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The title of the last mail was Dr Man Mohan Singh’s Current US visit and the importance of Gopio-WFSW Effectwith the conclusion:       

Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment hopes to cooperate with Gopio for what we define as “Gopio WFSW Effect”.  The fear of war is has again risen.  Leading leaders of Gopio are Indian Americans and it is important for them understand the 1946 situation and World Poverty.

The mail introduced Award winning author and economics professor, Michel Chossudovsky who is going to speak on November 26 on the implications of the US-NATO military alliance on the Middle East and Central Asia . Phatte ki Sarkar feels that it is important to recall the Second World War and the 1946 WFSW wisdom at this stage.

It is believed that the implications of Dr Manmohan Singh's USA visit will be reflected in the forthcoming Gopio convention in Delhi.  Phatte ki Sarkar has been preparing for the event   But the real impact has to be on the Nissan Government.  This is why the mails have recently addressed to the Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand.  They were being earlier addressed to the Dhumakot Sangliya International Group.  Gopio is focusing on younger generation of Indian Americans and this why the first mail addressed to you was The next Generation is our Future”. The list of mails after 11 September has already been sent earlier. The earlier mails carried the titles:
           

Tiwariji, Dr Man Mohan Singh and the Planning of Uttarakhand
Date: Thursday, 10 September, 2009, 7:56 AM

Gandhian challenges in “Peace Parva of Globalization”
 Date: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009, 7:44 AM

 Where is the capital of Phatte ki Sarkar?
 Date: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009, 7:40 AM

Gairsain: Capital, Capitalism and the Pedagogy of Oppressed today
 Date: Monday, 7 September, 2009, 7:55 AM

Dr Nishank, Gairsain and Geoffrey Wood
 Date: Sunday, 6 September, 2009, 8:28 AM

Has Uttarakhand Government under utilized the potential of Indian Americans?
Date: Saturday, 5 September, 2009, 7:11 AM

Uttarakhand NRI Cell: Where is Puran Nailwal?
Date: Friday, 4 September, 2009, 7:06 AM

Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand
 Date: Wednesday, 2 September, 2009, 6:11 AM

Rethinking: Phatte ki Sarkar is not beyond belief.
Date: Tuesday, 1 September, 2009, 7:25 AM

The G-8 countries are driving the world with the help of R&D
 Date: Monday, 31 August, 2009, 6:58 AM

Generals, scientists and organizations in the corridors of power
Date: Saturday, 29 August, 2009, 6:45 AM

Roosevelt – Vannevar Bush Effect vis-à-vis Nehru-Bhatnagar effect
Date: Friday, 28 August, 2009, 8:54 AM

Science After the World War II.
 Date: Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 6:07 AM

Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists
Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 7:01 AM

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister
Date: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009, 6:34 AM

Planning and poverty
Date: Sunday, 23 August, 2009, 8:10 AM

Uttarakhand focus on Unesco and the World Federation of Scientific Workers.
 Date: Saturday, 22 August, 2009, 7:28 AM

The next Generation is our Future”.
 Date: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 8:09 AM

Ram Prasad

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The Prime Minister’s US Visit is live today. He says he will continue to talk about the Indian path and will not switch over to the Chinese path.  We had discussed the following observations of Professor Ashish Bose (The article Ashish Bose the man who coined the term ‘Bimaru’. The classification this blunt demographer made 20 years ago, still has contemporary implications in planning , by K.P. Narayana Kumar) to discuss this point in an earlier mail:  The focus is on poverty and Phatte ki Sarkar has been following a very different approach.  It focuses on iBusiness and has tried to develop historical path in terms of “Effects” – “Lenin Royal Society Effect”, “Roosevelt Vannevar Bush Effect”, “WFSW Nehru Effect”, “Nehru Bhatnagar Effect” and is currently working on developing “Gopio WFSW Effect”.  Bose has been associated with what now we define as Dumakot Sangliya Project which is the pioneering Technological Nursery.  He was a member of the team that drafted the recommendations of 1978 DST UDC seminar on Science and Mountain development organised by the Kumaon University .  Chinese used this recommendation in their own version known as Spark Programme.   The Narayana Kumar article says: 

However, when he talks of poverty, Bose does not rattle off numbers. Instead, he turns empathetic, offering anecdotes from his long field trips into India ’s most remote corners.

“The primary health centre (PHC) in India is the greatest symbol of how little things have changed for the poor in India ,” he says. “Even today, after 60 years, the condition of PHCs is the same. No doctors, nurses, medical equipment and people walking for miles to get substandard treatment. It is the greatest failure of the Indian state.” Bluntness defines Bose. (“I am not impressed by China as there is no freedom in that country,” he says.)

 

It was in the early 1980s that Bose made headlines by calling a spade a spade. Indian academicians tend to be politically correct and avoid terms that could insult a community or large groups of people.But in a one-page synopsis submitted to the then prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, Bose blamed the “Bimaru” states for India ’s burgeoning population. The now well-known acronym stands for Bihar , Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. However, the term had an uncanny resemblance to the Hindi word bimar, which means sick—and implied that these states also were.

We are making reference to the PM’s current US visit and we should consider the current international scene.  This we may do by considering the observations of Award winning author and economics professor, Michel Chossudovsky, who  is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization On November 26, he will discuss the implications of the US-NATO military alliance on  the Middle East and Central Asia. He will demonstrate how the global economic crisis is intimately related to the alliance's war agenda.  The introduction to his (Nov 26 lecture) is as follows:

The World is at the Crossroads of the Most Serious Crisis in Modern History. The US and NATO have launched a profit driven military adventure in the Middle East and Central Asia, which seeks to gain control over more than 60 percent of the World's oil and gas reserves.  This war is characterised by a process of military escalation. Described by the Pentagon as "the long war", a war without borders.  US-led military operations are now extending into new frontiers. New US military bases are being constructed.  The US-NATO military alliance is also threatening China and Russia with nuclear weapons The economic crisis is intimately related to the war agenda. Financial hegemony is supported by US military might.  

Michel Chossudovsky is professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa . He has taught at universities and academic institutions in North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. He has also worked for several United Nations organizations and has acted as adviser to governments of developing countries.  He is the author of several international best sellers including, "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order" (2003), and " America's War on Terrorism" (2005). His writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment hopes to cooperate with Gopio for what we define as “Gopio WFSW Effect”.  The fear of war is has again risen.  Leading leaders of Gopio are Indian Americans and it is important for them understand the 1946 situation and World Poverty.

Ram Prasad

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The title of the last mail was “Internet is available for the Nishank Government as well as the Phatte ki Sarkar.  One may ask the question “what difference does this make?” Phatte ki Sarkar is making use of Internet to create this series of mails addressed to the active political leaders of Uttarakhand.  Tiwariji is one of the most seasoned political leaders of Uttarakhand.  Currently he is out of politics. This provides another opportunity for the development of Uttarakhand. This is why Phatte ki Sarkar is asking the question:

Can Nishank Government Utilise the experience of Tiwariji?  

The State of Andhra Pradesh has been at the forefront of India ’s IT growth. In December 2004, Gartner in its report “IT Outsourcing to India – Analysis of Cities” has mentioned that Hyderabad would be the IT Hotspot by 2010 and has rated it high on account of Infrastructure and Human Resources. Andhra Pradesh provides the right climate for the growth of IT business and is now the most preferred destination in the country. Hyderabad is home for many major MNC IT giants and fortune 500 companies.  Andhra Pradesh is also known for the pioneering science driven development initiative known as the Kari Nagger Project of the CSIR.

Tiwariji has suggested the inclusion of the Lens Nursery Project in the state plan. At the end of this mail an extract about Tiwari Government’s IT efforts has been reproduced from  the  issue No 19 carrying the title Correspondence addressed to the Seasoned Chief Minister (1) in the series  “Science Driven Development of Uttaranchal.”  This old series was available in the site Uttarakhand Web Watch.  It has now been reproduced in Mera Pahad along with selected mails of current series addressed to the Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand.

The Information Technology and Communications Ministry of Andhra Pradesh records

The Government of Andhra Pradesh aspires to transform the State into a knowledge society and make available the benefits of Information Technology to all citizens, especially those in rural areas and living in poverty. The state also wishes to become a leading destination for investments in Information & Communications Technology (ICT) and a major player in the information economy. The State will leverage ICT for achieving an INFO-AGE (Inclusive, Networked, Fast, Open, Accountable, Globally benchmarked and Efficient) government.

On the other hand the ICT activities of Uttarakhand are being handled by National Informatics Centre currently headed by Dr B K Gairola who comes from Uttarakhand and who has had the privilege of working under the Founder Dr. N. Étagère who received  'Padma Bhushan' in 2005 and his successor Vijayaditya. 

Phatte ki Sarkar can only indicate what opportunities can be harness.  It is for Nishank Government to utlise them for the development of the state.

Ram Prasad

Tiwari initiatives on IT in Uttarakhand

The last eighteen essays on science driven development of Uttaranchal, we have studied theoretical aspects of the developmental process.  We did touch some specific issues also at times but only as case examples for understanding the process.  In this essay let us discuss  TNORD’s actual  interaction with Shri N D Tiwari, Chief Minister, Uttaranchal.  Let us begin  the discussion with TNORD letter dated  Delhi-December 16, 2002.  The letter reads as follows:

“The current issue of Garhwal Post has some doubts on Uttaranchal’s top down IT initiatives.  TNORD has maintained that the e-business of IT must be evenly matched with the i-business of bottom up initiative of science driven rural development. The term i-business has been defined in the TNORD vocabulary and not elsewhere. Even in this vocabulary it has come up only in some of the recent papers. There has been considerable media publicity about the e-initiative but understandingly there is silence over the corresponding i-intiative. Uttaranchal is far behind many states in relation to e-business but is far ahead of the rest of the world in matters of i-business. But the bureaucratic business is unaware of both these initiatives. On the hard ground the implementation part of any programme is handled by the bureaucratic business and not by the political or scientific initiatives. There are hurdles.  These are real things and they cannot be wished away by offering excuses.  Dr I H Usmani, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of Pakistan pointed out in 1962 that he was taught the art of offering excuses during his ICS training. TNORD would have never come up for very good reasons. But it has overcome many hurdles and the experience can be utilized to train the bureaucrats in the art of initiative driven organization of development.  The current initiative driven IT policy of the Uttaranchal government may be utilized for training in the i-business.

