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Hariharan Iyer has a cushy corporate job in Tanzania, heading the financial function of a 150-million-dollar group based in East and Central Africa. But his passion for news and politics, especially about India, also led him to start a blog on current affairs and media ethics almost a year ago. He realised soon enough though that to “connect the dots, one has to either get into investigative journalism or move into the realm of fiction. I chose the second option,” he says.</div>
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-2946038792310507142016-04-06T18:21:00.000+05:302016-04-06T18:21:19.615+05:30My Interview to Deccan Chronicle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Hariharan Iyer’s first book Surpanakha seems to be just what we need — to bring the age of political thrillers back. Surpanakha’s story is unique. It revolves around a respectable chief minister who becomes embroiled in a sexual harassment case filed against him by an activist.<br />"His wife, Mythili, seems to be the hero of the story as she sets out to uncover the truth. Political thrillers are few and far between, especially in India. But with this debut potboiler, Tanzania-based author Hariharan Iyer aims to give the genre its due," says Deccan Chronicle.</blockquote>
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-47643094797876635602016-03-14T18:48:00.000+05:302016-03-14T18:48:18.287+05:30Meet The Men And Women Of Substance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; line-height: 15pt;">This post first appeared in </span><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><a href="http://b00kr3vi3ws.in/">b00kr3vi3ws.in</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; line-height: 15pt;">Whenever
I go to a bookshop—be it in a mall or in any of the airports —I look for books
by Indian authors. And I don’t get disappointed. I get the best in
non-fiction—retired bureaucrats, army men and politicians writing their
memoirs, successful businessmen sharing their secrets, management gurus detailing
the best practices, historians sparring over Aryan invasion, Mughal rule or
Asoka. Books that are no inferior to those of international authors in terms of
contents and research.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">But
what do I get in fiction?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Shelves
full of school/college romance, extra-marital affairs, sex starved wives, over
hyped feminism. Recently I read 3 best sellers of a leading female author.
Novel after novel, the heroine despises her husband of arranged marriage and
craves to unite with her love of school days. Another thriller by a budding
author starts with a four letter abusive word. The heroine uses the word 78
times throughout the novel!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Not
that these are not worthy of writing. But is it fair to overwhelm the reader
with a skewed version of the modern day woman? Are these what define the woman
of the day? Is she not above the material pleasures of life? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Are
women not of substance like Mythili?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Mythili, who?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Wife
the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Mythili is an amazing mix of childish
enthusiasm and sober maturity. Sounds like a paradox? Hear this. When the High
Court acquits her husband Sesha in a hate crime case, she pulls him out of a
lecture in Anna University, gives the security guys the slip and takes him out
on a late-night romantic drive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when
a charge of sexual harassment surfaces against Sesha, when her daughter calls
Sesha vile and walks out of the house, what does she do? Does it shake her
unassailable faith in her husband? It is her response to this challenge that
sets her apart from the heroines of contemporary novels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mythili
may not be the most beautiful woman on Earth, but she has grace, a smiling face
and an amiable nature that put people at ease and encourage them to strike a
conversation. She may not make everyone give her a second look, but anyone who
speaks to her for a few minutes is likely to remember her for a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Does Sesha deserve Mythili</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">? After all, he is a politician.
And what is the impression one gets of a politician from Bollywood movies? A
believer in God who wears a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tilak</i> and
sports a thick moustache, a politician is generally illiterate and represents
everything that is evil. How does Sesha fare against this definition? Believer?
Yes. Illiterate? No way. He is a bright chartered accountant. He heads the
investment arm of a multinational bank before landing in politics. Represents
evil? Well, Tamil Nadu witnesses phenomenal development during his tenure; he
becomes extremely popular among the masses. But then, why does he get embroiled
in criminal cases one after another. Are the differences only in external
appearance? In substance, is he just another Bollywood politician? Or is he
innocent?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">How
could he be? After all, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it is Zarina— </b>the
renowned human rights activist who has spent two decades of her life
championing the cause of the deprived— who levels the charges against him. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">At 44, she looks amazingly young. She
generally leaves her hair loose. Unless viewed very closely, the dark tan
lipstick would not be visible at all. Her brown eyes, a rare phenomenon among
Tamils, display a steely resolve to bring the bad elements, however popular
they may be, to book. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Will
Sesha survive the charges levelled against him? Is Mythili with him in this
fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The flip-flops of Pakistan’s Punjab government on the revision of the Urdu textbook of class 10 brought contrary reactions from<span style="color: #ff9900;"> </span>the Pakistan media: the <i>Jang</i>group opposed the removal of ‘Islamic subjects’, the<i> Dawn </i>and the <i>Express</i> groups gently disapproved the restoration of old pro-Islamic chapters while <i>The Nation</i> traced the root of this controversy to business rivalry between two publishers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In February this year, after<span style="color: red;"> </span>the Punjab Textbook Board revised the textbook, Ansar Abbasi, the conservative investigative journalist of <i>The News</i>, which boasts of the </span><a href="http://jang.com.pk/ad-tariff/newtariff/facts.htm" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">largest circulation</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> in Pakistan, gave a matter-of-fact looking, but patently inflammatory </span><a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-93629-Punjab-excludes-Islamic-subjects-from-Matric-book--" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">chapter-by-chapter</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> account of what was dropped and what was added on March 24. Abbasi’s column in Urdu in the group publication </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://jang.com.pk/jang/mar2013-daily/25-03-2013/col15.htm" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>Jang</i></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> was more aggressive and<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=93629" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Geo TV</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">, a group site, reproduced it verbatim. Check out how Abbasi lists the items dropped and added:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">The second chapter in the old edition on ideology of Pakistan endorsed that the country was created in the name of Islam, to make it an Islamic state. This has been replaced.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">A short story ‘Fatima <i>binte</i> (daughter of) Abdullah’ has also disappeared. The story is about a young Muslim girl’s urge to help the Muslim mujahideen in jihad against un-Islamic forces. The girl was martyred.<span style="color: #33cccc;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">A chapter ‘Nam Dev Mali’ was, instead, included. The writer of this short story described the death of the expert Hindu gardener as ‘having embraced Shahadat (martyrdom)’.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Travelling is the key to success’<span style="color: #33cccc;"> </span>has also been removed. It covered adventures, jihad…</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry of an Indian poet Firaq Gorakhpuri has been included in the textbook and the poet is presented as a hero awarded by the Indian and Russian governments.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The </span><i style="font-size: large;">Jang</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #33cccc; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">onslaught was enough to panic the Punjab government. </span><span style="color: #33cccc; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Shabaz Shariff, the then Chief Minister of Punjab who </span><i style="font-size: large;">Dawn</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> credits as a proponent of the reformist changes in the textbook, agreed to restore the deleted chapters the very next day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://dawn.com/2013/03/27/playing-with-fire-urdu-syllabus-changes/" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dawn</a></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> condemned the ‘craven electioneering politics’ behind the knee-jerk reaction of the government. Accepting the fact that ‘dominant religion and a jihadist ideology’ have seeped into the textbooks, it charged the ‘political elite’ as lacking the courage and commitment to go against right-wing sentiment. Pervez Hoodboy, the liberal nuclear physicist and<span style="color: red;"> </span>columnist, </span><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/531509/banning-a-textbook-the-punjab-government-panics/" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">castigated Abbasi</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> in his column in <i>The Express Tribune</i> for stoking religious passions with his ‘Islam in danger’ argument. He read the impugned textbook and found Abbasi’s claims ‘a distortion of reality and wild exaggerations’. He also made another valid point: the book was meant for teaching Urdu; it should not be a supplementary text for teaching Islamic studies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-size: small; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i><a href="http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/editorials/25-Mar-2013/-removing-islamic-chapters" style="color: #000066; outline: rgb(255, 255, 255) none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Nation</a></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> brought an altogether different perspective. It rubbished the allegation of ‘removal of Islamic chapters’ and pointed out that the contract, running into millions of rupees for publishing the textbooks, was given to a particular business house by the Punjab Textbook Board; the party that lost the contract chose to ‘cast any and every aspersion, with no sincere grievance behind the move except for financial benefit.’</span></div>
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to exercise a power which he </span><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Mahesh-Jethmalani-raps-Katju-says-governor-lacks-power-to-pardon-Sanjay-Dutt/Article1-1031157.aspx"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">does not possess</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, you
wonder: ‘If Katju had to write to someone who does not have the power to
pardon, why did he choose Governor? Why not to the jail superintendent of
Arthur Road or Pune prison that when Sanjay Dutt surrenders in the next four
weeks as per the Supreme Court order, he should not lock him up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When you
learn the absurd reasons Katju advances for seeking pardon for Dutt, you
realize that perhaps when he was busy mastering mathematics so that he could
rap the </span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/professor-teach-thyself/article3851415.ece"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Allahabad lecturer</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, he had
forgotten law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When Manish
Tiwari and Ashwani Kumar </span><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-23/india/37959988_1_justice-katju-maharashtra-governor-sanjay-dutt"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">support</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Katju’s appeal to Governor to
grant pardon to Dutt, it is apparent that their political compulsions have
blunted their legal intellect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In other
words you tend to dismiss the clamor of the aforesaid persons to secure
clemency for Sanjay Dutt as biased or inconsequential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But when
news channels use this chorus for mercy to Dutt to seek similar benefit for
another convict in the Bombay blast case or an eminent lawyer cherry picks a
paragraph in the Supreme Court judgement convicting Sanjay Dutt and advances a
myopic legal argument for the release of Sanjay Dutt, you realize that a dangerous
precedent is being created furtively to disregard the judgement of the highest
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No sooner did the SIT’s closure report become public than Express
News Service of<i>Indian Express</i> and Vidya Subramaniam of<i>The Hindu</i> set
out to puncture what they perceived as holes in the SIT report. Unfortunately,
in their eagerness to be early birds, they don’t seem to have considered all
aspects of the issues they are highlighting. What are their issues?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Preliminary Report vs. Closure report</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first of the Indian Express <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gujarat-riots-loss-of-memory-in-2010-recall-in-2012/947875/"><span style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">stories</span></a> points
to the inconsistencies in the statements of Narendra Modi and top bureaucrats
between the <a href="http://cjponline.org/zakia/SIT%20Enquiry_Report_In%20ZAKIA%20CASE.pdf"><span style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Preliminary
Report</span></a> submitted by SIT in May 2010 and its closure report.
