Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die

Recession forced me to cut costs and I had to relinquish luxury of driver. I always enjoy driving and also hate to have a driver who most of the time is all ears to what u r talking but had to hire one as I was not allowed to drive after my surgery for more than six months. Its been a real test of patience on the roads. The civic sense of the proud citizens of this country is horrible. People driving those million Rupee + cars regularly throw Banana peel out of their fast moving cars. Spitting on the road is birth right of all the tobacco chewing population. Driving in lane is a no no. People prefer to bribe and tip then wearing their seat belt. Sights of garbage all across the city and "sara jahan hamara" toilets is common.Cellphones ringing loudly in public transport and honking is the best music that the denizens can play. I have never been able to maintain the safe distance with the car ahead as some one will overtake from the left and get between the two cars. And unfortunately there seems to be no solution to all this in sight. We are proud citizens who get into the street, destroy public property etc etc on the question of morality, religion, caste. Seven thousand crores of public property was burnt in Punjab in a day in retaliation to a shoot out in a Gurudwara in Vienna. Why destroy the public property? Because only 3 % of the population pay for it with their taxes. And the rest think its their "Baap ka maal".

62 years ago when India became independent, the life expectancy of an Indian was well under 30. The retirement age of officers was 55. Reaching the age of 60 was a celebration in the family and those who could afford weighed in food grains and the same was distributed to the needy. Now at 60+ our large majority is below 40. With the younger population it is expected that we better our record but it looks like we are digressing. Morality is of no relevance in this fast paced life. Civic sense does not exist. The curse of memory is surely the burden of old age as the new generation can afford to be amnesiac. The young can take every thing for granted. This country no longer remembers the calendars of Bhagat Singh, Netaji or Vivekanand. Gandhiji is now referred as another name of maajboori not realising that his name was synonym with majbooti And every one talks of making India - "sone ki chidiya" again. We want this country to be world leader, a powerful nation, an economic superpower, a heaven. But unfortunately no one wants to die for it. No one wants to contribute his slightest civic sense to make it one.

I know I will be reborn....

This day a year back I was admitted for my disk replacement surgery. An event that changed my complete thought process and priorities in life. It also made me realise things that I will not be able to do any more , things that I always wanted to but never had time to do. Suddenly I found out I have out grown those little little things that I never did and now that I know what I missed I cannot do them any more. Working for more than 80 hrs a week for 15 long years - the only thing that I got for me or my family was all those materialistic things which does not hold any relevance the moment priorities change. God gave me opportunity twice to understand this when my parents were detected with cancer in 2001 and 2006 but its rightly said," You yourself have to die to go to heaven". I realised this with my surgery and thought of sharing this with all. I know I will be reborn as I missed out on some of the major things and I can not do them any more. Listing them:

1. Enjoying my children grow - When Sameep and Divyansh were growing up, I never had time for them. Now that they are teenagers I just am left to cry at myself on those missed out happy moments which a father is privileged to enjoy seeing his child grow.

2. Lessons from my Grandfather - My Grandfather was my spiritual Guru. Whenever I am at crossroads I always find an answer to all my grandfather taught me. Unfortunately he is no more and I could never have enough of his views and thoughts.

3. Tennis - My Tennis abruptly came to a halt because of the surgery and as it looks like i will never be able to play again.

4. Adventure Sports - Despite my love for adventures I never did Bungee jumping and now after the surgery can never do it.

5. Beat Debjani to top my class - I was never able to come first beating Debjani in my junior school despite all my efforts.

I have dreams that I have to fulfill before it becomes late and remain dreams. I give myself five more years of active business before I start living all my passion and fulfilling my dreams. As rightly said in the lyrics of the song from the coming Amir Khan movie "Bachpan to gaya jawani bhi gayi,Ek pal toh ab humein jeene do.Give me some sunshine,Give me some rain,Give me another chance, I wanna grow up once again."

