Spoilt brat. Bad boy Bandraite. Rich kid. Alistair Pereira, sentenced to six months imprisonment for rash driving in the Carter Road case, is being hung out to dry in a trial by public opinion. Never mind that the public in... Read The Article
Seriously? Am i reading this? They were sleeping on the goddamned pavement! not on the road... you NEVER have the right to drive on the pavement i am sure... unless rules have changes since i left the country?! I appreciate trying to put forward the problem of migrant labourers, homeless, etc but NOT THIS WAY! Are you still with CNN-IBN? Hello??
( Posted: Tuesday , November 27, 2007 at 12:28 )
Rahul
Is this a reflection on the immaturity of the author or the sign of how jaded some people have become? Since when did human life become less important than obeying traffic rules? And if we're talking about rules, yes, the labourers shouldn't have been sleeping on the road/pavement, but then Alistair also shouldn't have been driving in a drunken state. Raksha, this is a tough question so think carefully: If there are people (sleeping or otherwise) on the road, would you run them over or simply manouver past them? Your views in this blog seem to indicate the former, so watch out Mumbaikars, there's another Alistair on the loose!
( Posted: Tuesday , May 08, 2007 at 11:58 )
manzhi
Just to follow your mechanical logic . Sexual organs are meant for sex, be it with anyone. so if some one does some sex with a girl with force in short rape..its fine as those things are meant for it. And for applying the force you can put anybody in jail just for a week ,one more week wont hurt. if you agree , I wont mind spending two weeks after meeting you..:) ....It seems you got pregent from some devil or may be its advocate :)
( Posted: Thursday , May 03, 2007 at 00:37 )
Ekta Saran
People who live in a bubble fascinate me. As you emerged from it you must have stumbled upon the Alistair case. How is it that justice would have been served in your little bubble world?
And pray tell me dear Raksha Shetty, if God forbid, any of those people lying on the pavement were related to you, would your blog have sung a different tune?
PS: The last time I checked good reporters don't write petty blogs.
I wish you well in your life where people sleep in actual beds and drive on 'beautiful' roads.
( Posted: Thursday , April 26, 2007 at 01:38 )
Kushal
Hey get your basics right....!!!!!!!!!
( Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 12:51 )
Nainar
Hmm!! There are laws to decide what is due for what. I dont understand who are we to judge whether Pereira got his due or not.
But I dont understand the logic of this argument that a car can go over the pavement! Pavements are for people to walk, sit if need be. How can a car run over a pavement when the driver knows that the pavements will obviously have people? Sitting or sleeping is immaterial. Pavements will contain people and any driver who rams his car into the pavement has the intent to hurt those people. If it is a mechanical failure then it is different story. But when a drunken driver rams into the pavement, the intent is to hurt people, unless otherwise the person can prove it otherwise. What if the driver goes and kills the people who are jogging in the pavement? How is it different that these people were sleeping?
( Posted: Tuesday , April 24, 2007 at 11:04 )
Gaurav
This is a great blog..streets are for cars,pavement is for walking..street labours sleeping on the street,,their fault..great that they got their due..After all they not doing the right thing..sleeping of the road..na na very wrong...so what if they lost their lives in the process..so what there dependents are not quite homeless and GOD knows only where now... This Guy Pariera deserved only this 6 months sentences...Despite the fact that the investigation seems to be mired with carelessness..and large amount of money seems to have exchanged hands for the way facts are presented .Above all we have ppl like the one posting the blog..who find total responsiblity with the system(contracter and all) and almost nothing with parira. Pariera almost cuts a pathetic figure..like a pure innocent who has been falsely brandished by the media. Ya..parera is not a criminal..there is no criminal intent involved. But please ponder on this fact his mere carelessness has caused some people there lives. And as far as I know..that cannnot be taken lightly.... Okay we may totally blame the Goverement. but all the privelaged educated ppl like us..please do remeber, in this country with 80/% ppl below poverty line..one has to show more responsibi and humility. If Pariera had slammed his car in some showroom..and this was the opinion.then this sentiment would be understandable..but here a LIFE has gone man..please consider this...I respect the bloggers right to opnion but am personaly very disappointed with this kind of attitude from an educated person!!.
( Posted: Monday , April 23, 2007 at 15:00 )
Sanjeev
its a good thought ..... Roads are meant to drive , pavements to walk , where does on come along that you can drink and drive and get on the pavement killing people ..... ridiculous thoughts of the writer , its only maturity which is projecting here and what lifes means to her .... life shud nt be judged on where u sleep ... its the life they have got and they r trying to cope with the same , respect the same instead of writing such crazy and un imaginable thoughts just because its a blog
( Posted: Tuesday , April 17, 2007 at 17:36 )
Abhishek Sharma
I appreciate your putting things in perspective. Yes, homeless laboreres are dead, but they were not supposed to sleep on the road. What the hell were they thinking? Why would anybody sleep on the road and get killed? Shouldn't this case be projected as the ever widening divide in the economic status of this country? I am no communist, but why dopes someone moves hundreds of kilometers away from the land he belongs to work in Mumbai? The reason is not just the individual divides, but also in divide between the states. Why does biharis risk their life and work in Assam? Why in mumbai, a city which disowns them? Where is the Bihari pride? The ideology? An empty stomach burns! And it hurts! And we will have more of such cases, as long as the employement is not generated in the areas overtly populated and deficient in resources, the poor will use the roads as bed, and end up using them as death beds! Leave aside teh SEZsand reservations, talk about the disparity in per capita income, education, health of the sates in the west and the staets in the east. You would know why Alistair had people on the road to drive on!
( Posted: Tuesday , April 17, 2007 at 13:22 )
sam
True rightly said.. for if you would hold your thoughts true when one of your own is dragged along wheels of "rich". Sad ..though its true.. life of a poor man .. is really cheap ...at times i feel ashamed to have indians like salmans..alistairs..nandas (oh.. am sorry he was acquaitted by court.. my mistake..apologies..it was a truck and not car..)
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