“I discussed the concern with Shri R P Dhasmana, Chairman of PUCL Uttaranchal, who has edited many if TNORD papers and who knows quite a bit with the understanding of TNORD. He said that he too is critical of this policy. 

“TNORD has noted that the Uttaranchal Government has signed the following MoUs with Microsoft (1) to collaborate with the state Government on Project Aarohi which is aimed towards making 3,80,000 students across the higher secondary and intermediate schools and colleges computer literate over three years and building a network of 1,500 master Trainers who in turn will impart IT education to school students, (2) to collaborate with the state Government on the Project Haridwar which will focus on developing applications for pilgrims in the areas of crowd management, logistics management, security management, promotion of tourism, disaster management, scheduling of vehicles and route management, (3) Microsoft will set up two Centers of Excellence for e-governance based on Microsoft technologies and  (4) Microsoft will set up its first Hindi IT lab in India leading to a Hindi Competency Center at Dehradun.

 “TNORD has also noted that another MoU had been signed earlier on May 19, 2002, between the Government of Uttaranchal and Intel Asia Electronic, in which the government teachers will be trained in Information Technology.  This programme will be conducted in two phases. In first phase Intel will train 400 teachers of 200 Inter Colleges. In second phase these master trainers will train minimum of 4,000 teachers. 50,000 children will seek training in computer and information technology, by the teachers, free of cost.

“TNORD’s letter dated September 15, 2002 has already discussed the July 26 MoU signed between Uttaranchal Government and Cisco Systems Incorporation, in order to setup Networking Academies in the State.  Without using the vocabularies of e-business of IT and i-intiative of technological nurseries and industrial orchards (Chinese equivalent Spark Programme and Town and Village Enterprises) the letter said, “Against these ambitious global programmes, which require very high investments, stands equally ambitious programme of technological nurseries and industrial orchards spear headed by TNORD.”  Parallel to the matched system of e-business and i-business, there has to be a matched system of MoU and IoU (Implementation of Understanding) and with this argument the criticism of Garhwal Post and Dhasmanaji can be matched.

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The last mail ended with the observation

Uttarakhand does not have very complex society.  The problems of big states and the complicated politics of those states are not present in Uttarakhand.  But has two parts.  The hilly part of the country has limited resources for industrialization process.  This is the reason that Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment is receiving global attention.  The Phatte ki Sarkar has made use of the internet to suggest action plans for the Uttarakhand Government as well as Gopio. 

Himachal and Uttarakhand have often been compared live in the press media of Uttarakhand.  But the states that are known as seven sisters in the family of states in North East also need consideration.  Uttarakhand has border with China but today it is not as sensitive as it is in the North Eastern border.  In 2000 when Uttarakhand came into being the Government of India created North Eastern Social Research Centre, in guwahati.  Its website provides the following information:

The MANDATE of NESRC is to be a centre combining serious intellectual pursuits with involvement with persons and groups active in social change in the region. In the context of ethnic and political conflict, it is to provide a platform for groups in conflict to meet and search for solutions and not itself find solutions for them. Given the size of the Northeast with its seven States, NESRC is to be a node for encouraging intellectual and activist pursuits in the whole region. Instead of centralizing work in Guwahati, it is to help smaller units to evolve in the rest of the region. ..Founded on 1st March, 2000.

Phatte ki Sarkar is bringing the NESRC at this stage because the Prime Minister is visiting Washington . The internet says:

The view in government is that issues like the US-China joint statement which made a reference to India-Pakistan ties are not expected to be a hurdle.

It is good that the US-China joint statement is not to come in the way of negotiations.  But Phatte ki Sarkar finds it necessary to make use of the opportunity to ignite the minds of Active Leaders of Uttarakhand on the sleeping issues of this state. 

Uttarakhand is not politically sensitive today and Phatte ki Sarkar is discussing NESRC to make use of its literature and website.  This is an eOrganisation funded by the government Phatte ki Sarkar knows that in eResearch the total problem of the institutional coverage is broken in part.  Certain areas are bound to be neglected.  One of the articles of NESRC concludes:

Child Protection is the least prioritised part in the Budget for Children in Assam . The allocation (BE)

for this sector in 2007-08 has increased over that of 2006-07. But still it is very low in both the BFC and theState Budget. Though a number of Acts have been passed to prove the nation’s commitment towards the protection of children these commitments have not found expression in the State Budget of Assam. The expenditure is higher in both the years for which data is available but the corresponding budget and revised estimate is not so high. Some existing interventions like Children’s Homes have not found place in the budget

while some others like the one for eradication of child labour are without any allocation. Hence the need for proper monitoring of the implementation and fund flow of the programmes seems to be an urgent necessity.

In Uttarakhand Dr Nishank and the Government of Uttarakhand are to include the Lens Nursery Project in the state plan.  Each of these technological nurseries is to take local development as a whole.  It seems that Child Protection is already in the state plan of Assam but proper priority has not been given to it by the Active Political Leaders of Assam. Perhaps NESRC is already be working as a Phatte ki Sarkar for the whole region but in eForm only.  This should provide the Group to learn limitations of the eBusiness.

Ram Prasad

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In the last mail the Phatte Ki Sarkar discussed the virtual topic: “The Gopio WFSW Effect” which is being developed only by this government   with the observation that it may provide some guide lines for the world. Gopio is an organization that is being led by Indian Americans Inder Singh Ji, Dr Abraham, Dr Anand and others who started as been started the movement that is playing a key role in the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010  organised by the Government of India in cooperation with the Delhi Government.  But today the focus is on Dr Man Mohan Singh’s Washinton visit about which the Baltimore Sun’s report concludes:

Prime Minister Singh's visit to Washington is an opportunity for the United States and India to substantially advance their strategic partnership by working together to tackle the world's major environmental, economic and security challenges.  

This report is written by another Indian American Dinshaw Mistry who is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center . His e-mail is din shaw.mistry@.... In an earlier mail carrying the title  Dr Nishank is leading Uttarakhand in the age of Internet ( Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 9:08 AM) the Phatte ki Sarkar reminded Dr Nishank about the powerful tool that the  Internet is.  We know what the Nishank Government is doing through the website of the State and the portal Uttara.com.   A number of the group or individual websites or blogs know about these activities as they too at times reproduce the information.  These mails are focused on the inclusion of the lens nursery project in the state plan.  We are also suggesting to Gopio why it is necessary for them to mobilize resources for establishing the Gopio Institute of iBusiness so that the work  of the Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment may be extended to other states, India and the rest of the world.

The information on India is mostly created on internet  by Indian Americans but  is not reflected in the work of Gopio which is an eOrganisation and not as an iOrganisation like the Phatte ki Sarkar. The information on India is supplied to the internet by Indian scholars and by Indian Americans. The Baltimore Sun’s news today is a pointer in this direction.  It seems that the Indian Americans of Uttarakhand origin are  not far behind. At the end of this mail  some raw information on Uttarakhand in Internet encyclopedia is reproduced along with its limitations.

Uttarakhand does not have very complex society.  The problems of big states and the complicated politics of those states is not present in Uttarakhand.  But has two parts.  The hilly part of the country has limited resources for industrialization process.  This is the reason  that Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment  is receiving global attention.  The Phatte ki Sarkar has  made use of the internet to suggest action plans for the Uttarakhand Government as well as Gopio.  

Ram Prasad.

Internet  (Wikipedia)Information on history of  Uttarakhand

The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes  

History of Uttarakhand

1

1991 Uttarkashi earthquake

1996 Ujjain and Haridwar stampedes

1999 Chamoli earthquake

B

Barechhina

C

Chand Kings

Chipko movement

G

Garhwal District

Garhwal Kingdom

Gurkha War

H

Haridwar in scriptures

History of Dehradun

K

Katyuri Kings

Kuninda Kingdom

L

Laldhang

Leopard of Rudraprayag

M

Malpa landslide

P

Punjab Hill States agency

R

Rampur Tiraha firing case

Henry Ramsay (Indian Army officer)

S

Fateh Shah

Sugauli Treaty

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The last mail focused on Effects that have only been discussed by the Phatte ki Sarkar – earlier and in  this series of daily mails addressed to active political leaders of Uttarakhand.  The concluding two sentences read:

“For some time now we are projecting the case for creating “Gopio  WFSW Effect”.  This group of the Phatte ki Sarkar and Dr Nishank have to play their respective roles in creating this effect that is considered as a key to the problems of the post colonial world.”

This “Gopio  WFSW Effect” has to realize two goals.  The first role is the inclusion of the lens nursery project in the state plan that rests with Dr Nishank and Uttarakhand Government.  The second goal is establishing “Gopio Institute of iBusiness” for which Gopio has to mobilize resources.  The success of Gopio is well recognized by the Government of India.  For this success Phatte ki Sarkar recalls the contributions of Inder Singh Ji, Dr Abraham, Dr Anand, Lord Daljit Rana and number of other people associate with the success of Gopio.  The journey has been long starting form local activities to end in the formation of National Federation of Indian American Association (NFIA),the largest U.S based Indian American umbrella organization. to promote and foster goodwill between the people of the United States, the people of India and to work as  a nucleus  to serve as a catalyst and as a forum in   the interests of the Indian-American community.  Inder Singh Ji, Dr Abraham, Dr Anand and other Indian Americans were associated with this movement.  Phatte ki Sarkar warned Gopio that the empire that  has been created  may fall like the Spanish Empire unless Gopio takes  initiative to promote rural development in India .  The political power in India has depended on the voting power of the unprivileged Indian masses.  It seems that Gopio has started thinking in this direction.

This macro understanding among the top leadership of Gopio today has to be converted as micro understanding within the communities of the people of Indian origin in different countries.  The Phatte ki Sarkar has already been working as the virtual organization of the proposed Gopio Institute of iBusiness.  Micro understanding has to be created at the micro levels and Uttarakhand has been chosen as the laboratory and Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment as the basic argument.  The importance of Dhumakot Sangliya experiment is because of its link with what we call as “1946 WFSW-Nehru Effect” in the chain of these mails.

There was no official understanding between India and the WFSW.  Every thing had to be explored. The WFSW suggestion  perhaps came from the awareness what internet now  says:

Military Keynesianism is a government economic policy in which the government devotes large amounts of spending to the military in an effort to increase growth. This is a specific variation on Keynesian economics, developed by English economist John Maynard Keynes. Instances commonly supplied as examples of such policies are Germany in the 1930s and the United States in the 1980s, although whether these assessments are accurate is the subject of vigorous debate.

