Adhuri khwaishen

ख्वाहिशें तो बहुत थीं,

पूरे करने की चाहत भी वहीं थी,(2)

अगर कुछ कमी रही होगी तो जरूर किसी की नियत में होगी, (2)

वरना तो हमारे सपनों के पूरे होने की तारीख भी तय थी।

ATTACK ON DOCTORS IN STATE OF EMOTIONAL TRAUMA

Since medieval times, doctors and healers are known to be people of great respect and of fear, and while the fear and respect part is still intact with this profession it has got a new emotion attached to its name, i.e. Anger. While getting angry when you do not attain your desired wish is natural, but getting angry and restoring to violence on medical professionals while a life is unable to be saved despite their best efforts has seen high rise in recent years.

While we are going through the current Pandemic, the efforts of medical professionals and public at large has shown bit of a control on the spread of disease but just two years back the situation was much more devastating. As the vast majority of public’s movement was restricted to stop the spread of virus, the medical professionals were the first in line to try and save the lives of infected people and the world has been showing their gratitude towards the efforts of medical professional. Medical professionals were tagged as heroes of the war, who faced innumerable hardships including but not limited to violent attacks of public so much so that the state governments-imposed jail term up-to 7 years for attack on health care workers who are treating infected patients and while that does sound assuring but it only happens post injury is inflicted and that too depends on which state you are in as some states imposed a mere fine of Rs. 5,000/- and a jail term of up-to 1 year.

It may be easy to think that need of the hour is to introduce a central law protecting healthcare workers from violence but protection of healthcare workers is matter of state legislation and states have power to introduce legislation as it deems fit for protection of its healthcare workers and in absence of any special act if any complaint is filed by a healthcare professional it is treated as complaint filed by any ordinary citizen and no special preference is given to the complaint whereas if the complaint is against any medical professional in addition to Central Acts action is taken by medical authorities so far as to cancellation of license to practice which a professional have worked hard to obtain in the first place through various trials and tribunals.

A sad incident recently took place in Rajasthan wherein a patient died while undergoing a normal medical procedure, but the onlookers and relatives of the patient protested against the Doctor so much so that a murder case was registered against the Doctor and ultimately after gotten tired of threats against herself and her family she chose to end her own life while trying to justify that the patient died under normal circumstances and she did tried her best to save the patient’s life. Medical professionals have been dragged, kicked, threatened maimed and attacked by angry mob which has no face and while through video and audio medium authorities do find on occasions people who are responsible but not everyone involved is tried and even the fear of punishment and fine does not stop such attacks from happening.

While the health care community is asking a stringent act for their protection against physical assaults there is no control over the verbal abuse which is faced by such professionals every single working and non-working day, it has become a common practice among educated and uneducated populous of the country to raise questions on the competency of the health care community while all they have been doing is being surrounded by death and despair around them, taking care of a terminally ill patient or even a patient under mere fever is something which requires a healer to soothe pain that the other person is feeling, and while it cannot be quantified but is should not be seen with degrading eyes. The reason why such people were given the name of healer in certain parts of the old world was because they used to take away the pain and suffering of the person, while the family of the sufferer used to keep a distance a healer went ahead to see the ailment and try to soothe the pain. Even in this pandemic, many people left their own family members to suffer in pain so that infection is not spread to themselves and our healthcare professionals despite being total strangers took care of everyone infected and while words of praise were given all around the actual efforts even the government and the associations failed to recognize. No incentive or rewards were granted to majority of healthcare workers many promises which were made in the beginning of this war are long forgotten in the middle of this war and while disheartened these healthcare workers have no option but to move forward because it is the result of choices made by them, work without any expectation of any reward/ recognition.

Many PIL have been filed in Supreme Court demanding the need of a central legislation for protection of healthcare professionals as while in other profession for a mistake there is a warning or a penalty or nothing in many occasions but in the profession of healthcare one mistake means stringent liability on you and most likely end of career of such professional. In absence of any dedicated central law many healthcare workers fail to move past filing of charge sheet against offenders and the community feels that a specialized act would deter violence against healthcare professionals and besides a new and improved legislation, appropriate and respectful communications between doctors and patients are also needed in a populous and lower-middle-income country such as India. Public-awareness programs and reassurance of the public at large are also important because people are mostly misguided by false information, while beliefs with no scientific basis may be accepted. Moreover, proper protection and security should be provided to medical centers and establishments.

