60 glorious years

60 glorious years

India, world’s largest populated republic democracy is entering into sixties and I am also heading for this as seven years from now I will be able to use the famous Indian Saying “Satha So Patha”. I am daring to write this because at least for two third progress of country [last 40 years] I am live witness. I can recall some political memories like going for listening speeches by Late Balraj Madhok and other political leaders in the series of Lectures by eminent Indian personalities arranged by Community Ganeshoutsav Mandals of Burhanpur or going for taking autograph of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpay direct from hospital where I was recovering after a serious operation and special permission of doctors was taken for this only. This might sound a bit hard to believe for younger generation but frankly speaking in those day life was not the utensil of complicity as the present one is.
History might be cursing Late Smt. Indira Gandhi for imposing emergency and over shading the rights of freedom of millions and million Indians, but I can recall we were discussing it among the friends as necessary action for bringing discipline in day to day life because in those days trains started running on time. This might be the sky limit for thought flight of our teen aged minds. Today when I am listening and observing consists demand from masses for the responsibility filled work attitude either by politician or by the government officials I can say seeds of this are eventually sown during the days of emergency.
This journey of 60 years was not always of the smooth roads; Himalayan obstacles were presented by wars with Pakistan and China, though India always emerged as victor but never found comfort of safe international boundaries. Communal forces and lack of strong political will had also proved speed breakers for economic and infra structural growth of country.
Since the 60 years Kashmir is burning and unsolved social problem, the souring wounds are salted with agitation and voices of separation from the north east but more importantly countries political leadership looked more interested in deepening this valley of misunderstand instead of working as strong biding force for keeping the communal harmony intact. God might have created Indian land on ideal of own because like the different colors of natural powers, India is human ocean of different faiths, customs and traditions, as nobody is sure about the liking a certain color of nature so no body can say which faith, custom or tradition has worked more importantly for making India, one among the super powers of the world.
Entire world is looking at 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai as one of the worst happening in the country during these 60 years but frankly speaking surely there will be people for whom this incident was blessing of God because despite of scarifying lives of some truly dedicated defense personals and some hundreds of innocent citizens Indian youth awaked with realization of self, Muslim community which always blamed for creating a separate stream, appears to be part of main Indian stream. Political leadership has realized that days are over for their decade old policy of divide and rule, common Indian citizen is not going to be satisfied with the verbal actions like the past. Official are feeling the pressures of responsibilities linked with their post and more importantly youth is stepping forward for constructing New India, defining responsibilities and persisting for getting the answer for the questions related with the progress and safety of the country. This is all important post 26/11 effect that country is now not getting satisfaction with words but looking for the actions taken for the improvement.

