See what Supreme Court has to say about the people overstaying in Govt accommodations.

In India, even God is helpless

The reservation issue was again in news in past few months as Gujjars were asking for reservation in Rajasthan. I won’t write whether gujjars were right or wrong in asking for reservation but lets talk about the reservation itself first.

I find this very idea of ‘cast based reservation’ stupid. It was a stupidity in the very first place. First thing you say people from some castes should be given some relaxation in the exams, admissions…whatsoever as they are financially weak and haven’t got access to all the facilities. Now are all the people from those castes same ? NO !

Second thing the people whom you leave in general section ? Are all of them able to provide their children with good education and facilities ? again NO !

So we talk about financial conditions of people but on the basis of their caste. How that is useful ?

Just an example. By now ( as it has been so many years since reservation system was put in place) how much percentage of people on administrative posts (IAS, IPS, PCS etc) has come through reservation system ? (no offenses intended here). May be 20-30% or more or less. Fine ! Now they can give all the facilities to their children but their children will again get admissions using their quota certificates. So what is the use ?

Once i heard that president K R Narayanan’s daughter got admission to IAS in some reserved quota (I have no proof, but there might be hundreds of such cases, if not this one). Now tell me was she really deprived of all the facilities ?

Another point is while admitting people to professional colleges for engineering, medical and other studies is it okay to relax in terms of score they get ? Recently someone on TV gave an example that lets say someone in your family was seriously ill, you took him to hospital. What would you think that a fully qualified doctor should take his case or the one who was not that intelligent but came through reservation ? Obvious answer is the qualified one. Then why reservation at every place ?

Helping poor people reach a standard in their life is not a problem. But it should have been implemented in some other manner like providing financial assistance to the people who were not able to bear the expenses of education. Giving them free books, education and other facilities. That too without saying what caste or class did they belong to.

The saddest part is that now this evil has been installed and its here to stay for always. No government is going to amend these laws as that would mean toppling of the government the very next day.

I have no hopes

It has been more than 50 years since we got freedom and we all are aware that politics and corruption have screwed up the whole system of India. I was watching a video by Shiv Khera where he calls to build a corruption free nation. A must watch for every Indian:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Also, there are 2 videos in Hindi:

Part 1:

Part 2:

In last few weeks, a video showing kids reciting english poems in some school of Punjab has been making waves on youtube.

It definitely looks funny during first watch. But soon it gives rise to serious questions about our education system. These kids don’t understand anything what they are speaking. They have just crammed this small poem and keep on reciting it daily without even trying to understand what does it mean, forget the American accent. And they are not at fault, rather we are responsible that they have got such an environment to grow up in.

What does that mean ? There are some serious flaws in our education system. It has been 51 years since we got freedom and see the standards of education in our country. It is not the story of Punjab only but almost every state in India. Start with primary schools and go up to professional colleges. Everywhere you will find the same story. The biggest difference which i have felt between India and abroad is that there the most qualified people are in the teaching profession and here the least qualified. If you are not getting any other job go for teaching. There are n number of reasons for that. One of the primary things being the bucks you earn. That again has to do with the system of our country that people who are responsible for laying the foundation of the country are not paid well and they opt for alternate professions and the mediocre class comes into teaching.

Some serious steps need to be taken. Otherwise govt institutions have already lost all the charm and there will be no fun in keeping them running. People would (in fact, already are) opt for private ones and that also would be out of reach of the middle class.

Without education can we progress ? NO, i think. In fact education is the only thing which can help us get rid of the evil things in our society.

What does Customer Care mean ? that too 24X7 : where customers can call anytime and get their issues resolved.

Well, i just called ICICI bank’s so called 24X7 customer care regarding a query about my online account. After pressing hell lot of buttons and spending good 5 minutes, i got an option to talk to their executive but to find “Due to exceptionally high number of calls, we wont be able to take your call right now, please try after some time”…

Bullshit !

They don’t even ask you to be in queue. Simply “Please try after some time”. “Please” is most mis-used word i think. See the status of ICICI bank and then response from customer care.

