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What kind of education to be planned for successful career?

Now everybody whether educated or uneducated is aware of the term recession. Many of those who were doing self-business have joined industry or hunting for jobs and those who worked in industry are out of jobs and planning for self-business. Things have changed fast and employed or unemployed take decisions in a jiffy.

I have a question in my mind…….which is the most aspired job. To an American it may be a doctor or a lawyer and to us native Indian it is the idea which drives him for a successful career. Here, it is not the matter of aspiration………it is how life takes us with time. We plan a lot about our career with a strong education to become a successful scientist / doctor / research engineer and after a period of time we found in other service industries.

Now the question is what is the need to get that high end education with a lot of money spending on it when we find in the opposite position in the industry. To be continued…….

Don't worry!!! He is on bench...

Goat: Don't worry!!! He is on BENCH

With recession, the world has changed a lot. A common man still remains the same for his need of commodities where as a spendthrift has become more than a miser. It is not a matter of individual now……it is about corporates.

There is a huge cost-cutting plan implemented in much of the corporates where peoples have become jobless or in job but without work. The situation is changed now, previously the senior officers will grill the junior employees to work or make them to sit in BENCH with no work. As of now, with this current scenario, the senior remains in BENCH with junior officer in cool by moving in and around.

Haj Subsidy, Anyone?

Google the words Haj Subsidy and the top three results are from the rabid right wing Muslim-bashers. All the first 30 results are related to India and that means it is a big issue for Indian and Indians.

Since, the Haj pilgrimage has just concluded, it is the right time to ask this question, are we really getting a Haj subsidy?

First, let us analyze what exactly this so-called Haj subsidy entails. An Indian Muslim, who chooses to go to Haj through government run Haj committees, gets a subsidy of around Rs. 20,000 on their Air India ticket of Rs. 32,000. That is it ! The minimum cost of a Haj package through the Haj committees is around Rs. 92,000, of which Rs. 20,000 is paid by the Indian government to Air India as a subsidy on the Hajis ticket. The total Haj airline ticket subsidy was around Rs. 150 crore for the year 2001 and has been enmarked to Rs. 225 crores for the year 2005. It is interesting to note that the normal ticket to Saudi Arabia costs around Rs. 25,000 but Air India charges Rs. 34,000 from the Hajis. So, effectively the government is giving a subsidy of Rs. 12,000 only!

The Sangh Parivar zealots make is sound like that the Indian government sponsors an Annual-Go-To-Haj trip for anyone who is interested. Why this is such a big issue for them? I don’t think the amount involved (Rs. 225 crores) is the itching factor. They are more piqued at the fact that it allows Muslims to go to Mecca and Medina, their holy cities which are outside India, out there is some land called Arabia. The usual argument of these fanatics is that India and India alone should be the pitrabhuumi (fatherland) and punyabhuumi (holyland) of all Indians and since the holy places of Muslims and Christians are elsewhere, they can never be patriotic enough. This argument would have been plain ridiculous had it not been so malevolent. So, what they are trying to say is that a Hindu born and brought up in USA can not be patriotic enough to USA, if he chooses to visit the Somnath mandir in India as a pilgrim. A Swede, who converts to Hinduism, can not be loyal to Sweden if he scouts Mathura and Varanasi in search of spiritual salvation. The patriotism of all Sikhs who visit Nankana sahab in Pakistan is somehow suspect and all Hindus who undergo the arduous Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage can not be termed Indians anymore because that site is under Chinese dominion. Welcome to Ram Rajya 2.0, as espoused by a few hate mongers. But then, these gentlemen hardly talk or understand a five lettered word, ’sense’. We would let them go for the time being.

Coming back to the Haj subsidy, Haj is obligatory only on those who are physically and financially capable of performing the journey. So, all the expenses should be incurred by the Hajis himself and the government should not pay any part of that. Fair enough. But is the government actually providing any financial support to the Hajis? I don’t think so. The government is only subsidizing their air tickets because the airlines they are travelling with belongs to the government. In other words it is a discount on an overpriced product. There are many companies that provide discounts to their regular users. What we fail to appreciate is that these Hajis are providing atleast 84 crores as revenue to Air India per year, year after year for the pathetic service they receive in return. Is it merely a rumour that the worst Air India carriers are employed by Air India for the Haj travel? Last year, on its way back, one of the Air India plane broke down. It has to be grounded in Sharjah for a full night. The Hajis were told that they would have to spend the entire night in the plane. Customers service anyone? After protests from the passengers, Air India finally relented and issued boarding passes to the passengers. Which travelers in his right mind would prefer travelling with Air India with so many airlines providing world-class service at competitive rates, nowadays?

More than 1,20,000 Indians went for Haj in the year 2001. That is a big big number and that too within a specific time schedule. Out of these, around 50,000 chose to go with private tour operators. Why? Because there are many private tour operators that offer Haj packages for as low as Rs. 68,000, without any government subsidy (yes, the government gives subsidy only on the Air India ticket, not to the Hajis per se). What does that tells us? Let me make a guess, these tour operators are more efficient?

So, the government of India, in order to cover for their awful management of Air India, to hold on to a constant (and unquestioning) source of revenue (year, after year) want Indian Muslims to believe that it is doing a lot of favour by doling out some subsidy on an overpriced air ticket. That too for its own vote bank politics. Come on!

