TIME 100 : It is not Narendra Modi, but Time's Integrity in question

URL - http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/2014/04/time-100-it-is-not-narendra-modi-but.html

Did Mr. Narendra Modi really made it to the top of "TIME 100 annual lists of the most influential people in the world, given the questionable integrity of the Poll?

The survey asked the readers to cast their votes “for the people who have changed the world this past year, for better or worse. “

The Voting closed at 11:59 p.m on April 22, and Time's declared winner is Mr. Narendra Modi with 5,070,865 Votes with 83.7 % saying YES to include him in the list, while 16.3% saying NO.  The second highest scorer was Mr. Arvind Kejriwal with 3,168,259 votes, and 60.3% of the respondents said YES and 39.7% said NO.  Oddly no one scored over 100,000.  The full TIME100 list will be announced on April 24, 2014.

As an India expert committed to shaping cohesive societies where no human has to live in apprehension or fear of the other, I was curious to observe the poll as it progressed making notes and taking snap shots of the screen periodically to write on my India Blog and that I have maintained for nearly a decade.

I was watching, “Which World Figures Should Be on the 2014 TIME 100?” and could not help the disappointment with the authenticity of the poll, an Institution like TIME has erred shamelessly once more.  In the interest of integrity, I wish they had verified several things before the winner was announced.

Indians are fascinated with numbers and clamor to get on the Guinness book of world record, and this poll was no exception, it caught their attention and the war between secular and the right wing Indians began.

When Modi reached a record number of votes at 867, 341 by 5:54 PM on April 21, 64% of them said YES to include him on the TIME 100 where as 36% said NO. The Kejriwal warriors and the secular Indians hit the gas to the floor, and gave 489, 582 Votes and 78% of them said YES while 22% said NO.

Modi Sena (army) would not take that kindly, and flipped Kejriwal down to 28.9%  YES and 71.1 NO today at 3:00 PM.  Things turned around immediately, and the Kejriwal Warriors went to war big time, and pulled Modi down to 53.5% at 5:04 PM today,  and lifting Kejriwal to 54.6% YES.

The peak points for Modi were 91.4% YES and 57.8% NO, and for Kejriwal, 82.3% YES and 49.4% NO, and the lowest NO for Modi was 8.6% and 17.7% for Kejriwal.

It was a war, you could clearly see who side was on the offensive, and each side has slaughtered the other at different times.

Here are the two snap shots of the screen at 5:32 PM on April 22, 2014.

Given  the speed with which clicking was going on with alarming speed, like 100 votes per minute, mathematically,  I predicted 90% YES for Modi by late evening and it needed millions of votes to turn the numbers around.  Hell, the Modi Sainiks had already figured that out, and knew how many numbers it will take to shrink the NO percentage for their new found guide; Mr. Modi.

 INTEGRITY OF THE TIME POLL

The Modi supporters are outdoing everything... and they have that right to do that. However, in the interest of integrity of the Time's poll, I wanted to check what was going on behind the scene.

At about 3:00 PM today, I had clicked 6 times from the same computer (as I had to) to see the percentages. What are the chances that someone has set it from a computer to click 100,000 and it would take just a few people to multiply those numbers?  What are the chances that 1000 volunteers are hired to do nothing but click?

I clicked 15 more times, making it 21 clicks, the poll is completely skewed and hence unreliable.

Can Time audit its computers to determine how many clicks have come from the same computer?

Time’s integrity was lost when they wrote about Modi last time, they did not research enough, and now this.

This is a serious issue of integrity of the Time Magazine.

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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and a book with the same title is coming up. Mike has a strong presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links. 

Delhi Government will fall if Lokpal bill is not passed - Kejriwal

Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, Mandela and others... have re-established the fact that when you are committed to serve with no personal gain, you will succeed.

Arvind Kejriwal will succeed, I have faith in his commitment, he has nothing to gain personally, but do good for Indians, the Aam Aadmi. 

The Lokpal bill will be introduced in the Assembly on 13th and will pass on 15th, and it requires 36 votes - with the original congress backing, it should pass. It may be a good idea for a few in BJP to cross the line to vote and let it pass with a super majority.

If it does not, then the Delhi Government will fall. Arvind says he is not in to be the CM or run the Government; he is in for the change and kill the Brhashtachar that has harmed our country and the common man on the street.  

I am concerned about Kejriwal and Modi - they are one man operations, without each one of them, neither AAP nor BJP will rise. Congress has a good functional system, if not Rahul there are plenty others. But again, all good things have started small and Kejriwal has a lot more to offer India - a stable society, I wish and hope he can do that in the few months he has left.  Kejriwal would be good if he can focus on developing systems... 

May be Delhi Government should fall, it will give a boost to Kejriwal to go national, but it is not in the interest of either BJP or Congress to fail Delhi.

God bless India.

I will quit if Jan Lokpal is not passed: Arvind Kejriwal to NDTV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6wSbiohCg

Mike Ghouse
www.MikeGhouse.net

Arvind Kejriwal; redefining Government of the people for the people by the people.

URL- http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2013/12/arvind-kejriwal-redefining-government.html

 

He has a bold message for Indian National Congress; inclusiveness without pragati will not cut it, and the message to the other extremity Narendra Modi, unnati without inclusiveness is not sustainable either.  

 

When there is a lack of leadership, or leaders have no idea how to proceed, Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the new Aam Aadmi Party has found the way, and he is just doing the right thing, asking the very people who elected him!  Indeed, Mr. Kejriwal is redefining what Government of the people means.

 

The only worry, I have about the Aam Aadmi Party is – how will they ensure the corrupt people from creeping in to their system?  As long as they are a Delhi based manageable party, they would be fine, but if they go national, do they have the time to place safeguards and checks and balances in place?

 

It does worry me, in a press conference in December 2001, General Pervaz Musharraf gave me 6-7 minutes in the midst of huge media crowd in Washington DC. My major question to him besides Cricket Diplomacy was – have you got a “what if plan”, should you not be there, do you have institutions built up to carry the democracy forward? His answer was typical Desi – Oh, yes, don’t worry, we have figured it out everything.

 

I wish our damned politicians, particularly my fellow Republicans learn the lesson - to reflect the needs to the public rather than what they want. Arivind Kejriwal has redefined and clarified what it means to be Government of the People by the people for the people.

 

I will ask the same question to Arvind Kejriwal, what if you fell sick or become dear to God in an accident, is your system established to move forward on its own? Do you have enough people deeply oriented with your ideals to carry the mantle? A sustainable government should be based on a system and not individuals.

 

My recommendation for Kejriwal is to establish the party in Delhi, be a part of the opposition or form the governance if the Delhi voters say yes, but don't expand to other parts of the country yet, as you are likely to fall like all others.

 

IBN network has bestwoed the Indian of the year award to Arvind Kejriwal, a well-deserved award. Congratulations Mr. Kejriwal! The following  6 minutes video on YouTube is worth watching to understand a genuine democracy – of the people by the people for the people

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQTZCG48cwo

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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India, interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and a book with the same title is coming up. Mike has a strong presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print Media. He is a frequent guest onSean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links.
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