A myriad of thoughts.

In continuum…..

I’d gone to the market looking for the ‘disheveled, scrawny man’ of yesterday evening this forenoon but to no avail. I suppose it’s one of those things and if it has to happen, we shall meet and I can do something that I’d wanted to do but I shall leave it at that for now!


Omar Abdulla, the irresponsible!

Seeing his general conduct and utterances in the last few days, my take is that there’s no difference between the young politicians of today and their predecessors. They play the same dirty politics, resort to the same gimmicks of the cheap kind and avoid standing by the truth as they’re only bothered about their own survival and the chair that they occupy.

Omar has failed to win the hearts and minds of the people of Kashmir. His performance as Chief Minister leaves much to be desired and when he has realized that his people are indeed fed up with him, he has come out with atrocious statements to outdo the separatists. He cannot be pardoned for the simple fact that he has served as a minister in the union cabinet and was sent as CM with a carefully crafted image – in other words, he’s having the best of both worlds. I wonder as to whether his wife who’s also from a politically active family and his father endorse his theatrics and brazen opportunism?

Of all the options, Kashmir has a bright future only by being a part of India. The politicians across the spectrum must work together for a settlement towards this end and must avoid playing games to satisfy their own narrow ends. And Omar Abdulla, please make good governance a priority rather than being a crybaby!


And ‘navaratri’ is here!

The holiest and the most auspicious nine days, rather nights, are here. Navaratra/i is biannual and both sets are associated with the Goddess. However, the first nine days of the Hindu month of Ashwin are always associated with Devi Durga. I’m looking forward to some nice times with my Gujarati and Bengali friends during the period.