Remove your glasses first

As mentioned in my last blog, today I went to Jantar Mantar.I had been to Jantar Mantar numerous times before but this time it was different.For the first time in my life I was going to that place to register my presence in protest to a national cause.It was only after reaching there and standing for first 30 minutes that I felt that I went there for a personal cause rather than a national or international one. I found my self there standing and listening to the way every one around was expressing himself or herself. There were mainly two forums , one of which was totally political and the other one was totally emotional. Rationality was still missing. Everyone was whole heartedly blaming the police,the government, the system, the laws and even the public which did not extend support in time to the victims. I started to feel that everyone was looking at the case through their own perspective and through their own glasses of politics, emotionality, hatred, excitement, consciousness, insecurity but hardly anyone was rational. It was a big hue and cry over the spilt milk but no-one was having a clarity on vision on what is to be done next. There were suggestions about being pro active in such situations arising in future or creating a social police which may act at an interface of public versus the existing Police. A couple of rational thought also appeared when someone shared his inclusive view on everyone around in society in all possible roles and status. He said that police or a leader is no more different from us. If we are indifferent to such incidents then we can not expect them to behave differently. After spending around two hours I started my journey back to my home. While in the Metro a lot of things were coming to my mind. Suddenly I realized that almost every one I heard was speaking by looking at the incident through his own glasses. No one was finding himself actually responsible to what all has happened.Everyone was trying to prove in his own might that he is really making a great contribution by facing the police , water cannon or even spending their time in such a chilly weather at jantar mantar. Reality remains that we all are a part of the police, the public and the government. Till we start looking at this incident by removing our glasses then we may find that it is us only who is responsible for this all. The police is secondary , even the people who have ignored the victim on the road should be treated as a primary accuse. Even ourselves who have been so silently watching eve teasing or any indecency with the females around us for whole of our life are equally responsible. This incident is not the first of a kind.It is a bursting at the tipping point.We should be thankful to the youth of the country to have taken such an initiative without any face of leadership.I feel that today is not the time to change the world outside rather it is a moment to go inside and change the way we behave against all the atrocities happening against woman and even children. Let us open forums at all places and even within our houses. Let everyone talk about it and become responsible to react appropriately at all the places where such incidents are taking place. Let us all talk about it and look for all possible solutions which are far beyond all laws and policies. Even laws have also limitation to support those who are aware of their own rights. Let us make our country and the world a place where instead of preaching dos and don'ts to the females, we give them a free environment where they could feel safe and secure. Let us all remove our glasses of self praise and looking good and not looking bad image. Let us all feel and realize the contribution which we have offered in happening of this historic incident.

The chance of making a choice

Day before yesterday I got a once in five years( if everything goes fine) chance to make my choice for the parliament from my constituency. It happened for the first time that Clause 49 (o) was publicised freely and even few newpaper also talked about it. The clause gives you a right to reject all the candidates if they are not worthy enough(which is a general perception about the candidates). I still went to the polling booth around 3 PM with an inquisitiveness about the clause as mentioned above. Howevere after entering the booth and looking at the list I found one of the name appearing above the party name . The moment of truth was entirely different from what I expected it to be. While pressing the button of EVM, neither I thought about the local problems nor the national issues but I only made the decision on the basis of whether the candidate is accesible or not.

This action validated my firm belive in thory of constraints. I feel that access is a major constraint to the effectiveness of any candidate. Most of the time due to the perosnality clout of the candidate or his dubious image become responsible for him getting accesible to a common man. All the parties thus to begin with consider the constraint of accessibility associated with a candidate while giving ticket to him. Most of the times the parties consider all the factors related to cast and creed which is another constaint to accessibility but I feel that analysis should go beyond the limits of caste and also look into other effectivenss parameters which are consideed in corporate world for establishing leadership qualities in a candidate. The more appropriate criteria could be education, communication, vintage of the candidate in the constituency, the character of the person and his behaviour with his family and business partners, nature of business, past performances, followership(casteless) and above all his willingness to serve and not to be served.