Malnutrition because of beauty consciousness!

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comments attributing high rate of malnutrition in Gujarat to figure conscious young girls and also because of people being vegetarian - is an utterly condemnable and foolish non-sense !

This is infact insulting Gujarati Women infront of international audience - because he made these comments when he was interviewed by a foreign media..

This only goes on to show how low politicians can stoop..

Arrogance or Ignorance or probably a I-Know-Everything-And-Iam-Always-Right-Attitude ??!

A very good verdict for India

The below news item is from times of India :

A Special Investigation Team ( SIT) court has awarded life term to BJP leader and former minister Mayaben Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the Naroda Patia massacre case.

The sitting Naroda MLA Mayaben Kodnani was sentenced to 18 year of imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and murder, while Babu Bajrangi was sentenced for life imprisonment till death.

The court also sentenced Mayaben to 10 year imprisonment for arson. The court observed that this imprisonment of 10 years will not run concurrent with the main sentence of 18 years, which means Kodnani will spend 28 years in prison.

The court in the order pronounced on Friday sentenced 22 accused to life imprisonment (14 years). Other seven were sentenced to imprisonment for 21 years. The quantum of punishment was not announced for one of the accused Suresh alias Shahjad Nekalkar as he was not present in the court.

The court also also sentenced the 31 accused to 10 years imprisonment for arson. The sentence would run prior to the main sentence and would not be concurrent.

The court named Kodnani, a sitting MLA and former Gujarat minister, as "a kingpin of riots" in Naroda area and sentenced her to 18-year life imprisonment after serving 10 years jail term under IPC Section 326 (voluntary causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means).

"Communal riots are like cancer on constitutional secularism and the incident in Naroda Patiya was a black chapter in the history of the Indian Constitution," the judge observed. The other seven who were sentenced 21 years of imprisonment included Naresh Chara, Morli Sindhi, Haresh Rathod, Suresh Langado, Premchand Tiwari, Manojbhai Sindhi Kukrani and Bipin Panchal.

The special court also observed that the incident was a black chapter in the secular democratic history of India. On Wednesday, the court had convicted 32 people and acquitted 29 in the biggest post-Godhra killings.

On February 28, 2002, 97 persons were killed in Naroda. As many as 94 bodies were found, of which 84 were identified. Three people are still missing.

Former Gujarat minister Kodnani and Bajrangi have been convicted under sections 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, amongst others.

Special public prosecutor sought capital punishment for the convicts, during the hearing for quantum of punishment. He argued that as the court had upheld the aspect of murder and criminal conspiracy, this was a fit case to be termed as "rarest of rare" and court should award capital punishment to the convicts. If the court wanted to be lenient then at least it should award minimum of 20 years of imprisonment to each of the convicts, he argued.

Opposing his contention, defense advocate Niranjan Tikani appealed to the court to show leniency towards the convicts, keeping in mind their family background and financial condition.

This is a very good verdict.
If we have few more judgements like these, where-in people who indulge in communal violence, arson, loot are severely punished, then it will act as a deterrent.

Hope this will be a lesson to other politicians as well..

Victims of 1984 riots still awaits justice.Perhaps if the perpetrators of that violence were punished severely, the planned communal violence in Gujarat would not have happened.

Any way better late that never..

Happy Onam

Wishing all Malayalees a very very happy Onam..

Onam is a celebration, a remembrance of the good old days..

Relatives get-together..Exchange gifts. Not every body does it, ofcourse :|

Still, it's a celebratory environment all around.

At this time, heart goes out to those who are in difficulty or in tragedy - like the people of Kannur (in Kerala) where a tanker accident claimed 3 lives.Many are still critical.Many houses got burned down..

Life is like that..


I mean, there is never a time when every body will be able to celebrate together..

Good times for some will be very bad times for others..

Any way, for those who are lucky enough to be happy, my wishes.Do good, think good.And be thankful to God for the good times.Because one never knows what will happen the very next moment..

For those in pain, hope God brings good times to them..Keep faith..Hold-on..

Just to Update the death toll info in this blog : (Updated on 02/09/2012)

The death toll as of today stands at 18.

After the tragedy, daily deaths are reported.The tanker accident has become a full-blown disaster..