BP and the great leak.

My perspective on the BP oil leak is shared by few other people as mentioned below : 

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The multibillion-dollar, multinational company found support for its efforts. In New York, that support came from billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"The guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well," he told a radio program. "And what's more, if you want them to fix it and they are the ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame until we get it fixed."

In London, England, a Downing Street spokesman said Prime Minister David Cameron spoke Friday with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg.

"The prime minister explained that he was frustrated and concerned about the environmental damage caused by the leak, but made clear his view that BP is an economically important company in the UK, US and other countries," the spokesman said in a news release.

"He said that it is in everyone's interests that BP continues to be a financially strong and stable company."

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg appealed for a reduction in the vitriol that has gripped many observers. "I don't, frankly, think we're going to reach a solution stopping the release of oil into the Gulf any quicker by allowing this to spiral into a tit-for-tat political, diplomatic spat," he said.

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I have no idea – how is a protest going to stop the leak any faster?? This is because I believe BP is already doing all it can to stop the leak, unlike ofcourse the shameless Union Carbide India ltd – which got away with a slap on the wrist.

While all this is happening, Obama is delivering populist dialogues. Yes – dialogues.

Karma V/S Dharma

For those of you who don’t understand the title, here’s what it means :

‘Karma’ or ‘Deed’ V/S ‘Dharma’ or ‘Duty’.

I found these thought provoking videos on you tube.1st video is an interesting debate between Ram Jethmalani and Sagarika Ghose (w.r.t JM fighting for Manu sharma ). If you are not aware of who these people are, I encourage you to go through the links.

My friend wrote to me :

“cut out the rhetoric and heed the point the old bloke was trying to make. 'EVERYONE is entitled to an unbiased trial and best available defense'. That is the crux of his argument... Professionalism does not preclude a conscience, it fosters it..”

I was impressed, but knew something was wrong.

I was quite restless about the whole video that day. I mean, this doesn't sound right – but its defended so perfectly. I went to you tube and started watching other interviews of JM (Jethmalani).Almost immediately, I found this :

Nobody could have done a better job I guess. I was all smiles after after watching this.

This is what I posted to my friend:

“No one is denying the fact that 'every case is indefensible' .. Who would? All I want is for you to not fall prey to JM's trick of putting the values of his institution as a defense against what he is justifying. Hypothetically ,If we were top lawyers, would you or Jose or myself take up Manu Sharma's case? We probably won't, right?That's the difference!
In saying that you believe 'everyone is entitled to an unbiased trial' , you are hardly defending JM or Manu Sharma, you are just defending the values of court as an institution which no person in right frame of his mind will disagree with...But it is his cheap trick to confuse simpletons like u and me by putting fwd something so undebatable. Watch the 3rd part where Karan repeatedly questions his conscience, and that's what its about.”

Many of you would have probably seen it, but I am so cut off from Indian news channels , that I was able to locate it only now.

Which of the two videos do you root for??

INSECURITY or just a deep SLUMBER?

First Things First. I am sorry if my last post offended anyone.Forgive me, I am just a 23 year old.:-).

Confession --> Out of my mind, I think I launched a personal attack on a woman in my previous post.I dint mean to, I just wanted to comment on her post, not on her, but yeah! I am not perfect.I kind of messed up out there, and someone actually called me a racist :-( (But sometimes, I do feel I am a Racist, ya I am an EVIL nvm :-) ).

Chances are I was wrong, my only reason to believe this is I don't think I have a support.:-(.

I couldn't help but dissect IHM's post. I am just presenting my Arguments.


IHM's post in blue
My views in Red


"Chikki's post on a woman's concern over an advertisement for a low calories cereal made me wonder how much are we affected by the way our advertisers want us to look"


Well, no, it is actually the other way round. Advertisers have no personal interest in making us look good or UN-FAT (I choosed not to say THIN, because we are talking about that specific Ad, and it promises only 2.5Kgs Reduction in 2 weeks, that won't make us THIN, Please! ). I will tell you what those marketing guys would have probably thought --> They were pretty sure that lots of people want to get thinner ( please!! deep inside, most fat people do wish they were thin ) and they are willing to spend an amazingly huge amount on that ( I don't think we still know how much VLCC earns, those programs are so expensive). So, why not lets market something which can make you loose some extra pounds (No arguments regarding if that will actually make you thinner, we are just talking about the Ad being "demeaning"-supposedly).


