Government, Politics and Corruption

From 1989 to 2013, from Bofors to IPL spot fixing scams, the part that has remained (and shall be remaining) constant is to protect the powerful. The parliamentary committees ever formed in all such massive scams have done their best in maintaining the constant scenario. This, in turn, has resulted in a complete failure to fix the accountability, or in other words, “who” kept the “how much” in “where”. The amazing part of all is how one after another scams of better numbers are getting divulged and the way strings are being pulled to cause distraction or a cloud around it.

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Third rape in 48 hours, victim burnt alive - you think you are secured ?

All the events in our country one after the other are just being looking as if they have become natural. Nothing moves us from our daily life. We just don't really care about anything that goes around without effecting us directly. A martyr's widow or mother, a raped girl, a jobless man, etc. feel the actual pain of living with the people like us. Rape - a victim knows the deathly attack - much bitter than poison.

A 33-year-old woman was burnt alive after allegedly being raped in Etah district in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
Her family alleged that five men first gangraped her and then lynched her because they were afraid that she would identify them and go to the police.

The police have denied these allegation and have claimed that the attackers were trying to rob and not rape her.

This will be third rape case to be reported in the state in 48 hours.Earlier a Dalit minor from Kannauj was allegedly stabbed in the eye and left blind by two men when she resisted rape. Two policemen were suspended for delaying the filing of an FIR.

An 18-year-old Dalit girl was also allegedly raped at gunpoint by a man in Ranipur Beladi village.

Even after 27 days, Shiromani Akali Dal leader Satnam Singh Kahlwan -- accused of raping 13 year old girl, continues to evade arrest. However, adding insult to the injury, Satnam's mother flaunts her VIP connection and says her family not afraid of anyone.

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Cash votes - now WikiLeaks says

The most stunning part was just out of any leaks that got its mirror on the face of our democracy. The claim that I got to access is about a WikiLeaks India cables that Manmohan Singh-led UPA government used cash to win trust vote in Parliament in 2008 over Indo-US nuclear deal. WikiLeaks said that five days before UPA-I faced a crucial vote of confidence in Lok Sabha, Congress leader Satish Sharma's aide Nachiketa Kapur showed a US employee two chests containing money to be used to bribe MPs

According to a report, it was said that he was part of a bigger fund of Rs 50 to 60 crore that the Congress had arranged to purchase the support of  MPs for the nuclear deal.

Read the WikiLeaks India Cable...

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Education system needs to be in urgent alert

The pace with which the world is moving at present era, needs to be looked into the prospect of education system. And specially when it comes to India, a developing country, it stands as a big issue to be dealt with minute attention. I was really amazed that even this needful section of a country was diseased with corruption. 

 Here I present a report by UNESCO.

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Rotten food grains or Death due to starving - which one you prefer ?

Sometimes, I really run out of issues to blog about. But the very next moment comes knocking on my head, saying "dude, you are in India !" Oh, I really forgot and am never out of any issue. Corruption is a well- defined  issue in my last articles, but corruption in food system in a developing country like ours, is really a tension to be concerned about. One report showed dogs eating grain in UP, where poverty and malnourishment are rampant. Another showed sacks of wheat in Punjab rotting away outside warehouses. A third caught officials trying to burn grain because they hadn't been able to distribute it to families entitled to free rations.

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Swami Nigamanand's fasting death - a slap on everyone of us

Swami Nigamanad in Hospital

I am really finding it difficult myself to understand the way the citizens are dealt by the politicians in our country. Sometimes, some deeds make us to think of them as good (relax, even a little bit of goodness). But the very next moment blurs our thoughts into air, making us saying "after all you are a politician, no good of your kind !". Here, as the topic indicates, I am to blog about something that really pinched me and asked me to stop looking for TRPs like media and go for the mud beneath clear-seeming water. The unfortunate death of Swami Nigamanand is the cause for this state of my article now.

Swami Nigamanand

Before putting my comments over the incident, I must put light upon it. My readers must know the new smoke of polluting part of the society.
A swami fasting for over three months against illegal mining along Ganga died on Monday in the same Dehra Dun hospital where Baba Ramdev was recuperating after his nine-day fast, and stirred the Congress into attack back the BJP. The game that they think they play well, without getting us noticed the real motive. Poor politicians ! Really poor?

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