THE OTHER SIDE: February 2018

Hawahawai - RIP Sridevi

I am in a deep shock after hearing Sridevi’s untimely death news. It’s a sad moment, the one you wish to believe is not true and that’s what I did when first heard the news of her death. I checked with the news portals to confirm the news and then I realize we have lost a legend. I usually write tribute for celebrities who passed away but I am finding it difficult to write about the one who was among my childhood favorites as I am disheartened with the loss. We who spend our childhood in 90’s know about the craze for her in those days and how much we loved her. She is among the most popular female actor of that era the one who is regarded as first female superstar of Hindi film industry.

She was just 54 when she died of accidental drowning (26.2.18) in Dubai where she was present for a marriage function. She started working at the age of 13 from south film industry and made her Bollywood debut in 1979 with Solva Sawan but it was Jitender starer Himmatwala which made her a Bollywood sensation. It also established her as a ‘Dance Queen’ with song ‘Nainon Mein Sapna’. Later songs like ‘Mein Teri Dushman’, ‘Mere Hathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiyan Hain’, ‘Kaate Nahin Katte Ye Din Ye Raat,’ ‘Hawa-Hawai’,’Kisi Ke Haath Na Aayegi Ye Ladki’,'Mhare Hibde Be Reh Gayee Re' and many others become favorite among dance loving people.

She proved her acting skills in films like Sadma where she played a child-woman suffering from amnesia, Lamhe, Chandni, Chaalbaaz which has her double role, Mr India in which her ‘Charlie Chaplin’ act is still the best comic act by a female actor. Judai, Laadla,Tohfa,Justice Chaudhary and recent releases English Vinglish and Mom are all her memorable performances. She even acted in a serial on Television. Nowadays she was busy in preparation of her daughter’s launch in film industry.

She acted with every famous superstar actor of her era like Anil Kapoor whose brother Boney Kapoor a film producer she married, Jitender, Dharmender, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and also a film with Shah Rukh Khan. She was a great actor and a loving human being who many time with her roles inspired us. She made us laugh, cry, emotional and attached to her roles. I will never forget her neither the film industry going to forget her valuable contribution to it. Rest In Peace Sridevi.

Welcome to NEW INDIA

New India Flag Without Green Color

New India has new traits and we welcome you to this. The country still stretches from Kashmir to Kanyakumari from north to south and from Arunanchal Pradesh to Gujarat from east to west but I advise you to avoid going to Kashmir as we don’t know when situation go out of control and you find yourself between security personal and stone pelters tussle.As far as Arunanchal is concerned with China we can resolve the problem as we are doing in Doklam area.

Bow to cows as you see them in any corner of the country eating waste plastic garbage or just roaming on busy roads. Refer Patanjali of Baba Ramdev before using any cow product they may have absolute copyright to it. If you see them injured in state like Uttar Pradesh where infants death rate is high in August or in Madhya Pradesh where farmers income is projected to be incraesing every election year you can even call ambulance to hospitals designated to Mother. Also accompany cows on their way to Aadhar enrollment even if you are not getting Aadhar benefits due to erased finger prints by manual labor jobs.

We have completely changed. Now we can’t tolerate people different to us. We beat them easily and even can kill them whether they are foreigners, people from different faith, different caste, color or even tribal people who don’t belong to us are not spared; the highest literary rate state Kerala is also not far behind in doing so. We are casual in our approach and our video of killings goes viral easily with many supporters instigating us to do so more often. Lynching and killing I must say should be made our national past time.

In new India we believe in non-existence of people doing fraud with us. We send them either Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallaya, Nirav Modi, etc to safe foreign countries so that they can’t pollute our country with their dirty corruption. Yes you are right we have zero tolerance to corruption so we either take them in ruling party or send them outside country. Now our main focus is not lowering GDP, decreasing tax collection, Rupee price falling or things like that but to find ways to erase Muslims from our history. We are doing great research on this field and even changed winners of few battles in the past.

