And then they came for me

Received this in an email forward..chilled me to the bone. The link:
Lasantha Wickrematunge, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor was shot last week. He had anticipated his killing, and his posthumous editorial was published in his magazine “The Sunday Leader”. This is clipped below.
No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for [...]

True lies

Please pardon the language, lack of proper flow etc..I wanted to just put all my thoughts down and hopefully will edit the piece out later.
The name Maytas was derived by distortion of the word Satyam. Ironically that’s what happened in reality. The complete distortion of truth and in all probability it was Maytas and murky [...]

A helping hand

Kiran is doing some great work here. Do go on and visit and add what you can.
And here’s another who has responded to allegations of her not so good work!

That thing called safety

Watch this
“Intelligence failure”. Words that are bandied about so easily. “New York and London saw ghastly attacks, nothing has happened since. Words all of us have spoken at some point in the last few months as blasts have rocked Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Malegaon. Why have we failed to monitor activities of suspicious people? Why [...]

Thoughts on Bombay

Why?
Should the media not disclose that the HLL Board, MPs etc are trapped inside. Doesn’t it increase risk for them
Only now (at 11 15 am) have TVs been disconnected inside the hotels. Shouldn’t they have done this earlier?
NDTV reported last night that telephone lines were jammed and TVs went off at around 9 last night, [...]

God

Please let the madness end. It’s nearly 2 30 am now and I’ve been glued to my television set since around 10 30 pm.
At least 80 dead and 200 injured. Two hotels seiged. Top cops are dead.
I am numb…cannot bring myself to sleep. I just want to sit down and cry.