Dear Dr. Barad, You make good points. In the Indian political mindset, any party would have done the same to the Olympic marksman — give or take some lakhs or crores.
The let down has so many levels to it. Do you not think that Tata, the Ambani's, the Oberois and other industrialists do not have the number of the PM or Sonia or any number of politicians of all stripes — and cannot influence things. When this shit hit the ceilings (pun intended) do you not feel that the Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Spice Jet, Air India Regional, Go Air, Deccan, etc., could not have offered an aircraft to lift the commandos straight from Delhi to Mumbai (instead of waiting for one to come from Chandigarh), and then by helicopters to the sites. Were they feeding the aircraft grass in Chandigarh? What was the ONGC management doing — it has choppers, or at least they rent them. Are there no aircraft leasing companies that stood up. Or got the idea that this was their time. Are there no aircraft insurers who know how to to take advantage of circumstances. What was Ratan doing — sinking into decrepitude?! Or did they all offer resources and were all turned down. These are ideas that arise out of the plain logical and rational. I am not talking about complex chess moves. If I, a mere paintbrush can think this way, do you not think there are better and more astute thinkers out there. People who are not only patriotic, but nationalistic and know how to stand up and be counted. Maybe in their case they were suffering from, Lajja bhikechi paili payari. (Shame (bashfulness) is the fist step towards poverty (or a dearth of ideas, if you will). Loz bhikecho poilo umbro. They are all the same, whether it is Sonia or the Advani. They are all vanis. They are theirs all selling us crap values. So all one can do is bring change from within. This will determine how the parties will begin to see themselves. Each one changes themselves, and allow time to heal us. I know this sounds retarded, but other than this, of course dovetailing with social and other procedural changes the only other course is assassinations and more killings. I for one have not heard of any politician paying with his life for screwing Goa or India. And when it has happened it is on account of the sins of the fathers. We worship cricketers, because we misread our spiritual texts. We have got enamoured with line and length, and swashbuckling. Even idealism is akin to a religion and those who espouse towards the same do not follow it in the clear sense of allowing it to awaken them. Sadly, this is our India. Keep it up Dr. Barad. Venantius > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:14:41 +0530 > From: "Dr. U. G. Barad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Is SMS making mess or sense? > > An Olympic shooter wins Gold (Only a game) & Government gives him 3 Crores. > Another Shooter dies, fighting with terrorists (Saving our country and our > live) & congress government pays his family 5 lakhs. > > What a shame and disgrace to every citizen of India that the elite NSG > Force > was transported into ordinary BEST buses, whereas our cricketers are > transported into state of the art luxury buses, these Jawans lay down their > lives to protect every Indian and these cricketers get paid even if they > lose a match, we worship these cricketers and forget the martyrdom of these > brave Jawans. The Jawans should be paid the salaries of the cricketers and > the cricketers should be paid the salaries of the Jawans. > > Huh.. This is our India..... > > Please be a patriot and forward this to everyone u know. > > Hats off to India & Sonia!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Best regards, > > Dr. U. G. Barad >