Firehouse - Here For You
So you think you've got it all figured out
Well you know you can't make it alone
Everbody needs somebody to help them out
And you know I could be that someone
And if you ever get lost on life's highway
Don't know where to go
There's just one thing that I want you to know
Chorus :I am here for you, always here for you
When you need a shoulder to cry on
Someone to rely on,
I am here for you
So you think that love is long overdue
Tired of looking for someone to care
Let me tell you know the choice is up to you
But you know I will always be there
I am here for you, always here for you
When you're needin` someone to hold you
Remember I told you
I am here for you,
I am here for you
So now you've got it all figured out
And you know you've found someone that cares
And if you ever need somebody to help you out
Well you know I will always be there
And if you ever get lost on life's highway
Don't know where to go
There's just one thing that I want you to know
Chorus.I am here for you, always here for you
When you're needin` someone to hold you
Remember I told you
I am here for you,
I am here for you
Quintessentially Politics
Social relations involving authority or power; the study of government of states and other political units; the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs; the opinion you hold with respect to political questions. A google search yields these definitions for ‘politics’. Which one of them holds good for the current political setup, is a question of eternal dilemma.
The symmetric notion of two idealistically opposite parties in our political arena seems to form the basis of the setup that vows accelerate growth of one of the fastest developing nations of the world: growth in terms of economy and growth in terms of social equality.
The political mantra that attracts power in its crude form seems to be “divide and rule” in its own crude form. The gain is on other’s weakness rather on your strengths. It is on classifying others as weak rather than projecting yourself as strong. It is in demeaning other rather than proving your own worth. The very notion of “opposition” has come to its literal terms: simply oppose.
A government utterly ignorant of the country’s sectarian divide (purely in terms of numbers) formulates reservation policies that stand to shape the future of the nation: not only within itself but on the global forum. What we have is this: A Prime Minister, strong enough to hold the pieces together for more than 2 years, does not have conviction. A patriarch, powerful enough to move the Prime Minister himself, acts profoundly wise and keeps away. A minister, on the face of it, reserved on reservation arguably believes in parliamentary system to such an extent that everything is done by the parliament by itself. Somebody ask him, if everything is done automatically by the parliament, what is he there as a minister for? An opposition, stranded without a life-jacket on a sinking boat, can act nothing more than a mere spectator. A divided population, that rarely comes out with its own deep-thought opinion, shouting with nobody to listen. And a nation that cries within but succumbs to the malefic propagandas floated by people in power.
Ask the people who claim to be the messiahs of the backward classes: have they done anything for the backwards personally? A lust for power can drive people to unimaginable heights.
There are two aspects to any problem. First is the problem itself and the second is the solution. The basic problem is the way we perceive the problem. We need to understand the basic fallacies behind all these issues that keep haunting us. The question is “we” and not “they”.
Who votes the government into power? It is “we”. We need to answer some basic questions? How many amongst us go to vote to contribute our bit? If “by” the people does not come then how can “for” find its place. What effect does it have? 30-40% of the general caste votes, and maybe double the same percentage will vote for the OBC’s, SC/STs. Mandal commission placed the OBC figure in India to be 52%, not counting the SC/STs. Now will all the permutation and combinations of politics working around, how the political dynamics will not shift to the weaker sections which are relatively very easy to engage!
Concepts like RDB do not work. The concept is, If I don’t prick you directly, why would you budge.
So what is the solution? Do we think that such implementations will bridge the gap between the two sections of the society? NO. On the contrary it will widen it. Both the sections will hate each other more than ever. I even heard somebody saying that it is time for a Civil War. If the supposedly learned people talk like this, let’s not talk of the deprived ones who have not had the benefit of formal education. I wish the intelligentsia who rule us exercise some of the duties they have been appointed for.
Somebody ask them if they feel deprived because they are OBC or because they are financially weak. The only solution I can see which can bridge the divide is to help the weaker sections, classified on the basis of their economic status and not on the basis of caste, financially. You and I wont feel the bitterness if we were to contribute in terms of money instead of our right we are being deprived of.
