For the record.....
I had been using this page since 2003. The older pages are only to be saved for archiving. I am slowly clumping them together.
THIS IS MY COLUMN OR SERIAL ON INDIAN JUDICIARY AND JUDGES
LAST UPDATE MARCH 19, 2023.
MUSINGS AND SCRIBBLES : UPTO 2009
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LIMITS OF Mr. Buddhi's FREEDOM OF SPEECH
(Originally posted on Sunday, Dec 13,.2009 at this page that became part of the serial)
I came across Mr. Buddhi's case through TOI. I was follwing cases related to freedom of speech in India and elsewhere since the matter might concern me as a writer.
Mr. SM Krishna (Delhi Minister, Ext. Affairs) advised the Indian students in Australia not to form gangs and only to focus on studies. He might have similar advice for Mr. Buddhi.
Who is Mr. Buddhi? I do not know him personally; I had not read his postings in the internet. I do not know how much property his family owns/operates. I also do not know the number of his followers. He seems to hold a degree from the prestigious IIT Bombay; and was resitered for research with the Purdue University. So he is a bright young scientist and a writer. It is his writing that got him into legal controversy. He is neither Mr. Jyoti Basu, nor late Saddam Hussain. If he gets support from any noted attorney (e.g. Siddhartha Sankar Ray, Ram Jethmalani) or RAW/KGB/CIA, he could become famous. If he is another Castro, then he could become a prominent politician after his return to Bombay.
What is the controversy? Based on the news report I read in TOI, I understand that Mr. Buddhi posted some writings in the internet criticizing Mr. George Bush. He and his family defended the action as his "right to freedom of speech". In India Charubabu (founder of the Naxal Party) demanded such kind of freedom of speech. The US Attorney (prosecutors) are probably charging him with "offending a statesman", "inciting violence", "meedling with US poltics from a poorly defined locus" etc.
What is "freedom of speech"? It is a bourgeois virtue that delights the free citizens with the right to speak freely without unnecessary fear of retaliation or persecution.
What are some of the precedences?
(a) During the Indian emergency rule (1975-77), criticism of Ms Indira Gandhi, the symbol of new age Congressi progress, was not permitted.
(b) Apparently Irish Parliament permits "FAQ You" as a legitimate expression of frustration and anger; but won't permit few of the words my American friends described me with (Rat, Brat, Communist). I got the infromation from TOI quoting Irish Times.
(c) Mr. Varun Gandhi (BJP) could not win "freedom of speech" during his last election capaign.
(d) UP Congress politician could not defend her utterances against Ms Mayawati as "freedom of speech"
(e) Apparently "Bombay" instead of "Mumbai" cannot be defended anymore.
(f) Some Maharasthians attacked mediamen, since media criticized their leader
(g) Bengali minister got a case for his comments on Rama that could have offended devout Hindus
(h) In West Bengal, Trinamool commented that "CPIM and Maoists are flip side of the coin"; and the CPIM commented that "the Maoists are hand-in-glove with Trinamool". Apparently Trinamool leaders are objecting to the CPIM statement.
Following all these, I have become wary and catious, since I do not enjoy backing from the national press or the political parties.
SG {Bangalore, Sunday Dec 13,2009}
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The judge's view being elaborated by the author
INDIAN JUDGE ON CONTEMPT OF COURT:
Former Supreme Court Judge (India) expressed his opinion on contempt of court and free speech. Often my life deals with such cases, and I would borrow the arguments made by the honourable judge to my benefit.
The Judge, honourable Markanday Katju, whose first name resembles that of a Hindu sage, is also the chairman of the Press Council of India. He published his note in the issue of the Times of India (Kolkata Edition) dated July 28, 2014.
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Dr Subrata Ganguli regrets any errors arising out of multi-lingual multi-religious communications (style of humor, alternate spelling, grammar, idiom etc).
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Nonagenerian Jyotibabu in His Labyrinth [ Flag as Inappropriate ]
by Dr. Subrata Ganguli
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Last edited: Saturday, May 23, 2009
Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2009
I shall fail my responsibilities, as a redneck professor (however temporary), if I cannot describe Mr. Jyoti Basu in a fair and unprejudiced manner....
Nonagenerian Jyotibabu in His Labyrinth
Jete Jete Ekla Pathe Nibhechhe More Baati......
As I went through the Indian perliamentary election results, I observed Trinamul Congress sweeping over the left parties led by the CPIM (details you can read from the national press). The reason I admire Rommel as one of the finest generals, for the same reason I have to write on Mr. Jyoti Basu for the benefit of my landed- homeowner- noncommunist colleagues and students. I have to describe Mr. Jyoti Basu in a fair and unprejudiced manner as a redneck professor (however temporary).
As the nonagenerian patriarch , a nice father, ponders inside his labyrinth, he must be paging through the memories of his
prodigal sons and his neglected abondoned children. I also paged through my memory to re-discover how he became a legend. When I was very very young, my villagers used to talk about Atulya babu, Ajay Babu, Jyoti Babu and Profulla Babu. With Jyotibabu, Bengalis went through "Jukta-Front" Governments, Naxals, 71's Kolkata, Indian Emergency, the long long left rule and finally the Trinamul Congress. If the rise of the left power in Kolkata were due to Jayprakash Narayan and Jyotibabu, is the fall of the left due to Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Bannerjee?
The patriarch had other options. He could have become prime-minister with the Congress, had he resigned from the CPIM. He also could have started a new party, after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, if he were not happy with the SFI/CITU and precursors of Trinamul Congress. He stuck to his ideology and theory instead.
The other day one student asked me "what is left?" He found the term in the front page of Times of India. I laughed and said " they are communists"! He did not get scared! I could imagine what would have happened, as a child, had I asked my father or grandfather about "Charu Mazumdar" or "Vinod Mishra". They must have gotten paranoid. Discussing about politics (left or right) in a lower middle class Brahmin family living in rented house or in a railway quarter is not same as attending lectures by Nehru in Durbar Hall of Delhi.
And that is the reason Mr. Jyoti Basu takes due credit from my family.
SG,
Bangalore,
May 17, 2009.
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Not only my parents, Dr. Matsumura also knows that I used to sleep like Kumbhakarna.... not any more......
....... But I still travel by myself, alone......
Kumbhakarner Ghum: Power of God
If I were to say that GOD relives me from jobs whenever my employer offends me, the CIA would get copies of my handwriting from the xeroxed notes available with my students and conclude that I was born a narcissicist megalomeniac with God-like-complex. Saddam Hussain had the same problem; he was the big man, and I am a small petty guy. Saddam was the president of Iraq, and I remained a bokachoda!!
As you know, by definition, a bokachoda does not do any thing ---- much like Kumbhakarna in Ramayana, he likes to sleep. Not only my parents, Dr. Matsumura also knows that I loved to sleep like Kumbhakarna. At 45, I cannot afford any more!!!
I was amused to learn that there is place in the South that sounds like "KumbhKan"! While I was travelling by local bus to Anna Malai University, the bus driver dropped me near a big temple around Kumbhkan to catch the next bus. It was really a "god forsaken place" and I was shit scared!!
While waiting for bus at such places with no communication in local languages, ordinary people usually "hari naam jape" (utter the name of GOD Hari as many times as possible). Being educated in the west with leftist tradition I could not have done such things. I was only counting the number of times I faced, and eventually survived, similar ordeals!!
One time I was travelling in the night by local bus, and I did not know that I had to change bus around 3 am at a 'god forsaken place'. I pretended to sleep well on my seat; suddenly two of my local students got into the bus and told me that they are going to Bellary. They also told me that I had to change the bus at dead night at a bad spot. They also advised me to stay clam. I was shit scared!!!
Then my first adventure in Bangalore! I was to go towards GKVK, but got the bus going the round-about route. The bus conductor did not understand my English, one gentleman(passenger) wrote in a piece f paper in okannada that I had to get down at Mathikere, then had to go to Yelahanka and finally to GKVK by another bus. The bus conductor dropped me at Mathikere that night, the place appeared "too rural" as opposed to Malleshwaram and Majestic! I showed that piece of paper to several people and they asked me to wait for the bus. Finally one local tried to become friendly, he asked my name and asked where I stayed. Then he told me that I must be "VIP"; and I guessed that locals might call Ph.D.s VIP's! The stranger asked me to have trust; though his English was not good, I listened. Afterwards I believed that he could have been local IB (police). Of course I reached GKVK via Yelahanka and It was very late!! As if God told me that Bangalore was neither Bombay nor Chicago!!!
Stories in Chicago and Bombay and Delhi and Kharagpur were different. I used to take late night buses/trains; and I was never mugged!! you might not believe!! Though I had several problems in Kolkata bus, and I had some bad experiences in Chicago after I was becoming 'homeless' (after 1996)! Everytime that I had to walk up the stairs at the Racine St. El- stop (Chicago) after 11 pm(1990-1996), I used to promise myself not to be so late again! And everytime I was scared that a few guys with guns would be waiting just outside the turnstyle. I was the luckiest person in Chicago!!!
