अंधेरी सुबह

 अंधेरी सुबह 

है आँखो  में आंसू 
       होठ हैं बेसब्द 
करनी ने एक और मानव की ही 
    किया है पुरे समाज को स्तब्ध 

कोई कहता है ये पुलिस की नाकामी 
     किसी को लगती है ये सरकार की लाचारी 
कर सकते हैं ये आरोप प्रत्यारोप कल से 
    आज सुबह तो लगता है , थी ये मेरी ही जिम्मेवारी 

कहते  हैं समाज जिसे 
   ये मेरे  तुम्हारे सोच का ही तो किस्सा है  
अगर लुटती है एक इज्ज़त सरेआम 
   आपका मेरा भी तो उसमे लुटता एक हिस्सा  है 

अब जो टुटा है ये कहर इस कदर 
    देश सोया यूवा  जागे हैं 
हिंदुस्तान को सुरक्षित एवम भ्रस्टाचार रहित बनाने के 
    अब हमारे और भी पुख्ता इरादे हैं 

अगर आवाज़ नहीं उठाई इस बार 
   मानव कहलाने में  शर्म आएगी 
आज नहीं तो कल 
    एक और "हिन्दुस्तान की बेटी"  अपने प्राण गवाएगी ...

मनीष रंजन    

मझधार

   

What is Right to Information? Where to file RTI application? How to write an application?

What is Right to Information?  Where to file RTI application?   How to write an application?
Right to Information Act 2005, which became effective in October 2005, empowers every citizen to

q       Ask any questions from the Government or seek any information
q       Take copies of any government documents
q       Inspect any government documents.

If the desired information is not provided within 30 days of application, the concerned officer becomes liable for a penalty of Rs 250 per day of default upto a maximum of Rs 25,000 per application. And if wrong information is provided, a penalty upto a maximum of Rs 25,000 can be imposed on the officer.

Some examples

Nannu is a daily wage earner. He lives in Welcome Mazdoor Colony, another slum habitation in East Delhi . He lost his ration card and applied for a duplicate one in January this year. He made several rounds of the local Food & Civil Supplies office for the next three months. But the clerks and officials would not even look at him, leave alone do his job or bother to tell him the status of his application. Ultimately, he filed an application under the Right to Information Act asking for the daily progress made on his application, names of the officials who were supposed to act on his application and what action would be taken against these officials. Within a week of filing application under Right to Information Act, he was visited by an inspector from the Food Department, who informed him that the card had been made and he could collect it from the office. When Nannu went to collect his card next day, he was given a very warm treatment by the Food & Supply Officer (FSO), who is the head of a Circle. The FSO offered him tea and requested him to withdraw his application under Right to Information, since his work had already been done.

Mrs Bakshi has a house in South Delhi. She rent a part of her house to someone, who was using it for commercial purposes. Therefore, a commercial water connection for that part of the house was taken. When the tenant vacated the house, she applied to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for converting water connection back to domestic. She kept running around for several months. None listened to her. She was even told by some DJB men that the work would be done in no time if she paid a bribe. She refused. Her Neighbour, Saurav, one day told her about RTI and helped her in filing an application. She filed one and her job was done in the next few days.

Mr Sharma had to go to Germany. His daughter-in-law was expecting a baby. He needed a passport urgently. He applied for one. Acccording to the rules, it should be made in 45 days. For six months he kept running around. But no one listened. When he finally applied under RTI, his passport was made in a weeks time.

Pabitra is a Chartered Accountant, who refuses to pay bribes. There was a tax refund due to his client. Despite repeated letters and running around for a year, nothing happened. Pabitra suggested to his client that an RTI application be filed. Client agreed. Refund was received within a few days of filing RTI.

What did these people ask? How did this magic happen?

Nannu asked the following questions in his RTI application:

1. I filed an application for a duplicate ration card on 27^th January 2004. Please tell me the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e. when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?
2. According to the rules, my card should have been made in 10 days. However, it is more than three months now. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?
3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?
4. By when would I get my card now?

In normal circumstances, such an application would be thrown in a dustbin. But this law says that the Government has to reply in 30 days. If they don't do that, their salary could be deducted. Now, it is not easy to answer these questions.

