26/11 - After two years!

       On November 26, 2008, a billion people felt the helplessness and vulnerability of the kind we have never experienced ever. Some 10 men or better name them terrorist entered India's Economic Capital with a mission of shattering faith of common people. They succeeded in creating a mayhem which , some demented fool thought was Allah's work . At this point of time we had some brave INDIAN who stood against the wind of uncertainty and were success full in overcoming our biggest crisis of all time.
       Today , 26/11/2010 two year down the timeline. have we done justification to their sacrifices ? What common man thinks about Kasab ?? Did government  did anything after that?? If any such situation occurs again then are we capable enough to handle it efficiently?? Everyone is perplexed regarding the same. Why only today Our Ministers realized that Pakistan has not kept its promises  and if this is the case then what the hell they are doing with Kasab even if he has been sentenced Death Penality. 
      Whether Ajmal Kasab or Mohammad Afzal  everyone has became celebrity . We shouldn't be suprised if they appear in Big Boss or some reality show as our system had made them a mega "Celebrity". Our Minister today told something on Kasab and Pakistan same way they will have a message ready on 13th December to mark anniversary of attack on parliament . Question is does INDIAN constitution need amendments as now we have got few intelligent people, lawyers and politician who can bend and are smart enough to use the flexibility of judiciary system of country.

     While writing Constitution our pioneers thought wisely and kept judiciary independent of legislature and executive , inorder to make sure people of India will never be denied of justice . But today , equation has changed and every nutS and boltS of governance has become potpourri. BUT ...It really feels good to see at least major chunk of society understand this fact and is united to stand together in difficult situation. Youth of nation has shown some responsibilities in recent times , its not that they are into some revolution but they understand their importance and does act wisely.

Once mocked for Democracy..- 2

        Part -1 was popularly know as "Laloo Raj" or better call it "Gunda Raj". Law and Order was null and void , Governance was only to protect "Gunda's" , road was meant for kiosk for so called party workers and people were unable to use their power of "vote". Before , EVM(Electronic Voting Machine) was introduced ,elections was won by people who had power to capture "voting booths" or enough money to buy a person's vote. Rest , politics was on basis of caste and religion. "Netas" were ingenious enough to  play with  people's sentiment on basis of cast and religion. Advancement in technologies was boon for Bihar as electronic voting machine was introduced in elections around 2000 , resulted in diminishing the option of booth capturing. With time people were able to make use of democratic power and Nitish Kumar came into power in 2005 . From 1990-2005, Bihar witnessed no development as compared to any other states in india. This was the time , when city of pearls was turning into IT-hub, Electronic City was getting charged up , and Great mysorian state was transformed into "silicon valley of India".

        Before 2005 , kidnapping , extortion and scams were a common affair . Alomst daily , news headlines were preoccupied by these incidences taking place almost on daily basis. To travel 56 KM  on highway it took almost three hours by bus and when you travel by train then it might have  taken few more hours. I have myself witnessed these things . But in last five years, Nitish has reconstructed Bihar . Now , hardly there is any  news making headline regarding criminal activities from Bihar. We can now travel 56KM in one hour, even with trains. Bridges , roads , schools , everything seems to have undergone changes . Its definitely not best but its there now ,which never existed in past . Roads are cleaner , girls are going to school, no kidnapping , no extrotion , business-men are having a calm time , we could perceive the  changes which seemed to be stagnant in last 15 years. This was indeed a better law and Order/Governance  ,though not the best one..
        Now it was again election time in 2010. Election was to be done in six phases , all political party started the same trend of making issues and leg pulling of each other. Mr.Rahul Gandhi so called youth icon , was watching and following every activity mostly from posters only. Laloo Prasad yadav and Ram Vilas introduced there sons into politics  . Rahul gandhi was given preference over other youth icons like sachin pilot, scindia, deora and many more don't know  why ?? may be because he is "gandhi". Congress knew pretty well that for stable governance at center they need cater two states carefully thats Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In national election rahul was able to charm people of UP and was expecting same in Bihar. Congress here forgot one thing , this is only land from where mighty Indira gandhi was shaken by JP Movement in 1974. Laloo and paswan were confident about their usual cast/religion politics . Moreover, BJP was not permitted to propagate their hindutava and Narendra modi was restricted from visiting state for election campaign.Nitish /NDA fought elections on one issue and  that was - "Development",
        Result all we know , people voted above family and caste/religion politics . Only issue was development on which NDA outplayed  RJD-LJP in every field. This was one of the most watched  elections as it was of longest duration , and election commission took every possible step to oraganise it peacefully .More over people of bihar once mocked for death of democracy , were now cherished for the change they have shown to nation with  power of democracy . A clear message was sent to all politicians around nation that elections can be won on basis of development and work rather on any  family or cast/religion politics.
         I like to congratulate People of bihar who has set an inevitable example of democracy. Nitish kumar , a demure person by nature, Engineer by degree and wise politician by profession will be able to reconstruct Bihar or not ?? "Time" can only give the answer!

