Like onions our unions too have this habit of wrenching tears from the eyes of those who deal with them, particularly when they are cut up. But unlike onions which are eminently palatable to the consumers at large despite being tear-jerkers
Browsing: POINTBLANK
There is one fundamental right that is not spelt out by our written Constitution but all the same enforced with great zeal and precision by its beneficiaries. And while the declared rights apply to all the citizens of this nation
Avarice is infectious. So it ‘ s small wonder that the staff of a few other departments of the State Government too have decided to hitch themselves on to the strikers ‘ bandwagon or rather, buses. And why not? They wouldn ‘ t mind sitting idle when there is work to be done, but definitely not when some of their bretheren happen to get more than what they do for doing nothing.
It is really sad that federal blackmail should prevail over a State ‘ s prerogative. I can see eager critics jumping at the opportunity to quiz me if I think it is the State ‘ s prerogative to pull out an old Tamil scholar from his bed at ungodly hours.
How can a duly elected government be browbeaten into dropping criminal charges filed against certain people for obstructing the due process of law? Does the manner of arrest, even granting that it was improper for the sake of argument, diminish in any way the intensity of crimes the ‘ victims ‘ were alleged to have committed?
We are now being introduced to new paradigms of ministerial behaviour, courtesy, the duo of Messers Maran and Baalu. Indeed the people of the nation are now being asked to believe that trespass is very much a statutory right of the Union Ministers and that they have to be consulted and even heeded if they happen to be on hand when a political leader is arrested.
Lord Brahma does not make ‘ em any more. The Creator, apparently, exhausted all his energies and imagination in creating Sivaji Ganesan, who, to put it very simply, will remain the only one of his kind. Yes, actors like Villupuram Chinnaiya Ganesan are not made, but born as such, endowed with immeasurable talent and vested with a fate, that has now run its full course.
A sinister mid-night knock. An arrest without rhyme or reason, not even a warrant. Display of brute force, despite age and stature. Denial of democratic rights and some human rights, too. Manhandling of relatives, followers and whoever else that came within arms length. En masse rounding up of party colleagues & co-borns.
The re-entry of Walter Dawaram into the Veerappan hunt saga is indeed a good augury. If there is anyone in the non-brigand world who stands some chance of getting into a whisker ‘ s breath of Veerappan it could be none else than this retired policeman.