Use & Throw!!

This package certainly comes with lesser responsibility and greater freedom. Sounds better while using an object that never comes with any extra baggage. When first time I started using a piece tissue paper, I was happy that I had done with the age-old hanky. Every time I used to venture out with a hanky I knew that it was for the last time I was seeing it, I lost a dozen every month in those hanky days. I am sorry for starting with a ridiculous example for today’s topic. This use and throw objects are not another tissue paper that cost me a few bucks but it is all about human beings better known as fairer sex. These events were happening since ages and we never aware of it. Sometime the victim who has to bear the social stigma than the culprit, now due to excessive media interpretation, we are getting a little light on these shameful happenings. Talks about women freedom goes to kaput when you look at the current series of events. Everyday and every corner of the world women are abused, raped, sold, killed and treated like an object. The treatments are very much like a use and throw objects. Some of these recent events show that government is either not determine or not capable to solve the problems.

Betul, Madhya Pradesh

A 15 year girl picked from the house by a local goon and then raped her, finally the mother was killed by the same for going to the police. On February 10, Imarti's daughter - a class eight student - was allegedly kidnapped by local gangster Rajesh Harore and raped. She was apparently specifically targeted as she refused to join a prostitution racket. In 2006, Imarti's elder daughter had been kidnapped and sold into prostitution, allegedly by the same gang. The 50-year-old tribal woman Imarti Bai shot dead before her family. A few days before her murder, Imarti approached the district collector with a written plea for protection. This was forwarded to the superintendent of police, but nothing happened as Imarti died unprotected.

Noida (UP)

The 17-year-old girl was raped in a moving car by five men on Friday night on Delhi's outskirts when the victim, a student of Class X, had gone with them to a birthday party of one of the accused.  Not enough, the men in Khaki in UP is famous for its notoriety, they gone ahead with disclosing the identity of the victim in public. 

Kolkata, West Bengal

On the night of February 5, the victim was at a pub at Kolkata's famous Park Street. A man who befriended her at the pub offered her a ride home in his Honda City. When she climbed in, there were two men in the car. But soon, another three entered the vehicle. She was raped at gunpoint. The victim filed her police case a few days later, on February 9. She says she had been traumatised by the event and needed some time to recover before going to the police with her story. The victim, who is 37-years-old, alleges that the police mocked her when she tried to get a case registered. Officers allegedly used the fact that she had been at a pub to judge her character. Above all, Mamta Banerjee done her job too only what she does best, uttering rubbish and blaming the left.

Pune, Maharashtra

An BPO employee raped and murder in 2007. Jyoti Chowdhari, 22, was traveling in her company's pick-up cab on November 1, 2007, when the driver Purushottam Borate and his friend Pradeep Kokate raped and then brutally killed her. Purushottam Borate had reportedly picked Jyoti from her home at 10 pm for her night shift at the call centre, situated at Hinjewadi area in Pune. According to reports, the driver was joined by his friend Pradeep Kokate in the cab. Jyoti's body was found next day in Gahunje a Pune village. They had cut her blood vessels in the right wrist and thereafter they threw a stone on her head, and then strangled her. A few days back, both then man was sentenced to death by a Pune court.

It is shame on civilized world that mostly ruled by the man.  From mother womb to the end there is no respite for women insight.

!!!A Woman is not a tissue paper, used as multi-purpose utility and then thrown!!!

Falak, This Sky has Limits!

For last two months, each day I was following her but not in person only in newspaper and in the virtual world. A piece of positive news about her made me happy and equally negative one was very depressing. Desperately wanted her to survive and hopping she will find a home where she will get all that she was deserted from. However, it never happened, she decided to depart, what TOI termed as for ‘Better World’.

On 18th January 2012, an unconscious baby girl is brought to AIIMS with injury marks all over her body by a 15 year old who claimed to be her mother. However, the girl fled. According to doctors, the baby girl had a fractured skull, broken arm, her chest showed burn marks from a hot clothes iron, blot clot in the brain and bite marks all over her body. The nurses who tended to her at the Intensive Care Unit named her ‘Falak’ meaning "The Sky". Since then, exposing series of shocking pieces of details behind the whole episode will make you sick.

