The Nuclear Holocaust

The end of the WW II saw a rise of a new found power, a Nuclear Bomb. The notorious bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, namely "Little Boy" & "Fat Man" on Aug. 6th and 9th , 1945 started it all. The death and the destruction caused was not even expected by the one's who delivered the bombs. The Nuclear power saw the bow of the ever defying Japanese who had earlier withstood 6 months of intensive bombing. The impact of the nuclear radiations didn't die out then, aftermath could be seen for the generations.

The bombings did help in preventing the war from further extension, but later what followed wasn't predicted by anyone. The end of the World War II and the defeat of the Axis Powers. However, it started a new era of arms race amongst the countries thriving to be the super powers.

A mass scale R&D followed the post war era, numerous countries trying to get their hands on the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, none aware that what consequences await them if the fury of these weapons is unleashed. The major competition raked between the United States Of America and the former U.S.S.R, with both accumulating mass stocks of Nuclear Weapons and Biological weapons.

Today, the nuclear weapons are not confined to just few countries but a number of countries have acquired the technology to make such destructive weapons which can bring forth the total extinction of the very planet. The nuclear technology saw the invention of thermonuclear devices to which were highly destructive.

Over the years, the number of weapons that countries have developed and accumulated results in a potential threat of a nuclear destruction at the slightest provocation. In fact, the possession of such weapons by the third world nations can also result in the theft of technology by the various terrorist organizations active and awaiting for a chance to strike a mighty blow to the world peace.

The result of this haste to achieve nuclear weapon possession has resulted in a situation, when the whole world awaits this nuclear time bomb to explode and destroy the very existence of the mankind. The slightest aggression can provoke a devastation on a mass scale.

The saddest part of this whole epic is, the existence of nuclear power is the cause for the mock peace that exists between the nations.

Let's not all be fools to keep ourselves in the shelter of a shadow which can wipe out everything that exists. There is so much to the world then just war and hatred, let's give something for the harmony of our existence.

The silence that follows a war is more haunting than peace that precedes a war.

Kargil and the forgettable heroes.

It's been 9 years now since the Kargil War, which started in may 1999. Almost near to a decade and the nation has long forgotten the heroes, who fought courageously against the infiltrators. The brave soldiers withstood every odd they faced, every challenge that enemy threw at them. A number of bright and young officer's laid down there life fighting heroically for the motherland.

However, the question that still haunts the families of the martyrs of the Kargil conflict. Was it really worth it? The loss of so many youngster's who solely fought for the pride of the nation, the parents who swallowed all the pain of their loss. The proud father who spoke if he had one more son he would have sacrificed him for the country too.

But do they really deserve what they got in the end, all the big speeches of the Politicians, a memorial who nobody cares to clean, a father's struggle to get the meagre compensation offered by the Govt. The biggest shame was the coffin scam that surfaced,would fill any normal person with a sense of revulsion. The Bofors gun scam another blow to the already degraded image of the Indian politicians.

Let's not make anymore mockery of the country these heroes fought for, let us give them a reason to be content that they died protecting those who care.

The only memory of the heroes of the Kargil War remains in the heart of those, who truely believe in what they laid there lives for...........

May your souls rest in peace.

(Wars don't solve anything, they just bring death and destruction)

All in the days work.

It's funny how day to day life springs surprises, I don't intend to tell any kind of a story though but the incidents are the few common ones that are part of every normal person's life. However, at any point in time if you feel these don't connect with your life, very well to make yourself feel better you can call me abject.

A usual day begins with a bright sunny morning, a man who doesn't want to leave his bed so early and a wife who is nagging him to get up and get his sorry a** or lemme put it generously as rear or backside to the office.

Bachelor's we will talk about you someday else so cheer up you are not at the recieving end. ;)

The sullen man struggling his way to get his pants and then finally ...... the nirvana. I mean the breakfast, all done well in time to kiss sullenly, the waving wife which almost symbolises you better leave and the man's emotion of lemme sleep. The struggle to get into a local bus or train comes as a dowry, any mode you prefer. They all bring the same amount of pain afterall, none can save you from telling the true stench of the human body odour. Those of you who own a car and enjoy the luxuries of it, buckle up petrol's price is rising soon you will know what deodrant lasts all day long.

Reaching office after all the workout he recieved during his journey is refreshingly bright, for now he knows he will get to see some prized chicks he have his eyes on, the bosses secretary is always a handsdown winner, offcourse untill unless he work's for a gay or a nerd.

The afternoon comes and lunch reminds him of the ordeals of the cooking sessions that his wife takes making him feel as small and insignificant as a guniea pig. The guniea pig who has been trained to experiment every pathetic dish that can be possibly ruined beyond recognization.

The office work offcourse, who cares till you have somebody threatning you with life and the dire consequences such as getting fired.

Till that you have every right to doze off and relax yourself from the ordeals you faced right from getting up early morning, to your joyous ride to office.

