Organ Transplantation Act - Euthanasia

Organ Transplantation Act (OTA) , People can donate their organs only after their natural death or after their brain dead. But this law came under serious pressure because of "Venkatesh" incident at AP last december, Where he wants to donate his organs before his imminent death. He is a patient of "Muscluar Dystrophia". Its symptoms being paralysis of the organs which starts from the toe and propagate upwards. So as anyways he is going to die.. he wants to donate his other organs which are not being infected.. His and the people who supporting Organ donation in these cases mainly based a) There are a lot of people who are in need of Organs. b) There is no possiblity of the patient being survived using modern medicine, and no possiblity of discovering one. c) It would be better for the victim to die rather than suffer of these diseases. But High Court turned down his petition by saying it is tantamount to suicide and can not be made as a law as the consequences being undesirable. But it suggests that each such case should be verified and approved by a group of doctors and specialists before granting the right of killing himself and donating his/her organs.

My Ramblings about Project and GOA

Hi !! I have done with the Mid-term project presentations just now. Two days and nights , We are successfully done with the Project work. Learnt a lot of new technical things in the past two days. One of them is Latex.. Infact it is one of the effective softwares in Linux in competing with MSoft. Three more hectic months, I will be done with M.Tech, Computer Science at IIT Delhi. Looking forward for the releasing day. Hey ,here is some of my observations about GOA .. Anti-Defection Law : I thought after enacting this, Things would be brighter and stable in the political situation of India. But I got dis-illusioned after the following incidents. Ist , Governer dismissed the BJP Govt after CM proved his majority. :-) . 2nd, Congress able to make one of the BJP MLAs resign ( Who knows how much money interchanged between parties ? How will they are going to earn it back ?? Who will pay for the expenses for the by-election?) 3rd, Where is the punitive punishment for that MLA ?? (Is getting Minsitry a punishment in India ?? )

I have few thoughts how we can make corrections to the situations prevailing. Governers should have no political connections in the past.. And there should be some judicial authority and control over their decisions.. (such as this , But things will become slow).. And for Defections of this sort, Life term ban from politics should be imposed ( is it to harsh ?? No, look at how many people he is betraying by looking for his selfish motives.). And he has to pay for all the expenses of the by-election.

I hope we need to educate people about these things.. But are our Young Indians in a position to observe and respond to these acts of selfishness?? or They themselves making money by working for companies ?? Lets hope and wish for the better things to come. But definitely, Things are moving for the better. Because things can not become any worser than this .. :-) -------- Sitha

India refuses foreign aid for Tsunami relief

I have been wondering from long about the denial of foreign aids for Tsunami relief in India. Here I have found a decent explanation in support of India's decision. Embassy Row: 'Pragmatic decision'

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

India rejected foreign aid to help with the tsunami disaster because its own relief agencies were capable of rescuing, feeding and clothing the victims, said Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen. Mr. Sen said his government had made a "pragmatic decision" based on past experience with natural disasters. However, the decision met with international criticism. "There was initial incomprehension and even righteous indignation about what was perceived to be an arrogant and insensitive decision by our government to decline intergovernmental or international assistance in coping with the immediate aftermath of the natural disaster," the ambassador wrote in the Indian Embassy's "India Review" magazine. The Indian government's past experiences with natural disasters had showed that "around 90 to 95 percent of relief and rehabilitation work ... was carried out with Indian expertise and resources," he said. India has been overwhelmed in the past with foreign relief donations that officials could not distribute. Indian citizens also contributed generously to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund, raising $120 million in three weeks. Mr. Sen added that India wanted to avoid being overrun by foreign relief workers, especially in the hard-hit Nicobar Islands, home to an ancient tribal people. We did not want well-meaning foreign or Indian [nongovernmental organizations] to rush to the Nicobar Islands, which are home to declining and vulnerable tribes whose ways of life have remained unchanged for centuries and millennia, and for whom such humanitarian intrusions could possibly be as traumatic as the tsunami itself," Mr. Sen said. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did agree last month to accept some financial assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. India, which lost about 16,000 people to the Dec. 26 tidal wave that ravaged the coasts of a dozen countries, believed that other nations needed more help."We remain convinced that the immediate needs of our neighbors, particularly Indonesia and Sri Lanka, were greater than ours," the ambassador said. While dealing with its own disaster, India dispatched assistance to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Fourteen Indian naval vessels and 1,700 Indian relief workers "maintained a continuous flow of assistance to these countries," he said. "I know of no precedent of a country that, while coping on its own with a massive natural disaster, has extended timely and significant assistance to its neighboring countries," Mr. Sen said.