Globalization & Rural Economy - My take

The process of liberalization and industrialization, fast gained importance in India in the 1980s. However it was only in 1990s, after the phenomenon of globalization gaining momentum in India, that the Indian economy truly opened up. Globalization has led to increased opportunities to the average Indian - an increase in employment opportunity, income, output, investment and also to a rapid expansion of the banking and financial sector, telecom sector, growth in export potential and social sector projects.

The government implemented the new industrial policy in 1991 with the regard that the benefits of policy implementation would trickle down to the lower sections of the population. This was an idea borrowed from the Ronal Reagan-Alan Greenspan led economic policy that somehow managed to save US from a possible recession in the late 80’s with George W.Bush Snr being the chief culprit, with a strong implicit view that “What works in US would work everywhere as the World has become a subset of US post-cold war era”.

Two decades to the historic policy change, trickledown economics is yet to flow down. Only the comparative degree of English grammar has proved its logical viability...The ‘rich’ getting ‘richer’ and the ‘poor’ getting ‘poorer’.Rather,its the middle class that has reaped the maximum benefit from this opening up.

Indian economic structure is a tricky one, where a modern economy exists side by side with a traditional one. The rural economy comprises 70% of the total population of India. Agriculture and allied activities are the main sources of rural income and contributes to almost 25% of India's GDP. There has been no evidence of positive growth in the unorganized sector of the economy.Infact, a recent study by Nobel Laureate Noam Chomsky actually reveals that the number of people under poverty line has actually increased since post-liberalization era

The opening up of the economy signifies cheaper imports in a country where agricultural prices are constantly fluctuating. This hampers the crop producers and leads to further losses. The producers might be hesitant to produce the same crops next year and also, multiple cropping is not common in India. Thus, farmers cannot shift from food grains to more marketable crops.

India is a labor surplus country facing an acute problem of rural unemployment. Increased investment and growth in capital or adopting technology that is capital intensive will lead to unemployment. Governmental schemes and measures to control poverty and unemployment in rural India are deficient due to perforated bureaucracy and widespread corruption. Thus, inequalities in rural India are exceedingly difficult to tackle.

Farmers, artisans, unskilled labor and workers bear the impact of losses due to increased competition and comparative advantage enjoyed by the more developed countries. The recent spate of suicide of farmers in the Vidharbha region and the attacks on retail outlets in rural areas bears testimony to this ugly reality. Without adequate improvement in the government's delivery mechanism, the despair of the average rural Indian will be prolonged.

Gloomy in the summer shine

When I say I have nothing to do,
I speak it without much ado,
Nothingness is what sums of my life,
Everything that I have done and
everything else I intend to.

I am always blamed of pessimism,
of dark thoughts and blank screens,
The ships I board sink before sailing,
For games that I lose before start..
and debates I give in before arguing
I still wonder what does all this mean..

My dreams gets hazy in the fogs of idealism,
Things I speak is just the reality
Matters I think bear human sanctity
without any color and taste of saccharine.
Bare pristine facts of life,
some buried... some still dying,
and some waiting for their turn of time
All are but one for a slime.


So ephemeral dreams are
just like the rainbows;
hide they do under the glare and shine
as our existence sinks in the sands of time.
Because dear nothing last forever..
Life flies and the Rest are just lies..
The flower that has blossomed once..
forever dies.
Interred with it all are egos and ethos..
Our false pride and clustered ghettos.

Every step we put forth
on this uncharted path,
reveals one root to peace and
three of wrath.
Peace is what we require..the rest is but we desire..
hatches of austerity paves the ground
for castles of hedonism to boast around
Deep asleep in the beds of materialism
They smirk at me for my naive idealism.

But happy I am for all my deeds,
Not foolish enough to trade my peace
For the gleans of wealth is someone else's need.

A Soother mind and a calmer soul..
is all that I traded with life.
For all the battles we fight.
The rewards find no one to share
Here is today and there tomorrow stare..
Everyone shuns life with the same attire.
The castle and hatches aren't worth of a dime
As the soul gets buried in the lap of time.

