By Dagadu on March 19th, 2010 under Editorial Once I read a funny quote ‘When rape is evident, enjoy it‘, but that may not be case now. After 377 what seems to be catching up is Gender neutrality in Rape. Ours is a society where there is not gender equality (leider) to which they wish to bring a law which is to be gender neutral. This ain’t some new law but rather refining the pre-existing one. So far the law on ‘Rape’ as been gender biased, and also with developing age there are new criminal advances fall outside the realm of this law. Hence it has become of importance that the new age crimes find an law to abide by.
As per the definition Rape the word ‘penetration‘ played quite big role. This made the law biased towards the females as it was naturally impossible for them to enact the act. Evidences are found that even men are raped by women but in absence of ‘penetration’ from the ‘attacker’ the current law does not apply. Though such an act wont always mean sexual violence but an assault it shall be. Thus all such crimes also need to brought to law.
Other crimes like sodomy, sexual harassment, fingering, insertion of foreign object, child abuse some how did not find proper representation in current law. Now as the government has decided that it needs to update itself to new age crimes, it plans to replace the word RAPE with Sexual assault to broaden the ambit of the law. What this means is that with this new inclusion the law can be slapped against any perpetrator of any gender.
Though it may seem nice that such law is being formulated, but there are many hurdles in the path. Rape comes in all shades, and bringing them all under a single umbrella of law is tough. For eg: there is no definite word on ‘marital rape’, which occurs daily all over India. How is that to be handled. Now with Delhi High Court Verdict for Homosexuals, there shall be provision made for man to man or women to women rape too. This is to do with the gender categorized. What about the ones who are still fighting for gender identity -the Eunuchs. The crimes against this community are highest esp acted by the law keepers. These people find no faith in the law as none encompasses them. When making gender neutral rape shouldn’t they be considered too?
Well the good part is at least there would be proper representation of the genders and hope the children find safety therein too. The fine tuning shall need some more time; as we need the society to grow rightfully. On lighter note the one’s with ‘Ankhonse Dareendagi tapaknewaalon‘ watch-out what drools in your eyes may fall under this law too.
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By Dagadu on March 18th, 2010 under Junk-yard The Indo-Pak Dialogue seems to be never ending. Here’s an article from http://lifeandsomething.blogspot.com/ by doubtinggaurav. Here’s an excerpt from it.
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That’s what the first servant of 10 Janpath really means when he says he is ready to discuss anything, yes anything, even Kashmir with Pakistan.
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Now as unpalatable concessions may be to Hindu Fascist like me, one can grudgingly accept them if there is a return. However this is not going to be the case
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However at this point, I am not sure that MMS even expects any quid pro quo from US. The question then arises why he will do this; well the answer to this is same as answer to the previous quandary.
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For the complete story just click on : http://lifeandsomething.blogspot.com/2010/03/ready-to-roll-over.html
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By Dagadu on March 17th, 2010 under Editorial Well who are they ?? Jews ? Christian or Hindus ?.. The latest ‘proponents’ of Islam hold these religions or their followers as the enemies but does True Islam share this beliefs of the new self declared Islamists. I too do not know but yet I feel inclined to say NO.
My understanding of religion is but of course developed from my own religion but not slaved by it. It made me or makes me think about how the virtue Faith has evolved and how to get adhered to this abstract feeling. The faith gets hold of person to that extent that one may lead crusades to establish his faith. Generally speaking all the faiths base themselves on live n let live or even more simple Peace philosophy. To me seems that their whole point is to keep people under shelters of peace and achieve humane growth.
As this virtue of faith exits so does a vice, Ego, TIOLT !! but any soul on this earth is not free from ego. Hence the curators of religion cannot abstain from it. During the formation of the above said religions these egos played their part, especially defining Peace itself. Later years these head of religions became power houses, leading in the rise deprived people who aspired for these positions of religious heads. As religions are not patented by single person hence there was no final word from any living person, ergo birth of religious institutes. Their heads influenced by their inherent urges of power into these institutes and what befell on us is corroded corrupt religions.
