Take my vote, get lost and leave me alone

I came across a painting where I can see picture of women without her breast and vagina and tag line of the painting was "Just Take Them and Leave Me Alone". This painting by Raoof Haghighi touched on the most raw-nerve at the centre of the Iranian Women's Rights movement. It depicts a surreal image of a woman who, as her breasts and groin have been removed, is left free from the abusive constraints or demands placed on her because of the male response to those parts of her body.

This painting has something to do with the democracy of the world, I mean woman who is fed-up of her breast and vagina in patriarchal society, so has been the situation of the citizen with his/her voting rights. The way dominant cult is catapulting the stability of minds just to make them feel insecure in all possible way and harness on their insecurity just to gain some additional votes.  

It is hypothetical to assume a women without her femininity and similarly a citizen without his voting rights. But how to escape those prowling eyes and their shrewd attempts to overcome the resistance faced by them who see your vote as an obstacle between them and their motivated vision is a challenge unto you. 

As I said there is always a summer after winter and we can always count on our collective conscience which never fails us and expects nothing but a sincere effort from you to see through the din.

Bridging the gap

Today I got a whats-app forward which mentioned that books acts as a tool to bridge the gap between knowledge and ignorance. Yes! Indeed bridging the gap is most vital for sustenance of society from total collapse. Every act of ill-will widens the gap and every act of good-will counters the ill-will to bridge the gap created by the latter.

As stated earlier, books acts as a tool of bridging the gap, and the most popular trending book in the Indian context is its Constitution and its associated Preamble. So what gap our Preamble is actually trying to bridge that it took the entire ill-will ecosystem to plot against the same. 

The answer is though simple but not as simple as being mentioned. Our Constitution is trying to bridge the gap between oppressed and oppression free mankind. I know that most of my friends might not understand what oppression really look like and how epidemic it is in real sense as we are lucky to have traveled through that phase wherein society was really in two minds in arriving at a conclusion whether oppression can really make it beyond the modern philosophy which the well versed individuals of the society were experimenting with.

We are really lucky that we weren't indeed forced to give-in to the evil side of the society. As I keep mentioning in my previous posts we are ever indebted to our forefathers who put their heart and soul to make us feel a lucky generation. And the best way to honor our forefathers lies in not making our next generation to feel as lucky as we were but we can really put our heart and soul to prevent them from feeling that they are forced to pass through the unluckiest phase because of indifference of our generation.

Access algorithm

Access is the most important factor which decides the status of the individual in this society. A worker has access to his supervisor, a supervisor has access to his manager, a manager has access to board of directors. In any case if a worker wants to access manager he has to go through the supervisor in what we say as through proper channel. Though at the outset this may look hierarchical but acted as a fine rule in the administration ecosystem.

With advent of Artificial intelligence, the access hierarchy has somehow become non-relevant. As everyone has access to artificial intelligence which may look great but have you ever wondered that when a worker has access to his supervisor, it is as good as saying supervisor has access to worker. It is a two way exchange. Similarly when everyone has access to artificial intelligence it as good as saying AI has access to everyone or everything. Hope I am clear with the seriousness of the subject.

Universal access is better criteria when seen from prism of education and healthcare but when it comes to privacy we may not indeed appreciate the same. How would you react when your personal dairy is given the universal access i.e. AI access? Sounds bizarre right. 

More and more the world starts embracing the AI, we are indirectly giving universal access to our life, both public and private.

Right to Access Markets

The effect of globalization and open economy during the decade had enormous ramification on trade between markets of the countries. To put in simple words access to markets was so genuine that ushered close relationship between the economies of the country.

By late Mr. Trump has been threatening economies of the world by what is called as tariffs in accounting language which is nothing but restricting the access to its markets in unprecedented manner. And there is something interesting link in Indian context wherein Muslims were restricted of their access to temporary markets in Prayagraj.

Yes! You have read the writing on the wall in the right context. It is nothing but gaining a traction on access to markets which the powerful believe in for arm twisting the perceived threats. 

Markets are arenas in which buyers and sellers can gather and interact. A high number of active buyers and sellers characterizes a market in a state of perfect competition. The market establishes the prices for goods and other services. These rates are determined by supply and demand. The sellers create supply, while buyers generate demand. Markets try to find some balance in price when supply and demand are in balance.

