Cricket, Terrorism and Tendulkar

The right knock at the right time with the indomitable spirit of game that is what you call him , Schin Tendulakar. Sachin dedicated his fabulous ton to the families of victims of the Mumbai terror attacks following India's six-wicket win over England in Chennai."This hundred will give a certain amount of happiness to people but what happened in Mumbai, it's very hard to recover from that," he said. "Cricket is a lesser thing compared to what has happened. Whatever we can contribute, we've been able to do that. We're right with the people who have lost their dear ones."
After all who won or who lose does not matter. Credit must be given to the English who came to India defeating the purpose of terrorists and showing the solidarity with the democracy waging the war against terrorism. We, the Indian stood united against the worst ever terrorist attack Indians have ever faced. My humble tribute to our martyrs... We shall fight and we shall overcome.
At the end, I must say- Wah Taj ! Wah Indian! Wah Cricket! Wah Sachin!

Atonement

What it is? Its very hard to understand and , then to assimilate it .
Why atonement ....?
for Compassion ?
for Megalomaniac ?
out of compulsion ?
or Frustration ?
I only know the story can be resumed and life never come back once it has been lost..

Simply, in Words

Days are lonely here. Not only because there is nobody to talk but also no word to express anything. All images are buried in the past and, suddenly, they seem to be inaccessible .Speechless we are after having lost all thoughts, all ideas and all relations in the quest of making identity that is still an illusion.

Aamchi Metrocities

If Delhi has its own governent body, why not Mumbai? I think all the five metro cities should be designated as semi states like Delhi. There is no question of assigning them status of UT. Only democratic elected government will represent the real participation of the local people. Probably we can make better of amchi Mumbai from Bombay (1993) or Mumbai (2005 & 2006).

Communalism

It happened, it has happened and it will happen unless we don’t stop it. 58 years ago a mahatma was shot dead, clash of civilization has started and humanity will suffer when an idea full of hatred ness and religious intolerance is born in the human mind. This widespread curse griped India very hard. India had suffered a lot not only in term of territory but also loss of human lives. The situation is still going on. As we make progress towards new and modern era, this devil of communalism has grown out of proportion and became a global threat to the humanity it self. Communalism is said to be a distorted form of professing and practicising religion. It has narrowed down the religion where there is no place for other's religious sentiments. Religion is a set of beliefs which explore truth of cosmos and help in moving the world like a giant wheel where every spook represents a religion. When a religion is full of spirituality it is said to be a liberating path. Without spiritualism it is communalism. Spirituality comes where there is quest for truth, solidarity and embodiment of love and joy. Absence of all leads to intolerance, non cooperation and treating others’ contemptuously.Am i right? I think so.

UNAIDS Report

According to the tenth UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic released on 30 may 2006 India has the highset number of persons with HIV.Iindia has overtaken South Africa in total number of HIV cases. South Africa, with 5.5 million HIV cases, has a much higher prevalence rate among adults (18.8 percent) compared with India's infection rate of just 0.9 percent. But UNAIDS estimates that 5.7 million Indians are infected with HIV, an incredibly troubling statistic given that, with a billion people, even a small statistical increase results in a huge number of new infections.
Though government of india has rejected the report but if it is true,it would be horrible.
More stats:
1800 children contract HIV every day.
More than 4 million people were infected with HIV in 2005.
25 million people have died from HIV/AIDS in the last quarter century.
On average, only 9% of HIV-positive pregnant women receive retroviral treatment.
On average, only a third of young men -and just one fifth of young women - could correctly identify ways of preventing HIV transmission.
A bright spot: funding for HIV/AIDS is way up, nearly $8.3 billion last year

Fanaa for you

Darkness disappears when moon shines; night becomes pleasant .Loneliness converts to ecstasy of being in self. Black becomes beautiful. Innocence mingled with love leads to enlightenment and one moves closer to one's destiny.
It is heartening when child/boy-hood heroes strike back.
Winning or losing doesn't matter. Does it?
May be...

Protest over the Post

That post about the protests was neither derogatory nor cynical in nature. Neither it shows biasness nor it is inspired by any ideology. I deliberately chose some (a few) issues to expose some basic imperfections in our society which are well known and concerns for all, still we knowingly avoid it.These protests have their roots in jingoism, segregations, hatred and callousness not only towards humankind but also for environment; above all I should say for life on the planet. And i am baffled with the thought where does lie our responsibility.
I subsequently discuss these issues in my posts. Here, I will reflect upon one touching issue. Whenever we talk about reservation and subsidies we discuss (debate) with the same hatredness as usual that have been existing since time immemorial. Our rational thinking always plays with the idea of meritocracy. One question that intrigues is what lies beneath the meritocracy. Are we able to provide level playing field to every player in the game? For a large chunk of society basic amenities like education, health, drinking water and sanitation are distant dreams in this modern and hi-tech world where distance is limited to only two digits i.e. 0 and 1.We don’t think about sharing and caring. In country like India meritocracy is blended with aristocracy. We need to eliminate the ceiling of privileges to get everyone in the mainstream.

Nothing more...

To SALMAN, Bollywood.

The zoo
Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

Dear Man,

I am a chinkara. I am 6 years old. You don’t know about me. Unfortunately I was not there when you visited my ancestral home on that dreadful night. My grandma used to tell me a story about my grandpa. She told me that he was died like a hero. I have a doubt on it now, coz later on I grew up in the human company. (Recently I was rescued from a private farm, now I am in jail, I mean in ZOO.) It was not about heroism at all. He was shot on that night while he was running. This meant he hadn’t faced the death in the way you man do in the warfront. He hadn’t fought, sad but true. My grandma also said we weren’t lucky enough to attend his funeral because they who shot him, you know better loaded the carcass in the jeep, took him away and had a great feast. My grandma said my parents were also died in the same way. I don’t know about the fate of my grand ma. But i can guess. I am not so lucky to have the same course. I am in zoo; zoos are made to punish us for keeping company with human being and still remain alive.

I heard that you were also in the zoo, I mean jail. I learnt the lesson from my captivity that it is better to be shot down to death rather than to run away and to be captured alive later. You may also have learnt the lesson that it is better to drive the car over the poor fellows lying on the footpath rather than to shot down the chinkaras.

I am sorry for you poor chap and for my grand pa as well.

A victimized life...

Chinkara Kid.

(P.S. Chinkara is a deer species)

Nature of Protests in India

See the protests in India...
1. The cream of India protested over the announcement made by a minister, not over the improvement of infrastructure…
2. People protested over the giving support to those people (Medha patkar and so) who are struggling silently for displaced poor fellows...
3. People burnt vehicles and destroyed properties just because a 76 years old died due to cardiac arrest
4. People opposed the sentence given to a celebrity who shot down a member of endangered species
Where are we heading?