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Mr. Bush - Does he deserve to be spoken about?

I would say Yes and NO to that. yes, because he has surpassed his predecessors in damaging the world. No, beacuse his actions are not worthy of being talked with any amount of reasoning and well intention. I read yet another editorial and couldnt agree with the author any more about the nature of the prsident of United States of America.

His intentions, by far, are but a cloud of contradictions. He had remained seemingly unaffected when 9/11 happened. The best he could muster to do was to launch a war against a soveriegn nation and bring its President to gallows with the excuse that he was a threat to the world. The judge appointed by Lord Almighty himself.

Thousands of americans and Iraqis could not move him or his decision. Nor could the victims of Katrina stimulate compassion in him, if its to be judged by delayed and not-so-sympathetic adress after the catastrophe. The number of hard core issues solved by him in a tenure of 8 years are not even worthy of being counted on fingers.

Yes to him for being an ageis for the oil majors, and hardly bothering to notice the incresing threat to environment. Yes to him, for bringing terrorism to a stage where it has now become a fashion. Yes to him, for ruining a nation and not even having his conscience challenged. Yes to him, for telling lies in public and supporting his whimsical ideas by going back on his own word.

And finally, NO to him for being the person most responsible for the chaos in a rapidly degenrating world.

Its just another day!

Its just another day,
Daisies blooming over the hills,
Clouds gathering to hint a shade
And Sun playing hide and seek.

Its just another day,
Creek running down the stones,
Jingling and giggling ,
and here the birdie croans.

Its just another day,
Hopes splashing up the sky,
Wishes lasting longer
and sadness is left to die...

Dard

yeh kaun tha
kaisa tha
kahan se aaya tha

kya tha yeh
jisne mann ko kulbulaya tha
aankhon ko rulaya tha
hriday ko machalne ke liye
uksaya tha

kaun tha yeh
kis rang ka tha
neela peela sabz ya laal
kala ya safed sab kuch to tha

dard tha yeh
jo aankhon se byaan hota tha
hoton ke kinaroon per jamaa hota tha
aur dil ki gahrayion mein ghar ker jaata tha.

Indian Economy - Where does it stand?

Economy as described in the glossy papers - emphasis upon the continued bull run of the sensex, large foreign investment, booming job opportunities and ever expanding indian businesses. Reality - Less than suffient food for more than 30% of the population, No education for 40% of 102 crores of Indians, Bad road even for the tax payers, Swelling population eating away at all the efforts to maintain equilibrium between demand and supply. I agree that no nation can be developed in 5-10 years, but the root of our problem as Indians is very unique in itself. We crib about sanitation, road, governement aides or rather lack of them , but we hardly do anything from our own side. Nithari happened and all we could do was to gape at the horrible story and shake our heads in disgust. Blamed everything on Police and just said aloud that something should be done. But who will do that? WHO?
Be it USA, Japan or any other country, it was not built just by traders, businessmen or booming indices. They were made by people, their collective effort, their refusal to accept things as they come. Nation is build by the willingness of its citizens to build it , to shape it and to be proud of it.
Are u the one contributing to this joint effort? How can u face ur child when u r the one increasing the mess she is going to be in after few years? How can u just watch when ur hoem is wilting away? HOW?

Frivolous litigation by busybodies wastes time, says angry Supreme Court

Yet another Editorial, TOI, Jan 17th. PIL - Public Interest Litigation is yet another tool designed to empower general public and now serves more as a means to gain cheap publicity or for political gain. No doubt PIL ensures that justice in public interest prevails but what can be said about all and sundry filing PIL just to get a paragraph in the day's newspaper. We have come across PILs that do nothing but clog the judiciary which is already burdened. PIL should not be scraped because even if 5 out of 100 PIL are genuine, the purpose is served and someone gets justice. To reduce the clogging of judicial machinary, seperate PIL hearings should take place. India is facing an acute shortage of judges and lawyers who can administer justice. This scenario needs rethinking and refromation in near fututre. PIL cannot be made an excuse to delay justice and neither should be stopped from being the sole voice of 'JANTA' .

Mumbai A Grope Fest - A Pride or Shame

Read this article few minutes ago on 8th page of today's TOI(Times of India). By the time i reached the final sentences of the article, i found myself asking some questions. The men around, who find all kind of 'Innovative' ideas just to feel a woman's body for a fleeting instance, have they ever thought what it feels to be violated. Can they ever feel the agony a human goes if his or her body and space is invaded without his/her consent? Can they bear to be alert 24x7 while others claim that they are priviledged section ( yes, men do call women priviledged)? Can they ever understand what it feels to be always protecting oneself from touches, sights and pervasive comments? How will they manage their life if their dignity is threatened all the time? I sometimes feel ashamed to be born, simply because the ugliness of men's desire for a female body is so all consuming and obscene. Mumbai, which prides itself be the safest metro, should feel ashamed that it derogates a woman to an object of desire.. women of all ages, of all societies. Imagine ur own daughter being touched by a stranger... violating her body which is the most sacred thing she owns. Imagine men, being violated all the time.

IIT in Bihar... Dream or reality?

Just finished reading the Editorial of today's TOI... the topic of view : HRD ministry proposes to set up IIT in Bihar.
The Times view advocating it and Mr. A. Srinivas having a counter view.
I dont know whether both have seen the issue from a 'BIHARI' perspective or not, here i am to put in my words to my thoughts.

IIT is a dream.... a dream that remained unfulfilled for some and realised for some... a dream of realising one's own potential though the gruelling discipline needed to clear through one of the toughest entrance examinations in the the world. Bihar being another dream.. unrealised.. struggling... a dream that bears the tag of being 'BIHAR' for decades. How many of us have stopped for a moment and thought about what makes BIHAR as we know it now.. the people?? may be Jayprakash Narayans and Rajinder Prasad or may be the maximum no of IITians from this single state actually belong to somewhere else.. how can they be from BIHAR.. a backward, culturally inferior, politically exploited and criminalised state.

IIT in Bihar will be a fresh start... I do say things will not turn out to be the best overnight for either for the Bihari IIT nor for the state.. whats wrong in being pragmatically hopeful? We all know that maximum no of IITians are from Bihar and Jharkhand and they are the ones who have been nurtured in the same land for more than 17 years. If the grim situation in Bihar can turn out so many talents, i dont think we should have any doubt about the fourishing of an institute in the state.

Also, IITs have never been aloof or in a vacuum. The example of IIT Kanpur is all i can say a poor choice as we can find out for ourselves that other premiere institutes opened up in UP beacuse IIT was there. IIT in itself is sufficient to start the rolling of the wheel of growth in the surrounding area. We can rake up evidenecs that would suggest that would IIT Kanpur be not there, many other economic and educational advances would not have been in the area around Kanpur.

No scince or technology institute is nor can be constitued with the single motive of improving the condition of the area in which it is opened. But it is always that the benefit of the area is an unavoidable byproduct. Isnt that reason enough for us to lend an arm to the effort?

I agree that the criminalisation of politics has resulted in the downtrend for whole of Bihar, but i have complete faith in the ability of a premiere institue like IIT to reverse the trend... well IITians have never followed a trend except that of high rising curves of learning and innovation and they have dared to dream impossible and realize it ...Havent they? Yes... they have and soon we will hear this affirmation from the people of Bihar itself.

Paper Name: Times of India; Date: 8/1/2007 ; Page No: 16 ;