New Year, Old Decisions, New Challenges: A Chapter in the Indian Growth Story

Phew! At least there is still some time left before the next year and I hope am not too late to pass on my pearls of wisdom (as if anyone cares meh :/) on the much debated topic:

“D-E-M-O-N-I-T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N!”

 

Since Didi, Kejru, Rahul baba all of their attempts have been failed to initiate a demonetization rollback, the time is ripe to analyze what could possibly be in store for the nation.

Apart from the obvious pains (short term slow down, discomfort, etc.), the popularly stated gains are: Curbing of the black money (especially used for funding terrorism activities) will unconditionally benefit the government (no matter if the black money is reported or not) and of course transition of the Indian Economy towards Digitization! (*tiding* here comes another much debated topic) 

So, what makes us think that digitization will curb illegal transactions?

I agree, the building up of a cash based black money will be a bit difficult after the planned withdrawal of the INR 2000 note. But I think it will become even easier for terrorists and frauds to steal our hard earned money when a plethora of our critical information is available right there on the database, in the absence of high online security mechanisms, which definitely can’t be built overnight!

Coming to the availability and accessibility.

Firstly, smartphones (the cheapest and the most convenient way to access internet) will become essential to make majority of the digital transactions possible. But only 17% (lowest among BRICS) of the total Indian population own smartphones.

Lastly, what about the availability of internet connectivity at affordable prices?

Umhh ok! Mukesh Ambani is taking care of that very well, but the actual results would be seen post 31^st march (It’s highly in the interest of the government as well as the nation that the JIO juggernaut should keep on rolling in order to achieve sustainable digitization).

So, taking the figure of 17% and adjusting it for the literacy / willingness to migrate, (a highly optimistic guess) around 15% will be able to reap the benefits of digitization. (The JIO effects are yet to be seen in the numbers which would be clearer post the “Happy New Year” period comes to an end.)

Hence, though the intentions of the government are undoubtedly right, a no hush hush and proper, infrastructure and security mechanisms for digital transactions, are required in order to avoid another policy paralysis (and this time we can’t afford the paralysis given the huge amount of sunk cost involved!).

P.S.: It’s good to see how we, the Indians are trusting and supporting our Prime Minister. Now, the onus is on the Modi Government to make our nation walk the path of sustainable economic upliftment after taking this right, albeit a bold step towards making India a digital-corruption free nation.

Some People want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

                                                                         -Michael Jordan

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The People of India: Let's BOYCOTT Pakistan!

Yesterday, I stumbled upon an article shared by my brother. The article and the comments it followed compelled me to give a deep thought about the India-Pakistan diplomatic ties. Hence, I did.                                                                                     Pakistan is a country which is good for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.                                                                               Their terrorists are killing and threatening the people of their own country. Their women are leading a pathetic life with a secondary status in the society. No birth control or even number of marriage control mechanism. Hindus/Sikhs/Christians lead a further pathetic life in there.

Moreover, the country which was, is and will never be able to do any good to itself is continuously harming & destroying peace in our INDIA

The need of the hour is to BOYCOTT PAKISTAN.

As an ordinary Indian citizen, we can boycott their artists if we don’t want the money they are being paid to reach Pakistan in any form i.e. either taxes or remittances. Because in the end it will be like we the Indians are being partly responsible for funding Pakistani terrorists against our beloved nation (Reason: Nawaz Sharif is merely a puppet of Pakistani terrorist organizations. The Pakistani government is actively funding and giving shelter to these terrorist organizations). Moreover, Pakistan is causing a huge loss for our economy by running a healthy piracy business against Indian Cinema.

Coming to the bilateral trade relations with Pakistan, I think India doesn’t need one, especially at the cost of supporting this terrorist state. Cutting off ALL the trade relations with this highly poisonous country can break apart its economy’s at least one of the strong pillars funding these terrorists.                    The effect of India’s Superior Armed Forces’ retaliation in response to the Uri Attack can be seen from the plummeting of Karachi Stock Exchange. Moreover, a positive signal from the USA against Pakistan is a welcome move.                                    If these small signals can give big jerks to their economy, imagine what will happen if we ban their artists in India and cut all the bilateral ties with them.

Another important issue I would like to touch upon is the China’s implicit and explicit support to Pakistan. To overcome this India can probably and is in fact, trying to break apart one of the most important corridors: “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor” going through POK and Balochistan.                           Hence, while our Indian Government and our Brave Soldiers are performing their national duties, we the people of this country can do their bit by at least boycotting their artists (Cinema, cricket, music etc.) in every possible way. In this way, if nothing substantial, we can at least stop funding the terror attack against us.

P.S.: For the selfish people and diplomatic retards, the solution can be to impose a strict policy on Pakistani artists to adopt the nationality of some other “non-terrorist” country first, before being allowed to perform in India.                                               In this way all the good people who are actually suffering will be gone from Pakistan and soon the terrorists will come forward with their true faces, overthrowing this fake democracy. This will make it way easier for the Indian government to get International support in order to destroy this terror hub (the one with a weakened economy and lost face).

Come on! Let’s stop being Diplomatic Retards and show some Nationalism, by boycotting this filthy neighbor because:

“Aap Mitra badal sakte hai, par padosi nahi”

                                -Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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United we Stand, Divided we Fall!

As I went through so many posts applauding Sindhu, Dipa and Sakshi, a kind of mixed feeling dominated my mood.
On one hand, I am feeling extremely happy for our nation that our athletes are achieving new heights on the global platform and how hard today's generation is trying to change the male dominated nature of the Indian society.
But somewhere in glorifying the importance of us, the daughters of our nation, I feel that subconsciously we are criticizing our male athletes way too much.
Somehow it seems that in order to highlight the achievements and importance of daughters, we are compelled to benchmark their performances against their male counterparts.
Subconsciously it's giving me a feeling that we all are trying to say that "wo ladke ho kar bhi kuch nhi kar paye, aur wo ladkiyan hokar bhi medal le ayi".

I think our nation still needs to raise their mental level to a standard when one can proudly say that, " Hey, our boys and girls are equal. They assured us xyz number of medals by the virtue of "their" (not his/her) hard work, unitedly.
I think in this way, we can achieve the twin benefit of "sustained" gender equality without instilling a feeling of "inferiority or a threat to their masculinity" in the opposite sex.

 

Yes, we want to change the "male dominated nature of our society", but in a sustained manner. Because first and foremost we all are "INDIANS".

P.S.: Women do not need to show that Men are inferior in order to prove their worth, their achievements automatically speak for them (vice a versa is also true)

#Kudos_to_Indian_athletes
#Many_more_medals_to_come

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