RE: Selling Dreams

Dear Koshika,

I will certainly keep writing

I have written some for the youth as well .  One of these days , I will send you list / links

In the meantime , take a look at what I posted today on several web sites

It is important to shed arrogance / holier-than-thou attitude - especially in TV interviews & debates

AAP representatives can still make their points forcefully . It will be more effective if they learn to listen / not interrupt other panel members and wait for their turn

regards

hemen

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Freedom    of   Speech    ?

Today , on Nehru's birthday , I am reminded of his following speeches :

>    Our tryst with destiny

>    A light has gone out of our lives

Then there were other memorable speeches in the distant past, viz:

>    Mahatma Gandhi     (  Quit India  )

>    Martin Luther King   (  I have a dream  )

>    Abraham Lincoln       (  Of the people / by the people / for the people  )

>    Winston Churchill     (  Never have so many owed so much to so few  )

>    Brutus                     (  but Caesar is an honorable man  )

Then I end up comparing some " famous " recent speeches , viz:,

>    Sonia Gandhi           (  Maut ka Saudaagar  )

>    Narendra Modi         (   Khooni  Panjaa  )

>    Rahul Gandhi           (  ISI  )

>    Kapil Sibal                (  No loss in 2G scam  )

>    Manish Tewari           (  Anna is most corrupt  )

>    Ranjeet Sinha            (  Enjoy rape  )

>    Naresh Agarwal          ( Tea vendor cannot be PM  / even a Madari collects crowds  )

No doubt , amongst the living politicians , " Freedom of Speech " has totally different connotations  !

For them , apparently , it means,

"  License to Kill ( - if words can kill  !  ) "

Obviously , Gandhian Anna Hazare  is pained

In his TV interview with Rajat Sharma yesterday , he expressed his anguish at the lowly depths to which , political mud-slinging has descended during current election campaign

Whether he / she is a leader of any political party , all politicians are talking the same language , the language of ,

PHP   =   Power Hungry Politicians

Who cares for ,

C = Civility / Code of Conduct / Courtesy  ?

I  miss T N Sheshan   !

*    hemen   parekh   (  14   Nov   2013  )

From: Aam Aadmi [mailto:contact@aamaadmiparty.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:38 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: Selling Dreams

Dear Mr.Parekh,

Thanks for your mail. We value your time.

Its really good to read such eminent blogs. Keep writing. Words have a power to change the course of time. It is said that Pen is mightier than sword. Hope you write some blogs for our youth to imbibe a feeling of patriotism in them.

Regards
Koshika Saxena

Team AAP

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

Dear Koshika,

Of course , I will keep supporting you - as much as I can , sitting far away in Mumbai

I hope you had an opportunity to look-up my previous blogs ( supporting AAP ) on ............www.hemenparekh.in > Blogs

Here is one that I posted this morning - and plan to post it as " Comments " on 200+ web sites

Regards

hemen

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Whose   Bapu   ?

There was a time

When you were our Bapu,

A Mahatma ;

For a life-time long

A tortured Atma ;

To wash away the sins of your children

You died a martyr's death ;

Now those very children

Have opened-up a shop

To sell " Gandhi-ism " ;

They are even maintaining

Two separate books of accounts,

One for income from " Unknown Sources ",

Strictly as required by the law !

Even out of curiosity

Do not venture

Anywhere near ;

No one will recognize you

Without your NSG / Z+ bodyguards  !

And children from city slums

Will chase you , shouting ,

" Ben Kingsley , Ben Kingsley ",

And when they ask you for your autograph ,

Do not sign,

" Mo Ka Gandhi "  !

Just pretend that you are Ben Kingsley,

TV cameras , Reporters , Anchors

Will  follow in your footsteps ;

Just forget that

You were our Bapu  !

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Free translation from my Gujarati poem , dated 30, Jan 1984

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*    hemen  parekh   (  13   Nov   2013  )

From: Aam Aadmi [mailto:contact@aamaadmiparty.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:00 AM

To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: Selling Dreams

Dear Mr.Parekh,

Thanks for your mail. We value your time.

Its really good to know that you are participating in this democratic process.
Keep supporting us. Your mails are a great adrenalin booster.
Revolutions are brought by people and for us  Indians the time has come. Lets all raise to the occasion and roar together to uproot corruption. Vote and encourage all Delhi voters to vote and support AAP in the upcoming Election in December!!

Regards

Koshika Saxena

Team AAP

Connect with us on Social Network:

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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

Dear  Koshika

Thank you for responding

And for your assurance that your manifestos will contain  "  Time Bound Action Plans  " - one for each constituency

In this context , you may want to read my earlier blogs , supporting AAP and its cause

Please visit and look-up.....www.hemenparekh.in ........ > Blogs

I reproduce below , my today's blog , which , I have already posted on 100 + web sites

regards and Good Luck !

hemen  parekh

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Thank   You  ,   Mr   Shinde   !

Thank you for ordering a probe into the source of funds received by Aam Aadmi Party  (  AAP  )

Arvind Kejriwal must be thinking ,

"   What a stroke of luck !

