Becoming Superman...A wish

I remember when I was a child of about 5-6 year, one day I started insisting to my mother that I want to become superman and she will have to do this by all means. As stubborn child I continued my insisting that she will have to make me Superman. Being a loving and caring mother, she always tried her best to fulfill all my possible wishes. But this wish was certainly not possible to be fulfilled. My mother tried to explain me, how I could become Superman.

She told me, that I can only become Superman when I reach to the age of 10 because till that time my bones will be strong enough to stop a train with my power and at the same time I will easily fly. I was satisfied with the answer and agreed to wait for a few more years.

By the age of 10, I was sensible enough to understand what the reality of Superman is, just a comic hero and nothing else, and surly becoming Superman was no more my wish.
Today when I remember all this, I realize that…”How stupid my wish was” and “How wise was my mother answer”????

Obama-The Winner of Noble Peace Prize

I remember when there were some schools in our time where the children of the rich were the one who always came first in their class, irrespective of their performance in study. The reason behind this was, that the school administration had to give prize to the position holder i.e. a book, pen,pencil or a plastic cup etc., and for the school administration it was hard to find a worthy student for the prize. Usually the poor students were the one who were good in studies but being poor they were not eligible for the prize, therefore the children of rich and mighty always used to be position holder.

The winning of prize definitely gives satisfaction irrespective of its value, but it gives real satisfaction when the winner feels that he really deserve it.

I am sure Obama will be surprised and shocked and will definitely think and laugh at the real joke that h append with him in the form of Noble Peace Prize.

The winner of Noble Peace Prize is the President of a country that is famous for invading and destroying sovereign countries, killing people, shedding blood and sponsoring terrorism and the winner of Peace prize is a person who still overseer wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who is ready to send more troops to kills more people, who is continuously carrying out deadly attacks on Pakistan and Somalia in the name of Anti-terrorism, who is threatening an Islamic country Iran for due to its nuclear program but sponsoring a terrorist country Israel for the same.

Till now I was considering the Noble Prize as one of the prestigious prize and to be eligible for, one must have distinctive contribution in the respective field. But today when the Peace prize is given to a person in the name of peace initiatives in the forms of just a few words, tomorrow I may also get one for Economics by just holding an Economics book in hand???

Gaza-Where Terrorists Tests their Weapon

The experiments of testing advance weapons made by Americans and Israelis virtually came to halt in the laboratory of Gaza. The experiments heavily funded by Americans Tax payer’s money were aimed at gauging the effect of new weapons over living and un-living objects. The result includes over 1300 dead, and around 5000 injured. About 20000 buildings were destroyed including houses of Palestinians, markets, offices, schools, roads and other infrastructure. These experiments were the continuation of previous tests carried out in Lebanon. The results of these experiments are quite satisfactory for all those people who are involved in making, funding, supplying, using and supporting the use of the weapons against Palestinians. 

Surely, the successful tests will revive the weapon industry and give a boom to the economies of those countries that heavily rely on sale of weapons of mass destruction. The arms making factories will work again and the people working in these factories will be able to live a better life with their family by having a secure job.

Similarly, the people of Israel will also be able live a safe and secure life, without any fear of home made rocket attacks. Indeed the killing of over 1200 Palestinians in response to the death of an Israeli occupant should be enough to make them Israelis feel secure.
Hmmm Great!!!

Now let’s have a look over the experiments objects, The Palestinians. What are actually these Palestinian things, Robots, Puppets, Human models made of wood/clay/stones, animals, plants or real human beings? Or they are some character of a video game where they are shot and killed to achieve the game’s objectives?

Looking much closer, I see blood coming out of their wounds, real red blood, yes I can feel them breathing, they are crying, they are feeling the pain, they want to live, they are trying to say something but I can’t hear????  

