Thursday, September 30, 2004

Desaffronisation of Textbooks- some suggestions :D

" We want to desffronise the textbooks " quoted some old jerk in the paper. I have some suggestions for him.
1. Let us teach our kids that India was occupied by British becaue Bible teaches them to serve other humanbeings and British took the onus of improving the poor in India. So, whatever we are today is because of the great deeds done by the British and Italians ( Ma'am Sonia is still extending her great services to our country)

2. Let us tell our kids that calling yourself Hindu is fundamentalism. You should be ashamed of being a Hindu because you are in India which is a democricy and you should respect other religions who ll ultimately kill you. When a person of other religion kills a Hindu, he freed the earth of a fundamentalist. Where as a Hindu ( you never know who is the killer ) kills someone else, you shoule ask UN and US of A to interfere. Entire world will support you.

3. Let us write in our text books that Hinduism is full of superistitions where as others are purely rationsl. One of them is a fatherless child and another one is formless. Yes, how can a God have parents. Doesnt it make sense?

4. Let us write in our text books that there is nothing called Indus Valley Civilisation and River Saraswati. It is only that some of the foreign tribes came to this place and we are all successors of Europeans.

5. Let us teach them that Muslim kings like Moghuls developed India by making Hindus pay tax for growing hair. Obviously, they made you cut your hair.

6. Let us teach them that nothing much has happened during the reign of Guptas, Chalukyas and Pandyas. They were mere local kings. Assuming that Samudragupta spread his emprire from Himalayas to Malasia is Hindu fundamentalism and it might hurt our Eurpoean and Muslim brothers.

7. Let us dedicate more chapters about "new" religions ( it still beats me why this old jerk used the word "new") like Christianity and Islam. Bachhon, Christian missionaries give us money to do all these things. Isnt money important in our lives ???

8. Let us not mention anything about Vedas, Mahabharatha and Ramayana in History books. The children might believe it. How can any man on earth can compose something like Vedas.
Human beings can compose only things like Bible, Khoron etc.

9. Let us teach our kids that Bhagath Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose , Chandra Sekhar Azad etc are terrorists and they tried killing our Eurpoean brothers.

10. Let us not mention the Jallian walah Bagh incident in our text books. It might make our children hate Britishers.
Here we have another option. The Jallian Walah Bagh incident might not have happened. Our Brtish friends are good Christians who go to Church everyday. So, they couldnot have killed so many people. The incident might have been cooked up by Hindu Fundamentalists.

11. Let us tell them that VHP and RSS are terrrorist organisations where as Hizbul -Muzahuddin, Al Quaida , Laskhar -e- Toiba and CIA etc are all Charitable organisations who show people the way to repsectable deaths.

12. Let us teach them that US of A is the only country in the world that is without any religious fundamentalists. What all they care about is the prosperity, their welfare plans transend boundaries.
E.g. Look at countries like Iraq. They were ruled by people like Saddam and US of A release the country out of his clutches. Now Iraq is a free coountry with lot of Peace and organised way living. Let us encourage US of A to do some more Iraqa. Who has Oil, next????

Let our kids be ashamed that they are Hindus( Fundamentalists ).
Let us invite our brothers from Vatican to baptise all the people in India. After all Hinduism is a dangerous faith, let us convert the Brahmins first rather than the backward classes.

Any missionaries listening???...Can you do it??


Midweek Mazaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It cant get anyting better than this. It is worth staying awake till 2 AM on the Wednesday morning. A Champions League football match that saw the return of the Lions.Yes, Real Madrid roared back to form with a 4-2 win over Italians AS Roma. In another match, the English giants ManU thrashed the Turkish Champs with 6-2 win.

The Real Madrid team looked like they were going to lose again after the conceded 2 early goals. But the Legends didnt give up this time. They came back with vengence. The second half was completely dominated by the Champs as the ball hardly crossed Reals' midfield. Raoul scored twice in his own class, but you should watch Luis Figo. He was in a class of his own. The way he criscrossed through the AS Roma defence is a joy to watch. Then, the Master , he showed some extraordinary ways of balancing the ball and some of the best passes.

