KARGIL: WE SALUTE OUR BRAVE BROTHERS

First of all let me say, i dedicate my this post to our brothers who sacrificed their lifes for us in Kargil, to our brothers who have left their families and have gone to the army to protect our lives and to all those who are spending sleepless nights at the borders so as to make sure that we have a sound sleep.

When we hear that a few of our brave Jawans in the army have been killed, we just read or hear the news just feel sad for one minute and get back to what we were doing. But, when the Jawans hear one of us have been killed or injured, they dont feel sad but in the one minute that we wasted, they think how to avenge the damage that we suffered. This is the difference.

We have now let the responsibility of protecting our country pass on to the Jawans of our country. Well, i do not agree with this. Each of us have the responsibility. The hijack of plane to Kandahar in 1999, led to the release of a dangerous terrorist. i, do agree that civilians life is important. But, when so many of our brave brothers are risking their lives to protect us, dont we also have the responsibility to protect each other?

If the people in the plane, their family etc had been willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, it wouldn't have led to that criminals release. i'm not saying we must just simply give away our life. But, as far as sacrificing our lives for the country comes, i'm for it.

Its time the new generation take an oath. We will not succumb to the threats from people who are here to destroy our country. Whenever, i see our tri-color my heart fills with joy, with pride, and a set of emotions that i cannot describe. i know its all same with each and everyone of us. But, we need to take the next step and should and let ourselves be ordered by these criminals. Maximum that they can do to us is kill us. Let them, but we will not succumb to their pressure.

Let this be the ringtone of each of our heartbeats and then i know no terrorists, no nuclear missile, no atom bomb can do anything to our great country INDIA.

Even now my heart fills with joy when i see that i have a place through which i can spread some message that i have always wanted to.

Lets all say from our hearts ,loud and clear: JAI HIND, VANDE MATARAM

Well i dont know how many have noticed i have used the small 'i' in all places here because when i think of those who have done a lot for our country, i'm too small to be using the 'I' that we usually use.

Anyways, hope some of my readers have a changed pinion about life.

VANDE MATARAM

WALK AND TALK: What an idea sirji

A doctor shows the phone and tells the people walk when you talk. Well, just imagine if we walk and talk in Calicut. The number of gutters and holes on the road! Well, the doctors would get more patients to check. "What an idea sirji".

The number of gutters on the roads in Kerala is now more than the number of coconuts in Kerala.

MIMS hospital in Calicut, one of the best super specialities in calicut, has a very big gutter right in front of its entrance. Well if a person who has some serious heart problems goes through that road, he certainly can say goodbye to earth.

Then, there are the roads that were well laid and then along comes the water department saying there is some problem with the pipeline or some new pipelines to be laid etc. They bring the new pipe along do some digging, destroy the road and just close the pit and just get away from the place leaving the road in the ragged way. Then, the people are put to suffer. Also, the spare pipes are just left behind there, reducing the space available for vehicles to travel. These pipes then just stay there and get rusted just being left there so as to provide spaces for people to stick their posters, advertisements etc.

We, the people just grumble about this situation with our friends and close ones, not doing anything to clear this situation. We have to do something to rid our district or state of this situation.

Now is the time to quote Swami Vivekananda's saying

" Arise Awake and stop not till the GOAL is reached".

Lets do this.

Vande Mataram

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE ,NO PLACE TO WALK

Rains are back in Kerala. The nice sound of rain lashing on the windows. The grey moody days when we can see the people walking around with umbrella in their hands. Ha! what a nice scene. But along with it comes flooded roads, water filled holes in the road etc. Why so?

I recently had been to one of the busiest roads in Calicut. I was walking and when i reached there, there was no road. I could only see water flowing but ignoring that I continued walking and water was there upto my knee.

On seeing this I remembered the lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner in which he says 'water water everywhere not a drop to drink'. Just like that there was a lot of water there but no place to walk. I continued wading through the water and then saw the cars and other vehicles floating on this.

What is the reason for this? Poor drainage, unplanned city growth, unpredictable amounts of rain? All these have contributed to this flooding, but we should have planned for this huge amount of rains for the simple reason that humans are cautious.

All that has been done (which is nothing) can be forgotten. Now, we need to see what can be done and need to do it. We includes you, me ,our friends and all those who we know.

Lets do it without just questioning or playing the blame game.

Vande Mataram

T20: GENTLEMAN's (now women's too) QUESTIONED

Cricket also called the gentleman's game is under threat now by the T20 format of the same.

Whenever we hear T20, 3 hours of thrill, 40 overs of excitement, 240 balls of tension and in the end 1 winner. If it is so exciting then why have the cheerleaders in there Bikini's. So, is it exciting because of the match or because of the cheerleaders?

Now there are discussions going on to get rid of tests and have only T20's and One dayers. Test cricket the ultimate test that every cricket player faces whenever he plays for the country is to be cancelled. Why so?

The red ball, the white kits everything has more thrill than the T20's. The 1st test of Ashes which England saved, 2nd test of Ashes which England won, the 2 run victory for England in the 2005 Ashes, Kumble's 10 wicket haul against Pakistan, Jim Lakers 19 wickets in a Test. All this has been in Tests and not in T20's .

Even after all this ICC want to get rid of Tests. Let all the people who love cricket raise against this and protect our Test Matches and reduce the number of T20's