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More social justice

2009-08-16T16:58:00.003+05:30

The apex court says "they" are class apart. It's not enough to reserve seats and lower cut offs for them but we should take care(read reserve, discount ) at every stage.
Link

a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan said, “These socially and economically backward categories are to be taken care of at every stage even in specialised institutions like IITs.”
However, it rose to their defence, especially as they were from the socially and economically backward class. “It is relevant to mention that admittedly all these students had joined IIT Delhi in the academic year 2006-07 and 2007-08 after clearing All-India JEE conducted for all the IITs in the year 2006 and 2007. It shows that they were successful in securing the minimum cut-off marks earmarked for the SC/ST categories,” the Bench said.

“In such circumstances, it cannot be claimed that all these students are not fit to be admitted in IIT,” it said, adding, “We are of the view that ends of justice would be fully met by giving one more opportunity to them.” It directed IIT Delhi to consider their cases afresh within four weeks taking into consideration the various aspects discussed in the judgment.

This must be a pathetic defending from the IITs. Who is claiming that they are not fit to be admitted in IIT? They are being expelled for poor performance in the IIT after the admission and coaching.
Long live socialism!!

Another case for divestment

2009-07-08T16:29:00.005+05:30

This piece in TOI shows how the govt screwed up with Air India.

Aviation minister Praful Patel is setting up an international advisory board comprising prominent people, including former heads of major global airlines, to helm the turnaround of Air India. And top government sources said Ratan Tata has already been approached to head this board.

"The board will be headed by someone of the eminence of a luminary like Ratan Tata and will be set up within a month," Patel told TOI on Tuesday

The carrier was founded by J R D Tata and later was nationalized by the Nehruvian -Stalinist govt of India. In the last 60 years or so, neither Air India nor Indian Airlines made any progress in the way they operate or serve.They have been mostly used to tour Haj pilgrims sponsored by the secular govt.
Air India hardly changed even after the entry of private players into the aviation industry.The govt in the last 60+ years has created a pathetic bureaucracy and overweight air hostesses out of this carrier.
Now, it's poetic justice that the govt is asking Ratan Tata to help it out. The question is why don't they just let it go when they can't manage it?

The "Game theory" of entitlements

2009-06-16T14:47:00.005+05:30

India is much advanced in its innovation of entitlements compared to the other democracies in the world.Our politicians, mostly illiterate or semi illiterate, are masters of this entitlements game and irrespective of the party or ideology all of them agree unanimously in this regard or at least no one would dare oppose any entitlement policy.They know where they are putting their monies.

The Karnataka state govt has apparently come up with one such entitlement plan that you can read about here[ Link ], though this time they are addressing their core voters. Some argue that there is nothing wrong in this as the money is going back to those who are contributing to the temples, all these days this money is spent only on the foreign pilgrimages of so called religious minorities in India.
The YSR govt of Andhra had already come up with one such plan for a trip to Jerusalem and the CM himself has utilized the plan after his emphatic win.
The new corporate affairs minister of the central govt is also batting for one such entitlement plan, this time he is asking the corporates to oblige[ Link ]again, no corporate would dare say NO to it, they might say it should be volunatary blah blha blah.

In any of the above three cases, you don't see opposition parties raising their voice against such policies.Simple game theoretic equilibrium, you satisfy your core voters and your oppostion can't oppose it. It's such an effective weapon.

But, we have witnessed our "caste leaders" ( Lalu Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav etc) vociferously opposing women reservations bill in the parliament. I sometimes wonder, why are these affirmative action champions are so dead against women reservation bill.

The logic is simple here, if the women reservations bill is implemented, the sitting MPs have to vacate their seats.Each of them has to vote for vacating his seat, as the seat allocation is not decided yet. If we change the game a bit, that all the MPs know which all seats are becoming women seats then we can see those losing their seats voting against it and those not losing seats being indifferent to or for the bill.

If we forget for a moment whether the women reservations bill is good for the country as such, we can see that our politicans clearly support anything that gurantees them votes, irrespective of whether that has to do anything with the country's benefit. It's not only true for out politicians but it's true for most of the Indians. We play our own little games in our lives and do things which benefit us, it could be while voting for a party or voting against a party.
May be it's true that Indians are individually smart but collectively dumb as the ex-IIMA prof put it here

"In the first chapter of my book, I describe what I believe Indians are like by offering 12 canons of "Indian-ness." For example, one of our traits is "low trustworthiness." By that I mean we are most likely not to cooperate in a prisoner's dilemma kind of situation. Privately, Indians are reasonably smart - in fact, we are as smart as anybody else - but publicly we are dumb. Our ability to understand the need for cooperation is very low. We believe that cooperation and selfishness
cannot go together- which is not true. We also tend to be very fatalistic in our outlook. We give excuses such as, "What can I do alone? Everybody else is looking out for himself, so why shouldn't I?"

The problem with these entitlements is that , similar to time, they are irreversible. Whoever may come to power in the future, will not have the gall to reverse these socially inefficient policies.

The second coming of Los Galacticos

2009-06-11T17:45:00.002+05:30

It was
-Zidane
-Beckham
-Figo
-Ronaldo ( the fat one)

Now it would be
- Kaka
-Ronaldo ( the womanizer)
-Ribery??
-David Villa??
-Xabi Alonso??

Real has not progressed beyond the knock out stages of UCL in the recent past and they are no where near what they used to be.But, the return of Galactico era?No, puhleeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz........Florentino Perez is back to destroy the great club again.

Professional tennis and gender discrimination

2009-06-10T18:43:00.004+05:30

I grew up watching Pistol Pete and Stefi Graf ruling the tennis world. Naturally I loved the grace of Sampras and the versatility of Stefi, though I always respected Navratilova for her grit and greatness, my heart was always rooting for Stefi.
I still dispise french open and don't consider it an equal to other grand slams for all those matches I had to watch Pete beaten by some worthless tennis player.He simply was reduced to a mere mortal ,nay, worse than that on that Roland Garros slow and dead clay court.
I almost stopped watching and following tennis after the retirement of Pete and thought there would never be a player of his league.But I was proved wrong.
When I saw Federer for the time first time in Wimbledon , he looked more like another Carlos Moya with his pony and that deforemd nose. As I started following his game, I started liking his game as it is the same grace that has made a come back to the tennis court.And contrary to many other Pistol Pete fans, I have become a fan of this man and his game.His game is simply poetry, it just flows with grace.
I should mention here that I like players who use single hand for their returns and shots. I dislike thos who grunt and use both the hands to play tennis.Even though I have no respect for French Open, Roger made me follow it for four consecutive finals to root for him. But, the butcher from Mallorca was always there to nail him in the finals. Nadal has become unbeateable on clay and slowly bettered his "effectiveness" on other courts, which was proved in 2008 Wimbledon final.
Nadal has been a successful and a winning star but his game is boring with no grace and no elegance. I respect him for his attitude and his toughness but he can never come in the league of Pete and Federer.
After the recent Frecnh Open win of Federer, there were many people who said that Federer could win it just because Nadal was not there in the finals.The say that one has to beat the reigning champion to become the king of the game.May be they are unaware of the term called "bogey man" and are too biased towards Nadal.Should we talk about someone who failed to come to finals??
Many tennis professionals and former players around the world have declared Roger Federer as the greatest ever, Pete himself has said that if he wanted someone to beat his 14 grand slams record, it was Roger.But, are 14 slams that great?? Does it become a bench mark just beause no "man" could do it till date?
Why should we not lookt at those players who are not "men" and have won much more than this "14"?
Stefi Graf had won 22 grandslams, Navratilova won 18 and Chris Evert had won 18.Why the game is so different for men and women?Ofcourse women play 3 setters and win less prize money than their male counter parts.But, isn't competition much harder in women, look at all those "novas" from Russia?Isn't randomeness higher in a 3 setter than a 5 setter?Anyone on their day can win a 3 setter and winning a 5 setter takes a lot of consistency.So, someone who keeps wining those 3 setter for almost a decade must be really much better than the rest in the game.
Stefi is the only player till date to win all the four grand slams four times each, she is the only player to win a Golden Slam and I don't think anyone can beat her 22 grand slams record in the modern era.She could play on any surface and she was a complete player. She played the best tennis that we have seen so far.
Some people attribute her success to that unfortunate incident which happened to Monica Seles. But, if we look at the record
"In head-to-head matches, Graf never had a losing record versus Seles at any point in her career, and prior to 1990, Graf was undefeated versus Seles in three encounters. Seles, however, won four of the seven matches they played from 1990 through 1993, including a 3–1 advantage over Graf in Grand Slam tournaments. From the start of 1991 until the April 1993 Seles stabbing (i.e., the period of Seles's dominance), Graf lost nineteen matches but only two of these were to Seles (while defeating her three times). Graf retired with a 10-5 lifetime record over Seles, including a 6–4 winning record versus Seles in Grand Slam singles tournaments and a 3–2 winning record versus Seles while Seles was ranked World No. 1 in 1991-1993"Link

That period of Grafs career when she lost her No: 1 ranking was more to do with her personal and injury problems than the dominance of grunting Seles.

I think we should have a tournament b/w the tope 3 male and female seeds every year and crown the player as Champion of the year.But, during the last decade women's tennis has beocme more of a glamour show than the game of tennis.That is the reason we don't see any more Navratilovas and Stefi Grafs. The "novas" come and go but I don't think we are fortunate enough to see another great player like Stefi.She is the best and greatest ever.

Aam Aadmi Economics

2009-06-01T18:46:00.003+05:30

The Aam Aadmi is a peace loving person. He is just a simple dude who wants to live by himself and a benign person.
But, when there are too many Aam Aadmis ( 100-200), they generally get bored of each other and start destroying public property. Does the Aam Aadmi know that public property is his property and the property is bought with the taxes he pays?This would open a pandoras box whether every Aam Aadmi pays tax. That's a different question altogether.

May be the Aam Aadmi is an economic genius. In these times of economic slow down, he devised new ways to improve the country's GDP. He destroyed some 7000Crs worth public property in Punjab recently and now some 100 Crs worth in Bihar.This would make the otherwise reluctant UPA government to spend money on reacquiring these assets. This would boost the economy of the country and create jobs.
I think the social scientist Ashis Nandy is going to agree with me on this.Please have a look at thislink to know why I quote Ashis Nandy here.

Champions of Europe 2009

2009-05-29T17:25:00.003+05:30

I am no great fan of FC Barcelona but they played some good football in the just concluded season.

Rogue politicians exploiting innocent people

2009-05-21T16:35:00.008+05:30

I have been of the view that people get the Governments and leaders they deserve.If not everyone of them, at least 80% of them deserve the rule that is there at present.

If you are someone who believes in the "wisdom" of the masses, you would have trouble explaining Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav winning 20+ LS seats in the recent general elections.We hear our intellectuals talking about how the common man is more concerned about winning his daily bread than lofty ideas like national security, fiscal deficits,economic stability etc.May be that is the reason the common man in UP voted for Mulayam Singh Yadav's party. But, wasn't it the SP's manifesto that promised to curb English and Computers? Doesn't the common man in UP believe that learning english would improve his chances of winning daily bread? Or is it that the common man in UP believes that computers have reduced his chance of winning daily bread, one might wonder about the penetration of computers in UP, it must be mind boggling, that the mean machines are stealing the daily bread of the common man.

The common man in West Bengal is even smarter. He rightly voted for the lady who drove away the 3rd world car project from the green and fertile fields of bong land.But the choice for the bengali babu is easier, he had to choose between the lesser of the two evils. Some of the eminent intellectuals even claim that the Left got decimated because of it's opposition to the nuclear deal. The common man in bengal is very smart you see, he knows not only about the 3rd world car project but also about the nuclear deal.He voted for the Lady who opposed the car project but voted against the Left for opposing the nuclear deal. The bengali babu is a very smart and complex person. Wish we had such a profound depth of thought!

I chanced upon one of the Wiki articles on a dude called Alexander Tytler. The following paragraph is attributed to him.

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tytler

I don't know whether he said the exact thing or not but this makes lot of sense.Nothing beasts the populist policies in a democracy.(now, don't argue with me about the average age 200 yrs and all that)I am shocked and surprised that none talks about the biggest and most effective populist policy that the previous UPA govt introduced. People talk about NREGA, Farm loan waivers and the crap that people wanted secular govt etc. But, none talks about the OBC quotas that were introduced by the incumbent govt.( I am not interested in debating the pros and cons of this quota, we all know it) I think that one factor would have given the grand old party of India at least 10% votes advantage over rivals. I know many people who have benefited from this quota and they are all grateful to the govt that introduced this. One shot, rivals can't oppose it and you have a loyal vote bank for the next election. Bang!!!

I think what is attributed to that Tytler dude makes lot of sense and my belief that people get the govts that they deserve holds good.

Back!!!

2009-05-20T12:53:00.001+05:30

Yes, I think it's time to come back here.

The devil always gets its way...!

2006-05-24T09:44:00.000+05:30

Finally the Congress got its way. They are going to implement the OBC reservations in higher education. They also promised that they are going to hike the seats in these institutes so that the open category seats remain the same.

But I have a small doubt. What would be the cost the govt has to bear for hiking the seats. I heard someone remarking on telly that last year the total money spent on higer education is around 1000 Crores. The money needed to hike seats in AIIMs and other institutes is 4000 Crores.The budgeted money on Secondary and Higer Education for 2006-2007 can be viewed here.
http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2006-07/eb/stat02.pdf

Yes, the UPA will implement 27% OBC reservations but I dont think they will keep their promise of hiking the seats. The open category studetns will be given a raw deal.

The middle classes of India well deserve this treatment for its indifference. We get the govts that we deserve.

Dhimmies ...!!!!!

2006-05-08T12:38:00.000+05:30

Many times on my blog I reiterated that Congress(I) is the most sectarian, most communal and most anti-India party.
The happenings over the last 2-3 months clearly proved my points. The icing on the cake is the Dargah issue in Vadodara.
In two days, two incidents took place. 30 odd Hindus were massacred by militants in J&K on day one and the Dargah issue on the second day.

