Bribed Weeds and Judged Deeds !

Monetizing Supreme Justice - Need for reckoning ! Caveat Perumals, Kalmadis and Rajas !

Rs 50 - Rs 70000 cr- Rs 175000 cr.....is the order of scams where nation's wealth has been misappropriated and hitting the news channels for past many weeks. What is disgusting to note is not the size of scams, rather severity of punishments so far awarded. Today's news reads:  "More than 17 years after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 50, the Supreme Court today upheld the one-year sentence imposed under the Prevention of Corruption Act on an municipal body employee of TamilNadu. Kootha Perumal, an employee of Pudukottai Municipality, was caught on August 23, 1993, by Anti Corruption Bureau sleuths for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50 from the complainant Nayinar Mohammed, for issuing a tax certificate to enable him obtain a loan from a finance company."

As a financial sector analyst, I am mentally paralyzed at the current state of affairs of our nation and could not refrain myself from inferring following sense:  'Time value of justice is directly proportional to the time value of money and both these are inversely proportional to the Social status of humans - unfortunately, our nation, India sets such poor examples to the global community.' Although I do not advocate giving or taking bribes of any magnitude, I vehemently condemn the flawed judicial system and its punishments.  Is it not a nightmare to live in a country magnified by the acts of such Perumals', Kalmadis' and Rajas' in the future, if not curtailed.

With those fewer thoughts, I like to keep the post open for suggesting corrective action.

Heavy rains remind lighter moments of my life !

Chennai's weather remains hot and humid for most part of the year. For a resident of Chennai, tiny droplets of water caressing one's forehead and shoulders is always passionately welcomed, and I am no exception to it. I would never shy away from these showers, rather, let the cool breeze impregnated with blossoming rain-drops to fill all over my body-pores. As it rains cats and dogs for a short span of time in Chennai, nobody really feels bothered about water-logging, traffic-jams, overflowing drainage, felling of trees, long power-cuts, ugly stinking roads and pavements, etc etc. Most of them love to merry around and spend time to eat hot food stuffs like puffs, samosas, pakodas, medu-vada and other delicious savories available on the road-side shops. Well ! this may the only time when home-food lovers like me would enjoy having extremely steamy-frothy tea in tea-shops with all the hot ready-to-eat stuffs.

The best moments were spent as a teenager, when nine of ten cases you get a day off in school or college for such a lavishly heavy rainfall. But then, this time around you prefer staying inward aloof from all the routine assignments/ homework stuff. Many enjoy watching television, chatting with parents, gossiping with friends, and playing indoor games. While a few just sleep off for the entire day with rigorous clothing fabric like tight sweaters, woolen socks and monkey-caps. What I did was no different from all these activities with an added flavor for traditional home made food stuffs, obviously, till I break-even.

As days passed by,  I could experience the school boy in me maturing to establish a bond with mother nature. What seemed just rainy water then, appears like mighty pearls withered by a beautiful princess living in some unknown latitude and longitude to gently caress her beloved. Thereby, the onset of rainfall marks a slow and steady genesis of a 'poet' within aspiring youth. Well ! at this stage of life, dreams run wilder than most deadly and horrendous specie on Earth. Such dreams become so uncontrollable that it springs with the individual even beyond the rainy season.

I imagined to lay down on lush green meadows and catch a panoramic glimpse of the spectacular landscape around and the sky above me while trying to recollecting such irreplaceable memories. Alas ! at home in Chennai, so, I just felt fully complacent for the blissful act of nature.

Rain rain come again,

remove us of all the pain,

may we feel to work in vain,

till the sun never wishes to shine.

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Snowfall in Chennai will follow the rain !!! (Lets not speculate on nature's play, time will decide)

Awaiting *Nature's* embellishment of the landscape with awe-inspiring *Artistic* beauty after the rainfall !

Testing the litmus of life !

Can there be a scientific way of explaining the art of living ? May be! But I wanted to give it a thought. So, to explain, I conjured upon an example that dates back to my school-days science lab class when i had performed the best of experiments called the 'litmus test'. A litmus test uses a colored material that turns red in acidic solutions and blue in alkaline solutions. Being an amateur kid then, I never realized that i might have to perform this test all over again at all critical stages of my life. Whether it was choosing a main stream course after 10th or joining the right college for graduation, a subtle misjudgment can have serious repercussions for the rest of my life. Therefore, understanding newer situations and complexities in life attuned myself to test on a superficial litmus. Alas! what i found was the litmus test took various murky shades other than just 'red' or 'blue' based upon the circumstance, time, place and person.

With the help of this first post, I like to kindle the mind of all you readers for an objective evaluation (science) of your life. I am sure all of you will have at least one situation to narrate to someone which, had it been tested by the litmus catalyst, would have changed life all around.