Ideas, Reason, process and success

Most of us experience more failures in life than success. We can easily count the number of successes, but we would all agree that we have numerous, sometimes uncountable failures, whether it’s something simple like convincing someone for a small benefit, or something major like marriage, career, power, or wealth accumulation.

Why is that so?

Achieving a goal involves three things: a unique idea, a strong reason, and a relentless process toward success. In other words: idea → reason → process → success.

Once, a bird asked a bee, “You work so hard to make honey, but humans steal it. Don’t you feel sad?”

The bee replied, “They can steal my honey, but not the art of making honey.”

Someone may steal an idea, but they cannot execute it as perfectly as the one who conceived it. Many people around the world may have similar ideas, but the success of an idea largely depends on the strength of the execution process. In other words, the quality of the idea depends on the quality of the process.

In most cases, the creator of the idea also knows the best execution process necessary to achieve optimal success, but certainly not the person who stole it.

There are many musicians in the Tamil film industry or even globally, creating endless sounds. But there is only one A.R. Rahman. Only one Ilaiyaraaja. Only one Michael Jackson, one Ed Sheeran, and one The Weeknd for examples.

Don’t limit yourself because you fear others might steal your ideas. Instead, keep evolving through your creative process. Creativity not only distinguishes you from others, but also keeps you young and expands your mental horizon.

At the same time, don’t create too many ideas without taking action. Refine your idea, work on the process, and find your unique flavour, your signature, the special ingredient that distinguishes you from others.

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Who should get my vote?

There are intensive discussions and analyses on all media including social media about whom we should or can vote in India’s 2014 parliament election.  I believe, the question is further narrowed to AAP versus BJP, of course Kejriwal verses Modi.  Let me write my analyses as well.

Modi will bring much needed growth in our economy and no others can.

This is nothing but a myth.  First of all, our economy is not that bad comparing with other nations in Asia, Europe or West.  Not to forget that the world experienced worst economic crises and India still able to produce average 6% GDP.  Well, I don’t want to credit Congress for this sustainability.  It is because of the policy that has been taken by previous governments including Narasimha Rao.   Further, the growth has reduced due to low influx of foreign investments not because of Europe and West strict policy about their own unemployment issues.

Further, I do not understand the Modi’s economy model or growth plan.  Has he presented anything?  Did our chamber of commerce and business houses discussed his plan and endorsed?  Or do any of well known economists have endorsed his plan of growth?  Who is all part of his team?  Does media ever interested to analyze his team members’ credibility? Give me a break.

It is a simple propaganda by BJP and media saying that he will be business and industry friendly. Again I would like to remind that all governments either by BJP, Congress, AAP or Third Front all will be business and industry friendly.  The only differences will be the level of corruption and favoritism.  The growth will remain same. 

Therefore, I don’t buy the argument that only Modi will bring much needed growth in our economy.

AAP is inexperienced

It’s an acceptable argument, but not having enough substances.  Even Modi and Rahul are inexperienced at national level.   They count on other party leaders to support them in managing the country affairs.  AAP may not be having such experiences, but certainly it has fielded experts, business persons, professionals and technocrats.   We have seen how the experienced politicians fared so far.  Why don’t we try the new outfit that has more energy and good intention than any other parties? 

After all, government is run by officials, not politicians.  Politicians have only marred our progress, brought mayhem and failed to connect with people.  AAP would certainly connect with people and reflect the mood of people in governance.

AAP may take wrong decisions as they did in Delhi and we might face a quick re-election for parliament

Whoever comes to power, we are going to face a re-election soon.  No parties will get majority considering their pockets of presence only in few areas.  BJP, Congress, AAP, Regional parties are all strong only in few states and it is going to be fractured verdict. 

Let us not worry about re-election.  Let us defeat corrupt and criminals and remove them from politics.  Bring new and good people who will work together to give a good governance.  It may take some time, but let us bring the change.

AAP will remove corruption from governance.