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On the NH 8 , I found these three guys speeding without helmets ? God save them and people on their way

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Living In Harmony

August has been a typical month. A time when I am trying to re invent myself and getting all my acts together. In all this hustle bustle, I could never get into right frame to write. But then this topic of discussion we had over breakfast which motivated me to express myself. We were talking about one of Dads maternal Uncle and Aunt and how they are so different in their life, hobbies, work culture. I mean everything. They relish their holidays differently though living together. Having seen and lived with them closely, i never saw anything distinctly common and still they have been happily married for almost 60 years. I was wondering since this morning what keeps them going together but then when I look around I find most of us are in the same boat. When I say most of us - its me and people close to me and around me. Minoo and me have very few things common. As I write this blog, I don't recollect a single common taste or hobby. Her food habits are different - she loves green and lots of veggies and I like fries. She is adamant on her views and sticks by it , I prefer to let things happen. I enjoy sports and she would prefer family melodrama. I love to read and photograph , she prefers to decorate the home. In fact when I look around most of the couples I am close with, they are distinctly different and share very few common thoughts and hobbies. Yet I find them happy together. I am happy being married to Minoo. That makes me think - May its better this way. If we would have shared similar work and hobbies , we would be comparing each other. Evaluating performances. Judging our love and trust on those performances. The diversity of " We are who we are" keeps the romance going and even if we don't like it we have no choice as she is expert in half of the activities we do and I in the other half. If only there was a way to add all the shouting that's coming from Minoo as I write this - "Switch off the Light, I cant sleep with lights on" , you can make out our compatibility as I can go into sleep when she has the lights on to do some stuff or may be teach Divyansh. Love you Minoo.

Brain Drain or Brain in the Drain

The Union budget was presented today in the parliament. I am not an economist nor I understand all these huge numbers. I hope the guys concerned do understand :-) . But what interested me was government spending over 2000 Crores on IIT's and NIT's. This is a wonderful news for our higher education system. Our gen next will have more opportunities to get good education. Good for them and hopefully good for the country.

What disturbs me as a tax payer whose money is being used to provide this infrastructure is what is the commitment of the beneficiaries to use this very subsidised world class education they receive here for India's benefit. A huge percentage of them usually end up taking a job outside the country and blame the system here from long distance. They would never be part of the system and work towards improving them. Its obvious if something goes which hurts their benefits they will be out on the street and shout slogans like when there was this reservation issue. I am absolutely not in favor of reservation and count the events of reservation started by Mr. V. P. Singh responsible for all the social mess we are in. But then these guys should do some should searching and seek giving back to this country. Their should be some accountability and commitment to return their gratitude for this wonderful and cheap education they get. As I understand Doctors have to compulsorily spend some months in rural country as part of their curriculum, engineers should also be made to work within this country preferably in public enterprise for say two years or so in exchange for the near free world class education they get from institutes like IIT's or IIM's etc. Or else the 3% odd direct tax paying population of this country would feel burdened and weak carrying load of all - a rich farmer, a corrupt bureaucrat, a dishonest businessman and an inefficient system.

What we have lost over the years?

I spent the Saturday watching two 1950's movies - " Do Aur Do Char" and " Mr X in Bombay". I had no idea what these movies are about but got them as I wanted to see Kishore Kumar movies as they have rib tickling comedy. Divyansh was not amused as firstly they were old movies and secondly Black & White. Well 'Do aur Do Char" is inspired by Shakespeares "Comedy of Errors". Sanjeev Kumars " Angoor" which came many years later on the same theme should give in its credit this movie also apart from Comedy of Errors as quiet a number of scenes and dialogues have been picked from here. Mr. X in Bombay must have been Shekhar Kapoors inspiration for Mr. India - all the vanishing tricks etc etc. Its obvious the movies are not sleek, presentable and designed like those of today but they are honest and gives a ring side view of the socio economical state of the people and country at that time. How people were honest, truthful, satisfied and happy despite all the hurdles. Kishore Kumar singing on the Gateway of India with the Arabian sea or Taj Hotel as backdrop is a delight to watch. Very few people and automobiles on the road. It must have been such a non polluted world at that time.With technology movies in the last 50 years have become very sleek, well chopped and cut and presentable. But we have lost out so much in the process. Patience. The fast food culture has just wiped out this word from every ones dictionary. Instant result is in. Few weeks crash courses promises entrance to IIT's. I am confused whether getting to IIT's is priority or gaining knowledge is. Truth. We can go to any distant from truth in this competitive world. Its now such a habit worse than smoking that people speak lies where they have nothing to even gain out of it. Humble. Its a show mans world. You have to show even if you dont own. I am surprised as the sole reason to own a big car is to show off to friends and not personal joy or requirement. Fear. Cellphones & TV's have bought in our live more stress than comfort. I still recollect once while returning from Nagpur with Mom our train caught fire and almost 70-80 people died. We survived and reached home on an alternative train and in fact till the time we told dad and others at home of what we went through they were not even aware such an incident has taken place. In today's world I can imagine what Dad would have gone through with the Breaking News updating him every minute. I would also like to share yesterdays incidence. Divyansh had a football match. He plays at a ground near our home. For this match he was to go to some distant ground. When I found out he has gone with some one else and not our driver , I was upset with Minoo and when he didnt reach home when he said he would, I send our driver to fetch him. I in fact was contemplating giving him a cellphone though Minoo and myself had decided we will give him cellphone when he reaches 16 - another three years to go. Innocence. The speed at which the kids grow up in today's 24 hrs satellite world is a pity. I really wish they had even 10% of the fun we or our parents had. The whole childhood is lost in useless school projects, 24 Hrs TV channels, video games, social networks like orkut & facebook. Nature. The biggest non human casualty has been nature. Its so depressing to see all that we have done with nature over the years. What we are leaving for our next generation. Crossing Yamuna river on way to Noida from Delhi is such a painful site with just a sewerage canal left of our holy river.
I have listed some of the problems we have created in this period of transition to this modern colorful world. We have lost out on our crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerely.We lost out on a world where being emotional was not synonymous as being weak. When journey was as important as destination. When travel in a passenger train gave enough time and opportunity to enjoy the nature outside than today's airconditioned trains with dark glasses and curtains. Its good and advisable to see these Black and White movies in between to constantly remind us what the hell we have done for ourselves and the gen next and at least some where our conscious will not allow us to let it deteriorate that fast even if we cant stop it.

