Paranoia and lies again

Tony Blah-blah and his Government have been at it again.

First, they delayed the UN resolution to stop the one-sided war in Lebanon (what chance do machine guns and hand held rockets have against tanks and aircraft?) giving Israel a chance to destroy the Hezbollah (but ending up killing mainly civilians who probably did not have a clue as to what was going on).

Then, to divert the attention away from protests at home, and to stir up mass hysteria, they go on a witch hunt claiming that a terrorist strike was imminent. Yeah, like explosives can be hidden in food, medicines, and lipstick tubes.

As an Indian, I am ashamed to say that these tactics find favour among a lot of my countrymen. Aa far as I know, the Indian security establishment has been copying every step being taken in the United Kingdom.

All this has left me wondering, when all these Governments will start leaving people too sick/injured to go to a hospital alone, to die; out of fear of terrorist attacks on hospitals. Or worse still, abolish democracy out of fear of attacks on polling stations.

Hindi - HuMRi RaSTra BhaSa

I came face-to-face with my ex (if you can call her that - if she qualifies for that title by virtue of her "going out" with me for a few weeks), today. In fact, we crossed twice and not for a moment was there any discomfort.

This lady hails from a Northern region of India, where a very peculiar version of Hindi is spoken. It is characterized by several corruptions of the Delhi/UP version of Hindi, in, most notably, "ka" instead of "kya", the sound "s" instead of "sh", and so on. This version of Hindi is often depicted in movies and in parodies about some well known politicians from the region. I'd say, Ajay Devgan, Juhi Chawla, and of course, Rekha, have very convincingly spoken this dialect in various movies.

Just came to know from wikipedia that this dialect is even spoken in Suriname, which has a substantial ethnic North Indian population.

One of these days I'm going to walk over to my ex and ask her, "tumri saadi kisi neta/IASwale ke saath fixed hui, ka?"

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I did not intend to sound racist/ethnocentric, I am none of these things. Its just that whenever I see my ex-, I picture Juhi Chawla's character in the film 'Amdhani-Athhani Kharcha Rupaiya'.