Corruption & Agencies

No agency in our political set up can be very effective. We have bad politicians, worse coalitions and worst electoral politics. All these factors invite undesired political interference in governance. Until unless politics is entirely separated from governance nothing concrete can be achieved.

In our format of elections where even candidates with 10-15% of votes polled can be in office and where people of people's republic have no direct role in electing their prime minister, chief minister and representatives this separation seems a remote possibility. Since no leader is directly responsible to the nation.

When contesting an election there is no minimum educational and experience requirement and where all sorts of criminals are allowed to participate in election, it is natural for elite and educated urban electorate to stay away from voting. Quality of candidates contributes further to this attitude.

I strongly feel if government really wants to do something for the nation, electoral reforms must be implemented without any loss of time, law & order should be separated from terrorism, agencies be made autonomous with accountability clearly defined not only in bureaucracy but in leadership also. And then nothing can stop India from winning all wars against all the ills including terrorism, casteism, regionalism, poverty and illiteracy.

We Are Still Indians

After agesI had once again a feeling of being an Indian. Feeling of being connected. A feeling which had been an integral part of my existence that I never felt existed. it was known only when it was gone some years back. And since then it was as bad as carrying your own corpse on your own shoulders. After many many years I again felt that I was not dead. I still had life left in me.

It was amazing. A headless Rally of thousands of people without any predefined agenda or program but ultimately one outcome. No Police bandobast yet fully disciplined. Sea of humanity but no fear of stampede. Lots of young girls and boys but no trace of vulgarity. People from every caste and community but no display of any region or religion. Only one thing was radiant and that was Indanness. The spirit of real & true India. The might of Indian People.

Message was loud & clear for politicians and I hope this spirit remains intact and does not wait for any more disaster to resurface. Long Live Gateway Of India

Mumbai or Bomb-bay

It hurts. It hurts even more when you are born and and brought up here. When you have spent entire 5 -6 decades of your existence experiencing, romancing and living the city. It really hurts to see that city of your dreams, your existence, your character is being raped. Day in day out. By terrorists and by politicians.

It is national shame that once again the so called safest city of the nation has been subjected to this kind of ghastly terror attack that 14 police men including senior officers have lost their lives. Magnitude of the preparations, planning and the execution of the attack can be imagined that even after 40+ hours the battle still continues.


Who is responsible. I put 100% blame on the politicians. Irrespective of their status and party affiliations.


Congress & NCP are ruling at the state as well at the centre. And the terrorism has been encountered practically across the country many a times during their stint. However they have no action plan to counter the it effectively. Nor do they have genuine will to do so. Except for repeated rhetoric of zero tolerance and stern action by Prime Minister and Home minister after each occurrence.


BJP and Shiv Sena are projecting themselves as the next government. At state as well as at the centre. However these parties have devised new way to identify the terror and have a different set of rules and perhaps the policy also for Islamic and Hindu Terror. One more clear way to endorse terrorism for rotten political reasons to serve their selfish interests.


MNS is preparing hard to make its presence felt during the ensuing state elections. But can fight and beat and kill only innocent citizens of the nation. At this point of horror in Mumbai none of these sainiks have come to the rescue of Mumbaikars.


Where were both the Senas who claim to own the city when security personnel were fighting the terrorists in the streets and dyeing for their Mumbai.


Do they find no role to play when gun battles with terrorists are fought and grenades are hurled on hapless citizens. Or do they find helpless north Indians more damaging and dangerous for Mumbai who have no weapons to encounter their might of vandalism.


After every attack the blame game starts between political stalwarts abusing each other for their action or inaction. Government of the day will call it a cowardly act and condemn it. Why don't they understand their duty is to stop the terror. It is mandatory for them. Nobody bothers what they are saying. People want it to be encountered effectively. It is obligatory for them to behave like a leader.

Converting Bombay into Mumbai is not enough until the goddess Mumba is awaken to protect the city. It is for those individuals occupying the chair of power and position and authority to awaken her.


But unfortunately our politicians time and again have miserably proved themselves nothing more than just a bunch of sadist, hypocrite, unconcerned, corrupt, self serving and shameless creatures. They have only shown excellent results in dividing the society and justifying the ill governance in the name of caste, creed, religion and region.

Even after this attack on Bombay or call it Mumbai to satisfy their rusty ego if they don't get their act together and continue to behave in the same impotent and dirty manner it is very much possible that next target of the attack could be these heartless politicians themselves. Amen.

Bravo R R Patil !

When Rahul Raj the youth from Bihar was killed in a BEST bus shoot out by Mumbai Police, R R Patil had come up with a very tough and befitting statement and declared that any body scaring the innocent citizens will be treated with the same force and be destined to same fate.


It was for the first time that the Deputy CM & Home Minister of Maharashtra had spoken in a fashion a Home Minister of a dignified State should always be talking. Certainly his statement will infuse some badly needed confidence in the hearts of citizens living in the metro.



However without going into the politics of region or caste and fully believing in the fact that police force needs a free and sometimes iron hand for tackling any unlawful activity in the city & state and must not always be questioned or doubted for all their actions & intentions I leave this chapter here for the moment.


Now I only hope that R R Patil and his men in khaki will continue to exhibit the same courage and recourse and will certainly show the same spine and commitment in detecting & dealing with the killers of the youth in Khopoli-CST local irrespective of their alleged MNS affiliation. They have to ensure that gruesome murder of a young human is not lost in unwanted, unnecessary and unpleasant debate whether it was a Hate crime or not. It was a crime for sure and this fact is enough for an appropriate action.


If we justify the eliminating a gun wielding boy for his scary actions then being even a little less harsh on the killers of Dharamdev should certainly be more than unjustified and unacceptable to us.

Castes, Terrorism & Politics

I wonder many a times when people so easily get biased. And it stuns me even more when matured politicians of this huge nation either start relating terrorism with one community or start defending the terrorists related to that community. All for petty politics. But in the name to serve and protect the common man from the atrocities of the ruling party.

For last few years it has been Islamic terror. Before that terrorism was synonymous to Sikhs. Now Hindu Terror is being described as the new phenomenon on this horizon.

Why the hell terrorists are not separated from any cast or community as other criminals are. Why even a single Muslim is allowed to speak that they are being discriminated because of their minority status. Why when Raj Thackerey's goons or Shiv Sainiks strike terror they are not vociferously condemned and reined by govt agencies. Why when Bajrang Dal activists kill Christians no one from BJP condemns the act. And why no VHP leader has yet come up with any statement on so called Hindu Terror.

It is unfortunate that all our so called leaders have shamelessly proclaimed themselves as cast oriented politicians and have no hesitation in admitting that they find no wrong in indulging into vote bank politics.

Until the members of this breed mend their ways and learn to call spade a spade rule of law can not be established. We all must understand and accept the fact that terrorists can emerge from any community like all other criminals. And if we take it as a disease for social reasons any person from any community can get infected by social virus. There should be no hesitation or shame in accepting that a person or a group of persons has taken ill or has gone in wrong direction for any reason whatsoever.

Elected representatives are supposed to concentrate on governance only and their only motive should be to maintain the rule of law in the country. Hence it is imperative for all sorts of politicians ( belonging to all political entities) to keep their mouth shut when investigating agencies are at work. Not only they should allow them to work independentlly but also hold them responsible for the outcome.