What Am I

I was travelling across some areas of Telangana region to assess the energy demand and the propensity of the consumers to switch to gas...I actually took this journey to get an idea on how is the situaion beyond the city limits.. I was happy to know that atleast till a stretch of almost 100 kms away from the main city, things are actually not that bad...there are very good roads, power lines are laid out to the interiors and no where did my mobile stop receiving signals...these are acheivements that I was surprised and indeed felt happy... and now the critic in me is back to the fora.. In an area which is some 50 kms from the city, there were lot of autos plying back and forth between two small towns...we wanted to check how many autos were there and that would be they be interested to convert to CNG based systems... I inquired with some autowallas about the same and I was shocked to know that within a distance of 30 kms, there are close to 1000 autos plying every day...!!!...

One person killed in Jaitapur case...and so the total count of people killed in police firing protesting against the power plants has reached 4 in the last one year..and the number of protests huge.. Though the apparent reasons from each place, the protests hang on the same principle that no one wants a power plant in their premises.. If no one wants to have a power plant near their premises, then where should a plant be kept... Recently another power plant's public hearing got disturbed because people complained that a 240 MW imported coal based power plant will cause cancer to them and hence they do not want the power plant. Why don't people say that we do not want power and energy. Because that alone can stop the crisis.. Moreover, I was wondering what is the role of the police in these power plants and why are the firing upon citizens whom they are supposed to protect...and even the police are as ignorant and as intelligent as the normal public is...so, don't they ...

Everywhere we see, we come across this word "reforms". Manmohan singh is going slow on Reforms China has revamped its reforms Wisconsin state cut down the perks to Govt. employees as a process of reforms. Pakistan is against reforms Greece has re-invented its reforms strategy. Economies both well-developed, developing and under-developed are going ahead with reforms. What exactly is Reform? What is the end goal...? Is it to encourage capitalism? Or is it to encourage freedom? Or is it to just change the status quo ? Or does it simply mean implementing free market where every one is allowed to act for self benefit with no concern about others? Or is it to reduce the flab of Govt.? Many reforms as I have seen encourage capitalism...take any example, that seems to be the case. So, can I assume that reforms intend only capitalism? If that were to be the case, then much of the societies will crumble in these reforms...because stand alone capitalis...

why does a state with 8 crores population require 15 linguistic news channels over and above the hindi and english news channels.. it is only causing furore and not helping any purpose... Meida place a very responsible role...but the channels in AP are the ones who are creating all the ruccus... we have more than 15 news channels in Telugu...individual parties, castes and people have individual news channels conveying messages which cause more harm than any justice.. there is no regulatory body for any of this.. I don't understand why are they not being curbed... if I hit a  person, the channel owned by me justifies my act and the other channel creates agitation... what society are we living in... mass communications which is such a potent weapon is mishandled to the fullest in Andhra Pradesh. no curbs on internet is required in India yet, since it is a communication channel which people choose to use, unlike news channels in television which have huge impact... there hav...

How does it matter? they are just idols... (Famous idols demolished in Hyderabad today) idol of a person who has translated the total epic of BHagavatha into telugu, he has taught us the versses, epitome of Telugu literature...so what, if his idol is destroyed.. a king who has built the temple of tirupathi, who being a non-telugu has learnt and has developed beautiful verses in telugu, so what, if his idol is destroyed. big deal, if the idol of Mrs. Molla is destroyed..what contribution did he provide...after all she was the one who translated ramayana in sanskrit to Telugu...is that any great acheivement worth so much that she deserves a idol...big deal... so what if veersalingam pantulu's idol is destroyed..what does he mean to us...all that he does is probably remove sati..eradicate caste differences..was one of the greatest reformer...so what.. and so what if sri sri's idol is destroyed...the one who proclaimed that let me atleast shed a tear to the woes of the world...s...

The focus of my trip to this village near Rajahmundry was to understand the problems that farmers face: For the ease of assessment I classified the agricultural workers into four categories. a) A farmer who owns a land b) A farmer who doesn't own a land c) A farmer depending on cattle d) Agricultural Labour In this edition of the series, I will focus on the problems faced a), b) mentioned above. Typically people who belong to the forward caste take-up and continue to remain in farming. Many perceived lower communities have less bonding to agriculture and easily switch to other professions. (Hence as I mentioned earlier caste is a major driving force in farming community). With Govt. allotting land to all the sections of the society, the following issues remain true to each farmer independent of their caste/creed. Category Parameter Problems associated with each Parameter Commercial Aspects Revenue a)     The inherent nature of conventional a...

Apart from the well known fact that more than 100,000 farmers have died in India in the past decade alone, did you know that the.. Per capita income for a farmer from Paddy is ~Rs30,000/- per crop? Cost of capital for a farmer varies anything from 24-75% per annum? While the cost of drilling a bore is Rs40,000-50,000/-, the cost of installation of a motor and getting access for power to that motor costs another Rs1-1.5 lacs? If a person has less than one acre of land holding, he cannot even drill a bore? Much of the farming society doesn't own any farming land? Caste drives the farming activities in India? The debt write offs mentioned by Govt. impact only 10-15% of the total farming community? In spite of the wide-spread un-employment there is a dearth of labour available to a farmer? Farming as an activity has the highest attrition rates? Minimum support price offered to the farmers doesn't include the travel costs, and those costs are to be borne by the farmer hims...