Kai baar jab akeli baithti hun to khud se puchti hun yeh zindagi hai kya????Ek pal mein hi yeh zindagi khushiyan deti aur dusre hi pal gam...Ek pal is ehsaas ki khushi ki koi tumse pyaar karta aur dusre hi pal use khone ka dar aankhon me aansu de deta hai....Ek pal tumhara koi dost tumhare paas hai aur dusre hi pal tumse door chala jaaye........Kya hai yeh zindagi?????
Kisi ke door jaane ke baad kya reh jaata hai...yaadein bas yaadein.....Yaadein un sunhare palon ki jo saath bitaye the, woh khatti meethi yaadein saath hasne ki, saath gaane ki, sukh dukh baantne ki...Kya chahta hai man un palon ko fir jeene ka unhi khushiyon ko saath jeene ka.....par yeh zindagi hai kya yehi to paheli hai!!!!
Yehi sochke lagta hai zindagi hai kya???Khushiyon ki ek meethi nadi ya fir gamon ka namkeen samundar....ya fir is samundar mein hai duvidha naam ka ek bhanwar bhi hai jis mein agar insaan ek baar dhas jaaye to bas us mein aur andar hi jaata rehta hai...Mujhe is zindagi ne kabhi hasaya hai to kabhi rulaya hai..kabhi sochne pe majboor kiya hai ki agar main ro rahi hun to kya yeh aansoo mujhe zindagi ke kuch haseen palon ko jeene se rok rahe hain..Shayad yeh kahin sahi hai to kahin galat hai....Kabhi rone ke baad lagta hai ki andar kitna kuch tha jo is dil ko jala raha tha jo nikal gaya..Kabhi yeh aansoon tumhare ya kisi aur ki aankh se tumhe yeh mehsoos kara dete hain ki dono ek dusre ke kitne kareeb hain..Par dukh bhi hota hai ki tumhare liye kisi ki aankh mein aansoo aa gaye hain...Yeh zindagi kyun aise raaston pe laati hai jahan tum kai humrahi banate ho aur wahi humrahi alag raah pakad lete hain aur raaste badal jaate hain...aur hum fir ek naya saath dhundne lagta hai.
Zindagi mein agar khushi agar kuch pareshani ya dukh ke baad mile to woh ek choti si khushi bhi zindagi bhar ki sabse badi khushi lagti hai..Lagta hai jaise ek jahan hi jeet liya ho,sab kuch apna sa lagne lagta hai,har lamha jeene ko man karta hai,naachne ko man karta hai,apni khushi apne kareebi logon se baantne ko karta hai..Sahi hi kaha jaata hai ki har raat ke baad subah hoti hai aur agar wahi subah amavas ki kaali raat ke baad aaye to suraj ki kirne aur sunhari lagti hain......Khushiyan humari zindagi mein bhar rakhi hain jarurat hai to bas unhe talashne ki, unhe mehsoos karne ki, unhe jeene ki..Agar hum dukh ki paribhasha hi badal dein to shayad dukh kabhi hoga hi nahin..
Zindagi na hi khushi hai na hi gam hai aur na hi duvidha hai..zindagi ek Sangarsh hai ek Chunauti hai..Har pal ko jeena, gam mein muskurana ek chunauti hai,khush hote hue kahin gam mein na doob jaana ek chunauti hai, har duvidha ko suljhana ek chunauti hai..Zindagi humein ishwar ke ek anmol tohfa hai, use kaatna nahi chahiye use jeena chahiye......
Zindagi insaan ko roz naye mod pe le jaati hai..Kabhi zindagi mein sab kuch nahi mil sakta..Waise agar sab kuch mil bhi jaaye to shayad zindagi ke maayne hi badal jayenge......Tabhi to kaha jaata hai..
" Har Kisi Ko Mukkamal Jahan Nahi Milta Kisi Ko Zameen Kisi Ko Aasman Nahi Milta"
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Optimism....
OPTIMISM
Since the day I have started understanding life, the people around me, there are two words that I've heard almost every day in my life; OPTIMISM and PESSIMISM...."He is quite Optimistic" or "Oh My God he is so Pessimistic' are two sentences that are so casually used these days.See even I am using these two words without even explaining what these are actually.......Who is an OPTIMIST?????A person who sees positive in everything around him..Opposite to optimist is PESSIMIST....one who can only have negative approach towards life....
