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Honesty is the best policy

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If you wish to market unadulterated nonsense, just go for it. Don’t tread the pseudo-intellectual middle path even once. Dabangg did that to script an enviable success story. Yamla Pagla Deewana starring the three Deols may not be up there with Dabangg, but it is an honest attempt to make a lovably absurd entertainer in which logic takes the invisible backseat. One walks into the hall, believing in the promos and expecting a lot of fun. One walks out of the hall, smiling away because of what one has seen.

So what if the film has such mediocre music that you may not remember a single tune? So what if the badly choreographed item numbers look like excerpts from forgettable low-budget films? So what if Dharmendra is nowhere near the handsome man he used to be, his old age having taken its toll? So what if the heroine Kulraj Randhawa has hardly anything to do, while what she does makes zero impact? So many negatives might have butchered most other films, but YPD rides merrily on the merits of its two major positives that eclipse all weaknesses in the overall analysis.

The first positive, one has mentioned already. The plot is deliberately nonsensical. The down-to-earth Punjabi-laced humour is enjoyable. The absence of pretence works. If subtlety is what you are looking for – PG Wodehouse wearing a turban, that is – stay away. YPD deals in jokes that both the dim man and the all-appreciative wit will enjoy. It is not targeting those who insist – or believe, or both – that humour can go past undetected if your reflexes are not sharp enough.

The second big positive is the trio consisting of the father and two sons. As a conman who abandons his wife and elder son, Dharmendra may appear jaded while flirting with a girl in a bar. But the veteran actor’s performance is so endearing that one enjoys it thoroughly. Sunny Deol as the abandoned son who grows up to become a banker in Canada (spelt as ‘Caneda’ by a starry eyed girl) is brilliant in his role of a strong and not-so-silent type. As the younger son who grows up with his dad and becomes a conman as well, Bobby is funny and full of expressiveness. When the three of them come together, they perform with such consummate ease and comfort that the viewer is compelled to see-saw between giggles and grins. Some jokes do fall flat, but most others are ‘good’ PJs one laughs at without thinking why.

The story is a bundle of mere impossibilities, and more impossibilities. But YPD makes us love it because of a lovably innocent approach to film-making and acting. The industry needs to deliver more such films because, out there in the real world, many believe in the need for having a good laugh. This film will make sure that you die, with laughter that is.

West used technology to check corruption. So should we

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-by punem sexena-Am not sure how many of you followed the development a few days ago that the city of New York appointed new media entrepreneur, Rachel Sterne, as its first ‘chief digital officer’. The move is a brainchild of the city’s millionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who is keen to get the city’s huge administrative machinery moving. Sterne would be tasked with finding ways of using technology to communicate better with NY residents and generally use technology to make their life easier.

Now, wouldn’t you want that to happen in India too? Let me elaborate. Having monitored IT and telecom sectors closely for almost two decades, one thing that is indisputable is that technology, utilized well, is a hugely potent tool if we are genuinely interested in providing good administration to our citizens. It assumes even greater importance in our country, beset with corruption at every level.

Some of the benefits in the fight against corruption are pretty obvious. Look at where most corruption (in terms of number of cases, not value) takes place in the country. It is in public dealings. According to rough estimates, almost 60-70 per cent of corruption cases could be bracketed under these. It is during such public dealings, to get one’s legitimate work done, that maximum harassment of the common man takes place. I am convinced it is in situations like these that technology can play a big role. I am unable to locate the story, but during Chandrababu Naidu’s tenure as the CM of Andhra Pradesh, when he brought in IT in public dealing in a small way, there was data to prove that corruption levels went down.

The public dealings could be for the purposes of getting a birth certificate, getting ones property registered, getting a learner’s license, passport made, or what have you. It is the human intervention during such dealings that dent the applicant’s self esteem. Not just that, they result in hugely unproductive use of time thanks to repeated visits that the corrupt individual would force one to make.

In almost all these dealings, it is possible to replace humans with machines. I know a lot of people will smirk. There is no dearth of doubting-thomases, but believe me, one of the reasons why the developed world seems better off is because such dealings are transparent and all legitimate work gets done easily thanks mainly due to the IT aided systems that are in place. There would be tremendous opposition from those who have made making money through these deals an art. To counter that, the administration and the politicians too have to show genuine will to help, not hinder, applicants.

One may not be able to put a value to it immediately, but the amount of productive time saved cannot be underestimated. And I am not even going into the important aspects of peace of mind and vast improvements in the happiness index that the absence of needless harassment would result in.

Would you agree? If you have an opinion, please do share. Let us see what works and then exert pressure on the government to do something. And while we are at exerting pressures, I am sure most of you are aware of the march against corruption that is being planned on January 30 by a group called India Against Corruption (IAC) (www.indiaagainstcorruption.org). The group is led by RTI activist and Magsaysay award winner Arvind Kejriwal.

As of this morning, the campaign seems to have gathered considerable pace. Initially planned only for Delhi, it has now grown and will now be held in over 55 Indian cities and the number is growing. It is even being planned in New York and DC. It would be great if all of us, irrespective of where we are, look up the website of IAC (www.indiaagainstcorruption.org) and see what is plan for the town/city we are in and join this.

