Chanakya to chandragupt -- make the prime minister and the MP'S read this article -- written 2000 years ago
From: Raksha Aggarwal - raksha.aggarwal@googlemail.com;
The primemi "Kautilya to Chandragupta on the Mauryan Soldier" – Air Marshal Inamdar
, "It is truly amazing how those observations continue to be so completely relevant today, even after 2000 years." I am reproducing it in full below with emphasis added:
The Mauryan soldier does not himself the Royal treasuries enrich nor does he the Royal granaries fill.
He does not himself carry out trade and commerce nor produce scholars, thinkers, littérateurs, artistes, artisans, sculptors, architects, craftsmen, doctors and administrators. He does not himself build roads and ramparts nor dig wells and reservoirs. He does not himself write poetry and plays, paint or sculpt, nor delve in metaphysics, arts and sciences. He does not do any of this directly as he is neither gifted, trained nor mandated to do so.
The soldier only and merely ensures that:
The tax, tribute and revenue collectors travel far and wide unharmed and return safely;
The farmer tills, grows, harvests, stores and markets his produce unafraid of pillage & plunder;
The trader, merchant and moneylender function and travel across the length and breadth of the realm unmolested; The savant, sculptor, painter, maestro and master create works of art,
literature, philosophy, astronomy and astrology in peace & quietitude; The architect designs and builds his Vaastus without tension; The tutor ('acharya'), the mentor ('guru') and the priest ('purohit') teach and preach in tranquility; The sages ('rishis, munis, and tapaswees') meditate and undertake penance in wordless silence; The doctor ('vaidyaraja') tends to the ill and the infirm well, adds to the pharmacopoeia, discovers new herbs and invents new medical
formulations undisturbed; The mason, the bricklayer, the artisan, the weaver, the tailor, the
jeweller, the potter, the carpenter, the cobbler, the cowherd ('gopaala') and the smith work unhindered; The mother, wife and governess go about their chores and bring up children in harmony and tranquility;
The aged and the disabled are well taken care of, tended to and are able to fade away gracefully and with dignity; cattle graze freely without being lifted or harmed by miscreants.
He is thus the VERY BASIS and silent, barely visible CORNERSTONE of our fame, culture, physical well being and prosperity; in short, of the entire nation building activity.
He DOES NOT perform any of these chores himself directly: he ENABLES the rest of us to perform these without let, hindrance or worry ('nirbhheek and nishchinta'). Our military sinews, on the other hand, lend credibility to our pronouncements of adherence to good Dharma, our goodwill, amiability and peaceful intentions towards all our neighbour nations ('sarve bhavantu sukhinaha, sarve santu niramayaha…') as also those far away and beyond.
These also serve as a powerful deterrent against military misadventure by any one of them against us.
If Pataliputra reposes each night in peaceful comfort, O King, it is so because she is secure in the belief that the distant borders of Magadha are inviolate and the interiors are safe and secure, thanks to the mighty Mauryan Army constantly patrolling and standing vigil with naked swords and eyes peeled for action ('animish netre'), day and night ('ratrau-divase'), in weather fair and foul, dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn ('ashtau prahare'), quite unmindful of personal discomfort and hardship, loss of life and limb, separation from the family, all through the year, year after year ('warsha nu warshe').
While the Magadha citizenry endeavours to make the State prosper and flourish, the Mauryan soldier guarantees that the State continues to EXIST! He is the silent 'sine qua non' of our very being! To this man, O Rajadhiraja, you owe a debt for that very guarantee which is the vital key-stone of our nationhood arch. Please, therefore, see to it, suo motu, that you are constantly alive and sensitive to the soldier's legitimate dues in every form and respect, be those his needs or his wants, including his place in the social order. Do thereafter ('tadanantara') ensure that he receives these in time or preferably ahead of time, in full measure, for he is NOT likely to ask for them himself.
