Unbox Jindgi, This Diwali!

“You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, let things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy”… Shah Rukh Khan.

Well, sometimes our Bollywood stars does talk sense & in above quote our times melody king has shown some sense in speaking for what we as Indians are! Yes we do are shy in celebrating happiness as first we think people will be jealous with us & will try to steal that happiness from us & second we are a bit selfish when it comes to share happiness, though it’s not our culture! It’s in this country even a stranger if he enters our home we first give him water & something to eat; but somewhere in the age of carrier & success we have lost that touch of sharing & that took away our celebrating happiness also!

Diwali does makes many brands advertise aggressively & innovatively to en-cash the festive mood & I always love to read or watch advertises in news papers & on TV. Two advertises, first that of Snapdeal & other of Amazon, both are online shopping companies, caught my attention. Snapdeal’s advertise says, “Unbox Jindagi, This Diwali” whereas Amazon is appealing to people, “Ye Diwali Bade Dilwai’! What we mean when we say Unbox Jindagi? We all keep hidden many things which desire to do, may it be dancing in rains or may it be buying a purple color top for us, many things which we would have liked to do for our own happiness but right from what people will say to is it doing worth, so many what’s & it’s makes us box our desires in the box which we call mind. All we need is a little push to open up that box & show day light to our own desires, wish, whatever we may call it as there lays real happiness & celebrate that happiness with all around us! I think that’s true meaning of Diwali, isn’t it? As after all Diwali is festival of light so let’s enlighten our surrounding by opening up our very own box along with us!

The Amazon advertises makes us understand our desire to make others happy by our small acts for e.g. gifting something to our society’s watchman or our laundry man & many around us whom are not as fortunate as us. Often when we celebrate then we limit or say restrict our celebrations to our close ones only, may it be relatives or friends, but we forget many others who are part of our day to day life & actually making our life a bit easy by their presence! We are selfish as either we just ignore others importance in our life or curtail our wish to make them part of our happiness for many reasons; "why to spend on people who are not close to me", is one standard reason which we never openly acknowledge but get ruled by that is a bitter fact. Ask our own self, as some time or other each of us feels like doing something for those unknown faces which moves around us in many forms; may it be the boy who cleans your table when you are enjoying your morning coffee with your friends in Vaishali, that face may be of a doorman of a posh restaurant who opens your car door for you when you are driving back to your home after a dinner which may be equal to his months’ salary, or your societies watchman’s face who salutes you every morning when you are leaving for your office in your SUV or the garbage collector of your building who rang the bail of every morning to collect your homes dirt & the list goes on. All these faces looks at you & you even don’t return their looks avoiding, thinking what you have to do with them. Well, these faces are not of beggars; they all are respectable men, doing their duty honestly & with pride. Only thing is their life is not as easy as yours, because of many reasons & their faces do reflect that stress of every day’s battle for survival! Off-course you may not be responsible for the reasons of their stresses but you surely can be the reason to reduce those stresses a bit by just one small act of gifting something to them along with a genuine smile! Frankly speaking in the process of living by DP’s on whats-ap accounts of the people around we have forgotten to read the real life faces! This is what the Amazon advertises appeals to us, to respect the real faces in life & know your responsibility to make them happy, so open up your mind & even pocket also a bit for that. This is what Amazon advertise appeals us, “Ye Diwali Bade Dilwali” i.e. in English language it means, “Make this Diwali Generous”! 

And remember one thing whatever success in our carrier we may have achieved or whatever age we grow yet we love somebody making our face glow by small act of love & compassion; here I will share from my own experiences something. Even today on Diwali morning when my mother who has been retired as a school teacher gives me Rs 1000 & asks to buy a T-Shirt of my choice for myself, I become speechless; somewhere deep within something moves & it reflects on surface in the form of tears in eyes & smile on lips. It may be just Rs 1000 but it’s a time machine for me, taking me back in past! It brings back memories of a small boy in a small town, for whom Diwali was the only time to get something of his choice; so it brings the best glow on my face & I realize that 1000/- note is more precious than all my earnings! I am sure many of us are lucky enough to experience such glow on Diwlai but often we fail to understand importance of that glow. I think we ought to share this glow with as many people we can, is what I think celebrating happiness on the occasion of Diwali!

