Panjab is Oligarchy by turn

panjab is an oligarchy and not a democracy in its true sense.two or three feudal families rule the state turn by turn. The people's job is to chose any one of these. Ministers enjoy their office at the pleasure of these feudal lords. When elections are round the corner one gets the impression that man on the seat of power will return, but the public, who by now is fed up,gives the chance to other lord who is there with fresh set of promises, best to be forgotten when he is on the seat of power.People have also come to know that they are the chips of the same block but to keep the balance they keep on changing from one to other. Five years of power makes any Panjabi so much intoxicated that allowing him to continue could be disastrous for the general public.

Need of a Criminal Court for Politicians

One area where our country needs to enforce reforms fast is the legal
system. Criminal court excusively to provide fast justice in the cases
involving criminal offences by our politicians is the first and
foremost requirement, if we really want to cleanse our polity from
goons. The present system allows them to roam freely for decades after
having committed henious crimes by taking benefit of the axiom " Any
perceived offender is innocent till proved guilty by the court."

Sub- Mourning the Loss of World title-Cricket

Those who are mourning India's loss of World title in cricket consequent to 3-0 thrashing in the hands of England in the ongoing series must realize that India was never a world champion in test cricket in its true sense as was the case with Australia in the period from 1990 to 2009 and West Indies from 1980 to 1990.



How any team could be called world champion if it failed to defeat Australia, South Africa and even Sri Lanka on their respective soils. Again we forget that the victories that we achieved against Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka in 2010 to level the series were from the skin of the teeth. In all three occasions one particular batsman Laxman rose to the occasion and lifted India from the hopeless situation. These victories were never as resounding as have been the case with England. Out of their last 12 wins, six were by a margin of an inning.



We are a cricket crazy nation, driven by emotion, refuse to see beyond our nose. For us all our batsmen are world-class. Agreed Tendulkar( average 56.3) is a world-class batsman but no body is prepared to give a thought what is that special in him that puts him far ahead of Kallis( average-57.89 and Dravid, the man who gave India maximum wins. We would have lost even against West Indies if he were not there.



Bhartendu Sood

You have not to reveal to look beautiful

The beautiful picture of Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rubbani Kher on the front page of HT reminds me of the Bollywood heroines Waheeda Rehman, Sadhna and many others of my era.

probably there is a hidden message to our Indian women folk-you have not to reveal to look beautiful.

In India we will do more service to our children in schools by educating them about cleanliness than by teaching them Geeta, Bible or Kuran.

Let religion be a personal matter, best taken care by the parents at home.The best schools can do, is to focus on natural dharma, which aims at making a person BETTER HUMAN BEING. By natural dharma i mean-truth, honesty in life, compassion, service of mankind, to be sensitive to other man's feelings and above all cleanliness not only of self but of the place and environment around.



In India we will do more service to our children in schools by educating them about cleanliness than by teaching them Geeta, Bible or Kuran.





Bhartendu Sood, Chandigarh, 09217970381

India's refusal to accept a chellege of scoring 180 runs in 47overs in the final test against West Indies

india is at the top in ICC cricket ranking but at the testing times it has not acted like the chempion. Scoring 180 runs in 48 overs was not a very difficult task against the 7th ranking country but it decided to settle for a draw though the drawn series in the eventuality of the loss would not have effected its ranking. Australia in its hey day would have happily accepted the chellenge.

If you are a chempion you must look to be a chempion.

Murder of Neeraj Grover falls in the rarest of the rare cases

Why should the killer who hacked the body in to many pieces (even if we accept Maria’s lawyer’s version that 300 pieces is an exaggerated figure) be not awarded capital punishment? In India the provision of capital punishment exists for rarest of the rare cases and Jerome Mathew falls in this category. Agreed the Judge found Jerome guilty of culpable homicide under 304(I) of IPC, but then who is the murderer under Section 302? The Judge should have answered this before awarding lenient punishments to both to Maria and Jerome.

Indeed this judgment constitutes a prima-facie case of miscarriage of justice and calls for the pressure from general public and human rights bodies.