Last time I dressed for Halloween was - years ago - like a Viking. I wore a helmet with horns, which had two red braids also. So there I was wearing a skirt of sorts, showing my hairy chest, wearing a helmet, sporting two (prickly) red braids made of who knows what, carrying a sword, and was the darkest Viking that ever walked the dark, chilly streets of Los Angeles filled with belly dancers, vampires, hookers, pirates, ghosts, witches - but my sword kept them all at bay, until it was time to meet up for a drink with deviants and mutants I knew.
I also once dressed as Bond - a dark Bond I was in a Black Tuxedo, Bally's (I wore those then) and with a clipped accent. However after a few very dry Martinis all that remained of the accent was slurred speech patterns with a heavy dose of "sh" like "Itsh really nishe meeting you" type lis(h)p.
Dressing up is fun, dressing up the house even more with all the gadgets one can buy cheap - Thank You China - fog pumps that shroud skeletons with burning red eyes, shrieking bats overhead and really ugly witches saying gibberish in scary voices. Jack O'Lanterns making eerie light patterns, and cob webs everywhere through which emerge little and big things dressed as parrots, or Superheroes or whatever asking for candy.
And SO MUCH candy there is. Almond Joy, Three Musketeers, Snickers, Starburst, Kisses, and there's also so much booze (man/ woman doesn't live by candy alone) Patron, Myers, Ardbeg, Ketel One, Pilsner Urquell, and all that Cabernet Sauvignon.
Strange kids invading your property demanding candy, sweets to induce heart attack, booze to give major hangover, and clothes that make Gladiators out of ninnies are some of the joys of being alive in the US on the 31st. But the biggest is if you can scare the pants of your honey - I hope I will - WooooooooooooooOwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Liberal Bullshit about Islamophobia
Western nations and anyone weary of Muslim radicals is not a victim of Islamophobia. Being cognizant and prepared is smart not paranoid.
Militant Islamists have vowed destruction of their enemies.
Israel, India and the USA are their main targets that they would like to destroy.
India has borne the brunt of Muslim invasions since 1100 AD, and more recently in the form of Kargil, attacks on the Parliament and Mumbai train blasts, in addition to attacks on Banaras and other temples.
9/11 and London Tube bombings happened. So Islamic threat is not imaginary, it's real.
Muslim Terrorists are the scourge of the civilization and they must be destroyed before they destroy the world. Everyone needs to follow US and George Bush's example in putting Muslims in their place. US is the only place right now where they are not on a rampage, and that is because they respond well to fear.
In India they were at their best during Sanjay Gandhi's time and even in Turkman Gate days dared not riot.
If they control Oil India will be starved for oil. If they control nuclear weapons they will aim them at Israel. And if they amass power free world will become their whore who will be raped often.
Instead of pretending that Muslims are everyone's friends, it needs to be acknowledged that the militant Muslims are enemies of the world and the Muslims who support them are also enemies by association.
Until all Muslims come out of their ghettos and join the mainstream of schools and technology and free themselves from the clutches of the Mullahs the world will hold them suspect because they sustain the environment of hate and rumors in Amsterdam, Paris and Mumbai. The reason they are poor and angry even (out of their poverty filled lands) in Europe is because they stick to their hate filled, redundant values and eschew education and modern knowledge.
It is possible to be a Muslim and be successful. Azim Premji and Shahrukh Khan and Dubai and UAE are a proof of progressive thought and hard work. Those Muslims and Muslim nations are not an issue - issue is those who coddle religious divides and use Islam to suppress theirs own and others.
And all Muslims are not, and do not have to be our friends. They eat different, they do not inter-marry, they don't allow us in Mecca so they are different, and that's okay. As long as they don't point their hate, their guns and their lies at us - or we will smash them to pulp - maybe we will need Jews and Christians and maybe Sikhs to help because Hindus will not have the courage to fight our most recognized enemy.
Militant Islamists have vowed destruction of their enemies.
Israel, India and the USA are their main targets that they would like to destroy.
India has borne the brunt of Muslim invasions since 1100 AD, and more recently in the form of Kargil, attacks on the Parliament and Mumbai train blasts, in addition to attacks on Banaras and other temples.
9/11 and London Tube bombings happened. So Islamic threat is not imaginary, it's real.
Muslim Terrorists are the scourge of the civilization and they must be destroyed before they destroy the world. Everyone needs to follow US and George Bush's example in putting Muslims in their place. US is the only place right now where they are not on a rampage, and that is because they respond well to fear.
In India they were at their best during Sanjay Gandhi's time and even in Turkman Gate days dared not riot.
If they control Oil India will be starved for oil. If they control nuclear weapons they will aim them at Israel. And if they amass power free world will become their whore who will be raped often.
Instead of pretending that Muslims are everyone's friends, it needs to be acknowledged that the militant Muslims are enemies of the world and the Muslims who support them are also enemies by association.
Until all Muslims come out of their ghettos and join the mainstream of schools and technology and free themselves from the clutches of the Mullahs the world will hold them suspect because they sustain the environment of hate and rumors in Amsterdam, Paris and Mumbai. The reason they are poor and angry even (out of their poverty filled lands) in Europe is because they stick to their hate filled, redundant values and eschew education and modern knowledge.
It is possible to be a Muslim and be successful. Azim Premji and Shahrukh Khan and Dubai and UAE are a proof of progressive thought and hard work. Those Muslims and Muslim nations are not an issue - issue is those who coddle religious divides and use Islam to suppress theirs own and others.
And all Muslims are not, and do not have to be our friends. They eat different, they do not inter-marry, they don't allow us in Mecca so they are different, and that's okay. As long as they don't point their hate, their guns and their lies at us - or we will smash them to pulp - maybe we will need Jews and Christians and maybe Sikhs to help because Hindus will not have the courage to fight our most recognized enemy.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Life is a .....
The year is almost over.
Leaves that change color have turned, brown, gold, orange, rust, red. One's that don't are still clinging wetly in wet rains to their trees and the one's that couldn't hang on lie in heaps on parked cars and streets, creating an organic slush of dead life form, on which cars and people skid and slip.
Today was my last day in our Vancouver flat that looks into neighbors windows and between buildings at docked boats and a bit of the seawall. It was walking distance to Stanley Park and Robson so Nidhi and I used to walk everyday for an hour or more - stopping for Gelato, Boba Tea, Chocolate Fondue or at times a Blizzard at DQ, after dinner.
That is where we first met, and first lived after getting married so the place has symbolic, sentimental value, hence the mention. Even though Vancouver is expensive, offers limited shipping and dining choices, it will always be Nidhi's and my first home, so will always occupy a significant place where happy memories live.
Helena and Jill helped finish off what Tony, Steve and I had started last week. They packed and loaded the car and now it's time to cross the border with Nidhi's knives, and cutlery, and appliances, and pots and pans and clothes and books and DVDs - things that make for life.
When I hear her tossing and turning in the middle of the night, or going to the loo, or when she wakes up before me talking to her Mom, its not an annoying disturbance - like it used to be in single days, wanting my silent, stillness - I feel grateful that I get to hear these sounds that denote family and togetherness and wish that I never have to live with silences again.
Tonight or tomorrow we will find a place to put our DVDs and Books and connect our TV and DVD player and make a home for next few months until life unveils its plans for the next year. Even though the house is right on the water, in which mountain reflections swim along with the ducks, it's not dramatic because the bay is so placid - so no big, loud, crashing waves or thundering winds. Just an isolated calm, in which one can find or lose God.
Were work not such a stress perhaps the house would feel happier. Losing $1,000 out of pocket per day is taking its toll on humor and optimism. We still haven't let go any staff nor cut benefits, but its time now for radical reinventions. With each passing day (at work) something dies without something being born, so I feel there's a sum total of loss here which needs to be reversed lest it becomes irreversible
I need to find a technology partner to create the web interface, now, so that Nidhi and I can live happily till I live and when I am done I wait for her to join me when she is done her part here.
As Arthur says "ask the universe". I am asking, humbly and hopefully for a technology partner who will share the vision and the want to create a $100 million company. The company is important because that realizes my innate potential but more important because it gives me the space and the time and the security to love.
Leaves that change color have turned, brown, gold, orange, rust, red. One's that don't are still clinging wetly in wet rains to their trees and the one's that couldn't hang on lie in heaps on parked cars and streets, creating an organic slush of dead life form, on which cars and people skid and slip.
Today was my last day in our Vancouver flat that looks into neighbors windows and between buildings at docked boats and a bit of the seawall. It was walking distance to Stanley Park and Robson so Nidhi and I used to walk everyday for an hour or more - stopping for Gelato, Boba Tea, Chocolate Fondue or at times a Blizzard at DQ, after dinner.
That is where we first met, and first lived after getting married so the place has symbolic, sentimental value, hence the mention. Even though Vancouver is expensive, offers limited shipping and dining choices, it will always be Nidhi's and my first home, so will always occupy a significant place where happy memories live.
Helena and Jill helped finish off what Tony, Steve and I had started last week. They packed and loaded the car and now it's time to cross the border with Nidhi's knives, and cutlery, and appliances, and pots and pans and clothes and books and DVDs - things that make for life.
When I hear her tossing and turning in the middle of the night, or going to the loo, or when she wakes up before me talking to her Mom, its not an annoying disturbance - like it used to be in single days, wanting my silent, stillness - I feel grateful that I get to hear these sounds that denote family and togetherness and wish that I never have to live with silences again.
Tonight or tomorrow we will find a place to put our DVDs and Books and connect our TV and DVD player and make a home for next few months until life unveils its plans for the next year. Even though the house is right on the water, in which mountain reflections swim along with the ducks, it's not dramatic because the bay is so placid - so no big, loud, crashing waves or thundering winds. Just an isolated calm, in which one can find or lose God.