Since childhood I've seen one example that is used widely to make us understand these two words.If there is a glass of water in front of you that is half filled...there are two ways to see it. An Optimist will always see as half filled whereas a Pessimist will always see it as half empty...Similar can be applied in our life also...One will say that I've achieved something in my life and will achieve more and believe me he will do that also..whereas the other one will say that what I've achieved in so much time of my life and what the hell I'll achieve further......These are two different approaches to see your life and I don't think that I need to mention what is the perspective of an Optimist and what is that of Pessimist....
I have always believed that one who is optimistic knows how to live life and how to enjoy every moment and thus have beautiful memories of past and a colourful vision of future..whereas for the other one, he knows not muc of happiness as he was always successful in finding faults in everything & visualising dark and blurred future....
I can't say that an optimist has never thought negatively in his life..We all are humans, we have tendency to get shaken by challenges and obstacles in life..but why not try to find something good in that bad phase of life..Might be its making us strong to face bigger problems in future..This is the vision of an Optimist....This is the strength of Optimism..
We all get influenced by the movies and books very easily..This is what happened with me also..Once I've seen a movie that has left a huge impression on my mind..The movie was "Life is Beautiful". The name itself suggests the motive behind making that movie...See it and understand life is beautiful....enjoy its beauty..The movie is based on the life of a young 'Jew" man who because of his positive approach was able to save his son from the gruelling concentration camp..He along with his wife and 5 yrs old son was send to a concentration camp..The man instils in his child the courage to survive in the concentration camp..He always tells his child that its a game in which the winner will win a ride in a real war tank...Throughout the time spend in the concentration camp not even once a sign of tension seen on the face of the man because he wanted his son to live happily and by being an optimist in fighting in life..In the end the man dies but he is able to save his child and in the end the child rides on an american tank and he believed what is father has told him...The man never broke and he never let his child broke down by just instilling optimism in his child..and this was the optimism of the man that won in saving his child from the mental pressure of staying in a concentration camp...
This is the power of Optimism......It can create wonders..It can make impossible possible.....As we know even the word itself says I M POSSIBLE....This is the power of optimism of making everything possible......So just be Positive in Life and enjoy it to its Fullest........
Since the day I have started understanding life, the people around me, there are two words that I've heard almost every day in my life; OPTIMISM and PESSIMISM...."He is quite Optimistic" or "Oh My God he is so Pessimistic' are two sentences that are so casually used these days.See even I am using these two words without even explaining what these are actually.......Who is an OPTIMIST?????A person who sees positive in everything around him..Opposite to optimist is PESSIMIST....one who can only have negative approach towards life....
Since childhood I've seen one example that is used widely to make us understand these two words.If there is a glass of water in front of you that is half filled...there are two ways to see it. An Optimist will always see as half filled whereas a Pessimist will always see it as half empty...Similar can be applied in our life also...One will say that I've achieved something in my life and will achieve more and believe me he will do that also..whereas the other one will say that what I've achieved in so much time of my life and what the hell I'll achieve further......These are two different approaches to see your life and I don't think that I need to mention what is the perspective of an Optimist and what is that of Pessimist....
I have always believed that one who is optimistic knows how to live life and how to enjoy every moment and thus have beautiful memories of past and a colourful vision of future..whereas for the other one, he knows not muc of happiness as he was always successful in finding faults in everything & visualising dark and blurred future....
I can't say that an optimist has never thought negatively in his life..We all are humans, we have tendency to get shaken by challenges and obstacles in life..but why not try to find something good in that bad phase of life..Might be its making us strong to face bigger problems in future..This is the vision of an Optimist....This is the strength of Optimism..
We all get influenced by the movies and books very easily..This is what happened with me also..Once I've seen a movie that has left a huge impression on my mind..The movie was "Life is Beautiful". The name itself suggests the motive behind making that movie...See it and understand life is beautiful....enjoy its beauty..The movie is based on the life of a young 'Jew" man who because of his positive approach was able to save his son from the gruelling concentration camp..He along with his wife and 5 yrs old son was send to a concentration camp..The man instils in his child the courage to survive in the concentration camp..He always tells his child that its a game in which the winner will win a ride in a real war tank...Throughout the time spend in the concentration camp not even once a sign of tension seen on the face of the man because he wanted his son to live happily and by being an optimist in fighting in life..In the end the man dies but he is able to save his child and in the end the child rides on an american tank and he believed what is father has told him...The man never broke and he never let his child broke down by just instilling optimism in his child..and this was the optimism of the man that won in saving his child from the mental pressure of staying in a concentration camp...
This is the power of Optimism......It can create wonders..It can make impossible possible.....As we know even the word itself says I M POSSIBLE....This is the power of optimism of making everything possible......So just be Positive in Life and enjoy it to its Fullest........
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Woman and Career
We are living in 21st century now....but how many of us realise this??
