India Today

One of my friends got me the special new year issue of India Today from India. A very good issue and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. So to that friend - thank you!

The issue is about how India's next 30 years will be. Each article written by guest writers respond to specific questions related to India's next 30 years. Some of the questions that are answered -
* Will India suffer from an energy crunch?
* Will gay marriages be allowed in India?
* Will our population be a boon or a bane? ...etc etc...

Some are well written. Some state the obvious. Some don't make sense whatsoever. :) The worst one is written by Benazir Bhutto, the former PM of Pakistan. So the question she is answering is this - Will India and Pakistan form a viable asian union? huh? And she is the best person to answer that questions (which is absurd anyway) because??? Yeah, beats me! But she talks like she is the greatest political reformer known to mankind. Apparently, she had done great things for Pakistan and her party "moved" the peace agenda with India. HA!

That article was a disgrace. It was her election manifesto and I have no idea why India Today would want to publish it. Now all her claims...that's not the worst part. What really sucks is she is comparing Pakistan with India. Hello?? India is competing with China here and she is trying to compare Pakistan's economic growth with ours? Phew! She talks about how democracy in Pakistan will remove all the problems that is hampering India and Pakistan's growth. I mean come on...Pakistan might be living in Stone Age but don't blame it on the dispute with India. Blame it on your incapability to maintain a stable democracy or for that matter stable dictatorship in the last 58 years. Blame it on your incapability to separate religion and state. Blame it on your lack of investment in education (other than terrorist training camps). Blame it on the doorknob leaders you had. I recently heard from someone that Karachi can be compared to Mumbai. Now waitttt aaaa minnnnute!! Mumbai is compared to NYC and Shangai.

This turned out to be a rant but I just can't stop myself when I read articles like this. They deserve my ranting and much more...