Were work not such a stress perhaps the house would feel happier. Losing $1,000 out of pocket per day is taking its toll on humor and optimism. We still haven't let go any staff nor cut benefits, but its time now for radical reinventions. With each passing day (at work) something dies without something being born, so I feel there's a sum total of loss here which needs to be reversed lest it becomes irreversible
I need to find a technology partner to create the web interface, now, so that Nidhi and I can live happily till I live and when I am done I wait for her to join me when she is done her part here.
As Arthur says "ask the universe". I am asking, humbly and hopefully for a technology partner who will share the vision and the want to create a $100 million company. The company is important because that realizes my innate potential but more important because it gives me the space and the time and the security to love.
Friday, October 26, 2007
I'd rather be boring?
I woke up around 7:35 today, a bit early for me, but have to unload the furniture from the truck and then drive the sluggish diesel 1 ton back to Vancouver through the clogged border and even more clogged Oak Street, all the way to the edge of Coal Harbor.
The truck is a big, 14 foot long, 10 foot high, Green box on the wheels. It has huge side view mirrors that do not adjust well, so I'm not sure who and what is behind me. Even though it has a big windshield and also the driver and passenger side windows the cabin feels dark, and when I put my entire body weight on the gas pedal (accelerator) it ambles in about a minute to 60 miles an hour while producing loud noises attesting to its efforts to respond to my need to speed.
Renting it was quite an experience too. Andrea, was so thorough, that I felt I was buying a house, applying for Immigration and going for a prostrate exam - that's how many places to sign for renting a truck in Canada - also more expensive and much harder to find (a place to rent trucks) than the US.
Ford 450 is big, slow but does the job. Andrea was thorough and also does her job. Both are boring, but essential, as they get you here to there for sure.
On the other hand the 302 horsepower, E500, with heated and cooled leather seats, tiptronic transmission, selectable drive modes, a sun roof that spans the whole top of the car is a beauty on huge chrome wheels. It feeds lust. It responds to mere nudges, going berserk from standstill to blurry fast with a slight tap on the gas. Going to Vancouver yesterday I clocked 165 miles per hour, and it hugged the road and curves tight like holding a lover in throes of hard sex.
It is definitely not boring, but it is definitely frustrating because it is at the dealer so often - air suspension pump, shock absorber, hydraulic brake pump, heater motor, brakes sensor and so on and on. Something is always breaking and now that extended warranty has expired always expensive. The dealer is fantastic, the car is high maintenance.
So I am thinking why not go boring but predictable rather than thrilling but unreliable? Time and life is too short to spend tending to cars when each day is one day less to do something more.
Is it time to turbocharge the turtle or discipline the hare?
But being a man I can't ask myself that seriously as there's no way an animal analogy will make me a smarter man. I just have to decide whether I want sketchy life of glitz, or self effacing reliable living.
We test drove a Lexus the other day, and it wasn't as much fun - Nidhi vouches for that - as the Mercedes, but it's the need of the time - our time - to save time - symbolically and really.
But then Corvette - sexy thunder on wheels - calls ............
The truck is a big, 14 foot long, 10 foot high, Green box on the wheels. It has huge side view mirrors that do not adjust well, so I'm not sure who and what is behind me. Even though it has a big windshield and also the driver and passenger side windows the cabin feels dark, and when I put my entire body weight on the gas pedal (accelerator) it ambles in about a minute to 60 miles an hour while producing loud noises attesting to its efforts to respond to my need to speed.
Renting it was quite an experience too. Andrea, was so thorough, that I felt I was buying a house, applying for Immigration and going for a prostrate exam - that's how many places to sign for renting a truck in Canada - also more expensive and much harder to find (a place to rent trucks) than the US.
Ford 450 is big, slow but does the job. Andrea was thorough and also does her job. Both are boring, but essential, as they get you here to there for sure.
On the other hand the 302 horsepower, E500, with heated and cooled leather seats, tiptronic transmission, selectable drive modes, a sun roof that spans the whole top of the car is a beauty on huge chrome wheels. It feeds lust. It responds to mere nudges, going berserk from standstill to blurry fast with a slight tap on the gas. Going to Vancouver yesterday I clocked 165 miles per hour, and it hugged the road and curves tight like holding a lover in throes of hard sex.
It is definitely not boring, but it is definitely frustrating because it is at the dealer so often - air suspension pump, shock absorber, hydraulic brake pump, heater motor, brakes sensor and so on and on. Something is always breaking and now that extended warranty has expired always expensive. The dealer is fantastic, the car is high maintenance.
So I am thinking why not go boring but predictable rather than thrilling but unreliable? Time and life is too short to spend tending to cars when each day is one day less to do something more.
Is it time to turbocharge the turtle or discipline the hare?
But being a man I can't ask myself that seriously as there's no way an animal analogy will make me a smarter man. I just have to decide whether I want sketchy life of glitz, or self effacing reliable living.
We test drove a Lexus the other day, and it wasn't as much fun - Nidhi vouches for that - as the Mercedes, but it's the need of the time - our time - to save time - symbolically and really.
But then Corvette - sexy thunder on wheels - calls ............
Thursday, October 25, 2007
India's Heroes
Heroes come in different shapes, with different roles, and all real heroes are important because heroism cannot be quantified by the size (of the achievement). Heroism is the courage, the faith, the stamina and doing something to the best of oneself in given circumstances and place that separates heroes from mere mortals.
With that said we tip our hats to Sunita Narain and Bhure Lala - featured as one of Time magazine's Climate Crusaders.
Their crusade is not old news because air pollution is a daily threat to health, and clean air is everyone's right everyday.
Living with grimy face and lungs should not be the price to pay for living in India. Clear skies are not the prerogative of the rich who can go for holidays abroad.
Narain and Lal's efforts to build the world's cleanest public transport network fueled by CNG in Delhi was and is a heroic task. Narain said, "New Delhi was choking to death", adds Lal, "Air pollution was taking one life per hour".
They were opposed by transport companies who were required to upgrade or retrofit their fleet, oil companies fought back with claims that CNG was as polluting as diesel and petrol (in order not to upgrade refining processes) and the government often sided with special interest groups which were their vote and support banks.
Lal and Narain did not give up and as a result "by December 2002, the last diesel bus had left Delhi, and 10,000 taxis, 12,000 buses and 80,000 rickshaws were powered by CNG" according to Time.
In this year in which Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his work for the Earth, and US is buying record number of hybrid vehicles its time to put the Indian vote and money behind the works of Narain and Lal so India can breathe easy and live healthy. India owes itself and its future a sustainable infrastructure based on clean, green foundations.
And as political parties begin drawing strategies for the next elections it is time that the voters demand a defined environmental plan with a specific time table for executing clean air, clean water initiatives in the top 100 cities. Elections should not be won by rhetoric or SRK as proposed UP Chief Minister, elections should be won by those who have solutions for India's needs.
India needs to raise above caste, creed, religion, protectionism, dogma and focus on being one of the leaders of the new flat, technology driven world where walls have fallen and borders have blurred. Berlin wall is gone, Russia is history, China is a WTO member and building like crazy, so why be mired in our internal darkness?
Why not have ministers like Narain and Lal? And why not feature real heroes on page 3, Times of India and Society?
With that said we tip our hats to Sunita Narain and Bhure Lala - featured as one of Time magazine's Climate Crusaders.
Their crusade is not old news because air pollution is a daily threat to health, and clean air is everyone's right everyday.
Living with grimy face and lungs should not be the price to pay for living in India. Clear skies are not the prerogative of the rich who can go for holidays abroad.
Narain and Lal's efforts to build the world's cleanest public transport network fueled by CNG in Delhi was and is a heroic task. Narain said, "New Delhi was choking to death", adds Lal, "Air pollution was taking one life per hour".
They were opposed by transport companies who were required to upgrade or retrofit their fleet, oil companies fought back with claims that CNG was as polluting as diesel and petrol (in order not to upgrade refining processes) and the government often sided with special interest groups which were their vote and support banks.
Lal and Narain did not give up and as a result "by December 2002, the last diesel bus had left Delhi, and 10,000 taxis, 12,000 buses and 80,000 rickshaws were powered by CNG" according to Time.
In this year in which Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his work for the Earth, and US is buying record number of hybrid vehicles its time to put the Indian vote and money behind the works of Narain and Lal so India can breathe easy and live healthy. India owes itself and its future a sustainable infrastructure based on clean, green foundations.
And as political parties begin drawing strategies for the next elections it is time that the voters demand a defined environmental plan with a specific time table for executing clean air, clean water initiatives in the top 100 cities. Elections should not be won by rhetoric or SRK as proposed UP Chief Minister, elections should be won by those who have solutions for India's needs.
India needs to raise above caste, creed, religion, protectionism, dogma and focus on being one of the leaders of the new flat, technology driven world where walls have fallen and borders have blurred. Berlin wall is gone, Russia is history, China is a WTO member and building like crazy, so why be mired in our internal darkness?
Why not have ministers like Narain and Lal? And why not feature real heroes on page 3, Times of India and Society?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Microsoft is paying $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, valuing the 3 year old phenom at $15 billion.
Fantastic news for technology and more fantastic for the future of as Tim O' Reilly calls "the architecture of participation" based Internet applications.
Facebook and the Internet are the flattening elements that make contact and collaboration between people and places easy to afford and in real time. They unleash creativity, break taboos and barriers and give each human being an avenue of self expression which in itself is a great confidence and capability builder.
This should give Indian computer programmers and software developers an impetus to develop new web based platforms and applications rather than be content with being service providers, and encourage the Indian Government to remove controls and restrictions that will impede the growth of the Internet and Information Technology based economy in India.
Fantastic news for technology and more fantastic for the future of as Tim O' Reilly calls "the architecture of participation" based Internet applications.
Facebook and the Internet are the flattening elements that make contact and collaboration between people and places easy to afford and in real time. They unleash creativity, break taboos and barriers and give each human being an avenue of self expression which in itself is a great confidence and capability builder.
This should give Indian computer programmers and software developers an impetus to develop new web based platforms and applications rather than be content with being service providers, and encourage the Indian Government to remove controls and restrictions that will impede the growth of the Internet and Information Technology based economy in India.
