The encounter and the rescue mission is yet on. My mom called in the evening and asked if I was going to office tomorrow and I said "subah dekhenge". My mom said - "Yeh toh Jammu wali baat hai".
From 1990 - 1992 my father was posted in Jammu... if you havent stayed in J&K you have no idea of what I am talking about. There you lived on a 'daily basis' ...that time it seemed natural...that was the way of life. You made plans having checked the hygiene factors (bombing/shoot outs)... I remember all of us going to the railway station to drop my aunt... when we reached home there was the news of a bomb blast on the same platform - we missed it by 15 min. We went to raghunath bazar and by the time the first car reached home there was a blast and we waited... hands folded in prayer... for the rest of our family.
Today... after 16 years I am again in a place jahan subah dekhenge...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Standard Deviation of......................
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
The people who wrote the constitution... the preamble of which is cited here... probably did not consider the following obvious issues while they were busy getting us our freedom and charting what was to be meteoric rise of a nation-state.
1) EQUALITY of status and of opportunity
- not if you are a north indian in Maharashtra... and trying to write an exam for a railway job...
- not if you are "an upper caste hindu" anywhere in India... it wouldnt matter if you are the best at what you do... I think we should also get a quota for merit now... (deviating a little...i dont think there was any worse time to be an upper caste hindu...) Call me insensitive... but i refuse to be treated by a doctor who could not manage to get a 50% on his bio exam... what you are saying is...his prescription may be 50% correct...though i would recommend this doctor to a certain Mr Arjun Singh...
2) JUSTICE, social, economic and political
well... no point in even atempting bullet points on this not because this is well taken care of... but because i dont quite understand in todays scenario what is justice! let alone social economic and political...
what i do understand is that if you make enough noise and burn enough buses you get quotas & reservations ... atleast it gets you on TV... actually anything gets you on TV these days...
also... if any random politician says i think so and so community should get so & so percentage of seats...its a win-win...coz no other party will actually come out and say this is not right... due to the fear of the latter losing those votes to the former...
another... it pays to be in politics... if you were in Congress in '84... you went scotfree reason being ' jab bada ped girta hai to dharti hilti hai'... if you were in BJP wen the babri masjid 'fell'... you are prolly in line to be PM...
as i said... i dont understand this concept to write about it... so we will go to the next...
3) LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
- the Mumbai argument again
- Midnight mass...which cant happen at midnight
- Orissa & Karnataka massacres...
- if Jaya Bachchan wants to speak in Hindi.... let her... why does the PVR booking window have to be broken for it.
- Amarnath yatra threats..
- you cant screen Jodha Akbar.... in Rajput areas... or Aamir Khan movies in Gujrat... or Bachchan movies in Bomday (HA!!) ( If they speak in hindi)...
- "Water" cant be made in banaras... though its set in it...and based on it... but well... it shows the not-so-pretty side of hinduism......... now dont go about thinking i am anti-hinduism... i am a hindu... but lets call a spade a spade...
4) FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation
- now im not limiting this to the MNS and SHiv sena...but did the congress actually think linguistic states was good for unity of the country????
- homosexuality is immoral??!!! Hello!!! We are the second largest population in the country... we can do with some less breeding here!!! OK... jokes apart... its a personal choice and a nation can not ostracize a community ... we are anyway a homophobic population... we are pushing these people further into anonymity.... a closeted life... and increased susceptibility to STDs... where is the dignity of the individual and this community????
- the number of ppl whose faces were blackened by the MNSs and students unions... they are yet indians... and last we checked there was a justice system... or that too is only limited to getting anticipatory bails????
ANNNND....can someone pl explain why SIMI is a banned orgn but Bajrang dal / VHP are not... dont get me wrong...im all for banning orgn if they intend to kill ppl...but are we banning only islamic orgns??? coz maybe im toooo liberal..but it doesnt sound right in a "secular" country... are we yet that or have we amended the preamble to read... "We will be what suits us the most and gets us the most votes"
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
The people who wrote the constitution... the preamble of which is cited here... probably did not consider the following obvious issues while they were busy getting us our freedom and charting what was to be meteoric rise of a nation-state.
1) EQUALITY of status and of opportunity
- not if you are a north indian in Maharashtra... and trying to write an exam for a railway job...
- not if you are "an upper caste hindu" anywhere in India... it wouldnt matter if you are the best at what you do... I think we should also get a quota for merit now... (deviating a little...i dont think there was any worse time to be an upper caste hindu...) Call me insensitive... but i refuse to be treated by a doctor who could not manage to get a 50% on his bio exam... what you are saying is...his prescription may be 50% correct...though i would recommend this doctor to a certain Mr Arjun Singh...
