Chavan is sacked, Kalmadi is dumped!

So screamed the headlines of most of the newspapers of the day. Chavan's scalp being taken is understandable as he holds a position of responsibilty but what on earth is Kalmadi doing? Sacking him from the Congress party's organisational hierarchy doesn't mean a thing except when it paves way for more serious and swift investigations on his misdemeanour! And the snatching away of the chief ministership from Chavan is not the punishment - his role in the Adarsh society scam, hopefully, will go full ahead in the coming days.

Chavan's statement that his mother-in-law is not his relative made delirious reading. Arun Prakash, a former naval chief, had also made a similar remark in one of his articles( when Mrs. Prakash's nephew figured in a controversy) where he said and I quote, "one inherits relations out of marriage that one has no control of".

If extrapolated, one can go on to say that one inherits relations in life, at birth, about which one has absolutely no control. What makes these people mouth such atrocious statements that are preposterous and sadly, insensitive to the feelings of their near and dear ones? Is a position of authority so very important in their lives, to be clung on, even at the cost of sacred relationships?

I pity them and especially, against the backdrop of what's said in the Bhagvad Gita that all human beings come into this world on a pre-ordained script, written by the master script writer of them all. Anyone who feels that he's in control of his life totally and at all times, is living in perpetual delusion!