Like most of you, I did spend a fair amount of time on 15th May watching election analysis/results on TV. I spent my time switching between CNN-IBN & News-X. Not long ago, i wasn't switching so much since i would simply stick to CNN-IBN. But the CNN anchors seem to have caught the strange "Barkha Virus". Every Anchor who has become a popular face has turned up his volume and at least doubled the decibel levels. A case in point being Rajdeep Sardesai. Another one is Sagrika Ghosh.
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Whats with being so loud? Loud voice & loud body language. Raising your hand in front of a participants face to cut him short is plain rude. I simply couldn't stand the pitch in their voices for more than 15mins! Does being loud and aggressive indicate your own authority on the subject? It was a ridiculous sight when Rajdeep Sardesai would talk in a shrill voice cutting the voice of the participants who were labelled "experts"! It looked like he himself needed an audience on the show to exhibit his own theories. Same goes for Sagarika Ghosh. Whats it with shouting? For gods sake (& the viewers) stick to being the facilitators of a discussion and let the true experts on the subject talk. Else if you are so fond of talking like a guru, let someone else host the show and sit on the other side of the table.
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Damn the Barkha Virus! There just seems to be no cure! So now i stick to News-X. Maybe they are good cause they are new and its been the very first election for them. But for now, its only News-X that my ears can tolerate!
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And whats with Amar Singh and his changing political brotherhood? He refers to a new neta as "Bhai" faster than i can call my own brother! Mulayam is "Mere Bade Bhai", so is Manmohan. Amitabh is "Bade Bhaiyya" & Sanjay Dutt "Chota Bhai". Azam Khan is bhai as well and just today, Rajnath Singh has joined his brotherhood. Mayawati would bring in the much needed freshness to the relations if Amar makes her his "Behen" and she starts acting (and looking!) like a lady.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Up against Maharashtra & Maharashtrian's?
Its always comes a full circle. Time to say thank you to Raj Thackrey for making lives of scores of Maharashtrian's, making a living outside Maharashtra, so unsafe. The rampage of the goons of MNS is sponteneous outburst of the long neglected Marathi youth and its actually only irritating. They break public property and beat up the innocent. I dread to imagine the retaliation Maharashtrian's in Bihar, MP & UP will have to face if the local goons in Patna or Ranchi start their version of these sponteneous outbursts! (Thank heavens there aren't many jobs in these states due to years of neglect!) Most of our so called Marathi leaders will sit in their comfy homes in Mumbai and dare the Bihari's remotely. Not one will dare step into Bihar to defy them and protect the Marathi's. It was just yesterday that i was chatting with a few friends when we were dreading such a backlash and its actually happened!
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Jamshedpur: Security was tightened at Telco township after the residence of the plant head of Tata Motors S B Borwankar was ransacked allegedly by activists of Bharatiya Bhojpuri Sangh (BBS).
They said the activists ransacked the residence of Borwankar, who is a resident of Maharashtra, to protest against the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) assault on North Indian job seekers in the railways in Mumbai.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Madhusudan Bari said, "more than 100 activists armed with lathis gathered in front of Borwankar's bungalow and climbed up the main gate after security personnel refused to hand them over the keys of the gate."
courtesy - ibnlive.com
edit : 5.00pm : Here is more new from the same site.
New Delhi: In what seems like a backlash against MNS-led violence against north Indians in Mumbai, two bogies of a train – reportedly with Maharashtrian passengers on board – two bogies of Vikramshila Express were set on fire in Barh area of Bihar.
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Think its time to ask Raj to stop protecting the interests of Maharashtrian's. It is he who will seem to be up against Maharashtra & Maharashtrian's very soon! If he insists, he needs to be compelled to let go of his violent ways and do something really sensible for Marathi's. (Off topic -- For a start, please do something to save scores of Shivaji Maharaj's forts decaying due to neglect! Feels sad when I trek all the way up to find nothing but a few broken walls.)
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Sometimes I wonder if we are going the USSR way. There is nothing national anymore. Who ever shouts the loudest about his state makes it a national issue even if it doesn't connect to the rest of the Indian population. Maybe there won't be India eventually 20yrs from now. Just 29 smaller countries. Watch this space for an update on 21 Oct'2028! Hope you will have access in your new home country! :)
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Jamshedpur: Security was tightened at Telco township after the residence of the plant head of Tata Motors S B Borwankar was ransacked allegedly by activists of Bharatiya Bhojpuri Sangh (BBS).
They said the activists ransacked the residence of Borwankar, who is a resident of Maharashtra, to protest against the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) assault on North Indian job seekers in the railways in Mumbai.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Madhusudan Bari said, "more than 100 activists armed with lathis gathered in front of Borwankar's bungalow and climbed up the main gate after security personnel refused to hand them over the keys of the gate."
courtesy - ibnlive.com
edit : 5.00pm : Here is more new from the same site.
