SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE!
(BY Dr. G. Balakrishnan)
Sonia Gandhi did not believe in retribution and they more banked on Compassion porinciple so too her daughter Priyanka when she was at Vellore prison visit to meet LTTE mercenary Nalini who assassinated our former PM Mr. Rajiv Gandhi she like her mother went further to her mother recommending Life Sentence instead of hanging, she recommended even release her and she has realized the mistake and also did her MCA in jail to pursue a new way of peaceful life, as they believed in ?Shakespeare thought in Merchant of Venice ?Quality of Mercy seasons Justice?.
Similar view expressed by Gladys Staines when she forgave Dara Singh., who torched to death her missionary husband Graham Staines and their two young sons in Orissa recently. All of them did not accept the Jewish philosophy ?an eye for an eye or tooth for tooth?.
Eva Moses and her sister were tortured in the by Dr. Josef Mengele to use them for his medical experiments but these two providentially escaped but Miriam died not able to recover from trauma of injections of poisons, virus or bacteria she suffered. Eva survived and later forgave the torturer. Eva said, ?What the victims do does not change what had happened. And the best thing about the remedy of forgiveness is still there are no side effects. And everybody can afford it.
? This is the intrinsic compassion which generally most of every woman has, is proved by these women.
And yet some women believe otherwise and support retribution like Kavita Karhare, Smita Salaskar. It means younger generations believe in retribution in the world of Reformative jurisprudence a part of Criminal Jurisprudence, a paradox! Retribution cannot bring back to life those who laid their lives at the call of duty.
That is where extremist religious bigots floated parties and bands misunderstanding the world of humanity.
And yet most of the women have sense of mercy and compassion in the day to day world, even today, where most of the husbands and their close ones torture the women in marital homes and if these tortured women believed in retribution there will be thousands of murders every day!
Because of this fact of compassion seen over several centuries? men and prophets like Dalai Lama quoted as saying, ?We can live without religion, and Meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection?.
So too Ralph Waldo Emerson statement, ?Religion is to do Right. It is to Love, It is to think, and it is to be Humble?.
So too Jonathan Swift viewed ?We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us Love one another?.
Henry Von Dyke said, ?Half of the Secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from vain ideas that everyman is bound to be a critic for life?.
Steven Weinberg said, ?Religion is as insult to human Dignity. You?d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things. For good people to do bad things, it takes religion.?
In the same strain Benjamin Franklin said ?Many quarreled about religion that never practiced it?.
Retribution is less Masculine Justice while Justice is indeed feminine world of Compassion and Mercy and hence you see in the Hindu pantheon, there are a lot of mother goddesses who are invoked for the good of humanity and this trend is percolating in every religion after all no religion is sans females!
Mother of all Justice is Compassion and Mercy and if that mercy is not there the world would have been just extinct several millenniums ago! So this writer volunteered when he wanted to plead for Ajmal Kasab, perpetrators? mercenary of 26/11 attack at Mumbai, he volunteered to advance the idea of life sentence to him instead of Hanging, in December 2008, at the call of Supreme Court to appoint some one to be a defense advocate-counsel for Ajmal Kasab, and the time Bombay High Court Legal Aid was looking for one to take up.
Ajmal Kasab is alive in Jail today just because of a policeman told his colleagues not to kill him and prophetic thinking has helped our prosecution and the prosecutions of world to get deeper into who had been behind and that way Pakistan today is pinned down, as its ISI managed these Talibans and the same Talibans want to attack very Pakistan itself, like a cobra which killed its own breeder by giving milk every day!
Moral of the story is even President Obhama eliminated inhuman treatment jails of Guatemala, as his first step when he took the step of his Presidency!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Should we still need retributive justice!
SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE!
(BY Dr. G. Balakrishnan)
Sonia Gandhi did not believe in retribution and they more banked on Compassion porinciple so too her daughter Priyanka when she was at Vellore prison visit to meet LTTE mercenary Nalini who assassinated our former PM Mr. Rajiv Gandhi she like her mother went further to her mother recommending Life Sentence instead of hanging, she recommended even release her and she has realized the mistake and also did her MCA in jail to pursue a new way of peaceful life, as they believed in ?Shakespeare thought in Merchant of Venice ?Quality of Mercy seasons Justice?.
