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Forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Tryst of Hindu rashtra with dharma. Steps to dismantle the evil stat
Hindu rashtra's tryst is not with destiny, but with dharma.
Jagmohan despairs. L C Jain sees some hope.
3 million panchayat members of which 30% are women are the
hope for establishing a dharma state, a state required
under law to protect dharma.
What Rajiv Gandhi started with the institution of
Panchayati Raj Institutions by an amendment of the
Constitution has been successfully scuttled by the politico
scumbags by refusing to transfer powers to these
institutions from the so-called Central, State and
Concurrent lists. With most of the coffers held under the
control of the central government, only miniscule doles are
handed out to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (both urban
and rural). There are a few success stories of these
institutions in West Bengal and Kerala and given the
suffocating constraints imposed the state apparatus
consisting of MPs and MLAs, the 3 million panchayat
officials are rendered ineffective. It is an insult to
democracy to make these officials subordinate to a state
government officer, like the District Collector.
Paying lip-sympathy to Panchayati Raj as the true character
and hope for janapadas in Hinduswthan as forms of true
self-governance, the existing crop of central and state
level politico-s do not even recognise the work of the
silent, powerless army of 3 million panchayat officials.
Is it possible to bring all these 3 million on a Peoples'
Conference in some large gathering, say, in the Boat club
lawns?
Is it possible to bring together 1% of these 3 million
(say, all Panchayat raj Presidents, at the taluk levels)
for setting up an agenda and a set of declarations to
revamp the Constitution of India as a Union of Janapada
Panchayats?
Our ancestors won for us a swarajyam and we have botched it
up by enshrining an empress in 10 Janpath and all that
followed with the corrupt regimes and chamcha-giri par
excellence being practised by the chamchas exemplified by
the substitute PM Hon'ble Manmohan Singh.
Quo Vadis democratic institutions in Hindusthan?
Can we start with the Uttaramerur Chola model of village
assemblies, elections and governance? Yes, the model
mentioned by Tanguturi Prakasham in the Constituent
Assembly debates.
http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol4p8.htm
See also:
http://dharma1.blogspot.com/2005/01/aparaa-vidya-and-dismantling-evil.html
S. Kalyanaraman
India at 61: Light and Lament
August 15, 2008
L C Jain on the quiet army of political servants of Mother
India.
The light or the good news is that on the quiet an army of
political and social servants of Mother India is forming
across the country, and by the millions. They are drawn not
from any illustrious dynasties but from amongst the
downtrodden: from amongst women, scheduled castes, and
scheduled tribes. They embrace each village, to wit, from
the gram panchayats numbering over 233,000. They are
certain to occupy the centre and the periphery of our
polity in the next twenty years -- hopefully sooner.
What is the basis for us to say that? The stuff of which
they are made of and the struggles through which they are
moving out of their individual social binds, albeit, step
by step.
Sample the following close up of just a handful of them out
of over 10,00,000 such women members of this force of over
three million elected gram panchayat representatives. Mark
their major characteristics: poverty, lack of education,
agriculture work, eating food in others' houses and wearing
others' clothes.
Recall, in contrast, those spearheading the freedom
struggle were distinguished barristers-at-law, doctors,
educationist's et al. Mark also they are entering political
life on the strength of being known to the local
communities -- not through cash or muscle power or
'influence of higher quarters.'
Gram panchayat member Sayavva Poojari, 60, has a dream to
work for women's welfare: "I have studied only up to the
2nd standard. When the election dates were announced, I was
so shy that I did not talk to any men at that time, but
when I was elected to the panchayat, this became a
necessity. I underwent training from the taluk panchayat
and the Singamma Sreenivasan Foundation. I will make sure
that there is no violence against women in our village and
importance is given to girls' education, eradication of the
dowry problem. I want to make our village surroundings
clean with greenery all around."
Shakuntala Kirsur, 33, vice-president, gram panchayat,
Arsungi: After her husband's death she passed the SSLC
examination with support from her father, a retired army
soldier: "I have been able to get seeds and fertilisers at
subsidized rates to poor farmers; ensuring proper drainage
and water facilities; construction of farm ponds and check
dams for rain water harvesting. Prior to my entry into
politics, the situation in the village was not stable, as
the gram sabhas and gram panchayat meetings were not being
conducted properly. The social justice committee was not in
existence; and women did not even go to panchayats."
