The Blog of an ex fauji

Fanil Kumar in Mission implausible: Shame shame puppy shame

2011-12-27T16:57:00.000+05:30

We had gone for MI-4 movie this week end. And were desperately waiting to watch an Indian in an action flick. After all the action that was there from the start Fanil Ji was conveniently sidelined. Then at the penultimate end of the movie i was anticipating that he will be some big shot villan and make a scared entrance. Then enters Brij Nath ji, and the way he was trying to seduce even a 38 Yr old horny Virgin would like to go in for celibacy. Few points that need to be highlighted here

A. Indian men can molest and bang only Indian females, they are pussy cats when it comes to Firangs. ( I am not being an MCP but just an observation)

B. We will do anything to get a small part in a big movie just for free publicity, a part where we are being molested in a pretty bad way.

C. And this mindset of looking for approval from westerners pervades in every part of our life, be in Yoga, vegetarianism, Religion and getting molested by ladies. (Not that i would mind getting molested by Paula patton :) )

D. And our media also hyped up the role as something big, guys come on you didnt even know what it was until the movie was released, this must be another instance of paid news.

E. Sad to see a good and senior actor like fanil Kapoor also would fall to such lengths to get such a stupid ass role, these days even i feel like molesting him for taking part as such a cheap ass playboy.

Come on Fanil, man up and make a good movie that we Indians can remember you for, like fezaab etc. You have Indian fans to last you for a life time and the world largest populated nation and countries surrounding us. May peace be with you and I can suggest a good doctor for the emotional trauma that you may have undergone during the onscreen molestation.

Subjects that can be taught in an MBA

2011-12-01T23:57:00.000+05:30

Being from Fauj i had the good luck to do a short term course from XLRI. it was a good place, it also reinforced an important fact. The better the institute the more freedom one gets. And man they get in all shapes and sizes and states. They also end up having the best fest's that India can boast of.

But there is one wee thing that troubles me, just because a person can do analytical or qualitative etc good makes him do a job better. I have some courses that are taught in one of the most premier institutes of India which make as much sense as Swami Bagnivesh trying to

A. Entrepreneurship: You cannot teach a dude to be a business man at heart. You just have to jump. Before you say something you can't learn firing/swimming from a book, until you jump or fire it ain't gonna make any difference. And i am pretty sure that starting a business is tougher than the both coz i have tried both.

B. strategic analysis of Information Technology: If you learn to write this sentence without making any mistake, trust me you have already learnt half about it already. And the people who teach this, i am pretty sure wouldn't know jack shit about what they are saying. If they knew, wouldn't they already be billionaires?

C. Investment Analysis: Really!!!!! this one must be one of the howlers for gods sake. Can anybody predict anything in this stochastic world.

I feel that these topics are really required, they are potent. I will try explain in relation with Fauj as to why they are very much required.

A. Humor: A most potent weapon that we really need in our corporate world. Laugh at ourselves and also with others and not at others. We are so serious that even a turtle can laugh at us.

B. How to Conduct and Finish a meeting: Man oh man this must be one of the most painful things that one must undergo in a corporate settings. I can count with just a hand, the useful meetings that i have had till now. And we need a psychologist, anthropologist, may be even an ornithologist along with a finance guy to make them understand the importance to conduct and close a meeting within half a day.Phew if we calculate the amount of resources that are spent for a meeting, it would be staggering.

C. Talking to people from different teams: This would result in immense savings. Let me tell you how by doing this Israel would be much smaller than what it is today. During the Yom kippur war there were 2 egyptian divisions which were into the thick of battle, as luck would have it there was a lake. They didnt communicate and Israeli's infiltrated and a major catastrophe was averted. Thats the reason in Fauj we always have a sort of special mention towards the unit that is at the edge of the division. so that same way the edges in different teams need to talk first.

these are some of the few. Not sure whether i have written a stupid piece or may be it made sense. But just felt like it.

As a Fauji i can say that "All the world is a barrack and we are merely Fuji's"

2011-11-28T00:50:00.000+05:30

The title of my blog post itself sounds like an essay. But let me delve on it even further to give a little bit of clarity.

Fauj is known for many things, but a few and famous ones are as follows

A. Uniform: The same uniform for any occasion anywhere in the world.
B. Food: The anda kadi will taste the same, be it Leh or KakiNada.
C. We want our officers and men to think the same, act the same. It has got immense benefits.
D. Culture: The lingo will be the same, the abuses will also generally remain the same. Imagine we have 1652 languages and dialects. The parties that we go to, the way we dress up and address every one else.

OK, so how does it all add up to the title. We Fuji's used to think that outside world is different. There is enough diversity for all of us to understand and enjoy for our life time. But history has always proved us wrong. None of us in the outside world like diversity. Not Hitler, Sunni Pakis, Indian High caste people, IAS or even for that matter G one from the movie Ra one.

We have always wanted others to be in an image of our own. We have hated people who are dark, who eat Non veg, who pray towards the west, who eat with their left hand, who make love through the rear, who wear minimal clothes and pay no taxes in the jungles and what not.

We just do not want diversity in a very genuine way. Thats the reason the motto " Don't worry if you cant fit in, you were born to stand out" appeals to all of us. It starts the day we were born, i was ambidextrous but somehow i was trained to use my right hand. The reason, i should fit in. Why should i fit in, all that matters is are you gonna hit the bucket a contented man or a guy with many regrets.

And even if we had wanted to have a uniform society, we are a bunch of hypocrites to keep saying it. We didn't do a thorough job of uniformity.

A. During partition it should have been a clean exchange. But was it? It was the messiest ever and now all of us are in a precarious situation.

B. There are so many electricity laws for each state.

C. The tax laws, holy cow!!!!!

D. The school syllabus in single state would make Imraan Hashmi stop kissing and turn a monk.

With all these cases, i just ask the people reading this till now. It doesn't matter if they are different or you are different. All that matters is the sweet and subtle nostalgia of your teens and the fun you had. So let us not make the world a barrack, there are enough already.

JAI HIND.

India is a counter democratic country

2011-11-11T20:40:00.000+05:30

After a long hiatus again i come. Between my last post and this one lot of things happened. Steve Jobs passed away, Anna's movement fizzled away and what not. I also came across a book that was names "why i am not a hindu" and our dear Swamy Bagnivesh entered the big boss for spreading the message.

A. Swamy Bagnivesh Ji,if you want to spread your message fast in this environment then i suggest you can also look at producing, directing and acting in a porno. It will be viral.

B. Not sure as to why the book why i am not a Hindu has not been trashed by MNS, they are so focused that they miss the big picture. Till now their tally has been maybe 40 thrashings of Northerners and few hartals here and there. Guys come on apply some MBA principles and strategize your vision. I feel the main reason you targeted hussain is that you too were caught watching the nude stuff. In fact you might have been the reason that hussain's paintings must have got more publicity than you could have imagined. See the amount of freedom my country gives.

C. Kasab is still alive. We give him so much of security that we have very little left capture those that want to come in. Must be one of the best ironies of life. Dammit you have a CCTV footage what more do you want, ask him to do a trailer again. Now every militants mother will ask her son just one thing, if you want to be a militant i am not stopping you, but be that in India. India gives you that much of freedom.

D. Forbes had a front page which said, Step Up young man with our knight in shining Kurta Rahul. I was dumb struck, WTF... young man. Then MMS should be a middle aged man with a midlife crisis. Come on guys give us a break. Even we give you money by buying the magazine.

And last but not the least, Anna is even more confused than a reformed prostitute and her staunch lover.

Anna's Campaign through a Fauji's Eye

2011-08-28T01:08:00.000+05:30

Anna's campaign had started in earnest. I also followed it, but actually didn't do much on the ground level. But there has been so much of bombardment and commentary on the online world that i stopped following it. Don't watch news these days. So my comments on at-least what should have been and where they could have done what as per military principles, i have not included all of them though.

A. Selection and Maint of Aim: Well the aim from the start was Lokpal bill there was no doubt in that, and the contents also were clear from their side, but they wavered when the Govt wanted to mediate. I feel they should have stuck to their guns and made sure they atleast tabled the bill without watering it down. Strategically they got this principle right. Now tactical blunders don't help your case at all. That too when your enemy is well entrenched.

B.Mass and Economy of effort: It was a cause that captured the imagination of the whole nation and the media all over the world. But they faltered in a way that, there were too many people all over India trying to do good by staging human chains and candle lights. The online effort was good, but no central co ordination visible from Team Anna to focus the mass of people. And the effort of so many people has gone in vain. Human chains dont achieve anything in this pseudo democracy of ours.

C. Unity of command: Now there seems to be chinks in the Armour with Mr.Hegde and Swami Agnivesh saying somethings which show all is not well with Team Anna. More than anything else top order chaos demoralizes the troops and that is bad news.

D. Media : This is something that i have added. Media is a component that no army/organization can alienate. They can break the morale of a whole nation and integrate the whole nation. e.g America lost the will to continue to fight in Vietnam when communists attacked american outposts all over the country and it was televised. The vietnamese lost in manpower but gained a lot in the coverage.The american people demanded their GIs back to mother land and they came back. The incident of black hawk down, where was another live telecast of soldiers being captured and killed the war was over by the end of day. All people are sedentary Warriors these days, they can tweet, scrap and msg about killing the enemy and losses to our soldiers but when they see the real deal.. Thats when we find out that we actually are constipated towards reality. So Team anna didn't handle the media in a professional manner period.

E. Offensive action and Sustainability: These are the most important of them all. A good beginning doesn't really mean a good end. For good end the offensive should be massive and continuous. You cant fight a war without sustainability in mind. Our people have jobs to work and tweets to write. So the campaign should have run only for a month, more than which it looses its momentum and the fizz pops.

Will try to write more in the future but hope this movement achieves what it wanted to do in the first place.

Jai Hind.

My very first Restaurant Review of punjabi Grill Bangalore

2011-08-23T16:59:00.001+05:30

The maid didn't come for few days and we thought that the utensils will have a bath themselves. They didn't. So this Tuesday we went to a Hotel called Punjabi Grill. They had the food from the land of five rivers. My bullet point comments

A. Punjabi food is spicy and tadkay dar and definitively not like French food, all Bland and wussy type.

B. The ambiance was good, but generally i thought people go to eat food in restaurant and not the ambiance. They missed that point.

C. Punjabi's are large hearted, i mean really large hearted(including the tummy and Ass also), the way they serve Lassi in Amritsar is testament to that fact. Make them in washing machines and serve them in half a liter glasses with a large dollop of butter(This has to be included in the list of Narcotics). You will faint after drinking them. And here my friend Jiggs Cholera will serve you in a diabetic friendly quantity and quality.

D.In the end they served us some shots of green Goo, when asked it was found to be Paan shots. OK i know disruptive innovation when i see one, but it had hair in it. So it was disruptive for its own Good.

D. Bland food, Blander starters and average service. Oh but last but not the least, the only thing Punjabi was the Bill. There Jiggy boy was true to his land. It felt like i was paying a Dowry to my Daughters wedding.

I fail to understand which part of Punjab did Jiggy Ji wanted to create in his restaurant. So we swore that we will not "Jiggy wiggy with you boy" from next time and decently not write feedback section.

Lot of simple Questions i have

2011-08-09T01:01:00.000+05:30

A. What is Right? I mean what does any one mean that any one is center, left or right. Is following ones religion in ones own country too far right or far to the left? Is there something that is called morally correct?

B. Why doesn't anybody write anything about the Gandhi family and their In laws?

C. Why can evangelists go convert people anywhere they go, yet we Hindu's when we try assert our religion we are called as fundamentalists?

D. Why is it that terrorist attacks have become cyclical like sunspots that we can predict with mathematical certainty?

E. How come politicians earn x 100 times after they come to power and yet they dont go to jail on suspicion.

F. Why the fuck is Kasab bastard still alive, and we are paying money to keep him alive?

G. And why the hell are we still not clear as to what happened to Netaji even after so many years?

Why is it that even i keep asking so many questions but cant be ballsy enough to just try to do something about it....

Hussain's Death and the rest of Us

2011-06-30T23:57:00.000+05:30

  I have to narrate an incident where i had gone with my wife to a gallery. We wanted to buy a Buddha painting. Some were nice and costly. The guy who was managing the gallery was quiet helpful. Like a true indian i asked him the costliest painting that was present in the place. As per all the paintings that were there, the bigger they were the costly they would be. So i was waiting for him to get us something huge. I lost it when he showed me a normal photo frame size painting, in fact it was not a painting, but a sketch that was done in an hurry. And it costed 4 lacs. The painting was by none other than M.F.Hussain. I was amazed and also sad. It was a normal painting. Not fair that he could scribble something and just because of the brand value of the paper appreciated 4,00,000 times in just 2 mins.

The artist Hussain is no more. I do not know whether he was a good artist or a great artist or just an artist but for the sake of investment he was hyped. But one thing that i do know is the paintings that he made were crappy for me.(please bear with me before you start abusing me). i feel art is something that you can see with some imperfections attached to it. His was sort of a grotesque and weird imagery. I feel that even Hank my best friend  Palani's Dog has some sense of Art in him compared to some of hussains paintings.

I have seen some of his paintings online. Man!! are they odd. Did you guys have a look at the Mother India painting he had done. Im not into anti nudity stuff but he has literally screwed our Country in a Canvas. No wonder people must have got pissed. Ya now i know why he was hounded by all the saffron dudes, they got pissed because he drew them real bad and gave some beard baba a migraine.

  So not sure as to what i wanted to conclude. But one thing is for sure he is a very good investment. If you can steal one.

Marriage and pushups, and how we end up de-ordering rather than ordering

2011-05-29T01:13:00.000+05:30

Last week had a good Dinner, that is a Veg buffet(Vidya was so happy) with Sarath and MAM(yep the fauji habit is still there). So we as usual started talking about this and that, ended talking about marriage in general. And sarath is a sonovabitch who has the gift of the gab. Can make a dead body laugh(He used to stay with one in Jamshedpur).

so while having dinner i was reacting to some things, but he the seasoned player, been married for more than 3 years was not commenting. Just that sly and ugly looking smile of his. My wife was asking what is it..

Then i hot upon this brainwave....

About marriage is like taking pushups.. Before i proceed any further i need to narrate about our training in OTA. Before i could joing the academy i tried self training by watchin Ashwini nachappa movie. Didnt work out though. We were told that we will be taking close to 500 pushups after the first month. Ya right i was like PO the Kung fu panda, the only thing similar between me and PO was we could fart and make noises the same way. Any we ended up taking a lot of push ups. We would take them after Lunch, after Dinner. For every occasion and reason. Some senior had been fked by somebody, some body was angry because of the heat. For all reason and seasons Push ups was the remedy.

So the first few would be done with Josh, the next would be tiring, the next few would be painful and the rest of pushups you actually show you are doing them but what you actually do is touch mother earth and just act as though you are doing it sincerely.

Voila.. It was as if i was enlightened sitting in the place. Marriage is like pushups, first you are full of josh, then realisation that something is amiss. Then it pains a bit, then you attain Nirvana..

To be continued, How we went to little italy and de ordered food.

What i want from my Future

2011-05-01T10:25:00.000+05:30

Every one has wants, and being a fauji the wants are many but simple..

A. I want to buy vegetables that are clean and not that costly that i end up drinking beer that is much cheaper.

B. I want my son to marry a girl, and my daughter to marry a boy.. but first i want them to have a relationship with humans first.