No, no, no, not another Guru thing!!!
Hopefully this will be the last, or mayen't be because we write about India and (at least some of) India is fixated with Gurus so there maybe more on the subject (and objects), but anyways we got this very preachy message from one CV Rajan at http://www.sulekha.com/.
Not that preachy messages are a bad thing, but this one rankled because:
1. we did not ask to be preached to
2. CV shared his vision of a true guru - which had nothing to do with our blog, so this man was commenting not on our commentary but using our blog to preach his views
3. did a poor job of preaching as he said nothing to substantiate or quantify his views - (he) used trite, oft quoted घिसा पिटा rhetoric to describe spirituality and Gurus (only when you understand what true spirituality means, then you will start searching for a true Satguru)
- firstly we did not ask how to find a Guru
- (he) did not quote any text to support his views, nor to prove his knowledge and authority of the subject (What? Every Indian knows what a true guru is just being Indian?)
- (we) did not criticise true gurus
- the blog was about bearded media darlings worth crores
- blog said "Gurus should be like Krishna and Drona" so its obvious we know who we think a true guru is.
So the questions are:
Not that preachy messages are a bad thing, but this one rankled because:
1. we did not ask to be preached to
2. CV shared his vision of a true guru - which had nothing to do with our blog, so this man was commenting not on our commentary but using our blog to preach his views
3. did a poor job of preaching as he said nothing to substantiate or quantify his views - (he) used trite, oft quoted घिसा पिटा rhetoric to describe spirituality and Gurus (only when you understand what true spirituality means, then you will start searching for a true Satguru)
- firstly we did not ask how to find a Guru
- (he) did not quote any text to support his views, nor to prove his knowledge and authority of the subject (What? Every Indian knows what a true guru is just being Indian?)
- (we) did not criticise true gurus
- the blog was about bearded media darlings worth crores
- blog said "Gurus should be like Krishna and Drona" so its obvious we know who we think a true guru is.
So the questions are:
- why does an average Indian turn blue and red at the (critical) mention of a guru?
- why do all Indians say the same thing/ same wrods when it comes to the describing gurus and spirituality in a nation of great divides?
My take on that - notice mine, not ours - is that
- At least since the time of Kautilya there's direct evidence of the caste structure in India with Brahmins at the top of the social chain, in control of all existing knowledge and disseminating it.
- Brahmins preached that they alone knew what was in sacred texts and only they could teach and preach sacred texts, making themselves God's Oracles if Gurus, or learned Ones if Teachers - but in all cases Scriptures could only be taught by Brahmins, and only Brahmins could be Gurus
- Therefore Brahmins alone could show Royalty or masses the path to salvation and God. They wielded the power to bless or curse and being holy ones were not to be crossed or questioned since their knowledge was derived directly from the ancient scriptures, therefore the Guru's word was final and it was everyone's responsibility to respect and believe the Guru.
- How convenient, if Machiavellian, to position oneself as God's anointed class and caste and forbid the poor and the illiterate from ever questioning you - at that time like it is now most of India was agrarian and peasants were serfs owned in many places by landlords - so the ignorant are made to believe that the man telling them to submit has a right to ask for that submission.
- For centuries no one questioned this as Rajas benefited by Pandits blessing them - there were hardly any Pandits and Gurus admonishing Raja's wanton fornicating and plundering - and this Guru/ Raja nexus was used for centuries to control masses therefore control wealth and power. Raja's boosted Gurus and Guru's turned a blind eye to India being robbed by the Raja - लगान, or land taxes that filled royal coffers also built temples, killing millions of working Indians under the burden of generations long debts
- So maybe the idea of Guru worship has been entrenched/ indoctrinated into us for centuries - to believe that there is a need of a Guru has been propagated by those who want to be Gurus and control people, and to believe that Gurus are chaste and divine is also manufactured by the same spin team. Since it was the same spin team coining same terms CV in Chennai and Raja in Ambala say the same thing when it comes to the Guru but nothing else. Great brain washing.
Spritual needs are individual so where he/she finds solace is a personal matter, and not a universal truth - otherwise Gurus will be sold at Walmart.
In Internet times there's no need to rely on others' to point to the truth when access to knowledge (sacred texts if that's being sought) is freely available. Translation and commentaries can be found by learned scholars who have gone to college to study Philosophy and Religion. So before reaching blindly for a Guru - the media Guru who cannot handle an objective question answer session because lacks knowledge and skills to deal with questioning audiences, and is only good with those who submit - why not do some study, research and analysis on your own?
I don't need CV's mumbo-jumbo, I need something tangible like when Nidhi says according to "Yog Vashistha"
That blog mentioned the wedgie that makes the world walk wobbly. Hope CV removes his.
And for those truly seeking meaning of God, Love and Life we wish your Sat-Guru finds you as we hope ours will find us.
Left should be left behind ...
Left should be left behind lest India gets left behind in the fast moving world of global opportunity and competition.
Communists and Protectionists do not want Nuclear Energy, they don't want Organized Retail? What do they want? Dead doctrines of dead men from countries whose countries have rejected these ideas as unproductive?
China has rejected Mao, and remains of the USSR are a reminder that Lenin and Marx have no room in today's economies.
Yet in India Communism rules, which is alright if voters want to vote Communist, but it's not alright when Communists impedes progress, like they're now by bullying the Congress party and M.M Singh:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/231798.html
Nuclear Energy will boost India's power output therefore Industrial Production, Commercial and Scientific Processes and be a shot of adrenalin to the GDP.
Organized Retail will boost farm and industrial output as these stores need diverse inventories, give Indian consumers higher quality and unadulterated food, create jobs and expand the civic infrastructure, from roads, buildings, factories, rolling fleet and logistics - in short grow the economy.
Protesting progress, clinging to the past while the poor starve and are denied basics of modern living like running water and 24/7 electricity at home are criminal acts against the poor of India.
There's this term "pissing in the ear" which means complaining without proposing a solution or whining for the sake of whining. Communists and in general all Indian Politicians should stop pissing in the Press' and Nation's ear and create programs that provide all Indians guaranteed:
Communists and Protectionists do not want Nuclear Energy, they don't want Organized Retail? What do they want? Dead doctrines of dead men from countries whose countries have rejected these ideas as unproductive?
China has rejected Mao, and remains of the USSR are a reminder that Lenin and Marx have no room in today's economies.
Yet in India Communism rules, which is alright if voters want to vote Communist, but it's not alright when Communists impedes progress, like they're now by bullying the Congress party and M.M Singh:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/231798.html
Nuclear Energy will boost India's power output therefore Industrial Production, Commercial and Scientific Processes and be a shot of adrenalin to the GDP.
Organized Retail will boost farm and industrial output as these stores need diverse inventories, give Indian consumers higher quality and unadulterated food, create jobs and expand the civic infrastructure, from roads, buildings, factories, rolling fleet and logistics - in short grow the economy.
Protesting progress, clinging to the past while the poor starve and are denied basics of modern living like running water and 24/7 electricity at home are criminal acts against the poor of India.
There's this term "pissing in the ear" which means complaining without proposing a solution or whining for the sake of whining. Communists and in general all Indian Politicians should stop pissing in the Press' and Nation's ear and create programs that provide all Indians guaranteed:
- Water
- Electricity
- Education
- Access to modern health care
- Safety of self and property
All above will only happen if India has adequate energy to create the infrastructure to meet demands of a billion people - translated loads more money than it ever had. And to make that type of money one has to stop thinking socialist or not and instead think India self sufficient and strong - whichever way.
If the Communists do not want the common man to be left behind or crushed by a capitalist system then they have to train the marginal farmer new farming technique versus protesting new advances in farming. They have to teach a displaced worker in-demand work skills rather than condemn new types of jobs.
Communists and other Protectionist politicians should learn how Micro Financing Programs can help the small farmer. Answers are obvious - by cultivating different crops in different ways. The challenge is to channel funds to trained farmers to cultivate short growing time crops which are easy and profitable to sell. Solution Oriented, Positive approach is to ask the Organized Retail sector what their projected demand is, and create a supply chain of high quality farm products grown in most modern ways, by small Indian farmers.
To create a direct, profitable link between a small farmer and a large retailer is flattening poverty out of India, and that has to be everyone's goal. If it ain't they're pigs.
That will be good for the farmer, good for the consumer, good for the business owners, good for the country. Because what's NOT good for the country is not to do anything to improve the farmers' lot and to deny consumers' choices where to shop and to foist the bania shops and power cuts on India.
So stop pissing in the wind, Communists/ Protectionists and create a Utopia - we have the technology for it so why pit your will against it?
Utopia is not when everyone wears the same subsidized clothes, it is when each man does the exponential most with all his abilities and in doing that sheds poverty, becomes strong and wears what he wants to because he can afford it. Government's duty is to provide him the tools to get there, not to block his road.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Its Aamir Khan now?
No one, repeat, no one, and if you didn't get it, NO ONE, can hide or escape from the deep, probing eyes and the vast reach of Indian Justice System. Its wisdom, maturity and fairness make it a God even bigger than all the Indian God Men put together - sorry God Men Ji but let truth be known to mankind - and as the saying goes "sadhu se bada tarazu" which translated is "साधू से बडा तराजू"
And its no wonder or surprise that Indian Justice System rocks. After all so many judges and magistrates are followers of these bearded, smiling man led organizations - STOP RIGHT HERE, DOUBTER(s), these ever smiling bearded men are qualified in subjects that Harvard, IIT, MIT, even primary school in Kalba Devi cannot match because these qualifications are handed down directly from God above to the ever smiling bearded man - a beard because God demands beard, and God demands a frozen, pasted smile that denotes inner peace and happiness not retarded-ness, understand that, and never forget - so judges and magistrates trained locally in humble colleges in ho hum aspects of jurisprudence need exposure to God taught men to become better men, women and if they think they are cows then better cows - after all who are we to stop someone from believing that they are a man, woman, cow, alien, evolved, enlightened, Superman - and it's been fantastic. Indian Courts have a halo around their unwashed, unpainted, grime and spit stained facades from where might pronouncements are made, like this beautiful story (goose bumps say it all) reported in the web edition of Indian Express:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Nonbailable-warrant-issued-against-Aamir-Khan/231503/
This man, Aamir Khan, if he is a man - what type of a Khan-man does movies like Rang De Basanti, Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai - real Khans showoff their massive Popeye (the sailor) chests or in absence of hair plugs and thigh sized biceps have these uncontrollable facial tics - that's not spastic that Indian acting and emoting at its finest - and act in films like Partner and all these movies starting with the letter K. Okay so this man, if he is a man, (Aamir Khan, man, woman, cow, who are you, what is your purpose of being, do you know where you converge with earth's axis and do you know that at a certain time the apex of your aura can be linked to sun's penumbra to create immense power in your loins, and a clear idea of what you should be based on who you are - Viagra can do that too, mixed with a good Psychologist). By the way not saying that this entity Aamir Khan needs Viagra or a Psychologist. Hasten to add neither suggesting that other Khans do.
