Betrayed by the faith!

Death is a certainly a word that terrified all living souls. However, it is bitter fact that no matter how much hate it one day all of us have to embraced it. Some decide their own fate and taken their own life but mostly the death strikes silently. For me the extreme pathetic way  to die while visiting the places of your religious belief then crashed to death in front of the God of your trust. Throughout the world every year there are hundreds of people dying while visiting the religious places. Mostly of these death occurs either by stampede or due to fire. In India  we had many such incidents and also witnessed one recently during on going Kumbha Mela. Most of the cases the organizers should be blame for the tragedies. Administration should always prepare for such large gathering to prevent it happen again and again. Some of the worst stampede incident that occurred in different part of the world.

India

Uttar Pradesh

Allahabad, 3 February 1954 : A stampede that occurred in 1954 at Kumbha Mela in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on the main bathing day of Mauni Amavasya, when the incident took place. It was the  first Kumbh Mela after the Independence. About he figures for the tragedy varied according to different sources. It left, more than 800 people dead and over 100 injured.

Allahabad 3 February 2013, during Kumbh Mela, a stampede broke out at the train station in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 36 people and injuring at least 39.

Pratapgarh, March 4, 2010 : At least 63 people were killed and 35 injured in a stampede after the entry gate of an overcrowded spiritual ashram in Pratapgarh.

Maharashtra

Nashik August 27, 2003  : A stampede broke out at the Kumbh Mela at Nashik near the holy Godavari river. The accident claimed 40 lives and injured 125 devotees who had come for holy bath during the Kumbh Mela.

Satara January 26, 2005 : During a religious fair at Mandher Devi temple in Satara district of Maharashtra, a stampede killed 350 people and injured 200 devotees.

Nagpur, 23 November 1994 :  Stampede occurred at Nagpur, India in which 114 people from the Gowari community were killed and 500 more injured.

Himachal Pradesh

August 3, 2008 : Over 160 people were killed and several injured in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh.

Uttrakhand

Ujjain and Haridwar, 15 July 1996:  stampedes refer to two human stampedes which occurred in Ujjain and Haridwar killing 39 and 21 hindu worshippers at respective places.

Haridwar, November 8, 2011 : The Stampede at the shrine in Haridwar claimed 22 lives near the river Ganga on .

Rajasthan

Jodhpur, ptember 30, 2008 : A human stampede occurred on , at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in which 249 people were killed and more than 400 injured.

Kerala

Sabarimala 14 January, 1999 : Stampede that occurred at Sabarimala temple on the Makara Jyothi Day, 53 people died in the stampede.

Sabarimala, 14 January 2011: A stampede occurred on  Makara Jyothi Day during an annual pilgrimage, killing 106 pilgrims and injuring about 100 more. It was the second occurrence of such incident in same place.

Saudi Arabia,Mecca

Millions of peoples visit Mecca for Haj and most of the stampede death occurs during stoning of the Devil ritual.

July 2, 1990 : A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leading out from Mecca towards Mina, Saudi Arabia and the Plains of Arafat led to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims, many of them Malaysian, Indonesian and Pakistani of origin.

May 23, 1994 : A stampede killed at least 270 pilgrims at the stoning of the Devil ritual.

April 9, 1998: A least 118 pilgrims were trampled to death and 180 injured in an incident on Jamarat Bridge.

March 5, 2001: Thirty five pilgrims were trampled to death in a stampede during the stoning of the Devil ritual.

February 11, 2003: The stoning of the Devil ritual claimed 14 pilgrims' lives.

February 1, 2004: 251 pilgrims were killed and another 244 injured in a stampede during the stoning ritual in Mina.

January 12, 2006: A stampede during the ritual ramy al-jamarāt on the last day of the Hajj in Mina killed at least 346 pilgrims and injured at least 289 more. The incident occurred when a busload of travellers arrived together at the eastern access ramps to the Jamarat Bridge. This caused pilgrims to trip, rapidly resulting in a lethal crush. An estimated two million people were performing the ritual at the time.

Human lives, one or many is always matter but there are many incidents related to stampede  in a religious place.

!!Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. - Khalil Gibran!!!