Many people say these days that whats the difference between a boy and a girl....a man and a woman........But majority of those who says these things don't even believe it...They say these just to show that they are moving ahead with time.....and mind it its not the people of older generation i am talking about, its quite common in the people of our generation also....
Since my childhood I have found people around me saying that learn or study how much ever you want but at the end of the day you have to make round chappatis only as your mother does..In childhood as all other children I used to hear it and forget it as soon as I was with my friends or my books..It never meant anything for me...But as I reached my adolocence and then hearing these things made a mark on my mind...
Luckily for me my parents never said this to me..My dad always wanted me to do something in my life, he wanted me to be independent. Same was the case with my mother, she wanted the same as my dad, or probably more than him. She always used to say that she has not utilised her education by just sitting at home as a homemaker, the refined version of the word HouseWife..I can never say that being a housewife she hasn't done anything in her life..She is the stepping stone for the success of our family in whatever field it might be, but she might also had some dreams which were not fulfilled..She always wanted to become a lawyer but was not allowed by her family to go to another city for education..Then she thought of becoming a teacher but her father didn't allowed her and after her marriage my father didn't liked the idea much as his was a joint family and he just was not able to take such decisions on his own..I think this is one reason that both of them encouraged me to have a good career...my mother as she wanted me to fulfill my dreasm and my father as he has seen my mother with her dreams unfulfilled..
But how many girls in India get such opportunities even now, in 2008...
Even if we get opportunities to have a career of our own the obstacles and challenges are enough to shake us.....
What happens when a girl in India is about to turn 23-24 years old, the first thing everyone will ask is that when are you getting married???The reply comes once I have a job and a career settled and the reaction is why so???If the girl fights and gets a job, as soon as she gets it again the same question....why does never one asks a boy once he gets a job when will he marry???? People say yoy have got a job, now get settled properly for 2-3 years atleast and then start thinking about marriage.........Why does this happen????
Answer is simple because still our society has not yet accepted that there is no difference between a boy and a girl...Still the bread earner for the family is just considered to be the man and the woman's earning is still least important...Why does everyone think that a job or a career is just for earning money and not for passion or for the fulfillment of the dreams....
When the girl is married why is she only expected to think about the family, house, food and children....Aren't these also the responsibility of the man???They are told that do your job but it should not distrupt the daily chore of household, why the man never told this???He has the privilege to think about his career and how to grow it then why not the woman has same privileges???How many men can accept the success of their spouse, especially iof they are in same profession??
This is not only what a woman faces..this was just the personal aspect of her life, there are challenges for her in her career also.I am not talking about the challenges in her work, but the problems she faces for being a woman. How many men in our society are comfortable working under a woman boss???How many men can accept the success of their feamle colleagues whole- heartedly??
These are just few of the hundreds questions that come in my mind.....and answers to these I am still searching....
Life is not easy for a woman where she is only expected to maintain a balance between her career and her family..even if she has to sacrifice her dreams, even if she had to make hundreds of compromises and adjustments....its only her DUTY.............
I just hope one day will come when things will be different.......
Many people say these days that whats the difference between a boy and a girl....a man and a woman........But majority of those who says these things don't even believe it...They say these just to show that they are moving ahead with time.....and mind it its not the people of older generation i am talking about, its quite common in the people of our generation also....
Since my childhood I have found people around me saying that learn or study how much ever you want but at the end of the day you have to make round chappatis only as your mother does..In childhood as all other children I used to hear it and forget it as soon as I was with my friends or my books..It never meant anything for me...But as I reached my adolocence and then hearing these things made a mark on my mind...
Luckily for me my parents never said this to me..My dad always wanted me to do something in my life, he wanted me to be independent. Same was the case with my mother, she wanted the same as my dad, or probably more than him. She always used to say that she has not utilised her education by just sitting at home as a homemaker, the refined version of the word HouseWife..I can never say that being a housewife she hasn't done anything in her life..She is the stepping stone for the success of our family in whatever field it might be, but she might also had some dreams which were not fulfilled..She always wanted to become a lawyer but was not allowed by her family to go to another city for education..Then she thought of becoming a teacher but her father didn't allowed her and after her marriage my father didn't liked the idea much as his was a joint family and he just was not able to take such decisions on his own..I think this is one reason that both of them encouraged me to have a good career...my mother as she wanted me to fulfill my dreasm and my father as he has seen my mother with her dreams unfulfilled..
But how many girls in India get such opportunities even now, in 2008...
Even if we get opportunities to have a career of our own the obstacles and challenges are enough to shake us.....
