I want my home to look like
I have always been bit more interested in home interiors and I certaily hope to build one as soon as possible (after getting all the moolah required) but in the mean time, what i can do is only browse images of beautiful homes,
What different could have been done about Mumbai?
The things that have taken place in last 3 days have shook India in a way most of us never imagined, but after all the operations are over we can start to think to think about what had happened ?, What could have been done different ? Let us not think about how terrorists gained access into the hotels, how they were able to get such an amount of ammunition and explosives into the hotels, yes there was an intelligence failure at multiple ends and things could have done to prevent this. But let us try to examine what could been done different at least after we ended up in this situation, Let me base my assumptions based to the press meet conducted by the NSG commandos.
The commandos mentioned that the place was dark and filled with smoke of grenades, thus they couldn’t move easily as they couldn’t see. – I fail to understand how the top operations group of the company went in without night vision goggles and stuff which would help them out in these situations. This would only mean that even the country’s best are ill equipped, we can only imagine the state of other agencies.
They also mentioned that the terrorists were completely aware of the layout of the hotel and they were not which was a disadvantage – Any operation in a closed building would need the operatives to be briefed about the structure. Why were the NSGs not provided with the building plans when they were taking charge? If terrorists were able to get the layout and plans of a building why the NSG couldn’t ? Either the NSGs underestimated the terrorists, or they were briefed very wrong. At least after 12 hours of getting nowhere they could have at least studied the building plan.
The commandos mentioned that they weren’t able to reach the CCTV conrtol room beacuse of smoke and constant attack they were facing – A place like Taj or Oberoi for that matter would have networked CCTV system in place which could be accessed anywhere in the grid, I mean i know my home CCTV system which I got for 2k provides streaming over internet, then image the complexity and availability of the systems that would be in place at places like these,
And the most important of all, we were told that the operations took so much time because they had to do a floor by floor, room by room sweep which was pain staking – I am sure that India must have at least 4 of 5 spy satellites looking down, couldn’t anyone them have infrared imaging and be repositioned after 24 hours of failure in manual operations. If we don’t have these kind of satellites it shame on us that we can send a satellite to moon and we don’t have something to protect us. We had them and didn’t use them we still dumb. I mean we know that this technology existed 20 years ago.
All these points come to only one conclusion that we were ill equipped for urban combat and the terrorists knew exactly that, when are we going to take preventive actions against knee jerk reactions ?, I mean even hollywood movies show better tactical experience than what we have seen so far (I know movie is a movie and only good things happen), When can we expect our people to trained at that level. I know that we will return to our own little worlds in a few days, but at least now, let us ask some questions, and let somebody be responsible. We have to do something about all these, try to bring some change, but I certainly don’t think taking arms is the answer. We need some one to on top to think about these things, setup a fedaral agency with proper powers at least in these kind of situations to deal with these matter.
Hoping that this time would something different is going to happen …
Back from a Long Holiday
I went on a long awaited holiday and i really did nothing in that time other than roam around. I visited Kashmir. Got to play in snow for the first time in my life, had a blast, took some great pics along the way, if you have nothing to do just have a look at the pics located at. http://picasaweb.google.com/nareshsa/VaishnoDeviJammuKashmirDelhiTour
please comment on the pics of flowers.
Programmer’s Dont Like to Code
I came across an interesting article by Jon Rentzsch over at http://rentzsch.com/notes/programmersDontLikeToCode
My new home computer
I do remember a lot of time ago i wrote a post about how to an mid range Vista Premium system for under 50K well now I got my home one for around 50% of that amount.
My new configuration is
AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+
2 GB DDR2, 800 MHz RAM
ASUS A8N-VM (AMD 690G) Motherboard with onboard DVI output
320GB SATA HDD 7200RPM
My New Phone Sony Ericsson K810i
In middle of all the things I have been in, I got myself a shiny new phone a Sony Ericsson K810i, I have given the links to the reviews after the break.
Specs : http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k810-1839.php
Review : http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k810-review-133.php
Heroes
It has been a long time since i was hooked to a tv show, along came Heroes, this must be the one the best series i seen, its quite different from all the other series out there, its an absolute suspense thriller, Lost had some good points about it but it surely started disappointing me after a while, Heroes so far has kept me glued, I have all the 21 episodes aired till date on my PC and i couldn’t wait to see what happens next,
Moral Police !?
We have all been some how affected by the so called moral police at least here in India. Each and everyday some people who think they are torch bearers of Indian Culture take upon themselves to protect the system. Here you are at one hand talking about development and open mindedness and on the other you go and completely do something which makes us look like we are from ancient ages (I will have to correct that, even then people were open to depict lot of things as creative freedom) But today , you are not allowed to express yourself in anyway, somebody will always be at your throat to actually stop you at the middle and make you scream at the top of your voice that there is something wrong with this system,
more editing this poet yet to come
Read This !!!
I rate this mail as one of the best ever i have read!!!
OLD VERSION…
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance). Opposition MP’s stage a walkout.Left parties call for “Bharat Bandh” in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the ‘Grasshopper Rath’.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]“, with effect from the beginning of the winter.
Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educationalInsititutions & in Govt Services.
The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it “a triumph of justice”. Lalu calls it ‘Socialistic Justice’. CPM calls it the ‘revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden’ Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later…The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi billion dollar company in silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India …
As a result loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers India is still a developing country…… Can any one dare to bring India out of this clutches…