Its been a year that Bombay was attacked by terrorists and killed a 166 innocent people. Well, whats happening after that.

- India has got a new guest. Terrorist Kasab. Yeah, Government has spent 31 crores for his safety
- Pakistan is still playing blame game that India is not giving enough evidence to arrest Saeed, founder of a terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba
- US is giving more and more aid to Pakistan to fight terrorism
- India is expecting US to be headmaster and detain Pakistan
- Pakistan is expecting US to be headmaster and force India to give Kashmir to Pakistan
- US doesn’t care if Pakistan is sending terrorists to India as long as it kills the terrorists which are attacking the US.
- Headmaster as well as both the kids know that things are not moving anywhere.

So, after all the crap that has happened in last one year, troubled remained troubled, terrorists remained terrorists, victims remained victims, and every one’s shitty life just remained shitty life. Just to find out what Google thinks about India and Pakistan, I took couple of screenshots -

So, people who search Google think that India is the richest country in the world, in asia, a third world country, great, Afghanistan’s largest trading partner. They want to know what India is known for and which continent it is in.

And about Pakistan, they think that its failed state, dangerous, doomed, a problem and a mess and few think its better than India. Few want to know where it is located.

Well, as an Indian, I think Pakistan’s leaders are stupid, immature at the same time, Indian leaders are just stupid other than a few like Raj Thackeray. They are stupid as well as immature.

TL;DR - One year over after attacks. No progress, none punished. Pakistan leaders are stupid.

I guess, most of you guys might have seen the movie ‘300’ (based on novel by Frank Miller). If you haven’t, well, watch it. I wont tell that its a master piece but its certainly one of its kind. Extreme boredom on a fine day resulted in watching the movie for the second time and doing a small research on the story line.

Well, these are the important points …

• Its about Battle of Thermopylae
• Mostly shot before blue screen (read it as lots of graphics)
• A huge hit at the box office (what do you expect when 300x6 packs are on the screen fighting like …… uhmm … Vijaykanth or Balayya babu ?)
• Spartan King Leonidas is the Hero of the story
• Persian ‘God King’ Xerxes is the villian
• Fight is between 300 spartans + some guys joined in between And > 1million persian soldiers

But, there are few other things I learned from Wikipedia and Google ….

• Persian Army is about 2.6 millions in size
• Persian king is actually called as Xerxes, The Great
• 300 is not really 300 spartans, they are 300 spartans + 1000 Lacedaemonians +
  3000 other greek soldiers + 700 Thespians + 1000 Melians +
  400 Thebans + 1000 Phocians + few other Opuntian Locrians
• The number is around 6400 to 6700 which is NOT equal to 300 :P

Ah, well, after reading the complete article, I started to believe in the story. Before that .. unless each one of them are like Rajini in Shivaji or Chiru in Tagore or Keanu Reaves in Matrix Reloaded :P (each fight huge number at a time) they wouldn’t have had stopped the persian army for 3 days.

Okay, now going back to the title, while reading the article about Battle of Thermopylae, few interesting words flashed on the page … Battle, Saragarhi, and Sikhs. This is an interested story, which has roots from India. This is about a battle which is often compared to the Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Saragarhi. The battle happened on 12th of September 1897, when India was under British Rule.

The Battle was between 4th Battalion (then 36th Sikhs) of the Sikh Regiment and Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen. It is between … 21 Sikhs and 10000 Afghans. Sikh soldiers managed to stop Afghans till their death and by the time Afghans cleared resistance, reinforcements saving some critical points for British India. The Afghans later stated that they had lost about 180 killed and many more wounded during the engagement against the 21 Sikh soldiers, but some 600 bodies[7] are said to have been seen around the ruined post when the relief party arrived.

Comparing The Battle of Sargarhi and The Battle of Thermopylae, Wikipedia had some interesting numbers. The ratio Spartans fought with Persians was 1 spartan against 28 Persians. While, the ratio Sikhs fought Afghans was 1 Sikh against 285 Afghans. After reading that part of the page … all I could feel is … Wow, our sikhs are the best ! Hope some bollywood producer/director gets to know about this battle and make a movie that total world (or atleast India) will get to know about those brave soldiers. It was their fight to Glory.

I love rediff. I love it a lot. I’m aware that I’m contradicting myself. There are loads of posts where I’ve accepted the fact that I hate rediff. But, come on. Do you think life would be great with no stupid thing around you to make fun of ? or atleast do you think that life would rock in monochrome ? Rediff brings lots of colors of my day, every damn day. Well, I should tell that its not rediff, but its rediff comments which do that. If any of you guys have seen Southpark, and loved/hated the character Eric Cartman in it, yeah, trust me, You will love comments on rediff. About Cartman, You’ve to read this at Wikipedia. For the lazy folks, here are the tags for you from the content - fat, mean, immature, brat, aggressive, cunning, sociopathy, theorizing, sadistic. Each of these tags can be used to tag most (atleast 80-90%) of the comments at Rediff. Here are few examples of the comments.

• “Power of Bhudhism! Its time India give up following Rama and follow the reformist Budha!”

