Shashi Twee-roor, The Tweetie Pie of the Year

Shashi Twee-roor as henceforth i will be addressing this great man, who took on the imagination of every forward looking Indian. Though i still have more respect for Shashi Tharoor, the bureaucrat than the Mundu wearing vote-seeking politician, Twee-roor, who is all tweets but no work!!

But still I don't  understand what's wrong in tweeting.Why is everyone harping on what he says on Twitter? The boy is just having some fun, let him!

Maybe he should tweet or DM rite from the Parliament itself, the minutes of the every proceeding. Won't that be great. Why just Parliament, everyday he should just tweet tweet and tweet?

At least, thanks to his tweeting habits, we know that he is on a leisure trip, or maybe he found time to catch on some great Artyf-farty movie or glimpse a cricket match.

Maybe its Twitter you had in mind when you said "reaching out to the common man" Twee-roor.!! Btw Security is important and a little restriction certainly would help us ensure a safer country. But too bad for your firang friends!! Sir!!

Happy tweeting Tweetie-pie

Eunuch's in Pakistan get it too...

Coming right on the heels of the Indian government's decision to grant the "Others" identity, the Pakistan's Supreme Court too has now has issued a directive to recognise the third gender under as distinct gender in order to ensure their rights.

All hail to the changing times. and an equal world.

Legalise it: Right to die! Euthanasia!

The Supreme Court of India has admitted a petition to end the life of Aruna Shanbaug, who was a nurse in Mumbai, paralysed and considered ‘brain-dead’ ever since she was attacked and raped in November 1973.
The plea has been made by a journalist who has written a book on Ms Shanbaug.

The court will examine if the plea is "akin to euthanasia". It is being seen as a landmark case in India where euthanasia or mercy killing is illegal.

So why not legalise it. Why force somebody to live, when he or she really would instead prefer death? Netherlands, where it is legal.

It is sheer hypocrisy, when she was well and good, the SYSTEM could not give her security, save her dignity....her assailant Sohanlal Barth Valmiki, a ward boy, got away with just seven years for attempted murder and for robbing Aruna's earrings..ha!! wat justice..he belived to be working in a Delhi hospital.

I stand for dignity..in life and in death too....why deny it?

Read articles on Aruna's Story and views of Doctors.

I Am Indian Too. Manipur Diary!

I am an Indian, but I never felt like one. Alienated and violated, I am just a dark shadow, on myself and on my countrymen. But I am an Indian too.(excerpts from a conversation with a Manipuri friend.)

For the last ten years, never raising one angry voice, but quietly putting-up a struggle against the state, against the country, Irom Sharmila- an Iron of a woman today has come to represent a true Satyagrahi. 

Excerpts from an article:

The year is 2006. An ordinary November evening in Delhi. A slow, halting voice breaks into your consciousness. “How shall I explain? It is not a punishment, but my bounden duty…” A haunting phrase in a haunting voice, made slow with pain yet magnetic in its moral force. “My bounden duty.” What could be “bounden duty” in an India bursting with the excitements of its economic boom?...

...That’s when the enormous story of Irom Sharmila first begins to seep in. You are in the presence of someone historic. Someone absolutely unparalleled in the history of political protest anywhere in the world, ever. Yet you have been oblivious of her. A hundred TV channels. An unprecedented age of media. Yet you have been oblivious of her.

For young Irom Sharmila, things came to a head on November 2, 2000. A day earlier, an insurgent group had bombed an Assam Rifles column. The enraged battalion retaliated by gunning down 10 innocent civilians at a bus-stand in Malom. The local papers published brutal pictures of the bodies the next day, including one of a 62-year old woman, Leisangbam Ibetomi, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner. Extraordinarily stirred, on November 4, Sharmila, then only 28, began her fast.

“Menghaobi”, the people of Manipur call her, “The Fair One”.

I wonder if there is still democracy?I wonder if people still really care? I wonder... if things will ever change?

Unique Idenfification/UID....i don't think so!

Unique Identification aka UID. Everyone is talking about it...I for sure am against it but who cares for that? But for this post, a cartoon strip painstrakingly drawn by a young enthusiatic journalist Jayadevan PK. (JPK)
                                          
                                                      Click on the image for a clearer view

Now do you really need some UID crap.   JPK blogs on Jude The Obscure

Journalists Murdered in Philippines,total 57 people massacred!

