Moral Cop or an Offender?

This small incident happened around two decades ago while I was staying in IIT, Mumbai. I had a Garwali family as my neighbour among some other wonderful lots I was having around me. I never saw any other peace loving and harmless family who could compete with them in these criteria. Head of the family was working in Proctor and Gamble (P&G) and the lady of the house was a homemaker. They had five children, four boys and a girl. Sadly, that the eldest two boys of the four are no more and died rather very pathetic way. During those days, after the dinner we used to go for a night walk. One night after such outing when we were walking back we found that one of my neighbour’s son was engaged in some conversation with a patrolling constable. Before we could reacted the constable hit the boy on his leg with a stick that generally the police always have with them. The force was so great that the boy instantly fell down on the ground, he started screaming loudly, he was in great pain. We ran to his rescue and informed the policeman that the boy belongs to a family those not even capable to kill an insect. After that incident, the boy was in bed for a month with the injury. His only crime was, when the policeman asked his name he requested to know the reason for his query. I kept a tab on that constable because if something like that occurred again I would gone all the way to complain against him. However, in the same year he was given a police medal for his honesty and hard work. Things never ended there, after a year he was suspended for accepting bribe. So, this is the story about the peoples who supposed to protect us, the common-man. All over India, everyday you will find thousands of such cases involving a policeman. Who are these stick wielding peoples, they are only a public servant who eating and shitting on public money. Who authorized them to go after the innocent peoples and kept harassing them. Instead of going after hardcore criminal, they end up shielding their crime for financial gain and show their power on the innocent people like my harmless neighbour.

There two categories of uniformed people in the society, of-course I am leaving the great Indian army aside. One of them are police force and other you will find in white uniform, we called them politicians. Three is not a crowd here, these lethal combination is eating up our society and innocent lives – they are the Police, the Underworld goons and the corrupt Politicians. Here are some events relating the moral cops rather an offender.

Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad is always famous for either statues of Mayawati and police atrocity.

The policemen in Ghaziabad have started a moral policing act to discourage couples from sitting in public places. Policemen have resumed the drive called 'Operation Majnu' to crack down on couples, which they claim will curb sexual harassment.  Policemen were seen harassing couples in a park in Sahibabad and forcing men to do sit-ups. They have also been picking up couples from other parks and malls and questioning them in public. 'Operation Majnu' is being led by Station Officer Alka Pandey of the Ghaziabad Police.

Apart from above incident we also know that how this same police force messed up with Arushi murder case. In recent past they broke all rules and ethic when they gone to disclosed the details about a rape victim to the media.

Karnataka

Since BJP government came to the power the wind of changes came in Karnataka. All right wing parties acting as reformer when the politician from the party need to be reformed.

Moral policing reared its head again, this time in BJP-ruled Karnataka where members of a right-wing Hindu group assaulted girls in a Mangalore pub, accusing them of behaving in an “obscene manner”. Eyewitnesses said the girls were chased and thrashed by activists of the Sri Ram Sena as they tried to flee from the pub on the busy Balmatta Road in the heart of Mangalore. There were also allegations that some of the girls were molested.

A slap without a sound

Nisha Susan, a 29-year-old journalist, decided to counterattack. With several associates, she launched a group on the social networking Web site, Facebook. They called it the "Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women." And they unveiled a plan to dispatch piles of pink knickers to the leader of Sri Ram Sena in a nonviolent gesture of defiance. The women chose Valentine's Day. This day particularly rankles right-wing Hindu extremists, who consider it an immoral commercialized Western import.

Mumbai

A heaven for Police, underworld and corrupt politicians nexus, almost five dozens of films made on this topic. Mumbai have a new reformer, a hockey stick wielding policeman, the Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble.

Mr Dhoble's track record in the police force say that he himself is a serial offender but always saved by the political patronage. He had come under scanner in 2008 for alleged “negligence” as he lost 12 important files on global terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He was suspended in 1989 for accepting a bribe in Pune. In 1994, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined a lakh for his role in a custodial death. He was dismissed from the force but reinstated in 1996, after his jail sentence was dismissed by the Mumbai High Court. A departmental inquiry against him is still pending in this case - the Supreme Court had ordered this.

You believe or not, this man now called himself a social reformer. He has redefined 'social service', wielding his hockey stick to devastating effect and a camera. In January this year at a bar on Sahar Road in Andheri. Dhoble arrived past midnight only to find no girls present there. Dhoble went into the kitchen, discovering a narrow passage leading to a 2x2 sq ft door. He couldn't break in but slid his cellphone under the door and took pictures. They revealed tell-tale evidence: Ten girls, all in their 20s, standing in a well-lit room-five of them in shimmery saris, two in mini-skirts and three in jeans and tops. Dhoble called the local police and forced the bar owner to open the door to the secret room. The girls are now at a women's reform home in Chembur.

Sixty four-year-old Yusuf Bhure, owner of the Mogal Sarai restaurant in Bandra, fell unconscious and partially lost his hearing after Dhoble struck him on the ear and groin while inspecting the restaurant.

This week newspaper revealed that 1.8m Indians suffer cop torture.  It is time to send a strong message to the so-called social reformers and the monsters hiding in the uniform.