Okay so this Aamir Khan who ever he is makes these films and top of that insults the Indian Flag. Flog him for that!
It's bad to insult the flag, and I have always taken exception to Star and Stripes and Union Jack bikinis and little things strippers wear. Can you imagine a तिरंगा कच्छा?
No, seriously, if the constitution (thus the law) mandates how the flag is treated then the flag has to be treated that way, not only because you must love the flag or you're a traitorous scum son of India, but also because it's the law and laws must be obeyed until they are amended constitutionally.
We (at least my household, including my mother-in-law) demand to know what Aamir Khan did to insult the flag, and why? As a public figure he is accountable to answer to us - so AK why did you do it, Man? - and as a citizen he was accountable to appear in the court when he was first asked to appear.
Breaking the law is wrong, period. Whether is is driving over sleeping people or killing rare species or hurling an insult at the Tiranga.
And the courts must stop law breakage! And they're doing a terrific job by issuing this warrant against Aamir Khan. First the court ordered him to appear, when he didn't, then the court issued a warrant. Thank you Shailandra Sharma for moving the court and thank you Shri B.S. Muvel for letting your court be moved (B.S is the magistrate sir).
Dawood is on a rampage against the country, Salem is on Indian soil (jail is built on soil, you know), for crimes against India, using foreign lawyers paying them how, only God knows - राम जाने - Salman Khan is still free, Manu Sharma and his ilk play the Courts like a yo yo, it takes years to get a court hearing, some estimates peg 300 years for all cases in queue to come up for a hearing - and we are wasting Courts time by issuing such warrants?
Why not throw cases like this as being frivolous? Tax payers monies should be used to speed processes not coddle Shailendra Sharmas. While cases rot in court queues corruption festers and waiting destroys morale and spirit. Criminals remain at large, society waits in limbo and property owners and properties suffer ruinous damage - which adds to urban decay. Almost all of Mumbai - even the tony though not tony looking - Colaba and Marine Drive - are dotted with time ravaged, uncared for buildings, uglier than ugly, wearing a slum look - and mostly because of Courts' inertia in settling tenant rights and landlord responsibility issues spanning decades. For decades tenants - occupants is a better word - have paid ludicrously below market rents and for those decades property owners have had no incentive to improve or maintain their buildings, making Mumabi look the way it does instead of say Vancouver, all new and shiny. Should the courts evict those who've lived almost free for generations? Yes, because they have to pay market value or move. Simple - and we're not talking about uprooting slum dwellers, these are usurpers. So the Courts need to work faster so Criminals are incarcerated faster, Mumbai steps out of it's decaying infrastructure and India can shed its image as a 3rd world corrupt nation.
This is not condoning insulting the Indian Flag it is asking the courts to get their priorities right. Mr. Khan could have been be fined or ordered to issue a public apology, rather than add another case to the long, meandering queues that exacerbate the misery of those waiting for justice to happen.
And its no wonder or surprise that Indian Justice System rocks. After all so many judges and magistrates are followers of these bearded, smiling man led organizations - STOP RIGHT HERE, DOUBTER(s), these ever smiling bearded men are qualified in subjects that Harvard, IIT, MIT, even primary school in Kalba Devi cannot match because these qualifications are handed down directly from God above to the ever smiling bearded man - a beard because God demands beard, and God demands a frozen, pasted smile that denotes inner peace and happiness not retarded-ness, understand that, and never forget - so judges and magistrates trained locally in humble colleges in ho hum aspects of jurisprudence need exposure to God taught men to become better men, women and if they think they are cows then better cows - after all who are we to stop someone from believing that they are a man, woman, cow, alien, evolved, enlightened, Superman - and it's been fantastic. Indian Courts have a halo around their unwashed, unpainted, grime and spit stained facades from where might pronouncements are made, like this beautiful story (goose bumps say it all) reported in the web edition of Indian Express:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Nonbailable-warrant-issued-against-Aamir-Khan/231503/
This man, Aamir Khan, if he is a man - what type of a Khan-man does movies like Rang De Basanti, Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai - real Khans showoff their massive Popeye (the sailor) chests or in absence of hair plugs and thigh sized biceps have these uncontrollable facial tics - that's not spastic that Indian acting and emoting at its finest - and act in films like Partner and all these movies starting with the letter K. Okay so this man, if he is a man, (Aamir Khan, man, woman, cow, who are you, what is your purpose of being, do you know where you converge with earth's axis and do you know that at a certain time the apex of your aura can be linked to sun's penumbra to create immense power in your loins, and a clear idea of what you should be based on who you are - Viagra can do that too, mixed with a good Psychologist). By the way not saying that this entity Aamir Khan needs Viagra or a Psychologist. Hasten to add neither suggesting that other Khans do.
Okay so this Aamir Khan who ever he is makes these films and top of that insults the Indian Flag. Flog him for that!
It's bad to insult the flag, and I have always taken exception to Star and Stripes and Union Jack bikinis and little things strippers wear. Can you imagine a तिरंगा कच्छा?
No, seriously, if the constitution (thus the law) mandates how the flag is treated then the flag has to be treated that way, not only because you must love the flag or you're a traitorous scum son of India, but also because it's the law and laws must be obeyed until they are amended constitutionally.
We (at least my household, including my mother-in-law) demand to know what Aamir Khan did to insult the flag, and why? As a public figure he is accountable to answer to us - so AK why did you do it, Man? - and as a citizen he was accountable to appear in the court when he was first asked to appear.
Breaking the law is wrong, period. Whether is is driving over sleeping people or killing rare species or hurling an insult at the Tiranga.
And the courts must stop law breakage! And they're doing a terrific job by issuing this warrant against Aamir Khan. First the court ordered him to appear, when he didn't, then the court issued a warrant. Thank you Shailandra Sharma for moving the court and thank you Shri B.S. Muvel for letting your court be moved (B.S is the magistrate sir).
Dawood is on a rampage against the country, Salem is on Indian soil (jail is built on soil, you know), for crimes against India, using foreign lawyers paying them how, only God knows - राम जाने - Salman Khan is still free, Manu Sharma and his ilk play the Courts like a yo yo, it takes years to get a court hearing, some estimates peg 300 years for all cases in queue to come up for a hearing - and we are wasting Courts time by issuing such warrants?
Why not throw cases like this as being frivolous? Tax payers monies should be used to speed processes not coddle Shailendra Sharmas. While cases rot in court queues corruption festers and waiting destroys morale and spirit. Criminals remain at large, society waits in limbo and property owners and properties suffer ruinous damage - which adds to urban decay. Almost all of Mumbai - even the tony though not tony looking - Colaba and Marine Drive - are dotted with time ravaged, uncared for buildings, uglier than ugly, wearing a slum look - and mostly because of Courts' inertia in settling tenant rights and landlord responsibility issues spanning decades. For decades tenants - occupants is a better word - have paid ludicrously below market rents and for those decades property owners have had no incentive to improve or maintain their buildings, making Mumabi look the way it does instead of say Vancouver, all new and shiny. Should the courts evict those who've lived almost free for generations? Yes, because they have to pay market value or move. Simple - and we're not talking about uprooting slum dwellers, these are usurpers. So the Courts need to work faster so Criminals are incarcerated faster, Mumbai steps out of it's decaying infrastructure and India can shed its image as a 3rd world corrupt nation.
This is not condoning insulting the Indian Flag it is asking the courts to get their priorities right. Mr. Khan could have been be fined or ordered to issue a public apology, rather than add another case to the long, meandering queues that exacerbate the misery of those waiting for justice to happen.
Friday, October 19, 2007
5 Rare Asiatic Lions Killed in India
Like we've not done enough damage to nature by chopping off almost all our forests, now we're frying our wildlife.
Why electrocute these poor bastards when Salman Khan can shoot them, anyway?
And so you know we're not making these horrible stories about killing lions here's the link to where we found it - the story not the electrocuted lions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20briefs-lions.web.html?ex=1350532800&en=cf52661c07357f7e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Why electrocute these poor bastards when Salman Khan can shoot them, anyway?
And so you know we're not making these horrible stories about killing lions here's the link to where we found it - the story not the electrocuted lions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20briefs-lions.web.html?ex=1350532800&en=cf52661c07357f7e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Believe yourself
Just as communism is a dead doctrine, so are these heads of religious organizations, who call themselves Gurus - incarnations of God or God Spawn, irrelevant, as the world has proved it can move forward and scale new heights of human accomplishment - in technology, and bringing freedom to the people who were long oppressed - by individual endeavors.
Waning of Church powers hasn't killed the Western world - no big Clerics in the US or Europe or galloping Russia telling people what to feel and think, and rise of Islamic fundamentalism hasn't made Muslims happier or more successful - Dubai is free from Mullah influences. Organized religion is not necessary for finding God because many times its pretenses are the walls between Man and God. And Organized Religion and its doctrines serve no one but the Head of the Organization since everyone else is a serf.