Lately Islam as I see has been hijacked by few individuals and I have no doubt it is nothing but for personal glorification using the religion as tool. The religion which defines as what has to be haram and what should be the virtues is fallen in hands of extremists. I ain’t no theologists to write commentaries as to what Islam says and says not, but surely can say what I see Islam wants to say, however dumb I may be.
The new proponents of this peace faith Islam call every now and then for jihad, but is their kind of jihad supported by the faith?. Does Islam teach the let the juvenile tie bombs to their chests and explode other humans, take some damn AK-47 and keep shooting innocent people? I bet it does not. This religion which teaches that person must perform the religious prayers 5 times a day, wouldn’t guide a person to perform the above tasks.
The self declared keepers of the Faith, be it Osama, LeT, JM or any such other individual or group, none wish for no good of the religion. These are cowards who cannot afford to come out in fore front and fight their own wars. For them brainwashing is the best weapon. They are actually the Weapons of Mass destruction. Nuclear weaponry remains unused causing not much harm like the AK-47 which kill daily 100’s while religion is killing even more. Decide for self what the WMD are. These cowards are actually twisting the religious plunging the whole world into chaos.
Changing world order is pushing each individual against other, turning into a extremists does not take much time, while reaching out for AK-47 isn’t big deal. Poor living standards, suffering at hands destiny makes it easy for Osama n Kins to prey for their easy targets. Osama who grew powerful trading Opium, perhaps forgets that Islam bans such addictions or spread of it. Such dreaded ones have become the face of the religion tarnishing it like never before. Worst is that rest world seems to fixate an ‘Image’ for Islam. These few enemies of Islam are holding the Faith under arrest, to me the question is why are the Muslims quite against them?
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By Jagdish on March 16th, 2010 under Junk-yard
Mind is like a clock , it ticks like a minute
Keep it on snooze to know whats in it.
Mind is like a Girl , it has its mood swing
It treats u like a beggar Or makes u feel like a King
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Mind is a Fire hydrant if u never want to use
It runs out of water when all hell breaks loose
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Mind is like ‘IPL’ , business minded & unrestrained
It creates a controversy, but it keeps u entertained
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Mind is Maple Tree , it changes with season
It likes to think a lot , sometimes without a reason
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Mind is like ‘Avataar’ , animation in 3 dimensions
A sea happiness, and source of many tensions
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Mind is little Lazy , it often needs a break
The more u think about it , the more u get Headache
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It often gives u answers , which Google can’t find
If use it Right, it saves you lot of grind
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Sometimes its cruel , sometimes very Kind
Its hard to understand our own freaking Mind
  
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By Amol Naik on March 15th, 2010 under Jag Bhraman As I sit down and revive my frantic years in the Lok-Sabhaas an elected member, I recall the golden day of 9th March 2010. It was the time when India was exiting the “racism” by reservation and quota systems, and entering a new phase to demolish the status quo of sexism. On the day before that, Rajya-Sabha had experienced an unprecedented, unruly protest against the passing of the bill that demanded “better” representation for us, the modern Indian women! The bill had the power to reserve 33% of the seats in legislative assemblies for women. It was a fight against the raging male egoists hurling torn pieces of the bill, who ultimately gave up as the society raised voices through various channels.
 Image: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net It all looked impossible at first. But then it happened, the then prime minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, called for an all-party meeting and convinced the importance of the reservation. He promised that a new thinking process will begin in the house, and women will feel part of the all-inclusive growth that his party, Congress had promised. On the next day, 9th March 2010, Rajya-Sabha experienced near unanimity with 187 against 1 vote and passed the bill onto the Lok-Sabha. Ahh! What a relief for us! We were truly ecstatic; we joined hands and sang in front of the House, “Hum honge kamyaab, hum honge kamyaab! (We will be successful).” We congratulated our symbol of strength, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi whose persistence fulminated into the passing of the bill, which had taken 14 years in making it to the tables! But now after 40 years, I am often confused about the circumstances that evolved after the bill had transformed into a law.
