January 24, 2013

DNA TESTS




This morning I read a news item in the main edition of Telugu daily Eenadu. The essence of this report is that the Human Rights Commission of Andhra Pradesh, criticized an act of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), which is in Hyderabad. They conducted DNA tests for the blood samples of a woman and her child. Ramesh, the husband of this woman, wanted these tests for his personal needs and clarifications. The SHRC folks feel that CCMB should not conduct tests of this order without the permission and referral of an authoritative body. It stated that such tests should not be conducted based on the interests of individuals. Such actions lead to breakdown of families. They ordered for police enquiry in this regard. According to them, CCMB is committing crimes and sins this way.

I felt furious about the folks of SHRC in this respect for the following reasons.

1. Ramesh is a citizen of India, a democratic country, according to the understanding of special intellectuals like Manmohan Singh. Traditional Indians, in general, expect their life partners to be loyal to them, physically and mentally. In the present times, we cannot perfectly understand and believe that the mind of a life partner is filled with the thoughts of his or her other half only because there are so many distractions around us. We can understand and forgive this aspect of present Indian way of life. A good husband or wife certainly wants his or her life partner to be exclusively dedicated to him or her only in matters of physical intimacy, which may be meant for sensual joy or reproduction, when their relationship is based on marriage or otherwise. If Ramesh wanted those blood samples to be tested in CCMB, it implies that he wanted to ascertain the purity of his wife as a life partner to him, in matters of acts that led to reproduction. His doubt must be “Is he/she my baby or not?” To know it, he went for those tests. If his wife is pure to that extent and she gave birth to that child as a consequence of her marital and conjugal life with her husband only, why should she object it? She must be happy to realize that her husband is a good person because good persons mostly want their folks to be good like them. Why should Human Rights Commission find fault with the act of CCMB in this regard? 

2. Human Rights Commission has no moral authority to indulge in the liberty of individuals. Every individual has natural authority to define and describe the concept of purity in matters related to his or her personal or professional life. HRC is not superior to individuals. It is not comprised of gods and goddesses but a few old legal folks who join them for the sake of salaries and other benefits from the respective state and central governments. They are not controlling sins and crimes in any part of India but silently observing them like police and lawyers. They settle some cases for the sake of proving their existence as a legal body. Anybody consults them as a last resort only in exceptional cases. Such a unit of government, which has no image of its own at all, from the perspective of ordinary Indians, who are being cheated and hurt every day, in many parts of India, for various reasons and in different ways, should remain as a dilapidated house only but should not assert its existence once a year or so in this manner. It is like a dead body. Corpses should not act or react. We cannot watch that poor drama.

3. We search for good vegetables from bad ones when we go to a grocery store. We want to marry good girls and boys. Everybody likes the concept of goodness. Ramesh also likes goodness. He wanted his wife to be good. To know whether she is good or bad, he resorted to DNA tests. I presume that Ramesh is not a psychopath but an educated Indian. Such folks only know about the existence and activities of units like CCMB. He wants a good wife and a good child. He thought that only DNA tests can help him in this respect. He has liberty to do so. His wife has also liberty to feel happier after checking those reports. CCMB seeks to test and prove truths scientifically. Even individuals like truths. CCMB must guide individuals also in that direction. CCMB is many times superior to HRC according to my basic knowledge about its activities. HRC folks are not eligible to comment against the scientists and other technicians representing CCMB. Truth is more powerful than imagination and guess. If HRC folks live based on imaginations and guesses about their greatness in the present society, CCMB feels proud of it considering what it is actually doing to the humanity at large. When many truths are being defaced and ruined in India, CCMB is trying to unearth and prove some bitter truths at least. The case of Ramesh also belongs to this sphere of human issues at large. CCMB can extend its services to anybody or anything in this world. It is a scientific body of rational thinkers but not an asylum of lethargic people like HRC.

