Abhay sent me this link last night after we returned from Rohan's place, jubilant.

OK. So the GOD played for the devil once. But remember, even the alleged son of god, saviour to many simple people, lord god Jesus Christ walked through hell and that experience just tempered him and so I am not surprised that the GOD did play for the devil once.

But kindly remember, that was 87-88, and the Kashmir militancy was just beginning. Vast numbers of Kashmiri Indians weren't streaming into the rest of India, beleaguered, homeless, with minds scarred with terror that had been known only to their ancestors many centuries ago as the hordes of Mughals, Afghans and Huns kept ravaging their beautiful and peaceful land. Prozac Rajiv was the Indian premier, genial Imran was the Paki captain and we had just hosted a World Cup together.

Today the story is different. Not content with killing Indians in just Kashmir, terrorists who are fed by the Paki taxpayer are killing Indians in mainland India. They have struck at our Parliament. They have attacked wives and children of Indian military servicemen. We did nothing, lack of evidence it seems. But let me put it this way, the average Indian today hates everything the Pakistani constitution represents more than he did 15 years ago.

I am sure Pakistanis have their fair share of people worth befriending, as do we. I respect the ones I did befriend, and I support Indians forming friendships with Pakistanis as I support Pakistani sportsmen and artistes seeking asylum in India, but on no day will I stand and watch while some Pakistani tries to justify what his government has wrought upon us. So, like Churchill said, if you are going to kill your enemy, it doesn't hurt to be polite.

On another note, special thanks go out to the all merciful Allah, for listening to the prayers of kafir-loving Indian Muslims, that was really a nice gesture, man, what with the nasty rumour going around that you require and empower Muslims to hate their kafir neighbours and all, surely perpetrated by some war-mongering mullah from Pakistan.

You know what the best thing is? Pervez Musharraf, who said that Indians refused to play in Pakistan because we were scared of a beating, has been slapped square in the face. I hope Nirupama Rao takes a crack at him on this line, pretty much like how Zaheer took one at Latif's head.