Maggi Vs Modi

Maggi Vs Modi.

This is what Ebola is doing to West African economies

Ebola Emergency : Combat Rumours First.

Both India and Mali is both are gearing up to combat Ebola brought in by travellers. Ebola carrier in India now in isolation of 21 days has zero possibility to infect while Mali with death toll of seven the situation is serious.

Many friends called up to understand Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Mali is now the sixth African country in 2014 to report death of a toddler two year old girl child on 23^rd.October and now six more in Bamako in the second Ebola Tide.

Fire Fight Rumours First.

Ebola is not a respiratory or airborne virus, and there is no evidence that this shall spread via air. Like HIV and Hepatitis B as example of viruses transmitted by bodily fluids it can never get converted to a respiratory virus. Another strong example that this virus is not air-born is evident when you see the map and position of several Mali towns along the porous border that were not hit in past 11 months since Ebola broke out in neighbouring countries.

Rumour 2 -Can Ebola Spread via contaminated water or river ?

No ! Ebola spread is never linked with water or River even though it may be polluted. The need to fight the rumour  that River Niger water as we see in the map connecting many countries including Mali is dirty so Ebola breaks.

Interestingly, Word Ebola (when co-discovered)  took its name in 1976 from Ebola River in Zairi later and now called Republic of Congo. Running water as River Niger is ruled out in the outbreak of viral

transmission.

Rumour 3-Can Ebola Spread via Cooked Food ?

No ! but vegetable and meat need to cooked thoroughly, properly and hygienically.

Ebola is a dangerous virus, it reminds the community that the risk of contracting the infection is minimal if basic precautionary measures are followed.  Ebola is not spread through the air by respiratory secretions or casual contact like the flu or the common cold.  It requires direct contact with the bodily fluids (especially vomit, blood, and feces) of someone severely ill with—or recently deceased from—the disease, or by handling or eating undercooked, contaminated bush meat, especially bats, monkeys, gorillas, and some antelope which sometimes our locals in Africa point out the poor tribal eating culture.  The illness is not contagious from person-to-person as promoted by `witch doctors` until the sick person has symptoms, such as fever, vomiting or diarrhoea. So people do not have to run to hospital to get admitted for normal fever and headache as wrongly advocated by doctors few months ago.

Ebola early messages may have added to the confusion, which now stands cleared and positive. NGOs are now trying to spread a more positive message. Rather than saying Ebola is deadly, there’s no cure, you can’t protect yourself-WHO is trying to emphasise that yes! 30% are surviving.

If Ebola spirals further out of control, it could soon threaten us all of us. The fact that a weak choice less health care system in a small country can let this monster grow to a size that threatens the world is a situation that shows how interdependent and safe we are. But this interdependence needs a `costless` religious global connectivity of People to fight rumours.

About author: Worked in African countries since 2006 as Director-Grafax Cotton Pvt. Ltd. and had been supporting International Red Cross and other NGOs as volunteer on Basic and Advance Life Support.

Slap Politics: Should Arvind Kejriwal Offer His Other Cheek ?

 

The recent slap on the cheek of Arvind Kejriwal by an Auto Driver sends two old loud messages. One message is why has new party AAP dumped  `Me & My dreams`. Here auto driver expectations are natural but the bleeding disjoint system cannot deliver speed justice.

 

Modi `Wave` with well oiled RSS organisation is focusing blame on AAP-Arvind Kejriwal `lies to Public` who is available as comman man punch bag. Rather than attacking the insulated old system which still hides the Corporate hand RSS focus is on a single person.

 

Second  message says that Ambani-Adani Profit Nexus is  behind the tradition Governance system of BJP-Congress which uses a network of relatively `honest` organised team called RSS.

 

To understand Truth Behind slap politics we need to understand the past direction of the anger from the Anna Movement where `short cut` were used but then BJP-RSS were a part of Anna Movement.

 

Today RSS the `champions of Truth` is supporting the Modi Wave and has dumped the anti-corruption agenda of AAP. It is evident that BJP-Shiva Sena-MNS nexus continue to beat the Non Marathis job seekers and chase them out of Mumbai and even then the Media-Police-Politicians and Voters in Mumbai are overall silent.