Vidya Subramaniam also harps on this issue in her <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article3410470.ece"><span style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">article</span></a> on
the “Many twists and turns of February 27, 2002.” This is at best a comparison
between apples and oranges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Preliminary Report, as admitted by A K Malhotra of SIT who
prepared the same, “was not an investigation contemplated by the Cr. P.C. The
statements recorded during the enquiry, therefore, do not amount to statements
u/s 161 Cr.P.C.” and the amicus curiae also mentions this in Para 3 of his
Report whereas SIT’s Closure Report recorded statements of witnesses under the
said section. What is the relevance of this section?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sec 161 (2) makes it mandatory for a person to “<b><i>answer truly</i></b> all
questions relating to such case put to him by such officer.” So the
seriousness, which a witness may attach to a statement u/s 161 may be missing
in a statement recorded otherwise. When A K Malhotra mentions in his report
that some of the public servants claimed loss of memory, as they did not want
to get involved in any controversy, one can understand that the <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bureaucrats might not have felt compelled to respond
to the queries of Malhotra with full earnestness. Another instance, which
substantiates this argument, is the fact that when Sanjiv Bhatt was questioned
as to why he did not respond to SIT’s public notice calling for witnesses, he
replied that he did not want to divulge the facts “unless he was under a legal
obligation to do so” (page 33 of SIT report).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thus, bureaucrats such as Swarnakanta Varma,
Ashok Narayan, and P K Mishra, who were tentative as to Sanjiv Bhatt’s presence
when answering Malhotra’s questions, were more “categorical” later when SIT
questioned them for the Final Report-- a simple fact which Vidya subramaniam
chooses to be sarcastic about. Also it can be seen from the SIT closure report
that it tried to help the witnesses refresh their memory by showing the
photographs of Sanjiv Bhatt and also by probing them further on each of the
issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another interesting fact, which the <i>Indian
Express</i> story with the sarcastic title “Loss of memory in 2010; recall
in 2012” chooses to ignore, is that loss of memory does not seem to be the
exclusive privilege of bureaucrats.
Zakia Jafri stated that when they were shifted from Gulabarga Society the irate
mob would have lynched all of them but for the timely action by the police when
her statement was recorded u/s 161 on 6.3.2002. However, she conveniently
forgot to disclose this fact when she deposed before Nanavati Commission on
29.8.2003 (page 16 of SIT report). Similarly, Sanjiv Bhatt, who could not
recollect on March 22, 2011 who accompanied him to the Chief Minister’s
meeting, suddenly remembered them two days later and went to SIT voluntarily to
record a further statement. In fact, while Bhatt is cursed with long periods of
loss of memory, he seems to be also endowed with a remarkable recalling
ability-- that he sent two faxes on 28.2.2002 (or 2.3.2002 as hinted by SIT)
which he could not recollect when Sreekumar asked for such evidence in July,
2002, or while talking to A K Malhotra in 2010, or while giving a statement to
SIT in March, 2011, he did in December, 2011, just within 9 years of sending
them! It is a different matter that these faxes did not seem to have been
received by the addressees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next discrepancy pointed out by <i>Indian Express</i> relates
to Modi’s statement in the Legislative Assembly. While the Preliminary Report
quotes Modi as having said “…govt. was considering a proposal for an ex-gratia
payment of Rs. 2 lakh…” the Final Report says Modi “announced an ex-gratia
payment of Rs. 2 lakh…., ordered a high-level enquiry.” So the discrepancy
seems to be “considering a proposal” as against an “announcement” in the final
report; also the ordering of a high-level enquiry. One wonders whether these
qualify as discrepancies at all! Even if they do, both the reports quote from
Assembly records, and <i>Indian</i> <i>Express</i> could have
done some research before writing the story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By definition, a Final Report is much more
profound than the Preliminary Report because some of the issues in the latter
would have been taken up for further examination, additional witnesses would
have been examined, and further documents would have been perused. One of the
major events that took place between the two reports was the recording of
Sanjiv Bhatt’s statement as suggested by Raju Ramachandran in his interim
report. Sanjiv Bhatt’s numerous allegations had to be cross-verified with other
witnesses and documentary evidence. Additional facts emerged out of this
extensive probe, which were recorded in the Final Report. SIT’s closure report
has not disputed the conclusions of the Preliminary Report on what Ramachandran
calls “the most important allegation” viz. Modi’s alleged statement in the Law
and Order meeting on February 27, 2002. In fact it has added additional evidence
to support the conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-74259380669529207242012-05-12T21:51:00.005+05:302013-04-08T18:02:17.140+05:30Can one's self defense not be perceived by another as provocation?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-49526792618136683522012-05-10T12:30:00.000+05:302013-04-08T18:07:29.089+05:30Hindustan Times’ selective presentation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-40130102990887934312012-05-05T11:40:00.002+05:302013-04-08T18:04:12.971+05:30Selecting the President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In this era of coalition politics where the national parties do not have the requisite numbers in the collegium meant for electing the President and there is uncertainty over support from coalition partners, a new recipe is increasingly becoming popular for making the President of India- </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/sam-pitroda-to-hamid-ansari--who-will-be-indias-next-president/articleshow/12750809.cms" style="color: #000066; outline-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Drop a dozen names in the media</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">; stir it with the conflicting views of the ruling alliance, the Opposition parties, and the intelligentsia; filter out the 7-8 which meet stiff resistance from all quarters; cook the remaining 4-5 in the whims of real senior leaders of parties; spice them up generously viz. he/she is apolitical, is from this/that caste, is from the hitherto unrepresented region, is this/that regional party’s favorite; finally serve the same in a platter to the ruling or the Opposition party so that it can discuss the names with ease with the alliance partners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Why should media play this “facilitator” role? </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Why not allow the Congress and the BJP to talk to their allies and firm up their choices? Should the media transcend their putative limit as “commentators” to become “newsmakers”?</span></div>
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Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-22104058111127431132012-04-29T10:48:00.000+05:302012-04-29T10:49:49.289+05:30Social media: not the only culprit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Though Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s associate got an injunction from the High Court, the CD, allegedly depicting him and a female lawyer in an inappropriate act surfaced in the social media- not just surfaced, as most of the media described it, it ‘went viral’.<br />
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Justice Katju condemned the <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/SocialMedia-Updates/Katju-slams-social-media-says-nobody-s-reputation-will-be-safe/SP-Article1-844429.aspx" style="color: #000066; outline-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">irresponsible social media</a>and wrote to Ms. Ambika Soni asking her ministry to take appropriate steps to restrain social media from indulging in such reprehensible acts in future. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">"It is obvious that the adage 'be you ever are so high, the law is above you' does not apply to any social media," </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-22/india/31381877_1_social-media-cd-abhishek-singhvi" style="color: #000066; outline-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">lamented</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> Abhishek Singhvi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Agreed. The social media uploaded the disputed CD, violated the High Court order and manifested its irresponsibility. But if the social media where control over content is in the hands of users/ viewers/readers at large is irresponsible, how did the mainstream media where a trained, ethical editorial team scrutinizes the content behave?</span></div>
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</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-82861394198651145562012-04-16T20:47:00.000+05:302012-04-19T11:19:36.708+05:30India will supply power to neighbours but not to its own State!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a data-mce-href="http://profit.ndtv.com/News/Article/pakistan-says-will-import-power-from-india-301940" href="http://profit.ndtv.com/News/Article/pakistan-says-will-import-power-from-india-301940" target="_blank">Pakistan will buy 500 MW of power from India</a>, says an <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://www.ndtvprofit.com" href="http://www.ndtvprofit.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="NDTV Profit">NDTV Profit</a> news item. 500MW is the initial requirement; it can increase to 5,000 MW in the next 5 years! A team of Indian experts will discuss the terms and conditions of supply with Pakistan's Central Power Purchase Agency. Notice the speed at which this power trade is progressing-</div>
