Hypertension/ Beware Of White Coat, Black Coat and Petty Coat.

If any modern science which can be called failed then it is the Medical Science.

I always tell my doctor friends, that we engineers are any day far more better thinkers and more intelligent then you doctors. It takes 5 years for a doctor to graduate out as a basic doctor and then 2 years for specialization, one year as internship and after that he gets commissioned for practising. However, as the education system is designed across the world, the doctors write exams once in 2 years for their Graduate Degree and herein the current state of modern life , where one does not remember in the evening, what he ate in the morning, where there is a chance for a person to recall, what he studied 2 years back. As a result, the doctors who graduate out are the ones routinely taught one disease to another and by the time, the graduating Doctor knows that he is now a professional, wherein 90% of the the global diseases, he can never cure during his life time and most of his patients will consider him as " Life Extension professional " then " Life Quality Professional"

He further soon realizes that the Medicines which is dispensing are the monopoly of some 20 to 30 global Drugs Manufacturing companies sitting on all the patents and the Health Management is rather a monopoly of these Drugs companies . The Doctor technically has very little to offer to his patients, other then repeating the same words umpteen times, low salt, low sugar, less oil, exercise and less stressful job. Though he himself will be totally out of weight, but will give a lecture for one hour on weight control.

Further, the real test of a Doctor comes, when he actually starts diagnosing you. The situation is that because of the Online Knowledge available, the patients are far more informed about their conditions, they have their own forums discussing the medications administered to them, the medications that have worked for them and what has not worked for them. They are also on the global alert on any new development which takes place in the remotest part of the world on their medical condition and have become a challenge to the Doctor, who is never aligned with the latest technologies and developments.

Though the standard practise is that the doctor will first send you for some ten test and when the report comes, it shows one element out of range and most others as passed. Interestingly, he then declares you as victim of a certain disease and sometimes, it will be life time chronic event.

This is where the real expertise of a Doctor evaluated. Any one can read a test report, log to the net and see what the results mean and find the answer and be happy with the doctors prescription. But the reading of a report and analyzing a report and then connecting the numbers and make a meaningful correlation is with very few and experienced doctors. lately a friend of mine went to Singapore for his medical test and his all reports came out ok, but his s.creatanine was around 4. Which is alarming. The doctor put him on CT scan, other test and yet could not find any reason as to why the creataine was 4 and GFR was 15. He declared him suffering with Gomerulo nephritis. The guy not knowing , what is it came back and checked on the web and found that he was on the way to kidney failure.

Luckily the other Doctor in Singapore, then went in ahead with his biopsy and it was found that he had malignant hypertension acute renal failure and he would recover his kidney function over time , partially atleast, if not fully.

Now, this was such a simple common sense thing , that if all the other numbers on the patients test are showing normal level, then for sure kidney cannot have a failure stage. Because it will disturb the blood elements, Na, K, Cl, it will raise the uric acid, it will have drop in Hemoglobin etc etc. Ironically the guy also had his health checked 9 months back and had found that his kidney was normal and had shown the report to this specialist. Atleast this itself should have rung bell in his head , that very unlikely that within 9 months, the kidney function will drop so much without any influence on any other blood indicator.

This is the level of expertize of a specialist Doctor and I am discussing a Doctor with more then 25 years experience. But then there was this other doctor, who corrected the mistake and bought things into order.

There is other case of a friend of mine, who was examined by a doctor for Heart Problem and he was advised, if he did not undergo By Pass surgery, he would suffer an attack anytime. He still went in to take second and finally a third advise. The Third Doctor said, he was perfectly fine and may be his reports had shown some unusual peak. Now is already more then 10 years and there is no by pass.

Another friend of mine suffered from Hypertension since early age of 30 and at around 45 , he was diagnosed with Alzheimer . Well, now let us study hypertension. The medical science since the last 2000 years has not been able to find the reason for hypertension. There are so many ,whose hypertension never gets controlled and so many who move to kidney failure, stroke, heart problem and Alzheimer .