The first question is – please provide the daily progress made on my application. There is no progress made. But the government officials cannot write in these many words that they have not acted for so many months. Else that would be admission of guilt on paper. The next question is – please provide the names and designations of the officers who were supposed to take action on my application and who had not done so. If the government provides names and designations of the officials, their responsibility gets fixed. Any officer is most scared of fixing of responsibility against him in this manner. So, the moment one files such an application, his/her pending work is done.

What did Pabitra's client ask? He also asked similar questions:

1. The appellate Commissioner decided an appeal in my favor which should result in refund of taxes to me. I have made written requests earlier for the same. Please tell me the daily progress made on my requests so far. i.e. when did my application reach which official, for how long did it stay with that official and what did he/she do during that period?
2. According to the rules, the appeal effect should have been given in 30 days. However, it is more than a year now. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?
3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?
4. By when would I get my refund now?

And within a few days of filing this RTI application, Pabitra's client got his refund.

What did Mr Sharma ask? He asked the following questions from the Passport Officer:

1. I made an application for issue of a new passport (copy attached). Please tell me the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e. when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?
2. According to the rules, my passport should have been made in 45 days. However, it is more than six months now. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?
3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?
4. By when would I get my passport now?

And he got his passport within the next few days.

What did Mrs Bakshi ask? She asked:

1. I made an application for conversion of commercial connection to domestic on ________. Please tell me the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e . when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?
2. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?
3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?
4. By when will my work be done now?

Where to file RTI application?

Every Government department has nominated one of its officers as a Public Information Officer (PIO). You should file your application with him/her. You have to deposit an application fee along with your application. In the case of Central Government Departments, the application fee is Rs 10. It is the same for many State Governments also. But many State Governments have fixed different fee. The fees fixed by different states are given in annexure. There is no fee for the people living below poverty line.

You could submit the application through following methods:

q       In person or by sending someone to the office of the PIO. You could deposit the fee in cash or by DD drawn in favor of the Department.

q       By post. You could deposit the fee in by DD drawn in favor of the Department.

q       In Post Offices. Several branches of Post Offices have been authorized to receive RTI applications. The list of these branches are available at the website ______. You just need to present your RTI application at any of these post offices. They will accept your fee in cash and give you a receipt of the money and the application. They will then deliver it to the concerned PIO at their own cost. If you deposit your application through a post office, the period for providing information increases to 35 days.

How to write an application?

Samples of application for Nannu and Mr Sharma are given in Annexure 1.

Why is it that this Act works when no other law seems to have worked in this country?

This is because of only one reason i.e. it says that if the concerned official does not give information in time, his salary could be deducted. This not only affects him financially, but also adversely affects his career. Therefore, every official tries to comply with this Act and provide information in time.

What if you do not hear anything in 30 days? Who would impose penalty on officials?

If you do not get information in 30 days (or 35 days, if you send your application through post office), you should file an appeal to the officer senior to the PIO. An appeal is nothing but a simple letter to the senior officer stating your grievance. He is required to listen to your grievance within 30 days of your appeal. If you do not get a satisfactory response from the senior officer also within 30 days, then you should file an appeal in the form of a simple letter to the Information Commission, specifically designated for this purpose. The Information Commissioners have the power to impose penalties on guilty officials.

Though RTI can be used by people in several ways,

Like developmental works, rations, etc, wherein people have to pay bribes to get their legitimate work done in any Government Department, either due to expectation of bribe or due to simple laziness of the concerned officials.

The following message should be aggressively promoted through advertisements and various programs:

"You need not pay bribes any more in this country. Now you have an effective alternative – Right to Information. Use RTI. Often, it works faster than bribes."

What are the types of issues, which could be taken up by Citizens of INDIA ?

Wherever you have a legitimate work pending, you have filed all the documents, you have completed all formalities, you have a genuine case, which the official ought to do in his normal course of duty but is not doing either for expectation of bribe or merely laziness. We call it extortionist bribery. For instance,

q       Issue of passport

q       Issue of any type of license

q       Issue of various certificates like marriage certificate, death certificate, birth certificate, SC/ST certificate, OBC certificate etc

q       Inclusion of name in voters' list

q       Issue of voter ID card

q       Correction of water, electricity, telephone bills

q       Any legitimate problem with a department like change of faulty meter, providing new water or electricity connection, etc

q       Filing of FIR

q       Claiming various kinds of refunds or payments etc like tax refund, medical reimbursement etc

q        

Samples of application for Nannu and Mr Sharma are given in Annexure 1.

