Epochal Shift - 6000 Years After Urban Centres Emerged

Epochal Shift - 6000 years after urban centers emerged. This population shift will lead to a new kind of city - "Hyper cities".
At times, what I feel that policy makers have significant problems in understanding data. Data itself is never clear unless we have sufficient ‘knowledge’ to understand this. Especially in Indian scenario, I can say with guarantee that this problem is very common. We have been very poor to appreciate the data properly.
One United Nations estimate says that urban population is expected to overtake the rural population by August 16, 2008. I remember predicting similar ideas in my book “Unlearn Before U-learn” written around a year ago with the detailed justifications which I observed to be very obvious one. The matter does not end here. By 2030, two third of humanity will live in cities. Keeping these changes and statistics in mind, I had advised my rural friends to unlearn village life. The data are becoming true with reality.
Civilization has witnessed tremendous changes in almost every aspect including GDP and employment. There have been tremendous changes in different sectors in the last few decades and these are going to change further impacting transactions. Invariably, there is a large difference in the understanding of facts by policy makers. This results in wrong policy decisions. They are unable to give emphasis to correct approaches. This can be seen in the following example. There are three major sectors –
(a) Primary Sector – Agriculture

(b) Secondary Sector – Industries

(c) Tertiary Sectors – Services including knowledge, information and value-added. This also includes innovative knowledge intensive products/services.

Figure:- EFFECT FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS (In %)

Sectors/Year
1979 2004 2020
GDP Contribution
Agriculture
39 22 10
Industry
24 27 30
Services
37 51 60
Employment Generation

Agriculture
64 54 44
Industry
16 19 21
Services
20 27 35

(courtesy www.presidentofindia.nic.in)

As technology leads to non-linear business growth, the predicted value for the year 2020 may not be totally correct. I feel that it will be different because of many social compulsions. Even if the prediction is assumed to be correct, there is a drastic need to change the orientation of thinking because of the following illustrated reasons–

1. As the agriculture contribution is going to be less than 10% of the overall GDP of the country, the agriculture sector needs to be made attractive, competitive and friendly. Accordingly, the priorities of the planner and thinker have to change.
2. As employment from the agricultural sector is going down drastically from 64% to 44%, the majority should move from conventional locations and profession to new opportunities in value-added services for innovation and knowledge-intensive products. Policy makers are afraid to accept the facts of this data.
3. The people working in the agricultural sector have been traditionally very conservative and rigid in their approach to life; they need to be encouraged to change their profession for the betterment of themselves and the country. They should never be given the consolation that their life-style will improve amidst deprivation.
4. The backward classes, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, who have been predominantly left behind in the last few decades from being part of the economic growth or ‘India Shining’ and ‘Incredible India’ have to be educated and encouraged to move out off the frog well to harness growth of civilization with minor disturbances and dislocations. They should be educated, motivated and encouraged to move to towns and cities to take up better and well-earning professions with a dignified life. This is a sever diversion from the earlier concepts by the renowned thinkers of developing countries but this has to be adopted to avoid future catastrophes.
5. The Indian intelligentsia is still busy finding the strategy to bring down the scale of perpetuating rural migrations to big towns and cities in search of job opportunities which I believe is in total contradiction to the need of a developed society. We need to learn first and educate the others about the significant statistical changes which are taking place overthe last few decades. People must move out from village or smaller cities to the big cities. People must move to special economic zones (SEZ). Government must improve building infrastructure to support these movements. More planned SEZ is the need of the future.
6. IT and BPOs together earned India $12 Billion in 2003 and by 2012, it is expected to touch $148 Billion according to NASSCOM– National Associations of Software and Services Company. The number of people employed in the BPO sector will be over 200,000. This manpower will be available when the people move from conventional professions to value added services.
7. There is a tremendous scarcity of educated and semi-educated person in service sectors like call centres, BPOs, software sectors, R & Ds, manufacturing plants, etc. The recruiter needs to move to small towns and villages to appoint and train the poor, dedicated, sincere and hard working people for the benefit of this sector, irrespective of caste, creed or region.
8. The area where exploitation has been severe and no priorities have been given for growth, are more prone to attract the attention and demand of the new industries. Either resettlement plans in those neglected areas could be considered or people can be encouraged to move to planned colonies for better amenities and better work output for systematic growth.
9. In the last few decades, there are locations in India which have witnessed tremendous neglect from the planner to take care of the basic infrastructure like road, electricity and water etc. These are Northeast region, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jammu & Kashmir. The situation is ripe enough to utilize for systematic growth of the new sectors. These areas have to be considered for future growth.
10. In the years to come, a large population will move from these neglected areas as mentioned above for a better life in Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Chennai etc. These movements will accrue many benefits for those neglected areas. They will reduce the burden on the land. The people who move out will get a better life. The remaining people will have more land to feed fewer stomachs. However, due to enhanced economical changes they will have to have a more sophisticated and systematic life. They will have to understand these changes and mould themselves accordingly. They will perforce have to unlearn all habits of so-called poor people.
11. The availability of basic amenities will broaden the living standards of large sections of the population. They will unlearn things faster to have a better and more dignified life.

