Read the paragraph below and tell me whether it sounds familiar !!!
[-person xyz-] has said on Someday that the entire [-professional-] system could not be brought into disrepute because of a few erring [-professional-]s. “We do not mind studied and fair criticism, but attempts should not be made to generalise the wrong doings by a few,” said [-person xyz-] on the occasion of the [-someirrelevantforum-].
“Anybody coming out with allegations against any member of the higher [-profession-] should keep in mind that they have solid material to back it up instead of painting everyone black with the same brush. If you feel that a [-professional-] is corrupt, then take a stand and name him in public and tell the [-chief authority-] instead of making a generalisation. Do not put all [-professional-]s in one basket. Do not bring the entire [-profession-] into disrepute..,” he said.
The [-person xyz-] emphasised the need for uplifting the integrity, excellence and competence of the [-profession-], saying that this would enable them to maintain the confidence and trust of the people. “People have faith in the [-professional-]s and because of the wisdom of the [-professional-]s they rely in [-profession-],” he said.
“If [-professional-]s are of integrity, they will not worry about accountability and the [-professional-] Accountability Bill, he pointed out.“[-professional-] independence is the corner stone of the [-institution-] and for that we need public confidence and public trust.”
Now how many of you feel that you heard this before. Substitute Profession and Professional with whatever you want - be it GovernemntEmployees and Government, or Doctors and medical profession, Politicians and politics !
Yes, it is very apt to the modern Indian setup of today. A new welcome addition to this "club" is judiciary. It is precisely at the attempt to ensure accountability that Justice Kapadia the CJI of the SC lamented the above with Judges and Judiaciary as the combination here... How apt, it is scarily similar....
I would recommend Justice Kapadia, to look into the judge who for unexplained reasons reduced the compensation for victims of uphaar tragedy in Delhi in SC last month. Or look at the list given to him by the Bhushans. Finally, recommend that truth is defense when it comes to contempt of court cases....
Somehow, I don't think this will happen. Maybe he knows a thing or two about judicial corruption amongst fellow brethren in the Judiciary... Else, why he would choose to hide behind this blanket statement that we have heard about all other professions.... He is another MMS, though personally honest they are presiding over a monstrosity that is corrupt...
A new pontiff has arrived on the scene, folks.....
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Watch out for the Civil Society – Part 6
Well, folks brace yourselves for another assault - the Churches, NGOs and all JNU professors & Parsi Aunties will be on an overdrive soon. They will be shedding tears for the killing of Kishenji alias Koteshwar Rao who headed the Maoist movement in AP, before being driven out by stern anti-naxal operation by the state police, he has camped in WB and headed the naxal movement there.
This bastard is responsible for killing hundred’s of policemen, thousand’s of civilians have been grievously injured. All development works like roads, schools blasted & new roads halted, cell phone towers blasted, so that critical connectivity to far off areas is destroyed etc. He is in bed with the local churches, whose conversion factories disguised as schools are untouched but the government schools which run in the same areas are blasted. Bottom line, this bastard worked tirelessly to keep people poor, ignorant, away from development and at the same time providing ample opportunities for conversion factories to “harvest their souls”.
He waged an armed & brutal war against the state, plain and simple, period. There is no way of crushing his brutal tactics other than by armed response, which is precisely the government – in an unusual display of spine – did and killed him. Now, all the leftists, churches and their front end NGOs will come all over TV, shedding tears for this “saint” how he was a victim of poverty etc. how development is lacking etc… ad nauseum.
The tolerant media hosts will not ask them the tough questions…
But, then you will look “right winger” if you do all that, which is anathema to our media. They are happy with JNU idealogues and Parsi Aunty club….
Ignore them, educate yourself on the atrocities the Maoists have committed. Which is hundreds of orders of magnitude worse than the “bad government” they portray. Hats off to the AP government which said “&^%$ you” to this human rights/ngo/church factory and literally gunned them down and into fleeing the state. It is time rest of India emulated that tactic…
Perfect place for these Maoists to run to will be to China, we would be rid of them and they wouldn’t be allowed to practice “Maosim” and be killed there as well. What an Irony !!
