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

2011-05-16T18:16:00.004+05:30

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

2011-02-18T09:32:00.000+05:30

*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 !

2010-05-06T02:03:00.003+05:30

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:

Is it really so difficult to process 57 reports in one whole year? That's stupid about a week per convict...
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

2010-02-15T17:26:00.002+05:30

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 !!!

2009-07-29T13:31:00.002+05:30

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...

2009-07-17T14:18:00.001+05:30

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...

2009-07-10T09:08:00.003+05:30

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...

After the end of one ordeal, began the second... Now its all over... Almost...

2008-11-29T09:11:00.003+05:30

Just after a month long ordeal of Law and MBA exams, came a terrifying ordeal of terrorist attack on Mumbai... Once again we Indians were reminded of dirty politics and lack of security in our beloved nation... How easily a group of 20 people came to India from Karachi (Pakistan) on boats and exposed to the whole world how secure are the Indian shores!

But hats off to the Police Department, Crime Branch, NSG, commandos and all others who helped Mumbai get over this disaster... A prayer for peaceful after life in heaven to those who lost their lives in the attack...

Its unfortunate that 1 terrorist got caught by the police coz now the Police Force will be required to guard that son-of-a-bitch till he dies a natural death coz of the so-called-human-right-lovers in our country and power hungry politicians who'll do anything to secure vote banks... Personally, I think that the caught terrorist must be treated with utter brutuality and made and example out of, even though I'm a law student and Gandhian to the core... The Gandhian ideology of non-violence is for living beings and not fuckin' corpses like these terrorists...

And, last word... Couple of text messages that caught my attention in this time of mayhem, against my favorite punching bag...

"Where is Raj Thackeray and his 'brave' Sena? Tell Him that 200 NSG Commandos from Delhi (NO marathi manoos! ALL South& North Indians!) have been sent 2 Mumbai to fight the terrorists so that he can sleep peacefully. Pls fwd ths so tht it finally reaches th coward bully!"

and another...

"Message for Raj Thackeray Over 200 NSG commandos, all outsiders, all non maharashtrians,are in mumbai, risking their lives to protect your Mumbaikars, and your city, so that you can sleep peacefully at night. Where are you Mr. Raj Thakrey? Hiding at a safe place far from the terrorists ? Now, its high time to give up dirty provincialism advocated by you, Mr. Raj."

Beerfest !!!

2008-10-22T21:17:00.007+05:30

Ok.. Ok.. If girls can be spoil-sport, it doesn't matter to us guys... We guys can have fun any given day... When the girls of our class decided to spoil the class picnic, we guys decided to kick all of them out and go for an all guys beerfest at my farm house! So it was just us 5 guys and 35 cans of beer!!!

For the first time in my life I took a dip in any lake!!!

Cracking IELTS...

2008-10-17T22:28:00.003+05:30

I practised for IELTS exam for at least a month to fulfill by dream of completing my Law studies in UK... The practice ended on 4th October when I finally gave my exam... Finally the result came in and I scored enough to get admission in any top university in UK... Hope I get in one... Will start applications soon...

The Delhi Trip...

2008-10-08T20:33:00.001+05:30

I changed my IELTS center to Delhi on the request of my dear friend Pg... Although I was scared coz of the recent blasts in Delhi, I still decided to go on the trip... But calling it a trip would be demeaning what 'a journey' it proved to be... After completing my exam in the first 2 days, I had 3 days left for fun alone! I met a few new people and few old ones... Had a Saturday night party on the terrace of one of Pg's friends which was simply rockin'... After reaching Nagpur today, I feel I'm going to miss 'the journey' for long time...

Fun filled Monday...

2008-09-29T23:01:00.001+05:30

Alright, most people hate Mondays and so do I... But today was different coz of the 2 fun-filled activities...

1st was the tree-plantation program which was initially planned by our Rotaract Club to celebrate the birthday of the greatest leader in the world - Mahatma Gandhi... However due to my IELTS exam dates, we had to prepone it to today... So, I being the President of club decided to dedicate this day to the memory of all those innocent people who lost their lives in bomb attacks in New Delhi and Islamabad and most importantly the martyr Police Officer Mr. Sharma who died fighting the terrorists... All thanks to Nilesh bhai for inspiring me to conduct this activity...

2nd was the class trip to Adaasa... Its a Ganesha temple near Nagpur and the trip was planned long ago... We all had a whale of time driving to the temple and then visiting the temple and had lunch under a tree shade... Although I couldn't stay for the whole trip, but I did have real fun which will remain in my heart for years to come... All credits to Astha for planning this trip and Ashish for organizing everything...

