WHY HINDUTVA IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT FOR INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT

Hello World,

Given today's political climate, we are forced to watch Shout-Fests on news channels and read atrocious claims of cultural and religious identity politics in the papers. 

One among the many popular trends right now is 'Hindutva Bashing'. For some reason this nation is taking immense pride in insulting a faith system with thousands of years in history, not recognising the fact that it is the core of everything this nation has and will have. 

Immersed in the anti-Hindutva white noise, this blog post is an attempt to bring to light the real glory of Hindutva, with the aim of making a case for why Hindutva is absolutely required for the development of this great nation India! Let's get started!

Since I speak Tamil natively, I have used tamil discussion in the images used. However, I will be covering the same in English here just so the linguistic barrier does not take away the essence of this post. 

If we have to understand the greatness of Hindutva and remove the fake-news propaganda being thrust on our brains, nothing can be a better approach than going back to our basics - Hindu Shastra written in the great sanskrit language!

Exhibit 1:

Manusmrithi, a hindu shastra, dictates that Brahmana, Kshatriya and Vaisya are 'TWICE-BORN' and Sudra has 'ONE BIRTH ONLY.' 

The word 'Jaathi' is being used in this as well.

This indicates that the great hindu shastra in all its rotten glory of nonsense, has used the term 'Jaathi' which means caste/breed while referring to 'BIRTH' of each of the castes. Popular opinion says varnas are based on  qualities/guna and not castes and they have nothing to do with birth. 

Well, that is one big lie!!! This verse from manusmrithi refers the varna to their respective 'birth-status-requirement' and also uses the word 'jasthi/caste'. All this to state that Sudra is inferior by virtue of being born just once.

I pity the idiots who believe in this stupid faith system coloured in saffron and filled with gow-shit!!!!

Exhibit 2:

Another verse from the half-digested dump called manusmrithi which dictates that a Sudra, if 'servant of his betters' and 'always seeks a refuge with brahmanas' will attain a higher caste. The previous verse says Sudras are once-born and this one says Sudras can get better in their 'next life'. If the once-born can get a chance to be born again then how is that being 'once-born' in the first place? 

If people die and are born again, why does the population keep rising? 

This verse also uses the term 'Jaathi/Caste'. If varna is guna-crap then how come the word caste is used???

If the word 'Jaathi' is used, then it indicates there is a need to define the term using a specific word and then use it in the shastra. 

The idiots who believe in this fail to realise that their faith is the origin of the caste system. The carefully spread fake news convinced these idiots, that varnashastra is varna based on guna and it has nothing to do with birth and jaathi.

Exhibit 3:

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states that if someone wants a son who will grow up to be famous scholar, they should eat RICE COOKED WITH THE MEAT OF A YOUNG BULL, with clarified butter. 

So let me get this straight, 

When Shudh Dheshi Ghee mixes with Chaawal [Mind you! not freakin Roti!!! Rice you dumb hindu!!!] and tasty Gow-Maans [Bull Meat aka BEEF!!!!], the meal becomes the secret recipe for having a boy child who will grow up to be a famous scholar!!!

Drug addicts high on acid might hallucinate something more sane than this crap that hindu shastra, in this case the moderate-upanishad, has vomited into the minds of the idiots who believe this nonsense called hinduism!

Please don't get offended. Really, please don't. 

If hinduism can be assertive and 'Haan Yeh Hinduon Ka Desh Hai' and 'Haan Mandir Yahin Banega', then atheists can also be assertively 'Bhakton Ka Haseen Uda Sakthe Hain!!!'




Exhibit 4:

Wow! If a Kshatriya defames a Brahmana, he has to be fined 100 pants, if it is a Vaisya, he would pay a fine of 150 or 200 pants but if it is a Sudra, he will suffer CORPORAL PUNISHMENT!!!

What makes Brahmana so special that he needs a policy regulation to prevent slander/defamation???!!??

From a civil behaviour perspective, yes defamation is not good but if something is bad, WHY ON EARTH IS THE PUNISHMENT VARYING FROM GROUP TO GROUP???

Think about this!  If the hindu shastra establishes INEQUALITY EVEN IN PUNISHMENT where everyone pays a fine but SUDRA GETS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, that is ok. People will actually even pray over this crap, calling it 'Words of God'. 

