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Pheeeeewwwwww….after a project-ridden week it feels so great that the trash was at last over. And now it’s time for some seriousness and more importantly awareness. Have you ever thought of the exact cost of funding of our elections? Have you ever thought of the exact penalty that we the common people, we the tax payers are being penalized with? If not, then I can assure you that this is THE blogpost for you and if you really know it, then I can bet all my chips that the below mentioned findings will be completely unfamiliar for you and it would definitely be a value- addition for all my learned readers.

Before going into the cost of funding our elections let us first analyse the cost of elections that US citizens has to pay. After understanding this it would be easy for us to juxtapose both the democratic country’s cost of elections.

In 2012, $6.2 billion was spent by the US candidates including the presidential candidates. Now, if we convert this into rupee terms into then it would somewhat amount to Rs. 35,000 crore. USA has about 300 million people, two political parties, high level of literacy, two main languages and a very easy mode of communication. (Source: Google)

India, on the other hand has 1.2 billion people, a very complex electoral structure with 40 political parties, 22 languages and higher barriers to communication. (Source: Google)

According to data available, a Senate seat in USA costs about $10 million to contest, and this now provides a good benchmark to deal with evaluating the cost that we the tax payer have to pay for the elections.

 India has 543 Parliamentary seats and each parliamentary seat represents on an average more than 2.2 million people. If we were to assume the same figure of $10 million per seat then it would convert to about Rs. 55 crore per seat. Whoaaaa!!! If you think that this figure is astronomically high then you are in shadows because something gargantuan is coming up next.

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Now these rudderless political parties carry out lots of gimmicks to reach out to people such as mentally taxing advertisements which says HAR HAATH SHAKTI HAR HAATH TARRAKKI…and ideally yeah they are very correct in saying so as they have used their hands (HAATH) cunningly, abusing their authority (SHAKTI) for their mutual benefits (TARRAKKI) and not for the alleviating the lives of the you and me but emasculating our economy, our country our society.

They also put up ostentatious hoardings, engage party workers, organise rallies, transport people to rallies, print brochures, send out letters and the like. BJP alone is planning to spend around Rs. 400 crores for their advertisement campaign.

• ·        Now, if we assume that a cheapo Valentine’s Day card costs about Rs. 50 and a very very low priced and low quality printed brochure will cost around Rs. 5 per brochure then it would not be unreasonable to assume that each party spends about Rs. 80 to reach one person.
• ·  If there are three serious political parties per constituency then collectively they spend around Rs. 240 per person per constituency. Therefore this would roughly add upto Rs. 50 crores only (22,000,000*240= Rs. 52.80 crores) per parliamentary seat.

Earlier I had estimated an amount of Rs. 55 crores and the above calculation also comes close to that statistic. Even you would agree that I am very lenient in making these calculations☻. Now given the 543 seats in the Lower House, the Lok Sabha elections would cost us around Rs. 30,000 crores only (543* 55 crores= Rs. 29865 crores).

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Coming to Vidhan Sabha Elections, there are around 4,120 state assembly seats in India. Every MLA has to serve around 300,000 people and if we use the same calculations then the amount would come upto Rs. 7.5 crores per Vidhan Sabha seat (300000*240= Rs. 7.2 crores). So the Vidhan Sabha elections cost us another Rs. 30000 crores only (4120*7.2= 29664 crores).

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Now coming to the Municipal Corporations, there are about 100,000 Municipal Corporations seats in India. If we assume that every political party collectively spends around Rs. 1 crore per seat then the Municipal Elections would cost us Rs. 100,000 crores only. Now, people may argue that this is an overestimate as there are many small cities in India and therefore we can reduce that number to Rs. 50,000 crores only which is also very reprehensible.

Therefore summing up the entire amount we can see that elections alone cost us between Rs. 100,000 crore & Rs. 160,000 crores every five years.

You would be nonplussed to know that these calculations don’t include:

• ·        The cost of running a political party
• ·        The administrative cost of putting up hoardings, and
• ·        The sum of money paid to party workers for their chamcha-giri.

