On Bapu’s death anniversary, hundreds come together to fight corruption-31/1/11

On Bapu’s death anniversary, hundreds come together to fight corruption

(TODAY WAS MY 46TH B'DAY.I CELEBRATED IT HAVING NICE EVENING DINNER AT HOME WITH ALL FAMILY MEMBERS.SUDHIRJI'S BROTHER,NEPHEW(FAMILY),2 SISTERS(ONE FROM BHOPAL) AND ONE'S HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER(FAMILY) BESIDES....OUR FAMILY OF MA-BABUJI,SUDHIRJI,CHINU AND ME.....BUT IN THE AFTERNOON,I HAVE BEEN TO THIS RALLY(I HAVE BEEN TO SUCH RALLY ONCE BEFORE)...I THINK ITS MY WAY TO PAY HOMAGE TO THE FATHER OF THE NATION.

GOOD TO SEE AND HEAR WORTHWHILE VIEWS AND SPIRITED SPEECHES.BEST PART OF IT WAS NOT 'BHADE/KIRAYEE KI BHEEDH' BUT REAL ENTHUSIASTIC AND RESPONDING 'AAM JANTA',I WAS ONE OF THEM.

ATLEAST 70% OF PEOPLE WERE LISTENING AND RESPONDING TO THEM,IF NOT 100%.GOOD WISHES IF ITS DEMAND CONVERTED INTO CONCRETE REALITY OF DRAFTS AS LAWS AND CHANGE IN PEOPLE'S MINDSET.MET FEW PEOPLE OF 'ART OF LIVING' GROUP FROM AUDIENCES...HAD CONVERSATION....ONE QUESTION IS STILL IN PEOPLE'S MIND...IF I AM DOING A JOB OR A HOUSEWIFE???.

WELL I WAS A FULL TIME MEDIA PERSON TILL 2000(THOUGH I WORKED 'RUK-RUK KE.'NOW FREELANCING OCCASSIONALLY.SO NOW FOR SO MANY YEARS I AM A HOUSEWIFE THOUGH WORKED FOR AN NGO(VMS) FOR SENIOR WOMEN CITIZENS-AN AFFLIATED BRANCH OF NATIONAL WOMEN COMMISSION IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD AS VOLUNTEER.WORKING HOURS WERE OF FEW HOURS OF ALTERNATE DAYS IN A WEEK. MY CONCEPT OF FORMING IT IS DIFFERENT.ITS MORE LIKE PARIWAAR OF WHICH OBJECTIVES ARE FAMILY RELATED PROBLEMS WHICH EFFECT IN DAILY LIFE OF A PERSON...AND PERSONS FORMS A FAMILY AND FAMILIES FORMS A SOCIETY AND THUS 'SPECTRUM' OR 'DAYRA' EXPANDS AND ITS COLLECTIVE EFFORTS AND PROBLEMS REFLECTS IN COUNTRY'S GROWTH.AND SO ON IN WORLDS GROWTH AS EVEN COUNTRY'S HAS NEIGHBOURHOOD PROBLEMS.ITS A BASIC THEORY OF SOCIOLOGY.BUT DO BELIEVE IN GETTING IT DONE PROFESSIONALLY.WELL PROFESSIONALISM DOESN'T MEAN BLEWING UP MONEY UNNECCESSARILY IN SHOWOFFS ONLY.ITS MY VIEW.ONE CAN BE PROFESSIONAL WHILE WORKING SPENTTHREFTLY....NOT SPENDING MONEY UNNECCESSARILY.

WAS GIRL GUIDE IN SCHOOL AND IN NCC (FOR A YEAR) IN COLLEGE(THAT WAS MANDATORY)...VOLUNTEERED IN NSS WITHOUT BEING ITS MEMBER AND USED TO READ OUT LESSONS REGULARLY FOR MY JUNIOR BLIND FRIEND IN COLLEGE HOSTEL(WAS NOT NECCESSARY TO MENTION IT BUT???WAS EDITOR OF COLLEGE MAGAZINE,PRESIDENT OF WRITERS FORUM,GENERAL SECRATORY OF HINDI SAHITYA SABHA THERE!!!HAD ORGANIZED NATIONAL DEBATE COMPETITION FOR COLLEGE PLATINIUM JUBLEE FOR WHICH MR.NATWAR SINGHJI,SMT MRINAL PANDEYJI,JUSTICE SHRI H.R.KHANNAJI CAME WITH THE VOLUNTEERILY HELP BY SUDHIRJI WHO HAD DESIGNED OUR TROPHY AND LOGO,POSTERS ETC FREE OF COST,WHICH WAS SPONSORED BY HIS TIMES GROUP...TO IMPRESS ME THEN!!!FOLLOWING OUR FOOTPRINT,ADITI HAS ALSO ORGANIZED AND PARTICIPATED AND WON TROPHY IN INTER COLLEGE FASHION SHOWS IN AND OUT AT DELHI COLLEGE OF ART AND AT BIT'S PILANI,IIT RONDEVOUS(WON 2ND PRIZE) AND AT NID COLLEGE FESTIVALS..

....ONE OF MY SCHOOL FRIEND(WAS 30 YRS BACK) WISHED ME TO BECOME MORE WISE WITH TIME AND HAVE MORE WISEDOM...SO AS MANY MORE DIFFERENT NICE AND POSITIVE CENTIMENTS AND VIEWS...THROUGH MAILS.