What happens when a girl in India is about to turn 23-24 years old, the first thing everyone will ask is that when are you getting married???The reply comes once I have a job and a career settled and the reaction is why so???If the girl fights and gets a job, as soon as she gets it again the same question....why does never one asks a boy once he gets a job when will he marry???? People say yoy have got a job, now get settled properly for 2-3 years atleast and then start thinking about marriage.........Why does this happen????
Answer is simple because still our society has not yet accepted that there is no difference between a boy and a girl...Still the bread earner for the family is just considered to be the man and the woman's earning is still least important...Why does everyone think that a job or a career is just for earning money and not for passion or for the fulfillment of the dreams....
When the girl is married why is she only expected to think about the family, house, food and children....Aren't these also the responsibility of the man???They are told that do your job but it should not distrupt the daily chore of household, why the man never told this???He has the privilege to think about his career and how to grow it then why not the woman has same privileges???How many men can accept the success of their spouse, especially iof they are in same profession??
This is not only what a woman faces..this was just the personal aspect of her life, there are challenges for her in her career also.I am not talking about the challenges in her work, but the problems she faces for being a woman. How many men in our society are comfortable working under a woman boss???How many men can accept the success of their feamle colleagues whole- heartedly??
These are just few of the hundreds questions that come in my mind.....and answers to these I am still searching....
Life is not easy for a woman where she is only expected to maintain a balance between her career and her family..even if she has to sacrifice her dreams, even if she had to make hundreds of compromises and adjustments....its only her DUTY.............
I just hope one day will come when things will be different.......
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Arushi Murder Case
16th May,Friday when hundreds of us must be enjoying our step towards another weekend a murder took place, well must say twin murders took place in a house in Noida. Arushi Talwar a 14 year old girl was murdered in her own bedroom in her house. It was said that her parents were sleeping in the next room when she was killed. Her parents saw her body the next morning and reported it to police. The police came in saw the body, asked ome questions, found the servant, Hemraj, missing and the verdict its a clear case of murder by the servant..The height of their this belief was that they even announced the reward money of 20,000 for the one who gave the information about Hemraj. They did all this without even any further investigations.
The next day a neighbour of the Talwar family, a retired cop came to pay his condolences to the family when he saw the blood stains on the stairs that were heading towards the terrace. He out of curiosity went upstairs but the door of the terrace was locked and surprisingly no one had the keys for it.......Surprising isn't it??? Even the owner of the house doesn't have keys for the door...Finally the door was broken down and what found there was not surprising but actually it was shocking...There was found the decomposing body of Hemraj...The main suspect of Arushi's murder was found murdered on the terrace of the same house..
Well what a small mistake the Noida Police committed.........Actually its a blunder because what followed were the mistakes....
The mattress and the blood soaked bedsheet on which arsuhi was killed were found lying on the terrace of the house..instead of taking it in possession and taking it away for forensic examination it was left there for a day to get exposed to the elements..Next day they just cut a small piece of the mattress and took it with them...who stopped them to tak ethe whole thing with them???
Just few assumptions as such murders are generally committed by the domestic helpers in NCR, but just with this assumption they made a person criminal who was killed at the same time as was Arushi..Is the crime that took place was a non serious one, a small girl who had all her life to live was murdered..And the police just took things so lightly..The police also seem to be desensitised by the daily chronicles of crime in the national capital region to bother too much about how and when they solve any particular case..
Well this was one ugly part of the story, what followed was even uglier..Now when came the name of the suspect of the twin murders even the word shocking became underrated..Arushi's father was the suspect of the twin murders that took place on 16th of May.
The murders took place with a surgical knife..Its believed that Dr.Rajesh Talwar, father of Arushi was having an extra marital affair with his colleague Dr.Anita Durrani. Arushi came to knew about it and she was not happy about it.She had an argument with her father and was killed by him. Hemraj was the one who was blackmailing Dr.Talwar and he was also killed.If this was the case then how Arushi's mother didn't knew about the murdrs held at her house, was somewhere she was also involved???
Police is also investigating the theory of wife swapping in this case with Talwar;s and Durrani's involved..Even the chances of Honour Killing are also not ruled out..
Whatever the reason behind it, if a father has killed his own daughter then where are society is heading to?A father killing his own daughter to hide his illicit realtionship or for maintaining his family's honour is just unreasonable..Arushi Talwar was killed in cold blood by none other than her own father. No matter what the arguments are on the motive behind the crime the act of murder itself remains as irredeemable as ever....
