Pranab Mukherji: The Thirteenth and unlucky.

The Pranab Mukherjee, as the 13th President of India is substited Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil by the end of July presidential election of 2012. President Mukherjee, first a Teacher, then a Journalist, then The Finance Minister of India has garnered 69.3% of the total (10,29,750) Ten lakhs Twenty Nine Thousands Seven Hundred and Fifty valid votes polled, from the rivalry P. A. Sangma.

Former president and Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee passed away on August 31. The 84-year-old was admitted to the military hospital around noon on August 10, and had also tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the surgery. His condition had remained critical a day after he underwent a brain surgery.

He, who was the leader of Indian National Congress resigned from the Political Office preceding his Presidential elections this July. His prosperity and integrity contained him with a successful career in the righteous path of the life. President Mukherjee's incumbent as a Finance Minister honoured him with many achievements as awards. He was awarded as "The Finance Minister Of the Year for Asia" by the 'Emerging Markets' The daily newspaper of record for the world bank. Like many others he also had a many ups and downs of his career but has he been the disciplined and workaholic which finally led him to the presidential post.


India may have invigorated after this Presidential Election, as they were not very fond of the current President Smt. Pratibha DeviSingh Patil. The recent economic decline, rapes and murders were all said to be the poor action of laws. The riddance seems to be very great as the newly elected President is very active and people trust him for the way of his work and the active participation in the development of the country. He can be seen shouting often as that of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 

Pratibha DeviSingh Patil is said to be only seen on Republic day at India Gate. Only then. Seriously. People have angered over this insipid President but now they may have the light of hope for their life as Pranab enters the Rashtrapati Bhavan with his powers of amendment.

Pratibha Patil said, "I am deeply committed to the cause of  education and would like to see every person, man and woman, boy and girl, be touched by the light of  modern education. Empowerment of  women is particularly important to me as I believe this leads to the empowerment of  the nation"

I just got to ask her a question. Has she not seen the Guwahati Molestion or Rape case by now? Just for this once, somebody give her a TV set on her farewell, please. Let her see and insinuate the empowerment of women. What in the world is wrong with the Government? I know it is wrong to target Government for every cause but people, everything is a cause for this paradigm. You may think I am the only one accusing our President but for God's sake, ask these people, ask yourself, have you ever felt like empowerment of women is somewhere really empowering women. I cannot judge Pratibha Patil as I cannot call Sherlyn Chopra, a Bitch nor Poonam pandey, a whore for just they have posed nude for that matter. May be our President has lots of work to do in her office but it doesn't ever appear to public spectacle! Or does it ever? That is how transparent our Government is.


And even if Pratibha Devi Singh Patil has uplifted our women of honour. Why people in this country are still insecure and prevailing disregard. I may not have disgraceful feelings for our President as she is still a respectable citizen of India. I am also proud that even if the least she did, she did for women and for the country. We shall also pride in ourselves for being Governed by such a pure heart and calmer human. And moreover, the first lady-President of India.


Now talking about our 13th President Mukherjee, the number denotes the unluckiness for many but for him The Thirteenth is the Luck. You would also like to know that the Government of India honoured him with 'Padma Vibhushan', which is the second highest civilian award in India. Not that Pranab Mukherjee is non-capacitive for this post of President but he has earned his stature of Presidence by winning the elections at a margin of 69.3%, which itself is a remarkable achievement. Most of the people are celebrating the entrance of his rather than bidding the farewell to Pratibha Patil.



Acknowledgement- 

Hindustan Times 

The Times of India 

Twitter  (@shankdelhi)

Wikipedia

The article is written not to hurt anybody's value and nor does it condign any disparagement against anybody for that matter.

SMT. PRATIBHA DEVI SINGH PATIL IS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF INDIA, 

AND NO WORD IN THIS ARTICLE EITHER DEPRICIATES OR DISHONOURS HER BY ANY WAYS.