 RTI Activist should be required to draft applications for the issues mentioned in Annexure 3. Many more such issues could be thought of and practice should be done for them.

Whereas in most of the cases, the standard RTI application form annexed at Annexure 2 herewith would be sufficient and only blanks would need to be filled, however, RTI Activists could ask more questions specific to the case, which tend to nail down the authorities.

Annexure 1

RTI application of Nannu

To

The PIO,

Food & Supplies Department,

K Block, Vikas Bhavan,

I P Estate, New Delhi – 1

Sub: Application under Right to Information Act 2005

Dear Sir,

Please provide the following information under Right to Information Act 2005. Since I am a person living below poverty line (copy of my earlier ration card attached as a proof that I belong to BPL category), I am not depositing application fee:

1.       I filed an application for a duplicate ration card on 27^th January 2004. Please tell me the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e. when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?

2.       According to the rules, my card should have been made in 10 days. However, it is more than three months now. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?

3.       What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?

4.       By when would I get my card now?

Yours sincerely,

(Nannu)

E Block, Welcome Colony,

Seelampur, Delhi-93

RTI application of Mr Sharma

To

The PIO,

Regional Passport Office,

Bhikaji Cama Place,

New Delhi

Sub: Application under Right to Information Act 2005

Dear Sir,

Please provide the following information under Right to Information Act 2005:

1.       I made an application for issue of a new passport (copy attached). Please tell me the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e. when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?

2.       According to the rules, my passport should have been made in 45 days. However, it is more than six months now. Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?

3.       What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?

4.       By when would I get my passport now?

I am separately depositing Rs 10 as application fee.

Yours sincerely,

(S Sharma)

Annexure 2

Draft application form which would be used by the volunteers during camp and which could be used as a standard template for every one

Dated:

To

The PIO,

_____________________

_____________________

_____________________

Sub: Application under Right to Information Act 2005

Dear Sir,

I had made an application for the following reason (copy of application is attached) but no satisfactory action has been taken on my application so far.

Please provide the following information with respect to the same:

1.       Please indicate the daily progress made on my application so far. i.e. when did my application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?

2.       Please give the names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on my application and who have not done so?

3.       What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken?

4.       By when would my work be done now?

5.       .

6.        

I am separately depositing Rs 10 as application fee.

Yours sincerely,

Annexure 3

Some situations for which volunteers should draft RTI applications during training sessions

q       You made a complaint to the police but they are not registering FIR.

q       You want to know balance in your PF account. You have retired and want to claim your PF but the authorities are not responding to your letters.

q       You are a Government servant and have been transferred out against the transfer policy. The Government is not responding to your requests to transfer you back.

q       You are a Government servant. Your requests for claim of medical reimbursements are not being heeded to.

q       You have a faulty electricity meter in your house. But the authorities are not replacing it despite repeated requests.

q       The sewer is choked in your locality for some time but the authorities have not responded to repeated request

curiosity

Just like any other day i was travelling from home to office . BMTC buses and then the kind of crowd i was surrounded with was really irritating . four people sitting next to me were discussing really loud about some topic in kannada , from where i could gather just this much that they were discussing on how bad bangalore has went after people pouring in from every where to this state . As if its not serving any benefit to them huh ?

               Karnataka state has 2nd lowest un employed youth , isn't it a sign that people of karnataka has also grown with the city. But can somebody really make them understand ? i do not think so . At least  i do not have courage to do so .Somebody was playing some hindi song in loud from back seat .irritating !!! 50% of the people on phone struggling to convince people on other end why what they think is good way to conclude on what so ever topic they might be discussing . Irritating :( 

                   suddenly my friend who was sitting next to me decided to leave the bus in between as it was horrible traffic on that day , and after saying bye i was again lost in thought about if this traffic problem is a real problem ? well i doubt as i think its a impossible to solve a problem which doesn't exist. Unless until people do not start using public transport this can not happen and people wont choose to try public  transport as they see the kind of traffic there is on road , one would always prefer to sit in a AC car witch a music tuned as per choice. I could hear fadedly a voice "Software Engineer ala?" . again lost in thought - why we can not talk about solutions rather than problem ? every one knows this is a problem , i think high time BMTC should try out few things like trying Point to Point solution rather than one bus stopping at all - Banning Private buses on Road  during 8am-8pm. Growing BMTC buses height wise rather then length wise . i do not understand whats the point of trying something which you know for sure will not work . Double decker buses are the answer to bangalore situation. 

