Revolt 2014

   Revolution is not overthrowing governmental system like what happen during the French Revolution of 1789, it's awakening of the masses. We live in a democracy, and an armed revolution is not suitable for the world's biggest democracy. I'm a firm believer in the setup of 'The Constitution of India' and a supporter of a series of non-violent revolutions rather than a big revolution. Then what can be done to execute this unarmed revolutions? We need to do something in the four squares of democracy only, and a big opportunity is awaiting us.   Elections are very essential part of a democracy and a major topic of interest in India. Everyone knows the importance of the elections and the significance of the major elections of India called the General Elections i.e. Loksabha Elections.The Loksabha Elections elect the 542 Members of Parliament which runs the 1/7th of the population of the world. But, it has been observed that the voting turnouts in this most important Loksabha Elections has been below par.   The voting percentages from 1952 have been given below:

1. 1st General Election, 1952 - 61.20%
2. 2nd General Election, 1957 - 62.20%
3. 3rd General Election, 1962 - 55.42%
4. 4th General Election, 1967 - 61.33%
5. 5th General Election, 1971 - 55.29%
6. 6th General Election, 1977 - 60.49%
7. 7th General Election, 1980 - 56.92%
8. 8th General Election, 1984 - 63.56%
9. 9th General Election, 1989 -  61.95%
10. 10th General Election, 1991 - 56.93%
11. 11th General Election, 1996 - 57.94%
12. 12th General Election, 1998 - 61.97%
13. 13th General Election, 1998 - 59.99%
14. 14th General Election, 2004 - 48.74%
15. 15th General Election, 2009 - 56.66%

     The highest turnout being in 1984 General Elections is just 63.56%. In the last 15 years, it has not crossed 60%. This shows that we are not willing to walk out of our houses and vote, but expect change and development! We sit in our Mohallas and criticize the politicians but it's we only who either vote the wrong candidate or on top of that don't vote only. This has lead to creation of vote banks in slum areas where voting percentage is 100% and ignorance of middle class and high class areas where people ignore to vote and use that public holiday to hang around with friends and family. If you don't vote, you lost the right to criticize a politician. Everyone must vote. The voting percentage is 99% in Australia where it's compulsory to vote and if you miss it, then you have to submit a valid reason to the local authorities or else you have to face legal consequences. We expect that voters from Jammu and Kashmir must vote so that it can show that Kashmirs also agree that Kashmir is an integral part of India, but the rest of India forgets that they are Citizens of 'The Republic of India' and it's their duty that they must vote.    The next general elections are scheduled in March 2014 and there's already a buzz and hype over it. So much discussion going around regarding the PM candidature of various parties and future of the various alliances, but everyone knows one thing two years prior to the election that one out of three voters in India will not vote! Let's not repeat things that have been happening from 60 years. Let's step out of our house and vote. The year 2014 could be a 'Year of Revolution' for India, if every person above the age of 18 decides to vote for the right candidate in the best of his thinking without any pressure. The vote percentage could reach 95% and I'm sure the 542 candidates elected that time would be the best one's and the government formed would be the government elected by the real mandate.

- Anand Purohit

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Real stories of Indian Agriculture

• STORY OF AURANGABAD:

  We intend to see that banks assist farmers in a good way instead of the traditional moneylenders, but the condition is worse here. In order to know the reality of Agriculture of India, let’s take an example. Let’s go to the Agricultural backyard of Maharashtra, the city of Aurangabad. Industrialists from Aurangabad willing to buy new Mercedes Benz cars but short of the money required for their cars are assisted by the State Bank of India (SBI), Aurangabad Branch. Till now, 150 Mercedes Benz cars have been purchased by the industrialists from Aurangabad with a total value of Rs. 63 crores in which Rs. 44 crores were provided by SBI with an INTEREST RATE OF 7%. In the same city, farmers too are assisted by the SBI for buying tractors, but at an INTEREST RATE OF 14%. In the same city, micro financing loans are provided at an interest rate of 36%. This example shows the condition of farmers in India and the assistance there getting by banks and one of the reasons for FARMER SUICIDES.

  
  

  

• STORY OF A FARMER SUICIDE:

  1. One more example, Gajanan Ghatekar is a famer from Village Kothoda in Kelapur of  Yavatmal Distict from Maharashtra. He’s one of the farmers who cultivated cotton in his farm and lived in the ‘Farmer Suicide Belt’ of Vidharba. He didn’t got the sanctioned aid from the government and was waiting for four months and at last was ruined because of the sudden crash in cotton prices due on going stringent restriction on cotton export.
  2. Maharashtra Govt. declared relief aid of Rs.2000 to cotton farmers of Vidarbha in last December 2011  crore but till today not single paisa has been  paid to distressed farmers more over suddenly. Union Government of India on 4^th March imposed the blanket ban on cotton export. The stringent conditions of cotton export had severely affected the raw cotton rates was traded above at Rs.4200 per quintal but after the export ban brought down at Rs.3400 per quintal. This is reason to give trigger to restarting farm suicide spiral in Vidarbha
  3.  Deceased farmer Shri Gajanan Ghatekar’s suicide note:

My tractor was old, it cost me a lot for repairing. My loan account is repayments are delayed; all gold ornaments are sold off. I’m bankrupt, my crop loan is delayed. I’m helpless and very upset so committing suicide. I couldn’t get my daughter married. Please save my family. My last request to my fellow villagers is to don’t vote for corrupt people and don’t let your situation to become like me, they will ruin our nation.”