Corruption cannot be removed soon.  AAP can enforce a proper accountability system aided by Lokpal.  People’s involvement in governing system will remove corruption over a period of time.  Barring AAP, no other party speaks about corruption and it shows either those leaders are already corrupted or supported by corrupted colleagues; therefore, it is obvious that they cannot raise voice against corruption.  Voting to Congress or BJP means, we will let the corrupted system to continue for many more years

Communalism will be high in Modi’s rule.

It will be.  RSS parivar has both soft and hard versions communal atrocities.  The hard will take the lives of innocence and soft will break the bones of minorities.  Further the soft communalism will also make sure that the broken bones never able to repair.   RSS parivar always uses both forms depends on the necessity.  Believing them to be non-communal is nothing but foolish. 

They are least bothered about country and worried about their own well being.  The kind of Hindutva they practice is not for all Hindus and limited to certain section of Hindus.  Modi have already experienced in pogrom and slaughter in his state and will be more determined to execute and alienate the people with divisive policies.

In addition, BJP and Congress are retrogressive forces and they cannot think out of it.  Their policies and trained leaders are hardly can think out of box.  They also serve and lives for their party cadres and for them India means their own parties, not larger section of Indians.  They have also nourished destructive political culture and need to defend it.  If not, they will be victim of their own political culture.

Communalism and secularism are conveniently used for BJP and Congress advantages only.

Finally, is our election is all about corruption and communalism only?  This is the reason I always said that our politicians are not leaders and cannot think beyond their realm of regionalism, communalism and corrupted mind frames.

What happened to our foreign policy? That is pathetic and sloppy.  We don’t have consistency in our Sri Lanka policy.  We let our own brothers and sisters butchered at the hands of extremism and armies.  Why we cannot find a middle ground for Pakistan?  Why both Pakistan and India uses each other to score their own points in their relevant internal matters?  How long we will allow China’s incursions in Indian Territory and build their own check posts?  How are we going to tame China’s Indian Ocean ambition?  What is our Middle East policy?  Can’t we clever enough to use the situation to improve our relationship with them? 

How about our defense policy?  Why our borders are porous and easy for anti-national elements to use them for terrorist attacks?  How long we are going to import majority of our arms from foreign countries?

Why we are not bothered about HR?  Human Resources are our primary strength, in fact, strength for any nation.  We have very pathetic education policy that is contributing to improper human resources development.  Are we planning to export our HR and boast our GDP growth from their foreign currency remittances?  Can’t we frame a productive policy that encourages more entrepreneurship?  Every politician owns a college at every street of India and producing graduates who are incompetent or unable to find suitable job.

What about our Agriculture policy and plan? This is our major economy where 70% of Indian population depends on their life.  We have enough agriculture produces, but pathetic distribution system.  We waste our grains in warehouses by allowing the rats and insects to eat when millions of people eating once in a day only.

What happened to our water policy and distribution system?  India is one of the countries would suffer most due to climate changes.  We will be forced to depend on sea water for irrigation and drinking very soon.  Our sanitation system is the worst in the world. 

Where are these political parties and what for them asking votes on streets?   

We hear only empty words from all political parties and conveniently failed to address all our problems in their manifesto.  The manifesto is full of freebies and appeasements.  Don’t these politicians know that freebies and appeasements are draining our economy and bleeding us internally?

Friends, vote for a change.  We need to change the entire system.  We cannot change the system without changing the people in charge of the system.  Enough is enough.  Teach them a lesson and they will change and if not better to get rid of those retrogressive forces.  We have the capability to rebuild.  We will rebuild our nation.  

Leadership Crises

Receding of quality leadership may be a global phenomenon, but is getting worse in the biggest democracy of India.  India is suffering from quality leadership for almost six decades, though we do not expect every politician to be Mahathma Ghandi.  However, 2014 parliament election magnified the leadership crises more than ever.   Issue based politics is history now, and the politics is centered on personalities whose leadership quality is nowhere impressive in the context of country’s fundamentals and principles.

