moral policing in chennai

-the shift key is still not working, so please forgive the casing-

is there a limit to moral policing ?.
In Chennai, for the past three days, in the deccan chronicle, we have been reading that all night parties that are being conducted in the farm houses around the east coast road, have been subject to raids from the police.

These parties are being conducted with prior permission from the police department and are mostly attended by the techies who work in the various information technology companies.

These are attended by both men and women and are becoming an easy target for the police to make money. These police guys, conduct raids, confiscate foreign liquor, and photograph the people using the cameras on their mobile phones. Some pictures given to local news papers, with news that women have been found drunk in less clothes lolling around the swimming pool and so on.
All this in the name of upholding / protecting the tamil culture.
I was surprised to read this.

The may be times when there are some dirty ugly parties too , but I guess only adults who are old enough to make their own choices attend these parties. I don’t want to dwell on the issues of moral right and wrong.

Why should the police consider themselves protectors of the culture?
Their department is corrupted to the core. May be the one among the most corrupted in the world. Every one takes bribes… from the lowest ranking official to the highest. Personally I have seen a traffic policeman take a bribe from a speeding motorist. power corrupts and absolute powers corrupts absolutely.
Any woman in her right sense would never walk in to the police station to complain about anything. that’s the level of trust we have in the police. Yesterday too in the paper, there was an article where a girl who was taken into custody, was assaulted by the police inspector in charge.

So much for the moral policing ! ! !

Christmas Tree

We put up the Christmas tree at home last week. I did not have time to transfer the picture, hence didn’t put it up. We bought it last week. It’s a lovely tree and most of all Tarun baby is very happy about it.

Chris Mother Chris Child

Christmas time in office, and we are playing the Chris Mother Chris Child game.All those who
wanted to participate gave our names, and all the names were put into a pouch and we picked
up one name from the lot.
The Rules go like this: You are not to reveal yourself to your Chris child. To keep it a
suspense till the 21st. You are to get gifts for your Chris child, if possible, every day
starting from the 12th to the 21st, the last day of the game.On the 21st you are to get a grand gift for your Chris mom and one for your Chris child.We will have the gift exchange event on the 21st.
We can use our collegues to carry gifts to our Chris child, over a promise of secrecy.
Some of us dont even even know if ours is a Pa or a Ma.
The organizing team has also created a group id to which the Chris Children can mail and
thank their Chris Ma / Pa .


Samples of the Thank You mails :
Thank you for the gift and the card mom.... it was gr8 :)
Christmom/ dad, Thank you so much for your cute gifts.
hey chris ma thank u chooooooooooooooo much for the beautiful GIFT's...........
Thank U Chris Mom for presenting me chocs( My favrte One) & key
chain.that smiley key chain was awesome.Tks a lot ;))))
Hey Chris Ma/Pa ...Thank u so much for the yummy cake !!!!
Chris Parent --- Your gifts were awesome .. Thanks a bunch .. The teddy bear was huggly
wuggly cute !!!! :-)


And coming to myself
I gave my Chris child a pack of choclates
From my Chris mom, i got a pair of pretty earrings. Coincidence was that it perfectly
matched the clotes i wore
My friend / collegue has gone out of town, and i adopted his Chris child and bought him a Choclate Trouffle.
My friend will be back next week, so till then i am the parent :-)
I courired 5 gifts to various Chris children of Various Chris ma 's / pa's
Its great fun.No matter the size or cost of the gift, the joy one has when giving and receiving is awesome!!!
Joy to the World and God Bless Us All ....

Endae Keralam, Ethra Sundaram

On the fourth of this month, i happened to watch the Malayalam news on the Asianet channel and believe me, i was shocked.
The political party and the party workers belonging to the K Karunakaran faction, was holding a meeting. Suddenly the party workers of the party that K Muralidharan belongs to, barged in and started assaulting everyone and every thing in sight. Humans, mikes, tube lights, chairs, tables. Even the press and cameras were not spared. Father Karunakaran, a veteran Congress man, and son Muralidharan also belonging to the Congress party, and the battle never stops.
I was shocked to see a woman clad in a white sari, along with a group of men, beating up a youth from the other party.
Father and son against each other politically and the end result is that it puts the political ideologies to shame. Gods Own Country, indeed !!!!!!!!!!