Political Reforms

Political Reforms
Since past few days mercury level of political arena is on the way of touching a new height with the on going political war of leaders of North India especially of the Bihar with the young Maharshtrian leader Raj Thakre. If we look at the root cause for all these unpleasant happening we are bound to end with political desire of proving the regional supremacy of self over the others.
In fact this regionalism is seeded with our constitution though I am not a constitution expert but surely an Indian with a little bit of wisdom to take the measures of the situations. At the time of independence country was divided into state on the bases of language and unfortunately during these over 60 years of post independence we fail to develop attitude of being Indian still we are Punjabi, Gujarati, Bihari, Rajathani, Maharashtrian or North Indians and south Indians. As we are living in the democratic setup and it is most suited for the political parties to have small but very strong supportive vote banks hence political leadership of the country has preferred to work for keeping the regional identity intact instead of developing attitude and affection for the national identity among the generations of post independence era.
This is always said that there is a silver lining in the dark clouds. In fact this ongoing political dispute is that silver line which must be utilised for initiating the script writing for the much needed political reforms. On my experiences as the common citizen I am putting up some reforms.
Constitutional
There will be no states in the country, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari whole land will be a nation. This is sure that an opposing argument will be based on difficulties at administrative levels but this can be solved with making provision of increasing the powers of local bodies at the city / village levels and increasing the number of members of Lok Sabha there must be a representative of every five Lakh voters in the dense population areas and for three Lakh voters in the areas of dispersed population.
As there is provision of development funds for every Member of Parliament so this can be made compulsory for all the political parties to face the elections with their proposed development plan for every constituency by utilizing this fund. Winning party which fails to complete less than 80% of proposed development will not be entitled for fighting election from that constituency in the next election.
People often complains and there is truth in it to considerable extant, that MP or MLA of the area has not worked for the all round and equal development in the constituency and has utilized most of the funds for providing facilities to specific area of the constituency. To avoid this I am suggesting change in method of declaring winner of election, instead of present total number of popularity votes, candidate who stood first on the list of popularity votes at 70% of total pooling booths will be declared winner. This might rarely happens that a candidate might get higher votes but as that candidate fails to gets first position at 70% of total pooling booths so this candidate will not be the winner.
There is another way also in which every pooling booth will be converted into single vote and candidate standing first and second will get it. For illustration suppose in a constituency there are 500 pooling booths so a candidate will be entitled for getting maximum 1000 votes and any candidate getting 700 votes should be declared winner. For getting pooling both vote this will essential for the candidate to get at least 20% of total votes. [If 1000 people have voted at least 200 must have voted for that candidate]
Any member of Parliament changing party six months prior to election will not be entitled for fighting the forth coming election on the ticket of newly joined party and will have to wait till next election for being a candidate from the same constituency.
Political parties failing to win 10% of total seats will loose their registration with election commission and their candidates who had won that election will have to join any other party within 30 days of such action.
Political leaders will not be entitled for accepting any gift / donation either from common citizen or from any commercial establishment for self or for party.
Political parties will get election fund equivalent to 5% of aggregate of development fund received by their Members of Parliament.
Candidate are allowed to make maximum election expanses at the rate of Rs. 5/- [Five] per voter and has to submit details of proposed expanses while filling the election forms. Election commission will give Rs. 1 Lakh to every candidate who keeps total election expenses within Rs. 10 Lakh and gets Rs. 1 Lakh from the party election fund.
For registering a party with election commission, which can be done one year prior of next scheduled elections, this will be mandatory to have endorsement from at least 15 present or past members of Parliament who are entitled for fighting election and give written commitment of fighting next election as party candidate of this new political party. Election commission will charge Rs. 30,000/- for registering a political party.
In the case of death / disqualification of a member, instead of holding fresh elections, candidate stood second in the previous election will become member for rest of the term. This rule is applicable only if the time for the next scheduled election is higher than six months, other wise party president will look after the developmental works of the constituency without having voting rights or right of participation in the parliament functioning.
No politician will be entitled for fighting more than five elections irrespective of wining or loosing the election and this will be inclusive of the elections at the city / Village level.
Independent candidates will not be allowed to fight elections for the Lok Sabha, however their participation will be allowed in the city / Village level elections. Here also provision should be made for providing development fund and pre election announcement of development plan by the candidates at the city / village levels.
Rajya Shabha will not exist. President of India will have right of appointing 20 members for Lok sabha but these appointment member will not be entitled for becoming a minister in the government and eventually function as independent candidate.
There will be no reservation in any field on any bases and there will be only one set of laws for all the Indians, irrespective of their caste, religion or region of living. Using a word indicating caste or religion of any citizen will be a punishable crime.
This is common observation that these days working of Parliament House gets hurdles or withheld for this or that reasons hence to avoid this, provision should be made that members must get allowance on the bases of working hours of the house instead of present one which is based on the number of days.
This is also observed that certain politicians are enjoying same portfolio in the ministry for several terms which often leads creation of non satisfaction and irregular [region wise] development works by that ministry. Provision should be made that no politicians should be allowed same ministry for more than three years in the entire political career. However post of Prime Minister & Finance Minister will be free from this restriction.
In the case of ruling party don’t have any member matching with eligibility criteria for the Finance Minister, can appoint any suitable candidate. In that case one member of the party will have to resign from the membership of Parliament and person appointed as finance minister will be treated as representative for the constituency of resigning member.
Baring the Prime Minister, all the ministers and Members of Parliaments will be entitled for 3BHK flat in multistoried building for their residential purpose in Delhi on rental basis. The rent will not be in excess of 20% of salary and allowances and will be deducted at source. All the members have to vacant this flat one month prior of the elections and have to submit such certificate to election officials if fighting elections.
As in the present era politics is no more act of social service and being member of Parliament involves more than adequate economic gains hence if any member needs a security will have to pay for this.
Eligibility Criteria
This is most strange and truly fascinating fact about our country that for being selected to post of forth grade employee say peon one needs to have a minimum educational qualification equivalent of 10 years of school education but for being a politician, representative of millions and nation’s police maker you are free from such obligations. We are often complaining about lowering of moral behavior by the politicians but never put stress for combining the educational qualification with the essentials of political leadership. As at the time of independence educational levels in our country were lower in the true sense but during these 60 years we had marched miles and miles ahead on the road of increasing educational levels hence this is most appropriate time to make certain essential educational levels for fighting elections. My proposed educational eligibility criteria is
For Village Level Elections: Minimum 8 years of school educationFor City Level Elections: Minimum 12 years of school education For Being Member of Parliament: A degree or professional diploma For Being Minister: Post GraduationFor Finance Minister: Economics Post Graduate or CEO of a corporate house with five years experience. For Defense Minister: Retired armed force personal of rank of Major and above or IPS personal of equivalent post. For Prime Minister: Minimum one year’s experience of being a minister is desirable but not essential.
The most and all important eligibility criteria for being entitled as a candidate in any election, person must not have any past criminal record and at any time of election process should not be in prison even due to political reasons.
To Young Indians
I know my most of proposals will be out rightly rejected by majority of the present political leadership of the country, but frankly speaking I had not written a single word for them, all this is about a hard to achieve challenge for younger Indian generation and written for the purpose of awakening them. Once I had read a meaningful and inspiring thought “Be the change you want to see”. I wish to further ahead of this that this is always the younger generations which are willing for change and have the energy sources essential for bringing the change. I wish to say identify your energy potential and instead of using this for destructive works by playing at the hands of politicians, be politicians, utilize these huge energy channels you have for making self and every citizen of country, an Indian in true sense. Do remember old aged persons can only suggest directions for the action but can’t initiate an action this is the reasonability of youth to act and bring a desirable change.

