Monday, 25 November 2019

Distant yet achievable dream

A new child is born and the family is happy. The hospital charges have been covered under the universal healthcare scheme. Government official visits the hospital and issues the birth certificate. Government opens a bank account and deposits a lump-sum amount in the name of baby so that parents/ guardian can buy  good nutritious food, medicines and for other vital needs till the baby transforms into a valuable citizen and starts earning for themselves. 

Kid attains the age of 4 years and receives joining letter to join the allotted school from the education department. Yes, parents need not pay for education. Kid studies and graduates with passing colors. He/She registers in the employment bureau and receives a call letter for a job. He/She passes the interview and receives appointment letter. He/She is covered under dignity of labor scheme to protect him/her from unforeseen aggression of the company. A portion of his/her salary is deducted towards universal health care scheme, children development fund, education fund and old age pension scheme.  


He/She earns for food, clothing and shelter and saves some amount for the clothing and other needs of their kids. They also take care of old age parents using old age pension scheme.

The above is typical lifestyle of a salaried class person, of-course it can also include small and medium scale business men too.

Does this mean all schools and hospitals need to be nationalized? Absolutely not. Government can choose the good performing private schools and hospitals with reasonable cost of operation and fund their operation cost so that the management can pass over the benefits to their consumers. 


Let the people who can afford for private education and healthcare do it so at their own risk. But affordable education and healthcare for every strata of society should be basic right of the every citizen.

The day when the quality of output from these public funded service related sectors exceeds to that of privately managed ones, we can surely feel proud of ourselves as a nation. Till then, we can feel happy to have won cricket world cups, number of Indian CEOs working for American MNC's, multi-crore collection w.r.t. cinemas from the favorite actor/ actress.

Sunday, 10 November 2019

Monkey judge - state of affairs

Two cats were walking through a road and found a piece of bread. Two cats fought with each other to claim ownership over the piece of bread. They found a monkey walking on the same road and requested it to become their judge to decide on who should have the piece of bread. One cat claimed that it saw the bread first and hence it should have the whole bread, second cat claimed that it saw the bread first and hence it wanted the whole share.

After a while, cats decided that they would share the piece of bread and requested monkey to divide the same for them. Monkey readily agreed and broke the bread into unequal pieces. He convinced the cats that he should take a bite of the larger piece to make the share equal. After the bite, the other piece looked bigger and monkey again took a bite of the larger of the two. Monkey continued to fool the unsuspecting cats to eat the whole bread and escaped from the scene.

A judgment given always exhibits the intention of the person and his/ her thought process. A good judgment will always act as a lifeline solution to future problems, if not the solution it will surely be a guide to the solution. Such is the power of a good judgment that it will withstand the scrutiny of the future till the eternity.

If discussing on a latest scenario, judges of the Supreme Court declared that 2010 judgement of Allahabad court was wrong in the year 2019. Similarly the same judgment of Supreme court can become void in the future if it were not based on proper logic.


I am no judicial expert but as I understand the judgment from the newspapers, the only reason given for handing over the land to the central government is based on ASI finding of some unidentified structures beneath mosque which made court to assume that a temple was destroyed to build a mosque.

 A tiller owns the land, but the recent decision of supreme court has given a new dimension of deciding on the ownership of the land. Its time to bury something in your land so that you can claim ownership over the land after few decades by roping in ASI department without need to register the property and execution of any sale deeds. At the same time make sure to get the property surveyed from ASI for any past residues, presence of which can annul your ownership altogether.

Every organization holds some amount of value owing to the positive contributions during its period of operation, one small negative contribution will not displace the organization. Its called the leverage. But when the same leverage is continuously abused organization will collapse. That's a subtle warning.