Do We need Moral Policing ??? …….YES !!

Do We need Moral Policing ??? … YES  !! 

Human beings are the ONLY creatures with THREE dimensions of existence : Physical, Psychological and Spiritual, which in turn are guided by three faculties of human mind and endeavors : Science, Arts and Religion. The culture of any Society, at any given time, is always a SUM of all those dimensions with varying magnitudes and evolves with time. And absence of ANY one from the society, brings DEATH of that culture. So, for human beings, the concept of Morality is special to REGULATE the evolution process of human culture  and protect it from ultimate death. It's only morality which promotes the basic human values to attain the ultimate human goals of Health, Happiness and Harmony. It is such an important thing that it must need Preservation, Propagation and occasionally Policing too.

Now, we have to decide, who will do the policing role in a Traditional Society and Democratic Polity like ours. Discussion across the table is the main norm in a democracy and Violence or any SILLY campaign would not do any good for preserving Morality. Our govt. should be responsible to implement the recommendations coming out of the Discussion and the Society should cooperate.

In this post-modern and post-liberal world, people are coming back to the age-old social concepts of regulationism, protectionism, traditionalism etc to keep Peace and Order in society as well as economy. Results of experimentations with ultra-liberalism and ultra-communism have been a big failure. Hence, even President Obama has started regulating corporate CEO’s salaries and the Pope is speaking against homosexuality.

Main tragedy with today’s teenager and youth is that :

They mistake OPEN BODY-NESS same as OPEN MIND-NESS.

They mistake crazyness same as COOLness.

They mistake rebellion same as change.

They mistake money same as success.

They mistake any disorderness same as fashion.

Hence, more than policing, we need MORAL PARENTING and MORAL TEACHING. These are continuous processes, which we had forgot or neglected in last 2-3 decades.

Sooner we go back, better for the future of society.

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क्या हमें नैतिक पुलिसिंग की आवश्यकता है ??? … हाँ !!

मनुष्य ही एकमात्र प्राणी है जिसके अस्तित्व के तीन आयाम हैं: शारीरिक, मनोवैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक, जो बदले में मानव मन और प्रयासों की तीन शक्तियों द्वारा निर्देशित होते हैं: विज्ञान, कला और धर्म। किसी भी समाज की संस्कृति, किसी भी समय, हमेशा अलग-अलग परिमाणों के साथ उन सभी आयामों का योग होती है और समय के साथ विकसित होती है। और समाज से किसी एक की अनुपस्थिति, उस संस्कृति की मृत्यु लाती है। इसलिए, मनुष्य के लिए, नैतिकता की अवधारणा मानव संस्कृति की विकास प्रक्रिया को विनियमित करने और इसे अंतिम मृत्यु से बचाने के लिए विशेष है। यह केवल नैतिकता है जो स्वास्थ्य, खुशी और सद्भाव के अंतिम मानवीय लक्ष्यों को प्राप्त करने के लिए बुनियादी मानवीय मूल्यों को बढ़ावा देती है। यह इतनी महत्वपूर्ण चीज है कि इसे संरक्षण, प्रचार और कभी-कभी पुलिसिंग की भी आवश्यकता होती है।

अब, हमें यह तय करना है कि हमारे जैसे पारंपरिक समाज और लोकतांत्रिक राजनीति में पुलिसिंग की भूमिका कौन निभाएगा। लोकतंत्र में चर्चा करना मुख्य मानदंड है और हिंसा या कोई भी मूर्खतापूर्ण अभियान नैतिकता को बनाए रखने के लिए कोई अच्छा काम नहीं करेगा। हमारी सरकार को चर्चा से निकलने वाली सिफारिशों को लागू करने के लिए जिम्मेदार होना चाहिए और समाज को सहयोग करना चाहिए।

इस उत्तर-आधुनिक और उत्तर-उदारवादी दुनिया में, लोग समाज और अर्थव्यवस्था में शांति और व्यवस्था बनाए रखने के लिए विनियमनवाद, संरक्षणवाद, परंपरावाद आदि की सदियों पुरानी सामाजिक अवधारणाओं की ओर लौट रहे हैं। अति-उदारवाद और अति-साम्यवाद के साथ प्रयोगों के परिणाम एक बड़ी विफलता रहे हैं। इसलिए, यहां तक ​​कि राष्ट्रपति ओबामा ने कॉर्पोरेट सीईओ के वेतन को विनियमित करना शुरू कर दिया है और पोप समलैंगिकता के खिलाफ बोल रहे हैं।

आज के किशोरों और युवाओं के साथ मुख्य त्रासदी यह है कि:

वे खुले शरीर को खुले दिमाग के समान समझते हैं।

वे पागलपन को कूलनेस के समान समझते हैं।

वे विद्रोह को बदलाव के समान समझते हैं।

वे पैसे को सफलता के समान समझते हैं।

वे किसी भी अव्यवस्था को फैशन के समान समझते हैं।

इसलिए, पुलिसिंग से ज़्यादा हमें नैतिक पालन-पोषण और नैतिक शिक्षा की ज़रूरत है। ये सतत प्रक्रियाएँ हैं, जिन्हें हम पिछले 2-3 दशकों में भूल गए थे या नज़रअंदाज़ कर दिया था। जितनी जल्दी हम वापस लौटेंगे, समाज के भविष्य के लिए उतना ही बेहतर होगा।

Indian Economy and Budget - 2009 - 2010

Indicators(08-09)
GDP08-09 = 5,300,000 Cr. ( ~ $1100 b)
Budgeted 09-10 GDP = 5,800,000 Cr per yr. Growth= 6-7% (inflation adjusted)

Per capita Income / yr .........38,136 (National Income = GDP - Imports + Exports)"
Average Per family Income / yr......... 200,000

Agriculture(18%of GDP) ........... 80,000 for 10 cr Fam. Each
Manufacturing(30%) ...............420,000 for 3 cr Fam. Each
Services (52%) .........................280,000 for 8 cr Fam. Each

Inflation Rate................ 5 - 10 % (Problematic)
Forex Reserves............ $240 billion ($150 b foreign loan)
Poverty Level............. 20% BPL with Income < 30,000 per yr per family
Imports & Exports............. $(300 & 150) billion
Total Bank Credits......... $600 billion 60% of GDP
Market Capitalisation ~ $500 billion (12th rank in world )

Major Consumptions (08-09)
Food Grains..................... 230 mTe / yr
Surplus Production ...............Nil…….
Petroleum. Oil............... 140 mTe / yr ( 40 indeginious )
Crude ( $60 - 100 / barrel)( Rs. 20 /lit)........ 200,000 Crore. crude bill
Iron & Steel ......... 55 mTe / yr
Power Generation ......... 150,000 Mwatt-Capacity
Growth 5,000 Mwatt / year

Budget 09 - 10 ...........(plan&NP) 1020,000 crores (320 + 700)
Tax (PI+CI+Indirect) .........+520,000 cr (110 +260+150)
PSU Profits + Others ........... +(50,000 + 50,000).
Deficit (Loans+Credits) ..... +400,000 cr (6.8% of GDP)

Defence budget........ ........ - 140,000 cr (2.3%ofGDP)
Education& Health .......... -100,000 cr (2.0% of GDP)
Agro Sector & Subsidies .. - 150,000 cr (2.0% of GDP)
Cent.Govt.Salary/Pens ..... - 110,000 cr (excl. defence)
Infrastructure & Industry - 150,000 crores (incl. Rural )
Loan Interest Payments... - 220,000 cr (3.3% of GDP)
States&Other Payments .... - 150,000 cr(incl. UTs)

