The so-called upper caste Hindu, besides, suffers from an enormous guilt complex vis-à-vis dalits, for treating them for centuries as untouchables, no matter what various social reformers have striven to change the mind-set of people. That is why, one suspects, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in her fourth term can get away with anything. Mayavati is a dalit and she has been exploiting the guilt complex effectively. She must be one of the most corrupt Chief Minister India over had, but she gets away scotfree. But it is time the truth about her assets is revealed even if, presently, she has got a reprieve.
What is wrong, indeed. Our attitude is one of chaltha hai. Anything goes.
Till recently the CBI was breathing down her neck in the disproportionate assets and Taj corridor cases but she has received a breather now because she has rushed to the UPA government's support on the cut motion issue. If she had gone against the government the CBI would probably have got at her throat; she has now temporarily saved herself and never mind what the public thinks of the UPA.
The same thing happened in the case of Shibu Soren who ditched the BJP to keep the UPA government going. There has been a criminal case against Soren, but these can wait. After all, he is a tribal, isn't he? Like Mayavati being a dalit, isn't she?
How can anyone blame them?
It is learnt from an RTI filed by The Times of India that governments headed by leaders of various parties have withdrawn criminal cases against 51 political leaders of various parties in the past ten years, the beneficiaries including Ministers, MLAs, former Ministers and former MLAs.
In most cases the State Government withdrew cases using its power under Section 321 of the Criminal Procedure Code. We live in a sick society which provides political parties to forgive crimes if thereby they can continue to stay in power. It is as plain as that. Does the media have a role to play in this connection? Yes, it has. Does it play it? No, it doesn't.
Why should it when by playing it, it invites retribution? Mayavati saved the UPA government in time, she has been amply awarded.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Mayawati's Worth
The CBI listed the immovable assets of Mayavati and her family as follows: 41 agricultural plots, 16 residential plots, 7 shops, three orchards, two shops-cum-residence s located in and around Delhi; a mansion in her ancestral village of Badalpur, described by NDTV as a mini-Taj Mahal, built on a sprawling 30,000 square yards estate.
According to a CBI list filed
In 2003, Mayavati then had assets worth Rs. 36.5 million in one bank account and Rs. 2.345 million in another.
In 2004 she had Rs. 1.5 million in cash and Rs. 97.8 million in bank accounts and jewellery worth Rs 3.09 million.
In 2007 her moveable assets included Rs. 5.02 million in cash, Rs. 128.8 million in bank deposits and jewellery worth Rs.5.08 million. Mayavati listed 1034.260 grammes of gold 76.040 grammes of diamonds and 18,500 kgs of silver. She also admitted owning murals worth Rs. 1.5 million.
According to Mayavati's own self-evaluation from two affidavits her financial worth including both moveable and immoveable assets jumped from Rs. 160.7 million in 2004 to Rs. 520 million in 2007.
In the late '90s, the BSP ran a year-long collection drive so that they could give birthday gifts of Rs. 6,50,000 to Kanshi Ram her mentor to celebrate his 65th birthday and Rs.420,000 to her to celebrate her 42nd birthday.
According to a CBI list filed
In 2003, Mayavati then had assets worth Rs. 36.5 million in one bank account and Rs. 2.345 million in another.
In 2004 she had Rs. 1.5 million in cash and Rs. 97.8 million in bank accounts and jewellery worth Rs 3.09 million.
In 2007 her moveable assets included Rs. 5.02 million in cash, Rs. 128.8 million in bank deposits and jewellery worth Rs.5.08 million. Mayavati listed 1034.260 grammes of gold 76.040 grammes of diamonds and 18,500 kgs of silver. She also admitted owning murals worth Rs. 1.5 million.
According to Mayavati's own self-evaluation from two affidavits her financial worth including both moveable and immoveable assets jumped from Rs. 160.7 million in 2004 to Rs. 520 million in 2007.
In the late '90s, the BSP ran a year-long collection drive so that they could give birthday gifts of Rs. 6,50,000 to Kanshi Ram her mentor to celebrate his 65th birthday and Rs.420,000 to her to celebrate her 42nd birthday.
Secular India
If there is one thing to prove our secularism, think of this:
The ruling party is today headed by an Italian-born Roman Catholic who runs the country.
The Prime Minister is a Sikh.
The Vice-President is a Muslim
Speaker of the Lok Sabha, not to speak of the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are dalits.
The Speaker is a woman,
Which other country can show such liberalism?
Not a single country in the world.
The ruling party is today headed by an Italian-born Roman Catholic who runs the country.
The Prime Minister is a Sikh.
The Vice-President is a Muslim
Speaker of the Lok Sabha, not to speak of the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are dalits.
The Speaker is a woman,
Which other country can show such liberalism?
Not a single country in the world.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Lalit Modi Will fight it in ancient way
The story of the weaver and chariot maker is one of the Panchatantra stories that usually doesn't make it to primary school textbooks or Amar Chitra Katha, mostly because it's full of sex, war, and moral hazard. Since you probably haven't read it, here's a quick summary.
A weaver sees a princess during a festival and falls in love with her. As a weaver, he has no chance of marrying her, so he sinks into depression. His friend, a chariot maker decides to help him out. He designs a flying chariot in the shape of Garuda, dresses the weaver up as Vishnu, and tells him to fly the chariot into the princess's room, tell her that he is Vishnu and wants to marry her Gandharva Syle. That is, the wedding is kept a secret from everyone except the princess and the faux-Vishnu. The princess agrees, and the weaver comes back every night to his wife.