“That was last request made by Gajanan Ghatekar ,cotton farmer of  village Kothoda in Kelapur Taluka of Yavatmal district who committed suicide on 19^th April night to mounting debt of bank taken for the tractor and non-payment of installments, police has recovered the suicide note from Ghatekar’s  family members, but in last five years lot of suicides notes of cotton farmers who committed suicides alleging state driven wrong policies are recovered but administration failed to take corrective action.

- Anand Purohit

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A day in the life of an Indian Farmer

    The story takes you into the ‘Farmer Suicide Belt’ of Vidarbha from Maharashtra. A farmer from a small village from Vidarbha starts his day with prayers that it may rain as he cannot afford irrigation in his farm. He is tensed by the pressure of repayment of loans. In his village, half of the farmers have committed suicide and he too thinks that it’s the better option. His living counterparts too have been talking about the option of committing suicide as after their death; their family gets some amount of money by the State Government. He does all he can do. His wife helps him in ploughing and has been a firm support in his entire life. The farmer in his childhood never entered the gates of school as his parent’s couldn’t afford it, but he assured that her daughter went to school.         In these days, a group of college students from an urban place visited the village for their yearly educational visit and to study village life. They saw the conditions of farmers and the floating news that half of the farmers have been committed suicides. While they were having some rest under a tree one of the student addresses to the rest of his classmates regarding this, “Farmers live a simple life with no worries like paying Income Tax, Corporation Tax, etc, and still we find farmer suicides at a high rate even when the government waives loan to them. Farming if done properly can give huge profits, still farmers cry over losses in their farms? Aren’t farmers carrying a low will power that they cannot fight challenges of life?”  All of the students listening agreed to him.

        While this conversation was going around, the farmer’s daughter who just completed her matriculation was listening to the student’s address to his classmates. After he finished, the girl came in front of the students and said, "It’s easy to stand at the boundary of farming lands and comment on farmers, but in reality folks from the city have forgotten the importance of agriculture and farmers. Lal Bahudar Shastri had coined the term, ‘JAI JAWAN, JAI KISAN.’ That time the then Prime Minister knew the importance of the country’s army men and the farmers. The defense personnel got their importance and respect and at least the situation in which their families are not suffering. But, farmers who are back-bone of the nation and SILENT MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS never got that respect. You talk about loan waiver schemes, but in reality not a single penny reaches the farmers. You say that farming is a profitable business, but the Indian farmer receives just 10 to 23 percent of the price the Indian consumer pays for exactly the same produce, the difference going to losses, inefficiencies and middlemen traders. They suffer a huge loss when during floods, or in drought conditions. They cannot afford irrigation and the local village canal gets water just once in a day. 23 out of 55 billionaires in India are from Maharashtra, still my state Maharashtra ranks number 1 in number of farmer suicides. 147 farmers are committing suicide each day and 1600 farmers attempting suicide every three days. There must be a reason for all this. No one likes to leave his family in sufferings. My father is practicing farming from his childhood and still continues to do that even after all the losses he’s suffering from. 4000 farmers leave farming each day, I’m proud that at least my father doesn’t plan to quit from farming and is contributing in satisfying the nutritional requirements of the people of India."      When the girl finished her words, she was greeted with applause's from the students, but the girl popped into cheerfulness when she saw his father behind her standing with hands folded and smiling, seeming proud of his daughter. The farmer dropped the idea of suicide and decided to fight against all odds and continue with farming. There are innumerable stories like this of the Indian Farmers. What they need from us is just respect for what they are doing. And you can contribute little by visiting the villages and knowing the exact realities. Salute to the SIMPLE but IMPORTANT Indian Farmer. JAI KISAN!

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Best weapon for the hand to hold – Gun OR Pen

        The year 2012 and the couple of years to come will mark as the most important period for the Indian Democracy. The nation calls for revolution and we are opened up with two options, either to take an armed revolution like what happened in Tunisia or take a peaceful revolution like the Indian Independence Movement. Literally, every Indian has two options now; either to hold a gun in his hand or to start with a pen in his hand i.e. by his writings. Logically everyone knows that gun can lower any power that comes in front of it.

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           What goes in our mind when we think of an image of a politician? Its answer would be 90’s movie’s villain. Moreover or so the common Indian Youth has sustained himself to this fact. According to me it’s very easy to say that all politicians are corrupt sitting in college canteen while discussing politics, rather than thinking of plans to enter it. As it's said that it's easy to criticize a player while sitting on the fence on the ground instead of practically playing the game yourself.

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