THE 'COALGATE' MASSACRE

The largest of the largest scams that our nation has ever faced is here. Indian history's biggest scam - 1.86 lakh crore rupees - in terms of money has shaken the people of this nation terribly. The other important thing is that this scam involves the most honorable Prime Minister of India in its primary target list. The period of 2004-2009 witnessed the most disheartening disaster when the UPA was holding its power and Dr.Manmohan being the Prime Minister along with holding the Coal and Petroleum Ministry too. After the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) submitted his report on last Friday, the monsoon season of the Parliament rose in temper. All parties, including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) main rival straight-away demanded the resignation of Dr.Manmohan Singh. This caused fury among the ruling party in a bigger way. Many of the senior Congress members, including Mr.P.Chidambaram tried to convince the House but surrendered in vain. Opposition parties with a bigger scam to play on court cannot wait in silence. They broke the honor of the House many times and this was evident when the proceedings of the both Houses were called off for the entire week. This said-to-be forgery in coal blocks allocation has come in a wrong time for the ruling party. Just after nearly surviving the effects of the three previous scams - 3G Spectrum Tele-communication scam, Commonwealth Games, Delhi, 2010, Aviation Industry scam, UPA is unable to defend its position dealing with the 'Coalgate' scam. This pertains to the allotment of coal blocks in an illegal manner without proper bidding. The industries which had been assigned with the coal blocks have paid lump sums of money to the government for the sake of being allotted with the required coal block at almost nil competition. This has caused the CAG to probe into the activities of the Coal and Petroleum Ministry of 2004 period. That probe has only found the biggest scam in terms of money. Even when the coal hasn't been taken out of the land, the responsible have paid the taxes correspondingly. This action has caused the government goodwill amidst the fire. The reasons are that the coal is still present and the government has received additional money in terms of taxes. Whatever the situation maybe this problem will not come to a sudden conclusion. While the opposition parties are demanding the downfall of the Prime Minister, making the Prime Minister step down will only make the Congress 'digging for its own grave'. So the conclusion could only be possible if the responsible ministers concede the truth what actually happened and that Opposition are willing to lend their ears to that voice. The situation is really not better at the moment now in this monsoon season for the Parliament. Winter is not far away as well and thus there is no getting away with such a terrible thing. The accused has to answer and the winter session for the Parliament will be meant for the one. Opposition will be waiting with their plans to outwit the ruling side. So seeing the truthful end is inevitable. Along with the Delhi clouds, we will wait and watch what the Parliament is to offer us. The truth or the 'reason'? 'Coalgate' or 'Grave-gate? Praying God, for good things to happen!!

RUINS IN THE INDIAN ECONOMIC EMPIRE

There have not been many days in the year we wake up to read the newspaper that the inflation in the country has touched an historic high. But in the last few years, the news has become the most common thing an avid news reader has come across daily. Is it important for a common man or in simple terms, a citizen of the country to have a concern about this issue? The answer is definitely YES. It may be the simplest thing in words to see the numbers of inflation flying high, but nobody cares to understand that it in turn affects the common man by the increase in the prices of basic commodities like petrol, milk, vegetables, rice, etc. Over the years, this situation has touched a point of normalcy to an extent that hardly anyone cares about the burning issue. Not until July 2012 happened. Wondering what, the first three months of this financial year 2012-2013 has witnessed the heaviest decrease in the percentage of industrial production in more than 15 years. This decline in the manufacturing is mainly due to the sudden decrease in the production of small scale industries due to less or lack of small scale investments, capitalists and withdrawal of shareholders. Fitch Ratings an agency monitoring the world economy in independent terms has voiced its concern over India has said that there is a good chance for the country to downgrade the Sovereign Rating in the next 12 to 24 months. The enormity of the situation is well read by this report. Sovereign Rating is a stamp over economical authority based on which a country's stability over its own financial conditions is established. This agency has sent a serious note to the financial authorities of our country that over the next 2 years, India will witness a threat to its Sovereign Rating as the economic slump is growing a tad too fast. Irresistibly in the last quarter of 2011-12, our GDP growth rate touched a reasonable 5.3%. But after driven by a slump in manufacturing, the most recent data showed factory output declining sharply by 1.8% in June. Thus it is making the situation -probably for the financial establishments- out of control. Even in his Independence Day speech yesterday, Dr.Manmohan Singh highlighted the economic instability over national security issues. Such was the extent of this economic 'disaster' that the Prime Minister moved the key points on Assam domestic violence to the backstage. Every Indian's responsibility is to have confidence in the country and its establishments. If the small scale capitalists and shareholders fail to invest, the situation definitely is unimaginable. The national banks which have prime responsibility of regulating money and bringing out brave decision to outwit the 'black magic' surrounding our economy is the 'need of the hour'. Both the national security issues and the growing 'economic breakdown' are important to be tackled. An empire is built using hard rocks. Even the slightest of damage is a serious concern. But now even the biggest crack in the sidewalls seems to be common. Let the concern arise! Wish the empire lives! Believe the tradition upholds. Be sure, the legacy continues!