Indian Idol 4 - Will a Sindhi this time

Young talented singing sensation Mohit Lalwani of Delhi has made final 30 for Indian Idol 4 and needs supporting SMS from viewers to move further in competition. Watch him performing on Sony Television Friday - Saturday and support him by sending a minimum of 5-6 SMS everytime & maximum no limit. (Please note that the SMS lines open from Saturday 9p.m. to Sunday 9a.m.)

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Scripted Protest

Scripted Protest
Surly many of you will agree with me, that during past few days a few Hindi News television channels have dedicated significant time slot for discussing live in relations this happen because congress party lead Maharashtra government recommended this, otherwise in our country still a discussion on a sex related topic is treated as social taboo by a considerable large population. The question is that why it become essential for government to make legal provision for the Live in relation? Will this law be capable of solving the problem or this going to be proved yet another weapon to use as tool for harassment? First of all let us look at situations which are underlining the need of recognition for Live in relations especially when we are living in a country, which since the ancient times has historic tradition for Gandharva Vivah a marriage without celebrations and rituals and even the Niyog [Woman seeking temporary sex relations for the pregnancy with the consent of her husband who being physically handicap to perform his part in the process of birth of children] was not looked as the action to be reason for hate and social isolation. The most significant and very distinctly known characteristic of time is its changing nature and forcing surroundings to cope with these changes. In the most parts of globes among the human population this is universal understanding and accepted fact that for becoming successful one need to be master in coping with and able to sustain changes generated by the time. Since the time of independence, in these sixty odd years our country has successfully tackled the changes posed by the time. In the time of sixty years of post independence, Indian women’s journey has covered miles and miles and presently she is marching shoulder to shoulder with her opposite sex partner on every walk of life. Today in the Indian cities and even in villages, baring some remote area of the country, women are coming out from the boundary walls of the home for the education and for the jobs, hence the interaction between the two human sexes is increasing at very vigorous rate, here by interaction I don’t mean necessarily about the lustful behavior, but surely also don’t deny the increased chances for the existence of physical relations between duo. In these situations Live in relations start to appear on the social platform because in our country bigamy is taken as breach of law. In most of the cases woman is on the side suffering most because still our society is male dominating one and all the blames become the share of woman. People opposing this recognition of Live in relations are taking this as bypass for the bigamy law and an effort to destroy several centuries old Indian tradition of marriage and family. On the other side supporters are arguing this as woman protecting law and essential for keeping the social environment having certain moral norms. I have started this with television channels and concluding with one more news of the television channels and this is related with one of reality show Bigg Boss. News reports lodging of F.I.R. against the show for spreading vulgarity. The amazing facts about this complain is that it is lodged by the President of Youth branch of the political party, which is supporting recognition to live in relations. Frankly speaking I am unable to write the script properly, on the moral ground which is more harmful for our social life, telecasting swim suit scenes and leg massage of girl by a boy or giving by law recognition to live in relations.

Say No to Smoking

Say No to Smoking
Water flow under the bridges is speeding up and news world is regularly updates with some real interesting rumors and facts. This is a real fact that since last 2nd October India is among the select group of country where smoking at public places is punishable activity by the law of land.
Before I am come to express my views about, I feel it my moral duty to interact with my regular blog readers, you all know last about 50 days were of the hectic work schedule for me as I was over busy with renovation of www.thesindhuworld.com community portal of global Sindhis and launching of www.indiatravelfun.com a website related with tourism of Incredible India. This is truly an encouraging happening for us that within 10 days of official launching our site www.indiatravelfun.com started to find place in Google search for the keywords like Bhodhgaya. Many of my e-friends know, this is my professional commitment to compile all the information available on our site in readable format and this work is among the most time consuming jobs hence I was unable to find time for my blog writing. This tedious work is over though 100 descriptive pages related with Famous forts and monuments of country are still to be added to site but this work will start towards mid of November and over next project www.magicofgoa.com will become functional towards the year end so for next about 3 months I am with leisure time and promise to update my blog at least 12 to 15 times in a month.
Coming back to topic of this blog post “Smoking”, various health reports of our country are indicative of about 2,800 deaths daily due to tobacco generated diseases including cancer of various vital body organs. Probably this might be the encouraging reason for the central government for coming up with this law. People protesting this law are of the opinion that this is yet another blind following of developed countries like France, Germany and many other European countries. These people are arguing on the basis of known and accepted facts that in our country more that 80% of tobacco is consumed in the form of “Khaini”, “Gutaka” and “Bidis” where as in the rest of world more than 90% of total tobacco consumption is in the form of “Cigarettes” hence the situations in our country are completely different from rest of world, beside that higher villege population, lower education levels and less health awareness among common citizens will prove a huge hurdle for the practical implementation of this law and there are more chance for this law to providing yet another platform for corruption. Whatever the arguments may be given in favor or against of this law but this is a welcomed step as whatever may be the chances of successful implementation of this law, one thing is sure this law is going to discourage youth for going for smoking.
As our news channels have tendency of over acting on any happening so this was not different. Some news channels have shown how the common people and even the employees from the Indian Police are violating this law, but no news channel registered complain against them, even though the channels were with the decisive evidence in the form of video footage. I wish to ask just one and simple question to all these news channels, Is this responsible journalism? Implementation of law of land doesn’t rests only with hands of administrative machinery of the country but this moral duty of every citizen to extend helping hands for the implementation of laws. Sorry to say but this attitude was completely non visible in the actions of country’s television news channels.
Some other television news channels covered this issue with reactions of celebrities and among this most meaningful reaction came from Sharukh Khan, a known smoker film star and Youth Icon of country “It was better to ban cigarette production or hang the smokers but we know we can’t do this because we are living in a democratic country”.
Surly this is hard to implement this law in a country where just for fun of evocating fumes from the mouth youth is getting attracted towards smoking. Baning of smoking on public place can be taken as interim step because presently government is not in mood of sustaining huge [about 40 thousand carore of rupees] revenue loss for the sack of public health. Political dilemma of country is also not favoring such harsh steps but surely this is within the reach of government to raise the duties on tobacco products to such levels that these products go beyond the reach of purchasing powers of common people. This additional generated revenue can be utilized for educating people about the health hazards of tobacco consumption.
Even the chronicle smokers will not deny “Smoking is injurious for the health” so please next time say no to smoking, whether it is ban by law or not.

