BETHINK

A need for Closer Indo-Russian Ties.

2011-08-09T01:58:00.001-07:00

History tells us that, if any country India can trust, it is Russia. In this new age, while building ties with other countries especially U.S and many European countries, India should not forget its loyal friend- Russia. US can take a U-turn anytime, so will follow its European allies. Our hostile relationship with Pakistan, will always keep Muslim dominated countries away from us. And, China does not seem to be friendly enough, as long as Tibetan issue & other border issues solved.

Therefore, India should have a more closer economic & strategic partnership with Russia. Russia & India can compliment each other in many fronts. This can be successful only if we take this relationship beyond the state level. In this regard, the business to business & people to people level interactions and partnerships becomes more important.

Tellingly, Indo-Russian bond should be made stronger rather than compromised for some other dicey relationships.

And, the current Privileged Strategic Agreement is a welcome development.

Some Smart Writing.

2011-08-07T21:24:00.000-07:00

You come across smart writings not that often, but when you do so, you are amused and impressed.

Likewise, today morning I came across an article (had few graphs also) on internet. It is not the article that influenced me so much but the author's request to the people ( inviting comments).

“Comments
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.”
That's a marked slap on all the Anonymous cowards.

A Mission Impossible

2011-08-06T05:27:00.000-07:00

In the last few months I have seen my friends choosing different career paths. Some opted to do their higher education in US, Singapore & Australia. While some targeting GMAT and CAT examination to pursue their MBA dream.

To be sincere I envy people who have made a clear decision in their life. They have taken that turn and moved ahead. And here I'm still standing on that crossroad.

But, I hope things are becoming a little bit more clear. I feel any profession other than civil services will make me unhappy. Again, its an inner feeling.

So, here I am on a mission which requires an indomitable will to succeed. It is about not to give up. It is also about befriending failure and analyzing it for reaping benefits.

A mission never undertook. An uphill task, but its time to prove my mettle.

How does a Bank work?

2011-08-04T02:01:00.000-07:00

Was flirting with an idea of starting a Bank, and decided I should document my thoughts.

It is quite interesting to note that its confidence of people that runs the bank. People park their money in the bank. They do this through savings/ current account, fixed deposits likewise.

Bank keeps this money and lends out a share of this to the public. They charge interest on this.

The profit made by the bank = Interest charged on the loan – Interest given away to account holders.

So where does Confidence parameter come into picture??

Primarily, It is the confidence of the people that drives them to put their money in a particular bank.

Secondly, It is the confidence of the people ( that their money is secure )that propels the bank as its this money( the bank) lend out as various loans.

The end of the day its confidence of people that matters.

Brand building is of paramount importance. For eg SBI is a bank that has good brand value and has confidence of majority.

SBI also has the largest customer base. It has a high ratio of current and saving account. This enable it to make more profit. As they make more profit they keep their lending rate a bit lower than the other banks and hence is prospering.

This kind of banking is called commercial banking.

There is an another genre of banking called Investment banking. Well they deal in millions and corporates. Their activities are different. They deal in raising money from the capital market for the corporates. Apart from this, they do multitude of activities like M&A,consulting etc.

Its so obvious that Investing banking is more profitable. At the same time, the amount of risk associated with it proportional to the profit earned.

So, paraphrasing my whole thought process, if you have knowledge and skill to manage an investment bank , there is no better way to make some real good money. However, its risky. Commercial banking is safer option but then profit is less.

Hehe.... what a way to timepass. Only few days to go.

Resignation Letter

2011-08-03T22:48:00.000-07:00

Today my resignation letter was accepted. And finally by 16th august I bid adieu to Reliance. Three years have been a roller-coaster ride in the purest sense of the word. Experienced extremes of happiness and sadness.

A new phase in my life have started. A decision taken mostly because I hated the job to my aspire to do something else. However, it is quite normal for people to loathe the work.The problem with me is that I just cant take it, I get frustrated. And in that suffocated state I make life miserable for me and everyone around. So, I made this decision to quit the job.

I'm driven by intuition and an obvious amount of risk is always associated with it. But then whats life without a thrill.

Thank you.

2011-07-13T01:49:00.000-07:00

I like to do this often now, not because I have found some smooth writing in me, but it is the best way to share my thoughts, frustrations, tensions, anger, happiness, stubbornness and a spectrum of other emotions that blossom & flow out through the orifice of my mind.

Yes, I feel that there is someone out there reading this.

An invisible friend who does not care about the grammar, glamour or the crap I write.

Thank you my friend- that you take in all with a grin and affection that only and only you have for me.

13.07.2011- Nondescript thoughts

2011-07-13T01:05:00.000-07:00

Life is all about choices- Sometimes you have many and sometimes your have none.

Either ways life is not so favourable.

Had a memorable date with HR once again, though, it is kind of a mundane activity nowadays.

My transfer to Mumbai is stuck forever. There is no need of people in Mumbai office. Tellingly, its over crowded there and who have already got transferred are starving for job.

Well, last year, this time no one expected so many projects of reliance to halt all of a sudden & majority to go jobless on job.

But one needs to expect the unexpected.

I need to stop it.However, its a good way to vent out the frustration,but, it is killing me.IT OPIATES ME.

Final thoughts.

2011-06-06T06:43:00.000-07:00

Some good sense still prevails.Realized the need of the hour. It is not to get carried away but to control your emotions & excitements and to do well in your exams.

Yes, this is my first attempt at this coveted exam. Though, highly ill-prepared.

But the un-said aim of this attempt is coming to terms with reality, I have been flirting with the Idea of giving UPSC exam for a long time now.Last year SSB clashed with this exam and I had to make one of the thoughest choice of my life.

And, went for the SSB interview.

I reckon I have not been that serious with studies akin to the preparation of guys in Mukherjee Nagar/ Delhi(UPSC preparation HUB). May be this exam will bring me back to earth.

Clearing this is no-joke.

Its been a problem sustaining the intensity with my studies. I have always given up under immense irritation.

Anyways this prelims exam would be a litmus test and will ascertain if this my cup of tea.

If it is, then it is just a matter of time that I join the services. No, it is not over-confidence or it is not about undermining the rivals, it is just an optimist outlook.

Between I came to know from Akhilesh that few more our batch mates have made it to the IIM A. Congrats guys.

Akhilesh also said that no more people are getting transferred to Mumbai.

Well, I think I was the last guy to get transferred.

It’s quite sad to know that Reliance have put on hold 3 projects. That, essentially means we have an excessive manpower.

Scenario is scary. Reliance has indeed spoiled careers of many.

A company with no realistic structure and so un-organised.

Cribbing about one’s own company is not good and is against my personal mottoes. So that is the full-stop.

Don’t think I won’t be able to blog back home, SO this becomes my last blog for some time.

And Congress has messed up with the “Baba Ramdev's Fast”.

Kapil Sibal has acted like a naïve KID who has a Harvard degree(with no practical use). Your Double-dealing act was cheap Sir.

Well, your NO-LOSS Theory on 2G scam still shocks me even in my sleep.

Excited to see Hari, Thadiyan and Ramkumar.

So a long good bye.

And checked my ticket status for the last time, it still ranked '1' on the waiting list.Heheee..

I love my kerala.

2011-06-06T01:23:00.000-07:00

And then finally off to kerala tomorrow.

Got a waiting list (1) tatkal ticket. Hope it gets confirmed on the final chart.

Everything has a first time, please god don’t make me bribe the TTE.

Meanwhile thank you vivek .He had taken all pains to book my ticket on a Sunday morning, tolerating the irritating old-aged sluggish railway website and sacrificing a pleasant morning sleep.

It is going to be a long vacation and would re-live those monsoon memories.

Damn! It never rains in Delhi. Life is so suffocating here.

Hope to see Thadiyan. He is going to US. Yet another guy lured by the West. .

And hari has planned a get-together kind of at Marine Drive.Its going to be memorable.

Even tedy would join making it a session of senseless deliberations and vayinokkals.

Forgot to tell you this would be first attempt on Civil Service exam. Well, that happens to be the primary reason of this visit.

All the best.
Bye.

It goes on and On...

2011-06-06T00:22:00.000-07:00

As life meanders..
Wonder what..
Lurk around the corner..
Hope it’s the ‘Ups’ of life..

A mysterious..
Zeal beckons..
to satiate the urge..
a drive to surpass.
The hurdles of fallacy..
And mirages of bliss..

It’s a new beginning..
Afresh thoughts..
Emotionally entangled...
Between a..
Vibrant spirit..
And maimed soul…
But a determined mind..
Shows the way..
And the Journey starts..
Life relishes..

NOT available.

2011-06-03T01:42:00.000-07:00

No tickets available.

May be should try Tatkal tickets.

Need to come to office before 8 in the morning tomorrow. That would be a shock for the guards who regularly see me cruising in to punch at 9:45- just in time or late.

In the history of this company I guess anyone would have walked pass the entry gate so early. New record would be set tomorrow.

Out of the blue a mail warning has popped up on the screen.

Its been so long something like this happened. Hope It’s the HR mail.

Grrrr… checked the mail.

Its not worthy to explain the mail.

How did Kyazoonga get my official mail ID???... I am not going to waste my valuable time pondering over this.

I remember I had booked WC tickets with this ID.

Now they are sending me all Spam mails.

This mail says Salman Khan is ready with Asin. To do what???- It is unclear on that. Some kind of marketing Stunt I guess.They want to create curiosity among readers and I am not going to fall for this.

Reckon it is about some up-coming movie. Lost zeal for movies so there goes the mail into thrash.

Meanwhile. Asin is inflammable. Good that nowadays they use digitalized tape.

Goddess of Sleep is so seductive.

Sleeping.

Destiny

2011-06-02T22:58:00.000-07:00

Not giving the EXAM because IRCTC refused me tickets.

I had logged in but while searching for trains I got logged off automatically.

And then it refused me entry. It says my password is wrong.

How is it possible I just logged in you b****h.

Sad. Last year it was a SSB interview.

This year it is IRCTC. I am not destined to write this exam.

Bad day.

YAAAAAAWN. Feel sleepy.

It is nothing like sleeping on the office desk.

Mission IRCTC

2011-06-02T22:18:00.000-07:00

A quick entry.

Mission IRCTC accomplished.I had forgotten my password.

I tried all possible combination of potential passwords but none worked.

Got annoyed and typed in my last entry.

BINGO! It worked.

Now it is time to change it to a very easy to remember password.

Between tedy had called yesterday. He told me my center for CSAT is Rajagiri public School (Thadiyan’s School- does that portend well? - see this as hot debate topic).

We had not gotten our admit card till date. I was partly happy for the fact that it made things easy for me as I was double-minded on giving this exam.

And, now he tells me that even if you don’t receive the admit card you have another option to give the exam. All you need to do is get the online copy of your registration slip with the center information, with two recent photographs and an Identity card.

With these documents they would let you appear for the exam. Tedy, my dear, your kindness has put me in deep mess.

Hmm.. Still not decided to give the exam or not as I have not prepared for the Mains.

Giving prelims without preparing for the mains is like making a fool of oneself.

And, prelims mark does not count.

Well one more decision to make.

Nevertheless checked for flight tickets for 11th june (12th -Exam). Discouraging, prices have soared like anything.

Free market supply-demand forces have pushed the prices so high beyond the common man’s reach.All the Capitalist-Economist do you hear that.

Obviously, the next option is Railways and that is how I embarked on the mission to retrieve my Login password.

Hope to get a confirmed ticket.

Good luck .Bye

Invasion

2011-06-01T06:59:00.000-07:00

They just keep walking all day, no, all day and night. I think they keep walking their entire life until they find food.

Once they find food, they invade like the Mughals.

So that is what happened with my Samosas.

As planned I had bunked office today. And summers have choked all your options of going out during day time.

So in the morning itself I had gone to the market nearby and bought eatables for the day. The bakers there make good delicious samosas. I had bought 8 of them. I had imagined of having them with black coffee.

After coming back from market, I kept the samosas on my table and grabbed the paper. unforfunately(quite normal though), I slept off while reading.

I woke up to find an "Ant Invasion" on my samosas.

Freaking there were millions of them. I tried to shoo them away but only to get more annoyed.Finally, I sacrificed the Samosas.

I’m sure 8 samosas would feed them for the whole season.

Found some solace in the fact that it’s gone for charity. After all humans do have some responsibilities to their fellow living being.

And Magnitude of responsibility is manifold considering the fact that we are the superior being.

But then I was damn hungry. These sentiments and good-will thoughts won’t satisfy your hunger.

I understand this is the same materialistic thought Karl Marx had. He said only if one's stomach is filled one would be in a state to think.

Therfore, he dejected the primacy of Ideas and embarked on the mission of dialectical materialism. This mission culminated in what world now calls MARXISM OR COMMUNISM.

No No I’m not turning Marx, I was freaking hungry and his thought becomes so vital in these Situation.

I ordered Food from Meal Express and plunged onto some FM music.

