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Triplet 24
A Clarion Call to People of Our Bharat
By Shiva Kant Jha
October 02, 2009
I MUST have
fatigued you with my continuous presence on the homepage of www.taxindiaonline for
almost a year with my Legal Potpourri containing 24 triplets presenting an
assortment of views on diverse topics on the three leaves of each triplet.
This 24 th Triplet is the 24 th vilvapatra that I have offered to
Lord Shiva. On the three leaves of this Triplet I would deal with three subjects
with characteristic precision: (i ) a call to our people, (ii) some quotes
from the earlier Triplets and (iii) the summing-up and goodbye.
In the concluding Chapter of my book Judicial Role in Globalised Economy (Wadhwa , 2005) I had addressed my countrymen thus:
'A
society, which keeps on accepting aberrations & injustice over a long span of time, is surely most unfortunate. The massive strokes of injustice suddenly inflicted leads to powerful reaction with all its instant spiral effect. But when it comes in low doges the victims keep on adjusting with it treating their plight as mere vagaries of misfortune. This sort of process of adjustment is sure to destroy the capacity to rise to higher levels of excellence. We cannot enjoy sojourn on a plateau: if we cannot go up, we must decline. This is what history has taught us, and while making history we can ill- afford to forget it. This brings to my mind a story about two frogs which a naughty boy had caught for his sinister play. He hurled one into a pan of boiling water. The frog jetted into the boiling water but instantly jumped out and fell with a thud in a bush, and so it survived. The second frog was initially lucky because it enjoyed the cool water. But the boy played the cruel prank. He set fire wood ablaze under the pan in which the frog rested with delight. The water which was cool and comfortable was made warmer & warmer. There was a phase in which the frog found warmth to its liking. It was followed by other phases when it found warmth becoming inconvenient and inclement. It went on adjusting with the circumstances under which it was placed. But water became hot, and then it became extremely hot. The unlucky frog had fritted away its energy in the process of adjusting itself with the circumstances becoming more & more inconvenient. By now it had reached a point where it could do only one thing; it could die. The story of the two frogs is rich in lesson it underscores the hazards of adjustments. It illustrates the wisdom of what lord Krishna said "we are our own foes, we are our own friends".
This story would tell more than what I can write here, or what I have
written in this book. Let each one of us say with Goethe in Faust :
At
the whirring loom of Time unawed
I work the living mantle of God.'
The record of our performance over these years has been dismal . The gap between expectations and achievements is staggering. We have enacted a tragedy of WASTE. Whilst waste is evident in most spheres, it is most criminal when it takes a toll in the sphere of our ultimate resources, our human resources. Nature has endowed us with great resources. Common people have the qualities of head and heart which enabled them to develop a social system under which government, in most phases of our history, was optional. But now it is not so. We speak of a common space in the global world when we have not made even our own country a common space for all of us. Never was the craze for wealth greater than what it is now. The easiest way the derelicts can roll in wealth is through corruption. And which phase of history can be better than the present in which even values have been turned into wares for trade in this market economy? A vast breed of professionals has mushroomed equipped with info-tech to help the unscrupulous in their craft of slush which has polluted our polity to the point which makes common people cynical. Much of what we have witnessed in our country is a Brownian motion. We have become "a low arousal people". The conditions, which have over-gripped us, resemble substantially the conditions, which characterized the decadent Hellenistic World about which Bertrand Russell has said so graphically, so perceptively, and so suggestively:
"The general confusion was bound to bring moral decay, even more than intellectual enfeeblement. Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic every-day virtues of respectable citizens. There seems no use in thrift, when tomorrow all your savings may be dissipated; no advantage in honesty, when the man towards whom you practice it is pretty sure to swindle you; no point in steadfast adherence to a cause, when no cause is important or has a chance of stable victory; no argument in favor of truthfulness, when only supple tergiversation makes the preservation of life and fortune possible. The man whose virtue has no source except a purely terrestrial prudence will, in such a world, become an adventurer if he has the courage, and, if not, will seek obscurity as a timid time-server" (Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy p. 237)
Assessment of what we have made ourselves over these years must be done periodically, and lessons remembered always. Persons in power remain so completely trapped under the illusion which excludes self -scrutiny and introspection. For common people our recent history is an account of missed opportunities. Over the years after our independence we have achieved some good results in certain areas but on the whole our government has enacted a melodrama of waste. The hope of our country 'lies not in its politicians but in its citizens'. Common people must get involved in the process of nation building. And for this constant and common pursuit two spiritual qualities needed most are courage and imagination to hold the government of the day accountable through an informed and critical opinion. There is a well-known Roman proverb: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes ? (Who will watch over the watchers themselves?) The answer is clear and loud: the citizens themselves, the citizens who have not sold their souls for glitters and gains. C.G. Jung said (Jung , C.G, Modern Man in Search of a Soul , pp.243-4):
"Great innovations never come from above; they invariably come from below….[from] the much-derided silent folk of the land—those
who are less infected with academic prejudices than great celebrities
are wont to be."
