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Myself and my colleague were assigned a project in Thailand from the starting of this year. I was supposed to discuss the requirements wit...

Monday, August 15, 2011

2G Scam and the Lokpal Bill



Are you using 3G (video call, high speed data download). Majority are not using. And why? Its costly right. But are you using a mobile phone and are able to afford the voice calls you make to your friends and relatives? Now everybody is having a mobile phone and are able to afford it. Have you asked a question why to yourself? Why you are able to afford 2G and not 3G? Haven't the government policy to provide free 2G spectrum helped us get competitive rates? Is the government responsible for some corporates taking advantage of its policy through backdoor approach? Yes of-course some are involved. But can we blame the whole? You are still using UNINOR, TATA, VODAFONE, RELIANCE, AIRCEL etc... Now why don't you yourselves resolve the issue? Why don't you use MNP and leave these service providers. Why don't you join BSNL. 



Definitely corruption is the biggest problem our country is facing. A great majority of our politicians are corrupt.  Court is the place where we go for justice. But may be some of the judges are also corrupt and are buyable. But is it wise to include the Prime Minister and higher judiciary under Lokpal? Don't you understand the consequences? It will result in the instability of the government. It will result in questioning the judgement of the Apex court. If it is so, why don't we make this Lokpal as the king of India? Let him decide on everything. Corruption start from the society. We take bribe and we give bribe for each and everything. I think the solution lies within ourselves. If you are not corrupt, why don't you become a social servant. The Jan Lokpal bill definitely has some points to be included. See the below disputed cases other than the case of inclusion of PM and higher judiciary.


Dear friends... I want your opinions. Put in your comments. Let us put a collective effort and make this a creative forum. 

Wishing you all a HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Jaihind

Sunday, August 14, 2011

A haunting marriage, A mercy killing

I will call him Ravi as I cannot identify him to public. His father is retired Editor of a well known newspaper and his mother house-wife. Both divine souls live in temple and prayers for their boy to have a bright future. Ravi was madly in love with his neighbour Meena. Meena who had migrated to the place with her parents some years ago was richer than Ravi. Moreover she was well educated and employed with State bank of India. Ravi was jobless then. Ravi tried proposing Meena, but had to face a rule out in public. 

Meena led a straight forward life and was close to her parents. A couple of years ago she got married with a guy who was a family friend of theirs. After her marriage Ravi got mentally upset. His parents persuaded him to a marriage and he married Swapna. Swapna was a nice girl from a moderate family. The marriage did good for Ravi. He recovered from his situation and did a good job in getting recruited as Manager in a retailing company. Ravi and Swapna moved to the city where he got the job.

Swapna was a very understanding and loving wife. This made life happy and smooth for the couple. But the happiness didn't last long. A year after their marriage, one day Ravi came back from work very early. He seemed very much disturbed. The man who usually comes back as formally dressed as he leaves in the morning came very weird that day. His shirts outside, tie loosened, hair distorted and worried look on his face. Swapna tried to console him but she was driven away. She had never seen Ravi like this. She tried again to talk with him and calm him down. This increased his fury. This was the first time Ravi raised his hand on Swapna. He left the house in fury and didn't return the whole night.

Ravi's routine got disturbed from that day. Everyday, for everything he found mistakes in Swapna. He started coming home drunk and bet her. Started torturing her using knives and even burned her skin. She was hospitalised once after she got a fatal blow to her lower abdomen. None of these events reached Ravi's parents' ears as Swapna remained silent. Until one day suddenly Ravi decided that they should go to his home.

Ravi after reaching home always locked himself up in his room. He was gazing through the windows all the time.  He continued torturing Swapna in all possible ways. Ravi's parents were terrified to see all these. They also tried consoling Ravi but in vain. He was already out of his senses. He behaved violently with everybody  whom he encountered.

Finally Swapna found out the reason behind all these. She followed the same thing what Ravi was doing everyday. Looking out through the window. The window looked to the bedroom of the nearby house. The bedroom of Meena. And Swapna could hear the cry of a baby from that room. From Ravi's parents she came to know that Meena delivered a baby boy a week ago. Swapna realised Ravi's problems started around eight months ago. His mind actually couldn't survive the fact that Meena is married to another guy and is now the mother of that guys child.

The torture continued. Ravi's parents had nothing else to do other than helplessly watch this. They continued visiting all temples praying for Ravi for his recovery from this mental stress. But the neighbours saw these as violence related to dowry as there was a discussion and negotiation on dowry matters during their marriage. In that part of the state dowry was not unusual.

One day when Ravi's parents were away in a temple, Swapna interrogated Ravi and tried to convince him that Meena was never there in his life. This ended up in terrible violence and it was the maximum that she could tolerate. She finally came into a conclusion that Ravi can never be brought back as a normal person. She was really tired of this torture and was not willing to endure it any more. She set herself to fire.

Police took case on alleged torture on dowry. Along with Ravi, his poor parents were also mentioned in the charge sheet as per the statements of their neighbours. Meena was the prime witness on the case. The mental stress suffered after this incident made Ravi's mother paralysed and fatally ill. His father broke down. His wife was the last person with whom he could share his problems. The same popular newspaper in which Ravi's father worked for his lifetime reported the case as a murder for dowry without even investigating the truth behind it. The family was humiliated and quarantined from society.

It finally ended with Ravi landing up in a mental asylum. It is said that he use to imagine that everybody wants to set themselves to fire. Recent incidents being pouring a bucket of water on the doctor in his cabin and pushing a co-patient into the well. Thanks Ravi was the only child his parents had. What if they had an unmarried girl child younger to Ravi. What would be her future after all these incidents?

The half-burnt house in our neighbourhood, still lies unoccupied and has this story to tell to everybody which passes that way. Can i hear Swapna's cries in the sleepless nights i have? Yes, I do...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

My Videos - Youtube - Part VI - Waterfalls


Marottichal Falls - I


Marottichal Falls - II


Athirappally Waterfalls


Vazhachal Waterfalls


Shivanasamudra Waterfalls


Meenmutty and Kanthanpara Waterfalls



Doodh Sagar Waterfalls



See more videos in my channel


വേറിട്ട കാഴ്ചകള്‍ - II

Root of a big tree exposed


Three Dragonflies(തുമ്പി)


Don't know what this is. Found in North Sikkim

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