Withstanding the boos from the fans, the Brazilian superstar showed his class in that goal scoring free kick. It just zoomed past the defenders and the goalkeeper. Ronaldo tried a lot but he seemed to be tired. I think he is preserving his appetite for the forthcoming matches. They were looking like scoing some 10 goals. Though some pathetic refereeing lessened the charm, it was real real great football.

In another match, which was a no doubt joy to watch , ManU's debutant Wayne Rooney entertained everyone. This boy had a great debut. 3 goals in a match, that too in your debut match is not everyone can do. But, what amazed me most was where was cRn ( Christiano Ronaldo). How can you make a player like CRN to sit on a bench Sir Fergie?
The old guard Giggs started the attack with a superb header, but I give the full credit of that goal to Kleberssons' great run. That was simply amazing. The legendary RvN chipped in with his trademark goal, mind you that he was all there to help Rooney score goals. The teenager obliged.

I could not watch some of the other matches on Thursday early morning.

AC Milan won 2-0 against celtics,
Chelsea won 3-1 against last yr champions Porto,
Barca won 3-0.

I was a bit disapointed that Gunners could only manage to draw their match.

Champions league is getting hotter.






Monday, September 27, 2004

They have done it again!!!!

Yeah, Real Madrid have done it again. They lost 1-2 to Athletic Bilbao. I was out of Banglore for Saturday and missed lot of sporting action in the weekend.
Real lost their 2nd Spanish League match.
Arsenal, ManU and Chelsea manged to win the matches in EPL.
Everton pulled some blinder to climb to the 3rd slot.
AC Milan, after a loss, came back well and won the match against Lazio 2-1.

And, Ferrari continued the domination of F1 though Schumi disappointed a bit. But, what a circuit ..boyyyy...it was real tough to drive in those hair-pin curves and dangerous too.


History is Written by Victors errr...Survivors!!!!

27th of September , marks the birthday of Sardar Bhagath Singh. Every year 2nd October and 14th Noverber are celebrated all around the country with much hype , marking the birthdays of two so called " Freedom Fighters".
So, what did Bhagath Singh fight for? What did he die for? How many people can go and fight the enemy who is much more stronger than you? How many people can take the brave step of giving up life for the sake of ideals?

He has done all that and he isnt even remembered now. Our children are taught in textbooks that India got its freedom because of the sacrifces made by Mahathma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.So, what about the people who made it thier life's battle rather than sitting for Rountable Conferences and tea parties with the Britishers?

British could dare to kill Bhagath Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad. But why didnt they even try to injure Gandhi and Nehru?

Yes, they were never a threat to the Britishers. They could not stop britishers from looting the country, they never objected the way Britishers ruled the country and more over they "begged" Britishers to leave the country. So, Britishers found friends in then rather than foes.

The case of Bhagath Singh, ChandraSekhar Azad , Alluri Seetharama Raju and Veera Savarkar are different. They could have killed all the Britishers in the country. They could have got us independence much before 1947, they could have got independence to couontry which was not divided on a " Hindu -Muslim Bhai Bhai " notion, they could have got independence to a country without a J& K issue....and more importantly, they could have got independence to a Braver and Bolder India.

You cannot preach and practise Non- Violence when the other guy is bludgeoning you and draining you out. Ofcourse , he will leave you once he sucked all the life from you. But you cant afford to fool yourself that your enemy gave in to your perseverence and non-violence.

I would ve felt proud of being living in an Independent India that achieved Independence by the efforts of people like Bhagath Singh , Subhas Chandra Bose, Alluri Seetharamaraju, Chandra Sekhar Azad and Veer Savarkar.

Yes, the history is written by survivors who are just like any other human being. They have their own Prejudices.

Friday, September 24, 2004

Conditioned to accept sleaze

The great Times Of India is successful in making the urban population accept sleaze as a part of daily lives. The aptly names editions " Bangalore Times", " Hyderabad Times" etc are nothing less than any tabloids. They already have mags like "Filmfare" " Femina" etc from the same publishing house which are dedicated to sleaze and soft porn. But, this great publishing house is in the hunt for more by making people believe that it is actually not sleaze.
It came to such levels that people dont like TOI yet they dont have any other option.
The Hindu which can be called a Newspaper is Chennai centric and you dont find it covering the news around your localities.Again, many other bignames in the paper industry lack something or the else. This helped the TOI to penetrate its roots into the urban life. On a personal level I stopped looking at this paper for the past 2 months. There is hardly any news.