Similar view expressed by Gladys Staines when she forgave Dara Singh., who torched to death her missionary husband Graham Staines and their two young sons in Orissa recently. All of them did not accept the Jewish philosophy ?an eye for an eye or tooth for tooth?.
Eva Moses and her sister were tortured in the by Dr. Josef Mengele to use them for his medical experiments but these two providentially escaped but Miriam died not able to recover from trauma of injections of poisons, virus or bacteria she suffered. Eva survived and later forgave the torturer. Eva said, ?What the victims do does not change what had happened. And the best thing about the remedy of forgiveness is still there are no side effects. And everybody can afford it.
? This is the intrinsic compassion which generally most of every woman has, is proved by these women.
And yet some women believe otherwise and support retribution like Kavita Karhare, Smita Salaskar. It means younger generations believe in retribution in the world of Reformative jurisprudence a part of Criminal Jurisprudence, a paradox! Retribution cannot bring back to life those who laid their lives at the call of duty.
That is where extremist religious bigots floated parties and bands misunderstanding the world of humanity.
And yet most of the women have sense of mercy and compassion in the day to day world, even today, where most of the husbands and their close ones torture the women in marital homes and if these tortured women believed in retribution there will be thousands of murders every day!
Because of this fact of compassion seen over several centuries? men and prophets like Dalai Lama quoted as saying, ?We can live without religion, and Meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection?.
So too Ralph Waldo Emerson statement, ?Religion is to do Right. It is to Love, It is to think, and it is to be Humble?.
So too Jonathan Swift viewed ?We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us Love one another?.
Henry Von Dyke said, ?Half of the Secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from vain ideas that everyman is bound to be a critic for life?.
Steven Weinberg said, ?Religion is as insult to human Dignity. You?d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things. For good people to do bad things, it takes religion.?
In the same strain Benjamin Franklin said ?Many quarreled about religion that never practiced it?.
Retribution is less Masculine Justice while Justice is indeed feminine world of Compassion and Mercy and hence you see in the Hindu pantheon, there are a lot of mother goddesses who are invoked for the good of humanity and this trend is percolating in every religion after all no religion is sans females!
Mother of all Justice is Compassion and Mercy and if that mercy is not there the world would have been just extinct several millenniums ago! So this writer volunteered when he wanted to plead for Ajmal Kasab, perpetrators? mercenary of 26/11 attack at Mumbai, he volunteered to advance the idea of life sentence to him instead of Hanging, in December 2008, at the call of Supreme Court to appoint some one to be a defense advocate-counsel for Ajmal Kasab, and the time Bombay High Court Legal Aid was looking for one to take up.
Ajmal Kasab is alive in Jail today just because of a policeman told his colleagues not to kill him and prophetic thinking has helped our prosecution and the prosecutions of world to get deeper into who had been behind and that way Pakistan today is pinned down, as its ISI managed these Talibans and the same Talibans want to attack very Pakistan itself, like a cobra which killed its own breeder by giving milk every day!
Moral of the story is even President Obhama eliminated inhuman treatment jails of Guatemala, as his first step when he took the step of his Presidency!
(BY Dr. G. Balakrishnan)
Sonia Gandhi did not believe in retribution and they more banked on Compassion porinciple so too her daughter Priyanka when she was at Vellore prison visit to meet LTTE mercenary Nalini who assassinated our former PM Mr. Rajiv Gandhi she like her mother went further to her mother recommending Life Sentence instead of hanging, she recommended even release her and she has realized the mistake and also did her MCA in jail to pursue a new way of peaceful life, as they believed in ?Shakespeare thought in Merchant of Venice ?Quality of Mercy seasons Justice?.
Similar view expressed by Gladys Staines when she forgave Dara Singh., who torched to death her missionary husband Graham Staines and their two young sons in Orissa recently. All of them did not accept the Jewish philosophy ?an eye for an eye or tooth for tooth?.
Eva Moses and her sister were tortured in the by Dr. Josef Mengele to use them for his medical experiments but these two providentially escaped but Miriam died not able to recover from trauma of injections of poisons, virus or bacteria she suffered. Eva survived and later forgave the torturer. Eva said, ?What the victims do does not change what had happened. And the best thing about the remedy of forgiveness is still there are no side effects. And everybody can afford it.