What I wondered most is how precisely both this advertises have pinpointed our Indian mind which Shahrukh was referring to! As this exactly is what we needed to remind our self while we go through our daily rituals of so called job, family & friends. There is a lot more life than what we see or hear around & that life have got boxed in our mind & then we make that box small by acts only, same way our hidden desires also get compressed & die eventually! Along with those dead desires dies something for more precious within us & that is true meaning of celebrating happiness. As if we forget to celebrate every small moment of happiness & if we are restricting that celebration to our own cage then we haven’t understood the meaning of life in itself! Diwali is festival of lights & that doesn’t mean just lighting your home with LED lights & fireworks; what it mean is make the other lives glow with your sharing of happiness as that is something which will enlighten their faces forever!

Below is something I wrote for my team on Diwali, sure you too can read it & share with yours family/friends & do add something of your own glow in it, they will feel nice…

                              

                    Happy Diwali !

“Love & hatred, both provide us a cause to live; it’s up to us what we choose to live for”… Malala Yosafzai.

Dear Team,

As you know your boss is very much fond of quotes by people around the world, not that because they are big names but they are big names because they share such wisdom or feelings with us through such quotes! The youngest Noble prize winner for Peace has suffered herself a lot & above words can come through only extreme suffering as that mind only can understand importance of love!

And how correct is Malala, because unfortunately knowingly or unknowingly we allow hatred to rule us making us walk on that path only. Outcome is in present times we have forgotten even to smile genuinely leave apart celebrating happiness as where hatred exists happiness has no place! And hatred doesn’t mean you want to harm someone deliberately, for many reasons however small or irrelevant those reasons may be yet we despise many people around us; may it be colleagues, suppliers, contractors or even our clients too, in some cases! And in the process we miss to notice small joys or moments of happiness the very same people brings for us, may it be a hot cup of tea served by our office boy on a rainy noon or an umbrella handed over to us by our driver on a hot sunny day at site, so many times we fail to appreciate such small acts of concern or promptness in duty. At home also scene isn’t different, a loving hug by your small daughter when you enter in home or your better half waiting for you for dinner on a late work day! These are smallest of acts which actually say so much to us & with deaf ears we just walk on with carrying hatred for unpleasant moments which in a way is like carrying some unnecessary baggage, making us tiered & irritated with the journey of life! And all these people around you doesn’t expect something great from you, just a smile & a thank you message which can be conveyed by your eyes is what needed but even that we  fail to do!

This Diwali lets enlighten our mind with love as that’s one sure way of keeping hatred away & let this unnecessary baggage of bad memories melt, just the way darkness melts when you burn an Anar at Diwali night! As your boss, I promise to make an effort doing the same, starting from myself as I too am not the exception to what I have shared above! What better wish I could have made for my team which makes my every day bright & beautiful! Happy Diwali to you along with your family!

Sanjay 

Sanjay Deshpande

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Common Man, Hon CM & Image of State Govt!

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”… John Wooden.

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row. No wonder he could say above words with such authority & the reason I recalled these words is none other than our Chief Minister of our State! Recently I read in newspaper that Hon CM is worried about his govt’s public image as well about allegations being made about entire functioning of the govt & is keen to facelift the image of the govt! Well, nothing wrong as a boss of the govt, he should be concerned about the govt’s image in the eyes of the Public & good thing is he does understand its importance but can it be made just by some advertises or social media campaign, is the question I will like to ask. CM Sir first of all let’s understands who “the Public” in first place is, then we can work out the way to lift image of govt in public eyes or minds!

When we use the term public, do we mean our voters? I think that’s too large a term as every eighteen year & above comes in that category! I think when we say public; mostly we are considering common man which again is very relative term. Yet a common man in common language is the one who gets hit most or say affected most when govt is not performing properly is what I will define.  

