The day Indians woke up!

I was shocked and furious.. I could not believe it was actually happening!! I mean is it so easy to carry out a terror attack of this magnitude in the financial capital of India?
As I was following the entire operation at The hotel Oberoi Trident.. I saw that the army, the Commandos and the mumbai police was out there fighting their heart out. Today the operation is finished.. and many of these heroes are not there to see this day. My question is did they really have to go through this in the first place? Did any Indian HAVE TO go through this trauma??? The government might call them heroes and provide some compensation to their families.. but can they assure us they wont force more people to be "heroes" and such ghastly incident will not repeat? Can they assure us that they will give more importance to the lives of their people than vote-bank politics?
I dont care which government comes to power because frankly it does not matter.. what matters is that India cannot afford to be "calm and patient". Its time for us to get united and "fight" against this terror. The government needs to come up with stringent laws and better security. We are NOT going to come back to normalcy.. India will NOT get over this or forget this... The time has come for the government to be more strict and more loyal towards its citizens..
The Mumbai incident will be the last that India will ever face... We are not going to walk on your terms dear ministers.. its high time you work for us!!

I salute all the martyrs who lost their lives in Mumbai while making sure we were safe.. We will see to it that your sacrifice and struggle is honoured.
India will fight back and the government will HAVE to start being accountable..
We will make them take up the responsibility that comes with the power that "we, the citizens of India" are giving them....

May the souls of all the victims of the Mumbai attack rest in peace :(

Am I lucky? or luckier??

"God, Why me?"..The phrase commonly used by us, the mortals.Blame God for everything because you know that He is not going to argue with you for doing so! Huh! We believe that everybody around us is somehow born with better stars than us and everything bad is bound to happen only to us.Some crave for sympathy while others sulk all their life; there are only a few who try to analyse their problems and do something to mend them. Right from losing a lottery to being fired from a job( a lot of this is happening these days!!) people like to question God. Like he has nothing better to do than make sure that you lose your job.I mean even he must be like.. come on.. why me?? :P
Anyways.. luck is something we all believe in.. but when taken in the right sense, only partially! Just read on and i bet you will feel a lot more luckier at the end of it :)
A guy is very excited to have won a trip to the US. He packs up all his funky clothes and dreams about the all the fun he is soon going to have. He is on his maiden flight and all the way he thanks god for being so kind and generous. His friends at home are totally jealous and cursing their stars. "God.. why me?" were his last words as he saw his flight crash into one of the twin towers!!

A kid is adamant and bent upon staying at home without going to his school."Its just the first day mom!", he says as his mother forces him to get ready. After a lot of banging and screaming the kid finally goes to school. All that returns from school is his charred body. The school had caught fire and he was burnt alive. The woman, who was just doing her job as a mother, lost the only one who would call her "mom".She never prayed again and curserd herself and her stars.
Do you think God would ever do anything like that? It was just because the school did not follow the fire safety norms completely. It was some person's foolishness for which somebody else had to pay.

These may be some stories for us but for somebody its their life. And still we start cursing everything and everybody around us for the most insignificant and petty things in our lives.U may be feeling lucky for not being in those situations. So can i conclude that luck has become a lot more relative and not absolute.U feel lucky when u are better off than somebody else.

Its better to respect and appreciate the little things in our lives and have faith in god that He will never want to do anything bad.. He has a great plan for us .. Things go bad when we try to mess up that plan.. So go along with God's plan :)

Welcome President..!!

As always I was debating with my friends over lunch about the current happenings. And we came to the topic of the newly elected President, Obama. Okay.. Though he is now the president of one of the most powerful nations in the world.. I think I really dint bother so much about it because my faith in elections,politicians and presidents has almost subdued.

So here we were discussing about Obama’s speeches.. I felt that the only way I could ever be able to appreciate or admire this man is if he actually was able to turn his speeches and thoughts into reality.. Not that I dint believe in him.. but not yet.. he still has a lot more to do before he can win my heart!
Anyways .. being my friends… they dint stop there and forwarded me loads of links.. obama’s speeches.

It was then that I heard that man.. I heard him with concentration and faith..
And I believed in him.. More importantly i trusted him...

Its not like I did not listen to those speeches before.. but the way he described the American middle class families and his reasoning for the racial divide existing in America started making lot more sense..
He “changed” my perception about leaders!! And I hope he brings about a lot more positive changes..

I think what India needs today is a person who can bring back the lost faith in democracy and be a leader in its true sense.. Someone like the man America has chosen to lead them!!!

Movies and Me!

Each time I spend my hard earned money (:D) to buy a movie ticket , like every other indian I want my paisa to be vasooled. But recently I have been getting this feeling that am unnecessarily contributing to the boom of an industry that in return Is giving me hours of torture and splitting head aches.

KIDNAP… I mean I just could not force myself to like absolutely anything in that movie.. and I tell you am not a strict critic.. its just that the movie failed in all possible aspects!! I really liked Imran Khan in jaane tu.. (who didn’t :P) but kidnap was a major disappointment.. ( I had to watch jaane tu .. again to stop hating him!) And minisha lamba.. yes the guys surely enjoyed this movie.. but what did the girls get? Imran Khan who was confused whether to look cute or tough .. and sanjay dutt who needs a double to do a fight scene… aargh… do not remind me of this movie!!

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH… through out the movie all I could say was… come on!! Are u kidding me? There are dinosaurs in the centre of the earth.. do I have to say anything else about this movie??? And the fact that it is based on a book.. I think my comments remain same for the book.. COME ON?!?!

There are many more I can talk about but I feel am going to stop before I tear apart the whole industry.. I am a movie buff and I love to watch movies.. but when a movie fails to do anything.. its just fails!!

PS: BTW “A Wednesday” and “Kung Fu Panda” were awesome.. am mentioning them here coz they would not go with the theme of my blog :D do watch them :)