Lack of Statesmanship

In recent times political mismanagement, corruption, protests are the only news coming out of India. It seems that the political chaos is fading the shinning India story. A couple of years back when UPA-2 cabinet was announced, there was buzz about the competency of the majority of union cabinet. It was further strengthen by the intellectual capital arranged at the National Advisory Council. Which was considered to be conscience of the government; and Sonia Gandhi as the head NAC gave tooth to the council. The intent was to build consensus among various stakeholders on the key challenges through better consultation. If all was so good the where did this plethora of great policy makers and advisors failed.

How did somebody like Anna Hazare, an ex-peon with a few successful water harvesting projects under his belt went on to take such a government, ironically headed by the father of economic liberalisation in India. Anna with his clean and simple image has been successful in building significant middle class support against the government. He is often compared to Gandhi, contrary to the fact that Gandhi was a barrister with mass appeal ranging from the harijans to the elites.

Anna has surely been successful amongst those who have access to internet as they read his blogs, also with those who have motorbikes and cars to participate in his rallies. Majority of these people often don’t go to vote as they are so busy on internet or watching television in their homes. The majority among these honest Anna supporters are from the missed opportunity class. They are honest because they could not get a chance to participate in the corrupt league. I will not paint every one with the same brush, as I understand there are some white dots but in the population of 1.2 billion it is almost impossible to find them.

To these 10 million internet users, corruption might appear to be the biggest challenge in India. But for the forgotten sections of India there lies various other challenges before corruption. For Schedule Caste their self respect in society is more important than corruption. It is considered to be more honourable to sleep without food than been thrown out of a temple. For tribals, the foremost priority is to save their forests than fight. For Muslims, it is safer to live with corruption than to be slaughtered for a reason ever unknown. These three along with other backward classes constitutes silent but large majority, which  considers political corruption as a given.  

I certainly don’t wish to down play the importance of a strong anti corruption law but 'my way highway' approach is unacceptable. It is easy to taste the mass support but not to digest; congress however has mastered the art after several years in power. I believe that the a strong political will and experience of bringing path breaking laws like NREGA, RTI, RTE will help the government to pass a strong and effective Anti corruption bill. Thereafter Food Security, Anti Communal Riots and Land Reform bills are waiting for its turn to be shouted by opposition. 

The current vacuum in the government is not due political or intellectual incompetency but  due to lack of statesmanship and leadership. To head a nation as diverse as India, one needs  strong statesmanship than wisdom. It becomes even more important if it is a coalition government. Thus the current state of the government can easily be strengthen if PM portrays better political will than his economic and logical wisdom. It would be better if congress takes some lesson from Nehru, Indira or even Vaypayee before it is too late and the fading India Shinning story becomes irreversible.

Basel Convention and UAE

In the recent times the environment protection is a buzzword here in UAE and government is drafting stringent laws to protect the environment.

UAE signed the Basel Convention* in November 1992 and established a legislation called ‘Regulation for Handling Hazardous Materials, Hazardous Wastes and Medical Waste (Law 24 of 1999)’. Article 12 of the law states ‘Transportation and disposal of locally produced hazardous waste through land borders, marine environment limit and air space shall be controlled in accordance with the rules, procedure and controls mentioned and specified in Basel Agreement and in coordination with Federal Environmental Agency’.

UAE is not yet a signatory to Basel BAN amendments of Sep 1995 thus there is no mention of the Basel BAN amendments in the current federal legislation.

At emirates level various legislation were passed to organise the waste management sector in each emirates. Abu Dhabi passed the Law 21 of 2005 concerning Waste Management in emirate of Abu Dhabi. The clauses listed below are related to transportation of hazardous waste, which permits the Centre of Waste Management (CWM which is the Competent Authority) to monitor and manage the transportation of hazardous waste.

Chapter 4 – Responsibilities of Waste Generator

Article 5.6.c ‘Medical or Hazardous waste must not be delivered to any party interested in contracting unless such parties specify the means that they shall apply on such waste and provide the approval of the competent authority’

Chapter 5 – Responsibilities of Storage, Treatment and Disposal Facilities

Article 6.3 ‘Storage, treatment and/or disposal facilities must not receive any hazardous waste shipments except after obtaining the approval of the competent authority on the sites and methods to be used’

Article 6.4 ‘The Competent authority may issue an annual approval for the disposal of recurrent shipments of the same kind of hazardous waste through regulations laid down for such purpose’

Shipment of such waste coming into UAE has been well monitored and controlled. In recent past only a single incident of mixed plastic waste was reported in media. The waste was imported through Dubai ports to be treated at a facility in Ajman (another Emirate in UAE). The Dubai government objected to import and the issue was raised at Environment Agency-UK. As a result, the transporting company was fined about GBP 75,000.

