How Rude!

It was Eid and I found this friend of mine online. Since we are continents apart so we try keep intouch online.
Coming back to the story, I hadn't heard from my friend on the Eid status message on my FaceBook, no greetings, no good wishes, nothing at all. Finding him online was a good chance to greet him instead and give him an equal opportunity to wish me back. It was not to happen. As soon as I wished him Eid Mubarak, he responded promptly with an OK, an OK for Gods sake. Upon further scrutiny it was clear that he had an urgent business to attend to. He wanted to go for dinner and couldn't find the time to say Eid Mubarak back. Well I see the logic; "OK" is 2 letters and "EID MUBARAK" is 11, so it would have defintely taken him longer to write that. In that case a "2 u 2" messsage could have got him closer to the effeciency he was perhaps looking for.
It was only a few days ago he was seemed so excited and eager to talk to me, and now this, as if he didn't even know me. Suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder or not, but dude if you are reading this....it is very RUDE!!

Wiki- Leaks Iraq Abuses

Worse than the failure on the part of US of America is the failure on the part of the Iraqi government to ensure its soldiers/police don't practice brutality, the same tactics and methodlogy in the name of which Sadaam Hussein was ousted in the first place.

India's Abu Gharaib in Kashmir

After decades of attrocities, rapes, fake encounters, forced disappearances and the discovery of mass graves, the Indian brutality in Kashmir came out in the open yesterday September 7th 2010 when the Indian Paramilitary forces paraded a group of young Kashmiri men naked in front of their village women (they can be heard crying out in the background of the video). The Indian forces are not only parading the men naked, but also forcing them to keep their arms up and bodies exposed and hurling abuses at them. They can also be heard taunting the village women.

The act is particuarly shameful for India when it is trying to secure itself a seat among the most civilized and forward looking nations in the world. This shameful day also falls in the holy month of Ramadan for the muslim world and for Kashmir which is a muslim majority region.

Difficult People

Remember the people from school, who used to make you feel miserable, when you were very young and naive to understand better. People who you used to wish would play team but they just bullied you. These are the same ones, your colleagues at work who think they always know best or think that you don't perhaps know anything. Yes I am talking about the Difficult People, who don't seem to budge even a little or adjust a bit for the common good.

I have thought about why these people do what they do and why they don't do what might be the most sensible thing to do at that time. The answer, I think is that these people are very insecure most of the time. The disagreements over everything, the bullying, the bossing others and dictating everything, comes from a deep urge to feel in control all the time. When they ridicule you, when they want to push you down, when they belittle you with their every act, they are simply trying, so desperately to feel the power they crave for, the authority they demand but can never command.

Dangerous Snow Storm

This is the second big snow storm hitting the east coast of the United States in a months time. It has been coming down since 10 AM this morning in Virginia and has picked up even more since 6 PM. There is already an accumulation of around 6 inches with forecasts of around 20 inches or more accumulation by Saturday evening.

It will be a lot of trouble going out for anything, but its never the less breathtakingly beautiful.







Some more pictures since yesterday:-