Mangalore turmoil...

Disclaimer: All material presented in this post are my own personal opinion. I don't intend to hurt or please anybody. I aint have any relation or affiliation towards any organization.

Another political post though I didn’t wish to come up with one so early but I am forced to. The recent act of hooliganism in Mangalore on the eve of Republic day forced me to flash some light on the ground realities. In our culture ever since the ancient Vedic periods we have always had respect for women and her status. Even the devilish Ravan didn’t dare to touch Sita without her consent. But on the eve of celebrations of the Indian republic, on the eve of upholding the rights and duties of every men and women, it truly was saddening to see such a horrifying act of vandalizing our culture by targeting women by the so called protectors of our ‘culture’(ironical)Shriram Sena(better of as Ravan Sena). We have seen this news breaking our TV sets continuously as if Indo-Pak war broke out! This has led to the worldwide discussions regarding the moral policing and its effects. What I intend to scribble here is, were those molested girls “sacha!!?”

Since I hail from Mangalore, we have come across a lot of ground realities. It’s said that girls were allegedly heavily doped and were not able to stand on their feet and the pub was no different from a cabaret. Now, is this what the morality we are speaking about? News channels are making a huge fuss out of the incident regarding the moral policing by the hooligans and branding them as Indian version of Taliban? But why are they not covering the act of immorality, the act of having drugs, the act of dancing nude? Are we living in Vegas? We all complained about the violations of personal rights/human rights when girls were molested. We all wondered whether Ram Sena goonda’s had any affiliation/affection to their mothers and sisters. But, but at the same time did we wonder the case of doped girls? Why are we not criticizing the violations of the fundamental duties by these doped girls? On any day be it after 50 or 100 springs down the line, I don’t want my kids/sisters to booze, fag or dope. Where on the earth its given doping is good, promiscuity is legal and bashing the dopers and whores are bad? Indian media and human right activists are all in full throttle whining in the name of violation of human rights. But who the shit are these activists to whine? What do they mean by human rights? Where the hell were they lost when hundreds of our innocent sisters and girls were raped in Nandigram, Assam and Kashmir?

Human rights shouldn't be meant only for the elites or some sections of the society and religion. What Ram Sena did was utter shameful, they were just seeking attention as pure attention mongers, they neither had any purpose nor did they serve any purpose by vandalizing the pub. Moral policing doesn’t mean they can hit/smash anybody who walks against their ‘culture’ and also on the contrary, personal freedom doesn’t mean you have the right to roam nude and get doped and expect world not to take a note of it. On a finishing note, I being a responsible citizen, criticize both the acts, neither of them were “sacha”. Hope these acts wont REPEAT....:)

The Ant & the Cricket....

I had always wished to publish this mail on my blog or any public platform.This has been the best mail ever to fill my inbox.Real credits to the one who wrote it.Let me present it to you...
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part 1:
OLD VERSION...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

MODERN VERSION...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.Come winter,the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CNN-IBN,NDTV,BBC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?


part 2:

Arundhati Roy,Javed Akthar stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house.Medha Patkar,Girish Karnad goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.Amnesty International and Kofi Annan(I recieved this mail when Annan was still holding the chair)criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper.The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance).Opposition MP's stage a walkout.Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers.Lalu Yadav allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter.Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educational Institutions & in Govt Services.

part 3:

The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.Arundhati Roy calls it 'a triumph of justice'. Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'. CPM calls it the 'revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden' Kofi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later...The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ...

As a result of loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers India is still a developing country.Can any one dare to bring India out of this clutches?

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Wonderful, aint it? So is this our 21st century India? now 'Ram jaane'....

(un)fair media??

Disclaimer:All material presented in this post are my own personal opinion.I don't intend to hurt or please anybody.

I have been longing to use this interface as a media to check the fairness of 'Indian electronic-media' for quite a good while now.Let me flash light on some instances...

1. While breaking my fast today morning I saw CNN-IBN quoting the words of Lt.Col Purohit as "terrorist speaks".Now what on earth made them say this?We have had numerous instances of terrorism and until & unless trialed by a fair court,we don't intend to brand them as terrorists.Even in Ajaml Kasab's case,when the entire world has seen him live as a terrorist we still use the phrase "alleged terrorist" rather than just "terrorist" and still intend to give him a fair trial though there prevails the obviousness in it.There is no skepticism regarding Sanjay Dutt held guilty under the 'Arms-act' for holding a Kalashnikov during 93-riots and having links with Abu Salem but ironically he is free and a 'distinguished' Indian Politician and not a terrorist as per the Media!

2. Why is our media branding the alleged terrorism from Hindu groups as "Hindu terrorism" rather than just "Terrorism" and why not attack from Lashkar/Taliban/Indian mujaheddin as "Islamic terrorism"? Is this fair on Rajdeep and Burkha's side?

3.Why is still Modi is not given the credits for his brilliance in administration in getting the foreign investments flowing into Gujarat like never before? Is this not presentable to Indian public?

