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It's pertinent to examine if there is any relationship between spread and control of disease like COVID19 & democracy. On its face this question appears to be wastage as it's perceived it's administration and not form of the govt which efficiency matters in such cases. That's why it's argued that on the one hand the robust democracy of the US failed to contain the disease and on the other hand smaller South Korea could manage the things more effectively. On the one hand totalitarian China , as per it's governmental data tell us could be ruthless against the disease whereas Russia slipped. These very examples do establish the notion that form of government is irrelevant in dealing with the disease. Rather it's a test of the public and health administration which are actually dealing with the COVID19 crisis.            But in reality this notion has its own limitations as this notion is based on two presumptions which are inherently false-     ...

Marginalization of weaker sections started getting strength from 90s globally with the triumph of capitalism and market driven social order and in the year 2020 the process seems to complete one full cycle. The advent of phrases like "SOCIAL DISTANCING" "LOCKDOWN"  "QUARANTINE" has established the supermacy of chaotic social order where only affluents and those who have control over and access to the resources can survive and those standing at the other end have to toil and to pay price for continuous failures of the power enjoying class. Although migrants(although it's also a misplaced word for workers of the same country) march to their homeland may be a catastrophical scene in India only it highlights the original character of the class of powerful. The governments have already shunned  the decorative exhibition of sympathy which is evident from each and every step they are taking. When the Prime Minister who is supposed to be Prime Minister of the ...

In the time of COVID 19 We have been witnessing so many changes and innovations and one of them is the forced realization of need of use of online teaching-learning process. Although it is present here for long time and many European and American institutions have been serving for a long here in India where it is  also present for quite some time in form of NPTEL, IGNOU, SWAYAM, SWAYAMPRABHA, ePATHSHALA and so on it is only recently the Govt and private actors have started pushing this  as an alternative source of education . In india the main actor is the Govt itself though there have been innumerable youtube videos and channels imparting online learning but no weightage has so far been  given to them. So naturally the question arises what prompted the actors to be active suddenly.      First is the COVID, which forced  the closure of institutes for a long time bringing class/institute study at complete halt. So latent media  of virtual classes ,...

A lot has been being  discussed to mitigate the effect of COVID 19 including that of economic packages, adoption of virtual technology in all walks of life, a large scale relief work and intensive vaccine development projects. Governments and even business tycoons are pouring money to achieve these. Besides these politics of finding culprits of Corona is also in full swing trying to push China to a defensive corner. At the same time societies all over are facing their covert and covert vices like communal hatred, racial hatred, class hatred and so on. Media are using every second of watch in explaining all these. But in the midst of all these we as common people are failing to understand why our robust health care infrastructure, although it is poor in many countries could be fractured and ruptured so easily in the time of pandemic . Barring a few exceptions no one dare to discuss this very basic issue. Even WHO , the chief strategist in the field of health has deliberately ignored...

सत्य , विशेषकर अरुचिकर सत्य से बचने का एक तरीका है कि सत्य की ब्रांडिंग कर दी जाए, यानी उसे एक वर्ग/समूह/व्यक्ति विशेष से टैग कर उस वर्ग/समूह/व्यक्ति की भर्त्सना प्रारम्भ कर दी जाए, सत्य की भर्त्सना स्वतः हुई मान ली जाएगी। ये तरीका इसलिए भी बहुत कारगर है क्योंकि इसमें बुद्धिजीवी वर्ग को विशेष सुविधा मिल जाती है और जो वर्ग कम जागरूक है उस सत्य के प्रति उसे भी आसानी से विश्वास दिलाया जा सकता है कि ये तथ्य असत्य है क्योंकि ये तथ्य फलाना कह रहा है। #फ़ेकिंग ऑफ ट्रुथ# की इससे सरल प्रक्रिया क्या हो सकती है, साँप भी मर गया लाठी भी नहीं टूटी।।आप भी समझ गए कि वो सब झूठ है जो स्पष्ट है और सिर्फ इसलिए झूठ है कि क्योंकि  उसको कहने , बताने वाला आपकी नजर में , आपकी मान्यताओं में गलत है या संदिग्ध है या विरोधी है। आज के इंफोडेमिक के समय में ये कितना आसान है! आज से पहले सूचनाओं की इतनी तीव्र गति से बढ़ती भीड़ नहीं हुआ करती थी। तब आपके पास समय था कि आप सूचना को तौलें, सूचनादाता को नहीं। आज आपने अधिक से अधिक सूचना पाने की होड़ में समझने जानने की उस प्रक्रिया को ही उलट दिया है। ऐसी स्थिति में सर्वाधिक नु...

विकास के कई मॉडल हो सकते हैं, उन मॉडलों में लक्ष्य की प्राप्ति यानी विकास को सुनिश्चित करने के कई सिद्धान्त हो सकते हैं। यदि हम खुद को सिर्फ औद्योगिक विकास तक ही सीमित रखें तब भी न तो मॉडलों और न हीं सिद्धान्तों की कोई कमी है। इन सब के बाउजूद कुछ मूलभूत कारक ऐसे है जो किसी भी विकास के प्राणवायु होते हैं , जिनपर चर्चा , चाहे संक्षिप्त ही सही आवश्यक है।             आत्मनिर्भरता की अवधारणा न तो नई है न ही पुरातन। वस्तुतः विकास की अवधारणा में ही आत्मनिर्भरता एक अनिवार्य तत्व की रूप में उपस्थित होता है। जब भी विकास होगा, वो कुछ न कुछ आत्मनिर्भर करेगा ही और जब आत्मनिर्भरता की प्राप्ति का प्रयास होगा तो वो बिना विकास के प्राप्त ही नहीं हो सकेगा।       अब लौटते हैं विकास के अनिवार्य कारक की तरफ। किसी भी विकास के लिए आवश्यक है, बल्कि कहें कि अनिवार्य है कि विकास की प्रक्रिया में लगे जीवित पूँजी यानी मानव श्रम जो बौद्धिक भी होगा और शारीरिक भी वो सक्षम हो और उसकी सक्षमता के लिए पोषक तत्वों के साथ साथ उसका स्किल भी काल और स्थान के अनुसार उन्नत हो। बिना उ...

Good days are ahead! Strong govts , as the popular perception demands are coming. What's strong govt? No one knows , but popular perception is that most of the people-common man wants strong govt. Hmm... See, now strong days are coming. COVID 19 has provided the chance. Even weak govts are posing to be strong although neither political scientists, nor politicians dare to explain the meaning of strong govt. We heard, military is strong, economy is strong, but is the polity also strong? Is the govt also strong? As a curious observer I understand in democracies govt of the day represents majority of population. So every govt, be of single party or of a coalition must be strong as it has mandate of majority. Principle of Distribution of power suggests when govt, and here govt means executive govt has more power that means population has less power as power tends to rule and more power tends to rule more which necessitates the existence of less powerful subject. This means in the days o...

COVID19 is here to stay for long. And we  as  the world community have to learn to live with the COVID19. Sooner we learn better will be life. World can't be hold on for infinite time. Lockdown has to go one day. But societies with their all facets will never be the same. They will have to change. That old Darwinian Theory of STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE & SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST  is again at the full swing.        COVID19 has shown us many existing systems, habits, beliefs and practices have to be given up and new ways have to be accepted. Only by this we as a human being can win this struggle for existence. But before going for a new world order with new value systems we have to closely scrutinize what have gone wrong with us. The pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of our systems of politics, economic models, technological progrsses, social institutions and health infrastructure. All have been shaken to their core. In our fast paced movement in all t...