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I WAS BORN JULY 18,1919 in village Kalanpur district Jaunpur UP India..I participated in IINDIA'S struggle for independence during the"Quit India" movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 9, 1942. .Elected president of Lucknow University Students' Union in 1941-42.Imprisoned by the British for leading the students movement against their rule.. As general secretary of All India Students' Congress, I toured the riot -ravaged areas of Bihar and Bengal with the team of Mahatma Gandhi who was on a humanitarian mission.to save large number of people from secterian violence. During the feeedom struggle I was incharge of the students' wing of Forward Bloc ,the party of Mr.Subhash Chandra Bose. I .am a JOURNALIST by profession ..

Why This Site?

IN a world where race for individual gains at the cost of community gains has

replaced the values of human life,there is an urgent need to check the consequences of this trend. ..
Referring especially to the Indian scene,where the spiritual achievements of saints and sufis are greatly advertised, the fact is that most people,particularly the elite are persuing a selfish materialist life.One can imagine what results would follow from this attitude . S.M.Jaffar
Subjective Roots of Corruption

S.M.Jaffar


The "Corrupt" means a loss of direction.. When the actual working of the world is ignored,individual is isolated in his mind and his actions become corrupt .


The last century has shown an acceleration of decay. Abusive governments, pollution, overpopulation, a proliferation of destruction weapons. Worst of all, in the supposed luxury of industrialized countries, human life has descended into rigid competition for the ability to afford a life apart from violent dirty cities and predatory, perverse, parasitic fellow citizens.
The society is trying to outrun its own corruption. It is futile to rely on political or economic systems to provide answers. The most destructive facet of corruption is that it pervades the assumptions of what is good and what is bad. When illusions outweigh reality, desperate attempts are made to avoid the bad, but bad is created because what is considered good is unrealistic. Corruption comes from within and cannot be isolated in a category. It is far too easy to deny the decay. The people buckle down and focus on their jobs, hobbies, television screens. . They relax into thinking that they have outrun the nightmare,But incidents happen. A few, then more. And soon as they are moving on again, the talking figures on their television screen act as if this is unfortunate but, shrugging, they suggest it is natural. It is just how it is. "Human nature," .
Soon there are two realities in which they live: the socially-accepted theory, and the experience of daily life. With enough money, they can isolate themselves from the latter. Since corruption comes from within, however, it re-emerges not locally but globally, and they find the climate changing, or unstable political situations manipulating them, or even a lack of option for a sensible life. Since most people accept the theory, they act according to it, and thus minimize the impetus toward a better way of life. People are taught -- by favorite celebrities, by politicians, by the peers -- that modern society will provide each individual freedom of choice, a good life, and even meaningful activities. The theory is that if each individual has liberty and wealth, life will be good and problems will decrease. History and experience,however teach the opposite. The further they go into empires of the individual, the more selfishness and greed and paranoia overwhelm them. It is not possible to machine-process people into ideal beings through external force. They must tackle what is within them.
This focus on the external, denying the inner world, is what defines modern society. Thee nature was conquered with the internal combustion engine, the assembly line, interchangeable parts, and now digital electronics. It is assumed that humans act like these devices as well. It is not correct that democracy, individual freedoms, humanism, and material comfort will make humans ideal people like metal poured into a mold, stamped and assembled by machines. The machines do not have personality or the different mental abilities that define human individuals. The society rewards not higher behavior but obedience and conformity, and a willingness to respond to the acquisition of money and social prestige. This is the false reality ; what is called thin or partial intelligence, which is the ability to focus well on details while being ignorant of the system at large. This system at cannot be perceived by attention to details, or even context, but can be analyzed by its design: how the whole fits together so that it functions. To look at civilization on the level of design is to see its actual motivations, behind the facade of smiling faces on television or grand speeches full of positive-sounding words like "freedom" and "progress." . Citizens are taught to fear dictatorship, but no one mentioned authoritarianism enforced by the bad choices of individuals, by selfishness and short-sightedness.. Kings are feared but no one mentioned that bad choices by voters could have a more destructive effect. Uncountable voices command to fear those with fanatical or extremist direction, but only a few warn that a lack of direction can spread corruption more widely than any single choice. To avoid corruption, the basic human values should be re-interpreted. The start is made with reality, and the design of the physical world. People require air, water and living space, but even more, they need a model of how the universe functions so that it can be work ed for the betterment of mankind. Natural law, like the inner worlds, cannot be controlled externally. The most basic level of human thought, the programming of assumptions could be discussed through philosophy. This mode of analysis grapples with not only the abstract but the whole of design, such that no detail is detached from the world in which it operates as thin intelligences tend to do. The philosophy of modern society, is confined to the material