New Delhi: In what seems like a backlash against MNS-led violence against north Indians in Mumbai, two bogies of a train – reportedly with Maharashtrian passengers on board – two bogies of Vikramshila Express were set on fire in Barh area of Bihar.
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Think its time to ask Raj to stop protecting the interests of Maharashtrian's. It is he who will seem to be up against Maharashtra & Maharashtrian's very soon! If he insists, he needs to be compelled to let go of his violent ways and do something really sensible for Marathi's. (Off topic -- For a start, please do something to save scores of Shivaji Maharaj's forts decaying due to neglect! Feels sad when I trek all the way up to find nothing but a few broken walls.)
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Sometimes I wonder if we are going the USSR way. There is nothing national anymore. Who ever shouts the loudest about his state makes it a national issue even if it doesn't connect to the rest of the Indian population. Maybe there won't be India eventually 20yrs from now. Just 29 smaller countries. Watch this space for an update on 21 Oct'2028! Hope you will have access in your new home country! :)
Monday, September 15, 2008
Ganapati, Politics & Terror.
No..i'm not penning anything brilliant to tie these up. Just that these were the 3 things i had in my mind.
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I see all of Pune suddenly getting damn too religious during these months. The number of pandals are growing exponentially every year. Music is more and more loud. More and more filmy with no place for bhajans or arati's. The pandals are bigger and grander (consuming more space on the roads and more free electricity). Wonder if people even remember the reason why Lokmanya Tilak started these celebrations. To get people together. With every nook and corner, every society, street and mall having their own Ganesh Mandals, its just lost the purpose! Sad. We need more reasons for people to come together and bind and all we do is lose the context and get better of each other!
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"Patil under pressure, not invited to party meet" -- Screams a headline on ibnlive.com. The text in the report further says - "The meeting was reportedly convened by Sonia to assess the mood in the country after the blasts as it prepares for the next Lok Sabha elections."
What sad state of affairs. Sonia calls for a meeting only with the backdrop of elections in mind? Shouldn't she have called it right when it happened in Jaipur or bangalore or even Ahmedabad? No. It was still time for elections. There is never a dull moment when Congress is in power. History speaks!
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"Intelligence Bureau gives vague information. They are not specific. Don't blame the ministers alone. Bureaucracy and the police are also responsible. We cannot fight terrorism just by introducing POTA. These things have been happening before also," Lalu said.
Who is to pull up those in the IB, Bureaucracy & Police Mr.Lalu? And just cause these things have been happening before also, we let them happen again and again and again? So when does the Political leadership (hate to use this word cause its just so sarci!) do something? Only when one of your flock gets killed? Time isn't far away when that will happen. Sooner or later, killing the innocent won't get them the response they seek. So? Who do they kill next?
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I see all of Pune suddenly getting damn too religious during these months. The number of pandals are growing exponentially every year. Music is more and more loud. More and more filmy with no place for bhajans or arati's. The pandals are bigger and grander (consuming more space on the roads and more free electricity). Wonder if people even remember the reason why Lokmanya Tilak started these celebrations. To get people together. With every nook and corner, every society, street and mall having their own Ganesh Mandals, its just lost the purpose! Sad. We need more reasons for people to come together and bind and all we do is lose the context and get better of each other!
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"Patil under pressure, not invited to party meet" -- Screams a headline on ibnlive.com. The text in the report further says - "The meeting was reportedly convened by Sonia to assess the mood in the country after the blasts as it prepares for the next Lok Sabha elections."
What sad state of affairs. Sonia calls for a meeting only with the backdrop of elections in mind? Shouldn't she have called it right when it happened in Jaipur or bangalore or even Ahmedabad? No. It was still time for elections. There is never a dull moment when Congress is in power. History speaks!
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"Intelligence Bureau gives vague information. They are not specific. Don't blame the ministers alone. Bureaucracy and the police are also responsible. We cannot fight terrorism just by introducing POTA. These things have been happening before also," Lalu said.
Who is to pull up those in the IB, Bureaucracy & Police Mr.Lalu? And just cause these things have been happening before also, we let them happen again and again and again? So when does the Political leadership (hate to use this word cause its just so sarci!) do something? Only when one of your flock gets killed? Time isn't far away when that will happen. Sooner or later, killing the innocent won't get them the response they seek. So? Who do they kill next?
Friday, July 18, 2008
Left - Misplaced Ideologies
Politics is a serious business. Politics is also the "second" most preferred news item. (Crime has to be the #1!). But these days, with the "Left" getting serious (acting funny by me), it is all over the news. Though avid viewers of "India TV" & "Aaj Tak" still won't have a clue if we have a Government in place at all. Viewers of "Headlines Today" though, are aware now that there are at least 3 political parties in India - Congress, Samajwadi Party & Left. They have no idea that there is an Opposition & that Left is not a Party. Nyways.