Rs 150/- for a good meal. In kerala a good south Indian meal one would get for Rs 25

Food been a rip-off here. Capitalism has not really worked for the betterment of people in this sector.

Needless to say, I’m not going into capitalism and communism again. But, Kerala being kind of a Communist state has attained more balanced growth than any state in India.

People who crib about the paucity of Infrastructure development in kerala, should understand that it has been greatly successful is developing its Human Resources. One would easily find marked Individuals in almost all the fields of study and research.

Written a lot i belive.

Checked my mail inbox. There is no mail from HR.

I think I’m losing this JOB.

Not found a way ahead. Time to punch-out.

Did not FB today: feels good.

A highly un-productive day in terms of knowledge acquirement and between Slept like a PIG after the heavy Meal.

I like this meek submission to the goddness of sleep and Thats is truly me.

And women in my society is forcing me to perform more laboriously.Summers are very demanding.

Sometimes I really dont like this self employment.It drains the life out of me.

But I enjoy its highs and Lows.

Bye.Good night.

TIME OUT!

2011-05-31T04:31:00.000-07:00

Just typed in my last status update on FB and it will remain the same for some time.

Need to clear this mess that I’m into.

This untimely Transfer to Mumbai has to be sorted out urgently.

If the company really wants me in Mumbai, it has to resolve all my concerns immediately. HR by not doing so is wasting my time which is invaluable and also company’s.

Made a bad move; threatening the HR at this PMS-juncture.

Definitely does not augur well.

Anyways, everything that happened is hopefully for good.

Also, need to clear my mind on whether to continue to work or go for Civil Service preparation.

This is when you really miss someone in life.

Changing Times.

2011-05-31T03:07:00.000-07:00

Till few weeks back, there would always be a barrage of mails waiting in my inbox to be read. If I failed to check and archive these mails(every 2-3 hrs), the system hurled “quota Warning Messages”. And further my boss would shout at me “jagadish clean your mail box”.

Things have changed contrastingly. I received only ‘1’ mail yesterday that too some generic message sent by HR.

I reckon Harminder Mohan our Corporate HR is busy with the PMS and have forgotten my case. That means I’m lost. And indefinitely I’m stuck here.

Well, Facebook is no more interesting. Its Fizz is gone.

Gleefully jobless on job but then there is a genuine feeling of anxiety. It looks like I’m losing this job.

Tellingly, I have found that almost all my colleagues are on FB all the time. I had considered these people to be laborious sincere workers; it was just foolishness to think so.

People here keep staring at the screen so religiously. All work they do is up-date their status on FB or hit few likes or ogle at some random girl’s photograph.

Also, came to know that some guys have started a group to discuss about few left over girls in our company and other office politics. Desperate cracks.

Existence of this company is miracle to me now. Needless to say, it is time to move on and to find another job.

Between Kataria Sir expired today. He succumbed to a stroke. This news was a shock to me. However, matter of life & death is beyond our control. I express my solemn condolences.

Well, I am scared of death, hope it invades me unknowingly.

That’s for today and tomorrow planning to bunk office; kind of. Kung Fu Panda in 3D is pending to be watched.

YAWN…bye.

Initial impression- a Weekend in Gurgaon.

2011-05-30T00:12:00.000-07:00

I woke up around 7 in the morning, felt ecstasy. It gave me a feeling, the one I had when I slept off for 18hrs continuously; lazy college days.

As I peeped through the window to get a glimpse of a typical hot Sunday morning in Gurgaon, Harky woke up and appreciated the fine Absolute Vodka we had last night.

Had to agree with him for it was the most refined Vodka I ever had. It gave a progressive kick and took me to nirvana though can’t remember anything.

Last thing I remember was we were chatting with Varun. Tedy was checking out Ganguly’s photo album on facebook. I slightly do remember vivek watching the football match in the other room and Harky sleeping (OUT OUT)- Aanamayaki.

Apart from this I don’t recollect anything.

I strolled into the other room. Tedy and vivek were still sleeping.

Pavam, tedy might have gotten an unbearable kick on a single breezer- no joking possible with tedy. Anywhere else in the world esp in LDC‘s, if you force a breezer into a tedy-like body United Nations organization would sue you for a spate of human rights violation.

Vivek was sleeping with a smile. That does not augur well.

I made some quick prayers to all the known gods-Lord Shiva first on list- Destruction seeked– Man Utd-Destruction seeked- Man Utd. Devamme please don’t tell me that Man Utd had won the match last night.

If that happens, then I can’t use FB for another week as yesterday I took a dig on all the Manu fans on the FB which obviously pissed off vivek.

Suddenly, I heard hysterical mooing sound from the kitchen. My hunches told me- its ok, it’s Harky.

Tedy woke up, splashing some profound Malayalam abusive words on me.

The next few sentences he said threw all my senses into a reality ridden emotional whirlpool. I was startled at few of the revelation but found redemption in the fact that Tedy always exaggerates and he takes advantage of one’s drunk state.

But, then I could not re-collect Nikita/ Guneet /Guneet’s sister/ Gangulys/ Barca/ shouting/ Chatting/ typing- I LOVE U/ biting tedy’s hand etc..etc ..

These challenged my memory and my Moral character. Both are indispensible qualities required for Civil Servants.

I need to see the Chat history to understand what happened. Its urgent; I galloped to the other room and grabbed the laptop.

As the lappy loaded windows, I asked tedy who the hell is guneet??

Tedy retorted Da, shavame Gyani.

I did not have any other option, so I admitted to his stories making a mental note that if anything turns incorrect would blast off tedy.

The next half an hour in my life was kind of the most embarrassing moments of my life.

This is unprecedented, for the first time tedy was correct 99%.This efficiency cannot match a person who designed a 5 mm dia shaft for some heavy vehicle for one of his mechanical papers. The Prof (paper checker) had escaped this Stroke-hidden-blooper bomb that tedy threw at him for there was no condolences for few months that followed.

Hmm.. Guneet’s sister did not figure in ‘the' chat conversation that happened and accounted for the 1% error- or the artificial inflation tedy contributed for.

I felt really bad that I chatted with some girl using tedy’s Gmail Account till 4 in the morning. That means I slept only for 3 hrs. JUST 3 HRS!

My “INITIAL IMPRESSION” was shattered completely. I have messed up things BIG time last night.

My head had started becoming heavier and drowsiness caught me.But, each line tedy read out on the chat history brought me back to reality.

Sad, I had also told her about myself getting transfered to Mumbai(hmm..I wrote Mumbai properly after three laborious attempts) and my ongoing impasse with HR.

I told her that Harky was drunk and was sleeping.

Respect/ Philsociology/ Varun/ Barca/ vivek/ sreekanth/luka chupi/ A.Ganguly/ shoe making company/ Barclay/ coal India limited/ mesmerizing saree/ blah blah……………….. Gleamed our conversation.

Vivek had woken up by now and laughing his lungs out.

Harky spewed some more abuses on me, mainly because I told her that he was drunk and out. Hehe.. sorry Harky I understand; letting any girl know of your impotency of consuming alcohol beyond 4 pegs & being awake is devastating especially when she happens to be your former college-class mate.

For the next few minutes I took long breaths to ease out the abashment. YOGA works.

I took solace in the fact that I kept the conversation to a good level of decency. She never was irritated or did abusive me.

Later, saw Hangover part 1. Had roti and butter chicken curry that we bought for last night. No one had eaten food last night.
This re-iterates the fact that tedy was drunk & OUT on a single breezer.

And, forgot to tell you; BARCA WON.

May be that’s the reason Vivek abstained from food last night.

Tedy told me later that I screamed at top of my voice when Barca scored. There was fear that house owner- he stays down stairs would reprimand us today. Though, did not happen, nice.

I logged on to FB to check if any Man Utd fans were online.As expected all had gone into hiding- HAHAHA.

Interestingly, I had made a status update on FB after the last night match.Varun and kannan had comment on it, of which Varun's comment hurted vivek inherently.

Varun Had written:

Q: What's the difference between Alex Ferguson and God?
A: God doesn't think he's Alex Ferguson.!!!!

Vivek did not talk to anyone for 10 mins.It was only when harky entered the room and became scapegoat for some random discussion-criticism that vivek said something. Thank god, he spoke.I have heard stories of people losing their ability to speak on hearing unbearable heart breaking news..

I tried sleeping after food, it did not happen. Tedy persuaded me to watch CO(I think it is spelled so).It was a good tamil movie, though can’t recollect most of it as my head was spinning most of the time.

Meanwhile, Harky gulped down his daily dose of WHEY Protein and went to GYM.

After the Movie, I tried to catch some sleep but could not.

It was a terrible feeling. I was damn tried & wanted to sleep but sleep was evading me.

Harky returned to give us some Gyaan on the need for physical activities in our life. His Muscles were inflated now and speaking the tormenting story of pushing its limits for unproductive gains.

And, in some time he left for office letting us know of some cant-keep-away sort of work. As the part of Business expansion of Maruti, is augmenting its internet lease lines. Very important for the fact that Suzuki rules Maruti now and connectivity with their office in Japan is vital

Good thing: Maruti is expanding. So more jobs and it invigorates the economy.

After the movie, I again tried to sleep but to vain. Vivek had a sound sleep as we watched CO.

Throughout the day, we did not do anything and lay lethargic on the Un-cozy bed watching some youtube videos, old Malayalam comedies- evergreen, listening to some songs.

I did also upload my CV on naukri.com. Hope some company gives me interview call.

Left Gurgaon by 8 after having Dosa from the market place nearby

Reached back home by 10:00.

Hit the bed (cozy) in no time only to be woken up by dobby at 8 in the morning.

Feels good now, its almost back to normal senses.

Checked out my Inbox, Harminder Mohan of HR has not sent me any clarification mail till now. Need to sent reminder number 2.

Professionally my life has come to a standstill. Personally I am letting it flow like an unexplored river.

Random..

2011-05-28T05:38:00.000-07:00

Don’t be surprised if I tell you that the whole day I was in Office and on facebook(pls don’t ask me which company I work for).

I’m kind of being addicted to Facebook now. Professionally does not augur well for me.

Today, did not make new acquaintances but refreshed many.

It was quite a revelation, to know that most of my friends are either studying or working abroad.Its not that I can ask for help, by forwarding my CV but it genuinely feels good when you know that your friends are working for Barclays, Microsoft & Google..etc

Well, coming back, pissed off Vivek on Man U and otherwise had a harmonious day on FB.

Tomorrow – no office that means no access to net and so, no FB.

Time 6:20 PM, Saturday evening, freaking, the office is almost empty.

It looks scary from my cubicle, as I see no one around; it’s deserted- never noticed before.

I could hear noises that AC make while they work. Normally, these noises get drowned in din of the woking day.

Need to leave ,Good night to myself.

Quater life Crisis

2011-05-27T05:06:00.000-07:00

This blog is intriguingly dedicated to me. I know if I want to see a guy who has absolutely no aim in life, all I need to do is look into the mirror.

Sad, though, is the truth. The other day I was letting my friend know that I really can’t find happiness in my life; he taunted me, for he always found me as a convoluted confused person. To overcome my lassitude I wrote a poem (LOST) to find no respite.

I reckon, I have rammed into a tall, dead- end wall. Collided head-on and fallen flat down on the ground. Subsequently, I have woken up to this moment where I have lost the fizz of life. Life looks so pale. My lungs refuses to breath otherwise it bribes me to breath this lonely monotonous insipid life.

I really can’t find what in life that I am looking for. What will quench my thirst? Lost, completely lost in this complex equation called life.

How on earth can someone become so blank? How can one run out of thoughts and everyday thinking? How can one just not socialize and hide oneself in that single room of his? How can one just defy his inner instincts?

On a war footing I need to find answers to these questions or else I would slip into an incurable depression.

My mind is so whimsical; it wobbles like a pendulum. IAS and CAT are at the two extremes. My current job is in the mid way, somewhere in the mean position. I need to stop this life choking dynamism of my mind.

To clear Civil Service I need to put in at-least a year’s hard work (humongous task- no joke).It certainly demands a full time preparation. For that I need to leave my Job. My financial and family scenario is so unfavorable that if I quit my job, it is like committing suicide. Even a naïve kid would refuse to do this (if he was in my place).

And CAT- MBA is for quick brains. This sluggish brain would take decades to compete. But, then there is a dormant zeal for MBA somewhere in me.

Tellingly, I don’t know what to go for.what to look for.Lack the clarity of thought & vision.

May be this is what some thinker’s call the “quarter life crisis”.

Time is running out, need to find a solution.

Lost

2011-05-27T01:55:00.000-07:00

I had found it..
While I was a kid..
A profusion of it..
As I played cricket..
Harboring a naïve mind....

