Milk Shake/Shock ??

          Don’t get confused. This is not about the sweet, cold beverage which is made from milk. But, about the shocking prices of the milk unfolded by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. How can any Govt. afford to such an action -  hiking the prices of the most basic commodity for any person living in this habitat.  Regret the vote-bank politics. Why the Democracy has to suffer. Ahh ! Don’t say because its Democracy?!

I got to bring  a half-litre milk packet to my home on Monday for Rs.18/- (!!) and then while I was walking to my home, I see a baby-girl on a hunger-cry that which aggravated my pain/thought process. What could be the best food,  a mother can offer to a not so tender aged baby other than the milk she buys??

Has it not been ridiculous, we elect the 'Rulers'(the embarrassing politicians) through our own ‘well-formed’(as they say) vote-bank politics, who execute such actions giving no thought for the common man ?! Shame on our part - is what all I can sigh-out, out-of this frustration....

అండా దండా ఉండాలని, కోదండా రాముని కోరుకుంటే....

గుండే లేని మనిషల్లే నిను[మనల్ని] కొండా కోనలకోదిలేసాడా...

Gone were those days - when lactometer was used to measure the quality. We have developed such an adaptability that we compromised on the quality, quantity and even on the availability. But, it has crossed our acceptance level, there by keeping the poor and even the poorer at this stake, is all that I bother !(I din’t dare to use ‘the poorest ‘– I don't want to pls).

The prices increased look as if like a tender roll - right from Feb(Re 1/- per litre) ,April(Rs 2/ltr) till September(Rs 3/ltr) cumulative(mind-it) !!

What could be the best and all-time solution for this problem?   I cannot anyway  expect  the fall of prices, atleast amid of the bandhs/rastha-roko, keeping in view of the current state of politics as they have done this particular action at this  juncture to bag their pockets(if not my perception is wrong). Neither we keep silent. Then, what could be the best alternative? Do we have substitute for milk? Is rearing the cattle by each family an alternative?  Or shelling-out our pockets even when surplus is available  an affirmative?  Or even more like for any other controversial, do we fight for justice?

Well, when so many solutions available, we go with the most pragmatic one. Hope you’ll not deny it. And then, right now I have the following on my mind:

- Get the dairy farmers aware of the fact that the procurement prices for them is much lower

  despite a tidal hike hitting the Andhra Pradesh market

- Encourage farmer-consumer handshake. Fight for the direct outlets for farmers(raithu-

  bazar) for dairy product distribution across the state avoiding  the dealer/broker

  involvement  

                                                                  [OR]

- Reduce the consumption of milk those who can make it using the age-old formula

  Supply with no demand – a hope in reduction of prices ?? I doubt.

- Run the thoughts or more I say PAIN on the hike with a social activist(who

   truly/holistically fights for it)  - ruled out this for now

PS: Hmm, I’m on temperature(fever) and I cannot run on more ideas now. I cannot be calm either(on this shock). So, if you have any thoughts  please  do post your ideas on this thread !!

India Today says....

All of us have heard about the two Indias that exist in a single country. India and Bharat.
India is what drives the country’s high economic growth, but it is Bharat where most of the country lives.It is often believed that the bustling metro is dragged down by the backward village.

At one level this is true – particularly across social sectors like illiteracy and infant mortality. Yet these days what most of India doesn’t know is that the Bharat they rarely pay attention to, is being transformed as dramatically as the metros. Change in India these days does not merely mean the growth of malls. Its deepest impact is felt on a section of the population whose livelihood is linked to the land, whose lives depend entirely on nature and whose news usually centres on natural disasters like floods, famines and drought.

Much of the Indian village today does not look like it did a few decades ago, full of cracked earth and farmers in ragged clothes. The panchayat sarpanch carries a mobile, farmers head to work on mopeds and their children are sent abroad to study. If Kalahandi 25 years ago was once a symbol of starvation, today it is a place where there are 150 rice mills and locals run a cottage industry that manufactures washing powder. Across India, villages are growing and changing in varying degrees. In some cases, the change to innovative farming techniques like switching crops or taking up improved irrigation has given farmers a chance to alter centuries-old economic cycles.

