My heartfelt response to all who have showered love on me, and also who have not:
A treasure of love in
the stream of Sarayu,
matchless and ascetic,
a symbol of Fortuna,
mother of all divinity.
Fathomless and indescribable,
never try its analysis.
With eyes closed,
I feel, how dear it is
to my heart,
my abode of love.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Judicial activism not good for nation?
A bigger section of the society including media heaves a sigh of relief when the judiciary takes on the government for its inefficiency, ineptness and indifference towards the large-scale corruption in the country. Several 'hired' intellectuals cannot digest the appointment of the two-judge committee by the Supreme Court to unearth the blackmoney. They term it as unconstitutional and an act of overstepping the authority of the government.
They sound much, and say that it is a sinister implication that the judiciary has donned the mantle of an administrator and encroached upon the authority of the government. And this is not good for the health of the nation.
It is true that unearthing blackmoney, ending corruption and punishing the guilty is the job of the administration. Normally judiciary does not have any role here. But what happens if the government fails to react against the perpetrators of illegal acts? What happens if there is violation of social, economic and political norms? And government remains sloth and sluggish to deal with the state of affairs?
The fact is that it was the initiatives of the Supreme Court which censured our investigative agencies for their indifferent and apathetic attitudes against the misdeeds of politicians, bureaucrats and corporate powers which resulted in the loss of lakhs of crores rupees to the state exchequer. It was judicial activism that puts Raja, Kalmadi, Balwa, Kanimozhi, Hassan Ali, several top bureaucrats and corporate executives behind the bars.
It is likely that a single Kalmadi, or a Raja may have done more harm to the nation than sum total of the prisoners (the number may be several lakhs) languishing or serving terms in Indian jails.
Moreover, though the elite prisoners are in jail, they still hold a substantial influence over the jail administration. Kalmadi's snacks party with the jail superintendent or the freedom of the high profile inmates in the jail premises are the proofs of that. It was a judge who witnessed the goings on in the 'Hotel Tihar' during an inspection. Here the judicial activism plays the spoilsport of administrative hobnobbism!
Yet the principles of these 'intellectuals' are that, if you are attacked or looted in public, the people around should just witness the incident or at best they can inform the police or the constitutional authority to redress the grievances of the victim. Or when there is an accident, and the injured groan in pain you need not take him to hospital, because it is the duty of the police.
As a layman what I understand, among the three pillars of democracy - legislature, executive and judiciary, the two formers are eaten up by the termites to a great extent, and the later, it seems, emerges as the strong backbone of the country. Please don't try to weaken it with your insidious attack on judiciary.
They sound much, and say that it is a sinister implication that the judiciary has donned the mantle of an administrator and encroached upon the authority of the government. And this is not good for the health of the nation.
It is true that unearthing blackmoney, ending corruption and punishing the guilty is the job of the administration. Normally judiciary does not have any role here. But what happens if the government fails to react against the perpetrators of illegal acts? What happens if there is violation of social, economic and political norms? And government remains sloth and sluggish to deal with the state of affairs?
The fact is that it was the initiatives of the Supreme Court which censured our investigative agencies for their indifferent and apathetic attitudes against the misdeeds of politicians, bureaucrats and corporate powers which resulted in the loss of lakhs of crores rupees to the state exchequer. It was judicial activism that puts Raja, Kalmadi, Balwa, Kanimozhi, Hassan Ali, several top bureaucrats and corporate executives behind the bars.
It is likely that a single Kalmadi, or a Raja may have done more harm to the nation than sum total of the prisoners (the number may be several lakhs) languishing or serving terms in Indian jails.
Moreover, though the elite prisoners are in jail, they still hold a substantial influence over the jail administration. Kalmadi's snacks party with the jail superintendent or the freedom of the high profile inmates in the jail premises are the proofs of that. It was a judge who witnessed the goings on in the 'Hotel Tihar' during an inspection. Here the judicial activism plays the spoilsport of administrative hobnobbism!
Yet the principles of these 'intellectuals' are that, if you are attacked or looted in public, the people around should just witness the incident or at best they can inform the police or the constitutional authority to redress the grievances of the victim. Or when there is an accident, and the injured groan in pain you need not take him to hospital, because it is the duty of the police.
As a layman what I understand, among the three pillars of democracy - legislature, executive and judiciary, the two formers are eaten up by the termites to a great extent, and the later, it seems, emerges as the strong backbone of the country. Please don't try to weaken it with your insidious attack on judiciary.
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