This bastard is responsible for killing hundred’s of policemen, thousand’s of civilians have been grievously injured. All development works like roads, schools blasted & new roads halted, cell phone towers blasted, so that critical connectivity to far off areas is destroyed etc. He is in bed with the local churches, whose conversion factories disguised as schools are untouched but the government schools which run in the same areas are blasted. Bottom line, this bastard worked tirelessly to keep people poor, ignorant, away from development and at the same time providing ample opportunities for conversion factories to “harvest their souls”.
He waged an armed & brutal war against the state, plain and simple, period. There is no way of crushing his brutal tactics other than by armed response, which is precisely the government – in an unusual display of spine – did and killed him. Now, all the leftists, churches and their front end NGOs will come all over TV, shedding tears for this “saint” how he was a victim of poverty etc. how development is lacking etc… ad nauseum.
The tolerant media hosts will not ask them the tough questions…
- Why did they blast schools, killed teachers ?
- Why roads were destroyed ?
- Why cellphone towers which provided badly needed connectivity were blown up ?
- Why their ideology explicitly calls out not eradication of poverty alone, but overthrowing the state ?
- How come they never contested elections ?
- Why did they threaten people from voting ?
- In a democracy, there is no right to sediton, don't they know that ?
But, then you will look “right winger” if you do all that, which is anathema to our media. They are happy with JNU idealogues and Parsi Aunty club….
Ignore them, educate yourself on the atrocities the Maoists have committed. Which is hundreds of orders of magnitude worse than the “bad government” they portray. Hats off to the AP government which said “&^%$ you” to this human rights/ngo/church factory and literally gunned them down and into fleeing the state. It is time rest of India emulated that tactic…
Perfect place for these Maoists to run to will be to China, we would be rid of them and they wouldn’t be allowed to practice “Maosim” and be killed there as well. What an Irony !!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Saint Ishrat Jehan ?
If you watched the Anglo media in India - today, you will notice that a saint was brutally murdered by policemen, for tirelessly working for the benefit of mankind, blah blah etc. How a special investigating team has unearthed the murdering of an innocent girl etc…
What is the truth ? The SIT has called out (rightly so) that the encounter in which she was killed as a “fake”one. I.e. is stage managed. At no stage or report it has called out her as innocent. In fact, the evidence from the Americans (courtesy David Hedley’s confession) and LeT’s own communication has called out that she was an active member training to be a human bomb! Yes, it is not some fundamentalist minority hating politician or puppet police making this claim. Even our own NIA (mind you it is headed by PC) had to admit to this!
Then why is our media reporting so biased and prejudiced. It only adds to the wrong fear complex amongst the minorities that the Indian state is out to get them. For what reason our media is doing this ? I hate to repeat it -- the Italian Maatha needs all the help from the media to win a seat or two in UP, that is it…. The media is doing that bidding…. It gives me shivers to think what Mr. PigVijaySingh will do based on this. Azamgarh, UP is probably being decked up for his next press conference....
This kind of reporting is not unbiased, but furthering their own agenda. Maybe Justice Katju saw a thing or two that we missed…. ?
What is the truth ? The SIT has called out (rightly so) that the encounter in which she was killed as a “fake”one. I.e. is stage managed. At no stage or report it has called out her as innocent. In fact, the evidence from the Americans (courtesy David Hedley’s confession) and LeT’s own communication has called out that she was an active member training to be a human bomb! Yes, it is not some fundamentalist minority hating politician or puppet police making this claim. Even our own NIA (mind you it is headed by PC) had to admit to this!
Then why is our media reporting so biased and prejudiced. It only adds to the wrong fear complex amongst the minorities that the Indian state is out to get them. For what reason our media is doing this ? I hate to repeat it -- the Italian Maatha needs all the help from the media to win a seat or two in UP, that is it…. The media is doing that bidding…. It gives me shivers to think what Mr. PigVijaySingh will do based on this. Azamgarh, UP is probably being decked up for his next press conference....
