Forward message, worth appreciating.

Its a 1.7 lakh Crore fiscal stimulus package to help the poor tackle the ills of COVID 19:

1) Medical insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh per person for doctors, nurses and sanitation workers.

2) Direct cash transfers for eight categories of beneficiaries, including pensioners, women and the specially-abled.

3) Farmers to get the first installment of Rs 2,000 under the Kisan Samman Nidhi in the first week of April.

4) Wages under the MNREGA scheme increased from the existing Rs 182 to Rs 202.

5) Women Jan Dhan bank account holders to get an ex-gratia amount of Rs 500 per month for next three months.

6) Supply of five kg, of either rice or wheat, and one kilogram of lentil of choice free of cost to poor households every month for three months, in addition to the existing five kilograms of wheat/rice announced earlier.

7) Collateral-free loans worth up to Rs 10 lakh for women self-help groups under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya National Rural Mission scheme, doubled to Rs. 20 lakhs.

😎 Govt. to pay EPF contribution on behalf of both the employee and the employer, for a period of three months, for certain small companies.

9) Withdrawals of up to 75 % of non-refundable advance, or three months of wages from the EPF account, whichever is lower, to be permitted.

Congratulations for these good initiatives Union FM & Team. , which will help the poor in times of need. Well done.

Series on Netflix: I just felt so disgusted to see this series. It’s insane. The director is so Hinduphobia that he wants to show any rubbish to denigrate Hindu way of living. The main villain is the son of a priest in the temple. He goes on killing people and at the end he changes his mind. There is a spiritual guru who wants to end the world and bring back sat yoga, by killing millions of people through nuclear weapon. The height of stupidity is, this Hindu baba is responsible for many wars and stress around the world. Even ISIS is funded by Hindu godman. Only one Sikh cop tries to save the world after few errors. I feel pity on Bollywood that they are completely sold, have got no soul left and there is no creativity.
If u haven’t seen the series, please don’t watch it.

Nirbhaya case: finally she got the justice but as I read in many newspapers, the real culprit got escaped due to his age. What crap it is? If he was measured enough to rape, isn’t he mayured enough to face the consequences. It’s time we bring changes to the system. It sounds really bizarre that law of the country allows rapists to go free because of his age.

Her parents have fought a big and a long battle but it is still not fully done. The battle is on till the law is changed, the main culprit is punished and also those thousands of pending cases of peaceful who think raping women is allowed in their religion are cleared with capital punishment.
When one such man is left alone by the system, the system has actually allowed him to rape another victim. Who is responsible for such acts.

Scindia’s Holi: it is such a pleasurable holi to know Scindia left congress. I had written about piolet and him two years back that they are wasting their talent in Congress. BJP should nurture them to become future CMs of their respective states. They have a strong political background, public support and inclination to serve society. So why not with BJP?
I am not against full family getting involved in politics as long as they work full time and not operate from Bangkok. Nothing wrong in having dynasties in politics as long as the leader doesn’t become Dhritarashtra.

Advice to women: While traveling to peaceful countries you should always say that you have five kids. Even if you are not married. I have experienced such questions many many times by locals in countries like Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt, etc. I realized their intention much later. It was only my intuition that led me to do it. Surprisingly, I have faced this question in every peaceful country in many odd situations and conversations where it is not required to know for them.

Men in these countries can go to any extend to abduct women from anywhere. They don’t fear any cops or any other governments. Today I feel like sharing this horrendous experience I had in one of these countries. I was followed by some men while site seeing, eventually one cop came near to me to ask if I am married which I was not that time. But I said yes. Then he asked me if I have kids. I said five – four boys and 1 girl. So how do I look so young? I said I got married very early as per Indian tradition.

The last question was really scary, am I Hindu? I said yes. Is this country of river Ganga? Yes, it is. So what’s your problem? We are scared of this water as one day it might reach our place and destroy us.
You know what I mean.

It’s time we realise that those bhakta also have families. These volunteers work full time or even part time for the cause of yindoo dharma spend a lot of their energy on various protests across the country. But RSS or BJP never compensate anything to them due to the ideology. Over the long run it will exhaust the energy and create dissatisfaction among supporters.

I have observed that supporters of Congress would get at least basic help while dealing with govt offices or among business communities even when they are not in power. I want RSS and BJP leaders to observe the same and create an ecosystem for these supporters too. It doesn’t mean we encourage corruption in govt offices or pressure any private sector to give any unsolicited favours. But it is important to build a strong circle of supporters who are well-settled or at least financially independent.