"Software Engineer ala?" again the same voice in a higher pitch . 

i realized it was directed toward me .

" yes sir"

 i replied annoyingly because next thing people ask how much you earn ?  

What are you so upset about ? yen problem babu ? ella okay ? the person asked again against what i predicted 

Yes sir i am fine thankYou . 

first time i glanced at the guy , must be in his 80s . but very bright and full of energy face and body language. 

where are you from babu ? 

i am from Bihar sir- I replied 

then how do you know kannada ?

i teach slum kids for that i have learned local language 

oh nice , so you are software engineer 

yes sir i am 

what is software ?

now this is something i had not anticipated - 

i answered with soem real life example of banking 

Then what is Hardware ?

what is network ?

what is Server ? 

who is client ?

what is desktop ? and few more 

i tried to answer all of them with some relevant examples. The guy seems quite satisfied

very easy to understand babu , thankYou for telling . wanted to understand this for long time

i am also electrical engineer , but never got a chance to work on computers , before they came i retired 

     well and we continued for few more minutes on few more technical term and it was going so well that i forgot traffic , about the loud discussion , about the loud music in background and felt good with the realization that   

its not the age which makes you look old , its all in the mind . people who like to learn, learn all their life irrespective of age,Gender . They find ways to learn them. and i must say i was amazed by level of curiosity i saw in those 80 year old eyes. 

Thank You sir you did made  my day.

मुस्कान

सोचता है दिल क्यों लगती है ये राहे अनजान
    इस खिलखिलाहट में खो गयी वो मासूम मुस्कान
कर तो दिए खड़े ढेर रुप्यूओं के
   पर कह रह गयी हमारी तुम्हारी पहचान

वो छोटो छोटी खुशियाँ , वो लड़ना हमारा
  वक़्त बेवक्त फॉर वो रूठना मनाना हमारा
अब जो हमे फुर्सत का लम्हा मयस्सर नहीं  होता
  फीर किस्से रूठना और किसको मनाना , सोचता है दिल बेचारा

सोचता है दिल क्यों लगती है ये राहे अनजान 

    इस खिलखिलाहट में खो गयी वो मासूम मुस्कान

सीधी सी थि ये जिंदगी जब खुशियाँ हमे ढूंढती थी
  अब जो सोचु तो लगे हम खुशियाँ को ढूंढते है
मिलती थी जो ठंढक तुम्हारे पहलु में आँगन में बैठ के
   अब हम उस ठंढक को बाजारू बर्तनों में ढूंढते है
रहते तो है एक घर में एक ही छत के निचे
  फीर क्यों हम दो पाल की संगत को ढूंढते हैं 

मिले है जो ये दो पल , आओ बैठें बातें करें
    खोजे तो सही की किसने बनाया मुझको तुमसे  अनजान
जो सून सकें थोरा सा हम अपने दिल की तान
    चलो साथ ख़ोज लायें वो मासूम मुस्कान

Burppppppppppppp

Oh ya i have never been blogging about the restaurants i have been visiting.But i must say the reason might be sometime i get boggled by the price (yes i find it complete waste to spend 600 for lunch just because the plate in which food is being served is costly and Food is useless)  , sometime by Ambiance and most of the time by service.
                         So here we end up being in another newbie restaurant on suggestion of one of my colleague and We reached there by 1:15 for lunch. Well The ambiance was nice if not impressive. It had all those Bengali style painting all over walls and nice home type envio and was observing it closely as in my Home state bihar also we have some similar painting but look at this, its already 1:45 and we are yet to receive starters we had ordered.. Wohaaa now 2:15 - Yet to receive starters :( and that is where we started getting impatient. But that is where they started serving and boy once they started there was a pin drop Silence among the group.every one was so busy with the food people barely had time to talk about "other" things.
                          After having a mixed experience at the restaurant
this is how i rate it among different categories

Taste :            4.5/5
Ambiance       3/5
Cleanliness     3/5  (washroom was pathetic)
Service           2.5/5
cost effective:   4/5 (i am talking about the real price not the offered through snapdeal or toogle  )
People who love to Drink - this is not the right place for you as they DO NOT serve alcohol along with the food . And yeah no roof top concept though i did saw a considerably open area

if you are planning to go do give them a call before you start. as they do take some time before they actually start appearing with your ordered foods.

