The Travesty of nation's empowerment

Women’s Reservation Bill when introduced in Rajya Sabha caused a lot of ineffective hue and cry in the house. Without any ‘effective’ discussion on the bill in the house(for which there is a provision of house),it was passed. There are still a lot of doubts as whether it will really empower the women for which it claims or will remain as ineffective as is the case of SC/ST reservation even after 60 years.
The passage of the Bill can be seen as the historic event for many reasons. India has shown that while it began its life as a Democratic Republic rather late in the day, it has taken the fast track to fulfilling the aspiration of its citizens. It ensured Universal Adult Franchise right from the start while it took older democracies centuries to do so. It put affirmative action for SC/ST in the Constitution. Panchayati Raj came 45 years after Independence but brought along with it radical empowerment for women. And now the process of reservation for women at all levels of representative government has begun.

But is it political correctness or just plain stupidity that prevents us from seeing that the Women’s Reservation Bill is dangerous because it attacks the fundamental values of parliamentary democracy in India? The founding principle of our democracy is that Members of Parliament must win the votes of their constituents on merit, not caste, creed or gender. Reserving nearly half the seats in the Lok Sabha erodes this idea so much that we may as well switch to proportional representation. Already there are demands for quotas within quotas so why not separate electorates like the British proposed all those years ago driving Gandhiji to fast unto death?

Ninety-nine point nine per cent of Indian women will get nothing from it but they will be told how wonderful it is for them because they are now ‘empowered’. It will make no difference to the horrible reality that nearly all abortions in India are of girl babies. No difference to the fact that most illiterate Indians are female. No difference to the sickening truth that little girls make up nearly half the prostitutes in India and that most children who are trafficked to the brothels of Mumbai and Delhi are female. But, women will be fed this travesty of empowerment in the hope that they forget the rest. If women politicians were all that was needed to solve the problems of Indian women, they would have been solved a long time ago. Indira Gandhi is to date the longest serving Prime Minister in independent India and her daughter-in-law will by 2014 have been de facto Prime Minister for ten years. So why are baby girls still killed in the womb? Why are they married off as children to old men? Why are they trafficked before they even understand what the word brothel means? Why are they not even safe in their own homes where sixty percent of all rapes in India occur? Will all these things change when there are 180 women sitting in reserved seats in the Lok Sabha?
No, of-course not. Everyone knows that things only really change when there is education, healthcare and equal opportunity. If our women politicians were sincere in their concern for women these are the issues they would have been raising in Parliament. The real noise and fury is not about empowering the women of India so much as empowering a handful of politically ambitious women who think it will be easier now for them to get into the Lok Sabha.

So what is that which is actually required for the real empowerment of not only women but of nation as a whole? What is really required to achieve the so called aim of inclusive growth?
As far as I think the only solution for all this is to change our mentality, we need to stop thinking politics as a business and nation as our personal property. I am not against such kind of Bills to be introduced in parliament but I want that there should be thorough discussion on the merits as well as demerits of such things. These acts are useless as long as they are serving the purpose of only a handful of individuals in this largest democracy. (Though sometimes I just hesitate to call us to be democratic.)
The one of the steps which I think should be taken is to make our judiciary strong enough to survive even in cases involving affluent and powerful individuals of nation.This can provide us with the some kind of mental satisfaction and strength that no one can deny anyone of us of his/her rights and everyone of us will enjoy the benefits of such activities (bills and acts).

There can be a lot other solutions as one of the universal solution for all problems is the good education standard. I don’t know when will I be able to contribute something in our nation’s empowerment or development but really I want to do something.

Jai Hind!!

Sachin or Bradman??

What the fcuk??
I am not able to understand that why this debate comes out every time Sachin reaches some milestone in the world of cricket.Every time he does something amazing this debate-"Who is the best Sachin or Bradman?" comes out in the market like a naked women and everyone of us starts playing with the arguments.
Australians start defending Sir Bradman, Indians support Sachin and neutrals just speak out a random name.As,
Harbhajan said-"I am short of words to praise Sachin. Some players compared him with Don Bradman. Although I have not seen Bradman playing but I am confident, he (Sachin) is better than him for which his records speak,"
and "Don Bradman is the greatest, there is no debate. Don is the number one and then come the rest. And among the rest, Tendulkar probably is as good as anyone. So legitimately he may be the second best cricketer to have played the game," Waugh said.
Believe me more than 60% of us living at present have not seen playing Bradman even then we dare to compare the two,hats off to our intellectuality..:)
Why do we always get into an argument as to who is better??
Why can't we accept the fact that every person lives in his time.With time
situations differ, oppositions differ, crowds differ and the best also changes.
When will we understand the fact that with the change of generation the best will also change.Ok, few are there even today who think Bradman is the best but after them who will support him??
Even some time will come when Sachin will be the one replacing Bradman and someone else will be taking his place,then again this debate will continue.
Why we can't just enjoy the game and stop arguing "who is the best?".
It only give matter to the media to publish and raise controversies and arguments and counter arguments and improve their circulation.
U might have observed media today is so shameless that it raises this question even to Sachin himself that "how do you feel that people are comparing u with Sir Bradman and even saying u are better than him?"..every time he encounters such a question he replies the same answer-"there should not be any comparison".What else can he say??
But media like a "besharm" unit continue asking him the same question.
What a decent man Sachin is,as he every time replies very politely the same thing otherwise a person like me who gets frustrated easily with such stupidity can't imagine my reaction the very next time.
The point here is that we should stop enjoying such stupid and directionless debates so that media can stop such stupid acts and do some serious job and responsible work.
And at the last we should accept the fact the with generations the best will also change and it should for the betterment of the game.

an appeal by:
Arian!!