Life As I Know It

The Scarlette Keeling case has been in news almost daily with a new development cropping up each day. It does make interesting reading, but at the same time you wonder how could a mother of a 15 yr old leave her child without supervision in the drug zone of a country she’s visiting. So we pitied the girl and her watery grave. But as the drama unfolds, we get to know that Scarlette was a junkie and before her murder she had allegedly doped. I’m all for the murder/rapist being punished. But the mother blaming everyone else but herself using Indian media to criticize Indian politicians of having a hand in drug deals is taking things to far. Why? Well the lady herself is a drug peddler for one, and she did leave her daughter in an area where crime and drugs are common, and the woman did know the risk but then she wasn’t concerned. Now that her daughter is dead she has these motherly emotions welling in her and is screeching for justice on all news channels. As always she’s getting all th...

From the time of independence we have seen several legislations made for the benefit of women. The Indian Constitution under Article 15(3) provides for legislations to be made to empower and benefit women and children. Thus came the Dowry Prohibition Act, Maintenance Act, Upgrading of women as coparceners, Prohibition on female infanticide, Prohibition of pre natal diagnosis, government went a step forward in providing aid for families with single girl child. All of these were enacted over the past 6 decades for the benefit of women. As of today we have the Prevention of Women from Domestic Violence, Act 2005. When one sees the number of legislations in the past and the need to provide a new one, it clearly shows that these past Acts have not been implemented properly. So how well can the D.V Act be implemented? Of course the answer would be prompt and timely justice. Under the D.V Act. Firstly , enquiry need not be conducted before arrest or for that matter a warrant need not be prov...

To write or not to write? Well.... Here goes.... So I decided to write a blog. Having decided that, I now needed a topic on which to write. So I began writing about my PG where I stayed for a month... but it was too much of a strain to relive all the horrors again. I thought I'll write about FENNY my little Labrador but then I started picking lines from James Herriot! Being a law student I wouldn't want a suit for plagiarism against me ( for all who haven't read Kavya Vishwanathan's- Opal mehta book ;) wise decision). So I tried to recollect some funny incidents that happened last month. My friend and I while walking up CMH road actually saw a rat commit suicide. Now I wouldn't call that funny but something that I remembered. But since I did not know much more about the rat it would be useless to write a blog on a silly rat that wanted to die.... But then.... What if that rat had lost all it's interest in life? What if it was cheated? What if somebody had moved...