Suddenly came to my mind the words with which I laced my conclusion before bowing down to the Delhi High Court on closing the 4 th day of continuous presentation of my case well known as the Indo-Mauritius Tax Treaty Abuse Case. (a PIL). They were what Lord Nelson had said through the light signal he sent to his fleet: "England expects that every man will do this duty". Lord Denning considered this sentence "one of the most effective pieces of prose in our language." And my suggestion to the Court was well received.
The plight of our nation is distressing to all those yet not sucked into the morass of greed and selfishness, I would agree with Will Durant who assessed the present plight of the humans in such ringing words as these (in his letter to Bertrand Russell in Russell's Autobiography ) p 444:
"The growth and the spread of knowledge, for which so many reformers and idealists prayed, appears to bring to its devotees ---and, by contagion, to many others ---a disillusionment which has almost broken the spirit of our race…….Democracy
has degenerated into such corruption as only Milo's Rome knew; and our
youthful dreams of a socialist utopia disappear as we see, day after
day, the inexhaustible acquisitiveness of men."
All our institutions, which we erected with high hopes and expectations, now creak and crack on the testing-track of our times. The go-getters rule the roost. Those whose heart bleed for the nation are the easy victims of crafted delusions and illusions; and consider silence the only option to the wreck of our values, and the gruesome exploitation of the yawning millions of our brothers and sisters left either to exist to be used by the others building this Sone - ki -Lanka ,
or to slowly fade into nothingness unwept and unsung. The role of the Press
has been horrendously disappointing. The morbid realities of globalization
have taken a toll of the two prime spiritual qualities, courage and imagination,
without which public institutions cannot but be a burlesque or melodrama
to serve the ends of the crooks, deceivers, fraudsters and tricksters forging
ever new strategy whilst their victims gasp, to borrow from T. S Eliot ('Love
Song of J . Alfred Prufrock '): "Like a patient etherized upon a table".
Some one in the Press called me Stalinist! For this precise and pointed misjudgment
I must thank such specimens of our homo sapiens. The guild of their owners
controls them to the point of abysmal servitude. Often my reflections have
led me to think what whosoever thinks honestly in the general interest mankind
seems is destined to be sad. This is inevitable, says Erich Fromm in his The Sane Society , in the mass society which turns man into a commodity; 'his value as a person lies in his salability.' This is also inevitable in capitalism as, says Tawney in his Acquisitive Society , capitalism is, at bottom, incompatible with democracy. This is also because of the compradors and the lobbyists, about whom Vance Packard wrote his trilogy: The Hidden Persuaders , The Status Seekers , The Waste Makers, rule
the roost. This is also because the Rise of the Meritocracy (about which
Michael Young has written a satire setting his account in 2034) 'would be
bound to lead to trends towards eugenic nonsense and monstrosities, that
the new lower classes –by definition stupid --- would have no leadership worth the name , and that the new IQ-rich upper classes would soon devise ways to keep themselves in power" (Peter
Watson, A Terrible Beauty p. 449). When we think of the words of
our so-called political leaders' words, they seem to ring " as false as dicers' oath" (to
borrow words from Shakespeare's H amlet III.iv.45). Yes, we and our democracy would surely die if Hope is gone.
Things of our days amply show that whilst the conspirators have learnt a lot from history the common people have done nothing but to lacerate in ignorance and sufferings . God knows how long we shall wade through the thorns of life, or nurse our sufferings in the Slough of Despond. It is the time to embed in the deepest layers of our mind what the Mahabharata said : (my translation from Sanskrit):
Sorrow which we share in common ,
It is unwise to shed tears thereon;
It is prudent to find and forge some ways
To diagnose the cause to get rid of the ailment.