The cost of a Good Night's sleep

Its 2 AM in the morning. Minoo and Divyansh are sound asleep. I abruptly woke up some time back and then onwards have not been able to sleep. Papa, Mummy and Bai ( Grand Ma) left for our home town Purulia last evening for a fortnight. Suddenly I find myself as head of the family. Every time when I have been in such situations its been hard on my sleep. I have always felt restless. I feel how difficult it is to live without guardians. At this age also I feel so protected when parents are around.

The general culture in western world is to live of your own. I have not come across any one ( except some Indian families) as of now who live with their parents or adult children. I have read in history there always has been a joint family system there also but over the years now its non existent. What could have been possible reasons for this? I think we need to know this and find a possible solution for this as this culture is also slowly and steadily coming into our country. Is it just economical compulsions? Or generation gap? Or both ? What ever it is but I feel its not the best way. Life would be more colorful and beautiful if you always have parents living with you. Of course every one in the situation have to give others the breathing space and independence to live their personal part of life. And these minor compromises are too small a cost for a good nights sleep and I pray every one is blessed to have their parents around for long.

God has been even...

I write this during my train journey from Kuopio to Helsinki within Finland. Its been now almost 12 days traveling within Germany, UK, Austria and Finland. This is my second visit to Finland. Last time when I came here it was in April. It was cold at that time but this time during June the weather was excellent. Clear sky and of course 24 hrs day. I have traveled some 17 countries so far and but Finland is amongst the best places to travel and visit. Its so fresh and refreshing here. The air is clean. It must be among one of the most beautiful natural places in the world. The tall pine trees between huge lakes. Its hard to describe – you only can see and feel it. I would strongly recommend any one who loves nature to come and visit this place. But more than the nature what touches you is the people. They are honest, true and that’s why may be happy. There is no inhibition. Nothing artificial. Its all “I am what I am”. Its so natural.Its so different from India. We try to be so cautious of others that we start becoming artificial. And the biggest problem we have is we are dishonest. We flaunt what we don’t own. We believe in not paying taxes. We believe in short term gains and don’t have a broader horizon. We try to be good and not are naturally good.

