
#Farmers'_welfare: The state of ambivalence... #2_10_20
*Ever lovable Bapu, your 'Hind Swaraj' was an excellent text but unscrupulously banned by the then colonisers, I am sure you would have found today many more sympathisers..
*'Hind Swaraj' is a masterpiece, that projected your duty to remove our prejudice...
* In a dialogue that follows in there, where you outlined 'four themes' to structure your arguments, the situations today are ridiculing the naysayers now as they seem to have become all the more important...
Bapu, let's have a look at Bharat-2020:
* Never before the produce from the farms has ever been so large , yet never before the neglect has ever set in the psyche where from every other thing starts (unsustainable agri-practices); never before, for the good, 'the whole was meant to be greater than sum of its parts' and never before the need was felt to put all the minds together to mend the divisive hearts... You see Bapu, in this age of mechanisation, bulls now roam on the roads and destroy crops as they don't have to pull anymore the redundant bullock carts...
* Obsolete trading arrangements so far didn't do much good, overburdened procurement system thus had to serve the rotten food; Government alone would have sorted the things out only if it could, the 'base of the economy'(Agriculture) ought to be simplified now where 'transparent & accountable system' will be collectively put...
*I have read somewhere, that, Reforms of the modern world can only be in progression, as the fundamentals are still laid down by the comfortable traditions; but, the government in general is directed by the contemporary obsessions where the room is less to rely on bold predictions...
*It's a common understanding today, that, without strong 'institutional arrangements' laissez-faire policy may harm lakhs of unorganised small-farmers who have not been empowered so far, & Corporates can't thrive without their profit motive unless the effectiveness of government-observation is not at its par!
*I fathom, that 'Free market' is projected as an ideal system, where as 'MSP' is declared just as the pessimists' insurance... still, a strong institutional arrangement will have to be there as a referee to check the unruly's arrogance...don't you think?
*Every commodity has a value chain & the cost effectiveness of a product in the end depends on how well the chain was streamlined, ailing APMC has been symptomatic of a disease —left uncured by the dosage of transparency and accountability when there was time...
~Profiteering, black marketing, commission khori, & other malpractices have brought for the indulged some real peaches & plums, whoever refutes to corroborate with me on this is a real blind+deaf+dumb!!!
*Agri-products experience uniform demand throughout the year, but the production of the same(mostly) is season bound; affected by the diversity in consumption preferences and resources available, I can only hope that this call for "One nation one market"—about the state subject—becomes in the end a familiar sound!
*Private Company's religion is reduced to just making profit and a farmers religion is still to cultivate it's land...dont you think, that, unless the established contracts are long lasting and reliable, the reassurance by the government machinery will fail to bring out a symbiotic blend!?
* The dissipated spirit of rural India today needs to be timely revived, with the greater bargaining power the 'option of survival' will transform into an 'opportunity to thrive'!
* Ironically, the motives to raise the profit margins is unable to serve in general the public interest well, such classic dilemma is a feature of a developing world today where mutually contradicting yet equally favourable choices in general make up the groundswell!
*Helpless government today, is pushing hard to rope in corporates to do business via their own commercial depots; I am afraid, that I can't describe you yet the veiled face of those 'New-gen Benevolent Despots'...
* Every small farmer wants to run away from the hardships brought in by the ownership of land that has gone dysfunctional, & the cause of this insecurity is somewhat cultural and somewhat structural...
*Urbanisation has now turned out to be the growth engines, but the trailing rural India has been desperately asking to be granted the eponym of a 'dependent self-sustenance'...
*Bapu, we are now hoping to see the '#Smart_Cities' become accommodative of the overwhelming newness, & the flashy '#16_Point_plan' for agriculture receives the proper execution... We also hope to see this hybridisation to work out just fine with better services supporting the #new-economy, & the older-one(Agriculture) receives the pertinent Investment...
* Bapu, there used to be a functional Opposition besides the ruling party, but now it's being sweeped & cornered, & forced to remain invisible; the basic virtues of democracy are in danger now and so at stake are the other harmonising symbols...
*You were the real leader, Bapu—the leader of the mass... Our leaders now, are as good as the followers allow them to be and their present defiance is a reflection of the precedent set in the recent past; in today's society, unruliness & corruption is no longer a taboo & the isolated examples of honesty are now becoming the real outcaste...
*They are now resorting to the practice of even hyphenating the abbreviations, sneakily bringing ordinances to skip the discussion—the marrow of communication...
See Bapu, what has become of your Once argumentative Nation!
*They don't talk without creating raucous and indulging in altercations, and always seem concerned about their eye catching presentations...
*You must be knowing that such unruliness is not the rule but an aberration, but don't you think that ceaseless abrasion can be the cause of permanent corrosion!
*People like me can't even show concern out of the fear of condemnation... See Bapu, what has become of your once benevolent nation!
*You see, our fearfulness is nothing but the symptom of misinformation and our rage is the outcome of this fear of unknown, they don't care to allay our fears by way of attending to the concerns properly, & then they expect us to be influenced by whatever topical interest they might have ever shown...
see Bapu, this is the true state of your people once cared & protected like children of your own...
*We see our leaders with awe for the audacity they have, and we keep on wondering that how easily they get away with all that...
* But, we won't lose faith in humanity, as once you rightly directed, not to ever lose faith in it; the ocean doesn't becomes dirty because of few dirty drops, so long as the substance is pure along with the pith...
Under your shadow we are unafraid of any threat—guided by your saying:" If you don't ask, you don't get"!
*We only hope in the end that our grievances signify the degree of the experienced distress, and are to be taken in good stead, as you only once acclaimed,that "Agreement to disagree is often a good sign of progress".
Rest in peace, Mahatma.
नमन । चरण वंदन।
Yours faithfully
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