Yes … the server had a problem and many among you that had wished to make comment were denied that opportunity. I noticed it myself as I glanced through the post in the morning and informed the authorities. Thank fully all is well now. For a while the comments were not being registered, but even that has been sorted out.

Some cuttings came across to me yesterday and I had wished to comment on it, but since I was involved in writing on a another topic, it remained unattended. The two on Abhishek were not intended to be there, but I did not know how to separate them from the article that I wanted to comment on so it has gone along. You may ignore it if you so desire.

I have actually been having a good laugh on the one that titles ‘Black them Out’. It is the most amazing piece of journalism that I have come across more recently. Have a read and then we shall discuss ~

My posts have been somewhat severe for the past few days and I understand the anguish that it has caused among some of you. I will not apologize for it. Apologizing would diminish the reality of the content ; would in a sense belittle all that transpired. I write about them not to gain sympathy or pity. What will I get from that ? What will I do with it ? Will it wash away the pain of the events that took place ? No ! Would it repair the damage that my body took ? No ! My writing is in many ways a conversation with myself. Am I not permitted to talk to myself ? The medium is a convenience that I share with those that have shown belief in me. Many that learn of my daily practice of posting on my blog wonder on my consistency. For me that is not a wonder and neither is it an accomplishment. For me the wonder is that if I have written everyday, you have responded every day too. And that is no less a wonder. If I am a constant, there are many among you that have enlightened that category too. I would rather that those that exclaim at my deed, exclaim with greater intensity at you. You are the true heros and heroines of this ’saga’. It is a world that we have with great devotion and commitment developed and nurtured. Those that criticize it, comment upon its uselessness, denigrate it, abuse its existence, are those that envy and fear it. It does not go beyond their myopic and limited preserve that a community could have been initiated, formed and succeeded with unlimited flourish, in a world that had hitherto been controlled and manipulated by them. For years we have existed and survived in a traffic that flowed one way only. Now as they see the objects of motion coming their way too, they are unable to steer away from its onslaught. History through civilizations has taught us one strong fact. The voice of the people in defiance is mightier than any machinery designed or yet to be designed by humanity to oppose it. Let those that believe in stifling our voice, use every guile that they may possess in their scabbard. Let them brandish every possible color and make of weaponry that they pull out against us. The decibels of alternate opinion shall always be the impenetrable shield that they will have to encounter.

And may they know, that our forum is open and liberal, theirs is a pretense !!

My love to all ~ and to those as well that pretend !!

Amitabh Bachchan