We are Richie Rich....

         Our Dear PM,FM,HM ... (No they are not radio channels but they are all remote controlled robots play the role of heads of a superpower called India i.e Bharat i.e Hindustan i.e ????)..... said that the poverty has come down....I am thoroughly confused, what does it mean???? Is it because the money in the Swiss bank is tripled or many people died in Kedarnath????.....or the regular deaths of hunger increase as one time meal is also a luxury now for many families....(Though Mr Raj Babbar gets the meal only at Rs 12/- ,Mr Rashid Massod at only Rs 5/- and Mr Farooq Abdulla at Rs 1/-)??????

        Who gives us these figures? what is the definition of poverty line? Can anybody really explain it to a layman like me who doesn’t know the terminolgies such as fiscal deficit. How does one define the poverty line in India?  Which yardsticks is used, either in terms of the food that money can buy or in terms of defining who the poor are. As per the definition “The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a given country. Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year. The largest of these expenses is typically the rent required to live in an apartment, so historically, economists have paid particular attention to the real estate market and housing prices as a strong poverty line affecter.”

        This means Rs 33/- per day includes food & stay,(other daily expenses as the medical,electricity,telephone expenditure is not included in this) so as per Mr Babbar  Rs 24 requires for two time meal and still you are left with a hefty sum of Rs9/- for your rent and if you eat only once then you can live in an multi-facilitate apartment .you will be healthy and wealthy….You are so lucky ….

we are a rich country

Why we cannot stop the corruption?..............

When There Is Will There Is The Way............

When we say that the corruption is every where and the politicians are corrupt and now no one can change the system because the lawmaking is in the hands of corrupt people etc etc then I feel these are the mere excuses we are giving to ourselves, we are either becoming too lethargic to do something or we are too insensitive towards others plight and simply running away from the situation like a coward.....
If we believe in the above sentence then we can come out of any situation but slowly and very tragically we are losing the faith in ourselves and surrender......
Remember we got our freedom because the common man who perhaps was more poor, uneducated, tied down with age old beliefs of cast, creed, religion etc dared to fight against the world's highest power of that time, who was ruling 2/3 of the world and used to say proudly that "The Empire on which the sun never sets" .They had everything weapons, money, power, advantage of 150 yrs rule which definitely gave them an upper hand over the situation but our common man never got frightened and fought till the end sometimes with the leader sometimes on his own and we got the freedom. How this miracle happened? 150 years of slavery could have stopped him saying "This is every day's story; British are going to rule why I should waste my time? I should try and get place in any of the services and take care of my family, let the others face their own fate".....just think if that common man would have thought this way then???
I think we should try to start from ourselves that we will not give up to any type of corruption. If every one starts this then automatically the whole nation follows it and then the so called corrupt leaders will vamoose in the thin air or try to become non corrupt......
I am not day dreaming but thinking over today's situation, the country which was once rich with culture, trade, natural resources even in British regime, is now representing the third world where world bank is refusing to give further loan for development saying they are not sure whether the money will be used for the same purpose for which the loan is sanctioned.....
Why this has happened? Because the common man forgot his own strength to question the government if they are doing wrong, he just started thinking of I before WE forgetting the fact that many “I” make WE so if one of the I is affected means the whole system is affected and that ultimately means our own existence is affected….
I am requesting my young friends, don’t just get involved in mobiles and the virtual world, face the situation, the new generation gets demoralized very fast, giving up is very easy, just think if any of the freedom fighter would have given up that time, then you might have come across “Dogs and Indians are not allowed” when you wanted to enter that super mall….Just think

The Dream of Rich India

I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung no wine untasted [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsty.com/glee-i-dreamed-a-dream-lyrics.html ]
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
And still I dreamed she'll come to me
That we would live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed



A beautiful song isn’t’ it? Today I remember it because of our very own leaders, who feel that the people of this country are idiots and they have every right to make mockery of the situation, I was amused to know that if I earn Rs33/- per day then I can really save money for my future and I am not poor , I can really eat a nice meal in Rs12/- in Mumbai  and if  in Delhi my condition is still better, I will save more as I get full meal in Rs5/- and, and, and, and now I know why they call Kashmir as ‘Heaven on Earth’ because Rs1/- is enough for a meal ,so I am a well settled person in Kashmir if I earn Rs33/- ..Hamidast..Hamidast..Hamidast….
 No I am not dreaming, the honourable ministers are telling us this after a proper survey of every nook and corner of the metropolitan cities. I thought why I am struggling? and why I am taking so much pain to go to the market where I can't get any vegetable below Rs40/- per kilo (people who were staunch non- vegetarian turned to vegetarian because the prices of fish, chicken, mutton are not affordable). Gas cylinder price increases every three month but if I get full, ready meal then why do I need a gas cylinder?
When our ministers spends only Rs12/- every day why do I need Rs1000/- for a family of 4? My humble request to all these ministers to tell me this eating joints where they can eat the full meal for Rs12/- because the Bhelwala has increased the price of the plate making it Rs20/- and Vada-Pao costs Rs15/-  (I am a Mumbaikar, a Dehiite can compare Golgappa ,Dahibada or Aaluchhat price)
Sometimes I really wonder do  power makes a man such thick skin that he makes mockery of the real facts? These so called highly educated people do not think twice before making such outrageous statements? Don’t they fell ashamed?
Look at the Planning commission’s statement
Quote:
The Planning Commission told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that anyone spending more than Rs 965 per month in urban India and Rs 781 in rural India will be deemed not to be poor. Updating the poverty line cut-off figures, the commission said those spending in excess of Rs 32 a day in urban areas or Rs 26 a day in villages will no longer be eligible to draw benefits of central and state government welfare schemes meant for those living below the poverty line.
Unquote.
I think this is not a joke with Indian people but a genuine mistake of our honourable prime minister, the head of the planning commission and the UPA head, as all of them have studied or spent the major part of their life in UK, so they also think the same way as Britishers think about Native Indians .Our PM and Head of planning commission are born before independence and I think they still think that we live in the same situation where a person could have had a sumptuous meal and save something for his future with Rs33/- per day or since all of them have studied in UK they must have calculated the figures in pounds and the clerk/typist, that stupid Indian just gave the figures in rupees . Let us enjoy our Rich status till the time they realize their mistake ….



5 rupayya 12 ana.......India is a Rich Country

1968 - Martin Luther King's Prophetic Last speech - Remember

Do we hope to get our Martin Luther King Jr to motivate ourselves to make our nation a super power???

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
                Free at last! Free at last!
                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³