BJP leader Sushma Swaraj should be taken to Surat immediately. A city where 19 live bombs have already been recovered. She can go diamond shopping there but along with the bomb disposal squads. How else can one ask her to think before she shoots her mouth.
Sushma Swaraj soon after the Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts said it was an attempt to take away the nation's attention from the 'cash for votes scam' that unfolded in the Indian Parliament. She was hinting at the Congress hand behind the blasts.
What a shame. Our politicians can not think beyond their petty interests. The country and its people be damned.
Surat is in Panic. Infact the same holds true for the whole of Gujarat. The rest of the country is in fear. Terror can strike anywhere, anytime. And amidst this chaos, panic striken Surat has shown the light.
A people-police coordination is the only way out. A vigilant beat constable along with residents can provide the best intelligence. Mysterious objects can be spotted by a vigilant population. And mysterious looking people can be spotted.
The country needs to be on triple high alert all the time.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tough times ahead
Back to back bomb blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Where next?
This question is there in the minds of everyone. Mom and Dad called up from Shimla saying they are targetting BJP ruled states and I'm living in one such state, Madhya Pradesh. But than Himachal Pradesh is also a BJP ruled state, I told Dad trying to convince him that there is hardly anything that one can do about it. The fact is that the merchants of death can strike at will where ever they wish to.
That Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh or for that matter any other place where terror blasts have so far not reached, is becuase the perpetrators have chosen to keep it like that. It would be unfair to blame the police. Untill and unless each and everyone of us is cautious and always on the look out for suspicious objects, it will not be possible to prevent what happened in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
I have not heard of a single terror strike in the United States after 9/11. How the Americans have made it possible must be understood.
This question is there in the minds of everyone. Mom and Dad called up from Shimla saying they are targetting BJP ruled states and I'm living in one such state, Madhya Pradesh. But than Himachal Pradesh is also a BJP ruled state, I told Dad trying to convince him that there is hardly anything that one can do about it. The fact is that the merchants of death can strike at will where ever they wish to.
That Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh or for that matter any other place where terror blasts have so far not reached, is becuase the perpetrators have chosen to keep it like that. It would be unfair to blame the police. Untill and unless each and everyone of us is cautious and always on the look out for suspicious objects, it will not be possible to prevent what happened in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
I have not heard of a single terror strike in the United States after 9/11. How the Americans have made it possible must be understood.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
New- Pinch
It's been a long time that some one has given me a pinch. I got a new pinch recently though. From Savita, my wife, when she noticed me wearing a new T shirt that she had bought the previous day. She just said 'new pinch'.
Back home in my village in Shimla the custom was different. Everytime some one wore something new, it was like really hard. The boys would give a real hard one. One that left bruises.
I don't know how the word and custom reached our village. Must have come from Shimla that was just a day's walk away from our village. The British ruled the country from Shimla during the summers and many stayed there through the year. They rode horses and partyied by bonfires through the year.
My grand dad was one of the many who supplied grass and jungle wood to the British. His name was Narayan Datt. The grass was for the british horses while the wood was for bonfires. Perhaps the word new-pinch was picked by some one from my grand dad's generation. They must have seen the British congratulating each other.
Back home in my village in Shimla the custom was different. Everytime some one wore something new, it was like really hard. The boys would give a real hard one. One that left bruises.
I don't know how the word and custom reached our village. Must have come from Shimla that was just a day's walk away from our village. The British ruled the country from Shimla during the summers and many stayed there through the year. They rode horses and partyied by bonfires through the year.
My grand dad was one of the many who supplied grass and jungle wood to the British. His name was Narayan Datt. The grass was for the british horses while the wood was for bonfires. Perhaps the word new-pinch was picked by some one from my grand dad's generation. They must have seen the British congratulating each other.
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