What is it about London news that still bothers me?
I have been hearing differing point of views…

My cousin : there are thousands dying on the planet specially in Iraq/ Africa/ middle east.. only when it happens to London and Newyork world seems to take note.

News : Blair and Queen keep saying that London will go on.. British way of life will go on…. Terrorists will not be able to deter our way of life…..

Me : I say to my friend … thank god you are alive, thank god nothing happened to you..

In all this … what about the people who died or got injured on that day…. Or the ones who are paying the price everyday, all over the world, for our degeneration into civilized savages? What was their fault? What was their life worth? Just a statistics? ….just a headline in the news … for a few days?…just a score in the long list of vengeance seeking madmen?

In their show of courage maybe Blair, Queen and many Londoners are robbing off the victims of their due mourning. Isn’t there a lesson to be learnt in all of this? Not a lesson in how to beef up your national security ….. but a lesson on how not to make enemies for your nation and its people. Nations send their people to war…. never imagining that war comes back to people eventually …sometimes in bodybags and sometimes as vengeance of the vanquished. It is not a defence for this terrible and despicable action of some deranged people but a general lesson in life… live and let live.

From my cousin’s point of view there should be some perspective balance on death of people everywhere…are the deaths comparable …. Is the grief a thing to compare?

For those who didn’t make it back home from the London trains and bus…. Who can explain that they lost their lives as sacrifice on the high altar of British way of life or more precisely British foreign policy and some deranged philosophy of vengeance in the name of God?

Whose war is it

Last night I slept with overdose of London's joy .....
this morning also the news kept going on about it ....
for me the day was full of my problems as usual...
whole day kept going around with my colleagues trying to find the silver linings thru this murky cloud of my problems...

came home all weary and down....looking for solace on TV screen..
flipping channels... came across breaking on CNN news.... London bomb blasts...
our system is so immune these days.. that it didn't register the shock at first...
I flipped the channel... was on MTV... where Shahrukh Khan was being interviewed by equally boisterous Cyrus....
then I again flipped channel to BBC casually to see what actually happened...
and then the horror of the news unfolded.... it was series of blasts ...
looked like 9/11 all over again ... just that it was carried out on the ground...
and 33 people had paid the price of being at the wrong place at the wrong time..
33 people were made part of a statement of one side on the other in this insane war
I just cant understand this war and its warriors....
why ??? why ??
who is fighting who ? in this proxy war ... casualties are like just another score by one side on the other .....
this has got to stop.....before walls go up again ...and we start caging ourself against each other....

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my silent prayers go to all those who lost their lives...and hope that god (theirs or ours...) would guide his flock to its senses....

One man show

Normally sporting arena is one of the competitions and rivalaries...
There have been only a few teams and players that have dominated their sports for a long period of time....

A few examples from the past have been West Indian team under Clive Loyd in cricket, Sergei Bubka in pole vault, or a Bull run in NBA, or Ferrari-Schumacher's brief domination (I maybe a bit less informed about the other sports though).

But apart from this most of the sports have been blessed with healthy rivalaries at any point of time to make sports worth watching.

My dilemma offlate has been in tennis where however much I want to watch Federer play his magical shots but most of the time forgone conclusion of the match or the helplessness of the player on the other side makes the whole spectacle similar to watching 100th rerun of Friends episode.

So I had decided to give Federrer Vs. Roddick a miss.... and as per the script Federer despatched Roddick in straight sets.... reducing Roddick from title hungry competitor to down and out beer thirsty bloke.

I am not actually praying that Federer loses next time by playing below par game but praying for someone to come along and play at his level to beat him ( wouldn't that be a slugfest worth plonking yourself in front of telly for )... there aren't many who seem to be capable of this at the moment, maybe and just maybe Marat Safin.....

talking of domination ... another spectacle had gotten off the blocks .... Tour de France... which commentrators have started dubbing already as "Tour de Lance"....
actually cycling worldover ( in my marignalized world maybe ) is known for its drug scandals and Lance Armstrong's post cancer heroic efforts.

by the way Tour de France is quite confusing to follow for me .... just too many jerseys I guess...
as of now champion seems to be in 16th position....as of stage 2...