Benazir: What a lioness!! Well aware of dangerous of terror in front of her! Yet she faced till the last moment. But it is a victory to the great lady and a great loss for the terror. Prey for the soul rest in peace.
Political assassinations in the Ravidasan days seemed to kill only the person they desired to do away with. Today with these crazy suicide bombers so many more innocent lives are lost.
Benazir had guts - it is completely a cowardly act to have killed her.
For Ravidasan and soman sambavans - atleast there were reasons to tell the world (viirapaandiyanin thalai kondavanai pazhi vaanguthal) But for what these terror groups acheived? cowardness only
HI Muruganandams " feroze gandhi" is in the presses right now and will be released in the book fair.
he too in the last page has written about the gandhi family in a similar way. he has said that except for feroze all his family died unnaatural deaths. perhaps if feroze had lived longer these would have ben averted?
Some may say the master brain behind this plot is Musharaf's and some other say its by Jehadis. This is how I see this ...
Both India and Pakistan and to some extent China have realized that the co-existence of these three economies in a Healthy Way is a MUST for the growth of these three nations and South Asian economy. So who will be afraid of another Healthy Economy in this part of the world -- which will destabilize their monopoly ... Probably they are the actual back brains behind this assassination.
Your reasoning is at fault, since Pakistan is their closest ally with India behind and China at the end of the stack. So no point in creating a political vacuum there.
Who ever may be the brain behind, the brunt is on the people of pakistan. Considering current state of the country I guess this assassination is going reverberate for long with violence and political instability.
My sympathy with Benazir, she was a brave person. The most corrupt however. She has never completed her 5 year term through out. It is a sad pointer in the brutal political history of Pakistani deaths, liaquat ali khan, the first prime minister was also assassinated there.
really worth reading is Daughter of the East: An Autobiography (Benazir Bhutto)
some trivia about benazir
she was of sindhi- iranian -kurdish mix her anscestral town is called bhatto in haryana. she was president of the oxford union during college days her husband zardari was popularly called " mr. 10 percent" because he was supposed to take that amount as commision from all deals during her reign.
though it may seem different today both her terms was full of corruption and pakistani economies took a nose dive.
1988 at age 35 she was the youngest person and the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times.
1988 People Magazine included Ms. Bhutto in its list of The Fifty Most Beautiful People
I might sound a sour note on this occasion but we all have to think in historical terms.
corruption breeds poverty and poverty drives more people towards religious fundamentalism and extremism
if the above statement is acceptable then bebazir is responsible for the state of pakistan today. its not just re quoting of her opposition in pakistan. but I remember she being convicted by a swiss court and given a suspended sentence.
poverty ridden pakistan is in the grip of fundamentalist extremists. and we in neigbouring india have every reason to be worried. rememeber they have a backyard full of nuclear missiles and much of our political and industrial centres are well within the reach of their ghauri missiles. what if they fall into the wrong hands.?????? venketesh
I hope you are aware of the sloka in Mahabharata where it starts with "Maya Chaaro Maya Varthathae...", sorry I am not a scholar but heard this from my Guru, it's literal meaning is "Nallavanukku Nallavan, Kettavanukku Kettavan", in which case, I wouldn't compare/relate the recent event with Mahabharata events.
I beg to disagree. There is a sizable amount of visible poverty in India; and definitely it has not spawned religious fundamentalism, as in Pakistan, Afganistan or Iraq. Even the rich Arab countries are not free from it. There is more to it.
if you consider naxals as extremists we have them in areas with the maximum poverty in india too. also extremism is high in areas with huge rich poor divides and where people use the government machinery to create their own fiefdoms.
1. Religious fundamentalism, which is not dependent on rich-poor divide. Any discussion will open a pandora box.
2. Social divide: Rich and poor differences will always exist, and infact the ratio of richest to poorest (in assets) is increasing in modern times. I think the poor will not revolt if they are not exploited; evrn in RRC's time, there were poor living in huts and the like Peria Pazhuvettayar living on top of 'kubera's fortune'.
Perhaps people in those days did not go without food or shelter irrespective of their social status; it will be intersting to find out who owned the 'land' and 'water' resources. A nephew of mine, who is now doing PhD in architecture, in US, is of the firm view, that land reforms introduced by the British is the root cause of our 'landless labour' problem. I will request him to elaborate.
I am curious to know how agricultural land was distributed and owned in RRC's times.
Poverty cannot be alleviated to religious fundamentalism.. Rather, its the ideology behind religious terrorism..
If we find the conspirators of twin tower attack, or mumbai bomblast, or parliament attack, most of them are highly educated persons..
And what's the reason they indulged in terrorism.. To uphold their religion by destroying the perceived enemy..
So here, poverty is not the root cause.. its just been utilised for a different cause
Ok..
Coming on to naxalism.
How come, people suffering from poverty buy scores of arms & ammunition? You may say, because of poverty they are moving towards extremists.. So in this case, poverty is not the root cause.. some highly educated extremists, utilising poverty to mislead people..
If we eliminate the extremists, then people will strive to find some jobs, amidst poverty.
If we are not willing to agree this simple straight forward truth, i believe, we can never find any other thing as real reason.