INDIAN POLITICS

Systematic administration and supporting personnel to carry out different responsibilities on behalf of a society, region or state for its holistic welfare and development is a fundamental characteristic of rule. We know about Satya Harischandra and Lord Rama as representatives of great values and standards as rulers in Indian history. Various dynasties and kings ruled India for centuries before the gradual entry of the English into the political system of India. There were exploitation, suppression, suffering and pain during the British rule. Millions of innocent and patriotic Indians followed the great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and achieved independence to India. 

They dreamt of a peaceful and prosperous nation, where all people live comfortably and happily benefiting from the fruits of liberty, equality and universal fraternity. Separation of Pakistan from India was a painful blow to those dreamers of independence movement. They sacrificed their personal lives for the cause of the nation. They are all our role models.

After independence, we started ruling ourselves, after becoming a republic. Unfortunately, we prepared our constitution taking the best ideas and ideals from the constitutions of different countries familiar or admirable to us those days. This shows our culture of copying and imitation. India, any country for that matter, is unique, in various ways. Creative and ideal guides of a nation should try to prepare a constitution considering the unique features and culture of their people. It did not happen in the case of India. What is applicable and appreciable today might become negligible, harmful and avoidable tomorrow. We are ruling India depending on concepts and plans devised many years ago by a handful of idealists and thinkers. We are giving more importance to beliefs than logic and ideals now.

As the Congress party played a great role in leading the nation towards winning freedom from the British, the people of India made the prominent candidates of Congress their national leaders soon after independence, casting their votes with great respect and trust in them during elections. Jawaharlal Nehru laid foundation to the development of India with many visionary initiatives. Most of similar leaders and patriots contributed a great deal to the development and peace of India in his time. Patriotism and commitment were the main characteristics of those leaders. I believe that the real Congress Party died in 1964 itself with the death of Jawaharlal Nehru. I don’t consider Indira Gandhi an ideal and visionary leader but an egoistic and impatient politician. If a person craves political power, avoiding his or her standards and values as an individual or leader of a society or region, he or she cannot be considered a guide of people but a worthless runner after the filth of false prestige and authority.

The entry of regional political parties into the scenario of Indian politics further degraded our image as a democracy. We can witness the emergence and growth of various regional political parties after 1975. People started treating themselves as entities of a particular region but not a nation, following the strategies and systems invented and practiced by many narrow-minded political idiots in their respective regions. Various nasty rogues became leaders in different regions in this messy evolution of Indian administrative and political system. They started focusing more and more on their regions but not the development of India as a whole. Selfishness occupied the place of patriotism. The feelings of separation tarnished the ideals of unity of India as a nation. India got split into different states in course of time on linguistic basis. India became a nation of fragments and factions, losing its image as a great land slowly.

I think idiots and rogues entered legislatures at state level and Parliament at central level when party commands occupied those positions due to their power and strategies as opportunists but not based on their ideals as visionaries and patriots. If a criminal and sinner is the leader of a political party, he or she naturally invites such blokes only into his or her political fold. This is what we have been witnessing in Indian politics during the last 20 years or so. Their goal is somehow acquiring political power and retaining it, degrading to any level. Coalition governments are the best example to it. There are no permanent friends or foes in Indian politics now but just opportunism and selfishness. We are all bearing with them because all choices are bad. It is plight of Indian politics. Devils are kings and queens here.

Let’s partly examine the qualities required for one to become a politician now:

1. He or she must be the son or daughter of a politician, celebrity, royal figure, businessman or highly influential or manipulative idiot from a region whose history as an idiot and rogue is well-known to familiar people. He or she must be able to become their leader, frightening them directly or indirectly.

2. He or she must be able to present truths as lies and lies as truths. Liars and hypocrites is the right word for them. They must have two kinds of character, at least. One character emerges in public meetings and political campaigns. This can be analyzed and recorded for future reference by anybody. The second character is a hidden and actual one. They put that character into use privately and secretly. In public places they should appear as ideal leaders based on how they are talking and behaving. They must be able to cheat and misguide ordinary people through their speeches and activities.

