BENAZIR BHUTTO DEAD

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died on Thursday from her injuries sustained in a suicide attack, a party aide said.

''At 6:16 pm she expired,'' said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where Bhutto died.

A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died.

A suicide bomber had struck shortly after Bhutto addressed a political rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday, killing at least 25 people, witnesses said.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene could see body parts and flesh scattered at the back gate of the Liaqat Bagh park where Bhutto had spoken. He counted about 20 bodies, including police, and could see many other wounded people.

Another police official, Saud Aziz, said it was a suicide attack.

Farahtullah Babar, spokesman for Bhutto party, said her vehicle was about 50 meters away from blast, just after leaving the rally venue in Rawalpindi.

"She had just crossed the gate when we heard a deafening sound. We could feel its impact but by the grace of God she is safe," he said. "She has been moved to a safe place."

Party supporter Chaudhry Mohammad Nazir said that two gunshots rang out when Bhutto's vehicle pulled into the main street and then there was a big blast next to her car.

Police cordoned off the street with white and red tape, and rescue workers rushed to put victims in ambulances as people wailed nearby.

Body parts, pieces of clothing and party banners scattered on the street. The clothing of some of the victims was shredded and people put party flags over their bodies. Police caps and shoes littered the asphalt.

It was the second suicide attack apparently targeting the former prime minister in two months.

Her homecoming parade in southern city of Karachi from an eight-year exile on October 18 was also targeted, killing more than 140 people.

On Thursday, hundreds of riot police had manned security checkpoints to guard the venue. It was Bhutto's first public meeting in Rawalpindi since she came back to the country.

Rahman Malik, Bhutto's security adviser, told Pakistan's Geo news channel that she escaped unhurt just because she was in a bulletproof vehicle.

"She was the prime target," he said. "I have been told by eyewitnesses that someone first opened fire and then detonated the bomb ... We had information that Benazir Bhutto's life is in danger."

Malik said one of the vehicles in Bhutto's convoy was badly damaged.

In November, Bhutto had also planned a rally in the city, but President Pervez Musharraf forced her to cancel it, citing security fears.

In recent weeks, suicide bombers have repeatedly targeted security forces in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital where Musharraf stays and the Pakistan army has its headquarters.

Earlier Thursday, pro-government party supporters clashed with backers of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif a few kilometers from Rawalpindi, killing four people and wounding three.


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Social Networking Sites- Your electronic footprint....beware

Many young people are publishing there content online without thinking about the electronic footprint they leave behind.

Posting information on a websites such as Orkut, Facebook and Dekoh could come back to haunt millions of young people. The youngsters do not realize that the information they are posting on these websites make them traceable in the future. They even didn’t realize it, the information they are posting could be permanently linked to them.

Increasing number of education institutions and employers are using the internet as a tool to find potential employees and potential students. The cost to a person’s future can be high if something undesirable is found by them on these sites.

Millions of new pieces of information being added to the internet every day, many of them are very much personal, but this information are available for the entire world through search engine and social networking site.

As per the statement by senior executive at Facebook, that his company viewed privacy as a major issue. But I think this is not true, recently Facebook announced there new product "Facebook adds", in that he is going to share your personal information to the merchants, and give you specific adds according to your published information.

However, the popularity of websites such as Facebook and MySpace is increasing, It may be fun, but unfortunately it is not safe space…

Be aware...

Few Questions

Excerpts from some of the questions asked by our honorable MPS, during the 2005 Operation Duryodhana by COBRAPOST and AAJ TAK

Whether the Railway Ministry has placed any order for purchase of the Yossarian Electro Diesel engine from Germany? Is the ministry aware that the Tom Wolfe committee report in Germany has halted its induction into the Euro Rail system?

Whether the Government has given sanction for the seed trial of Salinger Cotton of Monsanto? If so, has a report been prepared on Catch 22 cotton so far?

Has the ministry lifted the 1962 ban it imposed on the book “For whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway and the 1975 ban on Ken Kesey’s book “One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest” and Hunter Thomson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”? If so, when were the bans removed?

Whether the government is aware that a domestic flying license has been denied to Cobra Cargo for starting operations in India? Since when has Semper Sursum Private Limited, the holding company of Cobra Cargo, applied for the domestic cargo license?

