Let us ask our parliamentarians

What did you all do in the last two decades after for the first time some media outside this country unveiled that kickbacks were paid in the Bofors’ deal? Who did you punish when you were told that a suitcase containing crores of rupees entered the then PM house? Who did you nail when a journalist tried to expose manipulations and money transactions in arms’ deals? Give me one politician’s name who was put behind bar for Hawala transactions. Whom did you hang for paying money for voting inside the parliament? How much of the lacs of crores that have been lost in the 2G scame have yet been recovered? What plans have been executed for recovery of the loot done during CWG preparations? When did you set a deadline to bring back the illegally deposited Indian money in Swiss bank? And for God’s sake who had stopped you to table and pass your version of Lokpal bill for all these years? And now you still need time?

Please admit that you have no face left to ask for time and no trick left to execute your age-old delaying tactics. You have already put the integrity and sanctity of parliament to shame and placed our democracy at stake. You have played with our patience. You always believed that you get a license to dictate your terms once you get elected. Do not put our patience to test. You have already tested our patience by taking turns to exploit us at your will. All these years we have been given only a choice of whom we would prefer for our own exploitation.

At this juncture please do not tell us how a law should be framed. The arrogance with which you handled the Ramdev agitation and intent that you are exhibiting while tackling the Anna movement only confirms our apprehensions that once voted to power you consider yourself as if you have joined the ranks of British Rulers. Your deeds have started shaking our confidence in democracy. It is not solely our duty to save democracy but it is also in your interest to reestablish our faith in democratic set-ups. Himalaya will not explode if a ‘non-critically analyzed’, ‘ill-prepared’ Lokpal bill is passed. Heavens will not fall if you accept the Jan Lokpal bill in the present form. There are so many rules waiting for modifications but lying unattended before you for years’ together. Can you yourself claim that all rules in its existing form are absolutely perfect and would never require a change? Please add one more to that list even if you do not agree with all the formulations of the Jan Lokpal bill. As you must realize that you only have put us at such a logjam that only this can put our faith back into democracy with some certainty and for this a 72 year old is on fast for last so many days. I would not like that the government awakes on this issue only at a point of no return when the crowd decides to pay the arrogance back to our parliamentarians. The time is surely slipping by…………

Parliament: The Dirtiest Den of Corruption

Mr. Manish Tiwari, you wanted us to accept that Anna is corrupt, but then didn’t you wish to use this only to make us accept corruption as your way of life? Mr. Digvijay wanted us to believe that Baba Ramdev has cheated us and amassed an enormous wealth but didn’t he mean to set that only as an example to justify corruption? Not that we do not know that you do not have a magic wand Mr. Prime Minister but what is hurting us more is that you do not even wish to possess one. We need no explanations as we now understand how our ‘honest’ Prime Minister wastes all his ‘honesty’ to save the culprits and we also need no clarifications from him as to why he uses his ‘honesty’ in selecting only a few who can be hanged in the name of corruption. The manner in which this government attempted to expose the source and destination of all money transactions of Ramdev in just a few days and the way it miserably failed to showcase any such result in any of the scams listed as Bofors to CWG/2G, have left us with no options but to believe in the obvious. We all understand that corruption will not end the day a bill is passed in the parliament. We all are not lawyers and that too as manipulative as you Mr. Sibbal, but we know that it will also not end by pleading helplessness in the name of growing economy or by accepting your initial contention that there was no loss of public money in the 2G scam or by using police force in the mid-night on helpless and sleeping people gathered to voice their protest against corruption. And this will also not end by forcing us in believing that the law does not permit any bill to be finalised outside the parliament.
Mr. Sibbal and his party must feel very fortunate as the issue has been taken up by the law abiding Indian civil society. Indian society has always believed in waiting till He appears in a new reincarnation and takes all the laws in His hands to wipe out the evils. We are still peacefully requesting, arguing and urging you to pass a bill in the same parliament that has been evolved as the dirtiest den of corruption. Society has still not taken law justifiably in its hands as Mr. Sibbal is wise enough to understand what is meant by this phrase. Please stop befooling everybody by showcasing cosmetic gestures in the name of tackling corruption and hanging small fries who will never be able to return back even a small percentage of the money that the scams have siphoned out of this country.
Howsoever humid the weather be but dews are formed only when a cool surface is found by the water vapour; howsoever filled up the atmosphere be with a combustible gas but it requires at least a spark to blow it up. This nation is unfortunate that no politician, across the entire spectrum of our political parties, is left with a face that can mobilise the restless mass, who have crossed their threshold limits way back, to come out on the streets and wage a war against corruption. We had to wait for an Anna for this to happen. It is pity that our parliament has turned into a dog-fighting street where political parties fight just for their turn of exploiting this country. Let me enlighten you Mr. Sibbal that those who documented provisions for making laws only in the parliament could have never dreamt of this situation where even in an independent India the parliamentarians are still engaged in looting and siphoning the smiles out of the faces of ordinary countrymen.
It is now more than obvious that our Prime Minister is not even willing to acquire the magic wand as he is rejecting a potential magic wand that is being offered to him by Anna. However we all must feel satisfied that the great puzzle - that whose clothes were snatched by Baba Ramdev when he was being beaten out of the Ramlila ground - is now solved as we witness the government standing exposed with nothing left to hide and all its modesty outraged.

PEEPING INTO THE BEEPS - THE ‘DELHI BELLY’ WAY

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I would advocate for a new category of censor certification to indicate that a particular movie is not advisable for watching even with your spouse or spouse-like friend. This particular film exactly fits that bill. It seems now writers have exhausted framing sentences even with otherwise witty but double-meaning phrases and have decided to nail direct-meaning words into your conscience. Yes no hypocrisy as they say. I am surprised as to how as many as four stars were awarded to this film (by Mayank Shekhar in HT on July 2) as I would require many more of those stars to hide the letters of the adjectives that I would have preferred to describe this G**D* film written by some B*******D (number of stars are exact as the words are in Hindi ). I was made to pass through a unique experience of continuous torture for an entire period of 98 minutes with no respite provided to me even in the form of an interval. I would like to somehow convey my warnings to the cine-goers that only if you can find humour in plain abuses shot out one after the other like a machine-gun, enjoy listening to those 4-5-6- letter-words without beeps continuously for one and a half hour and can laugh at repeatedly cheeking butts, the film is tailor-made for you. I am aware of a certain period in our lives (during our growing ages) wherein we are just thrown open to the world of abusive languages coming naturally around us especially while leading an unsettled and irresponsible life. I would have preferred to make efforts to cut this period as short as possible but the film attempts at glorifying this period to make it seep into the acceptable limits of our life-style. I was also advised to see the English version before forming an opinion on the film but unfortunately I find the trash too spilling to be justified. The language used is so sickeningly filthy that it ultimately strangulates the story and the subject of the film and I have never felt better even if an abuse is uttered in a 'sophisticated' English language. As Hussain used to see art in the nudity and that too in icons of worship, this film is made for those hypocrites who can see comedy in heaps of filth and enjoy vomiting shit. Movie ki shakal mein bhaiya yeh toh nikla keval trash trASH TRASSSSH.

Response to 'Slut Walk? No Thanks' by Seema Goswami

(Edited version of this response is published on June 26, 2011 of BRUNCH, HT page 4)

I was mesmerized by the way Seema Goswami expressed herself sensibly in “Slut Walk? No Thanks!” (Page 20, BRUNCH, HT June 19, 2011 please visit the following link http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/lifestyle/Slut-Walk-No-Thanks/Article1-710557.aspx ). I have always maintained that “right to dress” should not be stretched to have “right to undress” and “freedom of expression” should never be misused as “freedom to hurt”. She is absolutely right in placing that freedom and rights can never come bereft of responsibilities. Just as the slut walkers want others to behave responsibly (when they are slovenly dressed) they too have the same obligation to observe. I often wonder why females (unlike males) measure their liberty with their freedom of showing off their skin. When males show their sexuality they never complain if they get a response (if at all they get!) but females have a tendency to go overboard to show their sexuality but start complaining the moment they get the ‘desired?’ attention. Of course nobody can justify rape but just as ‘murder’ does not always fall under the ‘rarest of the rare’ category, rapists will always attempt to differentiate between a ‘seduced rape’ and a ‘forced rape’. And if females experience their inability in differentiating between rapes then they should not try to become men by downgrading themselves to compete with males in the race of the ‘show of sexuality’. Instead, they should attempt at shaking the conscience of males by exposing their usual tendencies of showing their sexuality - verbally or otherwise. I am sure females can do this without having to reveal their own sexuality and without feeding fodders to the male (hypocritically-sick) mind that desperately look for an opportunity to ogle even at the slut walkers.