This is so because before getting so completely wrapped up in his onerous, harsh and exalted charge, the soldier has assumed with good reason that the State, in return for his extraordinary burden and services, has freed him from all responsibility towards his own present and future welfare as also that of his family back home in the hinterland. He is thus very clear in his mind when deployed at a distant border outpost, fighting lumpen groups within Magadha or when
campaigning in far away lands that he need only look out in FRONT for the enemy of the State and concentrate only on his MILITARY ONUS and aim ('shatrunjaya'), completely free of all temporal worries. This assumption is a holy sacrament and an unwritten covenant that exists
between him and the State. And rightly so!
If ever things come to a sordid pass, O King, when, on a given day, the Mauryan soldier has to LOOK BACK over his shoulder ('Simhawalokana') prompted by even a single nagging worry about his and his family's material, physical and social well being, it should cause you and your Council the greatest concern and distress!
I beseech you to take instant note and act with uncommon dispatch to address the soldier's anxiety. It could be on account of harsh living conditions, inequitable material compensation or asymmetric Court or societal dispensations affecting either his self respect or his family's material welfare, or both. If any in your household, in your Council or among your courtiers is/ are responsible for allowing matters to come to such a pass, punish him/ them exemplarily without loss of time and send him/ them to serve for four cycles of seasons
('Chaturrutuchakre') alongside the soldiers, on the border outposts.
If they perish, those would be their just desserts. If they survive, they will return wiser and wizened, more responsive to and with greater empathy for the soldier's cause. If you first learn of your soldiers' problems and needs from your own trusted informers ('gupt doota') and NOT from the Commander-in-Chief ('Senapati') himself, relieve him of his charge and retain him not for another day. No matter how good a horseman ('Ashwarohi'), a swordsman ('Khadgaveera'), a wrestler ('Malla'), an archer (Dhanurdhara) or a tactician ('Rana neetigya') he is, dismiss him ('ardha Chandra prayoga') for failing to keep his ear close to the military ground. Dismiss him also for not having the gumption and courage to be the first to tell you of the soldiers' anxiety and needs before the others do. The Senapati owes a downward loyalty and sensitivity to his troops in much the same way and measure as he owes these upwards to you, for this is a unique and age-old essential feature of sound military leadership and an article of faith between the troops and the General!
It is my bounden duty to caution you, My Lord, that the day when the Mauryan soldier has to demand his dues or, worse, plead for them, will neither have arrived suddenly, overnight nor in vain. It will also bode ill for Magadha. For then, on that day, you, My Lord, will have lost all moral sanction to be Rajadhiraja ! It will also mark the beginning of the end of the Mauryan Empire!
Please share…this ought to be read widely – especially with those at the helm of our affairs.
Somewhat Related: The web thickens… and Read this and weep.
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http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/04/india-corruption-score-since-1948.html
India Corruption score since 1948
2012