A healthcare professional is termed to be a equal to God, the legislation we need does not require these professionals to be treated as God it just need to treat them also as rest of the humans who are given benefit of doubt and are equally protected not subjected to anger of a mob with no face and a proper authority who will hear and respond to the concerns raised by these professionals.

Restraining of media houses, a suit by Bollywood

Recently the media in the name of broadcasting trending news is actually passing derogatory and defamatory remarks to bollywood industry as a whole without having any evidence to corroborate with the news which they are broadcasting and going to the extent of giving public the ‘truth’ on a certain date and time which is provided to public in advance so as to increase the viewership of their channels. Media houses instead of broadcasting the news took over the role of judiciary and forensic department of the country thereby providing the cause of death of a person and the person who is guilty of committing such an act. The issue arose after the demise of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput who was found dead in his apartment on 14^th June, 2020, the demise was ruled out as suicide due to mental health issues by every media house in the country, a month later father of late actor filed First Information Report against the actor’s former partner (Rhea), her brother and others of abetting to his Suicide. This led central agencies to come into picture to investigate the money laundering issue which further led to Narcotics Control Bureau taking the charge to find out drug angle in the demise of late actor. The media coverage now changed their stand from death by mental issue to death due to black magic performed by the Accused (Rhea) ‘The Accused was found Guilty’, accused took all control of late actor finances by sipping him dosages of drugs in regular intervals which drove him to a stage of paranoia thereby killing himself in the end.

This led to full-fledged investigation of Bollywood industry from drugs point of view, few name came forward in the same investigating authorities summoned those whose names came up during the investigation, the headlines were changed again to ‘Drugs, Addiction and Bollywood’, ‘Drug Home Delivery’ etc. During the day media houses were after celebrities asking them are you an addict or not because we got one photo which can prove you are and by night the debate continuous that this industry is filthy people sleep and wake up with drugs and all are peddlers. Somewhere down the line Covid-19 Pandemic, collapsing economy and farmer’s protest were unheard of. The Bollywood Drug Mafia report was carried out by many leading news channels as the ultimate news to increase their TRP channels were now using highly derogatory words and expressions for Bollywood such as “dirt”, “filth”, “scum”, “druggies” etc.

In the light of same bollywod industry retaliated by filing a Civil Suit in Delhi High Court on 12^th October, 2020 by prominent Bollywood industry association and many producers, praying to the court to direct Republic TV, Mr. Arnab Goswami and Mr. Pradeep Bhandari of Republic TV, Times Now, Mr. Rahul Shivshankar and Ms. Navika Kumar of Times Now as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood as a whole and members of Bollywood, and to restrain them from conducting media trials of Bollywood personalities and interfering with the right to privacy of persons associated with Bollywood. In the complaint it has been mentioned that  news channels have been "openly flouting" the Programme Code framed under Section 5 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 which states that No person shall transmit or re-transmit through a cable service any programme unless such programme is in conformity with the prescribed programme code mentioned under Rule 6 of The Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994, Rule 6(d) states that it should not contain anything obscene, defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half truths, Rule 6(f) states it should not contain anything amounting to contempt of court and many other. The suit mentions that Defendants shall not conduct a media trail of their own and shall carry out healthy news reporting by not intervening in the court’s investigation and not pass any derogatory remarks against any person or industry as a whole.

Twelve years ago India saw another media trial of Arushi Talvar Murder case the media after a few months of death of Arushi Talvar and servant Hemraj decleared that both the deceased were having an affair and upon knowing this the girl’s father killed both of them. This verdict was passed on by media years before court and CBI could draw the conclusion of the double homicide, The Supreme Court had also called out the media for acting as a super investigating agency in the murder case. The famous Nanavati case which shook India in 1957 was also a result of media trial because it deliberately affected the mind of jury in the ongoing court trial thereby helping a convicted Nanvati getting pardoned from court.

