Is this all neccessary?

I was just wathicng one of the CNN IBNs video about the road blocks in Delhi and other NCR region over the Amarnath land issue. In the midst of the chakka jam, 70 Year old Gendaram died in the ambulance simply because the ambulance was caught in the jam. We should ask his family about the worthiness of this chakka-jaam.

Democracy gives the right to everybody to express his views / opinions, not neccessarily at the cost of other's lives. We should not forget that authority comes with the responsibility. There should be strict laws that restrict any political party/ organization/union to organize any chakka jams on National Highways, during office hours and the safe passage to the emergency vehicles should be guaranteed by the authorities.

I think now its time for us to introspect, is there any issue bigger than saving a person's life?

Regionalism: A new aspect of cheap politics

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve". I remember somewhere I have read these lines of George Bernard Shaw's comment. In today’s era, these lines seem to be 100 % true. With the spread of hate, violence, non- tolerance in the name of Marathi Manoos, started yet another chapter in the cheap politics of my nation. I have some questions to all those leaders who are self-proclaiming savior of Marathi manoos and the Marathi culture:
"You have all your kids educated at prestigious schools like Bombay-Scottish in English medium, why did you not admit them in Marathi-medium schools”?
They want all the non-marathis to get out of the Maharashtra; will they be calling all the marathis from all over the India back to Maharashtra? What will they do when all the non-marathis will leave Maharashtra? Do they have any plan, any vision when they will be left with almost no taxi drivers, rickshaw pullers or any other labourers?
However, it is always easy for us to point our fingers to the leaders and skip our duty as a citizen of this republic. Are we that blind? Can we not do introspection? We are no better than a herd of sheep who blindly follows the one who is in front, never argue, never reason, never question, Just follow.

Nano....where will you drive in India ??

With the arrival of long time awaiting Tata nano car, I would like to ask Mr. Ratan Tata-"Where will the people drive these cars”? Everytime I go to India, I see new flyovers, bridges, toll collecting stations. It all seems like a concrete jungle where it is becoming difficult to breathe. No wonder we are becoming a gigantic contributor to the CO2 emission club. Had Mr. Tata invested in researching a cleaner, , more efficient public transport bus, it would have been much more beneficial for the nature and for the people too.

Fight for reservation in Rajasthan

Fight for reservation is an ongoing hot topic in Rajsthan's politics these days. Being a rajasthani, I cannot help myself to pen down a couple of thoughts I have on this topic. When the constitution of India was being drafted, certain historicaly opressed and under-represented groups were identified by the constitution makers. The whole idea of the reservation was to give these people a chance to climb the ladders with somewhat help and be on a comman platform as others. With time, this idea had taken toll in the power corridors of India to play the usual politics.
In current scenario it is completely transformed into something which only comes out of the box just before elections to pursuade people. What could be the worse than common people themselves cannot understand the dirty politics of our leaders which show the mirage everytime elections are on their way ?

Shameful new year eve !!

Once again, the news of women molestation on the new year's eve shocked the country. It happened all across the landscape of India, from kochi to mumbai to patna. The most shocking news to me was in mumbai, a crowd of 60 hoodlums molested 2 young women. This was the time when we were supposed to make the resolution in order to be a more just, fair and strong society. On the contrary, few thugs tried to harass 2 helpless young women. To my surprise, on the same day some so called "moral police" guys smashed a video parlour in Mumbai accusing them of running the prostitution business. I have a very simple question- Where the hell this moral police disappears when the shameful incidents like the molestation of 2 women by 60 men happens? When this "moral police" can smash an archies card shop for selling the valentine day card, why don't they come up for the help of young women like those who have been harassed? What an extreme of hypocracy !!!!!
Incidents like this not only shows the drastic degradation in our moral values, they also pin points that as a society, where are we heading. If few guys were molesting these women, what were other people doing? Why didn't they come for their help? I don't buy the argument that Police didn't do anything. Police is forced to enforce the law, but common people plays a vital role in enforcing the law. We need to rethink on this and try to act on our intuition so as to stop the incidents like this.