Now let’s see who comes in this category of common man? First it is every that person who has either less or inadequate money to buy his way out of difficulties or who don’t have any power or authority to mend the things as per his needs or who has no high profile friends who can make life easy for him, is the common definition of the common man! For e.g. it’s the common man who don’t have money to pay hefty donations & get admission to his kids in a reputed public school when his son or daughter doesn’t get 95% or above marks & many a times even those marks are also not enough! Common man is the one who can’t buy a car or afford to use it daily because of high petrol prices; he can’t afford a driver either so because of parking problems he can’t dare to use his car even if he affords fuel costs & has to be dependent on public transport which is very poor in city like Pune. Common man is the one who has limited budget with small insurance cover when it comes to any treating illness of his or any family member & has to worry for high treatment costs of private hospitals as public health or govt hospitals are known for the kind of service thy offer if you are a common man! Common man is the one who can’t change his home at his wish, leave apart choosing the location of one as he just can’t dream to buy a home in some elite location where water, drainage, good roads like basic things are available in. So he has to settle for his dream home in either at a location which is far away from his work place & without any infrastructure; many a times even legality of that home is in doubt yet he has to surrender to some fly by night developer, looking at his own limited salary & EMI equation & even after paying all installments in time is not sure about getting the possession of the home leave apart quality of the same! Common man is the one who stop buying green vegetables or commodities like Chana/Tur Dal when the prices of these items sour & settles down for potato or pumpkin subji for months as he can’t afford the black marketers rates for these items & the list of characteristics of the common man goes on. In nut-shale common man is the person who surrenders to the situation rather than making the situation surrenders him! One more aspect, common man is the one who has to make multiple visits to any govt office for slightest of his work, even when he is not wrong; for e.g. correction in electric bill or getting property tax on his name of his property & nightmare is dealing with anything related to documents like 7/12 or demarcation of his small piece of the land! Lastly one more characteristic of the common man, he is the one who is afraid of going to police station even to launch the complaint for any injustice happening with him!

CM Sir now once we have identified the public which is common man, then we can take a review of what it is which is making image of govt damaged in the eyes of this common man! For that you can try what the famous Akbar Badshah used to do i.e. roam on streets under disguise, alas you don’t have a aide in form of the Birbal like Akbar Badhsha had but never mind, you can give a try by yourself as it seems you are the only one who is worried about the govt’s image! So let’s have a little walk on the streets of our Pune city & what you will realize is, there is no place to walk as the roads are flooded with private vehicles as public transport either doesn’t exists or very insufficient. The bus stops are joke as they are like tail of sheep, existing for the name sake offering neither shelter nor the information to the commuters! Then there are auto rickshaws standing right in front of the bus stops blocking the way to the bus if it comes on time as there is no time table displayed on any bus stop.  Here in our city there are no way-boards or signage about the places on roads making you clueless about the destination you are going, if you are a new comer to the city! Instead you will find cut outs/banners/hoardings of every size & shape covering whatever way-boards & signage’s are there & yet the leaders or faces on these hoardings keep appealing not to flaunt hoardings of their faces! Neither the karykarta's takes any cognizance of the leader’s appeals nor local public bodies’ e.g. PMC, has any guts to take any action against such hoardings! As you start walking on footpaths, if they are in place then you will know some hoardings even block the foot paths itself but you are not supposed to complaint as but bow your head in front of the hoardings & keep walking, that’s characteristic of the common man, do mind!

