The sad plight of former Karnataka CM Yeddy ..

Having to daily appear before the Lokayuktha court on account of 14 cases of corruption and favouritism slapped on former Karnataka CM Yeddy and his sons and son-in-law, his plight is deplorable.

Having to go and stand in front of a police constable and recored his presence and giving assurance that if given bail he will never jump it, is all too mean on the part of the law !!

The law however strong it be, has to act tough against big fishes like Hassan, Kalmadi, Raja, Maran and others and not be after these small fries.. These people have only acted criminally trying to amass some wealth in the Rs 18,000 crores mining scam.

The part that these politicians are also part of the great Bangalore Housing society scam of Rs. 175,000 crores is another dimension yet to be proved.. The newspapers are just acting against an individual who has just acted to benefit his small family of say Rs 1000 crores..

Is it such a big crime to illegally amass Rs 1000 crores ? In a land of 1200 million people, is Rs 1000 crores a big amount ?

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Fi graphics and racing track in Gurgaon, India ....

A beautiful graphics in pdf format .. Built at $350 million, this is sure to get many an Indian hooked to high speeds ...

Great watching Lewis Hamilton on NICE Road, 27 sep 2011

It was great watching Lewis Hamilton burn rubber on NICE road this morning from 11 to 12 noon. Some of the snaps attached here..

Photo courtesy The Hindu, formula1.com, firstpost.

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The one word that can save your life ..

Most of the medical interventions given by doctors can do more harm than good .... Read this article ..

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/14/some-medical-tests-procedures-do-more-harm-than-good.html

Do not take what your doctors say seriously..

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The great Bangalore Real Estate Loot ..

The Justice Shivraj Patil ( just resigned Karnataka Lokayuktha) is just the tip of the iceberg. The real estate loot in Bangalore is worth INR 1.87 lakh crores..

the great loot click here..

The affluent and influential in the society are least bothered with what's happening around them. The farming lands are taken in the name of building housing societies for the common man at dirt cheap rates, depriving the farmers of any decent remuneration. All tax exemptions are exploited and then the officials of the housing society distribute some of the plots to the members and apportion the rest among themselves.

Politicians cutting across parties and ideologies, bureaucrats and police officers all take their cut from the allocations in terms of plots. The plots are later on sold at huge profits with the officials pocketing all the ill gained profits.

All co-operative housing societies in the country also needs to be investigated into and the guilty needs to be given exemplary punishment.

With such worthless people at the helm and an equally gullible public, I sometimes wonder whether as a country India can ever succeed. Its own people are pulling back the progress of the country.

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Don't React, Do Respond/ No one can hurt us

A very nice Life management lesson....

I was dining with some of my friends in a hotel. My friends and their wives were enjoying the dinner. Suddenly, a cockroach flew from somewhere and sat on the wife of my close friend. I wondered if this was the cockroach's response to all the glory that was spoken about it! She started screaming out of fear. With panic stricken face and trembling voice,she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach. Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group got cranky to what was happening. The lady finally managed to push the cockroach to another lady in the group. Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama. The waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm,composed himself and observed the behaviour of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed and threw it out with his fingers. Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behaviour? If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed? He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos. It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies. I realized even in my case then, it is not the shouting of my wife or my boss that disturbs me, but its my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me. Its not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me. More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that hurts me. Lessons learnt from the story: I understood, I should not react in life. I should always respond. The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded. Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always intellectual.     No One Can Hurt Us? ? Abraham Lincoln ? Motivational Story   On His First Day In office as President,  Abraham Lincoln Entered To Give His Inaugural Address, One Man Stood Up He Was A Rich Aristocrat. He Said " Mr Lincoln, You Should Not Forget That Your Father Used To make Shoes For My Family " And The Whole Senate Laughed, They Thought They Had Made A Fool Of Lincoln. But Certain People Are Made Of A Totally Different Metal. Lincoln Looked At The Man Directly In the Eyes And Said " Sir, I Know That My father Used To Make Shoes For Your Family, And There Will Be Many Others Here,   Because He made Shoes The Way Nobody Else Can. He Was A Creator. His Shoes Were Not Just Shoes, He Poured His Whole Soul Into Them. I Want To Ask You, Have You Any Complaint?? Because I Know How To Make Shoes Myself. If You Have Any Complaint I Can Make You Another Pair Of Shoes. But As Far As I Know, Nobody Has Ever Complained About My Father's Shoes. He Was A Genius, I am Proud Of My Father." The Whole Senate Was Struck Dumb. They Could Not Understand What Kind Of Man Abraham Lincoln Was. He Was Proud Because His Father Did His Job So Well That Not Even A Single Complaint Had Ever Been Heard Remember " No One Can Hurt Us Without Consent " " It is Not What Happens To us That Hurts Us....It Is Our Response That Hurt Us "

New Karnataka Lokayuktha Justice Patil resigns ..

