What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

The needs of humans has grown far beyond the necessity of living. The life in this planet thrives on the basic need of air, water, food and continuity of the species. The food chain and the life chain balances them in a cycle that sustains life on earth.
From the bare necessities of life, the luxury can be defined by anything extra available, but not necessarily needed. A trapped prey in sight after a scrumptious meal for a beast of the jungle is a luxury. But, these luxuries are necessities once the appetite comes back and can wait for the same. There is no wastage or over utilization of resources in the cycle of demand and supply in nature. But, when the term 'luxury' is defined in terms of humans, the definition itself will be stretched in multitudes of human affordability and lifestyle.
Lets start from the ground zero to understand the luxury in human perspective. For a vast percentage of population, food to hearts delight is a luxury of lifetime. Each moment in their life is aimed to get food for themselves and their family and nurturing the dream to get sufficient in food. Here, we see a unanimous relation among the wildness of nature and the helpless of human diversity.The hunger, poverty and the lack drives the life in this society and the anything that brings them out of this pathetic state will be deemed a luxury.
If we move a little up, there is a class of people who has daily income enough to feed the family. They can afford to buy new clothes once a year. They manage to get their children to government schools. The children suppress their dreams to their hearts as they know their parents cannot afford the same as their friend's. This is the sector where sacrifices make life sweeter and any surprises is indeed a 'luxury'.
Few more steps above, we have the people with all basic needs of life meet. So, luxury cannot be defined by means of necessities of life. Instead, for this class, luxury is more of a comfort zone which has become the necessity of their lives. The mobile phones, television, two wheeler, car etc. broadly comes in the class of people grouped in a wider sense. we can also see variety in this group based on affordability and the income. From this class of people and above, we can see how the surplus is diverted to the luxuries  and the need is not quenched by meeting the necessity. Attaining comfort is driving the necessity with the availability of the market, as now,  affordability is not a constraint.
Now, lets the move to the highly privileged, highest income bound class of human society where imagination is a limit to attain luxury. Right from custom made devours to cryogenic preservation, the dreams fly high in each aspect of life. There is no stop to the affordability of luxury. Money has less meaning here. It is as abundant as gravels in the backyard. So, luxury is a meaningless word which could not be defined with any words in vocabulary. Food is not for hunger, since hunger doesn’t exist, only taste and variety prevails. Dress is not for covering the nakedness, it is valued from its make, rarity and designer who made it exclusive.
With all said, what makes us different from any other living thing, which meets the basic necessities of nature and live on. And us, the evolved ones, exploiting the surplus for luxury, which at the same time can used to wipe the hunger of a big section of our own society. In animal world, one species compete with another for survival. But among us, we endanger the existence of our own species.
What we need is not democracy, communism, secularism or military power.
All we need is to understand that we all are humans, there is no country or continents, color, caste or creed. Live and let live as humans…

Narendra Modi – My perspective

+Narendra Modi – The current vibe in Indian politics is making ripples in upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. There is a new enthusiasm in the air about the proceedings. I have never experienced such a vibe in past 15 years, where one man is becoming a symbol of change. With all this in place, I was thinking from my perspective, why Mr Modi is so important to an evident political change.

Backed up and leading a party raised from communal base, and a bloody communal riot in the profile and stand up to be the leader of a secular country is not a walk in the park. In Indian democracy, Prime minister is only Prime of a group. The ultimate power stays with the parliamentarians in his accord. So, what makes Mr Modi a decisive leader for BJP or a tough opponent for the ruling side?

The biggest advantage of Modi is the current deficit scenario of Indian economy. The inflation, Currency depression, price rise etc. has already created a negative public view for the UPA Government and a change is inevitable. The multi million scams of the government ministers have broken all previous records of corruption and the trust of people has blown away and cannot be reinstated with election promises.

At this precise moment, Modi enters with his state Gujarat as example of his caliber.So, it’s worth to have a glance at the “Modi Gujarat Model’, which he believes to implement as ‘India model’ if he succeeds as next prime minister of India. From my perspective, the points that adds value to Mr Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat are

• Economic recovery after the devastating earth quakes in Gujarat.
• Average growth rate of Gross State Domestic Product(GSDP).

I am not going by the political propaganda of BJP or the accusation by the ruling party. But, the above two points are really an achievement of the leader within Narendra Modi. Yes, I do agree that the communal riots in Gujarat wouldn’t have gone to the macro level, if as Chief Minister, Modi has taken more proactive and timely decisions, but a single failure cannot be the benchmark of a man’s capability.
The political view point of many will be different and I do not have leniency towards any political group. The above is my independent view of the current Indian political space and another reason to blog, exercising my fundamental right of speech granted by the constitution of India.