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Philosophy
Publisher: PublishAmerica, USA
ISBN-10: 1615821414
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 367
Copyright: 2009
ISBN-13: 9781607499145
Price: $9.00 (eBook)
In spite of well-known notorieties of the degenerates like A.R.Nizamuddin, R.S.Chopra, S.K.Bannerji and other scoundrels of the similar ilk in Karnataka police, situation is better there than some of the more notorious state police organizations of India. Their core weakness there lies in sweepingly conforming to the rotten system and bad culture against conscience to cover own tracks. It is mere cowardice of mediocrity and gross selfish interests of ignobility and nothing more. Yet, no way can Karnataka police be called as an efficient, healthy and responsible bureaucratic setup yet. Faithful assessment must precede reconstruction. This volume is an effort in this direction. Complacency leads to stagnation and is a dangerous indulgence in a rottening situation like India’s. This volume is intended to breach the vicious indulgence involved and inspire India to its rich potentialities on the way to much dreamed of world leadership.
India is a civilization of diversities and a culture of contradictions. India’s is an inclusive way of life. Along its long history, it saw umpteen falls and rises without losing its innate vitality and always rose from worst quagmires unscathed. This resilience of India underscores its unique heritage spawned by its thoughts and philosophies that perhaps are nearest to the true nature of the universe that the scientific world of today is engaged in to probe, discover and formulate as the Grand Unification Theory (GUT). This is the secret of the eternal strength of India.
This resilience of India gives hope. The present fall is not forever. Time of revival shall come. India shall see a better system replace the present corrupt and incompetent UPSC and a healthy administrative system replace the extant inefficient and rogue bureaucracy. This volume, “Inside India” is a small attempt towards this beginning.
I acknowledge with deep humility that this work would not have been possible without the inspiration of my late father Shree R.D.Suvarna who instilled in me right values and a sense of dignity without which I would not have been what I am now. I would be failing in my duty if I fail to express my gratitude to late Shree A.R.Sridharan, IPS (rtd.), former Director General of Police and former Hon'ble member of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal for his unstinted support and encouragement to my intellectual exercises. He is a rare oasis of pristine values and dignified restraint in the desert of Indian bureaucracy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1. For online Links to his published articles in National Dailies and Periodicals, please go to following Link:
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2. For online Links to his Love Poems, go to following Links:
IN ENGLISH
https://www.facebook.com/pryveen/posts/538121672992187:1
IN KANNADA
https://www.facebook.com/pryveen/posts/538121672992187:0
Excerpt
Born in Mangalore as the eldest son of Shree R.D.Suvarna and B.Sarojini, Praveen Kumar graduated in Science from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, going on to obtain a post-graduate degree in Literature from Mysore University. He also holds post-graduate diplomas in Business Management and Cooperation. In his student days he was also a prize-winning orator and writer. He lives in Bangalore with his wife, Smt. Jayashree and son Pratheek. He is a familiar face in national seminars and TV networks in India as a Poet and thinker.
The UPSC in its perverted competence has created a new breed of administrators in the administrative classes. This new breed is interested in nothing beyond meretricious schemes for promoting its career interests. They only think of more perks, creating new posts to improve avenues of promotion and fighting for parity with other services. Thoughts about how the schemes would affect the police structure in the long run never bother these people. Newspapers carry report of how promptly and actively regional and central IPS associations respond to all the decisions touching their career. We never hear these associations taking up any cause in matters purely professional- law and order, security or crime investigation. The matters are left to the care of those down the line.
Reasons for this deterioration are many. The first is inherent lack of passion for quality and excellence. The agency in charge of selections, the Union Public Service Commission, is manned by people unequal for the task either in their professionalism, efficiency, passion for brilliance or basic character. How can the process be reversed?
The deterioration is a post-independence phenomenon. The once steelframe of Indian bureaucracy of the British vintage gradually crumbled to its extant putridity under the sad auspice of corrupt and incompetent UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) and the deterioration trickled fast downwards in the last six decades to bring India to this sad state of affairs. “Inside India” is the story of this fast rottening situation.
