Why do they do?

This is not the start I was expecting. Some times things become harder to understand in your own perspective, especially when the reason for it sounds very childish. It is even harder to take it easy when some one doubts your honesty. I may have used some strong words which are uncalled for the topic. The heart of the matter is we were expecting to get some information . The information can be obtained only from one source (at least for now). As we know them very well (I now doubt that), we talked to them about getting the information on a later date. Everything went well till the actual day came. The replies are standard " oops! we cannot do it at the moment. We are not happy with the progress we make, give us some more time" I would have preferred a straighter no!. At least it could have saved some anxiety. The reason I feel bad about is that I know the real reason behind the refusal. It has to do with we getting the information out in the real world. It sounds like a good reason to refuse. But really what hurts more is that we literally promised about the retaining the information. In actuality, we would have helped them had we got the information.
But the best part is now I am confident that I am striking the right chord. May be the information we want is merely a confirmation of what we already know. I am sure they will come to us in the future for the same and I am sure I would be more than happy to share.

P.S: The blog might be really abstract for most of you. But I cannot go any deeper at this time.

Not the time!

I was reading a letter from a person in Chennai (I am not mentioning the name as I am not sure whether he actually wrote it, nor do I know whether he is a writer as my literary expertise is novice to say the best) I am writing my opinion on the content of the mail related to the media coverage of the recent Mumbai terrorist atrocities. From the words of the mail, I feel that he is a left wing person. The whole purpose of the mail was to lambaste almost all the T.V. Channels about their coverage of the incident. He sounded more interested in refusing to acknowledge Taj Hotel as the Icon of India (I don't do it either) rather than the actual nature of this abominable act. I saw a couple of curious points he made

1) The channels should have given more importance to CST terminal and should have identified all those dead people.

Do you really expect them show the gory images of dead people on the street and pay attention to all those dead rather than looking to save the rest. I think it is better to show the places where the morons called terrorists are still unleashing their ignorance and make the people aware of their surroundings than focusing on a place where it is already done and dusted.

Identifying the victims on these magnitudes of attack is not an easy job and it would have been stupid if the T.V channels started showing the faces of brutally assaulted victims.

Most importantly, the writer of the mail hails from Chennai so he might be following it on television as I did and we have no clue whether any one were permitted to enter CST immediately after the attack?

2) The media was not focusing on the common people and were very concerned about the rich people

I do feel sometimes that screen personalities take up more coverage than real achievers. But it stops only with their personal achievement. Whenever we generalize the term "rich" we conveniently forget about their value to the society. Not all of them are just rich in material things. We need to realize that lot of the common people do need them for their livelihood. Just because they stayed in a posh hotel which we don't like or their principles, we cannot treat them that badly. We need to understand that if any of our industrialists die in situation like these, the loss for the society is more than a personal loss. The whole blog is not about socialism or Communism or which is better. I just want to point out that, don't hasten your decision in times like this.

There are plenty more in the mail I didn't like. I am not going to write about them all. People tend to get emotional very easily so these kind of mails are not to be taken seriously.

I was checking a video forward sent by my friend in some Pakistani channel. There was this buffoon claimed as an expert analyst. His point was the whole attack was organized by Indian Military (He even said that the Americans organized the 9/11 attack) and his evidence was the terrorists were wearing a saffron wrist band and Muslims don't wear them. Wow,What a point? Okay let me go and get a skull cap and become a Imam (I really didn't mean any offense to the sentiments). I don't know about the channel or the name of the buffoon but I am sure I don't need to.

To finish off in a lighter tone

I watched the Hindi movie "Yuvraaj" last night. Being a Tamil only speaking south Indian, my push for watching this Hindi movie was the music by none other A.R.Rahman. I am not sure whether the movie was intended to be funny or very unintentional comedy. Looking at the posh sets I think the later. I was laughing my heart out, when Salman was crying about how his heartless father chased him out of the house. All those instances told by Salman made it very clear that father did what he should have done. I hope Subash Ghai will be wary of these kind of sentimental scenes in future.