? This is the intrinsic compassion which generally most of every woman has, is proved by these women.
And yet some women believe otherwise and support retribution like Kavita Karhare, Smita Salaskar. It means younger generations believe in retribution in the world of Reformative jurisprudence a part of Criminal Jurisprudence, a paradox! Retribution cannot bring back to life those who laid their lives at the call of duty.
That is where extremist religious bigots floated parties and bands misunderstanding the world of humanity.
And yet most of the women have sense of mercy and compassion in the day to day world, even today, where most of the husbands and their close ones torture the women in marital homes and if these tortured women believed in retribution there will be thousands of murders every day!
Because of this fact of compassion seen over several centuries? men and prophets like Dalai Lama quoted as saying, ?We can live without religion, and Meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection?.
So too Ralph Waldo Emerson statement, ?Religion is to do Right. It is to Love, It is to think, and it is to be Humble?.
So too Jonathan Swift viewed ?We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us Love one another?.
Henry Von Dyke said, ?Half of the Secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from vain ideas that everyman is bound to be a critic for life?.
Steven Weinberg said, ?Religion is as insult to human Dignity. You?d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things. For good people to do bad things, it takes religion.?
In the same strain Benjamin Franklin said ?Many quarreled about religion that never practiced it?.
Retribution is less Masculine Justice while Justice is indeed feminine world of Compassion and Mercy and hence you see in the Hindu pantheon, there are a lot of mother goddesses who are invoked for the good of humanity and this trend is percolating in every religion after all no religion is sans females!
Mother of all Justice is Compassion and Mercy and if that mercy is not there the world would have been just extinct several millenniums ago! So this writer volunteered when he wanted to plead for Ajmal Kasab, perpetrators? mercenary of 26/11 attack at Mumbai, he volunteered to advance the idea of life sentence to him instead of Hanging, in December 2008, at the call of Supreme Court to appoint some one to be a defense advocate-counsel for Ajmal Kasab, and the time Bombay High Court Legal Aid was looking for one to take up.
Ajmal Kasab is alive in Jail today just because of a policeman told his colleagues not to kill him and prophetic thinking has helped our prosecution and the prosecutions of world to get deeper into who had been behind and that way Pakistan today is pinned down, as its ISI managed these Talibans and the same Talibans want to attack very Pakistan itself, like a cobra which killed its own breeder by giving milk every day!
Moral of the story is even President Obhama eliminated inhuman treatment jails of Guatemala, as his first step when he took the step of his Presidency!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Built operate and transfer should not become high burden on citizens
your george Mendonca story. is a good piece on remembering the bridge
Thane creek bridge initially constructed on govt and it earned more revenues than what was spent by govt. Then we had put up consistent fight in bombay high court and we won the case and toll wass removed. Today most of these bridges and roads are built BOT principle. What we do not understand is the tolls collected when exceeds the investment then these tolls should be stopped and perpetually you cannot collect tolls. Politicians and toll operators continuously keep collecting toll as if it is permanent collection centres. I do not see reasonableness and hence it affects Article 14 of fundamental rights of citizens. If citizens pay toll do you want to sat you should fleece him. What is the rule of law? Secondly, though the government collected more than what it spent on first creek bridge more than 3 to 4 times it did not renovate the bridge but today's condition of the bridge is created by government and i do not understand what do they mean by guardian minister when he is really not guarding the interests of people. How can you call that so called minister as guardian.Infact he should have initiated the process of ending the menace but he does not.
When BOTs are given and the fellows invested funds cannot earn more than 3.5% to 4% rate of interest and in fact they should spend moneys from their own surplus funds and bank funds that should hsve been a rider. They take loans from bankers who take deposits from depositors and lend the money and that means citizen depositors really give the money and in fact they (BOT) OPERATOR should hsave been disallowed loans from banks. In fact you circulate citizens deposits and you earn a lot of illegal earning from the tolls. then wjhat is the role of governments!
I think it is the job of guardian minister but so called guardians in the garb of guadians loot citizens.