But I enter a caveat against the view that if actions for general weal seem futile on account of odds one should leave to God to provide His remedy for correction. There is no option to action. The Bhagavad-Gita , the most revolutionary work available to mankind, should become the grammar to guide our conduct even in the rough weather of looming darkness. Every one of us can contribute in our collective endeavour to that end, even the retired fossils like me. Seneca's celebrated essay "On Tranquility of Mind" is worth assimilation. He had said several centuries ago:
"If Fortune has removed you from the foremost position in the state, you should, nevertheless, stand your ground and help with the shouting, and if someone stops your throat, you should nevertheless stand your ground and help in silence. The service of a good citizen is never useless; by being heard and seen, by his expression, by his gesture, by his silent stubbornness, and his very walk he keeps… Why, then, do you think that the example of one who lives in honourable retirement is of little value? Accordingly, the best course by far is to combine leisure with business, …….for a man is never so completely shut off all pursuits that no opportunity is left for any honourable activity".
We
have to sense our steps through the misguiding signals which we see all around.
Our country needs a revolution not only to to do good for itself but also
to provide a model for action to all the humans of all the lands hurled into
similar plight. And we can do it, to-day, to-morrow or hundred years after.
. We hope our "We, the People" would be responsive and creative,
discrete and prudent, vigilant and revolutionary. We can ill afford not to
recall the suggestive words of our Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh '
Dinkar ' in his celebrated epic the Kurukshetra:
II
Some Quotes From Triplets I to XXIII
"Quotes Compiled"
By Nandini Choudhary, Maryland U.S.A.
"Success in litigation, or anywhere else, does not mean always that Truth is on its side." |
(Legal Potpourri, Nov 14, 2008) |
"Strange somnambulism and the Brownian motion seem endemic as much with our government as with its decorated advisors." |
(Legal Potpourri, Nov 28, 2008) |
There is a point when it is said that decisions are first taken, reasons are then arrived at. Logic is the obedient servant to its masters, whosoever they be. |
(Legal Potpourri, November 28, 2008) |
"But the pursuit at meaning is most often to negotiate through the Scylla of Mnemonic Irrelevances of the judges and the Charybdis of their Stock-respnses: the first is the impermissible intrusion of the judge's own past and personality, the second is their rigidness not to leave their groove come what may." |
(Legal Potpourri, November 28, 2008) |
"In such situation the only way to protect the Constitution would be the ultima ratio of ‘We, the People': change through a referendum, if possible; or through a revolution if no other option left." |
(Legal Potpourri, Dec.12. 2008) |
"…. it is the destiny of all who dedicate themselves to public good to work trudge on the life's difficult ridge with iron in his soul." |
(Legal Potpourri , Dec.12. 2008) |
"The real cause of the crisis in the global economic architecture is Greed which subsumes into its sinister service inventiveness and imagination." |
(Legal Potpourri, Dec. 26. 2008) |
"The real cause is, when all is said, the inexorable operation of the Law of Karma. Krishna was right in telling Arjuna that we are ourselves our friends and foes." |
(Legal Potpourri , Dec. 26. 2008) |
"The problem of the judicial delay is best solved by balancing what is stated in the well-known dicta: "Justice delayed is justice denied" and " Justice hurried is justice buried". To work this calculus one requires skill and judicial sensibility." |
(Legal Potpourri, Dec. 26. 2008) |
"But Justice must see realities of our society to respond to the deeds of Adam Smith's ‘invisible hand' of the Market, and also the misdeeds of the economic gladiators of our day." |
(Legal Potpourri, Dec. 26. 2008) |
"In life's frustrating criss-cross, Goddess of Justice assures some soothing vernal breeze. More she reigns with majesty, higher we ascend in culture and civilization." |
(Legal Potpourri , Dec. 26. 2008) |
"But it is a strange irony that what is most devastatingly important principle is most often not recognized It is TIME." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 9, 2009) |
"We cannot afford to go back to the days of the Nawab of Awadh when, whilst the imperial forces were on his head, the Nawab was playing with pigeons." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 9, 2009) |
"Great judges of our times do not feel cribbed and confined by the narrow perception of Judicial Role cut to the Procrustean bed of the maxim "Judicis est jus dicere - non Dare, which pithily expounds the duty of the court: it is to decide what the law is, and apply it, and not to make it." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 9, 2009) |
