jan lokpal bill

Well,the massive response generated by anna hazare campaign has forced me back from the self imposed exile from facebook.Contrary to most people,i would be focussing on what is 'RIGHT' and what is 'REALISTIC'.Mind u,we are not living in the gandhi age.We ought to be practical and stress on the things that could be achieved rather that run amok after barely teneble stuff.

                                                          First of all let me make my own stance clear.I am totally against this congress govt and i have been since for the past 2 years or so,way before ppl came to know about 2g scam and stuff.I believe its a party run by ppl who have no zeal for the betterment of this nation,they are simply reaping the benefits of a particular surname......u ppl know what.Added upon that a puppet prime minister,sorry a mute puppet i meant.For anyone who follows politics closely would agree with me here that prime minister fails to instill confidence in general public.I am not saying bjp ppl are great saints,but atleast we had in atal bihari vajpayee a man whose thunderous oratorship captured the nation's imagination,it gave ppl some hope(maybe false,but still).

Now lets start with lokpal bill.First of all the motive of the bill is very clear,it aims to end corruption at all the levels.No one can dispute that if rightly implemented(which i recon isn't possible),this can seriously dent corruption.I mean not only ppl but even politicians would be scared of indulging in immoral behaviour(i mean corruption,not other 'immoral 'deeds,lol).This bill as a result could be called a very idealistic one,just like a hindi film hero fighting the villain.Anyone who has studied physics will remember carnot engine that has efficiency of 100 %.But are all these things practically possible???The answer is resounding No.

REASONS:
1)Bill has to be ultimately passed by the parliament only,if u hear anna camp's demand.All they say is that their draft should be kept alongside the official govt. draft.They DON'T demand their bill to be passed against parliament.So do u really think MP's will accept anything that makes them poorer(yes,u heard me)..by huge margins by putting parliament under lokpal.How will lalu commit fodder scam,how would a raja earn money??So this is practically impossible.

2)I am sure everyone would be happy to hear the opposition out,,,some may even be moved by their statements.But ppl don't forget opposition supports anna on more or less only one issue that is including pm under the lokpal.And by the way BJP,considering they win the nexy election ould be coming to power after 9 odd years and am pretty sure most of them would be ready for their 'pound of flesh'.Do u think they will let anything come in their way?laughable

3)The third bone of contention is juditiary.As the govt has already announced that it would make a seperate judicial commission,there is very little chance of it coming under purview.But i am of the opinion that it should be under lokpal as the last two of the chief justices of supreme court,justice yk sabharwal and justice balakrishnan have been alleged to have committed some wrongdoing.

RESULT and PREDICTION

I think that after careful consideration the govt will eventually agree to:

1)bring all the govt employees(i mean all) under the lokpal although i doubt they will include IAS officers.
2)appointment of lokpal will be free of govt. control.This govt law vests the entire power of appointment of lokpal member to the govt which in itself is self defeating
3)lokpal will have only the investigating powers,,,no punishment powers
4)ppl who complain against the corrupt would be protected
5)CBI will be OUT of lokpal purview contrary to what anna wants,but govt simply won't agree on this,take my word for that

Now after all this thinking i truly believe that anna should negotiate with govt over the issues mentioned above but i doubt much will come out of it as don't forget it is not me or u who has to pass the bill.It is the parliament and u know what??IT IS FULL OF POLITICIANS.LOL

