Politics divides Business Unites.
Thousands of trucks are waiting to enter Nepal at the Indo-Nepal border. There is acute shortage of petrol and diesel and other essential commodities in Nepal. Traders on both sides are suffering huge losses. People in general are helpless, all because of politics. North Eastern states of Manipur and Nagaland go through the same helplessness every now and then, all because of politics.
If we go back to our villages we will find that farmers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, weavers, shop keepers and carpenters etc depend on each other for their livelihood. There were times when a village was a self dependent unit by itself. Since the villagers depended on each other, they lived in cohesion and peace with each other.
History is a solid proof of how trade and business developed friendships between nations. As time passed, politics over shadowed business. As long as there was the relations were formed on purely business interests, there was amity between nations. The moment politics started influencing business, division among people started on political lines and later on communal lines.
For its own benefit, politics divides people on real or imaginary lines. It can be on communal or cast or color or creed or language basis or castes within cast and communities within community basis. Like there were dalits, then mahadalits or other backward casts (OBC) and now extremely backward cats (EBC).Now Jats, Gujjars, Patels and even Brahmins want to be included in OBC and EBC. The main qualification is number of votes involved and how than can influence the political arithmetic.
For a businessman or trader all are equal as long as they can pay for the goods or services. The only qualification is paying capacity now or at a later date. National boundaries do not matter. Eating habits do not matter. Dressing preferences do not matter. What matters is reasonable profit and ease of business.
If Governments encourage International trade and business, people will live in harmony and forget their differences. National interest has to be protected but unnecessary restrictions should be done away with.
Let there be more business and less politics.
Thousands of trucks are waiting to enter Nepal at the Indo-Nepal border. There is acute shortage of petrol and diesel and other essential commodities in Nepal. Traders on both sides are suffering huge losses. People in general are helpless, all because of politics. North Eastern states of Manipur and Nagaland go through the same helplessness every now and then, all because of politics.
If we go back to our villages we will find that farmers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, weavers, shop keepers and carpenters etc depend on each other for their livelihood. There were times when a village was a self dependent unit by itself. Since the villagers depended on each other, they lived in cohesion and peace with each other.
History is a solid proof of how trade and business developed friendships between nations. As time passed, politics over shadowed business. As long as there was the relations were formed on purely business interests, there was amity between nations. The moment politics started influencing business, division among people started on political lines and later on communal lines.
For its own benefit, politics divides people on real or imaginary lines. It can be on communal or cast or color or creed or language basis or castes within cast and communities within community basis. Like there were dalits, then mahadalits or other backward casts (OBC) and now extremely backward cats (EBC).Now Jats, Gujjars, Patels and even Brahmins want to be included in OBC and EBC. The main qualification is number of votes involved and how than can influence the political arithmetic.
For a businessman or trader all are equal as long as they can pay for the goods or services. The only qualification is paying capacity now or at a later date. National boundaries do not matter. Eating habits do not matter. Dressing preferences do not matter. What matters is reasonable profit and ease of business.
If Governments encourage International trade and business, people will live in harmony and forget their differences. National interest has to be protected but unnecessary restrictions should be done away with.
Let there be more business and less politics.
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