Since the time, President of India APJ Abdul Kalam has talked and worked on PURA, I have my own predictions that these policies do not have future. These are the waste of government resources. We have to educate the people from village to move to cities to have a better and prosperous life. One side when President talks about big dreams on the other, he works on PURA to keep the poor deprived for life. Instead, government should join hands with private sectors to build a Special Economics Zones (SEZs) with basic infrastructure and employment opportunities for all.

The technological evolution will bring about the changes smoothly. The change practice has to be mastered by the population to harness the benefits of technology. There is a necessity of new thinking and ideas. Ideas should not be slaves of caste, region or religion. Ideas should not be the result of political compulsions. The ideas should not be the result of a selfish attitude. Ideas need to be rational, based on future prospects. 

I am the Person of the Year 2006

I have been chosen as a Time magazine Person of the year on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace. I am privileged, excited and flattered.

I took premature retirement from normal government job at the peak of my career to join this bandwagon. I created blogsites. I wrote blogs. I created large number of friends on yahoo 360. I am fortunate to have 174 virtual friends on 360 and many more on other on-line sites today. They generated confidence in me. They showed purpose for my life. They brought ideas and motivated me. http://360.yahoo.com/kamekish

Based on the core issues of the theory of Unlearning, I have written a book, which is at final stage of getting published in India. However, when I wrote my book in 2005, I got first on line site lulu.com. When all the publishers in India refused to even speak to me on my project, the book is published on-line from Feb 2006 at www.lulu.com/content/231873/ . In the conclusion of this book, I have made ‘you’ as main constituent of this forthcoming growth and I feel that Time magazine has realised the power today. You are the Person of the year.

“For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time’s Person of the Year for 2006 is You,” the magazine Lev Grossman wrote.

How true each word is coming? Since last more than one year, I am writing blogs for nothing. I am spreading my messages without any preconceived results or expectations. I am trying to spread wisdom. Even if my relative, friends and colleagues wanted me to join a good job in some IT industry, I chose to write my views and spread democracy of knowledge and wisdom through blogs and different site. I found the power in you all. I am proud of you all.

I am thankful to the blogsite like Sulekha who made me star blogger and given me prestigious rank below 1000 and wrote my name in bloggers list. Sulekha made me featured blogger for its Current Affairs section where I wrote extensively on current burning issues. http://www.kamekish.sulekha.com . It is a great journey.

As I always feel, we need to share more information. We need to share our thinking with all like minded people to generate confidence in life. I thought, creating a group will be a good step. Yahoo provided me the option free of cost. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iiuindia
It helped me to make me the Person of the Year 2006.

Wide Experience Pays

India is a vast country. I had been fortunate to visit all nooks and corners of this huge country in last 25 years. I have not only seen places, I have lived, experienced and analyzed. Even the book which I have written is the result of my conscious living of last 25-30 years. I feel that knowing this vast country is a challenge. I have met this challenge in the year of Information age. The technological tools have provided me instruments to steer the course of history.

I have worked on creation of godfather and wisdom domain. When, I receive different point of views, I feel that creating godfather and wisdom domain for self and for the benefit for all are coming true. The technological resources are providing us tool to achieve the tasks. Today when you and I am the person of the year, I generate more confidence to build a better and conscious society. You are the part of this consciousness.