It may be interesting to note that the  Washington's Blog  is currently discussing the question "Would Our Government Really Start a War to Try to Stimulate the Economy?"  What is being ignored by the western thinkers is the focus that is necessary on the world poverty.  “The Gopio WFSW Effect” that is discussed in this mail series  may provide some guide line for the world.

Ram Prasad

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The Knowledge reported in the daily mails is eKnowledge but the material presented is iKnowledge. We know from this knowledge all that happened so far. We are not ourselves doing the work that is reported in these daily mails.  But work is done in producing these daily mails.  Work is being done to analyse the material that is presented in each report every day.  One person is able to do produce these reports.  Some of them are being included in the encyclopedia that Mera Pahad is compiling.  Even the Uttarakhand Groups on internet are reproducing these reports daily.  Work is being done by Mera Pahad.  Work is being done by the persons who are behind the work of these groups.  All these efforts were created and this paragraph is being created on that work.  Internet is helping the world today.

Young readers who are running these Uttarakhand groups on internet may be wondering how I am able to produce these reports.  These mails report that I was associated with the Association of Scientific Workers of India and the World Federation of Scientific Workers for a long time.  I had the benefit of working with political leader, and well known persons of the time.  I was helped by Dr Husain Zaheer in India and Professor EHS Burhop at the international level.  Both these persons had interacted similarly with the groups of important people in their respective circles.

These mails are talking about the creation of what is defined only on these mails as Gopio WFSW effect. There are some people like Inder Singh Ji, Dr Abraham, Dr Anand , Lord  Daljit Rana  and others behind  Gopio who have done similar work in America and Europe over years.  We have discussed in these daily mails how this activity is related to two effects.  Nehru Bhatnagar Effect in India and Roosevelt Vannevar Effect in USA .   The literature on Post Colonialism has been highlighted in the shape of books and the same is true about the WFSW leaders like  J D Bernal who was introduced and discussed in the last mail carrying the title  “Dr Nishank is leading Uttarakhand in the age of Internet”.  The post colonial studies do not mention about effects like “Lenin Royal Society Effect”, “Roosevelt Vannevar Effect” and “Nehru Bhatnagar Effect”. But Dr Nishank as the title of the last mail say is leading Uttarakhand in the age of internet.  Internet says that there are about 461,000 for Post colonialism.  The leading reference is the title is Post colonialism “From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”.  This reference introduces the subject as follows:

This article deals primarily with the critical theories of post colonialism. More information pertaining to postcolonial literature can be found on the postcolonial literature page.

Post colonialism (postcolonial theory, post-colonial theory) is a specifically post-modern intellectual discourse that holds together a set of theories found among the texts and sub-texts of philosophy, film, political science, human geography and literature. These theories are reactions to the cultural legacy of colonialism.

This article makes use of the literature and adds the references at the end of the article. The first reference is: Vladimir Lenin. "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", (1916).  This is the article written before the October revolution.  The Soviet Union came later followed by the chain that we are discussing under the term “Effects”  At the end of this chain is Dhumakot Sangliya Project  in Uttarakhand defined as “WFSW-Nehru Effect” that matured in the well known term “Nehru Bhatnagar Effect”. For some time now we are projecting the case for creating “Gopio  WFSW Effect”.  This group of the Phatte ki Sarkar and Dr Nishank have to play their respective roles in creating this effect that is considered as a key to the problems of the post colonial world.

Ram Prasad

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Dr Nishank is leading the state of Uttarakhand in the age of Internet.  He has more access to knowledge even if his bureaucrats carry more weight in the practical sense. It is not known if he is making use of the daily mails that discuss the crucial issues related to the industrialization of  the hilly part of Uttarakhand. We have discussed the role of Nehru Bhatnagar effect in producing the impacts  in the shapes of Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment and Gopio. We do not blame the corporate world for world poverty.   On the contrary we are suggesting the use of the achievement of the corporate world that  is defined as eBusiness by us.  This impact, that is, eBusiness is not going to solve the problem of world poverty unless it is specifically employed for that purpose.  We define this unknown value  as iBusiness.   Can Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment show a way?  The responsibility is with Dr Nishank to begin with. His responsibility is only in getting the lens nursery project included in the state plan. For this purpose he has to utilize the resources of Uttarayani as well as of Gopio because the authority rests with the Central Government and its old structure.

The book on Bernal was reviewed by Helena M Sheehan, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland in her paper John Desmond Bernal: Science and Society (IOP Publishing Journal of Physics: Conference Series 57 (2007) 29–39, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/57/1/003 ).  She says:

Bernal saw science as a social activity, integrally tied to the whole spectrum of other social activities: economic, cultural, philosophical and political. His sense of history was sweeping and every particular was placed within an epochal grand narrative. The centralising market decentres the psyche. It organises consumption, but disorganizes community. It can meet the demands of some for luxury homes, suvs and tivos, while it does not meet the most basic needs of others. Millions live in shacks made of rubbish without electricity or running water or basic health care. The market cannot meet the need for meaning or community for anyone. There is a seeking of truth, a striving for justice that the system cannot fully repress. In this I place my hope in a revival of the kind of totalising thinking and collective acting that Marxism has nurtured through the decades. Science is crucial to this. The core of the legacy of Bernal, what is most relevant for our times, is the thrust to totalizing and synthesising thinking. The qualities embodied by J D Bernal are precisely those missing in our universities and in our world today: synthesising vision and communal commitment. His enduring bequest is his vision of science as inextricably tied to philosophy and to politics. Such integrality is lacking in many contemporary debates on science and its relationship to philosophical assumptions and social structures.”

Book: J. D. Bernal: The Sage Of Science

J.D. Bernal, known as "Sage," was an extraordinary man and multifaceted character. A scientist of dazzling intellectual ability and a leading figure in the development of X-ray crystallography, he was a polymath, a fervent Marxist, and much admired worldwide. Although he himself never won a Nobel Prize, several of his distinguished students went on to do so, including Dorothy Hodgkin, Max Perutz, and Aaron Klug. Andrew Brown has had unprecedented access to Bernal's papers and diaries, and this biography includes previously unpublished material on Bernal's role during the Second World War. Bernal not only changed the course of science, but was witness to (and often a participant in) historical events (the Easter Rebellion, the Great Strike, the anti-fascist movement and pacific causes, civil defense, RAF bombing strategy, the planning for D-Day, post-war rebuilding, and nuclear weapons.) One of the few men familiar with Downing Street, the White House and the Kremlin, he left fascinating accounts of Churchill, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Louis Mountbatten and Picasso, as well as the century's greatest scientists. Brown's compelling account covers all aspects of Bernal's brilliant, colorful, and bohemian life, and introduces this towering figure of 20th century science to a wide audience.

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The title given to the last mail was Will Uttarayani and its Bhayat help Dr Nishank in the lens nursery project?  The focuses were three:  Uttarayani, Bhayat and the Lens Nursery Project.  Uttarayani focus is also to represent Gopio, and organizations of non resident Uttarakhandis.  The focus on Bhayat is the current focus of Uttarayani on its 15^th Anniversary.  It also represents the 20^th anniversary of Gopio.  I was not aware of this term bhayat earlier and the information that I could gather from internet was communicated to my friend Lavkumar Khachar who belongs to a princely family of Saurastra.  I wrote to him:

UTTARAYANI, the society of natives from Uttarakhand mostly out of the State aims at maintaining Bhayat through intense networking to contribute its growth and well being. And the best way to achieve though prompt and reliable communication, which provides the required visibility and awareness.

I did not understand the meaning of the word Bhayat.  Bhayat is a Sanskrit word meaning without fear.  It is also a Muslim name.

The book Sovereignty, power, control: politics in the State of Western India, 1916-1947 by  By John McLeod defines Bhayat (Bhayad) as brotherhood of junior members of a ruling family.

 Do you think the Uttarayani has this meaning in mind?

  In his reply Shri Lav Kumar Khachar said:

Yes, in Saurashtra the brothers and cousins of the ruler and their children formed a community which was collectively referred to as "Bhayat" meaning brothers. I should think it stems from the common Gujarat word "Bhai" for brother. This should also be what the UTTARAYANI must have in mind.

The lens nursery project is to be included in state plan.  This is governmental responsibility.  The responsibility of using the resources of Uttarayani and its Bhayat rests with Dr Nishank and with  Shri Manohar Kant Dhyani who is the Chief of the State Planning Commission.

The Gopio has similar responsibility of mobilizing resources for the Gopio Institute of iBusiness.  At present Gopio Institute of iBusiness and the lens nursery project are functioning within the framework of Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment. But now it seems that the open ended nature of the ongoing activities of this experiment has come out with these two specific goals.  This is an achievement under the changing social conditions of the internet age. In recent years there has been considerable interest in open ended process of  continued education.  The informal work is being gradually formalized.  For example the private universities are coming to recognize the value of open ended education as follows:

All institutions (business is an institution) and humans – in fact all living organisms and man-made artifacts, open systems that they are – want to accomplish some end of their activity or they want to prevent or avoid some end. They want to make something the way it “should” be, i.e., system “to be”, or they want to prevent something that is already as it should be (system “in being”) from changing. These “wants”, which in fact are requirements, then are beacons of their policies and actions; they inform all stake holders what strategies, supervision and operations to implement. When formalized into goals, these (wants, i.e., requirements) play important role in problem solving.

The role of political leaders falls in the category of  an open system. The only hurdle is their individual limitations.  When they get power their personal limitations limit their ability to solve the problem.  They must understand that only research and development can solve the problem.    The roles of  political parties also fall in the category of an open system.  When the party comes to power its open ness is affected.  The political leaders who occupy positions in the government have to work in  a closed system.  The only freedom available to them is to use their wisdom  If they are to solve problems they have to use the power as a tool.  This is why we are giving importance to Lenin, Roosevelt and Jawaharlal Nehru.  They are known for Lenin Royal Society Effect, Roosevelt Vannevar Effect and Nehru Bhatnagar Effect.  All these effects provided funds for science in respective budgets to get respective social impacts.

