Showing posts with label Uttar Pradesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uttar Pradesh. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2015

Jaffnaization Of Madhesh Is Not Possible, Technically Speaking

Jaffnaization Of Madhesh Is Not Possible, Technically Speaking

  • Madhesis are not immigrants. We did not come to work on your tea plantations. It is the Khas who are all immigrants, some from six years ago, some from 600 years ago, but immigrants all. The Madhesis and the Janajatis are the natives. And together they make up two thirds of the population. You simply don't have the arithmetic. 
  • For the first time the Madhesi-Janajati have come together. 
  • Nepal is not an island. It is not even land locked. It is an India locked country. 
  • Bihar and Uttar Pradesh will not stand still if there is even the remotest hint Jaffnaization is being attempted. Kathmandu will go hungry. 
  • The worst case scenario are ethnic Pahadi-Madhesi riots across the plains. And that is bad enough. It would be purely unnecessary. That the Madhesis will not be the losing party in Madhesh is a moot point. Riots are wrong, pure and simple. But the Chari-Ghainte government is doing everything possible to bring them about. They want to fan the flames because they think that will prolong their stay in power. Wrong! Start counting your days. 
  • A more likely scenario is a people's movement like in April 2006 that also enfulfs Kathmandu and boots the Chari-Ghainte coalition government out of power. A new Madhesi-Janajati interim government comes into power and orders elections to a new constituent assembly, and this time the Nepal Army is ordered not to interfere. This is not Pakistan. You will stay in your barracks. 











Thursday, August 20, 2015

Kumba Mela: The Ultimate In Organization

Prayag Kumbh much better organized than Fifa World Cup, says Harvard
Maha Kumbh 2013 was far better organised than Fifa World Cup in Brazil and Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, says a book on world's biggest religious congregation, produced by scholars and students of Harvard University along with architects and town planners of international repute. ...... The 449-page book 'Kumbh Mela - Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity', goes on to add: "For a country notorious for its 'lethargic' bureaucracy, the success of Maha Kumbh is truly noteworthy." If there was a national outcry and uproar over the poor preparations for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, the 2010 CW Games were marred by scandals and corruption, despite the fact in

the two events there were much more funds and involvement of the federal/central governments

. ........ The way a tent township -- much larger than the size of Manhattan in terms of population - pops up in a very short time-frame is an example and a project for planners, urban bodies and policy researchers. How more than

100 million

come to a small place, stay there for 55 days, apart from a daily cycle of a crowd of nearly five million bathing at the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, meet each other, pray, join their gurus, camp with sadhus and ascetics and safely return to their native places are the things worth studying. .......... with 390 million communication events (calls, messages, etc) it saw largest use of cellphones at one place. If one individual goes through the call detail reports (CDRs) of mobile users at the Kumbh, giving just one second per call, it would take 12 years for him to go through the text messages and calls of just one company, the books says. Over 50 days, there were 146 million (145,736,764) text messages exchanged and 245 million (245,252,102) calls made. ...... barring a few countries hardly any country matches its aspirations with the capability. "So is India, which has high ambition to provide everyone everything from farmers to migrants to factory worker. Its ambitions are very high but capability very low, and then it generates disappointment. But the Maha Kumbh management and success belies this notion," it says.