If they look like human beings, they act like human beings, they eat, they drink, they talk, they walk, they, laugh, they cry, the listen, they see, they feel, they born, they grew, they marry, they make families, they give births, they dies, they builds homes, they live in there with their families. They work for living a better life, they try to earn, they buy, they sell, the sleep, they wake, they become sick, they feel pain, they have blood running in their veins, they takes breaths, ….. If there is so much common among human beings and Palestinians, the surely they are equal human beings like me and you. And if they are really human beings why the rest of the world particularly the west is silent over their brutal killings. Why the anti terrorism champions are silent over the American sponsored Israeli terrorism. Why can’t we feel the pain of their wounds? Why don’t we see children who have lost their parents? Why don’t we see the parents holding the mutilated bodies of their innocent children? Why don’t we understand the feelings of people who will have to pass the rest of life without arms, without legs, without sight, without talking, without hearing, why? Can they get back their loved ones? Can the civilized human beings of the modern world and the humanitarian champions answer these questions???

Surely not, but at least I need one answer…..
Whether the Hamas, who’s fired rocket that killed one Israeli occupier, are terrorists or the Israelis, the killers of 1300 innocent Palestinians, including man, women and children who are the real owners of the land, are terrorists?
 
Whether the people supporting the Palestinians right of their own land or terrorists or the western world and Americans, who support the Israeli occupation, are terrorists?

Collective Isolation-Bringing closer or Getting far

I belong to a small village and living in a city. Like most of the people in the city, I depict to be a busy person who is having little time for social interaction despite having a lot of free time. Simply, in materialistic environment, with having a lot of people around us, we are living a self made physical and mental isolation. Being busy, having no time, tight schedule, less interaction, these are terms that became fashion words in this time of deceptive world. But alone we all think that we cannot leave alone, we need people around us to talk with, to share with, to lesson to whom but our masked faces restrict us from doing so as we may be called backward people living in the world of fantasies.

I rarely go to my village, usually two to four times a year and that is mostly on Eid or some other occasions. Despite having very much little interaction with the local people I always got very warm response from them. This is something we usually don’t see in the cities. On the main road to our village house the distance is about one kilo meter that I usually pass by foot. During this travel of one kilometer, if I come across 50 people, almost all of them used to greet me, in fact not only me but every one on their way. And this was the beauty of the village that I always liked despite all its backwardness and lack of facilities.

Last year, I had to go to village to attend a function of my cousin’s wedding. I dropped on the main road and from their to my village house as usual I traveled by foot. But this time I felt a lot of difference in the behavior of the people. Except of few elder people, hardly 30 out of an average of 50 people greeted me. The rest were so busy that they even bothered to look at the other people. When I reached to the place of the function, the same situation was also there. And the reason for this change was the installation of a mobile phone tower in the village. Indeed this was a communication development and a step to contact my backward village to the rest of the world. But the facility that meant to shorten the distances, to bring people closer has brought such changes in the people minds that have even lost the people near around them. On the way to my village, I was greeted by those people who were not having mobile phone, the rest who were having this facility were either busy in miscalls, typing/reading sms, listening songs or playing ring tones. Similarly in the wedding place, despite a big gathering of people, everyone was busy either showing their new phone to others, typing/reading text or just talking on phone or playing the games or listening the songs and ring tones. Those without the gadget were free to see people around them and to interact.

I am not against the development but against the curse of development. We people have turned to be blind followers. We are losing our own identity, while portraying to be what we are not. The Eid, that was a big occasion to bring people closer, from Eid card, to phone call, is now just limited to an sms. What I feel is that we are going towards collective isolation. Despite having around a lot of people like us, who dress like us, who talk like us, who eat like us, who behave like us, we are alone.

Taliban: Is This The Right Term

Will somebody feel offended if you call him Talib or say you and your friends are Taliban. Surely not, If he know what does Talib or Taliban means. But why this word has got so much hatred and why it is abused, why Taliban are always called terrorists.

As we know that Taliban is used for that group of students of religious institutions in Afghanistan who raised against the evils in their country and to provide justice to the people and gradually became able to form their government in Afghanistan. These students of religious institutions are commonly called Talibs as the word Talib does actually means student. While the plural of Talib (student) is Taliban (students). So the army of these students (talibs) were givens the  name Taliban (students).