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Once mocked for Democracy..- I

History can be fade as time passes but can't be demolished by virtue of anything . Bihar had witnessed Ashoka , Chanakaya , Gautam Buddha , Mahavira , Guru Gobind Singh and many more who have not only enlightened  "Patliputra " but whole world .   Bihar has been a major centre of learning, home to the ancient universities of Nalanda (established in 450 CE) and Vikramshila (established in 783 AD). It was a perfect Demesne of knowledge and culture. 


Talking about recent times , this was land of revolutions and reforms , forget not to mention the famous "Sampurna Kranti" of 1974 which reached whole nation against icky governance of mighty Indira Gandhi . But i would like to share - state which i have witnessed myself as a child, a teenager, a student and a common bihari. Born and brought up in Bihar   myself had witnessed many atrocities happening by bihari on bihari, and by non-bihari on bihari . (FYI - "Bihari" word was mainly famous after revolution of 1974.) . When whole India was going through economic Liberalisation and globalization , Bihar was going into age of darkness . No one else to blame but only "we" . Those were days of Caste politics, general elections was war between two parties where everyone was ready to shed blood for power. When other states were busy wooing MNCs to set up industry in their demesne , this state was busy getting rid of skirmish going between so called "Netas" and "Bada Babus" . At one hand "Netas" were busy making mansions and earning ample so that they could fed there 4-5 generations, on other hand common masses were striving hard to earn enough to survive . No Proper water to drink , no roads to travel , no electricity , poor shape of industries(specially sugar Industries) this was only left for common masses. At this point of time common people had two options, one - migrate to other places for earning livelihood , two - study enough to get into top educational institutions to have a better life. Unlike Gujratis , and marathi folks we had no other options . We did both , and by this moment we had set an corky example of democracy.


Trauma didn't stopped here only , it continued even further . By this time we became an Onomatopoeia  of  "bad ass" . Credited by other fellow indians , every where our misdeeds were projected with lots of masalas and deeds no one cared about. Atrocities in  Assam and Maharashtra is one the many bright examples were INDIAN who were Bihari's were ruthlessly beaten up by INDIAN who were non-Biharis. Natural calamities like flood etc proved to be icing on cake .Except terrorism from osama this piece of land had by this time witnessed all type of blood shed , whether it was naxalities or gansters backed up by "Netas".


By this time i was completing my high school , and as a growing kid i too was made too believe that i have to choose one among the two options  irrespective of interest and any other moral grounds. Students were crazy after preparation of IIT-JEE , UPSC , Medical , they were afraid to focus on any extra-curricular activities as that might lead to waste some unnecessary   time . Teachers were busy taking tutions outside school, police were busy making ample of money to bribe senior officials for promotions.People were ashamed of telling world that they were "Bihari" .Democracy was lying in the graveyard along with "pride of being Bihari".