Chandragupta Maurya's fans rewriting history like him

Around 323 BC when India was handcuffed at the hands of tyranny, divided into 16 kingdoms each fighting for power a mighty king named Alexander was racing with his large army towards India. During this time a teacher named Chanakya aka Vishnugupta aka Kautilya sensed this king as a potential threat to India and so he came up with an idea of “One united India” or “Akhanda Bharat”. So he went to seek help from the most powerful kingdom “Magadha” whose king Dhanananda insulted him and threw him out of his court. After bearing this insult Chanakya took oath of destroying Dhanananda and his kingdom and said that he will bring a king to this throne who will first think of the nation and will fulfil his dream of “Akhanda Bharat”.Soon Chanakya found a boy who was a born leader and had equivalent qualities to that of a king. Chanakya then trained this boy at Takshashila University and few years later with coordinated tactics of Chanakya the kingdom of Magadha was defeated and this boy became the first emperor of “Akhanda Bharat” who is none other than Chandragupta Maurya.2,335 years later i.e. 2012 A.D. a show named “Chandragupta Maurya” was been telecasted on the channel Imagine Tv which had to be shut down because it cannot gather the required GRP (Gross Rating Point). Soon after this channel was shut fans of this very popular show started their protest on social networking sites to bring back the show on other channels.It is very interesting to note that in those times Chanakya and Chandragupta created history and the scenario hasn’t changed since that time. Today followers of Chanakya and Chandragupta have already created history by showing support for this historical show. Never in television history has any show received so much support of fans. The facebook group titled “Save Chandragupta Maurya” has so far 77,290 members which is just a week’s effort. A twitter account has also been created: @JaiMaaBharati which also has more than 250 followers. A youtube video has also been created: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NY-MVstPMIt seems that with so much support and enthusiasm of fans the producers and channel will have a tough time to decide on this historical show.

Support increases for Chandragupta Maurya

With the sudden shut down of Entertainment channel Imagine Tv on thursday for failing to gather the required TRP's (Television Rating Points) the actors and the crew members are in a complete shock.

But this shut down not only affected the actors or the employees of the channel, instead it affected a large viewer of this channel's most popular show Chandragupta Maurya which is telecasted every Saturday from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Within no time the fans of this popular show bursted in anger and rage and cursed Imagine Tv and Turner Broadcast. Turner Broadcast was the one who has cancelled the licence of Imagine Tv due to which it has shut down.

The fans of Chandragupta Maurya then created a facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/savecgm/. In no time the group was over flooded with many fans of this show. The group so far has 57,363 members. All the members of this group want their favourite show Chandragupta Maurya to be resumed on a different channel. For this the group members have mailed many Tv channels and requested them to resume the show once again. It is learnt that the group mails one channel at a time so that the channel receives united support of all the fans and ultimately gets convinced to resume the show. Many posts are seen throughout the day and the support is increasing day by day. A twitter account has also been started on Sunday to support this cause:  https://twitter.com/#!/JaiMaaBharati. So far this account has 171 followers. It seems that the increasing support of Chandragupta Maurya's fans will give a tough time for different channels to consider this show for telecasting it on their channel.

The group on facebook is flooded with messages from the show such as "Jai Ho" and "Jai Maa Bharati".

Why is voting necessary?

One may wonder about the degrading quality of this nation. Some may even say that this nation was always corrupt, is corrupt and it will remain corrupt. Some may blame the politicians for corruption, inflation, unemployment, terrorism and so on. But has anyone thought of changing the current system?

     The answer is no. This is the saddest part of our country. Some people say that for changing this system we have to enter in politics and for this reason no one likes to poke their nose on the issue of changing the system. But while saying this how can one forget that the same system has given us a "Brahmaastra". And this Brahmaastra is none other than voting.

     Saying proudly that we are a part of the largest democracy doesn't make any difference. Instead following the process of democracy is more important. Isn't it? Our system has given us the power to change the government if the government is not worth to carry out the process of nation building. Two months back there was a discussion on whether social networking sites should be censored or not. On hearing this people from all over the country started protesting and saying that,      “We live in a democracy; no one has the rights to suppress our voice." Now the very big question arises here. It is: How can people assault the government and start making nuisance over democracy when they don't follow the procedure of the so called democracy i.e. vote? Isn't it ridiculous? 