You get my point,?

ITS NOT

Ads --> Pressure to look good.

IT IS

Our Will to look better --> marketing ideas based on that --> Ads

So, lets not blame the Ad for the pressure in 1st place.


"The pressure is not to look good, but to look a certain way. Fair and Thin. Perfect teeth. All fine except that there are a lot of good looking people who do not fall into this set mold."


what pressure?Well, Again, there is No pressure!! I mean, no one can pressurise you without your consent.The Colgate Ads are exerting pressure on us for perfect teeth?No.I have never heard that before, seriously! Not even in my dreams did I think, The Ads pressurise us to look in a certain way. LOOKING GOOD IS A PERSONAL CHOICE, FOR SOME IT IS VERY IMPORTANT AS TO HOW THEY LOOK, SOME JUST DON'T CARE. IF WE ARE FEELING THE PRESSURE BECAUSE OF COLGATE, KELLOGG Ads, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR SENSE OF SECURITY.
We shouldn't really Blame Ads, they are there to sell.Get real.


NO ONE CAN HURT YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.


"Some of these advertisements can make our lives revolve around our weight loss. . . "


OK, again! I Think we should all be in total control of our lives, IF WE ARE LETTING OUR LIVES REVOLVE AROUND Ads, TRUST ME, DON'T BLAME Ads, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH US.


"And our children will grow up believing thin(not healthy) is beautiful".


No, THIN is not same as NOT-FAT. we are talking about us being NOT-FAT. and FAT IS DEFINITELY NOT HEALTHY.


"A perfectly healthy woman can be made to feel too fat if she does not fit a certain size"


Really?Nooo...


I really pity that Ad now, All the poor bechara Ad said was "loose 2.5Kgs". :-(


"It starts with 'thin is healthy', although being too thin or even undernourished, is not any healthier than being too fat."


Under-Nourished? Some quick facts --> 6 out of 10 women in India are anemic ( well, most of them don't even know this and its definitely not limited to poor). That is Under-Nourished. But that is not the point.
FAT IS UNHEALTHY. Don't buy the product if you think you are not fat , simple! Why would someone wanna ban the whole Ad itself?


"It isn't really about being beautiful either, because many women are not skinny and they look great. (Including Jenifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, Mumtaz, many of our older film stars.)"


This is not fair, we are talking about BEING UN-FAT. Where did 'SKINNY' came in from?At least that's how I interpreted the Ad, it was always about loosing extra pounds, not being Skinny.
And again, isn't this our choice what we want to be -->Skinny, or healthy? Its an Ad..Buy the product according to your needs. Government of India is not coming out with a law to buy Kellogg's K and become thinner (not thin , thinner Is what I said!).


"Why then are we so obsessed with being thin?"


Exactly...Its us who are obsessed (well, some of us at least)! and this is precisely what Kellogg's knew, why are we blaming the Ad for pressurising us??Its so not Justified.I just don't get it.If I was the CEO of that company, I would probably give a promotion to someone who came up with that campaign.


"I think it is just a trend. Today we wonder at the Chinese binding their little girls feet, or at corsets that made Victorian women forever breathless (And gave Scarlett O'Hara her famous 17" waist).
Nature couldn't possibly have meant all women (men too) to be the same size?!"


Being thin MIGHT be a trend, but it is for us to follow it or not.However, if you can see to it that you keep yourself fit , UN-FAT, it would be wonderful. Its High time, we know the disadvantages of being FAT and do something about it instead of cursing the whole world for calling us FAT.


"Years from today our future generations will talk abut how women were coerced to starve and look anorexic (or be anorexic) and fit into standard sized clothes."


You really don't wanna take this line back?what was this IHM?:-)


"What can be more beautiful than good health?
Good health would mean you can run up a flight of stairs without feeling out of breath. Good health does not mean being size zero."


Yes, don't be size-zero . Clearly its our personal choice. But ya, FAT IS UNHEALTHY, LETS FACE IT. No pressure to become UN-FAT, but its for our own good, that we realise FAT IS UNHEALTHY.


Something, I wanna add from my personal experience, You know, of all the people I have met --> Western, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysians, Australians, etc etc, take my words, Indians are the one who are least worried about their health, we are the ones who are ignorant about advantages of staying fit,we are the ones with bulging tummies :) -- Generally.


