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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Gill Gayaa

Something which should have been done 15 years ago just happened.

REJOICE REJOICE, K.P.S. GILL HAS BEEN SACKED

Indian Hockey is dead, long live Indian hockey.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Time

I have become addicted to this Pink Floyd song, not least due to the profound lyrics

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Succinctly describes my life right now.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Sad but true

A 47 year old man was covicted today for repeatedly raping his minor househould help over a period of three years. The victim was just 10 years old when she was employed.
He started raping her within a month of her starting work there. He was caught when the girl became pregnant.

A 47 year old man making a 13 year old girl pregnant. How a person can even think of assaulting a girl who can almost be his granddaughter is the question that rages on in my mind.

But that is not the saddest part.

That place is reserved for the punishment he has received. 4 (yes 4) years rigourous imprisonment and a huge fine of (hold your breath) Rs. 1000.

That's all he pays for ruining the life of a little girl forever. Someone who will probably be ostracized for the rest of her life by her 'morally correct' neighbours. This girl could be anyone's younger sister. Yet four years of HIS life is all that he loses.

A 10 year old child faced with a life which would make even the most indefatigable spirit shiver.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Boycott

A really funny thought just occured to me. What if the Indian Government calls for a huge press conference and with all the world's media looking on vociferously announces that India will be boycotting the Beijing olympics, because we believe that the atrocities being committed in Tibet are clear human rights violations.

With the hockey team not qualifying, it makes absolutely no difference why we should go. It seems to be a clear waste of money sending athletes (and officials) to China only to screw up in the heats of most of the events. What do we have to show for all those years of participating in the Olympics? A handful of Bronzes and Silvers. Now that we have a good excuse, we might as well retire with some ............er....... dignity?