the ruchika story : as society degrades

as the media gets all worked up and ignites the fight against a person who requires not an iota of sympathy or remorse we as a society have to take stock at the situation. we have to realize that this is just the tip of the iceberg , there are thousands of instances in which people suffer unjustly. there is something degrading the very quality of life in the society. one may say there is this nexus between politicians and the judicial system and the common man is helpless. but i ask why is there a nexus ? i ask why do the politicians and the police want to collude .. for serving their own corrupt, selfish ends. but why , why do we let such people in the first place ? why do we as citizens and we do call ourselves responsible allow such people to hold posts which are so crucial for the running of the goverment which impacts every single man in india. as i say there is this new CM being elected in one of the states , who has this history of corruption and a tainted reputation ? what can the people of the state expect from such a man ... how do we have a right to ask for justice when we are the ones who send them to become the chief minister. how is a man who himself has no respect for the law , has done deeds that are condonable .. how do we expect that man to treat his people right , to serve fair and right .. wont he be surrounded and surround himself with people of such nature ? we need to think and think deeper.
a quick analogy , in all the schools that i have studied and in every class i have always heard that the class representative or the class monitor is the guy who generally tops the class and is honest and sincere in his work. never do teachers pick out the guy in the class who scores the least and gives excuses / insincere in class. so when we are given the power to elect representatives for us , in real life we elect ..........................
coming back to the case i wonder , how come there is even a doubt that the guy in question is not put behind bars immediately. apparently i think the case for molestation has been proved , so why is there even a question mark on what to do with him , shouldnt he be immediately put behind bars. whats the inquiry , the special teams and the new FIRs hullabulla in all this. this again talks about the incompetence or rather the abetting of the criminals in our country. i think about his wife as a woman how does she without remorse actually support him through all this ? how come his daughter who studied in the same school not talk against her father .. no one is perfect , even if its ones mother or father or child. a crime is a crime and one needs to be unbiased.
we as a society should also realize our responsibility , what we are having right now is a quick fix solution. it happened in the jessica lal case , maybe some other case in the media in which justice was served , then ruchika ... but if we dont address the root cause it will keep happening. and the media will keep having a field day investigating the case, the people of india will be appalled and become suddenly all moral about it ... when we are the people who actually sent rathore to that post. justice needs to be served immediately , 19 years is long enough .. but we also need to serve justice to ourselves , isnt 60 years long enough ?

the illusion of passion

as the new years dawns upon us , its a start to another year ... resolutions are made , people make up their wants and do and donts list. goals are set, 'things' are need to be bought and in between all this no one ever takes a resolution that they are going to live life ! LIVE it and not succumb to the pressures of soceity. people are comfortable with an excuse , but this is what i want to do .. i want to earn money , you want to become a stupid saint and one should do what one wants right ? but then are we born with these wants , this passion .. no one is ever ! it is bred into us as we grow , society tells us over and over again that playing cricket and making it to the national team is the greatest career ever ... its bred by those corporates who dole out lakhs for every teeny weeny advertisement which never makes sense , its bred into the person by his poor parents who sit in a hut and watch with open mouths at the 'material things' money buys. its bred into the person by friends , relatives every goddamn person in society. and then this suddenly becomes the passion , the true calling , the thing which a person can forget everything else. two hundred years before no one had a passion for cricket so where did this true calling suddenly erupt from. i see this as no passion or true calling but just bending to the pressures of modern soceity. we do things , we want things as defined by others ... no one has an individuality of his own and maybe its not possible ! and then every person wonders why is he not happy ?!
take it with a pinch of salt , whatever one does or does not .. whatever happens or does not is just not the end of the world. and live life , experience nature and experience ones body. its not that this should not be done, its not that one should give up everything in life since it does not mean anything .. but we should all just realize it should not override everything else in life. we are part of the system , we are part of society and this is bound to happen .. but who gives me the right to decide if its right or wrong . how can i say if the other person is living a hollow life or leading the most fulfilling part of his life ! how can i even judge that passion is an illusion , maybe there is this passion that every person should look for .. but what if its built on false foundations and false premises ? and we see it everyday around ourselves. lies , hope , promises , deception , money are the key for the key to many of a persons actions. the joy and sense of fulfillment that comes out of living life is lost or is it so ? why is money suddenly so important ... was it so when the sages wrote the vedas , when its a widely accepted fact that life in those times where of a much higher level. and can suddenly one say life is an illusion itself , but then if its so what difference does it make to have a passion or not .. someone can have , somone can be a cricketer , someone can find his true calling .. at the end everything might be an illusion itself :P !