Sunil Dutt must be turning in his grave

It was surprising to hear Sanjay Dutt speaking about how POTA was used on him. And surprisingly a news channel (internet based Khabrein.Info) tells that he spelt Gandhigiri.

A convict or one who has just escaped being a convict speaks to an audience and accuses the police and security forces of mis-treating him in custody. This was different from what he had spoken when the justice day was nearing.

This is not Gandhigiri. No way!!!

Please do not spoil the name of Gandhi. I do not think a movie on Gandhigiri gives the rights to Sanjay to speak against the law of the land. He has done a mistake then, and it is still a mistake now.

Frankly, if his father were alive, he would have possibly removed him from the family tree. Even now, he must be turning in his grave!

Wake up Sanjay, you are moving away from the real Gandhigiri you promoted on films. Amar Singh, you big bro is taking you astray!!!!

Tytler and Sajjan dislodged from party tickets standards

As a friend says, one shoe and two targets. Very good step taken by the party. Seems like there is hope for politicians and politics in India. Although I am against politics in its current form, acts like this reassure me of hope in Politics and Politicians.

When do we see a Modi, Varun and Muthallik be debarred by their own parties? When will gundagardi see an end in politics?

Of Muthaliks, Tytlers, Sajjans, Modis, Yadavs, Vaikos and Varuns

Faces of India. People of the soil. Indians by birth and spirit. Those who pledge to dedicate their lives for the betterment of the citizens of the country.

A CEO of a small enterprise Talibanizes women in a pub in Mangalore and is campaigning for a national party to swing vote banks in their favor. A case study of outsourcing of Taliban forces for Politics.

Two CXOs/unit heads who were witnessed in a negative way in the 1984 riots has got a clean chit from CBI and tickets to the current Lok Sabha elections.

A CEO of as state drives a riot and refuses the act like a coward. Ignites religious citizens to stand for him and pushes industry stalwarts to vote for him as the PM of the country. He is the biggest leader today of a national party.

A CEO of a state party is convicted for murder and pushes his wife to the frontiers of politics to keep his legacy in place. His wife defends him like any other Indian Biwi. A party gives her the ticket.

A CEO of a small organization in Tamil Nadu, wants blood bath in India if a CEO of a terrorist organization in a neighboring country is touched. The entire state CEOs of parties are implicitly and explicitly supporting the carnage.

A young, aspirant CEO takes to the streets with one of the most atrocious religious remarks. A large national political party is supporting him more every day as time flies by. Every other CEO in the political process is taking advantage going against him or for him.

My question comes here. Why are we after the poor guy… Ramalinga Raju? Should not the courts take charge of punishing the above mentioned CEOs who have had a life threatening and homicide impact on Indian Citizens rather than a small culprit who has cheated a few investors?

BJP’s IT Vision – making a mockery of democracy

A friend of mine send me a poorly made pdf document which had a good IT vision for India. The thoughts in the document were good, but sounded like a bad collation from the Barack campaign. I liked the part of use of IT to curb corruption. And from a business angle I saw a lot of money in the document!

But as a citizen, I still believe we have not addressed roti, kapda aur makaan as yet. I would add infrastructure and education to it. With this, I do not mean IT education (10k laptop oriented education) or IT infrastructure (land records online and SSN the Indian way).

Do we need these? Yes we do!!! In fact we need more than this. We need the Swiss weather, non-polluted OZ, homeland security of US, valuation of Re. higher than the British Pound, we need the infrastructure of Dubai and of course, my insignificant dream of making Bombay (not Mumbai) a Singapore clone.

But when I look beyond my window to see the dirty slums, I think of health care – a few malarial deaths in the last month. I see corruption with the traffic cops near my house. I see uneducated youth (high potential youth) who are direction less and sit around commenting on school girls who are returning home. I see an 82 year old lady working in our neighboring garden as she has to earn just her next meal. I see a builder who is building apartments in thin air. Has he ever thought of pollution or hazards or even is there enough roadways and parking spots to accommodate the new cars that will come in there?

These are key problems for me. My digitized land records can wait. My SSN equivalent can wait. Actually my seeing money in IT projects in India can wait. I can also wait to see my Bombay with the colors of Singapore.

I need food, health care, education, income, low cost energy, responsibility and accountability and reduction of corruption. Frankly, this is what I will vote on. I can do without any of these being in place, coz I can afford them. But unfortunately, I am only 26% of my population - am only talking of Bombay. I think it is time to speak for the other 74 %. And most of my problems will be taken care of.

Today I am not sure if I am voting for a party or an agenda. I will vote for an individual who I know has done or at least has a potential to do. I do not see Prakash Amte or his likes standing for elections. Hence, chances of finding my guy is bleak. My next bet is the youth. Hope I find some and politicians take a leaf from the Lok Sabha Ex Speaker's book.

One thing is for sure, today politicians are hitting their own feet with the axe. And this is making us citizens more aware of what we need to do.