Suicide vs Mercy Killing ( are they different from each other) :

Ever heard of the phrase “tis a fool’s paradise”. Well let’s analyse the phrase today and its different connotation in our everyday life.

If  memory serves us right, the recent Supreme Court verdict dismissing the plea for mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug who has been comatose for the last 37 years, has been a case in point to legalise active euthanasia. Here the entire community, including the medical fraternity that has been taking care of the 60 year old is glad, about the court’s decision.  

“India is not mature enough to handle euthanasia,” said senior Bangalore-based cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty, while expressing his happiness over the verdict on a mercy killing.

The Supreme Court clearly has taken public interest into consideration over and above some personal intolerance in this case.

Let me give you a different perspective to the mirror that we holding here.

Bhavdan , Pune:  A family of four — aged parents and two sons — ended their lives by consuming poison at their residence last Thursday (March 24).

Mumbai: A 30-year-old woman jumped to her death from the 19th floor of a building with her two children last Tuesday (March 22). All three died on the spot, eyewitnesses recounted.

Here is the other angle to our story which clearly indicates - “Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem”.

Between the above two extremes , the former require explicit permission from the apex body to end one’s life and the community feels it to be fraught with danger; whereas the latter case does not really care what the society or law says and are decided at the spur of a moment by individual determined to go the farthest. The means to an end in both of these primarily remains the same.

Let us not get into a debate between a desired expression by the helpless and a wilful execution by the hale and hearty. But the point to ponder is, do we actually need a law for something that exist since the emotional humankind came into existence, which we all know as “Suicide” . Just give it a thought.

Garib Nagar Burns out in Ashes to provide a New Soul for Ameer Nagar:

Who say that you can't fuck innocent people life for nothing yes that's true and Garib Nagar  is the biggest example of it.

All those who believe that land had nothing to do with the fire at Garib Nagar in Bandra east last week please put your hands up. Yes, I see you two in the front row, shining in your innocence. 

A property worth 22000 crores were burn in ashes in 7 hours and the best part is nobody has to pay anything for that land,I just wonder the amount of mullah these builders will make out of it.

But the so childish Indian law is freaky so weak that everybody will come out of these very easily.

Have any of you heard of any action since either against the developer or the officers involved in the scheme? Do any of you think that any action is likely? You two in the front row, shining with your sweet belief, please put your hands down.

Meanwhile, finally, we hear some honesty from a chief minister - free housing does not work. Activists have long stated that people are willing to pay for houses in the city.

But let’s leave the fire alone for now and try and figure out just how Garib Nagar grew practically on top of the station at Bandra East.

Can one assume that no one saw this colony as it sprouted? Or did everyone just wake up one morning and find thousands in residence?

The fire brigade is close by yet the fire hazard was perhaps not foreseen even though they now tell us that the slums were made of flammable materials. Really?

Hardly surprisingly, no one claims to know just whom the land that Garib Nagar stands on belongs to — it is apparently public land that belongs to some public agency, in other words we the people, but the responsibility for its upkeep is being shucked from here to there.

The tragedy is that none of this is new or unexpected. It is just when human suffering stares us in the face that we are forced to sit up and take notice.