Cry That You Were Born in India

It has happened once again. They kidnapped an Indian and slit his throat. I am talking about Kutty, the driver with Border Road Organization. What you see above is his kin crying over their wretched fate.


Our honorable PM says that he condemned the "cruel and inhuman character of the Taliban and the forces they represent". Also, the MEA says "We strongly condemn this inhuman and barbaric act against an innocent person. The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act".

With this, the responsibility of the PM is over. Oh yes, I do know that the kin of the deceased have been given Rs 10 Lacs. What I don't undestand is how will it compensate the wife who lost her husband, kids who lost their father and old parents who lost their young son for life.

And all of us talk hoarse of how we are going to be a big power in another 20 years. Point is, if we cannot protect our citizens beyond passing condemnations, no one is going to take us seriously. The world remembers how we behaved like pussilanimous spineless wimps during IC 814 and numerous such incidents. The larger question is till how long can people kill Indians with impunity and just how much is too much - for how long can we take this sh*t lying down.

And where are all those who are fearing for torture of Abu Salem by police (heyyy, shouldn't he be given five star treatment, with AC, newspapers, seven course meals, aristocratic hospitality and an elite battery of international lawyers) and crying hoarse about apprehensions of violations of his human rights. Aren't killers of innocent people responsible for human rights.

Where are these Goddamned human rights activists now?

Will anyone, and I mean all those who cry against TADA and POTA, all those who come forward to defend Memons and Salems, all OA Siddiquies and all Harjot Singhs to please go to Afghanistan and organize a human rights march and fight Kutty's case in Taliban's courts???

Skirt Length, Premarital Sex and Safe Sex..!!!

A new twist in the Khushboo-premarital sex-safe sex-Sania imbroglio.

Just goes on to show that there is no difference between people who are against reason, logic, free thinking, and freedom, whatsoever religion they belong to.

I feel like laughing. We don't need to even get into how the same activists who hold placards and cry hoarse do all sorts of sleazy stuff in their private lives. The basic question is freedom of choices and the definition of culture. WTF gave them the authority to represent Indian culture, I for one am an Indian and my Indian culture doesn't believe in strangulating someone in the name of culture or morality or blah blah and imposing some arbit rules on him/her, which came from God knows where. I fail to understand how, one person dictating somebody else, what to say and what to do and what to wear becomes cultured and superior.

The real culture, the real emancipation lies in creating an environment where people are free to choose with reason and without fear.

But then, you can't reason with the people whose starting point itself is anti-reason. Just chill, relax, keep doing what you are doing and let them cry their throats out, carry placards and burn effigies.

Cry baby cry.....Indian culture is in danger, my neighbour is a painful, noisy jerk and sky is falling.

Just Chill.....Its just Indian Blood on the Streets

Yes man. So what 57 were killed before Diwali in Delhi. Pakistan officially condemned it, didn't they? Too bad if it doesn't bring back those 57 to life.

And, isn't that normal and expected and don't the Indians just deserve that? Bomb blasts keep happening, blood and flesh keeps on splattering the streets. Big deal.....huh...???

And then we catch Abu Salem - and we bring him to India with great fanfare - "Kabze mein Bhai" headlines rock the mainstream TV. What you see is the glamorization, the awe for the killer and mass murderer - his flashy lifestyle (Ohh yes, didn't I tell you, Abu Salem has reoriented his tastes and now doesn't like designer wear - so much so for journalism and its duties towards the nation), his pretty arm candy, his meteoric rise. No tear drops for the people he killed and no blood boils at the outrage committed. We Indians are destined for years and years of such massacres. Just that, sometimes it will be you, sometimes it will be the guy in the third flat from me and sometimes, it will be me.

What's apalling is that we seem to have lost the capability to see things as they are. We are too much into negationism and self delusions and believe that problems will just whither away, if we keep our heads immersed in sand for long enough. Good luck to us.