We have lots of politicians but hardly any leader in Indian politics.  No present politicians are graduating to leadership grade.  There are significant differences between leaders and politicians.  A leader should be beyond socio-political divisions and exercises his or her leadership to benefit all people of the country.  The leader serves to country without any expectations and not belongs to any particular group or community.  The leader exercises honesty and humility.  The leader push and pull the nation depends on the situation towards the progress.  The leader engages the people with values and principles. The leader blames him or her only for any failures and shares the success with all.  The leader delivers both emotional and rational expectations of people and finally he or she leaves the world with an impeccable positive foot print that could be never been replaced.

India has produced many such leaders and Ghandhi was the one.  His leadership process started with personal refinement and applied the same in public life.  He was struggling in all those years and was trying to bring his soul in its purest form before it can be returned to the Creator.  His objective of leadership is giving everything to others and takes nothing to keep his soul free from burdens.  His endurance and determination in liberating the soul made him the most feared individual in front of British Empire because he has nothing to lose.  He symbolized his personal freedom with national freedom struggle and exercised highest form of prayer that is political service to nation.    

Do we have any such leaders in Indian politics now?  The present leaders from all political parties are leading their own mass, community and groups.  They are sincere to own groups and want the driver seat of the country aiming to serve the mass or community that he or she belongs.  These politicians are embedded with divisive mindset nurtured at the nursery of party politics.  They have been trained to serve the party first and others next let alone serving the nation.    

In post independence era politicians have chosen to be remains politicians only, not leaders.  All politicians identified themselves with certain ideologies and firmly believed that their ideologies are best suitable to the nation.  While defending their ideologies, they become enemies of each other and left the larger objective of nation building at distance.  They chose to be extreme in advocating their ideologies and ready to go at any level to defend the same.   Later, the same political fraternity replaced those ideologies with personal ambitions and took the parties for their personal growth and benefits.  Today, we see full of political personalities whose objective and priority is power and money.  A destructive political culture is emerged and practiced by all political parties and made the common men and women to believe in the destructive political culture by propagating in media with money power.

While Congress propels the hypocrite leaderships at top level to protect dynasty politics and have successfully removed the quality leadership in its hierarchy.  A system is developed with careful monitor and measurements at all level.  Congress built their fort with fear and insecurity as the prime movers where each and every one become a spy and report to high command.  All party members and leaders are encouraged to worship the Nehru family for their survival and progress within the party.   

The late entrant is BJP and downgraded their status from a team based organization to personality based cult politics.  Vajpayee and Advani, the two tall leaders of BJP brought the party from two members to a ruling position were never encouraged the personality cult within the party.  Today, by elevating Modi as PM candidate, the party submitted their will to Modi’s personality and looking to his talisman magic to bring them to power.  In short term, it may be a good dream and beneficial to them, but in long term they destroyed the foundations of BJP.  Threat to any establishment always comes within and destroys the very foundations.  It is beginning of destruction for BJP. 

Regional leaders are crippled with regional priorities and yet to be proved at national level.  Perhaps, after election we may witness few regional politicians arriving at national politics, but they will remain politicians to protect their interest than becoming a leader acceptable by all.

Why we have end up with leadership crises?  Where are our values?  What brought us to this pathetic situation?  How can we to restore our great civilization that taught the value of humanity and shares knowledge and wisdom with others?

To answer, we need to look at ourselves only.  Yes, it is we the people failed to produce quality leaders by accepting their substandard without questioning any.  The people’s non-participation of government process brought us down.  There is no effective monitoring system to check the accountability and responsibility of governance.  The existing autonomous institutions barring Judicial system is made to serve the political leaders whims and fancies.  Media become part of the political game and failed to perform its duty towards nation.  We failed to build a people’s monitoring system.   We the people trusted the political leaderships of the country assuming that they are truthful and carrying forward the legacy of pre independence leadership characteristics.   We the people disconnected from the politics and took a long vacation after independence.  In fact, we allow them to cheat us.   We created masters and subservient to them.  Now, we found in deep crises of stupidity where we found ourselves conflicting with numerous arguments and failed to understand the gravity of destruction that we are in.

