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Vikram Vohra
You gotta go, gotta go
Well, well ! But, said or heard not for
first time ! ...gotta to browse , as a pastime, to find a host of such .tit
bits to be pieced together.. Missing bus (or train) , depends on the mode of
travel chosen; or left with no choice- Looking back wityh nostalgia, while in
Goa, not in distant past, used to be said to ridicule, - missing the boat
(ferry ?) to cross the ever turbulent river, Mandovi . The other extreme, if
were to think in terms of 'yugas', nothing to regret even if missed time and
tide, and have tragically 'lost decades' in the process (to remind yet again,
-Read, TOI’s own ‘Panorama of The Lost Decades” !
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The concept of “Democracy” has been doing its round all the
time; in recent times, going by the media, it has been provoked to ‘dance’, a
‘junglee’ type at that.
One is left unsure whether Jug is talking of ‘democracy’ in
its profoundly original meaning or as a ‘synonym’ (‘meaning as another’).
Brevity is the soul of ‘wit’. For once, purposely not inclined not to follow that ideal,
looking back / reversely but fast
turning the pages of history , -the toi
, in its ‘SESQUI CENTENNIAL PUBLICATION,
1992 ‘- one finds a cryptic quote, as re-quoted:
< H.L . Mencken described American democracy as a
“boobocracy” of, by and for the “vast herd of human blanks” who have neither
the interest nor the capacity for intelligent self-government. This style of
expression is impolitic and impolite. But as you thump through those pages and
see how government after government
succumbed to populism when what that country needed was leadership, you are
tempted to tell yourself that even what is impolite and impolitic has to be
said in a country whose national motto is “Truth Shall Prevail”.>
Poser: should that be true even for that ‘once –was-
super-power’, how our nation can remain insulated from that irresistible
external influence. extra strong.
(Welcome To Edit!)
To catch a crook:
Three lessons from the Rajaratnam case
The article, so also the numerous comments posted, as
understood, focus on, rightly so, the most important of all being supply of an
alert, unwittingly or otherwise, to anyone suspected to be a culprit. Upfront
what comes to one's mind is the unpleasantly active role, unwisely played by
the media- print, electronic, or any other of its kind.
In today's context, in view of the overwhelming influence
any such information given publicity in advance or prematurely, more so
mindlessly, and its impact on the societal welfare, in the larger interests of
the nation and its people, in common, it is the duty and responsibility of the
media to be considerate as to considerably moderate the increasingly overtaking practice of an unsavoury investigative
journalism - particularly of the type verging on, -sensationalism, populism,
self-promotion or-projection, so on. Instead, desirably, at least initially, soon
after any such information coming to its notice/knowledge should be passed on forthwith
to the concerned empowered authority, keep closely monitoring, and, only if
that fails to produce or show any outcome as expected, within a reasonable
time, then only think of further suitable steps to bring about the aimed-at
-result of an enduringly successful nature, accruing for the welfare of the
people, or any section /sector thereof. Otherwise, as past
experience has repeatedly demonstrated, that could prove eventually
self-defeating or -effacing attempt, with an unintended negative bizarre
outcome.
This is an exclusive area where only expert psychologists or
psychoanalysts* could come out and make a valuable contribution with really
useful suggestions /recommendations, for the benefit of the humanity -not any
tom , dick and harry, or an average human/commoner , as we are, filled with nothing but detestable trait /
harmful qualities of so called, 'ego' or 'emotion'..
(*Invited
to ‘Edit’)
1. What is
all the more deplorable is that simply with a view to tax, the men in
governance, under the guise of legislative process, gone on to resort to and
accomplish the intended object by subjecting the constitution itself to violent changes and
rewriting it.
As the
matter stands now, the apex court is heard to have held the referred amendments
as not ultra vires. Hopefully, however, the apex court may be called upon to go
to the root of the whole controversy and reconsider the present verdict, if and
when so taken up for a fresh adjudication.
In this
context, as drawn attention to, in the leading case of ‘Raheja’ *, the factual matrix
was peculiar and materially different from a pure and simple contract of sale of
a ‘finished product’ normally entered into and strictly as envisaged by the special
state law on ‘flat’.
2. Service tax on collections by a housing society for meeting the outgoings for running and maintenance of the building complex (flats /apartments). The collections so made are by the owners of the property itself, and for their own exclusive benefit. The rationale or legitimacy of such a levy is highly disputable on two grounds: The collections do not have the characteristics of ‘income’ or ‘fees’ and in any case, the principle of ‘mutuality’ is squarely applicable. Sooner the controversy is judicially and judiciously set at rest, the best.
2. Service tax on collections by a housing society for meeting the outgoings for running and maintenance of the building complex (flats /apartments). The collections so made are by the owners of the property itself, and for their own exclusive benefit. The rationale or legitimacy of such a levy is highly disputable on two grounds: The collections do not have the characteristics of ‘income’ or ‘fees’ and in any case, the principle of ‘mutuality’ is squarely applicable. Sooner the controversy is judicially and judiciously set at rest, the best.
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