She shivers. She shakes. The old lady of some age, she should have been born some times, stutters under rain drops with champas in a bamboo basket on the pavement outside Vazira Ganesh temple; three champas for Rs.10; she shudders her wares and prices; Rama and Vidya know her for the last 20 years; no bargains; Rama places a tenner on quivering palms. She will be trembling for many more years, on the same terms, me presumes. Shyama on Yogi Nagar Road, displaced by police from Link Road as she and others could be aiding chain snatchers; many families know Shyama from 1990s; from Saphale, 1991 did not mean anything, 2016 means nothing. They are called poor. Outside ruling classes creating and solving 1991 as it hurt them most; politicians, bureaucrats, corporates, bankers, brokers got rid of cribbing controls as it pained them most; took them apart to bloom and boom; in 1991 they ruined India; in 1991 they saved India; for themselves. Locked outside gated communities, the poor had no say. Today, they remain constants. 1991 was and is for the ruling classes. RBI governors including Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan do not think of the poor. Credit policy is about corporates. When the government wrote off Rs.10,000 crore of farm dues, RBI governor, Dr. R.N. Malhotra protested; M. Narasimham suggested Regional Rural Banks; were set up by public sector banks and today are not there. Wonder why Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan has never talked of credit flows to farmers of Bundelkhand and Marathwada; maybe, they are not equations in input-output models. Our economy is the strongest growing at 7 per cent; discounted for inflation it could be around two per cent. IAS-IFS-IPS pasted to files have voted to themselves the best of Seventh Pay; none can get more than them not even soldiers at Siachen; of course, the poor outside are statistics for anti-poverty ideas. Finance Ministry has no cash for MNREGS; so New Delhi thinks up 24x7 retail trade without labour laws; will workers work 12 hours; will they get breaks; will they have a minimum pay; do not ask as the IAS-IFS-IPS, tired attending offices; they have done their best; looked into files of statistics; suits and boots of Niti Ayog know; Sitaram Yechury has no time for labourer or farmer; he is searching for Mao and Lenin quotes; dining with Pinarayi Vijayan; charity is a corporate compulsion; a taxable proposition; protesting adivasis, tribals, North-East are in safe custody of jails. 'They have no democratic sense. Without us the poor will have no India to litter,' argue the ruling class (me belongs to it). Yes, they are what they are. A ghost haunts. Dahl's Big Friendly Giant (BFG), the poor, will be around for long.
Monday, July 4, 2016
1991
She shivers. She shakes. The old lady of some age, she should have been born some times, stutters under rain drops with champas in a bamboo basket on the pavement outside Vazira Ganesh temple; three champas for Rs.10; she shudders her wares and prices; Rama and Vidya know her for the last 20 years; no bargains; Rama places a tenner on quivering palms. She will be trembling for many more years, on the same terms, me presumes. Shyama on Yogi Nagar Road, displaced by police from Link Road as she and others could be aiding chain snatchers; many families know Shyama from 1990s; from Saphale, 1991 did not mean anything, 2016 means nothing. They are called poor. Outside ruling classes creating and solving 1991 as it hurt them most; politicians, bureaucrats, corporates, bankers, brokers got rid of cribbing controls as it pained them most; took them apart to bloom and boom; in 1991 they ruined India; in 1991 they saved India; for themselves. Locked outside gated communities, the poor had no say. Today, they remain constants. 1991 was and is for the ruling classes. RBI governors including Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan do not think of the poor. Credit policy is about corporates. When the government wrote off Rs.10,000 crore of farm dues, RBI governor, Dr. R.N. Malhotra protested; M. Narasimham suggested Regional Rural Banks; were set up by public sector banks and today are not there. Wonder why Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan has never talked of credit flows to farmers of Bundelkhand and Marathwada; maybe, they are not equations in input-output models. Our economy is the strongest growing at 7 per cent; discounted for inflation it could be around two per cent. IAS-IFS-IPS pasted to files have voted to themselves the best of Seventh Pay; none can get more than them not even soldiers at Siachen; of course, the poor outside are statistics for anti-poverty ideas. Finance Ministry has no cash for MNREGS; so New Delhi thinks up 24x7 retail trade without labour laws; will workers work 12 hours; will they get breaks; will they have a minimum pay; do not ask as the IAS-IFS-IPS, tired attending offices; they have done their best; looked into files of statistics; suits and boots of Niti Ayog know; Sitaram Yechury has no time for labourer or farmer; he is searching for Mao and Lenin quotes; dining with Pinarayi Vijayan; charity is a corporate compulsion; a taxable proposition; protesting adivasis, tribals, North-East are in safe custody of jails. 'They have no democratic sense. Without us the poor will have no India to litter,' argue the ruling class (me belongs to it). Yes, they are what they are. A ghost haunts. Dahl's Big Friendly Giant (BFG), the poor, will be around for long.
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