 

Now BJP-Congress is protecting Adani-Ambani Nexus and are not ready to make the change simple in favour of majority tax paying Indians.

 

AK-49 as designated powerful by Modi ji gets beaten up by people time and again. He does not have the power to make people happy immediately as the dreams fulfillment want fast results.

 

In Indian election history, Arvind Kejriwal is a campaigner who got inked+beaten+ attacked by Eggs and car windows smashed outside Delhi in Gujarat and Varanasi; highest number of times. Arvind Kejriwal claims it as Conspiracy of BJP-Congress nexus and has strong reasons as he is attacked even outside Delhi where he made no promises as Delhi CM.

 

Every time an ordinary attacker is thrashed severely, normally, police would arrest people from both sides in a public fight for beating each others.

 

AK claims, without naming that attackers are sent by political parties like congress or BJP. But police is silent on this issue after recording statement of attackers. Even media is also silent, apart from loud noise.

 

Do people have a right to know the truth ?

 

With the acceptance of an old bollywood song Kolaveri Di, the slap market is upbeat. The Tamil word Kolaveri Di‘s literal translation is Murderous Rage or Killer Rage. But the sense of the song as sung by the character is not that. It expresses the person who is dumped by a girl and now is drunk.Why this Kolaveri di means “Why did you do this to me” or “Why you dumped me“. Allow me take you back to my past published text of my  2011 year end articles on Slap Politics and Anna Movement which stands relevant even today.

 

One slap on the cheek of the Honourable Agricultural Minister on 24^th.Nov-2011 was captured and flashed by media again and again in the past.Old-fashioned experts link this to the education system. Some argue that that post slap nervous system gets alert and starts delivering more blood-Oxygen to the brain.A slap-happy culture should now serve the traditional BJP-Congress hidden agenda of diverting attention from vital national issues. It forces people on road to use slap politics as a way to “fire fight” their own anger.Where should the Aam Admi go ? To CBI or Police perhaps? Getting killed with full information to Police is just of many heinous things happening to whistleblowers today.

 

While forgiving the attacker, shall we forgive the deliberate system also ?

 

Sad! Paid media is giving a different spin to the incidence. Slap Politics as a solution is forced on a common man with no choice.Slap happiness is a spontaneous `short cut`. Arvind Kejriwal has correctly forgiven the attackers calling them as victims of the system.What Next ? Should Arvind offer his other cheek for the new slap ?

 

When a Minister is slapped,there is a debate in the Sansad and the Aam Admi is send to jail.A village Sarpanch and a leader of Akali Dal-BJP repeatedly slapped a lady teacher as shown in the past television images as she was demanding a permanent job and a contract.As usual Police present at the spot was caught on camera looking away.

 

Unequal social and economical justice is another reason for people getting angry and losing their dignity by showing  low tolerance levels. To change the situation and to see that such stories do not not break every minute we need to understand as to why there there is no limit for rich. Unlike BPL,a line which helps gauge poor and levels of poverty. There is no line to limit or to count the wealth of filthy rich.As per the media reports Lali the auto driver took Rs.500/- loan to repair his house and was  a regular borrower of money.AAP conspiracy theory becomes effective here as the attacker plan in advance knew that there will be a risk of supporter anger in the Road Show. Recent report is that auto driver Lali apologised to Arvind Kejriwal in person.

 

Only constructive participation of people, more jobs and effective laws with speed justice can stop slap politics. Till then the Government must close down the Bata, Action and other Shoe & hawai chappal making companies to overcome this challenge. For newer ways to stop slap politics ? Can the politicians and media suggest a safer route?

With politicians getting charged up with the “slap” theory it appears that soon public meetings  and Road shows shall get converted into open jails with hand cuffs to be put in common man wrists. Can this prevent the slap and its unending repercussions? What about MPs and MLAs behaviour in Parliament ? Noise and anarchy in full public gaze continues. Chairs, mike, paper weight, black pepper spray, money bundles & shoe  throwing with abuses in Parliament and Vidhan Sabha is often seen . Can we tie the hands here misusing public money and time ? Discipline must start at the bottom and maintained at the top.

