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Tuesday 6 December 2011
Tag Game - self appraisal of my blogs
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Thursday 18 August 2011
Am I right or Wrong?
My cynical views on the recent episodes of Fasting and Arresting of Anna Hazare!
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Sunday 14 August 2011
Saturday 2 July 2011
It happens only in India!
It happens only in India!
The definition of murder is lost from the recent judgment on the Maria-Jerome-Grover case. Let us accept that the murder was done on a rush of blood, fit of rage etc., I am surprised that if Grover was killed because Jerome saw him in half-naked status, what was his girl friend doing? If they were not involved why should he kill? They killed and later chopped the body into pieces. Was it not a cold-blooded murder? But the judge differed stating this is nothing but culpable homicide not leading to murder. Shocking!
In a rush of blood, he killed but later realized. Then in all fairness, both should have got themselves surrendered in a police station. Instead, they decided to chop the body into 300 odd pieces, with all ease, packed the parts into a bag and tried to dump and fire it on a secluded area! Yet, the judge states that this a destruction of evidence? Perplexing!
Maria had already spent 3 years in jail and hence will be free from today and walk back home. Ironical! She did not stay in prison as a punishment. All along she was in and out of the prison. A punishment is given so that the culprit realizes his mistake and gets a chance to correct them. Here, it is thoroughly opposite!
Perhaps, the sections in which the cases are fought would have led to this sort of judgment. Still, I don’t understand that how can, for a single murder, charges can be different for both accused involved? Similarly, in the past, the definition of Rape was lost with so many cases on rape confused us the people. Am I wrong if I said, Crazy is justice!
The selectors are gathering today for selection of India team for England. They say history repeats and it is proven that all the 3 Tamil Nadu players (Mukund, Vijay and Badri) who got an opportunity to display their talent failed thoroughly. Pathetic is the last word one can say about their performance.
I don’t know why the selectors have forgotten Cheteshwar Pujara because he did not play in T20 leagues? He is another Dravid in the making and he is unfit for T20 sort of games. If at all, we need a stabilized middle order after Sachin-Rahul-Laxman, it cannot be formed without Cheteshwar Pujara. Virat is too immature and so is Yuvraj and Raina. Its high team the selectors picked Pujara as I am sure that Suresh, Virat and Yuvraj cannot play in the swinging conditions of England. Dhoni, repeatedly, is making the mistake of sidelining Amit Mishra. Personal favors cannot be as implicit as Dhoni does now. He reminds me the days of Umrigar where Marattas was favored in the Indian cricket team. This is not a good sign but Dhoni is the chocolate boy of Indian cricket and cricket in India brings more money. So telling ill of Dhoni is a sin.
Indian sport had another low in the doping episode. We can’t blame the athletes entirely but the officials, coaches who are supposed to ensure that they are free from such hassles that they concentrated only on their sports. Alas! We can’t expect this to happen in India. If Indian sportsmen win some accolades it is not because of coaches, administrations or sports organizations but despite them.
Manmohan Singh is the weakest ever Prime Minister (worse than Deve Gowda and Gujral) cries the Opposition party. They should be thankful to the UPA for such a weaker PM. Similarly, the UPA should thank the Opposition that despite having such a weak PM, scam-filled-days, failures all over in the Govt, the Opposition is not strong enough to topple the Government and seek a fresh mandate. The lack of alternative is keeping the Government intact and the Congress feels by then, Rahul baba will be ready and the people will forget all these ill-fated days.
The Civil-society has usurped the position of Opposition but the Congress is not willing to give it the full credit. They blame it on RSS (as they keep doing it for years) and give undue credit to the Opposition. In the melee, likes of Anna Hazare demands authority without responsibility. Its only the congress that cries foul on Lokpal. None of its allies is opening their mouth. Same is the case with Opposition. They have not said whether they support it or they don’t. They have not come out with their version of Lokpal yet.
Meanwhile, the speaker categorically rejected the PAC report. Why should we have one if we are going to have such comedy episodes? Why are we wasting money when the inflation is rocketing high? The PM had initiated the press conference again (to woo the media and requesting them to write in favor of him) and none is sure in what way this will help the common man. He has not yet come out with a clear reply with regard to Inflation. In fact, his press conference raised more questions than he answered.
