Columbia

Ras:
At this time, it is disgusting to read that Arabs are celebrating because an Israeli was on board, and disturbing to know that there are already whispers in the West of a terrorist plot. Looks like no one has heard about accidents...

Every tragedy is fair game these days.

A good site to follow the spaceflight program is http://www.spaceflightnow.com/

the culprit according to this is the old collusionbetween the Congress and Big Business

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030210-418518,00.html

Ras:

A touching piece indeed!

Like FerzanaVersey, I find it equally disgusting to read

(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/international/middleeast/02CND-ARAB.html)

that the islamic world is already into ``Praise Be to Allah``with heavy emphasis on Palestine, Texas :)-

President Bush spoke for the entire world when he said ``The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to earth but we can pray they are safely home``.

FV(#1) You`ve said what I came on to say.

This morning when I entered my college, a junior came running to me, smiling so wide, all 32 teeth showing, yelling, ``Mubarik Mubarik!!`` Before he said a word I figured out what he was happy about. I did not have the courage to hear people celebrating deaths, so I turned back right away, ``Mujay aik zaroori kaam yaad aa gya hai``, and came back home.

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Farzana,
so true yaar.

There are some of us who have been disappointed with the media coverage emphasizing on one, over all others, ignoring one or some...the media being as they are. People like Kalpana Chawla overcame difficult hurdles to be where she was, on Columbia. All seven astronauts had lives to be celebrated, and my condolences are for their families and loved ones. At the end of the memorial service in the Orthodox Church, the priest says, `May your memory be eternal`. May their memories indeed be eternal.

thanks raas.
air tragedies for some reason have an aura. this case is sadder since they perished so close to the end of their journey.

#5 by arjun_m
++his pakis brothers were attributing the disaster to a Kalpana Chawla...i think they pulled the text of the article after they caught a lot of internet flak....more from Americans than Indians... +++++

i didnt see any blame on the link, its a question asked for comments..is it ok with you if press all over the world trying to find link with some muslim terrorist orgnisation..........but your pakistani obsession only cared about some stupid question asked on some Indian obssesed Paksitani websites.....and you are portaying it as sentiments of Pakistani all over the world....may be Paksitani people are not as democratic as Indian and American but still its hard for any one to stop any website or newspaper to publish what they are publishing. It seem very clear you damn care about magnaficant Kalpna Chawla, all you cared about what Pakistani are thinking......otherwise Ras Siddiqui`s moving word should have come from your side.

by the way: Columbia`s Disaster: Mistake Of Indian`s Chawla?

obvious answer is: When NASA is not sure then what the f**K i know who is responsible for it.

The Columbia disaster, after all, proves that though in life, we may be different from one another: you may be an American, an Arab, an Indian, or a Pakistani, but death treats everyone just the same. For death, it’s business as usual. No discrimination, no divisions, no classes, no categories. It doesn’t matter whether you’re White, Black, or Brown. When it’s time, death strikes. Every argument becomes irrelevant, your ego counts for nothing. All that you stood for, and fought for all your life, matter no more, because when it’s time, you simply have to leave everything behind and go. Life divides; death unites. That’s why Chowksters, reflect. Do these India-Pakistan arguments really matter?

Re:harish_hyd #12
Very well spoken !! This tragedy is a grim reminder of our limitations as human beings. We fight, argue and try to accomplish all that we can but everything comes to an end anyway. Makes you wonder, why bother ? What is the point of all this useless hindu-muslim squabbles, when all of us are going to turn into dust some day ?
As far as the people celebrating this are concerned, they are really sick. Getting pleasure from someone else`s death, and that too civilians at that, is horrendous and shameful.

Farzana,

Arabs hi kyun. Hamara apne homegrown jaahil bhi jashn mana rahein hain. Doosron ka kya kehna. . .

This isn`t Islam, to celebrate the death of innocent people.

re: #2 by AmericanExpress
You are oblivious of the good spin offs from sending rockets to space (not necessarily spacecrafts). India has been doing it for sometime and has created a niche for itself in the area of ``remote sensing``. If you do not believe me, go and do a google search. The good things that one can reap from space flights are tremendous: exploration of weather conditions, forestery, geological data etc. Of course there are military applications too.
NASA has been stretching the frontiers of science for decades. If someday we are to find out which other planet or galaxy has a life similar to the one on earth, be sure only NASA will find the answers. NO other agency even remotely has that capability (not even Russians who are stretched out for cash now-a-days).
Sridhar

Re: Amit # 14 & harish_hyd #12

Bravo!

No, it makes no difference and those who think otherwise, are fools!

I greive for Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Zorastrians, Christians, Ahmedis, Sikhs, Buddist, all nations of the world and the individual. I cry for the man, the woman and the child, who suffers. No flag ever bade me to deny my humanity and I refuse to acknowledge that the armalite is my national anthem. I am an immigrant in the dispora of humanity cast upon the earth like a weed upon the ocean and like the wind, I have no place, but like the tree, I know my place on this earth. My enemy is my friend and my friend is my enemy and those that I guard, I do not admire and those that I fight, I do not dislike. My alliance is with hope and my foe is dispair and I cry, because my allies have made a pact with my foe - death, are eager to do its biddings.

I am a human being and I grieve for all who die, because a part of me also dies with them and because of their death, there is less for me to rejoice.

Ciao

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