New Year New Problems

New year brings along a new list of problems. India has not been able to convince the world that terror perpetrators were from across the border. Even if they were from across the border the world does not believe that India can undertake "surgical strikes". The outfit which claims responsibility for the Mumbai Massacre wants to rename itself and carry on its business as usual. Israel has been better off at bombing and pounding the Gaza strip and trying to decimate the Hamas. No world leader minds it anyway. Can anybody tell us why this ambivalence with India? Indian Politicians cannot take a stand and firmly talk about terrorism and they want to always colour them with a religious tinge. Criminals are criminals and that is their religion, please don't give them a religious name.
Pakistani politicians are one-up on the game of diverting attention and changing the subject if debate. The central subject of terror export was sidelined with the issues of citizenship of the terrorist (I don't know why he is still called a suspect when he was watched live by crores of people committing his crime). Another diversion came from the Indian polity who demanded that a group of 20 people should be handed over to India including people involved in 1993 blasts. This is the undoing of India, our country cannot solve and book a case against bombers for 15 years. The media has access to the alleged Don, bollywood has access and even the police department is believed to have access but our government cannot bring back the alleged Don to India as they have no clue about where he is! Why don't they ask bollywood, or our electronic media?
An interesting case of sentencing a serial killer is a classic example of how our legal system works in India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbais_serial_killer_gets_life_term/articleshow/3922513.cms
This man was sentenced to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.2000. isn't that a petty sum for the seven lives involved? isn't that a petty sum for the three murders he was proved?
Think about it
Happy New year

Terror Strikes Mumbai

India was a witness to the worst terror strikes. the audacity of the terrorists to attack civilian soft spots and battle for long hours was shocking. All this while terrorists were supposed to strike from behind and run away or die in the process. But, this was exceptional that the terrorists attacked and tried the patience of the forces for a good 60 hours. What lessons do we learn from this? That India can no longer be casual about the threats of terrorists. India is viewed as a soft state as far as terrorists are concerned, as any terrorist is branded a religious one and the Government dithers on taking action against these elements, afraid of the wrath of the religious bodies. Terrorists have no religion, no Nationality and no Humanity, they need not be shown any pity while dealing with them. just branding them as people belonging to some nationality, region, religion or group will not suffice, this will lead to a lackadaisical attitude towards them and give them more strength to strike again. Our country need laws which are stringent enough to deter criminal activities, and a legal system which acts fast to book criminals and dispense with the justice.
After a crime is committed and the suspect is arrested, many time it so happens that it takes six months to an year until the charges are framed, then comes the trial where lawyers take advantage of the loopholes of the detective system or the investigations and are able to save the criminals from sentence. There are umpteen instances where criminals have gone Scot-free because of the delayed (and therefore shoddy) investigations. Justice delayed is justice denied and therefore we have to take steps to speed up the process of justice.
Stock Markets: Markets rallied in spite of the terror strikes in Mumbai. There is a lot bad news happening around the world about more an more banks wanting bail out packages. Worlds largest automakers also want bail outs, The American dream wants a bail out package and industry leaders are asking for virtual nationalization of their industries in US. These are bad times, if you have bought when the markets bottomed in October then SELL NOW only to buy when the markets retrace the bottoms again.