Expiry Date

Expiry Date

One might take this as the vacuum of professional creative thoughts of my mind as over the last three months, is the time period since I was working with two simultaneously ongoing projects renovation and redesigning of www.thesindhuworld.com a community portal dedicated to global sindhi community and developing a concept related with India tourism as the www.indiatravelfun.com . Surely the second one was more challenging one just because there are so many website with a lot of information. I will be writing about this as separate article and will share with you either here or at India Travel World - Blogs related with India Tourism, Cricket & Sports.

Everything available in the market has a specific time line for the best use or for giving the best possible satisfaction to buyer up to a certain pre fixed time; we often call this time line as the expiry date. Our Hindu vision of life goes even beyond this with believe of every thing which is created is bound to destroy. We have Trio of Gods Brahma – creator of universe, Vishnu – one who looks after the universe and Mahesh – the destroyer or the terminator of universe. This is the Hindu world where expiry dated life- in the forms of spirits, souls and life without body- exists more strongly than any other religious stream of human world.

Anyway as we are native of presently, very strong and dominating marketing world so we know and strongly supports discarding use of things after specific time line from date of manufacturing or day of existing. Market movers are so strongly and deeply in rooted in our life that in the modern times even the human relations are having expiry date and supposed to be either discarded from use or to be renovated for further use. This might be the most adverse effect of market dominating forces on our life vision as we the Indians are known to be as the believer of existence of relation beyond the death and extended for several births but we can’t do anything as we have to move with changing time and avoid the label of “expiry dated “for the self.

One thing which I surely like to quote here for the market movers and our techno savvy youth who often use word “out dated “ expiry dated for the thoughts of elders are forgetting one thing while considering the expiry date of products and human relations, renovation might be the essential difference of expiry date for products and human relations. Use of products beyond the expiry date might prove dangerous for the life but as for as relations are concerned they are the constant source of life liquid all we have to do is renovated them with time for the best constructive effect on our life.

Kolhapur Ganesh Idols

Kolhapur Ganesh Idols are famous world wide and even exported to various countries. Here are some of the idols of Lord Ganesha for homes.
Along with the people of Maharashtra and other Hindus, Sindhi community is also celebrating this festival and at many Sindhi homes idols of Shree Ganesh are established.

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Sindhi Surnames or Family Names

Sindhi Surnames or Family Names

If we consider contribution of Sindhis for the human world population surely this will not be more than 1% of entire but this is also fact that it is almost next to impossible to locate a geographical region or nation without Sindhi population this is a distinct indication for most dispersed status of Sindhi community.

Besides being the front runner for the business wisdom, talent and hard working nature Sindhis have yet another significant thing related with their surname or family names, as almost all of them ends with “ani”. This “ani” is in fact an ancient tradition of showing respect to elders as “ani” means belongs to and Sindhi surnames / family names are generated from suffixing “ani” to name of few generations ago elder family head, for instant my surname “Manghirmalani “ is originated by adding “ani” to Manghirmal.

