Thoughts in general

In a recent article , it is pointed out that the US State Department report on religious freedom indicates that India's record of religious freedom has significantly improved. Additionally, it has specific paragraph, which I find laughable. Here it is.. "With a Muslim President, Sikh Prime Minister and a Christian head of the governing parliamentary party, the UPA government has demonstrated its commitment to a policy of religious inclusion at its highest levels and throughout this generally tolerant and highly diverse society," said the report which takes a broad sweep of religious freedom across the world under a mandate of US Congress. My question is who is US to decide who is more religiously free and who is not. This should be an internal Indian matter and not for other countries to decide. Our media also catches on these things to create a hype. It is indeed laughable that just because we have a President, PM and Head of governing parliamentary party who are of ...

So, Natwar Singh has ruled out resigning from his post of Foreign Minster of India, according to this report in the Hindustan Times. He said, not for a moment the thought of resignation crossed his mind ever since the controversy broke a week ago and claimed that he enjoyed the full confidence of both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "I am told that I am doing a good job so do you expect me to go to the Prime Minister and say that since I am doing a good job I am putting in my papers," he said. This would mean that the PM Manmohan Singh and Super-PM Sonia Gandhi are putting India in an embarrasing position in front of the world. India is a major part of UN and by talking about lodging a case against UN is preposterous, to say the least. Both Natwar and the Congress government should resign as they all have been alleged to have been involved in this scam. You cannot rule a country with such low morals and ethics. Anyways, UPA government, ...

Here are thoughts of my cousin on the terrorism emanating from Pakistan. It pains to see the innocent die the way they did in Delhi. We know it is the handiwork of Pakistan (yes it is their handiwork since they are supporting the terror camps there who happen to be the perpetrators of the crime). I fail to understand why time and again are we going back to Pakistan begging for friendship? Are we that impotent???? Look at what Israel had done to Yaseer Arafat ... They gave two hoots @ USA, UK and all those pea brained super powers (Super Powers??? my foot) Why can't India do the same? We are a far stronger economy and we need to cut them to size. Stop preaching all this rubbish about non violence and offering another cheek if one is slapped. We have been slapped enough number of times and have yet to wake up!!!!!!!!!! Finish those camps.... finish Pakistan...finish terrorism and you media should be responsible enough to take on the mantle of educating the masses. Pakistan has always...

It has been seen recently that nature's fury has been striking at various places. Places like Gujarat (earthquake and recent floods), Mumbai (37 inches of rain in a day), Orissa (floods), Tsunami (South Asia), Famine (parts of Africa), floods in Czech republic, heat waves in various parts of the world and now the hurricane and destruction of New orleans, Biloxi and parts of alabama in the USA. I am not a scientist by any means and don't wish to get into a scientific debate on what is causing this. However, one simple thing I learnt long back is that when you hurt or mess with nature, it will strike back with all its fury and wrought destruction, no matter how powerful you think you are. Due to human interference in nature - felling trees to build roads, clearing our forests to build complexes or some resorts, reclaiming land from ocean/sea, not to mention severe over-population in parts of the world, emitting chemicals, gases etc in the air. None of this can help nature. D...

I am not a politician or even a writer. However, I am concerned with what I am seeing in India. There are couple of aspects that really worry me about the country. One is when politicians try to brand themselves as secular/non-communal and others who subscribe to another ideological theory. I have seen the Congress party claim that BJP is communal. Why? Because it has affiliations with RSS, who in turn has affiliations with VHP? However, if you look at the dictionary, ‘communalism’ is defined as follows: Main Entry: com•mu•nal•ism Pronunciation: -n&l-"i-z&m Function: noun 1 : social organization on a communal basis 2 : loyalty to a sociopolitical grouping based on religious or ethnic affiliation - com•mu•nal•ist /-n&l-ist/ noun or adjective If you read the above dictionary meaning of communalism carefully, then Congress itself is guilty of being communal, as they so frequently like to label their opposition. Congress has been in power for greater part since In...