Santa, only one gift in my Christmas stockings – ‘Make me stronger and healthier, ’cos I am scared of ghosts in Gurgaon, there's the biggest ghost;-) It's too cold also, I am falling sick everyday’ :-(
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Santa's coming!
Santa, only one gift in my Christmas stockings – ‘Make me stronger and healthier, ’cos I am scared of ghosts in Gurgaon, there's the biggest ghost;-) It's too cold also, I am falling sick everyday’ :-(
Monday, December 8, 2008
Another Afzal Guru in the making?
I don’t know, I am only assuming considering the liberal country we live in. The reference is Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasav, the lone terrorist alive among the 10 involved in the recent Mumbai attacks who is now in police custody.
But Kasav is no less than a celebrity today – in last two weeks, we already know that the 21-year-old years for mutton and Big B films! He washes his own clothes (someday he may say he is inspired of Gandhiji) He also revealed his wish to live, and see his mother. In short he wants “forgiveness” which he assumed won’t be that difficult.
If we can happily watch Monica Bedi, ex wife of underworld don Abu Salem - a prime accused in ’93 blasts in Mumbai. If we can forgive Sanju baba for the same – and for choosing ‘Gandhigiri’ over ‘Gun’dhigiri – at least on screens. If we can overlook Dawood Ibrahim, who apparently is sitting pretty in Karachi – why won’t we forgive Kasav? After all, we have human rights organizations that are capable of questioning and defying the court of law on lack of evidence against Kasav – like we are doing with Afzal Guru or others involved in the Parliament attack. Our eminent human rights activists, social workers may demand govt to provide Kasav with mutton once daily, if not twice.... After all they have problems with army jawans getting 24 eggs in their breakfast.
Never the less, I see Kasav becoming a superhero in no time – so what if he had killed many innocents, so what he had killed at least a half-dozen fine police and security men, so what if we have lost around Rs 4000 cr during the attacks and much more as its reparations. So what if tourism revenue fell by at least 40% due to the attacks. So what if they have raped our country, and placed it on the chart of “one of the most insecure countries in the world…” This is incredible India, we let them rape, murder, ransack, loot our country and then we forgive them – because we’ve human rights to protect.
Or we let a 'toothless' US agent like Condoleezza Rice to speak on behalf of India -As she shouts, in vain "Pakistan must act fast, or US will." We believe her;-)
But Kasav is no less than a celebrity today – in last two weeks, we already know that the 21-year-old years for mutton and Big B films! He washes his own clothes (someday he may say he is inspired of Gandhiji) He also revealed his wish to live, and see his mother. In short he wants “forgiveness” which he assumed won’t be that difficult.
If we can happily watch Monica Bedi, ex wife of underworld don Abu Salem - a prime accused in ’93 blasts in Mumbai. If we can forgive Sanju baba for the same – and for choosing ‘Gandhigiri’ over ‘Gun’dhigiri – at least on screens. If we can overlook Dawood Ibrahim, who apparently is sitting pretty in Karachi – why won’t we forgive Kasav? After all, we have human rights organizations that are capable of questioning and defying the court of law on lack of evidence against Kasav – like we are doing with Afzal Guru or others involved in the Parliament attack. Our eminent human rights activists, social workers may demand govt to provide Kasav with mutton once daily, if not twice.... After all they have problems with army jawans getting 24 eggs in their breakfast.
Never the less, I see Kasav becoming a superhero in no time – so what if he had killed many innocents, so what he had killed at least a half-dozen fine police and security men, so what if we have lost around Rs 4000 cr during the attacks and much more as its reparations. So what if tourism revenue fell by at least 40% due to the attacks. So what if they have raped our country, and placed it on the chart of “one of the most insecure countries in the world…” This is incredible India, we let them rape, murder, ransack, loot our country and then we forgive them – because we’ve human rights to protect.
Or we let a 'toothless' US agent like Condoleezza Rice to speak on behalf of India -As she shouts, in vain "Pakistan must act fast, or US will." We believe her;-)
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
US's 9/11, India's 26/11: All a fake?
A Pak news channel airs the same!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYlaF5_q1Y&feature=related
This footage from a Pakistani news channel, 24 hours post Mumbai attacks – questioning India’s ability to counter terrorism, questioning Indian security forces and defending themselves, in vain.
