The Situation is J&K is more edgy than ever before. Even the people who protest against Indian govt in Kashmir, don't know what they really want. Some want Independence and some says they want to merge with Pakistan. Also there is a section who does not want any change in the status of Kashmir.
Recently Arundhati Roy voiced her opinion about Kashmir.
Kashmir needs freedom from India: Arundhati Roy
And when she said India needs freedom from Kashmir and Kashmir needs freedom from India. She is not entirely correct.
Now it seems just like a bad marriage between India and Kashmir. India faced a lot of problem in last 60 years. In fact India fought 3 wars over Kashmir. A lot of Indian people (Who does not belong to Kashmir) died in those war. And people of Kashmir had faced a lot problem for being in India too. They had to face Pakistan sponsored terrorism and had to face Indian army's inhuman treatment.
Now if Kashmir gets independence from India, will they be happy. Will Pakistan allow them to be a separate country. And even if Kashmir people decides to stay with Pakistan, will that be treated like the rest of the people of Pakistan.
And will India be secure enough. Wont it affect the security and unity of other parts of India. What will happen to Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and other north-eastern states.
We Indians value a lot of freedom of individual. Not long ago we get freedom from British. So its natural for some writers like Arundhati Roy to get emotional. And I respect her emotions and wishes of Kashmir people. But what will happen to the future of India and Kashmir if Kashmir gets freedom from India and India gets freedom from Kashmir, needs to be discussed above emotions.
India needs to communicate and understand the need of Kashmir people. India does a lot of thing to improve the state of Kashmir, but this is not communicated well enough to people of Kashmir. The role that Indian Army plays in Kashmir needs to be examined and better approach needs to handle terrorism, than torturing people of Kashmir. This is a huge task. India needs someone like Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Mahatma Gandhi or Sardar Patel, who can communicate with people of Kashmir and try to redress their grievances.
India needs to counter the allegation made by people like Syed Ali Shah Geelani against India. The present situation of Kashmir can not entirely be blamed at India. People like Syed Ali Shah Geelani are also responsible for situation of Kashmir, in fact they are to be blamed more than that of Indian Army.
Also India needs to look more carefully into other Indian states. And try to solve the problems of the people of those states before they come to the situation where Kashmir is today. India has to understand its not improvement of Delhi and Mumbai makes it shining India. If it has to shine they have to take care of all people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
Also the Hindu extremist organizations like BJP, RSS and VHP needs to understand what is important for India. The sovereignty of this country is at stake. Forget the petty politics, and try to act as a responsible organization of India. They have done enough in 1992 (Babri Masjit) and 2002 (Gujarat Riots) for which Indian Muslims will never forgive them. And if they continue to behave like this, future generation of India will never forgive them.
May God/Allah/Bhagwan bless People of India and Kashmir.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Few random things about me
1. The biggest regret of my life is, more often I tried to be trendy instead of being myself.
2. I watch a lot of movies and cry very easily while watching them.
3. I subscribe to Netflix and I watch Drama, Romantic Comedy.
4. I love Historical, Epic, Movies based on true events/politics (Which I can search in wikipedia after watching)
5. I love dancing.
6. Saturday night is special for me. I would love to be in Memphis on all Saturday and go to my favorite dance place.
7. I don't like to wear same dress to same dance place twice. But I hate spending too much on the dress. So I get redundant.
8. I never had a long term relationship. The longest I had was 2 years with someone.
9. I like going to new places.
10. I work in an insurance company as a software programmer.
11. I love North Indian food.
12. I am quite dreamy... I used to dream if I had done something else when I was 16,21,24,26... ;)
13. I stay alone in Memphis.
14. I am not religious and don't believe in God, but I love to visit religious places.
15. I had been to Vaisno Devi twice and want to go one more time in my next India trip.
16. I want to go Amritsar one day to see Harmandir Sahib. Whenever I see harmandir sahib I feel I should visit.
17. I also want to go Pakistan, mostly Lahore. I don't know why, but still Pakistan feels to me something like a part of India, mostly when I read history. (No offense to my Pakistani friends)
18. Sometimes I feel I should leave my job, and go back to India and indulge myself in humanitarian work like awareness of AIDS, Women, Gay and transgenders rights, child labor and abuse prevention.
19. I am 31, but I don't want to marry any sooner.
20. Sometimes I feel there can be a more useful in life can be done rather than just following the usual path of getting married and binding yourself wit those responsibilities.
