I Hate Terrorists

I now hear and read and listen to another bombing - this time in Malegaon, Maharashtra. The confirmation so far is that 30 people have been killed and about 40 more people injured. This coming within two months of the serial bomb blasts in trains in Mumbai. What do these guys want? And what have innocent lives got to do with it?
Anyways, who am I asking these questions!!! If you are not a terrorist, you would be asking the same questions, looking for an answer. If you are not a terrorist, you would reason that mass killing and violence of innocent civilians is no way to get yourself heard, and legitamise your demands. If you are not a terrorist, you would ask yourself why does this happen all over the world, for different excuses- some call it Fanaticism, some Extremism, some Jihad, some Political violence, and some, simply Oil.
But what answer will you give me if you are a Terrorist, a Fanatic, a Jihadi, or a President. What excuse of freedom or oppression will you give me to murder people, most of whose farthest concern is what to name their newest born child, or which direction their dinner is going to come from. Not that I am advocating you to murder people with farther concerns than these, but whats the point!!! Your point is not going to come across. Of course people will take notice, and may be you will pat your back for crippling some governmental machinery. You say you are fighting for your people, but dont you see you are killing them!!!
And then, as a terrorist, you are going to tell me that every war has its casualities, and that you are not fighting an army, but the system. The faceless system of oppression. Of interference. Cliches. Words that have lost their meaning, in their repeated usage in your hatred. In your obsession for bloodshed. And you are ready to give your life for this. May be you are not. Because all that you want to, is to take another's life, who doesn't have the slightest hint of who you are, who doesn't have any choice of fighting you. If you dare, fight like a human being. Be a face saving hero. Not a farcical faceless coward.
It might be that I'm just putting out these thoughts right out of emotion. May be there is not Al-Queada type of group involved (though the modus oparandi of two blasts in succession seems disturbingly familiar). May be its one of the politically motivated blasts with some dirty nasty screwed up bastard politicians involved. But who ever it was that was involved, is a terrorist. And who ever you are, I hate you.

Nadal loses QuarterFinals in US Open

Nooooooooooooo..... I was not prepared for this! This was not how I wanted it to End!!! Endearing "Raffa" is ousted from the US Open. And I don't have the same interest in the Grand Slam anymore. Nadal lost to a relatively unknown, yet extremely talented player, Mikhail Youzhny, who strongly fore and back handed Nadal, a shock defeat. And after his racquet cap salute, Mikhail Youzhny thanked all the fans for supporting him, in fact, turning around their opinion through the match and rallying behind him. And thats the point that struck me - What is the nature of support? And Hero Worship? And what kind of support does the underdog garner ?First of all, I'm an underdog fan. One that is expected to lose a contest. There is all this talk of talent and skill, but I hate it when a contest doesn't become a contest at all. With all due respect, Roger Federer in Tennis and Australia in Cricket have made contests a mundane monotonous affairs, that the sports started to lose out due to their utter ruthlessness and killing professionalism. Federer had made winning matches with three sets his habit - you can get into record books for just getting to a tie-breaker with him. And his real threat was Raffael Nadal - may be not as much a threat as a pause in Roger's breath, especially on the fast hard courts. But you know, that would have been a contest. And well, I would then have cheered for Raffa. And I would have known that my cheers wouldn't be empty wishes, but genuine hopes of an underdog win. But now, thanks to the Russian, my cheers will have some restructuring to do.But then, all said and done, you know as well as I do that Nadal didn't play that way I wanted him to. Well, thats a silly thing to say, cos Nadal plays the way he does. And Youzhny did play well, but I just felt that you are as good a player as your opponent lets you be. And for a day today, Nadal let Youzhny get better of him.Yeah it does happen to Federer once in a blue-sun (rarer than a blue moon) when you would be lucky enough to witness him losing to an Andy Murray. But will I see it happen at this US-open and put a stop to this Rogernaut!!! Youzhny did it once, winning as an underdog. May be he will do it again. And AGAIN. May be my cheers will have some substance when I watch the final. Because for all you know, Federer is closing fast on the French Open (look at his progression at the French to know what I mean). And I will always dream of a underdog, who will havea solid chance to defeat the favorite. I just wish Youzhny or Roddick is my man this US Open.