3. They must wear white clothes only because ordinary people should think that they stand for purity and transparency like those white clothes. How many of our present politicians are honest and patriotic in their thoughts and acts? Almost nobody, but most of them are wearing white clothes only. Why? Just to make us believe that they are taking us as brainless idiots. We don’t question or criticize them anywhere!

4. They must be ready to cheat or kill their parents, siblings, friends or well-wishers also in their rigorous march towards acquiring political power. For them, political image and status must be more important and valuable than their life partners or anybody else. So, they must be traitors and killers on the way!

5. They must be able to distribute currency notes, liquor and many other gifts to their prospective voters before or during elections. If they invest one crore rupees during elections, to acquire political power somehow, they can earn 100 crore rupees during their tenure later. This is simple give and take principle. People take gifts for courtesy sake from these rogues and they loot them publicly afterwards for logic sake. It has been a widely visible game in India in the recent times in many regions.

6. They need not have educational certificates or other qualifications but just ability to fool local people in different ways. This is how many are becoming MLAs and MPs now in many parts of India.

7. They must appear to their people regularly talking nonsense about something seriously. Walking miles together and meeting people in different public meetings are just a few examples of this strategy. People forget bad leaders earlier than estimated. So, it is the responsibility of bad leaders to appear regularly to masses and make them believe that they are not as bad as they imagine.

8. They should treat ordinary people also as gods and goddesses before and during elections. They should worship those gods and goddesses, keeping their palms together or hugging them warmly, in public places. Once the elections are over, they should treat those gods and goddesses as ghosts and beggars. Ghosts are dangerous entities. Beggars always want something from us. So, they remain away from ordinary people after assuming those political positions. They become artificial celebrities, who are accessible to special people only in different places of their native land and nation. People slowly realize that their leaders fooled them publicly. They also know that all fool them similarly always!

9. They should know how to loot public money in different ways to contest in the coming elections. Five years is a time period given to them by their helpless voters to think and get ready for the next phase of public acting and looting. Politicians can manipulate anybody or anything in India if they are selfish and visionary. Constitution or judiciary just plays a nominal role towards them. So, they are authorized public criminals and sinners to cheat and loot people differently, continuously. Few fight with them in any place!

Before criticizing our political parties and politicians, let’s check the qualities of our people also!

1. They have no patriotism, patience or idealism. They are hard-core businessmen. They quarrel among themselves as siblings and family members on different occasions for many reasons.

2. Farmers grow tobacco a lot if there is much demand for it in the market. They know that many die smoking cigars, cigarettes and many tobacco related products manufactured by different companies, depending on the varieties of tobacco grown by them in their farms regularly. Indian farmers need high profit from their agricultural activities but not the health of the people in their land. Sugarcane farmers are making jaggery, adding many harmful and poisonous substances to the boiled sugarcane juice, just to make it look whiter and beautiful. They are making raw mangoes, apples, bananas, oranges and many other fruits poisonous adding harmful chemical substances to them. They want to become rich fast. They grow anything and sell to anybody if they can earn more profit in a short period of time. It all shows that 90% of farmers in India are highly selfish and business minded. They want profit, not the health of their fellow Indians. They are committing suicides in this journey towards wrong dreams and goals.

3. Students are going to schools, colleges and universities to pursue such academic courses which enable them to get great jobs or professions. They want to earn more money fast. They dream to become engineers and doctors to loot public money but not postman or sweeper to serve the society. The managements of private educational institutions are looting these businessmen in different ways.

4. Educated youth are struggling hard to become IAS, IPS or IFS officers because there is a lot of prestige and earning potential associated with these government jobs. They are not actually intended to serve the Indian societies. Does anybody need authority or qualification to serve others? No. What we need is kindness and hard-working nature to involve in activities of charity. This is what many social activists and voluntary organizations are doing in India now but not these nasty IAS, IPS or IFS officers! So, it means even highly educated youth of India are not in love with India or Indians, but just money and prestige. This is also the case with doctors, CAs, lawyers, judges, consultants, film stars and sportsmen! Each of them is focused on getting something from this land or people but not giving back.

