Friday, December 31, 2004

New Year Wishes!!!

Ppz...

" Wish you all a great 2005 "

2004 left us in shock and grief. My sympathy to all those ppl who lost their lovedones frns and neighbours.

Let us hope for a new year which will bring tranquility and joy.

I look forward to

1. India surging ahead
2. Pseudo -Secularists failing intheir pursuits
3. Arsenal winning EPL
4. Barcelona winning Spanish League with Real Madrid in the second place ( yes, I am a great fan of RMFC )
5. RMFC winning the Champions League
6. Schumi winning the Drivers title again.
last but not least
The false charges on Shankaracharya of Kanchi not standing in the court.


Monday, December 20, 2004

Is Education to blame???

While I was enjoying my fav pastime ( channel surfing ), I just happened to stop and watch this program on NDTV where they were discussing the DPS Delhi incident. The panel consisted of some 4 people from different fields. But the main aim of the NDTV rep seemed to be " to revamp the educationa and schools".

I liked the way one of the audience has put it " Our parents were brought up in the presence of their grandparents and the moral values were inculcated in them by grandparents rather than parents. As kids they had time and scope to look at adults and learn from them. In these days of nuclear families and media onsalught, what we see is immorality everywhere. The air is filled with immorality".

I think this guy is hardly 18 but has made a valid point. "The air is filled with immorality".
Mostly in cities , with both the parents working, kids have no option but to watch television or spend time with friends. There is none to tell them right from wrong. The media is setting benchmarks for "cool, hep and hot " stuff. No wonder kids are confused to differentiate between morality and immorality.

But, the NDTV guy was not ready to accept the fact that Media in one or the other way responsible for this declining moral values. That is only some 25%. However, the major contributor in building up moral values is "family", nothing can replace it. We can send our kids to the best of the schools and they can get the best of companions but nothing can replace a good , well bonded family.

The "DPS" incident has become popular by the name but it is not right to blame the school. The incident didnt happen in the school premises and the school never asked the parents to provide their kids with "well( ill )-eqipped" mobiles. The families failed to imbibie values in their off spring. The affluent families might not care much about such things. The kid got admission into another school within days. So, how did this new school admitted him??

There are many issues that we need to address to prevent this menace of adoloscent indulgence. We cant blame only one of the factors for the raising levels of immorality. Only one of such incidents came into public and we dont know how many are indulging in such things. Are our teens going the "American Pie" way??

If we are attempting a revamp, we need to do it to the entire society and its way of existence which I think is a herculean effort. However, if each and every family tries to upbring their offspring by the values which are truly " Indian" I dont think the task will be really Herculean.

Monday, December 13, 2004

Too manythings....!!!

Yeah, there are too many things I want to write about here.
First about my another blog, then about my weekend trip into Jungle, about the comeback of Sachin and the mum of media whenever he scoores , about the great MS ( Subbulakshmi), Arsenal Vs Chelsea EPL match....

First and foremost, congrats to Sachin and Anil Kumble for achieving milestones.
But stands above all these is Indian Media which just hyped Anil Kumbles' ( with due respect to his greatness on Indian soil) record, didnt even have enough time to broadcast Sachins record. Just a headline which says "Sachin goes past Sunny". They behaved as though it is nothing significant. Some 2 weeks back, the same media cried " Is god past his prime?" the taunt being " Sachin is go no more". Why did they dedicate some 30 min for a survery about the falling greatness of Sachin? If they care so much, why couldnt they spend some 10 min on his 4th double ton ? I have been observing this trend from the past 1 year that Indian media has been makingmuch noise when a Rahul Dravid scores even 50 and comes up with headlines like " the wall stands tall" , " The invincible wall" . But, when Sachin makes a 50, it is not enough. He is lost his class. Everyone knows about the hue and cry Indian media made about " it is time for Saching t retire" and sentences like " Sachin doesnt win games for Inida and he is very selfish".
Hello...are the other 10 players in Indian team doing Charity there? Are they sporting saints??
Indian media has become the most dangerous than Pakistani terrorism in J&K. What a terrorist can achieve ? They can kill and masscre people. But , what is our Media capable of ?? Well...there are no limits.

Any sane person should be able to understand the role of media in many controversies.
Take a look at Kanchi Shankaracharya's case, take a look at Godhra violences, take a look at anti-HIndutva capmaigns, take a look at our Indian Sports scence..
Everywhere you wish to see an unbiased, knowledgeable, balanced and critical Media..but what you see is a biased, self interested, over critical, sycophantic and pseudo - secularist media trying to impress the Colonolists and self proclaimed democrats ( als US of A).
I love to see one news paper or one TV Channel that is not against Hinduism in India.

Well...coming back to sachin Tendulkar, he has already achieved what any other cricket player living today cant even dream of achieving. What ever he does will be a record from now on. People might talk about Matt Haydens, Ricky Pintings or Jack Kallis...but they are no where near Sachins' class. Give him bowlers like Glenn McGrath, Gillespie and Shane warne and Sachin will win every match for India without any Rahuls and Souravs. There is not end if I continue to write about him.....

Coming back to football....itz again a let down by Arsenal defence against Sepieces. Two fantastic goals by Thierry Henry could not help the Gunners as their defending again gave in to some standard shots. Now, every opponent know where to hit them...this is very very dangerous....