In early 2006, following a High Court order, municipal authorities in Vadodara demolished 42 temples
http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&file_name=edit1%2Etxt&counter_img=1
Neither the Government of India nor the Supreme Court of India nor any secularist felt any need to intervene and prevent the destruction of Hindu shrines and cultural symbols.
But as the Dargah is demolished we saw myriad voices supporting the protesters and shunning the GUjarat govt.The High Court order had been to "take immediate steps for removal of encroachment of religious structures on the public space without any discrimination" and this is exactly what the authorities had done.
All affected religious communities cooperated, except the Muslims.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/02/stories/2006050211400100.htm ; http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/02/stories/2006050204511000.htm ; http://dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story2%2Etxt&counter_img=2&phy_path_it=D%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Cmay206 ; http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story2%2Etxt&counter_img=2 ; http://dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&file_name=edit1%2Etxt&counter_img=1&phy_path_it=D%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Cmay306 ; http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/03/stories/2006050300960100.htm ; http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/05/stories/2006050507021200.htm ;

Not surprisingly, our Media was busy showing the interviews of hurt Muslims in Vadodara. They completely forgot that 30odd Hindus ( a minority in J&k) were massacred in J&K. Humanrights activists,NGOs etc etc raised their voices against the authorities of Vadodara. But none spoke about the killings in J&k.
The Prime Minister of India was concerned enough to issue a statement and the Union Home Minister said that such killings will not derail the peace process.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/02/stories/2006050204501000.htm ; http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/03/stories/2006050300960100.htm .

Yes, peace to Islamic militants...they can kill in piece. They will be given enough co operation by the Indian Govt.
Neither the National Human Rights Commission nor the Supreme Court of India felt the killing of Hindus by militants warranted their intervention.

I vividly remember that sometime back there was a grave of Prophet Mohammed's mother being buldozed to construct a shopping mall in Saudi Arabia. No Indian muslim raised voice. A grave in Saudi is far more genuine than a grave in India. Why didnt they protest against Saudi Aiuthorities? They very well know that the Arabs dont give a shit to Indian muslims. The only place where these people can raise a voice is India because of the existence of people like Arjun Singh and most of the Congresswallahas and not to forget the people who vote for Congress.

Of kewl dudes and chill pills...

2005-12-29T11:26:00.000+05:30

Whenever there is a terrorist attack or a bomb blast...most of us convince ourselves that it doesnt matter to us. It reminds me of a poem I read somewhere...

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. "

Communal??

2005-12-26T10:27:00.000+05:30

I always believed that Congress(I) is the most communal and funadamentalistic political party in India. All the PMs from that G-N family are bloody fundamentalists.

The recent 104th Constitutional Amendment Bill proved my belife once again. The worst communal party backed by the Loonie commies got the bill approved with minimum fuss. Is there any oppositon party in the House? What is BJP doing?

Why should private "unaided" educational institutions make room for reservations? Who will be bearing that cost? The answer is "the so called upper caste Hindu kids will be paying for their so called Lower caste brotheren".

Then, why cant this be extended to the minority institutions? Why are they left out? Is it a dictum from Rome and Riyadh?

Or is it another armtwisting by the Catholic Church hinting Hindus that "Eitehr Convert or Perish"?
So much for Secularism.....hell with it...

PS: Natwar would be thinking " Arjun bhai tera bhi time aaayega...tu bhi banega scapegoat ek din.."

When the Christists or Muslims...keep the sword on his head and tell him "convert or die.."...I dont think it is a problem for Mr. Arjun Singh as he has sold his soul already.

The Temple that is.....

2005-12-19T16:28:00.000+05:30

" The Self dwells in the lotus of the heart and for this
He is known as the Lord of the heart.
A sage knows this and in meditation
he visits this temple in the heart,
Day after day he enjoys the kingdom of heaven inside."

-Chandogya Upanishad

The right to kill.....

2005-11-24T15:36:00.000+05:30

To save the life of an Indian imprisoned by Pakistan , our media made a hue and cry.No idea what happened to that guy but our Media made the Pakistani general look like a moderate diplomat. They tried help him improve his image.

There is this poor truck driver Maniappan Kutty from Kerala who was kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistan. Our secular govt didnt even bother to save him. India is helping that bloody country in every aspect and we cant even save Indians who work there.The media didnt bother much about the incident.More surprisingly, there is hardly any reaction from the Kerala govt.Is this because the guy is from so called Majority community??
Finally, those fanatics have killed the poor guy. In a country where even the captured terrorists are not shoot at once, there are many like Mr. Maniappan Kutty who die because of the incapable and reluctant govts.

Another side of the same coin:

Sometime back it was Satyendra Dubey from NHAI and now it is Manjunath from IOC. Can govt crib that students from top notch institutes are queing up to join MNCs? Or do they say that join the PSUs and be a part of the corruption pool?

Jokers...!!!!

2005-11-23T15:38:00.000+05:30

These NDTV wallahs never fail to amuse me. They always amuse me with their screwed up reports and rhetoric.

I happened to see Nitish Kumat being interviewed by Pranoy Roy and Burkha Dutta...the self proclaimed "best jopurnalists in India".

Pranoy roy: Sir, do you think your victory is a lesson to BJP?

Me: How the f***? Is this guy gone nuts...it could be a lesson to Lalu but how in the hell it can be a lesson to BJP?

Burkha Dutta: Sir, do you think your victory should tell BJP that the Hardline HIndutva is not going to succeed?

Me: Huhhh..!!! Where did they learn this logic? Why cant it be a lesson to Ram Vilas Paswan who put up a dummy Bin Laden to gain the muslim votes, who claimed he wants to see a muslim become the CM of Bihar? Why BJP?? BJP has won more number of seats than RJD and Congress put together. Why cant this be a lesson to Congress that they cant team up with goons and win the elections?

All the time these two were talking about BJP blah blah blah blah...Hindutva blah blah blah...Why are these people so obsessed with BJP and Hindutva? I think they think more about Hindutva than BJP itself.

But the jewel in the crown of NDTV is that young reporter from Patna who was so excited and read out that "Mr. Nitish Kumar has put an end to the 15 yrs of "BJP" rule in Bihar".

Me: WTF...which world is this guy living in? As far as I know it was Lalu's RJD ruling Bihar for the past 15 years.

I laughed my ass off...these bong NDTV reporters are brainwashed so much about BJP and Hindutva that they talk about BJP and Hindutva while reporting any news.

And our BCCI leaves NDTV much much behind in amusing me.
" Sourav Ganguly finds a place in Indian test team"....

Rediff report:

"Ganguly, who was earlier stripped of the ODI and Test captaincy, was included in the team as a "'batting all-rounder'"(battling would ve been a better word) after a marathon meeting of the five-member selection committee meeting in Chennai

Ganguly has always been a better oneday player than a test player. How come he finds a place in Test team and not in the oneday team? Is there that much dearth of test players in India?

Pyaar, Katrina , Rita and our Media...!!

2005-09-22T08:56:00.000+05:30

Pyaar is not the "Hindi" Pyaar. It is the name of the cyclone that hit Orissa and Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the last week.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20050921115204&Page=H&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=0

It is a Myanmarese word that means `flattened'.

The Cyclone caused a havoc in coastal Andhra.It caused a damage of 18000 Crores and claimed 54 lives, though not a great number as far as Indian media is concerned and 1000 people are missing .10 districts are flooded 1.4 Lakh people are evacuated. See this TOI report

http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIM&login=sunnynu&AW=1127360342640

Our English Language media has just given superficial details of the cyclone. They dedicated "some" screen time for this coverage.

When you look at the Indian News Channels on TV, you really wonder which country you are living in.The screen time they dedicated to cover the news of Katrina in New Orleans is considerably much longer than what they dediceted for the coverage of "Pyaar", which incidentally ravaged our backyard.

I just switched on the TV to see how the relief work is going on...and I dont find a mention of "Pyaar" anywhere. They are busy airing the news of "Rita" that is going to hit Texas soon.

Our Indian govt has announced some aid to for the victims of "Katrina" with in no time. Why are they taking so much time to announce any aid to the cyclone hit areas in Orissa and Andhra? Our PM Manmohan singh is busy visiting the Lord of Tirupathi. Isnt he supposed to supervise the relief work there? What is he doing in Tirupathi at this time? Praying for his power to stay or is it a dictum from Her Majesty to go and check the 7 hills for the occupation of Evangelists??

Ohhh...there were some self proclaimed humanitarians who pledged their solidarity to the victims of Katrina ..all over the Internet. Where are they now? Are they pledging their solidarity to the victims of "Pyaar"?

The cyclone might be small compared to katrina and the aftereffects might be different too. But the loss of 54 lives is not small and the number of people who are displaced from their homes is also not small.

Or is it the efficiency of our Govt which made the cyclone look "not that serious"?

A family with a "Difference"...

2005-09-19T10:17:00.000+05:30

The recent report about the KGB buying some Indian "leaders" to get internal secrets is no shocker. Everyone knows that our "netas" can go to any extent for money. There is no harm now as the KGB itself is dead and Russia is a spent force.

The real threat now is China. Our Communist brothers are reigning Delhi and they dont miss any opportunity to showcase their loyalty to Communist China.

Who knows ??...they might be supplying all the internal secrets to China free of cost. Do we realise this only after China invade India and make it another Tibet ot Taiwan??

Tail Piece: How about following our Bollywood in this sense and asking Rahul Gandhi to get tattooed "mera baaap chor hai" "meri dadi desh drohi hai" "mera pardada tho us se bada desh drohi hai"...

Paki Media....???

2005-09-14T08:58:00.000+05:30

All these days I thought NDTV is an Indian News Channel. But I have my own doubts now.

One headline reads " PM Manmohan Singh meets US President Bush on ...."

Another headline reads " Manmohan Singh to meet President Musharaff".

I ve seen this umpteen number of times on NDTV that they address Pakistan President as "Presidnet Musharaff " and our own PM as "Manmohan Singh".

When it is with US president our PM is PM Manmohan Singh and when it is with that filthy self proclaimed Paki Gen it is Manmohan Sing...!!!!!

They will realize the day when some Paki terrorist blows away their TV station or some near and dear.

What the hell is wrong with these guys? Are they Pakistan based news channel?

Huhhhh......!!!!!!!!

Free???

2005-08-24T09:39:00.000+05:30

you grow up hearing the song of freedom. Time and again you are told that you can choose the way you tread and you have options to choose from, many options.You love life and its pleasant surprises. You start admiring life's unpredictability and love to make most of those uncertainities.You grow up to become an optimist. YOu see clear skies,green grass and sunshines. YOu see innumerable possibilities.

By the time you start feeling strong enough life opens the doors to reality. You realise that you are not what you thought to be. YOu are not free as much as you assumed to be.You are vulnerable to the misdeeds of your people.You are vulnerable to their indifference. Their follies can still hurt you. YOu no more enjoy their fancies and whims. YOu dont do anything wrong yet you suffer.YOu become a slave to the actions of people you live with. YOu can neither enjoy solitude nor their company. In solitude you think about their actions and in their company you long to be let alone.

You are no more a bundle of joy.YOu fail to distinguish between pain and joy because you come to conclusion that both of them are illusions. Your smiles are a matter of fact, your tears dry up, you become indifferent to everything that is happening around you. You talk, walk,work yet you are not invloved in anyone of these actions. YOu just do it for the heck of it. You neither resent doing anything nor enjoy doing anything.

So, what is wrong? Is it something to do with your conditioning or you as such? Or is it that you expect too much from the people around you? When you have nothing to do with their actions why do those actions matter to you? You are neither the source nor the target of their actions, yet why do they hurt you?

Gone Missing...

2005-08-11T09:02:00.000+05:30

Nanavati commission report is made public and it clearly tells us who are the culprits.

Where are the self -proclaimed secularists and human rights activists who scouted for the blood of Narendra Modi.......like
Shabana Azmi,
Teesta Seetalvad,
Mahesh Bhatt,
Javed Akthar,
Kuldip Nayyar,
Arundhati Roy.....and their ilk.?????

yes, I can figure out the reason....Sikhs dont have any Godfathers in other countries like Pakistan, Europe and US to sponsor these so called "Secular and Human Rights activists".

After all it is one of their Secular bothers who is indicted........;)

detoxification....!!!

2005-08-09T10:20:00.000+05:30

As usual good stuff from Mr. Gurumurthy.

http://www.newindpress.com/newspages.asp?page=2&Title=Second+Article&

I was discussing about the problems that India facing today on an online community and I was talking about the same point. Our education system tries to demaean things which are Indian. It never asks a kid to be proud of his origin rather it tells him that he should learn to live like someonelse.

"detoxifying ‘truths’ are contained in textbooks to educate young India. Obviously, Secular India has accepted the Marxian view as its view of the timeless India. So the message is clear: deride revered symbols like Rama and Krishna, demean noble souls like Sri Ramakrishna and devalue great heroes like Prithviraj. So that young India does not look up to them, or to anyone within India, for inspiration and looks elsewhere".

Mr Gurumurthy is at his best when he said

" Asked why a book in which Sri Ramakrishna is described in demeaning terms was permitted by NCERT, the HRD Minister Arjun Singh gave a lecture to the media on history writing. ‘‘History has to be written after carefully weighing all facts”. “Of course, I have not read the book in question. If it is so written we should look into it!” “Should look into it” — what a sober reply! He could afford to be sober as he knows that no mob will burn down government owned buses or buildings for vulgarising one of the greatest spiritualists of all time, Sri Ramakrishna. There will be no fatwas kill the writers, no bandh or violence. Thus goes on detoxification to save secularism. Notwithstanding that it corrupts, even destroys, the idea of India in the mind of young, unwary Indian".

The Winning habit.

2005-08-08T10:23:00.000+05:30

England have finally manged to win the 2nd test of Ashes. They almost screwed it up that I thought they lost it. They deserved to win the match as they outplayed ozzies in all the departments. Flintoff played his heart out and proved that he is a genuine alrounder who can make differnce. Once again the Ozzie attack wihout McGrath looked ordinary.

The game reminded me one thing the Geff Boycott said once that Winning is a habit.

In normal life also, you see some guys make it a habit. They go to any exam and they come out with flying colours. Where as there are many others who are good enough but they stumble at the last step. They are as good as the winner but what they lack is that "winning habit".

In that second Ashes test when Ozzies were 8 down with more that 125 runs to score, everyone thought it is a matter of time for England to win. But the English who havent won any test against the Ozzies in the recent past were full of butterflies. The thought of winning excited them so much that they didnt bowl properly.Flintoff was stretched a bit far I think. But who cares, a win is a win after all and they deserved it.The Ozzies as usual are resilient, they alsmost won the match.

But, I think that ball of Shane Warne to Strauss on the second day, which spun some 2 meters, is the best ball in the recent times. Warne is not old yet, he is still the best spinner in the world.

