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Lawyers In India: Can't you take a more active role?
21st March 1999 B.G. Mahesh @hotmail.com
Netters Just a thought..why aren't lawyers in India taking more active role in improving things in the country. For e.g. in the next few years we are bound to see NUMBER of people having SERIOUS health problems because of pollution. In US, lawyers WAIT for a chance to sue others. Sounds bad, I know that but sometimes I think it is GOOD. Is it feasible to sue the local govt for pollution? We may NOT win but we will be causing these patriotic-politicians a lot GRIEF. Why are we not FIGHTING for a better life? We deserve better, isn't it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B.G. Mahesh | http://www.mahesh.com/ Internet Consultant | http://www.careerindia.com/ Email: [email protected] |
22nd March 1999
Srinath Srinivasa @usa.net
B.G.Mahesh wrote: > Why are we not FIGHTING for a better life? We deserve better, isn't > it? I don't know Mahesh, whether we should be "fighting" for a better life. I would rather that we should be "working" for a better life. What would you see as an outcome of suing the government for pollution? I only see some outrageous laws being enforced like having all vehicles to be fitted with non-leaded engines immediately, or every vehicle to be required to pass a pollution test (which you could buy, of course). Why are we suing the "government" for pollution? The government isn't polluting any more than we-- the people-- pollute. We cry at the top of our lungs for privatization and being bereft of governmental interference when it comes to export and import. Why then, do we want everything to be managed by government when it comes to internal affairs? Why don't private orgainzations/companies take more initiative in issues like waste management, pollution, infrastructure, etc? Simply because they pay less than exporting our brains? We seem to have too much of a protest mentality-- it seems like for whatever problem we have, we are trying to find an adversary, protest and demand and cry out loud until they make reassuring noises, and then both of us forget about it. We need action, not protest. We need less of these tension-creating things like protest and more of civilized approaches like addressing the problems through research and technology and collaboration. -srinath
