Hyderabad Blasts - questions worth asking.

There are certain aspects about the blasts that seem to be ignored in the media. Some of them are given below:

First time children have been targeted (Lumbini Park is essentially a Children's Park). It has always been religious places or localities with large populace of particular communities that have been targeted. Presuming that terrorists are actually behind the blast what brings about this change in strategy?

Gokul is a very busy place. Gokul Chat Bhandar is a place always crowded with people. You would not find an inch of space to stand in the place. How could someone plant a bomb without anyone noticing? It should not be difficult to find out form the people about any suspicious objects placed at Gokul

How was a ‘terror-hand’ unearthed within an hour of the blast? What is the info that prompted the police to ‘declare’ terrorist intent behind the blast?

Explosives found at 16 other places. What the heck are the police and indeed the political establishment doing? Intelligence agencies have warned time and again that Hyderabad had become a beehive for a lot of terrorist sleeper cells. Yet, no action or efforts were visible at the ground level of any efforts made to unearth the sleeper cells.

Why does no one ever get caught for such blasts?

Why do such acts always happen in Congress regimes? This is no outlandish claim but perfectly verifiable fact (You could browse the net for a chronology of the incidents). Hyderabad was prone to communal riots and terror attacks before NTR became the chief Minister. While NTR was the CM hardly any incidents of this nature happened. However, once NTR lost power and the Congress came back, the incidents of communal and terror disturbances resumed again. They stopped when the TDP party of NTR came back to power. Hyderabad saw a long period of peace for 9 years under the TDP regime (Chandrababu Naidu replaced NTR as the Chief Minister after a year). Unfortunately, the TDP lost power again and guess what? The communal disturbances and Bomb blasts have resumed again. Who is in power? The Congress Party.

This comes as no surprise to the Hyderabadis for most of them know where the priorities of the Congress lie. The people here have a special phrase to describe the Congress regime – “Mana Rajyam” or ‘our government.’ The ‘our’ in this phrase, however is not the common man but the powerful businessman, leader, politician or a powerful goonda or a terrorist. These sections have great freedom to do what they want that is why they call it their government (‘Our Government’).

Man! I’ve already written a lot……Can’t write more – have two exams on Monday. Will try and update more once the exams are over.

Let us pray for all those who lost their lives in the blast and also for those who engineered the blasts. May God give the perpetrators of the crime good sense to see and realize what they are doing.

Blog-Life Balance

Well, it has been a long absence from the blog. I had been giving a lot of time to the blog at the expense of other activities. So, I decided to stay away from it for while but not this while. I’ve got the blog-life balance all messed up. Will be working towards getting it right.

A lot of ‘river’ flows down the bridge in ISB in a matter of days. We had speaker sessions, more speaker sessions and yet more speaker sessions at ISB in the days gone by. We had Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Rajat Gupta, Kush Medhora (CEO of Home Solutions, a Future Group Company) and a host of others who shared their pearls of wisdom with us. However, the most impressive of all were our guest faculty for the PaEV (Planning an Entrepreneurial Venture) course – Manish Sabharwal from Team Lease and Sanjeev Bikchandani and Hitesh Oberoi from InfoEdge (the Naukri.com) team.

Manish Sabharwal was a revelation. He spoke non stop for 90 minutes without ever losing the audience’s attention. Not a single pause, no umm….aahh….fillers and a brilliant inspiring speech. I was floored by his wax-eloquence and his knowledge.

Sanjeev Bikchandani and Hitesh Oberoi walked us through the trials and tribulations of their entrepreneurial journey. Their, especially Sanjeev’s, faith and belief in the idea and passion towards entrepreneurship were so inspiring. Both of them were quite modest about their success and had none of the airs usually associated with great achievements. All along their presentation I was looking for the factors that made them successful and gave them the competitive advantage over their competition. For some reason, I felt really glad that they succeeded and I really wish them much greater successes. They inspired so many of the students to actually take up entrepreneurship rather than look for placements – this to me was the biggest gain of this session.

Hope to be back with you all soon after setting my ‘blog-life’ balance right!