Thank you Mr Kejriwal for shaking up the system and a sleeping Rahul Gandhi who delivered his most fiery and passionate speech yet at the AICC session. Now that Rahul has bounced back in top form kindly leave it to the big boys (Rahul and Modi) to battle it out. You can buzz off back to the NGO space from where you emerged in the first place!
Friday, 17 January 2014
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
101 resons
There are 101 reasons why suddenly all of us have decided to
support the AAP but it will take two good reasons why we could end up hating
it. The first reason could be an outdated economic ideology and there are
troubling signs that the ‘socialist’ ideologues in the party are already having
their way. The second reason is that many AAP netas want to play the role of
Don Quixote. We support the AAP to firstly end corruption and secondly to provide
effective governance. I will not support it to send a complete idiot like Kumar
Vishwas to Amethi to waste everyone’s time in fighting personalised battles and
mouth bad poetry and talk nonsense about the minorities, dalits and women.
Ditto for Prashant Bhushan, who is another gladfly, whose wings need to be
urgently clipped. Mallika Sarabhai’s warning to AAP should make them sit up.
Sunday, 12 January 2014
APOLOGY LETTER TO DEVYANI
Welcome back Devyani and please accept my deepest apologies for the unkind and devious utterances of so many of my ‘upper caste’ brethren who have been criticising you and your father as corrupt, manipulative; as a person who got her just desserts at the hands of the US state department and Preet Bharara.
Not one of these people has the remotest idea of what a scheduled caste person has to go through to gain equality, respect, and a decent livelihood, a job in the private sector, a roof on their heads and basic elemental security in the small little villages, towns and cities in India. Not one of these people has carried night soil on their heads. Not one of these people is used to be stared at in school and college when one enters the class as a ‘scheduled caste’ kid.
These people crib that your lot is ‘stealing’ jobs, placements, engineering, medical and college seats from ‘deserving candidates’. They cannot control their anger when they see in you a successful, modern, woman standing up to the most powerful country in the world for her basic human rights, for her right to be with her Indian American husband, with her kids who are American citizens. They fall back on idle gossip and rumours to criticise you, they bring in your father as an intemperate, corrupt, foul mouthed man, because in India it’s an age old tactic to criticise the family, especially the parents to get to the person who is targeted.
What else can you expect from this lot whose one ambition in life, even today, after so much has happened, is to get a green card for their children and themselves in the United States, never mind how the US treats them. Devyani these are the same people whose sons and daughters of generation next have become rich and content and they find themselves unable to compete for placements for the best schools and colleges in India. Their parents are forced to send them to the colleges in US, Britain, Canada, Australia and Singapore – all for a price of course. So how can they ever be objective about the way the US behaves with the rest of the world?
Devyani never mind these hypocrites and two faced critics who believe that it is their god given right to corner all the benefits in society. There are still some of us left who feel the pain, the utter loneliness of a woman fighting a lone battle in an alien country, a woman forced and subjugated by a cruel system, a woman who fought all that and walked Friday night through the airport terminal in Delhi, back from the US, with her head held high.
Not one of these people has the remotest idea of what a scheduled caste person has to go through to gain equality, respect, and a decent livelihood, a job in the private sector, a roof on their heads and basic elemental security in the small little villages, towns and cities in India. Not one of these people has carried night soil on their heads. Not one of these people is used to be stared at in school and college when one enters the class as a ‘scheduled caste’ kid.
These people crib that your lot is ‘stealing’ jobs, placements, engineering, medical and college seats from ‘deserving candidates’. They cannot control their anger when they see in you a successful, modern, woman standing up to the most powerful country in the world for her basic human rights, for her right to be with her Indian American husband, with her kids who are American citizens. They fall back on idle gossip and rumours to criticise you, they bring in your father as an intemperate, corrupt, foul mouthed man, because in India it’s an age old tactic to criticise the family, especially the parents to get to the person who is targeted.
What else can you expect from this lot whose one ambition in life, even today, after so much has happened, is to get a green card for their children and themselves in the United States, never mind how the US treats them. Devyani these are the same people whose sons and daughters of generation next have become rich and content and they find themselves unable to compete for placements for the best schools and colleges in India. Their parents are forced to send them to the colleges in US, Britain, Canada, Australia and Singapore – all for a price of course. So how can they ever be objective about the way the US behaves with the rest of the world?
Devyani never mind these hypocrites and two faced critics who believe that it is their god given right to corner all the benefits in society. There are still some of us left who feel the pain, the utter loneliness of a woman fighting a lone battle in an alien country, a woman forced and subjugated by a cruel system, a woman who fought all that and walked Friday night through the airport terminal in Delhi, back from the US, with her head held high.