Gurus curtail free thinking by prescribing doctrines which nullify counter opinions. Indian Gurus of today - those exalted by the media - thrive and live off mass adulation, and a status that positions them above the common man, without empirical evidence of producing results that make the world a better place and their followers a better people.
Google led US, Berlin led Europe and technology led India are testaments of excellence from within without a Guru leading any of these success initiatives.
Gurus should be like Drona and Krishna.
Which of these Indian holy men can claim, honestly, to have led Indians to create Green or White Revolutions or India's technology base? What did they do that led to these successes is the question than needs to be answered in intelligent, modern language.
And, which modern Guru can claim bettering the world more than Bill and Melinda Gates?
Communism and Guru Worship have no place in today's world. As Berlin got there and San Jose did and London did without any help from guys in beards claiming divine connections. So can Bangalore and Mumbai - just believe in your self.
It's hard work, smart thinking, great timing, impeccable execution of plans that make life a success, and if you can plan a successful life plan, you can also make a successful life hereafter plan - it's YOU not that guy with a fixed smile who'll make it happen, so believe in yourself, for the only truth is what you do.
But if venerate you must then what's wrong with me? I can drive a Rolls, I can talk a lot (can't you tell) and be surrounded by glazed eyed followers chanting my name, and I promise I will share my wealth - at least 22% of it as a form of dividend to everyone who puts money in my coffers.
Need my paypal account?
Waning of Church powers hasn't killed the Western world - no big Clerics in the US or Europe or galloping Russia telling people what to feel and think, and rise of Islamic fundamentalism hasn't made Muslims happier or more successful - Dubai is free from Mullah influences. Organized religion is not necessary for finding God because many times its pretenses are the walls between Man and God. And Organized Religion and its doctrines serve no one but the Head of the Organization since everyone else is a serf.
Gurus curtail free thinking by prescribing doctrines which nullify counter opinions. Indian Gurus of today - those exalted by the media - thrive and live off mass adulation, and a status that positions them above the common man, without empirical evidence of producing results that make the world a better place and their followers a better people.
Google led US, Berlin led Europe and technology led India are testaments of excellence from within without a Guru leading any of these success initiatives.
Gurus should be like Drona and Krishna.
Which of these Indian holy men can claim, honestly, to have led Indians to create Green or White Revolutions or India's technology base? What did they do that led to these successes is the question than needs to be answered in intelligent, modern language.
And, which modern Guru can claim bettering the world more than Bill and Melinda Gates?
Communism and Guru Worship have no place in today's world. As Berlin got there and San Jose did and London did without any help from guys in beards claiming divine connections. So can Bangalore and Mumbai - just believe in your self.
It's hard work, smart thinking, great timing, impeccable execution of plans that make life a success, and if you can plan a successful life plan, you can also make a successful life hereafter plan - it's YOU not that guy with a fixed smile who'll make it happen, so believe in yourself, for the only truth is what you do.
But if venerate you must then what's wrong with me? I can drive a Rolls, I can talk a lot (can't you tell) and be surrounded by glazed eyed followers chanting my name, and I promise I will share my wealth - at least 22% of it as a form of dividend to everyone who puts money in my coffers.
Need my paypal account?
Gemütlichkeit
Wearing failure like tight underwear, that makes one walk funny with a perpetual wedgie wedged close to the ass, world trots on. The rich are richer, the poor poorer, the disconnect between the stock markets and those close to foreclosures as vast it ever was, maybe the chasm harder to bridge than ever before.
Bhutto is almost killed, India almost plans to kill the Internet before it really grows in India, Salman Khan walks freely though a killer, Hizbullah and Al Qaeda are alive, but the good news is Berlin is the most livable city in the world. Washed clean of the blood it shed of those Jews and Gypsies and opponents of the Reich and freed from the weight of the nefarious iron curtain behind which crimes against human spirit were called socialism, it boasts of the good that Work-life balance produces.
Gemütlichkeit almost means cosiness, quality time spent in absence of anything hectic. According to Wikipedia "The underlying concept is that social tensions and certain environments can cause stress, resulting in a feeling of alienation. Gemütlichkeit is an active way of preventing such negative influences by going to places and/or meeting with people that are regarded to be gemütlich. A gemütlich person again is one that takes part in this lifestyle and knows about the tensions he/she is able to cause, and thus tries to avoid these things actively. This way an agreement is established to make an "environmentally cosy" site (Heuriger, garden, cellar, backyard restaurant, living room...) "socially cosy". One characteristic of a gemütlich situation is that one could blot out everything else (past, future, other places and absent people) and yet everything would be fine (an eternal "now and here"). Germans describe that as "leaving everything at the doorstep" (though a gemütlich place doesn't necessarily have to be inside a house)".
At the same time Berlin has some of the highest rents in Europe which demand that Berliners work hard in high technology arenas like Biotechnology and in powerhouses like BMW and Siemens.
Berlin Gemütlichkeit happens without a Guru's help and astrologer's predictions in the Newspapers and tarot reader's advice on morning TV. There's a new Jewish Center, there are cafes, bars, theaters, clean open spaces, modern infrastructure, absence of violent crime and severing of ties with the bloody past - which also means forgetting some of our own taboos and habits.
Its leaving the past behind to create a new present which makes Berlin so hip, so fun, so filled with Gemütlichkeit.
India should pull it's wedgie out - the wedgie made of hereditary succession, superstition, apathy, laziness, pinning blame and over dependence on Gurus and become like Berlin. Gurgaon is nice but it ain't no Berlin, Shanghai or London. It's all relative, so India Shining isn't a pinnacle it's a step so take longer steps, everyday, lest you're left behind. Stepping out of shadows of poverty doesn't mean one is out of the woods as there's a whole world to catch up with, so leave that yoga shivar, turn your back on that bearded guy who stymies your individuality by herding you like sheep in a pen of doctrine and mumbo jumbo, get a job, move out of your parents house and find out who you are and what will you do to make the world a better place.
Sri Sri Bhagwan is YOU, not that guy called an incarnation of someone by himself and his followers because each of us is born with an innate capacity to connect with God. The catalyst can't be God. Kabir may have misled the dim witted in exalting the Guru, because he wasn't thinking a Guy marshaling 1000s of crores as being your Guru while you slog and slave just trying to remain alive. A true Guru shares his wealth, shows you how to get where you want to be and is by your side till you make it, so Kabir's guru is that someone who teaches you how to overcome your weakness to get to the next step - maybe your Math teacher, and to a place where you are strong in all your weaknesses and alright being flawed, making money in a job and owning a flat instead of living in a kholi.
A teacher is worthy of respect, because a teacher has testimonials of his and her education. A college degree that proves pursuit of knowledge of a subject. The bearded guy wearing white or saffron rides a Rolls Royce because he scorns and scoffs questions about his learning and knowledge - where is his proof of having found what in which cave - because he bullies and shames the ignorant or the hopeful or the hopeless into believing and vanquishes questions with his arrogance of "how dare you ask, and if you ask you must be foolish, for you must know that ways of God can't be explained".
Agreed ways of God can't be explained. But pursuit of knowledge can be - like attending school, and in "higher" cases documentation of "miracles".
Big time preachers like Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts and others are considered Bible scholars or charlatans, but never Jesus or Moses incarnate, as the moment they claim divinity they will be laughed out of success.
Don't believe your Guru's claim to divinity unless he has got you a cool job, a hot BMW and a fancy pad in Berlin because if your Guru can't get you there then why let him be your wedgie?
Bhutto is almost killed, India almost plans to kill the Internet before it really grows in India, Salman Khan walks freely though a killer, Hizbullah and Al Qaeda are alive, but the good news is Berlin is the most livable city in the world. Washed clean of the blood it shed of those Jews and Gypsies and opponents of the Reich and freed from the weight of the nefarious iron curtain behind which crimes against human spirit were called socialism, it boasts of the good that Work-life balance produces.
Gemütlichkeit almost means cosiness, quality time spent in absence of anything hectic. According to Wikipedia "The underlying concept is that social tensions and certain environments can cause stress, resulting in a feeling of alienation. Gemütlichkeit is an active way of preventing such negative influences by going to places and/or meeting with people that are regarded to be gemütlich. A gemütlich person again is one that takes part in this lifestyle and knows about the tensions he/she is able to cause, and thus tries to avoid these things actively. This way an agreement is established to make an "environmentally cosy" site (Heuriger, garden, cellar, backyard restaurant, living room...) "socially cosy". One characteristic of a gemütlich situation is that one could blot out everything else (past, future, other places and absent people) and yet everything would be fine (an eternal "now and here"). Germans describe that as "leaving everything at the doorstep" (though a gemütlich place doesn't necessarily have to be inside a house)".
At the same time Berlin has some of the highest rents in Europe which demand that Berliners work hard in high technology arenas like Biotechnology and in powerhouses like BMW and Siemens.
Berlin Gemütlichkeit happens without a Guru's help and astrologer's predictions in the Newspapers and tarot reader's advice on morning TV. There's a new Jewish Center, there are cafes, bars, theaters, clean open spaces, modern infrastructure, absence of violent crime and severing of ties with the bloody past - which also means forgetting some of our own taboos and habits.
Its leaving the past behind to create a new present which makes Berlin so hip, so fun, so filled with Gemütlichkeit.
India should pull it's wedgie out - the wedgie made of hereditary succession, superstition, apathy, laziness, pinning blame and over dependence on Gurus and become like Berlin. Gurgaon is nice but it ain't no Berlin, Shanghai or London. It's all relative, so India Shining isn't a pinnacle it's a step so take longer steps, everyday, lest you're left behind. Stepping out of shadows of poverty doesn't mean one is out of the woods as there's a whole world to catch up with, so leave that yoga shivar, turn your back on that bearded guy who stymies your individuality by herding you like sheep in a pen of doctrine and mumbo jumbo, get a job, move out of your parents house and find out who you are and what will you do to make the world a better place.