Here is the list of Sindhi surnames/ family names known to me, the list is arranged in alphabetical order. If you are a Sindhi and your surname is not in the list, please click the link below to add to list.

http://www.thesindhuworld.com/form_directory.html


Sindhi Surnames Family Names
A
Achhara - Adnani - Advani - Adwani - Ahuja - Ailani - Amarani - Ambwani - Amlani - Arjnani - Asnani - Assudani - Aswani - Awatani - Awataney
B
Babani - Bachani - Bahrani - Bakthani - Bhatia - Bajaj - Balani - Balchandani - Balwani - Basantani - Bhagchandani - Bhagtani - Bharwani - Bherwani - Bhojwani - Bodwani - Budhwani - Bulchandani - Butani
C
Chadha - Chainanni - Chanchlani - Chandnani - Chandwani - Chandani - Chatwani - Chawala - Chetwani - Chhabada - Chhabdiya - Chhabria - Chhoda - Chugh - Chughani
D F
Dadlani - Dalwani - Dandwani - Daryanani - Daryani - Daswani - Daultani - Dayani - Devnani - Dhameja - Dhanjani - Dialani - Dingreja - Dudhani - Dulhani - Duseja - Fundwani
GHI
Galani - Gangtani - Gangwani - Gellani - Gulabani - Gulwani - Gurbani - Gurbaxani - Gurnani - Gursahaney - Guwalani - Guwlani - Harchandani - Hemnani - Hingorani - Hirani - Idnani - Israni
J
Jagyasi - Jagwani - Jaisinghani - Jawhrani - Jeswani - Jethanandani - Jhamnani - Jivani - Jodhwani - Jumnani
K
Kalwani - Kanal - Kanjani - Karamchandani - Karia - Katara - Kataria - Katari - Katariya - Khemtiyani - Keswani - Kewalramani - Kewlani - Khantani - Khatari - Khotwani - Khubchandani - Kriplani - Krishnani - Kukreja
L
Lakhani - Lakhmani - Lakhwani - Lal - Lalchandani - Lalwani - Lilani
M
Madhwani - Madnani - Makhija - Makhijani - Mamtani - Manchandani - Manglani - Manghirmalani - Mankani - Mansharamani - Mansukhani - Manwani - Matta - Menghani - Melwani - Mirchandani - Mohnani - Moolchandani - Moorjani - Motwani - Mulchandani
N
Nagdev - Nagpal - Nandwani - Nankany - Narang - Narsinghani - Narvani - Narwani - Nathani - Nebhani - Nihalani - Notani
P
Pahuja - Pamnani - Panjabi - Panjwani - Parmanandani - Parwani - Phulwani - Poptani - Premani - Punjabi - Punshi - Purswani
R
Raghani - Raheja - Raisinghani - Rajani - Rajdev - Rakhyni - Ramani - Ramchandani - Ramrakhyani - Ravlani - Rijhwani - Rochlani - Rohera - Rohida - Rohira -
S
Sachdev - Sadarangani - Sadhwani - Sakhrani - Samtani - Satnani - Santwani - Sata - Satwani - Savlani - Sharma - Shivani - Shivdasani - Somani - Sulkhwani - Sundrani
T
Tahalramani - Tahilani - Talreja - Tanwani - Tarachandani - Tehlyani - Tejwani - Tekwani - Thadani - Thavani - Thawani - Tirthani - Totwani - Tourani - Tulsiani
UV
Udasi - Uttamchandani - Valecha - Vabgani - Vanjani - Varandani - Varjani - Varliani - Varyani - Vasnani - Vaswani - Vasyani - Vatnani - Vatwani - Vishwani
W
Wadhwa - Wadhwani

Even, if you don’t belong to Sindhi community but know a Sindhi with a surname / family name other than listed above. Please inform me.

Sindhis after the partition of India

Sindhis after the partition of India

After getting independence from the British rule nation divided into two countries namely Bharat [India] and Pakistan, as this division was rooted with the concentration of religious population, hence several lakh of Hindu population, living since centuries and many generation on the land, become part of Pakistan, was forced to migrate India because this was clear even before the partition that new country is going to be land of Islamic dominance. This partition proved very crucial, painful and suffering for the Hindus especially those were living in Sindh and Punjab area.
As for as the Sindhis are concerned this partition has worked as deadly killer factor for the rich cultural and social heritage of the community and Sindhi language, as in these changes scenario, being a part of large geographical region and in the status of migrant Sindhis were forced to get a dispersed status in India.
Migrant Sindhis were pursing hard for getting back to economic roots and also factor of low concentration of population was proving and working as gradual venomous for the Sindhi customs, traditions, culture, celebrations and language, as a natural result, today, after the 60 years of independence, a considerable chunk of young sindhi population is not able to speak and or write sindhi language, As at the time of partitions, though majority of sindhi population migrated to India but a few families had opted other countries also. Modern young Sindhi population can't be blamed for not knowing the Sindhi language because this is not their fault as they are born and brought up in the linguistic atmosphere other than Sindhi.
Sindhis are among the strongest business minded communities of human world and have a very high success ratio. Hard working nature, proper and timely use of available knowledge and resources along with presence of mind are helping Sindhis in maintaining their world leadership status in global business world. To express business mind of Sindhis, I am quoting an imaginary incident. Once in India, one Sindhi and Chinese were traveling in same rail comportment. All of sudden train passed through a mosquito rich area, many mosquitoes entered into compartment, Chinese person killed a mosquito flying around his head and have eaten it. In next few seconds another mosquito started flying around the Sindhi head; fellow Chinese become curious for the reaction of Sindhi. Nothing happen abnormal Sindhi also succeeded in killing the mosquito like the Chinese. Placed the killed mosquito on hand palm, and to surprise of Chinese, forwarded palm to him with the words "Hello Sir would you like to buy this".
www.thesindhuworld.com is providing a communication platform among the members of globally scattered Sindhi Community in the form of “World Sindhi Directory” .