4. I don’t believe in the characters of 90% folks that represent state and central governments, bureaucracy, judiciary and such other nominal bodies existing in India today because most of them are sinners and criminals. This is a perfect truth, which CCMB need not prove doing DNA tests in its labs. In this clumsy and unreliable scenario of dirty politics and nasty rulers everywhere, sensible and sensitive Indians like Ramesh cannot consult government or HRC before going for DNA tests because it is his personal life and he does not like to make it a public issue. I support the act of Ramesh and every such Indian. Every Indian must have courage and intelligence to understand, realize, feel and celebrate the existence and power of truth. The quest of Ramesh for truth is commendable. In case, his character is bad, his life partner and child too have moral authority to fight against him in every possible way, and know what the truth is. If we have a good character, let others know about it widely. If tests and proofs are required to establish and sustain a truth, let’s appreciate those mechanisms and standards. Sinners and criminals fear truths because they are living in lies. Idealists and visionaries go for any tests to any extent because they are the admirable challengers of contemporary world. Personally, I feel happier if somebody complains against me. It is an opportunity for me to prove what I am. CCMB is exploring the form and power of truths scientifically. All are cordially invited to utilize the services of these truth finders at CCMB. I don’t know about those scientists but I like them because they are working for truth.

5. When girls are being raped publicly, citizens of India are sleeping in their offices or houses. When wives are being forced to act as prostitutes, police are sleeping carelessly. When justice is not accessible and affordable for millions of ordinary Indians, the lawyers, judges and courts of law are remaining silent. When the people of India are being cheated and misguided every day, the shallow creatures of state and central governments are enjoying their lives neutrally. Is India safe today for anybody to live with a sense of pride and security? What is HRC doing in this scenario? When they have no time, interest and capability to discuss and resolve issues of this volume and magnitude, in many parts of India, who asked them to comment against Ramesh and CCMB in this manner. Lawyers and judges are worse than beggars and prostitutes in India. Beggars have self-respect. They go away observing your face. Prostitutes charge based on the sensual joy they are providing to their clients. Lawyers argue cases in favour of rapists and psychopaths also because they search for money on the dead bodies of rape victims also. Judges accept such cases also because they want to spend their valuable time in some manner. They have no concern for the law and justice meant for the right people but time to highlight the images and characters of nasty rogues of India. If you check the cases pending at various courts of India, about three crore cases, you realize that most of them are meant for helping and guiding the sinners and criminals but not for safeguarding the interests of good and helpless people of India. Lawyers want such clients, who can pay them a lot of money. They are living for money but not for dispensing justice to the right people. Ram Jethmalani is the boss of such cruel advocates in India. He struggles for fame arguing the most unwanted and unethical cases. The sinners of BJP, who project themselves as the custodians of Hinduism in India, promote such rogues also in their parties. In this dirty domain of Indian politics and judiciary, what is the image of HRCs in India? How are they authorized to comment against CCMB? Why are they bothered about the issue of Ramesh, his wife and child, when millions of other cases are dying in courts of law itself in India every day? Shall we celebrate the spirit and worth of HRCs in this scenario or shall we spit on their faces in public places?

6. As a citizen of India, I have moral authority to write anything about anybody in any manner because this is the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity, the fundamental characteristics of democracy. If others have objections against me, they are welcome to criticize me. If they are interested to admire me, they are free to do so also. Am I essentially a good or bad person? When I don’t remain as a good person only always, why should others admire me always? When I don’t think and behave like a bad person only always, why should others consider me as a bad person only always? Human nature is subject to change. Admiration encourages us to live better than now because our virtues endear us to others. Vice frightens us frequently because we know that one day others criticize or beat us publicly. Unfortunately, sinners and criminals are remaining in positions of authority in many parts of India now. They are not supporting and upholding the power of truth. It means an ordinary Indian does not like to go to a police station, court or other government agency, now, in search of truth and struggle for justice, but do something immediately to satisfy his hurt ego or ruined life. It means judiciary has been a big failure in India since independence. There VVPs and VVIPs only get respected and heard. Other cases remain on papers only because lawyers and judges like exciting and sensational cases but not ordinary ones affecting and ruining the lives of millions of Indians. I am living in such India. Ramesh is also living in the same India. Can he ask a police, lawyer or HRC idiot to prove whether his wife is pure or not? He cannot rely on human beings but machines and scientific approach. Science has no partiality. Ramesh went for it. HRC has no invitation to interfere in cases of this order. They must shut their mouths.

