Anil Kariwala

By definition, a terrorist is a person who does acts to inflict terror in the minds of other people.  

 

By that definition, the people who have entered the hotels in Mumbai are not terrorists, because their limit to terrorize was within the four walls of these buildings full of unarmed people. The REAL terrorists are the 24 hour news-channels who are carrying their message of terror to the whole world. The TV journalists truly are very brave people, but with a misplaced sense of bravery. The people firing on unarmed people truly are cowards. Why shouldn’t the media rephrase them as COWARDS and themselves as TERRORISTS? The minds of people killed by these so called Terrorists, can’t be inflicted with terror anymore. It’s the so-called Journalists who are inflicting the real terror now.

 

Why shouldn’t there be legislation to ban video coverage of any acts of ‘Cowardice’ like the one in Mumbai? Even if that means compromising little bit on civil liberties, which in any case are compromised.

 

Not only have the news channels inflicted terror upon the world by their coverage, they have given lessons in strategy to the bosses of the ‘cowards’ sitting across the border to plan their next attack better.

 

I am completely amazed with this technology. This works almost like a time machine so far as your websites are concerned. I could see our first website, and the way it has evolved over the years. If you are a history buff, or at least your history, check this out.

 

And don’t ask me how big is their server!!

For the first time ever, I could see an attempt to do what The Positive Herald (name of my dream newspaper I wrote last month) would do when it takes birth.

 

In the times of gloom, The Times of India has taken a different approach. When everybody else highlighted the number jobs being cut, the TOI decided to put on today’s headlines the number of jobs being created by many different companies. It made a good and happy read. Though, I am not at all on a lookout for a new job, it made my morning on a positive note.

 

And, let me add. My company is on a hiring spree!!

I steadfastly refuse to clog the internet with chain emails. So here I am with the contents of one of them. Really good, but an excercise in futility. Raj boy is too thick skinned to get touched even remotely by we netizens. He needs and deserves some real toughs who could probably unburden Indians off him.

Here’s wishing all the best to Raj Boy :

We all should support Raj Thackeray and take his initiative ahead by doing more…

1. We should teach our kids that if he is second in class, don’t study harder.. just beat up the student coming first and throw him out of the school
2. Parliament should have only Delhiites as it is located in Delhi
3. Prime-minister, President and all other leaders should only be from Delhi
4. No Hindi movie should be made in Bombay. Only Marathi.
5. At every state border, buses, trains, flights should be stopped and staff changed to local men
6. All Maharashtrians working abroad or in other states should be sent back as they are SNATCHING employment from Locals
7. Lord Shiva, Ganesha and Parvati should not be worshiped in our state as they belong to north (Himalayas)

8. Visits to Taj Mahal should be restricted to people from UP only
9. Relief for farmers in Maharashtra should not come from centre because that is the money collected as Tax from whole of India, so why should it be given to someone in Maharashtra?

10. Let’s support kashmiri Militants because they are right in killing and injuring innocent people for benifit of there state and community… …

11. Let’s throw all MNCs out of Maharashtra, why should they earn from us? We will open our own Maharashtra Microsoft, MH Pepsi and MH Marutis of the world .

12. Let’s stop using cellphones, emails, TV, foreign Movies and dramas. James Bond should speak Marathi
13. We should be ready to die hungry or buy food at 10 times higher price but should not accept imports from other states
14. We should not allow any industry to be setup in Maharashtra because all machinery comes from outside
15. We should STOP using local trains… Trains are not manufactured by Marathi manoos and Railway Minister is a Bihari
16. Ensure that all our children are born, grow, live and die without ever stepping out of Maharashtra, then they will become true Marathi’s

This should somehow reach Raj Thackrey

I am reading this book by Thomas Friedman. I am amazed about the lucidity with which the book has been written and the amount of research done by the author.  The book is about how, we the human race are running a strong risk of becoming extinct ourselves. The facts and figures are thought provoking and a discerning reader would actually want to do his bit for the environment in real terms. I actually felt elated personally to have illuminated one of our factories by solar power.

Hello world!! Let the Lord illuminate your days with his brightest lights.

 

Diwali, also known as Deepawali – rows of small oil-lamps – also marks the homecoming of King Rama of Ayodhya after a 14-year exile in the forest. The people of Ayodhya (the capital of his kingdom) welcomed Rama by lighting rows (avali) of lamps (deepa), thus its name, Deepawali, or simply shortened as Diwali. Southern India marks it as the day Lord Krishna defeated the demon Narakasura. In western India it is also in honor of the day King Bali went to rule the nether-world by the order of Vishnu.

 

Happy Diwali!!!

When I was a kid, we used to have month long Puja holidays. My kids now have less than 2 weeks of Puja vacation as schools have adjusted to the demands of modern education system and pressures on the society.

 

But not Indian courts!! The courts have 6 weeks of summer vacation, 4 weeks of Puja vacation, 2 weeks of Christmas vacation, a 5 day week, a holiday for festivals of every religion in the world, a holiday for birthday of every dead politician worth his salt, and a holiday if Mamta Banerjee feels like it.

 

Litigants of millions of pending cases deserve to suffer for being so litigant !! The best way to resolve a case is to get tired, grow old and die; in that order. There is nothing wrong at all if the judges and the court staff continue to enjoy the fun of school days. They have such a great burden to deliver justice. Justice delayed is NOT justice denied; it is an effective way to prevent disputes in the first place.

 

Happy holidays!!! I won’t limit saying which one. There is one in the offing, whenever !!

That would be the name of my newspaper, if I would have the resources to publish and edit one. The newspaper would not have any negative news on the front page. Anything negative, no matter how big, would be shunted to some other pages. And on the front page, there would be no headlines!! Yes, I mean it, no headlines. Let me explain why.

 

The world has enough people who do not want to see negative, speak negative and hear negative. I cannot understand why newspapers carry bold headlines for disasters – manmade or natural. In the first palce why should headlines exist? Who gave the journalists the right to decide which news story is big or small? Why should there be a 120 font size headline telling about a disaster? In what way does it help the victims or others from becoming a victim? In case of terrorism, the headlines only help to further the cause of the terrorists. Unless there are headlines, the acts of terrorism would be acts of futility for them.

 

Yes, news should be made available, fully and impartially. The quantum of contents might differ, but journalists have no right to tell which news is important and which isn’t. Newspapers (if at all they should exist in the days of the Internet), should only have story titles, all with the same font size, leaving importance or the impact to the wisdom of the reader.

 

And yes! The Positive Herald would positively be a success story, and others would soon follow.