A NEW PERSPECTIVE

Post 2014 general elections, the vigilantes working for cow protection have been empowered. The legal ban on the slaughter of cows and the selling of Beef in India came as an expected cyclone and those who had made no provisions had to face the worst effects of the beef ban. The clouds and politics over beef ban had barely settled before the newly appointed chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, declared his government’s zero tolerance towards those who running illegal slaughterhouses and selling banned beef. Three classmates discuss the ongoing meat crisis and also the attitude of media and towards such policies of the government. ---------- RECESS BELL RINGS ---------- ARNAB – Hi friends, Ms Anuradha’s class was soo boring. I am glad the bell rang or I would have dozed off in her class. AARTI – I do not like the way she teaches. AAMIR – Mr. Amit is my favourite teacher. I wouldn’t mind even if he teaches us the entire day. AARTI – Ooh ple...

Democracy is a western concept, invented by the westerners, modified by them and supposedly also being preserved by them. It is the westerners who get to decide what is democratic and what is not and how is democracy to be sustained. Being the inventors and sustainers of practical democracy and with democracy being the major form of governance in the world today, these western nations have become the unwanted mentors for the developing democratic countries. Post-Cold War people realized that communism and socialism were not the right forms of governance and that only democratic capitalism could bring about progress and prosperity for the people. The illusion has lasted for around a couple of decades but with the rise of global population and scarcity of resources, democracy too seems to be failing. The worst effect of this fallout is bound to be on the western democratic capitalist nations which have been slurping all sorts of profits from the developing world by the means of democr...

Imagine an unconventional marathon race and some of the best runners running to win it. These athletes have been running these races over their lifetime & have also won many a time. They are well aware of the rules of sport, the logistics involved, the kind of track they would be running upon and probably the right way to win the race. This race is unconventional in the manner in which the winner would be decided. Instead of all four running together, each racer would be running separately and the winner would be the one who takes the least amount of time to cover the distance. There is another provision whereby two or more runners can run in pairs. Each can run a portion of the race himself and the remaining someone else can run for him without any sort of penalty. The award in such a case would be divided between the partners in the same proportion in which they each partner ran the race. The runners agree to the rules and a couple of them even decide to use the provision a...

March 15 is annually celebrated as the World Consumer Rights day (WCRD). It is one and the only day in the calendar when the world (governing) community tries to show to the proletariats around the globe that despite their inherent and never ending romance with the capitalist, they are always dedicated to creating a better, transparent and accountable world for the proletariats, who in the end would constitute the labour force, the market and the consumers for the capitalists.  Thus the precedence is given to citizens over capitalists only to serve the interests of the capitalists. I see WCRD as a tool in the hands of the governments to promote the interests of the capitalists by annually reminding people (Proletariats) of their rights as consumers and thereby covertly pushing them to become consumers and to mint monetary profits for the capitalists. I know my interpretation of WCRD sounds Marxist but that is how it really is. In fact, in my opinion, ‘Rights’ is a suffix ...

TWO FRIENDS ROHAN AND ATUL MEET IN A PARK AND THEY DISCUSS THE RECENT INCIDENT AT RAMJAS COLLEGE. Rohan – Hi Atul, long time, where have you been. Atul – I had gone to my aunt’s home for a week. Rohan – you must be all energised now after a week long holiday. Atul – I am all energised but there is something hurting me. Rohan – what is it? Atul – I do not know! Rohan – I doubt that. We always know what hurts us, it’s only that we do not want to acknowledge it. Atul – I feel horrible, I see my country going to the dogs and I can’t do a thing. I feel so helpless. Rohan – well that is a new and weird observation. I see my country rising each day. I do not think it’s going to the dogs. What makes you think so? Atul – do you not watch the news every day? Rohan – I watch it but dare not believe it. Atul – There are certain news which can be believed. Rohan – I believe that the role of the news channels should only be restricted upto reporting news ...

The theist and an atheist meet again. This time they meet in a metro train. Atheist – Hello sir, are you the one who I met at Mr. Raheja’s party? Theist – Yes I am. Atheist – Nice to see you again. Theist – Hi, same here. Atheist – We had a nice discussion at the party. Theist – Oh yes we did, you looked satisfied by my arguments. Atheist – Your arguments were definitely smart but to say that I was satisfied would probably be wrong. Theist – And why would that be? Atheist – Because no matter how similar theism and atheism may sound to you, there are still many concepts and ideas in religion which are totally absurd and stupid. Theist – I am sure there are many such ideas but I believe that most of these ideas are simply wrongly interpreted by men. The problem lies in men and not in the ideas. Atheist – Are we by any means going back to where we left the last time? Theist – I wouldn’t mind going back to it. Atheist – (mockingly) I guess your god ...

Post demonetization there has been a great upsurge in the number of people who try to justify tax evasion and even advocate for the abolition of the same. I however, have a view which is different from the stated mainstream and would like to defend taxation of income by the state. I would also like to point out as to why the idea of ‘Abolishing income tax’ is a flawed one and also morally incorrect. In order to understand the argument better we need to answer two very basic questions related to taxation. These are 1. Who are taxed? & 2. What is done of the money collected through taxation? The primary idea behind taxation is ‘Taking from the rich and giving it to the poor’. The income tax is levied on that section of the society which is able to earn a decent living for themselves primarily by utilising the resources available to them, which also includes the poor and the not so rich section of the society. The revenue generated through taxation is spent on a number of prog...