Musings

The Liberhan report is out and it points fingers at the top BJP leadership being responsible for the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992. It further states the inaction of the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Kalyan singh to be one of the main culprits of the demolition exercise. What is more interesting is that it has named the BJP's top 3 leaders (Vajpayee, Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi) as 'pseudo-moderates' of this demolition. Well, the report has no new findings. I think, after 17 years of the act, many of us know mostly what is given in the report and many knew the involvement of the BJP/RSS and other Hindu groups in this activity. What does this report submission mean to the country now? Well, this doesn't bring in the communal harmony into the region and it doesn't aim at resolving the issue too. All it will help in is to get the parliament hours to discuss this issue and make the citizens look like a fool. It is one of the best tricks p...

This is the latest controversy spurred on by the Shivsena. They are taking on Sachin Tendulkar. Mr. Bal Thackarey has asked Sachin to "Play on the ground and not in politics". Although, I can understand what the Shiv Senas and MNS (Raj Thackarey's party) want in Maharashtra, I still condemn the way they are taking laws on their own hands. One problem that is happening in Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra and the financial city of India, is that there are lesser jobs for the local Marathi people. Most of the low-skilled jobs are taken by the Hindi speaking North or North-east people (Biharis, UPs etc.,). Yes, this does spur something on the localities and I can see how the Shiv Sena and MNS want to politicize this. It is similar to what the Americans feel when their jobs were "Bangalored". ie., their local BPO jobs were now outsourced to India and the US citizens were either unemployed or were made to upgrade their skills to stay in contention. There is a s...

Sachin Tendulkar has scored 30,000 runs in international cricket. Is it something to cherish? Well not really according to me. This is one more statistics to his marvelous career. Run scoring has been his forte and he has been doing that for the last two decades. Anyone playing for that long is bound to score that many, if not more. The greater fact is that this man is able to play that long! Now, tell me how many of us will be doing the same thing over and over again for two decades? Being in a software field, I'd expect to do different things every now and again. Ie., you can't expect me to be doing the rigmarole things for long. ie., writing the code, validating it etc., this kind of routine gets monotonous and leads to boredom. But, look at what Sachin has done, he has been doing literally the same thing for over two decades, without any complaints. I'd just admire him for this mere fact. There are critics who come up with a thing or two every time he crosses a mileston...

I have never felt like this before. But, after reading about this announcement on a new open-source language from Google Inc., called GO , I'm feeling literally bad about myself. These Google guys come up with one innovation after another and it is amazing the amount of engineering going on out there. GO isn't the first open-source language and it isn't , imo, a completely new concept. It is trying to cook the good things from different languages and put it in a single one. It may not be the next big thing after all. But, why am I feeling like this? I don't know. I think, as a Software Engineer myself I'm yet to come up with such innovations. Being in this field for more than 11 years, my achievements pale in comparison to the ones churn out by the Googlers. Am I feeling jealous? No, this is not jealousy but a feeling of hollowness. Don't know if this is good or bad but this is certainly driving me crazy. Any ways, I'll play around with this new language and...

I stopped watching cricket for a while now. Not necessarily the 'boring' 50-Over ODIs but everything that involved bat and ball. I considered there was a over-dose of cricket being offered to us in recent times. Especially, this year it is more than what I could chew. May be that is one of the reasons why I didn't follow the recent India-Australia seven match ODI series with any interest. Yesterday was different though. I caught up with a fever (+ cold + cough ...) and had to take a "compulsory" rest (you know about the compulsion once you get married :-) ). As the day went by the fever got doused, I got more strength to get up and watch the TV. I missed the complete Australian Innings yesterday and by reading the scorecard (350 for 4 wickets) could grasp the type of innings their batsmen would have played. I thought it is all curtains for India. Any sane follower of Indian cricket will get to this conclusion. This team boasting of the BEST batting line up in the...