The irony is that none of the practising doctor during the coarse of his life ever invents a medicine. It is only the pharmaceutical companies, which research and then offload the new medicines. Why would ever a pharmacy company design a medicine for a chronic disease like, Hypertension, Diabetes, Alzheimer, Parkinson and 100s more, ,wherein a patient has to have a medicine for his full life . These are commercial organizations working for profit. If all these diseases get treated with simple medications, then where is the need of life time supporting drugs and where is the profit to the shareholders.

This is where is the Big Difference between Engineers and Doctors: An Engineer will see things wrong around him, he will do everything to ensure that it is corrected, even if it means redesigning the whole system, product or machine. In Case of a Doctor, if he sees a person with suboptimal chronic condition, he only tries for his life extension. He cannot put all his study into practise and think, that at the end the human body is only cells and there is a special program in each cell which then implements the desired function. If only they could break this code and get the sick cells to either get reactivated or new programmed cells given to the person. The whole Chronic Disease thing would have been wiped out in the 19th century itself.

It is only now in the last two decades , that too animal doctors were first to find that persons own cells or embryonic cells or umbilical cord cells could be programmed to function like any other organ cell in the body. Unfortunately on account of twice veto by Pres Bush in US, these stem cells have got delayed for their executions. But finally it is Bio Engineering, Microbiology , Tissue Engineering and Gene Therapy which is taking over from conventional medical science and thankfully the old pharmacy companies will now not be able to enjoy profits from the chronic part of the human disease.

Only yesterday, I was reading about Dr Atala printing a new Kidney and Alzheimer being cured with stem cells and Diabetes II cure with embryonic stem cells being clinically tested in Singapore.

The next 10 years will be a revolution in medical science, but the winners will be not the Doctors, but the Bio Chemist, Micro Biologist, stem cells specialist, Regenerative Medicines specialist , Tissue Engineers etc etc.

I must though say, that the Surgery part of the Medical science has reached a stage of excellence. With a small key hole, the doctors do magnificent job.

Meantime, be careful of Three Dress Code : White Coat/ Black Coat / Petty Coat.

All three are major reason for Hypertension.

Fatloss 2/ SOSS- Visit a Bakery First ?

In my last post on Fat loss, I wrote about evaluating your " Rate of Metabolism " and since then I have been researching further.

If you are one of those like me, whose fat is recalcitrant and refuses to go away despite exercising and starving, then these are some other tips, which have helped.

It is called the SAVE OUR SOUL SOULS.

Last week, I was out again in the supremal and stopped by my favorite bakery, which has an open kitchen. I was very curiously watching the process, wherein the baker in a mould put in the flour, yeast , cheese , some oil and Sodium Bicarbonate. Then from the oven after a while came out the nice hot bread ready to be sliced for me.

This sent buzzzzz sound to my head. Little flour and with addition of sodium bicarbonate in an oven sents the bread blowing up. And I thought, what happens when sodium bicarbonate is in my tummy. This is where the alarm bell rang. The salt that I have goes and joins with bicarbonate molecules in my tummy and becomes sodium bicarbonate and the tummy temperature acts like an over and then blows the cells to out of proportion. This is what gives me the bloat up look. The incoming oil then finds its place in these cells and Fat is Formed permanently. Well, if you are one like me, where volume is more of an issue, then weight. Then the " Bread Effect " is hitting us alike. Have a good look at your tummy and see, how the middle portion pops out shamelessly like the bread loaf.

What is Fat anyway ? It is the molecular chain with very large molecular weight and breaks only at high temperature. Such as oil, butter, ghee , etc etc. All these fats decompose only at very high temperatures. Therefore the exercise is required to produce the required heat to melt down the fat . More known as calories of work out required.

But sometimes, exercises are not enough to generate the desired heat. Then the only way is to cut down on your food. A plastic surgeon friend of mine , once told me , just follow the monks, they eat once a day or some of them eat once in a week. It is just about control of mind. And his words have quite a lot appealed me.

