वाह रे मेरा भारतवर्ष

cnn ibn reports -

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"Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday demanded the merger of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan"

Addressing a mammoth gathering at the tourist reception centre here (Srinagar), Gillani said there was "no solution to the Kashmir issue other than merger with Pakistan".

"We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam," he roared, as the crowd cheered him and chanted: "Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai" (We are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours).

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And our media is proud of it .... Syed Ali Shah Geelani is still a free man .... free to address as many such rallies as he wishes .... today it is kashmir ... tomorrow will be hyderabad ....and then amdabad ... after all we are a democracy ... you know Modi with a 2/3rds majority in the Vidhan Sabha is a bigger threat there (Source: Our very own ... Intellectual media )

we are proud to be a democracy .... proud to be an Indian ...

Just compare this with our neighbours ... 2 Brits deported from Beijing ... in front of full International media glare ... the same day they were found with a "free Tibet" bannner ....

a few votes in our democracy are more important than our territorial integrity ..... and for our media this is just another masala news item which should be displayed proudly on the home page .... who needs traitors here ...

वाह रे मेरा भारतवर्ष ...

Kumble and the fab 4

If anyone has won more tests single handedly for India ... theres no doubt in my mind it has to be kumble ... for the last 18 odd years this guy who ... for the for the first half of his career fooled batsmen by claiming to be a leg break bowler and then after his shoulder injury actually started to spin the ball both ways when no one expected it would spin .... he has proved beyond doubt he will always be one of the all time greatest cricketers ever to have played for India.

If anyone deserved to be captain of India for the last decade and a half ... based on pure performance and dedication ... again undoubtedly it should have been kumble .... and when it was time to maybe hang his boots ... on a high .... he was crowned "The captain" and given the "fab 4" in his team .... what an irony ... these have been the very guys who over the years overshadowed whatever kumble did .... 1 sachin century in a tame draw was always hailed greater than a match winning 4 wickets by kumble in the final session to win a test .... and today these are the people who themselves will never retire gracefully (will have to be kicked out ) ... and not let the great that Kumble is to go the way he should .....

p.s1 lately if anyone has been winning tests for India is Sehwag without doubt ..... when will sachin , dravid , ganguly , laxman realize their time is over !!
p.s2 I am told that Sachin "refused" to take the responsibility and the Indian Board couldn't find anyone to take the Job after Dravid stepped down ... now was it actually an honor for Kumble or just convenience on the part of the Indian board ?

Its Different ..

I frequent the ibn live blogs , not exactly for the quality of posts there or even the insight they provide on a gamut of issues that our nation faces ... but probably more to guage the level to which the Hippocratic bias of front line Indian intellectual media (read ndtv/cnn-ibn and the likes) can get to ....and more to go through the comments section rather than the actual post :) ..

To my surprise today i came across a very subjective post ... which talks about actual governance on the ground and keeps itself away from the Hippocratic pseudo secular line that you will come across more often ...

Surely one of the few good reads you will find there -

cnnibn - different blog

and enclosing one of the typical ones "just to tell the difference" :)

cnnibn - typical blog

:)

My new address on the World Wide Web ...

Being consistent with changing times ... and evolving through time ... which has been the theme of my Blog since Monday Feb 20 2006, I have now migrated to Google .

Being one of the strongest proponents of Google , its technology and vision, I should have been doing this a long time back ... and well ... I indeed had .... its just that i have become a bit too lazy to actually do a "cut over" (As we say as per the standard migration process) , so here .. on the 16th Of August 2008 completely move from O3 at Indiatimes to here ...

My previous posts will remain available at - http://o3.indiatimes.com/someramblings , though i have not been a prolific writer in any sense of the word , but whatever little bit i write going forward will be here .... till evolution again demands change

Update : 10/05/2009

I found a way to Migrate my earlier posts to Blogger , so all my posts are available here also.

something has changed ....

There was a time (not that long ago) when i had lots of time ...and i had to find ways to make use of it ,and today looks like days have shortened ... do we still have the same 24 Hrs a day which i had 3 years back ? things have changed .... life has changed ..... maybe even priorities have .... , when i had started off my career in the technology space .... some 5 years back ... I always belived that i am the one whos working the most and making all the $s for my company .... today i feel i am the one whos slogging it out and these juniors just out of college just dnt want to work ..... now is this just a perspective or a different generation a different mindset .... i dont knw ... all i knw that when i thot i slogged a lot 5 yrs back i had a lot of time to forward junk to the world ... be 24X7 online ........ write blogs .... be active on the social network ... play cricket ... play TT .... go to gym (once in a while ie) ... get into a volleyball game ... roam around the chennai beaches ... . be involved with socio political groups ... be part of change ... try to influence change and what not ... if i look down ... just the last 5 years i can see what it is ....... is it just abt getting practical with all your experiences ... with time you get your priorities right (now who knws 5 yrs down the line i might think otherwise) .... u understand yourself and your environment ....what you can do and what is beyond urself .... it is something like a couple of years back in a similar setup i was away frm India and there were those ghastly bomb blasts in the mumbai subarban train network .... I was shocked angered and wanted to change the world ... today I am again somewhere far off and i hear of bombs going off at the same Bus stops in bangalore where I had waited for my bus to e-city 100's of times ...and I just dont get that same feeling i had 2 years back ... i know nothing can change and nothing will change ... that spark ...that exuberance.... that hope .. seems to be deserting me ....Today the only passion i see ... offcourse other than cricket :) ... is my job .. my work, why has so much changed in the last year or so .... maybe its just that i am getting married .... i know its not right ... but its imminent ..... what i always feared is coming true ... once u get married have a family you ... the selflessness starts diminishing and the selfishnes begins ... i know its coming .... i knw its happening ... and i know it happens to most .... but i always thought i am diffrent ... the question i need to ask myself is ... what makes me change ... why cant i be my real self as i was B4 .... why cant i still find time to do what i always did ... why cant i still play the games i loved ...why cant i keep thinking big .... why cant i spare time for firends .... why cant i just be online as used to be before !!