     When people are blaming the government on its mistake then why the same people remain silent on the voting days and not use their power to make a change. In India people only get one chance to show their participation and that is during elections. And people should make use of this opportunity to show their participation.

     If we talk about change then people understand it as entering politics. I think that for bringing change entering in politics is not necessary as this system has given us the power of electing our representatives. If you cannot use that power then there is no use in blaming the government.

     In recent times social networking sites have become the nerve of most of the individuals all over the world. Many use social networking sites to socialize, promote their pages and to stay updated with the current scenario. Some people even post hatred status on these sites about our country, celebrity or any brand for that matter. But I want to say that posting hatred status on these sites is very easy but actually handling the situation is very difficult in real life. I see people abusing politicians on these sites and when I visit their profile and check their political views I get shocked as most of the profile says "Not Interested." My dear friend when you are not interested then what makes you abuse those politicians is the thought that pinches me. 

     In such times I just feel there are only two options. One is vote and change the current system and await a new beginning or get into that system and make your contribution to clean it up.

My India

India!!! A country where even non-living things are worshipped such as instruments of a craftsmen, weapons of a soldier, where a new computer when bought home is welcomed by performing rituals, where we borrow and lend things in times of need, where teachers are considered second parents of students, where a guest is given the position of a god. Yes this represents us. We are Indians.

From centuries India has been a favourite place of everyone be it invaders, learners, artisans, travellers and so on. This clearly states that India has always been a country where every single person would like to visit. What makes India so special? Is it we people? Or is it our tradition or culture? Well, all of these contribute to make India a special nation. It is a country where mothers will not eat unless they feed their children, where wives will not eat unless their husbands do not return from work, where there are fights between brothers and sisters but we still celebrate Raksha Bandhan and Bhai Dooj. What makes us so different?

Our nation is considered as Cradle of Civilization. It is the birthplace of many religions of the world. We have also accepted other religions and many religions have flourished in India. It shows that we respect other religions and will always continue to do so. Many things in this world are given by an Indian. The numbers 0 to 9 has been given by an Indian. The master of politics “Chanakya” gave the world his thought and today many of his thoughts are used in military and management systems throughout the world. On 11^th September, 1893 during a session held on World religion in America, Chicago Swami Vivekananda started his speech with “Sisters and Brothers of America” after which there were claps for 2 minutes and thus he made the world bow to his knowledge of religion. Our very own Mahatma Gandhi the universal leader for peace is followed by world’s strongest man. Most importantly we have a great potential to sustain in any situation. Throughout the history we have witnessed this. Many invaders starting from the Greeks, Ghaznavids, Mughals and finally British have invaded India throughout the times but we all have shown them a great sustainability. We are a peace loving nation; we have never tried to invade other’s independence. We are always contended with what we have. We have always avoided violence and still we are doing so. We try to maintain friendly relations with our neighbours and we are very eager to help anyone who needs us in their times of difficulty. We have always refrained from doing violence even in our hard times. Our independence is one such example.

Today India is emerging as a global leader in the world in the field of science and technology, economics, education, human development and so on. The world is seeing India as a key to success in many fields. Many Indians today are working in world renowned companies and institutes. NASA has a majority of Indians working in their research centre. IBM and Microsoft are the largest employers of Indians.

To be frank about India’s way of living I can say that we are a nation where a Sikh Prime Minister belonging to Congress government led by an Italian woman was sworn in by a Muslim President and he was given over the responsibility of office by a Hindu man. 

FDI: Necessary or a new way to avert Janlokpal or a sure defeat?

     Since the commencement of the winter session of Parliament on 22nd of November, 2011 the Parliament was debating on the FDI in India. In the midst of rising inflation the government has seen FDI as a lender of its last resort. The concept of FDI though very simple has a very big advantage and also a disadvantage of its own. The government has proposed 51% investment in retail sector claiming that this is the only option to bring inflation under control.
     With "Walmart" the megastore entering the market, retailers from all over the country started opposing it saying that this will lead to shut down of their business. And the retailers are right at their place. If the history of the megastore is seen we can see that in whichever country Walmart has opened its store they have attracted a lot of consumers and the retailers in those countries had to forcefully shut down their business to avoid losses. The concept behind Walmart is so that it purchases the goods directly to avoid transportation and other costs. True that through this inflation will come under control. On questioning Finance Minister about Walmart after the protests started he said that this will bring down the inflation rate and will provide employment opportunities to people across the country. Now has anyone thought how much employees will work in a particular mall of Walmart? It is only 272. Yes, only 272 workers will work in a particular mall of Walmart creating hundreds and thousands of jobless people around the country. Though this concept of Walmart will benefit a larger group of buyers but what about those people who have business or who are likely to start a business very soon. Soon there will be a huge group of educated unemployed but this group won't be more than the larger group of buyers in the market who are likely to benefit from this megastore. Since the buyer group is larger than the business group they are in a condition to get attracted by this concept of Walmart and they can even vote for UPA government in the upcoming election of 2014.

