The World We Live In!

As we know that our government has taken a decision of demonetization of Rs 500 and 1000 notes from market and people are suffering due to cash crunch. I am not an expert economist to comment on long term impact of this decision, but I can see the situation on the ground, with short term impact. This article is not about merit of this decision, but it is about managing the situation in hand. We are in a mess with this implementation, and things are getting out of control. I have tried my best to come up with what the government and public should do to cope up with situation. I am not an expert on managing such large-scale crisis, so this is not a complete formula, but my two cents only.  What government should do:

उम्मीद उनसे करे जो इंसान हो, इंसानियत के दुश्मनों से क्या उम्मीद करना। जिन हाथों ने ख़ुद चमन उजाड़ा है, उन हाथों से शहर बसाने की क्या उम्मीद करना। जो हवा आग की लपटों को और बढ़ाती हो, उस हवा से बादलों को लाने की क्या उम्मीद करना। उम्मीदों पर पानी फेर कर 49 दिनों में भाग लिए, आप पर अब और क्या उम्मीद करना। 10 सालों तक सिर्फ़ उम्मीद दिलाने वालों, अबकी बार हमसे भी न कुछ उम्मीद करना। सांप्रदायिकता भरी नफरत का सौदागर जिसका सरदार हो, उनसे अमन शांति की क्या उम्मीद करना। बंदर बाट जिनका रोज का काम हो, ऐसे तीसरे मोर्चे से भी क्या उम्मीद करना। गर लाना है राम राज्य, सुधारना है अपना समाज, तो दूसरों पर क्या उम्मीद करना। अब जो करना है हमें ख़ुद ही करना है, गर करना है तो ख़ुद से ही उम्मीद करना। - विनय कुमार पाण्डेय - 19 अप्रैल 2014

Anna Hazare is everywhere, you open up any newspaper, any news channel, he is there! The shots from news clippings show you that Anna has support of all India! You will see a lot of people on Ramlila ground in his support! Today is 10 th Day of his fast for Jan Lokpal Bill. People all over holding protest march, candle march, shouting slogans like Vande Mataram, Bharat mata Kee Jai! People have cap or T-shirt written all over – I am Anna! So, it’s all Anna fever for the last 10 days, and not sure how many more days it will continue! But I am not Anna! And I do not want to be Anna! I do not support Anna’s movement! Don’t be surprised by this, as my last post was in April, and it was about Anna, whereas I supported him! So, why am I not supporting him now? Because I have my own eyes, my own mind and I can think, I can decide what is right and what is wrong! When he was right, I supported him, but when he is wrong, I am not supporting him, simple! Isn’t it?

Anna is going to break his 5 day fast today! He finally, got the government to agree on Jan Lokpal bill. I am not here to argue if the bill is perfect or as Government was quoting since Anna started his fast, the bill is not correct in its current form. All I know was that there is a draft, and it was side-lined for some time by our politicians. Anna forced them to get it back in limelight, and discuss, fix, implement it. This is what according to me he wanted, and he got it.