It is horrible!! 57 people massacred and the government is still slowly taking up the issue. Justice delayed is justice denied...Crime is a crime no matter how big a clan you come from. Crime is a crime, no matter the geography of the happenstance, weather it is in Afgahnistan or Iraq or say here it is Philippines..the family of those deceased must be given justice....

Associated Press reported:

The heir of a powerful clan was charged Tuesday in connection with the Philippines' worst political massacre — an ambush in which 57 people, more than half journalists, were slaughtered.

Three witnesses, who escaped because their car was at the tail end of the election convoy that was attacked in a southern province Nov. 23 , said they saw Andal Ampatuan Jr. and about 100 gunmen, including police officers, stopping the cars, prosecutor Al Calica told The Associated Press.

Hours later, troops found bullet-riddled and hacked-up bodies near the highway sprawled in the grass and hastily buried with a backhoe in three mass grave.

 While reports in Local/News world said:

Most or all of the 22 women among the at least 57 people massacred Monday in the southern Philippines were sexually mutilated.

"It was horrible. It was not done to just one," the justice secretary, Agnes Devanadera, said on national television. "It was done to practically all the women."

Why is the world still so quite about it?
 

I Am What Google Says!

I don't think instead I just google it...this overly helpful mama-oogle has turned my life upside down...without google, I would just have been stupid..now i am plain dumb...

Google is my way of life..whats yours!!

Maoists in India! Its the mute,screaming!

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Is fighting for you rights, terrorism? How long should an oppressed submit himself to the debasing life, which promises him nothing but pain and hunger?If its Maoism now in Orissa, in the 70's it was Naxal Bari in W Bengal and even then it were "a pile of bones and some flesh" whose self-respect suddenly woke up.

Years of humiliation and hungers makes these--for want of a word--lets call them--DALIT----immune to the lowly treatment. However, then a time comes when the Dalit mind tells him that he can no bear the shame, the humiliation, for a day's food and then all that it sees is RED...

Who are the Maoists? They are just people and all that they want like any of us is food, cloth and shelter--And some respect. Is it too much to ask for? For a city-bred lad, hunger and starvation are just mere words that hold no real meaning.

What sparked naxalbari in W Bengal? According a committee that investigated the tribal unrest titled- The Causes and Nature of Current Agrarian Tensions: "The basic cause of unrest, namely, the defective implementation of laws enacted to protect the interests of the tribals. While further the report suggested: "unless this is attended to, it would not be possible to win the confidence of the tribals whose leadership has been taken over by the extremists."

Please Note: The term extremist is still being used by the Indian officials to describe the Naxalites, or any one resorting to armed resistance against the Indian government.

In short, it is not a Chinese conspiracy or some foreign funded-terror campaign meant to demoralise the country's morale, Maoism or any ism would always rise up in arms, when people are being denied there rights. Its people just like you and me, who want to be heard?

Are you listening?

Understanding the enemy that China is for India

It was Chairman Mao, the communist godfather, who said: "When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.”

This one statement in the present socio-political scenario summarise, the dirty political infidility that China is playing with India. Always the friend and forgiver, Indian generosity is second best to Jesus Christ, however, but India can’t afford a crucifixion though.

China today is among the fastest growing nations in the world, its roots run deep. From running billions into the So-called First World USA; to routing investment into the far deep African countries, the dragon and its crouch would seem unstoppable.

But India with its friendly control over many Asian countries certainly is the eye-soar, the one country that could possible change the turn of events for China. Thus, China tries everything thing weaken India: Supply weapons to Pakistan,flood the Indian market with cheap Chinese goods, pose incredible claims and what not.

India, however, knows what China is capable of, though only time will tell how much really does China know of what India can really do?

Whats in an MBA? Dogs have it too.

MBA MBA, man whats this whole rut about? From that scowling Dick, to that goat-head Tom, they all have it and their mama-dada, certainly can now proudly post it in his matrimony site as well. So whats the big deal about the MBA..hey i say so..cos now even a dog is official an MBA too!

Chester Ludlow, a pug dog from Vermont, has been awarded an online MBA (Masters in Business Administration) by Rochville University—an online college that offers distance learning degrees based on life and career experience.

Chester is believed to be the first dog to be awarded a college degree. How he got it? well ask the other MBA's. Btw rumours aer that he could have graduated with honours(for an additional $100).