ISI in Srilanka?

Earlier I wrote an article on ISI in Nepal, though the news was outdated which means the information is a kind of open secret. And by stern action from the security forces the porous border between Indian and Nepal is made fool-proof. This had made ISI to find alternate routes to introduce terror in India, though the North-east border needs to be guarded heavily, ISI has found a new way to enter India....

Now after exhausting all their solutions of penetration, ISI has found a way through Srilanka. The present democratic (can be replaced by autocratic without loss of generality :) ) government in Srilanka which is already under severe criticism for its action against innocent civilians in North and Eastern part, now has a new issue to face.

The enforcement authorities at Chennai have sucessfully foiled the bid to pour lumps of fake curreny (running into crores) into India. They have arrested an ISI agent who came to India through Columbo, which poses a question how strong ISI are in Srilanka. And to India's bad luck this is the last thing they need, Srilanka turning blind eyes to ISI means the relationship between the two countries is in a down-run. Though the situation has not worsened but turning a blind eye might lead to another foe in the southern corridor.

As said in previous post India should involve itself in the peace process between LTTE and Srilankan goverenment. The diplomatic persons should find innovative ways to tackle the embarrasment which India faced during late '90s. This is an immediate challenge India is facing, would the center respond pro-activiely this time!!!!!

Verdict day

There were a lot of anticipation for this day from all parts of India. Sanjay dutt records is dusted over a decade long trial on the Bombay blast case. He was found guilt and at the same time he was not termed as a terrorist, this was seen as a positive sign by several people, which tells us he was expecting a very tough punishment. He was found guilty of possesing arms and his confession was seen as the major evidence in the case.

The next verdict on Shibu soren was unfortunately on the same day, it was unfortunate for the news channel as lots of news are happening in all parts of India :) and they are confused which one to cover... News channel are confused whether to show Sanjay dutt or Prime minister asking Shibu soren to resign or Bacchan family at Varanasi or Dilip vengsagar trip to SA....

But the involment of Shibu soren takes the cake (though Bombay blast is high profile, the verdict was anticipated) his PA was killed near Ranchi and it took atleast 4 years for the Forensic department and the police to confirm the skull which they recovered is of his PA (the irony is in CSI seriel it takes only 40 minutes to crack the case, even extrapolating the time axis will lead to 400 days max at the conversion rate of 1 minute=10 days, which involves much more complications than the murder of PA).

Plight of Tamils in Srilanka

The recent developments in the island is very disturbing. The new Srilankan government has taken drastic measures to control the rebel group, LTTE. It is an irony that few months back there were reports which indicated LTTE is losing its base and Vellupillai Prabakaran is seen as a dictator rather than a vibarnt leader. But just after the new government took over the power there were heavy shelling in the tamil areas and more unfortunate it was over the area where unarmed civilians live. This lead to a widespread condemnation by the international community. But India still kept its finger crossed without actively involving to smoothen out the crisis. It is mainly attributed to the fact that she faced a lot of embarrasment during the Indian peace keeping force at Lanka and it seems the top official have not found how to deal with the rebel group, which is accused for killing Indian prime minister.

But this is no excuse to shy away from the present scenario. There were numerous reports and blogs written on this issue, the fact she is shying away from its resposiblity to keep the Indian ocean under its control doesnt go along with the aim of being a reponsible power in the domain of Indian ocean. Hope the top goverment offcials take a note of the scenario and catch the bus before it is missed.

Some rest to Party Politics....

The resemblances of the human being is stamped in their DNA and it was widely beleived that the genetic make-up is similar across different races. Recently it was discovered that the genectic make-up is very different across different races making a huge impact on the manufacturing of drugs.

As drugs for diseases depends on the DNA structure, if they are widely different across different races than the same drug cannot be used. This leads to an interesting result, the pharmaceutical companies in India should start focussing on this discovery and try to develop their own in house facilties for develping new drugs as no longer they can do a copy-cat from other western drug manufacturers.

