Justice?

Do you like to sip coffee while watching the rain battering the window pane? Do you like to linger on the 'Upper Birth' of a reserved train compartment all day long reading mystery Novels? Do you like to go out and eat in a restaurant once in a while? Do you like to see new places with your family?

There are so many other questions and if you answer 'Yes' to even one of them, my next question will be 'Where is your sense of Justice?'

There has been a lot of talk and newspaper space being spent on the issue of giving justice to those slum dwellers who lost their lives and are continually suffering even today. Most people are baying for the heads of big shots from Warren Anderson to Arjun Singh to Entire congress government. The anger is against the rich and famous using their privileges for escaping justice. They demand justice for the poor.

But what is justice? Had those people been alive today, most of them would still be lingering in those slums. Scurrying around every time rain hits hard filling up whatever hole they call home, traveling by unreserved compartments jostling along with hundreds of other people for space enough to keep their b*** on, to struggle or steal whenever the prices of pulses go high, to dream about those beautiful places which they had to leave behind from due to lack of food/work. While the whole middle class, which seems to be the main support base of Bhopal Victims, do what they like to do as mentioned in the first paragraph.

And the only reason 'We' can afford these little pleasures is because our parents earned enough to afford us private education, and let us study without interruptions for 'field-work'. Every time you travel by reserved class, their might be an old blind sick lady suffering in the unreserved compartment, unable to make through the journey. Every time you shoo a young lad trying to take shelter from the rain under your window, he might get sick of pneumonia, result of getting drenched in the rain.

Do we care? No way. This is the life 'we' would be giving them, had they been alive. And we won't be blaming ourselves.

Lets not forget, humans are born hypocrites. Our sense of justice fails us when the society asks us to give up our little pleasures. So why be jealous if somebody else makes use of his own position to save himself some trouble?

Here is a challenge. If you still want to cry for bhopal victims, give up everything which your birth has bestowed on you. And then lets talk about Justice.

Delusioned...

We have so many different philosophies of managing the economy and its people.

1. American Capitalism:
It is a beautiful mechanism in which the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor share the land. It is a place where the intelligent and gifted get all they want, but also manage that the poor have no chance of progress. They are stuck for life, but dont understand. You need money to go to school. You need lots of money to get treatement in a hospital. You need even more money to get into a decent college. And it is called "Land of Opportunities".

2. Soviet Capitalism:
What was designed to get rid of the rich and the powerful, became a tool for oppression in hands of the rich and the powerful. Only the faces changed. In the older system, the landed class ruled and oppressed. In the new system, the PARTY ruled and oppressed. And no everybody could get into the party. The decision lay with few and now they ruled and oppressed.

3. Chinese Pseudo-communism:
This is the biggest farce on the face of earth. Unprecedented prosperity has helped the chosen few to strengthen their hold over the poor. How much the poor suffer in this land is not known. How much the successful enjoy is portrayed out for the hungry media. This is the biggest PR exercise in the history of the nations. But I am sure of one thing, previous generation saw the rise and fall of Soviet Russia. Our generation will see the rise and fall of nationalist China.

4. Socialism:
Some successes in socialism with high "happiness" rates are used by some socialist as the proof of its success. But the point missed is that the so called success in these countries (France and Germany) invariably preceded a period of exploitation of some third world country and thus raising the standard of living. Some other countries (Sweden and Norway) successfully exploited the natural resources and used it for betterment of the sparsely populated country. Hence the only success of socialism is in places where already there is high per capita income.