Friday 24 January 2014

Why are we uncomfortable with a change that involves mindless shake-up?

My response to an article by a retd. IAS titled "Kejriwal’s Delhi Dharna – This is not anarchy, Mr Home Minister, This is Revolution"

I asked for a platform/ mail id where people like us can express our opinions for the general benefit and this is not done after 2 weeks. A member (so called but used only in AAP popularity graph) does not know whom to write, if he has a opinion/ suggestion / information / need help or whatever it may be. I dont think that one can interact with the local units.

I believe the intentions are not suspect. But the methods surely are. I a management expert and an engineer. Let us see a peson attacked with a dreaded disease. His body has grown weak and has submitted to the disease. The body is already in pain and the person has ultimately resigned to the fate. The mind is no where in control and has accepted a ceertain way of living and fighting the pain on a daily basis. Then the persons concentration will be fully only towards deescalating the pain daily. He/ She cant look beyond it since they cant even predict the future condition. It is even difficult to predict in terms of hours at times. The curatory mentods could have been taken in the initial stages and could not happen. The condition has deteriorated now and almost seems irretrievable. Now imagine our country and society in such a physical and mental state.

A good doctor come in and starts his best efforts to cure it. He has the expreience (not a learner/ experimenter ). He has the expereince and the knowledge to hanndle this condition. He first seeks active co-operation of the staff and his fellow doctors. he makes them to underrstand the importance of active, selfless, commited participation and co-operation by all . Now does he go on physically attacking the suffering person physically & mentally and draw him into a battle. A doctors job to cure the disease is to first make antibodies get into the system and fight from with in. He has to identify the critical drugs at various stages and inject them into the system to retreive the diseased body and make it respond to his treatment. when the body itself is not ready for the treatment, if he administers dosages of drugs that the body will resist, then the doctor may end up upseting the vital body functions and parameters and thus speed-up the death.
The important need is to get into the system (body) and work as anti bodies and kill the diseased cells without the body realizing what is happening. But what is now happening is that the fight is on in the open and everyone is throwing tantrums to defeat the cause. Dreams are made up of non existent entities. It takes much more than physical enacting of the dreams to make them come real.
 
Mr. Avay Shukla, Retired IAS, Knowledge not used to gain experience is useless. Experience applied without knowledge is not only useless but harmful. Administrative experience alone is not the cure.

A society has to be reformed and tact is necessary. Not street battle. Even a goonda in our cities take a few followers and get into the act of a street fight. He too believes his cause is noble. We don’t want to see another Mahabharat in the land of India. Neither is it that we live in the age of Kings and dictators to compare ourselves with Egypt and the likes. What happened after is known to all. Hence wisdom goes that the battle has to be from within. We have democracy and a constitution that are the two powerful entities for any struggle. Hence street fights will lead to only a dictatorial regime. We already see the regime in many states. Now it seems AAP want to replicate it in a bigger way for India.
 
Let me say that every dictator has come up with the popular support of the people initially.

Wherever I have used the term body, one may use system and wherever I have used the term doctor one may call Arvind Keijriwal & team.
Finally, I know that AAP is not in the habit of listening to viewpoints and suggestions. But still to give one and live things to your fate is better that not giving. This at least will enlighten the few youths who have to learn and prevent them from getting misused.
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