Summary of India-Pakistan Peace Talks

India received independence on 15th August, 1947 and was separated from Pakistan. Since 1947 there has been a rivalry between two nations on the Kashmir issue. Pakistan has already acquired major part of Kashmir called as Pak Occupied Kashmir (POK). There were 3 major wars between India & Pakistan after independence. 1965, 1971 and 1999. Apart from this India has always taken soft stand on Kashmir issue & first initiated peace talks with Pakistan. But India received nothing from these talks apart from terrorist attacks. I found a good article in Sakal Marathi Daily (Dated: 07/02/2010) which summarizes how many times India has initiated peace talks and in return what we received from Pakistan.

If Pakistan is not interested in Peace Talk then why India is taking initiative every time. Recently Times of India has started a new peace talk "Aman ki Asha" with Pakistan. Will it going to succeed looking at the history of peace talks between Ind and Pak?

Do you think Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi Mega Final Results Are Partial?

Zee Marathi's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is a very successful reality show in the history of Marathi Television Industry. No doubt every music lover (Marathi/Non Marathi) is fan of this show. Yesterday (31^st January 2010) there was a mega final event of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa's season 7 and after a very tough competition URMILA DHANAGAR was declared as winner whereas Rahul Saxena and Abhilasha Chellam finished as runners up.


After following the seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, I have noticed that few of the results are partial.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season 1: Abhijeet Kosambi won the mega final, but Mangesh Borgaokar was better singer

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season 3: Vaishali Bhaisane-Made won the mega final but Saayali Panase was better singer.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season 5: Little champs winner was Kartiki Gayakwad but Aarya Abekar and Prathamesh Laghate were much better singers. Aarya showed a great variety of songs. I would rank Aarya then Prathamesh before Kartiki.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season 7: Urmila Dhangar won this season but Abhilasha Chellam was far better singer with lots of variety. Even guest judges voted Rahul as best singer and Abhilasha was highest amongst votes.

The number of votes received, marks given by judges are not disclosed in public. Following are few links showing similar reactions on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa...

http://marathi.puneripundit.com/2010/01/zee-marathi-saregamapa-is-degrading-itself/

http://snoinipodnasaedi.blogspot.com/2009/02/zee-marathi-srgmp-lil-champs-khoda.html

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