I question if the bill really had made all the difference. It is indeed true that reservations/quota are quite worthy of bringing the oppressed classes of the society at par. But with the inception, I believe, the termination of a change is equally important. Like they did in America, the reservation must be scrapped after its maturity, or else the government is guilty of bringing in the inevitable lack of equal opportunities for growth and a sense of dissatisfaction amongst those who fight in “open!” I mean, isn’t that sectarian governance, be it on the levels of religion, classes, economic differences, or even the sexes. If women deserve 33% seats, how much should the 0.5% homosexuals should? Is Indian constitution ready for its first gay prime-minister, who’d gain the position not by election, but by his sexual orientation?
Besides, the much talked about change in the thinking process never really occurred. We have had in the past a woman prime minister in the form of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, who led the nation, much more like a man than a woman, and a woman president who was as silent as her previous male counterparts. So, where was the change then? In any case, I don’t feel that the reservations have, in any way, incurred better representation for the 50% population. It only has divided the constituency further on sexes, which was previously ruptured by castes and classes. On the other side, I feel, that woman who literally snatch positions from men, than “earn” them from quotas, are better capable of bringing the changes. If anything positive has happened with the bill is that now we have a few female fashionistasin the house, and it looks more glamorous like in the good old days of Madhavrao Sindhia and Rajeev Gandhi!
Miaaooo…
Mrs. Rajani Patel
Lok-Sabha Member (2010-2035)
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By Dagadu on March 12th, 2010 under Tasted & OK
Last year Ballu had organized a small outing to someplace in Konkan. At Harne port we got the freshest of Pomfrets with a huge female crab. Prior to that i had never ever had crab and seeing that one Ballu promised me I’ll be having a treat of my lifetime. And so happened the lady who sold us the crab also cooked it for us. Totally local gharcha khekda it was, a taste that still lingers on my taste buds. Well I been dying to get my hands on crab for whole 1 year and then I had this chance. Abdul got it for me. Fresh crabs aus Indien. Pillu was to arrive from India that day. So menu was set Crabs for us and Barracuda for Ballu (he has crustacean allergy– Lucky us)
Naive me who with perfect zero knowledge of crab cooking asked Abdul how to clean n cut them. He was more than happy to share that info. So at home with absent Pilu n Ballu I took on the crabs. Religiously followed the steps shared by Abdul (shop owner) and had my crab ready to cook. Though yet not sure how to cook them (or what called as cooked state) I decided to steam them for10 min . Used my Idli vessel for this.
Steaming Crabs :
Ingredients (Seriously I’ve no idea)
Ginger Garlic Paste 1 Tbsp
 - Crabbbbbbssssssss
Turmeric Half tbsp
Lemon 1 Tbsp
Salt Half tbsp
Procedure :
Applied to the crab flesh. Had the claws cracked a little and tried to stuff in the mixture of ingredients. Placed them in the idli cooker and steamed for 10 min. The crabs had turned to bright red color and that aromatic smell !! Myaan that was just what I had eaten a year ago. Set those aside and began preparing curry ( I remember vaguely as told my Maushi- Pillu’s mom)
Curry :
Ingredients
2 onion
Ginger garlic paste 1.5 Tbsp
Red chilies 2-3 nos
Cummin seeds half tbsp
Coconut grated 3/4 cups
coconut milk 5 tbsp
Oil 2-3 Tbsp
Procedure : Saute the onions until golden braun. Grind the spices , tender coconut, chillies, cummin onion to a very fine paste. Add this paste to the pan and let simmer for 2 min. keep adding few tbsp of water in case u see it drying. One the gravy starts to leave the oil add the crabs. fry them in that gravy for 1 min and add water to this and let it simmer for 15 min. Let the meat soak the gravy as it cooks. Let it not go dry. That day Ballu arrived on time but Pillu ’s flight got delayed hence we kept waiting. Cooking was done by 8 pm while Pillya came around 11pm. Utter tired from the flight travel , but seeing those crabs he lit up.
