Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday 1 November 2013

Tora..............Tora.............Tora


During World War - 2 , as they approached Pearl Harbor on American coast , pilots of Japanese bombers chanted ,


Tora , Tora , Tora


( Attack , Attack , Attack )


As they approach 2014 National elections , 725 million Indian voters are chanting ,


NOTA , NOTA , NOTA


For past few months , they have been watching the mud-slinging by their political leaders on TV , Newspapers , Internet , Rally  etc



And they are wondering :




Only time these leaders cared to talk to us is when they wanted our votes during the past 10 years  !


They are least bothered if,



>     We commit suicide ( with family ) because we are jobless
   
       ( JOBS )


>     Our children go to sleep hungry

       ( POVERTY )


>     We sleep on the footpath

      ( HOUSING  )


>     Our dilapidated buildings are about to crash

       ( URBAN DECAY )


>     Even employed among us have no money to buy vegetables

       ( RISING PRICES )


>     Our children are dying of dengue because we live on overflowing gutters

       

       ( LIVING CONDITIONS )


>     Our women must walk 5 miles to fetch water

       ( SAFE DRINKING WATER  )


>     Our children must walk 5 miles to go to a          teacher-less school

       (  EDUCATION  )


>     For want of nearby hospital , our wives die during delivery

        ( HEALTH-CARE  )


>      Without fans , we get scorched in summer heat

        ( ELECTRICITY  )


>      To and fro , work-place , we spend 4 hours on the road

         ( TRANSPORT  )



Do these persons whose names appear on Electronic Voting Machines ( EVM ) , care for our tortured / tormented lives  ?


Are these not the very persons who have made our lives , a living hell  ?


From their air-conditioned cars and their air-conditioned bedrooms , do they have any time to peep into our slums  ?


Their only concern is to get voted back to power and make tons of money  !


NOTA , NOTA , NOTA



*   hemen  parekh  (  02  Nov  2013  )