Monday, November 3, 2008

Courage under fire?

Under round of cowardly attack on the psyche of the common man. Lives of the injured and the dependents of those who were blow away to smithereens will be charred forever. But the pent-up emotions had to give away sometime. And it did! Rioting and sloganeering against the state machinery.

Not a justification. But all this while, the reactions to such attacks have always been courage under fire. But this time 'Is courage under fire?

Attacked again using our very own resources and more dastardly! We had always seen this coming; it was just a matter of time before the attacks became more professional. Unfortunately for the lack of a better word to substantiate the fact that they are improving their organizational skills. The politicians of the state too have to be credited for the same and more so the oldest political party of the nation. The hunger of votes at the cost of their own and the state has been done for!  

However the feeling right now simply does not go away that the politics of the state and specifically the oldest party of the state has completely failed its common man. Maybe it would have been more worthwhile to be parochial in nature. Which self-respecting political party in the world enforces and tolerates a law favoring foreigners to their own. A law that leaves the bonafide citizen to stand at fault for questioning the legality of an illegal migrant's right to citizenship. And to avoid being at fault for sounding parochial, 'illegal' here stands for unauthorized migration of foreign nationals across the international border. Call it the boon of geography being overwhelmed by the bane of history crafted by the vote bank politics of the region. An international border should have led to trade and commerce. Not so it seems after all. 

Sunday, November 2, 2008

a JUMBO innings

Anil Kumble retires at Kotla that stands testimony to his achievements as a champion cricketer.