Is it true that while NRI firms such as India Uncut of USA, Sepia Mutiny of Britain and AnarCap Lib of Netherlands have been allowed to invest in Indian SSIs, the reputed German investment firm Desipundit has been denied permission? If so, the reasons thereof? Is the Union Government of India planning to make automatic the long procedure of permission for SSIs to import new technologies such as Trackbacks, Pingbacks, Blogrolls, Splogs and Hitcounters?

Taken from ANIRUDDHA BAHAL's article
to read more about OPERATION DURYODHANA read the full article article

Quantum computing future success?

Quantum computing is going to turn the industry. D-Wave founder Geordie Rose, Demonstrated his company’s latest prototype on the floor of SC07 in Reno, Nevada.

Actual machine is difficult to use or handle or manage because of size, so demonstration was organized on web services. “Company is going to work on making the refrigerator a bit smaller and self contained,” Said Rose, thinking ahead to commercial deployments.

According to Rose, D-Wave’s latest invention of chip has 28 qubits (quantum bits). They will develop 512 qubits machine next year, and 1024 after that. D-wave’s quantum computer works by seeking lowest energy state given a set of inputs and constraints.

Let’s hope for the best.

Ref: Zdnet

a tribute to baba nagarjun

well i have nt written since a long time, but yes i am writing, baba nagarjun's poem says i am writing wat.........njoy it

जी हाँ, लिख रहा हूँ ...
बहुत कुछ ! बहोत बहोत !!
ढ़ेर ढ़ेर सा लिख रहा हूँ !
मगर , आप उसे पढ़ नहीं
पाओगे ... देख नहीं सकोगे
उसे आप !

दरअसल बात यह है कि
इन दिनों अपनी लिखावट
आप भी मैं कहॉ पढ़ पाता हूँ
नियोन-राड पर उभरती पंक्तियों की
तरह वो अगले कि क्षण
गुम हो जाती हैं
चेतना के 'की-बोर्ड' पर वो बस
दो-चार सेकेंड तक ही
टिकती है ....
कभी-कभार ही अपनी इस
लिखावट को कागज़ पर
नोट कर पता हूँ
स्पन्दनशील संवेदन की
क्षण-भंगुर लड़ियाँ
सहेजकर उन्हें और तक
पहुँचाना !

बाप रे , कितना मुश्किल है !
आप तो 'फोर-फिगर' मासिक -
वेतन वाले उच्च-अधिकारी ठहरे,
मन-ही-मन तो हसोंगे ही,
की भला यह भी कोई
काम हुआ , की अनाप-
शनाप ख़यालों की
महीन लफ्फाजी ही
करता चले कोई -
यह भी कोई काम हुआ भला !

Skyrocketing value of online communities

It’s surprising about Microsoft corp’s investment in Facebook Inc. - $15 billion for 3 ½ year old internet hangout, or the rare shun of online leader Google Inc.

Microsoft paid $240 million price for 1.6% stake in Facebook. This clear the view, world largest software maker, crudely wanted to deepen its relationship with a startup that didn’t have $200 million in annual revenue.

By stamping the deal, Microsoft had loosed previous high-stake biding battles to taking stake in AOL, internet ad service DoubleClick Inc, and taking the ownership of online video sharing pioneer YouTube. Microsoft finally cooked-up Google by taking the stake of Facebook Inc.

Microsoft’s investment, increase the value of online communities like Facebook, Orkut – a place where people look for dates, share music videos and photos, connect with family and friends.

News corp. in 2005 paid $580 million for outright ownership of MySpace.com. Microsoft established the current market value of Facebook to $15 billion, by his investment in the same.

Although Myspace remains the largest social network, while there is so many social site for different activity, like Digg (community-based popularity website), delicious (social bookmarking), Dekoh (Sharing photo, music, books etc direct from there desktop without uploading), Flicker (photo sharing), Orkut (social interacting website) and many more….

Google’s current social network (Orkut) has seen relatively good success on the globe.

32 year old company Microsoft becoming more internet savvy by his successful courtship of Facebook.

All I was thinking about hug.

As there are many species that engage in exchange of warmth, this is not particular to only human beings alone. Hug is a exchanged as a sign of support and comfort. Hug usually arising out of joy and happiness at meeting someone; hug is the exchange of warmth.

Here one can find some good way to hug:-

• Friend Hug (guys): Approach quickly, usually not looking them in the eye.

• Friend Hug (girls): Approach caringly, sometimes humorously, and smile.

• Crush Hug: Approach carefully, but do not seem shy. Smile slightly and perhaps say a caring word or two.