After the incidents of 911, the Taliban were declared terrorist by USA, and since then for all terrorist activities within Afghanistan and Pakistan Talibans are held responsible. We generally hear that Taliban have captured that village, Taliban have attacked on vehicles, Taliban have killed innocent people etc. But whether for these terrorist the word use of word Taliban is right? Whether for the acts of some students in Afghanistan who according to USA are terrorist, all Taliban should be called terrorists or all terrorists should be called Taliban? Whether we should forget the word talib that we usually use in our language for student? Whether we should doubt all the Talibs (students) studying in religous institutions?


Just look it the following data;

The following table lists the worldwide school shootings from 1996 to the present. Find the date, location, and a short description of each incident.

Feb. 2, 1996
Moses Lake, Wash. Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire

March 13, 1996
Dunblane, Scotland 16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself. 10 others wounded in attack.

Feb. 19, 1997
Bethel, Alaska Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.

Oct. 1, 1997
Pearl, Miss. Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.

Dec. 1, 1997
West Paducah, Ky. Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.

Dec. 15, 1997
Stamps, Ark. Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot.

March 24, 1998
Jonesboro, Ark. Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods.

April 24, 1998
Edinboro, Pa. One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.

May 19, 1998
Fayetteville, Tenn. One student killed in the parking lot at Lincoln County High School three days before he was to graduate. The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis.

May 21, 1998
Springfield, Ore. Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home.

June 15, 1998
Richmond, Va. One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway.

April 20, 1999
Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.

April 28, 1999
Taber, Alberta, Canada One student killed, one wounded at W. R. Myers High School in first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates.

May 20, 1999
Conyers, Ga. Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend.

Nov. 19, 1999
Deming, N.M. Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13, in the lobby of Deming Middle School.

Dec. 6, 1999
Fort Gibson, Okla. Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School.

Dec. 7, 1999

Veghel, Netherlands One teacher and three students wounded by a 17-year-old student.

Feb. 29, 2000

Mount Morris Township, Mich. Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead at Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun.

March 2000

Branneburg, Germany One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever since.

March 10, 2000

Savannah, Ga. Two students killed by Darrell Ingram, 19, while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach High School.

May 26, 2000

Lake Worth, Fla. One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes.

Sept. 26, 2000

New Orleans, La. Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight at Woodson Middle School.

Jan. 17, 2001

Baltimore, Md. One student shot and killed in front of Lake Clifton Eastern High School.

March 5, 2001

Santee, Calif. Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High School.

March 7, 2001

Williamsport, Pa. Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased.

March 22, 2001

Granite Hills, Calif. One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman.

March 30, 2001

Gary, Ind. One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace High School.

Nov. 12, 2001

Caro, Mich. Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.

Jan. 15, 2002

New York, N.Y. A teenager wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School.

Feb. 19, 2002

Freising, Germany Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself.

April 26, 2002

Erfurt, Germany 13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself.

April 29, 2002

Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina One teacher killed, one wounded by Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.

October 28, 2002

Tucson, Ariz. Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student at the nursing school at the University of Arizona, shot and killed three female professors and then himself.

April 14, 2003

New Orleans, La. One 15-year-old killed, and three students wounded at John McDonogh High School by gunfire from four teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was gang-related.

April 24, 2003

Red Lion, Pa. James Sheets, 14, killed principal Eugene Segro of Red Lion Area Junior High School before killing himself.

Sept. 24, 2003

Cold Spring, Minn. Two students are killed at Rocori High School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15.

Sept. 28, 2004

Carmen de Patagones, Argentina Three students killed and 6 wounded by a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of Buenos Aires.

March 21, 2005

Red Lake, Minn. Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.

Nov. 8, 2005

Jacksboro, Tenn. One 15-year-old shot and killed an assistant principal at Campbell County High School and seriously wounded two other administrators.

Aug. 24, 2006

Essex, Vt. Christopher Williams, 27, looking for his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers, killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had killed the ex-girlfriend's mother.

Sept. 13, 2006

Montreal, Canada Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill killed himself.

Sept. 27, 2006

Bailey, Colo. Adult male held six students hostage at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and killed Emily Keyes, 16, and himself.

Sept. 29, 2006

Cazenovia, Wis. A 15-year-old student shot and killed Weston School principal John Klang.

Oct. 3, 2006

Nickel Mines, Pa. 32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died.