India has won the match against Windies and reached the triseries finals. Good..isnt it??? Especially the batting of Yuvaraj and Kaif needs to be appreciated. They played well though against a weak bowling attack.

But what I hated to see is that expression of Yuvaraj after reaching his 100. Every Indian can read out his lips. Yes, he played superbly but what he needs to know is that is his first century in the last 1 year. I think he was reacting to his exclusion in the team for one match against Sri Lanka.

It is better he talks with his bat frequently rather than uttering some expletive whenever he hits some runs once in a bluemoon. He can learn much from his seniors like Rahul Dravid and Sachin who are epitomes of modesty. Sachin has hit more than 35 centuries and none has seen his uttering such words even once. Critics called him selfish, record-wanting etc.etc...but he never behaved like this.

What makes people like Sachin, Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher legends is their modesty. It is better our young players learn these things from the greats.

2005-07-15T09:36:00.000+05:30

Resume....

2005-07-12T15:49:00.000+05:30

I got this as an email fwd. It is the career profile of our so called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

EDUCATION /Qualification:
Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, PanjabUniversity, Chandigarh, 1952;Stood first in MA (Economics), PanjabUniversity, Chandigarh, 1954;Wright's Prize for distinguished performanceat St John's College, Cambridge, 1955 and 1957;Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,1957;DPhil (Oxford),DLitt (Honoris Causa);PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness
OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience:
Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics),1957-59;Reader, Economics, 1959-63;Professor, Economics, Panjab University,Chandigarh, 1963-65;Professor, International Trade, Delhi Schoolof Economics,University of Delhi, 1969-71;Honorary professor, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity,New Delhi, 1976 andDelhi School of Economics, University ofDelhi,1996 andCivil Servant
Working Experience/ POSITIONS:
1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry offoreign trade 1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry offinance 1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India;Director, IndustrialDevelopment Bank of India;Alternate governor for India,Board of governors, Asian Development Bank;Alternate governor for India,Board of governors, IBRDNovember 1976 - April 1980: Secretary,ministry of finance (Department of economicaffairs);Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission;Member, finance, Space Commission
April 1980 - September 15, 1982:Member-secretary, Planning Commission1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of theIndo-Japan joint study committeeSeptember 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985:Governor, Reserve Bank of India1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Boardof governors, International Monetary Fund1983-84: Member, economic advisory council tothe Prime Minister1985: President, Indian Economic Association
January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987: DeputyChairman, Planning CommissionAugust 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990:Secretary-general and commissioner, Southcommission, GenevaDecember 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisorto the Prime Minister on economic affairsMarch 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC
June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union financeministerOctober 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha fromAssam on Congress ticketJune 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committeefor the ministry of financeAugust 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman,Parliamentary standing committee on commerceMarch 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of theOpposition, Rajya SabhaJune 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee onfinance
August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee onrulesAug 1998-2001: Member, committee ofprivileges2000 onwards: Member, executive committee,Indian parliamentary group
June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya SabhaAug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposescommittee
BOOKS:
India's Export Trends and Prospects forSelf-Sustained Growth -Clarendon Press, OxfordUniversity, 1964;...also published a large number of articlesin various economic journals.
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge,1956
Padma Vibhushan, 1987
Euro money Award, Finance Minister of theYear, 1993;
Asia money Award, Finance Minister of theYear for Asia, 1993 and 1994
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:
1966: Economic Affairs Officer
1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section,UNCTAD
1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee ofTwenty on International Monetary Reform
1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-IndiaConsortium Meetings
1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning groupmeeting
1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting
1993: Commonwealth Heads of GovernmentMeeting Cyprus1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna
RECREATION:
Gymkhana Club, New Delhi;Life Member, India International Centre, NewDelhi

Guess what I said after going through the above??.....
What a waste of education.....!

In death we differ...

2005-07-11T10:33:00.000+05:30

The way media reacts to similar happenings.....at different places. When someone bombed Bombay, it was because their sentiments were hurt. But, when they bomb London or US, it is because they are "terrorists". Those who bomb mainland India are freedom fighters and those who bomb US or London are "terrorists".

BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm
London rocked by terror attacks
Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1029393,00.html
45 killed in Bombay bomb blasts
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1523933,00.html
Four bombs in 50 minutes - Britain suffers its worst-ever terror attack
Compare the following sttaements from the Guardian reports.
On the Bombay blasts -There was no immediate claim of responsibility last night - but suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist extremists, possibly taking revenge for last year's communal riots in the neighbouring state of Gujarat, where 2,000 Muslims died.
On the London blasts -At least 38 people were killed yesterday and more than 700 injured as terrorists struck at the heart of London, causing the biggest loss of life in a terrorist attack on mainland Britain.

Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/
NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-07T170056Z_01_N07318127_RTRIDST_0_
NEWS-SECURITY-BRITAIN1-DC.XML

Four blasts tore through packed trains and a bus during London rush hour on Thursday, killing over 33 people and disrupting a summit of world leaders in Scotland in the deadliest PEACETIME ATTACK on the capital.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/
content_objectid=13330948_method=full_siteid=
50143_headline=-42-DEAD-IN-BOMBAY-BOMB-ATTACKS-name_page.html

The 1993 bombings followed Hindu-Muslim riots triggered by the destruction by Hindu zealots of a 16th century mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya. Hindu hardliners say the mosque was built on the site of a Hindu temple.
Since then, Ayodhya has been a lightning rod for tensions.

But, isnt this bombing a retaliation of the genocide that is happening in Iraq and such counties for the Western oil greed?
On an average, 50 people die every week in Iraq and Kashmir due to different state sponsored terrotism. But, they are taken for granted because the victims are not Whites. It is as simple as that. Somehow our Indian media is besotted with the same syndrome. They cry from roof tops about the attacks on western countries where as attacks in Iraq and Kashmir get very little mention.

Tennis Time.

2005-06-24T12:33:00.000+05:30

Yes, it is time for tennis.I cant say that I am a religious follower of tennis. However, few years back I used to watch every single match of two players.

Pistol Pete and Steffi.Both are legends in their own styles. Pete, a grass court invincible. stefi, an invincible on any court.Once these two retired, I almost stopped watching Tennis.

People claimed that Hewitt is the next King, but I never liked his game and his girly -whines. Media said "Andy Roddick" arrived. But, I was skeptical about these two.

I watched Marat Safin beating Pete in US open final. This guy was amazing. He looked like a big player. I thought he could be the future king, though I didnt like his tempermental nature that was evident in the following championships.

While all this was happening, there is a silent assasin who made his way into the grand slam stage.
Roger Federer arrived very calmly without any hype. I started watching him but without any expectations with One thing in my mind"can he be another Pete?".

Though not ewxactly of the same style, he is another Pete on grass court. He is the King of grass. I dont think any of his contemporaries posess the same talent.

He is talented and he is humble. He is the reigning king of tennis. There is only one man who can stop this express. Marat Safin. But, Safin is not all that good on grass. On any other surface I would have said anything can happen. But on grass, I am sure ruthless Roger Federer will prevail.

But, is there a successor to Stefi??I dont see any of these gals capable of matching that talent. Though Sherapova might win the title she is no way near Stefi or for that matter Martina.

WTF...??????????????

2005-06-20T09:29:00.000+05:30

I hate to use the three lettered expression...but last week...I uttered the same umpteen number of times.

The State Govt of Andhra Pradesh lead by Mr. Y. Samuel Rajashekhar Reddy confirmed 5% reservations for Muslims. With this, the total reservations in Andhra becomes 51%. So, all the so called majorities or forward castes consisting of Brahmins, Reddys, Naidus, Vaishyas etc...can compete for those remaining 49% or they can migrate to other states....wait....but the scenes in other states are not that rosy either....so, they can migrate to countries like US, UK etc...and live the lives of Sand-Niggers ....no probs....at least they are given enough opportunites in those countries. Congress govts in different states can ask Bangladesh and Pakistan to let their populace migrate into India so that the geographic distribution is maintained after all the Hindus leave the land.

The Dy CM of Karnataka almost got killed himself and some 8 bystanders when he fiddled with a Proclianer. Officials blamed the driver because he was not able to control the vehicle while Dy CM pressed a control button. One 8th std student lost his leg in this freak mishap.
I think they are filing a case against the driver now....though everyone knows who is responsible for the mishap.

Now into world of Sport:

The World Champions and supposedly invincibles....Ozzies lost to minnows Bangladesh. That too....Bangladesh chased a total of 250 against the Ozzie attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adding insult to injury, they lost to England in the next game. In the triangular series featuring Aussies, Eng and Bangladesh......the Ozzies are at 3rd place.

The FIA screwed up with the US GP and it is pathetic to see only 6 cars running there. Schumi won an empty race and the F1 fans lost. If FIA keeps doing such stupid thigs....I doubt whether I will be able to watch Formula One after some 3 years.

On the other side....

Greece are shown what they really are when it comes to Football in the Confederations cup. A 3-0 thrashing by the World Champions Brazil and a 1-0 loss to Asian Champs Japan show the quality they have.

Pope, Prince Charles and Liverpool FC!!!!

2005-06-17T09:29:00.000+05:30

Thanx to my friend Anil..!

" In1981 the Pope died, Prince Charles got married and Liverpool were Crowned chanmpions of Europe. This year(2005) the Pope died, Prince Charles got married and Liverpool are crowned Champions of Europe. Coincidence… But True….!! "

So, Liverpool should look forward to the death of Pope and the 3rd marriage of Prince Charles..;)

Long live Democracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-06-13T18:04:00.000+05:30

"when the time came to choose a prime minister in the interim government of 1946, out of the 20 DPCC members who voted, 19 voted for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and that it was only after Gandhiji asked him to stand down in favour of Nehru that the latter became prime minister"

Isnt congress still keeping with the tradition???;-)

still colonised????

2005-05-27T10:07:00.000+05:30

Our indian CEOs really surprise me. The moment I think that they are the best intelluctuals available in the country, they do something or the other to change my opinion.The great NRN proved that he is another please-all by proposing reservations in the private sector.Bang...all the respect I had for him vanished in a giffy.

There was a column by Jerry Rao ( CEO of Mphasis) in the New Indian express dtd:26th May 2005. The topic attracted my attention as it is about one of the suckers in the past..namely Thomas MaCauly of British India. Some of the points made by the authror really surprised me. Has he written the article himself? Has he done his homework well before making those statements??
When a Technocrat writes an article in a newspaper, people attatch lot of credibility to it. The wirting can influence differnt people given the present socio-economic conditions of the country.

http://www.newindpress.com/newspages.asp?page=m&Title=Main+Article&aDate=5%2F26%2F2005

Let me quote some of the points he made.

"Macaulay was not even a governor-general or viceroy. He was a humble “member of the governor-general’s council”.

sir, Harikishan Singh Surjeet is not even a memeber of Parliament. Still he execrcises more power than our Prime Minister. After some 50 years when our grand children read history, they would definitely wonder how a man like Harikishan Singh Surjeet influenced the policy making.
"He thought of Indians as primitive, childish people. The closest comparison he had was to untutored Russians before Peter the Great transformed them."

Wrong, I mention here a letter written by Thomas Macauly:

" I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and , therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation’ (this letter can be seen at the British museum in London, UK)."

"I, for one, am grateful to Macaulay. Without his gift to us, so many of us would be lesser individuals, not just different individuals"

This really amazes me. Had there been no British invention, India would be a much better nation than what it is now. For that matter, had there been no Moslem invasions , India would still be the richest country in the world. so, saying that without someones's contribution this present wont be there is an asinine statement. Presnt development doesnt justify past mistakes and atrocities.

Have yu bothered to verufy any stats sir??

If you look at the statistics in 1820, India's share of world production was 19%, and England's share was 9%, please note that Britain was deep into the industrial revolution at that time. 18% of the world trade was in Indian hands at that time whereas 8% was the figure for Britain and 1% for US. When 80% of the American population was engaged in agriculture, India had 60% of the population engaged in non-agricultural occupations. This is supposed to be an index of development. All these statistics can be found in Paul S. Kennedy's "Rise and Fall of Great Powers".

"English is not just a medium or a means to an end; it is part of our very consciousness. The interesting thing is even while writing on completely Indian subjects, this consciousness has been a powerful force.Just consider the individuals and their writings: Vivekananda on Vedanta, Coomaraswamy on Indian Art, Aurobindo Ghose on Vedic Mysticism, Radhakrishnan on the Hindu View of Life, Krishnan on Indian Wildlife, Srinivas on Caste, Zakaria on Indian Muslims, Sircar on Indian History, Guha on Indian Cricket, Nandy on Indian Science, Kakkar on Indian Sexuality, Khushwant Singh on Indian Gossip. The list is endless.

Isnt this statement superflous? English language might suite well for Kakkar and Kushwant Singh but the langauge pales when you read those works of ancient sages translated to this language. Bernard Shaw himslef acknowledged that English is not enough to express all the sounds that exist.

We are speaking english because we were conquered by english.That is it.Look at Germany, they dont speak an iota of english. Still the way they emerged as a technology force is something great. Look at China, they hardly speak any english. Still the have been a successful nation. The reason I think these nations are successful is they are never colonised. India was colonised and our minds are still colonised whatever walk of life we are in.

"In short, a revisionist view of our British imperial legacy is overdue. Indira Gandhi can be our Dalhousie-putri (they both impoverished maharajas and nawabs); Jaswant Singh can be our Curzon-putra (they both worried about our security in a dangerous neighbourhood); and we can all be proud Macaulay-putras"

Not all Indians are that shameless dear Technocrat!!

PS: Where did the author get time to write articles for news papers?? I really wonder!!!!

2005-05-25T15:32:00.000+05:30

50% reservation for muslims in Alighar Muslim University is a great step in improving the conditon of minorities.
How communal it would be to propose some 10% reservation for Hindus in Benaras Hindu University ??? ;)

Say No to Mushh

2005-04-18T10:42:00.000+05:30

want to have this on your blog....follow the link http://opinion.paifamily.com/articles/nomush.html

Mean Media....

2005-04-18T09:33:00.000+05:30

Some head lines on various media channels which made me laugh ( actually think):

Headlines Today:

President Musharaff will be attending a dinner hosted by Manmohan Singh.

NDTV:

President Musharaff meets President Kalam.

It really made me think that my GK is bad. Am I missing something here?
Who is this President Musharaff??? Isnt there someone called General Musharaff who is the selfdeclared President of our neighbour Pakistan??

