Withdrawal of Rail concessions: oldies and retirees deserve it

 

I am bigot of a kind. For me stopping senior citizen rail concession is appealingly apt decision particularly for the retired kind oldies. They deserve it. It feels good to my evil soul.

One can find some of most toxic bigotry laced, jingoistic, 24x7 protracted illogical debates on FB or whatsapp groups of this class. They are most vulnerable to get invitations from poisonous politically aligned mahaulla or school-college alumnus groups where they are continually tutored and retrained with lessons of fake history and rabid morality cooked up in juices of hatred culled from other equally poisonous WhatsApp groups or from the content created by malicious socio-political ideological cults. Most of this learning is served with dressing of religion which suits appetite of these oldies who have otherwise nothing important in hand to pass their time with.

There is whole dark metaverse created for such bigots where they virtually live and command other family and friends to join them in this abhorrent illusionary world. 

(With due apologies to balance few old fellows who are different. All others can take this with pinch of salt)

Nambi Narayan and Rocketry

Shri Nambi Narayan had been one of the important ( not top) sceintific executive in ISRO thirty years back when he was implicated in espionage case in 1992 by Kerala state police. But CBI after enquiry found that it was a false case. And gave clean chit to Nambi Narayan in 1995 after two years. K Karunakaran who was CM had to resign on pressure from Ak Antony faction on this episode. Now What happened with Nambi is unfortunate and Govts, courts and CBI took corrective actions later. But halla hu on India’s advancement in space technology going backwards with Nambi ‘sir’ not there to continue with ISRO is a absurd hyperbole. Thirty five years back he must have been one among score of scientists working on cryogenic engine which India ultimately succeeded. How can one person in middle level could  be projected to be so vitally critical to Indian space mission that ‘India went thirty years behind’. 

With all due respect to Nambi and his abilities and also to corrective measures by govt to restore his honour, he is being unnecessarily given that much credit as to practically demean a generation of able sceintific talent in ISRO which has steered us to this proud place we have in space technology. His case was solved in two years and a CM had to resign. If you refer news archives that time it was rival faction of congress led by Antony which stood for him and made congress CM resign not as much the opposition. 

For film it seems Nambi too has been roped in to put in promotional hand and he seem to enjoy it. Yes he was  wronged and police officers responsible are behind bars for that but that is it. Nambi can’t be, from being a middle level scientific officer to suddenly turned in to being something like father of Indian scape mission for satisfying present environment and for commercial success of a film.