Hitting sixes…
Over the wall..
Smashing fours..
Beyond my pals..
Missing a match..
Seemed a crime..
I played like a fool..
Till skin turned black..
Till darkness..
Drowned the fields..
Till crickets..
Booed us home..
But believe me..
It was for you..
And only for you
I played so long…

But then..
I lost you…
As I packed my kit..
Threw it under my cot..
I took to studies..
In BIT Mesra..
Unscripted days..
Never found you..
Then little by little..
Like a lethargic breeze…
You loomed in her..
I found you again…
You filled me again..
With profound pep..
It seemed life again....
Animated and real..
I had a grin..
I had an aim..
I had you…
And had all..

But then..
I lost you again..
For dogmatic societal rules..
Vexed customs trolled..
Caste stood tall..
Birth valued more..
Lucre spoke loud..
Doused me with hate..
Shrouded me in fear..
Lineage mattered a lot..
I was shattered like a pot..
I decried life…
I let her go..
And lost you again..

And now..
Grouping for you..
In the darkness of sorrow..
Adorned with hallucination..
Nothing is real..
You still evade me..
In your pursuit
I lost my way..
I sought you in my job..
I sought you in wine..
In mountains..
In valleys..
In laughter..
In forlornness..
In silence..
But then..
I never had you again..

I see you now..
In the abode of god..
Day would come..
When you would..
Fill me again..
With a subtle smile..
With a virgin thought..
And this time...
It will be only you and me..

An ode to my friends..

2011-05-20T22:33:00.000-07:00

Ain’t couldn’t fathom..
Not the incessant urge to study..
But blind belief to learn abroad..
Some say for passion..
Some for fashion..
Some for position..
And forget the premonition..
They fly west..
Yearning blissfulness..
Where People…
Cry joblessness..
And meet abjectness..
They treat you second citizen..
Abuse and oppress you...
See u like a parasite..
Stealing their job…
Drowning their economy..
New Australia in making everywhere..
The storm is coming…
You may not dodge the inevitable..
But you still prefer a foreign land…
Even if u r penniless…
I pity those..
Who denounce our land..
For the luxuries of the west..

SIR FERGUSON, STOP YOUR STUPID ANTICS

2011-03-04T02:49:00.000-08:00

I feel Ferguson is blowing it out of proportion for the decision that went against them in the match against Chelsea.

This is not a wild proposition, may be you should read below, this is what had happened with ManU this season.

They won 2-1 at West Bromwich Albion but could have had Gary Neville sent off when he brought down Graham Dorrans. They got a good draw at Tottenham but when they won 3-2 at Blackpool they were fortunate when Rafael brought Luke Varney down in the penalty area with the score 2-0 but referee Peter Walton did not give the spot kick.
United lost at Wolves and even when they won 4-0 at Wigan last Saturday they were under the cosh for the first 20 minutes and Wayne Rooney should have been sent off for his elbow on James McCarthy.--- as reported on BBC football.

When things happen for you in an unfair manner, to show deaf ear is a mean thing, and when things happen against you, to run around the referee like a kid running around a Balloon-wallah crying for a RED BALOON is ridiculous.

Ferguson Sirji, pull up your socks and move on.
Atleast, show Composure of your experience Dude.

Somebody Asked me recently:Are you ManU hater???
I said NO.I just dislike them more than pakistan Cricket team.

TIME IS MONEY & MORE MONEY IS IPL.

2011-02-22T22:48:00.000-08:00

IPL is more money is a proven fact.

As IPL goes to season 4, advertisers make merry.

Read below what Rohit Gupta President of Multi screen Media (MSM) had to say.

“We have had about a 20-25 per cent growth in ad rates since last year. This year, our pricing for sponsors was about Rs 5 lakh for 10 seconds. For spot buyers, our rates stood at Rs 5.5 lakh per 10 seconds, which we have now increased to Rs 6 lakh. In terms of viewership, in season one, IPL touched 100 million people, rose to 121 million in season two and last year, it rose to 143 million people. We expect this growth to continue, and so will the ad rates.”

He also further states that "World Cup has not overshadowed IPL even a bit".Moreover, he says for advertisers IPL is a safer bet that WC.

I’m not against IPL, but when we rig money through IPL, we should try to channelize it to the other areas so a fairer economic & social development happens.It should not be yet another institution of "RICH BECOMING MORE RICH & POOR BECOMING MORE POOR"

If IPL is the biggest money minting machine in India, why can’t we think of clubbing the profit of IPL with NREGA workers wage?

Or likewise schemes, so that it’s a win-win situation for all. The popularity of the game enhances and also social & economic development of the people.

MY PREDICTION

2011-02-22T21:38:00.000-08:00

"I feel it was a real Champions League match with all the difficulties involved in that. I'm hopeful of course, everything is open. Lyon are a good team, they have good players, a good coach. But it's 1-1 and we play at home."

This is what Morinho said after the championship match against Lyon.

Result: 1-1 at Stade Gerland.

Morinho looks unlikely composed and rather confident inwardly, and the last sentence of morinho’s statement asserts this (“But it's 1-1 and we play at home”).

But I think otherwise.

Real Madrid will lose to Lyon at home. And will end “MORINHO’s HOME RUN.”

Arsenal will defeat Barcelona.

Champion’s league winners this time would be “CHELSEA”.

I see EPL won by ARSENAL.

“K-INDI COMMANDOS”

2011-02-18T01:26:00.001-08:00

I Freaked out, when one of my friend told me that Kochi IPL team has announced its name.

My curiosity shattered all psychic boundaries & an unknown wild adrenaline rushed through my veins as I ran a search on my Computer.

To my utter disappointment I saw it. Dull, Spiritless, Soul-less,Amorphous team name ever made. It was something more than BIZZARE!.

“INDI COMMANDOS”, WHAT! Absolutely, “depressing name” in the highest sense of the phrase.

I wanted to thrash that mentally aberrated brain , which came up with this.

With despair, I sat down on my chair, in my cubicle.

When the team’s official website ran a name finding contest, I was delighted.

I had even sent them 40 different names, like a insane cricket fan from kochi, but I was shattered to see this "YUCKY"name.

Furthermore, It brings inexplicable pain to all my senses, when I picturise myself, cheering for, my Kochi team with this “moronic name”.

They could have come up with a name in which atleast “kochi” is mentioned.

Moreover, whenever I read “INDI” a whole lot of Rhyming Malayalam Abusive words runs through my mind.

And, I’m sure all these would fill the ground as “Kochi “begins its home match. WATCH OUT SREESHANTH.“ALLIYA NINTE KAARYAM POKKAA”.

240 calling to 239

2011-02-08T23:37:00.000-08:00

My mobile phone was ringing.

I moved away the papers on my desk to find my phone.

I answered it, with a little displeasure as I was having a tough time at office.

“Hello, who is it?”

“Hey, it is 240/04 calling 239/04” said the voice at the other end.

Flabbergasted & was struggling to comprehend.

Though in few seconds I made sense of these numbers. 239 was my college roll no and 240- Ginn’s.

I was delighted to hear to him after a long time.

He was in Hissar site. And before he was send to Arunachal, for our Hydro project.

And now he had come down to Noida( our corporate office) to put down his papers.

With utmost curiosity I asked him “saala you got some other job or what”??

He retorted “yes, BHEL”. My joy knew no bounds now. I solemnly congratulated him.

He informed me, he would complete his formalities of resigning by evening and would meet me thereafter.

I said “definitely”. Would call Ankit & Apoorv also.

He agreed and kept the call. It’s been almost 3 years that I have seen him.

He not only had my adjacent role number but also was my neighbor at hostel 5B in BIT mesra.

We had some wonderful time there.

For sometime I forgot all things around me as all good memories of college days rushed through my mind.

BE/ECE/239-04/Siren Tower- building/50th year -LED Display board/ Boring ECE lectures/ Suku / Solanki/ Eccentric B B pal / Masand Baba/ Hot Management Ma’am/Sadist DASH/ JS Roy -anti suku/8085/Goswami-unofficial project guide/Proxy detector/ Rajesh lal- Official project guide / Canteen/ Sharma Daba/ outer campus/ sports complex/Nescafe outlet/calligraphy on kannan's-worskop journal/BITOSTAV/ CPGA/T-1,T-2,T-3/Puru daba/ hostel 6/ATM- RSS/Mess- Allu Bhujiya/kuthira-sticky thing/sigma/Shibu-water elemental/Tv room-H6/ Anara gupta/PMC chowk/UCO bank- no ATM/
Vijay handa, Rohit-1st Sem pals/MG- immature thoughts/ Dr RIP Singh- BIT dispensary/ Njaan kurukkal/ Kutti Aunty/ Nair Uncle-Hottest day/Suku’s house- Maniac Hari/ nikki chettan/Diwali celebration -suku vitta vannam/ Vinay-first room mate/Vivek-nice guy-fast learner/Photo Soc member/Enigma-orginal CD-hari-ripped/Vivek's sony player/Harky- and his Jirakkum Angels/ kannan chettan-Cuticura- fantasised tedy/ ragging days/90 adikkal- Aao srimaan/hari’s AC ticket/Warcraft-DOTA /MVT- best porn collection/ Onam celebrations/Drunk HOD/ Bindu Ma'am/Nannakedinte thulabaaram/ Dhanbad Allepy/ Beef, KFC/Hari-Viny bet/thadiyan-infatuation-true love-kajole’s eyes- vankavedi Shweta / Tedy Vedi Bhosadi- Grewal /Vivek- loads of manga/Hari's bithday Bumps-video taken/ 3rd sem/High on weeds-Ginn/E mech/nithi th****- no tooth brushing/ Nagpur trip-varun-hari-tedy/Kumarakom trip-maramkayari hari/ harky -100 cm/TVM trip- ROBOT MAKING/ Sujit chettan-HUGE- Kala Kutha(brand)/study holidays-chai-sleep/ 46-hrs sleep/Shaili shekhar- phone call /Holi clelebration/ Luttapi Vivek-Dream/Vayinokki Varun- innerwear color sensor/ Mid Sems/ Juniors/ Mr break/ Aana vedi su****– Harky’s first love /JC- ManU Jerk/BOI-Apna haath jaganath /PONDY/ Bala/ Vivek’s Jhon Cena Act/ Microprocessor Lab/Unnayan -1st prize/Harky Doggy style performance/ AJAR-lucknow trip/ Dubey- ECE cricket team mate/ Vaibhav- 238/04-IIM K/ Ankit-bench mate-movie buff/ Rahul & Arjun Poly/ Cabbage Sabu Chettan/ Physics lab-mahto/ Mr break- Nishant/ Shyam- haky’s Fav Junior/Viveks’s -apology message/ Cheette kalli-28/ Manasa Manu/ Ullam Kaiyil Choru- Arjun chettan/Viju Chettan/ Bipin Chettan- Electronics man/Sreejith-Ramdoss-different/library/ DC++ /Football Tournament-we won/rohit,george ,jockey,vinu,nidhal-juniors/Aachanak ball bayanak six-we lost/Counter strike- charles used to play day in day out/6 -pointer/7- pointer/8 pointer- joke/nervous 1st day/ Look-Appeal talk-thadiyan/ and list its goes on and on ...... ..

... Tedy being intensely respectful to the messboy asking him, "chotu, bhujiya laayiye" and also” Shibu Bhujiya banke aao”

Declassified:
Hari's decunciatory criticism of kannan(after a ragging session) as mentioned in his personal diary- "Kannan oru '******** ' moan aakkunu" -written with solemn respect, like a good junior.

"kannante roominte adiyil nokkiya kaanam pattikal full time...ding ding"..

"meen vitta mannam "-harky

“unda pottikkunaa move from hari on tedy " - hari still says" I'm to find it" .

Vivek-"eda njaan chadilla , njaan chatthu povum...poda pattikale, enne kollan nokkalle " ( on top of 5C , juniors vellam adi party).

Uncensored Hari back again:

" Sho njaaan kulikkaan poyatha....vellathinu bhayngara thanuppu. Enikku deshyam vanu....haa njaan ******* adichu"

Classic- harky-
1."Eda Tedy, yethu naayinte monum oru divasam unde.Innu ente divasam aaneda." hehe
2."Njaan shannan aada shannan"
3. “Teen mein se mirchi daaliye“.. pavan parantha ondkuna aal..onnu njetti.
4." avan ente thanthakke vilicho , avane njaan sheri aakkum"

And 1st sem :Physics lab-"mahto"

Myth :
Pay Rs 10 to Mahto-lab assistant, he would do the DARK ROOM experiment (during practical exam)for you , & help you through.

REALITY:
He did not accept the money and I submitted a blank sheet , with only my name written (also I failed to observe some concentric RINGS on the lame apparatus....)

The "lambu- Bengali- Thrashed me", Jairath sir saved me with viva. I have enormous repect for him, so I can’t pen down indecent proposition about him (if at all any) or about his beautiful daughter. So putting it decently, PJ his daughter had high calorific value and was highly combustible.

Canteen, most happening place during Bitostav . We were 2k4.. malayali guys ..were mostly seen together...

"Oh Bhai ether ka cycle stand kither hai"- Jaison -junior (high on codes)

Everything looked as if it just happened yesterday.

Not digressing coming back..to Ginn.

Now, it’s great to know that he is out of Reliance & more importantly got into BHEL.

His life is settled and I thought now he should get married.

In the evening, he complied to my thought. Infact he was eager to get married.

We had a long talk, he told all about his experience in Reliance (mostly sad), but like the same Ginn i knew he laughed at all those sad incidents. He told me how he had stumbled upon BHEL exam and got through. I found tremendous happiness in his success.

And as I bid adieu to him, I said” hey 240/04 take care and 239/04 wishes you all the very best”.

See you dude when I see you.

Panacea

2011-01-28T01:39:00.000-08:00

One of my friends recently asked me “Is there any one solution to the entire problem India is facing?”

I retorted “EDUCATION”, he was shocked as he never expected me to reply so instantaneously, defying my own nature of pondering before speaking anything.

He replied “I believe education is not a solution but a tool to attain the solution”.

I asked him back “so what is the solution?”

He gave me an abstract answer. I was not convinced and I felt he too was unconvinced.

Later, I did ponder over his question. Is there any one solution to all the problem India is facing? In the sense, one idea to which every program/scheme of our various ministries can converge so that we can synergize all our efforts for better growth and more importantly sustainable social development.

After a long session of deep thinking, my answer remained same “EDUCATION”.

Quality Education can eradicate poverty. Education can provide awareness, to tackle problem of mal nutrition, can fight different kinds of mortality, and other diseases.

More importantly education can give ‘the feeble’ a voice of new age to place his ‘say’ in a better position to be heard.

Education can fight corruption as “If people willing to give perishes, people willing to take perishes”.

Education could enlighten people of their powers that constitution has conferred upon them.

Education could improve status of women, can mitigate gender inequality.

Education could open up new vistas of opportunities to the under-privileged, whence could improve their standard of living & family health.

Research oriented education can lead to innovation and other society-betterment findings, which can take India to the world.

Therefore, as India becomes land of new innovation and technology, production industry in India would prosper.

This can lead to capacity building in all sectors- importantly military, agriculture, power, electronics, infrastructure, steel etc.
Thereby we can export more complete competitive products & mitigate export- import trade imbalance.

And at home, Education leads to sustainable development.

Consequently, Education is one & only solution to the entire problem.

But then my alter ego confronted “it’s impossible to provide education to all the people, he he he, he laughed.”

I retorted “It is possible”

“Freaking! Quality education is expensive and majority of people are still poor” he said tauntingly.

I told him “they are all poor to afford quality education, but until they are educated, they will always remain poor”.
And, “Right to education is the silver lining”

He replied “Right to education is yet another right to corruption”.

I said ‘things would change, and this time people would not fail our constitution & education”.

He asked me “what change are you referring to? The government one after the other is playing the dirty game of cheap politics with their tainted cards.”

I kept quiet, did not reply, as I had nothing to say, for as he spoke the reality.

But then I told him” Education is the panacea for all problems”.

It has a ripple effect, you educate a man, and he would educate many. You educate a girl; you educate her & the entire generation to follow.

And, it’s true; this plant of education should have been planted 50 years before in our country, the second best time is now.

So, let’s understand the importance of education as the one & only solution.
And act prominently in this second best time, i.e. now.

Resolution, Revolution and Re-shuffle.

2011-01-20T21:24:00.000-08:00

This is how world changed in the first month of the New Year.

Resolution
Is re-solution, you find solution to the worries of your life and take oath on a drunken (mostly) 31 st Dec night, to change your habits to alleviate your worries and make better your life.

So, into the end of January many have already given up the resolution and many still fighting, crawling, trying hard to move forward.

In here I would like to cite a scientific notion;It takes atleast 21 days for any habit to sink in and alteast a week more to show its results.

Revolution
Tunisian Revolution has come with such a surprise that, the entire world is stoned. The reason for such a reaction from the world community is that it was just common people, without any leader had over-thrown the monarch.

The king Ben-Ali had to run for his life, when agitators threatened to kill him. He flew away in his personal plane, interestingly, France refused shelter, and he finally found refuge in Saudi Arabia.

Its been understood that army had refused to fire at the revolutionaries, this enraged the king, he had dismissed the chief of army, but to ultimate vain.

Well, revolution in Tunisia has send shock waves through the spines of all the dictators in the neighborhood. I smell, democracy taking deep roots in Tunisia and prospect of further similar revolution in west Asia.

Re-shuffle
“Musical chair on the Moving ship” this is how a famous newspaper published the news of the latest re-shuffle of the council of ministers in UPA government.

There is no logic behind the move. Some say it was to pacify the various state congress where elections are scheduled to happen next year. Whereas, some say it was to remove the inept ministers, though not true because ministers doing well were also removed.

Some disgorge strident criticism on PM, only to prove them asinine, for the entire country knows he is just a handcuffed spectator.

It’s the congress president running the puppet show. What she needs to know is that its no point shuffling with the old cards, you need new cards to play the game in a new way.

WELL! THAT’S ENOUGH

2011-01-17T02:18:00.000-08:00

I stared, agape, at the front page graphics of today's newspaper which illustrated yet another hike on petrol prices.

WHAT!! Double salvo hike in less than two months.

Amidst food inflation, this increase in price of petrol is definitely a bad omen for common people.

De-control is the name of the game. Well, Government felt pity for the oil companies and the allege burden of loss, that Government suddenly decided to de-control the price.

I had a belief that government was morally responsible to protect its people from the volatile international crude oil price fluctuations. These current developments tell me that I ‘m wrong.

I lament saying we are moving towards “no-governance”, if not bad governance.

“AAM AADMI” slogan will remain in the dustbin till next election.

And, worst is, this “AAM AADMI” would again vote these same people to power. It’s abysmally sad, and unfortunate that we are stuck between devil and deep sea.

With corruption, food inflation, petrol hike and rally of other scams, this country is definitely not looking forward, if solemn social and economic development is what we are seeking for. The country badly needs another revolution. Only time will say who leads and stands up to say” WELL, THAT’S ENOUGH” or may be as P.Sainath puts it, a change is possible not when sporadically individuals stand up to say that’s enough, but happens when ENOUGH PEOPLE TOGETHER STANDS UP TO SAY WELL!! THAT’S ENOUGH.

ESCAPIST

2011-01-07T21:18:00.000-08:00

8:30 AM Saturday, 08.01.2011

Noida has been reeling under severe cold waves since few days. And, today it’s worse with dense fog, leading to Zero visibility.

I had a traumatic experience, when I made my usual walk for my office in the morning.
Crossing the road was dreadful. Thanks to that car driver who had switched on his headlights, otherwise I wouldn’t have been alive today to write this.

Well, it’s not a good starting to this year.

Firstly, company threatening to move all the people of my department to site, without any additional monetary benefits.

Secondly, my house owner gave me an ultimatum to move out of the house by the end of January. Freaking!!! He is coming back to stay in Noida. Sigh.

Thirdly, yesterday, my thought so Godfather in Reliance, my BOSS resigned. He said there is absolutely nothing left in the company, look for better grounds.

Lastly, in the last two years I haven’t gained any knowledge or value to make myself a potential employee for any company.

So, as world closes all the doors at me, I close my eyes to take a deep breath, to I pray, to keep faith in god, to give me strength & courage to keep me moving forward.

Sometimes, I wish I could detach myself from all these things and travel to a world of unknowns, & mysteries where tensions and worries are just past virtues, but then all the wishes are not fulfilled, right??.

But,I want to be an escapist.

My Karims Visit

2011-01-03T22:32:00.000-08:00

My friend’s New Year resolution is to try all cuisines possible.

Whence & being a staunch non-vegetarian and also being in Delhi for so long , he couldn’t carry anymore of the insult of not eating at karims.

So, he slated to eat at karims near Jama Masjid, Old Delhi, after the visit to Book fair at Pragati Maidaan on the first day of the year and I adhered to his plan .

1st Jan 2011, Delhi still reeling under Cold wave, we put on our three layer protection and took off as planned. We were done with not-so-impressing (I felt last year’s was better) Book Fair by 2:30 and caught the next metro to Chandni chowk.

Well, metro rides are becoming so distressing & disgusting with the entire Delhi on metro all the time. It was suffocating ride.

But, then seeing the crowd and traffic in chandni chowk, I corrected myself as metro crowd of people was nothing to the multitude of people I saw there.
It was chaos all pervasive. We took a rickshaw to karims.

Initially I wondered how the rickshaw guy would drive through that commotion. However, what I experienced later changed my thinking altogether.

The deftness with which he drove startled me. He took the rickshaw through the “smallest gully “ I have ever seen.It was completely filled with swarms of people, small trolleys [carrying good to the shops], which were on the either sides of the lanes, bikes & mopeds all doing their circus to drive safely to the other end.

To me it looked a black hole and saw absolutely no option to get to the other end, it looked impossible. Conversely, the rickshaw guy thought "yes we can".

He took the rickshaw into this commotion and believe me, he drove through it without even halting the rickshaw even once I was dumbstruck. I looked at my friend, he looked dreaded.

Finally, we reached karims, I gave the rickshaw guy 40 bucks. As I gave him the money, an ounce of appreciation had blossomed in mind for him, for the skill he displayed, and with great awe I thanked him in my mind.

After, nearly 45 minutes of struggle to get a table, we had the highly praised karim’s delicacies.
My friend liked it, and I did not. However, my friend’s desire to eat at karims was fulfilled. So felt good about that.

The lane that comes out of karims, leads to main gate of Jama Masjid. As both of us had not visited this great mosque, we decided to have a inside tour of Masjid.

As rightly, described by all the historical and travel literature, it is a majestic structure. With reverence we toured through it.
We could see a guide-looking guy disgorging all the known English words to please a foreign group of tourists to earn his bread. Meanwhile, there was normal domestic crowd, couples, children and all sorts of people.

You could also get a glimpse of Red Fort from there. Again, I reminded my friend of our "many-times planned and failed" -Delhi Darshan. I have been here for more than 2 years & I’m yet to see Red fort, Qutab Minar & other must see places of visit of our capital. SAD, hmm... Sigh.

As we descended the large rocky steps of Jama Masjid, I could see the chaotic traffic picking up more commotion. But, this time I was not nervous, because I knew there would be some rickshawallah out there who would easily get us out.

We again hired a rickshaw, and this time it was more brutal traffic and art with which the rickshaw guy evaded everything to get us to chandni chowk metro is still prominent in my mind.

So, we reached the Metro station and again, huge swarms of people, but by now I became used to this rich profusion of people.

And, as we took a ride in the metro, back to our house, it was not the highly sought karim’s delicacies that was in my mind, but it was the adept rickshawallahs of Chadni chowk, the dynamic crowd & the streets shops selling all sorts of food and Jama Masjid that etched to my mind, like a motion picture.

That’s how my Karims trip on 1st of January this year ended; hope a long eventful year ahead.

Quantum Machine

2011-01-02T21:12:00.001-08:00

“! @#$%^$&$%&#$&#&#%&$%&#$&$%&#%&$%&”- This was Quantum mechanics to me.

And, I never could build on any knowledge in the realm of quantum mechanics.

But then, when I read about the Science Breakthrough of the year- the quantum machine, I was catapulted to its black hole.

To a naked eye the machine, looked a very infinitesimally small hair like thing, but it’s actually a tiny metal paddle of semiconductor. This was coaxed to dance with a quantum groove.

Machine was brought down to lowest energy state possible and then quantum of energy was provided to it and it started vibrating in such a manner that its motion could be explained only by quantum mechanics.

Bizarre theory of possibility of being in two states, certainly abstruse to me.

No, this blog is not to explain quantum mechanics or specifically the quantum machine, but this blog is to pay my tribute to those brains behind this great accomplishment.

Physicist Andrew Cleland and John martinis from university of California & their colleagues are the ingenuity behind it.

So, in this New Year, I wish them all the vey best. I hope they go ahead in transforming their studies to attain greater success.
I also hope that their findings open up new vistas of research and development, for all in the scientific realm, for the betterment of science & society.

Artificial Scarcity

2010-12-29T22:47:00.000-08:00

Onion is selling at 60 rupees per kg. Hard, believe it or not, it is a disturbing Reality and is true.

So, if it’s true, as rational being we should analyze why a sudden surge in price?

Our Moronic Agriculture Minister Mr Sharad Pawar, Put on a brave face by saying “it’s because of the un-expected rains that caused floods in onion producing areas, had hampered production”.

Ridiculous!! If you already knew this was coming why did’nt you take necessary steps to tackle the issue.This did not happen as this was not the real reason for the sudden surge, Sharad pawar was trying to fool the entire nation.

So, off goes the reasoning proclaimed by the Minister into the bin.

The fact of the matter is, the primary reason for this temporary aberration of prices is due to “Artificial Scarcity”, means it is artificially created.

This was caused because of undue hoarding of the commodity by the traders and other middle man involved and also due to illegal exports. Greed actuates these in-humane acts. But, again this is the grave reality in India and it’s the common people like us who suffer.
While we suffer, these traders benefit with huge margins.