Separate Rail Budget = 95,000 Crores. approx >25% Profit



Misscellneous Informations
3500 + 2000 Engg.& Mangmt Colleges;
40 lac engineers;60 lac Tech.Staffs;6 lac Lawyers;
4 Cr.Organised Employees ; 30 lac km Roads; 80,000 km.Railways;
Rs.10,000Cr.Film Industry; 15 Cr. TVs,
40 Cr. Mobile/Phones and 5 Cr PC's and all growing very fast.
4.1 lakh Corporate IT Returns (1 lac manufacturing and 3 lac Services Firms);
2.66 Crores Individual IT Returns

myINDIA 08-09 --- lets know the Nation in Nutshells

Living with Differences : Appreciations and Introspections (June-2007)

We Indians believe: “ Jab saatha tab paatha” (Age of sixty makes one wise). After more than sixty years of India’s independence, it’s high time we become wise enough to introspect ourselves, whether we are up to our leaders’ expectations of being united in any situation and of living with differences, whatsoever great. We are a civilization of more than 5000 years old history with many foreign invasions and settlements, many empires and ruling dynasties, many wars and ceasefires, some unions and divisions; a land with the sub-continental size and nature of geography; a society believing in Science, Arts and Religion and practising Technology as well as Tradition with equal participation and passion. It has got more than a dozen cultures, languages and hundreds of dialects. A nation with so much diversity is bound to have innumerable differences: natural, man-made, physical, ideological, quantitative, qualitative, real as well as imaginary. Along the history, India has seen lot of conflicts and contradictions within itself putting its polity, society, economy, international relations and even the very idea of India to tough tests. Fortunately, it has always come victorious against all odds except few unlucky occasions.

Celebrating The Values:
Seeing the track record of our social order, our first prime minister had rightly characterized our great country with the unique feature called “Unity in Diversity”. He and his able colleagues not only merely dreamt of continuing and improving this feature in future but also strived hard and left us with an India which has got a just and ideal constitution, many ideas, as many institutions and more importantly a society, which largely has been committed to the universal human values like love, respect, trust, cooperation, peace, justice, hope and happiness. Tolerance has been the most praised – and criticized too – Indian quality and this is proved from the age-old stories of yogis doing meditation for years at a stretch or even from today’s public patience seen in railway stations waiting for delayed trains till another day and in legal courts fighting for justice till the criminal or victim dies his natural death. Moreover, our society have always been receptive of new and good concepts from others, no matter who they are: countrymen or foreigners, conqueror or conquered, intellectuals or laymen, rich or poor alike to add to the treasures of our value system.
No wonder that living with differences has become our beautiful and never-dying habit but, since in these times of over-informed and self-opinionated society the differences have grown up to as many as our headcounts, we have to be more committed and organized in nurturing those values in the young generations to sustain the environment of peace and justice, keeping all differences always at bay.

India of Today – Society and System
Peace and justice are twin requirements of a social system to maintain law and order. Hurting one is bound to affect the other, especially when the system gets bigger in size and complex in behavior. Going back to the history of the human civilization, people got their first institution in the form of 'society', to make peace and justice a practical reality along with their daily livelihood activities. Then came the major human faculties of Polity and Economy to organize larger systems of men and materials. This facilitated delivering and maintaining peace and justice effectively and efficiently through the institutional systems of security and governance. In last couple of centuries, people’s participation in politics increased resulting in fall of kingdoms and evolution of democracy, which in practice, may be defined as governance through discussion in a representative assembly. Academia, Media, Legislatives, Executives, Judiciary, Military, Industry and Market are different institutions of democracy.
India too kept pace with the history and, today is a vibrant secular and sovereign democracy with a developing economy, capable military and diverse media, all powered by world-class technology, management concepts and traditional wisdoms. In a democracy, there can be differences between society and system or even within selves. If the differences grow very large enough to cause extremism and disorder, then, small amounts of regulation and harshness in the forms of protests, arrests, curfews, punishments etc are justified for the larger common good.
Despite being young as an independent democracy, India has been by and large a stable state with balanced welfare policies and non-aligned international relations, thanks to our wise and visionary leaders. We are more a nation of many states, or a state of many nations, than a "nation-state", a western concept which brought two world wars, nuclear warfare, brutal communism, ultra-nationalism and killed more people in the last century than cumulatively killed before. Notably, we have our Indian Union long before Europe formed its EU only recently for better peace and prosperity. In economic front too, India has always been well planned and steady bringing equitable development in every section of the society with the help of stringent public regulations and equally strong market fundamentals. Thus today’s India has got the modern-day combination of Society and System working fine.

