August Month - From Chennai

Kashmir: Kashmir is Burning. Protests, Stone Throwings (Pelting), Defying the Curfew - it is not the militants who are doing it or any political parties, it is mostly by youths, common people even women are seen throwing stones. Kashmir needs a solution and it is not a military solution. It has to be a political solution. THe present administration of Omar Abdullah has faltered,it has lost a very good mandate it received in 2008 election - 61% Voter turnout. Before the situation goes out of the hand the central government should take matter in his own hands and start the political dialogue. It has to reach to the people. THings it could do is committee to enquire the killings, start dialogue with the kahsmiris - NC, PDP, Huriyat, Geelani Faction, why, they can even start the dialogue with Pakistan over Kashmir - J&L being part of, integral to India, nobody questions. Even Kashmiris know that secessionist will not be helpful to them. Give them Autonomy in the administration, whatever said and done, due to various reasons Kashmir still is a Special Place and it needs to be treated specially. Will give our some samples from various articles in THE HINDU to understand the Kashmir issues, why this form of Stone Pelting Protests!!!!

Article by Siddharth Varadarajan
If the Prime Minister does not take bold steps to address the grievances of the Kashmiris, there's no telling where the next eruption will take us.Whatever his other failings, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah deserves praise for acknowledging that the protests which have rocked the Kashmir valley these past few weeks are ‘leaderless' and not the product of manipulation by some hidden individual or group.

This admission has been difficult for the authorities to make because its implications are unpleasant, perhaps even frightening. In security terms, the absence of a central nervous system means the expanding body of protest cannot be controlled by arresting individual leaders. And in political terms, the spectre of leaderless revolt makes the offer of ‘dialogue' or the naming of a ‘special envoy' for Kashmir — proposals which might have made sense last year or even last month — seem completely and utterly pointless today.
In the face of this mass upsurge, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has two options. He can declare, like the party apparatchiks in Brecht's poem, that since the people have thrown away the confidence of the government, it is time for the government to dissolve the people and elect another. Or he can admit, without prevarication or equivocation, that his government has thrown away the confidence of the ordinary Kashmiri.

This was not the way things looked in January 2009, when Omar Abdullah became chief minister. Assembly elections had gone off well. And though turnout in Srinagar and other towns was low, there was goodwill for the young leader. Of course, those who knew the state well had warned the Centre not to treat the election as an end in itself. The ‘masla-e-Kashmir' remained on the table and the people wanted it resolved. Unfortunately, the Centre failed to recognise this.
At the heart of this missing package is the Centre's failure to craft a new security and political strategy for a situation where militancy no longer poses the threat it once did. The security forces in the valley continue to operate with an expansive mandate that is not commensurate with military necessity. Even if civilian deaths are less than before, the public's capacity to tolerate ‘collateral damage' when it is officially said that militancy has ended and normalcy has returned is also much less than before.The Prime Minister can forget about the Commonwealth Games, AfPak and other issues. Kashmir is where his leadership is urgently required. The Indian state successfully overcame the challenge posed by terrorism and militancy. But a people in ferment cannot be dealt with the same way. Manmohan Singh must take bold steps to demonstrate his willingness to address the grievances of ordinary Kashmiris. He should not insult their sentiments by talking of economic packages, roundtable conferences and all-party talks. He should unreservedly express regret for the deaths that have occurred these past few weeks. He should admit, in frankness and humility, the Indian state's failure to deliver justice all these years. And he should ask the people of Kashmir for a chance to make amends. There is still no guarantee the lava of public anger which is flowing will cool. But if he doesn't make an all-out effort to create some political space today, there is no telling where the next eruption in the valley will take us.

Enthiran: Another Musical Treat from Mozart of Madras. What a versatality this man has got. From VTV to Raavan/Raavanan/ to Komarum Puli and now Entiran. Man ech film is different and each music is Different. He is really a Genius!!! Hats off to the Man.. GOD of FILM MUSIC..

God of Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar -one more record, Maraton Man of Indian Cricket. 20years and still hungry like a debutant - last test commentators and experts opined, who is making the debut is it Sachin Tendulkar or Suresh Raina, thatis th hallmark of this God of Cricket!!!. Double century and in the 3rd test he became the most capped player of Test Cricket. 94 centuries in International Cricket - 48 in tests and 46 in One Day...

CWG: IT is not Commonwealth Games, as one newspaper reported, it is Corruption Wealth Games... Daily dose of Corruption Scandal.. Mammoth in scale.. India's reputation has been shredded to pieces... 30,000 Crore budget - 11,000 crore by the Organisig Committee and 17,000 crore to be spent by the Delhi Goverment.. Initial Budget estimates at 2003 was 965 crores now it is standing at 11,000 Crores. Imagine the SCOPE of CORRUPTION. Atleast whether everything is going smooth, that is also not.. No Stadium has been handed over to the Organising Committe - Games is lessthan 2 months.. London is ready to host Mini Olympics, london olympics is on 2012. Asian Games is on September 2010 and Guanghzhou in China is 100% Ready....