Leading Outside the Lines

Leading Outside the Lines

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Putting Strategy into Practice

Putting Strategy into Practice

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Final Shift

All my blogs including this journal is now being shifted permanently to Santosh Srivastava Blog. No more original post will be appearing here. However; I'll maintain monthly summary of all my posts for random visitors.

Time Gap

There was confusion in prioritizing certain individual activities. Thank got it was weekend and i had some time to think over. But you know you can not wait for a spare time to come. The activities around always fill the gap. This time it was cricket, my most fascinating hobby, did the damage. Nevertheless with India winning, you always have a good feeling (Ind vs Aus, Firojshah Kotla, 3 rd ODI).

New beginning

I can label today as the date of new beginning because of few reasons. One i shifted all my blogs related to managemet and philosophy to my wordpress site . Two, is the launch of my daily diary online from today onwards at this page. The objective is to see the journey of learnings and achievements in time. Three, is the beginning related with Shweta on joint wish for a baby in the form of determination.

Moved Back to Old Address

My blog is now moved back to the previous site;
http://santoshsrivastava.wordpress.com/

Jinnah, Partition and freedom of Expression

It seems there is a high correlation between Jinnah and Partitions. After more than 60 years, the 'demonized' name 'Jinnah' causing a partition in BJP. Jaswant Singh, one of the front faces of BJP being expelled from party on account of differences his views and party ideology. To add more drama in the name of 'confused' ideology, Narendra Modi announces ban on the book "Jinnah--India, Partition, Independence" written by Jaswant Singh.

This incident raises few fundamental questions. Is a political ban supersedes our fundamental right of freedom of expression? In a democratic environment, who will decide presentation of history? And from a political point of view, what is ideology?

We have seen similar incidences in the name of religion several number of times. Especially in India, it's become a fashion for political parties, to define religious sentiments and ideology for the mass. Still we claim that we are in a democracy. With such a decision, BJP shows confusion in their ideology. Advocating 'Jinnah' is not against India or against Hinduism. Demonizing 'Jinnah' will only prove ignoring participation of Muslim in independence. BJP will get into a confused territory as they have lost an opportunity to change their 'Hindutva' face into a 'Secular' one. The decision of Narendra Modi, who was once compared with L K Advani for prime ministerial candidature, shows that BJP has to do a lot more to become a real national party.

Jaswant Singh's views could be a fact or just a theory; in any case it should be either respected or argued with counter theories. Ban on expression should not be a solution, at least in the largest democracy of the world.