What is happening? 10 blasts, 3 hostage situations, 125 people killed and about 300 injured, this is a total war! A war on India.
Over the past four years, about 3600 people have died in terrorist related violences in India. That is the third highest number in the world after Afghanistan and Iraq. What is the Government doing? The Home Minister, if he has an iota of shame left in him, should resign immediately. For the last so many years people have been demanding stricter terror laws, but the Government, in order to lure the minority vote bank, has time and again found trivial reasons to postpone the matter. I understand that some misuse of the laws may happen, but 3600 lives could have been saved.
While I was watching the drama unfold in the Television, the thing which irked me the most was the uniforms. The NSG personnel were wearing protective gears like some SWAT team from the US, but the police jawans, facing the same threat and clearly in the same hostile situation, were in their half-sleeved khadi shirts. The state of our police forces is really dismal. Without the necessary gears, how do the government expect them to fight off such determined and well-prepared terrorists? This is the paradox in India. With the economic boom we have been able to change our economic situation, but the social infrastructure is still rotten.
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English Grammar – useful Grammar tips. i haven’t actually followed it, but it seems useful.
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I really really hate the “About me” columns. If you check my Orkut or Facebook profile, you will see a huge blank in the space provided. I generally tend to stay away from these things. Now, imagine my condition, when I had to write a 2000 word Statement of Purpose for Graduate admission. God, I went through hell. It took me a whole day just to prepare the first draft. Believe me bragging about oneself is really tough. The sheer volume of adjectives one has to come up with is mind numbing.
Anyways, now it is over. I have forwarded my last draft for review and I think it is beyond the editing and polishing stage now. Laser Printer, here we come…
