AAP Bhi Aadmi Ho

Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the 7^th Chief Minister of Delhi about 15 days ago. It was a big day in the politics and democracy of India. I wasn’t really happy about the Aam Aadmi Party taking Congress support to form the government in Delhi. The day when the news broke that AAP will form the government in Delhi  with Congress aid, I made a sad facebook post. Here’s the pic:

Yeah, call me a sadist, and heres a comment by one of my high school teachers

And another friend of mine said:

Ofcouse I only had this to say:

And then the status died away.. and 5 days later Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the CM and he made quite a decent speech that day. 

I made a status:

I realized that I was missing something and this congress alliance may not prove that damaging and AAP would still be able to play a dominating role and provide the people of Delhi some good governance.

The days that followed saw a lot of changes and decisions like the transfer of DJB higher management, 700 liters of free water per day and maybe a few more that I don’t remember. But all the while and media, other political parties and sympathizers and supporters of the NaMo Movement started posting pictures, excerpts and quotes of how Kejriwal and the AAP were switching sides, changing tunes etc etc.. the 3 biggest things that the people have found hardest to forget and forgive are:

1.       Kejriwal won’t fight an election – He contested and became CM

2.       Kejriwal won’t take VIP security or government facilities (car, house etc) – Well he did that

And the worst

3.       Kejriwal swore on his children that there would be no support taken from BJP or Congress – Well, we all know what happened.

Now, ofcourse I’m writing this post to well somewhat justify his statements, now these three have not risen from different sources. The one reason is, he’s green, that’s it.

Being a.. well talkative person I know that sometimes you go overboard, get carried away and say something of paramount proportion when you don’t know the complete picture. Haven’t we all seen people who are ‘confidently wrong’? That’s what happened here, it’s practically impossible to have a CM walking the streets without security. I’m not talking about the CM, the people would swarm the place and hurt one another.. its so with any celebrity and he or any celebrity has no control over it.. so this was an innocent ‘confidently wrong’ statement. How can he say something and we take his word for something that isn’t in his control?

Speaking of the swearing on children part, the same goes here, he was ‘confidently wrong’ because of his innocence, as I said, he’s still a little green, now what do we do of an innocent first timer? Do we show some consideration or we scrutinize and criticize his every move? Expect him to be perfect from day 1? That’s just too much expectation from us, the media and other politicians. Given time, maybe he’ll learn his limitations and learn that every word is counted.

To be a little neutral here, I really am concerned about the ‘370 pages of evidence against Shiela Dixit’ statement. Ofcouse, thinking realistically, there’s no such thing as ‘unconditional’ support. Lets leave it as that.

Finally, why did he enter politics, contest and become CM? well, We must think of why AAP was formed in the first place, there was no option left, right? No Lok Pal Bill would be passed with all the Anshans and people were simple getting bored and eventually fizz out. 

This was a right decision, but sadly, we have a perception that nothing can be changed or that people who get down in the pit to clean also end up smelling like shit.. or people have no hopes of ever having a clean political system. Maybe.. but the one line I remember from The Shawshank Redumption is “No one can ever take away hope” So I’m gonna hope, hope that change is possible, change will happen and I will do my part. (by making blogs and fb posts? Sure why not)

Missing The Point

This post is one of the smaller posts on the blog. It’s about the DelhiGangRape of a 23 year old Medical Student. The news of the atrocities of barbaric lust spread like fire in summer. TV channels, newspapers, celebrities, politicians, social media hid nothing and poured out all the anger after her anguish.  The chills of her torture chilled the people of Delhi more than the cold air of Delhi winter.

The politicians sticking to their profession spoke of and about each other. Some spoke of more laws and reforms, but on the very same day there was a scuffle in the parliament (ministers hitting and fighting each other literally) and the house was adjourned at half day. 

NGO’s, Human Rights people, Women’s Rights people and hundreds and thousands of people came down to the streets to protest. People came down to meet the CM and question her about each other’s safety in Delhi, but the reply they received was jets of water from a police hose.

Just today I got a message on my whatsapp, it read

Dear Delhi,

I know I don’t have your 4 lame roads, and metros, and posh kothis, my people drive on narrow roads, live in small houses, travel in non-ac locals. Maybe your winters have made all your hearts cold. My women are safe, irrespective of their cloths, the time or the mode of transport, because I am always watching, I never sleep.

Sincerely

Mumbai

I was both shocked and saddened by this. It’s adding insult to injury. It looks like the Mumbaikars just see this as a chance to undermine Delhi. Would they really do that? The people of Mumbai are better than that.

Another, rather popular concept is that our society tells women what to wear than teaching men not to rape. Yes, that does sound good, and also seems to make sense. But does it really??

In the two scenes above, we have looked at two different things,

1.       It’s about Delhi

2.       It’s about men

But we have forgotten the heart of the matter; the crime.

Delhi might have the highest number of rapes, eve teasing or other assaults on women, but it’s not about the place or the people. It’s the weakness of the system that fails to curb or punish the crime, thereby failing completely to instil any sort of fear in the perpetuators.

Coming to the second point; there is no meaning to making the crime sexist. Of course, we live in a male dominated society and women have been victimised even in this era. In most rape cases when women come forth to complain or fight, they have been called to be the reason for the rape, calling them (the victim) to be the reason for the crime. People have spoken as if the women deserved to be raped, and that’s where they said that women need to dress responsibly. Women or anyone would take offence at that. And that’s why there came the expression of “women are taught to dress instead of men taught not to rape” 

Anyone who holds the victim responsible is surely out of his senses, but there is no reason to make it sexist. See the crime as a crime. 

Why do we lock our doors at night? To save ourselves from being robbed. Does someone come up and say we live in a society that teaches us to lock our doors instead of teaching thieves not to steal? No.. because theres no problem in seeing a crime as a crime there. But when it comes to rape it suddenly gets sexist. Maybe if we had some male rape victims or female rapists then the story would’ve been different. But as Batman said, a criminal is not complicated. Nor is a crime, as long as we can see what’s in the heart of the crime and not what’s around its perimeter.

First up!

Yeah.. ok it kinda feels weird.. but.. yeah! this is my first blog thingy :D.. damn! they need to have smileys around here.. wait.. maybe i can copy paste it from somewhere else.. oh man.. its taking forever to open.. like... i just have one movie downloading and its taking so long.. ah found it hehe.. ok its not as good as i thought it would be.. but.. yeah ok decent..
now, the idea of this blog is to.. hmmm wait.. i haven't figured that out.. ok im finding it nice to copy paste these smileys
okay.. so my idea is to look at stuff thats happening around.. and blog it here in my way.. i had actually started blogging a few years ago.. but then i just wrote serious stuff.. yeah i used to do that but then i realized that being too serious or emotional doesn't always help.. actually it makes sense.. when you have the ability to think things through with a steady head and can actually find a funny side of problems or situations.. you stand a better chance of coming through.. so thats what my blog is about.. taking it easy.. the idea is to make the reader happy and probably be a good stress buster at the end of the day.. so im gonna be posting things that happen around.. on the street, house, school or anywhere i find humor.. oh i almost forgot.. my spellings suck! so.. spare my spellings please man i love this smiley.. hehe.. yeah ill put that pic in this piece

hehehe.. it kinda looks good, no? but.. wait a sec... check this one out.. its so much cuter 
hehehe.. the mouth and the eyes.. haha.. actually i make all kinds of faces in real.. so i like looking and using smileys a lott! ok ok.. im not gonna bore you any more.. this is enough stay happy and keep on smiling