Police, Protests and Death

It is almost a quater of a year since the first protests started in the northern parts of Africa. What started in Tunisia and then quickly spread to major parts of Egypt, thereby tearing apart the tyranny of Hosni Mobarak has now reached the Jordan & Syria. While on one hand Mummer Gaddafi still seems to be defiant about not letting go of the power in Libya, there seems to be a bevy of problems in Uganda where unrest over high food & fuel prices. What does this all show us?

Have the youth and citizens of these countries suddenly realized that they where being tormented and people who ruled them where actually not leaders but leechers....Or is this the "Fist of God" trying to set things right.  It is very sad to see that every day the body count in these battles is increasing, especially in Libya and Syria where the fighting has reached the civilian areas and no respite seems to be visible.

On the other side Nature seems to have also taken a grudge against mankind.....Tusaloosa was halfwiped out by a tornado which is almost a mile wide....It is devastating to see the devastation that it has caused...It just reminds you once again ( after what happened in Japan) that one cannot lock horns with Nature...Its way more powerful.

I guess its high time mankind realizes that we need to start staying together, reduce our conflicts and put aside the differences and build a world that is not just much more friendly for Living but also carries a hope for the future.

 

 

 

 

Hard work at CWG

Child labor is something i abhor. However, after the debacle that has already unfolded in the past few days with respect to organisation of the well known "Common Wealth Games-2010" a new dent in the already dilapidated International image of India came when CNN reported here  about incident of child laborers being used for the construction work at CWG. It is a well known fact that some families in India can make the ends meet only if the children bring their earnings at the end of the day; Be it by toiling hard in the sun and rain or by begging on the streets or by turning into a pickpocket. Having said that, i think it should have been at least a point on the agenda for the CWG organizers to ensure no use of child labor for the activities related to the CWG. Any team now taking part in the CWG would look as if they were supporting the act ( i was tempted to write cause, because in a poor country like India it might be a cause!!).  

Listen to the comment by Ms. Dikshit below 

If this gentleman, whoever this student was from Harvard, if he had come to us, told us that this is what was happening there, we would have taken immediate action," Dixit said.

Wow...now Dixit wants to get "Student Labor" done...that too for free of cost without even recognizing the person. 

How i wish there is a bomb threat or even a short bomb blast (claiming Mr. Kalmadi for example!!) that would at least qualify us to declare the venue unsafe for the event and postpone the event. I think we have had enough of embarrassment already.  I don't want a country to sue us if an athlete gets killed when for example a tile lands on his head. 

"Bharat badnaam hua, CWG Tere Liye!!"