Monday, 23 December 2013
KEJRIWAL’S FRENCH REVOLUTION AND HIS ‘LOKPAL’ GUILLOTINE
I have never supported the BJP but I have no hesitation in
saying I would prefer their Govt. in Delhi rather than these bunch of AAP
jokers. Not many people have bothered to see beyond the AAP rhetoric and study
their political and economic agenda. These people are a dangerous fringe group
of ultra-left, anarchist radicals who can only exist by pitting people against
each other and destroying harmony. The raison de’ etre or the reason for
existence of the AAP is to generate a state of perpetual conflict.
If the AAP were to be believed then they can only achieve
their ‘water and electricity revolution’ by either bankrupting Delhi state
coffers or pulling the con of the decade. We might hate the Reliance group for
their no nonsense manner of electricity distribution in Delhi but tell me one
entity including the erstwhile state electricity board DVB that will give you
electricity without a profit motive. Fast running meters are a problem but
assuming that all meters are fixed to generate inflated bills has to be a
conspiracy that seems to be straight out of the Stalinist era. The modus
operandi of Mr Kejriwal is a page taken again from that era - Play upon real or
imagined fears of the vulnerable sections of society, champion yourself as a
messiah who will deliver the impossible and then foist a law upon the people
(Lokpal) that will help you to wipe out opposition and imprison real and
imagined enemies to your cause. That’s right: the Lokpal (Kejriwal version) is
one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation that will help these anarchists
to use the Lokpal like the guillotine to decapitate any kind of opposition that
these people face on the way.
A crusade against Lal battis of politicians, real and imagined
corruption, the have and have nots, no FDI in retail are all popular rallying
causes but we have to be pragmatic that governance is not about doling freebies
but taking compassionate but equally pragmatic decisions for the general good
of the people.
Sadly all this is least on the AAP agenda. Their single
point agenda will be a search for real and imagined enemies and not governance.
This will become clear sooner rather than later. A party like the AAP can only
thrive if there is strife and chaos all around. The AAP now has Delhi by the
scruff of its neck and ominously it will soon have the Lokpal ‘guillotine’ as
it comes marching in. Let’s see whose head first rolls on the ground.
Sunday, 22 December 2013
TIGER MOMS , TIGRESS DEVYANI AND THE STEALTHY, PUSSY FOOTED AMRIKI
Justice for Devyani is at best the hors’ de oeuvres before a
meal. The real issue is a civilizational clash between Asian and western value
systems in the Devyani case. We for instance bring up our children by
encouraging then to study long hours, with the mum supervising the study
routine by feeding in the child nutritious meals, the domestic pitching in by
making tea, giving the child Bournvita with milk in the night and generally the
entire house pitching in to help the child perform well in exams. There is no
talk of 40 hours a week etc because everything is geared to make the child
perform well, go to IIT etc and then move to the US for a high paying job. It
wouldn’t be a stretch to say that significant credit of Wall Street’s
domination over world economic matters can be given to the Tiger moms of China,
India and South Korea. This is a reality of life and it might appear cruel,
over the top and out of place in the new world but this is the Mandarin,
Bharatiya , the Oriental or call it what you will way of doing things. At
ground zero it works like this in Asia and not the way the Americans and others
would have us believe.
Going by changes in US law then the Tiger Mom could be held
culpable for cruelty to the child, the domestic etc and all them could be
charged and thrown in jail. Can Preet Bharaa do this? I can eat with a fork and
knife but in my private moments I like to eat my rajma chawal with my hands.
All those who support Preet Bhara and company fail to
realize that the ‘ rights’ that America is so fond of talking about is a double
edged weapon used by America in war of civilizations. Let me be bold enough to
say that if we succumb to American pressure then we surrender what really is
our strength and encourage this new form of American colonialism.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Praise for my new book 'THE AVENGER' by the Indian Express
Fighting the good fight
Fri Nov 29 2013, 23:29 hrs
Author: Juggi Bhasin
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 495
Price: Rs 299
The Avenger by Juggi Bhasin takes up a year later after the events in The Terrorist, where Special Forces officer Suvir Suri faced his terrorist doppelganger, Murad, to a decidedly deadly climax. Now Suri has retreated to Himachal Pradesh to put a considerable distance between the world and his comatose lover and himself.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, a plane belonging to billionaire industrialist Suresh Jindal is hijacked while his daughter is on board and subsequently bombed, at the behest of the sociopathic Sikandar Khan, a Pakistani terrorist. Jindal prevails on Suri to avenge his daughter's death as well as foil Khan's machinations. The plot is a well-oiled, fast-paced machine, with Bhasin deftly providing backgrounds to his characters and situations without hindering the story arc.
The Avenger's characters are real and relatable — whether it's a sarkari babu's mistress, an inebriated pilot or a terrorist using homosexuality as a weapon — without coming under any moralist fire. The portrayal of contemporary India as a country besieged by financial scams, separatist violence, TRP-hungry news channels and politicians with agendas, is fairly accurate, making the book an engaging read, despite some over-the-top accounts of global terrorism. There's even an eerily au courant licentious episode between a senior and a cub reporter in an elevator.
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