I also remebered my early years in Bangalore as a student. I liked the fly over in Majestic and the "crowded local market in City Market" (I still live in City Market); in addition to funny scene of traffic police controlling crowd with a rope. I kne with my family background, I would never get a job in Bangalore. But GOD proved me wrong. I became Assistant Professor in Bangalore and Mysore (though temporary) after Prof. Ramachandran and Prof. Bailey expired!!! I even became contract professor in Tumkur!!!
I had grown old and old and old. I still travel by myself and alone! I lost eveything in Chicago and I was still sleeping like Kumbhakarna. I lost everything in Kharagpur and I was still sleepin like Kumbhakarana. Now I am going to loose everything in Bangalore; am I still sleeping??
I believe I am waking up too late like Kubhakarna.
SG,
Bangalore,
May 1, 2009.
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While Indian revolutionaries focus on 'Fraternity' (that is at times construe d as self-serving homosexual behaviour), let me talk on 'Liberty'....
What is Liberty?
"Kadambini mariya praman karilo je se mare nai (Beng.)" ......
After Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
"Mare gele benche jai"... A common Bengali phrase uttered by commoners under distress..
[the above two Bengali sentences are hard to translate]
Are Chacha Nehru's children -- all of them--- born free? Or would he rest in peace to learn that someone cares to see that his children remain free? Are Hindus born free --- or are they property of the Government, the local lords, and the family elders? Are Hindu children born free to speak for themselves, or are they mandatorily represented by, as is the custom in some Hindu villages, the eldest son of their eldest paternal uncle, or the eldest son of their eldest maternal uncle? Who is 'somebody' in such villages? Though there are better persons to know of Chacha's dream of liberty and equality, I doubt if Nehru's dream came to fruition in Bihar, Orissa, and even in the South-- home of the usual gentlemanly Indians.
I experienced the taste of liberty for the first time .. .. in Chicago, when the judge permitted to speak me on my own behalf, to argue in favour of my personal good. The village boy in me went to the courtroom AS SOMEONE WHO COULD NOT PAY HIS BILLS. I met both Judge Garber and Judge River (spelling mistakes are unintentional). I was the only non-white in the courtroom at that time. The lawyers were smart, agressive, qualified with degrees, active and well-dressed. And you know how I am. As I waited for the judge, I was rather worried. As the judge entered, he looked 'normal' to me. I told him that I have no money, he permitted me to argue on my own behalf --- as if I were a white citizen. The judge impressed me by wishing me well, specially in my job hunt! I lost my case, and the counter claim I had can never be won, since I could only make a verbal statement without material evidence (essentially an Act of God). Though I did not get any money or pay, I liked the cool and calm nature of the Judge in Chicago, I was happy that he treated me with 'due respect' despite financial miseries. That was nine years ago!
In the recent past, I visited the Karnataka High Court several times. I liked the well-mannered, polished, learned judges. Only Judge Manjunath gave me headache!
I experienced personal liberty the second time, when a Pastor in a Church in Chicago, introduced me to his congregation, and permitted me to speak to the Church in a free manner. I talked about several of my plans in Chicago, as Beachy Busy.
What is liberty? Is 'due respect' and 'due consideration' for all as utopian as 'socialism'?
Am I at liberty to study in Bangalore? Am I at liberty to study in Chicago? Am I at liberty to study, in either of the two cities, Law, Politics, and Religion? Am I at liberty to study, in either of these two cities, without a supervisor, or without affiliation with a University?
Am I at liberty to own property? Am I at liberty to own property in Bangalore? Am I at liberty to own the new material (Property) produced out of my own labour, skill, information, efforts, experience, judgement and knowledge? Am I at liberty to own the new material (Property) produced in the privacy of my home, whether owned or rented?
Am I at liberty to marry? Am I at liberty to marry a 'White' girl? Am I at liberty to marry late Narayanan's daughter, the ambassador? Am I at liberty to divorce, or to abondon my spouse and children?
Am I at liberty to speak, argue, and preach my personal good? Am I at liberty to print to argue for my personal good?
Am I at liberty to travel without an identification from an employer? Am I liberty to travel without an identification from my father, or without disclosing my father?
Is the Kanchi seer at liberty to evade his family obligations (eg feeding his father) and live without his biological family? Am I at liberty to live without my biological family?