However, if the constitution accommodates those who are discriminated in the name of Sudras through AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, then that is not OK!!!!!???

"Reservation caste pe, last name pe kyon dete ho?"

"Abhey Dhakkan! Thera Shastra punishment me inequality bana saktha hai aur tu uski pooja karega, saala constitution equality banayega to royega????!!!!"

If a system dictates differences among humans in any manner, how can that be a faith in the first place and how will the head of that nonsense be a god????!!!

Exhibit 5:

If varna is based on guna, then guna is supposed to be a variable over time. if guna is variable over time, how on earth will the king identify anyone as any varna, at any given time???!!

Manusmrithi is ordering the king to order vaishyas to lend money and farm and sutras to serve the twice-born castes. The usage of 'twice-born' indicates 'VARNA-SHASTRA' is based on birth. The sanskrit term 'Dhvijanmanaam' is the one that means 'twice-born'.

Stop kidding yourself into believing the nonsense that says varnashastra is based on guna and not birth. The sanskrit verses are anyways here for reference. Take this to the sanskrit scholar you trust and ask them to translate it for you. Cross check the translation with this and if you have the patience and time, also refer to Lucknow's Pandit Dwivedi's hindi translation of manusmrithi. 

Sometimes 'Apne log from apne yahaan' can help us get carefully close to the facts worthy of our trust. You see we do not know the varna of the guna of the guy who translated this!

Exhibit 6:

So a low-caste man should not sit equally on the same level/seat as that of a upper-caste. How can a god tolerate such nonsense as the ved-shastra??!!??

How horribly sadistic are the hindu gods for tolerating such nonsense and allowing the followers to accept this nonsense as their 'Word of God'????

Exhibit 7:

Whether BOUGHT OR UNBOUGHT.....let this sink in...hindu shastra referring to humans being bought!!!!! and still fools believe this is a faith headed by gods....well if this is what they said through shastra, they are more of SLAVE-OWNERS than gods!!!

Irrespective of being bought or not, SUDRA WAS CREATED BY SWAYAMBHU SO SUDRA COULD BE BRAHMANA'S SLAVE!!!!

If varnashastra segregates society based on GUNA, then how come the psycho Swayambhu [a slave-creator has to be a psycho] create that group as a standardised category. So this Psycho Swyambhu creates a group of humans and gives them the guna that dedicates them to be slaves of brahmanas. So Varnashastra is about humans being segregated across groups at their birth. The idiots who believe the nonsense faith accommodating such crap need professional help. A whole society has accepted worms in their brains just because they believe their god asked them to.

Exhibit 8:

So all pooja-paat requires Shudh Deshi Ghee but if a Brahmana sells Ghee, he becomes a Sudra, not in 1, not in 2 but actually in 3 days!!!!

Any idea how the GUNA of the Brahmana changes in 72 hours? 

Any idea why a Brahmana becomes a Sudra for selling MILK?

All superstitious fire burning stunts requires ghee/milk and the sweets presented to the foolish stones with no life have to be made with milk and ghee but if a Brahmana sells milk, he becomes a Sudra!!!

So MILK SELLERS ARE SUDRAS???!!!? 

I don't want to insult the word hypocrisy. This is beyond nonsense and this is part of manusmrithi, one of the hindu shastra!!!

If this is the shastra, how is hindu a valid faith and how are the heads valid gods, even by definition??!!?? 

In the interest of time, I am restricting this post to this but I realise there is always going to be this one person who wants to read more just to ensure consistency. SO find below the other manusmrithi nonsense that forms the base architecture of the atrocity called hindu religion. 

Since such wonderful nonsense is part of hindu dharma, the defense of the same, aka hindutva is absolutely important for the growth of India. The only difference is that the citizens better realise the nonsense in hindu and use the shastra as reference for what not to follow and believe and practice. 

Anyone with a rational mind and the will to believe in the concept of equality will question the nonsense in hindutva. Our country's development is very much in us collectively abandoning this faith system that breeds discrimination, contempt and greed and has been systematically destroying our society. Not following hindutva is the cure to all problems India is facing right now. 


JAI NONSENSE-HINDUTVA!!! JAI SAFFRON-CRAP!! 

JAI BEEF!!!

