Letter to the Prime Minister!!!

Hi People. 

I have today written a letter to the Prime Minister & also to the Chief Minister (Maharashtra). The contents below are self explanatory. Few of you may feel that I am wasting my time but I sincerely feel that somewhere we have to make a start and raise our voice unitedly that its heard & heard loud & clear. 

Recent past has seen many a stir caused by us "youth" and simply on social media & just forwarding and forwarding so much that it reaches the right ears!!!

I dont know how many of you agree to all or some but thats my opinion and voice. I just dont want to live but live a quality life.

Read and circulate if you are with me!!!!

Cheers!!!!

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1 Feb 2013

To,

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister of India

Office: PMO, South Block, New Delhi

Tel: 23012312, 23013149

Fax: 23016857

Email: pmosb@pmo.nic.in

Dear Prime Minister Sir,

Subject: Why should we pay taxes?

Please tell me why should we pay taxes when;

• Roads are not in condition
• Basic civic facilities are absent
• Your local representatives are not to be seen when needed
• My locality is so filthy that I feel awkward calling people home
• I pay out of nose to buy a house, keep it beautiful & welcoming but when I move out, my locality is appalling
• When I have paid my taxes, why should I bear the brunt
• Your representatives are only visible when there is hooliganism / power play
• My locality if plastered with banners wishing birthdays, anniversaries, promotions despite it being illegal but administration does NOTHING
• I see more of banners, less of greens
• More filth / garbage than people
• Footpaths are all encroached upon by vendors, shops etc & hence people are forced to walk on the roads
• There are vehicles parked on the road meant for driving leaving just ONE LANE to drive
• Parking on these roads are increasing by the day
• As a motorist, what privilege do I have when if someone bangs into my vehicle, I have to pay? When people walk on the roads (which are actually meant for motors, and despite being very careful) if someone gets injured, vehicle owner pays. Which mean I pay for someone else’s negligence?
• Everyone has the right to speak or demonstrate, while only the powerful (read political parties, unions, associations etc) are able to speak & demonstrate more (their power) for their own benefits
• Do we have an “aam janta” union, association, party etc through which, we make our voices heard?
• Recession comes, common man suffers, inflation happens; common man suffers. You allow auto fares to rise just because it’s costly to live in Mumbai, but who pays for the fare – a common man. Even then, we are deprived of a ride citing various reasons.
• I truly believe that PUBLIC TRANSPORT is for public but it’s the public who suffers the most in the hands of this public transport.
• Public transport is supposed to reduce traffic hassles, pollution, traffic density etc but when common man is subjected to rejections, who do we run to?
• If inflation has hit these rickshaw drivers, how do you think it has left a middle man unaffected? Ours salaries are not growing at the rate of inflation sir!
• We the common man, are the softest target for the power players, to arm twist while we suffer the most. Rickshaw unions strike for a raise in fare let the common man suffer.
•  Mumbai metro was a dream and then we saw some work happening, but alas – cities like Bangalore who started much later than Mumbai, have a phase or two operational already, while we are still dreaming.
• The infrastructure budgets swell like crazy and who do you think pays for the hike in these costs?
• We are forced to live a life of compromises despite paying every single rupee in tax with honesty.

• Please tell me can we stop paying taxes until “all is well” like every other power players, who arm-twists you in submission in the name of a common man but having ulterior motives?
• Doctors go on strike when their demands are not met while patients die for want of medical aid. I believe they take oath before bring granted certificates that it’s for people good that they are in this profession and NOBODY forced them, then why a common man should suffer?
• Who hears our plea sir!
• We make all the fuss over someone Indian achieving anything abroad....have you ever thought what have we as country done or given them to succeed in life. They are Indians by chance...sir!
• Sunita Williams and the likes are all praised but please look within you and ask yourself what have you done for them to achieve such fete in life? Has anyone born & brought up in India been able to achieve greater heights?-       Sports persons struggle for basic sports gear while we are busy making noise about something that we have no contribution in.
• Why does it always take a heinous crime to wake us up and formulate a law?
• If we just start to think local and act national, we shall be in a better tomorrow.
• Why when in a brawl between a civilian and a government officer, the civilian is punished / taken to task while the government official is let go? Is it not the law same for both? If a civilian is detained, why the government official be left out.

