Sticking with the peoples yet they are Tata!!

I have a very soft corner for the Tata’s, the only and genuine corporate house of India. While thinking about the Tata’s, a number of adjective will queued up in your mind, culture, humanity, honesty and so on. As I said, I have a very soft corner for Tata’s, because my father and brother both was a Tata employee. I lived in Jamshedpur and studied in a school that runs by the same corporate house. They pampered their employees and unless you move to another corporate folding you may never realised this. The amenities they provide are unbelievable. Cause behind my praising is not that my father and brother earned their bread from sane company, I too worked for quite a few of them in India and as well as in aboard but I never dared to compare them with the league of Tata. I was sad and angry when political scenario of West Bengal forced Tata to withdraw from Singur. It was the then CPM government's fault, they should left the company to negotiate with the farmer directly and decide on the financial packages than their agents who wanted to make a quick bucks form both the sides. It was not long before when Kolkata was the head office of the Tata’s but Kolkata slowly and steadily lost everything once that were their pride.

I decided to write this after reading, the interview of Ratan Tata that appeared in last Sunday’s Times of India. This topic is a way to show my respect for the Tata that is in me while a long time. The interview was something that expected from a person like Ratan Tata. All know it, specially those are having a little interest in current happening that after 26/11, the Tata’s taken lots of care for the people those were severely affected from that terrorist attack and specially Mr. Ratan Tata personally supervised the rehabilitation. This rehabilitation package not only for Tata employees but also for everyone, even for the tea stall vendor in CST station who lost his daily income. The said interview was regarding Mukesh Ambani’s new address, Antilla and it is very creditable one too. His way of criticizing was a very gentle one but certainly, he may found it ridiculous while looking at the person from a country like India and how the same can shows off his billions only on a house

Ratan Tata’s view on Mukesh Ambani’s Antilla:

“The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him (asking) can he make a difference. If he is not, that it is sad because India needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have,”

It is known factor that the Tata scions always preferred an ordinary life, from my knowledge that the grand old pioneer of our time Mr. J.R.D. Tata not even had his permanent address in Mumbai the city he lived his all life. He stayed all his life in a rented house.

One more thing what makes me happy that he praised the Indian work culture, specially in Mumbai. I worked all my life in Mumbai and know how hard we worked there, it was beyond 9 to 5 business. In Kolkata, it is not even ten percent of it.

Ambani’s, always likes the good life and least bothered about surrounding. When size do matters you certainly need a big place.

!!!The brain behind the Nano is not trivial, they are colossal!!!

Nothing left for the Left!

West Bengal and some other states experienced a significant change since I posted my last blog and therefore, the political scenario in West Bengal as well as those states are completely changed. After thirty-four years finally leftist are left behind by Mamata Banerjee and her party. During these thirty-four years Bengal never gained anything but lost all glory that it achieved before. By the time I post this, Mamata Banerjee will be the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. In last election, she missed the bus but she cannot blame anyone except herself. During that time, her attitude was questionable but slowly she too understood her fault and toned down herself. Only being as an honest person is not sufficient, so last time she was rejected by the people. Most credit goes to Election commission, not long back when a fair poll was a distant dream and some states are repeatedly raped by the ruling parties like leftist, RJD of Lalu Prasad and some others as if they are the owner of the land.

In south J. Jayalalithaa too made a comeback but these two women are pole apart. Jayalalithaa already ruled Tamil Nadu twice but both time she have to leave the office under various allegation. She is basically from glamour world and very controversial figure. Where Mamata Banerjee is a street fighter. Hope she chooses correct people for the sensitive portfolios, specially home and finance.

Jayalalithaa Jayaram

Jayalalithaa Jayaram, is the general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) that founded by MGR. She is called Amma. She was a film actor in Tamil and Telugu cinema before entering politics.

She was born in Mysore, Karnataka and had her formal education at the Bishop Cotton Girls' High School in Bangalore. She later moved to Tamil Nadu and was then schooled at Sacred Heart Matriculation School.

Jayalalitha made her debut as a teenager in a South Indian film . She also acted in a English movie. From 1965-1972 she formed a hit on screen pair with MGR by giving back to back box office hits.