Major waste stream of hazardous waste in UAE are Petrochemical waste, Medical Waste, e-Waste and nuclear waste will join the list soon. To avoid hazardous waste export the cash rich government owned petrochemical companies have established centralised treatment facility. CWM has established treatment facilities for Medical Waste Incineration, Engine Oil treatment, Tyre Shredding through PPP model.

Government is encouraging private companies for e-waste recycling. A few major electronic distributors have established collection centres and they transfer the waste to established facilities. However, good fraction e-waste is still collected in an unorganised manner and exported to South and South-East Asian countries. The exports of such substance are not widely reported.

Unlike my home country India and majority of the third world countries, UAE has efficient law enforcement machinery. Thus after the establishment of CWM in 2008, there has been significant improvement in waste management in general and hazardous waste transportation in particular. Further impetus is required by the government to invest into the better treatment/storage facilities for e-waste, nuclear waste and other such waste. The legislations shall also be made more illustrative to check the aberrations regarding trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste.

References

*The Basel Convention is an UNEP convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on hazardous and other wastes. The Convention has 175 Parties and aims to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects resulting from the generation, management, transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous and other wastes. The Basel Convention came into force in 1992. 

Click here to know more about Basel Convention

Hazardous Waste Laws in UAE
Centre of Waste Management - Abu Dhabi

State of Environment in UAE

Dubai Hazardous Waste

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/107603.aspx?lang=_e

http://www.slideshare.net/zarounee/hazardous-waste

Published in CleantechSolution

LIVE ALIGARH MOVEMENT

While I was writing this note date turned to 17 Oct, the Sir Syed Day. I am reading messages coming for Aligarian across the world. The social media sites and other networks are flooded with wishes. In the university student as well as alumni associations will celebrate it with beautiful nostalgic poetry, Tarana followed by dinner which will end yet another founder’s day. I have just received the invitation from the Alumni Association of UAE that it is organising the dinner on 21 October as it is the first weekend after 17 October 2011.

First thought that shook my senses after the getting the invitation was if I shall attend it or not. I don’t want to be disrespectful to the founder and the history his movement igintied. But I thought if Sir Syed would have been alive today how he would have felt after visiting any of these functions. In last year’s function organisers in UAE were not even able to speak proper Urdu or English, the minimum that was expected from university graduates. The organisers were more interested to showcase themselves as the key organisers. Majority of the senior alumnis preferred to stay away from it. In short the event demeant the meaning of celebrating Sir Syed day.

I am neither a student of history nor very close observers of Sir Syed’s life, I am writing this with my limited knowledge that I have gained through my stay at the university and my readings on his life. In this capacity I would like to share a few observation with my seniors and concerned Aligarians. If we try to generalise the programs organised around the world to celebrate the day then we can easily conclude towards Popular Mushairas in West, Gala Dinners in Middle East and chaotic dinner in AMU as well as other parts of India. As a deep admirer of Sir Syed, I have always been searching for his messages, his essence, his persona, his movement on the day. Surely there would be some who would be trying to resurrect the movement and work on the expected lines but they are heavily out-numbered by the ‘BOTI & ROTI’ crowd who merely gather on the day to enjoy their dinner.

Sir Syed's writing like Ain-e-Akbari, Asaar-us-sanadeed etc. were embedded in our rich history, he higlighted our past glory. After the revolt of 1857 his writings like Asbaad Baghawate Hind enlightened the community about the reasons behind failure against the mighty British. Later he tried to take us forward through his works such as Scientific Society, Tahzeeb-Ul Akhlaq and ultimately founding the MAO college. Conclusively he followed history to dig the shortcomings and find way forward to meet the trajectory of future. I strongly believe that we Aligarians have failed to live the Aligarh Movement. We have reduce the day to mere remembrance of our university days, no matter how we performed in our studies during our stay, no matter if we ever read his writings…..(no reason to stretch the list).