I jokingly tell my friends that my stock of fat on my tummy makes me a fuel efficient car, because I can still live without food for many days, but they cannot. Only that I have to get my mind to work out a system that food is not for daily consumption and as it is the stock on my tummy will take care of any needs. The question is , how to handle hunger pangs? So , let us understand, what makes a person hungry?

First is the fall in glucose levels in the blood. As the glucose falls, the person feels hungry and shaky. Well, I have not tried, but may be taking glucose would solve the problem.

The other reasons are the Tummy size, where it wants to get to the original position, if you have made it shrink with forced dieting. The answer is to drink a lot of water.

Most other times the food consumption is emotional and impulsive. Where Craving takes the better of reasoning. This needs mind control.

Last time I managed to reduce 10 kgs and I came to 77 kgs against the target of 75 kgs. But then I went to India and could not help freaking out on all the delicacies . This got my weight back to 83 kgs and now I am going through my next phase to get back to 77 atleast.

I have been into Fitness for the last 7 years. A friend of mine took to Yoga and I took to Fitness. He was a great Bhakt ( devotee ) of Ramdev and religiously practised two hours of yoga every day. last month he had to take the Bypass surgery. So, all yoga enthusiast, it still makes sense to be into fitness besides doing Yoga.

Salt, Sugar, Oil and Starch are the killers or Save Our Soul Souls. Look at the animal kingdom. None falls sick and none is fat. Because none is a salt, sugar , oil or starch eater. The veggies eat more then non veggies in the animal kingdom. The veggies graze the full day and non veggies is content with his one kill in a day. So, veggies have to learn from non veggies that eating once in day is enough to keep in shape.

Then there are some food, which really help to shed weight.

Interestingly " Radish " eaten in its raw form acts as a very strong weight reducer for some strange reason. Try it out on yourself. Guaranteed , it reduces weight.

Green Chillies : Again a very powerful weight reducer , as it creates the high temperature within the body to melt some of the fat. But these have to be real hot chillies.

Green Tea : Acts more like a laxative, but does reduce weight to some extent.

Seaweed : Another powerful food , which systematically reduces weight.

Chilled Water : The Chilled water draws the heat from the body to come to normal temperature and thereby raising the cell temperatures to melt. Interestingly, most people advocate drinking warm water, but I would strongly contest that it is chilled water technically which helps. Best is to try it yourself and see the results. However, do remember , never to drink water along with food or after food. It dilutes the acids which the food gets from the body and reduces the metabolism. Drink water only after half an hour of eating food. In short , no drinks with food.

Another thing about water is that it has to be also taken in sense and proportion. Everyone talks about 2 to 3 litres of water per day. Human body is made out of 70% water and water is generally washing out the toxins in the body and compensating the losses of water. However, the excess water is sitting on the blown up cells and acting like a Wet Blanket. Therefore, it is essentially the level of water that your body can process. The Wet Blanket will ofcourse dry out, but till that time, the person feels more heavier and lazy. That is the reason as soon as you finish eating your food and have a glass or two of water, the first impact is sleepiness.

The only invention, that I have been thinking is the use of RF energy to melt the fat. Though RF generators are now being used for fat melting , but there is no systematic study done that at what temperates the fat cells will melt and how much RF energy is required. RF energy , if researched systematically on fat cells would be the most effective form of fat reduction. Because it would sent into the body the required heat energy without causing any harm and at a certain temperate,all the fat cells will melt off.

Keep reading, more exciting news on Fat Loss soon.

International Criminal Court.

This week in International politics was fully en ganged with Libya again. First time ever , I heard a good speech from " Hillary Clinton" in Geneva. I have always been a fan of " Bill" and never forget the speech he gave in Ireland. However, for Hillary, this was a memorable speech. And ofcourse, I only hope that US stands behind her speech and brings the dreams of the young generation in most of these corrupt third world nations to a fulfilling task. US now has a job well cut out to boot out all corrupt governments , anywhere in the world. Because in the long run these are the very governments, which then become a policy disaster for US own strategic interest.

