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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#891

Originally posted by: Wisian

Abhi, on my list, I have attached top priority to polishing my short-story (it has been the list for years now), and the food blog(which has only been on the list for a few months, but I have been such a procrastinator, it is shameful)... 😆 😆

@your food blog: oh you must do something about it! Have you zeroed in on any food photography classes yet?

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#892

Originally posted by: Wisian

Yeh bhi coax karney ke baad... 😆
Should this even count? 😆😆😆

Naaah...then it doesn't count. 😆😆 It seems odd...it is only the two of us chattering away here. 🤔 Everyone else is AWOL.

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#893

Originally posted by: Wisian
BTW - it is official now - I hate newshour so much, I am never going to watch it.
I can't bear the voice of that jingoist, rabble-rouser (to say nothing of his narcissism) A. Goswami. 🤢 🤢 🤢

Shaant...Wisu...shaant! What has the mild-mannered Goswami😆 done NOW to elicit such a response from you?

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#894

Originally posted by: Wisian
Some years ago, I watched a documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympic games, during which Israeli athletes were held hostage by Palestinian militants who demanded that Israel free Palestinian captives for the safe release of the athletes. Israel refused to surrender to that demand. The hostage situation ended in tragedy; Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel asserted that Israel will never negotiate with terrorists. Her reasoning was that if they did - if they give into the demands made by the terrorists to secure the release of their athletes, no Israeli citizen will ever be safe again.
It may seem like a very cold stance, but it is pragmatic. If the terrorists were to know that state policy will not allow for any negotiations with them, they'll see no point in going through the trouble of staging the hijacks...
When are we bringing in such a policy in India?

It is a very cold and seemingly heartless stance but it seems like the correct thing to do if you really want to take a hard stand against terrorism and not negotiating with terrorists because you don't give them any leverage. Don't our army personnel/police officers give up their lives when they are fighting these threats...so why can't the citizens think differently...because once you release a captured terrorist, he is only going to cause more mayhem and murder...which is what happened in Mullah Omar's case.

I was watching a discussion on NDTV a couple of weeks back where Farooq Abdullah was talking about how he was against the release of Mullah Omar and other terrorists during the Kandahar hijack and how the Vajpayee Govt erred at that time by allowing the aircraft to leave the Indian soil and not doing everything they could to stop it in Amritser...and he bellowed about giving sacrifices like these and not give in to the terrorists' demands in situations like these. He also spoke against the release of terrorists when Rubaiyya Saeed was kidnapped and said that he wouldn't have done so if his daughter was taken. It seems easy to say in retrospect but it does make sense if you really want to give a message to these terror organizations.

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#895

Originally posted by: Kwerky

It is a nice movie with a great supporting cast...has a couple of good songs too. I found the female lead very cute.😆

Does this site work in your region*fingers crossed*😆 - http://www.einthusan.com/index.php?lang=hindi

If it does, do watch "Piku", if you haven't already. It is a decent movie too.

Btw, have you seen "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy"? As a fan of the Doordarshan series, I think this movie doesn't match up to that series...😆...though it garnered a lot of positive reviews.

@Site: It appears to work. 😆 Will surely check out Piku over the weekend.

@Detective Byomkesh Bakshy: Kwerky, we have a telepathic connection...

Yesterday, after I finished downloading DLKH, I also downloaded DBB, and had intended to watch it before going off to bed. [Was in a film-watching mood yesterday.]

DBB didn't really hold my attention though. Will try watching it again today, but I might just fall asleep today too... 😳😳

Have you watched the BBC series "Sherlock" with Benedict Cumberbatch? I'm not quite smitten by BC's good looks, but I quite like that show. 😳

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#896

Originally posted by: Kwerky

It is a nice movie with a great supporting cast...has a couple of good songs too. I found the female lead very cute.😆

Yeah - the movie is really cute. So quintessentially depicts the 90's... 😆

The movie was about something rather shameful - but the dialogues, the situational humour, and the excessive melodrama (so typical, but so funny) certainly made it entertaining.

Our home was in a baniya-neighbourhood - the neighbours were all extremely affluent, but had no class or education to speak of. One of them married-off their son to a relatively well-educated, but fat (and dark-complexioned) girl... That girl was mocked so much by everyone in the neighbourhood... even the children of the neighbourhoood would call her names ("kaali-kaluti baingan-looti...", "bhains", "tuntun", etc...)