I am a recent pass out from the university so I definitely cannot compare the past glory of the university with present but I would request the seniors and elders who have seen the history and are aware about the present to rejuvenating the essence of Aligarh. Let us not succumb Sir Syed Day to tarana and dinner but use the occasion to revisit his vision, mission and the movement that he is a great symbol of.

LET US LIVE THE ALIGARH MOVEMENT ONCE AGAIN…

Published in AMUNETWORK.

Nationalism or Fascism ???

Recent attacks on noted lawyer Mr Prashant Bushan by the Rama Sena in his chamber in the Supreme Court of India describes the grips of these fascist forces over our nation. The venue as well as the follow up insult of Bushan’s supportors next day in the court portrays the depth of the problem. It was indeed a shame for our democracy but for these hooligans it was a proud moment as they took pride in their act and projected themselves as the saviour of India. This is not the first time these incidents have occured. In recent times self appointed saviours of India have carried out several similar attacks. These saviours are often used by the politicians to solve their political purposes thus the political will to crack the menace is nominal.

Criticism in media was quite visible but the queue of admirers can be counted in millions. Facebook, twitter, news website etc are loaded with support for these bigots. I am not writing this note to criticise these bigots or their ideological feedstock but through my blog I wish reinvent the ideological difference of two icons of pre-independent India and discuss the exploitation of nationalism  for mass mobilization and its sensitivities.

Nehru writes about the discussions between Gandhi and Tagore in his memoirs ....point of discussion was Nationalism, which Gandhi defended. He said that one must go through nationalism to reach internationalism, in the same way that one must go through nationalism to reach internationalism in the same way that one mist go through war to reach peace.

Although Tagore greatly admired Gandhi but he had many disagreements with him on a variety of subjects including nationalism and patriotism, the importance of cultural exchange, the role of rationality and of science and the nature of economic and social development. These differences, I shall argue have a clear and consistent pattern, with Tagore pressing for more room for reasoning and for a less traditionalist view, a greater interest in the rest of world and more respect for science and for objectivity generally. (Argumentative Indians – Amratya Sen)

In daily life we might have forgotten Gandhi, but these acts of arrogance and non violence rejuvenates his legacy. The above debates between Gandhi and Tagore in some way helps us to understand the possible causes of this growing arrogance in the name of false patriotism.

Tagore goes on to write in his novel Ghare Baire ‘Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual diamonds and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live’. In his novel Nikhil, Tagore writes ‘I am willing to serve my country; but my worship I reserve for right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it’

Tagore was a great admirer of Gandhi and it was he who for the first called him Mahatma Gandhi. However, Tagore had several ideological disagreements with Gandhi on variety of subjects like hyper usage of Nationalism and Patriotism; undermining the importance of the Cultural Exchange, Role of Rationality, Science, Economic and Social Development etc. Through his writings Tagore gave strong warnings to leadership of his time about the corruptibility of Nationalism. He said that hatred of one group can lead to hatred of others, no matter how far such feeling may be from the minds of humane nationalist leaders like Gandhi.

We are definitely aware about Gandhi’s lessons on Ahimsa but we don't realise that he was amongst the first political leaders who excessively used the nationalism for the mass mobilisation and created a precedent for others to use or misuse it. His intention would not have been the one we are experincing in modern India but his predecessors had their own agendas.

Gandhi’s assassination was also a result of hyper-nationalism. Where nationalism was galvanised with religion to make it even more venomous. In the name of two all your ills becomes the will of the nation or the god. Patriotism as the will of god became the biggest weapon for these demagogues in their political struggle. They used it to polarise the society at their will which created blindness against the cultural rationality and social reasoning.

In this is culture of bigotry and irrationality we somewhere forgot Tagore and started to believe that we are incorrigible. Our history and culture never had any shades of grey or black. We seem to deny all the caste atrocities; we wish dalits have forgotten all that they have suffered for generations. We seems to believe that Kashmir will forget the illegal accession of their nation and not to mention million such ill believes.

So, what is a nation, is it boundary or people within the boundary? If it is the citizen then why we don’t consider Kashmiri’s as Indians and if we do then we don’t feel hurt when they are hurt or why we don’t feel humiliated when they are humiliated? Why we ignore the truth in the name of nationalism? Why do we kill the nationals for nationalism? Why we criticise a national for criticising the nationalism?

