small story - in the parliament

As soon as he finished his last line of speech in that joint session of houses, he could heard sound of clapping, appreciation, slogan in his support. Leaders from all parties started reaching him and congratulating him for a great speech. He was sure that this is going to be his one of the best speech which will be remembered in the history of parliament. Prime Minister himself came and congratulated him. He has been always appreciated as a strong speaker in and out of the house and party heavily relied on his oratory skills. Few days back, Prime Minister called him and asked him to prepare speech on the issue of child labor and he wanted that speech to be very efficient. He wanted him to specify each and every scheme government has started or the steps government has taken to control child labor in our country. Netaji took this very seriously as he felt there is a chance to get inducted in cabinet. He worked on each aspect of this issue and used every tricks to make his speech best of quality. He collected, analyzed and included data from different sources. He also added efficient words and phrase to message out government policies in best possible ways. He worked day and night with his associates to come up with this speech and then practiced it several times at home. Indeed his speech was revolutionary. As soon as he came out of the parliament, print and electronic media surrounded him. His party worker were raising slogans continuously. He answered all the media question very efficiently. He was sure that the live telecast of his speech has been great hit and yes it really was......

After a hectic day, Netaji was tired and came back home late in the evening. His phones were still ringing. His party leaders from his state were congratulating him. With every appreciation, Netaji was feeling more and more proud. He was feeling sure of getting inducted in cabinet soon. He also got phone calls from his son and daughter who were studying abroad. He ate his dinner without much taste as he was very tired. Because he was feeling very sleepy so he ordered his personal assistant to not disturb him with any phone calls now. He was so tired that he just fell down over the bed and then he realized how much pain he is having all over his body. He ordered someone send Ramu to give him a massage. Ramu was eight year old son of his old domestic help Kishna. Ramu used to help his father and mother to do work at Netaji's place. Netaji always felt that massage given by Ramu is most refreshing. While Ramu was busy massaging his foot gently, slowly Netaji fell asleep....... He was going to have a hectic day tomorrow too. A NGO has called him for inaugural speech for a week workshop on child labour......................

Who is clean?

With recent spot fixing allegation on some players of pakistan cricket team, everyone jumped over them. Media, former players, politicians, social leaders everyone from every possible corner of world started critising them. But then who is clean? Former players? I still remember Pakistan- Bangladesh one day match in a world cup where no one expected that Pakistan will loose but they did. Wasim Akram was the captain that time. In India itself, few players had been banned for lifetime a decade ago. Investigation agencies found players from almost every country weere in contact with bookies and in some cases they recieved money from bookies. This is proven fact. The entire cricket system is in mud whether we would like to accept or not. Indian politicians (who are usually supposed to be very corrupt) getting interest in cricket is directly or indirectly proving this. Lets closely observe Indian Premiur League of India. The entire setup of IPL indicates that cricket has gone beyond sport and has converted into money, high society contacts, parties and liquor. IPL has the teams where players from all playing nation participates. Naturally they must be close to all background activities which goes on along with IPL schedule.

Are we serious to clean cricket? Its a joke. No one is serious. Media is making money with these revelation and why would they like to seriously investigate this and get the truth out? After all, these (fixing news) are a good coverage for them. Cricket boards are full of corrupt officials and they themselves are making money thru these corrupt practices. If we start counting the names of officials, majority of the names will have tainted image. How can we expect them to clean the game and the entire setup.

Lets avoid watching cricket.

Its not raining here at Pune

History is repeating itself. This year too, Pune has received scanty rainfall till now and the water level in four dams (which supplied drinking water to city) has gone down rapidly to create drinking water scarcity in city. Same thing happened last year. That time government authorities promised and declared that they have made plans on paper to handle this kind of problem very efficiently in future but then nothing happened. As soon as monsoon arrived in August/September last year, all plans on paper got washed away with rain water flow in dams. Compared to November 2008, we had more water reserved in dams in November 2009 and also municipal corporation has reduced water supply significantly to city, then too we have only around 1.5 TMC water left in dams and we are going to face acute water crisis in coming days. Issues are still same:
1. Water distribution system here at Pune is faulty and need revamp. 25%-30% water get wasted in distribution. Some areas get more than average quota and some don't even get 50% of average quota.
2. Authorities are busy in making money or at least busy in trying to find out a situation to make more money. They are not serious to really take on this situation and work out for a good robust solution which will work for long term. Might be they are thinking that rain god became happy in August/September last year and same pattern may follow this year too so why to put extra efforts.
3. Citizen are wasting water to their full capacity and don't understand (or don't want to understand) the importance of natural resources. We feel happy in keeping ourselves educated illiterates.

All eyes on rain god. Who knows he may become happy soon and all dams will get enough water for next one year. Lets prepare for YAGNA to make rain god happy......