It is a common practice for every mortal soul in this world to gain wealth for themselves. Justice Shivraj Patil is no exception to this rule of nature.

Make hay when the sun shines is a popular saying. Justice Shivraj Patil did not do anything more. He amassed wealth when he could and then failed to disclose it to the authorities when asked to do so. This has led him to this piqaunt situation where he has been cornered and he has felt morally obliged to resign. Justice Patil has committed a major breach of law by getting plots allotted to him hiding the facts that he did own residences in the city of Bangalore.

Whatever justification he tries to make for himself, poor fellow has been exposed !! An error of judgement ?? If the issue had not been exposed he would still have continued to discharge his duties as the Lokayuktha. He would have continued to decide on corruption cases of others, when he himself is corrupt.

The incident has proved beyond doubt that nobody can escape truth, nobody is above law law will catch up with every offender one time or the other.  Justice Patil will be proceeded against legally too. It will be a pitiful sight to find the Lokayuktha being booked for corruption !!

This incident must have sent shivers down the spine of senior and junior govt officers and staff who have misused their official positions and lied on different occasions to the government to amass plots and real estate. Let them declare and return such illegal properties. There are millions of poor people who are not as "smart" as these corrupt people and still looking for a plot of land to call their own. The corrupt go on amassing property and plots left and right in Bangalore and others are left high and dry !!

It is a pity that even people with conscience are corrupt and valueless and are ready to go to any extent for their personal gains and benefits unmindful of their societal responsibilities .. They require a class or two in Ethics !!

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Cancer incidence, stark facts ..

Incidence of cancer / 100,000 population

Men               204

Women          265

Noth America  334

Europe    335

Africa      88

Among men             361  France, Australia

Among women         325  Denmark

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2468196.ece
Guardian UK.

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Somalia , the crisis ..

A mother closes the eyes of her two-year-old son moments after he died from malnutrition and related complications at a hospital in Mogadishu on August 15.

The woman, her husband and their three children had fled their village in the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia to Mogadishu in search of refuge.

courtesy AP ..

A great victory for Modi ..

A great victory for Modi.

(courtesy The Hindu, 13 Sept, 2011.)

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Some powerful images of 9/11

Some of the most powerful images of 9/11. Courtesy Life.com

The beginning of the end of US of A  .. It showed that any body could attack a vulnerable US and commit it to wars, which would eventually prove costly and bloody, from which it would find difficult to climb out, without loss of face.

After this tragedy, while US spent almost $ 6 trillion to fight two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and amassed huge debts in the bargain, the rest of the world surged ahead, especially China and India..

Americans will regret this hasty act of their leaders to enter into war, for a long time to come..

An eventful day in history of modern world ..

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Rogues dictating terms to Karnataka govt.

It was interesting to note how the ex-minister Sriramulu and close confidante of Janardhan Reddy ( Janaradhan Reddy is cooling his heels in the Kanchanguda prison in Hyderabad for the past three days), has raised the issue of the district police officials not tipping him off early regarding the CBI raids on the Reddy brothers for their involvement in the $ 4 billion mining scam in Karnataka in India..

Being ex-minister and very powerful people, they are questioning the government why the district police officials did not stand by them and tip them off regarding the CBI raid, in their time of crisis and helped to evade the CBI raid. After having done so much good for the state and the mining industry in particular in Bellary, it is sad to note that this is the final reward they get from the state.

One of the conditions ex-minister Sriramulu has raised to take back his resignation letter is the transfer of these upright and straight police officers by an equally conniving State government. Else he has threatened along with 39 other MLAs to resign enmasse and topple the government.

It is surprising to note that they have not asked that the CBI officers also should be transferred .. The people of the state are wondering when the state government will understand the gravity of the situation and allow CBI to proceed against these rogues. For the state government, Reddy brothers have only been booked, not convicted yet. Lokayuktha Justice Hegde is a fool and his report on the $ 4 billion mining scam in the state of Karnataka, only befits to be thrown to the waste paper basket.

Advani will do a great service to the country by starting his yatra against corruption from Bangalore and terminating in Gandhinagar. 

How corrupt and selfish are these dumb politicians to ensure their survival ? The public have to teach these rogues a fitting lesson in the coming elections by not electing them. With each wrong step, they are discrediting themselves and taking them far away from the same people they represent.

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Anna Hazare and team will continue their efforts ..

Anna Hazare and the core committee comprising of Justice Santosh Hegde, Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan are meeting in Ralegan Sidhi in Maharashtra.  Their fight against corruption has to continue.

