Sad days for Hyderabad

Pretty sad, the way its turning out for Hyderabad. Got to feel for the place... a place which has seen rapid development infrastructure and capacity wise only for it to be suddenly jolted in its fledgling attempt to modernize.

Even more sad is the fact that 10 districts - perhaps [good 'uns?] will end up in Telengana which doesnt seem to be the earlier plan... all for Congress appeasement?

I would rather see Congress defeated than Andhra divided. Useless idiots.

To think of the fact that I used to frequent it often... still do... and be charmed by the city. Bah. 'Nuff said.

Pay the price

P Chidambaram has put his foot firmly into his mouth again by saying that the country will pay the price for not establishing NCTC.

Mmh. Interesting.

Country pays the price? Really, now. Is that so. A sitting minister wishing or vaguely making dire remarks about a country, that he also tries to govern, needing to pay the price. That is pathetic. Despicable. Deplorable. And I am surprised that no one in the ruling party or the opposition has picked those words and really questioned him on the choice of words.

Its simple, Chidambaram - you either try to do your best to govern the nation... against all odds, and dont wish for danger to befall the nation; Else, move on. The country will be better off without you.

No one is indispensable. Even you.

Good article by Gurumurthy

Yet another gem from him.

"Known as ‘Mappillai’ in Tamil and ‘Damad’ in Hindi, all sons-in-law have high standing in Indian families -- religion, caste, region and language regardless.

No surprise therefore that sons-in-law of wealthy, powerful families make news, mostly for wrong reasons. Some months ago, Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, was in the news for building, in just four years, real estate empire worth couple of billion Dollars [Rs 11,000 crore], according to California’s Celebritynetworth.com, which even the media that adores Sonia Gandhi had to confess as reeking of corruption.

When Arvind Kejriwal exposed the shenanigans of Vadra, for the first time therefore even Sonia-friendly media raised eyebrows about her. But within hours of the exposure, she certified Vadra as honest, directed her party to defend her son-in-law. Yet the media did manage to keep the issue alive.

In April last Haryana Government cleared Vadra of wrong doing. Before the media could scrutinise the fake clearance, the CBI and Law Minister Ashwini Kumar were shockingly caught fabricating CBI report to Supreme Court followed by the CBI catching Railway Minister Pawan Bansal’s nephew selling top posts in the Railways. Vadra went out of the radar even as both ministers made noisy exit. 

When the Prime Minister’s head was the next, came the news of spot fixing in Indian Premier League [IPL] cricket matches. All previous scams of lakhs of crores of rupees moved out of the radar as another son-in-law, who held himself out as the owner of Chennai Super Kings team, was caught punting on matches.

Gurunath Meiyappan, the hitherto unknown son-in-law of N Srinivasan who heads the high profile Board of Control for Cricket of India [BCCI] has virtually saved the UPA Government that was being chased by the media and the Supreme Court.

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Link here

I will have to agree with him totally here. It will be UPA, Sonia and Manmohan Singh that will be laughing all the way to the Parliament. To consider that all the news and print media have fallen lock stock and barrel to move to cricket is deplorable.

Personally, I would rather have a corrupt cricket team than a corrupt government. 

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2 interesting articles:

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Dont forget to see the deep links too!

Update: I urge anyone worth his /her salt who actually does link to the post to check both links and grasp the importance and fwd as reqd. CLINCH the moment!

Update 2: see this link particularly: hoot