Sindhi True Indian Minority

Sindhi True Indian Minority

In the democratic setup numbers are playing most important and vital role. In the India, many communities are trying to have the minority status either on the basis of language or on population in a particular region. If we look at national scenario sindhu community emerges as the true minority and following seven points are the supporting evidence for this fact.


Sindhi speaking population of the country is only between 2% to 3% of total population of the country. [Estimated Sindhi population is between 2.5 carore and 3 carore].
Sindhi population is scattered through out the country, from Kashmir to Kanniyakumari, hence the density of Sindhi population is such diluted that even at some places not taken in consideration.
If we leave apart a few cities like Ulhasnagar in Thane district of Maharashtra and Adipur in Kutch area of Gujrat, in most of cities Sindhi population is about something from 5% to 20%, of total population of the city. There is long list of Indian cities where Sindhi population is even less than 5% of total city population.
Sindhi Language is not a state language for any Indian state; Sindhi language is not in use as the regional language or holds such status.
There are no reserved seats either for state assembly or Parliament for Sindhis, like backward classes have.
Even like the Anglo Indian community, no Sindhi is nominated for the Parliament.
Sindhi population in the country is so dispersed in the country that like other communities [even the recoginse minorities], no sindhi is able to won state assembly / Parliament elections only on the support of own community, probably this is the reason for presence of very few Sindhis in the arena of Indian Politics.

Ye India Ka Politics Hai [This is Indian politics]

Ye India Ka Politics Hai [This is Indian politics]

So the much waited decision of withdrawing the support to central government by left parties was initiated a few days back though this doesn’t prove tsunami creator as was expected but still Indian Ocean of politics went under the influence of ways of political instability with very high tides and Prime Minister was forced to move the confidence motion in the Parliament house. A special season was called for two days on 21st and 22nd July 2008 and members decided on 22nd with 275 members voted in favor of motion, 256 opposed it and 10 members preferred either to remain absent in Parliament or did not take part in voting. Any how as this was expected Government succeeded in getting confidence of house. I was wondering and thinking about this strange political development of Indian politics. My thought process was broken with the calling tune of my mobile, which was transmitting musical lyrics of old Hindi Film song “Janewaloon Jara Mudkar Dekho Mujhe”. This was clear indication for the presence of wrestler turned politician Kishor Lal Singh Pahalwan, at the other end.

I was a bit surprised because this was not matching with the probable present mood of Netaji, as yesterday only his party won the vote of confidence at center hence there was no space for being in unhappy or sad mood. Anyway I picked the call.

“Hello Sirji, have you liked my, this tune, which I am dedicating to opposition and all other political parties Left us to face this unwanted situation”. Kishori asked.

“But this lyrics and music of this song……….”
Kisori started answering before I could complete question, “For a change this time I decided to reflect the mood of politicians opposing us. As soon as we finish our talk, you will get a miss call from with song matching with my mood.”

“But don’t you think handling Mulayam Singh, is not going to prove a bit harder?” I asked.
“No Sirji, Not at all, his position in his home state is so crucial that he is in very bad need of political shelter, hence he will not dare to even put his head up. You know no wise person wish to trap in street with fire on both ends. Surely Mulayam Singh is among the selective and rare wise politicians present on the political sky of country.” Kishori explained.

This looked quite satisfactory analysis but as my mind was full of question so I put another one. “What about Guru Ji? After all in past some allegations are made against him for meaningful support of government?”

Sir Ji, how you are forgetting the sarcastic article “Post office” of Hindi writer “sharad Josh” which you had mentioned as reference during our talk on corruption in the country?”

“Yes Kishori Ji, I remembered but that has to do with this situation? I asked.

“Not the article” Kishori replied “But lending sentences of that article “Khair! Jiska Jo bhi banata tha mein diya aur apani pahchan karvakar aaya hua parcel lekar ghar vapas aa gaya.” [I paid which was due customary for every one, they were satisfied with identification proof and I came back to home with parcel send to me.]. We had used this, so don’t worry about this”.
“By the way what about, the news of market price ranging between Rs. 25 carore to 100 carore? This was my next question to him.

“Kiya Sir Ji, Aap Bhi! Nayee bhi kabhi dusare nayee se paise leta hai kiya? [is a barber is charging another barber for hair cutting?]”

Once again Kishori’s explanation was satisfactory but still I preferred to look the matter more deeply “But Kishori Ji, this time these allegations are framed by a senior and seasoned politician?”

