Breaking News: I didn't watch cricket.

I was almost lost to temptations of devil but I resisted and saved myself from limbo of worthless cricket discussions. Cricket remains opiate of masses.

Riddle me this.(Updated)

Why is it appropriate to call Pakistan Freddiestan ?

You people suck, really. Anyway the answer, not that anyone is interested is, Freddy Krueger was conceived as a result of his mother's rape by the insane inmates of Westin Hills hospital. Same is the case with Pakistan, except it was conceived as a result of violation of Mother India by the Islamic Hordes. 

From Department Of I Never Expected To See This

In Pune Grapes is cheaper than Daal.

Danger Of Being Earnest

1. No babus don't take bribes because public is masochist and likes to be screwed by the babus, they do because they can.

2. Being sincere may be endearing to Gen X. Hell that and Gandhi surname may even make you a PM material. But that is no substitute to having a brain. 

Koregaon Blasts

It's kind of  late to comment upon Koregaon blast which is old news as far as blogging cycle is concerned, but for what it's worth, here is what I think about it.

The attack appears to be hurriedly planned. There are many other locations in Pune where the damage inflicted would have been much higher (in fact we were in one such place when bakery was bombed). The reason terrorists selected bakery for attack could be either of following two.

One, their initial target was different (for example Osho Ashram, very near to bakery) but they had to change the target at the last moment due to some reason, most probably security.

Second reason however is more interesting, which is perpetrators were in hurry because they had some urgent strategic goal. The only strategic goal I can think of, is thwarting the proposed talks behind India and Pakistan. This is kind of intriguing as I have always considered talks to kabuki theater at best, however the fact that the powers that be in land of pure were desperate to thwart the talks suggests the impossibly viz. these talks might result in some result, to be precise, result not favorable to Pakistan.

And this bring to our final conclusion, which is it is possible Obama administration is working behind the scenes to force Pakistan to make concession to India.

Aphorism: Fear

If you are not afraid then you are in the dark.

Suggestion (Updated)

Does anyone have any ideas on what is the best way to order books online within India?

Well, as long as we are on this, any suggestions on sci-fi. So far I have read (most of )Asimov, (most of ) Heinlein, (a little of ) Clarke and H2G2.