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Regards,

HOW ARTHASHASTRA DESTROYED MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES: THE JANPADA HALLUCINATION

Hello World,

This time, we will discuss the term ‘Janpada’ that refers to the ‘citizens.’ Janpada is apparently being used as a ‘Secret of Modern Day Leadership.’ The idiotic Chanakya apparently has used this term to explain how leadership works. Here’s what this stupid theory has in terms of an interpretation for good governance:

The first thing that jumps out to me when I read this chapter of that book was that this dealt with too much idealism that would never work out. For instance, this idiot Chanakya says, “There are two people who don't have a personal life and they are the king and the teacher” And he tries to explain that, until every person in the kingdom is not happy and educated, both cannot take rest.

From an idealistic standpoint, this seems to be making a very strong statement, a statement of virtue. However this is crap. When we say the government is for the people, it has to be by the people then the very concept of ‘king’ is nonsense. I'm okay with that title ‘The King’ as long as it's a democratically derived position where someone gets chosen by the people. Unfortunately, using this wrong idealistic statement as a premise, Chanakya was just gently floating around the idea that it has to be a king that should rule and the king shouldn’t have a personal life. While kings ruled back then, we do know that they had a rather lavish personal lives. This means Chanakya’s neethi did not work even during those days, largely because the not many gave a rat’s ass about his ideologies. 

The moment we say government is for the people, the people have to choose it. And even when we say people, we're talking about humans and humans are animals. Just to bring back some reality, animals are not robots and the whole idea of a certain group of humans can't help their personal life or can’t take rest is just not realistically possible. Chanakya must have had access to the best drugs of the time that made him believe no-personal-life was a distinct possibility.

Even from a metaphorical angle this is nonsense to me and that's not how things work. People need to recharge and those who govern have to make a whole lot of decisions. Pretty much everything comes to their plate and it doesn't stay much longer and so they have to be quick, they have to be detailed and they have to be error free and all of this is impossible if they don't have a personal life. That is one profession where personal and professional lives are pretty much mixed just like in any other profession. 

However, the intensity of that mix of personal and professional lives is just so strong because the one who governs has to think on behalf of the people, for the benefit of the people and he has to put himself in the place of the people. So if he doesn't have a life of his own where he can see things as one of the people then there is no way he can govern those people. He's not fit. And fun fact, the kings didn't have to do this because they were given the luxury of the nonsense called dynastic politics. So an idiot would rule the world just because his tyrant father ruled that kingdom. And this would just continue and in essence all of the citizens were idiots who just patronised these fools and here was Chanakya, the greatest of the greatest idiot who documented this Arthashastra crap, making sure him and his group of sanskrit money launderers had the ‘Advisor’ role reserved for them at all times in the king’s court.

Let's move forward on the Janpada crap that this fellow had crafted. This book starts off with a Chanakya’s reference on this chapter talking about the citizens governance and it does try to draw an analogy with the modern business world with the customer being the most important stakeholder and then all the businesses being the kings’ and them considering their customers as citizens. Ideally, this seems to make sense, but if we just go into the details of it, we will discover so many versions of intergalactic nonsense. It's very hard to ignore that.

Here's one translation which says “In the happiness of the subjects lies the happiness of the King and what is beneficial to the subjects is his own benefit.” Please don't even waste any time trying to make sense of this as this is nonsense. Governance has to go on the basis of logic and reason not on the basis of popular opinion where someone will just blindly patronise others. People and ideas are very different entities and just because we like someone doesn't mean we have to believe and accept all the ideas from that person. And the same way just because we disagree with an idea, it doesn't mean we have to hate that person who gave that idea. That's not how things work and that part itself is against the very concept of logic and reason and this verse apparently comes from book 1, chapter 9, verse 34 of Arthashastra. I can’t believe they had a document of lies and the lies have an address. 

Then comes within this book a subheading: ‘Democratic Attitude of the King’ What kind of nonsense is that???!!? Again, it’s a crappy subliminal message just pushing really good nonsense along with a popular idea and in the process exemplifying that nonsense into correctness. The very concept of king is crap. If it is a democratic attitude, why the king? It has to be a democratically elected head of the state. It could be a prime minister, it could be a president and it could as well be the king but then a democratically elected king, not a king who was just born to another king or the king who killed the king of his neighbouring kingdom. 

