Guwahati blast – A sad start to the New Year

Well so much for wishing a terror free 2009. The New year began with a bang for the anti-India forces.  Although not surprising it just pains me that our nation has lost its peace.  Although these were small intensity blasts they never the less caused loss of 5 lives (thats what reported at the time of writing this).

On another note, I really hope that the real estate prices in Mumbai comes down to earth from the astronomical heights they are in right now. The build lobby will try to hold on to the high prices as much as they can however it would be unrealistic to keep on playing this game to see who blinks first, the builders or the buyers. However 30 to 40% cuts in the variable pays of mostly IT crowd is definately going to put a damper on the buying capability of the IT fueled middle classes.

On the defence side I just read about the anti- material rifle developed by DRDO called “Vidhwansak“. A development which is very significant in strengthening the armed forces but receives little press since its not as $exy as a fighter aircraft.

India mulling offer of 120,000 troops for Afghanistan

Read this one on ORBAT and militaryphotos.net recently. I think if it is true then the Manmohan Singh govenment will have really shown some ball$ in dealing with the terrorist and their paki patrons. This would definately put India in the big leagues. Another advantage of this in my opinion would be that India, like US will fight its wars away from its homeland.

This would also draw out the jehadi infrastructure towards A’STAN rather than Kashmir (the one where people can elect their reprensentatives) and since A’STAN is a theater already it would let our boys have at the terrorists.  However I think this offer will be for Obama and it will decide how he wants to go about dealing with the Paki-Taliban mess.

A great discussion with many talking points is here