     There is still time for the 2014 General Elections which is seeing the NDA government as the ruling party in the centre. So making complete use of the available time the UPA government has come up with the idea of 51% investment of FDI in retail business so that they can lure voters during the time of elections in 2014. However, there is no guarantee whether they will be able to lure voters or not, but if the concept of FDI is successful in the coming the years there is a chance of UPA remaining at the centre.

     After the FDI entered India all the opposition parties started opposing it including UPA's alliance parties as well. Due to this the parliament has not functioned properly and has seen back to back 9 days adjournment with the adjournment motion now extending till 7th December, 2011. It is to be noted that 7/12/2011 is the proposed day for the introduction of the much awaited "Janlokpal Bill". Now question here arises that after resuming of the Parliament whether there will be discussion on Janlokpal Bill or whether a debate will go on the current FDI issue. If the debate continues on FDI one can't expect Janlokpal Bill to be passed before 22nd of December, 2011 which is the last functioning day of the winter session of the Parliament. If the bill doesn't gets passed in the winter session of the Parliament the country will again see the same situation which it has seen a few months ago. If the bill is not passed the whole country will blame the UPA government for not passing the bill within the prescribed time and during that time the UPA government will start blaming the opposition for not letting them introduce the bill in the house.

     What next??? Well, the same blame game will start again between the opposition and the government blaming each other for the failure of the Janlokpal Bill. To think on it one can say that the UPA government is the sole benefiter of this FDI with taking the right step to lure voters, averting a sure defeat in the upcoming elections, hiding its incapability in framing a strong Janlokpal bill and taking a right step to bring down inflation.

Divide and rule

     In the wake of Rahul Gandhi's start of political campaign in Uttar Pradesh (UP) for the upcoming assembly elections in the state; Mayawati the current chief minister of UP on tuesday introduced a new resolution to divide the state into four parts. She said that such division of the state will result in effective administration. Currently the state has 70 districts and Mayawati government is unable to control administration of such huge number of districts.

     Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the UP government is unable to run the state and that is the reason people from here go to Maharashtra and Punjab and start begging for jobs. In response to the statement made by Rahul Gandhi, ShivSena executive president Uddhav Thakrey quoted, "When we say it hurts and when they say it is fine". MNS chief Raj Thakrey also added, "Gandhi family is responsible behind such condition of UP and that Rahul Gandhi needs a tution". 

     The next day Mayawati government which has so far been unable to handle the administration in the state has proposed the division of UP into four parts with new states namely Paschim Pradesh, Awadh Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Poorvanchal. With the introduction of this resolution some parties opposed the resolution while some parties were in favor of the new decision. The resolution is yet to receive a green signal from the Central government. 

     The divide and rule policy is not a new thing in India. It has been followed since the British times. The British unable to stop the rising movement in Bengal against them decided to divide Bengal with two provinces with the eastern part known as East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and the western part known as West Bengal. It was not the only divide and rule policy applied by the British. They even created a rift between Hindus and Muslims; the effect of which can still be seen today. It had cost us the divide of India creating a new nation state Pakistan.

    Now that time has changed, this decision taken by Mayawati is very intelligent.Firstly intelligent in terms of the forthcoming assembly elections gaining support of few parties for this decision who are currently against the Mayawati government. Secondly intelligent in terms of an effective administrator which she hasn't been so far. The division of Uttar Pradesh in real sense is a step towards welfare and development of the people living in that constituency. With this there can be individual attention on the states after division which will see more 

urbanization; which in turn will benefit the people by providing them more employment opportunities. Not only this smaller areas to rule will help the people gain confidence in their government which is not possible with bigger areas. For example: currently Uttar Pradesh is the second largest state of India. But if we talk about the  developed cities of Uttar Pradesh we see hardly 2 to 3 names in the list with Lucknow, Noida and Kanpur. In contradiction if we consider Maharashtra we can find many developed cities like Mumbai, Thane, Nashik, Pune and Nagpur.

