An imagination of a Bhartiya Trekker

Fellow Trekkers,

              We are a group of trekking enthusiasts, planning for 21 km loop circuit around a mountain in a day. Trek complexity is medium due to uneven terrain, but no steep climbing involved. This will be a nature trek, planning to do in bare feet which is optional. All age groups (above 12 yrs) are welcome as we as a group motivate each other during the trek. Women and aged trekkers will get free and special assistance with logistics and supplies. A comfortable clothing is recommended, we suggest cotton or linen drapes as they are breathable fabric, instead of trousers and dresses. Add fun to trekking by music and singing, we welcome trekkers to motivate each other.

Details:

• Departing point - Vrindavan, UP, India
• Starting and end points - Govardhan entrance road
• Circuit - Trek around Govardhan hills
• Distance - 21 km loop circuit
• Difficulty - Medium to Difficult
• Dress code - Drapes (kacham for men, saadi for women)
• Activities - Bhajans, Sankirtans

Coming soon: Vrindavan 10km loop circuit - Easy to medium

-"An imagination of trek being announced by a bhartiya"

My agenda for a political party

My vision for a political party in India:
'Note: everything is subject to change depending on how I evolve'

Governance:

1. Control of corruption in lower Judiciary
2. Control of corruption in Police starting from recruitment
3. Total removal of corruption and malpractice in Government Rations and cooperative societies
4. Cut expenses on Beurocrats and politicians
5. Recommend a new system to collect common pool of Election funds through corporate and citizen sponsorships
6. E-Governance covering common departments like Registration, Transport, Electricity and Corporation

Security:

1. Stong Anti-terrorist law
2. Unification of Intelligence Agencies (RAW, IB etc)
3. Combined Defence Services head

Economy:

1. Prevention of accounting frauds by practicing doctors,lawyers,engineers,architects,accountants etc
2. Quick sanction of retirement benefits and arrears, say two weeks
3. Increase efficiency and speed of processing IT Returns

Social:

1. Free and compulsory education in both government and private institutions till class eight
2. Amend the caste based reservation to income based scholarships starting class 9 with yearly renual
3. Reducing the FDI limit on Media to a minimum value to 10-15% only, including any other means of funding
4. Introduction of Uniform Civil Code

Religious:

1. Seperating State from Religion and stopping all religious activities funded by Government
2. Handover of all big temples back to the religious organizations with strict auditing procedures common to all religious institutions
3. Abolision of special laws specific to a religion. For example, CBST status for Madarassa education, subsidised electricy for Churches and Mosques etc
4. Abolision of Article 370
5. Cancellation or amendment of the Ram Setu project to save the bridge
6. Nationwide ban on religious conversion

Whose NGO is this anyway..

This NGO runs 27,041 schools in remote tribal areas providing free education to 7,53,123 tribal children.

This runs 1,70,000 social service project across India in areas including free health care, blood banks, AIDS awareness and prevention, awareness of new epidemics like swine flu, eye donation and reconstruction, help for special children, assistance to slum children, rehabilitation and recreation for disabled, rehabilitation of lepers, orphanages for destitute children, self-help training for women, women health, prevention of addiction, human rights campaigns, support for outcast communities, right of underprivileged women, rehabilitation of victims of terrorism etc

This organisation was usually the first group to volunteer on the spot during natural calamities like 1971 Orissa cyclone, 1977 AP cyclone, 2001 Gujarat Earthquake, 2004 Tsunami, 2009 hurricane in south, 2013 uttarakand flood and also to help the riot victims during 1984 anti-sikh riots, 2002 Gujarat riots, 2012 Asom riots, UP riots and various other unknown riots and calamities across india.

This group also conducts schemes to provide drinking water to remote villages, environmental awareness programs, activities for senior citizens, managing crowd in pilgrim centers, helping government in organising large scale festivals and so on.

This organisation volunteers went to war front to help the defense personal with logistics. For this, on Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's invitation, this group marched during 1963 republic day parade in Delhi. On request of Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, these volunteers managed Delhi's traffic control during 1965 Indo-Pak war, so that policemen could be freed for defense duties, and also was thanked by Army General for support and relief work during war. During 1971 Indo-Pak war, these volunteers donated blood in large scale for injured defense personnel.

This NGO adopted 57 children (38 Muslims and 19 Hindus) from militancy affected areas of Jammu and Kashmir to provide them education at least up to Higher Secondary level, and also helped rehabilitate victims of 1999 Kargil war.