The Central govt presents budget and this paper comes out with Bollywood parodies to analyse the budget. They come up with brillaint ideas like " Do you think it is time for Saching Tendulkar to retire from Cricket?" " Do you think Bipashabasu and Mallika Sherawath should be awarded Bharath Ratna for their generosity of showing skin?"

As one of the communist leaders has put it " Media is supposed voice the concerns of people reg various social issues". We have media such as this on one side and a Congress govt on the other side . Added to it is the " I am cool " generation which only knows about Bryan Adams , LOTR, Harry Potter etc... You talk about social issues to any urban youngster and he would say " Hey Chill man, why do you bother about those f***ing issues. Chill and enjoy your life "

I think India deserves something better than this.


Strange!!!!

Yeah, it is really strange. People write update their blogs when they can take out sometime ffrom their busy routines. But, I feel like writing here when I am too much caught up with work, when there are many unfinished things and when people are waiting for something to come from me. At this moment, my boss is waiting for two reports and a ppt from me. In the middle of preparing that ppt a thought stuck my mind " why dont I write something on the blog?" and here I am. My mind might be looking for variety other than the monotonus excel sheets and outlook mailers.

I just read about the IIML student who committed a Suicide , supposedly, while experimenting different ways of hanging self. Ofcourse my heart feels for his family but I was a bit stunned at the conception of his idea, though none knows what prompted him to take such grisly decision.
May his soul rest in peace.

The BCCI is in the lookout for a channel which can broadcast the coming Ozzie tour. I have a piece of advice for them. Why dont they setup a "benami" channel for ESPN -Star and give them all the rights. Howz the idea???



Thursday, September 23, 2004

Out! Out! the Ozzies are out!!!

You dont see this too often. That too a team, which is drubbed by the Aussies some consecutive 14 times , thrashing Aussies out of Champions trophy. It is actually good for Aussies. They will come back with vengence like a hurt lion. Indians beware.
Ahoyyy, Pakis are out of the trophy. I am actually happy about it. They played like fools.
Now we are going to witness a final between boring Englishmen and the underdogs WestIndies.
I expect WestIndies to zip past the Englishmen.

This series tells us something interesting that the teams from the Subcontinent are the most inconsistent and unreliable. You never know how they approach their game.
Ozzies lose their games only when the opposition plays better than them. But in the case of the teams from the subcontinent, it is the 2nd worst player who wins. Simply put, they lose because they play the worst possible cricket. They dont lose matches because the opposition played some better cricket.

Enough of this Cricket....now back to Football...

Real Madrid is back to winning after the 1-0 win in Spanish League, but the class was really missing.They need to do somethinking about what actually is missing.
Another warnign to the Real that Valencia's win over Deportivo that too a 5-1 win is something alarming.
Come on Real Come on!!!


Wednesday, September 22, 2004

You dont see this often!!!

Yes, you dont see England beating Australia in Cricket that often. England drubbed the Aussie Jaggernaut with a comprehensive victory.Australia is out of Champions triphy and the boring English will play the winner of Windies Vs Pakis match.
Is this loss one of those rare aberrations or a beginning to the end of Aussie domination? Though I dont think it is the latter. The so called 2nd best oneday team , I meant India , is already out of the championship and now it is the turn of the best team in the world.
I pray for Windies to come to finals and thrash England in the finals. To be frank, I want Pakis to be out of the tournament ;-)
Tradition tells us that England will not win the finals. So, either Windies or the Pakis will be the new Champions.

Real Saves Face

Huh, finally Real Madrid did not manage to lose against another "also ran" team. They won the match 1-0 with the help of a trademark Beckham free kick but the class was not there. They played like any other club. They should have scored atleast 5 goals against such teams, such is their class. Waiting for them to play atleast 70% of their potential, no other team is even 50% of their potential.

Come on Real .....

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Is it Real???????????????????

