Islamophobia

It was a fine friday morning as usual, Everything seemed quite normal .People got busy in their usual jobs being totally oblivious to what was destined to happen in the next few hours, Yes Folks i am talking about the recent atrocious and malevolent act by a misanthrope who fired the opening volley of the shooting excursion thereby taking the lives of atleast 85  innocent natives of a  country (NORWAY) which hadn't witnessed such apocalyptic act  since the second world war.
                                       As soon as the news disseminated around the country and henceforth around the globe, most of the people had already made their judgments about the perpetrator and certified him as a follower of islam..Even though there was no official confirmation by the oslo police about the man behind it, the woman in burqas and the muslim men soon sensed the imminent threat they were going to face in the city of oslo,when the native norwegians started seeing  these immigrants through the spectacle of suspicion and contempt.
                  Such is the fear and hatred which islam is facing today .The pre-conceived notions and prejudices against mulsims and islam are buried deep down in the minds and hearts of the people.This animosity was primarily born 10 years ago when the world witnessed attack on the twin towers of america .The Bush government then, retaliated with a great hostility towards muslims in US .This feeling was aggravated subsequently when iraq and afghanistan was invaded by the US.and since then the innocent muslims around the world have been going through  this great ordeal as every time a terrorist activity occurs the suspect on radar is always an islam follower, had the bush administration handled this case 10 years back with a better insight and less aggression , the situation would have been  much better .Kudos to norwegian PM ,Jens Stoltenberg who has handled the situation in a far better manner and has repeatedly requested people not to
 let the racism take the hold of their conscience and stressed looking at every such issue as an act promoted by individuals or the extremist groups and not by religion or a race.This thinking is what is necessary in today's era as the otherwise will just provoke more and more ostracized islamists and make them vulnerable to take violent paths..

Black Money

Black Money , the two of the most talked about words which have been holding the nerve of the nation for the past few days.The country's roads have witnessed outrage of the common people, provoked sometimes by social activists like Anna Hazaare  and the other times by the highly unplanned agitations led by the Industrialists cum yoga guru Swami Ramdev  ,but all these protests had one common issue and primarily wanted the authorities to bring back the Black Money  to India from the so called tax havens of the world. A lot of fuss is being created by the opposition parties whose primary interests lie in slandering the ruling party and the news channels that are flooded with the people blabbering about the figures (of which there is no authentic source)of the black money roosting in foreign banks but what about the source of this problem prevailing at home.

                       The black money is born with the desire to evade taxes and the under the table incomes but there is hardly any attention given to these dynamics.Government has formed SIT(special investigation team) to tackle this issue which surely has the potential to act as an antidote, but the sole focus is being diverted  on how to bring those illegal deposits to the country.We need to take notice of the sluggish policies prevailing in the system and authorities must exercise it's powers to reform the system. 

                      In order to take a leap forward against the unaccounted money ,Indian property market needs to be reformed as it accounts for the major volume of the black money generated. Buyers and Sellers clandestinely make deals over the counter with government being totally oblivious to the ground realities or should i say pretend to be totally oblivious to these facts, out of the total daily transactions in the property market , maximum deals involve more than half of the money being paid in cash ,thereby depriving the state of capital gains tax and stamp duty etc.All these transaction can be accountable , but just need a few reforms. SIT must keep up the work of bringing money from abroad but at the same time should exercise it's powers and push for the reforms so as to solve the problem at the grass root level .