An open letter to terrorists

Dear wielders of AK 47s and hurlers of grenades,
a few home truths about India. Please don't waste your years of training and stockpiles on trying to destabilize us. You will not succeed. We have past masters at the job already. Despite 16 blasts in the recent past, we still don't have a security system in place. That should tell you a lot about the people in charge. Where's the challenge in killing a bunch of people about whom nobody cares? Where's the thrill of penetrating a high security circle where none exists? A few 100 dead to us is small change. Remember we are a country of more than a billion.
Unless the toll reaches 10,000 or more, our terminally deaf politicians will not hear the screams of the dying. They are too busy practising the art of power grabbing. Our leaders (unlike yours) are not inspirational, merely perspirational. Our Prime Minister addresses the nation with the body language of a lame duck. The leader of the Congress reads out a prepared text, hardly glancing at the camera, for fear that she would make eye contact with a shocked and aggreived nation. The leaders of the opposition are engaging in the fine art of one upmanship. Chief Minister of the state does not even think he has to resign. After all, these things happen, it is karma. And the media thinks that Pakistan is responsible for everything, including the Latur earthquake and the Tsunami. To the uninitiated, this is just another fine day in the democracy of India.
Bharat Mata ki Jai.

Slouching Tiger, Crying Reader

A sarcastic Rohinton Mistry
Shashi Tharoor with a liberal sprinkling of F words
Wannabe Rushdie
Sorry, but that sums up the "White Tiger" in my opinion.
As for originality, remember the old tamil joke oru G naal T?

My booker of bookers

haven't tamed the "White Tiger" yet. But have ploughed through the entire booker list in a fit of madness. Some gems, lots of duds.
My top picks thus far
Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
Blind Assasin - Margaret Atwood
Possession - AS Byatt
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Line of Beauty - Allan Hollinghurst
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle

The really terrible ones (avoid like the plague)
The Bone People
Famished Road
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The siege of Krishnapur
For the entire list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction
P.S. I read only the winners, heard there are some folks who read nominees et al.

grey's back

hi
grey matters is back in action and promises to be more uptodate this time.