3 Ms

I have lived in US and Germany for quite significant time. I can say one thing for sure about us Indians. We can not live without 3Ms. These are Mandir (=temple) , Masala(spices) and Movies (Indian movies). Wherever we go we manage to find these things, no matter how hard we have to try.

Hope

There is sense of despair in India over terrorist attacks. Pakistan was involved. But we too are weak. We have horrible bureaucracy and ill equipped police.

But I have hope. As we liberalized our economy when we reached at the brink of bankruptcy in 1992 and as now at least we have started to build larger airports after facing so much problem, same way we would rise above this too. We don't do anything until we are forced to. Now we are forced to improve our security and I know that we will do it . Same way when we reach tipping point for our traffic, power problems etc we will fix those issues too.

India population

In 2011 there will be official population counting in India. I think we should see a decrease in population this time. Everyone seems to not to have more than 2 children. The only time we had decrease in population was in 1921 0r 1931 ..because of draught.

Delhi people

In my experience people from Delhi are cunning, selfish and not worth being friends with.

When in need, they will approach with a big smile on their face and will show as if they are 

your closest friends. Once they get whatever they need from you, they will forget to even say

Hello on seeing you. 

They are like snakes. If you give milk to a snake it would bite you only if it gets chance.

So be careful from Delhi wallas..

Indian Media

The after Mumbai attack reporting of Indian media has been pathetic. They are cursing, abusing politicians which to some extent is right. But the hype they have created is so much that one feels media is suggesting to do away with politicians. Well, they are not suggesting any alternative either. Are they advocating dictatorship ? I don't know. They should pin point the weak points of the systems. They should not play the role of agitator, rather put up facts and ask questions to bureaucracy too. Inviting page 3 celebrities (as Arun Jaitely puts it) and asking them to comment on terrorism is laughable. It exposes the lack of ideas in Indian media.

One day our media will also get matured...

Traitor

I had an idea about tackling Mumbai attacks. Give one AK47 to Amar Singh (who has raised questions about the reality of Batala encounter where a Delhi Inspector lost his life to terrorists bullets) and throw him inside Taj hotel. Let him see for himself the that it is indeed for real..

International reaction to Mumbai attacks

Saw one of the headlines in nytimes.com about Mumbai terrorist attacks. It reads something like this 'Attacks on Mumbai creates a challenge for Obama about bringing India and Pak together'. See the irony ? If you cant..then consider after 9/11 we Indians never suggested or thought about bringing Taliban and US together. Another irony, in these moments of crisis that country (and many other countries) is thinking about their self-interests.Nothing wrong with that, just that I wish Congress govt. thinks about 1/10th of like this.