Sri Sri Bhagwan is YOU, not that guy called an incarnation of someone by himself and his followers because each of us is born with an innate capacity to connect with God. The catalyst can't be God. Kabir may have misled the dim witted in exalting the Guru, because he wasn't thinking a Guy marshaling 1000s of crores as being your Guru while you slog and slave just trying to remain alive. A true Guru shares his wealth, shows you how to get where you want to be and is by your side till you make it, so Kabir's guru is that someone who teaches you how to overcome your weakness to get to the next step - maybe your Math teacher, and to a place where you are strong in all your weaknesses and alright being flawed, making money in a job and owning a flat instead of living in a kholi.
A teacher is worthy of respect, because a teacher has testimonials of his and her education. A college degree that proves pursuit of knowledge of a subject. The bearded guy wearing white or saffron rides a Rolls Royce because he scorns and scoffs questions about his learning and knowledge - where is his proof of having found what in which cave - because he bullies and shames the ignorant or the hopeful or the hopeless into believing and vanquishes questions with his arrogance of "how dare you ask, and if you ask you must be foolish, for you must know that ways of God can't be explained".
Agreed ways of God can't be explained. But pursuit of knowledge can be - like attending school, and in "higher" cases documentation of "miracles".
Big time preachers like Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts and others are considered Bible scholars or charlatans, but never Jesus or Moses incarnate, as the moment they claim divinity they will be laughed out of success.
Don't believe your Guru's claim to divinity unless he has got you a cool job, a hot BMW and a fancy pad in Berlin because if your Guru can't get you there then why let him be your wedgie?
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Is India Killing the Internet
India has never really needed enemies from without as Indians historically have done well to maim and hurt India from within since the times when Rajputs invited Muslim invaders, Traitors sided with the British, Modern Politicians created vote banks by inciting violent rifts between Hindus and Muslims, and of course those who have befriended and shielded Muslim terrorists and perpetrators of Bombay blasts and attacks on Hindu temples.
Now we need to add the names of the Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee - that is proposing these asinine, draconian changes to Section 79 of the IT Act 2000 - to enemies of India and enemies of good sense and current Indian prosperity.
Censorship, government controls and stifling regulations are contrary to India's financial interests and its image as a respected Global Technology Partner.
We need to educate these MPs that India's economic boom is not some divine "धन वर्षा", it is based on unique events of the last decade. The Internet boom led to building of massive under-sea fiber optic cable networks by US telecommunication companies which connected India with the rest of the world. Then when the Internet bubble burst the US technology companies laid off many Indian engineers who returned home and these fiber optic networks became under utilized. Then the burst era technology companies looking to lower their operating costs contacted these Indian engineers in India who could receive and deliver, at wages lower than the US, IT jobs via these fiber optic networks. So India benefited from the Internet bubble and burst era, massively and deservedly, because that New India has raised the standards of quality, communication and delivery.
The benefits are evident in the roaring Sensex and the massive Shopping Malls and Consumer Spending. India’s current economic might is based on its current status as a net gain/ trade surplus nation sitting on growing piles of foreign earnings. The standard of living has improved tremendously because the wages have gone up to $15 per hour for skilled programmers and developers and even the Call Center employees make better wages than what they hoped for in other industries.
Socially that’s significant too because low unemployment means lower crime and corruption – remember films depicting the Hero’s inability to find a नौकरी whilst his mother was dying. That India is India of the past.
To maintain its economic momentum India needs Internet and a technology driven economy and society, period. India only has 50 million Internet connections, so it has to grow a lot more in order to get and deliver more jobs and when the Internet grows so will amounts of information available on the Net. But that is also a gain as more Indians will have access to more information and greater knowledge. Some will seek porn, but overall the country will benefit by being connected versus not.
This Parliamentary Standing Committee needs to know what Modern India is, does and needs. If they all can’t it’s time they’re fired.
India, is young, 59% is from 15 to 59, so it needs to be led by the young, who know what change is, how to deal with it, how to manage it and how to do that well.
The generation gap, technology gap, cultural gap, value gap, comprehension gap between the ruling elite – that bands together communists to hang on to power and to perpetuate dynasties – and the working India of tight schedules, confirmed deliveries, new technologies, hard and smart working habits and global competition is so large that there will be political and social rifts between the Modern and the Irrelevant. That would translate into social strife, and holding India back from its rightful place at the top of the World Economic Order.
Remember Japan? Wealth is not permanent, so India need a sustainable plan with technology as the backbone of it all.
Therefore for the best of India’s today and tomorrow fire the politicians supporting this Internet killing bill and get Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Azim Premji caliber executives from business and civil services to run the country.
We could, to honor tradition, put these fired politicians on donkeys and parade them out of town but then can an ass ride an ass?
Now we need to add the names of the Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee - that is proposing these asinine, draconian changes to Section 79 of the IT Act 2000 - to enemies of India and enemies of good sense and current Indian prosperity.
Censorship, government controls and stifling regulations are contrary to India's financial interests and its image as a respected Global Technology Partner.
We need to educate these MPs that India's economic boom is not some divine "धन वर्षा", it is based on unique events of the last decade. The Internet boom led to building of massive under-sea fiber optic cable networks by US telecommunication companies which connected India with the rest of the world. Then when the Internet bubble burst the US technology companies laid off many Indian engineers who returned home and these fiber optic networks became under utilized. Then the burst era technology companies looking to lower their operating costs contacted these Indian engineers in India who could receive and deliver, at wages lower than the US, IT jobs via these fiber optic networks. So India benefited from the Internet bubble and burst era, massively and deservedly, because that New India has raised the standards of quality, communication and delivery.
The benefits are evident in the roaring Sensex and the massive Shopping Malls and Consumer Spending. India’s current economic might is based on its current status as a net gain/ trade surplus nation sitting on growing piles of foreign earnings. The standard of living has improved tremendously because the wages have gone up to $15 per hour for skilled programmers and developers and even the Call Center employees make better wages than what they hoped for in other industries.
Socially that’s significant too because low unemployment means lower crime and corruption – remember films depicting the Hero’s inability to find a नौकरी whilst his mother was dying. That India is India of the past.
To maintain its economic momentum India needs Internet and a technology driven economy and society, period. India only has 50 million Internet connections, so it has to grow a lot more in order to get and deliver more jobs and when the Internet grows so will amounts of information available on the Net. But that is also a gain as more Indians will have access to more information and greater knowledge. Some will seek porn, but overall the country will benefit by being connected versus not.
This Parliamentary Standing Committee needs to know what Modern India is, does and needs. If they all can’t it’s time they’re fired.
India, is young, 59% is from 15 to 59, so it needs to be led by the young, who know what change is, how to deal with it, how to manage it and how to do that well.
The generation gap, technology gap, cultural gap, value gap, comprehension gap between the ruling elite – that bands together communists to hang on to power and to perpetuate dynasties – and the working India of tight schedules, confirmed deliveries, new technologies, hard and smart working habits and global competition is so large that there will be political and social rifts between the Modern and the Irrelevant. That would translate into social strife, and holding India back from its rightful place at the top of the World Economic Order.
Remember Japan? Wealth is not permanent, so India need a sustainable plan with technology as the backbone of it all.
Therefore for the best of India’s today and tomorrow fire the politicians supporting this Internet killing bill and get Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Azim Premji caliber executives from business and civil services to run the country.
We could, to honor tradition, put these fired politicians on donkeys and parade them out of town but then can an ass ride an ass?
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Lack of Remorse Indian Style
Mel Gibson goes on his knees apologizing pillar to post for his drunken comments about the Jews, Bill Clinton asked for the nation's forgiveness for his Monica tryst, Corporate Plunderers tell America how sorry they are for robbing their corporations. And its not only the US. Japanese say sorry to Chinese, Germany to families of holocaust victims. The point is when caught people say sorry and are or pretend to be remorseful, embarrassed, chastised and generally give the appearance of wanting to change or having reformed.
But in India, being rich and famous or being the fruit of loins of rich and famous means being a criminal and flaunting it.
Sanjay Dutt should've given a good part of his earnings to the Bombay blast victims - actually civil cases should've made him bankrupt by now - and asked India's forgiveness for hobnobbing with the worst types of criminals - traitors and enemies of India.
Salman Khan ran over some poor homeless sleeping on the roads of Bombay, confirming that the poor who had no dignity also have no safety, even on Government property. Then he goes and shoots an endangered species. So neither people nor wildlife is safe from this man.
The BMW drivers in Delhi who mowed down people don't seem to be doing their acts of penance, nor does Manu Sharma appear in public preaching against violent drunkenness.
And why should they when the society - fans, the press - coddle them? Instead of outrage India feels badly for Munna Bhai and Prem, when the thoughts should be for the victims. If the actors' movies were shunned they would leap to reform, but both men are raking in huge money because the press doesn't ask for a boycott of their films, and the fans, average Indians, don't care about morality. Therefore more people like them will kill at will and mix with killers without fears, which will make criminals stronger because they have celebrity (powerful) friends.
It is a malaise of the Indian soul, perhaps a moral and ethical impotence borne of being a slave nation since about 1100 AD, not to seek and expect justice.
Dawood Ibrahim has waged a war of terror against India yet India has not put a reward on his head, nor pushed hard for his extradition. Saddam Hussein and his sons were turned by a reward seeker, so rewards work, so why is India not aggressively getting him.
Star TV reported Abu Salem's assets in the US but have those assets been confiscated, and in the meanwhile who is paying for his legal defence?
No one is safe if India allows these men to act in these heinous ways, and India Shining means accountability and responsibility at all levels at all times, otherwise the Shine gets tarnished.
In a country where the enemies of the India and Indians within and without run amok without fear of retribution there needs an awakening, which simply means saying, "enough, no more bullshit"
And it starts with rejecting idiot fodder called Newspapers unless one admits being an idiot and needing sustenance from them daily - non idiots may like Punjab Kesari and India Today. And it continues with rejecting en-masse politicians with criminal records and lack of public and professional performance record.
But in India, being rich and famous or being the fruit of loins of rich and famous means being a criminal and flaunting it.