5. What about NRIs? I once desired to fly to Alaska for a fish packaging job, not because I love Americans, the beauty of Alaska or those innocent fish in those seas but just the fast money I can make out of that fish packaging job. I wanted to earn money from the industry of murders of millions of fish regularly. This is the story of almost every NRI now. They are going abroad to earn more and develop at their level but not to think about Indians or develop India. So, they are also opportunists to the core!

6. Many of us salute the folks of armed forces thinking that they are patriots of India and that they are sacrificing their lives for the cause of the nation. It is absolutely wrong. They are joining armed forces to earn good amount of money and eventually get a good image in the contemporary society. The Government of India is spending billions of rupees every year to feed these ordinary cadre employees and officers at various levels in army, navy and air force. If a soldier or officer dies in a warzone or otherwise, he gets paid lakhs of rupees. It means they are benefiting from the government of India while alive and also after death, naturally or unnaturally. From this perspective, they are also hard-core opportunists in our land. They are going there for their livelihood, but not to save you and me from perils of foreign invasion or other calamities. They are not sacrificing their lives for us but commercializing their deaths also. There is a price for everything. We are treating them as royal figures investing our public money. We are providing them with unbelievable facilities and comforts just because they are not patriots but commercial entities. I seldom saw the qualities of a patriot in my brother, who served in the Indian Army for 17 years but that of an opportunist. I came out of army once because I did not like that rigid and artificial atmosphere. I am not a patriot but selfish entity from this perspective. It means all those associated with our armed forces are also highly selfish and narrow-minded. They are also living and working for their comforts and facilities but not for the welfare or future of this nation!

7. We all often chant the Vedic mantra ‘Guru Devobhava’. It means our teacher is equal to God in our Indian culture. How many of Indian teachers, males and females, can be considered as gods and goddesses, just because they are in the profession of teaching? Almost five percent of them only, who really love teaching and struggle to build up the characters of their students always. Rest of teachers are more opportunists and criminals than all of us. They don’t talk even if an entire educational system is polluted and corrupt. Andhra Pradesh is the best example for it. Here 96% of the teachers are working for salaries and facilities but not for the cause of students. Private educational institutions made the lives of students pathetic in many respects in the name of ranks, grades and scores. Teachers and lecturers are torturing students publicly, following the instructions of their managements. Narayana and Sri Chaitanya are the pioneers of this dirty culture in this state. Teachers and lecturers adopted themselves to this wrong system of education instead of educating and changing those managements. It means they are not gods and goddesses but almost similar to pimps and prostitutes. They work for money but not standards and values. I also often play this role. Government teachers and lecturers are there exclusively to benefit from the high salaries and benefits provided by the state and central governments but not to bring knowledge, wisdom and vision into the lives of those innocent and mischievous students. Thousands of qualified candidates are struggling for years together to become a government teacher or lecturer in this state because it is a profitable and comfortable job compared to many private jobs. It means the very values of those desiring to become teachers are substandard or retrograde. They shout for their salaries and perks but never for the standards and values in the educational system in their state or nation! So, teachers are also hard-core opportunists in this holy land! Teacher is a rogue in India!

8. There are various Hindu religious cults in India like ISKCON, Prajapita Brahma Kumaris, Piramid System, Kalki Bhagwan, Satya Sai Baba, Shirdi Sai Baba, Meher Baba, Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Vipasana, Rama Krishna Mission and so on. All these religious or spiritual cults are struggling for an identity of their own and rapid expansion. If God is one and all cults teach us to reach that God, why membership forms and permission only to authorized candidates. Can’t I reach God if I meditate alone in my home? Should I go to an ashram to do that practice of yoga or undergo that transmission of power from my guru to me? Is God accessible and comprehensible only to those associated to one cult or the other? Does not Lord Ayyappa recognize me or listen to my prayer if I do not wear those black clothes? Does not Lord Venkateshwara bless me if I don’t visit Him going to Tirupati and get my head tonsured? Many religious cults have secret assets and visible immovable property worth crores of rupees. Satya Sai Baba could not change those idiots supervising his affairs being very close to him. They moved a lot of money and assets to Bengaluru and other areas when he had died. In fact, they delayed the very announcement of his death for some wrong reasons. If one cannot change the mindsets of his close aides also, despite their association with him for years, how can he be considered God? If Lord Krishna is great, others must understand it voluntarily and join Him or the cult started by his devotees but I should not invite or press others to join it because I love Him or this cult. Religion must not be made into a business affair but this is what is happening in India now. We should not promote our religion but it should attract others on its own. Are we artificially promoting honey to attract ants? It means those, who are looking religiously or spiritually different from other ordinary people, are also opportunists and hypocrites. They have not the qualities of a real saint or social reformer. They are also selfish and narrow-minded. They are interested in the pursuits of their cults but not the development of India at all!

