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Comment on Response to “The Acorn – FAQ: Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal a bad idea” by Krishna

Krishna — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:05:38 +0000

{Please read this detailed rebuttal to the FAQ
http://kaipullai.com/2011/08/19/to-the-janata-that-thinks-the-jan-lok-pal-is-a-bad-idea-and-anna-hazare-is-a-danger-please-read/

Comment on The “Everybody should be honest” solution by Response to “The Acorn – FAQ: Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal a bad idea” « Manas Garg

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:00:29 +0000

[...] The “Everybody should be honest” solution [...]

Comment on >An Enquiry in Time by Manas

Manas — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:16:09 +0000

Comment on >An Enquiry in Time by sameer shinde

sameer shinde — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:53:55 +0000

Manas, you attempt to simplify time is excellent… when time gets mixed in philosophy it becomes too complex..

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by kukkumol

kukkumol — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:10:24 +0000

These Congressmen are great frauds . They know very well to tackle these kind of situations. Now they are beating around the bush and making all the propaganda that RSS,VHP etc etc are with Ramdev Baba and trying to defuse the situation. They are not coming to the most wanted point ; bringing back the black money. Please make note of the names who are opposing Baba Ramdev during these days “They will definitely be in the Swiss Bank Black list”.

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by Manas

Manas — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:26:55 +0000

Harshad,

I had to go through your comment multiple times to fully absorb it. You have made some important points and I agree with most of them. The only thing that I don’t agree with is accepting corruption at the highest level. Actually, corruption flows from top to bottom. The temptation at the top is highest because the stakes are highest there but that’s where it’s most critical to control it.

BTW, your personal commitment to not giving in to corruption is exemplary.

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by harshad

harshad — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:51:24 +0000

Few examples from what i have done in past: for some reasons i have never gone to agents for doing following things: 1. learning and permanent license for 2-wheeler, passport (twice) and last and most important, changing my car registration from Pune to Bangalore (twice once in 2005 and 2011).
Now for the last activity i have wasted atleast 3 days per iteration. some people told me its not worth it.
but then i believe if we go to agent, then we dont have a right to talk against corruption.
coming to ur comment about “indian people selected wrong govt” is it true?
Point is what the average indian believe? my personal impression is, if we go around avg people are really ok with what politicians do and they dont have a lot of sense about corruption. what they really care is, does the promises in their area are done or not. To give a example: when suresh kalmadi wins in pune, every election time he distributes money / sarres in poor areas. People are happy with it.
in some other cases the representative is of a perticular caste which is in majority in that area and people feel that they can approach this guy.
This may not be true for urban middle class since for most of them, they don’t relate to elected representative in their area.
Let me give you a example. I currently stay in Thippasandra and i dont know who is elected in my ward. its difficult for me since i am not a kannadiga. But when i am in pune, i stay in Model colony (a pretty decent area). We know elected representative for the municipality from our ward. The elected person takes meeting every month in a near by park to discuss problem. also this person even comes / calls us for any issues. Things like water pipeline or garbage collection.
These are random thoughts. Jan lokpal is good but what all of us should work is to make government processes which matter to us more efficient. Eg RTO, house registration electricity department and local municipalies. Unfortunately we dont have focus on this. If we become more and more local, this will make political parties deliver at ward level and also make govt officials more efficient. For india we have huge scope to computerise and make processes efficient. This can generate jobs and make life easier for people.
if we want to tackle corruption like 2G or defence deal, its impossible since in any political system (american or iranian) kick backs @ highest levels are un-avoidable.

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by PradeeP

PradeeP — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:21:53 +0000

I think the first thing we all must start doing is start voting. Removing corruption from system is going to be a long process. This fight is going to take years, like our independence struggle.

Removing/fighting corruption has to be the agenda of political parties going into elections. The government we have been having till date are elected by 50% voters. So the elected government was functioning the way they thought this 50% would like it to function.

Today government is not really bothered about all the hype and support all this issues(Anna/Baba) are getting for the very reason that most of them are not really going to elect or defeat them in the coming Lok sabha election.

It is not that we do not have leaders with a vision or wanting a clean democratic government. But for them to get ‘elected’ there good work is not the only merit.

So i feel in a democratic country all this questions are answered once in five years and that is the time when all must be united.

We all must start believing in ideology of one of the national parties, vote for the right(if not right, best of the lot) candidate. Once we start doing this, there will be a definite change in the government that will be elected after 3/4 elections.

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by manasgarg

manasgarg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:36:59 +0000

Fully agree. At the end of the day, it’s a movement only when everybody is aligned to it.

Comment on Disconnected thoughts on Baba Ramdev, Jan Lokpal, Congress, Corruption & Democracy by manasgarg

manasgarg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:36:13 +0000

Nihar,

I kind of agree with you. It’s very hard to find an answer “what’s the first step”. But this question of mine is for those who don’t want to take Jan Lokpal bill as the first step. There are some people who can’t come up with a first step, don’t want to take the step shown by others and keep pointing out why all the other steps are wrong. IMO, they are just hiding their own laziness and ineptitude under the cover of statement “oh! I don’t think this is the right thing to do.”