This kind of reporting is not unbiased, but furthering their own agenda. Maybe Justice Katju saw a thing or two that we missed…. ?
Thursday, November 17, 2011
(pseudo) Secular sympathy from the media...
How to investigate and how not to investigate…
Folks, consider the situation and answer the questions below…
1. A blast happens in a religious place
2. The state anti-terror squad immediately arrests few youth “solving” the case
3. Political pressure mounts and CBI and the NIA all start investigations
4. The folks who gave confessions allege torture and retract
5. There is a not a shred of additional evidence
6. Investigations are unprofessional and totally botched up.
Now tell me whether the government should be releasing youth ?
Should your release depend on whether you are a Hindu or Muslim ?
Well, if you answered Yes to the first one and No to the second you are fair. Now tell me while I am glad that the muslim youth have been released with prolific apologies from the government, media etc. why there is not a peep on the other set who are going through the same thing ? No one to fight for their cause. Is it because their names are Joshi, Sadhvi Thakur & Swami Aseemanand ?
You can bet you will not be reading about these in the media. Not even the human rights commission will be interested. No NGOs, No Teesta Setlavaad or Arundathi Roy et al. What are you talking about, they are Hindus and it is election time in UP… Is the general feeling in intellectual media circles… as well.
Now do you understand the sympathy from the Union government ? I bet, Digvijay Singh will launch a crusade in Azamgarh UP for apologies from all and sundry. I can’t wait for that comedy show to unfold....
The media is doing a great dis-service to the country by highlighting only one side of the issue. The Italian Maatha should be very happy though, maybe that is all that matters to our Home Minister.
Folks, consider the situation and answer the questions below…
1. A blast happens in a religious place
2. The state anti-terror squad immediately arrests few youth “solving” the case
3. Political pressure mounts and CBI and the NIA all start investigations
4. The folks who gave confessions allege torture and retract
5. There is a not a shred of additional evidence
6. Investigations are unprofessional and totally botched up.
Now tell me whether the government should be releasing youth ?
Should your release depend on whether you are a Hindu or Muslim ?
Well, if you answered Yes to the first one and No to the second you are fair. Now tell me while I am glad that the muslim youth have been released with prolific apologies from the government, media etc. why there is not a peep on the other set who are going through the same thing ? No one to fight for their cause. Is it because their names are Joshi, Sadhvi Thakur & Swami Aseemanand ?
You can bet you will not be reading about these in the media. Not even the human rights commission will be interested. No NGOs, No Teesta Setlavaad or Arundathi Roy et al. What are you talking about, they are Hindus and it is election time in UP… Is the general feeling in intellectual media circles… as well.
Now do you understand the sympathy from the Union government ? I bet, Digvijay Singh will launch a crusade in Azamgarh UP for apologies from all and sundry. I can’t wait for that comedy show to unfold....
The media is doing a great dis-service to the country by highlighting only one side of the issue. The Italian Maatha should be very happy though, maybe that is all that matters to our Home Minister.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Sorry MuKoo, what goes around comes around in life…
In the late sixties (or early 70s), there were reports in a newspaper that the CM of a state was the actual father of an illegitimate child. The opposition raised it in the assembly made a hue and cry the father (CM) filed a defamation case against the daily, totally denying that the child was his daughter and totally denied any illicit relationship with the mother… the editor lacking scientific proof (hard to come by those days) had to apologize and pay a fine.
Folks, want to guess who it is? Who the child is now? Well relax and sit down. The child was named KaniMozhi, the mother was Rajathi Ammal and the father who was then in the birth records is now known as “Muthuvel Karunanidhi”. MGR pestered and campaigned so much that a vexed MuKoo had to acknowledge the fact that Kani was indeed his daughter. Never mind that he committed perjury in a court of law by those denials earlier. The poor editor must have gone through a severe trauma at not being able to legally establish what the truth was. He is probably smiling in his grave at the copious tears MuKoo is shedding for his daughter who is in jail.