In almost every Blog, I have written my views freely and without fear. I feel that there is no need to feel inadequate. You are power. You are the force of the coming change in society. You must feel complete. Be positive, learning or unlearning will come to you correctly. I have got continuous encouragements from my friends across the globe who made me feel that I was in a right direction.

I have written extensively with the hope that people are able to come out of daily ruts, frustrations and depressions to live and contribute for a better world. I have especially talked about seven critical factors which are making us distinct and successful in this 21st century. You have proved that they work.

How to conquer Future?

Just read the actual writings done last year by me in the book – “Unlearn Before U-learn”.

Thinking of Development without YOU!
It is next to impossible to have a development where it does not take the shape of a Mass movement. Society can never get the pleasure of development unless all the people around are not developed. ……

Slums and flats side by side will remain dangerous for humanity. We must try to find a means to replace all slums with the flat system where all the occupants have all the necessary ingredients for a prospering and developing society like clean water, clear drainage system, electricity, medical facility, telephone network and coverage, cable TV or broadband connectivity, road, nearby bus and train terminals, good schools and park in the near vicinity, good shopping complexes, good security for individuals and property and so on. It is not very difficult. When a big corporative could be established for a large section of fragmented population, these basic amenities of life through proper housing could be provided to people.

The involvements of large number of people are necessary to achieve better results. The changes are very difficult to comprehend and implement. But it is mandatory to provide basic human rights to the people……..

These changes because of compulsions will enhance the standard of life. It should never happen to the people of this era of civilization that the energetic and dynamic person has to come back to slums and stop the development of individual and society. Similarly, the rich and educated have responsibility to maintain their standard life. They should not mix richness with cheapness….. and so on….(refer book.) These chapters can also be downloaded free of cost from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iiuindia )

I wrote these lines in the year 2005. Today, Time magazine almost confirms these ideas. The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its Person of the Year issue, released on Monday 18 Dec 2006, “because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age,” Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement.

I (or You) beat Tough Competitions

I beat out candidates, including Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China’s President Hu Jintao, North Korean leaders Kim Jong-il and James Baker, the former US secretary of state who led Washington’s bipartisan Iraq Study Group. I am proud to be better than all of the above mentioned people. Because my concepts for a better and futuristic world is more precise and clear than all of the above mentioned people. You all have confirmed to me through your writings and comments. You have made me the Person of the Year.

Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927 and the tradition has become the source of speculation every year. Now only I came to know that earlier also once, I was declared Person of the Year in 1966 when Time declared this status to the 25-and under generation. I was just five and Person of the Year.

I am happy to make lot of American female friends on my Yahoo 360. Today, I am proud to say that most of them were also declared the Person of the Year earlier. As Time declared American Women as Person of the Year in 1975. Congratulations to all of you. You all have made me proud.

Dilemmas of Developing Nation

I wrote a book after leaving my regular job. I was looking for publishers. When I found it as tough job, I moved to some on-line systems like lulu.com and 360.yahoo.com and then I found the ways to express myself. Approximately, one year passed, I have been writing regularly for many sites without any remuneration. I have not got any financial assistance to do this job. But everyday, when one or other person was benefited of my writings, felt well. I felt the purpose to carry on. One side, I worked for my book publication while on the other I spread my knowledge. At the same time, I gained extensive knowledge. It helped me to create wisdom domain for me and many others.

“It is about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way world changes,” said Grossman, Time’s technology writer and book critic. That is what I felt through out my last one year of blogging. Even if I did not get sufficient encouragement from different quarters, I remained firm. I was surprised with the conservative ideas of even big thinkers of the country like Jagmohan, Arun Shorie, Medha Patkar and Congress Managers. I confronted them and found them lacking. The nation faces the music. The deprived population faces worst results of the faults of their leaders. Life is a tragedy if we do not understand properly.

“The tool that makes this possible is the world wide web,” Grossman said. “It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.” The exploitation of the modern technology was started by me with my Electronics engineering degree in 1985. Just before that, Time had declared Computer as a Person of the Year in 1982. Accepting correct tool and medium can take you long way.

