1. A New Champion.
I felt extremely pleased when Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney won the Rs. 5 crore at the Kaun Banega Crorepati. Her win is all the more notable because of the following:-
(a) She's a teacher in a tuition centre and had acquired her knowledge through her efforts at
the tuition classes over the years.
(b) Her way of answering each of the questions showed her in depth knowledge and the
tremendous power of retention.
(c) She'd the wholehearted encouragement of the family, consisting of her husband and two
daughters.
Extremely gladdening! May her wishes take wings with the prize money that she's won and may she continue with her winning ways and humility!!
My salute to a true champion.
2. We weep for you.
Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh laid down their lives while fighting Pakistani troops along the LoC in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. They're part of a patrol party that was brutally assaulted. The Pakistanis had chopped off one jawan's head and carried it with them while the other jawan's body was badly mutilated.
I happened to read somewhere that the Pakis have this way of presenting the heads of Indian military personnel, they've killed on the battlefield, to their senior officers' as prize(The first instance was supposedly during the Kargil conflict and the recipient was the vily old chap, Musharaff). Bad men who can't respect the dead! The general should have ticked off the subordinate that it's not the done thing!!
With all the earnestness with which we're trying to improve relations with them, such actions by their Army are morale downers and a retrograde step! It's for their superiors to advise their subordinates from resorting to such inhuman acts.
My salutes and a humble prayer to Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh for their supreme sacrifice. May the families have the strength to tide over their irretrievable loss.
3. The In-camera proceedings.
Perhaps, the in-camera court proceedings on the Delhi gangrape case is in order to prevent whipping up the common man's emotions. But on the flip side, I feel that the entire world would have come to know what that hapless girl was subjected to and coupled with the final punishment, would have set an example to reduce future misdemeanour, if it had been done otherwise!
Tailpiece.
A week when bad news eclipsed the good news. We're, indeed, going through trying times!
I felt extremely pleased when Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney won the Rs. 5 crore at the Kaun Banega Crorepati. Her win is all the more notable because of the following:-
(a) She's a teacher in a tuition centre and had acquired her knowledge through her efforts at
the tuition classes over the years.
(b) Her way of answering each of the questions showed her in depth knowledge and the
tremendous power of retention.
(c) She'd the wholehearted encouragement of the family, consisting of her husband and two
daughters.
Extremely gladdening! May her wishes take wings with the prize money that she's won and may she continue with her winning ways and humility!!
My salute to a true champion.
2. We weep for you.
Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh laid down their lives while fighting Pakistani troops along the LoC in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. They're part of a patrol party that was brutally assaulted. The Pakistanis had chopped off one jawan's head and carried it with them while the other jawan's body was badly mutilated.
I happened to read somewhere that the Pakis have this way of presenting the heads of Indian military personnel, they've killed on the battlefield, to their senior officers' as prize(The first instance was supposedly during the Kargil conflict and the recipient was the vily old chap, Musharaff). Bad men who can't respect the dead! The general should have ticked off the subordinate that it's not the done thing!!
With all the earnestness with which we're trying to improve relations with them, such actions by their Army are morale downers and a retrograde step! It's for their superiors to advise their subordinates from resorting to such inhuman acts.
My salutes and a humble prayer to Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh for their supreme sacrifice. May the families have the strength to tide over their irretrievable loss.
3. The In-camera proceedings.
Perhaps, the in-camera court proceedings on the Delhi gangrape case is in order to prevent whipping up the common man's emotions. But on the flip side, I feel that the entire world would have come to know what that hapless girl was subjected to and coupled with the final punishment, would have set an example to reduce future misdemeanour, if it had been done otherwise!
Tailpiece.
A week when bad news eclipsed the good news. We're, indeed, going through trying times!
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