Wing Cdr Abhinandan. Indian Media gave many a scary moment.

What a relief Wing Cdr. Abhinandan Varthaman is back. Those were difficult days from  27th Feb. to 1st March'19. To make matters worse, some TV anchors were loud and extremely hollow. Just anything could have happened. And rightly so, the release was delayed by several hours. Instead of 2.30 pm, Wing Cdr. Abhinandan  was released at 9.20 pm, Indian Standard Time. 
Wonder why the Supreme Court or senior authorities did not raise objection? Sarabjit Singh case couldn't have been forgotten so fast. 
Sarabjit Singh was not an armed forces man. But he was an Indian nonetheless. His folly was that he accidentally entered the enemy country. Since then the Indian Government was making continuous efforts to bring him back. In 2012, there came a ray of hope in the form of news that Sarabjit Singh would be released the next day. The country was jubilant. As expected, our media took to loud-mouthing. Sarabjit’s family distributed sweets and waited eagerly to receive him the next day. That’s when the enemy country took a U-turn and released Surjit Singh instead! Yet another Indian. Yes, good that Surjit Singh came home. It would have been better still if both had returned home together!  But that did not happen and Sarabjit Singh died in 2013.
Yet another thing that nobody noticed was that we stood the risk of losing the support of other countries because of our loud-mouthed media. 

Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press (Media) are four strong pillars of Democracy. And each should be a check on others.

Anyway, it's good that Wing Cdr. Abhinandan Varthaman is back and as per the reports he is doing well. 

Same Sex Decriminalization

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Mattu Case. Radical shift from Dhananjay Judgement

Supreme Court's decision to commute Death sentence of Santosh Kumar Singh to Life Imprisonment is really not fair. What if he succeeds in getting President's Pardon tomorrow? One cannot forget that the country was almost close to pardoning Nalini (Rajeev Gandhi killer) till a mobile was recovered from her, which spoke of her 'not so noble intentions'!
It's just not fair. This way, the rapists and the potential rapists will never be scared of anything.
Also, why is Supreme Court saying that the accused has already spent a few years in  jail? Doesn't it show the court's lethargy here too?
And finally, when the Supreme Court could uphold Death Sentence in the case of Dhananjay Chatterji, the watchman convicted of raping and murdering an innocent school student, I don't see why the Apex Court is having second thoughts now.
Can the Supreme Court vouchsafe and say that Santosh Kumar Singh will be a reformed man when he steps out? Is he undergoing some kind of counselling? On what basis can the Supreme Court show so much confidence?

High Court's verdict on Ayodhya is good

At last the High Court Verdict on Ayodhya issue has come. And we must accept the fact that the bench which had both Hindu and Muslim judges really did the homework well before pronouncing the judgment of having temple and mosque side by side. I fully appreciate Kiran Bedi for saying that the verdict has a powerful message of co-existence and that we should now move on. 
I don't agree with Central Government and Madhya Pradesh Government pleas to the people that this is not the end and that one can always go to the Supreme Court after this. To me, it is something like telling the students to wait always for the Principal's nod after a lesson is taught by the teacher. Besides, this will mean that the case will go on and on. As such, there are several important cases pending in the apex court for years and years now.
In my opinion, having a temple and a mosque side by side is not a very big issue. It will also not mean committing blasphemy. If I am not mistaken, the great philanthropist Jamshedji Tata  was the first to have Temple, Mosque, Church and Gurdwara in Jamshedpur, a Tata Township.
And so let's not make it an issue.Especially in a country where it is common to see Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh sharing lunch, be it school, college or some other work place.