They have also misquoted former Indian law minister, through video picked from a random source. The channel’s anchor says “the former minister has declined Pak’s involvement in the recent attacks”. But a careful transcription of his voiceover has a different interpretation: The terrorists are uniting the whole world against Islamist countries by carrying out such attacks – because they create hostility between Islamic and non-Islamic nations. Since the non-Islamic countries have the Nuke-power, such terror activities might work against them and force the non-Islamic nations to use Nuclear weapons against the Islamic nations.
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Eij5o7XizIA
Footage from the same news channel, where a Pakistani defence analyst went on record to say that the Mumbai attacks were plan hatched by the "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists". He further adds, Indians have failed to fool the world like the US did on 9/11 – to unite the world against Afghanistan.
A word to word transcription of the footage: 9 /11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein .
In the 2nd half the footage, a PML parliamentarian openly says India ke sath jung chal rahee hai separate level pai. Are ‘we’ fools to talk aman? She also questioned the dignity of Indian foreign policies? What ‘dignity’ is she talking about when the Pakistani President flirted with then US Vice-Prez nominee Sarah Palin, said now I know why the whole American is crazy about you, and who wanted to hug her too.
There’s civil society in India that believe that there is no concrete evidence of Mohammad Afzal’s involvement in the 13th December, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament for which he has been sentenced to death It includes writers, IAS officers and eminent Indians and non Indians like: Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Harsh Mandar, Praful Bidwai, Ali Engineer and Ammu Abraham. Hence Don't hang Afzal Guru.
The Pakistani defence analyst supports Kashmiri separatists groups, says they are a lesser threat than all the other separatist movements that are going on in India. Here we have a Booker Prize winning author who wants India to let go off Kashmir: India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India. Is she out of her mind? As a student of History, I could never find an answer to the partition – but as an Indian, not even in the history, right now I feel we are weakening our nation.
My Q: Should Afzal Guru be hanged till death, only because he failed to kill even one politician on the day he attacked the Indian Parliament?
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYlaF5_q1Y&feature=related
This footage from a Pakistani news channel, 24 hours post Mumbai attacks – questioning India’s ability to counter terrorism, questioning Indian security forces and defending themselves, in vain.
They have also misquoted former Indian law minister, through video picked from a random source. The channel’s anchor says “the former minister has declined Pak’s involvement in the recent attacks”. But a careful transcription of his voiceover has a different interpretation: The terrorists are uniting the whole world against Islamist countries by carrying out such attacks – because they create hostility between Islamic and non-Islamic nations. Since the non-Islamic countries have the Nuke-power, such terror activities might work against them and force the non-Islamic nations to use Nuclear weapons against the Islamic nations.
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Eij5o7XizIA
Footage from the same news channel, where a Pakistani defence analyst went on record to say that the Mumbai attacks were plan hatched by the "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists". He further adds, Indians have failed to fool the world like the US did on 9/11 – to unite the world against Afghanistan.
A word to word transcription of the footage: 9 /11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein .
In the 2nd half the footage, a PML parliamentarian openly says India ke sath jung chal rahee hai separate level pai. Are ‘we’ fools to talk aman? She also questioned the dignity of Indian foreign policies? What ‘dignity’ is she talking about when the Pakistani President flirted with then US Vice-Prez nominee Sarah Palin, said now I know why the whole American is crazy about you, and who wanted to hug her too.
There’s civil society in India that believe that there is no concrete evidence of Mohammad Afzal’s involvement in the 13th December, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament for which he has been sentenced to death It includes writers, IAS officers and eminent Indians and non Indians like: Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Harsh Mandar, Praful Bidwai, Ali Engineer and Ammu Abraham. Hence Don't hang Afzal Guru.
The Pakistani defence analyst supports Kashmiri separatists groups, says they are a lesser threat than all the other separatist movements that are going on in India. Here we have a Booker Prize winning author who wants India to let go off Kashmir: India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India. Is she out of her mind? As a student of History, I could never find an answer to the partition – but as an Indian, not even in the history, right now I feel we are weakening our nation.
My Q: Should Afzal Guru be hanged till death, only because he failed to kill even one politician on the day he attacked the Indian Parliament?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Does every average and now even prosperous Indian feel helpless?
