Skip to main content

Love in the time of War

Forget sacrificng one's life fighting the enemy at a height of 13000 feet to defend one's country. watching My Name Is Khan has become the ultimate test of patriotism. This test has been devised by an actor, Shah Rukh Khan and a regional political party, Shiv Sena. While Shiv Sena has been spewing vitriol, SRK has been claiming the moral high ground. SRK, the man who turned hostile witness in the Bharat Shah case, has been claiming that his stardom is transient but his integrity non-negotiable. Going further, he asks people who criticise him to 'SHUT UP'. Why do people still see watching MNIK as a good thing to do baffles me. Can't you see why is this all done?

While Maharashtra Home Minister, the infamous Mr. R.R. Patil, and other self-serving politicians waved their ticket to the MNIK show, another show was put up by a bunch of crazy people in the education capital of India, Pune. Bomb blasts ripped through German Bakery yesterday killing at least 9 people. This news came as a shock to all Puneites, including yours truly.

If you analyze in hindsight, this was a disaster waiting to happen. The entire state machinery was busy protecting MNIK. Everyone seemed to forget that this is a state that has been at the epicentre of terrorist attacks. Pune, with its thriving IT culture, shopping malls, multiplexes and not to mention a tourist attraction to Mr. David Headley, is a soft-target for terrorist attacks. It really is a relief that Puneites have not been put through the test of watching MNIK, as the movie did not release here, or else the entire Pune Police would have been at theatres.

Today is Valentine's Day, a day of love. Someone has tweeted that SRK has offered free movie tickets of MNIK to Pune blast victims. If this is true, this is the most disgusting thing to do. Let's all share love and happiness and show the Puneri spirit by celebarting Valentine's Day, the way it is meant to be celebrated.

Your name is Khan, act like one.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Ravi SinghFebruary 14, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    Well I guess the all controversy around MNIK is to get publicity for the movie and its a joint agreement between SRK and Shiv sena.They made this movie as big hit.
    Yesterday bomb blast is again a warning alarm for local government to take some step towards security.I guess nobody is there to protect Aam admi, there is a lot of protection and security for politicians even if there life is not so important.
    When we all get rid of this problem of terrorism? :((

    ReplyDelete
  2. MayankFebruary 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    That's the question whose answer we all are waiting for! I think terrorism is here to stay. We just have to live with it and try to mitigate its effect as much as possible.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

As far as possible, please refrain from posting Anonymous comments. I would really love to know who is interested in my blog! Also check out the FAQs section for the comment policy followed on this site.

Popular posts from this blog

Integrating React with SonarQube using Azure DevOps Pipelines

In the world of automation, code quality is of paramount importance. SonarQube and Azure DevOps are two tools which solve this problem in a continuous and automated way. They play well for a majority of languages and frameworks. However, to make the integration work for React applications still remains a challenge. In this post we will explore how we can integrate a React application to SonarQube using Azure DevOps pipelines to continuously build and assess code quality. Creating the React Application Let's start at the beginning. We will use npx to create a Typescript based React app. Why Typescript? I find it easier to work and more maintainable owing to its strongly-typed behavior. You can very well follow this guide for jsx based applications too. We will use the fantastic Create-React-App (CRA) tool to create a React application called ' sonar-azuredevops-app '. > npx create-react-app sonar-azuredevops-app --template typescript Once the project creation is done, we
1 comment
Continue Reading >>

Creating a Smart Playlist

A few days earlier I was thinking that wouldn't it be nice if I had something which will automatically generate a playlist for me with no artists repeated. Also, it would be nice if I could block those artists which I really hate (like Himesh Reshammiya!). Since I couldn't find anything already available, I decided to code it myself. Here is the outcome -  This application is created entirely in .NET Framework 4/WPF and uses Windows Media Player Library as its source of information. So you have to keep your Windows Media Player Library updated for this to work. It is tested only on Windows 7/Vista. You can download it from here . UPDATE : You can download the Windows XP version of the application here . Please provide your feedback!
2 comments
Continue Reading >>

Centralized Configuration for .NET Core using Azure Cosmos DB and Narad

We are living in a micro services world. All these services are generally hosted in Docker container which are ephemeral. Moreover these service need to start themselves up, talk to each other, etc. All this needs configuration and there are many commercially available configuration providers like Spring Cloud Config Server, Consul etc. These are excellent tools which provide a lot more functionality than just storing configuration data. However all these have a weakness - they have a single point of failure - their storage mechanism be it a file system, database etc. There are ways to work around those but if you want a really simple place to store configuration values and at the same time make it highly available, with guaranteed global availability and millisecond reads, what can be a better tool than Azure Cosmos DB! So I set forth on this journey for ASP.NET Core projects to talk to Cosmos DB to retrieve their configuration data. For inspiration I looked at Steeltoe Con
4 comments
Continue Reading >>