As I said in my previous posts, corruption as an issue occupies our mindspace more than ever in the past. Even the corrupt politicians and babus are aware of the current public angst. This is a big chance for us to drive home the point that we are not willing to be used and milked. Period
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In India bribes are an accepted norm

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by punem sexsema-I was arrested and subsequently released by NOIDA police on Saturday. The whole incident was quite bizarre. We had gathered outside Registrar’s office in Noida to protest against corruption in that office. Gaurav Bakshi, an NRI had been asked for a bribe in this office about two months back for some work. He refused to pay the bribe and recorded a video of the babus demanding bribe. This enraged the babus. They assaulted him and his father (a retired IAF officer) and their camera was snatched away. Someone present there clicked the pictures of assault. Gaurav filed a police complaint with those pictures (culprits are easily identifiable in those pictures). Gaurav was offered Rs 8000 by the NOIDA police who tried to persuade him not to file a police complaint. However, he persisted.  Two months after the complaint was filed, the NOIDA police did not take any action.

Rather than give up, Gaurav collected all his friends and decided to protest. On Saturday, less than 50 people gathered outside Registrar’s office on the main road. All of us were shouting innocuous slogans – “Choosna band karo, rishwat lena band karo”, etc. We decided to take a round of the parking area and encourage people to stand up against corruption. However, the police stopped us. So, we stayed on the side of the main road. All of us demanded to know from the police, why were they shielding the corrupt, why they had not taken any action against corrupt people on Gaurav’s complaint? SHO present on the spot refused to reply.

At that time, one person came out of Registrar’s office and said that he a bribe of Rs 100 had demanded from him. Everyone asked the police officers present on the spot to immediately arrest the staff who had demanded bribe. But the police did not budge.

Suddenly, one of their senior police officers came, and without any provocation, on his orders, the police started assaulting people. We were slapped, thrashed and assaulted with batons. Gaurav was beaten up and put into a police van. Eight of us were “detained”. We were taken to a few police stations for the next few hours without being told why we were being transported around before we were finally presented before the city magistrate. At this point, we realised we had actually been “arrested”.

The city magistrate arrived and screamed at the police officer – “Muzrimon ko hathkadi kyon nahin daali?” Police officer replied – “Baahar bahut media wale khade hain.” The magistrate informed us that we had been arrested for violating public peace, for interfering with the work of government officials and for creating ruckus inside government building. We protested that we never entered any government building and we never met any government officer. The magistrate replied that it was for the police to investigate the allegations and the court would take a final decision. Some non-bailable sections were slapped against us. He ordered our arrest. We were bundled up in police vans and were sent to Dasna jail.

Midway, the police vans stopped. We were told that the vans had been asked to come back. “You will be released on bail,” one of the police officers told us, who was taking instructions on phone from his bosses. We said we will not apply for bail as we had not committed any crime. The policeman, perplexed, informed his seniors that these people don’t want bail. He was directed to still bring us back whether we wanted bail or not.

Back in magistrate’s office, we were released without bail. We learnt that the police did not know about our backgrounds when they arrested us. Once arrested, there was flood of enquiries from media and eminent citizens. And so, we were being released.

Isn’t it completely bizarre? Either we had done a crime or we had not! How could we be treated as hardened criminals just a few hours back, so much so that the magistrate had to order our handcuffing? And how could we be suddenly released and all charges against us dropped when they come to know who we were?

This means that the police can practically arrest anyone and slap any IPC section against him. The magistrate will blindly endorse arrest saying that the charges will be investigated later. How scary is that?

The magistrate met us after our release in his chamber. He warned us not to disrupt public peace in future. We told him in all humility – “We had not disrupted the peace of the public but had actually disrupted the peace of corrupt people and we will continue to do that even after our release. Don’t you find it strange that the police did not arrest those who had demanded bribe from Gaurav and those who had assaulted Gaurav and his father till now but we, who were fighting against corruption were arrested and produced before you immediately?”  We politely told the magistrate that we will continue with our activities even after release. Still he released us.

Who do we blame for this incident? In my opinion, it is the system that is at fault. The system places so much power in the hands of a few individuals that they simply go mad with arrogance. They lick their seniors and kick the public and they are accountable to none. I wonder whether it was any different during the British times?

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.

Economic growth and ‘future superpower’ status is all very good but that doesn’t guarantee dignity for every individual. We need new and contemporary laws for a new India and to push for these, a citizens’ movement has been initiated.

Thousands of people will assemble at Ramlila grounds at 1 pm on 30 January 2011 for a March Against Corruption – not only to protest against corruption, but to demand enactment of a strong anti-corruption law drafted by none other than Prashant Bhushan, Justice Santosh Hegde, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, Kiran Bedi and others. Please visit www.indiaagainstcorruption.org to read the complete text of this law. Many eminent citizens will be present in this march - Aruna Roy, P V Rajagopal, Harsh Mander, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Devinder Sharma, Rev. Arch Bishop of Delhi, Anna Hazare, Madhu Kishwar, Sunita Godara etc.

Similar marches will take place simultaneously in many cities and towns across India on the same day. Please join the March Against Corruption wherever you are to demand effective anti-corruption systems! punemsexena@gmail.com.