C. Minimum 2 executions of corrupt politicians per year at the least.

D. Every godman to come under the tax net.

E. I want my kid to know that being healthy is ok and not a BBW(big beautiful woman).

F. I want them to speak in full sentences and not in snorts and sneezes, for e.g be there in 15.

G. I want to be still in touch with all my friends, and still watch the chicks and pass comments like it was yesterday.

Next few things are quite not possible but still i am an eternal optimist

A. Want to have meaningful discussions with my Wife, i meant logical and conclusive.

B. I want to understand the choices my wife makes.

C. I want to have a Dog and get my wife to love it.(i already know the answer for that one, its either you or the dog that stays with me)

I think i will stop here...

Why i feel my wife is henry Ford and i am like NEO (Matrix)

2011-03-10T12:01:00.000+05:30

Was watching TV recently and suddenly my wife was like Do you love me.. The situation was that we were watching a channel that was not exactly giving me the romance booster to my system. It was a saas Bahu serial with that noise that always comes in all the latest indian serials. whooosh.. I think the trend started with Ramayana..

She asks " Srikanth Dont you like the serial"

Me Nope, she already knows my answer

Come on na Baby i want you to like it...

Whaaat? (Thinking out loud) i will try to but it will take some time..

My wife: So it means you done love me naa...

Then i connect the dots and picture myself as NEO in the movie matrix, where they are stuck in the tunnel with the train coming ahead and the agent smith says " Do you hear that Mr.Anderson, that is the sound of inevitability".

Well even the serials also sound the same right.. Then i must be neo.

And we all have heard that famous Henry Ford's Quote you can have any colour you want as long as it is black.. Well i have got to let her watch the serial and not only that i have to enjoy watching the serial...

And in between this some heroine in the serial is about to be fondled by a guy who drinks, with the same noise whoosh in the background..

A voice comes with surround sound... srikanth!!!!!!!!! will you do the same to me after getting drunk??????? What am i supposed to say...

If its a NO then i might well admit that i aint straight

If i say yes then well..... I said yes...

OOPs she connnected the dots and pounced on me for being a drunkard...

An unholy man in Holy matrimony

2011-01-30T00:23:00.001+05:30

Wow, three words to describe my marriage aftermath. Am i like this is the single question that goes through my mind.

A. Marriage is when some SMS jokes actually sound true and feel like philosophy statements.

B. When buying onions looks like commiting a financial hara kiri.

C. When maids and washerman and various other hospitality and service industry dudes look at you like you have commited the gravest sin by bringing in an efficient financial manager into the picture and recession has actually started for them.

D. When friends call before coming without being drunk.

And what not.. but it has been an interesting experience that one has to undergo.. The one thing that Mr.Ratan Tata doesnt have is a better half.. and i do.. So already feel like a millionaire...

More to come....

PS: The stuff written here cannot be used to harm me either mentally or physically and even financially if your are my better half...

Why telecom is Revolutionizing India or will take it down baby

2010-10-27T00:10:00.000+05:30

Its been a long time, my first job as a civilian has been in telecom Infra. My first stint was as an energy Manager. And how much we consume. It goes into lacs of litres. Infact there are lot of places where Electricity has come only because of telecom. Lots of people getting jobs because we went and put a tower there. What do we get in return.

Lack of no objection certificates.
Provision of pathetic electricity connection.
Slapping of numerous clauses and penalties.
Increasing corruption by increasing the Laws.

Guys please listen to what i have to say. Even if one telecom tower goes down due to lack of power, do you have any idea how much our country looses. Govt should be there to regulate not rule. Imagine if this much amount of diesel is saved then how much of our forex we can save. But like a true blue fauji i would like to look at the brighter side in this also.

The more harder are the rules the more legally we will be strong.

The more harder it is to get some power we will start producing our own power.

The worst the quality the stronger the systems that will be in use.

Ok you say fossil fuels, we will go in for alternative energy systems.

And we have started consolidating, as money aint comin from them homies the Mob operators.

We have formed our own lingo that we feel proud to talk in.

And we have developed so many vendors for so many things that they in turn have sub contractors.

Any Govt guy reading this, please treat this as part of National property. Imagine life as it exists today without a Mob Ph. If we are able to survive today, what will happen if we are helped just a little bit.

Sky is the only limit.

Too many things happening in the Country

2010-09-19T16:29:00.000+05:30

Its been a long time since i have started tapping on my keypad. But determined i am to do some justice this time. These are some of the things that are really bothering me for the past few days.

a. A big embaressment waiting to happen at the common wealth games, where it looks like even sheru the mascot is gonna be diagnosed with dengue fever or fall into a pot hole and break his leg.

b. Rahul Gandhi the new found friend of tribals. Where there are non-congress governments there he has found his footing of cleansing the system. Dude what about Karnataka. The reddy bro's are treating Karnataka like a bordello and they themselves are behaving like the internet porno Company "The Bang Brothers". Hey that doesnt mean i watch any of the stuff.

c. All of us Indians are verbal warriors who can rant, feel bad and even cry a few tears of either Bisleri or since globalisation Evion. But act we will not.

d. Corruption is so bad that it got me thinking on a new environmental management concept. You all must have heard of carbon credits. Well here is something called as corruption credits. Any one who has not managed to pay corruption can sell them as credits to other countries where they dont pay bribes. Sounds illogical but i think we can work our way out of this.

e. The kashmiris are throwing stones, getting shot and after lot of thought provoking analysis the chottay fair and lovely Nawab has found Army to be at fault. Goddamn talk about a volte face.

f. And last but not the least the last bastion of efficiency in India, which were Pvt companies have also proved as corrupt, inept and so process oriented that the only thing they follow is a process to make a new process to break the old process and bring in change management.

Confusing isnt it. And yes the days are coming close to my marriage. lots of fear in my mind as to how i will be able to satisfy my new boss for life. Hope my performance ratings are above average. Else the onlu other job left for me to search or do is that of a Naked mendicant.

So till the time we meet again, hope you all will be in full piece without getting affected by Avian Flu, runover by a bus or maybe even get blownup by a bomber.

Jai Hind.

Outsourcing by Companies

2010-08-12T23:21:00.000+05:30

After a lot of time i come back, not very sure as to what happened to my head. I try to remain busy throughout the day. Yet i manage to acheive nothing. How do i know this. My fiancee takes a performance review everyday and gives me a reality check. You have done nothing the whole day, but still could not speak to me.

Ok. Now for some serious stuff. As you all know nike has followed the policy of outsourcing every function except their core competencies. And that would be branding. Well it has worked for them. And that is what Brand Bharti is trying to do. The money is a big issue. And there is always this differentiator between the onrolls and offrolls. Have's and Have not's.

We behave like we are the ultimate answer to all the business problems, while they do all the grunge work and we drink chai.
And you should know very little excel, only then you will be taken on roll, atleast i know that i dont know excel at all.
And last but least of all the tag that these big companies carry along with them, sarkari company(A Govt company).That is the ultimate insult to any company.

After all this they expect to work like a team, motivate them and get results. The results do come but at what cost.

How do you decide what is core and non core functions. A business is like a body. You cant outsource shitting to ramsingh and pissing to antony. What if they are not efficient. Come on guys you cant be that shortsighted. Well the profits have increased immensely. I feel that the old lady has just become fat. The organisation has lost its nimbleness. If the results are not coming you just hire more people.

I just am wondering what is Ramsingh suddenly decides he will not shit for anything on this planet earth. Even assholes can create lotta problems.

I think i can do what rajnikanth tried doing

2010-07-03T18:19:00.001+05:30

Dear Ladeej and gentalmaan,

I was thinking and thinking, and i feel like i have the answer to indian black money problem. Let it be a stash in swiss banks or just hidden among a pile of cow shit. Infact it has already been done before(i think it must have been).

Reform our currency to a newer one. That is.....get all the money that has been declared as legal. As for the undeclared stash they will simply be worthless paper.Infact so worthless that even our assholes cant be cleaned with them.

The qualities needed for a man to have the guts to reform,devalue or destroy the value of our existing currency.

A superman would be much preferred with no known weakness including money and sexy ladies. Even superman fell for lois right.
Should definitely be straight.The politicians might make a non issue to an issue.
Should be bold and have an average to below average IQ, helps in taking decisions and bothering about the consequences later.
Should belong to the Parsi community as he would belong to a minority and wont antogonize any other religious community. They do fall under the endangered species list.
A bachelor with no known relatives would be an icing on the cake.

Now what all will happen if it happens. And what should our man do after he destroys the value of the currency.

Make sure that he has a good team under him with lots of knowledge, bravery, money, balls and hatred for family life.
Start an R&D center for minting new currency.
Outsource the currency manufacturing to a Finnish-japanese JV at a factory situated in Mangolia interior. I feel that they would be much less corrupt and the place is so vast that we will know what the hell is happening there.
And make sure that there is no ministry created for carrying these affairs. There should be an independant body to make all the decisions and should have no politicians.

Hope this happens during my lifetime. After all hope is the renewable energy that has been making the world go round and round.

Jai Hind.

My childhood in mylapore

2010-06-30T18:43:00.000+05:30

I was with my grandparents when i was till two foot high. I dont exactly remember my age. But man what a life it was. It was simple and uncomplicated. Get up at a normal time, get ready and go to school. Come back, take a bath, play with friends, go back to the house, try to do some homework, get beaten up.Eat food and then watch a little bit of TV then sleep. I never used to call up my parents that regularly also. infact my grand folks were the whole world to me.
Oh and i forgot the regular visits to the world famous kapaliswarar temple. It was always a delight to watch the temple peacock, that small shops selling trinkets all around the temple. The temple pond. The vibudhi that i used to rub around my stomach. The carrot halwa that my granny used to make daily. I never used to get sick of that stuff. The Hindu newspaper that my grandad used to read daily. Few fav incidents that i can never could forget were

The rent for my house was for just Rs.80 in mylapore.
The rickshaw guy gangaiyya who scared the shit out of me when i touched a bone and said i would die if at all i ever closed my eyes.
My school and its teachers.
The black and white ECIL TV, the friday oiliyum oleyum during the fridays.

Well i can go on and on. With all this i can tell just one thing, i am actually getting old. My hair is still black, not that i have checked. But there is a huge gap. When we wanted to know about something we either used to ask our parents if they didnt know about that, we used to go to school. get beaten up by the teacher and then taught. These days the kids find out and teach the kids all stuff man what a change it has been.
The only mails that i knew were males and females. if anybody returned from abroad then they were treated like royalty. The chocolates the toys.

I dont miss the people at that time, coz either i had issues or people around me were wierd. But i miss those days for whatever worth they had.Always used to travel by bus . Used to beg my mom to take us by auto. It was a luxury. And forget about cars. They were unheard of.

When i was back at my place, we still used to go to madras on and off. The chocolates that we used to get in the pallavan train were awesome. And pallavan was THE mode of travel. The superfast express.

Sadly my granny and grandad aint there on this planet to see me the way i am. Writing about them sitting in Indore in an AC office with my own vehicle that i got using my own money bought without a thought. Planning my trip to Gurgaon with company sponsored flight staying in a AC guestroom. Thinking about my fiancee and calling her up immediately. And if worse happens i can always go to her anytime i want. As long as i have the dough.

I seriously miss those days.. I seriously do

These few days experience of living with a room mate

2010-06-17T00:50:00.000+05:30

Yee haa i got a roommate at last. Infact the poor bugger has not taken it up as a choice. But out of necessity. So here we were, one about to become forced bachelor( i got engaged you see) and the other a wild animal let loose.

He has made almost every female on TV my Bhabhi(according to him his girl friend).
He watches all the serials, when asked why he says that, he needs to be in practice as he has to live with his wife for his life and not with me.
Misses his Kid daughter terribly and makes sure that i also feel terrible and miserable in what ever way possible.

Infact we end up doing cheap things or in a very modern lingua franca " A cost effective way". My Dhobi whenever he comes my roomie rushes and hides behind the door. Making sure that the dhobi doesnt charge extra for clothes that he has washed for both of us. Hey infact he is charging an exhorbitant amount for just me.
But the benefits of him staying have been immense. It has made me realise that come what may.. Marriage is a laddoo that you eat even then you are screwed.. and the worst of all even if you dont eat then also you are screwed.

Why did u write this, well maybe i also need to do some tapasya when my better half starts watching serials right. So guys try learning to do something that can take your mind of the surroundings when they are watching tele serials. Coz the jack ass of my roomie is doing just that. How i love to blow up Balaji tele films.

Jai Hind.

The best way to cleanse india.. or sudharo us

2010-06-11T16:47:00.000+05:30

I thought and thought... How do i change my country to a better place.

Where such weird things keep happening.

Where pissing in public showing ones lulli is ok, where as kissing in Public is prohibited. Goddman
Pizza takes 30 mins, ambulance takes maybe few hrs(i know its an old saying)
We talk, rock and feel about child Labour but always ask chai from a Chottu and never ever tip the little guy.
We love the heroes who marry a reformed prostitute in reel, but in real life would only want to have a honeymoon directly with her.
Abuse the motherinlaw in the serial for being a bitch, but morph into a bitch ourselves the moment the serial gets over.
Bothered more about the others, but dont even know that our own fly is open.

Ok, i think its enough.. The answer is ladies and gentlemen.. Ruthless traffic laws. Getting a licence should be a pain in the ass. Wherein after getting the licence should be a life changing event. Maybe like listening to Shri shri ravishankar(the whitely dressed dude from art of living!!!!! i was joking guys).
                    Make sure that for every small error committed the punishment should be such a pain that people should not imagine doing something on the road. heavy fines, heavier paper work and beaurocratic red tape etc...

First it should start with the high and mighty richie rich folks. They are bound to have powerful headlights without anti glare paints. So the punishment should be to clean the toilets. We always can have a tie up with sulabh sauchalay...Trust me they will even start wearing anti glare underwears from now on.

then come the politicians.. they with their blaring horns and loud behaviour. Anyone not authorised to use a lal batti or a red light should be sent as a boyfriend to Mayawati or a girlfriend to Mr.veerappa moily. The congress dude. He is certified ugly.

    The punishments might seem odd, but just imagine. The road is the place where everything moves around. the buses for school kids. The ambulances for hospitals. The arteries for communication to a lot of places not accessible by any other mode of transport. If we cant control our own roads how can we aim to have a lasting democracy at all.

Discipline starts at our front yard on the road. Not at your back yard. The back yard is for punishments. Do this and we will have an almost crime free society. And last but not the least, we need to have good workable roads to carry this out.

6 Sigma( Ram Bhaiyya Tea stall)

2010-05-06T18:50:00.001+05:30

6 Sigma was developed by Americans at the Motorola company. It has saved millions or even billions of dollars for a lot of companies. How do you do it, by analyzing the voice of customer and critical to quality traits of any operation. It has spawned an awesome training industry. And they are called yellow, green and Black belts. There is even a master black belt. If there is one thing that is common among all these jackasses are, you should be really scared of these guys. One glaring example being what ever maybe the work it has to always follow the process. Let the work get delayed but the process has to go on.

I was wondering what would be the process to help accident victims, piles patients. Imagine telling them the process is still on, so you got to wait. whew baby...................

Ok there is this tea shop that actually operates on 6 sigma minus all the black belts or chastity belts. The main characters in this events are

as follows.

Kaalu aka CRM cum logistics and reverse logistics manager oopsie how many cums wonlee

This guy with the " Me against the world look" is also the tea shop enforcer cum recovery agent cum 6 sigma practitioner. He is Michael.Oh its a multi diversity establishment.

And this my friends is the 6 sigma establishment that we are talking about. where the only lingo and jargon used are(what do you want/Kya chahiye sirrr ji)

The owner is the entrepreneur as well as the accounts manager and also the motivation giver of all these homies. You can say that this is bullshit and there is child labour involved. But hey these guys get decent 2 square meals a day and not abused by anybody , even the entrepreneur. If he does we do take care of it.