    The support of Delhi citizens which we could not garner thru our 3 months

    of campaigning , Mr Shinde has managed for us within minutes , by

    ordering this probe  "

Before the probe , AAP was expecting to win somewhere around 40+ seats in Delhi Assembly Elections

Now , thru his usual bungling , exposing his " Himalayan Hypocricy " , Mr Shinde has assured that AAP ends up with 50+ seats  !

Why ?  What makes me think so  ?

>    At the end of the probe , AAP will come out clean

>    If , AAP managed to recieve Rs 9 Crores in Oct , it may recieve Rs 19

      crores in Nov  !

>    Mr Shinde won't have the courage to order similar probes into the  

      sources of funding of Congress  /  BJP  /  NCP  /  BSP  /  SP  /  CPI etc,

      who have , between them , collected approx Rs 4,900 Crores between

      2004-2011 , of which , 75 % donations are from,

                                    "    Sources  Unknown  "

       (  -  read , own black money re-routed  thru hawaala route  !  )

>    Over the next few weeks , our alert media ( God bless the TV anchors )

      will continue to demand that the political parties offer themselves for

      coverage by RTI Act , as held by CIC , ordered by Supreme Court and

      confirmed by the Attorney General

>    725 million voters , who are fed-up of the corruption and hypocricy of

      Congress , will vote to power ( in 2014 ) , BJP , which , they look upon

      as , "  lesser of the evils  " (  between deep sea and devil  ?  )

>    Upon coming to power , NDA will be forced to amend the Foreign Contri-

      bution Regulations  /  Electoral Reforms Bill / Representation of Peoples

      Act  /  Jan Lokpal Bill etc

Never since our independence , the Nation has owed so much "  thanks  " ,

to one person for his single act of " political suicide "  !

Thank You , once again , Mr Shinde  !

*    hemen   parekh   (   12  Nov   2013  )

 

From: Aam Aadmi [mailto:contact@aamaadmiparty.org]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 9:31 AM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: Selling Dreams

Dear Mr.Parekh,

Thanks for your mail. We value your time. At the outset we are extremely sorry for delaying our response.

We are (for the 1st time in the Country) are going to have our manifesto on local issues & every constituency will have its own manifesto *& for Delhi - there will be one as a whole. Every issue, big or small need to be addressed. Emails like yours will help us change the system.

Please wait for our manifesto to be announced, we will have complete transparency in all the systems & there will be simple one liner " either perform or leave" - the employees are being paid from the tax payers money, this need to understand the by employees & we will have citizen charter in place.

Regards

Koshika Saxena

Team AAP

Connect with us on Social Network:

AAP National Page - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiParty
AAP website - http://aamaadmiparty.org/
AAP twitter - https://twitter.com/@aamaadmiparty
Party Help Line number: 09718500606 (9 A.M. to 9 P.M. - 7 days a week)

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

Selling   Dreams   ?

Yesterday , on ABP TV , Arvind Kejriwal ( Aam Aadmi Party ) promised to Delhiwallas , unbelievable improvements in ,

>   Healthcare

>   Education

>   Electricity Supply & Prices

>   Safe drinking water ,       etc

Apart from a Jan LokPal

Provided , Delhiwallas vote AAP to an absolute majority ( he expects 48 seats ) , on 4th Dec

At the moment , it appears that he has succeeded in selling a dream  !

That is one kind of ability that most politicians do possess

But most of them woefully lack the second kind of ability , viz:

>   Management of expectations raised , thru delivering on promises made

It does not take a genius , much hard work or a lot of money , if your promise is :

>   35 Kg of free rice per month to each poor family

I hope 71 constituency-wise manifestos that AAP promises to publish by this week-end , do not contain such " Insults " to people suffering for so long  !

Delivering on promises made by AAP , will require :

>     A time bound ACTION PLAN ( Roadmap ) with quantitative Achievement

      Targets ( Milestones )

>     A " Resource Mobilization Plan " which clearly spells out ,

       *   How much money will be required for each initiative ( budgetary

         allocations )

       *    How ( from where ) this money will be raised ?

           Raising taxes is bad !  Borrowing is worse  ! Begging Central Govt is

           worst  ! Can you save from " leakages " ?

>      Transparent procedures , open to public scrutiny

>      A honest / corruption-free / committed bureaucracy to implement

>      Non - interference by elected MLAs

>      How will public be involved ?

>      Which third party will measure the " Actual vs Targetted " performance

        and publish the audited results, and  how often ?

Surely ,drawing up and monitoring such a Project Plan , cannot be a Rocket Science for  IIT /  IIM whizkid volunteers of AAP , when their classmates at ISRO are launching Mars Orbiter Mission ( MOM ) today  !

If AAP manages to display this second kind of post-election " Performance Ability " , then it will truly herald  an " Indian Spring " and re-write the rules of how elections will get fought in State / National elections

Good Luck , Arvind !

*    hemen  parekh   (  05  Nov  2013  )

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

Mumbai