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So the other day I was watching a show "Loksabha TV" (Oh yeh! There is sucha channel!) and the discussions were on how Prakash Karat is an "Honest Man" but "Dumb Politician". Dumb being my own adjective for the lack of sophistication. And I tend to agree with the Panel cause he sure is a rare politician, steadfast by his ideology. He hates America and wants to do nothing with it! Simple ideology, and a honest politician, going great lengths to live by it.
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The other Left ideology, its probably whole reason of existence, is its love for China. Why? Simple because China is the only Communist regime surviving & in fact, flourishing today. Even if China's expansionist ambitions are well known and it is the single most serious & current threat to India's geographical Map.
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I can not really understand any other reason for Left's existence in India. Both the Left led state governments in Bengal & Kerala have only ensured that the states do nothing but boast of their pasts while the junta struggles to make ends meet. The governments are just as, if not more corrupt than the rest in India. If Congress has been opportunistic in having shaken hands with SP, so has Left in tying up with BSP. It is funny that the Left itself has the majority of Muslim MP's uncomfortable in voting along with the BJP against the Congress.
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The only serious reforms that the Congress has managed to push in are stock market-trade related. The Agri Loan Waiver will never reach the farmers on time or simply may not reach at all. The inflation has gone up, no more euphoric comments from the FM. So the fight is on for the N-Deal. The Left doesn't like America, so it doesn't like the Deal. The Congress needs this deal, I think, India does too. I do not know the details of it. Also, i'm not sure if its that sweet a deal as Congress puts it across. It just maybe something that they want to achieve before the next polls. But opposing it just cause it is a deal with America is completely misplaced. Oppose it for its demerits. For reasons that the electricity generated from these reactors may be more expensive & hence meaningless as compared to gas/coal run plants. For the reasons that US & the nations from NSG may not really deliver on time for India to really make any meaningful progress in terms of energy security. For the reason that India may not have enough nuclear capability to counter the agression from China. For the reason that the countries from NSG may force us to buy the technology at astronomical prices over the time. So many more things the aam junta does not know of. I do not know of but have thought of and heard on TV. But what I read today in Indian Express on the front face is so telling of how misplaced Left is. The headline clearly states that China will hold no objection to India going ahead and firming the deal.
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So the other day I was watching a show "Loksabha TV" (Oh yeh! There is sucha channel!) and the discussions were on how Prakash Karat is an "Honest Man" but "Dumb Politician". Dumb being my own adjective for the lack of sophistication. And I tend to agree with the Panel cause he sure is a rare politician, steadfast by his ideology. He hates America and wants to do nothing with it! Simple ideology, and a honest politician, going great lengths to live by it.
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The other Left ideology, its probably whole reason of existence, is its love for China. Why? Simple because China is the only Communist regime surviving & in fact, flourishing today. Even if China's expansionist ambitions are well known and it is the single most serious & current threat to India's geographical Map.
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I can not really understand any other reason for Left's existence in India. Both the Left led state governments in Bengal & Kerala have only ensured that the states do nothing but boast of their pasts while the junta struggles to make ends meet. The governments are just as, if not more corrupt than the rest in India. If Congress has been opportunistic in having shaken hands with SP, so has Left in tying up with BSP. It is funny that the Left itself has the majority of Muslim MP's uncomfortable in voting along with the BJP against the Congress.
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The only serious reforms that the Congress has managed to push in are stock market-trade related. The Agri Loan Waiver will never reach the farmers on time or simply may not reach at all. The inflation has gone up, no more euphoric comments from the FM. So the fight is on for the N-Deal. The Left doesn't like America, so it doesn't like the Deal. The Congress needs this deal, I think, India does too. I do not know the details of it. Also, i'm not sure if its that sweet a deal as Congress puts it across. It just maybe something that they want to achieve before the next polls. But opposing it just cause it is a deal with America is completely misplaced. Oppose it for its demerits. For reasons that the electricity generated from these reactors may be more expensive & hence meaningless as compared to gas/coal run plants. For the reasons that US & the nations from NSG may not really deliver on time for India to really make any meaningful progress in terms of energy security. For the reason that India may not have enough nuclear capability to counter the agression from China. For the reason that the countries from NSG may force us to buy the technology at astronomical prices over the time. So many more things the aam junta does not know of. I do not know of but have thought of and heard on TV. But what I read today in Indian Express on the front face is so telling of how misplaced Left is. The headline clearly states that China will hold no objection to India going ahead and firming the deal.
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