Subtle Musings..

“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.” – William Wordsworth - Daffodils



You are the daffodil to my heart
A thing of beauty that brings me always gay
I want to remove the differences between us
That are moving our hearts apart

When thoughts go wrong, and feelings get sunk
Tears flow along and the eyes seem drunk
An Ode to the heart never seemed to be fair
And the mind was lost in despair.

Those eyes which are full of life,
Eyes which can never betray
Like the bright of fire or the soothe of the lake
They are the abode that a man loves to stay

An inner voice said, what happened to you,
You were always so happy, so full of gay
Smile on the façade always was so true
But the truth behind it looks a mile away.

Innocence in the smile, as pretty as a child
Warmth that would never cease
Like the early sun or the humid earth
Like the cozy tunnel and winter morning breeze

Soft were the tears as I thought in gaze
It was never me, my voice replied
Mind felt inside like a barbwire maze
The pain was still fresh though long ago it died.

Cordial and tender as the petal of the flower
You occur to man as a bottle of wine,
A Privilege when cool and a fiery aftermath
Exotic as the beach and the candle light dine.

Love can happen in an easy span
No one predicted where the aftermath lead
It can rip off the soul of a man
Leaving on a path with no road ahead.

Why is it me ?, the voice asked
As the past slowly faded along
Autumn always followed with spring
But the voice sang the same song

The song which said nothing special
Nothing but love all around
It sang of the mirth that felt so warm
The mirth which was lost and never found

- Snehith Allamraju.

'Law't to ponder over..

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) U.S. writer of detective fiction.
My blog’s new theme is reminiscent of my opinion about the judicial system in India, Blank and White. I have been yearning to write about this topic which I feel has always troubled, after puzzling me. This is supposed to be a voice for my opinions on the legal system in India, the people and a few cases which I’ve noticed in the recent past. I google for the exact meaning of three terms which are interweaved into one another , and I find these.
Law : 1.the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
Judiciary :
1. the judicial branch of government.
2. the system of courts of justice in a country.

Court :
a. A person or body of persons whose task is to hear and submit a decision on cases at law.
b. The building, hall, or room in which such cases are heard and determined.
c. The regular session of a judicial assembly.
Indian legal system has a single judiciary with three divisions, the district courts, the high court and the Supreme Court, the last one being at the helm and having the powers of the apex court. The ‘Sovereign Democratic Republic’ we are, as per the preamble of the constitution, it called for a need to align the judicial system into a bouquet of courts so as to ensure justice at any step of the hearing of a case. Though we have a federal system and existence of Central Acts and State Acts in their respective spheres, the constitution had generally provided for a single integrated system of Courts to administer both Union and State laws. Laws are again of various types such as criminal, administrative, constitutional, labour, marriage, property, cyber and more recently corporate. Let me not go into the details of them, but my area of concern is more towards the criminal laws and cases related to them.
The ‘system’ in India, as it is popularly known as, has off late been known for its ‘pro-politician’ nature and ‘anti-common man’ mentality. Siddharth in RDB says, “Yahan pe kuch bhi nahin badalne wala hai “. Such is the confidence of the common man in the Indian judicial system is that, courts are now a days known to be tangled and the verdicts given in major cases are almost always questioned in the higher court, or are influenced by men in power and money in their purses. Here are a few cases in the recent past that have been notable for their introduction of the phenomenon of “Trial by Media” in India.

Nitish Katara
Priyadarshini Mattoo
Jessica Lall
Arushi Talwar