A tragedy is a tragedy

On Saturday the 13th Sept 2008, again another tragedy stuck my beloved motherland. There were multiple bomb blasts in New Delhi, the capital city of India - claiming many lives and deforming many others. In this process many innocent little kids lost their parents, grand parents uncles aunts whom they will never see again...

I wonder what someone accomplishes by killing the innocent. Is it on the name of religion? or somebody's satanic desire to see blood bath? I have noticed a pattern in this kind of disasters. Whenever a particular political party is in power this types of tragedy happen more frequently. The vote politics is apparently ruining the very basis of democracy. Ruling parties are scared of implementing stricter rules for the fear of loosing vote bank. Who pays for it? certainly the innocent. The other day I read a news item that said family of one of the suspects in Mumbai train blast were issuing statements from a samajwadi party's MLAs residence. What to make out from this? Someone actually shelters a suspect in a heinous crime - and that person is no one but whom we voted to power.

I think it is time for common people to react and vote out those political powers that are damaging this great country in the name of secularism. They have no trace of nationality inside them, they just act as puppet in the hands of a third party with no commitment towards the safety of this nation.

What we need now is a stricter rule against all anti-national elements and parties. We need to ban all terrorist outfits and impose a stricter common civil code. What are we afraid of in not doing this? For the fear of loosing vote bank?

Jai Hind.

About Writing

When I was growing up, I was wondering what the heck is writing.I had the least respect for the writers. For me then writing would mean sitting down idle and scribbling something meaning less. My father is a poet and he does lots of writing. having a write at home only made things worse for me. I used to dislike the word writing. There were always these essay competitions about many things in school. There I was sitting and wondering why it has to be an essay competition why not a multiple choice test. In our literature exams, there was always at least one essay type question, that needed to have at least 300 words. Oh my gosh that was the horrible part of any question paper for me and it was my weakest mark fetcher. I always wished there was no essay part. In BSc. we had all the questions subject type and that was a big killer. I was freaking out as why everything have to be descriptive.

Now after many years when I sit and think how important it is to put your thoughts into writing, I understand it was not after all a bad idea to train young people into descriptive writing. Now success and failure is determined by your inbuilt ability to be able to write. A good writer convinces grant agencies to trust them to give money. Similarly, a well written paper gets the nod of a reviewer and makes into a good journal. On the other hand if you have great ideas but don't know how to put it down into "convincing" words then you are doomed to be un-successful. Be it academics or industry.

I find blogging is a very interesting concept. Now I am myself into blogging. Its so cool. You can just write about anything. Its like writing your own news paper column without the need to be reviewed. When personal communication is so limited these days, I find blogging is a great way to let yourself heard. So in the end I would say everything boils down into effective communication through writing..