Public outrage at her plight spurred investigations that uncovered a sordid tale of exploitation and callousness, and led to the arrest of 13 people accused of human trafficking. Police finally tracked down her biological mother, Munni, herself a victim of circumstances.

Falak's saga of misfortune began in September last year when her mother, 27-year-old Munni, took the bait of a trafficker and landed in the capital. She had left a daughter behind in Muzzafarpur, Bihar. Laxmi, who had lured Munni to Delhi, allegedly told her to leave Falak with her and got her married to a farmer in Rajasthan, claiming that she was a virgin.

Laxmi later handed over the child to Manoj, her neighbour and relative. Manoj was working with Rajkumar alias Mohammad Dilshad, with whom he entrusted the child. Rajkumar, who owns two taxis, was living in with a 14-year-old but was married to another woman. He left for Mumbai after he heard that his son, who suffers from a rare thyroid disease, had been admitted in hospital.

The 15 year old girl, who has herself had a traumatic past including an alleged brush with prostitution was left to take care of the baby. Apparently, she dropped the baby while bathing her. When the child would not stop crying, the frustrated teenager savagely attacked her but later took her to hospital after Rajkumar instructed her to do so over phone. The teenager later was arrested and will be tried for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Since January 18, doctors conducted five surgeries on her, she had two heart attacks. It was heart-warming news when on March 9, over 50 days after baby Falak was brought to the hospital, doctor's claim she is doing well and could even be discharged in a week. The doctors, though it remains uncertain whether she will remain in a vegetative state or not. Putting all speculation in the rest, on March 15, at 9.40 pm., Baby Falak dies of cardiac arrest.

An innocent life lost without any of her fault and may be there are many more Falaks living around the corner, who cares. Severely embarrassed by the events, what a murky and gory world we are living but still there are some light. The hope garnered by the humanity shown by the  staffs of AIIMS. Kudos to the doctors and nurses who devoted their days and nights to her, the way they treated the baby was heartening feature out of these shameful events. Whatever, Dr. Deepak Agarwal and his team done, termed to be unique and extraordinary. The gesture from the team is rare in a country like India where human lives, specially from poverty-stricken families has no values.

!!!R.I.P Falak, looking forward to meet you over there, what termed as ‘Better World’!!!

The Wall!

A substantial numbers of peoples out there who like to live and die for the sake of their respective religion, the religion preferred to be their main identity. Whenever we have to fill up any official papers, religion is one of the must cite criteria and for ineffective purpose. Hence, the definition of religion stands as, the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods. In India, majority inhabitants are in general marked as or identified as Hindus but almost billion plus population often forget their own religion to unite when our cricketers slug out on the pitch. Last week a cricket legend decided to retire after sixteen glorious years, so, my tribute to one and only ‘The Wall’, Rahul Dravid.

Rahul Dravid

Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He belongs to a Maharashtrian family settled in Bangalore, Karnataka. He has a younger brother, Vijay. Dravid's father worked for Kissan, a company known for producing jams and preserves and thus he earned the nickname Jammy from his teammates at St. Joseph's Boys' High School. His mother, Pushpa, was a professor of architecture at Bangalore University. Rahul Dravid has a degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.

Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented the state at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 level. Rahul's talents were first spotted by former cricketer Keki Tarapore who was coaching at a summer coaching camp at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. He went on to score a century on debut for his school team. Along with the batting, he was keeping wickets. However, he later stopped keeping wickets on advice from former Test players Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and Tarapore.

He was selected to make his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath. His first full season was in 1991–92, when he scored two centuries to finish with 380 runs at an average of 63.3, and was selected for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy.

Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one-dayers against Sri Lankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli. Subsequently, he was dropped from the team, until he was picked again for the tour of England. He then made his debut in the Second Test against England along with Sourav Ganguly, when Sanjay Manjrekar got injured after the first Test match on that tour. Dravid scored 95 and held his position on Manjrekar's return for the Third Test and scored 84.

On 4 May 2003, he married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur. They have two children, Samit  and Anvay.

Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from test and domestic cricket on 9 March 2012, although he will be leading Rajasthan Royals in the 2012 Indian Premier League. Dravid was the second highest run scorer and player with the highest number of catches in test cricket at the time of his retirement.

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC
Matches	164	344	298
Runs scored	13,288	10,889	23,794
Batting average	52.31	39.16	55.33
100s/50s	36/63	12/83	68/117
Top score	270	153	270
Balls bowled	120	186	617
Wickets	1	4	5
Bowling average	39.00	42.50	54.60
Catches/Stumpings	210/0	196/14	353/1

!!!The journey was tough but he made like as smooth as Jammy!!!

Encountered?

One of the hardest jobs is to come up with an appropriate name for a thing. When I decided to start a blog for my mediocre photography I decided to name it ‘Shot At Sights’ but my blog for today had no link to it, it is stands for what actually is meant for. However it is not ‘Shot At Sight’ but ‘Shoot at sights’. Often it is the motto for the men in Khaki. I knew a very nice South Indian family from Mumbai, the daughter was  a dear friend of mine but the son was real pain for the couple. Once he was arrested for his association with the underworld. Before I returned to Kolkata I tried to give him some advice and requested him to mend his way for his parents. During that time he narrated how police often threatened and made them to believe that they would be taken to a  dark alley and then to a cold storage. So, the word ‘Encounter’,  mostly the truth and reality lies with the men who have the loaded gun. It is unfair to say that all encounters are fabricated but some .. may be…. god knows.

Encounter

An encounter  is a euphemism  used in South Asia especially in India to describe extrajudicial killings in which police or armed forces shoot down suspected gangsters  and terrorists in gun battles.

Fake Encounter

A fake encounter or a "staged encounter" happens when the police or armed forces kill the suspects in custody or when the suspects are unarmed, and then claim that the victims were killed in a encounter when the police had to shoot in self-defence. In such cases, the weapons may be planted on or near the dead body to provide a justification for killing the individual.

Daya Nayak

There are famed police officials who became famous only being an encounter specialist, Daya Nayak is one of such. He rose to fame for having eliminated more than eighty gangsters of the Mumbai underworld as a member of the Mumbai Encounter Squad, which was created by the Maharashtra Government for tackling the increasing problems of underworld extortion, gangwars, and a terrible law and order situation. Before suspended from his duty, during his tenure, he amassed huge of property. Being an ordinary sub Inspector with Mumbai Police and an encounter specialist, such prosperity is impossible unless the fund came through the other world rather underworld.

Bumping in Cold Blood

In 2006,  Pintu Mishra, described by the police as a small-time criminal, was “bumped” off  in Allahabad because of his terrorists’ links.

In 2007 an 18-year old boy, Abdul Rehman, was killed in Srinagar by the security forces for being hand in glove with the Jaish-e-Mohammad.

Sohrabuddin Sheikh

In the wee hours of 26 November 2005, Sohrabuddin Sheikh was gunned down by the police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The Gujarat Government claimed that he was a member of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and was on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Batla House Encounter

Batla House encounter is still haunting the government is officially known as Operation Batla House, took place on 19 September 2008, against suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists in Batla House locality in Jamia Nagar, Delhi, in which two suspected terrorist, Atif Amin and Mohamed Sajid were killed while two other suspects Mohd Saif and Zeeshan were arrested, while one accused Ariz Khan managed to escape. Encounter specialist and Delhi Police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who led the police action was also killed during the incident.

Ishrat Jahan

The Ishrat Jahan encounter case refers to the encounter killing of four people claimed to be Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives by the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch in 2004. The victims included Ishrat Jahan Raza, a 19-year old college girl from Mumbai, and three men: Pranesh Pillai , Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. Multiple judicial inquiries by Indian authorities, in 2009 and 2011, concluded that the encounter was fake, and the victims were killed in police custody.