Here it talks about how the king should think democratically!!!! How cool is that???!!! If the king should think democratically, he should step down from the throne and before he does that, he should organise a democratic election where the people can choose the leader of their choice. That’s a king with a democratic attitude and anything else is just nonsense which is what this book covers largely. 

To those who are still struggling for a perspective, there are many books being published glorifying the idiot Chanakya as a a great strategist and using the crap he  documented as the reference for modern day decision making.

This book is about secrets of leadership and then it uses Chanakya’s writings as a reference apparently. This book is trying to give the idea that there existed the holiest of the holiest, from way back when nothing existed and then those were the times when the best things were written and that's part of our glorious history. The problem is, without validation, that material (completely out of context) is being used as a reference to define modern day leadership qualities. 

When our objective is to use something as a reference to define something, in this case something from history to define leadership in our modern day, then we should be talking about what the qualities of the leader should be. The perspective could be anything, but then is in this book within this chapter, the next heading is ‘Qualities of Good Citizens’. The book is about secrets of leadership and one of the chapters says ‘qualities of good citizens’. 

• What are good citizens? 
• Why should anyone even understand the qualities of good citizens? 

Citizens are citizens whether good, bad and ugly. These are highly subjective terms. Good citizens, bad citizens, ugly citizens, beautiful citizens of every colour; these are terms that vary from culture to culture and these are things that vary from time to time and from country to country. If something is legal in a country, citizens doing that act are not criminals. The same act might be illegal in a different country and then those citizens engaging in that act within that country would be termed as illegal outlaws. So good, bad and ugly are highly subjective terms. This book is about secrets of leadership and its trying to define what good citizens are. I'm just curious. Would I be insulting idiots all over the world if I call this book’s author an idiot?????

When I flip the page and go to the next page what I see here are the qualities of citizens. There are some bullet points:

• Strong position in center and frontiers.
• Sustainable in times of distress 
• Easy to protect.
• Providing excellent means of livelihood.
• Capable of bearing taxes and fines. 

Let's take it one by one;

Strong position in center and frontiers:- 

The author is trying to define the war strategy. Any leader is not a leader if he’s going to take his people into war unless and until such a circumstance is forced upon the country. And here qualities of the citizens include strong position in center and frontiers. In essence, what that implies here is that the citizens are supposed to be strong soldiers who follow the orders of the king and then there would enable the country establish strong borders and strong territories. 

Sounds ideal however it’s crap. Strong position at the centre and border is the consequence of good leadership. The leader should enable his citizens to achieve such strong borders. One can’t throw such criteria on the citizens saying “oh you are a citizen, you should be strong in the center and frontiers and you better protect the borders.” That's not how that happens. All they can do is to choose the leader of their choice and it's the leader’s responsibility. If it is going to involve citizens, it is the leader’s responsibility to train those citizens, not the other way around. If the citizens have the responsibility to protect their territory why the king? I think that question had been asked in real time and that's why we have democracy in so many countries now.

Sustainable in times of distress:- 

That’s an irony within the title. If it a time of distress, that itself indicates the system is not sustainable. It's hard for people during economic recession when businesses are out and the government doesn't have a lot of funding. Historically, when such circumstances prevailed, there wasn't much economic activity happening, people didn't have a lot of jobs and because of that they didn't make a lot of money and they were struggling for food. And then, the author here says ‘being sustainable in times of distress’ is a quality of a citizen. So what this idiot is implying is, if you have a recession, you better be resourceful. That means he's not referring to citizens, he's referring to investment bankers. Again that’s pure nonsense in every sense of the phrase.

Easy to protect:- 

I don’t know what kind of Marijuana or crack-cocaine the author and Chanakya were high on. But then ‘easy to protect’ is a quality of a citizen. Even a computer program with a dictionary gone wrong wouldn't compile these three words together as a quality for a citizen. In essence what Chanakya is implying is that the citizen should make it easy for the King.