Yet another defeat in the hands of Spanish league minnows. Yes, it happened again. The great RMFC ( Real Madrid Football Club) lost 0-1 to Espanyol. They dont have Zidane and Figo this time but what was the need to play Michael Owen in place of Raoul. Raoul was made to sit on the bench as a penalty for the defeat against Bayer Leverkusen. Silly, I would say.

Adding insult to the injury, two players were sent off leaving only 9 members to play. Hardly they had any players who can make some difference. Zidane, Figo, Raoul, Morientes ( though he was sent in after the 65th min) missing. Hell with Beckham and Michael Owen, Ronaldo is left without any support from any side.

I think it is hightime they realise that a bunch of legendary stars dont make a great team. They need to play upto their potential. You can not lose against sides like Espanyol.
What is happening to this great club which has won the UEFA Champions League for a record number of 9 times.

Zidane, Ronaldo, Raoul, Figo, Morientes...I want to see all of them at their rocking best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Red are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hiya...ManU is back to winning matches. The win against the arch rivals Liverpool is a good confidence booster for Sir Alex's team which has been in a lean patch this season.
This guy Christina Ronaldo shows lot of promise. I think he is another RvN in the making. He is not hyped like David Beckham or Michale Owen but he has superb skills which are really awesome. Though not an ardent fan of ManU I like players who really are a class apart. There are two from this ManU team.
The nice Rudd Van Nistelrooy and Christian Ronaldo. People might talk about Smith, Rooney or someone else but these two are class aprt. It might be that their Dutch and Portugal origin has to do with it.

Expecting ManU to continue their roaring form so that we can watch a great Arsenal Vs Manu match....boyyyyy....it will be a joy to watch....


Monday, September 20, 2004

Giant Killers!!!!

After Real madrid it is the turn of Gunners to put a stupid show. Taking nothig away from the J J Okachas' men, Gunners have really disappointed. They could have defended better and converted more.

To me Henry looked like a student who missed some real sitters in the Quant section of IIM CAT.He had the goal post open infront of him and he missed it. HTH....usuallu he never misses such opporutnities but this time he did. Another bad ploy was not playing Dennis Bergkamp from the beginning. He should be ther in the midfield. The triangle Henry - Dennis - Pires works so well that they would have ended up scoring some 5 goals.

But I need to come to terms with reality. Gunners could not win the game. Expecting them to come with their guns blazing in the next match. They will neway.

It was another poor show by our so called Men in Blue at the ICC Champions Trophy. They succumbed like lambs. I dont know what happened to Viru...but sure marriage has slowed him a bit. So, India is out of the ICC Champions trophy. Good, they can ponder over the defeat and come up with some strategy for the upcoming Australia's tour of India.

Waiting for Tuesday. EPL match b/w ManU and Liverpool with ManU really in a bad touch and Liverpool doing reaonably well. But this time there is a new star in the EPL, Bolton Wanderers has become a force to reckon with this time. This man J J Okacha with his skills is really looking good.


Friday, September 17, 2004

ICC Champions Trophy - Who are these Champions????

The UEFA Champions League Football is aptly named because only the top teams from all the Europen leagues get to fight with each other. On the contrary, the ICC Champions trophy hailed as the mini world cup ( which Mini do they refer to???) is a mere time waste for some teams like Australia. They get to play with teams like USA during the tournament. What a waste of time??
If ICC wants to globalise cricket, let them first save it from dying in the very nations where it has a status equal to religion.

Teams like Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, USA ( Kenya is far better than these teams) just work as speed breakers in a knock out tournaments. Let there be some sense prevail at ICC and withdraw that Test Playing nation status to Bangladesh, Kenya deservers that status rather than Bangladesh. But, Bangladesh is in a region where Cricket is more than anything else.

My heart sinks at the idea of losing interest in the game of Cricket, but Indian team sans Sachin seems to turn my nightmares into reality.



A Real Dud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was one of those very hard things to digest. Real Madrid losing 0-3 , that too , to a mediocre club like Leverkusen. As they started signing these bloody english players ( I should say Overhyped Brits) , they started losing to small teams. I dont see any dying need to signup Michael owen as they are already paying the price for one mistake of signing up the overhyped Beckham. Why do you need to a Michael Owen when you have Ronaldo , Raoul in the front. Okey, Raoul is out of form and age is catching up with Figo. But, arent there any better choices than these Brits. It still hurts me that they lost 0-3 , they couldnt even score a goal though they have all the stars. Yes, one drop of poison is enough to harm a tankful of Honey.