The next day a neighbour of the Talwar family, a retired cop came to pay his condolences to the family when he saw the blood stains on the stairs that were heading towards the terrace. He out of curiosity went upstairs but the door of the terrace was locked and surprisingly no one had the keys for it.......Surprising isn't it??? Even the owner of the house doesn't have keys for the door...Finally the door was broken down and what found there was not surprising but actually it was shocking...There was found the decomposing body of Hemraj...The main suspect of Arushi's murder was found murdered on the terrace of the same house..
Well what a small mistake the Noida Police committed.........Actually its a blunder because what followed were the mistakes....
The mattress and the blood soaked bedsheet on which arsuhi was killed were found lying on the terrace of the house..instead of taking it in possession and taking it away for forensic examination it was left there for a day to get exposed to the elements..Next day they just cut a small piece of the mattress and took it with them...who stopped them to tak ethe whole thing with them???
Just few assumptions as such murders are generally committed by the domestic helpers in NCR, but just with this assumption they made a person criminal who was killed at the same time as was Arushi..Is the crime that took place was a non serious one, a small girl who had all her life to live was murdered..And the police just took things so lightly..The police also seem to be desensitised by the daily chronicles of crime in the national capital region to bother too much about how and when they solve any particular case..
Well this was one ugly part of the story, what followed was even uglier..Now when came the name of the suspect of the twin murders even the word shocking became underrated..Arushi's father was the suspect of the twin murders that took place on 16th of May.
The murders took place with a surgical knife..Its believed that Dr.Rajesh Talwar, father of Arushi was having an extra marital affair with his colleague Dr.Anita Durrani. Arushi came to knew about it and she was not happy about it.She had an argument with her father and was killed by him. Hemraj was the one who was blackmailing Dr.Talwar and he was also killed.If this was the case then how Arushi's mother didn't knew about the murdrs held at her house, was somewhere she was also involved???
Police is also investigating the theory of wife swapping in this case with Talwar;s and Durrani's involved..Even the chances of Honour Killing are also not ruled out..
Whatever the reason behind it, if a father has killed his own daughter then where are society is heading to?A father killing his own daughter to hide his illicit realtionship or for maintaining his family's honour is just unreasonable..Arushi Talwar was killed in cold blood by none other than her own father. No matter what the arguments are on the motive behind the crime the act of murder itself remains as irredeemable as ever....
Thursday, April 10, 2008
When we were kids we used to study in our that time colorful books that INDIA is a country that is united despite being so diverse in cultures, languages, religions...
The constitution of INDIA has given its people fundamental rights.Right to Speech,Right to
Movement etc..But are all these things just written in books?? Or are they really true.........
Seeing what all has happened in Maharashtra in past one month just shows that what was taught to us in our childhood is not entirely true...
If INDIA is one united country, if Indian constitution gives right of movement to its citizens,
then why people of different states of INDIA residing in MAHARASHTRA are beaten up..why are they thrashed, why are they abused????
Can some one give answers to these questions???
Last one month people of UP, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab staying in Maharashtra are going through a lot of problems.They are abused and they are beaten up...Slogans are shouted by the local people of the state to warn them to leave so called "THEIR STATE...THEIR LAND".
Today from the very small jobs to big corporate jobs in Mumbai are done by Non-Maharashtrains.From the taxi wallah,riksha wallah,chai wallah,peon,bai to the Software engineers, MBA's to the Film Stars the majority one will find is of Non-Marathis..Once these people are thrown out of Mumbai, how will the city work??
Raj Thakrey started all this by saying that Amitabh Bachhan despite of staying in Mumbai do
everything for his home state UP.....
Wasn't this ridiculous???
Well lets not get into the politics of involving huge names like Amitabh Bachhan in this
debate..What he has done for UP or Maharashtra is his own personal liking or his belief..
What he has done for UP like building up schools or hospitals can be either of helping his close
friend Amar Singh or really his love for his birth place..
Dont we encourage NRI's to come back and help INDIA i one or the other way..If that is right then how dong something for one's birth place is wrong?
Why do we celeberate Pravasi Bhartiya Divas every year???
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas aims at bringing the expertise and knowledge of the Indian overseas
community to India and integrating it into India's development process.
Then why dont we say that Indians staying in US or UK or any other foreign place should not do
anything for INDIA..they should devote their whole life and everything to the country where they are staying now..
If this would have been the situation then today people like Amartya Sen,Kalpana Chawla,Salman Rushdie,Deepa Mehta,Lakshmi Mittal should have also forgotten their own land, their INDIA and give the country of their residence whole importance.....
Raj Thakrey, a political leader who is young.He was born in a liberal country and has seen very
little prejudice, especially in the city where he was raised. He was educated with people like
us, in schools like ours with people of different religions and regions.I used to think that
today our country need leaders who are young, who know how INDIA can compete with foreign
countries,who can be the front runners for the development of our country in every aspect.
