JUDGMENT

Justice is not just & certainly not cheap. Philosophically, if it is truth that everybody is right from his place. It is held so in the material world too. An accused & victim are right from their own point & at their respective place, yet it is difficult on paper in the court of law who is sinner & who’s not. In the end in the court, both accused & victim are left alone & their money speaks in court through their lawyers. One, who pours more money, gets better & winning lawyer. The goddess of justice puts her weight on the weighting scale she’s holding on hearing & certainly not on seeing who’s guilty.

They say with their wide mouth, 'justice delayed; is justice denied’. If this quote is to be taken as truth, justice is being denied, justice is denied. Thanks to many variables, viz. scarcity of judges, lawyers, perennially long list of booked cases, faulty investigations, ignorance or purposefully weak case building by the investigating agencies, purposeful delays in the cases & behind most of the reasons is the greed to gain money & still more money. The corruption is the biggest reason, the monster holding back & trailing back the judicial system.

See the irony, the person who is considered as the epitome of advocacy Ram Jethmalani ran pillar to post to save killers of none other than Indira Gandhi, seating Prime Minister & still becomes country’s Law Minister. He tried even the mercy petition & drags the President in such a heinous & shameful act of him. Well, it is considered to be innocent till stamped guilty by the court. Yet, the killer grabbed at the spot of incident & still the fellow trying to save those traitors, some political party still accommodates him, offers ministerial berth that too Law. Bandit queen Phoolen Devi is granted ticket due to sheer her fame or say infamy, fools like us vote her in too & she manages to seat on the same chairs where once towering personalities like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Nehru, Azad & like must have seated once. God is simply great!

What it actually needs to arrive at the judgment one would get confused at. Shooting illustrious Pramod Mahajan at point blank range in his own flat by his own brother & the judicial system is running & running & collecting all those items under the goose of evidences. Case is lingering on & on. May be in the end say after ten or even fifteen years the man would be set free due to want of sufficient evidence to prove him guilty. Bombay blast killers, have lived their life, many of us have even forgotten the number of blasts took place, forgotten intensity of blast & number of people killed; relatives of victims perhaps have cursed their fate & taken the fact in their stride lived on. After so many years even if the court passes judgment it is too late & too little. still if somebody appeals in the higher court against the judgment, two three decades will pass just like that. The judgment may not be issued as those involved have died in due course of time.

Getting witness to arrive to the court to deliver their statement is Herculean task & thankless job. As a matter of fact the fellow gets nothing but embarrassment, loss of his time & money, threatening calls & perhaps lives in permanent danger to his life. On the top of it, if some witness persists & visits court on date after date; is asked on what has happened seventeen years back is nothing but a joke. All must be thick skinned there, the victims & accused; lawyers are thick skinned since that is the prerequisite to become lawyer.

Judicial systems must be made accountable, time bound & transparent. How on earth, a reckless driver kills seven people sleeping on the footpath yet gets off with just six months imprisonment? Why not Jessica Lal killers are not getting noose? Why temple of democracy the parliament attackers enjoying daily dal-roti & not hanged? Why Shibu Soren was made minister so many times despite his proven criminal record? Why human traffickers are not removed from the parliament & put behind bars? Why best bakery is still baking? Why?

If truth is to prevail, what colour of truth, what scent of truth is needed? Who should say what truth is? If their definition of truth is other than common mans’, what is it?

By

Vijay Yelmelwar

CARING CORRUPTION

‘Power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely’ somebody has said rather aptly. Corruption is omnipresent in the society just like god. HE is omnipresent perhaps corruption has superceded even god as theists would agree since they believe in god, how about atheists as they do not believe in god? Yet both of them indulge in corruption equally.

Basis of corruption is nothing but human greed; animals do not corrupt since they aren’t greedy. They say up to certain extent a person can perhaps withhold himself but if the money involved is tremendous then? Relieving a rich murder suspect, a top listed terrorist or a traitor on bail money involved could be astronomical. Turning blind eye during raid on realizing really huge sum of money is holed into, could be possible since offer would then must be mouth watering. Thus more the money involved difficult it is to gain control over our sensibility. And once having plunged into the black-hole of corruption every penny becomes indispensable. Wiseman loses his wisdom to his greed & reduces to be a filthy money making machine.