And that's the reason these kinds of idiots, this holy religion based cunning ass-holes played the advisor role for kingdoms across the world and across the cultures. It was the religious monks and their slaves who held the Kings and the ruling class within that perception in the name of being their advisor. These are the kind of ideas they impressed the kings with and they had convinced the kings this is how it should be, since they have written that and the world needs to follow that. It's just a hoax that used publication very strongly and all they did was write all this crap and then convinced people who were ruling saying if you follow this crap and make your people follow this crap you will continue to rule. And the Kings fell for it. As it turns out, that's not true and that didn't work out either or else we would have a lot of kings by now and we won’t have democracies. Because the Kings fell for the nonsense from the religious idiots, the kingdoms fell. The ruling class failed to protect all the people and then one way or the other within each kingdom all the people created their own means to choose the leader of their choice and that's when democracy was born. Therefore Arthashastra did not work and using that nonsense as reference for modern day decision making is beyond stupid.

Providing excellent means of livelihood:- 

Is providing excellent means of livelihood is the quality of a citizen??? I don't know where to start.  Providing excellent means of livelihood is the king's job, that's the job of the leader; not that of the citizen. Becoming eligible for the livelihood or becoming eligible for a job might be floated as a requirement for a citizen. However creating those opportunities or excellent means of livelihood is the responsibility of a leader, the king and not the other way around. Again it’s devoid of logic and reason, typical of the idiot Chanakya. The modern day fool believing his crap is not so surprising.

Capable of bearing taxes and fines:-

This is the most hilarious one from my perspective. So Chanakya, the idiot is implying that citizens should be able to bear taxes and fines. In other words he's saying there are going to be taxes, there are going to be fines and you better be prepared to bear those. So the very concept of imposing expenditure on the people is against the people. Asking the people to be prepared to bear the expense is tyrannic. If someone would do that then he's not fit for leadership of any kind, even the worst one. But then there is an idea that says the leader should do that and that this being documented in to a scripture called Arthashastra which is in an essence is the science of finance and then that is being used as a reference for principles of management and that is being used by an author in today’s time as a reference for Seven Secrets of leadership. This is how kings made all the money; the country didn’t flourish (it never did) and they just forced people to pay and then they enjoy all the wealth. 

When I read this crap I understand how they managed to do that because they had someone who documented this crap and floated it around in the name of God and then people who just blindly believed it, followed it.

I'm glad that I wasn't born in the medieval times. I would have been severely punished for making all these comments to say the least. But then I would have gladly taken up the punishment than accepting this crap as right. It’s just hard to be an idiot with conciousness.  

The next part says: Leadership in Action- taking care of citizens. And then it just goes on through Dana, Danda and Bheda.  Dana means benefits. Danda means showing the rod or been strict. Bheda means elimination. It's a different word to define what is otherwise known as carrot and stick approach- Dana, Danda and Bheda. So in essence if you throw something at people, they will fall for greed and when they don't fall for greed, show them the stick and have them experience fear so that they succumb to fear and accept to your conditions. And when they don't fall for greed or fear, eliminate them, take them out and this was written as principles of management and Kings have followed it. 

It clearly says here; Dana, Danda and Bheda- benefits, being strict and elimination. 

• If someone accepts, pay them well. 
• If someone rejects, threaten them.  
• If they don't accept out of fear, eliminate them and end their existence.

No wonder democracy came into practice.  This is not how any leader should do. You know that Arthashastra is crap and someone uses this crap from a thousand years back to create new crap and that’s nothing but the percolation of nonsense through our society over time.

Coming back to Janpada; the third Secret for Leadership within a modern book, inspired from the awesome crap from idiot Chanakya covers the qualities of citizens. The very idea of defining the qualities of the citizens is unrealistic but the assumption of the idea being a ‘secret of leadership’ is pure hallucination.

Best regards,

CAUVERY ISSUE AND THE NEED TO FORGET MAY-1991

Hello World,

I think I need to share this with you and right now. 

The southern-most state of India is experiencing a whole lot of citizen unrest. People are not happy and the reason is we’re citizens from the southern end of India and apparently the current administration at the center is not very southern-friendly so to speak. I can use any other term and that would be absolutely right, but I’ll just choose to go with ‘not-so-southern-friendly’ for now.

To begin with, apparently there is a river that our state shares along with a few other states in the southern region. And that means you know we get to share the water that flows through the river.

However, thanks to climate change, irregular rainfall, rising population and then the subsequent rise in demand for water. The supply has reduced and then the sharing agreement that used to exist among these states went null and void operationally. It's still live on paper, but that's all it is. The result is that citizens  are not receiving their due volume of water from the dams and those who control the dams, based out of the state from where the river originates get to say ‘NO’ to releasing the water. And from their perspective, the river has very little water to meet their demand and therefore they might not be doing justice to the citizens in their state if they release the water for others. 