The list can go on and you must be aware about it sir, but unfortunately the action is not seen neither felt.

Please do something about it before it is too late sir!

Humbly yours,

Naveen Jalan

Mumbai, India

It is TIME!!!

Here I am re-iterating some thoughts thrown at me by someone!

I personally think, it is TIME. Its TIME to say 'enough', its TIME to say 'no' - to injustice, to chalta hai attitude, to corruption. Its TIME to 'speak up'

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Winds of Change....

Forward this email to as many people on your contact list as you can; and in
turn ask each of them to do likewise.

In three days, most people in India will have this message.

This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Reform Act of 2012*

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
Parliamentarians collect a salary while in office but should not
receive any pay when they're out of office.

2.  Parliamentarians should purchase their own retirement plans, just
as all Indians do.

3. Parliamentarians should no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Their pay should be linked to the CPI or 3%, whichever is lower.

4. Parliamentarians should lose their current health care system and
participate in the same health care system as the Indian people.

5. Parliamentarians should equally abide by all laws they impose on
the Indian people.

6. All contracts with past and present Parliamentarians should be void
with immediate effect.

The Indian people did not make this contract with them.
Parliamentarians made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Parliament is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only
take three days for most people in India to receive the message. Don't
you think it's time?

If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.

You are one of the 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks.
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When you know that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission
from men who produce nothing,
When you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but
in favours,
When you see that men get rich more easily by graft rather than by work,
and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them
against you......
you know that your society is doomed

~ AYN RAND in "Atlas Shrugged"
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if you feel its TIME, please forward!
Vande Matram!!!

Aam Aadmi - The Mango Man....

The recent times have been tough for "the mango man" aka Aam Aadmi. With all the corruptions, Inflation, lay-offs etc that we read all day in the news. Today, news of these kind fill up the news papers. Some one blaming the other for corruption, editors / columnists writing pages on the issues. Government trying to justify inflation, at the same time releasing a survey that a Aam Aadmi earning Rs 32 or more (even a paisa more...) a day can be termed as above poverty line.Lay-offs has become a way in the corporate world. 

All this and more effects only the aam aadmi and no one else. This Aam Aadmi is at the mercy of all and sundry. Employers, Govt., service providers, to the extent that the people whom this aam aadmi trusts in their daily chores of life - viz, dudhwala, autowalla, buswalla, bhajiwalla, fruitwalla and you know who all I am talking about. All these have a unity of voice and when they are not satisfied with any govt decisions, change in regulations, inflation etc, they unite and make their demands heard. They threaten to strike so that (helpless) people like us suffer and the lives come to halt. We are always the targets for everyone. People make people suffer but eventually the helpless bread earner of the house suffers.

Fuel price hikes, autowalla demand hike in price, vegetables become dearer, you ask why? pat the reply - "mahngayee hai sahab...", you pay more for the transport, you pay more for everything that matters. Everybody who has a united voice put the people on tender hooks, on ransom and get their voices heard for which this aam aadmi has to pay. Their income do not increase with relation to the inflation. 

A time has come when we the Mango People need to unite and make our voices heard. Can we actually, NOT pay tax and demand that first our demands be met like, better road, better infrastructure, better life, lower inflation etc etc and then only we shall deposit the taxes? Can we unite & put government on tender hooks this time? Is there a possibility?

I think it is time to raise our voice. UNITE.

Sakhi Sainya....Mehengayee Dayan....Hai!

The other day, I woke up to rude shock yet again: Front Page read: "Milk to get dearer by Rs. 3/- from 16th Feb".

I thought to myself, chalo there still are 10 days left to make the most MALAI(cream). But then again I read elsewhere in the same edition: "Inflation up 17%" and all my MALAI was turned into chaas (Butter Milk). I was a happy man till then & now this inflation has put me back there where i was almost a year back.

The song was released long ago but makes MOST sense to me after this date. I have started to think again, am I earning enough?, should I look for greener pastures? etc. but I read today in the same journal "25000 Flats unsold in Mumbai, up from 16500 last year" corrections expected.

Makes me feel good for some days, some time, or some hours...will wait for tomorrows paper to know.

Keep saving, keep hoping & do good while I sing "Sakhi Sainya to khoob..."