WHERE'S HONOUR IN THIS.....?????????????

The country is shocked, the press having a field day & the police clueless and arresting on pure suspicion.

Welcome to the real world..........the world that still isn't humane....the world where all one cares about is finishing the work, going back home, spending time with their families & bragging about their findings & reporting of the Aarushi & Hemraj Murder case.....



Where has the compassion, the humility & the human component gone out of our lives???? My guess is as good as yours...but i have a point to make....



I would like to plead with the media & police, not to label this a case of Honour killings-Where is honour in it if a father kills a daughter....a father who's X or Y chromosome made this daughter, a father who taught her the first few words of her life...who jumped to get the camera when she took her first steps......who made her sleep on his chest when she got her vaccinations.........i am sure you find no honour in all this.......



The word is MURDER..not HONOUR KILLING......whose honour are we talking about here...a man or a family that will go to any lengths to protect their false pride .....the women folk of the family who silently support the perpetrators of such crimes or the honour of the society.......a society that has just been created to suppress the independent, free thinking mind.........i clarify, i have nothing against a society, but i am surely against people who in the name of god, mankind or integrity & honour try to suppress free thinkers......be it the likes of political organisations, self help groups or goondas turned 'social service dadas'..........it is high time we all joined hands and weed out these hooligans out of the society......



Coming back to the NOIDA Double Murder Case........i am hurt by the indifference of the police & the media...they media specially has taken a lot of pride & played its trumpet all along for being the saviours of the humanity or the poor of the country...i would not debate that the media has been instrumental in a lot of cases being heard, but they are crossing the line at times...........the sensible journalism now seems to be a thing of the past....the 24 hour reporting bug has bit everyone in the media circles...everyone wants to report the fastest & if there is nothing to report, they seem to be creating news...one channel in question, the brain child of a very famous journalist seems to be a channel promoting the back magic & dark tricks, by reporting cases that are based on such dark studies.....they have dedicated segments, wherein they get scoops from across the world on such arts........i am sure the rural tourism board would be very happy with the kind of news they show.........even in the above case they get all sorts of babas & physcologists on air, without even checking their credentials......i am not amused but angry & fuming...........be sensible & responsible humans, if not sensible journalists...........

The police on the other hand has just been trying to stick the murder on one person or the other, they just want to finish the investigations & file chargesheets.........my request to them is to be truthful & not blame the only persons available......the parents should be investigated, but not just tried in the meida & other circles without any proof......2 of the 4 people who have any say in this are dead..now we need to take the other 2 & reconstruct the crime scene & find out the real culprits...........
An angle or theory that isn't being investigated is that did anyone have access to the house from the outside or did he have a person on the inside( maybe the servant or the parents ), who helped him. Also the motive is unclear & without a motive a crime will not stick on the accussed in a court of law..if the police belives in the case, why don't they let a magistrate record the statement of the father, because a statement given in front of the police is not admissible in court......or is the police playing it blind and trying to get the case of their backs......

In the end i would like to again reiterate that this case is a perfect reason for initiating reforms in our society not just in the area of criminal investigation or media sensitisation, but also in the area of crumbling & deteriorating family values & morals........

Hoping that the society admits & learns from its mistakes......

Diversity in Unity

What goes around, comes around...............with the recent events in India specially in the state of Maharashtra, we might be thinking where our country is headed................all lot has been said about people who are not even worth mentioning ...let alone giving them national importance..............but then as we all forget at times .....all NEWS CHANNELS are 24 hour channels....and all the things that happen in the lives of people( Kings or beggars ) is _____________ ____________.......well you guessed it right.....BREAKING NEWS............BREAKING NEWS.........the only thing i feel like breaking is the Television set...but alas can't even risk that........ i can't live without my daily dose of this crap....its an addiction...................

