In the name of Lehman, satyam and ors...

we will violate all employment and labour standards, we will squeeze out every ounce that we can from our employees, we will constantly threaten them of loosing their jobs, we will cut pays, refuse pay hikes and all of that!!!

News Today

I have stopped reading the newspaper in print, mostly because the paper would not reach me every morning and that irritate the hell out of me, so i decided to opt out. I now read the newspaper online. Today the front page consists of the Nanavati commission, the UC Banerjee Commission, the Liberhan Commission, the banglore explosion.... and I havent even finished reading the front page.
Frankly I don't even remember anymore the chronology of blasts and terrorist attacks that have taken place. I don't know whether this is because there are too many of them or because I just wnt to shut my mind out from these happenings... I don't know what we are going to do about this situation and what worries me even more is that we refuse to deal with the root cause of all this terror.. we have judges saying that we should have strict terror laws this that, but really are people born terrorists? or they become terrorists? I mean are we going to deal with what exactly happens that drives a normal human being to be ready to shoot people and get burnt alive absolutely willingly?
I was in a seminar on Human Rights in Nanital once and after most poeple had spoken, the audience was also sharing their thoughts. One of the members came up and advocated for a stronger anti terror law and death penalty and no need for a trial etc for 'terrorists' to which i again spoke up about death penalty and why the concept itself is against human rights. In response to this I had a High Court judge turn around and say that if he ever had the chance he would without doubt sentence a 'terrorist' to death penalty without a second thought. When i replied back about how easily the State was washing its hands off by not dealing with the circumstances which make people so called terrorists, all the high Court judge could say was that all this study for the purposes of criminology can be done at a later stage, but right now stroang action is required....
Don't really know what we are heading for!

Self declared kings!!

The admin guys in my office think they are above us all lesser mortals. In any case their lunch is an elaborate affair, where even most of the senior managment will either eat at their desk or in the common canteen, these guys will have their food served by the pantry guys who will heat it, serve it and after these 'men' have eaten clean up after them. Why does all this happen you may ask, oh but for one simple reason they decide which contractor stays and which contractor goes, thats why!! And obviously they are such scums of this earth that they take complete advantage of this so called power that they have, ufffff!! Today was the limit, they are having their nawabi khana in the cafeteria and they order a sandwich from the vendor who promptly gives it to them as he serves any other of us lesser employees... the leader of this pack of wolves asks him the cost of this sandwich, 20 rupees he is informed, this man tells him that he will get only 5 rupees for this, obviously the vendor guy is a little taken aback and demands to know why?? Then mr leader of rotting fungi asks him to come on his side , opens the sandwich and demands to know why has he not put more white sauce (read mayonisse!) adn then he tells him " main tujhe batata hoon 20 rupiyee kaise miltey hain , takes out a 10 rupee note from his pocket, tears it and then says le isse lele!!!! And amazingly this guy is an ex army officer, like what to they do there now?? instead of making you a gentleman they make you an animal!!
More than anything else, i want to meet this man's wife and ask her ...why why woman why haven't you poisoned him yet??

Why??

Why is it that a woman has to undergo a miscarriage to be able to exert control over her own reproductive self? Is this woman not part of "we the people of India..."?? Why should this be the mode of gaining independence? why can't the judicial system for once respect the right to privacy of the citizen who inspite of everything chooses to show faith in the legal system and is then very badly let down by that very system?why does a personal choice have to give way to a national (???) debate with all kinds of people terming something legal as murder? and why can't those same people speak up when there is such a hue and cry for hanging afzal guru.... is that not murder??