Why can’t we simply start acknowledging the facts and rectify it through Tagore’s ideas? Why can’t we develop a people centric nationalism where we as nation can discuss and resolve the problem of nationals and not the inverse...?

Originally published in Rozmarra.com

Eliza's Second Birthday

No matter how fast u run now,

No matter how tall u r now,

You'll always be my little angle...

No matter how tough the life be,

No matter how fair it is with ye,

You'll never cry for me...
 
No matter when birthdays come and go,

No matter if I am beside u or no,

You`ll always fill my life with yo...

     

No matter if they wish u or no, 

No matter if u cut the cake or no,

You will always smile for me...

No matter if you are away,

No matter if I can kiss u or no,

You know that I miss u...

You know that I love u...

Happy Birthday Eliza

May Allah shower Peace and Joy on YOU...AMEN!!

Naked Truths

Spencer Tunick famous environment activists organized a naked shoot at the Dead Sea in Israel. Idea was to raise awareness about the depleting levels of Dead Sea. Full article can be read on Green Prophet.

 

The protest might be a genuine environmental effort but unfortunately it is great irony to a nation built on the dead bodies for thousands of Palestinians.  The Israelis are protesting for the plight of the saline sea which has no life but have always been ignoring the real killings. 

There are millions of untold and heart breaking stories that needs to be said and heard. There are hundreds such incidents that needs protest if not a naked one. I know a few from Gaza working here in UAE and have not visited their homes for years bcoz of Israel restrictions. Israeli atrocities were always there and Media of both sides have always been telling the stories their way. But this recent Palestinian surge which is spurning out of geopolitical development in the region may take them beyond the levels of protest.

Egypt and Turkey two powerhouses and major allies to US in the region are observing important political shift in its ideology. These are among the few countries in Muslim world that recognizes Israel as a state. This is threatening the Israeli supremacy and its political balance in Middle East. Adding to this problem is America’s failure in recent wars and economic crisis in Europe.

Considering the scenario Palestinian would have chosen this as Ideal time to take the risk that Yasser Arafat once took. They also understand that the US and West will veto their statehood in UN but if some OIC countries accept it, as expected. Then it will be Achilles heals for Israel and certain win for the ruined state.

Appeasment Politics

While Modi was fasting, India was busy either in praising governance skills or criticizing his ideological bent. Adding to the buzz were the events like Muslim skull cap controversy or Mehbooba Mufti’s being misquoted. It gave his opponents opportunity to disgust him further. We may be on any side of the divide but it is established that Modi is the most polarizing political figure in current political class. It is also clear that the aim of this event was not to appease Muslim votes,  as Modi understands that they are not his constituency. 

Similarly, it is not going to bring any change in Muslims' position. Thus idea was to develop wider acceptability among the allies of NDA who might oppose his candidature during the next parliamentary election. As the kind politics Modi does may hurt the likes of Nitish, Chandrababu and Biju. These allies are also feeding their constituencies as they understand the risk of aligning with Modi. My take on Sadbhavna Mission has already being published so without digging further into the event, I would like to raise other aspects of these fake fasts and appeasement politics. 

Imitating Modi congress’s Shankar Singh Vaghela also announced a fast. Vaghela himself was BJP’s chief minister and followed the same ideology. When he was dumped by his BJP and adopted by Congress he had an overnite change of heart. We will never know if it was a genuine or compulsion of vote bank politics. Although Vaghela’s fast received nominal response but it gave Congress an opportunity to try and appeasement some more Muslim votes.

These appeasements of the Congress are superficial and most of the times has failed to transform the fate of the minorities. When Digvijay Singh visited Shanjarpur village of Azamgarh, the home to the two victims of Batla House Encounter case. He met their parents and parents of those whose kids are arrested in the case. Families of these students requested Digvijay Singh to initiate an independent inquiry on the encounter and to start a fast track court for the trail of the arrested students. Two years of have passed since he visited, no action has been taken from him or his party. Three key years of these students have passed in jail and they have not yet been charged by agencies.

In the recent Bharatpur communal riots the police are being accused of favouring one community. As soon as this news broke out, Rajasthan Chief Minister announced compensation. Like BJP the congress also does not understands that money can never compensate injustice. Beside these recent cases there are hundreds such cases like forgotten Sri Krishna Commission report on Mumbai riots, Bhagalpur riots, Meerut riots. The list of forgotten but not forgiven cases in Congress's regime is definitely many folds longer than BJP's.