§ President of India's land grab scandal - President of India Pratibha Patil allegedly grabbed 2,61,000 sq ft of defence land in Khadki Cantonment, Pune and built a home on it [1] [2] [3] [4]
§ Coal Mining Scam - Central government lost 
1,070,000 crore (US$213.47 billion) by not Auctioning Coal Blocks saysCAG's 110 page draft report [5][6] [7]
§ Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam - 
200,000 crore (US$39.9 billion)[8][9]
§ Andhra Pradesh land scam - 
100,000 crore (US$19.95 billion)[10]
§ Service Tax and Central Excise Duty fraud - 
19,159 crore (US$3.82 billion) crore)[11] [12]
§ Gujarat PSU financial irregularities - 
17,000 crore (US$3.39 billion)[13] [14]
§ Maharashtra stamp duty scam - 
640 crore (US$127.68 million)[15] [16]
§ Highway scam - 
70 crore (US$13.97 million) [17] [18] [19]
§ Ministry of External Affairs gift scam[20] [21] [22]
§ Himachal Pradesh pulse scam[23] [24]
§ Flying Club fraud - 
190 crore (US$37.91 million)[25]
§ Andhra Pradesh liquor scam[26][27]
§ Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association scam - Approximately 
50 crore (US$9.98 million)[28][29]
§ Jammu and Kashmir PHE scam[30]
§ Jammu and Kashmir recruitment scam[31]
§ Jammu and Kashmir examgate[32] [33]
§ Jammu and Kashmir dental scam[34]
§ Punjab paddy scam - 
18 crore (US$3.59 million)[35] [36]
§ Girivan (Pune) land scam [38] (not to be confused with Pune land scam which came to light during 2011)
[edit]2011
§ Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam - 
10,000 crore (US$2 billion)[39][40][41][42][43]
§ ISRO's S-band scam (also known as ISRO-Devas deal, the deal was later called off) - 
200,000 crore (US$39.9 billion) [44] [45] [46][47]
§ KG Basin Oil scam[48] [49] [50] [51] [52]
§ Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike scam - 
3,207 crore (US$639.8 million)[55] [56] [57] [58]
§ Himachal Pradesh HIMUDA housing scam[59][60]
§ Orissa pulse scam - 
700 crore (US$139.65 million)[64][65] [66] [67]
§ Kerala investment scam - 
1,000 crore (US$199.5 million)[68]
§ Maharashtra education scam - 
1,000 crore (US$199.5 million)[69][70]
§ Mumbai Sales Tax fraud - 
1,000 crore (US$199.5 million)[71]
§ Uttar Pradesh TET scam[72][73][74]
§ Uttar Pradesh MGNREGA scam[75]
§ Orissa MGNREGA scam[76][77] [78]
§ Indian Air Force land scam[79] [80] [81]
§ Tatra scam - 
750 crore (US$149.63 million)[82]
§ Bihar Solar lamp scam - 
40 crore (US$7.98 million)[83] [84]
§ BL Kashyap - EPFO scam - 
169 crore (US$33.72 million)[85][86]
§ Stamp Paper scam (not to be confused with Abdul Karim Telgi's Stamp Paper scam) - 
2.34 crore (US$466,830)[87]
[edit]2010
§ 2G spectrum scam - In the audit report, CAG puts the loss at 
176,000 crore (US$35.11 billion) [88] whereas CBI pegs the loss at 
30,984 crore (US$6.18 billion) [89]
§ Uttar Pradesh food grain scam
§ Andhra Pradesh Emmar scam - 
2,500 crore (US$498.75 million)[90] [91][92] [93]
§ Madhya Pradesh MGNREGA scam - 
9 crore (US$1.8 million)[94]
§ Jharkhand MGNREGA scam[95] [96] [97]
§ Indian Premier League scandal[98][99]
§ Karnataka housing board scam[100] [101] [102]
[EDIT]2000S
[edit]2009
§ Goa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) scam[103] [104]
§ Rice export scam - 
2,500 crore (US$498.75 million)[105]
§ Orissa mining scam - 
7,000 crore (US$1.4 billion)[106]
§ Orissa paddy scam[107] [108]
§ Sukhna land scam - Darjeeling [109] [110] [111] [112]
§ Vasundhara Raje land scam[113]
§ Austral Coke scam - 
1,000 crore (US$199.5 million)[114][115]
§ Gujarat's VDSGCU Sugarcane scam - 
18.7 crore (US$3.73 million) [116] [117] [118]
[edit]2008
§ Hasan Ali black money controversy[119][120][121]