UN Secretary General again did not move any further . He should have called for the Security council resolution to activate NATO and asked Gaddaffi to step down immediately . But to get leaders as secretary general is asking too much. Libya now stands in stalemate, where the East in hands of rebels and West in hands of Gaddaffi.

Whatever said, Gaddaffi, actually redeemed himself on the global TV presentation , wherein he invited the UN to investigate the crimes being committed by his forces or the rebels. Again UN did not immediately react and sent thousands of his investigators on fact finding mission.

The best statement came out was from ICC, where the Prosecutor General warned the Libyan power holders to be prepared for getting investigated for possible war crimes and human right abuses , if they would act against its own people.

Though ICC last warrant against Sudan president " Bashir " has had zero impact and he openly traveled to Chad and then to Qatar, where he attended the Arab summit and was well hosted. Did UN had the guts to then expel Qatar out of its membership? Or did UN de recognize the Arab Summit as an organization against Human Rights. None ofcourse. Because UN is a hypocritical weak organization.

Qatar , later won the rights to host Football World Cup. Because Human Rights don't matter to FIFA, money matters.

Atleast one thing is good that ICC is becoming proactive and it should sent jitters down many a politicians and police generals and army generals, who abuse their power regularly for corruption, human rights violation, religious rioting , fake encounters , etc etc

ICC needs to set up a courts in each continent and have a monitoring body armed in each country, which on monthly basis reports openly on the Internet on the conduct of the governments. Atleast this would then be a neutral third party audit on governance. And if there is any misgoverning, then immediate warrants are issued. Thereafter no bureaucrat or politician will have the guts to do any wrong.

UN needs to be revamped. Now, then ever before.

Gaddaffi n Alike : Gods Gift To Mankind !

Dictators Believe that they are the " Gods Gift To Mankind" . Then there are others like democratically elected " Dictators" say Ahemidinijad, Hugos, Kazak Pres, Uzbek Pres, and so many more. Ofcourse not to forget that the Communist party rulers anyway believe that God comes only next to the party leader.

All of us have been watching Gaddaffi clinging to his seat firmly with his two arms clutched to the chair and crying like a baby for being recognized as the " King of Libya". Begging not to be booted out in this manner atleast. Who is bothered anyway!

Thanks to Tunisia and then Egypt, it has caused an awakening amongst the Arabs and hopefully soon amongst Africans and Asians. Each Dictator or autocratic regime is nervously looking at the events of Libya now.

Last Post, I wrote about UN and not so long from then, we again see the UN failure. Gaddaffi loyalist army and police and his tribal gangs killing the protesters and UN is issuing statements and sanctions . I wonder, when a Dictator is busy shielding himself against its own people, whether he actually cares for any foreign sanctions, no fly zones, arms embargo etc etc. At that particular time, it is for him ,life and death. He would deal with UN once back in grip.

Most interesting is about countries like Italy, UK, US and others who fell on Gaddaffi feet for their own oil massage . Are now issuing sanctions of arms, freezing of assets , financial sanctions etc etc . Not that the world has not been aware of the dictator for the last 42 years, but like I have written in another blog of mine, the economic reasons are the over riding relationship criterion . Same like doing business with Hitler , despite all his misadventures.

None of these countries ever had the power to throw Gaddaffi out. He became a kind of Hero for the Arab and African countries . Libya , despite having its large oil wealth is still a very poor nation. Thanks to the loot of Gaddaffi and his cronies. Atleast in Venezuela, the great friend of Gaddaffi, the one Oil company is practically the economy of the full country. For , whatever it is worth , that one oil company is still a source of job, income and wealth of that nation.

Most shameful was the act of British Government , who went in to release the Lockerbie bomber on Business grounds and frame it as compassionate ground. This itself show the hypocrisy of a developed nation. BP gets Libyan oil or not would have hardly made any difference to the people of UK, but the politicians, as what they are made out of , thought that if Gaddaffi was now a saint for Italians, Americans, then why should the Brits not consider him a holy cow. If BP Libyan business and Shell Libyan business sits on the dead bodies of " Lockerbie " and eats the fruits of profits from trading massacre to oil, then it is not these companies which are to be blamed, it is the politicians of these nations, who worked hard to get these companies there.

