In civilised society as has been put down by all political scientists, judiciary occupies a position of unparallel importance. Its functions and powers have the authority to equate the richest of individual with a begger. But how long is it going to continue to stand on this pedastal of honour not even time can tell.
A person rapes and kills a minor girl. He is arrested and the case drags on for more than a decade and when the court of law sentences capital punishment, voila we have saints incarnated in the form of NGOs who wants the sentence to be modified to life term. Why? A case of 'Dead Man Walking'?
A young educated man with a drive for life falls in love and decides to fulfill his commitment is brutally murdered. The court keeps sending summons to the key witness who not only leaves the country but adamantly stays away. Why? Love exists, does it?
A man accused of conspiring to blow up the highest seat of democarcy of the largest parliamentary democratic country of the world is sentenced to death. All the people of its state are storming the world to get him a official pardon? Why? Do these people realize that they are supporting a terrorist?
One question intrigues me why do people all of a sudden becomes saint when their guilt is unravelled.
Every other day the world loses many bright young talented people for no fault of their own. Their only mistake we can say is they choose to become soldiers for their motherland. Why cant our NGOs gherao Saddam Hussein, why cant they go and plead with Osama, why dont they threaten LTTE. They can never. Such act needs GUTS and no stupid sentiments.
We want law and order in the society yet we are the first people to protest against it the moment it enters our personal comfort zone. If the accused is a celebrity he should be put under microscope, dissected and left dry but if a spoilt rich brat commits the same crime then the entire equations change. Salman Khan should be sentenced for rash driving but Sanjeev Nanda is a cute kid: Fardeen Khan be hanged for drug possession but Rahul Mhajan is just a bit depressed.
This is not fair at all, let law live. We need it.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
Nature takes revenge
When I was in high school, we had a poem in our English syllabus called 'The River' by A.K. Ramanujam. The poet describes how human beings in their pursuit of riches exploits a river and when the latter unable to take any further agony, strikes back it is pure devastation for the mankind. So the inference was that even nature can take revenge.
Natural calamities has always been there since Noah's ark but are they really be taken as nature's revenge or a question of man's inability to harness it adequately which underlines the point that whatever height of achievements man reaches it can never control the nature and its' elements.
I am not undermining the strength of human potential, it would be against my faith in me. But after the cyclone in Orissa, tsunami in Dec 2004 in most of South Asia, earthquake in Gujarat in 2005, hurricane in USA in 2005 and now the flood in most of north and west India, is it not time to pause and ponder the inevitable question as to how far the human fraternity should tread on nature's arena. It has nothing to do with ceasing all developmental activities but definitely a review with correct perspective of doing the work is desirable.
I want us to go ahead with our construction of dams, canals , roads and other necessary infrastructure but on the same hand I am totally against the rising population, the deforestation, polluting of natural water bodies and each of those activities which harm our natural heritage without adding anything substantial to our life.
Natural calamities has always been there since Noah's ark but are they really be taken as nature's revenge or a question of man's inability to harness it adequately which underlines the point that whatever height of achievements man reaches it can never control the nature and its' elements.
I am not undermining the strength of human potential, it would be against my faith in me. But after the cyclone in Orissa, tsunami in Dec 2004 in most of South Asia, earthquake in Gujarat in 2005, hurricane in USA in 2005 and now the flood in most of north and west India, is it not time to pause and ponder the inevitable question as to how far the human fraternity should tread on nature's arena. It has nothing to do with ceasing all developmental activities but definitely a review with correct perspective of doing the work is desirable.
I want us to go ahead with our construction of dams, canals , roads and other necessary infrastructure but on the same hand I am totally against the rising population, the deforestation, polluting of natural water bodies and each of those activities which harm our natural heritage without adding anything substantial to our life.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Heights of Diplomacy!!!
So we had another blast. Again the financial capital was the target. And again it was the middle class that paid through its blood...Literally.
The first and the second world were quick to express their grief...So sweet but when the time came to accuse the perpetrators of the heinous crimes they want proof, proof engraved maybe on the walls of Babylon..well it's no longer there but then the proof has to be very concrete!