Sorry MuKoo, what goes around comes around in Life…. Your so called “suffering” is nothing compared to what that poor editor must have gone through.
அரசன் அன்று கொல்வான், தெய்வம் நின்று கொல்லும்
Folks, want to guess who it is? Who the child is now? Well relax and sit down. The child was named KaniMozhi, the mother was Rajathi Ammal and the father who was then in the birth records is now known as “Muthuvel Karunanidhi”. MGR pestered and campaigned so much that a vexed MuKoo had to acknowledge the fact that Kani was indeed his daughter. Never mind that he committed perjury in a court of law by those denials earlier. The poor editor must have gone through a severe trauma at not being able to legally establish what the truth was. He is probably smiling in his grave at the copious tears MuKoo is shedding for his daughter who is in jail.
Sorry MuKoo, what goes around comes around in Life…. Your so called “suffering” is nothing compared to what that poor editor must have gone through.
அரசன் அன்று கொல்வான், தெய்வம் நின்று கொல்லும்
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thank you Justice Katju...
Let us pause and tip our hearts to Justice Markhandeya Katju...
Recently on Devil’s Advocate Katju appeared and made not so flattering observations about the media. Some of the key points he observed were on the quality of the journalists. He was point blank that today’s anchors and journalists are not at all well read and are of low intellect, Biased and prejudiced. He gave specific examples on the following:
1. A English channel running paid news where in favorable coverage was done for a Rs.1cr fee!
2. Journalists negotiating with media consultants (we all know Burqa-Radia gate)
3. Biased coverage based on what their ideology is (whole ndtv brigade)
4. Sensationalism often based on incomplete truth or outright lies…
He gave specific examples as to how a kareena kapoor wax statue or lady gaga interview takes precedence over news of substance. He pressed for more authority to Press council of India to regulate electronic media and wanted the weapon of fines and cancellation of licenses.
His comment that journalists have their own hidden agenda and ideology can’t be ignored. Let us see how many of you recall this news and identify the fringe group in this…
“A girl was beaten up in a town for act that was considered immoral and anti culture. A group of religious zealots got upset threatened her and beat her up. The police declined to register a case and requesting that it be settled out of court”.
Now guess what is the name of the Fringe group…
1. Sriram Sene,
2. Bhagat singh Sene or
3. Bajrang Dal.
If you are devout follower of NDTV I am sure you would pick one of the above. But the news was about a Muslim girl who had “Glory to god” tattooed in Urdu was chased and beaten up in Hypercity mall, in Malad Mumbai, by a group of educated middle class Muslim youth (both boys and girls). Now how many of you recall even hearing this story in the media? Whereas we all know what happened to under-aged teenage girls being served drinks in a Mangalore disco, by Sriram Sene. Tell me what is the difference and why the media is choosing to run a story on one for a week and not even mention for a second the other?
Now do you agree with Justice Katju? What is left now is for PigVijay Singh to find out if any support was extended to Justice Katju by RSS, I am sure that it will be news for the media especially the “Breaking News” kind.
Recently on Devil’s Advocate Katju appeared and made not so flattering observations about the media. Some of the key points he observed were on the quality of the journalists. He was point blank that today’s anchors and journalists are not at all well read and are of low intellect, Biased and prejudiced. He gave specific examples on the following:
1. A English channel running paid news where in favorable coverage was done for a Rs.1cr fee!
2. Journalists negotiating with media consultants (we all know Burqa-Radia gate)
3. Biased coverage based on what their ideology is (whole ndtv brigade)
4. Sensationalism often based on incomplete truth or outright lies…
He gave specific examples as to how a kareena kapoor wax statue or lady gaga interview takes precedence over news of substance. He pressed for more authority to Press council of India to regulate electronic media and wanted the weapon of fines and cancellation of licenses.
His comment that journalists have their own hidden agenda and ideology can’t be ignored. Let us see how many of you recall this news and identify the fringe group in this…
“A girl was beaten up in a town for act that was considered immoral and anti culture. A group of religious zealots got upset threatened her and beat her up. The police declined to register a case and requesting that it be settled out of court”.