In 1981, she joined the AIADMK and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1988, marking her entry into the Parliament of India. Her association with politics grew from her association with the Late M. G. Ramachandran (MGR), the movie star and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. She became the first woman to be elected Leader of the Opposition. In 1991, following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, just days before the elections. She was elected to the legislative assembly and became the first elected woman chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Due to an anti-incumbency wave, and several allegations of corruption and malfeasance against her and her ministers, she lost power to the D.M.K in 1996, in a landslide defeat. She returned to power with a huge majority in the 2001 elections but lost again in 2006.

Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee was born to Promileswar and Gayatri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress. And, as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress . Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spent money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder. There has been questions raised on the reality of her austere life style by her colleague Subrata Mukherjee. She has remained single throughout her life.

She graduated with an honours degree in History from the Jogamaya Devi College, a women's college in southern Kolkata Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. Later, she earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.

She started her political career with Congress, and as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks of the local Congress group, and remained the General Secretary of Congress women wing, West Bengal. In the 1984 general election, she became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. She also became the General-Secretary of the All India Youth Congress.

In the Rao government formed in 1991, Mamata Banerjee was made the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development. In April 1996. In 1997, Mamata Banerjee came out of the Congress Party in West Bengal and established the All India Trinamool Congress. It quickly became the primary opposition to the long-standing Communist government in the state.

In 1999, she joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and was allocated the Railways Ministry. Trinamool congress performed well in the 2009 parliamentary election, bagging 19 MP seats, among them 5 women. At present she is holding the post of Railway Minister in Congress led Government in centre.

On May 13, 2011, Mamata Banerjee led the Trinamool Congress Alliance won the state assembly election against Left Ruling party by securing 228 seats. b>Trinamool Congress alone won 184 seats. She will assume the office of the chief minister of West Bengal. The list of looser includes the present Chief Minister Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharya. She is a poet and a painter too.

While Mamata Banerjee going to be the first chief minister of Bengal, remembering a few women with some distinguish post.

Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to become the governor of a state in India. After independence, she became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh and died in office in 1949.

Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime minister of India, from 19 Jan 1966 to 24 Mar 1977 and from 14 Jan 1980 to 31 Oct 1984. If you look at the wider picture then it was Sirimavo Bandaranaike from Sri Lanka was the first woman prime minister.

Sucheta Kriplani (Mazumdar) was the first woman Chief Minister in India, she was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2 October 1963 – 14 March 1967.

China a non democratic county that never believe in human rights but strange that the leftist always supported the communist government of China. The real intention of our neighbouring state is well known, with whom our country having many dispute as well as fought a war in 1962. 

!!!Therefore, don't you thing, Left has no place in India!!!

Barbaric, beastly and manic!!

Umpteen numbers of times you have read about it and written many more times, yet choose this topic for my latest blog. While preparing for this, I was surfing and going through various related sites in the internet, the experience was very awful. Today’s topic is on genocide. The definition of genocide available in the dictionary is - Genocide, crime of destroying or conspiring to destroy a group of people because of their ethnic, national, racial, or religious identity.

Races are the main cause for most of the genocide. We Indian too encountered it during the1947 Partition of India. Millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were slaughtered based on being on the wrong side of the border. Estimates of total dead vary from 500,000 to 1000000.

Armenian Genocide.

During first World War I (1915–1918) in Turkey under the Ottoman authorities arrested and executed Armenian intellectuals and community leaders and thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million. Some other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks.

If you go through the pages of history book, there will be many such incidents but none of these can be compare with Nazi genocide under Hitler.

Holocaust, the almost complete destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939-1945). The leadership of Germany’s Nazi Party ordered the extermination of almost 6 million Jews. The word holocaust derives from the Greek holo (whole) and caustos (burned) and originally referred to a burnt offering, or a religious sacrifice that is totally consumed by fire.

The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. Those who carried it out methodically created the means to efficiently round up and kill millions of people. At least 75,000 mentally and physically disabled people were also executed.

Main culprit behind the barbaric act

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful dictators and his attempts to conquer territory for German brought about World War II. Hitler had decided to exterminate the European Jews. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Slavic peoples.