RUSHDIE in the Black Farce

Salman Rushdie, novel 'The Satanic Verses'

The Audience at Jaipur Literature Festival, 2012

More than 10,000 people gathered to celebrate the exquisite ideas and the words at one place - THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL. Everyone was eagerly waiting for Salman Rushdie to Video Conference an interview by the gutsy Barkha Dutt to the studio in London around 3.45pm (IST). A planned videolink conference with Rushdie at the Jaipur Literary Fest #JLF (Twitter) presented the directors with an impossible decision: cause a riot or uphold an imperative principle. The incident got the directors, coordinators and co-operators in a state of momentary shock, when they received a notice by Police to stop the video conference and the Muslim activists who appeared before 1pm in the vicinity to forbade the Rushdie's interview, were the biggest daunt to the crowd present there.

Protesters at Jaipur Literary Fest, 2012

Muslim activists made it clear of boycotting Rushdie's book and banning it therefore in islamic communities as one of the books wrote by Salman Rushdie- "THE SATANIC VERSES" contained offensive statements which besieged the Muslim's sentiments and apparently the Muslim activists at the Jaipur Literary Fest had palpable callousness over Salman Rushdie. The infuriated crowd hauled over the Directors, of the interview that is to be taken by Barkha Dutt. Nor Police, neither government put their foot forward to the protesters and the crowd that might get exacerbated as the consequence, as evidently more than Hindus, government is concerned about their Muslim voters. If the videolink is shown to public, there would be violence and the crowd might aggravate entailing the scuffle. 


Novel, "The Satanic Verses" which was first published in 1988 and therein banned in Iran, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and later in India due to blasphemous reference to the Muslim community. After 24 years later in 2012 at the Jaipur literary fest, the author was banned entering his own birth place, India. The clauses in the book which are the gratuitous provocation to Muslim Community had enough of punishment to Salman Rushdie as fatwa was also issued by a leader of Iran and a Muslim Scholar, Shi'a. After the issue of fatwa, Rushdie was police protected by the British Government and later Rushdie avowed that he would not remain under quilts and will stop living in hiding. The Iranian News Agency proclaimed that fatwa would remain permanent, until and unless it is rescinded by the person who first issued it. The leader had since died. 


Rushdie has never been physically assaulted or incurred. Since then, the conciliated verse sometimes grows to gruesome fiascoes and other while it remains buried deep to explode someday to some event. 

People should forget and forgive. Maybe the verses weren't that harmful to become a cause to a dispute, and even if it were... THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, has it all not be taken as offensive. If in India people have their right of speech why could not a person speak to his mind? Perhaps, Rushdie never meant to hurt anybody's sentiments and even if he has, why shall we make him suffer his whole life? SALMAN RUSHDIE shall be liable for the charges for his offensive verses, but we should not punish him his whole life.

Acknowledgement- 

THE BIG STORY (Soumya Bhattacharya), 

Editorial, Sunday hindustan times, New Delhi (dated 29 January, 2012).

The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

Barkha Dutt and Salman Rushdie (via Twitter)

Title credits, "BLACK FARCE" (as Salman Rushdie calls the JLF's entire fiasco in an interview to Barkha Dutt)

Photo Credits-

indiatimes (The Times Of India)

13 Days For Nation

It had not been too long since India got it's Independence, not even a century has been passed. It's India's 65th Independent year, 2011. India got Independence from British rulers in 14 August, 1947. All in all Indians tried hard to heal up the country's contusions and is now been counted in the top lists of fastest developing countries. India is the second populous country in the world after China and has rose up it's literacy rate, development statistics, economic growth and also in entertainment industry. All couldn't have been possible without India's Government Bureaucrats and high aspired Indian people. We have had all the assimilated information for being counted in the lists of TOP Nations in the world. 

Unless we've gone spleen in corruption.

But here comes the dearth of possibilities when Indians tend to become selfish on their parts to earn money. India could have world's wealthiest persons' if money which rotates around the country gets reimbursed into a statistic and solemnly be put to development of the country, bustling. Not to forget, Vijay Mallya, Ratan Tata, Ambani Brothers and Azim premji (CEO of Wipro)

Commonwealth Games held at New Delhi in October, 2010 was the most ostentatious situation for the Government authorities to show up the world what it takes to build up a character. But our country has prodigiously blessed with the brilliance of the bureaucrats (sometimes egotistic) to hold up the winning cup on their hands, like A. Raja and Suresh Kalmadi. Corruption is a virus which regardless of emotions hollows the nation. It just need a corrupt mindset to grow and lives heaven. 

