Friday, August 10, 2007

Shantaram

Purchased the book out of sheer curiosity and got hooked to it. One of the most amazing things that the book does is to keep your interest alive. The spiritual discussions between the protagonist and his mentor in India are amazing.

Worth a read anyday and a true value for money book.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Baba

Well this is not about Baba Ramdev, it is about the more famous baba, Sanjay Dutt. Heaven only knows why a 48 year old guy is called this but nevertheless. This is about the sentencing of Dutt in the 1993 bomb blasts case. I have been keeping track of the trial from what I could see in the newspapers. I am amused at the support that baba is getting in the country especially from the industry where he works and where his dad and mom worked before him and of course from the electronic media which has found a new cow to milk for TRPs.

What I don't understand is why should there be sympathy for a criminal? The guy had three AK-56 rifles( which I am sure he was keeping to amuse his girlfriends), 25 hand grenades( they were to used on Diwali) and a petty 9 mm pistol. This is in addition to 3 licensed weapons that the poor, holy soul kept at home. How can someone in his sane from of mind say that Baba is a criminal? I apologise for that. That baba had friends called Anis Ibrahim, Abu Salem is of course coincidental. As per the trial documents, Sanjay Dutt spoke to Anis on 11the March, a day before the blast. They were of course discussing new ways of masturbation and nothing else.

Baba when realising that all hell has broken lose asked two of his friends to seek the gun from his car destroy it and melt it to make sure that the evidence is destroyed. The melting was done to make sure that there is a Sai Baba statue made out of all the iron that came out and of course not to circumvent the process of law. Law unfortunately took its course and the criminal was awarded 6 years of rigorous imprisonment.
The country then went berserk of whether the sentence is correct or not. I feel that the fact that his sheer involvement with Anis ibrahim and Abu Salem, not to mention the parties that he attended with Dawood make him the 'enemy of the state' and he should be tried for that and not left scot free under any circumstances.

Tomorrow every criminal will plead that while i have lived a life of a good, innocent man on bail, i should be set off. What exactly are we talking about?

I feel that the CBI should even appeal in the TADA case where he has been sent off. Hats off to Justice Kode!!!!!

Death of a relationship

The death of a relationship is like the death of a loved one from a disease wich is terminal. You try your bset to keep it alive doing your very bst though you are aware of the fact that the writing is on the wall.

Its like being in an overloaded sinking boat, you are trying to keep afloat. As the boat starts to sink, you throw your ego first, then goes your self-respect,your friends are next, then your family. Its only then that you realise that the chances of the godforsaken boat surviving are nill.

It hurts, after all you did whatever was possible, but then such is life. It leads to a lot of pain and misery and you get into introspection, what was the mistake? Where did it all go wrong?

While there are no readymade answers to this question, I feel that it is again the comparison to the the dead man earlier. The man could have survived had there been an early diagnosis. Every relationship gives you tell tale signs of what it is leading to. "I love you" fifty times does not serve the purpose unfortunately.

Better to get out when you are still sane rather than waiting to die.