We have discussed the role of Nehru Bhatnagar effect in producing the impacts  in the shapes of Dhumakote Sangliya Experiment and Gopio. We do not blame the corporate world for world poverty.   On the contrary we are suggesting the use of the achievement of the corporate world that  is defined as eBusiness by us.  This impact, that is, eBusiness is not going to solve the problem of world poverty unless it is specifically employed for that purpose.  We define this unknown value  as iBusiness.   Can Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment show a way?  The responsibility is with Dr Nishank to begin with. His responsibility is only in getting the lens nursery project included in the state plan. For this purpose he has to utilize the resources of Uttarayani as well as of Gopio because the authority rests with the Central Government and its old structure.

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The concluding portion of the last mail carrying the title: Can Dr Nishank understand the importance of daily mails of Phatte ki Sarkar? was as follows:

The process of development today has divided the world into two parts.  One is the rich world.  The other is poor world.  The rich world lives on industrialization and science and the poor world is different because it does not carry industrialization and science with them.  This is today being understood through Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment as an individual and Uttarakhand as a system.

Dr Nishank has the responsibility of including the lens nursery project in the state plan as a specific task as suggested by the phatte ki Sarkar through its chains of mails.

This may or may not be difficult for him.  But he has to deal with his planning machinery.  This is why the previous mail discussed the question Can Uttarayani be a resource for Dr. Nishank? This reference to Uttarayani came from the earlier topic Internet, M K Kandpal’s kingpins and development of Uttarakhand.  The concluding part of this mail was :  

Tiwariji, did not need support of Uttarayani as he himself new a large number of senior persons in the central government.  But Dr Nishank will need support from Uttarayani if he takes such challenges as including the Lens Nursery Project in the State Plan.

 

Dr Nishank has an opportunity to utilize the enthusiasm of Uttaryani in marking its 15^th anniversary. A note on Uttarayani is added at the end of this mail.

But what Phatte ki Sarkar is suggesting may not be feasible as such.  The mail described what Uttarayani is and added a note on this organization.  The question is Uttarayani competent enough to help Dr Nishank to get the lens nursery project in the state plan? We discussed the problem of Indian planning in October 1 mail carrying the title: Rural Reality in India and Planning of Development.  The Phatte ki Sarkar associated Nagarajan Ji to discuss the contents of the above mail.  He has been associated with Indian Planning right from the second Plan.  Further Shri B N Dhoundiyal the founder President of Uttarayani is on the Governing Body of TNORD and he had been in an informal  touch with Dr Tolia.  Dr Tolia’s lecture was discussed in successive mails carrying the titles:

Tolia, Palini , DD Pant S K Joshi
 Date: Tuesday, 6 October, 2009, 10:49 AM

Uttarakhand VIPs: Tolia Lecture and Dr Palni
 Date: Monday, 5 October, 2009, 7:09 AM

The Tolia Lecture proves why it is necessary to bring in the “Effect Line” in Rural Development
 Date: Sunday, 4 October, 2009, 9:42 AM

From Science Circles to Bureacrat’s Lecture
Date: Saturday, 3 October, 2009, 7:53 AM

Are we back to Science Circles of Political parties in sixties?
Date: Friday, 2 October, 2009, 8:38 AM

But Uttarayani has now an experience of 15 years.  The current President seems to be confident when he says:

UTTARAYANI, the society of natives from Uttarakhand mostly out of the State aims at maintaining Bhayat through intense networking to contribute its growth and well being. And the best way to achieve though prompt and reliable communication, which provides the required visibility and awareness.

 

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The daily chain of mails of Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment focuses on two points.  The first point is eBusiness and the second point is iBusiness.  The first point is the task is for the Uttarakhand Government.   This part is stated in the form of an expression in simple terms and that is the inclusion of lens nursery project in the state plan. The second part, that is, iBusiness, is at present is being done by the Phatte ki Sarkar through these daily mails.  Development is defined as the sum of these two expressions. When the social world was not as complicated as it is today these two terms were applied in terms of body and soul. The body does eBusiness and the soul does the iBusiness. In the primitive society all the work of the society was done manually.  There was hardly any time for individuals to think about the system as a whole.  But there had to be an order and the concepts of king and religion began to be understood.  King had to do eBusiness for the society.  The tribe of priests came into being in every society. King could not do the total business.  He had to become a system.  The executive does eBusiness and the government has to do iBusiness. 

The focus was on eBusiness all the time. The concepts of a considering the world as a whole or humanity were gradually understood.  The concept of globalization was understood only by the scholars who were left free to do iBusiness.  Scholars were also human beings carrying the complexity of body and soul.

The kings had to give importance to priests and scholars and the individuals forming the group of priests had the opportunity of becoming corrupt.  The complex world today has come into being through the process of industrialization as eBusiness and science as iBusiness.

The process of development today has divided the world into two parts.  One is the rich world.  The other is poor world.  The rich world lives on industrialization and science and the poor world is different because it does not carry industrialization and science with them.  This is today being understood through Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment as an individual and Uttarakhand as a system.

Dr Nishank has the responsibility of including the lens nursery project in the state plan as a specific task as suggested by the phatte ki Sarkar through its chains of mails.

Ram Prasad  

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The following mail  (Friday, 13 November, 2009 10:10 AM) from Udaya Pant,IMF  Advisor to Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, mobile  +977-9721437666 makes me an opportunity to discuss the topic Can Uttarayani be a resource for Dr. Nishank?

Dear Ram prasad ji,

I, for sure, find your dedicated emails on Uttarakhand very thought provoking and as guiding spirits to the people, who are genuinely interested in Uttarakhand and its development to the potential.

 

I wonder why people don’t like them. I miss them when I don’t find them any day. "Those who cannot pursue social cause, can always criticize others, who bear the torch". I too salute you, your continuous personal efforts and indomitable spirit to take up the common cause so regularly and with such intensity.

 Kudos!

This mail was a reaction to my last mail and I sent a reply directly to him as I received it.  But Pantji has been associated with the organization Uttarayani ever since it came to existence.  This organization arranged a welcome for the first Uttarakhand Chief Minister in Delhi and acquainted him about itself.  He was told about the mission and goals of the organization, i.e., about

Mission

To develop Uttarakhand state into the best rated state in the country offering its residents highest order of educational, health, security, nutritional, creative, religious and entrepreneurial opportunities together with highest order of environmental conditions.

Goal

To build an educated and highly creative egalitarian society that distinguishes itself through time tested value systems and rich traditions and contributes to the betterment of quality of life for all in the state and elsewhere.

 Note on Uttarayani

1.                              Identify, address and seriously indulge in the execution of the desired tasks at ground level in the State, thereby, constructively contributing in its development and betterment of its people  

2.                              Interaction with the State and Central Government in a bid to pursue implementation of developmental schemes and make them reach the remotest corners of the State. Ministry of Surface Transport and Highways has already sanctioned several roads for the State. It would be desirable for Uttarayani to monitor progress of such like activities and  schemes.

3.                              Promote language and rich culture of Uttaranchal, as also keep generation involved with the same

4.                              Strengthen the sentiments and feelings of brotherhood, co-operation and mutual help among Non - resident Uttaranchalis.

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The practice of sending mails daily to you does irritated some people from Uttarakhand but this is not the case with most of the people who do not belong to Uttarakhand. But there are some people from Uttarakhand who appreciate the effort such as MAHENDER KANDPAL who wrote:

  Sir, I salute for ur contribution and dedication for development of uttarakhand. I request u to keep writing so that other members also apprise with ur views.  Warm regards.
 (MAHENDER KUMAR KANDPAL, INDIRAPURAM, GZB)

 

It is perhaps the same spirit that the site Mera Pahad has created space for my articles.  I am a scientist and I must experiment.  This practice of sending daily to you came as a result of my earlier experiment that led to publication of a column in Pyara Uttarakhand carrying the title Phatte ki Sarkar. I write Gumod Parikrama daily in Hindi and send a bundle of these daily mails to Dev Singh Rawat, Editor of this weekly news paper every fortnight.  He uses the material to produce the column and gives it suitable title.  The practice is continuing ever since the formation of Uttarakhand nine years ago.

Any person who has an access to internet can now get information on what we call Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment.  This experiment was known as technological nursery or TNORD in short.  I used the search site Google and entered

"technological nursery" Uttarakhand

 
I got the information that there are about 108 references for "technological nursery" Uttarakhand. (0.22 seconds).  On the first page I found the link

uttaranchal_devbhoomi: Message: Re: [Spirit of Uttarakhand] Re... 

. I retired from National Physical Laboratory where I had been working for  establishUttarakhanding Technological Nursery for Optics Research and ...

in.groups.yahoo.com/group/uttaranchal_devbhoomi/message/242 –

An edited version of the material found from this link is added at the end of this mail and to highlight the information the title given to this mail is  

 Internet, M K Kandpal’s kingpins and development of Uttarakhand

 

Ram Prasad

Information Chain  from the Internet Link

uttaranchal_devbhoomi · Uttaranchal Dev Bhoomi

Re: [Spirit of Uttarakhand] Re: Concern about development of Uttarak..

Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:38 am

 The philosophy is simple. Rural problems are to be tackled specifically by scientists. Technological nursery is the concept that can tackle the problem.
It is suggested by me. Nehru accepted the suggestion by the World Federation of Scientific Workers of India to provide funds for R&D for this purpose. But USA had other designs. War scientists found USA better opportunities thanks to the implementation of the Vannevar Bush Report the endless frontiers. Colonial machinery did not allow things to get implemented. Nehru got frustrated. After his death Association of Scientific Workers was abandoned by scientists associated with it. These were left oriented scientists because ASWI never took off in a real sense because of the career oriented approach. I have now successfully developed the case. I had to take isolated approach because scientists never had interest in the social function of science. I would have not succeeded if computer had not come to the scene. That would have not been sufficient if internet would have not come to the scene. At present I am trying to consolidate the movement through internet on the one hand and Dhumakot-Sangliya organisations in the field.

I suggested to you that you may meet General TPS Rawat to know the progress on the state support.

