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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Modi: NRI Prime Minister?

किसी ने कह दिया मोदी को NRI Prime Minister ------- महिनो पहले राहुल गांधी ने ऐलान किया था, "हमारे प्रधान मंत्री अभी भारत के भ्रमण पर आए हुवे हैं।

मोदी पिछले २०-३० साल कभी एक दिन भीं कहीं vacation पर नहीं गए। दिलोजान काम करते रह गए। तो जब प्रधान मंत्री बने तो शायद उन्हें लगा चलो यही मौका है, सुद ब्याज सहित सब असुल लेते हैं। काम की क्या पड़ी है। काम तो होता ही रहता है। काम कभी ख़त्म होता है क्या? कुछ न कुछ होता ही रहता है।

मेरे को लगता है अब शायद ही कोई देश बचा हो। और जहाँ खुद नहीं गए वहाँ के लोगों को खुद बुला लिए।

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Kunming Kolkata

China seeks rail link between Kunming and Kolkata

to revive the ancient silk route, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh. ..... the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) multi-model corridor project initiated by China. ..... The 2800 kilometer rail route could be a critical component for the BCIM corridor that seeks cross border trade and flow of people. .... China has pledged $40 billion for the silk route, having a trade potential of $132 billion. ..... Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province ..... "We are glad to know that after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office, the look east policy has substantially moved ahead.

New Silk Route? China plans Kunming-Kolkata railway link

The proposed 3,000 km rail corridor ..... The rail corridor will pass through Mandalay in Myanmar and the Bangladeshi cities of Chittagong and Dhaka before entering West Bengal and ending in Kolkata. The economic corridor project, along the old southern Silk Route, envisages the building of transport, energy and telecommunication networks.

China seeks high-speed rail link between Kunming and Kolkata to revive ancient silk route

funding from multilateral bodies such as Asian Development Bank. ...... Talking about the entertainment sector in particular, he favoured screening of more and more Indian films in Chinese theaters and joint collaboration in movie making. ..... The recent release of Aamir Khan starer PK has been a hit in China, Ming, who plans to catch the movie soon, said.

Faster than China? India's road, rail drive could lay doubts to rest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reformist, but hard-up government has begun a splurge on road and rail building that analysts say could remove doubts over whether economic growth in India really is overtaking China.

China: A Complex Picture
The State And Its Several Forms
Friends Of Hillary: On Both Sides?
Rohingya: India's Responsibility
All Of Bihar Is One Big City
Bihar@2025
India: A 15% Growth Rate Is Possible
Tough, Challenging Roles For Amitabh
Amitabh Should Do A Movie With Anushka
The Tamils Of Sri Lanka And Me

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

नरेन्द्र मोदी, बिहार और नीतिश कुमार

इस एपिसोड में कपिल का एक लाइन है: "Why are you laughing? You uneducated people!" ये लाइन इंडिया वालों पर नहीं मीडिया वालों पर लागु होता है। मीडिया वाले कह रहे हैं, ये जो बिहार में इलेक्शन होने जा रहा है, It is a referendum on Narendra Modi. कैसी बेतुक बात कर रहे हैं। वो २०१४ में हुवा था, फिर २०१९ में होगा। अभी का चुनाव है वो इस लिए है कि नीतिश को आगे १० साल मिलना चाहिए कि नहीं। जनता जनार्दन होती है। बिहार वाले जो निर्णय कर दे वो सही है। पिछले साल भी सही था, इस साल भी सही होगा। Bihar is a mature democracy. Biharis know the difference between the central government and the state government. चाहे मीडिया वालों को मालुम हो ना हो बिहारियों को बखुबी मालुम है।

आज बिहार के बल पर मोदी को दिल्ली का ताज मिला। पटना में किसका सरकार बनता है किसका नहीं बनता है इससे कोइ फर्क नहीं पड़ता। Narendra Modi should do the best he can for Bihar regardless of who is in power in Patna. उसी लिए तो बिहार के लोगों ने उनको वोट दिया।

दल से बड़ा देश। सही बात है।

नीतिश बिहार की जनता से ५ नहीं दश साल माँग रहे हैं।

Right now, as things stand, Bihar is 55-45 in Nitish' favor. That is my observation. भिजन में उतना दम होता है। Bihar@2025 एक शब्द में उतना दम है। 45-55 को 55-45 कर दिया उस एक शब्द ने। विकास की राजनीति बिहार में १० साल से हो रही है। Caste arithmetic पर मत जाओ। वो बिहार में १० साल पुरानी फिल्म है।

