Okay, so everyone has a right to this. And I exercise mine. Rants!! 1. I am getting a little sick and tired of the following words: Iconic structures (about the Taj and the Oberoi): good for a while, but gets on my nerves as they keep repeating these words, Resilience and spirit: enough is enough. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
A few general rants at this time..
Posted: December 1, 2008 in india, mumbai blasts Nov 2008Tags: mumbai blasts
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Mumbai Events: The Media’s Role
Posted: December 1, 2008 in india, mumbai blasts Nov 2008, televisionTags: mumbai blasts, television coverage
Ever since the CNN correspondent reported the Gulf War from the trenches, no global event, no terrorist attack is an isolated incident anymore. All such events play to the gallery as a large reality television show. The purists may not like it. But they cannot deny it. It was no different this time around when, [...]
Why is there action now? Why did it not happen earlier?
Posted: December 1, 2008 in india, mumbai blasts Nov 2008Tags: mumbai blasts
The citizens’ voice has never been heard louder than on this occasion. And the citizens are also, more or less, speaking in a common voice. Their anger is directed to the same one direction. And some results are there for us to see. And with the relentless focus of the citizen groups that have emerged, [...]
Amitabh Bacchan wrote in his blog, after the Mumbai terrorist attack started, that he took his licensed revolver with him, to bed. Albeit in discomfort, but that was HIS reaction. I cannot quite identify with his response, but perhaps as a targeted celebrity, his concerns could be different from those of common citizens. But all [...]
Mumbai: “Yes, We Can”
Posted: December 1, 2008 in india, mumbai blasts Nov 2008Tags: mumbai blasts, Yes We Can
If there was any time when this phrase made famous by Obama, could also be used in context of Mumbai, then its NOW! Can we come out of the mess that we find ourselves in? Can we ensure that sanity is maintained and knee jerk outbursts do not put us into more chaos? Can we [...]
It’s all about Good vs Evil
Posted: December 1, 2008 in Good vs Evil, india, mumbai blasts Nov 2008Tags: Good vs Evil, mumbai blasts
India, the world’s second largest country with a population of about 1.1 billion, has just 126 police officers per 100,000 citizens. The United Nations’ recommended standard is 222. Well, be it 126 or 222, why is it sufficient to have just that small 3 digit number of police officers taking care of 100,000 citizens. This [...]
Terror? Is it inevitable and are we helpless?
Posted: December 1, 2008 in mumbai blasts Nov 2008Tags: mumbai blasts
While we have all been angry and upset, and have poured out our anger against the politicians and the powerful, we have also been hearing from various experts, the challenges of combatting terrorism. The long coastline, the large number of porous boundaries that the city has, the big gap between the arms that our police [...]
