Sanity Insanity and Moi

I dont know what else i should do other than sitting here and getting furious.

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Ya ya ya, The UPA government won the trust vote. Now everybody is happy, lets say the UPA and its allies are at least happy that the nuclear deal will happen without any glitch.

So whats keeping the Left in the news, well they have dutifully expelled Somnath Chattergee, as of now!!!

And the BJP, the poor saffron brigade had MPs that switched sided, took money etc etc and are finding themselves in their pool of shit.

As for the wanna-be PM or rather the future PM, Rahul Gandhi, his speech at the parliament was meant to be patriotic. Its amazing when somebody out of the blue has a burst of patriotism. The wanna-be PM Lalooji (i will only call him lalooji as he is the only devil around with an angel’s halo - look at the railways), he sure did crack some dialogues and made his point on the Lok Sabha floor. At least he had the balls to say that he wants to be the PM, may be not now but later (great!!!). I would rather see the nation run by him than by Mayawathi.

So you thought that everything is going to settle and die down after the trust vote? That we will have our so called ‘nuclear-deal’, of which half of the debating politicos have no idea what its about, going through and life will go on as normal. I cant believe that somebody as dumb witted as the Muslim League (or one of their clones) comes up the brightest allegation - Nuclear Deal is anti-Muslim!!!.

Well Nuclear-deal is done or rather will be. Now what will i do for my entertainment. At home the trust vote sparked so much of interest that after we lost our borrowed tuner-card back to whom it belonged to, my room mates went on a buying spree. They bought a new internal tuner-card and DAMN!! the thing never worked. They had to cuddle themselves in front of the streaming video that they could salvage out of the Wimax connection. Next day i reach home to find an external tuner-card. Great!!!Perfect!!!

When all my hope was lost - Ram Sethu pops up. Ok! i’m sorry, i thought we done with that controversy a long time ago. Naaahhh, the government needs something to remain in news. The latest news says that Ram nuked the Sethu after he was done with Lanka. So what? Preserve it!!! Preserve something that is speculated to be God’s creation and let the freight ships make a Lanka journey. Let the price of goods carried by the ships to the Bengal coast be more, let the people suffer.

But hey wait a sec!!! why is it that we have controversy and allegation and political drama filling up the air-waves. Guys, just rewind a new weeks back. What was it that hit the news then? INFLATION!!! and we were damn sure that the Government couldn’t do much about it, than sit and watch. The price of a barrel of crude oil just went beyond Mars and there was no stopping the inflation arrow. But what happened???

Aren’t we still in that same phase. Aren’t we still facing the Inflation terror???

Ohh wait!!! the govt has diverted all public attention to Nuclear-deal.. Ohh that’s done.. its Ram Sethu now!!!!

Enjoy the Price Hike!!!!

I dont know much about B. S. Yeddyurappa. All i know is that he is a BJP state leader, going to lead a state for 4 years. I don’t know much about the Opposition too. I heard news that the Opposition JDS, double crossed him during their coalition tenure that ruled the state before the election.

I’ve been here in Techville for almost of my good age. I commute for almost 3 hours a day just to reach office and back home. I spent my day time in front of a monitor, working for some unknown foreigner. I call it the Modern Colonization. But who cares. The government says that the IT industry is bringing in huge foreign money.

I stay away from my family for most of the year. I earn 10 times compared to what my father earns. Still his savings are 100 times mine. I’m as ignorant about whats happening in this foreign state as i’m about the things happening in my family. Why? All i can do, if i ever manage to get back home after work, is to eat and sleep. Before anyone else wakes up in the morning i’m up and ready to catch the bus to office, which has been timed to avoid the peak traffic on the road. But still manages to be in the midst of traffic everyday.

So Mr. B. S. Yeddyurappa or rather Yeddy or BSY, as you should be hence forth called as reported by the morning-gossip paper, i have a request.

Your state is now on the map, not because its the Garden City (leave alone the gardens, there are no more trees left here), its because of young people like us. We put Techville a.k. Bangalore a.k.a Bengaluru (do u have any new names in store???) on the map. But what did the state give us?

We are mistreated by the Auto Army. Despite the hike in fares they still ask for a fortune. Mugged by locals. The new international Airport is a good 5hrs journey (approx the same time it takes for me to reach Coorg from where i stay). Petrol/Diesel prices are the highest in the country. Traffic is a mess.