Am I at liberty to pay another individual? Am I at liberty to get paid by another individual? Am I at liberty to spend my money in the way that pleases me?
Am I at liberty to do business in Chicago or in Bangalore? Am I at liberty to business in chicago or in Bangalore without supervisors from IIT-IISc-TIFR? Am I at liberty to do business in Chicago or in Bangalore despite non-approval from the BJP, CPIM, and the Congress Party (or their public manifestations)?
Am I at liberty to investigate the action (s) allegedely taken by Indian Directors that adversely affects my personal income in the USA?
Am I at liberty to investigate the actions allegedly taken by College management, Heads, and Principals in Bangalore, that apparently reduces my income in chicago?
Is KKK (the Klan) at liberty to investigate the immigration policy pushed by the Indian leaders that may reduce the number of the Whites in Chicago to a bare minimum in the foreseeable future?
Is KKK (the Klan) at liberty to investigate the international mafia operating out of Bombay, Bangalore and Delhi that may forcibly impose Hindu culture (much like in Kolar and Pune) in the City of Chicago?
Is KKK (the Klan) at liberty to investigate the Benagalore judges, who may citing dominant Hindu moral, may support arranged marriages and caste system in the City of Chicago, thereby negating the doctrine of 'Fair Evaluation' and 'Fair Opportunity'?
Am I at liberty to take away my own life? Am I at liberty to take another person's life? Is one at liberty to abort a foetus, if the Law does not require the disclosure of the name of either parents?
(To be continued...)
SG
Bangalore,
Nov. 14,2005
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What is equality before the Law? [ Flag as Inappropriate ]
by Dr. Subrata Ganguli
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Last edited: Saturday, November 12, 2005
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French revolutionaries believed in equality, fraternity and liberty; many Indian revolutionaries believe in fraternity only....
"No power is ever-lasting. Only the wiser knows how to pay due respect to the powerless."........... my personal conviction.
What is Equality before the Law?
Is the Doctrine of Equality a Christian or a Hindu doctrine?
Is the Law 'Christian prudence' or 'Hindu prudence'?
How absurd or utopian this concept of equality is? For example, why should I claim Rs. one crore as compensation, where many people I know get only Rs. 30,000 to 40,000 during their lifetime.
Mr. Jyoti Basu is a special human being, how can he be equal to an insignificant individual like me?
Under what Law is Mr. Ganguli better than Dr. Govardhan Mehta (IIsc. Bangalore)?
How are the judges concerned about delivery of fair justice? How do political institutions ("party") obstruct delivery of fair justice, by drawing lines between upper level and lower level?
What if trial of trivial cases with insignificant individuals like me takes away precious time of the judges, and from urgent public matters?
Wherefrom the Judge derives his power? What is an offence (or 'incompetence') to his power (position), paid or unpaid.
How would doctrine of equality applied under communism and capitalism (Bangalore High Court is very special ---- they follow Bangalore Doctrine only!).
SG
Bangalore,
Nov. 12, 2005.
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Kick or Kiss: Paye Pari Baghmama
Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:53:00 PM
by Dr. Subrata Ganguli
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Kick or Kiss:
Paye pari Buddha-mama (parody of paye pari bagh-mama).... oh dear enlightened uncle, let me please lay at your feet...
I found a good news I was looking for. TOI reported the other day that one actor asserted his artistic freedom by getting his "ass kicked", --- apparently he did not like his "ass being kissed"!
The venue was New York street; actor dressed up as Mr. George Bush. This is a famous case of expression of artistic freedom --- perhaps a good precedence is the issue related to national flags! Next time you might watch prostitutes dressed up as politicians begging you to "fuck their pussies" ! What a City --- City of NewYork!
I do not know if the actor were British or Irish or a Jew! I also do not know how many miles he crawled to draw attention. Neither do I have the statistics on the number of kicks he received. But I strongly believe that had he waited with his protruding butt at the gate of the Howrah (Kolkata) Railway Station, he would definitely improve his accomplishment remarkably.
PS. I was looking for Mr. Ranade of Kolhapur in the photograph, but could not find him.
Love,
Bokachoda Ganguli,
Feb 25, 2007
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I got interested in Kolkata after about 22/23 years! I retured to Bangalore after about 15/18 years! I did just fine; though many of you are better. When I finalize my book after 2026, wish you get your spark from me to start even if you are bigger than me. Or you may get your inspiration directly from the original Prometheus.
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