"They Don't Do Random"
अगर बिहार में बीजेपी हार जाती है
१५% और १०% में फर्क
नीतिश कुमार और नरेंद्र मोदी: दोनों के दोनों
आल इंडिया मजलिस मुसलमान
एकीकृत जनता पार्टी का नेत्तृत्व नीतिश को ही करना चाहिए
China: A Complex Picture
विलियम, हरिवंश, एल, अमिताभ
नरेंद्र मोदी, नीतिश कुमार, सुशील मोदी, अमिताभ बच्चन
Rohingya: India's Responsibility
All Of Bihar Is One Big City
Bihar@2025
India: A 15% Growth Rate Is Possible
Tough, Challenging Roles For Amitabh
Amitabh Should Do A Movie With Anushka
The Tamils Of Sri Lanka And Me
Bihar Is Now 55-45
बिहार के उभरते चेहरे

I am a Nitish fan. And I am in good company. Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are also Nitish fans.

Burning Nitish' Boat

अगर मैदान बिहार हो तो वहाँ नीतिश कुमार के आगे अमित शाह का कुछ नहीं चल्ने वाला। मोदी को दिल्ली के लिए दो तिहाई दिया, नीतिश को पटना के लिए दो तिहाई मिल सकती है -- उसकी संभावना है। अभी तो नहीं है, लेकिन चुनाव में अभी वक्त है।

Friday, May 29, 2015

पहली बार अखिलेश ने मेरे को Impress किया

If you want to know for sure if Narendra Modi has political skills, you look at something like the border swap with Bangladesh. The issue had been festering for decades, and Modi sorted it out. That is skill. If you want to know if Barack Obama has political skills, you look at his health care reform. Presidents had struggled with it for 50 years. Same with Cuba. Obama made the move, and suddenly America finds itself seeking help from Cuba on cancer research. Go figure. Who would have thought!

Similarly, Akhilesh Yadav has impressed me with his land acquisition for the Agra-Lucknow expressway. He did it. Now he is competing. No longer is he facing a definite rout in 2017. There is only one way you can compete with Modi: development. You have to out-development him. That is it.

वैसे भी उत्तर प्रदेश बहुत बड़ा राज्य है। इसको एक बार फिर से bifurcate करना जरुरी है।

Know how land was acquired for Agra-Lucknow expressway

When farmers were protesting across India against the NDA government's land acquisition bill, over 30, 000 farmers in Uttar Pradesh willingly gave their fertile lands to the Samajwadi Party-led government to build its six-lane Agra-Lucknow expressway project. The government's flagship 302-km expressway greenfield project is the longest in the country till date.

Agra-Lucknow Expressway to be operational by Oct 2016

The state has planned to develop agricultural 'mandis' along the expressway to spur the economy by providing faster transport to agricultural produce, handicrafts, small industries etc. This region is known for high dairy, potato, fruits and food grain production.

UP mulls air strip on Lucknow-Agra expressway
Lucknow-Agra e-way to have 8 lanes all along the stretch
Chinese show interest in Lucknow-Ballia expressway

Friday, May 15, 2015

Indian Farmers And The Land Bill

English: Daytime scene showing the pre-monsoon air over India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If Modi were to ditch the land bill, that would not have any impact on an unfriendly monsoon, that would not have any impact on the unfavorable global conditions. The land bill impacts less than 1% of the land owned by Indian farmers, maybe 0.1%. But Modi's land bill is bearing the brunt of what is happening to all the land held by all Indian farmers. Farmers are 60% of India, and India is a democracy. The Chinese Communist Party never had to pass any land bill. They took what they needed, as they needed them.

The Indian farmers' concerns need to be addressed, even though they are largely independent of the land bill. They are legitimate voters with legitimate concerns. There is very little to do on the monsoon front in the immediate term, but major irrigation projects must be in the offing for the long term, there is not much that can be done to bring the global markets in favor. So what to do?

Communication is key. They have to feel the empathy. This is where leadership comes into play. Modi's megaphone comes handy here. So far the attempt has been to say the land bill is not anti-farmer. Well, what is the opposition to the land bill is only a symptom. The real issue is the farmers do have genuine concerns. Modi could do well to talk about the monsoon and the global markets.

Even on the land bill, the talk has been about infrastructure and industry. Irrigation has to be talked about in the same breath. Indian farmers understand irrigation even more than they understand rural infrastructure. Irrigation also speaks to the monsoon woes.

When Gandhi asked the Indian people to come forward, he did not offer lollipops. He asked for sacrifice. Modi can also ask people for sacrifice. If you want a better future for your children, this land bill needs to be passed. The next generation can not be as dependent on agriculture as this one. Usi mein bhalai hai. People will understand.