Nero played fiddle when Rome burnt but here the Super PM goes on holiday in Switzerland (to wind up their bank accounts extending favor in form of purchase of aircraft from Swiss Govt) and other is a dumb duck who is waiting for signals from the holidaying PM. God save India.
The definition of murder is lost from the recent judgment on the Maria-Jerome-Grover case. Let us accept that the murder was done on a rush of blood, fit of rage etc., I am surprised that if Grover was killed because Jerome saw him in half-naked status, what was his girl friend doing? If they were not involved why should he kill? They killed and later chopped the body into pieces. Was it not a cold-blooded murder? But the judge differed stating this is nothing but culpable homicide not leading to murder. Shocking!
In a rush of blood, he killed but later realized. Then in all fairness, both should have got themselves surrendered in a police station. Instead, they decided to chop the body into 300 odd pieces, with all ease, packed the parts into a bag and tried to dump and fire it on a secluded area! Yet, the judge states that this a destruction of evidence? Perplexing!
Maria had already spent 3 years in jail and hence will be free from today and walk back home. Ironical! She did not stay in prison as a punishment. All along she was in and out of the prison. A punishment is given so that the culprit realizes his mistake and gets a chance to correct them. Here, it is thoroughly opposite!
Perhaps, the sections in which the cases are fought would have led to this sort of judgment. Still, I don’t understand that how can, for a single murder, charges can be different for both accused involved? Similarly, in the past, the definition of Rape was lost with so many cases on rape confused us the people. Am I wrong if I said, Crazy is justice!
The selectors are gathering today for selection of India team for England. They say history repeats and it is proven that all the 3 Tamil Nadu players (Mukund, Vijay and Badri) who got an opportunity to display their talent failed thoroughly. Pathetic is the last word one can say about their performance.
I don’t know why the selectors have forgotten Cheteshwar Pujara because he did not play in T20 leagues? He is another Dravid in the making and he is unfit for T20 sort of games. If at all, we need a stabilized middle order after Sachin-Rahul-Laxman, it cannot be formed without Cheteshwar Pujara. Virat is too immature and so is Yuvraj and Raina. Its high team the selectors picked Pujara as I am sure that Suresh, Virat and Yuvraj cannot play in the swinging conditions of England. Dhoni, repeatedly, is making the mistake of sidelining Amit Mishra. Personal favors cannot be as implicit as Dhoni does now. He reminds me the days of Umrigar where Marattas was favored in the Indian cricket team. This is not a good sign but Dhoni is the chocolate boy of Indian cricket and cricket in India brings more money. So telling ill of Dhoni is a sin.
Indian sport had another low in the doping episode. We can’t blame the athletes entirely but the officials, coaches who are supposed to ensure that they are free from such hassles that they concentrated only on their sports. Alas! We can’t expect this to happen in India. If Indian sportsmen win some accolades it is not because of coaches, administrations or sports organizations but despite them.
Manmohan Singh is the weakest ever Prime Minister (worse than Deve Gowda and Gujral) cries the Opposition party. They should be thankful to the UPA for such a weaker PM. Similarly, the UPA should thank the Opposition that despite having such a weak PM, scam-filled-days, failures all over in the Govt, the Opposition is not strong enough to topple the Government and seek a fresh mandate. The lack of alternative is keeping the Government intact and the Congress feels by then, Rahul baba will be ready and the people will forget all these ill-fated days.
The Civil-society has usurped the position of Opposition but the Congress is not willing to give it the full credit. They blame it on RSS (as they keep doing it for years) and give undue credit to the Opposition. In the melee, likes of Anna Hazare demands authority without responsibility. Its only the congress that cries foul on Lokpal. None of its allies is opening their mouth. Same is the case with Opposition. They have not said whether they support it or they don’t. They have not come out with their version of Lokpal yet.
Meanwhile, the speaker categorically rejected the PAC report. Why should we have one if we are going to have such comedy episodes? Why are we wasting money when the inflation is rocketing high? The PM had initiated the press conference again (to woo the media and requesting them to write in favor of him) and none is sure in what way this will help the common man. He has not yet come out with a clear reply with regard to Inflation. In fact, his press conference raised more questions than he answered.
