IRAQ War & INDIA's Stand

Its already a week since Saddam was put to death. I still couldn't digest the video I have seen on the news.

A week ago, I got up early around 7:30am on Saturday morning because my son who is 6months old didn't want to sleep. Obviously he doesn't know that its Saturday and gotta to sleep till 10am. So I gotta get up to give him company so my wife can sleep for some more. I put the TV on and happen to watch the 8 am SUN TV news running at that time. I was really surprised to see that SADDAM Hussein was hanged before dawn in IRAQ.

Immediately question popped in my mind. Why are they doing it ? Whats the hurry ? Are they trying to avoid any big blows and doing it without giving any notice to the world ?!

There was lot of contradicting opinions floating around his death sentence. Lot of middle eastern countries opposed his death sentence wanted to give him second chance. Everybody deserves a second chance and especially an EX-President of a Country deserves it. There is really some pressure from US to get this done quickly before new year comes along. They want to close a chapter and open a new one in the coming new year. What it may be, that's really not acceptable by any person who been tracking the IRAQ war except some Americans.

I also saw that some of our high government officials opposed the judgement including TamilNadu's Chief Minister Kalaignar. If I can remember its words exactly, I like to quote it but I don't. But here is the essence, "Life is like a book and we get the second chance to correct wrongly printed pages and publish the revised copy. Similarly, everybody should be given second chance by letting them live and realize their past. If we encourage death sentence, its like tearing the pages and destroying the history." Its really a good analogy.

Anyways, finally getting to point. By showing our opposition, Are we really against IRAQ War ? That's means are we against USA IRAQ policies and oppose them. We signed up a Nuclear treaty with US to get nuclear support for our development and starting to have good relation with them. Does that in stake if we continue to show our opposition in IRAQ War ?!

If we are against Saddam's sentencing, does that means we are against IRAN which really wanted Saddam to go away. Does our relationship with IRAN going to be at stake, actually it was when we signed up Nuclear treaty with USA?

WHAT EXACTLY IS INDIA'S STAND IN IRAQ WAR ?!!?!? NOBODY KNOWS.

Then, why all this uncertain questions ?! Its all because we Indians showed our opposition against Saddam's death sentence and hanging in different ways like every other country. Its not because we like Saddam or against IRAQ WAR, its truly because we are Human. We think Humanly that's why we are praised by all as a true Democratic country with open culture and against Terrorism. Its our nature as Indians !!

India: Does Inventions and Self Sufficiency goes together ?

I was browsing the latest news(1/4/2006) while I was having my lunch. Its my daily habit to spend atleast 15mins reading to catch up some India news. I know that within 15mins I wouldn't be able to cover all of it but atleast the main new topics which makes me feel atleast a not far away from home.

The news topic which grabbed my attention today was our honorable President Dr.Kalam's visit to Science conference in Chidambaram. He gave medals/Awards for best young scientist which is really a very good thing. I thought, If we have good young and experienced scientist, why can we just create our own products and leverage them.

For example, China is a big source and back bone to US economy. Without China, US can't survive. Most the products from US comes from China. But China brought up new reforms in his economy, to avoid using foreign inventions and patents and encourage people to invent and use them. They have less tax for the products invented, patented and made by China then comparing to products patended by other countries. They have to pay huge tax for the foreign orginated products. This way, they pushing the big companies to invent new things on their own in China and make mass production for their own people. Once this comes to effect,other big companies outside of china will start buying Chinese invented products and use them..

Why can't india do that too ? We use Dell & HP machines created in India using Intel and Microsoft technology. Why can't we invent new processors and new OS and implement our own PC just as a sample scenorio. Similarly, it can happen for other products which the world is trying to get its hands around. If we do it first, everybody will try to get to our market and get our patent rights from us and sell it in the world.

Its Dr.Kalam's advised for all of us is to dream and invent a well developed superpower in 2020. Why can't this be a start ?!