Jan. 3, 2007

Tacoma, Wash. Douglas Chanthabouly, 18, shot fellow student Samnang Kok, 17, in the hallway of Henry Foss High School.

April 16, 2007

Blacksburg, Va. A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.

Sept. 21, 2007

Dover, Del. A Delaware State Univesity Freshman, Loyer D. Brandon, shot and wounded two other Freshman students on the University campus. Brandon is being charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless engagement, as well as a gun charge.

Oct. 10, 2007

Cleveland, Ohio A 14-year-old student at a Cleveland high school, Asa H. Coon, shot and injured two students and two teachers before he shot and killed himself. The victims' injuries were not life-threatening.

Nov. 7, 2007

Tuusula, Finland An 18-year-old student in southern Finland shot and killed five boys, two girls, and the female principal at Jokela High School. At least 10 others were injured. The gunman shot himself and died from his wounds in the hospital.

Feb. 8, 2008

Baton Rouge, Louisiana A nursing student shot and killed two women and then herself in a classroom at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.

Feb. 11, 2008

Memphis, Tennessee A 17-year-old student at Mitchell High School shot and wounded a classmate in gym class.

Feb. 12, 2008

Oxnard, California A 14-year-old boy shot a student at E.O. Green Junior High School causing the 15-year-old victim to be brain dead.

Feb. 14, 2008

DeKalb, Illinois Gunman kills five students and then himself, and wounds 17 more when he opens fire on a classroom at Northern Illinois University. The gunman, Stephen P. Kazmierczak, was identified as a former graduate student at the university in 2007.

Sept. 23, 2008

Kauhajoki, Finland A 20-year-old male student shot and killed at least nine students and himself at a vocational college in Kauhajok, 330km (205 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki.

Nov. 12, 2008

Fort Lauderdale, Florida A 15-year-old female student was shot and killed by a classmate at at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.

Majority of these terrorist activities (killing and wounding of innocent people) were carried out American Taliban (students). So why not to declare all the American students (taliban) as terrorist and use the term American student for terrorists?

Unforgettable Farewell

About six years ago, after the fall of Saddam regime in Iraq, people came to the streets and gathered in the central square of Baghdad where a big statue of Saddam Hussain was brought down to the earth and people started beating the fallen statue on their shoes. The media in whole world broadcasted those footage, terming it as the insult of an ousted dictator, while presenting the americans as Hero.

Now after six years, the American President Mr.Bush (the person who gave "Freedom" to the people of Iraq from the Saddam regime) is leaving his office. Before leaving the office, he did made a farewell visit to the "Free and stable" country of Iraq. During a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister, the "Hero" of Iraqi people, was greeted by a thankful Iraqi with both of his shoes. Commenting on this act, the Mr.Bush, the freedom giver, said that he don't know why that man thrown
the shoes on him.

May be he really don't know. But in my thinking, this is the Iraqi way of giving farewell to an outgoing leader, as they did with the fallen Saddam statue six years ago, after the end of his regime. But if according to media, those Iraqi people hitting Saddam statue by shoes were showing their hatred and were insulting him, then surely what is done with Mr. Bush by an Iraqi may also have the seem meening???

Funny Indian Media

Once I was a fond viewer of some Indian TV serials. But with the pessage of time I realized that the producers/directors/writers of these serials do not have any plot. Their amature way of direction, script writing, and acting, oh my God, this is something over which I've wasted a lot of time of mine. The hilarious way of direction and camera work, turn a serious serial/program in a funny production.
Now when i want to laugh, I start watching an indian serial or movie of Indian South.
To the extent of serials and movies its fine. But during the Mumbai terrorism activities, I came to watch some Indian News channels. The way they were presenting news and reports, made me feel that I am watching some clips of a stupid Indian propaganda movie. I personally respect Indian people because of their intelligence but when I think of that such intelligent people will watch these news channels and will believe on them, I just feel sorry for them.

In my suggestion, to the extent of funny news, its good, but if you have to really know the facts then please don't watch these bollywood inspired news channels, otherwise Rehman Chacha will replace Gabbar & he will be the one that the mothers will make their children fear of, if they don't sleep.