!!!Only the cowards who preferred to demonstrate their supremacy on the innocent.!!!

The Prez Nomination and the Juggernaut!

Last week we have seen lots of activity in Delhi but Delhi is always famous for the same reason. Be it team Anna or it Ramdev Delhi is always buzzing. This time around the reason for the buzz around the announcement of the candidature for the next president of India.. Whenever she was a minister either with Congress or with NDA, she always did it, your guess is as well as mine. It is Mamata Banerjee, once again she did it but please don’t say ‘once more’ because we Bengali itself fed with her antic. I remember a piece of cartoon by great R. K. Laxman showing that then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was admitted in the hospital for some reason was running for cover from the backdoor when someone announced that Mamata Banerjee is visiting him.

I wanted to inform Ms. Banerjee, that I am a very apolitical person and also that in last Loksabha election she was a contestant from my constituency and I did vote for her. When I declared to my students that I was one of the fool who too voted for her obviously they asked me how is my feeling now. I only can say that it is go down as one of my biggest mistake concerning my life. May be, she can branded me a CPM cadre, a Maoist, an anti Bengali or may be an anti National, but  her opinion does not bother me any more. Of-course she is running a party which does not have different opinion, only opinion works in her party which only diktat by her. In my earlier blog I praised her and sadly today I am doing it with such contrasting negative feeling. As, her own party member and MP Kabir Suman described her as, either her attitude changed drastically or she is a terrific actress. The way things are going I think we will able publish a full fledged book on her tantrums.

Tantrums of Mamata

While she was a  railway minister, Mamata Banerjee. Accused  of being temperamental, she has irked members of parliament such as Ram Vilas Paswan for throwing her shawl at him after a speech, and for walking out during parliamentary sessions.

After calling the Park Street rape case as "cooked up to malign the government",  Mamata Banerjee did a U-turn and assured all help to the team of National Commission for Women (NCW) but not to the victim or for once she never aphorized to her making such a foolish comment. She again did the same for the victim from Katwa.

She conveyed to prime minister Manmohan Singh that she would not be able to accompany him on his visit to Bangladesh,  as she is not happy with the final draft of the interim deal New Delhi and Dhaka are likely to sign for sharing of the waters of river Teesta. It was clearly a snub to the prime minister, who had invited her to join him on his visit to the eastern neighbour. She cannot rise above the electoral interests, but the way things going we are going to see some changes within or after four years.

At an open house session with the Chief Minister, conducted by CNN-IBN to mark one year of the Trinamool Congress's coming to power in West Bengal, she branded a student as Maoist and CPM cadre. She was asked about the handling of recent crimes against women and the conduct of some senior ministers from her party, by a Presidency University student, Taniya Bhardwaj. She angrily accused the student of being a Maoist, refused to answer questions and stormed off the stage.

This time she was gone too far by snubbing Mr. Pranab Mukherjee’s nomination as next president, when every Bengali wanted it. After rejecting the UPA’s Presidential candidate, she now Mamata Banerjee is sulking in a corner and decided to open her heart in public by taking her woes to Facebook. For over period since UPA-II came into the power, Mamata Banerjee has tried her best to pressurised the government at the centre, blocking almost every reform which caused great damage to the Indian economy, bringing down the growth rate.

The thinker community from Bengal those once supported her too fed of her antic, only baring two. One of them is a squeeze master and other, come on, I think all knows it better than me.

A senior Congress politician has an extraordinary wish for 2012. He wants the Opposition NDA to come to power in the new year for only one reason — so that NDA might suffer Mamata Banerjee's tantrums just as the present coalition has had to bear them.

!!!Hold your card close to your chest but till it is worth using.!!!

The Black Spot on the Esteemed Uniform !

Once my major dream was to work for the Indian armed forces. At that time with my limited resources, I tried for it but without any success. Like many other Indian I was too fascinated by the armed forces, be it Indian Army, Navy, or the Air forces. Their achievement, discipline and courageous acts always lured me. However, it is sad to see that today the venom of corruption is not spared the segment that once was regarded as the most honest sector. Wherever and whenever there are an arm deal, the Kickbacks or Kick*** too comes with an attachment but at a time army personal were not involved. Nevertheless, the most respected organization was under regular scrutiny for speculated scams regarding lands deals or other. These sort of corruptions and the scandals,  have taken the Indian Army’s sheen, the images of the Indian defense establishment in our perception now not same as before.

Bofors Arm Deal

The Swedish firm AB Bofors was alleged to have paid $1.3bn in bribes during the sale of 400 howitzers to India in 1986, when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister. The Bofors issue was extremely sensitive politically for the governing Congress party, as Mr Quattrocchi was known to be a friend of Italian-born party leader Sonia Gandhi. Indian investigators have tried unsuccessfully for much of the past decade to get Mr Quattrocchi extradited to India. The case contributed to the election defeat of Rajiv Gandhi in 1989, two years before he was assassinated. In 2004, he was posthumously cleared of any wrongdoing in the deal.