     A simple point to explain whether this division is justified or not is peeping in your own lives. Nowadays, most of the families prefer to stay in nuclear family rather than joint family. The reason is very simple: If you stay in nuclear family you will have less expenses and you'll concentrate only on you, your partner's and your heir's expenditure rather than contributing on the expenses which is not related with your family. Moreover you will have a peaceful life and not have the tensions of a joint family.

Revolution needed in thinking

     Its an irony for our country that we are headed towards a new milestone and yet majority of government schools do not even have a proper education infrastructure. While the government is set to provide the emerging students of this country a new revolution of technology, the question arises whether the new Aakash tablet will be beneficial to them or not? The Aakash in its launch was initially posed a challenge to the existing tablets in the maket; with its extremely low price as compared to other tablets priced above Rs 25,000. Aakash tablets come at a very affordable price of Rs 3,500 in the market and the government has set its price at Rs 1,600 for college and school students. The government isn't seeking to challenge any private firm with its launch but is in the view of revolutionizing education in  India.

     The so called India's version of tablet has been very popular since its launch. But the question arises that whether students will be in benefit after getting this tablet or not? Launched as an educational device by the government this device has the complete potential to divert student's mind from education to fun activities. For instance the mobile phone initially was launched to fulfill the purpose of communication. But now it has become a device that is used for listening music, video calling, internet surfing, sharing videos which has its own positive and negative points. 

     The tablet which is the next generation of mobile phone also has the same features but it has additional feature of computers which makes it a little different product from mobiles. Today's youth is already loaded with lots of technical items; be it computer, laptop, mobile phones, I-pod and so on. With so much technical items all around a new product is yet to find its place in youth despite few of the people have already purchased the tablets paying a higher price for it even before the launch of Aakash. 

     No matter the government is focused towards revolutionizing education in India but the question is whether the students from backward sections of the society will be able to use this new technology as the people of India lack in technology or we can say that they are technically illiterate. Students from rural areas are mostly deprived of technology and professors of government school though not everyone are technically illiterate. Since the condition of government run schools is the worst in our country with more than half of the staff speaking a slang language; what can you expect from a batch of such professors to teach students? The government instead should have first focused on improving the education situation in the country by providing government run schools a good batch of professors. Only then can we expect our youth to become technically literate. Since we the youth are the future of our country we should be technically advanced and for that we need a special batch of trained professors.

     Contradictory to this, the condition in urban area is exactly the opposite with students being far more advanced than the professors and this creates a communication gap between the students and the professors. In such cases students start disrespecting their professors because they are not well advanced which is again not correct.Being technically advanced means the students can even misuse the device which is meant for educational purpose. Nowadays, majority of youth are also disrespecting their parents because they think that they are more advanced than them. For instance, when parents warn their children about the bad consequences of their activities they simply turn a blind ear to their words and continue doing the same things for which their parents get upset. Also being technically advanced can even lead them to cause crimes for which they can be punished. Nowadys, social networking sites have a majority of youth visiting them and spending hours on these sites and doing nothing. These leads their degradation of knowledge and they are not ready to acquire new knowledge. In fact problem with today's youth is that first they waste their time doing nothing and when exams approach they panic and thus their stress level increases and some of them in regard to this even commit suicide. The youth then blame their syllabus stating that it is loaded and they cannot tackle it and start blaming the syllabus instead of looking at their own mistakes.

     In both the cases professors, parents and students are equally responsible for this scenario today. Firstly the professors and parents cannot cope up with the modern technology that is coming their way. Secondly, the parents are responsible for not nurturing their children in the right manner. If they had done so their children would have listened to them when they warn them of bad consequences. Thirdly, it is the students who consider themselves the king of technology users in urban areas and start wasting their time proudly. Every youth should remember that time is the biggest power on this earth. When nothing existed on this earth time was there and when nothing will exist time will be there. So the only thing that everyone should remember is time for it does not wait for anyone. If parents nurture their children on time they will turn out to be good human beings and if students utilise their time they will succeed in every respective field.