Why is it so difficult to call him Pakistan President or President of Pakistan??

How can media be so shameless in calling our PM ....just Manmohan Singh...shouldnt he be called Prime Ministed Manmohan Singh??

How can they come up with something like President Musharaff meets President Kalam??
These are the people who pride themselves with their knowledge in English. Isnt there a mistake in clarity?? Whose president is meeting whom??

Why is media going gaga over someone who has been harbouring cross border terrorism? Is it really necessary to welcome him with a red-carpet. Why are we heeding to his demands and trying to please a terrorist? If they want peace talks...let them be peace talks. No filthy cricket series and Pseudo-friendship parties.

They had a magazine progamme on one of the channels about what Gen Mush is going to eat and how they are prepared. I changed the channel immediately fearing that they are going to show where the Gen is going to shit and what kind of toilet paper he is going to use. Does he use anything at all??

Indian Govt is planning to run trucks over the border. Yeah, that will bring infiltration in J& K down. Now the jihadis have alternatives. They can either take the bus or they can travel by trucks. There will not be any infiltrations.

I still wonder why Indian govt is sucking up the @#$ of Pakistan.

some thoughts......

2005-04-13T09:22:00.000+05:30

4th ODI b/w India and Pakistan: Indians thought they are supposed to win this match and scored 315 runs. Suddenly, a govt communique comes and says that Pakistan has to win this match otherwise miya Musharaff wont be visiting Delhi. Dada takes the blow , poor Sachin gets another 100 while India loses. Sachin bashers have something to cheer for...that Sachins' centuries never won India matches.
The BCCI didnt have the guts to drop Ganguly....so they asked ICC to do something to keep dada away. ICC obliged and banned him for 6 matches for slow over rate. Finally, the skipper is dropped.
In the after math of China accepting Sikkim as a part of India, our UPA govt is planning to request China to accept all the other states also as Intergral parts of India. What a beningn gesture from China.....
NDTV is giving so much airtime to RSS and VHP. Even they had a discussion about RSS criticizing BJP about leadership issue. After all....isnt it a fun when your enemies are fighting among themselves???

There was a communist leader on NDTV preaching about leadership yesterday. He was claiming that these leadership issues surface among parties which doesnt have a rich culture of leadership. way to go for our communists......after all they have leaders even from foreign countries....

Back to Football:

It is sad to see what has happened at San Siro Y'day. A thrilling match coming to such an end doesnt augur well for the great game. AC Milan should go to semis without any rematch as they are already leading 3-0. They are the only team left to cheer for.

Added later:

Yeah, the semi final lineup is drawn.

AC Milan Vs PSV
Chelsea Vs Liverpool

It will be a cake walk for Milan.
I really support Liverpool here. Comeon Reds....thrash those lucky blues....Mourinho needs some thrashing.

A final of AC Milan Vs Liverpool ...

and no marks for guessing who will be the eventual winner.

Look !! who is talking.....

2005-03-29T11:00:00.000+05:30

Lakhs of dead people in and around Iraq, thousands in Vietnam, millions around Asian-African borders.....they were all not humans. Deaths of those people dont matter to anyone. Everyone knows who is responsible for all those deaths. The one and only Super Power ......
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/29us.htm
made me really laugh.

T V Parasuram in Washington | March 29, 2005 09:50 IST

India's human rights enforcement record has been poor and needs improvement despite being a vibrant democracy with strong constitutional protections, the United States said in a report.

The State Department on Monday, however, said the new UPA government at the Centre has started addressing rights concerns.

While lauding the Centre for "rewriting school text books" and "addressing the aftermath of the Gujarat riots", the report reiterated its concern over the situation in the state.

"Following its electoral victory in May, the government began to address a number of human rights concerns that have arisen in recent years. For example, it moved quickly to rewrite school textbooks, in order to stress the contributions of the Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Christian minority communities," it said.

However, it said, the rewriting of the textbooks has not been completed, and alleged that the Gujarat government has not recalled its old textbooks or announced plans for their replacement.

"The government also began to address the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots," it said and noted that the Supreme Court had ordered local courts to reopen over 2,000 cases connected with the post-Godhra riots.

But by the end of last year, "the report on the number of cases that should be reopened had not been submitted to the Supreme Court, and only three cases related to the Gujarat rioting had completed trial in the lower level courts," it charged.

The report claimed that human rights organisations and religious groups remained concerned about allegations of witness intimidation by local leaders in Gujarat.

You get the picture right??

I found another link somewhere else....and it made lot of sense. Esp ..in a country like Pakistan, a paper publishing this kind of article....wow....our media needs to learn a lot.

The Myth of History: Prof.Shahida Kazi" and its URL is:

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag1.htm

Why dont we present the truths about our History?? If Germany can tell their kids that Hitler was not a hero..why cant we tell our kids that Ghazni, Ghori , Akbar and Aurangzeb are not heros?? If it hurts a community...let it be.

If they can write in text books about the evils of Hinduism ...why cant they write about the evils of Islam, Christian evangelism etc.

I still wonder how rewriting school textbooks related to Human Rights * shakes head in confusion*

2005-03-24T16:26:00.000+05:30

I wish all Ye blog-izens....

A very very great Holiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Motive behind Narendra Modis' Visa

2005-03-21T15:51:00.000+05:30

Sonia should have played her cards well. But she is not a master of these political games even though she is good. The Jharkhand and Goa issues pointed towards the power hunger and ruthlessness of Sonia. She has to do something to shift the focus. There is should be some other issue to divert the attention of non-exixtent "media watch dog".

Then came the Condolesa Rice's visit to India and the first meeting she had was with Sonia. Violaaa...!!! The visit came as a blessing in disguise for Sonia. A proper plan is chalked out and immediately, the foreign consulate of US of A rejected the VISA for Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on Human Rights grounds.

Entire media and country turns towards that and suddenly everyone forgets about Jharkhand and Goa. Do we call Sonia politically immature???

People of India , beware. She is here for a purpose and she is ruthless in execution.
What a way to divert focus??

The great indian intellectauls are still lost in debating about the VISA issue. They completely forgot about Jharkhand, Goa and an imminent Bihar.

A country of billion gullibles........hats off to the lady from Italy.

A Day for Women...!!!

2005-03-14T13:41:00.000+05:30

Warning: This post might contain some so called "Sexist" opinions. Women who feel strong about it may refrain from reading.

yatra nAryasthu pUjyanthe ramanthe thatra dEvatAh |

yatrEtAsthu na pUjyanthe tatrasarvAsafala kriyAh ||

An Approximate translation would be :

"Gods bless that place where Women are respected and wherever women are not treated peoperly, obstacles will come in all the way."

This is the verse I was taught when I was a kid. I could never forget this verse because I always asked why that elevated place for women? Why cant we say that Men and Women both are same. Ofcourse, a mother always scores over a father, a sister always scores over a brother etc.
Women were given this elevated status becuse they are the only beings who can create life other than God himself. Women were considered as divinity and sanctity personified.

Every year on 8th March I get this queer feeling that all of us are cheating Women. Men, Media, countries and the so called progressive people...all are cheating women.

On 8th March 2005 I took one of my office shuttles to home. I got a seat and was lost in reading a book on "Aghora". I was disturbed by a lovely voice asking me something.

She: why cant you give some consideration to a gal , at least on International Womens' day??
Me: Yes Ma'am, what can do for you?
she: You can see that I am standing, why dont you give your seat to me??
Me: Ohh...sorry, I am one of those people who believe in gender equality. I dont want to insult you by offering a seat. That will prove that you are weak and cant even stand for some 10-15 minutes.
she: You are sad!! ( this is most common in Bangalore)
Me: I knew !!

One of those Radio City anchors was yelling on top of his voice " it is International Womens' day and many wishes to all the women in Bangalore". I cursed his loudness and lost in my book again.

I really dont understanding these celebrations of Womens' day. I think we are caught up with western consumerism and forgot to respect our women in true sense. Almost all the Women in my office assembled on that day for 3 hrs and one of our VPs( a lady) addressed them.

I asked one of my female collegues about the it.

My Colleague: some boring stuff yar. They juss gave us some stuff to eat and drink. Then that lady spoke for more than 40 min.
Me: What did she say?
MC : Some shit yaar. She was telling us "what is to be a woman and working?". Then about dressing. ( I suddenly got interested...)
Me: What did she tell you about dressing??
MC: samthing. We are not ramp models, we are professional who come to work here. We should look decent and professional. Dress tells so many things about you and all that stuff.
Me: So, she told you people not wear those lowrises and tank tops at office??
MC: Yeah, something similar to it.

It was really funny looking at my colleague then. She was completely cursing the lady who asked her to wear decent clothes.

What botehrs me is people give in too much to the hype and forget the real purpose. Why shouold we celebrate a Womens' day at all? We are never heard of any Mens' day. When both the genders are equal why should we have special days for one of the genders?

Ofcourse there are many atrocities that are being perpetrated on Womne all over the world. But how does these days help in reducing those atrocities?? Do these days help those women who are actually marginalied in all aspects of life?

How many of these bigmouthed people who shout all over the media about Women empowerment actually do something about it?? Is wearing skimpy clothes and getting drunk on par with men a sign of empowerment??

So, who is the most empowered woman in India?? Mallika Sherawath or Bipasha Basu??

Rahul Gandhi as next PM

2005-02-23T15:14:00.000+05:30

I found this piece in the comments section of Rajeev Srinivasans' blog. It makes lot of sense. He raises some valid points.
Just thought it would reach some more people if I put it here.

Thank you ACD:

Last general elections we saw pure arithmatics of local level & state level politics, uprooting a well-functioning & effective NDA government at the centre.

His suggestion that we need a Presidential form of government is more then welcome at this juncture.
Vajpayee would have definitely won over Sonia if that were the case.

Media in the country has strategically positioned itself with Congress & Left.

Another thing is BJP supporters are'nt as vocal & extrovert.Specially those from art & movie industry.

Movies are a religion for a very large section of Indian society.

People like Mahesh Bhatt,Shabana Azmi,Javed Akhtar & other page 3 celebrities are very vocal & shrill on their anti-BJP rhetoric.

And they have gathered lot of public attention owing to their impromptu outbursts.

Most educated Indians watch TV, read newspapers, watch cinemas etc etc. Very few actually sit back & analyse a news item.

Most of them believe & digest what they see or hear.

Hence Shabana Azmi becomes a messiah of poor by one slogan & Mahesh Bhatt becomes an intellect after one press conference.

With Media,Art and Movie sections of the country all against Hindus,
and Hindus concentrating only on the technical & science fields, we are loosing ground to secularists faster then one can imagine.

Just a casual look across the spectrum of people in journalism & entertainment gives a dismal picture of Hindu representation in these mediums.

And movies are a very effective way of reaching to people.

There have been hundreds of documentaries on RSS & it's activities from the secular cohorts, debunking the most nationalist of organisations. Or for that matter on gujarat riots.

How many from the so called intellect directors bothered to focus on Sikh killings or Bhagalpur killings?

Practically none.

We are seeing a near total squeezing out of Hindus from the most visible sections of society, namely Media & Entertainment.

What's worse is that an entire generation has been intoxicated by a heavy dose of MTV & Valentine's day.
This generation which is most likely to vote in next general elections has already been brain-washed into anti-BJPism.
It does not relate to BJP.

BJP has got the best products. But there are no buyers. Desh-Bhakti is a NO-No for gen-next.

We are likely to see Rahul G as our next PM.

A non-graduate dumbo, who excelled in annual display of non-Indian girlfriends. But what matters is he's got looks, money & power. And all without hard-work & and absolutely undeservingly.

That's what the youth is looking for. Power without responsibility. Money without hard-work.
There'a nothing more attractive for today's youth then fast-money.
And RG represents everything of that.

The return of the Champs...!!!

2005-02-23T10:18:00.000+05:30

The UEFA Champions league started after a 3 months break.
Real Madrid defeated the Italian Champions Juventus.
The great master Zizu showed why he is still one of the best. The balance he has is some thing uncomparable.

But it is disappointing to see Arsenal maintaining thier poor run in Europe.

But todays matches arevreal blasters...

AC Milan Vs ManU
Barcelona Vs Chelsea...

Cant wait to see Ronaldinho raping the Blue defenders..

It is worth remaining awake till 3 am in the morning....

Un"flagging" the Cricketers...!!!

2005-02-22T15:02:00.000+05:30

The govts' decision to order Indian Cricket team not to use National Falg on Helmets etc..is really stupid.Their contention is that the players might keep the Helmet with shoes in their kits. So, it undermines the sanctity we attach to the national flag.

I think recently supreme court has given approval for ordinary citizens to hoist national falg in their private properties. Does this give any clue to our Govt??

It is of our utmost national pride if some terrorists flood into Kashmir through the bus service by our govt. But it is insulting to see Sachin Tendulkar wearing "Thiranga" on his helmet.
Or is it a demand made by PCB that they dont want to play in India if Indian players are wearing Thiranga on their accessories??

We regularly see hoards of youngsters sporting US flag as Bandana. They think it is hep to sport a US flag on their mane because US is the richest and powerful country in the world. Whatever US does and whatever US is hep.

Now, govt too stepped in to help this culture. I see a day when our kids can identify all the national falgs in the world except one....the Bharatiya Thiranga.

Or is there any plans of Congress making it their patented Pary flag???

Uncle...why dont you call me a good boy..:((??

2005-02-18T14:38:00.000+05:30

That seems to be the mentality of most of us and media.
Recent reviews about SLB's "Black" announce ad-nauseam that this movie is Oscar class.
Gimme a break.
Are really Oscars a benchmark for good movies??
What about Oscars given to some shitty movies like "American Beauty" ( many might say that it is a great movie...but why ??? ), Eric Bron@#$%( I dont know the spelling)etc...

Why our Indian media and audience go gaga over oscars? Why do we compare ourselves with Hollywood?? Because it is big, rich or are we still living in that age of western superiority??

If Black is really good and it doesnt get Oscar, what is the big deal?
Why do we say in every review that it is Oscar level o some crap?
Why dont we say it is a good movie?

From other perspective, I think it is for the market and money. If a movie gets or atleast gets nomination for Oscar and is played in some so called film fests the movie rakes in big bucks.

I would really love to see a review which says that movie is good and suits its time rather than reading that the movie is Oscar level and some generations ahead of its times.

Everyone knows that Western Industry is biased and they dont give an Oscar to some movie from a Third World Country. Still, we hope that atleast this time they would give it to us.....

