The death sentence awarded to Ajmal Kasab marks the end of the more than a year long trial (FYI – this is fastest in the history). Since this is capital punishment it would need further approval from High Court and then there may be appeal to Supreme Court or President of India.
But does a death sentence really a punishment for Kasab? Will it deter other terrorists from foreign lands from entering into our lands and launch similar attacks? He came here to die. Getting caught alive was something against the plan. It was punishment for him and his family that he is alive so far.
Of course, today Government is spending crores of rupees to keep him alive. The tax-payers’ money will be saved once he is hanged. Also, there is risk that someone may attempt his rescue through dirty means like hijacking. On that background, it is an economically and politically preferred solution to hang him. I agree.
But one thing going wrong here is that media is picturing this whole drama as war between Republic of India vs Ajmal Amir Kasab. He has been put to center of attraction of this whole 26/11 attack. Punishing him with death sentence has been portrayed as India’s victory in this war. But that war we have already lost.
Kasab is only pawn in this game. The masterminds of this attack, the leadership of LeT and ISI are still far from our reach. While centering public focus on Kasab through media, Government has successfully masked its inability of clutching necks of terrorists across borders. Soon people will forget who real culprits were while enjoying hanging of the mere soldier, of course until next attack!!
Government (or Sonia) finally introduced the Women’s 33% reservation bill and it was approved by RS. The path forward isn’t straightforward as it would need 66% majority in Lok Sabha as it is a Constitutional Amendment. At the same time Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party has asked for Muslim reservation within Women’s reservation. BJP has naturally opposed it. This has raised Muslim reservation issue once again.
As per Constitution of India, reservation in Education and Government jobs cannot be provided on basis of Religion, Read more…
Google should be congratulated on taking such a tough stance against China. As announced on Google Blogs on 22 March, Google Inc. has closed down its China (People’s Republic of China referred as PRC here onwards) portal www.google.cn and has started redirecting visitors to www.google.hk, its Hong Kong portal. Google had earlier declared that it will stop censoring search results in China and this decision is in line with implementing its promise.
PRC has always put several restrictions on MNCs operating in the country. One of most bitter is the censorship. Since China remains world’s biggest Internet markets, U.S. companies have always accepted these restrictions and rules. Google also had (unwillingly?) abided by search censorship rules so far, against to its own policy of compromising search results. This included blocking search keywords for words blacklisted by PRC. Read more…
In India ‘State’ means a federated state which is a territorial and constitutional body which is part of the larger union which is a sovereign state or country or nation. The Constitution of India has defined the power sharing between states and the Union.
Before formation of Union of India, Indian subcontinent was being ruled by several ethnic groups over centuries. During British rule, India was either under direct British rule or was under Princely state allied to Britain. British had divided India in certain Provinces like Central, Bombay and Calcutta for simplifying the administration. These boundaries were not reflecting cultural and ethnic diversity in subcontinent. Post independence, when State reorganization was necessity, these were created based on linguistic criteria.
That’s how today’s modern states were formed. This grouping of states and thereby people of same language or culture was created on ideology that people of same culture will mix together as one identity and they share similar aspirations and beliefs.
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It’s a typical Johar movie, a love story, a dramatic adventurous mission of “Meeting the President of the United States of America” to tell him THE MESSAGE, and to add mirch-masala, instances to glorify the “Rizwan Khan” a.k.a. SRK himself, blah blah blah. Nothing surprising, nothing different.
Point here is not to discuss the film, which some people may like, some may not. But I want to centralize this topic around certain message given in the film.
“Do not stereotype all Muslims as terrorists.” Read more…
After Microsoft closed its internal hosting service (FREE!!!), I had to come back to Brinkster after a year’s break. To my surprise Brinkster just offered this hosting package @ just $02/mo with all required 1GB/.NET 3.5/MySQL etc. This is awesome!!! I always loved Brinkster for its support, but $120/year was too costly earlier. You can check more details at www.brinkster.com/mini if you are intereseted.
Main intention behind my owning domain was always email account, but now starting blogging…