Overhauling the present mediocre Union Public Service Commission to create an efficient and responsible set-up capable of handling the enormous responsibilities under Article 320 of the Indian Constitution, is essential in order to arrest the degeneration that has set in, in the set-up. This has led to blunders in identifying talent and in managing the Civil Services.
In spite of well-known notorieties of the degenerates like A.R.Nizamuddin, R.S.Chopra and other scoundrels of the similar ilk in Karnataka police, situation is better there than some of the more notorious state police organizations of India. Their core weakness there lies in sweepingly conforming to the rotten system and bad culture against conscience to cover own tracks. It is mere cowardice of mediocrity and gross selfish interests of ignobility and nothing more. Yet, no way can Karnataka police be called as an efficient, healthy and responsible bureaucratic setup yet.
India is a civilization of diversities and a culture of contradictions. India’s is an inclusive way of life. Along its long history, it saw umpteen falls and rises without losing its innate vitality and always rose from worst quagmires unscathed. This resilience of India underscores its unique heritage spawned by its thoughts and philosophies that perhaps are nearest to the true nature of the universe that the scientific world of today is engaged in to probe, discover and formulate as the Grand Unification Theory (GUT). This is the secret of the eternal strength of India.
India is the land of spirituality. Love and pursuit of knowledge and higher values are the essence of its nature. This foundation gives India a unique character and inner strength unseen in the community of nations of the world and makes it a world leader in spiritual life. The depth gained by this commands other nations of the world to see India with awe and respect even in the extant commercial ambience of the present world. Its great sons like Gauthama Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka and Mohandas Gandhi are unique gifts of India to the world of sublime thoughts in practice. India could spawn such gems because the mien of life here supported them and their ideals. This was true upto the first half of the 20th century. What followed was an apostasy from the radicate path.
Indian culture is a sublime edifice of the best absorbed from all sources it came in contact with and built on the foundation of the pollent values of simple, honest and healthy practices. India always went for sound practices with both material and spiritual dimensions to it. The tragedy of the present India is that it continued the process of the adoption sans the ingredient of the adaptation to its rich heritage of spiritual and enduring values and practices. It has become just a copycat of whatever appeals to its senses and fancy. The need of appeal to deeper realms like reason and insight is tout a fait forgotten. Often, mere compages are gone for without as much as thoughts for its inherent soul or underlying foundation.
India, as one of the foremost and largest democracies of the world, have a great burden on its flabby shoulders to prove to the world that democracy as a form of government can stand up to any dissipating influence and hold disparate geographical, racial, ethnical, linguistic, religious, cultural and economic factors syndetic in its pandemic prise of liberal benevolence and serve the cause of the unity of the sovereign country at all odds. The gauntlet India faces in this regard is made kenspeckle by the locus standi of the country in terms of its position as a ranking leader of the developing countries.
If leadership is the soul of democracy, right leadership is the soul of right democracy. Leadership is adjectives to the language of the democracy. It decides the nature and the quality of the democracy. There can be right or wrong democracy depending on the nature and content of the leadership to carry the democracy forward.
Independence made Indian leadership taste money, power and the luxuries of serving the people and the endless possibilities its diverse permutations and combinations provide. Nothing is like a mammoth lure and nothing is like a gargantuan greed. Leadership in India appeared like an endless foison of opportunities to rob and grab. Those who had the sinew and mental sturdiness to exploit jumped to the wagon in streams and created a new set of leadership for India at the cost of the ancien regime inspired by lofty ideals and guided by the motto of service. Corrupt and ruthless to the core, the new leadership easily cornered the scrupulous old order in opportunistic political games of money, power and muscle gained in the process. Leadership in the milieu became nothing more than a daring massive investment for multifold returns, a pure commercial venture. Crime paid. Deception and flamboyancy became sine qua non for leadership. That is why leadership became a dirty word in India. And Indians as they are, accepted the reality to the extent that they now think twice before accepting anybody without the merit of a criminal past as their leader.
