Sunday, November 28, 2010

Police goof on customs sex party, sensible verdict

The High Court mid last week gave one of the most sensible judgements in a long time. Bombay HC acquitted all the customs officers who were caught with bar dancers for indulging n pornography. The judge further said that adult pornography when indulged in and recorded within one's private four walls is NOT illegal, especially when it is consentual. vv important landmark judgement. For those freakin' losers, over excited moral brigaders looming within our society and in police force. Who have become unncessary pains by intruding in people's private worlds -homes or parties. Remember i wrote a piece on this on this very blog 2 years ago.

How such swooping down on people's private party won't hold good in courts of law. I gave the reasons too. Consential sex, porno, party among adults is NOT a crime. Yes, it often is the envy of the neighbour, but it can lead to many legal issues for those who are intruding forcibly and the envious ones. Quite deserving, if you ask me. if behind their four walls and behind the curtains any individual is indulging in different forms of sex that are not violating the concerned persons rights or any legal issue then so be it. Nobody has the right to disrupt it.

I still think what is more pertinent is how is that all the customs officers of that branch got officials leaves on the same day? Who passed those leaves? Why were they passed? Did the holiday mostly casual leave impact on the customs official work, functioning? If so then how? Who supervised the work? Who funded this party? who paid for the bar dancers? Where did the money come from? Were the funds as form of any cuts or bribes? Or were they simply money of the individual officers. What about the booze, who paid for the alcohol. From where was it acquired? Who solicited it? who brought the bar dancers? Were there any middle agents? were the agents connected to the underworld?

If the customs officers themselves have contacted bar dancers-wc in all likelihood is NOT the scenario- then what was the modus operandi? How regularly do they splurge their money? is the money spent in the dance bars bribes? any kick backs?

Now as a citizen, more so a reporter i am more interested in the above questions rather than who slept with whom. Who cares, each one needs to mind their own business. It is NOT who sleeps with whom that makes for the story. What's important is how was it done? under what circumstances? Because if the underworld has certain consignments to be passed and that's why they sponsored, then it is VERY important to investigate this matter on the lines stated. Now the police goofed yet again. In the courts snooping in on pvt sex can NEVER hold good. The cops can't blame the courts and law for their lack of investigations.

http://neeta-coolcat.blogspot.com/2008/08/sex-scandal-involving-customs-officers.html

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Season of scams

Haha did we think we've had like enough of scams for the year? Not really. There was first Adarsh Society scam. One age old scam that gained momentum yet again, thanks to the immense lobbying by a former chief minister of maharashtra who is now in Union ministry while he wants his MLA son to get a berth in the state.

Congress high command over stepped their line. On what basis have they sacked Ashok Chavan? Because he recommended his in-laws? That according to NO court of law is illegal or criminal. He is NOT involved in any breach of norms, or sanctioning by misusing his powers. The person to have done that is the man who managed this whole episode.

The real reason for 'scam' & uproar or outcry was that the plot where this multi-storeyed building has come up was alelgedly reserved for Kargil war widows. Now, this bit of news itself is a scam & needs to be investigated.....only because a leading newspaper said 'war widows' it was accepted as a seal. The papers show mention of the society including names of war heroes and the 2 names have little to do with teh kargil war. The 3rd in fact is a nominee. Interesting how this scam wreaks of Babus, armed forces officials & politicians who have breached environmental norms & other norms, like taken exrta FSI, etc. Sad part is there is always a scape goat and here it was ONLY Ashok Chavan, the others have gone untouched.

The 2nd is CWG, but i really don't intend to get into it. The key person Suresh Kalmadi's real misdeeds need to investigated even more. the whole Indrayani, shatabdi express started on Mumb-Pune line, the land amassed by Kalmadi and family is really not new. The Sai services agency which deals with Maruti cars is owned by Kamadi. Half of Pune Kalmadi's taken over, the other half mr Ajit pawar has. So the fight for corruption goes on.