Changing Scenario

“These blogs and videos bring events to the rest of us in ways that are often more immediate and authentic than traditional media,” Stengel said. How correct these facts are? Especially for the developing countries like India, where all conventional media are governed and controlled by people whose thinking is of medieval era. Blogs provide us updated information. Blogs are the good source of wisdom domain. Conventional media or even TV continuously feed people with the conservative ideas. New medium is a boon for the people who want to grow. I always give emphasis on this aspect of human needs.

Presently, I am writing for various blogsites like Sulekha, Blogger (On Human Resources concept), the details are given in my signature space.
http://www.kamekish.sulekha.com and http://www.kamekish.blogspot.com or http://www.managementlogs.com/human_capital.html

I have written broadly on human growth. You can always find my management theories on the human_capital site of blogger. It is a great experience to get the exposure of the world even though you are surrounded by developing people who want to remain developing.

The way I have lived my life with the ideas and www, Time’s declaration has confirmed my resolve for the future. I have felt it so. I have written extensively on this. You all are futuristic who do not go conventional ways and opt for this futuristic means. You all are great who do not sleep in the night to communicate to the people across the globe. You share ideas and suggestions. You carry out your businesses and professions. You achieve pleasure. You share excitements. You share intimacy and make love. You share commitments. You learn and unlearn regularly.

I feel that I am the Person of the Year like all of you.

Reduce Stress Thru Unlearn

Note: The issues mentioned here can be used by one and all however is more so applicable for the employee and executives of Call centers, BPOs or other IT and ITES companies. Any specific question resolving complicated issues are always welcome.

Growth and Stress

The developments, which were witnessed in the Western countries, took more than 100 years to mature. The long period of 100 years provided enough time for individuals to unlearn and make changes. They remained comfortable unlearning and learning new things over a period of a few generations.
But the kind of development, Asian countries are witnessing or shortly will be witnessing in the Information Technology era is hardly giving time to individual in one life-time, forget about generations. Practically facing the situation is really mind-boggling. That is where, the importance of unlearning is vital not only for individual growth but for the growth of society, state, country and humanity.
The changes are not affecting million but billions (As per estimates of 2004, 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty). The development estimated in next few years has potential to bring many towards a much comfortable financial situation. However, handling situation on personal and social level will throw a huge challenge to all of us. The new kind of stress related syndrome can be witnessed in the growing society.

Unlearning is key to Stress Management

The skill for unlearning has to be acquired, harnessed and innovated. The NGOs and other charitable organizations have to come forward to take up these Herculean tasks of eliminating social gaps. The human rights activists have to initiate their activities in these directions. Unlearning has to be converted into mass movements.

Areas where Unlearning mandatory

The following areas deserve mandatory appreciation and understanding.

