After 26 years of Bhopal gas tragedy......what's next?

Mockery of Judiciary....After causing death to thousands & making lakhs to suffer for life, our judiciary found few people guilty of negligence. It took us more than two decades and I am sure, it will continue for another two decades of 'apeal to higher court', 'stay order', 'reopen', 'reinvestigate'.........before putting the case under the carpet. By this time we can conclude - if you do not belong to a political family or from an elite english-speaking class, your life is worth few thousands (if you are lucky, the figure may go to few lakhs!!) of rupees.

Note that Mr Anderson, the then Chairman of UC, could never be made appear the trial. No wonder,we never dare to make big-bro unhappy.

Our citizens can not overcome the hurdles of Constitution ....why not give a padmashree to the ex-chairman Anderson & his team ? Mr PM can offer this in his next visit to US.

See this link on US double standard ...but I believe, the way Union Carbide case has handled is more of India's leadership failure - contrast to what BP is made to.

Institute(s) of higer learning....

What purpose our institutes of higher learning serve? I am skeptical about contributions of IITs and IIMs in nation building (compared to fundings they get). These institutes produce highly paid executives, mostly– yet our govt is spending huge amount of money for them while there should have been more investments on the primary education. Well , is it without any reasons? No.
• Opening an IIT /IIM/ University in a state is considered to be an achievement for the people’s representative who can cite that for seeking votes in the next election. This will create job opportunities for few hundred peoples as well – another reason why “you vote for me”. A primary school may not be that fruitful as long as ‘return’ is concerned.
• Guess what is the picture above? It is a university that WB CM is going to inaugurate in few days from now. Lest I forget, election is nearing!!!
Here is the src of the photo-> http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1090226/26south1.htm

Do not ask HOW MUCH MONEY YOU MADE, MINISTERJI

If this is to believed, I am really disappointed, given that we have MMS as PM!! Looks PMO has yielded to the pressures from Amar-Mulayam, Lalu et all. Too bad Mr PM.

"HEROs" do it again..this time on a daily wage earner!!!

On Oct 29 a day after Diwali, an UP labourer has been lynched on a Mumbai local train. Allegedly some locals boarded same compartment as the poor labourer and on learning that the fellow is a "Bhaiya", the locals started beating the labourer untill he was unconsious. The heros got down in a next station and RPF took the victim to a hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Well done Raj, as one of the readers say - we don't need Pakistan's ISI to divide and destroy the country - we have you, your uncle and some of your clan to take care of their plan.
Our Media seems to define terrorism something which has an islamic flavour in it. Killing inocent daily wage earners is not terrorism. Killing a young man who dreamt of a better life for his family is not terrorism.
Thanks Raj, thanks Shiva Sainiks , thanks Mawawati and like minded psychos, we can no longer be proud of the kaleidoscopic culture and ethnicity of the country. You are real heros these days!! You are so successful in poisioning thousand minds.
Shall I , now, need Passport/Visa to move to other parts of the country which has a different language than what I speak, a different religion than what I am born to?

Cultivating corruption – “Maha-sarak in Silchar, ASSAM”

This Eid ( 2 oct 08) when I visited home, I saw a lot of house building activities in my village ( a village about 10 KM from Silchar town). In last two months there has been atleast 20 new houses built and similar number of houses are under construction. In a small village like mine, this appears to be a real estate boom….but in reality this has nothing to do with soaring demand for housings, no one is going to live in those houses!!

The supper highway from Imphal ( through a bridge over the ‘ Barak’) will make a crossing with the superhighway from Mizoram; the crossing is supposedly to be in our village. Some villagers would be uprooted to make way for the national development! Well this may be hard for a those villagers who are living there for generations - guess who is making hay out of it? The Land and Revenue officials advised the villagers to make concrete houses so that they can manipulate official records and get some higher compensation. Well, no advice comes for free! The office needs 20 to 30% of the proposed compensation paid in advance, so that villagers can get a ‘good’ package!! It is an ‘official deal’! The villagers are made to think that this is a win win situation for everyone!! Well, the officials are not saying this to be bribe; in fact no one is saying that – they are just showing the villagers a way to claim more compensation and in return they are taking some ‘service charge’. The brokering the 20-30% deal with the villagers, on behalf of the officials, has become a lucrative career option for many.


Few acres of our (inherited) fertile family land are in the designated highway area. My father currently being almost invalid, my uncle is running from pillars to post to claim the legitimate compensation/ sometimes to get information about the rate of compensation which is meager compared to what has been paid in other parts of the country ( Remember Nandigram, WB? We don’t have a Mamata Banerjee to exploit the situation! ). Nevertless, due to absence of a young male member who would have negotiated with the officials, we had no option but to be ‘happy’ to give the land at the govt offered price. But thanks to the hungry land officials, we cannot get anything until we pay 30% of the amount in advance!!
I feel like an escapist who work for a multinational and give advice to others not to encourage corruption. My father, my uncles are having all the pains for their legitimate money- they can not pay the 30%, they can not pay a good advocate to have an RTI petition filed in the court… I am proud of my father – you really helped innumerable persons to get established…I am proud of my uncle, who served the govt and despite many options to be richer, opted to remain same as before.


Dear reader, if you are looking for a bride, go and try an alliance with anyone working in the Land & Revenue department. It’s possible that you would end up getting gifts comparable to what is given in some of the north-Indian royal marriages. If you are in kidnapping business, get someone from L&R dept, Assam. You would probably get more than what you demanded !

Disclaimer:---
The blogger does not encourage dowry but the above lines are for those who, in any case, would have received some gifts! Kidnapping is also strongly discouraged but this is for those who are already established in this career and do everything with their own risk…. though sharing some ransom might not be discouraged):

Indian achievement??

Today, there was a news article in the net, hailing Bobby Jindal who has been given a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention- Per the website he's the first "Indian American" to have that "honour". The news article is a manifestation of Indian -third world- slave- mentality. This 'Indian American ' stuff is going too far.e.g. during NASA mission which included Sunita William, the media went crazy as if she is residing next door!! Oh..our silly media sucks!!!
While I do not have any problem with their achievements (or whatever you call it), I think it's not only stupid but also criminal to highlight such stuff as an Indian achievement. Our media should find something more newsworthy.

MP ki kom poriyache ? Short supply of MPs

With political uncertainity in Delhi, guess who is making most out of it. Some MPs, we never heard name or as a matter of fact who never raised their voice in parliament, have become real assets in the Delhi bazar. If what NDTV reported, is to be believed, rate of "free" MPs have suddenly shoot to an average 25 crore (Rs). From last few days, one question is peeping into my mind. Why MP buying/selling is called horse trading? Any one ?


NB:
In '93, congress govt was accused of buying 10 jarkhand MPs for an undisclosed sum. One of JMM leader Suraj Mandal said -
''We did not take money. We only took donation. Even those who are taking money today will take as donation for the party''.