BABA – a recent brick in the wall or just an another ??

Baba, is the latest news in the town. No wonder he was before too. A nation which is so obsessed with using their middle finger for every petty stuff they feel defeated at, this man made them use their index finger on the skin wrapped around their nasal cavity and breathe in and out. He made people start realise about the fact that there could possibly be a chance of solving power crisis in this nation by generating electrostatic impulse when you create friction while rubbing your nails against each other. And you thought you were growing hairs. He was the man who made the gourd taste a lot better to a better lot. In a nation where Sachin is God, SRK is a King of tinsel town, Aamir khan is perfectionist and Poonam Pandey is sexy. I would suggest Baba is magnetic. He has his own crude set of fan base and believe me they are so emotional about Baba

As I always say I am not an argumentative Indian. A land where accusation is a convention, arguments are myth, and  making sense is picayune I would rather exercise my liberty to exclude myself. If Gul Panag has a record of most number of tweets on twitter, Baba has the record for incredible number of #mentions. In last week across 3 days (from Saturday and Monday), there are 1400 mentions of Ramdev Baba and his agitation in Haridwar. Most of these mentions have come from Twitter, followed by Blogs and News. It has not heated Facebook and Discussion forums yet. Twitter creates more than 60% of all conversation, while Blog takes around 25%. So twitter guys if you are reading this you have a competition lined up here. And believe me this competition is going to kick your balls. Start you preparations.

If twitter is so busy Mark Zuckerberg made sure Baba is on Facebook too. Baba has taken the war on Facebook on his official Facebook Fan Page. He has 99 thousand plus followers and has received thousand of likes and comments in most of his posts. Baba has called people to join his movement and has thanked Supreme Court for issuing notice to the government.

     

Baba’s anti-corruption movement does not fancy me anymore. I have even started excoriating those notes which has anything to do with Baba, Indian national Congress or corruption either as a matter of fact.

Recently while having a web patrol late at night, I came across a very interesting article on Baba Ramdev's Demands .You can see for yourself here. It mentions his other nine demands.
I will call his first demand as ZERO. The concept is analogous to the zeroth law of thermodynamics which was discovered last and was of utmost importance, if you have read ever.

0: Demands of nationalizing funds that Indians have unlawfully stashed abroad and declare these acts as an act of treason.

• Social Opinion:Nothing wrong with the demand ,seems very righteous and downright patriotic
  
• Question: Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust has property worth Rs 1,000 crore in Hardwar, a Scottish isle for about A£ 2 million , major stakes in the Aastha TV channel and property and shops across India all this was achieved very quickly . Baba never questioned the funds purity ,i.e., whether its black or white money .His organisation just took it .Now after reaching at this peek of monetary achievement Baba suddenly felt the urge to curb black money. Why the delay ?

1: “We will totally boycott all foreign goods manufactured with ‘zero’ technology. In every sphere of our personal, public and national life we will give the topmost place to India and Indianness,”

• Social opinion:Baba seems to be little late on Swadeshi movement some 50 years late. Everything is connected and you cannot wake up one morning and stop using foreign goods .

2: No more western medicines

• Social opinion:Yoga is effective but it cannot replace medicines. Yoga is a lifestyle which keeps you healthy   ,its more of a preventive method.If he wants to increase his market he should get better marketing agency.

3: Why are public facilities so much better in countries like the U.K. or Canada than they are in India. "Bureaucrats, politicians must go public"

• Social opinion:Valid point but population in these countries is low compared to India and even they opt for private facilities.

4: Death to corrupt, rapists, terrorists, adulterators and  “who cause death by spreading poisonous pollution that causes tuberculosis, cancer and other fatal diseases.”

• Social opinion: A bit overboard till terrorist I would agree harsher punishment for rest would do but to hang the corrupt would leave literally no one after all we are ranked 87th on corrupt countries list

5: “In a country where 840 million people live on 20 rupees or less a day…what is the need for currency notes?” Ban 500 and 1000

• Social opinion:you do not need to read economic times to know that we are advancing towards becoming an economy superpower and lower denominations like 25 paisa is going out of market .I agree we have a lot of people to feed but banning 500 and 1000 denomination note will only cause problems no solutions

6: Stop spending on pesticides and fertilizer and go organic

• Social opinion:going organic is good but we cannot stop using pesticide and fertilizers .We need a high production rate to sustain our population .

7: Train Indian scientists in Hindi and regional languages

• Social opinion:Hindi should be given more prominence no questions on that but we cannot deny the fact that English has become a global language and  translating books into hindi and regional language for scientists is tiresome and will bore little fruits .

8: Get rid of British-era laws

• Social opinion:If laws are not serving the purpose they should be revised or removed but removing them just because they are pre-colonial makes no sense

9: "Homosexuality is an illness and yoga can cure it "

• Social opinion:Yoga should be respected and not mocked by cracking such baseless fact-jokes .Hope Yoga cures his mental doubts.

Despite the tantrums going around; a Baba made some wind blowing. He caused some ruffles. The question is not about his popularity but what remains to be observed is if this wind is intense enough to take the government on edge or its just another brick in the wall. Yet to see if he is a kickass or another jackass running for feed and notice.