It was appalling, and I don't think it ever really stopped. 🤢

Looking at the female lead in DLKH, I was reminded of that lady from my neighbourhood. My mum made me be extra-respectful to her; but I don't think that that was compensation enough...

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#897

Originally posted by: Kwerky

@your food blog: oh you must do something about it! Have you zeroed in on any food photography classes yet?

LOL... nahin... I should get an award for procrastinating. 😳 😳

IF mein I found a food and recipes forum... Some people post pictures of food that they have cooked. I'm thinking, I should just start with unprofessional pictures, only so that I can at least start with the idea... 🤔

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#898

Originally posted by: Kwerky

Naaah...then it doesn't count. 😆😆 It seems odd...it is only the two of us chattering away here. 🤔 Everyone else is AWOL.

@Only the two of us chattering away here: I'm not complaining... 😆

You know, how it was last year? We had a similar thread, and we needed to fill it up, because I was determined not to go to the BB forum until the CC thread was finished. So, every morning, I'd wake up and spam that thread. Every evening, I'd see that GG has done her bit too...

And we were not even talking to each other. At one point, I decided to make a list of my favourite words, and then I would make one post after another, each with just one word that caught my fancy. It had gotten so bad that IF was giving me spam warnings. 😆 😆 😆

GG had similarly posted pictures, and random messages... That was the fate of

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This year, at least we are having a conversation. Hopefully, by the time BB starts, we will be done with this thread. 😆😆

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#899

Originally posted by: Kwerky

Shaant...Wisu...shaant! What has the mild-mannered Goswami😆 done NOW to elicit such a response from you?

The guy is so oblivious... 🤢🤢

He actually shot down someone opposing the death penalty by saying: "your opinion does not count!".

Wisu (enraged): You pathetic attention-seeking megalomaniac!

YOU SHOULD NOT be peddling YOUR opinions around in a debate that you are moderating. It is YOUR opinion that should not count...

[Unfortunately, the mild-mannered A. Goswami couldn't possibly hear me yelling at him from my living room...]

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#900

Originally posted by: Kwerky

It is a very cold and seemingly heartless stance but it seems like the correct thing to do if you really want to take a hard stand against terrorism and not negotiating with terrorists because you don't give them any leverage. Don't our army personnel/police officers give up their lives when they are fighting these threats...so why can't the citizens think differently...because once you release a captured terrorist, he is only going to cause more mayhem and murder...which is what happened in Mullah Omar's case.

I was watching a discussion on NDTV a couple of weeks back where Farooq Abdullah was talking about how he was against the release of Mullah Omar and other terrorists during the Kandahar hijack and how the Vajpayee Govt erred at that time by allowing the aircraft to leave the Indian soil and not doing everything they could to stop it in Amritser...and he bellowed about giving sacrifices like these and not give in to the terrorists' demands in situations like these. He also spoke against the release of terrorists when Rubaiyya Saeed was kidnapped and said that he wouldn't have done so if his daughter was taken. It seems easy to say in retrospect but it does make sense if you really want to give a message to these terror organizations.

Have you heard Golda Meir? When she delivered her speech saying that the state of Israel will not negotiate with terrorists, it almost sounded like a man was talking. There was nothing gentle or soft - but it was extremely courageous and obviously correct.

Our govt, on the other hand, succumbed to the pressure put on them by the relatives of the people in the hijacked plane, and their petty political compulsions. There was a very fat man (a surgeon, I remember) who was speaking on news channels on behalf of the families of the people in the hijacked IC-814, and he was constantly referring to the Rubaiyya Saeed case. Rubaiyya Saeed was a useful precedent, and now so is IC-814.

You know, when random right-wingers on news websites post responses to messages opposing the death penalty saying: "what if one of your family members had perished in the terrorist strike?", it makes me think...

While I don't even want to imagine how I will cope with the grief of losing someone in a terrorist attack, I can say for sure that if I were to be killed in such an attack, I would not want the terrorist to be executed. If there is any life left in me after the attack, and they ask me for my opinion on my deathbed, I am quite certain, I will not want the person responsible to be killed in return.

Should he be made aware of the senselessness of his actions? Yes, of course.

Should he be incarcerated? Yes.

Should he be rehabilitated? Yes.

It can't be just be the leftist liberal in me, who'd be willing to give up my life without a virulent urge to seek revenge. I would have expected that the nationalists would rather be more willing to sacrifice themselves, nahin? 😛

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