I don’t expect you to make a difference to all these. But i expect a fair deal. I spent my youth and energy away from home, staying at a place that i thought i could call home. As a kid i was taught that all of India as a nation is one. I find prejudice against people here. I feel like i’m far from home.

I’m afraid to travel by bus or car as i don’t know when an accident can happen and the mob to burn the vehicle i’m traveling at.The Police sometimes only speak to you in their native language, if they know that you’re from out of town.

This is where i earn my daily bread and this is where i live. So is it too much for me to ask for better way for things. I add to the local diversity that is sometimes herald by the media. Why cant i just say Our State and not just Your State?

All said and all promises given, at the time of next election we shouldn’t be asking Yelli-ddyurappa???

Finally the Bloggers made their presence felt through Blogathon. Some of them were featured in NDTV.

Here is the clip from Youtube.

Does Bloggers hold any responsibility? Are they just mere writers in the cyberspace who cannot make a change? What ever they blog about does it just confine to the reader as a ‘good post’?

Hell NO!!!

Bloggers in India have decided to make a change. They are uniting for the event Blogathon India 2008 which is going live on April 20-26. Quoting straight off their home page :

Like the name suggests, Blogathon India is an event where these bloggers can get together and raise their concerns, ideas and suggestions on different social issues through the medium we all love: blogs.

Blogathon India is a creation from the desire to:

• Instill a mass awakening amongst citizens and bloggers alike towards issues of social importance that affect our day to day lives.
• Building an interesting and close-knit community of bloggers to learn, share and socialize with a larger purpose.
• Motivate NGOs and other experts to embrace the net and start blogging with their invaluable ideas.
• To provide a platform for thought leadership for ideas to emerge, to get discussed, improved and implemented.
• Introduce citizens to blogging and help them to adopt Blogging platforms and tools to express their views.
• Encourage people to blog in regional languages including Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Bengali among others.

Come lets join in …

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Do we really care about the environment? NO! Simply because we only care about ‘today’. Spare a few, but we never think of tomorrow beyond our savings and how to survive another day. A few is really a few, not even 1 in 100, not even a 1000, may be one in a ten thousand if we are just lucky enough.

Yes i know that countless many actions, meetings, movements, walks, runs, talks, videos, documentaries, features, etc are happening to many people aware of the changing face of the environment. But, if we really look at it, at the end of all these, we still drive the same oil-spilling, low mileage, polluting vehicles. So who is to blame? Is the common man still to blame? Should we point our fingers at the authorities for not enforcing the laws properly. Talk about enforcing!, they don’t even have time to set up a stable government up there after satisfying all the mouths.

Developed nations are like that model in the Marlboro advt., smocking the cigarette and showing off; while developing nations, they are trying to imitate the model by breathing in that smoke and saying, ‘Hey even i’m cool enough!!!’. Don’t they know cigarette is - fire at one end and idiot at the other end. Be at either side you stand to loose.

Take a look in that mirror. Look at you. Are you even half healthy as what your parents used to be at this age. Ya you do earn 10 times as compared to what they earned. We don’t even get up from our butts to get our own food, we ‘get’ in by punching numbers into a machine that is speculated to cause impotency in men and brain cancer.

Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome, was for some hardcore keyboard player. But now every one has one or the other wrist problem, have we all become Elton John. We are the Elton John-s of a different keyboard playing generation, of a different economy, of a different industry.

The 3Rs - Reduce, Recycle, Reuse - are still motto’s of this generation; Reduce physical exertion, Recycle gossips, Reuse inner-wears. I see people taking tonnes of print-outs every day at office, some times they do it by mistake; pages with just one line printed. What do they do? Leave it at the shredder. Cant they just take that can use it for scribbling notes?

As mentioned by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth - We all are like the frog sitting inside boiling water, not realizing that we are getting cooked…

…Unlike elsewhere in the country, no farmer in Kerala can use  “bourgeois” things like harvesting machines, unless they have the comrades sanction. Each farmer must apply to the local office of the CPM’s Travancore Karshaka Thozhilali Union (TKTU), part of Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union (KSKTU), the party’s farm worker union…

Here is a rather comprehensive coverage of what lead to the loss of crops in Kerala

Good one Panchajanya…

At times i don’t understand what’s happening with all these politicos.