Government has taken steps to crack down on the hoarding and to distribute inflated commodities through PDS system and state controlled stores at reasonable cost.

Well this has helped to some extent to stabilize the price, but a not for long. Because these commodities do not get distributed through PDS & other state run Stores for a long.

In short, greed, graft and clout govern our society.

Even, though reduction of supply and increase in fuel price has added to increase in price, this unseen sudden increase in prices of essential commodities, especially onion is undoubtedly is due to “Artificial Scarcity”.

Government is tackling the issue, to provide temporary relief. But the real underlying cause behind hoarding is embedded in the changing societal values and that is Greed. This animal instinct to gain everything, at the expense of fellow beings lives is all-pervasive in out society now.

CWG scam, 2-G scam, Adarsh housing scam, PF scam all re-iterate this conspicuous changing truth that we no longer value our fellow beings.

‘Humanity’ is eroding value in our society.

And, as we become more materialistic, we forget the true Culture of caring, compassion and respect.

Call of the hour is a Social Revolution or else we will be doomed under Scams, money laundering and Capitalism & more clearly Crony Capitalism.

And, the new phenomenon of “artificial scarcity” is just a harbinger of the Doomsday

Change needs to start, from you, to us and to the world. Let’s make this world a better place for living, as every life is important, so as yours.

6:36 PM, Wednesday,29th December 2010

2010-12-29T04:41:00.000-08:00

Hmm.. I'm still in office, I’m still in Reliance When I Joined this company I had made up my mind to leave this company in one year, for I was so confident of clearing one of those management exams.

Freaking!!!.... it is going to be three years and I’m still here.

So many things have happened around me, Firstly, My Ex Project Director (PD), who made that motivational speech (when I had joined) & who looked so poised to finish that massive project in record time, himself resigned and joined another company.

Secondly, I had a transfer of department and project.

Thirdly, Most of my previous project colleagues joined other companies on better pay.

Lastly, Few of my juniors (who joined after me) are in better influential departments now. The illiterate HR to blame, they just randomly pick and drop people to anywhere. If you are lucky, you land in good departments under good boss.

I’m digressing, I realize….

And the fact of the matter is “I ‘m still in this drab place".

Initially, I wanted to prepare for Management exams, but then the noble man in me aroused. I was saddened and was empathized for under-privileged & starving people of society (This was way before reading those P.Sainath articles in Hindu) or may be because I connected with their stories better or felt something common running through me.

Suddenly, I made up mind to do something, which would help atleast some people come out of their sufferings. I understood being an IAS officer you can touch and change the lives of millions in our country.

And, decided to prepare for UPSC exam.

When you are intoxicated by the desire to achieve something, you are blind as you see only your goal & you fail to evaluate yourself whether you have sustainable qualities to attain your goals, at least an ounce of it.

And if you don’t evaluate yourself, you are bound to fall, if not fail

Well, the same thing happened with me.

I never read newspaper, never had an appetite for information gathering/ retaining. My knowledge of state/country/world affairs was as bad as Ishant Sharma’s batting or if you know shrecko (sreekanth my friend) then Its as bad as his hard thought PJ’s.

And, to make things worse, I was struggling to read content articles or books, hmm I realized my vocabulary is also bad, if not worse.

However, I pushed myself to conquer my dream and desire of transforming lives.

I joined a coaching class, chose two optional subjects, Public Administration and Sociology. I was sincere and attended all the classes, when most of students who came there felt the teachers were far from average, and their classes are too traditional and will never prepare us for the changing UPSC exam patterns- a year later I realised they were all right with their assumptions.

Hmm… I completed my coaching in around about 6 months.

I still remember my hectic days; I used to rush for my classes every day after office and then a late night journey back to my house at the other end of the city. I used to get back my 10:00.

After 6 months, slowly I started realizing that, it’s near to impossible for me to do this with a job and leaving the job was unthinkable.

But, then I carried forward. I tried putting together long studying hours, spasms of those were all fruitless. I never had a habit of studying. I always used to do my study at the last moment.

A temporary target was set, to inculcate a habit of studying and reading newspaper. I still remember reading those tough Hindu articles, it was like reading a dictionary. I got fed up referring to the dictionary for understanding every word and few days later, I gave up. Because, in the process of finding the meaning of words, I totally missed the essence of the articles.

In short, to attain primary targets, I had set up temporary targets. This slowly became my primary leading to other secondary targets. Fact of the matter was, when there are too many holes in the pot it is difficult to hold anything in it.

In short, I failed to inculcate any habits, required for the preparation of UPSC exam.

But, I was poised to give the exam.

Unfortunately, an SSB interview which coincided with my preliminary exam changed my plans. I was two minded on the issue. I went for the SSB Interview .Destiny failed me, this time in the form of Medical officer.

I did not qualify medically, knock Knees. Interestingly, I have been a sports person all my life. But you cannot tide over the laws of recruitment process, especially those of armed forces.

Dejected. Heavy blows, salvo double by UPSC and NAVY.

Back to reality, Back again in Reliance, a frustrating life, being idle was tough. It was more than a mental torture.

Worse part was, by now I had lost my passion or the inspiration to pursue my UPSC studies.

Life then looked dry, Bitter, lonely, wretched.

After 8 months from then my feelings remain the same.

My goal, from doing MBA to becoming an IAS officer all looks distant reality or just illusions.

I live alone now, don’t bother to study or prepare for any exam.

No aim, no targets, no worry, but still struggling to keep with the reality that” I live the life of a recluse”.

Only thing that hurts me now, is when, I have conversations with my parents, who thinks I’m in a first class Company at some respectable post & is earning good salary and is very satisfied. They just don’t know the reality or rather I have never let them know.

Their expectation of their son becoming a successful person pinches me more, as to me I in a deep bottomless PIT.

Life is the best teacher. One’s who acclimates to the reality faster, scores highest & reaches the acme.

How to make a "BOMB"??

2010-07-03T00:05:00.001-07:00

Al Qaeda has come up with a Online Magazine. Interestingly, it has tips on HOW TO MAKE A BOMB …RIDICULOUS!. Are they calling for a “FINAL DESTRUCTIVE BATTLE”???

It is highly condemnable that Al Qaeda has come up with Magazine that promotes contents which support in spreading violence and hatred. By publishing ‘how to make a Bomb’ is definitely not justified from any dimension of spreading peace through information media. There might be people out there who might justify it as a act of support for the jihadist. Let me ask those people, can any religion justify killing of people, a heinous crime, a clear reflection of brutal violence in the name of justice. If all Gods preach for harmony, how can people justify violence in the name of justice and harmony? What they needs to understand is, there is nature’s theory which say’s no living being( including humans ) wants violence, blood shed and hate War. The more you try to de-stabilse the nature’s choice of harmony, with more force the nature will come down upon you and that day it will not give you any option to rectify your irrational actions committed. My earnest request to the publishers, please stop spreading violence, everyone has the right to live & every life is precious

FLABBERGASTED!!!

2010-02-15T06:54:00.001-08:00

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U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to reconcile with the Taliban in Afghanistan ought to win him a second Nobel, although during the entire period between 1901 and 2009, a Peace Prize was never awarded twice to any of its 97 individual recipients. An exception of course can be made.

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This is what one of the Article (China challenges Obama’s Taliban plan) in THE HINDU started reading like and went on to explain the new Strategy of the Obama Administration and “the” NATO forces in central Asia. I was absolutely startled and stunned, while my mind went blank with this new revelation by the Super power.

RECONCILIATION WITH TALIBAN??? Did I read it correctly? and I indeed read it correctly. This is ridiculous but logical to people in the west although while doing so they mock and satire the lives of those young nationals (including American) who laid their lives for the incessant American madness in Afghanistan over the years.

It will be a “Bizarre” if Obama goes forward with propounding the reconciliation plan. On what grounds can Obama support the move when they were justifying their military act against Taliban for the last several years? On the contrary this will overtly project to the entire world how U.S plays its card for their most selfish ways. On the furtherance, this reconciliation plan can be primarily attributed to America’s vested interest to contain China of its increasing influence in Central Asia and to thwart their aims of satisfying their energy needs from central Asia. Truly as the article explains India, Russia, and Pakistan are all jesters. The lesson India needs to understand is that today America have to contain China, and once that’s fulfilled then they will turn towards India. In short, at all times the rule is same U.S wants to remain as the Super Power, they just can’t accept any other Dominating Force. They will play the Pakistan card against India, India Card against China and like wise. The Big question is: Why does not our so called ‘Shrewd’ Politicians fail to understand this underlying fact???.

A Special Salute to M.K Bhadrakumar for coming up with such a wonderfully researched and highly sensible Article which projects the so called complicated scenario in “Central Asia” as simple as 6th standard physics so that even our Politicians can understand.

Aquatech Exhibition, truly technical ( part 1)

2010-02-12T04:31:00.000-08:00

I was rejoiced when my Head of the Department asked me whether I was interested in attending a technical exhibition which was going on in Pragati Maidaan.What instantly flashed in my mind was the golden opportunity to enjoy outside while still on official duty(hardly happens in Reliance) and I did not have a second thought on it, retorted with a BIG yes. Soon it was decided that I would accompany my senior manager to the exhibition. Now I was more delighted as Manish Gupta, one of senior manger (I have 4 in my department) is the most sensible of the lot was the one who I had to accompany.

Even though Pragati Maidaan(Delhi) was a bit far from my office (at Noida ),the Metro services connected directly the places. We took off from our office in Manish Sir’s Bike to the metro station nearby, which was Noida City Centre Station. As Manish Sir parked his vehicle at the DMRC authorized Parking space (as informed by him) , I took a very critical study of the place and staff involved in the process. To my surprise they did not have any uniform or badge or any thing of that sort to justify that they were DMRC authenticated people. To my shock, I found no Security guards, which I thought was essential and most needed in places like Noida where people steal your valuable in the blink of your eye. So I asked the guy how you can justify a person that you guys are Authentic DMRC people. He put his hands around my shoulder and turned me around to show me a highly rusted DMRC board. And with great difficulty I read the DMRC on it. By the time Manish Sir had find the parking space for his bike and had got the parking ticket as well. When I told this to Manish sir he told me that the rusted board itself is a great satisfaction, and you should be happy about that. Well it implied a lot and a common phenomenon in the city(or may be in the country), one which everyone knew and I had no intention of polluting my maiden official trip with these incessant infested discussions.

Metro has really made the trip to Delhi for the people of Noida very simple and pleasurable.We got ourself ticket for Pragati Maidaan and boarded the Metro train which started from city center(Metro from Noida starts from City Centre).After 3-4 stops the metro became Damn Crowded, well to be very frank I get suffocated with crowds places .Interestingly, Manish Sir did not mind the Crowd(in the metro) as he said you get to see a lot of good girls. Well,it has become commonplace to see people with same mentality and I nodded my head(I don't know in agreement or disagreement) as he looked at me for my views on the same.At the same time, i noticed that there were quite a number of good looking girls on the train. Suddenly, I saw a girl reading a book even though she was finding it hard to stand on two legs.I wondered why she was taking so much pains to read in the most uncomfortable situation, she can always find a better place once she gets off the train. But as I saw the cover page of thebook and I could understand her curiosity. She was reading the famous book “SHANTARAM”. Awesome book to say the least. A very good read and it keeps even a novice reader on his toes to know what happens next and I seriously cannot blame her for reading Shataram in the most irritating crowded Delhi metro. Soon we reached Pragati Maidaan, Metro has made travel so Simple and fast.

Now, we had to find Gate no 7 said Manish Sir.I told him I knew where it is as it was the same entrance through which I had made an entry for the AUTOEXPO-2010, which happened here recently. I took the lead as we walked through the well maintained pavement along the beautiful Delhi streets. As we walked, I told Manish Sir how much I loved Delhi, It is second most desired place for me(obviously the first one is my hometown Cochin) and for him it was Lucknow as he was from there. Then he told me that people in Delhi are not that trustworthy and he continued to tell me that he had good experience in Bombay(Sorry Bal Thackeray)..Mumbai and in Gujarat (he had worked in Jamnagar RIL) as compared to Delhi.I really did not agree with him. The feeling one gets while being in Delhi, cannot be experienced being anywhere for not just one reason but many.Firstly,it is the capital City with all those constitutionally acknowledged Building, it truly brings pride when you see them. As I went on to explain more we reached Gate no 7.

As soon as we moved further towards the gate we could see a big hoardings and it read Delhi book Fair 2010.BINGO!!.I was very happy seeing that because I very well knew that the technical exhibition which we are going for will be definitely boring and tiring and book fair will be a good refreshment .My face lighted up seeing the hoarding and turned back to find Manish Sir a bit surprised and worried. Obviously, we had come here for the Aquatech Exhibition and we could’nt find anything of Aquatech. We started to look around for some stall of Aquatech and Manish Sir was quick enough to spot the registration counter .We were more than happy that we could atleast find one guy sitting in the stall. Well, his sad face told me that he was irritated sitting there and Manish Sir did the formalities to get our self the entry pass. We entered the place and was very crowded again. I had no second thought on the fact that these people might have come here for the book fair which happened in more than one hall than to see technical exhibition was been staged in only one hall.