4.With all my heartfelt condolences to the families of the great martyrs and victims of Mumbai attack, again our media was biased.Hemant Karkare(let his soul rest in peace)did nothing to kill terrorists,went in with utter stupidity with just a 'colt' in hand to tackle a 'Kalashnikov'! Why is he given such a high martyr status when he is just a victim? On the contrary,a Hawaldar who was responsible for Kasav's arrest,was never presented in the media.The firemen,hotel staff were all left as unsung heroes in the midst of Karkare's heroics(stupidity).

5.After the terror strikes in Mumbai, media is busy scrutinizing our Military arsenal and come up with one or the other loopholes frequently.Now is this presentable to the world? Yes,agreed we need some improvements in our armory but it cant be a 'SANSANI' news on a news channel when we are seeking world attention for all the good reasons.


I aint a right winger/fascist/liberalist here.I am speaking my heart out as a youth seeking explanation.I wanna make Media answerable to all these, but how? Allah jaane...

Blogging syndrome...

Looks like I am hit by a blogging syndrome,my 3rd post in less than 24 hours of launch. Infact its true,I am hooked to this syndrome.Couldn't take a proper nap yesterday,just was wondering what might be my next 'thought' which can fill my 'pot'.

Getting up at 7.00 on vacations is quite a weird thing given my case history suggests me dozing till 9 even during exams :P . Made sure I can attend all the calls within 7.30 but when I came out, there was another call waiting for me! It was an !dea(formerly Spice) call,I wonder why these people still bombard us with so many shitty advertising calls when recession hit world cant afford to pick it up against holding the undies tight around their ever decreasing hip circumference.

Its half passed eight now and guessing what might be the recipe down in my PG to break my fast.I guess its time to leave. As every active blogger,I have started filling Google disks with some stupid random scribbles,Hopefully i wont pen down this new found obsession.

From Hawaii to White House..

"He came he saw and he conquered...", long before Barack Obama's ancestors were making rounds somewhere in central Africa for a piece of raw flesh, one good guy addressed this line to Alexander the great. History repeats itself and its very much true.

Today is a day to cherish, a day which will mark the beginning of an era in the history books all over the world. One of the best and the voracious speakers ever to be heard in the history gave his inaugural inspirational speech as a President of the United States in Capitol hills,Washington DC as the world watched it live streaming with their mouths open and hearts asking for hope.A man seen as a savior like Lincoln ,an administrator like Roosevelt,a charismatic personality like the great Kennedy, Barack Hussain Obama, a humble but a tough man from Illinois, born to a Kenyan father and a white mother took pledge to save this world from the crisis it is in. The phrases of 'Change', 'Yes he can', 'Hope' reverberated over the Lincoln memorial to the banks of Potomac river.But can he actually deliver what he has assured this world off, only a clock can answer.

From an Indian perspective, being an Young Indian, I would like to see the Obama Phenomenon hit India.I don't want my hard earned penny paid as a tax to be wasted (I don't own a Pan card yet,oops i am not even an employee:P)to a useless PM like Dr.Manmohan Singh who cant even deliver his own speech and whose vocal chord is weaker than Tendulkar himself! I don't want an 80 year old man like Advani who is generations behind us and speaks as if he has a pain in his ass(with apologies).I neither want the corrupt and galeeju slum(as I put it in our local tapori way) Mayawati nor Sonia as my ruler too. Hoping against hope that even we can have the desi Obama avatar soon cos even we need a 'Change...'.

Being a (an amateur?)critic in my !st ever blog!

I have seen a number of guys using their blogs as a platform to act as a critic for a movie. I used to wonder what all bloggers do while watching a movie, do they actually watch it or just will be scratching hair on what to scribble later in their blogs. This has amused me, made me curious. Let me try my hand, I saw Slumdog as a critic, in a CRITICal perspective .Lets just speak about the movie keeping all the controversies aside regarding its troubled Indian face. I will try to come up with that controversy sometime later.

What a good or rather a great cult movie should possess?

1. A powerful story which keeps you at the edge of your seat for the entire duration but still glued to it.

2. Good screenplay, good script, good cinematography, I wont go into the deeper technicalities of the movie since I am unaware of the movie making skills.

Overall Slumdog is a success recipe. It is mere perfect. Danny boyle has finally earned the much eluded international fame for his wonderful work with the movie.

The movie is actually a moving story of a Mumbai slum dweller boy named Jamaal who in the verge of winning a reality quiz show interrogated by the suspicious cops. How Jamaal knows the answers of all questions, how he won 20 million big bucks and also won his Love is the essence of the movie. The movie is totally desi in look & partly in Hindi. Overall, I loved the movie. Scenes like pouring of acid into the eyes of orphan kids are really touching and well shot.

Anil kapoor is mediocre and irritating but the kids are just awesome. Don’t know whether they will get any recognition later. Subtitles are shown in an innovative way. And it is this balance of film which has touched the right chords of the audience and earned it $’s and golden globes. And our own A R Rahman got the world recognition by winning the golden globe representing 1st ever Indian who won it & it’s definitely a moment for an Indian to cherish. But definitely the background score he gave in the film isn’t his best. Just another normal Rahman composition earned him a Golden globe shows how underrated he is and how underrated our Indian movies are, surely a topic of discussion.

Overall in my favorite IMDB’s words, definitely a 8 pointer and a top 250 movie.