Market access is a deep topic and requires a good amount of time to research various dimensions involving the same. Market access refers to the ability of a company or country to sell goods and services across borders. Market access can be used to refer to domestic trade as well as international trade, although the latter is the most common context. Market access is not the same as free trade.

We have discussed about many rights mentioned in Constitution but it is time for our lawmakers to arrive at a template which guarantees its citizens right to access the markets which have become breeding ground fomenting the activities of separatism within the country.

Raising to the occasion

I was hearing tamil song 'ஒருவன் ஒருவன் முதலாளி' from Muthu featuring Superstar Rajni Kanth in lead role. The song was full of facts which ticks off our wisdom. And one line which stood out was 'வாழச் சொல்லுது இயற்கையடா வாழ்வில் துன்பம் செயற்கையடா'. To translate in english lyrics states that happiness in natural and sadness is artificially man made creation.

If you look deeper most of the time sadness is result of someone's ignorance and associated greed, who fails to realize that his greed whose repercussion has to be felt even by last mile person distantly linked in the chain. One of the most hidden fact when some unwelcome incident occurs is that only the person who resulted in the damage is held responsible but fact of the matter is that there will always be one person who is aware of such incident about to happen but absolves from his responsibility from preventing the same due to various reasons adding more fuel to the fire.  

'Raising to the occasion' is preventing most of the mayhem in the world orchestrated by the vulgar think tanks. When an anti-social element crosses the limits police has to raise to the occasion, when a terrorist cross the limits Army has to raise to the occasion and when a government crosses the limits opposition has to raise to the occasion. 

Raising to the occasion is a double edged sword, wherein one who raises to occasion has to do it with purest intentions as he is exposing himself to strongest version of rebuke from against whom he is waging the lonely war. So next time when you hear a news that a major mishap has been averted thank that soul which rose to the occasion amidst the most insecure environment.

 

Escaping the curve - Generational imbalance

We might be sitting here right now enjoying our music, with a cup of coffee before a laptop. But lot of things are running in the background like in a laptop where in it is a team work of multiple instances of code. 

Our next course of action is relative, a layman is worried about his income, a businessman his next deal and a politician his next election. It is a curve, sometimes defined by us and sometimes defined by our circumstances. And when I say circumstances it is about collective space wherein we agree with interconnection of curves. Mostly everyone are less or more worried about their growth but doesn't mind if their curve can benefit curve of the co-inhibitors.

Politics is one such area wherein we authorize an committee to define the curve for the nation on behalf of its citizens. A lot of things goes in the background just like in a laptop in arriving at best definition of the curve. In normal scenario and when dealing with normal circumstances we chose an individual who shares certain commonness and curve authorized by him more or less doesn't harm the country even if it missed set goals. And this fluctuations are balanced by the generational bonding who can cushion-effect and take responsibility for vagaries thrown by abrupt misbehavior of curve which was unintentional.

But it becomes a huge payback criteria when a curve posted as a result of limitless greed of an individual who is least worried about its after effects resulting in a tremendous constraints on generational bonding and thereby culminating in generational imbalance due to generational inequality. The problem with solving this disruption is more related to mistrust created by the greed and less about the technicalities.

Religious and charitable endowment act

You might have come across the trend wherein you see VHP , a religious organization vouching for freeing temples from government control. The bone of contention is the religious and charitable endowment act which empowers the government to look into the financial accounts of the temples and keep a record of its donors and donor money usage pattern by the temple administration.

Another interesting fact is that most of the de-facto Hindu saving organizations like RSS, Art of living, Isha foundation identify themselves as non-religious organizations established to forward spiritual experience of its donors. The very reason for these organization to register themselves as non-religious organization is to subvert the religious and charitable endowment act from being enforced upon them and again to prevent financial transparency guaranteed by the act. 

The above are only a sample and these type of organizations are a plenty when you look in the Hindi heartland, each having their own satellite channels and millions of donors. It consists of good part of spiritual economy but without transparency.

In my opinion, instead of repealing the religious and charitable endowment act, the act itself gains more proportion wherein so called organizations (apart from the temples) which identify themselves as guardians of religion should be brought under the ambit of the act to streamline the donors and their source of funding to such organizations.