Why we should Vote??

In the present context, we see doom and gloom everywhere around us. A sense of pessimism pervades through the entire nation. From “we are the next superpower” mindset we have now entered into a state of helplessness and weakness. No wonder everyone seems to make a joke of us. From a country that regularly elects clowns, to a tiny country that is expected to entirely submerge in due course of time with global warming, no one takes us seriously enough. Pakistan regularly humiliates us and the entire experience with Pakistan reminds me of Elmer Fudd’s attempts in catching Bugs Bunny (No rewards for guessing who is what here). But we continue to prod on, always thinking that it could have been worse.

Anyways why the hell should we worry about how India is treated by other nations? As long as we are happy and content in our lives, we really don’t give a damn about such things. Only a few lunatic nationalists cry hoarse over such incidents, after all we are all more worried about our next trip to Europe and what if deterioration of relations results in us not getting tourist visas (Apparently, 9L tourists visited Europe from India last year)

Coming to domestic front, the economy seems to huffing and puffing and chugging along at a meagerly Nehru growth rate of 5%. A key indicator of future growth prospects, capital goods output continues to fall. Some reports even suggest that we may have to face sluggish growth rate till the end of the decade.  Infrastructure formation is crawling at speed faster than ludicrous speed. As this report clearly indicates UPA government’s mismanagement is the key factor for the slowdown in infrastructure formation. Our current account deficit is hovering at a dangerous level of 5.3% as compared to a surplus of 1-2% in the early 2000s. Given that most of this deficit is being financed by highly liquid FII inflows which have a high tendency to bolt off with just a whiff of worsening in the situation. The country is at a perilous stage. Imagine the plight of the country if due to global shock, FII’s were to leave in droves, India will face a Balance of payments crisis of unprecedented nature. To add to all of these, we have numerous corruption scams that seem to prop everyday whose reach and scale can beat any of the recent internet sensations. All these should worry any common citizen (I mean highly educated middle and upper class commoners), right??.We could expect angry citizens (??) to vent their fury come Election Day. We can expect historic results from the next elections just like in those European nations that we so desperately aspire to be. Right??

But hey, how do these things concern us. GDP growth, infrastructure, current account deficits, all these are things that never really matters in our lives. Let the politicians and economists figure out what to do. Talking about roads, we really don’t care, since we mostly travel by air and if we do travel, we use our SUVs. In fact these roads are awesome to try out the off-roading capabilities of our new cars. Our apartments have UPSs and generators, so we never bother whether there is power or not. Mineral water is easily available, so why worry about water supply. We thrive irrespective of any infrastructure formations.  Corruption, well... it has always been there, besides giving some money for getting work done quicker isn’t so bad. So why should we go and vote on Election Day and ruin a good holiday. When things are going so fine for us, why waste our time standing in long queues with other commoners. Anyways our votes really don’t matter. We never seem to get the kind of people we like to be elected; in fact they seem not to even bother standing. The rest of the people who stand are anyways uneducated slum dwellers who cannot even speak one sentence in English. So seriously who really cares about voting. Politics is so lame and such a waste of time. We have our beautiful lives to look after, why should destroy our carefully built world by thinking/ involving ourselves in the matters that are so repulsive.

This is where most of us are wrong. All of the above things matter to us and at more fundamental level that we never think. Infrastructures, growth, GDP, current account deficits, corruption, etc all influence one elementary factor that affects most of our lives. This factor is nothing but our jobs, our careers and its growth. Unless we are public sector employees, rest of us are clearly dependent on our jobs, bonuses for all the luxuries that we afford in our lives. And all the above factors can really upset the delicate balance that we have carefully built in our lives. Why??

Because when the economy does badly, most companies also do. When your company does badly, it affects your career.  Your bonuses have shrunken in the last couple of years faster than matter and time at the edge of a black hole. Promotions have become scarcer than Sir Ravindra Jadeja’s centuries. All those neat little calculations on paying your EMI’s for your cars, apartments and other things have gone for a toss.  Even the carefully built protective bubble around your life has been penetrated by the obnoxious external doom and gloom. For it is the simple rule of mathematics, that when the whole is divided, so are the constituents of the whole. The weights might be different but division will occur irrespective of your efforts to preserve status quo.

Hence it is my humble request to all my friends to stop being cynical and pessimistic and start thinking positively on how to bring about change. To stop living in carefully constructed “dream” lives and start interacting and responding to the external environment.  To stop believing in the non sense of two different worlds of “India” and “Bharat” and start understanding that, we all are leaving in the same country. And finally to stop treating every Election Day as an holiday and start thinking seriously about voting the right candidates. Right candidates doesn’t mean candidates who act and speak like you and who have similar qualifications but candidates who speak the right thing irrespective of his background or party. For every vote is crucial, and it is not crucial because it will change the destiny of the nation, or dramatically improve our fortunes, makes us a superpower, eradicate poverty, stop crimes and corruptions completely but for the simple fact that you’re entirely constructed structured lives depend on it. For without our jobs, bonuses and promotions, we cannot have our beautiful apartments, sporty cars and holidays to exotic locations.

So please register yourself and cast your vote in the next election (to any candidate!!!)

Why Internet Hindus love Modi

Narendra Modi’s popularity among the internet population is well known. Various surveys and the cult like personality that is revered in the social media are good indicators of this fact. But why do Internet savvy Hindus disproportionately support Modi. What is that they find in his personality that makes them so vocal and aggressive in their support of Modi.

Various intellectuals (Libtards) have delved on this topic and have concluded on a variety of reasons for Modi’s popularity. But most of them according to me have missed understanding the driving factor for his huge support base among this specific population.