21. I love to have kids one day... hope i can skip the marriage part. ;)
22. I don't hate marriage and commitment. Just hate the bad marriage and unnecessary drama. Life is too short for all those Drama and that stupid ruthna-manana.
23. I love my two nephews Sidd and Sonu.
24. I like Margarita very much.
25. I hate beer, rum and whiskey. Can manage Vodka and martini.
26. I don't smoke and can live without tea and coffee.
27. I am pretty much happy being single.
28. I have difficulty in concentrating for a long time in one thing. My mind is always always moving.
29. I love talking to my friends on phone. Mostly Ajmer,Sanjeev and Ankur.
30. Sometimes i am too lazy, and hate being that way.
Watch this Space a lot more to come.
2. I watch a lot of movies and cry very easily while watching them.
3. I subscribe to Netflix and I watch Drama, Romantic Comedy.
4. I love Historical, Epic, Movies based on true events/politics (Which I can search in wikipedia after watching)
5. I love dancing.
6. Saturday night is special for me. I would love to be in Memphis on all Saturday and go to my favorite dance place.
7. I don't like to wear same dress to same dance place twice. But I hate spending too much on the dress. So I get redundant.
8. I never had a long term relationship. The longest I had was 2 years with someone.
9. I like going to new places.
10. I work in an insurance company as a software programmer.
11. I love North Indian food.
12. I am quite dreamy... I used to dream if I had done something else when I was 16,21,24,26... ;)
13. I stay alone in Memphis.
14. I am not religious and don't believe in God, but I love to visit religious places.
15. I had been to Vaisno Devi twice and want to go one more time in my next India trip.
16. I want to go Amritsar one day to see Harmandir Sahib. Whenever I see harmandir sahib I feel I should visit.
17. I also want to go Pakistan, mostly Lahore. I don't know why, but still Pakistan feels to me something like a part of India, mostly when I read history. (No offense to my Pakistani friends)
18. Sometimes I feel I should leave my job, and go back to India and indulge myself in humanitarian work like awareness of AIDS, Women, Gay and transgenders rights, child labor and abuse prevention.
19. I am 31, but I don't want to marry any sooner.
20. Sometimes I feel there can be a more useful in life can be done rather than just following the usual path of getting married and binding yourself wit those responsibilities.
21. I love to have kids one day... hope i can skip the marriage part. ;)
22. I don't hate marriage and commitment. Just hate the bad marriage and unnecessary drama. Life is too short for all those Drama and that stupid ruthna-manana.
23. I love my two nephews Sidd and Sonu.
24. I like Margarita very much.
25. I hate beer, rum and whiskey. Can manage Vodka and martini.
26. I don't smoke and can live without tea and coffee.
27. I am pretty much happy being single.
28. I have difficulty in concentrating for a long time in one thing. My mind is always always moving.
29. I love talking to my friends on phone. Mostly Ajmer,Sanjeev and Ankur.
30. Sometimes i am too lazy, and hate being that way.
Watch this Space a lot more to come.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Year That Is Bad
How things can be bad. Just six months before the gas price was just $3.00 per gallon. Now this weekend I had to pay $3.98.
And if you are not really impressed with that. Lets talk about sensex. Well I invest in India. Sensex was coolly placed with a pride of hot and happening India at 20973 on January 08 2008. Now on its 16275. I have lost Rs 2 Lakh so far this year.
Well if these are not enough. We have food crisis, economic recession and inflation to talk about. My best friend Ajmer is looking for project since January this year. But the job market in USA is really bad. He is facing the worst time of his life. But now things started to look positive for him. He may find himself working again in couple of weeks. Amin.
Well I am an Indian resides in US. So matter two countries that matters most to me are India and USA. But if you look beyond this, you will find 1 million percent inflation in Zimbabwe. And it may reach 5 million percent by October this year. As stores opened for business few days before, a small pack of locally produced coffee beans cost just short of 1 billion Zimbabwe dollars. A decade ago, that sum would have bought 60 new cars in Zimbabwe. Wow, obviously in a bad way.
Well for India, official figures says it is only at 7.82 percent. And its this low because govt of India is lying totally. If you talk to common people in India, you hear the real story – the inflation rate is at more than 30% and the Government is lying totally. And now when Govt of India decided to increase the petrol prices by Rs10 inflation is going to be more than 50%.Now one wonders why GOI is doing it now. Why it did not allow it grow earlier.
Well if these are bad, people in CNN promise that things can go worse beyond this point. Oh God.