In other cases, the use of new technology has played a key role: for example in Bardhaman in West Bengal, the only district in India to have connected every panchayat by the Internet. Or Anksapur in Andhra Pradesh, where water harvesting improved the groundwater table and farmers got a chance to buy 1,500 acres from neighbouring village for profitable cultivation. Villages have benefited from easy access to finace, the ncreasing price of rural land and social welfare schemes that increase the job opportunities and keep youth involved in the villages they grew up in. This is not to say taht poverty does not exist in rural heartlands of India but there are great changes afoot which are transforming rural lifestyles. Nevertheless, they still remain dependent on the unpredictability of nature itself.

Yet, what we are seeing is an astonishing empowerment of India’s villages due to the business of economics and the most simple of sciences in places we have never heard of: like Fatehpura-Pilvai in Gujarat, Theni in Tamilnadu or Dhekalgaon in Madhya Pradesh.

I strongly believe India’s salvation lies in modernizing its agriculture and finding employment for those who move away from the land as a result. The changing face of rural India is a welcome sign that this is happening although it still has a long way to go…before which we need a CORRECTED India and not a CORRUPTED India!!

INDIA NEEDS FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE !!

Gone were the days of saying "Agriculture is the backbone of India" and "Farmer is the backbone of the Economy". Its the need of the hour to introspect in to the situation. The Government has announced that over 1,12,000 farmers have committed suicide since 1993. Shame on our part to bear this. Farming is the less equally treated one despite it’s the only source for our fooding. Its not that the inequality is unknown or new to us. What makes the last 15 years different is the ruthlessness with which it has been engineered and the cynicism with which it has been constructed.


Albeit, the social pressure arising from widening inequality has increased in the past few years(driven by globalization and rise of capitalism), the direction of policy on farming-----central to rural India is SIMPLE in its main idea---- to take agriculture out of the farmers' hands and to put in the hands of corporation. Every move and every policy, only pushes this idea further forward. We are witnessing the largest displacement in our history. Its not happening in dam or mining project. Its happening in agriculture. And we haven't a clue yet what we will do with the millions we're busy shoving off the land. This is not done with lands and bulldozers. We are just making the farming impossible for small holders. And we create no options for those whose livelihoods we so cheerfully destroy.In other words,many move to a status that is neither a farmer nor a worker(a pathetic situation to be keenly observed).


India, the peoples' country was supposed to run on two wheels…one is the FARMER and the other is the SOLDIER. After all, this is not the voice of one, not mine. It’s the slogan of the thousands or for that matter the millions of Indians…"JAI JAWAN, JAI KISAN". If the thousands of the educated( the so called skilled) are unable to answer the problems of a day or two days rain or the Government does not give scope to such discussions what about the fate of the person(who thinks that all his survival/future is in our hands) standing before us begging for the recovery….come on he is doing not just for his sake but for the whole country(you can feel it only if you dig in deep). Above all, I want to put a question...."HOW MANY OF YOU EVER THOUGHT OF A FARMER WHILE/AFTER TAKING YOUR FOOD? HOW MANY OF YOU SHOW YOUR CONCERN ATLEAST BY SAYING "ANNADATA SUKHIBHAVA"?" This seems to be foolish/ridiculous as you read .But, if you can think …I'm telling, if you can polish your thoughts, you'll come to know that from those mere words one could bring "the has to DOs" for a farmer on someday(possibly in the near future*).


