SRI'S Blog

I did not feel good to write about other things -- This impacted me terribly-- It is not easy and you do not feel safe and secure at all -- I went through this twice - 1993 blasts and the 1994 clashes--You will be so suscipious of things around you and rumours fly thick -- The Week that we cannot forget so easily The past week was one of those that you cannot forget so easily -- rains causing enough havoc in TN and we woke up on Wednesday with the attack on key places by Terrorists in Mumbai-- The siege ended on Saturday with all the TV channels hogging limelight in showing off more than the other -- One channel refused to stop the live telecast of what was happening at the places where the operations to flush out the terrorists was on inspite of a govt. request -- It was clear that the telecast was not helping the army commandos -- But when one saw one of the survivors speaking on TV, it was clear that the telecast was helping them as well in terms of understanding what was being done

Interesting : It took the BSE Index 480 days or so to get from 10,000 to 20000 but took only 190 odd days to come back from 20,000 to 10,000 - Shows how fast the decline is and also how it takes time to grow ! Quotable Quotes Life is too short to hold grudges. If someone doesn't mess with me , I won't mess back -- Salman Khan Actor I hate my son throwing away his wicket. It does not matter whether you are batting on 100 or 200 , you must never give away your wicket -- Yograj Singh Father of Yuvaraj The Beijing Olympics changed my life. No longer do people confuse me with Sania -- Saina Nehwal Badminton Star on people confusing her with Tennis star Sania Mirza I respect Lalu Prasad Yadav as an elder brother but he has now become a fused bulb and a fused bulb cannot give light no matter how much energy is supplied to it- Nitish Kumar Bihar CM on the Union railway Minister Matches and Flood lights I was really wondering if this was the way to do it when there is power shortage in

Quotable Quotes Pakistan has everything that gives you an international migraine -- Madeleine Albright Former US Secretary of State Shane Warne was a gambler with a hand of ace, the Banglorean ( Anil Kumble ) was a dentist armed with a drill -- Peter Roebuck Cricket writer Barack Obama has to do something about those skinny legs - I am going to make him do some squats --Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California You go to Tamilnadu , to Kerla , West Bengal , the medium of communication is the local language. Why should it be different in Mumbai ? Praful Pater Union Minister of Civil Aviation A excuse-- I have not missed writing on my blog for a long time -- there have been delays in posting the blog but it is up there every week -- I love to do this and hence find a excuse to do it -- But last week was different -- On travel and working out of a time zone that was not Asian did not help -- Infrastructure was not available at the right price - and so no blog --I am not sure anybody mi

Quotable quotes of the week Terrorism is the child of poverty and its cure for prosperity -- Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan President It is important human beings realise that whatever happens in life , good or bad, is the will of God. We should respect the bad things in life because eventually all would be good - Flaguni Pathak Singer I have no idea about his debut, but if he takes commentary as seriously as cricket, I have no doubt he will be excellent -- Harsha Bhogle --Cricket Commentator on Sourav Ganguly's future as a commentator Lalu Prasad Yadav , Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan were all railway ministers- Had they worked efficiently, the people of Bihar won't have left the state in search of jobs-- Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Sena Executive President Formula one -- the final race and the Championship The final race at the Interlagos circuit in Brazil held a lot of excitement -- Couple of reasons for this -- The championship was alive till this last race -- it was the home Grand