Browsing Category: "Controversy"
Cliques generally have their own respective cultures. All members share and act within a collective imagination. This is where the strength of the group lies. A clique shares common priorities, aspirations, and motivations. The members learn the same concepts in life and learn from the same mistakes. The mentality is of the pack. Members of a clique generally move in one direction, having the same mission, and bearing the same equal share of consequences to their actions.
Socialization is necessary if one were to co-exist productively and peacefully within his or her turf. It is a long and sequential process wherein one learns the characteristics of his society. It is a constant and consistent education and orientation on the part of the individual that comprises the process of socialization.
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A bunch of hooligans chanting ‘Jai Maharashtra’ enter the Thane Railway Station in Mumbai and thirteen examination centres to rough up the students come to appear for the railway recruitment board exams. The gundas in reference are actually members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the victims are people from North India. And guess what? Nothing is done about it. I wonder why………
Let’s hear what the play actors say in this grotesque display of violence and insanity. I have taken the liberty of voicing North Indians who ufortunately are left with no option but flee for their lives.
Tags: · India, lalu prasad yadav, maharashtra navanirman sena, north indians, railway board examination, raj thackeray, vilas rao deshmukh
The present scenario in Goa reminds me of the old saying ‘all that glitters is not gold’. That is precisely the truth for India’s tourist capital in the present day. Wearing the halo of a bohemian paradise, the beach city has been in news (please read international) for all the wrong reasons.
Imagine the money that four lakh tourists must be bringing to our economy but that too will not hold for long if the law enforcers as well as protectors do not wake up from their slumber of corruption and laxity.
Tags: · crime, drugs, goa, murder, rape, tourist, unsafe
The melamine scandal broke out later than it should have. Some heavy censorship in the wake of the colossal PR campaign for the Beijing Olympics kept the scandal under wraps. During those few crucial weeks, thousands of Chinese babies started to fall ill with kidney stones. A few died. The controversy became too hot to handle and too huge to contain when countries that imported the melamine-tainted Chinese milk started to confirm the contamination in their imports of milk and milk-related products from China.
Perhaps due to tremendous international pressure, as some countries are about to sue and collect for damages, China announced that ‘a little melamine is OK.’ This is an example of the thin dividing line between a country being either more careful or more careless. The statement does not sound apologetic in any way. At the very least, it sounds like a justification for condoning reckless and nefarious Chinese producers. The addition of melamine by Chinese milk producers into their milk and milk products to increase the apparent protein content in the milk is downright malicious, since the very obvious motives are profit and greed.
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Since elections are largely a game of perception, the upcoming US presidential elections is at feverish pitch with smear campaigns. For Barack Hussein Obama, it’s working both ways on the perception scale. Those who are for him are accused of terrorism, while those against, of racism. The McCain-Palin camp brands Obama a terrorist. A Muslim-sounding name can easily be associated with Radical Islamism a.k.a. terrorism. So, if Obama wins, the hugely-budgeted US-sponsored campaign towards global collective panic and power of nightmares called War on Terror would have obviously worn out its use.
What’s in a name? A lot. A Muslim-sounding name makes for a Muslim stereotype which, in turn, makes for the terrorist stereotype. This is so because, in this day and age, the pervading mindset is that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. So, someone with a Hussein in his name is “palling around with terrorists,” as Sarah Palin averred.
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Probably the only scene with sense in Salman Khan’s latest film ‘Hello’ got snipped at the hands of, may I say, our Stone Age-d Censor Board. The scene in reference is the one where actor Gul Panag asks co-star Sharman Joshi whether he is carrying a condom before they have sex.
As absurd it may sound, but the Censor actually committed the crime of stupidity. When on one hand, we get to see soooooooooo many ads on radio and TV urging us to talk about sex freely to avoid health hazards and unplanned pregnancies. After all, if the public outlook does not change we might soon be the country with largest AIDS cases in the world and of course, largest population too. Then recently, weren’t we hearing all those ‘condom, condom’ ringtones?
Tags: · censor, condom, gul panag, hello, India, salman khan, sharman joshi, snipped
I am worried about terrorism in India. Not just Islamic, which without any questions and doubts does get addressed and taken adequate action against, but also Hindu terrorism, which always escapes from the grip of authorities for lack of hard evidence. Honestly, if nothing is done about the situation in Orissa we shall probably have yet another terrorist group, but this time participated by Christians.
The ‘gorious’ work of the Bajrang Dal in Orissa is not a figment of anybody’s imagination. Innocent people are murdered in cold-blood, burnt alive, nuns raped…do we really need more facts to take a call against the religious group? PM Manmohan Singh wants to ban the group immediately but defiance within his party is problematic because they fear the BJP may reap dividends out of it. So, in the political plotting nobody really suffers but people like the Armyman who fought for our country in the Indo-Pak and Kargil War; his paralysed brother gets torched by fanatics chanting “Jai Hanuman” in Orissa.
Tags: · bajrang dal, ban, India, maharastra navnirman sena, Politics, shiv sena, SIMI
Already beleaguered about her ‘presumed’ incapacity as future VP of the world’s biggest economy that might soon be no more because of the economic meltdown and controversial bailout, Palin has now been found guilty of abusing her gubernatorial powers in her native Alaska. The state legislature probe asserts that Palin dismissed a senior state official Mr. Monegan for not firing a state trooper Mike Wooten. This might sound like any ordinary day in the life of Alaska’s governor except that Wooten is the governor’s former brother-in-law who is in a bitter custody battle with the governor’s sister.
If that sounds like a story that is discussed inside one’s kitchen, this development takes the cake: the investigation was a partisan-led inquiry sponsored by supporters of Obama. If personal grudge is behind her abuse of power, the probe’s exorbitant 263-page report is an indication of what being the running mate of Republican standard bearer John McCain has to offer in the dirty world of politics. Surely, the report would have less number of pages if she were just plain governor.
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According to international nuclear inspectors, a Russian scientist helped the Iranians with technical know-how and also helped them conduct complex experiments on ways of detonating a nuclear weapon. The fact that this information was revealed excitedly on the New York Times has more political reasons than any real danger from either the Russian scientist or the Iranian nuclear hounds.
The U.S. has been trying to create the image of an impending calamity due to Russian aggressive behaviors when the real reason why Russians are growing increasingly aggressive is because they have their own fears. The Iranians may or may not pose a threat to the world, but a bigger threat to the world lies in the form of American foreign policies and propaganda such as the one about the Russian scientist. What appalls me is that a venerable newspaper like the New York Times is also not immune to prejudice and, directly or indirectly participates in the dissemination of American propaganda.
Tags: · America, Government, Imperialism, Iran, Media, News, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Russia, U.S
See the basic problem is our country is that everybody is way too busy telling you how to lead your life; ‘”do this”, “don’t do that” and what not! I mean, isn’t that how ‘unnatural sex’ aka bisexuality or homosexuality is deemed illegal. Well, if that wasn’t enough, the Maharashtrian government has come forth to give the typical Indian ‘why should I mind my own business’ attitude to the concept of live-in relationships.
As if the Thackerays (young and old) weren’t enough with their very own ’special’ ways, that the state cabinet has decided to put chains to those unmarried men and women living together. Apparently, the ministers approved a proposal that said that a woman involved in a live-in for a “reasonable period” should get the status of a wife. Plus the proposal also requested that the definition of the word ‘wife’ under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc) be changed to ‘a woman, living with man like his wife for a reasonably long period’.
