what!!!

State mourning in AP in honour of Saudi ruler from hindu

i find this kind of strange...

"During the state mourning, the national flag will be flown at half mast and there will be no official entertainment, official sources said here."

to have the flag at half mast is something!!! do we have this when one of our leaders die?

on a click

some time back one of my friends forwarded me this site:
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

to feed an animal by a click. adn today i came accross the hunger site for human:
http://www.thehungersite.com/

don't know if they work or not but it is just a matter of a click to feed someone. really good projects if tehy actually work. i will continue to click n hope that they do :)

follow up on Dr. Shazia Khalid's case

Another Face of Terror from NYtimes


but what shocks me is this

""When I treat rape victims, I tell the girls not to go to the police," Dr. Shershah Syed, a prominent gynecologist in Karachi, told me. "Because if she goes to the police, the police will rape her." "

:((((((

india lost.

quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.
-- Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain

quotes

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

can anyone prevent such laws from being passed in the name of religion?

Eroding women's rights Guardian

"Tony Blair, who continues to justify the invasion of the country as the only means of toppling a brutal dictatorship and helping establish democracy, now has an obligation to use all his powers to avert a new dictatorship in Iraq — that of the mullahs over women. "
...
"This particular interpretation of the Quran would legalise polygamy; divorce by talaq; honour killings; stoning and public beheadings of women for alleged adultery. But now rule 137's provisions are back in the new draft constitution. "
...
"These developments have caused deep dismay among women's organisations across Iraq, whether Kurds, Sunnis or Shias. Iraqi women have campaigned and lobbied hard over the past few months, often risking great personal danger — several politically active women have been assassinated, abducted, raped or threatened — for the new constitution to guarantee women's rights and abide by international treaties. "

is democracy only giving men freedom?