Round up

Haven't done a quick round up with comments for a while. Here it goes,

Have you noticed the deafening silence from the Central Government on the Gujarat Police cracking the bomb blast case and the subsequent arrest of the SIMI people? The Prime Minister and the idiot who goes as Home Minister has been giving tele interviews every time a blast occurs as to how terrorism will not be tolerated. But the moment the case is cracked and arrests made, they vanished from the TV screens. Is it because the people behind were from minority community or is it because Gujarat police, ruled by BJP, cracked the case? What pettiness!! Who cares about National Security?

China, whom India tried to please by crawling when the Olympic torch relay was in India, pointedly snubbed India by not inviting either our President or Prime Minister for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. But, surprise, surprise! Sonia Gandhi managed to get an invitation from Communist Party of China and was present at the Opening Ceremony. Why she chose to go when her own PM was humiliated is a mystery. That she was totally sidelined, pushed to the background and had to be an ordinary spectactor is another story.

Despite Abhinav Bhindras Gold, the pathetic story of Indians in Olympics continues. Can we, on their return, line up all the Association heads and ask a Firing squad (or better still Abhinav Bhindra - others might miss the target by a mile) to shoot all of them. It is tax payers money these Associations are squandering. We have a right to demand accountability from the Administrators who have been (mis) managing the sports in our country for decades. Mismanaging is a mild term.

Kashmir is on boil. But did you notice something! How the issue of denying land for temporary shelters to Hindus for their pilgrimage to Amarnath and the grievances of the Hindu majority Jammu has now been conveniently pushed to the background. This happens every single time. No one talks of Godhra, but only of the post Godra riots. No one talks of Amarnath yatrees, but only of how Kashmir muslims want a separate country. No one talks about M F Husain insulting Hindu religion through his paintings (there is an utter lack of insensitivity on his part in todays atmosphere of religious intolerence) but rather about his self imposed exile in Dubai. Who prevents him from coming back to India? No one forced him out. The beauty is that there is an arrest warrant against him and technically he is an absconder from law. Have we heard of any one squeak about revoking his passport as they would have done in your or my case? ( I personally feel it is not a big issue that he painted as he did. It shows him up rather than show hinduism down. But if an adult were to do something, he should be man enough to face the consequences and take recourse to legal means. What he cannot do is run away as an absconder). But in all the above cases we see a trend. The issues pertaining to the majority community is muddled and converted to something that is purported to be anti minority. This is ridiculous.

I was surprised to note that the SIMI activists were training in the jungles of Kerala. The rot has set in deep. I am sad for my home state.

Phelps, Bolt, Isanbeyeva - Olympics is seeing legends being made. Just hope that they are not tainted by dope scandals. We need clean athletes to make us believe in Olympic movement again.