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<li>In April, 2011 there were Secreatry level talks between India and Pakistan regarding power supply to Pakistan.</li>
<li>In October, 2011 the Group of Experts from both the countries considered the proposal for setting up a joint transmission infrastructure. The Hindu called it an<a data-mce-href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2574235.ece" href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2574235.ece"> extension of onion diplomacy</a>!</li>
<li><a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Sharma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Sharma" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Anand Sharma">Anand Sharma</a>'s Feb-12 visit to Pakistan with 150 member delegation gave further impetus to this.</li>
<li>Last week a Delhi Company offered power to Pakistan @ Rs. 7.50/ unit.</li>
<li>Though Pakistan found the price to be high, it still agreed in principle to buy.</li>
<li>World Bank will extend a loan for setting up the transmission line in six months.</li>
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<a data-mce-href="http://http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-29/news/31110757_1_bangladesh-power-development-board-mw-power-bheramara" href="http://http//articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-29/news/31110757_1_bangladesh-power-development-board-mw-power-bheramara" target="_blank">NTPC to supply 250 MW to Bangladesh</a> says an Economic Times report dated February 29, 2012. <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Purchase_Agreement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Purchase_Agreement" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Power Purchase Agreement">Power Purchase agreement</a> between the countries has been inked. Transmission lines between the countries will be set up by July-13.</div>
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Now look at India's power situation. Though India is the fifth largest producer of power in the world, it also is one of the lasrgest power deficit countries. The <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://cea.nic.in" href="http://cea.nic.in/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Central Electricity Authority of India">Central Electricity Authority of India</a> in its report of <a data-mce-href="http://www.cea.nic.in/reports/yearly/lgbr_report.pdf" href="http://www.cea.nic.in/reports/yearly/lgbr_report.pdf" target="_blank">May-2011</a> projects a peaking shortage of 17,519 MW or 12.9% for 2011-12. While States like UP, Maharashtra, Bihar, J&K & MIzoram will have deficits in excess of 25%, Andhra, Tamilnadu, Punjab, West Bangal, etc will experience a deficit in excess of 15%. As a Mckinsey report puts it, blackouts and load shedding have artificially suppressed the demand. In other words, the demand-supply gap can be higher than that estimated by Central Electricity Auhtority.</div>
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Wikepedia's article on <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Electricity sector in India">Electricity Sector in India</a> puts the number of those who do not have electricity in India at<a data-mce-href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India#cite_note-iea2011-" href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India#cite_note-iea2011-" target="_blank"> 300 mill</a> by December, 2011.</div>
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So that is the position of power situation in India. With such a delicate power balance, the UPA2 is very eager to supply electricity to Pakistan and Bangladesh! And look at the audacity of Pakistan which is a worse power shortage country whose generation has <a data-mce-href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Pakistan#cite_note-1" href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Pakistan#cite_note-1">shrunk by 50%</a> in recent years and which needs the Indian power desperately-</div>
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<li>an official of the Pakistan's power ministry says that his country needs to ascertain 'how much India is relying on electricity trade as New Delhi had abandoned the <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_gas_pipeline" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_gas_pipeline" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Iran–Pakistan–India gas pipeline">Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project</a>, saying Pakistan is an unreliable partner' reports NDTV Profit! Looks like beggar can be a chooser!</li>
<li>Pakistan's <a data-mce-href="http://http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/14-Apr-2012/india-succeeds-in-selling-electricity-to-pakistan" href="http://http//www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/14-Apr-2012/india-succeeds-in-selling-electricity-to-pakistan" target="_blank">'The Nation' newspaper alleges</a> that India built dams on Pakistani rivers in violation of Indus Water Treaty, generated power and succeeded in selling the same to Pakistan!</li>
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Some 'progressive' will immediately point out that India's installed capacity is 186 GW and these 500 MW and 250 MW do not constitute even 1% of the capacity, that this has to be seen in 'context', that it will open up trade ties with Pakistan, etc.</div>
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Let's see the 'context'. Let's contrast the above enthusiasm of the <a class="zem_slink" data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Government of India">Indian Government</a> to meet Pakistan/ Bangladesh's demands with what it has done to the demand of one of its States. Tamilnadu has been reeling under power shortage due to a callous DMK Government ignoring the sector for whole of its 5 year rule. The current deficit in Tamilnadu is estimated at <a data-mce-href="http://http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-10/chennai/31045876_1_power-cuts-areas-power-shortage" href="http://http//articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-10/chennai/31045876_1_power-cuts-areas-power-shortage">4000 MW</a>. Jayalalitha, as soon as she assumed power in May, 2011 wrote the Prime Minister to <a data-mce-href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2081636.ece" href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2081636.ece">allocate 1000 MW from the Central Pool</a>. The same UPA Government which was ever ready to export power to Pakistan and Bangladesh, <a data-mce-href="http://http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-10/chennai/31142665_1_mw-tamil-nadu-power-from-other-states-dadri-power-station" href="http://http//articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-10/chennai/31142665_1_mw-tamil-nadu-power-from-other-states-dadri-power-station" target="_blank">allocated just 100 MW</a>, that too after many reminders and 9 months! Even the power it purchased from Gujarat and UP could not be used because of congestion in the transmission.</div>
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Now if 750 MW is less than 1% of India's installed capacity, so is 1000 MW. Why this hurry to supply power to Pakistan and Bangladesh? Is it just that a 'progressive' 'secular' media will hail this as a path breaking foreign policy initiative of UPA Government? Is the desire to be seen as 'secular' more important than satisfying the genuine demand of a State of India? Does a State, just because it is ruled by a party which is not part of ruling coalition becomes more alien than Pakistan?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(This is a true story of a close acquaintance. I have changed the names and professions of the characters and the location where the story took place.)</i><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“Leader </b>of the opposition is summing up his party's position on the motion. He is the
last speaker. After this, the Rajya Sabha members will vote on the motion……a
historical motion indeed…..” The TV reporter was talking non-stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani had been glued to the 24x7
news channel for the past one hour. Kalai Arasi, her elder daughter noticed the
palpable tension in Poorani’s face. She took Poorani’s hand and gave a gentle
press to signify psychological support. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The channel took a commercial
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani closed her eyes and
reclined on the sofa. Tears rolled down her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>March</b>, 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Champagam Dorairajan…a Brahmin
girl; married at a young age; brilliant in studies….was denied a seat in
Medical College. Why? Because she was born in a Brahmin family. The communal
G.O of the then Madras Government….” Poorani was arguing against reservations
in the annual inter college debate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Exactly….she was born in a caste
which had oppressed, which had kept the rest of India in its wraps for
centuries…. exactly these considerations weighed with the law makers when they introduced
Article 15 (4) to provide for reservation….if judges, who are far removed from
masses, whose only claim is intellectual supremacy can indulge in parochial
interpretation of the Constitution…..” Samudram, a student of the Madras Law
College intervened and argued for reservation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though she was ready with Justice H
R Khanna’s caution against the dangers of indiscriminate, liberal construction
of the Constitution, she held back. She noticed the fire in his eyes. His hands
were shaking in anger. He must have suffered humiliation. He must be a Dalit.