Gaddaffi`s Tent is now larger and like most other dictators , he lives in the world of hallucunations. UN has to become more proactive . Like I wrote before, any army which does not restore democratic set up within 6 months needs to be nullified and neutralized and its general tried for crimes against humanity. UN secretary general should have openly advised Gaddaffi of being run down by a foreign army, if he did not gracefully step down. But as usual, there are speeches, shouting and a drama, which no dictator cares and hopes that some loyalist will bail him out and he would continue with his stunts.

Nevertheless, it is now the time for an emergence of a New World Order.

Corrupt Governments and bureaucrat's should only count their days, because the revolution in these countries will not stop there and soon most other third world countries will over run their systems. The people in these nations are fighting corruption, failed institutions and bureaucracy, it is not so much to do with dictatorship or democracy.

Egypt : Reincarnation,

Egypt after Tunisia has perhaps laid the precedence for all countries in the world to overthrow their governments, who fail to deliver. Egyptians , though quite late in time, yet they have again shown that when standing united ,the people can overthrow Dictators.

The Egypt model is exact replica of the Philippines model, where " Marcos" had to give way to its people`s unity. Indonesia also saw the same Change. However, only when it was on the brink of bankruptcy. Iran saw the same change. But the bigger question today is not about overthrowing of the dictators. But, did the governments subsequently installed made the nations anyway better then their dictators. Going by Philippines, Indonesia, Iran, the answer is " No" . There may have been far better Human Right Conditions and freedom of speech, but when it comes to governance, these are very poor exhibits of a nation which have shown maturity of serving its own people. It was practically going from " Frying Pan to Fire" Very little changed, when it came to Governance. Egypt has to learn from these failed models and come out with the best model which will take their country to the most successful and developed nation in the world.

If Egypt really wants to come up as the most unique and exemplary democracy . Then the first thing, it needs is to throw away its constitution and write a new constitution . It may be worth researching constitutions of countries like Norway, Denmark, Finland, UK, France, US and similar countries. Invite scholars and professors and judges from the top universities and debate the " Institutional Building " , which give fair, just and progressive system of governance . It also ensures that the ultimate power is always vested with the people and any bureaucracy that tries to exploit the system into corrupt practices is under an automatic supervision of the people themselves. These checks and balances left to the government have miserably failed , even in countries like US , UK and France.

I am reminded of the book " The Idea of Justice" of Amritya Sen , Nobel Laureate, wherein he has very elaborately debated the most effective form of Governance and has vivid examples including from the ancient Indian history . Where Ashoka builds the Niti ( Policies ) and Nyaya ( Justice) form of Governance, after being humbled by his own victory in the Kalinga war . He has quoted many a global philosophers on this issue in his book and is a good place for any country to refer, when it is on such a crossroad.

It is now or never again a chance for Egypt for its Reincarnation. Good Luck Egyptians!

UNO : The Big Black Hole!

UNO succeeded League of Nations. Practically it was formed to ensure that the nation members would behave sensibly and rationally with one another . Security council was to ensure peace and stability, because though World War Ended, the new War was the Cold war. With the Korean war still in place, the world was divided into US aligned or Soviet Aligned . Till the Soviet collapsed and China and India became the emerging new super powers.

UN is a classical story of a Club, where each nation flirted without any accountability and responsibilities. Depending upon its affinity , the countries voted for issues which mattered most to the Veto Block. At any given time, if you happen to see the UN security council assembly, it will show none of the members interested in listening to the other member state speech. The only time alertness is shown, when a sanction or war or similar issues needs to be voted. At such time, it becomes clear that "You are either with us or you are against us" Most countries abstain for fear of the long stick , others who vote against the sanctions generally do it for economic reasons, then rational reasons. Rationality or Fairness was never the key goal of the Veto Powers. It was always the support for a nation, no matter how belligerent and misplaced it would have been.