7. I often feel like hanging the folks of HRCs and human rights activists publicly as it happens in regions like United Arab Emirates. They sit comfortably in offices and homes and talk nonsense in public places now and then about safeguarding the rights of criminals also. Notorious rapists and killers also appear like great human beings for them. They argue for justice for them but not victims of such criminals in every part of India. Let’s safeguard the interests of sensitive and sensible people first. Let’s allow ordinary Indians to live sensibly and sensitively before that. I think HRCs are the supreme agencies in this massive struggle and journey towards humanity at large, according to the Government of India.

8. There is no law and order in India now. We cannot get justice from police, lawyers and judges. So, we are the best judges of our cases. Let’s resolve them. Let us do it intelligently and strategically. I mean beat or kill somebody publicly or secretly, in a way that does not present you like a criminal or sinner to others later. When you act like a great judge in delivering justice to yourself, immediately, you should not be caught by systems of governance, held and run by a bunch of criminals and sinners in India now. You should react fast, because you only know the intensity of pain and suffering you underwent because of a sin or crime committed towards you by one or many. If you tell others about it, they take it as a negligible case because millions of such cases are pending at hundreds of courts in India.

Police treat a rape victim like a prostitute if she goes to a police station after that incident to her.

The cases and news about VVIPs are being promoted like excellent matters by blokes of media in India. 

Our parents, siblings, friends and well-wishers pity us when we are in troubles but don’t resolve them.

Governments do almost nothing for sensitive and virtuous people of India in the present scenario.

We can get very few things done in India now without bribery, lobbying and recommendations.

Politicians are interested in matters related to acquisition of power and retention of it only, not people.

We may be hurt or attacked by anybody in any part of India because India became so over the years.

So,

You are responsible for your safety, security, present, future and justice desired by you immediately. 

November 18, 2012

LETTER TO R P SHAH



To

The Proprietor,
Sunshine International,
Khasra No. – 38, Plot No. 306,
Gali No. 3, Dabri Palam Road,
New Delhi – 110045.

From
Datla Chiranjeevi Raju,
Ground Floor, H. No. 33-4, Devi Nagar,
Payakaraopeta, Visakhapatnam District - 531 126.
Andhra Pradesh.


Dear Sir,

I saw an ad, given by you, in the Telugu daily Eenadu, a few weeks ago. I contacted Muskan over phone. She explained me the details of paper cup manufacturing process. I decided to buy a machine, make paper cups and make money for my survival.

I contacted Mr. Sudheer in Hyderabad and knew some details about this work.

I deposited 64,000 rupees into the current account of Sunshine International around 1 July, 2012. I paid 40,000 rupees towards partial cost of machine and 24,000 rupees towards security deposit for paper cup raw material. You took 10 days to make a machine for me worth 70,000 rupees. You booked my machine and a little raw material addressing me on 10 July, 2012, in New Delhi, at the office of Associated Road Carriers. I received this machine and material at the office of Associated Road Carriers, in Tuni, on 2 August, 2012.

Your trainer J Mukesh came to my rented portion of house in Payakaraopeta, in the morning hours, on 3 August, 2012. He checked the quality of my machine and did a few fitting acts to see that it is functioning for a while. He discovered that the 1 HP motor, in this machine, got damaged during road transport. He spent every minute hurriedly. He rushed to Rajahmundry that afternoon itself. I did not feel as if a trainer came from Delhi to train me on paper cup manufacturing process but Barack Obama from the United States of America. I paid 7,000 rupees to him as training fee based on the orders of Muskan. I did not know what he did for me worth this training fee.

