A Sad day...

26^th November, India is attacked once again...but this time its just not a terrorist attack, it was pretty much a war. Mumbai was under siege for more than 60 hrs. During the course of which India lost few of our bravest men. People always criticize India police and armed forces but today the very same forces are the real heroes of whole ordeal.

The that so many top officials lost their life points out that they lead from the front and did not shy away from actual action. Media also, surprisingly, played a very constructive role this time. They understood the seriousness of the situation and stayed away from sensationalizing the events.

Now that the whole operation is over, the real healing process will start. India needs to realize this is not time to play petty politics over this and unite to fight against terrorist. We need to realize that this was a result of a major intelligence failure but lets not point fingers but instead the government needs to get their act together and make sure things like this do not happen again.

The responsible people must be punished at all costs and I'm not talking about the terrorists only. The people who are responsible of neglecting the intelligence input and providing security to common people. We have have accountability in the system, then only the situation can be improved.

This time its regionalism...

As always I'm starting the blog by giving an excuse for not writing for a long time (almost an year now)...well I'm lazy and most of the time I don't have anything to write about. But I just couldn't stop myself from writing about what has been going on in Mumbai off late.

Mr. Raj Thackeray it trying to strengthen his political footing in the same fashion his uncle did many year back. Bala Baheb practically made a political career out of threating and using violence againt migrants from south india. They portray themselves as true guardians of marathis , but what they fail to realize is that they are causing more harm to marathis than actually helping them, both in the short and long run.

When MNS workers burn taxis and buses, only because the drivers are from one particular region of India, they should understand that the taxis and buses are being used by their 'Marathi Manoos' and they are causing unconvinced to Marathis as well. Moreover they are harming the image of marathis all over India. If tomorrow same kind of incidents start happening, all over India, against marathis, is Mr. Raj Thackeray going to protect them???

What really pisses me off is the inaction of the maharashtra govt and the police force. How can they allow such brutality to go on for so many days? Raj Thackarey points out that people from Bihar and UP and more prone to committing crimes since they are from lawless state...its pretty ironic that he has resolved to violence to prove this point.

Politicians in India can go to any lengths for power, they proved it by burning India by exploiting and manipulating people from different religions against each other and they are out again to harm India...only this time their weapon of choice is regionalism.

After a long time....

... I'm posted in the blog...what can I say..I'm a very lazy person. So much has happened in last 2-3 months. We had Taare Zameen pe...one visionary proved everyone wrong and gave us the People's Car..our very own Lakhtakia and India won at Perth (this I never thought would happen...ever).

So lets start with Taare Zamen Pe...ever since I heard Amir was directing a movie, I expected to be a good one but the movie was simply awesome...the way he handled the story was really amazing and how can I forget the kid...he was absolutely mind blowing in the movie...I hope he gets some awards this year (not Best Child Actor but best Actor awards). I'm sure everyone
must have remembered their school days while watching Ishant telling his friend (after the exam) the exam went....BINDAAAS...well I surely did.

When Ratan Tata annouced the 1 Lk car the first thought that crossed my mind was that it'll be one of those cars with a seating capacity of 2...no leg space...no headspace and certainly no style...but I was proved wrong on all counts. As so many experts have been saying, Nano will change the Indian car market (and the middleclass) the way Maruti 800 did so many years ago...hats off to great businessman.

And now my fav. topic...cricket...still unable to believe that India won at Perth...one of the fastest tracks in the world (not so fast this time but still). A lot can be credited to our Bhajji controversy (which I personally feel should have been avoided...not too many monkeys will be happy being compared to Symonds)...but on serious not one point which I really don't support is the way Indian board handled the umpiring issue. Did they wanted Bucknor to be removed because he gave wrong decisions or because he gave wrong decisions against India. Even in the Perth match standard of umpiring was not all that high but since this time Australia were at the receiving end nobody complained...which I think is wrong. Now me taking Australia's side does not mean that I like them...I still hate those blokes with all my heart...and was jumping like kangaroo when RP took the last wicket in Perth...lets just hope and wish that they repeat the feat in Adelaide again.