Aristotle calls city a political place and man by nature, a political animal. perhaps most talked about subject ever since humanity took place or rather started getting civilised.In my term it's an association of habit, circumstance, a matter of convention, convenience and conviction. it had it's share of passion, hatred and love.And i find it quite worthy talking about. so here i am...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Modi, Tharoor and Woh...!
Sashank Manohar has got a face and mind of pot. He can be safely called pothead. When he opens his mouth it looks like piggybank to me. Anyway, with that piggybank mouth when he was making Modi mother of all crimes and claiming that Pawar and Praful were just some innocent kids whose names are being dragged into controversy to score some brawny points, I felt like hitting my tv screen with that newly bought hammer. My wife’s stern look stopped me from doing that.
Modi worked very hard to make IPL what it is today. India needed this kind of sports brand to go with its economy muscle image. IPL is a huge success all around the world. Problem started when everyone gave it’s credit to Lalit Modi. The biggies of BCCI felt dwarfed by Modi hype. They were looking for all the opportunities to cut Modi’s wings. They did it in Rajasthan Cricket Board Election. Modi went unperturbed. Then Modi could not handle Sunanda Pushkar going out with Sashi Tharoor. Some friends of mine who know Sunanda personally say that once upon a time she was seen going around with Modi. That was when Lalit Modi was Lalit Kumar and very few knew about him. So when he saw his old girlfriend ditching him for a minister, he simply could not take it. And gave that minister hard time with tharoory weapon called ‘Twitter’. Minister went down but before that he made enough arrangements to take Modi down along with him. Meanwhile, taking a quick guise of situation Sunanda gave away her sweat equity of millions to keep her marketing job in Dubai. Moral of the story is that it is again a woman behind this manly war. Just be careful next time guys...kidding!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Judicial Hypocrisy of India!
The Kudco murder case, in which Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren is an accused, has been transferred to another judge — two days before the ruling was to be made. Arguments and counter-arguments in the case, which took years to record evidence, will now begin afresh.
Giridih additional district and sessions judge N N Singh had fixed April 17 as the date for judgment in the Kudco murder case. But on April 13, he sent a letter to district and sessions judge Sanjay Prasad, seeking transfer of the case to some other court. “My submission is based on some reasons,” Singh stated in his letter.
Prasad accepted his plea and transferred the case to the court of Mohammed Kasim. Evidence and statements will now have to be placed in the court of Kasim where the prosecution and defence will begin arguments afresh.
More than 35 years ago two giridih residents namely Chundi Singh and Khirodhar Singh were killed by a mob for stealing goats. Allegedly one of the killers were Sibu Soren, who went on to become first chief minister of Jharkhan and then Union minister of India. Currently he is holding the chief minister’s post.
God knows how many times judges have been transferred just before pronouncing verdict in this case. And why only this case? There are thousand others who are facing the same doom. What is the use of this sort of judiciary? Aren’t the kangaroo courts of naxals or khap panchayat much better in the sense of delivering verdict. Why judges of this country not accountable to anyone? How can a judge request for a transfer just before pronouncing the verdict in such an important case? How can such a request get granted? If judges of this country are so coward then how can they ever deliver unbiased judgment? And why has never been a judge got fired from his post for his corrupt practices in India?
Half of the witnesses in this case are already dead. Other half are missing. But no one care a damn. Trial will start a fresh and run for another 35 years. Cycle will continue even after all the victims, culprits, witnesses, lawyers and judges are dead. Then file will get lost somewhere in the dark rooms of judicial hypocrisy.
Some days ago I had written about a similar case where a builder in Jamshedpur has forcefully occupied a widow Lauren Whyte’s house. She has been fighting this case in court for last 30 years now. Same thing has been happening. Whenever it reaches to judgment point, judge gets transferred and case starts afresh again.
Shame on this sham democracy. Shame on this corrupt judiciary.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
we are world champ...in kabbadi!
This is the same news channels who did 24x7 live coverage of Sania – Sohaib marrage. These are the same channels who are dedicating everyday at least one half of their total on air timing to IPl which is essentially a club cricket. And these are the same news channels who chose to ignore the news of india becoming kabbadi world champion. At least government was shameful enough to enounce some cash prize for players and give them a job. But news channels who calls themselves mouthpiece of common man would not care to run even a ulay of this common man game. Shame!