True face of Lawlessness in India

We have seen so many movies where Cops are portrayed as big hooliguns. Mostly everyone in india by heart believes that police is not for our help rather it is better to avoid them.
Thanks to the recent incident in Bangalore now we know that there are bigger gundas than cops and they are the lawyers.
We must pity the state of our society in which we live in. Lawyers claim that they can break rules and even cops can not catch them. It is so unfortunate to see that the constable was suspended for catching a lawyer who violated all rules. The lawyer was not wearing helmet, he was driving without a license. Moreover the lawyer thrashed a cop on duty. In all possible laws that bugger must be in jail. On the contrary the lawyers took the city for a ride. Halted the traffic for 7 hours and finally made cops to bow down in front of them.
What can we expect from such lawyer community? Will they ever fight for me if I have to contest for my innocence. If they can slap a cop then what will they do to common people. They have such power that even our dear government became eununch and danced in their tunes.
Already we lost trust on police and now we saw the true face of the lawyers. Our life is truly in the hands of God and there is no way to expect justice in this system. May be thats why we (Hindus) believe in so many Gods :-) Please do not file a case for this statement.

Who should teach a girl how to dress?

I got up in a high mood on the last day of the year to find out the news in the newspaper that the top cop in one of our states has told that rape is a result of the way girls dress these days. Wao....does he mean to say that it is OK to rape a girl if you find her dress is too short. God, give us a break. Who is this cop and did not he get basic education from his parents in his childhood?
I was naive to think that this was the maximum height someone can reach. After couple of days the Head of the Bangalore University has supported the view and asked to implement dress code in colleges for girls. the most shocking point is that this person is a female and she belongs to the same school of thought. God save her daughter and daughter-in-law.
I remember a case in the US where a lady in bikini got molested in a sea beach. The judge told in his verdict that no one has right to touch anyone even if he or she is naked. We can file a case of obscenity against him or her but no one has given anyone the right to touch. This is called a civilized verdict. A half educated ( I am not talking about academics) person is as bad as an animal.
Now when I have started thinking much deeper I am no more shocked by such comments. There is a serious problem with the level of civilization and education in our country. In a country where so many families are ready to abort girl child, where so many people takes dowry for marriage, where so many cases happen where parents kill their child for inter-caste marriage it is obvious someone will put the blame on the girls for being raped.
In core of our mind we are like Talibans. We want to impose animal rules on people in the name of God and religion and culture.
Will the cops give gurantee that there will not be a single case of molestation if everyone wears Burqa? It is their job to find out those psychos and hang them in public rather than blaming the girls. People need to grow up and start learning differences between fashion and obscenity.
If a sleeveless dress seems to be obscene to someone he or she should sonsult a Psychitrist immediately. If someone cant control his libido seeing a girl in skirt then he should be better advised to get a hormonal treatment.
I wish we will not reach a state when girls will be asked to be at home always and we will go back 1000 years of civilization. And we know what used to happen to women then.

The impatient generation

The most valuable thing what we have lost in our generation is patience. We can not stand in a queue if there are 10 people in front of us. We can not wait for a bus to come so we chose to buy a vehicle. We are ready to pay bribe to avoid any kind of 'waiting' in life.

We blame it on our fast lifestyle but I think it has happened more because of the way we were brought up. We struggled a lot less for getting a high paid job compared to our previous generation. And we think we are class apart hence we have got all these in our life. In the very core of our mind we feel we are very special...we are genius. So all of us feel that we deserve special treatment.

Its a generation of self-acclaimed VIPs. Its a generation of capitalists influenced by push marketing. Everyone thinks he is a born CEO and should be treated like that even if he has not reached that level yet.

But this lack of patience will have serious consequences in our society. This attitude is not only hampering our social or community life but our personal life too. There is no alternative of patience when 120 crores of population is fighting for basic necessities of life. Meditation or yoga can be a good way to bring in more patience in us. We should learn to 'wait' for our turn to come.

The new trend in Hindi Filmi Music

Bollywood has seen a great transition in last few years as long as music is concerned. Today's music directors play the role of a 'Music Contractor'. They 'build' the music and they chose their 'labours' as well. The whole Music Composition for a movie has become a turn-key project for a Music Director. That is leading to lot of compromise on the quality of the singers. Most of the directors are going for less renowned, less skilled singers who are ready to do the job at a much lesser price providing opportunity to the director to keep bigger margins.