1. Living Style – We have to forget to live a poor life. We can not hate rich. We have to create and cultivate habits of the rich. In every aspect of life we have to see how we can improve our lives. We have to work out the means and process by which we can be in a position to provide the basic amenities to every one. It is next to impossible to provide today’s basic necessities to slums or road-side houses. We must create societies to provide the basics amenities. And for this we will have to unlearn slums, road-side and other related living habits. We should never look towards SEZ or Singur as a threat. Rather, they are the options to unlearn.
2. Family structure – The family is a very important constituent of an individual life. The concept of joint family in today’s knowledge world is a curse. In a joint family, the biggest sufferer is the individual, especially the girl child or female who faces the brunt of the rotten system. She loses her identity. She is taught to sacrifice all her desires, ambitions and aspirations. In the old times, a joint family was support for individuals to grow, but today, the individual needs all sorts of different infrastructures to grow including good food, efficient institutions, reliable connectivity, time for creativity and so on. Individuals should have the privilege to live their own lives. We will have to unlearn many prevalent traditions and follow new rules.
3. Eating Habits - Good health is a very important aspect in life. Good health in the long run is achieved by good eating habits. These habits are not available ready made. One has to learn good eating tactics but before that bad eating habits and associated fears have to be unlearned. Eating habits should be created based on expert advices rather than trivial preachings. It should never depend on old traditions. Bad eating habits consume a lot of time. Without improving eating habits, it is not possible to keep healthy, it is not possible to have creative time, it is not possible to enjoy life, and it is not possible to become developed.
4. Global Language – Every educated individual and policy maker of the nation should think about the language issue. We should not keep the regional language for the poor and deprived people. We should provide equal opportunities to them to learn a global language. All government-run schools must teach English from primary school to bridge the gap between rich and poor. The government rather than talking about the first claim on resources, should provide equal opportunities to learn modern education and up to date wisdom. The poor should not feel it as their duty to force their children to study the regional language. We must learn and ensure that others learn the global language. Knowledge of the global language will pave the way for a very bright future of a developing nation.
5. Religious Faith – One recent study confirms that people are very religious in nature. But we need to understand religion for the benefit of human kind. Rather than generating blind faith, we must create a religious environment where people are respected and no discrimination exists in society. Religion should make us better individuals rather than crippled and burdened ones. We must restrict religious activities to generate a good life. We should never allow ourselves to think that God will do things for us. God is not going to help anyone unless a person tries to improve her own life. God has given us everything and we have to create our world with growing knowledge and sustained effort.
6. Understanding Self – It is very essential to understand oneself with all human frailties. A person knows herself best in this world. No other individual knows her better. She must take decisions in life according to her basic necessities. She has to make herself healthy, happy and knowledgeable to make this world a happier place. Without keeping yourself happy, you can never think of a happy world. We must unlearn other teachings to realize the importance of self. Self is essential and important. If you cannot understand and take care of yourself, you can never take care of anything else.
7. Education – Quality education broadens the views and vision of a person. It helps us to understand the world better. It promises to make life and this world a better and enjoyable place. One can have any amount of assets and resources but enjoyment and success come from balanced understanding. Understanding develops from good education. We must unlearn that education is necessary for a job only. Education is essential for a balanced happy life. Education should never mean that children are forced to study a particular book or epic. In that case, the purpose of education gets defeated. We must allow our children to get education on the subjects which open their thinking skills. Education must enhance constructive creative mentality. This will ensure the growth of humanity at large.
8. Entrepreneurship Skill – When we are entering the era of the developing domain, it is important to understand the needs of the time. We should never depend upon the government agencies to help us, but we must generate innovative ideas to create an environment where a large section of people get benefited along with self-development. In this Innovative Century, entrepreneurship skill with the right aptitude and correct unlearning skill can do wonders.
9. Working Culture – We must create a good work culture in our blood. We should forget and unlearn the old work ethics. Now as we are going to be a part of a developed world, we should feel proud and privileged in our work whatever and wherever we do it. We should create a work culture like China or Japan. People should not turn their faces on visitors during working.
10. Social obligations – We cannot be happy in isolation so we must try to fulfill our social obligations. We must take some time to think of our society’s development. We must see how people around us grow. We should try to create better and healthy surroundings. We should work hard to develop parks and other recreation centre in our neighbourhood.
11. Social Interaction – Technology is the biggest tool to interact with the world. We should be open enough in our thinking and action to exploit the privileges of this era. We must interact with all human beings on this earth. We must unlearn earlier interaction instincts, which were mainly based on caste, language, region or religion. Society has suffered heavily because of caste and religion-based interaction in the last century which should not be allowed to prevail in the new era.
12. Eradicating Discrimination – Social discrimination has been a critical and prominent part of the human civilization until just a century ago all across the world. However as society developing and education and prosperity increases, the discrimination between humans is vanishing. But, discrimination is still the biggest challenge to human civilization. It is like a cancer to humanity. We must make a policy so that all human beings are considered equal. There should be no need of reservations. Has America ever thought of reservations for the Blacks to eradicate the drawbacks of black society? Is China doing anything like this? Indian political bosses also should take a lesson and find some substitute for reservation for backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Muslims or even women. We must eradicate discrimination by removing reservation. Why educated doctors, engineers and other professionals have to face police atrocities to eradicate this discrimination in society? We should take other steps so that all humans treat other humans equal. Reservation remains a biggest source of discrimination.
13. Natures responsibilities – Once we are on the way to becoming developed it should be our responsibility to ensure that the atmosphere around us remains healthy not only for us but for future generations too. We should be ready to take hard decisions to make our air clean and healthy like Jagmohan took tough decisions as a Cabinet Minister and implemented CNG in Delhi. Supreme court moved polluting industries out of the city.
14. Global Thinking – We should not restrict our acquaintances with people of one country, rather we should move across the world. We should be ready to accept calibre from any part of the earth to improve life. We must unlearn the old missionary phobia. When Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporations can fight to remove ‘visa’ restrictions in the United States of America, there is no reason why we should not enhance the system and improve infrastructure to attract brilliant minds from across the world in various fields.
15. Global Family – We must consider the whole world as one family. We should cross the barrier of religion, region, caste or creed in relationships and marriages. Generally, we were content with meeting and marrying on the basis of caste, language or region. We should stop marriages based on caste or region. We must learn from Hema Malini and Amir Khan. The time has come when we should openly welcome and institutionalize the entry of people from across the world. We should stop asking people their caste and region to form an opinion or have a companion.
16. Democratic Behaviour – The time has come to accept basic democratic behaviour in our personality. It is next to impossible to have a prosperous world if society is built without the contribution or sense of involvement of each and every individual rich or poor, male or female, educated or illiterate, without caste barring, believers of any religion or faith, etc. Democracy cultivates a sense of involvement.