We ravished those crabs while Ballu finished the Barracuda. Curry was served with Rice and slices of lemon.
 - Infamous Jodi : Pillu n Ballu
PS : Well Pillya shifted out for his new phase of life – beginning his professional life. Alles gute zum zukunft.
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By Dagadu on March 11th, 2010 under Jag Bhraman Today I share an article from the blog www.indiafirsthand.com . The following is mere an excerpt.
The job responsibilities of a god are too much for me to handle. I have to make a lot of conflicting and contradictory statements which is not my nature. I also have to make a lot of predictions which I am not good at (the current value of my stock portfolio is one good example). And the compensation package is not what it used to be. Most politicians and business people make more money.
Some of these individuals like Sai Baba are extremely successful while others like Paramahamsa Nithyananda get tripped up. Only the strong and those with the right public relations and political connections make it all the way (notice I used the word “strong” and not the word “true”). This is religious evolution at its best!
Some Christian groups in North America (particularly the evangelists and the Baptists) consider groups like the Mormons (that have large worldwide following) as heretics.
But why are we not using the same degree of rationalism and skepticism to the gods and religions of bygone years?
Read the complete article at : http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=1654
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By Dagadu on March 10th, 2010 under Editorial It took 14 years for this delivery, Yes long 14 years. Indian women finally get 33% representation in the Parliament. There have been many debates and agitations in past to get this bill through, but what happened on Monday was the most shameful act of this delivery. The bill rather being debated, was battered and the Vice President was attacked during the on going session.
Well yesterday they finally took action and suspended the hooligan and got the bill passed. Though he politics remained at core even as the drama was unfolding. Mamata Banerjee abstained from this as she too wishes a quota with this quota. Achieving that she may score against the Left in her home state, where the ruling party has promised 10% reservation for Muslims.
 Image : Wikipedia The same concern was of the Yadavs, they want a provision made within this law as to assign quota for Dalits Muslims, SC, ST or other backward class women. Well this sounds reasonable, but cant they imply this in their own parties ? or do they need a law to get this done. Who stops these politicians from issuing tickets to the minorities?
33 % reservations seems to be a good move, but will this limit the women being just 33% in parliament? Shall they be contending hence forth only against women ? Also given the castist politics in India will all get the true representation. Will this bill benefit the women or will it sabotage women representation? Shall they henceforth be turned ‘Officially’ dolls at hands of’ men’ ?
There are many more questions which are thrown open with passing of the bill, but its more important to see the whole issue holistically. There are still matters within this bill that need to be addressed but was prime important to least get it passed and make it a Law. Once this hurdle is overcome India shall surely overcome the rest that lies in her path.
At times I wonder we worship Shakti, Kali, adore the qualities if Sita and glorify Draupadi, but yet it took 60 years to get First women President, or Lok sabha speaker. Even after 1000’s of years of our existence the women have to agitate and fight for their rights. We take pride in calling India as Maa Bharti, then why does this Maa wait so long and that too for just mere 33 %. Dosen’t she deserve more ? …….
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By Shruti on March 9th, 2010 under Junk-yard Sun setting down on the sea floor,
Spreading its rays on sandy shore.
Me walking, watching my footprints,
Carving my name, on dusty thing.
My finger rolls inside the sand,
I lay to catch, in my hand,
Soothingly it flows away,
“No one can hold me long”, it says.
Smiling at it, I swept my palm,
Lying on milky wave, steady and calm.
Realizing, I grabbed it too hard
Wanted to carry it, a little far.
Patiently again,holding in two hands,
This time for a while and gladly it stands.
Keeping it aside, I gently smiled
Now, I know what you made me realized.
Certain things are momentary to cherish,
Enjoy the essence, till they perish.
Don’t go too hard and fast,
It just matter, how long they last!