The evening is spent counting hours, waiting patiently when to get over with this ordeal just to end up in another one. The idea of going to a bar never crosses his mind untilunless some devil of his friends come and force him,for he fears and knows what awaits him back home.

The moment he enters the home he knows he is just a knight in a castle ruled by the ruthless princess and all his thoughts of getting laid with the chick in the office disappear, he knows the wrath would be enough to wipe his existence from this world.

I have always seen the most notorious of the guys becoming a wagging puppies when it comes to entering their house.

But all this mysery and the sulleness comes to end when he watches a happy son, and his smiling wife. Although this sudden priceless transformation of wife from devil to fragile comes with a small cost of few hundred bucks worth of shopping.

But for every thing else in life they give mastercards eh!

The Beauty of Nature

Once it was said the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. True it is, but i guess this truth is so enchanting that we have turned a blind eye to the path of destruction we have embraced. Now, quite a few would say how are these interrelated, I say open your eyes and you will know what i mean.

The beauty of nature that was once the solace for so many species of the flora and fauna that have become extinct now, the clear blue skies that once were the roof like the heavens itself are filled with dust and toxic fumes now, the waters so pure as the very tears of god are full of waste we dump, rivers full of dead fishes suffocating to the deeds we have done. The perfect harmony that once existed in the nature has been disrupted so greedily by the wretches that we humans are, The hunger to build more and earn more has resulted in consumption so rapid that even we are afraid of the consequences, for the signs for our deeds have already begin to show.

I know the list am gonna show below won't have much of an effect on our heartless souls. But the numbers might raise a few from their deep sleep of ignorance. From the royal beast of bengal that once ruled the jungles with pride to the gigantic mammals of the oceans who sing to the waves we are killing them all.

I am no social worker and this list comes from a source to i didn't do a research but i took it for a purpose, so that few who care can read it and know what all we have lost. The planet that once had so much of life with diversities in the beauty of each of them has suffered a big blow over the past several hundred years, lets bring no more pain to it and let it breathe free of our atrocities. We can do all this by caring for this is our home, our planet, our world.

Those who still see the beauty in all this destruction, all i can say is you reap what you sow. Someday we all will pay when nature takes it's revenge.
The numerous species that once existed here on this planet have gone extinct.




Mammals

Eurasian Aurochs, Bos primigenius primigenius (Unknown date, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, south Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea)
Indian Aurochs, Bos primigenius namadicus (Unknown date, Indian subcontinent)
Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (around 1500 BC, Wrangel Island)
Syrian elephant, Elephas maximus asurus (100 BC, Middle East)
Chinese elephant, Elephas maximus rubridens (15th century BC, East China)
Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis (Bangladesh, India, survives maybe in Myanmar)
Hokkaidō Wolf, Canis lupus hattai (1889, North Japan)
Honshū Wolf, Canis lupus hodophilax (1905, South Japan)
Schomburgk's Deer, Cervus schomburgki (1938, Southeast Asia)
Bali Tiger, Panthera tigris balica (1937, Bali island, Indonesia)
Caspian Tiger, Panthera tigris virgata (1980s, European Russia, Transcaucasia, south Ukraine (possible), Kurdistan, northern Iran, Afghanistan, Russian and Chinese Turkistan, western Mongolia, south Siberia)
Java Tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica (1980s, Java island, Indonesia)
Panay Giant Fruit Bat, Acerodon lucifer (Philippines)
Negros Naked-backed Fruit Bat, Dobsonia chapmani (Philippines)
Sturdee's Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus sturdeei (Japan)
Syrian Wild Ass, Equus hemionus hemippus (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria)
Arabian Gazelle, Gazella arabica (possible Saudi Arabia)
Queen of Sheba's Gazelle, Gazella bilkis (Yemen)
Steller's Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis gigas (1768, Russian Federation, United States)
Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat, Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (Indonesia)
Flores Long-nosed Rat, Paulamys naso (Indonesia)
Dangs Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica dealbata (India)
Flores Cave Rat, Spelaeomys florensis (Indonesia)
Formosan Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa brachyura (1983, Taiwan)
Cebu Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons cebifrons (Philippines)
Japanese Sea Lion, Zalophus japonicus (Japan, South Korea, North Korea)
Chinese River Dolphin (Baiji), Lipotes vexillifer (2006, Yangtze River, China)
Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus, Phanourios minutis (Cyprus)

Birds
Arabian Ostrich, Struthio camelus syriacus (1942, Middle East),
Double-banded Argus, Argusianus bipunctatus (Indonesia, Malaysia)
Bonin Grosbeak, Chaunoproctus ferreorostris (Japan)
Ryūkyū Wood Pigeon, Columba jouyi (Japan)
Bonin Wood Pigeon, Columba versicolor (Japan)
Spectacled Cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus (Russian Federation)
Bonin Thrush, Zoothera terrestris (Japan)
Pink-headed Duck, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, but possibly surviving in Myanmar)
Cyprus Dipper, Cinclus cinclus olympicus 1950 (Cyprus)