UN currently has become a Holiday High Paid Job. Absolutely zero work, read a speech or two , once in a while. Lobby for support once in a while and enjoy the tax free perks and great life in a city like New York, Geneva, Vienna , Nairobi etc.

The irony is not just one security council of UN, where nations put their bureaucrats, but also to one dozen other sham organizations, where bureaucrats are deputed . Eg ; International Atomic Agency based in Vienna. All 192 members will put one officer in this agency, who will attend only one meeting in the full year and do nothing. Who pays for it. Our Taxes! Same is the story for other arms of UNO.

Look around yourself and see, what UNICEF has done or world food program has done or World Bank has done. Identify one single project around you and there is none. However, these organizations with millions of dollars budgets routinely make nice reading reports, work alongside corrupt governments and happily each bureaucrats spends his term in these plush positions and retires.

The World bank loans which should have otherwise gone for development of the impoverished countries went actually in projects with conflicting interest. Billions of dollars were sucked away. However, the tax payers of these nations had to still pay back the world bank.

The most Hilarius part of UNO offices is that though they were meant to be for the development of the worlds poorest nations, however, were based in the worlds richest nations. This by itself is a very big corruption. Who is paying for such high overheads in these most expensive cities of the world. Why should the UN offices, not be located in the worlds poorest nations, where anyway they have all the work?

Visit any office of UN and see, how taxpayers money is being used. Salaries are tax free and the perks to envy the best MNC paid executive. Are these the standards of servicing the poor nations.

The bigger question is , whether such an organization is required at the first place. If yes, it still does not need a permanent secretariat in New York with ambassadors posted from around the world. It can still meet once in a while in any developing country. The other arms of UNO have to go through the system of Accountabilities and Deliverable ,which are internationally approved. They cannot be left to the governing bodies of these multilateral agencies.

UNO should have laid out the basis of good governance for the whole world. It would have laid out model bureaucracy which countries had to embrace to service its nationals. It should have been extremely strict with Human Rights Violations and would have arrested the ministers and head of nations and tried in International Court of Justice. It would have made mandatory that any army which coups and takes over as dictatorship will then face arrest and life sentences, if fails to restore democratic order within 6 months. It would openly make nations with corruption to be taken over by neutral agencies, same as peace keeping force, it would be bureaucratic force . The sovereignty of nation would be defined as the one, which excels in servicing its people and not the one where the corrupt manage the nation and seal the nation against good order in the name of sovereignty. The excuse forwarded generally is that it has no power. Well, if it has no power, then let the Secretary General first empower the organization or simply shut the organization. We dont want a Big Black Hole sucking away everything in the name of UNO.

The only place, where UNO has been effective is during Relief work, peace monitoring and some other areas. But this does not need such a huge set up.

largely, it is a Big Black Hole which even sucks away the finest ray of light. It is about time, when UNO has to be made a Shining Sun then a Black Hole.

Third World : Survival of the Richest.

The second world war saw the end of colonization of many a countries. However, most of these colonies, which then became large independent countries did not really know themselves the democratic way of society.

Almost one and all copy pasted the constitution of their colonial masters with a little change here and there. But the biggest irony was that almost all of them copy pasted the laws , which their masters had framed to enjoy rule over the colony.

The result was that soon after independence, the new formed bureaucracy now started enjoying powers ,which were earlier vested with the " White Skin " master. Not only that, it furthered itself to use these powers and the oppressive laws to now obstruct the natural flow of goods and services to its own people. It soon realized that the best position was to keep everything under suspension and use it for lining their own pockets. Corruption , which was unheard of during the colonial times, now became the normal way of life. Interestingly , it was all across the third world, systematic abuse of power took place and corruption then became a way of life. Today, it is the only way to get around most government offices across third world countries. It was such a shame on the Developed countries and the rest of the world that none of them vouched for UN sanctions against governments and politicians which oppressed and sucked its own people in the name of governance. The sanctions are only against countries, who are not willing to toe the line of western interest. But again sanctions have to mean arrest of corrupt politicians/ bureaucrats,de- recognizing the parliament of such countries and not debarring of trade and penalizing the already oppressed population.

