The Big Bad World

Yesterday I went out with my friends to have dinner at a restaurant in Gurgaon. As usual we were chatting away to glory, however, we couldn’t help but overhear a couple in their mid 30’s sitting next to us. What initially sounded like any other business talk soon got to down to some really……I would say strange kind of talk and coming from a woman who looked like she came from a ‘good family’. She was talking about using her ‘charm’ to get some business deal and when the guy interrupted her saying that she might not get it……that’s when the wild side came out and she said wo to kya uska b@*p bhi karega’.

After they finished their dinner, we having exhausted all the possible topics for discussion during dinner, couldn’t help but talk about that couple and then finally our discussion got down to the usual ‘why do the bad boys get the women’ / why do women like bad boys / why is it that the selfish are successful these days.

During our discussion I was thinking that is it real that movies like ‘Page 3’ (after which I had started hating the world….J), Dil Dosti, Corporate etc showcase the real world and that we just choose to shun it as not true.

I was just sitting at home and thought that why not post this on my blog which has not been 'blogged' for a very long time.

Guys please share some thoughts if you have also had the same feeling sometimes….I am sure all of us have had these kind of thoughts at some point in time.

Budget 2009-2010

Today at 11 am, pranab mukherjee presented the budget for FY 2009-10. In the budget, he has proposed to levy a service tax on the legal consultancy services provided by the commercial bodies (law firms) to other commercial bodies (companies etc). Thank fully, the services provided by the individual practicing lawyers to other individual litigants have been spared.

I being a lawyer, strongly believe that the tax on this noble profession is highly unjustified. In his speech, the Hon'ble Finance Minister mockingly stated that he differed in opinion on this with the previous FM (chidu, a lawyer himself). Chidu had abstained from imposing a service tax on this service as he believed that the services of a lawyer are not exactly 'services' per se. I would stand by chidu on this. Chidu understands that this profession is not exactly a commercial profession. Lawyers are the guardians of justice and assist people (whether individuals or commercial bodies) in fighting for their rights and against any injustice that may be done to them from the State.