 

Ram Prasad

The last mail discussed the topic The limitations of forthcoming Gopio Parvasi Bharatiya Diwas and Political Leaders of Uttarakhand.  These mails that are being posted to you daily do make use of knowledge and try to convert it into wisdom.  This is the work of Phatte ki Sarkar.  It is for Dr Nishank to convert the wisdom of these mails into reality.  We said that knowledge has two components.  One component is eKnowledge. This term is   nothing but what we understand as such for ages.  The other term is iKnowledge that is perhaps more than wisdom

The last mail brought in picture "Ardriana Cahill" and her Blog ardrianacahill.com with following observation:

The political parties carry out eBusiness of winning elections. Their job is to make appeals to the respective voters.  Voters have their own eKnowledge about parties.  If  this eKnowledge is to be modified by the party in their favour, they will have to study the functioning of the Phatte ki Sarkar.  This Phatte ki Sarkar has done work by using the Internet as in the works of "Ardriana Cahill" (ardrianacahill.com)” sited in this mail and on the work of Lakoff already discussed in the previous too mails.

We are discussing in this mail the question Can Dr Nishank implement the wisdom of Tiwariji? Dr Nishank cannot order his army of bureaucrats to implement Tiwariji’s Wisdom. He will have to seek answer for us.  What is the difference between gain and seek?  We have to go to the introduction in the  essay Knowledge vs. Wisdom by Ardriana Cahill. The opening paragraph is as follows:

When Karen Follett offers a spell to open oneself to wisdom in Llewellyn's 2004 Witches' Spell-a-Day Almanac and says..."you can read to gain knowledge, but you have to seek to gain wisdom," I wasn't sure what that meant to me.  So the following is my explanation to myself.

Knowledge is but the messenger that calls you to wisdom, but it is not wisdom.  One can gain knowledge, but one does not seek wisdom - one meets it when one often least expects it and recognizes it as kindred.  Knowledge puts us in the way of wisdom, but wisdom is experiential; it is a truth one recognizes in the external world that already resides in the internal one.  One cannot *learn* wisdom - one must awaken it.  Knowledge gives you the tools but never mistake the tools for the treasure.   

The business of advising Dr Nishank on Tiwariji’s wisdom has been discussed in this series of mails to the active politicians of Uttarakhand.  The business he has to do is to search how to get the ‘lens nursery project’ included in the state plan.

The last mail discussed the topic The limitations of forthcoming Gopio Parvasi Bharatiya Diwas and Political Leaders of Uttarakhand.  These mails that are being posted to you daily do make use of knowledge and try to convert it into wisdom.  This is the work of Phatte ki Sarkar.  It is for Dr Nishank to convert the wisdom of these mails into reality.  We said that knowledge has two components.  One component is eKnowledge. This term is   nothing but what we understand as such for ages.  The other term is iKnowledge that is perhaps more than wisdom

The last mail brought in picture "Ardriana Cahill" and her Blog ardrianacahill.com with following observation:

The political parties carry out eBusiness of winning elections. Their job is to make appeals to the respective voters.  Voters have their own eKnowledge about parties.  If  this eKnowledge is to be modified by the party in their favour, they will have to study the functioning of the Phatte ki Sarkar.  This Phatte ki Sarkar has done work by using the Internet as in the works of "Ardriana Cahill" (ardrianacahill.com)” sited in this mail and on the work of Lakoff already discussed in the previous too mails.

We are discussing in this mail the question Can Dr Nishank implement the wisdom of Tiwariji? Dr Nishank cannot order his army of bureaucrats to implement Tiwariji’s Wisdom. He will have to seek answer for us.  What is the difference between gain and seek?  We have to go to the introduction in the  essay Knowledge vs. Wisdom by Ardriana Cahill. The opening paragraph is as follows:

When Karen Follett offers a spell to open oneself to wisdom in Llewellyn's 2004 Witches' Spell-a-Day Almanac and says..."you can read to gain knowledge, but you have to seek to gain wisdom," I wasn't sure what that meant to me.  So the following is my explanation to myself.

Knowledge is but the messenger that calls you to wisdom, but it is not wisdom.  One can gain knowledge, but one does not seek wisdom - one meets it when one often least expects it and recognizes it as kindred.  Knowledge puts us in the way of wisdom, but wisdom is experiential; it is a truth one recognizes in the external world that already resides in the internal one.  One cannot *learn* wisdom - one must awaken it.  Knowledge gives you the tools but never mistake the tools for the treasure.   

The business of advising Dr Nishank on Tiwariji’s wisdom has been discussed in this series of mails to the active politicians of Uttarakhand.  The business he has to do is to search how to get the ‘lens nursery project’ included in the state plan.

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The last mail carrying the title Understanding Obama Victory in America and Advani Defeat in India tried to explain one of the important factors that must be taken into account by the forthcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas and Gopio convention  The  focus was in the point is that India is not America.  This was necessary because the focus of the website of 'Global Indian Network of Knowledge: Global INK' is as follows:

As part of Government of India's (GoI's) strategic focus on the Indian Diaspora, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) is launching 'Global Indian Network of Knowledge: Global INK'- a dynamic and secure portal for knowledge management and collaboration. MOIA envisions to engage the Diaspora as Knowledge Partners, the institutions in India as Stakeholder Partners, broader audience as the Knowledge Seekers and the MOIA as the Facilitator.

The key objective of this initiative is to draw upon the eclectic knowledge base of the Indian Diaspora and unleash innovation across sectors and geographies in India through well designed projects and community action with targeted and measurable outcomes. It seeks to catalyse the capability of the Indian Diaspora into institutionalised programmes for development and transformation, broadly in line with the priorities set out in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12).

Internet can provide knowledge.  We divide knowledge in two parts. eKnowlege is the knowledge that we get from our  own daily, the rituals that society performs every day and what the rituals of the  governance does every day.  All this too is dependent on the past experiences in these directions .  Wisdom is defined in these mails as  iBusiness and fThink that we have discussed in the mail carrying the title: Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand learn some lessons from “fThinking” of George Lakeoff? and in the last mail carrying the title Understanding Obama Victory in America and Advani Defeat in India .

The political parties carry out eBusiness of winning elections. Their job is to make appeals to the respective  voters.  Voters have their own eKnowledge about parties.  If  this eKnowledge is to be modified by the party in their favour, they will have to study the functioning of the Phatte ki Sarkar.  This Phatte ki Sarkar has done work by using the Internet as in the works of "Ardriana Cahill" (ardrianacahill.com) sited in this mail and on the work of Lakoff already discussed in the previous too mails.

The limitations of the Government of India, Gopio and their joint efforts that will be visible in forthcoming Gopio Parvasi Bharatiya Diwas event. Political Leaders of Uttarakhand know the limitations of the Government of India and other state governments in India but they do not know the limitations of organizations like Gopio.  This is not the limitation of Phatte ki Sarkar as it is working on iBusiness and not on eBusiness. This is why this mail has been given the title The limitations of  forthcoming Gopio Parvasi Bharatiya Diwas and Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The last three mails addressed to you were

Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand utilize Global Indian Network of Knowledge?
 Date: Monday, 9 November, 2009, 12:51 PM

Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand learn some lessons from “fThinking” of George Lakoff?
 Date: Sunday, 8 November, 2009, 9:50 AM

 Can Phatte ki Sarkar Change the Political Mind of Uttarakhand?
 Date: Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 12:35 PM

The first of these three mails tried to take your attention to forthcoming events of Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas and the Gopio convention associated with it.  The next was and extension of the previous mail related to the book Political Mind and its author George Lakoff who was one of the brains related the Obama Victory in USA . What this brain did has been described in the document reproduced at the end of this  mail from the blog Atheist’s Toolbox carrying the title  Republicans use cognitive science to influence voters by Luci on Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:07 am .

The purpose is to discuss with you the following observation in the blog India-Centricity  Sunday, January 18, 2009 carrying the title Advani – Obama Imitator??? (Posted by Robin at 1:38 AM)

“We all knew Obama used Web in an effective way to garner votes and gather support. Now Advani wants to replicate his success model in India . So he started his own website and his own blog to connect with people. But sadly India is no America and Advani is no Obama. So his website is not getting any big traction.” This observation received the comment I am not sure if the BJP is spending wisely but they sure are spending a lot on the web, trying to catch the new generation of voters. So much so that the banner at bottom of the forum threads at Redcafe (a Man Utd fan forum) is an ad for LK Advani's site.

Phatte ki Sarkar does not side  one political party or the other.  It notes that BJP won the Uttarakhand elections under Avani’s overall leadership.  But the Congress won the elections at the centre. The blog India-Centricity says India is no America but the blog the Atheist’s Toolbox implies that Phatte ki Sarkar won the election in America .  For understanding the point you will have to go through the above mails closely against the report added at the end of this mail.

Ram Prasad

Republicans use cognitive science to influence voters

The Republicans, Lakoff says, understand how "brains and minds work". If voters are fthinkers and not thinkers, you need to appeal to their emotions. One way to do so is to hitch a ride on a narrative that is already neurally well honed. Some narratives - for example, "rags to riches" - are affective neural superhighways for Americans.

Apparently, Americans also get that warm fuzzy feeling when they hear a "redemption narrative". According to Lakoff, Bush and his handlers understood this. Bush, recall, "had been an alcoholic, had a DUI violation, avoided service in Vietnam , had a shadow experience in his Air National Guard unit, failed repeatedly in business". Bush's team brilliantly deployed cog-sci know-how and glommed onto the appealing redemptive narrative possibilities in this prima facie sorry set of facts - or so Lakoff says. The fact that Rove and company did everything possible to suppress and/or spin these stories about alcoholism, cocaine use and business incompetence doesn't bother Lakoff in the slightest.

There are serious issues here, almost all of which Lakoff leaves under-discussed. Most important is the idea that we ought to wonder and worry about how we use language to frame policy. Should taxation be framed as theft of the fruits of my labour, or as membership dues to a club I want to be part of? Cognitive science has discovered that different ways of framing such issues have a big effect on the way people think and vote.

The same goes for the ways we talk about war. Is the war in Iraq a war over oil or is it a costly piece of testeronic juvenilia, the hissy fit of an uncurious moral dullard and his evil sidekick over 9/11 and Daddy's unfinished business in the first Gulf War? Republicans are smart enough not to dwell on these credible ways of describing the war. They know they can galvanise people with the repetition of phrases like "the war on terror" and then get away with whatever they wish.

Was it really a prescient team of advisers with advanced cognitive scientific sophistication who fthought up that metaphor? Lakoff seems to think so. After all, Republicans are the ones who understand "how brains and minds work". They apparently know that the constant repetition of phrases like "war on terror" strengthens neural connections. After hearing those words again and again, ordinary people literally get stuck thinking that way. It's noise to neurons.