Anna Hazare says,

"People must ask the parliamentarians about their role in the Jan Lokpal Bill movement. People must be careful while electing the MPs in future. Those MPs who are either against the Jan Lokpal Bill or passive about it must not be given a second chance. The fight against corruption would continue till India is freed from corruption."

Once this fight is accomplished with success, the next should be to bring back the Rs 70,000 lakh crores of Indian black money in Swiss banks..

The fight will continue till then..

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The guilty go down on their knees ..

The guilty know when to go down on their knees and when to act tough .. :)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Narendra-Modi-govt-on-its-knees-before-Rajnish-Rai/articleshow/9929615.cms

Smart move from Narendra Modi ..

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Public disregarding politicians, a welcome sign ..

New Delhi court was under a terror strike three days back. Eleven people lost their lives and scores were injured. As usual politicians made a beeline to visit the dead bodies and the injured in hospitals.

Usually when politicians and VIPs come they do with  large posse of security policemen and commandoes. And many more in mufti. The whole scene is mdisrupted causing great inconvenience to the close relatives of the injured being treated in the hospitals. The politicians visit these injured people, make lot of false promises and escape.

But this time with heightened awareness regarding the betrayal by politicians of the common man and the many corruption scandals, the public said enough is enough. Other than the Prime Minister, other politicians received a very cool and often unwelcome approval by the relatives in the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi just an MP, who came in with his Z category security was snubbed by the people and had to return glaum faced.

The politicians do not realise than in another three years, they will once again be going to the same public, falling at their feet for votes. The public will then show them who the real master is ..

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BSY, Z category security seeks exemption from court appearance..

The former Karnataka CM B S Yedyurappa has asked for exemption from court appearance on corruption charges filed against him by the state, on the grounds that being Z category security, his arrival each time to court causes annoyance to the public and disrupts the traffic much.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BSY-Cant-attend-court-as-my-convoy-inconveniences-people/articleshow/9904978.cms

Being the ex-CM, why should a criminal like Yedyurappa still enjoy Z category security ? This is plain mockery of the system. The ruling BJP has not taken out the tight security for him, knowing well that he is a criminal and is awaiting punishment for at least a dozen cases of corruption against him.

The state and its people are paying for the security of a criminal like Yeddy ?

What a mockery of the democratic system ..

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IT cos. to kickstart campus hiring, fear among senior staff ..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/IT-companies-kick-start-campus-hiring-plan-to-recruit-2-5-lakh/articleshow/9877327.cms

The plan of IT cos. ( when the international scenario is dim with IT spends decreasing and cos. bargaining to reduce IT costs ) to hire more of freshers especially when the international scenario is dim is sure to send shock waves with senior employees.

The plan of IT cos is to hire fresh talent, from 2L last year to 2.5L this year, at low salaries and prune headcount at higher levels with higher salaries .. Benefit for the IT cos, an effective cost cutting measure ..

Great churning in the IT sector expected .. Median age is still to fall down ..

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Thank God, Mining scoundrels Reddys are arrested ..

Acting on the report by the Lokayuktha, CBI swung into action swiftly this morning. The Reddy brothers, sons of an ordinary police constable, who rose to be mining barons, was running a mining mafia in Bellary, north Karnataka have been arrested by the CBI on Monday 5 September 2011 morning in Bellary.

The flaunting of wealth got by raping mother earth which has been illegally mined will be examined by the CBI. The Reddy brothers who gave funds to BJP, were made ministers in Yeddyurappa Govt. The arrest has spelt doom for their mafia and terror activities and will put an end to the illegal mining activities in the state. The Supreme Court had earlier banned iron ore mining in the state.

It is ironical that BJP, seeped in corruption to the core still issues statements that it will support Reddys whatever happens to them, just to make sure that they do not withdraw support to the ministry.

With this arrest, it is hoped that the real estate prices in the city which have been hovering at very high rates and artificially held at that rate by the mining and real estate lobby with their black money will see a little cooling off..

Justice Hegde will be a relieved man now, so also all people who love the state of Karnataka ....

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Parliament should command respect or demand it ??

Parliament should command or demand respect ?

Indian Parliament with 150 criminals and illiterates should command or demand respect from the common man ? Just wait for another 3 years and the same representatives will come abegging for our precious votes, falling at our feet, (enticing with all their ill-gotten wealth ..)  Does it show who commands in the Indian Democracy, the people or their elected representatives, the servants of the people ? The servants have place only at the feet of their masters ..

The Parliament should withdraw with immediate effect privilege motion notices against Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan who dared to question them and even went to the extent of pulling their legs. Are our Parliamentarians so kiddish and intolerant crybabies running around for mama's skirt ? Shame on all of you !!

Come in front and show us that you deserve our respect, not demand it .. ( btw, I am thankful being In India, where you can shout against your elected representatives and get them to behave..)

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