What's your excuse?

EYES OF TRUTH

It joined me with a mere cry.

I gave the air

And resisted it's die.

When it moved forward

And took it's first stride,

I was there to provide the grip.

It tore my heart

And extracted the blood.

I sustained the pain

But never asked, why?

It plotted me out

And made money out of me,

My parts were sold for lakhs per acre.

But hardly I ever hesitated ,

As I was the mother to all.

After gaining age and Wisdom,

It came back;

I was elated.

At last I am going to be served;

Tears rolled down my chin

And hand raised to greet him,

It looked at my eyes,

But the eyes were neverth the same.

All my acts went in vain,

As he turned back;

And never looked again.

I burnt in the fire of agony,

For my son had left me alone.

But never gave up my job to serve;

As eyes of truth are always watching us.

Rise

They were sixteen in the family

Sharing one chappati amongst them;

But the house in the capital

Had a lavish supper.

When it rained hard,

They had nothing to wear;

Only a small roof to be shared;

But thou after a nap

Got up, stared at the window

And said "Perhaps it rained !"

When festive time came,

Thou prepared for celebrations

With new wear and plenty to eat;

But for them its nothing more than a nightmare

With nothing to wear

And hardly anything to satisfy their hunger.

Thy preserve thine innocence

And learn the ethics at school;

But at the age of holding pen,

He holds a bowl adding to his livelihood

Making him a likely goon.

Can't thou be a bit liberal;

Give away thy extravagance

For them who dream

But reality supresses their desires.

IS BARAK OBAMA THE RIGHT ONE TO BE GIVEN AWAY THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE???????

Lifetime award for debutant Obama

Handed Peace Nobel 9 Months Into Presidency 

HEARD
AROUND THE
WORLD
    So soon? He has not yet made a
    real input. He is proposing...but he
    still has to do it all Lech Walesa | 1983 PEACE PRIZE WINNER, FORMER POLISH PREZ, FOUNDER OF SOLIDARITY
Why should he get a peace prize while US has the largest N-arsenal on earth and his soldiers shed innocent blood in Iraq and Afghanistan? Issam al-Khazraji | A LABOURER IN BAGHDAD
I thought the only thing you won for making empty speeches about world peace was Miss World
Posted on Twitter
Daddy, you won the Nobel and it’s (First Dog) Bo’s birthday! Plus, we have a 3-day weekend coming up
Daughters Malia & Sasha Times View 

• In the US the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, asked a simple question: "What has President Obama actually accomplished?"
• Attributing Mr Obama's win to his "star power", Mr Steele said it was "unfortunate" he "outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights".
• Iran's foreign minister said the decision to give the award was taken too "hastily".
• "A good timing for the award would be when US troops have pulled out of Afghanistan and Iraq and the United States is standing up for the rights of the Palestinian people," Manouchehr Mottaki told the Mehr news agency.
• But he said that if winning the prize encouraged the US president to reject the "warmongering" policies of previous administrations, Iran had no opposition to it.  

What should we conclude out of this? Has the Nobel Comitte  got something to proove here???Is the jury at fault??Or was it all about the publicity that Mr.Obama manouvred to get through media?

Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve". If this is so there are numerous silent unsung heroes in India who are trying their level best to getrid of several social woes
without getting sufficent support and proper media attention. What about them???

OPEN SOCIETY (OPEN SYSTEMS -II)

Individuals are the back bone of a society. A nation is not great by itself. Its greatness is well justified by its individuals' respect towards its heritage and culture. As far as a country like India is concerned, it is respected for its diversified culture and tradition. Individual of this country must thank the cosmic conspiracy to have made them a part of such a beautiful nation that holds such huge bandwidth of culture and tradition that symbolises unity in diversity. There were certain old rules and norms in Indian culture like child marriages, depriving women from education, restricting widow re-marriages etc that prohibitted overall development of an individual. In course of time we have almost managed to overcome all these social menances. All these things have been made possible because of open society.

Open society is definetly a bless when we come across a new norm that sounds better and revolutionary and in that case we use to give the proposal to the executive to implement the same in our society. The best conseqences of the same have already been sited above. So no doubt that open society has got a lot of possitives but it basically depends on the people which one they take and the one they reject.

Now I am going to throw light on a few instances/case studies thats going to show you how our people have actually responded to this open society:


#1 Indian culture basically stressed on joint family i.e a family where children stay together with their parents and grandparents under a common roof. It was the general trend followed in india till independence. The children got affection and love from their grandparents and also learnt the primitive disciplines of life that shaped his/her thinking as an individual. But all these things changed drastically after independence with the interference of western culture. Now a days if you will go for a survey then you will find more than 60% of the people prefer nuclear family rather than joint family. Out of them there will be 15 to 20% who prefer staying in joint family but unpreferrable circumstance might have forced them to do so. But what about the remaining........If I am not wrong most of the nuclear families of India are concentrated in metropolitans where both the parents go out for work. So in that case they either hire a maid to look after their kids or look for other options in their neighbourhood. The most undesirable conseqence that comes out of it is that their kid is prohibitted from the love and affection and also the ethical values that he could have attained from his/her grandparents if they would have stayed in a joint family. This defficiency gets reflected in the child's behavior as he grows old.