We need to change.  Young India must rise up and break the foundation of destructive and retrogressive political culture to bury them once for all.  We learned the lessons and know how to build our nation with proper checks and balances.   It all can start with active participation of our country’s political administration.  Active political participation by people and selecting good and right people is essential to change the system and bring quality leaders.  Let us start the process now.  India needs people’s participation more than ever and failing to respond her call will sink our nation in much deeper crises.   

Games within the game

Two years before a Chaiwala (Modi) and a Panwala (Rajnath) were propelled to the lead actor roles for BJP’s new version by the producer and script writer RSS.   It was a well thought out strategy to tame Congress young leader, the Shenshah Rahul Ghandhi.   Chaiwala Modi can be the perfect here because of his carefully cultivated image with the help of industrial tycoons and waning Congress opposition in Gujarat.  In fact, he deserved to be a lead hero for his impeccable performance as chief technician of Hindutwa Gujarat laboratory that killed; raped, maimed and displaced thousands of innocent people. 

Heroes are selected and villain also identified at national level and it is a matter of releasing the movie to people’s theatre.  Paid trailers were shown in all media as Chaiwala Modi is the only hope for India and has the talisman to change Indian’s fortune as if India is in deep economic trouble.  The fact is that RSS believed Modi has got some magic to change the fortune of BJP.  Who care about India?  Six hundred million middle class along with four hundred million poor classes are the perfect market to sell the dreams of RSS financed by Ambanis and Adanis.

The madam from Congress has already told the young scion Rahul to defer his dream for next five years and conceded defeat even before the game began.  PM Manmohan Singh would get invitations for seminars and key note speeches from all over the world on economics and is a perfect retirement scheme for him.  All other Congress ministers have made their fortunes enough to rest for next five years at home and enjoy the stunts of Chaiwala Modi and Panwala Rajnath’s at center.   

The game is not over.  Modi started another game within his grand ambition to prepare his own team that can subservient him.  Some need to be pushed out, some to back stage and some to under his feet.  Lists are developed and executed perfectly with the help of RSS bigwigs.   

What is next, release the movie in theatre and make it a blockbuster.  Ascend to the chair and dance to the tunes of industrialists.  India will shine in papers.  Rich will become richer.  Let the poor to die.  Keep the media in good mood to sweep all dirt under the carpet.

The game is yet to finish.  Modi, find a nuisance in the form of AAP.  BJP failed to make AAP as their own B team and the Delhi assembly result jolted their plan.  Enemy’s enemy is friend theory was dusted out to keep the nuisance remain under control.  Both Congress and BJP had their discreet understanding to throw AAP in gutter of Delhi, thus to malign them to be another usual political party of India.  BJP played holy saying that they don’t have numbers and prefer to sit in opposition expecting sympathy.  Congress offer to support AAP to make them as puppets. All baddies decided to change the goody to baddy or eliminate the goody once for all.  Indian political culture should never be changed and no new addition to ruling class.

Modi and Congress have never thought that AAP will hijack the game and turn the entire game plan to favour the people.  AAP changed the game’s objective and brought people as the real heroes.  It is people themselves decided to be the hero of Indian politics.  People should come out and realize their potential.  Their job is not only to vote once in five years.  They would actively participate in governance system.  The elected to should serve people and remain loyal to people only.  Finish off the dynasty politics, religious politics, cast based politics, undue favour to industrialists and change them.  If they don’t change, then remove them from Indian political fraternity by defeating them.    

It is people’s politics and people have the power to change.  It is not about money, power and media.  It is about people’s participation in government. Let us the change the way we are ruled and bury the existing political culture.  India is ours. 

