Wish list 2011

Welcome 2011. Having seen past 2010 across the memory lane, at a popular sea side beach in Konkan, I had a great start to 2011. Reason for that being Indian teams drawn series in SA. It had never happened be it 1992, 1996, 2001, 2006. It used to be same old story of tendulkar hitting century in losing cause. It happened same at Centurian. But this team is special. It bounces back as they did in Durban and fought in Capetown, But for kallis and some defensive cricket on fourth afternoon , we could have made history.. anyways a great acheivement.

2010 saw corruption taking all limelight. IPL, Adarsh, CWG, telecom. Not say that NDA regimes have been clean, atleast they were functional like we had on roads and infrastructure. UPA1 and UPA2 have failed nation on NREGA, UID whatever projects they undertook. Plus they are corrupt to core. Totally non functional. eg agriculture ministry. Thanks to it, we have unprecedented Inflation esp on food. On oil one can blame global economy, on food we can blame on climate but what about simple steps to avoid supply chain jackups of item cost, hoarding, storage, planning. All that agri ministry is interested in Land around Pune-mumbai, Lavasa and IPL.. Create meaningless controversy on historical greats under name of maratha pride ..

Shivaji was a great king. His biography is lesson to all politicians and so called netas. I see an attempt to make his career drawn on caste lines. We had seen that in past. Great leaders like B R Ambedkar, Mahatma Phule have already been marginalized on caste lines. Every citizen has right to feel proud of these great leaders. But our politicans create heady concoction of caste, religion, vote politics depriving young impressionalbel minds to really understand essence of teachings of these great leaders. what remains is jingoism

Another trend I see is unaccountable power enjoyed by non democratic power house which is first family. They hold no constitutional post apart from being MPs. But they have unlimited power. Its high time they should get on some post in governance.

Our fight against terrorism is also politicized by serious attempts made to color the terrorism on religious lines. This will weaken our fight. Also no concrete steps are taken to follow vigilance, alertness, preparedness to fight terrorism or naxalism.

Only effective people we have is FM, Home minister, Ramesh, Sibal on educational reforms. PM himself should come out of political compulsions and loyalties to revive all above as he did in 1991 with help of PV Narsimharao , a great leader maligned by petty politics. Thats my dream for 2011.

On economy side recession seems over apparrently. Though in US and Europe experts disagree. Here in India, job market has picked, so has sensex (which had greatest loss in a day due to inflation). But let there be no unreal growth story this time. Let us all follow correct valuations , let managers not leverage out of mob mentality. Let job market not result in unrealistic wage demands. We can thus lose cost competitiveness without really going up value chain (many companies claim that but differ when it comes to numbers and scrutiny). Let real estate prices be realistic atleast in urban india. else housing will be unaffordable for many.
Government should play active role in ensuring supply of land in non corrupt manner, with proper planning of environmental and growth issue (plan for next 20 yrs).

Our growth story for last two decaded and so called rise has only few dimension: consumerism from large middle class, innovation in IT/education/manufacturing, good manpower and liberalization in that order. It all was private initiative with out any significant Governance done except for what P V Narsimharao govt did in 1991 and what rajeev gandhi did in 1986, and infrastructure focus in A B Vajpayee govt in 2001. Another problem is non inclusive growth. Anyone can drive 5 kms from city limits to understand stark difference in basic life defining parameters.Time to go to villages for nationally inclined youth. Thats when we can do real nation building.

Tasks are enormous. But let 2011 be a good start towards that. It will define our survival as nation after two decades. Its very important for me as i have my daughter who will live then. Thats how everyone should think. Starting with me doing things very important: save environment, follow rules, vote, and so on....

The change starts with me. Then only we can change system and yes system can be changed. It has to. ....

last point in my wishlist is that India should win world cup 2011 and Pune team shoudl win IPL, and i lose few kgs,.....