Does every Indian accepted death as their birth right? Does every Indian known at least one person personally who is a blast victim – in Mumbai, Delhi, Assam, Hyderabad or somewhere…?
I am an average Indian… I think I am helpless, getting killed in a blasts is what I think before I step out, I’ve personally known some who are blasts victims and I live in an utopian world where I hope politics can be kept away from good governance.
Even as Amitabh Bachchan strongly condemns Sharmila Thackeray, wife of Marathi leader Raj Thackeray’s widely circulated SMS that read: All those who had lost their lives while saving this city are Marathis. MNS workers are busy donating blood, helping police for rescue operations and lifting bodies. Like a famous newsman wrote to Raj Thackeray in an open letter, there’s difference between fame and notoriety. There’s also a difference between loving your country, loving its people and playing nasty politics upon people’s misery – This is what the Thackerays are doing now.
Not just the Thackerays, even others are. Communist CM Achutanan’s frustrated comment on his inability to politicise Martyr Unnikrishnan’s Malayalee lineage was rather painful. The Kerala CM said: If it had not been (Major) Sandeep's house, not even a dog would have glanced that way. This is how our leaders treat our heroes, yet we continue to save our leaders lives with high category security extracted from our pockets.
Leaders like Amar Singh, who questioned the integrity of a police man who died in an encounter while nabbing terrorists responsible for Delhi serial blasts, gets Z-Plus category security cover. Z-plus security is provided by NSG `black cats' consisting of six personal security officers, two head constables, 12 constables, one escort and one pilot vehicle. Leaders like Ram Vilas Paswan who says we should be considerate towards Bangladeshi refugees, gets Z-Plus security cover too. In all the recent terror attacks in Delhi and Assam, Intelligence Agencies found Bangladeshi terror outfit Huji’s links. Huji mostly operate through the same Bangladeshi illegal immigrants in Assam. Can Paswan visit disturbed areas of Assam, or even the ‘undisturbed’ areas, just for an hour without his security cover?
But at the end of the day an average Indian accepts blasts as a small deal, because we have leaders like R R Patil, the just-out Deputy CM of Maharastra who said: small things like this do happen as his reaction to the recent Mumbai attacks.
I am an average Indian… I think I am helpless, getting killed in a blasts is what I think before I step out, I’ve personally known some who are blasts victims and I live in an utopian world where I hope politics can be kept away from good governance.
Even as Amitabh Bachchan strongly condemns Sharmila Thackeray, wife of Marathi leader Raj Thackeray’s widely circulated SMS that read: All those who had lost their lives while saving this city are Marathis. MNS workers are busy donating blood, helping police for rescue operations and lifting bodies. Like a famous newsman wrote to Raj Thackeray in an open letter, there’s difference between fame and notoriety. There’s also a difference between loving your country, loving its people and playing nasty politics upon people’s misery – This is what the Thackerays are doing now.
Not just the Thackerays, even others are. Communist CM Achutanan’s frustrated comment on his inability to politicise Martyr Unnikrishnan’s Malayalee lineage was rather painful. The Kerala CM said: If it had not been (Major) Sandeep's house, not even a dog would have glanced that way. This is how our leaders treat our heroes, yet we continue to save our leaders lives with high category security extracted from our pockets.
Leaders like Amar Singh, who questioned the integrity of a police man who died in an encounter while nabbing terrorists responsible for Delhi serial blasts, gets Z-Plus category security cover. Z-plus security is provided by NSG `black cats' consisting of six personal security officers, two head constables, 12 constables, one escort and one pilot vehicle. Leaders like Ram Vilas Paswan who says we should be considerate towards Bangladeshi refugees, gets Z-Plus security cover too. In all the recent terror attacks in Delhi and Assam, Intelligence Agencies found Bangladeshi terror outfit Huji’s links. Huji mostly operate through the same Bangladeshi illegal immigrants in Assam. Can Paswan visit disturbed areas of Assam, or even the ‘undisturbed’ areas, just for an hour without his security cover?
But at the end of the day an average Indian accepts blasts as a small deal, because we have leaders like R R Patil, the just-out Deputy CM of Maharastra who said: small things like this do happen as his reaction to the recent Mumbai attacks.
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