personal protection?

I dont know what to say or feel...or maybe i know...as of now am feeling angry!Angry at what happened and could have been so easily avoided, and am talking about the Gurgaon school shootout.
No one seems to be thinking about the slain 14 year old abhishek tyagi, the focus is only on aakash and understandibly so. I am yet to digest the fact that the property dealer father actually forgot or left his revolver on the TV set at home, that the kid picked it up, hid it in his socks and later in the school loo to finally take it out and shoot a classmate!
I am not questioning the school's role here, for heavens sake its asking too much from the school to not having noticed a gun hid in the bathroom...dont we remember our school days when we hid all our comics there?
My question is only to the parents...they did not notice the entire day that the revolver kept on the telly was missing?
Also i do not want to say the cliched things of blame it on television, movies, etc....my point is simple, if a 14 year old kid understands that a gun at home...can be used, so easily, its simply because he must have at some point of time heard his dad talk about it frivoulously...literally drawing room conversation...after all it was lying right there.
This time round the father will have no time or chance to think about his folly and will have to live with his mistake and deflated ego all his life...a gun for what?personal protection? Excuse me...The kid at age 14 is booked under Section 320 and he has no idea what it means.
Surrender the gun...coz if its lying at home....someone might just use it.

HATS OFF

Am yet to know of someone more dependable and responsible than the Delhi Metro. Amazing.When tremors shook the city last week at 4.42 am, what was Metro doing immediately after?It ran trains on the three lines minus the dilli janta just to make sure everything was fine, that the tremors had no effect on the metro lines!!!!
And then I read today of the mock drills they had yesterday just to check how efficient the staff is in case of an emergency.Mind it the entire drill took 15 min to evacuate the station, train, etc, which included a disabled person wheel chaired in time. Hats off Metro!

ALVIDA

Its time to say bye!
Now that i have your attention, no am going nowhere. Its time to say bye to the old and say a big HI to the new, and am talking about the new Radio Mirchi Jingle.
For most the first reaction would offcourse be "So?What's the big deal?"Well, a big deal for me for sure. Takes me back five years, when we a bunch of unknown and little known people came together from all parts of delhi thru rigourous levels of auditions and interviews to finally be the core MIRCHI team. I remember the day so clearly, when at our bahadurshah zafar marg office, we all met in the conference room.Introductions followed by initiation, training and offcourse the Pizzas from Dominoz and we were all loving it.
In the days to come, we "heard" the station Radio Mirchi for the very fist time. I remember recording mock shows and listening/anaylysing it while driving. And everytime the Mirchi jingle would play, i had goose bumps.Mirchi is afterall,my baby.everytime it played, everyone in the car knew they had to shut up and listen...it was an anthemn!
The anthemn played on every hour thru the last 4 and a half years at the top of the hour, so much so that listeners would actually see the time to check if it was one o clock or whatever!That was the precision of the Vicky Station Jingle, as we called it.
Like all things in life, this too shall change from the 5th of Dec07.Its been a long innings....29th April 02 to 5th Dec07.Its time to say Alivida, time to bade goodbye to vicky and say HI to the new age musicians Vishal and Shekhar's compostion.A new voice, a new feel, brighter, happier tune fitting just perfectly with the Christmas and New Year feel.
Heard it the other day and if i know your taste...you shall love it too...and trust me in a week or two you shall be humming along.