Perhaps economic offenders are dealt with leniency across the globe and that is the reason corruption is ever rising. If the jaws of law are armed with big unbendable unbreakable & deep piercing venomous teeth it will definitely help curbing ever spreading corruption. Also, be in public or in private services the person entrusted with power must be with proper responsibility & accountability.

Spouse & children must keep the home atmosphere as clean & clear as possible. There must be total dependence at the home. Thus, spouse & children must object on extra money which otherwise should not have come home. As, if caught red handed, it is not only the culprit but his whole family is sufferer. Children must help keep their parents’ wisdom & sensibility clear & undeterred.

Earning more money is not a crime; nobody can dare to say anything like that. Yet, earning through illegal means say corruption is strictly no no.

On bribe givers if we take a glance, perhaps they are poor humble cornered victims of the whole vicious circle. Yet, with rise in corruption, a giver is taker at another instance. Thus he’s is well versed with the technique of corruption. A giver is so because he is either arm twisted or has thin patience and the real reason is his greed which drives him. Be it obtaining two wheeler driving license or caught while speeding the vehicle. Not necessarily every time you’ve run the vehicle over the sleeping pedestrians, killed endangered species, raped a model or indulge in bombing innocent public & seek bailed out.

The ‘now or never’ attitude & inflating consumerism like hot air balloon are also the equal culprit behind propagating corruption. My friend had once said jokingly, ‘I’ve not yet died so I don’t know, even at the gate of heaven if St. Peters’ men or angels ask for bribe to write my name into the good books of god then how do arrange that?’

The tragedy is we’ve in generally accepted the corruption in its very existence. Just like a demon sitting in the heart of village & needs a man a day apart from a cart load of rice & fruits as his daily diet. And helplessly looking for the help to arrive in the incarnation of Bhima. We’ve no guts to fight with it & hence deserve to live with it.

By

Vijay Yelmelwar

ON RUINED LIFE

An act of rape ruins whole of victims’ life forever. Then no matter what & who went wrong; no amount of discussions, thinking, and action can ever fill even tiniest void. A look at on why one thinks of rape, sexual intercourse without consent of the woman, may be like...

If we understand the nature it would be easier to acknowledge the facts & reasons. It is just instinct that all the male animals develop orgasm by way of sight of the female animal, whilst all the female animals do so by touch. So it is applicable to human being as well. It is also truth that male take undue advantage of their physical strength & status & exploit female in almost all the species, not only in human being.

Being civilized human being, first & foremost thing is we all irrespective of being man or woman must observe constraints, decency & perseverance in society. Every man must keep in mind about the severe punishment, devastation of his own social status & tons of humiliation post rape. These are all social aspects & not instinct which he’s carried since birth. So, even by mistake or error a man is likely to forget, over-react, feel strong or get fooled & indulge in the act of rape purposefully or instinctively.

Females are attractive & try to look still more attractive by nature. Thus a woman, guided by nature, is like so. Yet, considering diversity in social status, economy & intellectual levels, woman must give a thought to decency in clothing. It doesn’t mean that only half necked women are raped. Yet, a woman can protect herself up to a great extent by clothing apart from keeping safe distance from all the men around. With all those news pouring in, one could say with great disbelief that, a woman in many parts of the society is not safe even at the hands of her own father, brother or close relative. Keep herself fit to take on eventuality till help arrives, arm with weapons, chilly powder,….

Observed of late, commodity behavior is on rise? It was tough decision earlier to get rid of old furniture or so; all credit goes to the emotional attachments. Now a days, forget the furniture even men & women have become commodity. They have been nurturing themselves as commodity if slight exaggeration is allowed. Say, enormous expenditure incurred on clothing, shoes, toiletries, make ups etc. etc. With increment in financial independence consumerism is rising up like hell. Gone are the days of good behaving spouse, the upcoming culture is matching spouse by external looks of course.

