Right to Speak................but in Silence

The preamble of constitution defines India as sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. Our constitution has given us many rights. Right to Vote, Right to Speak, Right to Justice, Right to do things which we are not even aware of. But when a person wants to speak his heart out he was asked to keep his silence. Just for example look at the case of Mr. Jaswant Singh's book Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence. One mistake he did is he praised Jinnah and criticized Nehru for the partition of India and Pakistan. Resulting in his expulsion from BJP and later Gujrat government, led by BJP member Narendra Modi, banned the book.

Though the High Court of Gujrat had removed the ban on the book but still the question is Why the book was Banned? Every person has a right to say and write his views. Then why Mr. Jaswant Singh was criticized and humiliated for writing a book? He hadn't done any crime as per our law system. He didn't deserve that.

Ok lets see the case of the actor known as Mr. Perfectionist in Bollywood, none other Mr. Aamir Khan. He sat at an andolan (protest) to rehabilitate those who rendered homeless cause of increasing the height of a dam on Narmada River. He didn't did anything wrong but his movies were banned in Gujrat excusing him of making anti-Gujrat comments.


I know this blog is about Indian Democracy but let's just move global. One of the most controversial book "The Da-Vinci Code" was banned alleging that it threatens the existence of Christainity and The Bible. The Chruch was so sceptic that the book will create mass controversy, it used the power and influence to ban the book. If church believes in Christainity and the word of The Bible then why they were afraid of the thinking of just a single man.


Looking back at history, we have lots of example where the voice of a community or person went unheard or made to echo to be heard only by walls.



I hope I will not be arrested for writing this blog. :)

Growth And Rainfall

I was reading this article "Slow and Steady", TOI, about the recent growth rate of India and how the rainfall and drought can affect it. After giving it a coffee break thought, I thought its worth mentioning in my blog.

Well as per the government, our country has done better compared to our western counterparts in tackling recession, though we too have seen lots of jobs being slashed and decrease in GDP. The growth in the last quarter comes as a relaxation for most of the government officials and corporate world as it exceeds the expectations. No questions, a lot has been done by government and corporate world to curb the recession. More and more no. of SEZ's were being identified and were developed, Bank rates were slashed and many more steps were taken. Finally our economy is showing growth. But as when we thought everyhting is going smooth, slow and steady, comes the jerk.

If yesteryear world economy played the part of the villain, Monsoon is the culprit this year. Scattered rainfall in most part of the country is leading to drought and increase in prices of agricultural products. Most affected are pulses seeing the steepest hike ever. Prediction is that late rain will be boon for winter crops. Government too has taken the initiative to release and distribute the agricultural products from the stock to minimize the chaos. Apart from affecting the agriculture, Monsoon has big role in hydel power generation too. Low rainfall this year can be a major reason for less power generation thus affecting the industrial growth.

It is predicted that inflation will be 4% more in March 2010 as compared to same period in 2009. The economic growth is expected to be 5.8% in year 2009-10 which was earlier projected to 6.3%. Government is hopeful that non-agricultural growth will be more.