Godliness in peace!!

'God is the protector. Godliness is strength. But sometimes, devotion to god turns as murder' said Alfred The Great, The Roman Emperor of London, 6 A.D. seeing the religious practices of Roman people. Not so long ago, our eyes were filled with the news of a terrible stampede at Sabarimala Hills when the devotees of Lord Ayyapan were made to face last year. This is a news which touched our ears and heart and of course, not the mind and eventually faded away. This is one of the few religious deaths -which are both man-made and natural - in the so many deaths the world has seen so far. One such biggest 'religious' massacre which happens continuously over the last few years and the casualties climb up the ladder of death toll year by year are the pilgrims who devote and 'chance their lives' to Amarnath. This particular Amarnath Yatra is the biggest Indian pilgrimage in the Indian sub-continent and has been followed ever since the first foreigner Vasco da Gama of Spain landed in the country. The biggest mishap in the last few years just shows that it’s no more a perfect holy performance rather it may be accounted as risking the lives of people trying to obtain holiness. This is truly unfair in the part of the state and central governments if they fail to consider this growing havoc and to reduce the risk in undergoing such devotion. The nobleness in portraying the goodness lies within the man itself. If in case, he seeks the ability of an external supernatural force to withstand him, he has to be adorned in good hands. This maybe a result of the year long following of religious practices and that cannot be curtailed. Even in the year 2009, when the death toll was 45 pilgrims - many who were dead due to cardiac arrest and pulmonary diseases - the government by the next year should have organized many medical base camps in all the possible ways through the yatra. Instead the matter was still in negotiation and the decisions were not fruitful either. Unfortunately the catastrophe just got bigger by the next year, counting the carcasses up to 68 and 97 in 2011. This is mostly because of the fact that most of the pilgrims are middle-aged and old-aged men and women are vulnerable to heart problems. We can't avoid such cases; instead we could better the efficacy of the authorities to organize a risk-free pilgrimage. It may sound weird to talk about conducting medical camps at an astounding altitude of 12755 feet from the sea level, but given the wide welfare and the prospective and chances our nation possesses, this sounds really possible. Taking into serious consideration the causalities in the ongoing year - 97 so far in the 28 days of the total 39-day pilgrimage - the responsibility is with the government. Further, there needs to be a medical screening or test for the pilgrims and reasonable health care has to be delivered. Meanwhile, the pilgrims also are needed to be taught of analyzing their capability to attend such life-potential-outraging pilgrimage. Awareness has to be created to the religious masses through media, religious bodies, etc. Although it may be against the religious practices followed, some rules can be broke in a civilization which is longing to grow. The chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Mr. Omar Abdullah - the youngest Chief Minister India has ever obtained, then - has said the same opinion. Really at this crucial juncture of human outrage, some decisions could change the fate of a whole nation. Wish the responsible authorities are brave enough to decide which is better and are courageous to make laws that would outlaw the present (f)laws. It’s not what you are underneath, it’s what we do that defines you. God, Man, God. God made man. Man made god. This is where human civilization began. As said, there is god in man and he can do anything possible or impossible. This is really true, because he is the one who even created the God - The Almighty -. So men, let’s leave our madness in the name of godliness. Bravo!!