India makes a nuclear submarine

The Indian Prime Minister cracked the auspicious coconut on the hull of the country's first made-in-India nuclear submarine.

The occasion gives us many reasons to pat ourselves on the back. Firstly, of course, is that we made nuclear submarine ourselves. Also, a nuclear submarine can stay underground and sail on for many thousand miles without the need of refuelling. Thus it can go into action far away from Indian waters. Arihant (the nuclear sub's name) can carry nukes. It gives India the capability to launch nukes from the sea too (It already has land and air nuke capability already).

Now some points which make us feel less smug about ourselves. Though we built the steel structure of the submarine (some unkind souls point out that it is just a copy of the subs the US made forty years ago), the nuclear reactor that powers it was given by the Russians.

And we have lot of catching up to do. The US has 74 nuclear subs. Russia 44, Britain 13, France and China have 10 each. India has made one and it is going to make another two. And we are going to get one on lease from the Russians.

That is the problem (if I may use the term) with India. We do not recognise our true potential. We also lack the killer instinct.

The other countries who have the nuclear sub; the US and Russia spurred each other on during the cold war. Russia has the feeling of pride and wants to be acclaimed as a major world power. France and Britain have the legacy of the industrial revolution and the pride that they were once big powers around the two world wars. China has that fierce nationalist feeling, which is still fanned by the memories of the lousy way the Western powers and Japan treated it in the centuries gone by.

India nurses no such aggression or feeling of ill-will. It assimilated the Mughals and the Britishers and made them Indians. The philosophy of Hinduism is responsible for that. We have a big heart and we hate nobody.

That is the true Indian way. We should be proud of it and work hard to give ourselves a place of pride amongst the nations of the world.

Saif, Kareena married?

"Have Saif, Kareena tied the knot? Their story"- YAHOONEWS/IBNLIVE
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“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.”- Alicia Barnhart
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Has the Indian film industry's most talked-about couple tied the knot? According to a Mumbai tabloid, Saif Ali Khan married girlfriend Kareena Kapoor in a hush-hush marriage solemnised on Wednesday.

My God! The way folks in Bollywood change partners! I feel dizzy! Shaheed, Amrita (Singh, I mean) and God knows who!

The Mumbai Mirror carries a report that claims the nikah ceremony tookplace at Saif's residence in Bandra on Wednesday.

Why does a girl have to convert to marry? Nothing in the law.

The tabloid, however, says Khan dismissed the news as a rumour and his mother - yester-year actress and Censor Board President - Sharmila Tagore has also denied the reports.

Bollywood folks are also so hush-hush! CIA types, you know.

Thirty-seven-year-old is Saif started seeing and Kareena, 27, three months ago following the break-up between Kareena and her boyfriend-for-four-years, Shahid Kapur.
Saif and Kareena reportedly became "close" while shooting for their upcoming film Tashan , setting the grapevine abuzz.

How romantic!

However, both denied their link-ups in public till Saif decided to break the silence and told journalists that the two "were very much together."

As if apna khana nahi pachta without this news!

The couple was spotted at various hotspots in Mumbai and Delhi, partying and cosying up. All speculation was put to rest when Saif was spotted with a tattoo on his left arm that read 'Kareena' in Devnagiri script.

The guy's arm must be looking like some inscription from the times of Chandragupta Maurya!

Recently, Kareena reportedly made a "secret" trip to Bangkok to meet Saif, who was shooting there for Kunal Kohli's upcoming film.

Lusty! That's what these folks are.

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