“All is bull shit Sir Ji. I am sorry but forced to say, even remaining in my touch for so many years; you fail to understand human community known as the politicians. Through out the world we the politicians are the only human beings who are true opportunist; we always react according to need and situation. We are born only and only for getting so paying is never part of life of politicians.” Kishori stooped for a while “anyway, at present I got some visitors, so we will have talk on this at some other time.” With these words Kishori disconnected phone.

My mind was still filled with thoughts about the behavior of politicians in the light of this talk, the first words which came to mind where “Ye India Ka Politics Hai”. Before I go deep in my though process, my mobile started singing yet another Hindi Film song “Hari Bazi Ko Jitana Hume Aata Hai”. I recalled words of Kishori Ji about the miss call and decided to enjoy the song, leaving all the political thoughts behind because you all know this will go on happening like this after all “Ye India Ka Politics Hai”.

Indian Cinema & Cricket 2008

Indian Cinema & Cricket 2008

Indian are said to be people with passion and for the youth and modern Indians cinema and cricket are not mere a passion but the basic style of living and interacting with each other.

More than half of the year 2008 has been deposited with history though the country is undergoing a political instability due to much awaited withdrawal of support for UPA government by the left front but still majority of population is worried about the loss of title at Asia Cup and Tri series of ODI cricket recently concluded in Pakistan and box office of many of big budget Hindi films released in the first half of the year.

On the fronts of both the passions of Indians, first half of year is some what a mix bag as for as success is concerned. IPL has created a record of new success and opened the doors of unlimited earnings for the players but towards the end fatigue of Dhoni, in bits and patches success of Yuvraj, Non justifying treatment of selectors for the Asian top batsman and Bengal Tiger Sourav Ganguli [he is not among the 30 probable Indians for the Champion’s trophy to held in September in Pakistan?] are giving space for the worries of the game lovers. The satisfactory side of the coin is the amazing success run of openers Shewag and Gambhir.

When we turn to another Indian passion cinema, Hindi movies are having a fusion of a lot of failure with some quantity of success. It seems that since last 4-5 years this trend of majority of releases not performing well at box office and first half of 2008 can’t be said different from that. Trade experts of Indian cinema are listing
[1] Race [Abas Mastan] [2] Jannat [Mahesh Bhat [3] Sarkar Raj [ Ramgopal Verma] [4] Bhutnath [Ravi Chopara] [5] Jodha Akbar [Ashutosh Govarikar] as the most successful five released and [1] Hall Bol [Rajkumar Santoshi] [2] Black & white [Subash Ghai] [3] Tashan [Yashraj] [4] Mare Bap Pahle Aap [Priyadarshan] [5] Thoda Piyar Thoda Music [Kunal Kohali] as the biggest flop movies of first half of 2008.

First half 2008 has once again underlined the importance of Amitabh [Big B] for the Indian silver screen out of the five most business oriented Hindi movies are credited with him. Mahesh Bhat’s Janat is based on cricket and proved once again that Indians are more than crazy for the cricket. Ajay Devgan’s first directional attempt “You Me and Hum “, Rakesh Roshan’s “Crazy Four” failed to meet with the expectations of cinegoers, where as success of “Aamir” [Rajiv Khandelwal] and “Mithya” [Ranbir Shouri] has proved that there is still ample space for the off beat cinema and Indian are no more made for the star, they had started to give importance to another aspects of movies also.

There are some waves of blaming IPL for not much successful first half of 2008 and even people are thinking in terms of meeting with the challenge posed by IPL in terms of withholding release of movies during the next session of IPL. Any how the remaining six months are going to be prove acid test for many star performers. The first on the list is our own “Bole to munna bhai Sanjay Datta as with ready to release films like “EMI”, “Kidnap” and “Allauddin” are going to decide his worth for the Indian film industry. Much talked “Gajani” for whom Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan has started to present self without much hairs on head, Akashay Kumar’s “Singh is King” will also released in next few months. Towards the end of December King Khan, after the failure of “Panchavi Pass” on small screen, will try to come back with a movie. These six months are said to be not as bad for Salu Miyan as he is showing a good amount of power holding with “Dus Ka Dam” on television screen.

Most successful event IPL is undergoing phase of drug addiction, shadows of match fixing and cinema is running with flops from the some of the established names and big budget movies. Let us hope in the second half of the year both the passions cinema and cricket bring the glory and enjoyment for the Indians.

Indian Family budget and education

Indian Family budget and education

Just consider the most promising and progressive world economies surely you will end with India, emerging as the world leader in this arena. With the speedy progress on economic fronts country is not legging for behind on the fronts of price hike of day to day commodities and life supporting products.

Have a look on following description: A computer lab with high speed internet connectivity & equipped with most modern computer systems, Air conditioned meeting hall, Long, spacious, green tree loaded and shadowed premises, state-of-art indoor game hall, finely architected and well decorate receptionist desk, Olympic sized shaded swimming pool and well dressed staff. Surely you had started thinking about the corporate office and work place of a multinational company. Will you please allow me correcting you, all the above description has nothing to do with a business setup or commercial enterprise. This is all about the modern and high classed boarding school in India. In fact education of children is the most worrying factor for most of Indian parents.