If you are able to dodge the hoardings then there are Vegetable vendors to Chinese food stalls & many more aligned on every foot path claiming their ownership on the space.  So you have to walk on road itself making you vulnerable to signal jumping pillion riders, who are not afraid of any traffic policeman if they are there to manage the traffic! Please neglect the footpath condition i.e. the flooring of the pavement as it can be anything as per the whims of the local elected members, right from sleeper ceramic tiles to concrete blocks & be careful about the level of the flooring of foot paths as its being dug for every known reason like rain water pipe lines to optical fiber cables to pipe gas & all round the year & each agency conveniently forget to make the surface as it was when first time the footpath was made. By the way the very same PMC don’t allow the common man to dig the road for most of the year even for essential things like water connection, that too after paying hefty road cutting charges! Also don’t ask what happens to the collected road cutting charges from all these agencies which has dug the footpaths & roads, because you are walking as a common man & not as CM! And the common man doesn’t know whom to ask such questions & if he knows & asks then nobody is required to answer his questions about the city or such issues, mind it!

Ahead on road you will have to face one more hurdle i.e. garbage bins which are mostly on footpath & ever over flowing. Reasons may be the only garbage depot for the city which is at fursungi, the villagers have blocked the PMC garbage vehicles or the personals who are supposed to collect the garbage are on strike (Though I don’t blame them considering the attitude of very common man about throwing everything here). So the footpaths may be blocked with the garbage or the stink is such that you won’t be able to walk & prefer to risk your life by walking on roads! By the way there was a news in news papers that in a recent Hon Vice President’s visit to the city, as the local authorities couldn’t clear the road side garbage in time so they just covered the road side by green net shades, to avoid the sight of garbage from the eyes of Hon Vice President, brilliant idea, isn’t it? But you are a common man so you will have to look at the garbage heaps, mind it! Last but not least if you are lucky enough then you can have entertainment in form of some marriage procession or any party’s candidate has got some post at local level procession, with loudest music & fire crackers, take it as entertainment & not as disturbance to your ears & eyes as that’s what a common man is supposed to do at such times! Don’t ask any karykarta in the procession to reduce the volume of speakers or ask to show them for police permission for procession, the consequences can be fatal for the common man! One thing more, ignore the Cycle Track signage on footpath & don’t ask where is footpath & where is Cycle Track as the signage’s are just for name sake & no cycle rider will dare to ride on said cycle track, so walk freely!

Now after walking for a while if you are feeling like having “Nature’s Call”, then you are in real trouble! Because there are no public lavatories at regular intervals in our city & the one in existence are in such a dreadful condition that even poor beggars’ doesn’t dare to use them. CM Sir we don’t need any signage for public lavatory as you can locate one from a distance because of the stink it generates, is what typical Common Puneri residents says & I agree with them! And as you are a common man so you can’t dare to go to any restaurant alongside the road & ask for permission to use their toilet facility, so what you do is turn your back to the public & answer your Nature’s Call, putting all your shame aside & neglecting the sticker on the wall, “Yaha Peshab Karna Mana Hai”! This too is possible as you are a common man; don’t even imagine what if you had been a common woman!

See, now you must have had a glimpse of what common man has to face on road & what image he must be having of govt in his mind. And the scene isn’t different in any of the city in State only difference may be at some places you will have to face over flowing drainage on road as well beggars may bother you along with stray dogs while walking. Also domestic animals like cows & buffaloes too can be add on along with the cow dung on footpath or roads also be present in some places, if you are unlucky enough! And then this was just a little walk on any street in the city or town; if you want to see further then lets visit local governing body’s office & ask for water connection or let’s go to Talathi office & give application for change in name on 7/12 of your two guntha plot. Here you will realize right from just locating the concerned person & to make him realize that your work too is important to get that job done, what a common man has to undergo in the process!

Now if you are thinking what my fault in all these issues is, as does the CM or any Minister has to look in so small things? Then Sir agreed all above works may not be directly coming under your control yet these are the things which makes image of a govt in the minds of the so called common man. And common man need not necessarily be a peon or clerk in any bank or working in some private firm; you will find the common man in ever business man, shop keeper, proprietary firm owners, in doctors even in the form of real estate developer too you can get a common man! All these men are the ones who want to follow the laws of the system & make their living. They still respect the system named govt as that’s why they follow the laws but they are frustrated now as they experience every day here, the laws are only for those who follows them. If you go to the so called authorities then there are hundreds of permission which takes years & ever changing policies to build one single building. But if you don’t care for any authority & build as many buildings you want without fearing any law then eventually these buildings get regularized by the very same law makers, is what hurts the common man most!