Now people should file RTI cases before information commissioner and seek the correct spends on the so called creek bridges and what are the earnings of these so called toll coollectors and if they had collected more than the investments then immediately the tolls to be stopped in fsavour of the citizens.
thirdly, how these so called BOTs got investing money in these projrects whether they did put their own surplus moneys or takern loans from banks and if they had taken loans from these lending institutions then they should hsve got much favourable rates of interests and what are the favorable rates of interest that has to be made pubblic by information commissioner either suo motu or on application of by NGOs etc....and thsat way spin your story it would be really helping the citizens and that is real journalism please. reagards....Dr. G Balakrishnan, plot 26, sector 21 Nerul(W)..ph. 27710020
--dear ed,
your george Mendonca story. is a good piece on remembering the bridge.
Thane creek bridge initially constructed on govt and it earned more revenues than what was spent by govt. Then we had put up consistent fight in bombay high court and we won the case and toll wass removed. Today most of these bridges and roads are built BOT principle. What we do not understand is the tolls collected when exceeds the investment then these tolls should be stopped and perpetually you cannot collect tolls. Politicians and toll operators continuously keep collecting toll as if it is permanent collection centres. I do not see reasonableness and hence it affects Article 14 of fundamental rights of citizens. If citizens pay toll do you want to sat you should fleece him. What is the rule of law? Secondly, though the government collected more than what it spent on first creek bridge more than 3 to 4 times it did not renovate the bridge but today's condition of the bridge is created by government and i do not understand what do they mean by guardian minister when he is really not guarding the interests of people. How can you call that so called minister as guardian.Infact he should have initiated the process of ending the menace but he does not.
When BOTs are given and the fellows invested funds cannot earn more than 3.5% to 4% rate of interest and in fact they should spend moneys from their own surplus funds and bank funds that should hsve been a rider. They take loans from bankers who take deposits from depositors and lend the money and that means citizen depositors really give the money and in fact they (BOT) OPERATOR should hsave been disallowed loans from banks. In fact you circulate citizens deposits and you earn a lot of illegal earning from the tolls. then wjhat is the role of governments!
I think it is the job of guardian minister but so called guardians in the garb of guadians loot citizens.
Now people should file RTI cases before information commissioner and seek the correct spends on the so called creek bridges and what are the earnings of these so called toll coollectors and if they had collected more than the investments then immediately the tolls to be stopped in fsavour of the citizens.
thirdly, how these so called BOTs got investing money in these projrects whether they did put their own surplus moneys or takern loans from banks and if they had taken loans from these lending institutions then they should hsve got much favourable rates of interests and what are the favorable rates of interest that has to be made pubblic by information commissioner either suo motu or on application of by NGOs etc....and thsat way spin your story it would be really helping the citizens and that is real journalism please. reagards....Dr. G Balakrishnan,
Thane creek bridge initially constructed on govt and it earned more revenues than what was spent by govt. Then we had put up consistent fight in bombay high court and we won the case and toll wass removed. Today most of these bridges and roads are built BOT principle. What we do not understand is the tolls collected when exceeds the investment then these tolls should be stopped and perpetually you cannot collect tolls. Politicians and toll operators continuously keep collecting toll as if it is permanent collection centres. I do not see reasonableness and hence it affects Article 14 of fundamental rights of citizens. If citizens pay toll do you want to sat you should fleece him. What is the rule of law? Secondly, though the government collected more than what it spent on first creek bridge more than 3 to 4 times it did not renovate the bridge but today's condition of the bridge is created by government and i do not understand what do they mean by guardian minister when he is really not guarding the interests of people. How can you call that so called minister as guardian.Infact he should have initiated the process of ending the menace but he does not.
When BOTs are given and the fellows invested funds cannot earn more than 3.5% to 4% rate of interest and in fact they should spend moneys from their own surplus funds and bank funds that should hsve been a rider. They take loans from bankers who take deposits from depositors and lend the money and that means citizen depositors really give the money and in fact they (BOT) OPERATOR should hsave been disallowed loans from banks. In fact you circulate citizens deposits and you earn a lot of illegal earning from the tolls. then wjhat is the role of governments!
I think it is the job of guardian minister but so called guardians in the garb of guadians loot citizens.