For Lakoff, the root of all our problems is - as usual - our parents. He believes that we automatically use a "nation as a family" metaphor, which can be broken down into two competing models: the strict father family and the nurturing parents family. Conservatives, he says, idolise "daddy" and believe that "morality is obedience to an authority- assumed to be a legitimate authority who is inherently good, knows right from wrong, functions to protect us from evil in the world, and has both the right and duty to use force to command obedience and fight evil". One effect of this is that our leaders don't have to win public approval because the public, particularly conservatives, fthink of the president as father with final say over all matters

Progressives, apparently, see the world through the nurturing parents model, with its "ethics of care", moved by "a single moral value: empathy, together with responsibility and strength to act on the empathy". This ought to make progressives Fthinkers with a capital F, so it is surprising that they allegedly use thinking rather than fthinking to win votes. Maybe they are not actually motivated by the single moral value of empathy. Old ideas of equal worth and dignity still do much of the work for an empathic politic, a politic that strives for the common good without all the touchy-feely stuff.

Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand utilize Global Indian Network of Knowledge?

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

The last mail carried the title: Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand learn some lessons from “fThinking” of George Lakeoff? to seek a change in the political mind of Uttarakhand.  The success of fThinking is evident from the rise of the Democrat Obama to the Presidency of USA indicates the importance of new thinking in the election process also.  The Government of India is trying to get closer to Gopio as the following report from the news about the  Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010 indicates.

The Government of India, as a result of wider consultations held at past PBD events, have established Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre, conceptualized PIO University, formed Prime Minister's Global Advisory Council of People of Indian Origin, set up the India Development Foundation, enabled professionals holding Overseas Citizens of India cards to practice in India, launched the Global Indian Network of Knowledge (Global-INK) and the issued smart cards for Indian workers working abroad. 

In India , however, poverty is the central problem. The above efforts of Gopio as well as the Government come under what we call in Phatte ki Sarkar as eBusiness.  In eBusiness of human society  wars solved most of the problems.  But wars are no solution to the problem of poverty.  The solution came in  the form of iBusiness at the end of the Second World War and the same is being developed by what we call Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment in the laboratory that Uttarakhand has become.  The Uttarakhand Government has to do the eBusiness of including the lens nursery project in the state plan the eHelp is being sought from Gopio for the eEstablishment of what we call Gopio Institute of iBusiness.  The case is made for both the directions in the emails addressed to you for some time on daily basis.  The list of some of the recent mails is given at the end of this mail.  The titles suggests topics discussed.

It is hoped that the eBusiness of Uttarakhand, that is , the Government of Uttarakhand is already doing something  in this direction. Shri Manohar Kant Dhyani whose name was suggested for attending the Chenai event of Gopio this year has been reappointed as the Chief of Uttarakhand Planning Commission and Shri J S Bist and Dr Juyal of Dhumakot Sangliya Local Group already met him.

Ram Prasad

Role of “Effects” for the  Poverty Problem: List of recent  Daily Mails sent by Phatte ki Sarkar to the Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand starting with Battle of Isms, Uttarakhand Planning and Endless Frontiers of Science

Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand learn some lessons from “fThinking” of George Lakeoff?
 Date: Sunday, 8 November, 2009, 9:50 AM

 Can Phatte ki Sarkar Change the Political Mind of Uttarakhand?
 Date: Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 12:35 PM

Is Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment providing Uttarakhand a possibility to enter the mainstream of 21st century knowledge?
 Date: Friday, 6 November, 2009, 7:30 AM

Phatte ki Sarkar, is trying to turn Political Leaders and CM into respective ideal idols
 Date: Wednesday, 4 November, 2009, 10:32 AM

 Can Dr Nishank provide guidelines for technological nurseries?

Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 10:27 AM

What Dr Nishank needs to know about “Gopio WFSW Effect” and next “Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas?”
Date: Monday, 2 November, 2009, 9:12 AM

Dr Nishank needs to know Gopio WFSW Effect and next Bharatiya Pravasi Diwas
 Date: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 8:48 AM

Dr Nishank will have to stand on the shoulders of Giants to become pioneering common minimum chief minister  

Sat, 31 October, 2009 9:09:10

Can Dr Nishank work to become “Common Minimum Chief Minister”?
Date: Friday, 30 October, 2009, 8:45 AM

"Knowledge respects knowledge" in the same way as “Only strength respects strength”
 Date: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 9:50 AM

Salil Shetty, Director, Millennium Campaign, United Nations. Date: Wednesday, 28 October, 2009, 7:29 AM

Lens Nursery Project in the State Plan “vs. “Global Call to Action Against Poverty” Date:

Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 6:37 AM

Can Dr Nishank use Professor MGK Menon as a resource and live technological nursery?

Date: Monday, 26 October, 2009, 8:16 AM

Understanding Live Technological Nurseries with the Florida Friend
Date: Sunday, 25 October, 2009, 9:10 AM

Dr Nishank and my Florida friend
Date: Saturday, 24 October, 2009, 8:16 AM

 Internet management of Uttarakhand knowledge and Dr Nishank as live technological nursery

Date: Friday, 23 October, 2009, 8:49 AM

 Knowledge Management in Internet Age: Can we have live Technological Nurseries?
Date: Thursday, 22 October, 2009, 8:52 AM

Dr Nishank, BIMARU Theory, BIMARU Movements and World Poverty
Date: Wednesday, 21 October, 2009, 9:05 AM

Can Nishank use global knowledge for local use at Uttarakhand level?
Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009, 8:53 AM

Knowledge Explosion and Dr Nishank
Date: Monday, 19 October, 2009, 8:26 AM

Dr Nishank has more international opportunities than Koshiyariji, and Tiwariji
Date: Sunday, 18 October, 2009, 9:36 AM

Dr Nishank has more international opportunities than Koshiyariji, and Tiwariji
Date: Saturday, 17 October, 2009, 1:40 PM

Dr Nishank has an opportunity to learn some thing from Dr Murli Manohar Joshi.
Date: Friday, 16 October, 2009, 8:58 AM

Money Knowledge Management by Internet: A challenge for Dr Nishank?
 Date: Thursday, 15 October, 2009, 8:14 AM

Educational Knowledge Management by Internet. A challenge for Dr Nishank?
Date: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 7:43 AM

Political Knowledge Management by Internet. A challenge for Dr Nishank?
Date: Tuesday, 13 October, 2009, 7:14 AM

Knowledge Management by Internet. A challenge for Dr Nishank?
 Date: Monday, 12 October, 2009, 7:51 AM

Uttarakhand and Gopio Institute of iBusiness
Date: Sunday, 11 October, 2009, 9:16 AM

Only research is the key for development says Phatte ki Sarkar
 Date: Saturday, 10 October, 2009, 8:14 AM

Phatte ki Sarkar and Nishank Government are complementary
Date: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 9:07 AM

 Is Nishank Learning from the Bottom Up?
 Date: Thursday, 8 October, 2009, 9:11 AM

Phatte ki Sarkar vs Nishank Sarkar
 Date: Wednesday, 7 October, 2009, 8:47 AM

Tolia, Palini , DD Pant S K Joshi
 Date: Tuesday, 6 October, 2009, 10:49 AM

Uttarakhand VIPs: Tolia Lecture and Dr Palni
 Date: Monday, 5 October, 2009, 7:09 AM

The Tolia Lecture proves why it is necessary to bring in the “Effect Line” in Rural Development
 Date: Sunday, 4 October, 2009, 9:42 AM

From Science Circles to Bureacrat’s Lecture
Date: Saturday, 3 October, 2009, 7:53 AM

Are we back to Science Circles of Political parties in sixties?
Date: Friday, 2 October, 2009, 8:38 AM

 Rural Reality in India and Planning of Development
 Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009, 8:07 AM

Sonia Gandhi, Rajnath Singh and brainless engineering and spineless bureaucracy
 Date: Wednesday, 30 September, 2009, 9:33 AM

Contribution of Americans of Indian Origin or Otherwise in the direction of 1946 WFSW Spirit
 Date: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009, 8:17 AM

Connecting people, ideas, and technologies across continents.
 Date: Monday, 28 September, 2009, 8:04 AM

Why the reshaping of the planning process in India is dependent on Uttarakhand?
 Date: Sunday, 27 September, 2009, 8:52 AM

Planning for the Government, planning for organizations like WFSW and Gopio
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2009, 8:07 AM

Why Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment is planning for WFSW Gopio Effect?
 Date: Friday, 25 September, 2009, 8:01 AM

Corridors of power, in it, out of it and beyond
 Date: Thursday, 24 September, 2009, 7:59 AM

Nishank of Utttarakhand vs Nitish Kumar of Bihar
Date: Wednesday, 23 September, 2009, 8:53 AM

Understanding the expression “iResearch vs. eResearch” in Uttarakhand
 Date: Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, 8:27 AM

Internet age: Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand ( India ) live in the shell’s of past?
 Date: Monday, 21 September, 2009, 8:10 AM

 Is there any difference between Uttarakhand and Karnataka (Indian) Politics?
 Date: Sunday, 20 September, 2009, 11:06 AM

India’s Internet Age and Uttarakhand (Indian) Politics
 Date: Saturday, 19 September, 2009, 7:59 AM

Understanding Gopio Dhumakot Sangliya Relationship with the new tribe of “Ameican Indians”
 Date: Friday, 18 September, 2009, 8:13 AM

Internet, Gopio and the poor aunts and uncles of Uttarakhand Netizens
 Date: Thursday, 17 September, 2009, 5:29 AM

 Poor pahadi VS Uttaranchal..UttaraKhand...Dehradun..Gairsain
 Date: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009, 6:33 AM

Uttarakhand Government is a problem, but leads the country in Education
 Date: Tuesday, 15 September, 2009, 8:35 AM

 Let Lens Nursery lead the Uttarakhand Planning
 Date: Monday, 14 September, 2009, 6:00 AM

Roosevelt Vannevar Bush Impact vs. Nehru Bhatnagar Impact and the Lenin Impact
Date: Sunday, 13 September, 2009, 9:31 AM

Gairsain, Phatte ki Sarkar and Uttarakhand Planning
Date: Saturday, 12 September, 2009, 8:41 AM

Battle of Isms, Uttarakhand Planning and Endless Frontiers of Science
 Date: Friday, 11 September, 2009, 9:40 AM

Congress was the ruling party earlier.  This mean that in Uttarakhand situation is much similar to the situation in   USA . Both BJP and Congress may learn from fThiking of the Obama supporter George Lakeoff from the following paragraph of his in the previous mail:

But humans are not rational, at least not fully so. We are affective-epistemic kludges- Rube Goldberg devices that negotiate reality with all kinds of imperfect, unconscious and emotion-laden tricks for getting by and getting ahead. According to the cognitive science cognoscenti, we don't just reason, we reason with passion. We don't think, we combine thought with emotion - let's call it "fthinking". Karl Rove and his cronies, Lakoff believes, have long understood this. Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is power." There is a name for those who use knowledge to gain power. In America they are called Republicans.

