justice for the other india?

Admit it, how many of us in all these years have actually paused for a moment to spare a thought to those poisoned by the Bhopal gas leak? Or for that matter shed a tear for all those mothers whose milk was poisoned by the methyl isocynate, who could do little but watch their infants die in their arms or worse perhaps, live a life worse than death.
Since Monday afternoon i have heard many of my generation and some younger, talk of
'travesty of justice'...but is it just a phrase? How many of us have done our bit for these people fighting a lonely and clearly losing battle for two and a half decades? Ever visited the protests like those at Jantar Mantar in Delhi or did we cast a cursory glance, complain about the inconvenience to traffic and drive on...? What about the deaths of 20,000 people has failed to stir us except perhaps to pay lip service annually? Are we like this only?
Jessica Lal, Priyadarshini Muttu, the BMW hit and run case, a few of the many occasions when public opinion made an impact. The media was accused of trying the cases but the judiciary insists while journalists brought these stories back into the headlines, there was enough merit to relook at all the cases.
So why did Bhopal fall off the front pages? Why didn't we the people do more to put it there?
Maybe because the victims are poor, nameless, faceless Indians. People who didn't even know the guilty were not being charged with culpable homicide but criminal negligence. 8 people got 2 years for the deaths of 20,000. They would get the same if they had run over a sleeping pedestrian. Before the convicton sank in, they were all out on bail!
Is this how the other India gets justice?

so, am at work while kid and husband just got back home from a colleague's wedding.
now picture this, husband with stiff upper lip and all that, likes western classical, mad about Led Zep, Hendrix, know every bit of trivia you can live without on the Beatles and almost violent about any Indian film music. So what's wrong you ask? Nothing, till you know a little more about what he's up against.
kid- loves film music, even Punjabi pop will do...and if the music is loud with disco lights to bootas my husband discovered tonight, well ladies and gentleman, the day is made.
i wasn't there but can almost see the kid (little nugget from here on) dancing with gay abandon on the dance floor and helpless husband blaming these genes on me!
This is why these two need me. I strike a perfect balance between these two worlds.
Did they miss me? I doubt it, but sitting here, i sure did!

hi there

hello all
why am i here?
what am i hoping to achieve by sharing the joys, frustrations and everyday goings on with my three and a half year old?
well, this is my first attempt at being a parent. am certainly hoping there will be more chances but for the moment, my three year old (light years ahead of my 30 year old self) is what i am orbiting around. Shouldn't it be the other way around by the way? If at 3 she doesn't think i am God, will it EVER happen??
so i hope you join me on this journey as i try and discover what my child's world is all about and hope and pray i am contributing positively in my own small way.