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Last few days in Mumbai has shown what is happening in major cities in India be it B’lore , Chennai , Delhi an Insider vs Outsider debate . Part of some issues raised are true that there is so much influx that resources in these cities are getting constraints but who is to be blamed ?

Here is my story I was born and brought up in MP did all of my schooling engineering there and then moved to B’lore for my master a place some 2000+ KM away from my home town , why did I moved because there were not much job opportunity in MP and only 1-2 good MTech program compared to what I was offered in B’lore. Now if an engineer has to move that much then one can understand the plight of majority of people who hardly had chance to complete there primary education.

Same is happening everywhere we have some cities like Mumbai , B’lore , Chennai , Delhi , Hyderabad which are growing and offering way better prospects , inviting people and in the process crumbling , so what is the solution ?

Goverment should develop more cities , give incentives to businesses for setting shops in small cities like Mysore , Nagpur . Give incentives to farmers so that they stay put in there villages otherwise what is happening in Mumbai might happen in all metros

Recently released Yash chopra’s production and Madhuri Dixit’s ccomeback films is facing some trouble in North Indian states. The movie which has some comments on Dalits was banned in U.P. first and later on Punjab and Haryana followed the same.  As per the latest updates, banned has been lifted from U.P. but its very much there in other two states. well yes the surely this movie is making politicans and producers dance but with all wrong reasons.

There are sequence of blast in Lucknow , Faizabad and Varanasi. Terrorist are attacking at will in India and for me situation looks worst than Iraq . With all the talks of Economic Power , IT super Power ground reality is we are worst then Iraq when comparing the number of blast that have happened in the last year . I don’t remember when was the last month when there was no blast in the country .

Again there will be estimates given by the administration , cry of cross border terrorism , talk of foreign hand , talk of maintaining the harmony in the country by Shiv Raj Patil et. al. Government wont learn any lesson and things will eventually calm down before the next calamity happens. Questions comes to my mind is this the softest government we have seen in the history of India ? and I thing answer is yes otherwise it cant happen that terrorist can strike at will anywhere in the country. I don’t know What are our opposition parties doing ? Why Sitaram Yachuri and Prakash Karat don’t raise slogans and fight tooth and nail for the most basic of civil right ? Why BJP dont take government to task and bring no confidence motion at least to put there point firmly ? Internal security is the most important thing , if people cant step out feeling that they are secure then what is the point of having government ? It is like having a jungle raj .

Time has come to spend more on internal security then on any other thing beef our internal intelligence agency , beef the sagging morale of the police force (since most of them earns less then 10K god knows what is there in there mind , running family or focus on the job) . Government should stop giving assurances and do some positive things and dismantle the terrorist network and if things don’t slow down then take some assertive actions by crossing the border to dismantle the network.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, sacked 17 Supreme Court judges and told the nation his move was to “protect integrity of Pakistan”. He cites the rising violence in the country as the basis for his imposing martial law. According to news sources “The Fundamental Rights of the citizens are now suspended. All the news channels have been taken off air and mobile phone signals and Internet connections jammed.”. The army has taken control of the Supreme Court, surrounded the buildings of major news stations, and arrested or detained many politicians

What a coincident!! Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether he was eligible to run for re-election last month while still army chief. On the other hand, always been allies to US, has gone against US who wants to hold elections as soon as possible and asked him to shed his military uniform.

Everything looks so funny. Pakistan has been run by a military dictator for the last 8 years, but the dictator kept some of the trappings of democracy around, like a free press. Now when, he saw some resistance, he even played with everything (even allies).

Only good thing is elections are intact (good - only if its not tampered)

With Sensex and Economy rising it should all be well with the country but no !! 25000 landless people had to walk 340 Km to make there voice heard , it is really sad for the country and the government that people had to resort to such extent for there basic rights. On top of it in the end what had people got … assurance of a committee headed by PM to look into there grievances.

Opposition which should be raising voice on behalf of these people is all to occupied on N-Deal.

Update 01/Nov/2007 :

FT has also covered this here and fortune has covered this topic here