Bomb Blast in Bengal

Have anyone heard that there is an underground organisation operating in the area of Darjeeling? It seems that they have close tie-up with the ULFA militant group and were involved in the 1999 bomb blast on soldiers going to Kargil from WB.

Even in today bomb blast they are suspected at large but it is pre-mature to come to a conclusion. Nevertheless care should be taken as this area is very prone to underground activities as it borders Bangladesh, Bhutan and some area of Nepal. Any unrest in this region will be difficult to control.

ISI in Nepal?

A largely unaswered question or should I say hidden truth? Yes, the Maoist rebel leader revealed the fact that ISI wanted to help the people liberation movement in Nepal. But what do ISI want in return? This is the question, the IB should quickly look into and if ISI have done some damage, IB should start implementing the damage control immediately.

As Naxalite movement got mentioned in one of the speeches given by Pakistan president which reveals that any close tie-up between Maoist rebels in Nepal and ISI will severly damage the internal situation in India.

Chinese premier visit to India

After a decade the Chinese premier is visting India for improving the bilateral relations. What we are presently interested is to resolve the boundry dispute amicably. But the chinese ambassdor to India cleary stated the purpose of the visit is to improve economic tie-up and the dispute is not much in their agenda.

In my opinion, Chinese government is very much interested is real estate across the world, it all started with Tibet,Taiwan and Pakistan ceding around 5000 sq.Km to China to sample a few. They are very keen in the North eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh for a long time. The goverenment of India should make it clear to the convoy arriving to India that besides business, boundry dispute should be solved amicably or atleast a road map is to be charted out.

Till the dispute is not solved the Chinese government will be always seen through a prism of suspicion.

Defence delays

Defence spending is important in this "Kaliyuga" era where each country sees each other as threat to one another. Such a phase has passed by in the European sub-continent and everybody knows the outcome of it. But still nobody have not learned much from it.

Presently Indian sub-continent is going through such a phase where every country doesnt like each other (more or less), there is no need to mention India and Pak. În this scenario, it is imporatant to be well equipped so that we can respond almost instantaneously to others threat if any.

India spends 2.3% of its GDP on defence but this is not adequeate for the modernisation of the armed forces. It is required to spend 3% of GDP to have a decent armed force vis-a-vis to other upper developing countries. But it is sad to mention that most of our present fleet are not indigeneously developed even though we have 25% of human resources of the world.

It is not important to increase the defence spending but what is more imporatnt is to develop technologies on our own. The responsible organisation for this DRDO but the present functioning of DRDO needs an urgent change to be in match with our foes. Will DRDO wake up as it is not like other government organisation where delay can be accepted?

Dalit Muslim...a "NEW" phrase?

I am living in Swiss for the past two years and I should admit that right from the day when I encounter fellow swiss collegues who are interested in knowing more on India and its culture, the first question they ask me "Is caste system still prelavent in India" , " Do Indian people disrespect some of their own fellow citizens" .

I usually evade such questions as I am not very clear on this issue and the history behind the caste system. Also, I grew up in a city and I have never encountered any people who discriminate others, whether be it in school or in college, so I pretty much beleived that it is just the history which still haunts us and nowadays the caste system never exists. This conclusion can be a result of my ignorance as I never lived for a long duration in a village, where many people say caste is still prevalent.

I sometimes think, if caste exist what are the reasons for its exesistence. I strongly beleive that the caste system can be viewed as a huge economic disparity across the various sections of the Indian society and this disparity is projected as the caste system.

This conclusion needs proof and a rational reasoning. Caste system as it is beleived originates from Hinduism, in various Hindu scriptures there are different mentioning of caste system whether it is Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana or various other Hindu philosophical scriptures. I am no expert in Hinduism but nevertheless many people are of the view that the Caste system mentioned in scriptures are shown out of context. I dont second it neither do I reject it.

After saying this, let us ponder over other religion Islam, Islam is an egalitarian religion, it doesnt discrimate people who follow Islam. But there was an interesting article in Indian Express on Indian Muslims. In this article the author brings out the fact that there are varoius sub-sections within Indian Muslims based on their richness. He gives stastical evidence from the Mandal commision and from the Sacchar Commitee. Due to this he wants a separate quota for the lowest strata for the Muslims, which he calls as Dalit Muslims ( PS: they are not converted from Hinduism to Musilm, they are poor Muslims).