But thanks to Raj Thakrey for opening our eyes that whether young or old politicians will be
politicians..they will never change......
There is one more thing that our politicians and leaders should not forget that Bhagat singh
fought for India's independence not for Punjab's Independence.Same goes for all our freedom
fighters who laid down their lives for the independence of our country but not for the
independence of their individual states...
The constitution of INDIA has given its people fundamental rights.Right to Speech,Right to
Movement etc..But are all these things just written in books?? Or are they really true.........
Seeing what all has happened in Maharashtra in past one month just shows that what was taught to us in our childhood is not entirely true...
If INDIA is one united country, if Indian constitution gives right of movement to its citizens,
then why people of different states of INDIA residing in MAHARASHTRA are beaten up..why are they thrashed, why are they abused????
Can some one give answers to these questions???
Last one month people of UP, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab staying in Maharashtra are going through a lot of problems.They are abused and they are beaten up...Slogans are shouted by the local people of the state to warn them to leave so called "THEIR STATE...THEIR LAND".
Today from the very small jobs to big corporate jobs in Mumbai are done by Non-Maharashtrains.From the taxi wallah,riksha wallah,chai wallah,peon,bai to the Software engineers, MBA's to the Film Stars the majority one will find is of Non-Marathis..Once these people are thrown out of Mumbai, how will the city work??
Raj Thakrey started all this by saying that Amitabh Bachhan despite of staying in Mumbai do
everything for his home state UP.....
Wasn't this ridiculous???
Well lets not get into the politics of involving huge names like Amitabh Bachhan in this
debate..What he has done for UP or Maharashtra is his own personal liking or his belief..
What he has done for UP like building up schools or hospitals can be either of helping his close
friend Amar Singh or really his love for his birth place..
Dont we encourage NRI's to come back and help INDIA i one or the other way..If that is right then how dong something for one's birth place is wrong?
Why do we celeberate Pravasi Bhartiya Divas every year???
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas aims at bringing the expertise and knowledge of the Indian overseas
community to India and integrating it into India's development process.
Then why dont we say that Indians staying in US or UK or any other foreign place should not do
anything for INDIA..they should devote their whole life and everything to the country where they are staying now..
If this would have been the situation then today people like Amartya Sen,Kalpana Chawla,Salman Rushdie,Deepa Mehta,Lakshmi Mittal should have also forgotten their own land, their INDIA and give the country of their residence whole importance.....
Raj Thakrey, a political leader who is young.He was born in a liberal country and has seen very
little prejudice, especially in the city where he was raised. He was educated with people like
us, in schools like ours with people of different religions and regions.I used to think that
today our country need leaders who are young, who know how INDIA can compete with foreign
countries,who can be the front runners for the development of our country in every aspect.
But thanks to Raj Thakrey for opening our eyes that whether young or old politicians will be
politicians..they will never change......
There is one more thing that our politicians and leaders should not forget that Bhagat singh
fought for India's independence not for Punjab's Independence.Same goes for all our freedom
fighters who laid down their lives for the independence of our country but not for the
independence of their individual states...
INDIA...One Country or Cluster of States????????
When we were kids we used to study in our that time colorful books that INDIA is a country that is united despite being so diverse in cultures, languages, religions...
The constitution of INDIA has given its people fundamental rights.Right to Speech,Right to
Movement etc..But are all these things just written in books?? Or are they really true.........
Seeing what all has happened in Maharashtra in past one month just shows that what was taught to us in our childhood is not entirely true...
If INDIA is one united country, if Indian constitution gives right of movement to its citizens,
then why people of different states of INDIA residing in MAHARASHTRA are beaten up..why are they thrashed, why are they abused????
Can some one give answers to these questions???
Last one month people of UP, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab staying in Maharashtra are going through a lot of problems.They are abused and they are beaten up...Slogans are shouted by the local people of the state to warn them to leave so called "THEIR STATE...THEIR LAND".
Today from the very small jobs to big corporate jobs in Mumbai are done by Non-Maharashtrains.From the taxi wallah,riksha wallah,chai wallah,peon,bai to the Software engineers, MBA's to the Film Stars the majority one will find is of Non-Marathis..Once these people are thrown out of Mumbai, how will the city work??
Raj Thakrey started all this by saying that Amitabh Bachhan despite of staying in Mumbai do
everything for his home state UP.....
Wasn't this ridiculous???
Well lets not get into the politics of involving huge names like Amitabh Bachhan in this
debate..What he has done for UP or Maharashtra is his own personal liking or his belief..