Many views with typical solutions appear in media to counter emerging stress in society, but in my view, the above mentioned points need specific attention from all the concerned people to combat stress threat.

Gandhigiri Kills Innovation

In a society, where human rights are violated left and right, the exploitation of poor and deprived are taken for granted, the clear violation of democratic rights is maintained for the sake of power and positions, illiteracy is considered a bliss for continuance of undisputed leaderships and poverty is continued at the cost of large sections of deprived population, it is shame to talk about something like Gandhigiri.

I get surprised when Institutional efforts are systematically put in action to ensure the continuance of Gandhigiri in this country. I am surprised to see the ignorance of policy makers of India in pursuing such irrelevant and outdated concept like Gandhigiri. I am devastated on the wisdom level of such managers who propagate such systematic misinformation in this information age. I feel pathetic about the leadership who glorify themselves for continuance of Gharib (means poor).

Gandhigiri is not at all advantageous to any section of society. It has lived its life. We have wasted much of our time, money and resources in acquiring the detail of these historical achievements that I feel pathetic about the prevalence. We have shamefully exaggerated the glory of Gandhi to ensure the continuation of a single family dominance on the history of such a vast and colorful country called India.

We have many new ideas and concepts to learn and understand. Gandhi has taken plenty of our mind space and today, it has become a burdensome to carry with that information which is almost irrelevant. The idea of Gandhi is making the people mediocre. The idea is keeping the people away from excellence.


Gandhigiri has ensured unnecessary positiveness in deprivation. It has become a tool to forcefully ensure contentment for the people in poverty, lawlessness, failure and mismanagement. The society is unable to get the basic human needs. Talking about Gandhigiri is something like talking about post graduation to an illiterate person. It is something like talking about five star cuisines to a hungry man on street. It is something like talking about air-condition who does not have cloth to put on. It is a slap on the open face of poverty.

In this society, where few people have taken power and high authority for granted, talking about Gandhigiri or non-violence has no meaning. Without having capabilities to govern, rule and manage, few people are trying to rule large population. The situation appears to me like one of the medieval period. This has to vanish. I am doubtful about the wisdom of such people who have taken all powerful positions for granted without understanding the vulnerability even though they have suffered miserably in the past. In the networked environment, more people will be able to understand these hidden games played by the few resourceful people.

There is a clear warning to all the people of 21st century. If you remain attached to your past and even the present gifted by ancestors, there is a possibility that you are going to encounter biased results and illusive achievements. They are not going to work for a long time. The changes which are taking place in society do not allow one to accept things easily.

Rahul Gandhi may go some distance based on the empire built by his great grand-parent, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, but he would not be able to go very far. In the 1960s or 1970s, empire building might have been easier. In three decades of rule, Nehru could ensure momentum for the few generations to continue ruling the largest democracy in the world.