Ratnamma, former vice president, gram panchayat, Kogaali,
Bellary: "Since my native place is Kogaali, it was not
difficult for me in the election time for campaigning. I
went to all houses and campaigned for my vote. ...I had not
collected any funds from others for the election. In the
beginning, I was not going out of the house and I used to
do house work and agriculture work. When I got elected,
things changed automatically and I used to go out, interact
with people."
Banubi Haminasab, OBC, member, gram panchayat, Kombaali,
Bellary: "After I got elected as panchayat representative I
learnt how to sign."
Jayamma tayi Lakshmamma Poojari, member gram panchayat,
Hulagi, Koppal: "My mother was a Devadasi and since her
mother had no children she adopted my mother from Hosahalli
village in Gangavathi. My birth place is Hulagi and my
mother had 7 children and I am the eldest. I being the
eldest had to look after my sisters who were born when I
was 9-years-old. In our gram panchayat we are 19 members
out of whom, 8 are female. There is unity and mutual
understanding among us. I go out for a meeting they come
with me and if there is any writing work then they help me
to take down the issues. I feel education is the key factor
for getting more knowledge and information."
Lakshmavva Pulinaik Angadi, 45, member gram panchayat,
Mohammadnagar: An illiterate mother of six children from a
very poor family, she says she has faced a lot of problems
in her life. Her husband is a drunkard and she had to
struggle to bring up her family. Lakshmavva has an aim to
help every woman come up economically so that they do not
have to depend on their husbands.
Shivaleslamma V Mattad, president, gram panchayat, Hulagi.
"Before entering politics I was thinking only about my
family and my world was my family alone. But now things
have changed, it has taken a turn, I feel it is my duty to
think about the society."
India 61: The icons that make India
http://www.rediff.com/news/iday08.html
II
On the eve of Independence, on August 14, 1947 Nehru set
the mission: 'We have to build the noble mansion of free
India where all her children may dwell.' Could there be
anything more creative and inspiring than to build a noble
mansion of free India.
The lament is that 61 years down the road, shocking field
reports show that we are labouring at the opposite:
Displacement. Instead of creating a noble mansion, we are
wantingly destroying even the humble makeshift dwellings of
the poorest amongst us.
All this for the stated purpose of providing new
facilities. We have on hand the latest study 2008. Swept
off the Map -- surviving eviction and resettlement in
Delhi: Is This the End? (Kalyani Menon Sen, Gautam Bhan):
Our findings are stark...The evictions and forced
relocation to Bawana have shattered people's lives and
destroyed their livelihoods. Even three years after the
demolitions, individual households and the community as a
whole have not recovered from the traumatic events of 2003-
04. ...Impoverishment and violations of rights are an
integral and inevitable part of the kind of resettlement
that is being implemented in Delhi.
The Planning Commission's revelation that some 25 million
people have been displaced in the last 50 years -- and one
half of them not rehabilitated -- has not stirred the
authorities to action. Do the people matter!
This is a travesty of Nehru's challenging call from Delhi -
- Tryst with Destiny.
Dr L C Jain, an active participant in the Quit India
movement, has been engaged in economic-social development
for the last 60 years. He was a member of the Planning
Commission and also served as India's high commissioner to
South Africa.
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/15jain.htm
We must look again at our tryst with destiny
Jagmohan (Asian Age, 15 Aug. 2008)
What happened in Parliament on July 22, 2008 and in
Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Surat a few days afterwards, and
what is now happening in Jammu, shows the direction in
which Indian democracy has been moving over the past 61
years. Things are truly falling apart and no one appears to
know how to collect the dismembered threads of the national
fabric and reweave them into a strong texture.
In fact, the journey after Independence itself commenced on
a false note. "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the
world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." These
historic words, spoken by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the
midnight of August 14-15, 1947, have their own fascination.
Even today, they sparkle with passion and poetry and
enthral a number of Indians. But are these words true? Was
the world sleeping or watching India? And did it wake up?
In fact, most Indians slept in the darkness of their homes
in distant towns and villages. Some remained awake, not
because they wanted to hold the lighted candle of freedom
in their hands, but because they were trembling in fear of
knives in the hands of bloodthirsty mobs. The main
architect of India's freedom, the Father of the Nation, as
he came to be called, looked lonely and forlorn. His "heart
was burning" and he felt as if he had been "thrown into a
firepit."
The light of freedom about which Jawaharlal Nehru spoke so
eloquently was too weak to pierce through the darkness
created by the heaps of garbage which India had collected
during a long period of social and cultural degeneration.