Hermann Göring’s

German field marshal Hermann Göring, second only to dictator Adolf Hitler in the Nazi government, stands trial before the International Military Tribunal, Germany, in 1945 and 1946. Göring was convicted of all the charges brought against him and sentenced to death by hanging. He committed suicide hours before his scheduled execution on October 15, 1946.

Reinhard Heydrich

As head of the German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), Reinhard Heydrich was asked by Nazi leader Hermann Göring to organize a “final solution to the Jewish question.”

Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was entrusted by the leaders of Nazi Germany with responsibility for carrying out and coordinating the “final solution”—the murder of almost 6 million Jews during World War II. Eichmann vanished after the war, but in 1960 Israeli agents found him in Argentina, abducted him, and took him to Israel. An Israeli court convicted Eichmann of crimes against humanity, and he was hanged in 1962.


Dr. Josef Mengele

Nazi human experimentation: Apart from killing another distinctive feature the Holocaust was the extensive use of human subjects in medical experiments. The most notorious of these physicians was Dr. Josef Mengele, who worked in the Auschwitz concentration camp. His experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes and various amputations and other brutal surgeries.

The Saviors

Oskar Schindler : German industrialist, who protected Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II. He saved more than 1000 Jews employees, when he moved his factory to Czechoslovakia, he made list of 1000 plus Jews employees whom he wanted to accompany him to his new factory. The list also known as “Schindler’s List”. In 1961 he was invited to Israel, where a memorial was unveiled on his 53rd birthday.


Many Jews, received help from the Poles; such rescue effort is one of the most remarkable features because ethnic Poles themselves were the subject to capital punishment at the hands of the German Nazi occupier if found offering any kind of help to a the Jews.

The relation between Jews and Arabs gone bad worst since partition of Palestine to create separate Jews and Arab state but a number of Arabs participated in efforts to help save Jewish residents of Arab lands from the Holocaust while fascist regimes controlled the territory. Khaled Abdul-Wahab from Tunisian, Taieb el-Okbi of Algerian Islah and Si Ali Sakkat Tunis are the few names who saved Jews from the Germans.

I cannot end it without mentioning her, so end with Anne Frank.

Anne Frank

After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. While staying in Netherlands she was betrayed by an individual but in spite of repeated investigations, the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries.

Hitler wanted to rule the World and he considered Jews were more superior to Germans; therefore, he carried out the unbelievable sinister plots against the Jews.  Every dictator from past or present has different story to tell.

!!!Blessed to be an Indian, largest democratic country of the World.!!!

A Wedding and a Funeral!

Do not confused this one with Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell’s ‘Four weddings and a funeral’, nice movie. Today writing about the two incidents that occurred since last Thursday, both the events pleased our television channels as the TRP index touched to a new high specially for all news channels.

Will-Kate Wedding!

First one was the wedding, termed as the wedding of the century, when Prince William of Wales, second in line to the throne, married to Catherine Middleton. The wedding took place in Westminster Abbey, which has a long tradition as venue for royal weddings, but strange that there was a hiatus, from 1382 to 1918, no wedding took place in Westminster Abbey. After almost over five hundred fifty years in 1919, Princess Patricia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was married to Alexander Ramsay. Even Prince William’s parents preferred St Paul's Cathedral. That wedding took place on 29^th July 1981. I was least bothered about it and was watching a very engrossing tennis match involving Bjorn Borg.

Prince William of Wales (Present: His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge)

Prince William  was born within a year of his parent’s marriage, on born 21 June 1982. After completing his studies from Eton College, William took part in British Army training exercises in Belize. After a gap of year he back to the studies in London in University of St Andrews and going on to earn a Master of Arts degree. He is in various sports like basketball, polo, rugby and football. He is an ardent fan of English Football club Aston Villa (Why?).

At Present, he is with the Royal Air Force (RAF), with their rescue mission as co-pilot of Sea King Helicopter.

Catherine Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge)

Kate, she is just an ordinary girl with lots of substance. She grew up in Chapel Row at Bucklebury, a village in Berkshire, England.  She studied in Scotland where she met William, they were flatmate. Prior to her wedding, Catherine Middleton was created Duchess of Cambridge.

Will-Kate marriage took place on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey, that watched by 2 billion people worldwide.

Obama Shoots Osama!

