Mr Sardesai â€\" nice article coming from our typical Indian secularist who is ashamed to even acknowledge India’s stand even when right- what will our gora secular teachers say? What will our minority vote bank say? Please remember it is not us who divided the country. It was these Pakistanis who did it based on their hatred for our religion and their intolerance for all other religions (egs.,Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jerusalem, etc), it is these Pakistanis who deny their culture based on Indus civilization and Aryabarta and identify themselves with the Arab culture based only on religion, it is these Pakistanis who, on one hand send in terrorists into our country and on the other had want our moolah through cricket and music concerts. These cricketers are far less concerned about the method of IPL than the moolah they are afraid of losing out. They have found willing and craven partners in our eggheads, TV journalists, filmstars, so-called cricket experts and our pusillanimous Government in Delhi. To hell with our soldiers and security forces who lay down their lives day in and day out, we must get our ratings and our cut. When Swami Vivekananda had said that this age is going to be ruled by Sudras, he meant by people who would have the lowest morality. I am afraid you all are proving him right.

There is no peace untill 20 most wanted and 26/11 criminals get their due. responsibility of peace is on 100% on pakistan since 1947. the very existance of pakistan is based on a mock terror among muslim by mullahs, china & western countries backed military and political leadership and the structure of feudals. is there anybody in the entire world that bring peace without solving the said question. please do not waste public hard earned money on futile exercies called "Aman Ki Aasha"

In whichever context, whenever the name Pakistan surfaces, i guess, every one feels the cris-cross of emotions and thoughts...right from cultural brotherhood to kashmir to samjhauta express to agra summit to terrorist attack to cricket to every other possible link! And i am sure, we are in no position to make our stand! it is a war of thoughts within our own minds whether to stick to enimity or to join the new wave of thoughts of peace and co-existance! I guess, similar is the situation of the policy makers and government! if we as in India as a state try to adhere the new wave of peace and harmony we give scope to the other front to keep on being mischivious with us with their own suitablity...and if we become strict we are being accused of bigger fish eating smaller by the international community! If we dare to think extreme then a state of war can damage our country to a great extent...but it might not show that huge impact on a country which is already limping in many ways...i mean, thre has to be an economy first to get damaged...but across the border, in many areas the word economy might be alien...so it is very difficult to tackle with this neighbour...we really have to be smart that we don't invite damage to our country, we don't be a bad-man in the eyes of the international community and at the same time we should retain our goody image in the eyes of the populas of the other side, which mostly does not have mind of its own...

The IPL fiasco as the media potrays has been going on for almost a week and with every passsing article comes a new theory which leaves us baffled. However, if one looks at from the IPL franchise, there is hardly any news to the entire incidentfor the below mentioned reasons:

1. IPL is a serious business and no franchise would want to risk it by selecting players who may or may not be present, due to diplomatic tension between the 2 nations.
2. Whether a Pakistani national plays or not does not make any difference to the franchise or the fan following to the game.

The time has come for Pakistan to do a bit of introspection rather than making empty noises.
1. Today, nobody would risk playing in Pakistan and its themselves who are solely responsible for it.A few fanatic in Pakistan proposed to start a IPL like league in Pakistan despite this. How foolish one can be to even make such a statement

2. Pakistan has been openly funding terrorism,circulating fake currencies for decades and still they expect our franchise to make their players rich. What audacity?

For the last 10 years repeated dialogues have failed, nor can it be fruitful in future, coz every subsequent dialogue provides Pakistan more time to plan and execute further attacks on us. If USA would have faced a similar, they would have sanctioned every possible mode. Why do we need to be a nation of forgivers?

A. Isnt it better to live peacefully without a neighbour than a tormented and sick one? We have to realize and accept we have been separated long back thus we need to behave rationally so that we do not get divided into further sub groups.

I would also request the media not to dance in the tune of Pakistan's reaction; as this is the first time we have shown the world that we have a stable and strong backbone. Lets support the IPL franchise as they have really shown the way to our politicians of how to act and is extremely commendable.

After watching the Shivsena Tahdav today again i just feel ashamed of being an Indian. My country cry's to the world that we are suffering from Terrorism from Pakistan. But i think its time for self realization. Shivsena is the Taliban of India, and more than that coz Taliban was not fighting within themselves.

I sympathize with my weak government.

I have a great idea for Rajdeep and other IPL Francisee owners for the next time round.

Instead of saying Shahid Afridi of Pakistan, can we not say Shahid Afridi, a good cricketer (batsmen, master blaster blah, blah blah...and give a little bit of synopsis of his say for one min) without naming the nationalities of any cricketers so that the team picks them up on merit and eventually since it is an independent business and not related to country playing country, nobody would be involved or feel rejected if not picked. This will also make the players play better and competitive cricket and may the best man win.

I think media should refrain from such high level diplomatic issues rather than initiating projects like aman ki asha. Its high time that Indian government comes up with strict laws that restricts the media about diplomatic matters.

Media should realize that Pakistan has lost credibilty in all aspects to resume with any peace dialogue. This should have been done the day 26/11 happened.

I request Indian media to realize all the above and stop sensationalizing about what happened during IPL auction. Its all done and the I feel right decisions have been taken by the respective franchisees.

I am kashmiri and I follow kashmir news everyday from kashmir press. Few years back there was a new item that a cousin of shahid afridi got killed in kashmir because he was a LeT terrorist. It is true that pakistanis are great players of cricket but they are also great players of terrorism. If there is a terroist attack in any part of the world, it has a pakistani imprint. Therefore I support total ban of pakistani's not only in cricket but in any form of geme

Is writting Aman ki ashes justified(Was in CNN-IBN) when aman ki asha is taking place?
Almost all hindi patriotic film has pakistanis and terrorists plotting together.Almost all sunny deol film is about him bashing a pakistani, as he abuses India and Indians.
After every terrorist attack in India roam around the city.you will find people abusing pakistanis and their nation Pakistan. Terrorists=Pakistanis is totally ridiculous equation. It is like equating Maharashtrians=Anti-North Indian.
Media should work constructively for this. As we know so less about people in Pakistan, This calls for a show/film about Pakistan, The people there, and their life-style.

Whatever the situation, government to government dialogue needs to be initiated but definitely as far as possible away from the media glare. "Aman ki aasha" and war are definitely not two sides of the same coin, in fact they are so contradictory that viewers are left totally confused by contrarian views emanating from a single source. War is definitely not an option by any stretch of imagination since we need to contemplate the fallout of such an event on ordinary folk in India, who after so many years of Hindu growth since independence, are seeing definite hope in sustained growth which gets translated to better standards of living as witnessed across the length and breadth of this country. It is high time we started talking to Pakistan, and one healthy development is the proposed visit of our HM to Islamabad sometime next month on some ministerial conference, a small step but a step neverthless, particularly since it involves Mr. Chidamabaram, who is seen as a no nonsense and articulate politician. The above blog has rightly crystallised India's confused position in dealing with Pakistan and the PMs inability to come to a possible definitive conclusion on the approach given the absence of clear cut public opinion in this matter. But a degree of statesmanship on the part of India would not hurt in our own interests because for us without compromising our interests or appearing to be weak kneed, we can still commence dialogue without compromising on our resolve to be firm if the situation demands it. Pakistan internally and possibly externally is an extremely weak and fragile condition to be remotely considered a threat to India, at best it is a small niggle, and our response should be based on reality. I think the PM and the Congress needs to take the other main political parties in our country into confidence since as responsible stakeholders they are aware of the importance of involving the Pakistani establishment in a continuous dialogue process in our national interest. Surendran, Kolkata