I borrowed money from a private finance firm in Tuni pledging all the gold ornaments of my wife. Every month I have to pay 2100 rupees as interest for this money. I borrowed this money just depending on the promise of your business venture to invest in it. I did not think that you take that much time to send me the machine and you send such a trainer to teach me the process of paper cup manufacturing. I am suffering a lot considering the standards and values you are maintaining as an industrial unit in New Delhi. I am writing this letter to you to awaken you in many ways and let you know how a person like me suffers because of the shallow and unreliable business practices you are following now. Honesty is the best policy. I practice it in my life. I expect it from others.

1. Depositing Money in Bank Account

I deposited 64,000 rupees in your bank account without any proof or document from your end. I have to just believe that God is great and similarly Sunshine International also. Muskan gives me bank account details and that’s it. Don’t you think that it is one of the most outdated and old-fashioned methods of expecting money from your clients/new customers when they are interested in your business venture? You must send a formal letter/document/receipt at least specifying the details of payment and why you took it from a person. Why are you not doing it? Is it not a poor and bad business practice on your part?

2. Respect for Customers

I clearly typed my postal address in my email addressed to Muskan. She did not write even my address correctly on the consignment note of Associated Road Carriers or the envelope sent to me bearing this document through DTDC. She omitted my name altogether and just wrote down the name of C/o person. Is this the kind of communication and respect you have for your new customer, who desires to sustain his/her livelihood depending on your business venture? See that you write addresses correctly. Accurate communication is crucial for business.

3. Delay in Transport

I waited for 23 days to see my machine and material in Tuni. It means the vehicles of Associated Road Carriers took 22 days’ time to reach my machine to Tuni from New Delhi. You said that some annual fairs take place during this season, roads get blocked, vehicles stopped, during this time, in states like Uttar Pradesh, and so this unbearable delay in road transport. Why are you depending on Associated Road Carriers only? No Indian Railways or any other road transport medium, which promises you better/faster delivery, even in times like this? I felt very much frustrated and disappointed for depositing money in your account. Once I deposited money, I am in your hands. This is how you think and millions of Indians are thinking now. This is not fair business practice.

4. Negligence in Sending Raw Material

I clearly emailed to Muskan to send me raw material necessary for making one lakh paper cups. I received 1000 sheets of paper only along with machine. I can make 24,000 cups using these sheets of paper, if each of these is in a good condition. I found that about 15 sheets of them are partly damaged. Muskan asked me to send them back when I send my finished goods. You commit a mistake and you want to put that related burden on your esteemed customers. Is this a good business principle! Can you accept if I do like this when sending finished goods?

5. Trainer Fee

J Mukesh spent every minute, in my presence, hurriedly. I did not understand whether he came from New Delhi to Tuni (travelling about 3000 kilometres) to teach me everything related to paper cup manufacturing or just to rush away teaching a few things formally. Are you treating your customers like me like a beggar? A beggar treats his master like a God but God does not treat the beggar similarly. Gods don’t have much time to spend with beggars. You asked me to pay 7,000 rupees to this trainer. I wondered questioning myself “Why am I paying 7,000 rupees to him? What did he do for me? Has he come from the USA to train me or from India only?” Since you are in a higher position now, as an industrial unit, wherefrom you can issue orders to your clients/customers, I noiselessly paid 7,000 rupees to him. You are my master. I am your slave/servant. Servants should not question their masters.