But talking about the next generation is not enough. Farmers are not going away any time soon. They have concerns just like the industrialists and anyone else. They are also voters. They are also consumers. The government in Delhi has to make its very best attempts to do right by them. In the immediate term. There is no skipping that part. They voted for you with expectations. Those expectations have to be met.

Indian Farmers Going Through A Downturn

The land bill, even if passed, will impact a very small part of land held by the farmers in India. But a bad monsoon or an unfavorable global market, neither of which are the doings of the government, can drag the government down, because India is a democracy, and one of the ways voters vent their anger is by voting one way or the other. The farmers of India are going through a downturn right now, and the land bill has become the punchbag for it.

For Modi's year-old government, storm brewing in rural India

From the start of the crop season last October through March, India's farm exports have fallen more than 11 percent to $15 billion, as the impact of the global commodities glut has been sharpened by events like Iran's nuclear talks and a currency dip in Brazil......... The fall in exports has depressed domestic farmgate prices just as unseasonal rain damaged winter crops such as wheat, potato, chickpea and rapeseed. Farmers have little money now to buy seeds for the summer sowing, and meteorologists have predicted the annual June-October monsoon will be below par, which means the next crop may also fail. ..... some of the events that have led to the crisis are beyond the government's control....... Until last year, for example, Iran paid a premium for Indian sugar, soymeal, barley and basmati rice. Now, with the easing of some Western sanctions, Iran is looking to buy elsewhere........ Cotton exports have been hit by China's decision to abandon a stockpiling plan, while non-basmati rice shipments face headwinds after Thailand decided to run down its stockpiles....... On the other side of the world, a decline in the Brazilian real following a scandal at oil giant Petrobras last year has weighed on sugar prices, making Indian exports uncompetitive......... Meanwhile, the fall in global crude oil prices has depressed prices of grains and oilseeds used for biofuels. It also trimmed freight rates, making imports of commodities such as corn and soymeal from South America cheaper for Asian buyers........ A strong rupee - despite a fall last week - has further made India's farm exports uncompetitive and imports cheaper......... A major commodities trader has said the decline in agricultural exports could be as much as $5 billion, or nearly 20 percent, for the crop year to September, which would be the steepest on record....... In the villages, farmers struggle to understand why they are earning less. "How come prices of all crops are going down?" asked Anil Sathe, a farmer in Kamargaon who said he has had to start working as a part-time labourer to make ends meet........

Farming accounts for only 15 percent of India's $2 trillion economy but provides a livelihood to 60 percent of its 1.25 billion people. A crisis in the countryside would have severe political impact.

India's powerful farming lobby turns on Modi

Farmer Tarachand Mathur was one of millions of Indians who voted Narendra Modi into power last year, but the government's push to make it easier for big business to forcibly acquire land means he won't be backing the premier again. .... "The rain gods don't hear us and Modi has also turned deaf to our cries.".... "We thought Modi's government would address our problems, that is why we voted for him. But look what he is doing. We will not back him again," said the 70-year-old as he smoked a hookah pipe.

Rahul Gandhi asks ‘visiting’ PM to meet farmers

"Our PM is on a tour of India right now. He has come here for some days. ..... The insinuation that Modi was jet-setting around the globe while farmers were committing suicides forms part of Rahul's now-familiar attacks at the PM in his post-sabbatical avatar.

Land bill: I live for the poor, says PM Modi

Talking in the context of the government's affordable housing scheme and that land acquired under the new law would benefit the poor, Modi asked, "Who is going to live in them? Are industrialists going to stay there... will Mukesh Ambani live there?" ...... "the US President (Barack Obama) as also the head of the World Bank and IMF all accept that India is the fastest growing economy of the world".

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Modi In Parliament

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Ghar Wapasi Nahin, Full Blown Conversion

Symbol of Hinduism, white and golden version. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Hindu fanatics in India who are disturbing Modi's development focus by the whole ghar wapasi thing --- they should muster their strengths and do the real thing. They should organize global campaigns, go to all continents, create a major online presence, and go everywhere on the planet to teach people who are eager and willing to learn more about Hinduism and possibly convert and become Hindu. The RSS should create a missionary wing, and do this. Go outside India, go outside South Asia.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right, like free speech. Stop second guessing Hindus who converted to other religions. Try converting people from other religions into Hinduism. I feel like there are not enough Hindus on the planet. And it is a great religion. Spread the word out.

I have a question. What caste will you place those new converts into? Or will you create a new casteless kind of Hinduism? It is about time.