   As these mails as well as the column of Dev Singh Rawat are addressed to all active politicians both parties are equally exposed to them.  It is for the parties to learn or not to learn from the lessons opened by Internet. This is why the title: Can Active Politicians in Uttarakhand learn some lessons from “fThinking” of George Lakeoff?

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

In the last mail we brought in the discussion the term political mind to point out that with the arrival of cold war

“The political climate changed and science lost importance in political minds.  Only Jawaharlal Nehru focused on science but the rest of the political minds did not support him fully. Only the rural masses recognized him till today and politicians now know that that there is a political weight in Gandhi, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and now Rahul Gandhi.”

In the conclusion it said:

It is also obvious that Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment is providing Uttarakhand a possibility to enter the mainstream of 21^st century knowledge.

Both these references in the above mail refer to eBusiness and the mail said:

Phatte ki Sarkar is trying to create a situation in which the active leaders of Uttarakhand, the CM, and the state itself become ideal idols. This is possible because the internet age has provided us with new tools.  The ruling process of Globalization has created a favourable political climate for application of eBusiness for the development of rural areas and gradual reduction of world poverty.  The world has developed communication facilities in the direction in which the eBusiness has been moving for centuries.  It has not been, however, possible so far to replace human wisdom.  The reason is the political approach of the humanity as a whole. 

We have discussed in these tutorials for Active Political Workers of Uttarakhand the terms like Lenin Royal Society Effect, Roosevelt Vannevar Effect, WFSW –Nehru Effect, Nehru Bhatnagar Effect and the Gopio WFSW Effect that the Phatte ki Sarkar hopes to consciously develop.

Since the policies of Gopio have thus far been developed by Indian Americans like Inder Singh Ji, Dr Abraham , Dr Anand and their colleagues  The material that is a review of the book The Political Mind: Why you can't understand 21st-century American politics with an 18th-century brain by George Lakoff and  published by: Viking Penguin. The term fthinking may interest those people may interest those people who still challenge the use of the terms  eBusiness and iBusiness of Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment.

Ram Prasad

Book information

The Political Mind: Why you can't understand 21st-century American politics with an 18th-century brain by George Lakoff and published by: Viking Penguin

IN The Political Mind, George Lakoff, an eminent cognitive linguist at the University of California , Berkeley , sets out to provide a mind science primer for progressive US politicians. His hope is that, come November, they might defeat the conservatives who, if Lakoff is to be believed, already stealth fully deploy the latest wisdom from cognitive science.

According to Lakoff, the 18th-century Enlightenment painted a portrait of humans as thinkers: rational, logical and attentive to facts. Progressive politicians buy into this, and thus offer facts and logical arguments to sell their policies to the public.

But humans are not rational, at least not fully so. We are affective-epistemic kludges- Rube Goldberg devices that negotiate reality with all kinds of imperfect, unconscious and emotion-laden tricks for getting by and getting ahead. According to the cognitive science cognoscenti, we don't just reason, we reason with passion. We don't think, we combine thought with emotion - let's call it "fthinking". Karl Rove and his cronies, Lakoff believes, have long understood this. Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is power." There is a name for those who use knowledge to gain power. In America they are called Republicans.

Politics, says Lakoff, is not about changing minds through arguments and evidence. It is about configuring and reconfiguring neural pathways. Repetitive, comforting, emotionally attractive and morally appealing narratives, metaphors, mottos and mantras are most likely to gain neural traction. Politicians who control brains win elections.

Republicans, Lakoff says, understand how "brains and minds work". If voters are fthinkers and not thinkers, you need to appeal to their emotions. One way to do so is to hitch a ride on a narrative that is already neutrally well honed. Some narratives - for example, "rags to riches" - are affective neural superhighways for Americans.

Apparently, Americans also get that warm fuzzy feeling when they hear a "redemption narrative". According to Lakoff, Bush and his handlers understood this. Bush, recall, "had been an alcoholic, had a DUI violation, avoided service in Vietnam , had a shadow experience in his Air National Guard unit, failed repeatedly in business". Bush's team brilliantly deployed cog-sci know-how and glommed onto the appealing redemptive narrative possibilities in this prima facie sorry set of facts - or so Lakoff says. The fact that Rove and company did everything possible to suppress and/or spin these stories about alcoholism, cocaine use and business incompetence doesn't bother Lakoff in the slightest.

Democrats, on the other hand, just don't get how people fthink. Really? What about "The Great Society", "The Peace Corps" and "Teach for America "- all progressive constructs that ably employ frames and metaphors?

There are serious issues here, almost all of which Lakoff leaves under-discussed. Most important is the idea that we ought to wonder and worry about how we use language to frame policy. Should taxation be framed as theft of the fruits of my labour, or as membership dues to a club I want to be part of? Cognitive science has discovered that different ways of framing such issues have a big effect on the way people think and vote.

The same goes for the ways we talk about war. Is the war in Iraq a war over oil or is it a costly piece of testeronic juvenilia, the hissy fit of an uncurious moral dullard and his evil sidekick over 9/11 and Daddy's unfinished business in the first Gulf War? Republicans are smart enough not to dwell on these credible ways of describing the war. They know they can galvanise people with the repetition of phrases like "the war on terror" and then get away with whatever they wish.

Was it really a prescient team of advisers with advanced cognitive scientific sophistication who fthought up that metaphor? Lakoff seems to think so. After all, Republicans are the ones who understand "how brains and minds work". They apparently know that the constant repetition of phrases like "war on terror" strengthens neural connections. After hearing those words again and again, ordinary people literally get stuck thinking that way. It's noise to neurons.

For Lakoff, the root of all our problems is - as usual - our parents. He believes that we automatically use a "nation as a family" metaphor, which can be broken down into two competing models: the strict father family and the nurturing parents family. Conservatives, he says, idolise "daddy" and believe that "morality is obedience to an authority- assumed to be a legitimate authority who is inherently good, knows right from wrong, functions to protect us from evil in the world, and has both the right and duty to use force to command obedience and fight evil". One effect of this is that our leaders don't have to win public approval because the public, particularly conservatives, fthink of the president as father with final say over all matters.

Progressives, apparently, see the world through the nurturing parents model, with its "ethics of care", moved by "a single moral value: empathy, together with responsibility and strength to act on the empathy". This ought to make progressives Fthinkers with a capital F, so it is surprising that they allegedly use thinking rather than fthinking to win votes. Maybe they are not actually motivated by the single moral value of empathy. Old ideas of equal worth and dignity still do much of the work for an empathic politic, a politic that strives for the common good without all the touchy-feely stuff.

Part of Lakoff's agenda is to help Democrats set up progressive think tanks - actually, fthink tanks - that use the latest scientific research to carry out "cognitive policies" and "framing campaigns". "Conservatives conduct such cognitive policy making every day of every year," he writes. "It is explicit, well organized, and well funded. Its aim is to change brains in a conservative direction. And it has been working." On the other hand, "progressives rarely conduct cognitive policy making". Lakoff's own fthink tank, the Rockridge Institute, has closed, according to the latest check of its website.

The moral of the story is that successful politicians know how to use words to get people to vote against their own interests and values. Apparently this fact has just been discovered - by Lakoff. When Plato wrote about sophists who strengthen arguments by appealing to emotion he must have been talking about parking disputes at the agora because the relevant discoveries about emotion's role in reasoning and rhetoric, and language's ability to shape thought, wouldn't be made for another 2400 years, at Berkeley.

There is a lesson here, but it is not about politics. It's about the intellectual integrity of scientists, specifically mind-scientists, who wish to apply what they know across borders. Cognitive scientific ways of speaking help us understand things more deeply only if they reveal something new, or give thicker and richer texture to an understanding we already have. Lakoff's premise- that the Enlightenment portrayed us as perfectly rational- is flawed. What about Hume, who famously argued that we are fthinkers (remember "reason is a slave to passion"?), or Adam Smith, Rousseau and Voltaire, all of whom thought profoundly about the role of sentiment? It was Smith, in fact, who first distinguished empathy from sympathy.

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Levi-Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, A.J.P. Taylor, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Popper, Jean Piaget, Simone Weill, Albert Einstein, Erich Fromm, Konrad Lorenz, Emile Durkheim, Theodor Adorno, F.A. Hayek, Marshall McLuhan, Max Weber, Raymond Williams, Iris Murdoch, and many more.

Internet educates us with the following abstract of a paper Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project entitled by Yannick Rumpala, Faculty de Droit, des Sciences Politiques, conomiques et de Gestion/ERMES, Universit de Nice, Nice, France Published in: Twenty-First Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3 November 2009 , pages 277 – 295:  

Modern-day society is increasingly described as an extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralysing description, this paper aims to highlight the potentially political dimension of network analysis, namely as defined in the social sciences, and of the notion of networks itself. It will be shown that a political project could, in this case, be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it. Three steps are proposed to specify how such a political project could be built. The first step aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasises the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step shows the possibilities that this knowledge offers, particularly in allowing one to find one's bearings in a world which is frequently described as veering towards an increasing complexity, and by helping to rebuild the selection criteria for connections in this world, thanks to an additional degree of reflexivity. The third step draws on these points to extend them and bring out potentialities with regards to the intervention capacities in network configurations.

 You will note that the paper tries to show that a political project could be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it.  This is what the Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment has been doing thus far.  It has already covered the first step, that is, aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasing the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step, ie,   organizing technological nurseries to bring global knowledge at local levels has enormous possibilities.  The third step of intervening in actual situations is obvious.

It is also obvious that Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment providing Uttarakhand a possibility to enter the mainstream of 21^st century knowledge.

