Sandeep Bhalla's Blog, page 40
May 10, 2015
Procedure is handmaid to justice but only for few.
Was Salman Khan given special treatment? ‘Procedure is hand maid to justice’ is a famous quote from a judgment delivered by Justice Krishna Iyyer, a former Supreme Court Judge. More so, it was observed in a case arising from the scope of discretion to grant bail to an accused. With the above quoted sentence Justice […]
May 7, 2015
Dignity in life and Facebook
Dignity is the space we presume impenetrable. We decide not only our dignity but also that of people surrounded by us. For example here a person doing manual labour is not treated as dignified. Until few years or decade they would not be offered chair to sit on. It would be same at many places. […]
April 28, 2015
Individualism and free society
“Despite romantic rhetoric, freedom cannot be absolute. To argue for total choice (a meaningless concept) or total individuality is to argue against any for of community or society altogether. If each person, busily doing this thing, were to be wholly different from every other, no two humans would have any basis for communication. It is […]
April 6, 2015
Rupees 20000000000000 revenue!
Government of India has earned the aforesaid ludicrous looking but massive revenue of Rupees 20000000000000/- from auction of two resources namely coal excavation rights and spectrum for mobile phones. It would be interesting to know that the amount earned in these two heads by previous Government was not only ridiculously low but was also struck […]
April 1, 2015
April fools day 2015.
April fool or 1st April is a day to glorify silly moments in life. The moments when we took a knee jerk reaction as a life changing thought. This day today I dusted up some old Mr. Beans movies and reminded myself of the fact how Mr. Beans is in everyone, at least at some […]
March 23, 2015
Budget 2015 and unanswered questions.
Budget 2015 misses the important questions: Budget of India for 2015 passed by Parliament of India with usual rhetoric and careful negligence to important aspects. Opposition which was in power till yesterday is as bereft of constructive criticism as it was out of ideas when in power. Recovering economy: Finance Minister called the economy as […]
March 14, 2015
Godaddy.com: you too Brutus!
This website is hosted on godaddy.com for past few months. It was fine until yesterday but since than I am told that it is down every hour. Jet pack is sending emails about it several times, every hour. I had thought Godaddy. Com was a serious host. Alas it is not. Like many before, it […]
June 26, 2014
What quacks like cable TV is Cable TV.
Supreme Court of USA has given a rather strange ruling on Cable TV vs. Cloud Storage services. While saving Text or music or video on cloud remains text, music or video but if Cable TV is saved on cloud it ceases to be video and remains Video. According to Sup Court, “What looks like TV, […]
June 19, 2014
Google Chrome hangs Linux Mint 17 Quiana
It appears Google Chrome has some bug. It hangs and stalls Linux Mint 17 a.ka. Quiana. More the tabs, more the problem. This web browser is supposed to be faster but right now it has become pain in all the wrong places. It takes whole system down if more than four tabs are open. I […]
June 10, 2014
Lok Sabha today: Mamta Banerjee’s Messanger
Watching Lok Sabha (Parliament) Proceedings. The representative of Trinamool Congress is speaking rather reading from a paper. I do not know the name but he is in green costume. The vocabulary and framing of sentence appear that these were dictated by Mamta Benerjee Chief Minister of West Bengal. Is it so? Member of Parliament acting […]