Nero played fiddle when Rome burnt but here the Super PM goes on holiday in Switzerland (to wind up their bank accounts extending favor in form of purchase of aircraft from Swiss Govt) and other is a dumb duck who is waiting for signals from the holidaying PM. God save India.
Sunday 5 June 2011
Saffron, White and Green
Saffron, White and Green
If what Ramdev Baba did was not right, then what Government did last night was a blunder! One would agree that the political aspirations of Baba made him to take a leaf out of the book of Anna Hazare as to pressurize the Government. Was it wrong? In a democratic state, every one of us has a right to aspire to be the leader. What if Ramdev Baba wants to become one? After all, his demands are in the interest of common public.
Most of his demands are cinematic but sensational and in India sensationalism sells. If Ramdev Baba has to take a plunge in politics, he has to face tough competition with bigger goons. I am pleased that unlike many other political parties who perpetually divided the citizens on the lines of region, language, caste and religion, he is not raking such issues to float a political party. He is using those demands that strikes chord with every middle class family of India. This is the clan (middle class families) that shies away from elections, good at arm-chair criticism, whine & crib but pay all the taxes through their noses! To create an interest among this clan is a great service to Indian democracy and if Ramdev does it I welcome it.
The Government decided to arrest Baba in the night hours when every one is asleep. Despite Baba being ready to get arrested, certain actions by a few policemen would boomerang on the Government. It is for sure, the supporters would have protested the arrest of Baba but our policemen had always other means to calm the situation rather than going for lathi charge in the wee hours. Why the Government should have acted like this? If we go by the theory of motor mouth Digvijay, the Government would have got scared of his gaining popularity and hence have arrested him and lodged him in a secret place.
What puzzles us is, when the Government allowed a similar protest by Anna Hazare to go on, they arrested Ramdev on the 3rd day itself. I do agree that Government has to be firm and cannot allow every tom dick and harry to black mail it. The question is, why can’t the Government give same treatment to one and all? Here again, let us go by Digvijay’s theory – The Government allowed Hazare because he was not threat to the ruling Government (the reason may be either the Government sponsored him to divert attention from other issues or Hazare had no political aspirations that would prove costly to the present Government) whereas Ramdev Baba made it very clear of his aspirations.
My theorization is, more than the Baba, the color of the clothes he dons created panic among the ruling Government and they decided to stop it. Yes, the puzzling fact is Saffron is a color treated as taboo by the so called secularists whilst it is one of the colors in our National Flag (nowadays the saffron is being replaced by Red in most places is another irony). The Government is aware that the public memory is too short and the sensation created would live for a shorter period only. That’s why they allowed the White protest to go on (Anna’s) while they curbed the Saffron protest (Ramdev Baba’s).
I would support Baba to Hazare because; Hazare wants authority without accountability whereas Baba is willing to accept the responsibility. None is aware about the financial support Hazare got to stage such a protest whereas Baba had that financial muscle. To me, Hazare’s protest was a fixed program and Baba’s was a planned agitation.
Enough of Indian politics – We can go on whining on it and the irrational, unethical practices followed day in day out. Today is World’s Environment Day. Go Green is the new mantra although most of us don’t contribute towards making the World Green.
According to the Pollution Control Board of India, the enemy for environment is plastic. This is a biased perception. We can’t imagine a world without plastics. It is not the plastics that litters but we, the people do. We do not know how to dispose waste. It is the failure of the PCB on teaching the public in waste disposal.
We allow dry cell disposal just like that, we allow Non-RoHS electronic equipments to be in the market, we allow general disposal of electronic equipments, we allow usage of R134 gas in ACs, we allow PU insulated products which are not HCFC free but we pounce on plastics every where! They are more dangerous than plastics waste. Plastics waste can be used for laying roads that can save a lot on tar-bitumen combine.
There are two types of plastics waste used for road laying – Dry and Wet. Dry is the recycled plastic powder mixed with bitumen and laid on the surface. The existing layers are to be removed in slabs and this can be used over it. This prevent increasing height of the roads (repeated layers is avoided) and water stagnation is prevented and hence longer life of roads. The grip of tyres on such roads too is good. Wet is molten recycled plastics mixed with tar laid on the surface. The properties are same. However, a Dry plastic is always preferable. Pilot projects of such roads are laid in almost all states in India and they were proved but the implementation is not done in full. To do this, we need to wriggle out of the paradigm we carry on plastics. Let this shift in paradigm start on this Green Day!
If what Ramdev Baba did was not right, then what Government did last night was a blunder! One would agree that the political aspirations of Baba made him to take a leaf out of the book of Anna Hazare as to pressurize the Government. Was it wrong? In a democratic state, every one of us has a right to aspire to be the leader. What if Ramdev Baba wants to become one? After all, his demands are in the interest of common public.
Most of his demands are cinematic but sensational and in India sensationalism sells. If Ramdev Baba has to take a plunge in politics, he has to face tough competition with bigger goons. I am pleased that unlike many other political parties who perpetually divided the citizens on the lines of region, language, caste and religion, he is not raking such issues to float a political party. He is using those demands that strikes chord with every middle class family of India. This is the clan (middle class families) that shies away from elections, good at arm-chair criticism, whine & crib but pay all the taxes through their noses! To create an interest among this clan is a great service to Indian democracy and if Ramdev does it I welcome it.
The Government decided to arrest Baba in the night hours when every one is asleep. Despite Baba being ready to get arrested, certain actions by a few policemen would boomerang on the Government. It is for sure, the supporters would have protested the arrest of Baba but our policemen had always other means to calm the situation rather than going for lathi charge in the wee hours. Why the Government should have acted like this? If we go by the theory of motor mouth Digvijay, the Government would have got scared of his gaining popularity and hence have arrested him and lodged him in a secret place.
What puzzles us is, when the Government allowed a similar protest by Anna Hazare to go on, they arrested Ramdev on the 3rd day itself. I do agree that Government has to be firm and cannot allow every tom dick and harry to black mail it. The question is, why can’t the Government give same treatment to one and all? Here again, let us go by Digvijay’s theory – The Government allowed Hazare because he was not threat to the ruling Government (the reason may be either the Government sponsored him to divert attention from other issues or Hazare had no political aspirations that would prove costly to the present Government) whereas Ramdev Baba made it very clear of his aspirations.
My theorization is, more than the Baba, the color of the clothes he dons created panic among the ruling Government and they decided to stop it. Yes, the puzzling fact is Saffron is a color treated as taboo by the so called secularists whilst it is one of the colors in our National Flag (nowadays the saffron is being replaced by Red in most places is another irony). The Government is aware that the public memory is too short and the sensation created would live for a shorter period only. That’s why they allowed the White protest to go on (Anna’s) while they curbed the Saffron protest (Ramdev Baba’s).
I would support Baba to Hazare because; Hazare wants authority without accountability whereas Baba is willing to accept the responsibility. None is aware about the financial support Hazare got to stage such a protest whereas Baba had that financial muscle. To me, Hazare’s protest was a fixed program and Baba’s was a planned agitation.
Enough of Indian politics – We can go on whining on it and the irrational, unethical practices followed day in day out. Today is World’s Environment Day. Go Green is the new mantra although most of us don’t contribute towards making the World Green.
According to the Pollution Control Board of India, the enemy for environment is plastic. This is a biased perception. We can’t imagine a world without plastics. It is not the plastics that litters but we, the people do. We do not know how to dispose waste. It is the failure of the PCB on teaching the public in waste disposal.
We allow dry cell disposal just like that, we allow Non-RoHS electronic equipments to be in the market, we allow general disposal of electronic equipments, we allow usage of R134 gas in ACs, we allow PU insulated products which are not HCFC free but we pounce on plastics every where! They are more dangerous than plastics waste. Plastics waste can be used for laying roads that can save a lot on tar-bitumen combine.
