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संतुलन के सरोकार और समांतर की खोज समझ को अक्सर दिग्भ्रमित कर देती हैं। तुलनात्मक उपागम अत्यंत सावधानी की मांग करता है, अन्यथा सामान्य और विकृत समान रूप से प्रतिष्ठापित हो जाते हैं।

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वैश्विक सकल घरेलू उत्पाद में हमारी हिस्सेदारी

भारत का वैश्विक सकल घरेलू उत्पाद (जीडीपी) में हिस्सा 3.37 प्रतिशत है। हमारा प्रयास होना चाहिए कि अधिकतर भारतीयों के जीवन काल में यह कम से कम 20 प्रतिशत हो जाए। यह विकसित देशों के तुल्य संतोषजनक  मानक जीवन शैली प्राप्त करने के लिए तो आवश्यक है ही (विकसित देशों की वैश्विक जीडीपी में हिस्सेदारी उनकी वैश्विक आबादी के प्रतिशत से चार से पाँच गुणा ज्यादा है), राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा के लिए भी अपरिहार्य है (चीन का 17.86 प्रतिशत है)। देश की सामरिक शक्ति अंततः आर्थिक शक्ति पर ही निर्भर करती है।

कोई पूछ सकता है कि अन्य सरोकारों का क्या होगा? उत्तर यह है कि अन्य समस्याओं को दूर कर ही हम इस लक्ष्य को प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। उदाहरण के लिए गुणवत्तापूर्ण शिक्षाव्यवस्था, चिकित्सासेवा, कानून व्यवस्था, तथा जेन्डरन्याय आदि के बिना यह संभव ही नहीं है।

यदि किसी कार्यक्रम या योजना से जीडीपी वृद्धि दर अप्रभावित रहती है अथवा नकारात्मक रूप से प्रभावित होती है, तो वह कार्यक्रम के लक्षित समस्या का निदान नहीं होगा बल्कि समस्या को लेकर भ्रम फैलाना होगा।

जो कवि-साहित्यकार, दार्शनिक आदि उदारीकरण का विरोध करते हैं, उन्हें भी अच्छी आमदानी होगी। अभी तक के आर्थिक सुधारों का फायदा उन्होंने देखा है। उनमें से कुछेक तो चार्टर्ड हवाईजहाजों से सफर करते हैं।

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Intellectuals

Professional intellectuals, in particular social scientists, have unavoidably to live a dual life. An intellectual is first a subject and actor in social life and secondly a neutral observer and interpreter of institutions and processes. In the first role, they may be passionate activists and in the second role, they are neutral observers and resource providers for corrective or progressive recourse.

Marxism advocates activist intellectualism. They make a gross fallacy. The sway of teleologism and economic determinism over the intellectuals of this school is a telling example of intellectualism gone wrong. First, the doctrine asserts that social dynamics are determined by their scientific rules and contradicting the same, its successive ideologues kept on devising comprehensive plans and organisations for social action and resorted to propaganda to make what they perceived as scientific inevitability happen. In fact, they were trying to make up for a deficient doctrine.

The point here is that an intellectual has a greater role than just acting and reacting in response to events and has to rise above personal likes and dislikes. They need to delve deeper and find out causes and underlying currents to identify the true nature of social phenomena and to suggest means to improve societal practices and direct the social dynamics in a desirable direction.

A passionately activist intellectual mostly thinks unilinear and takes a predicament as a given, which they seek to fight with the force of sheer numbers or by making loud noises. They also turn partisan as a result of this proclivity and mainly play the role of cheerleaders or mourners as per the fate of their chosen outfit. They also do not serve their group as they can only charge their fellow activists emotionally and they do not point to the strengths and weaknesses of their programme or agenda or of those of their adversaries.

Intellectuals need to review their professional role with some seriousness.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Democracy in India

Democracy in India has deep roots. It is in its civilization. Those who are not aware of or do not have a feel of India's civilizational traditions and heritage wonder at the success of democracy in India. The fact is simple; when India gained independence, all the factors which the Westerners regarded as compulsory for democracy to grow and flourish were missing. It happened despite everything and India remained a democracy, particularly in a global scenario where even today nearly half of the world's countries have yet to gain the dignity of being meaningfully democracies. There is no other factor than its civilization, which places India in this extraordinary and exceptional position.

However, this is not to say that the Indic civilization underwent a sudden transformation to democracy on its strength alone. The process was seeded during the colonial rule itself and other factors came into play supporting and catalysing the makeover.

Two factors which supported the process were the rise of the middle class and later the growth of Indigenous industrial capitalism in the early twentieth century.

It is the combination of these two factors, which made India survive the collectivist experimentation for nearly four decades.

Now, India is in the process of recovery; though the intellectual scape is still to be cleaned of the collectivistic pathogens.

Let my country awake.

Niraj Kumar Jha

राजनीति और व्यापार

दो परिघटनाएँ जो जीवन और विकास के लिए सबसे जरूरी हैं, उनकी संज्ञाओं को हम नकारात्मक अर्थों में लेते हैं। राजनेता भी कहते सुने जा सकते हैं कि यह राष्ट्रीय महत्व का मुद्दा है, इस पर राजनीति नहीं होनी चाहिए। लोग अक्सर कहते हैं कि शिक्षा अथवा चिकित्सा का व्यापार नहीं होना चाहिए। 

हमारी हर समस्या का समाधान और बेहतरी का उपाय राजनीति से निकलता है और वे सभी चीजें जो हमारे जीवन को संभव बनाती हैं, भोजन, वस्त्र, आवास, दवाइयाँ, आवागमन के साधन इत्यादि, व्यापार के माध्यम से ही हमें उपलब्ध होती हैं।

 
हमें पाखंडियों के प्रभाव को नकारना होगा और जीवन के सबसे प्रभावशाली निर्धारकों के प्रति सकारात्मक दृष्टि अपनानी ही होगी। हमें समझना होगा कि व्यापार से उत्पन्न धन राजनीति को पोषित करता है और राजनीति का प्रधान कार्य व्यापार को निष्कंटक करना है।

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GDP Growth

It is the GDP growth, which decides the destiny of a nation. The economy is the belly, which feeds both, the muscles and brain of a country. A robust economy can only sustain and strengthen the military capability, intellectual prowess, and cultural vibrancy of our country.

 
Citizens must demand and strive to strike the GDP growth rate in double digits. A double-digit growth would imply doing away with all the ills in society, which bother us. Good quality education and affordable and advanced medical facilities for all are the basics for the economic takeoff and for the long haul, it must be sustainable environmentally too.

 
LPG, i.e., liberalization, privatization and globalisation we need to rethink for growth today. We must make our national ecology most favourable for entrepreneurship. Only when we have globally competitive Indian corporations, including arms industries, we can become a great power. We must expand globally to source raw materials and sell our products.

 
It is the national good on which depends the good of everyone. If the nation is powerful, everyone is secure; and if the nation prospers everyone will have a comfortable life. We have seen this happening and now we know how to make our future even better.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha

जीवन का सार

मानव सृजन करता है कल्पनाओं का अलग संसार

बना लेता है निकाल उसका सार जीवन का आधार

व्याकुल मध्य अस्तित्व के अबूझ अपरिमित विस्तार

समझता नहीं कि उसकी सीमा ही है जीवन का सार

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