Instantaneous Fall!

While the earth revolves around the sun, the two legged inhabitants of the earth are revolving like madcap around the money. However, for me the definition of money is little different than what other feel. Money is a traveller with a transit visa and travelling constantly for free of cost. The hard earn money also deserts faster than it comes but that is the life should be, so we should always on our toes to get back. However, reputation, name, fame are not an one step ladder. All our life goes to gain it and simply only one mistake needed to throw it away. The million dollar mistake, sometime it happens without ones knowledge for which we only can blame our fate but more often peoples commit a pre planned hara-kiri to throw it away what they acquired in a life. Greed, rage and a weak mentality which generate those moments of madness. Within no times they became turned to zero from a hero. Often we feel sorry for their misdemeanor but guilty should be punished with equal major. Here is some very famous public figure and their million dollar mistake.

O. J. Simpson

O. J. Simpson is a retired American professional athlete and actor. Simpson was the first professional football player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, a mark he set in 1973. He holds the record for the single season yards-per-game average. Simpson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. After retiring from professional football, Simpson had a successful career as a football broadcaster and actor.

In 1995, he was acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman after a lengthy, internationally publicized criminal trial, the People v. Simpson. In 1997, a civil court awarded a judgment against Simpson for their wrongful deaths.

In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was found guilty and sentenced to thirty-three years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.

Bill Clinton                                           

Former, United States President Bill Clinton considered to be most charismatic President until the famous sex scandal blown it away.

In 1995, Monica Lewinsky was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations. When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton. President Clinton was thereby acquitted of all charges and remained in office, he was lucky to survived.

Lance Armstrong

Like many others, he e was my idol. Lance Armstrong, the American former professional cyclist, who won the prestigious Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005 but subsequently he has been disqualified from each of those races and banned from cycling for life for doping offenses by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2012.

Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Did he use EPO? Testosterone? Cortisone? Human growth hormone? Illegal blood transfusions and other blood doping? Armstrong answered "yes" on all counts yet many thinks that what he is disclosing is the half-truth.

Tiger Woods

Considered to be a blue-eyed boy until his multiple affairs and sex scandals exposed. Tiger is ace golfer who won seventy-five career titles but then he too blew it partially.

 The National Enquirer published a story claiming that Woods had an extramarital affair with New York City nightclub manager Rachel Uchite. After initial denial about the affairs, Woods released another statement in which he admitted "transgressions" and apologized to "all of those who have supported him over the years". More than a dozen women claimed in various media outlets to have had affairs with Woods. Finally, he released a statement admitting to infidelity and apologizing again, as well as announcing that he would be taking "an indefinite break from professional golf".

Hansie Cronje

Hansie Cronje was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team. He was a hero for his peoples and also peoples from other cricket playing countries but everything blewn away when Cronje admitted his links with the bookmaker.

Cricket's biggest match-fixing scandal was unearthed in 2000, when Cronje admitted he had accepted money to throw matches.

At the age of 32, on 1 June 2002, Cronje's died in a plane crash.

Mohammed Azharuddin

Azharuddin was captain of the Indian team for most of the 1990s. Statistically he is one of India's most successful captains. He won 103 ODI matches as the captain of the Indian team, which is still an Indian record. His 14 Test Match wins as captain, was a record until it was bettered by then Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly with 21 test match

He was one of my favourite cricketer until he was banned for his involvement in a match-fixing scandal. The match-fixing scandal left a deep scar on his life. It took cricket away from him. It left him stranded one short of 100 Tests.

Mohammed Azharuddin found guilty of match fixing along with other cricketer such as Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Dr. Ali Irani, a physiotherapist, and Manoj Prabhakar. Mohammed Azharuddin, was banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match fixing.

Oscar Pistorius

I saw him blazing through the Olympic track and his courage forced me to conclude that being an able body person, I am living a worthless life.

Oscar Pistorius the South African sprint runner, who also known as "The blade runner" and became the first amputee runner to compete at an Olympic Games.

On 14 February 2013, Pistorius was charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was fatally shot at his home in Pretoria. He claimed that he thought someone had broken into his home and shot several times through the bathroom door which killed Reeva Steenkamp. Do anyone need to shot several times to kill a someone, even it is a intruder?