Even in the nineties and the beginning of the 21st century, empire building mechanism could be traced in every decision-making process in a democratic country. Even now, buildings, stadiums, flyovers, roads, colonies, colleges, IT parks and establishments are being built in the name of Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, Sonia, etc. We are unable to find any other attractive and good name. Other rulers come and go without giving their name to any of these new constructions. An Ex-Prime Minister, dead body did not find place in the capital because his relatives are feeling homesick even if they have never stayed with him. Recently National Thermal Power Station was named after Firoz Gandhi. Is Gandhigiri has to do anything with these developments?

But all these may not go very far in a civilized world which is emerging due to technological inventions within a very short span of time in the 21st century. The easy accessibility and availability of information through various means provides ample opportunities to find truth beneath contempt.

Recently, so much hue is being created with selfish interest regarding Gandhigiri. The actor like Sanjay Dutt, who has already been kept in watch for committing a crime during 93 bomb- blast, is projected as a scapegoat. It is ridiculous for the nation who faced threat from misguided and disgruntled youth. There is no point giving so much significance to one individual who has failed at many stages in his own life. Is it right to project such defective hero in this hero-starved land?

This is the same Sanjay who has drugged himself at the age of 21. Thanks to his powerful father that he was brought to life. He marries Richa Sharma a bitter, brief union and crash land into disaster. In Lage Raho Munnabhai, he plays as a gangster. Why are we shamefully relating Gandhigiri with this gangster character?

Sanjay is guilty of possessing illegal arms under the Arms Act. That could mean another five years to freedom. The person who has been unable to create a wisdom source for him in spite of such a powerful family background can never be a hero of this great land like India. Linking Gandhi with such person may be a scar on the glory of the father of the nation. Was there any need for Bollywood to rally a campaign for Sanjay? Thanks to Bollywood that they called off such shameful campaign. Wisdom or fear prevailed at last!!

Earlier, we used to take care of the moral value of the people before projecting him at national level but today because of our selfish interest we tend to forget these basic aspects. Media keep writing about these because of their self interests. Leaders keep talking about these. Even Prime Minister is forced to talk about Gandhigiri. He was forced to see the movie with his family. He has been forced to speak twice in public (once in Durban and other at CBI’s Biennial conference) about the movie and Gandhigiri. What a tragic mentality of our policy makers?

Few years back, even Anupam Kher made a movie based on Gandhi. The negative and sick psychological impact of Gandhi has been demonstrated in this. However, I am unable to understand how these negative traits are shown as a positive personality trait? Gandhi generates a fear psycho in the mind of normal people with the kind of Gandhigiri which have been spread in India after independence. These traits are ruining the sentiments of individual. The country is unable to mass produce excellence. In this era, when excellence is must to achieve success, Gandhi creates mediocrity in the system.

Similar to Gandhi, we have many historical personalities which are ruining the Indian systems. One of them is Ambedkar. Keeping the existing situation in mind during freedom, Ambedkar proposed to have reservations for ten years after independence. But what is the situation on ground? People are unable to get rid of reservation and Ambedkar even after 60 years. How long can you build your future on past personality and old policies? Today, when even Moor’s law of electronics industry have to continuously change to meet the growing developments, there is no reason that we do not forget reservation and Ambedkar. There was no reason for all the deprived people to gather in Mumbai to celebrate the birthday anniversary of Ambedkar. There was no treason to bring Mumbai to halt on the name of Ambedkar. Even if reservation provides you education, good lives remain a lure. Facts must teach some bright lessons for future.

Ruling party has some interest in continuation of Gandhigiri in society. That may be the reason, all the programs related with Gandhi approved and implemented on top most priority. Dandi March pathway were clear for reconstruction. 1857 will be celebrated to remember Gandhi. Programs are being organized to spread the messages. Awards are given based on these issues. A systematic and organized propagation of Gandhigiri is conducted to cripple the society of its ego. Gandhigiri ensures ego less society where no body has any respect for anybody except Gandhi. Individual excellence remains a slave of mediocrity.

After independence, we had many people who have sacrificed their life in bigger proportion than what Gandhi did for this country. There is an urgent need to fabricate history in real and practical perspective to avoid vacuum ness of hero from this land. Past glorifications will never guarantee future growth.

Gandhi has lived its life. Gandhigiri has no relevance except some political mileage. Excellence remains illusive in the Gandhian approach towards life. Gandhigiri must go. We must unlearn Gandhi and Gandhigiri immediately.