The consecutive governments in India have only used symbolism in the name of minority policies. Instead of focusing on the real issues, as to why Indian Muslims are at the bottom of the social rung, why the literacy rate of Muslims is the lowest, what are the reasons that Muslims fail to enroll their kids for school, what can be done to utilize the tremendous skills of business and entrepreneurship, all we are given is a pathetic subsidy on an overpriced airline ticket and that too, mainly for its own good. Symbolism sells, in India, it sells big. The fact that it also gives an issue to perennial Muslim-haters like Togadia, Singhal and Giriraj Kishore, is of no concern to it. Afterall, when these people bark, and occasionally bite, which way the terrified Muslim would turn to? Is it just a co-incidence or a well though strategy, that the BJP led government did not abolish the Haj subsidy in its 6 years of power because that would deprive its core Muslim-bashing constituency one of the favorite issues? Even Muslim leaders such as Syed Shahabuddin (not that Siwan hoodlum, but the ex-diplomat) have been demanding for 20 years that the Indian government should do away with the so-called Haj subsidy. He also claims that no Muslim leader ever asked for it.

The bottom-line is this, Indian Muslims should reject the subsidized Air India ticket, if not for anything else then for common sense only. Once the Haj market opens and this forced monopoly of Air India goes, I would not be surprised if other airlines start offering discounts to the Hajis. Afterall, which company wouldn’t want to tap in an yearly market in excess of Rs. 350 crores, and that too, just for the airfare.

By Mohib Ahmad, article was published in indianmuslims.in

The traditional dignity!

I’m not supposed to comment on this, but some times I’m inclined to our Indian tradition or gup-shups. It is not good to talk about a woman in public or media but my point of view is different. It is about the 81^st Oscar Academy award in which A.R. Rahman became the darling of the world, not only creating history of India but stunned the entire world by bagging two Oscars at a go - a feat repeated by no other on the same day.

That’s good to greet him on his achievement apart from my personal religious back ground. On the other hand, comes the above discussion about the lady none other than Mr.s Saira Rahman. I never came across or seen her even in photos or magazines before this awards and normally she avoids to come in public……..the eye catching point is that her simple traditional dress in the glamorous western world which had won the attention of millions of heart and people like me being a muslim admire her of wearing her dupatta on her head. I see a lot of Indian celebrities in general and muslim business women or muslim celebrities particularly go glamour by neglecting our traditional values. May be; let’s see Saira be the eye opener to our celebs who wear western attire while going on western stage.

What others said….

Well done saira, your one of those people who are not ashamed of there culture and there clothes! Well done a.r rahman! By jo jo

I am so happy that someone stayed in with there traditions and culture. I am very proud of SDM but Freido could have won an amazing from a Indian designer who could have made an unbelievable outfit for her to walk down the red carpet in. I am very proud that Saira wore her own traditional eastern outfit. Which is so beautiful.

Ash needs to take some listens from her and her husband about how to dress in these accusations and also how to actually win …by Ziba1250

Beauty is within originality love to see proud India in this Indianised couple.GOD BLESS Saira AND Rehman. ….by Riaz Hyder

It is in these times of temptations, one discovers the true “U”.Thanks saira for sticking to your roots. It takes great courage and strong personality to overcome temptation that the worldly things draws u into.Dont forget guys it is what we are that has bought us here,its is our own nach- gana type of movie that a briton made, obviously out of his choice that got us oscars .We stuck to our pattern of movie making and see that paid off.”DONT CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE WORLD, LET THE WORLD CHANGE ACCORDING TO U”…Aparna.J

Great couple, Saira and Rehman, thank you for representing India and Indian Muslims in such traditional dress. May Allah bless you with success…..by Rauf

Saira Rahman

We are proud of you being a true Indian woman. People who forget their culture, mother language, and soil where they are born… are just commodity nothing more than that. Other indian celebrities…/Hindi actor/Hindi actress should learn something who feel shame by speaking hindi or wearing Indian dresses. But they earn their money from Hindi films. Personality comes from somebody’s ideas, confidence, knowledge not by showing nudity.

Great Mrs Saira Rahman….

Harpinder Pal / Brussels( Belgium)

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Bring the Laloo magic in other portfolio!

Elections time are nearing and it is a great chance for political parties to create a good hype to get in power. I'm not interested in those politicians who just want to grab powers than doing nothing for the benefit of citizens.

I would like to highlight the success of a person to the world considers negatively. He is none other than our charismatic minister Laloo Prasad Yadav who was credited with engineering the financial turnaround of Indian Railways.

Everybody knows that for the past many years, Indian Railway was operating at a heavy loss before Laloo was appointed the railway minister. Now one can see by self that how the railways is generating the surplus money of Rs 9000 cr in 2005, Rs 14000 cr in 2006, Rs 20,000 cr in 2007 and Rs.25,000 cr for the 2007-2008 fiscal year. Heared, but unconfirmed report says that the gross earning will be Rs 93, 159 Cr in 2009-10.

The point of consideration is that he took the market which was running at great loss and now it is matter to be given example for his achievement to all. The same thing, I would like to compare with the government controlled petroleum ministry which is a highly profitable and the much needed to the public. I'm not talking about loss and I'm not aware whether petrol is always given is subsidized rate. In our country,  for the past 4 years, the railway fares have consistently coming down and on the other hand the petroleum is rising from some around Rs. 40 a litre  to more that Rs. 55 a litre in December 2009.  It will be known to average people that a barrel cost less tan around $50 some 4 years back and was in peak high of more than $150 in July 2008. The petrol price was Rs. 40 a litre when a barrel costs around $50. Now what we see that, the barrel cost is down for around $37 where as a litre petrol costs is remaining high around Rs. 50-55!

It will be a good opportunity for us with the election around to hunt a guy like Laloo  or himself to bring the railway magic in petroleum sector with the ongoing financial crunch to the common man's need. Let's see other's opinion.

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