It’s very difficult to estimate the round-about figures but we can incontrovertibly assume a figure of Rs. 40,000 crores every year. Therefore on an average a figure of Rs. 175,000 crore to Rs. 200,000 crores can be easily assumed to be the cost that the middle class are paying for the elections

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If we take the three year financial statements of the political parties’ upto 2010, then we will observe that all political parties show an income of less than Rs. 1,200 crores, and most of which, unsurprisingly comes from donations. Here arises the most intriguing question- From where do you fund your outlandish election campaigns when you show a solitary income of Rs. 1200 crores only.

This is where corruption breeds its deadly fangs. This income-expenditure gap is plugged by the scams such as:

1. ·        2G spectrum scam (Rs. 170,000 crores)
2. ·        Goa Mining Scam (Rs. 35,000 crores)
3. ·        Defence Contracts (Tatra Trucks Scam- Rs. 750 crores)

There is plethora of such scams for which our impudent and obdurate politicians deserved to be horse-whipped for cozening away with the hard earned money of middle class people. These wilful acts had shamed each and every citizen with the obvious exception of our politicians.

So, if you think that I am comparing our politician to donkeys then you are terribly unfair especially to the donkeys☺☺☺

It’s high time that we open our eyes, act and use our franchise (right to vote) in the most judicious manner. I am not favouring any kind of political party but we surely need a pro-reform government and a government who dares to form a blueprint to expunge the established forms of corruption.

As the famous five star add says: ‘Masterji, pitaji ki patloon ek bilang choti kar do’ similarly we need a government who can most probably first curb corruption and then say that ‘humne desh ki corruption ki ek bilang choti kar di’.

We surely need a this type of Gandhiji (as depicted in the pic) in each of one of us which can form a deadly combination of both truth and a bit☺ of boldness.

You can do your bit to stop corruption by sharing this blogpost by pressing the share button below the post among the other Indians and spread it so much that each and every one of us knows the cost that we are apparently incurring for breeding corruption. Spread it so much that each and every one of us cast our vote in a righteous fashion to stop the unchaste luminaries from perpetrating any kind of profanity.

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DoEs-CoLouR-ReAllY-maTteRs???

Oh really? Does it really matter? Does colour play a role in our lives? Well we will certainly find it out…If oranges were to be green would it still be called an orange???It doesn't matter what the colour of the fruit is but what really matters is the pulp from inside. What matters is the taste of the fruit and not the look of the fruit. What matters is the sweetness of the pulp and not the appearance of the fruit. We will appreciate the fruit only if it tastes good rather than it looks good. We will get value for our money only when the pulp of the fruit could fill our hearts with its sweetness and we can probably say, ‘Dil garden garden ho gaya’☺. But if we buy the fruit just because it looks good then it might happen that the curve of marginal utility will dip faster than AAP’s popularity☻

I think now you can visualize the path and direction of our discussion.
We should try to ameliorate our inner values, our soul, our heart because our body has evolved from dust and one day, inevitably, it will turn into dust but our heart our soul will remain immortal and people will remember us for our values, for our actions, for our deeds and not for our appearances. Even you will agree that people remember Mother Teresa more than any other actress. She is worshiped for her sanguine behaviour, for her kindness shown towards people suffering from leprosy. And at a time when others refused to touch those people she hugged them, treated them and acted as a benefactor for them.

So what is the point in striving and dying to have a 36” 24” 36”☻/ six pack abs cursing your body, inflicting  pain upon it by following a strict and stringent diet- having boiled food and God knows what not… Wait a sec; I am not propagating to have an appearance which can even give inferiority complex to a Sonakshi Sinha☻… but what I am telling is to embrace humanity so that we can subliminally influence the lives of other people and be immortal in the pages of History just as Mother Teresa did and is remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize awardee in 1979.

