Jayalalitha – The master

I see many people are critical about Jayalalitha but not with grand old Karuna which itself portrays the expectations of the people from her. I became a great admirer of her ever since the way she handled strike by Government employees when i was a teen. Time has kept rolling and she handles her adversaries in an iron hand manner. She can be called as a master strategist as every action of her creates more noise and atleast we can expect something in action instead of usual words. I accept the fact that Kudamkulam nuclear issue should have been handled with ease if she had taken firm steps at the initial stages. If i dig deep, its due to Paramakudi firing where she felt something is moving out of her hands. That fiasco made her to give in to the demands of anti nuclear protesters and they gained inital mileage.

But immediately after the Sankarankovil by election she took decision as expected and made Center to fall in line with the state demands which usually go unnoticed by the Centre in this federal system of ours.  For me, its like everything getting into correct places and believe she will turnaround the state in remaining 4 years making the state power surplus and a budget without a deficit. She should bounce back like Modi again and provide a good governance with special emphasis on law and order, education and a outlook focusing long term benefits to the state.

The recent hikes in milk and bus fares should have been implemented in previous tenure of DMK and so people wouldn’t have felt the pinch in their pockets as there wouldn’t be any exponential increase. Lets see how the days are going to be in the coming days.

Made in Bangladesh

Recently i bought a casual from Max since it was a good buy (good quality + low cost). But i came out with a confusion “How come they are selling at this low price that too here in Max”. Due to curiosity once i reached home i searched for any tags indicating its manufacturing country. My suspicions came true and it was “Made in Bangladesh”. This is not the first time and nowadays i see almost all big retailers like Big Bazaar, MAX, Lifestyle flooding their shops with cheap imports from Bangladesh.

Gone are the days where we used to raise hue and cry that we import unnecessarily from China. Now we import from our background and its fine that still have a strong trade balance in our favor. The surge is due to FTA’s which we signed with our poor neighbor. But my serious question is why the retailers are going to other countries despite having readymade garment clusters in Tirupur, Ludhiana and in many other places producing a very quality of garments. We should support our industry first and government should encourage.

If they import from Bangladesh due to its cheapness, then its high time to start plough in Indian investments for starting factories there which will be mutually beneficial to both the countries. Bangladesh also faces severe power crisis and other politico economic factors are also there to consider before investing.