Hence to conclude I feel that though the caste system is originated from religious teachings (needs proof :) ), the present scenario is due to the economic disparity among various sections of the society, as the caste system is also prevalent in Indian version of Islam.

Famous Lawyers......

I was very much interested in the court proceedings right from my childhood, it might be because during 85's to 90's there were several tamil movies whose climax will be held in the court.

Such court scenes are really dramatic and as in most of the Indian movies the guilty is always punished and the Truth wins. Seeing such situations from childhood makes most of the person to beleive that Truth always wins till one has hard encounters with court proceedings, after which he will start to beleive that "Truth is substituted by good lawyer".

The present famous lawyers in our countries are Ram Jeethamalani, Arun Jaitley, Kapil Sibal to name a few, these people are defense lawyers and have the ability to turnaround the case. Always reading articles on such people makes most of us to ignore about the public prosecutors who often face the maximum brunt from the convicted. Such public prosecutors are very much important to the Indian Judiciary system. But as any other government job, the financial rewards are not attractive in comparison to private practice.

Even then few people had come forward to defend the case for the Police. An article on such persons is the need of the hour, the-week published such an article on the different public prosecutors who are well known today. Have a look at the article to know about the famous Public prosecutors in our country.

Sarath Kumar and Raadika inclusion into public domain

Radhika, the teleseriel champ in TN, during the last assembly elections she and her hubby switched loyalties and joined the ADMK. As everyone knows the Raadan networks has a close tie-up with the Sun networks which is controlled by the DMK party. Everyone was hoping that from now onwards Jaya TV will get the major junk of the production of the Raadan network but last week it so happened that Radhika was expelled from ADMK party for anti-party activites.

Her husband Sarath kumar voluntarily resigned from the party position to serve the people from the public domain and also to serve the south film industry as prsently he holds some important post in the film actors association.

This development being dramatic, what was more dramatic was the way Radhika reacted to the expulsion, as quoted from the-week website, she said, "she never asked for the ADMK memebership into was inserted into her hands by the party supremo."

Now, it will be fun to see how Radaan networks switch their loyalitie, is it the law of economics which holds the sway or loyality to ADMK supremo will decide the final result?

Delhi Sealing making it a "NEW" Delhi.....

Quite sometime it was/is in news, the shops were they are built are illegal and Supreme court says it needs to be demolished. As usual the political parties took their strides and wanted to have political gain in this sealing saga.

As usual, I should say it has become common nowadays that if the Judgement is not in favour with the present political colour, the parties without blinking an eye wants to amend the constitution so that it becomes legal. Whether it be the right or left or centre etc etc..

This is the present situation in the Indian Politics, now back to issue, is it good to clean Delhi by displacing numerous venders? I read many blogs most of them are of the opinion that the venders are also equally responsible for the corruption in the bureaucracy. Even me, I dont deny this "fact", the person who gives bribes is as corrupt as person who accepts it. But presently only one side is facing the brunt of the sealing drive, I would like to see how the parties/Court take strides on the other side of the lot....

Ram Jethmalani..

I always thought such turnaround in a criminal case happens only in movies but the present Jessica Lal case will seem to prove my point wrong.

A good lawyer is really necessary to defend a case but what makes them a good lawyer. Is it just their hold on making the decisions makes them good lawyer,i.e when one takes a case to a lawyer he goes through it before accepting the case and he accepts only when he is confident that it can be defendable? But is there at all any fun if one knows a priori that he is going to win the case?

The question of good lawyer apart, the hearing of the criminal cases are always interesting. As per the rule if so and so evidence is available against a accused then he is found guilty. Now what is happening in the court is, there might be several situations that might arise which is not mentioned in the constitution and how the judge will give away the judgement? This is an interesting question and that is why I sometimes feel I should taken the profession of a typewriter in a court rather than doing all these RF stuffs.....