THE WAKE UP CALL FOR OUR POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT

Anna Hazare hunger protest and the people’s support for him is definitely an indicator of public anger aganist corruption and nepotism, all that they needed was a catalyst and Anna Hazare’s fast was one which united the nation as one single entity which sent sleepless nights for the Government in the current dispensation.

The Jan Lokpal bill is  just a beginning of people voice over Governance, victory of people will herald a new beginning in accountability of the Elected Representative, the Executive and the next level will be the Judiciary and they better be prepared for such scrutiny by the Ombudsman who will have extra teeth to over see what is happening over every deals that the Neta’s ink and one slip can expose and end  their political career.

Let us understand why the political established was hesitant in implementing the Lokpal bill, it is because the Neta’s  while calling for transparency and probity in public life were stalling the bill, for their narrow personal security and thereby looting the country. This is not confined to UPA or Congress and we cannot single them out, the opposition BJP while crying foul about corruption in New Delhi is backing the Chief Minister in Karnataka who is immersed himself into corruptions like Land Scams and the likes, he has taken upon himself that he will only rest once his hunger for wealth if fulfilled, the JDS is yet again another example of corruption and there is a Book on its Chief H.D Deva Gowda who is the only Prime Minister with dubious distinction of having such book for wrong reasons.

The other major party in question is Samajwadi party,RJD,DMK,Telegu Desam,AIADMK and Bhahujan samaj Party are no bereft of charges against on corruption, nepotism, rape and manslaughter  to name a few.  The party distances itself if any one of them are exposed absolving themselves of the responsibility of the particular individual by asking him to resign and this is absurdity why act only when they are caught red handed why not track their back ground before you give them your B form for filing their candidature.

The Elections to be held in Kerala is glaring examples of the inadequacies of the Representations of People Act as it is blind on who is eligible to contest the elections to the vast extend of the term. Here 43% out of the total candidates who have filed their nomination have criminal background which means the old adage of telling “POLITICS IS THE LAST RESORT OF A SCOUNDREL’ is apt. Let us understand from the parties in question who have selected people with criminal background as to what was the compulsion behind such candidatures, are these parties trying to reform these scoundrel and putting them back to main streams or is it a return of favours for work solicited. Any ways what can we expect out of this goons who will rule us. The policemen who used to shower latis on them will  have salute them that is the power of our Mandate. Let us not restrict our criticism only to Kerala as this happens all over the country, we can find goons in our Parliament , at times of debates you can see them in their real form, pulling , pushing each other to show supremacy.

Yet we call India a Glowing Example Of Democracy. Alas God Bless us all !

The Indian political establishment has failed to understand the perspectives of the governed meaning “ How are people feeling the way they are being Governed” Often thinking that the Mass is just to watch them election after elections as the “right to recall” has never being used even once, neither we have had plebiscite as to whether we need this form of Governance, here there is a difference Governance and democracy, I am not taking about democracy it is about Governance. The Five year Election period for a Candidate should have a review after every 2 years here there will be no candidates contesting, it will be single sheet  of  paper asking people whether they are happy with the Candidate, If the passing percentages is less than 40% he will loose his membership. While we expect our children to pass the examination we let go Assembly and parliament Members without any test or exams, we elect them time and again based on their false promises.

Finally the time has come for a change, Anna Hazare the icon of the middle class today cannot save you for ever, we need more people like him to participate in the revolution and turn the country around and make politics a career option with valid and reasonable pay scales like that of an IAS or IPS officer, rather than asking our representatives to work for pittance and expecting them to be honest.  Utimately Values and transperancies comes with a price.

It is definetely a wake up call for the law makers.

Ramesh.V.Naivaruni

19th April 2011

The sep-ul-cher for posterity----The Nuclear Harm An Analysis

THE   SEP-UL-CHER  FOR  POSTERITY

NUCLEAR HARM AN ANALYSIS

The recent mass destruction due to Tsunami and subsequent Nuclear blast in Japan has  put in a question of how safe we are in a Nuclear world, what kind of safety that we as an human entity have against such destructive devices in the hands of various countries, one trigger happy parasite  can annihilate the whole human existence.

We are told that 30 rems (meaning roentgen equivalent in Man)can have significant changes in the blood streams , and about 80 to 128 rems can make you sick for life like having permanent sickness like Cancer, haemorrhages,  and about 300 or more  rems  can be fatal, ( The Rem is unit used to measure the radiation dosage on human being). Having said this in the event of a Nuclear explosion one is not sure what will be the dosage one gets which largely depends upon the location and how closer you are to the site of explosion. It  Is also told that the radiation lingers long enough to reach out, through  Air , to maximum distance ,which can only be assessed  by the intensity of the Nuke bomb,  its capacity, and the wind speed at that point of time.

In lay man parlance in the first minute of the blast after detonation there are three damages that can be caused which are Thermal radiation the low yield of which is 35% or More in less than 100ft and it can go as high as 45- 48%, then you have Blast wave  which is 60% low yield and 50% high yield and the third damage causing is ionizing radiations which is at 5%, the radioactive decay of the fall out releases additional 5 to 10%, in nutshell you can near holocaust in the event  of a Nuke War.

As per the inventor of law of relativity Albert Einstein “The Law of Mathematics refers to reality, they are not certain, as far as the y are certain, they do not refer to reality,” The  quote of this genius holds good when senior scientist  predicts and perfects Nuke weapons and its safe gaurds. The Lab trials or mock test are okay in its controlled atmosphere, the job said is well done, but we cannot calculate the intensity of the blast if the said bomb is to explode in places with petroleum or Chemical plants as the same can trigger multiple effect on the human populace which can be on a geometric proportion.