But then I believe God does not give everything to everybody. There are so few people here in Finland. Its just a country of 5 million people. The roads look so empty as if there is a strike going on. The trains I traveled were never fully occupied. They don’t have enough people to sale their products. The population is decreasing and there are more old people than young. This naturally means their products become expensive and affordability goes down. So less people buy and this is a vicious cycle. For an example a metallurgical test we conduct in India for 50 Euros , our customer pays 600 Euros for the same here. It will not be long before they will land in an economical mess. I am sure the process has already started and except for very high technical capabilities things have started moving to India, China or Brazil. In India we have such a huge market that any thing and every thing is consumed. Our biggest strength is our human resource. Its high time these countries should start importing manpower from India or China. It does not make any sense by stopping or slowing immigration. I was discussing this with my customer and he said the government does not have enough jobs for present citizens so it will add to more pressure. But then there will be more unemployment if the cost of living is too high and not all can afford it. This will result in less sales and more layoffs. Its so complex. This is Gods way of not giving everything at one place. He has made his distribution very even. We inherit great strength and wisdom in India. If only we are good to what we have and truthful and honest we will be much better off. I don’t know how this will happen. Once this starts happening we will be more strong as a nation and happy citizen of this world. During my next trip to Europe I would certainly like to go to Denmark and try to find out what they do different then the world that its worlds happiest country for many years.

Why I like London?

Minoo and I took a small holiday to London last week. It has been some time when we have had a holiday. It was great to be at London and we had a perfect time there. Except that the weather had been bad and rainy for four of the five days we were there. But it was fun seeing history specially for me who likes to read history. London has been always a place which I liked though both times I traveled there I was on the bad side of the weather. There are several reason why I like London. The most important of them being it teaches me to be humble. I recollect being a part of a school play on Indian independence. My parents had come with proud eyes to see their son being selected in a school play but unfortunately I was in and out of the stage before they could even know it was me. Any way i recollect the starting lines of the play " The sun never sets in Great Britain". These guys used to rule 56 countries across the globe. Now the sun does not even rise for half of the year in London with rains.Just see what is left of the great empire. A country smaller than the state of West Bengal in India. This is a great example for all to be humble. You dont know when your arrogance can get back to you. Be good to all.

Its also good to see Britains acceptance of the fact that India and Indians are good for them. We have so many Indians now in the parliament. Even the tube has signs in just not Hindi but Bengali also. Ravi Bopara is among the many Indian cricketers playing for England. You dont feel out of place or afraid to travel around UK.

I also appreciate Britain's contribution to India. They have given India amongst the best structures like our parliament, Presidents house or the beautiful Luytens Delhi. The Indian railways is what it is today because of the Britishers built it. They gave us our heroes. Mahatma Gandhi and Peace is Britain's contribution to the world. If they had not tortured India to the level they did we would never have our heroes.

Well some other reasons I like London is because we located a shop in Oxford street which sells good shirts for 3 pounds. We ate the best pan cake at a street vendor on the other side of Thames from London Eye. Language and food is never a problem here. The people are friendly and very cosmopolitan. There is so much to see here that a week is not enough. And the best part is History is properly maintained. I pity the famous structures and old buildings decaying in Kolkatta. Hope we learn a thing or two from them. Like New York I would anyday like to go there for my holidays. There can never be enough of London. If just they return the Kohinoor. It was sad to see the dazzling Indian diamond lying in a London museum.

An Indian Dinner

After ten days of hectic traveling and schedule I have reached Tampere in Finland today afternoon. Tampere is one of the most beautiful towns to see and visit. I rate it high among the places I have been to. After a short nap at the hotel, I thought of exploring the place. also this was the first evening that I was alone. I decided to search for an Indian restaurant as it has been almost ten days when I last had Chapati or Roti. Also its difficult to get English menu in Europe which makes it difficult to decide on what you want to eat.

The experience turned out to be the worst Indian food any one can get. I started with Paneer pakoda. Four small slices of refried pakodas for 7 Euros. For the main course I ordered for Chapatis with Paneer Makhani. Unfortunately I asked the waitress to make it spicy. Oh man, it had all the garam masalas that you can imagine. At times our cook at home does this when he has to vent his anger after too much of poking by Mom or Minoo. The Paneer it seems had been imported from India and five weeks by sea to Helsinki and another week to customs clearance and further to Tampere. It was so stale and hard. The less I say about the Rotis( bread). It was hard like you needed a hammer and cutter to chop it off. I hit the axe on my feet when I ordered a masala chai to round off the food. There was no tea there. Only masala. The best part of the meal was the glass of french white wine. Fortunately it was not cooked or made here. I decided to share my feelings with the cook and asked the hostess for him. He turned out to be from Pakistan. Now I understand to what level these guys can go to defame India or things Indian. The worst was yet to come. I paid 62 Euros for this meal. A meal for two at Bukhara in Sheraton Delhi would have been cheaper. It was such a wonderful experience eating the spanish meal last night at Lahti. The crust of the story never try to eat Indian food when you are travelling in these parts of the world. I wish I would have gone to the Egyptian restaurant opposite this one.

