[Reader-list] National wastage system.?

[Inder Salim]

Dear Rajan

Apparently it looks that  people in general have a tendency to measure
everything with what they approve for themselves. however that  too is
often limited to our selfish motives.  the trouble begins when we are
face to face with the  voiceless , whose number  in india happens to
be in millions. right


now you are scared by " a Arundhati Roy " whom you feel has declared
as a sovereign nation herself, while using all the resources of the
nation.  Note all the resources of the nation.

 what do you expect from her,  .......she should hold a constitution
of India in her pocket like a bible to prove loyality to India?. or
her dial tone should be Vande Mataram, etc etc
 may i know how you prove you loyalty to Soverign India by serving the
nation first and  yourself later.

May i know the charge agaimst Ms Roy?

tell me, who  amongst us on the List, is not the beneficiary of the
system...... against those millions of Indians who are facing the
wall, and whose miseries will not disappear with one National I Card.

 how we are suddenly so full of virtues that we see others full of vices.

And if you think a Govt. or a constitution cant be questioned, even,
............then it is almost impossible to make a simple cartoon in
the newspaper.

Dont they amend the rules and constitution  as and when it suits the
people at the helm,
have you ever questioned that procedure. or you think these topiwallas
in Parliament have birth right to assault the simple indians. and
nobody from outside should question....

alas, that we dont want to support courageous voices, like Roy's .

with love
inder salim












On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rajen Uppinangadi
<rajen882uppinangadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Taha,
>
>   no piece of plastic or paper can give me national identity unless I
> identify myself with the nation of which I am citizen.
>     A Arundhathi Roy  and such others, born in the nation declaring herself
> as sovereign nation herself, but using all the resources of the nation is
> the worst example of bad citizen.As I identify with this nation, which gives
> me right by my act of accepting its constitution as democratic nation, also
> implies that it ordains duties on me to the nation.So, the venture of
> providing the plastic piece for id as citizen at huge cost is not a big
> issue but a ploy to divert big money in to busines of the venture.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rajen.
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Rajen,
>>
>> All that is commendable however my questions were about a more mundane
>> matter. They were about plastic tokens. I would be grateful if you
>> could share your thoughts about what seems like a whim to invest such
>> a huge amount of public money on a national identity card. When even
>> in so called developed countries like UK, people are asking questions
>> about the validity of such an investment.
>>
>> Do you think we would be better off as a nation in 2011, when the
>> survey related to the national population register would be complete?
>> If yes, then in what manner? How will a NPR benefit the country as a
>> whole? How do we know that funds appropriated for such an exercise
>> will not be directed for purposes of political patronage? What about
>> margin of error by the data entry people? When even in this general
>> election we have hundreds of thousands of instances of names being
>> fudged, addresses being misplaced and a submission by a minister
>> himself that it is not possible to identify all the voters. How are we
>> going to identify all Indians? How are we going to categorize people
>> who are undocumented as Indians in the first place? What about people
>> belonging to the third sex? What about migrant population? What about
>> beggars? Who will document them? How will they be documented? There
>> are 300-400 million transient population in India. IDP's add to this
>> figure. If on the one hand there seems to be no thought by the policy
>> makers on this issue, then don't you think, that this whole identity
>> card business seems like one more big scam, a money making enterprise,
>> inaugurated by the NDA and followed by the UPA in the name of
>> providing security to the people?? Even the most fundamental issue,
>> like the identity of person is still not resolved, why are we being
>> fed this propaganda that carrying a card will help us identify
>> ourselves as ourselves?
>>
>> Taha
>>
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