comfort of individuals. The modern societies do not assess direction as a whole; they defer to what the voters want. The voters are told to want what enhances their own material comfort, and so they see only details, not the whole. Almost all of them have no knowledge of politics, and most of them lack the insight to make intelligent decisions in this field. They view society as something which will never change and will always provide for them. The philosophy behind this individualism is utilitarian. It assumes that if you can make most people think what happens benefits them materially, all will be well. But what about the direction of the whole? The modern individualism does not address this. There is no public recognition of this failing, only a stream of propaganda extolling its virtues and exhorting to combat "problems," without mentioning that current assumptions create these problems. A society based upon the pursuit of individual pleasure and wealth is destined to be selfish. Selfishness is a form of corruption. Instead of doing what is right for the overall direction of society,only convenient choices are made. This convenience creates side effects that ultimately will all have to be faced,. The wealth is enjoyed now and let future generations face the consequences. Predictably, that future has arrived. The philosophies that have got the world into this mess can now be seen as erroneous assumptions. But philosophy has many meanings: it is both a type of thing, as in "a philosophy of convenience," and a language for discussing philosophies. Armed with this logical tool, the modern philosophy can be torn apart enabling people to see where it goes wrong. . The tendency is to deny this condition of nature by categorizing it as "bad," and categorizing all that denies it as "good." People are equal, All death should be outlawed. Even competition, or noting that one person is a better swimmer or writer than another, becomes taboo. We stop using words like fat, retarded, ugly, short, incompetent and begin speaking in a patois of euphemism and political categories. This leads to a state where certain ideas are as much thought crime, and the penalties as dire (denial of livelihood and social acceptance), as those in any authoritarian state. Denial perpetuates illusion, . It forces to separate the real world from theory, and by making the theory, corrupting the assumptions. Nature is defined by survival of the fittest. Accidents happen and there is no justice in the world. Power comes from the barrel of the gun. . Nihilism, or as some call it, Zen, is a state of recognizing the mechanistic function of nature without passing judgment over it. The opposition of nihilism is delusion. Delusion makes human categories like "good" and "evil" into which the world is sorted, and thus try to control each other through these mental constructs. But these rapidly run into contradiction. It is said that murder is bad, but murderers are murdered. It is said that inequality is bad, but some one has to be picked who is "more equal" to lead . It is pretended that all people are the same but some are considered to be stupid or parasitic. Worst of all, delusion requires vigorous defense because it is contrary to reality, and this means constant retribution upon those who point out the obvious -- that reality exists, that truth can be determined, and that human theory does not supercede the physical and natural world. This is why either theory is brought in line with reality, or corruption is created through a theory that is essentially delusional in contrast to reality. The dual processes of nihilism and idealism helps to remove unrealistic values and replace them with better ones. This mental event also helps to deal with the problems of "good" and "evil." When the overall design of nature is grasped, predation and death are found equally necessary to consumption and life, and how natural selection makes the species more adapted to reality and thus more capable within it. Like the ancient Gnostics, we see how good necessarily gives birth to evil to keep it in balance. Good and evil work together to create a "meta-good," or reality itself, which never runs into a state of stagnation or delusion. .. . .
Mathematical Model of Corruption--C= M (monopoly ) +D (discretion)-A (accountability)

In a special report on corruption , Robert Klitgaard Dean and Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security at the RAND Graduate School has devised a mathematical model of Corruption as a System Consider two analytical points. First, corruption may be represented as following a formula: C = M + D - A.Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability. Whether the activity is public, private or nonprofit, and whether it is carried out in Ouagadougou or Washington, one will tend to find corruption when an organization or person has a monopoly power over a good or service, has the discretion to decide who will receive it and how much that person will get, and is not accountable Second, corruption is a crime of calculation, not passion. True there are both saints who resist all temptation and honest officials who resist most. But when bribes are large, the chances of being caught small, and the penalties if caught meager, many officials will succumb. According to Mr Klitgaard combating corruption begins with designing better systems. Monopolies must be reduced or carefully regulated. Official discretion must be clarified. Transparency must be enhanced.. The probability of being caught, as well as the penalties for corruption (for both givers and takers) must increase. Each of these introduces a vast topic. But notice that none immediately refers to what most of us think of first when corruption is mentioned - that is, new laws, more controls, a change in mentality, or an ethical revolution. Laws and control prove insufficient when systems do not exist in which to implement them. Moral awakenings do occur, but seldom by the design of our public leaders. If we cannot engineer incorruptible officials and citizens, we can nonetheless foster competition, change incentives and enhance accountability - in short fix the systems that breed corruption. END