#2 Earlier marriage was considered sacred in India. When two people married they used to take seven oaths which they promise to follow throughout their life. Most of them were arranged where the couples hardly knew each other. Then with the arrival of western culture came the era of love marriages where individual got the liberty to select his /her life partner. At the beginning there were strong opposition regarding inter caste marriages but soon provisions for that was also made in form of Arya samaj to encourage such type of marriages. Up to this every thing was alright but this much of liberty was just not enough for we Indians. We started following the culture where an individual had the liberty to give up his/her relation with old partner and then look for a new one. This trend was not so popular in small cities and villages but became familiar in metroplitans mostly amongst the rich people and celebrities who were considered to be the most learned and respectable persons of our society. While undergoing debates and discussions in different forums or with friends I have very often encountered statements that those preffering love marriages are considered to be broad minded than those preffering arrange marriages. But there are a large number of cases of successful arrange marriages where people hardly know anything about each other before marriage. Don't you think they are broad minded enough? I must say they are the people with broader mind and holding a migthy heart within them.


Then comes a very important question to my mind. Is our current generation, basically the youth, capable enough to safeguard our tradition and culture?


While interacting with one of my close friends once I asked what sort of marriage would he prefer? First of all he told me he has got hardly any interest in marriage but soon after that he added in case he ever gets a chance to marry then he would go for a love marriage rather than an arranged one. He also told that success rate of love marriages is higher than that of arrange in current scenario. Then I gave him some real time examples of successfull arrange marriages including his parents and also told him that in India marriages are considered to be sacred that has been clearly mentioned in our sacred Vedas. I was trying to extract some possitivities out of him. After listening to me and my instances he concluded by saying that marriages mean nothing but mere prostitution. His reply was more than anything for me to conclude that the sayings of vedas, culture and traditions hardly means anything to him.


#3 A very good feature of Europeans that makes them different from Indians is that they are very hard working and dedicated. No doubt that we in India are very quick learners but till date we have not been able to inculcate it. Today's generation especially the youth loves to be a part of “hand to mouth” society. They never prefer drawing water out of the well instead they wait for someone to do it for them. The youth today has raised several slogans and propositions that reads, India despite being the largest democracy in this world stands bottom in the table of human rights. But what sort of freedom are they talking about? Is it all about liberty of the youth to participate in politics and their freedom to express? Is it all about the liberty of an individual to question the government or a leader whenever he feels it necessary? Or is it about qestioning the government about resources to sustain research works in our country? If being a reader you somehow feel, yes these may be the freedoms which our youth today are fighting for. Then I must say that you are still in a world of oblivion. Whatever may be going in the countryside it hardly bothers them. In a debate in CNN IBN taking together a bunch of youth qestions were raised ralated to women liberty and security. At that time one of the young girl highlighted the discrimination between men and women by saying that when a man is caught doing open sex it's alright on the other hand when a girl is caught doing the same it is considered to be a sin. Well this clearly shows what liberty means to youth of today.



From this can we say that future of India rests in safe pair of hands?


Now comes the question: who is to be blamed for such situation? Is it only the current generation, their parents or anything else? Our people gave up the old practice of having a joint family due to intervening of the open society. In a way they had nothing to loose instead they improved their way of living. One who had to loose were their children who unfortunately happen to be the youth of today. They never learnt the real things i.e. the ideals and the morals which they could have learnt from their grandparents. Instead they learnt all sorts of negative things that neither contained any hint about their morals and cultures nor made them realise the essence to safeguard them. The time which they should have spent learning the basic ideals and disciplines they spent it by by watching exclusive channels in televisons that included air music and fashion programmes with semi nudity and adult content that polluted their mind right from the very beginning as an individual.


Open society erases all shorts of barriers and leaves everything for the people to decide. For instance when I ask my friends whether they have seen the indian documentry “smile pinky“ that is based on a little girl that won Oscar this time. Many of them simply say actually we want to see it but time is not permiting us to do so and others say not interseted. In the mean time, whenever a new hollywood movie comes they watch it the very next day it is released. From this it would not be wrong in my part if I say that the character and psychology of our youth has been "hardened" at a very tender age................

