The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Thursday 20 November 2014

THE QUESTIONS AFTER SUPREME COURT'S ORDER ON RANJIT SINHA REMOVING HIM FROM 2G PROBE

THE QUESTIONS
  • It is unprecedented. It is the first time that the Supreme Court has intervened to the extent in removing the director of a central investigating agency from a probe that is working on. Can we term it judicial activism or the Supreme Court was forced to do after the apex court's patience was tested enough by the CBI director?
  • But, shouldn't have this decision come much before given the fact that it has come almost three months after the visitor diary of CBI chief's residence containing details of visits of people facing probe in 2G and coal-blocks allocation cases was put in public domain and the Supreme Court attention was drawn to it?
  • Shouldn't have the CBI chief recused himself from the 2G probe when the allegations surfaced in the first place? Should he step down now?
  • Isn't it too late given the fact that Ranjit Sinha is finishing his term as the CBI director on December 2, just after 12 days from now, and removing him from the 2G probe cannot alter the functional grounds of the investigation process now?
  • Should the government wait and let Ranjit Sinha finish his term or it should act after the Supreme Court's order on Ranjit Sinha on moral grounds?
  • If the decision doesn't hold for the technical elements of the investigation now given his term is ending, what is the symbolic message that it conveys?
  • 'CBI is a caged parrot and set it free' - Ranjit Sinha had famously demanded once. It opened a Pandora's box of debates given the fact that CBI thoroughly enjoyed the reputation of being a central investigating agency controlled and manipulated by the parties in power. Will the Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the 2G probe prove an effective reminder in that direction?
  • When Ranjit Sinha had demanded so, it sounded hollow as coming from a person who had faced allegations of being biased and favouring politicians and whose appointment had a streak of controversy behind it. Hasn't the Supreme Court decision today proved the controversy justified?
  • Supreme Court went as far as in setting the seriousness of its observations while removing Ranjit Sinha by saying that it was not passing a detailed order as it would hurt CBI's reputation. What does it tell to the government given the fact that Ranjit Sinha is finishing his term and a new CBI director is to be appointed?
  • Don't we need to relook at the debate on CBI's autonomy in the context of the Supreme Court decision today? 
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/