Sanjay Dutt should've given a good part of his earnings to the Bombay blast victims - actually civil cases should've made him bankrupt by now - and asked India's forgiveness for hobnobbing with the worst types of criminals - traitors and enemies of India.
Salman Khan ran over some poor homeless sleeping on the roads of Bombay, confirming that the poor who had no dignity also have no safety, even on Government property. Then he goes and shoots an endangered species. So neither people nor wildlife is safe from this man.
The BMW drivers in Delhi who mowed down people don't seem to be doing their acts of penance, nor does Manu Sharma appear in public preaching against violent drunkenness.
And why should they when the society - fans, the press - coddle them? Instead of outrage India feels badly for Munna Bhai and Prem, when the thoughts should be for the victims. If the actors' movies were shunned they would leap to reform, but both men are raking in huge money because the press doesn't ask for a boycott of their films, and the fans, average Indians, don't care about morality. Therefore more people like them will kill at will and mix with killers without fears, which will make criminals stronger because they have celebrity (powerful) friends.
It is a malaise of the Indian soul, perhaps a moral and ethical impotence borne of being a slave nation since about 1100 AD, not to seek and expect justice.
Dawood Ibrahim has waged a war of terror against India yet India has not put a reward on his head, nor pushed hard for his extradition. Saddam Hussein and his sons were turned by a reward seeker, so rewards work, so why is India not aggressively getting him.
Star TV reported Abu Salem's assets in the US but have those assets been confiscated, and in the meanwhile who is paying for his legal defence?
No one is safe if India allows these men to act in these heinous ways, and India Shining means accountability and responsibility at all levels at all times, otherwise the Shine gets tarnished.
In a country where the enemies of the India and Indians within and without run amok without fear of retribution there needs an awakening, which simply means saying, "enough, no more bullshit"
And it starts with rejecting idiot fodder called Newspapers unless one admits being an idiot and needing sustenance from them daily - non idiots may like Punjab Kesari and India Today. And it continues with rejecting en-masse politicians with criminal records and lack of public and professional performance record.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Protesting Progress
India shining and India, Inc. are euphemisms used with irritating frequency by the Indian Press which desperately needs something and someone to dote on and someone to condemn, severely.
So Shilpa Shetty is deified for having won a TV contest in which she was treated harshly - even called a bad word (bitch) - by a competitor. So the Indian Press and parts of India rose as one since India's honor and image was under threat. Never mind that to the rest of the world it seemed inane and cry baby attitude. Even the ever media conscious Tony Blair felt the need to jump in to comfort the lass thus her nation, lest the world's biggest democracy paint him a racist devil leading a nation of racists, which former colonisers must not be. And of course when Richard Gere kissed the same Goddess incarnate Shilpa there were riots since India's collective honor had been besmirched - not sure if anyone immolated himself in shame and ignominy?
By the way Press, we've had enough of Shilpa Shetty, and we've also had enough of Sania Mirza's modest achievements and your ho-hum page 3 crowd. And if you - Indian Press - travel out of your own little world of little intellect and favorites you'll notice there's more to life than Cricket and Minor Celebrities doing other Minor Celebrities. Besides there's the journalistic social responsibility angle, so analysis and research should take precedence over gossip and sycophancy, and generally goals should be loftier than, even though your spin machine has made a race-nation issue of, a personal fight between two women.
So if you have to talk talk more about Indians who've REALLY made India Shining and India, Inc. Talk about world class winners who've reshaped India, freed India from shackles and muzzles of ignorance and taboos.
So talk about Ratan Tata, Kishore Biyani, Aditya Chopra, and talk about Sunil Bharti, and talk about all those hard working visionaries who have made BPO processes a success, and invested in shopping malls, built telecommunication systems and modern residential buildings - that are not ugly and are also safe, and TV/ FM radio networks, and all other developments that have made India a modern nation, transforming it from a country burdened by it's past of caste and socialism.
And if deifying is a must then worship Dhirubhai Ambani, Azim Premji, Narayana Murthy and Ratan Tata for being some of the creators of the Indian economic engine - which has transformed a once beggar bowl nation into an economic powerhouse - that makes those euphemisms real.
From Garibi Hatao to India, Inc. is a long road and that road wasn't built by the Page 3 crowd. And it wasn't built by smiling guys with beards who teach how to breathe and sit right nor by astrologers whose predictions major dailies adorn like an ornament of some primal culture.
Nations and societies don't become successful and powerful (organically) because of a glorious, old past, otherwise Syria and Turkey would be rivalling China. It takes vision - like that of Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh to open up the Indian economy. And it takes the mighty genius and courage of executing grand vision - like that of Dhirubhai Ambani to create Reliance, in the process creating huge wealth for India and Indians who till then were not allowed to participate in such wealth building pursuits as being able to buy company stock freely. And countries are made great by hard work, smart thinking, creativity and making the most of opportunity - like the technology driven Bangalore/ Hyderabad entrepreneurs have done. Above all greatness is based on trust, like the one inspired by the Tata Group.
It's natural that a modern nation needs modern infrastructure and world class amenities to be itself, so India Shining can't be (or expected to be) shopping in squalor, buying adulterated foods and dealing with 3rd world quality while it's shedding its image and legacy as a 3rd world nation. After all India Shining needs shiny buildings, new cars, efficient services, modern telecommunication networks, because India Shining is all those things, made of all those things, not adherence to old, decrepit traditions, including shopping at dirty shops owned by dirtily dressed shopkeepers.
So Kishore Biyani creates the first foundations for modern Indian consumerism. And Reliance Fresh is building upon that.
What's wrong with wanting the best value for your money? Why should a consumer be deprived of choices and a pleasant shopping environment.
And the educated 20 something Indian Zippie (term coined by Outlook) doesn't want to watch lecherous villains raping wantonly and cruel mothers in law inflicting inhuman punishments to godly daughters in law so Aditya Chopra raises the bar of Indian cinema with Saathiya, Salaam Namaste, Dhoom and Neal n' Nikki and some idiot called Jitesh Pillai slams him in Filmfare for not making old masala.
And Jitesh Pillai's acolytes or people who think like him are up in arms against Reliance Fresh and other organized retail stores lest the biggies destroy small provision stores - by the way why such vehemence against Reliance and not say Spencer's?
Imagine the wrath of old wholesalers who are losing business because the big retailers will and can buy directly from the manufacturers - so the middlemen are scared of being left out and I am sure egging on the shopkeepers.
But when governments get in the fray - like UP and Kerala banning Reliance and other organized Retailers - it sullies and destroys India's image as a free, growing nation of intelligent people. What right does the government have to restrict choices for a consumer? Why should the government force the population to shop at poorly managed and stocked stores. And why is the press not yelling "Bloody Murder of Indian Consumers' Rights in UP & Kerala".
Shop keepers cannot and should not be protected at the cost of the shoppers. If there's a rally of shopkeepers protesting organized retail, why isn't there a rally by consumers demanding free choice to buy bhindi where they want to buy bhindi. There are more consumers than shopkeepers so that rally will be bigger, and also more worthwhile than, say, burning effigies of Richard Gere.
And if it's a must, inner need to burn effigies then burn effigies of those who stand in the way of India's progress by restricting competition and choices. Indian consumer has for years been exploited by the Businessman/ Politician nexus so while the world was discovering Toyota Indians were forced to live with Ambassador, others had many channels Indians were fed propaganda by Doordarshan.
ENOUGH!
Politicians and Press, let India be free. Let Indian's choose. If they get what they want at Hypermarket what will you do to stop them, fire on the like it is Jalianwala Bagh?
There are two India's. One that is India, Inc. and inhabited by Ratan Tata, Azim Premji, Narayana Murthi, Kishore Biyani, Aditya Chopra, Sunil Bharti and crores of young, educated, forward and outward thinking optimists who are shaping India into a powerful, delight to work with country that has shed its past of excuses and poor quality and apathy by being accountable to itself.
The other India is the Richard Gere effigy burning, low intellect, Guru smitten, 3rd page believing, progress protesting India of Mayawati, current Kerala government, Jitesh Pillai, old line politicos who pit man against man and machine against man and live by the benefit of creation friction.
I propose we, those who believe in a modern, strong, sensible, smart, sexy India, build an electrified fence against the latter India lest it intrude into and destroy the growing, blossoming India that has survived its rough past and is beginning to breathe freedom and enjoy life.
Of course immigration to India Shining is open to those who are emancipated and forward thinking, however here's a list of those barred entry forever:
So Shilpa Shetty is deified for having won a TV contest in which she was treated harshly - even called a bad word (bitch) - by a competitor. So the Indian Press and parts of India rose as one since India's honor and image was under threat. Never mind that to the rest of the world it seemed inane and cry baby attitude. Even the ever media conscious Tony Blair felt the need to jump in to comfort the lass thus her nation, lest the world's biggest democracy paint him a racist devil leading a nation of racists, which former colonisers must not be. And of course when Richard Gere kissed the same Goddess incarnate Shilpa there were riots since India's collective honor had been besmirched - not sure if anyone immolated himself in shame and ignominy?
By the way Press, we've had enough of Shilpa Shetty, and we've also had enough of Sania Mirza's modest achievements and your ho-hum page 3 crowd. And if you - Indian Press - travel out of your own little world of little intellect and favorites you'll notice there's more to life than Cricket and Minor Celebrities doing other Minor Celebrities. Besides there's the journalistic social responsibility angle, so analysis and research should take precedence over gossip and sycophancy, and generally goals should be loftier than, even though your spin machine has made a race-nation issue of, a personal fight between two women.
So if you have to talk talk more about Indians who've REALLY made India Shining and India, Inc. Talk about world class winners who've reshaped India, freed India from shackles and muzzles of ignorance and taboos.
So talk about Ratan Tata, Kishore Biyani, Aditya Chopra, and talk about Sunil Bharti, and talk about all those hard working visionaries who have made BPO processes a success, and invested in shopping malls, built telecommunication systems and modern residential buildings - that are not ugly and are also safe, and TV/ FM radio networks, and all other developments that have made India a modern nation, transforming it from a country burdened by it's past of caste and socialism.