The last one is vv important. The Barkha/Radia/Vir gate. Yes, the tapes leaks of 2 big names in Media. Vir Singhavi & Barkha Dutt. Now need i say more? The names are big, because the media, their respective news organisations have made them super personas. They made them feel good. Obviously the organisations 'also' have benefitted, although they may have benefitted the most. considering they have that much more information & are actually not just sources, they seem to be 'negotiating' the stakes have been more than one can imagine.

1.journalists can't have special immunity & say 'sources' said or fed rather. 2. Journalists can't cheat by saying we have creative freedom. 3. Don't deride people on your platform, we are ONLY moderators, catalysts we are NOT the hallmark that can seal any decision. 4. Journos are not above law-any law. 5. getting info & details is 1 thing. how it is used is altogether something else. 6. this info was 'used' bartered. it comes with a cost..7. the means used are equally imp as the end. 8. can journos determine who should or shouldn't be in any cabinet/ministry? 9. what are their stakes? 10. Journalist including editor reports, you opine in your columns only, otherwise report neutrally.

guess this all is forgotten...lol!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Social Network - film

I wanted to see this film, for the story behind facebook. The people, their dynamics, the aim in setting it up and the destination for this site. What was the premise on which this site began?

Revenge, one-up manship, competition, to get 'hot' gals on the site. What is the peronality of the kind of person; his/her mental, emotional set up. It all fell in place. A person who thinks he is god's gift to human kind, who isn't kid to competition, not at all innocent. Someone who has altogether NO skills for socialisation, plll absolutely ridiculing pre-disposition. Although i admit Zackeberg is amazingly intelligent.

The fact that he provalims his IQ, reminds me of yet another journalist who i know is contemptous of others with lower IQ. I however do admit this film took me NO where cinematically.

Some dude out of frustration types at extremely high speed punching his fingers into the key board. May be he thought he was John Nash when he wrote some formula on the window for public display...well we'd be taken to task had we to do it...that didn't stop us from scribbling on odd places.

So what was it that happened? besides chatter and banging on key boards, there were loads of dialogues. NOTHING was shown. I mean many Hindi films are a disaster, but this was pathetice. How can anyone give it excellent rating? How can anyone call it a brilliant film?

This Zuckeberg fellow is the youngest billionaire. Great, fantastic idea no doubt. Loner -sure and how! He's confused, can't take it that some most unexpected person, undoubtedly his ex-best friend has got admission to the most exclusive club. These were plain teasers to the Elite Harvard School we got no real insight into it. The twins uset their father's name. What's so significant? How does it make a diff to the dean or not? these were superfluous things touched upon. The fact is this kid did think big.

With little or NO social skills -well most software walas, don't have. Yet, he has taken the society to a higher level, the whole concept of interconnectivity, inter-personal relations, however superficial or deep have been taken to a next stage which is uncertain. most importantly one's private abso perosnal lives is on public display for the world to see. From personal feeuds to caste, community, national & international disputes become one. The world has become small. Out of nowhere your one time old flame, first love springs up, throws a surprise at you, totally leaving you rattled. It's helped share ideas, views...but none of it was displayed on cinema as i would have loved. Most randome people from the remotest corner of each country seem to be connected...why, how, when did this all expand??

No answers either real or cinematic....guess that's why it's ONLY a facebook

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Baracked media

OK, so first in between all our Adarsh netas we were told to send 100s of applications, fill 200 forms, send 10 photos to various agencies some overt some secret. All for Barack Obama's coverage. This was immensely time consuming & frustrating.

When i gave the names of Juniors, i was well aware & in full senses that i did NOT want to be anywhere those venues where Prez's events were to take place. I have been a sceptic, according to Bellur N Srikrishna sir, 'lone dissent voice while others are going gaga." Yes, i had foreseen the soap opera unfolding. Major drama. Also have gone thru' it all far too often. I'm not excited & Kicked by such routine stories. Like on the 1st day at the airport-10 hours before that the chief minister & dy chief minister are asked for ID proof, despite letters acknowledging them as 'Honourable CM & DCM" had been dispatched. We lower mortals had to send I-Card, photo, Passport, state accreditation cards proof, etc, etc. suddenly reminded me of my MHADA-Press Club housing application days.