Now people should file RTI cases before information commissioner and seek the correct spends on the so called creek bridges and what are the earnings of these so called toll coollectors and if they had collected more than the investments then immediately the tolls to be stopped in fsavour of the citizens.
thirdly, how these so called BOTs got investing money in these projrects whether they did put their own surplus moneys or takern loans from banks and if they had taken loans from these lending institutions then they should hsve got much favourable rates of interests and what are the favorable rates of interest that has to be made pubblic by information commissioner either suo motu or on application of by NGOs etc....and thsat way spin your story it would be really helping the citizens and that is real journalism please. reagards....Dr. G Balakrishnan, plot 26, sector 21 Nerul(W)..ph. 27710020
--dear ed,
your george Mendonca story. is a good piece on remembering the bridge.
Thane creek bridge initially constructed on govt and it earned more revenues than what was spent by govt. Then we had put up consistent fight in bombay high court and we won the case and toll wass removed. Today most of these bridges and roads are built BOT principle. What we do not understand is the tolls collected when exceeds the investment then these tolls should be stopped and perpetually you cannot collect tolls. Politicians and toll operators continuously keep collecting toll as if it is permanent collection centres. I do not see reasonableness and hence it affects Article 14 of fundamental rights of citizens. If citizens pay toll do you want to sat you should fleece him. What is the rule of law? Secondly, though the government collected more than what it spent on first creek bridge more than 3 to 4 times it did not renovate the bridge but today's condition of the bridge is created by government and i do not understand what do they mean by guardian minister when he is really not guarding the interests of people. How can you call that so called minister as guardian.Infact he should have initiated the process of ending the menace but he does not.
When BOTs are given and the fellows invested funds cannot earn more than 3.5% to 4% rate of interest and in fact they should spend moneys from their own surplus funds and bank funds that should hsve been a rider. They take loans from bankers who take deposits from depositors and lend the money and that means citizen depositors really give the money and in fact they (BOT) OPERATOR should hsave been disallowed loans from banks. In fact you circulate citizens deposits and you earn a lot of illegal earning from the tolls. then wjhat is the role of governments!
I think it is the job of guardian minister but so called guardians in the garb of guadians loot citizens.
Now people should file RTI cases before information commissioner and seek the correct spends on the so called creek bridges and what are the earnings of these so called toll coollectors and if they had collected more than the investments then immediately the tolls to be stopped in fsavour of the citizens.
thirdly, how these so called BOTs got investing money in these projrects whether they did put their own surplus moneys or takern loans from banks and if they had taken loans from these lending institutions then they should hsve got much favourable rates of interests and what are the favorable rates of interest that has to be made pubblic by information commissioner either suo motu or on application of by NGOs etc....and thsat way spin your story it would be really helping the citizens and that is real journalism please. reagards....Dr. G Balakrishnan,
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
retirement
RETIREMENT is like the view of Chuck Palahnluk –‘If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… would you slow down Or Speed up? ‘-
By Dr. G. Balakrishnan
William Ross said ‘Every man dies – not every man really lives,’ meaning thereby every retiring man when he chooses to spend retired life really qualifies under category ‘not every man really lives’. This view of Ross is reflected by the thought of Palahnluk.
Oscar Wilde’s statement – ‘a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it’ meaning normal working life is just myopic satisfaction and in fact but he chooses to die for such life of real death’.
Winston Churchill said,’ I am ready meet my Maker(God) whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter’, here Churchill makes it clear, ‘that Maker’ has just duped me by myopia of world, but Brian Williams thought, ’A person starts dying when they(he) stop dreaming’.
Ernest Hemingway thoughtfully said, ‘the world (myopic world – a mirage) is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.’ And in this line of thought Palahnluk said, ‘We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will’, Voltaire added his thought,’ he was humanitarian, a great patriot, a loyal friend – provided of course, that he really is dead.’
When the above thoughts, are compared to people, like Amitabh Bachchan, a film world celebrity, on retirement, said,’ I’ll work till I’m 80, when he turned 67 recently, meaning thereby if he sits idle he will very soon kick the bucket and he does not want to, that is the ‘creative force’ driving him to accept Ernest Hemingway’s thought. Hence he chose to host a popular television realty show, ‘will walk the Ramp for a fashion show’ and thus confirms that he cannot retire actively from active world and he made clear that he is happy to follow the footsteps of Ashok Kumar , evergreen Hero of 50’s on till he died, a former Bolly-wood celebrity, acted in his 80s.