Very often we used to observe,when someone has something in excess he doesn't know how to conserve it and starts loosing respect towards it. Same is the case with people of our country. The issue is not just restricted to the fact that our people have lost respect towards their culture but have developed fantasy towards the western culture. No doubt that the change is part and parcel of our life and in course of time the old one should make way for the new ones. Change sounds good when it is required. Our youth must remember that our culture and morals are the identity of our nation. So they must learn them and try to safeguard them. Demand for liberty is essential but in proper sense and that too within certain limits. Beyond that it proves to be disastrous for an individual as well as to the society. India is respected for its diversified culture and morals by philosophers and researchers that is considered to be its all time identity. So being the youth of this country it's our prime responsibility to safeguard our heritage instead of violating them.

Open Systems - I

In the open systems-I basically I am going to deal with the open economy system.

Simply put, open systems are rather less restrictive types; the rules are rather flexible. I would not go on to say that there are no rules because such a statement is rather perfectionistic while in reality nothing is perfect. It is upto the analyst to decide how close to perfection is the real system and decide the proper model accordingly.

An open economy is an economy in which low taxes allow companies to indulge in international trade; foreign investments are encouraged. The wave of globalization roots in benefits of open economy. An open economy is beneficial for developed countries, with established companies who shall saturate if they don't get foreign clients to expand. However, for developing nations where industries are new and growing an open system can imply flow of wealth from the nation to the developed nations.

Then question arises whether closed systems should be preferred. Well in a democracy as ours, it is difficult to implement a closed system compared to autocratic nations. Moreover, in today's age, too restrictive systems shall fail because the world is flattening. The key to development shall then be simply applying brakes when necessary. The government has a role to play. However, a more essential role is ours as individuals and as a society at large to understand the economy and invest accordingly. Lets see a few instances and statistics showing India's run in open economy till date.

#1 India's software industry abounds in solution based companies. (Yeah, I started with software not only because it is my current field but also to stress that most of your part is just finding a relevant case in your field itself; you need not look beyond.) Now, solution based companies are dependent. The stress should be on product based industries. Solution based companies are a consequence of the fact that providing solutions is an easy way to get into market but the downside it is less safe as a career. On othe other hand, product based companies take longer to establish but provide more stability. So, in the long run, product based companies are more beneficial.

#2  India's domestic tea market has increased over the past few years and is a great oppurtunity for tea producers to exploit. Read more here.



In 2004 our exports stood at a little over US $ 63 billion. In 2007-08, they have exceeded US $ 155 billion; our exports are not just double what they were 4 years ago, but 2½ times that. We have managed an average cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23%, year on year, way ahead of the average growth rate of international trade. Our total merchandise trade – exports and imports together – will be almost US $ 400 billion this past year, accounting for 1.2% of world trade. If the trade in services is added to this, our commercial engagement with the world would be in the region of US $ 525 billion.

The second objective has also been delivered: that of fashioning trade into an instrument of economic growth and employment generation. Our total trade in goods and services is now equivalent to almost 50% of our GDP. This is unprecedented in India’s modern economic history. Some changes that have been made for the year 2008-2009 are as follows:-

• DEPB scheme has been extended till May 2009.
• Refund of service tax on almost all the services.
• Income tax benefit to 100% EOUs has been extended by Government.
• Coverage of FMS has been increased and additional 10 countries have been included. These are Mongolia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Honduras, Djibouti, Sudan, Ghana and Colombia.
• Split-up facility under DFIA Scheme introduced.
• Duty free import of samples has been increased from Rs.75, 000 to Rs.1, 00,000.
• Value of jeweler parcels, through Foreign Post Office is raised to US$ 75,000. Earlier it was from US$ 50,000.
• EOUs shall be allowed to pay excise duty on monthly basis, instead of the present system of paying duty on consignment basis.
• Customs duty payable under EPCG Scheme has been reduced from 5% to 3%.
• Setting up a new Export Promotion Council for Telecom Sector.
  

Statistics GDP $1.209 trillion (2008 est.)[1] GDP growth 6.7% (2009)[2] GDP per capita $1016 [3] GDP by sector agriculture: 17.2%, industry: 29.1%, services: 53.7% (2008 est.) Inflation (CPI) 7.8% (CPI) (2008) Population below poverty line 22% (2008)[4] Labour force 523.5 million (2008 est.) Labour force by occupation agriculture: 60%, industry: 12%, services: 28% (2003) Unemployment 6.8% (2008 est.) Main industries textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software External Exports $175.7 billion f.o.b (2008 est.) Export goods petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures Main export partners US 15%, the People's Republic of China 8.7%, UAE 8.7%, UK 4.4% (2007) Imports $287.5 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.) Import goods crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals Main import partners People's Republic of China 10.6%, US 7.8%, Germany 4.4%, Singapore 4.4% Public finances Public debt $163.8 billion (2008) Revenues $153.5 billion (2008 est.) Expenses $205.3 billion (2008 est.)