Guess the context of the above comment. Take a minute and try to come up with some thoughts about it. Try to go beyond your wildest imagination. Uhmm, Dalai lama, or Tibet issue or Chinese ? Ah, no. You are completely wrong. This is a comment on India Vs Srilanka Asia Cup Final match, where India has lost. This great guy came up with theory that in match between Buddha and Rama, Buddha won. Well, other that the above intelligent comment, the other comments include, Sachin is God. Dada is God, Dhoni is a dhobi, Uthapa Sux, Bring back Dravid, Sehwag cant become Sachin, and Karma. Yeah, you read it correct, karma. One guy thinks that Indian govt supports Srilankan govt to kill innocent people so, we lost Asia Cup final.

• “Rajanikanth has a deep and abiding respect for human life… unless it gets in his way. There is no such thing as global warming. Rajanikanth was cold, so he turned the sun up. Rajanikanth can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. “

Now, another comment. Guess the context of this great comment. Sivaji movie ? Tamil movie ? South Indian Movie ? South Indian Movie stars ? Hehe, Na. It was a comment on a post where Amitabh praised Smita Patil’s son for his performance in “Jaane tu .. ya jaane na”. Few other comments on this post include, “BJP Should have supported the deal”. No wonder why he was talking about Nuclear deal on this post. And another guy thinks that Rediff dint receive money from Aamir Khan, so they are praising Smita Patil’s son here. Ultimate Genius. I found these comments in last one hour. Now, expect the fun you can have when you read rediff comments regularly. But, do remember, over dosage of anything is not good for health. You might even lose your sense of humour because of the immature nature of the comments. So, whenever you are bored, or whenever you feel like you are dumb or stupid, you know where to go.

• Well, for the final touch, here is a great topic in Get Ahead of Rediff titled “I love my maid - should I leave my wife ?”

And for your information, this topic made to the front page of Rediff. Dont forget to read comments on it, especially this one to know the nature of guys posting comments there. After reading few ultra-stupid comments on rediff and few ultra-ultra non-sense articles like this, now I feel like doing something like Cartman. “Screw you rediff, I’m going home !”

As I’ve told already, I hate Oz. Now, after seeing the outcome of second test match, I can tell that I found a reason to hate it even more. Thinking from their perspective, they always had a problem with India. It became visible when they lost to India in the T20 World Cup. With that trophy, they wanted to complete their cabinet and name themselves ‘true’ world-champions. But, India has shattered their dream and sent them home without that trophy. After that, they have seen a whole country celebrating the victory their team and making their team damn rich and super heroes.

Now, from their perspective, one can easily tell that, if - Indians perform like Oz, they are anyway now treated as sample-Gods, they would have been treated like real-Gods. On the other hand, Oz, even with their fantabulous performance, only 59% of their Aussie population is interested in cricket. Infact, ‘Footy’ is ‘most’ watched sport in Australia and more Australians tend to participate in Swimming than Cricket. These reasons are enough for Australian Cricket Players to hate be jealous of ‘Indian’ Cricketers. The outcome of that jealousy is nothing but their desperate attempts to win the game.

Well, yeah. Australian cricket team + 3 Umpires, managed to convert a losing-game into a draw-game and later into a winning-game today. Hats off to Indian players for their patience. I became sick after just watching those replays in news. I’m sure that many Indians who watched match would have been even more pissed off. Indian team proved that they have very good patience at the end of the match by not hitting any of the umpires of Oz players.

Well, yeah, just another fact before ending this post. This post is not to support bad game of Indian team. This is just to make note of bad attitude of Australian team. Indians indeed played badly, but not as bad as to lose the match. For Umpires, Steve Bucknor Fucknor, this is the time for you to retire and Mark Benson, what the heck were you doing on a cricket ground ???

He is a British-educated lawyer He is the first “colored” lawyer admitted to the bar in South Africa He invented a new weapon for fighting - Ahimsa He is the Father of the Nation which boasts being biggest democracy The above hints might not be helpful for current generation to identify our Bapu. But, certainly there are couple of hints which might be of very helpful for them in identifying him.

The old guy who talks to Munna Bhai in Lage Raho Munna Bhai movie

This hint might be very helpful for the current generation kids to identify him. But, in India, politicians, often being under-educated than a sixth class student would be knowing a lot about Abu Bhai or Dawood Bhai, but not the “first” Bhai of “South Africa”. I’ve a very easy hint for them to identify the person who made India to appear on World Map as India.

Politician uncle, I’m talking about the smiling person on our currency notes

Now, I don’t think there would be any Indian who didn’t manage to recognize the hero of this post. I’m not a fan of him personally but I’m a very big fan of one of his weapons to fight against Injustice - Non-cooperation. Sorry, I don’t remember the exact dialogue, below is “form” of a dialogue taken from one movie

Do whatever you want. I will accept the punishment you give. And after it’s over, I will do the same what I’ve done for what you’ve punished me

In the movie, he states that he learned this technique from his wife, and the fact is I’ve seen same form of war-tactic in almost every girl/woman I’ve seen.

United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring Bapu’s birthday (2nd October) to be the “International Day of Non-Violence.” Bapu, being the person who flashes in any person’s mind when he listens to the word “peace” was nominated for the Nobel peace prize five times, in 1937, 1938, 1939,1947 and 1948, but wasn’t given the Nobel Prize. However, recently, Michael Sohlam, the Executive Director of Nobel Foundation in Sweden said that not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize was a great mistake done by the Nobel Foundation. May be, it was Bapu’s wish not to be awarded the prize given on the name of the inventor of “dynamite” and owner of “Bofors”

No doubts about it. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a.k.a Bapu a.k.a our Currency Guy is one of the Greatest Gifts given to India by God.