Barrack Obama – Born in August 4, 1961, his mother was an American from Hawaii  and father was Kenyan.  His parents separated when his father went to Harvard University on scholarship, and then divorced in 1964. His father remarried and returned to Kenya, he died in an automobile accident in 1982. Obama's mother married to an Indonesian and the family moved to Jakarta. Four years, until he was ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta and in 1971, returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother Stanley Ann Dunham, died in 1995 form ovarian cancer. After completing his B.A. from Columbia University and Law from Harvard, Obama returned to the Chicago. He married to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama and they are having two daughters.

Later he plunged into active politics, he was elected Senator form Illinois from 1994 to 2007 and then US Senator from 2005 to 2008. In January 2009, he became the forty-fourth President of United States.

Osama!

Everything I write about him, I have to toss a special coin with three sides, True, False and Not Sure. Therefore, I feel following texts are true, may be false but there is no surety, yet decided to write.

He was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Mohammed bin Laden, a wealthy businessman and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife. Most probably, he was born in March 10, 1957. It believed that he was a Civil Engineer but not sure. He had married four women and fathered almost two dozens children (approx). In early days Osama mainly worked for restoration of Sharia law. From 1979 through 1989, he lived in Peshawar to fight the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, this operation was under U.S. Presidents Carter and Reagan. The United States Central Intelligence Agency provided the financial aid, arms and training to Osama's Islamic Jihad Mujahideen through Operation. President Reagan often praised the Mujahideen as Afghanistan's "Freedom Fighters."

The honeymoon with USA was long over but finally it was ended after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait under Saddam Hussein and then when Saudi monarchy invited the U.S. troops in Saudi territory.  Osama was against the foreign troops entering the "land of the two mosques" (Mecca and Medina). In 1992, he went to live in exile in Sudan. After an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by Al-Qaeda, in 1995 and thereafter pressure from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and USA, Sudan expelled Osama. He returned to Afghanistan. He was the main architect behind series of bomb blast throughout the world and the September 11, 2001 attack on USA that left over three thousand dead and destroyed the twin towers. This follows Afghan war and subsequently end of Taliban regime, since then there were speculation about Osama’s whereabouts.

It is believed that on May 1, 2011, the SEAL commandos from USA killed him, he is dead and buried beneath in the sea. I like everything about these commandos, be it SEAL or our beloved MARCOS, these faceless commandos are very very special.

During 1980’s Afghan war against Soviet, Bin Laden considered as a freedom fighter by USA government but he died as a villain and under supervision of same USA government.

!!!Therefore, what next, wait and watch for the next Frankenstein created and destroyed by USA,  the expense of this ‘operation destroy’ is only $1.3 trillion.!!!

This Bond has no Limits!

Whenever I, logged into the virtual world, two things that become a rituals, first logged to a Google account and then to a social networking sites. I cannot think my life with out Google, apart from others goodies it is given me a new opportunity to express myself through my blog. For social networking sites, it is nice way to keep the relationship alive and kicking. An innovative mode to keep in touch with the friends, families, well-wishers and with your enemies too. Not always things go well, often people from different walks of life using these sites for washing their dirty linen in public, world getting heavier with bad breath. I too have a few accounts with different sites. Frankly speaking, often it is bit boring, person with whom I am relating if do not have the same wittiness or intelligence then connecting with them for long time is just like non-cordial duties than bonding.

Popularity of  these sites proved that the citizen of the earth like to bond, some for good and some for bad. Apart from many others, these social networking sites played a major role for the changes in the Arab world. Since peoples of Tunisia snatched the well-deserved democracy from their dictator and thereafter happening in the neighbouring Arab state, you cannot deny that some of the credit should be given to these social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. No doubt with seventy crore plus users Facebook is the most happening sites but my vote goes to Twitter. As an ordinary person whenever I like to express my views, the Twitter is the best place. It is like broadcasting your views without bothering about the followers or whom you are following, somewhat going through a live commentary. You can promote anything and everything in Twitter or can follow anybody and all without a colorful multiple age wall posting like others. It is rather a micro-blogging site.

In India Facebook, Twitter and Orkut are the three main sites but we have others which equally famous and may be older than these lots. The following are the list of world’s top ten.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Orkut
• MySpace
• LinkedIn
• Friendster
• Hi5
• NetLog
• Badoo
• Meetup

Top five

Facebook - It was co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. website launched in February 2004. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students and then only for college and university students but now opened to high school students to anyone aged 13 and over. It is most used social networking sites with almost billion users.