• Family Hug: Approach kindly, but not too emotionally.

• Lover Hug: It doesn't matter who starts this, both guy or girl can make it just as romantic. However, if it is the guy starting, when approaching, put your hands on her shoulders and look her into the eyes. Say you love her.


Tips:-

• Make sure you're clean and showered.
• Breath spray helps! Hygiene is of the utmost importance. Body odors will ruin the moment.
• A comfortable environmental temperature is very helpful.
• Come up for air - gazing and enjoying each other adds to romance.
• Respect the hug the other person returns to you; it is like learning a language. If he or she responds lightly or not at all, don't force a hug!

Warnings:-

• Do not confuse a lover hug with a friend hug. Things might get complicated.
• Selfishness will ruin your hug.
• Never force yourself on anyone, whether you are in a relationship with them or not.

Giving a hug is really quite simple once you realize the only reason to give a hug is to feel the comforting and pleasing presence of another body up against your own. There really is no other reason to give someone a hug. You're either accepting the pleasure, offering it to them, or mutually exchanging it.
People feel good. People are warm. Sometimes people are squishy. People smell nice. People are more real when you're touching them.

These things are delightful.

A hug is an embrace. You should be pressed up against your hug target. It should be sustained - a quick hug is no fun. It should be all for the intertwining of arms that give some degree of pressure upon the two or three or twelve bodies participating in a hug.

There are countless other things you can do; experiment and have fun.

If you liked this post, give me a hug:)

Sledging

Glenn McGrath v Eddo Brandes

McGrath was bowling to the Zimbabwe number 11 - who was unable to get his bat anywhere near the ball.
McGrath, frustrated that Brandes was still at the crease, wandered up during one particular over and inquired: "Why are you so fat?"
Quick as a flash, Brandes replied: "Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit."
Even the Aussie slip fielders were in hysterics.

Viv Richards v Greg Thomas

This incident took place during a county championship match between Glamorgan and Somerset.
Glamorgan paceman Thomas had beaten the bat a couple of times and informed Richards: "It's red, round and weighs about five ounces, in case you were wondering."
The very next ball was given the King Viv treament and smashed out of the ground, into a river - at which point Richards piped up: "Greg, you know what it looks like. Now go and find it."

Merv Hughes v Robin Smith

Smith played and missed while facing Hughes in the 1989 Lord's Test between England and Australia.
Hughes, never short of a word or two, told the Hampshire star: "You can't f***ing bat, mate."
Smith then smashed the next ball to the boundary and replied: "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair.
"I can't f***ing bat and you can't f***ing bowl."

Merv Hughes v Javed Miandad

The big fella popped up again with another classic, this time in the 1991 Adelaide Test against Pakistan.
Hughes was less than impressed when Javed called him a "fat bus conductor" as the pair squared up to one another.
A few balls later, Hughes got his man and as Javed walked past, could not resist shouting "Tickets, please!"

WG Grace

Sledging is a part of cricket. WG Grace did it. Once given out leg-before, he refused to walk and told the bowler: "They came to watch me bat, not you bowl". And the innings continued.

Grace's ability to stand his ground would have done Steve Waugh proud. Once, when the ball knocked off a bail, he replaced it and told the umpire: "Twas the wind which took thy bail orf, good sir." The umpire replied: "Indeed, doctor, and let us hope thy wind helps the good doctor on thy journey back to the pavilion."

The best WG Grace sledge was on him, though, not from him. Charles Kortright had dismissed him four or five times in a county game - only for the umpires to keep turning down his appeals. Finally, he uprooted two of Grace's three stumps. Grace stalled, as though waiting for a no-ball call or something, before reluctantly walking off with Kortright's words in his ears: "Surely you're not going, doctor? There's still one stump standing."

Rod Marsh & Ian Botham

When Botham took guard in an Ashes match,
Marsh welcomed him to the wicket with the immortal words: "So how's your wife & my kids?"

Daryll Cullinan & Shane Warne

As Cullinan was on his way to the
wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating," Cullinan retorted.

James Ormond and Mark Waugh

James Ormond had just come out to bat on an ashes tour and was
greeted by Mark Waugh....... MW : "F*ck me, look who it is. Mate, what are you doing out here, there's no way you're good enough to play for England" JO : "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family"

Malcom Marshall and David Boon

Malcolm Marshall was bowling to David Boon who had played and missed a couple of times. Marshall : "Now David, Are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"

Merv Hughes and Greame Hick

Merv Hughes is renowned for sledging and when Graeme Hick arrived at the crease he uttered “So Graeme, what does your husband do while you are playing cricket?”

