The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Wednesday 12 August 2015

PARLIAMENT NOW A DISRUPTED, FRACTURED PLATFORM, BUT THEY DON'T CARE!

Tomorrow, another Parliament session is coming to an end - with a beginning that hardly had begun when the disruptions started.

In fact, the trend (or the prevailing culture/political sentiments) was right on the job from the last session. The political culture of disruption, in fact, has been consistently extended from one Parliament session to the next most of the times in the recent political history.

It is said the recent Budget Session was the most productive one recently (in fact, in the last 15 years) but even it was replete with anti-Parliamentary stands resulting in a chaos/ruckus that has become synonymous with the work culture of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

A work culture where every work is done except the work for which the Parliament sessions are held thrice annually - to assess how the country is being run and to assess how it can be run - because the Union Government is the supreme administrative arch of the nation.  

A work culture that has become so one with the politics of disruption that the disturbing trend now runs as its routine undercurrent.

A work culture that now prominently gives rise to countless debates on 'if the Parliament will be able to work or transact some of its businesses on a coming tomorrow' - a 'tomorrow' that is becoming more and more distant now.

And the prime people manning the Parliament, our politicians, the select few whom we elect (or who are elected), are not at all worried about it.

When it comes to disruptions, every political outfit, based on its position (sitting arrangement in the Parliament), is to share the blame, or in the prevailing political language of the day - the way political parties like to describe their disruptive stands - is to share the credit of 'promoting democratic values'.

They don't care if the Indian Parliament is now known as a disrupted, fractured platform that oozes out a feeling that nothing sense can be discussed there. They don't care if verbal attacks on political rivals by them leave us in bad taste - something that was most intense today.

They don't care if every washed out Parliament session, as this one is going out to be, wastes hundreds of crores of taxpayers' money directly - and causes massive losses indirectly due to stalled policy decisions - like the delayed land reforms - or possibly (now) delayed Goods and Services Tax Bill (GST Bill) that could see the markets 'fall by 2-3%' as the analysts say.  

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/