Supporting Collegiate System...

The Supreme Court's judgement repealing the 99th constitutional ammendment and restoring the Collegiate system to power is a laudable one considering the fact that India is a country not free of corruprion and that the presence of "two laymen", as Justice Khehar observed , would by all.odds, put at stake the accountability of the Judiciary in our country. As the Constitutional Bench observed this can foster a culture of "reciprocity" of favour   and in due course adversely affect the reliability of the system. The Indian judiciary system is the last resort of the common man of the country in availing justice. We live in a century when people are rapidly losing their faith in the polititians, among whom a sizeable number is soaked in corruption. Today people cant place full faith in any law keeping bodies other than the judiciary since in all of them we have seen elements which favour those who hold the power and dance according to their whims and fancies. The senior lawyer K.T.S. Thulsi said that " in a democracy  we must recognize the wisdom.of the people and their representatives." Well my question is that how can we rely on the wisdom of the people who keeps feeling that their selection has been wrong every five years and sometime re-elects those mistakes and when that elected person is proved corrupt, laments their choice? First of all people dont make choices in elections because of their first hand experiences with these candidates. It is often the effects of the election campaigns that make them end up voting for a particular candidate. In a situations where these representatives of the people are regularly being accused of scams and scandals how can one place their faith in a judiciary system which itself controlled by two laymen and through them  the political parties of which they form a part. In this sense I, as one among the citizens of India, welcome the Supreme Court verdict scraping the NJAC.

  However, in this case , comes the question of democracy and the people's right to have a transparency on the system that governs them. A probable solution that came to me was to keep clear record on the grounds on which the appointments are being made. When a judge is appointed it can be justified by putting it clear in black and white the qualities that gives him the prevelige when pitted against the other contendors for the position. These information can also be made available to the public under the Right to Information Act. Improving the transparency of the collegiate system is the only possible answer to the allegations leveled against the system by the advocates of NJAC. 

Beaf Ban: Right or Wrong

The Preamble of our constitution puts it clearly that India is Sovereign Socialist SECULAR Democratic Republic... But the question is ..are we working towards building such a society, a society where various religious perspectives co exist in  perfect harmony..?  A society where every Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian consider each other as humans rather than as representatives of their particular sects or religions.? A society where every person accepts the positives of a person irrespective of their religious beliefs.? Well .. I would say that most of us do envision such a society and truly wish for it. But if it is so then who are the ones pulling the strings behind the scene.? Who are the ones who actually benefit from poisoning the pluralistic ethos of tis nation. The answer for this question that I have got is that its none other than the polititians of this very nation.

Its the recent debates on beaf that made me think in this respect. Right now we are having so many debates going on around the country on the righteousness of banning a food product in a country in the so-called interest of the majority.This idea gives rise to two questions in my mind. The first one is that does being a minority mean being a non-entity? Don't their votes matter in the electoral process conducted every five year.? Are these minorities not the citizens of this nation ? The government doesnt have the right to choose what a person should eat unless it takes complete care of his life and ensure him a balanced diet ireespective of  economic backgrounds.Even if the government is to ban some food product in a nation, it should be on the general interest of the public. It should not be done to please a particular religious section of the society. The government of a India doesn't represent any particular group of people in India. it represents and is responsible for India as a whole. It is suppossed to'take care of the reasonable interests of the Indian society as a whole. 

A statement was being made repeatedly by the advocates of the Beaf Ban that cow should not be slaughtered because it is considered sacred by the Hindus. Well with all due respect for that religious belief may i ask you something? Being myself a Hindu, let me ask you that dont we consider Rat as sacred? Dont we consider it as the vehicle of Lord Ganapathy..? But still we kill them.. right?.. Dont we consider snake a sacred being..? We still kill them ..right? of course one might argue that its a question of survival. One might argue that they can prove harmful to us while cow is a harmless creature. One can also say that they are useful to us in many ways. Well my answer for them is that it can be understood as a decision conducive of the workings of the noble intentions behind them had they been done on a humanitarian basis. If so we could ban the selling and consuming of meat as a whole whether that be chicken, mutton, beaf or whatever.  Most of these things are also harmless and are helpful to us in one way or another.If someone tells me that they are not sacred to any particular religion practiced and propagated in our country, I will go back to a point that I mentioned before that  the  problem occurs exactly at this point when it has religious undertones. Do Muslims ask their friends or neighbours in this country to abjure some food product since its anathema for them.? Well.. I think they dont..  Everyone has the right to believe in his own religion and practice its ways, provided it doesnt do any serious harm to anyone else. No citizen is a nonentity when it comes to the government of the country. Every opinion matters. If someone wishes to implement a ban on a particular thing just because his or the religious beliefs of a majority in the country considers it wrong the government should not blindly follow the crowd. Just because a majority believes in something that doesnt give any certificate of infallibility to that idea. 

My opinion is that the government should rethink its views and if possible repeal its stand on the Beaf Ban considering the pluralistic fabric of our country and the high expectations on which this entire nation was built. It is the dream of a generation which saw the repercusssions of religious intolerance that we see in the Preamble of our constitution in the term 'Secular'. The engineers of Indian constitution made it envisioning an India where its not religion or colour  or economic disparities that judge a person or set his privileges, but the fact of being a son/daughter of this land.This is more like a prayer rather than a criticism, to the polititians of our country not to make use of the public in meeting the needs of your greed. Lets all work together for a better SECULAR India and take the country forward in the path of development..

Exposition

Hello all of you..Lets share  perspectives.. This blog has been created to, as the title suggests, create a space of my own which can provide me a platform to give expression to the crazy thoughts that keep coming into my mind ..As you all know we are not individual entities unaffected by the happenings around us.. If fact its these happenings that generate within us the ideas and ideologies that mould us into what we become in the future.. Just as they have an influence on us we too have an influence on them.. Who makes these events..? Its us. right? .. A fact which should remind us of the enormous power bestowed upon us to model and be modeled by what we have modeled ..We cant stay aloof from.the things happening around us.. whether that be progressive things or retrogressive ones.. People are afraid to express their thoughts on a soacial event bcz of their apprehensions on its repercussions on them... their family and children.. If a political event seems unacceptable to him it is his right  or rather his duty to to give expression to his dislike in a way as to effect a productive change..  Staying away from.a debate of social or political pertinance  means running away from ur responsibilities..If you want the world to be a better place for your future generations start responding.. You dont have to create a law and order issue to make yourself heard... always remember that thoughts are more powerful than you can even assume.. Great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi changed the course of history for America and India respectively not through violence and bloodshed but through words of which they used the best they had in stock for their particular milieu.. Know that pen is mightier than sword... Lets use this blog as a platform to discuss debate and the come to a decision on the world views we should form.. :)