Disturbed Thoughts - Mumbai Terror attacks

Dear friends,
Below are things that came to my mind when the terror strike is finally over in Mumbai. The fallen police, NSG officers and innocent public deserve the nation's salutations. But lot of things disturbed my mind in the way the operations are handled.

First it took nearly 8 hours for Maharashtra Govt to seek and deploy men trained in counter terrorism into forefront, the reasons being logistical issues and bureaucracy.

The NSG commandos and local police team are ill-equipped to handle the situation, especially the police personnel still using rifle that was used in world war 2, even the kargil post mortem report says that military and defense systems needs to be modernized. TILL now it did not happen. Will it not result in another 1962 Chinese war? that too against TERRORISTS .

It took us more than 70 hours to rescue our innocent lives and terror under control from mere 10 terrorists (Well equipped and cold blooded people).

The politicians on one side blaming each other lapses, trying to gain political mileage making themselves available for polls. Advani giving political speech on terror spot. Narendra modi announcing relief, who cares for all these. Will police protect(security cover) to advani or people held hostages and surrounding buildings. ! That is the fate of people of India.

The politicians or senior minister saying “intelligence gathering could be outsourced to private detective agencies", outlines his lack of leadership skills and knowledge about Indian history in intelligence, mind you do not forget Indo - pak 1971 war which showed RAW at its best.

These things show the clear lack of strong leadership and sense of responsibility among Indian politicians.

The Journey to god forsaken land (Perils of travel to MWC)

    On the morning ! Sep 11 2008, just slet in. oops woke up to ringing mobile...its call from Cab mate, OMG its time the were waiting for me.. at boarding point, Picked it up quickly told him i not coming by CAB, same is the dialogue which goes as SMS to him every morning, but now its my voice which says the same to him.

Yes its done.. he is gone.. and again back to sleep, thinking that if i get up from bed after 15mins, i can catch the late morning shuttle to reach my office.

Oh Man ... my office is located nearly 65 kms from my place. I decided to take the late pick up shuttle, mind you.. to reach the place where i can board the late pickup bus, i need to travel another 10 Kms.

OMG, its 7:45, i have gone into wild dreams, nearly 30 mins.. i need to hurry up to pickup. hm.. brushed my teeth, shower, coffee.. all in 15 mins.. then immediately out of house by 8:05 AM.

pushed myself into share auto, which will just go for 2kms frm where i need to board another auto or bus to reach the Main boarding point of late MOoooorning CAAB.

At last after some 40 mins i reaached the pickup spot , just to glare at the buzzzessss, horns.. and city traffic , yes i missed my last and final shuttle to office from city by a whisker.

Just thinking do i need to go to office.... Yes a city bus just passed by and caught one to them to reach the tambaram bus depot,finally I got into it.. yep.. i got good window seat J.. thank God! Yeah i was just gazing around, thinking about the perils of driving a vehicle in city traffic hm.. horns.. zig zags by auto walas...super stunts my mobikes.. alas clueless learners driving santro's, zens and all sorts of small and mediums cars, Just a thought in mind.. about rise in people spending power of people, need for luxury, thanks to Software industry and 1992 Narasima rao government who opened the flood gates of foreign banks and other companies to invest in india.Yes i was nearing the pallavaram, the smell of powder factory,, Chrompet fire station, remember seeing it regularly on my way to college 1st year, tambaram sanitorium TB hospital, yeah i am into Tambaram bus depot, got down just walked few meters,, jump on to another bus to reach the so called CITY, which is OUT of city...cannot be called a city yeah its misnomer.

The bus started from tamabaram to reach my final spot, yeah i was just getting nostalgic.. its the route i used take in college days to reach my college which is between my office and tambaram.As as the bus crossed my college just could smell the good old beautiful college days again.. as the dreams went by... i had to get down.. from bus to reach my office, which is again from 5-6 kms from bus depot.Yep i got down , and i could see the bus was almost empty as most of them got off at the same point.. I walked lonely walked into the MISNOMER yeah its not a CITY again. just waited for few mins to check if i could get any lifts to reach my office campus. :-(, Yep i was not successful. I got into a shuttle service ran by the campus imitating a IIT model in a irritating way, sure to be a flop.I realised that i not going to take to my office campus directly, it went to nearest railway station to PICK up some more people from there.. its a terrible journey for some 20 mins in Nai vandi(Dog van yeah i meant MCC shuttle), some nastalgic memories of  my remote village where people run behind small bullouck cart fitted with sound service which will come around the village to inform people about new film release hit my mind , i reached my office campus.. Glaring in sun, i reached my desk just to continue my work.. where i left other day :-(.................

 

 

My first blood donation

I have a strange feeling when It comes to blood donation, I am not sure why this exists in me.
1. Will they use proper needle.
2. Will I faint?
3. Do I have proper fitness level to donate a blood?
These where the feelings that was stopping me from donating my blood.
Suddenly on 6th August 2008, there was an blood donation camp in my company and I was impressed and wanted to donate my blood.
I normally reach the company in time, but I somehow missed my first shuttle to company, probably to catch the next shuttle, I call this early morning blues. Then started to office in a relaxed mood, to catch the next shuttle to company. Oops I missed it by a whisker, thanks to city traffic. Next best means of travel to reach the office to take the train service provided by government.
Alas I reached the office around 11:00 AM. There was lots of buzz in entrance people waiting in queues to donate their blood, again there was lots of dilemma in me
1. Should I join the queue straight away?
2. Report to my desk and ….
Work place was again as usual buzzing with lots of activity with manager waiting for me to join the status call. Was just in time! Yeah he is relieved a bit that I was in office to answer the question from onsite team .I could quickly could resolve few issues and checked the mail my mail there was remainder the blood donation camp will be closed in about 1hr.

Again in dilemma, a voice from my friend. Machi can we go and donate .... my project lead or rather close friend saying that I cant donate my blood since I didn’t have my breakfast in morning. Hm..Its a myth I guess I was thinking, then again same voice.. Yep is the reply from me, one more colleague joined me. So we three were standing in queue, cracking quick wits at each other. Then within some few minutes.. everything is done. I have given 3 units of blood. At last a happy smiling face

I was relieved and very happy that I may save some unknown.. or may human life. Thanks to science …

Irresponsible Acts

We were travelling in car near saidapet Bus stop, suddenly a bus from well known software company overtook the vehicle, in the process the driver of the bus, damaged the bumper of the car which is standing in the signal.One of the so called software engineer / Professoinal got down from bus claiming to settle the dispute. Hearing this both car and bus were drivers moved their vehicles leaving way for traffic.Once moved to sideways the so called software professional spoke all rules like claiming insurance.. and all nonsense, then suddenly vanished without any trace, leaving alone the drive of bus and car to settle the issue.First of all if he is such a coward he should not have come forward to settle the issue nor moved the vehicle to sideways, anyways police might have done their duties :-).
One more Act of irresponsibility is on the part of owner of bus not reaching the spot on getting the information on this.Result is time waste and mental pressure for people travelling in the bus and people in the car and traffic jam.

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