The best part about the restaurant was it was insanely reasonable and we enjoyed our team lunch pretty much

Will i go again ??? Hmm only if i am in mood to eat  nice mustard oil cooked food and yeah with my GF as i will have all the time in this world  to wait for, till they serve:)

How to reach ?? Well google it am sure their map is more accurate than my directions but in short its in Jeevan beema Nagar .

The MotionalLess Runner A paradox

Came across one great mathematician Zeno  paradox which was really interesting This is how it is explained

This runner is clearly disappointed that 
he won't be going anywhere

Paradox 1: The Motionless Runner
A runner wants to run a certain distance - let us say 100 meters - in a finite time. But to reach the 100-meter mark, the runner must first reach the 50-meter mark, and to reach that, the runner must first run 25 meters. But to do that, he or she must first run 12.5 meters.
Since space is infinitely divisible, we can repeat these 'requirements' forever. Thus the runner has to reach an infinite number of 'midpoints' in a finite time. This is impossible, so the runner can never reach his goal. In general, anyone who wants to move from one point to another must meet these requirements, and so motion is impossible, and what we perceive as motion is merely an illusion


 

We Are Through

Yeah its sad ,But its true
     may be my bad, but we are through
I wish i could still take it a little more
     The way you have been trying to ignore
I wish i could still bear the pain
     or you could just tell me what was your gain
Its drifting away, though i have been trying my best
      Wonder what heart feels now is a different quest
If you look in to my eyes,You will know what is true
     may be my bad , but we are so Through

Devilish Eyes

Devilish Eyes

A Better India A Better World

Reading The better India the better world and also trying to put the book thought in my words with few examples from my side. Its a good book and worth reading. This book is basically  is a collection of Mr Narayan murthy lectures at different places across the globe. It covers wide perspective form Politics to foreign trade to law and Of course technology

Few Good Points from the book

1.We have to recognize that public sector interest is not  public interest and interest of government is not the interest of the people

2.The biggest bane of our thousand year old enslavement is apathy.the main reason of our poverty is our unwillingness to take proactive action when solution is is standing right infront of us staring at our face

3.We have learned and mastered the skill of escaping from our responsibilities to solve our problem by blaming  our destiny

What to learn from west ?

4. Apathy in addressing the community matters has held us back from making progress which is otherwise within our reach. We do see and waste our time in analyzing the problems around us but never try to solve them .We behave as if the problem do not exist at all or as if they belong to some one else. In the West people  people approach societal problem proactively. reason??- we were ruled by foreigners for over a thousand years so we have always believed that public or societal issues belong to some foreign ruler and  we have no responsibility to solve them. We are so used to follow orders and hence a very very weak decision making capabilities.in Short in Aristotle words "We are what we repeatedly do" sounds so right.

eg:40 year old suggestion by irrigation expert to conquer the problem of drought and flood was to create a water grid consisting all the rivers from north and south.as of now no action being taken in that direction

5.Another important trait what we Indian can learn from west is accountability.In the west irrespective of your position you are held accountable for what you do where as in India the more important you are the less responsible you are

may be a little from their professionalism in dealing business

Corruption ?? is it really invincible

A positive example of how corruption can could be fought. Few years ago a minister of singaporean community was charged for corruption and was found guilty after primary investigation. He ran to PM asking if there was something what could be done to save his honor  but after getting a negative reply and understanding it very clearly that his career is actually over and he will be punished he came back and put a bullet in his head. Think how strong message was sent by this action?

This is where i end my first part will soon put the review for the other half of the book

Banker to the poor - review

The Story of man with a vision

Some body who was more worried about practical problems out there rather than just teaching economics ..and with a belief that universities should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher knowledge without sharing any of it knowledge...

Some body wanted to understand if banks are there to help poor or just to  make wealthy wealthier ??

   The story of a man who challenged almost every thing related to banking sector, be it credit scheme or the documentation process

Loved the way he questions the existing system , his sharp and to the point question about the very existence of banking rules and achieving such a grand success having zero banking experience is a credit in itself.