Then reporters who are covering the event have been called just 5 hours before the slated time. Now i remember when Bill gates had come & the PR fella who overslept wt hangover had called me 8 hrs in advance, and i had given him a real dressing down. Simple - my funda being no one is above the President & PM of this country, even then we aren't called more than 2 hrs in advance, cut this crap dude.. I did NOT want to get into another similar brawl situation. NOBODY is more important than oneself, i believe that IS the mantra for my survival today.

I decided to give gyan, do OB lives, though i DISLIKE it & do NOT think it is journalism. But yes if i can lend a perspective & try to give some analysis then yes, would like to do that. Especially the fact that South Mumbai was half barricaded. People's movement, I mean residents' lives were RESTRICTED. While on the other hand the Prez spoke of 'freedom, democracy.' Hope he saw & was told what arse holes his American security people along with our jack asses police made a mess of our lives.

Then our own journalist community. One real bunch of jokers. We are incestuous, plain bitchy & somehow don't seem to grow up. One bunch of Bhaiyya journalists stood on the side gossiping galore. It didn't require rocket science to know they were bitching abt me & another colleague. with heads turning that would've given them a sprain, it was evident they had little work and knowledge. It is good that there are so many journalists one can easily AVOID. More the merrier..

And like as if i've retired i had some of them telling me how "its amazing to see you've got back to tv!!" lol...ofcourse today's tv is all about sharing, exchange of videos, news. That's what we had to do.

Then our news channel. NewsX is rather not so well distributed or in no 1/2 ranking. So we weren't called to most places. We believe in hand to mouth existence. So we have 5 reporters including me the head while most channels had 30 to 50 battalion of reporters, seniors, etc. We still did NOT miss anything. We still got Ratan Tata on tv. We still managed to get everything. Word of appreciation, none.

the funny part was also irritating trying to get toilets. I've crossed all boundaries of patience & holding back. i will NOT. I know there are some faggots on the loose who read my blog & leave nasty comments. But let me tell you i'd rather show my i-card & get into restaurants or residential houses requesting to use their toilets rather then damage my kidneys. I don't want to put myself through any unnecessary problems.

I struck a rapport with a elite restaurant, today was bad. Sulabh & azad maidan. Pathetic. But the way the police had PREVENTED us to move around it was sad. Thankfully we captured on camera Vivek Vaswani arguing with the cops at Nariman Point junction. He kept asking them show the route to get home. Why have they done this. They stopped vehicles from plying normally, stopped public from moving on our roads. We pay tax for this. Hello have the politicians forgotten?

And our police. LEss said about them the better. We heard Obama talk of freedom, rights, democracy. All of it was curtailed by his secret service people & our bloody cops. The good part was the communists comrades put up a demo of protest. Mumbai police who otherwise wld've shoved them with batons, allowed them to put up protest they too were miffed to miss their diwali.

we were sama dukhi. NO diwali, out on the streets fm wee hours in morn. Oily, spicy, intestine burning food that units are given. I struck a rapport with restaurant, so finally ate a Lasagne. Yess...needed it, with some mushroom soup. THE only fine point in 2 days of sun-burn. Skin is in patches, looks like disease. My legs feel they are separate , disconnected from rest of my body. I need rest, oil, heat pad & a good foot massage!

Friday, November 05, 2010

Oba-mama

Ok, where do i start? I do't know if I am happy that Barrack Obama is coming to amchi B'bay. For lot of reasons. I do not thing that this visit is going to improve politics, policy changes -like helping agriculture to boost, economy to give more space to our poor, create more jobs for non-qualified for small plot owners cum farmers toiling for SURVIVAL; it will not help getting more income for those who are being outsourced at one tenth the pay for some god forsaken American company.

More so Obama's visit won't aide FDI in media, they won't be coming down to India to set up shops, they still prefer China which dictates terms & doesn't seem sooo spineless like us Indians.

