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Today’s editorial in the Times Of India takes an issue which is one of the root cause of the problems faced by the country.

Utter disregard for law.

This article reminded me of an incident one of my friends mentioned, she was driving at  7 am and came across a red signal. The roads were empty but since the signal was red she stopped her car like a very good law abiding citizen. The moment she stopped her car she was hit by another vehicle which was following her. The other guy didn’t repent and instead told her "subah 7 baje signal pe koyi rukta hai kya??"

It’s a common sight at our traffic signals if the signal for pedestrian crossing is red still majority of the people would try to jaywalk dodging the vehicles risking their as well as others life. The folks who are not able to cross are looked down like fools. There’s some kind of pseudo machismo associated with breaking laws, if you don’t break a law then you are a timid guy.

Today I was at the rickshaw queue at Kurla station; there were just 5 of us in the line, and plenty of rickshaws. When my turn came one young chap of around 16-17 came ahead of me to get in the rickshaw, I gave him a Ill-rip-your-balls-off stare and asked him to get in queue. When my rickshaw started and I looked behind that bloody SOB did the same thing with the guy who was behind me. There lies the major cause kids are taught in schools that you should not break queues/litter etc. but they see them being broken by the very people who teach them or their parents.

If a boy and a girl holds hands and walks in public majority of the moral people in our country would stare at them and if they kiss in public then, no one can save them from the morally pure junta, but it’s ok if you spit on the road. Like someone said that in India you can’t smooch in public but shitting is permitted.

The mob rule which we have seen over the past couple of years is also an outbreak of this. Like the writer correctly points out that if this utter disregard for law is not stopped it’s going to eat up all the progress done over the past years, it’s actually started. It’s high time that our law enforcing agencies should start fixing the broken windows.

I don’t understand why the hell some people make such a fuss about IPL.

People say that its not going to help cricket, well cricketers, I’m not talking about the 20 odd ones who regularly feature in and out of the national team, but of the others who are passionate about the game but due to their fate,destiny,karma,whatever could never make it would finally start earning some money.

Do you think the franchise owners, majority of them the biggest businessmen country has ever produced are such collective fools, that they dont know where to put in their money. Grow up they have got better business acumen than the rest of the nation put together.

Kids can think of cricket as a career now, so what if you don’t get selected to the national team, play in IPL for couple of seasons and you make more money than Kapil has done in his entire career.

It’s not going to help Indian sports, that’s a joke yaar. Indian sport is cricket and nothing else. The condition would have been the same if IPL was never formed.

Cricketers would not play for the country but for the league, cricketers play because they like cricket. No one grows up saying I want to do something for the country let me play cricket, you start playing because you like it. Personally for me these 11 people are not my country so even if they win or loose its not my country’s insult.

It’s gambling, forget sports life itself is uncertain, everything is gamble. Its business you put in money and get more money, which you may distribute with a few. All business are built to make more money, if you are not getting any then hardluck buddy.

It’s an insult to the nation when you auction sportsmen. Grow up folks leagues all over the world sell and buy players.

It’s an insult to the nation if women are groped in public, if kids are raped, if people get killed because of religion/caste/language, if you keep the country dirty the list is endless but not when sportsmen have signed contracts to play for their own good.  Remember that they are not being sold as slaves.

They say it’s nothing but money making venture, well mate what’s wrong in making money within the laws of the country.

It’s a very stupid mentality that we have grown with, making money is a bad thing; just because you didn’t make it doesn’t mean it’s bad. 

If someone else is making let them make it na.

Stop the fuss and enjoy the game.

My favourite is  the Hyderabad team, with Afridi, Gilly, Gibbs, Symonds and Rohit Sharma they have a really explosive line up.

In the land of athiti devo bhava this happens

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/2782869.cms

Have a look at the goon standing behind; the right kind of person to guard our culture. 

Happend to watch a DVD of one of  Russell Peters acts.

He tries to explain the US audience the difference between terrorists and Indians.

Apart from the fact that they are from different parts of the world, he says that they hate different people.

Terrorists hate America and Indians hate each other!!!

In today’s times it’s so true. 

Like Rajdeep Sardesai points out in his blog , violence is the last thing we want in a city which is crumbling (which was also casued by short sighted fools). 

A simple and innovative idea by the Indonesians to prevent rooftop travellers.

The rail authorities should try it out here too.