They follow simple but potent rules.

The ambience is not much to ask for but at-least the food is made in front of us.And he charges for only the food.No service charge even though he serves us where ever and when ever we want it. Talk about marketing genius. BBDO are you listening.
He doesn't use excel or any accounts software just his brains to remember whatever he has taken , given.So no tracker sheets made.
His customer relationship agents who scurry around the whole place serving tea, snacks and assorted items. The empty glasses and plates are kept everywhere starting from a cars bonnet to any hole that is available, I meant on the road you dirty rascals.
He does close to 750 transactions per day that is close to 22500 transactions a month and that is 2,70,000 transactions per month.Out of which there will be not more than 10 errors.So in 4 years he will make 40 errors and out of which even these errors will be null and void as he will make sure that the customer will accept it and reduce them close to 15.

So it is as good as 6 sigma right. Whew and imagine this, for getting a certification i have to apply online, then read through the whole online material that has lot of spelling mistakes, pretty ironic right. Then write an exam then get certified. woo brothers and sisters at the end of the day my practical experience is none the better than what it was before. Its worth making a trip to Ram Bhaiyya's tea stall.

Fauji in a Fashion show

2010-05-01T18:35:00.000+05:30

It was a warm summer evening, i had the luck to go to a fashion show with my fauji bhai and civil friend. man i saw good looking models for the first time in my life in real time. The music was awsome, the babes were amazing i was a goner and my friend chowta wanted to marry anything that walked on the ramp. But being a fauji my interaction with the opposite sex has been restricted to flora and fauna all around the country side that includes even a lady dog(see how caring and concerned i am, i dont even use the B word, ladies out there you can consider this).
      All righty where were we, oh yes the fashion show. A few observations .
The male model had arms of a slave labourer working on some mummy's tomb during the egyptian period which made us wanna scream mummmmmmeeeee.
   The girls were beauuutifool, infact i can say few marriage plans were amended , cancelled and remade also.
   There was a singer who's side dancers were much much better than her.
There were dresses that could be worn in star trek of the 1960's and still look futuristic by its standards.
And there was me, mouth agape watching the dream girls serenading by and dreamin up beach song sequences already.

Right, after the observant observations what i wanted to share was , even though indore is not that big, you should have seen the crowds there. Man they were taking it up like anything. This is really amazing the way things have transformed all around India. I wish the top most naxal leadership can organize something of this sort. say maybe miss.Red, then they can even capture Shibu soren who can be judge of all the wwarrior models. where everytime he sees something that he likes he can shout "GIVE ME RED". This might ease up on the sexual frustration of the naxal leadership and reduce the violence. Digvijay ji are you listening, if you can pass dorky , stupid ideas then i challenge you , i can pass better comments.
But before i complete i need to ask a question why would they have dresses that nobody would even wear when they are alone in timbuktu. Why waste good talent. what is the purpose of all this. Trying to understand this, has it some deeper philosophical meaning or they just do what they do.

Till then... Jai Hind

Impossible is nothing. the Khalsa way

2010-04-22T22:41:00.000+05:30

Do you beleive that this is the motto for ADIDAS, yes it is. But beleive me this is the credo that sardars or Khalsas as they are fondly called as. Very very resourceful, brave and they have got the power to change the demography of any place they stay. Now you know why japanese ex prime minister Koizumi has long hair.(The sikhs were in Japan during the occupation after their defeat in World War II).
              There was a patrol that we were supposed to go to, it was a long hard and an arduous climb. We were all hungry but generally carry light loads.How i wish we had something to eat.May be like !!!! wooo i could hear a chicken voice. cokok cokok.. now where the hell did it come from. It did come from inside the rocket launcher!!!!! Oh yes inside an equipment worth crores used for killing militants, now i found out that it can be used for giving life to troops also. Well talk about glocalisation Mr.Immelt(CEO of GE).
       You all must have heard of fidayeen militants, pretty focussed buggers. They come prepared to die right. Well no wring this time. There was this fidayeen guy who was driving a truck, his badluck and our good luck he runs into a khalsa. They are having a conversation. Then the most beautiful sight of all takes place. The guy just stops the vehicle and starts running after our man. He runs like mad towards the gate, open the gate, open the gate(abbye kholdo , kholdo , mujhe bacha lo). The militant is shot. We were shocked.What the hell did he say that made a suicide bomber drop everything and run after our man. Well i tried to know what it was. But never got to know.
    more to come.............

my JAT boys were rasam boys

2010-04-16T15:24:00.001+05:30

The Jats always have this macho image of whatever they do. The way they run, they way they have a violent affiliation towards anything that needs very little thought, forethought. They are intelligent in their own ways. Beleif system is very very rigid. If there is anything that they feel is right well it is right. Once it was during the winters, i was on a post. Really missing home cooked food. The fragrant rasam(it is an south indian delicacy), sambhar or even plain rice. For my boys if they are given rice to eat, tak comes the reply in hindi "mujhay kya jaanwar samaj rakha hai kya".(do u think i am animal to eat rice). ok that was not so subtle. And special disdain and ridicule was held for rasam , they used to call it imlee ka paani(tamarind water).
              I took a challenge for myself, that come what may i will make them prepare and drink rasam. So what i did was i suddenly started preparing rasam and had it in the mornings at a particular time. When i was asked why i told them nothing in particular. One thing that my boys wouldnt resist was silence.
      I just very sweetly told one of the senior guy that it works better than an aphrodisiac.(i meant better than viagra). You should have seen the twinkle in the eye of my boy.
   Then i kept quiet. And went about my work.But i knew i had them. One thing that these guys will never compromise on is their manhood. ok, one fine morning, i wake up and see all buggers sipping away to glory, on nothing else but horn warm fragrant RASAM!!!!!!
     Now how in the hell that happened. Jats making rasam, what next Baba ramdev singing gangsta rap. I was really shocked. Then i found out the whole story. They had gone pretty far to find out the ingredients from a Madras Regt staying near by. Stole some , bought some and negotiated some of the ingrediants from here and there. They made it. Every guy had rasam from that day on. Infact tea was stopped totally. It was only on rare occasions when rasam could not be made.
Guess what i converted them to rasam, but i did a too good a job on that, so it had to happen ultimately. Most of them shat their way to glory. And a blanket ban on rasam making was imposed by telling them that too much of rasam, one looses virility by 50. Back to square one, we were from that day onwards to chai. But still was able to do something that is quite comparable to man on the moon.
" The Jats with Rasam"

The english incident,with my fauji boys

2010-04-12T23:32:00.000+05:30

The Army guys have a particular way of using or morphing english words to their use. The first example would be allowance. Did you know that it had two meanings. Oh yes the first time i went to my unit it was announced that there would be an allowance for high altitude posting. I thought well maybe it must be for some motivational thingy. When i reached the place i found out money was being distributed, i was like what the hell. Why the hell is being money distributed.Then i found out that allowance and announcement were both one and the same. What next fire extinguisher and fire extributor were one and the same. Oh my god!!!! infact they were one and the same. These guys i tell you one big group of lovable rascals i say.

Ok there was this one incedent where one of my sargent major or subedar major as they are called in our army was asked by an old grizzly general, Saab how many courses have you done. Lo he said that nau courses.( please see you really need to read this in hindi, nau meaning nine). The general was damn impressed. He makes sure that one and all hears about this, including our units Commanding officer.
He was furious, our sargent major actually was semi literate with absolutely no courses. Pun intended. Our dear old SM said that saab i said the same thing, i said i did no course. Off course i meant that in english. Call that innovation call it what you may the guy had nerves of steel.

More to come about linguistics, cullinary and negotiation skills.

Nokia E-72

2010-04-08T23:13:00.000+05:30

I am reviewing a gadget for the first time. But i think i will be doing justice to that. The reason being

Rs.21,000 invested.
2172 Hrs spent with it.
Recommending it to another colleague of mine.

So here we go. When i first went to the nokia dealer, i was to buy E-63 but ended up buying an E-72.It has its pros and cons

The phone really looks good with a rectangle shape. Hard and very very sturdy for such a high tech phone. It has fallen a lot of times but no problems.

The qwerty keys are amazing, you never miss type any charecter. It is small yet effective enough.

The optical navigator is damn good and smooth, after using this you dont feel like using any other phone.

The camera is very decent.

Oh yes we do get the lotus notes service for free from Nokia, but i have never tried though.

Now there are faults and there are many faults. So when it comes to a nokia E-72 the phone even though claims to have a fast processor, but even basic operation like cutting a call takes quite a bit of time.

There is another uniform irritant. The optical navigation key fails quite often with a regularity. The space key stops functioning often. Nothing that a stop and start wouldnt set right. A software upgrade would be much welcomed.

The email service is slow, mails that are heavy on attachments never open at all, only normal mails are opened with ease.

Overall a decent phone which feels good in your hands. But a tad costly at the present rate of 21,000. The best price would have been somewhere around 18k. The screen also could have been a bit bigger.

The Youngistan Challenge to Ranbir

2010-04-06T23:06:00.000+05:30

I thought i thought and o thought more. What challenge would i give Ranbir. Then i decided on these various options.

Make Indian Hockey team Win the next work cup.
Improve the dressing sense of Uma Bharti.

Naa none of these but yes i think i had one, tougher than getting the dogs tail straight. You can do that these you know, Search the web find the gene. And make it straight.

Make Mayawati apologize for all the mess that she has done till now. Thats it.

My Experiences with JATS in Fauj

2010-04-06T01:25:00.001+05:30

Jats: The community that grace Haryana, a bit of Punjab and yes Delhi also. I was dreading the day since i got to know that i have been posted to a JAT Regt.I reached and was greeted first by the Subedar Major. He was grizzly old bearish guy who had a shock of his life when he found out that i was a Tambi. Folks in the civvie street. In fauj the geography is pretty simple. It aint racist, its just that they have made it simple. anybody below Maharashtra are called Thambis. So here i was a Thambi amid the jats.
     A few interesting things about JATS. Jat is state of mind. you need to really know them before you can judge them. But they will always be judgemental no matter what. They accepting you is slow and steady, but once they do it. Well you become Srikanth Singh just like i was. For them i was one of them.
       They say in Hindi, " unpad jat padha likha samaan, aur padha likha Jat bhagwan saman". Well they were damn right folks. I have never heard of anyone use a battery of a night vision equipment being improvised for a radio.
          Any illness or disease will have a remedy that revolves rotates around a bovine therapy. Ghee with milk, ghee with half cup chai or even better just ghee onlee. I was just wondering what would happen if a JAT was the CEO of Pfizer or some big medical company. Instead of a R & D dept there would be a bhains ka tabela or in english a huge cow shed. Where ghees of different variety would be produced. Infact i heard an old gentleman saying that ghee might be the ultimate cure for even Aids.
   And as for literate JAT officers of the army they used called them selves Texan. Yep!!!! why i wouldnt dare to ask. But i think i have a mathematical theory behind it. here let me show it to you all

      Texan x 0 = Jat x 0
        now divide both the sides with a 0.
yeehaaa now you get a texan = Jat.
More to come in the next post.

JAT Balwan JAI Bhagwan.( you are not supposed to understand it, you are supposed to feel it). Damn does it even make any sense that i just wrote.

The royals and leprosy sanatoriums

2010-03-30T16:22:00.000+05:30

Recently i was watching NDTV lifestyle, there was Vir Sanghvi the lucky fat ass savouring and travelling wherever and whenever(of course i am jealous). In it there were lot of palaces of India.Mainly in Rajasthan. I was envious at first, then i dont know i was pissed of for no reason. I couldnt understand what the hell was happening. Then i realised the so called maharajas and ranis of yesterday and today, not fair the way they used to live.
When my great, great ,great ok ok greatest of grandad was roaming around with his homies downtown in early 2nd century A.D half naked ,horny and semi nude, there was the king fully clothed, an assortment of chicks to pick and whatever. Why do the same today. what is so royal about royal families these days i dont seem to fathom. They say that maharani gayathri devi was a beautiful gracious lady, but apart from that what. I mean seriously what is so great about her apart from borrowed jewellery belonging to people wanting bread but making do with items of less nutritional value. Why are these places still under them. They have the gal to turn them as museums. You know what i would like to do. Turn all these places into leprosy sanatoriums.
What say people. I am ready.

The best background music that i have come across

2010-03-14T12:06:00.001+05:30

hello everyone,
This time keeping with the USP of my blog i am going to give you the name of some movies and the background scores that are really worth listening to. The saddest part is that they will never be available to you seperately or even for that matter when you watch the movie they will play for maybe maximum 20 to 30 secs. But its worth the listen.

The negotiator: a very good movie, but apart from that the title track is really good.The initial part where we get the titles is damn good.
Paycheck: Same as above, when the movie starts and the hero goes to some place the music awesome. it isnt fast but man its good.
Behind the enemy lines: The part where the first time a rescue copter comes for the rescue of owen wilson, when he is along with the siberian teenager. Its fast and good to listen to.
Black knight: This also starts at the begining where the robbery is in progress at the start of the movie.
Max payne: At the end of the movie, where we get the title track. Then at the toilet at the railway station where the hero is about to be mugged. then at the party where the hero meets with the bad guy for the first time.
Gattaca: The whole movies background score was a bit nostalgic not sad.Its very good.
The last Samurai: The soundtrack is available, but still worth mentioning it.

So do listen to these and tell me if you liked it, more coming up.

The ten biggest assholes in India-an India today survey,on why it has missed by a billion mark!!!

2010-03-10T00:55:00.002+05:30

http://www.rakeshjhunjhunwala.in/2010/03/indias-top-10-greatest-assholes-india.html.

This survey took a lot of pains to tell us who the biggest assholes in India were. I am still surprised that there infact was such a survey or not. But if there was it is a very good trend. But ladies and gentlemen let me tell you i think they wasted their money on AC nielsen. They just missed the whole point. It was right there in front of them, yet they still missed.
The biggest assholes in india right now are Indians themselves, Me, You, He and She. Shall i tell you why.

1. Why is it that the racist attacks take place in Australia only on indians and not on the chinese, they are also there in large numbers. Why is it that the whole story is not coming out. heard from a friend that there are Anti-indian associations there supported by the GOvt and they even refuse to get an FIR filed at the police station.

2. Why is it that people can in just few days can cut a state into almost two but still give a rats ass about the state of pathetic hospitals, police and corrupt politicians.

3. why is it that even after 60 yrs that people even though they dont follow the so called Gandhian principals but get touchy and finicky when somebody talks about them.

4. Why is it that such simple governance issues like Naxal problems are blown sky high into a big problem which threaten the stability of the country and threaten to tear it into many pieces.

you know what i know that i am one among most of these assholes. but do you, ya ya i know there are always exceptions to the rule. but it will be not more than a tenth of the population.

The only thing that works in the glorious country of ours is Danda, let it be a vaccum tube operated radio or indians.

The Girl who kicked the hornets nest: An obituary

2010-03-02T15:38:00.000+05:30

Goddamn what a book it was.....I am really sad to announce the passing away of quite a few charecters that will be with us for quite sometime. Like all good things they also have come to end.The reason being the author of this book Stieg larssonis no more. He passed away after delivering this book. I will tell you what i will miss, i will miss the wierd relationships of the lead protagonists. i will miss the fact that justice is still served, even though delayed. i will also miss the feeling that no matter what others are, however different they are, that i will not be judgemental at all. The book was a hard one to find, searched it at bombay, delhi and even indore. naa couldnt get my hand on it. Atlast i found it in b'lore. I saw the book, it was big heavy and juicy to say the least.

