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Why are we not angry on what happened to Prashant Bhushan?

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

This is just not acceptable. Period. Everyone has a right to voice his/her opinion in a functioning democracy. There should be zero tolerance for any kind of violence. How can anyone slap someone just because this person is expressing his personal views on a subject? This is ridiculous -  Stupid jerk and Prashant Bhushan . What is making me restless is how come I am not angry enough on this incident? We have become so immune to such behavior, injustice, corruption that I wonder if we can ever get rid of such ridiculous things from our country. I am out of ideas. Let me know if you have ideas on how I can show my rejection to such stupid doctrine.

 

I applaud Prashant Bhushan to keep his composure and sticking to his opinions and beliefs. I wonder what we can do to end this mis-guided, mis-placed patriotism. This false sense of jingoism should be eradicated. Enough is enough.

Public Interest Litigations that we must file

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

a) National Carriers (Airlines and private bus operators) can not just cancel flights/buses and put passengers in misery. If they do, they have to provide them a place to stay until they find an alternative arrangement for the travel or reimburse them with the going fare to travel to the destination. I have experienced this twice with SpiceJet and it was a terrible experience. I do not want to hear the reasons for the delay. You are in the business and you need to add those delay risks in your schedule and tell me the actual ‘expected’ time.

b) Autos can not ask for more money for carrying passengers to a place within municipal limits. Autos can not deny to go to any place with in municipal limits.

c) Police can ONLY manhandle if :
- There are two independent witness
- The person has more than one criminal/corruption cases file against him
- There is a proper warrant against the person
Police CANNOT abuse or manhandle a person otherwise. If a cop does this, the person can file the complaint and the action will be taken within one week!

d) All the results of PILs must be published in ALL national dailies on the last page covering 1/4th of the page for at least two days in succession.

e) Public roads CANNOT be used for political rallies or private functions (Religious festivals, marriage processions etc).

f) No more than 5 cars can be used to give security to politicians.
- The procession cannot be carried in peak hours (morning 8pm-11pm and evening 4pm-8pm). No road can be blocked for more than 10 minutes.

g) Increase the traffic violation fees by more than 5 times. Make every cop accountable to some minimum amount they need to recover from every month in penalties. Give them 25% of the excess penalty as bonus. Do the same thing for raiways, traffic inspectors and all similar services.

h) Reduce the airline, train and phone quota for politicians, government employees. The service can not be extended for more than 3 family members (Spouse and 2 children). All facilities to have a cap of 10% of the salary as upper cap.

i) I should be allowed to do whatever I want, where ever I want. Freedom of expression. No more moral policing!

Any more to add?

Gurgaon School Shootout – Is this the ‘all inclusive’ growth?

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

New India,  lots of jobs… like US, lots of money… like US, Busy schedules… like US, lots of TV Channels… just like America, Pizzas, burgers, multiplexes, pubs, discotheques, fancy clothes, designer wears, lots of booze, wines, amusement parks, .. all like US.. few more things that come as part of this “inclusive growth” are children shootouts in school.

What is wrong with us? Are we so fast in catching up in all the wrong things with US?  Do we really need that screwed up western education methods for primary schools? Add to this that we have developed these fancy schools where the buildings are air conditioned, earthquake proof, holidays in Europe, prom nights and what not. We see kids spending hundreads of rupees and time on cafe coffee days talking about sex, booze and smoking. Is this what we are giving our future generation?

I want to write much more on this topic but I am just too depressed by this news. I think we need to copy one more thing from America. We need to copy the phrase “God bless India”!