Countering Extremism
Thanks to the Gandhian spirit and Nehruvian approach, we are already living with differences even today, as evident from the social coexistence of liberals and conservatives, from the political coalitions of castes, communities and regions, and from the economic synergy of capitalists and communists. In the process, social order was always maintained until the 1980s, when violence and extremism got started by the people with different identities, regional, religious, caste, ideological and economic, causing the minor differences to become major conflicts.
Any conflict is originated either from misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about each other’s ideas, intentions and approaches or due to any substantial absence of peace and justice and the conflict gets carried through generations by either indifferent attitudes, confrontational extremist approaches or some vested interests and evil instinct are at work. Consciously and wisely, we always succeeded in not choosing the extreme options for meeting our political and economic visions and thus avoided the disasters like Russia’s communism, Europe’s Nazism &Fascism, Mexico’s capitalism, America’s ultra-liberalism and Pakistan’s state-failure. We can further ensure to bridge the differences and counter extremism by initiating the following value-based approaches in our social, political and economic activities, keeping the young generations in mind:

1. Promoting co-operation and stopping unreasonable competition to help avoiding the young people become eccentric rather than holistic and balanced.
2. Balanced educational system to create an inclusive and broader-knowledge society for better mutual understanding.
3. Merit should be rewarded not only with financial temptation but also with a sense of intellectual pride and social responsibility.
4. Discouraging the children from exposure to the extremes of sex, crime and war in the forms of games and films. Encouraging them for the conventional sports and literature to inculcate controlled behavior and thoughtful attitude.
5. Insanity is defined as motion without memory, and so is said to be the state of a nation without true knowledge of its past. Teaching of true history is a must to avoid any chaotic situation in the society.
6. Environment of discussion and debate is to be encouraged to bring consensus and understanding between parties while resolving conflicts. Media has to play positive and responsible role in this very effort.
7. Justice undoes the crime. Judiciary is to be strengthened both quantitatively and qualitatively. Village panchayat court system is to be empowered and number of magistrate courts has to increase to avoid delayed justice to the victims of corruption, crime, terror and riots.
8. Since, Politics is about policy and power, we have to strike a balance while formulating policies and executing power to give every section of the society at least the minimum level of security of all kinds: physical, political, social and economic.
9. Promoting the spirit of harmony and adjustment in the society along with the respect for global sense and communal/regional sensitivities.
10. Community is defined as group of people with a particular identity related to race, religion, profession or anything. In this globalised world, a person can never be exclusively a part of only one single community, as clearly seen in today’s social networking sites like Orkut, where a member is invariably part of at least two/three different cyber-communities, as per his/her region, profession, religion etc. So, the obvious and strong message of “Communalism is outdated and Secularism is eternal” should be aggressively propagated in society as well as taught in schools and colleges, with continuous commitment.

Conclusion
''Humans die but hopes die hard''. And it is more true for India as a nation and state, because India is not only surviving but also excelling in every field for last sixty years except few years of violence, terror, riots and unrest carried out by the anti-national and anti-social elements for their evil and vested interests. 

But, again both the society and system are getting matured to keep development, peace and justice more prior to any other irrelevant communal or trivial issues. Now, we are not giving any chance to those elements to break our social fabric and disturb the order, as evident from the events of last couple of years. In future also, we can very much be comfortable with millions of differences just by promoting the human values based on Truth. And as far as Truth is concerned, nothing needs to be invented according to the Mahatma’s “Truth is as old as mountains”. We only have to revive and recall.

Sahim Ahmed ; June-2007
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