9. There are various employee and trade unions in India working for the benefits of their employees and trades but not for others. They block roads and indulge in a lot of mess if the governments do not accept their demands and obey their commands. Are they public servants or public criminals?

10. There are thousands of pensioners in India. They did some ordinary service to us for some period of time in the past. They want to sit on our heads until they die because we have to pay them those pensions until they die. It is our money. It is unproductive expenditure. Let a natural calamity disturb the lives of many in a region or a terrorist create unrest in a part of our land, nothing to pensioners. They must get their pension in time every month. Otherwise they come on to the roads. They are getting alms from us shamelessly, not thinking or worrying about those suffering without jobs and sources of sustainable livelihood in many parts of India. Are not they opportunists and narrow-minded entities from this perspective? Our old people are thus setting a bad example to all of us!

11. Doctors are collecting huge fees and service charges from millions of patients in every part of India daily. Many patients are dying in hospitals or coming out as paupers. How many doctors in India perform an operation without paying the bill? How are a number of hospitals coming up daily in various parts of India? Because dead bodies are funding them directly. Are not doctors and hospitals selfish in India?

12. Lawyers, judges and justices are supposed to be the supporters of ‘dharma’ in this holy land. They should support that which is right according to their conscience but not their business mind. What are these idiots doing in India now? Lawyers argue any case only if they are paid well. Judges deliver any kind of justice if they are satisfied behind the door. Justices sit in high courts and Supreme Court to clear a case of ordinary man after 25 years and that of a celebrity within days? Our law books were written years ago by idealists and visionaries from their perspectives activated being influenced by events and circumstances of those times. Can we do justice to people now also depending on those books only? Which lawyer or justice union ever thought of writing new laws and order of justice in India till now? If a society changes, the laws governing them must also change. Did it happen till now? Does it happen in near future? It means lawyers, judges and justices are also very selfish and narrow-minded in India!

13. Many of us think that parents are equal to God but it is wrong. A father treats his two sons differently if their abilities and earning capabilities are different. A mother loves that daughter who helps her more than the one who always goes out to spend doing nothing important. Parents do have expectations from us. They love and respect us only if we do anything according to their set of beliefs and practices. Why should a brother kill his sister if she elopes with her lover against his wish if he is really a brother? Why should a father expect dowry from his daughter-in-law if he loves all girls like his daughter only? Why should a mother-in-law treat her daughter-in-law like a helpless victim in her house and cause her death slowly? How many married women are not dying in India because of the atrocities of their parents, siblings and in-laws? Parents are the most selfish rogues and criminals as far as India is concerned. They are committing various sins and crimes only for the welfare of their sons, daughters and grandchildren. It means our parents (including my parents) are also very selfish and stupid idiots. Selfish and narrow-minded parents prepare thieves and robbers and push them into their land to loot others.

14. An ordinary man, after becoming a celebrity in course of time, is thinking and behaving like a celebrity only but not as an ordinary man. He or she is forgetting his or her roots. Once I buy a car, I scold a cyclist on road if he comes across me. I don’t remember my days as a pedestrian! It means every Indian is thinking and behaving like a rogue now but not an idealist. He is selfish in everything he does. He spends lakhs of rupees to stay in star hotels and spend with high profile prostitutes but does not think and worry about poor and helpless people in his family also. So, Indians are not great individuals or citizens as we often project them under the tagline “Incredible India”.

If all these classes of Indians are selfish, narrow-minded and cruel at their level, how can politicians, our leaders, be different from them? A government actually represents the qualities and standards of the people it is working for. I would present some more ironical but insightful facts to alert you.