What he has done for UP like building up schools or hospitals can be either of helping his close
friend Amar Singh or really his love for his birth place..
Dont we encourage NRI's to come back and help INDIA i one or the other way..If that is right then how dong something for one's birth place is wrong?
Why do we celeberate Pravasi Bhartiya Divas every year???
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas aims at bringing the expertise and knowledge of the Indian overseas
community to India and integrating it into India's development process.
Then why dont we say that Indians staying in US or UK or any other foreign place should not do
anything for INDIA..they should devote their whole life and everything to the country where they are staying now..
If this would have been the situation then today people like Amartya Sen,Kalpana Chawla,Salman Rushdie,Deepa Mehta,Lakshmi Mittal should have also forgotten their own land, their INDIA and give the country of their residence whole importance.....
Raj Thakrey, a political leader who is young.He was born in a liberal country and has seen very
little prejudice, especially in the city where he was raised. He was educated with people like
us, in schools like ours with people of different religions and regions.I used to think that
today our country need leaders who are young, who know how INDIA can compete with foreign
countries,who can be the front runners for the development of our country in every aspect.
But thanks to Raj Thakrey for opening our eyes that whether young or old politicians will be
politicians..they will never change......
There is one more thing that our politicians and leaders should not forget that Bhagat singh
fought for India's independence not for Punjab's Independence.Same goes for all our freedom
fighters who laid down their lives for the independence of our country but not for the
independence of their individual states...
The constitution of INDIA has given its people fundamental rights.Right to Speech,Right to
Movement etc..But are all these things just written in books?? Or are they really true.........
Seeing what all has happened in Maharashtra in past one month just shows that what was taught to us in our childhood is not entirely true...
If INDIA is one united country, if Indian constitution gives right of movement to its citizens,
then why people of different states of INDIA residing in MAHARASHTRA are beaten up..why are they thrashed, why are they abused????
Can some one give answers to these questions???
Last one month people of UP, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab staying in Maharashtra are going through a lot of problems.They are abused and they are beaten up...Slogans are shouted by the local people of the state to warn them to leave so called "THEIR STATE...THEIR LAND".
Today from the very small jobs to big corporate jobs in Mumbai are done by Non-Maharashtrains.From the taxi wallah,riksha wallah,chai wallah,peon,bai to the Software engineers, MBA's to the Film Stars the majority one will find is of Non-Marathis..Once these people are thrown out of Mumbai, how will the city work??
Raj Thakrey started all this by saying that Amitabh Bachhan despite of staying in Mumbai do
everything for his home state UP.....
Wasn't this ridiculous???
Well lets not get into the politics of involving huge names like Amitabh Bachhan in this
debate..What he has done for UP or Maharashtra is his own personal liking or his belief..
What he has done for UP like building up schools or hospitals can be either of helping his close
friend Amar Singh or really his love for his birth place..
Dont we encourage NRI's to come back and help INDIA i one or the other way..If that is right then how dong something for one's birth place is wrong?
Why do we celeberate Pravasi Bhartiya Divas every year???
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas aims at bringing the expertise and knowledge of the Indian overseas
community to India and integrating it into India's development process.
Then why dont we say that Indians staying in US or UK or any other foreign place should not do
anything for INDIA..they should devote their whole life and everything to the country where they are staying now..
If this would have been the situation then today people like Amartya Sen,Kalpana Chawla,Salman Rushdie,Deepa Mehta,Lakshmi Mittal should have also forgotten their own land, their INDIA and give the country of their residence whole importance.....
Raj Thakrey, a political leader who is young.He was born in a liberal country and has seen very
little prejudice, especially in the city where he was raised. He was educated with people like
us, in schools like ours with people of different religions and regions.I used to think that
today our country need leaders who are young, who know how INDIA can compete with foreign
countries,who can be the front runners for the development of our country in every aspect.
But thanks to Raj Thakrey for opening our eyes that whether young or old politicians will be
politicians..they will never change......
There is one more thing that our politicians and leaders should not forget that Bhagat singh
fought for India's independence not for Punjab's Independence.Same goes for all our freedom
fighters who laid down their lives for the independence of our country but not for the
independence of their individual states...
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Justice At Last...
Finally curtains come down on the nine-year old long trial in the murder case pof journalist
Shivani Bhatnagar.
We can aptly say here that "Better Late Than Never".
Shivani Bhatnagar was a Principal Correspondent with he Indian Express.
Ravi Kant Sharma was a 1976 batch IPS officer.
Shivani was murdered at her apartment in East Delhi on 23rd January,1999.On the day the murder
was held two men posing as aquaintances came to meet her at her apartment.Shivani even offered
them tea,later she was found stabbed in her apartment.