IN SO MANY YEARS,I HAVE LEARNT MUCH MORE FROM LIFE AND FROM SUDHIRJI SPECIALLY TV PROGRAMME MAKING, AS I HAVE DONE MANY THINGS WHICH,I HAD DONE EARLIER BUT WHEN SUDHIRJI HAS DONE IT,I LEARNT TO BE MORE OBJECTIVE AND PERFECTIONIST IN EVERY WORK...AS I WAS BIT ADVENTOROUS,"AS OTHERS OBSERVED AND SAID" ...IN MY WORK AND LIFE. CAN'T SAY IF HE HAS LEARNT ANYTHING FROM ME OR NOT,THAT HE'LL SAY. HE IS MUCH RESPECTED PERSON.WAS A SCIENCE STUDENT TILL GRADUATION BUT HAS DONE M.A. IN ENGLISH LITREATURE....BUT GOOD IN BOTH THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE....HAS WRITTEN REPORTS FOR NBT..ON DROUGHT OF RAJASTHAN AND TAKEN INTERVIEWS OF PERSONALITIES....BESIDES CARICATURING THEM FOR HIS COLOUMN THERE AND IN HT.HAS USED TO ORGANIZE ANNUA;L CARTOON CONTEST.HAS CONTRIBUTED IN ART AND CULTURE OF COUNTRY....AS ART OF CARTOONING COMES UNDER BOTH CATEGORY OF ART AND JOURNALISM.HE DO MAKE CARTOONS ON SOCIAL AND DEVOLOPMENT ISSUES INCLUDING HEALTH EDUCATION ETC,BESIDES ON NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL NEWS.

BUT WE DO THINK BIT DIFFERENTLY AT TIMES AS AN INDIVIDUAL.....!!!

I DON'T BELIEVE IN 'GIVE AND TAKE' OF GIFTS AND MONEY UNNECCESSRILY.

BUT DO LIKE MOTIVATING OR GUIDING YOUNGSTERS AND EVEN LEARNING FROM THEM...IF NECCESSARY...ITS A PERSONALITY DEVOLOPMENT POINTS.

THOUGH IT IS IN OUR INDIAN CULTURE.'RINAM KRITVA GHRITAM PIVETE'....BUT TO FOLLOW ALL RITUALS AND TRADITIONS WHETHER ITS NECCESSARY OR NOT???

NOW STARTED AN NGO.."ADITIFOUNDATION"(THOUGH HAVENOT DONE MUCH...WHEN IT STARTED ADITIFOUNDATION.BLOGSPOT.COM'S BLOG,FIRST THING I DID WAS PUTTING 'CAG REPORT' ON IN IT'S FLASH IN SIDE COLOUMN OF IT.IT GET UPDATED EVERYDAY.)....WISH TO WORK AND MAKE MY CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY,AND PAYBACK TO IT,WHICH HAS GIVEN ME SO MUCH AND DEFINITLY CREATE MY OWN IDENTITY AND GROW OR EVOLVE AS A PERSON AND CONTRIBUTES IN BECOMING SAMARTH PARIWAR,BUT FOR THAT ONE NEED TO DO FIELD WORK ALSO OFFICIALLY.BESIDES BEING A GOOD HOUSEWIFE,BAHU OF FAMILY,WIFE OF SUDHIRJI,MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER,AND BHABHI...OTHER THEN BETI OF BIHAR AND BAHU OF RAJASTHAN(I AM PROUD OF BOTH)!!!...WHICH I ALWAYS WAS AND WILL BE.THAT'S MY PRIORITY.ITS UPTO FAMILY MEMBERS TO REALISE OR SAY WHATEVER CONTRIBUTION WAS MINE IN THEIR LIVES AND PARIWAR.WHETHER I WAS BUSY OR FREE.

I DON'T NEED TO PROVE THAT ATLEAST.

OTHERS ARE ALREADY DOING BOTH THE WORK,SO NO NEED TO DESCRIBE IT!!!.....VIBHA TAILANG)


Some called it independent India’s largest “civil uprising” against corruption, others called it the best initiative to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary. Azad Maidan in South Mumbai saw several hundred people turn up on Sunday evening to protest against corruption — not as many as the organisers would have liked, but all of them with a clear and united voice against the spate of scams that have come to light in the past few months.

The rally was organised in various cities across the country simultaneously by a group of NGOs who came together under the common platform of ‘India Against Corruption’. Amongst the many demands of the group, the most voiced ones included strengthening of anti-corruption laws and creation of the anti-corruption authority in the Lokpal at the Centre and a Lokayukta in each state for speedy prosecution of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.

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The group is opposed to the ineffective prosecution of tainted politicians and bureaucrats and is demanding the introduction of a new Lokpal Bill drafted by citizens’ consensus. Mayank Gandhi from the Jagrut Nagrik Manch said that while departmental inquiries yield no results, the Central Bureau of Investigation and Anti-Corruption Bureau are mere puppets in the hands of the ruling party. “We are demanding the formation of a Lokpal and Lokayuktas who will be directly elected by people of the country. We want this independent body to have power to dismiss a corrupt officer or politician. It will have the right to enquire and hear in to every complaint,” said Gandhi.

Former commissioner of police Julio Ribeiro said the urgent need was to create awareness about the inappropriate attitude amongst ruling politicians and bureaucrats. “Over the past decades, bureaucrats and politicians have forgotten that they are given their position to serve the nation and its people. But as we are witnessing so many scams and poor prosecution levels, it seems like these people have begun to believe that it is their right to misuse the powers vested in the position that they hold,” said Ribeiro.

The group is against the existing Lokpal Bill which gives Lokayukta only advisory powers at the state level. “The proposed recommendations to the Lokpal Bill have been drafted by Kiran Bedi, JM Lyngdoh, Justice Santosh Hegde and Advocate Prashant Bhushan. These will make the Lokayukta powerful and the prosecution period for a convicted corrupt government official will not extend beyond two years. If the government opposes the implementation of these recommendations and fails to accept them by March 31, we will go on a hunger strike,” said Gandhi.