The Singur Crisis

With the situation in Singur worsening day by day, the government is surely facing a crisis and feeling the blow right on its face with nothing working its way. The Nuclear deal getting the waiver from the NSG and now the Tatas planning to move away from Singur the Left are feeling the heat building up on them. What frustrates me is that no one seems to come up with a solution. Everyone says land for land. The area allotted to Tatas, some 997 acres of land I guess is transformed into an SEZ. What does this mean to the farmers that their land is being used to build something which doesn’t ineterest them and in turn are culpable of taking away their sole bread giver(the land).

The epicenter of all this ruccus ‘d be rooted back to TMC which is making much ado about nothing and also to all the anti-leftisis who are taking considerable advantage of the situation.

Now, since the farmers are giving away the land why not the Tatas or the government come up with an alternative something like giving them some Royalty Income for giving away their own land and thus helping the Tatas in realising their dream.

I don’t think the SEZ ‘d be set up at Singur and with many other states like Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra trying to woo Tata they surely are left with more options. This has indeed nullified the chances of setting up another SEZ with most of the MNCs retorting that the situation is “scary” out there.

What ever may be the outcome of this crisis, the left have failed on many fronts and surely have dinted their reputation on more occassions than one.

NUKE DEAL NUKED

After two years of hard fought battles inside and outside our Prime minister at last succeeds in ending the nuclear drought for our country. With raising globalisation and filtering of more and more Global companies into India the energy requirements are reaching the sky and if the recent power crisis due to the lack of rains is anything to go by this is as welcome as anything that would simply put India on the road map of Globalisation.

Reaching here was’nt easy though, not for India and not for its partner in this, the US. They had to cross many hurdles. As for the ruling party is concerned they had their adversaries planted right in their own coalition, the left who quite chidingly opposed anything and everything that the UPA tried to do, like a can-never-be-made-happy kinda attitude. And with the Prime minister insisting on getting on with the deal in spite of all this chaos, surviving a no-confidence vote and even now does anyone ponder about the leadership. The way the whole of the senior statesmen in  Mr.Pranab Mukherjee and the likes paraded around the Prime minister was good to see and to say the least the deal which turned around friends to foes and vice versa.

It all started when India test fired its nuclear weapons under the aegis of Ms. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister which resulted in the NSG take the step that put India in the Nuclear apartheid Group(NAG). And again in 1992 the NSG took some serious measures that adopted a “full Scope Safeguards” which brought an end of the chances of india to get the reserves fom any other country. But, with the growing demands of the burgeoning Indian population and the interest that’s being generated in investing of money in the EMs by big multi-nationals has led to the re-open of the debate of whether India ‘d be apprehended in getting civil nuclear supplies. And at last I guess the economic interests have surpassed the political interests thus giving way to this approval. This ‘d well be considered a Historic day which ‘d be eventually be embraced by the BJP Government if it were to come to power in the next election. I’ve of the opinion that though the opposition is against the deal, its somehow sweet towards the government by most of the part showing its silence rather than strong agitation that’s of the ilk of BJP. Even they are pretty well convinced that this deal is for the good and as far as the Left is concerned they can be considered to be a bunch of “headless chickens” who just go on pik-piking at others. The Singur crisis perse has shown that their think tank is short of the men who ‘d really get things done, with the retirement of Mr.Jyoti Basu from politics the left has assiduosly slipped into a limbo from which guess it can never recover.

What ever it is the Prime minister has secured the Indian future and it is left for the rest of the governments to follow the legacy if we might say. It took the iron in him to confront all the opposition he had faced and really he’s come trumps  up from this political war. Well, our Prime minister does surely live up to the movie jargon of Singh is King(Thank God I didn’t watch it). At this moment we must applaud our honourable Prime Minister on two things, one on getting out our country out of the economic crisis in the early 90′s and now getting us out of the energy crisis in the latter part of the fiest decade of the 21st century. And, if still anyone asks is he the weakest Prime minister? Well, I wonder who would.