She felt that the harsh reality in his argument far outweighed the academic
perfection in hers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He won the debate. She
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“Did</b> you lose the debate intentionally the other day?” They had started meeting each other for the
past one month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Yes and no” replied Poorani.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“What does that mean?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I had arguments to counter yours.
But I did not put forward the same….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“That means you lost
deliberately….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“No…even if I had put them forward,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Not at all…you are being too
humble…..please tell me the truth …. Why did you lose….”He took her hand as he
was talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“For this only….” She blushed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>His</b> daughter was in love with a Dalit boy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kailasam<b> </b>could not stand that. Kailasam was not an orthodox Brahmin. But he was not
that ‘liberal’, that ‘progressive’ as to agree for his daughter’s marriage with
a Dalit boy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rajam rushed to him with a glass of
water. Rajam’s hands trembled. She knew Poorani well. If she made up her mind
once, she would not change. Did she not know that her decision would affect
Janaki, her younger sister’s marriage prospects as well?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani listened to their arguments
patiently; politely answered all of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But she would not change her mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Samudram </b>and Poorani married in the Registrar’s office. Kailasam
and Rajam signed as reluctant witnesses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They both started working in Adept
Chambers, a leading law firm in Chennai. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samudram got a job as Government Pleader
within a couple of years under the SC/ST quota.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“The </b>chairman of the Rajya has adjourned the House for an hour.
Thereafter the voting on the motion will take place….We promise to bring you
all the action…..” shouted the TV reporter. Poorani went to the kitchen and
prepared coffee for her and Kalai Arasi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As she sipped, she plunged into the
flashback again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Janaki</b> came and helped Poorani when she delivered the elder
daughter. Frustrated with embarrassing questions from the prospective bridegrooms' side,
Janaki decided to remain a spinster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samudram took the child to the Chief Minister
who named her Kalai Arasi. For Kailasam and Rajam, Kalai Arasi was still
Alamelu, the Brahmin name they had kept. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Poorani delivered their second
daughter a couple of years later, Samudram told her to quit her job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<b>Vaayya</b> Samudram….vaa (<i>Weclome,
Samudram</i>),” The Chief Minister threw his hand around Samudram’s shoulder
and invited him. Poorani who had accompanied him to the party felt awkward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The CM had thrown a party to
celebrate the acquittal of his brother from a murder case the previous day.
Samudram who led the prosecution team had sought his conviction and lost the
case!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How could the CM welcome a
prosecutor so happily who lost his government’s case!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“I</b> am buying this bungalow,” said a jubilant Samudram while he took
Poorani around the two storey building in Gandhi Nagar, Adayar the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘This bungalow would cost not less
than Rs. 2 Crores. Barely 10 years into the job as Government Pleader, how did
he manage to buy such a posh building?’ wondered Poorani.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Samudram’s</b> name figured in the list of 5 new judges appointed to
Madras High Court in 2002. Governor of the State and Chief Justice of Madras
High Court had recommended his name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samudarm threw a grand party to
celebrate his appointment. He invited the Chief Minister and other leading
members of the ruling party which raised many eyebrows in the media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Samudram </b>purchased 2 acres of land in Perungudi in the name of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">T<b>he </b>Tamilnadu Government allotted 22 acres of prime land at a throw
away price to a trust run by Chief Minister’s son-in-law. A concerned NGO filed
a PIL in the Madras High Court challenging the allotment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A three member bench, of which Samudarm
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Samudram </b>purchased another 5 acres of land in Sriperumpudur in his
2<sup>nd</sup> daughter’s name. A concerned Poorani tried to talk to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Will you please shut up? Did I ask
for your advice?” said an obviously irritated Samudram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where was the Samudram she had
known in 1980s- the principled Samudram, the loving Samudram?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani was ashamed to share her
concern with her parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>When</b> a collegium duly constituted by the Chief Justice of India
recommended his name for promotion to Supreme Court in 2008, all the hell
broke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Civil Society group wrote to the
Chief Justice and President alleging corruption on the part of Samudram and
seeking his removal. Samudram countered that since he was a Dalit, he was being
victimized by the higher caste Civil Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very soon 62 members of the Rajya
Sabha brought a motion to <a href="http://valadyviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/impeachment-of-high-court-judges-futile.html">impeach</a> him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samudram made a spirited argument in the Rajya Sabha in his defence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“The </b>Chairman has announced voting on the impeachment motion….members
are casting their votes…..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani closed her eyes tightly. Losing
the job may not affect them financially. But the ignominy of being booted out
of office, that too first time in the history of the country through an
impeachment motion…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“For those viewers who joined us
late, voting is in progress…. In another five minutes we will get the results…five
more minutes of nail biting wait…..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poorani was waiting......</span></div>
</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-23652475314414655712012-04-06T18:34:00.002+05:302012-04-06T18:34:49.073+05:30Yeh sab hamesha mere saath kyu hota hi!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.kpntravels.in/ou/frmuserhome.aspx">KPN </a>(long distance
bus service in Tamilnadu) stops at a motel on the highway. I get down and rush
to the urinal. After four hours of travel in A/C, the ‘pressure’ on me is
unbearable. The first thing I desperately want to do is to ease myself. I find
that not only all the urinals are being used but there is a queue of one or two
persons for each. I carefully choose one where a young man is peeing and there
is no queue. I wait. The urinal next to me becomes free and the guy on the
queue moves in. The one in the corner become free-the guy waiting moves in.
Another one…another one…even the second in the queue gets a chance. The guy in
the urinal in front of me is still in no mood to finish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I go to a restaurant
with my wife. The place is crowded. The manager notes down my name and says he
will inform me as soon as a table is free. After a couple of minutes a family
of six arrives. The manager allots them a table. He understands the belligerence
in my look. “It’s a table for 6, sir…you are just two…” Next week when I go to
the restaurant with my family, table for two becomes free!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We move to a new
house. Our neighbor recommends a maid
for us. The maid had been working in her house for years; very reliable; after
finishing the work in her house, the maid can attend to us. Just two days into
the job, she comes to me and requests for an advance of Rs. 3,000 ignoring my
neighbor for whom she had been working for years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I open the <a href="https://www.irctc.co.in/">IRCTC</a>
site for booking a train ticket. I choose the train and date. I enter my card
number. The site processes and validates. Then the system hangs. After two
minutes when the site becomes operational, I go and check the booking history.
