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Do you know which is the most dangerous city of America ?

Recently I found an amazing website which releases ranking of various states and cities of US depending upon various factors of human life such as education, crime, health, livelihood etc. The site is http://www.morganquitno.com.

Recently this website issued a list of most dangerous cities in America which itself is a very interesting read. I wonder whether in India we can also have such annual list of states/cities. In view of the increasing danger of terrorism, I think the whole of India is a dangerous place to live in. However, probably we Indians have become accustomed to such a living

Anyhow, here is the list of most dangerous cities of US.

Rank City

1. St. Louis, Mo.
2. Detroit, Mich.
3. Flint, Mich.
4. Compton, Calif.
5. Camden, N.J.
6. Birmingham, Ala.
7. Cleveland, Ohio
8. Oakland, Calif.
9. Youngstown, Ohio
10. Gary, Ind.
11. Richmond, Calif.
12. Baltimore, Md.
13. Memphis, Tenn.
14. Trenton, N.J.
15. Richmond, Va.
16. Kansas City, Mo.
17. Atlanta, Ga.
18. Cincinnati, Ohio
19. Washington, D.C.
20. North Charleston, S.C.
21. Reading, Penn.
22. Newark, N.J.
23. Little Rock, Ark.
24. San Bernardino, Calif.
25. Orlando, Fla.

For your kind information let me tell you that this list is based on a city’s rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities of 75,000+ populations that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings.”

Well Detroit is at second place in the the list.

Well I think thanks to extreme security arrangements in US, the ‘terrorist attack’ was not considered a crime category. An abridged version of this detailed report (pdf format, 24 pages) is available for download on the website and alternatively can be bought from the site for $5 only.

What do you think is the most dangerous Indian city ?

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Dear friends,

Today is Diwali, the colour of lights and happiness. The biggest festival of India. The whole India is in celebration mode today. I wish all of you a very happy, prosperous and memorable Diwali.

Diwali is a festival synonymous with celebrations in India and among Indians all over the world, is an occasion for jubilation and togetherness. Like other festivals of India, this festival of lights also has its origin in mythology. You can read more about Diwali here

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By Titus Hoskins (c) 2007

If you’re like most webmasters, you have probably spent years building your site. You have spent years adding content, building links and cultivating traffíc - but how well do you really know your website?

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Pakistan our neighbor country has again come into the grip of Emergency. All the judges have been suspended, all private channels have been banned and the constitution of the country stands suspended. The military has assumed all the powers.

For me it’s not a surprise news. I knew from the start that it was bound to happen one day. Pakistan’s president Pervej Musharraf who is also the General of the Pakistan Army, was trying to achieve an impossible thing upto now. He wanted to be a dictator with the people’s mandate projecting his image as a Dictator who respects democracy. For this he gave liberty to Pakistani judiciary, which ultimately went against him. He gave full freedom to Press/Media and ignore their constant criticism of his policies. He tried hard to appear as a preserver of democracy in Pakistan. But at last, he did what all dictators do when faced with the question of survival. Just few days before a Supreme Court Bench decides the validity of his election as the President while retaining his military uniform, Musharraf declared emergency in Pakistan citing the growing terrorism and increasing interference of judiciary as the main reasons.

Well, you can’t be a dictator and champion of democracy at the same time. Musharraf tried to be both and failed miserably.

What can be the impact on India ?

I think nothing much. It is a common knowledge that Musharraf is the mastermind behind the Kargil War in 1999. He is a master of double-talk. He has made the American believe that he is their best bet in Pakistan and without him the War on terror can not be won. So he will keep extracting dollars from US as a prize to be it’s partner in curbing Al-Qaida. On the other hand, he will keep assisting the terrorists to promote terrorism on the soil of India. The blood shed in India will continue. We’ll keep looking helplessly as more bomb will explodes in our cities, more innocent lives will end and more destruction will happen to Indian properties. So as of now, there is nothing much Indians can expect from this emergency. The truth is that in it’s history of 60 years, Pakistan has never been a democratic country. Directly or indirectly the army in Pakistan has been the prime ruler of it’s people.

What is the future of Musharraf ?

Well it’s all in the womb of future. The fate of Musharraf as I can see will be just like that of his predecessors dictators of Pakistan. In a coup by any other general, either he will be dethroned and kept in house arrest or he will be thrown out of the country. Some serious consequences may also happen. Well, all this is just plain speculation.

As of now the coming days will be very interesting to watch.

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Often we start something with great enthusiasm and zeal. We work hard on it and try to improve it by using all the tools of the trade. Then the pressing needs of life force us to deviate our time and energy from that venture and invest in some other equally or more important tasks. When this continue for long and stretched for weeks, the enthusiasm for that venture starts fading and we feel hard-pressed to devote any quality time for this venture which we ourselves started with so much vigour.

As I came back today and write again for this dear blog of mine, I am feeling the same emotions of a lost enthusiasm for this blog. As I am not getting enough time to write quality articles for this blog, a feeling of disappointment has started emerging in me. A very busy schedule in my professional and domestic life has started seriously effecting my online activities these days. The worrisome thing is that this is not going to over soon. In forthcoming days, I am going to become more busy than I am today.

Well, this blog is my personal blog and I don’t think a lesser posting schedule here will affect anybody in anyway accept myself. However, after having spent quite some time here blogging and writing some good posts (I think they were good) and getting a small but regular readership of some very dear friends, it is difficult to digest the fact that my already irregular routine of blogging is going to become more irregular.

In any case, I am not going to abandon this blog for lack of time or energy. My enthusiasm for writing is as fresh as it was in the beginning when I created my first website. No matter how irregular my blogging routine become, I will continue to write here.

Storms come in life and sometime they threatened to wipe us with them. However, storms don’t remain forever. They fade on their own. We only need to patiently wait for them to go. I am too waiting for my storm to pass : )

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