           So you can read any three of the books by the author and still not get confused, aside from issac asimov iv found that its possible to read any part of the series with this guys books. So basically its about a manhunt for killers,about an injustice carried out towards a girl in her childhood and how she gets back at them. its also about a subtle view as to how a women can still be targeted at the so called developed countries.
           Its good decent pace, lots of titbits to scare you into not using much of your personel info online carelessly. One sad thing about this book is that even after such a good pace the charecters do not die. Infact the author has himself died but the charecters have not. there are too many coincidences as to why they have been saved. That could have been avoided. But hell all is well that ends well.

Indian moms are hunters and on why she is a polymath

2010-02-24T15:48:00.001+05:30

Officially i am in the marriage market. Girls to look at, boys to be rejected on their past experience. Financial statements, espionage, predictions and astrology. Well, we can include cyber warfare also as the online portals these days have helped us a lot in this aspect. So where does all this lead us to. is it that tough for people to meetup like each other and get married. I am not chetan to write reams and get famous on how marriages in india take place.

But yes we have to like each other, we have to be at our best behaviour,it doesnt matter if after marriage if they come to blows. But you have to be a good boy before the marriage. And yes no smoking at all. All you have to do is quit smoking before the wedding for a few weeks. we can always smoke a puff or two here and there right.

Then comes the career of both the people. It has to be in a place with good connectivity, good internet, then there has to be good roads.How will they travel right?

Then comes the most important aspect, eugenics!!!! ooops i meant the vital stats. nobody can be tall dark and handsome.They have to be damn good to positively great.

So if you have to do all this, you gotta be master of all and jack of an ass to admit that you arent one.

hats of amma's and aai's. Jai ho

The Language Praablaam

2010-02-19T00:33:00.002+05:30

There always thousands of articles and electrons about language floating around the countryside. Infact i am writing this after i heard a friend of mine talkin to me about our national language. But before that let me present it in a language that everyone understands.

1.142,000 for linguistic problems in india, this came up in google search.
2.Hindi is spoken by 41% of India.

With just these two statistics and not much research i will get onto the main subject.

(a)What should be the national language of india.After going through the facts it definetely cant be Hindi. Why anybody would ask me. Well there is this small issue of almost 59% of indian multitude that speaks something else than hindi.
(b)whats the big deal its just a language which has origins that nobody knows where it originated from, well guys and gals it does to a lot of people who have beleived in something all their lives and have shown a lot of passion,you want examples, here i give them
1. potti sriramulu who fasted unto death for a seperate state of Andhra(he dies after a more than 50 day fast, a genuine man i should say).

2. The anti-hindi agitation that took place in pre and post independence india by Tamilians.these are a few that i would like to quote.

So even after this i dont think that there should be this question of making hindi compulsary, India is still India minus the suffix of army. And i can bet the country will split if it is forced on the others. If you dont agree with me think of having a mix of south indian language mix as the national language. Sounds stupid right? So does thrusting upon hindi.

North indians say that they dont learn hindi down south, why the fuck should they. they also say they learn english why not hindi, I would again like to stress why the fuck shouldnt they. A prime example would be the connectivity and ease with which a lot of people can pick up knowledge around.

Hmmm, am i becoming all passionate and stuff like that, language does that to people. So the answer is, do not ever ask that question. there are many things more important than this. Ok, even after that you want an answer then there cant be a national language in India but only national Languages.

Jai hind.Vankkam.Namaskaram.Namaste.

that KISS in the rain: by an Indian author.

2010-02-14T00:32:00.001+05:30

Back after a long time. this time i was around in a mall as usual with my friend having nothing better to do so had dinner like two homo's in a restaurant with a view. he had bought a few books. i picked up a book randomly. the title and the publisher were not very convincing but still i was bored enough to pick it up.thank god i did. It aint that bad, infact its better than that. After reading this i can say that yes Indian authors can make love making and fornicating with words better these days. Initially he starts of with a suspense scene. Not very impressive, but then the story carries on with parallel lives of three people taking off. Its got good pace and captures our interest pretty much. What one thing struck me odd was, that there was too much of mushy sermonizing here and there. Its ok in between but a bit too much on our soul sensitivity meter. Its about love and true love and more love. you wont be dissappointed. worth a read. Atleast i have a kinship with this author as i myself want to be one. He had and has the balls to be.

Read It.

The road to Gondolfo by Robert Ludlum: well a 30 yr old book

2010-01-24T10:44:00.002+05:30

This is one book that literally took my breath away. Its insanely funny and outrageously paced. Laugh your way through. The main charecters in this book are Gen. Hawkins the rough and tough general for who any situation aint that tough. Then comes our own samuel Devereaux. His schemes are out of the world like kidnapping the pope and demanding ransom of a dollar from every catholic in the world. Or shotting the balls of a sacred statue in Beijing. The list goes on and on.
The thing that strikes you the most is where the hell did Mr.Ludlum get the funny bone to write this. Its a total shift from what he usually does. Like any critic i will be cliched and put in that the charecters have not only depth but celebrity quotient which makes us search for people like this and want to follow them.
I found this book by chance and hace read it i dont know how many times which i dont want to remember. There is one supereme negative about this book, the author is dead and so are all the charecters. After getting us addicted to the general he has given us only one sequel. i hope somebody writes something and keep the legends alive.
A very good book for cinematic adaption.
God bless Mr. Ludlum

The girl with the dragon tattoo

2010-01-11T23:45:00.001+05:30

I got this book because i booked by flight ticket in a hurry. Landed at the Bombay airport early in the morning, finished two books. got india today where Aamir khan's favourite book was this. thought what the hell, let me atleast read what a famous actor reads. So i started. The book has received a lot of hype. Main reason must be that the author has died after giving the material to the publisher. Somehow starting from vangoh to stieg larsson we like things when they have already expired or more cant be produced. This author tells a very normal story with a crime commited, relationships happening around, taking a pot shot at the Swedish society for it female abuse. I definetely would not call it a crime story. but the charecters have lot of meaning in them. He doesnt judge them nor he lets us judge them. Guys am i getting of the board. ok then pardon me i will stick to something normal.

Its a good book, but please dont read it just because of the hype. forget all the hype and read it for the sake of like a last tribute to the author and condolences to all the women of sweden. Sometimes i feel we indians are much better at treating women. its atleast out in the open.

" 3 idiots" and thanks to amma and nanna

2010-01-10T12:14:00.001+05:30

Watched the movie like two times, i somehow seem to have this obsession with doing something again and again, cant help it. but this guy rajkumar hirani is a genius with senti-comedy. sometimes you dont know whether to laugh or feel sentimental. but the charecters in the movie the way the film critics write, i dont want to dissect them.This made me motivated to do what i want to do.but i was comparing with my life.man i had entire freedom that i wanted to have. there are alwayscomplaints. you never get what i wanted or even did i even ask what i want. but after watching the movie i felt totally unconnected. do people actually restrict their children that much that they have to think and dread before they even need to put across the proposal. i never needed to do anything of this drama. The first would be the books that i used to read. world famous assasinations and what not. no restrictions. thank you guys. not that you were open always, well i wasnt the perfect son right.
but i better than most when it comes to exercising freedom. may god bless me to bless you.

The lost Symbol

2009-12-25T13:26:00.000+05:30

this book starts of with the same old setting. they can infact be summarized as follows.

A swim early in the morning.
Drinking coffee
Being a perenneal bachelor.
There has to be one charecter who is physically different than the rest of us.

So from here i take it forward.There is no doubt that there a lot of interesting tidbits that are there here and there, but he tends to become repetitive with his theme and obsessions. To give credit initially the pace is good. but after 2/3rd of the book is over you really feel the drag. You really want to get over it. But all dan brown lovers its worth a read but dont expect anything spectacular.

the movie avatar

2009-12-20T23:12:00.000+05:30

Saw the movie AVATAR. In-fact saw it twice in the span of 18 Hrs. It was visually stunning is a very small word to use. Especially the scene where he gets stuck in the forest at the night. Man it makes me want to become a rogue geneticist. The main strong point of the movie must be the language that they used in the movie and the breathtaking visuals. Graphics aint just number crunchers but imagination also. After watching it it made me think a lot. I really want to go and live on that world. I am actually feeling pretty incompetent to write anything about the movie. so all i would like to say is that folks just go watch it in the theater and not in a pirated version. these guys should be encouraged to make more such movies.

NEXT by michael crichton

2009-12-04T23:42:00.000+05:30

   Next is more of a science articles compilation with a little bit of narrative to fit the gaps in between. But they make a lot of sense. There is one singular component that is typical of this author.He is very very impersonal and what should i say a practical realist with tit bits of pessimism sprinkled here and there.
  But all said and done he writes with a clarity and purpose very few can claim.In this he talks about people whose cells they dont own. Your own son who is half human and half ape.Or scientists working for money and against any moral principles that they should adhere to, i know this is a bit cliched but it actually is.
  It is informative to an extent. It definitely is not a novella.but a warning for the future.people do head.we need laws.especially like a country like ours.Hope we heed the warning.like all novel he too ends by giving it an end, but in the beginning he says very cryptically that this is fiction except for the parts that aren't.
worth a read.

An Autobiography of an unknown Indian

2009-11-25T14:09:00.000+05:30

This is the bible of Indian freedom struggle.If we could call it a struggle.Its too late for me to write anything about this book at this juncture.But there are so many things that we can still talk about. For axample this guy writes english in the old victorian pre independance era style.So before i write about this book few things that you need to know about this book.

English is of pre independence era so needs a dictionary and some extra patience.
Its like an onion the more you peel away the better it gets.
The best tit-bits are in the inside visible only to the beleivers.
And one has to bear with the french that keeps interrupting inbetween,

So after giving you the warning let me say that its worth the patience.You get to see indian independance in a new angle. Few important things that the author has stated in his book.

He says that indian independence has been acheived in cycles of passion that ebbs and increases in relation to inactivity or requirement of entertainement to the masses.
Indians were real oppurtunists when it came to grabbing the oppurtunities of making some money during the war effort but at the same time gave adequate support to anti-Brit elements.
The future of indian Govt was amply visible when we were given the oppurtunity of governing ourselves in the calcutta city corporation.But rampant curroption, nepotism the usual malaise with us indians was there for everybody to see.
The personal quirks of leaders who have become holier than thou to many of us. e.g Sarojini naidu signing an autograph with an expensive pen and conveniently keeping it with herself. Or for that matter when somebody was peeping into nehru's room how he chased the person and thrashed him.

I feel that i have written enough.Its a 1000 page almanac. Please read it.lot many myths are waiting to be shattered.

JAI HIND.

In search of the obvious: By Jack Trout

2009-11-15T02:41:00.001+05:30

The first few pages is full of gyan. And he introduces us to a 90 yr old book. And gives out a few snippets of that book, its actually good. And makes you think that wisdom be it yesterdays or today will always hold good, if its got common sense. Before i start of let me ask you a few questions.

Ideas for life.
Shift.

Most of these are words that accompany a companies Trade mark. Well few u might but the rest u might not. So all that he says is please stick to the obvious. For eg What is the point in a Bank having something like " We are more than a Bank". ya that is true a bank has to be a bank.Anything else it aint there in the business.

Even the ads he says that they lean more towards entertainement rather than selling the idea.So eventually we the customers remember the Ad and forget the product.Seems pretty simple right, we wish it were. If it were so then the world would have reverted back to logical advertising.But somehow it hasnt till now.

Common sense and stating the obvious are the main things that the author keeps harping about.He includes lots of stories of how people have gone wrong etc.

Now for the boring part. In many pages of the book he keeps reminding us that he has written lot of books and keeps including them in between, well that was pretty obvious isnt it. And jack makes it looks like marketing aint that simple but not that difficult also.But just one thing jack, whatever you write and whatever you wont you just cannot pinpoint anything.

There are a number of books on marketing and there will be many more, its a never ending story.But each book in order to sell keep a few interesting titbits in between. one such thing in as follows

" A picture is equal to a thousand words" by Confucius

that is what we thought right. No it turns out to be something else in chinese after all.

" A picture is equal to a thousand gold ". So words are worth more than pictures. Wasnt that obvious folks.

The Goal: A business Novel ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

2009-11-12T16:48:00.002+05:30

A novel is a long narrative in literary prose.A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. So there the difference begins. you can hang around with a novel anytime you feel like. As for business let me think, its all serious and for serious people. Right. Well it aint so anymore people. I give you the book " THE GOAL" by Eliyahu Goldratt an Israeli Business guru(one among many), scientist and philosopher.Phew.

So what is this book all about. It is about common sense.It is about seeing what is there right in front of you.

"MEASURE ME THE WAY YOU WANT TO AND I WILL BEHAVE EXACTLY"

Its also about changing things not for the sake of changing but for genuine improvement.One small example.

Let me say there is a factory and it produces cycles. We always have dealt with delays from producers. The reason being the products just sit as inventories waiting in line. Why are they waiting? they are waiting because they have got stuck in a bottleneck and we have not given importance to the bottleneck, hence they wait.

one more thing is that we produce a single part in a cycle in large numbers anticipating future demand.But what about the other parts which need to make the cycle. There the problem starts.You produce one part of a cycle in large number resulting in the follows

Lot of unwanted material lying around.Lying material is money waiting to be used, so its money wasted.
We are not able to sell cycles why because we have not produced all the parts but only few parts in large numbers.There another problem we are not able to fulfill orders also.
The problem is measurement.Change it and the system behaves in a different manner.

Well i hope i have not confused you and let me get to the book now.It is about Alex rogo who is a plant manager who has 90 days to bring the plant back to profit or faces closure of the plant and job losses.How he does it with the help of his ex-teacher combined with trying to save his marriage forms the main part of the book.This book uses "socratic method of Reasoning".
Instead of giving answers if one asks the right question then instead of resistance change will be automatic.Read it carefully and thoroughly it is so good yet so simple.

Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection

2009-11-11T16:38:00.002+05:30

If people claim that history is all about dates then think again, John man the author of many such interesting books as Attila the Hun. In this book he traces the life history of this Warrior king. When we hear about any king all that we hear is that he conquered 1/4th of the world or how brave he was.But as we get deeper into this it is very clear that the pain behind the story is as real as any fathers' fear of his daughters boyfriend.

John man is a mongolmaniac. Though he doesnt try to put romantic picture or idyllic picture of what happened in the course of history.But the way he puts it across is an art that not many people can claim to have. There is also a chilling data given in the book.

1 in 200 people will be a direct descendent of Genghis knan.He is the Alpha male of HOMO SAPIENS.

Genghis after consolidating his hold over his tribes men turned towards his old nemesis the chinese.The ruling dynasty was the song dynasty.It was conquered.Then it was the turn of the Islamic kingdom.Blood, bones and fat flowed freely. The Kingdom of Merv, it was said that close to a million people were butchered.It actually is not incredible considering that the Darfur region , Srilankan and Rwandan Crisis where millions were killed.Merv is still in rubble. For the mongols, killing humans was just another job like killing sheep or cattle.Nothing personal.

He singularly had a big impact to that extent the folklore of Persian and breakaway republics of former soviet still speak about him. Or for that matter chinese claim him to be theirs and for Mongols he is a national hero.

A must read to know how, where and why of many things.

skull sessions: By daniel Hecht

2009-11-11T11:09:00.001+05:30

The best recommended way to read this book is during late evenings on a overcast day with new age music in the background.sounds odd please try it.

