UPA II-a report card

Certain facts:-
1) Decline in GDP-50%
2)Increase in unemployment-100%
3) Price rise-100%
4) Closure of industrial units-100%
5)Agriculture-stagnant
6)Growth in Services sector- 50%
7) Real per capita income-declined.
8)Increase in NPAs of banks-100%
9)Increase in people living below BPL-25%
10) Increase in public debt- 50%
11) Devaluation of currency-50%
12)Increase in farmers suicides-10%
13)Increase in crimes against women-100%
14)Increase in scams-100%
15)Relations with other countries-deteriorated
16) Increase in incomes of top 1%-1000%

Yet the PM& UPA chairperson are saying that the country has progressed! Subhanallah!

a serious matter

The law makers have become the law breakers! Yesterdays incident in which a MLA along with other MLAs beat up a police PSI,who was doing his duty,shows to what depths our elected representatives have sunk. 'Power corrupts.absolute power corrupts absolutely!' Acton
Our representatives have the impression that they are above the law! This impression has been created starting from the PM and his colleagues in the government. The PM has been stubbornly refusing to accept responsibility for the wrong doings of his colleagues which shows his tacit support to them and perhaps even involvement.
Almost 65% of our elected representatives are involved in some heinous offence or other.It is time to amend the RPA to disqualify and debar persons facing criminal charges failing which people should boycott the polls!

The whole nation is watching what steps the speaker of the Maharashtra assembly takes against the guilty MLAs!

laughter-best medicine

teesri kasam-shailendra

Sajan Re Jhooth Mat Bolo
khuda Ke Paas Jaana Hai 
na Haathi Hai Na Ghoda Hai,
wahan Paedal Hi Jana Hai

tumhare Mehel Chaubaare 
yahin Reh Jayenge Saare
akad Kis Baat Ki Pyaare
yeh Sar Phir Bhi Jhukaana Hai
sajan Re Jhooth...

bhalaa Kije Bhalaa Hoga
buraa Kije Buraa Hoga
wahi Likh-likh Ke Kya Hoga
yahin Sab Kuch Chukana Hai
sajan Re Jhooth...

ladakpan Khel Mein Khoya
jawaani Neend Bhar Soya
budhaapa Dekhkar Roya
wahi Kissa Purana Hai
sajan Re Jhooth...//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDHmknKBDM

actions not words

We,Indians of all hues and colors,are good at making eloquent speeches but poor when it comes to acting on them! "The world is deafened by useless words!" The Mother. On any occasion,there is along list of speakers who like to listen to the sound of their own voice. Krishna Menon holds the record for the longest speech at the UN(4 consequent days)!Our Parliament is a venue for delivering sermons and homilies. The Speaker has to continuously remind the members to be brief.
In the US Supreme Court,the lawyers are permitted 30 minutes each to conclude their arguments. In India even 30 hours are not enough! Our court judgments run into hundreds of pages which only the lawyers and judges can understand. It is a simple truth that the longer the judgment,the more the chances of acquittal in appeal!
'Double speak,triple think' has become a national trait. Hypocrisy and chicanery are the order of the day.

History shows that the most effective speakers were the ones who spoke the least!

iqbal-sare jahan se accha hindostan hamara

सारे जहाँ से अच्छा हिन्दोस्तान हमारा
हम बुलबुले हैं इसकी ये गुलसिता हमारा ॥धृ॥

घुर्बत मे हो अगर हम रहता है दिल वतन मे
समझो वही हमे भी दिल है जहाँ हमारा ॥१॥

परबत वो सब से ऊंचा हमसाय आसमाँ का
वो संतरी हमारा वो पासबा हमारा ।२॥

गोदी मे खेलती है इसकी हजारो नदिया
गुलशन है जिनके दम से रश्क-ए-जना हमारा ।३॥

ए अब रौद गंगा वो दिन है याद तुझको
उतर तेरे किनारे जब कारवाँ हमारा ॥४॥

मज़हब नहीं सिखाता आपस मे बैर रखना
हिन्दी है हम वतन है हिन्दोस्तान हमारा ॥५॥

युनान-ओ-मिस्र-ओ-रोमा सब मिट गये जहाँ से
अब तक मगर है बाकी नाम-ओ-निशान हमारा ॥६॥

कुछ बात है की हस्ती मिटती नही हमारी
सदियो रहा है दुश्मन दौर-ए-जमान हमारा ॥७॥

इक़्बाल कोइ मेहरम अपना नही जहाँ मे
मालूम क्या किसी को दर्द-ए-निहा हमारा ॥८॥

[edit]Translation

Better than the entire world, is our Hindustan,
We are its nightingales, and it (is) our garden abode

If we are in an alien place, the heart remains in the homeland,
Know us to be only there where our heart is.

That tallest mountain, that shade-sharer of the sky,
It (is) our sentry, it (is) our watchman

In its lap frolic those thousands of rivers,
Whose vitality makes our garden the envy of Paradise.

O the flowing waters of the Ganges, do you remember that day
When our caravan first disembarked on your waterfront?

Religion does not teach us to bear ill-will among ourselves
We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindustan.

In a world in which ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all vanished without trace
Our own attributes (name and sign) live on today.

Such is our existence that it cannot be erased
Even though, for centuries, the cycle of time has been our enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teB0uOfRuZY

Iqbal! We have no confidants in this world
how will any one know of our hidden pain?

greece

The West owes its entire civilization to ancient Greece! Socrates,Plato,Pericles,Aristotle and Archimedes were the ancient Rishis who laid the foundation of modern civilization. Democracy,reason,individual freedom,rule of law and science originated in ancient Greece.
Today Greece lies abandoned and neglected! High levels of unemployment,stagflation,recession, devaluation of currency,debt default,social unrest and massive deficits have reduced a prosperous country to a pauper. The main reason for the present predicament is profligacy-living beyond your means and a desire to imitate your affluent neighbors! The American culture has penetrated Europe so much that it has become impossible for them to extricate themselves from the present crisis. It is only a matter of time before some of these countries loose their sovereignty to countries like Germany,China or the US.

India must take a leaf out of the book and abandon its present economic policies before it is too late!