One of the new lower-middle-class stories

a really nice and well-made movie.

Sonia Gandhi's Mumbai rally emphasises the Congress's sole supporters, the Dalit extremists who, in the name of defending Dalits' rights, are prepared to damage public property, and create a nuisance of themselves..Nuisances capable of keeping the 'city that never sleeps' looking behind it's shoulder cautiously all along, wondering whether those hoodlums could be right behind them.

And of course, the Muslim community that is too scared to shift 2wards an all-muslim party, fearing they might turn out to be another D-gang, and of course completely against the Hindutva- oriented BJP-Sena alliance.

This alliance might give them a sure win in the civic polls, what with the bad marks the hindutva alliance has recieved 4m the city.

When these 'leaders' have failed desperately, what option do we common people with no vested interests in any of the alliances have?

just to stay put and watch as our tax money feeds these politicians whose waistline grows larger by the day?

no, we have to get out and do smthing ourselves. The time has come when we have to rise, not for any vested interests' sake, but for our conscience.

Wake up..

Finally, we get justice.

Delayed, yes but not denied. Yes, Jessica's family was ripped apart by the entire court proceddings, but this is a huge relief not only 4 them, but also 4 all of us.

Kudos To Sabrina Lall for believing in justice, and being a role model for millions of Indians still fighting their lonely battles in a million unknown towns..

Mr.Karan Thapar's recent interview of Ram Jethmalani was certainly his best battle till date. It even surpassed the one with Musharraf.
Mr. Thapar, slowly but skilfully exposed a man who was fed up with the way the world was treating him, like something from a different century, or worse, a once-genius who had lost his footing. Insecurity makes the best of people crumble, and Jethmalani is an apt example.
His antics grow day by day, no one is a stranger to them. He was made by the media, he wanted to die with it.
In his own words, 'I'd rather have bad media than no media' he makes no secret of the fact that he's not so reclusive as he shows himself to be.
What most successful people fear is that their reputation, their good name, shall be taken over by sm1 else after them. They don't realise that nothing lives forever. Everything has been created to vanish smday.
He was a hero once. Perhaps he had some conscience. Now, obsessed by the 'good life', as they call it, he has like evry1 else exposed to it, bowed low to temptations.
There are many such people, but we don't call them on national TV and wonder about their conscience in public. What makes Mr.Jethmalani's case special is that once, even if 4 a short period, he was a hero. Now, he's the villian evry1 of us pity. 'Poor guy..'

Ram Jethmalani, said to be India's best criminal lawyer, started his career at the Mumbai courts with Rs.10 in his pocket.

I've heard poverty makes people hardened, kills their conscience, and makes them aloof to all kinds of injustices.

But here, we see an extreme.He has jailed Sanjay Gandhi at Tihar 4 a month for excesses during the emergency, remanded Indira Gandhi to the same 4 10 days, prosecuted Maha CM A R Antulay, investigated the Bofors scandal, defended the constitutionality of implementing the Mandal Comission Report, among others...

His recent adventure is the controversial Jessica Lal case, in which he defends Manu Sharma, son of a powerful politician in Delhi, 4 killing former model Jessica Lal in front of about a hundred people, all of whom went hostile, 1 by 1.

I can imagine how he must gloat at home about his victories 4 d rich and notorious, 4 there is a larger number of cases in which he has acquited people whom all of us know by instinct are guilty of the allegations.

maybe he just came on the scene when the scene of india's politics had deteriorated so sharply and dramatically, that he had no way to go but the winning way.and of course there is a brilliant mind at work behind that 'innocent-old-man' look. The problem is, we are so indifferent to these court proceedings that we let all this happen and let reporters blare it out at us from the T.V, and blame the country's law and order system. Wouldn't any of us have tried to stick the case in court if Jessica was our own kin or friend or neighbour?we would have.

But here, it is obvious that we won't. Blame the system, the system sucks.

Blame the system, it deprived u of an education u deserved.

