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Anna Hazare – An Indian Hitler Or Don Quixote?
If Cervantes, the Spanish author who
created Don Quixote four
hundred years ago visits India Germany
Like Don Quixote, Anna Hazare has
been inspired only in his ripe old age to attain glory and a place in history.
Till the recent up surge against “corruption” no one, at least outside India
It took him seventy four years to
see that there is an enemy “corruption” in the Indian society and it is his
call to eradicate it and thereby achieve eternal glory as his role model Mahatma
Gandhi.
There are a lot of interesting
parallels in the saga of Anna Hazare with that of Don Quixote. One can see Don’s stupid horse "Rocinante" in the bizzaare
group of spiritual and materialistic swamis, police officers and business men
supporting his shows. India India India
Most striking comparison though
is in their adventures. Like Don, who saw in a wind mill a giant monster he
needs to defeat, Anna has identified and is relentlessly attacking the “corrupt”
Indian administration as his arch rival he must bring down.
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Who Can Make The Rip Van Winkles of Global Economy Accountable?
The S & P’s faulty down grade of the US credit rating to +AA status, among other things, is attributed for the current world financial turmoil illustrated by the leading headlines of this week:
Stung by the first-ever downgrade to its
top-notch sovereign credit rating, the US has hit back at S & P,
saying that the rating agency's flawed analysis has put its own credibility and
integrity at risk.
S & P is not the lone Rip of the Global
Economy who creates turmoil by ill conceived and un substantiated adverse
remarks on nation’s economies. The Comptroller and Accountant General of India
has recently come out with reports claiming losses of
USD 39 billion to the government in lost licence revenue, which has been
misinterpreted by the Indian masses as government corruption of the same
amount, stalling India’s growth.
The question is why these agencies have
gone in to long slumber of inaction while things were definitely going astray
and why they have to get the figures and facts so wrong when they eventually
chose to proclaim their shocking revelations.
The crucial thing is, with the
globalisation, the damaging effects are no more limited to countries but the
whole world. With these watch dog agencies being allowed to act independently
or just constitutional set ups with out any answerability to anyone, time has
come to decide if they can be allowed to continue to function in the same way
or at least operate under guide lines to contain or limit the damage arising
out of sentiment erosion and confidence deficit caused around the world.
It is very consoling to see that stalwarts
of Capitalism like Warren Buffet have come forward to defend the US Economy,
despite the echoes of pessimism emanating from
Competing economies like China
What is giving concern
though is the appalling lack of comprehension of the situation and the apathy
shown by the current bunch of leaders of the developed world, like may of the
EU nations who have chosen to enjoy their summer holidays without resolving
burning issues in Italy and Spain, which smacks of Nero’s playing of his fiddle
while Rome was burning.
The protracted congressional drama over
the credit limit, which appeared to be plain partisan electioneering for all
thinking people, which precipitated the current action by S & P has
demonstrated a similar apathy of the US
Can we afford to let our leaders to be Rip
Van Winkles in their elected positions? I guess the way the world markets will
react on Monday will decide.
Article first published as Who
Can Make The Rip Van Winkles of Global Economy Accountable? on Technorati.
What Is Hot On The GOOGLE Facebook War Front You Can’t Miss?
When GOOGLE Plus was test
released a few weeks ago, a new war of the Titans which could shape the
history of the 21st century, just started. A few weeks on, it is
interesting to see how new and unexpected events change its course.
With a massive
lead of nearly seven hundred million members worldwide, Facebook, without
doubt, is in a leading unstoppable position in the social media. Far from
anything its inventors designed or planned for the platform, Facebook is
credited with influencing or bringing about life changing movements like Spring
Revolution and the Jasmine revolution.
For GOOGLE Plus, it looked like this
gigantic vantage position of Facebook will be almost impossible to surmount.
However an array of hard core “suicide hackers”, who unlike the Al Qaeda or Taliban
have no particular allegiance, is proving to be great unpaid allies to GOOGLE
in this war against Facebook.
Despite the fact that GOOGLE
keeps the figures and truth about the membership and acceptance of its new
social media platform under the wraps, frustrating observers and Facebook, the
numbers look impressive from various “estimates”.
Though this can be credited
partly to the massive awareness creating advertisement by GOOGLE, the leverage
it is wielding from its existing flagship platforms like CHROME, inadvertently
brought in to play by the work of the army of the volunteer hackers, is
seriously and quickly shifting the sand under the feet of Facebook and other
social media platforms like Twitter.
For example, the hackers have
come up with powerful and ingenious extensions for CROME, the very popular
browser of GOOGLE, which shows the WALL of your Facebook page and your Twitter
Time line in your GOOGLE Plus page!
The CHROME extension called Extended
Share For GOOGLE Plus is particularly “nasty” being a feature which allows
you to repost your Post to Four other leading Social Networks, Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr and others.
What this means is those visitors
no longer need to visit Facebook or Twitter to post in to those or check out
what is new with their friends with the help of the extensions like the
following, already available to CHROME users.
- The GOOGLE + Facebook Extension
- The GOOGLE + Twitter Extension
- G+ME: Collapse the GOOGLE+ Stream in to a Dhashboard
- How to Make GOOGLE + Top Bar Sticky
To counter this onslaught of
GOOGLE, Facebook also have come up with much needed features like Video Calling and some ingenious
ones like the Open Air browsing stations in Holiday Resorts and Hotels where
you can log in to your Facebook page in your swim suits and bikinis!
Article first published as What Is
Hot On The GOOGLE Facebook War Front You Can’t Miss? on Technorati.
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