After a long disgusting time walking all around , in the quest of finding the hall, we finally succeeded and guess what? some more formalities of registration. Reliance name helped a lot as things happened fast for us. We entered the hall, I could see a lot of small stalls put together into one place. But it was not cramped up rather was very tidy and well maintained .There were many things on the Display from Common domestic Water purifiers to Complex Water Treatment technologies for industrial application (something which we are interested in).There were also components displayed, Butterfly valves and all kind of small and big motors and other stuffs were also found . I was surprised to see a submergible vertical motor. We visited GE, Philips, ION Exchange and other some major player's stalls. Well impressive they were but unfortunately we could not study the Control and Instrumentation part of any as they hardly had any specialist in the stall. I was also surprised to see Wipro’s stall there as I never knew they were into water Treatment...Most of the stall were of Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. Very true Chinese badly wants to capture the Indian market with their improved technology and less costly products. We went around and had a good look at all the stalls put up ,only to find that nothing much of our relevance was there. Eventually, it turned highly unpleasing,then a bit irritating and once it became intolerable we decided to quit and have a look at the Book Exhibition as Expected.

...to be Continued.

Dementia of an ordinary Employee

2010-02-12T00:26:00.000-08:00

I don’t know where I have landed my self on. Anil Ambani Calls it Reliance Infrastructure Limited and I call it a DRAB place, a epitome of shit hole. They call themselves EPC(Engineering ,procurement and Construction), I fail to understand what real Engineering they do unless I was taught wrong engineering in my College, BIT Mesra. It’s just a spoof of Real Engineering Company where the actors try and strive to enact role of Hard working Engineers like Tushar Kapoor trying to act in his old(well producers are not that daring nowadays ) flop movies. In reality, they do Donkey's Work. Sometimes I feel IT Slavery was better than this but thank god “sometimes” is just sometimes.

Initially the work was unpleasing, then a bit irritating and now it’s intolerable. There is always a tolerance level associated with every individual and when it is crossed some turn to rational way of satisfying themselves by abusing the system or by believing more in fate, a concept propounded by losers. Well others believe that there is plethora of other options at your hand. It’s just that you need to understand and believe that things can be made better.

As they say “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”, but guess what might be running through the mind of a person who planned well to end up in Reliance Shithole. Did he fail to plan or plan to fail??.It’s harder when you delve into the concept of planning whose premise rest on smart realistic foresights, which by jinx is a commodity of few. Where did I go wrong?? Did I fail to see the widespread discontent vibes of people working for Reliance or did I take a big risk (thinking that taking risk is real Life), whatever may the reason the reality is that I’m in a Big Mess. Tellingly, one thing that Reliance has taught me is that Money is not everything in Life; there is definitely something more, that brings you real happiness and wealth. Interestingly, if you ask me what it is , I’m sorry I’m yet to figure that out.

I know if Anil Ambani happens to read this he won’t talk to me henceforth, well its fine with me as anyways he does not talk to me.

Who is your competitor?

2010-02-12T00:08:00.000-08:00

A very good read.This was forwarded by my Friend Varun,this definitely made me ponder for a while on some of the 'not so thinkable' possibilities in the Business front.The credit of the article should be given to IIM B from where these views originated.So I reproduce it to preserve and share such thought provoking immaculate writing.Enjoy.

Who is your competitor? Management Views from IIM Bangalore

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast ...or.... be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

When Scandal Hits Celebs

2010-02-02T06:33:00.000-08:00

When Scandal hits Celebrities it keeps the entire world on their toes to know the truth behind it. It’s interesting to know how the scandal wrecked the good image of some well known illustrious person. For some celeb it’s just another day at the office but for some it’s the most embarrassing part of their life. Some take advantage of it at the expense of other’s life and social image while some prefer to be the other way.

In recent times its been all Marital Infidelities that ruled the news arena. Firstly, it was the great Tiger Woods Scandal and then same storm has hit the England National team captain and the top paid EPL player John Terry. Interestingly, scandal hit them at the time when both were at their personal best, but there is world of difference between their personalities.

Tiger wood was considered to the Perfect Husband any women could desire, Perfect father any kid would want and in all a Perfect Man as projected by the news world. He was so often photographed with his wife and children and was the epitome of what many call the “happy family”. This was the status-quo for many years until one day he was stuck by the most unexpected case of infidelity. The news spread like a wild fire. There are also reports that it just infiltrated into the minds of people of all ages and was the most talked subject on the social networking sites resulting in jammed servers.

The fact is that the Perfect Man image of Tiger Woods was annihilated. This Infamous Magnum opus of the illustrious and industrious legendary golfer was introduced into the public by the media with much hoopla.

Initially, the centre of the furore was one lady and later many mushroomed claiming for publicity and fame and rewards. The news media threw cash on them to encash the opportunity for increasing the reader base of the journal.

The outcome was the defamed Tiger wood,who lost his sponsors, his wife, his family, his kids and his golfing career. He has taken a undeclared time break from his golfing life and has disappeared into realm of depression and loneliness. Was he deserved to be treated this was by the Media whereby posing a big question mark on the Freedom of Press.This question needs to be answered if not now but definitely in the future.

Well John Terry too was hit by the same storm. Unlike Tiger Wood, John Terry did not have Perfect Man image. He was often characterized by the media as a Bad boy. He was questioned many times by the press on Infidelities. He was also involved in brawls in Pubs and also other socially criticized abusive behaviour. Fortunately for him, his fame as a successful football player overshadowed his immoral side. He became the captain of England National side soon after Beckham relinquished the role. In 2004, he became the Chelsea Captain and is the top paid Player of EPL. And now again, he under the radar of marital infidelities, he struggles to keep his private life away from his professional football career. In the recent EPL match he was booed by his fans but again he proved himself by heading the winning goal. While the Chelsea coach says he is not interested to know what happens in Terry's private life and pledged to support him as he believes Terry is a true Professional.

Meanwhile, some news channel has offered an undisclosed amount of money to the lady under the spotlight of this scandal. They want her speak in public about their illegal affair and further lurid details of their relationship.

What adds fuel to the fire is that the lady around whom the allegation is revolving is the ex-girlfriend of a Manchester City team player who might make it to the England national team. In such a situation, England coach, the Italian who is widely known for his disciplinarian character would strip off Terry of his Captaincy if he believes Terry’s private life could disturb the harmony and unity of the team. Either ways, John Terry as I Know is a very Professional and a true stalwart of the game football he will overcome these dark patches of his life to be a force to reckon with for both Chelsea and team England in the coming World Cup.

Isn’t it Interesting different people when struck by same events respond in absolutely different manner. For some its just another event and they tackle it the most efficient manner whilst for other it ruins their life completely because they let others control and hurt them,in either case being celebs they attract unprecedented attention of the world.

ManU versus Arsenal

2010-02-01T06:29:00.000-08:00

ManU versus Arsenal that took place on 31^st Jan 2010, which was suppose to be the one of the biggest match of the season turned most depressing at least for the Arsenal fans(Ideally I would have preferred a draw). It clearly showed the staggering difference between the two teams ability to Score goals, defend and make play in the midfield.

Undoubtedly before the game , Manchester United was apprehensive about the outcome of the game in the absence of Vidic and Ferdinand. Their fears subsided when they dominated the game in all departments and left arsenal confused (as usual). Even though Arsenal got many chances they missed in the most deplorable manner, thanks to Arshavin, Fabregas and Song. Whereas ManU gained strength as game progressed and with the unexpected brilliance of the Duo Nani and Rooney together they made it spectacular day for the ManU fans.

Well, ManU recent form with Rooney scoring crucial goals and Nani's unprecedented form sends depressing waves to Chelsea, the current league leaders. If the current performance of the both the teams continue then we are on for a treat on April 3 Old Trafford, where Chelsea take on the Ded evils...ooh sorry Red Devils. From a neutral man’s viewpoint, I hope the best team on that day to win but being a Chelsea aficionado for years now and can’t definitely see Chelsea beaten by ManU. It just brings back those memories of champion league final when John terry missed the crucial goal scoring chance in the penalty shootout and undeserved won the champion’s league. Since then when ever Chelsea plays against ManU I badly want Chelsea to trounce and crush them, I hope it will happen this April at Old Trafford.

Intriguing International Relationships

2010-02-01T06:12:00.001-08:00

To maintain a good relationship with your neighbours is of paramount importance for the mutual existence of all in any region. If a country tries to attain absolute security, it indirectly leads to the increased insecurity of the neighbouring countries. Therefore, undoubtedly having a good international policy is of high value in the world arena.

As far as India is concerned, it has always been around the tough neighbors may it be Pakistan, Bangladesh or China. Ever since Indian mainland was divided into India and Pakistan, India has experienced unabated military treat from Pakistan. Pakistan claim of Muslim majority Kashmir can be one of the reasons for their vying attempts to acquire that part of India. Amid this commotion China infiltrated whenever possible to grab all they can along the boundary. They still claim a large part of land on the boundary area of eastern J&K, Arunachal Pradesh and recently highly irrational claim of Arunachal Pradesh itself. Well to be very frank it is the most unwarranted and gibberish claim I ever heard in my lifetime.

In Recent times things have not changed much. China becomes more adamant on their claims. Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh attracted extra attention and serious point of contention. One good outcome was that PM, Manmohan Singh came out all guns blazing to clearly convey to China that the so called claimed land is the Integral Part of India and China Objection to Dalai Lama’s Visit was confronted with strong rational and truly diplomatic Statements.

Meanwhile, Pakistan was trying to conspire with the Taliban to get back what they believe was their land, Kashmir. Unfortunate to say, they were stung by terrorism with America talking the lead to wipe out what they believe is their right since 9/11 attack.. America made it clear to Pakistan that the real treat to Pakistan is not India but the Taliban inside. The fact is that, Pakistan will never agree to that truth but now things have changed a lot. Taliban now has turned against the state Pakistan which along with US is on a mission to eradicate Taliban and all other institutions of terrorism. Needless to say, Pakistan is in a big mess only time can say what it will get crafted into.

Military support given to Pakistan by US as a part of fight against terrorism is of high importance to India as the intelligence report suggests that these aids are more frequently used against India rather than Terrorist groups. US intention to wipe out terrorism from Pakistan and provide absolute security to Pakistan is of grave concern to India as more secure Pakistan with latest weapons in their inventory is utmost danger to India. History speaks volumes on this phenomenon that whenever Pakistan gets a Chance to Poke India it has never refrained from doing so. This means that India should beef up its arsenals to combat this psychology barrier.

Interestingly, China is also encapsulated by the same phenomenon. The recent stand of US to sell military weapons of latest types to Taiwan has created a row of argumentative confabulation between America and China. China contends that the increased military power of Taiwan is of utmost danger to China and has cautioned US of further weakening of relationship with it if US go further on with the sale.

Epitomizing, for harmony and peace to exist in a region, its not absolute or increased security of a every country that will contribute to the cause but a rational consensus among the countries of concern is the only solution.

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara V/s Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

2010-01-30T22:36:00.000-08:00

The new version of the almost national anthem of INDIA Mile sur Mera Tumhara ,Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara was not that promising. The original version spearheaded a unified force India projecting national integrity through its diversity. The old composition was impeccable. Unfortunately, the new version failed to touch the hearts of many Indians. It lacked the spirit of India. Ever since it’s been released, video has been on the radar of denunciatory criticism of the whole nation. The inclusion of the large number of Bollywood and other regional actors questioned the maker of the contribution of these people to the actual India. Well I’m not over looking the effort of the makers to show the young and growing India. Definitely with time things should change and should be incorporated but at the same time it should reflect the reality. Cricket is a religion in India Sachin’s Century is celebrated countrywide and it cuts through class, religion and caste. Where is Sachin in the video??.Dr Abdul Kalam,our former president may be the most influential president of all times, a true warrior of science and knowledge. His Contribution to India is unquestionable and most appreciated. Likewise there are many people who should have been in the video and deserved to be a part of this legendary composition.

Or may be the video actually reflects the true Indians of the contemporary world . We value more of Bollywood than real people (Dr Abdul Kalam).We glue to the TV to watch half naked Deepika Padukone to a talk of Dr.Abdul Kalam or Ratan Tata. May be its true we are cruising towards the western way of living where rationality takes a back seat.

The iWorld.

2010-01-30T22:34:00.000-08:00

Can you recall the giant eye in the movie Lord of the Rings, ‘the’ eye that is invariably monitoring everyone. One cannot hide himself from the eye . The Apple Inc is something similar. One cannot simply take your eye of their product, one cannot hide his desire to own one. Like the eye in the movie, it is in the continuous quest for those crucial desirous vibes from the people and comes up with the technological solution that suits their requirement and brings utmost content with great simplicity. Seriously, simplicity is the other word for Apple.