And this is an Indian NGO funded only by Indians. Do you know this NGO?

Volunteers at work during landslide in Kerala

Govt subsidy for hindu pilgrimage

There were about 6.1% christians in 2001 and will be 7% in 2011 census. All 6-7% christians will want to go to bethlaham, so you can so 6-7% of TN population wants to go to bethlaham. Muslims were 5.5% in 2001 and must be around 6.5% now. So, another 6-7% of TN population wants to go to Haj. Now, hindus were 88%, but now will be somewhere at 85%. Out of that about 35% are either rationalists(atheists) or fans of rationalists. Another 35% have no idea what manasarover and muktinath are. Another 10% just doesn't care about these places and are happy with local temples, because hindus simply don't need to be tied to one temple or one book. Last 5% are the ones who really can associate with those places,gods and are keen to go there given a chance, but even thats not prescribed in a book as mandatory visit. Hence 250 seats are good enough. But what is important is govt should stop looting temple revenue and spend all of it on temples and hinduism related activities only.

Patriotism is the answer

I remember listening to indira, rajiv gandhi, bunch of PMs in between, Nrao, MMS, sonia gandhi, MGR, Jayalalitha, karunandhi, different CMs of karnataka, various presidents and so on till Kejriwal's negativism. You feel like an odd person in the crowd that is full of rogues and local rowdys listening to fake rhetoric speech.

Narendra Modi's speech on 27th Jan 2014 at Shreshta Bharat Divas in Mumbai here

Listening to Narendra Modi never feels like listening to politics, but some kind of leadership training specifically customized to your needs. Topics that are never heard from politicians, about strategic vision for India as a country, defense manufacturing locally, alternative energy, war memorials, energy self sufficiency, patriotism, strategic development etc. There is absolutely no mention of caste, minority-ism, divisives, subsidy, quota, freebies, new subsidy schemes and other fake rhetoric. Rally/speech by politicians has never been so motivating since the times of Nehru/Patel era. Never before politician's rallies started and ended with vande matrams and jai hinds.

Only person today who wakes up our sleeping patriotism, while we are all buried under our day to day challenges and enjoyments.

I was part of this famous and easiest position of educated and politically non-active people that 'everybody is bad', 'system itself is corrupt', 'nothing will change', 'politics is for rogues', 'who cares', 'bribary is a way of life', 'indians are assholes by nature' etc. Modi's speeches are wake up calls to our minds in sedation, and he makes you realize that negativism and knee jerk activism are not the solution, but strategic development, sense of unity and patriotism are the needs of this country.

Lokpal is not the answer, we already have swaraj, ie democracy. Anarchic activism is a check on the imbalance, it is not the government itself.

Patriotism is the answer. Development is the answer

ஜாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா குல தாழ்ச்சி உயற்வு சொல்லல் பாவம்
நீதி உயர்ந்த மதி கல்வி அன்பு நிறைய உடையவர்கள் மேலோர்

Outrage against Vishwaroopam

if public had outraged for the corruption and crime like the way they are outraging for a movie, TN would have been a different place now. Not even 10% of these people outraged when Dam 999 or Da Vinci Code was banned (or Amu at india level) which clearly shows, in my opinion, to me, that the motivation for this outrage is not the freedom of expression, but hero worship and political inclination. Nevertheless, banning movies is not new to india, right from the time of 'Nine hours to Rama', it has always been political because its only the govt that can impose a ban, but the influence has always been from sections of ideology based societies that felt offended by the movies concerned.

As per law, govts can ban a movie that is cleared by censor because censor does not have quantifiable measures to restrict either offensive depictions or untrue depictions; and courts can take up litigations against such bans, this is a normal democratic legal process sanctioned by the constitution. While these provisions intend to provide a way to challenge offensive or untrue depictions, unfortunately many a times, this is misused by both society and the govt either for challenging the truthful and practical depictions or for allowing untrue and offensive depictions unchallenged, depending on the electoral power and tolerance of the society or group that is concerned.

While I am happy that this outrage has helped the silent movie going average Joe realize the importance of freedom of expression in a civilized society, I only hope this encourages them to protest for protecting this right in all social aspects, even if its not related to his favorite actor, and even if its not related to entertainment industry.

No offence meant to Kamal's fans. While I agree that this ban is not legitimate, I also think there are many movies of Kamal that deserved stricter censorship; and he doesn't deserve the kind of sympathy wave that is generated after the ban, purely because he is a distraction to the main issue that is 'freedom of expression'.