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He is the " Count" of the Common Man. is that so..?

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Probably as I write this, the BJP would be either  a touch away from gaining a simple majority for forming the Govt or  Delhi getting ready for the President's rule. Anyway that's besides the point. This election has all the right reasons to be historical not because Congress got routed nor because BJP is all set to be back after 15 years. This election has come to become historical because of Aam Admi, the party which came into being just a year back and able to vanquish the 15 years  of vanity of Congress as well  making the  BJP  almost miss the 'Bus'.. Arrivind Kejeriwal a newbee on the political turf, succeeded  in delivering the  much needed lesson to Delhi's veteran  political Parties. For this  political rookie it is a phenomenal success  to  be able  to keep the  the mighty  political veterans  breathless and  running  for their vote. Well done Aam Admi. You  have ...

I bet...."WE" made the difference...

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On Wednesday Delhi's  habitually indifferent electorate turned out in droves.to cast their vote.The  elites of Delhi drove down to the respective  polling booths and the  Mango people made it on foot to their designated polling booths. For this city of  Tombs and Minarets, yesterday's 74% turnout was quite monumental. This speaks volumes about betrayed sentiments and frayed angers of the people pulped up by the indifference and arrogance of governance. Where City's civic agencies bleed  corruption, there the city's police force suffer the chronic dis-availability  of  able and refined  policing  to check  the speeding menace of  crime,rape and juvenile delinquency. The time was just right enough for the people of Delhi to use their Democratic  right presumably to  say enough is enough.... Incidentally the new born Aam Admi party rising up to phenomenal popularity has helped the people of Delhi to pin for a brand...

The "WEDNESDAY WAIT"....

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Had they willed, 15  years were  simply not less enough to make the city clean and comfortable for the people  to walk its  roads and lanes  without having to bear the stench , foul plays and road rages that   has now become the part of the common mans daily doze of ordeals. They  logged bulk of their  time in trouble shooting and dishing out excuses for their  non performances that were  hand fed and non palatable.... Their model of governance has always been  based  on the theorem that enriching the insiders and the cronies always  pays..and it surely has proved to have paid them off well beyond the arithmetic of  common man's imaginations.. The " Wednesday Wait"  will let us know  if they pay the price  and  turn "History" or they carry on and create History ...? This city if not practically,at least   literately is  their home turf .They are home spun community. Had they any ...

Making "Perhaps" a "Possibility" !

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It was not people's need, it was politician's greed that saw India being partitioned on the basis of religion that fell pray to politician's ambitions. No prayers thereafter could halt one of the world's gruesome genocide that consumed people not  politicians. If this nation had not succumbed to politician's lust, perhaps today our neighborhood would not have turned  into a breeding ground for ' terrorism' .Perhaps then this nation  would have had almost a 'no war' record post the British Raj. More importantly perhaps Kashmir would have continued to remain our  divine state and not have become a devastated matter of discord.  It would be more appropriate to mark 15th of August as the day when this country decided to wash away people's desire and succumb to political greed. What happened then in 1947  was, beginning of the History of the Nation that was axed and hacked for political convenience. This nation today at her 67th year of partitio...

A story with no myth about Vampires...

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I grew up reading Stories by Enid Blyton and adventures of Biggles and somewhere on the time zone I picked up  Bram Stoker's Dracula and that's when I came to know about those blood sucking men and  women that we call Vampires. I always considered Vampires to be some supernatural creatures of  pr-historic times. Now Adi's  'Tantra' has for some reason or other makes me believe that they are simply part of this crowd we call people. The author  Adi  is a  Harvard and Stanford graduate  and 'Tantra', his first novel is the outcome of his deep interest in spiritual and religious history of India. The story revolves around Anu Agarwal a New York based young lady who is some kind of a professional Vampire hunter . Anu's soul mate Brain is brutally killed by a Vampire. The book 'Tantra' is about her revenge journey  to avenge the killing of Brain.The journey brings h...

Do you hear us...." Blindfolded Lady"!

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In 2008 twelve of them came from the sea, jaywalked into the city firing and bombing. The city of 14 million people were aghast and  remained helpless spectators & victims  to the massacre that proved once again that Indian Security system is an untold story of Errors and Omissions. Ajmal Kasab  one of the twelve terrorist  who was caught alive from the scene of massacre went on to enjoy the hospitality of the Indian government for almost 5 years. It was only after public hue and cry a logical judgement came that saw Kasab  on the noose for good.  By this time Indian govt had  already spent crores of rupees for up keeping the health & security of Ajmal Kasab at the Arthur Road prison Sarabjit Singh an Indian national who accidently  strayed into Pakistan a good 3 months after the Lahore Bomb Blast in 1990  lies brain dead at Jinh...

A Devil's own....City?

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Mythology is a body of myth and teachings that revolve around Rakshasa and Assuras The effigy of Ravana,(the rakshasa) that we  burn religiously every year at the Ramlila grounds is our way keeping alive our belief that good will always triumph over evils. However the futility of our belief is that today evils have totally spread their wings and yet we keep simmering in our hope that someday the good will cut the wings of  the soaring evil... We are  not blissfully anonymous to the rotting sate of affairs of a state that once we blissfully believed to be vibrant and hearty. We are very much annoyed about the city turning devilish. We are quite vociferousness about it, yet we pretend to remain as helpless as those little children who  remain devoured and devastated almost every day at every nook and corner of this city just for being born a  GIRL... We ...