"Judges are artists with moral vision. They administer justice with materials more malleable than 24-carat gold. This puts on them great responsibility. Whilst many mortals stand before their bar as the suppliants, they themselves stand before the Bar of ‘We, the People.'" |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 9, 2009) |
"At times we tend to become the victims of our romantic visions of figments and phantoms." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 23, 2009) |
"The citizens of this Republic, miserable and destitute though they often are, are the holders of the highest office under this Republic: they are its citizens before whom all institutions, the executive, legislative, and judicial are on trial." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 23, 2009) |
"We believe that, in the end, the verdict of destiny would surely attest our national motto Satyameva Jayate (Truth Alone Triumphs) and our national conviction in Tamaso Ma Jyotrigamaya (Lead me from darkness to Light). For the present: just ‘Amen'." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 23, 2009) |
"We have seen in the recent years an evident a atherosclerosis in judicial creativity mainly because of the high pressure pleadings for the ideas spawned by the neo-liberal paradigm now being battered by the most worrisome financial melt-down, at best singing only its swansong." |
(Legal Potpourri of Jan. 23, 2009) |
"POWER is always delicious: brute power is most delicious whether exercised from the stage or via green-room." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 6, 2009) |
"We hope, some institution of this country of the ‘low arousal' people rises to the occasion to do something effective to remove the democratic deficit." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 6, 2009) |
"In the society of our low arousal people and low arousal institutions, a PIL petitioner brings a cause before the Court only to get administrative lawlessness stopped, and to compel the public authorities to discharge their legal duty." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 6, 2009) |
"Bereft of all temporal and spatial excrescences, the Bhagavad-Gita , the Koran and the Bible have this profound vision of the moral structure of the universe at their heart." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 20, 2009) |
"It is obvious to any discriminating person to see that the political ideas wrung from the operative political realities of the 18th to the 20th centuries have controlled, cabined and confined the prevailing juristic thinking." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 20, 2009) |
"The western oeuvre proves, most so in John Milton's Paradise Lost, that the greatest logician that the West has yet produced is Satan, and his lieutenant Mephistopheles." |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 20, 2009) |
"Gandhi is now in our country almost forgotten…. Now the Mahatma laughs at the currency notes, but is downcast on gazing at us in the Supreme Court campus!" |
(Legal Potpourri of Feb. 20, 2009) |
"The ‘socialist ‘mission, as conceived under our Constitution, has its roots, and is derived from, the collective consciousness of our people most powerfully expressed in the Bhagavadgita. What has been done over these years is a morbid story of bathos, pathos, and sinister irony." |
(Legal Potpourri of March 6, 2009) |
"EVERY reader must be aware of a proverb: "Fools & their money are soon parted". |
(Legal Potpourri of March 6, 2009) |
"Our Government suffers from ‘financial deficit', ‘moral deficit', ‘democratic deficit' and no less gruesome ‘knowledge deficit' when up against the foreign sharks and the multinationals who rule the roost the world around." |
(Legal Potpourri of March 6, 2009) |
‘But the most worrisome problem that we face is that our citizenry is anesthetically naïve about what is happening to our country on account of the sharp and sullied operations from outside." |
(Legal Potpourri of March 20, 2009) |
"But the most worrisome problem that we face is that our citizenry is anesthetically naïve about what is happening to our country on account of the sharp and sullied operations from outside." |
(Legal Potpourri of March 20, 2009) |
"The wielders of power must accept what the Delhi High Court had said: " No law encourages opaque system to prevail." We hope soon a new chapter would begin." |
(Legal Potpourri of March 20, 2009) |
"I told the Court the story of A Rickshaw Puller Vs A Rickshaw Puller." |
(Legal Potpourri of April 3, 2009) |
"Management. The Economic Globalization is a contrivance begetting the present-day economic architecture of the world in which there is a ruthless subjugation of the political realm to the economic realm." |
(Legal Potpourri of April 17, 2009) |
"Neo-liberal capitalism in the present form is surely a collective sin: its remedies lie in honest collective efforts." |
