Pocket mein Rocket

Finally, Just few ,months away from Lok Sabha election, congress has shot its most powerful rocket(you can call it  Bramhastra) to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and to form a separate state of Telangana.

The Congress thinking is that the bifurcation will put it in a vantage position in Telangana that has 17 Lok Sabha seats. Moreover other state's regions Gorkha land and Vidarbha are also demanding separation from their mother states. Again congress will promise the formation of these states as one of the agenda for 2014 elections and will win some extra seats as a boon. Food security bill was other rocket congress has used to gain more points for the 2014 polling. May be they are thinking, public memory is short and they will forget Commonwealth, 2G and coal scam. The amount of these scams cannot be computed on digital calculator and common man cannot even read those numbers. They want us to forget it  and remember  their contribution to the development of India like Food security bills and formation of Telangana. After four ministers met PM and voiced their protest against formation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh CM stating it as a suicidal step, the wave of concern has raised through the Congress master minds. While concern about a backlash in Andhra region looms, reflected in the fears of Union ministers, Congress has done a cost-benefit analysis based on its condition in the state with 42 Lok Sabha seats.

                Congress is trying every bit of it to impress public opinion about their last term in the centre and trying to get more positive point in their kitty before striking to LS elections. We have to wait and watch what other rockets Mr. Singh and Ms. Gandhi has got in their pocket to shoot ahead of 2014 elections. But one thing for sure these rockets are destroying Congress and damaging our nation.

Dance Bar and Prostitution

After SC verdict, Will the Dance bars in Mumbai be reopened?  I was surprised to see a news on one of the Indian news channel showing how the life of bar dancers has turned miserable after the dance bars are closed. There were some 10-15 bar dancers grieving as there bars are closed and they are not employed yet. Also they are only bread winner in there family. But really in 8 long years these ladies are jobless and nothing good has happened them. Why didn't they ask for government or NGO’s help to get other  job. Are these ladies used to the easy money of dance bars. Are they used to lavish and luxurious lifestyle out of the money from dance bar customers and they are refusing to give up that. Do they want to work in other profession where they have more work and relatively lesser money like that of a household help or a beautician in the parlors or even in any supermarket as a cleaner or anything else which do not need any educational qualification or specific skills. Has that become too difficult for them to find any other respectable job in 8 long years. We cannot ignore the fact that human trafficking is increased because of Dance bars and prostitution.
                    Many unwilling teenage girls are pushed into sex business for money. Dance bars open the doors for prostitution. This happens in the darkest hours of the night in the shadow of society without the light of law and ray of Sun. Mr Patil has taken a bold step to ban Dance bars and was welcomed. But now is it the time to think on next level, Prostitution? Shall we take a bold step to legalize prostitution? Legalized and regularized prostitution can work in favor of society and women involved in the sex business. Blood test for STDs can be conducted periodically compulsorily. One cannot support to legalize prostitution and reduce STD infections like AIDS at the same time. As the women in sex industry are more prone to HIV and likewise they are able to spread the disease to their multiple partners. But regular check up and proper counseling to such women can work in favor. We can have some strict rules for the their customers for the protection to be used. We can have policies on prostitution, brothel ownership, and pimping so that the women get their fare dues and not the pimps and brothel owners. There can be ban on brothel and pimps so that call girls can deal with the customers directly to avoid the middle man. As they are trapped in illegal system, they don’t get their dues, the larger part of the income goes to pimps and brothel owners. It can be made legal, as long as it is limited by fair conditions and terms; a woman's body is HER body and no one else's, therefore she should be able to do with it what she pleases and ban pimp and brothels as they consume her income. If prostitution were decriminalized it would be fair to require that all prostitutes have frequent medical check-ups by sufficient doctors to prevent the spread of STIs. People forcing women and children into the trade could be decreased dramatically because the prostitutes that voluntarily worked could report it to authorities without having to worry about revealing themselves. Nowadays surrogate mothers are renting their womb to another couple then why is our society  not accepting prostitution as any other profession. Workers in the sex industry deserve the same rights as workers in any other trade, including the right to legal protection from crimes such as sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape...There are some unscrupulous people in all walks of life -government, law, journalism, banking, law enforcement, the stock exchange, medicine, the clergy, prostitution, etc. If every profession were criminalized when some of its members broke the law, there would be few legally sanctioned professions. Unscrupulous people should be summarily dealt with by the law, regardless of which profession they corrupt. The illegal and forced prostitution violates the right to liberty and security, and the prohibition of slavery, of forced labor and of trafficking in persons because millions of women and girls all over the world are held in sexual slavery to meet the demand of even more millions of male buyers of sex, and to generate profits for the capitalists of sex. Studies show that prostitutes suffer high level of physical and mental abuse. Woman are literally sold and bought like property. Prostitution will happen anyway but legalization and regulation will help stem the abuses. We can take better care of women’s health and at least they will get their fare dues and they will not need the curtain of dance bar to hide behind.
                       They have to face Violence at every step. Legalization will lead to rehabilitation of their children and prostitutes who has been infected by STDs like HIV. Time is changing and so is India. We have accepted porn start Sunny Leony as a mainstream bollywood actress. Isn't it a time for us to accept prostitutes as a part of our society. Are we ready to give them the respect and dignity they deserve.