Coffin scandal

The 500 aluminum coffins ordered for the Army personnel who lost their lives during Kargil war. The coffins were overpriced and ordered to the US-based supplier that failed to meet Indian specifications. Mr. George Fernandes only returned as defence minister in October after being forced out of office over a scandal over weapons purchases. The  Auditor General of India found that the government had paid an American company $2,500 for each of the 500 coffins.

Adarsh Housing Society Scam, Mumbai

The case involves top armed forces officers and defence estate officers issuing a no-objection certificate to Adarsh Housing Society, comprising retired and serving personnel, to build a 31-storey housing complex with 104 flats. The building came up on a 6,450 square metre plot of land inside a high security naval campus in upscale Colaba area of Mumbai.

Originally proposed as a housing scheme for widows of Kargil martyrs, it later came to light that politicians, bureaucrats and senior defence officers including three former army and navy chiefs had got flats allotted to them by misusing their official positions.

Ration Supply Scam and Frozen Meat Scam

A top officer, Lt. Gen. S.K. Dahiya and  Army Service Corps chief Lt. Gen. S.K. Sahni were accused in a separate case involving irregularities. Whereas Dahiya is now retired from service and S.K. Sahni was found guilty in the case in 2011 and dismissed from service.

Sukhna Land Scandal

Then army chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor's military secretary Lt. Gen. Avadesh Prakash and then 33 Corps commander Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath and a major general were named in converting a 70-acre land adjacent to Sukna military station in Siliguri of West Bengal into an educational institution by handing it over to a private trust.

The controversy involved issuing of no-objection certificate for the private trust to buy the land for construction of the educational institution on the condition that wards of army personnel from Sukna military station too would get to study there. Both were court martialled in the case and punished for their involvement in the alienation of the 70-acre land that was originally a tea estate. The court martial had dismissed Lt. Gen. Avadesh Prakash from service after finding him guilty in the case.

Tatra Truck Deal

Latest is the ongoing scandal of Tatra truck deals where the outgoing Army Chief General V.K. Singh alleged that an equipment lobbyist offered him a bribe of 14 crore. In an interview to a newspaper, he said the offer was made for approving the supply of 600 sub-standard vehicles to the army. The finger pointed to the  former Defence Intelligence Agency chief Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh, who is retired two years ago, allegedly offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore to Army Chief General V K Singh in order to ensure procurement of sub-standard trucks by the army. Ravi Rishi, the London-based millionaire businessman, owns Vectra, a conglomerate which has a controlling stake in Czech and Slovak-based specialist truck firm Tatra.  The Indian Army has used Tatra trucks for nearly 26 years, of which for the past 19 years the company has been under Ravi Rishi's ownership. According to the Gen. Singh,  "the expensive" Tatra trucks were "substandard". Ministry of Defence also suspended Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) chief VRS Natarajan in connection with the Tatra case. BEML, which co-manufactures Tatra trucks in India.

!!!Shame for the country and its citizen when Minders becomes looters!!!

Planet of Love & the Phenomenal Journey!!!

While thinking about the universe sans earth my curiosity grows like a child and the queries after queries eats up my mind like thousand worms but all remains unanswered. Solar System is a such mystery that after spending trillions by the developing countries, so far we hardly know anything. The theory behind the beginning of the universe until now speculated. Scientist forwarded theories after theories but some are not yet proved. Standing on the curst of my home planet, the earth, I often look over but it only increase my curiosity. I wish I could have a strong pair of wings at least I would have ventured closure to the sky to find little answer of my queries. The transit of Venus one such event that we are lucky to experienced it yesterday.

The Venus

The planet Venus is second in order from the Sun. Although it is twice the distance from the Sun as Mercury, it is the hottest planet in the solar system. A thick, cloudy atmosphere of carbon dioxide traps the Sun’s heat and bathes the planet’s surface in a drizzle of sulfuric acid caused by volcanic eruptions. The surface of Venus consists of low-lying plains and highland regions shaped by volcanoes and lava flows. It is believed that volcanoes continue to erupt on Venus. Except for three features, all of Venus’s landmarks are named after women. A map of Venus shows a crater named Cleopatra, a canyon called Diana, and a plain named Guinevere.

Venus is classified as a terrestrial planet and it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" owing to their similar size, gravity, and bulk composition. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it has been known as the Morning Star or Evening Star. The diameter of Venus is 12,092 km, only 650 km less than the Earth's and its mass is 81.5% of the Earth's. Venus has an extremely dense atmosphere, which consists mainly of carbon dioxide and a small amount of nitrogen.

Transit of the Venus

Mercury and the Venus are two inferior planet and we already experienced transit of the Mercury and Venus before but it is phenomenal. Transit of the Venus means, when the planet passes between the Earth and the Sun but, it usually does not cross the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus occur in cycles of 243 years with the current pattern of transits being pairs of transits separated by eight years, at intervals of about 105.5 years or 121.5 years—a pattern first discovered in 1639 by English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.

Since the telescope's invention, the transit of Venus has only been viewable - anywhere in the world - in the years 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882, 2004 and 6^th June 2012.  The next such alignment going to occur in 2117.   

!!!Venus is known as Planet of Love, so celebrate this rare transit with little love, tolerance and harmony.!!!