Muslim scholars at a meeting held at the Darul-Uloom Deoband in India said “Terror un-Islamic”. You can read more here. I wish they had done this 10 years back but hey, better late than never. This surely is a good sign.

Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. Politicians are just the same everywhere in the world. They are the scumbags that divide people along ethnic , religious , language, color or creed so that they can attain or stay in power. In this instance they separated a region called Kosovo on the basis of religion.

Indian languishing in Pak jail for 35 years to be freed

An Indian on death row for spying who has turned into a mental wreck after languishing in a Lahore prison for 35 years will be soon released by Pakistan, a minister said here on Monday. Kashmir Singh, son of Sansar Singh from Punjab, sentenced to death under the Official Secret Act 1923 by the court of Field General Court Martial in Lahore 35 years ago. He was discovered by Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney at Central Jail, Lahore after a nationwide search.

Whenever I read that a kid killed his/her parents, it really disturbs me. I can not understand what causes a kid to get upset so badly as to kill his/her parents. 

A 15 year old boy called Nicholas Browning from Cockeysville, Md is charged with killing his parents and two younger brothers. He apparently shot them as they slept, then returned a day later after spending time with friends to stage the discovery of their deaths.  I can not imagine any reason big enough to cause anyone to kill his/her parents and siblings. It is totally devastating.

In another display of utter barbarianism, the islamic terrorists  in Iraq strapped bombs to two  mentally ill women and sent them to two crowded markets. Then they detonated those two women using cell phone activated remote controls.  More than 68 people got killed and many more got injured in these two incidents.

Here is yet another example of Islamic clerics trying to stifle the freedom of expression which is a God given right to every human being. An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced  Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh, 23 who is a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. Read about it here and here. It is just so outrageous!!!

He is my childhood friend and he had a very high paying and much envied job in the ‘New products’ division in the Indian office of a Fortune 500 software company.  I am meeting Sudhir after a gap of more than five years. We are sitting at a restaurant. There are not too many customers in the  restaurant as it is late morning  and too early for lunch for most people.

The company that Sudhir worked for is a highly admired software firm and people treasure the opportunity to work there and once people get in there, they only leave the company when they retire. Here I am using the term people loosely  -  when I said people I actually meant ‘techies’ in the software field.  Anyway my friend Sudhir had joined that company when they recruited him in a campus interview about 15 years ago. He used to tell me that he was a very well respected employee and had the designation of ‘Principal Software Architect’ which is a highly coveted position within his company. He did not tell me that he quit his job when we spoke on the phone the previous day.