!!!Encounter of the Bloodiest kind!!!

Loose Lips Sink Ships - I!

It is an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk" and was an American propaganda poster of WWII.  This phrase was coined as a slogan during WWII as part of the US Office of War Information's attempt to limit the possibility of people inadvertently giving useful information to enemy spies. The slogan was actually 'Loose Lips Might Sink Ships. This was one of several similar slogans which all came under the campaigns basic message - 'Careless Talk Costs Lives',  one should avoid speaking of ship movements, as this might allow the enemy to intercept and destroy the ships. In my consideration ‘loose lips’ is signify to the breeds who unlock their mouth to throw the rubbish then proceed to scan their brain, if there is any. In our backyard there in no dearth , we have plenty of them. Some current living examples of great ‘lips’ those are always ‘loose’.  Can we say that a loose talk is a sign of miniature brain, it is up to you to judge it.

Chetan Bhagat

Popular writer indeed but  mainly writing novels keeping Bollywood in his mind. For me he is nothing more than a masala writer but he decided to take a dig on Salman Rushdie, a writer of great stature. What he wanted an exposure in the international literature circle, where he was petty unknown and he was quite successful in his attempt with his big mouth.

He criticised the support leant to authors whose books are banned for offending religious communities, referring to Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses'. The Booker-prize winner Salman Rushdie tweeted against  Chetan Bhagat - Rushdie said, "Chetan Bhagat: people like me are liberal extremists & as bad as the fundos. I`m being Bhaggered!! It`s like being molested by Dan Brown!"

Arvind Kumar Kejriwal

It is hard to believe that he is an IITians. When he is there for all noble cause he should know what he should say and not. The language he often using in his recent outings are not expected from a man who is having such educational background. Team Anna, with these sort of loose lips, losing there way.

Bal Thackeray

If one talk about big mouth, he is clear winner because he is having huge one.  A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day. Specially, some of his statement against some prominent women politicians are sear disgusting. In the 1960s he called South Indians Lungiwaale and Yanda Gandu and had slogans like Lungi Hatao Pungi bajao. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads to counter alleged Muslim violence:     If such suicide squads are formed only then can we take on perpetrators of mindless violence.

Vijay Mallya

For a change he is a well known businessman also known as ‘King of Good Times’. In every aspect he try to copy from Richard Branson only failed while humanity and manners are in question. While spending crores on the year calendars and happily posing with scanty bikini clad girls but hardly donated anything for any noble causes, of course he is having a valid logic too. A very ridiculous and horrible explanation came from a this very colourful personality, rather call him liquor baron,  he thinks that he is providing huge enjoyment to the peoples of this nation mainly those are drinking his fine liquors, therefore, the tax that generated is filling the government coffer, so there is no need for him to donate for any philanthropist cause, after all it is his money. He may be forgotten that ‘Money comes and Money Goes’.

Mamata Banerjee

Problem with the current chief minister of West Bengal that while in office she always moving towards a single direction because for everything she look to the left and she missing all right opportunity that given to her by the people of West Bengal. This month she crosses all limits when  a women raped in a moving car on gun point. It was a preplanned act of the accused because the rapists introduced themselves to the victim with different false names.  Police inaction is questioned when she approached to the police station, instead of filing her complain immediately, Kolkata police was very indifferent to her. Shame on these lots of public servant.

Then it was turn to our CM, as she always does, a shot from her big mouth. She mentioned it as fabricated story. However, finally the real culprits were arrested. The big problem with Mamata Banerjee that she never knew how to say sorry. The very bias  intellectual circle of Kolkata, including writers, painters and film stars, those were shouting from the roof top against the previous government now prefer to keep quite, a big thumb down to them and really doubt about their credentials.

For me : I am going to hang myself at least thrice because last Election I voted for – Guess it, yes my precious vote wasted for Mamata Banerjee.

!!!The ‘Loose Lip’ award of the year goes to MB, I mean Mamata Banerjee.!!!