Mr. Singh - Please liberate us by liberating yourself...

This is an open-letter to the most celebrated Prime Minister in India's political history - Mr. Manmohan Singh.

Mr. Singh, this is a humble request from the concerned people of India to please do the right thing and put forward your resignation. I don't say this for the reason that people think that you are a "weak PM" or that you are simply a "tool". But the real reason behind my request is that you are criminally wasting the most powerful seat in India. Trust me, nobody would have been happier to see you become the Prime Minister of India on 22nd May 2004 because your honesty and intellect in politics was by far unprecedented. But unfortunately, you have terribly let us down over the past 7 years, by simply - DOING NOTHING!

You have kept mum through thick and thin. You kept mum when Mumbai was literally raped in full view of the whole world. You kept mum when the likes of Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh siphoned money out of defenders of our country and other countless voters. You kept mum when Suresh Kalmadi budgeted CWG which could finance 5 such events and A. Raja tuned in losses which would provide 10 nations with mobile telephony. You stood by your decision of chairmanship of CVC, later blaming it on Prithviraj Chavan and the fact that an OLD CV was presented in front of you. Are you freakin' kidding me? You mean to say that in spite of all the hue and cry by the opposition, you could not obtain information of legal proceedings against a corrupt individual?

And what did you do? You have helped Pakistan generously through hard times in floods when you knew where does that money land up ultimately. You preferred sucking up to Obama when your nation was being rocked by Adarsh. You didn't mind dispatching consignments of monetary help to Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar even when people of your nation are dying of hunger due to rising prices of food. Which of course you could have controlled but in the words of Prince of India (Rahul Gandhi) "your hand are tied by coalition politics". In short, the fact that your party needs to be in power is suddenly much more important than lives of people who stupidly vote for you.

Being Prime Minister of a nation is a huge responsibility and I respect you for trying to take that. But sir, you have failed miserably. Please let someone who can at least do something about corrupt and wrongful deeds occurring under his nose. Give us a Prime Minister who can speak. Kindly do us this little favour and for the last time, do something - QUIT !

Pursuit of Shamelessness

*ing Sachin Tendulkar as himself.

The maestro, the little wonder, the cricket god are some of the names we use for this cricketing legend. The man recently made headlines off the field when he refused multi-million advertising deal to endorse a liquor product. However, the fact that he signed a multi-million deal with Coca Cola to endorse a hidden poison wasn’t discussed anywhere. Such is the charisma of our Mr. Tendulkar.

Talking of millions, I would not miss saying that, in my opinion, Mr. Tendulkar is perhaps the most miser man on the planet from the evolution of man-kind till date. Just today I read in a news item that this begging god has asked Maharashtra Government to relax FSI rules so that he could build a lavish gym and flat on his property. Is Mr. Tendulkar above law or simply ignorant that FSI can be purchased for a premium? Perhaps, from his past behaviour it seems that he is simply not interested to shell out a single Rupee for a thing he can get for free using his celeb value. Talking of past experiences, who can forget that his own accountant had filed a recovery suit for services rendered to the tune of million Rupees and that the beggaestro himself pleaded the Indian Government to waive customs duty for his imported Ferrari.

Well done Sachin, you refused liquor endorsement deal as you wanted to set a good example on society. Hope you will succeed by teaching people how to seek exemptions from law and stealing tax money. Go Sachin go !!!

UPA flip-flop on the record !

This is about the infamous Afzal Guru clemency petition... Well the procedure is that once a death convict petitions for clemency, the President needs a report from Ministry of Home Affairs to proceed on the decision... Last year before general elections, opposition parties raised a huge cry about UPA not hanging the convicted terrorist and Mr. P. Chidambaram, the Home Minister of India assured voters that the Home Ministry will forward the report within 2 months of UPA winning the coming elections... Now that Kasab has been convicted and expected to walk the same road, media posed the same question again... This time Mr. Chidambaram had a completely disgusting answer... "Why are you obsessed with this issue like the opposition?" Tell me Mr. Home Minister, why the hell will people be not obsessed by the fact that your ministry isn't letting terrorists hang? Because its your "aam janta" that dies in those attacks, we don't have security blanket like you...

Going into technical side of this mess... The government says that there are currently 57 people waiting for their report to be submitted so that their petitions may be considered by the President... Kasab will be 58th on the list and his report can not be processed before other according to proper legal procedures... But I fail to understand somethings about out Home Ministry:

1. Is it really so difficult to process 57 reports in one whole year? That's stupid about a week per convict...
2. If you are really working so hard to protect the citizens that you don't get time to write these not-so-important reports, then how the hell people sneak into the country by inflatable boats and unleash hell for 2 whole days?