Standing over a pedestal, glittering with artificial
lights, declarations could be made: "We will create a
mighty India -- mighty in thought, mighty in deeds, mighty
in culture and mighty in the service of humanity." But no
one seemed to know, or even cared to know, how that "might"
would be created or how those mountains of garbage would be
swept away. Poetic fancy and wishful thinking could create
no more than a few luminous wings which could flutter in
the void, without flying. The atmosphere, that required the
wings to attain pressure to fly to "destiny", did not
exist.
In any case, what was the "destiny" that was being talked
about so passionately? The "appointed day" -- appointed by
destiny -- as Nehru called it, was also the day which was
preceded by one of the worst tragedies in India's history,
one caused by acts of commission and omission by those whom
that very destiny had put at the helm of affairs, a tragedy
that had led to India's Partition, and led to riots, rape,
plunder and loss of life and property on an unprecedented
scale.
"It is a fateful moment for us in India," said Nehru in
that same speech. Undoubtedly. But it demanded more than
idealism; it demanded "resolute practicality" to inject
meaning and content into that idealism. Nehru could provide
the inspiration; but this had to be accompanied by strong
and sustained action. A powerful motivating force and
leadership with extraordinary courage was needed, not only
in politics but also in the intellectual, social, cultural
and spiritual spheres. Regrettably, neither the motivating
force nor the leadership was forthcoming. India, at a
momentous period in its history, failed to acquire "great
inspiration" and produce a "great helmsman" who could churn
the stagnant pools of Indian society and remove its dirty
mud and slush.
It was comparatively easy to provide, by way of a liberal
and democratic Constitution, a polity whose aims and
objectives were to create both purity and productivity in
public life. It was far more difficult to inject the ethos
of purity and productivity into the system. There was no
one to undertake this task. The clay of people who had to
run the system and the environment in which it functioned
remained the same. So it did not take long for a fairly
sound Constitution to look like the grammar of democratic
anarchy in practice.
From the first day after Independence, our people as well
as the leadership preferred to keep aside the hard crust of
problems. Even today, as chronic problems mount and
infections in the system strike deeper roots, we still
nurse illusions and derive satisfaction from short-term
gains and outward glitter.
One hears today about India's impressive foreign exchange
reserves, its outstanding performance in information
technology, the rising volume of trade and a high rate of
savings and investments. Little is said about the ever-
widening income gap between rich and poor, worsening
unemployment and underemployment, continuance of acute
poverty and malnutrition, rapid increase in the number of
squatters and slumdwellers in cities and a sharp
deterioration in both the rural and urban environment.
Here are some facts about our 61-year "tryst with destiny":
India today has the largest number of poor, the largest
number of illiterate and malnourished people in the world.
Over 250 million men, women and children go to bed hungry
every night. One of three Indian women is underweight.
Forty per cent of the world's low birth weight babies are
Indians. Fifty-seven million Indian children under five are
undernourished: the percentage (48 per cent) is worse than
Ethiopia's (47 per cent). Six out of seven Indian women are
illiterate.
In cities, slums and squatter settlements proliferate,
growing 250 per cent faster than the population. Mumbai,
with 12 million living in such settlements, has become the
slum capital of the world. India is regarded one of the
most corrupt nations worldwide. Terrorism, subversion and
Naxalite violence have brutalised the atmosphere and
bloodied the landscape. Internal security problems are
mounting, while the efficacy of governance is falling.
More disconcerting is the growing loss of whatever little
is left of India's ancient wisdom, basic nobility, sense of
balance and harmony and its understanding of the essential
oneness of all elements of the universe. Of all the ills
from which India suffers, the malady of inner decay is the
most serious.
It is a culture of casualness, callousness, corruption and
conceit that now dominates Indian public life, instead of
the much-needed culture of care, compassion, catholicity
and commitment.
The inconvenient reality, to which the nation has chosen to
shut its eyes, is that after the immediate aftermath of
Independence, post-1947 India has been badly let down by
its leadership in almost all walks of life. India's mind
and soul have remained dry and getting drier by the day. A
superstructure erected upon such a mind and soul is bound
to develop cracks. No wonder it has. These cracks, to a
discerning eye, look ominously wide and dangerous. The
"tryst with destiny" that was so poetically and so
sincerely visualised on the night of August 14-15, 1947 has
turned out to be a fantasy. India must revisualise its
destiny and fix a new tryst with it.
Jagmohan is a former Union minister and a former governor
of Jammu and Kashmir
http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/opinion/opinion/we-must-look-again-at-our-tryst-with-destiny.aspx
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