Hope they will come up with some stunning performances in this season.

Expecting to see some great football from RMFC, AC Milan and Arsenal prove a point in Champions League this time.

How could I forget about the recently announced Sports Awards?

The Lady, Anju Bobby George has been awarded the "highest " sporting award.
Rajiv Khel Ratna, I still dont understand what a "worst ever" prime minister of India has to do with sports. They couldnt even get the name of the award right.

The govt is just desperate to show that it cares for sports and recognises sporting talent.
Does anyone still remember "Jyotirmayi Sikadar"?

And, the govt insulted a sporting Wizard ( sachin) by giving this award. It had been great if they name the award " Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna " or "C. K. Naidu Khel Ratna".

India( err..the bloody Congress govt ) will never come out of that Nehru family mania. They behave as though this family has done some great things for the country. How sad it is that a country with millions of years of History has only one family to represent it?

It is difficult for me to stop this temptation of talking truth.

Without any offence to the Lady ( Anju), these awards have become a farce. It is better India stops participating in Olympics for some 2 times and ponder over the situation. But there is no hope as far as there are the so called Secularist and Democratic govts.

A small observation, this single family worship might be from the Colonial mindset , courtesy the British.They worship a bunch of jokers and flirts ( Charles and Diana...dont think any need to clarify) as Gods. Yeah, ofcourse they are the most advanced country on this face of the earth...arrey bhai yeh earth kya hotha hai????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11


Friday, September 10, 2004

Football all the way!!!!

Some sensible article about the European Football.

http://in.rediff.com/sports/2004/sep/10footspin.htm

Oh, before that let's discuss the Wayne Rooney transfer. Lots of money, good player. No issue. Call him the new Pele? BIG ISSUE! That's like a Roberto Carlos free kick in your solar plexus. You fools, can you see the colour of his skin? Have you ever seen him juggle the ball? Have you ever seen him dance with the ball? All he can do is one touch, two touch, boom. Does the grace of the samba look like potatoes and beef or fish and chips to you? Fools!
It looks like Manchester United are resorting to the Rednecks. Pun intended. First Alan Smith, with a racist background of attacking Asians, and now Wayne Rooney. An unmissable match with Bolton's Jay Jay Okocha and Hendrik Pedersen looking brilliant as well. Don't miss it.


Makes sense, doesnt it???

Any ordinary football follower would know what this kid is upto. The hype surrounding his transer is just another marketing gimmick.

One of my fav clubs Real Madrid ( RMFC) is behind many english players these days. Their glory is that they are great without these much hyped english players. What could a Beckham do in the last season? A team that has Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo and Raoul ( now Morientes coming back) doesnt need these rednecks. It is better they try to signup Rudd Van Nistelrooy by the time Figo and Raoul retire.


Census Nonsense!!!

There is a lot of hullabaloo about the recent census report.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/09census.htm

The Congress govt doesnt want to tell the world that India is the only safe place for Muslims to accumulate and enjoy the benefits of a Democrecy see no where else. The want to prove that the growth of this community actually declined during the so called Pro -Hindu BJP rule. On the flip side, Sangh Parivar is bothered about uniform birth controls for all the communities.

An Azim premji goes to US and they take him in customdy because of his name. None cares because US is a democrecy and their action makes sense because they are feeling insecure after 9/11.

You call a "muslim" a "muslim" in India and all the secularist and media are behind you. You committed an unpardonable sin. You are a "Fundamentalist"err...Hindu Fundamentalist.
The so called Secularist fuckers are more concerned about the safety of people who relish the victory of Pakistan over India, either it is Cricket or Hockey.

Recently, police arrested a muslim leader in Hyderabad for some illegal activities and the leader of that community threated Govt that they would destroy the city if the Police doesnt let out the "convicts".

A BJP stages a dharna for the arrest of Uma Bharathi and media , secularists call them Hindu Fundamentalists.

