Saturday, January 24, 2009
Did Indian Lobby US Over Envoy?
Foreign Policy journal, where everything I've read seems to have a Pakistani bias, claims that India lobbied very hard to keep the US appointment of a special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan from extending its scope to include India.
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OT Bravery awards
I want to say something about one of this year's awards given to children. “... Prachi Santosh Sen of Madhya Pradesh, who saved four children from electrocution. Prachi, however, was grievously injured and had her fingers amputated.”
Read further: "In July 2007, the four children were playing on the terrace of a neighbour's house where an 11-KV high-tension wire was hanging low. As one of the kids played with an iron rod, it came in contact with the wire and the child got stuck. The three others who tried to rescue him also met the same fate. Only when Prachi broke the contact between the rod and wire could the children be saved.
CAN THIS TYPE OF MISHAP BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN IN ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY? How did that 11 kv power line get put up so close to the terrace? It should not have been anywhere near residences. Should the power company not have been made to pay compensation of a few crores? Should the persons responsible not have been sent to jail for some 20 years? Is this not AT LEAST AS BAD AS THE UPHAAR TRAGEDY. What are our famous NGOs doing? Was this not an opportunity for them to file PILs and make some money for themselves? Why did our judiciary not use their "judicial activism", "overreach" etc. and take cognizance suo motu?
Maybe, we should have more such 11-kv or 220-kva power lines passing through houses, so that we produce more opportunities for our children to perform acts of bravery. Maybe we should have more tanks of human excreta for slumdogs to dive in and make themselves famous.
I hang my head in SHAME!
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