All these days while a friend of mine was busy campaigning for Barack Obama, my mind wandered everywhere but to this topic. It was floating in the lands of love, anxiety and nervousness.
As I made my way to spend my last day in office,the radio blared declaring Obama's victory. I will never forget the look in my dad's eye which told me "I-can't-believe-i-missed-it". I was told to log in to cnn.com in the car...as he couldn't believe the crazy Delhi RJ's who might have misinterpreted the leads as the result. I didn't want to argue and I started logging in, somehow the page took unexpected time to load and the usual patience in him had started turning around.
When I told him, "It's true dad...he really has won. It's announced." He grabbed my phone and made sure. I could have been offended but I wasn't.
We congratulated each other and that was the moment I knew, that this was historic. That this was something I would never forget and that this was the "change" that had been accepted the world over. As soon as I got down the car, the big LCD at the entrance of Vatika Towers showed visuals of the US president graciously delivering his victory speech. There was no voice, the visuals spoke to me.
I would never forget it...It was my last day after all.
In the evening when I got back home, my sister and mom told me that they are fans and that they are floored. I had to watch all the video's now. Yesterday morning was spent on http://www.bbc.co.uk/ , if any of you have missed these moments, I suggest you don't.
The world has changed.
The times of global crisis will change.
The face of the new world has arrived.
The foreign policies that has been bothering us, might bring us good in disguise.
My favorite parts in the speech :
"It's not about the red states and the blue states anymore....It's about the United States of America"
One of the best captured moments of his victory speech was when people started mouthing"Yes we can" with their newly chosen leader.
A very unlike US president has won, someone who is so fit and lean. The fourth youngest US President,he is someone who is not white but will definitely fit in the White House.
He leaves people completely inspired, motivated and passionate.
Go Obama!
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
An end to Life
Today,I had a thought.I thought of the number of global events,phenomenas occuring all around us,while we continue to pass them by.
So here it goes,the top of the bottom...one of the reasons that could put an end to life,as we know
it.
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Clash of the civilisations
"In the year of the new century and nine months, from the sky will come a great king of terror. The sky will burn at 45 degrees... fire approaches the great new city... there will be thunder... The third big war will begin when the city is burning."
Many deciphered this message from a 16th century making some accurate forecasts.
A few thought it had begun...the beginning of the end.
Centuries ago,the crusades,as they say,was an attempt by the Church to establish Christianity and its value all over the world.After centuries of dominance,deliberation, the Islamic leaders seek a new coming,trying to eliminate an existing generation-a hindrance in a new utopian world, a misfit to a world order.
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A Personal Encounter
Working in a news channel makes you immune from emotions,sympathy,forget empathy.
I still remember the day Benazir Bhutto came back to Pakistan...the fateful day that saw the bomb blast in Islamabad killing hundreds of people.
The morning after, a woman in my office turned to me and sighed.
"I am glad this news broke fifteen minutes after my shift or I wouldn't have seen my son tonight".
At a loss for words,I walked away.
"What a bloody hoe..."came to me,being so disgusted with people for ...
For what?for wanting to go home after a nine hour shift with two fifteen minute breaks?
Or to wait.Wait till it affects them.
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An Inconvenient Truth(Copyrights are still owned by Mr.Gore)
If it isn't that,our actions are continously aggravating this on-going debate on a term,well, in a predictably high demand know was "global warming."
After coming in handy for many,including a film personality who took twenty minutes at IIFA awards.Ofcourse,this was after he made an entry in a sports car with a top speed of 240 kilometers per hour.
Cutting the sarcasm,here's a lowdown.
After shitting where we eat,the green house emissions have made the temperatures soar as high as the skyscrapers of New York, making it an "inhospitable" environment for the people, to come.
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A series of unfortunate events
If this isnt enough,there are many those who die out of misfortune.
Thousands of citizens of Myanmar have lost their homes,belongings and lives,as they knew it,to cyclone Nargis.
If the most powerful country felt crippled when Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a developing country known as Myanmar desperately needs your attention.
Peaceful demonstrations by the monks in the last few months against the military regime has kept Myanmar in news.While many were killed then,the toll seems to have reached 1,00,00 people.
As for the first time,this catastrophe has let the junta open their doors a little to foreign aid,people urgently need food, water, shelter and medical aid.
While many phenomenas,wars,cyclones and well,shark attacks await us,it is time for those who remain unaffected to help those who have survived.
Let it not be just another entry on a namless blogspot,log onto https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_cyclone.html through http://www.bbc.co.uk/ ,
https://secure2.convio.net/unicef/site/Donation2?df_id=3381&3381.donation=form1 through UNICEF or any such organisations ready to make an initiative.
So here it goes,the top of the bottom...one of the reasons that could put an end to life,as we know
it.
*******************
Clash of the civilisations
"In the year of the new century and nine months, from the sky will come a great king of terror. The sky will burn at 45 degrees... fire approaches the great new city... there will be thunder... The third big war will begin when the city is burning."
Many deciphered this message from a 16th century making some accurate forecasts.
A few thought it had begun...the beginning of the end.
Centuries ago,the crusades,as they say,was an attempt by the Church to establish Christianity and its value all over the world.After centuries of dominance,deliberation, the Islamic leaders seek a new coming,trying to eliminate an existing generation-a hindrance in a new utopian world, a misfit to a world order.
******************
A Personal Encounter
Working in a news channel makes you immune from emotions,sympathy,forget empathy.
I still remember the day Benazir Bhutto came back to Pakistan...the fateful day that saw the bomb blast in Islamabad killing hundreds of people.
The morning after, a woman in my office turned to me and sighed.
"I am glad this news broke fifteen minutes after my shift or I wouldn't have seen my son tonight".
At a loss for words,I walked away.
"What a bloody hoe..."came to me,being so disgusted with people for ...
For what?for wanting to go home after a nine hour shift with two fifteen minute breaks?
Or to wait.Wait till it affects them.
*******************************
An Inconvenient Truth(Copyrights are still owned by Mr.Gore)
If it isn't that,our actions are continously aggravating this on-going debate on a term,well, in a predictably high demand know was "global warming."
After coming in handy for many,including a film personality who took twenty minutes at IIFA awards.Ofcourse,this was after he made an entry in a sports car with a top speed of 240 kilometers per hour.
Cutting the sarcasm,here's a lowdown.
After shitting where we eat,the green house emissions have made the temperatures soar as high as the skyscrapers of New York, making it an "inhospitable" environment for the people, to come.
************************
A series of unfortunate events
If this isnt enough,there are many those who die out of misfortune.
Thousands of citizens of Myanmar have lost their homes,belongings and lives,as they knew it,to cyclone Nargis.
If the most powerful country felt crippled when Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a developing country known as Myanmar desperately needs your attention.
Peaceful demonstrations by the monks in the last few months against the military regime has kept Myanmar in news.While many were killed then,the toll seems to have reached 1,00,00 people.
As for the first time,this catastrophe has let the junta open their doors a little to foreign aid,people urgently need food, water, shelter and medical aid.
While many phenomenas,wars,cyclones and well,shark attacks await us,it is time for those who remain unaffected to help those who have survived.
Let it not be just another entry on a namless blogspot,log onto https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_cyclone.html through http://www.bbc.co.uk/ ,
https://secure2.convio.net/unicef/site/Donation2?df_id=3381&3381.donation=form1 through UNICEF or any such organisations ready to make an initiative.
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