Women Rights and Religion.

For centuries human society has always followed patriarchal order be it in developed nations,developing or under developed nations.Men have always been given certain privileges as against women either as a matter of practice,discipline or tradition.Even today as we are moving towards the middle of 21^st century women folk tend to be segregated when it comes to safety issues.Women till today are provided with separate hostels,toilets,even separate transport,can’t work in night shift in factories and so on.This can or cannot be construed as female discrimination depending on how one looks at this issues.

Of late it has been observed that women are ‘fighting’ for women rights in religious places where they are being either barred or restricted from entry.Shani Shignapur temple,Sabarimala temple and Haji Ali Dargah are being sighted as religious places where women are prevented entry.The argument here is that constitution provides for equality of women in which case why inequality is practiced here by denying them entry.Now,this same argument can be held towards cases mentioned above as well but no one bothers about that.Therefore why only so called religious “discrimination” is a constitutional issue.Its because certain women activists who are pseudo religious and who want to make career in politics are in the forefront of such issues.Those women who are god fearing and deeply religious are not at all concerned about this so called male dominance.This ‘god fearing’ attitude is seen across all three major religions namely Hinduism,Islam and Christianity.

If at all there has to be parity and equality it cannot be achieved by a protest or morcha by handful of women activists.Century old traditions can only be changed by mutual discussion and agreement and that too in the presence of religious leaders and govt officials as has happened in some temples in India.Rules,regulations and traditions are created by religious gurus and pundits centuries ago when the society was living under different order.Today women are almost on par with men across all fields and therefore need to be given the same recognition and respect as men.But for that women should take a holistic view and ask for equality across entire spectrum of society and not confine themselves to religious one.Also if at all there are those who are perfectly ok with the existing practice should also put forward their case so that a middle line could be drawn and an amicable settlement can be achieved.

These issues are issues of belief and faith.Religion per se is in itself a matter of faith and belief.Therefore such issues shouldn’t be dragged in courts as these are not legal issues as no where its documented that such and such is the rule and regulation to be followed in so and so religious place.Let us hope that such issues are settled amicably and after all one can even pray from home.

Barbaric Life in Civilised World.

During religious occasion at my place or for any family function we invite a lady servant who is well known to our family and she stays with us till the function is over.As usual she had come to my place for household chores when suddenly she got a call on her cell.She requested me to drop her at the police station which I did instantly.There she told me quite confidently  to go back home and that she will join us back in an hour or two.She kept her word,came back to us with her husband and continued as if nothing has happened.We too kept quiet and didn’t raise the police issue at all.Meanwhile the husband who was about to leave called me outside the house and we had a brief chat.

What’s the difference between animals and humans apart from physical appearance.Naturally it’s the mindset and the way life is lived.But what will you say when humans behave almost like animals.Sounds nonsense,isn’t it.It happens and happens in a leading slum in Tiswadi taluka.Its a place where no civilised person can step in.Its a dungeon.Its a place where all sort of barbaric activities take place among so called humans who live there.The lifestyle of the people there is totally different.Its a gutter lifestyle.There no one follows concept of husband-wife relationship or of family culture.Any men is free to have a physical affair with any women he feels so.No women therefore has a fixed husband.Therefore no one knows the actual father or the mother of a given child.And when a women who is pregnant doesn’t want a child she is bearing she waits for the child to be born and kills it by herself the moment she delivers it.Brutal isn’t it,but there its normal.Is this not stone age culture.

More often than not the men here are found drunk and in that state they cannot be expected to behave properly forget in civilised fashion.In that height of stupor a drunkard man freely enters any hut or house and physically assaults the woman present there.The woman has no option but to quietly bear all this as the same man will not hasten to kill her in a fit of rage.Such things are considered as routine and have been going on for decades.These people are votebanks of politicians but let us not bring in politics here.

Therefore,an outsider is just not allowed to enter such slums because the moment an unknown face covers about a few hundred metres into the area someone or the other attack him either verbally,physically by either asking  for money or belongings.But there is only one set of people who are free to enter such areas and no one dare touch them and who are they.The Police.Police works on totally different wavelength when comes to tackling these people.They have khabris who give them info on and off.Secondly there are some elements in police who are sexually starved.So what do they do.They come quietly at night with torches and visit huts and jhopdis to just see people having sex and they enjoy the spectacle even by warning those indulging not to stop it.

Police adventurism doesn’t end here.Some senior policemen who are in touch with khabris take sexual favours by bribing the khabris who in turn supply them relatively lesser used ladies(apologies for language) which are picked at night outside the slum area in the dark and dropped back there.This act of senior policemen is than followed and implemented by the young and new police recruits who are mostly on night shift.What’s their modus operandi.They just barge into the slum area in a filmy style at night with their jeep, begin search of hutments and go on picking young girls,pack them in their vehicle after claiming that they are “arrested” on the basis of complaint.They are brought into the police station dead at night at about 1.00AM,made to sit idle on the floor with young policemen staring at them.The girls literally beg to release them.Just than police pretend to have mercy on them and agree to release them.Police tell them to get up,they think they will now be dropped back.That doesnn’t happen.They are taken inside the cell.Policemen than insist on them that if they want to be relieved they should agree to what police tells.Police asks the girls to allow them to touch their breast and have oral sex with them.Poor girls,dead in the night,with no one in police station,have no option but to agree.Police satisfy themselves to the hilt.Than pack the girls back into the jeep and drop them back at the slum at about 3.00AM.