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

Active Political Leaders Group of Phatte ki Sarkar is working to transform the real political leaders and the real CM of Uttarakhand into respective ideal idols.

The titles of the following recent daily mails suggest how the transformation is being attempted:

Can Dr Nishank provide guidelines for technological nurseries?

Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 10:27 AM

What Dr Nishank needs to know about “Gopio WFSW Effect” and next “Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas?”
Date: Monday, 2 November, 2009, 9:12 AM

Dr Nishank needs to know Gopio WFSW Effect and next Bharatiya Pravasi Diwas
 Date: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 8:48 AM

Dr Nishank will have to stand on the shoulders of Giants to become pioneering common minimum chief minister  

Sat, 31 October, 2009 9:09:10

Can Dr Nishank work to become “Common Minimum Chief Minister”?
Date: Friday, 30 October, 2009, 8:45 AM

"Knowledge respects knowledge" in the same way as “Only strength respects strength”
 Date: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 9:50 AM

Salil Shetty, Director, Millennium Campaign, United Nations. Date: Wednesday, 28 October, 2009, 7:29 AM

Lens Nursery Project in the State Plan “vs. “Global Call to Action Against Poverty” Date:

Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 6:37 AM

Can Dr Nishank use Professor MGK Menon as a resource and live technological nursery?

Date: Monday, 26 October, 2009, 8:16 AM

Understanding Live Technological Nurseries with the Florida Friend
Date: Sunday, 25 October, 2009, 9:10 AM

Dr Nishank and my Florida friend
Date: Saturday, 24 October, 2009, 8:16 AM

 Internet management of Uttarakhand knowledge and Dr Nishank as live technological nursery

Date: Friday, 23 October, 2009, 8:49 AM

Knowledge Management in Internet Age: Can we have live Technological Nurseries?
 Date: Thursday, 22 October, 2009, 8:52 AM

What is knowledge management? Let us learn this from Knowledge Praxis which is a British owned international education consultancy and support service provider. This company defines knowledge management in the following parts;

Business Strategies | What is Knowledge | Why do we need..... | Roadblocks to solutions
History of KM | KM.....cross disciplinary | Categorization | Conclusion

In short the company defines knowledge management as a business activity with two primary aspects:

Treating the knowledge component of business activities as an explicit concern of business reflected in strategy, policy, and practice at all levels of the organization.

 

Making a direct connection between an organization’s intellectual assets — both explicit [recorded] and tacit [personal know-how] — and positive business results.

Dr Nishank is running the real government.  He is doing the eBusiness.  Whatever he is doing can be improved by filling the gaps.  Industrialisation of hilly part of the state is a gap.  This gap has to be filled in by knowledge management.  Phatte ki Sarkar is doing all the business related to understanding of the problems and the work is available from the above daily mails.  The challenge for Dr Nishank is to get the lens nursery project included in the State Plan.  This is an eWork for which the existing system of bureaucracy and governance is fully equipped and trained.

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

In the last mail we discussed: what Dr Nishank needs to know about “Gopio WFSW Effect” and next “Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas?” The word “we” means the group of Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand of Phatte ki Sarkar. 

Thanks to the Uttarakhand Groups on Internet, any body any where on this planet can find information on “Gopio WFSW Effect".  J S Bist, who is taking keen interest in the development of Dhumakot area, after having been educated by the PG Group on internet through a series of awareness campaigns in selected intermediate college in Uttarakhand area, is focusing on similar awareness campaign, in Dhumakot area. He organized some events with Dr Juyal and other ex-students of the Dhumakot Intermediate College.  He recently visited selected schools and colleges in the area.  He will be making a report on the outcome of the tour but he talked to me on telephone.  He was able to meet one of you, that is, Shri Manohar Kant Dhyani.  Dr Juyal was with him and the last mail  I discussed the telephonic report.

The additional  information  that Bistji provided was about his focus on internet. He has joined an activity that is described as Netlog on internet. He has been regularly in touch with me through this internet activity and his views have already been discussed in earlier mail.

What is the importance of Internet? It is through the internet he made contacts with the PG Group and its awareness campaigns while he was in service.  It is through internet that he came to I too came to know about Bistji and his colleagues. It is through  the internet that he came to know about Shri B B Pokhriyal, the Treasurer of TNORD. Pokhriyalji  was in the  second batch of students of Dhumakot Intermediate College .  Shri K G Kishnamurti, the President of TNORD finalized the procedure for the financial side of TNORD with Pokhriyalji's help.  Krishnamurthi  had retired as the secretary of CSIR and Pokhriyalji as the Senior Accounts Officer that was functioning  as a CSIR in the field of Economic Research.  Even though TNORD was functioning from my house all these years it was recognized as a Scientific and Industrial  Research Organisation. That left me free for the work I did for TNORD.

The discussion in this mail is the extension of the last mail carrying  the title: What Dr Nishank needs to know about  “Gopio WFSW Effect” and next “Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas?” Perhaps Dr Nishank already understands something about this subject.  He has provided ministerial status to Dhyaniji but not to Shri Puran Chandra Nailwal  who coordinated the work of Uttarakhand Government  with NRIs belonging to Uttarakhand in the Khanduri Government.  Dhyaniji was in touch with Dr Juyal and the lens expert G K Sharma.  Bistji and Dr Juyal are yet to understand the lens nursery project.  They need not know the details.  They are working as the local level activists and they have only to project those issues that concern the people at the local level at a particular point of time.  For the lens nursery project, however Dr Nishank has only to ensure that his government includes the lens nursery project in the state plan.  If he is successful, he can  provide guidelines for technological nurseries to other states and to the Planning Commission itself?  For this purpose he will have to guide  and support Dhyani ji.

Ram Prasad

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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand

In recent mails there was a reference to Doon University that is in its infancy. Internet says that there are 1,150,000 for Doon University.  This university is being organized by the Nishank Government and the first reference is the one we could have got from the Government website.  After we open it  we find all details are available. The Phatte ki Sarkar is stuck on the slogan of the Doon University .  This slogan is   "Only by being endowed with knowledge can one get out of darkness (ignorance) to achieve light (wisdom)".  Today internet is removing ignorance.  Just as it is removing the ignorance of Phatte ki Sarkar about the institution that carries the information about this university.  Phatte ki Sarkar has recently discussed the subject knowledge management.  This subject is in infancy as the Doon University is. This is why we did not go further into the details.  These details belong to the field of eBusiness. We can ignore the other reference on internet.  But not this one.  This site says that Professor Y S Rajan is on the Execute Committee of Doon University.  This part of eUttarakhand government.  Therefore recent mails also brought professor Rajan to the fore. He has been connected with Dr Kalam.  Dr Kalam is associated with Gopio.  The Gopio Institute of iBusiness is interested in Dr Kalam.  Therefore Phatte ki Sarkar has to consider the current occupations of Dr Kalam.  These are PURA and the India Vision 2020.  Both of these are available on Internet. The discussions of Phatte ki Sarkar, however, are interested in implementation of what is defined as Gopio WFSW effect. 

Now the work of the Phatte ki Sarkar is in two parts.  One is the inclusion of Lens Nursery Project in the State Plan and the other is the setting of the Gopio Institute of iBusiness.  Dr Juyal of the Dhumakot Sangliya Local Group informs me that one of you, that is, Shri Manohar Kant Dhyani has again been given the charge of the State Planning.  Dr Juyal met him.  He does not himself understand what iBusiness is. So he discussed with him only what he knows. Earlier Dr Juyal has taken a delegation of twelve people of Dhumakot to meet Khanduri Ji who is the current Member of Legislative Assembly from the Dhumakot Constituency.  The discussion was an eBusiness.  Each of the delegates represented his own case.  In the field activity there has to be a focus on each problem of the people. Dr Juyal got the opportunity to meet Dhyaniji and Khanduriji.  They listened to him because there was the pressure of what we now call the Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment  that has two directions. The eDirection focuses on the inclusion of the Lens Nursery Project in the State Plan  and the other is the establishment of the Gopio Institute of iBusiness.  There was a pressure on Khanduriji and and Dhyaniji to do the business of including the lens nursery project in the State Plan.  Dhyaniji had his problems that had to be attended by Khanduriji.  And Khanduriji had this problem of including lens nursery programme in the State Plan.  Phatte ki Sarkar knows what eWork was done by Khanduri Ji and Dhyani Ji did where the obstacles were.  These obstacles are to be attended by the central government.  There is an eRelation between the central Planning and the State Planning Commission.  The ePart of this problem is to be attended by the System Dr Man Mohan Singh is leading and by the system that Dr Nishank is leading.  Both of them are the CEOs of the respective systems.  The Phatte ki Sarkar last year had made a case for Khandudriji and Dhyani Ji to meet Gopio leaders in Chennai. The same Phatte ki Sarkar has made a case for Dr Nishank and Dhyani Ji to participate in the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010 which is in New Delhi this time.

What do we conclude?  We may conclude that  there are inadequacies in the Planning of development in India as well as in the excution of what has been planned.  We cannot expect much in New Delhi as well.  But the existing relationship between Gopio and Government of India should be extened to focus on the development of rural India . We may conclude this mail by noting the comments of Dr Kaleem Khawaja, an American Scientist, who has been associated with Gopio,  His mail says:

In my periodic visits to various major cities in India I have observed huge economic and social transformation in the last about 30 years.  A lot of good economic progress although gnawing large scale poverty remains very troublesome.  But if there is one development that bothers me more than poverty it is the lowering of ethical values among the educated and professional classes.  Getting ahead, achieving progress in careers and ventures, having friends among the influential people is now commonplace among the well educated.  That is not bad.  But I have noticed that the same enterprising folks do not bat an eyelash in sacrificing ethical values in moving ahead.  Thus “ getting away with it”  is a sign of smartness and of being success-oriented.  Those who prefer ethics over getting ahead are viewed as either oddball or not having success orientation.

Govt officials, managers in companies, etal  whom I interfaced with increasingly gave me the above impression.  When I mentioned my discomfort I heard words like:  “This is India , here wqe have to do what it takes to get things done”  .  Police officials are not the only ones who are indifferent to ethics.  Giving/taking bribes is not the most prominent violation of ethics; there are so many violations.

Thus in my view in all major universities (including IITs, IIMs, IIScs etc) at graduate and post-graduate levels there should be a course on ethics.  I am sure some remnant will remain in the minds of youth that will later help the society.

 Ram Prasad