Cogent Thoughts

Everyone is praising Gulzar for his beautiful composition 'Jai Ho', the song which has suddenly become kinda national anthem for all--more so ever since we got an Oscar for it. People of all age groups seem to be smitten by this song, they are using it as their ringtone/caller tune, politicians are using it as a slogan (you know i even heard (may be read) somewhere that someone from Congress is trying to approach Gulzar. what for? For penning down slogans/songs for their election campaign. I don't know if it is true, but if it is then ...let's not even go there). But I was just wondering, is 'Jai Ho' one of the best that Gulzar ever wrote. I don't think so. No, not that I didn't like the song, I really liked it. But this is not the best that he has ever written. No, I have nothing against Gulzar (if that is what you could get from my statement); he is a legend who have had always been my all time favorite lyricist. He has given us a whole bunch of beauti...

Hold on guys and gals, I am not claiming that. Someone else feels so. No he is not a pakistani, atleast his name doesn't suggest so. And he is not even a Muslim. He is someone called Steven Meurrens,a guy who did his BA in Political science and Chinese language from University of Toronto. I got my hands on one of his papers, well not exactly hands I was just browsing the net when I got one of his papers. It says "Kasmir is legitimately a part of Kashmir". (You can read his paper here http://www.scribd.com/doc/6497429/Pakistan-Has-the-Legitimate-Claim-to-Kashmir) Now ever since my childhood, or should say every Indian ever since his birth, must have been hearing about Pakistan's 'true/false' claim about their possession on Kashmir. They claim that Kashmir was a part of their territory and we, the Indians took it away from them. How, when, India did that, they neither have any proofs nor do they have any valid reason for the claim, but they insist that “Kashmir ...