And if deifying is a must then worship Dhirubhai Ambani, Azim Premji, Narayana Murthy and Ratan Tata for being some of the creators of the Indian economic engine - which has transformed a once beggar bowl nation into an economic powerhouse - that makes those euphemisms real.
From Garibi Hatao to India, Inc. is a long road and that road wasn't built by the Page 3 crowd. And it wasn't built by smiling guys with beards who teach how to breathe and sit right nor by astrologers whose predictions major dailies adorn like an ornament of some primal culture.
Nations and societies don't become successful and powerful (organically) because of a glorious, old past, otherwise Syria and Turkey would be rivalling China. It takes vision - like that of Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh to open up the Indian economy. And it takes the mighty genius and courage of executing grand vision - like that of Dhirubhai Ambani to create Reliance, in the process creating huge wealth for India and Indians who till then were not allowed to participate in such wealth building pursuits as being able to buy company stock freely. And countries are made great by hard work, smart thinking, creativity and making the most of opportunity - like the technology driven Bangalore/ Hyderabad entrepreneurs have done. Above all greatness is based on trust, like the one inspired by the Tata Group.
It's natural that a modern nation needs modern infrastructure and world class amenities to be itself, so India Shining can't be (or expected to be) shopping in squalor, buying adulterated foods and dealing with 3rd world quality while it's shedding its image and legacy as a 3rd world nation. After all India Shining needs shiny buildings, new cars, efficient services, modern telecommunication networks, because India Shining is all those things, made of all those things, not adherence to old, decrepit traditions, including shopping at dirty shops owned by dirtily dressed shopkeepers.
So Kishore Biyani creates the first foundations for modern Indian consumerism. And Reliance Fresh is building upon that.
What's wrong with wanting the best value for your money? Why should a consumer be deprived of choices and a pleasant shopping environment.
And the educated 20 something Indian Zippie (term coined by Outlook) doesn't want to watch lecherous villains raping wantonly and cruel mothers in law inflicting inhuman punishments to godly daughters in law so Aditya Chopra raises the bar of Indian cinema with Saathiya, Salaam Namaste, Dhoom and Neal n' Nikki and some idiot called Jitesh Pillai slams him in Filmfare for not making old masala.
And Jitesh Pillai's acolytes or people who think like him are up in arms against Reliance Fresh and other organized retail stores lest the biggies destroy small provision stores - by the way why such vehemence against Reliance and not say Spencer's?
Imagine the wrath of old wholesalers who are losing business because the big retailers will and can buy directly from the manufacturers - so the middlemen are scared of being left out and I am sure egging on the shopkeepers.
But when governments get in the fray - like UP and Kerala banning Reliance and other organized Retailers - it sullies and destroys India's image as a free, growing nation of intelligent people. What right does the government have to restrict choices for a consumer? Why should the government force the population to shop at poorly managed and stocked stores. And why is the press not yelling "Bloody Murder of Indian Consumers' Rights in UP & Kerala".
Shop keepers cannot and should not be protected at the cost of the shoppers. If there's a rally of shopkeepers protesting organized retail, why isn't there a rally by consumers demanding free choice to buy bhindi where they want to buy bhindi. There are more consumers than shopkeepers so that rally will be bigger, and also more worthwhile than, say, burning effigies of Richard Gere.
And if it's a must, inner need to burn effigies then burn effigies of those who stand in the way of India's progress by restricting competition and choices. Indian consumer has for years been exploited by the Businessman/ Politician nexus so while the world was discovering Toyota Indians were forced to live with Ambassador, others had many channels Indians were fed propaganda by Doordarshan.
ENOUGH!
Politicians and Press, let India be free. Let Indian's choose. If they get what they want at Hypermarket what will you do to stop them, fire on the like it is Jalianwala Bagh?
There are two India's. One that is India, Inc. and inhabited by Ratan Tata, Azim Premji, Narayana Murthi, Kishore Biyani, Aditya Chopra, Sunil Bharti and crores of young, educated, forward and outward thinking optimists who are shaping India into a powerful, delight to work with country that has shed its past of excuses and poor quality and apathy by being accountable to itself.
The other India is the Richard Gere effigy burning, low intellect, Guru smitten, 3rd page believing, progress protesting India of Mayawati, current Kerala government, Jitesh Pillai, old line politicos who pit man against man and machine against man and live by the benefit of creation friction.
I propose we, those who believe in a modern, strong, sensible, smart, sexy India, build an electrified fence against the latter India lest it intrude into and destroy the growing, blossoming India that has survived its rough past and is beginning to breathe freedom and enjoy life.
Of course immigration to India Shining is open to those who are emancipated and forward thinking, however here's a list of those barred entry forever:
- Sonia Gandhi is forever an inadmissible alien because of telling Manmohan Singh (according to Financial Times on 10/10/07) to "go slowly on the issue (of organized retail) to avoid alienating member of the leftist alliance" which means selling out India to mediocrity just to keep her party in power.
- Politicians opposed to free market economy and politicians with any criminal record are persona non grata for this India that (has) made the most of high speed fiber optic network and the Internet bust to create a place of trust and confidence for itself in the world, while these politicians created chasms of caste, language and religion. Definitely no corrupt villains feature in this screenplay.
- Also not allowed leftists, as USSR is dead, China is opening up, so India Shining doesn't need deadwood.
- And also permanently denied entry to India, Inc. are journalists who write and publishers who publish without objectively researching issues and who condemn progress and who deify Gurus rather than architects of modern India, and ones who've made gossip sheets of major newspapers
- Gurus who herd people into cults are not welcome because the New Shining India is comprised of thinking, analytical people, not sheep. Baa-bye O bearded ones.
- Lastly non working, non productive, "bade baap ke bete/ beti" - the stamp of Indian nepotism - are also no part of the India of many airlines, new shiny stores and new innovations because in this dynamic land of change there's no places allocated for the lazy, and the arrogant. I suggest this group be led to an ashram - far away from India, Inc. by the barrred journalists.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Idiot Fodder
Yesterday I read this column by Jitesh Pillai in Flimfare in which he suggests that Aditya Chopra hand over the creative aspects of Yash Raj Films to his father since "film making is not marketing"and since Pillai wants more movies like Dharmaputra, Silsila, Deewar etc.
Pillai misses the intensity and the poetry and things like that of the past Yash Raj Films.
Jitesh also sounds like an idiot for writing a column without analyzing Aditya Chopra's trailblazing role in redefining YRF and Indian cinema in general. And his editor for allowing that column to be printed shows the moribund, irrelevant to modern India face of TOI - in the world of digg.com and blogs investigative reporting based on real analyses is pretty much required to remain alive.
Saathiya, Dhooom, Neal n' Nikki, Bunty aur Bubli, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - all pushed the envelope farther and reinvented the genre - without lecherous villians, evil mothers-in-law, ever suffering daughters-in-law - and showed India as an modern, fun, intelligent nation.
The current YRF talent pool is brimming with Gulzar, Shaad Ali, Siddharth Anand, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and contains probably the brightest of Bollywood talent.
Aditya Chopra is a visionary film maker and business man - as investment bankers and investors will attest. And along with Kishore Biyani he is the leading edge of Indian creative excellence.
Compared to other film studios and film families YRF stands as far apart as does Big Bazaar from the neighborhood "baniya".
Obviously Pillai and his editors are no part of the intelligent, forward thinking, outward looking, new India. His India is made of tear jerkers and melodramas and basically lives in a world that the world has said goodbye to.
This is the world of the individual, and a strong individual. Aditya Chopra's films are made for that individual - Salaam Namaste is a film of today, not Silsila. And in the real world of Web 2.0 of working adults not stifled by the hypocrisy of Indian conservatism who gives a fuck to an illegitimate kid? It's time to look at bigger more important things, and also films are nice if they are fun - movies like Dhoom, which Pillai doesn't like.
News is responsible business based on responsible analysis. In case of this article there was nothing responsible, just emotional, biased tirade, unless Filmfare last page is an opinion page written by a writer with poor writing and research skills.
Hint: Read Anthony Lane's movie reviews in the New Yorker
Pillai misses the intensity and the poetry and things like that of the past Yash Raj Films.
Jitesh also sounds like an idiot for writing a column without analyzing Aditya Chopra's trailblazing role in redefining YRF and Indian cinema in general. And his editor for allowing that column to be printed shows the moribund, irrelevant to modern India face of TOI - in the world of digg.com and blogs investigative reporting based on real analyses is pretty much required to remain alive.
Saathiya, Dhooom, Neal n' Nikki, Bunty aur Bubli, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - all pushed the envelope farther and reinvented the genre - without lecherous villians, evil mothers-in-law, ever suffering daughters-in-law - and showed India as an modern, fun, intelligent nation.
The current YRF talent pool is brimming with Gulzar, Shaad Ali, Siddharth Anand, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and contains probably the brightest of Bollywood talent.
Aditya Chopra is a visionary film maker and business man - as investment bankers and investors will attest. And along with Kishore Biyani he is the leading edge of Indian creative excellence.
Compared to other film studios and film families YRF stands as far apart as does Big Bazaar from the neighborhood "baniya".
Obviously Pillai and his editors are no part of the intelligent, forward thinking, outward looking, new India. His India is made of tear jerkers and melodramas and basically lives in a world that the world has said goodbye to.
This is the world of the individual, and a strong individual. Aditya Chopra's films are made for that individual - Salaam Namaste is a film of today, not Silsila. And in the real world of Web 2.0 of working adults not stifled by the hypocrisy of Indian conservatism who gives a fuck to an illegitimate kid? It's time to look at bigger more important things, and also films are nice if they are fun - movies like Dhoom, which Pillai doesn't like.
News is responsible business based on responsible analysis. In case of this article there was nothing responsible, just emotional, biased tirade, unless Filmfare last page is an opinion page written by a writer with poor writing and research skills.
Hint: Read Anthony Lane's movie reviews in the New Yorker
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