(Legal Potpourri of April 17, 2009) |
"The purpose of this short leaf is to initiate a discussion on the points suggested. If this ever happens, my drudgery is well rewarded." |
(Legal Potpourri of May1, 2009) |
"Assumptions' and ‘assertions' seem to rule the roost in economic deliberations." |
(Legal Potpourri of May1, 2009) |
"Einstein wrote to Lorentz in Holland "that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can face one another. Once it was religion, now it is the State". On scanning the present realities, shouldn't we say: "Once it was religion, then it was the State, now it is the Market, Pax Mercatus". |
(Legal Potpourri of May1, 2009) |
‘I hope that this good work thus begun would not get lost in sand. Didn't Lord Krishna say in the Gita: "A noble work is never lost even if it precedes only a few steps towards its goal". |
(Legal Potpourri of May 15, 2009) |
"Not to say of questioning Kings, we have even questioned God who without demur accepted His duty to explain". |
(Legal Potpourri of May 15, 2009) |
‘Such words facilitate the work of the crooks and cranks, knaves and fools, the go-getters and the greed-setters (or suitors)." |
(Legal Potpourri of May 29, 2009) |
"So, after all, what is there in face? We would, like Titania , love to kiss the face of a donkey rather than that of a Leviathan who could smile and smile and yet be a villain…..What mattes, when all is said, is whether one posses ‘human heart'." |
(Legal Potpourri of May 29, 2009) |
‘I was wondering why a person is ill at ease with the judicial creativity in the permissible zone; unless under the present-day rule of market (pax mercatus ) he believes in the noxious idea of judicial withdrawal rhyming and chiming well with the much-hyped withdrawal of the government from welfare activities." |
(Legal Potpourri of May 29, 2009) |
‘ …..this Economic Paradigm of the Economic Globalization under which ‘patriotism' stands quoted at the national stock exchange at minus zero!" |
(Legal Potpourri of May 29, 2009) |
"The syncretic culture about which the Ramayana speaks is more pro bono publico than our present-day ‘secularism' and egalitarianism whose combined spectrum surges from religious neutrality to outright public immorality." |
(Legal Potpourri of May 29, 2009) |
"THERE are good reasons to believe that our constitution-framers' socialist vision received a powerful expression in our Constitution, a virtual ‘objective correlative' to express their aspirations." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 10, 2009) |
"It is really tragic to note that our jurists have never appreciated this fact because their western orientation never freed them from the blinkers forged out of the Western borrowings." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 10, 2009) |
"‘Social Justice' is the very purpose of our polity, and the very heart of our Constitution and this requires creation of conditions for all so that quality of life improves." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 10, 2009) |
"Consumerism is sin till the last man receives just treatment. Human beings must not be treated as commodities for trade." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 10, 2009) |
"A little bird bids me to reflect on the model of the economic growth we have set in our country." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 24, 2009) |
"No society has ever escaped the consequences of its deeds done, suffered, or even tolerated tongue-tied." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 24, 2009) |
"Lull is not peace. Often peace is craved by those who want the exploited to remain supine, suppliant, and silent allowing them to sip blood from their heart without protest." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 24, 2009) |
"The ‘Taj Mahal Economy' had destroyed in the past civilizations much more advanced than ours: I mean the civilizations that had once developed in Egypt , Greece , Rome, and the Byzantine flowering. There is an increasing dread that we may become victims of polarized wealth." |
(Legal Potpourri, July 24, 2009) |
The Executive Government erroneously believes that it possesses plenum dominium." |
(Legal Potpourri, August 7, 2009) |
"A corporation evolved as a form of business organization in which public interest was greatly interested as its enterprise generated huge amount of wealth. It was not conceived as an impervious coverlet for abuse." |
(Legal Potpourri, August 7, 2009) |
"A society, which keeps on quietly accepting aberrations & injustice over a long span of time, is surely most unfortunate." |
(Legal Potpourri, August 7, 2009) |
"WHEN we see the degradation in public life, wrought primarily by what the Shah Commission Report calls, ‘the Root of All Evil', we have no option but to think that ours is ‘a tale of the evasions of reality' resulting in a chronicle of missed opportunities." |
(Legal Potpourri, Sept 18, 2009) |
