Prabhakar reflections

प्रोन्नति में आरक्षण की न्यायनिर्णय अधीन/चालित यात्रा ********************************************** आरक्षण भारतीय राजव्यवस्था में दशकों से एक Vexed Issue रहा है. कभी नियुक्ति के मामले में तो कभी प्रोन्नति के मामले में.   पहले की बात है जब मैं सेवा में नया-नया आया था तो मेरे एक एसडीओ साहब जो सेवा में मुझसे काफी सिनियर थे; अक्सर कहते थे-प्रभाकर! Appointment and Promotions have never been an easy go affair.It has always been a complex issue and also vexed one. One is required only to hasten slowly. काश! इस सेवा में अब भी सीखने-सिखाने की परम्परा कायम रहती.अब तो जो है कि बस..... खैर. तीन दशक से इस मामले में अनेक उतार-चढ़ाव का सर्वेक्षण मैंने अपने इस आलेख में करने का प्रयत्न किया है.  अगर रूचि और समय दोनों हो तो पढ़ा जा सकता है. ********************************************** दिनांक 28.01.2022 को माननीय उच्चतम न्यायालय ने प्रोन्नति में आरक्षण सम्बंधी दायर याचिका जिसपर सुनवाई दिनांक 26.10.2021 को हीं पूरी कर ली गई थी,पर अपना फैसला सुना दिया है. विस्तृत आदेश 68 पृष्ठों में अंग्...

*********************************************** Normally I don't watch TV. The reason is-It fails to attract me.But this non-attraction of mine comes no way in the way of the members of my family. They feel free to criticize me for my unreasonable distance from TV while watching the latter.  The reason why I am not updated on many matters of general interests of life including cinema,fashion, products etc. inter alia is only because of my not giving importance to TV-they hold. I honestly feel they are right. *********************************************** I don't know why I associate watching TV to limiting one's imagination; if not thought. I also don't know as to why and when a TV set happened to be known as an Idiot Box or बुद्धू बक्सा.  For me the best use of TV lies in the situation when you are sure that you have nothing to do as a matter of work or leisure.  These situations could be numerous. It could be when you are away from your near and dear ones. It could ...

My wife has a special liking for me sitting in the morning to have tea with her. She prepares tea herself to the best of her choice with great enthusiasm. While the tea session continues she doesn't forget to ask at least twice as to how good the tea was or otherwise. But she is honest enough to admit herself if such making ,upon taste, is found to be mawkish. But the only condition is that I am not supposed to disclose it whenever it's so without her return remark that in fact the tea so prepared is good enough and not bad from any respect.She goes on to explain that it was purposely made with less of sugar or milk or not properly boiled only because of her concern for my health with a reminder that I am diabetic. If, out of ignorance, I protest I earn the displeasure in terms of a further remark that I lack qualities of a connoisseur. So I always play safe to assert that the tea was good and then make it a point to wait for her reply which in that case is based on what actual...

           Our democracy is the largest in the world. The Large number of electorate has helped it earn this distinction.   * * So point number 1-it's fully democratic as far as the number of electorates is any criteria for measurement. Unlike many parts of the world where power transfer is accompanied with great violence; in our country the changeover is peaceful, giving full honour to the people's wishes reflected at the polls.   * *So point no.2- There is no transitional unrest or upheaval to say the least. If a peaceful transition of political power is recognised as an indicator one can safely conclude that our democracy is fully democratic.            The Constitution has been structured in such a way that military power is subsumed in civil authority whose supremacy is out of question. Any aspirations for military ascendancy is constitutionally out of the question.     * * So point number 3- For a demo...

Where to start with the topic so thrown upon is a question of import. But that doesn't mean that it's not worth attempting. The topic required to be elaborated is not to be found in a book to provide help if any.But that is the beauty associated with the examinations that civil services happen to be. Coming back to the topic,it can't be gainsaid that it requires a lot of reflections before we become able to write something apropos of it. Topic enjoins us to write about the very research. So one could attribute the topic to meta research which involves researching the aspects of research to find its very nature and purpose. What actually is the research? Is it not searching for knowledge(!) that could be the solution of the problem faced in the present or stored in the future? Only a fool will undertake any research without having a problem or purpose in hand.  All important inventions and discoveries are, generally speaking, the outcome of an organized research.  Today one ...

*********************************************** The centre-state relations seem to have touched a new low; Courtesy the events that took place with callous complacency at the level of the The Punjab Government. We need not go in detail thereof to bring home the fact. *********************************************** I remember reading while preparing in the past for the competitive examinations that Granville Austin described Indian Federalism as a "cooperative federalism" in his book "The Indian Constitution-Cornerstone of a Nation".  A cornerstone is a stone built into the corner of the foundation of a building. Our Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi too has stressed the need to honour and safeguard the concept of cooperative federalism on more occasions than one. Notwithstanding the term "federal" is not to be found in our constitution for understandable reasons I,too, believe for valid reasons that the constituents of this Union must not do anything by th...

            🍁 *सत्संगके फूल* 🍁  **श्रद्धेय स्वामीजी श्रीरामसुखदास जी महाराज के श्रीमुख से**  *आशा मत करो। आशा ही दु:ख देने वाली है।* सबको छुट्टी दे दो तो आपको छुट्टी मिल जायगी। सेवा कर दो, पर आशा मत रखो। बाहर से मत कहो कि 'मैं सेवा नहीं चाहता', पर भीतर से आशा मत रखो। *लेना दोष नहीं है, आशा रखना दोष है।* दूसरा मेरा कहना माने--यह अपने हाथ की बात नहीं। *जो अपने हाथ की बात नहीं, उसकी आशा क्यों रखें ? * * * * * * * * * *  जैसे एक-एक कदम में रास्ता कटता है, ऐसे ही एक-एक श्वास में उम्र कट रही है। श्वास पूरे होने पर उसी क्षण जाना पड़ेगा। उस समय यह बुद्धिमानी, चतुराई, बल कुछ काम नहीं आयेगा।  ( *साधन-सुधा-निधि* पृष्ठ ५२२) *राम ! राम !! राम !!!*

On one occasion I was asked by my daughter as to who,at present,according to me, is the best leader in our state/ country.   I wanted to divert the discussion for reasons of my reluctance to open my mind on the issue. Upon being insisted I had to give in to her recalcitrance. In fact I hesitated slightly to answer. But then I asked her-Sorry,in the present I can't tell you a single person to be called the best leader. It is for the simple reason that no one could be the best unless you are passionately prejudicial to a particular leadership qualities which are innumerable. So before I answer your question which I undoubtedly hold difficult to answer,you just first tell me which qualities according to you should a leader inevitably possess. This question of mine served as a bait and now it was her turn to blink her eyes.  After a deliberate pause she started calling spade and spade about the leadership qualities she held dear passionately. According to her a leader must be - ...