Iron lady Margaret Thatcher is no more!

Known for her strong will power and convictions, the iron lady as she was called, Margaret Thatcher, the ex Prime Minister of England, died of a stroke. She was 87 years old and is survived by her two children Mark and Carol and her grand children. She was a great toughie in the matters of her tasks. She was the one admired most for her contributions during her 11 years tenure as the Prime Minister of her country. Historically she was the first woman Prime Minister of England which record is yet to be broken. She had her great admirers all around within her country and abroad but she had her staunch critics too who called her as a ‘heartless tyrant’. It happens so often that the strong willed people with well meant commitments are misunderstood as a tyrant or as a dictator, or they are called as such for political reasons.. She was one such personality. All of us from India wish peace to the departed soul, a noble one as she was.

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Pay hike for the top men

As per latest announcements appearing in the media, those placed in top positions in the country are to get more pay. President of India is now to get Rs. 1 lac per month, the Vice President is entitled to Rs.85,000/per month with Members of Parliament already drawing a fat salary besides sumptuous perquisites costing the treasury an amount of several crores of rupees as a routine. Normally demands for a wage hike are raised in the context of routine sustentation for self and family where food and other essentials count. Personalities on the top do need support for their routine requirements for self and the family like every one does but their mode of living beeng just so different, the intensity element in their case is not that big as that in the case of common people. Workforce keeping their livelihood based on whatever amount of salary they are able to draw are never in a position to go beyond their sustenance and whenever they are in for a certain pressing need for the family they have no option but to borrow from friends or the financial agencies which again they have to pay back from their only source available -their salary. This problem has hardly anything to do with the celebrities placed in a high salary zone equipped with innumerable perquisites. It is State to bear all those expenses in their case. Majority of them get almost all benefits nearly tax free which priviledge is just inaccessible in the case of a common man. Infact it is the workforce in the country that needs increase in their wages and not the big bosses who are otherwise fat enough.