The Lost Punjab

Modern day Punjab could be summed up by the song of band karmaasa.I know the name isn't very promising but its worth a try.The lads have done a fantastic job highlighting the shortcomings of our society and is a welcome change from the 'average' punjabi singer feeding nonsense to the public.With lines like ''mittran nu shauk hathyaran da or'' rambo rambo u are dealing with commandos'',what are these people trying to portray????What type of commandos are we,as we fail to clear even the basic military drills,,,we don't fulfill the physical standards to join army or the police!!!Its all true,u can search on the net and know yourself.
                                                                                                                                          It used to be said that songs are a reflection of the society and it was true to a level with people like gurdas mann singing songs reflecting the mood of the public.But now,even as the debt of punjab keeps on escalating with every passing year and the tax collection goes down spirally thanks to the bad policies of the govt. we,the people of punjab seems to be in some sort of false hope.Hope that even after using drugs like a normal food item we are somehow superior,that we can never go down.The reality is something else.The reality is that today punjab is being run by the labour from UP and Bihar.The same group of people whom we consider 'bhaiyyas' are making rapid progress on the account of their hard work and commitment.And where has the famed punjabi farmer gone??????U go to any farm and u will see bhaiyyas doing all the work.
                                                          I am deeply hurt on seeing this systematic deterioration of a state that was once the model of excellence,that used to form 10 percent of indian army,,,,people who were known for their hard work and honesty(remember the sardar truck driver in old hindi movies).The fact is that money has made us blind and callous.We no longer strive for excellence,our youth is drowning in the sea of drugs,,,,we are getting corrupt day by day.................our society is so much divided by the formation of new deras that i would need a new wikipedia page to categorize them.So why behave that we are superior,,,why have that false punjabi pride,,,,,why look at the achievements of the past when we have no strength to repeat those feats???????

The sad feeling

I think all of us should atleast listen to the pink floyd song TIME,,which in my opinion is one of the greatest songs ever written.This song has a unique quality,it tends to get better with time,just like alcohal.You tend to agree with the songwriter every time u listen to it.The only drawback being that it has a certain unpleasant,hard feeling and u cannot escape it.
          It has been almost 3 months since i got the license to treat patients,since i officially passed(against my expectations though!)and i can already feel my life coming apart slowly and systematically.The hostel life is gone,all the friends are far away,weather is bad and there seems to be no end to the books i am supposed to read for the pg entrance.Life,i must say had never been so dry,not atleast in the past 5 years at manipal,and slowly but surely i can't agree more with pink floyd song.The joy of standing at the coffee shop looking at girls,hoping 'something' might happen,,,discussing the politics like u have a stake in the government.....listening to the music in khokhar's room seems like a fairytale now.There is no one like billu to cheer you up,tell you about some new deal,and discuss some mundane and impossible(seemingly) business venture.I remember dave,always happy nomatter what the occassion,no matter what the circumstances......immune to the feelings of outside world.
          I miss cries of joy at passing exams, the fear and agony associated with the university exams.Everyone behaved like a close knit family,actually even better than a family sometimes.Compare the times now,the world seems like a vast ocean and i am like a fool trying to cross it on a canopy,all by myself.
                                                                                                                  The most difficult part of leaving ur college and coming home is the fact that u are more or less changed,accustomed to the 'kings' life of hostel(of course u don't realize that then!!!pity)....and if u happen to go to a place like manipal ur thinking undergoes a damatic change,for good or bad i don't know.But u feel the diff. while talking to ur old friends and for that matter to ur brother or sister too.Yes i know its just a phase just like going to the hostel for the first time was.Even that time was tough but only after a few days we were behaving like we were the bonafide citizens of manipal!!!.So would this time too,onlt thing required is the patience to endure.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk

systemic degardation in college years........

THE VERDICT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

By the time i write this most of the people,courtesy news channels already know about the so called 'history' of the disputed site and everyone knows the verdict delivered by the allahabad high court.Now from my limited experience of talking to people regarding this i have found almost all the hindus jovial and terming the verdict as a 'judicial recognition' of their age old claim.Muslims on the other hand,mostly what i heard on television are summarily disappointed with this judgement and some of them say thy have lost faith in jamuriyat(democracy) itself.
These sentiments apart lets discuss what this judgement actually means and what implications it would achieve.Before that let me clarify,as was done by all the three judges(even su khan) that1) ayodhya was the birth place of lord ram and it was a place of worship used by hindus for thousands of years.
2)that a mosque never existed before 1528 when it was ordered to be build by babar on the disputed site.Now according to the SU KHAN the mosque was built on the 'ruins' of a temple,but the other two justices ruled that babar demolished the mandir to pave way for the construction of mosque.
3)No party,niether hindus,muslims or the nirmohi akhaara could produce the title of land in their favour.......as a result if we go strictly by legal basis all three have no claim on the land.