    Though the book is a little lengthy but its a nice read and people who have seen rural area problems will be able to connect to it in a better way . There are some real learning’s here that can be applied in the social lending arena. Grameen Bank has made $ 3.4 billion dollars in loans to 2.4 million people. Yes … that’s an average loan size of $1,400. This is an extraordinary figure, that normal banks would sneer at, as being unprofitable, and impossible to process at a profit.

                     I loved the first and second that is beginning and Experimental part Though i find the replicating that is part !V a little boring. Philosophy is another must read section. In short it was worth spending my sunday morning for this book ..  

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Scared Old Woman

Meet My new friend Mr "Chotu" :)

(the snap is taken at 12:43 am look at him how aaram se he is sleeping :))

Few months back i use to stay in a different lane where i saw him when he was very small. I use to give me biscuit and roti some time but then i got busy and then he also disappeared. As you know we software engineer  are too busy to care about such things i was almost following the same league and almost fotrgot my chotu. After almost 6 months when ha has also attained some hight suddenly he saw me and ran toward . I got really scared , i thought he is going to bite me as i couldn't recognize him but then he did. He came and Sat next to my feet just the way he use   to  .Now if i come late from office he gets Angry. he need to eat atleast one biscuit packet every day and he consider its his right to demand that from me .today i was a little late at office and came  back at around 11:45 

he was so angry and started barking at me .. just the way any body who is close to you and cares about you being not to home by 11:30  will do and i must admit i liked it .. he comes and sit in my room aaram se for an hour and then just go out to meet his Street friends.i enjoy his company as i too get this feeling that some body is sitting next to me .. 

ok  i need to go and finish my novel now have to give you all a good review comment about that..

The Village By The Sea

The Village by the sea
  Anita Desai :


In general all her are vivid and this is one more nice book in the series of
1.)Cry, The Peacock
2.)Fire On the Mountain
3.)Bye-Bye Black Bird
three  must read books
This Story mainly revolves around 
Hari 
His Father who is basically a drunkyard 
Her mother - who is anemic and growing weaker day by day 
her sister - Lila- who is very mature girl compare to her age  
and two more of hre younger sister 
and their beloved dog
There are few more characters which have positive role like Jaggu and Wrist watch maker uncle who gives Hari the best siksha that One must go on learning 
because any thing you learn will be useful here or there in a positive way 
This Story also explains in a very ballanced way the how poverty can impact the whole family life and how in small places even earning a small bread is so tough. there is another positive character b name "Biju" who is a little showoff guy 
but good at heart and so is D souza uncle family who help Hari family at bad time .. In short story is narrated in a very very positive sense and i loved the way she has very beautifully, through her story, given an apt solution for the problem. She makes us think that life is after all beautiful,and shouldn’t be wasted.
                                  i will put this book in  Kite runner and A thousand splendid Sun category and i really enjoyed my 3 hour read . Its  a slim book and out of print as of now. 

wanna kiss ??? Wait a minute

Wanna kiss?? Wait a minute you can be convicted for rape…

             

                        We have read a lot about what happened with Ruchika Gehrotra Where the girl was molested by Haryana IG S.P.S Rathore in 1990 and what is even more noticeable here  is the punishment he got. Any way this blog is not to tell the flaws in judicial system . We all know that we live in a messy country, where theory of randomness has a greater say over any other theories (if there are any). Not yet convicted for anything? You must be lucky because one day you can just find a snap on your door saying you have been charged under so an so case- have fun for the rest of your life time finding out who did what. And Ofcourse “why “ if you can

                        After Ruchika case our judicial system thought , people are saying so many bad things about us let us do something at least for a change.  And they come up with this – A new draft  Bill Under which – If a man forcibly puts his finger in to woman’s  mouth or lets his tongue enter her mouth during a kiss (if you can restrain doing this and yet to manage a kiss our law is ok with that) he could end up in jail for sexual assault with the sentence no less than the punishment for rape (yes you heard it right – for the “Rape”) which is seven years of life. Wait a minute – have you guys gone nuts Are you telling us that there is no difference between a “vilolent Rape and Kiss” ? you got to be kidding me. There has to be something better than you guys have come up with. You mean to say the guy who just happens to kiss his girl friend is going to be charged against Rape (ofcourse the GF didn’t quite liked it )?  Rest of the life he will be known as rapist?.

