Monday, October 09, 2006

Mercy… clemency.. pardon…..
I am sick and tired of these words!!

When it has been proved that a guy has been clearly associated with the terrorists for the attack on the parliament.. why shouldn he be hung?? Where is the question of mercy here?
He should be given presidential clemency just because he has a wife and a seven year old kid?? So any one in this country can do anything and get away from the punishment stating that he or she has a family to support?? The supreme court has laid down that death penality will be applied only in the “ rarest of rare cases’. And isn't this a rarest of rare case where the parliament has been attacked??

Capital punishment can be awarded only on account of two crimes- murder and sedation. This case is certainly a terrorist act of gravest severity!! And where is the question of human rights? When a person fails to do his duty, he doesn't have any right to claim his rights!! why should he be given the rights and be pardoned because he has a right to live.. the apex court is the only authority which can seize the right to live and it has done it… Is there any appeal against the Apex Court’s Judgment?
A citizen ceases to have any right the moment he is held as prisoner in connection with a crime. While so where is the question of the human rights for a prisoner, whether a convict or an undertrial?
Sympathy should not be misplaced. A misplaced sympathy would be havoc to the society at large. In this case attempt to blast Parliament in a democratic society is an attack on the civilization. Our system of democracy is well appreciated and when Mrs. Indira Gandhi was thrown out of power the whole world was surprised and understood our real power of voting!

Saturday, October 07, 2006

My first blog…

I never thought I would enter this world of blogging. But I think a series of mood swings have led me here and probably I reached a point where I want to express myself…

Chennai auto rickshaws are not anything new to me since I have been traveling in them for the past 19 years. But today I found something really strange when I was going from Mylapore to pondy bazaar. I really started finding something strange right from the moment I sat inside the auto. The way in which the auto driver drove the auto and the kind of horn he had began irritating me. He did not give any damn to the signals and took U- turns in the places where was not supposed to. May be I have come across such auto drivers before but never felt this bad rather never regretted this much for getting into an auto. I started questioning myself badly. Is it possible to test how the auto’s horn is before getting into an auto?? Or do we know how he drives?? Nothing at all! I just did not know what to do.. whether to stop him and get down from that auto.. Or just go on till I reach the destination..
There was a total change in my mood. I was going for diwali shopping with my family and the 20 minutes inside the auto changed the whole scene! But the moment I reached pondy bazaar and got out of the auto I felt extremely relieved and now I don’t even know how I am going to get into an auto the next time!!!
I should say I understood the true meaning of “ at the driver’s risk'.