Another election to be over - Hope we learn something this time?

We are at the last phase of the election and hopefully by this time next week we should be knowing our next Prime Minister. Hopefully. After six weeks and billions of money spent we still have to say hopefully. One thing is for sure we will have a Prime Minister. As no one would like to go back to election again. As all day the eminent analysts keep on saying we will have the worst cocktail and "khichadi" ever cooked. There might be some 50 plus parties sharing the 543 odd MP's with the single largest one not even having 1/5th of the MP's. Technically the party going to make the next government will have to have 50% plus one MP's. So where does the gap fill in with. The 50 odd small parties provide their Members of Parliament and why suddenly they will support the leading two major parties - for money, power and plum ministries and getting the most unethical things done. We are going to end up again with a government born out of unethical means. I am not sure if it was worth voting after all the excitement of voting first time. I hope we, the public, learn a bitter lesson this time around and choose candidates from major parties so that there is clear direction.

What are the options we can have to stop this rot? Well there were suggestions of making voting compulsory? A great idea but I am not sure how practical it is specially in a country where education is still not compulsory for all. I think the better way could be stopping post poll alliances. This will give no opportunity and bargaining power to the smaller parties who are there to be bought. We have cabinet ministers at this time who are ministers from 1989 with all three possible governments. They have only one line manifesto - be with the ruling government and make hay always. Hope the sun never shines on these guys.

If I could restart my life...

Last week I had some problems in my laptop and I called my IT guy to help me out with this. He asked me to restart the computer and once I did that it was all working ok. That reminded me of one of my friends who was working in Dubai with a bank as their head of hardware and when I was there for holidays , I asked him what exactly he did in his job. He said 85% of the time he simply asked his colleagues to restart their computer and balance 15% time he would call up the hardware provider to come and resolve the problem. I have come through similar situations with my itouch, blackberry or video games. This made me to think how wonderful it would be to have a restart system in our lives. If only God had created the restart button...... what would I change and do differently.

1. Studied sincerely and gone for post grad.
2. Spent more time with my sister
3. Never would have started smoking
4. Would have given more time to kids when they were growing up
5. Would have loved and married instead of married and loved.
6. Would have spent more time with my grandfather.
7. Started Tennis very early in life.
8. Build a smaller house.

While trying to build up this list I am not getting many points to include which means I am happy and content with most of the things in life.

Talibanisation has a new Synonym

The largest number of Member of Parliament in India come from Uttar Pradesh. A state with great history. A state which has given us most of our Prime Ministers. A state which has Taj Mahal , the monument of love within its boundaries. Our most sacred river Ganga flows through it. It is the state where Lord Rama and Krishna were born. It has been the karmabhumi of Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka and Harsha. UttarPradesh has contributed numerous golden chapters to annals of Indian History. But the present status of this great state is pathetic that people fear crossing the state while travelling east in trains. The recent hate speech by Varun Gandhi is to be heard to be believed. How can a young guy educated at London school of Economics with such a decent upbringing speak what he has spoken. What has happened to our so called Indian values. Is this the only way a candidate wins votes. I thought we in India never accepted this kind of harsh words. But then worse happened a couple of days back when a candidate was found murdered and hanged at Jaunpur. Such a shame for our great democracy. Almost 25% of our last parliament had people against whom some criminal investigation is going on. The UP assembly has more than 40% of members with criminal investigation on. Charges include rape, armed robbery and murder. The political parties in India have a moral responsibility to weed out corrupt and criminals from their rank. I need a genuine choice to elect my representative. Its so unfortunate that the two main stream parties have lost out of Uttarpradesh to being single digit representation amongst 80 MP's. If such criminal activities keep on happening and people are tortured and murdered, votes cast out of fear - shortly we may have a synonym to Talibanisation - UPnasisation.

If I was Wise....