Just like “one ring: in LOTR was forged to rule the world, Apple created the “ i” to rule all. Interestingly when “ i “ is there as the prefix it just dominates everything like the iPHONE ,iPOD and now the iPAD.Well if the eye in LOTR represents something unpleasant ,“ i” of Apple is truly god like and immaculate. Its all been revolutionary and with simplicity as its premise. Truly commanding respect it continues on the voyage of bringing smiles on million faces who appreciates simplicity in this virtual digital world.

WHAT IF’s

2010-01-30T21:56:00.000-08:00

I’m always in the quest to know the other side of every experience and the weirdest possibilities of events that could have happened. Like what if Mallika Sherawat was Manmohan Singh’s daughter who was one of the victim of Australian Assault on Indians ?? What if nuclear bomb was dropped in America ,when James Cameroon as American President?? What, when, where, how all interest me like the last ball of a cricket match where India require one run to win and with Ishant Sharma batting.So I decided to jot down some “What if” question which I thought would interest some people who like to ponder on random things (Some are weird ...kindly forgive me if I mortified, petrified and stupefied you...) so here we go….

1. What if Germany had won the 2^nd world war??

2. What if Adolf Hitler was a American president and Bush as “Saddam Hussain" of Iraq??

3. What if Mahatma Gandhi was killed in the initial Independence Movement march

itself ??And Bhagat Singh, Subash Chandra Bose had never got hanged or killed??

4. What if India was not divided and Muslims were in Majority in India with M.Ali Jinnah our Father of Nation??

5. What if Sachin Tendulkarr was a world class football player playing for ManchesterUnited??

6. What if you could control Obama’s Dream?? Or Osama’s dream??Or anybody’s dream??

7. What if Internet crashed tomorrow?? Or What if tomorrow onwards Google charges every user for their services??

8. What if you were born as a male and slowly changes into a female as you Grow old??

Or the other way around??

9. What if Malayalam was our national language and Manglish the most Spoken international language??

10. What if earth stop’s rotating?? Or new earth is explored in our solar System?

11. What if one could change their body as they change their clothes??

12. What if we could breathe Co2?? Or What if automobiles could run on water??

13. What if I Ruppees is equal to 100 dollar??i.e. 1 paise =1 Dollar

14. What if Karl Marx and LK Advani were contemporaries and great Friends??

15. What if Einstein was “Steven Spielberg of Bollywood” with Rajnikanth playing

the protagonist in all his movies??

16. What if girls loathed the colour “pink” and were dominant in society?

And "Sati" was associated with self-sacrifice of Husband??

17. What if Bal Thackeray was born in U.P as Mayawati’s son??

18. What if actually Rakhi Sawant fasted for not being involved in the

Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara video??

19. What if Lalu Prasad Yadav was UN secretary General and was allowed to

deliver his discourse in Hindi??

20. What if I was not writing this??

Well…u got me. This part of my life is called “Absolute Joblessness”…or frustrated and irritated with useless monotonous work.

On the quest of conquering Moon, Women, Democracy and......malnutrition?????

2009-09-01T04:41:00.000-07:00

Chandrayaan-1

Getting started is a big thing and in this regard Chandrayaan-1 has done its job. But we should not be complacent, should understand the problems faced by the craft and try to find out the best possible solution to it. The technical problems faced by the control system, power supply and sensor failures, and other challenges of radiation and temperature require critical analysis. This reiterates the fact that we definitely need huge capital and potential human resource investment in the research and development field to provide us with the superior technologies that help us conquer new heights. And this is the real challenge for the policy makers to strike a balance between problems of present and challenges of future.

Woman Reservation bill

Its really a welcome move. Gender inequity has been a major hindrance on our path to overall development. With this move of the government, women who constitute almost 50% of population will be more encouraged to participate in the state mechanism of growth. One very good thing about involving more women is that it will pave way for their empowerment and at the same time reduce the amount of corruption in the system (which is a serious concern of Administrative system of India). At the same time the state should encourage more women below poverty level to participate so that the benefits reach the needful. We should also be careful that this 50% reservation is not misused, there are been instances were seats are occupied by women of higher class and caste who are controlled by their husband and thus again depriving the deserved. If this condition can be tided over then this reservation bill is for a prime cause of women empowerment and definitely the road to inclusive growth. With this ideology of good governance and people participation UPA government is doing a good job and no political party who supports India’s development can go against this bill.

Victory of democracy

The biggest achievement of India after 62 years of independence is the survival of Democracy and the latest evidence of this is statement made by the CJI to disclose the assets of all the judges including the CJI. This has definitely reiterated the fact that the power vest in the hands of people and no dictatorship in any form is possible. This incident has another hidden dimension also, this particular declaration is not an effect of any legislation by the parliament but it is promulgated by the Judiciary itself through its internal mechanism. This has certainly sent a strong message that Judiciary is Independent and will always act for the welfare and for protecting the interest of people. Its changing face of being more transparent and accountable should be appreciated in its true sense. I am pretty much sure that the statement of the apex court will become a benchmark for the lower courts to follow. And if this encourages our Administrative system to act along the same line then nothing like that. Epitomizing, the changing face of Judiciary is true example of victory of democracy and will of people, which is the soul of our constitution.

The Unsaid story

Everybody knows about Chandrayaan-1, Women reservation bill and the latest statements by the CJI and Swine Flu, and the real problem of India is yet again over-shadowed.

Seriously it is a shame for India that 50% of children under the age of five are malnourished and accounts for the nearly 40% of world’s malnourished children. This a real treat to India’s dream of being a developed country, after all, these children are the future citizens who have to take India to the new heights. It’s very much true that we are inured to statistics and neglect the real problem. If the same seriousness of Swine flu and chandrayaan is shown towards solving the issue of malnutrition, then we can claim that we are on the path of development. It’s the wake up call and real challenge for the policy makers to identify the right chords to strike, to make the perfect sound of social harmony, growth and development. Its time to decide how we tackle this national treat to stir our way to establish ourselves as the fourth dimension;U.S.A,Russia,China and India.

JUDICIARY AND DADAGIRI.

2009-08-31T03:28:00.000-07:00

Changing face of Judiciary

The recent declaration by the K G Balakrishnan, chief justice of India on the disclosure of the assets of the judges of the Supreme Court is a welcome move towards accountability and transparency of Judiciary. Judiciary was always conceived unreachable for common people when it comes to issues of this kind. The information of assets and other similar matters were even immune to RTI , but with this proclamation of disclosing the assets of all the judges including CJI, judiciary has set a example which would be appreciated with high moral accolades. If this would encourage our administrators to think along the same line then nothing like that. Summarizing, Judiciary has contended that it’s a institution which complies to accountability and transparency to reflect the example of good governance.

DADRI: Dadagiri or Gandhigiri

What do you call the Dadri story ;DADAGIRI or GANDHIGIRI. The plight of the farmers whose lands were taken away on the name of power plant project which is a part of development plans of the government draws the picture of inability of the government to understand the vibrancy of heart and frequency of the minds of these neglected people of the society. Government had planned to build a gas based power plant in Dadri as a part of their power revolution projects. Reliance power (RPL)has won the project and compensation price for land was finalized at deplorable figure just 135 rupees per sq m whereas the land price in Greater Noida phase 2 is 15000/- per sq m. Simultaneously ,the land is very fertile because its between Ganga and Yamuna and farmers feel nothing can replace this asset of theirs. They have started a strike against the authorities to get back their land which they claim was forcefully taken away from them and many are ready to lay down their lives against this illegal acquisition. When RPL explains this as a cheap tactics of its competitors, the real question remains: Was this the development of farmers and peasants Gandhiji referring to??

Jaswant singh,shashi Tharoor....and Reeda Shaikh.

2009-08-25T04:16:00.000-07:00

Clean bowled: Jaswant singh
Jinnah-India,partition,Independence what a book, well I have not read it but the feathers it ruffled with its entry into oval ground of controversial books was very evident with its impact on the Indian politics. The incidents if compiled scrupulously can be edited into the second part of the same book with a the title Jaswant-India,partition,Independence. Well his partition from BJP,which is a sinking ship is definitely a sigh of freedom. But banning of his books is highly condemnable, this act by the C.M of Gujarat is direct transgression of the freedom of expression conferred upon the people by the constitution of India.The C.M,who once abbreviated C.M as “COMMOM MAN’, does not understand the meaning of fundamental rights given to the COMMON man, It’s really unpleasing.

Ente Pere Shashi,Shashi Tharoor
Well Shashi Tharoor has become a household name in urban India and very soon his efforts of good governance through a congress ticket would definitely fetch him the same phrase in rural India. A well read and travelled man, certainly knows what he speaks and more importantly a wise man who is a part of solution than a problem. Well his foray into Indian politics, which is considered the battle ground of crooks and cowards, has reiterated the need for people of real caliber to streamline India to the actual path of social and economic development. One good thing that congress as done in the last election, is definitely the introduction of Shashi Tharoor to the political arena. It time to prove how the legendry Shashi Tharoor unfolds his visions and imagination for the betterment of his own land; India.

Reeda Shaikh????.......

Well Shahsi Tharoor ,Jaswant singh’s are common heard names, but the real India and the real problems are always the forgotten. Reeda sheikh is a 14- old girl, first to succumb to the most brutal endemic disease, SWINE FLU. As on 24 th august 74 have died due to this Influenza. The big question is that has the union government done enough to control the spread of this disease.Gulam Nabi Azad,our Health Minister asserts that he has things under control. In a land of 100 crore people,to control a epidemic disease is a real challenge for any minister and the people has to cooperate and more importantly,should not panic as Swine flu is curable disease, one should be alert and wise get it diagnosed at the earliest. The delay in diagnosing can pay way to more Reeda Shaikhs .So lets not push the panic button rather lets spread the awareness of the symptoms of Flu and the belief that it is curable among the masses to regain the harmony of the society.

S.M KRISHNA :YO MAN!! E.U.M.A

2009-08-07T02:30:00.000-07:00

The most important agreement signed during the visit of US secretary of states ,Hillary Clinton was the End use Monitoring Agreement (EUMA).It empowers United states officer from Pentagon ,to perform timely inspection of the weapons ,devices and technology imported from US ,to check if the end use of these comply with the purpose for which it is imported.

S.M Krishna, the external affairs minister of India explains signing of EUMA as victory for India ,as two years of back breaking negotiation with US has earned dividends. US has agreed to the India’s clause, that the inspection would be done at the place and time, mutually agreed by the two nation and not at the discretion of US. Even though our external minister is confident that this clause would safeguard India’s security concerns, the Army, Navy and Air force chiefs have shown utmost concern over this issue. This has become a heated issue in the parliament after Mr. Manmohan Singh’s statements supporting the agreement raised a few eye brows and invited ferocious counter arguments. Fellow parliamentarians showed concern, anger and great need for rational rethinking on the issue.

The concerns are many and danger to India’s security may be lurking on every bend of the agreement. The primary concern being the US officer can inspect each and every weapon, devices and even technology that is being imported from US. It is highly impractical and most often impossible to separate out technology or may be a device that has been imported and installed in already established indigenous systems, in India’s high security zones. Even if it is separated out for inspection , what is the guarantee that it will adhere back to the system again effectively. If such situation arises, then the only way out for the US officers to check the end use ,will be by accessing this high security Indian zones. This is a direct encroachment to India defense system and its internal secrets. Another aspect of this is the Indigenous softwares used in these established systems might be of superior technology, which might have been unknown to US, would come to their knowledge with this kind of end-use inspections.

Secondly, may be the more importantly ,no other country from whom India has been importing weapons ,had never asked for any end use agreement compliance .Russia being a long time friend of India and major source of weapons, device and technology that India is still using ,has never asked for any end use agreement. The sukhoi 30 MKI ,fighter jets purchased from Russia is one of the latest in technology and is superiority is been appreciated by even US. The latest introduction of INS Arihant, nuclear powered submarine by Indian navy, owes a lot to the support extended by Russia on the technological know-how and with design level expertise. It is not just Russia that we import weapons, other European countries like France are also a part of the pool of nations from were we import and they never asked for any EUMA agreement. By signing this EUMA of US, have we send a wrong message to our existing friends?. Tomorrow if EUMA is adopted by Russian and later by other nations, then logically India would be forced to comply to maintain the relationship. If this happens then, signing of EUMA of US would be the strategic flaw in Indian history.

The antithesis to this would be the philosophy of strengthening ties with US .India understands the need for having a strategic relationship with US and this agreement would definitely help in cementing the bonds. America see India as a strategic point through which it can control Asia and India foresees a rapid development with this relationship. The worsening of relationship with Russia over the Admiral Gorshkov deal gives relationship with America, a new dimension. Now a million dollar question arises, Is India compromising its principles of Non-Alignment for its interest of rapid devleopment and eventually forgetting its old friends as it strives to become the fourth dimension; US, Russia, china and India?