 

Indians outside Delhi has globally championed Hunger and Farmer Suicides. Bad Governance = Globalisation of 1% without justified rules. Parliamentarian Nexus with fake hidden masters like Ambani-Adani continue to be the worst enemy of 99% people with no time management and no sensible law delivery in time. It fails to help bring more people to in the correct Economics. How shall it help in correcting law making process ? Law enforcing institutions like Police, CBI and Judiciary follow the orders of Parliamentarians. All these institutions need reforms. Parliament work needs a reform to ensure democracy and a correct chain of survival. If a politician is slapped then Privilege Motion taken by Parliament for combating protest is amazing. The person is put in jail. However when a common man is slapped then leaders fail to act. Police, Parliament, Politicians and judiciary all pop up excuses. Hope the post election India 2014-15 witnesses New accountable India free from Slap. Slap and pain are inseparable. After all, before birth of a new guest labour pain and bleeding is absolutely normal.

 

Varanasi Battle Line Splits Open Modi-Kejriwal Performance card

From Laathi (Baton) to tweets a man needs security with sharing followed by connectivity. Greed for short cuts and power by those who do not deserve it is delivering violence and provoking words with actions into election campaign.

Varansi is becoming noisy in the run up to decide who shall serve the people. Battlelines are visible. Varanasi contest is fast polarising between 49 days CM of Delhi-Arvind Kejriwal and Hindu heartthrob Narender Modi –Gujarat CM who counts his developments in 1825 days-5years.Varanasi is a temple city where `Goswami Tulsidas` founded the `Sankatmochan` Temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman. Tulsidas started the Ramlila folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana in the local language.

Watch the Television bytes more closely- Arvind Kejriwal folds hands- takes a dip in holy Ganga : chanting Har Har Mahadev, he does `Surya Namaskar`.Out of ganga after `holy bath` Arvind is greeted with eggs thrown by Modi supporters, With `chandan` smeared on his forehead and wearing the saffron scraf, he visits famous Sanatmochan Temple and recites `Hanuman Chalisa`. Modest yet confident with daring he waits meekly as if waiting for Varanasi people: the masters and voters to invite him to contest. Mr. Modi is vocal and appears to claim Varanasi seat as his natural right. Modi chooses to contest also from Vadodara at the cost of tax payers money. Contesting from two seats is like buying two train tickets for a single person journey. Mr. Kejriwal understands the rules of a sevak while Mr.Modi displays `naked` `Neta` authority with new `PM cloths` of development.

 

With elevation of the election fever and pressure of people, the weak leaders crack in slog overs.Let us not be silent and help collect the observations. Modi support lobby with Modi tea stalls distributing tea is like a private army that is camping with American knicker drills, black RSS caps and using Laathi as a weapon all in name of a culture to gain power.

Thanks to Modi- the BJP candidate-PM now sees AK-49(49 days of Governance) and `Pakistan agent card` instead of a Jhadoo for cleaning. Imagine a modern AK-49 firing 1000 rounds per minute replacing the ordinary Jhadoo and not even a vacuum cleaner. Do we need a Jhadoo and or a gun to remove Indian problems of Janta ? Instead of displaying his good works,the BJP PM candidate tried an old politician trick to use fear to divert attention. For hidden masters like Ambani-Adani people are now fast realising the connect and the power. Does AK-49 instead of Jhadoo (Broom election symbol) indicates some fast effective results as claimed by AAP never done before ?Even Modi demands 60 months to put his own Governance skills to `test` as he says Public has given 60 years to Congress rule.After 49 days Modi claims Arvind Kejriwal ran away whereas BJP-Congress who pulled down AAP sarkar over Lokpal are still willy wishing and running away from running Delhi Government and Delhi people have to face hike in gas and electricity prices.

 

Power via Weapons or Connecting with Peoples` Need ?

India a great land of snakes and snake charmers continues to showcase Gandhi, latthis as weapons and Violence in Politics all in the same space . We have around 270 species of snakes. Not all ooze poison to kill human except few. Majority of the snakes in agriculture field have very less poison; just enough to help them survive. Snakes work as `unpaid farm guards` to kill crop enemies like field mouse and at times frogs and lizards. The fear and inability of a person to identify a snake is what creates the confusion.  Only few type of snake that have poison to kill humans. Politicians at times are compared with snake the poisonous Copra because of their skills to convince people and later to ditch them or `poison` them to remain divided and deprived.

 

Snake charmers in India try to make their clients happy and force their snakes to drink milk; which is more then he can handle which is why  many snakes are found dead around `Nag Panchami`-religious festival where Indians try to feed snake with milk. Body of a snake cannot drink or suck any liquid and due to lungs getting choked they die. Therefore popular tradition says- Do not feed milk to a snake. Apply this tradition in politics and you find many blind supporters of leaders getting hurt or killed with no constructive work by Political Parties but only grabbing of power via Protests. Protest is a good communicating collective tool to focus on the problems but it fails to shoot the problems and solve them.

Connecting with real needs of people is essential. This is tricky- as Tulisadas who worked to make `Ramayan` easy in comman man`s empowered language was once bashed by Brahmins who feared a loss in authority due to his works. Today Brahmins in Varanasi value Tulsidas equal and at times more. It shall be interesting to see how Brahmins now in Varansi shall value KG Basin Gas Price exposure controlled by Ambani with NaMo-RaGa nexus which shall hit the pockets of all Indians due to high prices.

Political parties under the mask of culture and religion continue to  take pride in drills where Laathis and swords are extensively used. Use of such weapon and drill continue as an extra- constitutional privilege or often get weapon license under the excuse of protecting culture. A congress candidate from UP is booked and send to Jail for hate speech against Modi.

In a war and in elections if you do not know your moves, you lose. Exploiter with the powerful weapons wins and the majority voters lose. This, however, needs mobilization for correction, i. e. a process of involving people, which in turn needs connecting people towards a change using non violence as a tool with a power of dignity and Right to Work as a power tool.

Another important lesson in Varanasi ongoing contest is to check ourselves for any element of self-righteousness and tolerance. It leads to a wrong believe, `I cannot lose`. It is just an illusion. Win-Loss does not matter. What matter is the participation for betterment?

Chance to Clean Cricket & Connectivity (Supreme Court directive to Sunil Gavaskar)

Thanks to Supreme court for asking Sunil Gavaskar to take over to clean the game. Gavaskar who has the record and courage to face bouncers on the field during his cricket tenure has a strong secular moral record outside the field in Public.( It is on media records that Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar had to come out on streets to save Muslims  getting attacked in his apartment block during 2002 communal riots .) Some critiques quote Gavaskar parking illegal 15000 usd in his gym locker in year 2001, but he was honest to admit this mistake.

The tenure of Mr. Shivlal Yadav and Mr. Gavaskar, however brief like Delhi-49 days AAP Government, it shall be an opportunity to clean up the BCCI’s affairs.Like AK-49 days Sarkar it is another opportunity for Public to enjoy the game and to see how Gavaskar handles the Corruption pressures.By disclosing his honest interest in advance — that he had a contract as a commentator with the BCCI –India`s best opening batsman has got off the mark with a touch of accountability and a class. For a corruption free Cricket administration, Gavaskar needs to bring in his old field qualities — the courage to evade a barrage of bouncers, the guts to carry on without the protection of a helmet and the instinct to know where the ball shall come, where the fielder is and where his stump is.

Captain M.S. Dhoni who was tainted and nor spared was driven by obvious conflict of interest, joined the chorus before the Supreme Court-appointed Mukul Mudgal Committee that Gurunath Meiyappan was not the owner or principal of CSK, but only a cricketing enthusiast.

All stakeholders with a sportsmen spirit must accept the blame for the Cricket reaching such a shameful climax that the country’s highest court has had to intervene and make arrangements to run cricket without a taint or suspicion. The Board in the past displayed fear and doubts in implementing anti-corruption transparent measures and failed to act on the evidences of spot fixing.

