A very happy new year to everyone and may everyone's wishes come true. I have many expectations from this year and I hope I am motivated enough all through the year to fulfil them. I never knew how the last year flew by. Time goes really fast these days and we'll be old before we realise it :-D. Scary rt!!
I guess I hit a blog-block in recent days and that accounts for this big gap. :-) But I have so many thoughts rushing all together in my mind now that I guess I wont be able to put down all of them coherently. Ill give it a try. Hope it doesnt bore anyone but as I put it down in my very 1st post on the blog, this site is for my musings and raving and ranting abt issues, and reading or not reading it is entirely upto the reader's discretion.
Anyways, this new year started with many bad news. First was the attack on IISc. We were shocked at that since it was so close to us, in the sense that I have so many of my friends in that place. And an academic institution was the least likely target according to me. And as I have always said, this kind of terrorism should be condemned by state and religious institutions alike. This is not Islam. This is just misuse of Islam by criminals and murderers for their own material gains. The imams and muftis who have been issueing fatwa left and right on relatively trivial issues should come out and condemn these attacks enmasse. As this is a very serious issue which really affects the whole community. I felt good when my father told me that the imam in his mosque has said time and again in his bayaans that this "jihaad" is not a jihaad and taking lives is not the path to paradise. Such messages should be sent out to people very clearly and what better people than the head muftis who have access to the media. These attacks also succeed in creating mistrusts and bipolarity in the country. By condemning these activities, we can also reaffirm that the 12% doesnt support this.
I didn't like the treatment of this attack by the media too. The terrorists want us to be terrorised. Agreed that everyone is a bit scared now. But then, now no place and no time is safe. Thats their purpose and we all know that clearly. But airing the fears like aaj tak or the other channels did is like serving their purpose. Even if someone is brave, these channels will shake his confidence. Instead of highlighting the "dehshat in cities" in ekta kapoor style why not highlight the inadequacies of the police, bureacrats etc.!! The media is these days only in search of garam news which will increase their TRPs. Responsible journalism is hard to find these days.
The other bad news were the rape cases in Mumbai, Delhi etc. These rapists should be given death punishments. I have stated this opinion many times before in my blog. To hell with the human rights activists who keep mum when there is actually a human rights violation. This must have been a form of new year revelry for them but the girl is mentally scarred for her whole life! I think we are just one step away from being satans these days.
I guess I hit a blog-block in recent days and that accounts for this big gap. :-) But I have so many thoughts rushing all together in my mind now that I guess I wont be able to put down all of them coherently. Ill give it a try. Hope it doesnt bore anyone but as I put it down in my very 1st post on the blog, this site is for my musings and raving and ranting abt issues, and reading or not reading it is entirely upto the reader's discretion.
Anyways, this new year started with many bad news. First was the attack on IISc. We were shocked at that since it was so close to us, in the sense that I have so many of my friends in that place. And an academic institution was the least likely target according to me. And as I have always said, this kind of terrorism should be condemned by state and religious institutions alike. This is not Islam. This is just misuse of Islam by criminals and murderers for their own material gains. The imams and muftis who have been issueing fatwa left and right on relatively trivial issues should come out and condemn these attacks enmasse. As this is a very serious issue which really affects the whole community. I felt good when my father told me that the imam in his mosque has said time and again in his bayaans that this "jihaad" is not a jihaad and taking lives is not the path to paradise. Such messages should be sent out to people very clearly and what better people than the head muftis who have access to the media. These attacks also succeed in creating mistrusts and bipolarity in the country. By condemning these activities, we can also reaffirm that the 12% doesnt support this.
I didn't like the treatment of this attack by the media too. The terrorists want us to be terrorised. Agreed that everyone is a bit scared now. But then, now no place and no time is safe. Thats their purpose and we all know that clearly. But airing the fears like aaj tak or the other channels did is like serving their purpose. Even if someone is brave, these channels will shake his confidence. Instead of highlighting the "dehshat in cities" in ekta kapoor style why not highlight the inadequacies of the police, bureacrats etc.!! The media is these days only in search of garam news which will increase their TRPs. Responsible journalism is hard to find these days.
The other bad news were the rape cases in Mumbai, Delhi etc. These rapists should be given death punishments. I have stated this opinion many times before in my blog. To hell with the human rights activists who keep mum when there is actually a human rights violation. This must have been a form of new year revelry for them but the girl is mentally scarred for her whole life! I think we are just one step away from being satans these days.
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