1. Manmohan Singh is old and helpless but Sonia Gandhi is continuing him as the prime minister of her coalition government. Why? Because she needs a loyal and ideal scapegoat before promoting her son as the next prime minister of India. As a mother, she should think and work for the future of her son. This is what she is doing now. Since Manmohan evolved rapidly as an economist and politician in the Congress party and government for long, he must sacrifice his self-respect and values also for that party! Both are right from this perspective. Selfishness makes our lives interesting, passionate and engaging always.

2. BJP is promoting Narendra Modi as their candidate for prime minister now. Why? Do they go to his house if he failed in his political career and chose to live the life of a recluse? Narendra Modi continues to live as an idealist and visionary as a recluse also because it is his spirit of life. If they love his character, they should treat him alike, in all contexts, but do they do so? Since Narendra Modi made Gujarat a vibrant state of development and hope, working for years relentlessly, applying his hard work and vision, BJP is treating him like a hero now. They are respecting and celebrating his status as a politician and success as a leader of people but not his character as an individual or citizen of India. Then BJP is also a political party of rogues, idiots and scoundrels. They are also running after political fame and status. They did not inherit the qualities of Lord Rama or Krishna as the representatives of Hindutva as we suppose! Lord Rama went to forest to keep the promise of his father made to his stepmother once. Which BJP MLA or MP goes to the ashram of Narendra Modi if he shuns politics and moves to a jungle? They must stay there with him out of love and respect for him. Do they do it? If no, how can they call themselves the agents of Hindutva (highest ideals meant for the welfare of humankind)? Yadyurappa did a lot of fuss in Karnataka out of his love for political power and status but not BJP party! Is this the culture BJP injected into its candidates over the years? So, BJP is also a political party of selfish and narrow-minded blokes. To know more about their real characters, listen to their public criticism against Arvind Kejriwal at Delhi. They are not better than street dogs. They bark at anybody if others disturb them somehow. They are not saints and idealists to unconditionally support and encourage any idealist! So, BJP could make Narendra Modi also a slave of their political party. From this perspective, Narendra is also a victim!

3. CPI and CPM folks talk a lot about the demerits of entry of foreign investment into India. They must be able to bring all NRIs also back to India to build up a stronger India, leaving those dollars and assets there forever. If Indians make billions of rupees working and doing business in the USA and other European countries, they also naturally flood to India to get similar profits looting us directly or indirectly. If we sell our mango jelly and cashew there for 100 dollars, they sell their Pepsi and Coca Cola here for 1000 dollars. Remember that Americans are more intelligent, patriotic and hard-working than we Indians in many respects. If we insult them from the back door of our house as their hosts, they beat us at the front door of our house as our guests! They are more strategic and visionary than us Indians. Actually their originality and culture is at threat now because of entry and settlement of millions of other nationals in their land. They are bearing with all of them. We should also invite them to loot some of our money selling their goods and businesses here. So, CPI and CPM folks sometimes look objectionable to us!

4. There are a variety of regional political parties in India. They often say that their goal is to develop India and it will be possible only through the development of their respective states. If that is their goal, they can merge all their political parties in Congress or BJP and work from that identity. Why that many regional parties and these risky coalition governments at centre and states! The fact is each of these regional leaders has a set of ego and identity problems. People should respect them based on their flags and colors. They are not patriots but selfish idiots. They quarrel at their regional level and indirectly block the development of India as a whole. So, our regional political parties and these folks are also a big mess from this perspective. If we don’t cooperate as Indians to one another, we cannot develop. This is the state of India now. It means we should ban regional political parties. There must be two political parties only at the most. Do Jaya Lalita, Mamata, Chandra Babu, Nitish, Navin Patnaik and many other folks of regional parties agree to this ideal proposal? It means they are not patriots of India but their respective regions only to some extent. Then, they have no moral authority to criticize Congress or BJP because all belong to the same school of strategies, policies, gimmicks, lies, hypocrisy and manipulation.

