After America’s Ex President Bush was Indian Home Minister Chidambaram’s turn to dodge the shoe. Has the common man’s shoe become the most powerful tool to express public opinion? Is this is a trend that is soon going to become the popular means to display the common man’s angst against the government?
Lathon Ke Bhooth Bathon Se Nahin Manthe. I agree with shoe throwing. Congress has a chance to give its members a clean chit and it is doing so. Tytler who is one of the prime accused in the 1984 riots was recently given a clean chit by the CBI. This has angered the Sikhs and anyone can understand their sentiments. This is not the first time that Congress has tried to cover its tracks. Remember Office of Profit Act? When they asked Jaya Bachan to declare her assets and the same came back to bite the Congress they enacted OOP Act to protect themselves. Why don’t people see this? Now they are giving their own man a route to escape.
This has further got me thinking if we have restricted the definition of being communal only to Hindus & Muslims. What about Christians and Sikhs? Wasn’t Congress being Communal in carrying out Operation Bluestar? Was invasion of the temple the only way to get back law and order in Punjab? What about the riots that ensued after Indira Gandhi’s assassination? How does one justify killing of thousands of people for an act committed by just two people (I.G’s Bodyguards)?
The common man has finally found his voice in action. Cheers to Jarnail Singh!
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Preventive Detention and Blasts
News this afternoon: Just days after the communal unrest in Kyathmarana Halli in Mysore, our very famous Pramod Muthalik decided to visit the place. Fortunately he was taken into preventive detention. It’s nice to know that the police force has taken the pre election safety measures seriously.
Later in the evening news channels were reporting blasts in Assam and ULFA is suspected to have its hand in this operation. Again the government had been warned about ULFA’s threats to disrupt peace given that tomorrow is the founding day of the organization. Again the government didn’t take appropriate steps to prevent the attacks.
Later in the evening news channels were reporting blasts in Assam and ULFA is suspected to have its hand in this operation. Again the government had been warned about ULFA’s threats to disrupt peace given that tomorrow is the founding day of the organization. Again the government didn’t take appropriate steps to prevent the attacks.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Ghar Ki Murgi Dal Barabar
The Scarlette Keeling case has been in news almost daily with a new development cropping up each day. It does make interesting reading, but at the same time you wonder how could a mother of a 15 yr old leave her child without supervision in the drug zone of a country she’s visiting. So we pitied the girl and her watery grave. But as the drama unfolds, we get to know that Scarlette was a junkie and before her murder she had allegedly doped. I’m all for the murder/rapist being punished. But the mother blaming everyone else but herself using Indian media to criticize Indian politicians of having a hand in drug deals is taking things to far. Why? Well the lady herself is a drug peddler for one, and she did leave her daughter in an area where crime and drugs are common, and the woman did know the risk but then she wasn’t concerned. Now that her daughter is dead she has these motherly emotions welling in her and is screeching for justice on all news channels. As always she’s getting all the needed attention and the media has its jackpot of the month.
I definitely dislike firangs; I also definitely hate the way people just bow before them and are ready to be at their beck and call. The New Year eve incident where two firangi ladies were abused came into the limelight and timely action was taken. Same time elsewhere two desi women were also abused not by one man but a MOB! The police just pushed the case away as a normal occurrence at new years. Well that’s justice for you! What infuriates me further is a particular case in Kerala where a man was belted by the police for eve teasing a firangi teenager. Now if a desi girl had complained of the same, the cop would have told her to ignore it and move on with her life, and that’s exactly what happened to a girl she moved on by setting herself ablaze….
Why does this happen? Why do people tolerate it? Has “Ghar ki murgi dal barabar”, become a way of life?
I definitely dislike firangs; I also definitely hate the way people just bow before them and are ready to be at their beck and call. The New Year eve incident where two firangi ladies were abused came into the limelight and timely action was taken. Same time elsewhere two desi women were also abused not by one man but a MOB! The police just pushed the case away as a normal occurrence at new years. Well that’s justice for you! What infuriates me further is a particular case in Kerala where a man was belted by the police for eve teasing a firangi teenager. Now if a desi girl had complained of the same, the cop would have told her to ignore it and move on with her life, and that’s exactly what happened to a girl she moved on by setting herself ablaze….
Why does this happen? Why do people tolerate it? Has “Ghar ki murgi dal barabar”, become a way of life?