Singh is King...

2008-09-18T14:21:00.004+05:30

Yesterday I, along with my friends Dashmesh, Saurabh and Chintu went to Gurudwara Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib, Nanded, which happens to be one of the most sacred places for us Sikhs... The whole trip was full of good memories... Driving at break-neck speeds, breakfast and dinner at dhabas and all the beautiful scenery... Its 360 kms from Nagpur and we left home at 7am and touched back at 12am!

Simply rockin' !!!

the guru... the inspiration...

2008-08-20T20:38:00.001+05:30

Today I went to the college from where I got my Engineering Degree with Pg to collect his marksheet... Its always good to renew the old memories and even better to learn something new... I met one of Pg's friend over there and we were sitting in the canteen drinking coffee when one of the student walked in... As far as I can calculate, that guy must have been in 1st year at the time I was in final year... When Pg's friend introduced me to him, he almost shocked asked "So, this is Guru !" When I asked Pg's friend the reason for such a reaction, he said, "Sir, aap to hum sabke aadarsh hai" (You are an inspiration for all of us). So, I can say nothing but "the guru... the inspiration..."

Project : Taare Zameen Par

2008-08-15T15:06:00.003+05:30

This year the 1st project undertaken by our club was Project : Taare Zameen Par which was prescribed by Rotary International for District 3030. The project was a painting competition for small children and we organized it in a school which has been adopted by our parent Rotary Club. The project was a huge success and appreciated by Rotarians and Rotractors alike..

Installation Ceremony for the New Preident.

2008-08-14T20:00:00.001+05:30

Today was the installation ceremony of The Rotaract Club of G.H.Raisoni Law School of which I happen to be the new President. The ceremony was nice with a few mistakes in protocol but were acceptable. The worst part was my acceptance speech coz as soon as I reached the podium, the electricity went away and I lost my speech-sheet in confusion. Now the heat and loss of speech made me a bit nervous and I started to speak without any preparation. Halfway through my speech one of the comperers of the program found my speech and came running to give it to me. It was a hilarious situation but in the end the whole team pulled off a successful ceremony.

Dry Day - Finally !!!

2008-08-02T19:46:00.005+05:30

Oh no... I'm not talking about those days of the year when our government feels that we need to be sober and closes down all liquor shops so that nobody can purchase alcohol based drinks that day... Well, recently, my parents went to London so I was all alone at my home since 7th July to 28th July... The day they left for London, began my holidays and so did the beerfest... It was 23 days of daily beerbash which finally ended on 30th July, hence the dry day... Well I tried to stay sober for few days and I succeeded in doing so for two... Now, its Saturday and the temptation is too much to resist... So while you have fun reading my antics, I'm going off to have some beer...

Bye for now...

Bomb Blasts and High Alert !

2008-07-27T07:18:00.004+05:30

It was very unfortunate that serial blasts ripped the cities of Bangalore and Ahmedabad for two consecutive days and even Nagpur was put on high alert. I thought this high alert warning is yet another piece of crap created by local print media to fill-in those gaps which remained unadvertised till last night when I was stopped by cops and my car was checked thoroughly for suspicious things.

I'm happy to see that police is active and quickly taking steps to avoid such untoward incidents.

My condolences to the families who lost their beloved ones to this filthy terror.

The Disaster called "Fresher's Party"

2008-07-25T06:51:00.005+05:30

Yesterday, our juniors i.e the 2nd year students threw a Fresher's Party to the new admissions in G.H.Raisoni Law School. Well, if you ask me, it was more of a get together than a fresher's party coz even the people for whom the party was thrown were asked to chip-in for contribution. This made me feel happy that I was not given a Fresher's Party when I joined the college, coz it would have been the first party in my life which was thrown for me and I had to pay for it!

The only "party" part of Fresher's Party was that there was plenty of beer available at the party to cheer us.

How it all began...

2008-07-24T07:50:00.001+05:30

I know blogging has been around for quite a while now but would like to put in something what inspired me to start. We had a rockin' day yesterday and I felt as if there is a need to preserve the day and share it with others.

Yesterday while returning from college, I called up Saurabh just to discover that he was still in Chindwara which is about 125 kms from Nagpur where he has been since past Saturday. Now, that I would get bored rest of the day coz Wednesdays are off for my factory I planned to forcibly bring him back to Nagpur. With paaji (Dashmesh) too agreeing to the plan, there was no stopping. So we set out on my Qualis to pick him up, enjoying the scenic beauty on the way to Chindwara and back. Really it was a day of fun and realization that how much we get bored without our friends that we are even ready to drive 250 kms just to be together.