It's War, let's treat it as one.

The country, its beloved politicians & we the people need to wake up to the fact that we are under attack.

Some thoughts,

1. The local police force should be freed from responsibilities of handling internationally organized terror networks. No point blaming the improvised, lathi holding, half pant, 2000Rs. havaldar to failing to protect us. He is not meant to.

2. Let's ignore the politicians & the government. They are busy doing what they do best. They need to be kept away from saving the country and just working on getting us light, road & water. We should be happy if they can do that.

3. Hope Javed Aktar, Geelani, Mahesh Bhatt's of the world can realise that the people of India needs to make a clear choice. Either you are with us or them. There is no in-between. Get on the bus or get the hell out.

4. Create a fund to pay for our own security, this should be a Private-Public enterprise to protect us. Atleast they will be independent from the vagaries of government, politicians & lawmakers etc. The "National Security Fund" should have a governing body, appoint a body to manage itself, make necessary investments & provide regular public updates on its functioning.

5. ATS needs to be completely over hauled by creating a centralized Agency(like FBI) & given full power to act across the country. Need to move the best people on the force to create a large 10,000+ elite task force to counter this menace.

6. Create a NSG like Police force for all the Metro's & 2nd level cities to handle crisis. These have to be specially trained to take care of such situations. They should be given the best weapons, best training to counter the most powerful of the enemies.

7. Create a list of vantage points across the country & provide a security blanket around these. Hotels, malls, Cinema halls etc. Have training programs to train the Private enterprises to become first line of defense.

8. Points of interests, anything with a security risk, SIMIs, Madarsas, Masjids, Abhinav Bharat, NEFA, ASU needs to be brought under scrutiny. The leaders of these have to be made accountable. Anyone withholding information related to natonal security needs to be take in.

9. Technology upgradation. It;s a dichotomy, we are supposed to be the bread basket of technology in the world, launching moon mission to find minerals remotely but can;t leverage it to provide intelligence support. Chatter on Voice & data networks need to be monitored. This is our only weapon against a unseen enemy.

10. The ATS should become part of an elite world force, who can co-ordinate a response to such events. The FBI, Russian FSB, Israeli Sayeret, MI-5 should create a joint response plan to any such international event.

11. The Mocca, POTA & the others need to overhauled to avoid any delays. There will be mistakes, innocents will get effected. But it is not a great prize to pay for the Nation;s security.

12. Fast track the Justice system to handle Terror. Execute swiftly.

13. We need to re-create the National agenda, revive the National pride & have a National goal. Every School child, college kid needs to go thru the Scouts, NCC etc. to revive the national idea logy, character, discipline, uniformity etc. The flag, National Anthem & Pledge needs to be relaunched with vigour. It's our identity. If ideologies can be taught in jungles of Kerela in 3 months, why can;t we teach otherwise in 15 years of school.

14. Ignore Pakistan. They are getting undue credit for lot of things & using it to extract its pound of flesh from the international committee. They are having the cake & eating it too.

It's time to strike Terror in the heart of these Terrorists. It;s war, let us treat it as one.

Singur

Mamata Banerjee has drawn the final straw. The proverbial one that will break the camel's back. She has manged to put herself & her party in a corner with no place to turn. If she wins, Bengal loses, else she loses, well she is lost. Bengal is on the threshold of joining the BHIMARU states or not.

For all the Literary legacy & Noble laureates & Misti Doi's, the politics of Bengal have, on the back of poor farmers & clueless union workers, held back the growth of Bengal for last 4 decades. Now following the departure of Red Dragon, the old brigade is trying hard to change its wrinkled skin. They have been on a world tour to garner projects that can leapfrog the state out of oblivion.

Whether Rata Tata stays or not is his prerogative as a businessman. But for Bengal it is a decision that will decide the next 1000 years. The question is not whether the so called unwilling farmers get back their piece of 400 acres, surrounded by a massive factory around it, it is whether they r able to see thru the whole game. We will have to wait & see how the hapless farmers are used by the politico's to further their own agenda.

This was a chance to be part of a world changing project. Nano is a cynosure of the world Automobile fraternity. It's success could decide the future of automobiles. Apart from that, Singur could have been the next model tonwship after Jamshedpur or Chinchwad, Pune. It has the potential of employing 1 lack workers. It has the potential to change the face of Bengal.

Mamata has lost anyways, let us see what happens to Bengal.

Some Ideas ....

- A way to play a a PG-13, PG DVD movie in a "G" mode, which a erases, mutes the -G parts !!!
- Superconductive paint that fractionally increase the temperature, so that water, snow, ice doesn;t stick to it.
- A cell phone with GPS that can guide you to your car in a parking lot

cheers

PS: Feel free to add ....

Maharashtra v/s Bihar

Let's be realistic. Every war, clash, skirmish has an socio-economic angle to it, whether it was Nazi Germany, British, World War, Indo-Pak, Vietnam, Iraq etc. As long as there is a equitable distribution of wealth amongst the aggrieved & aggriever the balance will be maintained. When the balance shifts, the suffering group will attack the other.

There is a proof in history of this. Jews, Pandits, Bengalis owned all the business & wealth in Germany, Kashmir & Assam. The other fact is that migrants are traditionally more hard working, adapting & enterprising. This leads to their success in their place of settlement.

So this problem has nothing to do with MNS or Maharashtra. If millions of migrant labour lands up in Bihar & Uttar Pradesh, this whole thing will be repeated there. This is a social problem, the government needs to understand this & make sure there are employment opportunities & social development are being created across the country, so that in particular state, city, town doesn't become the panacea for another.

Making this a North/South issue is a work of vested interest in this whole drama. We should carefully consider the realities on both sides.