The Govt. becomes the “Scape Goat”

Two Circles published an article about the concerns of a few muslims about the successive Governments. Though it made mostly valid points, here is what I find really funny:
Samina Khan (31) is a research scholar of English literature. She doesn’t see any positive step taken by the NDA government of Bihar apart from the usual [...]

Muslim Literacy

A good article chronicling the backwardness of Islamic/Muslim community not only in India but all over the world written by Sujit Das. Though, I don’t agree with every word of it, the article makes a great read and some valuable points. Muslims must stand up to the challenge of modern world and retrospect. Instead of [...]

Conspiracy Theories Abound

The Great Indian Tamasha continues, now, its Sushmaji of the BJP who has come up with a conspiracy theory to keep the tamasha going.
“The blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad reek of a conspiracy to divert attention from the cash for vote allegations and also to bring back the Muslim vote which the Government has lost [...]

The Taboos on Imagination

Thomas L. Friedman writing few days after 9/11 termed it a failure of imagination. [via Offstumped]

That 19 people would take over four civilian airliners and then steer three of them into buildings loaded with thousands of innocent people was, I confess, outside the boundary of my imagination. The World Trade Center is not the place [...]

An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh

Enough is enough, It is time for the people of this nation to rise to the challenge of terrorism. Lets make our voice heard to the people at the helm (Government), against their indolent measures to curb terrorism. It is high time they realize terrorism is an important issue, which the government can no longer [...]

The Great Indian Tamasha

It unfolds every time a terror attack occurs in India, even though the act itself is no tamasha, what follows is nothing short of black comedy or black tamasha. It goes this way (better put by B Shantanu):

The Attack

The Appeal for calm

The Condemnation

The Blame Game (which Shantanu somehow missed)

The suspected “Foreign Hand”

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Blasts rock Ahmedabad

[49 dead and 105 injured so far]
After Bangalore its Ahmedabad, so we can safely use the phrase “yet another day, yet another blast”

Eight low-intensity blasts have taken place in Ahmedabad. The blasts happened in Maninagar, Isanpur, Narol circle, Bapunagar, Hatkeshwar and Sarnagpur Bridge… Initial reports say about 20 people have been taken injured and six [...]

Deciphering the Bangalore blasts

The serial blasts in Bangalore seems to be the odd man out in respect with the other blasts carried out in the recent past in one aspect. The blasts were of low intensity (carried out at precise intervals using timer devices) as opposed to the high intensity blasts. The obvious interpretation is the objective was [...]

Bangalore under attack!

The IT capital of India has been hit by low intensity blasts, which according to different sources are either seven or eight in number.
Commenting on the attack, Bangalore Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari told:

In all these cases they have created the blast using timer devices… Explosives have also been used, in quantity equal to one [...]

They are freedom fighters!

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, commenting on the situation Afghanistan:

We’re seeing a greater number of insurgents and foreign fighters flowing across the border with Pakistan, unmolested and unhindered… We simply must all do a better job of policing the border region and eliminating the safe havens, which serve today [...]