Congress and Afzal Guru

By suddenly deciding tohang Afsal guru to death Congress is heading for big trouble.After the initial welcome statements the dissenting voices are started being heard .The denial of visit for his family before his death and the decision not to handover the body to his family will snowball into a controversy .The separatists in the valley and across the border suddenly have a martyr through whom they can now motivate present and future generations into militancy.How long you can suppress protests by imposing curfew and curtailing the publication of news papers? Kashmir will see turbulence in the days ahead.

The ally of Congress in the valley , the national conference, have already distanced itself from the hanging saying it has nothing to do with it and the who;e thing was decided by the congress only.NC was just informed about it.The accusation that the hanging was a political decision will grow stronger in the coming days .If congress is expecting political gains from this then they will be mistaken.

The people of Kashmir and some Muslims in other part of India will be drawn away from the congress. The cry for hanging the killers of Rajiv Gandhi and Beant Singh sentenced to death long before Afsal guru will grow louder and stronger now.Their punishment is not yet implemented and congress will be under pressure now to do it .Otherwise accusations will grow saying they are partial to some .

Already there is huge demand in TN and Punjab to commute the death sentences of these killers.If centre goes ahead with the hangings it will politically alienate people of Punjab and TN and there will be no electoral gains there.Now the hanging of guru has become a double edged sword for the congress.Congress first described this as a master stroke by the home minister Shinde, after his disastrous  Hindu terror speech, by now it is dawning on them that they are in for more more serious trouble .Shinde will be blamed for it though not publicly but privately by the congress as no one has the guts to question some who is a favourite of the "Family " and subordination to the family is touted as congress "culture ".


We have to watch how the fascinating political drama unfolds.

Indian News channels

Indian news channels just sensationalise little news items and go on discussing it the whole day and make a lot of noise. After a few days they will lose interest and start chasing some other story. None of the channels have a comprehensive and detailed coverage of news happening in India and the world. Worst is the discussions by the so called panel of experts on various subjects which happens every night . All of them makes a lot of noise and nothing much . All channels chase only those  stories which they feel improve their rating no else.

They decide what we should watch and We viewers will never get a realistic and objective view of things ,so distressing .

Going up and down

Petrol prices are going up
Diesel prices are going up
Lpg prices are going up
Indo pak tensions are going up
prices are going up
temperatures are going up
Animal instincts of man going up
My BP is going up
Share prices are going up

Water levels in rivers are going down
Patience is going down
good deeds are going down
Air quality is going down
Human life value is going down

The values we need to live with
joy and happiness in going down
Every thing good is going down
Everything else is going up

These may be the signs of our times
keep your sanity is the way forward    

Indian cricket shame !!!!

After losing the 2nd test to a brilliantenglishmen, indian team have no where to hide.We thought they will see reason now and will try to practise hard , work out new strategies and will try to win the rest of the series.But nothing of that sort in happening.They are still hiding behind filmsy excuses and trying to prepare a pitch that will favor them.Sad part is that the cricket board is backing the players.There is no practise sessions so far , indian players will assemble in batches on Sunday and practise monday evening and tuesday morning that's all .
Hope that the arrogance of the indians will given a fitting reply by the english and they should win the series .
All the best to England !!!!!

Obama as US president -makes no difference to India

Barrack Obama is elected as the new American president. In his victory speech he emphasised the need for all Americans to work together to get of the economic mess the country is in .He says the best is yet to come for America .Good for him and the Americans .

Is this election going to make any difference to the ordinary Indian ? No. We will continue to be ruled by these inefficient, selfish , corrupt leaders who do not care for us .Though all the leaders have welcomed the election most of them do not have a clue about what they are talking .They give these statements just to be in the limelight .

Hardly any drastic changes is going to happen in the relation ship between the two countries . Even though India is the largest democracy in the world in terms of no. of voters , America one of  the oldest democracies hardly supported it .Right from Indian independence US has supported powers that are hostile to India. Initially it was Pakistan and now it id Pakistan and China . Successive American administrations have been expressing their concerns over the rising Chinese economic and military power . But they will not do anything major to antagonise the Chinese .It is because all  the major American corporations have invested huge money in setting up manufacturing facilities in China exploiting the cheap labour and industrial friendly policies of the Chinese and made huge profits selling these goods at higher prices in domestic and international markets .If anything happens to this arrangement the very existence of these major corporations will be threatened.There will be minor tensions and skirmishes but no major policy changes will happen. At best Americans will try to pit India against China .This will be advantageous to the US ,one hand they can sell military equipment to India and the other hand they will not confront China directly.

What is the way for better Indo Amercian ties ? There are a lot of people of Indian origin in America who can  take part actively in the local politics , increase their influence and can lobby for Indian interests and concerns.The business leaders in India will hardly help as most of them are either apologetic about their criticism of American policies or go over board in their praise as they have huge business interests with American companies which they do not want to loose.

The election of Obama or any other leader as American president do not make any difference to the ordinary Indian as we will be continuing our daily fight for survival against a rotten administrative system and inefficient , corrupt politicians