But I really appreciate SLB for making a different movie in the times of Mallika Sherawats and Neha Dhupias. Bollywood these days is churning out either sleaze or some poor remake of a South Indian superhit.

Untill and unless we stop looking for Wests' patting and try improving our own standards no use is done to the Film Industry expecially for Bollywood.

Worst Criminals.....!!!

2005-02-17T17:24:00.000+05:30

The Congress and other "Secular" parties have been repeatedly accusing Narendra Modi, VHP and BJP for the Godhra riots. The UPA govt has appointed a commission to enquire into it and the commission came up with a report within 7 days ..just before the elections in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Now, another report. The Nanavati commisions report of anti-Sikh riots in Delhi.
The Nanavati Commission report is presented to the govt and Mr. Shivraj Patel announced that Justice Nanavathi has given clean chit to congress party.
Where as Mr.Nanavati has something else to say.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/17spec1.htm

In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, Justice Nanavati said, "I haven't absolved the Congress party."

The retired Supreme Court judge refused to comment further, but said like the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission (which also probed the 1984 riots) he too believed the riots were organised crimes.

A govt is supposed to protect its people from criminals. But today, the govt itslef has become the worst criminal.
What is Mr.Patel upto to announce that Nanavati Commission has given a clean chit to the congress party which is far from truth. As a responsible Minister how can he lie in front of public??
Or are we going to see another distorted version of the report??

There is this incorrigible Lalu Prasad Yadav out of whom the Media makes a Hero.
He gave a statement yesterday.
"none can form a govt in Bihar without me"
What does he mean by that statement? Is he going to become a Nazi from India?

Our congress govt is successful in heeding to the demands of terrorist pakistan.
They are going to start a bus service from Srinagar to Mujaffarabad which is in POK. Ofcourse everyone knows that POK is the breeding ground for the terrorists who infiltrate into Kashmir.
I think they are going to do away with Visa also so that the terrorists can come into Kasmir easily. There wont be anymore infiltration through LOC because the terrorists will be welcomed by our UPA govt with red carpet.

Are they going to sell the nation???

Questions galore?????

2005-02-11T11:24:00.000+05:30

Why the so called Maoist naxal menace has become so high in the congress ruling states??
Karnataka which hasnt seen this problem started witnessing it. 6 police were killed by naxals in karnataka.
Does it ring any bells? Is there some relation to this with the "left" being a part of UPA govt??

Nepal is our neighbouring country and a passage for China to make way into India.
Why dont we offer some cooperation to Nepal solving its political stalemate? Arent we giving a chance for another Chinese aggression?? Why to make another Tibet out of Nepal??

Why these so called Activists are protesting against the Geelani shootout? Where were these activists when the Parliament attack has happened and lakhs of Kashmiri pundits are being massacred in Kashmir??
Or is it another trick by Ms Arundhati Roy to stay in limelight??

Why isnt media questioning the motive of Teesta Steelvard in Best Bakery case??

HH Vijayendra Saraswati is granted bail by Madras High Court and the court observed that the evidence is not enough.
It also observed that if the court goes by what the prosecution has presented it has to convict the "prosecution " also because the evidences point that the "prosecution " also conspired the crime.

So , where are the evidences that Tamilnadu police claimed they had sometime back?? or are they waiting for the "right time" to produce the evidences??

How could the communist paper "The Hindu" get a copy of the ChargeSheet in the Shankararaman case even before the police submitted it to the "court"???

Allahabad Highcourt gave a ruling that "faith Healing " is not permitted by constitution.
So, are they going to sack Dharma Singh govt in Karnataka for allowing Benny Hinns' healing programme??

Is the Toilet paper of India ( TOI) became so news less that it printed "Prince Charles' " proposed marriage with his lover?? Isnt there a better news to print on the main page??

Why the govt of Karnataka trying to take over the Udupi Pejwar mutt?? Why isnt it taking over many Churches and Masjids which are also rich??

There is no end to such questions. The UPA govt at the center is really sleeping. I dont know what they are really serious about other than doing another "goa" and heeding tothe demands of their Paki friends.

Alarming....!!!

2005-02-04T09:57:00.000+05:30

Ever since the Congress(I) govt took over the central and many other state govts there are many things happening which are quite alrming to the stability of the country.

The so called Maoist Naxalites are wreaking havoc in states of Andhra, Bihar, MP etc.
Most surprising is the support that is being offered to these moists by the govt of Andhra Pradesh. During the 9 years rule of N.Chandrababu Naidu , none heard of naxals barring one or two occasional police encounters. His govt categorically told the naxalites that if at all they want to get into normal life they have to leave their weapons and ideologies.

But ever since the congress came into power there I see a congress govt run by Moists. Why is this govt heeding to the demands of Naxals? Why there is a difference of opinion between police and govt?

I heard this rumour that the naxals have helped the YSRs' congress in Andhra to win the elections against Chandrababu. So, there was a treaty between naxals and YSRs' men that govt would show a soft corner to naxals. They even disbursed the lands of "many HIndu temples " to these naxalites. I wonder why didnt they offer any land of a Church or a Madrassa.

So, isnt there a politicain - crimina nexus endorsed by the state govt itself?? What is the governor of that state doing or for that matter HC of that state? Why are all secular , progressive media bigwigs and political analysts keeping mum on this issue??
Or is this an order again from "her-highness" command not to hurt the feelings of her "left" friends??

There is another imbroglio in Goa where the governor dismissed the "people elected" BJP govt in a very improper way. Things show very clearly that this is an act of vengence by the Sonia led congress at the center.

The Tamilnadu farce, disturbance in AP, pandemonium in Bihar, the rising Moist menace in various parts of India and the imbroglio in Nepal( of course this is something which is not in our control)....all these dont augur well for a strong and stable India. Arent we giving a chance to communist China to be aggressice again??Sonia Gandhi with her revenge taking tactics is doing greater harm to the country than the mujahidden warriors in Kashmir.

Vroooooom..............

2005-02-03T14:37:00.000+05:30

It is really a great moment. Narain Karthikeyan is finally got a chance to compete in F1.

"All the very best to the fastest Indian"

Though I would cheer for Narian...still Schumi rules. He is the oldest driver in the Championship and no doubt he is going to win the championship again.

I think Narian should learn to finsih races initially and eventually he will climb up the positions.
Are we going to hear Indian National Anthem atleast once on the F1 podium???

Letz wait and see.

Of Padma awards and many other farces......!!!!

2005-01-28T13:28:00.000+05:30

Our progressive secular governament has announced the padma awards recently. No wonder Romila Thaper and Mr. Habib are included in that list. There tow "eminent historians " helped our Nehruvian Stalinists in distorting the indian history. The deserve those awards.
But what surprised me is the selection of Ms. Gladys Staines. I am a bit confused. She is selected only because her family was burnt down by some "Hindu Fundamentalists". Everyone still condemns those deaths even though they dont talk about the kind of work Mr. Staines was invloved in.
Now, I am wondering how many women are there in India who lost their families in one or other such incidents. Does anyone remember Mr. Katyal....??? He was killed by Islamic terrorists in Kandhahar during that infamous Delhi Flight hijack. He was newly married and was bound to Nepal with his bride. He was killed by Islamic Terrorists supported by Taliban.
There are numerous Kasmiri Pandit women whose families were massacred during 1980s.
So, what is special about this Ms. Staines that she is selected for one of the prestigious awards of the land?
Pseudo-Secularists migh call me right-winged or fundamentslist...but I dont think anyone can justify the selection of this lady.

I have been thinking about these words for sometime...Secularist and Funadamentalist.
This is what Merriam -Websters says:

Main Entry: fun·da·men·tal·ism
:a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.

hmmm...I am really confused now..
So, any movement or thought that says it is the only correct way of living is "Fundamentalism".
Our Secularist shout and Scream that " Secularism" is the only correct way of living for humans.
Woww..what do we call them now???
Based on the above definition...they too are fundamentalists...I call them " Secular Fundamentalists".

Main Entry: sec·u·lar·ism
: indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations.

So, do these so called Secularist qualify to be called Secaulrists???
If the govt at the center is Secular, why do we have a special penal code for some minorities?
Why there is a subsidy given to Haj piligrims and not given to Amarnath or kedarnath piligirms??
Why there is special status to J&K??
There are innumerable questions like this......

And people jump to conclusions without even thingking....Anyone who opposes these pseudo secular ideas is a right-winger....and Hindu Fundamentalist..as one of the visitors of my blog commented....

I dont know who it was....but he/she concluded me as a right-winger just by reading what I write here. Of course I dont mind being a right-winger because Secularism is what it is today....I prefer to be a right-winger...

The Ugly face of Conversion...!!!!

2005-01-25T16:08:00.000+05:30

Just wanted to add this to my previous post..

The levels to which these evangelists can stoop....

http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/24shoba.htm

Just want to see the reaction of our " Progressive Pseudo Secularists "... ;-)

Whoz this Benny Hinn??

2005-01-19T11:25:00.000+05:30

When I heard about his "pray for India" meeting for the first time I thought it is another "suvartha swasthatha sabha" of Brother Paul. But later I found that this something much much more than that. I asked some of my friends about it and they provided me with some very informative links.
More than anything else one thing that struck me was why only the congress CMs are going there? Is there any diktat from "High command" ( should I say her highness command)? The center and state promised him full cooperation and assisance in logistics. Some obscene number of people are supposed to attend this for 3 days.

Some 2 weeks back Mr. Dharam Singh , CM of Karnataka asked people not to conduct the procession on Dattajayanthi because it might hurt the centiments of "minorities". But he obliged to offer full cooperation to the healer Benny Hinn. Isnt it going to hurt the sentiments of majority?? ohh...in India majority should not have any religious sentiments ..isnt India a secular country??

Some freak Kriplani argues that he is a miracle healer and a son of God. Gimme a break..doesnt god have any better thing to do?? How many sons does he have??
Okey..for time being let us agree that he is a son of God and a miracle healer.
Why doesnt he go to Rome and cure Pope of Parkinsons' disease?

I think Sonia Gandhi with her puppet PM and puppet CMs in the state is completely working hand in glove with the Christian Missonaries. Just some very good info in these links...

http://geocities.com/bharatiyar_2004/cu.html
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2005/01/chaos-at-press-conference-of-benny.html
www.joshuaproject.net

If you say anything against these so called Minorities..or for that matter if you support anything Hindu or say that you are a Hindu...you are a fundamentalist.....
but people like Benny Hinn and his junta who circulated pamphlets denigrating Hindus and their gods are "Evangelists". I really hate these Pseudo -progressive- secularists who preach Secularism to all the Hindus and forget it to preach it to the Semitic faiths.

I really liked these sentences by M.K.Gandhi .

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress towards peace. ‘warring creeds’ is a blasphemous expression…why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity or vice-versa? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? If the morale of a man is of no concern, the form of worship in a particular manner in a church, a mosque or a temple is an empty formula. It may even be a hindrance to individual or social growth, and insistence on a particular form or repetition of a credo may be a potent cause of violent quarrels leading to bloodshed and ending in utter disbelief in religion, i.e., God Himself.

This proselytisation will mean no peace in the world. Conversions are harmful to India. If I had the power and could legislate I should certainly stop all proselytising.

I cant resist from posting this piece from McCauley here:

I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and , therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation’ (this letter can be seen at the British museum in London, UK).

I think it is time for a civil movement against all this Pseudo stuff.

JJ hits back...!!!

2005-01-11T09:37:00.000+05:30

As expected, the TN govt has hit back with the junior seers' arrest after the SC's decision. But there seems to be no logic here.

The Seer was given bail by the SC on the ground that the TN govt doesnt have any substantial evidence to convict the Seer. Now, the TN govt claims that the junior seer knows all the details of the murder and arrested him for " conspiracy".

TN govt and TN police dont have any evidence against the seer and they arrested the Junior seer on the grounds that he "conspired" with the Seer. Isnt something missing here???

I could see only one motive behind all this.
The Seer cant enter into the Mutt and now the junior seer is arrested. The Mutt manager and accountant are already in jail. So, there is none who can adminster the Mutt in these hard times.
Isnt it conducive for TN govt and TN police to fabricate some evidence.

They claimed that if the Seer enters the Mutt he might influence the some witnesses in the Mutt. Now, what is the assurance that TN Govt and TN police dont influence the evidences as they have already tried?? Should they be allowed to enter the Mutt??

SIT has interrogated the junior seer some 2 weeks back and found nothing. So, do the TN police think SIT was not efficient??

T.N Govt
Since 2001, Sankararaman had been complaining about the seer's "relationship
with women" and on August 30, 2004, he gave the "last warning" to the Kanchi
Sankaracharya.

It was after receiving the "last warning" that the Sankaracharya called two
other accused and hatched the conspiracy to murder Sankararaman.

SC

Dealing with the prosecution claim, the Bench said: "There is absolutely no
evidence or material collected so far in investigation which may indicate
that the seer had ever shown any resentment against the deceased for having
made allegations against either his personal character or the discharge of
his duties as Sankaracharya of the Mutt."

Noting that the Sankaracharya had kept absolutely quiet for over three years
on the tirade of Sankararaman against him, the court said: "The petitioner
having kept quiet for over three years, it does not appeal to reason that he
suddenly decided to have Sankararaman murdered and entered into a conspiracy
for the said purposes."

Bailed out at last !!!

2005-01-10T13:46:00.000+05:30

At last,it seems that justice rather than law is taking its course. The Kanchi Acharya is given bail today by the Supreme Court.

http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp
?template=seerarrest&slug=Kanchi+seer+gets+
bail+in+murder+case&id=16046&callid=0&category=Nationa l

Pseudos....!!

2005-01-10T13:29:00.000+05:30

I never understood this word completely. Many people think others are pseudos and only they theymselves are " genuine and original " opinion holders. If we look at many people who are around us today...,...it is really difficult to differentiate between the pseudo and genuine.

Pseudo Indians:
1. They are Indians for the name sake.
2. They follow all european or American trends.
3. They think Europe and US are superior to India in all the aspects and if a European does something then world should also do it.
4. They dont know much about themselves and their country but they know very well about the geography of US and train services in Europe. ( Isnt that useful in showing off to wannabe "Pseudos"???)
E.G. It is Natural for a person born in Barcelon to admire his team and hate the arch rivals " Real Madrid". But for a person who is born in Inida and brouoght up in India both Barca and RMFC are same. He can either like both of them or one of them. But there is no reason for an Indian to hare Barca because RMFC fans ( domestic) hate Barca. As a third party he can like both with different priorities.
But these Pseudo Indians ( err ..do I call them Pseudo Europeans??) either they like Barca or RMFC more than that they hate the rival more than they like their team. And proclaim that those who like both Barca and RMFC are "Pseudo Football Fans ". Because a white European like his team and hates his rivals...these people just follow him blindly.