Read this book about 8 years back.Just took it out of the library just for the heck of it. It starts of with a very normal mundane start.But what makes this book stand out is its varied and odd disorders. For eg tourettes syndrome and also about super human strength.

It traces the life of Paul skoglund and his son who live alone the reason being our man suffers from this syndrome. It causes unnecessary twiches and movements(see the movie crank to what it is) resulting in him not getting a job. But the best part is his life is not in shambles.Its as normal as it can be along with his beautiful fiancee.

    there are lot many other charecters in this book, one is a very ugly friend of the main charecter Paul.Paul's aunt.
So the story is that paul goes to work for his aunt who is a rich and eccentric person whose estate Paul has to repair. there are lot of damages done, capable only by a super human entity.This is where the actual mystery starts.To complement this there have been lot of unaccoutned for murders done in a most brutal fashion.
    The best thing about this book is its very simple,clear and to the point. No flowery language used.fast paced and most of all, the charecters in the book love to live life and take it as it comes. they dont submit nor do they fight it.Suspense is pretty good.This book has made a lot of impression on me as i am writing this from my memory after 9 years to be exact.

confessions of a thug: A 170 yr old Racy thriller.

2009-11-10T11:12:00.001+05:30

A thriller this book is. A favourite of queen Victoria.Author Philip Meadows Taylor takes us through the late 18th century India where this cult was practiced.The book was published on 1839. The main charecter of this book is Syed Amir ali. It is surreal and we are amazed that this was the state of india at that point of time. If truth is stranger than fiction absolute truth is so spectacular that lies are somehow better.

It starts with the Amir Ali narrating to the author in the jail about his life, how he was initiated into the cult. The cult has its whereabouts somewhere in the late 12th century.According to this cult the thuggees are people who practice Devi worship and their main aim is the destruction of human race through their killings.The only silver lining init was that it was multicultural and all the thugs had their allegiance only to maa Kali. be it muslim hindu anybody else.

The modus operandi is pretty simple.A classic in military ambush. where the travellers travel in groups. the thugs escort them become friendly with them and when the right moment comes they strike without any impunity.The classic technique of killing is strangulation by a kerchief with a coin placed at the adams apple. They leave nobody starting from women, children and even unfortunate people who happen to come in their way.

Infact so monumental was their effect that it is beleived that they were responsible for the death of 2 million or more indians. There is even the mention of pindaharis. The brigands.

The story is racy remeorseless and fast. You dont sympathse with anybody.Neither do you feel pity for the protagonist.It takes you places from Madhya Pradesh to Hyderabad.the India under British and pre British era.

The part about this book is that the author is absolutely not judgemental being a victorian. Its is in your face book. Overall an amazing book that leaves you with just question. "WHAT IF THE BRITISH WOULDNT HAVE CONQUERED US".

It is also available on gutenberg at this link

http://www.munseys.com/diskone/confessthug.pdf

the myth of japanese quality A book review

2009-11-10T10:40:00.001+05:30

This book is a look at the japanese quality myth.It does this the systems approach way. The authors Ray and Cindelyn Eberts who are an husband and wife team have lived and worked in Japan for three months. He is working as a researcher in the field of indutrial engineering and she is an housewife.

The book starts of with a very positive note.Few interesting tit-bits

In Japan a new has to be bought after every 4 years as its less cheaper to buy a new car rather than to maintain it and get it checked.
The large Japanese corporations act like a family, even the wives are chosen from within the company so that there is approval from the team members.
If you are a part of the team then it is considered improper to have food or chat with others from other team during lunch etc.

They wanted to go to japan, see for themselves how they live and are able to acheive and be what they are and the way they are.After few pages it hits you. That anything that they do or dont is a cause to be dissected and analyzed to prove a point that Japan is not what it seems.Everything that happened is just TATAMAE or an illusion for the outsiders. Divided into many chapters. invariably all the parts are devoted to just one thing. bashing japan or for that matter deming.you want to beleive that after all its just another has been country in front of the USA. but it becomes a drag after sometime. They do use lots of data, but since the book has been written in the early 90's. we all know what happened to the good quality american cars. GM is bankrupt, FORD trying its level best to stave of chapter 11 proceedinga and chrysler is almost history.

so after managing to go through the book these are few points that comeout

Its more of an anthrophological study of the Japanese people.
Not much backing given, to prove that Japanese quality is bad.

Japan seen from westerners point of view.
The deming points which were wrong according to them seem illogical and are used very cunningly to lead the reader astray.

now for the good points that the authors have brought out.

Yes there is a systemic problem with the Japanese society, its too conformist.
Everything revolves around the Keiretsu or the business conglomerate.
Most of the foreigners are considered as Gaijin or foreign devils.the world begins and ends in Japan.
They need to open up their economy and reduce dumping of their goods in other countries.

The end result is a sad pie on the face for the american patriots. Japan has proved that its cars are safe and better than good.that they do have lots of imagination and creativity even if they claim otherwise.

indian economic history - IV

2009-08-31T21:40:00.001+05:30

Taking forward from where i left last time. in this piece i will try to trace out the various influences starting from mid 18th century to late 19th century.
Indian scenario:

Standardisation of currency, weights and measures in 1835.
increased commercialisation.
Integration with the world market.
Railways, canals and improved roads.
Increase in cultivable land.
Production of cash crops increased.

British influence

Improved infrastructure.
Rule of law.
Property rights.
Import of cheap machine made textiles to India.
Export of food grains to Europe and England.
Introduction of steam powered Iron boats.

International

Opening of Suez canal(1869)
American civil war.
World war and napoleanic wars.

analysis: It is not easy to analyse with just a few of these influences. But on the whole the class structures changed a lot. previous class that were powerful were displaced. the supply of credit increased. but the level of small farmers were as bad or worse than ever before.they were still on substistance living.this meant that any little change in monsoon or variation in production of food grains created a devastating inpact on their lives. their disposable income was the same(as good as null and void).the technology used in agriculture was still primitive.but the british did one big favour by bringing in standardisation to the whole of the country, improved infrastructure. the rule of the east india company meant that there was surety that the rule will continue for a long time. they repaired canals and roads increasing in the amount of cultivable land.
all this makes me say just onething that being under the yoke of british was in sense a vaccination that we indians needed for unification and waking us out of the slunber that we were in for a millenium. without them probably we wouldnt have been where we are right now. all said and done the saying that british took away our wealth whether right or wrong i dont care,but what they left behind is incalculable. they took over a fractured idea and gave back a big country.how ironic.

MBA: Mai Bhi Athithi

2009-08-17T16:36:00.000+05:30

I am or rather i was doing my cert course at XLRI. it really is a great place with lots of history in it. there is a tea shop by the name of dadu's. and it also has got a rich and varied history. this is the place where MBA was being taught when ABC was a rarity in INDIA. Looking at the people out here and the intellectual level of the folks out here is really a humbling experience, with these thoughts i attended the independance day celebration at XLRI. It was a short and sweet function with a good band and short speeches(it definetely is an important criteria). but 0ne thing i noticed was that not everybody of the institute were there to attend the flag hoisting. First reaction was that i felt bad, i just didnt want to use logic that they might have slept late or boozed through the night. The more reasons that i kept giving the lesser i was convinced. i also felt a little like the Shiv sainiks(my way or the high way). the question is " IS IT RIGHT TO FORCE OTHERS TO COME AND ATTEND THE INDEPENDANCE DAY" or should they be left to their own devices to attend. there can be many arguments regarding this, but as an INDIAN i feel that there is no choice in certain things, and this is definetely one among them.just by clearing learning economic models and ORG-B doesnt complete us. It takes that extra. when u are hopelessly hungover, sleepless , throat dry lung screaming for a smoke. Its then that you prove that there is mom who needs more than a salam. she needs You.

economic history part-3

2009-08-14T14:34:00.001+05:30

when we talk about Nehru i feel that we need to go really back in time to understand how we were and the way we were influenced a lot on the way we did business. we were predominantly an agrarian society. we had a lot of disadvantages.

Too huge a country for homogeneity.
No standardised system of weights or measurements.
Bad or no connectivity of places.
brigands, dacoits, pindaharis and thugs in large numbers.
the system of varna which stiffled the enterpreneurial spirit in many people.

These were some problems, but overcoming them we were the largest in gdp. infact we were either the first or the second for many centuries.
some unique features of indian economy were as follows. they might be positive or negative but they were unique for us.

The hundi system.
The presence of business prince.
The caste based system where each trade for a particular caste.
Major business houses situated near the ports of india as the hinterland waterways and roads not well devveloped.

the points brought out here are not speculative. they are facts which can be verified easily. i am just trying to prepare a collage of all the available data.
to be continues.

economic history- part-2

2009-08-09T10:07:00.001+05:30

in this article i will deal with the post-independance economic history of india. it is really hard to be unbiased with nehru. but it will be a truly unbiased version of facts and figures, with a little bit of comments.
after independence the GDP of india was a dismal 3.5% at the time of independance. it was almost more than 30%. people have blamed imperialism for our state of affairs. but the moment after independence also after the death of sardar patel nehru took over the economic plicy of our country.
but before we get into the facts few important things to remember. there were few constraints under which nehru was workin.

after the birth of india it was a chaotic period.
nehru was influenced by fabian socialism a lot.
he was an admirer of soviet style centra economy.
he was more of a vsionary than a pratical results oriented man.
disdain for many things indian mainly hindu religion for example. which was unfortunate as to understand india hindu was a potent teacher.

these are a few. but de credit to nehru that there were a few world class institutes that were born during his tenure. let nybody be there for having started them, but as long as he gave them freedom he can be given the due credit.
his economic thinking or whatever semblnce of it present.

the state should be the enterprenuer.
invest in heavy industry and subsidise small scale industres.
inward lookin economy.
state regulation and intervention in all possible aspects.
the beleif that everyone else will know-toe his line and follow him blindly.

it is more important to understand the circumstances that were prevalent that time and then go about making judgements. more will folow. but it will be mostly based on historical and indian cultural perspective.
to be continued.

indian economic history through out the ages-1

2009-08-03T14:00:00.001+05:30

Dear all,
this topic i am going to dwell on the ecomic evolution of our country. but before that i will present few facts about our country. Some of them are accurate but some of them are not. they are all taken from commonly available sources from libraries and mostly from wikipedia.
indus valley: agrarian based trade carried out with foreign nations.

GDP from 1st AD till 11th AD - 32.9%.worlds largest economy.
GDP on 16th century during Mughal's- 2nd largest - 24.5%
GDP akbar's time 2nd in the world- 22.6%.
GDP aurangazeb 1st in the world with a revenue of 100 million pounds.

the economy has almost been on the top five. it always was and will always be, it aint no patriotic junk. hard facts and statistics. our population is our asset. but then came the brits and their esteemed east india company. not that i am blaming them, they did what any honourable theif or exploiter will do. use us.
from 1775 till 1850 we shifted back to 3rd in GDP. this happened mainly because of these few reasons that are known.

diversion of funds from india to fuel nepolianic wars.
stifling of our international trade to help fuel the industrial revolution that was in its incubatory stages in britain.
Gold standard was adopted by britain but silver standard was adopted by India, the exchange rates were pretty skewed.
The influence of cambridge on nehru who was veering towards fabian socialism. this can be stated as one example where literacy proved to be a bane rather a boon to our country.

but all said and done there were many good things that happened because of brits. some of them are as follows

total control of the whole country, iniformity, taxes, external trade and coinage.
massive industrialisation. building of railways, roads and job creation.
the creation of economic professionals who could think from and our perspective.

this is just the begining. what happened might be a little inaccurate. but post- independence we have accurate data. and because of this data, our growth rate has been termed with the derogatory terminology of the hindu growth rate. hovering around 3 to 3.5%.
TO BE CONTINUED......

demographic dividend

2009-07-31T10:58:00.000+05:30

Was in economics class. suddenly the professor was talking about the above mentioned topic. man i thought we had enough for today. well somehow heard him out with difficulty. then i realised we are sitting on a powder keg. if used it can propell us to greater heights.else the other way round. the age profile of lot of indians are around 25 to 30 . and this is about 300 million of the population. this lots energy level has to be catered to. else it will be like a rabid dog in heat. bangin anything that comes in its way. this generation needs to be entertained, housed, pampered and many other things that need lot many resources. it also needs lots of grandmothers and grandfathers to listen to them patiently yet sternly. this is just the start. we are already seeing the effects in naxalism , militancy and various other movements. what we need is a connection. to growth , to life , to hope. deny us that we will make sure this will be a century to remember. you try giving somehting to us then we will make sure that this will be a century for you to remember.

the truth

2009-07-30T16:52:00.000+05:30

We read so many articles regarding the distortion of history. only victors writing history. Well tell me one place where this doesnt happen. but how do we know that what we study is the authentic or atleast that it has been tampered with. and especially during this time when even a small thing would led us to be branded as right and a fundamentalist. these are few cases that are worth mentioning.
1. the case of taj mahal being tejo malaya.
2. sher shah suri not being the lion he was considered to be.
3. how alexander was actually defeated by porus but distorted by greek historians.
4. about the reality of prithviraj and his so called traitor jaichand.

the problems faced are many. one is the claim that the historians are marxist and totally trashing our own culture and the other one is the other extreme wherein everything has been produced only in india and everything else comes after. how can we obtain a genuine debate minus all the bullshit.without our baba ramdev interefering his ass in everything thats gettin coverage on tv.only time will tell.

the relevance of magazines in current affairs and policies

2009-07-17T16:58:00.000+05:30

I was going through a lot magazines in the library.one thing universally stood out. either we refuse to see what is real and happening on ground, or just that they are published for others to read and puke in their exams. not that all the journals are like that. there were many insighful pieces that really brought about a paradign shift. but some where so steeped in banality that we really feel like asking oh so duh man. it was about srilankan tamils plight. ok i do agree and sympathise with them, but has anybosy really gone on ground and seen the ground reality. how can experts call themselves that until they have been there travelled and eaten the food cooked whereeve. just be reading books and speakin a language one doesnt become right. i think that speakin to people on ground , eating food from their homes and living the life with them is the right way, else its going to be totally biased. and the relevance of many articels of todays magazines as well as newspapers are of dubious quality. May the god help us.

the case of nine unknown men

2009-07-02T14:20:00.000+05:30

Topic above is pretty interesting. its related to india. the legend says that after the kalinga war ASOKA was disgusted and forbade war totally. and there was an accumulation of knowlegde in various fields like psychological war, medicine and many other things. these nine wise men keep releasing the knowledge as and when required. but they make sure not to let all this knowledge fall into the hands of others lest it may be used for negative purposes. and there have not been many books either fiction or non-fiction written about this topic. the only book is by an author by the name TALBOT MUNDY. he has written his jimgrim series of novels. and the nine wise men as the central theme. this book is hard to get and maybe iy you are lucky you might get it online.so if anyone has any inputs regarding this topic you are welcome to post your comments.

stages of my life

2009-06-13T06:35:00.001+05:30

first few years: was a baby and a child. dependant on others for even my basic needs. do this and do that. then slowly out grew my pants.grew a little bit more to fight and ask questions better.grew enough not much to be petted and patted as a child still.

the confused teens: not understanding what the hell was happening. why it was happening. the guilt of forbidden pleasures.the pimples, gruff voice and the awareness that i am a guy and there are girls around.the realisitation that apart from call of the nature there are things beyond, that happen with our own equipment.and a bit of a rebel for no reason. basically why the hell should they.

the man that grew from scattered soil: the mush was black enough. the awareness that not everyman is equal. that some are more beautiful than others. the hard realities of life and the ambiguousness of the perfect world of books where efficiency can be more than 50%.and the fact that , what the magazines say actually can affect you. we also can be a statistic among all others deaths and cunstruction.