Democracy is feudal in reality involving stiff competitions between diverse sectors and interest groups to gobble the res gestae available from the State. Power begets power and money begets money. So, it is powerful sectors that succeed and corner infrastructure development programmes of the State to their advantage when the State sleeps and forgets its responsibilities.
Present India’s democracy is a misnomer. It is a soulless process in the body of a democratic form, or better, a feudal rule bought over by money, muscle and deceit. India is deluding itself by calling itself as a great democracy of the world and dreaming to be a world power. Compages do not make vibrating structures inter se. They require inner strengths as their spine to stand erect to stand out in the world. Present India lacks that little potion that in the past was India’s essence passim.
Government service in a democracy is the service of the people by the people for the people within the reticulation of the rules and procedures in force. It is the core service of the governance and implements the will of the people expressed through the collective political leadership. It is the tool that really manages the country on the tapestry of the adopted policy by exercising all the wherewithal of a management tool-box like planning, organizing, execution and control by its ubiquitous presence.
If kingship is a single-point exploitation, democracy is a licence for countless exploitations of who are weaker and more helpless and corruption is the engine that runs the process of the exploitation. The extent of corruption is a clear indicium of the degree of exploitation afoot in a given democracy. A democracy is meaningful only when it is expropriated from the evil of exploitation. In other words, corruption as an indicator of exploitation in a country stands for negation of the democratic values of a democracy. Until corruption is extirpated from the face of the democracy of a country and unless India does it piu mosso brilliant and enlightened youngsters like Saket Rajan falling out of the mainstream of the national life to join rebellious anti-exploitation organisations like the Naxal Movement and sacrificing their precious life to police bullets as occurred in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka on 6th of February is unavoidable. India can be a true democracy only when it succeeds in bringing corruption in its public life under control.
Independent India needed brilliant people to handle its complex administrative problems and to implement its developmental schemes. It is tragic that India after independence not only failed to realise the importance of maintaining its Steel Frame and improving upon it, but positively contributed to its collapse in a very short span of time.
A process of ossification has set-in in Indian bureaucracy in absence of real growth and evolution after independence. The political leadership find the development to its advantage. The bureaucracy found itself as fish out of water when its leading guides returned to Britain after independence. Those who handled the higher bureaucracy sinsyne followed from where the British left with their own mediocre interpretations of an ideal bureaucratic setup. The result is the extant bureaucracy of India devoid of creativity, initiative, understanding and a sense of public service. This reduced the definition of the public administration to mean use of rules and procedures to delay or obstruct decisions or actions just for the purpose of proving existence. The new setup developed a queer xenophobia towards deviations from the set patterns as a threat to the very existence of the bureaucracy. The mindset evolved to a pernoctation against any fresh breeze ab extra and a tendency to deracinate any move to that end in the bud itself. Nothing fresh can leak-in to such a bureaucracy a huis clos.
The reasons for this deterioration in the Civil Services are many. The first is the general lack of passion for quality and excellence in the Indian psyche. The agency in charge of the process of such selections, namely, the Union Public Service Commission, unlike in the British period, is unfortunately increasingly being manned by people unequal to the task either in terms of their professionalism, efficiency and passion for brilliance or in their basic character itself.
In a blinkered system like ours, where power and wealth are the ultimate virtues, where power and wealth in themselves stimulate mutual growth to the exclusion of all other dimensions of life, it is no wonder, the people of this poor country succumb to the trappings of power and wealth at the cost of all virtues, values, pride, dignity and human decency. In an increasingly competitive and complex world where every day more mouths are added to share limited resources, where the principle of the survival of the fittest operates to its immane logical end and where the basic needs of survival and decency can be assured only with power and wealth, people naturally go all out to ramp the ladder of power and wealth by whatever means and cost. In the process, justice and morality become casualties and criminality raises its ugly head as an instrument to achieve otherwise impossible objects. This is how politics and crime knit together in the fabric of Indian public life.
