There has been something or the other that keeps taking place. While a few are genuine, it's my sneaky feeling that many are perpetuated for the perpetrators to be in the limelight and the remainder have a smack of politics! The outcome......more often than not, counts to nothing. Let's visit a few that have been in the limelight in the last few weeks.
(a) Udta Punjab.
A movie on the growing dependence on drugs and that too, by the youth of Punjab. It has a
social relevance. It's common knowledge that unscrupulous politicians are into the business
of drugs. What makes it more stinging is that it's rumoured that a few Akali Dal leaders are
involved and come next year, it's Assembly elections in the state. To my mind, all parties are
to be blamed because no one has made a strong case against the malaise, till now, which goes
to prove that almost everyone is in the know of it, if not fully involved and that the business
is lucrative.
Pehlaj Nihalani, the CBFC chief, had passed the certification process with a number of cuts
against which the entire Bombay film industry had raised voice and subsequently, the Bombay
High Court had removed all except one cut and permitted the release of the movie. It should
have been released all over by this Friday but I suppose the battle has not yet finished as it has
entered the Supreme Court, thanks to a Punjab based NGO.
The film has gained so much of attention that rest assured it's gonna be a money grosser as
potential viewers would like to know as to what the hue and cry was all about! Would they get
to see them is the moot point!!
(b) The Spectators at War.
Hooliganism among the soccer fans isn't a new phenomenon and it had raised its ugly
head in the Euro Cup series when the English and the Russian spectators went after each
other at the Velodrome ground in Marseilles. While a detailed probe is on, it seems that the
hooligans from both the sides had attacked the local populace too.
A situation that wasn't required at all.
(c) Shut Schools being taken over by the Government.
As per court orders, a few schools have been ordered to be shut down by the court as they
didn't have the requisite number of students or adequate teaching staff or even, lacked basic
amenities. The government, on the rebound, have decided to take over the schools - there
might be about 15 of them - and run them and the managements on the other hand have said
they'd strongly resist the move. What are the dynamics? It will be interesting to note what
the stake holders are looking at:-
(i) The government is trying to score brownie points by showing that it's concerned about
the schools where poor students study. Can low student strength or inadequate teaching
staff ever justify this move as also the move being financially unviable, in the long run,
for the government?
(ii) The managements might be thinking in terms of converting prime land into business
hubs like shopping malls, gigantic office space etc.
(iii) The parents in stoking their personal egos that they prevented shut down of their
children's schools!
An interesting aspect is that the children of the ministers have had their education in reputed
schools augmented with higher studies abroad. So their bleeding sentiments towards normal
schools is pure hogwash!
Tailpiece.
Now don't you understand that all these controversies are man made? Was there any reason to rake them up at all?
(a) Udta Punjab.
A movie on the growing dependence on drugs and that too, by the youth of Punjab. It has a
social relevance. It's common knowledge that unscrupulous politicians are into the business
of drugs. What makes it more stinging is that it's rumoured that a few Akali Dal leaders are
involved and come next year, it's Assembly elections in the state. To my mind, all parties are
to be blamed because no one has made a strong case against the malaise, till now, which goes
to prove that almost everyone is in the know of it, if not fully involved and that the business
is lucrative.
Pehlaj Nihalani, the CBFC chief, had passed the certification process with a number of cuts
against which the entire Bombay film industry had raised voice and subsequently, the Bombay
High Court had removed all except one cut and permitted the release of the movie. It should
have been released all over by this Friday but I suppose the battle has not yet finished as it has
entered the Supreme Court, thanks to a Punjab based NGO.
The film has gained so much of attention that rest assured it's gonna be a money grosser as
potential viewers would like to know as to what the hue and cry was all about! Would they get
to see them is the moot point!!
(b) The Spectators at War.
Hooliganism among the soccer fans isn't a new phenomenon and it had raised its ugly
head in the Euro Cup series when the English and the Russian spectators went after each
other at the Velodrome ground in Marseilles. While a detailed probe is on, it seems that the
hooligans from both the sides had attacked the local populace too.
A situation that wasn't required at all.
(c) Shut Schools being taken over by the Government.
As per court orders, a few schools have been ordered to be shut down by the court as they
didn't have the requisite number of students or adequate teaching staff or even, lacked basic
amenities. The government, on the rebound, have decided to take over the schools - there
might be about 15 of them - and run them and the managements on the other hand have said
they'd strongly resist the move. What are the dynamics? It will be interesting to note what
the stake holders are looking at:-
(i) The government is trying to score brownie points by showing that it's concerned about
the schools where poor students study. Can low student strength or inadequate teaching
staff ever justify this move as also the move being financially unviable, in the long run,
for the government?
(ii) The managements might be thinking in terms of converting prime land into business
hubs like shopping malls, gigantic office space etc.
(iii) The parents in stoking their personal egos that they prevented shut down of their
children's schools!
An interesting aspect is that the children of the ministers have had their education in reputed
schools augmented with higher studies abroad. So their bleeding sentiments towards normal
schools is pure hogwash!
Tailpiece.
Now don't you understand that all these controversies are man made? Was there any reason to rake them up at all?
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