And for all you girls out there, you are beautiful, you are gorgeous, you are amazing, you are inspiring, you are charming JUST THE WAY YOU ARE and the not the way you try to copy others because you cannot be the best copycat but what you can be is the best you, the best yourself, so BE YOURSELF. Le de ke mallik ne yeh Nazar hi toh di hai toh phir kyun dekhe duniya, kisi or ki Nazar se.

Let me tell you one thing we never like the actual FB profile-holder, but we like their FB profile pic (courtesy: Photoshops)☻. There is never a direct relationship between the FB profile pic and the actual person. A girl who looks like a Johny Lever ☻after doing all the trivial editing in various atrocious photo editing apps becomes a cheap version of Rakhi Sawant☺ thinking that she can impress people. Yes you do impress a lot of them but don’t seek demand, seek respect because if you seek demand then it may last for a minute, for an hour, for a day or for a fortnight but if you seek respect, however, it will last forever. Yet we love Johny Lever because he is more of humour and less of rumour unlike Rakhi Sawant. I think you can comprehend what I am trying to explain. Remember one thing: demand is always inversely proportional to price.

And just as it is considered a prudent practice to emphasize on substance over form principle while evaluating various events and transactions to maximize shareholder’s wealth similarly we should relentlessly focus on alleviating the substance (inner values) rather than form(outer appearance) so that we can leave ineradicable impressions in the hearts of people.

Therefore, even if oranges were to be green it would definitely be called an orange. Therefore on this auspicious occasion of Holi, hope that we all become as vibrant as the colours are. Play safe folks!!!

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I have pen down this blogpost with immense emotions in my heart. Please empathize with me and try to read with love and joy in your heart.

Since the barbarous and vicious rape of the 23 year old in Delhi, there have been irresponsible comments galore from luminaries across the party lines in India. Our impudent, impertinent and shameless politicians had whole-heartedly showcased their prudence in presenting pathetic advises to combat rape in democratic INDIA. And if their nonchalant advises is to be followed or paid attention to, then according to them:

You all, the women of INDIA should be flocked like cattles into the villages of BHARAT (and not INDIA) where rape is unheard of, you all should be illiterate, you all should not venture out for work, you all should only serve the male members of the society while being covered from top-to-toe and following this would certainly make you all, the women of India, rape-proof.

Don’t you all feel infuriated by these kinds of comments? Don’t you all want to express yourself and show to the entire world what you all are capable of and how great you are? Don’t you want to contribute to parameters of growth of our country and ameliorate your lives? Don’t you want to a give the male dominated patriarch society a run for their money? Even I know that there is a caged bird inside all of you who wants to fly free and express to fullest of its potential…so what are you waiting for?

Don’t bank upon someone in this nasty world to rescue you because it doesn’t take time for sanguine people to turn into a sanguinary. The only person on whom you can count upon even in the middle of the night is you, you and only you. So get up and act and show to the entire INDIA (not BHARAT) that you all are also born with a purpose and this purpose has given you the freedom to go out in the middle and compete with this patriarchal society and there is no one exactly no one who can stymie your endeavor to be someone who you want to be.

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There have been numerous developments to counter-attack the reprehensible and condemnable attacks on women like the passing of Anti-Rape Bill, setting aside a corpus of `1000 crore in the name of Nirbhaya Fund in 2013-14 Union Budget and fast track courts but due to lackadaisical approach by the government in dealing in such heinous crimes there has been a colossal gap between formulating a plan and implementing it and the below mentioned facts most emphatically substantiates our government’s lack of zeal to deal with sensitive issues:

•  As per data available till October 2013, number of reported cases of rape went up by 125% as compared to 2012.
• 1330 cases of rape were reported till October 2013 against 590 in 2012.
• Molestation complaints till October 2013 increased by 291% as compared to 2012.So what is to be done?

1.   First of all we need to address the core issues and go into the root causes. Education can be a way to stop these crimes in the upcoming years. Introducing a paper in the grass root level i.e. in schools and not in colleges aimed to sensitize students to sexual harassment and discrimination based on caste, creed, religion and social background can be one way to look at things differently.