Please come and visit a PROPOSED HINDU NATION and feel free to share other feedback I have missed here. We are experts in making a mountain out of a small stone so praise us little and we can do the rest. Good Bye. God Bless India,

Na Khaunga Na Khane Dunga

How easy is for the rich to fool institutions, governments and even regulatory authority while poor succumb to their pressure? Yes that’s the story of our country where 'Sachai Ki Hamesha Jeet Hoti Hai' (Truth Always Wins) is reserved for the films only. Have you ever heard a rich billionaire committed suicide with his family for non-payment of his bank dues worth crores, no because they know the escape route and the escape agents who escort them to safe heavens for their entire life? The poor laborers and farmers in such circumstances has only one escape route i.e. to end their lives with family and safe themselves from the shame and humiliation for not able to pay the bank dues.

Nirav Modi is the latest in the list of those who fled the country from below the government’s nose after doing a scam of Rs 11,300 crore in collaboration with Punjab National Bank (PNB). He was involved in it from last 7 years in this period government helped PNB with up to Rs 5500 crore. It is an open secret that a scam like this is not possible without involvement of higher officials of the bank and there are possibilities that government agency people are also part of the it. The question is will those responsible for the scam ever get caught? Looking at the conviction to curb corruption of the governments of last 30 years I see little chances of Nirav Modi arrest. Moreover his proximity to current Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi shields him from arrest in the period of ‘Modi Sarkaar’.

The track record of the man who came with the slogan ‘Na Khaunga Na Khanedunga’ (Corruption Free Governance) is not good in convicting corrupt officials and ministers. He can’t even able to punish those people who he promised during his election campaign speeches of 2014 like Robert Vadara, Sonia Gandhi, or other people who have hidden black money abroad, Rs 15 lakh of which must be credited to each Indian's account until now. The so called anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare is in hibernation from last 4 years. His key associate Arvind Kejriwal is reduced to Delhi only after forming a political party and various others like Kiran Bedi, Shazia Ilmi, General V.P.Singh, etc has joined Bhartiya Janata Party. So don’t expect any revolution in near future. Further the current situation is made like an undeclared emergency where anyone against the government policies, views and liking is anti-national and a traitor.

Just be hopeful that future will be better than present and come forward to be part of the change in any way possible. Through writing, painting or voicing your opinion against the wrong you can contribute to a better tomorrow. In the end here is the reminder to not fall in prey to fake Whats App or Facebook messages which divert your attention from real issues to imagined threat to the religion. If any religion that is in danger in today’s world is of Humanity so try to be a better human with each passing day.

Enemy of Love

Ankit Saxena

Opposed to the marriage of their Muslim daughter to a Hindu boy 24 year old Ankit Saxena, girl’s family stabbed him to death in west Delhi's Raghubir Nagar. Girl’s mother, father, uncle and brother all involved in the killing were arrested. It is not a surprise that current socio-political environment tried to give this ‘honor killing’ or ‘shame killing’ murder a communal color by targeting the Muslim community. But the main focus here should be the need to concentrate on the constitution values which allows any adult male or female to marry his or her choice that was denied in this case by brutal murder of the boy. But such repeated incidents told that the society has not changed. The State has also failed to ensure safety of such couples in many occasions.

Last year we heard about the case of Hadiya a Hindu girl who converted to Islam by her choice to marry a Muslim boy. But again the communal painters gave it ‘Love Jihad’ color and girl’s family reached Supreme Court to separate her from her husband. Supreme Court who first gives custody of Hadiya to her college’s din later ruled that an adult person can take her own decision. Here again role of State and society degraded the constitution values.

It is not just the case of Ankit Saxena or Hadiya but we have witnessed many such incidents in the past where couples were killed for marrying outside their castes or faith by enemy of love. Most dominant is the state of Haryana where Khaap Panchayats enjoyed copyright to order death penalty to any such couple. Apart from Haryana, Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, etc also reported such crimes. The research shows that not only in India, these crimes are also prominent in many parts of the world like Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Italy, United Kingdom, etc.

Love we say is the most powerful force in the world but that feeling is unacceptable by enemy of love who tries to overpower it by hate. Until government take strong actions against those who spread hate and fear in the society these killings will never stop. Understanding that no faith, no caste is above individual’s life is also important.