Friday, 18 October 2013

ACCOUNTABILITY OF A PUBLIC FIGURE



IN TODAY'S TIME IT SEEMS THAT ACCOUNTABILITY OF A PUBLIC FIGURE HAS ERODED TO LOWEST LEVEL.PUBLIC FIGURES,SUCH AS ,GOVT.MINISTERS,OFFICIALS,MEMBER OF PARLIAMENTS  ETC  HAVE SCANT RESPECT FOR  LAW.


IT TOOK 17 YEARS TO PRONOUNCE  A M.P    '' LALU YADAV ''  GUILTY FOR CORRUPTION CHARGES. IT WAS ALSO STRANGE THAT ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO NULLIFY EFFECTS OF THIS LEGAL JUDGEMENT IN WAKE OF RECENT SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT ON ISSUE OF CONVICTED M.P AND MLA''S.


ANOTHER CASE,TAINTED BCCI CHIEF IS HELL BENT TO REGAIN HIS SEAT OF POWER,BY HOOK OR BY CROOK.HIS REPUTATION ,EVEN IF IT WAS CLEAN,WAS SUFFICIENT TO BE THROWN INTO DUSTBIN AFTER THE IPL SCAM IN WHICH HIS SON IN LAW WAS ARRESTED.

WHY THE INDIA CEMENT OWNER IS DESPERATE TO TAKE UP THE CHAIR OF BCCI INSTEAD OF MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS...........CEMENT,IS ANYONE'S GUESS.WHAT SUM HE MAY EARN AS A WINDFALL DURING HIS TENURE AT BCCI. COULD BE 100000% MORE THAN HIS LIFETIME EARNINGS AT ........INDIA CEMENTS.


ON SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION,SUPREME COURT MORE OR LESS SUCCUMB TO HIS PRESSURES.IT ALLOWED HIM TO RETAIN HIS JOB INSPITE OF RESERVATIONS AGAINST HIM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.THE RESULT OF THIS SLP WAS .............YET ANOTHER PROBE PANEL OF 3 PERSONS, WHO WILL BE PAID 1 LAKH RUPEES DAILY 4 EVERY WORKING DAY, BESIDES BOARDING/LODGING AND TRAVEL ALLOWANCES .THE TENURE IS FIXED AT 4 MONTHS. I.E......3*30*4* 1 LAKH = 360 LAKHS +

IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR,WHAT PUBLIC CAN EXPECT FOR.

YOU CAN SHIRK ACCOUNTABILITY IF YOU CAN MANAGE ALL IF'S AND BUT'S COMING ON YOUR WAY OR CREATING OBSTACLES.


FOR A COMMON MAN,DO A SIMPLE MISTAKE AND LANGUISH DAYS,MONTHS AND YEARS IN JAIL PLUS SOCIAL APARTHEID.

Saturday, 12 October 2013

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT... PART A




                                                                 FOREWORD



THERE'S A TEMPTATION TO PENN DOWN SOMETHING WHICH MAY BE UPDATED REGULARLY TO BECOME A BOOK OR SO.

SO THIS IS THAT !!


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IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MY DREAM THAT WOKE ME,ALTHOUGH, I COULD NOT RECALL IT CLEARLY.THE THUNDER HAD STRUCK AT MY HEART WHICH  WAS STILL BEATING HARD AND FAST.

WAS IT A WARNING? I FELT NO FEAR.INSTEAD,TO MY SURPRISE,I SEEMED TO FEEL A LIGHTNESS,A DELIGHT.THE EXCITEMENT WAS NOT IN THE AIR,BUT IN MYSELF,AND IN THE SWEET REMNANTS OF MY DREAM.

IT WAS THEN THAT I SENSED SOMEONE'S EYES ON ME.THEY WERE INSISTENT,WANTING ME TO TURN IN THEIR DIRECTION.I ALMOST FELT THEIR CARESS AND WAS FILLED WITH WEAKNESS.I WAS HELD BY THOSE EYES.JET BLACK,LONGING BUT LONELY ....ALIGHTED WITH A FIRE OF THEIR OWN.THAT WAS THE THUNDER THAT HAS AROUSED ME IN THE DARKNESS OF FLICKERING DARKNESS.


UNSETTLED BY INTENSE STARE,THOSE EYES LOWERED THEMSELVES IN MODESTY.IT WAS ENOUGH TO CAUSE MY HEART TO ACHE.I FELT THAT  I HAD KNEW THIS PERSON ALL MY LIFE AND YET I KNEW NOTHING.AGAIN, I TOOK UP A CONFRONTATION.THEY WERE,WIDE,UNFLINCHING EYES,ALLOWING ME TO SEE THE FABRIC OF IT'S FEELINGS.

I WISH THEN,TO BEND,AND TOUCH  THEM BUT I DID NOT.HOW COULD I ? THEN THOSE EYES WERE SECONDED BY A MISCHIEVOUS SMILE.I WAS STRUCK.THE WORLD CEASED HER EXISTENCE.


AND THEN, C TOLD ME  THAT...... I SEE AND NOTICE VERY LITTLE BEYOND U. COULD THERE BE OTHER OTHER TIMES WHEN WE WILL NOT HAVE ENDURE AND GAZING EACH OTHER BUT TO KNOW EACH OTHER .

THAT WAS ....THE START OF LOVE.AN INSTANT ONE.


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