Dr.Tatsurichiro  Akizuki has detailed in his book Nagasaki 1945 the real account of Automic explosion as he was the eye witness to the tragedy and has administered medicine to the effected victims, he himself got the effect of radiation and had constant fever and diahorea, he claims that his selfless service to save life was appreciated by the God almighty and he escaped from the jaws of death to live yet again.

We have seen only a Atomic blast since its discovery  at Hiroshima and Nagasaki  and  we cannot  afford   to do on field  trials of Nuke Bomb, the Scientific calculation and Matrixes can go hay wire if the said bomb disturbs the craters of the Earth which in turn can cause havoc. Why  just warfare ? look at the accidents that are before us ,since Nuclear Invention , The Chernobyl 1000 mega watts power reactor in USSR, The Three Mile Island near Pennsylvania, Presently in Japan are glaring example of how unequipped we are against this deadly Energy and how insufficient we are in our Nuclear safeguard as these happened in the most dev eloped countries. Here we should imagine what will be situation if it has to happen in Pakistan , North Korea or India where we have limited  experience as compared to major republics.

We have seen  major scientific breakthrough  in the last 100 odd years including Nuke ,Atomic enery & plastics, some of them did really bring in some comforts to us, but we failed to understand all this scientific inventions and its subsequent use will have a telling effect on the Earth’s craters. While we cooled our Bed rooms with Air Conditioners, we heated up the Earth with indiscriminate use of plastics and petroleum products which is unwise decision. We set certain values to all that we discovered and manufactured things only keeping in mind the bottom line of the establishment, but forgetting the long terms consequences on the Ecology.

While my argument is not against invention or its commercial application, but what about our concern for sustainability factor, why did we forget this  most crucial factor in the first place, while we all know plastic was a good product but why did we go overboard in the use of plastic. Why did we forget the need  for recycling.  Here some companies and organisation have developed ‘CRADLE TO CRADLE’ DESIGN PROTOCOL, which simply means mimicking natures organic life cycle, here after the end use of the product, the product is returned to the manufacturer for recycling”, The people behind this design protocol is  William McDonough an designer  and Michael Braungart a chemist, and their design protocol is called MBDC chemistry. While this is a step in the positive direction and companies like Rebook, Nike, Shaw  etc  are embracing this production models  as part of their environmental commitments. 

All this put a common question as to why did we lack the foresight  of having such production models before venturing into commercial production of plastic and petroleum products, we do only do a corrective surgery , why not prevent the abuse in the first place.

The Nuke power and plastics are only inferences, we need a macro level understanding of Science and its discoveries, we need to understand them first and  then embrace them, keeping in mind the impact its by -product has on the Ecology . The mindless embracement of human findings can lead us to the throes of mass destruction, as the Ecology has its own pressure release system in place, which we have seen in the form of Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Melting of Ozone layers etc., which in turn have definite bearing on human health and we can contract all types of epidemic like radiational effect, plagues etc., while the human capacity is measureable but no one can measure Nature in its entirety, while she will give us all in abundance her  wealth, she the Mother Nature can be a good disciplinarian as well.

We should also understand who the users of these inventions are; the Psychiatry of human mind is not accessible to scientific findings, as such we should factor socio-economic background of all the people while inventing dangerous product like Nuke. In this case the mindless   republics  like United States  and Soviet Union during their Cold War Era has equipped their Satellites like Pakistan, North Korea etc., with Nuke Capabilities what will happen to its Nuke installation, if they were to fall into the hands of Militant Groups, like Taliban or Lakshera Tioba, who were nurtured by the very  American in their war for supremacy in Afghanistan. The Bush and Blair’s of the Western world with half the information about “weapons of mass destruction “ waged a mindless war on Iraq and the present dispensation in United States is keen on a War with Iran and North Korea, if any of these countries have Nuke power and something drastic happens, The World is at loss to understand the results of such devastations. This could challenge very existence of Human Race. The error in human judgment is possible, but what about the ramification of its fall out both for the present and posterity  a quiz that needs to be answered.

To find that Answer out we should understand our History, Mythology, We have had many civilization like the Indus valley Civilization, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, The Ancient Greek Civilization etc., all this have been sunk under this Earth, and what remains, is just the tip of the Ice berg, How these civilisation sunk, causes, effects are something very debateable till date, Scientific rationale lacks reasoning, we are just left with only the remnants of the past.

In the Maha Bharatha we were told the use of sophisticated Astras (Arrows) like Brahmastra,Nagastras etc., can we now decipher  them to the present context of Nuke/Atomic power or at least   Chemical  Warfare. While stating  that, I would like to mention that the evidence of Virtual reality  was also seen, as Drudarashtra  heard the entire War, scene by scene from Vidthura miles away from the War field. We could also understand they had knowledge of making Test tube babies, the Kauravas were born through this method ,then material used we are told are pots. There is a mention of Telephony in the form of a Statement , saying sound passes through air, all this constitutes a well developed Scientific structure existing then and what happened to them are still a Myths.

We have a mention of Brahma Ratri and Brahmaodaya, in the Bhagavat Gita “ which states that I will ensure that I will end all lives in this world during Brahma Ratri which will last for one thousand years and I will resurrect these lives through my fertility during the Brahmaodaya which will last for the next  thousand years,”  can this be interpreted as after every civilisation there has been mass destruction or a deluge and for resurrection it has taken a period equivalent to around 1000 years.

We do not know whether we are entering into the portals of a holocaust, but can be sure that for now,  are we on a cliff, are we going to be merchants of deaths, are we  to leave only Sep-ul-cher’s to our posterity ? or is it the time to Act, Let us arise from the comatose slumb we are in now, and  undo mistakes what we have done in the past or else we will slip from the comatose slumb to comma. A time for introspection.

Ramesh.V.Naivaruni

Bangalore

19^th March 2011