I was surprised to see the kind of priority these people give to their fitness regime, you won't believe the distance people here can run on the field, I was really embarrassed on the field, No Kidding, but even the Grandmas and Granddads run more than me :-( ( Ya, I run 3kms without stopping, not so bad , right? well, apparently it is). I don't feel PRESSURISED to run more though, On the contrary, I am plainly impressed, and try jogging at least 3-4 times a week.


"And good health with good grooming can make anybody look their best. Without having to starve for it."


Well,,don't Starve!! Just avoid FATS..Try Fruits...that's not Starving, is it?



Its for us to realise the importance of being NOT-FAT, YES, ITS NOT HEALTHY, TRY GOOGLING FOR MORE INFO! Don't feel pressurised, Just for your own good, please Wake up, Don't blame Ads, don't crib about people calling you fat, don't try giving excuses to yourself, consult a dietitian if you are worried about being UNDER-NOURISHED while pursuing it, and please Don't blame the Ad, just Ignore it if you hate it. Chances are others out there might wanna give it a try!

Kellogg's Special K, and Body Image Issues

Another disturbing perspective.Disturbing for me at least!Or I just plainly did not understand it.

The original post is here

Don't worry, I have not edited anything from there.Double quoting everything again.

My words in Red

Her words in Blue

"Yesterday just as we sat down at Coffee Day my seven year old eyed me and told me with twinkling eyes "Ma, You are fat." I gasped for breath. I asked him where he had heard about fat. He shook his head and gave me his usual - Don't know and dug into his Black Forest Cake."

"I wasn't about to give him an explanation about fitting into a size 12 jeans after 4 months of rigorous work outs or that giving birth to him, his sister and taking care of them had made me 'fat'. I wasn't going down the defensive mode with a 7 year old child."

"I was more interested in knowing where he had come across the concept of body image. And it didn't take me long." 

Was going fine till here!!

"Today while the kids watched toons on POGO the Special K ad rolled in. And before my horrified eyes"

"Horrified eyes" ?? Why the over reaction?1st shock.

"I heard a small girl talking about her mom looking like Aishwarya Rai and her mom laughed and said she had lost two kilos by being on Special K. The little angel ranted about her mom looking the prettiest in the school and my mouth hung open."

So???

"Little angel Ranting"?? what?? I think you are the one who's ranting.

"What kind of shit was this? I looked at my son and then back at the TV. "

What Just happened?Anyone??No, seriously, a reaction of that sort, there has to be some reason, I am so confused, Can someone please explain it to me, what could have been going on inside her head?I am serious!! I am not getting into an argument, I just wana know, what is it that my brain completely refuses to understand??

"It was bad enough that cable channels were feeding shit to our kids about junk food but now we had cereals sneaking in body image neurosis to our underage children."

I am not married, but when I do get married and have kids, I don't think I am gonna start Blaming the whole bad world around me . After all what will my duty as a father be? Teach my child the difference between right and wrong. 

And please, what do you expect? Mc Donalds, Burger Kings, Cokes, Pepsis,  to be banned?

"Body-image neurosis"??Will someone Please quickly explain me what this women is going through??I don't think I will be able to concentrate on my work before I know, what struck her. All her kid said was "you are fat", which chances are, she is.

"Where is the protest from parents about these sorts of ads? Maybe its time Kellogg's was taken to court for propagating unhealthy habits to our kids. Can you imagine a kid asking just for sugary cereals for 2 meals to be skinny?"

"propagating unhealthy habits to our kids"??.. What just happened?The topic just changed, I thought its all about her son calling her fat and her getting hurt because of the truth.

"Can you imagine a kid asking just for sugary cereals for 2 meals to be skinny?"?? When did that happen?Again, I thought it was all about your kid calling you fat as you start your post with.And its not "skinny", its HEALTHY for god sake!! Do Indians still believe FAT IS HEALTHY or what???

"Anyone who has tasted Special K would tell you that its like sugary wood shavings. And to be on a cereal diet is the worst thing one can do to their body. Eating right and exercising is the best way to leading a healthy life."

Now, I have not tasted Special K or whatever, but if you don't like it, don't buy it anymore, why cry about the Ad?I mean, its pure marketing.No, what am I arguing!! What were we discussing?What is going on here!! Are you not satisfied with the product or fuming over the fact that your kid called you fat or are you not happy with Fast food chains?Whats going on,,,someone plz??

"Once the ad finished I spoke to my son and told him that not everything that is seen on TV is the truth. And that having a fat or skinny mother doesn't make the child happy, what makes a child happy is having a mommy who loves him."

