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26 September 2011, 2:22 PM
'In
the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But in the keen-eyed world
of cricket, a fellow with just one good eye-and-a-bit has to settle for
something less than the perfection he once sought. Lucky me, despite this, to have
been able to play the game all over the world in the company of giants.' Pataudi about himself.
20 October 2011, 8:57 PM
I was taken straight to what was like an ashram with a temple. There in a room slightly spacious with carpets spread all over the floor in the middle sat Yogiji on an asana with his disciples, I presume , around and also some visitors. I was introduced to him and he called me straight to him and made to sit near him for many hours. He was talking in Gujarati, not Hindi, but easy for me to understand. His face, radiant, his smile so broad and never leaving him, his protruding teeth, slightly shriveled body, upper part of the body totally uncovered is what I vaguely recollect now, after four decades.
1 December 2008, 5:32 PM
Last Sunday, a brilliant student of my junior research class told me that he wanted to give his political (mundane) explanation astrologically showing why the terrorist attack took place and why it had to be in south west direction which ofcourse is Bombay.
On this basis, he further showed why the next attack, since this attack is not likely to stop now that India world’s softest target with a huge population sympathetic to the terrorists and with some of them willing to be members of sleeper cells,----will be in NORTHERN INDIA.
The day Indo Nuclear deal was signed, Sardar Manmohan Singh signalled India joining the American bloc was the message sent to the Muslim world, particularly the fundamentalists among them.
In the meantime, the Bharatiya Janata Party has earned the wrath of some Indians who do not like any political party to make political capital out of such incidents, so painfully exposing our national deficiencies and defects in characters. Some of them are reminding the BJP that its own record during the Kandhahar kidnapping was disgraceful.
What most of the politicians do not know , it seems, is that younger generation of Indians, in early thirties and, even younger ones, are intelligently patriotic. The voting power and strength is in their hands and they can cause major swings in elections. It will serve no purpose if the middle aged people blame politicians as we are a democracy and we have to elect politicians, however opportunistic and unscrupulous, to power. What is the way out?
The coming dasha of Sun in the Indian horoscope provides an adequate answer. Domestic policies will demand and get greater attention, economically tariff barriers, resembling protectionism of British Indian days, and adequate security measures with stringent laws.At the moment, stringent security laws have been sacrificed at the altar of political opportunism by the UPA government which repealed the excellent POTA which the earlier, NDA, government and had framed, enforced and provoked terrorists. But the Congress politicians who thought it was used against one community repealed it instead of instructing the law enforcing authorities to be impartial if there was any truth in the allegations against NDA’s POTA.
National security first has to be the aim of any government.What will the new Home Minister, Chidambaram do now unless he brings into effect some POTA like legal act immediately into force?
In the encircling tension and gloom, a BJP leader has provided some hilarity and provoked women against himself.
People slam politicians; BJP leader calls them terrorists
Agencies
Published on Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 17:26 in
NO HOLDING HIS TONGUE: Naqvi gets into trouble for deriding Mumbai protesters. That’s what BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said. "Some women wearing lipstick and powder have taken to streets in Mumbai and are abusing politicians spreading dissatisfaction against democracy. This is what terrorists are doing in Jammu and Kashmir," said Naqvi, the party’s national vice-president.
The lighter side was that the English cricket team down five zero to India in ODIs was waiting for a total disgrace if it was to lose the remaining two to make it seven zero. We were debating if Pieterson’ team would take this opportunity and run away. Yes, they did it.
(1 Dec 21/35 pm)
On this basis, he further showed why the next attack, since this attack is not likely to stop now that India world’s softest target with a huge population sympathetic to the terrorists and with some of them willing to be members of sleeper cells,----will be in NORTHERN INDIA.
The day Indo Nuclear deal was signed, Sardar Manmohan Singh signalled India joining the American bloc was the message sent to the Muslim world, particularly the fundamentalists among them.
In the meantime, the Bharatiya Janata Party has earned the wrath of some Indians who do not like any political party to make political capital out of such incidents, so painfully exposing our national deficiencies and defects in characters. Some of them are reminding the BJP that its own record during the Kandhahar kidnapping was disgraceful.
What most of the politicians do not know , it seems, is that younger generation of Indians, in early thirties and, even younger ones, are intelligently patriotic. The voting power and strength is in their hands and they can cause major swings in elections. It will serve no purpose if the middle aged people blame politicians as we are a democracy and we have to elect politicians, however opportunistic and unscrupulous, to power. What is the way out?
The coming dasha of Sun in the Indian horoscope provides an adequate answer. Domestic policies will demand and get greater attention, economically tariff barriers, resembling protectionism of British Indian days, and adequate security measures with stringent laws.At the moment, stringent security laws have been sacrificed at the altar of political opportunism by the UPA government which repealed the excellent POTA which the earlier, NDA, government and had framed, enforced and provoked terrorists. But the Congress politicians who thought it was used against one community repealed it instead of instructing the law enforcing authorities to be impartial if there was any truth in the allegations against NDA’s POTA.
National security first has to be the aim of any government.What will the new Home Minister, Chidambaram do now unless he brings into effect some POTA like legal act immediately into force?
In the encircling tension and gloom, a BJP leader has provided some hilarity and provoked women against himself.
People slam politicians; BJP leader calls them terrorists
Agencies
Published on Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 17:26 in
NO HOLDING HIS TONGUE: Naqvi gets into trouble for deriding Mumbai protesters. That’s what BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said. "Some women wearing lipstick and powder have taken to streets in Mumbai and are abusing politicians spreading dissatisfaction against democracy. This is what terrorists are doing in Jammu and Kashmir," said Naqvi, the party’s national vice-president.
The lighter side was that the English cricket team down five zero to India in ODIs was waiting for a total disgrace if it was to lose the remaining two to make it seven zero. We were debating if Pieterson’ team would take this opportunity and run away. Yes, they did it.
(1 Dec 21/35 pm)
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