Things of the Past - I

Some prime events that happened around the world that got my attention:

(1) Sachin crafted a classy 200 runs in cricket while playing for India against Republic of South Africa. The first-ever man on the Planet to achieve this stupendous task!!! Bravo Sachin. But hopefully you will retire after the 2011 world cup and pave way for the youngsters.

(2) Minority Indians gets attacked in India and elsewhere. The ruling Government manages to act as a mute spectator, as always!!! One of the Greatest Artists India has ever produced, M.F.Husain, was conferred Qatar nationality recently. His paintings that blatantly portrayed the sexuality in ancient Indian culture received huge criticism from communal forces and hence the Legend was forced to vacate India. Two points to consider: (1) We no longer can boast the mantra "Unity in Diversity"; that's just to fool foreigners & local kids. (2) The level of creativity and imagination incorporated in Art should be left to Artists and not to politicians and other communal forces. Enough damage was already done on Indian constitution and now the politicians are expanding their horizons to ruin the world of paintings, movies, etc.

(3) Hamas Leader al-Mabhouh was mysteriously killed in a Hotel room in Dubai. The Israeli spy agency Mossad was the prime suspect in this thriller-killer event. About 18 passports were doctored and was used illegally to carry out this. Bravo Mossad if you're indeed behind this!!! In contemporary context, nations protect sovereignty by speaking diplomacy overtly and perform secret operations using their spy-agencies (KGB, CIA, MI5, RAW, ISI and now Mossad) by supporting covert operations such as this. If this continues, I expect to see Stones and sticks in the near future as fighting tools if you know what I mean. Well, I won't be there to see, but let's see!!!

(4) Hilarity Clinton recommended the Senate to approve few more billon USA dollars as an aid to Pakistan. America's foreign policy towards Pakistan is really confusing to me. Well, technically its not confusing when I realize that America is playing a dual game to both us (India) and Pakistan. On on end, America publicly impeach Pakistan that they must dismantle all terror groups for the benefit of their own as well as the world. On other end, they provide all funds and train Pakistani men to raise their standards. The fact of the matter is most of the USA-funds given to Pakistan are used to boost-up their covert and overt attacks against Indians. It's like a food chain process. America gives money to Pakistan which in turn is used to train pakistani men. These men (both military as well as ISI guys) in turn train terrorists organizations who in turn targets us either in India or Afghanistan or elsewhere. America turned a Nelson's eye despite our repetitious attempts to bring this issue to them.

(5) One of the prime suspects behind the 26/11 attacks that happened in Mumbai, David Headley alias Daood Gilani, is under America's custody for almost 5 months. He was arrested for his alleged involvement with terrorist organizations and planning several attacks in India and elsewhere. And now, what pisses me off is the "utterly inadequate diplomatic skills" showed off by Indian rulers in convincing America to deport Headley to India. We can't even get access to a terrorist from our "so-called" ally, let alone getting access to Saeed (Jamaat-ud-Dawaah Chief) from Pakistan. For christ's sake, it took more than 4 months to even get the recent photograph of Headley. India needs to get access to this men ASAP in order to circumvent future attacks because this 'deadly Headley' visited various "hot" spots in India and captured videos. The master plans must have been laid already for future attacks and America must come forward to save Indians/other citizens. I've a question to American diplomats now. "If India gets to possess the custody of mastermind behind 9/11, wouldn't you be doing anything at any cost at an unbelievable pace to gain access to those terrorists - Yes or No??"

(6) China likes to live in a fantasy world. Not only they don't have democracy in their country, but also they develop symptoms to not to perceive democratic feelings of alien countries. Since when China developed the power to control whether or not an Indian Prime Minister should go to Arunachal Pradesh? Since when China developed the power to control whether or not should Indian/American diplomats should meet Dalai Lama or not? Out of the blue, China demonstrated immense interests for the development of Sri Lanka . Or, should it be to belittle South India? China considers India as its potential enemy from the South Asian region and doesn't want us to progress in any quarters. Agreed that China has a huge economy, very powerful military and is not nearly as corrupted as India is (thanks to our shameless politicians!!!). However, China can never come close to India - not even in dreams - when certain important parameters are considered. Few of them are: (i) Diversity; (ii) respect for fellow citizens; (iii) communication skills; (iv) IT sector; (v) Role of a civilian in deciding the ruling Government; (vi) A mixture of traditional values and modern thoughts!!!

That's it for now...I hope to write "Things of the Past - II" soon. Keep checking. Adieux!!!!

-Boobalan