CM Sir if it’s this class which you are targeting to face-lift your govt’s image then all you have to do is improve the system to such a level where day to day things need not have required to follow! We can think of forming a special squad which will go in public, will visit all such points of obstacles within the govt & spot the lacuna in the system which is repeatedly failing to serve the common man & then remove these spots. Identify good officers in the system as there are still many such & give them free hand as these people will be the best brand ambassadors for the govt! Sir, bitter truth is the so called common man just doesn’t believe any more in any govt or such system; fault is not yours but this is what has been happening years after years. Whatever I mentioned above about small problems related to any department’s office, the system makes the common man surrenders either to the agents who has key to open up the way through various tables or just leave & become NRI! That too if he is capable enough of getting NRIship or else drag on with life here & express his frustration on FB or Whatsp or write a letter as “Jagruk Nagrik” in news papers which most no more bothers to read now a days! So CM Sir instead appointing any  high level officer or professional media to face-lift image of govt, make every person associated with the govt understand very clearly that he or she is the face of the govt & if they are not doing their job & keep making the face ugly then remove them by plastic surgery! As that’s what need of the time is or else the day is not long where the govt will have a beautifully make-up face but there will be no Common Man left to appreciate that face!

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Sanjay Deshpande

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Shouts of Silence!

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute”… Josh Billings.

Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century. I always believe, the person who can make you laugh he only has ability to make you think too! And my belief isn’t wrong with above words of Josh Billings, whose major literature is about humor but look at the way he has described phenomenon like silence!

The reason I felt like thinking about silence is none other than the recent Maratha Morchas all across the State, in a way its Silent Agitations’, a rare thing in today’s world where loudest voice meant righteousness! For those who are not from Maharashtra, Maratha is one of the thousands caste’s found in our Hindu religion but mainly warriors from the times of Shivaji Maharaj & which is backbone of State politics. Marathas makes major portion of the State population & are mainly in farming as well politics, as no more there are physical wars needed around. Yet in the rural it’s mostly Maratha families which rule the village, though many of them are in relatively bad condition due to less income from farming as well poor education facilities. As they come in open category in reservation criterion, they don’t get govt jobs easily. This makes most of the farmers’ suicide victims from Maratha community, at least that’s what the leaders from this caste claim as well the statics too reveals this fact. In addition to that the Atrocity act which restrains anybody from so called upward classes torturing or abusing any person from backward castes or class is wrongly being used against Maratha community only, is one more concern of the Maratha masses or that’s what our media says so. On such background the common people in Maratha community were silent for years letting the caste card being played by the political leaders but somewhere like molten lava, deep underground the unease was there! And suddenly the entire Maratha clan started uniting & came up with silent march & what a way to show their anguish or frustration or unrest about the prolonged issues which is hurting them! It started with one march referred in Marathi or Hindi as Morcha in Parbhani & slowly it became a revolution covering every major city in the State! Millions of people joined without any personal invite & walked silently for their demands which were unheard for years! It’s like witnessing Mahatma Gandhi’s iconic “Dandi Yatra” days back though here no police force is needed to use to stop these marches as fortunately till now we have free democracy in our country allowing anybody to protest in public! At start the media as well our leaders didn’t realized the volume & response these marches were generating but as every city responded with increasing numbers of crowd then even the social media started getting flooded with the comments which flowed in both ways!

