Bharatbhai R Pandya Acp That is the thing. We were taught English from 5 th Standard as it was a Missionary School.The teachers were very sincere, there was one teacher who was B.Sc. and was teaching us science subjects, his name ( I remember his name even after 60 years, it was Samuel Christie, he saw that were deficient in English Grammar, and said once, " Unless you have a sound grip on English Grammar, you will not be able to learn English language properly. So , he started taking extra class for English Grammar ( after the school hours ) and taught us tenses first and then some peculiarities of Grammar constructions ! This was not his job , but had a passion to teach us correct things correctly.------------------------------------------ 2. As a child I saw illiterate adults going into the school building in out maholla at night , they learnt at least reading casually and putting their signatures ! One of such an adult student rose to be Member of Surat Municipal Corpn and became Chairman of water Suppy !-------------------------I was General secretary and President of a NGO South Gujarat Deen Bandhu Congress and we were conducting classes for adults but rarely a genuine adult came and learnt, mostly school children attended the classes, with a hope that they would not be subjected to attend Adult Literacy Courses !----------------The situation in rural side is quite disappointing as there are no rooms , tables and teachers always missing and coming once or twice in a month to collect their salaries . VarNvyavastha has also an impact on rural scenario as the teachers do not want to teach the students of SCs and Adivasis at all . They desire that the boys should get recdruited as farm labour only. ----- Unluckily M. Gandhi had similar view and questioned the advisability of opening new schools for Dalit and Adivasi students ( Such were our rotten leaders )
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
Law else where and in India
Why do Indians become law abiding citizens when they settle in other
countries?
Me ;--------For fear of instant and sure
punishment. Here the justice delivery system is plagued by lethargy, casteism,
communalism, corruption.No fear of any thing rules mind of the law breakers
When I was undergoing training at the Forensic Science Institute years back, Professor Amzad Khan of the same institute, and a name in the Sociology, had said to us " Remember law is ruthless with its followers but is afraid of its breakers. " is 100 % true in the Indian and Pakistani settings.
When I was undergoing training at the Forensic Science Institute years back, Professor Amzad Khan of the same institute, and a name in the Sociology, had said to us " Remember law is ruthless with its followers but is afraid of its breakers. " is 100 % true in the Indian and Pakistani settings.
Bharatbhai R Pandya Acp My frd
Professor D.J.Naik told me this story when he was in USA for a visit. " It
so happened that myself, your bhabhi and my son had gone to visit a super
store. My son and wife had gone inside the store and I just waited near the
parked car. So I thought let me sit in the driver's seat, so I opened door and
sat on his seat. After a few minutes a policeman came stood besides my door and
wanted to check the licence. I came out of the car, I had no driving license
for USA and told him so that I had only sat in driver's seat and was not doing
any thing connected with driving. .... Then all of a sudden he took out his
revolver and commanded me to turn on the bonnet with extended hands with palms
touching the bonnet keeping my face down, otherwise he would shoot me ". I
had to obey his order , otherwise he would have killed me. There were many
incidents when the American criminals had shot policemen on the excuse of
taking out licence from the pocket and had fired. So I obeyed his orders, he
checked my pockets ,to see whether there was any revolver inside the pocket. I
feel I escape a bullet or two of the policemen that day
!....... ". It is this awe which produces obedience to law.
!....... ". It is this awe which produces obedience to law.
My
status in detail :-
Why NRIs break law with
pleasure in India and obey it abroad loyally ?
They obey law in Middle East , USA England for fear of instant and sure punishment. Here the justice delivery system is plagued by lethargy, casteism, communalism, corruption.No fear of any thing rules mind of the law breakers
When I was undergoing training at the Forensic Science Institute years back, Professor A.M.Z. Khan of the same institute, and a name in the Sociology, had said to us " Remember law is ruthless with its followers but is afraid of its breakers. " is 100 % true in the Indian and Pakistani settings.
In European countries law is ruthless with every one, ordinary or extra-ordinary.Even the PM of England had to appear before the officer in charge of the Police Station in whose area the school of his son was located. They son had misbehaved in school and as per law his father was supposed to receive "rebuke "for the son's misbehavior, and the PM of England had to appear before the Police Inspector to receive the rebuke.
In India rules and laws are made selective only Muslims and Dalits are targets of Law Giving them protection of law is entirely a distant dream.
They obey law in Middle East , USA England for fear of instant and sure punishment. Here the justice delivery system is plagued by lethargy, casteism, communalism, corruption.No fear of any thing rules mind of the law breakers
When I was undergoing training at the Forensic Science Institute years back, Professor A.M.Z. Khan of the same institute, and a name in the Sociology, had said to us " Remember law is ruthless with its followers but is afraid of its breakers. " is 100 % true in the Indian and Pakistani settings.
In European countries law is ruthless with every one, ordinary or extra-ordinary.Even the PM of England had to appear before the officer in charge of the Police Station in whose area the school of his son was located. They son had misbehaved in school and as per law his father was supposed to receive "rebuke "for the son's misbehavior, and the PM of England had to appear before the Police Inspector to receive the rebuke.
