India in Flames

These days India is going through real bad phase. Not exactly in flames everywhere cause some part is drowned in water. But anyway 3 states of India are going through really bad phase.

J&K: It all started with the approval of decision which was pending since quite some time. Congress Govt approved more land for Amarnath Yatra. So far so good. There wasnt really any harm in alloting any land cause it was really need for more convinient Yatra. Trouble started when coalition partner PDP threatened to pull out if land allotment was not cancelled. I dont understand what harm was land allotment causing to anyone? Anyways, Congress as weak as it is cancelled the allotment under pressure. Then BJP came in picture as opportunistic as it is especially in any issuse where cummunal card can be played. It started rallies bandhs and what not in Jammu region which is Hindu stronghold. But the Muslim parties (donno who was leading the agitation) not to be left behind in J&K politics started rallies for no reason whatsoever. They tried crossing LOC and what not. And the most confused between all this mess were the police and security forces already working in such sensitive region. They already have hard time trying to catch up with terrorists, but to stop a crowd of thousands of people from crossing the border is even tougher. The situation is still tense but much better after days of curfew.

Orissa: Trouble started when a Hindutva leader was killed by Maoists. Now maoists are human and they too have a religion (its another matter that they dont follow any of the teachings of any religion). So its possible that the group comprised of persons of adjoining community who are mostly ST turned Christian. Its just a possibility but there is no real proof and any effect whatsoever cause maoists do not fight on religious grounds. Whatever, BJP (VHP RSS whatever) again saw an opportunity for its communal card and with it being the coaliition partner, saw another Gujrat in Orissa! Till now Hindus are hunting down people of christian community. Places destroyed till now (all catholic sposered): The only dispensary in the region, many schools and hostels. Here also the whole region has been clamped under a curfew which may help the situation. Caught in middle is a good man CM Patnaik (donno the correct spelling). Not exactly in enviable position right now.

Bihar: While other two states are burning in flames Bihar has a little excess of water right now. Now one cant really blame anyone for floods but whats pathetic is the amount of help provided. There is scarcity of food and drinking water in the region. Even after so many calamities (natural or mankind whatever) there is still no system in India in place to deal with them efficiently. It is still the resposibility of state government to drop food packets or whatever help is required. Why cant we have a central agency for this very purpose with its own fleet of Helicopters and its own mechanism for getting food ready etc. Instead of Central government "providing" assistance to state government, state govenrment can provide assistance to this central agency. Thankfully till now no blame game has started between centre and state government but am sure it will follow as soon as the situation improves.

Out of HotSpot

Finally writing a post after a long time......been on a trip to Pilani and Srinagar recently so got a lot to write about. Not writing about the whole trips(too much mehnat) but just about some incidents..
This post is about how I was technologically disconnected from the rest of the world. Now I have only two means of communication..one is my mobile and other GTalk GMail whatever.
But none of those worked there. Now I am a loyal customer of Tata Indicom...but as I later found out it doesn't not yet have a license to operate in J&K. First I kept waiting for signal at Jammu airport but to no avail. I thought that it will come in Srinagar but no...there was no Tata Indicom nor any other CDMA provider(I mean Reliance) to which I could have switched over.
My backup plan was the Airtel data card that i was having...now I knew for sure that Airtel was there (had checked that on Internet earlier) but what I found out was that there was no GPRS service available. :( ). So I was there in J&K with no connectivity and that too when there was Holi.

PS: Got Net facility from hotel at 180/hour!!!!! That too with a keyboard in which space bar did not work and a mouse in which middle wheel was not working..so much for 180/hr :(

And for those of you who may be visiting J&K anytime in near future please be sure to go with a GSM providor if you wanna stay connected. Aircel, Airtel and good ol BSNL operate there. Am sure every GSM provider must have some sort of understanding with these three to provide roaming services.