Debate: Banking reforms — 2 Nov 2017
DEBATE (1) Banking reforms
Bank re-capitalisation has everything to do with fiscal deficit. The Government needs to make public the fiscal deficit percentage which would provide some idea on how banking reforms would progress in the coming years.
Ambresh Kumar Singh
Court ruling on unborn child
Does an unborn child have the right to life? A recent court ruling reported in the media lays down a new law which defies all tenets of natural justice. The question which seems to have escaped the court’s attention is whether an unborn child has the natural right to be born, brought up and live a normal life? Can a pregnant adult woman abort the child without the unborn child’s consent, arbitrarily, at will, whimsically and in a fit of temper? Even if the personal laws applicable in the matter or the medical advice were to be kept out of the discussion, can it be justified purely on the basis of the extant law of the land? As far as is known, there is no law in India on the subject. As happens in the case of legislative vacuum, it is an instance of legislation by the court. Neither the Law Commission of India nor the parliament had deliberated on the subject. Can such an act of killing an unborn human child be justified on the basis of the right of an adult woman alone? Is the right of an adult woman not pitted against the right of the unborn child, living and growing in the secure environs of a womb? What relevance is there of “human rights” or inhuman acts in the light of such a right to throw out the unborn? A marriage metamorphoses two individuals into one couple, where they dissolve their individual identities and acquire a new identity of a couple. It is during their single identity that the unborn child enters their life. Both have the same rights on the unborn, as does the unborn over both of them in all matters embracing affection to property. The unborn child is an invaluable joint asset of the couple. The seed can’t be reduced to nothingness, as even animal, horticulture and crop seeds (e.g. GM seeds) carry premium value. The human seed is decidedly more valuable than all other species. It is almost simultaneously that the seed starts pulsating in the womb. The unborn plays in the womb, smiles, eats, enjoys, tries to break the enclosure by kicking it, turns upside down or sideways. Suddenly the mother decides to abort her/him. It is murder. She has no right to kill the unborn. The court has ruled that an adult woman has an “unimpeachable right to give birth or terminate pregnancy”.
M L Gupta
What about the bureaucrats who really prostrate and stoop before the Parliamentarians for their personal gains.
BBS
‘Ae meri topi palat ke aa’
In film Funtoosh, debonair and lively Dev Anand sings the song and calls back his magically dancing and eluding hat 'Ae meri topi palat ke aa'. About quarter of a century ago, a very reputed leader and a veteran freedom fighter, who was religiously dressed in white and wearing kishti topi as a headgear had confessed to an interviewer on television, ''There were times when everyone respected us for wearing this dress and now this dress has become so dreadful that it terrifies the onlookers and they feel like running away from us ,hammen iss dress mein dekh ke hi humse bhagna chahte hain.''That leader ,who had sacrificed a lot for the freedom of the country was feeling the pulse of the people,because of the degradation of the ethics and the values, once practiced by the wearers of this dress. In the year 1976,Smt Indira Gandhi, the then PM, came to Malerkotla, to preside over the function of total electrification of Punjab villages.I was on duty at the helipad. I did not see many kishti topis before her arrival,though white turbaned men could be seen in large numbers. As soon as madam's helicopter was in sight, many white caps could be seen. Hans Raj Sharma,and Chowdhary Gurmel Singh, who were to receive her along with Giani Zail Singh ,very deftly brought out their neatly ironed topis from their pockets and were in full party dress to receive her. In Amritsar Sh Sadhu Ram sharma ,the then president of the Amritsar district congress and who had close resemblance to Sh Morarji Desai,was always immaculately dressed wearing congress cap and seen walking along with his cycle, in the Amritsar streets. Similarly Sh Gian Chand Kharbanda always wore this cap and used to walk in Amritsar streets even as a minister in early 1970s.Slowly and slowly the political people discarded this symbol of fight against Britishers' oppression.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu
Bank re-capitalisation has everything to do with fiscal deficit. The Government needs to make public the fiscal deficit percentage which would provide some idea on how banking reforms would progress in the coming years.
Ambresh Kumar Singh
Court ruling on unborn child
Does an unborn child have the right to life? A recent court ruling reported in the media lays down a new law which defies all tenets of natural justice. The question which seems to have escaped the court’s attention is whether an unborn child has the natural right to be born, brought up and live a normal life? Can a pregnant adult woman abort the child without the unborn child’s consent, arbitrarily, at will, whimsically and in a fit of temper? Even if the personal laws applicable in the matter or the medical advice were to be kept out of the discussion, can it be justified purely on the basis of the extant law of the land? As far as is known, there is no law in India on the subject. As happens in the case of legislative vacuum, it is an instance of legislation by the court. Neither the Law Commission of India nor the parliament had deliberated on the subject. Can such an act of killing an unborn human child be justified on the basis of the right of an adult woman alone? Is the right of an adult woman not pitted against the right of the unborn child, living and growing in the secure environs of a womb? What relevance is there of “human rights” or inhuman acts in the light of such a right to throw out the unborn? A marriage metamorphoses two individuals into one couple, where they dissolve their individual identities and acquire a new identity of a couple. It is during their single identity that the unborn child enters their life. Both have the same rights on the unborn, as does the unborn over both of them in all matters embracing affection to property. The unborn child is an invaluable joint asset of the couple. The seed can’t be reduced to nothingness, as even animal, horticulture and crop seeds (e.g. GM seeds) carry premium value. The human seed is decidedly more valuable than all other species. It is almost simultaneously that the seed starts pulsating in the womb. The unborn plays in the womb, smiles, eats, enjoys, tries to break the enclosure by kicking it, turns upside down or sideways. Suddenly the mother decides to abort her/him. It is murder. She has no right to kill the unborn. The court has ruled that an adult woman has an “unimpeachable right to give birth or terminate pregnancy”.
M L Gupta
What about the bureaucrats who really prostrate and stoop before the Parliamentarians for their personal gains.
BBS
‘Ae meri topi palat ke aa’
In film Funtoosh, debonair and lively Dev Anand sings the song and calls back his magically dancing and eluding hat 'Ae meri topi palat ke aa'. About quarter of a century ago, a very reputed leader and a veteran freedom fighter, who was religiously dressed in white and wearing kishti topi as a headgear had confessed to an interviewer on television, ''There were times when everyone respected us for wearing this dress and now this dress has become so dreadful that it terrifies the onlookers and they feel like running away from us ,hammen iss dress mein dekh ke hi humse bhagna chahte hain.''That leader ,who had sacrificed a lot for the freedom of the country was feeling the pulse of the people,because of the degradation of the ethics and the values, once practiced by the wearers of this dress. In the year 1976,Smt Indira Gandhi, the then PM, came to Malerkotla, to preside over the function of total electrification of Punjab villages.I was on duty at the helipad. I did not see many kishti topis before her arrival,though white turbaned men could be seen in large numbers. As soon as madam's helicopter was in sight, many white caps could be seen. Hans Raj Sharma,and Chowdhary Gurmel Singh, who were to receive her along with Giani Zail Singh ,very deftly brought out their neatly ironed topis from their pockets and were in full party dress to receive her. In Amritsar Sh Sadhu Ram sharma ,the then president of the Amritsar district congress and who had close resemblance to Sh Morarji Desai,was always immaculately dressed wearing congress cap and seen walking along with his cycle, in the Amritsar streets. Similarly Sh Gian Chand Kharbanda always wore this cap and used to walk in Amritsar streets even as a minister in early 1970s.Slowly and slowly the political people discarded this symbol of fight against Britishers' oppression.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu
