'System'atically 'Common'ed!

Finally, Done with the Exams!!
13 days, 7 exams - 2 MBA entrance and 5 Engineering Semester End !! Quite some challenge!! Hell ya!
Now, Back to Business!

Well, I have started writing this blog pretty late; late by nearly 2/3 hours. When I first logged in, I had a few comments awaiting me. Livin' Free has finally got the much awaited criticism! After 8 months of appreciation and strong support from the Truth Team, a person named Mar Dezie has shot a salvo at me via 2 comments on the blog Irom, Iron and Ironic. Please do go through them and my reply and let me know your thoughts.

As of today, I am sure all of you have heard by now (Thanks to Wikileaks) the charming prince speaking of a bigger threat to the nation in form of Hindutva, the very culture of this nation, as compared to the LeT! My focus is not on that as I have impressed upon this hocum time and again. My focus is on what Prince charming said 2 days back. He touched that beautiful, dynamic and the most common phrase on every 2 faced thief's lips - 'Common Man or the Aam Aadmi'.

Not doing Nothing....

I am in one of the most hectic Decembers of my life with MBA entrance and Engineering Semester end exams moving on parallel tracks. It is quite a challenge and I nearly messed up big time in my last paper yesterday; if not for God's intervention in pricking me to check my answer sheets I might never have realised my blunders and undertaken corrective measures. When is such a prick going to hurt our 'home grown' terrorists I wonder.

A Freedom Tribute....

A barrage of scams and scandals hitting on ha! May it be the Adarsh, the 2G, CWG or the news about Bangalore being the most corrupt city, we just have our news full with it during the regular dinners. The news channels are doing a pretty good dissection; now let us see whether they can channel that power into ensuring conviction in any of the corruption cases. (Talking of conviction, has anybody noticed that SPS Rathore has walked scot free in the Ruchika case? There was great hullabaloo in the media when he was jailed, what about following up the injustice to Ruchika's family and the insult to the nation's pride? )

Colonial India : From West to East....

Hold your horses (Actually your thoughts) before you ask yourself why I have posted "India" and not Bhaarat. You will find that explanation in the subsequent paragraphs.

Digging into our history books, in our primary and secondary school days we had those lessons about how the East India Company arrived with an excuse of trading and went on to capture the entire Indian sub-continent by pitting the locals against each other in the game of one-upmanship. Things have not changed if colonialism is to be studied. It was West first; East now.

To be or Not To be....

Long time back, April-May 2010, I was at Nashik for the prep leave and I attended a 5 day lecture series titled Arya Chanakya which was organised on the occasion of Maharashtra Diwas. The lectures were delivered by Mr. Vivek Ghalsasi, the editor of Tarun Bharat and a fantastic orator. With the thoughts that were already brewing in my mind this lecture series acted as a catalyst leading to me starting Livin' Free on 14th May 2010. The complete story of Chanakya as a scholar, an economist, a teacher, a strategist; and above all, the ultimate patriot inspired me to start pouring out my thoughts and share what I learn from such great men; to build up a mass movement of knowledge and freedom. Well, I am back home for Sem 7 prep leave and I was listening to the recordings of this lecture series and my memory was stirred a bit and there is 1 story from this lecture series which I will share in this blog.

Irom, Iron and Ironic....

Firstly, Happy Diwali to all of you my friends.

May this Diwali, God bolster your strength and give you courage and freedom to survive against all odds and fight against all challenges and grow better and better!

Since the past 2 days a 38 yr old lady from Manipur named Irom Sharmila Chanu, dubbed "The Iron Lady" by our dear media, is in the spotlight as far as the news reports are concerned. She has been on a 10 year hunger strike against the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) in Manipur after an incident on 2nd Nov 2000 in which 10 Manipuri citizens were killed by the Indian Army while retaliating against a militant attack at Malom the same day. Now nearly every news report from different channels/papers is singing the praises of this woman. They have criticized the Indian Army and are drawing attention to this lady and how much she has suffered. Has the media or the activist wing ever wondered how much the Army goes through?