The problem is, by denying that share of water as per the agreement a whole lot of rights for the other states which depend on that water are being violated. This issue has been going on for decades now and this has gone from court to court and it still persists.  However, right now the situation is this issue went all up to the Supreme Court, the apex court. There’s no judiciary above this and the Supreme Court gave a ruling that a management board/scheme [there is still a debate on which word was used in the ruling] must be constituted which in essence would be a collaborative administrative board involving members of all the states that have to share the water from this river.

However, this not-so-southern-friendly government at the center just ignored that Supreme Court ruling and there was a deadline which we passed a few days ago and the management board/scheme hasn't been constituted yet. The state that is responsible to release the water is just enjoying the delay and the states who are looking for their right share of water are unhappy to say the least and the people are irritated. A supreme court ruling has been violated by the ruling central government in a democracy and that is being considered ok by everyone involved. The political parties as usual have taken to the roads, they're conducting protests, but that's just Vote Bank politics. 

Apparently the state from where the river originates is looking at elections in the next few weeks and so the political party which runs the government at the center is contesting there and its looking to win. So if it does anything that goes against the interest of that state then they might lose that election so they're just delaying this on purpose without bothering how this delay is impacting the states which depend on that water.

As it turns out many farmers are out of business because the water supply is not there and the rains are not regular. Their crops have failed back to back and some of them are reeling in poverty and some of them are stuck with huge loans. They rely on agriculture and agriculture relies on water. They're not asking for everything, they're just asking for their rightful share, but even that is being denied. by a democratically elected government against the ruling of the supreme court of the democracy. The government at the center is refusing to hear the cry of the people from the south and it's unsettling. Some farmers have committed suicide owing to their back-to-back failures and the subsequent pressures to settle the loans they took to coverup the loss. 

When I look back in time, what I see is the last time when people in the south realised that someone is trying to kill their Ex-Prime Minister, they gave the killers food and shelter. And at that time it wasn’t even in their problem. In fact, it was a problem in a different country; maybe close to us but then it was a problem in a different country. The Ex-Prime Minister authorised a peace-keeping force to help end a civil conflict in a foreign nation and the peace-keeping force took the foreign country’s side as opposed to their originally announced neutral stance and this caused an uprising against the Ex-Prime Minister. However, as for the people of the south here, all they heard was that someone is trying to kill the Ex-Prime Minister when he would be visiting their state and they just gladly helped those who ended up assassinating the guy with a human bomb attack. The irony was that at that time, the problem wasn't even their own. They just identified themselves close those who suffered as a result of the peace-keeping force in a foreign nation and took the side of The Avengers who successfully avenged the death of their people, in the foreign country. But fast forward to now and this time the problem is very much that of the people of the southern state and they are at the receiving end of the problem. 

I sincerely hope the members of the current central administration don't make it down south, at least not until this problem is resolved or at least for the next 3 months. We don't want to tarnish ourselves with such an accusation one more time. If people could do that in the past, they could very well do it now and they have a much stronger reason and that's the reason for my fear. Back in 1991 those who helped The Avengers from the foreign country, had to do it fairly secretly as not all of it was publicly agreeable in concept. We, just like many other humans, detest crime and violence. However, some of us at that time wanted to support and they did that discreetly. 

This time, based on the honking and angry stares I see during my daily commute to and from my office, I can clearly see that each household will step out and make a public contribution, should such an idea be floated around by any ‘Avengers’ group. 

The fact is out: The current administration doesn't look at all citizens the same way and apparently we from the southern-most state are the step children and our step father doesn't care. 

I sincerely hope this river water issue is resolved. But what I want to happen more importantly is that those from the administration at the center should not make it to our state, at least, not for the next three to four months. We won’t know how people would react and we can never say who would end up doing what. Not all of that would be legally right, should those unforeseen circumstances pan out in an unprecedented fashion, much to the agony of everyone across the nation. And touching base on the history again, the last time people here learned about someone trying to kill the Ex-Prime-Minister, they gave them food and shelter, just because they believed in that idea and logic behind that act of crime. And this time those people who agreed to such a weird logic in the past have a direct problem and they have seen their own dying in poverty in the recent past and they are angry. Not unhappy but plain angry.