One of the Greatest Carnatic vocalists , the great MS passed away. She made the " Bhaja govindam " of Shankaracharya more mesmerising and enchanting, she gave a new style to "vishnu Sahasra namam" and " the almighty in Tirupati wakes up with her Suprabhatam". What else a human being can pray for?? She really is the brightest jewel in the crown of Carnatic Music. Though I dont like the way she sang some of the Telugu keerthans , her pronunciation of Sanskrit is just amazing. May her soul rest in piece .



Thursday, December 09, 2004

The cruising Champs!!!!

Real Madrid blasted into the Knockout stages of UEFA Champions League in style.
A Ronaldo opener and two second half goals from Luis Figo proved again that you cant keep them calm for a long time.
English Champs Arsenal, cup holders Porto, English Leaders Chelsea, Liverpool ...all into the next stages.

Barcelona, AC Milan , Jeventus reached the next stages well before the completion of group stages.

February 2005 will witness some royal battles. I wish my fav teams reach the quarters and RMFC lift the cup again for the 10th time.

Go Real go and go Figo go.....................

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

well.....!!!

I ve been going though many blogs in the past 2 weeks. So many different thoughts , many different opinions.....it just makes you wonder how much people like to express their thoughts.
But one thing that has annoyed me is the stand taken by the progressive educated youngsters in the Kanchi Shankaracharya case.

Most of them dont have an opinion. They wanted the Law to take its own course. So, what can we infer from this? Is it that todays' globalized youth has become too meek to hold an opinion or is it that they are not speaking their own hearts here? Or is it that more than 20 years of education has taught them to be neutral in such aspects? Or is it the effect of the " congress" party designed education that has been nurturing our younsters from the past 50 years? I was really surprised to read that most of them are either not bothered or dont have an opinion.

Someone even pointed the flaw in the argument that the manner in which the seer was arrested was not proper. His logic was " because some criminals are enjoying royal facilities in jails and some are not even arrested, we cannot ask the accused ie Shankaracharya to be treated in a decent way". Yes, I agree with that Rational thinking. However I have my own doubts about the entire case.

People who are talking about the Law to take its own course, where were they when Karunanidhi was arrested and the supporters took to streets in response.
What Law are we talking about when the President of India granted Clemency to some Child Molesters because they belonged to the so called "dalits". Isnt a Child- Rapist a criminal if he is from a "previlleged " caste?
Is this the same Law which couldnt prove any case against the reigning Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav?
Is this the same Law which couldnt even send summons to J Jayalalitha on many cases?
Is this the same Law which couldnt even get any clue about the "Bofors" scam by the most respected family of India?
Is it the same Law which couldnt even look at the Imam in Delhi who utters whatever he wants against India and blatantly supports Pakistan?
Is it the same Law which hushed up the "Murders" that happened in Puttaparti Ashram some years back?

So, who are we asking our Shankaracharya to try?

Arent we missing something here? Arent we asking goons and criminals to investigate a crime?
Arent we leaving the socienty and our age old institutions at the mercy of bandits and scamsters?

Well!!!! I have only one answer...

Most of us pretend to be Secularists...and in the efforts to prove that we forget that we have misconceptions about secularism. Secularism is respecting other faiths, living hormoniously with then and sustaining your faith....not licking their feet, not endorsing whatever they do ..neither giving them special previlleges...

India has already suffered enough due to this Pseudo Secularism....I wish atleast this generation realised the past follies and stood up to face the evil of political-fundamentalist-colonolist axis.

This link gives some incites about the case http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/24flip.htm


Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Trade with Terrorists!!!

It is expected of the congress govt to have a soft corner for our belligerent neighbour Pakistan. After all it is the legacy of the two great men of the country namely M.K. Gandhi and JL Nehru and our Congress party is still living in those dark ages where power comes just through inheritance.

Now our so called Prime Minister has been very busy trying to negotiate peace with Pakistan. As a part of it he wants India and Pakistan to get involved in mutual Trade. Here I have my own doubts. Trade of what???

Yes, what do we trade with Pakistan??? I am very good at formulating conspiracy theories. So, what this vilious brain tells me is that Pakistan is running out of manpower for their deomestic industry ie Terrorism ( Anyone has doubts abt this???). So, they are finding it difficult to get people from India by crossing the border which is guarded. So, they pretend to be in good terms with India and amass a pool of man power that is required to create pandamonium in Kashmir and other parts of the country. Then Gen Mush will claim that inspite of his efforts for peace in the J& K region, people of Kashmir are not happy. So, it is better to conduct a Pelbicite here and decide which country it should go to. How does it sound??? Once Mr. George Bush Jr receives his Nobel for restoring peace in Iraq, the Nobel committe will nominate Gen Mush and Indian PM Sonia Gandhi ( errrr....my GK is poor....isnt she the PM of India????) for Nobel.

A story of another European coming to India and serving its miserable people and winning Nobel.You all know who is the first one. Yeah , many people in India treat her as a messenger from God...I beg to differ. She is one of those europeans who declared to the world that India is a country of poor people and the senile oldie in Rome immediatetly obliged to beatify her.

What a finish????