…Clueless

I find it rather amusing or should I say disturbing, that the Supreme Court of India, intervened an overturned an order of a Delhi HC Tribunal and placed a ban on The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Mind you, I am no supporter of SIMI and do not condone their activities. According to the recent evidence, they are a bunch of terrorists. But neither am I a supporter of hypocrisy.

If the SIMI can be banned, why cannot the same be done to the Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the supporter of all the communal violence in our land, the Bhartiya Janta Party?

Are the people of India so naive? Are they blindfolded? Can’t they see what is happening around them? Why do they fail to realise that they are being “USED” as puppets! I’m talking to you, yes you! The one with a sword in his hand and wading through the Tavi river to cross into Jammu. Do you actually feel the BJP or any of the other parties urging you to risk your life give two fucking hoots about you? They don’t you jackass. Do you think you’ll get a piece of that land once it is transferred to the Amarnath Shrine Board? When you know the answer, why act so anti-social?

Jammu and Kashmir has been burning for the last 2 months - for no reason! The initial protests by the muslim youth were not carried out in support of the people whose land was being transferred (the entire land in question is not forest land). It was also instigated by the pro muslim parties with a lame excuse that the Amarnath board wants to settle Hindus in J & K. Seriously, are you guys retarded or what? To actually buy land in J & K and settle there you have to be a state subject, which the outside Hindus obviously would not have been. What is the fuss all about? And even if they do settle there, what is the fucking harm? Do they pose any threat to you?

In my opinion, there is no difference between the Islamic and the Hindu parties. They are a burdern on the society. They are a bunch of illiterate selfish fools who have an amazing knack of convincing people to murder each other for their cause. They are the real terrorists.

Recently there was a bunch of another assholes who wanted a seperate state of Gorkhaland within India. They caused bandhs and disrupted normalcy in the region. What is it that you guys seek? What will a seperate state give you? Oh I get it! You want reservations etc. etc. ! Did I hit some wrong nerve? OK, you wanna say that the state will give the Gorkhas their identity. Motherfuckers.. are we not all INDIANS.. is it not good enough as an Identity?

Another variety of dickheads that resides in our country is the Gujjars. They fought with the police, torched vehicles, got themselves killed.. for what? Reservation. This shows how dumb you people are. Seriously, if you keep acting this way, you will forever remain a backward caste. That’s because you just don’t want to grow. You choose to die for reservation but you choose not to die for free education.

Shiv Sena and MNS : I can only say that they must be banned. Their activities are against the country, it’s people and the constitution.

Finally, how can I forget our very own warriors, the Sikhs.  You guys choose to clash with the Dera Sacha Sauda followers but have absolutely no interest in improving the situation in your state. The youth of Punjab are either addicts or jobless illiterate fools. But religion is more important to them than even their own well being.

I recently saw an advertisement for a a new political party - Jago Party. It claims to be a party of the people. I went over to their website and read through their objectives. The only reason I have decided to vote for them in any future election is that they are not being run by a family (I’m looking at you Congress) and are not trying to woo the voters on the basis of religion or caste (I’m looking at everybody else here).

Why is it that the people in our country identify themselves with religion and caste and why being Indian is secondary to them? Why is it that we “Indians” will go kill each other on the call of leaders of the Hurriyat or the BJP? Why have we all turned a blind eye towards reality? Why can’t we stop passing the buck? Why can’t we think on our own and follow what the corrupt politicians say? Why is it that all our top politicians are rapists and gangsters? Why is there no sense of belonging, a sense of being an Indian Citizen?

Where is the love, my fellow Indians, where is the love?

… But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you’re bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that’s exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y’all, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love? …

From what I saw on Zee Business, the iPhone is to be launched in India by Airtel on the 22nd of August. They also telecast a telephonic interview with some president of Airtel who confirmed that there would be no subsidy on the iPhone.

That final statement alone is a deal breaker for me. 3G is a long way to come. Free WiFi is not a realistic option. EDGE is really crappy in its current form. What is the use for a device whose USP is its ablity to connect to the Internet but has no means to do so in India? And now that Airtel has confirmed that there is going to be no subsidy, I can safely say that we must forget about getting the iPhone for anywhere around Rs. 8000 to 12000. Not that I’m dying to. Get realistic people. Buy an E71.

Closely on the heals of me.com, which is the official site for Apple’s MobileMe service, Web18, a venture of Network18 has launched in.com. in.com was rumoured to be bought by Web18 for a sum of 2 crores, which is equal to 20 million.

I happened to see the advertisement for in.com on tech2.com which is another website owned by Web18.

Now that I’m on the topic of the shortest email address, the shortest address that I have been able to find on the Internet is www.v.gg. That’s right, yourname@v.gg. It has a free as well as a premium version. The free version offers 25MB of storage. But “v.gg”, although two characters shorter than in.com, does not seem to be cool or hip. Furthermore, their interface is ancient offering just 25MB of email storage.

On the other hand, in.com offers us an AJAX-ified interface, with gmail style linked conversations and a sufficient 10GB of space. Since the service is new, you can easily grab a cool email address of your choice. I grabbed a couple just to reserve ;). For example, usernames like fcuk or kick (kick-in, get it?) are still available. The least number of letters allowed in a username is 4. So, counting the @ and the period, the shortest email one can grab is four+@+in+.+com = 12 letters. Not too shabby! Go grab yours!