"Variating on what Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith said about the present-day economic history, I can say: here is a constant in political life: as between grave ultimate disaster and conserving reforms that might avoid it, the former is frequently much preferred." |
(Legal Potpourri, Sept 18, 2009) |
"The degradation gets more and more shocking on account of the conspiratorial collaboration of the economic gladiators, marauders and the manipulators for whom the present phase of economic globalization is the most fertile field." |
( Legal Potpourri, Sept. 18, 2009) |
"It is submitted that the right approach is what is suggested in the oft-quoted remark by Carl Schurz in his address in the United States Congress: "My country, right or wrong. If right, to keep right, if wrong, to put right." |
(Legal Potpourri, Sept. 18, 2009) |
"The ‘Root of All Evil ' must not be nourished to grow into an ever-growing, luxuriant and noxious embracing tree for our nation to rue" |
(Legal Potpourri, Sept. 18, 2009) |
"The 16 th century painter Marinus van Reymerswaele, well known for his satirical paintings, painted ‘the Two Tax Gatherers' showing an imperious tax collector before whom cringed a commoner to whom the collection of taxes had been outsourced (or ‘farmed' or ‘privatized')." |
(Legal Potpourri, Sept. 18, 2009) |
III
Summing-up & Goodbye
After
enduring the heat and bearing the burden of the Indian Revenue Service for
about four decades I retired in 1998. After frittering my time and energy
over the 'kings and cabbages', it was a good riddance to be on my wings in
the void. I found beating my wings alone in the void lovely, but I realized
that our earth is the loveliest as it gives an opportunity to act for the
weal of others. Somerset Maughm ended his The Summing Up with the
ideas of Fray Luis de Leon: "The beauty of life …is nothing but this,
that each should act in conformity with his nature and his business". Lord Krishna had said in the Bhagavad-Gita that one lives and works
in accordance with his gunas (traits). I have lived for more than
7 decades, and have thought and acted. My ideas and actions for public weal
(as I have perceived them) are set out in numerous articles you can find
in the archive of www.taxindiaonline.com and
my website www.shivakantjha.org .
The
24 Triplets came on the www.taxindiaonline.com in
the fortnightly columns captioned as my Potpourri. The metaphorical
implications of the term should not be missed. Potpourri is
a mixture of dried, variegated and assorted fragrant petals and plant materials
which exude 'a gentle natural scent in houses'. In the Potpourri I have cast
about 70 such petals or leaves whereon I have scripted some of my fleetings,
ideas on assorted topics of great contemporary relevance. Their objective
is not to provide a comprehensive account of the issues discussed. The spatial
and temporal constraints of the leaves of the triplets did not permit comprehensive
exfoliation of the subjects commented upon. It is enough if some of ideas
make our citizenry think about them with a measure of seriousness, courage
and imagination. Using the words of Bacon in his , Essays : "Read
not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to
find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." I do not know
if my endeavour has borne fruit. But I have done my duty pro bono publico ,
and I have done it wholly as a labour of love. Throughout the Triplets in
the Potpourri I have tried to tread on the straight-line which Ernest Barker
described to Albert Einstein: "If at your command, the straight lines
have been banished from the universe, there is yet one straight line that
will always remain – the straight line of right and justice." And James
Madison aptly said: "…the right of freely examining public characters
and measures and the free communication thereon is the only effective guardian
of every other right."
Before I end this series I must thank www.taxindiaonline.com which displayed unusual courage in publishing my ideas some of them seemed bete noire to the main stream media. I drew much from its archival resources . I have felt amazed at the editing deftness, precision, and aesthetic impact with which the website goes on. The internet journalism has vast potentialities in our times. And this website has done wonders over a short time. I wish more and more innovations in presenting this cyberview of our terrestrial affairs. I hope higher and higher ascent would be scaled in the years to come. I wish the artists, architects, and craftsmen who collaborate to keep the majestic website going ahead reaping more and more laurels in promoting public cause of great importance.
All that begins must end. I end this series with these lines by T.S. Eliot in the 'First Chorus in The Rock':
Oh perpetual revolution of configured stars,
Oh perpetual recurrence of determined reasons,
Oh world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment.
'JAI HIND'
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