Yes, but when did he say that he doesn't like you as a mom?whats wrong with you ladyyy!!!Are you just insecure about your looks?

I am sorry, I couldn't just control my feelings there.:(

"And that if I ever heard him say those words to anyone I would personally come and teach him the meaning of respect."

"Respect"? I am really crying now. He was just being Candid!! You are not not going to teach him any respect, you are gonna teach him to be politically right and at his age, plzzzz..we prefer kids being candid than being politically right.

IHM, You are a mother right? Am I gonna be a bad father? or plz tell me you agree with me!!:)

"He looked at me with big saucer eyes and asked 'Why?"

Like Duh!!! Anyone would!!!

"I replied that it was the meanest and most hurtful thing to say and he wasn't a mean boy."

Hmmm...Now I know, she's just pissed that her son called her fat.But truth issss bitter.Lets face it. Go gyming instead of cribbing about it.phew!

"His mind switched gears when he realized his mother was done lecturing and asked if he could go out and play. I nodded absentmindedly, still upset about the kind of bogeymen we were letting into our homes via kiddie channels."

Lady, you have no idea what you are blabbering.

I really want to know the other side too.If someone feels the way, the lady above does, please explain it to me too. I really wana know.

Its all About perspective - Mangalore!

Not everyone thinks what you are thinking.Its all about perspective. All though it failed to impress me, I have come across an interesting perspective recently . While the guy is not supporting Mangalore (Thank god! ), he wants to play it down and doesnt understand the HYPE and why are we calling these "goons" as "terrorists". After all terrorist is someone who comes with an AK-47 and shoots you down ;-) (according to him, not me). As far as I understand, the incident did not Hurt his freedom nerve yet!

You can read his post here

His words in Blue.
My respective comment in Red

1st part

"The sheer scale of the number of dead in the various blasts of 2008 is enough to ensure that terrorism from across the border features at the number one position on India’s priority list."

They have not killed anyone today, cz we are not completely talibanised yet. A little encouragement, or little inaction from people/govt/police against them and these people will gradually make another Taliban out of India, dont you think so?I mean, the idealogy sounds pretty much the same.They have no respect for women, they cant digest the fact that women can be as free/independent as men.
And once that happens, we dont need outsiders to attack and kill us.Our very own people will start killing us in the name of culture. And trust me, if that happens, they wont limit themselves to women. Any god damn reason like pre-martial sex ( its not in our culture- SUPPOSEDLY), and bang!
I am not saying its gonna happen soon, but why move in wrong direction?Ofcourse they are comparable to terrorists.Just because there were more dead bodies in Mumbai today, is no excuse to not have a comparison, dont you think so?

"Moreover, terror acts are meticulously planned, extensively prepared for and then executed with a monstrosity and fanaticism that only believes in the piling up of dead bodies irrespective of religion, caste and creed."

I dont care if it is planned or unplanned. Terrorism is Terrorism, and they did manage to terrorise the gals India-wide. Here it was ir-respective of caste/creed/religion, but 'social equality' as per preamble also has the word 'sex'. This attack was against women. I hope we both agree on this one.dont we?

"Then how does Mangalore feature in this category? Or is the Mangalore incident yet to be completely disclosed by the media and there were indeed a lot of girls slaughtered and raped to death."

Again the same logic, there were no bodies TODAY! if we walk in that direction for a lill while, you wont be left with this justification soon.


"What is required is to deal with all wrongdoing rationally and at its magnitude of occurrence along with other factors like fatalities involved and degree of violence engaged in."

Correction --> What is required is to identify the problem that could become a much BIGGER PROBLEM and has the potential to create MANY MORE FATALITIES in future and kill the problem right when you see it growing. If only Kashmir was taken much more seriously in 1990.

Its high time, we develop a futuristic approach to problems.What kills me is India is particularly bad at it and has no intention of improving.

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2nd Part

His reply to my comment, in Blue again
My reply to his reply, in Red.


"I certainly doubt whether any fringe elements have the powers that the Taliban enjoy in the Afghan-Pak axis."

Ofcourse not, Taliban was a government in itself.
Allthough Ram-sena is not as powerful as Taliban today, but it does enjoy political support. Their MOTIVE is to gain power in the name of same-old HINDUTVA concept.Dont you see their intentions??Its a very simple logic. WANA GET POWERFUL? EASY!! MAKE OTHERS FOLLOW HINDUTVA ( concentrate, you have to make OTHERS follow it, it doesnt just involve minding your own business and following whatever you want to!!) even if that involves violence.