There are two types of plastics waste used for road laying – Dry and Wet. Dry is the recycled plastic powder mixed with bitumen and laid on the surface. The existing layers are to be removed in slabs and this can be used over it. This prevent increasing height of the roads (repeated layers is avoided) and water stagnation is prevented and hence longer life of roads. The grip of tyres on such roads too is good. Wet is molten recycled plastics mixed with tar laid on the surface. The properties are same. However, a Dry plastic is always preferable. Pilot projects of such roads are laid in almost all states in India and they were proved but the implementation is not done in full. To do this, we need to wriggle out of the paradigm we carry on plastics. Let this shift in paradigm start on this Green Day!
Sunday 15 May 2011
Petrol price hike - what can we do?
Petrol price hike - what can we do?
Petrol price is hiked, once again. To be precise, it is the 9th time in one year’s time. People will make hue and cry and the media will be busy with this issue for two days. Later, all of us will forget this and we will not change the way we do as of now. Everyone agrees that already the rates are subsidized and the hike is inevitable. However, when petrol prices in a few countries where they do not have processing facilities (they import directly) are lesser than ours, I don’t understand the logic of pricing in our country. This raises certain questions in my mind.
• Let them hike the price whenever the crude oil price is increased in global market but are they reducing the prices when they get reduced?
• Who negotiates the price on behalf of the companies? How good the negotiations are? Can they bring in a transparency in this?
• Is there any kick back in the deal?
• For every Rupee a common citizen pays for the petrol, 49% of it only goes to the oil companies and the rest to the Government? Why this? Why can’t we regulate this?
• What are the inefficiencies of the oil companies? Are they burdening the common man because of their lack in Organizational skill?
• Why cant they hike the price without creating a smoke about this? This time, the speculation about price hike was going rounds for more than week making availability of petrol rare as the petrol bunks wanted to make more money with old stocks.
• Why should they wait till the election results are to be declared?
• Why cant the authorities just go on a raid-spree finding hotels using domestic gas cylinders and not commercial cylinders for cooking?
• Why cant the cars are raided for using domestic cylinders (subsidized) and not commercial cylinders to fuel their vehicle?
• Can the companies stop giving subsidy from the second cylinder onwards? I know a few families who have 4 to 5 cylinders and their usage is 15 days per cylinder. This is a huge burden on the Government.
As a common man what can we do?
• Can we stop using our scooties for a travel distance less than 2 km? Cycling and walking is long forgotten. Chinese are far ahead of us in this.
• Should we stop using Cars if we are travelling alone and use cars only we go out as a family?
• Can we start using the public transport?
• Pool-car system is a good option that is highly neglected in our country
• Shall we stop using the subsidized cylinder in our geysers?
Perhaps, the answers to these questions will put a brake on escalating prices on petrol.
Petrol price is hiked, once again. To be precise, it is the 9th time in one year’s time. People will make hue and cry and the media will be busy with this issue for two days. Later, all of us will forget this and we will not change the way we do as of now. Everyone agrees that already the rates are subsidized and the hike is inevitable. However, when petrol prices in a few countries where they do not have processing facilities (they import directly) are lesser than ours, I don’t understand the logic of pricing in our country. This raises certain questions in my mind.
• Let them hike the price whenever the crude oil price is increased in global market but are they reducing the prices when they get reduced?
• Who negotiates the price on behalf of the companies? How good the negotiations are? Can they bring in a transparency in this?
• Is there any kick back in the deal?
• For every Rupee a common citizen pays for the petrol, 49% of it only goes to the oil companies and the rest to the Government? Why this? Why can’t we regulate this?
• What are the inefficiencies of the oil companies? Are they burdening the common man because of their lack in Organizational skill?
• Why cant they hike the price without creating a smoke about this? This time, the speculation about price hike was going rounds for more than week making availability of petrol rare as the petrol bunks wanted to make more money with old stocks.
• Why should they wait till the election results are to be declared?
• Why cant the authorities just go on a raid-spree finding hotels using domestic gas cylinders and not commercial cylinders for cooking?
• Why cant the cars are raided for using domestic cylinders (subsidized) and not commercial cylinders to fuel their vehicle?
• Can the companies stop giving subsidy from the second cylinder onwards? I know a few families who have 4 to 5 cylinders and their usage is 15 days per cylinder. This is a huge burden on the Government.