All in all this is the barbaric lifestyle of the slum dwellers and it becomes quite unbelievable for people like us to really agree that such life exists among our own people.While coming to an end of my blog,you people must’ve wondered how I’ve got all this information.Our lady servant’s husband who took me out of the house for a talk told me everything  for over thirty minutes and infact the reason why both of them went to police station was that their daughter aged 16 was picked by police,this time quiet early at 7.00PM,you know for what.They had to bribe the police to release the girl and once done mother came back to my house.

People of the greater God.

Some people are just great.Great not because of their achievements,not because of their qualifications,honour,wealth and family background.They are simply great because they haven’t taken anything from this world nor have they anything to give to this world.These are people of the greater God.They are so because they don’t need God like each one of us.They pray just twice a day as a family practice.They neither ask anything from God nor do they offer anything to god.They believe in their theory of life that whatever is destined will happen and even god cannot stop it.
They have perfect health because these are the people who don’t indulge in any wrongdoing vis a vis their lifestyle and habits and therefore they don’t have to pray to God to take care of their health.Just in case they fall sick some home made medicine of the ayurveda type brings them back on feet.
They are happy with what they earn and all their life earnings have been thru honest and legal means by sheer hard word and dedication.They don’t believe in taking loans therefore the question of repaying debt to someone doesn’t arise.They are strictly against taking any favour or help from anyone therefore the question of returning the favour doesn’t arise.Therefore,here too they don’t need God to help them in returning the favour or the debt.
They have a small family with one or two children and believe you in me their children too grow up in a well disciplined manner,get educated well,become successful professionally and settle down well in life.Therefore the question of offering pujas,vraths,shanti and all for the sake of family doesn’t arise at all.
Everyone respects them in the society. No one has any grudge nor any affinity towards them.They go in their own way without troubling or disturbing others.They have a soft and low voice therefore the question of talking loudly and wildly doesn’t arise at all.
All in all these great people keep the almighty at arms length and maybe the almighty too is happy staying away from them because he knows that these are great people who don’t need Gods.One fine day when time will come for such people to leave this world I am sure they will reach Vaikunt and in all fairness I am sure the almighty will be privileged to receive these people at the gate.

Cinema experience,than and now.

During the most part of 19th century there were no multiplexes.The so called cinema theatres were more of hall and less of theatre.The theatre used to have dress circle,balcony and in some theatre boxes(for lovers).When one entered the theatre there used to be a typical smell of pan,beedi,bit of urine and wet mud.People had only three choices as I’ve said earlier but there was a fourth choice.Right in front.All the brats,whistling experts,used to occupy that position with pride.I remember seating there once in Cine Metropole during movie ‘Coolie’ of BigB which became famous for the kick which AB received from Puneet Essar.It was house full with no ticket available.

          Those whose pockets were bit heavy preferred the balcony where the seats were just that little bit better but the so called a.c used to work rarely with full efficiency and used to be complemented by those huge Almonard wall fans.About the boxes less said the better.Most of the chairs had arms which were more often than not full of bugs.

           Another important feature of movie going of that time was the availability of popcorn and vanilla ice cream.There used to be just this two with no other choices.The moment one entered the hall the torch boy used to show each one of us the seat with his torch light.The sound system was plain loud with no effects whatsoever.Even than it was a pleasurable experience as that was the only source of entertainment available to us.

           Now we have the multiplexes.The entire décor make you feel as if you haven’t come for a movie but in a mall or in a hotel.The smell seems to have changed.You now have some kind of perfume smell,a bit of coffee aroma,pop corn flavour is in the air,beautiful boy and girls are moving here and there instead of ghatis of the old era.There is absolutely no trace of urine smell.Once you enter the hall you get a feeling that you’ve entered a cold chamber where the temp is so cool that it might even stifle your muscles.Instead of cigar and pan inside the hall we now have people talking on cell phones on and off and this is the new sign of general public disturbance.

          The sound system is a high tech Dolby system where once gets a feeling that people are screaming at your ears from all possible directions.Some sounds are so deep and intense that it hits your ear drums and heart.The seating arrangement is so plush and cushiony that you feel you are seating in a Jet.The toilets are neat and clean unlike the old theatre ones where many a time one had to wait to reach home to relieve oneself.

          All in all a change has happened for the better no doubt but one thing that has happened which isn’t being accepted by all and sundry which is the quality of the movies produced today.I am not talking about the technical aspect but the genre like the story,acting,music,dialogues and finer aspect of film making have been sacrificed at the altar of mass commercialisation.Therefore many still remember the old movies despite watching them in sub standard conditions than today’s movies watched in super comfort conditions.

Modi Govt Image.