Amitabh Bachchan in support for Anna Hazare at a Mall in Mumbai

From Gandhian era to Anna's it went all in the pockets of corrupt governance and if the statistics are to be believed the major cause grows from it's very own citizens. India, and crusades are very commonly similar. We are soulfully responsible for the growth of country and are liable for charge if question demands what have you done for your country. Anna Hazare fasts 13 days just to raise India from corrupt and bribery quagmire. His demands were to be listened and pondered upon in the Parliament and people of India will give reverent homage to their mother land as the JAN LOKPAL BILL Passes at India Gate, New Delhi.

Corruption Escapism

India Against Corruption

An image of The Jan Lokpal Bill

Anna Hazare, an apostle of anti-corruption crusade. Corruption can never be called a disease to Indian law system or bureaucracies. We all are the initiator of corruption and then we talk how liable is to have a conversation about shunning the Government policies. It took broad minds to construct the complicated yet enhanced law, procedure and order in Government authorities. We are in no right situation to call it a culprit. "Our system needs a change, an advancement; Agreed!" For sure there had been flaws in our law and order sequential blueprint but then who doesn't have an inaccuracy? Corruption is deception or fraud-ship to a person who is either known or unknown to what causes illegal norms to be forsaken for a profit of either one person or in some cases, both. We, citizens of Modern India are well aware of what it takes to forbid unruly tentative laws. We know system needs a humongous change but then, we are the people who are misusing our legal rights for the welfare of our own kingdom of dreams. 

Anna Hazare at a Protest in New Delhi

An example follows, we tend to bribe half the amount to Government official for signing our file though we are known that this is against our laws and not to mention we are committing crime through the authorities' spectacle and to save half the original amount we already had unknowingly paid thrice of half the principal amount. Absurd! (Here we lack in our educational systems, or maybe mathematical approach). When is that people need to understand their policies and what they are actually in dearth of is their own conscience, who relentlessly makes them do unauthorized things first. 

These protests of Anna Hazare has gone miles to dissuade the anti-corruption conversations to the people. And yet again to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill (जन लोकपाल बिल) we need all the support from citizens of India. We now want Olympics to have a nice view of India and corruption lays bed-rest to the graveyard. 


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Mumbai's Yesterday, Today!

Picture taken from Yahoo! News

18:55 Hours IST, 13 July, 2011. Three head-to-head blasts in Mumbai, India. No wonder, 17 dead and more than 131 injured. I may not have the right statistics but these blasts in past few years were the utmost reign of terror. And now when we have incurred that blasts, we are yet again, too late, too little. Either we couldn't understand the government's policies for us to be very difficult or the government itself wouldn't work on it being too easy for them. These blasts were sharp terror instincts on which we failed to heed, every time. Remember 26/11, The Taj blasts, in Mumbai.

Hotel Taj, Mumbai

It was heart breaking moment for us as we just couldn't do anything except watching it online on youtube or in any TV Channel and how can we forget, Home Ministers are quadriplegic as they can only sit and read those statistics of dead & injured instead of acting up on it. No wonder the negligence of intelligence couldn't be disregarded as well. We need a deft scheme/blueprint competing all the terror attacks and related issues. 

"Unless we don't raise hands they don't  raise hands." 

And as where as public is concerned, we should shed ambivalence and not try to spread rumor/unknown thing in social media. End of the blame-game. 

Have we developed ourselves to just cope up with these situations and not fight against it. It's no more Gandhian-era. We cannot just let-go everything what's happening around. It's the whole new world and we are compelled against it sometimes to fight for our rights.

Sight Inspection, right after the blasts

Blast Victims

People Suffered and Survived

 People, at the same time in the vicinity shouldn't panic and shall help the nearby congestion without being choked as in by indulging in social media and providing required information in to it, like nearby hospitals and their phone numbers, Police stations and Fire stations. And Twitter had played a significant role in this blast helping people with the information they needed without being in chaos of mobile networks which often gets jammed in an emergency. People are requested and made cautious not to depend on these means of communications when in hazardous situation instead contact a nearby Police station or a person you believe would rescue.

Scene after 13/7 blasts took place in South Mumbai

After the victims were taken to the hospitals