I've been so busy lately that I haven't time to do much of anything else, other than take care of my responsibilities at home and at work.
I do get to spend some time on Twitter in a day, but there's just so much information and discussion on that forum that I can only take a few news bites and sound bites in a day.
Today, for example, I learnt that Rahul Gandhi was pouring his heart out in Rajasthan, invoking the deaths of his grandmother and father, and giving the people glimpses into his childhood. Frankly, I have never heard any of Rahul's speeches in full, and this is a speech I would have loved to hear.
The news of the digging for gold in Unnao is well, quite stale now. Of course, nobody thought twice about the Government of India sending a team from the Archaeological Survey of India an old fort site in a village in rural UP after a Swami is visited by the old King who was killed over 150 years ago (He was killed by the British for rising against them in the War in 1857, and at least this way his memory was reopened, which is the only good thing I see in this whole thing) who tells him there is over 1000 tonnes of gold buried underneath and that it needed to be taken care of.
What everybody did think twice, thrice, four times, and many more times is that Narendra Modi ridiculed the Government for sending a team from ASI to dig a site for gold based on a dream which may or may not be real. Apparently there were some snide comments made, some rebuttals made, and Modi, as reported in some sections of the media, had to tone it down. What a great day for the Congress puppets on Twitter that was.
There were some major changes in the ownership and editorship at the Hindu, which were again because of reporting on, you guessed it, Narendra Modi. It was well discussed on Twitter, but don't think the mainstream media really made much of it.
India is just waiting for the elections 2014, and everything that is being said or done at the government level is done only to change their fortunes in that direction. The Communal Violence Bill for example is the new poster child for the UPA Government, and it seems they are keen to ride to victory on the Muslim vote in one way or the other. Never has the time seemed more ripe for the marginalized Muslims of India to demand their fair share, and ask the Government to answer why they have only been fed promises and rhetoric for so many decades by Rahul Gandhi's forefathers.
Of course these questions won't be asked and therefore not answered. We live in our own vicious circle of misplaced priorities, and avoidance of asking the right questions. So lets continue enjoying the election juggernaut, and lets see whats in store for this great nation of ours.
I do get to spend some time on Twitter in a day, but there's just so much information and discussion on that forum that I can only take a few news bites and sound bites in a day.
Today, for example, I learnt that Rahul Gandhi was pouring his heart out in Rajasthan, invoking the deaths of his grandmother and father, and giving the people glimpses into his childhood. Frankly, I have never heard any of Rahul's speeches in full, and this is a speech I would have loved to hear.
The news of the digging for gold in Unnao is well, quite stale now. Of course, nobody thought twice about the Government of India sending a team from the Archaeological Survey of India an old fort site in a village in rural UP after a Swami is visited by the old King who was killed over 150 years ago (He was killed by the British for rising against them in the War in 1857, and at least this way his memory was reopened, which is the only good thing I see in this whole thing) who tells him there is over 1000 tonnes of gold buried underneath and that it needed to be taken care of.
What everybody did think twice, thrice, four times, and many more times is that Narendra Modi ridiculed the Government for sending a team from ASI to dig a site for gold based on a dream which may or may not be real. Apparently there were some snide comments made, some rebuttals made, and Modi, as reported in some sections of the media, had to tone it down. What a great day for the Congress puppets on Twitter that was.
There were some major changes in the ownership and editorship at the Hindu, which were again because of reporting on, you guessed it, Narendra Modi. It was well discussed on Twitter, but don't think the mainstream media really made much of it.
India is just waiting for the elections 2014, and everything that is being said or done at the government level is done only to change their fortunes in that direction. The Communal Violence Bill for example is the new poster child for the UPA Government, and it seems they are keen to ride to victory on the Muslim vote in one way or the other. Never has the time seemed more ripe for the marginalized Muslims of India to demand their fair share, and ask the Government to answer why they have only been fed promises and rhetoric for so many decades by Rahul Gandhi's forefathers.
Of course these questions won't be asked and therefore not answered. We live in our own vicious circle of misplaced priorities, and avoidance of asking the right questions. So lets continue enjoying the election juggernaut, and lets see whats in store for this great nation of ours.