5. There is an election commission in India to run the electoral system and allow leaders to rule their subjects at various levels. Its fundamental responsibility is to uphold the standards and values of a democracy but is it happening now? Political parties appoint such folks in these positions who are partly or fully favorable to them. They say one thing directly and do another thing indirectly. Double standards appear in their system of operations if we observe it carefully. What is the status of voter identity cards in India? What kind of private agents or public servants are issuing them to people? Can all those with photo voter identity cards vote during elections? Has election commission authority to take legal action against any politician or political party? How many were punished so far due to its disciplinary actions? How many know that there is an election commission in India and they are also working to strengthen democracy in India? Banwarlal is one of the most inefficient public servants in Andhra Pradesh now. He ruined our state. He issued me a dirty voter identity card. Rigging is taking place in many parts of Andhra Pradesh. What is he doing? Does he change if I write all this? Is there anybody to hang him publicly as he failed in doing his duties? This is the status of election commission in India. They are there like rubber stamps. They are automated machines. They are worthless public servants. So, there is nobody to safeguard the system of democracy in India, representing election commission.

6. I can join Congress today, BJP tomorrow and CPI day after tomorrow. I can collect any amount of money from my donors to run my political party. I need not appear to my people periodically as an MLA, MP or minister. I am not accountable to any statutory body or group of persons for the duties I am fulfilling as a people’s representative. I can talk anything anywhere as long as I am a politician of the ruling party. Police or courts of law neglect or take it easy. As an MLA or MP I have many facilities and privileges. I need not know any other language or anything about constitution of India to become a political leader in a short period of time. If there is a topic about which you can write anything you like, perhaps it is ‘politics’. In India, hundreds of rogues and criminals made this field so embarrassing and avoidable that we lost hope about its change in near future. It is of the rich people, for the influential ones and by the manipulative rogues. Can we make muddy water in a large pond pure and fresh with a single hand despite our commitment and hard work? This is why many citizens of India lost interest in politics. Most of them are not going to vote also during elections because they developed a belief that nobody changes their lives. They realized that they are responsible for their lives and destinies. They are not interested to know who their MLA, MP or minister is. They vote for formality sake. They salute a political idiot if they have got something to be done by him or her in a context or emergency. They call these political rogues various names if they are wounded due to their policies or negligence at some point of time in their lives. Thereafter they don’t care about them. This is current status of democracy in India, in majority of states and union territories, if not all. I witnessed it yesterday. I am feeling it today. I see it tomorrow also. Politics became nasty business in India. Those, who directly or indirectly benefit from a politician or political party, only move about him, her or it but nobody else. The true form and spirit of democracy got defaced in India around 1970. We are experiencing circus now around us everywhere.

Since citizens of a nation cannot escape from the impact of wrong policies and measures taken by governments ruling them, it is inevitable for them to know how to safeguard themselves from the evil effects of such administration. The following are some suggestions to you understanding and following which you can be safe and secure to some extent in India. When we cannot change a political system immediately, it is good to accustom to it slowly. Change does happen one day but we must spend many days and nights patiently to see that bright one day in our lives.

1. Do not join politics if you are sensitive and ideal. Every political party expects you to change according to its policies and parameters. If you don’t change, you suffer. So, be away from politics if you want to be peaceful and balanced. Thus, you can live with your self-respect. You have privacy as an individual. No media person follows into your bedroom with a secret camera or keeps his recording pieces at your mouth passionately. Help and guide others at your level as much as you can do. The certificate of character and appreciation you give yourself according to your yardsticks of standards and values is more valuable and lasting than the Bharat Ratna given to anybody like Sachin. If a sportsman, who ruined a generation of Indians to the maximum possible extent, can be awarded with such highest civilian award, where are good rulers in India now? Why should you tarnish your image entering this dirty field?

2. Vote if you like during elections or just avoid it. You have convincing arguments for both the actions based on your knowledge and logic. Tell the same to others if they argue with you about being a good role player in democracy as a voter. Arvind Kejriwal dreamt a lot to do for the people of Delhi. The folks of other political parties, the agents of central government, police, various interest groups and his own party men are playing with him now. He is in their slippery and muddy court now. Arvind is struggling every day among these many idiots and rogues in Delhi being unable to do what he really intended as a leader of hope and vision while contesting these elections. If Arvind, a gentleman, is facing such state of affairs around him, after becoming a politician, what can your vote, given to such idealists in India, can do? There are 95% bad leaders in India now. Five percent good leaders are being harassed and suppressed by these criminals directly or indirectly. If you choose a good leader to rule for you, in these conditions, you are actually inviting many troubles and pains into his or her life. Is it necessary?

