you never know when it's gonna be bitin'.
[9/5/2019]
Cleanliness doesn't mean avoiding or artfully hiding or "othering" of or stigmatizing the dirt. It quite simply means cleaning up the dirt. [25/6/2018]
Lok Adalats definitely have a good intention of making justice accessible to the weak at their doorsteps. Also to reduce the burden of higher courts. But to say that Lok Adalats are the ultimate answer is to create a separate class of secondary/sub-citizens who are only eligible for a justice system that shoves down his throat, a speedy and binding judgement with no recourse to appeal to higher courts. After all, if the rich still make use of and trust the District Courts, HC and SC, then why do we talk of an informal system such as LA's for the poor? Are they free from social prejudices? Are they not opaque? Are they not prone to be dominated by the same social hierarchy that was the cause for litigation in the first place? [29/4/2018]
For any law to not just become an Act but to see success in implementation, it should pander to the most basic human traits. It should not only be sound in conventions of law but should be designed such that any implementing human is expected nothing more to be, but be a human. If humans are basically selfish, the law should be designed such that the implementer's very selfishness will see the law to success. His human need for appreciation, his thirst for incentives, his penchant for security of his own livelihood and his family - only these can make a law successful. The moment a law expects implementor to be more than a human - altruistic, selfless, it sows the seeds of its own death. For, selflessness is a socially created nicety in societies, which can be thrown out of the window the moment the implementor exits the society and enters his own self. [3/4/2018]
India has the tradition of creating a new institution, body, agency or a scheme whenever an issue arises, rather than trying to address the issue itself. If CBSE paper leaks, remedy is creation of National Testing Agency. If MCI is corrupt, create NMC. If banks have huge NPA's, create PARA. But after a few year, these new institutions get riddled with corruption, so much so that the body itself becomes an issue and to resolve it, the government dissolves the body and freshly creates a new body. This has led to multiplication of institutions - 10 each dealing with the same aspect of the governance, further leading to confusion and diffusion of funds with each institution suffering with the same problems of lack of transparency, corruption, lack of sufficient funds and inefficiency. No one knows one-to-one correspondence about which issue is exactly dealt with by which body. If a citizen approaches an office, he is told off to visit another office as it comes under the domain of another body. This disables citizens in accessing the government services. The day we dare to directly address the "issue" rather than beating around the "bodies", we will become an efficient country. [30/3/2018]
We can compensate for the lack powerful computation hardware with efficient algorithms-based software as long as the application doesn't demand both powerful h/w + efficient s/w. Same applies to human brain (by utilizing the time sincerely and more efficiently). There are very few who have great h/w + also put it to efficient use. Hence, someone else with less powerful h/w can out compete someone else with best of brains but slacks off. [29/3/2018]
Except for his biometrics and the biological limitation of there being no possibility of claiming otherwise as far as who his parents are, a human should be able to identify himself every which way he fancies and it should be his fundamental right. It is not for others, not even the parents to decide what his identity would be for the rest of his life. That's the true "personal liberty". [28/3/2018]
Why do we call it "hoarding" when farmers save it for the profitable times? What's wrong with that as long as our country's food security is met? Don't capitalists do the same thing? Saving and investing at the right times to make maximum profits? When there is a fall in private investment in the overall economy, is it not because the capitalists are waiting for the right time and thus are "hoarding" their money at the moment? Why is it that when every class thinks of profit, farmers are the only people who need to make sacrifices to offer their product at the cheaper prices? Well the instant refrain to the argument would be that it is not the actual growers but middle-men who are guarding the APMC gates and are hoarding. But why do you care? Don't act like you care for the farmers more than middle-men. Last time I heard from you, you were the staunchest supporter of Adam Smith. Has the invisible hand that was supposed to assist people in Agriculture sector been chopped off? Only thing you stand for is to protect your own invisible hand. The argument here is not about middle-men or farmers. Yes, middle-men are bad. Get rid of them and enable farmers to have enough capability to hoard. But nevertheless, hoarding is the most "free-market thing" to do. Anti-hoarding measures of the government only aggravate the Cobweb Cycle of low supply + higher prices one year --> followed by supply glut, low-prices and losses the next. [28/3/2018]
As I note down for the the exam, the topic on how India should pass a data protection law and control the access to personal data by the foreign companies, my notes in Microsoft Word gets synced to Google servers, swiftly, silently and graciously. And I write this quote down in Google Blogger! [27/3/2018]
I believe we not only think in images but associate much stronger connection to the memories in those images, the music and the fragrances which transcend us back in time. A song associated to somewhere in time or the olfactory association to a place can transport us across the time in a moment. [26/3/2018]
We could go back in time by saving it now. [22/3/2018]
Europeans say "what a nice sunny day, let's go out for beer", Indians say "what a pleasant, cool day. Let's have pakode at home!". [16/3/2018]
Every time we Indians don the nationalist cap, some lives are extinguished on the border, and every time some lives are extinguished on the border, we don the nationalist cap. [16/Mar/2018]
"World Economic Forum said the private sector still considers corruption to be the most problematic factor for doing business in India." Does that sound funny to anyone? Corruption always involves two accomplices - one, a government official and the other _____? One cannot be corrupt without the other - it's a chicken-egg problem really. However the question is not how it started. Rather, it is about how it is fueled, greased and perpetuated. [13/Mar/2018]
We are not what and how much we've read or seen. We are what we have owned up as our own and are able to express and write from that. [13/Mar/2018]
There are two ways to look at it, this thing called life: either everything matters and crib about it until the end or simply, nothing matters. In the end, we all split into atoms to be part of a rock, a tomato, a bird or a star. [1/Sep/2013]
Every second u r at the best moment of ur life as u r the youngest u can be. [9/Mar/2010]
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