Another Hijack...... are we really prepared

Amidst speculations that the terrorist groups are planning to plot another plane hijack, this time for their "hero" Afzal, the question that comes to our mind is that are we really ready, what if tomorrow this threat is materialized, do we have a solid policy to handle these critical situations. The answer is a big NO. We always believe in damage control, ours is always a reactive policy and not a proactive one.

Consider this scenario : An Indian pessanger plane is hijacked and taken to Afghanistan, or say POK. Now the terrorists demand a huge amount of cash and release of Afzal. As usual, our political clergy will announce not to panic ( although they are the ones who panic the most because of the lack of foresightedness to such events). Even if some really strong politician (which is a rare breed) requests the government not to succumb to their demands, I can predict what reply he will get from those cowards ruling this country " If the NDA government can free a terroroist as feirce and dangerous as Azhar Masood, why would we risk our public image by not releasing Afzal who is after all a "hero" to some of the people who call themselves "Indians"... "

And this will go on and on and on....... when will we have a government which will have a solid and aggeressive foreign policy.... when will the government that foreign policy is not all about getting appreciated by USA.. when will we have leaders who will not care about the world and let our soldiers croos the LOC if there is an infringement instead of letting them die.....when ??? when???..... The question troubles not only me but millions of other Indians.

North Korea.. Blasts and spits on Uncle Sam's face

Noth Korea proved to the world that there's survival beyond the shadow of the US and its allies. Amidst allegation that it got its technology through illegal transfer from Pakistan some people even speculate that the Pakistani government was involved in it.

Whatever may be the actual means of acquiring the technology, it is a big setback to the US intelligence agencies who boast on the kind of technology and network that they have. North Korea may have a thousand menacing objectives behind it but the way it almost slapped US on its face is worth admiring. I think Iran will also take a leaf out of N. Korea's book and not succumb to US pressure.

Beyond N. Korea's menacing objectives is a far more critical question, that of the illegal channel of Nuclear proliferation that has developed within Pakistan. If N. Korea can get it from Pakistan, why can't Osama Bin Laden with all his sources inside the Pakistan regime do the same????

Hang Afzal or hang ME....

Enough is enough..... we need to be active if not aggressive towards terrorism, how could people demand for mercy for a person who is responsible for the attack on our pride, our honour.....Faruq Abdullah, Mufti Mohammad Saeed are standing along with people of JKLF to demand mercy for a terrorist. Perfect example of India's contemparory political scenario where leaders will cross all limits of shamelessness to collect some votes.

If you ask me, Not only Afzal, but each and every person who was related with this or any other terror attack should be hanged. When will be stop being so soft, when will we become ruthless to kill this menace of terrorism..

We should set an example for other people who help terrorists by hanging Afzal.If our government can't kill Afzal because he has a family which needs mercy, I think all innocent people like us should be hanged, because they do not have families,they have no right to live , or else people like Afzal will kill us anyway.

Hindi...The language of uneducated people!!!!

Yesterday I saw an interview in which Karan Johar was talking about his childhood days and how he would not talk to kids who speak hindi and watch hindi movies just because they had a group who called themselves educated and sophisticated, and speaking in hindi was prohibited in their group .

Why should smart and sophisticated people speak hindi???? It is the language that signifies backwardness, a language that signifies poverty, ignorance and all the curses that a poor country like India has. You speak Hindi because you are not educated, you speak hindi becsause you belong to an inferior category of population. isn't it??????? Isn't this the psyche that is rapidly developing in our minds, and more dangerously the minds of our children, our budding citizens who depict the future of this country.

A very recent incidence I'd like to quote at this point. I went to a mall in Pune, and I saw two kids not more than 8 years old quarreling with each other, they were speaking in such fluent english that amazed me. There's a very significant inference that one can draw in the way those two kids were speaking. That they were taught to speak in english from the very beggining of their lives. Their parents want them to become educated and smart, and english is the only way to do that. Lets consider this... all people in US and UK speak in english (of course they will... as it is their native language), so does that mean that all are doctors and engineers and all of them are smart citizens of the world.

There's a joke that I used to crack when I was a child, a sardarji comes back from US and says , man that country is really well educated.... even a sweeper talks in english there. The above mentioned parents can take a very good lesson out of this joke.

It does not mean that I am strictly against speaking in english, this we can't do because all our education is done in english, we have all scientific studies and researches being carried out in english, this can't be changed now, coz being under the brithish rule for more than two centuries, this price we will have to pay. But it does not mean that we start identifying hindi as an inferior language, Scientifically speaking, no language in this world can challenge Hindi and Sanskrit (Food for thought for the 'educated' people)
Germans, Russians, French, Japanese, Chinese and many other countries of the world conduct all of their scientific studies in their own language, not in thr 'universal' language i.e. english. One might argue at this point that we are a a knowledge superpower only because our people are well versed in english.

If you ask me , we are not knowledge superpower and we can never be if we continue to move in the same direction that we are right now. We hardly develop anything new, what others develop, we can follow, we can troubleshoot the technology that others have invented but we can never develop anything on our own. But the discussion on that is beyond the scope of this article.

Lets accept one thing, that whatever may be the reason, english is the need of the hour for us. But in the quest to learn english, lets not lose our own linguistic identity. A very important incident I'd mention at this point.... Few months back, there was a meeting where the finance ministers of all EU countries gathered to discuss fiscal matters. A French minister started addressing the meeting in english, at that very instance, one senior french minister stopped him and told him to speak in French. Its an inspiring thing for all, if we can uphold the honour of our language in front of the whole world then only we can be called the true children of our land.
Lets not get into a condition where we greet each other on 'Hindi Divas' as "Hey man... Happy Hindi Day" ( This has happened to me). Lets teach our people to respect our native language (not only hindi but other regional languages also). For that we dont need to have a revolution, we just need to educate our children accordingly .... because they are the future of this country, and if this is not done then after a few more generation, hindi will become extinct.

White meets black to fight BROWN

Twelve Indians treated like criminals, handcuffed and put in a single cell without charge...... The only charge that they could understand was that they do not belong to the world of Blacks and Whites.... "They were acting suspiciously.. and whatever was done was correct" Quotes the policeman of the world "USA"...Successful businessman from the East.. most of them millionaires were behaving suspiciously... as if they dont have anything else to do.... Can anyone define what does 'suspicious behaviour' mean..... talking in Asian languages ( which happens to be their respective native languages), is that a metric of suspicion.? If yes, then we should all start talking in english or a European language... else all of us are terrorists looking to blow off the West.

If Israel can demolish Lebanon, killing innocent civilians just because two of its soldiers were kidnapped... why cant we show some aggression when the pride of our nation is at stake.. Those twelve people were not handcuffed... our national pride, our honour was handcuffred.... People have raised a finger on our very existence..... If still we cant do anything, then we deserve to be treated like this.