Similar views are held by several diplomats retired now actively involved in Electronic Media interviews or writing for print media, as they do not want to die a day so soon, as they want to put their debut, so too eminent Octogenarian lawyers, like Soli Sorabjee, Jethmalani, to name a few.
In the similar vein, people like corporate czar Lakshmi Mittal(58), late GD Birla,(Birla empire), JRD Tata,(Tatas) LK Advani of BJP, to name a few. They never wanted retirement benefits and idle away like thousands of men; but thousands of government retirees, wanting heavy pensions, free hospitalization benefits, and what not!, at the cost of the tax payers’, due to their love to eat like ‘white ants’, in a gluttonous way, the crucial ‘essential commodities’, without contributing to the nation, any worthwhile work, at their retired state too, and if they do, then for them, the world is a fine place to live!. Will they work as there is a great demand for retired people to work even not at the cost of young workforce, available today as the world needs a lot of working hands and certainly not wasting people at the cost of the National Wealth?
I know all those retirees today will soon have to rethink to contribute in this recession ridden world, as the current recession ridden world needs working force day by day and the really self respecting people would write to the governments that they do not need pensions, and free benefits, as the country needs to conserve hard earned finances, and their worthless inactive lives are making them to run to hospitals now and then, just to extend their lives, as uselessly as they can. Will they do? Indeed a million dollar question?
Pay Commissions are chivalrous in granting gratuitous salaries, without real ‘contributions by the public servants of sorts’ though these men also thrive on ‘bribes of all proportions’ in their active service life; and after they get shameless ‘pensions and facilities’, at the cost of taxpayers.
These men should have soul searching in them when they really can be really meaningful people, even after retirement they can work but really deadly useless can be given some pensions to sustain their lives; and not lavish living.
Yes, I know it is a view of several hard working people of all categories, from different walks of life, after all these will be painful thoughts for such worthies to digest this view, hear the governments sooner or later will not be able to pay pensions, as the moneys for pensions have to come from tax payers by way of revenues.
Social Security is possible provided the people working pay social security taxes themselves; and when that is not there in India, pensions are extravagance on the part of government.
It is alright to pay to military services, as they are ‘mercenaries’ and they join military services knowing fully well that they cannot be sure of their life, in the tumultuous world. Qualified pensioners can be from military and like services.
May be this will be painful for other pensioners to read but facts cannot be forgotten.
Even US Social Security is not a guarantee when your credit in the account is down and you will be disqualified if you do not secure some kind of jobs within six months, in case of young men too; and very infirm is just taken care of by government. That kind is a viable situation. India is really not very rich country as ‘have not’s are nothing less than 70% to 80% of Indian population.
When one work is over, you change your costume to play another role sir and come back as a character not very slowly but too sooner, like a military retired-men become watchmen. That donning is of new role.
In fact no thing is real and everything dies and takes some other shape, sooner but unfortunately people think that they are very important players of truth. In fact ever man in fact dies, as soon as one role is over like from childhood to adulthood and so on. Everything perishes. So God will not personally meet you because you will question Him! You become something of greatness or otherwise when you die. So continuer to dream new and newer roles and play enjoy a healthy life. Then you will never think of dying after all this world is fine for you, like it dawned on HANUMAN, WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO COME TO HEAVEN HE SAID ‘I’m happy to be on earth and serve Ram’s people. So Hanuman never went to heavens according to Shastras’. It is said at his ripe old age he still serves people who trust him. Liker Hanuman every retiree should think and definitely people endow you with a lot ‘Vada-malas’ (Ends)
By Dr. G. Balakrishnan
William Ross said ‘Every man dies – not every man really lives,’ meaning thereby every retiring man when he chooses to spend retired life really qualifies under category ‘not every man really lives’. This view of Ross is reflected by the thought of Palahnluk.
Oscar Wilde’s statement – ‘a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it’ meaning normal working life is just myopic satisfaction and in fact but he chooses to die for such life of real death’.
Winston Churchill said,’ I am ready meet my Maker(God) whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter’, here Churchill makes it clear, ‘that Maker’ has just duped me by myopia of world, but Brian Williams thought, ’A person starts dying when they(he) stop dreaming’.
Ernest Hemingway thoughtfully said, ‘the world (myopic world – a mirage) is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.’ And in this line of thought Palahnluk said, ‘We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will’, Voltaire added his thought,’ he was humanitarian, a great patriot, a loyal friend – provided of course, that he really is dead.’