Now guess what is the name of the Fringe group…
1. Sriram Sene,
2. Bhagat singh Sene or
3. Bajrang Dal.
If you are devout follower of NDTV I am sure you would pick one of the above. But the news was about a Muslim girl who had “Glory to god” tattooed in Urdu was chased and beaten up in Hypercity mall, in Malad Mumbai, by a group of educated middle class Muslim youth (both boys and girls). Now how many of you recall even hearing this story in the media? Whereas we all know what happened to under-aged teenage girls being served drinks in a Mangalore disco, by Sriram Sene. Tell me what is the difference and why the media is choosing to run a story on one for a week and not even mention for a second the other?
Now do you agree with Justice Katju? What is left now is for PigVijay Singh to find out if any support was extended to Justice Katju by RSS, I am sure that it will be news for the media especially the “Breaking News” kind.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
7aum Arivu Movie - A bold attempt indeed....
A Bold attempt indeed…
I watched “7aum Arivu” movie this weekend and was thoroughly impressed with the strong basis for the story, a good attempt at Science Fiction Genre and a relevant villain (China) for the present time. This movie is very different from the usual genre and doesn’t really fit into any existing categories as well. Usually the movies are all about heroes and punch dialogs and heroines as decorative ornaments and with liberal that calls out secularism usually in the form of a Muslim or a Christian father as the only kind group of souls in the society. This movie has given all the usual lines a go by, that in itself in my opinion is remarkable and bold.
The movie starts off tracing the Pallava dynasty till 5th century and calls out the achievements of “Bodhi Dharman” who predicts a major disease in China and starts of on a lone crusade (not the conversion army kind) to stop it within the existing region and cure the people as well. How is deified by the locals in China and eventually they archive him permanently is well captured and narrated as well.
The story then switches to modern day Chennai where in a circus performer is pursued by a Bio Engineering student (excellently portrayed by Shruti Haasan), initially it appears illogical that such a beautiful and smart girl will be after a circus guy but the director reveals the mystery down the line with each and every scene being tied into a brilliant script in the end. You have to watch the whole movie to understand it.
Suriya’s already a very good actor and has delivered on his roles with an element of naturalness that is missing in most heroes of today. He becomes and defines the characters. Whether it is dealing with the village folks that don’t trust him initially, falling for Shruti, realizing and portraying disappointment after understanding her motives, dialog delivery, action he has done them all well. Even in dancing, which is his Achilles heel, he has done well !
I must say that I was surprised by Shruti’s performance. She delivered excellently on the character and has a role that is equal to suriya’s - in length/time, scope and influence in the whole movie. Shruti looks refreshing with a girl next door charm and looks uniformly beautiful in a variety of dresses. After a long time, we have a “Tamil” heroine who knows the language and has actually dubbed for herself. Make no mistake, this is also a “bold concept” in Tamil movies now-a-days !
This movie also calls out how we as a society are deriding ourselves, without even thinking and giving credit for the fact that “our forefathers were not fools either”. In the end it implores people to look at the possible scientific motives behind our traditions. It also somewhat appeals to Tamils in particular to back each other up and not to pull each other down. In that there are some slightly chauvinistic dialogs deploring the condition of Tamils in Malaysia and Sri Lanka but stays within the realm of truth in that also.
This movie is sure to rile several critics, usually the media in India particularly the Anglo and the “Dravidian” kind have all been constantly fed crap that ancient Tamils are not Hindus, everything was forced on them and hindu/ancient religious practices and traditions are bad etc. Most of the media critics will be afraid to write anything about the hardnosed message in the movie, which is “Approach and understand your traditions scientifically, don’t be dismissive of them”. Murugadoss has to be given credit for having the guts to write “Religious conversion is also destroying your ancient knowledge wealth”, Suriya also for having the guts to actually deliver that dialog. This is anathema to the secularists.