2.     A vast range of editing needs to be done in the various textbooks of class 1-7 students because most of them portray that men go out to work for a living and women stay back in home looking after the children. They should incorporate examples of Indra Nooyi (CEO, PepsiCo), Chanda Kochhar (CEO & MD, ICICI Bank), Meira Kumar (Speaker, Lok Sabha) and various such impeccable personalities.

3.     It’s high time that the protestors start looking inwards into our own value system into our own houses and in the way we treat women in our midst. The traditional culture that portrays women as the objects of male desire should be abolished at the first instance available.

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ü According to James Flynn, a world renowned authority on IQ tests, who came out with certain results on IQ tests on 15^th June, 2012 reported that women are smarter than men and they scored 5 points higher than men in a scale of 100 points for the first time in 100 years (since the inception of IQ tests).

Don’t you want to be someone like a Barkha Dutt (Journalist, NDTV) or someone like a Kiran Bedi (first women IPS officer) or someone like a Saina Nehwal (first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at London Olympics?). There are innumerable such examples. But it is upto you to act!

Can you accept the fact to keep serving the male members of the society and act at their behest??? No…Right? Time is yours…grab it…

India needs you all badly and urgently because growth cannot be achieved unless the whole of India without gender biasness work in one place in harmony, peace and serenity.

Today I want to ask just one simple question to the Prime Minister of my country. CAN INDIA REALLY PROGRESS WHEN 50% OF THE POPULATION IS BOLTED UP IN THE NAME OF SAFETY?

I would ardently and humbly request you to act and spread this IDEA to such an extent that even Mr. Manmohan Singh who has perfected the art of not speaking does listen to this and in his last two months or so of his Prime Ministerial tenure do something for the women of INDIA so that he can leave indelible impressions in the minds of all the entire nation and most probably resign as a decisive and a strong person as he was known to be during his tenure as Finance Minister of INDIA in 1991 who was instrumental in taking INDIA out of crisis.

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Hiii everyone!!! I am back but this time with a humorous blog which is a figment of my imagination, and not on the current issues. It would definitely rekindle the energy in your hearts and minds after your day’s hard work.

I would recommend you to read only at your leisure.

I was due to write on the topic “Effects of US tapering on Emerging Financial Markets” but as I was analysing the data and statistics on tapering (which means ‘to reduce’ or ‘to lessen’) something kept striking my mind repeatedly, its frequency increased rather than ‘tapering’☺ and that was Love♥. So I decided to write on it without giving a second thought.

And the story goes like this…

I saw a girl in my tuition centre and the moment I observed her ‘Kuch Kuch Hone Laga’. She was very beautiful, gorgeous, charming and it seemed as if the entire world was covered with her divine beauty and each and every girl sitting out there resembled her.☺

 I was never a believer of ‘Love at First Sight’ but the instance I saw her, I started humming the song, ‘Ek Nazar Mein Bhi Pyaar Hota Hai’, which obviously proved me wrong and I knew it immediately that ‘She was the One for me’.

Initially I was very much diffident to approach, talk to her and know her name but I recited Hanuman Chalisa gathered strength and suddenly started feeling like a Rahul Gandhi who, God knows from where, gathered courage to frankly speak with the unstoppable force Arnab Goswami in a kindergarten interview☺, but as soon as I was going towards her, than a good friend of mine named Nikhil caught hold of me and suggested to awaken the feelings of SRK within otherwise all my dreams of getting her into my life will be decimated just as Sunny Deol ( you guessed it wrong its ‘Deol’ and not ‘Leone’☻) decimates the enemies in his movies.

Now, the SRK within was aroused, raring to go with my hands out-stretched and I energetically but softly asked ‘Can we be friends’. She, much to the amazement of my friends☻, replied enthusiastically, ‘Obviously why not’.

I was not at all surprised at her reply given the Glamour Quotient that I possess☺. At this point of time I was feeling like a Narendra Modi being anointed as the PM of India.