Merv Hughes and Robin Smith

Hughes more or less repeated the phrase when Robin Smith arrived “Does your husband play cricket as well?”!

Merv Hughes and Atherton

One of my favourite examples of vintage Hughes has to be when he was bowling to Atherton. The England captain had played and missed a ball and what promptly followed is a prime example of a sledge .“I’ll bowl you a f****g piano, you Pommie poof; let’s see if you can play that”

Fred Trueman

Fred Trueman who when faced with two poor decisions from the umpire, (leg before decision and caught behind to an obvious knick) clean bowled his opponent with his next delivery and turned to the umpire and uttered, “That’s got to be bloody close, hasn’t it?”

McGrath and Ramnaresh Sarwan

McGrath to Ramnaresh Sarwan: "So what does Brian Lara's dick taste like?"
Sarwan: "I don't know. Ask your wife."
McGrath (losing it): "If you ever effing mention my wife again, I'll effing rip your effing throat out."

Merv Hughes & Viv Richards:

During a test match in the West Indies, hughes didn't say a word to Viv, but
continued to stare at him after deliveries. "This is my island, my culture.
Don't you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl." Merv didn't reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to the batsman: "In my culture we just say f**k *ff.".

Ian Healy and Arjuna Ranatunga

And of course you can't forget Ian Healy's legendary comment which was picked up by the Channel 9 microphones when Arjuna Ranatunga called for a runner on a particularly hot night during a one dayer in Sydney... "You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c**t!!!"

Mark Waugh and Adam Parore

Mark Waugh standing at second slip, the new player to the crease playing & missing the first ball. Mark - "Ohh, I remember you from a couple years ago in Australia. You were shit then, you're ••••••• useless now".
Parore- (Turning around) "Yeah, that's me & when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly slut & now I hear you've married her. You dumb ••••".

Steve Waugh and Parthiv Patel

This involves Steve Waugh and Parthiv Patel.....Steve Waugh...Last Test...comes up to bat...PArthiv-"so this is your last test...show us some of that famous sledging of yours." Steve-"Respect Me...For when i made my test debut You were still in your nappies"


Fred Trueman and Raman Subba Row

Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip, and right between Raman Subba Row's legs. Fred doesn't say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly. "I should've kept my legs together, Fred". The reply is classic Trueman, "Not you, son. Your mother should've!"

Ian Healy and Ben Hollioake

Ben Hollioake had just made his debut, hitting Glenn McGrath in the process.
On his way back after finally being dismissed, Shane Warne cried: 'Hey, Ben'
Hollioake turned round expecting a pat on the back. Instead Healy came in from behind and said: 'Get back to the nets, you idiot.'

Javed Miandad and Dilip Doshi

This is the one and only javed miandad vs dilip doshi...javed bhai at the crease, doshi bowling...the players' hotel was quite near the stadium...
javed: "arre doshi apna room number to bataa"
nothing from doshi
next ball, javed asks again...still nothing when the over ends..."arre ab to over khatam ho gaya, ab to bataa de"
doshi finally relents.."216" (or watever)
Miandad - "agle over mein ball wahin maaroonga"

Ravi Shastri and Aussie 12th man

another one, ravi shastri v/s the aussie 12th man (don't remember who, and don't want to slander anyone ) shastri hits it to this guy and looks for a single...this guy gets the ball in and says "if you leave the crease i'll break your f***ing head"
shastri: "if you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldn't be the f***ing 12th man"

kill time

Life is a roller coaster, spending years after years in Delhi, you see few ups and lot of downs, u feel stuck, u feel like running away. Escaping to haridwar spending some time near Ganges, sipping beer on the banks (its illegal in haridwar, so if you really wana run better run more northwards), friends playing guitar, a self created fire burning slowly, struggling for its life, and you stand up like Chuck Noland and scream, I CREATED THE FIRE…….., Sitting on the sand, thinking of some maryen or sitting in a coffee house gulping espresso shots, watching chicks, just doing nothing …….or in a rainy day sitting in a bus, deliberately missing your stop just to see where is her house, then trying to find her father’s surname in the telephone directory, to give her blank calls, Some carefree moments., , like Ghalib once said, and well Gulzar sahab recreated it for Mausam.
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat dinbaithe rahe tasavoor ye jaana kiye hue
But those raat din usually never came. Since the time we become mature, we think only this year…..I screwed up badly, next year will be fine. And more repetitions, something like a monotonous function, in the hope that one fine day the sun will rise from west and things will start working for me. But that never happened………it’s a glorous waste of time, its running away like an ostrich, hiding face in the sand thinking that the enemy will never find it, but the enemy is within.

