An owl that visited us yesterday

This was a really huge owl. I have never seen an owl that had this huge a wing-span.

Isn't he right?

Amidst several blogs of Ram-blasting here is one piece that caught my attention recently.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article481036.ece

For once, I think, the fellow makes some sense. I firmly believe too that there is no point trying to cry foul over what is about happen certainly. We can of course have a political lobby which keeps opposing the deal but in the background we need to make sure that the nuclear technology that China is gifting Pakistan is safe!
How do we do that? One way is to lobby for strict implementation of IAEA safeguards (which included visits by neutral personnel) to make sure that they are not making bombs out of the Uranium supplied.
Of course, the fool-proof method is to build technologies on our own that will act as deterrents. In a nuclear world, sadly, that is the only way out. Deterrence is underestimated by many, scorned by many and despised by many! But the fact that we have not had an atomic bomb dropped on any country after 1945 is some proof enough of this, don't you think?

Arundhathi Roy's opinion on the Maoists (poor tribals)

These days I tend to neglect most of Ms.Roy's banter. For a while, she has tried to use her complicated use of the English language (using bombastic words for example) to prove that she has a point. And, like the good sheep, many people think she is right and has a valid point.

This particular banter, though, caught my attention for two specific pieces of ludicrous opinion!


(1)http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jun/02/arundhati-roy-on-war-of-people.htm
"I am not here to defend the killing of innocent people by anybody, not by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the Maoists or the government. That is not my brief. When the 76 CRPF personnel were killed, there was this tremendous pressure on me, saying you went inside, you romanticised violence, now come and condemn this violence. BUt I ask what were the CRPF people - she lists an array of heavy arms -- doing there?"

"It is not so simple, it is a very thorny, knotty issue. It is not possible for me to go there and see these people with their loin clothes, bows and arrows, and you want to snatch it from them, and you want me on your side, it cant be done, she says"

Note the use of "bows and arrows". Were the attacks on the CRPF personnel carried out with bows and arrows, madam? Do you want to tell me that the Maoists used guns and other advanced weaponry to protect these tribal people from the clutches of heavy weapon carrying capitalistic CRPF?

The question is "How did the Maoists get this advanced weaponry?"

Surely, they do not run a weapons factory. Common sense and a little bit of guesswork dictates that they most likely got their weapons from China. Now, do you support this? Please justify why you think it is ok for China to supply weapons to rebel groups here.

(2) "All across South Asia, what are the areas under attack? All of them are under assault by a marauding capitalist system. In Afghanistan, the resistance is taking the form of radical Islam; in India, it is communist extremism -- but the assaulting force is capitalist everywhere."

Note how she connects radical Islam and the resistance against capitalism. Need I say more about this nonsense?

Madam, I have seen much better, much saner and much more committed Leftists than you are... and I have much more intelligent Muslim friends(who condemned radical Islam in one word).

Simply put, you do not make sense anymore..