Obama's visit will add to plenty of our woes. Want me to get started? I'm really wanting to give it out. We Indians have NO concept of security, protection, body guards, using intelligence to judge, anticipate & quell. We believe in RESTRICTION. So we have baton-wielding police who HAVE to only maintain law & order. Who are NOT trained for terror combat, intelligence gathering, being clas A detectives, intercepting. Please we believe restrict movement, keep out own people away & STOP even a fly from getting near Obama.

Our reputation is widely known. What false pride we gloat in about democracy? We have failed to provide safe drinking water to our poor since the birth of our independence. SO Obama even brings his own water. Wow! Hope the over awed by Obama Americans see through the expenditure of this trip which is gonna cut deep into the US tax payers pockets.

Also, i am told there are 16 technologies exclusively with US, they happily give it to some countries including China. We are NOT favourites bhai log. We get ONLY 6 technologies. NOt all of IT even is given to us. Pittance or peanuts that is outsourced from us at appallingly low costs. It would shame their policy makers to pay an American citizen, but we are Indians you know.

Ok, i still do NOT agree to the American policy overall on counter-terrorism. It is the world is either with them or against. Boss, i give a damn. I'm NOT interested in your country's woes. We have enough to worry of our own. You had 1 9/11 & for 700 generations you won't let us forget, NOT that we even want to. But let me remind you we've had 9 times more terror, extremist attacks. Far worse & violent. Including a Kargil war. Far worse or rather worst has been Bhopal gas tragedy.

While this Warren Anderson frolicks in Panama islands is spotted despite Interpol order then how does it rate him any better than Dawood Ibrahim or Tiger Memon? They were responsible for '93 blasts. Anderson fled & worse still was allowed to flee by ball-less, gaand fattu politicians who let him free out of India. Three generations of gas tragedy victims are physically affected, forget the mental, emotional & psychological scars. Worse still they have got NO justice. And if we raise this issue, the American officials tell us, "There are no permanent friends or enemies." You must learn to forget & move on.

Boss, the most famous words of an American scholar are, "DOn't forget your history." Why should i forget my history? the truth especially? Will Obama hand over Anderson to India?

Why should he force us to support America over Iran? They first allow Saddam to go out of hand, then bump him off without a trial. Then give us Anderson, we too will bump him off. Without a trial for chemical leak, as worse or more than chemical warfare which was NEVER proved.

They want a hardocre islamist regime to fall in Iran....why? Let their people decide. Why is US interested in the middle east? Why becoz all American presidents have benami shares in oil companies? Why bcoz the US & jew economy runs on oil warfare & Anti-Islamist war?

I don't know soooo many scores of answers. I don't hold Obama responsible for them. But i do hold their country's faulty policies. They arm twist us to reduce creidt rate, reduce interests on all our savings, FDs, privatise everything & now they re-consider it wanting to revert to nationalised banks! huh...do they think we are uneducated, illiterate, ill-informed population?? I don't know really speaking.

They force some ridiculous policies like large dams wc we protest & are termed anti-development, some SEZ scam which covers green arable land, for mortals it means agricultural land. They want cement jungles & then cry hoarse about climate change. Hello our tribals aren't fools. They are being organised & then you're termed Communist. I give an ant's arse. I do oppose these half baked ideas & policies.

Why should a land holding, poor, illiterate hand-mouth existence farmer wash someone else's toilet & clean their fucking shit? DO it ourselves. The farmer holds piece of land. He deserves more respect, defintiely 5 times market price, bcoz any company would make 10 more profits. But then it is termed as conspiracy.

I only know the poor are icnerasing by the day. India is only IMPORTING. we have NOTHING to offer to the world. Those educated want their children to study & run abroad by 'hook or crook.' It is sad.

SO we bend forwards & backwards. Call Obama. Prostrate before him, pao padao, let them arm twist us & we spend over 200 crores on his visit while millions starve.

Obama is competing in a beauty contest? He says, "One leader I would've liked to dine with was Gandhiji." World peace! He won it too...hahaha