Far from Gujarat, shivers of fast was also observed in Bihar where Nitish Kumar avoided to comment on the Narendra Modi’s fast. But forgot that he very recently missed to apologies on the Kishanganj atrocities by police in Bihar. My intend is not to revisit these unfortunate events but to highlight how these fasts and statements has started to appears more theatrical that real. These tricks have become so predictable that schools kids have also started guessing it right. This is the reason why youth has started hating our politicians across the party line.

Neither I support Narendra Modi nor his style of hard line politics, especially in as diverse country as ours. But at the same time we as Muslims also need to understand that so called secular parties have used our votes but have not delivered what was expected from them. In this time of high drama and audacity, BJP surely gets the credit of using this appeasement politics at the least. They have mobilized their votes through their vast networks and of course through fake propaganda.

Published in Rozmarra.com

Javed Akhtar's Fasad ke Baad 

The Communal Harmony Drama

Three day Sadbhavna Mission Fast observed by Narender Modi ended this evening. The entire event was full with high drama and debate allover the country so much so that Sikkim earthquake also became minor issue. For his supporters it was Modi getting ready for next big job as the head of the nation in 2014 while for the critics it is fictitious makeover to guile the nations.

I believe that there is no change of heart but it was simply a PR exercise to build consensus through this brand building to make him more acceptable candidate for NDA allies in next parliamentary elections. The economic development and firm governance were the two main USP used in developing this marketing event.

With million benefits of capitalism the main lacuna lies in its assumption of unlimited demands and profit behind every activity. This is where it fails to read the human psychology of love, hatred and self respect.British also built the Railways, Sea Ports, Universities, Roads and arguably India under them observed less corruption; but Gandhi and folks still sent them back.The rationale behind the Quit India movement was to regain the self respect of the nation. To live in an impoverished but independent country was considered far better than a prosperous but colonized nation.

Thus first priority of the Muslim community would be to live safe and practice their religion with full freedom. Second would be to live with dignity and self respect, third would be to get justice in the riot cases.Next priority would be to educate their kids, as their prosperity will define the future stride of the community and last would be their income or economic empowerment. With RTE and NAREGA, many would argue that all these are our rights guaranteed under the constitution but what is written in books and how it is being practiced are unfortunately very different in India of our times.

Therefore instead of arguing if the economic success of Gujarat is inclusive or not and if the great success is also shared by the Muslim community or not; I would like argue that economic success lies on the bottom of our priorities. Moreover, as per Sachar committee's report majority of the Muslims are self employed which further demeans the very USP of the Modi government. Therefore a community living under the shadow of fear and injustice; feeling dishonored and betrayed can not live in harmony, no matter how great the economy does.

Firm governance was another USP and through which he is being compared with the original Iron Man of India - Sardar Patel. The firmness of the Chief + Home minister is such that fake encounters, false arrest, evidence mishandling, activist killings etc were among the highest in the nation. If the Nazi admirers was to be admired so much in India then we as a nation need serious reconciliation. He may or may not like 170 Million of us but the fact is, at partition he had no choice but India while we had other choices but we believed in the idea of India and stayed here. Thus we will never allow these hate mongers to ruins our believes...

The article was originally written for Rozmarra.com

Million lies do not make a truth...

Panchayat polls in Kashmir: Yes, we did - is the title of the an article first written by a retired Lt Col of the Indian Army who has served in J&K on multiple occasions. He is presently pursuing a Masters degree programme in International Security Policy Studies at George Washington University, Washington DC.

Click the link below to view the article
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/panchayat-polls-in-kashmir-yes-we-did/166663-61.html



The above is written by a military officer who served in the valley. He might have his own understanding and definition of Peace and Participation in the Valley. He might be correct, as a man with Kalashnikov seldom gets people disagreeing with his views. And if the Kalashnikov is backed by Special Power act then disagreement becomes rare.

As a common Indian citizen I have visited the valley a few times, have several Kashmiri friends and relatives. I have never met a single Kashmiri who has ever voted or wishes to participate in Indian establishment organised elections. It indeed does not sound pleasant but it is a hard fact of the valley.

I met one Election officer in Delhi, who has been the part of the elections in J&K for more than a decade. He said it is military which threatens people to vote. He told me that he once saw only women coming to vote, after inquiring he came to know that the army went their houses and told the women to vote otherwise they will kill male members of the family. After the women returned they send the men.

