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Why should I ?

I shall not fight for a person from any other country just because they happen to be a Hindu or of Indian origin. 

I shall rather fight for any Indian until the last srop of my breath.

To even think that I would support the Tamil cause and denounce the Sri Lankan government is stupid.

The best joke from Pakistan

Looks like this is not only a country full of Jihadis but also Jokers. That too in very celebrated posts.Like this latest one.

People do go out of mind, I know, but like this !!! I almost died laughing after reading this. Its a must read to every Indian and of course Pakistani as well.

Looks like the Jihadis in Pakistan stormed a mental hospital and liberated all the patients from there to let them lead and represent their people.

Bloody faceless jackass.

Get over it !! How can I ?

To say Mumbai is back is like asking us to get over it. I cannot. Because those images that were beamed into my living room right through the siege in Mumbai are not from a film. It was all real. It was all life.

To say Mumbai is back is to try and sleep over it, which we had been doing all through the years that we have been affected with terrorism. And we could see the result. I am not ready to accept Mumbai is fully back on its heels. Nor am I willing to agree, as an Indian, that life goes like it did before 26/11. Because its not.

What I had witnessed, through the medium of television, was my own helplessness. A sense that has prevailed upon me, even as I was at a distant shore. It still does haunt me as I think about it. And not a day has passed without thinking about it. Nor do I see it happening in the near future.

And it does not help when I read reports like this. An organisation that makes thousands of crores of Rupees in profits every year (Its a money bearing tree, in the words of the Railway minister, to take a quote from one of his Lok Sabha speeches) deciding to spend a paltry Rs. 60 crore to modernise security systems on its premises. Is that all we are ready to spend to secure vital and high-density areas like railway stations. What are we learning from 26/11 ?

It makes me wonder what has happened to plans like this that date back to December, 2004. Has this proposal been implemented ? If not why ? If yes what was the feedback received from the officers on the ground level using them ? Was there a study ever conducted on the necessity of providing sophisticated weapons to officers guarding key installations like the CST and the like ?

Who is Antulay's target ?

Even as the Congress is dilly-dallying on the decision as to retain Antulay in the cabinet or not, it seems to have been caught in its own web. Or has it not realised that Antulay is actually pointing fingers at his own party colleagues.

Every extra minute the congress takes to crack down on him is providing some extra credence to Antulay's remarks.

Antulay started off saying Hemant Karkare's death should be probed. He later retracted and changed his version, now suggesting that Hemant Karkare may have actually fallen for the terrorists bullets, but is demanding a probe to ascertain who had ordered Karkare to be there when he was shot at.

If we look from a cynic's view, the controversy has erupted because Karkare, before the terror attacks on Mumbai, was investigating the alleged role of supposed Hindu terrorists in the Malegoan blasts case, and raising a question on his death was nothing but suggesting that there was a role played in it by people who did not like the man investigating the Malegaon blasts case.

The role of elements from our country being directly responsible for Karkare's death stands ruled out, as Antulay is now not questioning Karkare's death but seeking to know whose orders made sure Karkare was at the Kama Hospital.

The simple reasoning is that nobody other than some highly placed officials of the Maharasthra Police or Govt., or an elected representative who was at the helm of the affairs can order an official of Karkare's stature to go and be somewhere.

Now the dilemma. Is Antulay suspecting the govt of Maharashtra, which is being lead by the Congress-his own party, or any other highly placed bureaucrat. Should he really suspect the role of any goverment servant, Police or otherwise, the Congress, I guess, would be least hesitant to order a probe into the matter.

But what if Antulay is pointing the finger of suspicion at elected officials who undoubtedly belong either to the Congress or its ruling partner the NCP ? This would cause a lot of embarassment to the party. Would it not ? Because this version aims to point at a supposed nexus between some Congress party leaders and supposed religious extremists, which if true, would not only damage the reputation but also destroy the party as well. Well then, is this the reason the Congress is taking too much of a time to decide on the Antulay's fate ?

Or is this conspiracy theory all trash and the Congress' leadership is a bunch of spineless people, as they have proven to be more so often in the recent past, that is reluctant to cleanse itself of a rotten tomato within its ranks for fear of losing the minority vote as the man in question, who is gone rogue in my opinion, is from a minority community ?

I would like to believe the last reasoning is true as it is easier to digest and earlier versions are nightmarish.

Throw Antulay out of the Cabinet

If the media reports are to be believed then this guy, A R Antulay has submitted his resignation. I wish the Prime Minister shall not accept it and instead sack him from the Union Cabinet.

Show us some spirit Mr. Prime Minister. Let us not dignify these sick maniacs by letting them do things their own way. Show him the door and his rightful place.

The Congress should also come clear if it upholds the views of Antulay when he says that his party should be proud of his comments. If else they should get rid of him from the party as well.

Another joke from Pakistan

I just can't stop laughing at the jokes that keep coming from Pakistan's public personalities. This time it is Zaheer Abbas, one of the cricketing greats the country has produced. (Believe it or not he has more than 100 first class centuries to his name)

Here is an excerpt of what he said:

If India does not agree to tour our country then the board must think about having cricket relations with them. If they don't want to play us we should think likewise...They must tour. It is good for relations between the two countries. But if they don't want to come then we should also not go after them to convince them.

Any one who reads this might misunderstand the entire issue and think that it is Indian cricket that needs Pakistan's and not the otherway around.

Mr Abbas thinks there is a way out of snapping cricketing ties with India for the Pakistani cricketing community. Poor soul. If Mr. Abbas wants Pakistan to snap cricketing ties with India, please do it rightaway. And after that go ahead and play cricket with teams like Kenya, Zimbabwe (and get paid billions of Zimbabwian dollars) which have already been ostracized from the cricketing community for either being rogue nations or being ruled by rogues. They will find some good company there.

 Actually thats where they belong. All this while they had been in company that they didn't deserve owing to the largesse of the UN and the extraordinary sleep-as-Pakistan-goes-rogue-over-a-decade policies of the United States.

By the way I wish PCB good luck.