Now coming back to the events of 3rd February 2008...............why don't we play the ball game and blame our unfriendly neighbour for the mess .......seems to be a great idea...............no one will say anything for the fear of being branded anti-national.......why doesn't the government declare this offically that it was nothing more than trouble created by the usual suspects.............I feel that we as Indians need to not just respect our Unity in Diversity....but also our Diversity in Untiy.................what's wrong in that..........just try imagining that if in your workplace or school or college, everyone thought & acted like you........i am sure you would be in a bad mood all day long...as you couldn't diagree with a single soul.........( plz note that a lot of West based study groups have scientifically proven that Indians are argumentative).......it would be a shame.......we would keep cursing one & all for thinking like us...........where would creative & mind boggling thoughts & ideas come from......bcoz we are all alike......have same limitations & same insights into matters concerning others............I am sure you are shivering by now................

Well for a plain simple Indian like me, i shall always cherish 3rd February 2008 as the day i saw the Unity in Diversity as well as the Diversity in Unity............i was on a tour to the city of Mumbai............i was coming back to my home...........my bus was a state owned vehicle.....we were just about to enter a tunnel enroute, when the driver suddenly veered to the left.......i thought that maybe we have had a close shave......or avoided a collision with another vehicle..........but to my dismay, i was not able to act heroically & had nothing to do with a heroic resuce effort to save hurt or bleeding passengers........the door opens and almost 20 people enter the bus.......there are not enough seats for these extra passengers...on the other hand i am cursing the driver of deciding to make extra money for the state transport........now the bus continues to our destination.
Iam one of those guys who doesn't easily get interested in the matters of others or take notice of people, even if they are on my head......but then things change................an old lady is standing on the aisle......now you might be thinking, i being the writer will tell you that i offered her my seat....am sorry i did nothing like that...but kept ignoring her( Also the seat next to me was broken).......suddenly a young girl pops up & offers the lady her seat......this awakens the human in me....if another human can do it why can't i do it..........so me being me....i get up & offer my window seat to another lady who is travelling with her husband.......that is very unlike me...a lot of people who know me will vouch for it & claim that the sun had risen from the west on 3rd March 2008......i know its bad & your opinion of me is changing fast...but then everyone has a problem....n mine is strangers in an environment where i am also a traveller...i don't like chatting up with people while travelling or being nice & pally with them.....................By this time the chatter around me has given me crucial information like the misfortune these 20 people had when their bus broke down near the tunnel almost 3 hours ago.......
To add to the already rising list of passengers who are trying to make these people as comfortable as posible, in jumps the person sitting behind the broken seat,he with the help of my engineering mind fix the broken seat to last us till the end of the journey.......or if i may saw...i have added a few more rupees to the coffers of the state transport, by doing their job, albeit a temporary one.....atleast they maybe able to book that seat for a few more trips of that bus. Then i move on to the next level......i offer the recently repaired seat to the lady's husband.....he refuses....but i am relentless....(i have my motives in this...i want to stand next to the beautiful girl & maybe be her hero for the day)..in the end my perseverance pays & the gentlemen in question sits on the seat.............now this is just a story....well now comes the other part.... i would like to apologise to & ask for the forgiveness of people who thought that i was wrong in offering my seat, the one i paid for, to two strangers.........without asking them about their origin...or in short that part of India they come from.......were they from the North, East, South or the West...or to make matters worse Central India.......now i have 5 choices...........i am sorry to all those people who are hell bent on highlighting the Diversity........or the difference we have..............this reminds me of a few lines, which these people have never heard & may never be able to comprehend in their lives.....i don't know who has written them, so please don't sue me if you are the writer of these lines......

.'Differences of Habit & Language are nothing if our aims are identical & our hearts are open'

I am sure we have identical aims......( here i am talking about the average indian or the so called common man )...to give our loved ones a decent living & see ourselves & our fellow countrymen prosper.......and i am sure that our hearts are open.....we live in the land with a saying " Aatithi Devo Bhawa' i.e The guest is god....so i am sure our heart is big enough to accomodate our countrymen, our true brothers & sisters.so i shall fondly remember the day 3rd February 2008.........i saw diversity as well as the unity......

My advice to the people in power or post of influence...please follow the laws...it hurts at times...but it never kills......n maybe by having one code for all we can infuse the long forgotten patriotism that we had...............

Jai Hind!!!