Orkut - It is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Launched in 2004. Help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India but 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2%. Available in 48 languages.

Twitter - It is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".

LinkedIn - It is more a business-oriented social networking site. Launched in May 2003. LinkedIn reports more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.   Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.

Myspace - It was the most popular social networking site in the United States till 2008. Myspace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace's monthly U.S. unique visitors at 43.2 million. Owned by News Corporation.

Bottom Line : Next time a friend from Mars? Looking forward to it.

!!!Mingle amid news and views with lots of hues without pressing the Fuse.!!!

For the People by the People!

I am an Indian and a very proud one too; yes, there is no doubt about it but at the same time exhausted by the endless scams. India is one of such country that maintains corruption in three levels, Macro, Mini, and Micro. We forced to pay for what we already paid, a new telephone connection, job to be done at Municipality, Passport verification at police station, … forget it, I am not going to write a Mahabharata. These shameless faces are most irritated species and I consider them an unofficial beggars. Finally, there is some hope, but in a democratic country, no body can prevent you from dreaming or hoping for good, but getting it is other thing. The movement that started earlier by a few people and latest by Anna Hazare can fulfill our dream, a dream for a clean and corruption free state. Long pending Jan Lokpal Bill may finally see the light.
Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill. It is drawn up by some prominent civil society activists and seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases within a short period. It is to provide the common man with direct powers to condemn the elected representative.
The Team (Ten Wise(?) Man)
Man for all Seasons		Cool as Cucumber		Kill & sooth with a smile		Clean Sheet		Find flaws in the law
Taking the bull by the horns		The Adviser		Legally Correct		Helping the helpless		Fight the Corrupt
Minister on Board
Pranab Mukherjee - Our current FM does not need an introduction. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History and Political Science & has a degree in law from the University of Calcutta. He is one of the senior most member of the National Congress Party as well as Indian Parliament. He also hold a very distinguish position in the current government - Troubleshooter. He will be the Chairman of the panel.
P. Chidambaram is an Indian politician and present Union Minister of Home Affairs. Before this, he was Finance Minister of India. He studied at Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He completed his graduation in Statistics from The Presidency College, Chennai then he completed his LL.B. from the Madras Law College and a M.B.A. from Harvard. He also has a Masters from Loyola College.
Kapil Sibal - He was born in Jalandhar, he obtained his M.A. from St. Stephen, LLB from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1977. He is currently the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
Salman Khurshid - He too is a lawyer. He is Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Minority Affairs. He has been deeply involved in writing and acting in plays since his student days in Delhi and Oxford.
Veerappa Moily is the current Minister of Law and Justice in the Indian government. He completed his B.L. from University Law College, Bengaluru
Non-Government
Anna Hazare - His name is Kisan Baburao Hazare. He studied up to 7th standard and forced to take a job due to financial problem. He started selling flower in Dadar station to support his family. Then he started as a driver in Indian Army. After voluntary retirement from the army, Hazare came to his native Ralegan Siddhi village in 1975. He started working on the development in the area for water supply, education and other basic needs. He draws his inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda - ' that the motive of his life lay in service to his fellow humans'.
Shanti Bhushan - He was a senior advocate and also was a former Law Minister of India, from 1977–1979, in the Morarji Desai Government. He is the oldest of the lot and he is going to co-chair joint drafting committee of  Jan Lokpal Bill along with Pranab Mukherjee.
Santosh Hegde is a former justice of the Supreme Court of India, former Solicitor General of India. He was appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka state on 3 August, 2006 for a term of five years.
Prashant Bhushan - He is the son of Shanti Bhushan and by profession he is a lawyer. He is a activist too and helped people by judiciary system.
Arvind Kejriwal - A IIT Kharagpur alumni from where he has done his Mechanical Engineering. Joined Indian Revenue Service (IRS), while he was posted at the Income-tax Commissioner's Office in Delhi he realized that much of the corruption prevalent in government is owing to lack of transparency in the process. He also he campaigned for the Right to Information Act. Apart from many other awards, he also awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006. Hazare and Kejriwal are odd one out, as both of them do not have a law degree behind them.
The first meeting is already over but has doubt regarding further happening as lots of controversies cropping up with the Bhushans, specially senior Bhushan. Keeping our finger cross and hoping for better tomorrow. As a common citizen looking for the day when a corrupt administrator or a minister going dragged down and tried by a common man. It seems country does not have a woman who could have join the team, while person like Aruna Roy or Kiran Bedi was a obvious choice. !!!Citizen's ombudsman, nothing official about it! End of the road for Unofficial Beggars? yippee! yahoo!!!