I sometimes wonder people who talk more about something like " those people are cheap" or "pseudos" or bangalore girls' fav remark " he is a sidy guy"....all these make me think that..
People who find these faults in others have all these faults. Yes, it worries you more when you find your faults in others.

Training travails!!!!

2005-01-05T16:30:00.000+05:30

I really dont understand why I hate these so called trainings. Everytime I convince myself that there would be something or the other to learn from these and go into the training hall with some enthusiasm. But all this evaporates within seconds. I look at people around me and I ask myself why the hell I am here. I see people around me busy in noting down some of the valuable points. I try to hear those difficult to practise theories and prepare a plan of execution. But my mind starts wandering.

I work with one of these reputed CMM Level 5 companies and many people here are well reputed for their talents. After spending more than 3 years in sales and marketing I really dont know whether I made a wise decision to enter this field.

Today I attended a training which lasted for more than 4 hrs and was conducted by person who has more than 15 yrs experience in Sales and Marketing. The session we underwent is most acclaimed world over and famous among sales circles. Infact it is the most effective Sales training as perceived across sales organisations.

I dont know whether there is something wrong with my grey cells or I am too intelligent for these trainings...I didnt understand the purpose of wasting some 4 hrs for this session. Added to that there are some characters who reminded me of my school days.

I think eveyone of us might have witnessed this. When we were in school there is a competition among kids to comeup with answers in a split second and to show off to others how sharp they are. Most of the times many kids pick up this habbit of repeating whatever the teacher says as though they are the approving authority. Sometimes the teacher would be solving a problem and he has to calculate 2 times of 10 and we always find some student helping the teacher with that multiplication.

I always hated such guys in school and never answered any question unless I was asked to answer.

People grow up but old habits die hard. I see some 30+aged guys and ladies repeating whatever the trainer says and nodding in approval as though they are the authority to certify the trainers abilities and the trainer was happy about it. I was just wondering what would be the state of the trainer if all the attendees were like me.

But on a serious note, I really wondered whether the trainer believes in whatever he preached. It is practically difficult to implement whatever we learn in these trainings but we need to attend these trainings to earn some browny points in the organisation.

But I see one real advantage of attending these traings
" you pick up jargon , you pick some weird words and tomorrow you can give gyaan to any relatively less experienced or someone who coloured her hair ( this is not gender discrimination ;-) ) . You can even become a trainer without knowing anything. That is the power of this jargon.

New Year Wishes!!!

2004-12-31T15:05:00.000+05:30

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.

Is Education to blame???

2004-12-20T14:42:00.001+05:30

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.

Too manythings....!!!

2004-12-13T10:33:00.000+05:30

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 .

The cruising Champs!!!!

2004-12-09T09:54:00.000+05:30

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.....................

well.....!!!

2004-12-08T14:21:00.000+05:30

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

Trade with Terrorists!!!

2004-12-01T09:27:00.000+05:30

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????

Tsk Tsk Tsk!!!!

2004-11-25T13:13:00.000+05:30

Leisure is a wonderful thing. I realised it in the past 2 weeks while enjoying my absence from work. It feels good to lay stretched in the bed and watch some old football match wondering what to do once the match is over.

Coming back to present season:

Barcelona played like gods in the Spanish league match against Real Madrid and I have never seen Real Madrid having some 35% posession of the ball. Simply, Barcelona outperformed Real in every aspect of the game. The Ronaldinho jaggernaut just floored Real 's defence. That glaring mistake by Roberto Carlos.. what do I say about that? You dont expect that from Real Madrid.

Then came the next draw of Champions League.

Luis Figo missed a Penalty against Bayern Leverkusen. How could he afford to do that?? Wasnt he aware of the gravity of the situation? They are on the verge of being thrown out of the tournament. RMFC out of Champions League in the first stage itself. Can you imagine that???

Last year we had a boring Champions league with two worst teams Monaco and Porto reaching the finals. No...I dont want it to happen again. May some miracle send RMFC through to the next stages!!!!!

But the good news is that AC Milan struck 4 times and that too without Scheva...wow...that is something great.

Ups and Lows!!!!

2004-11-16T10:49:00.000+05:30

Ups:

1. Real Madrid scoring 6 goals in a spanish league match.
2. AC Milan keeps winning.
3. Arsenal back to winnning.
4. Ronaldo back into roaring form with those fantastic two goals.

Lows :

1. Barcelona losing 1-2 to Real Betis.
2. India losing to Pak after scoring 292 runs.
3. The arrest of Shankaracharya of Kanchi.

Tha last one being the hardest of all. It raises the questions again. Would have they arrested a Muslim leader in the same fashion? Some Bukhari of Delhi with so many cases on his head, have they ever tried even to question him??? A congress govt with pseudo secularists and Nehruvian Stalinists as allies ...what else can you expect from them? Most of the so called " sophisticated Hindus " dont react or they are too afraid of speaking. Because they dont want to get involved in anything religious. But , what they fail to recognise is that Hinduism is not a religion but a way of Life. If the very roots of that are shaken....well can that happen???

Many times in the past , ruthless barbarians and foreign invaders tried to kill the very roots of Hinduism. That onslaught gave birth to people like Adi Shankara. They came , they inspired millions and they re-stablished the ancient "Sanatana Dharma".

Many barbarians came and looted the holy land , they all presihed but the land prevailed, the culture prevailed and it will , forever. This doesnt come from a blind faith or irrational emotion. If mankind is alive on earth , the only way it can survive is by Virtue and in harmony with nature. And , which other way of life engulfs these two tenets other than Hinduism.

Quoting Mr. Bhagwan S Gidwani

" Hinduism is the Law of life, not a dogma; its aim is not to create a creed but a character and its goal is to achieve perfection through varied spiritual knowledge which rejects nothing and yet refines everything , through continuous testing".

"....Yet a Hindu must remain strong and united, for he must know that no external , outside force can crush him, except when he is divided and betrays his own ...."

Vicious Waters!!

2004-11-10T13:02:00.000+05:30

Water- The life giver , the fountain head of all life.....isnt this an ancient perception?? That very water has become so vicious that people get scared to drink "unknown " water.

I see some people in my office who doesnt even drink water that is availble here in the office premises. This water is certified by diff govt bodies as fit for human consumption. Still, people dont want to take risk. They drink only boiled water or mineral water.They are so health conscious that they dont even eat sweets and some other fat rich food. I really wonder at their capacity to control taste buds. I cant resist a sweet ...I just tield to the temptation.

But, most amazing thing is these health conscious , clean water conscious people gulp bottles of alcohol without any second thought. A life on earth which is scarred of water and assured about the good effects of Alcohol.

Itz cool to drink...I hear this many times. What do I do? I am a tee-to-taler who doesnt know the good effects of alcohol and not much about escorting home a girl who is drunk ;-)

I can write pages about this topic...but ..drinking is a personal choice..everyone has their own opinions.....after all everything is personal choice...what is nota personal choice????

Our friendly TOI is lamenting that the sales of alcohol has decreased in Bangalore this year when compared with last year. Dont worry, our Bangalore Times will come up with more photos regulary of many so called " celebrities " with "drinks " in their hands and write "cool " things about them. So, the " wanna be " cool people will gulp more and more alcohol meanwhile helping the brewery business to grow.

I wish all of you a very happy Deepavali ( southindian) or Diwali ( North Indian istyle ;-) .

He is Back!!

2004-11-05T09:42:00.000+05:30

Mr. Bush is back to the presidency. The world will hear more of "fight against evil " and " peace in middle east " withouot bothering why the crude prices are going north. Unites States of America like Queen in an Ant Colony. All the ants feed it so that the Queen is healthy and kicking. In a similar way, economically,the entire world is completely dependent on US of A . The entire world is working hard to keep US of A wealthy and happy. We have already seen what happens to the world if something happens to US of A. At the same time world should be watchful about who is formulating the policies of US of A. Because the presidential seat of US of A has always been like a stone in a madmans' hand. An unbroken chain of Paranoid presidents have wreacked havoc on the world and made it what is it today.

In the context of this , Mr. Bush is worse than any of his predecessors. His war mongerness is the reason he won the elections again. Nothing can beat the insecurity feeling of an American.

Our politicians reaffirm the people that Indo-US relations would be good as usual. But a keen observer has his own doubts. Were they good ever??

What should India do? We need to get away with this US dependency on outsourcing, textiles and in whatever way possible. We should look for avenues where we are self sufficient not only agriculturally but also technologically. India has never been an innovative country but Indians are. Many great inventions that happened in US of A involved many outstanding Indians. Hope India can retain the domestic talent and nurture it towards its own prosperity.

When a rich man has granades along with money, it is better to keep away from his money.

Back to Football

The Barca Vs AC Milan Champions league match was a spectacle in itself. A new god of Football is making his intentions clear. Ronaldinho , the way he inspired Barca to win against Milan was awesome. If you can break the defense guarded by Maldini, Nesta and Cafu twice...you achieved some thing really great.

Rudd Van Nistelrooy made amends to his disgraceful taclke of Ashely Cole at Old Trafford by a record equalling 4 goals in a single match.

Real Madrid are scoring well but they are conceding. I think they need to address that issue.

Tha Champions League is geting hotter as it should.

The Unknown!!!!!

2004-11-04T13:07:00.000+05:30

every now and then a fire rages from the depths of a futile weariness; ever hungry to eat away
whatever comes in its way but rejecting each and every offering that tries to calm it down;the
inferno breaks free and kills all the existing tenets of life and existence;it is accentuated by
the perptual feeding of what? where? why? where from?; a colony of grey cells powered by a
conscience without a known source, try thousands of extrapolations to check the advance of the
inferno...alas...the grey cells soon realize that the inferno is more rational than anythings
else they come across...
a flash of liberation appears but it blinds the eyes with its brightness; meanwhile the grey
cells realise that they already lost time in the race to unknown goal; never knowing where , why
, what for...
an illusiory marker demarcates knowledge from ignorance; never asks knowledge of what? but the
race is never ending,full of baits and mirages...in the name of subduing the inferno...the grey
cells mistake the mirage to be a river ..the fountain head of life..
existence for the sake of existence...running for the sake of running...a reality that is like an
illusion or an illusion that is like a reality...
a state of weariness, confusion camouflaged by a sense of knowing, groping in the dark
misunderstood as journey towards perfection...
chaos ...utter chaos...but ignorance is bliss...the grey cells just ignore the chaos and this
gives birth to another chaos..
a fusion or fission of the spirit;road to perfection or the road to perdition...

Yesssss....I wrote it....but still dont understand what I wanted to write and what I ended up with...

Torn apart!!!!!

2004-11-03T13:16:00.000+05:30

I want to do so many things, at the same time dont want to even think of many other things.
I like to do this, this, that ,.....so many other things...which one should I do first??? will I be able to do all these at all?? with all these thouoghts in my mind, I think of writing something...but the interest dies off in seconds because I want to do something else...eventually I end up doing nothing....many things are half done and they need to be completed...there is no time to do all these things...errr....I should say I am too lazy to strecth myself to make all these effots...it is not a case of " there is no inherent zeal to do all these things" .....

only good thing I am doing these days is reading. 2 hrs of bus journey everyday is facilitating this good habit of reading books. I am lost in this book related to Aryans and their origin. Finished some chapters and the books seems to be worthy of investing some time....

You wish many things to happen the way you wanted it ....but it cant happen that way always....
one needs to accept reality and go on with it...I wanted Arsenal to thrash ManU but..some shameless and pathetic refereing saw Gunners being thrashed by ManU....hope that the retrun match will be good and Gunners will come backl with their guns blazing and thrash ManU....

However, Real Madrid is cruising along...they are on the way back to their for and Michael Owen is learning to play with all the other superstars....the icing on the cake is that Ronaldo started scoring......

and, Barca....what do I say abt them??? Some conventional football wisdom says that if you like Real Madrid you should hate Barca evn though they play well....

well...I cant do that when I see one of my fav players Ronaldinho giving some classical touches....he is a footballing genius...no doubt about that......

I dont like the present ManU team but I like Christiano Ronaldo....he is another Figo in the making...I see a propspect for Real Madrid...

Cominig back to my lost love....that is Indian Cricket...I dont want to write about it...because simply there is nothing to write. The Indian cricket team seems to be lost in some wilderness where there is nothing like "professional Cricket " exists. Well, hope that good days will return to Indian Cricket!!!!!

The world is getting ready to witness another farce . A tussle between two great fools to test who is the bigger fool. Yeah...I am talking abt US presedential elections. How does the end result matter? Every US president is hungry for Oil and human lives irrespective of whether he is democrat or a republican. But the real jokers British. You should see the way Tony Blair is reacting to US Presidential elections. Man...these Brits are ......I dont have words to describe the utter contempt I have for this contry. They are the people who have sold their souls....it reminds me of the story of Dr Faustus and Mephistophilus. Now US is on the verge of deciding who is going the be the next Mephistophilous....either Bush or Kerry.....

Back to Books!

2004-10-25T13:24:00.000+05:30

Davinci Code - Dawn Brown
The Alchemist - Paul @#$%% ( I cant pronounce this guys' name )
The Wisdom of Rishis - Mr. M
The Indian Philosophy - Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

These are the books I finished reading in the last 4 weeks. The collection seems pretty strange, isn't it?
Davinci code is another mystique bullshit with lot of rhetoric about some unknown Mary Magdalene. The author says that worship of this lady is superior to the worship of Christ, couldnt understand why. But, the main plot is to damn the catholic church and prove that they kill people to maintain the sanctity of the Church. An utter bullshit to increase the sale.

The Alchemist : I couldnt understand why this book has become so famous. It is again some unpractical and utopian thought about everyones' childhood dreams and some legend ( I dont even remember the name ). It is one of those utter nonsensical books which I have read and regreted later that I wasted my time.

The Wisdom of Rishis : Yes, a great book. I really enjoyed reading it. Inspite being a muslim, the author tried to understand the Upanishads and give incites in to various subtlities. He doesnt talk about things which are nihilistic...but speaks about real things and explains why they are real. There is content and the logic is concrete. I suggest this book to people who have some interest in Indian Scriptures.

