What a shame!

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Originally Posted by Stiglitz

I've lived in America since I can remember, and I've never been targeted by Law Enforcement due to my Skin Tone!

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Same experience for the last 7 years.

Even when we had to wait at the border entry post (travelling from Toronto to Detroit by road and my son's earlier passport was missing the lastname ; I had to prove to a higher official -boss of the one on desk who verifies tha passport- with his birth certificate etc), the treatment was very dignified!

Sure it was not "pleasant" to sit for 30 minutes in a "military-office-like-setting" with wife and child and uniformed people going about their duties, but I recognized that the unpleasantness was only my paronoia :-)

While the border one was a "scary" incident, I've had tons of very pleasant incidents with authorities here :-)

Compare that with my various "waitings and treatments" in gov offices in India over the years! Except for a few rare occasions it was always stressful. (A good experience was with the passport officer at Trichy who gave a personal appointment to hear my case and issued ECNR without the degree certificate - the university had a nonsense procedure of "applying and getting it" even though you've completed the course; I never bothered to do that those days like many others who joined the campus-interview-job. Applied for it after 10 years and the ECNR incident was kind of a trigger).

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2...m-nitrate.html

:banghead:

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article....date=5/21/2010

"வேலை" நாளிலேயே வெட்டி அடிப்பாங்க, இவங்களுக்கு இப்படியெல்லாம் லீவு வேற.

Shameful waste of public money!

(வேறு ஒரு இணையதளம் சொல்லுகிறது முதல் அமைச்சருக்குப்பாராட்டு விழா நடத்துவதற்காகவே இந்த லீவு என்று.

If true, that's even more disgusting. )

A saddening article from the ToI about the increase in men demanding paternity tests because they don't trust their wives:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/C...ow/5955886.cms

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The number of paternity tests conducted at the FSL's Kalina and Nagpur labs has been so huge that the FSL is now planning to also introduce the facility at its Amravati, Aurangabad, Pune and Nashik centres. Invariably, the father suspects infidelity. Manoj Tandon (name changed), 34, landed up at a Mahim hospital seeking psychiatric help. Tandon spent sleepless nights wondering if his one-year-old son was actually his neighbour's. He would incessantly compare his son's mannerisms with that of his neighbour's. Tandon's doubts were further fuelled by his mother, who also suspected the child was born out of wedlock. A DNA test revealed the suspicions were unfounded.

Hundreds of paranoid husbands like Manoj are queuing up outside laboratories with questions about the child's parentage. Experts say that when spouses stay apart due to professional commitments, the doubts increase.

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The article also suggests that suspicions of infidelity are often a symptom of psychosis. Either way, I wonder what's behind the seeming increase in the number of suspicious husbands.

An endless fight against manual scavenging

http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/23/stor...2355790900.htm

"Each morning a group of Dalit women step outside their homes to 'fulfill their social role' of cleaning dry latrines with their brooms and bare hands. They then carry human excrement in pots and baskets on their heads.Braving the worst possible form of caste oppression, these women lead unhygienic lives -- devoid of dignity and rights -- for wages as low as Rs.15 a month".

"I was not used to doing this work before I was married but my mother-in-law forced me. I don't blame her; it was the only way we could feed our families. We were told that our ancestors did this and this was the only work we could do as Dalits,” says Kusum, who left scavenging ten months ago to work as a sweeper."

“Every day after dumping the waste I used to go back to the same houses to collect stale food and beg for money. I worked every single day for over 40 years, even during rains which caused the basket's contents to seep out and cover me in filth".

"Cleaning dry toilets and manually removing human waste is a violation of human rights and dignity and was prohibited over 17 years ago. The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, lays down a jail term of up to one year or fine of Rs.2,000. However, there were no prosecutions until 2005 when 21 people were convicted in Haryana. But they got bail the next day".

"A petition in the Supreme Court in 2003 forced the State Governments to act in 2007. Though administrations will deny manual scavenging, municipalities and the Railways are the biggest employers. Indian Railways responded to one of our PILs saying they would take over 30-40 years for the transition and promised to ‘consider' the court order. The tracks have to be cleaned manually since coaches have the ‘open discharge' system, and most stations are not equipped with concretised platforms allowing waste to be washed away with jets of water".

"Most scavengers have respiratory problems, asthma, tuberculosis and jaundice. To escape the sight and smell, many male scavengers take drugs and alcohol and eventually succumb to diseases... They cannot tolerate the smell and sights ,and drugs or liquor are their form of escape from reality until the next round when they will go on and start cleaning.”

Many countries have laws that would send people to jail for treating animals in a cruel manner. We are talking about our fellow human beings!

This is the year 2010, and India is slowly transitioning itself from third world status to becoming a member of the G-12 group. We have already sent an unmanned space mission to the Moon, and are planning a mission to Mars in the not too distant future!

What a shame!!!

:banghead: vallarasu India :rotfl:

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Originally Posted by podalangai

A saddening article from the ToI about the increase in men demanding paternity tests because they don't trust their wives:

The article also suggests that suspicions of infidelity are often a symptom of psychosis. Either way, I wonder what's behind the seeming increase in the number of suspicious husbands.

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Hmm......looks like too many of them have read "The Scarlet Letter"! :| :oops:

How sickening :banghead:

14-year olds rape thier classmate and molest many others. Gangsterism rife in this school.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...&sec=starprobe

all involved are tamil boys. emulating tamil mass movie heroes?

Tamil Mass Heroes don't usually rape tho...:? wierd crap...14 yr olds raping... When I was 14 I had just started taking interest in girls... :? it was also about the same time I started hubbing. :P

I was talking about looking up to gangsterism and power over others. Easy to move to sexual power.
BTW, one mass hero did rape a woman who said no to his request for marriage. :P