3. Don’t worry if a government issued you a wrong document despite your best efforts to keep it right. They are there to cheat and mislead you towards despair, frustration, terrorism and disorders of that kind. Learn how to live on your own instead of depending on government help. Dependence leads to pain one day or the other. Independence is always the right choice for all of us. We must be able to decide what is best for us and we must be willing to face or lose anybody or anything in our journey towards achieving it. Never think that your parents, siblings or well-wishers plan and work for you. You came into this world alone. You have to live applying your common sense, intelligence, hard work and vision always. You are the player of lead role in your film. All others are just character artists. Don’t leave your role to be decided and played according to their interests and pressures. Love people proactively but don’t be a victim to the love of anybody. You must be able to live happily even if everybody deserts you in the middle of the game. God is there guiding you always. Trust Him a little. Be ideal. Keep moving.

4. Never borrow money from banks if you are an ordinary person. Banks in India were started and are working for the welfare of rich and influential people only. When I was living helplessly without a way to earn money, no bank or income tax officer came forward searching for me to lend me one lakh rupees just like that but today, when I am doing a job, I am subject to pay professional tax and open a bank account to receive my salary. They treat me as a living entity only when I have a lot of money to deposit with them but not when I am in a financial crisis. Develop a group of your reliable and ideal friends and well-wishers, who help you at any moment of distress and pain in your life, unconditionally. Never think that your parents, siblings and relatives can always help and guide you. Sometimes, they can do almost nothing to solve the problems in your life. At times, they spoil or ruin your life, taking such decisions, which you don’t like at all. Government of India does not punish such parents at all. So, be alert with your parents also. They are also selfish like you. Learn to be patient with them instead of angry and sad.

5. Government employees are a very strong united force now in India. Various employee and trade unions are threatening the very governments, who gave them jobs once. The Government of Andhra Pradesh is facing such crisis now. Some brainless idiots assumed the positions of union leaders relying on the strength of thousands of sheep. Governments are able to do almost nothing against them. What can Manmohan Singh do if his car driver refuses to drive it; the petrol bunk agent denies petrol to fill it; the hotelier rejects to offer him food; the vegetable seller avoids selling his items; electricity staff stop supplying power to his house and his domestic help does not come to his abode to do his dishes. Unions can do anything when democracy fails to regulate them powerfully when public life is at stake. If they can bother our prime minister also at will, what can you or I do against them? We can correct innocent kids. We can persuade intelligent people also towards doing something we like. We cannot influence a mad donkey or sick monkey making noise or tricks on road. Better leave them there and mind your business. Employee and trade unions are worse than these donkeys and monkeys. Be away from them as much as possible. If you want something to be done by them, bribe them if you can or call those ACB folks patiently and intelligently. Sometimes ACB folks may work honestly. Check carefully. In India the word ‘government’ is synonym for ‘unreliability’. Don’t fight with government employees if you don’t have adequate direct and strong proofs and somebody else being ready to punish them depending on those proofs. What if police, lawyers and judges are influenced by the power of your enemy and are planning to punish you illogically, illegally and immorally. In India, in many cases, now, fighting against strong forces of corruption and illegality is like inviting endless pains or death into our lives. Love your life and its sanctity more than justice, peace and development of this nation. Be loyal and good to God. He guides you according to His bigger plans for you. Supreme Court is made of selfish professionals. God is director of those blokes also. If you failed to retaliate against them, God punishes them 10 times more than they deserve. You think this world is running this systematically and beautifully just because of these nasty politicians, police and lawyers in India! God’s will can ruin or create anything or anybody within seconds!