My ticket is not booked. I get an SMS in my mobile. ‘Your account has been
debited with Rs. 2,315. Thanks for using …………..card.”!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the rare few occasions when I manage to
book my ticket through IRCTC and further rarer occasions when I manage to get a
lower berth, I invariably face an old man or woman who invariably ignores the
youngster in the opposite side and chooses me for requesting “Sir…would you
mind exchanging your lower berth with my upper berth?”!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I jump a traffic
signal. Many others also do. But only I get caught! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I offer the
constable Rs.50. “Are you trying to bribe me? It is bigger offence,” threatens
the honest constable. I end up paying Rs. 500!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I order vegetarian
food in Qatar Airways at the time of booking the ticket. Still when I travel,
invariably vegetarian food is in short supply and invariably ends one row
before me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My boss, who is the
MD of the Group suspects something wrong in the finances of a group company. He
asks me to look into it. I spend days and weeks and dig out information which
points an accusing finger on the CEO of the company. My boss calls the CEO for
a meeting where he asks me to present the evidence against him. I make a
spirited presentation. Three months later, when my boss invites me for a party
in his house, I find the CEO sharing a joke with my boss! When we take food
from the table, I could sense the animosity in his eyes for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I write a post on
what happened to me or around me- a simple, matter of fact post. I get
overwhelming response. That motivates me. I decide to do a qualitatively better
post. I do research. Then I write, edit and re-write what appears to me a
satisfying post. Readers cold shoulder the same!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder. ‘Yeh sab hamesha mere saath kyu hota hi?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aap ka kya kayaal
hi?</span></div>
</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-32560049294358273402012-04-05T11:55:00.001+05:302012-04-05T12:09:04.636+05:30Nation needs a Plumber<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>India needs a Chief Plumber urgently to arrest the leaks of confidential reports to Media. </u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Grappled with an unprecedented surge in the leak of confidential governmental reports to media, the Cabinet Committee on Security met yesterday to find a solution. The Cabinet Secretary brought the following leaks to the attention of the members: </span><br />
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CAG report on <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_coal-scam-cag-anguished-over-leakage-of-draft-report_1666097">Coal scam leaked</a> to press.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Opposition leaks <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CAG-indicts-Deshmukh-over-allotment-of-land-to-his-trust/articleshow/12535112.cms">CAG report on Vilasrao Deshmukh</a></span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Senior Minister in Manmohan Singh government might have leaked the <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-january-night-raisina-hill-was-spooked-two-key-army-units-moved-towards-delhi-without-notifying-govt/932328/">non-notified movement of army</a> to Indian Express,<a href="http://www.sunday-guardian.com/investigation/senior-minister-sutradhar-of-coup-report"> alleges The Sunday Guardian</a>.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_dna-exclusive-gen-vk-singh-tells-pm-some-hard-truths_1668283">DNA India published the letter General V K Singh </a>wrote to the Prime Minister.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Various documents of the army relating to Tatra deal are accessed by media. </span></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cabinet reviewed the following options:</span></div>
<div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Officialize the leaks to media.</b> Instead of placing the reports before the Parliament or a Committee of the Parliament, it was suggested that the reports could be directly released to media. While P Chidambaram was comfortable with this path-breaking solution, other members expressed reservation.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Appoint a Chief Plumber to arrest the leaks.</b> The Chief Plumber will be accorded constitutional status like Chief Election Commissioner, the CAG, the Proposed Lokpal, etc.</span></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The second option was accepted after a majority of the members of the Committee favored the same. Accordingly the Department of Personnel under the Home Ministry released advertisements for the post of Chief Plumber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-23207928225645469052012-04-04T00:44:00.000+05:302012-04-04T08:46:20.965+05:30Wanted a TV Anchor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>(These faces have no relation whatsoever to this post; they have appeared here by mistake.)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘Blah Blah 24x7’, the most watched (???), most respected (????)
news channel in India today, requires not very urgently an aggressive, laid-back, pliable, hardnosed, admit-no-mistake<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span><a href="http://valadyviews.blogspot.com/2011/07/after-21-years-of-experience.html">Anchor</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Candidates meeting the following requirements can apply
(Candidates not meeting the requirements can also apply, but the Channel will
not consider!):<br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Designation<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Choose
between ‘Editor-in-Chief’, ‘Managing Editor’, ‘Group Editor’, ’Political
Affairs Editor.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reporting to<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yourself-
you will be an autonomous entity not reporting to anyone; even if you are
caught indulging in unethical journalistic behavior you will not be sacked
because we do not know who you will be reporting to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Age<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blah…blah…blah….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Qualification<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some
more blah…blah…blah….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Experience<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: dotted windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-left-alt: dotted windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: dotted windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 319.5pt;" valign="top" width="426"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years experience in-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Disrupting
conversations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Inviting
guests and snubbing them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Raising
voice and shouting at others during conversation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Switching
off the mike when someone is talking.</span></li>
</ul>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Specialization<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Having interviewed
the celebrity earlier in the day you should be able to <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/looklive-lies/874707/0">brazenly telecast it ‘live’ in the night in your prime time debate and subject him to ‘live’ questions by other panelists.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">As an
investigative journalist, you should have the knack of developing and
nurturing ‘reliable’, ‘highly placed sources’ viz. a panwalla/cobbler/dhobi
near neta’s house, an auto driver in the stand near celebrity’s house</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Having
read just the highlighted portions of judgments, you should be able to pose like
a legal luminary in your show.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">You
should be able to <a href="https://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/every-channel-is-a-winner-in-great-poll-race/">innovatively misinterpret TRP data</a> and claim leadership
position for your channel.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">You
should be able to conduct opinion polls the results of which will suit your
pre-determined whims.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Candidates
with any of the following achievements to their credit in their previous
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Lobbying
ministerial jobs for criminals and the corrupt. (Having been <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/transcript-radia-and-barkha-dutt/1/120439.html">caught on tape</a>
will be an added advantage.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">A murky
past-<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/19100/">Having taken unfair pecuniary advantage </a>from a corrupt executive in DD,
you should have later offered him a senior position in your channel.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">If you
have exhibited your strong bias for or against a party by <a href="http://thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=5194&mod=1&pg=1&sectionId=&valid=true">refusing to telecast a sting operation conducted by you,</a> you can walk in and accept your
appointment letter.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Contempt
for others.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">You
should be so full of yourself.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Ability
to insult others.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Intransigence.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">As a
secular journalist, you should be a ‘progressive’, ‘liberal’. (Hobnobbing
with <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/politics/fais-guests-werent-traitors-but-just-isis-useful-idiots-45319.html">ISI financed lobbyists </a>in foreign soil, <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/j&k-interlocutor-padgaonkar-one-of-fais-gue/820304/">accepting their largesse</a> will
automatically qualify you as both a progressive and a liberal.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Shamelessness-
Even when it is <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_how-tv-sets-govts-agenda_1666616">evident that your news story of the past few months is patently false</a>, you should have the audacity to blame the government,
Ministry of External Affairs.</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Membership of professional bodies<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You
should be a life time member of <b>Mutual
Admiration Society</b>. You should call shameless editors of newspapers to