Eventually, the maids notice that the princess is spending her days in total bliss, suspect that she's in love, and tell the King. The King asks her what's going on, and she tells him that she's married to Vishnu himself. The King is absolutely delighted, and decides that there's no point in paying tribute to the Chakravarti (Emperor) now that Vishnu himself is on the kingdom's side. The next night, he catches the weaver as he enters the princess's room and asks him to fight the Chakravarti' s army.
The weaver is horrified. Pretending to be Vishnu was fine when it allowed him to make sweet, sweet love to the princess, but taking on the role of Vishnu to face an imperial army single-handed is another thing altogether. On the other hand, if he confesses to the King that he is not actually Vishnu and has been boinking the princess under false pretenses for the past month, he will have his head chopped off. So he decides to get on to the battlefield and do the best job he can, while the King is whipping up enthusiasm in the population by
telling them that Vishnu himself is going to do all the fighting.
By this time, Garuda (the real one, not the mechanical one) has tipped off Vishnu about what's going on, and cautioned him that if the fake Vishnu doesn't win the battle, the people of the kingdom will lose all faith in him. Vishnu doesn't want to see this happen, so on the battlefield he enters the weaver's body and annihilates the Chakravarti' s army. The entire army. Every single soldier. After this, the weaver marries the princess, everyone goes on worshiping Vishnu, and the king becomes the new Chakravarti.
The moral is that you should conduct your affairs in such a way that if you fail, it will lead to someone or something even bigger or more powerful failing too. This lets you get away with anything. The weaver got away with having sex with the princess on false pretenses (this is rape under Section 375 of the Indian
Penal Code), pretending to be a god (awesomely enough, this too is a criminal offense under Section 508), and annihilating an entire army that was fighting a just war - after all, it was the king who broke the treaty (you could make a case for this being genocide under Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide).
American banks and financial institutions were very good at absorbing this lesson, and leveraged themselves up to such an extent that if they failed they would take the global economy down with them. And just as the weaver lived happily ever after with the princess, banks have lived happily ever after with taxpayer-funded bailouts.
But no matter how hard American investment banks try, Indians still remain the masters of this art. If the whole truth surrounding Lalit Modi is revealed, big politicians might be trapped. Modi is, thus, likely to get away lightly -- as is A Raja, who might have given away spectrum at bargain basement rates, but whose sacking would lead to the government collapsing. All this goes to show that no matter what the anguished elderly gentlemen who write letters to the editor feel, Indians are still in touch with our ancient and glorious culture.
A weaver sees a princess during a festival and falls in love with her. As a weaver, he has no chance of marrying her, so he sinks into depression. His friend, a chariot maker decides to help him out. He designs a flying chariot in the shape of Garuda, dresses the weaver up as Vishnu, and tells him to fly the chariot into the princess's room, tell her that he is Vishnu and wants to marry her Gandharva Syle. That is, the wedding is kept a secret from everyone except the princess and the faux-Vishnu. The princess agrees, and the weaver comes back every night to his wife.
Eventually, the maids notice that the princess is spending her days in total bliss, suspect that she's in love, and tell the King. The King asks her what's going on, and she tells him that she's married to Vishnu himself. The King is absolutely delighted, and decides that there's no point in paying tribute to the Chakravarti (Emperor) now that Vishnu himself is on the kingdom's side. The next night, he catches the weaver as he enters the princess's room and asks him to fight the Chakravarti' s army.
The weaver is horrified. Pretending to be Vishnu was fine when it allowed him to make sweet, sweet love to the princess, but taking on the role of Vishnu to face an imperial army single-handed is another thing altogether. On the other hand, if he confesses to the King that he is not actually Vishnu and has been boinking the princess under false pretenses for the past month, he will have his head chopped off. So he decides to get on to the battlefield and do the best job he can, while the King is whipping up enthusiasm in the population by
telling them that Vishnu himself is going to do all the fighting.
By this time, Garuda (the real one, not the mechanical one) has tipped off Vishnu about what's going on, and cautioned him that if the fake Vishnu doesn't win the battle, the people of the kingdom will lose all faith in him. Vishnu doesn't want to see this happen, so on the battlefield he enters the weaver's body and annihilates the Chakravarti' s army. The entire army. Every single soldier. After this, the weaver marries the princess, everyone goes on worshiping Vishnu, and the king becomes the new Chakravarti.
The moral is that you should conduct your affairs in such a way that if you fail, it will lead to someone or something even bigger or more powerful failing too. This lets you get away with anything. The weaver got away with having sex with the princess on false pretenses (this is rape under Section 375 of the Indian
Penal Code), pretending to be a god (awesomely enough, this too is a criminal offense under Section 508), and annihilating an entire army that was fighting a just war - after all, it was the king who broke the treaty (you could make a case for this being genocide under Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide).
American banks and financial institutions were very good at absorbing this lesson, and leveraged themselves up to such an extent that if they failed they would take the global economy down with them. And just as the weaver lived happily ever after with the princess, banks have lived happily ever after with taxpayer-funded bailouts.
But no matter how hard American investment banks try, Indians still remain the masters of this art. If the whole truth surrounding Lalit Modi is revealed, big politicians might be trapped. Modi is, thus, likely to get away lightly -- as is A Raja, who might have given away spectrum at bargain basement rates, but whose sacking would lead to the government collapsing. All this goes to show that no matter what the anguished elderly gentlemen who write letters to the editor feel, Indians are still in touch with our ancient and glorious culture.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Is it really shining
we see a lot of political rubbish. and we also hear and see the effect of MNCs in recent years. The Indians aer sure on the upswing but are we really shining? Everyhting is controlled by ploiticians- they can even get away from a murder whereas a common man is jailed for years without a trial only to be declared a freeman years later. Do we really need to be proactive and bring transparency in everything? Are we true nationalist when we break every rule at the drop of a hat?
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