What is it about feeling a great sense of loss for someone's death-a person whom you have never met or spoken to in you entire life? I am talking about Michael Jackson. With his death I feel an entire genre of music has come to end. Why did I feel so sad for this man when I heared about his death? Inspite of having everything an average human hopes for, he had a very tragic life, with rape and child abuse cases filed against him, his attempts at a sex change, and the list goes on. Is that why? Yes he carved a niche for himself but I wonder if he was really happy! While watching the news coverage on MJ , I couldn't help but feel a sense of loss at a great mind's demise! I still "remember the time" listening to his songs over and over again and at being awestruck at his spectacular dance moves. Isn't it strange that life simply does not wait for anyone and just goes on and on. People come and people go and all that remains is a memory!

May his soul rest in peace.

"Khalistan zindabad, Khalistan Zindabad" , this was the slogan that was being shouted out by the protestors today in San Francisco right outside the gate of the Indian Consulate. I was sitting inside with my family, for some important job to be done for my son's passport, when all of a sudden I heared a bunch of men shouting. At first, I thought maybe it was the television but then the people inside the consulate started showing some signs of restlessness. Since I was seated in one of the rooms inside, I decided to find out what the pandemonium was all about.

A groups of sardarjis, men of all ages and a few woman, had these placards in their hands which read " India does not respect minorities", " Democracy by the Brahmin, of the Brahmin, for the Brahmin and the COW"! My first thought was what the hell does Brahminism have to do with this at all?? The Congress does not have anything to do with Brahmins or the likes, then why were these people holding placards of the sort? Can someone please tell me? It was the congress govt in the 1980s which was responsible for the entire genocide. Then why blame Brahmins? I am confused....

They were handing out information about the 1984 Sikh genocide and my father in law, I wonder what he was thinking, happened to take one of those booklets much to the chagrin of my mother in law! The booklet which I happened to read on the way home had a very one sided view of the entire Sikh genocide . Journalism has to be neutral for crying out loud! Yes, I can understand you want to state your cause, but get the whole truth out please! Leave it to the readers to decide for themselves and don't cloud their judgement...

When we were stepping out of the consulate, I had some shivers down my spine thinking that if the mob wanted they could have decided to hurt us all , because we were so obviously INDIANS! But then again, aren't the sikhs too? Hmmm.....The cops had been placed at strategic places to avoid any kind of trouble for the public...Thank heavens for them or I think I would have decided to stay inside the consulate premises the whole night! Talk about exaggeration!

For all those who want more information about the Khalistan Movement you can go copy paste the following link in your browser...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement