Biggest Democracy!

We are amidst the election season right now. The biggest democracy in the world has gone to polls. We chose to be a democratic country, so that the people could decide who they want, to be the leaders of the country.

But is that really happening anymore?

Lets take a look:

1) Leaders are made from candidates who choose to contest the elections.
2) Candidates are chosen from the people who run political parties.
3) People who run political parties are powerful people with lots of varied interests.
4) Most of them have court cases against them.

So when we look at it, are we really choosing the people we want? The real picture is that, our choice is limited to the choice of the parties, which run at the whims and fancies of powerful people.

Democracy, maybe not. Hippocracy, May be yes.

So is it really democracy, or autocracy of a person, being camouflaged as democracy?

People in India, vote for parties with specific ideologies.

Fundamentalism, communism, secularism, minority favoritism...

These are the ideologies floated.

But are these parties really following it?

We need to verify, whether we actually believe in all this stuff...

Only when we will objectively decide, we will know whom to choose.

By now choices have been made, and elections almost decided, and another drain of our hard earned resources has taken place, to choose who will make money, who will be irritated because they cant, and will throw allegations.

At the end of it all...what about us?

Let the frustrations for the next five years (hopefully !) begin !

Plight of CA Students !

The Chartered Accountants (CA) institute of India, requires a student to complete 3 / 3.5 years of compulsory internship with a CA, so that he gains practical knowledge of the business before being certified as a CA in his exams.

Recently, the Chartered Accountants (CA) institute of India came out with a notification, binding all students with the following regulations:

1) CA student under going internship with a CA, cannot take a transfer to another CA, within the same city.

2) The distance between the 2 offices must be minimum 50 Kms

3) The only other reasons permitting the transfer are; medical reasons, or transfer of working parent to another city.

These regulations have been brought into practice for one and only one reason:

TO STOP INTERNS UNDERGOING DUMMY INTERNSHIP BY REGISTERING THEMSELVES WITH A CA AND NOT ATTENDING WORK AND MAKING MERRY UNOFFICIALLY.

LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR...I AGREE THAT THIS MENACE MUST BE STOPPED.

But because of this notification, the freedom of an intern is severely affected .

Now the big question is........ IS THIS FAIR??

A simple argument in this matter is :

The starting point of any dummy internship starts when a CA mutually agrees with a student to give him a fake registration and undergo dummy internship. so instead of pointing the fingers at interns and making their life difficult, why cant it be made difficult for the CAs who wilfully carry out such acts?

The reasons why an intern would like to change his place of work are:

1) Exposure to different work than the work offered by his current CA (principal)

2) Difference of opinion on how to things should be done.

3) Better stipend package in order to remain motivated and not feel exploited.

4) Traveling problems.

5) Need for change. ( mental fatigue )

6) Growth issues.

7) Change to firms that carry out performance appraisals and conducts seminars for knowledge addition.

The list goes on.......

Also, an intern cannot take a transfer in his last 12 months of internship. Many interns are qualified CA's in the last 9 months of their internship. So is it fair to make CA's work as interns? Again, the freedom of taking a transfer has been denied.

so is this a fair ruling...??

I have used my freedom of speech...

Now, Can you shed light and help me strengthen / weaken this thought of, my already made up mind?? ;-)

I pray that the governing body will review its decision and come up with a better solution for this menace, so that the interests of the student community are not hampered.

Hi...This is the Commonly Uncommon Man aka The Firestarter...

I know the 2 names sound as two different personalities, but thats who i am...a multi-dimensional human being with an opinion on....well say just about everything !

So who am I??

I am a simple guy from India, with the mind of a very common but yet a very liberal and forward man....

So whats the intention of this blog?

To objectively provide a honest view of the things / events happening around the world, especially in India....without subjecting my thinking to the very stereotypical topics that govern our decisions, choices and preferences.

Bottom line...The Firestarter is biased towards the truth and this bias compels him be a non-biased writer.

So if you are looking for an honest answer..or an honest take on things...feel free to get in touch with me....

Because only when you speak the truth in this highly complex world, is when you start creating chaos...and the person who can create chaos is always known as "The Firestarter".