In India rules and laws are made selective only Muslims and Dalits are targets of Law Giving them protection of law is entirely a distant dream.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Sunday, May 7, 2017
The Muslim gentry and the poor
Helping the poor , the handicapped and beggars
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Yesterday we were gossiping at the shop of a shayar friend,. With me was another All India level shayar. A Muslim beggar woman came for alms, I put my hand in pocket but a note of 100 came out, and I wanted to give only 10/-. So the All India level shayar took out a 10 note and gave me,I handed it over to the woman, she went.
I have seen many Muslim shop keepers keeping small change specially for giving alms to the beggars. It is their culture to help the destitute as Quran commands so.
Today , I was sitting with my Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Award winner Kisanbhai Sosa at our regular jaunt.at Agano vad at noon time , I saw a car with some Muslim women in the car,abruptly stopped, even on wrong side , the owner driver lowered the glass and took out some money and gave it to some one, I rose to see who the receiver was, he was a handicapped beggar with no leg and the Muslim gentleman had given alm to him.
I have seen many Muslim shop keepers keeping small change specially for giving alms to the beggars. It is their culture to help the destitute as Quran commands so.
Today , I was sitting with my Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Award winner Kisanbhai Sosa at our regular jaunt.at Agano vad at noon time , I saw a car with some Muslim women in the car,abruptly stopped, even on wrong side , the owner driver lowered the glass and took out some money and gave it to some one, I rose to see who the receiver was, he was a handicapped beggar with no leg and the Muslim gentleman had given alm to him.
The friend remarked, " The Muslims are having some humanity in a corner of their heart and they donate money to the destitutes. " I remarked that is because their religious scripture commands them to help the destitutes and handicapped and the poor.
That is how the well known Urdu-Hindi Shayar Shahjahan Shad has said in a gazal " Has any fakir returned empty handed from my house ? "
That is how the well known Urdu-Hindi Shayar Shahjahan Shad has said in a gazal " Has any fakir returned empty handed from my house ? "
Some Judges have blood on their hands
JUSTICE v/s VENGEANCE
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You know what, it bothers me. I can't let it go.
For believers in the death penalty:
No death penalty for Bilkis Bano's rapists and death penalty for Nirbhaya's rapists?
How does this sit well with you at any level?
For those who believe justice is about vengeance - has even vengeance been served for Bilkis?
What vengeance do you want served for Bilkis Bano?
What is the principle of reciprocity here?
HOW EXACTLY will vengeance be rendered?
How many Hindu women should be raped in this eye-for-eye vision of your justice, that sounds exactly like your enemy's ?
How many Hindu men should be castrated?
Remember that some Dalits participated in the Gujarat riots too? Should they be castrated too?
Or are they now "the popular minority" we all want to protect, after having forgotten about them for decades.
Should we put non-Dalit criminals in 3 feet by 7 feet boxes for the rest of their lives?
Should we give free rein to all our "human emotions."
Is that how Justice nee Vengeance works?
Or should we just kill them all? So what if get one or two wrong? The "greater good" will be served after all? So what if we find out 7 or 8 years later that we killed 1 or 2 or 10 innocents?
We TRIED to do the right thing, didn't we? That's all that matters, doesn't it?
That we feel better about ourselves? In the moment?
Of course, we know that ALMOST EVERYTHING is based on witness testimonies, a criminalized and inefficient police force and a damn near non-existent forensic department.
The Innocence Project in the U.S. has found even DNA evidence unreliable in an astonishingly large number of cases. It has managed to reverse judgments on a number of them.
Yet we are happy to blithely sentence people to death, with not even an agreed upon LEGAL definition of "rarest of rare."
THAT is why half the time some people get a death sentence and some don't.
That's what happened even BEFORE the BJP came to power. Because some Brahmins judges refused to believe Brahmin boys could rape Dalit girls, for example.
So Dalit rapists got death sentences and Brahmin rapists didn't.
How is that for Justice?
Unequal laws are not laws at all.
No bad law can be justly applied in the long run.
I hate quoting Gandhi, or anybody else for that matter, unless forced to. He was also probably quoting someone when he said
-- "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Justice is NOT about vengeance.
Vengeance is private business. Exact it in your own time, at your own cost -- in my humble opinion.
Justice is a moral idea. It's an idea of law and political philosophy.
Criminal Justice has to be rational. It has to be proportional. It has to make room for error. And it has to apply to everyone equally. Or to no one at all.
Bhanwari Devi - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhanwari_Devi
Bhanwari Devi (also spelled Bahveri Devi) is an Indian dalit social-worker from Bhateri, Rajasthan, who was allegedly gang raped in ... In 1987, she took up a major issue of the attempted rape of a womanfrom a neighbouring village. ... reluctant to record rape cases and show callousness and indifference towards women .On Gunwant S Rao , a Police officer of rare breed .
Bharatbhai R Pandya Acp When he was young, he wore an old head on his young shoulders. Now since he seems to have embraced age with grace, he wears young face on younger shoulders ! Satisfaction and sense of having done some thing for others , makes all a difference.---------- I remember a case, the principal of Police Training school, Baroda was a rank corrupt man, but I was not making money, and that fellow wanted to spoil my ACR, Rao had gone to that wretched fellow with folded hands for not spoiling my ACR, but the officer hell bent on spoiling my ACR and stop my promotion, So even in an academic Institution the rascal officer spoiled my ACR . One thing can be said to the credit of Rao that he bore no ill will to any body . Officers of such breed will never be seen in Gujarat Police Dept.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
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