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ஓர் நன்றி பதிவு

 கடந்த சில காலமாக நாம் அரசியல் சார்ந்த பதிவுகளை போடுவதில்லை, கிருஷ்ணாஜியின் தாக்கத்தால், ஏனெனில் அரசியல் ஒரு எல்லைக்கு மேல் மக்களை பிரித்து ஆளவே பயன்படுகிறது ஒவ்வொரு இயக்கத்தாலும் தங்களுக்கு ஏற்றாற் போல். வலது என்றால் இடது முளைக்கும், இடது என்றால் வலது முளைக்கும். மனிதர்கள் முழுமையாக ஒன்றினைய அனைத்து அடையாளங்களையும் துறந்தால் மட்டுமே சாத்தியம். இருப்பினும் 75வது சுதந்திர தினத்தின் நினைவாக பெரும் பகுதியினரிடம் இருந்து மறைக்கப்பட்ட, மறக்கடிக்கப்பட்ட  ஒரு பிரதமருக்கான நன்றியுரையாக இப்பதிவினை தொடர்கிறோம். இவருக்கு முன்னால் இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளில் இரண்டு ஆட்சிகள், இவருக்கு பின்னால் நான்காண்டுகளில் நான்கு ஆட்சிகள், நடுவில் இவருடைய ஐந்தாண்டு ஆட்சி. இது அந்த காலகட்டத்தில் இருந்த நிலையற்ற அரசியல் தன்மையையும், அவரின் அரசியல் சாதுர்யத்தையும் காட்டுகின்றது. இவர் பிரதமராக பதவி ஏற்ற போது இன்று ஏறக்குறைய இலங்கையில் இருக்கும் பொருளாதார சூழல் போன்றது, நாடு அன்று மிகவும் நெருக்கமாக இருந்த சோவியத் யூனியன் விழுந்த தருணம், வளைகுடா யுத்தம் காரணமாக கச்சா எண்ணெய் விலை உயர்வால் பணவீக்கம், கட்சியின் தலைவர் த...

Time and Perception

 Fundamentally, when we live in the present, we are full of joy. But when the cloud of time passed through the present, the remembrances of many yesterdays and the question of many tomorrow's cloud our joy. Live in the present, and be eternally joyful!!

Remembering Mr.PV Narasimha Rao, the Political Genius

Mr.PV Narasimha Rao, the name many people might have heard as one of the former prime ministers of this country but not much about him and his tenure, we were also of the same pattern till 3 years back. We have recorded a few times here about him, but with all gratefulness, we must record some of the key points when we remember him, especially the 90's and 2k kids must be much grateful to him, for the sophistication we have today. Now, let us see some of the key areas.  In May 1991, even PV Narasimha Rao might not have thought he would be the next Prime Minister of the country, due to some unforeseen incidents he became the PM, interestingly he had undergone a major bypass surgery in early 1991 months before he became the PM.  When he became the Prime Minister of India, there was literally nothing, neither the political capital nor the economic capital, there were foreign reserves only for a few weeks, to pay for example fertilizers, crude, and so on. The cold war had ended an...

The untold bureaucrats

 As we commemorate the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, commonly known as the Iron man of India for his massive efforts and direction in the Integration of India into a few states, from 565 princely states.  Thought would take this occasion to remember and pay tribute to some of the bureaucrats who had been instrumental in such missions for the nation's development. Of course, the credit needs to be given to the political leaders in identifying the right talent and giving them right positions and giving them free hand in carrying out their duty, we are remembering some of them which we got a chance read about somewhere.  Firstly, many people know through media that Sardar Patel was an integral part of the Integration of India. But behind there is an untold, civil service officer VP Menon who was appointed the Secretary to Government of India, identified by Patel Ji. VP Menon acted as an envoy of Patel on the ground in integrating the 565 princely states into the Governm...

Surveillance

 Meanwhile wondering how the news about pegasus has vaporized. Interestingly, no one talks about recommendations that come on various platforms based on what we speak or what we post. This is digital karma 😂. We have built this so-called civilization on doubt and suspicion between people and eventually between nations. For which each nation has built extraordinary surveillance capabilities, almost all the countries spend the most of their GDP on security, in India, it is about 20% of the GDP(currently 20% of 3 trillion dollars) annually, while we spend on early single digits on healthcare and education which is 1.8% and 3.5% respectively. If we can reverse the spending between military and healthcare, education, we can almost provide the highest quality of education and healthcare for free. But this is possible only when all nations around the world agree and do the disarmament at the same moment only then this is possible. Else if one nation agrees and others don't, it puts its s...

Lee Kuan Yew on Governing India

 Often in our nation whenever we get a chance to interact with people who are interested in the nation and its politics, they will usually tell India needs to be transformed like Singapore.   Let us hear it from the man himself, Lee Kuan Yew, the founder father of Singapore who answered a question on this subject when he was alive.   Lee Kuan Yew on governing India  Just to have a brief, in 1965 Singapore came out of Malaysia under his leadership as a new country after some differences with Malaysia. From that place to where Singapore is today, it needs no words to explain. In the 30 years of Prime Ministership till 1990, he put Singapore on the world as a developed nation.  In that video, India is a unique and diverse nation where a certain proportion of the population might not understand the language of the PM. He also mentions China, where predominantly the language is the same.   It is easy for us to say to make India like Singapore, China, U...

PV Narasimha Rao and Foreign Policy

 We have written a couple of times in this blog about the wise former Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao about his contributions to this rebuilding of India in the early '90s after trying circumstances under which he became the Prime minister of this great nation. For some reason we rarely know about him mainly guess because of the limited coverage on him in the mainstream media. The writer too discovered his impeccable contributions to nation-building as recently as 2019. We will write in more detail when the times again about this wise man.   We are giving a reference to his joint dialogue with former president of the US, Bill Clinton in 1994 at the white house. Kindly help to plug in the headphones if interested to go through this video, the first 15 minutes is what covers the topic. Narasimha Rao in the US  Today people speak about how New India has emerged and all the rest of it. But when he became the PM, under trying economic, domestic and international...