§ State Bank of Saurashtra scam - 
95 crore (US$18.95 million)[123][124]
§ Army ration pilferage scam - 
5,000 crore (US$997.5 million)[125]
§ Jharkhand medical equipment scam - 
130 crore (US$25.94 million)[126] [127]
§ Haryana Teachers' recruitment scam[128] [129]
[edit]2006
§ Kerala ice cream parlour sex scandal
§ Scorpene Deal scam[130][131][132]
§ Punjab city centre project scam - 
1,500 crore (US$299.25 million)[133]
§ Uttar Pradesh ayurveda scam - 
26 crore (US$5.19 million)[134] [135] [136] [137]
§ Navy War Room Spy Scandal (related to Scorpene Deal Scam)
[edit]2005
§ Oil for food scam (Natwar Singh)
§ Bihar flood relief scam - 
17 crore (US$3.39 million)[140]
[edit]2004
[edit]2003
§ HUDCO scam[141]
[edit]2002
§ Stamp paper scam - 
20,000 crore (US$3.99 billion)[142] [143] [144]
§ Provident Fund (PF) scam [145][146]
[edit]2001
§ Ketan Parekh securities scam
§ Calcutta Stock Exchange scam[148]
[edit]2000
§ India-South Africa match fixing scandal[149]
§ UTI scam - 
32 crore (US$6.38 million)[150]
[EDIT]1990S
[edit]1997
§ Bihar land scam - 
400 crore (US$79.8 million)[153]
§ SNC lavalin power project scam - 
374 crore (US$74.61 million)[154]
[edit]1996
§ Bihar fodder scam - 
950 crore (US$189.53 million)[155] [156] [157]
§ Sukh Ram telecom equipment scandal
§ C R Bhansali scam - 
1,100 crore (US$219.45 million)[158][159]
§ Fertiliser import scam - 
133 crore (US$26.53 million)[160][161]
[edit]1995
§ Meghalya forest scam - 
300 crore (US$59.85 million)[162]
§ Preferential allotment scam - 
5,000 crore (US$997.5 million)[163]
§ Yugoslav Dinar Scam - 
400 crore (US$79.8 million)[164]
[edit]1994
§ Sugar import scam [165][166]
[edit]1992
§ Harshad Mehta securities scam - 
5,000 crore (US$997.5 million)[167]
§ Palmolein Oil Import Scam, Kerala
§ Indian Bank scandal - 
1,300 crore (US$259.35 million)[168]
[edit]1990
§ Airbus scandal[169]
[EDIT]1980S
[edit]1989
§ St Kitts forgery[170]
[edit]1987
[edit]1981
§ Cement Scam involving A R Antulay - 
30 crore (US$5.99 million)[172]
[EDIT]1970S
[edit]1976
§ Kuo oil scandal - 
2.2 crore (US$438,900)[173]
[edit]1974
§ Maruti scandal[174]
[edit]1971
§ Nagarwala scandal - 
60 lakh (US$119,700)
[EDIT]1960S
[edit]1965
§ Kaling tubes scandal[175]
[edit]1964
§ Pratap Singh Kairon scam[176]
[edit]1960
§ Teja loan scandal - 
22 crore (US$4.39 million)[177]
[EDIT]1950S
[edit]1958
§ The Mundhra scandal - 
1.2 crore (US$239,400)[178]
[edit]1956
§ BHU funds misappropriation - 
50 lakh (US$99,800)[179]
[edit]1951
§ Cycle import scam[180]
[EDIT]1940S
[edit]1948
§ Jeep scandal - 
80 lakh (US$159,600)[181]
§ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India#1940s
§ Can you change the corrupt Indians.WHY POLICEMEN,PRIESTS, POLITICIANS, PHYSICIANS ALL ARE AFTER GREED, GREED AND GREED
§ A TRULY GREAT ARTICLE. PLEASE READ
§ From: Amit Bhadhuri - abhadhuri924@googlemail.com;
§ Think about it ! Materialism/religion
| Hobbesian.(culture of self interest)
about corruption . It is everywhere. rather than correct them. an out-of-turn reward. favours are needed for the undeserving. His pay-off is for God. if it goes to a needy man. a report of Karnataka minister a crown of gold and diamonds worth (She recently lost an election in North India) can corruption is visible in its history.
and kingdoms after guards commanders paid off to surrender. warfare on the subcontinent. fought compared to ancient Greece and modern Europe. were vicious and fought to the finish. bribing was enough to see off armies. could brush aside India's kings, soldiers were in their infantry.
