On the threshold of law college

14.06.06 On the eve of Ambika's taking up a law course, I would tell her that law is the norm we ought to comply with if our society is to sustain itself as an ordered one. Laws are breached and it is in the interest of Society that the breach is plugged to save the society from disintergrating. Therefore the lawyer, who, as the arrangement has it, steps in only when there is a breach, is always in the two parts of defence and prosecution and has to apply the mechanics of law to ensure that the 'transgressor' has not actually made a wilful transgression but was innocent of the circumstances if he is defending and if prosecuting, to ensure that the 'transgressor' would not get a second temptation to breach and the law itself, in the form of the judge, ensures that it has weighed the assertions of the defense and the prosecution in the scale of justice and passed a fair verdict as to whether the incident before it was a transgression of the law or was innocent of any transgressions. Therefore we can say that law is applied by three forces acting upon it - the defence, the prosecution and the judge. All three, fulfiling their duty in all seriousness and integrity alone can ensure that society sustains itself as a law-abiding one.

Income Tax notices on the Bachchans

14.06.06 Working in a Chartered Accountants’ firm which specializes in Income Tax matters, I can say that Income Tax notices being sent to the Bachchans are no big deal. The Income Tax Department is in the habit of sending such notices to all and sundry in an almost mechanical way. The Department is supposed to work without being overawed by any assessee. It has simply to go by the facts and figures before it. The Bachchans too need not loose any sleep over such notices. They only need to tell their Chartered Accountants to get to work on them notices. And between the CA and the IT Dept. there is a bondage of convenience that makes their relationship an affair that stretches on and on till both have fatted on the eager-to-win-the case assessee and when the affair concludes in the distant future, all the three characters in the drama would continue with their lives as if nothing happened.

World Cup fever

14.06.06 The world-cup fever, particularly as caught in India, is off a virus called 'the need to be excited'. We are all terribly bored and anyone and anything which offers us some excitement has us thrilled. And on bigger the canvas the hapening takes place, the greater it tickles our ego to be a 'part' of it. Actually taking a ball and kicking it around is just fine. It is good for our heatlh and diverts us from occupying our time in less healthier ways. But instead in catching a fever, we have been hooked to participating not in a game but in an entertainment.

A Christian testament

[The following I got from the internet, of course. There is a fine tuning of believes among the many Christian sects. But their larger vision is alike - that Christ is the only salvation.] No human will suffer in the fires of hell for eternity, as taught by mainstream Christianity! This theology is a myth implanted by Satan and supported by theologians. God does not hate you. He loves you! This belief that man has immortality from birth causes fear, worry, unhappiness, misery, the murder of children, and immeasurable harm to the true Christianity. Man is born as a mortal being with the capability of becoming immortal. With the one exception of Jesus Christ, the following list details the possibilities for every human who has ever been born or ever will be born: Human Life Plan According to the Scriptures 1) Each human is born as a mortal being into the kingdom of man. This birth is of water. 2) If a human accepts Jesus Christ as his savior at anytime while that human is living, that human becomes an heir to eternal life. 3) After Jesus returns to the earth, the heirs to eternal life will receive their inheritance when born again as spiritual beings which live forever. This is a spiritual birth. 4) Those humans choosing not to accept Jesus will be cast into the lake of fire and suffer their second death. Since they were resurrected as physical bodies and not spiritual bodies, they are not saved from the fiery second death in hell. 5) All humans are now dead at this point. Those born again as spiritual bodies are no longer humans. They are spiritual children of God who will now rule and maintain the earth under their Lord and brother, Jesus Christ, forever and ever. Thus, based on the scriptures, the possibilities for each individual human are definitely not as horrible as we have been taught for nearly two thousand years!

Secularism a la DMK

12.06.06 When a DMK minister attended a religious function presided over by the Kanchi Shankaracharya, he was pulled up by the DMK Chief Minister and was berated for associating with a ‘disgraced’ religious leader. The DMK Chief Minister thought nothing of hurting the Minister’s religious feelings, apart from prejudging a case which is still in the courts. But the very same Chief Minister went out of his way to ban the Da Vinci Code so as not to have Christian feelings hurt. According to the DMK doctrine, Christians and Muslims have religious feelings whereas Hindus have only communal feelings.

Wordy-narcissist

12.06.06. Narcissism – the love of oneself to an abnormal degree – when it pertains to a writer’s excessive love for his own writings, is pathetic. Or is it? Is narcissism actually indicative of an individual’s capacity to be a light onto oneself? Any way, why I bring up the subject is that I seem to, since having become a blogger, derive tremendous pleasure in reading and rereading my blog. Am I, therefore, a wordy-narcissist?