Myanmar, China..............who's next on nature fury list........

Ever wondered, whats common between two very recent disasters separated by just a month. They both belong to ASIA and even share boundary with each other. The disasters might be look different, one being pouring cloud and the other shaken earth, but the commonalities far exceed this conspicuous difference.
Asia - being the continent of two most populated, polluted, home of many fastest growing economies etc etc. Are these to be blamed for nature looking for its own amends. When Bush was quoted as saying that India and China were responsible for the inflation all over the world, we were taken aback. But now if someone stand up and say that these two countries are responsible for nature's fury all over the world, I will not be surprised. The continent is home for over 50% of the world's population, growing at magnanimous 2.7% pa, and you just cannot blame the god for correcting the imbalance between growth rate of population and growth rate of agriculture. Just think for a while, if these corrections do not take place, then will earth be able to sustain that burden for another 100 years. These are ways to create balance between growing population and reducing deaths.
We are depleting the natural resources at blistering pace, in the name of growing and developing nations. But we should remember that by just blatantly arguing with the rest of the world that developed countries should pay the price of our growth, will not serve the purpose. If another cyclone hits our coasts then we ill not be able to handle the misery like china and US. This is the irony with climate change. It does not hit the countries which can negotiate its effects.

Kill Gill

Few days back I was hooked to the interview of Mr KPS Gill on CNN-IBN. I was shocked to see the authority with which he defended blunt plea of resignation by chief-editor of the channel - Rajdeep Sardesai even after a disastrous 14 years reign over Indian Hockey which brought it to shambles. Barely 2 days later I was overjoyed to see a footnote on the very same channel which read "Gill Sacked". The impossible was made possible though better late than never. It goes on to prove of how strong are these beaurocratic institutions which run the Indian Sports committees.
These institutions did bring bad name to not even the sport but to the country as a whole. This desicion has was made on the pretext of the threat by Federation of International Hockey to take back the offer from IHF to host the world cup in 2010. This would surely have been a blow to IOC dreams of hosting the Olympics in 2010.
The icing on the cake has been the desicion to give the control for the time being to the committee which will be run by Olympians, which will be the right step in direction of reviving Indian Hockey. IOC also showed interest in building infrastructure necessary for upliftment of hockey which includes the laying of astro turfs which have been long delayed since past decades. I wonder without this basic infrastructure how Mr KPS Gill even thought of reviving the sport. Surely the promises were false since past 14 years. Phew, need i say that i am not proud being an Indian.