The issue is not just with Indian media, take for instance Rideau Vs. Louisiana in which American Supreme Court laid down the test of presumed prejudice, the case involved a bank robbery, kidnapping of three of the bank employees and subsequent murder of one of them. An interview of accused was telecasted for three days wherein he was shown in jail confessing to his guilt thereby affecting his right to fair trial, supreme court was of the opinion that even before initiation of the trail the accused was declared guilty because the tape was telecasted for three days where there was no lawyer to advice the accused to stand mute. Another famous issue was of Bill Clinton Impeachment hearings, in December 1998 the house of Representative voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on the counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, all the media houses in the country wrote this headline ‘Trail of the Century’, Ex-President was guilty of perjury and sex perpetrator unfortunately for all the media houses Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in February, 1999, just before the century was over.

Now that the matter has been filed before ‘actual court’, proceedings will be held to decide whether the media houses are operating as per the programme code which is mentioned under the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 and is the method of reporting is causing defamation to any person or industry thereby violating the fundamental principles of the citizen of India or the media is only exercising their rights conferred under Article 19 of the Constitution. It is to be seen how far freedom of speech and expression can be exercised and where it affects the Rights and personal liberty of other personnel. This suit is not just between Bollywood industry and Media houses, it is between the very basic fundamental rights conferred upon us, can someone’s right to exercise trade cause deliberately or in-deliberately harm to other’s personal liberty and privacy. And to know more we might just have to stay tuned!!

Corona (Anti-Virus) Virus

Every year on the eve of 31st December the world cherish the end of one year and make resolutions for new one, but what if someone tells you that this year is going to be a short one as well long one Sounds confusing!! lets dig deeper then.

The year 2020 world was hit by a storm of Covid-19 or Corona-virus which saw millions of people affected by it worldwide. People across the globe were suggested to not go out of their houses maintain distance from others and keep washing one's hands. In order to minimize the death rate various Governments of the world announced lock-down in their respective countries. India saw Covid-19 cases in the Month of January and by mid March things started to close, by 25th March whole nation was under lock-down which is still prevalent in the country.

I grew up in a small town named Ajmer, situated in Rajasthan  (India), wherein we like every other kid of 90's used to ride bicycle all the time whose heart was in cricket, watching legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Rickey Ponting set life goals for us. We roamed freely had our fun here than gradually left the city in order to pursue further education, than getting some good job in big city. We were accustomed to the noises around us, noise of every machine, people shouting in streets to well dressed men and women in the premises of court (I am a practicing Advocate). We were used to seeing lot many people around us working day and night in order to get the best out of our lives. 

When Virus hit India like all nations we also went under Lock-down, so I did very logical and emotional thing which comes in the mind of every migrant and every student staying outside of their home TO GET HOME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We all want to be with our loved ones soon as we get a holiday or when we are in crisis, I also saw this as an opportunity to go back to my home town and be with my parents and that's exactly what I did. I was happy to be back home but I also made sure that this time I have work to do, I have got responsibilities now and so I along with other people like me started working from home. The nation was quiet now fewer vehicles on road no noise of machines only the soothing voices of characters of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Life was going good, whole family together after a decade it's funny how when we stay out all we want is to go home and when we are home all we want is to get out , but this time we were bound to stay indoors, together in order to save each other lives, so we did turns out we all were longing for that. We laughed, we fought, we screamed, we loved in the end all of us together finally.   

While we were under Lock-down certain changes were hard to let go like the dogs were now on the street all the time, air felt bit fresh than it used to, the lake which can be seen from my roof somehow looked cleaner. We all were amazed by such changes and this was happening across the globe, the wild started to claim their territory which was snatched from them Earth started its healing process and it made me wonder who are we to take this planet as out own, we have been taught ever since we were kids that we are merely inhabitants and so are others, the ability to walk and talk somehow made us the conquerors of this planet and we did exactly what every conqueror do, Lay waste of the land.

I didn't realized the sheer agony of other species until I started hearing again the noises of  machines cars honking etc. with the coming of lifting up of Lock-down completely people have started again to conquer what was supposed to be a mere rental place. Few days back I was happy listening to birds chirruping, dogs barking breathing fresh air but now all I hear are the annoying noises of cars horns, heavy tractors etc. and yes it really is annoying.