at the "Battle" of Plassey. Bengal folded to an army of 3,000. exchange to taking Indian forts. after the secret back door was left open. and Rajputs with nothing but bribes. Dara Shikoh's son Sulaiman to British bribed Dogras to defeat the Sikhs by promising Dogra General Gulab Singh and appointing him as the Maharaja of Kashmir.
participated on a large scale in treason due to bribery. transactional culture while migration to other religions . faith like Sikh, Jain, Buddha Christianity and Islam. don't trust one another . they mostly belonged to one faith. CAN WE CHANGE OUR MIND SET????? |
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From: S kumar - kumar_8134@yahoo.com;
SoniaG angry? UPA government's Image is bad -- Sanjay K. Jha
>>the correspondence exchanged between the BJP Prime Ministerial candiate and Mrs Gandhi in which he asked her point blank whether she or Rajiv Gandhi had a Swiss Bank account and when he received a written negative reply, he promptly apologised in writing.>>
If Edvige Antonia Albino Maino aka Sonia Gandhi could record outright lies about her qualification in the Lok Sabha Registers- (the handwritten signed pages refuted as typing mistake), make similar qualification claims in nomination papers filed for Lok Sabha Elections, claim Stefano Maino to be her father and born in 1944 as told to the priest during marriage in Orbassano and when told Stefano could not be her father as he was a prisoner in Siberea until WWII ended in 1945- hastening to Italy and changing her passport and date of birth to 1946 and many such outright lies including the rapturous life with Madhavrao Scindia while Rajiv was alive, both involved in a car accident after midnight near IIT Hosetls and students taking fracture injured Scindia to Hospital and Sonia refusing any help and taking a three wheeler in secrecy, do you thin she would not be capable of telling a simple lie to LKA that she does not have a Swiss Bank Account?
Perhaps she is not lying. She might not be having any account in the name of Sonia Gandhi!!
From: S kumar kumar_8134@yahoo.com
It is with her full knowledge and connivance that the megascams happened and she allowed loots to be shared with her Party echelons like Diggy and Ministers like Chiddu, Raja and Maran, besides arrogant performers like Kalmadi, who all have indirectly helped her to amss the huge funds stshed in Swiss or Liechenstein or other banks- including Vatican no coming in the picture.
Wikileaks has already published that Diggy has over Rs.1,29,503 Crores in UBS Acct. No. UB 89 3704 0044 0532 0130 00, 25 main and 2 subsiduary accounts, and Palaniappan Chithambaram has Rs.33,451 Cr. in Acct.No. IN-252684 451215 125683 in Swiss Banks, in a statement sent to GOI by Swis Banking Corporation, signed by Manager, Marti De Sa Pinto.
" Chithambaram" also has Rs.32,000 Crores in Rothschild BankAG with 19 sub accounts.
Wikileaks also has given the amounts held by A Raja, Lallu Yadav, Maran Brothers, Kalmadi and several others but topped by Edwige Antonia Albino Maino alias Sonia Gandhi of Rs. 695,012 lakh Crores besides similar amounts in the names of Rajiv Gandhi, Raol Vinci(Rahul Gandhi) and Robert Wadra totalling to about Rs.30 lakh Crores!!
Now, she is in a predicamnt as she cannot disown Digyy or Kalmadi or Chiddu or Marans/Raja as all these looted funds were with her knowledge and a major part shared with her own accounts. The sibling too has miserably failed proved by his arrogance, tearing papers during speech nd calling names..etc.
Would he dare to come to Gujarat? Perhaps a battalion of Black cats would have to be sent to guard him as public are itching to lynch him having discovered all these loots and rapes done by the family.
Remember Gujarat CM had in 1980-s sent Rs.1 Crore every day to be stashed in tax havens and the matter was handled by his close confidant former Chief Secretary who was goiven extension as his advisor. Ultimately a major part of these funds were found to have been transferred to his personal account and the CM had a stroke and collapsed within hours bringing his end. Would her trusted Diggy or Chiddu or others play the same game, though she has adequate funds to qualify as the third wealthiest woman politician in the World?
Shame on UPA that it can't find an Indian-born citizen to govern the nation.
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