But this is not a simple legal matter.It is a matter that has the potential to snowball into a major issue overnight so the judges had to tread very carefully,had to pacify everyone.There is no doubt that this is not a purely legal verdict,its a verdict aimed at reconcilliation,aimed at communal harmony.......and a very decent step for moving forward.Imagine had the court ruled against hindus????Irrespective of what u say.riots were surely on line and had it gone totally against muslims???They would have got one more chance to hit out at indian democracy,so the middle path comes into existence.Personally i feel this is the best judgement judges could have given and should be implemented in letter and spirit.But both the aggrieved parties have already decided to approach the apex court so all this was actually a waste.

On the question of right or wrong,as a person who does not belong to either of these faiths i just want to raise two points that should be considered-
1)Lord rama was born here and he needs no approval from the court so for people to ask proof of his existence is silly,just foolish.Numerous holy books,upanishads,puraans have laid to rest this question.Babar came and must have destroyed the temple at that time.It was the standard practice of all the muslim rulers who invaded india to demolish temples,loot their gold and if possible build mosques in their place to propogate islam,nothing wrong considering the old times and ignorant people.Don't we remember mohammad ghauri and ghazni and the great marauder ahmad shah abdali who demolished golden temple in amritsar and filled the sanctum sanctorum(holy pond) with blood.But those were old times,times of anarchy and uncertainty.
2)The second thing is destruction of mosque itself on 6 th december 1992.How much may i know that what babar did was wrong i cannot support this barbaric act of destroying a mosque in full public view under the watchful eyes of bjp.Yes they scored brownie points with voters after that and became a national party overnight starting off as a 'crumbling' regional party having no forseeable future.That needs to be condemned and this particular verdict dosen't absolve advani and others of the crimes they have committed,no way,lest u may hear a similar noise one day people claiming that even that mosque was built on a mandir as we know many would have been(times have changed).This can't go on.Okay,whatever happened in 1992 should be dismissed in strongest possible words and acts like these should never be allowed to polarize our people again

And as a last message i would like to appeal to all communities to accept this verdict as this is the only chance to make way for unity of this country.All the three judges(except justice sharma.......who favoured the hindus completely)......have been extremely cautious and calculating in delivering this verdict and i give them a big thums up.        JAI HIND

heights of hypocrisy

I was reading recent reports of a pastor in usa,who planned to burn 1000 copies of quran on 11th september and i couldn't help myself wondering,how can this happen in a country that prides itself to be the doyen and protector of democracy around the world.How can someone issue such outrageous,blatant and inflammatory statements,especially someone in the united states but the more cause of concern was the support that pastor had.Yes!!no one in the govt. was interested in taking the pastor head on and were just content issuing lame statements like........its not good for america,u will endanger lives of our people,etc etc.Imagine had this happened in our country!!!Granted we have had our share of riots and all but they were old times,before the so called information age.But here i am not going to defend india and defame usa,i am gonna talk about what is 'logical' and how any of us have no control over it.
                                                          Ok lets take usa first.For some time now it has followed the big stick policy of being the international policeman,with the 'stated' aim of ending dictatorship and ushering in democracy around the world and most of us,courtesy cnn,bbc etc actually believe it to be true!!!.But don't we know that usa supports one of the biggest monarchy or lets say dictatorship in the world,yes,saudi arabia.Egypt is a dictatorship no matter what they claim.Most of the countries of south america have puppet rulers,even when they had elections and chose their representatives,most of them were removed by CIA sponsored coups.They did the same thing in iran that culminated in the Islamic revolution of 1979.And since then as iran stopped supporting usa in any of its endeveors,it was declared as an evil state,threat to the world peace,harbour of criminals and so on.They attacked iraq on the same pretext and we all know what they found there.........NOTHING........ .Yes its true that saddam hussein was no saint,he mercilessly killed anyone who opposed him but atleast fot the past 10 years or so iraq was seen largely as a peaceful nation.And look at it now,shattered,destroyed with children dying on the streets having nothing to eat,people beaten up in their own country by nato soldiers.And this nation claims to be the savior of people!!!come on people,u got to wake up.
Coming back to the question of religious tolerance..........what the fuck do westerners know about it??i mean usa has only 5 % minorities,among that only .6% of muslim people.India has got 15-16% muslims and still we have been living peacefully(except godhra)...for centuries.Whtevr clashes we have had is due to the shear size of minorities,i mean its not .6%,,,,its substantial enough and if u have two major religions so close to each other and in big numbers its bound to create problems.But whats america's problem????Is it just by chance that they have attacked only the muslim countries,or is it the new age crusade???
                                                                  From all the discussion above it is certain that usa claims about being protector of democracy are a blatant lie,helped by the fact that no one has courage to disagree with it let alone oppose it.And who knows maybe even european union is also enjoying cheap iraqi oil and thinks being silent will serve it good.But make no mistake fellows,,,,,,,,usa maybe good for its own people but considering its actions elsewhere it is no different from a terrorist.