Just for you information :- I just dont hate Ram-sena alone. I also hate VHP,Shiv Sena, Abhinav Bhart, and all other kinds of sena.I hate any organisation that wants to divide India for political gains. And notice all of the above are POWERFUL. And they do disturb the day-to-day lifes of many. They all have TERRORISED people before and will continue to do so.You will soon see it on 14th feb if you live in pune/mumbai. ;-). I have lived in Pune before and I know, how i wasnt even allowed to enter my college that day.My Fav Archie shop on MG was vandalised, and NO ONE was "brought to BOOKS". A Library was burnt, because it had A BOOK which had something against Shivaji and no one was "brought to BOOKS".

By the way, latest news reports,

1)Ram sena has issued a FATWA-LIKE-WARNING against any gals wearing noodle straps.

2)Ram sena to force couples into marriage if they are found dating on 14th Feb.

Hmmmm...smelling Taliban yet?No? Cant help it then.;-)!

Well, ofcourse they are moving in that direction!

"I certainly do not believe that we are moving in the wrong direction."

You dont belive Mangalore was a wrong direction??? Really?

"There is enough progress around me to be cynical because of the acts of a select few."

Look, i am not being Cynical.I am loving the fact that India is growing. But my heart refuses to Ignore Mangalore, for the excuse that GDP is gonna grow at 7% this year and grew at 9% the previous.

"But terrorism, in its wholeness, is too extreme and the largest threat to not only the people but even the sovereignity of the nation as a whole. Hence, to call Mangalore as terrorism is absurd."

Ahhh..and Mangalore did not hurt the SOVEREIGNITY??..India is Internally and externally sovereign!! This one hurt the internal sovereignity of the nation.you dont think so? I refuse to be governed by few goons who cant mind their own business.Not only did it hurt SOVEREIGNITY, it hurt DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL EQUALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS. How does Mangalore sound now ;-) ??

"Of course I do. Women are equal to men. In no respects do they deserve what happened in Mangalore. My only point -> it's not terrorism. Not the terrorism that killed 2765 Indians only upto 2006"

Look, you are stressing on count of dead bodies. Basically, do you wana tell me, you are happy, that you are alive and you dont mind your freedom going away as a compromise??? I feel suffocated! I dont want OTHERS to DECIDE what should i wear, what should i eat, what should i read, what should i watch. I am in so much LOVE with my freedom, that i refuse to Play down MANGALORE. I dont refuse the fact that MUMBAI was one of the worst attacks in history. I am not comparing but I refuse to play down Mangalore as well. While I will not forget Mumbai, i will also NEVER FORGET Mangalore.

"Kashmir is not India's fault."

Agreed, INACTION IF ANY would be India's fault. On the same lines , INACTION against HINDUTVA EXTREMISM will be India's biggest mistake.You can note down this one.:)

"A look at Pakistan or China's human rights record will tell you what human rights violation means and what oppression of women is in reality".

Ehhh??? This is not how I was taught to grow!! I dont look down, and feel good about where I am sitting, specially when there is hardly anyone down there. Simple analogy, in a class of 100 students, will you be happy being ranked 90Th, and then boast about the fact that there are 10 people below you or will you recognize the fact that there are 89 above you and do something about it??

Infact I kept reading this statement of yours again and again --> Are you telling me we are pathetic at "oppression of women" ?? and we should catch up fast with Pakistan and China?? I am sorry, you were Joking when you wrote this, right? or you are really happy that we are not the WORST?

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For a moment, just imagine yourself sitting in that pub with your close friends.
I have done it, and thats why I am so deeply hurt with what happened in Mangalore.Forget me,I just cannot imagine any of my close female friends getting molested/beaten up by a bunch of "goons" oops! terrorists rather.

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Part 3

1)"But I will want to stress here that I was as shocked as any of you on seeing the Mangalore incident".

2)"I just framed my response without any sort of hyperventilation and sensationalism that the media displays so frequently."

Again same reaction --"ehh"?? Is this some kind of oxymoron? So you are saying you are as hurt as us, while at the same time,you dont understand the "hyperventilation" and "sensationalism"?

