If anyone takes a Mudra loan for crackers shop, with the sort of retrospective laws India comes up with, should banks be punished for granting loan to setup an illegal business? Besides, after years of normalisation, this Damocles Sword can't be ignored.
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Sad to say, we are in a situation where criminalization of Hindu festivals and arrests for flimsy reasons is being normalized. Three more years, if people say they arrested him for bursting crackers, we won't outrage. We will be saying Usme kya nayi baat.
On the spur decisions like banning crackers while preparations for procurement takes months - how does it encourage Atmanirbhar Bharat and Ease of Doing Business? How many crackers manufacturers lost jobs because of this ban?
And with this unpredictability in policy over such flimsy an affair, who would want to invest in India? This makes me wonder if this is the reason why a part of India is tagged as BIMARU. States with rational and forward looking policies on one side,
states with quixotic policies on the other. Don't be surprised if we see a new BIMARU and new progressive lots. Palaniswamy was desperate. He was literally begging states to allow people to buy crackers. Almost five lakh jobs are at stake. Where will he bring new jobs from?
And it's not as if this ban is scientific. Rather than banning Diwali, issuing Work From Home Orders for the next whole month will control pollution more better. All we ask is Consistency, Rationality and non-vindictiveness.
Last year Diwali - the reply I gave - so, because you want to use ACs and cars, you want me to stop burning crackers?
This year - rather than creating a tamasha over one hour crackers, stop using vehicles to move inside the community or buy medicines from the shop at the gate.
This year - rather than creating a tamasha over one hour crackers, stop using vehicles to move inside the community or buy medicines from the shop at the gate.
Two hours - that's all its about. No one is talking about California Wildfires. Their pollution footprint is more than total India's annual footprint. No one wants to talk about farm fires. Or about vehicle density. Did Diwali become a bigger issue than all of them?
All I ask, be rational and be considerate. Besides, I will want to say India is not a Hindu state. It's a secular state and by default has no right to fix Hindu religious stuff - unless it takes concurrence of elders of the religion. Religion has the veto power, not the state.
It can coax and cajole them to extract what it wants from them but it can never reject their opinion on matters dealing with Hindu religion - be it Pashubali or be it social distancing during Bathukamma. If religion says it's needed, it's needed. PERIOD.
A judge was equating Asaucha because of menses with manual scavenging. A non-Hindu judge was deliberating over Hindu religious stuff using Quran and Guru Granth Sahib as reference. The same judge has gone ballistic when his religion is brought into the ambit of the discussion.
A civil servant was browbeating an officiating priest bybsaying your vintage rules are not for this generation. Common Civil Code for one religion and Religious Code for another even if it clashes Universal Human Rights. A non-Hindu can have rights but a Hindu can't?
Where exactly in the world schools are classified based on the religion of the owner and not on what is taught in the schools? Where exactly in the world dominant religion is constitutionally subjugated to let minorities have a free run? Such things need an immediate fix.
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