Who is Mr. Naik?
I see HT going all out, almost like the Indian Express of Old, against Minister Naik.
He has been convicted and the court has ordered one month prison term
here is an article from HT narrating how painful it is for Mr. Naik

Here’s how ex-minister dodges jail: Doctors say he doesn’t need to be in hospital. He insists: My chest hurts … SO WHY DOES EX-MINISTER WANT TO GO TO SUPER-LUXURY ‘JAIL’?

Solution would be to probably discount days spend in hospital from the whole prison term.
tragedy is, he will move to a 5 star jail then....
His accomplice, who was a government servant, is in the thane jail. well who said there is equality anyways
I have not seen any other paper even mentioning this scam.
Is there something wrong with our system or is it just us..
Read on:

There is an old Kishore Kumar Song from AMar Prem, which goes:

Chingari Koi Bhadke etc.
a stanza goes like this.

mazadhaar mein naiyyaa dole, to maanzee paar lagaaye
maanzee jo naaw dooboye use kaun bachaaye?

(the boatman will save you if the boat is not balanced mid-river,
who will save the passenger whose boatman topples the boat)

Probe falters, cheats still officers
POLICE OFFICER Sudhakar Pujari was idly glancing through the personal files of computer operator Faroque Kadge, arrested for fiddling with public service records, when he sat bolt upright.

On the screen, Pujari found page after page of meticulously detailed records that showed how answer sheets of public service exams had been replaced on behalf of hundreds of candidates in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

That meant, hundreds of bureaucrats had got their jobs — most are still in service — through fraud.

And so began a case that now threatens to dwarf cover-ups that have jolted the national consciousness.

Away from the public glare, the Hindustan Times has uncovered the backroom fiddles that now threaten to derail the probe into the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exam scandal.

Who will save us Indeed.

Why Alalalai?
Alalalai is ancient greek - a hurrah, a battle cry.
In India, torn by religion, caste and idiot politicians. we need the hurrah, the battle cry
Alalalai
Surya

Here is what Swami Vivekanand had to say:
Arise, awake, for your country needs this tremendous sacrifice. It is the young men that will do it.
‘The young, the energetic, the strong, the well-built, the intellectual’- for them is the task.
Surya

I am not the kind to go on hunger strikes, nor one to shout slogans in the streets.
May be I deserve what I get, then again, may be I don’t.
You see I pay my taxes :-)

Two things recently affected me:
CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar grilled the InHuman Resources minister
you will find it both interesting and appalling, anyways I did,
here is a link:

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/decision-on-quota-is-final-arjun/11063-4-single.html

I was also reading about the tiger force and its atrocities that are still unpunished in the bastion of unfair play: US of A
here is that link:
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/05/24/weiss/index_np.html

Interesting isn't it, here we are in the year 2006 and we still have idiots ruling the roost.
The HRD minister has no clue, no data, no inclination to listen or learn or understand and all he seemed to have was a lot of political rhetoric more suited to the idiot house we call parliament.

We call this great nation, a nation of intellectuals, and a nation that has broken all its shackles. Here is our greatest enemy.

If what the Islamic terrorists did to the Kashmiri pundits, what the Taliban did to the Sunnis, what the Nazi’s did to the Jews is ethnic cleansing in a messy and crude form, how is what Mr. Singh doing any different albeit in a more efficient, cleaner and much more effective way. He will send all the brain there is in this great land cross world, play into hands of the European countries and the US. They need brains; we need respect and a place. What is worrisome of course what happens to the children of the lower middle class but upper caste households? They might have to shell out the 10, 000 odd rupees to make out a false caste certificate. OR go to the “minority” institutes, which have been left out of the whole reservations thing, pay through their teeth, and get second grade education.

The whole irony is, the PM is the man who turned around the ailing license raj infested country, now he is brutally strangulating its jugular, the knowledge centers the world is in awe off.

More irony follows, the PM has promised more seats and better infrastructure. A total cost of approximately Rs 80 billion to Rs 100 billion.

If they have this kind of money, shouldn’t they be investing on primary education?

And if these reservations are effective, shouldn’t they be limited to one generation?

Question, conundrums, mysteries, - no answers in sight J

Who is to blame really? In our form of democracy, we chose a bugger from a lot of them and they chose a bigger bugger who messes the economy.

Look at the sectors that have been mercifully been left to themselves so far, the IT and BPO industries, they have prospered haven’t they?

Delhi does a 48% polling, is that the confidence our great government gives people, or may be, it is the hopelessness, there is hardly any choice is there. You chose A or B, it is evil with more evil. Is this democracy or demoncracy? Well!!

Maybe it is time for an American style government, where we pick a man like Manmohan Singh or Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who are visionaries and can turn around this nation. They will not be subjected to petty party politics or caste vote banks.

I only hope that Indians don’t have to hack and kill Indians and form a talibanisque revolution to get what is theirs by right – equality.

Hope, when all else fails, hope. Hope that the idiots wake up from their drunken stupor. Wake up to realize that the impunity with which they executed the mandal coup will not happen again, that youth has changed in the 15 odd years that have passed. This time a young man wont set fire to himself, he will set fire to the world.

Beware old men. India belongs to its youth.

Vande Mataram