When the above thoughts, are compared to people, like Amitabh Bachchan, a film world celebrity, on retirement, said,’ I’ll work till I’m 80, when he turned 67 recently, meaning thereby if he sits idle he will very soon kick the bucket and he does not want to, that is the ‘creative force’ driving him to accept Ernest Hemingway’s thought. Hence he chose to host a popular television realty show, ‘will walk the Ramp for a fashion show’ and thus confirms that he cannot retire actively from active world and he made clear that he is happy to follow the footsteps of Ashok Kumar , evergreen Hero of 50’s on till he died, a former Bolly-wood celebrity, acted in his 80s.
Similar views are held by several diplomats retired now actively involved in Electronic Media interviews or writing for print media, as they do not want to die a day so soon, as they want to put their debut, so too eminent Octogenarian lawyers, like Soli Sorabjee, Jethmalani, to name a few.
In the similar vein, people like corporate czar Lakshmi Mittal(58), late GD Birla,(Birla empire), JRD Tata,(Tatas) LK Advani of BJP, to name a few. They never wanted retirement benefits and idle away like thousands of men; but thousands of government retirees, wanting heavy pensions, free hospitalization benefits, and what not!, at the cost of the tax payers’, due to their love to eat like ‘white ants’, in a gluttonous way, the crucial ‘essential commodities’, without contributing to the nation, any worthwhile work, at their retired state too, and if they do, then for them, the world is a fine place to live!. Will they work as there is a great demand for retired people to work even not at the cost of young workforce, available today as the world needs a lot of working hands and certainly not wasting people at the cost of the National Wealth?
I know all those retirees today will soon have to rethink to contribute in this recession ridden world, as the current recession ridden world needs working force day by day and the really self respecting people would write to the governments that they do not need pensions, and free benefits, as the country needs to conserve hard earned finances, and their worthless inactive lives are making them to run to hospitals now and then, just to extend their lives, as uselessly as they can. Will they do? Indeed a million dollar question?
Pay Commissions are chivalrous in granting gratuitous salaries, without real ‘contributions by the public servants of sorts’ though these men also thrive on ‘bribes of all proportions’ in their active service life; and after they get shameless ‘pensions and facilities’, at the cost of taxpayers.
These men should have soul searching in them when they really can be really meaningful people, even after retirement they can work but really deadly useless can be given some pensions to sustain their lives; and not lavish living.
Yes, I know it is a view of several hard working people of all categories, from different walks of life, after all these will be painful thoughts for such worthies to digest this view, hear the governments sooner or later will not be able to pay pensions, as the moneys for pensions have to come from tax payers by way of revenues.
Social Security is possible provided the people working pay social security taxes themselves; and when that is not there in India, pensions are extravagance on the part of government.
It is alright to pay to military services, as they are ‘mercenaries’ and they join military services knowing fully well that they cannot be sure of their life, in the tumultuous world. Qualified pensioners can be from military and like services.
May be this will be painful for other pensioners to read but facts cannot be forgotten.
Even US Social Security is not a guarantee when your credit in the account is down and you will be disqualified if you do not secure some kind of jobs within six months, in case of young men too; and very infirm is just taken care of by government. That kind is a viable situation. India is really not very rich country as ‘have not’s are nothing less than 70% to 80% of Indian population.
When one work is over, you change your costume to play another role sir and come back as a character not very slowly but too sooner, like a military retired-men become watchmen. That donning is of new role.
In fact no thing is real and everything dies and takes some other shape, sooner but unfortunately people think that they are very important players of truth. In fact ever man in fact dies, as soon as one role is over like from childhood to adulthood and so on. Everything perishes. So God will not personally meet you because you will question Him! You become something of greatness or otherwise when you die. So continuer to dream new and newer roles and play enjoy a healthy life. Then you will never think of dying after all this world is fine for you, like it dawned on HANUMAN, WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO COME TO HEAVEN HE SAID ‘I’m happy to be on earth and serve Ram’s people. So Hanuman never went to heavens according to Shastras’. It is said at his ripe old age he still serves people who trust him. Liker Hanuman every retiree should think and definitely people endow you with a lot ‘Vada-malas’ (Ends)
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