Friday, February 24, 2006

A Real short story...

This is a true story.

From my last two posts you people must have understood the fact that I am a true Revolutionist and I just can't tolerate any kind of injustice in the society.

My craziness to change this society took me to a remote village in Jharkhand, where tribal people live. Their society is so unfair to the weaker sections.. I just couldn't tolerate it (thanks to the revolutionist inside me!!!) All of them were silly, but their head (kabile ka sardar in typical bollywood style) was always calm. Whenever I used to get frustrated and angry with their customs, i would go to him straight and would start telling very very rash words. I could see the uneasiness on his face... Sometimes he warned me too for dire consequences, but you know when going gets tough, the tough (me :P ) gets going!! However, I must appreciate the fact that he remained almost always very calm and never got angry.

It was almost a year. One day I again got infuriated and was extremely angry. I went to the head and started as usual. He was again very calm, and said may be I need a herbal drink. Herbal drink and me!!!! Never!! I don’t believe in these medicines... He said it would make me calm... And I drank... (Not because I believed him but because its taste was real good :P). After drinking I slept for how many days I don’t know!!

I woke up and decided enough was enough and I should return my sweet home...In my way back, I noticed that the herb was magnificent. I could understand what animals and even trees were saying!! That was awesome!!!

I heard birds singing...

“Once upon a time...
We had a rascal passing by
Who had a mouthorgan
The source of our headache
And never sounded fine"

I smiled “well I am back!!!""
When I reached my home, I found trees talking in my garden.

“Once upon a time
We had a goodfella
Who gave us life
Who used to water us daily
And loved us a lot
Like his child"

I smiled “well I am back!!!"
After reaching home, I thought lets take a bath. After seeing the mirror in my bathroom I couldn't stop saying

“Once upon a time
I used to see a person in this mirror
Posing and smiling
Who used to think of himself
A real lady-killer!!!”

Somebody laughed aloud and said “well dear! You are back!!!"

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Men after the Man(Mohan)

Well ....I am back!!!. And again with some heavy duty stuff..Sorry folks. This is the way I am. But promise you that I will bring some variety in my next post. So Let me start..

At the moment people are just trying to find illogical reasons to blame our modest prime minister.Everybody seems to be after him. Here I am talking about their fresh attack on him because of the muslim headcount process initiated by him in the army. It was just a simple harmless process, but people had turned it into a communal issue. And one particular political party shouting like hell is doing the same kind of consensus for the police in one of its ruled states.!!

Some Muslim leaders also seized the opportunity to say that the army should contain the same ratio of muslims as the country has. what the ....!! Ofcourse religion should be the last criteria for the selection process in indian army and since the illiteration is way more in muslims its very obvious that their number would be smaller than their counterparts in other communities.

Lets discuss some interesting logic given by the people.

Most people think that it can have a harmful effect on the secular nature of our armed forces. How?? Don't governments keep doing it for other purposes also ???( not only in india but even in developed countries !!). Remember the results of the "census of india" which takes place every decade?? When it showed the mismatch between the population growth of muslims with that of other communities.Nobody questioned the motive..at that time wasn't it harmful for the secular nature of this country?? All just started criticizing the muslim community for backwardness..(not only theirs but also the country's ..)

you may argue that case of armed forces are different. I disagree.. if something is not good for armed forces, it is equally bad for the country too.

One leading newspaper published an article saying that on the same logic there can be a headcount statewise also, then district wise and hence there is no end of it.
I put my case. which state do i belong to?? By origin i am a Rajasthani.My parents live in Bihar at the moment and i m living in West bengal for the last 5 years and most probably i would live my rest of life in Karnataka or Maharashtra or dont know where. Does it make any sense to do the counting areawise?? Well.. if someone changes his religion as frequently i changed the place.. then its different matter altogether.

There is no end to this discussion.Every other newspaper coloumnist is making the matter worse by discussing it (including me!!!!).Thanx to the limited number of people who read my blog..I can say i am not equally responsible for the bad work :P.

One question still remains unanswered..Why do we need such consensus?? I leave it to you guys to think about it.. isn't it very obvious???

Friday, February 17, 2006

Aaj ki tajaa khabar

Howrah sub-inspector Argha Chakraborthy was suspended on Thursday for allegedly harassing a "woman advocate" ( funny huh ) and trying to lure her into prostitution. ( batao :)) )
According to a sting operation by a tv channel ( phir aa gaye ye gareebon ke masiha), Chakraborthy allegedly harried Gargi Biswas, a Dum Dum resident, for over 9 months saying he would get "clients" for her. Worse still, he did this knowing well she was a practising advocate of calcutta high court.

I have been living in a utopian world since my childhood. So there are certain things which I am unable to comprehend..

a) What kind of advocate the girl was if she was being harassed by the sub-inspector for nine months..aam aadmi court kachahri ke chakkar se darte hain.. but she was practising in calcutta high court..if she cant defend herself what about the millions of ordinary indians??

b) How come the Sub-inspector was so fearless.. If he treats an advocate in this manner.. there must be at least 100 girls thrown in prostitution by him..

c) And finally these tv channels.. I think they are interrupting too much.. May be in this case we can appreciate the fact that they helped the girl.. but i feel that this is setting a bad example.
This can lead us to a world where unless these people come, we wont get justice.. how??

I would like to compare it with the working of NGOs. To emprove the financial condition of these NGOs some filmstars, sportstars, youthicons started doing shows and requesting people to contribute to them. Now, we must agree, all of us tend to give money to only those NGOs who can hire ( or persuade euphemistically ) these big stars. ( i doubt anyone who is reading this blog has ever donated though )

I fear same can happen to the ordinary citizen of this country.( or why this country?? this is true for even developed countries. )

I am keeping my fingers crossed. what about you??