tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75271807366052218792009-10-14T20:30:45.022+05:30On everything from Politics to Philosophy.SunRayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895193904120791029noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527180736605221879.post-58725262161234639572009-01-22T13:01:00.005+05:302009-01-22T14:49:05.251+05:30

They were friends first... and as friends would be.. they too were often seen together...in the class and outside of it...in the canteen and in college fests...they would be seen walking in together to the college and when it was time they would be seen walking back to the busstop....So comfortable they felt in each other's company that they never bothered to think what onlookers thought....but

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It rained in chennai...providing succor to the steaming city from the relentless heat...i like most others was caught unawares....having just dropped off the auto two blocks off from where i stay .... a couple of hot samosas later the sudden gloom around foretold what was to come....so there i was rushing back to save myself from the impending downpour... but then a bored God looking down on this

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We need to see a paradigm shift .....to start with the in the political vocabulary.... the message needs to sent across clearly that the party who wins an election is not given a MANDATE TO RULE but its a MANDATE TO SERVE the people who elected them....its not about coming to power....its about assuming a duty towards us citizens...something our politicians have conveniently forgot .....something

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A followup on my post before on "VOTEBANK FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE" ... here is what can be the agenda for that constituency to start with- :We see days after this tragedy....the use of this event to again make it a political issue...we see full page advertisement by the political parties telling how it would have been different if they were in power...and the other telling us how it would have been

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Its ironic that the day before the Mumbai Tragedy...and i put a post on the "Politics of Irrelevance" .... a criticisim of the electoral politics of our times... where governance is no longer the issue.... politicians trying to garner votes by votebank and divisive politics...trying to divide and rule.So many of our prejudices are inbuilt and ingrained into our collective subconcious... that it

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FROM THE GOVERNMENT:PM Manmohan Singh - It is essential to set up a Federal Agency to deal with terrorism.My Take : It took the government so long to realise the necessity???? For this point to be driven home he must have been waiting either forA) Casualty count to cross a century...orB) Time when terrorists hit the elite of our society. Death of commoners and loss their suffer was not enough to

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Another terror strike.... an audacious attack on mumbai ....amongst the dead ...Hemant Karkare....Mumbai ATS Chief .... who according to Advani and Modi ...till the day before led a misleading campaign, at the behest of government, to sully Hindutva Groups in the name of investigation of terror....another casualty to terror..... after Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma .... its time we DONT LET

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Another elections.... high on rhetoric...low on purpose. There is not even a pretence or promise of governance. As with more and more elections in recent times.. the elections are being fought banking on provocative politics and personality cults...Its a battle to see who instills the most fear ...who can create the greatest divide amongst the society...Elections now a days is being used by the

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What symbolises love ??? Everyone cannot be a ShahJahan to make a Taj Mahal... an eternal symbol of love....most recourse to just words...the words "I love you" probably would be the most oft used and abused phrase in english....abused, cause its as often used as a decoy for motives other than what the phrase intends.. ....the seriously romantic says it by a ring...the man on his knees ....

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There is a scene in the Dark knight where the Joker burns a mountain of money.....thats what comes to mind when i look at the stock prices now.....Money burning....its probably somebody's retirement fund ...and they are possibly the lucky ones....think of the investor already retired.Since Jan the stock market.......has gone below 60% of its highs.... beaten down by the bears and the speculators.

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Congratulations to Sachin....the little master.......truly the most gifted batsmen of contemporary cricket...maybe even the most gifted of all batsmen ever to have played this game... the ideal superstar...as great his fame...so has been his conduct....he commands adulation that is unsurpassed but for a handful..... expectations so great..... the burden would have crushed a lesser mortal...yet he

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A few familiar headlines??Mehrauli blasts ...2 killed ...20 injured....well what would you say ....just another headline...not many eyebrows raised...we are getting used to it i guess.... unless anyone we know are not involved...it has happenned.... for all we know in a totally different planet altogether.Nanavati Panel exonerates Modi... he or his cabinet is not in any way involved in any manner

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People of Kashmir indeed must rank along with the Palestinians and Sri Lankan Tamils ....as one of the enduring modern day tragedies. Their lands have turned into battlefields....the people in both cases have been usurped of their power to self determination... they have powers bigger than them making the decisions on their behalf...and using them merely as pawns in a game of political

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Everyone remembers the time when they were learning to ride a bicycle.....I know I do. The initial few days were the toughest...I always lost my balance trying to peddle.... I always wanted my brother to hold the bicycle from behind....the moment I would realise he has let go... I would panic...all I would want to do at that moment was to get off the damn thing without hurting myself :D ....in my

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We all have unfinished business”.... my friend told me in a moment of deep philosophical insight.... an inevitable result of consuming vodka in proportions which was many times more than it was legally permitted to be able to drive after. We were seated at place, which had over time become my favorite watering hole in the city . Most of the days seated around the table that we now found ourselves

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Terror strikes and communal riots in India have a curious history. Over the last 2 decades they have been more frequent and coinciding with their frequency has been the rise of fundamentalist groups and their national prominence.A party hitherto a fringe party before the early nineties now has risen to become a national party riding on the tide of dubious yet populist and chauvnist ideologies

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