.... if builders offer him more money? If the answer is no then we must agree that even the poor farmers of Singur have every right to refuse to sell their land.
Heres the whole story IMO:
Ratan tata wanted land and WB govt CPM wanted pretigious industrial projects comming into WB. Why not! even big brother China has changed their economic polcies to capitilist ones, so why not indeed! Who follows marx these day anyways huh?
So Wb govt thoguth this would be great PR for their communist driven state, they would give farmers compansation and in turn the factory would provide jobs and all would be hunky dory happy as hell!
Then came in mamta banerjee playing the firebrand heroine or vamp, depending on whose side you are. Its anyways election year and she thoguht it a good opportunity to tame the ruling party. After their fiasco at nandigram and disastrous municipal level polls the chastised CPM are now going mellow on their usually stubborn strong rigid way of getting things done.
You will ask isnt this about Ratan Tata and the Singur farmers? Well well welcome to indian politics... neither the CPM nor mamta care a flying fig about the farmers rights and wants and nor do they care a rats arse about industry and the economy progressing. All that is stake for them here is their own hides and who will survive the coming election.
As far as the farmers are concerned - well they are in the right, its their land. and its their right to refuse to sell it. They have every right to say no. Like Ratan tata they too are equal citizens of india. Or at least thats the way it was suppossed to be when old ambedkar wrote out his constituition.
As far as Ratan tata is concerned he is also right. He needs a large tract of land at a stretch. how else can he put up a plant of this size? He is willing to provide jobs, livelihood, healthcare and other facilities.
But heres the stalemate - Mamta's followers have charged up the farmers and ratan Tata being a nice humane man not a strong arm tactitian like his peers (read ambani brothers etc) doesnt want a hostile situation. remember he didnt even want a hostile takeover of Corus.
Solution - as at this stage there is no solution. What Mr. Tata should have done was not to involve the govt in the first place and directly dealt with the farmers himself.
My point of view here - I agree completely with capitalism and the encouragement of business and enterprise but its cannot be at the cost of human rights. Never. profitability can never be at the cost of destryoing human rights.You cannot build your castle on other peoples graves!!
A man has every right to his property and that right has to be upheld. I have great respect for Mr. Tata yet would ask him if he would like to relinquish his ancestral property in a posh Mumbai area? Im sure many a builder would pay him the moon to demolish the old house where JRD tata lived and build some sky scraper there. Would he sell? :)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Chauvinistic indian film makers?!
With all the hue and cry about our movie making becoming real progressive in its storyline (started with dil chahta hain n now rock on), picturisation and gimmicks (read real good photography, sound editing, great chic clothes, amazing make up blah blah etc etc) i was surprised to see the latest yashraj flick Bachna Aye Haseeno.
What kinda story line is that. the guy screws around with these girls dumps them unceremoniously and then, and then the audacity of it all, he wants to ask and even get their forgiveness after some 8/10 years. What the hell was the script writer thinking, that these women were sitting around heart broken waiting for him to come and resolve all their anguish?
Why not show something more realistic and more progressive. If minisha lamba was married to a nice man who loves her, then why all the drama about her having shut up her emotions all due to one bad apple ranbir kapoor? Ditto bipasha basu's story. the crappy script shows that though she is an extremely sucessful actor she is still under emotinal trauma over ranbir kapoor.... Good God! i think we need to show our women in better light! women are strong people too, dont show them as all gooey mushy cryyie creatures who cannot get over a heart break - really. why should their lives stop? and only the darned hero can fix it?? crap!!
The other horrible example of chauvinism in the industry is that Priyanka chopra - saif ali khan Ponds cream advert.
Its shot in several levels to keep you interested in guessing the story. Saif is seen guiltily dumping a dark and dowdy priyanka chopra for a fairer neha dhupia. Then they show priyanka all sad and gloomy messaging him like a leech. What the hell? why should any girl message a guy who dumps her for the color of her skin? The of course she uses the brilliant ponds crap cream and she starts glowing.
Thats another insult - that men will only notice you if your fair. Seriously someone should file a PIL against ponds and Emami and all these fairness adverts.
Anyways i really thoguht the ending would something fun and realistic. I thought that when saif slaps neha and chases the newly fair priyanka, the story would take a more progressive turn with priyanka dumping him for a better man (say hrithik or someone) and then saif would go back to neha who would also dump him. that would have been a good ending. (they should have asked me to write the script)
But hell no! the ending was worse then the cream. The fair priyanka just sees saif and bursts into tears, and saif catches her and some stupid heart pendant does the trick. And without saif apologising or even explaining priyanka runs into his arms!!
WTF?? i pissed clean with these guys who write such horrible scripts. where are all the women groups??Nandini sardesai? shobha de?
What kinda story line is that. the guy screws around with these girls dumps them unceremoniously and then, and then the audacity of it all, he wants to ask and even get their forgiveness after some 8/10 years. What the hell was the script writer thinking, that these women were sitting around heart broken waiting for him to come and resolve all their anguish?
Why not show something more realistic and more progressive. If minisha lamba was married to a nice man who loves her, then why all the drama about her having shut up her emotions all due to one bad apple ranbir kapoor? Ditto bipasha basu's story. the crappy script shows that though she is an extremely sucessful actor she is still under emotinal trauma over ranbir kapoor.... Good God! i think we need to show our women in better light! women are strong people too, dont show them as all gooey mushy cryyie creatures who cannot get over a heart break - really. why should their lives stop? and only the darned hero can fix it?? crap!!
The other horrible example of chauvinism in the industry is that Priyanka chopra - saif ali khan Ponds cream advert.
Its shot in several levels to keep you interested in guessing the story. Saif is seen guiltily dumping a dark and dowdy priyanka chopra for a fairer neha dhupia. Then they show priyanka all sad and gloomy messaging him like a leech. What the hell? why should any girl message a guy who dumps her for the color of her skin? The of course she uses the brilliant ponds crap cream and she starts glowing.
Thats another insult - that men will only notice you if your fair. Seriously someone should file a PIL against ponds and Emami and all these fairness adverts.
Anyways i really thoguht the ending would something fun and realistic. I thought that when saif slaps neha and chases the newly fair priyanka, the story would take a more progressive turn with priyanka dumping him for a better man (say hrithik or someone) and then saif would go back to neha who would also dump him. that would have been a good ending. (they should have asked me to write the script)
But hell no! the ending was worse then the cream. The fair priyanka just sees saif and bursts into tears, and saif catches her and some stupid heart pendant does the trick. And without saif apologising or even explaining priyanka runs into his arms!!
WTF?? i pissed clean with these guys who write such horrible scripts. where are all the women groups??Nandini sardesai? shobha de?
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