E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I saw The Ace Political Expert (APE) trying to hoist the National Tricolour in honour of the shaheeds of Mumbai and Srinagar who have given their lives again and again. As we saluted the flag, I asked the APE whether we would win the war against terror. ‘A big no’, said the APE, because of the following reasons:
1. We should ask Pak to hand over Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon before we clear our throat even to talk to Pakistan.
2. We have been parading Abu Salem as if he is a state dignitary all over the country showing him the tourist spots, instead of quickly disposing his case and arranging quick retribution.
3. We have been taking Monica Bedi, Salem’s girl friend, around the country as if she is a model giving interviews to TV channels and media.
4. We take pride in photographing ‘Terrorist Training Centres’ in Pak/ POK through our ISRO satellites and show them in Indian newsreels and national networks, instead of shooting them down, because that is the only way of preventing Mumbai / IISC / Nagpur / Parliament attacks.
5. We bring our ‘Sophisticated Weaponry which can reduce enemy to ashes’ according to Borun Haldar and Komal G. B. Singh every year during Republic Parade and take those weapons to barracks to be kept under moth balls to bring them again the following Republic Day Parade for some more gallantry and commentary.
6. Ours is probably the only nation, which should take pride in the fact that its then external affairs minister actually chaperoned terrorists in his plane and took them to safety. He and the country could get a first of its kind award and enter the Guiness Book Of Records!
7. Even before investigation is underway we have idiotic politicians ‘jumping’ to save suspect organizations for fear of their ‘Vote Banks’. You won’t find a better traitor in history!
8. The more politicians hail spirit of people to raise from the ashes, you can be sure they are in collusion with terrorists either in abetting the crime or giving them a clean chit.
9. Don’t again ask ‘Big Sam’ to define a ‘terrorist’. Have your own definition. Follow your own instincts. Big Sam has his own agenda and we don’t have to follow the line drawn by him every time.
10. The country should decide ‘Enough is Enough’ and take steps both against ‘Internal’ and ‘External’ agents whoever they might be. It should not be too difficult to identify and hunt them down. Don’t be a sissy.
50 plus years it has not worked, probably in another 50 years it wont either.
so probably everybody could have a 5 min debate and voila everybody is happy that they spoke out :D
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We have a Home Minister who should be running a haircutting saloon, a Defence Minister who should have been a fisherman waiting patiently for catching a fish without a bait, HRD Minister who should have been runnig a Madrassa and many ministers who are Dawood Ibrahim’s twin brothers what can you expect but disaster for India
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Hey can we get on without being offensive to Fishermen and hairdressers. The Home minister could also be a mangaement professional without a thousand excuses for why things fail, the Defence minister a dictor who doesnt give a damn to what happens to patients and the HRD minister rather like a software professional designing programs that always crash
Bit of rhetoric, bit of truth. My comment was getting too large, so posted a response here instead:
http://silkboard.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/5-ways-of-dealing-with-terrorism/
Forget about asking for Dawood to be handed over, let’s atleast stop funding him! When the Indian cricket team went to Pakistan earlier this year to play a series of cricket matches, it was telecast on a channel called Ten Sports here in India. Ten Sports is owned by certain Abdur Rehman Bukhatir of Dubai, who is known to be close to the D-man. Now, going by the sales figures of BCCI, an India-Pakistan series is worth atleast $100 million (Rs. 450 crores) in advertisements – which means, that’s the amount of money we the cricket watching public of India willingly contributed to the coffers of D company while cheering our Dhoni’s and Dravid’s. So, while we thought we were doing some patriotic duty by watching our team play in Pakistan, we were filling the coffers of one of the most anti-India terrorists and now some of that money has come back to us in the form of RDX’s and AK-47’s.
U say ask pak to handover dawood ok NAvu kelidare avaru avannannu hididu koduthara? avanu illi illa anthana thane avaru helutha irodu? Americage kai alladisidoru innu namage help maduthara?
Ok we have weapons to bring our enemy to ashes now tell me who our enemies? these terrorists ? Pakistan? or our own politicians? yaranna boodhi madabeku?
See this is like a hide and seek war we don’t know exactly where to hit hitting in the dark will definetly effect innocent citizens whether they are Indian or Paki right?
Idhu onthara Rakshasa yuddha antha varnisutharalla hage avaru enu maduthare anthane gothu aagolla
Instead of asking someone else like other countrieswe should improve our internal securities. We should increase our police force (alomg with their salsries ofcourse, otherwise we have to tolerate more corruption)
Trained security like paramilitary forcees shopuld also be increased we should have strict implimentation of law for any kind of terrorism by anybody be it a Hindu, muslim christian ……..