Hours in the assembly sessions are being consumed for estimating each others' wealth…. Many of the sessions were passed by, some without questioning the issues regarding water, agriculture, irrigation projects , financial sector, inflation at full-length and in-depth(here I mean whatever they asked, the way was not so pestering that the ruling party has just ruled it off) and some of-course were gently ignored without giving a minimal solution/ answer. Though I couldn't ask for debate in such assembly meetings, but no doubt I can question for atleast a discussion that is to be held in the so called "SESSIONS".
Though we all know that we have to learn from mistakes, failures inorder to succeed….. there are umpteen instances wherein our state failed to do that, due to which the dream of turning it into GOLDEN LAND has now become a nightmare. When 1000s of acres of ground nut plantation(that are to be reaped the next day) was lost due to heavy rains, when all the fish lakes in and around Vijayawada(as I remember) were bombed for the sake of other projects(that are incomplete till now), when killings are observed in similar manner in the vicinity of same place for the same reasons, when prices are hiking day by day and so forth….where is the place for a comman man for his survival??Or more particularly "the life of a farmer??" You may get the doubt why I'm more stressing on the farmer…Yes!?


Yeah…..FARMER he is the one soul on earth who does not look for his profits !!
The whole day he sweats for the sake of the Nation….though he thinks he gets some bucks....mind you in our terms, "he is just hoping for that"(as we know his salary is completely based on the probability)…and at the end of the day he simply sleeps keeping his legs into stomach….I mean with an empty stomach. [These are not simple words…but are statements after doing a survey in my Grandmother's Village].
Then, our immediate thought is …why doesn't he leave such a job in which his salary is always a probable one??Isn't it?…yes….even I questioned it…the answer was…."Dear, see its our conventional job….had done by my ancestors….have been doing by us….will be done by our sons & daughters, though we have dark side of it(no enough money out of it)…..we always look at the other side …"the satisfaction we get" …this is not a mere job but the responsibility handed over by my forefathers to us and moreover it is the other way of serving the Nation(the motherland) with food" !!! Amazing answer, a very generous reply. But, what about those who are weak-heartened and are attempting for suicides? Lets not let this happen further. If we keep a hard and fast rule that the persons who work hard should enjoy the fruits of it, then its not impossible to keep them happy. Thence, India needs focus on Agriculture in general and on FARMER in particular!!


* If there are persons who can spare a few minutes to hear and solve their problems.

Who is the Player?...Who is the Umpire?

Have you ever got a question of this sort?
Why it pinged me.....want to know?Then go through this.........

Why do you buy a particular pen?Because you think it writes well!
Why do you put on switch when you want air or light?
Because you know only then it works!!
Why don't you take more and more sweets/food at a time?
Because you know that you will become fatter (it would cause a problem later)!!
In all the above cases (of-course very simple stances) you anticipated the result knowingly or unknowingly...right!?

Then, why people say that what Lord Krishna in his revelation told "keep your effort,don't think about the result" as the sole SUCCESS mantra?
Will it be really possible.....!? For one or the other reason, we anticipate the result before enacting.In other words, we can't make effort without thinking about the result....for that matter, the concept of "DREAMS" is the euphemism for this...is it not?? Now, with enough reasoning I think I have got a right to think about the result.
At this point of time,with many experiences, I would like to question....."why the result is not always proportional to effort?"...(atleast in my perspective....as according to my observations and/or experiences.)
Basically, I'm ineterested to know if there are any metrics for this.Can't we measure effort?How come,an immeasurable quantity(effort) is giving a 100% measurable quantity(result)...
Ok! If there is no metric, is there any boundary atleast?
To find an answer for this is difficult though not impossible ...!!
Because,we know that effort is nothing but trying to learn/acquire/do something.
Learning is the movement from moment to moment.And, it goes on and on till the last breath.But, till then if the umpire(say The Almighty) waits to evaluate the effort(in his own metrics) who will enjoy its results(/consequences).
Seems to be wierd!!?? But, think on this....it will not be so..(atleast to me)
Why because, I am a person who doesn't care on the short term inputs/outputs.
I count my efforts on a long-term basis.
According to me,if you are a farmer, you should eat the fruit, or tell whether the field yields good crop or not,or perhaps you are the person who monitor the lands yield......Then why not the same case over here.Why should our effort be evaluated by some others when we are intelligent enough to count our bucks.
So, if I make an effort, I am the person who can award/reward it or can collapse it.....But, not my fate!
And hence what is that I want to put before you is.....
" If you are an intelligent Player,then it is you and no other will be the Umpire " !!