Queries keep tumbling out of my mind as I glean from the media about many things that are taking place around us. Here are a couple of those.
(a) The Real Offender.
The rogue and ex-military ruler of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, keeps giving interviews to the
media and comes out with something or the other to keep himself in the limelight - the latest is
that the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, had been provided asylum in Pakistan by him and his
cohorts while they're in power. Firstly, why does he do this at frequent intervals? Let me take a
guess:-
(i) The blighter still thinks that he was the greatest leader ever to have ruled that country. He
still nurses hopes of making a comeback and being accepted by the Pakistani people with
open arms.
(ii) He wants to remain in the limelight and comes out with sensational(?) disclosures. What
he doesn't realise is that the entire world and especially, India and the US knew all about
his shenanigans but had given him a long rope.
(iii) The biggest joke was his coming to India for the Agra summit talking peace while
preparing for the Kargil adventure which turned out to be a total disaster for him and his
armed forces. Yet he'd no qualms of conscience to blissfully extricate himself from taking the blame! And how can one forget the way he broke all tenets of diplomatic niceties by
behaving irresponsibly during the course of the summit?
Now that he has openly acknowledged his role in working against India, can't he be deported
to our country, made to undergo an open trial in an earmarked court and given appropriate
punishment? The charge, "Misusing official position to commit crimes on a sovereign
nation".
(b) The Scramble for Seats in the Medical Colleges.
In Kerala, it's another scramble for admission into the Medical Colleges. The latest directive
from the court is that Rs.11 lakhs is the course fees. Consequently, the dreams of many of the
children from poor families have been smothered. Hiding behind the court orders, the private
college managements have resorted to their dubious games by preventing students with merit
from joining.
At the beginning of every professional course each year, this sort of tamasha takes place with
blame game being traded between the private managements of medical/engineering colleges
and the government. The sufferers are the students and their parents.
The doctors who finally pass out will naturally, try to make up the money that has been spent
for the training.....professionalism be damned! They get surprised and angry when the
dependents get at their throats on suspicion of medical negligence when patients die at their
hands in hospitals!!
It's a goddamned vicious circle considering the following facts:-
(i) The private medical/engineering colleges have not been set up for charity. The
managements need to rake in the moolah spent on setting up the institution. And
I'm not even talking about the corruption that goes on.
(ii) There are too many professional colleges and do all the ones that pass out get
gainfully employed? Setting up a clinic raises the costs!
(iii) The arbitrator that should be regulating the entire process of selection, training,
setting up the standards, monitoring the examinations usually remain flummoxed as
though they've no role to play in it.
Consequently, to our utter horror we find that the sacred 'Hippocratic oath' taken by the
medical courses is diluted! The engineering graduates are available by a dime a dozen thanks to
a proliferation of engineering colleges!!
It's a necessity that all the stakeholders sit across a table and work out a reasonable way
out of this vexed issue.
Tailpiece.
The entry on my diary for this date, last year, is, " I'd fetched up at home around a half past 5 by a super fast bus from Thrissur, ending my journey to Thiruvananthapuram and had got dropped at the bus stop, just 50' from our house. My mom gave me a dazzling smile as she was getting ready for her bath........ It took a long time for her to negotiate the flight of stairs downward after she'd got ready!"
(a) The Real Offender.
The rogue and ex-military ruler of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, keeps giving interviews to the
media and comes out with something or the other to keep himself in the limelight - the latest is
that the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, had been provided asylum in Pakistan by him and his
cohorts while they're in power. Firstly, why does he do this at frequent intervals? Let me take a
guess:-
(i) The blighter still thinks that he was the greatest leader ever to have ruled that country. He
still nurses hopes of making a comeback and being accepted by the Pakistani people with
open arms.
(ii) He wants to remain in the limelight and comes out with sensational(?) disclosures. What
he doesn't realise is that the entire world and especially, India and the US knew all about
his shenanigans but had given him a long rope.
(iii) The biggest joke was his coming to India for the Agra summit talking peace while
preparing for the Kargil adventure which turned out to be a total disaster for him and his
armed forces. Yet he'd no qualms of conscience to blissfully extricate himself from taking the blame! And how can one forget the way he broke all tenets of diplomatic niceties by
behaving irresponsibly during the course of the summit?
Now that he has openly acknowledged his role in working against India, can't he be deported
to our country, made to undergo an open trial in an earmarked court and given appropriate
punishment? The charge, "Misusing official position to commit crimes on a sovereign
nation".
(b) The Scramble for Seats in the Medical Colleges.
In Kerala, it's another scramble for admission into the Medical Colleges. The latest directive
from the court is that Rs.11 lakhs is the course fees. Consequently, the dreams of many of the
children from poor families have been smothered. Hiding behind the court orders, the private
college managements have resorted to their dubious games by preventing students with merit
from joining.
At the beginning of every professional course each year, this sort of tamasha takes place with
blame game being traded between the private managements of medical/engineering colleges
and the government. The sufferers are the students and their parents.
The doctors who finally pass out will naturally, try to make up the money that has been spent
for the training.....professionalism be damned! They get surprised and angry when the
dependents get at their throats on suspicion of medical negligence when patients die at their
hands in hospitals!!
It's a goddamned vicious circle considering the following facts:-
(i) The private medical/engineering colleges have not been set up for charity. The
managements need to rake in the moolah spent on setting up the institution. And
I'm not even talking about the corruption that goes on.
(ii) There are too many professional colleges and do all the ones that pass out get
gainfully employed? Setting up a clinic raises the costs!
(iii) The arbitrator that should be regulating the entire process of selection, training,
setting up the standards, monitoring the examinations usually remain flummoxed as
though they've no role to play in it.
Consequently, to our utter horror we find that the sacred 'Hippocratic oath' taken by the
medical courses is diluted! The engineering graduates are available by a dime a dozen thanks to
a proliferation of engineering colleges!!
It's a necessity that all the stakeholders sit across a table and work out a reasonable way
out of this vexed issue.
Tailpiece.
The entry on my diary for this date, last year, is, " I'd fetched up at home around a half past 5 by a super fast bus from Thrissur, ending my journey to Thiruvananthapuram and had got dropped at the bus stop, just 50' from our house. My mom gave me a dazzling smile as she was getting ready for her bath........ It took a long time for her to negotiate the flight of stairs downward after she'd got ready!"
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