Nov 27
It is quite clear that Taslima Nasreen is a person from whom most politicians want to stay away from. So, while the Prime Minister feels for a terrorist’s family suspected of involvement in a terrorist attack in Britain, he is absolutely quiet about the hounding of a writer all over India. This whole attitude is what leads to hardening of majority opinion against the kind of secularism practised in India.
I consider myself a moderate Hindu, not very religious, but aware to a large extent about what happens all around. And one keeps on watching what the Government does when faced with a ticklish issue, and invariably the Government keeps on failing to remain even-handed when dealing with the same issues but across different scenarios.
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Nov 23
When Arun Shourie as disinvestment minister was selling off Government assets, there was a lot of protest as to why the Government is selling off its assets. But the fact of the matter is, the Government is not the best person to run things such as hotels, airlines, mills, and other such manufacturing and service sectors. Overall, the PSU’s are in a bad state, and it is quite clear that the Government is not exactly very responsive to needs of customer care. For example, when MTNL was the only telecom in Delhi, service levels were real bad; it is only when other telecom companies came on board that service levels improved. Here is another example of a sector that the Government is into, and is doing a pretty bad job in taking care of passengers:
NEW DELHI: At least five Air India flights were delayed by several hours at the Indira Gandhi International airport here on Sunday due to technical problems, causing hardships to about a thousand passengers.
Earlier, peeved over the long delay, the passengers protested at the airport and demanded explanations from the authorities. However, no senior Air India official was present at the airport to pacify the agitating passengers.
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Nov 23
AIIMS is the premier medical institute of India, and although many private hospitals have great doctors and excellent facilities, AIIMS is still seen as the best medical institution of the country. But just as a measure of how even the great ones have to pay for their mistakes, the Delhi State Consumer Court has ordered it to pay Rs. 1 lakh as compensation to the heirs of a man who lost his voice during an operation six years ago. It was alleged that the doctors at AIIMS botched up and cut a major nerve that resulted in speech loss during surgery to remove a tumour.
NEW DELHI: Holding All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) guilty of ‘‘gross medical negligence’’, the State Consumer Commission has asked it to pay Rs 1-lakh compensation to legal heirs of a patient who lost his voice after undergoing an operation there.
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