shadow of Terror over Fatehgarh
I was a Prisoner
S.M.Jaffar

The country was seething with discontent against the
British Government for shoving India into the World
War two without obtaining the consent of its people.
It was yet to reach the flash point in the form of the
"Quit India movemen"t launched by Mahatma Gandhi on
August 9,1942.
The Britishhad however read the forebodings on the
horizon.As a precutionary measure even before the
movement they started rounding up the former
revolutinaries and anti-war activists.In U.P all of
them labelled as terorist were confined in a high
security prison in Fatehgarh situated in a minor
district.Arrested in June 1942 I was also one of the
security prisoners there.Thus amidst the misiries of
the Prison it was a thrill for me to be in the
company of those who had aleady become a legend in
their lifetime.
We were confined into heavily
guarded three barracks which accommodated nearly three
hundred prisoners.We were locked up inside the
barracks after dusk and the locks were opened in the
morning .The prisoners were allowed to remain in the
open in the small enclousers around the barracks
sorrounded by high walls and barbed wires.They were
allowed meals twice day cooked by ordinary
convicts.The nights were spent in beds made on brick
platforms.the prisoners spent most of the time reading
books ,conducting excited discussing ideological
issues and taking exercising.When newspapers were
smuggled from outside animated afforts were made to
know what was happening outside in the world.Everybody
wanted to know the fortunes of war because on this
depended the fate of their limitless confinement
because under the rules the time of confinement was
not under court jurisdiction..It is however strange
nobody talked about his family and loved ones left
behind.
Unfortunately most of those with
whom I shared the prison are dead.An urdu poet Mirza
Ghalib said "sab kahan kuch lala-o-gul me numyan ho
gain.Khak men kaya suraten hongi jo pinhan ho gain"
(Not all but some have blossomed as colourul
flowers. What beautiful faces which were alive have
mingled with dust).The first among those I remembered
was Shaukat Usmani who was among the original founders
of the cimmunist party of India.His conversion to
communism has an interseting history.Some muslim
clerics in early 1900s had issued an eddict that on
account of the British occupation India had become
dar-ul-harab( abode of war) and therefore had become
unfit for true muslims to live there.They
should,therefore migrate to some Islamic
country(Dar-ul-salm).
Responding ,Young Shaukat Usmani who lived somewhere
in a desert town of Rajasthan joined a group of
muslim young persons and decided to leave India for
Turkey.Crossing clendenstinely the Indo Afghan Border
and climbing high mountains and walking through long
deserts avoiding both the local police and robber
gangs they crossed Afghanistan and entered the Russian
Territory from where they thought of crossing over to
the Turkish territory.They had,however little
knowledge That the great communist revolution had
taken place and the route to Turkey was blocked.They
found themselves in the midst of a chatotic condition
on Russian territory where a muslim governor
appointed by the Czarist governor was jittery over the
newly constituted red army expected to arrive any time
to end his tyrannycal rule.In the meantime the
immigrants were produced before the governor,Since
they had illegally entred the territory they were
declared slaves of the governor. Their dreams
sharrered they reconciled to the fate.After sometimes
the rumour spread that units of the Red Army had
started marching towards the territory in order to
liberate it from the Czar's governor.Amidst general
panic the army arrived and the functionaries of the
old regime surrendered before it..Mr Shaukat Usmani
and his comrades in slavery were released treated
well by the army authorities and on their way back to
Moscow were taken with them as free men.
In Moscow they were
hailed as fellow revolutionaries. The party bosses
selected some of thee educated persons from the group
and sent them to a special academy for an intensive
training in the ideology,arts and tactics of fomenting
revolutions world wide.Among the trainers was a high
profile Indian revolutionary M.N.Roy. After the
training was over Usmani was smuggled in Early 1920s
to Cwanpur,an industrial town in U.P and was given the
task of motivating a group of avtive indusrial workers
with a view to forming nucleus of a communist
organization.But soon the British intelligence
discovered the identity of Usmani and the kind ofwork
he was doing there.Other such networks were also
discovered all over the country.this triggered the
rounding up of these workers who were prosecuted under
the famous Merrut Conspiracy Case.
After his release Usmani
continued work in the movement till the beginning of
the Second War till he was rearrested,although other
communists continued to remain outside on account of
their support given to the British after Germany
attacked Russia.