Police Crime Branch cracked the case of this murder after more than three years when they made
the first arrest in July 2002.Arrest Warrants were issued against R.K.Sharma on 3rd August
2002,but he was at large. He surrendered to the police on 27th September 2002 in Ambala.
Since then the case was going on,during which out of the 209 witnesses 51 turned hostile that
included some key witnesses.
But finally after 9 years the court gave its verdict and R.K.sharma was found guilty.Along with
him three more accused Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash and Sri Bhagwan were found guilty.The
quantum of the sentence will be pronounced by Judge Rajendra Kumar Shastri on 24th March.
It will be either Life Sentence or Death Penalty.
The case even saw the name of big BJP leaders coming in it, when Madhu Sharma,wife of R.K.Sharma
accused the then Information Technology minister Pramod Mahajan of having involvement in
Shivani's murder and implicationg her husband.
But at the end of the day we all know who did this unscrupulous crime.
A guilty verdict against former IPS official in the murder case has strengthened the recent trend
of conviction in high-profile cases sending a clear message that the rich and influential can no
longer get away with crime.The fact that the accused was successful in evading his arrest for
more than three years after the murder shows his influence on the police.But at the end he was
found guilty.
For some time now we have seen many high profile cases involving many big names getting justice.
The trend was set when Manu Sharma was found guilty in Jessica Lal murder case.The Jessica case
acquittals shook the public conscience to the core. It brought into sharp focus a number of
issues ailing our legal system and people realized how easy it was for the rich and powerful to
get away with anything. The outpour of outrage was spontaneous. For the first time the nation
witnessed the middle class involving itself in the process of getting justice for an individual.
And then Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case was solved.Also we cant forget the "UPHAAR" tragedy
when relatives of the decieased also got justice when court found Ansal Brothers guilty of
negligence.
So what we can say that after so long since we have our judiciary system, the time has come when
how so be the big name,reputation or money you have,you cant get away just like that after doing
smething wrong.There is very clear message to the criminals "NOBODY CAN GO UNPUNISHED THESE DAYS"
Shivani Bhatnagar.
We can aptly say here that "Better Late Than Never".
Shivani Bhatnagar was a Principal Correspondent with he Indian Express.
Ravi Kant Sharma was a 1976 batch IPS officer.
Shivani was murdered at her apartment in East Delhi on 23rd January,1999.On the day the murder
was held two men posing as aquaintances came to meet her at her apartment.Shivani even offered
them tea,later she was found stabbed in her apartment.
Police Crime Branch cracked the case of this murder after more than three years when they made
the first arrest in July 2002.Arrest Warrants were issued against R.K.Sharma on 3rd August
2002,but he was at large. He surrendered to the police on 27th September 2002 in Ambala.
Since then the case was going on,during which out of the 209 witnesses 51 turned hostile that
included some key witnesses.
But finally after 9 years the court gave its verdict and R.K.sharma was found guilty.Along with
him three more accused Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash and Sri Bhagwan were found guilty.The
quantum of the sentence will be pronounced by Judge Rajendra Kumar Shastri on 24th March.
It will be either Life Sentence or Death Penalty.
The case even saw the name of big BJP leaders coming in it, when Madhu Sharma,wife of R.K.Sharma
accused the then Information Technology minister Pramod Mahajan of having involvement in
Shivani's murder and implicationg her husband.
But at the end of the day we all know who did this unscrupulous crime.
A guilty verdict against former IPS official in the murder case has strengthened the recent trend
of conviction in high-profile cases sending a clear message that the rich and influential can no
longer get away with crime.The fact that the accused was successful in evading his arrest for
more than three years after the murder shows his influence on the police.But at the end he was
found guilty.
For some time now we have seen many high profile cases involving many big names getting justice.
The trend was set when Manu Sharma was found guilty in Jessica Lal murder case.The Jessica case
acquittals shook the public conscience to the core. It brought into sharp focus a number of
issues ailing our legal system and people realized how easy it was for the rich and powerful to
get away with anything. The outpour of outrage was spontaneous. For the first time the nation
witnessed the middle class involving itself in the process of getting justice for an individual.
And then Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case was solved.Also we cant forget the "UPHAAR" tragedy
when relatives of the decieased also got justice when court found Ansal Brothers guilty of
negligence.
So what we can say that after so long since we have our judiciary system, the time has come when
how so be the big name,reputation or money you have,you cant get away just like that after doing
smething wrong.There is very clear message to the criminals "NOBODY CAN GO UNPUNISHED THESE DAYS"
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