And above all our politicians should stop poking their nose in helping the culprits. And the high grade security provided for them should be withdrawn when their lives comes under threat then they value the lives of common man and they will take necessary steps I belive
Now.. will some one tell me why is churumuri copying one of its reader’s comments and putting it up as a new topic.. I fail to understand..!!! This is heights of non-creativity or what.. Sheesh..!! Tch tch… :(
Swalpa sihi, swalpa kahi….enythu sir, Churumuri-ge…suddiney illa ivathu!
howdu enaythu churimurige! Monday blues, eh???
kila kilaa… ayyappaa!!
beLiggeinda annavru kELtaa iddaare…. churumuri yelli anta… KP, swalpa daya maaDeeppa… annavrige idonde timepass kaaraNa..
KP is the new editor of VT according to budbudke and Pathrakartha ( readeres of Churumuri) ..maybe Kp got busy in that…….
We have one of the weakest Home Ministers. Incidents one after the other are not enough for him. He should have resigned the moment violence in Assam broke out few months after he took over. But still, he is sitting on the HM’s chair. We saw IISC, Deepavali – New Delhi, Varanasi, J-Masjid, Mumbai…and the escalated violence in the Valley of Kashmir. The Maoists are getting stronger. With JJ out in TN, Karu & Co will indulge in pro-tiger talks, and being a crucial coalition partner, there’s no stopping them. What more? More trouble for India? At the same time, these guys also talk of decreasing troops on the Siachen.
Anna DG, Churumuri has losts its charm ,
CURUMURI : SWALPA KAHI , SWALPA SAPPE
DG ANNA, DARI KAANADAGIDE ,
We can add another reason here. That everytime a bomb blast (or rather series of blasts) happen in Mumbai, the very next momemt people of Mumbai, start behaving as if nothing has happened to them and they are not afraid; and above all the pseudo-secular media praises this attitude !!!
Don’t ask these questions saar! u will be called fundumentalist. Before we point finger at pak we must look within our country. The kind of mess our polititians have craeted, it is not difficult to bomb us. I think we should expect more voilence in future. Comman man should mentally be prepared for these worst situations. country has devided based on caste, creed, language, regeon etc., Unless we are united it is very difficult to have peacefull society.
The present government does not have any agenda to deal with terrorism, becuse it is not affecting minorities(read muslims). If terrorism affects muslims then there will be real action againts these traitors.
God only should save us.
After all these I really feel ashamed for being born in this country. though cuba is so small it never let down its citizens in such shame. I shld hve born in such countriy. am ashamed to live here.
ahh my comments were deleted ! So bad
The latest casuality in Mumbai Blasts are the BLOGS!
Just modified an old english saying into this:
Bloggers can’t be choosers (in India).
not a soul since morning! can’t believe it!
kila kila… ayyayyappa!!
rk, i am very much here…. only thing was that I checked out just now… brother hammad is here too… do you want to take him on?
*Before blaming others, let us blame our own selves. we elect these imbecile politicians either by voting or abstaining from voting the right candidates.
*Before blaming the corrupt politicians, let us blame the dull head voters who vote only for alcohol and money.
*Let us blame ourselves for being so insensitive and unconcerned, with ‘not in my backyard’ attitude
*blame ourselves for just being paper tigers(?) happy to write in blogs or just gossip instead of taking a lead to protest and stop against all this nonsense.
*we are practically doing nothing. baayi theete theerskothaidivi ashte.
churumurige enaagidhe, thumbaa dhina ayithu, swalpa sihi swalpa sappe enU illa, bari haLasalu.
The eleventh reason why we can’t fight terror — look at the “soldiers” we put on the front line and in the public eye. Sorry, Indian Army, I don’t mean you.
But did anyone see the film endlessly replayed on (virtually) all newschannels on the Tuesday that we remembered our slain, one week after the blasts? Who were the people who spoke? The brave commuters? The train drivers back at work knowing it could be them next? The people who hung out with water and biscuits to help others?
Nah…it was the old faithfuls who are always rammed down our throats…movie stars from Bollywood. Amir Khan, Preity Zinta et al emoting for the news cameras as they would for a patriotic movie. With pretty much the same cliches. No southern stars, note, wish Mamootty at least was there.
At a time when we wanted to have our leaders bring us together across the political spectrum, when the words we wanted to hear were from the heroes of our times, the sheer lack of imagination and a mindless relapse into celebrity culture was nauseating. Shouldn’t we put a stop to this brainless trivialising? You would think that with all the channels getting together, their combined weight and influence would produce a two-minute film of some substance.
How can terrorism not prevail when the very centre of our consciousness is so hollow?