Supreme Court order asking the former Indian cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar as interim head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India to manage the bad affairs of the Indian Premier League this year is cheered by players, administrators, stakeholders and fans alike. Removal of N. Srinivasan, who had refused to step down as president of the Board despite his position getting over and outdated long ago is the happy outcome. The judgement also addresses the conflict of interest between Mr. Srinivasan’s double role of a franchise and as head of the national cricket body. Court has directed that none associated with India Cements should be part of the BCCI. Two former Test cricketers — Shivlal Yadav and Sunil Gavaskar will discharge the BCCI president’s functions. Gavaskar, role will be limited to IPL operations this year. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, the two franchises who were dragged in the scandal, will stay in the tournament.

In Cricket the public pressure, transparency and participation of both rich-poor shall never allow the game to die. With right to recall the old players and Managers driven by hidden business interests shall get replaced. Millions hope Supreme Court tries to rescue and clean with same speed the hidden Cricket played by Politicians-Corporate nexus in India.BCCI  with its Member State Associations are controlled by various traditional politicians such as Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah, Rajiv Shukla, CP Joshi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Arun Jaitley, Narindra Modi, Anurag Thakur, and others who have, over the decades, have manipulating & handpicking members of their Electoral College and under the excuse of holding “honorary posts” have made Cricket as their personnel hen who lays golden eggs. Time has come when Indian cricket bodies need to be restructured in order to clean them.

Media stories are flooded with sports scam and how Indian athletics were not allowed to participate in London Olympics-2012.For more details see my article in the same columns title-STOP CORPORATE MATCH FIXING : APPLY CRICKET SWARAJ.My appeal & article in these columns is to rescue Cricket from billionaires club and bring it to the Public Domain which needs 100% attention. Need of the hour to make BCCI accountable to Public needs a pending sports bill called Khelpal.

In cricket as a popular sport thanks to transparency and collective pressure put up by rich and poor audience the score board cannot be hidden. This game still has fair rules. It remains more transparent then the `political cricket` played by billionaires in the production units and factories. During Production the score board in the factories indicating fixed audit is tempered and manipulated to ease out black money to Tax Havens.

There are still experts who say there is no `honest rules` in any form of organisation from Cricket to Politics- due to no Pressure of Public. For a safe job, safe sport ,safe terror free market, safe work, safe team, safe nation and for a safe contest a transparent sharing of all money matters and wealth distribution plan by responsible stakeholders is essential. Games hold the connecting spirit and role model of any country.

It is time to change the country holistically from Cricket to Governance.

Workers Chai-Tea in West Africa Mali getting ready to be served in a single glass …for more details read article Modi `Chai` V/s Wave less Global Tea.

Cost of Modi Tea service before Lok Sabha elections ?

Workers in Mali-W Africa getting ready with author for a tea break…for details read the article on Global tea V/s Modi Chai.

Modi Chai vs Wave less Global Tea.

During my 2006-11 visits to Republic Of Mali a French colonised West African country, I learned about Malian Chai cultural and its magic impact.

In villages all civil servants are found missing during tea time. Offices get empty. There’s no equipment, no computers, nothing – not even a chair except a 24×7  kettle outside the office waiting for the `chai walla` to pour tea in a single glass. The single glass of tea get shared by all Malians who believe sharing enhances unity and brotherhood.  

When it is impossible to work in Africa, I learned only three things work. First is the African hungry to participate and learn new skills which I saw while installing a cotton oil factory. Second is a sharing cup of African-Malian tea and third is pirated old Hindi movies dubbed in French of Mithun Charavati Bollywood (know as `Jimmy`).This is the global reach of `Chai` as you may see in picture where workers and author wait for a tea break.

Take A `Sip` from history of Chai :

Almost five thousand years ago, when people in China started sipping  beverage made from dried leaves, different regions had different names for it. Portuguese traders, claim to be the first to bring the herbal drink to Europe in the late sixteenth century, followed new names : cha, shai, choy. Same story with overland routes to Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, India and Russia resulting in the hence use of “chai” in many languages. Dutch traders, who had a control on the tea trade in Western Europe—including Spain, France, Germany and Italy—got most of their derivations on its Min Nan Chinese name: té, tèh, tey. Europe as evident exported the word “te” to their colonial regions.

