How seriuos we are?

After two consecutive days of serial bomb blasts in two of the Indian cities, common people like me have two questions:
1. How safe we are now?
2. How serious the central government and state governments are to tackle terrorism?

The answer to the first question is we are not safe. At least after several serial bomb blasts in different cities in last 2-3 years indicates the same. If its fact that we are not safe, we should accept that and then start working towards a goal to make this country safer. I am not worried if I know that we are not safe but we are doing every possible thing to make this country safe to live. I am only worried if we live in a fabricated and false world of feeling safe and then doing nothing to tackle terror. That’s what baffles me at least. The answer to the second question is related to this same fact.

I doubt the seriousness of governments and law enforcing agencies to tackle terror. Not even me but even the terror modules are thinking in same ways. Let’s see how. On Friday 25th July 2008, after Bangalore serial bomb blast, central home ministers (Mr Patil and Mr Jaisawal) came with stereotyped comments. I guess now they have every words of these comments memorized because they use almost same comments after each serial bomb blast in last 2-3 years. Anyway we also heard news on TV that government has put all big cities on high alert. Ahmedabad was on high alert on Saturday when terrorists easily placed all vehicles loaded with bomb all over the cities and exploded them in evening. What does that mean? That means that the term “high alert” was just the eyewash for us. Government was not serious. To just pacify the country, security establishment made this comment (putting cities on high alert) and perhaps thought that very next day the same serial bomb blast would not take place and they won’t be in uncomfortable situation. But the same thing happened. Even after Saturday’s serial bomb blast, on Sunday, in Surat two vehicles loaded with explosive material were found parked. Fortunately by this time the common people were more alert and they timely alerted police. But question remains same, why terrorists were were easily conducting their operations when cities were on high alert. Answer is crystal clear that even they were sure that governments were not serious.

Preventing the situation to arise is one thing and fighting after that is another thing. Let’s assume our intelligence network was not quite good to warn us of terror attack and so the different serial bomb blast took place. But then after that, how many culprits of last several serial blasts were arrested by government agencies? How many of them booked and punished? What is the state of different investigations? Loads of questions are unanswered and that make common people think that government in not serious in tackling terror.

We need to live in a real world than living in a false world and understand the ground realities to come up with a concrete plan to thrash terrorism. For that we need honest approach and clear thinking. Coming on TV heavily guarded by security staff and making statements are very easy. People sitting at different government positions need to chalk out plans to tackle terror. Time has come to see just two communities in country one is national and another is anti-national. Time has come to strengthen ourselves to crush anti-national elements at all levels. Time has come for different political parties to come above the caste, religion based politics and work for the betterment of security situation. Time has come for common man to understand the security threat, be alert to avoid threats and also teach a lesson to all political leaders who are not capable of delivering the solution while being in government at different position.

Will this govt survive?

Today is result day for Manmohan Singh government. It is going to face floor test by evening. This political commotion was created because of nuclear deal. A person like me understands very less technical, social, financial aspects of this deal. Few knowledgeable persons are against and few are in support of deal. Thus it’s more and more confusing for common man to understand the different facets of this deal. I am not sure whether I am for or against the deal but one thing is sure that I am in support of government today. Not because deal is good or bad but because I am against Karat and Company. I always felt that communist parties in India are biggest destructive force. I am against them. So if they want to topple the government, I am opposed to them. The performance of Manmohan Singh’s UPA government has been very disappointing in last four and half year on economic and security fronts but nobody can deny that the prime minister is really very honest person and its always pleasure to see people like him with a clean image leading the country. After this recent political turmoil over the nuclear deal, I have more respect for Manmohan Singh because of the courage he had shown to not succumb to left pressure. It also gave a signal that current prime minister is not as weak as we kept on assuming in last four and half year. I know there will be lots of horse trading behind the scene, lots of deal, money and muscle power will play their roles in today’s vote. People from both sides will try their best in all ethical/unethical practices to either save or topple the govt. An honest person like Manmohan Singh had to directly/indirectly endorse these things if he had to save his government. This may not look very ethical but I remember 4 lines of hindi poem:

“आग के साथ आग बन मिलो
पानी के साथ पानी ,
गरल का उत्तर है प्रतिगरल
यही कहते जग के ज्ञानी!”

Dulcamara (homeopathy remedy)

Rainy days arrive and you can see people frequently catching cold. The dampness in climate causes the cold viruses to survive more. Cold is irritating and may cause frequent sneezing, nose discharge, watering of eyes and sometime flu kind of fever too. For me this is the time to use Dulcamara (30) with Rhus Tox (30) 2-3 times a day and it really works wonder to treat me for cold and mild fever. Cold caused by damp weather indicates Dulcamara as the homeopathy remedy. This medicine also worked wonders for me when the big temperature difference (places where days are relatively warm and in night mercury level falls down heavily) between day and night caused me frequent cold. Here is the link for this medicine http://abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Dulc

क्या निराश हुआ जाए?

It has been raining here at Pune regularly since last month. In Pune, rainy days are worst to drive in a city. The roads will start seeing water logging and potholes will slowly appear and then grow rapidly. You need to have certain level of driving expertise to successfully avoid potholes. We usually don’t have separate footpaths for walking people and if there are some footpaths they are not in condition where people can walk. Usually people walk at the sides of the road. In rainy season to avoid the rain water accumulated at sides of the road, people start walking at the middle of the road. Thus for me it’s really frustrating to drive on city roads in monsoon season. But I had to. So what do I do? I keep on managing myself to somehow drive safely and decrying the system, government and everyone who looks like closely or remotely associated with city planning and management. Few days back I drove to buy groceries for this month. I was feeling frustrated after that small drive to the shop and somehow search to park my small car. On top of that, the prices of essential commodities made me feel totally down, dejected. In recent times, every month when I see my groceries bill, I start feeling uncomfortable and what can I do maximum? I start criticizing the system, the government and the entire setup. I feel frustrated, helpless and hopeless. While driving down back to home, I was in full swing to criticize everything and express my anguish. Mostly the finance ministry to tackling the inflation. I was trying to find out where they spend majority of tax money they deduct from my pay cheque including the education cess. I still see the same poor children begging on the traffic lights. Where does the tax money go? By now I felt its biggest life time puzzle for me. I thought enough is enough I should express my anguish in my blog. I should write a hard hitting blog to express my anguish, unhappiness, frustration and everything. I should express my thought that how hopeless I feel at road, at shop, when I go out of my home.

Next day I reached office early morning. It was still raining outside. Most of the employees had not reached office. I planned to organize my thoughts before writing my blog. I wanted to make my blog hard hitting and effective. To breathe fresh ideas; I walked into dry pantry of my office and started looking out of the office thru the big glass window. Looked like rain had just stopped and traffic was in full swing on the road. People were rushing to their offices, schools, and workplaces. It was still not very clear sky but not too dark too. Freshness after the small spell of rain was visible. All of the sudden I observed three small girls (looked from very poor background) in dirty, untidy school uniforms with school bags, barefooted enjoying the water logged on the road and rushing towards their school. Looked like they were in hurry to join the government school which is few meters away on the other side of road. I kept on looking at them by the time they disappeared from my sight. I had finished my cup of tea in dry pantry. I started walking back to my seat, I had abandoned my idea of writing a blog to express my thoughts that time had come to feel hopeless.