The great irony is that the same Hindu ( or would I say Indian) culture which taught us "Athithi Devo Bhava " stands as a helpless victim of the "Athithi". The world misunderstood the "universal Tolerance " taught by the great scriptures and sages as a mere passivity.

But, more disheartening is the treachery by the followers of the same faith. All the upholders of this so called Secularism are Hindus and they dont bother about the damage they are doing to the great religion and its followers.

My heart shudders at the very thought that a day will come when you need to take the permission of Animal Rights activists to travel on a road so that you wont hurt any animal.

This might seem a very farfetched and absurd idea but it follows the same logic of Minorities.


Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Life @ 5 Kmph.......

Yes, neither did I miss any numbers beside 5 nor you overlooked it. It is only "5" Kmph. There is an 8 KM stretch from Silk Board to Electronic City in the IT -Capital Bangalore. More than 20000 techies travel on this road regularly, all at the same time. Addded to this is the normal traffic and this is a highway connecting Tamilnadu.

So, the time slots 7:30 AM to 10 AM and 5 PM to 8 PM are high speed zones. I am one of those bike freaks and love to come to office on my bike, a ride of 18 Kms one way. Lot of things happen on this road. The private carriers try to attract the commuters by going slow on the left, the company vehicles ( those that carry the techies...) try to zip through to reach their destinations early, cars try to maintain their dignity and two wheelers ( the new age Power Bikes) just sneak in the gaps and vroom. Wait.......you can go in the top gear only for some 10 meters or so. If you are a very good driver you can manage the speed at 10 Kmph.

Everyday I look at my bike and feel sorry for it. A 125 CC cruiser going @sub 10 Kmph. Am I doing justice to my cruiser? How much load am I putting on the engine by not going in the top gear?? The drive almost takes 35 min from Silk board to my office and this strtch is like desert. More than 20 min you spend standing still and there is nuthing to look around. All the beautiful gals take the company buses and you rarely get the glimpse of a dame riding a vehicle :-(
I spend my time admiring some of the beautiful cars I get a chance to look at. I waste almost 45 min in the morning and evening everyday in this manner.

Finally, I am decide to keep away from my sweetheart(...Bike) in the weekdays and take the company bus so that I can sit back and read some book for that 45 min.....and get a glimpse of those very few dames that I can find in the bus ;-)

Thursday, September 02, 2004

Monkey Business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monkey...I think it is one of the very few animals I like. One monkey created scene in my office cafeteria in the morning. Our office buliding is surrounded by a Teak plantation and some empty fields. The Cafeteria is in the 4th floor of the building.

There were people in the cafeteria having their breakfast. As usual , I was savouring my breakfast and suddenly heard a shriek , a gals voice. I just turned around to see a simian savouring a Vada and a gal with here face turned pale. It finished the Vada and went off. Good to see a simian having breakfast in our cafeteria.

Whenever I see a mokey, it reminds me of my Kindergarten school days. My school was very big and had a nice campus. One side there was river Godavari and the other three sides were occupied by beautiful gardens. It had many tamatrind trees located at random places. The play ground was awesome with very good playing equipment.

A big group of simians used to reside in the surrounding trees and used to interfere in our daily lives. Many of my classmates used to lose their sanck bowls to some of the rogue simians. They used to scare us the tiny tots and snatch away eatables. We were not any less, I used to hurl stone at them try to scare them.

One day it happend that I was successful in scarring a little monkey and my friends were all praises for my bravado. I went home and bragged about it. My mom warned me to be careful because the little monkey might come back with its gang and try to take its revenge. I just didnt bother about it.

Next day I went to school as usual and when I came out of the class in the break......I just turned pale. Man, was I scarred like hell??? Yes, there was this little monkey with all its gang , waiting for me to come out in to the play ground. I just ran back into the class and told my teacher about it. My teacher laughed at it and asked some staff to chase those simians out of there. Somehow, they could chase that group out of the campus that day.

I didnt want to go to school the next day....errr...I was scarred. But, I had to go to and somehow I managed to avoid those simians. Good that God gave short memory to those simians. For another 2-3 weeks I just shivered at the sight of a monkey. My parents and my brother used to scare me talking about simians. Somehow I came out of that Simian-phobia and started liking the animal. Probably because of its similarity to human beings.