I usually prefer avoiding controversial topics on my blog. But just because of the irony of system we have in our country I thought a post wouldn’t harm anyone.

Bharat Bandh, or for the convenience of foreign audience, India Shutdown (A literal translation) has been called by the VSP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and BJP on 03 July 2008. I know it won’t make sense to a lot of people in the world when it comes to the concept of bandh or shut down. In the era of web journalism when people can voice their voices on Internet media we are still talking about Bharat Bandh.

I know I am not an authority on this or any political issue but I think I can have an opinion and according to me it’s ironical that we stop or at least hinder work through out the country. Is that a right way to protest or for that matter even retaliate.

The bandh has been called after Jammu & Kashmir government revoked land allotment to Amarnath Shrine Board. The VHP also demanded scrapping of subsidy on Haj pilgrimage.

I leave it for my readers to comment on this issue.

According to the news coming in from various sources, there was a blast in thane, near Mumbai. The blast is said be of low intesity and hasn’t claimed any lives. However, 5 people were injured. The blast took place in Gadkari Stadium in Thane injuring five people including the watchman of the stadium.

More news is awaited on this.

The launch is official now! Youtube has been launched for India and now Indians have their own youtube. Here is a video, that talks about the launch and the excitement that Indians have because of the launch.

httpv://in.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVb1_TBWXQ

The move to launch youtube in India could be because India is a big and growing market of Internet users and anything from

After the controversial statement by US president Bush on India and China being the reasons for rise of food prices, which created quite a rage, White House Deputy Spokesman Scott Stanzel attributed the rise in Oil prices to the increased demand by countries like India and China.

I am not sure if these statements are an effort to curb the problem of identity crisis that Mr Bush and his official are suffering from. Probably they are too worried about the declining value of dollar and are frustrated and make such comments. The good thing for US government would be to look at factors internally which might be causing the dollar crisis.