10 things to know about Anna Hazare and Jan Lok Pal Bill

1. Who is Anna Hazare? An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War.

2. What's so special about him? He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahmad Nagar district, Maharashtra.

3. So what? ..This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, bio fuel and wind mills. In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, Eco-friendly & harmonic village.

4. OK ,...? This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.

5. Really, what is he fighting for? He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

6. How that can be possible? He is advocating for a Bil, The Jan Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), bureaucrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.

7. It's an entirely new thing right..? In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit their theft (corruption).

8. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time? The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed. Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the JAN LOKPAL BILL. 50% goverment participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.

9. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed? A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.

10. Is he alone? Who else is there in the fight with Anna Hazare? Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more. Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.

Ok, got it. What can I do?
At least we can spread the message. How? Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics. At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India. At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain. At least we can pray for his good health.

Thanks for reading.

CWG in Delhi

Now the government has asked investigation on the OC of CWG. First you assign the most incompetent and corrupt people on such important work, they spoil things - and then you establish a committee to investigate the corruption.

What a procedure!!!

Now the newspapers will have lots of headlines on this on the first page, the news channels will  have lots of so-called breaking news - after some time the headlines will move from first page to second, then third, and then quitely disappear. Nobody will notice. We will be busy in our usual work. The case will keep on running in any of the courts for years.

Again, that is the way we work!!!

CWG in Delhi

Oh we have done it!!!!

Congratulations India, Congratulations to the team.

See the amazing shots of JN Stadium - me and my wife witnessed the Athletics event there - quite astounding experience.

CWG in Delhi

Well, just two days left.
It seems we have pulled this... and pulled in a very impressive manner.

There is a very fine difference between being critical and being negative. Criticism should be gentle enough to nourish growth without destroying the root. Otherwise it spreads negativity and devastates the zeal. Probably our media had been too much critical and became negative. Being pessimistic is not good for health.

However, probably, our Indian workforce only clicks whenever someone hits with such sort of very critical kick on their back. Shame, but we work in this way.

Anyway, well done to all to finally pull it up. India deserves better than that.

CWG in Delhi

The usual bedlam is happening... quite expectedly.

The international media is shouting, the local media is after everybody in the OC, the athletes from various countries are threatening to pull out, our so-called leaders is after one another, everybody objecting on the condition on the Games Village - that's how we work!!!

The problem is when everybody is aware of the attitude of Mr Kalmadi - why you assign such huge and sensitive responsibility to such a person? and then face the problem? Why didn't the government assigned Dr. E. Sreedharan in this post? Why we commit same mistakes again and again, specially when we know the person is not good for this?

But, however, I am still hopeful that things will come up quite good - finger crossed.

CWG in Delhi

Hmmm, it will be quite interesting to see the Commonwealth Games in Delhi 2010.

More interesting than the game itself is to see the current activities happening around the game! I bet, this game they are playing is far more remarkable than the actual events would be taking place!!

• The infrastructure is quite pathetic till now.
• The readiness in the city far far behind the least expected scale.
• The city is struggling with dengue, malaria, blah blah blah. No symptom of having these controlled.
• The stadiums are not at all equipped and geared up.
• The hotels and other places are way behind the least international standard.
• The pre-requisites, instruments, sports materials are yet to come.

Well, as expected they are fighting with each other, totally occupied and busy blaming others, or busy finding people to blame. Their schedule is hectic with all these, how can you expect them to work for the infrastructure, for the game. Moreover, what can they do if it rains so often. :)

They are fighting for songs, for money, for rain, for materials, for plans, for participators, for etc etc...


Please, at least this time show something good to the world. Even after spending of several thousand crores of money for a country where 70% of the population is under poverty line, if it doesn't happen, shame on all of us.

And, we can still do it...

My First Book!!

Well, well, started writing my first book.
It is a Cookbook - for Alfresco 3.
Packtpub is the publisher for me.

Just completed the formalities a month earlier or so. It has been a very good experience till now working with the competent and understandable team of Packtpub. We signed the contract after a few initial glitches with my lawyer.

This has been my long kept aspiration for writing books. Well now its started. I have quite a number of titles in mind for writing books. Hope the first title starts well, and does well!!

Though have started this journey with a core technical one, I would want to explore non-technical titles as well. During my school days I had drafted a few science fiction plots. That period you read all those stuff, get amazed and react in several different ways. Well, I drafted some sci-fi's!!

Lets see how this journey keeps up...