Another inmate of the camp was aristocratic
Saumendra Nath Tagore nephew of poet Rabindra Nath
Tagore.After his initial education he was sent to
Europe for further studies .At that time the message
of the Russian revolution and the fight for India's
independence had set ablaze the imagination of Indians
living abroad.In Germany Tagore came into contact with
a group of such Indians prominent among whom were
Biren Chattouppadhayya and Raja Mahendra Pratap
Singh.Tagore travelled to Moscow.He however never
liked the transformation of Russia into a Stalinist
dictatorship.On his return to India he floated his own
outfit the Revolutionary Communist Party of India
which had considerable influence in Assam and
Bengal.He was married to the famous classical dancer
Shrimati Huteesingh.
There were also two brothers
Raj Kumar Sinha and Vijay Kumar Sinha.They had already
undergone long terms of imprisonment for
revolutionary activities before coming to this camp.
Vijaya Kumar Sinha was a well read person and had
served a term in Andamans also.Two prominent leaders
of Revolutionary Socialist Party previously known as
Anshulan were Sushil Bhattachary and Satyan
Banarjee.Mr Jharkhandey Rai also belonged to the same
party.The other heroes of the Kakori Conspiracy Case
were Vishnu Saran Dublish,brothers Manmath Nath Gupta
and Manmohan Gupta.Mr.Dublish was a large hearted
person who endeared himself to all.
Bhagwas Das Mahur an
associate of Sardar Bhagat Singh who made an attempt o
kill a government spy suspected of informing the
police about Chandra Shekhar Azad killed in an
encounter with the police in the Bhosawal Conspiracy
case was also there.He was a self educated
intellectual and after his release became a professor
in Jhansi.
Two prominent congress
leaders Keshava Deo Malaviya , Mohanlal Gautam and
labour leader Ganga Sahai Chaubay were there for
instigating violence against the government.The two
young brothers Mohit Kumar Banarjee and Basant Kumar
Banarjee were picked up for their revolutionary
activities.In fact most adult members of their family
were confined in different jails in U.P.Mahashey Kedar
Nath Arya,a religious person clad in saffron robes was
a socialist and secular to the core.Dr Pitambar Pant A
teacher of physics in the Allahabad university was
arrested for participating in the Agra Conspiracy
case.Another professor was Kailash Prakash.
Among members of the original
party formed by Bhagat Singh the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Party were Krishn Shankar Srivastava and
Sheo Bachan Rai.Mani Lal Sharma Absar
Hussain,Surendra Pandey and Virendra Pandey were
followers of M.N. Roy.The communists were represented
by Shekhar Gangauly and Ardhanshu.
Vishambhar Dayal
Tripathi and brother Gangadhar Tripathi and Nalani
Kumar Mukerjee represented Forward Bloc and firmly
believed that Netaji's army the INA would soon
liberate the country.The congress socialist party was
represented by the fire-eating old Rajput Thakur
Malkhan Singh.Eastern UP was represented by Jagganath
Singh,Jagannath Shastri Baleshwae Singh
TarkeshwarPandey,Pabbar Ram and Rajdeo Singh.Allahabad
was represented by Badri Phalwan,Rup Narain Tripathi
and Ajay Kumar Basu.
It was after the
defeat of Nazi Germany in the World War two that the
stiff posture of the British showed signs of
relaxation.Soon negotiations started between Gandhiji
and other prominent leaders who were released from
captivity .The last to be released were the prisinors
from the terrorist camp of Fathgarh.There were
emotional scenes at the time of parting.During
legthening years of imprisonment in Fatehgarh with
uncertainty hovering over the future,we had become a
closely-bonded family.Even afterwards despite
differences of ideology ,time and distance these ties
forged during trials and tribulations,hopes and
disappointments never slackened.END