Come to think of it we are a nation of over a billion people, the entire amount residing in India itself and across the globe we have quite a good million scattered so it will be sometime before the enemy succeeds in wiping us out completely. But will that day come. I don't think so. We will be saved because we are needed!
We are needed by the most biggest of the companies of the world. If we disappear won't their inventory costs sky rocket? Then who will purchase the outdated weapons, who will purchase the medicines that are defunct in other nations but are prescribed and consumed with elan over here.
Some major software companies need the best of our brains to run, what will happen to them. Whenever there is a military offensive the Indian troops are sent to the death zones, from where the sacrificial goats come if we all perish.
So my dear brothers and sisters of India don't worry, we are safe.
The first and the second world were quick to express their grief...So sweet but when the time came to accuse the perpetrators of the heinous crimes they want proof, proof engraved maybe on the walls of Babylon..well it's no longer there but then the proof has to be very concrete!
Come to think of it we are a nation of over a billion people, the entire amount residing in India itself and across the globe we have quite a good million scattered so it will be sometime before the enemy succeeds in wiping us out completely. But will that day come. I don't think so. We will be saved because we are needed!
We are needed by the most biggest of the companies of the world. If we disappear won't their inventory costs sky rocket? Then who will purchase the outdated weapons, who will purchase the medicines that are defunct in other nations but are prescribed and consumed with elan over here.
Some major software companies need the best of our brains to run, what will happen to them. Whenever there is a military offensive the Indian troops are sent to the death zones, from where the sacrificial goats come if we all perish.
So my dear brothers and sisters of India don't worry, we are safe.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Phew....wat a month!
It has been quite a "sporty" month, isn't it? The India- West Indies test series, the Wimbledon and finally the biggest sports show of Planet E, the soccer world cup......all of them in one single month. Although no one is complaining yet for that poor thing called heart and its health, it was a pretty testing time. Whenever the fortune of the favourite team or player see sawed from good to bad and then to worse, it was a pure tortuous time for the heart.
But one thing that cannot be denied is the pure joy which the entire mankind, with access to the games, have had for one month. That Rahul Dravid is not just 'the wall’ but very easily could be called 'the rock of Gibraltor' or that the king of grass can be fooled on clay but on a grass court it is FEDex from start to the end or that whatever the punters may say or the armchair experts say it is not the star studded team but the fighters who finally claimed the World Cup.
Some performances were spellbinding(the way Argentina played) whereas there were some which was expected(Roger Federer winning) yet there were shocks, Brazil not even making it to the finals, Nadal defeating the ever popular Agassi, Brian Lara snatching the ball from the hand of the umpire and ICC not punishing him!!!
I could not watch all the matches in either of the three spectacles but experienced three different emotions one was of triumph with India winning the test, one of pleasure of watching a well fought contest in Wimbledon final both men and women and finally a pain that words cannot explain when Ballack wept I could not control mine. After 4 years of wait he could not again play in the final. So we wait for another 4 years.
But one thing that cannot be denied is the pure joy which the entire mankind, with access to the games, have had for one month. That Rahul Dravid is not just 'the wall’ but very easily could be called 'the rock of Gibraltor' or that the king of grass can be fooled on clay but on a grass court it is FEDex from start to the end or that whatever the punters may say or the armchair experts say it is not the star studded team but the fighters who finally claimed the World Cup.
Some performances were spellbinding(the way Argentina played) whereas there were some which was expected(Roger Federer winning) yet there were shocks, Brazil not even making it to the finals, Nadal defeating the ever popular Agassi, Brian Lara snatching the ball from the hand of the umpire and ICC not punishing him!!!
I could not watch all the matches in either of the three spectacles but experienced three different emotions one was of triumph with India winning the test, one of pleasure of watching a well fought contest in Wimbledon final both men and women and finally a pain that words cannot explain when Ballack wept I could not control mine. After 4 years of wait he could not again play in the final. So we wait for another 4 years.
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