Thanks to today's advanced technologies lot of poor qualities get hidden. Still it is a pain for real music lovers. Even today any song of Lata Mageshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohd. Rafi or Kishore Kumar reaches our heart because those music were pure and honest. Today's songs make us dance but goes our of our mind the moment it stops. Today's music works on our brain but hardly reaches our heart.

It is unfortunate to see singers like Sonu Nigam, Shaan or Kunal Ganjawala are earning through stage shows and we are listening to some 'very ordinary' voices in all music albums. Thankfully there is not much alternatives available for female singers hence we are getting some opportunity to listen to the voices of Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chouhan.

The whole band culture has changed the choice of music a lot to the Indian young generation. Is it good or bad - that is debatable. There is no problem in having followers of different types of music. But that does not mean that we will destroy our so rich hindi filmi music.

Our expectation from TMC

We Bengalis have the problem of becoming too happy at times. I heard from my parents that Bengalis celebrated like crazy when CPM came into power in late seventies. Today we are going through a phase where all of us are too happy with the recent change in West Bengal governance.

No doubt it has given us an impetus to be hopeful again after a miserable 30 years political disaster in West Bengal. But it is too early to judge anything at this point of time. All of us need to be practical and keep our initial expectations low.

It will not be easy for any new government (where most of the Ministers hardly have any prior experience to run a state) to successfully implement anything they want. It needs lot of administrative sense & qualities of the governing bodies to do any successful implementation. I am not saying this government can not do. I am saying that lets plan for long term. Give them enough time to plan & execute. But lets not go for short term gains to get public sentiment in favour.

We have seen in Gujarat and Bihar that how much changes have taken place after a good government has come into power. But Narendra Modi has taken 2 tenures to bring in the major changes. half of his initiatives could not get completed in his first tenure.

We are all hopeful to see a much improved Bengal but please do not expect to see and try to prove such improvement until 2014-2015.

High Court verdict on Singur Land Acquisition Act

Finally Kolkata High Court has given its verdict on Singur Land Acquisition Act. Thank God they did it on a fast track.

Now since the verdict has gone in favour of the Government its time to think about its future effects.
Should any government be allowed to release all lands being acquired by the previous government and distribute it to the original owners?

Why an industrial organization be punished because of the feud between two political parties?
If the government has the power to take back all the lands then they should do it at the cost of pating back the present owners. The rates may be debatable but where is the logic of poaching the land from an industry which has already paid to the previous government.

While it is definitely a good news for the deprived poor population it is a disastrous decision for any industry's investment. There would not be any question had the land been directly acquired by the industrial Organisation. But these lands were acquired by the previous government and were handed over to the organisation at a cost.

This case will anyway go to Supreme Court and I hope the final decision is made keeping all probable future implications in mind.

The new age school system in India

'Do you have a swimming pool in your daughter's school?' - was the first question asked by one of my colleagues when I told them that I have finally decided about my kid's school. I was rather expecting a question like 'which board the school is affiliated with' or 'Has any batch cleared the Xth standard from the school yet?' etc.

Thats how our generation has changed the concept of schools. We demand a school with swimming pool, skating rink etc. more than the quality of education or teaching in the school. This is primarily the voice of the urban rich population. This population wants to see a nice-looking school like they have seen abroad.
There is no problem in demanding good facilities in the school but the problem is we are ready to compromise on our so far successful education system at the cost of glamour & external look-n-feel. All of us in urban India are happy & proud with the fact that we are leading a very decent lifestyle due to our academic background. All of us had gone to good primary schools where our teachers tauhght the basics very right. We represent a country which stands at the top in speaking and writing English amongst the non-native English speaking countries. There lies the success of our exisiting education system.

Then why are we trying to imitate schooling system of some countries whose average individual fails miserably in the race against an average Indian?

We talk about reducing stress & pressure for kids. But are we actually making them grow freely? Every kid today goes to dance or music or skating or swimming or tennis class after their school time. Every parent wants to see their kids shine in some forum or the other but we are compromising on the easiest way of success - academics.

Its high time the urban India realizes the need to continue the existing Indian education which has placed India today where it is.