6. Never take anything for granted. Plan how to face an imaginary crisis when you are safe and secure itself in your familiar territory. Imagine you are a beautiful girl. You went to a picnic along with your friends thinking that all of them are very good ones. It may be true. One of them may be in love with you. He may ask you to kiss or hug him there. You may take it as a sensitive and morally avoidable act and so refuse. He may turn mad and sadistic within seconds and get ready to harm you there somehow. You should be able to run to a safer place from him in time or beat him strongly until he falls down. At times, presence of mind is more important than logic and proofs. Saving yourself from that temporarily influenced emotional and passionate person is important during those moments and nothing else. Your brain should work like a super computer in such moments. If you don’t train it regularly, how can it work so fast in times of crisis and emergency?  So, keep improving your intelligence, logical thinking, proactive planning and holistic approach towards solution of problems when you are comfortable and happy itself. Then only your adequately trained and sufficiently energized brain can take extraordinary decisions in the times of your pain, suffering and loss. Nobody thinks about you as much as you do because you are more important to you than to anybody else. Others appreciate or regret based on what you did. To do something, you must have what it demands from you. Your skills and energy levels decide what you can be. If your ruler is bad and you are living in a mess of things, you must be more alert and vigilant.

7. Remember that our planning and strategies may also fail at times. Often chance overtakes logic and common sense. So, learn to be balanced facing either of the two results bound to occur. You may pass or fail the exam, for which you planned and worked a lot. Teacher would have evaluated it in a bad mood. There are no reliable proofs for many things, good or bad, happening around us. So, be ready to accept anything positively. If you pass, be happy. If you fail, thank God even for that. There is a reason for everything from the perspective of God. You may take it as a matter of pain now but it may turn out to be a source of happiness and comfort in near or distant future. Who knows! Often surprise yourself with this interjection when something unexpected happens to you. Anything may happen. Understand it.

8. Never think that people are anxiously waiting for good leaders in India now. Nobody has time and interest to discuss good or bad leaders now but quite unrelated and unnecessary things to their lives and professions. Does anything disastrous happen in this nation if sports and films are banned forever in India? Some suffer a little for a while and come into terms with reality slowly. Does anything serious happen in India if power supply is terminated and ATMs and banks are closed for one month? Yes, a lot of mess and fuss occur in our lives but are we really thinking about electricity, banks and ATMs as good citizens of India regularly but about Sachin and Salman? It shows that almost all of us are partly or fully idiots in many respects. We neglect quite vital persons and things necessary for our lives when we are comfortable and talk a lot of nonsense when we lose or miss them due to our negligence or stupidity. Realize what is important to you; persons, things, arrangements. Be alert and intelligent in possessing and utilizing them in time. One second of time may ruin your life or profession at times. To overcome it, you may need 10 years of preparation also. Planning may not work in all seasons and circumstances but you should not avoid it altogether. Ninety percent of comfort and happiness in the lives of most of us largely depends on our constructive thinking and planning. Chance pleases or harms us occasionally only as a bolt from the blue. God installed a very intelligent brain and an emotionally sensitive heart in your body only to let you know that you can use them regularly instead of looking for His help always. He is always kind towards us. We often fail to understand His goodness and love for us. Learn how to live in bad circumstances if there is no hope of good change in near future. Life is valuable. Sustain it somehow.

9. Leave governments and leaders, what if those whom you trusted a lot cheated and hurt you a lot. You cannot face such situations if you always live in your carefully chosen and built up comfort zone. You are accustomed to travel in AC coach. Suddenly you lost all your wealth and became an ordinary person. You must then be able to travel in a general coach also sitting beside a toilet. Those, who moved around you admiringly, when you were rich, do not come with you to see your pathetic situation now. Few are interested to share our pain and console us because they gain almost nothing from it. Many are interested in using and throwing us away when we turn useless to them from their perspective. We see many such incidents around us regularly. The insight we have to gain from these proofs and experiences is that difficulties befall us someday or the other. We don’t find our life interesting and engaging if there is no pain and suffering at all. So, accept this logic of God and live in tune to it. Don’t think that you are only suffering. If you look around, there are many similar creatures. Be one of them when you are in pain. Try to bring some of them out, when you are better than them. Ultimately giving others makes us happier than always taking from others. Give knowledge, information, money, resources, guidance, love and anything that you have. Others may benefit a lot from it. Generosity and charity are virtues.

The state, the society, the family and even the circle of close friends and well-wishers may fail to save you at times. Even in those times, you must be able to support and guide yourself bravely and creatively.

It is more important in a state like India, where governments fail a lot in keeping everything in order.