My words might sound bland for those of not my kind,
One line of truth from the useless mind,
All that we fight for is nowhere to find,
As the shackles of time are hard to unwind.

 I wrote this on my last day at BOC.It was summer time and one of my colleague was surprised how could I write such gloomy thoughts in an oven-fresh morning.Hence the name

On Her Birthday

Hey Dear...wake up
from the lap of lady dream
n feel the world so serene.
The king Spring is at his knees..
to embrace his beloved queen..
The morning gives life a new essence
but goes young in your presence.
Feel the ambience with your senses
all are so happy and gay by your presence..
Look at the sky..
The blue has given way to bright.
Feel the air around..
The breeze never felt so sweet..
Bright rays shinning through the ripples..
but dear seem so pale for your dimples.
The tiny little droplets of life..
on the wet grass even freshens up the senile.
but seems gonna green looking at your smile.
The clocks are so still..
so slow hands are going ..
Moments are in fight with time
to relish the occassion before passing
Nature wonders whats wrong today..
Gods mulls to call it a day..
My Lord...show your might on another day..
and be a part of this pristine moment
Bcoz.Today is my Friend's Birthday !!!

Women Reservation BIll & Empowerment

After 14 years of stop-start,the Women's Reservation Bill was finally passed in the Rajya Sabha.It is likely to usher in a new era in the realm of political discourse wherein every party would put their weights on different aspects of the propsed bill to facillitate their vested interests.Finally, if gets implemented with its very purpose still unscathed,it would nonetheless become the face of a truly revolutionised globalised progressive India.Women empowerment is one of the cornerstones of a respectable and liberal society and India needs it more than anyone to realise its dream of being a global superpower in the near future.

But before getting overwhelmed by the enormous potential of  empowerment and social upliftment such an idea entails,we need to address one of the most pertinent and fundamental issues attached to the cause:  Is quota the ideal way of bringing about the development and empowerment of a major half of our society or is it  the most-efficient political tool of vote-bank politics catering to the eccentric subjectivism of our political system??

                                So before implementing the quota system blindly,the think-tank has to anaylse in an impartial manner the results of past quota systems-whether they have really uplifted the living standards of the target society, whether they have brought about the necessary and expected changes in the social,economical and intellectual standards of the concerned communities.However our current social scenario speaks otherwise, as a large part of the target section still reels under abject poverty, malnourishment and shameful living standards and and the whirlwind of globalization has added to the woes by widening the very gap between different strata of the society it was supposed to minimize.So the aftermath of this ambitious revolution wudn't be much different if we toe the same line as we had done before.

                                In this context,for the proposed bill to serve its noble and socially uplifting ambition,the political pundits have to transcend beyond their short-sighted political agenda and be objective in the approach .For our nation to play a major governing role in the new world order,we have to carefully envisage the possible unseen repercussions of every step we take towards making our society a liberal and progressive one.Good intentions ought to be backed by solid methods of implementation.

This was the article I wrote to get a job offer as a Freelance Writer though for a short while.

Poetic Start

This is the first poetry I wrote for someone who got so close to me that I lost him never to find him again.


When i peek a glance down the memory lane,
a refreshing story gets to life again.

Two men with completely different character
decided to ink an indelible chapter,
A story of friendship trust n bonding
That will spark till the end of the ending;
sans any vices that can spoil the nices
in a world where relations r like spices.

So writing an encomium about an introvert person,
life of whom is like dat calm still surface
encasing so many torbulence under the sun.

A face as serene to a blind man's perception,
A heart simpler than additiion n subtraction.

A angelic smile coming from those ruddy lips every morning
lightens up the day for somethng exiciting.

Eyes that mirror the pristinity of the soul
A strong mind rock-steady on two able shoulders
not allowing the vision to get out of the goal

Patience finds here the perfect shelter
Humility respect make him more nobler.
So guys n gals beware,
the shear poetry of his character
will catch u unaware.