Back to Na Mo :

Thanks to media discussion of the favourite `tea comment` of Modi during his past visit to Russia where he asked tea several times but he got nothing. When Modi asked for `chai` only then he got some tea.

The BJP PM candidate almost makes it sound as if the Chinese-French-Dutch-Russians all had borrowed the word “chai” from India.

Instead of getting trapped in the patriotic riddle that My hindustani Chai is better then your tea let us talk real issues.

A global city-village needs to protect against price rise and in order to function it needs jobs, wages, electricity, water, gas, banks, marketplaces, and basic government services such as the town hall and a judiciary. The NaMo Tea Stall invited you for a cup of chai but refuses to discuss the stand of prospective BJP PM-Modi on Current A/C deficit and Fiscal Deficit. Instead on each Tea stand you hear strange religious chants of Har ! Har ! Modi replacing Mahadeva(Lord Shiva). According to AAP-leader Manish Sisodia findings the Modi Model in Gujarat has fixed Rs.5200/- as `Entry` stipend for 3 years for government posts like police, doctors, IT expert, nurses. For job confirmation after 3 years huge `bribe` in Gujarat is an open secret.

Let us dump tough questions and try to enjoy Modi `wave in Chai`.

People fail to understand Na Mo Economics with Corporate `sweetheart deals`at the cost of less wages to workers.Modi has no respect for hedging and wasting taxpayer`s money Rs 70 lakh plus while contesting safe from two seats-Varnasi and Vadodara.Shall we give a benefit of doubt to Modi and stop questioning him as he messed up in the location of Takshashila -in Bihar instead of Pakistan in his recent speech ?

 

Sample a chat over tea- `Chai Pey Charcha` in Na Mo Tea Stall :BJP promoter drums a boost- “Modi Ji will solve our problems. He will attack Pakistan and shall bring `development` like he has in Gujarat. Arvind Kejriwal and Congress both are American Agents and cannot fight China or Pakistan.” An elder sipping Chai said-“Vajpayee our credible ex-PM is forgotten- he tried to settle many India-Pak roadblocks over a cup of `Chai`. Today`s generation has no consultation and  respect for elders in BJP.” Advani comment on Jinnah`s `good` works and Pak is also buried over a cup of tea. Jaswant Singh ex-Defence Minister NDA has resigned says a tea drinker.

`Settle all global problems over a cup of tea`- is a world wide trend started by elite class from 7 Race Course Road to White House . The shameful list of tea party invitees at times were Osama Bin Laden invited to White House or Bhinderwala of  Khalistan demand over tea with then PM-Indra Gandhi.

Chetan Bhagat in the recent past wrote big volumes on `Corruption and how AAP can help India grow`. Thanks to impact (over mind) of  Na Mo Tea stalls, Chetan Bhagat now takes a U-turn and become Ambani-Modi Poster boy.

Instead of addressing the root cause worker- management human relations (Maurti-Nano factory strikes) Modi is often seen showing `false carrot` to the investors based on his corrupt police control in Gujarat.Modi is found protecting only the cotton exporters and traders who want to export all cotton Lint/Fiber to China with `No Quota for textile mills`. This is done for a petty short term profit.

 

For more details readers may read my published article dated 11^th. Mar-2014 title : Politics and Shades of Chetan Bhagat.

 

As an Indian I tried my best to help Africans to replace the China tea leaves with India Tata Chai but failed. My African friends in several countries used to accept `free` tea leave packs but later followed their old tradition flavour of making tea outside the office using cheap outdated Chinese tea leaves. They refuse to call it Chinese tea and insist that their local tea preparation as the best.

My appeal to all tea lovers including Chetan Bhagat is to go and enjoy the NaMo `Tea`. Once the `Chai` is over ask the what they will do for a better India. If the stall owner fails to convince then ditch the stall by taking a `T` turn and explore serious and safe `desi` options.It is possible to have a corruption free life with `chai` and no Modi-there are alternatives.