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By Dagadu on March 8th, 2010 under Editorial Dear Mr Vir Singhvi
Ref to : http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/medium-term/2010/01/19/judgements-and-journos/
Yes Mr Singhvi I am a blogger and FYI I represent nobody, I do blog from darkness of my room and feel no shame to share my views or thoughts. I may not be elite in media or anywhere else, but that does not stop my bloody brain from ticking.
Lets try to understand your congnisance when you claim the bloggers are elitist and self loathing. Apart from editing stuff at Hindustantimes arn’t you too a blogger ? Correct me if I am wrong. So does this
“Let’s take just one example. It is now common for bloggers and tweeters to complain that the media are only interested in circulation and viewership (or TRPs).”
apply to you too ? or are u above or alien to this behaviour of the elite bloggers ? Also lemme know does the mention of number of followers on Twitter, indicate popularity (TRP) or was the mention for no odd reason. Well I am not on twitter so cant boast of my followers, in short my personal TRP doest not exist, but should that stop me from ‘thinking’ or contemplating ? or should iIfollow your footsteps to become a elitist brag ?. If TRP is the marking as you say in your article
“When bloggers tell you that TV channels are only interested in TRPs, what are they saying?
In effect, they are saying that TV channels are only interested in reaching as many people as possible.
And why is this a bad thing? Surely the people the TV channels will reach will be just like the bloggers, ordinary people with an interest in some aspect of the news.”
Then perhaps the absence of TRP to this blog may render us out from the realm of ordinary people agreed, but does TRP judge the quality of thoughts ? The moment I share porn, nude pics of celebrities this blog shall have TRP like never before, so shall we apply the same to news channels too ?. Do you anywhere intend to say that running for TRP is not bad, then lemme ’stretch’ this logic, shall we start striping news readers ?, nude pics to editorials, I bet the ordinary people will be aroused with interest in ‘all aspects of the news’.
“Or, look at it another way. If a programme gets high TRPs, then this means that lots of ordinary people have liked it. The ordinary people may be right or wrong to have liked it – I pass no value judgements here – but the fact that they liked it is a reflection on them, not on the TV channel. So, why blame the channel? Why not blame the viewers?”
Well you sound perfectly right in blaming the viewers, its eggjactly the same like if person A attacks B, then along wtih A, even B should be blamed for being there or (for sake of TRP) or blaming the already famous but not yet even conceived embryo of Abhi-Ash, as its his fault for not getting conceived. Aplaud to you.
“Thus, we have a bizarre situation where traditional media are criticized for fulfilling their role of appealing to mass audiences on the grounds that the programming does not appeal to a tiny minority on the Internet (and compared to TV audiences or newspaper readerships, the blogging elite is really tiny).”
Tiny ?? hugh !! so ? does that make them ignorable ? Unfortunately I am not part of the traditional media but wonder what is that ? is it enforcing the bland news over n over or bombarding people with flashing news of some high profile guy’s missing Dog ? Or is it hiding the truth a part of traditional media. Can it be a case that the growing Blog prowess makes you insecure as Media as turned into a full professional business and the Ordinary people are seeing that fact. For eg : NDTV went all bonkers due the IPL ignoring Pak players. Why ? perhaps you know it better, NDTV has license of broadcasting in Pakistan and few other Arabian lands, IPL decision was big blow their market. Does this smell news selling ? or is it servicing the ordinary. Enlighten me and pull me out of my dark room.
Media has to be a watchdog and if some one else is becoming your watchdog be brave enough (as ur names goes) to accept this ‘censoring’ at least take it in positive spirit of competition. And yes this is a free country and yes like us you to are free to brag and add x number of elitist or more so erudite qualities to self, but wait ! judge us not , thou art not the final word in media so dont even assume that role. People expressing their views on others thoughts / actions is your profesion too, not all can be good but this dosent mean they should stop trying. Or Should we ?
A not so elitist blogger
Dagadu
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