Judgment Years

With all the commotion around the world on political scene - be it Egypt, Yemen, Italy, Libya or, for that reason, even our formidably hopeless Indian politicians - when watched closely, one thing is clear that the year 2011 is a tough one for all the mongrels all over.

I, more often than not, reiterate this to my colleague that days are hard for those who lived their days while leading those of others into long, sleepless nights !!!!

The insatiable problem with the power-drunk politicians is that they do not take a look at the past when entering into the slippery world of politics and do not learn a lesson from the same. Be it Egypt, France, Italy or any country whatsoever, recorded history has it that whenever power has moved beyond the hands and reached the head, leaders have received a heat of power of the body politic - In Egypt, royal family was held captive, massacred and granaries broken open, in France, Louis XVI got his head chopped off and played around, in Italy, Mussolini and his mistress were shot dead and hung on the meat hooks !!!!

Power is easy to get but all the more difficult to be successfully wielded. It can never be saddled on a free will. For it to sustain, both of them need to merge into one and be there in unison. But first move will always have to be made by the power.

According to me, the best politician would be the person who would be the least political in his approach. Serve the people in a true sense and you would not even need to go out to ask for the votes or support !!!!

Leaders of today have failed to read this simple lesson between the lines and are paying the price for the same. I do not know about the Judgment Day up There but certainly 2011 and, I hope subsequent years from now on, prove to be Judgment Years here on earth.

MPs' Raise In Salary

So in the last few days we have seen a rare sight of our parliamentarians getting together unanimously for a particular cause, does not matter if it were only for their RISE IN SALARY AND EMOLUMENTS !!! C'mon countrymen, you are not going to see this sight for any other cause whatsoever so hail the occasion rather than cribbing over it.

Country is bound to face the humiliation at the international level because of the Commonwealth mess, in Leh-Ladakh the situations are bad, armed forces men are returning their medals because of your policies, Mayawati refuses to implement Right to Education Act because SHE HAS NO MONEY, she also refuses to compensate the victims of stampede in Pratapgarh because of money issues, Bhopal gas victims get only few thousands in compensation...a small list of issues of lesser importance, I suppose. Despite all this, we never saw even a fruitful debate on any of these issues, much less a full house. There was a proposal years back to make death sentence the punishment for the crime of rape. I didn't hear of that proposal seeing the light of day.

But the moment the proposal is passed for raising the salaries of the MPs..VOILA !!! It is passed the same day, will be implemented in the same session and also with retrospective effect !!!

I know that once a person is a politician, he/she is completely selfish, but he/she can be shameless and insensitive to such an extent that I came to know only now. They know that the load on the tax payer for this act of theirs would be upwards of Rs 100 Crore per annum. This is in the wake of rising inflation and constant increase in the number of people living below the poverty line.

Had this Rs 100 Crore (for one year) been utilized for any of the aforesaid causes, the people would have happily accepted your raise probably in the next session. MPs give reference of the service to the people. They know that the public is disgusted by this act of theirs. But to justify their cause, they come up with all the silly reasons - Naveen Jindal cites the expenses and the staff the MP has to maintain. He talks about a research person which an MP has to maintain. Has anyone ever heard of any research conducted by Mr. Jindal ?? Ravi Shankar Prasad cites, among other expenses, the marriages the MP has to attend during the marriage season and the money he has to give there. Don't you think MPs that you are getting a bit overboard in order to justify this disgusting act of yours?

Rather than bestowing this on yourself, it would be better if you deserve this by your deeds but neither have you done this in the past 60 years nor would you ever. You are right when you say that there are still some MPs who are very poor and who don't live the life of luxury cited by the people. Sohail Seth, in reply to this, says that they were not asked to become the MPs. They knew what they were about to get. But I do not agree with this view. If we despise the poor MPs like this, in future, we have no right to claim for an honest MP because an honest person can never be rich !!!! I would rather say that those poor MPs, along with the people of the country, are the victims of the Jungle Raj of our Regular MPs.