So I beg with everyone from the central administration: Please don't come down to south. It’s okay that you don’t care about us and you don't want to care about us. We get that and you're not going to be there forever and someone else is going to replace you soon. Even if you continue, you're not going to be there for ever and we understand that as well. We don't want to insult ourselves by becoming responsible for such crazy things as that happened during May, 1991. 

We would gladly fight our enemies who challenge our territory, who challenge our country, but that is a matter of our sovereignty and we will standup for that even when being treated as 15th-class citizens. However, if something bad happens to our administrators when they visit our state, that’s an insult to us. We are culturally designed to tolerate and treat our adversaries with humanity and respect. We are also culturally groomed to follow the principles of social justice, and above all, we have groomed ourselves to respect the concept of logic and reason. With that as the basis, we don't want to be responsible for accommodating the killing of nasty mosquitoes [one can refer to the Dengue outbreak as well but that will be besides the point].

That would be all. Thank you.

Best regards,

ECONOMIC WAR ON THOSE WHO CRITICIZE: THE 'CASHEW-AL' WAY

Hello World,

While I am preparing my next vomit on Arthashastra, I went through the 2018 Budget documents and I have an observation to share with you. Let’s get started.

We will begin with an exhibit:

The 2018-Budget proposes to reduce the customs duty for the import of cashew nuts by 50%. What used to be 5% is going to become 2.5%. Cashew is high value crop and 50% slash is a significant gain and this is expected to make the import of cashew from international markets into our country much cheaper than what it used to be.

Usually, when two countries agree to help each other economically, they ease the selling of each others’ products and services in their respective territories. Also, when the nation needs a raw material for a specific product which also has to be affordable to the citizens, the administration usually relaxes the import duties and enables the market players to take advantage of the margins.

In an effort to understand the story behind I googled to find who the top producers of cashew nuts are. 

Fun fact: We are one of the top-3 producers!

Here’s a set of screenshots to indicate that:

I started wondering why cashew imports need to be relaxed in a country which is already in the top-3 producers list. The reasons are simple:

If cashew imports are relaxed:

1. The local producers will have to face international competition and might not necessarily win the price war. 
2. The local farming economy will face the brunt given that they are already producing the some of the major quantities, globally.

I wanted to know how big the local cashew farming economy existed and I landed at this:

So, 5 out of 7 states in the Top-6 Cashew Producers List are Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The others marked as top producers are West Bengal, Jharkand and Maharashtra.

If I look closely, most of these states have political rhetoric strongly criticising the current central administration and the political party that is running it. In essence, what I see is an economic war being waged against states who are not willing to collaborate with the political party running the central administration right now.

I might be wrong but here’s my set of questions:

Why is that cashew is the only agri-produce whose import duty is slashed by 50%? 

How come the crop which comes from select states with a similar political rhetoric can be imported for cheap? 

Is this an economic war against the farmers of the regions where political ideologies don’t necessarily match with that of the current central administration?

While I pondered this, scrolling through the budget document, I came across this:

National program from the central budget aiming at air pollution is something that needs to be lauded with a open heart. Such programs make the place a bit better for future generations. In this case the program directly aims at reducing the loss to the agricultural-economy as a result of air pollution.

However, why do such ambitious programs exclusively cover select states from the country?

This to me means that, the air-pollution-driven death and health hazards faced by citizens from the other states of this country is perfectly ok. 

The priority is just those states which face the MOST POLLUTION. You see, pollution is not bad. MOST POLLUTION is alone bad. Only those who face MOST POLLUTION are superior humans and deserving citizens for a centre-driven program. This is how the best brains work in this country as of now and I cannot imagine of an award that I can recommend the brains who voted these neuro-superior-homo-sapiens who are deeply passionate about protecting just those superior humans who face the MOST POLLUTION in this country.

For some reason, the states who stand to face the economic brunt of cashew imports do not match or even come close to the states included in the air pollution program. 

So some states can have cleaner air and no competition from foreign agri products while others can breathe more monoxides and eat unsold cashews until death. 

The reality might be something very different from the grim picture I paint here. 

The questions are: 

Is it, really?

At What point do we admit the fact as a fact?

Best regards,