After all, the biggest funders are the business communities in any elections. They definitely influence the results and make a difference.

I learned the same while studying the anti CAA protests across the country. They all get paid to be there or to riot. Yindoos have a lot of money but we have never channelised the same towards the supporters.

This is my first time to Gondal. It’s such a beautiful city. The market is buzzing. We stayed at Orchard Palace which is one of the royal palaces of Gujarat. I have decided to promote Saurashtra, the place we originally belong to.

The palace has an amazing collection of vintage cars. The king of the palace has a very good taste of cars which is visible all across the palace. cars.

I am happy to have come here as it’s time to promote our own land.

Why make in #India looks difficult to me: it is very #disheartening to share that we have a long way to go before we become #manufacturing #hub of our own country forget being able to supply to other countries. We are not able to produce what we consume here. We might be self-sufficient in agricultural products but rest of many things we only import.

I am #refurbishing my #house in #Mumbai which I wanted to do for decades. Finally, this year gave me a chance to do it. While dealing with #interior designer I found that 99% of things used to design a house comes from different countries. In the case of furniture, it’s #Italy or China and few other countries. If we produce in #India it’s obviously more costly compare to #China but less compare to Italy.

Even if we make any furniture here, we import every piece of clothes. Even after that, the finishing of any furniture is not up to #international standard. I tried so hard to make maximum things in India but it was just impossible to get that quality which we are used to of.

The biggest problem is labour. Our people are just not interested in perfection. Every work would need at least 3-4 rounds of corrections. They don’t understand the international standard of quality in making any piece. Though we have created some marvellous monuments, temples, palaces and thousands of art pieces. So where is all that knowledge gone? Where is the problem?
Anyone to comment on it?

Today I went to a shop for organic food which is considered to be meant for elite. The 200 gm grapes are worth $60. Which is surely unbelievable as the crops which we used to make organic in the past has become luxury today. The biggest joke of this food is they are packed in plastic bags, what a disaster!
We can sell anything on the name of organic and get away with any stupidity. I did ask the shop keepers that why food is packed in plastic wraps and boxes, he couldn’t reply.
Let’s growing demand for organic food. Ask #organic food without plastic wraps.
The irony and responsibility of the current political pressure for organic agriculture are that, according to research by Rabo India, nearly 65 percent of the country’s cropped section is irrigated and previously considerably “organic by neglect.” With this moderately discrediting term, they suggest that modest farmers, stationed often in the Eastern and North-Eastern areas of the country, ought no alternative besides to farm outdoors synthetic manure or pesticides. Though that is valid in several circumstances, it is likewise true that a notable quantity of them have decided to grow naturally, as their ancestors possess performed for thousands of years.
Numerous have witnessed for themselves the consequences of synthetic farming– soil depletion and deterioration of earth nutrients, lack of nourishment in food, and mortal conditions emanating from the chemicals that inescapably leak into the water board, everything the grounds for the primary requirement for organic foods and agriculture.

This demographic inconsistency shows that the vulnerable section in the organic/commercial series is certification. Following contemporary government policy, it catches four years to a field to be approved as organic. The price of making the statement is a collapsed fee of Rs. 5000, and the document itself take extra Rs. 5000. While certain charges are admissible for the modern industrial organic conservatories, they are equivalent to or larger than a complete year’s salary for the common modest farmer, if the expenses of journey and maneuvers are involved.
India need discover a system to fulfill the stringent worldwide organic measures uninjured if it needs to compete in the global market for organic foods but is there a method to do it outwardly transmitting modest farmers absent in the cold? One inexperienced explication is for the government so anxious to secure India organic to promote these certification expenses rather address it a viable choice for conventional farmers, not simply for neo-organic cooperative fields and conservatories. Banks likewise could implement a further level playing area for inadequate farmers– currently, nearly all bank investments are for pure crop farmers, that is, monoculturalism. While many of these big-business producers utilize dangerous substances and methods, small farmers treating their soil with recycled cellular exhaustion are normally unavailable for support, considerable fewer case rewards.
In the Hindu newspaper’s yearly environmental statement, P.V. Satheesh, Director of the Deccan Development Society, records, “It’s a sobering thought that the farmers producing the best and cleanest food must pay extra to certify, instead of inorganic foods being certified as potentially bad for our health.”