Even a common man can tell that if they experience high volume of calls in the evening, they should hire more people, expand their infrastructure. But NO. Who cares ! When people have no other option, let them go through all this.

There should be some govt body (as there is TRAI for telecom) monitoring all this and locking the banks which are not satisfying the SLAs set.

If you have watched Aaj Tak yesterday, they claimed to have exposed everything about Gujarat riots and the very same people who were involved in doing all this are telling everything. There are soul stirring stories. What they did, a normal man can’t even think of doing. After watching that the picture becomes totally clear, leaving no doubts.

And the news about the same appears on rediff also. Then started peoples’ comments. Most of the public there is busy in supporting Modi and condemning Aaj Tak that why they have shown this. I just can’t understand why we can’t accept the fact. A bastard slit the abdomen of a pregnant women. What can be more horrible ? Do you think that a normal human being can do it ? Still people are supporting those people. There is crystal clear evidence in the videos that Modi said that do anything for 3 days, then I will stop it. I mean the CM of a state is saying this. How shameful. And people are taking it as a mean to tarnish the image of BJP, as elections are nearer. Does anything more needs to be done to the image of BJP ?

God save this country !

Sidhu

This week, in Devil’s Advocate, on CNN-IBN, Karan Thapar interviewed Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and when Karan asked him about Gujarat riots, within less than 5 minutes, he asked for water and walked out of the interview.

On various websites there are peoples writing comments, praising Modi and criticizing Karan Thapar. I just cant understand one simple thing, if he is such a great man, a man of few words, blah-blah as told by the people, why didn’t he face the interview and clear all the doubts ? Why in 5 minutes his condition was such that he has to ask for water ?

Please, we need to be bit above our selfishness if we want to do something for this country.

Sidhu

Today is S Bhagat Singh’s 100th birthday. So like every other such occasion, he is being remembered again. Politicians are throwing speeches, the same stuff: we aren’t following the direction shown by him…and all that…

Bhagat Singh was right in saying that we will send the “white” out and you will see that “black” will be sitting. The very same thing has happened. The white left and came our very own called “black” by Bhagat Singh. Over the last 60 years after freedom, they have crossed all the lines, can do anything to gain something politically, a human is not human for them. And the new generation that is supposed to do something about it, bring some revolution is all the way busy in becoming another Michael Jackson, forget this desh prem and such stuff.

Here is my salute to that great man who brought revolution in those times. Do visit a website about him called http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org Carries some original photographs of him and his family and some hand writings.

I am not a die hard fan of cricket who will stick to TV till the time match is not over. But yesterday’s match against England was pretty interesting, especially in the last overs. Yuvraj Singh had some argument with Flintoff and that ignited the spark inside Yuvraj. He hit 6 sixes in a row. Otherwise I haven’t seen any Indian player doing some rubbish on the ground but many other teams do. Just as England did it yesterday. So Yuvraj replied back in a very cool fashion Enjoy the video from youtube.

Tomorrow, on 15th August, India will wake up to celebrate its 60th independence day. Its a moment of happiness and of being proud about all those people who did the struggle and laid their lives for freedom. After 60 years, there are a lot of things that have changed and more importantly still a lot more remains to be changed.

There are things like illiteracy, religion based riots, corruption, poverty, basic education for everybody, more employment for youth, making youth aware of great Indian culture and so on. If you run an eye around, there are thousands of issues, you see, that need to be addressed. We, the citizens of India need to be more responsible about everything happening around to make India a beautiful country. So with all the hopes here is wishing India & everybody a very very Happy Independence Day.

Few pictures, some historical and some very touching, I got in an email.

Nehru being sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Mountbatten (15 Aug, 1947)

The death dance in Punjab - one of the most tragic times Punjab ever saw

Gandhi addressing people (I have not been able to really understand this man’s contribution in India’s freedom: positive or negative ?)

News of Gandhi’s assassination

An emotionally breaking scene: A library being divided into 2 parts India & Pakistan

May God bless this planet with peace !!!