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
The time is gone, the song is over……………..

Well said Roger, sometimes you feel like catching the time, holding it lightly in your hand, and never let it go. If it tries to escape, kick it hard, kill it and say yes I killed the time, just throw anything that reminds you of time as far as you can. You have to spend those carefree moments, the moments, which you will miss afterwards. Walking in the rain, soaking your shoes, getting wet, trying to protect your cell phone, and missing bus after bus. Walking down the street meeting old friends at chai wala stall. Sitting endlessly from dusk to dawn, sipping tea after tea, remembering those melodious memories.

Call me the carefree kind
I wander with the breeze
My mind and heart's at ease
Doing what pleases me best
Long as I keep happy I can't lose
Till I find my place there's no doubt
I'll be a rovin' roustabout……………..

Are You Lonely?

But you won’t be lonely anymore.

We all will agree that life is not smooth like a skating ground. It has many ups and downs and we have to pass through all of them. We suffer frequent blows from life and also acquire many gifts from it. Often our hard times last for very long pushing us into despair. These are the times when we start feeling very lonely. The friends, who always seemed to be a tough support, no more appear the same due to their inability to solve our problem. We feel secluded and lonesome. But these are the times when each of us has to realize that everyone is lonely, at one time or the other, in this world unless he has a lifetime friend. And only one person in this whole world can be such a friend to you and that is you only. No one can stay forever with us except ourselves. No one can understand us better than ourselves and no one can love our dreams, aspirations and us more than ourselves. Therefore, for a blissful life, having friendship with oneself is the most important thing.If you are feeling lonely while confronting any hardship of your life, try having friendship with yourself. You are the only person who can be fully honest to you. You are the one who knows all your strengths and weaknesses and only you can help yourself overcome your limitations. You are the one whom you will find with yourself at every moment of your life. We feel lonely because we don’t want to live with ourselves. It is not easy to strike a good friendship with yourself as all good as well as dark secrets of your life stand bare before your soul. But if you succeed at this, all your life will be a beautiful journey. Even if, at some point, there won’t be any friend at your side, your best friend will still be there with you…inside you…I hope your bond with yourself strengthens with every passing moment.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

It was eight and the alarm started buzzing. He had a binge sitting previous night. He unfastened his eyelashes and thumped the chronometer and started staring at the fan, just above his head, the fan was moving since March, and it was September. A lot has happened in these 6 months. Life has altered from top to bottom. Now he has a job and they were paying him quite decently. Money has changed hands. The cycle of affluence and bankruptcy has taken a couple of full rounds. His big network of friends has shrunk to a handful acquaintance. He has survived a break off. He was special for someone in March but he is a villain for that person now. In March India and Pakistan were both eliminated from the first round of world cup. Country went on a crisis over the nuclear deal. UNO declared this year’s flood as the worst in living memories. He was thinking about her while making tea, how he once said that he makes fabulous tea, and one day he will make tea for her, but that one day never came. So many promises just met premature deaths. There was so much to do, but nothing was done. Instead they had fights and arguments, nothing really to remember but harsh feelings. He started from his place to be lonely in a crowded bus, then reach office full of people and sit alone on his desk. But now it is September. The hot sun has started fading. Yesterday both India and Pakistan qualified for the next round of 20-20-world cup. The fan will get rest after a month. Floodwaters have started receding. The nuclear deal crisis might also get resolved. And his girlfriend got a new caring boyfriend, who probably keeps her happy. Times have changed.

Atul

Here comes a second mail

Hi,

The day has been great.Please join me for a drink, and make it better. 5pm. A quick round. Gives an occasion for all of us to meet up s well.

5pm. TDS.

