So why did he shoot? Reports suggest that he was apoplectic when he discovered that his girl friend was cheating on him. But few questions baffles me

1. How did he manage to get a gun, being a foreign student? If he got it from his friend then how on earth he entered the university premises without getting detected? Or is it allowed to keep guns in dormitories?

2. Why wasn’t he stopped after the first shootout?

3. Where was Jack Bauer when all this was happening on US soil?

Rahul Banerjee did not make his millions in the Silicon Valley. In fact, he has never been to the Silicon Valley. He hasn’t made his millions either.

Instead he has written a book- and the book has not found a publisher. So he did not make his millions this way either.

But Rahul Banerjee found a wealth of experience and inner satisfaction of having spent a life among the poorest of the poor in the country. He represents that diminishing tribe of middle- class young men and women fired with an empathy for the downtrodden, forsake what could have been more comfortable lives, to work for, and with what Dostoevsky’s called the ‘insulted and the humiliated’.

Well the big question, weather to allow a girl or a boy to marry according to their choice?. The obvious answer is yes as not allowing so is a breach of personal freedom. But then is India ready to embrace this as a widespread phenomenon?

You invest everything into the relationship in terms of hope, expectations, love, time, money and above all emotions. And if you are finally ditched by your sweetheart then what? You feel cheated, apoplectic and perplexed about future. You wonder how would someone else replace him/her. You are hurt emotionally and once your sweetheart is now your most hated person. You look for opportunities to take your revenge and pray furtively that he/she has a gloomy future ahead. The ambivalence of emotions between hatred and love leave you languished. You find it hard to concentrate on the job at hand and in the end up ruining your career, if you are not emotionally stable. And in extreme cases even suicide.

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Kanta ben, in Ahmedabad, lost her only son in the riots. She says that Muslims are not even worth keeping contact with. Firoze, a Muslim, and her son went out together but her son never returned back. Firoze has been absconding since.

Ahmed bhai, in Patna, lost his son few years ago. His son went out with his Hindu friends but was later found burnt to death in a remote location. Since his death the whole family is scared and they are planning to leave India forever.