a child again: we are again told what to do. live like this, like that. by our better half. the smal ones. live for others make a sacrifice , invest here and there. but when do i get to be me. may be in the loo. hope it doesnt come to that. but even if it does what the hell.

thathasthu

our foreign policy:look east policy

2009-05-31T12:29:00.000+05:30

the Indian govt under narasimha rao started the look east policy. all the south east Asian countries where to be given the due importance due to them. we had a large expatriate population. there were lot of issues be it Malaysia or Thailand.

in Malaysia it being a predominantly Muslim country were not favourable towards the Hindu Tamils. the association of our country men hindraf was fighting for some basic rights. then Thailand. in the writer paul theroux's book it is said that Thia's hate the Indians. god knows why.but i myself can give a few. then about Burma. it has a military junta which is perpetrating a worst possible rule in any country. and we at one point award aung sang su kyee our international award. and yet arrest 36 freedom fighters in the name of gunrunning. we are the most confused and ambiguous country ever. as for what happens in the higher echelons of power no one can tell. because not much is publicised. but can any investment be better than earning the goodwill of people who have been opressed. what do we get in return for jailing them. the chinese have used the burmese cocoa islands and also their natural resources. we have got nothing in return. when will we ever learn. diplomacy is too complicated but it can be made simple. they can be really used against north eastern insurgents and infact ahve been used in the past. now we have lost that valuable source of informants and also conmbat power. the karens and also the arakanese are two burmese minority people who have used the sea for time immemorial. they can be used for patrolling the waters of indo-bangladesh waters. infact they will be better than the coast gaurd or our own police who will always bound to be pennywise and pound foolish.
we have to wake up. we not only have to look east but also look to the east. any spelling mistakes are regretted.

malthusian catastrophe

2009-05-30T00:59:00.000+05:30

malthuse was an economist in the late 18th century who predicted that the population would grow exponentially not in a linear fashion resulting in a disaster. the disaster would result in hunger as the agriculature would not be able to keep up with the growing population. everybody thinks that malthuse was wrong. infact he was far from it. he was not only right, but far ahead of his time. we claim that the green revolution has resulted in phenomenol food production. but after one revolution what has happened.zilch.
what we require is not another green revolution but a green terrorism to get back to status quo. the population will keep rising, where are we going to get food for everybody.even after the green revolution people still die of hunger.i know that its a socialogical question.but we do have to answer for our mistakes.
now forget food, what about our natural resources. it aint gonna last for ever. most of it is in the air. thank god we have gravity.else the earth would have lost lot of weight. surprised at this.imagine all the fossil fuel that is being burnt. it goes up.makes a hole up there.unless for gravity it would just leave earth. we can never create matter, so what are we left with. less matter. as time goes by they are going to get lesser and lesser.
we create new technologies but is there any use for this. i feel that unless the population is reduced there is no use. why. the car produced today is 1/10th less polluting than that of a car of the 80s. but yet there are ten more people to buy that product which only one would have bought. so we are where we started.for me this is scary. and by the time we wake up. it would be better to go on a vacation to vaikuntam.

LTTE AND ITS LEADERS

2009-05-24T10:30:00.000+05:30

we are a country of such contrasts. our ex prime minister assassinated by LTTE. yet we make a hue and cry over its demise. but few facts i wanted to bring out before we can proceed.
1. prabhakaran is a survivor and no way he would have died fighting.
2. LTTE has metamorphosed into an international consultant in terrorism includes logistics and training.
3. as long as people are the way they are it will always be an emotional issue to be exploited by politicians.
4. Indians will always be idiots of the highest order.

OK. now based on these assumptions it can be brought out that that you can destroy but can never fully root out a cause that is embedded in the hearts and minds of Tamils all over. after a weeks it would have been certain that the end was near. does anyone in his right mind think prabhakaran would have stayed back and fought. sorry, no i beg to differ. all the idealism of his is just power addiction and survivability.when child soldiers are being inducted and all opposition is liquidated for flattening the opposition then ideology is dead. its a pure chess manoeuvre.too many people are involved in it to let it go bust. they were dream merchants to bring forth a new country by nightmares. it has turned sour.
further i have no credible info regarding any intelligence nor the modus operandi hence these are just analysis. but as always i want to preach a few things.
1. nobody cares, the moment the next current bill has to be paid they all forget.
2. never interfere in other country's business. you have no right.
3. first, has our country attained the moral high ground to comment on others.no it has not.
4. when some cause is taken by the politicians its the first thing that should be forgotten and thrown. have selective amnesia when it comes to these mother fuckers.
JAI HIND.

him or him

2009-04-30T15:56:00.001+05:30

two banks, and a river in the middle,
which way the river would choose.
it cant. but cant the bank do.
left and right eyes were there.
mirror mirror on the wall, which eye
among them do you call.
there was a rabodabo
the mirror said both you conceited bastard,
little david took the sling and shred the mirror into kingdom come.
god doesnt play dice,
then why the hell do you.
you mere speck on this mankind.
move on , make way.
i was a pilgrim where only the journey mattered.
now it isnt so. the better half has another buddy,
had double vision.
nobody aint worth this much. not even mathru devo.

gandhi: non-violence. IT WAS HYPOCRISY

2009-04-21T20:00:00.001+05:30

non-violence was Gandhi's main armament in his arsenal. and by non-violence he meant not using force harming others or anything related to causing bodily harm.
"I ASK YOU ONE QUESTION MR. GANDHI , HOW DARE YOU CALL YOUR METHOD NON-VIOLENT AND YET STARVE YOURSELF AND SAY THAT FRANCE SURRENDERED BEFORE GERMANS, CALLING IT GOOD FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE PEOPLE.
never ever have i seen somebody use his own personal yardsticks to compare the whole world. let me talk only about your non-violence, no deviating from it. you say that by using non-violence against violence the french statesmen surrendered against germany. and that it saved many lives. do you even know what you are saying. evil anywhere in any form has to be met with firm force and brutal conviction. a man who knows where he's going will be given his space. how dare you call that brave. no it is not. it was cowardice of the highest order. you fight evil or you become one. i will like to compare that to just watcing somebody non-violently when they are violently molesting your better-half. what would you do mr.mahatma. is it too much for you to take, oh high and morally mighty one. you should answer this question, i can answer that very easily. kill or be killed. thats the only answer. do any of you disgree with me. please dont give me any scenarios where in it doesnt compare with your mother or sister. every thing you hold dear is equal to your own kith and kin. and so will be my country. this is my answer.
and last but not the least.
MR.GANDHI WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR WIFE AND KID WERE KILLED IN JALLIAN WALLAHBAGH BY THE BRITISHERS. WERE THEY ARMED. NO THEY WERENT.SO IS THAT GOING TO BE YOUR ANSWER. THINK BEFORE YOU ANSWER, AND ALL YOU BLOODY PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS AND GANDHIANS. IT IS A SHAME AND A SHAM AS WELL TO SUBSCRIBE TO NON-VIOLENCE AGAINST EVIL. AND TRUST ME EVIL IS NEVER RELATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR COUNTRY.
VANDE MATARAM

joan of spark

2009-04-09T19:57:00.000+05:30

martyred in flames of agony,

thorns many in number, scratching destiny on your palms,

suffered silently, bore them all for who,

blame superstition, blame ur goodness,

out you came from fire, intact you thought,

but it was not so, you were just comfortably numb.

there were nights in your life.

a baby who refused to grow, a martyr at at a time wrong, a ..........

a man you wanted , but god is what you realy needed,

bend he should , with spine intact,

stable you said, stop rocking the boat love,

you wanted just one thing, that was everything,

eons to live, a third of life done away with,

knew a destination, it was you,

but journey's become a scandal,

know not the depth and the darkness,

say yes , i would not want to know.

me the unconqurable you my queen,

how ironic can it get.

about randomness, predictions and experts

2009-04-06T19:08:00.000+05:30

there are a lot of things in this world that we cant predict. for example did we see the bombay attacks coming or the world trade center attack coming. only after it happened did every one go back to the prediction of nostradamus. then they connect the dots. but like steve jobs said they connected the dots backward. what about the economy , i suppose every one was very sure of the sensex hitting a peak of 25ooo. but where the hell are we now.less than 9000 and still going strong to 8000 or maybe less than that. what about the experts, where were they when the economy was going good.greed is such a powerful force that it helps us very much in our farsighted blindness. the so called consultants , dark suits are the most costly mistakes that has been invented these last few decades. there is a great misnomer about they being conservative. how can somebody give loans to credit unworthy people. and how can somebody be equally stupid and buy the risk assosiated with the loan. what the hell were these guys thinking. we common people might not have fancy degree's but god we have atleast something in us. a sense and that too a very common one. now regarding the lines that has been written with sense but lots of chaos in it. why would i do that.just wanted to say onething that life is so full of wild card variables that we cant and never will be able to predict anything including the future. why is that, because if you are already able to predict the future then it must already be in the thought precess of scientists.so the only thing that is possible is estimation of trends in the future. thats all that can be possible as of now.

are we indians a wounded civilisation

2009-02-12T18:56:00.001+05:30

i have never read v.s.naipauls book by this name. but after reading bits and pieces oh history and lot of geography. each time i speak about my country. are we a wounded civilisation. we hit females that too in front of the cameras but yet say that our country is she, so are the rivers. how can there be so much of contrast in this huge land of ours.i really try finding out by reading out lot of books. but yet again history is subject where objectivity doesnt reign supreme.where am i to go for untainted knowledge about my country.we are so scared of criticism that we will take up cludgels at the smallest hint. why is it that we cant go after politicians the same way we go after those poor innocent girls. man this is an ultimate shame. why cant we change that chaltha hai attitude.when are we going to realise that we are in great danger from ourselves when we just call the hindu's right wing nationalists when they defend what is ours. how can our religion or rather a great book of thoughts and philosophies not able to convince our own kith and kin when it comes to the greatness of hinduism. why cant we live the way we want. why is there so much of intolerance. is the india that i am living in today where even chandra gupta maurya who along with his minister chanakya used marriage as a potent tool of diplomacy by marrying a greek princess. wake up my country men. you have slept enough. now is the time to wake up. the more you sleep the more you will bloat with bed sores.

god. are u really powerful or a failed genetist

2009-01-15T22:45:00.001+05:30

the concept of god started when there was a reason to be searched for the infinity and unknown that surrounded us. to give us the hope that there is reason after all, in this big chaotic world. there is a method in this madness. after so many years of science,religion, blood and reasoning we have come to the conclusion that evolution is the reason for us being here. man the penultimate creation of god. man the being with the extra sense to be of sense and sensibility.man the being with the power of ideas. he who could give life and improve it. but in the end what did he do. everything that was not supposed to be done.killed his own , the others and wrote poetry to glorify. he perfected the art of being a hyena in cunning. he had memory of follies that could have been just that, no he had to better it by having a memory better than that of an elephant.we just kept getting better and better at being the best in the worst. where do we go from here. corruption, poverty , rape , molestation and all synonyms that lead to one logical conclusion:man. so i beleive that god is a bad genetist. did not know what he created or was too confident of himself. after reading all this there is one more conclusion to make. that instead of blaming man iv blamed god. you see even i , am a product or rather a byproduct of god, if there is one.

are we good enough to be lead by a leader...

2008-12-14T18:15:00.000+05:30

we are back to square one, all have forgotten what has happened. what how many days since this has happened. few weeks right. what the hell do we do.how many people have we blamed. is it something wrong in our national psyche that we are where we are. a deep sociological study is required. we claim that we are martial race. but goddamn that was left to the english to classify a few of us martial races. where the hell was this martial spirit when we were attacked. why were we good when we were under a third party, why was that when we were under our own that we had so many of ours problems. i always would like to point out to the japanese. in anything they do it always has to be their country. for eg in football world cup the japanese stand always used to be clean. why is it that we are known nothing but all things odd. why cant i hold my head high and say yes i am an indian, i am proud we have lot of positives . but working for our country has not been one of our strong points. it takes a singapore with no culture whatsoever to bring the best out of us.now where do we go. the blame game has started. something drastic is required.the only thing that has changed we have started blaming the babu's. ok that was a nice touch. but what after this. what about the leaders with lot of spunks in their balls. there were few leaders who we had but alas no more of their caliber are their. hopefully in my next blog something will be written.and this blog started about our leaders. but ultimately is this what i have tried to write.

armed forces.. i am as proud and even prouder to commit the seventh sin

2008-12-05T22:51:00.000+05:30

the profession of arms.. is not a profession. it is more than that. it is a way of life. the only routine we have is that we have no routine. the few benefits of joining the forces are as follows.
1.have u ever heard of getting paid to go for a run in the morning, well this is the place.
2. where you get scolded for not killling a person(ofcourse he has to be a militant).
3. play games to your hearts content.
4. wear a uniform that not one damn designer could ever best, ever at all.
5. hold managenemt workshops in the middle of the jungle.
6. a typical day would be nothing but typical and what that be not even god would know.
these might sound very unorthodox to join the army. but ok ,if not for your lifetime atleast i ask you to consider for doing the short service. you do come out as men. the only place where you actually get to know these words , which generally exist in the dictionary in most places in india.
honour, my country, sacrifice, josh , death and courage. people the profession of arms is the only place were we actually fulfill the ideal of a jihadi, set up a meet with khuda forever and do free service for him.i promise this much there are troubles everywhere. negatives and positives, but i swear as only a soldier would. i was fortunate enough to hoist the tri colour bang on the border, and you know the best part. i was paid to do that. few more perks for myself and the country
1. population control.
2. to an extent army controls evolution.(we remove the bad seeds)
3. discuss cricket with pakis.
what more to say, join the army for a period if not for life. you will not regret it.
jai hind

u people deserve to be shot for the following reasons...

2008-11-30T11:49:00.000+05:30

so much of hatred for myself and so many others.. i wish there was a better forum and that too a practical one to focus this..
these are the few imbeciles and inadequates we have who have destroyed or put an expiry date to our country...
1. mr.dr.manmohan sigh.. the honest and very qualified man who is leading our country nowhere.. they say he is honest.. screw ur honesty dude.. u have insulted the brave khalsa community where bravery was paramount.. where bhagat singh chose to die to create awarness. u who belong to that soil how dare you just keep making statements of condemnation.. how dare u dont do anything when the country is burning... what right do u have to live .. when we are living like this... a single death is better than dying a thousand deaths daily by coersion , threats andintimidation..

2. home minister .. shivraj patil.. my friend by upgrading ur car into a bmw at the cost of taxpaye and making statements wont do.. what the hell have you done.. have you done something concrete.. no u have not.. if u did it would have been visible...so u failed.. u also deserve the lead..

3. now where the hell was this marathi chauvinist when the attacks were taking place... raj thackeray.. u bastard where the hell were you... hmm tell me .. answer the bloody public.. hindi speakers u were against.. but only those people in the form of nsg saved the day u bastard.. not the navnirman sena...where the hell were they...u are a weakling and in my india people who are all talk and no cock dont deserve to live...