The army in most of these countries believed that , it was the natural successor of the colonial rulers and was the rightful ruler of the nation. Hence could bypass a civic society and have budgets and benefits that would be envy of a king. Many of these nations were quickly overtaken by the dictators, whether it was Argentina or Chile or Libya or Uganda or Pakistan and you can count most of them. The army then systematically looted the nation of its own wealth. It was no ones business. Developed nations would continue doing business with these nations. Multinational companies enjoyed the situation, because all it required was the blessings of an army and they would monopolize the business. Most oil companies and mining companies were the biggest beneficiaries of this situation. The whole of middle east oil was largely in the hands of Western MNC. The mining in Africa was again in the hands of western MNC.

The remnants of an already sucked nation by their colonizers was now being sucked away by either the army or by the bureaucrats and politicians. The population of these nations, was still fighting illiteracy, diseases, poverty, lack of employment opportunities etc and for the corrupt , these were the very cause of opportunities for making their wealth. Each and every nation had its own heroes to glorify for their independence movement , but it was not long, before that these heroes were only an academic subject and the nations were taken over by its own corrupt politicians. Who saw that it was much easier to manipulate large mass of illiterates and capture votes and remain in power. The educated, intelligentsia was no different from the elimination it has seen in the Cultural Revolution in China. Only that , here, they were marginalized and not eliminated.

Retrospectively, one looks behind and only feels that if he has successfully managed his life out of all this messy situation, then it was already a great job. Not many were so lucky. It was always a struggle to survive. It was never more then hand to mouth for most of the population in these nations.

30 to 40 years after the second world war, the people in these nations were getting enlightened, were now better educated and some semblance of economic order had returned to these countries . The dictators and politicians got questioned. Only the other day, I was watching the Davos BBC debate and the world bank and politicians were taking pride on uplifting millions out of poverty in the last 20 years. Factually, it is this world bank and politicians, who are responsible for keeping the world under poverty for the first 40 years and to a great extent till date in most developing nations. It is only today , after 65 years that a nation like Egypt is celebrating the departure of yet another dictator.

When I talk to my western counterparts, they say, no wonder your countries were colonized, because you are anyway a bunch of tribals, who work and behave coherently only under a barrel of gun. And sometimes, I think , this is not too much wrong. How many of our nations actually return politicians who are worth governing their countries. Don't we return politicians ruling the tribals ?

In countries like S.Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, they successfully wiped out corruption and became some of the richest economies of the world. It was as easy as that, if actually the politicians wanted. All it takes is mass sacking of hundreds of officers in one single day and the next day, the whole country is free of corruption. But this needs a powerful , righteous and strong leader.

If India and China, today boost of growth, then it is very little to do with the governments there, but largely to do with the private sector and the middle class. Both these nations at least had invested heavily into education and the people in both these countries were very proud of their Tertiary qualifications. Which finally started resulting into Economic Output and Value Velocity, as soon as the capital got freely available. For China, it was easier, because when you start with a very low number, then growth numbers always look nicer. Say, growth from 100 to 200 is 100%, but growth of 10 million to 11 Million is only 10%. China had this numeral advantage. Both the nations are responsible for keeping their economies locked for 40 years and exploiting their own nation.

Did Japan and Europe not come our flattened from the second world. Was it not the open economies of these nations and the world bank/ Aid, which took them to such an enviable position today. Why is that Europe , Japan and US not turn to corruption. They were simple human beings like us. Perhaps, this shows that within human beings itself it is not everyone is equal. History and Sociology are reflections of how certain group of people from certain lands were always more progressive then the others, only on account of freedom and fair society. Only an open, fair, transparent and innovative society progresses. Whether it will live in peace and harmony is another debate. Others, will always fall in the hands of colonial/ political / corrupt masters.

The irony is that , everyone has moved to his comfort zone and does not care about the misgoverning anymore. Corruption of the order of million of dollars is considered a normal routine affair. Capitalism is now fully embedded in each society. The survival of the Richest is the new Darwin's Theory in the modern world.