!!!Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. - William Shakespeare !!!

Loose Lips Sink Ship - II

This concluding part contains the following list contains some even more ridiculous public statements. Some of these atrocious comments made after the Delhi incident, it looked like as if these peoples were appearing for an IQ test without having any.

Abhijit Mukherjee

Abhijit Mukherjee, Congress MP and son of President Pranab Mukherjee, kicked off a row with his outrageous reference to female protestors in Delhi as "dented and painted.""I would term the protests in Delhi as what is popularly known as Pink Revolution. It is becoming fashionable to land up on the streets with candle in hand. Such people are completely disconnected from reality. They go to discotheques. I am very well versed with student activism and I can bet on it that most of the protesters are not students. They are dented and painted women chasing two minutes on fame, giving interviews on TV.

Banwari Lal Singhal

Banwari Lal Singhal, BJP legislator from Alwar city constituency in Rajasthan, who said wearing skirts in schools led to sexual harassment. "It should be prohibited keeping in view the rise of social crimes against women. The school should have pant-shirts or salwar suits as uniforms for girl students."

Anisur Rahaman

CPM MLA Anisur Rahaman, whose cheap comments on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was slammed by his own party leaders. His remark, which came against the backdrop of the Delhi gang-rape case, was made during his speech at Itahar in North Dinajpur. "The government will do good to all - farmers, workers, rape victims. This is the same Mamata Banerjee who went to South 24-Parganas and brought Champala Sardar to Writers' Buildings claiming she was raped. She takes up those hela fela girls. I told her if you want to bring some girls, bring some good ones. There is no better girl than you. We ask, didimoni what is your price? How much will you take for getting raped?" Rahaman reportedly said referring to the Trinamool Congress chief's announcement of to give Rs 20,000 to a rape victim.

Raj Thackeray 

Like Mamata Banerjee, he too always there commenting for something than other. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray  as always targeted the Bihari’s, saying, "Who were the one who did this? Nobody is talking about it. Just register cases against Raj Thackeray when he speaks. And after the rape, no one will talk about all rapists being from Bihar." However, his brand of politics has largely been aimed at targeting people from the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar so this comes as no surprise.

Ms. Vibha Rao

Chairperson of Chhattisgarh State Women Commission Ms. Vibha Rao says that women, influenced by western culture, send wrong signals through their dress and behavior and men often take the cue from those signals. “Women display their bodies and indulge in various obscene activities. Women are unaware of the kind of message generate,” she said.

Abu Azmi

Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi thinks that women should not go out with men other than relatives. These are some of the statements by him: “Women should not venture out with men who are not relatives. What is the need for roaming at night with men who are not relatives? This should be stopped.” He also blames the Western culture and scantily-clad women. He strongly feels rape cases are on the rise due to “women wearing less clothes”. For your kind

Ashok Singhal

Ashok Singhal, head of Hindu organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad blames the ‘western model’ of lifestyle for growing incidents of sexual assault on women including rape, saying cities were losing the values. He termed the rising trend of western model of living as “alarming.” “This western model is alarming. What is happening is we have imbibed the US. We have lost all the values we had in cities,” he said. “It is not only foreign to our culture, but also hostile.” Virginity was preserved. But the purity has been totally disturbed, we are losing it,

Kailash Vijayvargiya is current  BJP cabinet minister of Madhya Pradesh was speaking to reporters in Indore and said women must keep themselves within the limits of  morality/dignity or face the music.

Mohan Bhagwat

Women Should Be Just Housewives And Husbands Should Be The Breadwinners prominent politician Mohan Bhagwat has created a row with his statement that a woman is bound by contract to husband to look after him. "A husband and wife are involved in a contract under which the husband has said that you should take care of my house and I will take care of all your needs. I will keep you safe.

Asaram Bapu

Beg Your rapists and Call them brothers to stop them. Spiritual Guru Asaram Bapu blames Delhi rape victim saying, “She should have called the culprits ‘brothers’ and begged before them to stop. Had she recited the Saraswati mantra, she would not have boarded any bus after watching a movie with her boyfriend.” he victim’s father was rightfully enraged and asked whether Asaram Bapu will tell women in his family to surrender to rapists, asks Delhi gangrape victim's family.