I am no good at politics & never used my writing for commenting on politics but this is not politics; here millions of people of one caste or community are gathering together & silently walking for miles to protest & disburse peacefully leaving no signs of such huge gathering behind! That too happening with a community which is known for its aggressive behavior & supposedly only knows one language, that is of muscle power! Then again no single face is calling the cards neither there is any political party, rather political big names are made to drag behind the morcha & common names from the society that too women are made to lead the march! Are we not witnessing something phenomenal & this is what made me to share my views; as not just I too am from some caste i.e. Brahmin, which doesn’t gets well along with Marathas is what media has painted as well society thinks! My friends of all castes & religions let me tell you frankly, I am a Brahmin & I have neither pride nor shame of it as I took birth in a Brahmin family isn’t my choice or credit! We all took birth in some family & that’s why we should not boost about what we are by birth is my personal view & I am sure my many Maratha friends also will agree with my logic. It’s not our family name or caste or religion but what we do with what we are, defines us; is the logic I have derived from my favorite movie “Batman Begins”! But then in this very country of ours we are first recognized by our sub-caste, then the caste, then religion. Later by region & somewhere on social media on 15^th Aug & 26^th Jan we are Indian too, is a bitter fact! And in all this process we totally forget we are human being too which is in a way our first introduction to the world!

Right from enrolling our name to pre-school all this identification & then tagging ourselves starts & with every passing years its tightly screwed in our minds & hearts that you are of this caste & that religion & it’s expected by you to be proud of it or ashamed too in some cases! I am no authority to comment on reservation or atrocity but if you are allowing some caste some privileges for surviving then other castes people are bound to ask for the same, is nature’s law! In same was with acts like Atrocity, we want to protect some community then the other communities are going to claim for their safeguarding from the very same act is also equally true. So if studied closely then these morcha’s doesn’t come as surprise; what is surprise is the way they are happening & there is jealousy or fear or unrest  or doubt, whatever we may call it about the entire issue in other communities minds & of which target is Maratha caste! And sheer cause is our rulers as well opposition parties which jointly are supposed to run the Govt (which the opposition often forgot), both are equally confused about these morchas & what we don’t understand we fear it or we doubt intentions of it, is a nature’s law! The root cause is the entire system which makes reservation on the basis of person’s birth caste! Again, I am no expert on social analysis but the reason for which reservation concept has been induced in education as well in govt service, high time to check its outcome. Because if this system making some caste happy at the same time its making hundreds of other castes unhappy then somewhere something is seriously wrong. Because it’s not just Marathas in Maharashtra but in Gujarat its Patel’s & in Haryana its Jat's, whose demand are on similar lines, only difference is the path to protest the Marathas have chosen! In Tamilnadu it’s said that reservation quota has gone to 68%, again with due respect to all our rulers & law, how it can remain a reservation when it’s covering majority of any system, is the basic question comes to my mind! As with this speed entire 100% will be reserved for some or other castes & then who is so called open category & what is meaning of reservation in end?

One of the aspect to the Morcha issue is majority of Maratha’s are in agriculture based works, mainly farming. Barring few who has “bagayati” mean having a perennial water supply for farming most are of “jirayati” means farming depending of natural rains. It’s this spectrum which has been hit worst in last few years erratic rain cycle & many farmers have opted way of suicide leaving back families who have nobody to feed them! Every ruling party’s govt has given just promises about foreclosing the debts taken by these farmers even knowing this isn’t the permanent solution on the problem. No govt has taken any firm steps to build a system which will ensure comfort & stability of life to the smaller farmers & the morchas’ has provided outlet for victims of such failed agriculture policies too!

Years after years nothing changed & even having all prominent leaders from rulers of their caste, yet a feeling started building up in minds of common Maratha that nothing will change for him or her & no one cares! What we are seeing is representation of this feeling in every person’s mind & it is every this person whom we call “Common Man”; only thing is Maratha’s started protesting first! Most interesting part is in the era where any commotion or agitation like Morcha every part has to spend money & accessories like Biryani & send vehicles to gather people, here millions are coming on their own & with their families, just to walk silently! I think we must take cognizance of this outcry & by action.