As a common man what can we do?
• Can we stop using our scooties for a travel distance less than 2 km? Cycling and walking is long forgotten. Chinese are far ahead of us in this.
• Should we stop using Cars if we are travelling alone and use cars only we go out as a family?
• Can we start using the public transport?
• Pool-car system is a good option that is highly neglected in our country
• Shall we stop using the subsidized cylinder in our geysers?
Perhaps, the answers to these questions will put a brake on escalating prices on petrol.
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Get an Idea Sirji
Get an Idea Sirji
If you are getting into a lift and then worried about the tower-range, then you better get idea goes an advertisement. Perhaps, the owners of this Service Provider do not know that as soon as you enter the Mumbai International Airport, the consumers of this Service Provider don’t get an idea why can’t they talk to their near and dear or their clients. Not only that and the clients are deprived of using the free internet service for which the password is sent through SMS. When you don’t get the range how can you get the password?
Mumbai International Airport – the security here poses a lot of questions. Generally, as soon as one enters the airport, the entire baggages are screened and then only one can proceed get the boarding pass. However, in Mumbai international airport, you can get your boarding pass without going through the screening. Till the time you cross the Immigration, your bags are not screened. Anything could happen between this time. God knows who derived this procedure and how are they assuring the public that nothing will go wrong.
Similarly, another mistake they do is, while there are 30 immigration counters to clear the immigrants, there are only 4 X ray screening machines. This creates a bottleneck and invariably one has to wait for hours to get cleared in the security check. This becomes pretty bad during the wee hours – say from 2am to 5 am. The workers are down with fatigue and the passengers are irritated and any minor misunderstanding leaves bad taste in either’s mouth. Will the authorities look into? Why can’t they balance the flow? I don’t get an idea!
India has won the World Cup? I am not excited. I am worried. In a cricket crazy country, the players are minting money and rewards are doled out. Every Indian cricketer if falls in A grade earn not less than Rs 2 crore every year as contract fee only and even the C grade cricketer earns as much as Rs 50 lakhs as contract fees. Why should they be given such freebies at the cost of public money? The ironical thing is, a Government has diverted their funds from Education department to give these people rewards? What does this imply? I don’t get an idea!
There is no dearth of light in sub-continent. Still, why should we play day-night matches while most of our villages grope in dark? There are announced and unannounced power-cuts that cripple our normal life. The matches resulted in productivity loss as high as 42% in the year-ending month. What was the need for the World Cup and what was the need to waive of the tax to the tune of Rs 45 crores? There were other players like Mary Kom, Sushil Singh, Vijendar Singh, Saina, Anand who were not rewarded like this. Why so much to cricket? I don’t get an idea!
MS Dhoni, the so-called cool captain, had no courtesy to mention a word about the great Murali (he did not even take a leaf from Sangakara’s speech) on his last international appearance, did not mention Jayawardane’s hundred and did not even thank the crowd. He has got a long way to go but why the biased media and the crazy people don’t mind all these and go ga-ga about MSD? I don’t have an idea!
Anna Hazare is the talk of the town. The media has over reacted as usual and so are the people of our country. I have my own apprehensions whether the Jan Lokpal bill will eradicate corruption. The existing laws were also good but they are ineffective.
It’s high time we found out the definition of Corruption. I go to a temple, finding it hard to stand in the common queue, pay some bucks, get a ticket and go and have darshan. Is this legal or corruption? I don’t get tickets in train but I have an option in a quota called Tatkal where I pay a premium and travel in the same train. Is this legal or corruption?
Let us consider the case of RTO. The system is so cumbersome that I cannot afford to avail so many leaves from my duty and hence I have to hire an agent who can do the jobs for me. I pay for this. This is not corruption. However, when this agent and the officer-in-charge form a syndicate and force others to pay for them to do the routines is corruption. Now tell me, What this Lokpal Bill will do?
There are grey areas. It is good to have the Lokpal bill however, as the euphoria created or as it is projected, this will not make India a corruption-free country. The only possible thing is there will be more players to share the cake and we may have to shell out more. Or am I wrong? I don’t have an idea!