The Indian Philosophy : Disappointing!!! very disappointing. Dr. Radhakrishanan disappointed me a lot. He wrote a book which will satisfty the Europeans a lot. He presented a European point of view rather than an Indian point of view. He depended on European authors to prove the facts, which are ultimately not facts at all. Especially , he repeats the Aryans' migration from Europe or middle east to India. It really makes me wonder, how much are we conditioned to accept the precepts put forward by Europeans.

If such a great culture existed in so called Mesapatomia or any where else and they migrated to India for various reasons, why dont we see any trace of such civilisation or culture in any part of those countries or continents. Even the latest findings about river Saraswati and other Indus valley civilisations tell us that there was no invasion of India by so called Aryans. This is again another trick of the White Man to belittle India and its ancient civilisation to keep his inferiority or superiority complex intact.

Yeah, nationality matters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-10-07T11:44:00.000+05:30

This is a letter from a German national to the editior of TOI.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/875870.cms

Apropos of 'It's time we learnt good manners' (Times Counterview, Oct 5), it seems fashionable for the Indian elite to run down India and all things Indian, including manners. I am a German, and have met many Indians who never tire of praising Germany, but have nothing good to say about India. Frankly, I recoil at such behaviour. There are well-mannered and uncouth people everywhere. Why do Indian intellectuals have to pick on the worst specimens to berate India. As far as I'm concerned, India stands tall among the 40 countries I have travelled to.

Maria Wirth, via e-mail.

Had this letter been from an Indian, it would be in a distbin by this time ( errr...recycle bin).

Ofcoure, whatever Ms. Maria says is true. Indians never had self respect, esp the so called Secularists and Intellectuals. For them , anything White is superior and anything Indian is cheap. Sad that this has to be taught to us by some foreigner. Yeah, our Intellectuals listen to the words of foreigners becase Europeans are wiser than us...they know all...isnt it true my dear Editiors of TOI??

Ofcourse Eurpoeans and Americans do not show any repect towards India, nuthing surprising because we dont have self respect. We equate self respect with Religious Fundamentalism....:-D
When an American is proud of being an American , it is his self respect whereas if an Indian is proud of being Indian either he is an RSS( VHP) follower or someother religious fundamentalist.

Way to go India.........................

Marketing sympathy as a Camouflage!!!!!

2004-10-05T10:38:00.000+05:30

It is quite surprising to see how good are Americans at exploiting a tragedy to camouflage thier ulterior motives. Was just going through an article by one of my favourite columnists Rajiv Srinivasana.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/28rajeev.htm

When the towers fell, I certainly hoped that the US would finally understand what the rest of the world, particularly India, has undergone for years, facing terror in the streets. But I was a little sceptical even then; and three years later, it is clear that America's 'war on terror' is really not a war on terror as in the dictionary meaning of those words. This alleged 'war' is a different animal, and there are two possibilities as to what it is.
The first possibility is that 'terror' is defined as 'that which hurts American interests.' Note that this does not necessarily mean attacks on American persons except insofar as it affects grand American interests. Note also that 'American interests' are broadly defined, for example as in 'oil that lies under other countries, but that America would like to own.' But it certainly means that attacks on other countries, even on the one that for archaic reasons calls itself 'Great' Britain, do not count as 'terror.'
The other possibility is that there is no 'war' at all, but sleight-of-hand, intended to create the illusion that America is doing something to protect its people. For, it is abundantly clear that the nations most involved in terror are Saudi Arabia (financier), Pakistan (enforcer) and China (proliferator of nuclear weapons and missiles). But all three are staunch American allies. I wonder, which Houdini conjured up a 'war'?

Recently, when many school children were killed in a terrorist attack in Russia,

the Economist magazine, had to say about the matter (Another Siege Ends in Bloodshed, September 4, 2004).
Among other things, it says the following:
The Chechen issue is a local problem, not a global one
The separatist struggle results in part from past cruelty shown by Stalin to Chechens
'Black widows', Chechen women whose relatives were killed by Russian forces, are a major part of this attack
The Russian security forces made a mistake, again, as they are incompetent
Russia should seek a 'political solution' to this problem

I liked the answer Mr. Putin gave

"Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers"

Are you listening Mr.Bush?, Ohh...if you listen also you wont understand. This is all too much for your miniscule cerebellem...all you know is Oil and Dollars at the expense of human lives.

"Fan"aticism - Redefined!!!!!

2004-10-04T11:57:00.000+05:30

Have been a sports freak right from childhood. Played cricket like more than 6 hrs a day till my 10th standard. When it rained..the obvious choice was Football. Never knew any rules of the game other than penalty and corner kicks. As I grew up, I developed lot of interest in the game and read about many legendary players. Then came ESPN and Star Sports and gave a chance to watch the beautiful game. I used to get a glimpse of my fav player " The Legendary Diego Maradono" only once or twice on DD. But, ESPN and Start sports provided the chance to see some other great talents.

As I started watching European Leagues regularly, I started liking some of the teams because of some great players. Real Madrid, AC Milan, Barcelona, ManUnited and most recently Arsenal.

But, recently I happened to know about some new definitions of "supporters" or " fans".
If you like one team, you should support them irrespective of the way the play. This is normal and acceptable.

With the slew of "f" words and "b" words into India, the "fan"aticisim took new shapes. People started hating any team other than the team they support. They started abusing players who play for other teams. Someone went to the extent of defining a " fan" as an opposition basher rather than supporter of their own team. This reminds me of the incident that happened last year when Figo shifted to Real Madrid from Barcilona.

So, I wonder whether it is the frustration that the team they like is losing or not playing well at that moment. The self proclaimed fans are ending up with only one option " name calling". I still wonder when would I see genuine fans who could appreciate the greatness of the opposition.

Coming back to the weekend football...

What more would I say about Gunners in this season. The 4-0 win against Charlton Athletic says it all. Henry was in fantastic touch.

But, ManU disaapointed ( again, it is not that you should like either Arsenal or ManU. They are not mutually exclusive. :D )
It still beats me what happened to RvN. He missed almost all the brilliant passes of CrN. Boyy, CrN was a class, I see another Figo in the making. Great going for the youngster.

Real Madrid lost once again in the Spanish League , this time to Deportivo. Praying god that they wont lose any game this season. What happened to the fire that was there in the Champions League match against As Roma?

Desaffronisation of Textbooks- some suggestions :D

2004-09-30T11:54:00.000+05:30

" 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-09-30T09:29:00.000+05:30

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.

They have done it again!!!!

2004-09-27T13:31:00.000+05:30

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!!!!

2004-09-27T11:41:00.000+05:30

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.

Conditioned to accept sleaze

2004-09-24T10:09:00.000+05:30

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!!!!

2004-09-24T09:49:00.000+05:30

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???

Out! Out! the Ozzies are out!!!

2004-09-23T11:14:00.000+05:30

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!!!

You dont see this often!!!

2004-09-22T13:29:00.000+05:30

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 .....

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

2004-09-21T14:05:00.000+05:30

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-09-21T09:16:00.000+05:30

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....

Giant Killers!!!!

2004-09-20T15:14:00.000+05:30

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.

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

2004-09-17T14:24:00.000+05:30

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-09-17T13:34:00.000+05:30

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

Football all the way!!!!

2004-09-10T13:38:00.000+05:30

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!!!

2004-09-10T10:19:00.000+05:30

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.

Life @ 5 Kmph.......

2004-09-07T14:46:00.000+05:30

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 ;-)

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

2004-09-02T09:45:00.000+05:30

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.

Of Chivalry and Gentlemanliness

2004-08-27T14:54:00.000+05:30

Gals, Ladies...Women............Almost everything revolves around them.
You see news articles claiming that the atrocities against women are going up and things that our friendly HumanRights Commission fellow doing to fight against these.Sometimes you feel that you have been very decent to gals or ladies or women when compared to some millions of others. You just think that all those people who are committing such things are either perverts or out of their senses. Think of those poor women who go through such hell silently because somehow they cant rebel against it.

If you are working in an IT company where fair sex is a minority, people just drool at gals whoever is around. The amount of attention, respect and popularity gained by a gal working in the Knowledge industry is enormous. People respect you, they do things for you, they listen to you when you talk and more over eveyone is a Gentleman, barring some exceptions( err...do I say barring people who are frank? ;-) )

There are hardly 300 people working in my office building and hardly some 30 people know me and talk to me. But, almost all my female team members are famous here. People keep asking me you are in the same team "that" gal is in and I listen to some remarks like " your team is quite colourful " ( yeah.....unfortunately I am in a female dominant team ;-) ) People keep walking around my bay just to get a glimpse of my team mates, they come and talk to them about various things... I get serious doubts like " why cant he talk to me like that?"...sometimes ...some guys go to the extra mile and start sending fwds to these gals...most of the guys I know dont even bother to send those fwds to me ..but they take extra pain to find out the names of my female colleagues from the Global Address list and save them. And, they are really very nice to these gals,...boy...I coudnt believe my eyes when I see them so nice....because it is something new to me..I get thouoghts like " huh...i never knew that this guy is so nice"...

And , their chivalry is just great. Holding doors, giving way, stepping aside and giving them place in the queue...what not. Sometimes I feel envious of these gals, I get weird thoughts like what would it be if I were a gal.... ;-)

If one of my colleagues ( male....) sees me sitting at my desk at 1 :00 PM his remark would be " khanan nahi khaneka hai kya?"...but the same collegue ..if he sees a gal sitting at her desk at the same time , his remark would be " hey, rnt u going for lunch??? what happened? "...he will start a conversation......am I too critical here????

I dont know what to call it......but these things come naturally. One cannot train himself to be Chivalrous and Gentlemanly to gals , ladies , women or whatever. I tried my best and failed at it...it just doesnt happen. I talk to gals the same way I talk to guys, I treat them on par with other guys. I think the gals who are working with me are just as capable as I am. They can open their doors, can stand in long queues at lunch and do thier things on their own. Treating them differently ( err...with resepct and decency ) would be discriminatory I think ;-)

I am the advocate of Gende Equalities and Women Empowerment ;-)
But , I found out something that there is no need to Empower these Urban gals , ladies or women....they are already Powerful..they can make things happen for them ;-)
They always have someone at their disposal to do thigs for them.
Way to go....my daughters will be luckiest that they would be living in the 21st Century, the Era of Gentlemen ;-)

Movies in Bangalore

2004-08-24T10:21:00.000+05:30

2 years back when I came to Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, there were dozens of theatres showing Telugu movies. I could watch a new movie every weekend, a brand new movie every Saturday. Sometimes I used to watch 2-3 movies in the weekend, such is my appetite for Telugu movies.
The Krishna govt tried to restrict the number of non-kannada movies and to promote Kannada industry. So, the number of Telugu movies I could watch got reduced.Seriously, I dont like watching movies in a TV or Computer.

Now, due to the protest by the Kannada industry there are no new non-kannada movies in Bangalore. They want to promote Kannada films by putting restrictions on non-kannada ( errr...good movies) movies. They think that if not left with any option people will watch Kannada movies. How silly???

There is not even a single good looking heroine in Kannada industry..let alone heros...( shall I say " orangutans"?)..some pretty bangalore lasses like Namitha,Rakshitha etc head to Telugu and Tamil industry for better opportunities. When their own gals think that their industry sucks, how can they expect Andhraites and Tamilians living in Bangalore ( who constitute more than 50% of Bangalore population by some statistics...) to watch Kannada movies? err...how many Kannadigas watch Kannada movies???? ;-) and in Bangalore.....most of the people watch only "Angrezi" movies...hey...Bangalore is a cosmo...even kids talk to their mothers only in English...how can u expect these new age kids and moms to watch Kannada movies...???

This reminds me of a scene I witnessed in a Temple.

I go , almost every weekend, to the Sri Venkateswara temple in J.P.Nagar with my cousins. Though I am a forced goer there, I like that temple somehow. Oneday I was sitting outside the Sanctum with my cousin and I saw a tiny tot beside supposedly his father. The father was explaining him how to pray to the Lord. In his words

" son, pray, pray ...

oh Lord , please bless me etc..."

I burst out laugning...........

they looked like a kannada family....they are in a temple...and he is talking to his kid in English...
hmmmm...that is how Bangalore is..................

there are many people in Bangalore who prefer to watch "The Rock walking Tall" or Van Helsing( two of the bullshit english movies ..as far as I am concerned ...) rather than watching a Mani Ratnams' " Alay Payuthe" or Upendras' " H2O"( i liked this movie..it has some real stuff..though the presentation is a bit awkward)....

Let God help these Kannada film makers and make them realise that Bangalore is not a part of Karnataka as far as Movies are concerned...

I pray God for the release of many new Telugu movies in Bangalore...............................

The Olympic Medal

2004-08-18T09:24:00.000+05:30

Finally, an Indian wins a Silver Medal in Olympics after Independence. It reminds me of my Principals' question after I won an Inter College debate competition. The competition was big and we never expected any prize at all. But, everything fell in place for me and I ve dont well to win the debate. When I showed the prize to my principal ..his reaction was

" Good , but how many people did participate? Have you won because you are good or because others are worse than you? "

I was really psyched ...but a win is a win...

Olympic silver is something to be proud of...Congrats to the Winner.
I was watching the Hockey match b/w RSA and India y'day. 3 min are left in the first half and India was lagging behind by 2 goals. The defence was horrible...no player was marked , no strategy to defend. Suddenly, a great player comes to the rescue..yes Dhanraj Pillai scored a blinder and Indians got some boost....soon the score was 2-2. I was thinking abt the Olympic glory of pre Independent India. 6 Consecutive Olympic golds, none could match that ability.
3 min are left in the match...again the great player comes to the rescue...with his fluency, he made the other two goals possible.

So, it clearly proves that..whatever is the game or sport, the class players are always in the league of their own. They make the game look very smple, they just make things easy when others struggle to do anything...Hats off to that Talent.

Sachin has to bat the entire 50 overs

Our dear skipper sahab wants Sachin to bat through the 50 overs. I have a suggeston for our skipper. BCCI is very rich ala the football club Real Madrid. So, we will also buy either Matt Hayden or Ricky Ponting and make them play for India.

Then, Sachin and the other player will bat through the 50 overs and our Skipper can go for Ad shoots...errrr...all the other 9 players can go out and shoot for Team Samsung or Team LG.