6. Raw Material Processing (Sheet Cutting, Packing and Transport)

You are sending big sheets of paper. I have to cut each of these sheets into 24 pieces to make 24 paper cups from it. Every piece is a very valuable item for me because I am craving to earn 25 paise from each cup. How should I cut these many sheets into so many pieces to make paper cups? I should ask my wife to cut them into pieces, spending 24 hours a day, or beg a binder or printing machine holder to do it for me spending a lot of money and time on that factor. Your trainer or you are telling nothing on how to cut these sheets of paper into suitable pieces? You are leaving this crucial matter to the lot of your poor and helpless customers. You want finished goods. How should I pack them? Which boxes should I use to pack them? From which source should I get/buy those containers/cardboard boxes? What must be the sizes of these boxes? How many pieces should I pack in each box? To which address should I send them? Through which transport system should I send them? How and when do you pay money for these finished goods sent by me? Is there any system to address and monitor these things from your end? You left sheet cutting, packing and transport to your address like a big issue to all your customers. You don’t know how many problems they face every day to resolve these issues? How can a villager solve these problems? Most of the poor and helpless people are in villages and small towns now in India being unable to go anywhere and do anything to make a living? How can they benefit from your business venture? Can’t you find a solution to resolve these issues faced by your customers across places?

7. Supply of Raw Material

I asked Muskan, by email and over phone, to send me raw material necessary for making one lakh cups, along with machine but she did not do it. If I make 12,000 paper cups, working for eight hours, on your machine, how many paper cups can I make in a week’s time? What should I do when there is no enough raw material with me? Should I sit idly in my home dreaming about Muskan sending me raw material after a few weeks? You think your customers like me are millionaires and billionaires, who work for five days and rest for 25 days until your raw material arrives as per your standards. Poor, helpless, hopeless and frustrated Indians only resort to paper cup manufacturing business after collapsing in their personal/financial lives in many ways. Every day and every paisa they earn from your business option is very important for them. In this context, why are you playing with lives of desperate people like me? When I deposited 64,000 rupees into your bank account, without any proofs about your standards and values as a reliable business unit, why can’t you send raw material for two lakh paper cups without asking me to deposit more money for that also? You think we escape to the USA or the UK using the money we earn from your business, making a few thousand cups? I cannot deposit more money to make you send me more raw material because I am poor and helpless and for that reason only I chose your business. I want to make more and more paper cups, every day, amid chasing power cuts in our corrupt state, using the adequate raw material generously sent by you. I am not doing this business to cheat you. Fraudsters and criminals don’t choose the business option of paper cup manufacturing but politics, films and games. If some fellow decided to work with you means, he wants to live honestly and ideally through hard work, every day and night. I am one of such Indians. Why did Muskan refuse to send me raw material for two lakh cups without more deposit of money for that?  Why did not you send me raw material even for one lakh cups? How many days should I wait to earn a little money through your business venture? I am helpless, hopeless and sad, and that’s why I decided to work with you. You must be ideal when talking and dealing with helpless folks like me. If I have ability to deposit thousands of rupees in your account, whenever you ask, why should I do this poor business? Understand poor and helpless people better to do good business with them. If you fail to be kind and generous towards poor and helpless Indians like me, there is no purpose to your business venture or meaning to your mortal existence on this earth. Humanity means sympathy for good people. Only right people get into businesses like paper cup manufacturing. Only good people consider 25 paisa for one cup considerable income to live on their own. Let good Indians retain their hope for tomorrow.

8. Lack of Guidelines and Formats

At Sunshine International, the staff at higher positions, including its proprietor, must understand and answer the following questions and doubts, personally and professionally, which are felt by every client, while doing business with you. You can earn money doing business any way but the best businessman is one, who understands and serves one’s customers thinking from their perspectives. I want Sunshine International to be the best employer/business unit/entrepreneur. I have the following suggestions/comments in this regard.

1. Can’t we make a website/brochure/CD informing and explaining everything we do at Sunshine International as a business unit? It must speak everything about Sunshine International clearly and proudly? What else can we do to achieve this goal, which many small firms are also doing now?

