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Tehelka Melodrama
Related to country: India

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After Rajdeep Sardesai left NDTV,the "Big Fight" programme he hosted lost the sting and insight mainly due to the naivety of the new host Bikram Chandra.But it was very watchable yesterday because all the Anti-Hindutva icons were present in full force there.Congress and BJP were represented too.However,the host ensured his best to cut short any BJP argument on some or other pretext.

An uniquely dressed lady journalist,Harindra Baweja, connected with Tehelka was clearly trying to outsmart other panelist Teesta Shetalvad.She must be envious of her as she clearly made herself a celebrity by continuously accusing ,Narendra Modi.The journalist in her determination to outdo Teesta was so melodramatic that it was joy to watch her act.

But she had not remembered her parting dialogue correctly and that one sentence was so utter disgusting that patriotic citizens would be ashamed that our country also has such pathetic souls loitering around as a journalist.

In defence of the terrorists she justified their murderous act and openly declared that "she too would have taken up arms" if she were a Muslim.She must have won many hearts by now for whom she performed !Now the reward will follow in equal measures.

It is not that she was young and was oblivious of the reaction of her mouthful of expression.On the contrary she was old and knew what she was talking about.She must be also aware about the consequences of declaring an open war against the state.

She must be counselled and provided every opportunity to amend herself otherwise every Tom,Dick and Harry would start emulating her short cut melodramatic method to gain instant stardom.All those who will follow her act would be not as fortunate as her and would attract suitable punishment which in this lady's case seems unlikely because she belongs to the J-Fraternity.It is very much possible that she did all these histrionics to propel her career faster and it was her deliberate "Brand Building" exercise.She was successful to some extent that for now on she would be remembered as the Rakhi Sawant,The Bold And Beautiful Bollywood Belle, of Indian Journalism.



September 29, 2008 | 3:05 AM Comments  0 comments



Election Time Gimmicks
Related to country: India

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This is election time and as expected the largest chunk of voters,poor and farmers,are being wooed by various parties by various means.The union budget is being projected and aggressively marketed as the best ever pro-poor budget.But in spite of having the provision of a massive debt waiver schemes for farmers,there is nothing in it that will help millions of hapless poor .It seems that these plans have been mooted and will be formulated as per the cold statistical data and the prevailing social factors which reflects disturbing ground realities will be completely ignored once again.
There are millions of daily wage earners who have no access to Banks and other financial institutions.Even those who have migrated to cities are yet to hear anything about "The Bank".Even the relatively well off people in the rural area have no easy access to the Bank.

The finance minister of India will be stumped to realise that Banks in the hinterland function just like any other government department.There is fixed rate for every loan application.The borrowers are discouraged until they seek help from some tout stationed there.This process has been fine tuned such efficiently that people have accepted this as a normal banking practices.It

is commonly known that some of our parliamentarians receive their 30 %cut and award their MPLAD funds to one of their trusted ally who in turn award the projects to various contractors who in turn subcontract the work to someone who hails from that village.They are all party workers and stick to the party for this very purpose.

The actual amount spend in this way on any work merely translate into nothing and that's why no visible improvement can be seen in Indian Countryside.The situation is same more or less as it was in the last decade.When MP's,MLA's and government officials are brazenly behaving this way then there is no question of any ordinary mortals to raise his voice against these corrupt practices.He is forced to accept whatever is doled out to him unless he want to miss the subsidy and other schemes offered towards him.

This state of affairs is prevailing primarily because no one is answerable to anyone .The civil servants are just not proactive and never venture out from their hallowed precincts to weed out these corrupt practices.Some newly recruits try to be idealistic until humiliated by some small time politician.So they too retreat into safer zone allowing our disgusted leaders to rule the roost.

Those were the leaders who fought for the independence of this country and these are the leaders who are hell bent on destroying this country.The situation can be still brought into some kind of semblance but our leaders cutting across all parties have prioritised the family interest over national interest and they speak the same language only tone and textures are different.

A News Portal like "UPI Asia Online" can transform many things. Now with the spread of Internet into every district ,there could be hundreds of citizen Journalist who would be reporting real happening from the ground Zero.Once this happen it will become the mirror for our politicians and officials wherein they can see their true picture.They will themselves be horrified .sure !

September 15, 2008 | 2:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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Police Complaints Against HongKong Bank (HSBC)India.
Related to country: India

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New Delhi,the capital of India, was recently under the grip of fear from the Biker's gang.The dreaded gang used to shot dead anyone who refused to part with his belonging.After intense public pressure the Police arrested some criminals who were residing in an outskirt village, posing as Bank's recovery agents.Imagine the plight of people,whom premise they would be visiting to recover Bank's dues.
The business of "Recovery agency"is absolutely under control of dreaded Mafia in Delhi.The front person who apply for the licence is generally a person with no criminal background.But the real operations are conducted by criminals.They barge into customers house,beat the family up and part away with the valuables in broad daylight.Bank provide them legal support and this is far too an easy method to earn quick bucks for them.There are hundreds of recovery agency in Delhi itself and Banks use them rotationally.Many people have been killed by these goons and despite public outcry they function with impunity.
The might of Banks are behind these Goons and there are dozens of lawyers on Bank's panel to secure their bail exploiting the loophole in the system.Reserve Bank Of India,the Banking regulatory authority of India and the apex Court of India have been warning these Banks and have fined various Banks for this barbaric practices but these banks are law unto themselves.These are mostly private banks and they have little regard for any kind of ethics and they fear none, absolutely.HongKong (HSBC INDIA)is the prime example of perverse Banking and employs these criminals to brutally assault its customer.Can HSBC indulge in this kind of barbaric practice in Europe or USA?
Reserve Bank has stipulated some stringent rules regarding Recovery agency but these are not followed.Bankers call that criminal act as their "persuasive tactics".Very few can stand up against the might of these Banks so these Banks are not ready to listen to even the Supreme Court Of India.The situation has worsened so far that the Court have directed the police to Lodge complain against the CEO of the concerned bank whose agent is found in this criminal act.
The court had to give this kind of verdict after thousands of farmer committed suicide in the Vidarbh region of India.Most of these were poor farmers and had taken loan from various agencies.Unfortunately the crop failed and in order to save himself from the humiliation there was dozens of suicide every day.The situation became such grim that the central government had to step in and there was special package for these hapless victims.
These were subsequently turned into a massive Central Scheme and the government waived off more than 15 billion dollars of farmers loan.
But the people living in cities are not so fortunate.Here these criminals are protected by Banks top executives.A few days back a Police case has been registered against HSBC INDIA and its CEO.As per the Police one person named in that F.I.R is wanted for various heinous crimes.
The menace is only growing and unless the CEO of the concerned banks are made accountable for this criminal act and are arrested and put behind bars,they won't stop this barbaric practices ,ever.Wearing a tie and suit and speaking English with Oxfordish accent does not make them civilised.They will have to behave like civilised people shunning their barbaric impulses. They must be told that they can not take law into their hands,directly or clandestinely without the prior permission of authorities.

August 29, 2008 | 9:24 AM Comments  0 comments





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