An impacting day ... in terms of media cover

An impacting day, in terms of media cover. The Railway Budget, found to be visionary by some, and potentially likely to lack in effective implementation by others. The killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. Toyota's acceleration problem and related vehicle recall and fall of grace. The rhetoric in prelude to the proposed peace talks between India and Pakistan "India has the Maoists, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal tada tada tada" comparing domestic Indian Political issues with state promoted cross border terror from Pakistan. And then the scintillating ODI knock of 200 runs by Sachin Tendulkar. Well done Sachin, first saw you in 1987 at the Brabourne when you were a junior cricketer, barely higher than the stumps but thumped every possible delivery to cause a big score.

Sachin studied for a while at the Kirti M Doongursee college where his father the late Prof. Ramesh Tendulkar taught. I will be visiting the college on 26-Feb-10 and propose to reiterate this to the BMM students.

And then I read the following, very apt in the present context of the way things are; the globalisation of the ideology & justification of murder.

"Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, without precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different periods throughout history- social, national, political. Crises come and go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process. Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. We are quarrelling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognised to be evil, murder was recognised to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer represent, justifies it as a means of achieving a result that will be beneficial to man. That is we sacrifice the present for the future -and it does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is to produce a result that we say will be beneficial to man. Therefore, the implication is that a wrong means will produce a right end and you justify the wrong means through ideation.... We have a magnificent structure of ideas to justify evil and surely that is unprecedented. Evil is evil; it cannot bring about good. War is not a means to peace." ~Taken from 'The Book of Life', daily meditations with J. Krishnamurti.~

Can we have `Give Peace A Chance' replace `We are the world', as the effective mantra?