Idiot Box

2004-08-16T13:05:00.000+05:30

Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
At last I could convince my elder brother to get an idiot box into the house. I bought a new Sony Wega over the weekend and it entered with a bang. A nice telugu movie to start with, next 2 days witnessed a ManU Vs Chelsea EPL match and the Invincible Schumi in Hungary. Now this insomniac has a company to stay awake. I missed TV a lot for all these days as I am staying away from home. Added to that, a room mate in the form of my elder brother could stop me for all these days. But, this time around I could convince him. His theory of Idiot box makes you lazy and listless couldnot stop me.

Ahoyyy! I got my CAT 2004 application form on Saturday. Not sure whether I will prepare for it..but I cant resist the tempation of writing CAT. This time I made one of my friends take the form for me ...luck factor...:-))).

I am sure the idiot box will reduce my reading time and activity time. I will be sitting and watching some or the other sport or a gulti movie rather than reading a book. But I need to read some good books I have with me.

Monday ... I am in my new office location. This is one of those typical Wipro Offices without Yahoo! messenger and MSN Messenger. I will miss most of my Chat friends. But the ambience is good, the coffee you get here is supposed to be the best among all Wipro Banglore offices. Even, Mr. Premji was surprised that this quality coffee is available here. His heart might have skipped a beat thinking that they would be spending extra money for this coffe. But, nothing is like a good coffee especially for a Teetotaller.

The drive from my home to this office is about some 15 Kms , including an 8 KM stretch on the Killer ( Hosur) road. Wipro has so many buses to this place, but I prefer to come by my bike. The ride was awesome this morning, I loved it.

Errr...need to catch up with some work now.....

Of Sports and Sporting Legends

2004-08-13T09:25:00.000+05:30

The Master retires from International football

The great Zizu retired from international football. He wont be playing for French national team any more. Though we would see hin in Reals' team , we would miss him in the next Soccer world cup.
He is one of those class players who is very simple and humble. He is not over hyped like a David Beckham, but his greatness was underrated in non-football circles. That trademark header is a joy to watch and the way he can change the game is incredible.

We definitely will miss one of the class players in International Football.

The Champion Keeps Going

Hungarian Grand Prix..and it will be another win for Michael Schumacher. As there is lot of noise going on about Jenson Buttons' move to Williams next season, this grand prix will be very interesting to watch. Though McLaren is looking good, Kimmi has to pray for some luck in this race. Anticipating another Ferrari whitewash......

The weekend would be great with some EPL Football action and the Grand Prix...

Ohhh....I forgot completely about the Kick Off of Olympic Games....being an Indian what can I talk about Olympics. Hope our Hockey team tries to Salvage some lost pride. Atleast a Medal for more than one billion people.

Double Taxation - The Azim suggestion

2004-08-12T17:51:00.000+05:30

I dont know what is there in Mr. Premjis' mind when he suggested the Karnataka Govt to increase the professional tax on IT workers by 100% because they are earning " handsome" salaries. Why cant he pay 70% tax on his income because he is one of the richest in India?
He talls the govt that by doing this they can improve the tax collection. Yeah , Mr. Premji is correct. IT workers cant hide their incomes like politicans and the tax can be cut directly from their salaries.

Mr. Premji wants sops for IT industry but wants his employees to be taxed. How sad???
It is time to move from this much Hyped IT industry..... :lol:

The great Indian Inferiority Complex

2004-08-12T10:55:00.000+05:30

May be centuries of foreign rule is the cause for this that we as Indians always think that the so called " White" are superior to us. It is not people who are illiterate and unlearned but those who are highly educated and learned feel inferior to average whites. We compare whatever we do against the standards of the west, we aim to match the quality of the west in whatever we do.
Right from school poems to university education, we are obsessed with the west. Though we learned english from the British, we try to speak english like Americans do. Let us look at various aspects of this "aping".

India has a rich cultural heritage which gave us lot of literary and aesthetic works which are non paralled in human history.

How many of the kids( even youngsters ) know that there is something called " Panchatantra " which teaches various aspects of living in society? But they know Aespos tales which never match this great Panchatantra.

How many of us even bother to listen to our Classical Music let alone appreciating?
But we head bang to Metallica, swing to the music of Santana, Bryan Adams etc....

Hollywood makes a crappy movie starring a female nothing more than an Anorexic and dressed in pushup garments...tells us that it is the real story of some Erin Bro......( I dont know the spelling)...announces an Oscar.
We say that the movie is " awesome"( this word is peculiar to Bangalore..there is nothing good or bad..only " awesome" or "sad") and Julia Roberts is the most beautiful woman on this face of the earht.

A Mani Ratnam makes a movie like " Nayagan" or " Agni Naksathram" ...and we say that the movie is ordinary and our industry should look upto Hollywood to make movies.

It is not only movies...ask any youngster about his/her fav dish. You get a reply which will surprise you. You start thinking whether his/her mom makes any Indian dish at home.
We like to go to Pizza Huts or KFCs regulary though the food you get there is not worth the money you pay for it.

How many of us read books written by Indian Writers? Are we well versed with the literary works compiled by many great sages aeons ago? We say that they are old fashioned and not relevant to the present times.
We flock to bookstalls to buy LOTRs' and Harry Potters which are nothing but fantasy. There are some umpteen number of Indian books containing better fiction. We never bother to read them as we cant tell our friends about it. They will look at you as someone cheap and uneducated.
Many argue that language is the barrier. Most of the literary works here are in Sanskrit and not many people know it. Are we born English? Havent you learned english as another language?
Ofcourse, learning sanskrit is a bit tougher than learning English.
Then, how many of us read books written in regional languages and our mother tongue.

The word mother tongue reminds me of a funny conversation I had with one gal.
I met this gal in one of the trainings in my prev org. We were talking about different languages and I asked her about her mother tongue. Here is the reply
" well...ummm...actually...I dont have a mother tongue. The only language I know is english"
I asked her whether english is her mother tongue
" well...ummm...not exactly......"

I almost burst out laughing...how is that possible?...I thought abouot it for some time and left it at that stage.

Yea, liking some of the things or all the things which are western is not wrong. Diff people have diferent tastes and some of us might like things which are not Indian. But, aping others blindly is worse than any other form of depravity. We should never forget what we are and where we came from. If we dont know about ourselves and try to be like somone else...we lost our identity and Individuality. Other might feel good that you like their things ..but they will not respect you because you dont have any individuality or orignality.

Most of the things I listed above make me think that we will lose our Indianness in the course of time. We might become another colony of US of A, a pool of people without any thing of our own, witout any identity....my heart shrinks at the very idea of that state.

Just we need to realise that " a civilisation or culture that survived centuries of foreign rule, centuries of looting ,centuries of other religious and cultural invasions is something we should be proud of. We need to have self respect to respect out traditon and culture. Even though you reach great heights in a foreign land, you are a stranger there. "

To respect others and like others, you need to repsect yourself and like yourself. Anything else will be just " aping".

Nostalgia

2004-08-09T10:04:00.000+05:30

It's really great to see your old friends after a long time and spend some time with them recollecting the events of those old days. I met few of my engineering friends in the course of the weekend. I met some of them almost after some 3 years....and we spoke about those college days...it is really amusing....

all those days i was in college, i used to dream about my job and my work...i was eager to work and learn real things....

but now, I think about those days and wish that had lasted forever....the joyful days will never return.........wittisms' in classes, sarcasm towards the profs, who cares attitude, those regular " get out of the class " diktats from some of the irritated lecturers, those manipulations in Labs ( I never got any graph properly, i used to draw the graph and mark the points ..:-D..)...and those gyaan sessions by some of the successful and talented seniors....

and gals....my class never had a good looking gal atleast....so, we used to go to other classes sometimes ...in the name of meeting some frns in other classes...though everone knows the reason.....

and the amount of leg pulling ...it never had any limits...even some generous profs were victims of this ....

and the skits on annual fests....we used to spend days to pen down the scripts..select the cast....reharsal.....

those all skits were superhits in college and we used to get lot of compliments from the profs' and expecially Juniors ( read as Junior gals .. ;-)...)...

for the first one year these junior gals used to call us " Sir "....it was funny man...really funny.....

there is no end to these little sweet things......i was bound by a sense of nostalgia for the entire Saturday.....and ended it with a dinner in Pizz Hut with cousins.....though admired a gal waiting outside for most of the time....

Sunday :

hmmmm.....missed badmintion and swimming....slept off till 10 AM....

got a call frm cousin asking y I was missing.....hmmm....spent some 3hrs playing Carrom with cousins....and headed to the so called Southindia restaurant " Malgudi " on Outer Ringroad....
Lunch was not that great but okey there....not upto the hype....

but the evening ended on a high with Arsenal and ManU match....Community shield match...

that was really great....a matcg worth watching....my fav Arsenal won hands down against arch rivals ManU.....

cudnt get sleep in the night as usual....but had to sleep to wake up on a Monday Morning..thinking about another monotonous 5 day strectch......

Of "F" words and "B" words

2004-08-05T10:50:00.000+05:30

Gone are the days of "stupid", "idiot", " bloody fool". I dont think any one uses the word "scoundrel" any more. It is the same with even Rascal.

The new genration has found new ways of abusing...there are better words to express anger and disgust. People used to utter words like "oops", "shuks", " oh my goodness" to express annoyance ....
but times chaged a lot...from British english to we graduated towards American English...not only the way we dress , do business and think...but the way we use our language is also influenced by the one and only US of A.

What do you utter even when something falls from your hands???? no doubt the golden four letter word "F***".I would recommend the speech of the great Osho on this word. It is use in anger, despair, distress, surprise and even when you are happy. This word adds itself very comfortably with other words as in f***ing bast***, f***ing a**ho**....there are so many of this genre....

It is really surprising to listen all these uttered by many gals to a guy like me who came from a small time town. But , Bangalore is a cosmo. No offence to anyone...this is the only big city I ve seen for more than 2 years.

I have seen most of the guys using only "f" word mose of the time and they ve a diff lingo for diff things. But the urban gals ve a very unique lingo which comprises of "bitch", "basta**", "SOB", MFs.....the liste is endless....the more you use these words the more aggressive and bold you are.
They associate boldness and outspokenness with these words....

To them, every other gal they dont like is a "bitch", every other guy they dont like is either "basta**" or " SOB"....I think an overdose towards the fair sex....err...lets take a break...

we stopped using words like nonsense and rubbish....we use crap and fuc*all.....

I was talking to a gal whom I know about a traffic jam and the word used to describe that jam was " Fuc*all" traffic jam....sounds really good...isnt it?

But I really wonder about onething....do they really know the meaning of the words they speak....words like " bastar*", "MF", "SOB"......or do they really mean those?

It is the new world and it is going to be newer.....and think many more words will join the above list....

last but not least.....which word do you use to disagree with someone....??????

"balls".....i really dont know how this word came into existence.......

Friendshipday.......errr.....what do I call it?

2004-08-03T11:04:00.000+05:30

Good that 31st August was a Saturday. I saw my cell phone chirping at random intervals on Saturday night. I was surprised to see messages from people I never bothered to talk to, wishsing me Happy Friendshipday. Most of them are just strangers to me, I dont even talk to them regularly. Then , one idea struck my mind...let me see how many of my really close friends send this message. But, I didnt send any message to any of my friends. So, do I expect any mesasage from them????....Blank...Man...I never bothered whether my friends wished me on that night , because I know friendship doesnt need all these things.

I started thinking what exactly is this idea of friendship. I felt really strange to think of one person whom I can call a very good friend., because a friend is someone who knows you in and out. wait.....is my definition of friendship correct????...Many people esp in Bangalore,...call whoever they know "friends"...err I am not talking about that Series on Star World. I dont kow...I cannot call any one my friend just like that....because I attach some value to it and it is something beyond loafing around and freaking around.

You meet someone over a chat or online forum and suddenly he becomes your friend...BS....you dont even know an ioata about him/her. But, it is okey because people behave errr pretend nice with the people they dont know..and someone else recently gave me a gyan saying that you should not be selfish in Friendship.......BS...what is that Selfishness.......goddd....I get goose pimples to think about not being selfish.....someone( so called friend ) asks for your help and you are not in a situation to help though you can help....gawd...they start calling you selfish and conceited....

I give up....if it is helping and taking help in return which defienes friendship....we better call it Business rather than friendship.....I got confused thinking about all these things Friendship and Selfishness......

I am happy to breathe for my self and eat for myself....I can not breathe and eat for someone else.....

The Selfish.....errr most selfish.....I am proud of it........................

Chokers.....errr.....Choker leading other bunch of Chokers...............

2004-08-02T10:04:00.000+05:30

Our great Skipper gave a paper statement day before the Asia Cup Finals. Mr. Ganguly said " we are not chokers". Yes, he is right. They are not chokers, but HE ...He is a choker...bloody...he is one of the reasons India lost in Asia Cup finals. Bugger, didnt have any idea what he was doing. Played 20 balls and made 4 runs.....increased the burden on Sachin....., the great wall played like a Hole in the Wall and went away cheap.....wat happened to all the promising youongsters..........all BS...

Now , I think the Indian Team is just overhyped....Sehwags, yuvrajs....nuthing but a bunch of over hyped youngsters like Wayne Rooney of Football.....they cant play .....they cant play any quality cricket.....

Every time people blame one and only great player for losing.....he was the one who was stranded without partners and put under some stupid pressure...

I see a conspiracy theory behind.....

If India had won y'day.....Sachin wud ve got all the name for his bowling and batting....and our skipper and Wall dont want it to happen....they think Sachin is becoming a legend ...lets put him down....bloody buggers.....they can lose a because they dont watn Sachin to get all the name.....

but onething they dont know...what ever happens...Sachin is already a Legend and nothing can change his status of being the Greatest Batsman of all the time...........................

Sponsors Decide Winners

2004-07-28T13:45:00.000+05:30

What a match it was? India Won a thriller. Zaheer bowled a superb last over....these were the reactions of myriad number of cricket fans across the country. But, I think the match was fixed by the sponsors to bring India into finals. How could the empire miss the 3 wides bowled by Irfan pathan? How could a bolwler who gave away 45 runs in 5 overs gave only 6 runs in the last over?.....they are all debateable....but ....the buggers have fixed the match ..that is very clear....

I pray god that they dont play cricket here in Aisa. Everything is dictated by sponsors and they care only abt money ...meanwhile ...none btothers abt the harm being doe to the game of Cricket.

Let alone Australia , NewZealand, England, WI, ...all non Asian nations play cricket....hell with these fixed matches...........................

I belong to.......................

2004-07-27T12:05:00.000+05:30

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