4. kerala cheif minister and home minister... u escorted that militant muslim terrorist after he was aquitted.. and what about the people who died when even hospitals were bombed, what the hell about decency to the peopel who have died... how dare u do this.. this is not hospitality but ur greed ...

how many more times and how many more people.. that includes me and u and everybody who has to do something.. but not able to do coz we dont know how or we too are raj thackerays...
shame on us...
4.

leassons learnt from the bombay terror

2008-11-30T00:11:00.000+05:30

yet again another incident has happened.. we all saw the images on the tv and yet again we felt bad. but somehow " i said so" rings all too clear in our heads. but where do we go from here.. first my hats of to all the martyrs if the nsg who laid down their lives. when it comes to the policemen my sympathies are with them and their families. but few points to be made in this
1.it was exremely stupid to go out in the field without any intelligence. they should have been more intelligent and not all officers should have traveled in the same vehicle. and more over this a blac demo of how planning was lacking.
2. have these politicians learnt to stop their bickering.. no they go on making theit stupid bloody comments feeling happy that instead of 5000 only 200 died. i say that idiot only 12 pakis should have died.
3. media was a bit more matured than the previous time, atleast the english media was, where as the hindi media was as usual lot of drama and loud noises.
4. we have learnt that army and its allied institutions are the last saving grace in this country, so please not to bicker when it comes to giving us the sixth pay and let those bloody beaurocrats(shit they are so useless that even their spellling is shit all) decide our pay.
5. and what the hell is that so called mumbai spirit these assholes keep talking about. u assholes did u go to the residences of maj.unni krishnan or mr.karkare.. dont u say that next time.. it should be called as getting back to bizness and not anyting else...
6. what we need is an umbrella agency that handles all intelligence which has been on the table but never has been implemented. so we better do that since internal and external all have a combined effect on the actions of these militants.
7. and last but not the least make an example out of somebody... people always learn when an example has been set..
jai hind

nostalgia

2008-11-26T20:33:00.001+05:30

i would wish that anyone who wants to read this please listen to vh1's-(if u were a song) in the background continuously and read on. i am taking about nostalgia.The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form. i as thinking today about the past in the 80's.well cell phones, 24hr tv's and gadgets were much in shortage those times. but we had friends , patience and a social life. i knew the aunty from the first house to the last house in my street.that was pretty cool for me. now i dont think that we know what the hell our own siblings are doing in the next room.goddamn that is actually a generation gap. hmmm. anyways i like walking the streets where i was young and innocent. i remember everything. the first time i came and played outside.i was a stranger in my own place.but they just accepted me and took me.the railway tracks where lot of politics business and love affiars started and ended without even the fairer sex coming to know about it. these were the things. now i see all my friends. many are in their jobs.some are married and few of them are going to. its a circle. but say what u may, sitting in your school during the eveinings and musing about our school days.what more can i ask for, and if it were just about to rain it will be a feather in the cap. just imagine that you were walking on the same earth that you used to walk when you were a kid or maybe a teenager disgusted or about to have a heart attack proposing to your sweet heart.yes you have sweet hearts in your school not girl friends.the last day at school will not even have been sad coz we had a new life to look forward to.but after so many lives to look forward to you just want the old one back. man i really liked my past no worries nothing much happening in a small world we were. hell neither did we know about who was obama or who is going to be my mama.wish u were here my days old, gold and very very fresh in me and lot more people.

what might be the next global problem of the globe

2008-11-20T13:58:00.000+05:30

Before we had the communist threats. then it was over in a jiffy. Then came the threat of islamic militancy. All these just show one thing very clearly. That the problems starting from the start of human civilization have always been universal in nature. there have been many. The most important has been the extinction of the dinosaur.then came the age of conqurers.well it lasted for a long time no doubt. let me say from persians , alexander, romans and many others. then it was the time for the western world to start conquring. but the asians had yet another card up there sleeve. it was the mongols. then came the spaniards and all other european nations. carving up of global areas into personal empires. then came the world wars. after the commie threats. then the islamic terrorism. if we see abt all these problems one thing is universal. that everyone has been affected by the problem. now after these problems, what might be the next global problem. it might not be hard. it will be a global problem and more worse in its charecteristics. the immediate thing that comes to our mind is the global warming and all related problems arrising out of that. so we or atleast i atleast think that we have already the problem that needs am immediate solution or atleast remedial action. why the hell am i even writing this. well thats coz all the above problems have inceased exponentially in their potency to kill us. and we have to realize that it will always be of universal nature.

the movie review of u dont mess with the zohan

2008-10-21T07:12:00.000+05:30

would u be surprised if i had said that the above said movie is not a crass comedy but a movie of such subtle thought and meaning that it would probably be not too much to say that adam sandler and rob schneider are the best peace proponents for the middle east. please watch the movie and watch it many times. it just grows on u. few best one liners are bull shlaha: bull shit in arabic. the way he comes over to america since he is sick of all the fighting in the middle east, the way he seduces all the older woman in his hair saloon, his loyalty towards the owner who had given him his chance at the thing that the hero loves, that is cutting hair. these are few that i can think of mention.the way they reduce the tension. by showing that doing business with each other is the only way forward. mr.sandler u have made a good movie. u have one convert atleast to your movies. way to go. i would recommend this movie to one and all. for a good laugh and few thoughts to wade over in the back ground. bull shlaha

dimensions of love

2008-09-09T15:42:00.000+05:30

they call it by a lot of names. too many things have been written. research carried out continuously. but after meeting and falling in love many a time. there is no easy answer to all these questions. but by simple anecdotes maybe it can be shown.that there is more to it than meets the eye. birbal was asked by akbar who is the most beautiful child in the world. he said every child. he was angry. like all kings he wanted his grandson to be the most beautiful. that was not to be. they stood outside a paupers house where a dirty child was slapped by birbal, they hid. she came out like an avenging angel. damn felt like they both ganstas who' ass might be whooped. then akbar had his answer.this the first purest and the deadliest combo in this whole wide world. genetically inbuilt. survival is on this.
next would be to be wanted by someone so bad that we are on a destructive mode. now this is bad for survival.no wonder they were weeded out by evolution. romeo , laila and our own devdas. they have become adjectives in pain and loosers. but they were also noble in their failure. this also another dimension.but extinct by their own reasons and rhymes.but yet again i am no one to sermonise on these. why so? because a two dimensional being cant comment on these multi-dimensional loosers.
a man loves a woman, her smells, fears, fallacies and ravings. he gets cuddles , hugs and more in the bargain. we are truly in love only when the hugs are a bonus.then this is a dimension worth talking about. the only few people i have seen with these were my grandparents. sounds strange. it was. the only time he showed any affection was when she breathed the last.just cried or maybe uttered lachhamma!!!!! that was more than a cry. then it ended. a symphony just ended. he couldnt or wouldnt cry. never changed a bit.just died after 2 yrs. and he was worried that our exams might be effected, and died in a few minutes.just like that. this is more than anything i can say. never complained. just died.
the next might be what must happen with a lot of guys. u fall in love, get married. move on . then lo behold there comes a female like a deer. spark is ignited. why do our blood boils and get us all charged up.is he cheating on her.or is our society just victorian to accept it.cant it be like a fusion music.the better half and the other.they can complete him. can he not share both with him.a sitar , a saxophone.it makes music devine. it might be like a latin american. neither balck , brown or white. but bronzy. yes it would be in a bronzy dimension. this is a dimension worth looking at. there are many and more. my head is screw in its own 3 dimensional hell hole.

the geopolitical conundrum.. hmm sounds nice and exotic

2008-09-05T16:58:00.000+05:30

panchshell ok we could have lived with it, well nam ok ok that also was ok, but damn people we eat from the hand that we hate. that is very very strange. indians have never taken power for granted.starting from chola's. unity in diversity. now there is diversity in unity, u always need an enemy. to look up and work for something. peace is bad news buddies. peace , socialism , religion are for the gods. so let them be. we are humans, the worst curse and the best desgn error of nature or evolution. bullshit if people say that we are capable of great acts of compassion. balls, all of us do it to avoid some avoid something negative. guilt , ego and hatred. and pure hatred is also a spiritual thing. anything pure is religious. god smites and spanks those who err, till now i have not seen a pine apple being stuck in hitlers ass. we aint better. so all this points to one thing treat geopolitis as a religion and let burmese be ruled by junta , nepal by communists a combodia by a pol pot. all are bothered about is screens. whatever comes out should notbe revolting.so let the experts handle it and dont do the talking. the checks and balances can come later. the so called escularists need to do a batman, live among the crime and filth. get used to it. in the grime and filth. fear. have u ever smelt fear. no only poison in branded cartons(i meant the perfume). in your accents. goddaim the country is going to the dogs. do not interfere where it does not concern you. let them be.jai hind

what i would do if i were a dictator

2008-08-22T17:30:00.000+05:30

1.first thing i would do is remove article 370 and all the freebies for kashmiris, for too long they have beenliving on the fat of our land and yet call india as another country.
2.liquidate the whole beurocracy and bring in the experts.
3. clean up coovum, ganga rivers pronto.
4.armed forces pay as third highest in all sectors.
5.serving in the army mandatory for 2 yrs by all.
6.make iim and iit grads work in the public sector for 1 year.
7.make traffic violation a very serious offence. then you will see the difference in discipline all over.
8.every time china tries to insults us give it back in kind.
9.throw all immigrants out immediately.
10.open up all the old documents of pre and post independence for public including the wars fought by the army.
11. a watchdog for the media comprising of civilians of good standing and severe monitary punishment for sensatonalising and false reporting.
12.build roads in every goddamn part of northeast.
13.teach delhiites about manners and gun control.
these are some of the few. damn i already feel like a primeminister.

an appeal to the idiots of the world(i meant the terrorists)

2008-07-25T15:22:00.000+05:30

i do understand that all the militants in the world have been beaten by their parents, maybe bullied by their friends or even worse molested by an old fakir... i got just one thing u ask all u stupid motherfuckers oh my have i written something.. pardon my language u bastards.... u are stupid and we are even more stupid. ill tell you one instance where you werent stupid. when u attacked the parliment, that was one instance u buggers used brains. but lok at the response, they made it as though it was attack on the country and launched the army. so now i ask you why should we the rabbits die when the fight is between you and those. i meant the politicians. so i ask u guys the so called suicide bombers, u are the most dumbest form of junk this earth has preoduced, but you can clean this world. you need to think. go after people who commit mistakes,then let us see. there will e some improvement. hope some of you dumb fucks read this.

voting rights: who should or shouldnt

2008-07-16T15:19:00.000+05:30

we have a billion and more mouths. the people who should vote dont, the people who shouldnt do, that too in large numbers.well the one question that i ask is, wil anybody with no food in the stomach be able to think. he who lives for the next can he think for tomorrow.no, sadly the answer is no. so should voting rights be given to people who live for the sake of living. some might claim that it is barbareous.but let me atleast start a debate. who should be able to are as follows.
1. professionals.
2. students.
3. lower, middile and upper middle class.
these are the few that i can think of.
but this is also is not important, the important thing is who shouldnt or not capable are as follows.
1. below poverty line masses.
2. persons living less than 10 years in the same place.
3. criminal history, however small.
4. politicians as well as political party members.
is this too much. well i dont think so, for our country nothing is too much. we require guts of stone and steel. this is not possible as of now nor fot the near future. but this is the way for the future. because there is more in stake than just future. are the people shown who shouldnt genuinely capable or required to vote. no. democracy is pseudo peace bought with war.
jai hind.

tom clancy(he might be the reason for 9/11)

2008-07-16T15:07:00.001+05:30

we all have read and some have enjoyed it. but there are few facts that i would like to bring forward about his books.in on of his books he has written about an japanese pilot crashing his plane into white house or senate in one of his novels to avenge the defeat of japanese army by the american army. he has actually given away the idea for free in the name of bestselling idea. it was for all to pick and choose the best possible idea. now more on his writting style. in most of his books he acts more like a salesman for american products like beef, beer and lifestyle. well if anybody has even an iota of iq present in him/ her then many would see through it. most of the times he harps about these things. and in the book rainbow six he has yet again given the idea of kidnapping and destroying the whole world. well mr.clancy you do have blood in your hands. and next time if anybody says that you write good books, i would like to say that yes your ideas are good, but the way you write is a pathetic excuse for pseudo-jingoism. dont act like a refugee mr.tom. i thought you aint one.

the moplah rebellion: some sad and shameful facts

2008-05-30T11:01:00.000+05:30

this was a rebellion that started and consumes a large amount of hindu population in which moplas the descendants of arab traders in india slaughtered number of hindu's in kerala. it was started as a revolution against rich hindu land lords, but it was a free for all where atrocitied were commited in untold numbers. justyfying was done by the fact that it was a military necessity. the so called mahatma was also a party to it and said that it was there right to stand up for issues that affected them and didnt condemn the killing of hindus. talk about selective amnesia Mr.gandhi.forced conversions, slaughter and mass murder. even now this rebellion is sonsidered as an act of freedom struggle and the participants are awarded with an allowance. the shameful act is not condemned nor are they willing to talk about repealing it. it all started in the name of khilafat movement. for what it was started, to help the turks regain their lost kingdom covering europe also. where as the turks themselves wanted democracy and freedom with the help of kemal ataturk. but gandhi supported this movement in the name of hindu-muslim unity. i fail to understand that where does hindu muslim unity come in to picture if they are willing to fight for another country and no their own. even anne beasant was vocal in her comments. if u are interested the site is as follows:http://www.geocities.com/hindoo_humanist/mopla.html. now you tell me about the so called rebellion. there is actually too much to write in these small verses. go to the net and educate yourself and others also. please do that and face facts. they are hard and bitter .
JAI HIND

the chinese and us

2008-05-26T05:59:00.000+05:30

it started of 3000 thousand years ago with the middle kingdom mindset. all the others are foreign devils. they dont understand the language of diplomacy. if we try to reason it out then we are a set of weaklings. 1962 war, then the recent intrusions. they have a strategy in place to contain us called as string of pearls strategy. naval bases in pak, listening post in burma, air bases in banglades. good roads in tibet. while we have nothing totalk about. forget about the rest of the countries surrounding us, we have not done enough in our own country. the problems faced by us are weak political will, and on top of that the left. these bastards are being breast fed my the chinese, and off-course our own pm a nice man but looks like he is a weak man. after showing such a dippresing scenario can we really counter the yellow devils up our heads. yes we can , but it will require unlearning of atleast 5 decades of our thoughts on them. be bold be brave and be a hawk. when it comes to our country we are always and everytime right. we have to be bold enough to accept our faults and move ahead. not being enclosed in a small fram of mind like a nehru. will carry one with the chinese series for the next few posts. JAI HIND.

if asoka could we can

2008-05-07T12:12:00.001+05:30

recently read a book by an indian author, games indians play. well after reading that, one thinks that we really are responsible for whatever has happend to us. starting from filth to our inner muck. blame we will, but change we will not. why should i , if every1 else does. then multiply that by a billion , then u have the end result. people will atad up for an insult to the poilitician idol, but they will not for lack of good public health facilities. chalta hai bhi is the attitude we have had. being individualistic has its pro's and cons. but man i wud rather be a corrupt and clean individualist than anything else. wil we change , i hope so. coz i have taken an oath to do so. not to litter , stand up for issues and try to make a differnce. we can say that our country has attained independence if some gets highlighted for being a bad example than being a good specimen. make an oath to yourself for our country where we have had angels like bhagath singh who was a god in his age and ours also,and also to country which is not bold enough to question its own mistakes. ask answer and analyze. be bold , be brave and ask questions. where asoka was able to
realize even we can. traditions are just old habits that die hard. not all of them , we require them as long as they serve the purpose, not when they spoil the purpose for which they have been started. jai hind. also would liketo share this with you, mera bharat mahan, sou may ninyanvay beiman.