terrorists???(part 2)

A few days back i posted a blog on kashmir which i am sure will whip the passions of many,,,,,i may be labelled as a fool,pakistani agent,anti-national and so on but whatever i said or wrote is a reality....and no one can deny it or for that matter change it.I asked three very simple questions in the end.In today's entry i would be trying to answer those questions and offer the solutions(if thats possible at all)
                                                                              First of all,,,to call pakistanis terrorists is just a matter of our opinion just as calling 'us' is theirs.Yes,thats true,,India is not that sober as it projects itself to be.There are reports from various sources that we supplied weapons to rebels in balochistan to spread dissent.And supposedly pakistan even presented a dossier of proof to india....and don't forget manmohan singh was persuaded to add  balochistan in joint statement at sharm-al-sheikh.Why did india agree to it in first place????Even though it may not be possible prove our link to balochistan insurgents, we would be considered 'naive' if we reject this outrightly.Remember our spy satbir singh(or whatever was his name).The only difference is that they have been successful in spreading terror and we have failed to do so(or maybe not!!).The reasons for our failure(to spread terror) are many.First of all pakistan is able to whip up the sentiments of muslims there by highlighting our supposed 'mistreatment' of muslims and gujrat riots galvanized the negative attitude towards us.And a new jehadi coming to india on any mission(suicide,bomb blasts etc)can easily go undetected due to our big country and sizable muslim population.It is not to suggest that muslims in india are hand in glove with terrorists but 'some' of them like SIMI and INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN have gone astray and have been known to be assosiated with terrorists.
                                                                            India on the other hand can't do much in pakistan.It can't motivate people to go to pakistan for terror attacks!!we have no agenda.Its not a matter what we want or not,its a matter of what we can do or not.For terrorism to breed there should be a group of unhappy people.True,people there are fed up with setup but can they side with india(a hindu majority state that dosen't treat muslims well,so they say!!!) against their country.NO.But the very same group of people that would refuse to hurt pakistan on india's insistence are bleeding pakistan on insistence of who????Taliban........religion has a very powerful influence,no one can deny it....not even an atheist(yes u heard it right).And it would remain as a big factor forever,as religion in toto includes not only praying but some customs and mannerisms associated with it and no two religions will have these in comman.This view may not be shared by many(including me) but we are in a minority and i am talking of things in general.


Now coming back to the problem of kashmir.....i think the above paragraph explains all.Kashmiris will never,i repeat,never join India if a voting is done.India maybe secular,much more progressive,tolerant,developed that pakistan but they simply won't join india.period.


The last thing is what do we do????The answer is nothing,keep on doing what we have been doing for last 62 years,suppress kashmiris 'cause accepting any form of political solution would be suicide for india.Other nations may intervene,case may go to international court of justice and why do u think india dosen't want this......because deep down it knows its on a slippery ground.
                                                                 Whatever i wrote is the ground reality(at least according to me,lol) but after all this u ask me what would i do.The answer is simple............I am an indian...