Guys, public is watching !!! Your biggest mistake is that you think the public is a sheep which can be made to move in any direction. But you are wrong. Be afraid of the future.

MTC

India and Kashmir

War is on for the last over half a century for this piece of land under the sun which we call KASHMIR !!! I cant remember any other reason except this for the conflicts with Pak. In fact the policy of Pak is centered around this Heaven On Earth !!!

But looking at the scenario, we can realize that Kashmir is more a prestige issue for both the nations than a part of country. In India, whatever laws we draft, we have a separate mention for it. Kashmir has its own Constitution (if I remember correctly). They have been crying AUTONOMY for donkey's years now. They, themselves, don't want to be a part of this country.

In the latest development, people there have been fired at by the Indian police for shouting anti-India slogans and creating ruckus. In this incident, about 14 people have died. I am sure this will flare up the issues more.

I suggest rather than fighting over a piece of land which doesn't want to be a part of us, we should do some introspection as to how to pacify the situation and, if that's not possible, let them go !!!!

Let them FIGHT Pak by themselves. They came to us only because they could not do the needful. If they think they are capable, let them give another try !!!

MTC

Victimology

This is a phrase which my teacher in my college introduced us first to. I feel like remembering this in the wake of Ruchika decision. I am happy that 6 months have been enhanced to 18 months, but are even 18 months enough to equate the loss of life of that poor teenager ??

Victimology moves the other way round. It looks for the punishment of the convict from the point of view of the victim i.e. is the punishment sufficient to properly compensate for the act? Even Supreme Court, in one of its judgments, has said that the punishment should be proportional to the act done.

We just move by the word of the book. If 2 months are there, we would be taking 2 months, without even putting both of them in a balance and finding out if it is just.

Then we have the people who are against death sentence. May I ask them why ?? Probably because you have not lost any dear one of yours yet. May you never get to lose any one of yours but you need to feel by being in the shoes of the people who have !!!! These shitty Human Right buggers always come up for the human rights of the convict. May I ask them if there is no human right of the deceased or if there is no human right of his mother, father, wife, children. With each death, there is not one but many more slow deaths which happen as a Side Effect !!!

Get real guys. We need to be stringent with these people. Have you ever thought why arabian countries have lesser crime ?? It is because there are strict towards the wrong doers. Stop crying Barbarism. See the practical success. I am not saying that absorb them as it is. Absorb the spirit i.e. being stricter in your laws. For the rape cases, for example, we have the maximum punishment of 10 years, which is again less but even that we seldom see. Most of the time, the convict gets a 7 year term. Imagine, someone commits a rape at the age of 23, gets a 7 year term and is out at the age of 30. Do you think he has lost something? He is still capable enough to have a new life. But can the victim of rape get a new life ? What have you given Her ??!!?? A life long stigma, a slow death. India is not as broad minded as western countries and you know that !!! Has any proposal of the government ever come out for the rehabilitation of the rape victims? No. It may be argued that by doing that you may seem like separating them from society but any counselling sessions or anything which can dampen the thought of that horrifying incident? Has anything been done by you?

Like I said in my FB status that only way to get things done is throw someone of these people in the situation. I remember that, earlier, the statements of the rape or molestation victims were recorded in Open Court subjecting the victim to immense shame and humiliation. It was only after the daughter of a Judge was molested that they took a decision of recording them behind closed walls. Why ? Your daughter has a respect, other's daughter doesn't ?

There was a proposal for the death penalty for rape. But that proposal seems to have died its own death, probably because the politicians don't want to dig a ditch for their own selves. I am not pointing the finger at the politicians in person (though you never know). I am talking about the goons they harbor. If such law comes up, they may be in hot waters. Like I always maintain, politicians never think of the nation.

Machiavelli was the father of politics. He did say that to gain the power, every single move is justified for politics is meant to gain and hold the power. But for the betterment of the nation. Just getting the power and misusing it all the time is not going to do you any good, you politicians !!!!

If this will be the state of affairs, after sometime, use of the word "Politician" for someone would be perfect ground to bring a suit of defamation against someone. I so wish it happens !!!

MTC