This year there is a tie between Narendra Modi and Asaram Bapu, my heartiest congratulation to the winner.

!!!A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams!!!

Loose Lips Sink Ship - I

Once more back with the American English idiom ‘Loose Lips Sink Ship‘ meaning "beware of unguarded talk" and as mentioned before was an American propaganda poster of WWII.  Last year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was the clear winner and way ahead from others, let us see who is the lucky person for 2012-2013. This year there are many contenders, because of aftermath effects of the horrific incident in Delhi and thereafter turns of events. Some of the comments  exposed the intelligence of our politicians. They kept commenting as they were in a competition for the most obtuse person of the year. One thing is sure that every worthless politicians have sort of advice for the women, as women are sort of object and belongs to their paternal property. Many of those politicians are so camera friendly that whenever they see one they shoot their worthless motor mouth. Listing some of the award wining comments random order. List is quite bigger than the last year and decided to divide it in two parts. The parts are divided as pre and post Delhi incident. The  list contains some very distinguish(?) person too.

Anna Hazare

Anna Hazare said to a group of journalists at Ralegan Siddhi when he learned about the attack on Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar “Ek hi maara?” The comment was followed by a big laugh among the audience but Anna’s attitude of being sympathetic to the attacker who assaulted the Union minister brought huge criticisms on him.

Prashant Bhushan

Former ‘India against Corruption’ member and current AAP member Prashant Bhushan calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as 'Shikhandi' and as usual Bhushan denied the statement later.

Narendra Modi

Like Mamata Banerjee he too is very list friendly. During a rally in Himachal Pradesh Monday, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said "There was a Congress leader who was a minister in Parliament. He was accused of amassing wealth from cricket. He had said in Parliament that he is not connected to the Rs 50 crore in the lady's name. Have you ever heard of Rs 50 crore girlfriend?".

Modi was referring to a controversy relating to a cricket franchise involving Sunanda Pushkar, who was Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s girlfriend then.

Mamata Banerjee & Co

No one in the world have power to keep Mamata Banerjee out of this list, she is tailor made and always comes up with something that other to find a place. This time it was about horrific incident when a woman raped on gunpoint in a moving car. She had termed the Park Street rape case a "sajano galpo (concocted story)".

Its seems that she is in good company and well supported by her own party (partly) members.

Transport minister Madan Mitra had questioned why a mother had to go to a night club as there is a special criteria for peoples who preferred to visit a night club.

Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar hit out at the Park Street rape victim and questioned about her rape complaint. She also, attempted at character assassination as she dubbed the case a misunderstanding between a "woman and her client". "They (the Park Street rape and Delhi gang rape) are totally different. The incident at Park Street was not a rape at all. It was a misunderstanding between two parties involved in professional dealing between the woman and her client."

Shahrukh Khan (You Can so He Can)

Shahrukh Khan, had said in an article that he sometimes becomes the inadvertent object of political leaders who chose to make him a symbol of all they think was wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India.

He should realize that an average person like him, whatever he achieved being and Indian. If he still not satisfied he can try his luck somewhere else and it seems he is having many well wisher and sympathizer elsewhere.

Rehman Malik's (Over Boundary)

Rehman Malik’s IQ always was in questioned. Rehman Malik's controversial statement, asking India to ensure security cover to the actor.

During his visit to India, Malik, had said nobody wants to see the recurrence of incidents like Mumbai blasts, Samjhauta blasts or Babri Masjid issue. Later, however, he denied comparing the demolition of the shrine to the Mumbai attacks, adding that he had been "misunderstood".

Nitin Gadkari

When BJP finally got rid of Nitin Gadkari, when he was quietly dismissed as the  BJP  president, he was a free man and came up with the following ridiculous statements.

“Mard hoon, dekh loonga. I-T department yad rakhe, BJP ki Sarkar ayegi tab kahan jaoge?” Gadkari is reported to have said to his supporters after returning to his home town of Nagpur.  He was referring to I-T officials and CBI.

!!!Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. – Plato!!!