your debates in return for their publishing columns in their newspapers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-52876732711624152962012-03-31T17:49:00.002+05:302012-04-01T10:55:58.107+05:30Seshu....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"Hariharan...</b>have you ever fallen in love with anyone during your student days?" That was Seshu with on of his usual, ever embarrassing questions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was shifting uncomfortably in the sofa. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are a conservative family. Twenty five years into marriage, I have never told my wife that I loved her. Even when she reads some of my posts which contain some romantic moments/instances, I do not sit near her; I used to feel uneasy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The above being so, you can imagine my plight when Seshu questioned me about my love life during student days. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seshu (name changed) was one of our neighbors- he was staying in a flat upstairs and we were in the ground floor. Seshu was 65 years+. He was a banker in Dubai. After retirement, he returned to Chennai in 1995 and settled down in his R A Puram flat. His elder daughter was married to a Corporate Executive in Dubai. Seshu lived with his wife Rama and son Murali in Chennai. Murali, who was a commerce student was interested in motor car racing. All I learnt about motor car racing during my six months association with Seshu's family was that it was a very, very costly sport. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Krishna, my elder son who was sitting next to me got up and walked to his room. Parvathy, my wife came to my rescue. "Mama...shall I get you some onion Pakoda?" She went to the kitchen and brought a plate of Pakodas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Munching one of the Pakodas, Seshu asked "Ha...I was asking you whether you fell in love with anyone when you were young....Or did any girl fall in lover with you?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seshu, being Seshu, Pakoda was too small an incentive for diverting his attention, we realized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"Do</b> you know Hariharan....Kamalini in the 2nd floor....the journalist... drinks beer. I counted six cans in the dustbin..." said he another day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Joseph in the F Block was caught red handed with the servant maid...his wife caught him...there was so much....."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seshu became a regular visitor to our flat at 6.30 in the evening. We were in the ground floor. Residents of flats in the upstairs who walked past our flat for catching the lift could easily hear the conversation. We were worried as to what they would think about us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I came out with a devious plan to squelch the gossip session of Seshu. Parvathy and I started watching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saath_Nibhaana_Saathiya">Saath Nibhana Saathia</a>, a TV serial when he would be pouring his gossips. Occasionally we would turn towards him so that he does not feel that we were ignoring him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>6.30 pm </b>next day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was no sign of Seshu. I smiled triumphantly at Parvathy- my plan has worked. We watched the serial at 7 o' clock and were getting ready for dinner at 7.45.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Calling bell rang.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seshu was at the door step. "Since you were watching a TV serial....I thought I should not disturb you...Now that you are free....we can talk freely....!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">!!!!!!! I avoided Parvathy's mischievous smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"One</b> day Murali will win a Formula 1 race....a rich, beautiful girl...perhaps daughter of an industrialist would fall in love with him...." That was Seshu's pet fantasy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While there was perhaps nothing wrong in fantasizing, I felt awkward when he shared the same with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"Let's</b> go out at 7.30." That was Parvathy's plan for avoiding Seshu.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The next day Seshu caught us in the corridor. "I saw you going out for a walk yesterday night. I thought it would be a good idea to join you. We can talk while walking...." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">!!!!!!! It was Parvthy's turn to avoid my smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We tried various tricks-switching off the lights in the hall, pretending to sleep, etc. Seshu effortlessly thwarted each of our plans. We accepted our defeat and patiently listened to the Manjula-Hussein love story, Ramalingam's fraud in his bank.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a few days I returned to Dar Es Salaam and forgot about Seshu in my busy schedule. My wife did not talk about him when we skyped nor did she write anything about him in her mails.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I </b>visited Chennai again after 5 weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">round 6.30 in the evening it struck me that it was time for Seshu's visit. Though I was watching TV, my attention was on the entrance- when would he come?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.45....7.00....perhaps he wants us finish viewing Saath Nibhana Saathiya....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7.30....7.45....8.00....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parvathy noticed my frequent glances towards the entrance. "Are you expecting someone?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Ha.....Seshu...."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The expression on her face changed. "He will not come."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"What happened?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"He has been admitted to the hospital...."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"............................"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"He is mentally not stable......"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Seshu</b> gave me a blank stare. Obviously he did not recognize me. We were in the hospital to see him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"When we came to India, we had more than Rs. 1 cr as savings. Over the years the savings have dwindled....Meanwhile one of our FDs matured. Rajesh (who took care of the administration of the building) told us to invest the same in a plot in Kelambakkam. We invested ......... lacs. But the property is still not registered in our name. Perhaps we have been cheated.......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Also Murali wants us to send him to London. He wants to be trained in car racing....when Seshu refused, Marali demanded his share of the property.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Seshu has been having one problem after another over the past couple of years....First our daughter married a guy who was not from our caste. Then Seshu's brother and his wife started treating us badly....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRnv6Tq56KkuT-Tr0Nahb3HKVgPErv4V1mp7dvqTmslTaVxefLLCmwM17fp7_rnjy1SD-6ES3SF0QOLn01Sr-L7SlsO71oXdhZSy4-FgGu_9KlxwHCB9YudOg205kfSDiDSU7bYl8V54/s1600/EmptyChair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRnv6Tq56KkuT-Tr0Nahb3HKVgPErv4V1mp7dvqTmslTaVxefLLCmwM17fp7_rnjy1SD-6ES3SF0QOLn01Sr-L7SlsO71oXdhZSy4-FgGu_9KlxwHCB9YudOg205kfSDiDSU7bYl8V54/s400/EmptyChair.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Seshu vents his feelings out by gossiping with others.....gossiping helped him forget his worries....helped him divert his attention....but people gradually started avoiding him...he was left to himself....he could not bear the loneliness...." Rama wept.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parvathy and I returned home with a heavy heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The chair next to the keyboard where Seshu used to sit stared at us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I could not control my tears. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Seshu....please come...let us talk about my love life...about Kamalini...about Manjula who eloped with the newspaper vendor....but....come...please....."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-82627378578253371542012-03-27T14:31:00.000+05:302012-03-27T18:50:27.346+05:30Career advice from Anna for youngsters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIqwVMeW6CkJrln3qOqQHLtKXeqiDXTmS43B-qvd37v4LGD3d-q4c7iMuUH78sqKIXIS0kqhHKi6YXElWFLzlJ1TVIc5rHpmn6WoRIShoxnDHx65P8kXUrnQ9VH431qUVb7OTuLuCvrg/s1600/Anna-Hazare-at-ramlila+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIqwVMeW6CkJrln3qOqQHLtKXeqiDXTmS43B-qvd37v4LGD3d-q4c7iMuUH78sqKIXIS0kqhHKi6YXElWFLzlJ1TVIc5rHpmn6WoRIShoxnDHx65P8kXUrnQ9VH431qUVb7OTuLuCvrg/s400/Anna-Hazare-at-ramlila+(1).jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(A group of 4 students meets Anna to seek his advice on what
career they should pursue. Let’s listen to the conversation, imaginary of
course.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 1:</b> Anna, we know you have a vision for India. Please
let us know our role- the role of youngsters, students- in your vision….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Bachcho ….you should concentrate on your studies…well
educated youth only can realize the vision I have for India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 1:</b> Exactly Anna…that’s where we need your
guidance…please let us know the profession we should choose…the career we
should pursue….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> My first priority would be law…you should pursue a
career in law. You’ll have lot of opportunities in new India…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 1:</b> How is that, Anna?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Because the legal framework of the country will be
undergoing a paradigm shift…pucho kaise…so far we Indians have been believing
law by itself cannot curb violations, crimes, etc….now that’s changing…you need
only a Lokpal Bill. All corruption will be wiped out. Paradigm shift, no?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 1:</b> But how will that increase our job
opportunities….?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> One, many Lokpals and Lok Ayuktas will be appointed- that
means job opportunities for you guys…. Two, we need lawyers to prosecute
offenders….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 1:</b> Yes…also you need lawyers to defend the suspects
before the Lokpals and….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> No…no…you’re still in the old school of legal thought.
There is no concept of defence or suspect… nor is there any concept of innocent
till proved guilty. Another paradigm shift! <a href="http://valadyviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/introspect-before-it-is-too-late.html">The Lokpal or Lok Ayukta decides that someone is corrupt</a>, say in a mining scam. He conducts a Press Conference
and delivers his judgment. <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/politics/yeddys-revenge-was-he-the-wronged-one-251848.html">No need to give the accused a chance to defend.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 2:</b> Sir, what further opportunities exist for this
new breed of lawyers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Just as the banking
software from India is unique and the Western world has grabbed it, the new
legal system of the country is going to be unique. We can patent it and export
to other countries. Just as IT professionals, you will get jobs abroad to
practice this unique law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Stuent 2:</b> Can you explain further this unique law, Anna?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anna: For example the law of evidence will undergo a massive
change. Perception is the most important form of evidence- more important than
eyewitnesses, documentary evidence or circumstantial evidence. Legislators are
perceived to be criminals and looters. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Team-Annas-looters-rapists-remarks-upsets-MPs/articleshow/12414335.cms">Hence they are criminals and looters.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Studen 2:</b> ……………………….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Similarly the system of punishment…. Let me give two
examples. If someone slaps a Minister perceived to be corrupt, the law will
mandate him to <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-24/india/30437061_1_anna-hazare-corruption-in-high-places-lokpal-bill">slap on the other cheek as well</a>….who said we are soft on Hindus
and BJP? This ‘other cheek’ law will be liked by Christians… Similarly you can
tie the offenders to lamp posts and public can flog them …Now that presents a
great export opportunity to a hitherto-unexplored territory. Indian Banking
software has found acceptance in the Christian led Western countries. Now we
will get clients for the new law from the Muslim led Middle East as well……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 2:</b> Anna….but these changes……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Not just these changes…..right to fast will be a
fundamental right. Does any country in the world provide for this right?
