Six + Eight

An unemployed and single woman with six kids, who lives with her parents, gave birth to Octuplet. The ages of older kids vary from 7 to 2. It is simply pinnacle of irresponsibility and outrageous. How can anyone play with innocent lives?? Family and financial support are the fundamentals, humans provide to their kids. If we are talking about dogs or cats then, it may be different...

Gita

Two men in different continents at the same time were making history. Both were influenced by Bhagvad Gita and chose different ways to fight against the evil: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi chose the way of non-cooperation against the powerful forces of British whereas Oppenheimer thought destruction of atomic bombs can be used to control the enemies of humanity. Both were equally rignt and wrong. Gandhi's message of peace became the symbol of India's complacency and Oppenheimer's power message became the US's arrogance.

Survival Syndrome

Last night, I met with a veteran friend of my husband. He survived Vietnam War. He got one shot and lost friends but survived. He got the opportunities to visit Vietnam Memorial in past, were never able to gather enough strength to read his martyr comrades’ names on wall. Yesterday he did. He was on a business travel to D.C., before coming here, he spent hours with psychiatrist, but still he was not sure that he would make it. He hired a taxi to travel D.C. He went to memorial but was not able to leave the taxi. The taxi driver told him, “Whatever will happen, let it happen, Sir”. Finally he visited the memorial and read the names of his 19 friends who lost their lives in war. He cried like a baby there..

One of my husband’s colleagues is a native of Vietnam, who came to this country during Vietnam War. He never went back to his country. But he never felt comfortable in talking about the war. Even talks filled him with vicious feelings of the sufferings of his friends, relatives and people of his ‘country of birth’.

Two people came from same situation and had same emotions for being belonged to two different sides of the war. Psychologically, both are suffering from same syndrome ‘Survival Syndrome’. Probably every person suffers from this syndrome up to some extent. The news of terror attack on my country filled me with anger and disgust. I am relatively safer here, but most of people use the public transportation and go to crowded places for their livings. Every act of pushing back the fair sex makes me feel like someone is questioning my capability. Pictures of poor, weak and naked children realize the small gap between them and others.

Slumdog Millionaire

Grand success of Slumdog Millionaire proves that there are many people interested in Indian day to day life all around the world. However, many in India told that this movie is typical western vision of poor India. That is a typical Indian mindset what encourages to overlook the truth and live in flimsy world. The Bollywood (Indian film industry) movies show everything far from reality though the trend is little changed recently and some creative persons are coming in the industry. But the creative movies are still not widely appreciated, probably Indian people love only formula not substance. In Hollywood every year many movies related on Jews killings, gay rights and racial differences are released. But in India producers want to exploit only actresses’ bodies and jumping jack type stunt scenes. There are many tragedies and stories of hope happening in India every day. Why can't Indian movies project these sentiments to broad public? If projected in right way, I am sure stories of south can be sold in north and west in east and vice versa. Ultimately we are the world's most diverse and migrated people and each among us carries his or her unique story.

Indian Media

Anglophile Indian media always seek grace in cramming Oxford Dictionary and doing mastery on accent. Probably it makes easier for the reporters to switch to outsourced jobs, if they will be out of work. Like our government, it goes far to appease minorities. We listen frequently, attack on one person of minority but there is no one to report 1000s of similar crimes happening every day in India. No wonder Indian media has no status at International level. Chinese reporting is far superior than Indian, regardless of language hurdle. Not a single report from Indian media is shown after Mumbai terror attacks about any progress made by Indian Government (If they did!!) on CNN in US. Contrary, Pakistani journalists are worthy enough to talk about the lack of support from Indian Government and innocence of Pakistani Government.

I saw Karan Thapar’s episode with Shabana Azmi recently on Youtube. This guy called Shabana to discuss about her prospective on India’s progress on 60th anniversary of Indian Independence Day. The lady had not a single word to praise about India, all the time she made fuss about Muslim rights. Without any obligation to obey Indian Constitution, what else do Muslims want?

Qualification not Dress

Many time Michelle Obama's dresses and style are discussed in media. Instead of her education and devotion to family, her dresses are influencing the journalists. For any educated woman, who spent years in libraries not in beauty parlor it is insult.

Obama's Gitmo Policy

In long term, definitely Obama's policy of closing Guantanamo is great. But in current scenario, the prisoners with no proven guilty will be returned back to their countries of origin. Proving guilty is a tough task when it involves different nations. Especially Middle East and South Asian countries are highly dense populated and lack proper record keeping system. These countries have inflow of legal and illegal seasonal workers from neighboring countries. Some governments bear the international pressure but save home grown terrorists. The evicted prisoners will tell their stories of torture in these nations and local languages. This will further enhance the feeling of anti-west among fanatic and illiterate people.

Also, it is hard to convince religious fanatics through talks. Islamic terrorists are convinced that what they are doing is pious and according to the teachings of Quran. I am also not clear how to handle such people. Last year, in Texas hundreds of women and kids were taken out of FLDS church. Recently on CNN news, it was shown that all of them rejoin the family at same compound.