Justice begotten at a cost is justice lost. The fact is lost sight of by the present administration of justice. Justice is a natural right. It is the sine qua non and raison d’etre of social grouping. Justice in a social environment have to be as natural as sleep or oxygen to a living being. Free and fair justice is the leges legum of human rights. The proficiency of justice administration has to be assayed with this litmus test.
Justice in its basic sense necessitates an integral vision. Justice abstracted from its environment, past, present, future, diverse issues, dramatis personae and related events cannot be justice in the true sense of the word. Justice in parts is no justice that lasts. Justice involves delving deep down to the heart of an issue and delivering justice in reference to all related issues and matters to the rightful entitlement of all. This presupposes a passion for objectivity and justness and above all, selflessness in the arbitrators of justice as well as in those who are in the service of the administration of justice.
A government may have different gestalts, colours and priorities depending on the needs and circumstances of the country at the time. Steering the rudder in proper direction through all weathers constitutes the core of the governance. Those holding and attending the rudder decide the destiny of the country. Their character, attitudes and competence determine the tournure of the future of the country and its people.
Every employee in any efficient organisation is a precious asset. This is not because labour comes at enormous cost, but because of the presence of innate potentialities in every person and its mammoth utility were they are adequately tapped. The problem lies in the need and competence to extract the potentialities and talents.
Human nature being as it is, the emerging atmosphere of commercialisation and material comforts vis a vis accrescent concours for limited resources of the Earth , makes man increasingly self-centered and more and more adventurous and violent in his appropinquation to reach his self-appointed narrow goals.
Protection of one’s religion and culture is a sacred duty and a serious need of the hour. But, God by whatever name belongs to all and His abode in whatever form is sacred to all. Dividing people and bloodletting in the name of religion is the worst form of anti-religious politicking. Ignoring the soul of a religion to protect its criminal elements for political ends is tantamount to violating and annihilating the religion. Pseudo-secularism is anther shape of the misuse of religion in politics to gain power from the other extremity. Healthy politics should keep both forms at arms-length. And religion should keep its sanctity by keeping away from the unholy politics.
Nature created women different from men with a definite purpose. Balance is stillness and stagnation; imbalance is motion and progress. Nature designed life and motion by means of the imbalance brought about in the traits of men and women. In the process,women find themselves at the receiving end. They ended up as the weaker half of society by their very nature and are naturally handicapped in a world of men, by men, for men. In a world where strength commands charity and weakness receives cruelty and humiliations, women suffered all along the centuries with patience and in silence.
What India needs are a holistic approach to its infrastructure developments rather than lopsided favours to the powerful and their cronies who cry wolf under misleading claims and slogans. A nation belongs to all and must serve the interests of all sections of the people including the rich and the poor, and the industrialists and the farmers and protect who are weak and powerless. In the circumstances of exiguous resources crunch, a fair policy of eurhythmic division of what is available is called for.
Struggle between survival and dignity is as old as human history is. Going for dignity and right values ignoring survival factors is not everybody’s staple. It takes tremendous inner strength and resolve. It is this rare calibre that is the indigence of the extant civil services of India. It is this rara avis that must constitute the pillars on which the plexus of the civil services must rest. These powerful pillars perforce must be limited in number to avoid degradation by mass mélange and absorption of anyone of some pull and money power and safeguard standards in excelsis. Indeed the best does not come for peanuts. Whatever goes for is far more worth of it. Secondly, a perficient, resourceful and workaholic lean civil services replacing extant sedent and inefficient bulk of workforce certainly provide a solution to the evils of the administrative overhead apportioning the major part of the public expenditures of the Government.
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Superior spirits autograph their works with excellence. It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Vera incessu patuit dea. Excellence is the outer dazzle of the inner lumiere. It needs to be cultivated; it needs to be imbued and perfected by endless endeavour. It is not for feeble minded and broken spirits. Excellence comes only out of excellence.
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