Cheers,
Ramesh

It was 40th september today

Bizarre morning. Had set the alarm for 26 past 6. But when I woke up to the alarm & saw the time, it was 40 past! As I picked up the news paper, my wife reminded me that I had 40 shirts to pick up frm the dry cleaners. Told her it was only 26. We argued- finally settled on the indisputable fact that I had given the shirts. So I will know. Just as I will know my age. As we were setting into blissful concurrence on 26, my little nephew came by.. Saying 25+1 is 40. Tried correcting him, but had to give up when my whole family frm my 10 yr old son to 70 yr old dad agreed with this! Cldnt believe what was happening. Even wierd that it shd happen on a day when I turn just that bit older. Adding a year to my yesterdays 25 yr age!

The last straw was when my highly knowledgeable daughter told me it was
40th september today. Now we all know that there cannot be a 40th day in sep! she said she is referring to the number of septembers & not the day in september. I just didn't get it. But then, not surprising as am not as smart as her!

Lets just accept & move on. So in all today is abt 26! There can never be a 40! Wld like all of u to join me in celebrating this landmark discovery. Those that like the c-gars, be in the 3 floor lobby in 15 mts, & those that don't like the cs, pls chew on the candy bars that I kept on Shabnams desk! And, the really spirited ones, join me at The DS at 5:30.

Cheers,
Rachna

This mail reached everyware in our company by Ramesh Lognatham our VP (middleware). By the time when we reached to sabnam’s desk, the candy was not there (even sabnam was also wondering, what this is happening), and I reached to loby for cigar, but that was also not there. Everybody was wondering who is Rachna, we were planning to send this mail to Ramesh wife, that time Ramesh was busy with our CEO. Everyone was waiting for Ramesh…Finally Birthday baby come outside…we celebrate and ask the mystery of Rachna. There was a mail from Rachna for his birthday wishes, he just deleted all the stuff and write a new mail, and forget to delete the name Rachna…So guys don’t make any wrong assumption, he is happy man with his one wife and kids.

I don’t ever see this kind of man, with that much energy. I had never seen him standing our sitting alone, he is associate professor of India’s best technical and business school, some time he was speaker of Java also, in the mean time he is good biker also.

By the time we had a Romeo Y Julieta Habana (Rodriguez Argulles y C) cigar and some candy, In the evening we are going to pub “10 downing street”(DS) to celebrate some more on his birthday with some good wine and Scotch.

Be happy :)

Come away with me

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they cant tempt us
With their lies

I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So wont you try to come

Come away with me and well kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And Ill never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While Im safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Norah Jones

Hyderabad Blasts - questions worth asking.

There are certain aspects about the blasts that seem to be ignored in the media. Some of them are given below:

First time children have been targeted (Lumbini Park is essentially a Children's Park). It has always been religious places or localities with large populace of particular communities that have been targeted. Presuming that terrorists are actually behind the blast what brings about this change in strategy?


Gokul is a very busy place. Gokul Chat Bhandar is a place always crowded with people. You would not find an inch of space to stand in the place. How could someone plant a bomb without anyone noticing? It should not be difficult to find out form the people about any suspicious objects placed at Gokul

How was a ‘terror-hand’ unearthed within an hour of the blast? What is the info that prompted the police to ‘declare’ terrorist intent behind the blast?

Explosives found at 16 other places. What the heck are the police and indeed the political establishment doing? Intelligence agencies have warned time and again that Hyderabad had become a beehive for a lot of terrorist sleeper cells. Yet, no action or efforts were visible at the ground level of any efforts made to unearth the sleeper cells.

Why does no one ever get caught for such blasts?

Why do such acts always happen in Congress regimes? This is no outlandish claim but perfectly verifiable fact (You could browse the net for a chronology of the incidents). Hyderabad was prone to communal riots and terror attacks before NTR became the chief Minister. While NTR was the CM hardly any incidents of this nature happened. However, once NTR lost power and the Congress came back, the incidents of communal and terror disturbances resumed again. They stopped when the TDP party of NTR came back to power. Hyderabad saw a long period of peace for 9 years under the TDP regime (Chandrababu Naidu replaced NTR as the Chief Minister after a year). Unfortunately, the TDP lost power again and guess what? The communal disturbances and Bomb blasts have resumed again. Who is in power? The Congress Party.

This comes as no surprise to the Hyderabadis for most of them know where the priorities of the Congress lie. The people here have a special phrase to describe the Congress regime – “Mana Rajyam” or ‘our government.’ The ‘our’ in this phrase, however is not the common man but the powerful businessman, leader, politician or a powerful goonda or a terrorist. These sections have great freedom to do what they want that is why they call it their government (‘Our Government’).

Let us pray for all those who lost their lives in the blast and also for those who engineered the blasts.