Doyen of Labour Laws and Eminent Lawyer HL Kumar Passes Away

 A well-known lawyer of labour laws in Delhi H L Kumar is no more.   He was courteous to the core and enjoyed a good reputation across the country. Not only employers and their organisations but also employees, trade unions of all hues and colours, government officials and judges used to take advice and benefit from his knowledge and experiences. He was more known as Kumar Saheb to all his friends and acquaintances. He silently passed away on 24^th October leaving hundreds of admirers and colleagues to mourn his death. He was in his late eighties and was an Ajatshatru, a friend of all and foe of none. Soft-spoken and quite amiable with everybody, Kumar Saheb was always ready to help others in every possible manner. He showed no signs of any illness, except age-related weaknesses, and was found to be engrossed in works to the fag-end of his life.

Kumar Saheb used to be nostalgic about Lahore (now in Pakistan) where he was born, spent his childhood and had his initial education. After partition, he moved over to India under the tutelage of his parents, who owned a hotel in Shimla. However, he did not opt to become a hotelier or a businessman but chose to pursue lawyering. For more than sixty years he has been in the profession and must have trained scores of lawyers. Apart from being an accomplished advocate, an excellent Samaritan, and a lovely human being, he was a good journalist, an expert law teacher, a writer of nearly fifty stand books and the founder-editor of the prestigious Labour Law Reporter (LLR) for over half a century.  Yours truly has also been closely associated with this journal for more than thirty years. Kumar Saheb possessed mines of information and was blessed with sharp memory. He knew Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi besides having excellent command over English, the language of his education and profession. I requested him to write his memoirs but alas! the writer of dozens of books could not fulfil it for the benefit of the posterity.

I was introduced to Kumar Saheb by an intrepid and courageous trade union leader T M Nagarajan, who was opposed even by two-penny editors and journalists besides newspaper proprietors. He had seen that a journalist, who used to claim to be associated with a journalists' trade union body, was closer to the Management of his newspaper than to the employee’s union. Kumar Saheb has been having an uncanny sense of recognising such black sheep and always kept them at arm’s length.

Kumar Saheb knew sections of different acts and relevant case laws by heart. He used to say that Employers must be well conversant with and advise their HR managers to implement them properly for a harmonious and congenial atmosphere in the organisation. His golden advice to the employers was that they should not ride roughshod over employees. He was associated with a number of educational institutions, industrial houses and hospitals as a legal adviser. Shri Kumar was a man of simple living and high thinking. As a Guest Faculty of labour laws at Delhi University, he was immensely popular among the students. Many of his students became judges of the High Courts, the Supreme Court and the presiding officers of various Tribunals.

He is survived by his wife, who retired as a professor in Philosophy from Daulat Ram College of Delhi University. His only son Gaurav Kumar is a lawyer, and a talented grandson Yajat Kumar is a lawyer in the making. The daughter is a medico and happily married. May God give eternal peace to his soul!

 

Not even a word of truth is found in what terrorists say

By Parmanand Pandey

Now the reports suggest that Hamas terrorists were responsible for the ghastly attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital situated in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is the original sinner of starting and escalating the war in West Asia. It was guilty of killing hundreds of innocent people in Israel. Some 300 people died when they were busy enjoying the dance party. Israel immediately started retaliatory attacks. There has hardly been any resistance from Hamas once Israel swung into action. Then a psychological warfare was launched that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah would also join Hamas against Israel, which would not be able to bear the two-pronged attacks.

More than a fortnight has passed, and Israeli forces have been pounding on Hamas to decimate the terrorists, but it will take some time to completely exterminate them. The frustrated Hamas then attacked the hospital blaming Israel for its bombing. Now the video footage shows that Hamas misfired on the hospital by its cheap missiles. Israel has claimed to have done precision bombing in the car parking area which made craters.

In the war time blame game is very common. Enemies blame one another. By horrendous bombings in Israel, Hamas was under the impression that it had won the war as Israel would not be able to rise from the wounds that had been inflicted on her but Hamas got the shock of the life within no time.

Terrorists all over the world take recourse to obfuscating their opinions. Immediately after the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital, the Hamas started blaming Israel is committing against humanity by bombing the hospital. Surprisingly, the echo system of Muslim Jihadists joined them in spreading the lies. In fact, terrorists speak only lies and not an iota of truth found in what they say.

India has been the worst sufferer of the lies of the terrorists. When they
attacked Mumbai in November 2008, the Pakistan-sponsored terrorists knew that they would be killed by the Indian security forces in a counter-offensive, so many of them wore sacred thread on their wrists. They thought that when their dead bodies were brought for identification, they would be thought of as not Islami Jihadis but as Hindus. But one of them was caught alive and he vomited the truth that it was a machination to confuse the people and security forces of India. It has given a lesson to all that whatever terrorists say should be taken with a pinch (rather than a shovel) of salt.

There is hardly any doubt that the forces of Israel will break the bones of Hamas and they will not be able to raise themselves for many years to come regardless of the aid and assistance they get from Türkiye, Qatar, Iran or Pakistan. This time not even all Muslim countries are in unison to support Hamas.

Surprisingly, Iran is a Shia country, which has been at loggerheads with Sunnis, which is represented by Qatar, Pakistan and Türkiye. Pakistan is a bankrupt country, so no help can be expected from them. So much so, even Saudi Arabia, which is kike the head priest of the Islamic has also not fully supported the Hamas.

However, what has been shocking is that the terrorists of Hamas are getting support from some of the Indian political parties. They think that by supporting Hamas they would be able to get the support and garner the votes of Muslims. There is no denying that a large chunk of Muslims think that they must oppose any and everything that Prime Minister Modi says forgetting that they must also use their common sense and oppose terrorism of all forms and manifestations. Any support for any type of terrorism is bound to boomerang.

All the governments of the world must try to bring about the peace in the West Asia. Enough lives have been lost. People are dying of water and hunger. In fact, without restoring the peace the problems cannot be solved. Therefore, it will be in the fitness of the things that peace must be restored at any cost.