Lets take the Achuthanandan (namesake) led CPI government of Kerala. He came into power with a bang. He waived off farmer loans. Great Work? The other side of the story, the waiver was for those farmers who had committed suicide.

I feel it was good of him to do that. Something is better than Nothing.

Second, he reclaims illegal land encroachments. That included a minister too. Bold move again. Common man rejoiced, as they had only seen such iconic personality in Movies.

On the flip side, the CM was getting famous and the party CPM, well they didn’t gain much ground with their Leader’s high flying acts.

Lets reanalyze - CPM - Communist - i.e. the group that stands for the Common Man, the Laborer, the Bourgeois.

Kerala is blessed with a beautiful monsoon season. Thanks to Global Warming, the rain seems to have come a well 3 months in advance. The unwary Farmer spots the rainclouds one fine day. Now he has to make a choice to save his hard work, the Yield of an year - he can get the machine running and do the work in say 2-3hrs or He can get hired hands, debate on their wage, their working time and do th work in 2-3days.

Now if i was a Farmer what will i do? With CPM around i would go for option-2. SOMETHING is better than NOTHING.

But the Farmers, chose option-1. The so called Communist ‘Workers’ came, stopped him from running the machine and as he watched rain lashed upon the fields ruining everything.

Day-4 and we are standing at Rs. 12-13 Crores lost in damages to crops alone.

Now, let me think, Why exactly didn’t CPM shine when Achuthananthan was doing a good job?

Come let’s talk about Loan Waivers again…

I have to say it was very comforting to read the news about a foreign tourist being molested by drunk youngsters at the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, in the morning paper. Ironically they were viewing the photographs of the Indian freedom struggle when they found found themselves struggling for their dignity.

Well what happened was totally against Gandhi’s dreams and what followed was violence. One of the youngster damaged Gandhi’s photos and was later beaten up(castration could have been better), the pther escaped. No complaint was lodged keeping in mind the sanctity of the place.

Is Gandhism dead? Doesn’t his principles and teachings hold no value any more? Was He just meant to liberate us from the British Raj so that we could freely molest our women? Why is Indian Youth forgetting that they are the pillars or the country?Is bad parenting to blame?

He dreamt of an India safe for women, and what did we finally deliver? Strip teasing women in public and marry off couples in public(thanks to Bajrang Dal the whooping marriage cost is avoided). Celebrating Gandhi Jayanthi would be more insulting now.

Ask anyone if Gandhi’s teaching hold any value and 90% will say Yes. But does it really? Ask yourself…

A game that is nowhere gets a whole page of news. A foreign Tennis player gets half a page when he is victorious. Yet the Indian pair of Bhupathi and Sania just gets less than quarter a page. They represented India, and they were beaten in the finals. If we can create a huge fuss about Indian cricket loosing then we can celebrate their near title miss. I have no idea. Leave all that how many knew that they made it to the finals of the mixed doubles at Australian Open

Over the days i have come to hate Cricket. It has become the single most inappropriate game that the Indians pursue these days. Its no less than a masala flick from a skimpy clad bollywood actress. There is nothing that you can define which is worth to be defined as memorable or a truly historic. I can hear people shout out what about the win at Perth? What about the lack of sportsmanship that was displayed by the mighty Aussies. I say damn all that. It was all as good as the wardrobe malfunction at fashion shows - you got to see something that you generally don’t see.

A racist remark, umpiring errors, a whole nation roars against that, a dramatic decision by the governing body, gentleman behavior by the captain - i’m asking do we need all these hype. Do we need cricket to survive. With cricket we no longer consider our neighbor as the arch rival anymore, its an island, miles south. The nation is celebrating victories and is doing injustice to other sports.

I dont care if the team loses or wins. The media makes sure that news reaches me even if i dont want to read it. Its in the front page of every news paper, flash news on TV. get out on the road, every one speaks about that, at work place the screens will have the score board open and local commentators shout out updates. I’m sick of this. Cant we just have some other sports take the center stage.

Does anyone care about what is happening to the other players. May be the media should dedicate time for other sports as well. At least report on the pitiable conditions of the other players. May be it should just avoid reporting in cricket. They are not GODs. They don’t deserve so much of attention.

Indians wake up, its just a game. F**K cricket. Its not really worthy of any praise now.