Shashi Twee-roor, The Tweetie Pie of the Year

Shashi Twee-roor as henceforth i will be addressing this great man, who took on the imagination of every forward looking Indian. Though i still have more respect for Shashi Tharoor, the bureaucrat than the Mundu wearing vote-seeking politician, Twee-roor, who is all tweets but no work!!

But still I don't  understand what's wrong in tweeting.Why is everyone harping on what he says on Twitter? The boy is just having some fun, let him!

Maybe he should tweet or DM rite from the Parliament itself, the minutes of the every proceeding. Won't that be great. Why just Parliament, everyday he should just tweet tweet and tweet?

At least, thanks to his tweeting habits, we know that he is on a leisure trip, or maybe he found time to catch on some great Artyf-farty movie or glimpse a cricket match.

Maybe its Twitter you had in mind when you said "reaching out to the common man" Twee-roor.!! Btw Security is important and a little restriction certainly would help us ensure a safer country. But too bad for your firang friends!! Sir!!

Happy tweeting Tweetie-pie

Basmati rice to Cologne, Kasab Trial A Mockery Of Indian Judiciary

It is all funny, but then its democracy. A gunman caught on tape,spraying bullets on anything that came hus way. Later he is caught alive, a confession is extracted and in the month of April 2009 trials begin.

But the accused terrorist man is still safe behind the willy bars of the Indian judicial system enjoying his Basmati rice and spicy food, a cologne of his taste and an evening stroll under the setting sun.

All this at a cost of a staggering Rs 31 crore, or nearly Rs 8.5 lakh per day, just to keep this 21-year-old terrorist from Faridkot, Pakistan safe and secure enough to stand trial.

And in return, retracting from his statements, he has even further advanced to accusing at everyone. He says, " Everyone's a liar except me." Then calls the presiding Magistrate a liar and now the mother of all, he says I’m a cook, not a killer.

Bring it on, I don't ask for killing him, all I ask for is justice... for the families of those killed, for the nation, that trembled at the audacity of a neighbouring fiend and for every ill-begotten fear, that rules the heart.

ya ya I know...

Eunuch's in Pakistan get it too...

Coming right on the heels of the Indian government's decision to grant the "Others" identity, the Pakistan's Supreme Court too has now has issued a directive to recognise the third gender under as distinct gender in order to ensure their rights.

All hail to the changing times. and an equal world.

Legalise it: Right to die! Euthanasia!

The Supreme Court of India has admitted a petition to end the life of Aruna Shanbaug, who was a nurse in Mumbai, paralysed and considered ‘brain-dead’ ever since she was attacked and raped in November 1973.
The plea has been made by a journalist who has written a book on Ms Shanbaug.

The court will examine if the plea is "akin to euthanasia". It is being seen as a landmark case in India where euthanasia or mercy killing is illegal.

So why not legalise it. Why force somebody to live, when he or she really would instead prefer death? Netherlands, where it is legal.

It is sheer hypocrisy, when she was well and good, the SYSTEM could not give her security, save her dignity....her assailant Sohanlal Barth Valmiki, a ward boy, got away with just seven years for attempted murder and for robbing Aruna's earrings..ha!! wat justice..he belived to be working in a Delhi hospital.

I stand for dignity..in life and in death too....why deny it?

Read articles on Aruna's Story and views of Doctors.

I Am Indian Too. Manipur Diary!

I am an Indian, but I never felt like one. Alienated and violated, I am just a dark shadow, on myself and on my countrymen. But I am an Indian too.(excerpts from a conversation with a Manipuri friend.)

For the last ten years, never raising one angry voice, but quietly putting-up a struggle against the state, against the country, Irom Sharmila- an Iron of a woman today has come to represent a true Satyagrahi. 

Excerpts from an article:

The year is 2006. An ordinary November evening in Delhi. A slow, halting voice breaks into your consciousness. “How shall I explain? It is not a punishment, but my bounden duty…” A haunting phrase in a haunting voice, made slow with pain yet magnetic in its moral force. “My bounden duty.” What could be “bounden duty” in an India bursting with the excitements of its economic boom?...