Remember, it's not about Hindus and Muslims. Its about a criminal, a coward, a rat planting bombs and killing hundreds to further his warped sense of justice and religion. The bomb would not know the difference whether it is blowing up Hindus or Muslims.

Just look at the chain of events of a few days - Delhi Bombings, Srinagar terrorist attacks, Srinagar car bomb - the investigations reveal LeT connections - we know where things origniated and operated from. In Srinagar bombings, the guy who gets caught hails from our friendly neighbour Pakistan, lays bare the training and cerebral poisioning on the other side of the border - and we don't hear any comments from our PM (not that that will mean anything to those 60 odd killed).

Ohhh yes, I remember his almost apologetic allusion to "external hand" in the bombings, his gentle reminder to Musharraf, "Mushy, you promised me...no.....that you'll rein in those boys.....you naughty you.......do something naa....."

What we need to remember is things that are very basic:

• Any great nation has to have a sense of value for the life of its citizens.
• The country won't become great or respected just through selling software or offshoring - if we can't defend the life of our people and hit back at those destroying them, at best, we will be an apology in the name of a nation.
• The killers won't undergo a change of heart and start flying doves and singing peace hymns.
• We don't have to keep looking for others to provide security to our people and we don't need to apologize and pussyfoot about protecting our men women and children.

As long as we do not make it difficult and costly for the killers to kill and maim us, let us brace ourrselves to see more blood, gore, severed limbs and broken skulls on our roads.

Religion Based Reservation in IITs/IIMs

Now, this seems to be the final of the outrages - a quota on the basis of religion in the creme-de-la-creme of India's educational system.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1298129,curpg-1.cms

I'd love to know the detailed methodology employed by this committee, questions they sought to answer, problems they plan to solve and ultimately, what is it that they want to achieve.

The most painful part is that the current dispensation may actually give this report a serious look and consideration.

Any rational, thinking man has got only two choices - stand and speak up for the fundamental principles of respect for merit in elite educational institutions and against the cheapest level of mindless activities to play for vote banks or leave dear old mother India, simply because a bunch of people who do not have the sight, sense and maturity to take decisions is weilding authority and it may not be worthwhile to try to drill sense in them.

Selfish, I know; cowardly, may be; but sensible, for sure.

Legend, National Hero, Messiah Abu Salem !!!

This is how Times of India extolls the legend of Abu Salem:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1292911,curpg-2.cms

I know, this way you just help the darn article get more readership but the churning in my stomach was too much to contain. Why not lets also call him a national hero, a messiah, a Mahatma.

Wonder if the people being so creative and imaginative while glamourizing a petty rat's murders and mayhem story would have been equally creative, imaginative and flowery had they lost some of their near and dear ones to this legend's adventurous machinations.

Ohhhhh...so inspiring and sexy ! Why not have an award instituted in his name and chapters be added in primary school text books extolling this legend.

Damn Disgusting

That's the word.

They catch a mass-murderer, thief, anti-national rat, spend crores in getting him extradited and then the newspapers tell us that he ate Aloo Matar and veg pulao on his first day.

We don't talk about 257 who were killed in the Mumbai blasts, we do fondly talk of how Abu Salem's mother yearns for "Dear Abi". We don't talk of how, the kids who became orphans that fateful day in 1993 coped up with life; we don't talk of how, those who lost their limbs have been able to again gather the pieces of their lives for the last 12 years; we don't talk of the lost promise and potential of those 250 lives that were abruptly cut short - we do talk of how Abu Salem with his Hawala money has created wealth for his village, his cousins. We talk of how the rat was all cool and composed in CBI custody.

He sure is cool. He has to be, for he knows the power of money and his connections, he knows the terror his men could still strike in the hearts of witnesses and judges trying him, he knows the snail pace of legal proceedings in our country, he knows how he makes bigger news than those 257 he butchered and he knows the soggy soft nature of our nation state and the callousness with which India treats the life of its citizens.

At times you do feel if all is so great about Swades.