Shoegate Menace

There is a new wave of rebellion or revolt going on in the political circle this election. It is all to do with the shoes. Made famous by the Iraqi journalists missile aimed at George "Dubya" Bush, this weapon has been picked up by the Indian common man this election.

Initially it was the journalist Jarnail Singh who aimed it at Mr Chidambaram, when he tried to avoid questions regarding a certain Sonia Gandhi loyalist ex-minister being given a clean chit in a case which has been dragged on for a silver jubilee celebration.

Then followed a series of shoes thrown at various persons as this mania gripped and spread more crazily than avian flu, targets being Navin Jindal, Jeetendra, Advani and the PM Manmohan Singh too. And with the last incident and the admission of the missile thrower that he did it for his 5 minutes of fame, the thing which I was fearing has come out to forefront.

Anyone can now throw a shoe at some prominent personality knowing fully well that he will be given air time in varying amounts by the various channels. While CNN-IBN might have a fleeting minute dedicated to you, Aaj Tak might have a full hour or two dedicated to you, where the 5 second act of yours would be played in a loop, pausing at different moments to discuss the various technical and aesthetic aspects of your throw.

Now add to it, the crazy politicians from the grand old party of India who are acting more delirious than any human being as old as their party, if alive, would act. If only they could think a Milli-second as to what they are talking before it comes out of their mouth it would have been better for them. Asking the chief minister of a state to apologize because someone threw a shoe at someone else, just because it happened in his state is more a reflection of the dearth of issues for the party on which to fight for during the election.

And this is not the only stupid thing which has come out of the grand old party of India. One ex-chief minister of a particular state from the northern tip of India comes all the way down to the southern part of India for campaigning and gives a statement telling that the government in that state is not favoring the backward castes and if they are favoring, let the chief minister resign and make someone from the backward caste the chief minister. Excuse me mister ex-chief minister of a sensitive state, did u do that when you were a chief minister. Will your party do the same if it comes to power in the center???

In all the craziness surrounding the elections and the stupid and the confusing statements given by the grand old party members and the pseudo-secularist behavior of all so called "secular" parties, it is appalling to see the voter turnouts in the second round of polling. I for myself saw a person who came to the booth and went to the presiding officer telling her that his office would give him a holiday if he had voted and since he is going out of station for enjoying the holiday he doesn't have time to vote and just put on the mark on his index finger. Thank God, the presiding officer was adamant and asked him to stand in the queue for that also. But it shows the apparent lack of concern regarding the country present in a section of the people. God help them and more so God help India from the Pseudo-Secularists

Devil's Incarnate

Looks like the truth is out. The election commission knows it too. My serial number in the voters list for this election is the devils number SIX-SIX-SIX

Kandahar Vs Mumbai

Now that the ruling party at the center is trying to use the Kandahar incident of the 2000 to counter the weak anti-terrorism front of the attack against them, I was thinking of the similarities or the differences between the two.

The similarities that i could think of between the two are that both of them were attacks on the nation, by trained Islamic fundamentalists. Both involved hostage situation. There were some people who paid with their lives in both the incidents.

Now lets come to the differences. In the Kandahar incident, the terrorists boarded the Indian Airlines flight in Nepal and then hijacked it. In Mumbai attacks the terrorists came over into India and attacked landmarks inside the country. With Kandahar, the hijacked flight was flown to Kandahar (of course), which is a different country and which was ruled by the Islamic fundamentalist group Taliban. We all very well remember the scene where the Taliban militia surrounded the plane as soon as it landed. Now it is very well a guess as to on whose side they could be on. With the Mumbai attack, the terrorists took over the buildings and started fighting from inside them.

I am aghast to see the statements from the many educated, elite and the youth icons of the country who try to compare the Kandahar and the Mumbai attack and give out statements that while in Kandahar, the previous govt sent a minister to escort the terrorist and get the release of the hostages, with Mumbai our govt sent commandos and fought against the terrorists.

Can you please clear a couple of my doubts "Mr Youth Icon", "Mr. Future PM". Suppose it was your govt which was in power when Kandahar happened what would you have done? Send commandos to Afghanistan and get the hostages released?If so, would you have sent an army over to Afghanistan along with the commandos to first take on the Taliban militia who were surrounding the plane? Do you really believe that you would have succeeded in this?

Also if you really want to compare the two, wouldn't Mumbai attack show that you are poor at handling terror. There were people from outside country who attacked our country and took hostages. First of all, you let them enter the country, then you let them take hostages, take 4 days to kill them and free hostages and paid with the lives of nearly 200 odd people.

I am not praising the previous NDA govt, but just questioning the audacity of the present govt in saying that they were better in handling terror. I am sorry, but you are not... If you were, you would not have let them get into the country and kill so many of the innocent people of our country

Seething with anger

Well now that i have finished my education, there has been no dearth on the number of people who are interested in getting me married off. Although at home, mom had started off pestering me a long time back (remember, that i had to get into IIM to ward off the pressure back at home), it reached a frenzied pace once i passed out. Add to it the idea of prank among a couple of my friends at Joka being to tell my parents to get me married at the earliest... yes some people are so sadistic that they cannot see others being happy even for a single minute.

After a dozen attempts of my mom pestering me to tell me what kind of a bride i need and i thwarting the question off as i have no idea and am not inclined in thinking about it as of now, the tension reached the peak today and as usual i lost my patience and had to shout.

I just can't find any reasoning in that i have to get married just because my parents can have the peace of mind that they have completed their so called earthly duties. And who ever added the children marriage in the duties list. What about the children's future? After all it is they who have to survive the marriage. I remember seeing such scenes in some old movies where the children had to get married coz some old granny wanted to see the marriage of her grandson/daughter and i felt the same even then.

Does one get married just to please someone else or do they get married when they are ready. And what does it need to get it into the head that even i can think about when i can or need to get married. Just because i am 26 and in the so called marriageable age it does not mean i need to get married.

Just hope somebody knocks some sense into the right heads. And i just hope my so called friends at least stop playing their stupid pranks.

Back again

After a brief(??) hiatus of 3 months i am back again here.

Updates:

Not much. Got placed in as a Business Analyst in a company in Mumbai. Finished my course and had my convocation. Back home lazing around doing practically nothing. So just thought may be i should look into my blog once again. So here i am back posting arbit stuff.

Thing is that there is soo many stuffs which i want to write on but none of them enough to make into a blogpost. So let me go back and think about how to put it across .

So till then cya