I am of the opinion, if some Western director had made the movie on Bodhi Dharma and had the same science fiction angle in the later half, immediately all the so called critics will line up like moths to light to call out “How the facts have been researched in depth, how some anglo actor has portrayed the character excellently”. If Aamir Khan had done this, then our media reviews would have been will be totally different as well. Well that is another topic for another blog.
Hats OFF to the team that delivered this great experience ignore the critics - go see it. Definitely paisa vasool and then some.
முன்னோர்கள் முட்டாள்கள் அல்ல - just about summarizes the message of the movie.
I watched “7aum Arivu” movie this weekend and was thoroughly impressed with the strong basis for the story, a good attempt at Science Fiction Genre and a relevant villain (China) for the present time. This movie is very different from the usual genre and doesn’t really fit into any existing categories as well. Usually the movies are all about heroes and punch dialogs and heroines as decorative ornaments and with liberal that calls out secularism usually in the form of a Muslim or a Christian father as the only kind group of souls in the society. This movie has given all the usual lines a go by, that in itself in my opinion is remarkable and bold.
The movie starts off tracing the Pallava dynasty till 5th century and calls out the achievements of “Bodhi Dharman” who predicts a major disease in China and starts of on a lone crusade (not the conversion army kind) to stop it within the existing region and cure the people as well. How is deified by the locals in China and eventually they archive him permanently is well captured and narrated as well.
The story then switches to modern day Chennai where in a circus performer is pursued by a Bio Engineering student (excellently portrayed by Shruti Haasan), initially it appears illogical that such a beautiful and smart girl will be after a circus guy but the director reveals the mystery down the line with each and every scene being tied into a brilliant script in the end. You have to watch the whole movie to understand it.
Suriya’s already a very good actor and has delivered on his roles with an element of naturalness that is missing in most heroes of today. He becomes and defines the characters. Whether it is dealing with the village folks that don’t trust him initially, falling for Shruti, realizing and portraying disappointment after understanding her motives, dialog delivery, action he has done them all well. Even in dancing, which is his Achilles heel, he has done well !
I must say that I was surprised by Shruti’s performance. She delivered excellently on the character and has a role that is equal to suriya’s - in length/time, scope and influence in the whole movie. Shruti looks refreshing with a girl next door charm and looks uniformly beautiful in a variety of dresses. After a long time, we have a “Tamil” heroine who knows the language and has actually dubbed for herself. Make no mistake, this is also a “bold concept” in Tamil movies now-a-days !
This movie also calls out how we as a society are deriding ourselves, without even thinking and giving credit for the fact that “our forefathers were not fools either”. In the end it implores people to look at the possible scientific motives behind our traditions. It also somewhat appeals to Tamils in particular to back each other up and not to pull each other down. In that there are some slightly chauvinistic dialogs deploring the condition of Tamils in Malaysia and Sri Lanka but stays within the realm of truth in that also.
This movie is sure to rile several critics, usually the media in India particularly the Anglo and the “Dravidian” kind have all been constantly fed crap that ancient Tamils are not Hindus, everything was forced on them and hindu/ancient religious practices and traditions are bad etc. Most of the media critics will be afraid to write anything about the hardnosed message in the movie, which is “Approach and understand your traditions scientifically, don’t be dismissive of them”. Murugadoss has to be given credit for having the guts to write “Religious conversion is also destroying your ancient knowledge wealth”, Suriya also for having the guts to actually deliver that dialog. This is anathema to the secularists.
I am of the opinion, if some Western director had made the movie on Bodhi Dharma and had the same science fiction angle in the later half, immediately all the so called critics will line up like moths to light to call out “How the facts have been researched in depth, how some anglo actor has portrayed the character excellently”. If Aamir Khan had done this, then our media reviews would have been will be totally different as well. Well that is another topic for another blog.
Hats OFF to the team that delivered this great experience ignore the critics - go see it. Definitely paisa vasool and then some.
முன்னோர்கள் முட்டாள்கள் அல்ல - just about summarizes the message of the movie.
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