Ban on mining is lifted

Economic slowdown is caused as ban was imposed on mining. Illegally land was being stripped of the minerals and exported. Wanton destruction of India's natural resources has led to ecological disasters.From When the ban was imposed, iron ore exports fell 68%and the mining sector became very small.Mining and minerals regulation Act has been slow in letting private companies by competitive bidding(e-bidding) as there has been no transparency in carrying out the policies. Ever since the coal scams were publicized, the delay was due to ensuing policy paralysis. Now the Supreme Court has limited the extraction of or to 20 million tonnes per year. The supreme Court has also cancelled mining leases which were extended up to 2007 for those for whom 20 year renewal periods was over. Now also, there are loop holes and indiscriminate mining can take place. When government cannot participate in the development of mining sector effectively, it leaves it up to the private companies. And private companies find a way to mint money which government cannot stop, control or limit.So that is fate of India...indiscriminate mining...loss of our national resources, people's ignorance is taken advantage of by power seekers and capitalists. With the cacophony created by electioneering, this significant lift on ban is being ignored by the media....this is not good....

Culture is the heartbeat of Indians

Even after five generations of living in foreign lands, Indians stick together holding on to their culture and way of life. And they want to re-connect with India, we offer them an identity by giving them the status of "Person of Indian origin" We give them a passport to visit India whenever they want.  Even Indians who have surrendered their Indian citizenships and become citizen of another country, we recognize them as "overseas Citizen of India" and we allow them to invest in India, and we let them buy land in India as they are the non-resident Indians.
Farther people migrate from India, greater is their desire to connect with India. Indian culture holds them spellbound and mersmerized. The magnetic pull of the motherland is too great to resist. However settled they are in their new lands, they wish to visit the land from which their great great grandfathers came. They visit the temples and monuments and soak in the culture here. They like Indian music, they like Indian cuisine. They appreciate the festivals and the fairs. Even if one is not Indian genealogically speaking(not having genetic links) one can learn to be an Indian at heart.You can learn Indian value system. Roots are cultural and run very deep as they shape the individual's psyche.
The world is big and Indians have spreaded to far off lands; but thanks to Internet, we can quench the thirst for Indian culture by listening to Indian music, and learn Indian recipes. To experience the real India, one must come here. Its a fine place to visit but staying here would not be a good idea. There are too many problems here which the political elite is not resolving.
We can keep our culture alive by teaching our children fine values which Vivekananda had taught, by reading the Bhagavad Gita, by reading  Rabindranath Tagore and by reading Indian history. The fine values of Indian people behold came from thousands of years of cultural evolution. They are so strong that the Indian culture will thrive for centuries to come. Cultural roots are indeed deep and pull us to this land of our origin. Those who want to visit the country of their origin are most welcome here. Come and feel at home.

Election Fever

Election fever means frantic attempts to win elections. Candidates try the "tactic" of trying to find fault with the opposite team. They try to wedge the newly formed front. More and more news channels try to make predictions thinking that such predictions can change the minds of the voters. Since "Ambedkars Jayanti" was here, all try to make capital out of this occasion. They try to portray themselves as the only persons trying to save egalitarianism in India. Proposal of curing all evils in India is not going to work. Secularism is elusive. Promises are always make and none are ever kept. This is bad. Thats why things don't work here. We do not have proper drinking water, we are inefficient in giving electricity to all. Schools are not good enough and health care is poor. We are lacking in so many many  ways. No political party takes any effort to change that. Its very sad.
Now family feuds take the shape of politicking. Children of one brother against the child of another brother who is in the opposite party. New kinds of mudslinging goes on. Most battles are fought on live TV while each of the news channels try to air the latested abuses in the fastest way possible. It is non stop cacophony.
Movie stars also try to support one or the other parties and jump in into the battleground. although the Election Commission's issues strict notices, it does not stop one from hurdling abuses against another. Oh, when will all this end? When the elections are over.