All of this makes one wonder, what was it in the year 2020 that made it seem short and long both at the same time, short as we are not constantly running towards making till the end of the day every day and long as we can't wait to go out again. But still one needs to look for the hidden message like there is one in every treasure map, is Covid-19 a message to us that we need to stop take a deep breath we can take it slow or that humans are the virus eating this planet from within and Covid-19 is an Anti-virus just what the planet needed.

Why Writing!!

A fairly important topic which is associated as to why I am writing and as to why others should do it to…

This is not a blog post about something that I’m writing upon, it’s a blog post as to why an individual should do it. Now I started writing because a friend of mine suggested me to give shape to my thoughts via writing, and when I started doing it, it was more than giving shape to my thoughts, it helped me in bringing peace to my mind as well as helped in my professional carrier as well. I’ll be sharing my insights about how writing can be used as a road map in our journey of life.

1.      A structure

Whenever we are going to start a work, we first plan out the steps as to what will come after one step, there’s a step wise process to make your project/work free from the bumpy road, when you write something you exactly know what would come after A and what would come after D, also it’ll save time, energy and work will be done more accurately.

2.      New points

While writing we tend to know that we have written, ideas keep on generating, in that moment rater than applying all ideas, we can analyze which idea will work better the process gives us an ideas to how far we have come in our research and so far where we have been going.

3.      Extent of writing

Extent of writing depends upon the extent of your knowledge, the more you have knowledge of a particular subject, the more you’ll be able to provide your contribution for that matter, now the next question arises how far can your knowledge go and everyone knows answer to that, INFINTE, the more your knowledge on particular subject the more reliable you become and what’s best way to make your knowledge permanent, documented other than writing it down, that way you might not, but your thoughts your knowledge will be there in your name.

4.      Brings mental peace

It’s said that to resolve issue sometimes one must share as to what’s going in their mind, while some find it odd to do, and some would like to hear their own perspective. With writing one can do near about same, when you write about something that is bothering you, while writing you allow yourself to formulate the issue properly as to what exactly is bothering you & how much, and while doing so one can deduce their possible solutions, or one might find out that there is no problem to get bothered about, in all it’ll bring a sense of calmness and peace to a person’s mind

5.      An invite to other’s ideas

It’s basically an invite the more people read about your views the more will agree or disagree, leading to a debate a discussion which will prove to be beneficial to all, those who are disagreeing and also one who has wrote it, exchange of ideas always brings out better results, and a room for new possibilities.

6.      For professionals

As a lawyer writing has always been a crucial part of my previous few years, and it has provided me to get a better command over my thoughts providing me a better structure and the perfect choice of words to make someone understand me viewpoint in a short and concise manner, and it’s not just about lawyer, take for instance a Chartered Accountant or a company secretary, or even a scientist, writing is important in each and every field even for a small businessman, because human brain might be the biggest hard disk, but errors do occur, so it’s rather safe to get documented all you can, especially your thoughts.

7.      Don’t forget about food

Now you all will think what’s there to write down about cooking, those who cook knows about it well to repeat recipe in their sleep, well that’s the thing every details is written down so as to try a new dish, so that it doesn’t get messed up, like a friend of yours is telling you a recipe of a lasagnia that her mom used to cook, now you want to make the same, so what you’ll do, you’ll write it down so as to make it exactly like they have told you.

Writing is not just about remembering, clear thoughts, or a structured map, its also about giving your thought a reality a sense of practicality which will help you make a concise decision. Happy writing J  

The child in you!!

One grows old only to think and over think, and one common is "we were so naive as a child" but if you would take a closer look those first instincts as a child were actually true, what I believe is that as we grow old we get more and more dumb and those so called stepping stones upon which we tend to fall are actually our dumb moves, but only if we have had listened to our younger selves' we might not have fallen in the first place itself.


Child's mind isn't affected by Ego/attitude so he/she tends to learn always, but as we grow older our minds gets affected by all those things which intrigues' our interest. Even once God's favourite Angel fell victim to these and thus was casted out of heaven.... How the mighty have fallen Alas!!.


Now my point being about all this crap is not to fall victim of greed, ego or power protect your heart, believe your instinct because second thoughts always result in doom... You are only human my friend but sure you can protect the one thing which will protect you.. Call it insurance. 😊

lets put a smile on that face