In another incident he said that one old man was requesting him to give some ink to him, he asked why he needs it as he has already voted. After asking for several times he came to know that military will visit their houses in the evening to check if they voted or not. He said his son is ill and could not come to vote, so he will place the ink on the index finger to save his life. These are only a few of the hundred such incidents that goes unreported or the voices are suppressed. Apart from this there are various cases of rigged elections and other malpractices.

I also wish that Kashmir shall stay with India but not with force. If we feel that Kashmir is an integral part of India then we shall also provide a fare and just system in the valley. So that Kashmiris can some day vote freely and elect government that represents all the sections of the state.

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Aaj mulk azaad to hai,

par Taareekh ke woh warq,

jisme mere ajdaad thay,

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Gandhi, Nehru o Jinnah

Unki shafaqat aur Liyaqat,

samjh na paye ki insaaniyat

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Urdu Zubaan ka woh nara,

Inqalaab zindabad,

zinda to hai, par woh zubaan,

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Batey hue bharat ke neta,

humhein roz baattein hai,

Ittihad ke woh khadim,

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Khoon, Aagzani, Fareb o chori,
naye parcham hain bharat ke,

Mohabbaton ka woh Hindustan,

kho gaya uss ghadr mein...

Kahan jaon, Kisse kahoon,

budsukooni hai har taraf,

Pareshan hain sab,

Sukoon to,

kho gaye uss ghadr mein...

Paralysed Investigating Agencies

Arushi & Hemraj murder mystery and the shoddy investigation report of elite investigating agency looks more like a Hindi film story. An ideal masala for a commercial film. Today on the television shows both the parties were trying hard to prove their point. Although neighter me nor the CBI is aware about the intent or the culprit.

For the media and the most of the audience it is a case for justice for a young girl and a domestic help. I believe that the most of my fellow country men also share the same thoughts. They would surely join the chorus of the media for the delivery of justice sooner than later. Although I am standing in the same crowd but my insatiable mind is rewinding various criminal cases in my proximity in the past.

For instance, Nadeem Alam's death in AMU police firing in 1996. The police and CBI investigated for almost 10 years with out reaching to any conclusion. The case went to Supreme Court but because of weak investigation report none of the accused was convicted.

Recent acquittal of Dr Javed Akhtar's son by the court in Delhi Blast case. Police and the ATS incorrectly charged him for his links with Delhi blast but the court acquitted him as the case was fraudulent. Dr Mohd Saleem and his family murder cases, where the CBI was called in after hard work but here again CBI and the police failed to figure out any clue. The investigation as well as the case is pending since the last 10 years.

In another instance of wrong or no investigation, dacioti case at one of my friend's house. When my friend went to police to file the FIR for the dacioti, the police instead of investigating the case arrested him along with a friend who went with him. Then he had to give handsome bribe to get himself out of the case. Later neither the case was investigated by the police nor the case was pursed by his family.

If you wish to pick the cases of national importance like Mecca Masjid Blast accused, Samjhuta Express blast accused, Malegaon etc. The list of shoddy and false investigations by the our agencies is very long. The condition is such that a normal civilian fears more from police than criminals. There is dual fear from police and investigation agencies, one that they might rob us, and other they would falsely implicated us and it will take years to come out of their grip.

Therefore I feel the time is ripe for the country to introspect the way criminal cases are investigated in India. If the agencies like CBI and IB are not able to resolve small murder cases like the ones mentioned, then how can we expect these elite agencies to resolve the serious crimes like terrorism and naxalism.

With my minimal understanding of the system, I draw two inferences; first, that these agencies are not good enough to even investigate minor cases. Or these agencies are political tools to misguide the nation with some confusing facts, so that the complex criminal justice system can be failed.

This continuous failures and incorrect accusations are diluting our faith in the system. It is hurting more to those who are either economically or politically marginalized. I hope that some one in the government has the will and acumen to change the way these agencies work, before it is too late and it completely paralysis the delivery of justice India.

Published in Milli Gazette 17 Feb 2011

Kahan Se..

Kahan se lauun woh lamha,
Jabki...
Har Lamhe pe batil ki nazar hai,
Har Shokhi pe Maut ka darr hai,
meri rooh, mere geet...
sab par uske khauf ka asar hai !!!!