the role player

2008-03-07T11:28:00.000+05:30

sun burning bright, ravaged the petals.... wind blew her over..
rain lashed face.. too many people wanting in their vases..
there she was a rose once..
a bird the other.. feeding her young...
many roles in this life,
failures , success , frustrations and helplessness.
played each part to perfection
some i collected along the way.
some were thrust upon me..
few i was were a mother, overprotective , careless, caring.
an optimistic futurologist.
freudian archaeologist.
these were the few..
not clocked many miles in the road od lif..
life aint a traffic jam.
felt old, got played, ego hurt..
the phoenix always rises from the ashes of the past.
learnt from the travel..
a traveler wil i be, for ever and ever..
i will just live on...
the epitaph wud be, well i am an immotal...

two angels i saw

2008-02-19T17:42:00.000+05:30

well life comes a full circle. i really am the example... wat u do unto u , u do unto others... how rightly and aptly said. do any of us follow that. not many i suppose. but recently this also i saw.. experienced it rather personally.. no white spots on the black board, no black spots on the white board. made for each other tag, coded straight from heaven. i was at the other end. the receiving end. did i , or was i able to give back something. i think i might , if the chance is given . the food , the cold and cool marble, the profanities, the celluloid fantasy, the spirits and high spirits.the princess and the knight in bird of thunder.me and my own dame. there was nothing called as n embarresement. the soft music of marx goin on, the friends they make they meet. the unassuming nature, the way they share their's and themselves. wat is all this u ask me.. well it aint no gratitude, coz next time i do the same , i dont expect nothing. i take back, and i give without any quarter. but sometimes in life certain things strike u.. like the first kiss u take, the one cool drink u drink wen it was impossible to get and that too after a hard day.. the few last puffs smoked of the last cigarette. well on a lighter note, the full bladder that was emptied after a long and tough fight. i hope ours and yours and we continue and bloom together. a simple thanx wus suffice i hope. so thanx

haikku- my style

2008-02-16T00:28:00.001+05:30

he commited sine one and many,
beyond pardon and prayer.
fate caught up atlast. life was dribbling.
was at his mothers feet.
he was forgiven for all that he did & he didnt.
by an all powerful mantra
its ok my son.

second: drunk myself to sleep, broke the law & few of my bones.
grromed to death & despair.
fucked my self more that what others were capable of.
the things i do for love!!!!!

third: i am sure , i was the best thing that ever happened to you,
am i too haughty, hell yeah,
guilty of being the best until proven otherwise.

the knight

2008-02-16T00:22:00.000+05:30

doubts thousands howling, like wolves hungry.
the night was dark, the knight restless,
fog all around, obscured by demons.
demons of sins, sins were seven.
the pathway to the end.
the weak willed knight, he wouldnt like him that way.
truth & false, but a veneer of color.
seperate them not afar.
time is slow, time is pain, time is balm or is it.
future looks bright & bleak, grey & white,
courtship of doubt built on a foundation.
foundation floating on the sands of time.
fall it will, how it does ,i kno not.
i awoke , the knight died, it was morning.
a great day it was after all.after all this it was.

to my would be queen of heart

2008-02-16T00:02:00.000+05:30

waiting for u for a long time. with my song and dance. there are some things only that u would listen, coz others are deaf to my ravings. i have imagined u in a number of ways. sun drenched in the morn, tired, irritated and sweaty. after work. your breezy hair, ur scented self. i can keep harping abt. this and that.there are few things that i wud like to tell u.

i would always smile and make u too.
i can and will cook food,even if it is horrible and make u eat.
put the toilet seat down.
and even if it is up, put a love note in the most odd place.
take bath regularly, cut my nails, never to stink.
never to scratch my crotch in public, hey i said i will try.
always kiss u before u brush and still enjoy.
i will flirt with any female and yet make u feel the most wanted.
be the best dad in the world.
and last but not the least walk hand in hand in the nude at a beach at night(ya not day) when we are 65+ yrs old and yet manage to get an erection.
should i say more, me is reason enough.

complete ecstacy

2008-02-12T06:28:00.000+05:30

had coffee, pink floyd's highhopes was going on at the back. what else can one ask for.life spent was walking past by me. all the blues and blacks staring at me. the future a mystery. thirst for knowledge. am i competent enough. wat abt the time and emotional capital invested, hope not a wasted effort. want to live life in a more broader expanse. unrestricted with no mental walls. break free from all the shackles. read all the books i can lay. al the money that i can lay my hands on. would all the sights and sounds of the world be enough for me to know the fuller meaning of life. god knows. but still i carry on with that singular hope that the life lines on my hand are just that , lines random. Can i really read people , and find out , what i need to. switching of the lights, going back to bed.

how she got her groove back

2007-12-11T21:21:00.001+05:30

a lanka alone and unaffected.
was there a simian bridge unseen
lo behold a tsunami came
swept her away to pulsating speeds
not many words, always the smile
the monalisa smile
a thin veil, revealing a bit, showing nothing
how many battles , scenes and songs faced
will she, wont she or when wold she
she did , in her subtle way
god does work in mysterious ways
thought he was away, he wasnt
will it be a passing cloud,
another warm hearth in her cold and brittle thought
knight in shining armour, nope. but a
gem in branded glamour.
too many words, vaccumed words,
she, he two points in a 2d graph
lost in space. but lost together.
may they be stars in their galaxy,
if they desire so, atleast after

the concept or the legend called rajnikanth

2007-11-04T23:59:00.000+05:30

To the uninitiated its about the south asian god called rajnikanth... i can imagine people having a smile on their faces. let me clear some facts. the most basic one would be the range and breath of stunts he does, and the way people down south worship him as a demi god(me included). well i wil not try to apply logic , coz it will take away the sheen and mystery out of the man.. why are people after him with such craze.. how come he has captured so many hearts including the literate masses.. the range of the movies hes done is starting from a to z.. and the humility within that persona is not legendary but unheard of.. if u think people sown south are crazy then think again , the worlds most high tech country is mad after rajnikanth's movies.. yep i am talkng abt japan.. his movie grossed higher than titanic.. why because he gives what u call a clean and wholesome entertainment, where the whole family can watch with their brawn shown the door. why do we go to the movies???? To escape reality for a moment, then why expect the usual, let there be rain , villains getting their assses kicked, heroines half the age of the hero fallin head over heals over middled aged men.. man there is enough pain in life...so dammit i would like to escape that a bit!!!!! songs are good. heroines are gorgeous , style is there.. good puch dialogues what else does one need.. seen his interviews and compared with the other movie idols, man he is down to earth... u have to c it to beleive it.. shah rukh khan or somebody else out there have to be politically , morally and sartorially correct.. have u seen him( that is rajnikanth) in functions.. man my grandfather looks good even after he wakes up...what is that .. i think he has risen above all this... i think i have analysed hin enough coz he already looks like a cadaver in the mortuary..i have initiated anybody anything else to pen , u are most welcome..
thalaivar rajnikanth vazhga( may rajnikanth live foreever)

am i to judge averybody or is it the man in the mirror

2007-11-03T19:14:00.000+05:30

met and will meet many people in life... what is the meaning of what they say.. is there any hidden meaning in what they say, i dont know.. do i care, may be momentarily... but after that.. if they think they are fooling others i think they are sadly mistaken themselves.. coz neither i study nor analyze people that much, i take it as they come.. the cardinal rule that i beleive in is people react to situations as it comes....so there are too many situations for me study... and what is the point to study.i take and will take life as it comes... atleast i will try to do that.. so all u poeople out there to take me or anybody for a ride, i am absolutely glad to be a part of that.. coz who the hell will get a chance... life is too short... u can fool anybody but urself.. coz all that matters is the man in the mirror, if u have satisfied him then nothing like it.. u can be anybody but do justice to what u have done.. the man in the mirror is always watching. am i anybody to even spend time in whhat u are doing.. no , rather i would say naaaa, i have got too much in my mind to even think abt these things.. then if they are small , why the hell have typed all this.. have i already lost it, dont know u tell me.. but ultimately i am nobody to do that, and franky i am a small fry to do that.. the man in the mirror aint one, please him.....life they say is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.. so live it and dont complicate things... am i sermonizing using complicated lingo, maybe i am, but people i thought u are worth it , the intelligence and iq they talk abt...living life the simple way is the most difficult but who the hell said it is, just live it...

to my unborn daughter

2007-10-30T12:02:00.001+05:30

well here we are, actually dont know where to start.. but this much ill say u are truly a gift from god, man what a gift.. i will not write the usual u r my apple , orange or whatever fruit i had in the morning, but u complete me.. nobody absolutely nobody is gud for u.. am i gettin a bit possesive, i suppose so.. every time u tease somebody ill bribe u, a tear in another guys eyes will be pearls for me.. dont be good, just be what u want to be, ur sexual orientation is screwed i cudnt careless.. not bothered abt studies hell yeah we'll spend more time together... i want you to redefine the phrase why shud boys have all the fun.. for u it will be "is this what boys call fun".hell i am waiting for u my angel, there u c i am already the gud father.. i will not say ill be , but i will make the most sincere attempt..make u offers u cant resist...ok then till i c ya

tata ....

the gr8 confusion in life

2007-10-30T01:13:00.000+05:30

what we want is not always what we get... does god play dice with us, i suppose he does..sonovabitch has played with me.. dont get me wrong, i suppose i treat god like my pal.. how else can u treat him... i want this in life and after that i want that in life... what do i do... nothing i suppose, do i surrender and give in... but i loose both ways, i feel bad that i have controlled and i still feel bad that i havent.. is there any other way..i tried findin it, if anybody interested then im game...man oh man wher does all this lead to, mayhem i suppose...

what they say is not what i want

2007-07-21T23:32:00.000+05:30

well the meaning of the above is just this... gnp might be good be for americans , but is it for muthulinga nadar of kovilpatti , no ghp would be much better for him, gross happiness product..why sounds too strange, does it no it doesnt for him.. and why should the annual consumption of electricity should make any goddamn difference for the economists.. the higher u consume the lesser u have for the future bipeds... and did galileo really discover all that is claimed abt him or did an indian thousands of years discover them.. why is iraq middle east for the whole world, why even directions bend in front of the powerful..it is middle west for us indians.. and really all the ads abt a laptop making life easy hell, it made my life more of a pain i the ass.. looks like we after all are batteries in a really unreal world...

i aint no cat, i have but one life.....

2007-04-30T11:28:00.000+05:30

ya i aint no cat, so this means i have but one life to live. implying this... no bloody way can i waste my life.. be a saint i will be, but will also find joy in sin.. what life would i have lived if i have not given both devil and god their due.. i cant keep devils mind idle.. it might turn him to god..so go anywhere , do anything, feel anything.. in the end there is nothing that should be unknown.. it might make me fearless..why am i typin this , i dont know... but live life to the max i will.. so join me , or try to be a cat.

god has a daddy

2007-04-17T11:48:00.001+05:30

is god there, i cant or wont try to answer that question in just these few words... but so many millions of years have passed, did we feel anything, no i guess not. at least i didn't. so is it selective amnesia of the whole or just a natural process, too big a question, involving everything and nothing... few reasons to believe in god, is symmetry in a sunflower.. synchronicity in glow worms..these are just a few... the whole world started out of the primordial soup, ok i get it.. but where the hell did the soup come from, ok might be that god created it, fine.. but if he is the creator then who created the creator.. and what is infinity, why should there be infinity.. so something says god has to be there. but if god himself is there then who is gods dad... damn if i know.. can anyone enlighten me, without spiritual mumbo jumbo you are welcome...

INDIAN PSYCHE

2007-04-04T09:34:00.001+05:30

we have gained independence, yes but "indians and dogs not allowed" has just mutated to "unconnected and dispossesed not allowed.. best examples the north east insurgency, the naxalite movement.. Is this inherent in the psyche of indians.. we have to lord over somebody and we need lording over by somebody.. It requires no psychatrst or socioligst to find this out.. maids are found in abundance only in india.. where work is not god but the previledge of the unfortunate lot.. the same indians wouldnt mind working abroad washing leftovers and proclaiming proudly with a few photos... Is this is our duality that is spoken about in physics and philosophy.. In india we pay bribes to get the work done.. outside its vice-versa you bribed not to work.. yes taken from the movie indian... we always are best when there is a crises.. we are more of fire fighters.. than weathermen..all these is it a product of our religion and way of life, invaded for over a fw thousand yrs starting from 10th century AD. the british collector has replaced the local inspector, is this the reason why our indian has not been able to perform well, starting from not carrying their bags, to being pampered.. india is a contradiction, whatever you say about india is right and wrong as well.. i have started of by starting about colonial hangups, to our small yet significant fallacies.. where will ibe able to arrive at a conclusion.. i dont think it is possible, for me in these few bits and bytes.. do we have enough bravery to face our past, from the past experience it looks like we dont( scraping the reservation, as well as the article 370).. but the things we do for our future looks like we do , and that too lots of it( godhra, babri, sikh riots).. so where do we stand, we are too much of both the extremities.. its high time we decide which extremity we want to be on.. or india will shine and blaze away into the sunset of karma.. JAI HIND

the truth about the movie "300"

2007-04-02T19:15:00.000+05:30

the movie 300 so much is talked about... let us get some facts right about the whole thing... it was never 300 spartans against a million.. it was physically impossible, as usual western albinos have got their facts messed up. yes few fought against many, but the geography was as such that it made it possible, they were brave no doubt.. but the main reason for this bravery is the spartan society, which was based on killing young babies, a society at war with itself, no culture, and respect for freedom and women.. while the iranians were far ahead of their time, i can take the liberty in saying even our time.. there were no slaves in iran.. and the historian who criticised persians he himself stayed in persia than in greece.. if you search in google you will be able to find lots of information... it was the most open and a free society that could have possibly existed at its time and even now.. in the movie the spartans are showed as wierd monsters, while the spartans are blue eyed blonde boys.. looks more like a couple of gigolos who have tried hard to impress.. yes the movie has been packaged well, but its just that it comes in a good package with absolutely no fact.. youare the best judge.. one can say its just a movie why bother.. its these movies that most westerners watch the worls through, so it is their periscope into the so called complex world of the orients.. so arise from this mental coma.. and see , hear and on top of that search and seek..

the great barkha dutt's killer reporting

2007-03-26T09:20:00.000+05:30

do you know that during the kargil war our so called home grown reporter barkha dutt had actualybeen the cause for many soldier as well as civilian deaths including a TV station destroyed. During the start of an attack generally the time of the attack is kept a secret.. she the ever vigilant person .. but no there were ratings to be had, so damn the army and the people.. and during the artillery barrage she actually gave the pakis a live feed of where the artillery shells had hit, it had missed the target.. but thanks to the live TV coverage the mistake was soon corrected, lo behold they had a hit...if the journo's think that going anywhere and sayin what they want to say selectively then comes the question.. who will monitor the monitors who monitor the people... It was said by will smith's movie wife in the movie "enemy of the state"

What am i doing with my life

2007-03-23T11:03:00.000+05:30

here i am, yet another day passes by.... while life goes on.... is there any meaning in what i am doing, or what i have done till now. I guess not..joined the army, fine after that what. Leave the army, and get a job, marry someone. get a job, have kids provide for them, try to come up in life. After all this what.. I guess it aint easy nor difficult to answer all of this.. someone might say just keep going with your life, all that happens, happens for good. Well it does but is it what i really need... or is there anything that i really do need in life.. have friends loads of them, thank god for that.. they, no no i would rather say that you have been my life support...But they get married, damn am i just typing the same thing again and again.. then it really means that life does go around in a full circle.. ha ha well i have gotten stuck.. let me read this after few yrs or maybe after i get settled down more, let me see what i have to say..till then.. life goes on as usual... india will cross past 14k in the sensex, people will die, many will be born..but life goes on.. hope to find some meaning to it.. till then if you have already done that, then you are welcome...