Once upon a time, High Court of Bombay told Chief Minister to at least tell his people that he doesn't want to do anything about Raj Thackrey... I hope the Supreme Court tells UPA to speak up on the issue sometime in the future...

Poem by a Supreme Court Advocate

मेरे पड़ोस वाले घर में , बच्चे बम से खेलते है...
और मेरे बच्चे यहाँ गेंद से...
हर रोज़ युही मज़े से खेलते है..
अक्सर गेंद उनके घर में जाती है..
और उनके बम मेरे घर में आते है...
कल भी एसा ही दिन था, @pune
पडोसी गेंद लोटाते नहीं,
और हम भी उनके बम लोटाते नहीं ...
वो खुश किस्मत है ...
और हम ....

A poem by a friend of friend in context of recent Pune bomb blast... Very touching... Very true...

Great News !!!

Finally a good news after days of hectic activities... Checked mail last night and was pleased to read that University College of London has finally offered me unconditional place for LL.M... It is an amazing feeling to be a part of one of the top ranked colleges of United Kingdom... And a college that boasts of alumni like Mahatma Gandhi is simply icing-on-the-cake... Now, waiting for visa letter so that I can complete the formalities and fly to London...

Mind your own business...

This one's regarding the huge fiasco in my country India due to decriminalization of sexual intercourse between same sex people. Though it does not imply that same sex marriages are legalized in India (or more correctly State of Delhi) but our ever-so-literate politicians are busy expressing their anger towards Delhi High Court's decision relating to Sec. 377 of Indian Penal Code. Now, legalizing of gay marriages is totally a different aspect from decriminalization of Sec. 377. Sec. 377 has been from a long time been a subject of debates reads as follows...

"Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished..."

Now, the first question that arises in my head is that who gave the authority to the legislatures to decide what “order of nature” is and what is not? I don't think that there are any homosexual coaching classes being run anywhere in the world to train people to be homosexuals. In fact, it is the very order of nature that guides a person in to loving a man or a woman regardless of his/her own gender. So, please let us not be God and start deciding what order of nature is and what's not.

The second thing I want to discuss here is "what is crime?"
The natural answer that comes to my mind here being a law student is "crime is a wrong against society". Again the legislatures would fail to explain how is a voluntary act of two people who are enjoying something in their private premises going to be a menace to society? According to Sec.377, a major chunk of Indian population would then be a criminal because of what they decide to do inside their bedrooms. This is absolutely unacceptable. There should be an amendment in this particular law to exclude cases of voluntary intercourse and of course treat inconsensual carnal sex at par with rape.

The third thing I would like to point out here are contentions of the great Indian guru Swami Ramdeo Baba.
Ramdeo Baba considers homosexuals as sick and diseased people. Why? Just because some psychiatrist in France says so? It will be only safe to remind him that there are conspiracy theories to each and every thing in this world. Did you never hear about "Lunar landings being fake movies" or "the Taj Mahal being an ancient Lord Shivji temple"? Just to believe on theories put forward by some people in world is not what a wise man does. Please try to weigh both sides of the scale before making a firm statement. If there are millions of people who believe that homosexuality is a disease, there are equal numbers saying its not. So I would again like to reiterate, please don't decide what the order of nature is. With all this being said, the most hilarious thing Mr. Ramdeo Baba said was that this decision would curb the population growth in our country which will setback India in terms of human resources. If Mr. Ramdeo Baba would have found even 5 minutes of his holy days and read any newspaper in India, he would have been aware that population explosion is the greatest threat towards development of Indian on all fronts. But I would personally like to thank him for challenging the decision of Delhi High Court in the Supreme Court, as this would clear the doubt once and for all regarding Sec. 377 and the decision would then be applicable throughout the country contrary to current position.

And last words for some of the sick acquaintances of mine from whom I received few messages that they are now scared to move around the city, in buses, in parks etc. etc. now that Delhi High Court has decriminalized Sec. 377. I would like to point out to such diseased people that Delhi High Court's decision as of now is applicable only to the State of Delhi and not all over India. Secondly, the High Courts decision has not totally decriminalized Sec. 377; it has only provided relaxation to people indulging in carnal sex where both partners are consenting. No country in the world can decriminalize inconsensual sex of any kind, it is simply called rape.

The wait is making me crazy...

So,
I'm back after a long ordeal of examinations... Law & MBA exams streatching over a month... To make things worse, its been over 45 days (the stipulated time for declaring results) and Nagpur University has not even bothered to do the needful... They are busy expressing shock due to multiple scandals rocking them as if its the first time they've been hit by controversies... The vice-chancellor doesn't seem to be least bothered about future carriers of students wanting to pursue higher education... With less than 3 months to go for my LLM starting date in UK, even my further education dream seems to be fading away... The question is what Nagpur University has in store for us unfortunate students...