Of late every news channel has been airing an opinion that intolerance is at all time high in India today than anytime before.Incidents like Dadri,Meat Ban,killing and attack on writers have been put forward as examples of the same.Accordingly public have aired their opinion depending on which side of the fence one is.Now slowly what has come acrossed is a new development.Those who are politically neutral and who are respected and recognised as leading figures of India have aired their opinion.Eminent industrialists like Narayan Murthy,Kiran Mazumdar Shaw,RBI Governor Raghuram  Rajan,Music meastro Zubin Mehta have come out openly against this pattern and have requested Govt politely to please do something about this.They all feel that this is harming India's image abroad and since PM Modi is doing his best to attract foreign investment,there is every possibility that foreigh investors will feel hesitant to invest in such a horrendous climate of intolerance.
Therefore is it time for the Govt to take suitable steps to arrest such incidents.Definitely.Govt need not be ashamed to acknowledge such happenings rather than living in a state of denial.After all which Govt wants its image to be tarnished.Modi was known to emply experts in creating his image and of his party during elections 2014.Now he can employ the same people to study the image of his Govt and do changes accordingly.Taking the opinion of his bias supporters,admirers and fellow partymen will not give him an objective neutral opinon on his Govt.That will be an attempt in indugling in false praise.Its always prudent to understand an outside opinion about his Govt rather than an inside one.It will be wrong on the part of the Govt to assume that main stream media has always been anti Modi and therefore need not be taken seriously.That's a silly assupmtion because the same media were with Modi during election and supported him whole heartedly.
NDA Govt's second year is in progress and its an year of acceleration like middle overs of ODI cricket.Therefore all strategies,steps,plans need to be created and implemented in this year and next year.After that it will be too late to indulge in coarse correction.Govt and BJP as party needs to create a communication line so that there exists an uniformity in thinking of the Govt and party.At present Govt seems to preach one thing while party preaches opposite.This makes a mockery of the whole Govt-party apparatus.There is a general talk in Delhi circles that after Bihar elections NDA govt will have a major overhaul vis a vis ministries and party functionaries.Till than let us wait and watch.

NJAC-COLLEGIUM TUSSLE

NJAC-Collegium tussle is now out in the open.Its out in public domain.Both sides through experts and lawyers are defending their positions depending on which side they are.Both sides have lawyers and judicial experts of great reputation and eminence.Both sided are basically engaged in identifying the flaws of the opposite sides and therefore defending the need for change.Identifying the positive expect of both the system is just a passing comment not of any immense importance.
What is largely missing the picture is that the discussion per se is restricted purely between NJAC and Collegium.Its been either this or that.How about a third alternative.Has anyone taken pain in arriving at a third consensus.Since both systems have some positive aspects in it how about getting them together and arriving at a third option.The hitch is the law minister.Forget him.How about creating a Commission of only four people.Chief Justice of SC,Senior most Judge,PM and LoP.Let there be a majority of either 4-0 or 3-1 to pass an appointment.Let veto be only with Chief Justice if the decision is 3-1 with CJ dissenting.In this way a middle path could be worked out.
It doesn't make sense to allow judges to judge themselves as well as select themselves.This is against common sense.Judiciary cannot look upon legislature as an incompetent brat who doesn't have the knowledge neccessary to select people of judicial eminence and prominence.In democracy legislature and executive have as much equal importance as judiciary and therefore it does make sense that all three arms of the constitution work together for the welfare of not just the nation but also of individual institutions.At the end of the day public in general will always give more respect to the judges and judiciary than the politicians and therefore the importance and prominence of judiciary will always remain intact irrespective of how the judges have been selected.Cleansing of the system is undertaken purely because the best among the good end up occupying coveted positions followed by those who are good.We cannot afford to place only the good people there and leave out the best because they could not be suitably considered for appointment.

MEDIA INTOLERANCE

Every Indian killed,irresepctive of his religion and who killed whom,is a dastardly act which needs to be condemned by every right thinking India.A murder is a murder no matter what is the motive.Every killing is a law and order problem and needs to be tackled accordingly.The motive can than be used to arrive at a conclusion and case solving.Unforunately of late it has been observed that the motive has been given more importance than the actual killing particularly when people of a particular religion are being attacked and killed.MSM(Main Stream Media) is waiting in anticipation for such news and pounce on it the moment such news come to its knowledge.Northern India and Delhi in particular is quite easily accessible to media channels and therefore it becomes quite easy for them to give full and blown out coverage to such incidents.Any simmilar event happeneing in South or North East is mostly neglected due to distance and lack of connectivity.
As most of the news channels are partners of Foreign media houses such incidents get world wide attention and defame India unnecesarily.An impression is thereby created that India is full of such incidents and that such incidents happen quite regularly and that central Govt is not in a position to stop it and even in some cases supports it.This approach of MSM is not only damaging the name of central govt but also that of the nation for which the media is largely responsible.That's because every such case is than forgotten by the media once the investigation has started and reached to conclusion.If the media feels investigation isn't happening as per their liking,they begin their own pararell studio investigation.Every high profile or so called communal murder is being investigated first by the media and than by the police.
Therefore in conclusion we can say that gone are the days when media was suppose to give us 'News' but is instead giving us its 'Views' which we don't need.Instead we are wise enough to draw our own inference and understand news objectively.