Events that made news...

So many things happened in past few days and each of the incident had an impact on lives of multitude of people in varying degrees. The world commemorated anniversaries of two very important events which had far reaching effects across the globe.

First was the eighth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on American soil, widely known as THE 9/11. The act itself was unimaginable to many people, American or otherwise. The twin towers of World Trade Centre demolished by the pack of cards by terrorists using planes instead of missiles. Many lives were lost, and many more connected to those were shattered. The aftermath was bloodier. US Government decided to go behind the perpetartors with full strenght. I still don't know whether it was a right or wrong decision, but maybe after the December 25 attacks on Mumbai last year and seeing the anger seething in the general public, I am inclined to think it was the right thing to do. The whole saga changed the course of events and the politics of the world.

Second event to mark its anniversary, that too the first anniversary was the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, considered by many as the event that triggered global recession. This too had far reachning impact on large number of lives. Jobs were lost, families broke up, suicides were committed. Somewhere, something had gone wrong. The direction the world was going came up for rethinking. The excesses of the capitalist consumer economy were laid bare. Maybe lessons learned from this event help define the way ahead.

Third event I wish to write about is closer to home. It was the discovery of the missing mobile phone of Aarushi Talwar, the 14 year old murder victim who was brutally murdered in her parents' Noida residence in May 2008. More than an year passed among shoddy investigations, accusations, allegations and media hype without the killer being brought to hook. It was already unfortunate enough for the young life to end so abruptly and so brutally, and then it was sad to see her name come up so frequently in Media with different and sometimes downright disgusting theories. May her soul rest in piece. Will Indian justice system ever be able to punish the perpetrators of this heinous crime?

Just Another Post..

Its been a long time since I have posted here. I have been a little busy lately. And then I have been posting on another site called Cold Coffee which is essentially a writer's community. The response I got there was overwhelming and hence most of my recent work was posted there. For past couple of weeks though there has been certain disagreements in the site admin staff and many of those on staff who had become my good friends left the site and started a new one of their own. I have followed my friends there and would be posting my creative work there on the site called The Poet's Parlor. nyways I do not intend to stop posting here and that is the primary reason of this post. Though I had nothing better to write about. Nowadays sometimes I even feel lazy to write, often distracted by other temptations like television of hanging out with friends. But even when I am not doing anything sometimes I am just too lazy to write. So this post is also essentially a step of breaking that lethagy.