2. Why should any new customer deposit money into our current bank account just depending on our words? Can’t we prepare a format of documentation/formal letter to address this point of concern better? How can others trust that we are a reliable and admirable firm, with a great track record, without some proofs in this regard?

3. How can we ensure that our consignments reach our present and past clients without much delay? Should we consider Indian Railways/highly reliable road carriers/any other medium? If days and days get wasted in transport itself and some goods are damaged in this process only, why should our clients be happy and satisfactory with our services in this regard? Are we using great material in our machinery or just fooling our clients thinking that they don’t know the real worth of these machines in open market? We should change our thinking in this direction!

4. Can’t we make a tool/set of tools to cut sheets of paper into different sizes minding the problems of our clients? Much of their time and energy get wasted in cutting sheets of paper only if we leave this stage of processing to their innocence and helplessness only. Printing presses/binding shops/individuals demand a lot of money from our poor clients if we leave paper cutting to their imagination only!

5. Can we make highly durable and dependable boxes/other material to help our clients? We should send raw material to them in time without damage and they must be able to send finished goods in the same fashion to us utilizing this material/tools/mechanism/means made/arranged by us. What should we do in this regard?

6. Why should we be scared to send adequate raw material to all those of our clients, who want it, based on their urgent and regular requirements. If somebody, living in distant places from New Delhi, chose to make paper cups for us, expecting 25 paisa for each cup, leaving all other similar business ventures in their regions in different states, it means that he/she is really innocent and helpless. They cannot sell/market our machines/paper cups in their regions without sending us. Then why expecting lots of deposits to send them enough raw material?

7.  Do we have a database with the contact details and addresses of every client we are dealing with? We must be able to understand everything, going on at Sunshine International, at any given point of time, without depending on others in this firm or our clients. Accurate and easily accessible information and reliable communication are great assets of a firm. What can we do to enhance our image in this regard from every point of view?

8. What can we do to streamline every process at Sunshine International? Raw material, packing, dispatch, receipt of finished goods, instant payments to clients, reliable business principles and practices…There is so much to think and act upon. Businesses thrive through planning, idealism and vision. We should help and guide others ideally. What can we do to achieve this larger goal every day? Let’s assemble our staff and bring a lot of change in.

About Me

I earlier worked as a language editor and content writer with four firms in Hyderabad for about four years. I did not find that life satisfactory and interesting because I did not get time to feel and enjoy my personal life. I wanted to go away from all those pains and burdens of city life as an employee associated with a business firm. I wanted to live doing something near my home, being close to my parents, siblings, friends and well-wishers. I returned to my hometown. I thought a lot. I decided to make paper cups to live honestly and ideally.

Essentially I am a writer, dreamer and thinker. I write personal diaries and post them online. To understand me as a writer and dreamer, you can visit my blog sites virahini.blogspot.in and dcraju.blogspot.in

I write when I feel the need of it strongly. I knew, from J Mukesh, that Sunshine International has a big industrial unit in New Delhi, where about 100 people work every day on different machines and tools. I wondered when I knew from him that there are about 100 machines of Sunshine International in different places of India. It means Sunshine International is not a small firm with a little board by the side of a road. When such many people are working in it, why are its people and processes are little known to its clients and customers also? Even worthless blokes are doing a lot now through their websites, brochures, business cards, presentations and other sources to let others understand who they are and what they are doing. Then, why not anything, of this order, happening on behalf of Sunshine International? These doubts and questions and related disappointment, caused to me, because of your thoughtless and unreliable business practices, made me write this letter to you. I can be happy and satisfied as your client only when you understand my concerns and fears. As a writer and dreamer, it is my moral responsibility to make my fellow Indians understand others better. Attached my CV for your careful glance!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

(Datla Chiranjeevi Raju)
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I wrote this letter on 4 August, 2012, and posted to the address of Sunshine International, for R P Shah. 

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