Now let us turn the wheel of Time and go 3 months forward into the time when we from just friends became two good friends. We were roaming in Elliot Park near Maidan in Kolkata. Hold on, we were not doing any mischievous thing that many are expected to do at Elliot Park☺.

Given the scenic beauty and greenery all around the park, I thought that this would be a perfect setting to express my feelings and I without thinking too much and kicking the MMS (ManMohan Singh) out of me…

Proposing Her...

I went down upon my knees and expressed all my feelings to my Lady Love♥♥♥. I spoke everything with love and affection in my heart and nowhere else in my body (pun intended) ☻. I was literally palpitating when I was on my knees, my heart was throbbing faster than boys pressing ‘Like’ in Sunny Leone’s page, hope that you can empathise with me. But some way or the other I brought down all my involuntary activities of my body to normal so that I can whole heartedly swing the mood of my ‘to-be-girlfriend’♀, Natasha.

At last, I spoke, when it seemed as if someone has used Fevi-Stick in my mouth. I told her the following lines:

Me: You know what Natasha...

Natasha: What? While curling her hairs...☺

M: I feel in Heaven when I look into your eyes...

N: Oh really...

M: Yes my courteous sweet- heart,

Your lovely smile is a pain killer for me; the joyous smile of yours is a spell binding sight for me...your sweet wholesome smile has improved me unknowingly...you have illuminated my life just as every single star in the constellation enlightens the universe... 

(And I continued without fumbling since I knew that the SRK within was gone and there was no heyyyyyyy heyyyyyyy kinda stuff which persisted earlier, sorry SRK fans☺).

She looked over-awed, and I continued,

The over-abundance of your innumerable sketches in my mind has made me experience the unnatural love...I aspire to be your man...your absence sends me into mental agitation...

I promise you Natasha, I will care for you just as a kangaroo cares for its off-springs...Please please please accept me as I am struggling to capture the heart of the Goddess of Beauty that is you, Natasha♥, you and only you (no matter how many seemed as Goddess of Beauty to me in the past☻)

She awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwed, (Now, let me share an insight friends- just as cats mew, dogs bark, girls awwwwwwwwwwwwww) and she said that was cheesy lines, friend

Now folks, at this point of time, one of two things can happen which are self-explanatory and can be enumerated as either she can accept my proposal or rejects my proposal

Contrary to what you might have been thinking, even after proposing her so enthusiastically, she asked me one stupid question which at point of time seemed completely out of no-where which most emphatically substantiated the fact that girls don’t have something up there↑...

N: Do you really love me?

And when I heard this it seemed as if the sky has fallen upon my head but understanding the sensitivity of the situation and coming back to normal, in a canter,  I replied-

M: Yes Natasha, I really love you from the bottom of my heart and for you my heart is bottom-less♥♥♥

She kicked my a** and she told that she couldn't feel the Love in my expressions; she couldn’t feel the pain that I can bear for her; she couldn't feel the affection in my eyes…

And after hearing all this, my mental state was such that even the noodles that I was eating teased me and the Ketchup and Manchurian liked it!!!

My situation went from ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Tha’ to ‘Ab Kuch Bhi Nai Hota Hai’ and this was probably the end of our so-called relationship.

 

After all this shit that happened in my life I realized a fact that rather than wasting my invaluable time on so-called fairies, I should spend some quality time with a woman for whose unconditional love I don’t  have to showcase pain and feelings in my eyes. And that woman in ‘MY MOTHER’ who will obviously ameliorate my life and always give me the best of suggestion during hardships rather than kicking-my-a**.

“This BlogSpot of mine is humbly and religiously dedicated to all the women around the world wishing them Happy International Women’s♀ Day on behalf of all men♂. Let me tell you one thing, we love you, admire you, you all are the symbol of strength as we men don’t have the patience to raise kids. You all are the creator of mankind and it is definitely because of you who we are today. You all are adorable, admirable and certainly the most beautiful

Creation of The Almighty!!! Thank you so very much” 

DISCLAIMER: This blogpost is completely fictional. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental and unintentional.

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