Midst the current controversy and agitation prevailing in Mumbai as well as in Bihar, Shobha De's remark on the issue was shocking one. This is what she has to say "In West Bengal, people speak Bengali, in Karnataka they speak Kannada, in Tamilnadu, they speak Tamil. Well the disconnect is happening in Mumbai because people think of Mumbai as belonging to all of India".
Such an stupid remark from one of the most celebrated writers is totally uncalled for. Being a responsible citizen of India she should have thought once before making such an statement.What is she trying to say? Does she mean that Mumbai is her parental property?
Why is she trying to be Mr Gilchrist of Australia, for whom we Indians had lot of respect before he condemned the demigod of cricket of being a bad sport.
She should not follow the footsteps of the uncivilsed son of the soil (read Raj Thackerey).
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Blame game of Indian politicians in the hour of need
Who can forget 13th of September’08, the horrifying day? It started like just another day and turned out to be the most terrible day for Delhites.
Connaught Place, Delhi: One of the hottest destinations to Delhites. People were hanging around with there near and dear ones, totally unaware of the terror in the air. Suddenly a series of bomb blasts rocked Delhi at various places. Connaught Place was one of the witnesses among them. In a second everything thing changed from good to worst. People were lying here and there crying for help. The whole atmosphere was surrounded by cloud of smoke.
Everything was being aired on TV. I called my younger brother who is based in Delhi and got quite relieved after talking to him. Suddenly I was taken aback at what I saw on some NEWS channel (don’t remember exactly which news channel). The Congress leader Kapil Sibal and BJP leader Arun Jaitely were arguing with each other about the short comings of BJP government and that of UPA government. At the same time the activities at CP, Delhi were also being aired. The people were lending their helping hand to the needy, injured people were being taken to hospitals.
And these so called great leaders were trying to find some loopholes, so that the blast can be attributed to those loopholes. The only thing which came to my mind at that moment is that these leaders should be made to stand in queue and must be shot dead. They are useless fellows always trying to make fool out of a common man. Can’t they learn something from their American counterparts, who always stand as a nation in the hour of need? Why they always play blame game in situation like this?
Don’t know who should be blamed? But strict actions need to be taken otherwise days are not far away when we will have bomb blast every other day, in every other city, in every corner of India.
Connaught Place, Delhi: One of the hottest destinations to Delhites. People were hanging around with there near and dear ones, totally unaware of the terror in the air. Suddenly a series of bomb blasts rocked Delhi at various places. Connaught Place was one of the witnesses among them. In a second everything thing changed from good to worst. People were lying here and there crying for help. The whole atmosphere was surrounded by cloud of smoke.
Everything was being aired on TV. I called my younger brother who is based in Delhi and got quite relieved after talking to him. Suddenly I was taken aback at what I saw on some NEWS channel (don’t remember exactly which news channel). The Congress leader Kapil Sibal and BJP leader Arun Jaitely were arguing with each other about the short comings of BJP government and that of UPA government. At the same time the activities at CP, Delhi were also being aired. The people were lending their helping hand to the needy, injured people were being taken to hospitals.
And these so called great leaders were trying to find some loopholes, so that the blast can be attributed to those loopholes. The only thing which came to my mind at that moment is that these leaders should be made to stand in queue and must be shot dead. They are useless fellows always trying to make fool out of a common man. Can’t they learn something from their American counterparts, who always stand as a nation in the hour of need? Why they always play blame game in situation like this?
Don’t know who should be blamed? But strict actions need to be taken otherwise days are not far away when we will have bomb blast every other day, in every other city, in every corner of India.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Our education system - good enough?
Right from childhood we are told to perform better, try to secure first rank in the class and so on. The point I like to make here is our individual performance is what get noticed. Even teachers pay more attention to top rankers in the class. And this is the reason why from the very beginning we learnt to concentrate on individual performance rather than performing as a group/team. There is a least amount of team work we get involved in during our school days. At least this is what I have seen in my school and I assume this is what happens in most of the schools across the country.
But once we are into the corporate world everyone expects us to be a good team player, a team player to the core.
Now my question to the society is: Is there something wrong with our education system?Is there something wrong with the way we are brought up? Is there anything we can do in this regard?
But once we are into the corporate world everyone expects us to be a good team player, a team player to the core.
Now my question to the society is: Is there something wrong with our education system?Is there something wrong with the way we are brought up? Is there anything we can do in this regard?
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