There are various other aspects too to take into consideration. The so called idea of free sex, rise in pornography, half necked dances in films & in reality, unnecessary proximity. This all doesn’t mean that the women be remain behind veil & man to cover his eyes. Rapes are predominant yesterday too. The difference is, media wasn’t so omnipresent then. Even today, most of the cases are hushed up considering devastating consequences even if the culprit is hanged till death. Since, a raped woman has lost her sanctity; no one would accept it in the core of heart or behind the doors. Yet, outside a raped woman is trash & unfit to live. Give passing thought on rapes within marriage since rape is so if it is without victims’ consent.

By

Vijay Yelmelwar

STATE OF POLITICS

And Mayawati shocked all those thick skinned & shockproof politicians form gully to Delhi by winning with simple majority conquering the biggest state. All, of a sudden, every soul got enlightened on how Mayawati was already a great woman, done social engineering, apt CM material, strong contender to be PM etc. etc. At the same time, they have kept the other issues in the back of their dumb head like her erstwhile Taj Corridor Project, amassing of wealth disproportionate to her known source of income, transfers etc.etc.

The same phenomenon occurs with 220 volts to 440 volts shock intensity; sometimes the political grounds shiver & sometimes there is politico-earthquake too. Be it Sharad Pawar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Karunanidhi, Jaylalitha, Mamta Banarjee, Shibu Soren or our own beloved Raja Bhaiya, Amarmani Tripathi or like have done it time & again. Anybody in the independent India has right to float his or her own political party. Thus it is nightmarish experience to the election commission on issuing polling symbols to all those trivial parties which varies from bell to box & chair to chalk.

Being infamous, criminal with their records of kidnapping, looting, killing, intimidating, anti national activities are the passport to the politics. They all talk in front of TV camera & in news paper of how bad it is of criminalization of politics yet; the dinner party host that night will be the same character befitting such description. And, we the voters; like fool either skip the voting or vote meekly to the same fellow pulling skin over our open eyes. Look at the voting percentage of 35% to 51% the maximum. We simply need a known face to cast our filthy vote be it famous or infamous face. Perhaps our darling is infamous face that is the reason poor Manmohan Singh never managed to enter parliament through front door. Why on earth rest other public not going to polling booth to cast their vote? Are they sick, not able to travel to the polling station, hospitalized, their names do not appear in the polling lists, traveled out being government holiday,…?

Remember the last horse trading in your respective municipality, state capital & at the national capital. It is no less than a lottery winning experience to an independent candidate to win. Since, now days parties outnumber the number of seats available in the election. It is not only a hidden fact but the open issue that we the voters do not at all vote out or vote in the desired candidate. In hung house it is far from our desire on who to become the leader of the respective house. It is still far from our desire on candidate to get deserving portfolio to make justice to his skill & serves the land.

And seen those festivities of incumbent on completion of their first year in office, 2nd, 3rd etc. is it achievement to remain in office for having elected to be in office for full term of five years?

There won’t be right answers, easy answers & prompt answers to these questions. Yet, we can get closer to the answers over a period of time. Perhaps few of the answers might be like –

Introduction of two party political systems.

As such if you see the NDA & UPA loosely tied with their MAP the minimum action programme. It is loud & clear to every living citizen that it is power that holds them together. They might tie up in one state or at the national level. But, at small municipalities they might sit in opposition while tying up with the rival there. It is the politics of opportunity. Yet, they can tie up at every small or big opportunity of sharing power. Doing so, their views, ideas, ideals, dogmas, values, principals etc. etc. do not interfere they just do it for the sake of ‘national interest’. Any takers for such easy bending national interests? Thus with proper referendum it is possible to introduce two party political system. If the president of the land is saying so, it clearly means there is need for this.

Collection of election fund.

Just make election funding system by all the small & big parties clear & transparent. Let all of our donors become fearless, let the government announce tax benefits on election funding up to certain period & amount. See there will sea change in whole gamut of corruption. Whilst announcing tax soap will only make a large sum of money become milky white. It is possible.

If, we the people of India get up flex our muscles towards pushing up these reforms through the press; see where we’ll see ourselves within a decade.

By,

Vijay Yelmelwar