The American Dreams

I’m not a great follower of American politics because am an Indian and my interest was piqued because of the notorious American caucuses in which candidates of the same party hurl dirt against each other interesting as it seems though because soon after the nomination is done the candidates who’ve been lambasting each other suddenly turn into sugary pals eulogising the nominated candidate as if none existed like him. That seems funny at least to me, not to mention my friends who chide when this topic comes up on to anyone of us.

As for the present, if the present were the last week it was Obama all over. Wow, he’s the man for America. A black making it to the peak of the American Politics guess that’s one of the best things ever to happen in the 21st century though the man who’s responsible for this turn around and every thing that the colored -people in America owe to is not here to see his Dream come true. Well, yeah one might say Obama’s literal son of Martin Luther King Jr. and quite co-incidentally though he delivered his speech at the Democrat Convention  on the same day when the the legend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous speech “I have a Dream”. Though each were different in the sets of tomes they set. But one thing is clear America for the first time is accepting a change with open hands and which might go to the wire in November. This was one week back.

Enter John McCain, the 71 year old, a luddite compared to Obama, as TR has put it(McCain has a lot of catching to do on Obama on the tech front) the guy who is supported by George W. Bush the man when pops up on the NDTV puppet show is the most loved guy for the hillarity and the ludicrity he generates on stage. Republicans surely are short of stars there is no one who could really get the crowds swooning for them. But not until McCain throws a gamble and he chooses a less known Sarah Palin who looks more like a librarian than a VP nominate, the incumbent governor of some state called Alaska and former mayor of some tiny town called Wasilla (Its real far from mainland). And guess what in the matter of four days she’s become a kind of instituition. No one knows or rather cares if Joe Biden ever talked about the issues but everyone is worried about her new born son who needs special care owing to his Down’s Syndrome. This might well, bring at least a bit of poignancy into the McCain’s campaign. And the funds they are just pouring in and soon evryone have literally forgot about the Huricane Gustav or the Iraq war. And if the Republican Convention is anything to go by, then McCain is surely on the best path and is secretly lauding himself for his choice.

Well, for me a citizen outsider, these things really trickle me. I don’t care who comes into the office but what I care is the thing that both the presidential nomins are really working it up and though not convincingly the McCain camp at least for few days will be having the sting owing to the “S” factor added by Sarah Palin. For Obama, he’s come to the nomins stage so he’s not an ordinary guy and sure he’s expected to break up sometime soon.

(MODI)fication of Gujarat

It all started way back in ’97 and then the sway is in no where nearing its end. BJP toting the image of Narendra Modi is the clear winner in the state of Gujarat and ‘s scored a sweet hat trick not to undermine the point that its the fourth consecutive time that the party has won in the state. Narendra Modi, has all of a sudden brought a sort of afflatus in to the party that was till recently, put apart by differences in many senior leaders and the victory of Modi without the aid of any top dogs of BJP like Rajnath Singh or Advani, has indeed startled even the likes of Advani and this might be even prognosticated to project the image of Brand Modi in the future election campaigns in different states. While this has been widely welcome by many of the BJP leaders, but then there is this insidious ideè fixe doing its rounds in the corridors of the BJP about the growing stature of Modi, a sort of a plebe that this man is, in the party phalanx. The re-election of Modi as the chief minister was more natural than anything. But then the polemic debates were just for the majority he ‘d be getting around this time following the war of words and also the sort of support he has is magnified by the raise in the market sentiment which was pretty much obvious, with the increased hope of divestment with the return of Modi.

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MODERN DAY NERO aka CHOTA SARDAR

As I’m writing this the voters in Gujarat are casting their votes and there by choosing their tormentors for the next five years. The whole sort of polemical debates that’ve triggered on the state of elections and of how should it be perceived and about the Godhra riots have been doing their rounds for quite some time. Narendra Modi, the most charismatic leader in the phalanx of the BJP is now being considered as a guy having more faces than one. One being the virtuoso chief minister of Gujarath who is applauded for his best policies that has given the state its face-lift, the other being the fuliginous one, one who has ordered goons like Babu Bajrangi and the likes to go and commit those heinous homicides and be congratulated for permeating the feel of Hindutva in the state, and then the rift in his party owing to his dissidence and his obstinacy in taking the moral side when it came to protecting his party apparatchiks who’ve besmirched the entire eastern part of Gujarat.

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