Its obvious EUMA has paved way to rethink our international polices,
India should not be a cause of another polarization of the world. The leaders of the country should handle this in such a manner that ,its exclusive to India and at the same time there is a dire requirement of reconsideration on EUMA. It has its share of advantages and disadvantages, it will be beneficial only if India can tide over its pernicious clauses which are sobering concern for our security and sovereignty. Definitely the future lies in the hands of the intellectuals of this country ,whom we elected , to produce the best for the country. Shashi Tharoor has written in one of his books The great Indian elephant has awaken from his deep slumber of over 50 years and its slowly changing into a tiger, with heart and size of an elephant but still young and proactive in first decade of the 21st century, its time to say whether the stripes on the elephant grows to permanency or whether it will fade away, forever.

do you think drugs should be legalized.??..think again...

2009-07-11T03:56:00.000-07:00

I was jolted out of my morning blues with one half being in the dream where my friend is still debating on the point that “Narcotic drug should be legalized in India” and my other half highly disheartened of the fact that its 8:20 on the clock. As I got on with my morning ablutions, the thoughts of last night talks haunted me and I was deeply moved by some of views of my friend.

According to him narcotic drugs should be legalized because

1.Right now the budget allotted for the rehabilitation of the drug addicts is very negligible or in other sense they are neglected. so if you legalize it then, the revenue obtained would be more and can be used for rehabilitation processes in a better way and can be used for generating awareness among masses about its harmful effects.
2.The crime level comes down drastically.
3.The money spend on the proceedings of court cases related to narcotic drugs sale and distribution can be avoided by which you are saving the revenue of the state.

Keeping in mind the problems faced by the contemporary India and of being a student of sociology it was not that easy for me to digest it .So as the first step of its analysis I started searching for its dictionary meaning of narcotic because my friend said there are many narcotic drugs which are not that addictive and cause problems, and dictionary says:

narcotic /nar·cot·ic/ (nahr-kot´ic)
1. pertaining to or producing narcosis.
2. an agent that produces insensibility or stupor, especially an opioid.Harmful and highly addictive if used repeatedly.

And if you analyze the entire range of narcotic drugs you would find that majority are addictive in nature and cause mental instability. Now one might claim that it can be used as an pain killer and for other therapeutic use .But by making it legalized and letting the common people use freely wont lead to its appropriate use especially in a country like India where bribery, adulteration ,trafficking and vested interest are the mindset of the people will lead to its absolute misuse.

Secondly, looking into the crimes associated with the narcotic drugs sale, distribution and the crimes committed by people who gets addicted by these drugs, one would find that in current scenario crimes of the former kind is higher than the latter kinds of crimes as claimed by my friend. So my friend says if you legalize it then crimes of the first kind will disappear and the crime as a whole would eventually come down. Now to think that way is a different level of irrationality because to decrease crime which is nothing but violation of law you change the definition of law it self, by which it is no longer a crime and hence claiming that the crime rate is reduced is highly illogical.
But does the immorality associated with this act get washed away??.NO,before immorality was associated with people who were selling it and once it is legalized it is the state ,the immorality factor has just shifted from some people to the state.

Thirdly, let’s assume that we have made narcotic drugs legalized. In such a situation every “paan” shop and every petty shop which are selling cigarettes and “gutkas” would now starts selling narcotic drugs in various forms. And majority of people who consumes gutka’s and cigarettes would switch to drug variant of these. People who take breaks between their work to “fag”of the pressure will start to “dope” of the pressure .And then different varieties of “indigenous drugs “will also come into the market and spurious forms of these will lead to different social tragedies. The biggest example is the fact that alcohol which is legalized in India is causing a lot of major social problems. The mirror image of these problem is the recent hooch tragedy. One can’t even visualize its social implications. Death toll reached 112,think of those family who lost their beloved ones, who were the only earning member of the family ,think of the mother’s who lost their sons and those sister’s who lost their loving brother. I know its hard to think unless it happens to one,right. Its implication in society does not stop there. This has resulted in a political clash between the major parties of the place . The “bandh” organized has affected schools, colleges, shops and all the major institutions of the state, the harmony of the state is disturbed.112 dead many more in the critical situation .If alcohol was not legalized then tragedies of these kinds won’t have happened in such a larger sphere.

The above example just implies that things of narcotic nature will cause mental instability in the society and in case of drugs its going to be more severe because if majority get addicted then the very existence of society looks bleak and hazy. If people itself is not there to listen to, whom will you give awareness with the revenue obtained as a part of legalizing drugs. And about the crimes its highly illogical to change the laws to abate its violation ,to reduce crime. And we should not forget that when one crime stops, another would appear for eg:if drug is legalized then drug trafficking(which now is severely punishable by law and is controlled to a large extend) would emerge has one of the major crime and controlling that would be impossible because only if victims are in their senses they can refuse and retaliate or help find the criminals . So eventually in india crime would rise . On the other hand it might be true that there must be places were drugs would have made legalized and things would have become better ,that’s because of the reasons that the administration over there would have been very effective in regulating it, at the same time majority of the people over there would be well aware of the harmful effect of narcotic drugs. And very interestingly you would not find the strong family values in those places. In short legalizing narcotic drugs in India in current scenario would eventually lead to serious crimes , physically and mentally would weaken the majority of young people who is the backbone of developing India and eventually ,causing a instability in society which would hamper the traditional values and pluralism which is the Soul of India.

The "REAL" reserved plz stand up...plz stand up.

2009-07-09T03:27:00.000-07:00

Reservation is the most talked, debated and fiercely contentious subject of the contemporary India. To critically analyze it you need to take a Hegelian approach. By 2001 census there are 16.6% SC population, 8.4% ST population, by B.P Mandal commission report there are 52% OBC population which i feels is irrational. A survey done in 2004 reveals that OBC population is between 40-44% So lets take OBC population has 40%(since 2001 census never counted the OBC population).So in short 25% SC/ST ,40% OBC and 35% general population are there in India.

For 25% of SC/ST population seats reserved is 15+7.5=22.5%
For the 40% OBC population the seats reserved =27%
For the 35% general population the seats reserved =50.5%

To understand who is the “REAL” reserved is 6th standard mathematics. And the irony of the situation is that more and more caste wants to get this OBC status and think that they would be protected under the so called reservation of the 27%, don’t you think these people just forget or fail to understand basic mathematics of percentages. But at the same time we should take into consideration of the fact that how much % of the population of backward classes are actually using the reservation provided. The people in the general category are socially and economically forward so the % of people competing is definitely more as compared to the other category. This high competition scenario has created another genre called “MERIT MONGER”. This is were we need to understand the basis of reservation in India. I wont be surprised if the illiterates believe that it is caste based. But the reality is that even the literate’s believe the same and I call this genre of people the “ILLITERATE LITERATES”.

The reality is that the reservation system in India was introduced to provide education and to promote socially and financially those people who could not get the equal start in life. When the State identified these people, majority of these people were more or less the people belonging to the lower caste and tribe. So the state made separate list for both of these communities. But unfortunately with time this became a myth that reservation is caste based. The so called merit mongers believe that this caste based reservation has to be stopped and it should be based on the financial status of one. It is a very logical claim, but the big question is that when you believe that caste based reservation has to be stopped, don’t you believe the existence of inequality in a caste based society??The real fact is that the biggest inequality is the caste itself. And it is common sense that to remove caste based reservation what has to be removed is the Caste system itself.
If we can abolish caste system, the reservation based on caste system would be eventually be abolished. Which might sound impossible to many I suppose? When these merit mongers cry their heart out for a change, I fail to understand their incapability to understand this root cause. Or is it because the caste gives them the societal highness that they don’t want to give up this so called indestructible gift of birth by society.All these just projects out one thing when one enjoys reservation of lower caste in selection or recruitments or the reserved high caste status of upper caste in society which is very predominant in social function like marriages, will never criticize the system and only when one is deprived of reservation of any kind ,criticize the system..

The biggest example is right in front of us, but since many were a part of it no one really criticized it. So here we go .I think most of us know about the AIEEE examination, lets analyse the selection procedure to the premier institutes of the country other than IIT’s which is through this AIEEE examination. The basic philosophy of AIEEE procedure is “STATE WISE QUOTA” .50% seats are reserved to the students of that state in which the institute exists and rest 50% is distributed among the other states proportional to the population of respective states. In such a procedure a the last rank holder who can get admission in Electronics and Communication branch (taking in view the demand for ECE is maximum) can go beyond AIR 20,000+ (general category), where as if it was pure merit based it wont even cross AIR 8,000.Is this not inequality for the merit monger’s, Doesn’t the MERIT FACTOR get discriminated here? OR is it because the people who are affected by this is comparatively less in number than the people who are affected by the so called reservation to the backward classes. My friends we need to understand that reservation is everywhere, seats in public transport buses are reserved for ladies and physically challenged people, reserved seats on train is the biggest example of the fact that if reserved seats could be bought then criticizers are negligible, So it is up to us to take reservation in the true sense of its requirements to the need. The basic reason for the government to implement state based quota is to bring in equality of opportunity to everyone in its territory and for a balanced social development in the country.

PROBLEMS IF IT WAS PURE MERIT BASED.

The problems if it was pure merit based is that it would have accumulated people from some particular region/community to a particular field in the society which would cause instability in society and the very cause of the inclusion of the word SOCIALISM in the preamble will be lost.

But at the same time importance of merit should not be forgotten because it is the merit that is the essence of everything. There should be a balance between merit and social equality which was envisaged very well by the creator’s of the constitution of our country. So when one think about reservation he should take into consideration of both sociological and the economic aspect of the society to understand reservation better. Just because your friend who studied along with you got ahead because of reservation does not imply that the true essence of reservation for development of the downtrodden people is neglected. It is true that there are some people who actually don’t require this extended benefit of reservation also avails it but this number is very less and we shouldn’t forget the real ones who actually benefits from this. And definitely once the unique identification number system is implemented if in the right way, many more who really requires will get benefitted with reservation. I call upon the ILLITERATE LITERATES to which I myself belong, to have a macro view to identify the real meaning of the word reservation, to understand its implication on the society and keeping in mind that reservation is everywhere and we should understand the requirement of the need and it is equally true that we fail to appreciate it when we are benefitted and we criticize it when deprived. Only time can prove how people mould their thoughts to project it as an act of equality or inequality.

THE MAGIC BOOK

2009-07-06T03:14:00.000-07:00

This book is a set of rules which defines the power, functions, jurisdiction of the different organs of the government and provides authority on the basis of which the different organs performs its task for the welfare of the people. All the institutions of the government and most importantly the people of the state attain power from this “BOOK OF LAW”. The fundamental laws written in this book ensures protection of life and dignity of individual along with unity and integrity of the nation. It promises equality of status and opportunity. It propagates brotherhood, harmony and unity among its diversified communities. This book is a perfect example of obvious truism of humanity. The book which has lived the age of an average human being projects itself with sense and sensibility and when interpreted rationally surprises one and all. A book that advocated its primacy and supremacy and at the same time empowers all its uncommanded commanders with the right to rewrite the commands in the book retaining the dignity and integrity of all its commanders. The book names judiciary its guardian and awards it with the powers to interpret the book at the time of adversaries. It gives each one under it equal opportunity to be the most powerful person of its territory and at the same time gives provisions for stripping him of his powers if he refuse to perform his responsibilities. The book has prevailed the time of extreme political and social adversaries and the criticism of illiterate literates. But one must appreciate this living creation which is a amalgamation of thoughts and vision of great men like Shri Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. B.R Ambedkar whose thoughts were tuned to tears and vibrant heart beats of the downtrodden people. The existence of this book speaks for the vision and value of those people who envisaged a new order ,a change which people can believe in for the equality of one and all. This is truly a magic book which swings its wand all over its territory advocating peace and security, equality and prosperity and creates wizards to promote brotherhood and to protect its people. As a freeman who breathes fresh air and enjoys liberty on its territory ,salute this magic book “THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA” with great respect and for the fact that it arouses in me the feeling of patriotism ,civility and makes me realize the responsibilities I bear being a citizen of this country, INDIA to which this book owes its allegiance, JAI HIND.

"cast of caste"

2009-07-04T02:03:00.000-07:00

Human birth is manifested as gift of god but the irrational and indestructible cast of caste by the society is a dishonor to this creation of the supreme one. Nowadays caste is a eternal gift for one’s who are at the apex of the system and immutable curse for the one’s in the lower strata. In some society it is still the binding force which is helping the continuity of tradition and is a medium for the transfer of knowledge and skills which made one dextrous in their field .Unfortunately people have forgotten the importance of each caste and started advocating for the supremacy of their caste. Today’s world, caste is a form of discrimination .It is a gridlock where vertical movement is immobilsed .In the modern society caste is a major operative unit in social function especially in marriages. The spectre of casteism has engulfed our society and it is time to decide how the illiterates and more importantly the illiterate literates attain the literacy of equality of birth to shape the ethos of the future society.