Is terrorism a part of our life ?

Today some situations have forced me to write about the present condition we are going through. Our life has deeply been infested by the present political as well as economic condition. Every country is trying to boost up the world market status. In this bad phase terrorism has found a good chance to show its power and existence. Excelling all the situations terrorism has raised its arrogant head to prove that he is reining. Terrorist should not have its own race and religion. The recent bomb blast in Marriott Hotel has proved this. We are also counting the number of deaths we have discovered yet from this Mumbai attack.
Now the question comes what is Terrorism? I have taken help of many sources to define the term terrorism

As Lenin said, "The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize."To terrorize means to frighten, and usually for some end, not necessarily political. The truly effective terrorist is able to frighten the greatest number of people - and the living who have been terrorized are the true victims of terrorism. This is one of the reasons the terrorist hits at innocent targets - children, tourists, and the elderly. The helpless target is so much more of a victim, and most people can identify with being victimized in the same way. To the public a random bombing of a school bus full of children is far more threatening than the assassination of a ranking officer in the military? The bombing in Oklahoma City was even more terrifying because it destroyed a day care centre.

Terrorists don’t care the race or religion they belong to. They even harm its raring country also. Everyday they are doing their notorious feats and proclaim their responsibility in the blast, attack etc whatever they do. I have collected some information of the larger attacks we have experienced this year. Losing of life of 10 or 20 people a day is so trivial incident that it needs no explanation. I have left them

On May.13th.2008 in Jaipur of Rajastan (India)
A simultaneous bomb blast at eight different sites, including a crowded shopping site and a Hanuman temple, a self-styled Indian Mujahideen, (a collaboration of LeT & SIMI) has claimed responsibility.
Died: 63 Injured- 213

On July.7th.2008 in Kabul of Afganistan
A suicide-bomber drove an explosives-laden automobile into the front gates of the Indian Embassy
Died: 58 Injured- 150

On July.27th.2008 in Istanbul.of Turkey
Two bombs kill 17 people and wound at least 150
Died: 17 Injured- 150

On September.6th.2008 in Peshawar.of Afghanistan
Two bombs exploded in the city of Peshawar. The first occurred when suicide bomber in a pickup truck, detonated near a paramilitary checkpoint, killing 16. Two hours later, a suicide bomber struck a police post, killing 30 and injuring dozens
Died: 50 Injured- 80

On September. 17th.2008 in the city of Sana of Yemen
A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy and was ambushed by militants. The attackers, reportedly dressed as policemen, also exchanged rocket and gun fire. A group calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen claimed responsibility.
Died: 16 injured- 16


On September 20th.08 in Islamabad of Pakistan
The Marriott Hotel is attacked by a massive suicide car bomb, killing over 60 and injuring 250. The blast caused a natural gas leak fire, which destroyed the hotel further. Hours before the blast, President Asif Ali Zardari addressed a joint session of Parliament and promised to root out terrorism
Died: 60 Injured- 250


On Oct.10.2008 in Orakzai.of Pakistan
A suicide bomber drove his car into a meeting of 600 people which was being held in open ground and blew himself up. The meeting was a council of local leaders discussing to raise a militia to evict Taliban from the region.
Died – 113 Injured- 100+


On October.30.2008 in Guwahati of Assam(India)
A series of 13 blasts occurred in and around Guwahati.
Died: 84 Injured- 470


Nov.26.08 in Mumbai of Maharastra(India)
The Mumbai Attack : Chief Minister of Maharastra Mr Bilas Rao Deshmukh and Home Minister Mr Shivraj Patil resigned. Investigation continuing

Died: 160 Injured- 300+ (As per current report)

On this above information we can say that terrorism has become a part of our life. But the question is that "Is it desirable ??"

Do we all really want this situation ???
Should we not stand up against this deadlier custom ?( I should consider this as custom )
Who help and rare the terrorist?? Who sponsor them?? Who help them supplying weapons and secret information?? How they escape from the spot leaving almost no trace and clues?? How they get courage enough to declare that they have done the attack or blast? Which situation compels them to become terrorists rather than a responsible citizen?? Poverty?? Hunger?? Maniac?? or anything else ?? There is lots of question

The sponsored group, party, state or country should realize that terrorism can not be the ultimate solution of any human activity. Supporting terrorism is just inviting destruction.

“The lives of Sri Aurobindo” faced ban

The most debating book “The lives of Sri Aurobindo” got a red signal from Orissa Hight Court when someone submitted a petition against mentioning unauthenticated information about Sri Aurobindo and his life.

The book is said to contain objectionable remarks against The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The lives of Sri Aurobindo – is written by Peter Heehs, an American who is one of the founders of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives in Puduchery. The book was published in the US in May this year by Colombia Press and was to be re-printed by Penguin India in November.

