my marketing class and getting ready for Business Policy class for Summer II. During the start of this class my mindset was using blog for the sake of this class, now I decided to continue with my blog. Lot of people says it is time waste and all ... It all depends on how one uses the blogging. For that matter the same holds good for lot of new technologies, for example lot of people consider the usage of instant messaging as waste of time but at the same time lot of people uses to interact on business/technical issues. In my opinion blogging is important tool to express myself.
Today's WSJ (06/23/2005) column (Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights) explanis how advertising companies are using blogs to get consumer opinion. Here are the couple of interesting comments made in this article with respect to marketing.
1. Marketers say bloggers' unsolicited opinions and offhand comments are a source of invaluable insights that are hard to get elsewhere.
2. Walter Carl, a professor at Boston's Northeastern University who has studied "word-of-mouth" communication and marketing, says blog-watching services "are very useful for quickly getting the lay of the land" in trends and consumer reactions.
3. Sometimes blog watchers spot trends before they emerge in mainstream media. This gives an opportunity for people to correct before it is full blown issue.
Today's WSJ (06/23/2005) column (Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights) explanis how advertising companies are using blogs to get consumer opinion. Here are the couple of interesting comments made in this article with respect to marketing.
1. Marketers say bloggers' unsolicited opinions and offhand comments are a source of invaluable insights that are hard to get elsewhere.
2. Walter Carl, a professor at Boston's Northeastern University who has studied "word-of-mouth" communication and marketing, says blog-watching services "are very useful for quickly getting the lay of the land" in trends and consumer reactions.
3. Sometimes blog watchers spot trends before they emerge in mainstream media. This gives an opportunity for people to correct before it is full blown issue.