In the Indian economy, middle class, to whom even the American President blamed for the recent price hike in world markets, is working as the back bone of the system. These regular price hikes often disturb the domestic budget of this class but the most destroying thing for the budget of middle class Indian families is the unbelievable increase in expenses related with the education of children. Look at expenses under this head they are showing a huge growth of over 100% during last five years.

In the year 2002 most of recognizing schools in most of metro cities of the country were charging a monthly fee between Rs. 100 and Rs. 300 only but today this monthly fess is raised to minimum of around Rs. 300. Now think of other important expenses head of education of Indian children and this is private tuition, for which parents have to pay almost equal amount of school fee. On the one hand government expenses on primary education are increasing and on the other hand numbers of government schools are showing a constant decline with simultaneously number growth of private school is keeping on increasing and as the natural result of all these is visible in the form of high priced schooling.

Before I conclude this, I would like to ask a very simple question to huge Indian middle class families. I was a secondary school teacher for more than 25 years and still wondering on wisdom of teaching computers to kids who are not still perfect in their mother tongue? Before blaming government just think of our attitude of measuring standard of education only basis of amount paid by us for importing this to our children. Don’t you think until and unless we are not going to change our this attitude we will remain not only deprived of benefits of national economic boost but also will have to face the problem of disturbed domestic budgets due to these increased educational expenses.

Finance

Finance

In the life of Indians this is one of the most dominating word at least since last two decade no other word is able to challenge influence that this word holds for the life of Indians from all aspects of life.

Before I go for elaborating influence of this word on life of common people let us see one hilarious side of Finance. Two politicians, one in the government and other in the opposition were engaged in a conversation about the financial progress of the country. Opposition politician was criticizing government for increase the debt circle around the country. Ruling politician was not agreeing with this as in his view these increased foreign loans have increased the safety of the country without any increase on front of expenditures of armed forces. Opposition politician was surprised to listen this as you are to read this. Look at explanation given by the ruling politicians. “Look dear! In presence of these loans no country of world will dare to make an assault on India just because every country knows in that condition these powerful countries will run for protecting India as this is the only way for the safe recovery of their loans.”

Market always moves with the principle of “Demand and Supply” and this word finance has changed this lot as this helped the market to generate a real huge demand and subsequently forced for more intense supply. In fact this is base from where boost of industrial growth has been originated. A few days back American President while addressing the world price hike of commodities held responsible the purchasing powers of Indian Middle class for this. If we put a serious look over the increase in buying powers of Indians this is not hard to find “Finance” responsible for this tremendous growth of purchasing powers.

Luxurious life styles and commodities were the unfilled desires of human beings especially of middle class of the society. What magic this word finance has done that it provided ways for the expression and fulfillment of these non satisfied desires. Facility of paying in part has prompted Indians to go for even buying the things of no or minimum use and as the result country is emerging as the place with hopes of biggest boost for market on global levels. It was amazing experience of CEO of Samsung to learn that Indians are interested and ready to put expenditure even higher that US citizens for the high definition and multi utility telecommunication instrument.

Finally I would like to conclude with curse of finance and like to quote one person was crying out side his house and when asked about the reason, he replied “I have taken honeymoon loan from a finance company as I fail to pay just three EMI in time so just know the officials of finance company have taken my wife with them”.

India 60 years 60 words Green Revolution

India 60 years 60 words Green Revolution

Among the basic needs of human beings surely food is the most essential one. Historically India was among the world lands with the higher rate of starvation deaths till 1967 even after having fertile land and favorable climatic conditions country was unable to attain self sufficiency in the production of food grains. According to Nobel Prize [1998] winner Indian economist Amartya Sen, this was not just the urge for self sufficiency in food grain yielding but also the higher rate of population growth was also stressing the implementation of adoptive measure to meet with the vigorously growing need of food stuffs.

From the independence in 1947 to 1967 two decades were utlised for coming out with a definite plan to tackle the problems population growth and food grain production. This plan was the “Green Revolution”.

In this plan the efforts of increasing the land under cultivation in force since 1947 were more intensified and the traditional monsoons based agricultural annual activities were shifted to “Double cropping” system with the irrigation facilities, being made available to farmers with the help of numerous dames constructed during these two decade and various rivers of the country. Dr. M.P. Singh, the name written with golden ink in the history of Green Revolution of India, was the instrumental behind the introduction of High Yielding Seeds [HYS] to agricultural world of the country. The use of HYS provided the success platform for the Green Revolution.

Effects of Green Revolution

1. India is not only the self sufficient but also one among the countries with the highest agricultural production.
2. Country is among the food grains exporter countries.
3. With Green Revolution concept of cash crops, Stress on production of fruits and flowers are become essential part of farming.
4. Production of Unit farmland is increased by 30% in compare to 1947.
5. Green Revolution provided scope for Industrial boost also as HYS needs more water, more fertilizer, more pesticides, fungicides and certain other chemicals.
6. For the irrigation more dams were constructed, which prompted for constructing hydro electric power production and resulted in industrial growth.
7. Green Revolution proved reason for the higher economic status of farmers, the middle class economic sector of country.