You are right there has to be an allround initiative & that too at all levels. And sure it has to start with moral science & cleanliness classes at the very grassroot levels of our society.

We congratulate you in your initiative to have taken up such issues at your own level. Great work & keep the zeal going, even if you are not rewarded. Regards & Jai Hind !!

I’d also think that we as a society have moved past the days when people were hanged in public or a spectacle was made of them by public flogging etc. For example, the rapists are not punished by someone/victim raping them back. We send them to jail.

Anyway, just my opinion.

Everyday thousands gold chains are snatched from unlucky women , no one raises any voice . But if a chain snatcher is beaten in Bihar , nation cames to an abrupt halt !! That policeman is Bihar dragged that criminal only one meter , but media dragged him thousands of meters by repeating that clip.

However your could not provide any valid reason for opposing this .

I see that you have not directly said that flogging *is* the reason why Singapore is a well managed country, and I hope that was not your intent. It is a common logical fallacy that if A and B occur together, A must be the cause of B.

As for the name being a rip-off, it was just a thought. Good to know its not true

Went through JAGO website , it seems domain name jago.in was registered two years back , so no tip-off from TATA Tea ad .

I am not, at all, criticizing your efforts. Its only the front that is being put up that I am criticizing. And its only the inaction of a previous such party that I’m criticizing. When a political party is setup by people as polished as you, one expects the initial happiness to be enhanced by a polish in its ideas, its language. As I said, loudly proclaiming the ‘diseases’ that are rampant in the country and then proceeding to announce the solutions sounds a little naive at the very least. Clearly, flogging for bribery is not likely to change things in a complex world as ours. Corruption is a worldwide problem and yet nobody seems to have been able to contain it with flogging. A little subtlety and indepth thought at what you think would be solutions to our problems is the least we can expect from educated men like yourself.

Just setting up a political party by the “noble thinkers” is not enough. Its important that some ‘noble thinking’ reflect from their statements.

I find myself incapable (and non desirous) of setting up a political party and I sincerely hope and wish for your success and with you, the success of the country. That, however, does not necessarily mean that we all contribute our talents under one single platform.

I’d rather say that it is our greatest challenge to convince people “like Sh Parijat Garg” to stop and think for a moment before they add another crumpled polythene bag to the litter on the street, to consider not honking when near a hospital, to spend a little time improving their minds instead of blowing it off in Marijuana.

Meanwhile, I continue to contribute in the little ways that I can.

P.S. – Is the name a rip-off from the Tata Tea ad? No offense!

Thanks for appreciating us on our intent & complimenting us on starting the party called “JAGO”.

My name is Denson and I am one of the founder members of this party the formation of which in itself was a story of sacrifices better left unsaid.

I think ‘abhijatm’ could not have put it in a more better way, to quote him, “Why should i waste my one lifetime in attempting something which has little or no chance of success”. This is the challenge we faced – THE RUSTED & ROTTEN ATTITUDE.

We have been labeled time wasters & insane thinkers yet I think our passion to see a real “INDIA SHINING” is a little more fiery & fierce than most can even imagine. I heard Arundhati Roy yesterday on “sahara samay” & I was pained to hear when she said “writing is all I can do & nothing more” and I quote again, “ I cannot coerce people to take action”. She also said, “ Can’t you see clearly a divided India somewhere down the line in a few years time – Gujarat is already divided, Kashmiri’s think they are not Indians anyway, The northeastern & the Maoists already live that way and are fighting because of that & now Maharashtra has already voiced the bugle thru Raj & Bal Thackeray”.

We strongly feel it is high time we the literate noble thinkers, bloggers & critics have to draw ourselves out of those cushy chairs & come out ,WORK TOGETHER & TAKE ACTION BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

Now to answer you regarding the inferences you have made about our party or facts pertaining to our mission I do hereby write in to clarify both the points that you have highlighted.
(a) Electricity at Rs 2/- : Recently Reliance bid to supply electricity @ Rs. 1.19 at Sasan Mega Power Plant in MP. Hydro power is even more cheaper . After all T/D losses & reasonable profit this price is quite possible . Besides practically your electricity bill today includes a major component for all the organized pilferage which is happening across India not only in villages but also in towns & we could support the same with photographic evidences of all the “khoontas” that come out everywhere boldly even during the day.
(b) Reserving seats in education – In our manifesto what we say is that : All poor Indians: (i) will get free/subsidized modern day education (ii) Mandatory education upto the 10th Std.

Pertaining to knowledge of economics I think we can do a better job than Shri Laloo Yadav, Hon. Railway Minister, addressing MBA students in IIM’s.

I think our greatest challenge, now is to convince people like Sh. Parijat Garg that it is high time we stop criticizing people who want to do something instead the need of the hour is to pool in our talents together & work in unison under this open platform which we have readied called – “JAGO”.
Kind regards
Denson Joseph

P.S. : This is a rant

The problem of the “commons” : If the problem is large and diffused enough, its not mine to solve or worth investing my time in espcially in India where just getting by is a struggle.

You have said previously that ppl respond to incentives. What is the incentive for a middle class indian (who has perhaps the economics training) to go into politics with no social security net. One is more interested in making one’s moolah and building a comfortable life.

Ditto for innovation & entrepreneurship. We dont take risks coz the price of failure is just too high in India. There are no institutional mechanisms of mitigating the risk of following one’s dream. So ppl pass on in life…

Call them lazy or armchair theorists or downright hypocrites but no one wants to rock the boat they have struggled to build.