Question to Pak: Has the US stopped beating you?

Pakistan is facing the unenviable prospect of answering the political equivalent of the proverbial question, Have you stopped beating your wife?

Only this time the question is to the wife, and is, Has your husband stopped beating you?

Reworded, it would go, ‘Did the United States take your permission before bumping off Osama on Pakistani soilor did it not?’

If Pakistan said yes, and permission was taken, it would mean that Pakistan has given up its sovereignty for American dollars.

If Pakistan said no, it would me that America has simply usurped Pakistan’s sovereignty.

In this condition, the most pathetic statement came from Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik. He said that America had told Pakistan about the operation 15 minutes after it had started! (That is, after America was sure that Pakistan could do nothing to stop it!).

Another pathetic addition by Rehman Malik was: ‘’We weren’t however told where the operation was taking place ‘’ (except that it was on Pakistan soil, is it?).

Pakistan Pakistan…if only you could set some store by honesty and truth. If only you would discover some antidote to anti-India venom.

‘Pakistan may be conferred acting Oscar’

About not knowing Osama was in garrison town Abbottabad, Pakistani higher ups are saying, ‘We would have acted if we had known’.

That’s the crux of the matter.

If the Pakistanis had known that the Americans were getting to Osama, they (the Pakistanis I mean) would have acted and informed Osama ‘forthwith’ and Osama would have done the vanishing act.

And the Pakistanis would have continued to act after that too….they would have acted that they were hunting with the hounds…they would have acted that they didn’t tell the hares (Osama)..they would have acted that they continue to hang along with the hounds. Actually, acting comes naturally to the Pakistani higher ups..They are good actors.

I have heard from unauthorized and thoroughly mischievous sources in the US that Hollywood is thinking of conferring the acting Oscar on Pakistan. President Obama may receive the Oscar on Pakistan’s behalf because it was he who discovered Pakistan’s immense acting potential and put it to use.

What India should learn from Obamaland

Oh with what eloquence US President Obama announces the killing of Al -Qaeda leader Bin Laden!

Oh the determination and resoluteness the US intelligence agencies have shown in their pursuit of their aim — capture of the 9/11 perpetrator.

Oh the pusillnanimity of the Indian government in dealing with the Pakistani murderers who unleashed Bombay on us!

Oh the mercy petition that hangs in the balance for aeons in the case of the attack on the Indian Parliament!

Mother India sheds bloody tears at the unavenged war that was visited on our financial capital.

India hangs its head in shame that the savage attack on its Parliament is not being brought to its logical and just end.

The US, whatever be its other faults and hegemonic ends at least behaves as a proud nation.

India, whatever its great traditions of peace, of Buddha and Gandhi, slouches in the shadows like a eunuch, incapable of action.

Klaibyam Maa Sma Gamaha..Paartha…
Na Ethath Tvayi Upapadhyathe…
Kshudhram Hridya Daurbalyam Tyaktva
Uththishta Paranthapa…

‘’O Scorcher of foes..Don’t succumb to impotence…This does not befit you. Get rid of your weakness of heart and stand up…’’ Krishna said this to our own warrior of warriors, Arjuna.

But the only one who seems to have taken Krishna’s call is the Australian Julian Assange.

Are Indians then a spent force?

Will ever our Arjunas, Ashokas and Ramas rise?

Leaving criminal wrongs unpunished is not a quest for peace…it is the murder of justice.

India, Stand up…Punish those who harass your people. Otherwise you are a nation only in name.

NDTV’s take on Satya Sai Baba

ND TV’s Maya Sharma reporting on Satya Sai Baba’s passing, has commented that his religion was eclectic and a mixture of Hindu and Islamic philosophy.

As if to boost her point she had bytes of an Iranian devotee saying that she was fortunate to be living in Puttaparthi for the past four years. The Iranian devotee said that there were others from Azarbaijan, Kazakhsthan and Uzbekistan who had made the Ashram their home. Muslim devotees of the Baba.

Satya Sai Baba may have claimed that he was an avatar of Shirdi Sai Baba, who sometimes gave expression to Vedantic ideas through Sufi maxims.. Shirdi Sai’s personality was a wonderful amalgam of Vedanta and Sufism. He was an Ardhanareeswara of the two streams of divine experience.

But Satya Sai was a great Hindu saint steeped in the glorious spiritual values of Bharat. He was not for theories of god and religions but for a life lived in faith and devotion. The songs in the Sai Bhajans were addressed to the deities of Hinduism even as a few of them emphasized that the supreme god was an embodiment of love.. The qualities of love, service and discipline were emphasized among Satya Sai devotees. Satya Sai thus was a great Hindu saint espousing the best values of his religion in a spirit and love and service to mankind.

Mayawati’s latest mischief

Mayawati wants a Dalit in the Jan lok pal bill committee.

Being the greatest champion of the Dalits, in her own view, she should resign her chief minister’s post and herself become a member of the drafting committee.
How does she like the idea?

Or else, she should perhaps allow somebody like former supreme court justice Hegde to stand in for Dalits, if indeed there has to be any representation for the Dalits.

If by Dalit you mean an underprivileged person can you think of somebody more underprivileged discriminated against and harassed in today’s society than a decent man of impeccable reputation? Think of the Satyendra Dubeys, Shanmugham Manjunaths and Satish Shettys. The place for these honest men, in the view of the goons around, is only heaven.

What we need in the panel is truthful men and men who want to see public life cleansed of corruption (and I don’t include Mayavati’s elephants in that list).
All the right-thinking truthful men can stand in for all manner of disadvantaged people. We should move towards a society of people who set store on values and individual character. Not on caste and creed.

Salves for Sibal and Chidambaram

Arnab Goswami on Times Now asks RTI activist and Jan Lok Pal Bill champion Arvind Kejriwal, why Shanti Bhushan, who was Law Minister in 1977 did not do anything to bring forward a Lok Pal bill during his two year tenure.

He might have been playing Devil’s Advocate, but the question not only seems highly rhetorical but also quite infantile. Why did Gandhi go to South Africa if he was going to be the father of the nation decades later?

Harish Salve, high and mighty lawyer of the Supreme Court was found smacking his lips at the discomfiture of the Lok Pal Bill chaps.

He fired salve(o) s directly at Kejrival asking him why he was ‘defaming’ respected former members of the bar like Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal. (Kejrival poor chap defended himself by saying he was not saying anything directly against Chidambaram Kapil but only asking why all the focus was being only on the civil society members of the joint drafting committee).

Salve almost seems to be central minister without portfolio holding a brief for such characters as the aforementioned ministers.

We know how Chidambaram scraped through from his parliamentary constituency after two recounts.

Kapil Sibal is the magician who flicked his political wand to do away with thousands and thousands of crores of 2G losses to the exchequer. According to this the present telcon minister there have been no losses and former colleague Raja is behind bars for not creating any losses.

And these political honchos are great respectable men of high integrity for Mr. Salve. At least now Salve’s own cloak of respectability is out.

Govt at its old game yet again

Anna Hazare has written to Sonia asking if she believes the statements of one of the Congress general secretaries against the champions of the Jan Lok Pal bill.

The great gen sec he is referring to is none other than the one and only Digvijay.

All manner of logic and even physiological use is reversed in the case of this character. No wonder much of what he says stinks. This time he has been let loose on the Anna brigade.

Anna has begun to worry and has couriered his questions to the Congress chief.

Digvijay’s stink IS HERE! Really a man born with his foot in his mouth.
I am sure those who wallow in the muck of Delhi politics are not going to let Anna and his team get past them to the onerous task of cleansing India’s public life.