            I don’t deny that Indian laws on sexual assault have been extremely weak. At present section 375 and 376 deals of IPC deals which deals with the Rape.  But Wont this kind of law (The new amended one ) could be used at a greater extent merely to extort money , to outright panic that the doors would be thrown open for false cases that can destroy a person reputation. I know whats in your mind , you wanna say – Why don’t you suggest something about how do we handles millions of “Rathores” out there.  well I bet I have one  – how about giving the trial system a real pace when it is about rape ,molestation ?Hang The molesters  if you want but at  least do this in a Fare way. Give them chance to say what they have to say about this. Why not murder ? I am sorry I thought you already knew this – there were 30 million pending murder cases as of sep 2009 which will take – I don’t know may be decades to resolve all given we (the people of india) take an oath not to murder any body hereafter for any reason. So I thought at least the rape and sexual molestation charges trial can be a little speed up ?  

                                    High time our honourable judges please wake up , bring something real on desk at least for a change. I know you have slogged enough to reach that place and you have lost touch with work (The Real one ) but then atleast don’t throw some thing as stupid as this to us. Don’t call us rapist we happen to kiss our GF when she was in bad mood

                       

 

            

Girl ...

Are we ready for it ?

“When Men delayed History in INDIA a Woman creates history” this was the headline from one of the leading newspaper “The Economic Times” . One day later the news was“Women bill passed”. I was trying to find out how good it is going to serve INDIA as a decision or it’s a just another political move? I am not definitely trying to put a dictum about how good or bad the decision was, but I have few facts to put and I leave the decision up to you.

So far all the political parties have terrible record of giving women a share in political representation. Take for example 2009 election there were 8070 candidates who contested in these polls. Only 7 percent that is 556 were women candidate. So is it there are less good women available for representation or it is something else ? if former is the case aren’t we compromising the nation future. I don’t have single instance in mind where the reservation has served any purpose other than making rich richer.

I was told by women friend of mine that this is exactly we need reservation because this will bring more representation from the community which is considered to be comparatively week. And I had to tell her that just in case if you don’t know “OBC and Muslim women not to be given representation” because our constitution says They can have reservation only in jobs and education but not in legislatures. I am very sorry to say that though it’s a very good move but was not being taken keeping the nation interest in mind. It was mere a political move by Sonia Gandhi to bring Rahul Gandhi to power. The process was initiated at this point because she wanted to widening parties base ,luring in to mainstream whole new constituencies hoping that this will guarantee 300 + seats in loksabha so Rahul Gandhi can be king when he becomes PM ?

When I tried to dig a little more on NOT what Sonia Gandhi really think about it but what she actually does , the facts were surprising. Despite the fact that she shouts it so loudly that she is for woman empowerment she had allotted just about 10% of total seats for women in last election. Mayawati party BSP did even worst by restricting it to 5%.

Check this fact , out of the 59 women MP s 40 to be precise were crorepatis. And - out of the 59 Female MP s 10 have criminal cases pending against them. That makes it 17% of the women representative are criminals. What bothers me is, will we be ever able to find good representatives with this Quota rules? Can my nation take this as well? We need good and Strong leaders irrespective of their Sex. Our Foreign policies are messed up , China growth is bothering us day by day and eating our employment , and our honorable representatives are too busy to give a damn about what country needs. Party comes first and then country. People told me that decisions come out after a proper discussion in Loksabha so I decided one day to listen to that as well. After listening to two hour of discussion I felt there is nothing what these buggers care about other than shouting at each other. There wasn’t a single healthy discussion in 2 hour session and no wonder why only stupid policies and decisions come out of this place.

My research on this bill was able to convince me that there is nothing actually that good as it was portrayed. It’s just yet another political move to increase vote bank and the nation is definitely not ready for it. It’s a very good thing to give reservation to women but maybe this is not the right time. I have not even an iota of doubt that women have better management capabilities than any of men can ever have but there is lot of homework to be done before we expect that we as a nation can actual reap the benefit out of the capabilities our female counterparts have.And reserving seats in LS definitely doesn't serves the purpose helping them to grow by giving them equal space does.Celebrating every day as women's day does, Giving them the respect they always deserved and ever denied, Does.