Ethical, Eternal yet Ethnic!

Apart from meeting them in local bazaar, whenever I traveled by a Mumbai Local in an odd hour I bumped into them. They never bothered about the surrounding and mostly engrossed to each other. Sometime they are busy with their delicious looking homemade food. They were none other than a bunch of fisherwomen, a familiar face from any Mumbai’s fish market.

While studying Computer, my class timing was seven in the morning, the distance I had to cover was from I.I.T to Flora Fountain (now it is Hutatma Chowk). It took around one and half hour to reach my college. When I used to leave my home it was dark and most peoples around me still sleeping, as Mumbai goes to sleep well after mid-night. I was late only once that too not my fault, the train was running late. Early morning trains were not that crowded but you will never find an empty compartment at any given hour, not even the Ladies compartments. After finding a place to sit, for obvious reason, early morning breeze and the lack of sleep I always found myself sleeping. When the train reached the destination V.T. (now C.S.T) most of the days I was still sleeping and then every time I woke up with a huge pat on my shoulder and with same dialog ‘ut go, istation ali. parat janar kai?’ (Get up, last station is here, want to go back). These alarm clocks never left me behind, it was very reliable and dedicated. Those were the bunch of fisherwomen, on their way to Colaba to purchase fish.

The Mumbai’s very own fisherwomen, bold, beautiful, vicious yet friendly. They belong to ‘Koli’ community. Most of the market in Mumbai you will find women selling fish and it is not their husband they only travel early morning and late afternoon to Colaba for the fresh stock. One thing that other women or even my friends were envious about them, it was their gold ornaments. The neck-wear itself may cost around fifty thousand. I had no fascination for yellow metal but I too eying something that was their food, most of the day they used to have their lunch in train, it looked delicious, yummy.

Mumbai’s original inhabitants are East Indian or East Indians are a Marathi-speaking, Roman Catholic ethnic group, based in and around the city of Mumbai. These people are of the original Marathi ethnic group and had been evangelized by the Portuguese, while retaining much of their pre-Christian traditions. They are the most non controversial people of Mumbai. Once every fish market were ruled by the East Indian fisherwoman, now you will find a very few East Indian fisherwoman. It is not long ago that the whole Vikhorli was belongs to this community before Godrej bought it. Leave alone the fishing business, now these days you can hardly see any East Indian in Mumbai.

Koli is the language spoken by Kolis in Mumbai. Marathi is another language spoken by Agri-Koli in the interior parts of Mumbai. It is a mixture of Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Kannada language. The Koli community has its own distinct identity and lively dances. The dance incorporates elements that this community is most familiar with - sea and fishing. The dance is performed by both men and women divided into two groups, where fishers stand in two rows holding oars in their hands.

After monsoon break, then come the ‘Narali punaw’, as per traditions Kolis know that after this day the wind strength and direction changes in favour of fishing. This is the day when Kolis celebrate the kick off of new business season. This is the day when they pray to the sea God and make puja of their boats and begins their fishing season. They break coconut and often offer a golden coconut to the sea God.

Recent past things changed for modern days fisherwomen. A plush conference room in a leading luxury hotel is an unusual meeting venue for a group of fisherwomen. However, these are no ordinary fisherwomen. They are members of Fish Suppliers, a self-help group based in a fishing village in Mahim, a suburb of Mumbai. They supply fish to three Taj group hotels in Mumbai — the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the Taj President and Taj Lands End. Last year, they registered a turnover of Rs30 lakh. In addition, they have just bagged an annual contract for the current year worth Rs1 crore. These Macchiwalis are itself a total package, they are the lioness of Mumbai.

!!!It is not a mere Fishy affair, it is colossal!!!