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Far From The Madding Crowd

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Way back some twenty years ago I was on my way to a sightseeing trip to Thekkady from Madurai. Those days we rely on public transport for our travel pleasures. The bus I travelled stopped at a wayside hotel in a highway nearer to Thekkady for breakfast for its crew. The hotel was a thatched hut with an improvised wooden table and chairs. The hut was surrounded by beautiful trees and glimpses’ of Western Ghats, visible as backdrop scenery, added to its charm. No other building was nearby and it was isolated from the rest of civilization. They served hot idlies accompanied by coconut chutni and Pooris. I was little hesitant in the beginning to have my breakfast there. I still have not come across a restaurant that served such steamy hot idlies and delightful chutni that I encountered in that little beautiful thatched hut. The restaurant was clean and they served in a dry leaf. Even star hotels that I frequent (courtesy my son and daughter} have not matched that taste.

Recently I had an occasion to undertake a trip again to Thekkadi in a private taxi. (So much my travel preferences changed from public to private]. I stopped again at the same spot. Everything has changed. Instead of thatched hut a stone building was there. Laminate chair and tables sprung up. Loud music was blaring from a CD player. No of shops have been sprung up besides that hotel. The eatery was fully crowded and I was unable to find a place to sit and enjoy the food. Even the quality of the food was poor and not at all tasty. The trees once added to its beauty yielded its place to make room for more buildings and shops. What to call that? Development or progress. More no of cars and buses now stop there. More business was generated. But at what cost?

I longed for that lonely isolated hut far from the madding crowd that served hot idlies and tasty chatnies.

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I ndia- Pakistan Deterent

The news that Pakistan atleast has 100 nuclear bombs at its arsenel is shocking. Many cities in India await nuclear death. Pakistan is an unrelable nation without any accountablity.It will not hestitate to use its nuclear option on India. Why U.S and other western countries that raise lots of hue and cry over N.Korea's nuclear progeamme do not bat even an eye lid over Pakistan's ever increasing pile of Nuclear bombs. Indian Govt should immediately scrap the CNTBT and renew its nuclear programme.

Arming Pakistan and India

whatever aid given by U.S.to pakistan always end as arsenel against India. U.S. intellegiance agencies accuse Pakistan thatHarpoon anti-ship Missiles given to them were modified to target India.I am not surprised by that news.The arming by western countries was vehemently opposed by India time and again.Two major powers U.S and China are pouring arms and money into Pakistan. Pakistan Rulers, wheteher democratly elected or Military leaders, cleverly divert it to use against India.Pakistan never considered Taliban as their enemy. Its India they want to destruct. Ofcourse China has vested interest in formenting trouble in India.. Why U.S.did not understand this? Why they turn a blind eye? If INDIA is destroyed its as good as end of the world. Nothing can stop Islam to conquer the whole world.China is under the false hope that they are safe from the violent clutches of Islam. Already their north western region had Islamic insurgency recently.

Return of the missing girl

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Kidnapping Hideout

Resurfacing of the missing girl after 18 years in America is a hotlly debated news. Kidnapping of young kids is a worst crime in the society. The kidnappers should be severly dealt with. Maximum prision sentence should be awarded for this kind of crimes as to deter future kidnappers in committing such crimes.Why grown-up adults commit such crimes? Why our humanity not grown up from commiting such horrible atrocity against innocent young kids? What short of education these perpurators received when they are kids? Psychologists may say deprieved childhood or broken home.How to gaurd against such criminalas?

Kidnapping and subsquenty holding them as captives may have a permenent effect on both the victims and their families. The victims may be forced to cling to their captors as only way of salvation avlaible to them. A sort of bond would be established between the victims and the abductors. One might have heard of Stockholm syndrome.Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed.Similarly here in the present case also the victim was ashamed of her bonding with the kidnapper.


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Cat and Mouse Game never ends

Dawn:

"Malick statment disapponting" says Indian Home Minister.

Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram was disappointed with the statements of his Pakistani Counterpart Rehman Malick. Ever since Mumbai Terror attack happened the relations between the two nuclear armed Neighbours went downhill.When Indian Home ministery issued RCN against Hafiz Saeed,the master mind behind the terror attack and forwarded to Pakistan, Pakistan refused to acknowledge it.Pakistan interior Minister added further insult to already strained relationship by saying,

"Islamabad would not be responsible for any future terrorist attacks in India."

Chidambaram's rebuttal featured as a top story in Dawn.

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Pakistan National Anthem penned by Indian

Another Indian related news caught my attention. In an article about Jinna the author has revealed that Pakistan first national anthem was penned by an indian born Hindu.This has compltely knocked me down.In the article revisiting the past appeared in Dawn, the authorLuv Puri, was surprised to find

"In this context, I discovered an interesting nugget of post-Partition Pakistani history. It is little known that Pakistan’s first national anthem was penned by a Hindu."

How was it my fellow indians? May be there is some thing in what Jaswant sing says.

AUGUST 26

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The Boston Globe

In U.S. people realised the importance of buying fresh than from supermarket.Here is an interesting news from Boston.

Now, markets cultivate farmers.

. Direct sales at farmers markets, once a small part of their business, now account for more than 60 percent of their revenue.
In Chennai now we crowd Reliance instead of Koympedu for our vegetables and fruits.

The Independent

Sir Paul Macartney , the one of the Beatles denies having had any rift with Fellow member John Lennon. But attributed some of the remarks were made by him under the influnce of drugs. He paints himself as calm and sober person.

"John said so much crap that he later said he hadn't meant. It's bulls*
Hindu

B.J.P.has double standards for discplining errant party members.
It has been noted, but without much embarrassment, that Mr. Shourie confessed to being “more affected by Atalji’s [ex-Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee] pain [on being thwarted in his effort to oust Gujarat CM Narendra Modi after the 2002 riots] than what happened in Gujarat.” In short, “Atalji’s pain” was more important than the killing of innocent people. The party, Mr. Shourie said, did not make Mr. Jaswant Singh’s Jinnah comments in his book so much of an issue as his supposed “denigration of Sardar Patel.” This was because an emphasis on Jinnah was likely to
reopen Mr. Advani’s Jinnah episode and questions would be asked why Mr. Jaswant Singh got the sack while Mr. Advani continues to sit at the high table.

Dawn
LAHORE: Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Times of India reported on Tuesday.
An RCN, however, is not an international arrest warrant and Interpol cannot force Pakistan to arrest Saeed.

Dawn is really happy that it can not force Pakistan to hand over Wanted militant. Partner in war on terrorisiom.