Comments, blog settings and more thoughts...

Great comment there Jai*. I am glad the first ever comment on this blog is so well-written, crisp and absolutely thought provoking! I totally agree with you about the media taking the back seat instead of doing what they are supposed to do - to stand up for the people and voice our opinion!

I made a slight change to the settings. Anonymous comments can be posted but I have enabled moderation to make sure it doesn't get out of hand, if you know what I mean.

Tomorrow the indian PM Dr. Singh will be attending the G8 summit and is expected to make a strong statement against the attacks. Mere words will not do it but if they are strong it would be a good start for him. The Indian media has however decided to focus on auxillary news. Rediff is filled with articles that quote the so-called party leaders and ministers. Let's examine couple of them, shall we?

Murali Manohar Joshi - Senior BJP leader. - "If Pakistan thinks that country is incomplete without Kashmir, let us make it loud and clear to them that in that case India is also incomplete without Pakistan," the BJP leader thundered.

Huh? What? He might have "thundered" but he sounds like he has just been hit by a lightning. Dude, what you said doesn't even make sense leave alone provoke thought or action! Either that or the reporter screwed up the translation (Hey Rediff - are you letting www.dawn.com reporters report for you too?)

Abu Azmi - Samajwadi Party MP - "Muslims are made to feel as if all of them are terrorists. I would like to tell the government that if 20 lakh Muslims pour onto the streets, it will be very difficult to control the situation," Azmi told reporters.

Great. So what are you implying Mr. MP? Turn this whole thing around and make it a communal issue. That should do wonders. It will shift what little focus the ministry has and worry about how to make peace with this dude so that they don't lose the 20 lakh votes. You are thinking "wait, wait, wait...He never mentioned votes. What are you talking about?" Yes, I am sure they are more worried about the votes and majority balance than possible communal riots.

So what is happening is these leaders are just trying to get back their position in the government. To them this is an opportunity to topple the government, regain power and make more money! What a disgrace!

Former premier of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto says she would close down any terrorist camp operating in the country if she returned to power. Hmm, so you are saying there are terrorist camps that can be closed down? Interesting!

I hope the moronic ministers/leaders don't turn this situation to a communial issue and shift the whole focus. We need focus! Remember the lives that were lost.

I quote Marlon Brando in Superman(1978) - "They can be great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son. "
Unfortunately, we don't have a superman coming to our rescue. It is just us. Do you see the light? Do you see the way? Ask yourselves....

Jai Hind!

*Jai (not real name) is someone I know but we haven't spoken in a very long time till I received his phone call last night. Great surprise! If you haven't read his comments please read it in the posting "Zidane...."