Dr. Atul R Thakare

Ye Dilli hai mere yaar Yahaan rapists beshumaar Aur naari ka jeena dushwaar.. This is how an Aam Aadmi (yes that’s the political name for a common man) can describe India’s capital Delhi after a series of Rape cases. There are a series of discussions going on from streets to parliament on what should be the Punishment given to The-rapists . But the politicians are hardly bothered about how to prevent such brutal crimes which are tarnishing the image of Delhi city and our country.   Maybe they are safe amongst the XYZ security that is provided with aam aadmi’s income tax. It’s always said that Prevention is better than cure, but are our Politicians and Police really concerned about preventing such heinous crimes. Or it’s just to pacify the public(or shall I say aam aadmi , Arvind Bhai?) outcry???  We have seen on Reality shows like Crime Patrol, how Police can trap the criminals and sometimes even prevent the crime, if they really wish to. But it depends on th...

Every Fire is followed by smoke, and that's what is happenning with 3 Idiots, the movie which has set up the bollywood or the Hindi Film industry on fire. The smoke is coming out of the writer Chetan Bhagat, whose popular novel Five Point Someone ( FPS) is the inspiration for this movie. But ironically the renowned writer wasn't duly credited by Raj Kumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for the blockbuster 3 idiots. This is something for which our Hindi Film industry is famous (rather infamous). It's very difficult to understand why people who are already rich, famous and having goodwill do all such ill things despite getting all the rewards and recognition for their efforts. Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu vinod Chopra and Aamir Khan, all three of them are big names in Indian Film industry. Such cheating is not expected from them. But they have done it. Millions of people like me have read Chetan Bhagat's FPS , liked it, read it again and loved it. This is the novel which has ...

In the wake of the Mumbai attack by terrorists, the common man in India is all set to think about where our country and we are moving. Though our security guards and police force defeated the terrorists within sixty hours, there is a series of paradox attached to this unfortunate event. We call our self as tech-savvy and term the world as a global village, we launch a self-controlled satellite in space, trace a person in any part of the globe, but still, we cannot gauge the exact strength of the terrorists attacking the commercial capital of our country. We still ask our police to use the 1947 manufactured guns and 1857 manufactured bulletproof jackets to fight with the terrorists equipped with AK 47 rifles and latest weapons. But we won’t ask the same to be done with our politicians’ security. The (mostly corrupt?) politicians are equipped with all the XYZ plus security though they may or may not be in power, as if they are the nation’s most important property. Till date terrorists u...

“I don’t know who Raj Thackeray is?” This was the statement given the yesteryear’s actress and the current Rajyasabha MP Ms. Jaya Bachchan, when the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena aka MNS Chief Mr. Raj Thackeray attacked the Legendry actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan for starting girls’ High school in the town of Allahabad instead of a town in Maharashtra. But now nobody can say that he or she doesn’t know Raj Thackeray, as Mr. Raj Thackeray has become a national figure after his arrest drama. Of course, the media has played a vital role in making him a person of national importance. But this Thackeray Junior has stirred the atmosphere not only in the state of Maharashtra but also the states like UP, Bihar and Haryana. Nobody will advocate the way MNS activists have beaten the Bihari students, but the issue of ignoring sons of soils in the railway recruitment process has awakened the people of Maharashtra against the government’s faulty administration. This made Raj Thackeray and MNS gain Marathi...

To begin with, I want to say that everything has two facets, its positive side as well as a negative one. Pune is not an exception to this. To be honest I was very happy to get transferred to Pune. Pune is called the Oxford of the East. It is the fastest developing city in the world in the last twenty years. Pune has got everything which a developed city should हवे. A Strategic location, Good Employment Opportunities, Big Corporate offices, Plush Malls, Hotels, Multiplexes and Housing Societies. But if something is missing the said list, then it’s surely Transport facility in the city. Actually, there is no mistake of Government in this. Nobody thought that one day Pune will grow like this and all the narrow lanes in the “Peths” (marketplaces) will wreak such havoc for Traffic. And particularly when the city is having the highest number of two-wheelers in the country. But when it comes to traffic control the Traffic Police and the regulatory authorities are very slack. I have never see...

TAMILNADU EXPRESS (This write up is not to hurt anyone’s feelings. It’s purely based on the inputs from the passengers traveling in TN Express. Readers are requested not to take it in wrong sense.) And finally my Diwali vacations got over. For me, it didn’t only mean change of holidays into work, or rest into pressure but change from one culture into another different (rather indifferent for me) culture. I boarded the train from Nagpur (my hometown) to Chennai, where I work. The train was as usual, Tamilnadu Express. The speciality of this train is that it is the fastest train in its class and is known for its accurate timing (at least from Chennai to Nagpur). It goes from Delhi to Chennai and vice-versa. Generally we have to reserve the tickets in advance before a month or two for getting it confirmed. But during that time one of my friend Rahul who lives in Delhi booked the ticket for me, as he was also going to travel during that period to Chennai. That time, he was on training in C...

The question which all the people who stay in Chennai is that Why Chennai is considered as Conservative???Before coming to this city I also used to think the same. And its obvious,being a METRO and a city providing opportunities,it should not be considered like Conservative or Cheap. But the answer for this question,i got to know only when I landed in this City. No other city be it MUMBAI,DELHI,KOLKATA,BANGALORE or HYDERABAD is considered as conservative except Chennai. The reason is all these cities are open to all other cultures and languages that are found in our diverse country called INDIA. But Chennai is a city where though there are people from various parts of INDIA,the people here are not open to other cultures and languages. I do not mean that speaking tamil is "conservative and cheap" . To be proud of your mother tongue or to speak it is good,but being ignorant and indifferent towards other languages and cultures surely shows the parochial attitude of the city towa...