2) JUSTICE, social, economic and political
well... no point in even atempting bullet points on this not because this is well taken care of... but because i dont quite understand in todays scenario what is justice! let alone social economic and political...
what i do understand is that if you make enough noise and burn enough buses you get quotas & reservations ... atleast it gets you on TV... actually anything gets you on TV these days...
also... if any random politician says i think so and so community should get so & so percentage of seats...its a win-win...coz no other party will actually come out and say this is not right... due to the fear of the latter losing those votes to the former...
another... it pays to be in politics... if you were in Congress in '84... you went scotfree reason being ' jab bada ped girta hai to dharti hilti hai'... if you were in BJP wen the babri masjid 'fell'... you are prolly in line to be PM...
as i said... i dont understand this concept to write about it... so we will go to the next...
3) LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
- the Mumbai argument again
- Midnight mass...which cant happen at midnight
- Orissa & Karnataka massacres...
- if Jaya Bachchan wants to speak in Hindi.... let her... why does the PVR booking window have to be broken for it.
- Amarnath yatra threats..
- you cant screen Jodha Akbar.... in Rajput areas... or Aamir Khan movies in Gujrat... or Bachchan movies in Bomday (HA!!) ( If they speak in hindi)...
- "Water" cant be made in banaras... though its set in it...and based on it... but well... it shows the not-so-pretty side of hinduism......... now dont go about thinking i am anti-hinduism... i am a hindu... but lets call a spade a spade...
4) FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation
- now im not limiting this to the MNS and SHiv sena...but did the congress actually think linguistic states was good for unity of the country????
- homosexuality is immoral??!!! Hello!!! We are the second largest population in the country... we can do with some less breeding here!!! OK... jokes apart... its a personal choice and a nation can not ostracize a community ... we are anyway a homophobic population... we are pushing these people further into anonymity.... a closeted life... and increased susceptibility to STDs... where is the dignity of the individual and this community????
- the number of ppl whose faces were blackened by the MNSs and students unions... they are yet indians... and last we checked there was a justice system... or that too is only limited to getting anticipatory bails????
ANNNND....can someone pl explain why SIMI is a banned orgn but Bajrang dal / VHP are not... dont get me wrong...im all for banning orgn if they intend to kill ppl...but are we banning only islamic orgns??? coz maybe im toooo liberal..but it doesnt sound right in a "secular" country... are we yet that or have we amended the preamble to read... "We will be what suits us the most and gets us the most votes"
Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Dark Knight...
WOW!!! many times over!!!
Batman Begins had given hope that the character which was made a joke of by the many many many earlier batman movies could be salvaged... and then came the dark knight... i really wanted to write this when I saw the movie but I had no words... Nolan is a Genius!!! How can one possibly make what he did...
I have found myself repeating every possible line of the movie in every possible situation... completely unintentionally...
And after many many weeks of having seen the movie also... i find that i yet can not write about it... this time coz there is so much to say that it would border on incoherence.
Batman Begins had given hope that the character which was made a joke of by the many many many earlier batman movies could be salvaged... and then came the dark knight... i really wanted to write this when I saw the movie but I had no words... Nolan is a Genius!!! How can one possibly make what he did...
I have found myself repeating every possible line of the movie in every possible situation... completely unintentionally...
And after many many weeks of having seen the movie also... i find that i yet can not write about it... this time coz there is so much to say that it would border on incoherence.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Blogging again :D
After bt 2 yrs im going to be blogging again... all posts before this one are part of another blog i used to write... i've picked up some and put them here... i hope i am more regular... thrz so much chaos... which translates to thrz so much to write... so im writing again...
Friday, April 7, 2006
soon... we shall revisit the mandal commission...
India is a country of High intellectual capital. I like this statement. For it shows so much promise and soon it will be history. For their will be greater reservations. Merit will take a back seat. In this regressionist country we will all be left to watch the decline of a nation for a 'populist' measure of a corrupt polity.How dificult is it to understand that people should get a position / a seat for what they are worth and not who they were born as. Not because 200 years ago their forefathers were trampled upon. we are a great country...unique and ingenious... ready to sacrifice our future for obnoxious memories of the past. What happened was unfortunate. Whats hapening now is a catastrophe. This is insane.This reservation bill will be the last nail in the coffin of a promising nation... for this wouldnt even leave the brain to drain...
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