I have always learnt from my father about savings and investment and he has done a wonderful justice to this through out his career. I have been doing reasonably well too. But some how the last five years I made some wrong choices. I invested in stocks, mutual funds and properties. And I am loosing in most of it. If only I was wise enough to invest in our politicians.... They have grown by almost 8-10 times since the 2004 elections. That's an average of prominent contestants who have filed nominations so far. The richest of the lot so far I believe is a MP from Andhra Pradesh at 2.99 Billion INR. Mind it these are valued not even a fraction of the market price. Rahul Gandhis assets list 6 acres farm house at Faridabad for 3 million INR. As I live in Faridabad and can say with conviction that you can not buy a single property here for even 5 million INR for a single acre. "Prime Minister in waiting" Mr Advanis assets have trebled in the last 5 years. The 541 MP's in 2004 parliament had some 900 Crores amongst themselves meaning each was worth 1.7 Crores. Now this does not include assets in families name and no cars. At the rate its going this time in announcing the assets while filing nominations I am sure by the time the Lok Sabha is constituted in May this average could well be 10 Cr or so per MP. In any case if you are not a Crorepati you cant even buy your ticket which is being rumored at 10 Crores specially in Andhra Pradesh or UP. Compare this to our countries per capita income after taking inflation into account is 26000 INR. A simple bank fixed deposit of 2004 worth of each MP would earn almost 10 times this amount. And its said THEY ARE OUR REPRESENTATIVE.

A trip to an Indian Village

The last time I had been to a village was way back in 1993 when as a Rotaractor we had adopted a village called Imondih in West Bengal. The village I saw that time was full of poverty and semi clad poor people. Roads were dusty and crop was dependent on rainfall only. After 15 years I again got an opportunity to visit a village in Haryana. Though Haryana is much more developed than West Bengal but still it seems there has been substantial development in villages. The road leading to the village is concrete. So had no trouble to drive the 25 kms from my home. As it is harvesting time so most of the village was inhabited as everyone was in the fields. I had gone basically for taking some pictures as part of my hobby and seeing a big camera hanging on my neck a village lady came running to me thinking I am some government officer and was surveying things. Afterwards I could understand her anxiety as literally no one pays in the village for electricity and no officer from the department dare to enter the village to collect the bills. I cam across a yellow motorcycle with no number plate. I always used to think for whom do these auto companies make these colored bikes and cars. I found my answer here. The whole farm land was shining golden with harvesting season going on. The village temple is said to be from Lord Krishnas time with old trees all around. There were lot of peacocks and parrots. Lot of fresh air. I am glad I took this trip. Check out pics at my Flickr account.

Manifestos - God bless this country

Manifestos visit us once in five years as do our politicians. I dont remember past manifestos neither does the political parties which announced them. But this time the manifestos are real stupidity and more stupidity. So we have one national party announcing rice at Rs 3.00 per kg and the opposition coming up with Rs.2.00 per kg. Unfortunately they dont have schemes to give employment and better economy so that the people can afford to buy at what ever is the market price. There is another party which promises free television and cable connection. As these are IT times so one party has promised to give computers to all at 10000 Rs with free Internet connection thrown in. The Left front in their manifesto does not speak of industrialization as its a capitalist agenda.Last time around Behenji didnt use manifesto as she didnt believe in theory but she wanted to show action in practise..Hope she could teach people the ways of her rising wealth.

But the most stupid manifesto has been released today by SP. No English classes as its against our culture. No computers as it takes away employment. I thought the maximum employment created in this country in the last decade was in the IT sector. No harvesters as it takes away job of workers in farms. No machines but all work needs to be done by hand. Machines brings unemployment. No share trading and " Shopping Mall" culture. Sounds some what like we are talking of Swat valley. I hope the voters see through the tall promises and nonsense talks otherwise only God can save this country.

The politics of Kerosene

I find it so pathetic the game our politicians play on Kerosene. Kerosene in India is subsidized so that the people below poverty line can buy it within their means to run their homes. Average price for per liter of Kerosene throughout the country is around 2-3 INR a liter but it was a shock to me to find out that most of the deserving poor people buy it in black market at 5-6 times more price. Hardly 10% of Kerosene is sold at the price the Government intends to sell. So where does all this Kerosene go. Well, most of it goes to mix up with Diesel which is almost 15 times price of Kerosene. This makes the vehicles emitting more pollution. I am sure this whole scenario is very well known to each political party but nobody ever does anything about it as everyone is making money out of it except those who are supposed to benefit out of it or those who pay higher price for petrol to compensate some of the loss which arises out of sale of Kerosene in loss.

Is there any candidate who can raise voice against this?