...That’s when the enormous story of Irom Sharmila first begins to seep in. You are in the presence of someone historic. Someone absolutely unparalleled in the history of political protest anywhere in the world, ever. Yet you have been oblivious of her. A hundred TV channels. An unprecedented age of media. Yet you have been oblivious of her.

For young Irom Sharmila, things came to a head on November 2, 2000. A day earlier, an insurgent group had bombed an Assam Rifles column. The enraged battalion retaliated by gunning down 10 innocent civilians at a bus-stand in Malom. The local papers published brutal pictures of the bodies the next day, including one of a 62-year old woman, Leisangbam Ibetomi, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner. Extraordinarily stirred, on November 4, Sharmila, then only 28, began her fast.

“Menghaobi”, the people of Manipur call her, “The Fair One”.

I wonder if there is still democracy?I wonder if people still really care? I wonder... if things will ever change?

Toilets in Indian Trains- A Bangla Initiative

The year was 1909 and the day Friday of July 2 , a letter popped-in at the Sahibganj Divisional office and that letter today thankfully has changed, the comfort of travelling in an Indian train to a great extend....pls read the letter with a Bangla accent, for clarity of reading..;p

 Note: A lil exaggeration has been tried, for humour sake.

Unique Idenfification/UID....i don't think so!

Unique Identification aka UID. Everyone is talking about it...I for sure am against it but who cares for that? But for this post, a cartoon strip painstrakingly drawn by a young enthusiatic journalist Jayadevan PK. (JPK)
                                          
                                                      Click on the image for a clearer view

Now do you really need some UID crap.   JPK blogs on Jude The Obscure

Journalists Murdered in Philippines,total 57 people massacred!

It is horrible!! 57 people massacred and the government is still slowly taking up the issue. Justice delayed is justice denied...Crime is a crime no matter how big a clan you come from. Crime is a crime, no matter the geography of the happenstance, weather it is in Afgahnistan or Iraq or say here it is Philippines..the family of those deceased must be given justice....

Associated Press reported:

The heir of a powerful clan was charged Tuesday in connection with the Philippines' worst political massacre — an ambush in which 57 people, more than half journalists, were slaughtered.

Three witnesses, who escaped because their car was at the tail end of the election convoy that was attacked in a southern province Nov. 23 , said they saw Andal Ampatuan Jr. and about 100 gunmen, including police officers, stopping the cars, prosecutor Al Calica told The Associated Press.

Hours later, troops found bullet-riddled and hacked-up bodies near the highway sprawled in the grass and hastily buried with a backhoe in three mass grave.

 While reports in Local/News world said:

Most or all of the 22 women among the at least 57 people massacred Monday in the southern Philippines were sexually mutilated.

"It was horrible. It was not done to just one," the justice secretary, Agnes Devanadera, said on national television. "It was done to practically all the women."

Why is the world still so quite about it?
 

Where angels fear to treat?Bhopal gas tragedy revisted..

Its been 25 years. The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy claimed at least 40,000 lives in a matter of days, while 390 tonnes of toxic chemical still lies abandoned at the plant.

Every year on December 3,we piously rememer those dead, while the families of the victims still fight for justice. The newspapers and tv channels come-out with stories are stories blaming the government, Union Carbide and who-else not...

There are civil and criminal cases pending in United States(Manhattan) and even in Indian courts.Justice but being ever done to those-affected people is a high improbability.

This excerpt from an article by Indra Sinha in HT, presents a quintessential picture what Bhopal is today:

"Bhopal is not a normal place. It is deeply, intimately, poisoned. Twenty-five years after the catastrophic gas disaster, Union Carbide’s toxins still flow in the soil, in the water, in the wells, in people’s blood, in wombs and breast milk and in the hearts of local politicians. Go and see for yourself. Once you’ve arrived in Bhopal, take an auto-rickshaw to any one of Annu Nagar, Blue Moon Colony, Nawab Colony, Atal-Ayub Nagar, Oriya Basti, Garib Nagar, Kainchi Chola. You’ll soon notice that an awful lot of children seem in some way damaged."