Ok, then let me tell you, that you are definitely not as hurt as us , DEFINITELY NOT!Its your PRESUMPTION that you are as hurt as us. Because for us, its not any sort of "hyperventilation" and "sensationalism"

1st of all, the prefix "hyper" --> Its your perspective, some of us dont think its "hyper".

That is why I said in my post "the incident did not Hurt his freedom nerve yet!". I have clearly understood your perspective,but you fail to understand ours.You clearly fail to undertsand how hurt we are?dont you?You can have a look at my previous post,where I speak of reasons why I wanted to avoid writing about Mangalore, it simply boils my blood and spoils my day.

And hopefully this will be my last post. I wana write about something nice now (phew!).

"I'm not against western culture at all and believe that India will improve if the best aspects of western culture are adopted by the people."

Nothing against you here, but we are not talking about WESTERN culture so much as we are talking about basic HUMAN CULTURE,HUMAN VALUES (out here) . And again, the definition of "best aspects" can be different for different people. Anyway, thats a seperate issue.

"My rejection of the words Taliban and terrorism is because of the larger threat of cross-border terrorism."

Your perspective again when you classify "cross-border terrorism" as a "larger threat". No one knows what CAN BECOME the "larger threat" TOMORROW. "Hindu-terrorism" looks like a strong contender already ( I know you are not supporting it, but I also know you fail to see what we are seeing ).

"Only a glance at the following videos will show you what the difference between India and the Taliban is"

You know, why I did not even have a look at those videos?Because I guess I know the difference between India and Taliban,I dont have to watch it now.BUT THAT IS NOT OUR POINT.

When we say "Taliban" or "Talibanised", we are using these words as Verbs. Its like saying "Can you google about blah blah topic". We do not mean, a xerox copy of Taliban, but something similar to it, and going in that direction.

In brief, I am explaining our concern AGAIN. :)

If you look at Taliban's history, it wasnt always this powerful, it became this powerful gradually, and everyone including US failed to see its potential when it was growing.Simliarly, what was SHIV SENA before the riots of Mumbai, and do you know how powerful it is today? We just CANNOT afford any other SENAS sucking India's blood for political gains, the ideology itself is too dangerous for us to let it develop further till it becomes a full fledged Taliban.

"I have no love lost for Hindu extremism and I believe that it exists. I was stunned as to why the Ram Sena activists got bail."

Much appreciated :-).

"Every media outlet is painting India the same way as the major human rights abusers of the world like Pakistan are. Even Indians themselves! Accept truth. Say that India isn't bad. Yes, incidents occur. Things are wrong. Definitely. But generalization is the greater evil."

Why dont you see it this way --> Atleast media GETS to "paint" something now, which means we are still far from loosing our hopes on freedom and democracy.The day Media stops "PAINTING" the wrong side, either India has become a perfect society ( Distant dream ) or we have completed the transition phase to TALIBANISATION where media has lost its freedom.

Why blame Media? Without media, these incidents will go un-noticed, which is worse that a lill "sensationalism " they create to enhance their TRPs. I am agreeing that sometimes they go too far and i curse them too, but we are talking about Mangalore specifically, and I am thankful to media for keeping the topic alive else we wouldnt have even known that such an incident happened.

"I've been outside India many a times and I dont like the 'general knowledge' about India that exists outside the country."

You have been out many times, and I am living in Singapore, I am earning my bread and butter here, I have friends here,I am aware of the 'general knowledge'. So, you dont want media to hype this incident, because you are worried about India's REPUTATION? Atleast it sounds like that. Hmmm..Thats not the right way to deal with it. Lets kill the problem instead.What say?

"Just a request. Please re-analyze my post.I've not played down Mangalore anywhere. Unless of course, you are interested in a media-style analysis and want to play up my words. ;-)."

I am not sure about "I've not played down Mangalore anywhere". I guess you unknowingly did.Make an Indian woman read your post and she will tell you if you have or if you havent.;-).

Your turn, you analyse our perspective again and let me know why you still think that we are 

"Trivializing terrorism" and why cant we equate what happened in Mangalore with "terrorism", and why is media not justified in creating a sensation (for this particular incident) when some of us are so deeply SHOCKED that such an incident can happen in a DEMOCRATIC country?

Not playing with your words :-). Just double quoting you everywhere. And sorry about over-analysing if any.;-), I love it that way, helps me in building 'clarity of thought'.Thats why I love hearing perspectives.Its all about PERSPECTIVE.;-)

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