Reptiles
Yunnan Box Turtle, Cuora yunnanensis (southern China (Yunnan Province) or Laos, 2 living specimens rediscovered in 2004 and 2005)

Amphibians
Hula Painted Frog, Discoglossus nigriventer (Lake Huleh, Israel)
Adenomus kandianus (Toad from Sri Lanka)
Nannophrys guentheri (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus adspersus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus dimbullae (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus eximius (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus extirpo (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus halyi (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus hypomelas (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus leucorhinus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus malcolmsmithi (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus nanus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus nasutus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus oxyrhynchus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus rugatus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus stellatus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus temporalis (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus travancoricus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus variabilis (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus zal (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Philautus zimmeri (Frog from Sri Lanka)
Yunnan Lake Newt, Cynops wolterstorffi (China)

Fish
Acanthobrama hulensis (Lake Huleh, Israel)
Cyprinus yilongensis (Freshwater fish from China)

Molluscs
Gastrocopta chichijimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Gastrocopta ogasawarana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Hirasea planulata (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Lamellidea monodonta (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Lamellidea nakadai (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Littoraria flammea (Sea snail from China)
Trochoidea picardi (Terrestrial snail from Israel)
Vitrinula chaunax (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Vitrinula chichijimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
Vitrinula hahajimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)

Extinctions in the wild

Przewalski's Horses

Mammals
Saudi Gazelle, Gazella saudiya (Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen)
Scimitar Oryx, Oryx dammah (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara)

Reptiles
Black Soft-shell Turtle, Aspideretes nigricans (Bangladesh)

Fish
Red-tailed Shark, Epalzeorhynchos bicolor (Thailand)

Local extinctions

Asiatic Lioness (Panthera leo persica), born Helsinki Zoo (Finland) in October 1994, arrived Bristol Zoo (England) in January 1996.

Asiatic lion - Panthera leo persica
Armenia - 300
Azerbaijan - 10th century
Israel/Palestine - 12th century
Pakistan - 1810
Turkey - late 19th century
Syria - 1891
Iraq - 1918
Saudi Arabia - 1923
Iran - 1942
Central India - 1860, last shot in 1873

Siberian tiger - Panthera tigris altaica
South Korea - 1922
Mongolia - 1930s or 1940s

Asiatic Cheetah - Acinonyx jubatus venaticus
India - 1930s, last three shot in 1947
Israel - 1930s

South China Tiger - Panthera tigris amoyensis
Hong Kong - 1940s

Terrors Grip.

India's war with terrorism has been waging for almost few decades now. But all the lives that we have lost in this neverending battle against the terrorism hasn't put a sense in the Indian Thinktank and the Desicion makers, right from the beginning the weak stance of the indian diplomats and the indifferent attitude of the administration is to be accused for the numerous losses that this great nation has suffered. The small group of miscreants encouraged by their success have now turned into big organizations harbouring and training misled youths from all over the world. From the beginning, be it CPI-ML, Peoples war, MCC,Ranvir Sena and Balbir militia in Bihar or Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Liberation Force and Khalistan Zindabad Force in Punjab, Naga National Council-Federal (NNC-F) and the National Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) Nagaland, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir. They all are same, Handfull miscreants now turned into a big threat. If Govt. still can't find a answer to who is behind them to grow and rise their heads, then the fate of the nation is in the hand of bunch of clowns, who believe in taking part in a Political melodrama then taking ownership and working for the countries betterment. The number of soldier's and civillians lost in the war against is huge, some 60,000 are reported dead although official figures might be more or the less but if this huge loss of human life can not open the eyes of the administration then we do elect truely blind and deaf.

The weak stance of the administration has led to a whole list of various outfits.

Here are the few major ones:

Organizations listed as terrorist groups by India
Northeastern India
National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)Naga National Council-Federal (NNCF)National Council of Nagaland-KhaplangUnited Liberation Front of AsomPeople's Liberation ArmyKanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL)Zomi Revolutionary Front

North India

Babbar KhalsaBhindranwala Tigers Force of KhalistanCommunist Party of India (Maoist)Dashmesh RegimentInternational Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)Kamagata Maru Dal of KhalistanKhalistan Armed ForceKhalistan Liberation ForceKhalistan Commando ForceKhalistan Liberation ArmyKhalistan Liberation FrontKhalistan Liberation OrganisationKhalistan National ArmyKhalistan Guerilla Force
Khalistan Security ForceKhalistan Zindabad ForceShaheed Khalsa Force

Kashmir

Lashkar-e-ToibaJaish-e-MohammedHizbul MujahideenHarkat-ul-MujahideenFarzandan-e-MilatUnited Jihad CouncilAl-Qaeda

Central India

People's war groupBalbir militiasNaxalsRanvir Sena.

Let's just hope that we as a nation will take a firm ground and no tolerance policy against such miscreants, to keep this list from growing at bay.

Jai Hind.

( It's easy to take a life, forgive one and that makes you great. )