They quote, Modi’s no nonsense approach, his “quality of governance” and the “results of his work” (hypothetical in their opinion) is what attracts the young to him, youth who are always attracted to leaders who can take decisive actions and solve issues with a firm hand. Though there might be share of the young population who are attracted to Modi because of this, it doesn’t reflect the drive behind his hard core supporters. There are/were many CM’s and leaders who have delivered good governance, who took firm decisions, but none of them, resonate with the young as much as Modi does. There support base is definitely restricted to their respective states and rarely reaches out to a pan India audience.

Now the so called intellectuals argue that it is Modi’s effective PR machine that has enabled him to capitalize his “good governance” and “quality of governance” in reaching out to a wider audience. Thus he has been able to leverage his strengths to the hilt unlike the other CM’s who may have similar track records. This argument, I find is bordering on the ludicrous. Majority of the Internet Hindu population are keenly aware of their surroundings, they are well informed about global issues and their implications. Surely any effective PR machine cannot hoodwink this segment into making them follow Modi. Besides, CM’s like Chandra Babu Naidu and S.M Krishna have equally enjoyed/employed similar PR machinery to propagate their image as forward looking no nonsense technocrats, but do you find any pan India support or fan base for the same. Let alone winning elections, they might not be able to garner more than 10,000 followers on twitter. Therefore I can conclusively say that the so called “PR” reason is BS. I will concede that PR does help in reaching out effectively to the audience but never in winning over them.

Then finally there is the perverse reason spelled out by the more retarded segment of the intellectual population that Modi enjoys huge popularity with the Right oriented youth in India because he according to them was responsible for killing of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Muslims. What happened in Gujarat in 2002 is highly deplorable, and I am sure that except few marginal extremists, no rational person will support Modi, because they think he was responsible for the death of hundreds of people in the Gujarat riots of 2002. This is just a very sick and perverse argument that one gets into as a last resort especially by  intellectuals who have nothing else left to counter with.

Now after going through the reasons put forth by our intelligent brethren, let me put out my own humble reason for the tremendous popularity Modi enjoys across the country among the Internet savvy Hindu population (or according to Sagarika Ghose of CNN IBN, the Internet Hindus).

In my previous blog, I had elaborated on how a certain section of the population has a disproportionate control in setting the agenda for the country. These set of individuals who according to popular theory emanate from the great institutes of Delhi like the JNU, colleges like St. Stephens subscribe mostly to a retarded version of communist liberal ideology. They according to them represent and guard the idea of India. These are the same set of people who “are always thinking about the nation” while having no ***** clue about it. But this doesn’t stop them forcibly gulping down their stupid agenda on the nation (To get a better idea of how the Indian story has been shaped by such Individuals, I recommend reading “Durbar” by Tavleen Singh). And my hypothesis is that, these are the same people who are indirectly responsible for Modi’s rise in popularity.

These people claim to be morally and intellectually superior to the common man and their guidance in all matters must be religiously followed upon. They consider anyone outside their network to be fanatics, extremists and people who need to be condemned and suppressed from the onset. This is deeply insulting to any self respecting individual who is outside this so called network. And this is what drives the Internet Hindus to support Modi.

Modi is the anti thesis of everything that the retarded set of people believes in. He believes in Hinduism, he is proud of our ancient heritage, customs and practices. He doesn’t feel the need to mindlessly ape the western customs and traditions. He is confident about himself and also the potential of this Nation. He firmly believes that India could one day become the first nation among other developed nations.

This exactly what the left liberals despise of. They are anti Hindu, ashamed of our culture and believe that our customs and practices need to be abolished to oblivion. They would like India to become European in nature (remember how, these same people keep fretting on why BJP is not true centre right party). They are definitely not confident of the potential of the country and believe that salvation lies in becoming a third grade third world nation.

Therefore they have relentlessly targeted the Modi and his visions and ideology. This is the bone of contention between the Internet Hindus and the Intellectual population.

Internet Hindus like Modi and unlike the retarded intellectuals believe in our proud ancestry and firmly believe in the infinite potential in this country that can be harnessed to make India a progressive developed nation. Therefore when they see these intellectuals lampoon this idea of India and try to propagate their idiotic vision of India, they feel the need to counter this intellectual ideocracy. But sadly, they do not have similar power or hold over the governing mechanism of the country or have the required space in the main stream media to propagate their alternate vision.

Hence they have turned to Modi to become their proxy in their fight against the Libtard intellectuals. Modi who is the only person in the current context who has dared to take on the collective might of the intellectual society. Thus they have found the one leader who can take the battle to the enemy’s camp and win by playing according to his own ball game. They support Modi in order to demonstrate that their idea of India is the one the country needs. The more the intellectuals oppose Modi, the more vigorous the support for him grows. The more the intellectuals lampoon the Internet Hindus’ ideas and philosophies, the more they feel the need to prove them otherwise. The years of helplessness in listening to the BS dished out in the mainstream media and the slights on their intelligence by the people in power have resulted in making them overly aggressive in hitting back. This is what drives Internet Hindus to support Modi, because his victory means the victory for their idea.

PS – I still remember the distance of the some of the intellectual people with the rest of the nation. In college, in one of the campus presentations, a recent recruit was recounting his/her experience in a village orientation program. The person realized the importance of having power 24x7 and (believe me this is true) that people can leave without having access to Coffee days and Pizza Huts. I was extremely appalled at this person’s ignorance of the country. These are the same people who see 2 India’s while for most of us commoners there is only one.