Only thing in parallel with protests which Marathas shoul understand is, reservation isn’t going to solve their problems as look at the castes which has reservations for years! Times are changing & by having few percent seats in govt service or education institutes, what millions of people are going to gain? World is evolving & other castes like Brahmins, Jains, Sindhis or Sikhs who never claimed (at least till now) any reservation but changed themselves according to time. Try conquering new fields, search new avenues of excellence, listen what language outside world is talking in & adopt it, is the way for sustainable growth. This is the way by which not just few families but entire Maratha fraternity will progress. In coming year’s survival will be of only the community which will understand needs of masses. I have never asked caste or religion to any candidate who has come to me for job, as all I look for is his or her sincere approach to work & excellence in whatever he or she is doing! As these are two qualities which will make you survive in any situation whereas things like reservation will only cripple us taking away our potential to perform better! Agreed this is easy to say but to make it explain to families who has lost their head because of succumbing to drought as well by govt’s wrong policies but we are talking about a permanent solution & no reservation can assure that!

Social media is buzzing with posts in support as well against of such morchas’, I too shared my views which I am sharing here, just to make the readers understand the fears or doubts people have as well the cautions Maratha masses should take. Silence is big power & every power has to be used with responsibility, is all I will say to conclude!

Below are few of my views on social media...

*Maratha Morcha to Brahman Sabha to OBC March... I keep on receiving & reading caste or religion related forwards/posts on social media; this is my reply...

See the types of messages circulating on social media...I think we are going on very wrong track which will lead to destruction of nation not just state. High time for all political parties & so called caste leaders to come together n decide country is above any religion & caste! Accept that reservation if necessary then should be only on income that too genuinely poor class who can’t afford good food or good education... nothing should be in job but see that all gets equal opportunity to get good quality education & let there be open competition as there only is some hope for better India!!

As real problem in-front of country is not reservation but R & D about new science, Housing & many more; employment all wants but no one try to become employer & most important are threat to nature & biodiversity this country has. We should focus our strength of unity for these issues... hope someday people will understand but then there will be too late as by then thousands of species like maldhoks & many trees would have gone extinct i.e. for ever gone! If at all anyone needs reservation then its Trees!

Everyone is either Maratha, Brahmin, Dalit, Baudha or something... where is an Indian, leave apart a Human?

*There is some cartoon in some news paper regarding Maratha morcha; here is my appeal to all my Maratha & other friends...

Dear Friends, I am reading all your comments & reactions on FB! I am a Brahmin by myself but before that I am a human being as well Indian; what target you all have set, don’t waste it by such cartoons! This is what is going to happen to the strength & patience u all have shown in the morcha, remember Gandhiji, he achieved what he wanted to by not fluctuating from the target & path he was walking! Let people say or react the way they want, you all be on your path which is for the cause we understood! One of the friends mentioned about using sticks of flags in morcha as sticks now (bambu); well, that’s what people want you to do, one wrong move & entire effect achieved by morcha will be vanished! So think & don’t react to any negative comment rather kill it by neglecting, is the way!

*As expected Maratha morcha's success is either being en-cashed or criticized by political parties though silently & then there are elements who wants betrayal of it & simplest way is make Maratha’s react in wrong way so it will be easy to prove them wrong! Need of time is wisdom & not hot head & focus on what is cause... just ignore any party or an individual! So please stop arguing with each other or reacting or blaming individual caste or party! Let’s not forget in this very State, Peshwa's were Brahmins yet they were right hand of Shahu Maharaj who was Maratha & then there were Mohite's & Shinde's who were Marathas yet fought under leadership of Peshwas! For years Maratha , Brahmans & all Other Castes even Muslims have survived & fought together without need of any atrocity or reservation as quality & fighting spirit were only criteria’s... now if we starts reacting on what some political party says or some news paper prints, then remember their interests are different than ours! Just ignore is best way...

Incidentally on this background in Times of India I read that famous Hollywood actor Tom Hanks has visited India recently & got amazed saying, “I am intrigued by how such a diverse population co-exists in India!” Well, there is huge difference Tom between mere co-existence & togetherness! I think high time for not just our rulers but for every Indian to understand the term togetherness & play his or her role to live by it or else even in jail also people co-exists, don’t they?

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