Time to stand up

There is a popular belief that youngsters, especially educated are not interested in active politics of India. They voice their opinions and sometimes very valid too, yet they are not interested in active politics sighting that politics is game for scoundrels.   Because, we do not want to dirt our hands and dresses.  We do not want to disturb our apple cart.  We do not want loss our focus of making money.  We do not want to annoy our elders.  We do not want to jeopardize our peace of family life.

Above all, we believe that money will bring the power and therefore, let us concentrate on making money and once we are self sustained, then we can think of serving the society, people and country.  It is a wrong notion.  Yes, money and power is inter-coined.  They work in tandem to help each other. But it has limitations in democracy.  It may finds it way if we are in slumber.  Waiting for comfort and richness to field ourselves in the political process will never going to happen. So, we must remove the 'state of mind' that politics is untouchable.  How do we remove it?  Before I answer to the question of how, let us look at why?

Once again, India is at cross roads.  There are numerous pertinent issues that are harming the growth of India. Certain issues are already at its optimum level, meanwhile, some others are waiting to explode at any moment.  Here are the major issues that require immediate attention from both political and administrative leadership of our country.  a) The principles of free economy and its conflicts with poverty alleviation.  b)  Misuse of free subsidies by both government and people  c)  Lack of productive human resources policy, thus threatening the employment and entrepreneurship developments within India  d)  Failing health management system, especially at rural India  e)  Increasing crimes  f)  Retrogressive policies of political parties responsible for creating communal riots and divisions  g)  Failing agricultural industry and above all the mother of all issues, the CORRUPTION and many more.

What is Young India doing?  Just worrying about their own comfort and focus on short term benefits?  Or simply avoiding responsibilities due to the worries of individual success issues?  Or Young India simply living in dreams?  Do you think that we will be safe when the whole nation is burning with social, economical and political disasters.  Have we not seen how the Tsunami of extremism took the lives of good, bad and ugly together?  Do you think that we are not answerable?  Do you think that we are responsible? Do you think that we are not paying for the consequences of being silent?

We are paying for being silent and will let our children and grand children to pay even more. Why can't we stand up and say 'enough is enough'.  Yes, we say enough is enough and will participate in our democratic political process with our own 'political game'.  Yes, we will not play their game of dirt and ugly.  We will change the name of the game in which the dirt is replaced with cleanness and ugly with beauty.

This is the time to stand up and show the strength of Young India.  We must to re-write the political process.  We must to use every political and administrative resources to address the major issues as listed above.  We must develop strong leaderships to take our India to next level and it must begin from gross root level.

Let us start from 2014 parliament election.

I am not asking all the youngsters to stand up as potential candidates to contest elections on their own and embrace the losses.  It is not the loss of money that I am worried, but the loss of spirit is what we needed to avoid.  We cannot waste our energy in losing battles and found ourselves marginalized by our own defeats.  We have to be careful of our 'state of mind' that  will determine our success or failure.  Hence, we must preserve our energy, knowledge and strength to use and win the battles.  Yes, we have to win numerous small and big battles to win the war.  The battles are fought at gross root level only.  Therefore, let us start from 2014 parliament election.

Let us not worry about big picture of who is going to be our Prime Minister and which party or coalition will rule us.  Let us just worry about the candidate of our constituencies.  (To be continued)

Young India

Hi Everybody,

The words Young India remind and flash the images of Ghandiji to us.  Instantly it take us to his values and principles towards the development of free India, in other words the Young India.

But here in my blog, I am particularly would like to see the Young Indians contribution towards our national development including their participation in governing process.

India needs the youngsters to step up their contribution in participating national and regional cause.  More importantly, the young Indians need to groom themselves to free the India from corruption and manipulation.

I would like this blog to be more interactive one with like minded Indians, not necessarily with the youngsters only, but all the Indians, irrespective of their age and gender, who believe that our nation require a new movement called Young India.  Let us not abdicate ourselves, because ‘hesitation of angels means invitation to devils’.

Will describe my views on this movement in next postings.

Meanwhile, love to receive your views