Blame the system, it gave ur promotion to sm1 else just belonged to a 'backward' caste.

And do nothing at all in ur whole life but blame the system.

The world's biggest hypocrites till date..

How can people 4m such high offices actually get away with their ideas of conquering the world under the name of 'DEMOCRACY FOR ALL', I wonder....

This is what happened in Maharashtra when sm ;''<.//. in Kanpur hung a garland of Chappals around Dr. Ambedkar's Statue.

We all respect Ambedkar, so why didn't all of us get out into the streets n protest?

Cos perhaps we aren't so-called Dalit'LEADERS' 4 whom civic polls were cming up..

Best of luck, people, ruin the nation...

An apt description of whatever i blog, perhaps, sorry Dr,Singh..

General Musharraf recently came up with a new 4-point formula 4 kashmir..

maybe its smwhat like this..

1.Invade Kashmir by using Paki army soldiers, n call them freedom fighters.

2. Let off a small nuke incident smwhere along d border that captures the world's attention 2 d region's growing instability..

3.Plead 2 d UN of exploitation, n blame india 4 d nuke accident, thus capture Kashmir..

4.Once in Kashmir, uproot democracy, install himself as a dictator, n tear apart families n people..

a genius at work, i see,

do help us with such brilliant 4mulas at geometry, why don't u, general?

Manmohan Singh needs 2 be careful about repeated assurances of friendship 4m Tony Blair. Blair is simply using us, trying 2 make people think him as a worthy PM by discussing India when every1 is. When the US is after Iraq, england is, when they talk 'bout Indian nukes, so does England again. Dr. singh, we don't need sychophants who don't have their own independent foreign policy.

Why does Srinagar erupt in anger everytime a terrorist is convicted? That's d questn on most minds right now. The truth is,the real partisan muslims are the Hurriyat, and not, not Kashmiris. But we, Indians, r digging a grave 4 ourselves in Kashmir by doing exactly what we shouldn't- hang people indiscriminately and thus unwillingly make heroes out of them. This is exactly what the British did to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru n Sukhdev, bcos they thought of them as terrorists, n look what they r 2day 2 us. The latter were just 4 doing what they did, but we've gotta do smthing more tactful with the terrorists that d Hurriyat fights 4. No appeasement, just shrewd game.

The new (not-so-new, actually), Manmohan-Musharraf meet has got nothing new in it. It's the same sad story,smiling at each other in foreign countries, holding a host of talks and conferences and gala events back home for each other, and then disagreeing, disapproving of each other's observations, and putting the common people in danger of more and more terrorist attacks. Not only is it ridiculous, but also irresponsible. I might be sounding quite different 4m the optimist in the first 2 articles, but that's what every critic probably had to say or express on the news; smthing like, the u.s and saddam trying to negotiate. The oldies would smile n say "Not again!"

India, an amalgam of races, religions, cultures, values and traditions, has never quite ceased to create curiosity in the West's 'thinkers'. What places her apart from other new democracies is her resilience and willingness to absorb and learn from foreign concepts, new ideas and innovations. But she has also been mistreated bcos of this particular ability. What she needs is not the no-progress Left, the partisan and outrageous Right, but a force of her own, common people, the working class to come out in the open and bring her back to life and vitality. After the generation of Nehru, Patel and Gandhi who freed her, we are the ones who have to propel her forward in the race to development, peace and excellence. It is our responsibility, not our burden. We, the working class, have to galvanise her masses and restore their confidence in their Indianness, make them true Indians. And we shall do that.

This is a welcome note to all u Indians interested in the blog, not only its name. It is Indian tradition to welcome guests to their homes with open hearts, whoever they might be. So do I welcome you, all of you, even those who are wrinkling their noses at the sight of another so-called 'secularist'. This is precisely why I have created this blog, to communicate to the world what India means to Indians like us. Support me if u can, which u will, with ur comments n contributions.

-Visshh