If you are getting into a lift and then worried about the tower-range, then you better get idea goes an advertisement. Perhaps, the owners of this Service Provider do not know that as soon as you enter the Mumbai International Airport, the consumers of this Service Provider don’t get an idea why can’t they talk to their near and dear or their clients. Not only that and the clients are deprived of using the free internet service for which the password is sent through SMS. When you don’t get the range how can you get the password?
Mumbai International Airport – the security here poses a lot of questions. Generally, as soon as one enters the airport, the entire baggages are screened and then only one can proceed get the boarding pass. However, in Mumbai international airport, you can get your boarding pass without going through the screening. Till the time you cross the Immigration, your bags are not screened. Anything could happen between this time. God knows who derived this procedure and how are they assuring the public that nothing will go wrong.
Similarly, another mistake they do is, while there are 30 immigration counters to clear the immigrants, there are only 4 X ray screening machines. This creates a bottleneck and invariably one has to wait for hours to get cleared in the security check. This becomes pretty bad during the wee hours – say from 2am to 5 am. The workers are down with fatigue and the passengers are irritated and any minor misunderstanding leaves bad taste in either’s mouth. Will the authorities look into? Why can’t they balance the flow? I don’t get an idea!
India has won the World Cup? I am not excited. I am worried. In a cricket crazy country, the players are minting money and rewards are doled out. Every Indian cricketer if falls in A grade earn not less than Rs 2 crore every year as contract fee only and even the C grade cricketer earns as much as Rs 50 lakhs as contract fees. Why should they be given such freebies at the cost of public money? The ironical thing is, a Government has diverted their funds from Education department to give these people rewards? What does this imply? I don’t get an idea!
There is no dearth of light in sub-continent. Still, why should we play day-night matches while most of our villages grope in dark? There are announced and unannounced power-cuts that cripple our normal life. The matches resulted in productivity loss as high as 42% in the year-ending month. What was the need for the World Cup and what was the need to waive of the tax to the tune of Rs 45 crores? There were other players like Mary Kom, Sushil Singh, Vijendar Singh, Saina, Anand who were not rewarded like this. Why so much to cricket? I don’t get an idea!
MS Dhoni, the so-called cool captain, had no courtesy to mention a word about the great Murali (he did not even take a leaf from Sangakara’s speech) on his last international appearance, did not mention Jayawardane’s hundred and did not even thank the crowd. He has got a long way to go but why the biased media and the crazy people don’t mind all these and go ga-ga about MSD? I don’t have an idea!
Anna Hazare is the talk of the town. The media has over reacted as usual and so are the people of our country. I have my own apprehensions whether the Jan Lokpal bill will eradicate corruption. The existing laws were also good but they are ineffective.
It’s high time we found out the definition of Corruption. I go to a temple, finding it hard to stand in the common queue, pay some bucks, get a ticket and go and have darshan. Is this legal or corruption? I don’t get tickets in train but I have an option in a quota called Tatkal where I pay a premium and travel in the same train. Is this legal or corruption?
Let us consider the case of RTO. The system is so cumbersome that I cannot afford to avail so many leaves from my duty and hence I have to hire an agent who can do the jobs for me. I pay for this. This is not corruption. However, when this agent and the officer-in-charge form a syndicate and force others to pay for them to do the routines is corruption. Now tell me, What this Lokpal Bill will do?
There are grey areas. It is good to have the Lokpal bill however, as the euphoria created or as it is projected, this will not make India a corruption-free country. The only possible thing is there will be more players to share the cake and we may have to shell out more. Or am I wrong? I don’t have an idea!
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Sunday 6 March 2011
Split in DMK-Cong alliance - An enacted drama?
Split in DMK-Cong alliance - An enacted drama?
the so calle split between Cong and DMK in TN seems to be a drama to me. some thoughts
the so calle split between Cong and DMK in TN seems to be a drama to me. some thoughts
Thursday 3 March 2011
Will they answer us now?
A few thoughts on the ruling of SC pertaining to the appointment of Thomas as CVC
Will they answer us now?
Will they answer us now?
Friday 18 February 2011
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Wednesday 12 January 2011
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