Rashtrapati Bhawan and Governor Bungalows in the State capitals will be
converted into Fasting Centres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 3</b> (who had been patiently listening to the
discussion so far but was not convinced): Sir….is there any other profession
you would suggest that we pursue….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> My next choice is.…..police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 3</b> (happy with the choice…): We get a chance to curb
crimes, maintain law & order….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> No…no…that the existing police force will do…you will file
<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/file-firs-against-14-ministers-or-face-protest-anna-to-govt-255082.html">FIRs against Ministers and legislators</a>. Under the new legal framework as soon
as a person is elected to the legislative assembly or parliament an FIR will be
filed against him….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 3</b> (unable to understand): For what crime, sir?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> That can be decided later. But FIR has to be filed
first. These called “Presumptive FIRS”- again a new concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 4</b> (not satisfied with the discussion so far): Can
you suggest some other career for us, Anna? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Definitely…politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 4:</b> Politics? I thought you are against politics and
politicians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> Yes…I am against current politics and politics but not
against future system of politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 4:</b> What change are you contemplating in the
political system?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> There will be elections every day in some constituency
or other….For example if we make a demand and the concerned Minister does not
agree to the same, <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/82-people-want-pm-under-lokpal-team-anna-s-referendum-123512">there will be election in his constituency the next day</a>….election
a day, makes the politician’s day…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Student 4:</b> Sir ….but……..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Anna:</b> But let me explain the most important change in the
political system that our team will bring about. Currently a mass
leader like Sonia Gandhi makes a puppet like Manmohan Singh the Prime Minsiter
and controls him. Lallu Prasad Yadav made his wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabri_Devi">Rabri Devi </a>the Chief Minister. In
the new system puppets likes Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi will control mass leaders
like me. So that presents an opportunity for you guys…you can become the
powerful puppets…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Students 1 to 4:</b> …………………………..????!!!!!!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Year 2500<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vikram climbed the tree
and brought the corpse down. He carried the Vetal on his shoulder and started
walking. Vetal said,” Hey King Vikaramaditya, I will tell you a story. At
the end of it I will ask you a few questions. If you do not know the answer, I
will remain your captive. On the other hand if you know the answer but keep
quiet, your head will burst into pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vikram had handled this
situation many times in the past. Being an intelligent King, he always knew the
answer and the Vetal always escaped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Veta started the story. “Long, long ago there were communal riots in a State.
Around 1200 died during the riots. Surendar was the Chief Minister of the State
at that time. This story happens 10 years after the riots.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>“Sir…</b>today is the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
communal riots in the State when 1200 people were cruelly massacred under your
Chief Ministership….Do you have any sense of remorse?” Pradeep was interviewing
the Chief Minister at his residence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pradeep looked satisfied with his last and the most direct
question. Audience will be obviously thrilled. He had been asking one tough
question after another and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 14pt;">Surendar, instead of his usual contemptuous style
had been giving quite conciliatory replies. </span><span style="line-height: 14pt;"> </span><span style="line-height: 14pt;">This episode of ‘Face the Mass’, his prime
time news program is going to be a TRP topper. The wrinkles in Surendar’s
forehead convinced him that Surendar did not have any answer and that he was
going to fumble.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar looked straight into Pradeep’s eyes. He remembered that Pradeep was a young
reporter with India 365 Channel at that time. He was giving a minute-by-minute
blow up of the riots. Standing in the riot affected areas, he was raising tough
questions for the Chief Minister and the administration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar was just 6 months into the office and was too
inexperienced to control the riots. Pradeep asked for Surendar’s interview. Surendar
did not have answers to any of Pradeep’s or anyone else’s questions. He
declined Pradeep’s request. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CNN and BBC picked up Pradeep’s footages and relayed.
Overnight Surendar became a villain and Pradeep a hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Violence continued unabated for 3 days at the end of
which 1200 people were dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Surendar</b> contemplated for weeks on the core cause of the riots-
Momentary anger could have triggered the violence. But how did it continue for
3 days? There should be something
deeper. One community felt that the other is privileged economically while the
other perceived that the former controlled the poll outcomes and thereby held political
clout. He concluded that the long term solution would be to improve the economy
and make politics more transparent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pradeer accused him of complicity in the riots.
Several NGOs picked up the same and filed cases against the Chief Minister and
his government in the Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar commenced a massive program to provide
electricity to all the villages in the State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Media encouraged police officers of the State to speak
against Surendar. One or two of them promptly obliged and shot into limelight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar provided drinking water to all the villages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An NGO took up the case of a girl whose family was
killed in the riots. The alleged victim told the court that the NGO tutored her
to give false evidence. Supreme Court indicted the NGO. Media alleged that
Surendar Government had terrorized the victim to change her story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next Assembly elections were announced. Surendar
started campaigning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pradeep conducted an opinion poll and concluded a
total rout of Surendar’s Party. His opinion poll was well received by the
viewers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar won the elections with 2/3<sup>rd</sup>
majority. Statistics revealed that both the communities voted for him. He then
set about cementing the roads in all the villages of the State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When the High Court of the State dismissed many of the
cases against Surendar, Pradeep and the rest of the media alleged bias on the
part of the Court and asked for transfer of cases to another State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar converted the State Highways into four lane
highways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Supreme Court appointed an Investigation Team to look
into the complicity of Surendar in the riots. The Team found him innocent. Pradeep
and the media questioned the credentials of the members of the Investigation
Team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar invited business houses across the country
and globe to invest in the State which they did in lakhs of crores of rupees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Based on media reports, several foreign governments
denied visa to Surendar. He could not travel to developed countries to solicit
investments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar simplified the procedures for investment in
the State. Land allotments for projects were made in record speed. A big
business house which found it difficult to invest in a distant State shifted
its project to Surendar’s State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Forced to accept the fact that the State was growing
fast, Pradeep and the rest of the media argued that economic development would
not wash way the sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar undertook reconciliation fasts in various
parts of the State aimed at bringing both the communities further closer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pradeep promptly called it a publicity stunt aimed at
gaining sympathy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar ensured that there was no communal riot in
the State afterwards. His formula had worked- since the economic condition of
almost all the communities improved, since corruption was weeded out, since
politics became more transparent, both the communities did not indulge in
violence. One of the countries which had denied visa to Surendar appreciated
his governance!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Surendar </b>was shaken out of his flashback by Pradeep’s reminder.
“Sir….I am waiting for your response. Do you have any sense of remorse?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Pradeep…Let me tell you a short story. Once, a saint
and his disciple were about to cross a river which was overflowing. There was a
beautiful girl on the river bank waiting to cross the river. Since the river
was deep, she requested the saint to carry her on his back. The saint obliged.
The girl got down from his back on the other side of the river and the
saint-disciple duo continued their journey. The disciple was quite disturbed.