Some of the writings as mentioned in the petition are “Aurobindo’s character, life, writings and thoughts did not hold integrity”, “He possesses a morally loose character”, “his claims to spiritual expression and realization is questionable and irrelevant” and that his spirituality emerges from a streak of inherited madness.”

The most shocking claims by the writer is that Aurobindo’s relationship with the Mother was romantic in nature”, the petitioner has said. She also has quoted the preface of the book: “A statement on the politician or poet that rubs the people wrong way will turn into a political or legal issue or possibility causes a riot”.

The petitioner has claimed that the book is aimed at tarnishing the images of Shreema and Aurobindo and it was like an “invasion on the religious sentiment of Indians”.

The publisher has also been ordered not to publish the book until it gets no-objectionable certificate from the court as well as Union Home Ministry.

Discovery of Troy

Ancient Greek text like The Illiad and the Odyssey are revealing new secrets about the ancient world, the most prominent being the discovery of a site that might be the city of Troy.

Thanks to evidence from a range of disciplines, experts are in the middle of a massive reappraisal of these foundational works of western literature.

Recent advances in archeology and linguistics offer the strongest support yet that the Trojan War did take place, with evidence coming from the large excavation at the likely site of Troy, as well as new analysis of cuneiform tablets from the dominant empire of the region.

In 1870, German businessman and self taught archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, landed on the western coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) with a copy of the Illiad in his hand.

On the plain before him an unimpressive mound of grass and stone and bushes swelled 100 feet into the air.Tradition had long identified this mound, called Hisarlik, as a possible site of the historic Troy.

Schliemann soon reported to the world that he and his diggers had found the charred remains of Troy just where Homer said it would be.

The news was a worldwide sensation, and Schliemann’s view that the Homeric epics were fairly accurate chronicles of late Bronze Age history, dominated scholarship for more than 50 years.

But in fact, Schliemann had not found Homer’s Troy. Hisarlik was occupied from 3000 BC until 500 AD, and subsequent archeologist excavation showed that the civilization Schliemann chipped from the mound actually ended more than 1000 years before the Trojan War could realistically have been fought.

But the latest digging at Troy is tripping the consensus again, perhaps this time for good. Schliemann and Blegen, it now appears, had only discovered the tip of iceberg.

The mound at Hisarlik thrusts up from the plain, but most of its ruins are concealed beneath the surface.

In a project that has now been underway for 20 years, the German archeologist Manfred Korfmann and hundreds of collaborators have discovered a large lower city that surrounded that citadel.

Using the tools such as computer modeling and imaging technology that allows them to ‘see’ into the earth before digging Korfmann and his colleagues determined that the city’s borders were 10 to 15 times larger than previously thought.

They also found that it supported a population of 5000 to 10000 – a big city of its time and place, with impressive defenses and an underground water system for surviving sieges.

Critically, the city bore signs of being pillaged and burned around 1200 BC, precisely the time when the Trojan War would have been fought. A new city of Illium was founded on the site in reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople and declined gradually during the Byzantine era.

Tutankhamen was really a Daddy

Two still-born babies found in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen are the “Boy king’s” twin daughters, anatomists have claimed.
A team from Liverpool University in Britain, led by Professor Robert Connolly, has based its conclusion on preliminary tests carried out on the mummified remains of the two fetuses in Egypt.

“The two fetuses in the tomb of Tutankhamen could be twins, despite their very different size and thus fit better as a single pregnancy for his young wife (Ankhesenamun).This increases the likelihood of them being his children.

“I studied one of the mummies, the larger one, back in 1979, determined the blood group data from this baby mummy and compared it with my 1939 blood grouping of Tutankhamen.

The results confirmed that this larger fetus could indeed be the daughter of Tutankhamen. Now we believe they are twins and they were both his children, “Connolly was quoted by the Times as saying.

The fetus have been stored at the Faculty of Medicine in Cairo University since the archeologists Howard Carter discovered them in the teenage kings tomb on the west bank of Luxor in 1922.

Egyptologists have long debated whether they were his children of if they were placed in the tomb with the symbolic purpose of allowing the famous Pharaoh to live on as newborns in the afterlife.

The answer to this hereditary puzzle is closer because the tow fetuses are to undergo CT scan and DNA testing to determine possible diseases and their relation to Tutankhamen. The smaller fetus is about five months in gestational age and the larger fetus is estimated to be between seven and nine months. The results of the remaining tests are due in December.

It is a very exciting finding which will not only paint a more detailed picture of this famous young king’s life and death, it will also tell us more about his lineage”, Connolly said.

According to Rosalie David, of the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences, Tutankhamen is such an important figure in Egyptology. He was a fascinating character whose tomb and indeed body has given us so much information about life in Ancient Egypt, and it seems that he will continue to do so for some time yet.