Rediff thinks the same too
And if you are not really impressed with that. Lets talk about sensex. Well I invest in India. Sensex was coolly placed with a pride of hot and happening India at 20973 on January 08 2008. Now on its 16275. I have lost Rs 2 Lakh so far this year.
Well if these are not enough. We have food crisis, economic recession and inflation to talk about. My best friend Ajmer is looking for project since January this year. But the job market in USA is really bad. He is facing the worst time of his life. But now things started to look positive for him. He may find himself working again in couple of weeks. Amin.
Well I am an Indian resides in US. So matter two countries that matters most to me are India and USA. But if you look beyond this, you will find 1 million percent inflation in Zimbabwe. And it may reach 5 million percent by October this year. As stores opened for business few days before, a small pack of locally produced coffee beans cost just short of 1 billion Zimbabwe dollars. A decade ago, that sum would have bought 60 new cars in Zimbabwe. Wow, obviously in a bad way.
Well for India, official figures says it is only at 7.82 percent. And its this low because govt of India is lying totally. If you talk to common people in India, you hear the real story – the inflation rate is at more than 30% and the Government is lying totally. And now when Govt of India decided to increase the petrol prices by Rs10 inflation is going to be more than 50%.Now one wonders why GOI is doing it now. Why it did not allow it grow earlier.
Well if these are bad, people in CNN promise that things can go worse beyond this point. Oh God.
Rediff thinks the same too
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
If ..., then I am an asshole
I had a terrible time in year 2003-04. I learned a lot from my mistakes I made then. And I feel sometimes, that everyone used to have a terrible time in their life, which makes them stronger. The thing that does not kill you makes you stronger.
Hence when Amit was going on tough time last year, one part of me was happy about it. That he will turn stronger out of it. But now I wonder, does this thing really work that way. And who I am to make wish like that. For example I have only seen the problems related to love and heart. I have never seen poverty or anything dreadful like loss of your favorite people. Many people have seen worse in their life, than what i had. Will I wish that thing to happen to me, so that it will make me stronger.
I guess when we grew older day be day, we tend to get rough, in our attitude. If we face the problem that we had faced earlier, we are in a better position to solve them. And when we see someone else is going through that kind of problem, we may appreciate his situation and even help him out. But if we see someone is vulnerable of getting into those problems, a part of us think that they should fall into those problem to make themselves stronger. Why is not there any easier way learn the lessons.
Two months back one marriage proposal came for me. I talked with the girl over phone, saw her over net. Well she was a sweet person. But immature and naive. She had a lot of rosy dreams. And when she was expressing her feelings on those terms, I was like how naive is she. And a part of me was just thinking what will happen to her, if she falls into the problem that i faced 4 years before. Well some problems came later on, and I had to say no to her.
I did not know, she would be so devastated. But I had to do that. Its about marriage. And if I had to choose between giving her pain for few months or life time. I would have choose "giving her pain for few months". I was not in love with her. And she deserve better.
Now I am feeling bad all the time. Was I really wishing something bad like that should happen to her. I don't remember. If I did wish like that, then I am an asshole.
Hence when Amit was going on tough time last year, one part of me was happy about it. That he will turn stronger out of it. But now I wonder, does this thing really work that way. And who I am to make wish like that. For example I have only seen the problems related to love and heart. I have never seen poverty or anything dreadful like loss of your favorite people. Many people have seen worse in their life, than what i had. Will I wish that thing to happen to me, so that it will make me stronger.
I guess when we grew older day be day, we tend to get rough, in our attitude. If we face the problem that we had faced earlier, we are in a better position to solve them. And when we see someone else is going through that kind of problem, we may appreciate his situation and even help him out. But if we see someone is vulnerable of getting into those problems, a part of us think that they should fall into those problem to make themselves stronger. Why is not there any easier way learn the lessons.
Two months back one marriage proposal came for me. I talked with the girl over phone, saw her over net. Well she was a sweet person. But immature and naive. She had a lot of rosy dreams. And when she was expressing her feelings on those terms, I was like how naive is she. And a part of me was just thinking what will happen to her, if she falls into the problem that i faced 4 years before. Well some problems came later on, and I had to say no to her.
I did not know, she would be so devastated. But I had to do that. Its about marriage. And if I had to choose between giving her pain for few months or life time. I would have choose "giving her pain for few months". I was not in love with her. And she deserve better.
Now I am feeling bad all the time. Was I really wishing something bad like that should happen to her. I don't remember. If I did wish like that, then I am an asshole.
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