He could not digest that saint carried a girl on his back! Seeing his concern
the saint enquired him as to what was bothering him. The disciple voiced his
concern. The saint smiled and replied “I dropped her on the river bank but you
are still carrying her in your heart.” Pradeep… do you get my….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“So Mr Surendar….just as the saint carried her on his
back….though for a short time….you agree you encouraged the mob….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surendar heaved a sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“That’s the final nail, viewers….Chief Minister Surendar
accepting his complicity in the massacre of 1200 people…..” Pradeep faced the
camera and shouted at the top of his voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Pradeep….,” called Surendar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pradeep turned back and was shocked to see a pistol in
Surendar’s hand. “Oh…no…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“1201..........”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Having</b> concluded the story Vetal asked the inconvenient
questions. “Oh King Vikramaditya….If Surendar worked on a long term solution
and succeeded in ensuring that there was no communal riot, why did Pradeep not
appreciate? Who was biased- Surendar against a particular community or Pradeep
against Surendar? Was Surendar right in finally …….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vikram, being an intelligent and compassionate king,
gave the right answers. Vetal climbed the tree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PS: You are most welcome to differ from me, disagree
with my views, call me biased, question my facts or dismiss this post as too
simplistic, motivated. Of course you always have the pleasant option of
concurring with me</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-45280010058047165012012-03-22T10:32:00.003+05:302012-03-22T17:14:35.107+05:30Introspect, before it is too late<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“He (Yedyurappa) was condemned unheard as the Lokayukta violated principles of natural justice by not issuing notice to him before making the accusation,”</span> said a division bench of the Karnataka High Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“Even during the arguments on the petition, a specific question was put to counsel for the Lokayukta to produce any material to connect the petitioner with the alleged offence but he was mum,” the court said, adding, “Suspicion cannot be a ground to tarnish the image and reputation of a person holding a constitutional post.”</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can there be a clearer eye opener, a more damning indictment than this for media? Read the full article by Akshaya Mishra in <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/politics/yeddys-revenge-was-he-the-wronged-one-251848.html">First Post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember how Santosh Hegde conducted Press Conference before even releasing the report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember how media lapped up this report. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember the backdrop in which the report was released. Congress's image was battered by a spate of massive corruption cases-2G, Common Wealth, Adarsh. Lokpal agitation and public opinion were pushing it to the corner. Exploiting this report was clearly in the interest of Congress. It would be naive to assume that media was not aware of this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was pointed out at that time that BSY was not given a chance to represent his side. But who had the time for such irrelevant </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">niceties</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why did media not do its research before breaking the news? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can it not be concluded now that an immature and perhaps motivated media reporting prematurely sealed the fate of BSY? All it will take in future to topple governments is to 'motivate' the media. Does media deserve this larger than life role?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>It is not anybody's case that BSY is innocent; he may or may not be; </b>it<b> </b>is just that he was not given a chance to defend himself. When Barkha Dutt featured in Nira Radia tapes, she had the luxury of defending herself and continuing in her office. Why should this luxury be denied to politicians?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let us for a moment assume that media inadvertently reported this story. Is it not the moral duty of the media now to express regret?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have read many blogs also ridiculing BSY based on the basis of ill-informed media reports. A clear lesson for bloggers too- research before blogging.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time clearly for introspection by media. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(A year ago Team Anna projected Lokapal and Lokayuktas as the one stop solution for all of India's problems. Time to review that also!)</i></span></div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-28426437508863409352012-03-19T19:02:00.000+05:302012-03-19T21:11:29.672+05:30Katha Upanishad-What happens when one dies....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I lost my father a few days back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That he was a great soul, a good teacher, more a friend than
a father and that the loss is irreparable, etc though true and important, are extremely
personal matters and not the theme of this post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then what is the theme?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A story from <a href="http://www.yoga-age.com/upanishads/katha.html">Katha Upanishad</a> runs as follows. King Vahasrava
performs a yagna in which he offers worthless gifts to Brahmans. Nachiketas, his
son notices this and pesters his father to offer fruitful gifts. Vahasrava, in
a fit of anger gifts Nachiketas to Yama. Nachiketas meets Yama and asks the most
important question-what happens after death? Yama reveals the secret which is
one of the best explanations offered by any religion on the post-death
happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thus Nachiketas learns the distinction between soul and body,
the immortality of soul, the concept of moksha, etc. from Yama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And what did I learn after my father’s death?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">We informed the relatives about his death. A
standard question from them was “Is it going to be electric cremation or
conventional cremation?” How is it relevant? In an electric cremation Asthi
(ashes) is given within 2 hours whereas in conventional cremation it is given
the next day. Sanjayanam is a ritual performed after obtaining the ashes. Hence
in the case of electric cremation Sanjayanam can be performed on the same day
and the relative can book return ticket the same night! Otherwise he/ she has
to stay overnight!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">We took the body to the cremation centre.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Sir, you have one hour. The next
body is arriving at 3.30. You need to finish all your rituals before that,”
explained the attendant at the cremation centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“What time will you give the
Asthi? By 5.30? I have to catch the 7.30 train back to Chennai,” requested an
impatient uncle of mine.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">By the time we got the Asthi and finished
Sanjayanam, it was 6 in the evening. The Asthi was to be immersed in a river.
My father died in Salem. We would have to go to either Mettur or Bhavani for
immersion both of which were 50 kms away. The Pundit said that we could not
keep the Asthi in the house overnight nor could it be kept in a neighbor’s
house.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘What if we keep in the boot of
the car overnight and immerse tomorrow?’ suggested a very resourceful relative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Pundit perhaps had not faced
this kind of a question earlier in his career. He tentatively agreed to the
suggestion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So the Asthi waited patiently in
the boot of the car overnight!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">We mentioned my father’s death in the obituary
column of The Hindu. Every now and then some distant relative or an old friend
would call to express his condolence and a typical conversation would go as
follows:</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I learnt about Narayanan’s (my
father) death…I’m sorry…?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“……………..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Are you his elder son? What’re
you doing?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“…………………”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What’s your brother doing?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“……………..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> “How many children you have?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“……………..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“What are they doing?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“………………….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Are you looking for alliance for the
elder daughter?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“………………….”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I have a suitable boy in mind……”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that was a condolence inquiry!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">For a good part of his last few years, my father
stayed alone in Valady, my native village. A neighbor and a servant maid looked
after him reasonably well. While he paid them monthly for their services, he
had told us to pay them a reasonable lump sum after his death.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What constituted a
reasonable lump sum? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Rs. 25,000 each,”
suggested my uncle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Rs. 50,000 each,”
was another suggestion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Do they deserve
that much when especially for the last few months Narayanan was with his son
and not with them?” questioned the uncle who had suggested Rs. 25,000 as the
compensation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Discussions.
Points and counter points. Fact sheets. Their performance analysis of the past
few years.</span></div>
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decided to pay them Rs. 50,000 each.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">As South Indian Brahmins we have to perform the
last rites for 13 days. Every day the Pundit would come at 6.30 in the morning
and the rituals would last for an hour. Thereafter we would be free till next
morning. The free time thus obtained
would be spent on ‘atma vichar’- one day it would be Sankaran Kovil by-election,
next day it would be UP election results, third day would be Rajini vs. Kamal
vs. Vijayakant…..</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">My father’s pension account was in Valady. “It
would be better to close the account when Hariharan is in India. So let’s do it
during these 13 days. Otherwise Hariharan will leave the country and if the
bank wants his signature on some paper, we will be stuck.” It was done.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">“You need legal heir certificate to dispose of
the family house,” said a lawyer relative. We contacted an official of Salem
Municipal Corporation. “Sure, no problem. It will involve some ‘expenditure’.”
We agreed to the ‘expenditure’. Then the official wanted my mother’s death certificate
as she was also a legal heir. My mother died 25 years ago and we did not bother
to get her death certificate then. “No problem. It will involve some more ‘expenditure’”
volunteered the obliging Corporation official.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">Everyone gave a farewell speech on the 13</span><sup style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -13.5pt;">
day.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Narayanan was a
very, very independent person. He would not take help from anyone. I have to
thank God that he gave me an opportunity to help him once,” said a relative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I was blessed
with an opportunity to look after him once….,” said another relative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What was the
point? Were the phrases “thank God”, “blessed with an opportunity” polite garbs
for the fact they in fact helped him?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">“One has to be practical. How many days will one
be brooding over his death? Will you stop eating, sleeping? What’s wrong in
settling the financial issues? What’s wrong in laughing, gossiping, arguing…..?
In fact Narayanan was a great philosopher. He did not believe in these rituals
or the outward show of grief,” argued a close relative.</span></li>
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</div>Hariharan Valadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12244321351448793974noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457763034610918047.post-28541361862232161082012-02-22T09:44:00.004+05:302012-02-22T09:44:55.914+05:30Review by R Bharathiraja-2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Mr. R. Bharathiraja, a fellow blogger and a good friend has reviewed the first 13 chapters of my novel Journalist in his site <a href="http://bharchive.blogspot.in/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Archive of An Unknown</a>. Writing fiction is new to me. When I received positive comments, I felt elated that my writing is being appreciated by readers. Now this review is the biggest recognition I can think of. You can read the second part of the review titled <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://bharchive.blogspot.in/2012/02/journalist-blog-novel-by-mr-hariharan_16.html">Journalist - A Blog Novel by Mr. Hariharan Valady (2/3)</a> here.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Thanks Bharathiraja for sparing time in your busy schedule and writing this review.</span></span>
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