Idealism Vs Realism!

If today, someone was to ask me, what is your biggest " Regret " in life? And the only answer I have is that my pursuit of Idealism.

What naked eyes see is the realism. What the mind forces you to enact is the Idealism. Somehow, it is only after the age of 40, when you actually start realizing that the acts of idealism was more of story telling and feeling of heroism. Factually, life was quite far from the idealistic stage. Nothing in fact in nature follows the path of idealism.

If you have been brought up with idealistic values, gone to good public school and have a culture that reflects the sensitivity of your surroundings , then you are into the trap of " Idealism" and continuously fight conflicts in your mind.

Third world, where I spent most of my life is torn with shameless corruption, cheating, insensitivity , religious intolerance, black marketing, tax avoidance, incompetence, nepotism, and the list can go on and on.

In such an environment, if one is idealistic, then he perhaps has to only spent most of his life fighting the system . On the other hand, we with this idealistic brought up are such a victim of the system that it has made us impotent and cowards.

None of us has the strength to challenge the dirty business around us . Only for good order sake and to mind our own business, we have tolerated this nonsense for so long. However, this indifference has made the system brutally corrupt. I lately met a bureaucrat who had amassed a wealth of USD 20 Million plus and was searching for place to park his money.

The last sight, which repeatedly comes to my eyes is when I saw a very old man selling newspapers on a street corner to earn his livelihood and around the same corner, a cop, who stopped motorbikes and collected cash for some fault or other.

Here is a state of things, when an idealistic person in an old age is earning his livelihood by selling newspapers and a well paid cop is earning extra income from illegal collections.

Step in any office in most third world countries and you will find that the population has simply resigned to the fact that without illegal payments, they cannot get across with their legal rights.

Will it take another revolution for this autocratic corrupt bureaucracy to be wiped out.

Devotional Entertainment- Religion

A friend of mine Mr A.T.Narayanan came out with a very nice Phrase " Devotional Entertainment "

God in its utmost obscurity, is fancied by almost everyone. The one and only " Hope " dispenser is like a free ATM machine installed as Fear and Reward broker in each homosapien.

Remove the centre and there is no circle, remove the centre of everything and there is no operational space of thoughts. This is what Jiddu Krishnamurthy calls it " Conditioning " More you walk away from the conditioning, the more free space you have in your mind for lateral and extra dimensional thinking.

Since time immemorial , God has made his way into society in one form or the other. More out of fear of compliance and less on account of a fairer next life.

For whatever it is worth, it still keeps the semblance of order in a society, who fears God more then the law of the land.

I have been largely atheist and for me all form of prayers and acts of pleasing God are unacceptable. God surely does not need prayers for its fullfilment. The best prayer would still be the service to mankind.

All the rituals and fancies are but the " Devotional Entertainment "

Thankfully, a large portion of society still finds its hope and peace with an abstract thought of " God "

In China, when I travel, they ask me, what is God, I dont see him anywhere, why should I believe in him. Have the Chinese not flourished over the years without a God taking care of them.

Year 2011

Though I should have written on January 1, 2011 about the forthcoming year, yet it is not too late to make my predictions.

Year 2011, by way of numerology will be one of the bad years in the history of mankind.

One can easily expect all kind of natural disasters like Flooding, draught, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, fatal accidents and unforeseen disasters.

The Oil prices will again start shooting, commodities will again start moving up and inflation will rise. Food crisis might occur in many countries, Stock markets will fall and generally there will be a weaker economic index. Many governments will fall in this year. Corrupt officials will come under firing line. Employment index will fall. Dollar will fall and Gold will rise.

The only investments that would do good will be into Food and Allied Products and Technology. Both these areas will show good returns.

There is also a chance of war in the Middle East.

As a whole, the year is not too good for large investments and it would be wise to restraint yourself with any new venture.

By the last quarter of this year, things would start easing out and good order will return.

Take care in the year 2011.