Spectator today -> Victim Tomorrow | Election Reforms

We all know that country like "Bharat"(India), which is considered the GURU in ancient times is going through a bad phase mostly because of "BAD POLITICS". All the problem we talk about today, have there roots in bad politics. Open any newspaper, and we can easily see this link for any/every bad news.

Movies like "Rang De Basanti" have also highlighted the same frustration of youth but no feasible answer. Youth is still confused that, what they can do to help things get better.

Though we try to "Keep BLIND eyes"(besides watching news), but we can't. Deep inside we know, that we have to do something.

In this scenario, lets start to think SIMPLE. Lets follow the "Information is safety"(Jaankaari he bachaav hai). Recently I got a chance to attend a session by IIMB professors who are trying to reduce the criminalization of politics. First step towards ADR(Association For Democratic Reforms. Here also no active participation is required from our side(as I said, try to be SIMPLE and EASY).

(Action-1 Know)Just know that which political position is having maximum impact on you and person sitting on it. So if you are in living in XYZ constituency, then person holding the political chair in that constituency is having maximum impact on your life. So just KNOW the person sitting on that chair. Just KNOW the name and criminal record of the person. Information is made public by initiative like ADR(Association For Democratic Reforms) in many forums.

(Action-2 Find Your Constituency)
1. http://www.indiastudychannel.com/india/pincodes/Index.aspx?
Based on Pincode, you can find constituency.
2. http://www.indian-elections.com/states/


(Action-3 - Read) National Election Watch (NEW) Report on state Assembly Elections 2008
• National Election Watch Report
• Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2008
• Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2008
• Delhi Assembly Elections 2008
• Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2008

I don't think, there could be anything simpler then this.

Support Raj Thackeray ????

We all should support Raj Thackeray and take his initiative ahead by doing more...

1. We should teach our kids that if he is second in class, don't study harder.. just beat up the student coming first and throw him out of the school
2. Parliament should have only Delhiites as it is located in Delhi
3. Prime-minister, president and all other leaders should only be from Delhi
4. No Hindi movie should be made in Bombay. Only Marathi.
5. At every state border, buses, trains, flights should be stopped and staff changed to local men
6. All Maharashtrians working abroad or in other states should be sent back as they are SNATCHING employment from Locals
7. Lord Shiv, Ganesha and Parvati should not be worshiped in our state as they belong to north (Himalayas)
8. Visits to Taj Mahal should be restricted to people from UP only
9. Relief for farmers in Maharashtra should not come from centre because that is the money collected as Tax from whole of India, so why should it be given to someone in Maharashtra?
11. Let's throw all MNCs out of Maharashtra, why should they earn from us? We will open our own Maharashtra Microsoft, MH Pepsi and MH Marutis of the world
12. Let's stop using cellphones, emails, TV, foreign Movies and dramas. James Bond should speak Marathi
13. We should be ready to die hungry or buy food at 10 times higher price but should not accept imports from other states
14. We should not allow any industry to be setup in Maharashtra because all machinery comes from outside
15. We should STOP using local trains... Trains are not manufactured by Marathi manoos and Railway Minister is a Bihari
16. Ensure that all our children are born, grow, live and die without ever stepping out of Maharashtra, then they will become true Marathi's
Isnt it funny how politicians these days will go against everything that you thought was 'normal' :)

A Wednesday | ADRINDIA.ORG - One of the solution in this direction.

I saw this movie "A Wednesday" day before yesterday and found it amazing. Actually I am interested into computer security and every friend of mine, who know this interest of mine was saying that, I should watch this movie as, 1. Movie is really good and 2. It involve computer security stuff. As I am not movie freak, so was not aware of this movie, and somehow made this image in my mind, that it must be a Hollywood thriller, but when I watched this movie it came out to be a Hindi Movie. After all this..... it is a AMAZING movie...
Message conveyed in this movie, has already been conveyed in movies like "Hindustani - Kamal Hasan", "Rang De Basanti". All these things bring so much anger and guilt, that made me thing that what should be done.
Recently I had the benefit of attending one session by Prof.Trilochan Sastry from IIM Bangalore as part of Barcamp7. It was supposed to be an hour session but discussion lasted for around three hours. People had all kinds of doubts that usually bother us, but all queries were answered with strong examples with references from previous events.
The Association for Democratic Reforms was started by a few professors at IIM. And after much struggle, they were able to collect data of various candidates from different political party and came out with a detailed report. This details was very shocking.
More references:
1. "The Association for Democratic Reforms" official site - http://www.adrindia.org/home/index.asp
2. Interview with Prof. Shastry - http://upsidedownworld.org/sastry.htm
3. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/home.aspx
4. Blog entry - http://desilibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/10/criminalization-of-politics-in-india.html