There are some scenes of movies which remain etched in your memory long after you’ve seen a movie. They remain in your subconscious mind and come to the fore when you see or read something similar. The cold blooded murder of 13 people at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Hassan reminded me of one such scene from Guns of Navarone where Capt Mallory (Gregory Peck) was shown trying to convince Corporal MIller (David Niven) about the need for change of plans. They were both smoking and arguing with each other about their plans to successfully accomplish their mission. On the face of it there is not much in common in these two situations but if you look beyond the obvious there indeed is.

Posted on November 8th, 2009 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Afghanistan, faith, Fort Hood, Iraq, Islam, killing, Muslim, Nidal, Terror. Comments: 4

Vincent Bugliosi says that if impeachment proceedings can be launched against a sitting president for having a consensual physical relationship with an intern outside his marriage why can’t criminal proceedings be initiated against a president who deliberately lied to the country to launch this war which has resulted in deaths of more than a hundred thousand innocent people which include Americans and Iraqi women and children?

Posted on September 7th, 2009 under Track the world. Tags: Bush, case, crimes, death, humanity, Iraq, legal, prosecute, war. Comments: 3

The ’shoe throw’ on George Bush during his visit to Iraq was not just a shoe throw. It was a ’symbol’ more than anything else. It was a symbol of contempt with which the Americans are held in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East. I’m not an enemy of America. In fact I appreciate the free spirit of the American system. But on this issue I feel that America has blundered and blundered big time.

Posted on December 20th, 2008 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Afghanistan, america, attitude, Change, India, Iraq, muslims. Comments: 1

After all the euphoria dies down following Barack Obama’s election as the President of USA it is actually time for each one of us to try and understand the implications of this historic event. First things first. In the immediate future there is only one thing which will dominate the proceedings

Posted on November 5th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Abkhazia, active, Afghanistan, Ahmednijad, america, approach, Bailout, bilaterally, bonhomie, Bush, buyout, campaign, Change, clock, company, concern, countries, create, doubts, dramatic, economic, euphoria, fight, financial, Georgia, Hamas, historic, house, implications, India calling, intervention, iran, Iraq, Israel, issue, jobs, Kashmir, manner, measures, Middle East, nuclear, obama, opinion, Ossetia, outsourcing, Pakistan, Palestinian, policies, positive, President, problems, progress, results, role, Ruropean, South, success, svent, Terror, Union, USA, Wall Street, war, White, wish, world. Comments: 1

Yes, Obama won the debate because McCain did not win. That’s correct. McCain needed to win this one but he did not.

Posted on October 8th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Afghanistan, Ayers, debate, economy, elections, even, golden, impression, Iraq, McCain, obama, opportunity, Pakistan, Palin, personal, policies, poll, shaky, showcase, taunts, taxes, terrorist, unconvincing, wars. Comments: 1

In a historic moment the Senate passed the Indo-US nuke deal with a bipartisan support. Truly incredible. Bush’s popularity may be in the dumps in the US but in India people can’t stop praising him and Condi Rice. In fact to the extent that he can actually contest in the general elections which are [...]

Posted on October 1st, 2008 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: america, beliefs, bipartisan, Britain, Bush, cheap, China, comity of nations, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Condi, country, CTBT, deal, demand, democracy, deterrent, device, dialect, economy, elections, faiths, general, govt, growth, independance, India calling, iran, Iraq, job, languages, live, Manmohan, mantra, manufacture, middle class, moratorium, nation, NPT, nuclear, Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, nuke, Pakis, peacefully, people, popularity, powerhouse, Prime Minister, proliferation, regime, Rice, Russia, Senate, Singh, stockpile, support, survive, term, test, testing, traditions, US, weapons, work, world. Comments: None

Yeah, it’s a draw. And that’s a defeat for McCain. He had to win this decisively to change things as they are today. Otherwise he’s looking at the barrel. To be fair to him he did try to be forceful but even then he was not very convincing. And Obama too was shaky in [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Bailout, China, debate, iran, Iraq, KGB, McCain, obama, Putin, Russia. Comments: None

It is, if you believe Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I agree he’s no fortune teller or an astrologer for that matter. He cannot actually see the future. In all probability he was just kind of praying loudly. Or was he? What if he can actually sense the moment? What if he can read [...]

Posted on September 24th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: $700 billion, 1912, 1914, 1991, 9/11, Afghan, Afghanistan, Amen, america, Americans, astrologer, Bailout, basis, Britain, British, chaos, China, Chinese, co-exist, course, critical, definite, demise, destination, devastation, downfall, econoy, elect, elections, empire, era, fate, First, First World War, fortune, Georgia, German, growth, Gustav, history, Hitler, Hong Kong, Hurricane, Ike, iminent, India calling, iran, Iraq, lost, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, maiden, major, McCain, modern, moment, November, obama, ominous, peace, peacefully, plans, power, pray, President, rapid, resources, right, Russia, safeguard, scare, Second, Second World War, significant, Signs, sink, Soviet, status, success, super, symbol, symbolize, symbolized, teller, Tienanmen Square, Titanic, truth, US, USSR, venture, victirious, victory, vigor, voyage, war, won, world, wrong. Comments: None

The Palin effect is surely waning now. It had to happen. It’s quite natural for people to sit up and take notice of a young sexy women who speaks well and who has been suddenly catapulted on national stage at a time like this. And that’s what people did. They gave all their [...]

Posted on September 20th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Afghanistan, Arctic Circle, collapse, crisis, Iraq, McCain, obama, opportunities, Pakistan, Palin, Russia, Sarah, threat, troopergate, Wall Street. Comments: None